Stalingrad

^{16. (Previous page) One of Chuikov’s divisional commanders during the battle, with a young woman signaller.}

^{17. October 1942. German infantry occupying a destroyed workshop in the factory district.}

^{18. ‘Noble Sniper’ Zaitsev (left) from the Siberian 284th Rifle Division explains the doctrine of ‘sniperism’.}

^{19 and 20. November 1942. Operation Uranus: the encirclement of the Sixth Army.}

^{21. Junkers 52 transport taking off.}

^{22. December 1942. German artillery from Hoth’s Fourth Panzer Army after the failure of Operation Winter Storm to relieve the Sixth Army.}

^{23. Trapped Sixth Army soldiers retrieve parachute canisters.}

^{24. 10 January 1943. General Rokossovsky awaits the opening barrage for Operation Ring to crush the Kessel.}

^{25. 11 January 1943. German infantry retreating through a blizzard.}

^{26. 28 January 1943. General Edler von Daniels marches into captivity past the body of one of his soldiers.}

^{27. 30 January 1943. Goering on the tenth anniversary of Hitler’s assumption of power, having just broadcast ‘the funeral oration’ of the Sixth Army.}

^{28. 31 January 1943. Field Marshal Paulus and General Schmidt at 64th Army HQ after surrendering.}

^{29. A German soldier booted and prodded out of a bunker.}

^{30. Remnants of the Sixth Army marched off to captivity.}

^{31. German and Romanian prisoners.}

APPENDIX A German and Soviet Orders of Battle, 19 November 1942

WEHRMACHT

SIXTH ARMY

General of Panzer Troops Paulus Major-General Schmidt

Ia Operations:

Colonel Elchlepp†

Ib Quartermaster:

Major von Kunowski

Ic Intelligence:

Lieutenant-Colonel Niemeyer†

IIa Adjutant:

Colonel W. Adam

Chief of Artillery:

Major-General Vassoll

Chief of Signals:

Colonel Arnold* (replaced by Colonel van Hooven‡)

Chief of Engineers:

Colonel H. Selle* (replaced by Colonel Stiotta*)

Chief of Medical Corps:

General Renoldi

OKH liaison officer:

Lieutenant-Colonel von Zitzewitz*

ARMY TROOPS: MAJOR UNITS

Mortar regiments: 51st, 53rd

Nebelwerfer regiments: 2nd, 30th

Artillery regiments: 4th, 46th, 64th, 70th

Artillery battalions: 54th, 616th, 627th, 849th

Heavy-artillery battalions: 49th, 101st, 733rd

Pioneer battalions: 6th, 41st

IV CORPS

General of pioneers Jaenecke*

Colonel Crome

29th Motorized Infantry Division

Major-General Leyser

297th Infantry Division

Lieutenant-General Pfeffer

371st Infantry Division

Lieutenant-General Stempel†

VIII CORPS

General of Artillery Heitz Colonel Schildknecht

76th Infantry Division

Lieutenant-General Rodenburg

113th Infantry Division

Lieutenant-General Sixt von Arnim

XI CORPS

Lieutenant-General Strecker Colonel Groscurth‡

44th Infantry Division

Lieutenant-General Deboi

376th Infantry Division

Lieutenant-General Freiherr Edler von Daniels

384th Infantry Division