Episode 531-Operation Little Saturn Pt 1

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.5 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Picking another weak point of the Axis defensive line to the NW of Stalingrad, the Italian 8th, the Hungarian 2nd and what remained of the Romanian 3rd Armies would be attacked. Then the airfield feeding Gen. Paulus’ 6th Army would be raided. The German forces would be tied down and unable to assist. Punch by punch Army Group South is losing its strength. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:19.0	Hello, and thank you for listening to the History of World War II podcast, episode 531, Operation Little Saturn, Part 1.
1:31.7	Operation Uranus had started on November 19th, 1942. For the most part, it was over by November 23rd. But what Stalin, Zhukov, and the Stovka had thought they had done, besides shielding Stalingrad for many further access attacks,
1:37.5	was surround some 80,000 enemy troops, whereas the number was actually closer to 250,000, which would take longer than
1:46.7	expected to destroy or to get to surrender. Meanwhile, as we saw, Manstein's attempted rescue
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