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After Stalingrad fell: The German soldiers who refused to surrender
When the German Sixth Army officially surrendered at Stalingrad on February 2, 1943, the battle was declared over, but for ...
For German soldiers, Vasily Chuikov became inseparable from the nightmare of Stalingrad. His insistence on fighting at ...
Those were the words of just one desperate German soldier in a letter to his family amidst impending defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad in early 1943. His letter is one of dozens that have been ...
Stalin's likeness is located near the Battle of Stalingrad Museum and is flanked by similar busts of World War II-era Soviet leaders Georgy Zhukov and Alexander Vasilevsky. Statues of the communist ...
Stalin is seen here receiving an honorary Sword of Stalingrad from British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in November 1943 The Russian city once known as Stalingrad is to regain its old name during ...
The ferocious Battle of Stalingrad saw individual soldiers, armies, leaders and ideologies locked together in a savage war of attrition. Snipers such as Vasily Zaitsev boosted the Soviet soldiers’ ...
The Battle of Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II 80 years ago when German forces capitulated to the Red Army, remains a powerful symbol of patriotism in Russia as it presses its war in ...
Russia's Ministry of Defence has published online a cache of declassified documents detailing atrocities carried out by Nazi soldiers and officers during World War Two. The release on Friday on the ...
Evocative pictures bring to life the true brutality of the street-to-street warfare being bravely fought by both sides in a battle that marked the beginning of the end of the Nazi menace A CACHE of ...
The Battle of Stalingrad, with its five months of fierce fighting, began exactly 80 years ago, on Aug. 23, 1942. An estimated 750,000 Soviets died defending the city, delivering an enormous blow to ...
As many as one million soldiers are believed to have died in the six months of intense warfare As the Russian city once known as Stalingrad (now Volgograd) prepares to mark 70 years since the end of ...
It’s sometimes easy to forget one particular, elemental truth: We live in a physical world. In a digital age — when so so much of what we see, hear and act upon is comprised wholly of incorporeal ones ...
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