Historical authenticity[edit]
Zaytsev's personal account is the only source for the story. No other historical documentation exists and no second source for the events in question exists. None of the Germans mentioned by Zaitsev including König, König's daughter, or the German prisoner of war who Zaitsev says identified König have ever been identified in other records.
Zaytsev said that the duel took place over a period of three days in the ruins of Stalingrad.[1]
The story of the Soviet discovery of König's arrival came from a German soldier who had been interrogated by the Soviet forces (as stated in Zaytsev's memoirs). Also Zaytsev claims in his memoir to have found the enemy sniper in a run-down industrial area, finding him under a sheet of scrap metal by the glint of his enemy's rifle scope. He then claims to have taken the scope as a souvenir.
In his own memoirs, Zaytsev refers to him as being a German sniper named Herr Koning (Koning is Dutch for King, cognate to König in German), identified as the head of a sniper school in Berlin, by documents taken from his dead body.[citation needed] This is unconfirmed as German Heer personnel records make no mention of any German sniper called König or Koning. It was also stated by Zaytsev that the existence of König came from an unidentified German prisoner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_König
the way you wrote it, the way zaitsev wrote is is not the way it was shown in the movie. the movie ****ed it up. someone thought the had to make a dramatic face to face showdown. ultimately it made the ending cheesy.