It always entertains me when people think gaming or using a sim of some type somehow replicates true history. Even now, 70+ years forward of the war as a whole, none of us really understand what it was like to have been a soldier, a member of a resistance group or even a civilian during that time period. We simply will never fully comprehend.
Yeah. The overwhelming vastness of the pain, determination and sacrifice is just beyond comprehension. Otoh, one does what one has to in order to survive whatever situation one is in or one dies. And plenty took the dieing route for sure.
I cannot imagine how human beings can do this to each other. I could not fathom the smell alone of the battle of Stalingrad- fresh and dried blood, the rank decay of corpses, busted open intestines and organs. The noise: prayers screamed into the night, bullets whizzing by, explosions... the terror some of the young men but especially the civilians felt.
Aptly put. The sight of mutilated coprses, fear of death & injury, fatigue, hopelessness due to a myriad of factors, hunger. Definitely took a toll on all involved.
Chat GPT says : The German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, known as Operation Barbarossa, involved approximately 3.8 million German personnel, including soldiers from the Wehrmacht (German army), Luftwaffe (German air force), and the SS (Schutzstaffel). This invasion marked the largest military operation in history up to that point.
@@jamesdean1143 Stalingrad battle is part of operation Fall Blau, not Barbarossa. This and the siege of Lenningrad are the places where more human lifes were lost in WW2, more Soviets died in Stalingrad battle than the total US casualties of WW2, Europe, Pacific and Africa... Soviets are the ones that won WW2 just by the number of deads both in the Soviet and German+friends side u can see that WW2 was a Soviet-German conflict with some skirmish battles in other parts of the world
Despite terrible hardships, the citizens were very organized. Every building had a leader, every block and neighbourhood likewise with others appointed to carry rations, firewood, dig bunkers and stack the dead at roadside for counting and pickup.
In the early 70’s I worked with a German captured at Stalingrad in Dec ‘42. He was a young enlisted man in the Luftwaffe. Details of his capture were never explained other than he was one of only 600 POWs to return home from his camp of 10,000 in 1951. He was a prisoner for 9 years as a manual laborer rebuilding the city Germans destroyed. He was a small thin man, an alcoholic and prone to angry outbursts for no apparent reason. We were afraid of him, but he was a hard worker and respected by the other Germans.
Eh, I met quite a few soldiers who miss battle after they've been in it. It's not actual eagerness, it's mostly trauma-related because they don't really feel alive anymore without the risk and / or because they have a hard time fitting in with non-combattants
it is a lie that every second soldier received a rifle, the Russians all had weapons. The veterans were shown the film "The Enemy at the Door." They cried with laughter.
If I remember correctly, so is the claim that Stalin refused the evacuations of civilians because he thought the soldiers would fight harder. At least I couldn't find a source for it, have only heard it mentioned here and in one other video before (the viral one about WW2 death toll), but seen it refuted elsewhere.
@@sh0werp0wer IT IS SO, a lot of myths, some of them are not logigac even, what wan the war is the evacuation of industry to the east and imediate production more than 1500 plants and 10 milion of people well organised and right timing, which is an good example of excelent management of Russians
@@lifeisa.smalllesson4607 lets put it this way, wehrmacht at that time was the best ever infantry in the world, ' what would happen if you put a batalion of man of which only half had a gun? Either the Russians were supermen, or wehrmachtwas not that supreme, or it is all different, by the way the stories of NKVD behind their backs are also different, it was just NKVD units who were one of the first to be involved in the defense of Stalingrad right in the outskirts of the city, it is not always good to repeat what you hear, if it is a lie you might look like a liar
@@jurdor8753 my grandfather served in ww2 and brought down more german messershmits and fockwulfs than anyone else. Some would call him the worst mechanic in the luftwaffe
Brave Germans and Russians, both. America was resupplying the Soviets from the Volga, whereas the Germans were completely on their own. Goering foolishly promised to resupply them from the air, failing miserably
Meh, he only killed Soviets mostly Russians nobody gives a fck about them. The west should have allied with Germany to take out the Russians and allied themselves with Japan to take out the Chinese.
He was army, heer, the vast vast majority of the heer were not war criminals, the Ss and the units born of them were the ones who wdfe the fanatics, ive met a few dudes who were in the heer in the day, they weren't facists, just guys who wanted to go home
Paulus was captured. He didn’t surrender. The WW2 German Army had thousands of horses to pull equipment. They had assumed the horses could eat Russian grass, but it turned out Russian grass was not nutritious. The German industrial base problems, the long supply lines, the different rail gauges, etc. meant the German forces didn’t get spare parts, adequate food, etc. How do you fight in minus 40 degree weather on 2 slices of bread and some thin horse meat soup?
The original operation barbarossa planned for the Germans to just use Russian supplies they would capture to feed their horses and troops. This worked for the first 6 months because the war was supposed to be short. After that, plans had to be re-drafted for round 2 on russia in 1942. No plans to bomb deep soviet factories because the war wasn't planned to be a war of attrition lasting 4 years.
I think Germany still had a small chance for victory on the Ostfront by 1942 but Hitler's meddling destroyed it. He wanted the Makop oil fields to the south PLUS Stalingrad and made the fatal mistake of splitting the German force so neither objective was achieved.
The only chance for victory was in -41. By -42 the chance was gone. Gitler alone cannot be blamed. It was highly complex mess of reasons why the war went the way it did. I would highly recommend TIKhistory Stalingrad documentary series. Best there is of the fall blau.
After a life time of WW2 doco's YOU actually taught me a few things I did not know...WELL DONE! BUT the movie enemy at the gates... had inaccuraces, like my spelling, they ALL got a gun, none shared.
