Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Today in WWII (Stalingrad)

January 8, 1943: The Red Army has the Germans army encircled near Stalingrad. The Soviets offer the Germans "Gingerbread or the whip". Who knows if the Soviets would have actually lived up to their offer? They were notoriously hard on prisoners.

In my opinion, Germany's decision to change focus and start bombing British cities rather than to continue to focus on the aerodromes (the Battle of Britain) and the ill-advised German push to Stalingrad were two of the major turning points in the war.

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