What were the battle conditions in the Battle of Stalingrad?

After the defeat in Moscow, during the spring of 1942, the German forces stabilized the front. They began to be confident that they could defeat the Red Army as soon as the cold weather passed. read more

The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the worst, if not the worst battle in the history of warfare, fought under the worst imaginable conditions in the worst possible environment for both sides. Although most of the battle was urban the scope was much larger than the city and many important dramas were experienced outside the city as well as within. read more

The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia. read more

Conditions deteriorate inside the Stalingrad cauldron Russian PoWs who had been trapped inside Staingrad along with the Germans, found starved to death after the Red Army broke through in 1943. Inside Stalingrad, where up to 350,000 men were trapped in the ‘Kessel’ or cauldron, conditions were rapidly deteriorating. read more