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
_Stalingrad_ by Antony Beevor is a fascinating book of a truly very bloody and protracted battle fought with great ferocity by both sides. Stalingrad was where many German soldiers began to lose confidence in the strategic acumen of _der Führer._
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.
The line wasn't "frozen" in the winter of 41-42. The battle for Moscow, or known as the Battles of Rzhev, was in the top 5 largest battles in history and the Axis were flung back away from Moscow by several 100kms.
It bothers me every time i hear the winter stopped the Wehrmacht in 41, The Soviets stopped the Wehrmacht they had to deal with winter just as the Germans.
And nothing to indicate the war in the East would be over if the Nazis captured Moscow. The Soviets had moved much of their heavy industry hundreds of miles East. Napoleon captured Moscow in 1812 and that didn't defeat the Russians that time
Actually, the winter "frozen ground" allowed the Panzer groups to resume the offensive which was bugged down primarily by rain and thus mud previously.. but by then, soviet reserves had come, and managed to counter attack and repel them
Why not at least leave enough time to actually watch and appreciate the effort that went into making this clip before asking him to make another, seeing as it was uploaded 20 minutes or so ago and you comment 11 minutes after.
There is no proof the battle of Stalingrad ever happened. There isn't a single video or pictures that exist showing the battle. It's a conspiracy, made up by the West
My father wich my growing but wasn't my true father was 25 years on the war .he told my nou with this film l remembered so much.hou much tears bring the war hou much brouk down .my father A A. had all what was worst.broukens milions peoples lifes dreams loves and families.
At about 58:00 it is said that the sound of distant artillery fire could be heard by some of the trapped in the Stalingrad pocket as Manstein's force (actually led by Hoth on the ground) achieved its closest approach before having been forced to turn back in the early days after the surround a few Germans could leave and arrived via the airfields but eventually the pocket became whittled down and the airfields were lost although planes sometimes got through to airdrop a few things as depicted in the Vilsmaier movie "Stalingrad" in the movie script says that last ("flying plane"?) left Stalingrad on January 23 surprising that the Germans had airfield at that late date,depicted in the movie that Soviet shelling of an airfield had begun as the hated Gorget wearing German guards were manhandling regular Germans who were trying to get into the last plane outgoing
The irony was even bigger... Von Paulus was the unique fieldmarshall of German state ever to surrender to enemy.... More than that to make humilliation even greater Von Paulus was pleading in captitivity against Nazi War....
@@viorelpiscanu9425 You may have read ‘von Paulus’ from someone else somewhere. Any time you see ‘von’ before a surname it denotes a person of aristocratic birth, however Paulus was not of any aristocracy. I don’t know where some people get that from but it’s misinformation. Now if you see it somewhere in comments you’ll know, “ah, but that’s not right.” Paulus was a good field marshal even if he did get the sixth army thrown at him, or he to them. Hitler may have been furious for his surrender but history is much kinder to the man. He was one of the few who later made it home, though that was fourteen years in coming. What slaughter there was on the Ostfront, just horrendous slaughter on both sides and civilian deaths.
Volgagrad (before used to be known as Stalingrad) was NOT a part of " eastern Ukraine" as was mentioned in the 1st 2 minutes of this video. (1:46 to be precise) Discredits the entire video with one sentence
it has its inaccuracy's, Beever mistook soviet soldiers carrying ammunition for other squad members ( example a soviet rifleman in a soviet squad would carry ammunition for the small arms, anti tank and LMG members of the squad ) this mistranslation or purposeful rewriting of history translated to Beever writing that soviet soldiers would be unarmed and carrying only ammunition for another squadmembers weapon, Soviet soldiers in the war from 41-43 were far better equipped and armed than their Wehrmacht counterparts
I firmly believe that Paulus was a big culprit for the continued loss of life and capture of so many men who subsequently died at the different hells they were sent to by the soviets. One thing is being committed to being as honorable and a good soldier by following orders and not stepping back while there is still time to do so and another situation is knowingly let the situation unfold as he knew it would, that there would be no escape leading to him needlessly producing thousands upon thousands of widows, orphans and having a hand in one of the many tragedies that occurred during ww2. He himself also suffered hardships in stalingrad and was sick and frail by the time he was captured but his captivity along with other high ranking officials" captivity were polar opposites of what the thousands of warriors he was in command of experienced. Then, i suppose to gain favor and a better outcome, he formed a group which persuaded the soldiers to lay down arms and surrendering critiquing the hitler dictatorship. Quite a hypocrite selfish man in the end and like other nazi officials who claimed they only followed orders and experienced the kangaroo trial who were also hanged. Thus, Paulus was, in my view a war criminal against his own men and I hope that ate at him for the rest of his years.... the wording on the narration in this documentary is great. Sets it apart but with many issues of the facts. but thanks a new stalingrad doc is always nice.
