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Description

In late November 1942 Soviet forces surrounded Paulus Sixth Army in a pocket outside the Russian city of Stalingrad In response the Germans planned a relief operation Operation Winter Storm intended to break through the Soviet forces and open the pocket releasing the encircled units The 6th Panzer Division was the spearhead of the German relief force

The attack started on December 12th 1942 and was aborted on December 23rd after heavy Soviet counterattacks This failure sealed the fate of the German 6th Army in Stalingrad

This account of the operation was first published in German in 1961 written by the wellrespected military historian and retired German officer Schiebert Horst It covers the entire operation from the situation in midNovember through the two German offensives the Soviet counteroffensive and ongoing fighting until early January