Disturban good job on this video it was excellent!! I’m saving for later reference since I’m gearing up to do a humanitarian project channel and I want to discuss drugs, crime, war, and other social issues. I would love to collaborate when I finally get my hands busy! I look up to your efficiency and writing style in videos!
Disturban, No one does videos of the 900 days of Leningrad-- there were more civilians in that, and.. less house to house fighting?, maybe- mostly nazi artillery strikes?
This is one description from a German officer: "We have fought for fifteen days for a single house. The front is a corridor between burnt-out rooms; it is the thin ceiling between two floors … From story to story, faces black with sweat, we bombard each other with grenades in the middle of explosions, clouds of dust and smoke, heaps of mortar, floods of blood, fragments of furniture and human beings … The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses … Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those scorching howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure."
Imagine you're a starving German soldier, eagerly awaiting the next supply drop for what little food you'll get, only to find out they wasted space inside the plane to send MOTIVATIONAL LEAFLETS.
These photos are absolutely incredible. It’s so insane that these were taken less than 100 years ago, it’s so different than anything in my own lifetime, I can’t even imagine this being reality for so many people…
You should pay attention to world events. Parts of Ukraine are 100% leveled due to war. Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Syria, Lebanon,Somalia, Detroit - all in the past recent past. I’d include Gaza but that has happened since your post.
You should cover: -1980 New Mexico Prison Riot -Tuskegee Experiment -Mapiripan Massacre 1997 -R*pe of Belgium -HMS Jersey in US Revolution -Andersonville Prison -Horrors of Reinhard Heydrich -Fate of Romans in Teutoburg -Stalin's "Doctor plot" -Battle of Manila 1945 -Reconcentrados in Philippines -Crimes of Pinochet -Karen Conflict in Myanmar -Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar -Horrific weapons of war: Flamethrowers -The Long March/China Civ.War -Horrors of Boko Haram -W.Punishment: KeelHauling -Remaining MIA in Vietnam -King Philip's War -Art of Zdzisław Beksiński -Blood Diamonds -Murder of Barry Seale -The Horrors of Lavrentiy Baria -Attica Prison Riot -worst gulags -1985 MOVE bombing -Lynchings -The Man from the Train Killings -R*pe of Berlin -Trench life WW1 -The Assassination of Malcolm X -Palestine/Israel Conflicts -The Unabomber -Laos during Vietnam War -Plan Verde -Horrors of Saddam Hussein -Black Wall Street 1921 Bombings -Crimes of Tommy Desimone -The Arab Spring in Libya -Volhynian Slaughter -Chattahoochee Brick Company -Wounded Knee Massacre -The Crimes of Bela Kiss -Japanese Hell Ships -Horrific Weapons of War: IEDs -Long March of the Navajo -Bodo League Massacre -Beslan School Seige -Robben Island prison -Devil's Island prison -Russian Apartment False Flag Bombings -Crimes of Champ Ferguson -The Death of Pat Tillman -Circassian Genocide -2014 Crimean Emergency -Horrifying Weapons: White Phosphorus -Freedom Rides -San Fernando Massacres 2010-11 -Bataan Death March -Triangle Shirtwaist Fire -Crimes of Uday Hussein -LA Riots -BP oil spill -Battle of Blair Mountain -Sleeping Sickness -Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan -Crimes of Captain Cook -History of Narco Terrorism -Pig-Basket Attocity -Sandakan Death Marches -Worst Punishments: Necklacing -Jehovah Witnesses in Holocaust -Declaration of facts (goes with above) -Blood Atonement in LDS Church -Verdun/Passchendale -Jonestown -North Korean Famine in 90s -Death of Buddy Lamont -Roman Coliseum
Disturban History has made a video about the gulags but I'm not familiar with most of the rest of the things you suggested. I've written them all down so I can hopefully find some good videos covering them today while I do my chores - thank you for the suggestions (even though they weren't for me) 🙏🏻
@@Vexarax I hope a lot of people look at these things! Learning more is always a good thing. I know About these things, but Disturban finds so many more details!
@@grimtea1715 yes it's so important to be constantly learning imo. Knowledge is power, and helps keeps our brains 'active' if that makes sense? Someone else mentioned the battle of Verdun, so I've loaded up some long videos about that in my watchlist and also some videos about the Japanese Hell Ships from your suggestions (and will go through more of your suggestions later). Do you know about the Batavia shipwreck? It's nowhere near on this scale of destruction and pain but it's a brutal shipwreck survival story where the men enslaved all the women and children and awful things happened. A channel called Casefile covered it in graphic detail, definitely worth checking out. I love it when people cover all those details we'd normally never know about 🙏🏻
My great-grandfather fought in Stalingrad for the Red Army. That's all I know, since he never talked to my grandfather about it and he also refused to attend any of the victory day parades nor accept anniversary medals. I can't even imagine what he saw there for him to decide to never speak about it. May he rest in peace
While im not from your country, my grandfather was the same with 'celebratory' parades for ww2. sadly he died before i was born so i never met him, but my dad said he used to say "i dont need a special day to remember the men and friends i lost". He never really talked about the war, but he lost his leg because of it. Miraculously, him and his 2 brothers all returned alive though, something very uncommon.
Stalingrad is the closest thing to apocalyptic battle I can think of. It's dystopian in some ways. You have this mass of concrete shattered by bombs and shells with two massive industrialized armies fighting a true war of annihilation. First hand accounts are across a whole range of emotions and outlooks from rage and hate to sorrow and joy, fear and stubbornness. It's everything that makes the human experienced, good and bad crammed into one battle and it boggles the mind. Folks who made it through this battle lived a thousand lifetimes in an instant.
My great-grandfather fought in this. He was 44 at the time. He later fought in Kursk battle. Survived that too. And died in 1943, in November, when Soviets started going on the offense. He died near the border of Belarus. (He fought for the Soviet side)
I don't know a lot about this specific battle so can't wait to hear the info you have - It's a great day when I get to learn something new from a source I trust. Thank you 🙏🏻
I remember watching a video of a German soldier who was one of the last men to fly out the Stalingrad battle on a transport plane, and he broke down crying because he felt so guilty about all the men who died in that bloody battle, and he lived. Although I've never been in a battle the likes of Stalingrad, war is no game to be relished and spoke of in a positive light, war is evil and those that start them are the evilest of evil, and sadly, we're watching the politicians of 2022 trying their hardest to get us into another world war so they and their so-called elitest buddies can get rich while watching other people's children die and wounded for life, SAY NO TO WAR.
"That is still another reason why this other world which so willingly represents capitalistic interests in particular, is attacking us. It is a combine, which even today still pretends to be able to rule the world according to its private capitalistic interests, to manage it, and when necessary, to keep on ruling it." "No, my friends, they don't know how to rule. They can only subjugate peoples and then pauperize them for their own benefit. A handful of people-very rich ones, to be sure- are determining the fate of the world."
@@emmanuelchavez7748it's also futile. Most cases the soldiers fight for the ideology of people who wouldnt dream of fighting on the front lines themselves.
But yet if you look at human beings in general we are very tribal we choose teams and we fight things that scare us other people, things we don’t understand…
It cannot be understated just how oppressive, terrifying, and deadly urban combat really is. Like he said with Pavlov's House 'any building can be turned into a fortress.' Take that saying, apply in to every building in the area you live and and it really puts things into perspective. I do it frequently but then again, I'm kind of trained to so...lol I guess. Every corner, street, alley, trash can/pile could be hiding an MG nest or something much, much worse. One wrong step, one missed detail, and you're nothing but a pine box and a memory. War is hell, but urban combat; fella that's the 8th friggn' circle.
@@GrootsChannel Truth, my man. More of a euphemism but still, even now shit hasn't really changed much. You'll hear stories from guys who where in Fallujah back in 03 of just the ridiculous amount of bodies to the point where dogs were walking around with human arms and legs in their mouths.
