USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Battle of Stalingrad is considered to be one of the greatest battles of World War II. It marked a turning point in the war and significantly weakened Germany’s military forces.

Detailed explanation-2: -Battle of Stalingrad Ends By February 1943, Russian troops had retaken Stalingrad and captured nearly 100, 000 German soldiers, though pockets of resistance continued to fight in the city until early March. Most of the captured soldiers died in Russian prison camps, either as a result of disease or starvation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: , romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the winter of 1942/43, Hitler sacrificed twenty-two divisions through his command to hold out at Stalingrad. More than 100, 000 German soldiers fell, froze, or starved to death even before the surrender of the Sixth Army. Over 90, 000 men ended up in Soviet prisoner-of-war camps-only around 6, 000 of them survived.

Detailed explanation-5: -The German 6th Army was only a few dozen kilometres from Stalingrad. The 4th Panzer Army, ordered south on 13 July to block the Soviet retreat “weakened by the 17th Army and the 1st Panzer Army", had turned northwards to help take the city from the south.