His men were doomed. A breakout was impossible, capitulation would be betrayal, would his officers and men follow this order? Furthermore, if he capitulated, hundreds of thousands of soviet troops would be freed up to attack the vulnerable axis positions. Hitler ordered him to stand fast because every day he held out meant a delay of soviet plans. He was in an impossible situation and took the best actions with the info he had. You will never be in his position nor have the amount of responsability he had. You have no right to judge men like him or those who went through ww2
I can say that I think you are wrong, but to explain why I think so would take eternity. Instead, if you really, but REALLY love history, I strongly suggest you take a look at this series. It is long, it is very, very detailed, but I enjoyed every second of it as well as you will, I hope. th-cam.com/video/YAfo5mse-ag/w-d-xo.html
@@slobodanmitic1354 thank you for the for the recommendation I'm going to go out and check it out and I'll probably going to be pretty good you know and sometimes history is written different ways and and I'll go ahead and check out that video that you're talking about so thank you for that
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
No matter how evil Stalin was, there was no other way for Russia to survive. Fighting against almost the whole of Europe, being on the verge of extermination, having millions of casualties. The whole population had to be mobilized. Whoever could fight had to. They were not fighting for Stalin, but for their motherland
Not at all. Germans were fighting to exterminate communism, a jewish ideology ment to destroy Europe, thus they fought to save the whole of Europe, including Russia.
The principle is correct. But ultimately the Russian people fought for the oppression they knew. Against an oppression they experienced or heard about in Soviet propaganda. Stalin ended up shooting all those P.O.Ws. who surrendered to the enemy. The Communists were almost as bad as the Nazis.
Marshall-sb, do you know thorough history of soviet union under tenure of stalin? There is every doubt. Nor fo you know that, red army soldiers used to go on offensive saying loudly, " fot stalin, for motherland". Read memoirs if red army men. You will definitely learn something. Educate yourself first, then make comment.
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.
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.
Great post and I like your thoughts if it was real. However, I don't know how Russia could pull it off. It's perposterous to think this wasn't rigged! As late as the 1930s Soviets couldn't even feed themselves, houses had straw roofs, let alone being able to build and fuel armies. I don't believe they made all those T-34 tanks. I found out some disturbing stuff even though I suspected something was a foul. I came across stories that not only German intelligence center was compromised and messaging the Allies, but Matin Bormman himself was radioing the war plans to Moscow personally. I guess he was caught but nobody would dare make such an accusations against a top Nazis at the time. I think it was rigged. I think the plan was to give half of Europe to communism, who happened to be the central bankers. Which is why Hitler beat them up and scorched Earth in retreat to make it easy for Stalin to take over and hold his new territory. Don't forget the people involved with and since Balfour. I compared Hitler's blunders with our Congress, if it was only stupidity then once in awhile it would benefit us. It took me 20 years or longer to tie it up in a knot. Hitler was not only a pallbearer to a bigwig he was supposed to hate more than anybody else..... Wait.,.. you ready? Remember the Freikcorps wars and the communist government of Bavaria that was up for a short while? Herr Leader was wearing a red arm band!!!!!! He was on the Red's side! Right then and there I knew he's a fraud.
yes I agree the Soviet Union was the main heavy hitter against the Nazi’s, it’s fitting that they were the ones to push into Berlin and deliver the final blow, the US Army was a great ally to them and was the final nail in the coffin for the nazi’s. But in the pacific theater, that was all American, the US Marines with some help from the US Army destroyed the japs, and won against them, it’s also fitting that the US delivered the final blow against Japan, who were the ones that attacked the US, and the Soviets delivered the final blow on Nazi Germany, who were the ones who invaded and attacked them, it’s as if WW2 was written by Hollywood, such a fantastic war and I’m only saying that in terms of scale, not in a way of saying it was amazing, it was horrible and I wish war never existed. God bless the warriors who fought and died for freedom and truth, for what’s right. We must be those men for this era and this time because another war is coming, we have to be brave. “Be strong and courageous, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9
@@Rage-td9wv I suspect they had help from the lizard people. If the Germans had got the plans to the space lasers earlier, then they could’ve set California on fire, and the resulting smokescreen would’ve definitely taken the pressure off all the foil hat factories. /s
@@alphaplus4162Yet Hitler's biggest mistake was to honour his pact with the Japanese and declare war on the United States in 1941, thus spreading himself wayyy too thin
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
@@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
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
They also said tens of thousands died in the initial bombing. According to wikipedia " estimations of some 40,000 killed,[1] possibly as many as 70,000 killed,[3] though these may be exaggerations.[4] Also estimated is 150,000 wounded.".
