Exactly. The Germans took photos of that dead Russian platoon, and put them right in the newspaper, and Stalingrad nearly folded. I’ve seen estimates that twenty or thirty more photos may have done it. It was a close run operation.
The battle was turned when the Russians unleashed their own superweapon... an Army paper with photos of Vasyli Zaitsev.
It all came down to the duel of the cameras.
People just don’t remember...
The classic was when they did the fake radio broadcast on Christmas, supposedly with troops in Stalingrad, it was actually recorded in a Berlin studio.
And then Radio Moscow played a clicking metronome the whole day, saying repeatedly, “Every Seven Seconds a German Soldier Dies in Stalingrad....Stalingrad - Mass Grave”