By Hans Wijers
Showing for the 1st time in English, those are unique money owed by means of German infantrymen who fought at the japanese entrance in global conflict II. incorporated are tales from a panzer crewman who survived the combating at Stalingrad in addition to a paratrooper creating a final stand prior to Berlin. the various pictures have by no means been released ahead of.
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We no longer had a tank, and of the seventeen tanks in Krepp with which we had started, only four still existed. Two of those could no longer be repaired. On the other hand, the crews were still complete. The long-barreled Panzer IV was out of ammunition, but the short-barreled Panzer IV, which had carried out the attack with us, was still operational. We still had twenty men—one of which was wounded, one half frozen, and eighteen fit. What will now become of us? The chief said, “Tomorrow, I’ll have you all transported to the rear.
In the afternoon, the company commander returned from the regimental staff. In a subsequent briefing—which I attended as main radioman—we were sworn to silence and informed that the Russians had assembled heavy forces, including armor, in the Kalmuck steppe and were about to threaten our left flank. Our objective for the next day’s march would be Kalach on the Don, about eighty kilometers away. From there, other orders came. Everyone split up in silence. In the evening, I collected my laundry from the laundry maid, who was saddened by our sudden departure.
All of a sudden, we heard the howling of the Stalin organs. I thought that this would mean our end. We both quickly pulled in some corpses in order to take cover behind them. The first salvoes passed overhead; the second ones came a lot closer. Suddenly, there was a muffled impact and a detonation in our direct proximity. We both lay on our backs, and I felt a sharp burning sensation at my lower belly. When I groped there, I noted a hole in my trousers. The pain wasn’t that bad, but my neighbor Meyer had taken some shrapnel in the left lower arm.