Battle of Stalingrad

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World War II battle battle military conflict

The Battle of Stalingrad was a pivotal and brutal Eastern Front confrontation between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, whose Soviet victory marked a major turning point in World War II.

Aliases (14)

Battle of Stalingrad 1942–1943 ×2
Stalingrad strategic defensive operation ×2
defense of Stalingrad ×2
Battle of Stalingrad (peripheral sector) ×1
Battle of Stalingrad area operations ×1
Battle of Stalingrad campaign ×1
Soviet counteroffensive at Stalingrad ×1
Stalingrad Campaign ×1
Stalingrad campaign ×1
Stalingrad strategic offensive operation ×1
Stalingrad strategic offensive operations ×1
capture of Stalingrad ×1
defenders of Stalingrad ×1
surrender at Stalingrad ×1

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II battle → battle → military conflict →
alsoKnownAs	Stalingrad → Stalingrad Campaign →
belligerent	Nazi Germany → Soviet Union →
characterizedBy	encirclement → high casualties → urban warfare →
cityRenamedAs	Volgograd →
commemoratedBy	Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex → The Motherland Calls statue →
conflictIn	World War II →
countryInvolved	Nazi Germany → Soviet Union →
dateOfGerman6thArmySurrender	1943-02-02 →
endDate	1943-02-02 →
estimatedCasualties	over 1,000,000 →
followedBy	Battle of Kursk → Soviet winter counteroffensives of 1942–1943 →
hasCommander	Aleksandr Vasilevsky → Andrey Yeremenko → Friedrich Paulus → Georgy Zhukov → Hermann Hoth → Konstantin Rokossovsky → Vasily Chuikov → Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen →
hasMediaAdaptation	film "Enemy at the Gates" (2001) → film "Stalingrad" (1993) → numerous books and documentaries →
involvedMilitaryUnit	German 4th Panzer Army → German 6th Army → Hungarian 2nd Army → Italian 8th Army → Romanian 3rd Army → Romanian 4th Army → Soviet 62nd Army → Soviet 64th Army → Soviet Don Front → Soviet Southwestern Front → Soviet Stalingrad Front →
location	Russian SFSR → Soviet Union → Stalingrad →
notableEvent	surrender of the German 6th Army →
operation	Case Blue → Operation Blue → Operation Koltso → Operation Little Saturn → Operation Uranus →
partOf	Eastern Front of World War II →
precededBy	German summer offensive of 1942 →
result	Soviet victory →
startDate	1942-08-23 →
strategicObjective	control of Stalingrad → securing German southern flank in the Caucasus campaign → severing Soviet transport on the Volga River →
theater	Eastern Front →
turningPointOf	Nazi–Soviet War → World War II on the Eastern Front →

Referenced by (118)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
57th Army (Red Army) ("Stalingrad strategic offensive operations") → 6th Army → 8th Guards Army → Andrey Yeremenko → Anton Lopatin → Constantin Constantinescu-Claps → Hermann Hoth → Mikhail Shumilov → Nikolai Vatutin → Rodion Malinovsky → Vladimir Kolpakchi → Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen →	participatedIn
Eastern Front (World War II) → Erwin König → Oberkommando der Wehrmacht → Royal Romanian Air Force → Soviet 64th Army → Soviet Don Front → Soviet Stalingrad Front → Vasily Chuikov → Vassili Zaitsev → Wehrmacht →	conflict
ARMIR → Anton Lopatin ("defense of Stalingrad") → German 6th Army ("surrender at Stalingrad") → Nazi Germany → Soviet armed forces → Stalin era → Third Reich →	notableEvent
Case Blue → Operation Barbarossa → Operation Blue ("Soviet counteroffensive at Stalingrad") → Operation Braunschweig → Unternehmen Barbarossa →	followedBy
Battle of the Don Bend ("Stalingrad campaign") → Operation Koltso → Operation Uranus → Stalingrad strategic defensive operations (flank sector) → Stalingrad strategic defensive operations (flank sector) ("Stalingrad strategic defensive operation") →	partOf
Hall of Military Glory → Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex → Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex ("defenders of Stalingrad") → The Motherland Calls →	commemorates
40th Army Corps ("Battle of Stalingrad area operations") → Armata Italiana in Russia ("Battle of Stalingrad (peripheral sector)") → Army Group B → Axis forces on the Eastern Front →	engagedIn
Enemy at the Gates → Enemy at the Gates → Enemy at the Gates (film) → Stalingrad (1993 film) →	mainSubject
Don Front → European theatre of World War II → Hungarian 2nd Army → RKKA →	notableBattle
6th Army → 8th Guards Army → German 6th Army → Red Army →	notableFor
Romanian 4th Army → Soviet 64th Army ("Stalingrad strategic defensive operation") → Soviet 64th Army ("Stalingrad strategic offensive operation") →	engagement
Army Group B → Luftflotte 4 → Soviet Air Forces →	notableOperation
Georgy Zhukov → Konstantin Rokossovsky → Vasily Chuikov ("defense of Stalingrad") →	notableWork
OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres) → Square of Sorrow →	associatedWithEvent
Friedrich Paulus → Soviet 62nd Army →	battle
German 4th Panzer Army → German 6th Army →	operation
Battle of Kursk → Soviet winter counteroffensives of 1942–1943 →	precededBy
Operation Braunschweig → Operation Little Saturn →	relatedTo
Enemy at the Gates → Stalingrad (1993 film) →	setInEvent
Heer →	activeInConflict
Case Blue ("capture of Stalingrad") →	aimedAt
Battle of Stalingrad ("Stalingrad Campaign") →	alsoKnownAs
Major Erwin König →	battleDepicted
Volgograd ("Battle of Stalingrad 1942–1943") →	battleDuration
Soviet Don Front →	belligerentOf
Medal for the Defence of Stalingrad →	campaign
Medal for the Defence of Stalingrad ("Battle of Stalingrad 1942–1943") →	commemorativeEvent
Fall Blau →	consequence
The Motherland Calls →	dedicatedTo
World War II battles →	hasNotableBattle
World War II →	hasPart
Stalingrad →	historicallyKnownFor
Volgograd Oblast →	historicallySignificantFor
Case Blue →	includes
European Theater of Operations →	includesEvent
Enemy at the Gates →	inspiredBy
Soviet Red Army advance from the east →	keyBattle
Volgograd →	knownFor
Soviet-German Front →	majorOperation
Square of Sorrow →	memorialFor
Hungary in World War II →	militaryCampaign
Allied forces →	militaryOperation
Romanian 3rd Army →	notableEngagement
Rubén Ruiz Ibárruri →	participantIn
Army Group Don →	relatedEvent
middle Don River →	relatedMilitaryCampaign
Operation Mars →	relatedOperation
Luftwaffe →	roleInConflict
Tania Chernova →	setting
Fritz Reiser →	settingOfActivities
Rollo →	settingOfFiction
Otto →	settingOfStory
Hall of Military Glory →	significantEvent
Elena Rosetti-Solescu →	spouseNotableBattle
Commissar Danilov →	timePeriod
Italian 8th Army ("Battle of Stalingrad campaign") →	tookPartIn
Eastern Front (World War II) →	turningPoint