The Battle of Stalingrad: Jul 1942 - Feb 1943 | World War II Documentary
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- With the onset of Spring 1942, the war in the east was ready to begin again but the problem of supplies particularly of oil was forever a worry for the German High Command and so they planned for an offensive that if successful would not only alleviate their fuel shortage but also deny the Soviets their own fuel stocks. Part of that plan involved a city on the edge of the Volga River in eastern Ukraine. This city formerly known as Volgagrad had since been bestowed with the name of the Soviet leader himself and while few people before the war knew it even existed, in the decades since its name has adorned almost every history book as an example of what occurs when two powerful forces clash and refuse to submit to the other. This is the story of the Battle for Stalingrad. Welcome to Wars of the World.
0:00 Introduction
2:38 The German 6th Army
8:37 "Fall Blau"
16:33 The Offensive Begins
22:03 The Division of Army Group South
27:27 Not One Step Back
45:34 A Cold Snap!
55:40 A Winter Storm
1:04:16 The Tightening Noose
1:09:38 Aftermath
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Narrated by: Will Earl
Written & Researched by: Tony Wilkins
Edited by: James Wade & Kieran Kennerley
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This battle was hell on earth.
yeah most deadly warfare ever human face, then the battle of leningrad where was the heaviest seige about 900 days over! 😳😲
@@mahditeymuri5650it’s seems fitting that the deadliest war in human history should have the deadliest battle in human history
I was reading a book that had the diaries of the German soldiers and the things they said sounded like literal torture every moment
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Learn....from this...
The spirit will never die...
Hold the line....
An hour and 11 minute fantastic documentary, and no ads!? This is for sure my new favorite channel.
This is trash, not a documentary.
Its demonitized cuz its about WWII
No Monkey ads? Gravy!
It's fascinating how many people fought in just one city.
It is more insane that more people died here in a couple months than all US servicemen the entire ww2.
When nut jobs are in control of this many people, slaughter is just a statistic!
glad I wasn't on either side
One of the most intense and deadly battles for just one city in all of world history (along with Moscow a year before).
Make no mistake: if Hitler had managed to beat the USSR, then the number of Russian and Soviet people (civilians) killed, starved, massacred or left to rot in other ways during the war and into the following years would soon have dwarfed the numbers of exterminated Jews. It was part of his plan to conduct massive ethnic cleansing of Russians, Poles and other eastern Slavic peoples to give more "Lebensraum" to Germany.
I joined the US Army as a Infantryman/Rifleman in 2006 at 22 years old. I found out really quick that the military in a time of war is serious business and I wasn't anywhere near as tough and brave as I thought I was !! Lord forgive me and may my brothers N arms rest easy. Till Valhalla
The Battle of Stalingrad is the turning point in the war. The Soviet win changed the course of the war. The Soviet victory was celebrated in occupied Europe as the first sign that the Germans may lose in the East. By Germany's standards their losses were huge, never before they lost an entire army yet alone the best army in Wehrmacht (most awarded of the entire German armed forces - Hitler is on record saying that this army can conquer the hell itself). Just 6 months after Stalingrad, there was the Battle of Kursk which the Soviets won. After Kursk onwards the Germans lost ability to mount a serious offensive, lost initiative and were able of only defensive war, though very effective but always moving back. Stalingrad changed the war from the German victory to a struggle to preserve a chance of winning. After Kursk the Germans lost the war. By the way, the help from the USA just after Kursk started arriving in meaningful quantities therefore Stalingrad and Kursk were won by the Soviets on their own. Therefore, the II World War was won before the USA industrial might started serious delivery to Russia. This is the reason that historians agree that the Soviets won the II War World alone. It is hard to swallow but that the facts. Before the Kursk, Great Britain's help was greater than from the USA, but it was not much as the Brits needed for themselves also.
I just would like to add that Russia moved their industry beyond the range of Luftwaffe, from the European part (which was virtually all industry) to beyond Ural mountain in the war conditions under enormous pressure from fast advancing Germans - this is the main reason that there was a period where the Russians lacked everything. The reestablished industrial complex already in the middle of 1943 outstripped the Germans war production. One has to realise how mammoth task that was, yet the Russians achieved that, and winning critical battles at the same time.
The human price of the USSR's win in WW2 is insane, every time I look up how many casualties each country had it really blows my mind
Edit: I'm talking about all casualties, civilian and enlisted.
Like Stalin said , a single death is a tragedy , a million deaths are merely statistics
Yet Murica took credit
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Look up Obama Htler grandson Rotschields DiBirdShow. It is happening all over again.
