A Hot Meal In Besieged Stalingrad/The Living Hell Of Stalingrad
Dedicated to Max
Towards the end of the siege of Stalingrad,
The German Sixth Army was slowly starving to death.
Hunger was rampant.
One German sergeant addressed his commanding officer,
A major and said would he care for a hot meal.
He added, I can assure you sir it's not human.
His major then obliged him.
And when he finished his meal,
He asked his sergeant what had he just eaten,
For it tasted delicious.
To which his sergeant dutifully replied...
The last of the dobermanns.
*
Stalingrad is no longer a town.
By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke.
It is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames.
And when night arrives, one of those very hot,
noisy, bloody nights.
The dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately,
to gain the other bank.
The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them.
Animals flee from this Hell.
The hardest stones cannot bear it for long.
Only men endure.
Quote from a Panzer Leutnant Weiner, 24th Panzer Division.
Dedicated to Max.
And both are sadly true accounts.
And I do not own the copyright to these.
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Wowsas Shaun so moving ai had to prick with an ouchy pin❤️💙❤️
Jill just delivering the goods for Max who like me follows WW2 and these are both harrowing and true. The second one was from The World At War with Larry Olivier as its narrator.
A great well made series that pulled no punches.
And this is the last of harrowing ones I'll post for a while and move on to more comfortable easy going poems.
Thanks Jill for your comment and your more recent moral support, for that means the world to me.
And beware that ouchy pesky pin!!!
Another smashing write Shaun. Very very captivating. Hard to imagine the struggles for Stalingrad at the time, both sides had significant and unimaginable hardships. Thanks so much for sharing it, to be honest I hadn't heard of this one before. Love your work and again really kind of you for the kudos. Peace and smiles. Your friend Max
Max many thanks and they do hit home hard.
The second one is from The World At War series with Laurence Olivier as narrator and the first was one I read in a book as as a kid called Enemy at the gates, The battle of Stalingrad by William Craig.
Not the Jude Law movie which was I believe was based on just two paragraphs mentioning the real history sniper duel in Antony Beevor's Stalingrad two years before the movie.
Thanks again Max and hang in there, your friend Shaun.
Aww 😭😭 read this a few times. War is terrible isnt it? And how the animals suffer. You wrote this well x