General Paulus commanded the Stalingrad offensive from the summer of 1942 until his surrender in January 1943 and capture by the Russians.
Inspired by his writings, the novelist Lionel Duroy imagined the Memoirs that he could have written during his ten years of captivity.
A story that asks burning questions about the conduct of war and the duty of obedience.
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LE FIGARO.
- Why did you write a novel about General Paulus?
LIONEL DUROY.
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I have been working on our ability to embody absolute evil for over thirty years.
I became interested in war crimes committed during the war in former Yugoslavia to write
The Winter of Men
, in which I combine the story of Nazi criminals with that of Serbian officers wanted for war crimes.
In
Have We Become Criminals
, I look at the fate of General Paulus to try to get closer to what is playing out in the minds of Russian officers today.
Paulus, commander of the 6th German Army (330,000 men)…
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