Stalingrad Comments

[von Waldenburg]

It seems to make sense to me that the german supply comes from the west (Rostov) and not from the south (Caucasus). A weaker supply source in the southern edge (I would say SW not SE though) would remove most german supply problems but I'm not sure if it was available in real life, although I would say winter storm was well supplied but I also know that once the Chir front cracked, the LVII PzK situation became untenable and the 6th Pz was transfered in a westernly direction on 23rd December. About the retreat, in my opinion if the Germans dont retreat very fast (ie in the first 2 days), and retreat later the chances of being intercepted by strong russian mobile forces are very high and the retreat too risky. I would agree with encouraging the germans to stay in the pocket even more...