The Impact Of The Battle Of Stalingrad

The Battle of Stalingrad in August of 1942, was a major battle in World War II. It was a major impact to the first part of the war. Right near the river of Volga, the town of Stalingrad home of the Russians people. This battle was one marked down as a turning point for the Allied powers. The Soviet Union having to defend their territory because the Germans want to take over. This would be a challenge to the Soviet Union. The Russians would have discovered that the Nazi’s want the town of Stalingrad because “If Stalingrad was taken, then the two important trade routes would belong to the Nazis. Seeing as Hitler needed to invade the Caucasus to provide the German army with oil, it would be incredibly foolish to leave a major city behind you. They could build together a strong army and attack from the rear. Also, taking Stalingrad would boost the Nazis morale and have a psychological blow on the Russians due to Stalingrad being named after Stalin – the leader of Russia at the time and the main mover behind Communism, which the fascist Nazis hated.”-(Marked by Teachers). This was Hitler’s main objective to achieve to expand even more in the war.
July 17,1942 the Nazi’s would bomb the Soviet Union city of Stalingrad.
Leaving the town into rubles, but the Soviet Union and the Civilians held strong for the town. After the Germans bombed the town, they took the next step which was to take over the area. As the two sides clash to save and take the town many lives would be lost in the town of Stalingrad.The Nazi’s would try to achieve capturing the town but the nazi’s would lose just as much lives as the Soviet Union. The Nazi’s fighting for Hitler had one job to do and it was a very difficult job in hand because the many people in this town would do anything to protect the
town.
The Nazi’s would start to weakened because of the cold weather that was taken place in November and December. As the Nazi’s sat in the area that their taking over, so many of the people would die because it’s very cold. It’s was something that the men didn’t want to go through, the Nazi’s haven’t been in this type of weather and that was an advantage for the Soviet Union. After the Nazi’s were eagerly close to taking over the town by the commander Friedrich Paulus. The Soviet Union made a counter attack defeating the smaller flanks of the German army for the far part of the town. Then they made their way back to the town surrounding commanders Friedrich Paulus. Paulus would end up having to send a message to Hitler asking him if they could surrender because they are surrounded by the Soviet Union. But Hitler didn’t want them to surrender because his pride was on the line and if they surrendered then it would’ve looked bad on Hitler. This is what caused the group to fight till their death. That is why the Battle Of Stalingrad was a very important event for the Allied forces because it stopped Germany from expanding to other parts of Russia.
Germany was trying eagerly to make a turning point for their country. But the way that Hitler wanted to take over the area was going to be easy. He knew that the Soviet were not going down without a fight. The Soviet army was very low on men, but the plan of counter attacking the German fleet was the turning point for the Soviet union. If the plan wasn’t made then the group would’ve given up the area to the Nazi’s. This was a very historic victory for the Soviet Union and a horrible loss for the Germans. The Soviets set the point in the war for all the other Allied Power groups.