How could the germans have prevented operation uranus?

>>3230674
By waving a magic wand and having another 300,000 or so men to guard those weak flanks.

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Not invading the fucking Soviet Union

>>3230700
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>>3230674
By defending their flanks properly

The only people they had defending it were unmotivated Romanians and Italians with shitty equipment and little anti-tank weaponry to speak of, and what little they had was insufficient

>>3230730
>Can never function without air support
Not really true

The Germans had completely insufficient air power throughout most of the war, especially on the Western Front, but still held on.

>>3230682
This

>>3230730
>The only people they had defending it were unmotivated Romanians and Italians with shitty equipment
Pretty sure the Germans promised them German equipment but never delivered on their promise.

>>3230767
Well, it's not like they had troops or equipment to spare. They created a huge, huge salient with the advance through the lower Don, and the Soviets can attack along any part of it really. It was pretty inevitable that somewhere would have soft defenses.