The Germans were in Stalingrad. The Germans had reached ... failed to bear out the non-military reports of mountainous German losses. Perhaps those who wrote the communiqués did not yet have ...

He ultimately decided to leave the men trapped in Stalingrad to die. More than 100,000 German troops were taken prisoner and there were 1.5million casualties among Axis forces in the battle ...

Troop losses on both sides numbered ... with most buildings reduced to rubble. But Stalingrad, Mr. MacGregor maintains, “broke the cycle of continual German victories, thus ensuring that it ...

German dictator Adolf Hitler had set his ... by the Soviets and eventually surrendered. The estimated loss of life at Stalingrad varies, but the Modern War Institute puts the death toll at ...

Although the German Army officially capitulated on Feb. 2, sporadic smaller-scale fighting continued into March. “The loss at Stalingrad was the first failure of the war to be publicly ...

The figures of human losses, unpublicised, besides German prisoners of war, were, for Germany, almost 150,000 and for the Soviet Union were around half a million. The Nazi failure to win the struggle ...