The Road To Stalingrad | Part 1 | Full Movie

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The Road to Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War 2, it also changed the face of modern warfare. In August 1942 Hitler’s huge sixth army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost. In this dramatic programme, based on the definitive book by Professor John Erickson, the true tale unfolds with the use of gripping archival footage. In an astonishing reversal of fortunes the Russians encircle and trap their Nazi enemy. This is the story of the epic battle for the ruins of a city that cost more than a million lives.
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[@bigronnie9629]

“Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.” -- Joseph Stalin

[@chepito2443]

So crazy , in fact the russians are a little more daring then the americanos are in fact

[@michaelbruns449]

A little more enslaved.

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

Although Lend Lease is highly overrated. Assistance in weapons was insignificant. The main significant help of Lend Lease falls on logistics

[@johnmc3862]

@@chepito2443 Russian lives mean nothing to Russia unfortunately.

[@user-zr5yw2st1e]

Помощь Америки была менее 5%. Основная китай,Монголия,Корея и тогда независимая Тува

[@deltasquire]

Jimmy Duggin deserves to be recognized for his writing. Images are wonderful and support the words, but the words the narrator speaks are what makes this the best doc on the Eastern Front I have ever seen. It has done much to add to my understanding of many things, but also of what is happening in Ukrane as I write. Kudos.

[@nobodyspecial4702]

Too bad this version of history is a little short on accuracy and pushes forward a pretty English-centric viewpoint. Things like "It would be 18 months to 2 years before Britain herself would be capable of mounting an attack on the mainland of Europe..." which was only possible because the US poured hundreds of thousands of soldiers and almost unlimited equipment for all the allies into England to invade Europe and which only happened when US generals told Churchill, who had repeatedly vetoed any invasion of the mainland, they didn't care if he was against an invasion since it would be US forces which provided the vast majority of men and materiel for one. English planning amounted to an invasion of Africa, another wasteful invasion of Italy and years of delays. And Polish cavalry never charged tanks.

[@bcalvert321]

@@nobodyspecial4702 Yes Poland Calvary did charge German tanks. Netflix WW2 in Color also has documentation of it. As for Churchhill, he did not want to invade France because He thought no one had a chance. He was almost right. It took the blunders of Hitler and the slowness of the German Generals to regroup and find out where the actual invasion was taking place before they could regroup together and fight back as one army. But it was close to ending on the beaches as Rommel had predicted.

[@nobodyspecial4702]

​@@bcalvert321 "Almost right" doesn't matter. If the Germans had their act together and rushed their tanks to the beaches to stop the invasion....they would have been destroyed by the guns of the naval vessels and air support long before they ever got to the beaches. The American staff had considered the possibility and prepared for it.

[@bcalvert321]

@@nobodyspecial4702 Maybe but if they had been called up when they were first needed they would have killed maybe a few thousand because we had nothing in the air or land that could stop them. The ships were not capable of hitting that far back into France.

[@normandgagnon8336]

@@nobodyspecial4702k

[@user-gw0k3b4s3dhh]

The Greatest Story Never Told

[@den264]

The two world wars is the greatest story ever. This component of the second world war is the greatest battle ever told.

[@TheWorld-xs8ly]

😂😅

[@iamconsumerrr]

​​@@den264yeah. Two world war were started by bankers Federal Reserved System. They won in 1944, Bretton-Woods agreements. Now they controll the World. (CIA, governments, world organizations, corporations, NASA etc)

[@msasal-ks5nl]

its been told since 1946.

[@user-uy8wx4pk4h]

Yea this doc is j-ish propaganda. 5 minutes in and I turned it off

[@gregorywhite9095]

My fascination with the invasion of the USSR and the siege of Stalingrad knows no bounds. This documentary is one of the best retellings of these events. But the puerile ads that interrupt it make me question the ultimate value of the sacrifices made.

[@bhok5228]

please add subtitles, this series deserve it

[@jayo3074]

No

[@cepelinai123]

Series deserved but you didn't

[@aaronblank2318]

I would totally do it, but I can't figure out how for someone else's video.

