The Horrific Reality Of The Battle Of Stalingrad | Battles Won & Lost | War Stories
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- In 1944, Monte Cassino was all that stood in the way of the Allied advance on Rome. But was the persistent bombing of the historic Benedictine monastery really necessary, having caused "the greatest cultural loss of the war."
Also in this episode of Battles Won & Lost, we explore some more decisive battle of WWII including, The Battle of Stalingrad, The Anzio Landing and The Battle of Britain.
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00:00 - Start
01:38 - The Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
11:20 - The Battle of Singapore (1942)
20:47 - The Anzio Landing (1944)
28:41 - The Battle of Monte Casino (1944)
35:14 - The Battle of the Philippine Sea (1944)
41:18 - The Battle of Britain (1940) #warstories Discover the past on History Hit with ad-free exclusive podcasts and documentaries released weekly presented by world renowned historians Dan Snow, Suzannah Lipscomb, Matt Lewis and more. Get 50% off your first 3 months with code WARSTORIES bit.ly/3rc7nqm
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Paulus wasn't a 'von'
Comparing this channel to Netflix just ruined this channel for me. thanks a lot.
Netflix is “woke” AF. Now I can’t help but think that this channel presents historic events from a “woke” perspective. 😕
Click bait channel, give these a pass. A lot of much better channels on youtube to watch.
Or....
@Ranger Jones
Watch these, with actual footage and testimonials from those who were on the ground, with a skeptical eye.
Clickbait title. Unsub.
The battle of Stalingrad must be the most brutal battle in human military history. I can’t think of a battle that was more bloody and gruesome. No German wanted too be sent too Stalingrad or the Eastern front for that matter. It’s like Schindlers list when he tells the two concentration camp guards not listening too him “ congratulations men you’ll both be in Russia by the end of the month” both soldiers instantly woke up and did exactly as he told them. That’s how brutal Stalingrad was. If I was a German soldier I would of done anything to stay away from the Eastern Front, especially Stalingrad. To be sent too serve in Western Europe must of been a gift.
You can't think of a worse battle? I ask myself, Cannae?
What about being a pilot serving at the Eastern Front?
Also during the first six months of the war at the Eastern front, when the nazis were still winning big victories at that point, many Germans were willing to go to the Eastern Front then. It was only AFTER Stalingrad that people were afraid of being send to the Eastern Front
@@RubbittTheBruise at least that battle was over in 1 day, modern day battles can drag on for months
The Falaise Gap was pretty gruesome for the Germans trying to escape.
Using 'Stalingrad' in the title as click bait for British defeats in the Pacific and Middle East.
All countries have had victories and defeats. Britain has had way more victories than defeats.
Stalingrad was the first chapter of this video. So, you're using your comment as clickbait for German defeats in Italy?
Yeah, should just uploaded the stalingrad part.
Idk it could just be me but the guys moving the little circle pieces on the map are absolutely killing me. Neither one of them says a word but they just move a piece somewhere then smile at each other
I hate it
5:35 as a Northern albertan who knows his fair bit about cold, I could not imagine fighting a battle in -40 c
one of the best documentaries I watched.
Where was the Malays regiment that was led by LT Adnan Saidi in the last battle which the Malays Regiment fought to the last?
The Malay Regiment was severely outnumbered and undersupplied, but Adnan was able to motivate his troops to put up fierce resistance, even resorting to hand-to-hand combat when their ammunition ran out. At the end of the battle, Adnan and the other surviving troops refused to surrender. (American writer rewrites Lieutenant Adnan's battle of Bukit Chandu as badass story)
The Germans did not retreat from Montecassino because they were forced by the attackers. They retreated because they were ordered to retreat by the High command. They were in danger to be encircled due to the frontline collapse elsewhere (many km away from Montecassino).
So although they were in full control of the mountain, they voluntarily abandoned it for a planned retreat of the whole Army defensive line north of Rome. The mountain was held by the elite parachute division nicknamed "green devils".
The Germans were the baddest MFers ever to live in that generation. The reason we allies won is because of nbers that's why
Nice video with clear explaining of several wars plans in several different situations
saw multiple documentaries on stalingrad...but this was just the best.
WOW where do you get these videos thanks for this I am a history person.
Love this video! WITH CC! I have seen it many times and each time think you should have our "players" wear the hat of the Country they are representing ... Five-star Generals?
