Out of 12,000..this is the bloodiest battle in history

War has always been a part of human life. Political, economic, social or religious interests have always pushed men and women to kill each other.

Unfortunately;

Not only has the situation improved, but military technology has permanently become one of the most developed aspects of countries with economic power.

"Man is specialized in making increasingly powerful weapons, so that these weapons are able to kill more people with less effort," says history researcher Fran Navarro, in a report published in the Spanish magazine "muyhistoria".

War as a skeleton of history

The writer explained that although it may be a little sad, "the truth is that we study a good part of human history that was expressed in wars, they are critical turning points with which we jump from one historical stage to another."

"We have records dating back to 2200 BC, when there was a war between the Goti and the Sumerians, which were two of the first cultures discovered by historians, and we bet that if we discovered a pre-Sumerian civilization it would also have a war record," he added.

Burned houses during the Battle of Stalingrad, which was a major turning point in World War II and is considered the bloodiest battle in human history (French)

12 thousand battles throughout history

The writer shows that the "Nodegot" project (an online research project) aims to achieve a great achievement in putting all the battles in human history on the map, noting that it is a failed attempt, because the database is made of an algorithm that detects all references to the battles in Wikipedia, which It is a source, an algorithm and a tool that leads to many errors such as poorly defined locations on the map or - directly - battles that do not have historical evidence, such as some of the battles mentioned in the holy books.

But the project gives us a fact that we can use to get an estimate of the war;

The project has counted more than 12,000 battles throughout history.

The writer points out that given this number and without losing sight of the quantity, beyond the repercussions that can occur or historical problems, the question remains: What is the bloodiest battle in history?

The writer asserts that the conflicts of the 20th century were - undoubtedly - the deadliest, as the modern war with its advanced weapons pushed the number of victims to unimaginable limits, and World War II stands out - to a large extent - as the conflict that led to the largest number of deaths, as it is estimated About 50 million people died as a result of this war, which took place between 1939 and 1945.

Battle of Stalingrad

The writer continues that during this great war;

The most deadliest battle in history took place: the Battle of Stalingrad (present-day Volgograd), which claimed more than two million lives, became the bloodiest battle in history, rose to become the legend of the Great Patriotic War of the USSR, and was a turning point in the World War the second.

The Battle of Stalingrad took place between August 1942 and February 1943;

There were 200 days of war in which death relentlessly chased the people, which historian Jesus Hernandez expressed by saying "the life expectancy of a Soviet soldier in Stalingrad was barely 24 hours, and in any other army, soldiers would have surrendered or would have fled."

The writer continues by saying that Nazi Germany and its allies from the Axis clashed with the Red Army of the Soviet Union to control Stalingrad - present-day Volgograd - after the failure of Operation Barbarossa, which Hitler wanted to invade and conquer the Soviet Union.

The Nazis focused on the mineral and oil wealth of the Caucasus, known as Operation Blue;

Stalingrad was among its strategic pockets of conquest in order to cut off the supply of the Red Army with resources, as well as the symbolic value of controlling the city named in honor of the Soviet leader.

The engagement led to one of the most dramatic battles in history;

During those frigid months, the Wehrmacht worked hard to put pressure on the Soviets, but the army of the Soviet Union - militarily inferior to the Nazi war machine - resisted until victory, and the price they paid for the liberation of Stalingrad was very high, but the sacrifice marked the beginning of the end for Nazism.

After this battle, the Soviets took the initiative that would lead them to end World War II.

The ruined city of Stalingrad (present-day Volgograd) was bombarded with artillery during its siege by German forces in 1942 and 1943 (Getty Images)

Ways to die in Stalingrad

In Stalingrad - during the Second World War - more than two million people died, and many Soviet soldiers died even before reaching Stalingrad. Crossing the Volga River, which was constantly pursued by Nazi attacks, was a reckless move, but a soldier who dared to retreat or escape could be His officers attack him according to a Soviet order against "cowards and traitors".

The Soviets faced German technical superiority with thousands upon thousands of soldiers. The Nazi air force was reducing the city to rubble, while the bodies of both sides were rotting the atmosphere, and temperatures usually favored -18 degrees Celsius diseases such as typhus and dysentery;

Epidemics, hunger, cold and constant attacks devastated the armies, adding the largest number of casualties in battle, according to the writer.