In World War II, German siege of Soviet city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) August 1942January 1943. The siege of Stalingrad was a horrific campaign, with both sides sustaining heavy casualties the Germans lost some 400,000 troops while there were over 750,000 Soviet military casualties and an unknown number of civilian deaths. The Germans were finally driven out by a massive Soviet counterattack launched in November 1942.
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