the battle of stalingrad?

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who was involved in the battle of stalingrad? websites please

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Try www.worldwar2.net for all the information on who fought at Stanlingrad.

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there have been many decisive battles for the time of WW2, yet Stalingrad replaced into Germanys. they had in basic terms tasted victory up until eventually at last this element. After Stalingrad the Germans knew they weren’t invincible and apart from the Russians knew it too. Anthony Beavors e book is staggering, even nevertheless fairly heavy going it particularly is unquestionably nicely worth a examine for somebody involved in military historic previous, otherwise possibly in basic terms bypass by using it. it would additionally be particularly helpful to take a seem at the1993 action picture “Stalingrad” by way of Joseph Vilsmaier.

Answer 3

Have you even tried to look up this info on your own? It will take you about 30 seconds and minimal effort to find the answers you are looking for.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad -
www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/stalingrad/default.aspx -
www.britannica.com/eb/article-9069378/Battle-of-Stalingrad -
www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/culture/Battle_of_Stalingrad.htm
history1900s.about.com/cs/stalingrad/index.htm -
www.stalingrad.net -
www.answers.com/topic/battle-of-stalingrad -
www.stalingrad-info.com -
www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_stalingrad.htm - 10.bu.edu/.../NatIdentity/FSU/Russia/battle_of_stalingrad.htm

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_stalingrad

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Battle+of+stalingrad&btnG=Google+Search

You couldn't have done this yourself?

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Stalingrad 1942-43
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"The defenders of the city used to say that the streets, avenues and
parks near the Volga became slippery from blood, and that the Germans
slipped down to their doom." General Chuikov
There are various opinions when the great Stalingrad battle began. The documents
from the Volgograd archives says: The great battle of Stalingrad began 17 July 1942,
at the boundary of the rivers Chir and Zimla, on distant approaches to Stalingrad city.
Advanced groups, 62 and 64 armies, had begun fighting with the enemy there. The
first bombardment at the city of Stalingrad by German planes was in October 1941.
Some bombs were dropped south of the Kirovskiy district. With the first mass
bombing, 50 German planes were involved; 23 April 1942. The first combat with
a German Panzer column occurred on the approaches to the Tractor Factory.
The unit involved was the 1077th Anti-Aircraft Regiment. The crews of these
AA Guns consisted of young girls who had volunteered for combat duty with
the Army. The Artillery unit was positioned on the flat ground of the Steppe.
We saw that they were all alone as there were no Soviet troops either to the left
of them,or to the right. We fully understood that it was their duty to stand and
defend this ground to the last person living. The young female gunners have
stopped the German Panzer Column. We see in front of us that there are several
'Panzers' and trucks ruined and burning. They had taken their time in planning
this attack and used small battlegroups that tried to make a lightening attack to
quickly take out our positions. The Germans attacked several times inflicting heavy
losses to this unit and they kept attacking until all were killed. The dead will remain
forever scattered in the steppe as a testimony of their heroic defence of our factory.
Special thanks Carl Evans (USA) for the literary processing, and the
Russian - English translation.

Here is some statistics from the archive of the Volgograd City, exclusively
submitted for this site by Vladimir:
In august 23rd, 1942 the city of Stalingrad had a population of 400.000 .
February 24th, after military medics have searched in the city's ruins, they
found:
1. Traktorozavodskiy District: 150 people alive*.
Before the battle the population was 75'000.
2. Barrikadniy District: 76 people alive*.
Before the battle the population was 50'000.
3. Ermanskiy District: 32 people alive*.
Before the battle the population was 45'000.
These pictures from Stalingrad were taken in 1944.

