Looks like a very interesting article. The book was written by a German who read through over 10,000 interviews that were kept secret because they were just too gritty and graphic for public consumption. I didn’t see anything in the article that seemed very unreasonable. And it all wasn’t flattery for the Red Army. The final passage for example. Steely Vasily Zaytsev was shown to be left with the shakes and bad memories after it ended.
“Vasily Zaytsev, the Red Army’s best sniper at Stalingrad, who was played in the Hollywood movie Enemy At The Gates by Jude Law, shot 242 Germans, but said after the battle was over: ‘You often have to remember, and the memory has a powerful impact. Now, I have unsteady nerves and I’m constantly shaking.’
This did not fit in with Communist ideals of glory and so his comments were suppressed in the archives until accessed by Professor Hellbeck.”
thanks for the input. Seemed like the real deal.
killed that many people with nerves of steel and now unsteady. wow.
germans were cruel on the march geez.
did you see the movie with Jude Law about the sniper?