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SIXTH ARMY POWs

Jan 22, 2018 1 minute
Source:   POWS crossing the frozen waters of the Volga  

The legacy of Stalingrad: Axis corpses await burial on the outskirts of the city

“IN 1955, ONLY 5,000 STALINGRAD VETERANS RETURNED TO GERMANY”

It had taken the

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