Why was the battle of stalingrand a crushing defeat for the Germans?

Answer 1

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 .

Answer 2

The Battle of Stalingrad was a major defeat against the German Army due to a few factors

1. The Cold Winters. To put it bluntly the Russians were expecting it. The Germans (who had hoped to have conquered Russia much earlier) were not and froze.
2. The unexpected counter-attacks. Until this point the Germans were virtually un-challenged and lost many tanks and soldiers when they were ambushed by the Red Army outside the city
3. Hitlers pre-occupation with capture, when General Franz Halder told Hitler that if they did not reinforce insted of attack, he was replaced with another general.

Those factors led the Germans into a crushing defeat

Answer 3

The German Sixth Army was surrounded and besieged with only the airfields Gumrak and Pitomnik left for supplies to be flown into the city . Once these were overrun the German Luftwaffe could not parachute enough supplies into the besieged city and the result was the capitulation of German forces under Paulus to the Russians ~ see related link below .

Answer 4

The German army had ran out of supplies, ended up eating their horses and eventually became sick and exausted.

Answer 5

Germany lost the German 6th Army which had 330,000 men - a significant defeat .

Answer 6

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