Impressive
Now if it were the American high command naming a tough fight operation Uranus as in “Uranus we’re ceding this city” that would’ve been gold
Montecassino was not the only such destruction. The city of Caen just after D. day was another.
Referring to Paulus as “Von” reveals the academic character of this production.
An unbelievable mistake undermining an otherwise good documentary
In retrospect, destroying the abbey just made things so much worse. Arguably it dragged the battle out longer than necessary.
Agreed.
How? I can’t imagine how so.. because of what that guy said? That somehow turning it into rubble gave it better defensive properties? That’s nonsensical
no it really doesn't broken and destroyed buildings break up sight lines its easy to spot a sniper in a window but now try doing the same thing while under fire and in a city of twisted metal with hideaways and holes for snipers it's a snipers dream
Exactly it turned the who place into a snipers and machine gun crews dream. A mound of rubble which gave the German snipers and machine gunners textbook positions to take out the enemy aka our forces.
@@Psychonaut165 You obviously are very arrogant and have no understanding of city fighting.
What does Singapore have to do with stalingrad
See the history of war .
Both start with S.
Too damn many ads.
AdBlock.
It's so easy to watch it without any ads..
@@AkronAsylum How, what do I have to buy?
@@AkronAsylum they are going to fix it one day , because everyone keeps posting about it.
@@frankmc5021 Sorry, you're right!
The Germans were defeated at Stalingrad because the British had cracked the Enigma. The Germans sent all sensitive communications through Enigma. in the summer of 1941. Once Enigma was cracked, it was like having a god's eye view of the battlefield. It is no surprise that the Germans started losing every major battle after shortly after summer of 1941. The allies knew when and where to strike or defend at the most crucial point in every battle. The allies knew where every German unit was, what their strength was, and what their intentions were. Yes, the allies may have still won the war without cracking Enigma, but it would have been a far longer and bloodier war.
And over 26 million dead Russian is totally insignificant
@@TheVekize YES IT IS ! THEY DESERVED IT !
@@vedranr.glavina7667 Ok, Glavonja
Yes it’s like the German U boat film Das Boot when the U boat captain quoted “ something isn’t right, how do they know where we’re going too attack?” Truth is the Enigma code had been cracked so the Royal Navy knew exactly where they were going too attack and when so our destroyers would lay in wait too take them out. Little did the U boat captains and German Naval commanders know we had their code cracked. They might as well stood and shouted out with a megaphone where they was going too be.
@@TheVekize no one has ever denied the Russians made a massive contribution in WW2. In fact the outcome of WW2 was decided in Russia not Europe.
You can not watch Documentaries on YT anymore. Constantly being interrupted with ads…. 😡
What about from the Soviet perspective? Sad that we never see that, considering they were the ones heroically defending. We always see the perspective only of the aggressor, and in such a way to whitewash the aggression by focussing on individuals.
Well, they were originally on the side of the Germans, y’know. Much of Europe was more terrified of the
Russians than they were of the Nazis. They still are, so there must be many reasons for this, beyond western comprehension. I should say, prior to western comprehension pre-2020, since we too, are now, evil tyrannical authoritarians.
"Soviet storm", try that one, it is on yt
Soviet storm is an amazing series. One thing I’ve found in my research is that the aftermath of WW2 really dictated the kind of information we have today.
Nazis documented EVERYTHING and when they were conquered all that documentation became known as it fell into the hands of the conquerors.
The Soviet’s were never conquered, and as the iron curtain went up and US / Soviet relations deteriorated information became obscured, and repressed. What was released was biased and propagated. Even published journals had to go through the Soviet censors.
Dado and Luis are right. That is a very good doc. It’s almost like a movie!
😂😂😂
It appears documented in this movie that the germans did not use the monastery in reverence for the historic buildingcomplex of Monte Cassino. So it is an intelligence failure and then a bombing scandal and a war crime, but an allied one. It appears to have been called for by a british commanding officer and to me, it is a very good question why he was authorized to ask for it and who actually approved it.
The bombing was requested by a British CO...
@@redaug4212 Apparently one who thought there were soldiers in the monastery because there were soldiers around it, so the intelligence failure point stands.
@@digilyd Right, but I just find it weird why you would call it an American war crime in particular when it was ordered by British commanders.
@@redaug4212 That is actually a good point, I'll see if I can correct it, thank you!
Who tf cares. It's a building. People were being slaughtered every second.
