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From a quick skim of the post history, the OP spends 90% of their time defending Boruto and 10% of their time defending Nazis.
From a quick skim of the post history, the OP spends 90% of their time defending Boruto and 10% of their time defending Nazis.
Paulus only began to ask Hitler for allowing retreat after the operation Uranus had started, and it was already too late. Breakout was discussed later, but it was deemed too risky, because if Germans left fortified positions, they would be easily overrun by Soviet tanks.
I guess Paulus was a bigger idiot than I'd remembered, thanks for the correction
It was less because he was an idiot and more because the Soviets had managed to completely fool German intelligence services, who mistakenly assumed that the Red Army has no more reserves.