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The film Enemy at the Gates, which recounts a tale of elite snipers, the Russian Vassili Zaitsev and the German Major Konig, duelling in the ruins of wartime Stalingrad, is based on the book of the same name by William Craig. On the whole, the film reflects the book fairly accurately. A few minor details have been changed for dramatic effect, and the name of the German sniper was changed to Erwin Konig from Heinz Thorvald.
Serious doubts have been raised about the accuracy of the book, however. Anthony Beevor, in his book Stalingrad, insists that no evidence for the existence of Major Konig exists in the German historical record. Zaitsev undoubtedly did exist, though. He did become a hero of Soviet propaganda; was said to have killed hundreds of Germans by the end of the war; and his rifle is still displayed in Stalingrad museum today. What purports to be the scope of Thorvald's (or Konig's) rifle is also displayed in a Moscow museum.
Serious doubts have been raised about the accuracy of the book, however. Anthony Beevor, in his book Stalingrad, insists that no evidence for the existence of Major Konig exists in the German historical record. Zaitsev undoubtedly did exist, though. He did become a hero of Soviet propaganda; was said to have killed hundreds of Germans by the end of the war; and his rifle is still displayed in Stalingrad museum today. What purports to be the scope of Thorvald's (or Konig's) rifle is also displayed in a Moscow museum.
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