[@smokeykitty6023]

I agree. Some of us are older now...

[@viorelpiscanu9425]

Many thanks for your videos regarding WW2 in the East....very good history lessons even today..... Humans have short memories unfortunatelly....

[@henrynunez2066]

❤😮

[@snazzysailor]

Excellent documentary, thanks

[@TheRenaissanceGuys]

Excellent documentary!

[@pietrietveld1842]

Amazing good documantation about the war in the east my compliments for this work thanks for sharing .

[@kokosz33]

Its not good. Loads of lies

[@jimmiebigthumb351]

@@kokosz33 hhhhhhjjjy6y

[@turnthepage867]

This is a detailed explanation of what happened... spectacular.

[@jimmypresa9396]

one of the best documentaries I watched.

[@brianschwarz]

Excellent work. Thank you.

[@kennypool]

I spoke to a German soldier in 1988, he told me all about the horror and eating frozen bodies . Horrible

[@kennypool]

@Mister Google they are people. This guy was there

[@brandong.1857]

Nice footage. Thanks for this.

[@marcelmarceli8238]

The Polish cavalry made over 10 charges and almost all of them were successful. Not a single charge was against armored units.

[@bnipmnaa]

Absolutely true! It's a myth that the Poles charged tanks with cavalry.

[@JohnSmith-cw4ve]

@@bnipmnaa I've always wondered about that.

[@cranekraken24]

The propaganda from a leftist bent never ends.

[@dday881]

My understanding it is that a in one or those instances a Polish cavalry brigade charged a German infantry brigade well they were encamped, routed the infantry then found themselves charging at a concealed bunch of German tanks, only to be fired on and routed by them themselves. So I guess technically they did unintentionally. There’s no doubt though that the poles used a lot of machine gun armed cavalry division‘s to compensate for their lack of motorized infantry division though. All countries use cavalry back then they were a common army unit. So it’s not really a point of embarrassment for the poles. Evidently some Italian journalist wrote about it claiming the Poles just charge the tanks with lances, also it was primarily the Soviets that kept that myth going after the war in their military academies to emphasize not getting bogged down in outdated tactics. So I mean it’s techniques true, just needs context.

[@adams4441]

@@bnipmnaa 💯 That is German propaganda that people believe to this day.

[@adanedwardspencer6891]

I hope & pray that this loss of human life, NEVER happens again, the loss of life was unparalleled to anything that has ever happened, & the rise of dictators such as Adolf Hitler, & Joseph Stalin, NEVER stains the blood of human lives ever again, & if there is a hell, I hope that they are both there, suffering, like they have done to others, lest we forget.

[@mugshot749]

Professor John Errickson wrote this book and the sequel Road to Berlin, I have both of them they are brilliant works.

[@generaldilvry69]

Interesting I would line it up chronologically in reverse. Also how do you separate the two projects? Barbarosa ended with the battle of Berlin

[@OK9131]

0⁰

[@youngim1011]

Stalingrad book is my favorite all time ,read over and over .

[@canusakommando9692]

My cousins Grandfather spent 13.5years in a gulag. He was a tank mechanic in the sixth army. He walked home. 3000 km to Turkey then onto Canada. My Grandfather always thought of the German as an enemy until his dying day.

[@nationalist464]

Your cousins grandfather was in Gulag , Oppressed by own government , Ans still hated Germans , What a fool

[@JohnSmith-un9jm]

That was my grandfather!

[@stalintheliberator2454]

@@nationalist464 youre fool here lol, his grandfathers served in german sixth army)) He was oppressed by Soviet Union,not by his own nazi regime) No wonder he hated nazi regime that destroyed his life. Russians were not oppressed by their own regime,thats why they won WW2

[@brunokirchensittenbach9294]

What do you expect the Russian send him?? ..To Cancún to sip Margaritas or Piña 🍍 coladas??…A freaking Nazi a tool of mass murder invading foreign land simple as that…

[@bawsack69]

My great grandfather died in a concentration camp during the holocaust. He was drunk and fell out the guard tower, broke his neck. Tragic.

