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Hello, this is Matt and McKinley from History Dispatches.

We are the father-son duo bringing you the weird, the wild, the wacky, and the craziest tales from across time.

From the Ice Bowl to the Great Heathen Army.

And the head of Oliver Cromwell.

The same head they kept on a pike for three years?

Yep, all here on

History Dispatches. New episodes every weekday. Find out more at history dispatches.com or wherever

you get your podcast app. Hello, and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast.

Episode 524, the line has been drawn at Stalingrad.

Last time, Hitler agreed that Army Group A, seeking to take Russia's oil, should pull back.

Not that it mattered, as a Soviet attack forced the issue.

Adding to this calamity, General Paulus refused to break out, and Luftwaffe Airfields

supplying Paulus were being attacked.

And lastly, the Soviets offered the stubborn German

general, an offer he seemingly could not refuse until he did. So on the morning of January 10,

1943, thousands of guns opened up on the Germans' most westward positions, and with that, the 6th Army wasn't

going anywhere. This artillery barrage lasted for an hour. Then, men from the Soviet 21st and

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