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Stalingrad – 80 years on
JOHN ELLISON looks at the turning point of the second world war, when the Red Army overcame the odds to turn back the Nazi tide – to the shock of the Western powers
Soviet soldiers on the attack in Stalingrad, 1943
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EIGHTY years ago, on February 2 1943, the Soviet Union’s sustained defence of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), ended with the surrender of 91,000 soldiers of the German 6th Army under General von Paulus.
The battle for the city had raged since the previous September. The figures of human losses, unpublicised, besides German prisoners of war, were, for Germany, almost 150,000 and for the Soviet Union were around half a million.
The Nazi failure to win the struggle for Stalingrad, and to advance in the south to the oil producing centres of Grozny and Baku, represented a huge setback for Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa, launched on June 22 1941.
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