[@chadczternastek]

Wow that opening quote by Göering along with the background music just about gave my goosebumps. Like the quote was powerful. Göering also said another good one about no plane is gonna be flying over Germany. 😂 The Allies had that written on a plane I seen.

[@LeeZaslofsky]

Goering visited the West Wall at one point during the war. His pledge that "If the British bomb Germany, my name is Meyer" was still his motto. While inspecting the base, some British planes flew overhead, en route to a bombing raid. A soldier mentioned that to Goering. Goering's response was to lose his temper and deny that any Biritsh planes had passed overhead. But the soldier insisted that he had recongnized British planes. Goering then sholted "I ORDER you that there were no British planes!" The soldier said "Jawohl, Herr Reichsmarschall!" but the look on his face, seen by his fellow soldiers, was masterpiece of sarcasm.

[@joeyj6808]

When Herr Goering says, "they'll never bomb dis place" We heil! Heil! Right in Herr Goering's face!

[@LeeZaslofsky]

He actually said "If they bomb Germany, my name is Meyer."

[@danielmori501]

Why would any quote from Goering give you goosebumps?

[@theofanisgkinos6240]

Simply brilliant!

[@apvenczel]

In a courtroom David Irving said, “if the soldiers that stormed the Normandy beaches in June 1944 could see England as it is today they wouldn’t have gone 40 yards up that beach”.

[@merdalors5661]

What about usa today ?

[@johnsecord8539]

Same with the USA.

[@mongieboy]

As an Englishman that hurts. I would never have said a word against my country before and still won't as an old soldier. How different would it be if the Germans won the War? We, as England would have been ok, the world would have amazing progress in so many areas but ur forgetting about the suffering of others. So, I disagree. The average German was a soldier but the nazi? A different subject totally so do not disrespect our brave men and women who went and fought and thousands died 4 the greater good.

[@mongieboy]

And u Americans? Imagine if the Japanese had won the Pacific war? Look what happened 2 our pow's by them. So shut up and see the world 4 what it is and what it was then. No soldier would be ashamed of what they achieved and 4 u 2 say it? Wow.

[@petersoakell6950]

subbed, thanks for putting this out there.

[@runedharma22]

My friend whose father was in the German Army, and survived Barbarossa from beginning to end.

[@francoisgilibert1877]

Il a eu de la chance . Mon grand pére aussi a survécu à cette guerre . Honneur à nos anciens.

[@OK9131]

​@@francoisgilibert18776:00 😅0

[@tgwcl6194]

Two family members were executed by the genocidal killing machine called 'Germany army' ................

[@joebloggs2862]

Pity should have died.

[@cragjones1799]

Unlikely

[@RobertJamesChinneryH]

excellent, accurate and historic narrative...university level history...highly recommended!

[@gliderreserve9544]

Very informative and interesting to view.

[@NOOBKIAtv]

Yes! More information and less emotional propaganda !

[@steven1franco]

We all appreciate this great document thank you very much for the upload.

[@fasteddie8782]

Great job.. thanks for the uploads

[@robertjelinski5113]

Superb documentary, amazing video footage. Thank you so much!

[@johnsamsungs7570]

The charging of tanks by Calvary is a myth!

[@stevek8829]

Yes, it's a shame anyone can pass myths here.

[@USSTOLEDOSSN769]

10:19 Great quote by Sir Winston Churchill.

[@user-ld9hx7eh8b]

"I hate the subhuman Hindus with their animal religion"... (Winston Churchill)

[@snobear41]

Documentary, not movie. Just started watching very well done so far!

[@CacophonyOfDestruction]

Thanks for the annoying ringing sound in the background that made me believe I had tinnitus for a bit until I paused this video. I needed that today.

[@tbone2859]

“ a world of slaves and masters”. Good corporate slogan for Amazon

[@vanlendl1]

If not for Amazon then surely for Quatar.

