• the Stalingrad Madonna was flown out on the last transport plane to leave the trapped Sixth Army during the Battle of Stalingrad?
• upon Prince Gabriel of Thurn and Taxis' death at the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, he was succeeded by his uncle as heir presumptive to the Headship of the House of Thurn and Taxis?
• the Mamayev Kurgan complex in Volgograd, Russia is a memorial to the Battle of Stalingrad?
• an apartment building known as Pavlov's House became a symbol of Soviet resistance during World War II's Battle of Stalingrad?
• Pitomnik Airfield was the primary German airfield within the city during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II?
• Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus did not want to receive Captain Nikolay Dyatlenko at the Battle of Stalingrad, yet ended up being received by him?
• Arthur Schmidt told Red Army officers after the Battle of Stalingrad that "a German Field Marshal does not commit suicide with a pair of scissors"?

Facts on topics related to Battle of Stalingrad

Eastern Front (World War II)

• Heinz Guderian (pictured) and Adolf Hitler had heated arguments while planning for Operation Solstice, one of the major German offensive operations on the Eastern Front during WWII?
• in combat areas of the Eastern Front of World War II, German soldiers were ordered to shoot any dog because it might be an anti-tank dog?
• the snipers of the Kremlin Regiment killed a total of more than 1,200 German soldiers and officers during the Soviet-German War?
• the F-34 tank gun was put into service in the T-34 tank by a conspiracy of its makers, and it was only after enthusiastic tank crews had praised its merits in letters from the front that Stalin gave official permission to start its manufacture?
• the Ribbon of Saint George is worn in Russia on Victory Day as an act of commemoration of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War?
• the clocks on the Great Lavra Belltower (pictured) have only stopped once during their existence, when the nearby Dormition Cathedral of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra was blown up during the Second World War?
• towards the end of World War II, British Air Marshal Douglas Evill advocated the bombing of eastern German cities to disrupt Wehrmacht reinforcements moving to the Eastern Front?

Operation Barbarossa

• Brest Fortress in Belarus was belatedly honoured by the USSR as a Hero Fortress in 1965 for its resistance to the Nazi invasion in 1941?
• Nazi Germany used thousands of Polish laborers to build infrastructure for their invasion of the Soviet Union?
• over 90% of Lithuanian Jews perished in the first few months of Operation Barbarossa in the Holocaust in Lithuania?
• tickets bought for the ceremonial opening of Kiev Republican Stadium scheduled for June 22, 1941 were still valid 7 years later, as the event was "postponed until after the Victory" due to the Nazi invasion to the USSR?

Battle of Moscow

• Israfil Mamedov, the first Azeri Hero of the Soviet Union, killed about seventy Germans, including three officers, during the Battle of Moscow on December 3, 1941?
• the Shtyki Memorial (pictured), which honors the defenders of Russia in the Battle of Moscow, is depicted on the flag and coat of arms of Zelenograd?

Battle of Berlin

• Eugene Vaulot of the Waffen SS destroyed eight tanks during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, earning himself a Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross days before he was killed in action by a sniper?

Operation Saturn

• in Operation Saturn, the Red Army drove the Axis Powers out of the Caucasus and back across the Donets River in the winter of 1942–1943?

Great Patriotic War

• the honorary title City of Military Glory has been bestowed on the citizenry of 27 Russian cities for courage and heroism shown during the Great Patriotic War?
• the USSR named twelve cities and one city-fortress Hero Cities for valor during the Great Patriotic War?