Seventy-one year ago, February 2, 1943, the The Battle of Stalingrad, finally ended. After five months of unrelenting battle, the retreat of the Nazis became the turning point of World War II. At ...

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With the onset of Spring 1942, the war in the east was ready to begin again but the problem of supplies particularly of oil was forever a worry for the German High Command and so they planned for an ...