[@Falcon_Serbia]

For the entire liberal woes order

[@gliderreserve9544]

"War Pigs"

[@damintten]

"Amazon"- corporations what's the difference the end stage of the system is only one amazon;)

[@scaredy-cat]

Don’t use Amazon if you don’t like it, freedom of choice

[@user-bh7ed7pe2u]

Мой дед был участником этой битвы в должности командира роты стрелковой дивизии. За полтора месяца боев он имеет две награды-медаль За Отвагу и Орден Очественной Войны. В обоих случаях согласно приказов он возглавлял лично атаку роты, достигшей в последствии успехов. Было ему тогда 24 года.23 ноября 42 года во время боя за станицу Новогниловская( она сейчас не существует) он был тяжело ранен снайпером разрывной пулей. Я сталкивался с немцами за границей, я уважаю этот народ и понимаю, что давно настало время забыть все это.

[@spaniardsrk5108]

Regardless of what our word leaders decide, remember that it is old men that make decisions. Americans like me wish for peace with russian citizens.

[@BB-vq6cb]

You should be very proud of your Grandfather fighting so hard to defend his country. Stalingrad really showed the Russian fighting spirit. Cheers from America

[@rebelwithoutaclue8164]

The allemani were always unter menchen since the Romans tried to subdue it.

[@codyartiaga685]

Look I do not think Stalin was a good leader.. but I give all respect to the Russian soldier

[@russellrykhus9130]

If we forget the horrors of Hitler we will be forced to relive it. Just look at what's happening in Ukraine. Instead we must learn from history and always fight against dictators.

[@MomentsInTrading]

I really enjoyed this. Well made!

[@brianelliott4923]

Magnificent .

[@paullevsunov2554]

An excellent presentation

[@marvwatkins7029]

Regarding matters of personnel and loyalty, one can never be too sure...or too vigilant. -Stalin

[@ramondrongonui1024]

Excellent documentary amazing footage...

[@VDP207]

I did not realize the full extent of Stalin's purges. I had to go back again to make sure i heard the narrator correctly!

[@TheLeadSled]

Hitler could of been stopped in 1939 before he destroyed so many lives. When his armies invaded Poland in September 1939 his border with France was lightly guarded, and if the French would've invaded they could of stopped him then and there, Hitler even said so himself. It so aggravating that 50 plus million died when it didn't have to happen.

[@nationalist464]

If you think Hitler was responsible for occurence of WW2 then you are wrong 😂😂

[@judefinegan4280]

Russia signed a peace treaty with Germany and they split up Poland with Hitler just for greed when they could of stopped them then before he built his military bigger.

[@Mingus8]

There was probably no country that could compete militarily with Germany in 1939. They were superior in everything ... materiel, tactics, weapons and above all perhaps motivation.

[@nationalist464]

@@Mingus8 Yes boy , That's exactly What I wanted to say , Literally they were far ahead than everyone , Their officer core , Their command structure ( After Napoleonic wars ) , their tactics , everything was superb

[@Jinxohh]

@@judefinegan4280 no Russia was gearing up to invade Western Europe Germany decided to hit first fool

[@francoisgilibert1877]

Parmi les meilleurs documentaires de guerre que j'ai vus. Commenté dans un anglais trés pur , que j'ai compris facilement . Merci monsieur pour votre excellent travail d'historien . Je m'abonne à votre chaine .

[@kevinmorgan8439]

@4DigitalMedia - What’s that female chorus music @ -28:06 ?? I was actually looking for this melody for years now !

[@cragjones1799]

Zhukov was never dismissed from his post , the errors in this documentary are egregious...

[@kikastra]

If you were Hitler, an obscure man who suddenly obtained power beyond your dreams, you might think everything you do is right too. We need to understand this.

[@sam8404]

Doesn't change anything but ok.

[@kikastra]

@@sam8404 Huh? Who said it "changes" anything?

[@blackrabbit212]

I think you are quite correct. The same could be said of many of our current crop of politicians.

[@kikastra]

@@blackrabbit212 That's sort of what I was alluding to about why we need to understand that.

[@charlesmaeger6162]

Hitler had spent years in the trenches during WW I. He knew better.

