Just a quick correction here so people don't absorb bad info from this article.
In the summer of 1942, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarosa [sic], which involved the most brutal invasion of the city of Stalingrad.
Operation Barbarossa was the initial invasion of the Soviet Union from June 22, 1941 - December 5, 1941, which is when the Nazi's stalled infront of Moscow and the Soviet counter-offensive began. What the author is referring to here is actually called Case Blue, or Fall Blau, which is the German Summer offensive of 1942. This may seem nitpicky but I believe it's important to make the distinction as Barbarossa had wildly unrealistic goals and failed horribly, almost immediately falling behind and running into problems, and everything that came after was the Nazi's attempt to salvage the disaster they were left with.
Just a quick correction here so people don't absorb bad info from this article.
Operation Barbarossa was the initial invasion of the Soviet Union from June 22, 1941 - December 5, 1941, which is when the Nazi's stalled infront of Moscow and the Soviet counter-offensive began. What the author is referring to here is actually called Case Blue, or Fall Blau, which is the German Summer offensive of 1942. This may seem nitpicky but I believe it's important to make the distinction as Barbarossa had wildly unrealistic goals and failed horribly, almost immediately falling behind and running into problems, and everything that came after was the Nazi's attempt to salvage the disaster they were left with.
Edited. Thanks for the correction.