 Of the 210,000 Germans, 10,000 remained to fight on, 105,000 surrendered, 35,000 left by air and the remaining 60,000 died.Even with the desperate situation of the Sixth Army, Army Group A continued their invasion of the Caucasus further south from 19 November until 19 December.By 19 December the German army was in full retreat out of the Caucasus, while using the Sixth Army to tie down the Soviet forces.