[@Dullborn]

Despite knowing the tale fairly well, this documentary is particularly engaging, although I wish they used the words "Soviets" instead of Russians...Have seen many of these documentaries on the subject and each one drops a little bit of knowledge for me...I did not know about the Churchman who stepped up and into the silence from the shocked Stalin...On to Part 2

[@s.t.lacroix372]

The absolutely best Stalingrad documentary is the 2-DVD series 'Stalingrad - Die Hölle entkommen', a German production which was aired on the national German channel ZDF I believe.. First hand accounts of the soldiers who were there and survived it, mixed with historical news reels.. All in German of course, but the DVD's have subtitles

[@ruslantito2337]

Do you know history so well that you are willing to believe the fairy tales of a stunned Stalin? That's ridiculous)

[@Dullborn]

@@s.t.lacroix372 Thanks for the tip

[@Dullborn]

@@ruslantito2337 You should take this up with the producers of this (and several others) Documentary....Whether I believe that Stalin was stunned, fighting at the Front or talking to Alexander Nevsky through a Ouija Board matters not...

[@ruslantito2337]

@@Dullborn And it's not a matter of faith ... there are trivial documents and logic ... 1. Stalin is not a teenager, under his belt he had underground activities, exile, revolution, civil war (in which there was more chaos than in the entire Second World War), internal political struggle with Trotsky (and its victory) ... I am silent about domestic issues, which he solved. 2. In the office where Stalin worked - kept a trivial (as is customary) record of visits to this office ... it marks the hours of Stalin and those who visited him ... one can only imagine what chaos it is for a man, one must be multitasking and with a strong psyche...

[@l4j3b]

Thanks!

[@jazz4asahel]

48:54 One slick way of getting into his tank.

[@patrickbarrett5650]

Brilliant narration, beautifully done. 👏🏻

[@adamevert1618]

with a tiny pinch of propaganda

[@intercommerce]

Appalling, the arrogance of Nazism & Sovietism, frightening that this happened in Europe, so-called cultural bastion of the world, in my parents' time. Utter disregard for human life. Starvation, homelessness, torture, mass murder, and destruction on an inconceivable level. The saddest chapter in humanity, viewed on KZbin from the comfort of my living room. And the Russians are still falling for the propaganda & lies of their leader, willing marching & attacking civilians and soldiers alike, killing & being killed, all for nothing...utter madness. Dear Lord stop the violence...life is fragile enough without this...

[@johnhatchel9681]

I agree.

[@DmitryTihomirow]

@@intercommerce, You are a victim of anti-Soviet propaganda. Comparing Nazi Germany and the USSR is blasphemy! Only stupid and illiterate people, unable to think critically, can see something in common between Nazi and communist ideology. The communists saved the world from Nazism, but after 1945 the capitalist countries began the Cold War, the United States created the atomic bomb. Maybe the USSR dropped atomic bombs on the peaceful cities of Japan? Maybe the USSR burned Vietnamese villages with napalm along with people? Maybe the USSR bombed Belgrade, destroyed churches and houses, killed civilians? Maybe the USSR destroyed peaceful life in Libya? Maybe the USSR attacked Iraq, killed the legitimate head of state and doomed the Iraqis to decades of chaos? Even after 1991, the capitalist countries did not calm down - they began to expand NATO eastward to the borders of Russia. Are you blind and can't see all this? Or are you a zombie? Вы - жертва антисоветской пропаганды. Сравнивать нацистскую Германию и СССР кощунство! Только неумные и безграмотные люди, неспособные критически мыслить, могут видеть что-то общее между нацистской и коммунистической идеологией.Коммунисты спасли мир от нацизма, но после 45 года капиталистические страны начали "холодную войну", США создали атомную бомбу. Может быть СССР сбросил атомные бомбы на мирные города Японии? Может быть СССР сжигал напалмом вьетнамские деревни вместе с людьми? Может быть СССР бомбил Белград, разрушал храмы и жилые дома, убивал мирных людей? Может быть СССР разрушил мирную жизнь в Ливии? Может быть СССР напал на Ирак, убил законного главу государства и обрёк иракцев на десятилетия хаоса? Даже после 91 года капиталистические страны не успокоились - стали расширять НАТО на восток к границам России. Вы слепые и не видите всего этого? Или вы зомби?

