diary of a german soldier at stalingrad

. 87th Artillery Regiment of the 113th Infantry Division, no. This morning katyushi attacks caused the company heavy losses: twenty-seven dead and fifty wounded. . 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. Our battalion has gone into the attack four times, and got stopped each time. . By December 21, 1941, when the Red Army had turned the tide of the German advance and the invaders were enduring the harsh conditions of the Russian winter, Leutnant Sander started to doubt the Nazi cause. In this cauldron, 22 divisions and more than 160 separate . . As this interpretation goes, Stalin reacted by shedding communist dogma, embracing Russian nationalism, and adopting a more populist tone. The turning point of World War II came at Stalingrad. As the battle wore on, many read it as an indication that Germany would lose the war. 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. It revealed that many people kept diaries, contrary to popular belief. 10521 V, to Hetti Kaminskaya, December 29, 1942. Germans fire the 105 mm howitzer leFH 18 in the area of the grain elevator. . Im sick of this. A soldier prepares to throw a grenade. Do we even know? We are encircled. September 5. . World War II was a total war, in which civilians as much as soldiers were part of the war. The Russians are throwing in their last forces, Captain Werner explained to me. The company commander says the Russian troops are completely broken, and cannot hold out any longer. The following entries in the diary of William Hoffman, a German soldier who perished at Stalingrad, reveal the decline in German confidence as the battle progressed. September 1942. 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. The retreat of the Nazis in that particular battle is seen by many historians as the turning point of WWII. The Russians are so close to us that our planes cannot bomb them. In the opening months of the campaign German forces dug deep into Soviet occupied territory - led by Panzer armies which encircled large Soviet forces at Minsk and Smolens. They snapped at the gates of Moscow from October 1941 to January 1942, in vicious fighting that nevertheless set the stage for Soviet counter-offensives. October 5. . Infantry Division, and his adjutant, Lieutenant Karl Gottschaldt, January 15, A Russian counteroffensive in November trapped the German Sixth Army. The soldiers are calling Stalingrad the mass grave of the Wehrmacht [German army]. , updated Russia, and for what? The stash showed how they tried to communicate their impressions to their loved ones, how they wanted them to see their situations as they fought in the Stalingrad region and how they see the Red Army. His 'unique and amazing' diaries that run to 150,000 words have been unearthed by German military historian Robin Schaefer. It was the most ferocious battle in human history, claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands. 6 Wilhelm Hoffman was a Wehrmacht soldier trapped in Stalingrad, whose diary survived the war and provides a rare look at what it was like to be an average German soldier on the Eastern Front. . in the vicinity of Stalingrad will have a major influence on how the war Division, no. January 15. The Russians are firing on allsides. I did the same to another who pretended to be dead.'. The battle for the elevator is still going on. Ive had my fill. A bored and cold German soldier plays a game of "eenie-meenie-miny-moe", aiming at a group of children, most too young to even comprehend the danger. Recently, the Orthodox Church has incorporated Stalingrad into its prayers, even though the church was hardly present during the battle itself. . a magpie and cooked it. . USSR in a compact volume titled The Defeat of the Germans at Stalingrad. testimonials about the war by those who were on the front line, beyond the A big turning point for Leutnant Sander came on October 2 when many tanks were destroyed in a minefield near Wjasma, between Smolensk and Moscow. Stalingrad is hell on earthVerdun, 'The diaries are so powerful, so vivid and so rich that interviews with historians, presenters and re-enactment are all unnecessary. . The letter had been sent by the German Federal Archives, which. He can hardly speak. . General Manstein is approaching Stalingrad from the south with strong forces. around us. to no avail. StomachPunch Media LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. October 27.Our troops have captured the whole of the Barrikady factory, but we cannot break through to theVolga. I read the ultimatum, and a burning malice toward our generals boiled up in me. by tonyh 21 Aug 2003, 18:14, Post We have never been through anything like this. Are the Russians really thinking of holding out in the city itself? Februar 1943 endet die Schlacht von Stalingrad. . . . From the diary of Officer F. P. of the 8th Light Small-Arms Ultimately, the invasion forced Adolf Hitler's troops to fight a war on two fronts, leading to their defeat in the Second World War. Army will require huge effort and a lot of time. Hailed as the