A winter in Russia
A winter in Russia The new year brings blizzards, which do not weaken. Faced with a lack of personnel, the Luftwaffe of big Göering is being slimmed down by redeploying support staff to the front line. Likewise, foreign volunteers are called in. Several sectors of the front line have only half-strength units, which will not be reinforced for lack of personnel. The maintenance of the panzers is for the moment assured, they lack nothing. Bad time for infantrymen! The forces massed towards Sebastopol are redirected by train to Voronezh. The great Black Sea port will not be attacked in winter. In the Leningrad sector, the front is still static. The Moscow front is receding by several tens of kilometres. It is only towards Voronezh that sporadic fighting breaks out and sees the destruction of a Soviet army. Both fighters, exhausted, search for their breath and take advantage of the bad weather to take a break. The month of February see a (relative) rise in temperatures. Snow has ...