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Title

Survivors of Stalingrad : eyewitness accounts from the Sixth Army, 1942-1943 / edited by Reinhold Busch ; translated by Geoffrey Brooks ; foreword by Roger Moorhouse.

Publication

London : Frontline Books, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Busch, Reinhold, 1942-
• Brooks, Geoffrey
• Moorhouse, Roger

Description

xxi, 264 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

In November 1942 - in a devastating counter-attack from outside the city - Soviet forces smashed the German siege and encircled Stalingrad, trapping some 290,000 soldiers of the 6th Army inside. For almost three months, during the harshest part of the Russian winter, the German troops endured atrocious conditions. Freezing cold and reliant on dwindling food supplies from Luftwaffe air drops, thousands died from starvation, frostbite or infection if not from the fighting itself. This important work reconstructs the grim fate of the 6th Army in full for the first time by examining the little-known story of the field hospitals and central dressing stations. The author has trawled through hundreds of previously unpublished reports, interviews, diaries and newspaper accounts to reveal the experiences of soldiers of all ranks, from simple soldiers to generals. The book includes first-hand accounts of soldiers who were wounded or fell ill and were flown out of the encirclement; as well as those who fought to the bitter end and were taken prisoner by the Soviets. They reflect on the severity of the fighting, and reveal the slowly ebbing hopes for survival. Together they provide an illuminating and tragic portrait of the appalling events at Stalingrad.

Subject

• Germany. Armee, 6. > History
• Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, German
• Prisoners of war > Germany > Biography
• Prisoners of war > Soviet Union > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• Personal narratives – German
• History.
• Personal narratives – German.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• I flew into the Pocket / Gottfried Von Bismarck -- Last flight into the Pocket / Michael Deiml -- Despatch rider at Divisional HQ / Wilhelm Eising -- An impressive experience / Andreas Engel -- Sardine tins in my trousers / Eitel-Heinz Fenske -- For me the war was soon over / Joachim Feurich -- My escape from the Pocket on a motorcycle / Erich Franke -- The pilot who flew me into the Pocket also flew me out / Otto Gemunden -- To the last round / Wilhelm Gereke -- The flight for Hill 102 and the Railway station / Josef Goblirsch -- The last days of the 160th Anti-tank Abteilung / Dietrich Goldbeck -- The end of the Northern Pocket / Gottfried Greve -- Men from supply in the front line / Wilhelm Grosse -- Advancing to the South of Stalingrad / Werner Halle -- I flew into the Pocket without orders / Joachim Heil -- Flying out the wounded / Karl Wilhelm Hoffmann -- At the last moment / Gustav Kaminski -- With the last aircraft from Stalingrad / Friedrich Wilhelm Klemm --^
• Taken along as an Air-gunner / Willi Kreiser -- The end of the Danzig Infantry Regiment / Arthur Kruger -- To the bitter end / Hans Krumfuss -- As a telephone linesman at Stalingrad / Franz Kumpf -- My last flight into the Pocket / Herbert Kuntz -- On the Northern boundary / Jochen Loser -- Stalingrad diary / Erich Von Lossow -- The surrender of the Northern Pocket / Gert Pfeiffer -- I did not believe I would be saved / Paul Pieper -- The defense battle at Baburkin / Eberhard Pohl -- My excape over the Don Bridges / Friedrich Randhagen -- As a runner at Stalingrad / Franz Rechberger -- The hell of Baburkin / Josef Rosner -- Infantryman in the most forward frontline / Otto Schafer -- The final days of XI Army Corps / Karl H. Schwarz -- Back over the Don / Helmut Spieth -- With the Luftwaffe ground staff / Hans Staudinger -- My wound saved my life / Adolf Voss -- Close combat in the tractor factory / Helmut Walz -- My angel was a female Russian doctor / Helmut Wegmann --^
• The most difficult days of my life / Karl Wolf.

ISBN

• 9781848327665 (cloth)
• 1848327668 (cloth)

OCLC

• 891028456
• SCSB-11599077

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library