Battle Of Stalingrad Effects

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The Battle Of Stalingrad was a crucial fight on the Eastern Front of World War 2 where Nazi Germany and it’s allies battled The Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad ( It is now called Volgograd ) in the southern region of Russia ( Eastern boundary of Europe ). Marked by many close quarter fights and many direct attacks on civilians by air raids, The Battle of Stalingrad is said to be one of the single largest and bloodiest battles in the history of warfare ( nearly 2.2 million personnel and 1.7-2 million wounded captured or killed). The heavy losses that Germany had been given impacted the German Wehrmact make it one of the most strategically decisive battle of the whole war. It was a turning point in the European theatre of World