Hitler was furious and confided that Paulus "could have freed himself from all sorrow and ascended into eternity and national immortality, but he prefers to go to Moscow."
Hitler je bjesnio zbog feldmaršalove predaje i u povjerljivom krugu izjavio da se Paulus "mogao osloboditi svih muka i uzdići se u vječnost i nacionalnu besmrtnost, no on je radije izabrao odlazak u Moskvu".