A Stalingrad Christmas: Beyond Barbarossa, Episode 41

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'.