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May 9th, 2011, 02:59 PM
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#11 | | Historian
Joined: Oct 2009 From: From the Boomtown Shenzhen Posts: 1,945 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Wastedgrunt36 
I don't understand how flying out 20 or so men would help with rebuilding a new 6th army. If anything, he should have just flown out as many men as possible. | Agreed, there was very little to be gained in saving just twenty men, Hitler could have flown out thousands over the period of the Siege. So many transports got in and left empty...
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May 9th, 2011, 03:47 PM
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#12 | | Combicritter
Joined: May 2010 From: Orion arm of the milky way Posts: 3,362 |
Were they officers or regular men?
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May 9th, 2011, 04:41 PM
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#13 | | Historian
Joined: Jul 2010 From: Oregon Posts: 1,113 | Quote:
Originally Posted by rehabnonono  Agreed, there was very little to be gained in saving just twenty men, Hitler could have flown out thousands over the period of the Siege. So many transports got in and left empty... | many actually carried out the wounded when they could but a good number of the transports never made it back to their original base.
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May 9th, 2011, 05:57 PM
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#14 | | Historian
Joined: Jan 2011 From: South of the barcodes Posts: 3,257 | Quote:
Originally Posted by rehabnonono Agreed, there was very little to be gained in saving just twenty men, Hitler could have flown out thousands over the period of the Siege. So many transports got in and left empty... | Except that approximately 25,000 men, both wounded and irreplaceable specialists were flown out during the siege?
Antony Beevor & Artemis Cooper, Stalingrad, 1998 , Appendix B
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May 10th, 2011, 12:29 AM
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#15 | | αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν
Joined: Jan 2010 From: Lower Saxony Posts: 10,387 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Wastedgrunt36 Were they officers or regular men? | so-called specialists
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March 29th, 2012, 08:38 PM
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#16 | | Citizen
Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 1 |
my grandfather was a survivor of stalingrad. 6th army calvary officer. could anyone get information about the prisoners that survived?
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March 29th, 2012, 09:53 PM
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#17 | | Scholar
Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 719 |
Hitler was delusional and maniacial.The 6th army was reputedly the best regular army in the wehrmacht.
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March 30th, 2012, 10:57 AM
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#18 | | None shall pass!
Joined: Aug 2010 From: Somewhere in France(for now) Posts: 6,554 | Quote:
Originally Posted by thegracieway my grandfather was a survivor of stalingrad. 6th army calvary officer. could anyone get information about the prisoners that survived? | theres a great 3 part documantary show on the battle with interviews of its survivers. the final episode follows them into siberia and then tells of there long journy home. | | | |
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March 30th, 2012, 02:12 PM
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#19 | | Citizen
Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 19 | Quote:
Originally Posted by harbinger Hitler was delusional and maniacial.The 6th army was reputedly the best regular army in the wehrmacht. | That's because other units on quite sections of the front were stripped of men & equipment to bring the 6th Army upto strength in readiness for the Operation Blau.
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