Stalingrad and Beyond, 1942-1943 - Professor Richard J Evans

By December 1941 the Third Reich had reached the apogee of its success. But Germany's economic and manpower resources proved insufficient to defeat the Soviet Union, and the Battle of Stalingrad marked the turning of the tide. By the middle of 1943, Germans were beginning to realise they would lose the war. The Allied bombing of German towns and cities caused a further drop in morale.