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Hardly any other event in the history of war has left such a traumatic mark on the consciousness of the Germans as the catastrophe on the Volga in 1942/43.
On the 60th anniversary of the battle, BROADVIEW TV, in collaboration with ZDF, documented the downfall of the 6th Army in a stirring three-part documentary that was nominated for an International Emmy Award in 2003.
The battle for Stalingrad, in which at least one million German soldiers, Red Army soldiers and Soviet civilians fell victim, was the bloodiest decisive battle in the war of annihilation unleashed by Hitler.
The catastrophe of the 6th Army shocked many Germans into realizing that, despite all the propaganda, the war would be lost.
For Germans and Russians, Stalingrad marked the psychological turning point in the Second World War.
How the catastrophe came about and the horrific consequences of the battle for the soldiers and inhabitants of the city are portrayed in this series with many previously unpublished film recordings and unsparing testimonies from survivors on both sides.
