The Battle Of Stalingrad: The Great Patriotic War

When Hitler was in power, he was slowly trying to take over Europe. Going into Russia was arguably Hitler’s downfall, which was when the Battle of Stalingrad occurred. The Battle of Stalingrad began on July 17, 1942, and continued on until February 2, 1943. The people of Russia think that Stalingrad was the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War, while most historians recognize it to be the greatest of all of World War II. This battle stopped the Germans from advancing into the Soviet Union and marked when the Allies took over the war and began to overpower Germany. With combined military and civilian casualties of nearly 2 million, the Battle of Stalingrad was determined to be one of the bloodiest battles in history (History.com). The Battle of Stalingrad was considered to be the turning point of the war for the Eastern Front and was also considered to be one of the most important battles in the entirety of World War II. The Germans thought of the invasion of Stalingrad to be an extremely important job that needed to be completed during their operation on southern Russia. The people

By December of 1942, there were various reports to the German medical authorities of soldiers collapsing for no apparent reason. A pathologist was flown into the war to try and investigate the cause of this, and was presented with very obvious signs of what was happening. It had become apparent that the soldiers were suffering from starvation, as seen in the organs. Due to the lack of food at hand, little could be done about this. At the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Germans decided to fly only the mildly sick back home with the nurses, leaving the doctors and extremely ill soldiers in Stalingrad. Most of the Germans left behind were then either killed or held captive when they were discovered by the Russians