I think Papa Hoth came closest when he penetrated it early in the battle... but was forced on the defensive" The 4th panzer army kind of did take Stalingrad south blitzkrieg style. The city center and Mamayev Kurgan were never without areas of resistance, but they were more-or-less bypassed for the assault on the factory district, which was least successful of all. Of course the main reason for the German failure to capture Stalingrad was the Volga. Had it not been for that the Red Army couldn't have stopped the germans from surrounding the city. And that would have shortly ended any resistance within the city itself...
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