By Denis Dyomkin. The victory in the six-month Battle of Stalingrad, which killed about 2 million people, is a symbol of national pride that has produced an outburst of patriotic fervor and, for some, nostalgia for the Soviet era and dictator Josef Stalin. President Vladimir Putin flew to Volgograd, which was known as Stalingrad from until He laid a wreath and met veterans after a military parade led by soldiers in World War Two uniforms and featuring a wartime T tank.
Our grandfathers, our fathers, our older generation, our great leaders, fought here for each building, for each street. He was held in Russia until his release in , after which he lived in Dresden in communist East Germany. He died in , still trying to explain himself to anyone who would listen. No one knows for sure what the total casualties were for the Stalingrad campaign. The numbers in official reports of killed, wounded, and captured are unreliable and in conflict with each other.
It is not always clear what is being counted and some claims are transparently spurious. Estimates range from a low of about two million—, Axis and 1,, Soviet—to a high of four million—1.
There is no record of how many civilians were killed and injured. The effort to take the oil fields failed. The strategic initiative passed to the Soviets and the Germans began their long retreat, leading up to the fall of Berlin in Medals were awarded to all , surviving Russians who had taken part in the battle.
John T. Correll was editor in chief of Air Force Magazine for 18 years and is now a contributor. Skip to content. By John T. Soviet soldiers fight at Stalingrad. Photo by RIA Novosti. Hitler Looks South Despite the substantial casualties in the Moscow campaign in , German forces on the Eastern front in had 2. From the Don to the Volga The arena for the offensive was the steppes of southern Russia, a vast treeless plain divided by two great rivers, the Don and the Volga, which flowed from north to south.
Rattenkrieg Within two weeks, the Germans controlled half of the city, but they were stuck with fighting in a style that favored Chuikov and the Russians. Encirclement Undetected by German intelligence, Zhukov had been building up forces and stockpiling supplies and munitions. Airlift At his mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden Nov. Surrender Zhukov poured more troops into the battle and steadily tightened his pressure on the pocket.
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It is known as the Battle of Stalingrad and the number of people who were killed in the fighting was huge. Germany invaded the Soviet Union in The battle of Stalingrad began in August , when German troops tried to take control of the city.
Stalingrad was felt to be an important city in Germany's effort to take control of the south of Russia and the oilfields in that region. It was also symbolically important to the Germans, as the city was named after the Russian leader at the time, Joseph Stalin who, for his part, told the Russian army to defend the city at all costs - "Not a step backwards". The brutal battle resulted in huge destruction in the city, caused by intense bombardment that turned buildings into rubble.
The fighting between the soldiers was also intense on the ground and went from house to house. In November of that year, three Soviet armies counter-attacked from outside the city. They cut off the German armies from their supplies and managed to trap thousands of German soldiers inside the city. Learning about the battles our ancestors faced can make it easier for us to face our own. FamilySearch Blog. About FamilySearch. For Latter-day Saints.
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