This story has long been read in military memoirs. I did not find any further confirmation anywhere. I hope the author is not wrong with the truth.
In the film "Officers" there is an episode: German tanks go to the station, a sanitary train rushes to pick up the wounded, some of the wounded organize the defense. The slogan was “Communists, Komsomolers – forward!” People are deliberately dying in order for others to live. Everyone would die, but the Soviet tanks appear, the Germans turn back in panic. The film did not explain where and how our tanks came from, maybe they thought the main massive feat of Soviet soldiers to show, maybe they't be able to demonstrate this: there was no computer graphics, the shooting was natural, and such a demonstration in peacetime, the pursuit will crash even from the Marshal...
What was outside the screen. In February 1943, the Stalingrad group of Germans was surrounded. The Germans sweep tanks from Kuban to breakthrough to Paulus. Our midst of the steppe somehow organizes defense - the main forces still under Stalingrad blow the boiler. German aviation reconnaissance passes over the steppe - almost - a little infantry, not even artillery. Orders to the tanks in the direction of the station can be attacked. After a few hours in the radio broadcast panic - we are burning! Flanking of Russian tanks. With pilots disassembly at the level of the Gestapo - in the steppe in the winter to see tanks is not possible! A betrayal of the Reich.
What was in reality. There were no tanks for a few hours. Not one one. There were wounded and remains of infantry. A sanitary train arrived at the station and started loading. Half-lived people took the grenades to cover the rest, and in the meantime, whose unreasonable, but as it turned out for everyone, a lucky headshot sent behind the sanitary train a square with platforms - a tank battalion, maybe less, I don't know how many at that time one steam carrier could dismiss heavy-loaded platforms. The station was unable to enter: the road was covered with sanitation. In those regions before the 90s, in most cases, there was still a single-wheel. Maybe now something has changed, but then the composition stood on the approach to the station in the steppe. For unloading tanks in all positions, height is needed - a station platform and bridges that would slide on them. In theory. And in practice - the steppe, tanks are crashed to the height of the platforms and rocks. In 1941 the Germans captured whole unloaded machinery, or simply burned it.
But it was already 1943, people were not the same, the statutes and regulations were observed on the condition - it does not interfere with hitting the enemy, and otherwise - the fight... If it managed to break the enemy, nobody rewarded, but did not pressure, if not - the tribunal. As they say, think for yourself, decide for yourself. The technique will be destroyed on the platforms or... the Combat decided or. Order: From the tanks down. 15 minutes and pulled out. The crew left the cars and watched. Combat himself for the driver sits, turning 90 degrees on the platform - a tank (NOT BTC, but T-34!27 tons - jumping down from a height of at least 2 meters. have seen? Mechanics - the driver - do like me! Upon completion of the load!
In 40 minutes, the battalion is ready to march. Two cars turned to the side - left one to drag them with wires, the others forward. They landed on the side of the station - as a result, they came out on the flank of the offending Germans. The German T4 boards of thirty-four guns fitted well + a surprise. The Germans were assured that this would be a walk by the squads of the infantry, and it turned out to be a beating. I wanted to live by myself, Paulus didn't care, the Germans turned - who didn't have time to burn. Pilots at the Gestapo. No one could believe that tanks could be unloaded like this.