Germany’s failure to take Stalingrad did more than cost them a city, it collapsed the entire southern campaign. With the 6th Army destroyed and the line of advance broken, the push toward the Caucasus oil fields disintegrated. Those fields were the key to strangling the Soviet war effort, cut them off, and the Red Army’s engines would fall silent. But without Stalingrad, the route was dead. The Wehrmacht, now overextended and underfed, could not punch south. Hitler had lost the one chance to bleed the Soviet Union at its source. And from that moment forward, the Red Army would not be starved. It would be fueled. It would be armed. And it would come west like a hammer.
Stalingrad. August 24, 1942 - February 2, 1943.
Nazi Forces: 230,000 Soldiers.
Soviet Forces: ~ 300,000 Soldiers.
Additional Reading and Episode Research:
- Hayward, Joel. Stopped at Stalingrad.
- Zhukov, Georgi. Marshal Zhukov's Greatest Battles.
- Chuikov, V.I. The Battle for Stalingrad.
- Beevor, Antony. Stalingrad.
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