179B - Stalingrad: Endgame - WW2 - January 31, 1943
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- The Allies are unable to win in Tunisia, though further east Bernard Montgomery has achieved his goal of driving the enemy out of Libya. To the west, the Casablanca Conference comes to its end and the Allies write a list of their war priorities. The Soviets, however, are on the move everywhere, closing in on Stalingrad, and launching new operations up and down the eastern front, to the dismay and detriment of the Axis forces.
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By February 1, 1943 the Germans had 989,620 deaths on the Eastern Front and approximately 3,000,000 wounded.
I remember what Indy said on the Christmas 🎄 episode, nothing applies to Stalingrad more: let's not do this again!
Why do y'all call Friedrich Paulus "Jose"?
@@Eric_Hutton.1980 I think, oddly enough, it was his middle name, I' m not really sure. Maybe another viewer can throw a little more light on the reason.
Every German soldier carried some extra supplies which could be stored for a long time but still had much nutritional value, called iron ration. It was only to be used with the explicit order from commanders. I once saw a documentary in which one of the man who survived Stalingrad told about the moment the order was finally given there, he said it was the only time he laughed at Stalingrad because literally everyone had already eaten his
Haha, kameraden, we are fucked, but you are more fucked than I am.
my grandma was in Stalingrad during the encirclement. when she was liberated she left to live Ukraine . because there’s nothing to eat in Stalingrad. when she returned to visit eight years later ,she said there were still German POWs working in the city. by the way my grandma is still alive and lives in fort worth texas , she is 92 years old .
I hope Texas has been good for her. I can only imagine the memories she lives with. Da Babushka Vitaly fparyatkye.
@vitaly tarankov That's amazing, we're very glad she made it through. Thanks for sharing your family's story, and stay tuned for much more
@@WorldWarTwo I love personal stories like that in the comments. They are a cherry on top of your amazing videos, add some personal drama and connect them to the present time
Please let her tell all her memories, and make an audio recording.
If she can bear reliving it all, ofc
All those memories, and tiny tiny details, will soon be lost for the rest of humanity's existence
Well, while this was going on, My Uncle Claude was in Algeria fighting the Nazis and My Great Uncle Cecil was in Fort Hood Texas in training. The German Army stuck fighting in Soviet Union meant that they wouldn't be in Italy and France waiting for my 2 uncles when they got into Europe to fight their way towards Germany.
Over 1.5 million people died from all countries fighting for Stalingrad and its surroundings... That's more than all casualties from both sides on Western front (in 1944-45). The amount and concentration of human suffering was truly terrible
life is precious
The worst thing about this is this isn't even the largest nor the most consequential operation.
It simply happened to be confined to a smaller area. This is what, 5+ months? Bagration yielded slightly above a million dead from combat alone, in 1 month .
It was far more than 1.5 million.......
@@putlerkaputt9201 Life is very cheap actually.
@@bazzakeegan2243 Except it wasn't, was a few hundred-thousand less than that actually. These silly inflated numbers get bigger every time some TH-cam commenter repeats them.
The craziest part of this intense, horrific battle? There's still two and half years of fighting to go.
Yes even despite setbacks and losses for the Axis up to this point, Germany and Japan are still both in very strong positions and would take quite a while longer to take down.
2 ? Look at how easily the southern front has broken , Ukraine's next within a month !
@@theswordsman7114 Yes, fighting in Europe ceases in May 1945 when Germany surrenders. Almost 2 and a half yearrs later.
Really? Bulk of western armies fought for 8 weeks in Normandy and 12 weeks up on the Dutch german border. Remind me who did the rest of the fighting...the Italians in Italy?
How could you possibly know that? There’s still a lot of ground to cover.
The behavior of Paulus isn't surprising : He didn't commanded any real great unit before the Sixth army, yet he was under incredible pressure for more than four months and got his whole army destroyed piece by piece...
He's clearly having a monumental nervous breakdown...
@@kayobee604 Yeah, he warned the OKH many times about the weakness of his wings, yet nobody listened him and at the same time, they despised them.
It had to be maddening for him.
@@kayobee604 True enough.
While again everybody in the OKH knew about the catastrophic and nightmarish condition of russia since 1941 : the russian railroadss weren't adapted to the german train, so there was monstruous traffic jam between poland and germany, the werhmacht used different trucks from at least half a dozen of different country, which mean that even using and repairing them was complicated.
We also see hordes of panzer, but truth is, many infantry division just walked.
Those fact explain that the Sixth army was very slow his march on Stalingrad, and explain the loss of initiative of the german army : each time the russian attack, the standard division must wait and defend because even if they retreated, they wouldn't outrun the mass of russian tank...
