| Attempt to relieve German troops at Stalingrad fails
From 'Tank War' by Janusz Piekalkiewicz Quote:
German OKW (Wehrmacht High Command) Dispatch dated Sunday 13th December 1942:
The East: Field Marshal von Manstein reports that he has been unable to achieve a decisive victory with his two attacking panzer divisions and that the available forces are inadequate, given his lengthening flanks. The Führer has decided that the 11th Panzer Division is to remain in its present deployment at the Chir river bridgehead because it is now under heavy enemy attack, and that instead of the 11th, the 17th Panzer Division is to be supplied to the Hoth Group (Fourth Panzer Army, the relief force sent to break through to Sixth Army at Stalingrad). The impession of Army Group B is that the enemy opposite the Italian Eighth Army may be only feigning an intention to attack in order to pin down our forces there.
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Last edited by Bodston; 13-12-2007 at 02:26 PM.
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