A Stalingrad Christmas: Beyond Barbarossa, Episode 41
For the Germans of the 6th Army, Christmas 1942 was a hungry Yule in the freezing Cauldron. Map 1: Operation Uranus, November and December 1942 Map 2: Operation Winter Storm: The German relief attempt Map 3: Operation Winter Storm stalled Failure: Luftwaffe supplies the trapped 6th Army in the Kessel Failure: Operation Winter Storm German soldiers in the Kessel/Cauldron Red Army soldier writes home, December 1942 By December, the Red Army soldiers' morale was very different from the Germans'.