Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "The BIG Stalingrad Airlift Myth" video.

The ONLY correct solution was for the infantry, 6th Army proper, to stay in place -- while the elements of 4th Panzer Army flee to the west -- fighting through the light infantry of the Red Army when necessary. 14p, 16p, 24p, 29m, 3m or elements of could then stay in supply and join up with 11th and 22nd* Panzer and 336i. ( *The division that lost its tanks to rodents. ) The Red Army could not handle 7 mobile divisions -- even in depleted condition. T34s broke down at a terrific rate, so long before Rostov, their own numbers would've collapsed. It would've been wise for the 13p and other Caucus divisions to pull back and join the counter attack. Then 6th Army's logistical needs drop quite a bit, and its relief rather quick. The Volga stays locked up and the urban conquest stays in German hands.
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@user-jq2iz9zn4p So did its mobile formations. Letting the Bolsheviks capture their mobile formations inside the great pocket meant that no relief was possible. Duh. BTW, 4th Panzer Army was not at full strength. Halder had shifted an entire panzer corps away -- on up to 2nd Panzer Army. This very ( now missing) corps had been promised to Paulus & Coy as their strategic reserve. It almost never comes up in popular histories. The Reds did everything right; the Nazis did everything wrong -- pretty much.
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