Enemy at the Gates (57 page)

Ia, Documents, War Diary 16, "Festung Stalingrad."
Reports pertaining to the tactical situation and activities of Sixth Army and operations, order of battle, and combat readiness of Sixth Army units in the Stalingrad area, and intelligence reports on enemy operations and troop identification and movements. August 30—September 3, 1942.

Ia, Ic, Volume of Appendices, War Diary 13, Russ/and.
Reports and teletype messages concerning the tactical situation and operations, combat readiness, and subordination of Sixth Army units in the Stalingrad area, and intelligence reports on enemy operations and troop movements and identification. September 3--8, 1942.

Ia, Ic, Volume of Appendices, War Diary 13, Russ/and.
Reports, orders, and teletype messages concerning the tactical situation, operations, and losses of Sixth Army units in the Stalingrad area; intelligence reports on enemy operations and troop identification and movements; enemy information bulletin pertaining to an appraisal of the enemy situation, defenses of Stalingrad, and order of battle and combat readiness of enemy units facing the Sixth Army; and maps (1:100,000 and 1:300,000) showing operational plans for the destruction of Soviet forces between the Don and Volga Rivers north of Stalingrad and the tactical grouping of Soviet forces around and north of Stalingrad. September 9-11, 1942.

Ia, Ic, Volume of Appendices, War Diary 13, Russ/and.
Reports and teletype messages concerning tactical operations, training, combat readiness, and losses, and ammunition and operations, combat readiness, and ammunition and fuel supply situation of Sixth Army units in the Don River Bend area west of Stalingrad; intelligence reports on enemy operations and troop identification, movements, and losses; and enemy information bulletin "Stalingrad" giving an appraisal of the enemy situation, defenses, and organization of Soviet forces around Stalingrad. July 29—August 3, 1942.

Ia, Ic, Volume of Appendices, War Diary 13, Russland,
Reports and teletype messages concerning the tactical situation and operations and subordination of Sixth Army units in the Don River Bend area west of Stalingrad; intelligence reports on enemy tactical operations and troop movements and identification; and a captured order of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR, July 28, 1942. August 3-8, 1942.

War Diary 8a, "Festung Stalingrad."
War journal containing reports on increasing supply difficulties, greater reliance on air supply, and finally, on January 17, the breakdown of all supply routes. The last few entries describe the increasing Soviet pressure and depleted supplies of munitions and food. November 22, 1942—January 21, 1943.

Ia, Ic, Volume of Appendices, War Diary 13, Russ/and.
Reports and teletype messages pertaining to the tactical situation units at Stalingrad, a map (1:10,000) showing German antitank defenses, and a note from the Red Army High Command to General Paulus demanding the capitulation of German forces encircled at Stalingrad. December 1942—January 1943.

Ia, Documents, War Diary 16, "Festung Stalingrad."
Daily reports pertaining to the tactical situation and activities of Sixth Army units in the area of Stalingrad. November—December 1942.

Ia, Various Documents, War Diary 16, "Festung Stalingrad."
Daily reports pertaining to the tactical situation and activities of Sixth Army units in the Stalingrad area and a list of subordinate General Headquarters troops. January 1943.

Ia, Documents, War Diary 16, "Festung Stalingrad."
Daily reports pertaining to the tactical situation and activities of Sixth Army units in the Stalingrad area. December 1, 1942—January 11, 1943.

Ia, Various Documents, War Diary 16, "Festung Stalingrad."
Daily reports pertaining to the tactical situation and activities of Sixth Army units in the Stalingrad area, a map showing disposition of German units, and a report concerning Operation "Donnerschlag." December 1, 1942— January 13, 1943.

Ia, Volume of Appendices, War Diary, Russland.
Orders and daily reports concerning the defense of and counter-attacks along the Don, Donets-Rostov, and Stalingrad fronts, tactical mission, ground and air operations, commitments, transportation, march movements, combat readiness, losses, and air reconnaissance, and the destruction of railroad bridges by Army Group Don, Sixth Army, Fourth Panzer Army, Armee-Abteilung Hollidt, and Air Fleet 4 units; and enemy order of battle, tactical mission, operations, and situation. Reports pertaining to air transportation of supplies to "Fortress Stalingrad," and armored, antitank, and assault gun situations. Also, combat reports of Seventh and Eleventh Rumanian Divisions and special directives for signal communication. January 4-12, 1943.

