Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich by

Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781610394970
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2015-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

Entrance to department store basement, 1944. Photographer: Samari Gurari

In February 1943 a cardboard sign was hung at the entrance to the room in the department store basement where the terms of surrender were negotiated. It read: “Here on January 31, 1943, at 7:00 AM the supreme commander of the Sixth German Army, General Field Marshal von Paulus, and his staff, led by Lieutenant General Schmidt, were captured by the 38th Motorized Rifle Brigade.” Below were the names of Colonel Ivan Burmakov and his political deputy, Senior Lieutenant Leonid Vinokur. In the same year another sign—identical except for omitting the aristocratic “von” from Paulus’s name—was placed at the side entrance of the department store, next to the basement stairwell. As the photograph below shows, it continued to draw visitors in the summer of 1944.

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