New Stalingrad Movie

[Jeff Conner]

I think if the Germans had predicted what would happen in a couple of months time, they might have made some different decisions. German troops had been cut off before and survived. But the idea that the Russians were slowly, and with great cost, becoming their equals as a fighting force (not as individuals, but as a force) was still a long ways off. And while the trapping of the Sixth Army in Stalingrad was undoubtedly a disaster for the Germans, there are some who see their three month struggle as the dam that kept the Southern Front from collapsing. If the Russian troops tried down trying to reduce Stalingrad had been free to maneuver, who knows what would have happened; an even larger pocket of Army Group A trapped in the Caucasus?