Why was Stalingrad the turning point of the war?
The Germans in the Soviet Union had advanced beyond their ability to resupply adequately. Goering boasted that he could do it by airlift but he could not. The further the Germans moved east, the wider the front needed to be, and it was unsustainable. The weather was atrocious and the Germans could not bear this as well as the Russians. The Russians were producing tanks faster than the Germans and the T34 was arguably the best tank in WW2. Although the Panther and Tiger were excellent, there were never enough of them to make sufficent inroads to what had become a stoic Russian defence. The Russians were also receiving much aid from Britain and the US (although not necessarily in the Stalingrad area) and this aid was important to Russia. There was not, after Stalingrad, any significant German victory in the war. Their victory at Kharkov was a setback to the Soviets, but just a delay, no more than that. As El Alamein marked the most easterly German advance in North Africa, Stalingrad was
