I have watched somewhere near 10 documentaries about Stalingrad in recent months. I have always hoped for more detailed description of the action and stories from the soldiers from both sides. Then a few weeks back i found your channel with 3d models and detailed info all the way to participating units and even platoons. This is the best! KEEP IT UP! You are defining how history of battles can be presented in modern day.
@@coltseavers6298 if you havn't already check out TIK - same kind of filthy detailed battle reports. here's Market Garden ruclips.net/video/vTUC79o4Kmc/видео.html
As a person who has been through two horrid wars,I can only take my hat off to those men who lived and fought through all of this. The sheer guts required to continue fighting in a city where the dogs fled the war at night. Imagine waking up, knowing that yesterday was not your lucky day,maybe today you'll die and be released of this hopeless, ceaseless carnage. No matter what side we are on today, we cannot deny that those people had real guts.
My grandfather was killed in Stalingrad exactly 78 years ago, on August 23, 1942, in the vicinity of the factory "Barricades". He was a Senior Lieutenant, 3rd company of anti-tank rifles, 344 infantry regiment, 138 infantry division.
this is a refreshing perspective of the Battle of Stalingrad. Very objective. It radically departs from those documentaries which see the forest but not the trees. Uraaaah!
The first heavily diagrammatic documentary on Stalingrad I've seen. Lot's of clarity and detail here. I'm now a fan and will check out the other AUP videos.
As a retired us history teacher and US Army warrant officer, I must say thus was an excellent film D.C. Pali ing in detail the fall of southern Stalingrad and the failed advancement into the industrialized zone north. This was truly an educational film.
Yes, It's jolly good, It helps paint a clearer picture of how it happened. I often wonder what kind of food truck's were operating in the Area during the skirmish.
I know of Stalingrad...I heard of it as a child...I never lost interest and as a British Veteran I studied the situation in great depth. As a rule i open Stalingrad documentaries and close them within 5-10 minutes when I start recognising paragraphs from well read books... This used accurate military records and explained a situation most just say was a hard fought terrible fight, room to room blah blah blah.... If you want to understand a battle, you must know the units, they are men, their diminishing numbers and morale and the movements of which units and when... Thank you for a good quality clear, really well researched, visually and verbally explanation of what happened militarily during this intense time. Think of the cost, in material and life to the Germans because a small group of men said, We wont leave...bravery? Maybe, but as a former military man who's seen combat...its just bloody mindedness! Peace Charlie 🇬🇧
It was Russian maskirovka not German bloody mindedness that convinced the German leadership that the defenders are on their last reserves and that victory was within reach. Zhukov purposfully allowed only small trickles of units into the city, just enough to prevent complete collapse, while patiently building up powerfull forces on the weak Axis flanks. Once these forces were unleashed and the city encircled the faith of the 6th army and indeed of the whole Third Reich was sealed.
i am from the USA and never heard of Stalingrad until I watched the UK series World at War. We were always taught the USA won WWII on our own with the UK only supplying a token allied force and a base of operations. After I saw the Stalingrad episode at about 12 years old did` I realized why the Germans in the TV show Hogan's Heroes were in fear of the Russian front. I also learned where the UK destroyed the Italian army of 300,000 with under 500 UK casualties and 55 missing in action in North Africa.
@@ogarnogin5160 it was a huge joint effort. The UK was at war for quite a while before the US joined the allies...its very complicated why, but they did thankfully. Without mutual support things would have been much different. We are still fighting The Reich now...its why the UK wants out of the EU. They are demanding the UK hand over a significant portion of their military forces to be stationed in Europe (Ukraine area) and be under EU control...of German and French officers.... Yeah, no Brit will fight under the Germans or the French and we WILL NOT fight the Russians... If it kicks of more than it has in the Ukraine because the EU is currently fighting the Former Soviet Forces in Europe. More worryingly US Servicemen are in front line combat with Russian Forces in Syria as I type. A US bombing is purported to have killed/injured up to 200 Russian military personnel when their barracks where bombed in Syria.... Dangerous things are afoot my friend. Look up Al Jazeera news and RT English. They are the opposite news channels and a lot more honest than ours. Journeyman Videos are a great way to see what's happening around the world. I'm ex military served in conflicts and was always saddened by the lack of world knowledge the US Servicemen had...some ripped into available knowledge and their understanding of the situations grew immensely as did they. The simplest piece of look at it a different way...was the simple explanation that terrorists and insurgents in Iraq are freedom fighters...imagine if the Arab nations invaded or liberated the USA and tried to change your complete system of living and government and take your oil. I know I'd be carrying out terrorist attacks on them, just as you and your friends would be. Doesn't make it less dangerous, but it helps you assess your situations easier. Stay informed my friend, when you grow your mind your life grows too. Peace Charlie 🇬🇧
@@ogarnogin5160 The World At War series used to be shown here on Saturday mornings about 6AM when I was a kid in the 70's and I'd get up early and sneak down to watch it. The theme tune still reminds me of those days. A great program. Charlie 🇬🇧
@@charliemansonUK We used to watch World at War and play Risk after it was over turning the Television over to the girls. I still think of that show when I hear a Thames production intro for shows like Benny Hill I also like Danger UXB. I had a good lesson on The Battle of Britain from the late 1960s movie
Compared to most documentaries this video was woefully short on background details such as overall situation, comparative force disposition, motivation and strategic objectives, leadership, weapons, and doctrine, etc. It's a good analysis / education material for hobbyists and experts, but a terrible presentation of Stalingrad for the average person.
