Stalingrad: How the Soviet's Won the Deadliest Battle in History
Simon Whistler · May 27, 2023 · 21 min video · Europe & NATO
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After just a couple of weeks, the city of Stalingrad was within reach, and Hitler ordered it to be captured. Stalingrad wasn't originally the main objective of this operation, but there were a few reasons that Hitler viewed it as important.
Its capture would secure Group A's flank, as they headed toward the Caucasus, it would deprive the Soviet army of many of the weapons factories and other industrial facilities there, and it would grant Germany complete control over the mighty Volga River.
It also served as a railway hub for American supplies in the lend lease program, which would prove vital to the Soviet Union's survival in the war. And the icing on the cake was that the city was named after Stalin, and its defeat would be a bit of a kick in the teeth to Soviet morale.
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