A Stalingrad Christmas: Beyond Barbarossa, Episode 41

44 min • 18 december 2023

For the Germans of the 6th Army, Christmas 1942 was a hungry Yule in the freezing Cauldron.

Map 1: Operation Uranus, November and December 1942

Map 2: Operation Winter Storm: The German relief attempt

Map 3: Operation Winter Storm stalled

Failure: Luftwaffe supplies the trapped 6th Army in the Kessel

Failure: Operation Winter Storm

German soldiers in the Kessel/Cauldron

Red Army soldier writes home, December 1942

By December, the Red Army soldiers' morale was very different from the Germans'.

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A Stalingrad Christmas: Beyond Barbarossa, Episode 41

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