Why did Germany invade Stalingrad?

It was an important industrial city, and the Volga was an important transport route. Hitler also wanted to capture Stalingrad because it was named after Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, thus it would embarrass him. Hitler ordered the army to stay there. The German air force tried to supply them by air.

What if the Soviets lost Stalingrad?

If Russia had lost the battle of Stalingrad then World war 2 would of ended the same way World war 1 did. It would of taken much longer for the western allies to win. The German army would of secured a boundless source of oil that Russia no longer had access to in the Caucasus.

How did the Germans use snipers in the Battle of Stalingrad?

Both the Germans (and their allies) and the Soviets had deployed hundreds of professional snipers into Stalingrad, placing them behind fallen buildings and broken machinery.

Who was the best Soviet sniper of all time?

Perhaps the Soviet Union’s best sniper was Vasily Zaitsev, who killed over three hundred Nazis during the Battle of Stalingrad. He was born into a poor family and grew up hunting wolves in the snow with his father and younger brother.

How many German soldiers were killed by snipers in WW2?

Only in Stalingrad he defeated 225 enemy soldiers and officers, 11 of them were snipers. Snipers of the 62 nd Army, inspired by the feats of their comrade, defeated more that six thousand German soldiers. During the war he published two sniper books, he also worked out a sniper’s move called “sixes”.

Was the Stalingrad duel the greatest sniper duel ever?

In the blazing ruins of Stalingrad, where men hunted men with such savagery that even the dogs fled howling into the night, occurred the greatest sniper duel in history. Too bad it’s more myth than history. On one side was Vasily Zaitsev, the Soviet army’s deadliest sniper, with some 400 kills.