My Grandfathers brother was killed in action at Anzio. I believe Roger Waters's of Pink Floyd, his Father was also killed there.
He was killed mercilessly there. I know it.
Great Video , so impress from kamakazi Attacks of Japanese .Nothing Win From WW11 But only Destructions .
3:43 lol
If one goes today to Montecassino, the abbey can be seen for kilometres around. This would have also been seen by Allied troops attacking who would have been asking why this building was still standing. Therefore I believe that the decision to destroy it was made in order to placate the feelings of the troops on the ground. The abby itself is dominated by a hill which was the brunt of most of the attacks in 1944. The Moroccans broke through some 25km to the west and once that had happened, the German paratroopers pulled out in order not to be outflanked and the Poles were able to capture Montecassino unopposed.
Brave Germans. Fought always outnumbered
Interesting content but the Maps need to have Labels to make it possible to follow the action.
RIP to that dead russian @7.37
（I’ve never seen anyone do it better
Good name for that particular counterattack 😂
No!
The number one reason why I opt for: [ Don't recommend channel ] on my You Tube home page is the background music fluff in videos. There should be a warning in the title whenever it's a fluffed up documentary.
3:44 Operation Uranus, LMAO. Was there an Operation Mike Hunt as well?
"Enemy at the Gates" is a great depiction of the Battle of Stalingrad.
I agree , for a movie it was more of a documentary in many ways. It is littered with historical facts. Great movie. Really conveys the misery of the battle.
In no case. Nice movie but things were much worse for everyone.
@@nikosk3080 Agreed. Intelligent people understand that no movie, documentary, novel, etc. can convey the total reality of any historical event.
Yes, a pretty good "Hollywood movie", but not even close to actual combat conditions
that existed.
Enemy at the gates is the worst kind of propaganda there is. And it’s an awful film
Go Navy !!! Philadelphia USA
rather sketchy. The loss of aircrew was more important than the loss of aircraft. It took much longer to produce a capable and skilled pilot than an airplane. Also, as the battle took place over British territory, Downed allied pilots who survived unscathed could be back in the skies the same day, whereas German pilots who survived shooting down invariably became POW's and were lost to Germany for the war..
Well yes Definitely. But unfortunately for the aircrew, loosing an aircraft USUALLY means loosing an aircrew as well
Less than 2 min. in and a second ad started.
The greatest army of maneuver in history placed in a sewer fight …… Stalingrad was a prayer answered for Stalin .
They did it to themselves, didn't foresee this happening after bombing Stalingrad to rubble
@@NoXeB1995 after Italy saved Russia in the initial part of the invasion it only took one mistake to reverse the war , Stalingrad was that mistake .
😂 Did he just say maneuvering in his rear 😅😅😅
33:45 the french homeboy says *_and thats why we managed to Destroy them_* and he sounds just like some dam batman villain.
"The Real Stalingrad Story:: WWIIs Most Brutal Battle " after that you start talking about your battles that pale next to Stalingrad
6min11 - the 6th Army Soldiers hat 120 grams bread (true), and then they burned all the rest of their resources, food... ridiculous. They destroyed their tanks (!), vehicles...??? Only those, which are useless wrecks perhaps.
They burnt everything to keep themselves warm.They ate horses & dead soldiers to cope up their hunger as the winter was too cold ,all supplies were cut & their supplies replinished.
Destroying the monastery makes no sense at all
U guys forgot leftanan Adnan
The REAL Stalingrad story? The name is Paulus, NOT Von Paulus. On 23 august 1942 the 6th army entered Stalingrad and did not yet reached the Volga. 10 of january: images without snow. The 'parade' of Germans in Moskou was in July 1943, not after the surrender of the 6th army.
Всё-таки уточнение. "Парад побежденных" в Москве состоялся 17.07.1944. Это были пленные, взятые в Белоруссии, в ходе наступательной операции Красной армии "Багратион"
This is ridiculous, barely anything about stalingrad! Smh
I unsubbed when they deleted my comment. 😡
OPPS to late. What is your point at this time and date.
It’s a shame that the good guys lost the war!
The battle for Hungary was quite bad, too.... But it is less welll-known.
