Where is Stalingrad?

Answer 1

Stalingrad is the name of a city in Russia, which used to be called Tsaritsyn from 1589 to 1925 when the name was changed to Stalingrad. Now it is called Volgograd because of its location on the Volga River. Stalingrad was laid siege to during World War Two by the Germans, which means that no supplies were allowed into the city. The siege lasted over 800 days. Most of the population of the city died, but the city never fell. Over 1,200,000 Russians died at Stalingrad. And each man had a life expectancy of 24 hours, IF they were able to cross the Volga River.

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The Russians launched an attack that surrounded and cut-off the German VI Army. The Germans held out with supplies and re-inforcements brought in by air. Eventually the German VI Army surrendered and Stalingrad remained in Russian control.

The Russians defended the city because it was named after their Dictator.

Stalingrad is now called Volgograd. St Petersburg was not called Stalingrad, but was for a short time named Leningrad.

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Stalingrad, now Volgograd, is a city situated in Russia on the Volga river. It's well-known for the battle that took place there from 1942-43.

In early 1942, the Germans were pushing forward through the southern areas of the Eastern Front. The Russians, too weak to fight up front at this point in this region, had been performing tactical retreats. Quickly the German advance arrived at the city of Stalingrad on the Volga river. Fighting in the ruined urban landscape bogged down. Germans struggled to push deeper into the city while Russia gathered what forces it could spare from the fight in the city. On 11/19, a massive encirclement operation was launched by the USSR, successfully trapping the German sixth army. German attempts to break through the Soviet encirclement and send supplies by air to the sixth army all failed. By 2/3/1943, the sixth army had surrendered and the USSR effectively won the battle. Estimates for casualties are unreliable but it is thought that each side suffered in the neighborhood of 500,000 KIA and enormous amounts of other casualties. Stalingrad is generally considered the bloodiest battle in history.

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This was an unimportant city, Hitler though hated Stalin so much that he diverted all of 7th army to take it, this was half of the force sent to take the oil fields down south. The Russians fortified the city and lost most of it except for a few key strong holds on the city side of the Volger, the Russians resupplies there troops by holding these positions. German Genarl Von Manshtin was in charge of the occupation and when he was surrounded and wanted to break through to the German side Hitler refused and said the Luftwaffa (the German air force) would supply them from the air. They did not reserve enough supplies so they had to surrender.

Casualties of Russia in Stalingrad (1,200,000) Russian KIA and over (300,000) Germans KIA or MIA, (90,000) SURRENDERED and less than 4000 Germans in Russian captivity ever returned home. Within one year and 11 months, the Russians had crossed the Odor River, Berlin's defenses mounted over 45,000 Germans, mostly recruits of old and too young to fight the Russians. But the German defence of Berlin was beyond all question. The revenge of Stalingrad was taken out on the defenceless civilians and surrendering soldiers of Germany, 300 German citizens committed suicide within weeks of the Russian noose, and over 93,000 German Women were raped and killed. No surrender, no retreat for Germans, kill or be killed...

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Stalingrad's definition is also a city put under the USSR leader himself Joseph Stalin. (Stalin means man of steel) or (leader) therefore Stalingrad means

(Stalin) as in Joseph Stalin, and (grad) or (Город) which is the Russian word for city. So (The leader's city) pretty much! or Stalin's City
The Battle of Stalingrad started on Sunday 23rd August 1942.

Answer 2

On June 28, 1942 the Germans launched Operation Blue in the southern sector of the Eastern Front. In prelude to the battle the German high command divided army group South into Army Group A and Army Group B. Army group A under the command of General von List consisted of the 4th Romanian Army, the 1st Panzer Army, the 11th Army and the 17th Army. Their main objectives was to capture and control the Caucus mountains region, with the ultimate objective for the 1st Panzer Army under General von Kleist being the Baku oil fields. Army Group B under the command of General von Wiechs consisted of the 2nd Army, the 3rd Romanian Army, the 2nd Hungarian Army, the 6th Army, the 8th Italian Army, and the 4th Panzer Army. This Groups objective was to gain control of the Volga River, eventually leading them to the city of Stalingrad. Many of Hitlers advisers thought that he was stretching their lines too thin by trying to capture everything at once; a thought shared my many of todays his

torians. Nevertheless, Hitler claimed infallibility and continued with his plan.

