1. The Battle of Stalingrad
... Axis held line; joined up with those on the Don and Stalingrad fronts at a point some 70km from Stalingrad. Twenty-two German divisions and 160 separate units were trapped in a circle of about 450km in circumference. By this time, winter had begun. General Friedrich Paulus, commander of the 6th army, was surrounded by Soviet troops; and his army was slowly starving ... their horses. Paulus then ordered that only those who could fight would be fed, and the injured began to starve. He had no hope in making a break out of the circle because his men were too weak. On the 30th of January Hit...
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