Stalingrad battle. Real photos. WWII: Fritz

Seventy-one years ago, the Battle of Stalingrad ended - the battle that finally changed the course of World War II. On February 2, 1943, surrounded by the banks of the Volga, German troops capitulated. I dedicate this photo album to this significant event.

1. A Soviet pilot stands near a personalized Yak-1B fighter, donated to the 291st Fighter Aviation Regiment by the collective farmers of the Saratov Region. The inscription on the fuselage of the fighter: “To the unit of the Hero of the Soviet Union Shishkin V.I. from the collective farm Signal of the Revolution of the Voroshilovsky district of the Saratov region. Winter 1942 - 1943

2. A Soviet pilot stands near a personalized Yak-1B fighter, donated to the 291st Fighter Aviation Regiment by the collective farmers of the Saratov Region.

3. A Soviet soldier demonstrates to his comrades German sentry boats, captured among other German property near Stalingrad. 1943

4. German 75 mm gun PaK 40 on the outskirts of a village near Stalingrad.

5. A dog sits in the snow against the backdrop of a column of Italian troops retreating from Stalingrad. December 1942

7. Soviet soldiers walk past the corpses of German soldiers in Stalingrad. 1943

8. Soviet soldiers listen to the accordion player near Stalingrad. 1943

9. Red Army soldiers go on the attack on the enemy near Stalingrad. 1942

10. Soviet infantry attacks the enemy near Stalingrad. 1943

11. Soviet field hospital near Stalingrad. 1942

12. A medical instructor bandages the head of a wounded soldier before sending him to the rear hospital on a dog sled. Stalingrad region. 1943

13. A captured German soldier in ersatz boots in a field near Stalingrad. 1943

14. Soviet soldiers in battle in the destroyed workshop of the Red October plant in Stalingrad. January 1943

15. Infantrymen of the 4th Romanian Army on vacation near the StuG III Ausf. F on the road near Stalingrad. November-December 1942

16. The bodies of German soldiers on the road southwest of Stalingrad near an abandoned Renault AHS truck. February-April 1943

17. prisoners German soldiers in the ruined Stalingrad. 1943

18. Romanian soldiers near a 7.92 mm ZB-30 machine gun in a trench near Stalingrad.

19. An infantryman takes aim with a submachine gun the one lying on the armor of an American-made Soviet tank M3 "Stuart" with a proper name "Suvorov". Don front. Stalingrad region. November 1942

20. Commander of the XIth Army Corps of the Wehrmacht Colonel General to Karl Strecker (Karl Strecker, 1884-1973, standing with his back in the center left) surrenders to the representatives of the Soviet command in Stalingrad. 02/02/1943

21. A group of German infantry during an attack near Stalingrad. 1942

22. Civilians on the construction of anti-tank ditches. Stalingrad. 1942

23. One of the units of the Red Army in the area of Stalingrad. 1942

24. colonel generals to the Wehrmacht Friedrich Paulus (Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus, 1890-1957, right) with officers at the command post near Stalingrad. Second from the right is Paulus' adjutant Colonel Wilhelm Adam (1893-1978). December 1942

25. At the crossing of the Volga to Stalingrad. 1942

26. Refugees from Stalingrad during a halt. September 1942

27. Guardsmen of the reconnaissance company of Lieutenant Levchenko during reconnaissance on the outskirts of Stalingrad. 1942

28. The soldiers take their starting positions. Stalingrad front. 1942

29. Evacuation of the plant across the Volga. Stalingrad. 1942

30. Burning Stalingrad. Anti-aircraft artillery firing at German aircraft. Stalingrad, Fallen Fighters Square. 1942

31. Meeting of the Military Council of the Stalingrad Front: from left to right - Khrushchev N.S., Kirichenko A.I., Secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks Chuyanov A.S.tand commander of the front colonel general to Eremenko A.I. Stalingrad. 1942

32. A group of machine gunners of the 120th (308th) Guards Rifle Division, under the command of Sergeev A.,conducts reconnaissance during the street fighting in Stalingrad. 1942

