Battle of Stalingrad (Nazi Victory)

The Battle Of Stalingrad Beginning: 23 August 1942 End: 2 February 1943 Place: Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Outcome: Decisive German Victory - Destruction of the Soviet 10th Army - The Soviet Union begins to collapse under the Axis military - The Battle of Stalingrad is considered by many historians to have been the turning point of World War II in the European theater. - Joseph Stalin loses power - Beginning of the Nazi German Union Combatants Germany Italy Hungary Soviet Union Commanders Adolf Hitler Erich von Manstein Friedrich Paulus † W.F. von Richthofen Italo Gariboldi Gusztáv Jány Joseph Stalin Georgy Zhukov Nikolay Voronov A. M. Vasilevsky Andrey Yeryomenko Nikita Khrushchev † Hazi Aslanov K.K. Rokossovsky Nikolai Vatutin Vasily Chuikov Strength Army Group B: 6th Army 4th Panzer Army Eighth Army Second Army Stalingrad Front 8th Army 28th Army 51st Army 57th Army 62nd Army 64th Army Don Front South West Front Casualties and Losses | strength1 = Initial: 270,000 personnel 3,000 artillery pieces 500 tanks 600 aircraft, 1,600 by mid-September (Luftflotte 4) At the time of the Soviet counter-offensive: ~1,040,000 men (400,000+ Germans, 143,296 Romanians, 220,000 Italians, 200,000 Hungarian, 40,000 Hiwi) 10,250 artillery pieces 500 tanks 732 (402 operational) aircraft | strength2 =Initial: 187,000 personnel 2,200 artillery pieces 400 tanks 300 aircraft At the time of the Soviet counter-offensive: 1,143,000 13,451 artillery pieces 894 tanks 1,115 aircraft

The Battle Of Stalingrad (23, August 1942 - 2, February 1943) was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany fought against the Soviet Union for control over the city of Stalingrad (Now Reichsland) in the south-western Soviet Union. Marked by constant close quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians by air raids, it is the single largest and bloodiest battle in the history of warfare. The heavy losses inflicted on the Wehrmacht make it arguably the most strategically decisive battle of the whole war. It was a turning point in the European theatre of World War II–the battle was a tremendous loss for the Soviet Military since the Luftwaffe released the Horton Ho 229 that year. By 1943 the Soviet Military was forced back towards Moscow (Which fell later that year).