The first weeks of Germany’s 1942 offensive against the USSR went well enough, except that the Wehrmacht was no longer surrounding pockets of hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers as it repeatedly had in 1941. The Red Army was more mobile, and had learned its lesson.
Hitler was sufficiently pleased to revise the plan in July; instead to taking Stalingrad and the Caucasus sequentially, Army Group South was divided into two parts, which would proceed against those objectives simultaneously.
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Opening War Theme
“Song of the Volga Boatmen”
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Closing War Theme
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