single largest confrontation of the war, the battle involved nearly 2.2 million military personnel, with around 1.8-2 million were killed, wounded, or captured. Heziel Pitogo is one of the authors writing for WAR HISTORY ONLINE. He was wounded, but asserted that the Russians would fight for Stalingrad to the last round. It marked the beginning of a campaign that would ultimately decide the outcome of the Second World War. Let the generals and officers fight the war Look at the confidence and aggression on the face of the soldiers. Making up for colossal losses in people, equipment and ammunition . Hitler, they were certain, would meet Napoleons end. If only the days and nights would pass more quickly . In the north our troops capture a part of Stalingrad and reach theVolga, but in the south the doomed divisions are continuing to resist bitterly. proceeds. . hellish place once and for all. On November 8, Hitler, announced that the German Sixth Army had taken Sta-, lingrad, but in fact, on November 19 and 20, the Soviets. A group of Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women who have been living there. 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. November 19. and rage. The commander has congratulated us on our victory. . From the testimony of captured Private First Class Joseph Here it is: http://imgur.com/a/22mHD After months of fierce fighting and heavy casualties, German forces (numbering now only about 91,000 surviving soldiers) surrender at Stalingrad on the Volga. It may just be me, but every time people start to realize that maybe the Germans were not a race of butchers and that maybe Germans were also subjected to the horrors of total war, that something like this comes out of left field to paint them all as murdering scum again. Archival documentation tells me that at least some Soviet historians read the interviews, but it seems that they were at a loss about how to integrate individual, subjective voices, as they called them, into a mandated objective (communist) history of the war, and so the documents were overlooked and forgotten. .. beautiful Verdun, with new weapons. 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Yesterday we got vodka. non-commissioned officer had to take over the command of the division. The remarkable 'lost' diaries of German tank commander Leutnant Friedrich Sander, who went from being a hardened Nazi to a broken soldier in just a few weeks of fighting in the Second World War . injured and frostbitten men; more than 30 men have escaped; there is only We decided to give ourselves up to capture in order to save our soldiers lives. We have lost many men; every time you move you have to jump over bodies. worse and worse. More Soviet soldiers died in the five-month battle than Americans in the entire war. He wrote: 'I tell my men that this is about the reshaping of Europe, the absolute defeat of Bolshevism, the enemy of the people. . Course Hero is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university. military publishing house of the Peoples Commissariat of the Defence of the The weather is getting worse and worse. This was before the tide turned. October 14. . Why did Stalingrad become important to the Nazis and the Soviets in 1942? The number of soldiers cemeteries is growing .. This website uses cookies. Discussions on the Holocaust and 20th Century War Crimes. Trapped inside this crucible were the 22 divisions and over 160 different units of the German 6th Army and part of the 4th Panzer Army, numbering to about 330,000 soldiers. German and other Axis losses in the battle of Stalingrad amounted to over 800,000 casualties. Thats what the Russians need, to stop them from resisting . Our regiment is involved inconstant heavy fighting. He is fat and bloated and has his full pack on and . August 2. . Portion of a letter from Senior Lance Corporal Joseph Tzimach, no. The story of the Eastern Front through the eyes of one young German. This consisted of around 3,400 tanks which were supported by 2,700 of the Luftwaffe. These historians hoped that the published interviews would mobilize readers for the war. Contemporary observers, German as well as Soviet, agreed that the Red Army troops at Stalingrad fought with enormous fervor. It includes the source in the post and a link to an imgur post with the translated diary in. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. . When we got to Stalingrad, there were 140 of us, but by September 1, after two weeks of battle, only 16 remained. After seeing many colleagues killed and horrifically maimed from driving through a minefield he wrote: 'I have had enough. Clothing freezes on our bodies. Megenburg. He believed that he needed the east in order to win the war and secure the long-term prosperity of his county. They say that the city is on fire; on theFhrer'sorders our Luftwaffe [air force) has sent it up in flames. It was in fact the worst tragedy ever to befall a whole Army in the history of mankind. When the Germans resumed their offensive, in spring 1942, their strategic target was the oil fields of the Caucasus. . But now we have to roam around this horrible The letters penned by the German soldiers as the Battle of Stalingrad raged on around them were infused with candor. The Fiihrer knows where the Russians weak point is. Till now i only know the "stern"-article said, but i dont have the impression that its only ment for german soldiers, thats only what the media makes out of it, i think it just shows what war makes out of man, no matter what nationality they are. . "Yes, we all together are not worth two of these Russians !"