Thread: What if the German armies in Stalingrad attempted to break out?
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Default Re: What if the German armies in Stalingrad attempted to break out?
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Originally Posted by Kai-Petri View Post
Also to the Northern sector Hitler had sent a panzer division to secure the area from Soviet breakthroughs but once the operation started these were no match for the massive Soviet offensive. I think Hitler also ordered the panzer division General to be executed for not doing his duty.
Kai, that is not complete. It was obviously impossible to have one Pz Div holding an entire riverfront. What happenned was that one (I have to check which) Pz Div was sent North of Stalingrad from Army Group Reserve to bolster the Romanian 3rd Army, making up one PzKorps with one Romanian tank division equipped with Skoda and Renault tanks. This was in the path of two Soviet Fronts, so it is no surprise it was run over in one day.
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