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German 5 cm Pak 38 Anti-Tank Gun in Open Artillery Position on a Street Crossing in Stalingrad (October 8, 1942)
Hitler’s Directive No. 45 of July 23, 1942, revised the original plan of the German summer offensive in southern Russia. According to the directive, the offensives in Stalingrad and the Caucasus....
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Soviet POWs behind Barbed Wire (1942)
German treatment of POWs varied greatly and was largely determined by the nationality of their captives. Soviet POWs suffered the worst fate, since National Socialist racial policy held that the....
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Occupation Terror in the Soviet Union: Partisans are Hanged to Deter Others (c. 1943)
With the attack on the Soviet Union, the Nazi campaign assumed its full scope as a racial-ideological war of annihilation of unprecedented brutality and barbarity. The Wehrmacht and the SS cooperated....
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General Friedrich Paulus after the Capitulation in Stalingrad (January 31, 1943)
When he realized that his army was trapped in a futile war of attrition at Stalingrad, General Friedrich Paulus, commander of the 6th Army, surrendered on January 31, 1943, against Hitler’s orders.....
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Burning Houses in Stalingrad (February 2, 1943)
After several months of fighting, the Red Army managed to encircle the German army in November 1942. General....
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German Soldier after the Capitulation in Stalingrad (January/February 1943)
After the 6th Army surrendered at Stalingrad on January 31 and February 2, 1943, its surviving members were taken into captivity. The battle for Stalingrad had lasted from August 1942 until February....
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After the Battle – Surviving Members of the 6th Army (February 1943)
Statistics on the number of German soldiers captured at Stalingrad differ on account of disparities in the various sources. According to the most recent research, however, it can be assumed that....
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Armaments Minister Albert Speer at a Meeting on Armaments Questions (1943)
In 1940, at least four competing authorities were involved in economic and armaments planning.....
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Soldiers in Front of a Section of the "Atlantic Wall" in Belgium/ Northern France (1943)
To prevent an Allied invasion of what Hitler called “fortress Europe,” the Organization Todt (OT) began construction in the summer of 1942 on a 1,600 mile-long defensive fortification along the Atlantic....
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A Russian Village in Flames (January 10, 1944)
On February 14, 1943, after the Germans experienced a devastating defeat on the Eastern Front, Hitler ordered his retreating army to leave nothing but “scorched earth” behind them – the idea being....
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