Q 01/05

What name has the city of Stalingrad borne since 1961?

A) Tsaritsyn

B) Volgograd

C) Samara

D) Saratov

Answer · why

B) Volgograd

Volgograd: Stalingrad was renamed in 1961 as part of the Soviet effort to dismantle the personality cult around Stalin.

Q 02/05

What was the code name of the German summer offensive of 1942 that led to Stalingrad?

A) Operation Citadel

B) Operation Typhoon

C) Case Blue

D) Case Yellow

Answer · why

C) Case Blue

Case Blue: when Hitler changed the plan to seize two objectives at once, splitting his forces badly strained German supply lines.

Q 03/05

Which German student resistance group's final leaflet, written after the surrender at Stalingrad, invoked the dead of Stalingrad?

A) The Edelweiss Pirates

B) The White Rose

C) The Red Orchestra

D) The Kreisau Circle

Answer · why

B) The White Rose

The White Rose: within weeks, Hans and Sophie Scholl were caught spreading leaflets at Munich University and beheaded.

Q 04/05

Captured at Stalingrad, Friedrich Paulus later testified at the Nuremberg trials as a witness for which side?

A) The American prosecution

B) Göring's defence

C) The Soviet prosecution

D) Keitel's defence

Answer · why

C) The Soviet prosecution

The Soviet prosecution: he described how the invasion of the USSR had been planned since 1940, work he had carried out himself.

Q 05/05

Weeks after the German surrender at Stalingrad, which Nazi leader called for 'total war' at the Sportpalast?

A) Heinrich Himmler

B) Martin Bormann

C) Albert Speer

D) Joseph Goebbels

Answer · why

D) Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels: only after the July 1944 bomb plot against Hitler was he finally put in charge of total war.