10 minutes, starting at 28:45 out of a 50 minute video was actually about Monte Cassino. The battle was useless, as was, in my opinion the entire Italian campaign, same with Sicily. All part of Churchill's Soft Underbelly of Europe plan. No army including in WW2 has ever invaded northern Europe(Germany) through Sicily and Italy. At the end of WW2 the allies were still fighting in the mountains of Italy, the allies never got to Austria, much less Germany by this route, the Alps were to defensible. There were no strategic victories in Sicily or Italy as viewed as a whole in the effort to defeat Germany other than casualties and German costs and efforts to supply outlaying areas. Churchill as well as most of the U K and France were so afraid of Germany and a repeat of Verdun, and the Somme of WW1 that they would not confront the German army directly, they put that onus on Russia. Unfortunately, this was the only way to defeat Germany. It is amazing in retrospect, The UK and France were intimidated by the country that lost WW1. They were timid in their victory while Germany was emboldened by their defeat. The mighty French Army and Navy were defeated in 6 weeks, with hardly any fighting, they simply gave up. France had more tanks, and better tanks than Germany at that time, the Char B was a better tank than the German Mark1 and Mark 2 in use at the time. France had a larger Army(119 divisions) than Germany(100 divisions), With Men and material from the UK, the allies of the time outnumbered and were better equipped than the Germans. The difference was the willingness to fight. The UK and France declared war on Germany in Sept. 1939, then did nothing for over a year, it is now called the "Phony War". The battles around the edges of German held territories was a waste other than publicity. The defeat of the Germans in Africa, Sicily and most of Italy had little bearing of the defeat of Germany as a country. From the very start, Germany would have to be defeated in Germany.
Do you not think the diversion of Axis resources to south (Sicily, Italy, possibly N. Africa) had any bearing on the outcome of D-Day and beyond?
@@Bubba-zu6yr Umm.. the Roman’s invaded Germany through northern Italy 😅
That’s called hindsight mate. It’s all good looking back saying this and that, unfortunately no one had a crystal ball in WW2.
Rergarding Singapore! General Percival had three time the soldiers to fight the Japanese bu chose to surrender causing thousands to die on the road to Batam and others later on! He was a coward
Ho hum. Only talked about stalingrad for 2 minutes
"The Real Stalingrad Story"??? I've never heard about a fake one...
Right.lol.
The map segments are ridiculously useless.
Oh how the hymn books have changed, LOL.
Hi,,I stand i aboute stalingrad But i see a lot of japanish/UK battle,,,What that whit stalingrad ????
NO
Can't watch because of the endless background music
Not at all, it could have been bypassed. As for being used as an arty post, well it still was after the bombing an all they did was provide more cover for the Fallschimjager's.
Actually they couldn't.
The monastery dominated any access into the Liri valley, and the roads leading north to Rome. When you look at the maps from that timeperiode, you'll see that there is only two roads, route 6 and 7, between the coast and the Abruzzi mountain range.
The destruction of the abbey was indeed a mistake, no doubt about it. Before the bombing, although the Germans didn't occupy the abbey itself, they had several OP's stationed on the hill itself, which wrought havoc on the Allies. Every attempt to cross the Garigliano river were meet with accurate and deadly shell fire.
This lead the Allies to think, wrongly, that the Germans had already established a stronghold on the hill.
@@wolfu597 I was not the one to postulate that, I either read it in Tim Cooks book , or perhaps Mark Zuehlke book the Liri Valley?
German ace of of of the ww2
Stalingrad just for the ads, reminding me, false promises
They Australian Troops though
Countries that start war are gamblers.That is the way I see it.
Can someone explain to me why no atomic bomb was used in Europe? Why japanese?
a sigaret makes your cool
first Stalingrad then Kursk in July "" 43>>> the end. Twenty some months later (( 20 )) the Sovs were in Berlin
“Every human being who loves freedom owes to the Red Army more than he will be able to pay in a lifetime!”
Ernest Hemingway
I dont think those women pushing those little pieces around with those sticks get enough credit. Can we get atleast a week to praise those broads.
Yes it was a good judgement to take the Abby out and flatten it,,, but it was not the key to the line,,,the whole line,ran from coast to coast,,, but the Abby had some of the german army's best snipers in it,,,it also had,,4,,,,155,mlm,,,guns,,,lobbing shells down on the u.s.a,,,forces,,the free french forces,, and the British,,,,,but it was not the key , the key to attacking a line is the center mass your big assault there,,,then both flanks,,, and dropping Paras,,, behind the line to take out railway lines,,,power junctions,,then advance the Paras up to the line so you cut off there lines of supply and especially escape
2 many commercials, its unwatchable
Join the PC ruling class. Adblockers mean NO internet AD BS EVER !!!
