Can anyone confirm whether the House of Specialists complex in downtown was made up of two buildings or three? The other two parallel buildings are closer to the Central bank. Does anyone have info on this in the histories of the 71st or 295th divisions?
regards...
Stalingrad - House of Specialists
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Re: Stalingrad - House of Specialists
As far as I know, the 'Specialists Houses' at Stalingrad, were the location of the German machine guns...correct me If I'm wrong.
Re: Stalingrad - House of Specialists
We can compare this map:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... -Mitte.png
to this aerial photograph:
http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/staling ... G-047.html
The guy who made the Wikimedia map seems to imply that it's just the one building. Perhaps you could ask him.
Anyway, I played with the aerial map and added some annotations and translations (you can click it for a larger image):
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... -Mitte.png
to this aerial photograph:
http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/staling ... G-047.html
The guy who made the Wikimedia map seems to imply that it's just the one building. Perhaps you could ask him.
Anyway, I played with the aerial map and added some annotations and translations (you can click it for a larger image):
Re: Stalingrad - House of Specialists
In David Glantz's "Armageddon in Stalingrad", page 121, he writes:
The bold part seems to imply that it was a single building. I don't know about the machine guns.When Rodimtsev's rifle division crossed the river, with its artillery firing in support from the river's eastern bank, the 6,000 men of its 39th and 42nd Guards Rifle Regiments, commanded by Majors S. S. Dolgov and I. P. Elin, were to clear German forces from the city's center, in particular the building named House of "Specialists" and Railroad Station No. 1.
Re: Stalingrad - House of Specialists
Ha, I just realised the original post is almost 8 years old!
Re: Stalingrad - House of Specialists
Specialists House:ijontichy wrote:We can compare this map:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... -Mitte.png
to this aerial photograph:
http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/staling ... G-047.html
The guy who made the Wikimedia map seems to imply that it's just the one building. Perhaps you could ask him.
Anyway, I played with the aerial map and added some annotations and translations (you can click it for a larger image):
Your first map (labeled in German) is clearer than the second map (labeled in English)...as I saw it in the 1st map it's only one building, while the 2nd map it's a whole block.
The 'Train Station' were defended by a Russian battalion (say about 500 men estimate only)...
'Pavlov's House' were defended by a 12-man Russian squad...
correct me again if I'm wrong.
Re: Stalingrad - House of Specialists
There were 26 important buildings as considered as House of Specialists in Stalingrad.