Knick Laux’s Reviews > Stalingrad > Status Update

Most notable moments included the grandmother inspecting the orphanage and seeing bloody drawings of war done by the children. Also the story of a senior steel worker that still goes on for 18 hour shifts. The tanks made from their steel only drive fifteen minutes from the factory before they’re shot at. There are orders coming down the line to prepare to blow the factories up as the Germans arrive.

The first husband is hanging back after the HQ retreats in order to supply fuel to a stranded tank squad. He reads an order from Stalin that makes retreating illegal from then on. A different lieutenant who was injured for a bit and received care in Stalingrad is now back in the front wrangling his motley regiment.

We learn about a woman in the family who married twice during college. The first husband was a radical that went to manage a factory in Siberia and was the arrested. The second husband is a physicist and is trying to get a project funded during the war.

A soldier shows up at the family’s door because he’s been pining for the eldest daughter for a while. He was in the first days of the fighting after Germany’s invasion.

Starts with Hitler and Mussolini meeting to discuss invading Russia. Moves to a large family in Stalingrad with some members that are headed to the front. A surgeon lady and chemist and among the group.