Stalingrad re-release or additions. (1 Viewer)

[Warrior]

"I have always been interested in what happened to the German troops that

surrendered. I have found very little information, does anyone have a good

source for information as to the fate of the troops that surrendered?"

John,
I've read many accounts of the battle and the details will sometimes vary from source to source, but in general, about 90,000 Germans surrendered after the battle was over. Of those about 5,000 to 8,000 ever saw Germany again, most either starved to death or were worked to death as slave labor rebuilding Russia after the war was over.

Of those who were returned to Germany, some were not released until the 1950's as well.........................

 

[Blowtorch]

Hey Warrior, the sewer guys & NKVD documents about them were unveiled in this dvd:

http://www.amazon.com/Stalingrad-Jö...ef=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1228182714&sr=1-2

I haven't watched it in a while, but the only fighting they did was when small raiding groups came up through manholes to get food.


Njja, a small group of survivors (10,000 a guess) were kept in the city for reconstruction labor. The rest went through their equivalent of the Bataan Death March to get to the trains where they then got sent to Gulags. Cannabalism was ripe in Gulags to the end. The inmates formed themselves into different groups...the Communist sympathizers & those loyal to Germany. I'm digging deep here, but I seem to recall that the German loyalists actually had a better chance of repatriation than the butt kissers.

 

[HAWKEYE]

The germans could have easily won the war in 1941 if hitler had not interfered after the battle of smolensk. The road was open to moscow and the taking of 75% of the industrial capacity and instead of listening to his generals he turned his units south to encircle and destroy 3 million russians. The problem is that it took six weeks and by that time stalin had shipped his factories east and the earliest and coldest winter since napoleon invaded hit. The rest is history.

 

[Warrior]

"Hey Warrior, the sewer guys & NKVD documents about them were unveiled in this dvd:

http://www.amazon.com/Stalingrad-Jö...ef=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1228182714&sr=1-2"

Thanks for the link, will check it out, thanks for taking the time to post it.

 

[gk5717]

Just watched that Stalingrad DVD, kinda depressing, especially if you are of German heritage as myself. I,m referring to the common German soldier.
It seems that when the 5000 or so Germans finally made it back to Germany, they took there own vengance out on the Germans who went along with the Communist indocturnation.
Gary

 

[Njja]

Njja, a small group of survivors (10,000 a guess) were kept in the city for reconstruction labor. The rest went through their equivalent of the Bataan Death March to get to the trains where they then got sent to Gulags. Cannabalism was ripe in Gulags to the end. The inmates formed themselves into different groups...the Communist sympathizers & those loyal to Germany. I'm digging deep here, but I seem to recall that the German loyalists actually had a better chance of repatriation than the butt kissers.

Thanks for the information, its quite difficult to find anything on what happened to the Germans that surrendered. I know about 5,000 made it back
to Germany. I also read they kept a group in the city to begin repairs, but it is usually just a sentence or paragraph here or there.

 

[bromhead]

thanks for the photos