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  Piocher, Hermann, The German Air Force versus Russia, 1942, New York, 1966

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  Podewils, Clemens, Don und Volga, Munich, 1952

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  Rohden, Hans-Detlef Herhudt von, Die Luftwaffe ringt um Stalingrad, Wiesbaden, 1950

  Rokossovsky, K. K., A Soldier’s Duty, Moscow, 1970

  Rotundo, Louis (ed.), Battle for Stalingrad. The 1943 Soviet General Staff Study, New York, 1989

  Sadaranda, Dana, Beyond Stalingrad: Manstein and the Operations of Army Group Don, New York, 1990

  Samsonov, A. M. (ed.), Stalingradskaia bitva, Moscow, 1968

  Sapp, Franz, Gefangen in Stalingrad, Steyr, 1992

  Scheibert, Horst, Nach Stalingrad – 48 Kilometer, Heidelberg, 1956

  Schimak, Anton, Lamprecht, Karl and Dettmer, Friedrich, Die 44 Infanterie-Division, Vienna, 1969

  Schmidt, Paul, Hitler’s Interpreter, The Secret History of German Diplomacy 1935–1945, London, 1951

  Schneider-Janessen, Karlheinz, Arzt im Krieg, Frankfurt am Main, 1993

  Schramm, P. E., and Hillgruber, A. (eds.), Kriegstagebuch des OKW der Wehrmacht, Frankfurt am Main, 1963

  Schröter, Heinz, Stalingrad… bis zur lezte Ρ atrone, Lengerich, 1953

  Schulte, Theo J., The German Army and Nazi Policies in Occupied Russia, Oxford, 1989

  Sella, A., The Value of Human Life in Soviet Warfare, London, 1992

  Selle, Η., Die Tragödie von Stalingrad, Hanover, 1948

  Sereny, Gitta, Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth, London, 1995

  Seth, Ronald, Stalingrad: Point of Return, London, 1959

  Sevryuk, Vladimir, Moscow-Stalingrad, Moscow, 1970

  Seydlitz, Gen. Walther von, Stalingrad, Konflikt und Konsequenz, Erinnerungen, Oldenburg, 1977

  Shindel’, Aleksandr Danilovich (ed.), Po obe storoni fronta, Moscow, 1995

  Shtemenko, S. M., The Soviet General Staff at War, Moscow, 1970

  Shukman, H., Stalin’s Generals, London, 1993

  Simonov, Konstantin Mikhailovich, Stalingrad Fights On, Moscow, 1942

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  Sommerfeldt, Martin, Das Oberkommando der Wehrmacht gibt bekannt, Frankfurt am Main, 1952

  Stahlberg, Alexander, Bounden Duty, London, 1990

  Steidle, Luitpold, Entscheidung an der Wolga, Berlin, 1970

  Strassner, Peter, Verräter: Das Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland, Munich, 1963

  Stratowa, Wulf, Kein Friede in Stalingrad: Feldpostbriefe 1941/1942, Vienna, 1995

  Streit, Christian, Keine Kameraden: Die Wehrmacht und die sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen, Stuttgart, 1991

  Toepke, Gunter, Stalingrad, Wie es wirklich war, Stade, 1949

  Tuyll, H. Van, Feeding the Bear: American Aid to the Soviet Union 1941–1945, New York, 1989

  Uberberschär, Gerd, and Wette, Wolfram (eds.), ‘Unternehmen Barbarossa’, der deutsche Überfall auf die Sowjetunion 1941, Frankfurt am Main, 1993

  USSR, Stalingrad, an Eye Witness Account, London, 1943

  Vasilevsky, A. M., A Lifelong Cause, Moscow, 1978

  Van Creveld, Martin, Hitler’s Strategy, the Balkan Clue, Cambridge, 1973

  ———, Fighting Power: German and US Army Performance 1939–1945, London, 1983

  Vogel, Detlef, and Wette, Wolfram, Andere Helme – Andere Menschen? Essen, 1995

  Volkogonov, Dimitri, Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy, London, 1991

  Voronov, N. N., ‘Operation “Ring”, Voenno-istoricheski zhurnal, 5 & 6, 1962

  Voss, Paul-Hans, Freigegeben, Tagebuch Aufzeichnungen eines Funkers, Rossdorf, 1982

