Zaitsev not only has all these conditions, but also has superb hiding skills. Sometimes he disguised himself as a mossy stone, sometimes he hid in bundles of grain, and sometimes he hid in a chimney. Therefore, not only the German soldier but even his comrades-in-arms sometimes don't know where he is.
1 September, 942, the battle of Stalingrad, which had started for1month, entered a white-hot stage, and the Soviet Union and Germany fought fiercely for every inch of Stalingrad. At this time, Zaitsev was incorporated into the 284th Infantry Division of the Soviet Red Army, and was subordinate to the 62nd Army under the command of Lieutenant General Cui Kefu. In June 5438+10, Zaitsev's class was ordered to destroy an observer of the German artillery observation post. Under their guidance, German artillery fire posed a great threat to Soviet fortifications and bunkers. After hard lurking and long waiting, zaitsev finally successfully completed the task.
Zaitsev's performance in this battle attracted the attention of Mei Jie Lifu Middle School, the head of his regiment. He personally awarded zaitsev a Mosinnagan sniper rifle with a sight, and made him responsible for training soldiers with good marksmanship to form a sniper team to hunt and kill German officers, artillery observers and all sporadic German soldiers. After that, zaitsev became more and more brave in the Vietnam War, and shot and killed 40 Germans in a row in 10 days. In the whole Stalingrad campaign, he achieved the record of annihilating 149 Germans. By the end of World War II, he had wiped out 400 Germans. The military and political propaganda department of the Soviet Union widely publicized Zaitsev's deeds, which greatly inspired the belief of Soviet soldiers and civilians in defeating German fascism.
In contrast, the existence of Major Koenig in the film is full of doubts. First of all, the Soviet military and political propaganda department has used two names to call the so-called "German first sniper" killed by zaitsev. Major Owen Koenig appears more frequently, but in some materials he is called Major Heinz Thorvald. Are these two completely unrelated people, or is one of the same person called by the wrong name? It is worth noting that these two names were very common German names at that time. Can they be combined at will
Secondly, according to Soviet records, when they interrogated a German prisoner of war for the first time, they learned from him that the Germans sent Major Koenig, the highest instructor of the German sniper school in Zosen, to the front line in Stalingrad to deal with Zaitsev. These are the words of the Soviet Union itself. In fact, we can't find the names of Major Owen Koenig or Major Heinz Thorvald in the records of German troops who participated in the Battle of Stalingrad.
Finally, according to zaitsev's own combat diary, after killing an enemy sniper, he usually checks the body and takes away the weapon he used. But the name of Major Koenig was never mentioned in his combat diary, and there was no record of killing a sniper with the rank of German Major.