Friedrich Paulus (1890-1957), who commanded Germany’s Sixth Army in World War II and lost the Battle of Stalingrad, was taken captive in 1943. In a little-known episode of wartime history, Soviet authorities convinced him to renounce Hitler and work as a propagandist for Moscow.
Photographs of Stalingrad lying in ruins are perhaps well-known to many. But do you know what the famous city looked like before enemy troops entered it?