Was there ever a Major König like in Enemy at the Gates?
I was doing some research about snipers in the eastern front and i found a ton of info about Vasily Zaytsev, but nothing on his opponent. Can anyone please help.
Heinz Thorvald was an alleged apocryphal, yet famous, German sniper, best known from the memoirs of Vasily Zaytsev, he was a skilled sniper that Vasily killed during the Battle of Stalingrad. He was apparently identified by documents from his body, Vasily Zaytsev in his memoirs "Notes of a sniper" claimed the duel took place over a period of some 3 days, Zaytsev in his memoirs identifies the sniper as Major Herr Koning-head of the Berlin Sniper School, although the Germans had no records of Heinz Thorvald.
Well allegedly he was some high ranking officer and had hundreds of kills, as many as 400, the amount of exaggeration is indeterminate.
Thorvald's existence is itself unconfirmed, so it is currently unknown if the duel took place. And as i said i cant find any information on this guy. Does anyone have an idea if this was propaganda or what?
Top sniper names i found was
Matthias Hetzenauer (Nazi Germany)
Josef 'Sepp' Allerberger (Nazi Germany)
Lyudmila Pavlichenko (Soviet Red Army)
