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Battle of Stalingrad
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II

Clockwise from top left:
(1) Soviet 76.2 mm ZiS-3 field gun, in firing position.
(2) Red Army soldiers on roof of house.
(3) German Ju 87 after a dive bomber attack.
(4) Axis POWs (Germans, Italians, Romanians, Hungarians)
(5) Soviet troops fighting in a destroyed workshop.
(6) German Sturmgeschütz III on the move.
Date17 July 1942[Note 2] – 2 February 1943[Note 3]
(6 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
Location
Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
(now Volgograd, Russia)
48°42′N 44°31′E / 48.700°N 44.517°E / 48.700; 44.517
Result

Soviet victory

  • Destruction of the German 6th Army
  • Destruction of the Italian 8th Army
  • 99% of Stalingrad is destroyed
Territorial
changes
Expulsion of the Axis forces from the Caucasus, reversing their gains from the 1942 Summer Campaign
Belligerents
  • Battle of Stalingrad Germany
  • Battle of Stalingrad Romania
  • Battle of Stalingrad Italy
  • Battle of Stalingrad Hungary
  • Battle of Stalingrad Croatia[Note 1]
Battle of Stalingrad Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
  • Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler
  • Nazi Germany Maximilian von Weichs
  • Nazi Germany Friedrich Paulus Surrendered
  • Nazi Germany Hermann Hoth
  • Nazi Germany Erich von Manstein
  • Nazi Germany W. F. von Richthofen
  • Kingdom of Romania Petre Dumitrescu
  • Kingdom of Romania C. Constantinescu
  • Fascist Italy Italo Gariboldi
  • Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946) Gusztáv Jány
  • Soviet Union Joseph Stalin
  • Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov
  • Soviet Union Nikolay Voronov
  • Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky
  • Soviet Union Andrey Yeremenko
  • Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky
  • Soviet Union Nikolai Vatutin
  • Soviet Union Vasily Chuikov
Units involved

Nazi Germany Army Group B:

  • Nazi Germany 6th Army
  • Nazi Germany 4th Panzer Army
  • Kingdom of Romania 3rd Army
  • Kingdom of Romania 4th Army
  • Fascist Italy 8th Army
  • Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946) 2nd Army

Nazi Germany Army Group Don[Note 4]

  • Nazi Germany 6th Army
  • Nazi Germany 4th Panzer Army
  • Nazi Germany 1st Panzer Army
  • Kingdom of Romania 3rd Army

Soviet Union Stalingrad Front:

  • 28th Army
  • 51st Army
  • 57th Army
  • 62nd Army
  • 64th Army

Soviet Union Don Front[Note 5]

  • 24th Army
  • 65th Army
  • 66th Army

Soviet Union Southwestern Front[Note 6]

  • 1st Guards Army
  • 5th Tank Army
  • 21st Army
Strength
Initial:
  • 270,000 personnel
  • 3,000 artillery pieces
  • 500 tanks
  • 600 aircraft, 1,600 by mid-September (Luftflotte 4)[Note 7][1]


At the time of the Soviet counter-offensive:
  • c. 600,000–1,011,000 men[2][3]
  • 400,000 Germans
  • 200,000 Romanians
  • 640+ tanks
  • 732 (402 operational) aircraft[4]
Initial:
  • 187,000 personnel
  • 2,200 artillery pieces
  • 400 tanks
  • 300 aircraft[5]




At the time of the Soviet counter-offensive:
  • 1,103,000–1,143,500 men[3][6]
  • 13,451 artillery pieces
  • 894 tanks[6]
  • 1,115 aircraft[7]
Casualties and losses
  • 800,000[8]–1,500,000 casualties[9]
  • Nazi Germany Germany:
    300,000+ (6th Army and
    4th Panzer Army)[10][11][12]
    400,000+(all units)[13]
  • Fascist Italy Italy:
    114,000[14]–114,520[11]
  • Kingdom of Romania Romania:
    109,000[14]–158,854[11]
  • Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946) Hungary:
    143,000[11]
  • Hiwi: 19,300–52,000[15]
  • 900 aircraft destroyed
  • 1,500 tanks destroyed
  • 6,000 guns destroyed
  • 744 aircraft; 1,666 tanks; 5,762 guns captured
See casualties section.
  • Soviet Union 1,129,619–2,672,000 casualties[16]
    478,741–2,000,000 killed or missing
    650,878–672,000+ wounded or sick
  • 2,769 aircraft
  • 4,341 tanks (25–30% were total write-offs.[17])
  • 15,728 guns
See casualties section.
Total dead: 1,000,000–3,000,000+[18][19][20][16][21]

The Battle of Stalingrad[Note 8] (17 July 1942 – 2 February 1943)[22][23][24][25] was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (later renamed Volgograd) in Southern Russia. The battle was characterized by fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids, with the battle epitomizing urban warfare,[26][27][28][29][30][31] and it was the single largest and costliest urban battle in the history of warfare.[32][33][26][34][35] It was the bloodiest and fiercest battle of the entire Second World War, and arguably in all of history, with both sides enduring ferocious fighting and suffering massive casualties.[36][37][38][39][40][41][42] Today, the Battle of Stalingrad is often regarded as the turning point in the European theatre of war,[43] as the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (German High Command) was forced to withdraw considerable military forces from other areas in occupied Europe to replace German losses on the Eastern Front, ending with the rout of the six field armies of Army Group B, including the destruction of Nazi Germany's 6th Army and an entire corps of its 4th Panzer Army.[44] The Soviet victory energized the Red Army and shifted the balance of power in the favour of the Soviets.

Stalingrad was of great strategic importance for both sides, as it was the largest industrial center of the Soviet Union and an important transport hub on the Volga River.[45][46] Whoever controlled Stalingrad would therefore gain access to the oil fields of the Caucasus and would control the Volga.[47] Stalingrad also had significant symbolic importance as it bore the name of Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union.[47] Germany was already operating on dwindling fuel supplies, and as a result, focused its efforts on moving deeper into Soviet territory and taking the oil fields at any cost. The German forces first clashed with the Stalingrad Front on the distant approaches to Stalingrad on 17 July. On 23 August, the Germans launched an offensive by using the 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. The attack was supported by intense Luftwaffe bombing that reduced much of the city to rubble. The battle degenerated into house-to-house fighting as both sides poured reinforcements into the city. By mid-November, the Germans, at great cost, had pushed the Soviet defenders back into narrow zones along the west bank of the river. Winter conditions became particularly brutal,[29] with temperatures reaching as low as −40 °C (−40 °F) in the second half of November,[48] and −30 °C (−22 °F) in late January.[49]

On 19 November, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus, a two-pronged attack targeting the Romanian armies protecting the 6th Army's flanks.[50] The Axis flanks were overrun and the 6th Army was cut off and surrounded in the Stalingrad area. Adolf Hitler was determined to hold the city at all costs and forbade the 6th Army from trying a breakout; instead, attempts were made to supply it by air and to break the encirclement from the outside. The Soviets were successful in preventing the Germans from delivering enough supplies through the air to the trapped Axis forces. Nevertheless, heavy fighting continued for another two months. On 2 February 1943, the German 6th Army, having exhausted their ammunition and food, finally capitulated after over five months of fighting, making it the first of Hitler's field armies to surrender in World War II.[51]

The Soviet victory is commemorated in Russia as the Day of Military Honour. The battle has also become ingrained in popular culture.


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