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With an estimated death toll in an excess of a million, the bloodletting at Stalingrad far exceeded that of Verdun, one of the costliest battles of World War I." [39] According to military historian Louis A. DiMarco, "In terms of raw casualty numbers, the battle for Stalingrad was the single most brutal battle in history."
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) during World War II who is best known for his surrender of the German 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad (July 1942 to February 1943).
Zaitsev fought at the Battle of Stalingrad until January 1943, when a mortar attack injured his eyes. Some conflicting stories state it was a landmine, but the doctor who treated Zaitsev and eventually restored his eyesight was ophthalmologist Vladimir Filatov , founder of the Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy in Odessa , and ...
Battle of Stalingrad: 1942–1943 World War II: 4,172,000 [26] [27] 1,250,000 [28] Battle of Changde: 1943 ... Lists of death tolls. Casualties of the Iraq War;
The Battle of Stalingrad was the deadliest single battle in the history of warfare (casualties estimates vary between 1,250,000 [24] and 2,500,000 [25] [26]). The battle began on August 23, 1942, and on the same day, the city suffered heavy aerial bombardment that reduced most of it to rubble. Martial law had already been declared in the city ...
Mikhail Dmitrievich Baranov (Russian: Михаил Дмитриевич Баранов; 21 October 1921 – 15 January 1943) was a Soviet fighter pilot, who during the early stages of the Battle of Stalingrad became the leading Soviet ace of 1942 with around 23 solo aerial victories.
The first pincer attacked far to the west of the Don, with the second thrust beginning a day later attacking far to the south of Stalingrad. [16] The 6th Army's flanks were protected by Romanian troops, who were quickly routed, and on 23 November, the pincers met at Kalach-na-Donu , thereby encircling the 6th Army. [ 17 ]
Stalingrad Apocryphal German sniper Erwin König was reported to have been a German Heer Officer in the Wehrmacht the regular military of Germany or was an Officer in the Waffen-SS who was a sniper killed by the Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev during the Battle of Stalingrad .