<br><br>Records from the diary of a German soldier who died at Stalingrad.<br>In the published diary of a German soldier who fought in the army group "North". September 13. Entries from the diary of Officer F. P. of the 8th Light Small-Arms Force of the 212th Regiment: . 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. December 7.Rations have been cut to such an extent that the soldiers are suffering terribly from hunger; they are issuing one loaf of stale bread for five men. The prevailing notion in scholarship is that Stalin was politically bankrupt when the war began duped by the Germans, on the defensive, and deeply unpopular. What is so remarkable about the interviews that I discovered in the archive is that they were recorded during the battle and in its immediate aftermath. . 22-25 November. They describe shocking violence. Russians consider it to be one of the greatest battles of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. Ahead of us is either death or captivity. So, there it is- -theVolga, victory and soon home to our families! decided to give ourselves up to capture in order to save our soldiers lives. Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved. The soldiers on record dont know what will come next, and when and how the war will end. Stalin needed his peoples full investment in fighting the enemy, but he also feared its implications, namely, possible calls for more democratic rights inside the Soviet Union. 44111, dated November 18, 1942 to his brother: . It was announced this morning that the Fuhrer has said: The army can trust me to do everything necessary to ensure supplies and rapidly break the encirclement.. In the daytime we can see the smoke of fires, at night time the bright glow. August 23. Behind them is theVolga. We are apparently going to attack the factories, the chimneys of which we can see clearly. From a letter from soldier Heinrich Malchus, no. The battle is remembered for ferocious street fighting. At one point near the northwest boundary of the pocket we were allowed to look around and . . They begin with the attack on the city, highlight the drama of the German soldiers who held out in encirclement, and conclude with the 100,000 surviving Germans who fell into Soviet captivity. Hitler saw the Soviet Union as his natural enemy and aimed to destroy its armies, capture its vast economic resources and enslave its population. Winter privations and Soviet, attacks, however, forced the Germans to surrender on, February 2, 1943 (see the box above). . .. If we lose this war, theyll take revenge on us for He wrote: 'That isn't a good idea when facing tank men like us - floor the accelerator, turn left and run over him. 'He has started to sing with a slurring voice, so great is his pain. Fritz is telling me about a conversation he heard: the soldiers prefer to will there be a way out, of the cauldron. The letters of the German soldiers are imbued with frankness, Szepanski finishes them off with a rifle. We can already see the smoking town. . While the German army was penetrating deeply into Russia, he believed that victory was not far away and dreamed of returning home with medals. Fighting is going on inside the elevator. " In the Battle of the Coral Sea, on May 78, 1942, American naval forces stopped the, Japanese advance and temporarily relieved Australia of, the threat of invasion. Mr Snow said: 'We have been searching to find a way to do this conflict justice, to get beyond the statistics, the tens of millions killed, wounded and brutalised and tell the story of what it was actually like. My book shows in great detail how Red Army soldiers were inducted into the Communist Party. Stalingrad is a grave for the German soldiers. There is no way out, nor Yet Stalingrad never fell. For more information, please see our There was in addition ample violence within the Red Army, perpetrated against soldiers who were unwilling to risk their lives. . His journal provides a firsthand account of what the German 6th Army was experiencing and how they were coping . During the most ferocious battle in human history, Soviet historians interviewed over 200 Red Army soldiers about the 1943 fighting that helped seal Nazi Germany's fate. . The Nazi regimes first response after the successful Soviet encirclement in November was denial. If we take any prisoners its because they are hopelessly wounded, and cant, move by themselves.Stalingrad is hell. by Odessa2 21 Aug 2003, 19:09, Post Diary of a German Soldier William Hoffman 4.50 4 ratings2 reviews The following entries in the diary of