@@kaletovhangar I stopped watching him after his stupid "if you don't think Socialism = Nazism then you're a holocaust denier" video. Can't trust someone like that to assess history properly.
Amazingly detailed. I agree with other comments in that this should be the new way history is told. Props to you guys for all the effort and research this must have taken.
The Stalingrad series is excellent. It has given a unique view of the battle and the challenges that faced both sides. More like this please. Truly enjoyable.
Where such presentations usually fail is, that they can't in no way present the true horror, suffering and massive dying. "35 died" -aha OK. "350 died" -aha OK. "3500 died" -aha OK.
Oh baby another Stalingrad documentary! I do love these, TIK’s series especially, and this one was just as good, if not a little less in depth, but that’s expected since well, TIK’s doing a whole series haha.
Very informative with no frills, this isn't Hollywood this is real, hard to take all the detail in at first so watched it 3 times now and it's all beginning to make sense, the best documentary on Stalingrad I've seen by a long way
This is by far the best and most detailed understanding of the battle of Stalingrad. The graphics and such are fantastic. Stalingrad footage I’ve not seen before. Highly recommend this for anyone interested in the battle of Stalingrad. Gives a fresh new perspective of the overall battlefield and battles for the grain elevator. Love to see them cover the Battle for Arnhem in the format.
This is the clearest documentary on military history i have seen yet, with exemplary map animation and use of original combat footage. I also enjoyed the illustrations of military science. Very nice!
there's a good videogame calle Red Orchestra2:battle of Stalingrad, that takes place in and around the city with detailed historic maps of each locations, notably the grain elevator.
Look Hans, the grain elevator would provide great fire control and battlefield observation!!! Hans: No way I'm afraid of heights....schenell schenell!!
Oh wow. My grandfather was a soviet marine, and this battle seems to be his first engagement. He was 19 at the time. He hardly ever spoke of the War, but he mentioned a few times how the first days were the toughest all time, and how just a handful of them make it. He also mentioned how proud they were of their black uniform, and what they actually rioted, refusing to wear regular infantry gear. After watching this, those scares stories makes so much more sense. And much more chilling.
The Germans actually outnumbered the Soviet Defenders when they first entered Stalingrad and this only changed later on when the 62nd Army was reinforced. Without the very timely crossing of the 13th Guards Rifle Division to reinforce Chuikov’s Centre, the city likely would have fallen at this stage. However, it isn’t like the Germans really had any alternative to attempting to take the city, given the overall strategic situation, short of simply calling off their strategic offensive altogether. 6th Army was already severely depleted by the fighting along the Don and on the approach to Stalingrad, and the supply situation was atrocious. A further advance into enemy territory would have worsened this and probably been stalled altogether by a lack of fuel. Taking Stalingrad was the only way to reliably cut off the Volga and also prevented Soviet reinforcements to the south. Time was also against them, since the Soviets had (comparatively) large numbers of reinforcements to potentially bring in, whereas the Wehrmacht had very few at this point. But even a victory at Stalingrad would probably have brought limited results. There was no way to overcome the strategic lack of available manpower on the German side, nor the Soviet industry’s ability to outproduce the Axis side and keep a larger and increasingly well-equipped army in the field (ex: by this time, in Army Group B’s Area of Operation the Red Army had three times as many artillery pieces as the Germans, and even more tanks). There was also the fuel situation which could only have been solved with significantly more troops which weren’t available. Strategically, the war against the USSR was pretty much a hopeless endeavor by 1942.
I've recently traveled through Volgograd (Stalingrad) by car. Though the city had been completely rebuilt, the terrain from the old footage looks familiar. And there are lots of monuments and museums. Volgograd is worth to visit if you're in Russia.
This is probably the best, most detailed documentary on Stalingrad that I’ve ever seen. It gives an incredible insight into the struggles and suffering of both sides. Great job!
Не страдание обеех сторон, а страдания мирного населения детей женщин стариков, а их кнам некто не звал, вот и нашли свою землю за которой пришли, есть в русской поговорке такое, кто к нам с мечом придёт от меча и получит👍и воевала против советского народа почти вся Европа, я их называю фашисткие прихвастни
Interesting, informative, detailed, a really engaging presentation into an aspect of this iconic battle that I've never seen done in this amount of detail, so glad I saw it but of course I want to see more.
