In early 1943, Germany’s defeat at Stalingrad left the Eastern Front in chaos. Soviet forces surged forward, threatening to ...

With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to ...

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In 1941, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa expecting the Soviet Union to collapse within weeks. Instead, Germany was drawn into a brutal struggle defined by endless manpower, scorched earth, and a ...

This week on the Stalingrad front, the Russians scored their biggest victory in nearly a year. In its immediate scope and consequences, the victory was “local”—the culmination of a prolonged, hitherto ...

MOSCOW, Nov. 27, 1942 (UP) -- The Red army, driving steadily ahead on the jagged Stalingrad front on Thursday, captured a dozen scattered villages and 12,000 prisoners, while in the mop up of the ...

The Germans were in Stalingrad. The Germans had reached the Volga. > Said a German correspondent broadcasting from the Stalingrad front: “The horizon seems to heave up. Gigantic mushrooms of greenish ...

MOSCOW -- Dispatches from embattled Stalingrad reported today that Soviet air reinforcements have prevented a general Nazi break-through on the Volga City front, but Russian forces were compelled to ...

The Russian embassy in New Delhi has invited former Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to a reception in recognition of his late father Biju Patnaik’s heroics on the Eastern Front during World War II, ...

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of Victory, Vladimir Putin and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko visited the memorial complex To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad on Mamayev Kurgan. The ...

is located. During the Battle of Stalingrad, Mamayev Kurgan was one of the main links in the overall defense system of the Stalingrad Front, since it allowed automatic control of the northern part of ...

Jewish heroes who have distinguished themselves in the bitter fighting on the Stalingrad front which paved the way for the Nazi rout in the Don area are lauded today in an article appearing in the ...