*Many of those were wounded, exhausted, sick and died later on in the
hospitals. No records for other Districts have been found.
Mine clearing labours of the city was performed from 1943 to 1945. In
addition to mining teams were involved 3927 civilians volunteers. Most of
them were teens and women. For that period of the time were destroyed
1'552'055 explosive items, 382 0612 of those were mines. (Statistics for the
city only)
Official records have not been published for casualties of poor instructed
volunteers, involved in mine clearing labours.
Statistics from independed experts:
1. On each square kilometer of Stalingrad Tractor Factory's territory were
dropped approx. 2000 bombs (not counting small-gauge artillery and
mortars).
2. On each running kilometer of the rail track were about 16 bomb craters.
3. On each running kilometer of pipelines were 15 direct hits.
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Stalingrad,a turning point
Few would disagree that the loss of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad
represented the turning point of the Eastern front, indeed of WWII in
Europe. Heroic as the efforts of the Luftwaffe's air and ground crews were,
the defenders could never have been adequately supplied by airlift alone.
Could the relief attempt mounted by General Hoth's 4th
Panzer Army ever have reached the cauldron across150km of wintry steppe?
Once the panzers had punched a corridor through, 800 lorries loaded with
3,000 tons of supplies were to restore 6th Army's fighting strength and
evacuate the wounded; von Manstein intended that Paulus then initiate the
breakout, spearheaded by his own remaining armour (some hundred-odd tanks).
By Christmas Eve, the relief attempt had stalled on the defences recently
manned by the 2nd Guards Army on the banks of the *Myshkova river, less than
fifty kilometres from the siege lines but still impossibly far for the
defenders to have reached even had Paulus willed the abandonment of the
city. By then the tank strength of the LVII Panzerkorps
had been worn down by twelve days of bitter fighting and the men of its
constituent 6, 17 and 23 Panzer-Divisions physically exhausted by constant
combat in snow and cold, without any shelter on the open steppe.


*Memorial in Nijne Kumsky village. Soviet common graves.

Finally, the gallant and self-sacrificial relief attempt was doomed - even
as the fighting for Vyerkhnye-Kumskiy approached its climax - by the Russian
'Little Saturn' onslaught (16th December) against Armee-Abteilung Hollidt
and the Italian 8th Army; as the latter
collapsed and Russian tank brigades threatened to overrun the airfields
supplying Stalingrad, the strongest formation, 6 Panzer-Division, was
urgently required on the far side of the Don. On Christmas Eve, with tears
in their eyes, the troops saluted their comrades in the cauldron
- now doomed to death in combat or the slower agony of the camps, the fate
most feared of all.

Hans Wijers
History Research WWII\


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Germans seeking to honor those who died on the Russian steppes are finding that mourning their loss is as difficult as acknowledging their guilt
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The Battle of Stalingrad
was the bitter siege that had been sustained in and around that Russian city from August of 1942 to February of 1943. The defeat of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad not only dealt a crippling blow to Hitler's campaign in the East but also marked the strategic turning point of the Second World War, and has come to be recognized as one of the greatest military debacles of all time. Over the years, the terrible fighting at Stalingrad has also come to symbolize the senseless sacrifice of human life to individual hubris and political whim.
In mid-November of 1942, a surprise pincer attack by two Russian armies cut off the Gerrnan Sixth Arrny, which was then locked in a bloody struggle for the city of Stalingrad. Trapped in a Kessel, or cauldron, an egg-shaped line of defense thirty miles wide and twenty miles deep, the Sixth Army, which was under the command of General Friedrich Paulus, was ordered by Hitler to hold its ground rather than retreat west to join the vanguard of the German forces.
In a matter of two months, from late November of 1942 until the end of January of 1943, a quarter of a million German soldiers, a thousand German panzers, eighteen hundred pieces of artillery, an entire air force of transport planes, and untold quantities of military supplies were obliterated by the combined forces of the Soviet Army and the Russian winter.
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See also 'Kursk: Panzer battle', 'Siege of Leningrad'.
On Feb. 2, 1943 - Russians Liquidate Last Stalingrad Pocket
On Feb. 2, 1943: The Red Army has completed the destruction of 330,000 trapped troops at Stalingrad, the flower of Adolf Hitler's army, Moscow announced. This raised the Russians' announced toll of Axis casualties on the Volga to more than 500,000. 91,000 troops, including field marshal General Friedrich Paulus and 23 generals had surrendered in the last 3 weeks. The Soviet bulletin said "trophies are still being counted in one of the biggest battles in the history of wars," but listed this booty as captured: 1,150 tanks, 6,700 guns, 1,462 mortars, 8,135 machine guns, 90,000 rifles, 61,102 trucks, 3 armored trains and a large amount of other equipment.
by - | 2007-03-24 | X | Battle of Stalingrad 1942, 1943

