Battle of Stalingrad

""I ask you: Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even yet imagine?""

- Joseph Goebbels

The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle in the Eastern Front of World War II. It took place in the city of Stalingrad in Soviet Russia. It lasted from August 23, 1942 to February 2, 1943. It was fought between the Red Army of the Soviet Union (commanded by Joseph Stalin and Georgy Zhukov) and the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany (commanded by Adolf Hitler and Friedrich Paulus). It was the bloodiest battle in history, with almost two million casualties.

Engagements

 * Pavlov's House: From September 27 to November 25, 1942, a platoon of Red Army soldiers commanded by Yakov Pavlov defended an apartment complex from a Wehrmacht battalion.