Many time at the battle, the german themselves had to slow their offensive, because they used 23 millions of rounds, and by the 29 october, they ran out of shell and grenades...
Coming back to Paulus, if I remember well, ironically, PTSD just ceased to be recognized when the nazi came to power.
His inability in the late stage of battle make me thing that he was just reduced of a stereotypical behaviour induced by his training, and that was Schmidt who had the real decisionnary power, but I am maybe mistaken.
I believe most of the orders and/or planning were coming from a subordinate of his after the airfields were lost.
@@kayobee604 Yes, he knew back before Barbarossa that it wouldn't work. After all, he was in charge of the war games that showed an invasion of Russia was doomed to failure.
@@davidw.2791 Sorry, didn't saw your question untill now.
The trick is, many of german infantry division just didn't had enough vehicle for them.
The other armies, didn't either, but it was blatant in the case of the German one, as their tactics was based on shock, surprise and speed, and a generally attack and counter-attack thinking.
While they were on defense, the lack of vehicle prevented any fast retreat or move, making them dependent on railroad and increasingly less apt to counterattack on a large scale.
*Paulus:* Mein Furher! The situation in Stalingrad is hopeless!
*Hitler:* Thoughts & prayers!
Leonid Vinokur, mentioned in this video is my granduncle. I never knew him, he died 4 years before I was born but I knew his family. I spent a lot of time with his grandkids- my cousins. And I remember they showed me his war trophies such as Friedrich Paulus's flask, his field binoculars and a silver paper knife he took from Paulus's HQ. Thank you for mentioning him. It was an unexpected and joyful occasion.
@stella vinokur That's incredible to hear from a relative of someone who helped in Paulus' defeat; cherish those memories and keepsakes in your family. Thanks for watching and for bringing a bit of your family history to the channel
Rokossovsky: "Come, sit down. Are you Friedrich José Paulus?"
Paulus: "¡Si Señor!"
I always knew we would get this iconic photo as a thumbnail for the episode in which the Battle of Stalingrad ends, or in this case is about to end.
That photo is iconic but sad as well considering only 5000 of 90000 German POW Survived
@@cheriefsadeksadek2108 My greatgrandfather almost became one of those men trapped in the kessel
All main history books says less than 10,000 Germans returned from the 90,000 plus they were marched off into captivity
@@cheriefsadeksadek2108 because most of them never even made it to captivity.
@@cheriefsadeksadek2108 Most of them were barely alive when they were taken prisoner... Many died even before capture to hunger, cold and dysentery
Feels like just yesterday that the Battle of Stalingrad just started and now the end of it is near. Time sure passes relatively fast... depending on who you ask.
For the poor fellows inside the city (german and soviet, civilian and military personel) each day felt like an eternity of death and starvation
It's all relative. In TIKs timeline it goes slow-mo. ;)
It feels like just yesterday that we had a WWII in real time episode (because it literally was yesterday).
It was long for me personally. Much has happened not just in the city but throughout Russia including the Caucasus and the northern frontline.
“The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those scorching howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure.”
Quote by Leutnant Weiner, 24th Panzer Division
The battle of Stalingrad is WW2 in a microcosm. Incredible damage, loss of life and human rights abuses. But also a battle that starts with Germany seemingly invincible and the Soviets seemingly on their knees. And then the turning point and complete reversal, followed by a götterdammerung end in the ruins of Stalingrad. Maybe this is why this battle fascinates us so much.
At Stalingrad was where the European World War II was decided. Everything that Hitler could do after that was only delay of the reckoning.
Would still be an interesting place for a visit. Even though it has reverted to its former name.
@@davidpowell3347 No, its new name. Tsaritsyn -> Stalingrad -> Volgograd
Seemingly is an accurate word here
I myself wouldn't think the Germans were invincible in 1942, cause we've seen them being stopped and even pushed back after Moscow
I'd say they seemed totally unstoppable all the way to the end of October 1941
Seeing them being able to only attack with 1 army group in 1942 made it clear that they're far from being as strong as they were before, and are pushing themselves to their limit
Berlin: “Your sacrifice will not be in vain. Goodbye”
Stalingrad soldiers: What sacrifice 😳
Fun Fact: It was in vain.
So Steiner failed again!
@@Yora21 completely in vain, a total waste of the 6th Army, it could have been broken out at one point except for Hitler's ego
@@jjayyoung7335 Doubtfull. It did not have the fuel or ammunition or food supplies for breakout. It would have been a disaster. There might have been a possibility say 1-2 days after they were encircled in 1942 but after a brief period no.
@@NastyCupid "If you can't be a good example, you can still be a dire warning."
