PAULUS

  • SOVIETS DESTROY AXIS ARMIES AT STALINGRAD

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 6 minutes

    Stalingrad, Soviet Union • January 31, 1943 On this date in 1943 Red Army staff officers arrived at German Sixth Army head­quarters in Stalin­grad (present-day Volgo­grad) to discuss sur­render terms for an invading enemy now bereft of ammu­ni­tion, food, effec­tive com­mand, and 150,000 men who belonged to the dead or missing. Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus’…

  • RED ARMY TIGHTENS STALINGRAD NOOSE

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 6 minutes

    Outside Stalingrad, Southern Russia • January 10, 1943 The contest between the German Wehrmacht (armed forces) and the Red Army for pos­ses­sion of Stalin­grad (August 23, 1942, to Febru­ary 2, 1943) proved to be the most stra­te­gically decisive battle on Ger­many’s Eastern Front and arguably of World War II. Known today as Volgo­grad, Stalin­grad (popu­la­tion 400,000) occupied the west…

  • GERMAN SIXTH ARMY LIQUIDATED AT STALINGRAD

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 5 minutes

    Stalingrad, Soviet Union · January 31, 1943 On this date in 1943 Red Army staff officers arrived at German Sixth Army head­quarters in Stalin­grad (present-day Volgo­grad) to discuss sur­render terms for an in­vading enemy now bereft of ammu­ni­tion, food, and effec­tive com­mand. Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus’ defen­sive peri­meter had shrunk to 300 yards/­256 meters when he sur­ren­dered…

  • GERMAN SIXTH ARMY LIQUIDATED

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 5 minutes

    Stalingrad, Soviet Union · January 31, 1943 On this date in 1943 Red Army staff officers arrived at German Sixth Army head­quarters in Stalin­grad (present-day Volgo­grad) to discuss sur­render terms for an in­vading enemy now bereft of ammu­ni­tion, food, and effec­tive com­mand. Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus’ defen­sive peri­meter had shrunk to 300 yards when he sur­ren­dered…