stalingrad

I can kinda see this happening if Operation barbarossa happens a few months earlier. The Germans have more time before winter arrives so they have more of an advantage. So if they successfully took Stalingrad, what next?

What if after the disaster at Stalingrad, the German army and my extension Hitler adopted a more cautious strategy after the fiasco, not to win but force the eastern front into a stalemate? What could the Germans have tried? What would be resulting arms race be like? What would be the effect...

Today, I was walking from work to home, and I was thinking... As we all know, the Germans tried to conquer Stalingrad by directly moving into the city, and driving the Russians out of the city, but accidentally leaving an entrance on the Volga for reinforcements, which left the Russians to...

I hope someone can give me a good opinion. I don't know if we have a member who is the WWII Soviet person. Here goes: If the Germans could capture the main dock, most of the Northern industrial area. The 62 Guards is wiped out as is Chuikov. 13 Guards is only half deployed. I could go on, but...

Let's assume that Nikita Khrushchev dies from a random shell or from an accident at Stalingrad, leaving him out of contention for succeeding Stalin by virtue of being dead, so who succeeds Stalin in such a scenario? What would the USSR look like under this alternate successor to Stalin? Do we...

Hi. I recently read that Hitler was thinking in July 1942 about splitting the Army Group South into two, and giving separate goals for both groups of armies, one as in the original Case Blue, to the Oil Fields and other to Stalingrad. Well, it would be certainly a stupid move, but very...

I assume they cut off Soviet land access to the Caucasus while they themselves (try to) take the most important oil fields there (Maikop, Grozny, Baku). Would they be successful in these endeavors? Would constant supply of oil while denying it to Soviets let Germany win the war in the East? I...

If the Germans had taken either Moscow or Stalingrad (or both), would Stalin have ordered a Second Great Purge of his officers once he learns of the fall of said cities due to his paranoia akin to what he did in the "Anglo/American-Nazi War"? If so, how much would the Soviet officer corp have...

(Fair warning, this is long with large quotations of text from books) The Third Reich winning Stalingrad (Or more accurately, the overall Case Blue offensive) has long been a staple in Alternate History at large and, to be expected, on these forums as well. The general consensus, whenever one...

Lo and behold my newest creation. Fallen on the March Chapter I: Case Blue and the Fall of Stalingrad, May-November 1942. Case Blue (Fall Blau in German) was the Wehrmacht’s codename for its plan for a 1942 strategic summer offensive to take place between June and November. The operation was...

Von Kleist remembered: "The 4th Panzer Army was advancing on my left. It could have taken Stalingrad without a fight, at the end of July, but was diverted to the south to help me crossing the Don. I did not needs it's aid, and merely congested the roads I was using. When it turned north again, a...