On January 31, 1943, after more than two months of siege, starvation and solitary resistance in the Decisive Battle of Stalingrad, Paulus sent a final telegram to headquarters: "The 6th Army is loyal to its oath and realizes its extremely important mission, and has held its post for the sake of the Fuehrer and the fatherland, and has fought until the last soldier and one shot. But when the Red Army invaded the German headquarters in the department store, Paulus chose to surrender.
In the final days of the Battle of Stalingrad, Hitler awarded his beloved general Paulus the rank of Marshal, whose epaulettes were sent by airdrop to the outskirts of Stalingrad, where Paulus was besieged. Unfortunately, Paulus, who was surrounded, could not get it, so much so that he was still wearing the admiral's epaulettes when he was captured. Paulus learned of the award of the rank of field marshal by radio.
He immediately wrote the news into the Soldier's Manual, which every German soldier had. Hitler awarded marshal Paulus in a desperate situation, not because of his "outstanding performance" on the battlefield, but because of his "outstanding performance" on the battlefield, but to imply that he could finally "kill himself" when he was under siege. Because there is not a single captured marshal in German history, either to the death or to the death or to commit suicide.
When Hitler first got the new Field Marshal Paulus not to die on the battlefield as he had promised in the telegram, but to surrender, Hitler was angry. He stomped his feet and shouted that Paulus had deceived him, did not shoot himself, but became a prisoner. "Never in German history has a marshal been taken prisoner." Hitler had hoped that Paulus would fight to the end or commit suicide.
On February 2, 1943, despite the Victory of the Soviet Army in the Battle of Stalingrad, they gained momentum and confidence and began to take control of the situation. However, after the battle, the overall Soviet and German military strength was still compared with that of Germany.
Marshal Paulus's surrender and the collapse of the 6th Army boosted the morale of the Soviet Union, but it shook the hearts of the German Nazis. Hitler had already made countermeasures against this. In the weeks leading up to the Battle of Stalingrad, the German state media had stopped reporting on the adverse news. Therefore, the other German front-line troops and the German people at home could not know the true situation of the Battle of Stalingrad.
Hitler in the first half of 1943 was by no means a trapped beast. Although there were still 2 years to go until the collapse of Nazi Germany Hitler drank bullets and died. The capture of Marshal Paulus has been kept secret. Hitler was a big name in politics, and there were many ways to deal with complex situations. The strategy of "turning anger into strength" is already well-established.
"Rescue the captured Paulus!" Hitler's decision must have been worth the money. The bottom line is to silence Paulus completely. The best policy not only allows Paulus to continue to sell his life, but also is enough to reflect the broad mind of the Fuehrer who loves talent and cherishes talent. At the behest of the Fuehrer, the Nazi German spy agency had already planned a plan to rescue Paulus and return to Germany.
As the Germans nervously drew up a rescue plan, Paulus and the other captured Germans led the way to the Buicktovka district south of Stalingrad, which had been almost undamaged during the war, and then to the wasteland town of Zavarregino. A battalion of the NKVD of the USSR was responsible for guarding these high-ranking prisoners.
No sooner had he arrived in Zavarregino than to see officials from the Soviet command. Voronin, who was in charge of the prisoner's security, met Paulus in a hut. Voronin did not refuse all the demands of the captives, and he promised to let the captives read the newspapers frequently, of course only in the Soviet newspapers, not the German newspapers. Also promised to try to serve them coffee.
At this time, the Germans were trying to rescue Marshal Paulus back to Germany. Several groups of German paratroopers attempting to infiltrate Zavarregino have been spotted in the adjacent areas, but they have all been wiped out. Soon German planes also appeared over the town.
They started out as reconnaissance flights, no bombardment, no strafing, and flew away after a few turns. To strengthen the defense, the town added another battalion of troops. A day later, the captives were simply transferred to the small city of Suzdal, east of Moscow. A local monastery became a concentration camp for the high-ranking captives, who were placed in the monastery's single room and closely guarded.
In this way, because the counter-espionage work of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs was in place, German agents never found the exact location of the closure of Paulus. The plan to rescue Paulus was fruitless.
After the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany held a national day of mourning, admitted defeat, and held a funeral for Paulus. At the funeral, Hitler personally placed on the empty coffin the diamond-encrusted field marshal staff that had been given to Paulus in the future.
Paulus's family initially believed the Nazi claims—the Nazis revealed to the world three theories: marshal Paulus committed suicide by poisoning; second, he was captured and tortured to death after being seriously wounded; and Paulus died in battle like a real soldier.
On February 18, 1943, the German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels delivered the famous "Palace of Sport" speech in Berlin, encouraging the German people to accept the Führer's concept of a total war, that is, to use all the resources and strength of the whole country to fight to the end.
The Battle of Stalingrad was not the final turning point, just 5 months after this battle, when the Soviet army launched a great counterattack against the Germans in Ukraine like a flood, the appearance of a figure turned the whole situation, one of the three famous German generals ---- Manstein, with his legendary military talent, returned to the Soviets a Stalingrad that belonged to them, very dramatic, the forward force of the Soviet counter-offensive, and another Sixth Army about 52 Red Army divisions were completely and completely annihilated. This was the Third Battle of Kharkov, in which the Germans reoccupied Kharkov and Belgorod, so there was a stalemate on the Soviet-German battlefield.
The victory of the Nazis in Germany was temporary, that is, the demise was postponed by 1 year. Immediately afterwards, the Soviets carried out the Battle of Kursk, the famous ten strikes. Hitler's donkey skills were exhausted, and the Nazi Reich collapsed in April 1945.
It is worth mentioning that Hitler really rescued marshal Paulus, whether he killed him; whether he pretended to hold a funeral for Paulus, or cursed. Marshal Paulus, who had been captured in the Battle of Stalingrad in February 1943, had been reformed by the Soviet Army for half a year to join the Anti-Fascist League of German Officers, and on August 8, 1944, he made a radio voice calling on the German people to leave the Fuehrer and take action to save the motherland. He also became a witness at the Nuremberg Trials after the war, pointing out Hitler's war crimes.
Hitler didn't drink the bullet until half a year later. Hitler must have heard Paulus's anti-war voices. Hitler must have been angry with the seven tricks of smoke. Hitler must have shouted with all his might: Paulus, you bastard, your memorial service has already been held, why haven't you shut up?!