@@ShyamKumar-wq7ky not really that was WWI
This is one of the best documentaries on the Battle of Stalingrad that I have ever seen. It’s more thorough and contains more footage than both of the Netflix and the BBC series “WWII in Color.” Great job. Can’t wait to watch more.
Far from great. Dealt way too much with opinions and ideologies
See SOVIET STORM
Hardly great, not even mediocre. It should be removed and corrected before posted.
This is trash, not a documentary.
dude he literally just let a slide show of random photos of soldiers in ww2 play for 71 minutes while narrating
Stalingrad documentary? YES 🙌🏻 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
The very moment Hitler's armies stepped foot in the USSR the clock began ticking down on the Third Reich.
Smh. You sound like a preschooler proudly figuring out the sky is blue.
@@avr8844 🤣
When putin stepped foot in Ukraine...the Clock began tigcking z nazi russia
@@harris8401What?
@@avr8844You sound like the kid that found out something one day before the other.
Besides a few minor issues one of the most comprehensive and insightful videos I’ve watched on The battle of Stalingrad and I’ve watched them all multiple times and this video is a good addition.
Great one hour video on the greatest battle in modern warfare.
I will spend the remainder of my life dedicated to studying the conflict between Germany and the Soviet union.
If usa and britain hadn't sent extreme amount of military,raw material,logistic and food aid to the bolsheviks ,and %100 of the german troops on the eastern front,you bolshevik d@gs would have lost moscow in 1941 and st@lingrad in 1942 and surrendered unconditionally
How much longer do you got
I was very experienced in adulthood 😂 before I grasped the magnitude of death, suffering & the inhumane conditions in Stalingrad & WW¡¡.
I have witnessed tallies on respective sites change their official death toll guess’tamites a few times now, as we approach the 80th anniversary of DDay this June 6th 2024. We can be assured that the exact number of deaths caused by the Second World War, will always remain a mystery.
Why it's past
@@Sncedayone we can only learn from “the past”. We can’t learn much from a future that hasn’t happened yet.
🤣👌 right???
But ww¡¡ is an amazingly interesting time. The world 🌎 made more advancements & changes in those 5 yrs than any other 2 decades that I can recall. As we develop a better understanding/ new science & new methods of investigation we get a clearer picture on some of the decisions that had to be made & some of the tragedies that took place. One of the latest weapons introduced in that field would be LiDAR. That ground penetration radar system. It has revealed some interesting information so far. We will always need curious ppl to track down the information, wherever it leads.
The strategic minds needed to control this war over such monsterous distances & the pure size of this war, will always blow my mind.
i know right! like how the hell, without cell phones etc. can they operate the way they did wiith logistics and all . crazy i wish there was more teachings on that side of war.
Yes it makes you wonder why so much attention i is spent on the European theater the Russian front completely dominated world war II Germany lost the war in Russia not on the plains of Western Europe the fact of the matter is Stalingrad took place 18 months before Normandy Germany was long defeated by then and present-day reminders with short memories should remember Vietnam costs Americans 58,000 dead and that's over a period of 10 to 15 years the Russians lost $750,000 dead in the little over 6 months that should tell you the scale of the Russian front the true winners in world war II not France not Britain not America but the Russians
At least one guy got "the big picture" : Georgy Zhukov.
Yes, it's a common misconception in the West to treat the Eastern Front as a bit of a sideshow and insisting that the main theatre in Europe was always on the west side. If we break out the war between the Axis, primarily Germany, and the USSR (including the Finnish "Continuation War" which was dovetailed with the main eastern front and fought in alliance with Hitler, and also the Holocaust in Poland and western Russia, which would never have played out in quite that way without Barbarossa) by itself, then it has more than twice the number of dead of ALL the rest of WW2 in Europe, Africa and the Middle East put together. Even if we'd count just the soldiers. And for almost three years when Hitler was at the peak of his power - from June 1941 till the spring of 1944 - the Soviet Union was the only state to keep up an extended land front fighting Germany in mainland Europe, with regular units and divisions fighting the ground war week after week, month after month against Hitler (the allied war in southern Italy during that time was small change by comparison, mostly involved Italian troops as adversaries, and didn't make a real breakthrough until much later).
Hitler lost his war primarily in the East, that was where he poured in the big majority of his troops and armament, even most of the Luftwaffe. Why? Because the war against the Soviets was the one he really wanted to fight, long before 1939. Getting the Slavic peoples (primarily Russians and Poles) and theJews, and defeating the USSR/Russia, those were his central aims with the war, far more than defeating Britain or France. The East was in many ways THE central theatre of WW2 in Europe, certainly seen from Berlin but actually from Washington as well (at least in 1941-43).
