Stalingrad - Behind the Scenes

 

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Stalingrad - Behind the scenes.
Written by Geert Rottiers. (myself)

Contains :

Introduction. (Page 1 - 3)

The Road to Stalingrad. (Page 4 -15)
-Operation Barbarossa.
-Army Group South.
-Before the German Summer Campaign of 1942.
-The great battle South of  Kharkov.
-Sevastopol.
-A "preparatory" operation.
-The German Summer Offensive of 1942.
-The German Summer Offensive of 1942. (Army Group A)
-The German Summer Offensive of 1942. (Army Group B)

-Plans and Directives which brings the German 6th Army in Stalingrad.
(Page 16 - 71)
 (Copies of German and Russian plans, orders and directives which
 will bring the German Sixth Army to its destruction at Stalingrad.)

Copies of  :

-Hitler Directive 21 - Operation Barbarossa.
-Hitler Directive 43 - Operation Blau.
-Hitler Directive 45 - Operation Braunschweig.
-Army order for the attack on Stalingrad (Friedrich Paulus).
-Order No. 227 by the People's Commissar of Defence of the USSR (J.Stalin).
-Order No. 4 to the Forces of the Stalingrad and South-west Fronts (A. Yeremenko).
-Evaluation of the Situation of the Sixt Army in the Stalingrad "pocket". (W. Seydlitz)
-Operation Winterstorm (Hoth's attempt to relief Sixth Army at Stalingrad).
-The Stalingrad Airlift. (day by day overview)
-The Russian ultimatum of 8 January 1943 addressed to the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad.
-The surrender of the Sixth Army Staff at Stalingrad.(Gunther Ludwig)

Orders of Battle. (Page 72 - 91)
-Army Group South - Operation Barbarossa (division level) 22 June 1941.
-Southfront of the Red Army (Kirponos) 22 June 1941.
-Army Group South – Operation Barbarossa (divisionlevel) 03 September 1941.
-Army Group South - Operation Blau. (division level) 28 June 1942.
-The Staff of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad. 19 November 1942.
-The German Sixth Army (division level). 1942 –1943.
-Red Army Operation Uranus (division level) 19 November 1942.
-Strength of the Soviet Forces of the Three Fronts on 20 November 1942.

Destroyed at Stalingrad. (Page 92 - 94)
-Destroyed German Infantry and Panzer Divisions at Stalingrad.
-Destroyed German troop units at Stalingrad who were attached to the Sixth Army.

The German General Officers at Stalingrad. (Page 95 - 98)
-Encircled.
-Flown out.
-Captured.
-Died in Russian captivity.

Maps. (German) (Page 99 - 112)
-Operation Barbarossa.
-Army Group South.
-Frontline Army Group South 1 September 1941.
-Frontline Army Group South 1 December 1941.
-Map of Hitler's Directive 41.
-Frontline Army Group South 13 July 1942.
-Frontline of Army Group A and B.
-Map of the Stalingrad defenseline.
-Map of Operation Uranus. (the encirclement of the German 6th Army)
-Map of the Volga crossings during the Battle for Stalingrad.
-Citymap of Stalingrad.

Miscellaneous. (Page 113 - 155)
-The complete speech of Joseph Goebels 18 February 1943.
 (After the German defeat at Stalingrad)
 Nation, Rise Up, and Let the Storm Break Loose.
-German Knight Cross winners at Stalingrad
-Biography of Generalfeldmarschall Friedrich Paulus.
-Russian Snipers.

Sources. (Page 156)
-List of sources.