circa 1942: Nazi soldiers on the Eastern front run to take cover behind their panzers during one of the many battles as a village burns in the background. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

July 1941: Panzer units of the German Army pass through a blazing Russian village, torched by the evacuees, on their one-way journey to the battlefront. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

August 1942: Nazi troops advance through the richest wheat producing territory of Russia, in the Don river area. A plume of smoke rises from the horizon. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

January 1943: Nazi soldiers stumble through a blinding snowstorm. The Nazis' biggest enemy in Russia is the snow. Even the Panzers are helpless against this form of nature's element, and coupled with the growing Russian strength, the German soldiers often find themselves forced to make their way blindly through blizzards. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

July 1942: Motorized Panzer troops pass in the foreground of a fiercely blazing Russian village they have destroyed. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

December 1942: The Germans struggle to heave a car out of the snow and mud. These Nazi reinforcements, switched over from the southern front, could not reach the central front owing to great transport difficulties caused by the weather (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

circa 1944: Georgi K. Zhukov (1896 - 1974) Russian Marshal and Military tactician, considered by many to be the savior of Russia and the greatest single foe of Nazism. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

1942: White-cloaked Nazi soldiers warm their hands near the fire in a Soviet Forest (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

1942: Blazing tanks light the way of the battle for the Ukraine, as a second wave of Nazi PzKpfw III battle tanks moves up. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

September 1941: A Nazi reconnaissance plane, a Focke Wulf 189 or 'Uhu', has been patrolling over enemy lines during the night. It returns to its base with important information, which is thrown down to two awaiting despatch riders. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

6th September 1941: A still from a Nazi film 'War in the East' with German Panzer tanks roaring past a Soviet heavy mobile gun wrecked by a direct hit on the right of the photo. British Newsreels Picture. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)