The Battle of Stalingrad in Color - Astonishing WW2 Pictures

Hey folks, here are some colorized pictures of the battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 - February 1943). It is considered as a major turning point of the Second World War. Don't forget to turn on the captions in order to get some informations about the pics!
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[@AlesZvolanek]

My father was working with a guy who was mayor in Wehrmacht, he made it back from Stalingrad soon before the encirclement. It's really a twisted fate - he was a German born in the Czechoslovakia, so he was summoned into the army after Hitler occupied the Czech lands and established the "Protectorate". After the war the area where he came from was returned as a part of Czechoslovakia and though serving in Wehrmacht he was allowed to stay (like many others). As late as in the 60s he was working in a chemical factory in a research department with my dad. Later in late 60 whem my dad was allowed to work in France via work intership for 3 months he met another guy who was fighting in Stalingrad - a German born in Alsace. He was one of those lucky 6.000 soldiers who were released by Russians after the WW2.

[@ilikemen3452]

My granduncle was a Bomber Pilot who crashed but somehow survived it. He was released after ww2 too

[@VendPrekmurec]

Forget about Call of Duty, Medal of Honor memories playing games about the Battle of Stalingrad, this is how it really looked like.

[@ditto1958]

I can’t imagine how anyone made it through that hell

[@rarepicturesincolor-theoff1984]

Me neither! Must have been a horrific experience

[@HanginInSF]

For the most part they didn't

[@kadennedak]

@@HanginInSF fr fr

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

My comment exactly

[@mrvk39]

vast majority of people, both civilians and military who were in the city, didn't make it out alive (if you exclude the last part of Russian encirclement done with fresh troops).

[@chewyduck1355]

awesome work. it is amazing how colorizing these old photos makes everything seem more immediate and real and the people in them not just images, but real human beings.

[@dhaqabk4022]

We turned off the road, and marched along some cattle trails in the forest. Suddenly people in civilian clothes - old men, women, and children - appeared from behind the bushes. They could barely walk, and they were bandaged and covered in dust. These were wounded civilians from Stalingrad, trying to reach a hospital. We sailors, who hadn’t yet seen the horrors of war, looked on in distress. And at the edge of the forest, where we concealed ourselves, we could see Stalingrad. The Volga lay between us and the city. We could hear artillery fire and the rattle of machine guns. German aircraft, much closer now than those we had seen before, were relentlessly bombing the factory district. Wounded soldiers were led past us. We wanted to ask them about the battle, but their appearance spoke for itself. They walked like zombies, moaning and groaning, their columns led by a nurse or medic. Then we saw a sailor among them. He was a chief petty officer, like myself. His head and left arm were bandaged, and his shirt was filthy with dried blood. His left arm was in a sling. A bullet had creased the anchor on his navy belt buckle. He asked us for a smoke. We gave him one, and he sat down against a tree, exhausted. Then he looked at our badges and saw we were from the Pacific Fleet. -Vasily Zaitsev, Notes of a Russian sniper.

[@TheUssmkl]

Amazing work! They really provoked a range of feelings. I try to see myself there at the time of the pictures. I can't imagine the struggles and hardships.

[@alexandreturolla7175]

The russians soldiers were heroes, wjth a high price, they saved the world...

[@pietrowislon7300]

As I understand it as a 75 year old born in England, I would not be here except for the sacrifices made by the Red Army at Stalingrad, the turning point of WW2. If Operation Barbarossa had been successful, the Nazis would have again tried to invade England and if they had succeeded my dad would have been shipped off to Germany. My maternal Grandfather, grand uncle and an uncle killed in WW 1. Please....no more wars....let's fight climate change and poverty. In WW2, 24 million Soviet soldiers and civilians died. 8 million German soldiers and civilians died.

[@daveanderson3805]

The sixth army Destroyed because their megalomaniac leader decided that he was a military genius who knew better than his generals

[@michaelwoodward5787]

So many lives wasted.

[@fishheadlemonsnack824]

Eighty years later, we know information is everything. I wonder how so many millions of people implicated/affected here would have pre-empted, yes, busted a move, to get to safer lands. Nice collection of images -with so much written into them.

[@notsosilentmajority1]

Outstanding!! These colorized photos bring them to life. It makes people feel like this was recent history. Well done. Thank you. 👍

[@Crashed131963]

They were colorized, they background still remain in black and white.

