Eight mysterious facts about the Battle of Stalingrad

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

An entry from the "Stalingrad" diary of a German officer: “None of us will return to Germany, unless a miracle happens. Time has passed to the side of the Russians. " The miracle did not happen. For it was not only time that went over to the side of the Russians …

1. Armageddon

In Stalingrad, both the Red Army and the Wehrmacht, for some unknown reason, changed their methods of warfare. From the very beginning of the war, the Red Army used flexible defense tactics with rejects in critical situations. The Wehrmacht command, in turn, avoided large, bloody battles, preferring to bypass large fortified areas. In the Battle of Stalingrad, both sides forget about their principles and embark on a bloody cabin. The beginning was laid on August 23, 1942, when the German aviation carried out a massive bombing of the city. 40,000 people died. This exceeds the official figures for the Allied air raid on Dresden in February 1945 (25,000 casualties).

2. Get to hell

A large system of underground communications was located under the city itself. During the hostilities, the underground galleries were actively used by both Soviet troops and the Germans. And even local battles took place in the tunnels. It is interesting that German troops from the beginning of their penetration into the city began to build a system of their own underground structures. Work continued almost until the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, and only at the end of January 1943, when the German command realized that the battle was lost, the underground galleries were blown up. For us it remained a mystery what the Germans built. One of the German soldiers later ironically wrote in his diary that he had the impression that the command wanted to get to hell and call on the demons for help.

3. Mars versus Uranus

A number of esotericists claim that a number of strategic decisions of the Soviet command in the Battle of Stalingrad were influenced by practicing astrologers. For example, the Soviet counteroffensive, Operation Uranus, began on November 19, 1942 at 7.30 am At that moment, the so-called ascendant (the ecliptic point rising above the horizon) was located in the planet Mars (the Roman god of war), while the setting point of the ecliptic was the planet Uranus. According to astrologers, it was this planet that ruled the German army. Interestingly, in parallel, the Soviet command was developing another major offensive operation on the South-Western Front - "Saturn". At the last moment, it was abandoned and carried out the operation "Little Saturn". Interestingly, in ancient mythology, it was Saturn (in Greek mythology Kronos) who emasculated Uranus.

4. UFO over Stalingrad

Some researchers argue that in addition to the heroism of our army and "Santa Claus", the UFO intervention also influenced the outcome of the Battle of Stalingrad. In their opinion, Hitler didn’t just go to this zone, his secret team didn’t just dig a tunnel under the Mamayev Kurgan, another secret team didn’t just study the area around the city with the help of instruments. Hitler knew something about this region and was eager to take possession of it. But during the fighting in Stalingrad, an armored column of the German army entered the zone called the Medveditskaya ridge (anomalous zone north of the city). Within 2 minutes, this column was completely destroyed. Practically in this place, only scorched earth and melted fragments of metal remained.

5. Alexander Nevsky vs. Bismarck

Military action was accompanied by a large number of signs and signs. So, in the 51st Army, a detachment of machine gunners under the command of Senior Lieutenant Alexander Nevsky fought. The then propagandists of the Stalingrad Front launched a rumor that the Soviet officer was a direct descendant of the prince who defeated the Germans on Lake Peipsi. Alexander Nevsky was even nominated for the Order of the Red Banner. And on the German side, the great-grandson of Bismarck, who, as you know, warned "never to fight with Russia," took in the battle. A descendant of the German Chancellor, by the way, was captured.

6. Timer and tango

During the battle, the Soviet side applied revolutionary innovations to psychological pressure on the enemy. So, from the loudspeakers installed at the front line, favorite hits of German music were heard, which were interrupted by messages about the victories of the Red Army in the sectors of the Stalingrad Front. But the most effective means was the monotonous beat of the metronome, which was interrupted after 7 beats with a comment in German: "Every 7 seconds, one German soldier dies at the front." At the end of a series of 10-20 "timer reports", tango was heard from the loudspeakers.

7. Mink coats

Many German soldiers and officers, who had many battles behind them, recalled that in Stalingrad they sometimes had the impression that they were in some kind of parallel world, an atmosphere of absurdity, where traditional German pedantry and rationality evaporated. So, the German command often gave absolutely meaningless orders: for example, in street battles for some secondary sector, German generals could put a couple of thousand of their own soldiers.

One of the most absurd moments was the episode when the German aviators, “supplies”, dropped from the air the fighters, closed in the “bloody cauldron,” instead of food and uniforms, female mink coats.

8. The revival of Stalingrad

In early February, after the end of the battle, the question was raised in the Soviet government about the inexpediency of restoring the city, which would have cost more than building a new city. However, Stalin insisted on the restoration of Stalingrad in the literal sense of the word from the ashes. So, so many shells were dropped on Mamayev Kurgan that after the liberation for 2 years no grass grew on it.