From any point of view, the Battle of Stalingrad was one of the most tragic battles in World War II and even in the history of human warfare. This battle, which has been called "the bloodiest in history", how many people died, because the scale of the battle is too large, the number of casualties can not be accurately counted. There were about 2 million casualties over a 200-day period, and the average survival time of recruits sent to the front line was no more than 24 hours, compared to 3 days for officers.
In just one week of the German invasion of the city, more than 40,000 Soviet citizens were killed, and the number of Soviet casualties was not counted, because many Soviet soldiers died at their own hands. The Axis suffered 850,000 casualties in the battle, and the Germans lost about a quarter of their strength on the southern flank of the Eastern Front in Stalingrad. The Battle of Stalingrad lasted 6 and a half months and ended with the Red Army defeating the Nazi Germans and turning the world in World War II.
In July 1942, Germany gathered heavy troops in a vain attempt to occupy Stalingrad, an industrial powerhouse in southern Russia, in a short period of time, in order to end the Soviet-German war as soon as possible. In this unprecedented battle, both the Soviet Union and Germany invested many elite soldiers. As far as the 62nd Group Army of the Soviet Army defending the city is concerned, there are no less than dozens of unit division and brigade-level formations invested before and after, but the number of group armies has never exceeded 60,000 people, and a fully manned division has disappeared after three days, which shows how badly the fight was. It was precisely because of this battle that the 62nd Army was squeezed from the newly built Reserve Army Group before the battle to the ranks of the main Soviet army.
The determined Lieutenant General Trikov succeeded Lieutenant General Lopatin, who had lost confidence, and took on the task of leading the 62nd Army to defend the city. By dusk on September 12, 1942, the German army, which was overwhelmingly superior in strength and armament, had approached only 2 to 10 kilometers from the city. The units of the 62nd Army retreated into the city one after another, and the worst street battles in the Battle of Stalingrad began to be completed from now on.
At the most difficult time of the battle, the 62nd Army only had about 900 artillery pieces of various types and 110 tanks. The divisions and brigades actually had 200 to 300 combatants, and some divisions were equipped with several artillery guns and several machine guns. Only 6 to 10 tanks remained per tank brigade. The Soviet troops guarding Stalingrad spread a saying: We have occupied the kitchen, but the living room is still in the hands of the enemy!
Workers in all the factories in Stalingrad were making weapons with guns on their backs, and the factory garrison more than a dozen meters away was exchanging fire with the enemy. The tanks went down the assembly line and started fighting. There is no front line, no rear, as long as it is a living person, you have to fight with guns. Soldiers live one day as squad leaders, two as platoon leaders, and so on, because your comrades and long-crowns are all dead, surrounded by supplementary recruits.
A post-war census more or less reflects the ferocity of the battle, and only 1,500 of Stalingrad's 850,000 inhabitants remained after the war. The fierce street battles day and night left many divisions with little strength left, and they had to carry out operations in temporary battle groups. The Soviets did their best to accommodate the fallen, the workers' detachment and the common people, and did everything they could to replenish them.
The only country in the Soviet Union that directly participated in the war in World War II, the participation in the war here refers to directly carrying a gun, not being a hygienist operator, digging trenches and fighting bayonets to open tanks and anti-aircraft guns, and in the end, as long as the people who can move are on the front line, the death row inmates in prisons are on the front line, which is why the military discipline was very poor when the Soviet Union sent troops to the northeast, because the law-abiding citizens were almost dead. To this day, nearly a century ago, There are still many men and women in Russia.