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Will Styka

Ms. Caruso

ENGL 1102

14 February 2012

Der Lngste Winter

September 1st, 1942

We advanced into the city of Stalingrad today, one of the largest cities in the

Soviet Union. Paulus ordered us to enter the city through a suburb that the Soviets call

Rynok. The whole place is a shambled mess; our bombing runs have reduced the city to

ruins, houses once full of life now shells. Things did not go as Paulus had hoped. The

ruination of the buildings cluttered the area, making it difficult for our Panzers to

maneuver through the rubble-filled streets, and easy for the Soviets to direct artillery on

us. Hauptmann Brenner split us up from the Panzer division; if we had stayed, the Soviet

artillery would have wiped us out. Weve taken cover and created a fortified position in

the remains of an apartment building. I got a view of the city from a window on the

seventh floor, it is a ghastly sight, flames and gunfire ravage the ruins of the city.

September 5th, 1942

We left the apartment building today. Our bombers have silenced their artillery,

so we have been ordered to push further into the city. Hauptmann Brenner informed us,

with a grim face, that we needed to clear every house and building to ensure the path

would be safe for supply lines. Clearing these buildings is taxing on our minds and

bodies. Our gains have been reduced to yards and inches, every house and every building

could have Soviets inside waiting for us. Oberschutze Gringer died today; stepped into a

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room and shot in the throat a moment later. He didnt die quickly, he lay there gurgling

and thrashing for several minutes. Seeing that made us all paranoid, which only made our

task worse; knowing that through the next doorway or in the next room, our deaths could

be waiting. Night fell faster than expected, and we are to spend the night in foxholes. I

doubt any of us will be able to sleep though, knowing that the Soviets are possibly just up

the street.

October 12th, 1942

Hauptmann Brenner informed us today that we hold what the Generals estimate to

be around ninety percent of the city. The fighting has been very bad as of late. The losses

on both sides are staggering, in the tens of thousands. We are lucky then, to have only

lost two; Oberschutze Gringer and Schutze Swartzer. The late Schutze fell to a sniper a

few days ago, dead before he hit the ground. As of late, we have had to be weary of

snipers; these ruined buildings and rubble piles make excellent sniper positions, and the

Soviets know it. We were also told today that we have been completely cutoff from the

main Panzer division, and are being ordered to move closer to the heart of the city in

order to regroup. Unfortunately this easier said than done, as we have no way of knowing

how many Soviets we are to expect on the way there or how well armed they are.

October 25th, 1942

Weve managed to meet up with the remnants of the 4th

Panzer Army under the

command of General Hoth, but things are looking grim. Many of the panzers have been

rendered useless as field mice burrowed into the control panels and chewed through the

wires. The High Command has sent word that they are worried about out left flank,

warning that it is too wide open, but their point is moot. Though our flank may be


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vulnerable, there is nothing we can do to reinforce it; the Soviets have us at a bloody

stalemate. We just have to hope that the Hungarians and Romanians can hold the line

long enough for reinforcements to arrive. Though, after what happened with Rommel in

North Africa, Hauptmann Brenner is skeptical that such reinforcements will ever reach

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