“War is hell, but urban combat; fella that’s the 8th friggin’ circle” -Jack Maniaky Gonna give you credit, but I’m stealing this. I love that it’s so quotable, but hate that it’s so true.
never did I think I could watch one of my favorite youtubers for my college class but here we are. thank you, I have an assignment due on the battle of stalingrad for my wwII history class :)
I can't begin to imagine living in a time where this could happen. It is a testament of the cruelty mankind can inflicte on innocent people. The horror of it will last forever. Lest we forget. Thank you Disturban 💛 for all your work!! Much appreciated Sir. 🙏
You are right now. There is a proxy war in Ukraine. What happens if China builds that base in Cuba, and then declares war on the US? Whatever anyone might think about the US, try to imagine a world where the CCP is the global superpower.
What an agony, it is an amazing but harrowing place to visit now as Volgograd as I did 4 years ago. They have some incredible museums on the siege and left a few buildings unrepaired on purpose.
Your my favorite RUclipsr bye far! Keep up the great work the great information with the story telling is just unmatched. Love it. Love the history of my people and Europeans in general. Definitely most of the worst battles in history happened in Europe!
it’s still terrifying to me hearing the numbers. still to this day, they’re absolutely drastic. imagine, knowing the world population back then, how much more empty the world was becoming
I had the opportunity to speak with a German soldier who managed to escape Stalingrad and his recounts were as expected as he told me that the men he was with were more hopeful about dying already than winning the battle, just goes to show how barbaric and brutal Stalingrad was
It's crazy for me to think about that my great grandfather disappeared somewhere on the route to, or in Stalingrad. I only know that from some passing comments my mom made about him. I don't know how much she knows about my ancestors, I might ask her next time I see her tho. It's a shame that I can't ask anyone else though because they're either dead, missing, or are not in contact because bad parenting seems to run in the blood. This period of our history feels so distant, but a lot of people like my mother still have documents and medical reports from that time. I remember finding an old passport with the sign on the front sloppily crossed out when I was snooping around once. And also some old documents of some person (who was probably a relative but they didn't share my family name) who underwent shock therapy for ptsd (I'm not sure if it was explicitly called that in the document but it sounded like it). The document itself was slowly falling apart and the letters fading, just like the memories of that time period are fading as the last few people that were alive around that time are slowly dying out. This period of time feels like ancient history, but in reality it hasn't even been 100 years since then. It feels unreal. Anyways, thanks for taking the time to read this :)
Germany should have won. They were fighting to save not only Germany but Europe too. We wouldn't be living in this degenerate, globalist, society today.
The Hungarian 2nd Army were - with equipment not delivered in the freezing cold - told to hold the river Don for the german armoured retreat. The 2nd Army as it was, was practically destroyed, sacrificing over 100k men in battle while holding the line. The state of absolute suffering was insane all throughout the front.
Maybe if they hadn't brutalized civilians as much as they did they wouldn't have gotten what they had coming. Same with Croatia. It got so bad Mussolini armed rebels to defend themselves from those animals.
I'm about to watch this video, but thank you for making this. My 4 great granduncles fought in the 29th Infanterie Division in Stalingrad against the Soviets. Two of them were only 18 years old None of them returned ofcourse. Its horrible.
@W do Yeah, I have the same age and name as one of them. Kasper Lange and he was 18 years old and was the only one that was reported Missing instead of Dead
@@jackroberts3241 They never joined the National Socialist party And they were East Prussian monarchist believers. Pretty anti-nazi But they were forced just like my great grandfather as well as his brother and 4 cousins
Brother that was so well done. But you should do leningrad next!!! Watch the Leningrad episode of the Soviet Storm series. It's HORRIFIC!!! People just gave up and went to bed and died. They were eating wallpaper paste and bread made from burned flour and other horrific ingredients! Love your channel so much. Long time follower. Never missed an episode.
definitely. Britain especially, we are an island so random attacks on civilians didnt happen the way they happened in Europe. sure, we had bombings, which were devastating, but nothing compared to what the Eastern front went through. we never had our country decimated. Britain and America are always squabbling about who really won the war when I fully believe that without the Soviets, we would all have lost.
Well, the western front was all about diplomacy and trying to preserve lives, but the Russians and Germans had a lot of bad blood between them and wanted the other dead.
Disturbian and weird history and Simon whistler are probably my three favorite narrarators. I can’t imagine how desperate these Germans were to surrender to the western front. 91,000 turns into 5,000 8 years later. Imagine being in a soviet pow camp in the late 40s
to call this a battle to me isn’t good enough it wasn’t a battle, it was simply an atrocity of human history. one of the most horrifying chapters in the history of humanity. i hope god had mercy on the souls of the millions of people that died in this single event.
My grandfather fought from the Battle of the Bulge, all the way to Berlin, where the Americans stopped their advance in order to allow the Russians to take the city. He used to tell us how the German soldiers fled to the Americans, hands in the air, and turned themselves over in order to avoid the Russians, because the Russians were getting their revenge for Stalingrad.
@@MonumentalMedia I know. My grandfather was still taking prisoners at the Rhine while U.S. planes softened Berlin for the Russian entry. I should’ve said that he was on the final drive for Berlin to be more clear. He said the Ardennes took too much time from what I remember.
My grandfather fought in the Wehrmacht, he got captured in Normandy. He has always stressed how US captivity was the most merciful. He was in French and then in US captivity. Although they had to starve and, according to my grandfather, the Americans drained old frying fat in the gutter before the captives' eyes rather than giving it to them, my grandfather is grateful to have been in US captivity. He is still alive and very healthy at age 97.
The was probably the most brutal battle to ever be a part of in human history insofar as access to food, shelter, rest, and medical aid, the weather conditions, the rampant brutality and war crimes, the proximity between soldiers and civilians, and of course the sheer wholesale, industrialized nature of the killing.
I remember getting interested in WW2 because of CoD: WaW. I feel no other game represented WW2 and the horrors that went on in the war better than WaW. I mean, the first Soviet mission in the game, you see dozens of dead Soviets in a fountain in the square, Germans shooting survivors dead.
@@markusk1015 that’s a goofy asl statement, most engagements happen when the enemy is too far to even see. Call of Duty games are accurate portrayals of action movies at best
Very well produced, thank you. I've recently begun to feel like WW3 has already started, but it will be far quieter and less bloody than the previous two. This time, however, the enemy is well within the camp and, to most of us, invisible. Humankind is its own worst enemy.
@@GazB85 The people in the US State Department love playing their war games, so nothing about their mentality would surprise me. Russia is nowhere near being as great a threat to the world as those who sit behind closed doors in the US. Lethally destructive. Stay safe and well, wherever you are.
@@EIRE55 I agree with you 100%! Russia’s shitty military in Ukraine should make the American people call for their military budget to be immediately could by massive amounts but it hasn’t and won’t ever.
@@GazB85 Of course not, because the US has always wanted and tried to own the world. Little does it realise that it's been slowly but surely destroying itself in the process, and when it completely collapses, it will blame everyone else for their downfall. Greed never pays.
The books Blood Red Snow and Adventures in My Youth are some serious good stories from the Eastern Front. Unimaginable to us today what people went through
You should cover: -1980 New Mexico Prison Riot -Tuskegee Experiment -Mapiripan Massacre 1997 -R*pe of Belgium -HMS Jersey in US Revolution -Andersonville Prison -Horrors of Reinhard Heydrich -Fate of Romans in Teutoburg -Stalin's "Doctor plot" -Battle of Manila 1945 -Reconcentrados in -The Long March/China Civ.War -Philippine American War -The Reign of Terror Grim tea's list
I have to respect the Russian people. I can’t imagine what the people went through who lived through this. This has to be one of the worst places to be in all human history.
