The sign reads: To Stalingrad!
Early in the battle retreating Soviet troops erected this medical skeleton to greet incoming Germans
Both sides enjoyed the joke, but soon the dead in Stalingrad would far outnumber the living
Stalingrad became a fight among ruins, as with this smashed tower being reclaimed by Soviet soldiers...
...And this shattered street occupied by Heer troops.
Forbidden to evacuate, Stalingrad's citizens bore caves into surrounding hillsides to escape the fighting