What was the turning point of The Battle Of Stalingrad in World War Two ?

Answer 1

During the summer of 1942 the Germans advanced to the suburbs of Stalingrad but failed to take the city itself against a determined defense by the Red Army, despite repeated attacks by the 6th Army under Friedrich Paulus and part of the 4th Panzer Army under Ewald von Kleist. From the very first engagements in the western suburbs of Stalingrad it was clear that the Russian defenders were contesting every inch of the ground.


On 23 August an airstrike of 600 bombers was launched "killing 40,000 civilians", but not rousting the defenders. On that evening German troops reached Rynok, northern most suburb of Stalingrad. The Russians were mining and sabotaging buildings as they were ousted, creating death traps for the Germans, than reclaiming the same building after the Germans had detonated all explosives and killed themselves. The Germans however still pushed on. By 3 September they reached the city center, (on the western side of Volga) where they encountered stiff resistance from the Soviet 62nd Army under General Chuikov. Stalingrad was now under siege. Russian commander Marshal Zhukov was ordered to attack the north and northwest of Stalingrad. The next day saw one thousand German bombers fly missions over Stalingrad. On September 5, the first Soviet counterattack began and failed. The following morning saw Russian reinforcements arrive and the two sides were now savagely attacking each other. The city’s Soviet defenders had been driven almost to the Volga by mid-October, but the German’s supplies were beginning to run low, their tanks were of little value in the constant street fighting and winter was approaching.


On November 19, the Soviets launched a counterattack in the form of pincer movements north and south of the city and by the 23rd they had encircled the 6th Army and part of the 4th within Stalingrad. A German attempt to relieve Paulus failed in mid-December. Under orders from Aldof Hitler, Paulus continued to fight on, making possible the eventual escape of the beleaguered German forces from the Caucasus. On January 31,1943, Paulus disobeyed Hitler and surrendered, and on February 2 the last of the remainding 91,000 troops turned themselves over to the Soviets. The Soviets recovered 250,000 German and Romanian corpses in and around Stlingrad and the total Axis losses ( Germans, Romanians, Italians and Hungarians ) are estimated to have been 800,000 dead. Official Russian military historians estimate that 1,100,000 Soviet solders lost their lives in the campaign to defend the city. The German defeat at Stalingrad however, began to mark the turn of the war in the allies favour.

Answer 2

D-Day (June 6, 1944) was a turning point in the Second World War because it marked the Germans last chance to stem the Allied tide. After D-Day the Germans had no chance to avoid total defeat. With the Western Allies advancing from France and the Russians from Poland, Germany was doomed. There are a number of "turning points" in World War II. One is the Battle of Britain (1940) wherein the Germans failed to defeat England. Another is the Battle of Moscow (1941) when the Russians fought off defeat. But if I had to choose the "decisive moment" of the war, I would pick Germany's declaration of war on the United States in December, 1941.

Answer 3

Hard to say, exactly, but one thing is clear. Adolf Hitler's orders against any tactical retreat doomed Von Paulus's army to destruction. The inability to fall back to better defended positions outside the city limited the German options to such a point that there was no way to manuever to advantage. Keep in mind that the Wermacht's strength, their specialty, in WWII was in highly mobile combined arms warfare. Also, Hermann Goering's claim that Stalingrad could be supplied by air was patently untrue, and in the end, condemned Von Paulus's conscript soldiers to starvation. Eventually, the combination of these factors left the newly promoted Field Marshall no option but to surrender his army as no longer able to sustain combat.

Answer 4

For the Soviets, who also suffered great losses during the battle, the victory at Stalingrad marked the start of the liberation of the Soviet Union and leading to eventual victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.
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Answer 5

The inability of the german army to remove the russian forces from the west bank of the Volga and the impossibility of supplying the german army after they were surrounded by the soviet army.

Answer 6

the winter cold on the eastern front and lack of german logistic to reinforce thier line, and the brutality of the red army to drive back the german, and the last thing is the military aid given by the american to fight the german.

Answer 7

When hitler decided to waste a mobile tank army in an urban setting.

Answer 8

The turning point: First Stalin trust to Hitler, but Hitler lying to Stalin. Hitler attack Stalingard, then Stalin counter attack together with allies.

Answer 9

the winter.