@@louise_rosethe west will misconceive anything to make themselves look the best of the best and that their the good guys
My Father was in that operation ..got seriously wounded before reaching Stalingrad and sent back to Germany..Since I didnt grow up w him I always wonder if he took part in any of the atrocities on the way here..His brother in law died in Stalingrad ..Truly horrific times and only 80 years ago !!!!
he was a nazi?
Ecuador....sound's like NAZI people escaping to South America.....
GOD SPEED ; THANK YOU 😊
Outstanding video! Been looking for something new for a while--thumbs up.
Stalingrad was not in the Ukraine but Southwestern Russia .. close to the Ukraine though , love your content
How could he not have known that?
Also I thought it should be worth mentioning that before the war it hadn't been known as Volgograd. Up until 1925 it was known as Tzaritzin when it was changed to Stalin's city. It became Volgograd long after WWII (1960's)
@@danielbradley5255 yes originally it was Tzaritzin , but i was just surprised he thought this city was in Eastern Ukraine unless he meant just east of Ukraine , mistakes happen but this video was great nonetheless
@@capoislamort100 not to sure lol . mistakes happen though
@@REALDEALMMA91 maybe they meant east of Ukraine but to make the mistake of it being IN Ukraine is pretty bad since I personally have never heard the two ever referenced as being related in the yrs I've been studying the war
My wife and I stayed at a Gast Haus in Graz Austria back in 1974. No one in that area spoke English except for one man on the parachute drop zone at the airport where I was making some jumps. I met a man who had a big dent in his forehead and I asked Frau Bergmann, the proprietor, if he had been in an accident. She said ask him. My German was limited but I learned that he was wounded at Stalingrad and was air lifted back to Germany on one of the last transports to get out of there. I spoke frequently with him until we returned back to Ivory Coast where I was working as a welder.
The battle of Stalingrad really made an impression on him.
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The soviet union had documents stating there were over 11,000 stalingrad holdouts after the official battle ended. Mark Felton did a great video on this.
Well done! Excellent presentation on this pivotal battle!
1776 🤤
Detailed, fine-grained doc. Good work.
Paulus was not repatriated to West Germany, he was released into East Germany and died there less than four years later having never set foot back into West Germany after his release.
Ohhhhh yeah.. an hour long episode! Lovely 👌🏻👍🏻
This was a very good documentary. It gave fresh information to a subject I have seen many documentaries about before. A small correction: At 1:11:21 you say that in 1953, Paulus was returned to Communist West Germany. I'm sure you meant East Germany.
Not even 2 minutes into watching this and in 1:42 he says "Part of that plan involved a city on the edge of the Volga River, in Eastern Ukraine". Don't mean to be picky but that's a pretty major blunder there.
The most interesting battle for me in WW2. Thanks for this!
Get a life bruh
You must read 'The 900 Days' by Raymond Salisbury.
@@Scepticalasfuk Thanks
For sure Stalingrad really highlights the lengths people will go to to defend themselves
And the bloodiest
Excellent commentary Sir. Many thanks. August 2022.
Thank you ! Love your videos
Truly great video !!!
Thanks so much for this!
A Remarkable & informative Introducing Thanks
What if rashid says muckmed?
I got to say awesome job to the narrator and the music playing in the background. It literally kept me in suspense the whole video ... Great Job
Bro I just screamed "YES!" when I saw you have a new video lol. Love your channel man. Thank you
Same lol
And Me 3
I know, right?
That's really sad.
Disgusting comments
Well written and well told. Thanks
What a great, well written, and well narrated video!!! Thanks for posting!
Great video again gentlemen.
Thanks for your work. One of the best explanation on Stalingrad war in 1942 . Let’s say no war and war can turn humans into beast. Stalingrad is one example
Such a super documentary .love the channel...MUCH LUV FROM N.AUGUSTA S.C
What happened with Paulis after Stalingrad - and the war - is in some ways just as fascinating as the battle.
He was treated very well by the Soviets.
An interesting man.
Not only Paulus but the rest of the Nazi officers captured at Stalingrad were treated much better than the soliders Thats according to a history i read The authors name i cant recall
@@jacjumpin7471
Yes indeed they were!!
Treated better than many Soviet citizens!
Then Mar. Paulus acted as witness for the Allied side in the trials against Nazi war criminals. Released in 1953. Died 1957.
he was a field marashal. thats why he was stalins trophy.
@@changchp He remained behind the Iron Curtain for the rest of his life!
I was born between the two greatest battles of WW II: Stalingrad and Kursk that cemented the defeat of Nazi Germany.
