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Originally posted by Rick Lee
Aside from that, Hitler had a silly fascination with capturing the place because it was named after his nemesis. Seeing as Hitler lost about 200k troops in the battle and another 90k captured when von Paulus disregarded his orders and surrendered, I'd say Moscow might have been a better choice.
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Spot on. Hitler wanted Stalingrad worse than anything and the Ruskies threw everything they had at it.
Then when the city was lost the Russians then did a textbook pincer movement with their tanks that destroyed hundreds of Panzers and a few Tigers and ended any chance of an offensive.
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