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.
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
Really nice documentary! Also after Paulus was freed from Soviet captivity he went to East Germany and not West Germany which was a communist ally. West Germany was in the hands of the US, France, and the UK
The last generation to ride on steam powered trains. My grandmother was born in 1908. It was great to actually know and talk to someone who was alive in the days of horse and carriage, when electricity and plumbing wasn't available everywhere. Before cell phones were even a thought. I actually met a woman who was once in a concentration camp (she claimed, per her tattoo, perhaps she was a Nazi who posed as a jew to get out of Germany) she was there when she was 6 years old she claimed.
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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.
@@bclmax Yes, but he was in Soviet custody, so still a POW. When he was released from custody it was to East Germany and that was where he remained until his death.
Paulus was sent to East Germany, the DDR, not West Germany. Otherwise, this is an excellent documentary with obviously detailed and accurate research, Well done!
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.
1:10:34 - in 1953 Paulus was returned to "WEST" Germany, which had become a Communist ally of the Soviet Union ?? - needs to be changed to "EAST" Germany.
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.
@1:45 'This city, formerly known as Volgograd' is incorrect. It is called Volgograd today. Before Stalingrad it was called Tsaritsyn. Tsaritsyn>Stalingrad>Volgograd (as it's situated on the volga river.
One of the luftwaffe supply pilots described his job as “feeding the dying 6th Army as it slowly awaited its inevitable demise.” Imagine flying overhead through flak and flame as your comerades are getting blasted out of the sky only to drop a payload of potatoes and schnapps down to limbless, frost bitten, typhus ridden German soldiers who themselves had no ammunition. Like flying over a carcass of an animal that’s having its flesh fed on by some savage wolf, then returning to some derelict airfield in frozen Ukraine. Such a macabre image.
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 !!!!
Thank you for sharing. It´s maybe better to not know. It was a horribly brutal war. I don´t think you could go through eastern front and not end up with some stains on your conscience. Cool music btw!
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Russian Soldier to German Soldier: "Don't worry about us Germans we've done this before!" "Winter will be here soon enough!" German Soldier: "We have winter In zee fazzerland too!" Russian soldier: (laughs in Russian) Finnish Soldier out of nowhere to Russian Soldier: When the snows starts speaking Finnish your all fu**ed!"
I'm fascinated by this nightmare battle. I live in a cold climate. It's bad enough trying to keep equipment working and keep your hands and feet from freezing in peacetime. Living like an animal with snipers trying to take you out in these conditions is unimaginable. Then to surrender to be marched off to a Gulag in Siberia... unreal.
I was reading a book the other day and it had a joke told by Germans during the war pertaining to the idiotic hippocracy of Hitler's ideology, it was something like " you must be blue eyed and blonde like Hitler,slim and physically fit like Goering, handsome and rugged like Goebbels and have a last name like Rosenberg" and probably other stuff and this isn't verbatim but it really struck me and pretty much sums up the Nazis, I thought it was hilarious🤣😂
Not so different to people who idolized trump. They made him look like a macho man, the reincarnation of rambo while the real trump is an obesse old man who need to put his orange make up every single day to hide his pale wrinkle face. Just svck the replacement is a senile pensioner...
@noturbusiness123 yeah,it’s in several books mentioned, and did you miss the part where I mentioned it was a joke going around the regular citizens? I never said hitler said any of it
I know …the irony…how did people get deceived …and people don’t believe in witchcraft ….!!…power of deception , propaganda, media,lies and playing to peoples insecurities, fears, vanities and prejudices ..it bends peoples minds out of shape ..and makes tyre vulnerable to suggestion and manipulation …classic !!
Nobody said you had to be blonde or blue eyed, that's a western lie. They just wanted to preserve that beauty. And as you see today, that exact phenotype is slowly becoming extinct.
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.
Yes it was, oil oil oil. The end of steam was on the horizon & if you check Germany, Italy & Japan didn't have any oil resources in their own countries. Even to this day, man still fights over oil & this situation needs to change. Exactly how we all go about it is a whole other issue & yet to survive long into the future we all must find a way. 🤔
Tigers weren’t around in 1942, first time they were used in any significant numbers were at Kursk in 1943 PS here we go, took 30 minutes for another video to say “evil Soviets”. Blocking detachments weren’t shooting attacking soldiers in the back, it makes no sense to shoot your own soldiers. They were there to stop unauthorised retreat. Most of the units stopped weren’t shot or sent to gulags but simply sent back to the front
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.
