Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad by Craig William

Author:Craig, William [Craig, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504021340
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2015-09-29T06:00:00+00:00

By now Sixth Army headquarters was aware that Manstein was coming. Buoyed up, nervous, Paulus and Schmidt waited through the day for progress reports of Operation Winter Storm. They were hopeful, but each knew that time was robbing Sixth Army of its strength to break loose and meet its saviors.

That day’s Sixth Army War Diary reflected the precipitate decline inside the Kessel:

December 12, 1942, 5:45 P.M.

Rations decreased since November 26. Another ration decrease on December 8 as a result of which the fighting power of the troops has been weakened. At the present time, only one-third of the normal rations. Losses here and there because of exhaustion.

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