The memory of the costly battle shaped an entire generation on the German and Russian side. How did dying on the Volga become a myth after the end of World War II? "ZDF-History" goes in search of clues...
Link to the ZDF docu: https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/zdf-hi ... t-100.html
As a German TV viewer you are almost tired on this topic, but a childhood friend of my grandfather served as a captain in the Wehrmacht in Stalingrad.
A lifelong family friendship, very warm, very connected, a long history, only partially written down...
* You don't have to have see all of these documentaries, there are too many. But these give an impression of a merciless war of annihilation.
But everything repeats itself, we haven't learned anything.
Hans