Stalingrad mail procedures.?

Question

I have a powerpoint to do, and one of my jobs were to find out what the mail procedures were like for the soldiers during stalingrad. If you know, please add the reference! thanks

yes, during ww2.

Answer 1

German Military Mail in WW2 was controlled by the FELDPOST units, each regiment had its own Field-post detachment set up to collect and distribute the mail both to and from the soldiers.

In the book ENEMY AT THE GATES, the battle for Stalingrad, by William Craig, the author states that mail from the troops in Stalingrad was subject to censorship and that has conditions got more dire in Stalingrad the percentage of defeatist post went up so much so many letters were destroyed rather than delivered to the people.

Page 326:

....one of the last planes leaving the Kessel / Cauldron, carried seven sacks of mail,scribbled on toilet paper, maps, anything that passed for staionary.

At Taganrog, German military censors analyzed the letters sorted them into appropriate categories and forwarded a report to Berlin and the Propaganda Ministry, where Dr. Joseph Goebbels read the findings:

1. In favor of the way the war was being conducted: 2.1%

2. Dubious: 4.4%

3.Skeptical, deprecatory: 57.1%

4. Actively against: 3.4%

5. No opinion: 33.0%

Nearly 2 out of 3 letters now complained bitterly against Hitler and the High Command, But their protest was tardy and irrelevant. Fearful of the effect of these letters on the German population, Goebbels ordered them to be destroyed *"

* = A few were saved and published after the war.

Answer 2

Do you mean during WWII?