It's a pity that you didn't include very important information in such comprehensive material. Very few of us know about it (the textbooks are silent) that eleven thousand German soldiers refused to lay down their weapons and, realizing what awaited them in the Soviet labor camps, took up a guerrilla fight to the death (in the conditions of this murderous winter) in the ruins Stalingrad. Over the coming months, over two thousand of them would pay for their desperation with their lives, and over eight would find themselves in (let's call them by name) Soviet concentration camps - where, as expected, almost everyone died.
@@ndogg20 It would be justice if Russia didn't sign Molotov-Rippentropt pact but they did, so they had what was coming for them and that is the real justice to be found from this part of the war. Russia wasn't on the right side of history in WWII, they were the ones starting it with Germany.
Dan Carlins Ghosts of the Osfront is pretty good if you want a little material to listen to. Goes over a lottt that doesn’t get brought up in most RUclips videos. It’s insane what people can do to others and even more insane what people will do in order to survive. RIP
Im from US. Last winter 🥶 it got -50 with 40 mile an hour winds . You would die very quickly in those temps. I cant imagine what those men went through
an old uncle of mine who lives in Germany a long time now already (he is Dutch) plays golf and he told me that his german golf "buddies" (there is no such thing as a buddy in Germany for the old generation, its still only "Herr doktor") sometimes tell stories about what they all did in Russia fighting in WO2. My uncle doesnt tell us what exactly they did but the face he makes made me shiver and his buddies still seem to enjoy telling these stories.
You absolutely can have „buddies“ in every generation in germany but you just dont make real friends at golf courses💀. My grandpa tells me similar stories about the veterans who told him what they did in russia, but that was in the 80s and they are long gone. I highly doubt that someone who actively fought in ww2 would still be fit enough today to play golf
You forgot the Italians positioned in the Northern flank of Stalingrad. How convenient to neglect their sacrifice which makes this documentary amateurish at best.
The German soldiers froze to death because they were starving to death.The human body needs calories to produce heat.Thats a horrible way for anyone to die
@@markl4673 Could be true though, here in Finland our soldiers froze dead Russians and used them as road sign poles. It had a reason too, it sent quite an message to the enemy.
11:25 in addition to Romanian and Hungarian Troops some Italian troops were also guarding the flanks and some Croatian troops were with the Germans in the city. "they were not very good troops" there are accounts of Romanian troops doing well with what they had, but you can only do so much if not given the proper tools.
0:23 Soviet-American mistrust was such that neither wanted an alliance, so there wasn't one. They had some enemies in common, and there aid and some cooperation, but America and Britain were not allies of the Soviet Union. 2:36 Fallen Fighters Square. The obelisk is near the far end. At upper right is a hotel near the Univermag building; it is also seen at 5:13 & 5:15+. 4:16 Some of the housing near Red October. 4:23 Near the Tractor Factory. N48.7991°, E044.5995°. More than 20 of these buildings are still standing in 2024. 0:32 Downtown Stalingrad. The street in the foreground is Sovetskaya, crossed by Moskovskaya and Volodarskaya.
2 corrections: 1st of all blocking detachments did not actually shoot people both in world war ii and especially not now no matter what the propaganda will tell you Second, the Soviet army had a mountain, an ample supply of rifles and bullets and ammunition believe me they got all the rifles and all the ammo that they needed sure they may not have gotten a machine gun for every platoon or enough tanks heavy weapons. But everybody got mountains of basic rifles and ammunition, so let's not distort history just because some half-assed Hollywood movie showed it thank you very much.
A very true story of the tragic events. Still now and then I happen to meet people sayng that 'the war is OK'. No way should anything like that antihuman war happen again.
1942 or not. If that battle had taken place today the same would happen in those extremely low temperatures, muddy terrains that either slow everything down to a halt, or freeze up like cement.
I would be surprised if they didn't, all the fronts are filled with corpses to this day. Wars of that scale are horrible, it is almost impossible to even really understand what kind of war such would be, specially today when the destructive power of weapon systems are far greater than back in those days.
@@duhni4551 I agree. It becomes hard to define a 'War Grave' because the recovered are only a small percentage of those victims who were vaporized or blown to miniscule bits?
I find it really interesting that thousands or millions of women worked in factories. Even more interesting is the number of women who became skilled snipers. How times have changed!!
Watched your whole video. Very good. Still I idn't see the image you use as a still of a German soldier trusted up in Chains hanging from a system of bars. I suggest this image is a fake and you use it a shock value and enticement to watch your video. I don't approve of this...certainly cuts into your credibility as an historian.
Five major factors. The tractor factory, the brick factory, the Baracaide factory, the chemical works factory, the red October factory, and the nail factory.
U forget the Italians under German command. After all the author of Stalingrad was an Italian POW. Who fought there and described conditions of being aN Italian, Soviet prisoner of war!😢
Hitler’s own ego cost him the battle. Had he have taken what his Generals suggested and had reinforced their defenses on the already occupied russian’s territories and wait out for more supplies, armory and army reinforcements troops. 🤷🏻 This was the first coffin nail for the germans ⚰️⚰️ 💀 ☠️ 😵
You had me, until you used the myth created by Enemy at the Gates, of one man with a rifle and one with ammunition. It's an enjoyable film, but it's one rifle between two men is almost certainly not true as the vast majority of Soviet industry was moved East to Siberia, they had plenty of weapons for their soldiers. The human wave attacks are also a myth created by Enemy at the Gates, the whole strategy in Stalingrad was to use the ruins to wear down the German army, charging hordes of your own soldiers and using the ruins against yourself goes against this strategy. Sure, the Soviets didn't really care for the wellbeing of individual soldiers, they still wanted to win. I'm sure they understood that there were better uses for the company, or even battalion, of men than to have them charge hopelessly against a fortified German position .
