Battle of Stalingrad Vignette

[Balthazar]

Hi everybody! My new small vignette - Battle of Stalingrad Vignette!

The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Sovier Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union. Marked by constant close quarters combat and disregard for military and civilian casualities, it is among the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare. The heavy losses inflicted on the Wehrmacht make it arguably the most strategically decisive battle of the whole war. It was a turning point in the European theatre of the World War II – the German forces never regained the initiative in the East and withdrew a vast military force from the West to reinforce their losses.

Result: Decisive Soviet victory

• Destruction of the German 6th Army
  
• Axis forces began to decline in Eastern Front
  
• The Battle of Stalingrad is considered by many historians to have been the turning point of the European theatre of World War Two.
  

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