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1. “You survived Stalingrad?” I nodded sadly
2. Attending Stalingrad is no
3. “My brother fought at Stalingrad, but only
4. I did however learn that Russia was mobilizing all its troops to hold the Germans back who had already arrived within one hundred kilometres of Moscow, and Stalingrad was under very heavy attack
5. In late January 1943, after a five-month siege, Stalingrad was liberated and the German army was defeated
6. The Russian leadership decided to attack the Germans, after they had suffered half a million casualties in the battle for Stalingrad
7. The great battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, and Korsk went with huge captures and losses, and turned the tide against the German forces
8. It was a tactic born of urban warfare, cooked up in the worst furnaces of Stalingrad,
9. Their first orders were to return to the Eastern Front which angered Beck as he was well aware of the collapse of the German occupation of Stalingrad which had left the German South Army trapped
10. The fleet’s next two stops were Moscow and Stalingrad, where Nancy delivered messages of hope intended to boost the morale of the Soviet population
11. “The HERMES, BABYLON, WALKÜREN, WHITE ROSE OF STALINGRAD and
12. The same in Stalingrad
13. “But Stalingrad was also a catastrophe for the Germans at the turn of 1942/43
14. Stalingrad is arguably the greatest land battle of all time, when in 1942 the Soviets, trapped the German army
15. Hitler was determined to throttle the Soviet state and conceived operation "Blau" which would culminate in a huge pincer movement closing around Stalingrad; effectively cutting Russia in half
16. The strategic rationale for taking Stalingrad was to defend the captured Caucasian oil fields
17. Completely confident that Stalingrad would fall easily, he transferred Fourth Panzer Army south to assist in the Caucasus, only to change his mind two weeks later when this move proved unnecessary
18. It was this, more than any other reason that led to the great catastrophe at Stalingrad
19. The road to Stalingrad had been long and painful and Hitler was completely unaware of the formidable trap into which the German army was about to fall
20. Stalingrad had become a matter of personal prestige which riveted his attention, much to the joy of the Russian general staff
21. The following day the Russian armies south of Stalingrad launched their attack with equally devastating effect, and headed for the same destination, Kalach
22. Göring's delusions, bordering on lunacy, as far as the German troops at Stalingrad were concerned, grossly misguided Hitler
23. The actual daily supply never exceeded ninety one tons and the Luftwaffe were to lose five hundred planes and one thousand air crew in the attempt to supply Stalingrad
24. Meanwhile Paulus, being a loyal soldier of Prussian descent, dutifully accepted the disastrous order for his two hundred and seventy eight thousand troops in the Stalingrad pocket to await the promised relief
25. Hitler, now deeply concerned, summoned von Manstein and entrusted him with the mission of relieving beleaguered Stalingrad
26. A new army, named “Army Group Don," was assembled under Manstein's command, with orders to drive straight through to Stalingrad and relieve the trapped 6th Army
27. In fortress Stalingrad the conditions of the stricken army rapidly deteriorated
28. Although the fighting remained intense, the end was in sight for the German army at Stalingrad
29. Manstein informed Hitler that due to the Stalingrad disaster the position in the Caucasus had become untenable
30. Yet, it had to hold on in Stalingrad; surrender would unleash an even greater catastrophe
31. Manstein, could not save the trapped 6th army at Stalingrad, but he did rescue the armies in the Caucasus from a similar fate
32. Stalingrad was the climax of Hitler’s eastern campaign
33. There can be no doubt that German confidence in the outcome of the war was seriously shaken and the invincibility of German arms doubted after Stalingrad
34. Hitler became obsessed with the symbolism of capturing Stalingrad named after his arch foe, regardless of its strategic value
35. When the magnitude of the disaster became obvious, Manstein was sent to conduct the efforts to relieve Paulus's Sixth Army, trapped that winter at Stalingrad
36. Göring had assured Hitler that his Luftwaffe would supply Stalingrad
37. Yet, it had to hold on in Stalingrad, for surrender would unleash an even greater catastrophe
38. When, therefore, a fresh crisis arose in autumn 1942 after the German offensive had become bogged down at Stalingrad, Hitler again thought success lay in clinging on at all costs to what he already possessed
39. The Soviet troops, many of whom had seen their own towns and villages obliterated by the Germans, had fought their way from Stalingrad to seek this moment of revenge
40. One could take the view that the eclipse of the German fighter force was due to Hitler's quest for an empire in the East; especially, considering the enormous losses suffered at Stalingrad and subsequent Russian winters
41. The dreadful catastrophes of Stalingrad and Kursk had devoured whole army groups and inflicted unsustainable losses
42. The Battle of Berlin undoubtedly ranks along with Leningrad, Stalingrad, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki as an example of the horror and destruction accomplished by modern warfare
43. They had fought their way from Stalingrad across half a continent to seek this moment of revenge
44. Using rockets and artillery, the Russians evened the scores for Leningrad and Stalingrad
45. Berlin was no Stalingrad; it might hold out against the Soviets through fanaticism and terror for a few days, but no more
46. At Stalingrad, there was no one left to dig the graves
47. For Nikita, who had participated in many battles during the Great Patriotic War[21], including the Battle of Stalingrad, the statement of his bodyguard made a lot of sense
48. What he found inside, once he had gone through the Nikolskaya Gate, rivaled the worst damage he had seen during the Battle of Stalingrad
49. commander at Stalingrad or as a former Third Reich auditor at the infamous
50. Nine hours after leaving Samara, the train pulled into Volgograd, once called Stalingrad
