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That the Soviet regime was almost as unforgiving towards its own soldiers as towards the enemy is demonstrated by the total figure of 13,500 executions, both summary and judicial, during the battle of Stalingrad. This included all crimes classed by the commissars as 'extraordinar events', from retreating without orders to self-inflicted wounds, desertion, crossing over to the enemy and anti-Soviet activities.
— Dec 20, 2012 10:23PM
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The close-quarter combat in ruined buildings, bunkers, cellars and sewers was soon dubbed 'Rattenkrieg' by German soldiers. It possessed a savage intimacy which appalled their generals, who felt they were rapidly losing control over events.
— Dec 19, 2012 09:45PM
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Reichenau: "In this eastern theater of war, the soldier is not only a man fighting in accordance with the rules of war, but also the ruthless standard-bearer of a national ideal and the avenger of all the bestial.ities perpretrated on the German people. For this reason the soldier must fully appreciate the necessity for the severe but just retribution that must be meted out to the subhuman species of Jewry."
— Dec 12, 2012 10:04PM
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Hitler's fundamental irresponsibiliyu -- a psychologically interesting defiance of fate -- had been to launch the most ambitious invasion in history while refusing to gear the German economy and industry for all-out war. In hindsight, it seems more like the act of a compulsive gambler....
— Dec 11, 2012 09:26PM
