<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mwvQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" id="mwvg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> issues Fuhrer Directive No. 41 summarizing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_Blue" id="mwvw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Case Blue">Case Blue</a>, including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" id="mwwA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="6th Army (Wehrmacht)">German Sixth Army</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad" id="mwwQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Stalingrad">planned assault on Stalingrad</a>.<sup about="#mwt100" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"}}' id="cite_ref-17" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_5#cite_note-17" id="mwwg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 17;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwww">[17]</span></a></sup>
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