A RUSSIAN SOLDIER’S “TERROR”
“I asked him the obvious question: •What was the most terrible moment of your experience in Stalingrad?’ He thought for a little and smiled and said: ‘lt was one night when we were on reconnaissance. I’d wormed my way along an open drain up to within earshot of a dugout where the Fritzes were. It was quite dark, and very still. Suddenly I felt something warm spread over me, something between a blanket and a flood of warm water. For a split second I couldn’t make it out, then I realised it was . . . mice . . . thousands of mice running from Stalingrad down to the Volga. I daren’t make a sound. I’ve never been so terrified in my life as when they crawled over me.’ ” (Russian Commentary by Ralph Parker, broadcast in the 8.8.C.’s overseas transmissions).
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 13 January 1944, Page 4
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