As far as I know this is wrong .Every russian soldier had a riffle .If you check the russian army had many riffles and good production of ammo and riffles so that info regarding the enemy at the gates is total BS
Actually Russia had huge propblems on weapon manufacturing after Germans either took control or destroyed Russian weapon factories, this is why Russia had to ask material from USA, you know the lend and lease thingy? So there were real reasons why Russia would do that, until they got their new factories up and rolling (they moved their production to further East, out of reach of Germans.) Anyway, it doesn't mean that the soldiers didn't have rifles though but there might have been some group that didn't, then the story became this over the years. I mean the Russians used their own dead as sand bags in the winter time to find cover in Finnish front. Lots of brutal things happens in wars, some Russians being without rifles wouldn't surprise me at all, after all, even modern Russia gave their soldiers Rusty unfuctional AK's if even that when they sent them to Ukraine.
Btw, the part that says that they gave a rifle to every other man is false, most soviet soldiers were properly equipped, same goes for the blocking units, the myth that the soviets had a boundless source of man power is just wrong, the soviets gained the upper hand in manpower at the later half of the war.
How mayn you have seen so far? This one I guess, because its always in every docu and much more besides that the title is fake. nothing new under the sun.
I recommend the very detailed series "Battlestorm Stalingrad" by TIKhistory, it's a series of more than 40 episodes about this epic battle, and it's detailed and profund.
If this is the best, then you haven't looked at them much. No offense, but I guess you haven't read many books about the Battle of Stalingrad or the Eastern Front in general.
Once the Wehrmacht entered the city this army of movement was doomed. But it took some unbelievable defensive holds on the part of the Red Army. In other words, nothing was pre-ordained about this outcome.
The coup d grace was the brilliant encirclement of the Wehrmacht in the Stalingrad pocket. The biggest blunder ( thank God ) was the failure of the Wehrmacht to learn and correctly understand the influx of huge amounts of Red Army manpower and new Soviet Air Force units. The encirclement and entrapment made all the difference who finally won or lost. Nevertheless, Stalin drafted millions of fighters and ramped up factory production and used his allied help too so that the Wehrmacht was going to be stopped one way or the other regardless of the encirclement.
There is one thing the germans were not ready for and died from the cold weather and snow.The russians were ahead of them with clothes suited for that weather. With the hats they wore and rain coats .were as the germans were not dressed for that sort of weather.
@@davidhoward4715 Take Stalingrad out of the calculations. They where surrounded and the airlift failed. The battle for Moscow is where the Myth originates. The winter caused supply problems which far out weighed the clothing problem. The red army, beat the Germans at Moscow, with horrific casualties. German propaganda couldn't allow that for to be known. For years, all we had to form what happened was German accounts which where based on their propaganda. After the war, western propaganda didn't want to paint a picture of Soviet competence, so instead of victories everything was based on German mistakes.
It’s crazy I know to say it but ide have loved to have been there and yet not ( if that makes sense)just to have witnessed this madness from what I’ve seen on tv documentaries you tube vids and from books about this battle that I’ve read it was the most primeval battle ever fought in history starving soldiers in sub zero temperatures riddled with lice yet still fighting ( in some cases hand to hand) it’s macabre I know but I’ve always been fascinated by this epic battle and it must have been something to have been there and some how survive it really was as they say the turning point of the war the vehrmacht was never the same after and for the rest of this all in compassing war were basically on the retreat
It is far from being the most primeval battle in the history, there are a lot more where that came from. But i do understand what you mean, i am not sure would i want to wintness people being at their worst though, some things you can't unsee after you have seen it. Seeing what humans are capable of makes it very real for you your self that we are nothing but blood thirsty beasts that are willing to do pretty much anything if we have to and we do it with terrible precision and efficiency. Then again we can be total opposites of that too, but the knowledge of what we are capable of might actually harm your psyche.
@@duhni4551 pretty sure ude have seen humanity at its worse for sure but that still doesn’t stop it being fascinating to me to have witnessed the combatants from both armies and to have spoken to them to try and understand there thoughts at being in this crazy war and the situation they now find themselves in it must have been both insane and awesome at the same time
@@PaulCloves I know what you mean, i just gave a warning that sometimes we really do get what we wish for but the "price" isn't always what we thought it would be. As it is not that you couldn't actually go and investigate this even today, world is full of wars and some of them are way more brutal than what happened in Stalingrad.
@@duhni4551 big call that not sure there’s a city battle going on now In the world on the scale of Stalingrad or that there ever has been since , apart from maybe the battle of Berlin at the end of the war obviously there’s been many battles in city’s since but with the intensity ferocity and depravity of Stalingrad I’m not so sure but that’s not the point for me it’s just Stalingrad that holds a morbid fascination for me and the combatants that fought it
German soldiers would line up Russian prisoners, usually in the evening, when it was -30C in a blizzard, and take bets on which ones would freeze to death first, this became a popular game for the Germans. Also, the fighting, in the sewers at night, groups of German and Russian soldiers used to go down into the sewerage system at night armed with axes and flamethrowers. This would happen most nights. Cannabilism was also commonplace.
@@steffenrosmus9177 Yes and maybe a Paulaner or 2 or 3. I was thinking about to ask him for sources but maybe he will cry to loud that the neighbours couldn't sleep then.