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..
I applaud you sir for actively pointing out the atrocities the 6th army committed prior to and during the battle, as this gets overlooked far too often. It’s impossible to watch the 93 Stalingrad movie for this reason. The German troops weren’t victims, they were pititable pawns who went to their doom.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
29:40 the claim about the most “reliable” machine gunners being used as blocking detachments is a well-established myth. They were usually formed from the worst soldiers in the division and were few in number. Very few cases actually exist of blocking detachments/NKVD actually “wiping out” whole squads of retreating soldiers, since these detachments were very few in number compared to the regular units.
Typical anti-Soviet propaganda. Until recently, most Westerners had no idea that the Red Army carried most of the weight of WW2. The anti-Red mindset has really limited Americans' understanding of the world, but esp. history.
The 1 soldier w/weapon & 1 soldier w/ammunition is another that is believable but they say is not correct.The Stalin proclamations seem to back both up & are easy to buy to westerners,as Stalin is hardly an admirable figure
@@destubae3271 Usually yes as an officer was known to more men and also expected to set a good example. The average soldier was usually dealt with by the unit - penal battalion being a common result.
The Nazis were Nationalists who in no way adopted socialist policies. Albert Einstein fled Nazi germany and later went on to write a series of scholarly articles called "Why Socialism?" In these he explains his reasoning as to why he thinks socialism is the best path forward for humanity. So when the creator of this TH-cam video says "National socialists vs communists" make sure to emphasize the "Nationalist" and disregard the "socialist." Especially since a noteworthy percentage of people rounded up in Nazi camps were socialist and communist and also the fact that Hitler was a spy working for the authoritarian govt who infiltrated a party of unionizing socialist workers.
Verdun, the Somme and Stalingrad are about the bloodiest battles in human history..🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇷🇺🫡🫡🫡 Regardless if they were the allies or axis powers, may the human beings perished in this battles find peace in the afterlife ❤
@@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.
What is most sad is the fact that today's Germany is quickly finding itself back to being the same it was during WW2 while Russia is also finding itself to reprise the pivotal role it played against fascism.
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.
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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.
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
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).
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
Detailed, fine-grained doc. Good work.
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.
_Stalingrad_ by Antony Beevor is a fascinating book of a truly very bloody and protracted battle fought with great ferocity by both sides. Stalingrad was where many German soldiers began to lose confidence in the strategic acumen of _der Führer._
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.
Well done! Excellent presentation on this pivotal battle!
1776 🤤
This was the worst example of hubris, the unreported heroism and horror will never be known
Great commentary. Thx.
very good report. best i have seen.
Excellent.
The line wasn't "frozen" in the winter of 41-42. The battle for Moscow, or known as the Battles of Rzhev, was in the top 5 largest battles in history and the Axis were flung back away from Moscow by several 100kms.
It bothers me every time i hear the winter stopped the Wehrmacht in 41, The Soviets stopped the Wehrmacht they had to deal with winter just as the Germans.
Comment section b0$$
And nothing to indicate the war in the East would be over if the Nazis captured Moscow. The Soviets had moved much of their heavy industry hundreds of miles East. Napoleon captured Moscow in 1812 and that didn't defeat the Russians that time
@@theodorerobertson9400 BINGO! Mate you know your history well. cheers
Actually, the winter "frozen ground" allowed the Panzer groups to resume the offensive which was bugged down primarily by rain and thus mud previously.. but by then, soviet reserves had come, and managed to counter attack and repel them
This was literally Hitler’s biggest mistake for the downfall of Germany.
Please do the battle of Manila of the Philippines
Why not at least leave enough time to actually watch and appreciate the effort that went into making this clip before asking him to make another, seeing as it was uploaded 20 minutes or so ago and you comment 11 minutes after.
Well written and well told. Thanks
Kinda regret helping the soviets. They don;t even acknowledge the West saved the USSR.
Russia Saved the world
I wrote my college term paper for my history degree on Stalingrad: Rat War
There is no proof the battle of Stalingrad ever happened. There isn't a single video or pictures that exist showing the battle. It's a conspiracy, made up by the West
It's frightening.
@Flush man..... And? No one cares. At all.
@@LeeLee-kk1qu Fool.
My father wich my growing but wasn't my true father was 25 years on the war .he told my nou with this film l remembered so much.hou much tears bring the war hou much brouk down .my father A A. had all what was worst.broukens milions peoples lifes dreams loves and families.
