I suppose Za you´ve read books by German soldiers in ostfront in 1941 describing the Red Army attacks. Drunk men wave after wave who were shot to the ground by schrapnel rounds and there could be up to ten waves during one attack. These men did not have a choice even to get close to the enemy so I´d wonder if you really would give them even guns (?) because they could never use them. I´m always saddened by waste of soldiers so I´m not really happy about the attack method here. In 1942 the situation was quite different.

If you read the stonebooks.com article on the book it really gives a creepy look on the warfare.

And Stalin , would he care if he already had killed millions and even his closest comrades in the 1930´s? All he cared was to get the Germans stopped and killed.

In comparison remember that that the Volksturm men had approx 5 bullets each in 1945 so not at all good for them later on either. And their guns were whatever they could get. Maybe you could say that bullets for 10 days is rather good...

[ 22. March 2006, 10:41 AM: Message edited by: Kai-Petri ]

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