I have wondered if the German Field-Marshal Friedrich Paulus after his defeat and capture by Russians at Stalingrad in February 1943 really changed when as a prisoner of war in Soviet Russia he joined ...

The fighting around Stalingrad ended in February, 1943, after the German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered his Sixth Army to the Russians. In Volgograd, in the basement of what was once a ...

On Jan. 25, 1943, Gen. Friedrich Paulus, commanding the German 6th Army at the height of the Battle of Stalingrad, thought he saw the time had come to speak of surrender. Paulus was a 52-year-old ...

Eighty years ago, the Battle of Stalingrad was entering its final months. The Wehrmacht's Sixth Army with some 300,000 troops, commanded by Gen. Frederich Von Paulus, was about to be eviscerated by a ...

As the Big Three faced the supreme question—what to do with Germany?—Joseph Stalin had an ace which Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt could only look at and admire. They had nothing like it: a ...

The carnage of the Battle of Stalingrad finally came to an end in February 1943, when the German Sixth Army Commander, Gen. Friedrich Paulus, surrendered the remaining ninety thousand troops of his ...

To Germany from Moscow last week went a Christmas parcel wrapped in propaganda TNT. It was a big enough parcel to touch the hearts of 250,000 families bereaved by the debacle at Stalingrad. The card ...

AUGUST 23, 1942: The Battle of Stalingrad – the bloodiest fight of World War II - began on this day in 1942 after Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet city bearing its dictator’s name. The Wehrmacht’s 6th ...

The Battle of Stalingrad (August 23, 1942-February 2, 1943) was one of the most brutal and bloody battles of World War II. Germany's disastrously ill-fated attack on the Russian city is widely ...