the Soviet Red Army surrounded — and would soon destroy — a huge invading German army at Stalingrad on the Volga River. Nearly 300,000 of Germany’s best soldiers would never return home.

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.

TASS/. The Nazis and their henchmen from almost all countries of conquered Europe were defeated by Soviet soldiers near Stalingrad, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a gala concert ...

and almost 20,000 Red Army soldiers killed in the Battle of Stalingrad are buried in the Russian part. Last year, thanks to Russian and German public organizations, the "Peace Chapel" sculptural ...