33. Red Navy men of the Volga Flotilla during a landing operation near Stalingrad. 1942

34. Military Council of the 62nd Army: from left to right - Chief of Staff of the Army Krylov N.I., Army Commander Chuikov V.I., member of the Military Council Gurov K.A.and commander of the 13th Guards Rifle Division Rodimtsev A.I. District of Stalingrad. 1942

35. Soldiers of the 64th Army are fighting for a house in one of the districts of Stalingrad. 1942

36. Commander of the Don Front, Lieutenant General t Rokossovsky K.K. in a combat position in the region of Stalingrad. 1942

37. Battle in the area of Stalingrad. 1942

38. Fight for the house on Gogol street. 1943

39. Baking bread on your own. Stalingrad front. 1942

40. Fighting in the city center. 1943

41. Storming of the railway station. 1943

42. Soldiers of the long-range guns of junior lieutenant Snegirev I. are firing from the left bank of the Volga. 1943

43. A military orderly carries a wounded soldier of the Red Army. Stalingrad. 1942

44. Soldiers of the Don Front advance to a new firing line in the area of the encircled Stalingrad group of Germans. 1943

45. Soviet sappers pass through the destroyed snow-covered Stalingrad. 1943

46. Captured Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus (1890-1957) exits a GAZ-M1 car at the headquarters of the 64th Army in Beketovka, Stalingrad Region. 01/31/1943

47. Soviet soldiers climb the stairs of a destroyed house in Stalingrad. January 1943

48. Soviet troops in battle in Stalingrad. January 1943

49. Soviet soldiers in battle among the destroyed buildings in Stalingrad. 1942

50. Soviet soldiers attack enemy positions near Stalingrad. January 1943

51. Italian and German prisoners leave Stalingrad after the surrender. February 1943

52. Soviet soldiers move through the destroyed workshop of the plant in Stalingrad during the battle.

53. Soviet light tank T-70 with troops on the armor on the Stalingrad front. November 1942

54. German artillerymen are firing on the outskirts of Stalingrad. In the foreground, a dead Red Army soldier in cover. 1942

55. Conducting political information in the 434th Fighter Aviation Regiment. In the first row from left to right: Heroes of the Soviet Union Senior Lieutenant I.F. Golubin, captain V.P. Babkov, Lieutenant N.A. Karnachenok (posthumously), the commissar of the regiment, battalion commissar V.G. Strelmashchuk. In the background is a Yak-7B fighter with the inscription "Death for death!" on the fuselage. July 1942

56. Wehrmacht infantry at the destroyed plant "Barricades" in Stalingrad.

57. Red Army soldiers with an accordion celebrate the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad on the Square of the Fallen Fighters in the liberated Stalingrad. January
1943

58. Soviet mechanized unit during the offensive near Stalingrad. November 1942

59. Soldiers of the 45th Infantry Division of Colonel Vasily Sokolov at the Krasny Oktyabr plant in the destroyed Stalingrad. December 1942

60. Soviet tanks T-34/76 near the Square of the Fallen Fighters in Stalingrad. January 1943

61. German infantry take cover behind stacks of steel blanks (blooms) at the Krasny Oktyabr plant during the battles for Stalingrad. 1942

62. Sniper Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Zaytsev explains to the newcomers the upcoming task. Stalingrad. December 1942

63. Soviet snipers go to the firing position in the destroyed Stalingrad. The legendary sniper of the 284th Infantry Division Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev and his students are sent into an ambush. December 1942.

64. Italian driver killed on the road near Stalingrad. Next to the truck FIAT SPA CL39. February 1943

65. Unknown Soviet submachine gunner with PPSh-41 during the battles for Stalingrad. 1942

66. Red Army soldiers are fighting among the ruins of a destroyed workshop in Stalingrad. November 1942

67. Red Army soldiers are fighting among the ruins of a destroyed workshop in Stalingrad. 1942

68. German prisoners of war captured by the Red Army in Stalingrad. January 1943

69. Calculation of the Soviet 76-mm ZiS-3 divisional gun at the position near the Krasny Oktyabr plant in Stalingrad. December 10, 1942