Franklin D. Roosevelt made a commemorative speech to the city of Stalingrad.
“In the name of the people of the United States of America, I present this scroll to the City of Stalingrad to commemorate our admiration for its gallant defenders whose courage, fortitude and devotion during the siege of September 13, 1942, to January 31,1943, will inspire forever the hearts of all free people. Their glorious victory stemmed the tide of invasion and marked the turning point in the war of the Allied Nations against the forces of aggression." ~FDR
-Mr. President, have you got the scroll?
-No General, I always walk like this! Bahdum-tish!
There is also the Sword of Stalingrad, commissioned by King George VI, that will be presented by Churchill to Stalin at the Tehran Conference.
@@nicholasconder4703 ah really. Never knew that. That’s pretty cool. Now with the Allies being on the success they shall go on to the end. Godspeed to those who died.
Later, the US awarded Chuikov the Distinguished Service Cross.
Paulus said "I do not plan to die for this Bavarian corporal" after he got promoted
One of the best episodes ever. Your coverage of Stalingrad has been amazing, and inspired me to get all four of Glantz's books on the battle. Will be starting them soon, will probably take me longer to read them than the length of the battle itself, but your videos will inspire me to the end.
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Twas one h3ll of a delivery- totally engaging from the first words . . .
All I can think about is the end of the world at war episode on Stalingrad where it shows the victorious German goose stepping in France and then contrasts it with the miserable shuffling of the 6th army survivors on their way to captivity.
Yes, very solemn stuff. What a remarkable bit of TV. I pirated it recently, it was everything I remember, and more, given how much more I know now. The opening and closing episodes - "one day the soldiers came." Damn.
The 6th where Hitler's elite they were comprised of the creme-de-la-creme of the the Hitler Youth
If you ever wondered what happened to the hardcore Hitler Youth members from the 1930s and why they weren't around causing trouble after the war ,you now know
I can't think of any nation whose soldiers did the goose-stepping routine that wasn't a totalitarian state.
@@angelonunez8555 The ironic thing is the communists loved it as much as the Nazis and fascists did.
@@brucetucker4847 they did theirs with their legs stretched out even longer than the Germans.
There was a pretty significant air raid on Berlin on the 30th. Goering was giving a speech and broadcasting it on radio berlin but was interrupted by British planes flying over the city after promising that no enemy plane would fly over Germany years earlier
“No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr,” he assured them. “If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Göring. You can call me Meyer.”
Meyer
@@John-ru5ud can you explain "meyer" pls?
@@TheRifild Basically it’s a common name in Germany (like Smith in England*) so if a Allied bomber made it to the Rühr the people can say that he’s average
@@ziomeke5580 thanks!
10 years - that's enough to lift up a country surrounded by applause and bring it down in weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Few countries have reached such highs only to reach such lows.
From being at the gates of Moscow to this in just one year.
It's kind of symbolic that 10th anniversary of Nazi takeover basically also the day of the greatest German military defeat in history (as of January 1943). It greatly shows that Nazis brought only disaster and death even to a country they were supposed to lever to the greatest of glories.
Anyway I'm greatly looking forward to an episode describing reactions to German defeat in both Allied and Axis countries.
It's the extra episodes like these that make me proud to be a member of the Timeghost Army. You guys shed light on the parts of history in an informative and entertaining way that's simply incredible. Honestly, keep up the good work!🙏🙏
@Justus De Boer Thank you for the kind words. It really is amazing how engaged & thoughtful our audience is. Never forget
I knew how this would end, but Indy and the crew has taken us on a hell of a ride, telling the story in a new way and new format and occasionally I expected the 6th army to win. 👍
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Of the roughly 90,000 German soldiers left alive to surrender at Stalingrad, about half died on the march to the Siberian gulags. In 1955, only about 6,000 were still alive when West German chancellor Konrad Adanauer negotiated the final return of POWs with the Soviet Union. Paulus survived captivity and was released in 1953 on the understanding that he reside in communist east Germany where he died in 1957.
Most of them were too exhausted to survive
5% compare to general 66% general survival rate of German pows through the war
El Alamein, Stalingrad, Midway, these three moments are so so damned pivotal and you have covered them brilliantly
Kursk, Normandy, Monte Casino, Bastgone, Market Garden and Berlin still to come
@@Azzeyman25 personally I'm most excited for Leyte Gulf
I have no sympathies for the Nazi's or the Werhmacht. But if I were part of the delegation nwho went down into Paulus' quarters to get him out, I would have been in awe. It's like reaching down into the rotting heart of a beast that has been terrorizing your people for a long time, then finding the dark, almost lifeless heart still beating to the tune of silent madness.
