Overview
Then, on 19 November, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus, targeting the weaker Romanian armies protecting the 6th Armyās flanks. The ill-equipped Romanians were overrun and the 6th Army was cut off and surrounded. Hitler was determined to hold the city ā the symbolic namesake of the Soviet leader ā and forbade the 6th Army from attempting a breakout, insisting they be supplied by air instead; in February 1943, without food or ammunition, some 91,000 starving, lice-ridden Germans surrendered. The losses on both sides were eye-watering ā the Soviets alone suffered something approaching half a million dead and more than 650,000 sick or wounded ā and in his unique style author Jonathan Trigg reveals the human agony behind such statistics through the words of the Germans who were there.
Was it all over after the surrender? Of course not. Death marches did for many: Landser Josef Farber remembered: āWe set out with 1,200 men ā¦ about 120 were alive when we reached the camp.ā This was war at its rawest ā this was Stalingrad.
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