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 ...

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 ...

German tanks moved up ... That is where Russia's leaders - and survivors from both the Red Army and the Sixth Army - will remember the bloody Battle of Stalingrad, which ended 70 years ago.

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 ...

The fighting for Stalingrad was intense ... After the battle the wretched survivors of a beaten German army surrendered to the Red Army. They had once been 350,000 strong but only 90,000 of ...

Now a grim reminder of the Battle of Stalingrad has been uncovered 75 years later - a mass grave containing almost 2,000 German soldiers. The huge pit was stumbled upon by accident by Russian ...

The Soviets returned the next day and smashed the German position. At that point, Mark notes, Panzer-Abteiling 129 had effectively ceased to exist as survivors fled into the city of Stalingrad proper.