"Revealed: The forgotten secrets of Stalingrad" Topic
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| Tango01 | 25 Aug 2018 10:01 p.m. PST |
50.000 Soviet Stalingrad Citizens fought side by side with the Germans?… this was confirmed by documents?….
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Amicalement
Armand |
| deephorse | 26 Aug 2018 6:07 a.m. PST |
Depends upon what Beevor's definition of ‘fought' is. In this article
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(warning, quite lengthy)
it is claimed that there were nearly a million ‘Hiwis' in the German rear areas towards the end of 1942. So 50,000 in the Stalingrad area does not seem impossible on that basis. |
| Tango01 | 26 Aug 2018 3:08 p.m. PST |
Thanks!…. Amicalement
Armand |
| Frontovik | 30 Aug 2018 2:53 a.m. PST |
This isn't forgotten at all. It's long been known that there were roughly 50,000 Soviet POWs and HiWis* caught in the pocket. *HiWis didn't fight they performed rear area tasks. |
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