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  <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.

For the Germans of the 6th Army, Christmas 1942 was a hungry Yule in the  freezing Cauldron.

Map 1: Operation Uranus, November and December 1942

Map 2: Operation Winter Storm: The German relief attempt

Map 3: Operation Winter Storm stalled



Failure: Luftwaffe supplies the trapped 6th Army in the Kessel

Failure: Operation Winter Storm

German soldiers in the Kessel/Cauldron

Red Army soldier writes home, December 1942

By December, the Red Army soldiers' morale was very different from the Germans'.

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