Stalingrad 1942: The Rescue Panzers That Got Within 30 Miles of the 6th Army

Stalingrad 1942: The Rescue Panzers That Got Within 30 Miles of the 6th Army On the twelfth of December, nineteen forty-two, about two hundred and thirty German tanks in two panzer divisions rolled out of Kotelnikovo. In their path stood one Soviet army. It had five rifle divisions and almost no tanks. The target lay about seventy-five miles to the northeast. How the trap closed, on the map: How Germany's freshest panzer division drove about 50 miles north from Kotelnikovo to reach the 6th Army at Stalingrad. Five days at Verkhne-Kumsky, where Volsky's worn-out 4th Mechanized Corps held the road and won the Guards title. The 05:00 decision that sent Malinovsky's 2nd Guards Army to the Myshkova River. About 30 miles from the pocket: why Thunderclap was never sent, and what fuel inside the ring had to do with it. The Christmas Eve counterstroke that threw the relief force back past its own start line by 29 December. Dates, armies and the final count on Operation Winter Storm are pinned below the video. Subscribe for more of the Eastern Front, and name the next battle you want mapped in the comments. #Stalingrad #OperationWinterStorm #EasternFront #RedArmy #WW2 #WW2History #Panzers