[@stnz908]

My Grandpa's cousin was with the Italian army at Stalingrad. He deserted early in the encirclement & walked back to Italy.

[@maxmerten7909]

@Fire Starter sounds like a traitor

[@hafmaint7557]

Looking at the solders in these pictures and at 80 years old I've had a good life I wonder how many of these survived and made it home .

[@marcelgroen6256]

It is known from the Germans that 5-6K of the approximately 100K POWs returned (well) after the war. Many died in captivity within the first few weeks.

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

@@marcelgroen6256 kind of hard to March hundreds of miles on frozen feet

[@marcelgroen6256]

@@arthurbrumagem3844 and the lack of food and the abuse in the POW camps.

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

@@marcelgroen6256 they were lucky if they made it that far. Siberia is dreadful if not dressed properly

[@cowgoesmoo3850]

@@marcelgroen6256 true, and for the rest of the time of the Eastren Front, there was 2.9 million more captured, and just like you stated a VERY small number survived their time In the P.O.W camps.

[@phillipschmidt3875]

1:13 this photo is made by soviet photographer Max Alpert: „Great Patriotic War, 1 April 1944” and was taken in Belarus

[@conpop6924]

As a 17 year old, it amazes me that i can pickup the phone and call my grandmother who was alive when this battle happened

[@mrvk39]

my grandfather and grandmother are no longer alive, unfortunately, but my grandfather fought there and my grandmother lived about 100 km from Stalingrad. My grandfather told me very little about the battle (or the war in general - he didn't like talking about it). My grandmother told me that she could hear German bombers flying over their place on their way to Stalingrad).

[@conpop6924]

@@mrvk39 very cool! My grandfather fought for australia in the pacific and my aunt's dad was at iwo jima and okinawa

[@mrvk39]

@@conpop6924 something to be proud of!

[@conpop6924]

@@mrvk39 for sure!

[@algoritm-nncz6643]

Simple heroes sacrificed their lives in the fight against the nazi-shit enemy. Glory to the soldiers of the army of the USSR

[@maxmerten7909]

yes , they sacrificed their lives just like charged with mass armies ,or put their soldiers to going through enemy mines to pass their tanks , or the KGB that execute their soldiers who were retrieting (even tactical retreat) ...and then they cry about the numbers that they lost ... so much irony

[@blackbeard1988]

"Simple heroes." Remember the holodomor. The only good communist is a dead communist.

[@nickstevens3139]

It was not necessary to take Stalingrad to secure the oil fields. Furthermore it was not necessary to take Stalingrad to cut the Volga. Fighting in Stalingrad negated the advantages of the Wehrmacht. Fighting for Stalingrad was a monumental blunder by Hitler.

[@lu77xiaojun37]

What wasn't a monumental blunder by Hitler?

[@mrvk39]

the issue was that Stalin was massing his troops around Moscow, expecting a renewed attack on it, while Hitler moved south to capture oil fields. Stalingrad was simply the point where the most Southern flank of Soviet troop concentration met the most Northern flank of Operation Blau troop concentration. So, it's where two flanks met and clashed.

[@buttersstotch7981]

That is true, Germans should have just took the oil fields. However, it was the most logical to attack Stalingrad since it was one of 5 important cities in Soviet Union. (-2, Kiev and Minsk were lost) Stalingrad had large factories, oil fields were close to it and it´s propaganda value was huge. Moscow was the capital and logistically important but it´s value as a target was low because Soviets would have done same as during Napoleon and just burned the whole city. And Leningrad had propaganda value but nothing more.

[@dirtyharry1003]

All those poor lost souls dying there....Hitler and Stalin were realy evil creatures. Never again!

[@joedoe783]

Great work here. Thanks.

[@matthewlee8667]

This was a very moving video with beautiful pictures. Thanks you for uploading this

[@25ciskey25]

3:08 "Some Soviet Soliders". Dude thats not just a solider its Vasily Zaytsev.

[@BatMan-oe2gh]

The stupid thing about Stalingrad is that the Germans could have just cut it off and let it wither on the vine and gone for the oil. The only reason was Hitler wanting Stalingrad. Millions died to satisfy his ego.

