Stalingrad

the
Kessel
before the final surrender
    † died before or just after the final surrender
    ‡died in captivity
    RED ARMY ON THE ‘STALINGRAD AXIS’
    REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STAVKA:
    Army General G. K. Zhukov
    Colonel-General of Artillery Ν. N. Voronov
    Colonel-General A. M. Vasilevsky
Stalingrad Front
Colonel-General A. I. Yeremenko N. S. Khrushchev
62ND ARMY
General V. I. Chuikov
Rifle Divisions: 13th Guards (A. I. Rodimtsev), 37th Guards (V. G. Zholudev), 39th Guards (S. S. Guriev), 45th, 95th (V. A. Gorishny), 112th, 138th (I. I. Lyudnikov), 193th (F. N. Smekhotvorov), 196th, 244th, 284th (N. F. Batyuk), 308th (L. N. Gurtiev); 10th NKVD Rifle Division (Rogatin)
Marine Infantry Brigade: 92nd
Special Brigades: 42nd, 115th, 124th, 149th, 160th
Tank Brigades: 84th, 137th, 189th
64TH ARMY
General M. S. Shumilov
Rifle Divisions: 36th Guards, 29th, 38th, 157th, 204th
Marine Infantry Brigade: 154th
Special Brigades: 66th, 93rd, 96th, 97th
Tank Brigades: 13th, 56th
57TH ARMY
General F. I. Tolbukhin
Rifle Divisions: 169th, 422nd
Special Brigade: 143nd
Tank Brigades: 90th, 235th
*13th Mechanized Corps (T. I. Tanashchishin)
51ST ARMY
General Ν. I. Trufanov
Rifle Divisions: 15th Guards, 91st, 126th, 302nd
Special Brigade: 38th
Tank Brigade: 254th
*4th Mechanized Corps (V. T. Volsky)
*4th Cavalry Corps (Shapkin)
28TH ARMY
Rifle Divisions: 34th Guards, 248th
Special Brigades: 52, 152, 159
Tank Brigade: 6th Guards
Stalingrad Front Reserve: 330th Rifle Division; 85th Tank Brigade
8ΤΗ AIR ARMY
General T. T. Khryukin
Don Front
Colonel-General Κ. K. Rokossovsky
66TH ARMY
Major-General A. S. Zhadov
Rifle Divisions: 64th, 99th, 116th, 226th, 299th, 343nd
Tank Brigade: 58th
24TH ARMY
General I. V. Galanin
Rifle Divisions: 49th, 84th, 120th, 173rd, 233rd, 260th, 273rd
Tank Brigade: 10th
16th Tank Corps
65TH army
Lieutenant-General P. I. Batov
Rifle Divisions: 4th Guards, 27th Guards, 40th Guards, 23rd, 24th, 252nd, 258th, 304th, 321st
Tank Brigade: 121st
16th AIR ARMY
Major-General S. I. Rudenko
South-West Front
General N. F. Vatutin
21ST ARMY
General I. M. Chistyakov
Rifle Divisions: 63rd, 76th, 96th, 277th, 293rd, 333nd
Tank Regiments: 1st, 2nd, 4th Guards
*4th Tank Corps (A. G. Kravchenko)
*3rd Guards Cavalry Corps (P. A. Pliev)
5TH TANK ARMY
General P. L. Romanenko
Rifle Divisions: 14th Guards, 47th Guards, 50th Guards, 119th, 159th, 346th
*Ist Tank Corps (V. V. Butkov)
*26th Tank Corps (A. G. Rodin)
*8th Cavalry Corps
1ST GUARDS ARMY
General D. D. Lelyushenko
Rifle Divisions: 1st, 153rd, 197th, 203rd, 266th, 278th
Front Reserve: 1st Guards Mechanized Corps
2nd AIR ARMY
17TH AIR ARMY
Major-General S. A. Krasovsky
* First-wave breakthrough formations for Operation Uranus

APPENDIX B
The Statistical Debate: Sixth Army Strength in the
Kessel
    The variety of figures cited for the strength of the encircled Sixth Army requires at least an attempt at clarification. Estimates of the strength of the Sixth Army within the Kessel on 19 November 1942 range widely, mainly it seems because there were so many Russians incorporated in the ranks of the Sixth Army that they had been included on the German ration strength and not cited separately. Some of the figures of Manfred Kehrig, the author of Stalingrad: Analyse und Dokumentation einer Schlacht, the magisterial volume published in 1974 under the auspices of the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschung-samt, have recently been challenged by Rüdiger Overmans. Overmans, working mainly from Wehrmacht retrospective estimates (basically an attempt later to calculate from personnel records who had been trapped inside the
Kessel
), puts the figure of surrounded Germans as low as 195,000, the Hiwis at 50,000 and the Romanians at 5,000, a total of approximately 250,000. Kehrig had estimated 232,000 Germans, 52,000 Hiwis and 10,000 Romanians, a total of approximately 294,000. Another more recent study estimates a total on 18 December of 268,900, of which 13,000 were Romanians and Italians, and 19,300 Hiwis.
    This latest breakdown, allowing for the difference in dates and consequent casualty figures, tallies fairly closely with the total compiled on 6 December by the Sixth Army’s Oberquartiermeister. This ‘Sixth Army ration strength in the
Kessel
’ gave a total of 275,000 men, including 20,300 Hiwis and 11,000 Romanians. (Romanian army sources assert that they had 12,600 men in the
Kessel.
There were also several hundred Italians.) If one adds to these figures the 15,000 men lost ‘only inside