00:00After all the formalities had been settled and the Field Marshal received guarantees
00:04for his personal safety, he was led out of the basement along with his staff officers.
00:09Paulus and his staff were captured on the morning of the 31st of January, 1943.
00:14The Sixth Army, regarded as the best field army in the Wehrmacht,
00:18surrendered between the 31st of January and the 2nd of February, 1943.
00:23At the time of surrender, the Red Army soldiers were well nourished,
00:26full of vigour, and dressed in fine winter uniforms. The German soldiers, ragged,
00:32in thin greatcoats over threadbare uniforms as thin as skeletons, presented emaciated figures
00:38exhausted half to death with sunken features. Unwashed, with unkempt beards,
00:43they wore comical-looking makeshift snow boots and were wrapped in towels and women's headscarves.
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