• Longpork_afficianado@lemmy.nz
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      1 year ago

      Looks like my original source was antony beevors book ‘stalingrad’, but the wikipedia page on decimation has a lot of discussion about the veracity of it, and it no longer appears on the main page

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        1 year ago

        Ah, yeah, that makes sense. Beevor seems willing to take at face value quite a lot of stories that kinda, let’s say, strain credulity.