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Not a Chance of Success? | Operation Uranus Part III

As brilliant as it was, Operation Uran had very little chances of success. The question people usually ask is: "how come the Germans didn't know about the Soviet preparations". But it’s not the right one. In fact, the German Command knew about the upcoming offensive. As we saw in the last episode, 6th Army’s command was aware of Soviet preparations, just like was Army Group B and the OKH. But Hitler and Zeitzler didn’t believe this could develop into something really threatening. A first reason for this is that not all Soviet preparations could be detected in time. Another one is that the Germans were used to poorly organized Soviet attacks on the Don front, north of Stalingrad. And indeed, all these offensives had failed one after another for three months, from August to October 1942. So the right question is not “why they didn’t see it coming”. Rather, one should ask: “what were its chances of success”. And to that question, the German Command had but one answer: “none”...