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13. Stalingrad was the beginning of the end for Hitler and his forces. The German 6th Army was 250,000
Wed Feb 19, 2025, 11:58 AM
Feb 2025

… when the attack on Stalingrad started in July of ‘42 and ended in February of ‘43 with Paulus’
surrender of 90,000 troops of which a total of about 5,000 returned to Germany after the end of
the war. The Soviet Union began to roll back the Nazis after the battle of Stalingrad all the way
to Berlin in the Spring of 1945. Although with massive help from the allies too.


Hitler’s Generals were against his splitting up his forces of his Army Group South and going
right onto the Soviet oil fields in the Caucuses Regions because they knew a modern military
ran on oil but Hitler ignore them. Although it is highly doubtful that would have worked because
the supply lines would have been too long.

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