Chuikov said "you can find me where the most smoke and flames are", that's hard as hell, right in amongst em,idk much about leading men into battle but that's the guy I'd wanna roll with,or on second thought.......🤔
scared is probably the wrong word since they were combat hardened and had a history of sucess. But they must have become conscious that this would be their graves. The moral of the troops was between stoic acceptance and frustrated demoralization.
atirons I agree and its amazing that this might be the only ww2 documentary video that doesnt have some British guy narrating it. Its incredible that every doc is done by some Brit
you get used to random file footage and lazy repeating of previous doc"s when you run across of real research and excellent presentation you cheer, thank you for a fine presentation
this is awesome because I just listed to Dan Carlin's Ghosts of the Ostfont and he briefly mentions how Russians in Stalingrad rallied around specific buildings. This would be one of them.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 sure is. It's one of his best. He does a great job of giving you individual persons stories so it doesn't just feel like him explaining numbers and battle tactics.
@@bvyup2112 I've enjoyed the sample podcasts he has on his channel right now, but they're not really what I'm looking for. He seems to end the Supernova in the East one basically AT Pearl Harbor so I wasn't able to see how he handles the actual conflict itself and that's what would convince me. I give a lot of money to different channels via patreon, Twitch, etc so I've become stingy on paying for more content, if that makes any sense. Btw, if you like that sort of stuff, give "WW2 Podcast" a go on Spotify and YT if you haven't heard of them already. It's just one bloke but he has different historians and authors on every episode that basically talk about their upcoming books or specializations. I particularly enjoyed his episode on Pagani and another guy whose name escapes me atm, they were British soldiers left behind in Burma that formed a resistance. It's an amazing story I hadn't heard before and it's absolutely free - just an aside.
Oh god damn, this is exactly what I asked for in a comment weeks ago. Absolutely awesome to see this pop up! Now please, do one on Pavlov's House! These are excellent
@Wayde Varney "Heroes" ?? They killed millions of innocent civilians. Not all German soldiers, but a lot of them. The SS GRUPPEN were no soldiers, they were sadists without any military honour.
"heroes" "soviets" choose one I don't know how you see women and children being taken into fields and shot for being a different race or for having more money than someone else as an act of heroism. That's disgusting.
My kudos and eternal gratitude to whoever is putting this series on Stalingrad together. The tactical perspective is almost never analyzed in run-of-the -mill military documentaries, which makes this an invaluable jewel for military history aficionados like myself. It is, after all, at the tactical level that abstract strategic decisions are translated into the tragedy and horror of military operations.
Awesome content of 3D and video animations are 5 STARS and thanks for adding to details of world history that would have otherwise perhaps not been developed. One would hope that in 200 years, historians look at these presentations/ documents and details here and be grateful for what your production team has done...April 2019
It’s not like 6th Army or Army Group B could have done much about Operation Uranus. I don’t know if they really didn’t take notice, but in any case, they had no reserves in any sufficient quantities to stop the Soviet Attack. Operation Uranus was massive, it involved approximately 1.1 Million personnel, a little under 900 tanks 13,000 artillery pieces and 1,500 aircraft. The Initial thrust involved 3 entire Soviet Armies, and although those were smaller than German Armies (at full strength), any theoretical attempt to stop them would have required at the very least one or two Corps-sized formations to reinforce the existing defence on the Axis side, formations that simply didn’t exist. As it was, the 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army were massively depleted and tied up and the remaining formations on the Don Flank were massively overstretched on a vast line in completely coverless terrain. There was literally nothing they could do. The whole German situation after 1941 and certainly once their summer offensive stalled, was already following the arithmetic of defeat. Their objectives were unrealistic, but they also didn’t have much of an alternative. They had to seize the Caucasus to have any chance of winning and to do that they probably needed Stalingrad as well as a stable front along the Don. None of those things were realistic given the existing forces, but the alternative would have been giving up on the Invasion altogether. The Wehrmacht HAD to take these objectives and so they HAD to try, regardless of whether it was particularly achievable to do so. The Arithmetic of Defeat. Of course, they could hope that the Red Army was just as depleted as they were and might break at some point. That wasn‘t totally unrealistic from their POV. No one could realistically gauge the stability and capabilities of Stalin‘s regime, but all people assume that their system is superior and more likely to hold, and the only way to reliably test that belief is the actual war. The Germans turned out to be right in WWI when they were dealing with the post-Feudal Russian Empire; it happens that they were catastrophically wrong two decades later concerning Stalin‘s post-revolutionary dictatorship. The OKH certainly didn‘t count on the Red Army actually getting stronger in the course of 1942, but they certainly knew their own forces were barely sufficient for one major offensive by one Army Group. They really didn‘t have an alternative to trying to make that offensive work, but in the end it was still arguably doomed no matter what they did.
The map at 0:51 underplays the German advances to the Caucasus. They reached the Terek river and Caucasus Mountains, and during the Battle of Stalingrad the German front line was way east of the Don.
This excellent video brings back the 1970's when I played board games produced by Avalon Hill and Strategy & Tactics They covered everything from full campaigns and battles to house to house combat. The combat unit counters were the same as this video. I also read Bantam War books as a companion to employ tactical moves in these games. Keep up the great work. I'm subscribed.
Very good and comprehensive doco please bring out more on ww2 battles very interesting and if you do keep bringing these out I’m sure views will hit a million
I enjoyed this documentary VERY much. I feel that it is very well done. There is never enough time to include all details, but this gives are excellent overview, and important details. Thank you for sharing.