Ia, Volume of Appendices, War Diary, Russland.
Orders and daily reports concerning the defense of and counter-attacks along the Don, Donets-Rostov, Volga, and Stalingrad fronts by Army Group Don, Sixth Army, Fourth Panzer Army, Third Rumanian Army, Armee-Abteilung Fretter-Pico, and Hollidt and Air Fleet 4 units; and enemy order of battle, tactical mission, operations, and situation. Reports pertaining to the construction of the "Mius" position in the Donets area, morale of the Rumanian forces, and experience gained during defense against major Russian attacks in Army Group Don Mitte sector. Also, special directives for air reconnaissance and report on preparations for the defense of Rostov, including maps (1:25,C00) showing disposition of units defending the city. January 13-20, 1943.

Ia, Appendix, War Diary I, "Armee-Abteilung Hollidt."
File of the German staff attached to the Third Rumanian Army containing reports, orders and messages on the situation and activities in the Third Army area northeast of Rostov. Also operational and combat reports with map overlays (1:100,000) indicating disposition of Third Army units in the area around Oblivskaya. November 23—December 29, 1942.

Ia, War Diary I, "Armee-Abteilung Hollidt."
War journal of the German staff attached to the Third Rumanian Army (northeast of Rostov) containing daily battle and operation reports. November 23—December 31, 1942.

Ia, Appendix, War Diary 1, "Armee-Abteilung Hollidt."
File of the German staff attached to Third Rumanian Army containing reports on the situation, activities and mission of the Third Rumanian Army in the Gusinka-Parchin-Ostrov-Golaya-Artenoff-Rytschon area. November 27— December 31, 1942.

Ia, Appendix, War Diary I, "Armee-Abteilung Hollidt."
Order of battle charts of components of the Third Rumanian Army. December 1942.

Ia, Appendix, War Diary I, "Armee-Abteilung Hollidt."
Order of battle chart of "Armee-Abteilung Hollidt." Twenty-six sketches (1:300,000) of situations of units at the front (southeast of Boguchar). November 1942.

Ia, Appendix, War Diary 1, "Armee-Abteilung Hollidt."
Eight situation maps (1 : 300,000 and 1:100,000) of German and Soviet Forces on the Don-Chir front. December 1942.

Ic, Report, Rum. AOK
3. Intelligence and battle reports of the German staff attached to the Third Rumanian Army. December 5-31, 1942.

Ia, Situation of Army Group Doll.
Maps (1:100,000) showing the daily tactical disposition of Army Group Don, First and Fourth Panzer Armies, and Armee-Abteilung Fretter-Pico and Hollidt in the Don, Donets, Rostov, Kalitva, Ssal, Derkul, Ssalsk, and Asov areas and the steadily diminishing territory held by the encircled Sixth Army at Stalingrad, until captured or destroyed by January 31, 1943.

Selected messages from Sixth Army to Headquarters Group South NAFU.

Daily Reports of Ia Army Group Don November 1942—January 1943.

Daily Situation Reports, Sixth Army to Army Group Don, January 1943.

Records of Headquarters, German Army High Command, Part III, including correspondence, memoranda pertaining to plans regarding campaign in Russia…high level data, usually marked "Chefsache" 1942; statements of Russian POWs concerning Rumanian resistance northwest of Stalingrad, November 30, 1942 on.

Film T-78—Roll 574: Soviet directives to camp commanders on the treatment of German prisoners of war and deserters. Roll 576: Informants' reports and Russian POW statements concerning Soviet recruiting; also reports on the utilization of women in the Red Army, August 1942—August 1943. Roll 581: Russian POW statements. Roll 587: Maps showing presumed Red Army operational intentions along the entire Eastern Front, November 6, 1942–January 1943. Roll 276: Original Russian Military Orders; Treatment of POWs; Interrogation Lists, 1941-42. Roll 1374: Russian writers during the war; Collection of letters written by enlisted men and officers of Red Army to Soviet writers during World War II. Roll 1379: Collection of Stalin's speeches; Stalin's orders to various front commanders, 1943.

National Archives Microfilm Numbers T-78/39; T-84/188; T-84/262; T-175/264; T-311/268, 270, 292.

In the Days of the Great
Battle—Collection of Documents on Stalingrad. Stalingrad, 1958.

Dossiers on Russian and German generals (from U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps).

Sbornik
(Collection of materials for the study of war experiences), published by the Red Army General Staff in 1943 (not intended for circulation outside the Soviet Union).

