When Stalin Executed 1 Million German Soldiers

In the final years of the Second World War, as German forces collapsed on the Eastern Front, millions of soldiers fell into Soviet hands. What happened to them has never been fully told in the West. The numbers alone are staggering. But the numbers are only the beginning. The first significant wave of German prisoners taken by the Soviet Union did not come at the end of the war. It came in the winter of 1942, during one of the most consequential battles in modern military history.