ALL IN VAIN

Transcript:
Von List: Kortifex, do you know why I chose Stalingrad as the epicenter of my operations?
Von List: I mean, beyond all the corpses, the mass graves. Do you know why this choice is personal for me?
Kortifex: We share much now, Wolfram, but I cannot read your thoughts. Nor can I search your memories.
Von List: Nor would I allow you to. This arrangement of ours is... intimate enough as it is.
Kortifex: Agreed. But as long as we serve each other’s purposes, you may as well tell me what happened here.
Von List: What happened is the German 6th Army took the city and was then surrounded and trapped for five months.
Kortifex: And you were part of this... 6th Army?
Von List: No. I led an SS rescue mission here. We... we all knew we could not afford to lose those men.
Von List: The death toll was already horrific by the time we arrived. I spent the rest of that brutal winter adding to the Russian casualties.
Von List: We tried to resupply our men. We tried to break the seige. All in vain.
Von List: At the end General Paulus surrendered. Most of his men were never seen again.
Von List: I had witnessed a deathblow against the Wehrmacht. I could see the war was lost.
Von List: But when I made my way back to headquarters, no one wanted to hear my report, or face the awful truth.
Kortifex: So this place, it scarred you? And victory here will make you whole?
Von List: Nein, Kortifex. Such scars do not fade. If I have learned anything, it is that war changes everything. There is no going back.
Von List: But I will still savor my ultimate revenge...