Eternal glory to the heroes who died not for ideologies, but for their Motherland... Ewiger Ruhm den Helden, die nicht für Ideologien starben, sondern für ihr Vaterland... #WW2 #Deutchland #ВОВ #Stalingrad #Reich #RedArmy And the offensive of the German army was so successful that the Führer transferred the 4th Panzer Army to Stalingrad, where he still could not capture the city. For his part, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief recalled Vassilevski from Stalingrad and sent G.K. Zhukov, reinstating him to the post of First Deputy People's Commissar for Defense. Zhukov's first task was on September 2nd. to conduct a counteroffensive. But Zhukov failed to organize a counteroffensive either on the ordered day or on 5th, 6th and 7th. With the excuse that the forces there are few. Alas, the praised Zhukov has never fought the enemy on an equal power, he has never won a battle without absolute superiority. And on the 11th of September, only ten days later, he was recalled. On this day, German troops are already fighting in Stalingrad itself. For two whole weeks, from September 11 to 26, the Germans stubbornly attacked the resistance nodes in #Stalingrad itself. And at the cost of huge losses, pushing the units of the 62nd Army to Gen. Chuikov, reach the city center. And at the junction between the 62nd and 64th armies they reached the Volga. In a little while, the defenders of Stalingrad will be rejected! From the reserve of the Supreme in the most dangerous places was sent the 13th Guards Division of Rodimtsev, which was transferred across the wide river for two days. And two of her regiments captured the mythical Mamaev mound, where the fighting did not stop until January 1943. For his part, Hitler was nervous that the city on the Volga was still holding. On 12.IX. Gen. was summoned to his headquarters in Vinice. Paulus to hear a personal order from Hitler: "With a decisive assault to capture Stalingrad!"