Battle+Of+Stalingrad

= Battle Of Stalingrad =

**About the Battle**

 * Stalingrad, an industrial city, was on the Volga river.
 * If the city could be captured, vital river traffic, especially of the oil being shipped to Moscow, could be stopped.
 * An attack would draw in the Russian army to battle the German forces; Hitler believed that Russian reserves were small and the capture of a few more troops would topple Stalin's regime.
 * In September, Hitler ordered General Friedrich Paulus and the German Sixth Army to capture Stalingrad and seize the left bank of the Volga in order to halt river traffic.
 * The battle involved more participants than any other, and was marked by brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties by both sides.
 * Total Casualties: 1,129,619


 * GERMANY ARMY || RUSSIAN ARMY ||
 * Led by Paulus || Led by Zhukov ||
 * 1,011,500 men || 1,000,500 men ||
 * 10, 290 artillery guns || 13,541 artillery guns || || 675 tanks || 894 tanks ||
 * 1,216 planes || 1,115 planes ||



CONCLUSION: The defeat of the Germans at Stalingrad marked a turning point on the Eastern Front. The Germans never won a major battle in the East again. The Russian offensive continued to push the Germans back for two years until April, 1945, when the Russians entered Berlin.

**Relationships to the Novel**

 * Napoleon→Joseph Stalin. With Stalin being the second leader of the Soviet Union, he is most likely compared to Napolean because he leads the farm from the beginning of the revolution.