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но есть четкое мнение, что они не успели к Сталинграду
The second unit promised to Rommel, the 503rd, was to receive Porsche-Tigers, but the cancellation of production resulted in the 503rd being outfitted with 20 Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf.E and 25 Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf.N in November and December 1942, and first saw action in southern Russia, during the Don campaign and the withdrawal from Stalingrad.
ну и гитлер планировал вытащить свою армию с помощью танков, но планам не суждено было сбыться
ADOLF Hitler formed a final, desperate plan to free his troops trapped in Stalingrad shortly before they surrendered, according to documents discovered by German researchers.
He believed that a surprise attack on the city spearheaded by the SS and the latest German hardware, the Tiger tank, would succeed where the main relief effort had failed in December 1942. For 70 years, historians have believed that Hitler abandoned his Sixth Army to their fate after the rescue attempt just before Christmas. But a second rescue scheme came to light in the diaries of one of the Nazi military planners, Lieutenant-Colonel Johann Adolf Graf von Kielmansegg.
"We found in the archives there was a second attempt to free Stalingrad planned by Hitler," said Jens Wehner, co-curator of the Battle of Stalingrad exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden. "His higher officers shook their heads and thought no, it is not possible. But they had to plan it. Hitler hoped to free Stalingrad in January with the SS. But it was a big illusion." The plan was referred to privately by von Kielmansegg as Operation Dietrich, possibly after the actress Marlene Dietrich. His diaries reveal his scorn for Hitler's blind faith in the Tiger tank.
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"The Tiger obsession of the Highest Office (Hitler) becomes more and more extreme," he wrote in his diary on January 6, 1943.
On January 11, he added: "I have to do a lot of calculations for the order of battle for Op Dietrich." By January 13, the plan seemed to have been formulated but von Kielmansegg was pessimistic: "I am giving the first orders with a hopeless feeling that it makes no sense and it is much too late."
Researchers found no more references to the plan. Mr Wehner believes that Hitler either saw sense and abandoned it, or the Sixth Army surrendered before it could be put into action.
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