What If Stalingrad Had Fallen? | WWII Documentary | WW2 Alternative Scenario
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2nd February this year marked
2nd February this year marked the 79th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, the largest and bloodiest battle the world has ever seen. As the Soviet and Axis powers fought for control of the city, the vicious urban conflict became a meat grinder, with around 2 million causalities, including civilians, caused by the end of the five-month battle.
Historians are in no doubt that Stalingrad was a key turning point in WW2, if not the main turning point. Nazi Germany suffered the complete loss of its greatest, largest and most battle-hardened army, the Sixth Army, and the defeat marked the end of German expansion eastwards; from that point onwards the Third Reich was fighting a defensive war. A chink in the armour of the supposedly unstoppable Nazi war machine had been exposed, boosting Allied morale.
However, what if that pivotal moment in WW2 had ended differently? What if Stalingrad had fallen, how would the war have then played out? Here are four different scenarios that might have occurred…
Historians are in no doubt that Stalingrad was a key turning point in WW2, if not the main turning point. Nazi Germany suffered the complete loss of its greatest, largest and most battle-hardened army, the Sixth Army, and the defeat marked the end of German expansion eastwards; from that point onwards the Third Reich was fighting a defensive war. A chink in the armour of the supposedly unstoppable Nazi war machine had been exposed, boosting Allied morale.
However, what if that pivotal moment in WW2 had ended differently? What if Stalingrad had fallen, how would the war have then played out? Here are four different scenarios that might have occurred…
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