Gruesome photos of the Battle of Stalingrad, Germans, Romanians, Horses..cold & stiff

This post has been edited by Anton88 on March 18, 2010 01:39 am

This is Interesting here: I quote from the source:

The Large free-standing monument at Stalingrad on the hill where alot of the fighting took place

http://www.great-victory1945.ru/


* I had always known that the Russian casualties at Stalingrad were greater then the German ones.. (as usual everywhere except in the 1944 summer offensive that destroyed army group center)
* They were so severe and high, that they were kept secret, (the real number) until the breakup of the soviet union.
(the same with the casualties at Kursk.. 250,000 dead, 600,000 wounded, and 60% of Russia's tanks..destroyed) The true number was revealed after the fall of the USSR

I'm talking about the casualties in the overall battle, around the city, and everywhere else, not just the house to house...

And from what I've been hearing at least 1 million people (combined) died in the Battle of Staingrad, perhaps more...very likely.
Then how come the combined German, Romanian, Hungarian, Croat, Slovak,Italian.(AXIS) losses are 800,000 if the Russians lost more.?

This post has been edited by Anton88 on March 18, 2010 02:02 am

Surviving families living in a ground hole after the Battle, color photo from the Spring/Early Summer of 1943



This post has been edited by Anton88 on March 18, 2010 02:29 am

What exactly is the point of this thread? We all know that Stalingrad was a bloody battle.

Here are various casualties estimation for the Battle of Stalingrad:
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/battles.htm

Do you have a source for this statement?

Also mention the source of the photographs according to forum rules.

Here are various casualties estimation for the Battle of Stalingrad:
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/battles.htm

Do you have a source for this statement?

Also mention the source of the photographs according to forum rules.

The source I already posted.. its right there at the bottom.. before the last paragraph..
( http://www.great-victory1945.ru/ ), for both photos and text/quotes


* I would really like to know if the Germans took the Romanian horses by force and ate them... as claimed there

thanks!

According to "Romanii la Stalingrad" by Adrian Pandea, Ion Pavelescu, Eftimie Ardeleanu, Military Publishing House - 1992, the 1st Cavalry Division shared all their materiel including horses, carts etc with 15 German divisions, by the order of General Tataranu, comander of 20th Infantry Division. 27 horses were kept by the Romanian division at Gonceara.

Until the end, the Romanian troops in the encirclement were treated the same as the common German soldier, they received the same amount of ammunition and the same food rations.

The website you use as a source is so full of bullshit and propaganda that it does worth a visit for a good laugh, nothing more.

This post has been edited by dragos on March 18, 2010 08:59 pm

Remember ' Governor of Alaska " ?

Yeah... I know..

This post has been edited by Anton88 on March 18, 2010 09:56 pm

I taught Romulus DIMITRIU commanded the Romanian 20th Infantry Division

He is the one seen in soviet newsreels together with captured German officers, at Stalingrad




http://www.generals.dk/general/Dimitriu/Romulus/Romania.html

This post has been edited by Anton88 on March 19, 2010 07:18 pm

General Tataranu flew out of Stalingrad pocket. Dimitriu succeeded him in command.

Any pictures with dead russians?

No russians died....

is irelevant for the initial purpose

In the 1950's, when we were all hugs and kisses with the grand friend from the East, a Soviet movie came to the theaters, and according to the title, it was supposed to show the fights in Crimea.

Well, of course my grandfather was curious to see the places and landscapes of Crimea again. So he bought the ticket and went to the movie. After the movie started, he got so upset that he left the projection room after some time.
Something funny: in addition to the immortal Russians who seemed immune to bullets during fights, while the Axis guys were falling like rain droplets, another thing that annoyed my grandfather was that the movie was not filmed in Crimea at all. I feel is funny because actually is a very common practice, and we should be surprised and pleased when a movie is cast in the actual historic location.

This post has been edited by Florin on April 14, 2011 03:34 pm

From the book "Russia At War, 1941-1945" of Alexander Werth (born russian, war corespondent of BBC...), chapter "Stalingrad. The Agony" (found it in russian)

This post has been edited by Petre on August 28, 2014 09:19 am