My grandfather flew in Veitnam and we were told not to ask.. he also never talked about his service!! His funeral made us all understand
I was a little kid when I asked and I feel bad now
Hey awesome work man thanks
Fantastic video, I've watched a lot about Stalingrad, and there was even stuff I never knew or heard of. Will be watching more from your channel in the near future. I was also wondering what music you used for the "introduction" part of this video??
@@edguse5711 this can't be a serious question??
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You said the panzers and Tigers advanced on Stalingrad except the Tiger tank was not yet in service at least not till the end of 42 and that was in the Leningrad front. The Germans advanced towards Stalingrad with Panzer 3’s and 4’s and the 4’s were just beginning to come on line with the long barrel 75
cannon which finally had a gun as good or better than the Russian 76 on the T34. But they were few if any in the initial advance on the city.
It sounds so much more dramatic with all those “Tiger Tanks” advancing on Stalingrad. What a pity they did not exist!
Yeah, few odd/wrong statements in this video;
-Said Paulus was sent over to West Germany instead of East Germany after the war.
-Perpetuated some very outdated myths such as the one rifle per 2 men thing (There was millions of Mosin's made equipping light infantry was never an issue for the Soviets that rifle had been produced since 1891).
IIRC The myth comes from an account of Naval Infantry troops being issued half their rifles before heading to the east bank of the Volga then being equipped fully upon entering the combat zone, not heading into combat half armed. (And also stories from the Tsarist army of the Civil War).
-Blocking detachments gunning down falling back troops after failed attacks for "retreating" when order 227 was aimed at commanders issuing retreat orders for divisions/armies not line troops falling back from failed attacks. They also shot/arrested/returned soldiers back to units who attempted to desert or broke from stress, most were returned to units.
-Human waves again with 1 rifle per 2 men.
wrong, Stalingrad had Tiger I and Tiger 2 divisions
@@timyo6288 The 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion was deployed to the Don Front in the autumn of 1942, but arrived too late to participate in Operation Winter Storm, the attempt to relieve Stalingrad. It was subsequently engaged in heavy defensive fighting in the Rostov-on-Don and adjacent sectors in January and February 1943.
1:10:35 I think you meant to say he was returned to East Germany. Great video, I never tire of this topic!
If I remember right, it was called Tsaritsyn for 300+ years when it was named after Stalin for his (supposed) role in the Civil War. Then, it became named Volgograd after Stalin died during Khrushchev's "De-Stalinization"
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Stalin defended Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War, and was only named Stalingrad well afterwards. I don't know if Volgograd was ever used as a name for the city until fairly recently.
@@DrCruel If you interested:)
From 1961 it was Volgograd, some 9 years after Stalins death.
Tsaritsyn roughly means "Her queens".
Volgograd roughly means City on Volga, volga being name of the river.
@@DugeHick Thanks for the info.
One of many complete falsities in this "documentary" mate, the whole thing is full of complete bullshit.
Worst excuse for factual content I've ever seen
@@DugeHick no, Tsaritsyn means yellow river
Another fantastic documentary. Please keep up the amazing work!
It's factually incorrect throughout starting from the very first minute lmao
Great commentary. Thx.
awesome doc bro, thanks
amazing documentary. I had wished you had used more maps though, but not complaining still a nice documentary.
The battle of Stalingrad has fascinated me for many years. This Video fills in some of the gaps I didn't realize were gaps in the historical accounts of my extensive video collection on WWII. I really like all of the detailed accounting. I am pleased with this enhanced perspective.
The story of Stalingrad breaks my heart, I am often moved to great sadness.
Check out the TIK history channel battleground Stalingrad series, if you are interested in this, tell me this isn't amazing
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See the work of TIK history...
@@stephendavis6066 truly extensive and comprehensive evaluation of primary data.
Extensive collection, is it? Enormous library, gigantic video collection. You must be an academic just by chance wondered on this brilliant video?
See SOVIET STORM
Terrific photo montage, info spot on too. 👍
This battle has always piqued my curiosity from the German holdouts weeks after the surrender order to the plight of the Soviet people as they were starved to death. Just an incredible intersection of history and as always you guys did a fantastic job presenting the facts. Love your videos and the hard work you all put into the research and creation.
mark felton has a great video on this
Mark Felton is the man, when it comes to WW2 history.
@@phucgougle4279 how so?
@@tavish4699 Anton Jollie disputes that there were several hundred German troops holding out causing disruption (German partisans if you will) his data from Soviet records indicate there were isolated stragglers at best. Not an organized cabal as Felton’s video purportedly infers.
