Talk:Battle of Stalingrad

Not clear what 259% means

The article currently contains the sentence:

Red Army had suffered losses of 259% in 1941

It is not clear what the 259% means. Possibly

2.59 = (total casualties ) / ( initial number of men)

but it is not clear and should be improved. Aberdeen01 (talk) 16:02, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

I guess its 2.59 times of their initial strenght of June 1941. They started with about 3 million troops and lost about 7-8 million in 1941. StoneProphet (talk) 16:29, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Names for the Battle in native languages.

It should be better if the name of the battle is mentioned in; German, Russian and Italian and perphas more if they were involved majorly. 86.80.208.136 (talk) 17:16, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Would a separate article on the fighting for the city itself be helpful?

As written, the article doesn't have much detail on the fighting in and around the city, e.g. the battles of the Orlovka salient and of the various factories, and includes the encirclement operation and other actions farther from the city. 72.66.63.221 (talk) 04:29, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

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SPAIN DIDN´T PARTICIPATE 1. Spain was a NON-BELLIGERANT country in WWII. 2. Spanish troops were integrated in the 250th Division of the Whermacht. 3. Spanish troops didn´t participate in the Stalingrad Battle. They were in the Leningrad Front.--79.150.40.98 (talk) 04:19, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Who is who?

According to the caption of the photo of Paulus surrendering, general Schmidt is on the right and col Adam in the middle. However on the german wiki and german photo caption it is stated that general schmidt is in the middle and col Adam on the right. what is correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dutchdoc (talk • contribs) 13:01, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

The EN caption is incorrect - Adam is on the right and Schmidt in the centre. See this photo of Adam in Stalingrad. I have changed the caption. Farawayman (talk) 15:33, 24 January 2012 (UTC)