Exhibition of Emmanuil Yevzerikhin: Stalingrad Battle photographer
The Russian Museum has opened the exhibition of the Soviet photographer Emmanuil Yevzerikhin. Over 400 works made in the 1930-70s and now belonging to a private collector can be seen at the exhibition held in Mramorny Palace of the Russian Museum. The majority of the photos are dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. He as a war reporter was at many front lines all throughout the war, and became famous as "the major photographer" of the Stalingrad Battle.
by russia-ic | 2007-03-07 | X | Battle of Stalingrad 1942, 1943
Out of the ruins of Stalingrad - Life and Fate
Through the winter of 1942-43, Vasily Grossman reported from the craters and cellars of the Stalingrad front line as the besieged Russians turned the tide and encircled Hitler's forces. His writings made him a national icon. After the German surrender, Grossman rode west with the Red Army, providing the first and most authoritative eyewitness report from Treblinka. In May 1945 Grossman was at the Brandenburg Gate as Berlin fell. In Hitler's bunker he pocketed stationery from the Führer's own desk for souvenirs.
by guardian | 2006-March-26 | X | Reporters and Photographers
Russia's Top Female Fighter Ace With 12 Luftwaffe kills
Lily Litvak is the most famous female fighter pilot of all time. Stunningly beautiful with blonde hair and gorgeous grey eyes, Lily was known as the White Rose of Stalingrad. With 12 Luftwaffe kills to her credit, she was the Soviet Union's top female ace fighter pilot. In September, 1942 flying a Yak-1 with white roses painted on both sides of her cockpit, Lily shot down a Junkers JU-88 and a Messerschmitt Bf-109 during her second combat mission while flying with the 296th IAP. The day of her final mission, Lily had already flown 4 previous sorties. She was escorting a flight of Soviet bombers when her Yak was jumped by a flight of 8 Bf-109s.
by flightsim | 2006-March-17 | X | Female Pilots of WWII
19 Feb 1943: Germans surrender at Stalingrad
The Soviet Government has announced the final defeat of the German 6th Army at the port of Stalingrad. A statement said: Our forces have now completed the liquidation of the German Fascist troops encircled in the area of Stalingrad. The battle has been described as among the most terrible of the war so far. The 6th Army has been trapped inside the city, completely surrounded by the Red Army, for almost 3 months during the harshest part of the Russian winter. They have had to rely totally on air drops by the Luftwaffe for food.
by bbc | 2006-March-02 | X | Battle of Stalingrad 1942, 1943
A new book of Grossman’s war writings
In 1941 the war came. Like many others, Grossman rushed to volunteer for the front... A new book of Grossman’s war writings-a collection taken from his notebooks and his published pieces has appeared in English as "A Writer at War", translated by Antony Beevor. Halted outside Moscow in December, the Germans resumed their offensive in the south as soon as the snow melted. The Red Army reeled again until it reached the very edge of European Russia, at a large industrial city on the Volga that had been renamed Stalingrad. When Grossman arrived, the city had already been laid waste by the same Luftwaffe commander who, during the Spanish Civil War, had bombed Guernica.
by newyorker | 2006-February-27 | X | Battle of Stalingrad 1942, 1943
Volgograd Jewish Community Honors Veterans of Stalingrad Battle
The ish Community Center of Volgograd welcomed veterans of World War Two for a gathering honoring those who participated in the Stalingrad Battle. The 63rd anniversary of the city's liberation was marked by all citizens of Volgograd. Rabbi Zalman Yoffe expressed thanks to the veterans and recited Kaddish for those who died in this historic battle, considered a turning point in the war against Nazi forces. Officials from the City Administration and Cossacks Affairs extended congratulations. The senior citizens also sang songs from their youth and recalled the most significant episodes of the war.