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Oh or here's one, as long as wer speaking in the hypothetical, what if America entered the war on the side of Germany?
Or just made treaties w the Reich and only attacked the Japanese? What then?
Germany declared war on the US right after Pearl Harbor
In general, the Western Allies hoped that Germany would turn against the Soviet Union. American banks continued to finance Germany throughout the war. The Munich treaty of 1938 aimed to turn Germany eastward.
Yes, sure..but the Italians were afraid they had to give back Tirol and get the Vatican back again in return. So they did what they do best, exacerbate things 😆
The truth this didn't tell was the only people in Monte cassino were the monks and the men, women and children of town of Monte Casino. The allies never took the time to find out the truth. It was probably one of the biggest cases of bombing the people who were counting on being saved by the allies being killed by them including children. Was it a failure of intelligence. Or the fog of war. Or just maybe a failure of the high command to find out the facts of the situation. But in any case it gave the Germans a great defensive situation to inflict a high number of casualties on the attacking force. None the less it was a great mistake of the war.
I will
Source? You’re claiming there were only civilians there when by all accounts im aware of that’s just simply not true
Yeh the R.A.F turned Monte Cassino into a snipers and machine gun crews dream. They couldn’t of wished for better. Ironic how it was the Polish who eventually took Monte Cassino.
The British in December 1944, months after the expulsion of the Germans by the Greek rebels, bombed Athens and Piraeus for a month. Neither the Italians nor the Germans bombed Athens and Piraeus. Also none of them set up machine guns and mortars on the Acropolis. The English "allies" did both.
CASSINO... WRITTEN WITH TWO S!!!
Americans write it with one S...
Unless you're German then it's Caßino
No house of cards but God's House
And “two S” is WRITTEN AS TWO S’s!
What a dumb question.
Nazi's biggest mistake: Stalingrad
The biggest mistake of the Nazis is their existence.
the Japanese sank the Prince of Wales.
Anyone find this ironic in light of current events?
***********CLICK BAIT ************
Precious little about Stalingrad.
All they did was give the Germans more cover
91000 were taken POW at Stalingrade? In Roumanian museum of Bukarest I found the number of 100 000 Roumanian Solders taken prisoners at Stalingrade. But there were also Hungurians, Poles (in German uniformes), Italians, Finns...etc etc...for years I was told there were 360 000 prisoners. So where is the truth? And home many "real Germans" have surrendered? In 1955 Adenauer got back home some 15 ooo of them.
91000 were just the Germans
Paulus wasn't a Von
His wife was of Romanian royalty which did indeed bequeath von Paulus that right if he chose to use it.
@@toffanful he still wasn’t a “von.”
Lol.. in 1942, a single GE searchlight was $60,000.00. 1 Searchlight. That is equivalent to €800,000.00 in current terms. GE delivered, the State paid. Multiply that by billions of items.
War is, was & always will be about profit. The rest is just propaganda/kidding people. Every bang, someone makes a buck.
Kanye is right!
Isnt Pavlov House a fake story ?
The Title will preclude me from bothering to watch this Video. But, do not despair, you got a comment. No, Stalingrad was not alone in the levels of brutality exhibited, in that Battle, as compared to other Battles, in the war.
HARDLY THE EEAL STORY.
Calling a war the greatest war makes no sense to me. Whats great about it? I'd call it the worst war.
No that was a war crime 👎🇩🇰
People back then fought for nationalism. Today we fight for a paycheck
🙄45🎅
I hope Earth vanishes by a asteroid or a big comet. Then everything will be fine. No war, no pain as everyone and everything will be wiped out.
And here again I keep hearing about russians only. What about other nations who fought under soviet union? Ukrainians? Belorussians? Tens of other ethnities from the far east of the soviet union? No, only russians.
This is not about Stalingrad, misleading title; typical Brit trick! Switch and bait. Slice and dice.
If it was for united States Russia would be speaking German today
Man this was nothing compared to D-Day. Lol
@@davidnoelfranks1124 Now ya know. Toy soldier. Lol
Stalingrad is more worse. Millions died.
@@goldenarctictern143 Idk. I was in Quang Trang in 76. Pretty rough.
All for nothing Europe isn't even European anymore
Boring -VERY boring