The campaign that culminated in this engagement was known as Operation Blue and, after it, the  aggressors' commanding officer was captured as a prisoner of war.
The campaign that culminated in this engagement was known as Operation Blue and, after it, the  aggressors' commanding officer was captured as a prisoner of war. After losing this battle, only 90,000 of the 350,000 that made up the Sixth Army were alive, and only 5,000 of those made it back to Berlin.  Friedrich Paulus was captured in this shattering defeat for Nazi Germany, a protracted but failed siege.  FTP, name this turning point of World War II, a defeat which halted Germany's advance into Russia.
The campaign that culminated in this engagement was known as Operation Blue and, after it, the  aggressors' commanding officer was captured as a prisoner of war.
the Battle of {Stalingrad}