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  2. Battle of Stalingrad - Wikipedia

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    Romanian soldiers near Stalingrad German soldiers as prisoners of war. In the background is the heavily fought-over Stalingrad grain elevator. Germans dead in the city. By the time of the encirclement, approximately 330,000 Axis personnel, including Germans, Romanians, Italians, and Croatians, were trapped.

  3. 6th Army (Wehrmacht) - Wikipedia

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    The 6th Army (German: 6. Armee) was a field army of the German Army during World War II. It is widely known for its defeat by and subsequent surrender to the Red Army at the Battle of Stalingrad on 2 February 1943.

  4. Friedrich Paulus - Wikipedia

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    Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) during World War II who is best known for his surrender of the German 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad (July 1942 to February 1943).

  5. Operation Koltso - Wikipedia

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    He was immediately relieved of his command by Paulus. Seydlitz-Kurzbach later fled the German lines under German fire and personally surrendered to the Soviets. [13] On 26 January, detachments of 21st Army met up with the 13th Guards Division to the north of the Mamaev Kurgan, which cut the Axis pocket in Stalingrad in two. Paulus and many of ...

  6. Bombing of Stalingrad - Wikipedia

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    Stalingrad, a Soviet city and industrial centre on the river Volga, was bombed heavily by the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II.German land forces comprising the 6th Army had advanced to the suburbs of Stalingrad by August 1942.

  7. Axis order of battle at the Battle of Stalingrad - Wikipedia

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    The Axis order of battle at Stalingrad is a list of the significant land units that fought in the Battle of Stalingrad on the side of the Axis Powers between September 1942 and February 1943. Apart from the twenty divisions of the German Wehrmacht, eighteen Romanian divisions took part in the battle on the Axis side as well.

  8. This WWII Sniper Turned the Battlefield Into His Hunting Ground

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    Confirmed kills: 400 Army: Soviet Union Vasily Zaitsev was a renowned sniper in the Soviet military. He reportedly engaged in a high-stakes duel during the Battle of Stalingrad with a German ...

  9. The Motherland Calls - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Stalingrad was a major conflict between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front of World War II, fought over six months from July 1942 to February 1943. [1] The battle resulted in a decisive Soviet victory but came at a tremendous cost, with over a million estimated Soviets suffered casualties. [2]