The Battle for Stalingrad was fought during the winter of 1942 to 1943. In September 1942, the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, advanced on the city of Stalingrad. His primary task was to secure the oil fields in the Caucasus and to do this, Paulus was ordered by Hitler to take Stalingrad. The Germans final target was to have been Baku.
Hitler ordered that Paulus should fight to the last bullet, and to encourage Paulus, he promoted him to field marshal. However, by the end of January 1943, the Germans could do nothing else but surrender. Paulus surrendered the army in the southern sector. The biggest mistake of Hitler was that he didn’t know when to stop.
The Russian tactic was to attack the Germans with some surprise attacks. This produced an advantage for the Russian army because the German army was not prepared to fight. The other tactic that the Russians used was to block Germany’s communication with its soldiers. Other factor such as the winter and the lack of food, help the Russians to win the battle.
We think as a group that the first thing you have to do is to move your cards one by one, and not to move the next one until you are sure that card is safe. The ambitious and pride of Hitler and the winter in Russia, were the best allies that Russia had and they knew how to play with these factors. Finally it was strategic more than brute force that won this battle.
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