During the battle of Stalingrad, and especially of their 6th army was encircled, the Germans used the Gumrak airfield for their operations: re-supply, taking wounded away, ect. The overlay photo was taken on March 6, 1943, after the field was overrun by the Red Army
West of Wolgograd, former Stalingrad, is the German cemetery Rossoshka with around 50,000 fallen German soldiers from the Battle of Stalingrad or from POW camps.
The cemetery contains of the old trapez-shaped gravesite with 600 soldiers made by the German Wehrmacht during the battle of Stalingrad. To the right is the giant mass grave with names of 24,427 on the ring around it. Th...
Mamayev Kurgan (Russian: Мама́ев Курга́н is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in southern Russia. The name in Russian means "tumulus of Mamai". (Mamai commanded the Tatar Golden Horde in the 137...
In Babelsberg, a city part of Potsdam near Berlin, are the world oldest (est. 1912)large-scale film studios located. Movies like "Der Blaue Engel". "Metropolis", "Aeon Flux" or "Stalingrad" were shoot here. Nowadays this area is used by several german tv stations for recording e.g. soaps or regular tv programm and for large movie procuctions.
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