At about 58:00 it is said that the sound of distant artillery fire could be heard by some of the trapped in the Stalingrad pocket as Manstein's force (actually led by Hoth on the ground) achieved its closest approach before having been forced to turn back
in the early days after the surround a few Germans could leave and arrived via the airfields but eventually the pocket became whittled down and the airfields were lost although planes sometimes got through to airdrop a few things as depicted in the Vilsmaier movie "Stalingrad"
in the movie script says that last ("flying plane"?) left Stalingrad on January 23
surprising that the Germans had airfield at that late date,depicted in the movie that Soviet shelling of an airfield had begun as the hated Gorget wearing German guards were manhandling regular Germans who were trying to get into the last plane outgoing
The irony was even bigger... Von Paulus was the unique fieldmarshall of German state ever to surrender to enemy.... More than that to make humilliation even greater Von Paulus was pleading in captitivity against Nazi War....
Not ‘Von’ Paulus. He was not of aristocratic birth.
@@mynamedoesntmatter8652 Ok, my mistake... Thanks....
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You may have read ‘von Paulus’ from someone else somewhere. Any time you see ‘von’ before a surname it denotes a person of aristocratic birth, however Paulus was not of any aristocracy. I don’t know where some people get that from but it’s misinformation. Now if you see it somewhere in comments you’ll know, “ah, but that’s not right.” Paulus was a good field marshal even if he did get the sixth army thrown at him, or he to them. Hitler may have been furious for his surrender but history is much kinder to the man. He was one of the few who later made it home, though that was fourteen years in coming. What slaughter there was on the Ostfront, just horrendous slaughter on both sides and civilian deaths.
Volgagrad (before used to be known as Stalingrad) was NOT a part of " eastern Ukraine" as was mentioned in the 1st 2 minutes of this video. (1:46 to be precise)
Discredits the entire video with one sentence
Dropped watching this video exactly on this moment.
Read the book Stalingrad by the great author Antony Beever
If you are interested in the subject
Yes, excellent book.
it has its inaccuracy's, Beever mistook soviet soldiers carrying ammunition for other squad members ( example a soviet rifleman in a soviet squad would carry ammunition for the small arms, anti tank and LMG members of the squad ) this mistranslation or purposeful rewriting of history translated to Beever writing that soviet soldiers would be unarmed and carrying only ammunition for another squadmembers weapon, Soviet soldiers in the war from 41-43 were far better equipped and armed than their Wehrmacht counterparts
Beevor is good far from great.
I firmly believe that Paulus was a big culprit for the continued loss of life and capture of so many men who subsequently died at the different hells they were sent to by the soviets. One thing is being committed to being as honorable and a good soldier by following orders and not stepping back while there is still time to do so and another situation is knowingly let the situation unfold as he knew it would, that there would be no escape leading to him needlessly producing thousands upon thousands of widows, orphans and having a hand in one of the many tragedies that occurred during ww2. He himself also suffered hardships in stalingrad and was sick and frail by the time he was captured but his captivity along with other high ranking officials" captivity were polar opposites of what the thousands of warriors he was in command of experienced. Then, i suppose to gain favor and a better outcome, he formed a group which persuaded the soldiers to lay down arms and surrendering critiquing the hitler dictatorship. Quite a hypocrite selfish man in the end and like other nazi officials who claimed they only followed orders and experienced the kangaroo trial who were also hanged. Thus, Paulus was, in my view a war criminal against his own men and I hope that ate at him for the rest of his years.... the wording on the narration in this documentary is great. Sets it apart but with many issues of the facts. but thanks a new stalingrad doc is always nice.
His men were doomed. A breakout was impossible, capitulation would be betrayal, would his officers and men follow this order? Furthermore, if he capitulated, hundreds of thousands of soviet troops would be freed up to attack the vulnerable axis positions. Hitler ordered him to stand fast because every day he held out meant a delay of soviet plans. He was in an impossible situation and took the best actions with the info he had. You will never be in his position nor have the amount of responsability he had. You have no right to judge men like him or those who went through ww2
I can say that I think you are wrong, but to explain why I think so would take eternity. Instead, if you really, but REALLY love history, I strongly suggest you take a look at this series. It is long, it is very, very detailed, but I enjoyed every second of it as well as you will, I hope.
th-cam.com/video/YAfo5mse-ag/w-d-xo.html
@@slobodanmitic1354 thank you for the for the recommendation I'm going to go out and check it out and I'll probably going to be pretty good you know and sometimes history is written different ways and and I'll go ahead and check out that video that you're talking about so thank you for that
@@josebarberena9564 you are very welcome 🙂
a career soldier who didn't have the bollocks to save his own men...
rather a yes man which are the most dangerous... in all walks of life.
