S42 What if Scenarios

[Jazman]

From Antony Beevor's _Stalingrad_, the impression given is that the Army was so worn down by the time of the relief effort that a breakout attempt was crazy. The winter quaters (bunkers, etc.) were gone for a good number of the troops, supplies were already a major problem, and a breakout would have had to go across that endless wintry steppe.