The Battle of Stalingrad was the greatest German defeat of the war, consuming the entire German 6th Army as Stalin and his generals struggled to adapt to the onslaught and ordered that no Russian, civilian or military, be allowed to retreat. This is the first of a series of Christmas podcasts on the siege and its bloody aftermath:

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