@@BigBossSherlock English is the most informative language on the planet followed by Japanese, just because you're ignorant on the English language doesn't mean what you say is true. German is a lackluster language and shouldn't even be compared to English whatsoever
Simply speculating but it’s not much of a stretch, linguistically, that a large settlement would’ve been a walled settlement, or a fortress. I just don’t know enough about the russian language to say this for sure
@@herzog1857 show me where I defended nazis sorry real history hurts your feelings and trust me stalins dead rotting corps isn't rolling in his grave for you coming for his defence
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What else would you like to know about the war on the Eastern Front?
The German and Russsian invasion of Poland in 39 - when Stalin and itler were best buddies
Just for reference Ukraine is also shooting soldiers that Retreat or refuse to fight just to be fair and transparent
@@dabong420 stick to your video games and Warhammer... leave the thinking to the Grownups.
@egnbigdave lol u don't like facts kid????
@@dabong420 LOL... physician heal thyself
I don’t care how many video games I play or books I read the battle of Stalingrad is still unfathomable to me.
I really can hardly imagine all that has happened there. Thank you for watching!
I totally agree!!
Agreed. fascinating, terrifying and absolutely appalling
It always entertains me when people think gaming or using a sim of some type somehow replicates true history. Even now, 70+ years forward of the war as a whole, none of us really understand what it was like to have been a soldier, a member of a resistance group or even a civilian during that time period. We simply will never fully comprehend.
Yeah. The overwhelming vastness of the pain, determination and sacrifice is just beyond comprehension.
Otoh, one does what one has to in order to survive whatever situation one is in or one dies. And plenty took the dieing route for sure.
I cannot imagine how human beings can do this to each other. I could not fathom the smell alone of the battle of Stalingrad- fresh and dried blood, the rank decay of corpses, busted open intestines and organs. The noise: prayers screamed into the night, bullets whizzing by, explosions... the terror some of the young men but especially the civilians felt.
Aptly put.
The sight of mutilated coprses, fear of death & injury, fatigue, hopelessness due to a myriad of factors, hunger. Definitely took a toll on all involved.
All because of the narcissistic egos of two psychopathic madmen who condemned millions to their deaths.
Only a female liberal can write such virtue signaling verbal diahria
The germans called it «Rattenkrieg», the rat-war.
3 million German soldiers, Finns, Romanians, Hungarians, Italians, Slovaks and Croats! Not only Germans!
Chat GPT says :
The German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, known as Operation Barbarossa, involved approximately 3.8 million German personnel, including soldiers from the Wehrmacht (German army), Luftwaffe (German air force), and the SS (Schutzstaffel). This invasion marked the largest military operation in history up to that point.
@@jamesdean1143 Chat GPT is an idiotic simple program.
@@jamesdean1143 Stalingrad battle is part of operation Fall Blau, not Barbarossa. This and the siege of Lenningrad are the places where more human lifes were lost in WW2, more Soviets died in Stalingrad battle than the total US casualties of WW2, Europe, Pacific and Africa...
Soviets are the ones that won WW2 just by the number of deads both in the Soviet and German+friends side u can see that WW2 was a Soviet-German conflict with some skirmish battles in other parts of the world
So, all of them learn a lesson to never, never, never try to fight against Russia
@@marcos14223 Having the most casualties does not determine who wins a war.
Despite terrible hardships, the citizens were very organized. Every building had a leader, every block and neighbourhood likewise with others appointed to carry rations, firewood, dig bunkers and stack the dead at roadside for counting and pickup.
In the early 70’s I worked with a German captured at Stalingrad in Dec ‘42. He was a young enlisted man in the Luftwaffe. Details of his capture were never explained other than he was one of only 600 POWs to return home from his camp of 10,000 in 1951. He was a prisoner for 9 years as a manual laborer rebuilding the city Germans destroyed. He was a small thin man, an alcoholic and prone to angry outbursts for no apparent reason. We were afraid of him, but he was a hard worker and respected by the other Germans.
I can’t imagine what he went through. The cruelty from both sides pushing the human condition to its breaking point
The only people eager to get into combat are the people who have never been in combat. Such a waste of life.
Eh, I met quite a few soldiers who miss battle after they've been in it. It's not actual eagerness, it's mostly trauma-related because they don't really feel alive anymore without the risk and / or because they have a hard time fitting in with non-combattants
@@antoinelachapelle3405 - Yep. Had friends who would re-up after their first tour in Vietnam. Home wasn't the same for them.
My Inlaws who fought at Stalingrad wouldn't even talk about it, though they proudly wore their Soviet fruit salad and metals.
it is a lie that every second soldier received a rifle, the Russians all had weapons. The veterans were shown the film "The Enemy at the Door." They cried with laughter.
Gates*
If I remember correctly, so is the claim that Stalin refused the evacuations of civilians because he thought the soldiers would fight harder. At least I couldn't find a source for it, have only heard it mentioned here and in one other video before (the viral one about WW2 death toll), but seen it refuted elsewhere.
@@sh0werp0wer
IT IS SO,
a lot of myths, some of them are not logigac even,
what wan the war is the evacuation of industry to the east and imediate production
more than 1500 plants and
10 milion of people
well organised and right timing, which is an good example of excelent management of Russians
I thought the truth was that every second soldier got ammo because of the shortage?
@@lifeisa.smalllesson4607
lets put it this way,
wehrmacht at that time was the best ever infantry in the world,
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what would happen if you put a batalion of man of which only half had a gun?
