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Snipers of Stalingrad: The hidden war that broke Hitler’s 6th Army

When German bombers reduced Stalingrad to rubble in 1942, they unknowingly created the perfect battlefield for snipers. Soviet marksmen like Vasily Zaitsev and Lyudmila Pavlichenko turned shattered ...
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Stalingrad’s weak link: The Romanian armies Germany ignored

In 1942, Romania committed more men to the Eastern Front than ever before, placing two entire armies on the exposed flanks of Germany’s Sixth Army at Stalingrad. Spread thin across vast distances and ...