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Krub, I just did more search and found out several sources to debate on that the classic story of Vasily Zaitsev and his enemy Koenig was real, wasn't it? Or it was just a russian propaganda.
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http://www.snipercountry.com/SnipHistory.asp#Zaitsev
The duel between Zaitsev and Thorvald (also refered to as Koenig in other reports) has long been contested as to its historical accuracy. One such comment is well worth repeating and I have agreed to add it to Sniper Country as it does have merit.
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http://www.geocities.com/tommay_e17/enemyaccuracy.html
In the best-selling book Stalingrad, The fateful siege : 1942-1943, Antony Beevor wrote: The whole story of the sniper duel is fiction. There is absolutely no trace (of it) in the German military archives...or in the Red Army files which concentrated on sniper activities (the daily reports of the Political Department of Stalingrad Front to Moscow). This great story can be classified as Soviet propaganda.
So whos right? Well, the argument has been raging between academic historians for decades and, sadly, its unlikely that well ever know the truth for certain. Given that truth is the first casualty of both war and propagandeering, and that Stalins totalitarian Russia excelled at both, the true separation of fact and legend is probably lost forever...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4152435,00.html
Annaud's critics accuse him of naively - or cynically - accepting a classic piece of Soviet propaganda as true. While Zaitsev did exist, they say, he was not the best sniper, just the best-looking for picture purposes. More to the point, there is no evidence of a Major Konig in any German or Russian archives. The duel never happened: the Soviet propaganda machine invented it.
http://www.snipercentral.com/konig.htm
There is great debate over wether the legendary WWII German sniper that was sent to Stalingrad to dispatch of Vasili Zaitzev was Konig, Thorvald, or even wether he existed at all. In fact in the actual Soviet war records, it originally showed up as a Maj. Erwin Konig, which is in fact a very basic and plain German Name at the time. In Vasili Zaitsev's war memoirs, he later refers to him as Heinz Thorvald, which was yet another popular German name in that time period. Thorvald seems to be the name that is used more now, and its confusing as to which it was, and if they were the same person, or one was a mistake, or wether the German Super Sniper was fabricated by the Soviet press to represent the German army, or German snipers on a "whole", and that the story was just a means of providing morale for the Soviet troops. The two names are on official Soviet war records, but there is no record of either name in the German record books (not to say they couldn't have removed the name to save grace). Any way you look at it, its confusing and debatable. Since both names appear in Soviet propaganda and war records, Konig in early war records and Thorvald in Zaitsevs memoirs and in later war records, I have included them both on the list until there is concrete proof that one or the other, or both, did not exist.
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http://www.epinions.com/content_8450838148
Based on a true story (though researchers are divided on its true extent), War of the Rats, by David L. Robbins, is a gripping read from the beginning to the end.
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http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/story.jsp?story=46800
But the film has already sparked controversy by its blending of fact and fiction, and its dramatisation of a battle that has assumed mythic status as one of the turning points of the Second World War. History is hot now in Hollywood, but it seems to be getting mangled in the cinematic re-telling. It is the age-old dilemma of dramatising great events in human history: how far should entertainment triumph over truth? Where Hollywood is concerned, it's usually entertainment that wins.
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But German military documents have no record of a Major Koenig fighting a duel with Zaitsev, says Beevor. "There is no trace of this famous incident in any reports on the snipers' activities sent by the political department of Stalingrad front, which certainly would have been sent back. Nobody has found any trace of the so-called Major Koenig, commandant of a sniper school, who was sent to Stalingrad."
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One of well-known historian, Anthony Beevor, wrote in "Stalingard" (Penguin, 1999) denying the duel of Zaitsev and Koenig scene. Here is probably some good backups for this author and the credibility of his book.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/soviet_german_war_06.shtml
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:irMEdP3M5m8J:www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1373/is_8_49/ai_55481494+anthony+beevor&hl=en
By the way, I may assume that noone will ever find if this classis fight did ever exist. But I just doubt the credibility of this story. And thank you krub for your WWII story, I am one of true followers.
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