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A. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad used the 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army.

B. By mid-November 1942, the Germans had pushed the Soviet defenders back at great cost into narrow zones generally along the west bank of the Volga River.
C. The Soviets initially after being caught on the back foot, had to endure hardships that today we would find hard to comprehend, cannibalism was a common occurrence amongst the starving and besieged populace. Rats became a staple of most peoples protein intake, soldiers and citizens alike would go around picking dead horses clean of meat

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The outcome of the battle was the Soviet Union defeated the Germans and made other countries realize the Nazis were not invincible like they claimed.

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The Battle of Stalingrad went from August 23, 1942, to the February 2, 1943,was a major battle of WWII in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad which is now Volgograd in the Soviet Union. It was when The soviet union first started to push back.

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Soviets successfully stopped an advance of the Nazis. Nearly 2 million military and civilian casualties. Soviets managed to fight of the Nazis and not lose any land.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus- was a German field marshal during WWII, and is best known for commanding the sixth army in the Battle of Stalingrad, including the successful advance toward the city of Stalingrad and the attack to stop the Soviet counter-offensives during the 1942–1943 winter which failed.
Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev was a Soviet sniper and a hero of the Soviet Union during WWII. Between 10 November and 17 December 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad, he killed 225 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht and other Axis armies, including 11 enemy snipers.

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Stalingrad, Russia

22 August 1942- 2 February 1943