@@comanche6943 ah okay thanks for the information
organized or not
one thing is clear , iwouldnt want to be one of those guys :D
Very well done documentary. Excellent narration, research and editing.
very good report. best i have seen.
what an amazing vid ty
My grandfather Kurt was member of SS division like all others ( ss only ) had his number tattooed on left biceps 1177. He walked by himself for 4 months after everything was lost in Stalingrad and sarcastically after he was so far away from there he got caught or arrested by Yugoslav partisans in Hungaro-Yugo border and kept in prison till end of war. After checking him out he was released on the end of war but met my grandma in Herzegovina and they got married. He died at age 96 and must say he was a great man with a lots of accomplishments done in his life time. Thanks for everything grandpa and God bless you!!!
BS story.
Great video👍 A small correction though: The German chief of staff was not called Alfred Lodl, but Alfred Jodl.
Great video, could you make one on Leningrad?
great footage
Watching this video, I learned more about the Battle of Stalingrad than I could ever have learned from Harvard or Yale. Good job!
Your video with excellent comments is the best I have ever seen about Stalingrad and other information involving the situation! Thank you!
Be aware that this video is full of errors; I hope you are able to sift the video and get an accurate view of this battle.
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If this is the best video you have seen on it I have to wonder how crap the other ones were. This "documentary" is just a bunch of nonsense myths that have been busted a long time ago.
Mate, relevant maps along with the geographical narration show a much clearer picture than innumerable photos of soldiers and tanks.
Particularly when the photos or footage aren't relevant to the time period (i.e. T34/85s being shown when talking about incidents in 1942).
To correct a mistake- Paulus was returned not to West but East Germany
yeah that males more sense now lol
Yeah i had to rewind that part to make sure i heard that correctly. West Germany was definitely not a “ Communist ally”
Good "soundtrack" for the video! Good job!
There was no Tigers at Stalingrad. The Tiger was starting his production in August 1942 so it would be impossible to deploy at the summer of 1942 for operation Blau starting in Juin 1942. At that time their best tank was the Mark IV only.
It is more than clear that the USSR was attacked on June 22, 1941, not only by the Germans.
They were there, and the Russians remember it well and have everything written down, and so do many European countries:
- Germany - with about 130 divisions;
- Italy - an expeditionary corps of 200,000 men sent to the USSR;
- Romania - sent 200,000 soldiers (infantry, squadrons, Black Sea and river fleet), with the intention of taking the Black Sea coast to the mouth of the Dnieper and the Crimean peninsula;
- Hungary - sent three armies and an expeditionary corps with over 500,000 soldiers. Objective: conquest of Transcarpathia;
- Finland - two armies (infantry, air force, navy) with a total of 450,000 soldiers;
- Slovakia - two and a half divisions (two infantry divisions, howitzer regiment, one anti-tank artillery regiment, one anti-aircraft artillery regiment, one air regiment and one tank battalion - 42,500 men from tiny Slovakia!;
- Spain - one infantry division and "Salvador" air squadron; Blue Division; Blue Legion;
- France - Legion of French Volunteers - 7,000 men, "Charlemagne";
- Denmark - Danish Volunteer Corps;
- Norway - Norwegian Legion; 23rd Volunteer Motorized SS Division "Nederland";
- The Netherlands - four volunteer motorized SS brigades "Nederland";
- Sweden - volunteers who were part of the Second SS Division: "Viking" and "Nortland";
- Switzerland - at least 2,000 Swiss volunteers - most often they were in the Sixth Mountain SS Division;
- Portugal - sent volunteers to the fascist units of Spain that went to war against the USSR;
- Estonia - The Estonian Legion and the Third Estonian SS Brigade, formed by mobilization by the Wehrmacht, but throughout the Second World War they actively joined German units;
- Lithuania - formed the following units to help Germany in the war against the USSR - 26 auxiliary battalions, about 13,000 people, five engineering battalions, 2,500 people, territorial defense forces, 12,000 people, and about 9,000 people in various units;
- Latvia - Latvian SS Volunteer Legion, two Latvian SS divisions, 87,000 men;
- Belgium - Flemish SS Legion; Sixth volunteer SS assault brigade "Langemark", 25,000 men; tank corps; 27th volunteer infantry SS division "Langemark"; SS Brigade "Wallonia"; First "Walloon" Division;
- Bulgaria - although it did not directly send an army to the USSR, it attacked Greece and Yugoslavia, thereby freeing up additional German divisions to attack the USSR, while giving all ports and airfields to supply the German army in the USSR! (he behaves similarly now!);
- Croatia - sent three legions of volunteers (infantry, air and naval) to the USSR, and provided two more SS divisions composed of Croats and Muslims to fight against the Red Army;
- Russia - the Russian liberation army under the command of a former general of the Red Army who went over to the German side and mobilized Russians from migration who escaped after the October Revolution, but also Russian prisoners from German camps into his army - numbers around 140,000 to 150,000!;
- Ukraine - formed two battalions of Ukrainian nationalists from Western Ukraine, under the name "Nakhtigal" and "Roland", who fought against the Red Army;
- North Caucasus and Transcaucasia - with the help of Nazi Germany, the "Bergam" battalion, with 2,300 men, and the North Caucasus SS detachment were formed;
- Georgia - the Georgian Legion was formed, 30,000 men, under the command of the SS;
- Azerbaijan - formed the Azerbaijan Legion, 40,000 people;
- The SS Cossack Corps, which included the Ukrainian SS Battalion, under the command of Germany, had 35,000 men in its composition.
