Stalingrad

His opponent at Stalingrad, General Chuikov, whose 62nd Army had followed the long road to Berlin as the 8th Guards Army, became commander of the occupation forces, a Marshal of the Soviet Union and deputy minister of defence under Khrushchev, who had appointed him on that September night of crisis by the Volga. The thousands of Soviet soldiers executed at Stalingrad on his orders never received a marked grave. As statistics, they were lost among the other battle casualties, which has a certain unintended justice.

Illustrations

^{1. (Previous page) Autumn 1941. Soviet prisoners of war being herded to the rear.}

^{2. July 1942. German infantry marching towards Stalingrad.}

^{3. A village destroyed in the advance.}

^{4. German tanks on the Don steppe.}

^{5. August 1942. German artillery outside Stalingrad.}

^{6. Dr Alois Beck, chaplain of the 297th Infantry Division, writing letters for the wounded.}

^{7. Paulus, Hitler, Keitel, Haider and Brauchitsch at the Wolfsschanze, near Rastenburg.}

^{8. September 1942. Tanks of the 24th Panzer Division advancing into the outskirts of Stalingrad.}

^{9. September 1942. Red Army tank troops listening to a speech from Khrushchev before going into battle.}

^{10. The view which greeted Russian reinforcements about to cross the Volga into battle.}

^{11. German officer and soldiers attacking factory buildings in northern Stalingrad.}

^{12. Russian infantry defending.}

^{13. October 1942. Round-up of Stalingrad civilians.}

^{14. 62nd Army HQ. Krylov, Chuikov, Gurov and Rodimtsev.}

^{15. (Overleaf) Red Army assault squad in the ‘Stalingrad Academy of street-fighting’.}

^{16. (Previous page) One of Chuikov’s divisional commanders during the battle, with a young woman signaller.}

^{17. October 1942. German infantry occupying a destroyed workshop in the factory district.}

^{18. ‘Noble Sniper’ Zaitsev (left) from the Siberian 284th Rifle Division explains the doctrine of ‘sniperism’.}

^{19 and 20. November 1942. Operation Uranus: the encirclement of the Sixth Army.}

^{21. Junkers 52 transport taking off.}

^{22. December 1942. German artillery from Hoth’s Fourth Panzer Army after the failure of Operation Winter Storm to relieve the Sixth Army.}

^{23. Trapped Sixth Army soldiers retrieve parachute canisters.}

^{24. 10 January 1943. General Rokossovsky awaits the opening barrage for Operation Ring to crush the Kessel.}

^{25. 11 January 1943. German infantry retreating through a blizzard.}

^{26. 28 January 1943. General Edler von Daniels marches into captivity past the body of one of his soldiers.}

^{27. 30 January 1943. Goering on the tenth anniversary of Hitler’s assumption of power, having just broadcast ‘the funeral oration’ of the Sixth Army.}

^{28. 31 January 1943. Field Marshal Paulus and General Schmidt at 64th Army HQ after surrendering.}

^{29. A German soldier booted and prodded out of a bunker.}

^{30. Remnants of the Sixth Army marched off to captivity.}

^{31. German and Romanian prisoners.}

APPENDIX A German and Soviet Orders of Battle, 19 November 1942

WEHRMACHT

SIXTH ARMY

General of Panzer Troops Paulus Major-General Schmidt

Ia Operations:

Colonel Elchlepp†

Ib Quartermaster:

Major von Kunowski

Ic Intelligence:

Lieutenant-Colonel Niemeyer†

IIa Adjutant:

Colonel W. Adam

Chief of Artillery:

Major-General Vassoll

Chief of Signals:

Colonel Arnold* (replaced by Colonel van Hooven‡)

Chief of Engineers:

Colonel H. Selle* (replaced by Colonel Stiotta*)

Chief of Medical Corps:

General Renoldi

OKH liaison officer:

Lieutenant-Colonel von Zitzewitz*

ARMY TROOPS: MAJOR UNITS

Mortar regiments: 51st, 53rd

Nebelwerfer regiments: 2nd, 30th

Artillery regiments: 4th, 46th, 64th, 70th

Artillery battalions: 54th, 616th, 627th, 849th

Heavy-artillery battalions: 49th, 101st, 733rd

Pioneer battalions: 6th, 41st

IV CORPS

General of pioneers Jaenecke*

Colonel Crome

29th Motorized Infantry Division

Major-General Leyser

297th Infantry Division

Lieutenant-General Pfeffer

371st Infantry Division

Lieutenant-General Stempel†

VIII CORPS

General of Artillery Heitz Colonel Schildknecht

76th Infantry Division

Lieutenant-General Rodenburg

113th Infantry Division

Lieutenant-General Sixt von Arnim

XI CORPS

Lieutenant-General Strecker Colonel Groscurth‡

44th Infantry Division

Lieutenant-General Deboi

376th Infantry Division

Lieutenant-General Freiherr Edler von Daniels

384th Infantry Division

Lieutenant-General Freiherr von Gablenz*

XIV PANZER CORPS

General of Panzer Troops Hube*

Colonel Thunert*

3rd Motorized Infantry division

Lieutenant-General Schlömer

60th Motorized Infantry Division

Major-General Kohlermann*

16th Panzer Division

Lieutenant-General Angern†

LI CORPS

General of Artillery von Seydlitz-Kurzbach Colonel Clausius

71st Infantry Division

Lieutenant-General von Hartmann†

79th Infantry Division

Lieutenant-General Graf von Schwerin*

94th Infantry Division

Lieutenant-General Pfeiffer*

100th Jäger Division

Lieutenant-General Sanne

295th Infantry Division

Major-General Doctor Korfes

305th Infantry Division

Major-General Steinmetz*

389th Infantry Division

Major-General Magnus

14th Panzer Division

Major-General Lattmann

24th Panzer Division

Lieutenant-General von Lenski