by fjc | 2006-February-19 | X | Battle of Stalingrad 1942, 1943
August-September 1943: Tokyo tried to reconcile Stalin with Hitler
Several years ago the U.S. National Archives published correspondence between the Japanese Ambassador in Berlin, Hiroshi Oshima, and the Japanese Foreign Ministry. From this correspondence, it transpired that after the defeat of the German armies in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943, the Japanese government had tried to act as an intermediary for Moscow and Berlin. Tokyo made several attempts to arrange separate talks on the cessation of hostilities on the Soviet-German front.
by RIA Novosti | 2005-September-07 | X | Battle of Stalingrad 1942, 1943
Memories of Stalingrad - As a soldier of General Paulus's 6th army
As a soldier of General Paulus's 6th army who fought at Stalingrad, I fully agree with Geoffrey Roberts' claim (Victory on the Volga, February 28) that the main reason for the German onslaught towards the Volga, which culminated in the battle for Stalingrad, was to open the gates for grabbing the rich Causcasian, Caspian and later the Iraqi oilfields. Soviet heroism and sacrifices under the necessarily harsh leadership of Josef Stalin were tremendous. Nine out of 10 of my comrades who died during the second world war died at the eastern front.
by guardian | 2003-March-04 | X | Battle of Stalingrad 1942, 1943
Victory on the Volga - The anniversary of Stalingrad
60 years ago the greatest battle of the WW2 reached its climax. The site of that decisive battle was not the windswept sands of north Africa beloved of British war mythology, nor the broad expanses of the Pacific favoured in the American version, but the debris of a devastated city on the Volga. The German surrender at Stalingrad in February 1943 was the strategic turning point of the second world war. After Stalingrad, Hitler had no hope of winning on the eastern front and that meant inevitable defeat in the wider conflict.
by guardian | 2003-February-28 | X | Battle of Stalingrad 1942, 1943
Bitter memories of Stalingrad - Private in the Red Army
Russia is marking the 60th anniversary of the battle which was one of the turning points of WWII. Soviet troops forced an elite German army to surrender at Stalingrad. Two million soldiers endured hand-to-hand fighting, carpet bombs, frostbite and starvation for more than six months. It was one of the longest battles in military history. Mikhail Morkovkin is now 79 and still lives in Volgograd. He was a private in the Red Army and still cannot forget what it was like. "We were scared to death, the earth was shaking and everything was burning," he said. "I raised my head from the ground and saw a wall of bullets flying towards me."
by bbc | 2003-February-03 | X | Battle of Stalingrad 1942, 1943
Red Army veterans battle to bring back glorious name of Stalingrad
It was the scene of the greatest battle of the Second World War, where the Nazi war machine began to crumble and at least two million men lost their lives. The jewel of the Soviet industrial empire, to which Hitler laid siege in 1942, it has been immortalised in epic books, movies, and a square in Paris. And now the town of Volgograd, still considered a monument to Russian bravery and sacrifice, wants again to be named after the dictator Josef Stalin. A change would give the town, which was defended by the Soviet Army to the cost of 1.3 million soldiers, its fourth name in a century.
by guardian | 2002-December-02 | X | Battle of Stalingrad 1942, 1943


