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[1.5] Stalingrad - Uniforms

“We have fought during 15 days for a single house, with mortars, grenades, machine guns and bayonets. Already by the 3rd day, 54 German corpses were strewn in the cellars, on the landings and staircases. The front is a corridor between burnt out rooms. It is the thin ceiling between floors. Help comes from neighboring houses by fire escapes and chimneys. There is a ceaseless struggle from morning until night. From story to story, faces black with sweat, we bombard each other with grenades, in the middle of explosions, amid clouds of dust and smoke, heaps of mortar, floods of blood, fragments of furniture and human beings. Ask any soldier what half an hour of hand-to-hand struggle means in such a fight. And at Stalingrad it has been 80 days and nights of hand-to-hand struggle. The street is no longer measured by meters, but by corpses. Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke. And when night arrives, one of those scorching, howling, bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell, the hardest stones cannot bear it for long. Only man endures."
- Lieutenant Weiner 24th panzer division

September 15th Update