[@gingerli5820]

@@intercommerce What do you think they are doing in this country, the US, right now? The population is dutifully queuing up to take poisonous toxins that are mendaciously called vaccines that are killing them. They are being harangued with racist propaganda via the fascist media that they believe. Murder, killing and crime are at unprecedented levels. The country is being invaded by the third world at the behest of the present administration. And all you can be appalled at is the what, how and why of what happened in Europe 80 plus years ago?

[@Victorromain]

This video documentary is arguably one of the most definitive and informative videos I have ever had the pleasure of watching and learning ever more about the history of World War Two and the titanic, brutal battles on the Eastern Front - a topic I have been closely studying for many years now.

[@Eric-sn4qz]

This is garbage. What does a atomic bomb explosion from 1945 have to due with Stalingrad?

[@jiritichy7967]

A few points suggested for minor corrections in this otherwise excellent document. There is no mention of the situation regarding Japan. Kolkhoz is incorrectly pronounced holkoz and Kazan as Khazan.

[@patkearney9320]

I think in years to come the Germans will be seen like the 300 Spartans the fight they fought against the allies was amazing the courage they had was amazing. Pity they served a nasty system.

[@DmitryTihomirow]

Are you delusional or do not understand the essence of Nazi ideology? Вы бредите или не понимаете сущности нацистской идеологии?

[@alfredfrends8959]

Почти вся европа воевала и помогала против ссср

[@patkearney9320]

@@DmitryTihomirowO indeed I do I’m speaking of fighting men not what cause they fought for or against, the bottom line they took on the world and fought the fight. When have so few fought so many. Forget about the nazi shit, I’m talking from a military point of view. History will be kind to the line swine ordinary German soldiers.

[@wombatwilly1002]

Superb presentation.I think you meant to say millimeters not centimeters when describing Panzer three armour thickness!

[@tomperkin2505]

No, it's cm

[@caspian5964]

@@tomperkin2505 so the panzer three had 8-30cm thick armour 💀 - sounds about right

[@markprange2430]

​@@caspian5964: 12 inches?

[@santiagocesteromarina1578]

Muchas gracias

[@grandcrowdadforde6127]

excellent doc ! too often these productions bog down.... not this one!

[@gusyates1839]

Interesting documentary

[@joeyj6808]

I think it's important to note that the Red Army beat the Hitlerites despite Stalin, not because of him. Great job on the doc!

[@j.dunlop8295]

Definitely so! Generals got Stalin to leave them to it, he went after recruiting farmers as soldiers, leading to famine! (What a true loser!)😮 Heroes of WW2, were the Russian people! In spite of Stalin!

[@joeyj6808]

Amen, comrade! I could not agree more!@@j.dunlop8295

[@syourke3]

Stalin did rally the Russian people with patriotic radio directed and he didn’t abandon Moscow when the German army was ten miles away. And he did have the good sense to get out of the way and let his generals (Zhukov) make the big decisions. Unlike Hitler who insisted on running the war himself. So to that extent, he deserves some credit. And without Stalin’s insane industrial action program over the 1930’s, the SU wouldn’t have succeeded in building all those tanks. But he ignored all the warnings about Hitler’s intention to invade in 1941 and he refused to allow his generals withdraw to defensible positions. Which was really inexcusable.

[@joeyj6808]

@@syourke3 Don't forget how he froze up for days after Barbarossa began. Literally froze while his nation was attacked.

[@syourke3]

@@joeyj6808 Yeah, I know. He totally fell skate for a week or two. But then he rallied and took charge. His decision not to leave Moscow was courageous and sensible. His closest advisors were urging him to leave and go East but he didn’t, he stayed and fight from Moscow. And above all, he didn’t try to tell Zhukov how to fight the war.

[@cavscout62]

It’s a damn good thing that America was able to supply Russia after Nazi Germany invaded her giving her time to make up for Stalins insane Blunders or all of Europe would be under the swastika today. Hats off to the toughness and willingness to never surrender of the people of the soviet union! Those individual people, living in a repressive Police State under Stalin fought the Nazis to the death on an individual level in battle after battle and are now being forced to fight the Nazis in Ukraine once again. As an old Soldier they have my undying Respect and Admiration!

