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  2. Battle of Stalingrad - Wikipedia

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    Also from her research, Pavlova states that "The losses of the civilian population of Stalingrad are 32.3% higher than the losses of the population of Hiroshima from the atomic bombing" and that "In Stalingrad, an absolute world record was set for the mass destruction of the civilian population during World War II."

  3. Operation Uranus - Wikipedia

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    Operation Uranus (Russian: Опера́ция «Ура́н», romanized: Operatsiya "Uran") was a Soviet 19–23 November 1942 strategic operation on the Eastern Front of World War II which led to the encirclement of Axis forces in the vicinity of Stalingrad: the German Sixth Army, the Third and Fourth Romanian armies, and portions of the German Fourth Panzer Army.

  4. 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.

  5. Italian Army in Russia - Wikipedia

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    Italian soldiers on the Russian Front, with a Breda 30 machine gun. Breda Mod. 30 was the basic light machine gun of the Italian army during World War II. As was the complaint of General Messe with the CSIR, the ARMIR was short of adequate winter equipment. [8] Infantry small arms were also often inadequate.

  6. 6th Army (Wehrmacht) - Wikipedia

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    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. It committed war crimes at Babi Yar while under the command of Field Marshal Walther von Reichenau during Operation Barbarossa.

  7. Volgograd Tractor Plant - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, the plant was retooled to produce military equipment and weapons for the Soviet Red Army, most notably the T-34 tank. [3] The plant became world-famous during the Battle of Stalingrad.

  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. Volgograd - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, German and Axis forces attacked the city, which, in 1942, became the site of one of the war's pivotal battles. The Battle of Stalingrad was the deadliest single battle in the history of warfare (casualties estimates vary between 1,250,000 [24] and 2,500,000 [25] [26]).