That was...very poetic. I liked that. In the end, the devil is human, and as pathetic as all of us.
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“Mein Fuhrer,
The swastika flag still flies over Stalingrad.
Yours forever,
Jose P”.
I've been revisiting episodes from 1941 and 42 and truly, history is sometimes much better than fiction. The whole Univermag scene is told by Indy as if I was watching it in a movie theater. Every last detail of his narration paints the picture perfectly. I think this one, along with the Prokhorovka and Midway ones, are your best episodes ever
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That 10 year celebration was basically the last “hurrah” for the fascist era in Germany and the perception in Germany of the war as a foreign adventure, very soon the magnitude of the defeat in Stalingrad becomes clear, the normal civilian economy (which had been maintained in both Germany and Italy to this point to maintain popularity for the war) is ended as “total war” is declared to defend “fortress Germany” with the frontlines all the way back into Ukraine, Germany’s allies start turning on her after their own destructions in Russia, and the allies begin bombing German cities day and night as the depleted Luftwaffe can do little to resist
I know this battle almost by heart, yet you manage to tell his history amazing and interesting again.
Love your work !
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@@WorldWarTwo You bet I will !
Two episodes in one weekend, you're spoiling us.
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To put things in perspective, the battle of Stalingrad reaped 1.5 million souls (axis and soviets) that's more than *ALL THE COMBINED deaths (military and civilian)* of USA, UK and France from World War ||
To also put things in perspective, Russian civilian and military deaths during all of WW2 constitute about one-third to a half of all casualties caused during the conflict (ca. 22 million out of 50-70 million). It should also be mentioned that a large fraction of these were inflicted on the Russian populace by Stalin and the Soviet leadership.
It’s not just uk, it’s the British commonwealth. In fact the british empire lost roughly the same at the Somme as they did in ww2, same can be said of paeschendale.
@@nicholasconder4703 " It should also be mentioned that a large fraction of these were inflicted on the Russian populace by Stalin and the Soviet leadership."
That's cold war horseshit and you know it lol
@@sebastiangorka200 No, it is not. There is Stalin's order to have people shot for retreating, which were carried out. There are also accounts of Russians shooting their own people because they don't want the communists back. Then there are the forced deportations of the Volga Germans and others. And how many soldiers who ended up being repatriated after the war ended up in Gulags? We might never know, but Wikipedia gives as follows: "The minimum death toll uses the minimum post-archive calculations from after the fall of the Soviet regime of those killed in famine (5,500,000), Gulags (1,053,829), executions (799,455), and deportations of Kulaks (389,521), ethnic minorities (450,000), baltic citizens (45,809), and expelled Germans (300,000), plus the Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939-1946) (150,000)." So you are looking at a minimum of 1 million Soviet citizens killed by Stalin during ww2, NOT INCLUDING soldiers sent to the Gulags or executed (buried in the Gulag and execution statistics).
Interesting, I was always under the impression that the German defeat in Stalingrad after Uranus was a slow decay under a largely inactive siege but they were actually being pushed inwards quite quickly the whole time
Yeah I also had that misconception, though I think I got it from the fantastic German Stalingrad movie. In that the last real battle scenes are long before the movie ends, and the last scenes are all about the quiet withering away of everyone's humanity. I was a bit surprised to hear that the fighting was intense as ever until the last.
I think that impression comes from stories of the German survivors who described the siege from their perspective. Many of them were rear services people who may have dealt with bombing and such but weren't involved in day-to-day combat like the front line infantry. Even surrounded they were several km behind the lines and they would have experienced it as a slow decay right up until the final Soviet offensives.
I imagine the Soviets would have rather preferred a slow, largely inactive siege that just starved Sixth Army out, but had to force the issue for strategic reasons.
@@Oxtocoatl13 I think the Germans depicted in the Vilsmaier "Stalingrad" movie are supposed to be in one of the outlying areas that didn't consolidate into the last "caldron",they were sort of AWOL from the group (remember the scene of the death of the evil hauptmann who caught them trying to eat from an airdrop) then they find the stash where he (the hauptmann) had been holed up with a captured sex slave and some food that hadn't been available to the conscripts command and control was sort of breaking down
remember the scene where the last JU 52 aircraft are trying to leave the airfield as the Russian artillery is closing in and all kinds of Germans including some of our heros are trying to get on the last planes and horrible gorget wearing feldgendarmerie are beating them off
Two months isn’t quickly
Around 91,000 Germans left Stalingrad as POWs. Around half of them died en route to captivity. Mere 6,000 of them ever got back to Germany.
September 18 1942: Stalingrad falls ?
The Axis: Yes...
January 31 1943: Stalingrad falls ?
