German dictator Adolf Hitler had set his sights on Stalingrad ... by some estimates. The battle came to an end after Soviet forces circled the Germans, forcing them to surrender on Feb. 2, 1943.

The first-ever surrender by the Nazis was glorified ... the Russian director Fyodor Bondarchuk AFP The Battle of Stalingrad represented Nazi Germany's first capitulation during World War II ...

Those were the words of just one desperate German soldier in a letter to his family amidst impending defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad in early 1943. His letter is one of dozens that have been ...

THE 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender that ended the battle of Stalingrad was marked today by communists in Russia and elsewhere. Though the city was renamed Volgograd in 1961, the name ...

“The Battle of Stalingrad in my ... with most buildings reduced to rubble. But Stalingrad, Mr. MacGregor maintains, “broke the cycle of continual German victories, thus ensuring that it ...

The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles of WWII with casualties in the millions. It was also a crushing defeat for Adolf Hitler that forced his first surrender of the war.

The Battle of Stalingrad ... seemingly unstoppable German war machine, a psychological turning point of World War II. German dictator Adolf Hitler had set his sights on Stalingrad in part because ...