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Stalingrad.

2007-02-18 13:23:15 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

There are often 3 different battles/locations given the status of the turning point on the Eastern Front.

1) Stalingrad probably gets the most attention since it marks the battle that ended Germany's longest thrust into the heart of the Soviet Union.

2) Kursk gets a fair amount of attention as well because it marks, pretty much, the last time the Germans were able to mount a major offensive against the Soviets. They had been rolled back from Stalingrad but had counter-attacked and stalled the Russians. Both states then poured in the men and tanks into a cauldron that would determine which side was to have the initiative for the rest of the war.

3) Moscow's defense is often overlooked. But that first winter saw the defense of Moscow, the main hub in Soviet rail shipping, and it was never effectively threatened after that. Considering Moscow was the main objective of Operation Barbarossa planners (though Hitler largely overrode them in favor of consolidating holds on Leningrad and Kiev), the fact that they were stopped in that first winter and never threatened it again is pretty important. Since the Germans had been unable to force a capitulation, they were doomed to fight a war of attrition against an opponent they couldn't beat.

2007-02-18 20:47:53 · answer #2 · answered by bdunn91 3 · 0 0

Gerhard Weinberg, A World at Arms: a Global History of WWII is a good book with many examples. Frankly, I think the over extension of Germany during the first winter was what defeated Germany. Just as Napoleon and Sweden's king Charles I, Russia was simply an enormous place and winters there, as Tolstoy so well told, was Russia's best general.

2007-02-18 13:27:43 · answer #3 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 0 0

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2016-10-02 08:58:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Stalingrad. It was the extent of the Nazi front (As far as the Nazi car was driven before it ran out of gas!) The Nazis overextended their lines, did not have the logistical apparatus to refuel, re-supply, and reinforce this area during the artic winters of Russia. Hitler also would not let the army(s) retreat and re group for the sake of German pride and political calculations. Before Stalingrad the Nazis soldier was killing his Soviet opponents at a rate of 10 to1.
The Soviet's successfully removed and relocated their major factories west of the Ural Mountains and beyond the destructive capabilities of the German enemy. After the invasion of Russia by the Nazis the Soviets began receiving boots, rations, and 2.5 ton trucks, and tank chases from the American Super industrial war machine under lend lease thru the port of Archangel on the Belo (White) Sea and Airplanes packed with supplies were flew in to Eastern Russia thru Alaska's Ladd Airfield (Fort Wainwright-now).
These supply were given in such abundance that much of it was not needed and diverted to China to support the communist's there under Moa and this was critical to Mao's successful revolution. Russian numbers and American industrial goods as well as Allies fronts like that of "Touch" in North Africa and the Invasion of Italy by American Forces robed the Nazis of the manpower needed on the Eastern front. At the same time it was on Russian soil and the Russian soldiers fought gallantly. One Russian General Captured told his Nazis captor that: "Had you come 20 years ago we would have welcomed you as liberators, but now we will have to rebuild everything, they will fight you to the end". (From: The Last Days of Hitler by Huge-Trevor Roper) Moreover, the Ukrainian and Byelorussians that did welcome the Nazis as liberators were so brutally treated that they were forced back into the bed of their hated Soviet overlords and committed acts of sabot ash and destroyed railroad lines and roads.
All these factors converged at Stalingrad resulting in first the destruction and of the starved German Army and than its surrender by a Field Marshal which was a huge political as well as military defeat which brought with it a Russian center offensive which end in Berlin with the destruction of the cities infrastructure and the repeated rape of the cities women of 12 years old and up by the Red Army. And as for the rest it is history.

2007-02-18 13:58:48 · answer #5 · answered by sean e 4 · 0 1

Stalingrad

2007-02-18 13:24:58 · answer #6 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0 0

Stalingrad is were the nazis got there swastikas handed to them. Many were killed in that battle as it was a stall tactic that was brilliantly executed but at a very high cost.

2007-02-18 13:29:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Sabot ash? Some times typos are hilarious, this was one of the best. No offense please

2007-02-18 14:20:10 · answer #8 · answered by bigjohn B 7 · 0 0

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