Volgograd
Temperature was 24 C at our arrival 12:15 AM [sic], windy.
Rain and flood at about 4:00 PM while going up Mamayev Hill where the great 83 meter monument is.
The first in a long, long time that it rained and hailed on a summer day.
The waters were about a foot high but the incline of the land turned the streets into rivers and drained the city immediately.
Then a boat ride in the Volga—piloted the boat.
Dinner—
Movie—the Battle of Stalingrad—
They are proud of having been the turning point of the war.
And justly so.
No Official Gazette entry for this day.
It is unknown where this text comes from because the handwritten entry is missing, what is available are the transcriptions from PCGG Vol. 5 p. 135. No entries for June 6 and 7 either in typescript or manuscript.