  Waasen, Heinrich Maria, Was geschah in Stalingrad? Zell am See, Salzburg, 1950

  Warlimont, Walter, Im Hauptquartier der deutschen Wehrmacht 1939–1945, Frankfurt am Main, 1962

  Wegner, Bernd, ‘German perceptions of Soviet military and economic strength in preparation for Operation Blau’, in C. Andrew and J. Noakes, Intelligence and International Relations 1900–1945, Exeter, Devon (UK), 1987

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  Weinert, Erich, Stalingrad Diary, London, 1944

  Werth, Alexander, The Year of Stalingrad, London, 1946

  ———, Russia at War 1941–1945, London, 1964

  Werthen, Wolfgang, Geschichte der 16. Panzerdivision, Bad Nauheim, 1958

  Wette, Wolfram, and Ueberschär, Gerd (eds.), Mythos und Wirklichkeit einer Schlacht, Frankfurt am Main, 1993

  Wettlin, Margaret, Russian Road, London, 1945

  Wich, Rudolph, Baden– Württembergische Divisionen im 2. Weltkrieg, Karlsruhe, 1957

  Wieder, Joachim, Tragödie von Stalingrad, Erinnerungen einesÜberlebenden, Deggendorf, 1955

  ———, Stalingrad und die Verantwortung des Soldaten, Munich, 1962

  Yeremenko, A. I., Tage der Entscheidung. Als Frontoberbefehlshaber in der Schlacht an der Wolga, Berlin, 1964

  Zank, Horst, Stalingrad, Kessel und Gefangenschaft, Herford, 1993

  Zayas, Alfred M. de, The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, 1939–1945, Lincoln, Neb., 1989

  Zhilin, Lt-Gen. P. A., They Sealed Their Own Doom, Moscow, 1970

  Zhukov, Georgi K., Marshal Zhukov’s Greatest Battles, New York, 1969

  ———, Kakim my ego pomnim, Moscow, 1988

  PERIODICALS, NEWSPAPERS, JOURNALS AND VETERANS’ PUBLICATIONS

  Bund ehemaliger Stalingradkämpfer, Weihnachts Rundbrief

  Bundestreffen der Stalingradkämpfer

  Deutsches Soldatenjahrbuch

  Istoricheskii Arkhiv

  Kameradschaft Stalingrad: Mitteilungsblatt für die ehemaligen Stalingradkämpfer und denÖsterreichischen Stalingradbund

  Opolchentsy ν boyakh za Rodinu. Boevoi put’ divizii Narodnogo opolchenya Kievskogo raiona g. Moskvy, Moscow, 1981

  StalingradbundÖsterreich

  Stalinskoe znamia

  Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal

  Völkischer Beobachter

  FICTION AND OTHER LITERARY WORKS

  Anon., Last Letters from Stalingrad, London, 1956*

  Bondarev, Yuri, Heisser Schnee, Berlin, 1972

  Bredel, Willi, Der Sonderführer, Berlin, 1970

  Grossman, Vasily, The People Immortal, London, 1943

  ———, Stalingrad, Moscow, 1946

  ———, Life and Fate, London, 1985

  Konsalik, Heinz, Der Arzt von Stalingrad, Munich, 1956

  Lazarev, L. (ed.), Let the Living Remember, Moscow, 1976

  Nekrassov, Viktor Platonovich, Front Line Stalingrad, London, 1962

  Neruda, Pablo, ‘Canto a Stalingrado’ and Nuevo Canto de Amor a Stalin-grado’, in Tercera Residencia 1935–1945, Barcelona, 1977

  Plievier, Theodor, Stalingrad, Berlin, 1946

  Simonov, Konstantin M., Days and Nights, New York, 1945

  Index

  Page numbers in italics refer to the maps.