70. An unknown Soviet machine gunner with a DP-27 in one of the destroyed houses in Stalingrad. December 10, 1942

71. Soviet artillery fires on the encircled German troops in Stalingrad. Presumably , in the foreground 76-mm regimental gun model 1927. January 1943

72. Soviet attack aircraft Il-2 aircraft take off on a combat mission near Stalingrad. January 1943

73. exterminate pilot of the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 220th Fighter Aviation Division of the 16th Air Army of the Stalingrad Front, Sergeant Ilya Mikhailovich Chumbarev at the wreckage of a German reconnaissance aircraft shot down by him with the help of a ram Ika Focke-Wulf Fw 189. 1942

74. Soviet artillerymen firing at German positions in Stalingrad from a 152-mm howitzer-gun ML-20 model 1937. January 1943

75. The calculation of the Soviet 76.2-mm gun ZiS-3 is firing in Stalingrad. November 1942

76. Soviet soldiers sit by the fire in a moment of calm in Stalingrad. The soldier second from the left has a captured German MP-40 submachine gun. 01/07/1943

77. Cameraman Valentin Ivanovich Orlyankin (1906-1999) in Stalingrad. 1943

78. The commander of the assault group of the marines P. Golberg in one of the shops of the destroyed plant "Barricades". 1943

82. Soviet troops on the offensive near Stalingrad, in the foreground the famous Katyusha rocket launchers, behind the T-34 tanks.

83. Soviet troops on the offensive, in the foreground is a horse-drawn wagon with food, behind Soviet T-34 tanks. Stalingrad front.

84. Soviet soldiers attack with the support of T-34 tanks near the city of Kalach. November 1942

85. Soldiers of the 13th Guards Rifle Division in Stalingrad during rest hours. December 1942

86. Soviet T-34 tanks with armored soldiers on the march in the snowy steppe during the Stalingrad strategic offensive operation. November 1942

87. Soviet T-34 tanks with armored soldiers on the march in the snowy steppe during the Middle Don offensive. December 1942

88. Tankers of the 24th Soviet tank corps (from December 26, 1942 - the 2nd guards) on the armor of the T-34 tank during the liquidation of the group of German troops surrounded near Stalingrad. December 1942

89. The calculation of the Soviet 120-mm regimental mortar of the mortar battery of the battalion commander Bezdetko fires at the enemy. Stalingrad region. 01/22/1943

90. Captured Feldmar General

93. Red Army prisoners who died of hunger and cold. The POW camp was located in the village of Bolshaya Rossoshka near Stalingrad. January 1943

94. German Heinkel He-177A-5 bombers from I./KG 50 at the airfield in Zaporozhye. These bombers were used to supply the German troops encircled at Stalingrad. January 1943

96. Romanian prisoners of war taken prisoner in the area of the village of Raspopinskaya near the city of Kalach. November-December 1942

97. Romanian prisoners of war taken prisoner in the area of the village of Raspopinskaya near the city of Kalach. November-December 1942

98. GAZ-MM trucks used as fuel trucks during refueling at one of the stations near Stalingrad. The engine hoods are covered with covers, instead of doors - canvas valves. Don Front, winter 1942-1943.

70 years of Victory in the Battle of Stalingrad

The other day marked the 70th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad - one of the largest battles in the history of World War II. The defeat of the enemy during the heroic defense of Stalingrad, which lasted six months, became a turning point in the war, after which the fascist troops finally lost their strategic initiative.

The Battle of Stalingrad included an attempt by the Wehrmacht to capture the left bank of the Volga in the region of Stalingrad (modern Volgograd) and the city itself, the confrontation between the Red Army and the Wehrmacht in the city and the counteroffensive of the Red Army (Operation Uranus), as a result of which the 6th Army and other Allied forces Germany inside and near the city were surrounded, partly destroyed, and partly captured. According to rough estimates, the total losses of both sides in this battle are about two million people.

Here is a photo chronicle of that time.

Soviet submachine gunners are fighting on the ruined streets of Stalingrad.

Tanks and armored vehicles of the 24th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht go on the offensive against Stalingrad

Soviet soldiers are fighting on the ruins of Stalingrad houses.

German soldiers watch the artillery shelling of Soviet positions in Stalingrad.

