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- The Battle of Stalingrad was a military engagement officially from 1942-1943 between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union and was marked one of the bloodiest battles of all time.
- TOP SECRET:OPERATION Barbarossa
- HitlerFriedrich Paulus Fedor von Bock
- This engagement led to one of the most POWs ever taken with 150,000 Germans later being taken into Moscow and paraded around the square.
- In under a month Germany gains almost 300 miles into Russian land due to encirclement and the decimation of many Russian regiments.
- In secret Hitler meets with his two of his greatest generals Friedrich Paulus and Fedor Von Bock to talk about a possible war with Stalin. They come to the consensus that war is inevitable and decide to launch operation Barbarossa, the battle with the second most amount of deaths ever (2.4 million).
- Over 1/3 of the German army on the eastern front died to the russian winter
- The Battle of Stalingrad was a military engagement mainly in the western parts of the Soviet Union and was sparked by contested Polish oil fields. Germany launches operation Barbarossa; over 3 million German men, 3000 tanks, 7000 artillery machines. and 2500 aircraft parade to the eastern front.
- This winter was the coldest on record in Russian history
- By the end of the month there was fighting in the suburbs of Moscow. Then Stalin passed the "no steps back entitative" which forbid retreat and saw that every able bodied man fighting with what ever weapons he could muster on the battle field. Stalin also passed a bill which wouldn't let civilians evacuate because he claimed "it would make the men fight harder".
- The Russians used German war techniques to defeat Germany at Stalingrad
- GERMANY
- Stalingrad
- Moscow
- Weak German flank
- Russia
- Russia
- The ill equipped Germans were not prepared for the harsh Russian winter, subsequently their siege stopped. During the winter the Germans relied on vehicles to get them supplies but ten foot deep snow doesn't like trucks so they starved and froze to death. While the Russians flourished in these conditions with their trusty cattle to transport supplies along the front.
- Stalin with a little help from the Russian winter evaded a complete invasion of the motherland, now it was Stalin's turn to launch an offensive! Friedrich Paulus was the first ever general to be demoted in the Nazi army and ultimately led to his demise in battle.
- Stalin launched an all or nothing offensive on the weak German flanks. His ensuing attacks were successful and led to the encirclement of the whole German 6th army. Stalingrad was a turning point in the war leading to the battle of Berlin which ultimately led to the end of WW2.
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