Soviet Women Did More Than Just Support War Effort-- Part 2: Snipers & the 'Terror of East Prussia'

In all, some 11,000 Germans were killed by Soviet snipers during the war.  A high percentage of them were gunned down by women.

One of the most famous of them was Roza Shanina who was an excellent university student, as were most women snipers.  She enlisted in the Soviet Army at age  18 and over the course of two years, killed 59 Germans.  On one occasion, she led a group of Russian soldiers who, in hand-to-hand combat, wiped out a larger group of Germans.

The Canadian press  dubbed her the "Terror of East Prussia" for her success rate at killing Germans on the German homeland.

She died at age 20, succumbing to grievous wounds sustained while saving the life of a comrade.

--GreGen