The soviets: Yes...
First, I want to thank you for all the excelent work with this channel. I recommended to everyone interested about WWII. Second, I've never seen the Battle of Stalingrad described in such details on any other documentaries/TH-cam channel/whatever. For us, Romanians it is the biggest military defeat in history. In my opinion, there are two moments that turned the tide of the war. In chronological order, Stalingrad and D-Day.
@Constantin Dodocea We appreciate you watching, please stay tuned for more coverage every week as the war unfolds beyond Stalingrad
That thumbnail picture really puts into perspective the dreadful situation those German Soldiers were put into at Stalingrad.
Oh my, what a tie! We need a closeup here Indy. FOr now it's a 4/5
Fantastic storytelling. Thanks for the bonus episode!
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Despite the hellscape of Stalingrad (officially) being over, we all know that the "Total War" speech is going to come up very soon.
Wohlt ihr den totalen krieg?
@@alexanderraz. nope
An absolutely riveting delivery of a well-written account of the conclusion of this horrific battle, covering human things that are not really something you would learn in school. That is what I subbed to this channel for. Well done.
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4:12 - German soldier wearing straw over-boots, designed to be worn by sentries outdoors in the cold, as frostbite often starts from the feet so these need special protection.
I never thought I'd feel such dread at listening to a Nazi defeat. I just honestly couldn't imagine being in Paulus's shoes, and the description of his absolute state when the Red Army came for him was fairly haunting. If I was him, I would've tried to make that desperate last stand instead of simply surrendering, just so I would've died on my own terms, standing beside the men I've led to doom.
Then again, I'm sure having been encircled for so long and withered away by the Soviets would've disillusioned anyone of any concept of glory or honor, especially the idea that you're part of some "ubermecht."
Guess it just goes to show just how horrible a battle Stalingrad was when you feel sympathy for even the bad guys.
In such situations your mind plays any trick with you pushing for survival and finding a way out... So its hard to say what anyone would have done until he is put in similar situation.
@@lexbor3511 I suppose so.
Paulus could have kept fighting and gotten killed. But this way, he ended up speaking to whatever would become of Germany after the war was over.
I believe Paulus was actually treated quite well after the war.
As far as "bad guys" I think a lot of the young patriotic German conscripts were a lot like our idealistic patriotic young people on their way to Viet Nam.
Mark Felton made a video about german resistance in Stalingrad after the surrender of Paulus and Strecker. The NKVD reported apparently that until May another 11000 axis soldiers were killed or captured which is kind of insane.
that video deserves to be mentioned - and casts some unfortunate light on indy's phrase about no more bloodshed in Stalingrad.
Besides that, high quality content from WW2, as ever.
Rather like the Japanese soldiers who were hiding out on the Pacific Islands after they were "secured". The last Japanese holdout only surrendered in 1974.
Kind of impossible.
Stalingrad area is small,
everything leveled to the ground nowhere to hide,
snow and heating smoke uncovers, cold would have killed them in 2 weeks max.
@@nicholasconder4703 In 1942 a Ukrainian boy and his sister took shelter at a very isolated, abandoned and obsolete farm where they hid and promised one another to remain silent and never to leave the relatively safe area no matter what.
In the early 1990s, they were both still alive and when interviewed, they still thought, since they have had no contact with the outside world for five decades, that the war was still going on.
@@Tramseskumbanan That sounds a lot like the plot of "Blast from the Past", except it is not fiction. Yikes.
Great episode as always WW2 team, always a great pleasure to watch your videos!
Thanks EJ
I cant imagine the absolute drowning RAGE i wouldve felt if i knew my dad/son/brother was condemned to die in a frozen ruin for the sake of some grand "sacrifice" with no choice in his hands
It was reported that after the snow melted, the Russians recovered around 250,000 German bodies from the ground.
The stench must have been overpowering.
I saw a video of excavations being done in the former Stalingrad some years ago, a construction project, they found many bodies from the battle.
It might not have been too bad in February. Come April and the thaw the city was probably unliveable for a few months until they got it cleaned up.
I believe human remains are still sometimes come upon there. Plenty of Russians died there too.
@@davidpowell3347 They are found every year in the area directly west of Volgograd.
Both Soviet and German bodies, and the civilians.
At the begining of the encirclement, there was around 300.000 German soldiers in the pocket.
90.000 surrended, leaving around 210.000 unaccounted for.
05:13 You forgot about the lice the German soldiers were experiencing during this time too. Lice so thick that the German soldiers where able to throw handfuls of them at their Soviet victors like snowballs. Thank you for the video. Well done as always.
Jesus christ
gerries will never understand the catharsis i just felt
thanks for the great series
And Winter, slumbering in the open air, wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.