  Abakumov, Viktor, 80, 389n

  Abganerovo, 243, 264

  Abramov, Κ. K., 90

  Adam, Colonel Wilhelm, 119, 376, 379, 383, 387, 397, 429, 431

  Akhmatova, Anna, 125

  Aleksandrov, G. F., 234

  Angern, General, 366

  Antonescu, Marshal Ion, 20, 87, 229, 250, 272

  Arnim, General Jürgen Sixt von, 397, 423

  Astrakhan, 2, 81, 100, 226

  Austrian troops, 65, 181, 185, 234, 244, 279, 319, 356, 358–9,397. 413

>   Babi–Yar (massacre of Jews), 15, 56

  Badanov, General Vasily, 300–301, 313

  Barrikady weapons factory, 161, 187f, 192, 198, 205ff, 216

  Barvenkovo, 64ff

  Batyuk, Colonel Nikolay, 142–3, 203, 216

  Beck, Dr Alois, 18, 309

  Beck, General Ludwig, 16, 146, 184, 369

  Behr, Captain Winrich, 227, 240, 271,342–7, 359, 383

  Bekabad prison camp, 415f

  Beketovka, 98, 110, 147, 243, 248, 250, 407;

  prison compounds, 371, 406, 411, 412–14, 415

  Below, Major Nicolaus von, 124, 344

  Berezhkov, Valentin, 3, 4, 6–8,418

  Beria, Lavrenty, 4, 18, 35, 36–7, 44, 86, 132, 225, 234, 385–7, 404, 422f, 436

  Berghof, Berchtesgaden, 266, 270

  Bezyminsky, Captain Lev, 387f, 396

  Bock, Field Marshal Fedor von, 20, 29, 33, 35, 39f, 42, 62, 65, 69, 74, 78

  Bormann, Martin, 16, 335

  Bielenberg, Christabel, 402

  Bismarck, Lieutenant Gottfried von, 341–2, 380, 429f

  Bismarck, Prince Otto von, (Chancellor), 5

  Bismarck, Prince Otto von, (diplomat), 400

  Blobel, Standartenführer SS Paul, 55–6

  Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Walther von, 14, 20, 47

  Bredel, Willi, 307, 327, 329–30

  Brest-Litovsk, 21, 26

  Budenny, Marshal Semyon, 29, 34

  Butkov, General V. V., 246

  Chir, river, 64, 90, 242

  Chuikov, General Vasily, 89–90, 127–9, 130–32, 141, 144, 149, 151–2, 162, 166, 188, 192, 196, 206f, 214, 302–3, 377, 422, 431

  Churchill, Winston, 5, 29, 402, 418

  Commissar Order, 14, 16, 54f

  Commissars in Red Army, 24, 89, 93, 115, 136–7, 153, 167, 168–70, 172, 193, 201–2, 289

  Cossacks, 88, 102, 178, 184–5, 274

  Croatian 369th Inf. Regt, 183, 281,413

  Daniels, General Edler von, 258, 283, 311–12, 317, 319, 336, 350, 353, 378, 423

  Deboi, General, 319, 397

  Dekanozov, Vladimir, 4, 5, 6–8,418

  Demyansk, 43, 63

  Dibold, Dr Hans, 333, 409, 413, 420, 429

  Dietrich, General Sepp, 52

  Dohna-Schlobitten, Prince A. zu, 17f, 261, 264, 342, 367

  Don, river, 2, 51, 64, 74f, 78, 84, 89, 129, 226, 230, 247;

  fighting in Don bend, 90–96;

  first crossing, 102–3;

  German retreat across, 258–62, 269

  Drebber, General Moritz von, 376, 426

  Dumitrescu, General Petre, 229

  Dyatlenko, Major Nikolay, 180, 322–30, 360, 378f, 388–91, 396

  Ehrenburg, Ilya, 86, 125, 404

  Einsiedl, Count Heinrich von, 286

  Eismann, Major, 299, 309

  Feldgendarmerie, 55, 177, 179, 254, 259, 341,343, 358, 365, 367, 384, 428

  Feldpost and Luftpost, 260, 348–9

  Fiebig, General Martin, 267, 300f, 322, 333, 335, 360, 364

  Freytag-Loringhoven, Captain Baron von, 66, 107, 124, 256, 365, 367

  Frolovo, 64;

  camp, 421

  Gablenz, General Baron Eccard von, 234

  Gebele, Major Bruno, 248f, 371f

  Gehlen, Colonel Reinhard, 222, 228

  German armies: First Panzer, 22, 29, 51, 64, 65, 69ff, 79, 293, 347

  Second Panzer, 33

  Fourth Panzer, 21,64, 72, 77, 79, 95–6, 100, 108, 113, 117f, 226, 248, 255, 336, 398

