The FSB published Sudoplatov's report on the mood of the Germans at Stalingrad

In November 1942, during the siege of Stalingrad, the mood in the ranks of the fascist soldiers was anti-war. This is stated in a declassified report by Soviet intelligence officer Pavel Sudoplatov, published on February 2 on the website of the FSB of Russia.

The declassified report was submitted by Sudoplatov on November 18, 1942, on the eve of the Red Army's counteroffensive near Stalingrad (Operation Uranus). The document contains an intelligence report "On the situation in the occupied areas of the Stalingrad and Rostov regions, the North Caucasus and the Kalmyk ASSR."

"Anti-war sentiments and desertion are noted among German and Italian soldiers on the Stalingrad front. <...> A German deserter, in an interview with a source, said: <... If the Russians move forward, the German soldiers will raise their hands," the report says.

According to the materials, many Italian soldiers also expressed anti-war sentiments, complaining that they had not been home for 6-7 years, or that they did not want to go to the front. Sudoplatov traced similar sentiments among Romanian military personnel.

"From conversations with soldiers of Romanian, Italian and Austrian nationalities, it is clear that the Germans do not trust them, they build battle formations on the front line in such a way as to observe their "allies," the senior major reported on his observations in the document.

Sudoplatov also wrote in the report that "the occupiers are afraid of the coming winter and, in this regard, they are experiencing animal fear." The enemy feared the advance of the Russian soldiers because of the frosts.

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