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My question is: Who was Vasilij Zdycev?

Would that be 'Vasilij Zajcev', the Soviet sniper in the film 'Enemy at the Gates', Stalingrad?

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I also would say the Russian sniper in the movie "Enemy at the gates". Didn't he really exist?

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Yes he did live. In fact he died sometime in the early 90's. The real mystery is whether a Maj. Konig(the man vasily zaitsev killed in Enemy at The Gates) actually existed.

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I'm reading a book wich is called "Stalingrad" and the writer says that Zaitsev invented a rocketlauncher with a sniper-scope on it, but it was uneffective. Yes, Major König did exist. They say that his sniper-scope was the most valuable trophy Zaitsev had. It is now on the War museum in Volgograd (former Stalingrad).

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sorry but that is incorrect. This König chap also had several different names. He is not listed in the deceased of German truppen at Stalingrad and neither are any other Waffen SS soldiers either. The Sturmbannführer König or whatever his name was supposed to be was to have commanded the W-SS sniper school at Zossen but in reality the school for W-SS snipers here was not activated until sometime after the engagements at Stalingrad. Zaitslev shot a gefreiter or an unteroffizier of the Heer. and this so-called König sniper scope is a bogus peice of equipment. I have been in touch since this movie came out with a German/Soviet historian who is going to write a book about the sniper escapades on the Ost front and nowhere in his huge files does this sniper duel even existed....his sources are well researched and he has interviewed many Soviet and German veterans for his planned work

~E

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