german general karl strecker wrote: “the enemy is invisible.suffer heavy losses, falling into ambushes set up in basements, in collapsed buildings, in destroyed factory workshops. soviet at night. sappers mined narrow passages among the ruins, assault groups of 6-8 fighters made surprise attacks, trying to exterminate the enemy almost silently with the help of knives sharpened sapper blades. one german soldier wrote: now i know what real, chilling fear is. at the slightest rustle, i press the trigger and shoot until the machine gun... the germans were even more afraid of soviet snipers, they clever deceptions using stuffed animals in soldier's uniforms or hanging white flags. the most famous sniper of stalingrad was vasily zaitsev, a native of the ural village of elenenko, who personally killed 225 soldiers. enemy officers. the germans also had experience of a narrow army, they also had experience of urban battles, they reached the volga, and went through all of ukraine there. that is, there were urban battles there too. they had worked out the