poll to come
1. brushing aside the ladies - hans valentine hube reaches the volga at rynok in september 1942 and launches and immediate crossing, rolling up Russian artillery positions on the far bank, compelling the soviets to conduct a general withdrawal and not defend the city
2. the overdue housecleaning - Hitler, furious with his top commanders and the lack of progress at stalingrad sacks several key figures (he pondered doing this in otl) Jodl gets replaced by Paulus, Goering is replaced by Milch and Seydlitz (a Hitler favorite at the time) takes over the 6th army and orders a breakout in response to operation uranus
3. meet me for christmas - operation torch is delayed by 6 weeks allowing german reserves that historically went to tunisia to instead go to army group don, manstein then drives with a much larger army towards the stalingrad pocket