Will yeah if they didn't fight hard they knew they would all be killed by the Nazis since German plan was unalive most of eastern Europe and keep half as slave
I was lucky enough to be able to visit Volgograd a few years back, amazing city, so much history. Not a single German body is buried within the city limits. So many houses people still live in with bullet impacts in the walls.
@@MCDesign199 From Wikipedia On 10 November 1961, Nikita Khrushchev's administration changed the name of the city to Volgograd ("Volga City") as part of his programme of de-Stalinization following Stalin's death. This action was and remains somewhat controversial, because Stalingrad has such importance as a symbol of resistance during World War II.
@@MCDesign199 I wasn’t sure myself tbh, so googled it. You still get points for knowing the history of the name change. So many people don’t know shit about other countries. Russia, despite what is happening right now, is beautiful country filled with amazing people. St Petersburg is awesome also, they still remember the siege.
My great-grandfather lost his arm in one of the last battles before Stalingrad. This saved him. He survived the air attacks of the allies over Germany in the last years of WW2. After the war he married my great-grandmother. That he lost his arm was the blessing of god.
■■■■■■■■■■■■■3:43 This smokestack was demolished a few weeks ago. (In November 2022.) N48.6816°, E044.4825°. This was at the Konservnyi Zavod, the Canning Factory. Arcing near it was the Volga-Don Railway. At left, crossing over the railway is a raised conveyor (N48.684°, E0444856°) which connected the grain elevator and the riverfront.
my great grandfather fought on the german side as an infantrist in the battle of stalingrad.. his feet had to be amputated and thats why he survived.. he took one of the last planes that left stalingrad to get his feet amputated
My grandmother was one of the 300 civilians to stay on the west side of the river, and still survived. I may not support Putin or any of what my former nations government does, but I will always be proud to be Russian and what my people have done to stop fascism and evil, no matter what people say about us.
So am I but I do wonder: Why don't you like Putin? I can understand that he doesn't handle corruption well for our country but he also saved Russia from pigs like Yeltsin.
"The German invaders want a war of extermination with the peoples of the U.S.S.R. Well, if the Germans want to have a war of extermination, they will get it." (Loud and prolonged applause.) Stalin 6 November, 1941.
I spent much of Covid lockdown immersed in books/film related to the Russian front. It’s still difficult to make sense of it all, that it could even be real.
Its a crazy world we live in but its an exciting one. everytime I was in the battle I can feel the adrenaline pumps soo hard that I felt alive without using anyform of drugs. I felt like I was on meth or Cocain. who needs cocain when you have war.
I always start thinking of the thousands of insane things that happened where the stories will never been known because everyone involved ended up dead. One thing that's changed recently in my thinking of this battle is the age of the German soldiers. I always imagined battle hardened men, and when a film shows a German soldier I'd think the same, when in fact many German soldiers were just boys under 20 years old. The approx 11k German soldiers in Stalingrad who refused to be taken prisoner after Paulus surrendered, they must've had incredible stories of survival, deaths of friends, injuries, starvation, good times once in a while, bad times overall. Those poor boys. The great thing is the instant they died, they were immediately bathed in love and light and forgiveness. They were instantly healed and made whole.
@@TheDigitalApple Whilst they did have heavy jurisdiction the lands which they indeed did liberate. The fascists would have exterminated all peoples living in Eastern Europe and would have replaced them with ethnic Germans.
@@TheDigitalApple My great grand father was a partisan in Hungary against the fascists he knew firsthand what the nazis would do to the so called “undesirables”. Learn history not CIA taking points
My father's great uncle was forcibly mobilized into the German army and sent to the Eastern Front, he also survived the Battle of Stalingrad, where he also defected to the side of the Red Army. what he saw and what he went through, I'd rather not write because my comment would be deleted, the fact that after the war he couldn't sleep without the light on and that he had nightmares every night is enough.
The Germans actually tried passing an order forbidding suicide. I remember hearing a German veteran say that Stalingrad was simply a place of execution. It's like it was a spot in the world selected for misery. Heard and interview with a German field doctor in the city and the scenes he described were unreal. I had over thirty family members murdered by these bastards and I still pity the soldiers who found themselves in that hell hole. The doctor also described hearing Goering basically eulogize them while there were still so many alive and was enraged that had they surrendered as many as ten times the men could have made it home. The fact that the Germans held out as long as they did is incredible. But what could they do? After how they'd treated the soviets, many who probably wouldn't have fought on or killed themselves may have surrendered
Since it is Veterans Day here in the US, I just want to thank all my fellow brothers and sisters in arms who served. I salute each and every one of you!
@@ottoneiii4353 I am a US combat veteran but I am honoring ALL veterans from around the world. It's a military topic, so I want to thank everyone who has or is currently serving their country. 💯 🌠
@@ottoneiii4353 they may not have been in this particular battle, but didn't us soldiers also lose their lives during world war II? Also, a combat veteran gives his thanks to his brothers at arms... All of them, regardless of the country they serve. Why is that something that you felt the need to criticize in such an ignorant, disrespectful way? It was unnecessary. The original post was not actually "off topic". Your snotty reply to it, however, was.
If yall want A LOT more information on this subject I recommend TIK's Battlestorm: Stalingrad. I dont think is a more thorough consolidation of information on the subject that is also available for free.
I remember when I fell into the World War II rabbit hole 🐰 🕳 I learned about the huge role women played in this battle and how long it took before it was over so many died in the town is just really never recovered thank you for sharing this heartbreaking war battle for all sides involved. 😢
@@christopherbaltazar473 i respect all the women that fought, they were very brave indeed, but youre comment phrases is it as if they had it worse, which is delusional at best. lets not pretend that the most hellish situations in warfare arent usually faced by the males in warfare history, looking at this from a gender perspective, the vast majority of the women were combat medics, trauma nurses, cooks and military logisticians, that was a fact then, and still is today and i dont wanna see that changed anytime soon in war to be honest. why would i want women in war to suffer as much as the men anyway? this is a category i wouldn't want to be equal in. "But. They had the added threat of rape and other disgusting situations even from their own side. Very brave women" lets not go with the "added threat" based on gender argument, as if we look at statistics, the male soldiers witnessed and suffered substantially far more horrors, something the phrasing of your comment kinda belittles. you also pretend male soldiers get along well and add no additional threats towards each other, which is a silly and dismissive notion, you obviously are barely well versed in military history, theres more to military abuse than sexual. i dont actually recommend looking up the situations of military conflict as a male soldier/prisoner of war, hell ive read stories of german security guards being tortured to death trying to get confessions of treason purely because they didnt engage in certain political conversations. lol added threats from your own side...all your comment did was shine a moronic gender light on something that didnt need it, but for some reason empathy is still only afforded towards the women in many of these conversations, when in reality the men had to suffer through most of the horrors of warfare. when male soldiers die, theyre soldiers, when female soldiers die, they were women and had it much worse for some reason. Russia still hasnt recovered its pre war male population lol, and germany only did a little over a decade ago. victimhood in combat warfare was always male dominated, and frankly deep down i dont want that to change, people that do are psychopathic. and before people freak out on me, my grandmother fought and died protecting her house in the syrian civil war back in 2010, my great grandfather was a kurdish general in the final eras of the ottoman empire and my grandfather is a military base planner/ logistician. 99% of the time they were recounting horrors of war, it was something horrific being done to a man, and chances are, that applies to most soldiers globally, interpret that how you see fit, maybe have a little sympathy in your next interpretation.
@@christopherbaltazar473 the Germans weren't known for raping women en masse like the Soviets. So sick of this historical revisionist horseshit. "MUH EMPOWERED WAHMEN" God it's so absolutely disgusting how you people immediately kneejerk into 2022 leftist point of view. "Hey, here's this battle where 99 percent of the combatants were male and a huge amount lost their li...WHAAAAT????? A WOMAN FOUGHT!?!? A WOMAN. OH MY GOD YAAAASSS QUEEEEEEN SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAY" You people are so unimaginably propagandized and demoralized.
