Last letters from Stalingrad, where are they now?

[Ro/Lt]

Regarding the book "Last letters from Stalingrad":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Lett ... Stalingrad
It is a book compiled of the last letters from the Stalingrad couldron that "were then impounded, opened, stripped of identification and sorted by content, before eventually being stored in archives".
The book has been questioned as fabricated. There is of course a mostly anti-war consent in the "letters" with only a couple of exceptions.
According to the German wikipedia article the language is to uniform indicating the text has beed edited or even forged.

There are actually some names of soldiers in the book. Wouldn't it be a scoop if some researcher could even match the letters to a unit and possibly to the family? There is an instance of a letter to a father that is colonel in the general staff, how many were there and would it be impossible? Fellow soldiers "Bleyer, Hartlieb and Bergen" are mentioned as well as "A handshake for Lydia and Helene. A kiss for mother (be careful old man about the cardiac defect), kiss for Gerda". Maybe the names have been censored and changed or are they clues?

According to the fore word the "Army press corps" took custody of the letters. Where are the letters now? Were they transcribed, anonymized and then destroyed and the transcripts are the only thing remaining?

Any more clues on this book appreciated. There are other books and web sites with letters surviving in verbatim.

[Mark in Cleveland, Tn.]

https://stalingradfront.com/articles/ar ... talingrad/

[Mark in Cleveland, Tn.]

Regarding the book "Last letters from Stalingrad":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Lett ... Stalingrad
It is a book compiled of the last letters from the Stalingrad couldron that "were then impounded, opened, stripped of identification and sorted by content, before eventually being stored in archives".
The book has been questioned as fabricated. There is of course a mostly anti-war consent in the "letters" with only a couple of exceptions.
According to the German wikipedia article the language is to uniform indicating the text has beed edited or even forged.

There are actually some names of soldiers in the book. Wouldn't it be a scoop if some researcher could even match the letters to a unit and possibly to the family? There is an instance of a letter to a father that is colonel in the general staff, how many were there and would it be impossible? Fellow soldiers "Bleyer, Hartlieb and Bergen" are mentioned as well as "A handshake for Lydia and Helene. A kiss for mother (be careful old man about the cardiac defect), kiss for Gerda". Maybe the names have been censored and changed or are they clues?

According to the fore word the "Army press corps" took custody of the letters. Where are the letters now? Were they transcribed, anonymized and then destroyed and the transcripts are the only thing remaining?

Any more clues on this book appreciated. There are other books and web sites with letters surviving in verbatim.

From what I've always read, most all the last corresponce (letters, etc) were on transport planes that then was,were shot down by Russian AA.( very near the bitter end) and were part of captured papers that were translated and gleramed for military information, and who knows what then happened. Eitherdestroyed during the war by Russians, or afterwards destroyed or can be in deep storage somewhere in USSR.

[Ro/Lt]

https://stalingradfront.com/articles/ar ... talingrad/

In my opinion these letters in this case seems very gritty and not the rather poetical writings from the book. But on the other hand they MAY have been selected to fit the russian narrative...

[Ro/Lt]

Accroding to the book "The Propaganda Warriors: The Wehrmacht and the Consolidation of the German home front" it was Heinz Schröter, an author in Propagandakompanie 637 who wrote the book LLFS.
https://books.google.se/books?id=1pKnPz ... ad&f=false
The book (LLFS) itself doesn't have a listed author.