Lynn
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On the last page of the book, Beevor writes about where Paulus and Chuikov ended up. Beevor writes about Chuikov and how, on his orders, thousands of Soviet soldiers were executed at Stalingrad and buried in unmarked graves. The last sentence baffles me: "As statistics, they were lost among the other battle casualties, which has a certain unintended justice." How is that justice?
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Björn Söderström
Maybe he meant that presumably a majority were executed with little to no legal proceedings and having committed no major faults. By being combined with battle casualties they were, in a sense, counted amongst their battle brothers who died defending Stalingrad and the motherland.
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