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The house gave its defenders a line of sight 2,625 feet long to the south, west, and north.Under the command of Yakov Pavlov, a platoon of soldiers at the building resisted German attacks for 58 days.
During the battle, both the Soviets and the Germans suffered significant losses. History is all about argument, and the issue of when the turning point of the war was stimulated a lively debate about the relative importance of key moments in the conflict.In my judgment the turning point of the war occurred on October 16, 1941. The improbable German victory in May (after which Hitler toured Paris) turned a fool's gamble into a great military triumph.Three historians picked December 7 as the war's turning point, after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor propelled America into the conflict.The Nazis' decisive defeat at Stalingrad in 1943 is cited as the war's turning point by six scholars. For this unparalleled attack the Germans had divided their four million strong striking force into three large army groups. The Battle of Stalingrad was fought from July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943, during World War II (1939-1945). “Directors opened their shops and were saying to people ‘Take what you want. One of the ironies of the war, is that the German Sixth Army need not have got entangled in Stanlingrad.
As a result, Beevor told me, “Stalingrad became a huge symbol.” Stalingrad was, as Max Hastings admitted, “the boring answer” to the question—what was the turning point of World War II?—but, he claimed, one which “has to be the right one.”Rather a more conventional turning point was chosen by several other historians I interviewed. If the Russians could hold on it was going to completely change the character of the war.
In the autumn of 1939, senior military figures like Franz Halder, the chief of staff of the German army, had thought that Hitler was almost insane for directing the Germans to mount an attack west.The First World War cast a long and dark shadow over any second world war, as far as the German leadership was concerned.
The battle lasted from 17 July 1942 through 2 February 1943.In addition, 40,000 civilians were also killed during the battle, because Stalin forbade evacuating them from Stalingrad.
We must exterminate the Jews wherever we find them.”Whether December 1941 is indeed the single turning point moment in the development of the Holocaust is still hotly debated. It’s also important to pick Stalingrad because it reminds us of the importance of the fighting in the East, where the decisive fate of the Second World War was really going to be decided.”Other experts I talked to, like the acclaimed British military historian Antony Beevor, agreed that Stalingrad was the turning point of the war because of this combination of military, political, and psychological reasons. I think that was the beginning of the end. Under his command were several armies including the 2nd army, 17th army, the 6th army, the 1st Panzer army and the 4th Panzer army.
Well, having looked at the documents and met many veterans who fought in the defense of Moscow, I am convinced that if Stalin had left Moscow, the Soviet capital would have fallen. When the momentum of the battle was fully with the Soviets, Hitler refused to let Paulus retreat. Not for one minute. This battle was a turning point because there was a tremendous amount of deaths in this battle alone, this battle completely changed Germany’s morale about the war, and the Germans had finally lost a big battle which turned the war into the favor of the Allies.
The mistake most people make, he suggests, is in thinking that the German victory over the British and French in spring 1940 was somehow predestined.