The Destruction of 6th Army at Stalingrad

A pictorial history of the last months of Nazi Germany’s 6th Army at the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II. The scale of death and destruction during the Battle of Stalingrad during late 1942 and early 1943 remains unprecedented in the history of warfare. The annihilation of General von Paulus’s 6th Army epitomized the devastating defeat of Hitler’s ambition to conquer Stalin’s Soviet Union. After the successful Operation Blue offensive, the 6th Army reached the River Volga north of Stali