Because at that point, they were totally screwed! They ran out of food and all kinds of craziness. The Ruskies were burning all their own stuff and it left the Krauts totally assed out.
It was the USSR which were victorious in the Battle of Stalingrad.
The Germans versus the Russians .
Th battle of Stalingrad was a military and psychological victory for the Russians .
he surrender to the ussr in the battle for Stalingrad against the orders from his supiriors.
The Battle of Stalingrad ended when Germany began to decline from stalingrad and this counted as a surrender. Reason for this was towards the end of the battle, the German 6th Army, which were trapped inside the pile of rubel city known as Stalingrad since mid-early November 1942, was destroyed due to being trapped and had close to no resources comming in for them to survive and fight back the soviets.
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For the Germans it was Friedrich Paulus and for the Russians it was Georgy Zhukov .
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 .
After the Russians won the Battle of Stalingrad the Russians progressively forced the Germans out of Russia until the Russians won the Battle of Berlin .
For the Germans it was Paulus and for the Russians it was Zhukov .
The battle was a turning point because it was a military and psychological victory for the Russians .
The city of Stalingrad borders the Volga river and both Germans and Russians wanted to control river traffic .