Like today February 2: The battle that knelt Hitler and disrupted Vermacht

Today in 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad, the most bloody and decisive conflict of World War II, ended. This battle not only stopped the Nazi advance in the East, but changed the flow of history, leading to the gradual collapse of Vermacht. The chronicle of the siege The attack on Stalingrad began in August 1942, when the German Army Group B forces, under the command of General Friedrich Paulus, proceeded to Volga with the aim of occupying this strategic city. Hitler believed that Stalingrad’s fall would secure German sovereignty in the Caucasus and his oil wells. However, the Soviets, led by General Georgi Zukov, had different plans. The defense of the city was organized with great perseverance, with the Soviets fighting for a point, turning every road, every building into a battlefield. The severity of the conflict was such that the soldiers arrived to fight body to body in the ruins, in a horror battle […]
Source: News Beast

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