In February 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad came to an end. Field Marshal Paulus surrendered, and 91,000 German soldiers of the once-mighty 6th Army laid down their weapons. They thought the nightmare was over.
But for most of them, the true horror was only beginning. Starvation, disease, death marches, frozen prison camps, and years of forced labor awaited them deep inside the Soviet Union. Of the 91,000 men captured, only around 5,000 would ever return home.
This documentary explores the forgotten fate of those prisoners — from the moment of surrender, to the brutal marches through the snow, to the typhus-ridden camps, to their eventual use as forced labor across the Soviet empire. It’s one of the darkest and least discussed tragedies of World War II.
Credit to : The Frontline Diary
