Stretching about 30 miles (50 km) along the banks of the Volga River, Stalingrad was a large industrial city producing armaments and tractors and was an important prize in itself for the invading German army. From The Second World War: Allied Victory (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.

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