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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Stalingrad, the beginning of the end for The Thousand Year Reich (1933 - 1945, Hitler was only off by 988 years!). Over 200,000 troops lost. Staggering really....

I mean, you take your average Russkie, we all know how much guts he's got. Hell, lookit look at all them them Nazis killed off and they still wouldn't quit.

10 posted on 09/25/2012 5:16:59 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Rummyfan

It was really over in December 1941. Usually what you hear is the Russians stopped the German advance within sight of Moscow. That statement is a bit misleading. The December counter attack did more than stop them, it devastated the German Army. They suffered over a million casualties and were reduced to this limited operation the following spring focusing just on the southern edge of the front. Stalingrad was just when it became obvious to everyone else that Germany could not win.


15 posted on 09/25/2012 6:31:46 AM PDT by CougarGA7 ("History is politics projected into the past" - Michael Pokrovski)
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