Battle of Stalingrad

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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.

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instanceOf World War II battle
battle
military conflict
alsoKnownAs Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad
surface form: Stalingrad Campaign
belligerent Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
characterizedBy encirclement
high casualties
urban warfare
cityRenamedAs Volgograd
commemoratedBy Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex
Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex
surface form: 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
surface form: 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 Soviet-German Front
surface form: Nazi–Soviet War

Soviet-German Front
surface form: World War II on the Eastern Front

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Hungarian Army units participatedIn Battle of Stalingrad
Germany in World War II militaryCampaign Battle of Stalingrad
Filipp Golikov participatedIn Battle of Stalingrad
Antony Beevor hasWrittenAbout Battle of Stalingrad
German summer offensive of 1942 keyBattle Battle of Stalingrad
Georgy Zakharov participatedIn Battle of Stalingrad
Erwin König settingOfActivity Battle of Stalingrad
Stalingrad area siteOf Battle of Stalingrad
Sergei Biryuzov participatedIn Battle of Stalingrad
Battle for Tsaritsyn followedBy Battle of Stalingrad
Stalingrad strategic offensive operation partOf Battle of Stalingrad
Stalingrad of the East namedForSimilarityTo Battle of Stalingrad
Vasiliy Grossman coveredEvent Battle of Stalingrad
6th Panzer Division participatedIn Battle of Stalingrad
royal Hungarian army engagedIn Battle of Stalingrad
subject surface form: Royal Hungarian Army
64th Army notableFor Battle of Stalingrad
Gustav Anton von Wietersheim participatedIn Battle of Stalingrad
Stalingrad Tractor Factory battle Battle of Stalingrad
Soviet 16th Air Army notableOperation Battle of Stalingrad