...and it’s my day...Punxsatawney Phil
Field-Marshal Friedrich Paulus, who had just been promoted to that rank by Hitler, was the highest ranking German to surrender thus far.
He became a spokesman for the Soviet Union against the war.
Battle of Stalingrad reminds me to count my blessings and thank our vets. I can’t imagine the living hell of Stalingrad.
Clearly, the Roosian retirement plan sucked!
“Of the 91,000 German POWs, captured at Stalingrad, only 6,000 would live to see Germany again.”
Wow, I never knew that. I guess the 85,000 were summarily executed or worked to death in the gulags.
This is why Kraut soldiers were desperate to surrender to US forces. And also why they fought to the death, in the end, against the ruskies. They knew they were in for execution, or worse, if captured by russian forces.