The first German soldiers reached the Volga on August 23, 1942 and on that same day Stalingrad was hit by one of the most devastating bombings in the war thus far. The Germans entered the city on September 13 of that year and by mid October had secured almost the entire city. However, the Russians refused to give up and continued to hold out. Then on November 19, 1942 the tide of the battle was turned as the Russian commanders Zhukov and Vasilevsky launched Operation Uranus. The attack broke through he weaker flanks of the attack force consisting of the Romanian Armies and in a large pincer movement was able to trap the German forces at Stalingrad in a huge pocket which came to be know as the Kessel (the Cauldron). Hitler ordered General Paulus, the commander of the 6th Army, not to attempt to break out but rather to fight on. Once again Hitlers advisers advocated against this decision, but the promise of the Reichsmarschall, Herman Goering, that the Luftwaffe would be able

to resupply the troops trapped within the Kessel helped to persuade him. However, the Goering was not able to follow though on his promise and the Luftwaffe fell far short of its goal.

Life in the Kessel was brutal. At the worst points in the battle over 1,000 men would die each day. Most of those deaths were caused not by combat but by freezing and starvation. The temperature frequently dropped below 40 C and many soldiers were without proper winter clothing due to the fact that they had entered the city in the fall. The soldiers had to resort to eating horses and even their fallen comrades, as cannibalism was not uncommon within the Kessel.

On December 12, 1942 the Germans launched Operation Winter Storm, under the command of Field Marshal von Manstein, in an attempt to save the trapped German troops. The rescue force was the 48th Panzer Corps including the 6th, 17th, and 23rd Panzer divisions. For a short time it seemed hopeful for the Germans but that quickly changed as they were bogged down by bad whether and Russian counter attacks. By December 29, 1942 the Operation had failed after an attack by the Russian 51st Army drove the relief force out of the immediate area. Hitler then called the Operation off and destroyed all hope of a German victory at Stalingrad.

The Russians fought on making the size of the pocket smaller and smaller each day until the final surrender of Field Marshal Paulus on February 2, 1943, ending the battle of Stalingrad. After the German surrender the Southern front was on the verge of a complete collapse. However, the Germans were able to reform and under the command of General von Manstein, the new commander of the combined Army Group South, were able to stabilize the front and retake the city of Kharkov in attacks from March 7- March 17, 1943. The stage was thus set for the Germans Operation Zitadelle.

Answer 3

The Americans fought to keep German subs from isolating Great Britain.

Wrong.

Stalingrad was a Russian city that was on the path of the German advance. The Russians did not want the Germans to capture the city named for their President. The battle of Stalingrad began in July 1942 and the struggle lasted in to the winter of 1943. The Germans (with support from their Italian ally) managed to enter the city but could not hold it.

Eventually, the Russians surrounded the German army. Hitler refused to allow the Germans to break out to safety. The Luftwaffe tried to keep the encircled army supplied with food and ammo. Eventually the German VI Army surrendered and Stalingrad was not captured---but it was virtually destroyed.

the soilders were frozen to death and their equipment too. that's why they surrenderd

The battle of Stalingrad began in July 1942 - wrong

The first German forces didn't arrive until late August/early September.

The Germans (with support from their Italian ally) - unfortunately the Italians weren't of great support to the Germans, and along with their Romanian and Hungarian allies was the leading cause of why the Russians were able to encircle the massive German Army in Stalingrad. Starting in November the Russians targeted the weak Romanian forces on the German flanks and then in December thru January decimated the Italian and Hungarian forces on the flanks of the city leaving the Germans cut off and encircled inside.

The battle of Stalingrad lasted from 23 August 1942 - 2 February 1943 with the Red Army victorious .

Answer 4

The southern Russian city of Stalingrad was a major industrial city, producing tanks, among other equipment, for the Soviet war effort. In terms of location, the city sat on the flank of the route toward the oil fields in the Caucasus region, while it was also a major transportation center between northern Russia and the Caspian Sea. Finally, the mere fact that it bore the name of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gave more the reason for Adolf Hitler to conquer the city for morale reasons.

