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After the Battle of Stalingrad

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Segilla | 20:11 Wed 29th Aug 2012 | History
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Born in 1934, I distinctly recall a BBC broadcast carrying news of the defeat of the Germans saying that Hitler had sent a message to Stalin asking? / demanding? that after the war those captured would be allowed to return to their homeland.

Young though I was in 1943 I remember thinking this was a strange statement for the defeated to make.

Is there any evidence that Hitler ever said this?
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Seeing as though Hitler would have preferred them to fight to the death, I would have doubts the he said it.
20:16 Wed 29th Aug 2012
Seeing as though Hitler would have preferred them to fight to the death, I would have doubts the he said it.
If Hitler hadn't sussed Stalin's thinking by 1943 he must have been mad.
I thinks it's safe to say even if Hitler had managed to suss Stalins thinking ........he was mad, Seadogg.
Not particularly strange to ask for concessions prior to a negotiated surrender.
I remember reading that one of Stalin's sons was captured by the Germans and that Hitler offered to exchange him for Field Marshall Von-Paulus (the Field Marshall who surrendered at Stalingrad) . Stalin refused and his son was later killed while trying to escape .
Awww that was nice of Hitler trying to rescue Field Marshall Von-Paulus.

Had Hitler got some sort of special homecoming treat ready for Von-Paulus?
A piano wire and a 8mm movie camera, perhaps?
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