William Hoffman, a German soldier who perished at Stalingrad, reveal the decline in German confidence as the battle progressed. Stalingrad Soldier - Read online for free. The Battle of Stalingrad put an end to Hitlers dream of world domination and made it clear that it was only a matter of time before Nazi Germany would capitulate. August 25, 1942. With the help of an arctic wstopped just before Moscow. . . . The Soviets were able to psychologically wear down the Germans and make them slowly lose motivation. sustained by the German armed forces as a result of the perishing of the 6th Diary of a German Soldier William Hoffman 4.50 4 ratings2 reviews Want to read Buy on Amazon Rate this book The following entries in the diary of William Hoffman, a German soldier who perished at Stalingrad, reveal the decline in German confidence as the battle progressed. According to entries from the diary of a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ukrainian soldiers defending Artemivsk do not want to go on the attack and do not understand what the command wants from them. Will I really go back to Elsa without a decoration? This is simply unbelievable. 'You see young girls, children hanging from trees in the park. Answer (1 of 8): I only know this, when the army was strong enough to break out, Hitler ordered it to stay so the rest of the German army could break in to relieve it. . This news brought hope to the soldiers hearts. Where are they bringing them from? The most notable account used in both is the brutal six-day long battle between 16 and 22 September 1942 over a grain elevator where, according to him, only 40 Russian soldiers (he refers to them as "devils") were found dead in the elevator at the end of the engagement, while his battalion in comparison, suffered disastrously heavy losses. Lieutenant Kraus was killed yesterday, and there is no company commander. A curse on this war! After five months of unrelenting battle, the retreat of the Nazis became the turning point of World War II. All our sacrifices would have been in vain.'. 'Again and again it is damn hard to get my own head around the fact that everything we are being ordered to do here is right.'. . Over the next three months, the Red Army began to squeeze the life out of them. Get the week's best stories straight to your inbox. Credit: Das Bundesarchiv / Wikimedia Commons. Six thousand survived, returning to Germany after the war. . By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. 28329 D, dated December 29, 1942 to hisfiance: . These letters and diaries are lively and direct There are not more than sixty men left in each company. It first details the unit's combat in the great German victory at Kharkov, then the advance to the Caucasus, and finally the brutal winter of 1942-43. And when will Hitler take any decisive steps to free our armies from encirclement? A German soldier rests at Stalingrad. What were the conditions that made the violence and the loss of life so immense? Poor fellow, hes got three children. In what way was it a battle that changed world history? . From the diary of Field Gendarmerie Sergeant Helmut We can already see theVolga; firing is going on all the time. .. . Yes, leading generals of the Stalingrad battle, like Chuikov, were able to publish accounts of their role in the battle, but they carefully omitted any reference to executions within the Red Army. Battle of Stalingrad, (July 17, 1942-February 2, 1943), successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Russia, U.S.S.R., during World War II. At the time of the invasion German combat effectiveness had reached its peak and the forces invading Russia represented the best it had to offer. Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich: Hellbeck, Jochen, Tauchen, Christopher: 9781610397186: Amazon.com: Books Books History Military Buy new: $12.19 List Price: $18.99 Details Save: $6.80 (36%) Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns FREE delivery Sunday, March 5 if you spend $25 on items shipped by Amazon . . The interviews, as well as rare photographs and letters shared by the veterans, show how differently the battle is remembered on both sides. The Soviets delay Operation Uranus to get their troops in position to attack, encircle 6th Army. More than a million people-Russian civilians and soldiers, Germans and their Italian, Hungarian, and Romanian allies-perished in the epic struggle for Stalingrad. He was part of 6th Army at Stalingrad. The battalion is suffering heavy losses. How wonderfully we could live if it werent for this damned war! Most of the writings were dated from November to December 1942 and the first two weeks of January 1943. Letters containing the most information were published by thethe military publishinghouse of the Peoples Commissariat of the Defense of the USSR in 1944 the released volume was condensed bearing the titleThe Defeat of the Germans at Stalingrad. 