Concord Publications 6513 Soldat 2 The german soldier on the Eastern front 1943 44

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Concord Publications 6513 Soldat 2 The german soldier on the Eastern front 1943 44

Автор: Gordon Rottman & Stephen Andrew

Издательство: Concord Publications

ISBN 962-361-104-8

Год издания: 2006

Язык: английский

Страниц: 54

Формат: PDF

Размер: 45 Mb

Изображения: цветные и черно-белые фото, цветные рисунки

It is often said that the defeat of the German 6.Armee and the fall of Stalingrad on

2 February 1943 was the turning point of the war in the East. There can be little

doubt that this is true. The massive German casualties, huge losses of supplies and

equipment, and the marching off into captivity of 91,000 troops out of the 250,000

originally assigned to 6.Armee was a major blow. Almost as crippling though was

what befell on the rest of the German armies on the 1.000-kilometer Eastern

Front. Since the 22 June 1941 invasion of the USSR the Germans had suffered

thousands of casualties to combat, illness, and disease before the onset of the

brutal Russian Winter. Over 400,000 troops were dead wounded, missing, or

captured by the end of 1942 and the worse months of the winter were still ahead.

In the north Leningrad was still under siege with little likelihood of falling and in

the center Moscow had not quite been reached. In the south the much valued

Caucasus oilfields were still out of reach. The drive for Stalingrad had been

senseless. To its East was Kazakhstan with little of value. The oilfields were to

south, but Armeegruppe Slid had been diverted from this strategic objective to

waste itself fighting for Stalins city.