Comment: Please prove this statement

"on separate fronts helped to divert significant quantities of men and material from the Eastern Theater... which arguably is why the 6th wasn't better supported/relived, which is, as we all know, was the proximate reason the 6th was destroyed."

Way too little and too late to affect the Stalingrad battle.

The Russians had seriously degraded the German forces in meatgrinder battles in the city. The Germans were losing an on average a battalion (600 men) a day. Operation Torch didn't start until 8 November 1942 The Sovs launched their major counter offensive 11 days later at Stalingrad.

The German forces tied in South Africa, while substantial, would have been a drop in the bucket in Russia. They would have made no difference at the outcome of Stalingrad, as by then it was a foregone conclusion that many German generals foresaw. The Germans had employed their allies, the Italian, Hungarians,and Rumanians, to hold the northern flank of the 6th army. With inferior equipment and less enthusiasm to fight for Nazi cause, they fell apart under the Russian counteroffensive.

Hitler stand and fight order doomed the 6th army to slow starvation and degraded it's fighting ability. General Mainstein, the finest military general to command a mechanized army on the planet, could not break through the Russian's iron ring around the trapped Sixth army. In fact, he soon had his hands full trying to stop even a greater Russian encirclement from cutting off the German forces still in southern Caucasus trying to capture the oil fields there.

The biggest weapon in the Russians arsenal was Old Man Winter. The Luftwaffe could not fly enough supplies into the sixth army due to bad weather. Whatever equipment we had sent prior made no serious contribution on the battle.It was the T-34's ability with its wide tracks to navigate winter terrain that led to the speed of the encirclement of the sixth army.

No, Nothing we did made any appreciate difference at helping the Sov's at Stalingrad. Russian general Zhukov did everything right to win it. Stalingrad broke the German's nation's confidence and spirit, and afterwards knew Germany could never win. The specter of Napoleons historical disastrous retreat from Moscow loomed large in their minds.

FDR and Churchill tried to play the Russians to do all the heavy lifting fighting the Germans, and Stalin knew it. What they didn't realize until it was too late that Stalin played them, occupying all of eastern Europe! FDR, being the naive, sophisticated pinko socialist he was,was out-gamed by the more experienced and brutal Stalin. It just goes to show there is no honor among progressives. Sadly, many innocent people have to pay the price for their power struggles and overweening egos.