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 Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject: Why is Stalingrad considered one of the turning points? |
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Hey does anyone know why Stalingrad is considered one of the turning points in world war 2?
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject: Stalingrad |
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Oversimplifying a bit) before Stalingrad, the Nazis never lost a significant battle on the Eastern Front. After it, they never won one.
It was, along with El Alamein, the first time the Nazis were comprehensively defeated. In particular, Stalingrad showed that you didn't have to have generals as brilliant as the Germans in order to beat them - sheer brute force would do it.
The Germans lost the whole of the Sixth Army, 250 thousand fit, experienced troops (losses they would rue later) while the Soviets lost over one million troops (which they easily replaced).
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject: Stalingrad |
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Absolutely, the Nazi tide crested at Stalingrad and ebbed ever after. Only Manstein's miraculous counter-attack at Kursk in 1943 stopped the Red Tide in any way after Stalingrad. Quite simply the initiative had forever been wrested away from Germany and it was forced to fight on the defensive ever since. There were offensive battles (the Bulge even as late as December 1944) but no offensive campaigns.
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