Stalingrad : Memories and Reassessments,9780304363384

Stalingrad : Memories and Reassessments

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ISBN13: 9780304363384
ISBN10: 0304363383
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-04-01
Publisher(s): Cassell
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Summary

Stalingrad in the Second World War has become a by-word for misplaced military endeavour - and courage, endurance, heroism beyond all human belief. Joachim Wieder survived the German collapse, and the subsequent years in Soviet captivity, to write his memoir of the battle in 1962. It was no routine account; he found it necessary to re-examine what motives drove the Germans on in the face of hopeless odds, why orders were issued that could only lead to certain death, the lies promulgated by high command, the whole morass of unjustified and pointless conflict. This is an absorbing evaluation of war, revised in 1993 in the light of later information on the battle, and available now in English for the first time. It was the first German book on Stalingrad to be published in the Soviet Union.

Table of Contents

Preface 7(2)
Introduction 9(4)
Helmut Gollwitzer
Overview of the Campaign of 1942 13(16)
PART I. MEMORIES OF A SURVIVOR
29(104)
The Army of Stalingrad is encircled
30(7)
Fateful decisions are taken
37(5)
General von Seydlitz remonstrates
42(4)
`Hold on! The Fuhrer will get you out!'
46(4)
Worry and anxiety at Pitomnik Air Base
50(4)
Memories of dark weeks in December
54(3)
Manstein is coming
57(6)
Christmas and New Year in the Stalingrad Pocket
63(6)
The Russian surrender proposal is rejected
69(5)
The Pocket is broken up
74(4)
The tragedy approaches its climax
78(5)
Experiences and encounters on the run
83(6)
Dissolution of our corps, and the hour of farewell with our Commanding General
89(5)
The dying Army floods into the ruins of Stalingrad
94(6)
The death agony is prolonged
100(6)
We listen to our own Funeral Oration
106(4)
An inglorious end
110(5)
The glimpse of the abyss
115(6)
We go into captivity
121(6)
The tragedy of Stalingrad is not over
127(6)
PART II. CRITICAL ASSESSMENTS AFTER FIFTY YEARS
133(114)
Field Marshal von Manstein
134(45)
Hitler's basic mistake and General Field Marshal Paulus' submission
135(3)
Von Manstein's relief operation
138(2)
Gaps and questions in von Manstein's account
140(2)
The day of decision
142(4)
The supply situation
146(2)
Von Manstein's area of responsibility
148(5)
Shortcomings and failures
153(10)
Stalingrad was no ordinary defeat
163(2)
Is a death sentence as at Stalingrad a legitimate decision?
165(3)
Von Manstein wants surrender but does not give the order
168(3)
Soldiering and resistance
171(3)
Results of an inordinate and immoral war policy
174(3)
A completely false and intolerable comparison
177(2)
Field Marshal Paulus
179(35)
Extent and quality of the source material
181(3)
Gorlitz, a defender of Paulus?
184(5)
On the character of the Field Marshal
189(4)
The motives behind Paulus' conduct
193(2)
Caught up in conflicting duties
195(5)
The last chance
200(5)
Self-sacrifice and sacrifice on demand
205(9)
General von Seydlitz
214(33)
Attrition in the city on the Volga
215(3)
Independent action in the initial stages of the battle of encirclement
218(4)
Von Seydlitz's assessment of the situation
222(8)
The road to ruin
230(5)
Conflicts of conscience in the face of catastrophe
235(12)
APPENDICES
247(18)
The Literature on Stalingrad: a Critical Assessment
248(17)
Bibliography 265(9)
Notes 274(15)
Documents 289(24)
Sketches of the situation in the Stalingrad Pocket and the Relief Offensive 313(4)
Index of Personages 317

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