6th Army was a field-army unit of the German Wehrmacht during World War II ( 1939-1945 ) . It became widely remembered for its destruction by the Red Army at the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942/43 . It also acquired a reputation for the war crimes ( such as the massacre of more than 30,000 Jews at Babi Yar in September 1941 ) that it committed under the command of Field Marshal Walther von Reichenau during Operation Barbarossa
the war crimes
War crimes of the Wehrmacht
6th Army (Wehrmacht)