the fourteenth tank division of the wehrmacht , rolf grams, wrote: “it was a terrible, exhausting battleruins and basements, tanks screamingly climbed onto piles of broken bricks, crawled through destroyed workshops, shot point-blank in narrow courtyards. at the cost of heavy losses, the germans managed to capture part of the tractor factory and the barricade factory, but pushed the red army beyond the volga. they never succeeded. by this time, due to illness, large losses of personal composition, the german offensive began to fizzle out. around the end of october, the beginning of november of the year 1942, the offensive clearly fizzled out, despite the fact that the germans really fought tooth and nail there, until the snow covered them until they began to freeze and die from hunger. in general, the germans fought alone, because that’s all. these allies turned out to be incapable of this kind of intensity of fighting. paulus actually found himself in a completely hopeless situation, if it were, relatively speaking, some kind of nantes, i i don’t know, something french, then everything