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Title
Paulus last offensive
Description
At the beginning of November 1942, the German 6.Armee controlled 90 percent of the city of Stalingrad. Russian troops held only the Mamaïev Kurgan, some part of Red October factory and the Lasur chemical factory. General Winter arrived on …
Subject
Publisher
Date
1942-11-11
Scenario#
10826
Scenario Description
At the beginning of November 1942, the German 6.Armee controlled 90 percent of the city of Stalingrad. Russian troops held only the Mamaïev Kurgan, some part of Red October factory and the Lasur chemical factory. General Winter arrived on the 9th of November and the temperature fell suddenly to minus 18° Celsius. On the 11th of November, General Paulus launched the last offensive to crush definitively the Russian defenders of Stalingrad. But the Russians had the Volga river behind them, they couldn't retreat so they fought fiercely and the German attack failed. In the Red October area, the famous sniper Vassili Zaïtsev, from the 284th Siberian Rifle Division, killed a large number of German soldiers. Moreover, in the ruins of Lasur chemical factory, he trained new snipers who were quickly active. For the Paulus' soldiers exhausted by the battle, the story became a tragedy. On the 19th of November, General Zhukov ordered operation "Uranus", which surrounded definitively the German 6.Armee in the ruins of Stalingrad.
Location
Stalingrad, Russia
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
In the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. Marked by fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids, it is one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, with an estimated 2 million total casualties. After their defeat at Stalingrad, the German High Command had to withdraw considerable military forces from the Western Front to replace their losses. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad, a major industrial and transport hub on the Volga River that ensured Soviet access to the Caucasus oil wells, began in August 1942, using the 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. The attack was supported by intense Luftwaffe bombing that reduced much of the city to rubble. The battle degenerated into house-to-house fighting, as both sides poured reinforcements into the city. By mid-November, the Germans had pushed the Soviet defenders back at great cost into narrow zones along the west bank of the river.
Narrative Source
Combatants
German
Russian
Additional Information
Game Type: Standard
Board Type: Winter
Website Access: Available

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