The Unknown War - Survival at Stalingrad - 02/05

The Unknown War - Survival at Stalingrad 02/05
Documentary series about 1941-45 The Great Patriotic War.
Made in 1970's. Narrated by Burt Lancaster.

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Recognizing that German troops were ill prepared for offensive operations during the winter, the Stavka decided to conduct a number of offensive operations of its own to exploit this weakness, with the recognition that most of the German troops were redeployed elsewhere on the southern sector of the Eastern Front.

Seen in post-war history as a pivotal strategic period of war that began the Second Period of the Great Patriotic War (19. November 1942 - 31. December 1943), these operations would open the Winter Campaign of 1942-1943 (19. November 1942 - 3. March 1943) taking on the strategic and operational planning structure below, employing several Fronts, and some 15 Armies.

Soviet Order of Battle
Southwestern, Don, Stalingrad Fronts

Operation Uranus 19 November 1942 - 30 November 1942
Southwestern Front 1st Guards, 21st, 5th Tank, 17th Air Armies, and the 25th Tank Corps
Don Front 24th, 65th, 66th, 16th Air Armies
Stalingrad Front 28th, 51st, 57th, 62nd, 64th, 8th Air Armies

Kotelnikovo Offensive Operation 12 December 1942 - 31 December 1942
Stalingrad Front 2nd Guards, 5th Shock, 51st, 8th Air Armies

Middle Don Offensive Operation (Operation Little Saturn) 16 December 1942 - 30 December 1942
Southwestern Front
Don Front

Operation Koltso (English: Operation Ring) 10 January 1943 - 2 February 1943
Don Front 21st, 24th, 57th, 62nd, 64th, 65th, 66th, 16th Air Armies


The Soviet counter-offensive planning used deceptive measures that eventually trapped and destroyed the 6th Army and other Axis forces around the city, becoming the second large scale defeat of the German Army during the Second World War.
During the siege, the German, Italian, Hungarian, and Romanian armies protecting Army Group B's flanks had pressed their headquarters for support.
The Hungarian Second Army, consisting of mainly ill-equipped and ill-trained units, was given the task of defending a 200 km section of the front north of Stalingrad between the Italian Army and Voronezh.
This resulted in a very thin line, with some sectors where 12 km stretches were being defended by a single platoon. Soviet forces held several bridgeheads on the western bank of the river and presented a potentially serious threat to Army Group B.

Similarly, on the southern flank of the Stalingrad sector the front south-west of Kotelnikovo was held only by the Romanian VII Corps, and beyond it a single German 16th Motorized Infantry Division.

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[martin1981able]

HEY GET FIND ONE CORAN PLEASE AND ABDEL AL MALICK

[vivascargill]

Comrade Zhukov knew his military history he had studied Hanibaal's victory at Cannae