The Battle of Stalingrad

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The Battle of Stalingrad

• Turning Point of WWII

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Losses
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Basic Information

• The Battle started on September 3rd 1942 and
  ended on January 31st 1943
• Nazi Germany vs Soviet Union

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Issues

• Strategic/Tactical (Military)
• Political
• Importance to Today (Relevance)

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Strategic/Tactical (Military)

• Why Stalingrad?
• Strategic Mistake?
• Paulus vs Zhukov
• The Luftflottle

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Strategic/Tactical (Military)

• Soviet Tactical Success
• Axis Satellite Troops
• General Winter
• Lack of Food and Ammunition
• Defensive Tactics
• Surrender

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Political

• Nazism vs Communism
• Hitler vs Stalin
• Orders from the VERY top

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Importance to Today (Relevance)

• Rise of the Eastern Block NATO
• United Nations
• Cold War
• Military Spending
• Fall of Communism
• Economic Aid
• One World Government?
• Punitive Taxation?

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Lecture Notes

• Paulus commands the 6th German Army
• Satellite troops include Roumanian, Italian, and
  Hungarian

• Soviets surround from north and south, and then
  push back to Stalin grad from the west

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Lecture Notes (cont.)

• 80 of the city captured
• Victory illusory
• Stalin grad's recourses?
• Yes, but not compared to Bakus.

• Strength needed to hold on to positions in Army
  Group North, Army Group South, and Army Group A.

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Lecture Notes (cont.)

• Strategic Mistake because a complete conquest of
  the Caucus would have secured the southern
  border, and prevented any Soviet flanking there

• The Uranus reserves were heavy all over the
  Caucus mts also, conquest was not certain there,
  either.
• Although more likely

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Lecture Notes (cont.)

• Goerings promise of enough air support being
  brought in.
• Hitlers refusal to give any ground.
• Tactical impossibility of surrounded defense in
  enemy territory in winter.

• Loss of men one side irreparable
• The other side more of the same.

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Lecture Notes (cont.)

• WWII brings stability, but not a reduction in
  arms.
• It is that increase in military spending that we
  are still at

• Conflicting nature of the UN and NATO/Eastern
  Bloc.
• Will the lack of an opposition lead to one-world
  govt.
• UN/NATO expansion
• Intl Law