Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mushure mekukundwa kwakasarudzika kweGerman paHondo yeStalingrad musi wa2 Kukadzi 1943, Germany yakamanikidzwa kuzvidzivirira uye yakanga isisakwanise kuenderera mberi nekuita basa reNew Order muSoviet Union, kunyangwe hazvo kuuraya vanhu kwevaJudha, Roma, uye mamwe madiki kwakaramba kuchienderera mberi. Kutevera kukundikana kwakatevera kwechiitiko chechirimo cha1943
Nokuda kwokurasikirwa nenharaunda dzakanga dzarasikirwa neSoviet pakutanga kwegore iroro, Wehrmacht yakanga isingachakwanisi kugadzira kurwisa kwakakura-kwakakura kunobudirira paEastern Front. Mukukurukurirana naJoseph Goebbels musi wa26 Gumiguru 1943 Hitler akataura kuti Germany inofanira kupedzisa hondo yenguva pfupi neSoviet Union ndokudzokera kumuganhu wayo wa1941 kumabvazuva. Izvi zvaizopa Germany mukana wokutanga kukunda mauto eBritain kumadokero (hapana kutaurwa nezvekuti United States yaive mubatanidzwa weAllied) isati yatangazve hondo itsva ye "Lebensraum" kurwisa Soviet Union pane imwe nguva gare gare. Hitler akafunga kuti mutsivi wake womunguva yemberi angadai aifanira kuita hondo iyi yapashure, sezvo aifunga kuti akanga akwegura zvikuru panguva iyoyo.