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| 1942 | Battle of Kursk |  |
| 28th June Kursk Sweeps forward to the south of Kursk
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| 1942 | Battle of Stalingrad | |
| July Kalach Helps capture Kalach near Stalingrad
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| July Stalingrad Placed in full charge of capturing Stalingrad after the dismissal of Bock
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| 23rd Aug River Volga The Sixth Army reach the Volga nth of Stalingrad
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| 24th Aug Stalingrad After the Luftwaffe attack Stalingrad & kill 40,000 Paulus's 6th Army attack
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| 12th Nov Stalingrad Most of Stalingrad is captured but the 6th Army's flanks are exposed
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| 22nd Nov Stalingrad The Sixth Army is completely encircled by the Red Army
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| 23rd Nov Stalingrad Hitler orders "Where the German Soldier sets his foot, there he remains"
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| 23rd Nov Stalingrad The south west & Stalingrad fronts link up, 330,000 Germans are encircled
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| 25th Dec Stalingrad Supply lines can no longer reach Paulus on land
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| 25th Dec Stalingrad Zhukov drives the Germans back from the nth & sth
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| 1942 | Commander | |
| Dec Appointed Commander of the 6th Army
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| 1942 | Fridericus | |
| 10th May Barvenkovo Submits plans to von Bock to eliminate the Barvenkovo salient
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| 1942 | Massacre | |
| 29th Jan Komsomolsk 150 houses are burned to the ground, 8 people are shot dead
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| 1942 | Medal | |
| May Kharkov Awarded the Knight's Cross after the siege of Kharkhov
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| 1942 | Mobilization | |
| Jan Kharkov Moves the 6th Army HQ to Kharkov
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| 1942 | Siege of Kharkov | |
| Jan Kharkov The Russians under Timosheko lay siege to Kharkov but call it off after 2 months
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| 12th May Kharkov Timoshenko breaks through Heitz's VIII Corps to within 12 miles of Kharkov
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| 19th May Barvenkovo The "Barvenkovo mousetrap" is sprung by Kleist & Paulus, 240,000 Russians are taken
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| 1943 | Battle of Stalingrad | |
| 8th Jan Stalingrad Rokossovsky sends in a request for the German 6th Army to surrender, this is refused
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| 21st Jan Gumrak The last German airfield at Gumrak is captured
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| 24th Jan Stalingrad The Russians offer Paulus the chance to surrender but Hitler rejects the offer
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| 30th Jan Stalingrad Hitler promotes Paulus to Field Marshal because no Field Marshal has ever surenderred
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| 31st Jan Stalingrad Paulus surrenders the 6th Army at the battle of Stalingrad
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| 31st Jan Stalingrad The Germans have lost 600,000 & the Russians 400,000
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| 1943 | Surrender | |
| 31st Jan Stalingrad Paulus surrenders the 6th Army at the battle of Stalingrad
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