The Battle of Stalingrad didn’t end with surrender, it began a new kind of nightmare. For the German Sixth Army, captivity ...

As the year 1943 progressed, a series of attacks centred around Stalingrad in southern Russia, resulted in some of the most ...

Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle of World War Two, when the Soviet Red Army, at a cost of over 1 million casualties, broke the back of German invasion forces in 1942-3.

Red Army troops storm a building, and German prisoners, below, during the Battle of ... He also points out that more than 50,000 Soviet citizens fought on the German side at Stalingrad alone.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On November 19, 1942, the Soviet Red Army began a counteroffensive attack to move the Germans out of Stalingrad in a major turning point of World ...

THE German Army has several tasks which it must fulfill simultaneously. It must resist the Anglo-American invasion. It must oppose the Russians in the east. It must keep the satellite states in line ...

German Sgt. Maj. Karl-Heinz Nelles places a flag on one of 18 graves of German prisoners of war in Fort Knox’s Main Post Cemetery Nov. 29, 2023, in honor of Germany’s National Day of Mourning.

The Germans were in Stalingrad. The Germans had reached the Volga. > Said a German correspondent broadcasting from the Stalingrad front: “The horizon seems to heave up. Gigantic mushrooms of ...

German General Friedrich Paulus’s 6th Army was trapped. But Hitler refused to let the 300,000 exhausted soldiers retreat. “They were caught there in absolute hell, in the cold, completely ...

But Stalingrad, Mr. MacGregor maintains, “broke the cycle of continual German victories, thus ensuring that it was now a case of when and not if the Allies would eventually defeat the Nazis.” ...