[@hafmaint7557]

and the fact it was named Stalingrad

[@markprange2430]

Stalingrad and Baku were such overextensions that they were vulnerable to being surrounded.

[@robertdeniro7800]

THANKS

[@wehrmachtberlin5122]

After loose in stalingrad, where is Germany go than.. they return to German or still in Russian land..

[@valentine8988]

Min 3:12: its not some soviet soldiers but the famous sniper vasilliy Zaetsev

[@Fatlilnigga]

мы будем уважать наших павших товарищей советского союза!

[@jackt7331]

I have a weird fascination about this battle. I read and watch as many footages about this battle as I can to try to understand it as much as possible, but I know that no matter what I do, I will never be able to fully grasp the immensity of what happened there. Ultimately, I wish I could see it with my own eyes.

[@ImNotaRussianBot]

I think even as an observer (who we will pretend cannot be physically affected), you will be permanently traumatized. The viciousness, violence, death, and horror is too much for our brains.

[@jackt7331]

@@ImNotaRussianBot Yeah I agree, some atrocities are better forgotten.. Until the next ones.

[@littilittiti1272]

1:02 These soldiers a From the Luftwaffe. You can see it from their collar tabs. I can't find anything about fighting units in 1942. Where is the source of this picture?

[@markprange4386]

This was in Minina in September. The grain elevator building is in the background. The officer shown was killed on the day the photo was taken.

[@voicevoice2053]

Glorious red army heroes. Thank you all who gave their lives defeating the Nazi criminals. You did in effect save the world . The w stern invasion of D day would have failed without the part you played

[@wokehollywoodnews]

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[@rarepicturesincolor-theoff1984]

Hey, you can send me an email here : [e-mail]

[@NickRatnieks]

The photo at 1:00 shows Luftwaffe anti-aircraft gun personnel and the officer with the MP40 is identified as: "Oblt. Helmut Schnatz, Chef 3 Batterie of Flak Reg 25. Date is Sept 19,1942 and the location is suburb of Minina."

[@travisconover4762]

Balls of steel from all sides.

[@rogerwilco5918]

Nobody knows how to die for their country like a Russian.

[@markprange4386]

4:25 From a building by Lomonosovskaya Ulitsa, a view showing the Square of Fallen Fighters, the obelisk there, and the Univermag building (partly blocked by the flag).

[@Optical_Nerd]

Great job 👍👍 Background music and foto's were pretty attractive.👏👏👏👏

[@manfreddreschflegel1067]

A tragedy for both sides.

[@rogerwilco5918]

And a tragedy that Russia forgot to lea5the neighboring countries they invaded for the next 60 years

[@Kimchiboy08]

Powerful and beautiful

[@davveeaa6892]

2:58 I believe the man to the left is Vassili Zaitsev. Russian sniper who was portrayed in the movie Enemys at the gate

[@moodswingy1973]

The men in the battle went through a freezing hell, but I shudder to think of what it must have been like for the camels of Stalingrad.

[@talijamir5395]

Third picture were of luftwaffe unit in stalingrad

[@cavscout62]

I wonder how many people know that the Factory where T34 Tanks were built was designed and built by American designer Otto Khan, The Architect Of Detroit? Designed and constructed in America then taken apart and shipped to Russia where it was put back together. I didn’t know this until recently, just one more thing about the war and all those who fought it.

[@michaelstein8366]

Slight correction: Albert Khan, He lived in Detroit and also designed the famous Rouge River Ford Motor Company factory complex.

[@markprange2430]

The factory was demolished in 2023.

[@ladida1031]

War=Epic Tragedy

[@anonanon7235]

The Americans are now giving it a try.

[@markprange4386]

2:00 Stalingrad North. Near Krasnyi Oktyabr', the building in the upper right is 200 meters from the Volga. Still there in 2022. Ovrag Glubokaya is seen across the upper right. The Germans called it "Bayonet-Rachel."

[@markprange4386]

2:12. At the bottom left are ruins of the L-shaped building--an apartment building for railwaymen. In the lower center are ruins of School No. 38. Across the top left is the main railyard. At far left is part of 9 January Square.

[@Justlatvian1994]

Fridrich Paulus didn't deserve a crushing defeat, but Nazis forbade any retreat from annihilation.

