The Stalingrad Madonna (German: Stalingradmadonna) is an image of the Virgin Mary drawn by a German soldier, Kurt Reuber (1906–1944), in 1942 during the...
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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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Coventry Cathedral (section The Stalingrad Madonna)
Coventry when she was sunk. A copy of the Stalingrad Madonna by Kurt Reuber that was drawn in 1942 in Stalingrad (now Volgograd) is shown in the cathedrals...
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Volgograd Tractor Plant (redirect from Stalingrad tractor factory)
zavod, or ВгТЗ, VgTZ), formerly the Dzerzhinskiy Tractor Factory or the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, is a heavy equipment factory located in Volgograd, Russia...
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Andrey Yeryomenko (section Battle of Stalingrad)
commanded the Southeastern Front (later renamed the Stalingrad Front) during the Battle of Stalingrad in summer 1942 and planned the successful defense...
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Vasily Chuikov (section Battle of Stalingrad)
commanding the 62nd Army which saw heavy combat during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War. Born to a peasant family near Tula, Chuikov earned...
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of Stalingrad, helping to protect the northern and southern flanks respectively, of the German 6th Army as it tried to conquer the city of Stalingrad defended...
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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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4th Panzer Army (section 1942: Battle of Stalingrad)
Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk, and the 1943 Battle of Kiev. The army was destroyed during the Battle of Stalingrad, but later reconstituted...
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Operation Uranus (redirect from Stalingrad Strategic Offensive Operation)
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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Konstantin Rokossovsky (section Stalingrad)
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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The Sword of Stalingrad (Russian: Меч Сталингра́да, romanized: Mech Stalingráda) is a bejewelled ceremonial longsword specially forged and inscribed by...
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The Stalingrad Front was a front, a military unit encompassing several armies, of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War. The name indicated...
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Erich von Manstein (section Battle of Stalingrad)
siege of Leningrad. In December 1942, during the catastrophic Battle of Stalingrad, Manstein commanded a failed relief effort ("Operation Winter Storm")...
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staff. Subsequently, he organized the defences of Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad. He participated in planning several major offensives, including the Battle...
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informal name of a fountain in the city of Volgograd (formerly known as Stalingrad). Its official name is Children's Khorovod (Round Dance). The statue is...
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Vasily Zaitsev (sniper) (category Battle of Stalingrad)
soldiers. Between 10 October 1942 and 17 December 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad, he killed 225 enemy soldiers. Zaitsev became a celebrated figure during...
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World War II who commanded the Romanian Fourth Army at the Battle of Stalingrad. He was born in Beceni, Buzău County in 1884. From 1903 to 1905 he attended...
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dictator Adolf Hitler for his leadership of Italian forces in the Battle of Stalingrad. Gariboldi was born in Lodi, Lombardy. From the end of World War I and...
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Europe and those deeper inside the Soviet Union. The German forces in Stalingrad were in dire need of assistance, and the German High Command transferred...
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anniversary of an attempt to assassinate Hitler. Next to this is the Stalingrad Madonna, a symbol of hope and reconciliation. This is a charcoal drawing made...
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Yakov Pavlov (category Battle of Stalingrad)
role in defending the eponymous "Pavlov's House" during the Battle of Stalingrad. Pavlov was born in 1917 to a peasant family in the small village of Krestovaya...
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was transferred to the Stalingrad Front (renamed Don Front on September 30). During the German Sixth Army's assault on Stalingrad in August 1942, the Red...
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the German invasion. He played a crucial role in the Soviet victory at Stalingrad in December 1942, and helped drive German troops out of Ukraine following...
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6th Army (Wehrmacht) (category German units at the Battle of Stalingrad)
its defeat by and subsequent surrender to the Red Army at the Battle of Stalingrad on 2 February 1943. It committed war crimes at Babi Yar while under the...
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Soviet cities of Stalingrad and Astrakhan. After the forward formations of the army group got themselves entangled in the Battle of Stalingrad, a Soviet counterthrust...
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the 64th Army, was operating under the Soviet Stalingrad Front. After the German assault at Stalingrad had come to utter disaster, the 62nd Army was uniquely...
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Krasnaya Zvezda; he wrote first-hand accounts of the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and Berlin. Grossman's eyewitness reports of a Nazi extermination...
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Pavlov's House (category Battle of Stalingrad)
for around 60 days against the Wehrmacht offensive during the Battle of Stalingrad. The siege lasted from 27 September to 25 November 1942 and eventually...
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