It ended 50 years ago today, in the bitter chill of winter, as the last ragged, starving survivors of that ... that they fought each other in Stalingrad, German and Soviet soldiers turned the ...

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 ...

as Soviet forces halted and eventually defeated the German forces in the city on the Volga River in southern Russia. The probe into alleged Nazi atrocities in and around Stalingrad was announced ...

The accounts suggest the invading German army's murderous and brutal ... unsteady nerves and I'm constantly shaking." Other survivors of Stalingrad committed suicide years later.

In a WW2History.com interview, German survivor Helmut Walz described the dehumanizing effects inflicted on him during the house-to-house fighting in Stalingrad. Walz was in the midst of an assault ...

A few survivors of the onslaught take shelter ... Russian Stalingrad (which starred Fedor Bondarchuk) and the 1993 German Stalingrad (which starred Thomas Kretschmann). The spectacle, literally ...

The Germans were in Stalingrad. The Germans had reached the Volga. > Said a German correspondent broadcasting from the Stalingrad front: “The horizon seems to heave up. Gigantic mushrooms of ...