Read main thread: Most decisive battle in WW2?
May 3rd, 2005  
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The History Channel has a two part documentary on tonight called Hitler's War showing newsreel footage interspersed with modern graphics and interviews with those who there. Interestingly enough, to a man all the German veterans are calling Stalingrad the most decisive battle on the Eastern Front, not Kursk. Among them is a former junior German officer named Heinz-Günther Guderian - the General's son.
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