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Battle of Stalingrad

July 17, 1942 – February 2, 1943

Result Soviet victory

Battle for the city of Stalingrad on the Volga between the German army and the Red Army. The Soviet counter-offensive of November 1942 encircled the German Sixth Army, which surrendered in February 1943; it was a turning point of the war in Europe.

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Battles 5

November 19–23, 1942
Operation Uranus Soviet victory Volgograd Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Georgy Zhukov
December 12–23, 1942
Operation Winter Storm Soviet victory Volgograd Rodion Malinovsky, Erich von Manstein, Aleksandr Vasilevsky
December 12, 1942 – February 18, 1943
Operation Little Saturn Soviet victory Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Erich von Manstein
December 18–28, 1942
Raid on Tatsinskaya Soviet victory Hermann Balck
January 10 – February 2, 1943
Operation Koltso Soviet victory Konstantin Rokossovsky, Friedrich Paulus

Key commanders

Axis 16

Adolf Hitler Hermann Göring military commander Erich von Manstein military commander Franz Halder military commander Wolfram von Richthofen military commander Maximilian von Weichs military commander Eberhard von Mackensen military commander Hermann Hoth military commander Friedrich Paulus military commander Kurt Zeitzler military commander Italo Gariboldi military commander Petre Dumitrescu military commander Karl-Adolf Hollidt military commander Erhard Raus military commander Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist military commander Hermann Balck military commander

Allies 11

Joseph Stalin Georgy Zhukov coordinated the Operation Uranus counteroffensive Konstantin Rokossovsky military commander Nikolai Vatutin military commander Aleksandr Vasilevsky military commander Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin military commander Vasily Chuikov military commander Andrey Yeryomenko military commander Rodion Malinovsky military commander Filipp Golikov military commander Fyodor Kuznetsov military commander