  Second, 72

  Sixth, 16, 22, 35, 55, 61, 64, 65, 70f, 76f;

  advance to Stalingrad, 87, 102–8, 118, 129;

  fighting in Stalingrad, 146–7, 151, 187, 191–2;

  and Uranus, 220, 226, 228, 235, 239–240, 244, 247, 250, 252, 253–4, 268;

  in Kessel, 269, 270–71, 275, 280, 282, 293, 297, 299, 302, 317;

  and Christmas, 311–15;

  ignorance of German public, 335–6;

  rumours, 336–7, 352;

  final battle, 354–7, 364, 372;

  ‘Noah’s Ark’, 366–7;

  surrender, 383f, 393;

  and German propaganda, 398–401

  Eleventh, 17, 55, 61, 70, 81

  Seventeenth, 70, 79, 293, 347

  German divisions: Grossdeutschland, 81, 352

  1st Pz., 36

  3rd Pz., 53, 75

  6th Pz., 296, 298f, 301–2

  9th Pz., 58

  10th Pz., 36

  14th Pz., 70, 114, 130, 163, 181, 189, 191, 193f, 218, 231, 246, 251,261,357, 376

  16th Pz., 17, 66, 89, 94, 96, 102–4, 106–8, 124, 163, 167, 190, 245, 247, 254, 258, 262, 278, 283, 313,315, 359

  17th Pz., 297f, 300

  18th Pz., 40

  22nd Pz., 60, 79, 186, 231, 240, 245, 252

  23rd Pz., 71, 296

  24th Pz, 13, 96, 114, 130, 138, 149, 161, 163, 181, 218, 245, 247, 377

  3rd Mot. Inf., 354f, 359

  29th Mot. Inf., 87, 114, 125, 135, 232, 306, 354, 359

  60th Mot. Inf., 16, 18, 162f, 189–90, 209, 271, 313,315, 359, 375

  44th Inf., 65, 90, 244, 262, 279, 282, 314, 319, 333, 354, 358

  71st Inf., 129ff, 184, 216, 377f

  76th Inf., 97, 113, 128f, 131, 184, 192, 259, 341, 370

  79th Inf., 167, 211, 216

  94th Inf., 130, 140, 163, 189, 192, 211, 271

  96th Inf., 60

  100thJäger Div., 161 ff 188, 216, 359, 366

  113th Inf., 208, 291, 305

  295th Inf., 53, 129, 131, 137, 163, 175, 216, 360

  297th Inf., 18, 62, 65, 70, 208, 248, 283, 311, 353, 359, 366, 371,370, 385, 387 305th Inf., 13, 119, 183, 192,193,206,216,324, 361,385,412

  371st Inf., 57, 96–7, 209, 248, 353, 365, 377

  376th Inf., 208, 251, 258,

  279f, 282ff, 350, 354, 359

  384th Inf., 57, 88, 92, 100, 234, 282

  389th Inf., 66, 97, 112, 130, 161ff, 164, 192, 195, 216, 271, 316

  Girgensohn, Dr Hans, 304–6, 351

  Goebbels, Joseph, 5, 146, 180, 197–8, 313, 369, 372, 378, 380, 398ff, 401ff

  Goering, Hermann, 16, 270, 273, 275, 280, 292, 335, 360, 369, 378, 380, 401–2, 403

  Golikov, General F. I., 72, 189

  Golubinsky, 146, 239, 242, 253f, 267

  Gordov, General V. N., 99

  Gorishny, Colonel V. A., 196

  Gromky, 242, 244

  Groscurth, Colonel Helmuth, 16, 55–6, 87, 145–6, 184, 187, 209, 212, 269, 273, 290, 369, 380, 393, 421

  Grossman, Vasily, 107, 137, 148, 152, 159, 174, 204–5, 214, 263, 286, 316, 361, 383, 394

  Grozny, 2, 69–70

  Guderian, General Heinz, 21, 24, 26, 29, 32f, 39, 403

  Gumrak, 126, 106, 254, 267, 269, 304, 315,346, 350, 36of, 363, 364, 370–71, 374f

  Gurov, Kuzma, 128

  Gurtiev, Colonel L. N., 187–8

  Halder, General Franz, 16, 20, 26, 29,31,53, 62f, 65, 78, 80, 123, 129, 145–6, 223

