Or maybe he just quietly retired to his dacha... Friedrich Paulus, the German General captured at Stalingrad and surprise Russian prosecution witness at the trial, had to wait for Stalin’s death ...

The initial advance went well, and the German Sixth Army under General Friedrich von Paulus was ordered to capture the city. But Stalin demanded it be defended at all costs. Every available soldier ...

On November 23, 1942, the two Red Army pincers met at Kalach, west of Stalingrad. German General Friedrich Paulus’s 6th Army was trapped. But Hitler refused to let the 300,000 exhausted soldiers ...

From late 1941 to May 1942, the corps took part in defensive operations in the Kursk area. It was redesignated as the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps in early summer 1942. [2] Thereafter the corps joined the ...

1915: The British liner “SS Arabic” is sunk by a German submarine without warning. 1919: Afghanistan declares independence from Britain. 1941: Romania annexes the Transnistria territory from the ...

As such he was promoted, 1 January 1944, to lieutenant general. For leading his division during the defense of Caen after D Day, Schack was awarded, 21 September 1944, the Knight's Cross of the Iron ...