Posted by sigismund on May 24, 2010, at 17:11:35
In reply to sigismund // STALINGRAD//for you an anyone, posted by manic666 on May 21, 2010, at 13:44:10
Fascinating, isn't it manic, to see the master race fall into the trap of the subhumans. I read a lot of books on the period listening to Beethoven's second symphony, though the feel there is more from the French Revolution and more like WWI than WWII. Goering makes jokes about the 2 million Russians who starved to death in German captivity: 'After having eaten everything possible, including the soles of their boots, they have begun to eat each other and, what is more serious, have eaten a German sentry.'
What they didn't expect was the spirit of the Russians, one of whom ended a report, talking about the fighting in the grain elevators of Stalingrad:
'Again we heard the omininous sound of tanks. From behind a neighbouring block stocky German tanks began to crawl out. This clearly was the end. The guardsmen said goodbye to one another. With a dagger my orderly scratched on a brick wall: "Rodimtsev's guardsmen fought and died for their country here"....'
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