Can somebody clear this up for me because its very hazy,i've heard about it a few times but i forget.
I heard a story of the germans having to slaughter 10,000(100,000)horses in a single action.
The were retreating from the russians near sevastepol(i think).
Anybody got the definate details?
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2007-07-26 15:49:22 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Its definately true,bone fida.
i found"December 25, 1942: Heavy fighting continues all around the perimeter of the Stalingrad Kessel, while the decimated and starving troops of 6.Armee receive their last rations of horse meat, the 12,000 horses in the pocket having now all been slaughtered."
but that isnt the one i'm looking for
2007-07-26 17:30:20 · update #1
my grandmother told me that when she was a little girl the british and americans bombed a horse shed in southern germany and she heard them all burn to death.
2007-07-26 15:56:21 · answer #1 · answered by youyo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they only one that I have found definite proof of is about the battle for Stalingrad, the 6th army and the panzer division who depended upon the stalingrad airlift was only meeting less than half the demands of the soldiers in the field. So the soldiers began slaughtering horses for food.
It happened in Poland also when the luftwaffe destroyed warsaw and they were cut off from their food supply.
2007-07-27 00:05:07 · answer #2 · answered by Milmom 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I found numerous mentions of horses being killed for food, particularly on the Eastern Front, but nothing of a widescale slaughter. This article (http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/germanhorse/index.html ) examines the German cavalry - I think it would have included such an incident.
2007-07-26 23:07:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeh the Australian Light Horse had to shoot their mounts dead after the successfull "charge of the Light Horse Brigade" over the Gaza Strip into Bathsheaba. To prevent the gallant mounts known as "Whalers" a cross between a Thoroughbred and a light draft horse, from dying of thirst or being eaten by the enemy etc...
2007-07-26 22:59:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What is the true figure you are putting here?
You state 10,000 (ten thousand) and in bracket's 100,000 (one hundred thousands) ???
The WW2 German military machine were heavily dependent on horse transportation especially in the east, but have you any idea how long it would take to kill ten-thousand horses? never mind one hundred thousand horses.
The horses would have been used until they drop, then eaten.
The retreat from Sevastapol certainly never had 10,000 horses.
2007-07-28 05:20:36 · answer #5 · answered by conranger1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was over shadowed by the little incident with the Jews.
2007-07-26 22:53:40 · answer #6 · answered by 3rd parties for REAL CHANGE 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