In stalingrad died 478k soviets compared to 859k axis, ergo 400k germans,114k italians,143k hungarys and 42k hiwis, and the european west allies lost 1,8m people and with jugoslawia combined even 3m
12:25 Paulus had moved his headquarters from Golubinskaya to Nizhne-Chirskaya before the envelopment was complete. He would be ordered to establish his headquarters inside the envelopment.
Heartbreaking to see such a waste of human lives. Who knows how many potential doctors, engineers, brilliant minds and, ultimately, good people were send to die for nothing. Who knows if some of them held a transformative discovery within themselves, or if some of them could've saved lives of other people in any other situation. Argueably the most depressing episode in European history...
@@oscaralegre3683 not as much considering we know nothing about brain medicine, stomach illnesses, mental disorders or cancer, aerial transport is still incredibly slow, we are close to where we were 40 years ago in spacial ventures, a revolutionary way to replace fuel oil has not been developed... If someone might have held the power to come up with the next big thing, there's a chance that a german, jew or russian doctor/engineer had it in himself.
War is usually a waste of wealth, lives, and energies. Its incredible we continue to get tricked and manipulated into doing it. Perhaps its the curse of our chimp ancestors from which we evolved from.
An important thing to note here, which is related to these 5k German POWs who were the only ones to return. The main reason why there is such a small number of survivors from captivity is not a consequence of the Soviet treatment (although there is some of that), but the previous desperate state of the Sixth Army before the surrender. Hunger, disease, frostbite and lack of medical care are the main reasons for the death of most prisoners from the 6th Army.
Oh come off it. The Soviets happily inflicted a man made famine on Ukraine killing millions of people in one of the most fertile agricultural regions of the world, millions of their own citizens. And that was before the great purge. Barbaric treatment of prisoners, dissidents, and inconvenient nationalities is habitual for the Russians. To think they wouldn't intend to kill by long cruel mistreatment their enemies captured in battle...you have to be extraordinarily naive. They are showing their nature again here in Ukraine now (I live here, and am glad my ancestors didn't serve the Soviets who tried to exterminate our people, nor did the Soviets succeed in catching and executing my grandfather after the war, as they liked to do to patriots in the lands they occupied - he made it abroad).
My grandfather was some of the few Germans that made it back from the battle Always puts in perspective how me and my brother wouldnt have existed had he been one of the many who died during that battle :
Beyond appreciating that this level of terror and death happened to so many people i think it's important to remember that this kind of thing could happen again if we allow leadership to go down the rabbit hole of hate fueled warfare
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Disturban good job on this video it was excellent!! I’m saving for later reference since I’m gearing up to do a humanitarian project channel and I want to discuss drugs, crime, war, and other social issues. I would love to collaborate when I finally get my hands busy! I look up to your efficiency and writing style in videos!
Seriously Disturbro you do such a remarkable job of researching and scripting these videos. Never cease to amaze me. Thankyou Sir.
Disturban, No one does videos of the 900 days of Leningrad-- there were more civilians in that, and.. less house to house fighting?, maybe- mostly nazi artillery strikes?
Imagine what they smelled like!?
From the other side of the river volga the russians fought their way back swapped rifles for sub machine guns
Dogged fighting
This is one description from a German officer: "We have fought for fifteen days for a single house. The front is a corridor between burnt-out rooms; it is the thin ceiling between two floors … From story to story, faces black with sweat, we bombard each other with grenades in the middle of explosions, clouds of dust and smoke, heaps of mortar, floods of blood, fragments of furniture and human beings … The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses … Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those scorching howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure."
My knee-jerk response- those poor dogs. I can't even wrap my mind around a human being finding themselves in the middle of that scene
Sounds like the fight for the grain elevator. I'm pretty sure it qas said you could read the newspaper at night 50 miles away because of the flames.
@@OpalBLeigh the best thing the Germans ever did was mowing down commies.
It's too bad there are no equivalents to them now.
@@OpalBLeigh 3 million soviet pows were killed in concentration camps.
Fifteen days for one house in Stalingrad - a month for the whole of France
Imagine you're a starving German soldier, eagerly awaiting the next supply drop for what little food you'll get, only to find out they wasted space inside the plane to send MOTIVATIONAL LEAFLETS.
The pepper, that has no calories, was also great 🙊 ah yes, I do love it when my nothing is well seasoned!
@@OpalBLeigh Giving them spices but no food is next tier insulting. That's the kind of thing I'd expect the enemy to give them as a taunt.
@@panqueque445 I mean I guess they could use it on the horse meat? Yay…..
@@OpalBLeigh "We're about to have some tasty rats tonight, boys"
I mean even if they dropped food it'd be like for 20 dudea
I love these deep dives on ww2, always well delivered. It's just unreal this was only 80 years ago
And I missed out
@@josefmengele181 the hell you did💀
@@josefmengele181 *luckily
@@josefmengele181you’d be shitting yourself crying for mommy in a trench
*unluckily
now u can never experience the joy of killing nazis@@Chukz05
These photos are absolutely incredible. It’s so insane that these were taken less than 100 years ago, it’s so different than anything in my own lifetime, I can’t even imagine this being reality for so many people…
History is so crazy more than half the stuff you hear about sounds made up if it wasn’t for all the evidence and witnesses that saw the events .
study some history.
You should pay attention to world events. Parts of Ukraine are 100% leveled due to war. Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Syria, Lebanon,Somalia, Detroit - all in the past recent past. I’d include Gaza but that has happened since your post.
@@YoreBeatenPath fuck dude Chicago, Atlanta and San Fran as well.
6 Parts:
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You should cover:
-1980 New Mexico Prison Riot
-Tuskegee Experiment
-Mapiripan Massacre 1997
-R*pe of Belgium
-HMS Jersey in US Revolution
-Andersonville Prison
-Horrors of Reinhard Heydrich
-Fate of Romans in Teutoburg
-Stalin's "Doctor plot"
-Battle of Manila 1945
-Reconcentrados in Philippines
-Crimes of Pinochet
-Karen Conflict in Myanmar
-Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar
-Horrific weapons of war: Flamethrowers
-The Long March/China Civ.War
-Horrors of Boko Haram
-W.Punishment: KeelHauling
-Remaining MIA in Vietnam
-King Philip's War
-Art of Zdzisław Beksiński
-Blood Diamonds
-Murder of Barry Seale
-The Horrors of Lavrentiy Baria
-Attica Prison Riot
-worst gulags
-1985 MOVE bombing
-Lynchings
-The Man from the Train Killings
-R*pe of Berlin
-Trench life WW1
-The Assassination of Malcolm X
-Palestine/Israel Conflicts
-The Unabomber
-Laos during Vietnam War
-Plan Verde
-Horrors of Saddam Hussein
-Black Wall Street 1921 Bombings
-Crimes of Tommy Desimone
-The Arab Spring in Libya
-Volhynian Slaughter
-Chattahoochee Brick Company
-Wounded Knee Massacre
-The Crimes of Bela Kiss
-Japanese Hell Ships
-Horrific Weapons of War: IEDs
-Long March of the Navajo
-Bodo League Massacre
-Beslan School Seige
-Robben Island prison
-Devil's Island prison
-Russian Apartment False Flag Bombings
-Crimes of Champ Ferguson
-The Death of Pat Tillman
-Circassian Genocide
-2014 Crimean Emergency
-Horrifying Weapons: White Phosphorus
-Freedom Rides
-San Fernando Massacres 2010-11
-Bataan Death March
-Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
-Crimes of Uday Hussein
-LA Riots
-BP oil spill
-Battle of Blair Mountain
-Sleeping Sickness
-Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
-Crimes of Captain Cook
-History of Narco Terrorism
-Pig-Basket Attocity
-Sandakan Death Marches
-Worst Punishments: Necklacing
-Jehovah Witnesses in Holocaust
-Declaration of facts (goes with above)
-Blood Atonement in LDS Church
-Verdun/Passchendale
-Jonestown
-North Korean Famine in 90s
-Death of Buddy Lamont
-Roman Coliseum
Disturban History has made a video about the gulags but I'm not familiar with most of the rest of the things you suggested. I've written them all down so I can hopefully find some good videos covering them today while I do my chores - thank you for the suggestions (even though they weren't for me) 🙏🏻
@@Vexarax I hope a lot of people look at these things! Learning more is always a good thing. I know About these things, but Disturban finds so many more details!
