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    The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle during World War 2 that took place between August 1942 and February 1943 in and around the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the Soviet Union. It resulted in a decisive Soviet victory against German and Axis forces. Over 2 million soldiers on both sides were casualties in the intense urban combat within the city. The victory marked a turning point in the war as it ended Germany's offensive into Russia and shifted the tide permanently in favor of the Allies.

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    The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle during World War 2 that took place between August 1942 and February 1943 in and around the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the Soviet Union. It resulted in a decisive Soviet victory against German and Axis forces. Over 2 million soldiers on both sides were casualties in the intense urban combat within the city. The victory marked a turning point in the war as it ended Germany's offensive into Russia and shifted the tide permanently in favor of the Allies.

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    For the 1949 Russian film, see The Battle of Stalingrad
    (film). For the Russian Civil War battle at the same city,
    see Battle for Tsaritsyn.

    In the Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2


    February 1943),[16][17][18] Germany and its allies
    fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of
    Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia. The
    battle was marked by fierce close-quarters combat
    and direct assaults on civilians in air raids. The Battle
    of Stalingrad was the deadliest battle to take place
    during the Second World War[19] and was one of the
    bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, with an
    estimated 2 million total casualties.[20] The battle
    marked a turning point in the war as it forced the
    Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (German High
    Command) to withdraw considerable military forces
    from other theaters of war to replace their losses on
    the eastern front.[21] The victory at Stalingrad
    energized the Red Army and shifted the balance of
    power in the favor of the Soviets.

    Battle of Stalingrad

    Part of the Eastern Front of World War II

    The centre of Stalingrad after the battle

    Date 23 August 1942 – 2 February


    1943[Note 1]
    (5 months, 1 week and 3 days)

    Location Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union


    (now Volgograd, Russia)
    48°42′N 44°31′E

    Result Soviet victory


    Destruction of the German 6th Army

    Territorial Expulsion of the Axis from the


    changes Caucasus, reversing their gains from
    the 1942 Summer Campaign

    Belligerents

    Germany Soviet Union

    Romania

    Italy

    Hungary

    Croatia[nb 1]

    Commanders and leaders

    Adolf Hitler Joseph Stalin

    Maximilian von Georgy Zhukov


    Weichs
    Nikolay Voronov
    Friedrich Paulus
    Aleksandr Vasilevsky
    Hermann Hoth
    Andrey Yeryomenko
    Erich von Manstein
    Konstantin
    W. F. von Richthofen Rokossovsky

    Petre Dumitrescu Nikolai Vatutin

    C. Constantinescu Vasily Chuikov

    Italo Gariboldi Nikita Khrushchev

    Gusztáv Jány

    Units involved

    Army Group B: Stalingrad Front:

    6th Army 28th Army

    4th Panzer Army 51st Army

    3rd Army 57th Army

    4th Army 62nd Army

    8th Army 64th Army

    2nd Army Don Front[nb 3]

    Army Group Don[nb 2] 24th Army

    6th Army 65th Army

    4th Panzer Army 66th Army

    1st Panzer Army Southwestern


    Front[nb 4]

    1st Guards Army

    5th Tank Army

    21st Army

    Strength

    Initial: Initial:
    270,000 personnel 187,000 personnel

    3,000 artillery pieces 2,200 artillery pieces

    500 tanks 400 tanks

    600 aircraft, 1,600 by mid- 300 aircraft[4]


    September (Luftflotte At the time of the Soviet
    4)[Note 2][1] counteroffensive:
    At the time of the Soviet 1,143,000 men[5]
    counter-offensive:
    13,451 artillery pieces
    c. 600,000 men[2]
    894 tanks[5]
    400,000 Germans
    1,115 aircraft[6]
    200,000 Romanians

    500 tanks

    732 (402 operational)


    aircraft[3]

    Casualties and losses

    747,300–868,374 1,129,619 (inculding


    combat casualties[7] ~950,000 combat
    casualties)
    Germany:
    478,741 killed or missing
    300,000+ (6th Army and
    650,878 wounded or
    4th Panzer)[8][9][10] –
    sick[14]
    400,000 (all units)[11]

    Italy: 2,769 aircraft


    114,000[12]–114,520[9]
    4,341 tanks (~150 by
    Romania: Romanians) (25–30% were
    109,000[12]–158,854[9] total write-offs.[15])

    Hungary: 15,728 guns


    105,000[12]–143,000[9] See casualties section.

    Hiwi 19,300–52,000[13]

    900 aircraft destroyed

    1,500 tanks destroyed (100


    Romanian)

    6,000 guns destroyed

    744 aircraft; 1,666 tanks;


    5,762 guns captured
    See casualties section.

    Location of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) within


    modern European Russia

    Case Blue: German advances from 7 May 1942


    to 18 November 1942
    to 7 July 1942
    to 22 July 1942
    to 1 August 1942
    to 18 November 1942

    The strategic importance of Stalingrad is difficult to


    overstate. Stalingrad was home to a major industrial
    and transport hub on the Volga River. More
    importantly whoever controlled Stalingrad would have
    access to the oil fields of the Caucasus, Germany
    operating on dwindling fuel supplies quickly realized
    this and Hitler promptly approved the invasion of
    Stalingrad. On 4 August, the Germans launched an
    offensive by using the 6th Army and elements of the
    4th Panzer Army. The attack was supported by
    intense Luftwaffe bombing that reduced much of the
    city to rubble. The battle degenerated into house-to-
    house fighting as both sides poured reinforcements
    into the city. By mid-November, the Germans, at great
    cost, had pushed the Soviet defenders back into
    narrow zones along the west bank of the river.

    On 19 November, the Red Army launched Operation


    Uranus, a two-pronged attack targeting the weaker
    Romanian armies protecting the 6th Army's flanks.[22]
    The Axis flanks were overrun and the 6th Army was
    cut off and surrounded in the Stalingrad area. Adolf
    Hitler was determined to hold the city at all costs and
    forbade the 6th Army from attempting a breakout;
    instead, attempts were made to supply it by air and to
    break the encirclement from the outside. Heavy
    fighting continued for another two months. At the
    beginning of February 1943, the German forces in
    Stalingrad, having exhausted their ammunition and
    food finally capitulated, making it the first of Hitler's
    field armies to surrender during World War Two,[23]
    after five months, one week, and three days of
    fighting.

    Background

    Prelude

    Orders of battle

    Attack on Stalingrad

    Soviet counter-offensives

    Sixth Army surrounded

    End of the battle

    Casualties

    Aftermath

    Significance

    In popular culture

    See also

    References

    Further reading

    External links

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