How Hans Hube won the battle of Stalingrad

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This is about as far away from my prefered actions at sea, but VERY interesting! Please keep it up!
 

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Oooh opinions :) so from what I gather from your replies is that I should just shut up with my explanations and write? :p

Note: My Russian is very limited, so any Russians that read this, don't be offended please.

STAVKA
Moskva, Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik
November 18th 1942, 08.21 local time.

-Good morning comrade Marshall, did you have a good nights sleep?

-Good morning comrade General, yes I did actually thank you for asking.

-If you had read what I have read comrade Marshall, you wouldn’t have.

-What is it comrade General, you look a bit pale.

-Comrade Marshall, we have lost the fascists 14th Tankovy Korpus.

-You have done what, comrade General?

-I am sorry but we have lost the 14th Tankovy Korpus comrade Marshall.

-How could you possible lose en entire enemy corps, comrade General? Are you sure your men are not all drunk or simply just stupid Ukrainian peasants?

-Well to be honest it took us a while comrade Marshall because the fascists left some troops behind, specifically the 94th Strelkovaya Diviziya, while the rest of the corps has been replaced with divisions from the 51st corps.

-So what you are saying comrade General is that the mobile troops of the fascists 14th Tankovy Korpus has left the frontline with destination and purpose unknown? And you are saying this two days before an operation that begins our re-conquest of the motherland from the hands of the fascists?

-Yes, comrade Marshall, from what we know the divisions of the fascists 14th Tankovy Korpus was fairly decimated from the fighting in the Stalingrad suburbs, perhaps they have simply been withdrawn for rest and refit away from the frontlines.

-Yes and fools believe in the fairy godmother comrade General. We can only hope that we are so lucky. I cannot believe that we put our trust in luck and hope, might as well start to pray to God while we are at it.

-You will not cancel the offensive comrade Marshall?

-Are you stupid comrade General? I will not go in to the Boss and ask him to cancel this long awaited offensive on the premise that we can not find one of the fascists armoured corps. He would send me to Siberia to count trees and that is if I am lucky. I do not think that there is any need to report anything to the Boss until there is something to actually report. Operation Uranus will proceed according to schedule.

-As you order comrade Marshall.

-And may God show mercy upon us comrade General if we are wrong, for the Boss surely will not.


Note: I had written up the continuted conversation between Hube and Hitler, but realized it would ruin the anticipation as it revealed Hubes plans. So it might be posted later on. ;)
 
in otl as far as i know the 14th panzer corps was rigidly fixed by various units of chuikov's army. according to beever's stalingrad book they were launching a hundred tanks a day against the rynok positions on the northern edge of the front. the 14th panzer corps was able for the most part to beat these attacks off by having their artillery shoot up the assembly areas and occupying reverse slopes.

it would be hard for them to vanish from the front especially in their weakened condition

keep it up :)
 
Just found this again, many pages back, and remembered I was looking forward to the next installment. Any hope thereof?
 

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Just found this again, many pages back, and remembered I was looking forward to the next installment. Any hope thereof?
Yes there is, I've been quite badly ill recently, and at the moment the studying for an exam takes up most of my free time, but eventually you will see something new.
 
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Thank you for the prompt reply, Rubicon. Sorry to hear about your health. Get well soon!

I know how it is. One reason I've been on the board so much lately is that I'm laid up with a bad back after taking a fall last week.
 
Yes there is, I've been quite badly ill recently, and at the moment the studying for an exam takes up most of my free time, but eventually you will see something new.


Hope you get better soon.

Good luck on exams also, and this story. ;)
 
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Just come across this story. Looks very interesting although like a couple of other posters I'm uncertain how Hube can 'win' Stalingrad at this late date. Anyway, subscribing to find out.:)

Best of luck with the health problems and hope your feeling better soon.

Steve
 
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