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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Berlin Radio says Stalingrad Army in trap will fight “to the last cartridge”

Well, not quite.

110,000 German soldiers surrendered at Stalingrad.

Only about 6,000 ever returned to Germany twelve years later in 1955.

75,000 died within 3 months of capture. They may have been the lucky ones.

11 posted on 01/24/2013 9:49:28 AM PST by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
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To: Mikey_1962

They were extremely low on supplies—most notably food, ammo, fuel, and medical supplies. This was one of Hitler’s biggest blunders of the entire war. All of his generals advised him to order Paulus to break out of the Stalingrad pocket once the Soviet trap was sprung. But Hitler would have none it. Pumped up on drugs supplied to him by Dr. Morell, and egged on by morphine addicted Reichmarshall Goering who persuaded Hitler that he could keep the 6th Army supplied by a Luftwaffe airlift, never mind the fact that the brutal Russian winter was setting in making flying conditions next to impossible. After this insane and mindless debacle, many German officers became involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler, while many Allied strategists were coming to the conclusion that Hitler—with all of his strategic blundering—was more valuable alive than dead, and gave up on their own plots to assassinate him.


12 posted on 01/24/2013 10:18:46 AM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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