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  2. Friedrich Paulus - Wikipedia

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    Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) during World War II who is best known for his surrender of the German 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad (July 1942 to February 1943).

  3. 6th Army (Wehrmacht) - Wikipedia

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    Friedrich Paulus (1890–1957) 30 December 1941: 31 January 1943: 1 year, 32 days: 3: Generaloberst Karl-Adolf Hollidt (1891–1985) 5 March 1943: 7 April 1944:

  4. Operation Koltso - Wikipedia

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    Paulus and many of his senior German commanders were in the smaller southern pocket based in the city center of Stalingrad. The northern pocket was led by XI Corps commander General Karl Strecker and centered in the area around the tractor factory. In bitter fighting, the Soviets gradually cleared the city center.

  5. Hitler's Warriors - Wikipedia

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    Friedrich Paulus, an aristocratic veteran, played a key role in the German rearmament. He led the 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad, but was declared a "traitor" after surrendering, and was held in Russian captivity until 1954. He died in East Germany a few years later in 1957.

  6. Pitomnik Airfield - Wikipedia

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    Ordered to the "cauldron" by Friedrich Paulus, Wilhelm Adam flew from Morozovsk airstrip to Pitomnik on 12 Dec. 1942. After his He 111 landed, Adam noted, "The place was overflowing with crashed aircraft and destroyed vehicles: there a 'Condor', here a 'Focke Wulf'.

  7. Case Blue - Wikipedia

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    Blau II: Sixth Army, commanded by Friedrich Paulus, would attack from Kharkov and move in parallel with Fourth Panzer Army, to reach the Volga at Stalingrad (whose capture was not deemed necessary). Blau III : First Panzer Army would then strike south towards the lower Don River , with Seventeenth Army on the western flank and Fourth Romanian ...

  8. Operation Little Saturn - Wikipedia

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    The success of Operation Uranus, launched on 19 November 1942, had trapped 250,000 troops of General Friedrich Paulus' German 6th Army and parts of General Hoth's 4th Panzer Army in Stalingrad. To exploit this victory, the Soviet general staff planned an ambitious offensive with Rostov-on-Don as the ultimate objective, codenamed "Saturn".

  9. National Committee for a Free Germany - Wikipedia

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    The National Committee for a Free Germany (German: Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland, or NKFD) was an anti-fascist political and military organisation formed in the Soviet Union during World War II, composed mostly of German defectors from the ranks of German prisoners of war and also of members of the Communist Party of Germany who moved to the Soviet Union after the Nazi seizure of power.