Generalul german i-a acuzat pe români de Stalingrad. Arhivele germane spun altceva.

German generals wrote in their memoirs that the Romanians surrendered at Stalingrad. Manstein, Paulus, Zeitzler - their version entered encyclopedias and remained there for eighty years. But in the German military archives in Freiburg there are documents with German stamps, handwritten resolutions by OKW officers, reports with dates and signatures - which say exactly the opposite. In this episode: • Who was General Petre Dumitrescu and what front was he defending in the fall of 1942 • The September 1942 report on the Soviet bridgeheads - and the OKW response • The October 1942 request for anti-tank artillery: what was requested, what was received, what difference did it make • The chronology of the 18 days of warnings before November 19 - with dates, with answers • What happened on November 19, 1942 and why the collapse was mathematical, not an option • Three documents from the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv Freiburg that respond to the memoirs of German generals 📍 Documentary context: Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg im Breisgau - operational correspondence Romanian 3rd Army / Army Group "B", fall 1942 Operational diaries of the Romanian 3rd Army, September-November 1942 Mark Axworthy, Third Axis Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War Petre Dumitrescu - died in Soviet captivity, October 1950 #Stalingrad #RomaniaInWar #TheSecondWorldWar #EasternFront #Dumitrescu #OperationUranus #MilitaryHistory #WWII #Romania #Wehrmacht