GCSE Coursework-Russia’s victory at Stalingrad

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GCSE Coursework-Russia's victory at Stalingrad

. Early in the morning the German army launched a large blitzkrieg attack

on the Russians. In the early hours they managed to capture a lot of

Russian territory. The Russians were not expecting this as they had signed

a non aggression pact just years earlier. The attack consisted of attacks

on airdromes and villages, which was to destroy aircraft and resources.

There were thousands of gun shots as armoured tanks and convoys rolled

onto Soviet soil. The Russian government did not even know they were at

war until an hour and a half after the first attack.(S1)

The Russian infantry forces were out numbered by the Germans and

divisions from assisting countries e.g. Finland, Hungary. On paper the

Russians had more tanks but in fact most of these were obsolete. It was

the same with planes, the Germans had modern aircraft as most of the

Russians were obsolete. There were still cavalry divisions used by the

Russians, showing how poorly equipped they were for war.(3a). The army

had also lost many of its leading Officers and Generals, during Stalin's

purges, meaning that they would possibly perform poorly.(S3b)

2. Hitler showed no regard for the Russian people as he decimated any

village that the army came across, killing the innocent inhabitants. He

gave orders to his generals to execute any young partisans that they came

across, this was his idea to send a message that he had the power to kill
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the Russian people. He treated the people so badly because he saw them

fit only for slave labour.(S6,4)

Hitler completely despised communism and saw it as a threat to his

government so he saw it necessary to destroy it. As well he did not worry

or care about the Russian people as they were his enemy, he was

attacking them to gain land for his country of superior people. Finally

they were also in a state of war and he was not worried about what was
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