4 real historical locations · Russia
A German film following Wehrmacht soldiers through the catastrophic Stalingrad campaign of 1942-43 — from their arrival in the city to the destruction of the Sixth Army. One of the most honest German films about the Eastern Front, told entirely from the losers' perspective.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Russia.
German perspective on the Battle of Stalingrad — street fighting, the encirclement, and the collapse of the 6th Army.
The Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 – February 1943) was the largest single battle in human history. Approximately 800,000 Axis and 1.1 million Soviet soldiers were killed, wounded, or captured. The encirclement and...
View location →The main supply airfield inside the Kessel pocket — where wounded were evacuated and ammunition flown in under increasingly desperate conditions.
Pitomnik airfield inside the Stalingrad Kessel handled 100-150 Ju 52 flights daily at its peak. By January 1943 Soviet artillery had the field under fire. When Pitomnik fell on January 16, 1943, it meant the destructi...
View location →The northern shoulder of the Stalingrad pocket — where German forces were encircled by the Soviet Operation Uranus in November 1942.
Operation Uranus launched on November 19, 1942, drove Soviet armored columns around the northern and southern flanks of the German position. The two pincers met at Kalach on November 23, encircling 300,000 German and ...
View location →The last airfield in the pocket after Pitomnik fell — abandoned on January 25, 1943 as the final Soviet assault crushed the 6th Army.
When Gumrak fell, the last escape route from the pocket was cut. Paulus sent his final situation report: 'Russians at the door.' On January 30, 1943 — the tenth anniversary of Hitler's rise to power — Field Marshal Pa...
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