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75 years ago: January 31 1943, the German 6th Army, after spending two months surrounded, starved and half-death, finally surrenders, bringing an end to the bloodiest battle of World War Two, the Battle of Stalingrad.

Out of an estimate of 91,000 survivors, only about 5,000 would return to Germany 10 years later, most dying mere weeks after their surrender due to their poor state following the battle, further compounded by the harsh conditions found in the first POW camps they were sent into. 

This defeat eventually paved the way into the expulsion of the German Army from the Soviet Union, and the subsequent defeat of Germany at the very heart of the fatherland, Berlin.