<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad" id="mwAS4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Stalingrad">Battle of Stalingrad</a>: German forces of the 6th Army under general <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Paulus" id="mwAS8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Friedrich Paulus">Friedrich Paulus</a> reach finally the river bank of the Volga, capturing 90% of the ruined city of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalingrad" id="mwATA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Stalingrad">Stalingrad</a> and splitting the remaining Soviet forces into two narrow pockets.<sup about="#mwt77" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-22"}}' id="cite_ref-22" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_9#cite_note-22" id="mwATE" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 22;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwATI">[22]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-22">Battle for Stalingrad: the 1943 Soviet General Staff study. (1990). Choice Reviews Online, 27(05), pp. 27-2848-27-2848.</span>