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Battle of Stalingrad
by Mike Yoder

Operation Barbarossa
On June 22, 1941, the German Army poured across the borders of the Soviet Union, initiating nearly 4 years of the most savage and brutal warfare humanity ever experienced. Three Army Groups penetrated Russia on a front extending from the Baltic coast to the Black Sea. One and a half million soldiers of the Wehrmacht obeyed the Fuehrer's directive to destroy the Red Army and the Soviet Union. "The World will hold it's breath!", Adolf Hitler told his Generals. And as the world watched in amazement, the Wehrmacht rolled triumphantly across the Russian steppe, seemingly invincible. Caught by surprise, the bulk of the Russian Air Forces were destroyed on the ground. Under orders not to provoke the Germans, the Russian frontier armies were not given coherent directions to mount a defense of their borders. The Red Army fell back in disorder, surrendered in wholesale numbers, or died in a futile effort to halt the German advance. Western military experts gave the Russians 6 weeks, perhaps 8 at the most, before suffering total military disaster at the hands of the Germans. Battered by one defeat after another, the poor performance of the Red Army gave no one reason to believe otherwise.
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Operation Blue
During the winter of 1941-42, the Russian front stabilized, with little more than skirmishing among both armies. The extreme cold of the Russian winter effectively immobilized both sides. The Germans struggled with logistical problems, and debate raged at OKW about how to proceed from this point. High ranking officers such as the Luftwaffe's Field Marshal Erhard Milch, argued that Germany needed to consolidate her gains in the East. He pointed out that enormous resources were now available to Germany, but it would take time to use these to their best advantage. The head of the German General Staff, Generaloberst Franz Halder, was of the opinion that the Wehrmacht had been bloodied badly in the opening phase of the campaign, and needed time to recuperate. He felt that under no circumstances should the German army resume the offensive. With over 850,000 casualties, the numbers seemed to bear him out. Other factions at OKW held that a partial withdrawal should be made, taking advantage of natural defensive barriers such as rivers. Let the Soviets beat their brains out trying to retake their own territory.
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The Commanders
The principal adversaries in the battle for Stalingrad marked a sharp departure in tradition for European armies. Up to and including World War I, high ranking officers in both the German and Russian military had been drawn from the ranks of the nobility. Now the son of a Hessian book-keeper and a Russian peasant would square off against one another in the largest clash of arms the world has ever seen. Generaloberst Friedrich Paulus had joined the German army in 1910. He had risen to the rank of Captain during the First World War, and had been largely involved in work as a staff officer. He married well, winning the hand of a beautiful young woman of the Romanian nobility, Elena Rosetti-Solescu, whose friends called her "Coco". Paulus served both in the Balkans with the Alpenkorps, and at the Battle of Verdun. He stayed in the post-war Reichswehr, rising as high as Major before Hitler came to power. Paulus had a strange fixation for a soldier. He despised dirt, bathed and changed uniforms several times in a day, even on the rare occasions he ventured into the field. He grew professionally as an excellent staff officer, contenting himself with sand-table models of various battle-field scenarios.
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Death of a City
On Russian military maps it is simply Hill 103. Mamaev Kurgan, or the Tatar Mound, commands a view of central Stalingrad and the surrounding steppe. At it's summit today is the largest free-standing statue in the world. Rodina - Mother Russia - nearly 150 meters high and brandishing a sword weighing 14 tons, faces West and exhorts her sons to follow. But in 1942, the tide of battle rolled across this hill so many times that defenders and attackers alike lost count of the number of times that it changed hands. Mamaev Kurgan was subjected to so much shell - fire that the shrapnel and scrap metal churned into the soil prevented grass from growing there after the war. The entire hill has been turned into a park and massive monuments bear witness to the tragedy that befell the city on the Volga.
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Rattenkrieg
With the German 6th Army in control of 90 percent of Stalingrad, Chuikov's army struggled to maintain its precarious foothold. Their backs now to the Volga, the Russians contested the very sewers of the city. Prolonged street fighting and the utter destruction of Stalingrad had reduced men to a primitive level of existence. The Germans had a name for this - Rattenkrieg - War of the Rats. A German infantryman wrote to his family, "Animals flee this burning hell of a city...the hardest stones do not last for long. Only men endure." Chuikov sought to minimize the German advantage in firepower by instructing his men to close with the enemy and seek hand to hand combat at every opportunity. The Wehrmacht would then be unable to call in airstrikes or artillery without hitting their own men. The Blitzkrieg tactics which had enabled them to conquer much of Europe were useless, and the battle for the city was now reduced to hundreds of small unit actions.
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Uranus and Saturn
With the launching of the Soviet counter-offensive, Gen. Halder's worst fears about the vulnerable left flank were about to be realized. But no one had anticipated the size and scope of the operation which was about to encircle Paulus's 6th Army as well as one half of Gen. Hermann Hoth's 4th Panzer Army. While Chuikov fought the Wehrmacht to a bloody draw in the ruins of Stalingrad, he had purchased a valuable commodity with the lives of his soldiers - time.
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Der Kessel
With his army trapped inside a ring of Soviet armor, Paulus informed Hitler that he only had 6 days of food for his troops. Similar shortages of fuel, ammunition, clothing and all other materiel needed to sustain an army in the field were now building to a crisis. Morale remained fairly high among the Germans, and they nick-named their position "Der Kessel" - The Kettle. What the world would soon know as "The Stalingrad Cauldron" was no laughing matter. One of the finest armies in history was about to die from starvation, disease and exposure.
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Annihilation and Aftermath
As the attempt at resupply by air gradually faded away, the proud army that Paulus had marched to the edge of the Volga was disintegrating. The elite men of the German 6th Army were now a tattered collection of emaciated walking skeletons. Although the famous discipline of the Wehrmacht still remained largely intact, it too was starting to fade away as starvation, disease and despair stalked the German soldiers. Desertions, unauthorized surrenders and even an occasional mutiny further diminished their capacity for organized resistance as the Red Army relentlessly closed the ring around the city.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was the most important turning point of World War II and is considered the bloodiest battle in human history, with more combined casualties suffered than any battle before or since. The battle was marked by brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties on both sides. The battle is taken to include the German siege of the southern Russian city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), the battle inside the city, and the Soviet counter-offensive which eventually trapped and destroyed the German Sixth Army and other Axis forces around the city.