Either the Russians were supermen, or wehrmachtwas not that supreme, or it is all different,
by the way the stories of NKVD behind their backs are also different, it was just NKVD units who were one of the first to be involved in the defense of Stalingrad right in the outskirts of the city,
it is not always good to repeat what you hear, if it is a lie
you might look like a liar
Respect to the veterans who fought in WW2.Especially the ones that fought on the eastern front.✌️💪🎖
Rest in piece to all those brave germans
@@t29heavy67 That's just sick...
@@jurdor8753 my grandfather served in ww2 and brought down more german messershmits and fockwulfs than anyone else. Some would call him the worst mechanic in the luftwaffe
@t29heavy67 LOL. I've heard the joke before, it never gets old!
Brave Germans and Russians, both. America was resupplying the Soviets from the Volga, whereas the Germans were completely on their own. Goering foolishly promised to resupply them from the air, failing miserably
My mother's cousin's husband was one of the 5000 survivors. Another cousin died there.
Thank you for sharing this.
My grandfathers, nephew's, ex wifes bicycle was there too, allegedly.
@@adambane1719 class clown!!!
The Soviets lost 1.2 mil soldiers and civilians in just this one battle, insane.
Its impossible to get your mind around casualties on thst scale.
Any different in Ukraine??
At kursk they lost even more soldiers.
Its absolutely insane
RIP to all soldiers who lost their life.
RIP
I agree , terrible.
A friend of mine was 14 years old when he was fighting for the German army in Stalingrad. He was taken prisoner and wasnt released until 1954.
Should of never been release.
Meh, he only killed Soviets mostly Russians nobody gives a fck about them. The west should have allied with Germany to take out the Russians and allied themselves with Japan to take out the Chinese.
@@geenr9766shut up Communist.
@@geenr9766why?
He was army, heer, the vast vast majority of the heer were not war criminals, the Ss and the units born of them were the ones who wdfe the fanatics, ive met a few dudes who were in the heer in the day, they weren't facists, just guys who wanted to go home
This is one of the worst descriptions of the Stalingrad war.
Do you have another good video or documentary that’s a good representation
@@cheapshot36Read a book
Click bait thumbnail with little talk of any atrocities. Time waste.
Karen
Paulus was captured. He didn’t surrender.
The WW2 German Army had thousands of horses to pull equipment. They had assumed the horses could eat Russian grass, but it turned out Russian grass was not nutritious.
The German industrial base problems, the long supply lines, the different rail gauges, etc. meant the German forces didn’t get spare parts, adequate food, etc. How do you fight in minus 40 degree weather on 2 slices of bread and some thin horse meat soup?
The original operation barbarossa planned for the Germans to just use Russian supplies they would capture to feed their horses and troops. This worked for the first 6 months because the war was supposed to be short. After that, plans had to be re-drafted for round 2 on russia in 1942. No plans to bomb deep soviet factories because the war wasn't planned to be a war of attrition lasting 4 years.
How could that whole area not be haunted Jesus...So much misery.
I think Germany still had a small chance for victory on the Ostfront by 1942 but Hitler's meddling destroyed it. He wanted the Makop oil fields to the south PLUS Stalingrad and made the fatal mistake of splitting the German force so neither objective was achieved.
The only chance for victory was in -41. By -42 the chance was gone. Gitler alone cannot be blamed. It was highly complex mess of reasons why the war went the way it did. I would highly recommend TIKhistory Stalingrad documentary series. Best there is of the fall blau.
@@speggeri90TIKHistory is THE place to go for your WWII lessons!
So so true, total warriors
and Mark Felton
Mark Felton is just another Alied Propaganda shill@@warrenbaldwin2775
After a life time of WW2 doco's YOU actually taught me a few things I did not know...WELL DONE! BUT the movie enemy at the gates... had inaccuraces, like my spelling, they ALL got a gun, none shared.
My grandfather died Stalingrad Don river 1943
May he rest in peace!!!
On the good side ?😊
He did his duty for his side. Hope he wasn't envolved in any war crimes.
You got it right. It is Friedrich Paulus not Von Paulus as so many of them inaccurately give him the nobility title.
So all those books I read were wrong?
It's a pity that you didn't include very important information in such comprehensive material. Very few of us know about it (the textbooks are silent) that eleven thousand German soldiers refused to lay down their weapons and, realizing what awaited them in the Soviet labor camps, took up a guerrilla fight to the death (in the conditions of this murderous winter) in the ruins Stalingrad. Over the coming months, over two thousand of them would pay for their desperation with their lives, and over eight would find themselves in (let's call them by name) Soviet concentration camps - where, as expected, almost everyone died.
German deaths in Soviet camps were 22% Soviet deaths in German camps were 75%/ One can say Soviets were generous to Germans
After murdering over 20 million Soviet citizens and enslaving millions, let's call those camps by their real name, Justice.
@@ndogg20 It would be justice if Russia didn't sign Molotov-Rippentropt pact but they did, so they had what was coming for them and that is the real justice to be found from this part of the war. Russia wasn't on the right side of history in WWII, they were the ones starting it with Germany.
I heard gulags were a bad as german death camps
Paulus army was by the time of Uranus highly immobile and lacked ammo and supplies to do even breakout the moment operation began
Dan Carlins Ghosts of the Osfront is pretty good if you want a little material to listen to. Goes over a lottt that doesn’t get brought up in most RUclips videos. It’s insane what people can do to others and even more insane what people will do in order to survive. RIP
Good video.