@@grimtea1715 yes it's so important to be constantly learning imo. Knowledge is power, and helps keeps our brains 'active' if that makes sense? Someone else mentioned the battle of Verdun, so I've loaded up some long videos about that in my watchlist and also some videos about the Japanese Hell Ships from your suggestions (and will go through more of your suggestions later). Do you know about the Batavia shipwreck? It's nowhere near on this scale of destruction and pain but it's a brutal shipwreck survival story where the men enslaved all the women and children and awful things happened. A channel called Casefile covered it in graphic detail, definitely worth checking out. I love it when people cover all those details we'd normally never know about 🙏🏻
And this:
Pepsi Number Fever, also known as the 349 incident
So many tragedies and nothing learned. Idk if humans are stupid or evil
My favorite storyteller telling one of my favorite stories. Perfect. Thank you Disturban.
My great-grandfather fought in Stalingrad for the Red Army. That's all I know, since he never talked to my grandfather about it and he also refused to attend any of the victory day parades nor accept anniversary medals. I can't even imagine what he saw there for him to decide to never speak about it. May he rest in peace
Hero
This comment is so wrong in so many levels.
Rest in pieces
@@josetomascamposrobledano4618 my bad! didnt even realise lol
Dont apologize, wasnt his fault to be born on the side he was on. Its like criticizing a nazi germany footsoldier, makes no sense
While im not from your country, my grandfather was the same with 'celebratory' parades for ww2. sadly he died before i was born so i never met him, but my dad said he used to say "i dont need a special day to remember the men and friends i lost". He never really talked about the war, but he lost his leg because of it.
Miraculously, him and his 2 brothers all returned alive though, something very uncommon.
Stalingrad is the closest thing to apocalyptic battle I can think of. It's dystopian in some ways. You have this mass of concrete shattered by bombs and shells with two massive industrialized armies fighting a true war of annihilation. First hand accounts are across a whole range of emotions and outlooks from rage and hate to sorrow and joy, fear and stubbornness. It's everything that makes the human experienced, good and bad crammed into one battle and it boggles the mind. Folks who made it through this battle lived a thousand lifetimes in an instant.
More recent is the battle of Maripol in Ukraine. That was a meat grinder.
@@VannywiththeFanny or raqqa in Syria
Verdun
@@VannywiththeFannywait 30-40 years and accounts looking back will paint a grim picture.
Idk, Verdun, the Somme and Ypres sound a tad bit worse
My great-grandfather fought in this. He was 44 at the time. He later fought in Kursk battle. Survived that too. And died in 1943, in November, when Soviets started going on the offense. He died near the border of Belarus. (He fought for the Soviet side)
rest in piss
Your great grandfather had balls of steel. You should be proud.
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@@Tacozrule12 😭💀
@@Tacozrule12nazi
I don't know a lot about this specific battle so can't wait to hear the info you have - It's a great day when I get to learn something new from a source I trust. Thank you 🙏🏻
I remember watching a video of a German soldier who was one of the last men to fly out the Stalingrad battle on a transport plane, and he broke down crying because he felt so guilty about all the men who died in that bloody battle, and he lived. Although I've never been in a battle the likes of Stalingrad, war is no game to be relished and spoke of in a positive light, war is evil and those that start them are the evilest of evil, and sadly, we're watching the politicians of 2022 trying their hardest to get us into another world war so they and their so-called elitest buddies can get rich while watching other people's children die and wounded for life, SAY NO TO WAR.
"That is still another reason why this other world which so willingly represents capitalistic interests in particular, is attacking us. It is a combine, which even today still pretends to be able to rule the world according to its private capitalistic interests, to manage it, and when necessary, to keep on ruling it."
"No, my friends, they don't know how to rule. They can only subjugate peoples and then pauperize them for their own benefit. A handful of people-very rich ones, to be sure- are determining the fate of the world."
True, war isn't something to be romanticized or to be honored like bruh people got their lives fucked up and all they got is a medal
@@emmanuelchavez7748it's also futile. Most cases the soldiers fight for the ideology of people who wouldnt dream of fighting on the front lines themselves.
They just watch us kill each other with the same weapons they sell each other over the propaganda they all make up together it’s disgusting
But yet if you look at human beings in general we are very tribal we choose teams and we fight things that scare us other people, things we don’t understand…
It cannot be understated just how oppressive, terrifying, and deadly urban combat really is.
Like he said with Pavlov's House 'any building can be turned into a fortress.'
Take that saying, apply in to every building in the area you live and and it really puts things into perspective. I do it frequently but then again, I'm kind of trained to so...lol I guess.
Every corner, street, alley, trash can/pile could be hiding an MG nest or something much, much worse. One wrong step, one missed detail, and you're nothing but a pine box and a memory.
War is hell, but urban combat; fella that's the 8th friggn' circle.
not even a pinebox for most men in the battle of stalingrad
@@GrootsChannel Truth, my man. More of a euphemism but still, even now shit hasn't really changed much. You'll hear stories from guys who where in Fallujah back in 03 of just the ridiculous amount of bodies to the point where dogs were walking around with human arms and legs in their mouths.
Nice subtle flex
Hey youre the guy who tried to make me pay for all that tasmanian syrup i didnt order
“War is hell, but urban combat; fella that’s the 8th friggin’ circle”
-Jack Maniaky
Gonna give you credit, but I’m stealing this. I love that it’s so quotable, but hate that it’s so true.
never did I think I could watch one of my favorite youtubers for my college class but here we are. thank you, I have an assignment due on the battle of stalingrad for my wwII history class :)
I can't begin to imagine living in a time where this could happen. It is a testament of the cruelty mankind can inflicte on innocent people. The horror of it will last forever. Lest we forget. Thank you Disturban 💛 for all your work!! Much appreciated Sir. 🙏
This wasn't that long ago.... we still live in an era where this could happen
You are right now. There is a proxy war in Ukraine. What happens if China builds that base in Cuba, and then declares war on the US? Whatever anyone might think about the US, try to imagine a world where the CCP is the global superpower.
What an agony, it is an amazing but harrowing place to visit now as Volgograd as I did 4 years ago. They have some incredible museums on the siege and left a few buildings unrepaired on purpose.
Dispite being one of the deadliest battles in history, calling the counter attack “operation Uranus” makes me chuckle every time
SAME 😁
"Uran" is what it was called.
Operation BLAST ur-anus… it was very fitting…
It's a pincer movement designed to encircle and penetrate the German army's rear.
It was thematically appropriate since they were telling the Germans where they would eventually stick their collective feet.
Your my favorite RUclipsr bye far! Keep up the great work the great information with the story telling is just unmatched. Love it. Love the history of my people and Europeans in general. Definitely most of the worst battles in history happened in Europe!
My German grandfather ate soap in order to be airlifted out of Stalingrad. Without doing that, I wouldn't exist.
You should have been named soap 😂
I say this about operation downfall. The invasion of the Japanese home islands. If that happened, a very great amount of us wouldn't even be here.
