nlike what some historians think, Stalingrad held a lot more value then what meets the eye at first sight. Hitler was aware of the vast resources within Stalingrad therefore his temper tantrum over the performance of Operation Barbarosa was justified. A key to Stalingrad’s importance lays in its industrial might developed during the 1930s. A big country creates high demands that were to be met. Once the war came about, these demands changed making tractor factories produce tanks.
The largest industrial plants
Stalingrad was home to the Dzerhinsky Tractor Plant, at the time known as the biggest factory within the Soviet Union and possibly within Europe. Surprisingly enough, the plant was originally built in the United States and shipped to the Soviet Union. The factory produced the highest volume of tanks in the entire world during the WWII era and it is also considered by many historians as the biggest tank factory in the world.
