German surrender at Stalingrad
January 1943
Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus and the remnants of the German Sixth Army surrendered at Stalingrad after five months of the bloodiest urban battle in history. Ninety thousand Germans went into Soviet captivity; fewer than six thousand would return home after the war. The tide of the Eastern Front had turned and would not turn back.
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Also in 1943 (5 other events on record)
- Bengal famine kills three million · South Asia · Disaster
- Warsaw Ghetto uprising · Europe · War
- Casablanca Conference demands unconditional surrender · Africa · War
- Tehran Conference Big Three meet · Middle East · Politics
- Allies invade Sicily · Europe · War
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