Hitler had lost the gamble. Instead of consolidating his eastern front he had gambled on the capture of Stalingrad ... a ring around the Germans (see map). From Serafimovich prongs spread out ...

19, 1942 the Red trap was sprung on the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad. Its ambitious commander, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, at once asked Hitler’s permission to fall back from the ...

It marked the turning point of World War II. Before Stalingrad, Adolf Hitler regularly boasted on German radio as his victorious forces pressed their offensives worldwide. After Stalingrad ...