User blog:ANIMALGAMINGXzero/Februrary 2nd 1943

The bloodiest battle in history ended with a Soviet victory marching the turning point of world war 2 and the strong Soviet counter-attack with the largest army in history with over 10 million soldiers but that is the full Soviet army this is about the battle of Stalingrad the siege began on August 23rd, 1942 and was seen as the final step in the Caucasus campaign at the start of the battle the axis powers had 270,000 soldiers there while the Soviets had 187,000 soldiers and it appeared to be another axis victory but the battle was long fought and the fight was done street by street with 100's of civilians  being killed in the middle of it but on november 19th 1942 the soviets lauched operation uranus the romanians heard about it and requested reinforms but they were denied due to the germans poor leadership and planning the romanians were overun and the remaining soldiers of romania hungary italy germany and croatia were trapped in the city.Nazi Germany launched operation winter storm to save the trapped soldiers but failed the Soviets then launched two operations which left the retreating soldiers running low on ammo and food but they were told they would be killed if they surrendered they had a high ranking Nazi commander in charge of it and if he surrendered he would be the highest ranked nazi to be captured with Hitler thinking that the commander would fight to the end or commit suicide Hitler promoted the commander Friedrich Paulus to field marshal but he surrendered  on the same day shortly after being informed instead of fighting to the end or commiting suicide.There is to much detail for me to cover since the day is almost over but you can read it for yourself if you wish to know more.