Im from US. Last winter 🥶 it got -50 with 40 mile an hour winds . You would die very quickly in those temps. I cant imagine what those men went through
I work in Ft Mc Murray and we just had a massive laughter at your comment here at the local bar.
an old uncle of mine who lives in Germany a long time now already (he is Dutch) plays golf and he told me that his german golf "buddies" (there is no such thing as a buddy in Germany for the old generation, its still only "Herr doktor") sometimes tell stories about what they all did in Russia fighting in WO2. My uncle doesnt tell us what exactly they did but the face he makes made me shiver and his buddies still seem to enjoy telling these stories.
You absolutely can have „buddies“ in every generation in germany but you just dont make real friends at golf courses💀. My grandpa tells me similar stories about the veterans who told him what they did in russia, but that was in the 80s and they are long gone. I highly doubt that someone who actively fought in ww2 would still be fit enough today to play golf
You forgot the Italians positioned in the Northern flank of Stalingrad. How convenient to neglect their sacrifice which makes this documentary amateurish at best.
Their sacrifice to get what?
Thumbnail illustration is awesome ⚔️
The German soldiers froze to death because they were starving to death.The human body needs calories to produce heat.Thats a horrible way for anyone to die
The Russians would freeze German prisoners to death with a hose and use their bodies as a human bridge. Just savagery.
And how did you uncover this titbit of useless information?
@@markl4673 Could be true though, here in Finland our soldiers froze dead Russians and used them as road sign poles. It had a reason too, it sent quite an message to the enemy.
mythology is not history
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the bit about 1 man having a gun and the other the ammo is a myth
11:25 in addition to Romanian and Hungarian Troops some Italian troops were also guarding the flanks and some Croatian troops were with the Germans in the city. "they were not very good troops" there are accounts of Romanian troops doing well with what they had, but you can only do so much if not given the proper tools.
Croats are possibly the biggest cowards in the world.
0:23 Soviet-American mistrust was such that neither wanted an alliance, so there wasn't one. They had some enemies in common, and there aid and some cooperation, but America and Britain were not allies of the Soviet Union.
2:36 Fallen Fighters Square. The obelisk is near the far end. At upper right is a hotel near the Univermag building; it is also seen at 5:13 & 5:15+.
4:16 Some of the housing near Red October.
4:23 Near the Tractor Factory. N48.7991°, E044.5995°. More than 20 of these buildings are still standing in 2024.
0:32 Downtown Stalingrad. The street in the foreground is Sovetskaya, crossed by Moskovskaya and Volodarskaya.
Crazy only 5000 survived. And everyone in the comments knows one of them.
2 corrections:
1st of all blocking detachments did not actually shoot people both in world war ii and especially not now no matter what the propaganda will tell you
Second, the Soviet army had a mountain, an ample supply of rifles and bullets and ammunition believe me they got all the rifles and all the ammo that they needed sure they may not have gotten a machine gun for every platoon or enough tanks heavy weapons. But everybody got mountains of basic rifles and ammunition, so let's not distort history just because some half-assed Hollywood movie showed it thank you very much.
2:17 that map of the Eastern Front is from June, 1944 right before the start of Bagration
A very true story of the tragic events. Still now and then I happen to meet people sayng that 'the war is OK'. No way should anything like that antihuman war happen again.
You forgot the Italian army at Stalingrad.
Except for the Romans. 16:21
Croats also
@@herzog1857 Spanish Blue Division also.
@@joemiller9931 I think that the Spanish division fought near Leningrad, but maybe I'm wrong
Minor point: There were more Studibaker trucks that brought supplies across the frozen Volga.
1942 or not. If that battle had taken place today the same would happen in those extremely low temperatures, muddy terrains that either slow everything down to a halt, or freeze up like cement.
Just brilliant!
Thank you! 😀
Because of this battle, a Sovereign Europe lost control of it's Central Banking System....
Which was the actual REAL reason behind WWII
You narrated the germans were surprised by the cold of the German winter, obviously you meant the Russian winter
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Evidently they are still digging up boxes full of skeletons each year.
I would be surprised if they didn't, all the fronts are filled with corpses to this day. Wars of that scale are horrible, it is almost impossible to even really understand what kind of war such would be, specially today when the destructive power of weapon systems are far greater than back in those days.
@@duhni4551 I agree. It becomes hard to define a 'War Grave' because the recovered are only a small percentage of those victims who were vaporized or blown to miniscule bits?
@@lorenzbroll101 Very much so. I just hope we won't see another war in such scale, though we are heading towards one today.
@@duhni4551 I hope I am in bed & asleep when they drop the nuclear bomb on me anyway!
I find it really interesting that thousands or millions of women worked in factories. Even more interesting is the number of women who became skilled snipers. How times have changed!!
Watched your whole video. Very good.
Still I idn't see the image you use as a still of a German soldier trusted up in Chains hanging from a system of bars. I suggest this image is a fake and you use it a shock value and enticement to watch your video. I don't approve of this...certainly cuts into your credibility as an historian.
Closer to 4 million when you add all the axis conspirators
4:24 Filmed from over the Tractor Factory. Many of the buildings are still standing. Ca. N48.799°, E044.599°.
Five major factors. The tractor factory, the brick factory, the Baracaide factory, the chemical works factory, the red October factory, and the nail factory.
U forget the Italians under German command. After all the author of Stalingrad was an Italian POW. Who fought there and described conditions of being aN Italian, Soviet prisoner of war!😢
Interesting I just watched that movie Enemy at the Gate not too long ago.
It’s not a good portrayal of the battle to be fair
Hitler’s own ego cost him the battle. Had he have taken what his Generals suggested and had reinforced their defenses on the already occupied russian’s territories and wait out for more supplies, armory and army reinforcements troops. 🤷🏻
This was the first coffin nail for the germans ⚰️⚰️ 💀 ☠️ 😵
You had me, until you used the myth created by Enemy at the Gates, of one man with a rifle and one with ammunition.
