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Looking for a break in the Christmas season sweetness? Beyond Barbarossa returns you to the Eastern Front in December 1942. Hitler and Stalin's mutual stubbornness collide on the Russian steppe.
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'.
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Looking for a break in the Christmas season sweetness? Beyond Barbarossa returns you to the Eastern Front in December 1942. Hitler and Stalin's mutual stubbornness collide on the Russian steppe.
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'.

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