Good video but you should to try to include more maps and numbers.
Hitler problem is to go on three directions if they go only on Moscow they can win easily
An opinion favoured by Generals such as Guderian, but I don’t think taking Moscow would have secured victory for the Germans.
8:04 that photo took me out completely
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
No matter how evil Stalin was, there was no other way for Russia to survive. Fighting against almost the whole of Europe, being on the verge of extermination, having millions of casualties. The whole population had to be mobilized. Whoever could fight had to. They were not fighting for Stalin, but for their motherland
Not at all. Germans were fighting to exterminate communism, a jewish ideology ment to destroy Europe, thus they fought to save the whole of Europe, including Russia.
The whole of Europe?
The principle is correct. But ultimately the Russian people fought for the oppression they knew. Against an oppression they experienced or heard about in Soviet propaganda. Stalin ended up shooting all those P.O.Ws. who surrendered to the enemy. The Communists were almost as bad as the Nazis.
Marshall-sb, do you know thorough history of soviet union under tenure of stalin? There is every doubt. Nor fo you know that, red army soldiers used to go on offensive saying loudly, " fot stalin, for motherland". Read memoirs if red army men. You will definitely learn something. Educate yourself first, then make comment.
sure.. even letting civilians stay in stalingrad in order to grow morale, he was the same or even worst than adolf
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
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.
Great post and I like your thoughts if it was real. However, I don't know how Russia could pull it off. It's perposterous to think this wasn't rigged! As late as the 1930s Soviets couldn't even feed themselves, houses had straw roofs, let alone being able to build and fuel armies. I don't believe they made all those T-34 tanks.
I found out some disturbing stuff even though I suspected something was a foul. I came across stories that not only German intelligence center was compromised and messaging the Allies, but Matin Bormman himself was radioing the war plans to Moscow personally.
I guess he was caught but nobody would dare make such an accusations against a top Nazis at the time.
I think it was rigged. I think the plan was to give half of Europe to communism, who happened to be the central bankers. Which is why Hitler beat them up and scorched Earth in retreat to make it easy for Stalin to take over and hold his new territory. Don't forget the people involved with and since Balfour.
I compared Hitler's blunders with our Congress, if it was only stupidity then once in awhile it would benefit us. It took me 20 years or longer to tie it up in a knot. Hitler was not only a pallbearer to a bigwig he was supposed to hate more than anybody else.....
Wait.,.. you ready? Remember the Freikcorps wars and the communist government of Bavaria that was up for a short while? Herr Leader was wearing a red arm band!!!!!! He was on the Red's side! Right then and there I knew he's a fraud.
yes I agree the Soviet Union was the main heavy hitter against the Nazi’s, it’s fitting that they were the ones to push into Berlin and deliver the final blow, the US Army was a great ally to them and was the final nail in the coffin for the nazi’s. But in the pacific theater, that was all American, the US Marines with some help from the US Army destroyed the japs, and won against them, it’s also fitting that the US delivered the final blow against Japan, who were the ones that attacked the US, and the Soviets delivered the final blow on Nazi Germany, who were the ones who invaded and attacked them, it’s as if WW2 was written by Hollywood, such a fantastic war and I’m only saying that in terms of scale, not in a way of saying it was amazing, it was horrible and I wish war never existed. God bless the warriors who fought and died for freedom and truth, for what’s right. We must be those men for this era and this time because another war is coming, we have to be brave. “Be strong and courageous, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9
💯 percent fact
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I suspect they had help from the lizard people. If the Germans had got the plans to the space lasers earlier, then they could’ve set California on fire, and the resulting smokescreen would’ve definitely taken the pressure off all the foil hat factories. /s
@@alphaplus4162Yet Hitler's biggest mistake was to honour his pact with the Japanese and declare war on the United States in 1941, thus spreading himself wayyy too thin
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....
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
"Detached from reality" --- that would be Wash DC during Vietnam "War."
Stalingrad documentary? YES 🙌🏻 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
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
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.
This war documentary was very informative ....With One narrator doing the whole show without any historians annoying Input.
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.
They also said tens of thousands died in the initial bombing. According to wikipedia " estimations of some 40,000 killed,[1] possibly as many as 70,000 killed,[3] though these may be exaggerations.[4] Also estimated is 150,000 wounded.".
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!
@@LarsTragel-zh7eiYou must be German.
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
Really nice documentary! Also after Paulus was freed from Soviet captivity he went to East Germany and not West Germany which was a communist ally. West Germany was in the hands of the US, France, and the UK
I was born between the two greatest battles of WW II: Stalingrad and Kursk that cemented the defeat of Nazi Germany.
