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      • The plot focuses on a 1942 battle between the Nazi Germans and the Soviets set in Stalingrad, Soviet Union. The battle is declared by Viktor Tabori to be " Rattenkrieg "; translated, War of the Rats.
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  2. 18 November. By the spring of 1942, despite the failure of Operation Barbarossa to defeat the Soviet Union in a single campaign, the Wehrmacht had captured vast territories, including Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic republics.

  3. May 25, 2024 · The Battle of Stalingrad in 1942-43 was one of the largest, bloodiest, and most decisive engagements of World War II. The German 6th Army, once a formidable force that had conquered vast swathes of Soviet territory, was annihilated in a cataclysmic defeat that permanently turned the tide of the war against Nazi Germany.

  4. The plot focuses on a 1942 battle between the Nazi Germans and the Soviets set in Stalingrad, Soviet Union. The battle is declared by Viktor Tabori to be " Rattenkrieg "; translated, War of the Rats. The story focuses in on the lives of two expert snipers, a Russian and a German, each with the goal of killing the other.

  5. The Battle of Stalingrad, fought between August 23, 1942, and February 2, 1943, stands as one of the most pivotal conflicts of the Second World War and indeed human history. This brutal confrontation not only shaped the course of the war but also signaled a turning tide against the seemingly unstoppable German Wehrmacht.

  6. Oct 21, 2024 · The turning point of the Battle of Stalingrad was a Soviet counteroffensive named Operation Uranus. It targeted the weak Axis forces defending the flanks of the German armies trying to take the city. The Soviets surrounded the German Sixth Army, which surrendered (against the orders of ) on January 31, 1943.

  7. Jul 12, 2022 · Reached by the 6th Army in the middle of August 1942, the German commander – Friedrich Paulus – would ineptly fight a grinding battle of bloody attrition that would be nicknamed Rattenkrieg – Rats war – by his own bewildered and horrified men.

  8. Stalingrad was the ultimate case of urban warfare. Each street, building, basement and roof was desperately fought over. Not for nothing did the German troops refer to it as Rattenkrieg (‘Rat Warfare’); so much took place in the rubble or even underground. They could take the rooms in a building during the day.

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