"A Visit to the Don-Stalingrad Front" from
Military Reports on the United Nations,
No. 4, March 15, 1943.

Guide to Foreign Military Studies,
U.S. Army, Europe, 1954. Ms. #T-14—Army Group Don: Reverses on the Southern Wing, 1942-1943. Ms. #T-15—Sixth Army: Airlift to Stalingrad, November 1942–February 1943. Ms. #D-036—The Fighting Qualities of the Russian Soldier. Ms. #P-137—Espionage Activities of the USSR. Ms. #D-271—Stalingrad, signal communications. Ms. #C-065—Greiner diaries (notes on conferences and decisions in the OKW, 1939-1943).
Ms. #P-060g—Sixth Panzer Division, enroute to Stalingrad.

Newspapers:
Berliner Lokal—Anzeiger; Das Reich; Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
(Berlin Issue);
Essener Allgemeine.

For other periodicals and newspapers, as well as diaries, letters, and miscellaneous documents, see Chapter Notes.

Chapter Notes

Certain books and documents have proved extremely helpful as references for almost every chapter. To avoid needless repetition I will mention these works only once; this is not to minimize their importance.

Istoriya Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny Sovetskogo Soyuza 1941— 1945 (History of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union),
6 vols., Moscow, 1961; also, a one volume version of this work,
Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voina Sovetskogo Soyuza.

Vtoraya Mirovaya, Voina, 1939-45
by S. P. Platonov and others; Moscow, 1958.

War Diary, German Sixth Army and related material (see Documents).

War Diary,
German Army High Command (see Bibliography).

The Italian Eighth Army in the Second Defensive Battle of the Don: December 11, 1942—January 31, 1943.
Rome, 1946.

Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression.
10 vols., Washington, D.C., 1946-48.

Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. 15
vols., Washington, D.C., 1951-52.

Chapter One

GERMAN SIXTH ARMY MARCH ACROSS THE STEPPE

From interviews with Helmut Bangert, Friedrich Breining, Franz Deifel, Karl Englehardt, Werner Gerlach, Hans Jiilich, Dionys Kaiser, Emil Metzger, and Kurt Siol.
Also Wolfgang Werthen's
History of the Sixteenth Panzer Division
and Rolf Gram's
The Fourteenth Panzer Division, 1940-45.

OPERATION BLUE OBJECTIVES

From OKW Directives 43 and 45.
Also Franz Halder diary.

FRIEDRICH VON PAULUS

Interview with his son Ernst Paulus; Field Marshal Paulus's private papers; and Walter Goerlitz's
Paulus and Stalingrad.

THE SATELLITE ARMIES

Interviews with Giuseppe Aleandri, Felice Bracci, Cristoforo Capone, Veniero Marsan, Ugo Rampelli, and Enrico Reginato; Records of German Military Mission to Rumania (see Documents).

Chapter Two

HITLER'S HEADQUARTERS AT VINNITSA

From interview with Adolf Heusinger; Haider diary. Also Albert Speer's
Inside the Third Reich
and Walter Warlimont's
Inside Hitler's Headquarters 1939-45.
In the D Papers (see Documents) the Director of Espionage in Moscow asked the Lucy network to pinpoint Hitler's headquarters during the summer of 1942. Lucy did.

Chapter Three

STALIN

From an interview with Governor W. Averell Harriman, who spent more time with him than any other Western diplomat. Also Robert Conquest's
The Great Terror
and Bertram Wolfe's
Three Who Made a Revolution.

RUDOLF ROSSLER AND LEONARD TREPPER

From an interview with Mrs. David Dallin; the D Papers, a collection of messages transmitted between the Director in Moscow and the Lucy network in Switzerland. Also Accoce's and Quet's
The Lucy Ring
and Gilles Perrault's
The Red Orchestra.

Just before Operation Blue commenced in June, 1942, a German officer named Reichel crashed behind Russian lines. Since he carried plans for the initial phase of the attack on Voronezh, German Intelligence assumed the Russians' later moves to bolster the defense of that city were based on Reichel's maps and data. It is far more likely that STAVKA made its
decisions
from Lucy's radio reports. The Reichel affair drove Hitler into a rage at his field commanders; he sacked several and reaffirmed his own. growing mistrust of senior officers in the Wehrmacht.

Chapter Four

THE HISTORY OF TSARITSYN—STAL1NGRAD—VOLGOGRAD

From Maurice Hindus's
Mother Russia
and M. A. Vodolagin's
Outline of the History of Volgograd.