Stalingrad

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. (
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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 ioneers 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
LUFTWAFFE GROUND TROOPS
9th Flak Division
Major-General Pickert*
luftwaffe air support
4th Air Fleet
Colonel-General Freiherr von Richthofen
VIII AIR CORPS
General Fiebig
    * flown out of