I like this channel more than your other channel somehow. This is better than Netflix or TV level shit! Some of the best content on youtube
it’s still terrifying to me hearing the numbers. still to this day, they’re absolutely drastic. imagine, knowing the world population back then, how much more empty the world was becoming
I had the opportunity to speak with a German soldier who managed to escape Stalingrad and his recounts were as expected as he told me that the men he was with were more hopeful about dying already than winning the battle, just goes to show how barbaric and brutal Stalingrad was
Bullet to the head was a mercy there
Cold hunger and sleep deprivation
Many soldiers purposely put themselves in harms way to end it
"Soon it will be their people, their land, their blood"
-Viktor Reznov
SMH
I AM VIKTOR REZNOV, AND I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE
"a colossus had arisen in the East with only a single thought in mind, to fall upon this weak, lazy, defeatist and internally-torn Europe."
No, you just grazed him
C H Y O R T
It's crazy for me to think about that my great grandfather disappeared somewhere on the route to, or in Stalingrad. I only know that from some passing comments my mom made about him. I don't know how much she knows about my ancestors, I might ask her next time I see her tho. It's a shame that I can't ask anyone else though because they're either dead, missing, or are not in contact because bad parenting seems to run in the blood.
This period of our history feels so distant, but a lot of people like my mother still have documents and medical reports from that time. I remember finding an old passport with the sign on the front sloppily crossed out when I was snooping around once. And also some old documents of some person (who was probably a relative but they didn't share my family name) who underwent shock therapy for ptsd (I'm not sure if it was explicitly called that in the document but it sounded like it).
The document itself was slowly falling apart and the letters fading, just like the memories of that time period are fading as the last few people that were alive around that time are slowly dying out. This period of time feels like ancient history, but in reality it hasn't even been 100 years since then. It feels unreal.
Anyways, thanks for taking the time to read this :)
“War is a terrible thing.”
“War is cruelty.”
“War is Hell”
-General William T. Sherman
“War never changes”
You and your friends just got out of class and now have to face the German army and panzers. Absolutely legendary a lot of respect to the 1077th
Germany should have won. They were fighting to save not only Germany but Europe too. We wouldn't be living in this degenerate, globalist, society today.
The Hungarian 2nd Army were - with equipment not delivered in the freezing cold - told to hold the river Don for the german armoured retreat.
The 2nd Army as it was, was practically destroyed, sacrificing over 100k men in battle while holding the line.
The state of absolute suffering was insane all throughout the front.
Maybe if they hadn't brutalized civilians as much as they did they wouldn't have gotten what they had coming. Same with Croatia. It got so bad Mussolini armed rebels to defend themselves from those animals.
I'm about to watch this video, but thank you for making this.
My 4 great granduncles fought in the 29th Infanterie Division in Stalingrad against the Soviets.
Two of them were only 18 years old
None of them returned ofcourse. Its horrible.
@W do Yeah, I have the same age and name as one of them. Kasper Lange and he was 18 years old and was the only one that was reported Missing instead of Dead
i mean they were the nazis
The soviets were just as bad if not worse.
Your granduncles served in the Wehrmacht army, that's enough to be respected
@@jackroberts3241 They never joined the National Socialist party
And they were East Prussian monarchist believers. Pretty anti-nazi
But they were forced just like my great grandfather as well as his brother and 4 cousins
Brother that was so well done. But you should do leningrad next!!! Watch the Leningrad episode of the Soviet Storm series. It's HORRIFIC!!! People just gave up and went to bed and died. They were eating wallpaper paste and bread made from burned flour and other horrific ingredients! Love your channel so much. Long time follower. Never missed an episode.
When you actually compare the eastern front vs the western front, the Americans/Brits et al. got off easy.
definitely. Britain especially, we are an island so random attacks on civilians didnt happen the way they happened in Europe. sure, we had bombings, which were devastating, but nothing compared to what the Eastern front went through. we never had our country decimated. Britain and America are always squabbling about who really won the war when I fully believe that without the Soviets, we would all have lost.
True
Absolutely, I'm sure any man that went through the western front would agree how easy it was.
@@louchy Oh yeah man, that's totally what I meant. Great reading comprehension there.
Well, the western front was all about diplomacy and trying to preserve lives, but the Russians and Germans had a lot of bad blood between them and wanted the other dead.
Good cover of history there my dude, enjoyed that thanks.
Never seen your channel before. Glad I found it! You got a new sub.
Disturbian and weird history and Simon whistler are probably my three favorite narrarators. I can’t imagine how desperate these Germans were to surrender to the western front. 91,000 turns into 5,000 8 years later. Imagine being in a soviet pow camp in the late 40s
Paulus surrendering was ABSOLUTELY the choice that needed to be made.
The battle was already lost, further death was just not necessary.
But out of the 90k that surrendered less that 5k survived, he should have kept fighting praying for support.
to call this a battle to me isn’t good enough
it wasn’t a battle, it was simply an atrocity of human history. one of the most horrifying chapters in the history of humanity.
i hope god had mercy on the souls of the millions of people that died in this single event.
My grandfather fought from the Battle of the Bulge, all the way to Berlin, where the Americans stopped their advance in order to allow the Russians to take the city. He used to tell us how the German soldiers fled to the Americans, hands in the air, and turned themselves over in order to avoid the Russians, because the Russians were getting their revenge for Stalingrad.
Americans did not even get close to Berlin before Russia. It is a huge myth that America was anywhere near Berlin at the end of the war.
@@MonumentalMedia I know. My grandfather was still taking prisoners at the Rhine while U.S. planes softened Berlin for the Russian entry. I should’ve said that he was on the final drive for Berlin to be more clear. He said the Ardennes took too much time from what I remember.
My grandfather fought in the Wehrmacht, he got captured in Normandy. He has always stressed how US captivity was the most merciful. He was in French and then in US captivity. Although they had to starve and, according to my grandfather, the Americans drained old frying fat in the gutter before the captives' eyes rather than giving it to them, my grandfather is grateful to have been in US captivity. He is still alive and very healthy at age 97.
@@kooroshrostami27 i wonder how merciful the us would've been if 27 million of their people died and their country was bombed into the ground
@@kooroshrostami27sad to hear he’s still alive
This is to me the most fascinating battle of World War II
This channel is top tier
The was probably the most brutal battle to ever be a part of in human history insofar as access to food, shelter, rest, and medical aid, the weather conditions, the rampant brutality and war crimes, the proximity between soldiers and civilians, and of course the sheer wholesale, industrialized nature of the killing.
I remember getting interested in WW2 because of CoD: WaW. I feel no other game represented WW2 and the horrors that went on in the war better than WaW. I mean, the first Soviet mission in the game, you see dozens of dead Soviets in a fountain in the square, Germans shooting survivors dead.
Watch enemy at the gates like he mentions in the video. The developers took a lot of inspiration from that movie
No other game has portrayed war as accurately as world at war. Maybe the closest thing to second place would be bf1
@@Kyle-ub3gl enemy at the gates was cringe
@@markusk1015 You should go play Red Orchestra 2. Hands down best Stalingrad campaign.
@@markusk1015 that’s a goofy asl statement, most engagements happen when the enemy is too far to even see. Call of Duty games are accurate portrayals of action movies at best
In 8th grade i wrote a 4 page sort of essay on the Battle of Stalingrad and the facts and significance of the battle made me love history to this day
“Patience, if we reveal our location to Amsel’s men, this fountain will be our grave.”
-Viktor Reznov
Cringe
@@KeepMeATec how is that cringe?
Very well produced, thank you.
I've recently begun to feel like WW3 has already started, but it will be far quieter and less bloody than the previous two.
This time, however, the enemy is well within the camp and, to most of us, invisible. Humankind is its own worst enemy.
The people in the US State Department used to say the Cold War was WW3 and the War on Terror(ism) was WW4.
@@GazB85
The people in the US State Department love playing their war games, so nothing about their mentality would surprise me. Russia is nowhere near being as great a threat to the world as those who sit behind closed doors in the US. Lethally destructive.
Stay safe and well, wherever you are.
@@EIRE55 I agree with you 100%!
Russia’s shitty military in Ukraine should make the American people call for their military budget to be immediately could by massive amounts but it hasn’t and won’t ever.
