Talk:Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad

Translation of text on the front of the German newspaper
Apart from the headline, there's a bunch of text that, from Googling a few snippets, doesn't actually seem to be taken from anywhere, so I'll transcribe and translate it here.

''Wer die großen Heldensagen der Völker sich heute vor Augen führt, der wird besonders tief empfinden, daß sie entstanden sind nicht aus der Heiterkeit eines allbefriedeten Lebens, sondern daß die Gleichnisse sind schwerster Kämpfte, eines ungeheuren großen Schicksals. Die Ilias ist ein Sang des Sieges, aber zugleich vereinigen sich in ihr Erinnerungen jahrhundertelanger Kämpfe der Hellenen gegen die damaligen Völker Kleinasiens. Aus nationaler Prüfung ist der Seele eines ganz Großen ein Werk entstiegen, das, ins dritte Jahrtausen gehend. noch [sic] alle bewegt, die für menschliche Größe Sinn und für wehtkafte Kunst als Gestalt[...] des kämpferischen Lebens ein Vers haben.

''Das Epos des deutschen Volkes ist nicht zufällig die Erzählung von der Nibelongen Not. Das sich gestaltende deutsche Volk hat hier seine Stimme gelunden, und die Helden der Völkerwanderung[...] schreiten durch unsere Seelen, dh. durch unser Leben. So stark und so ewig jung, weil das Bielbende [Blutbande?] des Deutschtums in ihnen für immer verkörpert erscheint.

Whoever brings the great hero tales of the People before his eyes today, he will especially deeply find, that they did not arise to heroism from a peaceful life, but that the parables are those fighting most strongly, an enormous great destiny. The Iliad is a song of victory, but at the same time to unite in their memories of the century-long struggle of the Hellenes against the concurrent peoples of Asia Minor. Out of national trials arises the soul to a great work, that which goes into the third millennium. Still, all move, those for human larger spirit and for the martial art as for the expression of the fighter's life, to have their own verse.

The German People's Epic is not merely by chance the telling of the Nibelungen Need. The German People told of here has now found its voice, and the heroes of the Germanic Migration Period now tread on our souls, that is on our lives, so strong and so forever young, because the Bloodband of Germanity is forever encorporated in them.

There's another paragraph, but it's almost impossible to read. The sentence that starts with a non-capital n doesn't really make any sense, so I think that has been cut off somehow. Still, this feels like very authentic writing, so I'm impressed if they didn't copy this off some 1944 German newspaper that hasn't been dumped to the internet yet.

Weird stuff: I've never heard of any story called the Nibelungen Not: Not in this case does not mean Note, it's close to the English word "need" and means some sort of crisis. I translated it to Nibelungen Need. A lot of the sentences feel like they're missing a verb to make perfect sense, but I'm not very used to German newspapers so maybe this is how they wrote in the forties.

The big black text under the picture on the front of the newspaper says "Unser Schwur: Vergeltung!" which means "Our oath: Retribution!".

The newspaper is dated Berlin, Thursday 4. February 1943. That day was indeed a Thursday. The prices seem era-appropriate at a glance although I don't know how much a pfennig was worth in 1943. --Rapstah 19:10, 2 May 2013 (EDT)

Some translations of the Russian newspaper
The newspaper is called Pravda, nothing special about that. The text on top on the right says "Segodnja v nomere", meaning "In today's issue", and the headline on the left says "Sojuzniki terjajut", meaning "The allies [have] lost". Under "Pravda", it says "Organ tsentralnogo Komiteta i MK BKP", meaning "Central authority and committee of the MK BCP", whatever the MK BCP is. The actual article text is too tiny to read, which is probably good for my sanity. --Rapstah 19:23, 2 May 2013 (EDT)