Operation Winter Storm: Manstein’s Attempted Relief of Stalingrad
•July 11, 2017 • Be the First to Comment
German Field Marshal Erich von Manstein’s efforts to rescue the Sixth Army at Stalingrad turned into an unimaginable disaster. More »
Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus was a senior German Army commander during World War II. Paulus is best known as the commander of the Sixth Army, which was surrounded and utterly destroyed by the Soviet Red Army at Stalingrad, where he surrendered more than 250,000 German troops. Rather than committing suicide as Hitler expected, Paulus became a prisoner of the Soviets and eventually cooperated with them, offering radio broadcasts that were critical of the Nazis. After the war, he lived in East Germany. He died in 1957 at the age of 66, and his body was returned to Baden, West Germany, for burial beside his wife.
•July 11, 2017 • Be the First to Comment
German Field Marshal Erich von Manstein’s efforts to rescue the Sixth Army at Stalingrad turned into an unimaginable disaster. More »
•January 18, 2017 • 1 Comment
The Red Army had saved Moscow, but a subsequent offensive near Kharkov and Izyum ended in disaster in the spring of 1942. More »
•December 9, 2016 • Be the First to Comment
Although ultimately successful in liberating Novorossiysk, twin Soviet amphibious landings proved costly in February 1943. More »
•October 3, 2016 • Be the First to Comment
When Hitler invaded Russia in 1941, he expected a swift victory. At Stalingrad his troops ran headlong into Russias best commander: General Winter. More »
•July 29, 2016 • Be the First to Comment
In Smolensk during the summer of 1941, the Soviet Red Army attempted to slow the juggernaut of Nazi Operation Barbarossa. More »
•March 1, 2016 • Be the First to Comment
The execution of Marshal Georgi Zhukov’s master plan for Operation Uranus trapped the German 6th Army in Stalingrad. More »
•December 2, 2015 • Be the First to Comment
The fall of Tobruk to Rommel’s “Afrika Korps” siege resulted in disaster for the British Army in North Africa. More »
•July 30, 2015 • 1 Comment
The Eastern Front exacted a terrible toll on the German Army and Hitler’s refusal to abandon the Crimea needlessly cost Germany countless troops. More »