[@cheriefsadeksadek2108]

The German 6th Army last Stand Was the Deadliest in history , They were Serounded , Winter came and they didn't have proper winter Clothing and Equipment , It was more than a 270.000 men trapped in the cauldron they required 700 tons of supplies daily with a minimum of 500tons however not a single day the minimum of tonnage supplied by the Luftwaffe was achieved the Luftwaffe was Able to supply an Avery of only 85 tons daily out of a Transport capacity of 106 tons they were low on Fuel , food and Ammo And Medical Supplied they Slowly Starved and Were outnumbered they were taking heavy casualties but inflicted 2x the casualties they were taking on the Soviets red army ,they prooved that German Army Can still be defeated but it was a well organized and trained force , May All Good Souls Lost in this pointless war Rest in peace especially on the eastern front it was hell on earth

[@PhoenixAscending]

My grandfather did not fight in this battle, but he did fight the Germans in other parts of Europe. I know it pales in comparison to this battle though

[@carlos73]

3:54 ¿ Ivan Sidorenko ?

[@markprange2430]

Alexander Rodimtsev

[@alainvalette4943]

Éternelle reconnaissance à tous les camarades soviétique, pour leur sacrifice et leur immense victoire.

[@ernestoruiz7112]

Tu ,tendrías que agradecer más a los Británicos.

[@canthi109]

Thank to all the Allies, all of them make it

[@frenchlife6815]

Merci camarade

[@brodybouillion1750]

3:03 is vasily zitsev

[@eddiedeleon2425]

the settings and the power of time equate to turn the pages of time and tides of history, salamat

[@elinovias9884]

un desafio TITANICO PARA ALEMANIA FUE DEMACIADO demaciados frentes

[@youtubesurfer134]

The battle was a total blood bath. It's amazing that the people still had to will to fight throughout the battle.

[@aragti6060]

We can't explain in words ,more than nightmarish.

[@ronaldwhite1730]

Thank - you . ( all suffering human victims ) .

[@jnounan]

Merci

[@Diwana71]

4:10 Field Marshall Paulus thinking what the hell was it all about.

[@elinovias9884]

unos C A P O S

[@KaerRid]

Many thanks.

[@miletaboskovic5846]

fantastic

[@YankeeVatnik1917]

So many brave you kids on both sides. It's sad.

[@elinovias9884]

QUE PELOTAS PAULUS

[@лехарыбаков-д8з]

😢

[@MyMatK]

3:03 Sniper on the left is Vasili Zajcev, Hero of the Soviet Union and best Soviet sniper

[@jerryinohio1978]

I'm glad you spelled color the correct way.

[@neofio3240]

3:02 vasilt zaitsev

[@markprange4386]

2:40 View from the Univermag building. Looking across Ostrovskogo Ulitsa.

[@kovesp1]

A few things. Several references to Russian Soldiers. You don't know that they are Russian. One third of the 34 men and women who served in the Red Army were not Russian. The references are disrespectful to the other peoples of the USSR. The photo of 3 Soviet soldiers in winter camouflage. The one on the left is Vasily Zaitsev. When he served in Stalingrad Rodimtsev was a Major General commanding the 13th Guards Rifle Division. This picture must be from later, because he does indeed have the insignia of a Colonel General on it.

[@vasetsky]

I'd say, that time, all the people of USSR were Russian and Turkmen and Ukranian and... (inscribe all the nations of every single USSR republic) in the same time. Same way they were Americans and English and.. etc since they all were Allies.

[@bobcarnegie4068]

Great work except Rodimstev as the leader of the 13 th Guards Division .

[@markprange2430]

3:43

[@JohnnyAloha69]

Excellent collection of photos. Sad that so many ordinary soldiers on both sides went through hell serving on behalf of murderous dictatorships. It’s a shame both sides couldn’t have lost.

[@enterthevoidIi]

A camel in stalingrad? seems legit

[@GunnyKeith]

AMAZING THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING.

[@liampett1313]

Uniforms are far to clean. Pretty good video though.

[@over2166]

1:09 this is luftwaffe personell

[@sabrinanova949]

Wow !! Amazing !!

[@carlos73]

2:58 in the left Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet sniper

[@andredematos]

great job!

[@mahadesharya6975]

Full appreciations. Very neutral. Nice

[@daveJDB]

Cool.

[@markprange4386]

1:29 Was this near the Railwaymen's Building?