In the summer of 1942, German, Italian, Romanian, Hungarian, and Croatian forces, organized as the German Army Group South (B), which contained the 6th Army under Colonel General Friedrich Paulus and the 4th Panzer Army under Hermann Hoth, marched toward Stalingrad. The initial attacks were very successful, thus Hitler transferred the 4th Panzer Army away from the Stalingrad offensive to join Army Group South (A), which was moving toward the Caucasus oil fields. This move, however, caused major traffic jams on the inadequate road systems of Russia, slowing the offensive plans upwards of a week. With this delay in mind, Hitler changed his mind and re-assigned the 4th Panzer Army back into Army Group South (B) for Stalingrad. By the end of Jul 1942, the Germans had forced their way across the Don River. At this point, the Germans began deploying Italian, Romanian, Hungarian, and Croatian forces on their northern flank, leaving the attack of Stalingrad to the German forces. The only exception was the Croatian 369th Reinforced Infantry Regiment, which fought alongside the German 100th Jaeger Division.

Stalin recognized the threat to Stalingrad and appointed Marshal Andrey Yeryomenko on 1 Aug 1942 as the commanding officer of the Southeastern Front to plan the defense. Political commissar Nikita Khrushchev was assigned to assist Yeryomenko. Among the first orders Yeryomenko issued was to move the city's grain, cattle, and railroad cars east across the Volga River. Then, he organized the Soviet units immediately to the east of the Volga River into the 62nd Army, which was later placed in command of Lieutenant General Vasiliy Chuikov on 11 Sep 1942.

The first attacks on the city came in the form of aerial strikes conducted by the German Luftflotte 4 under the command of Colonel General Wolfram von Richthofen, targeting shipping on the Volga River and known defensive fortifications. Between 25 and 31 Jul, 32 Soviet ships were sunk on the river, and a further 9 were seriously damaged. As for the city, it received about 1,000 tons of bombs, which damaged about 80% of its structures. As the oil tanks exploded and their contents spilled, "[t]orrents of burning oil and petrol flowed into the Volga until the river itself was in flames.... Stalingrad became a gigantic pile of ruins and debris stretching along the banks of the Volga." On 23 Aug, a massive air bombardment caused a firestorm that killed thousands. The Soviet Air Force was generally ineffective in countering the aerial attacks. By 31 Aug, only 192 aircraft were operable, and only 57 of them were fighters. Despite German air superiority and the heavy bombardments, however, some of the factories continued their work, turning out tanks and war supplies until they could no longer do so, and at that time the workers were conscripted into the Soviet Army.

By the end of Aug, the German Army Group South (B) had reached the Volga River north of Stalingrad. By 1 Sep, the Soviet forces could only reinforce the city by crossing the river as the city was now surrounded on three sides. Meanwhile, river crossings continued to be subjected to German attacks, now both by air and by artillery pieces. To preserve the strength of the Soviet regulars, Chuikov deployed women and conscripted civilians as the first line of defense. A post-engagement report written by an officer of the German 16th Panzer Division noted that the fight to silent 37 anti-aircraft batteries (used in anti-tank roles) was difficult, and he was shocked to find out afterwards that they were crewed by women. In the morning of 5 Sep, the Soviet 24th Army and 66th Army launched a counter-offensive against the German XIV Panzer Corps, but it was driven back at the face of superior firepower, particularly from the air, which destroyed 30 out of the 120 tanks that the Soviet forces lost in the attack. On 18 Sep, the Soviet 1st Guards Army and the 24th Army launched an offensive against VIII. Armeekorps at Kotluban near Stalingrad. Again, German Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers played an important role in repulsing the attack, destroying 41 out of the 106 Soviet tanks destroyed in the morning; Bf 109 fighters also shot down 77 Soviet fighters during the engagement. By the end of Sep, Chuikov had realized that he could not sustain a battle of attrition, thus he decided to dig in to the cityscape, thus minimizing the German advantage of the control of air. Additionally, he also developed the "hugging" tactic which kept his front lines very close to the German lines; this also deprived the Germans of the ability to use dive bombers to support the ground troops due to the risk of hitting German troops.

