Wehrmacht officer cemetery in destroyed Stalingrad

Wehrmacht officer cemetery in destroyed Stalingrad

Dec 24, 2018 #Wehrmacht
Wehrmacht officer cemetery

 

The Wehrmacht officer cemetery in front of the Department Store, where on January 31, 1943, the headquarters of the 6th German Field Army and Field Marshal F. Paulus himself were captured.
In the basement of the department store was including the officer hospital. The burials were located on the former Ostrovsky Street. Approaches to the cemetery were mined. The Bolsheviks, after the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, cemetery of Wehrmacht officers was razed to the ground.

 

 

Location: Stalingrad, USSR
Date: 1943

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