[@markprange2430]

Yes. The Railwaymen's Building is at far right.

[@klesarhr-bz5of]

Astonishing pictures!

[@alandesouzacruz5124]

Soviet soldiers true Warriors

[@caredesigns]

Did they have a choice? Those that refused to fight were shot.

[@sergeyillarionov4333]

​@@caredesignsThe detachments were for penal battalions on both sides. These were exceptional cases when there was an order not to take a step back. The Germans, for example, chained their soldiers to the guns with chains so that they would not escape. My ancestors fought for their homeland, family, freedom! ! My grandfathers were red army officers. One of them took a Berlin and other from Baltic front moved to fight with japanese in Manjuria. I proud of them!

[@garyfinn8772]

Can anyone tell me who the soldier is to the right of paulus in the photograph is he Russian or german

[@markprange4386]

Russian interpreter. At Beketovka.

[@markprange2430]

​​@@markprange4386 3:59

[@redbeardedberserker]

Damn, I was pulling for the Germans on this one

[@unknownknown7427]

God made Mankind in his own image

[@caredesigns]

Correction Man made god in his own image.

[@juliankowalewski908]

Nicely done.

[@ismolaaksonen9079]

👍

[@maximusvonce1381]

Lend lease saved soviets.

[@carlos73]

That's a lie

[@maximusvonce1381]

@@carlos73 Nope. Stalin admitted it to Khrushchev. I can send you the link if you want. Sorry your history books lied to you. And Stalin was a child molester.

[@maxsomerjoki8147]

And how exactly? The germans didn’t have enough resources to even fight a year the operation was doomed before it even started. Maybe you shoudl read some books and the actual reports from the german engineers

[@nikel-]

@@carlos73 US' war machines, Soviet's blood. That's how WW II worked for the Eastern Front

[@watching-you-]

No, without lendlease there will be just more years of fighting, before soviet win. Not a saviour, but just helped a lot.

[@TS-xj5mt]

Incorrect - FM Paulus didn't surrender his HQ was captured in a quick raid. He ordered his troops to surrender some days later when all was lost.

[@markprange4386]

Soviets were escorted from the lines near Stalingrad 1, and brought into the German headquarters.

[@michaelstein8366]

Actually, one of his men went outside his HQ and motioned to the Soviets that they were surrendering. And after his surrender, he refused to order any of his troops to surrender.

[@markprange2430]

Feldmarschall Paulus never ordered any surrender-saying that as a prisoner he had no such authority.

[@mericesin83]

Stalin was the right leader at the right place and time. Only mobilisation of the Soviet peoples under his leadership could guarantee the Soviet victory. The Soviet workers, peasants and soldiers were of course heroic... Period!

[@MrSlavaoat]

Stalin was one of two who caused WW2 in the first place. It's doubtful Hitler would've attacked Poland without making sure Stalin wouldn't move against him at the time, hence the pact between two totalitarian states. Don't forget, that while France and Great Britain fought Hitler, Stalin supplied Hitler with all the strategic materials needed for the war efforts.

[@mericesin83]

@@MrSlavaoat You are lieing. Or you are talking without knowing. To pretend that Stalin supplied Hitler is a Trotzkiyist lie. And not socialism but capitalism is a totalitaristik system. Fascism comes from capitalism and it is one of the capitalist kinds of rule. You are brainwashed by trotzkiyist propaganda. You should read Dr. Furr's 'Trotzkiyist Lies'.

[@pamountains2]

@@mericesin83 bro you make Stalin sound like some kind of fucking hero. He was psychopath and communist, who murdered millions of his own people

[@mericesin83]

@@pamountains2 And these are Trotzkiyist lies. In contrary, Stalin was a clever, intelligent and patriottic revolutionary leader of the Soviet peoples. You should have listened better to your history teacher.

[@moodswingy1973]

Ok Mr Tankie - the Soviets beat the Germans IN SPITE of Stalin, who had spent the previous decade purging the Red Army of some 30,000 seasoned officers who would have been of incalculable value during the Great Patriotic War. In addition at the beginning of Barbarossa Stalin refused to believe the Germans were actually invading and did not permit his remaining generals to react properly to German aggression, wasting valuable time and resources. But I suppose you have some propaganda to explain all of this.

[@dickhickey909]

Humans are their own worst enemy .