According to the findings of a diary the defeat of the Germans was brought on by when Hitler decided to take his men out by fear of losing them.
stalingrad................
2 February 1943
Stalingrad on the Volga River .
The city of Stalingrad .
In WW2 the Germans got as far as Stalingrad in the south, and the Caucasus mountains, just north of Grozny. Leningrad was besieged in the north, & Moscow was not reached. Essentially Stalingrad was as far as the Germans got, at the end of 1942.
The biggest defeat for the Germans came when they surrendered after losing the Battle of Stalingrad, February 2, 1943.
No , the Germans suffered a significant defeat at the hands of the Russians losing the battle for the city of Stalingrad ; one which the Germans never recovered from since the Russians from that point on had the initiative .
It is true. The reason would be after the crushing defeat of Stalingrad, the Germans began to decline from the Eastern Front.
It is true. The reason would be after the crushing defeat of Stalingrad, the Germans began to decline from the Eastern Front.
The Germans lacked Hoth's 4th Panzer army which would have helped to capture the city of Stalingrad but instead the 4th Army was assisting Manstein in the Crimean peninsula . The loss of Paulus' 6th Army at Stalingrad was a crushing defeat for the Wehrmacht which the Germans never recovered from and lost momentum which was never regained and marked a signal victory for the Russians and was a significant morale booster to Russian war efforts .
The Germans came to grief in Russia at the significant battle of Stalingrad from which they never recovered ; the battle for the city was from 17 July 1942 - 2 February 1943 .
The Germans suffered a major defeat at Stalingrad in southern Russia on the Volga River during World War II in 1943. This battle marked a turning point in the war as it halted the German advance into the Soviet Union.