The Destruction of 6th Army at Stalingrad
By Ian Baxter
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Ian Baxter
Ian Baxter is a military historian who specialises in German twentieth-century military history. He has written more than fifty books. He has also reviewed numerous military studies for publication, supplied thousands of photographs and important documents to various publishers and film production companies worldwide, and lectures to various schools, colleges and universities throughout the United Kingdom and Southern Ireland.
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The Destruction of 6th Army at Stalingrad - Ian Baxter
Chapter One
The Road to Hell
By the spring of 1942 Hitler was now in full command of the army and was determined to obliterate the Soviet army in southern Russia once and for all. To finally destroy his enemy a plan had been worked out for an all-out drive south to capture a city that bore than name of Stalin. Stalingrad comprised approximately 500,000 inhabitants and stretched for 12 miles along the west bank of the Volga. It was the third largest industrial city in Russia and boasted a huge tractor plant which had been converted to produce more than a quarter of the country’s tanks and armoured vehicles. There was a gun factory, metallurgical and chemical works, railroads, and oil tank farms. The Russians used the river for the shipment of oil from the Caucasus.
Within four days Voronezh was captured sending Red Army troops reeling back across the vast Russian steppe for their lives. Following the capture of the city the 4th Panzer Army then swung south-east along the Don where it linked up with Paulus’s 6th Army east of Kharkov. Over the next few weeks, strung out over more than 200 miles, the 6th Army with twenty divisions – 250,000 men, 500 panzers, 7,000 guns and mortars, and 25,000 horses – pushed down the Don corridor towards