Prof_Pretorius wrote:
pakled wrote:
the Russians were the only army with two fronts on one battlefield; the first one, composed of criminals (regular, and political), and a second one behind that to shoot the first front if they retreated...
Didn't read anything about that. They did welcome German troops who defected to their side. It was quite mixed up at the front. Germans fighting on the Russian side, Russians fighting on the German side, not to mention the various Ethnicities involved.
In the final days of Stalingrad the Germans were executing more officers than the Russians were killing...
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