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BATTLE OF STALINGRAD BY KELSEY DHARMAKEERTHI BASIC INFO ABOUT THE BATTLE • THE TURNING POINT IN WWII IN EUROPE FOR THE ALLIES • ONE OF THE BLOODIEST BATTLES IN HISTORY • GERMANY VS. RUSSIA • JULY 17, 1942-FEBURARY 2, 1943 • RUSSIA WON • STOPPED GERMANY FROM GOING INTO THE SOVIET UNION STRENGTHS OF BOTH ARMIES GERMAN ARMY RUSSIAN ARMY • 1,011,500 MEN • 10,290 GUNS • 675 TANKS • 1,216 PLANES • 1,000,500 MEN • 13,541 GUNS • 894 TANKS • 1,115 PLANES Russian Tank German Tank GERMAN ARMY • HITLER WANTED CONTROL OF THE VOLGA RIVER SO HE COULD LAUNCH FURTHER ATTACKS IN THE CAUCASUS • THE SIXTH ARMY WAS UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL FRIEDRICH PAULUS • HE ADVANCE TO THE CITY IN SEPTEMBER 1942 WITH THE TASK TO TAKE STALINGRAD AND THE OIL FIELDS IN THE CAUCASUS General Paulus German soldiers RUSSIA • STALIN ORDERED FOR THE CITY OF STALINGRAD HAD TO BE PROTECTED Russian soldiers • STALINGRAD WAS AN IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT WAS THE CENTER OF COMMUNICATIONS IN THE SOUTH AND A CENTER OF MANUFACTURING • THE RUSSIANS COULDN’T LET THE GERMANS GET CONTROL OVER THE OIL FIELDS IN THE CAUCASUS • UNDER THE COMMAND OF MARSHAL ZHUKOV THE SURRENDER • ZHUKOV HAD 6 ARMIES TO SURROUND THE CITY(5 AROUND THE CITY AND 1 IN THE CITY), TRAPPING THE GERMANS IN STALINGRAD • HITLER FORBID PAULUS FROM SURRENDERING, BUT WINTER HAD COME AND THE GERMANS WERE COLD AND RUNNING LOW ON FOOD AND AMMUNITION • HITLER ORDERED PAULUS TO FIGHT TO THE LAST BULLET AND PROMOTED HIM TO FIELD MARSHAL TO ENCOURAGE HIM • TOWARDS THE END OF JANUARY 1943, PAULUS SURRENDERED WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE HE COULD DO A Soviet soldier waves the Red Banner of victory WHY THE BATTLE WAS IMPORTANT? • MAIN DECIDER OF THE GERMAN’S POSITION IN WWII • GERMANS LOST MANPOWER AND EQUIPMENT Causalities of the war • THE GERMANS SIMPLY DIDN’T HAVE ENOUGH MANPOWER TO GO AGAINST THE RUSSIANS WHEN THE TIME CAME FOR THEM TO ADVANCED INTO GERMANY DESTRUCTION AND VALOR • NEARLY 2 MILLION MILITARY AND CIVILIAN CASUALTIES • 91,000 GERMANS WERE TAKEN PRISONER • PARTS OF STALINGRAD WERE DESTROYED German Prisoners THE RUSSIANS SHOWED TRUE COURAGE AS THEY FOUGHT AGAINST THE GERMANS TO PROTECT THEIR CITY OF STALINGRAD.