'Those Snipers Are Demoralizing My People.' - Enemy At The Gates (2001) #shorts #enemyatthegates

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"Those Snipers Are Demoralizing My People." - Enemy At The Gates (2001) #shorts #enemyatthegates

Enemy at the Gates (Stalingrad in France and L'Ennemi aux portes in Canada) is a 2001 war film directed, co-written, and produced by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on William Craig's 1973 nonfiction book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, which describes the events surrounding the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942–1943. The screenplay was written by Annaud and Alain Godard. The film's main character is a fictionalized version of Vasily Zaitsev, a sniper and Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II. It includes a snipers' duel between Zaitsev and a Wehrmacht sniper school director, Major Erwin König.

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With the Soviet snipers taking an increasing toll on the German forces, German Major Erwin König is deployed to kill Vassili and crush Soviet morale. When the Red Army command learns of König's mission after he wipes out Vassili's sniper unit, they dispatch König's former student Koulikov to help Vassili kill him. (Wikipedia)

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[arthurbriand]

"We shall be home by Christmas" is universal code for "We're going to be here a while and probably die".

[dingotopruc]

I worked in Germany as an exchange student in the seventies.. My manager, who had been in the Wermarcht, was on the Russian front. He had to walk, yes: walk, back to Germany. He said that for more than a month he never took his boots off nor his uniform. I asked him three times to confirm, he said that when they stopped to sleep in a ditch or a ruin or a barn they had to be ready to get up and go at any time or be killed.

[thomasjones]

You've been promoted😊
You've been promoted💀

[JustBoBoLikeABoss]

Plot twist they didn't return home to christmas

[isaacschmitt]

You can see it in the general's expressions that he's trying to find some way not to call Hitler an idiot, and you can see it in the other's that he knows and amusedly agrees that Hitler is, indeed, a moron.

[MasonAHagen]

Ed Harris is a legend, didn't even attempt an accent, all other german characters in this movie had one

[FrankFernandez-wisq]

Nobody at war has ever returned home by Christmas …

[theprofessional]

I think that major Konig is thinking Hitler is an idiot for obsessing over Stalingrad .

[rbeehner]

My engineering mentor was a German Paratrooper in WWII. After the war he studied studied in Cologne and immigrated to Canada, then came to the US, where I worked with him in Detroit. He told me when his unit parachuted into the front they tried to land behind or move behind the U.S. lines. He said the U.S. Army shelled to destruction all ahead of them, then moved ahead and repeated. The safest place to be was behind them. He was captured and surrendered becoming a POW sent to England.

[williedm]

Ed Harris, one of the greatest actors of all time💯

[fiachramaccana]

Konig was right..They were indeed back home for Christmas.
Christmas 1955....
well a few hundred of them anyway....

[ThemoonsFullofgoons-qnxl]

Oh no he said the cursed words “back by Christmas”

[elijahrobinson]

Ed Harris, as brilliant as he is, is still criminally under appreciated.

[incredibleXMan]

"My army is not designed for this kind of fighting". Those are pretty key words in the context of the Battle of Stalingrad.

[raylast]

Arguably it was actually just Stalin who wanted to hold onto Stalingrad for prestige reasons, whereas the Germans‘s reasons (not just Hitler, by far) were fairly rational.

Yes, holding Stalingrad was hopeless for them but only in as far as the entire war was hopeless: to win, they needed to take Baku and to do that they needed a secure position to anchor their Northern flank on and cut off Soviet supply routes to the South. That meant Stalingrad; going further North would have meant fighting even larger Soviet formations, to the South the Volga bends away east and becomes harder to cut off. Both options also massively lengthen the German lines.

Meanwhile for the Soviets, they already have enough reinforcements that their big counteroffensive will definitely work, but they actually worsen their position by feeding them piecemeal into a city they‘ve basically already lost and where they‘re actually outnumbered; and by throwing them agains the entrenched German lines at Kotluban (in an attempt to break through to the city or at least distract Paulus‘ reserves, the latter of which succeeds at disproportionate cost). Objectively, the Soviets can give up the city, let the Germans sit in the ruins and still attack on the distant flanks with overwhelming force (and enough planning time for that force to be used effectively).

Incidentally, it‘d also not true that the Germans lost all their troops in Stalingrad or because they went into Stalingrad: if you compare that action to the preceding Battle in the Don Bend, the Germans take similar losses in both situations. In fact, the 6th Army loses so many troops during that campaign that it‘s already massively depleted when they enter Stalingrad. Combine that with the need to keep most of their forces on the flanks, it‘s only the equivalent of a handful of divisions that actually fights in the city, not anywhere close to the whole army.

[mrpear]

Erwin König: "The Fuhrer says we will be home by Christmas. I was looking forward to spending Hanukkah with my wife and kids"

[eagle]

If they ever make a movie with Rommel, i think Ed Harris would be a good fit. I thought the guy was talking to Rommel until I realised that they were fighting in the Eastern front 😅

[jopreymar]

General: Look at me my hairline is receding.
Koenig: me too.😅😅😅

[Sharpshooter-jd]

Those German officers' uniforms are very stylish.