Today is the 75th anniversary of the surrender of Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus. On this date, January 31, 1943 Paulus surrendered to the Red Army at Stalingrad.
Two days later the entire Sixth Army laid down their arms.
Earlier Hitler had suggested to Paulus he might take his life. Before Paulus, no German field marshal had surrendered.
The battle at Stalingrad was the decisive moment in the defeat of Germany in World War lI.
In a speech in Berlin in September 1942 Hitler said that the German Army would never leave the city.
It was the genius of Red Army Marshal Georgii Zhukov who helped route the Germans on the Volga.
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