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Facts

Location Europe
Context World War II

Photos and Videos

Battle of Stalingrad
military operations on the Eastern Front, 1941–45
Adolf Hitler and Alfred Jodl
Wilhelm Keitel
German soldiers during Operation Barbarossa
Red Army during Operation Barbarossa
Siege of Leningrad
Operation Barbarossa
Georgy Zhukov
Eastern Front
Why did the German-led invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 fall short?
Operation Barbarossa: Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union
Examine how Stalin's Red Army defeated Hitler's Fourth and Sixth Armies in the Battle of Stalingrad
The brutal Battle of Stalingrad explained
Consequences of World War II: Mass migration
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Timeline

German soldiers during Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa
June 22, 1941
Siege of Leningrad
Siege of Leningrad
September 8, 1941 - January 27, 1944
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad
August 22, 1942 - February 2, 1943
Kursk, Battle of
Battle of Kursk
July 5, 1943 - August 23, 1943

Key People

Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov
Russian officer
Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky
Soviet military officer
Georgy Zhukov
Georgy Zhukov
Soviet marshal
Gerd von Rundstedt.
Gerd von Rundstedt
German field marshal
Ivan Konev
Ivan Stepanovich Konev
Soviet general
Voroshilov, Kliment Yefremovich
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov
Soviet military and political leader
Heinz Guderian
Heinz Guderian
German general
Eberbach, Heinrich
Heinrich Eberbach
German military officer
Bock, Fedor von
Fedor von Bock
German military officer
Günther von Kluge, German field marshal during World War II.
Günther von Kluge
German general
Kleist, Paul Ludwig von
Paul Ludwig von Kleist
German general
Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky
Soviet commander
Vlasov, Andrey Andreyevich
Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov
Soviet officer
Brauchitsch, Walther von
Walther von Brauchitsch
German military officer
Hasso, baron of Manteuffel
German military strategist
Semyon Timoshenko
Semyon Timoshenko
Soviet general