The last generation to ride on steam powered trains. My grandmother was born in 1908. It was great to actually know and talk to someone who was alive in the days of horse and carriage, when electricity and plumbing wasn't available everywhere. Before cell phones were even a thought. I actually met a woman who was once in a concentration camp (she claimed, per her tattoo, perhaps she was a Nazi who posed as a jew to get out of Germany) she was there when she was 6 years old she claimed.
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.
The most important battle in the history of humanity
One of the saddest moments of human history. Too many suffered and died in and around Stalingrad
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.
Paulus was eventually returned to East Germany, not West Germany as stated in the aftermath
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.
technically he was in nurnberg so he did visit the west
@@bclmax Yes, but he was in Soviet custody, so still a POW. When he was released from custody it was to East Germany and that was where he remained until his death.
@@AlaskaErik i know, but to say he never stepped foot in the west is an error
February 1, 1957 (age 66 years), Dresden, Germany
Did he not die in Bonn ?
Paulus was sent to East Germany, the DDR, not West Germany. Otherwise, this is an excellent documentary with obviously detailed and accurate research, Well done!
The Defeat of Nazis in Stalingrad is mainly because of Red Army tenacious quality in fighting and love of their mother land.
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
Что бы не говорили, а СССР раздавил фашистского зверя!
Вечная Слава нашим Великим Предкам!
Russia is too large and too cold in the winter Napoleon told everyone I guess Hitler did not listen
Watching this video, I learned more about the Battle of Stalingrad than I could ever have learned from Harvard or Yale. Good job!
1:10:34 - in 1953 Paulus was returned to "WEST" Germany, which had become a Communist ally of the Soviet Union ?? - needs to be changed to "EAST" Germany.
Westside till I die!!!! You trying to start a gang war in the comments?
The strongest person in world war two was the camera man
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”
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
@1:45 'This city, formerly known as Volgograd' is incorrect. It is called Volgograd today. Before Stalingrad it was called Tsaritsyn.
Tsaritsyn>Stalingrad>Volgograd (as it's situated on the volga river.
One of the luftwaffe supply pilots described his job as “feeding the dying 6th Army as it slowly awaited its inevitable demise.” Imagine flying overhead through flak and flame as your comerades are getting blasted out of the sky only to drop a payload of potatoes and schnapps down to limbless, frost bitten, typhus ridden German soldiers who themselves had no ammunition. Like flying over a carcass of an animal that’s having its flesh fed on by some savage wolf, then returning to some derelict airfield in frozen Ukraine. Such a macabre image.
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.....
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Thank you for sharing. It´s maybe better to not know. It was a horribly brutal war. I don´t think you could go through eastern front and not end up with some stains on your conscience. Cool music btw!
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Russian Soldier to German Soldier: "Don't worry about us Germans we've done this before!" "Winter will be here soon enough!"
German Soldier: "We have winter In zee fazzerland too!"
Russian soldier: (laughs in Russian)
Finnish Soldier out of nowhere to Russian Soldier: When the snows starts speaking Finnish your all fu**ed!"
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
I'm fascinated by this nightmare battle. I live in a cold climate. It's bad enough trying to keep equipment working and keep your hands and feet from freezing in peacetime. Living like an animal with snipers trying to take you out in these conditions is unimaginable. Then to surrender to be marched off to a Gulag in Siberia... unreal.
I was reading a book the other day and it had a joke told by Germans during the war pertaining to the idiotic hippocracy of Hitler's ideology, it was something like " you must be blue eyed and blonde like Hitler,slim and physically fit like Goering, handsome and rugged like Goebbels and have a last name like Rosenberg" and probably other stuff and this isn't verbatim but it really struck me and pretty much sums up the Nazis, I thought it was hilarious🤣😂
Not so different to people who idolized trump. They made him look like a macho man, the reincarnation of rambo while the real trump is an obesse old man who need to put his orange make up every single day to hide his pale wrinkle face. Just svck the replacement is a senile pensioner...
@@harukrentz435 what are you talking about? Who mentioned trump? 😂😅 Does he really have that kind of control over you? I don’t get it
@noturbusiness123 yeah,it’s in several books mentioned, and did you miss the part where I mentioned it was a joke going around the regular citizens? I never said hitler said any of it
I know …the irony…how did people get deceived …and people don’t believe in witchcraft ….!!…power of deception , propaganda, media,lies and playing to peoples insecurities, fears, vanities and prejudices ..it bends peoples minds out of shape ..and makes tyre vulnerable to suggestion and manipulation …classic !!
