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 ...

More than 110 years later, the German officer's great, great grandson Philipp Cross has returned it to the ... details of the battle in which their ancestor died, thanks to the diary Lt Pfeifer ...

Seventy-five years ago this month, the Soviet Red Army surrounded — and would soon destroy — a huge invading German army at Stalingrad ... soldiers would never return home. The epic 1942–43 ...

Desyatnichenko said he had learned about a German soldier named Georg Johann Rau, a Wehrmacht corporal who fought in the Battle of Stalingrad and later died in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp.