Full name: Erika Schneider (Schneider Erika) Year of birth and death: 1915 – 28/01/1943 Biography: Although she lost both her father in the world war and her mother because of the Spanish flu, with her active, positive and cheerful personality, Erika Schneider still lives happily with two her younger siblings. At the age of 18 to make ends meet, in 1923 Erika joined the Weimar Defense Forces (Reichswehr) later renamed the Wehrmacht and finally she joined the Dienstmädchen-SS (1938). Erika is also a rare soldier who can join the Dienstmädchen-SS unit without passing the entrance exam because of her experience and long service time. As a gunner using the MG-34 'chainsaw', Erika is an extremely dangerous opponent for any infantry enemy standing in front of her. When not wor king, she takes on the position of 'mother' and is always loved by the whole division. They give her the nickname "Mutter" and she really likes that nickname. At the end of 1942, with the 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army of Army Group B under the command of General Paulus in danger of being surrounded in the city of Stalingrad, Erika was sent to assist in essentially protecting the city of Stalingrad. defend Paulus. Having interacted with the General for a long time, Erika gradually fell in love with this elegant, understanding and calm man. With him, the cold days of the weather, the ferocity of the Red Army's attack and the German soldiers' desperate counterattack that opened the bloody door were just like a nightmare to her. But the siege became tighter and the battle became more and more fierce. Erika became more and more worried about the man she loved, but no matter how she advised him, Paulus never left, he even proudly showed off with her the Field Marshal medal he received from the Führer. January 27, 1943 was her happiest birthday when Paulus gave her a necklace with a bullet ornament. But that night the Soviet army counterattacked and divided the remnants of the exhausted Nazi army into three small groups for protecting Field Marshal 'Paul' (Erika had just called that to Paulus yesterday), she received a three The shot right in a dangerous place resulted in exhaustion from blood loss. In that dying moment, Erika confided to Paulus. By dawn on January 28, 1943, Erika Schneider died in the arms of her lover. Erika's death devastated Paulus and led to the Marshal of the Sixth Army's surrender to the Red Army on February 2. Erika's grave was poorly buried next to other anonymous German soldiers on the outskirts of Stalingrad, until her remains were brought back to Germany by two her younger siblings in 1960. Viewpoint: “Wenn ich dich nicht getroffen hätte, wäre ich nicht so, aber in den Armen der Person zu sterben, die du liebst, ist das Glücklichste in meinem Leben…”