The Battle of Stalingrad was a great fight between the Wehrmacht (the army of Nazi Germany) and its Axis allies against the troops of the Soviet Union for the possession of the city of Stalingrado (current Volgograd), on the banks of the Volga River, between 17 July 1942 and 2 February 1943, during World War II. The battle was one of the turning points of the war on the Eastern Front, marking the limit of German expansion into Soviet territory, from where the Red Army would push German forces into Berlin.
