Reply To: Beevor's Stalingrad – Corpse Roads – I Don't Believe This

[Phil Gray]

Strictly speaking this is off topic, but it does involve the field use of the corpses of Soviet PoWs by the Germans – an Italian journalist (Curzio Malaparte) wrote that the Germans used them as route markers (the Germans called them ‘traffic police) at road junctions on the Leningrad (Oranienbaum) front… [the book is called ‘Kaputt’]…

Sand, not oil, in the gears of the world.