feb 2, 1943 - Battle of Stalingrad

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Kingdom of Romania, Nazi Germany and Soviet Union

The Battle of Stalingrad was a major confrontation of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. The Soviets recovered 250,000 German and Romanian corpses in and around Stalingrad


The Soviet victory at Stalingrad was a great humiliation for Hitler, who had elevated the battle's importance in German opinion.

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