WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE EUROPEAN THEATER IN WWII
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Battle where hundreds of thousands died
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Battle to control the city that was gate to Russian oil fields
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Turning point in war when Germans were first pushed back, hundreds of thousands died and Germans not allowed to get to valuable Russian oil fields.
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Battle for Stalin’s hometown
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Detailed explanation-1: -Russians consider it to be one of the greatest battles of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favour of the Allies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Then, late that summer, the Nazi leader attacked Stalingrad. That decision led to Germany’s first major Eastern Front defeat and became the turning point of World War II. “If you look at the whole operation, the Soviets essentially wiped out the German Sixth Army and a Panzer army…
Detailed explanation-3: -Stalingrad was one of the most decisive battles on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. The Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army in and around this strategically important city on the Volga river, which bore the name of the Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.