Imagine being imprisoned by the same government that's throwing you out onto the front lines of a war you dont want any part in. People all accross the globe were political prisoners within borderline or completely totalitarian governments and became used as cannon fodder, forced to kill forces of their governments enemy and die with that experience. It's the ultimate punishment, you get arrested as a subverter.... wether you are or not as punishment you are forced away from your family into a labor camp... Your government subjects you to harsh humiliating conditions and strip you of your humanity... and then, one day instead of going out for hard labor you are maybe given a gun, taken to a warzone, and told to run toward and try to attack the people who are assaulting the same government that's been torturing you daily for years... and then toward certain death to take aim at another human being you dont know, with the understanding that if you survive you will be killed for retreating, and then with fire coming at you from "the enemy"... and guns aimed at the back of your head by your own "countrymen", knowing you will never be going home you have to make a decision to kill someone in the name of your abusers who see you as nothing before you die, or just die.
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The story of the grain elevator is worthy of a major film.
As long as it's not made by Hollywood!
I'm not sure if there's a grain elevator in these movies, but there is "Enemy at the Gates" and "Stalingrad" for you to watch.
@@hundun5604that s just about a sniper!! Not too good tho😮. Could have been better!😢
@@Roger-lt9feIt's about Stalingrad. Let me know when you find something better.
@@Roger-lt9feenemy at the gates is one of the best english language eastern front film hands down.
Woah, the historical footage in combination with the map of troop movements and the 3D renders of the city, this video got it all!
I have watched somewhere near 10 documentaries about Stalingrad in recent months. I have always hoped for more detailed description of the action and stories from the soldiers from both sides. Then a few weeks back i found your channel with 3d models and detailed info all the way to participating units and even platoons. This is the best! KEEP IT UP! You are defining how history of battles can be presented in modern day.
I would LOVE to see this done for Arnhem.
If your interested in Stalingrad I recommend Stalingrad Battle Data channel. It's a youtube channel completely dedicated to Stalingrad.
@@coltseavers6298 Ditto. Operation Goodwood, too.
@@coltseavers6298 if you havn't already check out TIK - same kind of filthy detailed battle reports. here's Market Garden
ruclips.net/video/vTUC79o4Kmc/видео.html
@@coltseavers6298 there are excellent books on arnhem. and some good ones on goodwood too
As a person who has been through two horrid wars,I can only take my hat off to those men who lived and fought through all of this. The sheer guts required to continue fighting in a city where the dogs fled the war at night. Imagine waking up, knowing that yesterday was not your lucky day,maybe today you'll die and be released of this hopeless, ceaseless carnage. No matter what side we are on today, we cannot deny that those people had real guts.
My grandfather was killed in Stalingrad exactly 78 years ago, on August 23, 1942, in the vicinity of the factory "Barricades". He was a Senior Lieutenant, 3rd company of anti-tank rifles, 344 infantry regiment, 138 infantry division.
On August 23, 1942 the Germans reached the Volga at Latashinka, north of Stalingrad near Rynok.
That’s dope asf nigga. Unless he’s German 😂
@@markprange4386by birthday , sorry for his sacrifice all other war victims too.
This is by far one of the single best documentary series on Stalingrad I have ever seen!
this is a refreshing perspective of the Battle of Stalingrad. Very objective. It radically departs from those documentaries which see the forest but not the trees. Uraaaah!
These movies are simply a new generation! Great job. You should all get some award for this.
The first heavily diagrammatic documentary on Stalingrad I've seen. Lot's of clarity and detail here. I'm now a fan and will check out the other AUP videos.
True story. Hopefully one about Leningrad, Moscow and Berlin will come as well.
This is good for a beginner, but go to TIK’s channel and watch his series on Stalingrad for the same as this but on steroids.
As a retired us history teacher and US Army warrant officer, I must say thus was an excellent film D.C. Pali ing in detail the fall of southern Stalingrad and the failed advancement into the industrialized zone north. This was truly an educational film.
The animated map is nice, because it allows one to easily visualize the overall flow of battle.
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i watch this while having google maps open. i follow the battle looking that way. gives me an over all picture and scale.
Yes, It's jolly good, It helps paint a clearer picture of how it happened. I often wonder what kind of food truck's were operating in the Area during the skirmish.
@@begbieyabassI don't think you wanna eat off the meat wagons there!! lol
I know of Stalingrad...I heard of it as a child...I never lost interest and as a British Veteran I studied the situation in great depth.
As a rule i open Stalingrad documentaries and close them within 5-10 minutes when I start recognising paragraphs from well read books...
This used accurate military records and explained a situation most just say was a hard fought terrible fight, room to room blah blah blah....
If you want to understand a battle, you must know the units, they are men, their diminishing numbers and morale and the movements of which units and when...
Thank you for a good quality clear, really well researched, visually and verbally explanation of what happened militarily during this intense time.
Think of the cost, in material and life to the Germans because a small group of men said, We wont leave...bravery? Maybe, but as a former military man who's seen combat...its just bloody mindedness!
