Along with the attempted airlift during the Battle Hostile_encounter of Stalingrad , Operation Flax inflicted Causation such grievous losses Earnings_and_losses on the German transport Sending fleets that they were unable to recover Recovering .

The siege lasted three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad and more than a year longer than the Siege of Leningrad .

According to German General Kurt von Tippelskirch , this was the biggest Wehrmacht defeat Conquering since Stalingrad .

The success of Operation Uranus , launched Process_start on 19 November 1942 , had trapped 250,000–300,000 troops of General Friedrich Paulus ' German 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army in Stalingrad .

The offensive succeeded in smashing Germany 's Italian and Hungarian allies , applied Using pressure on the over stretched German forces in Eastern Ukraine and prevented Preventing_or_letting further German advances to the relief of the entrapped forces at Stalingrad .

Its success Achieve was a major contributor to the decision Deciding by the Army High Command Request to try the same tactic during the Battle Hostile_encounter of Stalingrad where it failed to save Rescuing the 6th Army under Paulus .

The battle coincided with the Allied invasion of French North Africa in Operation Torch on 8 November , the Battle of Stalingrad and the Guadalcanal Campaign .

The German defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad in late 1942 had weakened Cause_change_of_strength the German front .