{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"A seasonal special: Christmas 1942 in Stalingrad","description":"Looking for a break in the Christmas season sweetness? Beyond Barbarossa returns you to the Eastern Front in December 1942. Hitler and Stalin's mutual stubbornness collide on the Russian steppe.\n\nFor the Germans of the 6th Army, Christmas 1942 was a hungry Yule in the  freezing Cauldron.\n\nMap 1: Operation Uranus, November and December 1942\n\nMap 2: Operation Winter Storm: The German relief attempt\n\nMap 3: Operation Winter Storm stalled\n\n\n\nFailure: Luftwaffe supplies the trapped 6th Army in the Kessel\n\nFailure: Operation Winter Storm\n\nGerman soldiers in the Kessel/Cauldron\n\nRed Army soldier writes home, December 1942\n\nBy December, the Red Army soldiers' morale was very different from the Germans'.\n\n Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.\n\nHosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.","author_name":"Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43762415/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}