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Why didn't the germans just razed Stalingrad to the ground with artillery and moved on to the oil fields instead of having a new Verdun in the east for a city with no strategical value?
Because Hitler said so.
Because they didn't know it would turn into a new Verdun obviously.
>>1114740
First post best post
>>1114735
They couldn't even raze a single building in months of trying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlov%27s_House
>>1114735
>Why didn't the germans just razed Stalingrad to the ground with artillery
because that isn't how artillery works
it turns the place to shit but that just leaves a lot of easily-defensible rubble, and that rubble contains a lot of the stuff you'd need to keep pushing (e.g. railheads)
>>1114735
I dont get why falling back/not advancing on Moscow was fine but heaven forbid you do the same on Stalingrad.
>>1116783
You really don't understand the difference? The army was already committed at Stalingrad. Falling back would've meant they were risking being routed.
