Stalingrad’s Survivors: Killed by Hunger and Revenge
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On 2 February 1943, the German 6th Army surrendered at Stalingrad, ending one of history’s bloodiest battles. But for tens of thousands of exhausted soldiers, the true horror was only beginning. Driven into the freezing Soviet steppe, starved, beaten, and executed in revenge for Nazi atrocities, nearly all would perish in captivity — victims of a vengeance as merciless as the war they had waged.
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