„During urban operations time is a critical factor, and a problem with the campaign for the Germans was how the Soviets perceived time. The Germans wanted to quickly accomplish their objectives, but the Soviet defenders were more interested in dragging the conflict out as long as they could to whittle the Germans down both physically and psychologically.“ In Eric Mailman: Urban operations: learning from past battles (Memento vom 19. Juli 2012 im Webarchiv archive.today), Infantry Magazine, März/April 2008.
“The degeneration of urban warfare into a series of small-group—or even of individual-battles was evident in operations as different as Stalingrad, Hue and Beirut. The nature of cities themselves is responsible for this fragmentation process. As battles wear on, the streets and building blocks of the urban physical morphology fragment urban warfare into conflict between units usually of squad or platoon size, with generally insufficient space for the deployment and maneuvering of larger units. The battle rapidly disintegrates into a series of more or less separate and isolated conflicts around such ‚fortresses‘.” Abschnitt „Small-Unit Operations“ in: U.S. Army FM 3-06.11 – Combined Arms Operations in Urban Terrain, Appendix H: Lessons Learned from Modern Urban Cobmbat.
Die Lebenserwartung der Rotarmisten betrug häufig weniger als 24 Stunden: „… masses of Russian soldiers (whose life expectancy was less than 24 hours) …“. In: Urban Warfare at Stalingrad. Military History Podcast.
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Order of Battle of 62nd Army. In: stalingrad.net. Archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 5. Februar 2012; abgerufen am 8. September 2012 (englisch).
Order of Battle of 62nd Army. In: stalingrad.net. Archiviert vom Original (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am 5. Februar 2012; abgerufen am 8. September 2012 (englisch).
Basierend auf Kriegstagebüchern von Wilhelm Hoffmann/IR 267. World War 2 Plus 55. (Memento vom 28. September 2011 im Internet Archive) usswashington.com; abgerufen am 12. Mai 2010.
Battle of Stalingrad. In: ww2db.com. World War II Database, abgerufen am 11. Mai 2010 (englisch): „At Mamayev Kurgan hill, a Russian counterattack took control of the hill after suffering 10,000 casualties in one day“
