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[Marvin]

Johnny,


I was going to keep my "fingers" shut on this thread, but I can't. You are 100% correct that NO properly trained sniper would fall for these tricks. A sniper always had an escape route; once he fired a round, he was known and he had to leave. Now if there was other firing in the immediate area, he may get a couple more shots off, but that would be it and he had to leave or die!


As to the account of the Russian sniper; yes, Zaitsev was a real Russian. The account that has been told about his exploits with the "German Master Sniper" is nothing but a bunch of propoganda fabricated by the Russians and it has now become the "truth". There never was a Major Konig or Major (can't remember his name off hand) in the records of the SS, Heer, or entire Wehrmact. Even the encyclopedias have this account printed as the truth because the Russians are the only ones that have told the story. If this was true, the Germans were such great keepers of records, there would be something, somewhere, about this account and there is none. When Gorbachev opened the records after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the account is in those records and it was a total propoganda story to make the Commies fight harder for the motherland; and the lies worked.


Zaitsev was a great sniper, no question, but don't believe what only the Russians have to say about this account.


Marvin