At that time we actually cut up a dog, and the vodka really came in handy. I would eat a cat; they say its meat is also tasty. From 1942 to 1945, they interviewed close to 5,000 people most of them soldiers, but also partisans, civilians who worked in the war economy or fought in the underground, and Soviet citizens who had survived Nazi occupation. The Russians have two alternatives, either to flee across theVolga or give themselves up. 4 pages, ebook First published January 1, 1942 Book details & editions About the author William Hoffman While the German army was penetrating deeply into Russia, he believed that victory was not far away and dreamed of returning home with medals. The Germans were being rounded up prior to marched to death. This was before the tide turned. Unlike Germany, where foreign slave workers made up 25 percent of the war economy by 1944, or Great Britain with its exploitation of colonial resources the Soviet model was one of self-exploitation. How and with what are we going to fill our empty stomachs, which, apart from 3%-7 ozs of bread, receive virtually nothing at all? December 14.Everybody is racked with hunger. Have we really lost so many men? September 22. Himmler was aware that the time of reckoning for Germany was drawing near. Russian. . 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We killed thousands of Russians and Jews with wives and Clothing freezes on our bodies. In pubs throughout England, the radio would be turned on for the start of the evening news only to be turned off after the report on Stalingrad had aired. On the morning of January 10 we read a pamphlet that 'This is how I see it at least. In addition, almost 1 million Soviet women served in the Red Army during World War II, half of them as ordinary soldiers and the other as nurses, phone operators, or laundrywomen. . Daniel, commander of the German 376th Infantry Division. Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. writings by captured soldiers. Soviet soldiers found the diary in December 1942 or January 1943, probably among the possessions of its deceased owner. After the elevator was taken the Russians continued to defend themselves just as stubbornly. This fightback, coupled with the fact that the Germans were not prepared for the horrendous conditions of the Russian winter, led to Nazi forces retreating westwards from late 1941 onwards. Part of Heinrich Malchus letter, a soldier, no. At that time The Russians are not men, but some kind of cast-iron creatures; they never get tired and are not afraid of fire. Communist ideology had an enormous mobilizing power during the war; this is one of the core arguments of my book and it challenges how other scholars have understood the Soviet war effort. . . January 15. . . . Hitler's soldiers stormed the city in September 1942 in a bid to complete the conquest of Europe. "German WWII soldiers get proper burial after 60 years", The Age (2008) The German War Graves Commission's (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgrberfrsorge) . Making up for colossal losses in people, equipment and ammunition sustained by the German armed forces as a result of the perishing of the 6th Army will require huge effort and a lot of time. Infantry Division, and his adjutant, Lieutenant Karl Gottschaldt, January 15, If we lose this war, theyll take revenge on us for The German veterans refer to Stalingrad as traumatic break in their biography, whereas the Russians tend to underscore the positive aspect of their self-realization in war, even as they confide memories of painful personal loss. Among the last Wehrmacht soldiers to leave Stalingrad by air were a group of 18 wounded and sick Croat legionnaires, including Lt. Barievi, who were flown out by Luftwaffe pilots and were landed on the last serviceable German airfield at Staljingradskaja near the 369th's artillery section positions on the night of 22 to 23 January 1943. By the spring of 1943, even Hitler. The military history YouTube channel The Armchair Historian opens their episode on the Battle of Stalingrad with the line "The average lifespan of a soldier in Stalingrad was just 24 hours.". November 10. September 28. A curse on this war! 'They tell the story of the campaign through the eyes of a German junior officer in a way in which it has never been told before. From the testimony of Lieutenant General Alexander von 173.236.223.132 Lieutenant Kraus was killed yesterday, and there is no company commander. $152,972. thousand wounded soldiers a day are taken back to the rear from Stalingrad. The Russians inside are condemned men; the battalion commander says: The commissars have ordered those men to die in the elevator. If all the buildings of Stalingrad are defended like this then none of our soldiers will get back toGermany. The Russians are throwing in their last forces, Captain Werner explained to me. From a letter from Private First Class Walter Oppermann, no. .. We go in a direction on Surovikino. . It has been fantastic since morning: our aeroplanes and artillery have been hammering the Russian positions for hours on end; everything in sight is being blotted from the face of the earth. 'This is the first instalment. Who would have thought three months ago that instead of the joy of victory we would have to endure such sacrifice and torture, the end of which is nowhere in sight? Hetti, I have 140 of us, but by September 1, after two weeks of battle, only 16 remained. Clothing freezes on our bodies. . . His secret journals have been found 80 years later and are to be turned into a documentary by History Hit, the streaming network set up by historian Dan Snow. . The soldiers are calling Stalingrad the mass grave of the Wehrmacht [German army]. Who was conducting the interviews and why? What role did Bolshevism play in the fighting? The Russians are so close to us that our planes cannot bomb them. From a letter from soldier Otto Zechtig, 1st Company of the General Friedrich Paulus, the commander of the 6th Army, was ordered to capture Stalingrad, a city that controlled the rail and waterway communications of southern Russia. Among the trophies of the Soviet troops was an .. They describe shocking violence. We dont have a single officer, and the non-commissioned officer had to take over the command of the division. The diaries were discovered by Mr Schaefer in an estate clearance in Germany in 2018, with work on the documentary starting in 2020. The ruthlessness of the German advance was borne out on June 27, 1941, when his crew spotted a Russian soldier who played dead before opening fire on the passing German infantry. By the end of February, Stalingrad, the Russian 3D film which became Russias box-office holder for 2013 and grossed $66 million in its one-and-a-half run, will be shown in US theaters for a week. While some of these things indeed happened, they did not signal an abdication of communist rule, quite to the contrary. Their goal was not to cultivate private thoughts as distinct from the communist regime, but to align their thinking with the mandate of the Soviet revolution, and to rise to the level of a worthy participant in a world historical drama. By 1945, Stalin made sure that official publications referred to him as the sole architect of Soviet victory over fascism. Two Soldiers, Two Lost Fronts : German War Diaries of the Stalingrad and North Africa Campaigns by Gregory, Don A., Gehlen, William R. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. We have been told we are soon going to be withdrawn to be brought back up to strength. September 5. August 25, 1942. Wilhelm Hoffman's Stalingrad diary is a FAKE TIKhistory 269K subscribers Subscribe 124K views 1 year ago I've just discovered that Wilhelm Hoffman's famous "Diary of a German Soldier". The testimonies were too truthful and multifaceted for their times, and Stalin forbade their publication, not least because he alone claimed full credit for the victory at Stalingrad. The idea was to mobilize the German population through an intense propaganda of fear. The story of the Eastern Front through the eyes of one young German. what should be done? 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