@@GazB85
Of course not, because the US has always wanted and tried to own the world. Little does it realise that it's been slowly but surely destroying itself in the process, and when it completely collapses, it will blame everyone else for their downfall. Greed never pays.
@@EIRE55 Indeed!
The books Blood Red Snow and Adventures in My Youth are some serious good stories from the Eastern Front. Unimaginable to us today what people went through
You should cover:
-1980 New Mexico Prison Riot
-Tuskegee Experiment
-Mapiripan Massacre 1997
-R*pe of Belgium
-HMS Jersey in US Revolution
-Andersonville Prison
-Horrors of Reinhard Heydrich
-Fate of Romans in Teutoburg
-Stalin's "Doctor plot"
-Battle of Manila 1945
-Reconcentrados in
-The Long March/China Civ.War
-Philippine American War
-The Reign of Terror
Grim tea's list
Whenever I hear Disturbans voice, I can't help but think of what a Salamander from Warhammer 40k would sound like.
Ooooh i like that.
Wow, didnt expect you to cover such topics. Great
I have to respect the Russian people. I can’t imagine what the people went through who lived through this. This has to be one of the worst places to be in all human history.
Will yeah if they didn't fight hard they knew they would all be killed by the Nazis since German plan was unalive most of eastern Europe and keep half as slave
I was lucky enough to be able to visit Volgograd a few years back, amazing city, so much history. Not a single German body is buried within the city limits. So many houses people still live in with bullet impacts in the walls.
Stalingrad*
@@brucebanner52 yes, but it's been known as Volgograd since the end of ww2
@@MCDesign199 From Wikipedia
On 10 November 1961, Nikita Khrushchev's administration changed the name of the city to Volgograd ("Volga City") as part of his programme of de-Stalinization following Stalin's death. This action was and remains somewhat controversial, because Stalingrad has such importance as a symbol of resistance during World War II.
@@nqgamer ah there we go, post ww2, just wasn't sure of when it changed
@@MCDesign199 I wasn’t sure myself tbh, so googled it. You still get points for knowing the history of the name change. So many people don’t know shit about other countries. Russia, despite what is happening right now, is beautiful country filled with amazing people. St Petersburg is awesome also, they still remember the siege.
Great video!! Learning about these type of historic events is very emotional and interesting.
Finally some history 🥇😁
Very interesting, id love to see more videos like this
100k views but only 4k likes cmon guys this is good content
Top notch content. As always.
Stalingrad was probably the closest humanity has gotten to war hammer 40k in terms of sheer apocalyptic battle of attrition
and ofc it happened to russians, most 40k humans on earth.
My great-grandfather lost his arm in one of the last battles before Stalingrad.
This saved him. He survived the air attacks of the allies over Germany in the last years of WW2. After the war he married my great-grandmother. That he lost his arm was the blessing of god.
■■■■■■■■■■■■■3:43 This smokestack was demolished a few weeks ago. (In November 2022.) N48.6816°, E044.4825°. This was at the Konservnyi Zavod, the Canning Factory. Arcing near it was the Volga-Don Railway. At left, crossing over the railway is a raised conveyor (N48.684°, E0444856°) which connected the grain elevator and the riverfront.
Thank you for the detailed information
@@Artem-sp8rg: Now there is an underground conveyor between the grain elevator and the waterfront. Built after the War, I think.
my great grandfather fought on the german side as an infantrist in the battle of stalingrad.. his feet had to be amputated and thats why he survived.. he took one of the last planes that left stalingrad to get his feet amputated
My grandmother was one of the 300 civilians to stay on the west side of the river, and still survived. I may not support Putin or any of what my former nations government does, but I will always be proud to be Russian and what my people have done to stop fascism and evil, no matter what people say about us.
So am I but I do wonder: Why don't you like Putin? I can understand that he doesn't handle corruption well for our country but he also saved Russia from pigs like Yeltsin.
" stop evil" yeah ok commie
was not expecting a really good video
"The German invaders want a war of extermination with the peoples of the U.S.S.R. Well, if the Germans want to have a war of extermination, they will get it." (Loud and prolonged applause.) Stalin 6 November, 1941.
An answer to Goebbels "Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?" ?
Based
Fortunately, neither of them achieved that grim objective
@@MonTube2006 are you saying the nazi regime wasn’t exterminated?
@@lilsyrupp5989 I invite you to read again the comment I reacted to
Well done video, Learned alott of new Information
It's a sad story, absolutely no happy ending here...
Great video disturban you should uncover the battle of Berlin the final stages of world war 2. Of Europe.
Thats on the list, have made a start!
@@disturbansbrother6493 nice I can't wait to see it. I love your content
No way they sent a shipment of motivation fliers that's really messed up I don't want to laugh at that but damn
I spent much of Covid lockdown immersed in books/film related to the Russian front. It’s still difficult to make sense of it all, that it could even be real.
Its a crazy world we live in but its an exciting one. everytime I was in the battle I can feel the adrenaline pumps soo hard that I felt alive without using anyform of drugs. I felt like I was on meth or Cocain. who needs cocain when you have war.
You should cover the Beslan School Siege.
Stalingrad, the WW2 documentary I've watched over and over again
I knew Stalingrad was a mess, but holy shit...
This is the History Content i Love, CHeers.
I always start thinking of the thousands of insane things that happened where the stories will never been known because everyone involved ended up dead. One thing that's changed recently in my thinking of this battle is the age of the German soldiers. I always imagined battle hardened men, and when a film shows a German soldier I'd think the same, when in fact many German soldiers were just boys under 20 years old. The approx 11k German soldiers in Stalingrad who refused to be taken prisoner after Paulus surrendered, they must've had incredible stories of survival, deaths of friends, injuries, starvation, good times once in a while, bad times overall. Those poor boys. The great thing is the instant they died, they were immediately bathed in love and light and forgiveness. They were instantly healed and made whole.
If they accepted Jesus as their lord and saviour and asked him for his forgiveness.
I remember that scene in the 1993 Stalingrad film when they’re at the Potomnik airbase. That shit was scary.
Soviet heroes never forgotten. Heroes against fascism.
And then putting the lands they “liberated” under new management.
@@TheDigitalApple Whilst they did have heavy jurisdiction the lands which they indeed did liberate. The fascists would have exterminated all peoples living in Eastern Europe and would have replaced them with ethnic Germans.
@@teampeanuts8394 As if the communists have to moral high ground.
They invading Poland with Germany so pretty much they were responsible WW2
@@TheDigitalApple My great grand father was a partisan in Hungary against the fascists he knew firsthand what the nazis would do to the so called “undesirables”. Learn history not CIA taking points
My father's great uncle was forcibly mobilized into the German army and sent to the Eastern Front, he also survived the Battle of Stalingrad, where he also defected to the side of the Red Army. what he saw and what he went through, I'd rather not write because my comment would be deleted, the fact that after the war he couldn't sleep without the light on and that he had nightmares every night is enough.
The Germans actually tried passing an order forbidding suicide. I remember hearing a German veteran say that Stalingrad was simply a place of execution. It's like it was a spot in the world selected for misery. Heard and interview with a German field doctor in the city and the scenes he described were unreal. I had over thirty family members murdered by these bastards and I still pity the soldiers who found themselves in that hell hole. The doctor also described hearing Goering basically eulogize them while there were still so many alive and was enraged that had they surrendered as many as ten times the men could have made it home. The fact that the Germans held out as long as they did is incredible. But what could they do? After how they'd treated the soviets, many who probably wouldn't have fought on or killed themselves may have surrendered
me on my way to watch a new documentary on stalingrad for the 100th time
Since it is Veterans Day here in the US, I just want to thank all my fellow brothers and sisters in arms who served. I salute each and every one of you!
you are completely off topic, why even mention the US veterans here?
