![]() ![]() ![]() When the German 6th Army entered the city it found a determined defence from Soviet citizens and the German forces had to abandon their hopes of a quick capture of the Soviet city. The German Luftwaffe had bombed the city and leveled much of it to rubble, but that did not stop Soviet citizens from defending their homeland. The battle was different from other battles in that Nazi blitzkrieg tactics proved ineffective or impractical during the street-fighting of the battle. The Battle of Stalingrad, saw the German 6th Army enter the city of Stalingrad, which was named after the Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin in the summer of 1942. Ultimately, Hitler’s plan was to invade the Soviet Union and empty it of its citizens and use the land to harvest agriculture in order to feed a growing German population. Lebensraum is a German term that related to the idea that Germany needed more living space for German-speaking peoples to carry out their lives. Operation Barbarossa was part of Adolf Hitler’s ultimate plan of lebensraum which he discussed in his auto-biographical and ideological book titled Mein Kampf. ![]() Operation Barbarossa involved German forces carrying out blitzkrieg tactics against the Soviet Union and pushing far into the borders of the Soviet Union. The battle of Stalingrad was a major battle in the Nazi plan of attack against the Soviet Union during World War II, which was codenamed Operation Barbarossa. It took place from July 17th, 1942 to February 2nd, 1943 and was fought between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The Battle of Stalingrad is considered by many historians to be one of the most important battles of all of World War II and a major turning point in the European Theater of the war. ![]()
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