Let’s head back to the Russian Front for just a couple minutes. The German army, having been halted (and even pushed back a little) in the winter of 1941, came storming back the following spring. Adolf Hitler’s generals recommended a renewed assault on Moscow, where victory had been just a few miles away the previous December. Hitler instead focused [...]
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Hitler Meets His Waterloo in Stalingrad
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