Benoit Lemay

Rundstedt’s command, where he would have had the task of finalizing the last details of the attack for the

reaction. Without obtaining the prerequisite authorization from Manstein, he ordered a retreat all

The commander in chief of Army Group Don emphasized that the

not at the beginning of February, but seven weeks earlier when the

referred to take advantage of the temporary weakness of the enemy following its latest defeats in ord

referred to take advantage of the temporary weakness of the enemy following its latest defeats in ord

After the war, he justified his stance: “One can be inclined to believe that, after the fact, we should have point-blank declared the operation impossible, for it was planned to take advantage of the enemy’s temporary weakness, a weakness that had disappeared after all of these delays.