Total casualties
About 1.7-2 million.
The 1.7-2 million casualty band includes wounded and captured. Killed-only numbers are lower and still enormous.
Civilians who remained in the city died under bombs and winter.
Bands
6th Army lost
The formation as a tool -- dead, wounded, captured.
Soviet military
Also enormous; not a cheap victory.
Civilians
Prewar city emptied by death and flight.
POWs after
German prisoners' high death rate in 1943 camps.
Regions
Stalingrad city
The rubble object.
Don bend
The encirclement country.
Caucasus (related)
The oil aim that Blue also sought.
Germany
Mourning and later myth of the 6th.
Britain/US (news)
A distant turn they celebrated.
Volgograd today
The memory city.
Key numbers
End2 Feb 1943
Uranus19 Nov 1942
Casualtiesabout 1.7-2 million
City name nowVolgograd
Makers
Stavka
The planning maker of Uranus.
Luftwaffe transport
The failed maker of an airlift.
Tractor/factory ruins
Industrial plants as forts.
Soviet propaganda
The victory-maker in film and stone.
German memoir industry
The postwar story-maker in the West.
Mamaev sculptors
Vuchetich's monument machine.
German memoir culture long centred the 6th Army's suffering and under-weighted Soviet civilian and POW costs.
The rebuilt city is itself a cost account in concrete.