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2006-12-31 00:04:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

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When General von Paulus surrendered it was the turning point of the war. His troops were marched off into captivity by the Red Army. Most were worked to death as slave labor after being paraded through Red Square. Only a few lived to return to Germany.

2006-12-31 00:15:12 · answer #1 · answered by Isis 7 · 3 0

The 6th German military became minimize off from something of the front and the German 4th Panzer military have been no longer able to alleviate it . The Luftwaffe tried precise resupply the 6th military yet did no longer have sufficient planes to do it. The German 6th military fought for roughly 4 months in the past it became compelled to offer up. the justifications for the lost have been,in my opinion, loss of clean sight for the region with the aid of Hitler and the failure of the German generic team to stand up to the little paperhanger even however that they had no self assurance in him.

2016-11-25 02:38:35 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

"Renamed as Sixth Army, it began its involvement in the Russian Campaign as the spearhead of Army Group South. Shortly after being promoted to Field Marshal, von Reichenau died in an aircraft accident while being transported to a hospital after a heart attack in January 1942. He was succeeded by his former chief of staff, General der Panzertruppen Friedrich Paulus. Paulus led the Sixth Army to a major victory in Kharkov during the spring of 1942. This victory sealed the Sixth Army's destiny because the OKW designated it for the attack on Stalingrad. The Sixth Army failed to obtain a quick victory; winter came and with it Operation Uranus -- the massive attack of Soviet forces on the flanks of the German corridor between the Don and Volga rivers in November 22-23. The Sixth Army was isolated and a major relief operation, (Operation Wintergewitter), which eventually failed, was undertaken by Field Marshal Erich von Manstein. Paulus was promoted by Hitler to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall on January 31, 1943 ostensibly in part because until that day no German Field Marshal had ever surrendered. In other words, Adolf Hitler expected Paulus to commit suicide but he eventually surrendered to the Soviet Forces, contrary to orders by his political chief. The remaining forces of the Sixth Army, under the independent command of General Strecker, surrendered three days after in the Tractor Factory, at the north of Stalingrad. That was the definitive end of the Sixth Army, and one of the worst military disasters in German history. For the first time, an entire German field army had been completely destroyed/captured."

2006-12-31 00:11:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Almost 200 000 were captured and sent off to Siberia. Some 6 thousand came back, over 10 years after the end of the war

2006-12-31 02:33:42 · answer #4 · answered by cp_scipiom 7 · 1 0

The FINAL destiny was a gulag in Siberia, after being paraded down the streets of Moscow. Only 6,000 of the 91,000 taken prisoner ever reach the Fatherland after the war.

2006-12-31 03:06:21 · answer #5 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1 0

Death or imprisonment

2006-12-31 07:00:23 · answer #6 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1 0

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