It's an enjoyable film, but it's one rifle between two men is almost certainly not true as the vast majority of Soviet industry was moved East to Siberia, they had plenty of weapons for their soldiers.
The human wave attacks are also a myth created by Enemy at the Gates, the whole strategy in Stalingrad was to use the ruins to wear down the German army, charging hordes of your own soldiers and using the ruins against yourself goes against this strategy.
Sure, the Soviets didn't really care for the wellbeing of individual soldiers, they still wanted to win. I'm sure they understood that there were better uses for the company, or even battalion, of men than to have them charge hopelessly against a fortified German position .
As far as I know this is wrong .Every russian soldier had a riffle .If you check the russian army had many riffles and good production of ammo and riffles so that info regarding the enemy at the gates is total BS
Actually Russia had huge propblems on weapon manufacturing after Germans either took control or destroyed Russian weapon factories, this is why Russia had to ask material from USA, you know the lend and lease thingy? So there were real reasons why Russia would do that, until they got their new factories up and rolling (they moved their production to further East, out of reach of Germans.) Anyway, it doesn't mean that the soldiers didn't have rifles though but there might have been some group that didn't, then the story became this over the years. I mean the Russians used their own dead as sand bags in the winter time to find cover in Finnish front. Lots of brutal things happens in wars, some Russians being without rifles wouldn't surprise me at all, after all, even modern Russia gave their soldiers Rusty unfuctional AK's if even that when they sent them to Ukraine.
Not every Russian soldier had one - but those on the front line were prioritised and always had a rifle.
Russians don't use blocking formations today. Ukraine does.
That's true. I was disappointed to hear him say that but not surprised since that is the current narrative.
@@paulmcintosh3345 You mean Propaganda, Now why would O Biden do that??
asdnetwork4268, if all you Russian propagandists have are lies, it's no wonder that Putin is losing his fascist war of aggression.
@@paulmcintosh3345 You are lying.
@@paulmcintosh3345I can send you a video of drone footage of Russian blocking units shooting retreating troops if you’d like
Before Soviet Union Russia was not a pagan, but a Christian country
You’re much better off on a Somali pirate ship, in a Hamas tunnel or in the North Korean Army, than being on the Eastern Front in WW2.
You forgot about the Italians. They also flanked the German Sixth Army along with the Hungarians and Romanians.
Cannibalism happened during wintertime on both sides😢
Makes you to be thankful you were jot born there at that point ime and place...sad young people have to eie due to ambitious leaders
"A tactic used by Russians in Ukraine today"? It's in fact the opposite.
In the winter, supplies were brought to the defenders across the frozen Volga in Studebaker trucks.
The "one rifle per every two men" thing is a myth. Sloppy research. Shouldn't cite a Hollywood movie like it is a documentary.
I am still hoping one day I will get a copy of David Glantz's Stalingrad series
Btw, the part that says that they gave a rifle to every other man is false, most soviet soldiers were properly equipped, same goes for the blocking units, the myth that the soviets had a boundless source of man power is just wrong, the soviets gained the upper hand in manpower at the later half of the war.
Plus, you can also count the gain elevator as another major complex. Plus, the railroad switching yard is known as the tennis racket.
grain elevator
Wow the russians sure pulled a good one on the Fuher Addie aHitter
This is the best documentary about Stalingrad I have ever seen.
Thank you so much! 🙏
How mayn you have seen so far? This one I guess, because its always in every docu and much more besides that the title is fake. nothing new under the sun.
@@BigBossSherlock It's Pretty Good TBH
I recommend the very detailed series "Battlestorm Stalingrad" by TIKhistory, it's a series of more than 40 episodes about this epic battle, and it's detailed and profund.
If this is the best, then you haven't looked at them much. No offense, but I guess you haven't read many books about the Battle of Stalingrad or the Eastern Front in general.
The Pavlov's House story is also Soviet propaganda.
This is a lie. Your glorious Führer put a bullet in his brain in a Berlin bunker. Get over it.
Once the Wehrmacht entered the city this army of movement was doomed. But it took some unbelievable defensive holds on the part of the Red Army. In other words, nothing was pre-ordained about this outcome.
The battle of Stalingrad was fought in extreme conditions. The ruthless slaughter of troops on both sides before the battle ended.
"A tactic used by Ukrainians in Ukraine today", that's what you meant to say.
Yea I react at this to.
The coup d grace was the brilliant encirclement of the Wehrmacht in the Stalingrad pocket. The biggest blunder ( thank God ) was the failure of the Wehrmacht to learn and correctly understand the influx of huge amounts of Red Army manpower and new Soviet Air Force units. The encirclement and entrapment made all the difference who finally won or lost.
Nevertheless, Stalin drafted millions of fighters and ramped up factory production and used his allied help too so that the Wehrmacht was going to be stopped one way or the other regardless of the encirclement.
So, about those unspeakable things...
R.I.P TO ALL THESE SOLDIERS
“In fiction, “Stalin-Grad” means “the world as made by Stalin.”
10:31 Flour mill, with its smokestack.
19:15 end scene you show illuminati free mason satanic sign Triangle pyramid and one eye!! You are free mason illuminati
7:10 Zaitsevskiy Island in the background.
Using Enemy at the Gates as any reference is a bad idea imo
Make your own video then dullard
There is one thing the germans were not ready for and died from the cold weather and snow.The russians were ahead of them with clothes suited for that weather. With the hats they wore and rain coats .were as the germans were not dressed for that sort of weather.
