Transcript Battle of Stalingrad

BATTLE OF
STALINGRAD
BY KELSEY DHARMAKEERTHI
BASIC INFO ABOUT THE BATTLE
• THE TURNING POINT IN WWII IN
EUROPE FOR THE ALLIES
• ONE OF THE BLOODIEST BATTLES IN
HISTORY
• GERMANY VS. RUSSIA
• JULY 17, 1942-FEBURARY 2, 1943
• RUSSIA WON
• STOPPED GERMANY FROM GOING
INTO THE SOVIET UNION
STRENGTHS OF BOTH ARMIES
GERMAN ARMY RUSSIAN ARMY
• 1,011,500 MEN
• 10,290 GUNS
• 675 TANKS
• 1,216 PLANES
• 1,000,500 MEN
• 13,541 GUNS
• 894 TANKS
• 1,115 PLANES
Russian Tank
German Tank
GERMAN ARMY
• HITLER WANTED CONTROL OF THE VOLGA RIVER SO HE COULD
LAUNCH FURTHER ATTACKS IN THE CAUCASUS
• THE SIXTH ARMY WAS UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL
FRIEDRICH PAULUS
• HE ADVANCE TO THE CITY IN SEPTEMBER 1942 WITH THE TASK TO
TAKE STALINGRAD AND THE OIL FIELDS IN THE CAUCASUS
General Paulus
German soldiers
RUSSIA
• STALIN ORDERED FOR THE CITY OF STALINGRAD HAD TO BE
PROTECTED
Russian soldiers
• STALINGRAD WAS AN IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT WAS THE CENTER OF
COMMUNICATIONS IN THE SOUTH AND A CENTER OF
MANUFACTURING
• THE RUSSIANS COULDN’T LET THE GERMANS GET CONTROL OVER
THE OIL FIELDS IN THE CAUCASUS
• UNDER THE COMMAND OF MARSHAL ZHUKOV
THE SURRENDER
• ZHUKOV HAD 6 ARMIES TO SURROUND THE CITY(5 AROUND
THE CITY AND 1 IN THE CITY), TRAPPING THE GERMANS IN
STALINGRAD
• HITLER FORBID PAULUS FROM SURRENDERING, BUT WINTER HAD
COME AND THE GERMANS WERE COLD AND RUNNING LOW
ON FOOD AND AMMUNITION
• HITLER ORDERED PAULUS TO FIGHT TO THE LAST BULLET AND
PROMOTED HIM TO FIELD MARSHAL TO ENCOURAGE HIM
• TOWARDS THE END OF JANUARY 1943, PAULUS SURRENDERED
WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE HE COULD DO
A Soviet soldier waves the Red Banner of victory
WHY THE BATTLE WAS IMPORTANT?
• MAIN DECIDER OF THE GERMAN’S
POSITION IN WWII
• GERMANS LOST MANPOWER AND
EQUIPMENT
Causalities of the war
• THE GERMANS SIMPLY DIDN’T HAVE
ENOUGH MANPOWER TO GO AGAINST
THE RUSSIANS WHEN THE TIME CAME
FOR THEM TO ADVANCED INTO
GERMANY
DESTRUCTION AND VALOR
• NEARLY 2 MILLION MILITARY AND CIVILIAN CASUALTIES
• 91,000 GERMANS WERE TAKEN PRISONER
• PARTS OF STALINGRAD WERE DESTROYED
German Prisoners
THE RUSSIANS SHOWED TRUE COURAGE AS THEY FOUGHT
AGAINST THE GERMANS TO PROTECT THEIR CITY OF
STALINGRAD.