Talk:Battle of Stalingrad

German tank losses: infobox says 1,500, Casualties section says 500

The infobox and the Casualties narrative section give irreconcilably different figures for German tank losses at Stalingrad.

Infobox (German losses): "1,500 tanks destroyed"

Casualties section narrative: "The Germans lost 900 aircraft (including 274 transports and 165 bombers used as transports), 500 tanks and 6,000 artillery pieces."

A factor-of-three difference (1,500 vs 500 tanks) is not a rounding artifact — these are citing genuinely different figures for the same quantity. Both cannot be right.

For context, the same Casualties section also notes that Soviet forces captured "1,666 tanks" among other equipment, which is closer to the infobox's 1,500 figure than the narrative's 500. It is possible the infobox is including captured tanks alongside destroyed ones, or conflating totals from different phases of the battle; but the article does not say so, and the narrative's Bergström citation (2007, pp. 122–123) supports 500 destroyed.

The discrepancy should be resolved with consistent sourcing: the infobox figure needs a citation and an explanation of what it includes, or it should be corrected to match the narrative. Rome (talk) 17:48, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Post-battle census: 1,515 civilians (Craig) vs 9,796 (Beevor) — same moment, 6× difference, no explanation

The article presents two census figures for the number of civilians remaining in Stalingrad at the battle's conclusion, and the two figures differ by more than 8,000.

Both figures appear in the same sentence of the Legacy section. The article states: "a quick census revealed only 1,515 people remained following the battle's conclusion" (citing William Craig, 1973). The very next sentence states: "Beevor notes that a census revealed that 9,796 civilians were in the city at the battle's conclusion, including 994 children" (citing Antony Beevor, 1998).

Both claims describe the same measurement — the civilian population in the city immediately after the battle ended — yet they differ by 8,281 people, a factor of more than six. Neither figure is presented as an estimate or partial count, and the article offers no explanation for why two censuses conducted at the same moment in the same city could yield such radically different results. The discrepancy is left entirely unresolved; the article simply places the two contradictory figures side by side without comment. Rome (talk) 04:17, 6 May 2026 (UTC)