Hitler had sent all men to Stalingrad?

What if Hitler had not separated the troops into Army Gorups A and B?

Then Paulus would have the two divisions he wanted to conquer Stalingrad ( and more ). And he would have the oil in early autumn to move his tanks on towards Volga.

Would this change the battle at all or would the Russians just get a bigger victory at Stalingrad? Your opinions, Gentlemen?

 

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That would have made more sense, but also an encirclement instead of going straight in might have been a good idea too. Set up a bunch of guns on the Volga to sink reinforcements. something like that. Would it suceed? I don't know, but certainly a better strategy.

 

It would have certainly turned out much better than it did.

The German forces were very limited back then, even if regular frontline units can be consider élite compared to regular troops of 1943 or 1944.

But with a concentration of forces there would have been enough air power to support the main attack and there would have been enough armoured forces to make quick encirclements and breakthroughs.

The forces between the Don and the Volga were not destroyed in September 1942 because the VI Army was not mobile enough and the IV Panzer had been sent southwards. If there would have been a concentration in the low Volga of Panzer armies I and IV the Soviet forces might have been destroyed and a secure defence line along the Volga could have been formed. Then, a push towards the Caucasus with full-strenght might have had much more posibilities to suceed.

But I still think that the Red Army was capable of making an offensive which would have ultimately consumed the Wehrmacht.

 

If put into one big group, wouldn't the possiblity fro flanking still be very high?