Victory at Stalingrad (1942-1943)

A Soviet tank with a red banner drives through the streets of liberated Stalingrad.

A meeting of soldiers and commanders who fought in Stalingrad and entered the city.

Red Army soldiers and commanders of various units hug each other, one of the commanders kisses a female medical instructor.

An artillery crew fires the last shot.

An artilleryman puts a cover on the barrel of the gun.

Red Army soldiers install a red banner on the balcony of one of the buildings in Stalingrad.

A panorama of a city block destroyed during the fighting (above).

The body of a German soldier lying near a barbed wire fence.

A statue of a lion damaged by shell fragments.

Red Army soldiers hold and stroke a cat.

Soviet artillerymen dance at a firing position after the end of the battles to defeat the German group near Stalingrad.

Smiling faces of soldiers and commanders.

An army convoy moves along a destroyed street in Stalingrad.

Residents of Stalingrad return to the city, carrying their belongings on sleds and carts.

People walk past the ruins of a residential building.

A family returns to their surviving home, a man tears boards from the door frame.

People enter the house.

German prisoners of war, wrapped in blankets, walk along a ruined street under escort.

A parade formation of the Wehrmacht in the late 1930s.

Frostbitten faces of German prisoners of war standing in formation.

Presentation of awards to German soldiers after the capture of Paris in 1940. View and panorama of a German soldiers' cemetery in the Stalingrad area.

Corpses of German soldiers, piled up near the crosses in a soldiers' cemetery.

Parade of Wehrmacht units in Berlin.

The movement of a column of German prisoners of war captured in Stalingrad.

German generals going to surrender.

Faces of German generals who surrendered.

The commander of the 6th Army, Field Marshal Paulus, who surrendered, gets out of the car.

Paulus and the captured generals are taken to headquarters.

Paulus enters the headquarters.

Paulus sits down, with the commander of the Don Front, Lieutenant General Rokossovsky K.K. sitting behind him.

Paulus and his chief of staff, Lieutenant General Schmidt, during interrogation.

Paulus hands over his documents to the commander of the 64th Army, Lieutenant General Shumilov M.S., Shumilov checks them.

Paulus answers questions.

Captured German soldiers and officers from Paulus's headquarters, who surrendered, stand on the street near a wooden hut.

A column of German prisoners of war moves under escort to the rear.

Panorama of a column of Romanian prisoners of war.

A column of German prisoners of war climbs a mountain.

Trophies taken by the Red Army during the battle for Stalingrad.