History of the United States II / Unit 12 USH2 1688 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Stalingrad
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The idea
From August nineteen forty-two to February nineteen forty-three the Soviet army fought the Germans at Stalingrad, until the surrounded German Sixth Army surrendered.
In practice
A battle many regard, the anchor says, as the war's turning point in Europe.
Where people slip
Germany suffered eight hundred fifty thousand casualties there, the Yawp records, and twenty-five million Soviet soldiers and civilians died in the war.
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