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One of the most moving chapters of the Second World War began in the early morning of November 19, 1942.
Thick fog lay in the lowlands between the Don and the Volga. At 5:20 a.m.
several thousand Soviet guns and Stalin organs opened fire. "It was breathtaking," Captain Gerard Dengler still remembers with a shudder.
The Soviet attack hit the Germans at their most vulnerable point: in the rear of the front, where allied Romanians and Italians secured the flanks of the 6th Army. Their resistance did not last long.
Poorly equipped and doubtful of the purpose of the campaign, the units of the "allies" surrendered to the overwhelming superiority.
The Soviet tank spearheads, which had attacked simultaneously from the north and south, met at Kalach on the Don.
The German 6th Army with more than 300,000 men was surrounded.
One of the most moving chapters of the Second World War began in the early morning of November 19, 1942.
Thick fog lay in the lowlands between the Don and the Volga. At 5:20 a.m.
several thousand Soviet guns and Stalin organs opened fire. "It was breathtaking," Captain Gerard Dengler still remembers with a shudder.
The Soviet attack hit the Germans at their most vulnerable point: in the rear of the front, where allied Romanians and Italians secured the flanks of the 6th Army. Their resistance did not last long.
Poorly equipped and doubtful of the purpose of the campaign, the units of the "allies" surrendered to the overwhelming superiority.
The Soviet tank spearheads, which had attacked simultaneously from the north and south, met at Kalach on the Don.
The German 6th Army with more than 300,000 men was surrounded.
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