Stalingrad

After the encirclement of the German 9th Flak Division at Stalingrad it was the only Axis AA defence unit in the area.

Battle of Stalingrad was a turning point in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, which will fundamentally change the war situation.

Prior to the Soviet siege of Stalingrad, the German supply disruptions, and then the heat of battle, only a few ounces of bread a day.

Moreover, I shall tell you frankly, our command did not know, whether Paulus was still in the Stalingrad pocket or he was already flown out.

The Battle Of Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in human history, was one of the major turning points of World War II.

In three days of fighting as murderous as any of the legionnaires had seen at Stalingrad, the last trenches were overrun.

With little or no shelter from the winter cold in and around Stalingrad, German troops were further weakened by a lack of food and supplies.

The war might turn into a miniature Stalingrad.

Soviet infantrymen move across snow-covered hills around Stalingrad, on their advance to lift the German siege of the city in early 1943.

The siege of Gaza might not look like the siege of Stalingrad, but a siege it is.

The German Moscow campaign of failure, for stalingrad transitions that war laid a foundation.

A scene of devastation as an abandoned horse stands among the ruins of Stalingrad in December of 1942.

According to the calender, at Stalingrad as in the rest of the world it was now Christmas.

eg. Soviet victory in Stalingrad turned the tide of the war in Europe.

At the Battle of Stalingrad, 50, 000 Soviet citizens, including turn coats, volunteers and conscripts, were fighting on the German side.

The German forces suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Stalingrad .

We remember Marshal Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov, commander for defending Stalingrad. Soviet Hero.

A German soldier with a machine gun during the Battle of Stalingrad, in Spring of 1942.

It became one of symbols of the Stalingrad battle.

Germany "Zossen attacks on schools, " the principal, Erwin. Keni Ge Maj. be sent to Stalingrad to eliminate Vasile.

Despite great suffering, Soviet defenders refused to give up Stalingrad.

Listening to this cheery programme in Stalingrad, the soldiers cursed or laughed, depending upon each man's temperment.

Of the three hundred thousand Germans attacking Stalingrad, only ninety thousand starving soldiers were left.

Army Group South should have fought a war of maneuver rather than concentrating on Stalingrad.

Ruins of part of the city of Stalingrad, on November 5, 1942, following huge battles, with wrecked shells of buildings on either side.

German troops pass through a wrecked generating station in the factory district of Stalingrad, on December 28, 1942.

Because from the very Stalingrad to Germany's border we were advancing under the slogan: Kill a German!

Let the nightmare of Stalingrad haunt on our enemies.

Stalingrad in October of 1942, Soviet soldiers fighting in the ruins of the factory "Red October" .

We remember sergeant Yakov Pavlov. His combat unit successfully defended a mansion in Stalingrad for over 60 days.

More attention is paid nowadays to the battles for Moscow and Stalingrad.

But now, following the battle for the defence of Stalingrad, the situation will be totally different from that of last year.

Sometime in the Autumn 1942, a German soldier hangs a Nazi flag from a building in downtown Stalingrad.

German troops involved in street fighting in the destroyed streets of Stalingrad in early 1943.

Germany's Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus at Red Army Headquarters for interrogation at Stalingrad, Russia, on March 1, 1943.

In October of 1942, a German Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" dive bomber attacks during the Battle of Stalingrad.

German soldiers advance outside Stalingrad late in 1942.

Stalingrad in February 1943 marked the turn of the tide in Russia.

In January of 1943, a Soviet T-34 tank roars through the Square of Fallen Fighters in Stalingrad.

Vasily Zaytsev, a Soviet sniper during World War II, was notable particularly for his part in the Battle of Stalingrad .

The Battle of Stalingrad sealedHitler's doom.

At Stalingrad our regiment shot down around 100 planes in 2 months.

The Red Army's defence of Stalingrad in these forty-eight days has a certain similarity to the defence of Moscow last year.

Stalingrad battle with the contest's final outcome

Stalingrad and the siege of York