The Pivotal Surrender of World War II

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Back of Stalingrad department store (center and left), in the cellar of which Nazi Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus signed surrender of Nazi 6th Army.

At center is the sloped entrance to the cellar.

Department store made famous in the west by movie, "Enemy at the Gates".

Removing the Nazi 6th Army from the war, the Red Army permanently turned the tide of the entire World War-- more than the Great Patriotic War-- toward worldwide allied victory