  Hartmann, General Alexander von, 377, 381

  Hassell, Ulrich von, 16

  Heim, General Ferdinand, 62, 231, 244f, 266, 272

  Heitz, General Walther, 65, 147, 382, 398

  Hess, Rudolf, 3, 5

  Himmler, Heinrich, 55, 273, 425

  Hindenburg, President von, 274

  Hitler, Adolf, 4, 7f, 14, 18;

  and Barbarossa, 20;

  and Red Army, 23–4; 32, 39, 42ff, 47, 51f;

  and generals, 58, 67–8, 71–2, 74, 78, 145, 228–9, 266, 290, 316, 320, 342;

  and Operation Blue, 77–8, 80–81, 95–6;

  and Caucasus, 123–4;

  and Stalingrad, 164–5, 187, 191, 218, 251–2;

  orders for winter, 209;

  Bürgerbraukeller speech, 213–14;

  and Uranus, 223, 231, 247, 253f, 266;

  and encirclement, 269–73, 297–8, 309–10, 316, 318, 333, 347;

  and Behr, 342–7;

  and final resistance, 359–60, 372–3, 379f;

  an
d surrender, 391–2;

  after surrender, 401, 403–4

  ‘Hiwi’ auxiliaries, 180, 184–6, 208, 210, 247, 274, 281n, 282, 319, 351, 353, 355, 365, 384–5

  Hooven, Colonel G. van, 424, 426

  Hoth, General Hermann, 16,21,33, 39, 69, 72, 95, 100, 113f, 130, 226;

  and Uranus, 232, 249f, 267;

  and Winter Storm, 296, 299, 301,337

  Hube, General Hans, 94f, 102–3, 11O, 112f, 114–15, 147, 261, 269, 315–16, 342, 366, 368, 374, 377, 379

  Hungarian Second Army, 20,51,72, 77,81–3, 181–2, 322

  Ilimen camp, 421, 429

  Italian Eighth Army, 81, 182–3, 293, 300

  Jaenecke, General, 147, 195, 364

  Jeschonnek, General Hans, 270, 280, 292, 335, 39

  Jews, actions against, 14–17, 54, 55–6, 79

  Jodl, General Alfred, 123, 145, 270, 391

  Jurisdiction Order, 14, 16, 54, 57–8, 60

  Kageneck, August Count von, 58–9

  Kageneck, Clemens Count von, 75

  Kalach, 96, 115, 226, 253, 254–6, 269, 295, 325, 352

  Kalinin, 36, 41

  Kamyshin, 134, 226

  Karpovka, 319, 321,346, 355ff

  Kazakov, Major-General Vasily, 387

  Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm, 14, 145, 270, 344, 391

  Kesselring, Field Marshal Albert, 34

  Kharkov, 2, 57, 61f, 63–5, 70, 73, 75, 296, 341, 345

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 29, 66, 99, 108–9, 125–6, 138, 162, 167, 196, 230, 430

  Kiev, 6, 15;

  encirclement battle of, 29

  Kirchner, General Friedrich, 296

  Kirponos, General Mikhail, 22

  Klamroth, Lieutenant-Colonel Bernhard, 345–6

  Kleist, General Ewald von, 22, 51, 65, 69, 425

  Kletskaya, 225, 226, 230, 239, 241,242, 244, 246

  Kluge, Field Marshal Hans Günter von, 39, 41, 273–4, 298, 424

  Komsomol (Communist Youth), 10, 98, 109, 167, 212

  Korfes, General Otto, 137, 382, 423ff, 429

  Kosygin, Aleksey, 37

  Kotelnikovo, 64, 293, 296f

  Kotluban, 106n, 323

  Krasnaya Sloboda, 126, 127, 134

  Krasnoarmeysk camp, 417

  Krasnogorsk camp, 415, 422

  Kravchenko, General, 244, 246, 251, 253

  Krylov, General Nikolay, 128

  Kunowski, Lieutenant-Colonel Werner von, 334

  Kursk, 52, 72

  Kuybyshev, 2, 36f

  Kuznetsov, Admiral Nikolay, 9f, 133

  Lascar, General Mihail, 253,

  Lattmann, General Martin, 393, 423f, 429