Battle+of+Stalingrad

__1942-1943 Winter Battle of Stalingrad__ Luck- Informaton, Significance, Won Joe-Pictures,Primary Source and creation of first hand account By: Luke Honorowski and Joe Skinner

**Location: Stalingrad, Russia**


 * The Battle of Stalingrad started on August 23, 1942 when the German armies reached Stalingrad and started bombing ferries and ships in the Volga river, it was a year after the invasion of Russia.
 * The Battle of Stalingrad was between Germany and the USSR.
 * The city of Stalingrad was named after Joesph Stalin the leader of the USSR
 * It was originally call Volgograd
 * It was named Stalingrad after the battle for heroic efforts by the troops.
 * Hitler want Stalingrad for two reasons
 * One reason was because it was a major industrial city on the Volga river which led south to the Caspian sea and went by Moscow to the north which was a route to inner Russia.
 * Secondly it would secure the left flank of the German armies as they advanced into the oil-rich Caucasus region which would cut off oil for the Russian war machines.
 * The USSR sent a counterstrike.
 * It was the USSR's first fully prepared Russian attack.
 * The total death for the German's was 150,000 and the Russian lost 500,000.
 * The Russian captured 91,000 German soldiers.

__Significance__
The significance of the battle of Stalingrad was if marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany and Hitler. The impacts of this event is that is battle started the collapse of Germany's eastern front because of Hitler obsession of wanting Stalingrad and it was the first fully prepared Russian attack in WWII.

__Winner of the Battle of Stalingrad__
The winner of the battle of Stalingrad was the Soviet Union. They won because the USSR sent a counterstrike and that was Hitler fault. It was Hitler fault because he underestimated USSR's resources and the USSR weakened the Germany's flank south of Stalingrad and sent a huge army to surround Germany's 6th army they cut off supply's and finished off the German 6th army.





**Citation ** "The Battle Of Stalingrad." //World War 2 Insightful Essays//. Web. 22 May 2011. .

__**Primary source**__
This is a primary source of Otto Willnaur photo diary, Otto was soviet army soldier who ran the weapons and some of the vehicles. Here is the link. Click HERE.

Hello class im here to talk about the Battle of Stalingrad. During the Battle of Stalingrad times were very hard. Millions were killed and many others had no homes. i saw many people men and even fammiles suffer, during this battle. almost 7,700 hundrend people died per day.Other times durning the battle Many were captured. Today we call this the bloodest war of history.I lost most of my family and alot of my friends in this battle. My town was destroyed so i had to find a new place to live. it was hard to strat over again with of the things iv lost.