That is beautiful. Did you write that yourself?
@@tomwilson9024 Work without hope, by Coleridge. A beautiful, short poem.
well aren't you poetic.
@@tomwilson9024 Oh, of course not. It's from a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge called Work without Hope.
I read somewhere that about two or more soldiers got out of Stalingrad and walked across the frozen barren land to the German line and got killed by friendly fire.
Whats been fascinating about the Stalingrad coverage (and all WWII channel coverage) is having the story rolled out week by week - rolling out in real-time - but 79 years later.
The experience in this fashion is so superior to reading a couple of paragraphs about the battle in a history text, or a couple of chapters in a book, or even a full book on the specific topic.
Even knowing the eventual outcome of the battle or even the war I learn so much week-to-week, and even gain a level of suspense, frustration, and relief in the following of a campaign.
You guys at TimeGhost have absolutely mastered the delivery method.
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While watching TIK Stalingrad series, I am getting the feeling that maybe every German soldier in the 6th Army had: Just a little push until victory. I am really really glad that I am living now and not then...
I've learnt so much about WW2 from this channel. That's what's so great about TH-cam, the ability for regular detailed videos. Keep up the good work. 👍
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I was just going and looking at the great war youtube channel's page and...I kinda shed some tears. I remember when those videos were being uploaded. Kinda crazy that this is still going on. Thank you guys and keep up the fascinating work.
Thanks @Jacob Eberhardt . It is pretty sobering to look back at the Great War videos, where the human tragedy of all those lives lost and forever scarred is such a great theme in Indy's coverage, and then to come back here and see it being repeated on, incredibly, an even larger scale. Thanks for watching with us
I did not realize, until hearing TG's presentation of this saga, the extent to which armies are willing to destroy a city in the name of capturing it.
You will see it again and again as the war goes on. Manila and Aachen come to mind.
Mariupol, Bakhmut, Avdeevka - latest ones
The part of this battle that amazes me is that Soviet casualties were actually larger than total Axis force casualties even after including the surrender of the 6th Army.
It's not surprising they would be. The Soviets were butting up against strong, well-defended positions for months. As weak as they were, the German defenders had the strategic advantage up to the point they ran out of food and ammunition.
@@Raskolnikov70 The Red Army troops were also less well trained and in many cases not as well lead as their German counterparts. A lot of them were making rookie mistakes, and paid the price. And, as you said, they were attacking well defended positions as well.
Mr. Neidell certainly knows how to bring his histories to life.
This is a great surprise !! Two episodes in one weekend. Thankyou !!!! Greetings from México !!!
@Edmundo Tzompa Thanks for watching! 🇲🇽
Outstanding. Simply outstanding. I've been waiting for this episode and it didn't disappoint. Thank you Indy. Thank you TimeGhost Army.
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I have been waiting fo this moment and Indy and the TimeGhost team didnt dissapoint.. I got chills and the narrative was so intense and emotional. Great Job everyone. I couldnt be more of a fan
Lorena Thanks for your very kind words & enthusiastic support. It fills our hearts knowing you & all the TimeGhost Army take this history as seriously as we do.
I wonder how it felt for the Romanian troops trapped inside. To be promised extra training and equipment from the Wehrmacht, only to receive (IIRC) neither, bear the initial blunt of operation Uranus, and then find yourself trapped with some desperate Germans in a frozen hellhole far from any place your country has ever expressed any interest in.
We are not fighting against the Russians, but we are fighting against communism. Later, after occupying our country, you killed hundreds of thousands of Romanians in prisons and camps.Rest in peace all our dead and yours.
@@cristiandorumedelean6934OMG l so fu.king hate this
the "fighters against communism" killed 15-16 millions of civil unarmed citizen's with children's.
And now you're telling us how bad we were lol.
I'm anti communist, BUT you fought much much much more against women and children than against communism
f.ck off man
@@geoarte9482 Yeah it's not enough to be a 'fighter against communism' if the ideology you're willing (and plotting) to replace it with is just as bad or worse. Of course, that's what ideology does...blinds you to objective standards of right and wrong by obliterating critical thinking skills and equating 'rightness' with adherence to the ideology.
I've read that some of the romanian troops tought were fighting for Transylvania, as the hungarians had occupied large swaths of it, with Germany's blessing. They hoped that Hitler would somehow grant Romania back it's lands if they fought hard enough. Throughout the war, there were important troop concentrations on the hungarian/ romanian border, each side fearing the other.
Also it didn't help that the soviets took over Bessarabia with a 24h notice, and Bulgaria a smaller part in the south. You corner any country like that you turn the sheepards into soldiers.