There are no Serbs there. Neither members of the King's Army units in the homeland, nor anyone else, wanted to fight against the Russians. The efforts of the Germans to force them failed.
And, finally, here is an interesting fact with this contribution: for every American who died in the Second World War, there were 80 soldiers of the Soviet Union who died!
And just to remind you: the Normandy landings took place on June 4, 1944.
Then the units of the Red Army broke and chased the remnants of Hitler's units to the countries of Eastern Europe towards Berlin. When the issue of the victor over Hitler had already been resolved a long time ago.
And some of the "values" of European countries, their America and their NATO, are reflected in the aforementioned figures.
Russians have these numbers written down on the bright pages of their history, they keep and remember them well.
Yeah the Russians are a great and reliable source. They are known to *not lie or exaggerate at all.....
Wonderful!
Excellent and interesting documentary 🤔
I don’t think Paulus could’ve left even if Hitler had said ok. They didn’t have enough vehicles or fuel to get out of there before they were surrounded.
1:10:35 Paulus was returned to East Germany not West Germany. EG was Warsaw Pact and Soviet affiliated. WG was with the West. Excellent video. Best film of the even IMHO is Enemy At The Gates.
Thnx tommy Hiltlerfiger
Superb doc.
Welll done. Most;y new footage.
The strongest person in world war two was the camera man
The 6th Army support came by a single rail line from Kharkiv.Trains could not be turned around and had to back up.I spent 22 yrs in Ukraine till 2014 and came home.
Excellent.
The symbolic grain elevator....awesome 🎯
AND Paulus was released after Stalins’ death to EAST Germany, not the West, as you stated. He wanted to return to his home, but the Russians still wouldn’t let him go completely, paying for his life in East Germany.
Excellent reporting of a horrible battle.
*This is phenomenal, and the effort that went into the creation of this is astounding! Thank you very much! God bless you* ❤
This is a great channel. Earned a sub from me.
Close to 1.5 million people dead during 6 months battle in one single city. The casualty is really high. Many of german best troops perished here.
Im guessing your german
They had it coming, what made them think that they were gonna just roll in and take over another country from it’s people?
But The Sergeant. 9f Lennard, 900 days, killed 500,000 civilians, most starving and freezing to death....so terrible
@@elessartelcontar9415 That was civilian deaths not combat.
@@Ndisikasewe Bit like another Dictator currently occupying Stalin's old position in the Kremlin today.
I give credit to all tremendously brave Soviet troops but too many died because of poor military tactics. A huge overwhelming number and rearmament. But Stalingrad was one example of brilliant military tactics. They did give up many men but the two secret armies that encircled the Germans around Stalingrad was a brilliant idea and changed the entire war.
Nine Soviet armies.
Let me guess, were you brought up on the film "Stalingrad" about Vasily Zaitsev? By the way, this movie is a complete lie
Tell me, how, under poor command, did one Stalingrad house with a small platoon of soldiers last longer than the whole of Europe? More Germans died than during the storming of Paris
And how did they win in Stalingrad, having lost 400 thousand fewer soldiers?
@@sTiErLiTz876
That Stalingrad house didn’t last as long as they say and the main reason was because they were out of the way from where the Germans were trying to go.
Still they did good
That's OK, the Russians are killing the Nazis now 8/1. Not a bad ratio, history repeating itself... with the shoe on the other foot.
If usa and britain hadn't sent extreme amount of military,raw material,logistic and food aid to the bolsheviks ,and %100 of the german troops on the eastern front,you bolshevik d@gs would have lost moscow in 1941 and st@lingrad in 1942 and surrendered unconditionally
Super cool photos.
Unlike yours.
Paulus just needed to keep waiting on Steiner's counter attack.
Tik uploaded the actual radio conversations between Manstein and Paulus, incredible record of the debate on Stalingrad..