The Battle of Stalingrad was the most important turning point of World War II and is considered the bloodiest battle in human history, with more combined casualties suffered than any battle before or since. The battle was marked by brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties on both sides. The battle is taken to include the German siege of the southern Russian city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), the battle inside the city, and the Soviet counter-offensive which eventually trapped and destroyed the German Sixth Army and other Axis forces around the city. Total casualties for both sides are estimated to be over two million. As a result of the battle, the Axis powers suffered roughly 850,000 casualties, 1/4 of their strength on the Eastern Front, as well as a huge amount of supplies and equipment. The Axis forces were never able to recover from this loss and were eventually forced into a long retreat out of Eastern Europe. For the Soviets, who also suffered great losses during the battle, the victory at Stalingrad marked the start of the liberation of the Soviet Union leading to eventual victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.Besides being a turning point in the war, Stalingrad was also revealing in terms of the discipline and determination of both the German and Soviet armies. The Soviets first defended Stalingrad against a fierce German onslaught. So great were Soviet losses that at points in time the life expectancy of a newly arrived soldier was less than a day, yet discipline was maintained: many soldiers sacrificed themselves instead of partaking in one of two activities considered undesirable: retreating or being captured. Their sacrifice is immortalized by a soldier of General Rodimstev about to die who scratched on the wall of the tractor factory 'Rodimstev's Guardsmen fought and died here for their motherland (rodina)'.
On the other side, the German Army showed remarkable discipline after being surrounded. It was the first time that it had operated under adverse conditions of such scale. Short of food and clothing, during the latter part of the siege many German soldiers literally starved or froze to death. Yet, discipline and obedience to authority prevailed, until finally at the very end when resistance no longer served any useful purpose, to save the lives of his remaining men Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus disobeyed Hitler and surrendered.