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Just got these ideas after watchin a Nat Geo 'Generals at War' episode last night- WI:
-Stalingard wasn't actually named after Stalin, but simply Volgograd ? would Hitler still have gone for the place without the symbolism of his arch-enemy's name ? how would von Paulus & the 6th Army have fared better had his panzers not been ordered into the rubble-strewn destroyed streets of Stalingrad ?
-the Germans had been better equipped for the winter ?
-the Germans had managed to push all the way to Chukov's landing stages on the banks of the Volga ?
-the German flanks hadn't been guarded by the inferior Hungarian & Romanian armies ?
-von Paulus decided to defy Hitler's orders in late Nov 1942 when the Red Army had begun encircling the 6th Army, & ordered his men, at the earliest opportunity, to break out as best as they could ?
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