MEN OF WAR (PC): The Great Romanian Rout - Russia 1943

Here is a video depicting the Romanian defense of the German flanks during the closing phases of the Battle of Stalingrad. Hopelessly outnumbered by the powerful Soviet counter-offensive, the Axis forces are pounded into submission all along the front.. After the Italian subjecation on the banks of the Don River, that same Red Army thrust plunges into the Romanian defensive lines.. Once the Romanian defenders can be crushed, then Stalin’s forces can begin to close the iron fist on the German 6th Army with utter finality.. On 24 December, the Red Army counterattacked, with 149,000 men and 635 tanks, the German 57th Panzer Corps and the Romanian 4th Army. The Cavalry Group “Gen. Popescu“ was nearly destroyed on 26 in the fights at Sharnutovsky with the Soviet 6th Mechanized Corps. The Romanian 6th Corps was pushed back by the Soviet 7th Tank Corps and 4th Cavalry Corps. On 29 December, the 57th Panzer Corps had to abandon Kotelnikovsky. The failure of Operation “Wintergewitter“