August 21

The Siege of Stalingrad by Germans under the command of Adolph Hitler began on the 21st in 1941. Hitler apparently wasn’t a big fan of history. Had he been he might have understood, as Napoleon learned when he attempted to conquer Russia, that winter was Russia’s most effective defense against invasion. The Nazi’s siege of Stalingrad would last until February 2, 1943 with the Germans losing what was possibly the bloodiest and most costly battle in human history. Germany’s defeat marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany’s attempt to conquer the world.