@@ottoneiii4353 I am a US combat veteran but I am honoring ALL veterans from around the world. It's a military topic, so I want to thank everyone who has or is currently serving their country. 💯 🌠
@@ottoneiii4353 It was also Armistice Day for the rest of the world so it fits.
@@ottoneiii4353 they may not have been in this particular battle, but didn't us soldiers also lose their lives during world war II?
Also, a combat veteran gives his thanks to his brothers at arms... All of them, regardless of the country they serve. Why is that something that you felt the need to criticize in such an ignorant, disrespectful way? It was unnecessary.
The original post was not actually "off topic". Your snotty reply to it, however, was.
@@DirtyUncleSAL declare war on them
Good video, thanks.
Have a good day Sir
If yall want A LOT more information on this subject I recommend TIK's Battlestorm: Stalingrad.
I dont think is a more thorough consolidation of information on the subject that is also available for free.
I remember when I fell into the World War II rabbit hole 🐰 🕳
I learned about the huge role women played in this battle and how long it took before it was over so many died in the town is just really never recovered thank you for sharing this heartbreaking war battle for all sides involved. 😢
@@christopherbaltazar473 i respect all the women that fought, they were very brave indeed, but youre comment phrases is it as if they had it worse, which is delusional at best. lets not pretend that the most hellish situations in warfare arent usually faced by the males in warfare history, looking at this from a gender perspective, the vast majority of the women were combat medics, trauma nurses, cooks and military logisticians, that was a fact then, and still is today and i dont wanna see that changed anytime soon in war to be honest. why would i want women in war to suffer as much as the men anyway? this is a category i wouldn't want to be equal in.
"But. They had the added threat of rape and other disgusting situations even from their own side.
Very brave women" lets not go with the "added threat" based on gender argument, as if we look at statistics, the male soldiers witnessed and suffered substantially far more horrors, something the phrasing of your comment kinda belittles. you also pretend male soldiers get along well and add no additional threats towards each other, which is a silly and dismissive notion, you obviously are barely well versed in military history, theres more to military abuse than sexual.
i dont actually recommend looking up the situations of military conflict as a male soldier/prisoner of war, hell ive read stories of german security guards being tortured to death trying to get confessions of treason purely because they didnt engage in certain political conversations. lol added threats from your own side...all your comment did was shine a moronic gender light on something that didnt need it, but for some reason empathy is still only afforded towards the women in many of these conversations, when in reality the men had to suffer through most of the horrors of warfare. when male soldiers die, theyre soldiers, when female soldiers die, they were women and had it much worse for some reason. Russia still hasnt recovered its pre war male population lol, and germany only did a little over a decade ago. victimhood in combat warfare was always male dominated, and frankly deep down i dont want that to change, people that do are psychopathic.
and before people freak out on me, my grandmother fought and died protecting her house in the syrian civil war back in 2010, my great grandfather was a kurdish general in the final eras of the ottoman empire and my grandfather is a military base planner/ logistician. 99% of the time they were recounting horrors of war, it was something horrific being done to a man, and chances are, that applies to most soldiers globally, interpret that how you see fit, maybe have a little sympathy in your next interpretation.
@@christopherbaltazar473 the Germans weren't known for raping women en masse like the Soviets.
So sick of this historical revisionist horseshit.
"MUH EMPOWERED WAHMEN"
God it's so absolutely disgusting how you people immediately kneejerk into 2022 leftist point of view.
"Hey, here's this battle where 99 percent of the combatants were male and a huge amount lost their li...WHAAAAT????? A WOMAN FOUGHT!?!? A WOMAN. OH MY GOD YAAAASSS QUEEEEEEN SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAY"
You people are so unimaginably propagandized and demoralized.
@@flamingmanure they didn’t phrase it as if women had it worse they were simply stating a fact🤦🏽♂️ you wrote that for NOTHING.
@@lilsyrupp5989 he just hate wamen
My omas father died at Stalingrad. She never got to meet him. War is hell.
Lmao 😂
@@Adam-cu3uewhat’s so funny you disrespectful tool?
I misread the title as the deadliest rap battle in history and I was confused on the change in content
lmfao
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Stalingrad was where WW2 was won. Truly hellish conditions and horrible fates but possibly saved the world
500k germans dead. 1.2million russians dead. In 1 battle
Both our American theatres of war in PACIFIC & Europe had combined dead at 465k
~900-1000k nazis including Italians, Romanians and Hungarians
800k dead Germans
In stalingrad died 478k soviets compared to 859k axis, ergo 400k germans,114k italians,143k hungarys and 42k hiwis, and the european west allies lost 1,8m people and with jugoslawia combined even 3m
And yet 6M dead in camps also, humans lack humanity towards each other. War will be our futures pestilence because we've conquered pandemics.
12:25 Paulus had moved his headquarters from Golubinskaya to Nizhne-Chirskaya before the envelopment was complete. He would be ordered to establish his headquarters inside the envelopment.
Heartbreaking to see such a waste of human lives. Who knows how many potential doctors, engineers, brilliant minds and, ultimately, good people were send to die for nothing. Who knows if some of them held a transformative discovery within themselves, or if some of them could've saved lives of other people in any other situation.
Argueably the most depressing episode in European history...
Everything happens for a reason. And we still have doctors engineers and all of that
@@oscaralegre3683 not as much considering we know nothing about brain medicine, stomach illnesses, mental disorders or cancer, aerial transport is still incredibly slow, we are close to where we were 40 years ago in spacial ventures, a revolutionary way to replace fuel oil has not been developed...
If someone might have held the power to come up with the next big thing, there's a chance that a german, jew or russian doctor/engineer had it in himself.
@@fullshark09 i dont think so but i respect ur opinion
War is usually a waste of wealth, lives, and energies. Its incredible we continue to get tricked and manipulated into doing it. Perhaps its the curse of our chimp ancestors from which we evolved from.
An important thing to note here, which is related to these 5k German POWs who were the only ones to return. The main reason why there is such a small number of survivors from captivity is not a consequence of the Soviet treatment (although there is some of that), but the previous desperate state of the Sixth Army before the surrender. Hunger, disease, frostbite and lack of medical care are the main reasons for the death of most prisoners from the 6th Army.
“some of that” 💀
Oh come off it. The Soviets happily inflicted a man made famine on Ukraine killing millions of people in one of the most fertile agricultural regions of the world, millions of their own citizens. And that was before the great purge. Barbaric treatment of prisoners, dissidents, and inconvenient nationalities is habitual for the Russians. To think they wouldn't intend to kill by long cruel mistreatment their enemies captured in battle...you have to be extraordinarily naive. They are showing their nature again here in Ukraine now (I live here, and am glad my ancestors didn't serve the Soviets who tried to exterminate our people, nor did the Soviets succeed in catching and executing my grandfather after the war, as they liked to do to patriots in the lands they occupied - he made it abroad).
*The Alamo, would be an interesting topic, to cover. You could also cover "The White Death Sniper". Great videos as always.*
Another great video keep it coming
My grandfather was some of the few Germans that made it back from the battle
Always puts in perspective how me and my brother wouldnt have existed had he been one of the many who died during that battle :
Makes D-Day look like a tea party. Most people have no idea about the sheer scale of the battles on the Eastern Front.
Polus surrendered some 90,000 Germans were sent to prison camps, only around
9,000 came back
The numbers alone are unfathomable
What text reader program you're using to do that speech?
Being sent to Stalingrad as German teenage boys was another way to get rid of those who disagreed with that gangster club regime
I've been talking about Stalingrad for 15 years I'm 37. The ccomplete demolition by the luftwaffe undermined their blitzkrieg strategy
“For three days I have hunted him, and for 3 days luck alone has saved his wretched life.”
-Viktor Reznov
You learned me something that I needed thank you kind gentleman
Beyond appreciating that this level of terror and death happened to so many people i think it's important to remember that this kind of thing could happen again if we allow leadership to go down the rabbit hole of hate fueled warfare