Despite fierce resistance, the Wehrmacht did succeed in conquering most of Stalingrad by mid-November 1942. By this time, however, Soviet forces had launched a two-pronged attack to encircle the ...

Fought between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, this battle marked the beginning of the Wehrmacht’s decline ... This documentary explores how Stalingrad reshaped the course of World War ...

6 Street fighting in the Battle of Stalingrad (TASS) 7 Columns of Nazi German Wehrmacht soldiers pass through the streets of Stalingrad on February 1, 1943. 8 Clouds of smoke rise from besieged ...

So he concentrated the Red Army around the capital, leaving them outnumbered in the south where the Wehrmacht pushed on. On August 23, 1942, German soldiers reached the north of Stalingrad ...

The battle for Stalingrad was the turning point of the Second World War. After the German invasion of Russia — codenamed Operation Barbarossa, which began in June 1941 — the Wehrmacht ...

But Stalingrad, Mr. MacGregor maintains ... break the Nazi-Soviet Pact by invading the U.S.S.R., which allowed the Wehrmacht to score the early victories that sparked panic in the capital.

Stalingrad actually shrinks in scale over its 150 minutes. The German flick’s most coherent battle takes place in its first half hour, as Wehrmacht troops led by Capt. Hermann Musk (Karel ...

“Stalingrad” is worth seeing primarily for ... “You are a disgrace to the entire Wehrmacht!’’ Kahn’s superior (who seems to have wandered in from “Hogan’s Heroes’’) exclaims ...

As the Germans advanced towards Stalingrad in the Summer of 1942, the war came to the locals of the city and evacuation was slow to the speed of the Wehrmacht’s advancement. Because the city ...