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A seasonal special: Christmas 1942 in Stalingrad

A seasonal special: Christmas 1942 in Stalingrad

Season 3 Episode 13 Published 1 year, 10 months ago
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Looking for a break in the Christmas season sweetness? Beyond Barbarossa returns you to the Eastern Front in December 1942. Hitler and Stalin's mutual stubbornness collide on the Russian steppe. 

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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