Peace
Charlie 🇬🇧
It was Russian maskirovka not German bloody mindedness that convinced the German leadership that the defenders are on their last reserves and that victory was within reach. Zhukov purposfully allowed only small trickles of units into the city, just enough to prevent complete collapse, while patiently building up powerfull forces on the weak Axis flanks. Once these forces were unleashed and the city encircled the faith of the 6th army and indeed of the whole Third Reich was sealed.
i am from the USA and never heard of Stalingrad until I watched the UK series World at War. We were always taught the USA won WWII on our own with the UK only supplying a token allied force and a base of operations. After I saw the Stalingrad episode at about 12 years old did` I realized why the Germans in the TV show Hogan's Heroes were in fear of the Russian front. I also learned where the UK destroyed the Italian army of 300,000 with under 500 UK casualties and 55 missing in action in North Africa.
@@ogarnogin5160 it was a huge joint effort.
The UK was at war for quite a while before the US joined the allies...its very complicated why, but they did thankfully.
Without mutual support things would have been much different.
We are still fighting The Reich now...its why the UK wants out of the EU.
They are demanding the UK hand over a significant portion of their military forces to be stationed in Europe (Ukraine area) and be under EU control...of German and French officers....
Yeah, no Brit will fight under the Germans or the French and we WILL NOT fight the Russians...
If it kicks of more than it has in the Ukraine because the EU is currently fighting the Former Soviet Forces in Europe.
More worryingly US Servicemen are in front line combat with Russian Forces in Syria as I type.
A US bombing is purported to have killed/injured up to 200 Russian military personnel when their barracks where bombed in Syria....
Dangerous things are afoot my friend.
Look up Al Jazeera news and RT English.
They are the opposite news channels and a lot more honest than ours.
Journeyman Videos are a great way to see what's happening around the world.
I'm ex military served in conflicts and was always saddened by the lack of world knowledge the US Servicemen had...some ripped into available knowledge and their understanding of the situations grew immensely as did they.
The simplest piece of look at it a different way...was the simple explanation that terrorists and insurgents in Iraq are freedom fighters...imagine if the Arab nations invaded or liberated the USA and tried to change your complete system of living and government and take your oil.
I know I'd be carrying out terrorist attacks on them, just as you and your friends would be.
Doesn't make it less dangerous, but it helps you assess your situations easier.
Stay informed my friend, when you grow your mind your life grows too.
Peace
Charlie 🇬🇧
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The World At War series used to be shown here on Saturday mornings about 6AM when I was a kid in the 70's and I'd get up early and sneak down to watch it.
The theme tune still reminds me of those days.
A great program.
Charlie 🇬🇧
@@charliemansonUK We used to watch World at War and play Risk after it was over turning the Television over to the girls. I still think of that show when I hear a Thames production intro for shows like Benny Hill I also like Danger UXB. I had a good lesson on The Battle of Britain from the late 1960s movie
Underrated channel here... thanks for the hard work
Excellent video, far better than most "Stalingrad" documentaries.
Compared to most documentaries this video was woefully short on background details such as overall situation, comparative force disposition, motivation and strategic objectives, leadership, weapons, and doctrine, etc. It's a good analysis / education material for hobbyists and experts, but a terrible presentation of Stalingrad for the average person.
@@day2148 Now TIK started his Battlestorm series about entire battle of Stalingrad with even bigger detail.
@@kaletovhangar I stopped watching him after his stupid "if you don't think Socialism = Nazism then you're a holocaust denier" video. Can't trust someone like that to assess history properly.
@@day2148 This was one of a series of videos... The others have the background and lead up to it.
Amazingly detailed. I agree with other comments in that this should be the new way history is told. Props to you guys for all the effort and research this must have taken.
The victory medal the Germans were minting for the successful capture of Stalingrad was supposed to include an impression of the Grain Elevator on it.
Best war documentary presentation ever, graphics, photos and animations are top notch !! THANK YOU
We know that any attack on the liquor store building would be stopped cold.
Many thanks, this is great work, I couldn't resist the joke.
Having worked around grain silos, it’s amazing the dust didn’t detonate
Bravo to whoever created these, I live for these documentaries
The Stalingrad series is excellent. It has given a unique view of the battle and the challenges that faced both sides. More like this please. Truly enjoyable.
Check out Korea: Twin Tunnels on this channel!
Where such presentations usually fail is, that they can't in no way present the true horror, suffering and massive dying. "35 died" -aha OK. "350 died" -aha OK. "3500 died" -aha OK.
Oh baby another Stalingrad documentary! I do love these, TIK’s series especially, and this one was just as good, if not a little less in depth, but that’s expected since well, TIK’s doing a whole series haha.
For me, this is one of the most epic battles in History
Не, самая эпичная в истории это Курская битва. Сталинградская - переломная битва в Великой Отечественной.
@@TikageKadzamawrong ! The most epic battle in history is waterloo.
@@russianthotbot6997 clearly it was the Battle of Cannae. Hannibal Barca ambushed 50,000 men. Ambushed.
Well my co.ment about Cannea was censored
I would agree but my original comment was removed so I don't even know what I said.
This documentary should do very, very well.
Refinement definitely required, but an EXCELLENT start.
What exactly needs to be refined. Pretty damn fine as it is.
