1943 winter evening. fluffs of snow slowly fell on the tired trees, swirling in the air. The red army made its way through the snow and frozen corpses, liberating Stalingrad. in a small forest, on a snow-white clearing, a detachment of Germans resting from the fighting was spread out around a fire. one of them was heating a can of stewed meat on the flames of the fire, the second was washing his overcoat in the ice hole. Major von Stroheim stood nearby by a tree, watching the Germans work