Chuikov, in accordance with Stalin’s call for a no retreat order, was to hold Stalingrad at any cost, while reinforcements were moved westwards towards the front line. This city, Stalingrad (modern-day Volgograd), was defended by the forces of Vasily Chuikov. In the summer of 1942, As part of the operation known as Case Blue, Adolf Hitler ordered the German 6th army, under the command of Friedrich Paulas, and its associated Luftwaffe air units to secure a city on the Volga river, to tighten the Wehrmacht’s grip on Soviet oil supplies coming from Baku, as well as to defend the northern flank of the remaining units of Army group south in their assault on the Caucasus.
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