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I am mostly interested about the outcome of german victory at Stlingrad, but also if anyone is happy to talk about strategy of the very battle and the Operation Blue, it's fine. Ideally, for the Germans, there should have been no battle. The blueprints were to bomb the city into rubble and sweep what left. After two setbacks at Leningrad and Moscow Hitler played the last card he had left. The Army South was split; one part went south to secure oil fields and another was moved to take Stalingrad.

Strategicly, this operation was more important than Leningrad. The idea was good. Either keep moving south away from the failure of not reaching targets at Leningrad and at Moscow or wait in the holes for next snow and russian counterstrike. With all the oil the Germans might have secured for themself,the war might have lasted for ages.
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