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The Begining For Germany
Hitler used BlitzKrieg, 3300 tanks, and 3 million men. -
Soviets Counter Attack
They made a sixth army with 500,000 men, 900 tanks, and 1,400 aircrafts. Also encircleing many germans. That was the start of operation Uranus -
Battle Started
It began with a German blitzkrieg on the city, known as Operation Barbarossa, which was repealed by the Russian air force eventually -
1077th Anti-Aircraft Regiment
the German 16th were tasked with destroying the Stalingrad Tractor Factory, which had been refitted to manufacture tanks. The attack came from the northern quarter of the city and as the Soviets were not expecting an attack from this quarter, the 1077th were completely unprotected by infantry. -
Outskirts of Stalingrad
Germany was planning to take over the city. The Soviets were ready for this attack. It was lead by Marshal Georgii K. Zhukov,one of the Soviets best Generals planned a counteroffesive -
Germans Captured
Soviet forces had encircled some 290,000 men east of the Don. -
Air Support
A successful pincer movement by the Red Army had almost the entire German 6th Army trapped inside Stalingrad. Around 230,000 troops in total now found themselves at the mercy of their top command. Sealing their fate Hitler would now make his second major mistake in Stalingrad. -
Battle Ended
There were around 750,000 German casualties and about 1.1 million casualties (The US lost 416,000 men in the whole war) -
Pavlov's House.
Junior Sergeant Yakov Pavlov was only twenty four years old when he was ordered to lead an assault on an apartment building adjacent to the River Volga, little did he know during what turned out to be a disastrous assault that the very building he was sent to seize would soon be named in his honor. -
Germans Starving
General Paulus surrendered what remained of his army-some 91,000 men. About 150,000 Germans had died in the fighting.
Hitler wold not let his men leave. They could have fought there way through it. Hitler made them stand there ground. So, the Germans starved from Hitler decsion.