Back on 28 Jul 1942, Stalin had issued the Order Number 227, disallowing defending Soviet troops to take even a step back. Khrushchev and other political commissars dispatched to Stalingrad were those who policed this order. All who withdrew from the front lines were considered deserters and cowards, and they were brought before a military tribunal, which usually delivered death sentences or transferred the accused to penal battalions. There were also incidences where deserters were shot on the spot. Even as the battle fought on and more and more of the city slowly turned into rubble, Stalin continued to also forbid the civilians from evacuating; instead, they were ordered to join the fight or to help construct defensive structures. Any civilian discovered to be evacuating the city in secret, like their military counterparts, were also in violation of Order Number 227.

The battle for Stalingrad turned into bitter street fighting by this time. Every building was turned into Soviet fortresses, and even the sewer tunnels became battlegrounds. The railroad station became the scene of ferocious combat; on a particularly violent day, the marshalling yards exchanged hands 14 times within six hours, with the Germans finally capturing it only because the Soviet unit deployed there had been completely wiped out. At an apartment building at the edge of a square in the city center, Yakov Pavlov's platoon defended against waves after waves of German attacks. The German efforts to capture this apartment building was so costly that the Germans marked the building as a fortress on their field maps, while the Soviets nicknamed it "Pavlov's House". At his command bunker, Chuikov said that "Stalingrad could be seized by the enemy on one condition only if every one of the defending soldiers were killed."

While the German Luftwaffe controlled the air during the day, Soviet air force sneaked small scale bombing raids at night. These attacks were generally ineffectively and were regarded more so as a nuisance rather than a threat.

With the city gradually being reduced to rubble, snipers on both sides became more and more active as they began to gain more and more hiding spots. The most successful Soviet sniper was Vasily Zaytsev, who claimed somewhere between 200 to 400 kills; he became an effective centerpiece for Soviet Propaganda aimed at raising morale.

On 5 Oct, 900 dive bombing sorties were flown against Soviet positions at the Dzerzhinskiy Tractor Factory, wiping out entire regiments of troops entrenched there. On 14 Oct, 2,000 sorties were flown, dropping 600 tons of bombs against various Soviet positions. By this time, the Soviet forces in Stalingrad were forced into a 910-meter strip of land on the bank of the Volga River, running out of supplies due to the German control of the air over the river. Also on 14 Oct, a renewed German attack against the Soviet forces, pushing for the following 10 days, but they failed to eliminate final Soviet foothold on the west bank of the Volga River. On 8 Nov, the Luftwaffe at Stalingrad took a heavy blow not from the Soviets but rather from Hitler, who had transferred entire units of Luftflotte 4 to southern Europe in response to the Allied landings in North Africa. The Soviet Air Force suddenly found an opportunity to rival the German air forces in the region, right at the time when Moscow was planning on launching a major counter-offensive to take advantage of the oncoming winter and its effects on German tanks.

On 19 Nov 1942, the Soviet offensive, Operation Uranus, was launched, oversaw by Marshal Georgi Zhukov and tactically led by General Nikolai Vatutin. The Soviet 1st Guards Army, the 5th Tank Army, and the 21st Army shattered the northern flank, manned by the Romanian 3rd Army, on the first day. Silesian soldier of the German Sixth Army Joachim Wieder recalled the fighting:The 19th of November will live in my memory as a day of black disaster. At the break of dawn on this gloomy, foggy day in the late autumn, during which lashing snowstorms were soon to appear,... Russians attacked like lightning from the north and the following day from the east, pressing our entire Sixth Army into an iron vice.

On 20 Nov, two additional Soviet armies joined in on the attack. By 21 Nov, the third day of the offensive, the Soviets had already surrounded Stalingrad along with 290,000 Axis troops inside. Hitler's advisors immediately suggested the troops trapped within to break out and form a new line at the western bank of the Don River, but Hitler refused, while chief of the LuftwaffeHermann G

Answer 5

When the lousy Nazis invaded the Russian town of Stalingrad. The USSR won

Answer 6

Russia