el had been defeated at El Alamein in Egypt, and on the 8th the Allies had landed in Morocco and Algeria, which threatened the Axis on a new front. These two events coincided with General Zhukovs plan to unleash a reserve force. Secretly being built up was a Soviet force of a million men. These men were brought in from Siberia. They were stationed there incase of a Japanese attack. But were now desperately needed to rebel the Germans from Stalingrad. If these men were not send to Siberia to wait on a Japanese attack. They surely would have been killed in early battles, going by the heavy casualties the Russians endured earlier in the war. With out these men to stop them, Germany would have taken the city of Stalingrad. This would have given them control of the South of Russia and plenty oil. This would a least prolonged the war for another year. But at this point would not have brought victory for Germany, because the Allies were already defeating the Germans on the western front. So with a million fresh men, new supplies of 1400 machine guns, 1,000 tanks, and 1,350 aircraft. On November 19th 1942 a massive Russian attack surprised and overran the Romanian Third army, which exposed the left flank of the German Sixth Army. A day later another attack destroyed a mixed force composed of Germans and Romanians that protected the right flank of the German Sixth Army. Four days later Russian assault groups joined up and now General Paulus and his army, the same one that had taken Paris in 1940, was cut off from supply lines. 330,000 German troops had been surrounded by the Russians in only a few days. The German Army High Command begged Hitler to allow Paulus to retreat while he still could. The Luftwaffe Chief Herman Goering claimed that he could fly in 500 tons of supplies a day to the surrounded Sixth Army, which would be enough to keep it going. Hitler agreed to this and on No...
