Stalingrad: Ultimatum and Fantasy
Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 · [email protected]
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Show Notes
The Germans in the Stalingrad cauldron reject the Soviets' final offer of surrender. The Red Army responds by crushing the cauldron.
Map 1: The end of the Kessel
Source: Military History Now
The ultimatum to Stalingrad:
https://www.stalingrad.net/russian-hq/the-russian-ultimatum/rusultimatum.html
Images:
3-engine German transport plane lands at Pitomnik airfield.
Red Army soldiers attack in the ruins of Stalingrad.
Sources:
Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942–1943. Penguin Books, 1998.
Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
William Craig, Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad. Old Saybrook, CT, USA: Konecky & Konecky, 1973.
Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017
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