Stalingrad: 1 Million Casualties in 6 Months

Added: 2026-06-07

[00:00:02]1 million lives were lost in just 6 months in a single city.

[00:00:07]This is the Battle of Stalingrad.

[00:00:10]In the summer of 1942, [music] Nazi Germany aimed to capture Stalingrad, a key Soviet stronghold on the Volga River.

[00:00:18]The Soviets had around 150,000 men [music] to stop over 400,000 German and Axis soldiers.

[00:00:25]For 200 days, the battle raged through the city's rubble, house by house, street by street.

[00:00:32]German troops faced temperatures 20° below zero during brutal winter assaults with no shelter.

[00:00:38]One Soviet sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, killed 309 enemy soldiers, more than any other woman in history.

[00:00:47]Stalingrad became the [music] turning point of World War II and the deadliest battle in human history.

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