@@victorpopa8392 I don't get it, since it was Hitler himself who gave Romanian land back to Hungary after reediting the Treaty of Trianon. Romania could take Bessarabia back, going to war against the Soviet Union, just like Finland did, but that was it. They were fighting for the survival of their country, that was to become a communist satellite without a strong anti Soviet power in Central/Eastern Europe. And the only candidate was Germany, as their former ally, France, was gone for any foreseeable future. Even after Hitler "mediation" ate a chunk of their country
I hope that Time Ghost at some point can put all of the Stalingrad 'bits' from the different weeks into one video compendium. You guys are amazing as always- thank you for your hard work ♡
@ami gami As an intern, I'd buy those DVDs! Thanks for the kind words, and stay tuned!
It sounds like Palus had PTSD
It would be safe to assume every man in what was left of his Army did
Check out Mark Felton's video on further resistance after the German surrender. Very interesting video.
yeah, Mark is a good historian too.
Hi Indy
This was never expected another video for this week.
Finally stalingrad battle finished..
Thumbnail of this video showcast suffering and agony..
Learned a lot past three months about stalingrad front...
Thanks..
Sooo many episodes do, of course, but this one especially deserves some sort of award!
Thank you for your very high praise. The whole crew works hard producing these episodes, and it means a lot to us reading feedback like yours. Please stay tuned
One of my favourite days of the war. The defeat of the Axis at Stalingrad!
Same here.
Same here and the final surrender is on my birthday!
I heard that Paulus surrendered on Chuikov's birthday. Which I think is a great birthday present for the man who so faithfully defended Stalingrad for so many months. Great video.
@Broken Bridge Thanks for watching
@@WorldWarTwo---Your welcome
I think that the germans that were trained at the Russian steppe in 1922 could never have imagined that a the German Army would get stuck here and defeated so brutally after 20 years.
I think we all can say that this talented and hardworking crew created and is creating the best documentary about ww2 as a whole. Connecting all the dots. And everyone of us learned and will learn something new about this greatest and the most important war in humans history.
@Lex Bor That is high praise indeed! Thank you for watching,a nd thanks for following along as we make our way through this war.
1:45 Wow, Hitler really just sent a "Thoughts and prayers
In a fascist hierarchy, you are praised and lauded, until you are not useful, then thrown to the wolves.
This is hard to say, because they're all so perfect, but I think this episode is upon the best you guys have come out with so far. Keep up the great work.
@eLuc_s We really can't stress enough how much kind words like that mean to the team. They work hard, and y'all are the best audience ever. Stay tuned
@@WorldWarTwo I’m honoured to get a reply! Looking forward to what you all have in store.
Dang I didn't expect this -- Sunday morning where I am! More great work.
@Tim L.B. Glad to have you with us
Your coverage of these events is truly magnificent. I cannot wait to hear you continue to go over the siege of Leningrad in as much detail as you did with the battle of Stalingrad.
@Justin LaFleur Thank you for the very kind words, plenty more to come in this war so please stay tuned
Well, minor defeats happen. I'm convinced the Wermacht will get back on its feet soon enough and win this short war, won't they ?
I don't know man.. they have to deal with the allies in the south as well.
History read and said like a sports page...doesn't get much better than that.
Stalingrad was the most important event in human history.
Dude, I just looked up your wikipedia page. You're pretty friggin awesome man.!
im almost "sad" Chuikov wasnt a part of the officers that met with paulus
Or Yerekenko. He had been involved since the beginning, while Rokossovsky was a better general, it's quite of a shame that Yeremenko wasn't the one assigned to finish Stalingrad when the front reorganization happened a few weeks ago.
Brilliant episode. I love the literary script and Indie's performance. It was so graphic I felt I was there.
@William Konarzewski Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it
"Dear God, please turn me unto a bird, so I can fly far far away." -German Solider from Stalingrad
Wow! I'm following the channel since the beginning of this project. It is a looooong time. Imagine how time passed slowly on the conscience of the people during the conflict. Good job !
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Nice of Paulus and Hitler to write in English so we could understand :) Great episode, thanks for your efforts.
Can't believe Stalingrad is finally over. Incredible coverage Indie and team! Keep it up, 1943 is just getting started!
@wolfson109 Thank you, the team does work very hard. And from me (intern), y'all in the TimeGhost Army make comment moderation positively enjoyable. Thanks for watching and stay tuned
Mr Johnson: "No, no, you've got the wrong map there, this is Stalingrad, you want the Ilfracombe and Barnstaple section."
Hilter: "Ah! Hein...Reginald you have the wrong map here you silly old leg-before-wicket English person."
