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| 1941 | Goering, Herman |  |
| Stalingrad Advises Hitler the Luftwaffe can keep the Army supplied in Stalingrad, a mistake |
| 1942 | Hermann, Hoth | |
| Stalingrad Commands the 4th Panzer Army at the Battle of Stalingrad |
| 1942 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| 20th July Stalingrad Bock has been dismissed & Paulus placed in charge of capturing Stalingrad |
| 21st Aug Mount Elbrus The Swastika is raised over Mount Elbrus |
| 19th Nov Stalingrad Hitler forbids any retreat or surrender, they are "liquidated" by 25 January 1943 |
| 23rd Nov Stalingrad Hitler orders the 6th Army to hold their position |
| 23rd Nov Stalingrad The Stalingrad fronts link up, 330,000 Germans are encircled |
| 1942 | Hoth, Herman | |
| July Kotelnikovo Reaches Kotelnikovo 125 miles sth west of Stalingrad |
| Aug Stalingrad Attacks Stalingrad from the sth West |
| Sep Kuporosnoye Advances across the Volga into the southernmost suburb of Stalingrad |
| 25th Dec Kotelnikov Zhukov drives Hoth's army back across Kotelnikov |
| 1942 | Hube, Hans | |
| 22nd Aug River Don Leads the 16th Panzer Division across the River Don |
| 1942 | Manstein, Fritz Erich von | |
| 12th Dec Stalingrad Manstein is 30 miles away from Stalingrad |
| 12th Dec Stalingrad Sets the Panzers rolling to relieve Paulus ' trapped 6th Army |
| 1942 | Paulus, Friedrich von | |
| July Kalach Helps capture Kalach near Stalingrad |
| July Stalingrad Placed in full charge of capturing Stalingrad after the dismissal of Bock |
| 23rd Aug River Volga The Sixth Army reach the Volga nth of Stalingrad |
| 24th Aug Stalingrad After the Luftwaffe attack Stalingrad & kill 40,000 Paulus 's 6th Army attack |
| 12th Nov Stalingrad Most of Stalingrad is captured but the 6th Army's flanks are exposed |
| 22nd Nov Stalingrad The Sixth Army is completely encircled by the Red Army |
| 23rd Nov Stalingrad Hitler orders "Where the German Soldier sets his foot, there he remains" |
| 23rd Nov Stalingrad The south west & Stalingrad fronts link up, 330,000 Germans are encircled |
| 25th Dec Stalingrad Supply lines can no longer reach Paulus on land |
| 25th Dec Stalingrad Zhukov drives the Germans back from the nth & sth |
| 1942 | Richthofen, Wolfram von | |
| 2nd Aug Kalach Helps capture Kalach near Stalingrad |
| 1943 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| 24th Jan Stalingrad The Russians offer Paulus the chance to surrender but Hitler rejects the offer |
| 30th Jan Stalingrad Makes Paulus Field Marshal because a German Field Marshal has never been captured |
| 31st Jan Stalingrad Paulus , with 25 other generals, surrenders to the Russians |
| 2nd Feb Stalingrad The remainder of the German forces in Stalingrad lay down their arms |
| 1943 | Milch, Erhard | |
| 14th Jan Stalingrad Put in command of the air supply of Stalingrad by Hitler, Goering's deputy |
| 1943 | Paulus, Friedrich von | |
| 8th Jan Stalingrad Rokossovsky sends in a request for the German 6th Army to surrender, this is refused |
| 21st Jan Gumrak The last German airfield at Gumrak is captured |
| 24th Jan Stalingrad The Russians offer Paulus the chance to surrender but Hitler rejects the offer |
| 30th Jan Stalingrad Hitler promotes Paulus to Field Marshal because no Field Marshal has ever surenderred |
| 31st Jan Stalingrad Paulus surrenders the 6th Army at the battle of Stalingrad |
| 31st Jan Stalingrad The Germans have lost 600,000 & the Russians 400,000 |