Finally, a pure strategic overview of the battle on a narrated video.
Very informative with no frills, this isn't Hollywood this is real, hard to take all the detail in at first so watched it 3 times now and it's all beginning to make sense, the best documentary on Stalingrad I've seen by a long way
Well done! The most tactically detailed explanation I've seen so far
This is by far the best and most detailed understanding of the battle of Stalingrad. The graphics and such are fantastic. Stalingrad footage I’ve not seen before. Highly recommend this for anyone interested in the battle of Stalingrad. Gives a fresh new perspective of the overall battlefield and battles for the grain elevator. Love to see them cover the Battle for Arnhem in the format.
This is the clearest documentary on military history i have seen yet, with exemplary map animation and use of original combat footage. I also enjoyed the illustrations of military science. Very nice!
The animated map for this series is amazing. Would love to be able to virtually explore these locations
there's a good videogame calle Red Orchestra2:battle of Stalingrad, that takes place in and around the city with detailed historic maps of each locations, notably the grain elevator.
@@benoisette9418 I wish it was on mobile!
Look Hans, the grain elevator would provide great fire control and battlefield observation!!!
Hans: No way I'm afraid of heights....schenell schenell!!
We almost don't deserve the quality of this doc.
Yoooo you've been here for as long as me!
This whole series has been amazing thanks for it
i cant agree more.
This entire series makes so much of this chaos makes sense.....very well done.
Oh wow. My grandfather was a soviet marine, and this battle seems to be his first engagement. He was 19 at the time. He hardly ever spoke of the War, but he mentioned a few times how the first days were the toughest all time, and how just a handful of them make it.
He also mentioned how proud they were of their black uniform, and what they actually rioted, refusing to wear regular infantry gear.
After watching this, those scares stories makes so much more sense. And much more chilling.
The Germans actually outnumbered the Soviet Defenders when they first entered Stalingrad and this only changed later on when the 62nd Army was reinforced. Without the very timely crossing of the 13th Guards Rifle Division to reinforce Chuikov’s Centre, the city likely would have fallen at this stage.
However, it isn’t like the Germans really had any alternative to attempting to take the city, given the overall strategic situation, short of simply calling off their strategic offensive altogether.
6th Army was already severely depleted by the fighting along the Don and on the approach to Stalingrad, and the supply situation was atrocious. A further advance into enemy territory would have worsened this and probably been stalled altogether by a lack of fuel. Taking Stalingrad was the only way to reliably cut off the Volga and also prevented Soviet reinforcements to the south.
Time was also against them, since the Soviets had (comparatively) large numbers of reinforcements to potentially bring in, whereas the Wehrmacht had very few at this point.
But even a victory at Stalingrad would probably have brought limited results. There was no way to overcome the strategic lack of available manpower on the German side, nor the Soviet industry’s ability to outproduce the Axis side and keep a larger and increasingly well-equipped army in the field (ex: by this time, in Army Group B’s Area of Operation the Red Army had three times as many artillery pieces as the Germans, and even more tanks). There was also the fuel situation which could only have been solved with significantly more troops which weren’t available. Strategically, the war against the USSR was pretty much a hopeless endeavor by 1942.
I've recently traveled through Volgograd (Stalingrad) by car. Though the city had been completely rebuilt, the terrain from the old footage looks familiar. And there are lots of monuments and museums. Volgograd is worth to visit if you're in Russia.
I wish. They'd arrest me as a western spy
Thank you 👍🙏👍💯🙏☺️
@@mu0FFpu0FFdon't be stupid and naive #!!👊👎😡🤬😠#!!! ☝️
Aye 4yr ago, couldn't do that now, you would be under scrutiny/suspicion 😅🤬✒️✒️
Is the fountain / statue of the children playing still there. It must have been amazing vusiti g the city.
This is a fantastic presentation. Thanks for bringing this battle to a new level of understanding.
This is probably the best, most detailed documentary on Stalingrad that I’ve ever seen. It gives an incredible insight into the struggles and suffering of both sides. Great job!
Не страдание обеех сторон, а страдания мирного населения детей женщин стариков, а их кнам некто не звал, вот и нашли свою землю за которой пришли, есть в русской поговорке такое, кто к нам с мечом придёт от меча и получит👍и воевала против советского народа почти вся Европа, я их называю фашисткие прихвастни
Wow. I've just discovered this channel. Thanks for making a quality vid.
Wow this is 1 of best researched and presented docs I have seen.
My grandad was an air raid warden and was nowhere near Stalingrad, fortunately.
Interesting, informative, detailed, a really engaging presentation into an aspect of this iconic battle that I've never seen done in this amount of detail, so glad I saw it but of course I want to see more.
Chuikov said "you can find me where the most smoke and flames are", that's hard as hell, right in amongst em,idk much about leading men into battle but that's the guy I'd wanna roll with,or on second thought.......🤔
A terrific series of videos on this subject! Very informative.
Hey look it's my favorite map in Red Orchestra 2
never really like it tbh
BRIDGES
@@constantinexi6489 that's my least favorite map.
seriously ? worst map. (it is very hard to attack)
Moonbear6420 because you’re a spineless coward
Once I got over the fact that your not a British 60 year old man dryly explaining this, I thought it was great!
