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Russian governor Andrey Bocharov wants the clash to take place on the Battle of Stalingrad battlefield.

Russia is hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup, with Volgograd being chosen as one of the cities for the tournament.

Now Bocharov, the governor of the wider Volgorad region, said that it is his dream for such a match to be played on the grounds of the battle.

Volgograd was named Stalingrad during the Soviet Arena and Bocharov wants any possible Germany versus Russia match to be held at the new Volgograd Arena in front of 45,568 fans.

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Bocharov said: "Such a game would delight us all."

He added however that it would be a peaceful match unlike the dark days of World War 2, as he stressed the good relations his city has with Germany.

Bocharov said: "We have to wait for the draw. We welcome all the teams that come to us."

However it seems impossible for Germany to play Russia in Volgograd during the World Cup, as the Russians will be seeded in Group A.

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None of Group A's matches, as well as any subsequent knockout stage match for any of the teams advancing from Group A, will be played in Volgograd.

Germany might however play a match in the city if during the draw it is allocated to Group H.

The Battle of Stalingrad, which took place from August 23, 1942, until February 2 1943, was one of the biggest battles of World War 2 and a major turning point in the war.

Adolf Hitler decided to send some of his strongest troops to the city despite it lacking any real strategic importance as he deemed it a huge PR coup if he could capture the city named after Joseph Stalin.

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But in Stalingrad, Nazi army group B under command of Friedrich Paulus ended up being completely surrounded and annihilated by Georgy Zhukov's Red Army in one of the deadliest battles the world has ever seen.

In dire winter conditions and house-to-house fighting, the Nazis lost 728,000 soldiers, while the Russians casualties at Stalingrad were an estimated at 1.1 million soldiers, including 478,000 soldiers killed or missing in action.

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Hitler believed that Paulus would either fight to the last man or commit suicide as he awarded him the rank of Field Marshall, but Paulus surrendered to the Russians, being the first ever German Field Marshall to do so, to the great ire of Hitler.

In 1961, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev changed the name of the city to Volgograd ("Volga City") as part of his programme of de-Stalinisation following the death of the dictator.

The city still has many memorials commemorating the battle, such as the 299-foot high statue of a woman carrying a sword named "The Motherland Calls".