I have noticed a big mistake in the begin of the documentary, he said paulus wasn't as committed to the nazi cause as other generals but it is a known fact that paulus was one of hitler's biggest fan's, for those who wish to contradict me, paulus asked for a breakout and surrender for multiple times because he realised the battle couldn't be won and he wanted to save his men from the worst, because he held hitler in such a high regard he listened to his orders to stay put and fight for the city, comparing him to rommel who more than once refused direct orders is unspeakable
Sometimes the best thing a general can do is obey a direct order ! The fact that man stayed and fought and sacrificed his boys just to appease Hitler makes him a POS imo. A officer's job is to keep his men alive first and foremost and kill the enemy second and worry about the personal opinions of leadership that isn't on the ground LAST !
A most ignorant comment.
Thanks for your work. That said, it's too bad you only use still photos instead of video, except for the introduction part.
Good but none will ever touch World at War. Olivier’s voice! The gravitas!
It’s fascinating to note that American industrial architect Albert Kahn designed both the Willow Run factory for Ford to build B24 bombers…AND…the Dzerzhinskiy Tractor Factory, site of some of the fiercest battles with Stalingrad proper. In the midst of the battle, fierce bombardment and building to building fighting was taking place in one section, while tanks were coming off the assembly line and being fed into the battle at the other end. Much of Dzerzhinskiy was actually manufactured in the USA and shipped to USSR for assembly in the late 1030s.
It’s heavily disputed to be a myth that soviet tanks were still being produced and pushed into combat. The tractor factory was taken by the Germans early on in the battle and remained in German occupied territory for most of the battle. It’s widely knows that the Soviets pulled off a great feat of logistics by de industrializing the eastern front and moving their factories eastwards away from the German invasion. By the time the Germans were within reach of Stalingrad the city would’ve been evacuated of strategic war material and turned into a fortress city. What production remained would’ve been last minute orders done with the bare necessities. There are reports of unfinished or bare bones T-34s being turned into last minute bunker positions having only their machine guns to work with.
Yep... The yanks are great at machinery.
They are sh1t however, at the grit it takes, when it comes to invading other people's homelands.
The Tractor Factory relied on Barrikady Gun Factory and Krasnyi Oktyabr'. Krasnyi Oktabr' had relied on Volga shipping to get raw materials.
Shipping into Stalingrad was still going on in August, but by September sinkings from air attacks made that shipping too risky, and it was discontinued.
On September 13 when the German attack reached downtown Stalingrad, tanks newly assembled at the Factory were still being produced. But by the time of the October 14 assault on the Tractor Factory the factory was turning out repaired tanks--not new ones.
Nice video bro...
Nice face.. bro.
Absolutely love your narration.
If I could change one little thing.
The background music has a pitch through it that fades in and out every 10 seconds.
I was sure the sound was coming from my fan or central heating 🤔
Took me over 10 minutes to figure it out !!
I know (stoopid 🤪)
First half: How to lure the most colossal and best equipped army in the history of warfare into the most colossal trap in the history of warfare without knowing what you are actually doing.
Second half: How to finally realize what has actually happened, seize the moment and mercilessly close the trap…Operation Uranus.
Paulus fought as good as he could, considering pressure from Hitler and lack of supplies. He did the right thing in the end too.
If Paulus hadn't fought, 3 million German/European soldiers would have been trapped in the Caucuses... 20,000 Wehrmacht and SS didn't surrender and prolonged the effort long enough to get these men out!
@@chainsaw3577 I don't think Paulus was a Nazi either. Probably hated Hitler. Especially at the end.
this doc is like a kindle book
The amount of men and equipment used in this battle is mind boggling. Determined defenders beat the Germans in the "rat war" after watching this I have nothing but respect and admiration for the sacrifice and determination to defend their homeland.
Maybe splitting up army group south wasn't such a good idea??
No sh1t Sherlock
If they wanted to win, they should have split the army up into 30 groups. Reheheheheheheheheheheheh I joke I joke
They had to get the oil fields.. The supply lines were too big.. The front was too stretched. I am Austrian. For my understanding and analysis, the war was lost because of the delayed offensive. For example: Italy messed up against the Balkan, Greece and other countries.. Hitler had to do the fireman to rescue Mussolinis offensives.. The late start into Barbarossa doomed the whole operation. Same as attacking great Britain.. Too late! Thank God we lost. Hitler was one evil of a madman. And if the war lasted only a few months longer, the first atomic bomb would have rained on us instead of Japan!
@@Nitroat-xo4tj US wouldn't have used the atomic bombs in Europe.. Japan 🗾 an island nation easier to deal with fallout as country has no real borders with other nations.
