The Burial Mound

The Wehrmacht had advanced to within one hundred meters of the Volga, squeezing the Russians onto the river’s bank. One of the most dominant terrain features was a large grassy hill known as Mamayev Kurgan, 335 feet high, which commanded a fine view of the city center. The …

1942-09-16

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The Wehrmacht had advanced to within one hundred meters of the Volga, squeezing the Russians onto the river’s bank. One of the most dominant terrain features was a large grassy hill known as Mamayev Kurgan, 335 feet high, which commanded a fine view of the city center. The Germans had captured all but a small part of this hill by the 15th. At dawn on the 16th, after ferrying across the Volga as the Germans reinforced the hill, General Rodimtsev’s 42nd Guards counter-attacked in an effort to take the Mamayev Kurgan back.

Stalingrad, Russia

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.

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