Although the German army suffered its first crushing defeat in the Battle of 194 10+02 Moscow after the Barbarosa operation began, the German front remained sharp. The German Army Group 1 10 occupied the whole Crimea in July of 42, and the Armoured Army Group 10 surrounded most of the Soviet troops in the southwest of Kharkov. Earlier, Japan launched the Pearl Harbor incident against the United States, which failed to prevent the United States from being defeated in the Pacific battlefield. Almost overnight, Japan occupied more than half of East Asia and Southeast Asia, and the world anti-fascist cause faced the most severe situation since the war.
After the German army group B occupied the Don River and Donbass area, it approached Stalingrad, which was an important passage to the Kuban River basin and the Caucasus. It is an important producing area of grain, oil and coal in the Soviet Union. Once it falls, it will seriously affect the war potential of the Soviet Union, and Germany's strategic goal in the whole eastern front will also be realized. Once Hitler got the oil, he would suck blood like a demon, and Nazi party flag would spread all over Europe!
128 June 1942 to12 February 1943, 2.5 million Soviet troops under the command of Marshal zhukov, the supreme deputy commander of the Soviet Union, and/kloc-0.04 million German troops under the command of Marshal Paulus and Marshal Manstein launched a decisive battle in Stalingrad on an unprecedented scale in human history. Under the unfavorable conditions of the first battle, the Soviet army insisted on bloody street fighting with the Germans. On August 9, the Germans captured the Maikepu oil field. Fortunately, the Soviet army poured cement in the retreat to the oil field and avoided the enemy. On August 25th, the Germans captured Mozdok, which is only 50 miles away from the largest oil production center in the Soviet Union. Due to the lack of oil, the Germans finally looked forward to coming.
After a bloody battle, the Soviet Red Army wiped out 1 130000 German troops and their vassal countries at the cost of 104000 casualties, accounting for a quarter of the German troops on the Eastern Front, and the Soviet Union gained the strategic initiative from then on. More importantly, the Germans will never get a drop of oil on the Eastern Front. Germany has actually been defeated! In the next two and a half years, the German battle was actually a struggle.