In February 1943, the VI German Army led by General Von Paulus surrendered at Stalingrad. The triumph the Red Army, a large turning point of World War II, became emblematic or Soviet opposition as well as connected with horrors of war. Street fighting in Stalingrad inside four weeks of December and January happened with temperatures near -40 C. The Red Army's winter gear, remarkably more advanced than the Wehrmacht's, completed up being decisive through battle.