That's pretty much been disproved. Cool story though
@@ltmund No, it has not been disproved.
@@davidhoward4715 Take Stalingrad out of the calculations. They where surrounded and the airlift failed.
The battle for Moscow is where the Myth originates. The winter caused supply problems which far out weighed the clothing problem.
The red army, beat the Germans at Moscow, with horrific casualties. German propaganda couldn't allow that for to be known.
For years, all we had to form what happened was German accounts which where based on their propaganda.
After the war, western propaganda didn't want to paint a picture of Soviet competence, so instead of victories everything was based on German mistakes.
My paternal uncle died in Stalingrad. I hope he took a lot of German carrion with him.
we fought the wrong enemy - General George Patton
@@chucky8787I've seen this before but forget the context, can you elaborate?
@@jdyeetyaww Patton near the end of the war.
It’s crazy I know to say it but ide have loved to have been there and yet not ( if that makes sense)just to have witnessed this madness from what I’ve seen on tv documentaries you tube vids and from books about this battle that I’ve read it was the most primeval battle ever fought in history starving soldiers in sub zero temperatures riddled with lice yet still fighting ( in some cases hand to hand) it’s macabre I know but I’ve always been fascinated by this epic battle and it must have been something to have been there and some how survive it really was as they say the turning point of the war the vehrmacht was never the same after and for the rest of this all in compassing war were basically on the retreat
It is far from being the most primeval battle in the history, there are a lot more where that came from. But i do understand what you mean, i am not sure would i want to wintness people being at their worst though, some things you can't unsee after you have seen it. Seeing what humans are capable of makes it very real for you your self that we are nothing but blood thirsty beasts that are willing to do pretty much anything if we have to and we do it with terrible precision and efficiency. Then again we can be total opposites of that too, but the knowledge of what we are capable of might actually harm your psyche.
@@duhni4551 pretty sure ude have seen humanity at its worse for sure but that still doesn’t stop it being fascinating to me to have witnessed the combatants from both armies and to have spoken to them to try and understand there thoughts at being in this crazy war and the situation they now find themselves in it must have been both insane and awesome at the same time
@@PaulCloves I know what you mean, i just gave a warning that sometimes we really do get what we wish for but the "price" isn't always what we thought it would be. As it is not that you couldn't actually go and investigate this even today, world is full of wars and some of them are way more brutal than what happened in Stalingrad.
@@duhni4551 big call that not sure there’s a city battle going on now In the world on the scale of Stalingrad or that there ever has been since , apart from maybe the battle of Berlin at the end of the war obviously there’s been many battles in city’s since but with the intensity ferocity and depravity of Stalingrad I’m not so sure but that’s not the point for me it’s just Stalingrad that holds a morbid fascination for me and the combatants that fought it
Good documentary, thanks. However, nothing new here.
Bruh... I didn't click on this video to hear the battle of Stalingrad compared to Western propaganda about the War in Ukraine.
German soldiers would line up Russian prisoners, usually in the evening, when it was -30C in a blizzard, and take bets on which ones would freeze to death first, this became a popular game for the Germans.
Also, the fighting, in the sewers at night, groups of German and Russian soldiers used to go down into the sewerage system at night armed with axes and flamethrowers. This would happen most nights.
Cannabilism was also commonplace.
What is cannabilism? Think you smoked one joint too much, it is called cannibalism 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@steffenrosmus9177 Yes and maybe a Paulaner or 2 or 3. I was thinking about to ask him for sources but maybe he will cry to loud that the neighbours couldn't sleep then.
German detected.
Hans, its not possible to translate german sentences word for Word into english, thats embarassing
@@fantikawerner8029 Correct because english is much more simple and haven't so many words and german is a science language which describe exactly.
@@BigBossSherlock English is the most informative language on the planet followed by Japanese, just because you're ignorant on the English language doesn't mean what you say is true. German is a lackluster language and shouldn't even be compared to English whatsoever
Neither the Germans nor the Russias had it easy. It was all too grim and gruesome for either side. Far too costly, period. Uhhh!😢😢
There's nothing new about Stalingrad in this video.
Enemy at the gates is not historically accurate enough to be any source.
There’s a lot more context to “not one step back” policy.
Like what I read it it's exactly what it says it is
Germans were surprised by the cold of the German winter?
Dont forget the Croatian Nazis.
11:07 Barrikady factory buildings. Still there in 2024.
Germans must have been miserable when they stepped in but by the end of stalingrad these men probably looked like caveman
grad means city. that it could mean fortress is a new one on me
Simply speculating but it’s not much of a stretch, linguistically, that a large settlement would’ve been a walled settlement, or a fortress. I just don’t know enough about the russian language to say this for sure
Couple of big inaccuracies in this video. Enemy at gates isn’t 100 percent accurate you know
17:13 12:16 Railyard of Stalingrad 1.
Are there any good books on the battle? First person accounts reading?🤔😀
Check out the book Voices From Stalingrad
@pashvonderc381 Will do. Thanks.👍
@@dennislaskowski3773 and give Antony Beevor’s book on Stalingrad a read too..?
Blood red snow
Grossman - Life and Fate.
Why were Gemans in Stalingrad? Spreading German goodwill?
Got what they deserved.
What were russians doing in Finland spreading good will
@@spencersecrest6001 Are you gonna defend nazzis whataboutboy
@@herzog1857 show me where I defended nazis sorry real history hurts your feelings and trust me stalins dead rotting corps isn't rolling in his grave for you coming for his defence
Humans are fierce.