Landlady: "Lucky Mr Johnson pointed that out, eh? You wouldn't have had much fun in Stalingrad, would you..."
I'm rewatching (currently episode is the second saturday after D-day, if anyone is seeing this in the future), and this is one of the best episodes of the series.
Riveting and tragic. Thanks Indy!
Thanks for watching with us
I would love to see a special video on how you go about rebuilding a city like Stalingrad, disposing of UXBs and relocating a population and so on.
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one
@Danijel Tatic Hello there
Amazing, masterfully told like I had never heard it told before, and yet also told with a very personal thread to it. That is the special characteristic of Time Ghost Army productions! Well done team!
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I served on a US Navy fast attack submarine during the Cold War. We did several secret (read Blind Man’s Bluff) and dangerous missions. On some, we were actually given cover stories in the event the USSR forced us to surface. We were then given an slightly different cover story that could be admitted to under torture. On some missions, we were told that under no circumstances were we to surface once we reached our destination. If we had a casualty that endangered the ship, we were to go down with the ship, never revealing our position. If we were detected by the USSR and could not evade, were were to destroy classified equipment and documents and the scuttle the ship.
The difference between us and the 6th Army being ordered to not surrender is our command kept us informed about what our mission was and the ongoing status. We were not lied to by our officers and if we didn’t want to go, we didn’t have to. All submariners are volunteers. We were not fed false stories about supplies and rescues and then ultimately sacrificed in a useless symbolic act by a madman because of his ego.
The only incident I ever witnessed was we had a mechanic get his thigh caught between a handrail and a hydraulic actuator and it ripped most of his upper thigh muscle off. We left station and transited for almost six days before we could surface and offload the mechanic to a helicopter. Had he died, he would have been placed in a body bag and put in the freezer and we would have remained on station. We had no doctor onboard. We had an E6 hospital corpsman that did a great job keeping the sailor alive.
Thank you for sharing such an experience with us!
@AbbyNormL Thanks for sharing your experience and perspective. That sounds incredibly difficult, I'm glad to hear the sailor survived
Those Navy Corpsmen sometimes did remarkable feats. One I most remember is from Blair's "Silent Victory", where a Navy Corpsman had to perform an appendectomy on a sailor while the sub was on station somewhere in the middle of the Pacific. They had to dive to about 100ft to steady the sub, use methanol (or something similar) to sterilize the surgical instruments, perform the operation (I believe they used the mess table ) and, on top of this, the Corpsman did the operation from diagrams and descriptions gleaned from a medical book (he obviously had no surgical training). The sailor in question made a full recovery.
Smiling Albert Kesselring was the (a) recon pilot who reported the empty wasteland aftermath.
Several thousand German soldiers actually held out and continued fighting informally until the end of February trying in vain to avoid being captured.
How the heck did they hold out for another month without supplies?
@@captainyossarian388 They stole them.
The NKVD said it was 11,000 men that had to be "liquidated." And, given that, I am not sure they were allowed to surrender.
I remember reading about the NKVD still finding random bands of Germans and Ukrainians well into March. I might be mistaken but I think there were a few that evaded capture and actually made it back to their own lines.
@@dongately2817 The NKVD reported some troops who had not surrendered were out in the steppe, infiltrating local villages and stealing food and clothes and trying to make it West, but I have yet to hear a report of anyone actually making it all the way out from the Kessel to German lines from February on.
@@marshalleubanks2454 "actually making it all the out from the Kessel" I think it was pretty much impossible, even in Summer.
Well done, Old Boy! Most history books relate only that Paulus refused to take his life for Hitler, and surrendered. You teased this apart and explained the nuance! Much obliged.
@Daniel Taylor Thanks for the support, we really appreciate the kind words. Much more to come
Loved this episode, keep up the class content!
@RubberToe Thanks for the kind words!
I never thought about it until now it very interesting to see a mark Felton and time ghost ww2 collaboration
Paulus is awful for not surrendering for a month now. Signed death sentence for his men for nothing.
That's what I was thinking all along. He was no hero. The heroic thing, after Manstein failed to break them out, would have been to tell Hitler to shove,, surrender, and try save his guys.
Nope. He knew that every day he held Stalingrad is a day the Russians could not ship bulk men and supplies south along the Volga or the railway running alongside it. And in fact that made all the difference to Manstein down south, letting his whole Army Group escape.
@@kenoliver8913 nuh. Rest of army group South could have withdrawn with relative ease. What was preventing is Hitler's refusal.
and stalingrad is over. what a monumental event.
just got back to watching ww2 week by week. my new job kept me away. gotta catch up!
Thank you for joining us, and good luck catching up1 There's lots more action to come