'Sniper on the Eastern Front'
An excerpt from a graphic account of the reality of life for German soldiers as they faced the Red Army onslaught in early 1944
Jozef ‘Sepp’ Allerberger was the second most successful of the Wehrmacht snipers during the war, credited with 257 kills, one of just a few ordinary soldiers to win the Knights Cross. A carpenter's son from Austria, he became a self-taught sniper after experimenting with a Russian weapon during a period of convalescence - killing 27 men before he was se…
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