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    The Battle of Stalingrad (17 July 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its...
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    Volgograd (redirect from Stalingrad)
    Volgograd, formerly Tsaritsyn (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The...
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    The Sword of Stalingrad (Russian: Меч Сталингра́да, romanized: Mech Stalingráda) is a bejewelled ceremonial longsword specially forged and inscribed by...
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    War II which led to the encirclement of Axis forces in the vicinity of Stalingrad: the German Sixth Army, the Third and Fourth Romanian armies, and portions...
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  • The Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943), a battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, often regarded as the single largest and bloodiest battle in the history...
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  • preferred title, Stalingrad, in 2019. The novel is the predecessor to Grossman's more widely read Life and Fate. Most of the events of Stalingrad take place...
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  • Enemy at the Gates (category Films about the Battle of Stalingrad)
    Enemy at the Gates (Stalingrad in France and L'Ennemi aux portes in Canada) is a 2001 war film directed, co-written, and produced by Jean-Jacques Annaud...
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    Friedrich Paulus (category German commanders at the Battle of Stalingrad)
    best known for his surrender of the German 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad (July 1942 to February 1943). The battle ended in disaster for the Wehrmacht...
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  • football club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-tier Russian First League, and are the...
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    July and reach and cross the Don River near Stalingrad on 26 July. Army Group B's approach toward Stalingrad slowed in late July and early August owing...
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  • полк, romanized: 1077-y zenitnyy artilleriyskiy polk, lit. '1077th Zenithal [Anti-Aircraft] Artillery Regiment') was a unit of the Stalingrad Corps Region...
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     482. A story in Beevor, Antony (1998), Stalingrad, London: Viking, p. 117, that an unnamed commander at Stalingrad shot every tenth man while reviewing...
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  • Stalingrad (Russian: Сталинград) is a Russian Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreaker ordered for construction at Baltic Shipyard in Saint Petersburg...
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    American films. His notable roles include Lieutenant Hans von Witzland in Stalingrad (1993), Hauptmann Wilm Hosenfeld in The Pianist (2002), Hermann Fegelein...
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    Ortona was the site of the bloody Battle of Ortona, known as "Western Stalingrad". A patron saint of Ortona is Saint Thomas the Apostle (Tommaso), whose...
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  • Wilm Hosenfeld (category German Roman Catholics)
    other "convicts", from Byelorussian SSR to Stalingrad in August 1950. His health rapidly deteriorated in Stalingrad, and he spent his last months in a hospital...
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  • Praha 1950: Sokol Železničaři Praha 1951: Sokol ČKD Stalingrad Praha 1953: Spartak Praha Stalingrad 1962: ČKD Praha 1965: Bohemians ČKD Praha 1993: Bohemians...
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    Japanese signals, and, ultimately, poor planning by Yamamoto. Battle of Stalingrad[page needed] (winter of 1942–43). One of the turning points of World War...
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    Operation Little Saturn (category Battle of Stalingrad)
    Paulus' German 6th Army and parts of General Hoth's 4th Panzer Army in Stalingrad. To exploit this victory, the Soviet general staff planned an ambitious...
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    Europe and North Africa, but following the Soviet victory at the Battle of Stalingrad, the Allied reconquest of North Africa and invasion of Italy in 1943,...
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    Road to Stalingrad via The Stalingrad Academy of Street Fighting Archived 14 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine Lotz, Corinna. "Why Stalingrad Still Matters"...
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  • through training prior to their commissioning and entry into the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II (The Great Patriotic War). The ten parts series are...
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  • 10 April: City renamed "Stalingrad." 1926 – Population: 151,490. 1929 – Football Club Rotor Volgograd formed. 1930 – Stalingrad tractor factory begins...
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    Dawn's Early Light. In 1989, Boothe appeared in the Mosfilm production of "Stalingrad", in which he played the role of General Chuikov, commander of the Soviet...
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  • They Fought for Their Country (category Films about the Battle of Stalingrad)
    Soviet platoon fighting a rearguard action during the German drive on Stalingrad. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language...
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  • consists of three short stories on a common theme. All stories take place in Stalingrad. During the Russian Civil War, not only did brother fight against brother...
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    consecrated on 3 July 2008. In May 2016, it was as follows Coventry and Stalingrad (now Volgograd) were the world's first 'twin' cities when they established...
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    Chełmno, where 152,000 Jews were killed using gas vans. After the Battle of Stalingrad ended in February 1943, Himmler realised that Germany would likely lose...
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    Midway. In late 1942, Axis forces were defeated in North Africa and at Stalingrad in the Soviet Union, and in 1943 their continued defeats on the Eastern...
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    Misrata (redirect from Libya's stalingrad)
    Misrata (/mɪsˈrɑːtə/ miss-RAH-tə; Arabic: مصراتة, romanized: Miṣrāta, Libyan Arabic: Məṣrāta; also spelled Misratah and known by the Italian spelling...
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