Question by Mojo Jojo: why did Germany attacked Stalingrad? what was so impotent about that city?
i mean it was so far south in russia when they were relatively closer to the capital… Moscow… but they marched down to Stalingrad instead of tiring yo march to Moscow.
i know it was a major industrial city on the Volga River and all the crap they wrought in wikipedia… it still isn’t a good enough reason… they lost the war over that city… so it must have been of some greater impotence…
sydney P:
i did
and apparently Yahoo answers spell chacker makes spelling mistakes
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Answer by Sydney P
Not sure of the answer to the question, but my advice to you is hit up some spell check next time.
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advocate172000 says
Stalingrad represented the top arm of the german pincer movement that once closed would have led to the swing south to join the german army south and so capture the oil fields and thus energise Germany's continued war effort. The failure of capturing stalingrad led to the onset of winter and the immobilisation of the german troop movement and their eventual surrender. Hitler continue his operation Barbarossa but came no where defeating the russians again.
thin lizzy says
This is not really about your question but more about the spelling thing. Spell check wouldn't flag "impotent" and "impotence" as being spelled incorrectly. The words were spelled correctly, just misused. There's a huge difference between "important" and "impotent". You also used "wrought" instead of "wrote". Again, spelled correctly so it wouldn't be flagged as a spelling error. I mean to be helpful – please don't interpret my post as being rude.
Cimon says
The O.K.W.(Oberkommando Wehrmacht) in its plans for the summer campaign of 1942 did not include the city of Stalingrad;*the aims for 1942 were purely economical and based on the general directive of Hitler for the "acquisition of natural resources in the Soviet South".So the target was Caucausus and its oilfields especially those of Maicob and Bacu.General Feodor von Bock's army group South were to advance east up to the Volga river,secure Don river and then march to towards Caucausus oil fields;Hitler's vanity changed the plans,not to isolate Stalingrad at North East and secure the Don front before marching to Caucausus but he split the army into two groups to achieve both aims at the same time AND capture the city with the name of his hated enemy** something that ended in the famous disaster of Stalingrad and was the turning point of WWII.
josflachs says
There is one reason why they wanted Stalingrad at all costs: they name itself. Nothing else.
They? Nope. The German high command had very different plans. The problem was that all those highly trained colonels, generals and marshals had to obey a nitwit corporal.
Stalingrad had some strategic value as gateway to the Caucasus. But not enough to sacrifice an army for.
Had they put in the same effort in conquering Moscow, it would have been worth it. However, the corporal had different plans.
iansand9876 says
Gateway to the Caucasus and its oilfields.
handymanmike says
There were some major oil fields located to the south of Stalingrad, and naturally the Germans knew if they could control Stalingrad, they could have access to all the oil nearby, which was needed for their war effort.
Farseer says
Stalingrad. It wasn't any normal city. It had the name of the Soviet Leader Joseph STALIN in it. Hitler would NOT retreat from this city. Thus he lost the war.
And yes, Hitler and his General staff viewed Stalingrad as very important because of it's position on the Volga and an enemy Strongpoint.