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Russia 1943 ▶ Battle of Stalingrad - After German Capitulation (Part 1/2) 6th Army Paulus HQ Headquarter (February 43)
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The armies of the Don Front then launched their last major offensive against the remnants of the 6th Army on January 10, 1943, in Operation Kolzo (Russian: Ring). The goal was to "smash" the Stalingrad encirclement. On the one hand, the ring around the encircled troops was tightened, on the other hand, the immediate front moved further to the west, which cut off the 6th Army even more from its own troops. In this process, the Soviet troops also succeeded in capturing the two airfields of Pitomnik (January 16) and Gumrak (January 22). From then on, Wehrmacht planes took off and landed only at the makeshift airport "Stalingradski", until it, too, fell into Soviet hands and supply material could only be dropped over the cauldron. Finally, on January 25, the Wehrmacht forces were split into a southern and a northern encirclement. On January 28, the Nordkessel was again split into a Mittelkessel and a Nordkessel. By radio message from the Führer's headquarters, Paulus was promoted to Field Marshal General on January 30, 1943. Since no general field marshal of the Wehrmacht had gone into captivity before then, Hitler wanted to use this promotion to put additional pressure on Paulus to hold his ground at all costs - or else to use it indirectly to urge him to commit suicide. On January 31 in the morning troops of the Red Army entered the department store "Univermag", in the basement of which was the headquarters of the 6th Army. At 7:35 a.m. the radio station there gave its last two messages, "Russian is at the door. We are preparing destruction." Shortly thereafter, "We are destroying." After further Red Army attacks on the remaining German positions, Major General Roske, commander of the 71st Infantry Division, surrendered in the southern kettle. Immediately afterwards, Major General Laskin, Chief of the General Staff of the 64th Soviet Army, arrived at the 6th Army headquarters, where surrender negotiations then began. On the same day, the Mittelkessel commanded by Colonel General Heitz also surrendered. The commander-in-chief of the 6th Army Paulus, who was taken prisoner at the same time that day, was interrogated by the then Colonel General and later Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossowski in the night of February 1. Hitler raged when he learned of the capture of the commander-in-chief. Paul had expressly forbidden all officers to commit suicide on the grounds that they would have to share their soldiers' fate of now going into captivity.
Paulus, promoted to Field Marshal at the last minute on January 30, goes into Soviet captivity on January 31, 1943. Operation Kolzo came to its definitive end only with the cessation of fighting in the Northern Cauldron, which - with the remnants of 21 German and two Romanian divisions barely capable of fighting and also completely under-supplied, and General der Infanterie Karl Strecker as commanding general - surrendered on February 2, 1943. At noon on February 3, the OKW had a special announcement read out on the Greater German Radio, declaring that the 6th Army had fought "to the last breath under the exemplary leadership of Paulus," but had succumbed to "superior strength" and "unfavorable conditions." It was declared to be a historical "bulwark" of a not German but "European army" that had vicariously led the fight against communism. The claims of the Reich radio stations culminated in the assertion that all soldiers of the Sixth Army had met their deaths. The special report did not mention that a total of 91,000 soldiers went into captivity, which the BBC had already reported and led to more people in Germany getting their information from foreign "enemy broadcasters." The Nazi regime ordered three days of national commemoration. Scattered Wehrmacht units, however, continued to fight in the Stalingrad area, in some cases into March. As the last documented combat action, an NKVD report notes an attack by German soldiers on March 5. Two Soviet soldiers were wounded in the attack. After a search operation, eight German officers were shot.

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