"The Greatest Sniper Duel in History Is a Myth" Topic
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Tango01 | 10 Aug 2016 12:27 p.m. PST |
"On one side was Vasily Zaitsev, the Soviet army's deadliest sniper, with some 400 kills. On the other was one "Major Konig," the head of the German army's sniper school in Berlin, whom the Nazi high command had dispatched to Stalingrad to hunt down Zaitsev. They met on a fateful afternoon—two marksmen stalking each other on the battlefield. Only Zaitsev survived. Or so the popular retelling would have you believe. This epic contest between two supersnipers has been immortalized in numerous books and most famously in the 2001 movie Enemy at the Gates. In his autobiography Notes of a Russian Sniper, Zaitsev himself describes how he carefully studied the battlefield until he deduced that Konig was hidden under a sheet of iron surrounded by a small pile of bricks, in the no-man's-land between the German and Soviet lines. Mindful that Konig had already picked off several of his fellow snipers, Zaitsev baited a trap with his friend Kulikov…" From here link Amicalement Armand |
ageofglory | 10 Aug 2016 12:57 p.m. PST |
Maybe. The idea that German lines must have been facing east is a bit silly given the block by block, even building by building fighting, in Stalingrad. The lack of a date from Zaitsev's memoir is more telling, but all the same, I'll hang on to the myth. |
Der Alte Fritz | 10 Aug 2016 1:31 p.m. PST |
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Leadpusher | 10 Aug 2016 2:30 p.m. PST |
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tberry7403 | 10 Aug 2016 2:49 p.m. PST |
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rvandusen | 10 Aug 2016 3:43 p.m. PST |
The nails in the sniper duel coffin are no record of a Major Konig and no sniper school in Berlin. Given the decentralized style of German training, I would assume sniper courses would have been held at divisional level. |
Legion 4 | 10 Aug 2016 4:02 p.m. PST |
This would be a big change of this aspect of WWII … If true ? It very well might be ? |
nazrat | 10 Aug 2016 7:45 p.m. PST |
I have at least 5 books on Stalingrad here at my house and every single one of them says it's just a story. So it's hardly a myth that needs debunking… |
Dn Jackson | 11 Aug 2016 3:20 a.m. PST |
I thought the greatest sniper duel was between Gunny Hathcock and the NVA sniper sent to kill him. He shot his opponent through his scope after all. |
hagenthedwarf | 11 Aug 2016 5:11 p.m. PST |
Given the decentralized style of German training, I would assume sniper courses would have been held at divisional level. Not if Wacker's SNIP{ER ON THE EASTERN FRONT is to be believed. |
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