Eli5: if Stalingrad was basically bombed to rubble, why did they keep fighting over it?

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The city was practically totally destroyed. Without infrastructure wouldn’t it have just been some pile of rocks on the Volga? Why did the axis not just set up shop a few miles down the river after destroying the city?

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The name itself. Stalin was not going to let them take the city named after him. It was symbolic

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