Actually major koenig is supposed to be the sniper that didn't exist. The story was he was sent to stalingrad with the mission to take out the russian sniper.
Problem was it was never documented in german records that a sniper was sent to to that paticular thing.
Even in the movie enemy at the gates the german officer takes his dog tags from him saying if he were killed it would boost russian propoganda. Thats a way of covering up for the fact that if there were a sniper shot he was never identified as being koenig.
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