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Erwin König was reported to have been a German Heer Officer in the Wehrmacht the regular military of Germany or was an Officer in the Waffen-SS who was a sniper killed by the Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev during the Battle of Stalingrad.
After that, she joined Vasily Zaitsev's sniper school and trained as a sniper. The group of snipers that Zaitsev formed was called "The Hares". Chernova participated in a raid on a German headquarters after which she and the rest of the Hares claimed to have killed Germans by picking off guards one by one. Tania claimed she had killed 24 soldiers.
Zaitsev, left, in Stalingrad, December 1942 Zaitsev's sniper rifle, a 7.62×54mmR Mosin Model 1891/30 sniper rifle with a PU 3.5× sniper scope on display at the Volgograd's Stalingrad Panorama Museum. Zaitsev was serving in the Soviet Navy as a clerk in Vladivostok when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Like many of his ...
At the time, she was traveling back to New York City from a Kansas work trip and connecting through D.C. Melissa, who worked for a financial services company and was living in Brooklyn with her ...
Brooklyn woman shot and killed by boyfriend was trying to leave him, was blasted in front of her daughter, sister says Emma Seiwell, Leonard Greene, New York Daily News Updated July 21, 2023 at 4: ...
Police made the grisly discovery around 2:35 p.m. at the apartment on New York Ave. near Avenue D in East ... Mother, teen daughter and dog killed in Brooklyn apartment: ‘What I heard was ...
A Hollywood film called Enemy at the Gates was made about Vasily Zaitsev, a Soviet sniper who fought in the Battle of Stalingrad. The plot of the movie is based on a section in the eponymous book by William Craig, which fictionalizes an alleged duel between Zaitsev and a (possibly) fictional German sniper called Major König.
On Dec. 18, 2024, a week after Brooks died, New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Commissioner Daniel Martuscello alerted his staff about the investigation into Brooks ...