In 1942 Rokhlina became trapped in the besieged city of Stalingrad. The battle raged for more than six months, reducing the city to ruins and decimating its population. Winter temperatures ...

During the siege of Stalingrad he served at the front, where he interrogated German prisoners, translated intercepted mail, and prepared the propaganda that was dropped in leaflets from Russian ...

‘We did not bury dead bodies in the winter in Stalingrad. Corpses were piled up. There was no place to bury them.’ ‘We were in striped pajamas, lice infested. But we were polite, spoke the ...