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The End of Stalingrad

Dan Snow's History Hit

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The Battle of Stalingrad

In the aftermath of Stalingrad, investigators had access to an archive that presents the battle in a very vivid and awful way. This was basically the first building locks for a post-war Soviet Chronicle of the war which ended up never being written because it was directed by a Soviet Jew. So I was very fortunate to be the first person to really use these records many, many decades later. What I find is enormously striking is actually enduring Soviet respect for the Germans.

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