Hitler Versus Stalin: The Second World War on the Eastern Front in Photographs by John Erickson & Ljubica Erickson

Author:John Erickson & Ljubica Erickson [Erickson, John & Erickson, Ljubica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Europe, History, Military, World War II, World War; 1939-1945, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Dictators, Germany, Pictorial, Soviet Union
ISBN: 9781844427277
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
Published: 2004-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

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THE END AT STALINGRAD: SURRENDER 1943

The battle of Stalingrad, which lasted from July 1942 to and dying intermingled. Hopes of a successful German breakout February 1943, cost the Red Army 1,129,619 men killed faded as the Soviet outer "ring" was strengthened.

and wounded. While, before November, Stalin demanded that On 31 January, newly promoted Field Marshal Paulus the city be held at all cost, Hitler now ruled out surrender by surrendered, choosing captivity before suicide. At 1600 hours the German Sixth Army. The condition of the trapped German on 2 February, military operations ceased. It remained only troops quickly worsened, from the grim to the ghastly, the dead to marshal prisoners and bury the dead.

Right

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The Soviet 38th Motorized

Rifle Brigade and 329th

Engineer Battalion had

blockaded the Univermak

building, HQ of Sixth

Army. On the morning of

31 January, Red Army Senior

Lieutenants llchenko and

Mezhirko entered the ruins.

In the basement they

presented a formal Soviet

ultimatum and a demand

for capitulation to a

newly promoted Field

Marshal von Paulus,

seen here on the right.

Left

At noon on 3 1 January,

Paulus was taken by car

to General Mikhail Shumilov's

64th Army HQ and from

there to Zavarykin Don

Front command centre.

There he was interrogated

by General Rokossovskii,

Colonel General Nikolai

Voronov and interpreter

Captain Nikolai Dyatlenko,

who are shown

seated from left to right.

Paulus sits far right.

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