Video: Jan. 24, 1943 (at 43:52)

(Sunday, January 24, 1943; during the Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front of World War II) — German Gen. Friedrich von Paulus, commander in chief of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad, urgently requested permission from Adolf Hitler today to surrender his position there, but Hitler flatly refused the request, setting his soldiers up for a crushing defeat.