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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."
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 ...
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 ...
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).
Gerhardt's Mill (Russian: Мельница Гергардта) is a building of historical significance in the Battle of Stalingrad. [1] [2] Gerhardt's Mill is situated directly across from Pavlov's House in central modern-day Volgograd. It is preserved in its bombed-out state and is one of the main landmarks of the Battle of Stalingrad.
The encirclement of the German Sixth Army in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942 is a typical example. During the Winter War , Finland used "pocket tactics" against the Soviet Union , called motti ; in the context of war, motti describes a tactic that the Finns used to immobilise, segment, surround and destroy the Soviet troops that were many ...
The idea of commemorating the Soviet victory in the Battle of Stalingrad originated in the final years of the war. Soviet politicians and artists had considered designs for monuments to the battle prior to the war's end, and the first Soviet museum commemorating World War II was established as early as March 1943. [4]
The battle was known to those who fought it as the "Italian Stalingrad," [3]: 289 [6] and as "Little Stalingrad", [7] [8] for the brutality of its close-quarters combat, [9] which was only worsened by the chaotic rubble of the town and the many booby traps used by both sides.