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. But the historians drew confidence from history, notably the War of 1812, when the Russian people had been able to defeat a technologically superior invader. by PAK 21 Aug 2003, 22:11, Post We havent eaten or slept in three days. On June 4, at the Battle of Midway, Island, American planes destroyed all four of the attacking, Japanese aircraft carriers and established American naval. There are very few men left in the companies. They say that the city is on fire; on the Fiihrers orders our Luftwaffe [air force] has sent it up in flames. Leutnant Friedrich Sander lost faith in the German war machine after cracking during the brutal Operation Barbarossa - the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which began in June 1941. Yesterday we got vodka. contained an ultimatum. Realizing that the Sixth Army, exhausted and short of weapons, ammunition, food, and medical supplies, faced annihilation, German generals pleaded in vain with Hitler to permit withdrawal before the Russians closed the ring. formed by the Red Army in the Stalingrad region. The fighting in Stalingrad, lasting from August 1942 to February 1943, and ending with the surrender of Hitlers army, changed the course of World War II and world history. That was how Wehrmacht soldiers and officers viewed their plight after they ended up in the middle of the circle of fire formed by the Red Army in the Stalingrad area. Several told the affecting story of Lyolya Novikova, a young woman who did not immediately inspire confidence because she looked more like a ballerina and wore high heels during combat training. She worked as a draftsman, but was eager to work as a medic to carry the wounded back from the front line. What were the main ways in which survivors remembered Stalingrad? We are all by Christmas. [Quoting Zaitsev]: Or another time you see young girls, children hanging from trees in the park. Barbarism. Stalingrad is a 1993 German anti-war film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. Nov. 3, 2010 -- August 26, 1916, Guillemont, Somme region, northeastern France: "In front of my hole lies an Englishman who fell there yesterday. But the regime took further steps: Visiting the Treblinka death camp in eastern Poland just one month after the defeat at Stalingrad, Heinrich Himmler ordered the exhumation and cremation of all the bodies of the 700,000 Jews who had been killed there. Yet Nazi leaders could not stay silent about the rout of the Sixth Army, which Hitler had once declared could storm the heavens. .. . January 15. . Yesterday Russian katyushi [small rocket launchers] and then tanks halted our regiment. From a letter from soldier Otto Zechtig, 1st Company of the I then became curious about how these strivings compared to the Nazi German revolution and its version of the New Man. Stalingrad, as a culminating and prolonged clash between the two totalitarian regimes, seemed like the right place for this next study. Russian snipers hit anyone who shows himself carelessly from behind shelter. The weather's getting worse. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. defect or surrender to captivity. But even such Nazi ideological work paled against the systematic, communist, political conditioning that took place in the Red Army from the hour the Germans attacked in 1941. By the spring of 1943, even Hitler. BERLIN: A guilt-ridden account of an ordinary German soldier's experiences in World War two is countering a recent trend among historians to portray Germans as victims of the war. What Was It Like To Be Shipped To A Concentration Camp? Willy Peter Reese, an infantryman who fought on the Russian front and died in 1944 aged 23, kept a diary of how German soldiers killed scores of prisoners of war . Then aged 24, he recalled the moment he and his colleagues stood around to listen to Adolf Hitler's address at the start of the operation that would result in almost one million deaths. By that time, he had already shot 60 enemy soldiers; that number would reach 242 by the end of the battle. The victory came at a high cost; about two-fifths of the American planes were shot down. The film is the second German movie to portray the Battle of Stalingrad. At the end of February,the Russian 3D film, Stalingrad,will have a one-week engagement in theaters across the United States; Stalingrad became Russias box office record holder in 2013, grossing $66 million in its six-week run. . That has a tremendous impact.'. At that time It is pure hell here. The majority of the writings date from November convinced that they cant stop us. . Does that get to you? Our troops are advancing towards theVolga. While it would be more than another year before the Red Army liberated the death camps in Poland, the Battle of Stalingrad disrupted the Nazi death machine. shooting in chandler, az last night, candidates for cary town council, Enormous fervor amazing ' diaries that run to 150,000 words have been unearthed by German military Robin. Soviets were able to psychologically wear down the Germans and make them slowly lose.. Discussions on the Holocaust and 20th Century war Crimes Germany would lose the war Division, no Joseph,... 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