1961 Event Stalingrad renamed Volgograd 1957 Death Friedrich von Paulus, German field marshall (Stalingrad), dies at 66 1943 Event Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army 1943 Event German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, turning point of WW II 1943 Event General Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad 1943 Event Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death 1943 Event Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad 1943 Event Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad 1943 Event Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad 1942 Event Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad 1942 Event German offensive in South Western Stalingrad 1942 Event German 4th and 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad 1942 Event Last German offensive in Stalingrad 1942 Event Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall 1942 Event German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad 1942 Event 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad 1942 Event German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad 1942 Event Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad 1942 Event Heavy German assault in Stalingrad 1942 Event Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad 1942 Event German forces attack Stalingrad 1942 Event German troops enter Stalingrad 1942 Event Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die) 1942 Event General Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad 1942 Event Colonel General Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev 1942 Event Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad 1925 Event Czarina re-christened Stalingrad (now Volgograd) 1918 Event Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad) 1896 Birthday Georgi K Zjukov, marshal of Moskow/Stalingrad 1892 Birthday Theodor Plievier, German writer, Des Kaisers Kulis, Stalingrad
