Intense street fighting stretches on for months, until a massive Soviet counter-offensive in November overwhelms the enemy. In doing so, he places immense strain on already stretched supply lines.Ģ3 August 1942 | German forces begin their attack on Stalingrad. Summer 1942 | Hitler splits his forces once more, sending some south to the Caucasus to reach the oilfields, and others to Stalingrad (now Volgograd). The Germans fail to capture the city and retreat by mid-December.ĭecember 1941 | Displeased with the retreat from Moscow, Hitler dismisses Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, commander-in-chief of the German army, and assumes the role himself. Soviet forces unleash a stream of attacks on troops fighting through the freezing winter in summer clothes. Their subsequent redeployment to the Moscow front is interrupted by heavy autumn rains.Ģ October 1941 | Operation Typhoon begins, which sees German troops attempt to capture Moscow. They occupy Ukraine and then move to the Caucasus, hoping to use Soviet oilfields to top up German supplies. They shatter the Soviet defences and quickly make huge gains.Īugust 1941 | Hitler sends some of his armies south-east in search of much-needed resources. Some 3.5 million Axis troops, 3,600 tanks and more than a thousand combat aircraft enter the Soviet Union. This non-aggression agreement gives Hitler and Stalin time to expand their armies ahead of a likely conflict between the two nations.Ģ2 June 1941 | Germany and its allies launch Operation Barbarossa, the largest land invasion in history. From the jaws of defeat: how Soviet forces turned the tide on the eastern frontĢ3 August 1939 | The German and Soviet foreign ministers sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, later known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
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