Homer, I love your daily WWII summaries. I was expecting a huge banner headline on 11/20 or 11/21 about Operation Uranus by the Soviets, the encirclement of Stalingrad. But the news reports reveal very little other than rumors of “strong Russian forces.” I can understand why the Nazis would have downplayed it but it’s curious why the Russians were not blasting the news to the world.
Perhaps the Russians were waiting to see if their offensive would show results before they announced it to the world. At any rate, tomorrow’s lead story, and those on 5 of the next 7 days, are about the Soviet offensive.
I’m not saying this is why, but it was crucial to the success of Uranus that Hitler not have the full picture of the success of the operation during the encirclement phase. And mysteriously, this is the one operation that is not trumpeted, even though it is one of the most decisive operations of the entire war.