OstrogozhskRossosh Oensive

(Italian) Mario Rigoni Stern: Ritorno sul Don.

Einaudi 1973, Edizione collana Nuovi Coralli,
ISBN 88-06-38026-5.

The OstrogozhskRossosh Oensive (Russian:

- ) was an oensive of the Voronezh Front on the Eastern Front of World
War II against the Hungarian 2nd Army and partially
Italian 8th Army. The oensive was supported from the
south by the right ank of the Soviet 6th Army and the
3rd Guards Tank Army of Pavel Rybalko.

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A day to day documentation of the pocket of
Ostrogozhsk-Rossosh, the losses and the breakthrough of the humble rest troops

Notes and references

Follow-up of the german 387. Infanteriedivision

(sister division of 389. Infanteriedivision), especially: January 1943 (German)

[1] Some sources give January 12 as the start of the operation.

On this day the combat reconnaissance (probing) was
carried out by Soviet advance guard troops. The major
Soviet forces were put into action on the next day.

Follow-up of the german 387. Infanteriedivision,

especially: January 1943 (German)

[2] in two weeks of ghting the Hungarian Army suered

terrible losses. Out of 200,000 men 40,000 KIA, 35,000
WIA and 60,000 became POW. - Ignac Romsics: The
history of Hungary in the 20th century, 255p., Osiris,
1999.; ISBN 963 379 548 6

Ostrogozhsk-Rossosh Oensive (Russian 40th

Army (Russian)

[3] On 1 January 1943, the strength of the army was 204,334

men... on 6 April it was only 108,318. 28,044 WIA arrived home until April, 26,000 soldier captured by the
Soviets and cca. 42,000 KIA or frozen. ... (The) casualties of the infantry in the rst lines were enormous. Krisztin Ungvry: The Hungarian Army in the Second
World War,196p., Osiris, 2005.;ISBN 963 389 685 1

Further reading
(Russian) . . , -
, 1973, 1.
(German) Thomas Schlemmer (Hrsg.) : Die Italiener an der Ostfront 1942/43: Dokumente zu Mussolinis Krieg gegen die Sowjetunion (bersetzt von
Georg Kuck). Mnchen, Oldenbourg, 2005, 291
pages, Literaturverz. S. [275] 283. Schriftenreihe
der Vierteljahrshefte fr Zeitgeschichte 91, ISBN 3486-57847-2.
(German) V. P. Morozov: Westlich von Woronesh:
Kurzer militrhistorischer Abriss der ..., verffentlicht 1959, Verlag des Ministeriums fr Nationale Verteidigung, 202 pages.
(Italian) Alessandro Massignani: Alpini e Tedeschi
sul Don. Edizioni Gino Rossato, Novale-Valdagno
(Vicenza) 1991.
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