Red Army soldiers near a dugout in Stalingrad clean their weapons.

A group of Soviet sappers with probes is sent to clear mines in the center of the destroyed Stalingrad.

A Red Army soldier pulls a wounded comrade from the battlefield on the outskirts of Stalingrad.

Worker of the Stalingrad plant "Red October" with a machine gun DT-29

Red Army soldiers are fighting among the destroyed buildings of Stalingrad.

German soldiers make their way through the generator room of the destroyed power plant in Stalingrad.

Panzergrenadiers of the 16th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht, which reached the banks of the Volga near Stalingrad.

The Soviet calculation of the 50-mm company mortar is firing in Stalingrad.

Residents of Stalingrad cook food near the ruins of their house, destroyed by German bombing.

Two residents of Stalingrad are carrying their belongings on a bicycle, leaving the city.

Two residents of Stalingrad are carrying their belongings in a wheelbarrow, leaving the ruined city.

Soviet soldiers defend the Krasny Oktyabr plant during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Destroyed German fighter "Messerschmitt" in Stalingrad, autumn 1942. Passing by the plane are refugees with things leaving the city. Barrage balloons hang in the sky.

Tanks of the 24th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht on the outskirts of Stalingrad.

The first bombing of Stalingrad. Residents look at the fires.

Evacuation of wounded soldiers on a U-2 plane in the Stalingrad area. Cassettes mounted on the lower wings are used to transport the wounded. The cassettes consisted of a platform for a stretcher and light roof above them.

Stalingrad. The first raids of fascist aviation.

Photo of Stalingrad from the air, 1942

German soldiers are street fighting.

Soviet intelligence officer N. Romanov with a machine gun and four grenades.

Soldiers of the 13th Guards Rifle Division during rest hours, Stalingrad.

Soviet gun ZiS-3 firing at the enemy. Autumn 1942, Stalingrad.

Fountain "Children's round dance" on the station square of Stalingrad after the Nazi air raid. The station was bombed on August 23, 1942.

Red Army soldiers defending a house in Stalingrad, autumn 1942.

Children in Stalingrad are hiding from bombing German planes.

Captured German generals and other officers of the 6th Wehrmacht Army in Stalingrad, January 1943

German prisoners in the area of Stalingrad.

German soldiers walk past burned-out trams on a street in Stalingrad.

Soviet soldiers fix the flag on a building in the center of Stalingrad.

German soldiers are waiting for the signal to attack in the Soviet anti-tank ditch.

Evacuation of wounded Soviet soldiers. Plant "Barricades", Stalingrad.

A mountain of horse hooves eaten by the Germans surrounded in Stalingrad. After the encirclement of the German 6th Army near Stalingrad and the blocking of its food supply routes, hunger began in the German troops. The Germans ate all the livestock of local residents, all domestic animals and horses killed during the fighting in Stalingrad.

Smoke break of Soviet soldiers in Stalingrad.

A medical instructor assists a wounded Red Army soldier during a battle in Stalingrad.

Defenders of the plant "Barricades" go to combat positions. The fighter in the foreground carries an anti-tank rifle on his shoulder.

Soviet soldiers are fighting in one of the shops of the Red October plant. Meter by meter, the fighters are reclaiming the factory territory.

Place in Stalingrad near the station after the fighting, 1942

Commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 42nd Guards Rifle Regiment E.A. Zhukov listens to the report of his scout.

The famous heroic "Pavlov's House" during the Battle of Stalingrad.

A Soviet soldier is fighting on the ruins of Stalingrad.

The attack of Soviet soldiers on a destroyed house captured by German troops in Stalingrad.

German soldiers in the Stalingrad "cauldron", December 1942

Soviet soldiers are fighting in Stalingrad.

A German soldier cleans his carbine during a short break between battles in Stalingrad. Autumn 1942.

The reconnaissance group of the 39th Guards Rifle Division leaves for a combat mission. Plant "Red October", Stalingrad.

Stalingrad after the end of the Battle of Stalingrad. Wreck of a downed German bomber He-111.

Captured Field Marshal Paulus with officers of his headquarters near Stalingrad.

