As Soviet forces closed the ring around Stalingrad, German officers quickly understood the danger, yet the army remained in place, bound by duty, discipline, and fear of captivity. Supplies dwindled, ...
After Stalingrad, German forces in southern Russia faced collapse as Soviet advances threatened massive encirclements. While ...
In 1993 the Germans made a movie about the 1942 Battle of Stalingrad—a bloody turning point in the vast, apocalyptic German invasion of the Soviet Union. The film is called, simply, Stalingrad. In ...