Enemy at the Gates

BRIGADES: Fourteenth Motor Artillery, 194; Twentieth Motorized, 45; Twenty-sixth Armored, 196, 197- 198

REGIMENTS: Fifty-third Mortar, 242; One Hundred Eighteenth, 157

See also Big Saturn; Little Saturn; Operation Uranus; STAVKA Red Army High Command, 19, 151, 179, 187, 217-218

“Red House,” battle for, 155

Red October Plant, 36, 69, 99, 106, 122, 123, 125, 126, 128, 133, 175, 286, 287, 324, 386; battle for, 135, 137, 284

“Red Orchestra,” 23

Red Star, 121

refugees, xiii, xiv, 34, 165

Reichenau, Field Marshal Walther von, 10

Rentsch, Dr. Herbert, 116, 166, 221, 318, 360, 406

Rettenmaier, Maj. Eugen, 155, 186, 225-226, 261

Reuber, Dr. Kurt, 292-293

Reutlingen, 270, 271

Reymann, Lt. Georg, 339

Rhine River, 115

Richthofen, Gen. Freiherr von, 61, 131-132, 148, 154, 159, 163, 183, 193, 217, 245, 273, 280, 293, 295, 351

Rimsky-Korsakov School of Music, 42

Ritter Kreuz, Order of, 112

rockets, Russian, 138-139, 224, 276, 291, 315

Rodenburg, Gen. Carl, 114, 333, 335, 374, 401, 406

Rodimtsev, Gen. Alexander Ilyich, 89, 94-95, 108, 113, 119, 136, 146, 368, 385-386, 402

Rokossovsky, Gen. Konstantin, 117, 172, 203, 232, 234, 301-302, 316, 320, 325, 402

Rolik group, 160

Romanenko, Gen., 183

Rome, xiii, 305, 306

Rommel, Gen. Edwin, 153, 181, 232

Rosati, Col., 306

Rosenfeld, Col. Lothar, 303, 350

Roske, Gen., 376, 378

Rossler, Rudolf, 23-24, 402, 422-423. See also “Lucy”

Rossoshka, 49

Rostov, 3, 20, 78, 212, 214, 265, 281, 301, 310, 320, 400

Rudnia 43

Rumania, 9

Rumanian Army, xiv, 13, 14, 159, 175, 183, 186, 188, 189, 213, 220, 273, 309; Third, 14, 149, 179, 179-180, 182, 201; Fourth, 187, 201-202, 214; troops taken prisoner, 363, 393

Russia, Czarist, x, 28-29

Russian Civil War, 20, 30, 103

Rynok, 52, 124, 172-173, 186

Salsk, 291, 294

Sarayev, Col., 90

Sarpa Lake, 187

Sarpinsky Island, 37, 109

Sascha, Oberleutnant, 353

Sazakin (militiaman), 69

Schacty, 346

Scheibert, Lt. Horst, 236-237, 256

Schlomer, Gen., 366, 369

Schmidt, Gen. Arthur, 12, 114, 147, 190, 246, 300, 334, 336, 350, 354, 396, 406, 434; coolness noted, 175, 186, 193; on mutinous generals, 369; leadership of Sixth

Army assumed by, 366, 402; on possible breakout, 196-197, 247, 249; secret inquiries on capitulation, 372; surrender negotiated, 375-376, 378; suspicions of Zitzewitz, 211, 303; teletype conversations with Army Group Don, 256-257, 259-261, 267-268, 269-270, 273-274, 290-291, 293-295; undue influence on Paulus alleged, 249, 402

Schmundt, Gen., 344, 356

Schroter, Heinz, 195, 196, 406 Schulz, Gen., 249, 256-257, 259-260, 267-268, 269-270, 273, 290-291, 293- 295, 300

Schutzstaffeln (SS), 11, 291

Schwabisch Gmilnd, 314, 396

Schwarz, Grefreiter (Lance Cpl.), 342

secret police: German, 23, 43-44; Soviet, 398. See also NKVD

Seidel, Maj., 353

self-inflicted wounds, 353-354

Selle, Col. Herbert, 155, 157, 333, 334, 357-358, 402

Serafimovich, 14, 149, 158, 161, 179, 188, 214, 245, 262

Sety, 44, 45, 142

Sevastopol, 215, 379

“Severity Order,” 10-11, 12

Seydlitz-Kurzbach, Gen. Walther, 13, 190, 204, 205, 207, 208, 215-216, 311, 317, 366, 369, 371, 379-382, 403

sharpshooters, 121-122, 145, 403-404; German-Russian duel, 127-130. See also snipers

Shumilov, Gen. Mikhail, 83, 378

Siberia, 9, 103, 121; prison camps, xiii, 388, 400. See also Red Army (284th Siberian Division)

Sicherheitdienst (SD), 11

Sickenius, Col., 47, 353

Sixth Army, German, 4, 8, 47; breakdown of, 288, 349-350, 351; casualties, 111, 260; command, 9, 10-13, 49, 147-148, 163; control Of Volga, 80, 110; discipline and organization, 229; encirclement of, 202, 217-218, 229, 308, 311; escapees after surrender, 387-388; failure to break out, 387; forebodings of failure, 114; headquarters, 137, 190, 352-353, 368-369; Hitler and refusal to permit withdrawal, 198-199, 205-206; official mourning for loss of, 384; orders to take Stalingrad, 9; quartermasters, 164; role in victory of Kharkov, 12; Russian counteroffensive against, 88; Russian ultimatum to, 325-326; surrender, x, xii, 372, 375-376, 377-380, 383-384; victory at Ostrov, 41; war diary entries, 51, 233, 258-259, 295, 340; withdrawal proposed, 191-192, 251-252. See also Paulus; Schmidt

Skudri Crossing, 124, 125

slave labor, 321, 403

Slotta, Sgt. Gottlieb, 166-167, 225, 324, 348, 406

Smekhotvorov, Gen. F. N., 135, 284

Smolensk, 71

snipers: German, 98, 140; Russian, 89, 139, 172, 235-236, 399; training of, 122. See also sharpshooters

Sogotskot, 243

Solechnaya Street, 36; battle for, xii, 119-120, 401

Sologub, Gen. Ivan Petrovich, 284