Excellent video!!!!
Glad you liked it!
There was a good reason why the words " eastern front" scared the men of Hitler's army
Taking on Russia is a fools game, tried before
scared is probably the wrong word since they were combat hardened and had a history of sucess. But they must have become conscious that this would be their graves. The moral of the troops was between stoic acceptance and frustrated demoralization.
They knew that being sent to the Eastern front 😮was like being sent to hell 🤬#!! And the hellish meatgrinder#!!! 😮☝️🤬😡😠☝️👊👎🤕😡
Definitely AWARD WORTHY!!!!! Unique, Detailed, Informative, Writing is Outstanding!
atirons I agree and its amazing that this might be the only ww2 documentary video that doesnt have some British guy narrating it. Its incredible that every doc is done by some Brit
These documentaries should be on dvd for posterity, your work is OUTSTANDING !!
you get used to random file footage and lazy repeating of previous doc"s when you run across of real research and excellent presentation you cheer, thank you for a fine presentation
this is awesome because I just listed to Dan Carlin's Ghosts of the Ostfont and he briefly mentions how Russians in Stalingrad rallied around specific buildings. This would be one of them.
@@bvyup2112 It worth the 6 bucks?
@@fuzzydunlop7928 sure is. It's one of his best.
He does a great job of giving you individual persons stories so it doesn't just feel like him explaining numbers and battle tactics.
@@bvyup2112 I've enjoyed the sample podcasts he has on his channel right now, but they're not really what I'm looking for. He seems to end the Supernova in the East one basically AT Pearl Harbor so I wasn't able to see how he handles the actual conflict itself and that's what would convince me. I give a lot of money to different channels via patreon, Twitch, etc so I've become stingy on paying for more content, if that makes any sense.
Btw, if you like that sort of stuff, give "WW2 Podcast" a go on Spotify and YT if you haven't heard of them already. It's just one bloke but he has different historians and authors on every episode that basically talk about their upcoming books or specializations. I particularly enjoyed his episode on Pagani and another guy whose name escapes me atm, they were British soldiers left behind in Burma that formed a resistance. It's an amazing story I hadn't heard before and it's absolutely free - just an aside.
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Love the channel
Love the video! the 3D animations are a really nice touch that other channels don't do. You guys gotta do more of this...its the future.
Imagine actually surviving that battle.
Wasn't much of a chance. 1.2 million Germans fought at Stalingrad. 5,000 returned to Germany.
Daniel Sobol more survived though, even in a battle like that most of the soldiers were wounded or captured rather than killed
@@jesspayne5548 out of 91 000 prisoners taken at stalingrad, only 5000 returned to germany alive
Imagine if the Germans actually knew how to flank in the beginning of the battle.
That was about the most you could ask for with Stalingrad, really. No one really won it- there were just people who survived it.
Very well put together. Excellent.
Best Stalingrad video on YT
Outstanding content.Thank you.
Wow - what a project. This is brilliant.
There are so many valuable lessons to be learned from this pivotal battle that changed the course of history.
Best and very detailed documentary with 3D display in these epic battle
24:56 This is in Stalingrad South. --The courtyard of the apartment building west of Kozlovskaya & Barrikadnaya. Still there in 2021.
This is it! SUPERB doc, great research, fantastic detail. Well done to the AUP team!
So glad to find your channel, keep up the content, can't get enough of the documentaries on the Eastern Front. 🇬🇧
Hell yeah! Been waiting for this!
This is a great series!
Please do the battle of Karkov!
Oh god damn, this is exactly what I asked for in a comment weeks ago. Absolutely awesome to see this pop up! Now please, do one on Pavlov's House! These are excellent
This is a fantastic documentary. Well done.
Couldn't wait for this last film!
STALINGRAD - turning point of WW II.
GLORY to the Soviet Heroes ! ❤😪
@rustybuttpate better than nazis
@Wayde Varney
"Heroes" ??
They killed millions of innocent civilians.
Not all German soldiers, but a lot of them.
The SS GRUPPEN were no soldiers, they were sadists without any military honour.
"heroes"
"soviets"
choose one
I don't know how you see women and children being taken into fields and shot for being a different race or for having more money than someone else as an act of heroism. That's disgusting.
Wow that was great! Thank you very much!
My kudos and eternal gratitude to whoever is putting this series on Stalingrad together. The tactical perspective is almost never analyzed in run-of-the -mill military documentaries, which makes this an invaluable jewel for military history aficionados like myself. It is, after all, at the tactical level that abstract strategic decisions are translated into the tragedy and horror of military operations.
Excellent video
Excellent series
Thanks 🙏
Awesome content of 3D and video animations are 5 STARS and thanks for adding to details of world history that would have otherwise perhaps not been developed. One would hope that in 200 years, historians look at these presentations/ documents and details here and be grateful for what your production team has done...April 2019
This is how military strategy docs SHOULD look.
Yeah with a really annoying female narrator - or computer narrator .
Very interesting. Very detailed too. Thank you.
This level of detail and clear maps and time lne are excellent.