@@Nitroat-xo4tj Winter was coming
"Machine guns behind Soviet soldiers so they couldn't retreat" essentially never happened outside of Enemy at the Gates.
This whole video is full of complete bullshit mate, starting from minute 1.
It's honestly the worst attempt at factual content I've ever seen.
It did for very short time and in penal battalions only
@@Cardan011 it was a propaganda tool to stop people from attempting to run the begin with, there were never enough actual men in the detachments to actually stop a retreat.
Don't tell me this crap documentary rehashed that nonsense too. I stopped watching after the "Winter defeated the Germans" BS.
@@timothyhouse1622 yeah that's as far as I got too
Der Helm mit Munition Loch ist wunderbar....
Splendid ☺️
As is your mother.
I have been fascinated by the Battle of Stalingrad since I was a kid. I still have one question to which I cannot find an answer. The General staff of the Wehrmacht were brilliant and well-schooled in military tactics, strategy and - most importantly - history. They knew before the invasion of the USSR that Hitler’s plan would be a disaster - and one that proved to the beginning of the end of Nazi Germany. So why would these intelligent and keenly aware men follow Hitler’s suicidal plan ??? I’m all ears if anybody has the answer.
Where to begin? I'm not sure how to answer because I don't know how you communicate. So I'll see if you can follow me on this one. Unlike me,who admittedly said that I don't know you well: Hitler did understand what made the generals tick.he was keenly aware of how to get them to come along with him and also to keep them loyal. Sadly ,for their so called brilliance led the most of them to sell their integrity for a few reichsmarks and some young pretty woman. Liquor drugs and sex throw in some money,hell it wasn't too difficult for Hitler to get His wsy
His previous advice to hold the line outside Moscow, and his insistence on air supply in a similar situation of isolation, gave him credibility against the OKW opposition. There was also no reason to suspect a Russian attack, largely due to the overconfidence produced by a string of successes. And finally, after announcing to the world he had sealed off the Volga and captured the city, it became a matter prestige. Goering's idiotic insistence that he could supply Paulus ensured that there would be no withdrawal--even when it was still a possibility.
Hitler and Gobbels used propaganda lies to convinced them that they could win.
Two things I reckon...Hitlers hubris made them doubt their own tactical knowledge about what they knew was a doomed operation and secondly an unholy mix of fear and ambition..
@@annikascribe3465 “Pride precipitates the fall”, I guess.
Paulus , was not sent to West Germany, in fact he was put under house arrest at Dresdan ,in East Germany, where he died in 1957. Paulus was born in northern Austrian Habsburg empire.He, took part in German Army in first world war.Most of his life he was a teacher in German Military Academy, then a front soldier.He was one of the planner of Barbarosa .His role was behind the scene.When , commander of 6 Army died of heart ailments.Paulus was given command of 6 Army.
Paulus was put into a no-win situation. Had I been in his situation I would have attempted a breakout to save my army. It probably would have meant a firing squad but some of the men would have been saved.
Paulus was a yes man for Hitler.
Paulus despised the little corporal and placed _no_ value on his promotion to field marshal by this person of low stature that thugs had brought to power. His own heritage to which he owed his selection was that of aristocracy, _von_ Paulus. A staff officer to whom field commanders paid lip service, then went their own way said nothing of Paulus competence or lack thereof. Paulus was unsuited to the task of field command, lacked ruthlessness, wasted men and material and was otherwise _incompetent._ Hitler’s fatal mistake was that he had lost sight of his base of support and too soon wishing to cloak himself with a modicum of respectability chose _pedigree_ over _merit._ A skillful tactician would have enjoyed success and eluded entrapment. The war that Hitler was destined to win was lost at Stalingrad.
The Soviets isolated and captured the 6th army in order to rescue Paulus. His imprisonment a thinly disguised vacation. The Soviets knew that Paulus was the weak link in the chain, a commander-by-entitlement devoid of battlefield acumen. POW Paulus was allowed to phone his colleagues, eroding and undermining their confidence and faith in Hitler. If Hitler’s downfall may be attributed to any single party that person should be Paulus. Without Paulus assuming command the probability is high that Hitler might have enjoyed at least a partial victory, being permitted to retain Russian territory west of the Volga River, in order to stem the flow of Communism westward, in exchange for withdrawing from France and the other European nations that he had conquered.
If you listen to the context of it's sentence it seems to be an error of speech and supposed to say east germany.
It plainly stated that Von Riechenau died on crashing aircraft ill
My grandfather was in Stalingrad. He never talked about it. Not one word