Hitler gives up Caucasus offensive mid September

By mid September 1942 it was pretty obvious that the Army group A offensive was spent. What if the Germans didn't do the October 1942 attempt to push on from the Terek river (and the separate offensive toward Tupase) and went on the defensive. Focus shifts early to holding what they have over the winter.

Lets say one Panzer Division and one infantry Division are moved from Army Group A to Kalach on the Don and are sitting in reserve behind Stalingrad before November 18th 1942.
 

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They would have a better chance of surviving Uranus, but they'd have to pull out of Stalingrad, the question is would Hitler do that before it was too late?
 
I guess the question will be if the extra time bought by having some reserves in place before the Soviets can complete the encirclement allows some sanity to prevail and evacuate the pocket (maybe a couple of days).

OR if not if the extra reserves can keep the distance to the pocket smaller to allow relief to occur (in which case an evacuation decision has to be made again later)
 
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