Stalingrad: WW2's greatest battle

At first I thought you were insulting me. But I do only know one language. The only one I need to know.

 

Bahhhh!

 

Is that a chip I see balancing on your shoulder? If it is this is not the best place to wear those.

 

I wouldn't say that it was the greatest because it was very brutal like the whole WW2 . You have to know that the 6.Armee of the Germans died ...

 

I believe he meant greatest in terms of significance for the outcome of the war... Or numbers involved.


Cheers...

 

The battle for Stalingrad was very difficult for both sides. The Germans brought all the forces they could to this battle. They even sent units that weren't destined to a such battle. For example, I once read about a german unit, that was trained to fight at extreme hot tempratures, for the south african front. These men was trained in extreme conditions (hot conditions). But, eventually, Hitler sent them to fight for Stalingrad, in another extreme condition- cold, that they was not trained to.

The germans also had no time to recolour the tanks Hitler took from Rommel. The yellow coloured tanks fought on a snow, and were not comuflaged.
Now, the battle in the city itself- I was watching a TV programme, in which they told about the german miltary doctors, whom diagnosed many nervous failures from for the soldiers were frightened by hiding syberian hunter in almost each and every house and many, seemed, impossible places.
But most of all, the germans have been surprised by stability and not desire to recede from the soviet soldier. Every soviet soldier was fighting for his foxhole (mostly the soviets were siting in personal self-digged foxholes, in a spontanious battles). Sometimes it was the commisars behind, with "Maxim" MG's, that wouldn't let them recede, sometimes it was the soldier's heroism, but the fact remains a fact- the individual soviet soldier held Stalingrad, and didn't not give it up to the enemy.

 

Well, almost. By the time Op. Uranus was launched, Chuikov's 62nd Army was hanging by a cats whisker




All right, all right, you can argue back that 62nd was being fed on dribs and drabs on purpose to keep the Germans focused and that real reinforcements were going to the armies that were going to fall on the Germans flanks