Nobody said you had to be blonde or blue eyed, that's a western lie. They just wanted to preserve that beauty. And as you see today, that exact phenotype is slowly becoming extinct.
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.
What a waste of resources ,supplies and human lives ,to send 3.8 million soldiers..it was never even about oil
Yes it was, oil oil oil. The end of steam was on the horizon & if you check Germany, Italy & Japan didn't have any oil resources in their own countries.
Even to this day, man still fights over oil & this situation needs to change. Exactly how we all go about it is a whole other issue & yet to survive long into the future we all must find a way. 🤔
Tigers weren’t around in 1942, first time they were used in any significant numbers were at Kursk in 1943
PS here we go, took 30 minutes for another video to say “evil Soviets”. Blocking detachments weren’t shooting attacking soldiers in the back, it makes no sense to shoot your own soldiers. They were there to stop unauthorised retreat. Most of the units stopped weren’t shot or sent to gulags but simply sent back to the front
yes they were - Tiger I began operational duty in 1942, in Africa and Soviet Union.
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
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.
I applaud you sir for actively pointing out the atrocities the 6th army committed prior to and during the battle, as this gets overlooked far too often. It’s impossible to watch the 93 Stalingrad movie for this reason.
The German troops weren’t victims, they were pititable pawns who went to their doom.
Outstanding video! Been looking for something new for a while--thumbs up.
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
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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!
The Nazis were stupid in the end. Believing their nonsense about racial inferiority.
The biggest lesson for us here. NEVER underestimate anyone!
@@Mint_Mushroom2976 lol, not superior, otherwise they would've won.
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.
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.
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?
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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
Great video, could you make one on Leningrad?
1:10:35 I think you meant to say he was returned to East Germany. Great video, I never tire of this topic!
Can’t keep looking at same photos over and over and over and over …I’m over this video lol
Volgograd is not in the Eastern Ukraine. It’s a subject of Russian Federation, almost 1,000km away from the Ukrainian border. 🤦♂️ 1:43
29:40 the claim about the most “reliable” machine gunners being used as blocking detachments is a well-established myth. They were usually formed from the worst soldiers in the division and were few in number. Very few cases actually exist of blocking detachments/NKVD actually “wiping out” whole squads of retreating soldiers, since these detachments were very few in number compared to the regular units.
Typical anti-Soviet propaganda. Until recently, most Westerners had no idea that the Red Army carried most of the weight of WW2. The anti-Red mindset has really limited Americans' understanding of the world, but esp. history.
The 1 soldier w/weapon & 1 soldier w/ammunition is another that is believable but they say is not correct.The Stalin proclamations seem to back both up & are easy to buy to westerners,as Stalin is hardly an admirable figure
And didn't the NKVD only target officers?
@@destubae3271 Usually yes as an officer was known to more men and also expected to set a good example. The average soldier was usually dealt with by the unit - penal battalion being a common result.
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
My grandfather was in Stalingrad. He never talked about it. Not one word
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..
The Nazis were Nationalists who in no way adopted socialist policies. Albert Einstein fled Nazi germany and later went on to write a series of scholarly articles called "Why Socialism?" In these he explains his reasoning as to why he thinks socialism is the best path forward for humanity.
So when the creator of this TH-cam video says "National socialists vs communists" make sure to emphasize the "Nationalist" and disregard the "socialist." Especially since a noteworthy percentage of people rounded up in Nazi camps were socialist and communist and also the fact that Hitler was a spy working for the authoritarian govt who infiltrated a party of unionizing socialist workers.
Like Joseph Stalin said "The Russian Army has more bodies than the German Army has bullets" RIP
Great video👍 A small correction though: The German chief of staff was not called Alfred Lodl, but Alfred Jodl.
Verdun, the Somme and Stalingrad are about the bloodiest battles in human history..🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇷🇺🫡🫡🫡 Regardless if they were the allies or axis powers, may the human beings perished in this battles find peace in the afterlife ❤
I read one account that said the meager airdrops of supplies sometimes included useless items like 4 tons of black pepper & cases of condoms.
They needed the condoms as your mother was there too.
Bu belgeseli hazırlayanlara çok teşekkür ederim. No war.
1:47 Stalingrad (Volgograd) Located in Russia. What are you talking about?XD
"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
such a good documentary, it is so immersive that when he told how the war ended is was like: Don't spoil the end. as if it was a movie.
What is most sad is the fact that today's Germany is quickly finding itself back to being the same it was during WW2 while Russia is also finding itself to reprise the pivotal role it played against fascism.
It's very different now. The Ideologies are different now.
Napoleon and Hiltler forgot Russia has winter😂
Winter is coming
My dad dad was in born 1943