Field Marshal Ferdinand Schorner, 62, had been named by Hitler to succeed him as commander-in-chief of the German army; in the Fuhrer’s last testament his name ranked sixth.* ...

The German commander, according to Laskin’s recollections, greeted the members of the delegation with a sentence in broken Russian: “Field Marshal of the German Army Paulus renders himself ...

May 12, 2014 at 1:00AM BST. LAST night's Soviet communiqué stated that German troops commanded by Field-Marshal Schoerner refused to lay down their arms in direct breach of the terms of the ...

On Jan. 25, 1943, Gen. Friedrich Paulus, commanding the German 6th Army at the height of the Battle of Stalingrad, thought he saw the time had come to speak of surrender. Paulus was a 52-ye ...

War memoirs of the German field marshal, successively Air Fleet Commander in the campaigns of 1939-40, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, and, in the last months, Commander in the West. Of ...