From the reports of German soldiers about the battles in Stalingrad
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German pedantry is well known. She at one time played a kind, if in this case this word is used at least somehow appropriately, a joke on the Nazis, when hundreds of volumes of criminal cases were being prepared for the Nuremberg Tribunal. Numerous testimonies of German soldiers and officers about the commission of certain war crimes in the occupied territories were added to the cases. Moreover, many of the data were meticulously collected by the Nazi command itself - for example, to encourage military units and formations.
Many reports have survived in the military archives and about the events of the Battle of Stalingrad. A lot of data can be gleaned from the reports of the Nazis, who managed to escape from the encirclement on the Volga. If they managed to get to "their", then they reported about what was happening in the "cauldron".
The reports say, for example, about battles in the area of the Krasny Oktyabr plant. The data of one of the non-commissioned officers, who in 1943 was lucky enough to get out of the encirclement in Stalingrad, are given.
The reports provide data on the tactics of Soviet troops, numbers, weapons, and the actions of specific units in the sectors.
The Germans' testimonies about the battles in the city on the Volga are presented in the material "Memories of a Soldier":
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