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#1 I was conscripted into the German Wehrmacht in February 1943. I was trained as a sMG gunner, and when I completed the training six months later, I was sent to the Eastern Front near Voroshilovsk, Ukraine.
#2 The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point for the German army. It marked the loss of 250,000 men with all their armament and equipment. The last hope was now Feldmarschall Paulus, but Hitler turned down the suggestion.
#3 The 6 Army was not able to break out of Stalingrad, and was left to rot there. The 3. G. D. was used purely as infantry, and their losses were enormous.
#4 The first stage of the attack began at just before five with an artillery barrage. The earth was turned over with a series of dull thuds, the explosion from each shell spraying large clumps of sod into the clear morning sky. I became aware of strange sickening screams amid the roars of shells impacting and the whizzing sigh of metal splinters.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	05 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	4
EAN13	9798822500310
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

I was conscripted into the German Wehrmacht in February 1943. I was trained as a sMG gunner, and when I completed the training six months later, I was sent to the Eastern Front near Voroshilovsk, Ukraine.

#2

The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point for the German army. It marked the loss of 250,000 men with all their armament and equipment. The last hope was now Feldmarschall Paulus, but Hitler turned down the suggestion.

#3

The 6. Army was not able to break out of Stalingrad, and was left to rot there. The 3. G. D. was used purely as infantry, and their losses were enormous.

#4

The first stage of the attack began at just before five with an artillery barrage. The earth was turned over with a series of dull thuds, the explosion from each shell spraying large clumps of sod into the clear morning sky. I became aware of strange sickening screams amid the roars of shells impacting and the whizzing sigh of metal splinters.

#5

The battle sucked us forward across the broken earth like a whirlwind. The Russian artillery opened fire, and we began to move forward. I was being forced to kill, and I had to perfect it to mastery. Fear, blood, and death were the ingredients in an alchemy that intoxicated and drugged me.

#6

The pause was used to distribute ammunitions and rations, and to bandage the walking wounded who were still able to fight. The two surviving Jager told their story, which involved an event that revealed the type of enemy the political commissars were.

#7

The Soviet political system was prepared to sacrifice all vestiges of human decency in the quest for victory. This was demonstrated during the Battle of Stalingrad, when Soviet political commissars were not to be afforded the status of prisoners of war if captured.

#8

I had lost my youthful innocence by the end of the fighting to regain the German high ground at Voroshilovsk. I was a living football of events, propelled by the boot of an archaic survival instinct fueled by the interchange of fighting, hunger, thirst, and exhaustion.

#9

I was sent to regimental reserve, where I could perform light duties during the healing process. I was assigned to the regimental arsenal and given the job of sorting through a mountain of captured Russian weapons.

#10

The front was relatively quiet, but activity was limited to occasional minor artillery duels and skirmishes with reconnaissance patrols. It was extremely dangerous to expose yourself for even a moment, and despite the greatest precautions, Russian snipers regularly found a new victim.

#11

The lines written by the 3. G. D. officer do not reflect reality. When night fell over the trenches, it did not bring with it a truce. Patrols tended to wander abroad at night into No-Man's-Land. The capture or killing of an enemy sentry, or the lobbing of a few grenades into the opposing trenches, had never been considered unethical in the earlier Great War.