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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Mix of the name big the name of the big cheese, mix of humans being like “well we lost 250k people already defending/attacking this place, is that going be in vain if we don’t take it? Send in another 100k”. Also it was still full of buildings just destroyed ones, so instead of the forest with little cover the city at least you could hide behind a destroyed fountain or something once you had control of the city.

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