Escaped from Stalingrad?
R d Fuchs
Does anyone know the figures of how many German soldiers escaped from
Stalingrad before the 6th Army collapsed?
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R d Fu...@aol.com (Oliver Lu)
M.Rapier
In article <DuoqKJ.BID.4...@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>, rdf...@aol.com
says...
>Does anyone know the figures of how many German soldiers escaped from
>Stalingrad before the 6th Army collapsed?
It depends what you mean by 'escaped', tens of thousands were flown out before
the capitulation, mainly wounded but also key specialists & high ranking
officers (Gen. Hube being one of the most notable).
There is only one documented instance of individuals escaping on foot though,
a lone sergeant made it to the positions of the 6th Panzer Div., but was
killed two days later by a stray mortar bomb. Lots of groups of soldiers tried
to break out & supplies were even airdropped to them, but he was the only one
who made it.
Cheers.
Martin.
Zitadelle
About 20000 men were flewn out of the pocket by the Luftwaffe. About 30000
men of the 6th army were in the Reich, in hospitals, on the way back to
the front or in logistic units behind the Don when the 6th army was
encircled. They later build the basis for the new 6th army. 5000 of 110000
(statistic of 1992) prisoners returned after the war.
The father of my uncle was officer of the 16th Panzerdivision (one of the
last fighting units in the north of the pocket) and wounded at home during
the time the army was encircled. He never get over it, asked himself why
he survived while all his comrades had to die, later a priest, he searched
his whole life for a "scence" of Stalingrad, but always talked proud of
the war-time. Another far relative of mine died in Stalingrad.
Klaus Jochen Arnold, Muenster, Germany
dave summer
In article <4t1387$q...@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, M.Ra...@sheffield.ac.uk
says...
>
>There is only one documented instance of individuals escaping on foot
>though,
I am sure I read in perhaps "The Enemy at the Gates" that two escaped.
The one killed you mentioned above and a second soldier that survived the
war.
I don't have a copy handy right now; perhaps someone else recalls seeing
that a second soldier escaped through the Soviet lines to last out the
war.
Dave
Dave Summer, Chemistry, Lake-Sumter Community College, Leesburg, Florida
"Chance favors only the prepared mind." Pasteur (and he wasn't referring
to the lottery)
PZenner104
Paul Carell in his book "Stalingrad-The Defeat of the German 6th Army"
notesin the very last paragraph that one (1) person is documented as
having escaped the seige...
"Only one man, an NCO with a flak battery, Unteroffizier NIEWEG."
48 hours after having gotten through to safety he was hit by a stray
mortar round at a dressing station of the 11th Pz Div.