Soviet armor-piercers in the area of Stalingrad.

Soviet soldiers rejoice in commemoration of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad.

The ruins of Stalingrad from a bird's eye view.

Soviet soldier-regulator in the liberated Stalingrad.

A downed German Messerschmitt fighter in the center of Stalingrad. Summer 1943.

Red flag over the Square of the Fallen Fighters of the liberated Stalingrad. In the background is the building of the department store, where the headquarters of the encircled 6th Wehrmacht Army, led by Army Commander Field Marshal Paulus, was captured. On the square are German trucks captured by Soviet troops.

May Day demonstration in destroyed Stalingrad, 1943

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Front photo: the collapse of the 6th army of the Wehrmacht in Stalingrad

Information about the war can be obtained from many sources. Archives are declassified, scientific and historical research is published, memoirs are published by participants in the events, and finally, there is documentary newsreel. However, there is another valuable source of information. This is a front view photo. A photograph allows you to capture the feelings and emotions of a soldier in combat everyday life. Photography, like nothing else, is capable of reflecting all the horror, senselessness and tragedy of war. Sometimes a front photo says more than archival documents.

Below are front-line photographs of soldiers and officers of the 6th Army of the Wehrmacht, who participated in the Battle of Stalingrad.

ON THE APPROACHES TO STALINGRAD

1) Nothing portends trouble. Crossing of the 3rd Motorized Division across the Don. While the offensive is developing successfully, July-August 1942.

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4) Halt. August 1942.

BATTLE IN THE CITY

5) The German infantry captured the Krasny Oktyabr plant in Stalingrad.

6) German infantry is preparing to attack

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8) Mortar crew at the wrecked T-34 tank.

9) Hauptmann Friedrich Winkler gives the order to non-commissioned officers of the 305th division. A captured Soviet PPSh is visible at the one standing on the left. Hauptmann will be taken prisoner in February 1943 and will die in a POW camp in Beketovka.

10) Friedrich Winkler. A typical image of an officer - the commander of assault infantry groups. Usually, Wehrmacht officers liked to take a pretentious staged photo against the background of damaged Soviet equipment. Here the situation is different: a haggard, unshaven face, a tired look, concentration and maximum attention.

11) Ober-lieutenant with PPSh. Often there are photos when soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht use captured PPSh, which have proven themselves well in close combat in the city.

12) Machine-gun crew changes position.

13) A German infantryman sets up a flag on one of the buildings in Stalingrad. So far so good...

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15) In rare moments of calm.

16) Halt near the bakery, September 1942

17) Street fight.

18) The officer gives commands to the non-commissioned officers (judging by the patch on the far right and the binoculars on everyone else). The most concentrated faces. A typical front-line photo, there is a tense situation before the battle.

19) Infantry at the destroyed factory "Barricades"

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21) Wounded before being sent from Stalingrad.

22) Artillery crew.

DEFEAT

23) Padded german tank Pz.Kpfw. III and the dead crew. Note that next to the one lying on the lower right is a helmet (did you ride on the armor of a tank?).

24) Killed Germans. In the background is a cemetery for Wehrmacht soldiers...

25) A dead German against the background of a road sign. Significantly, the inscription Stalingrad is on the top plate...

26) Dead Germans with signs of frostbite. 31) Children are walking along with the prisoners in the column. Apparently, they are sent to the rear. The child has a bundle, presumably a supply of food.

32) Significant photo... The column of Germans is walking quietly, not paying attention to their killed comrade. Apparently, the corpse had already been repeatedly driven by trucks.

33) The captured commander of the 6th Army, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus.

34) Legendary photo, one of the visual symbols of the victory of the Red Army. Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus (left), Chief of Staff of the 6th Army, Lieutenant General Arthur Schmidt and Paulus' adjutant Wilhelm Adam in captivity.

35) The highest command staff of the 6th Army, taken prisoner in Stalingrad.

36) Cemetery of soldiers and officers. There were hundreds of such cemeteries in the Stalingrad region.

37) The whole horror of the war is on the faces of prisoners of war, who miraculously did not die from the cold.

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39) And finally, helmets... the 6th Army collapsed in Stalingrad.

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