It’s not like 6th Army or Army Group B could have done much about Operation Uranus. I don’t know if they really didn’t take notice, but in any case, they had no reserves in any sufficient quantities to stop the Soviet Attack.
Operation Uranus was massive, it involved approximately 1.1 Million personnel, a little under 900 tanks
13,000 artillery pieces and 1,500 aircraft.
The Initial thrust involved 3 entire Soviet Armies, and although those were smaller than German Armies (at full strength), any theoretical attempt to stop them would have required at the very least one or two Corps-sized formations to reinforce the existing defence on the Axis side, formations that simply didn’t exist.
As it was, the 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army were massively depleted and tied up and the remaining formations on the Don Flank were massively overstretched on a vast line in completely coverless terrain. There was literally nothing they could do.
The whole German situation after 1941 and certainly once their summer offensive stalled, was already following the arithmetic of defeat. Their objectives were unrealistic, but they also didn’t have much of an alternative. They had to seize the Caucasus to have any chance of winning and to do that they probably needed Stalingrad as well as a stable front along the Don. None of those things were realistic given the existing forces, but the alternative would have been giving up on the Invasion altogether.
The Wehrmacht HAD to take these objectives and so they HAD to try, regardless of whether it was particularly achievable to do so. The Arithmetic of Defeat.
Of course, they could hope that the Red Army was just as depleted as they were and might break at some point. That wasn‘t totally unrealistic from their POV. No one could realistically gauge the stability and capabilities of Stalin‘s regime, but all people assume that their system is superior and more likely to hold, and the only way to reliably test that belief is the actual war. The Germans turned out to be right in WWI when they were dealing with the post-Feudal Russian Empire; it happens that they were catastrophically wrong two decades later concerning Stalin‘s post-revolutionary dictatorship.
The OKH certainly didn‘t count on the Red Army actually getting stronger in the course of 1942, but they certainly knew their own forces were barely sufficient for one major offensive by one Army Group. They really didn‘t have an alternative to trying to make that offensive work, but in the end it was still arguably doomed no matter what they did.
Incredibly detailed information.
Thanks and you earned a sub
The map at 0:51 underplays the German advances to the Caucasus. They reached the Terek river and Caucasus Mountains, and during the Battle of Stalingrad the German front line was way east of the Don.
This excellent video brings back the 1970's when I played board games produced by Avalon Hill and Strategy & Tactics They covered everything from full campaigns and battles to house to house combat. The combat unit counters were the same as this video. I also read Bantam War books as a companion to employ tactical moves in these games. Keep up the great work. I'm subscribed.
for so long i wanted to get this story. it was such a great myth! vry thanks guys! great work!
Amazing video series. I hope to see more!!!
Amazing video, thanks!
I remember Dan Carlin mentioning the Grain Elevator in Ghosts of the Ostfront. This is an hour. Thank you.
Very good and comprehensive doco please bring out more on ww2 battles very interesting and if you do keep bringing these out I’m sure views will hit a million
im getting flashbacks from red orchestra
Hold D to drain their tickets
No Grain, no Pain
ptsd simulator, man. such a good game.
kieran thomas what a great map. Maybe not as good as bridges or apartments but still good
@@bobsagget823 There seem to be 43 people who do. so rephrasing "You don't care"
Superior work
Great video.
I enjoyed this documentary VERY much. I feel that it is very well done. There is never enough time to include all details, but this gives are excellent overview, and important details. Thank you for sharing.
Let us remember all the victims of that war so that a new one does not break out.
Imagine being imprisoned by the same government that's throwing you out onto the front lines of a war you dont want any part in. People all accross the globe were political prisoners within borderline or completely totalitarian governments and became used as cannon fodder, forced to kill forces of their governments enemy and die with that experience. It's the ultimate punishment, you get arrested as a subverter.... wether you are or not as punishment you are forced away from your family into a labor camp... Your government subjects you to harsh humiliating conditions and strip you of your humanity... and then, one day instead of going out for hard labor you are maybe given a gun, taken to a warzone, and told to run toward and try to attack the people who are assaulting the same government that's been torturing you daily for years... and then toward certain death to take aim at another human being you dont know, with the understanding that if you survive you will be killed for retreating, and then with fire coming at you from "the enemy"... and guns aimed at the back of your head by your own "countrymen", knowing you will never be going home you have to make a decision to kill someone in the name of your abusers who see you as nothing before you die, or just die.
By victims, I hope you do not include Germans
@@dannymckenzie8329 Absurd exaggerations and false equivalency, nice try asshole
@@dannymckenzie8329 found the nazi.
Excellent work. More, please.
Superbly done. Bravo!
The Eastern Front in ww2 was a brutal barbaric war. These U.S Army docs are really good I hope they make more!
Unbelievable hardships. We are a very lucky generation.
The way things are looking don't be so sure if your fighting age..fingers crossed.
How did I _just_ find this channel?? At least now I have a bunch of new content to look forward to!
Amazing docos guys. Thanks for sharing!
10:27 A neighborhood by the El Shanka. The gully shown at 10:30 is at 48.6824°N, 044.468°E.
So many scenes I've ever never seen before. Guess, precious.