[@Psychonaut165]

Germany had pretty much already lost the war before the USA joined. Their offensive had already stalled out at Moscow and the tide had already turned. It’s almost certain that the Allie’s would have won anyway even without the United States involvement . It just would have taken longer and cost more casualties. The thing that cost Germany the war wasn’t lend lease or the United States. It was Germanys crippling fuel shortages. Them failing to get the oil from the caucuses was probably their most limiting factor.

[@acknodbikes5051]

truth

[@Falcon_Serbia]

Germany ran out of fuel American supplies where minimal at best.

[@danielainger8666]

Americans need too read a few history books.

[@cresenteayo3638]

For practicing strategists in whatever field or profession either, military, law enforcement, academe, business or private field, certain fundamental principles govern. Ignore it one lead to crushing defeat, learned it then blunders and temporary set backs steers way to final victory.

[@stevebrindle1724]

An excellent documentary!

[@davidpowell3347]

At 2;40 yes,a consequence that Russia does not want a hostile to it alliance operating on its border. An alliance that includes the nation that launched this in 1941. Sort of a reverse Cuban Missile Crisis.

[@buckshot704]

Agreed. If the Chinese would build military bases in Canada or Mexico, the west would have a fit. Pity that more do not understand Eastern European history. Excellent documentary.

[@markkennedy5479]

When you look at what was at issue in this conflict, only to be confronted by the sheer inanity of the commercials that interrupt the telling of the tale, you do have to wonder what all the sacrifice was for.

[@clarkewi]

Epic.

[@blutexas]

kudos to the writers who picked up many points and subtilties most docs completely miss

[@steveweinstein3222]

I completely agree. They did a great job.

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

I am a " Know A Bit " not a " Know it All " ....I am only as of late interested enough to watch documentary after documentary . ADHD makes reading history books a real trial of commitment .

[@kingcobra7183]

There are tons of awesome WW2 books you just have to find them! With reading them being As fun as watching the WW2 documentary

[@patrickdoggett959]

Audiobooks are awesome. Much easier and convenient

[@kikastra]

No such thing as a know it all, if the person realizes they can't know it all.

[@mcivor321]

@@kingcobra7183 give me some examples man, might buy sum. Was gonna get a few ww2 comics as well

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

@Hootie1980 Yeah , been there definitely

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

Hitler wasn't "forced to take" any gamble. Hitler deluded himself that he had chosen the right time for his long intended walk over.

[@kevinhennessey3189]

Actually he need the Russian oil to continue his war.

[@ricardos.cabral8409]

Excelente

[@gregmclaughlin2212]

You wonder how many of the men shown in this documentary survived the war.

[@uncleTedK]

78%

[@magatism]

There's no honor among murderers as it turned out.

[@patkearney9320]

Truly the only way to maintain honour amongst folk that murder, is to hold a political mindset Eire32

[@codyartiaga685]

Some people with badges... Some people with titles... Believe it's okay to murder other people that do not have badges and titles... They just call that justifiable killings.. but you are right it's still just murder it's still just f****** wrong... When they go see their God I'm pretty sure he's not going to recognize their badge of their f****** title and he's still just going to send them the hell just the same because that's exactly where the f*** they belong

[@Wakefoilman]

Well done! Now how do I find part 2?

[@polyticks69]

Very informative movie

[@martynhanson]

Interesting stuff. I'd like this guy to take the same approach to the creation, expansion and consolidation of the British Empire.

[@voraciousreader3341]

Do you read history books? That’s the best way to gain perspective over something as broad as the subject you propose, which I suspect would need at least 10 documentaries, and you still wouldn’t get a good idea of what happened in roughy 400 years.

[@martynhanson]

@@voraciousreader3341 History books? You could read 20 in any library in the UK and you still would have no clue about the eastern front. Anyway, what about the East India Company? Hardly any young person knows about what they did.

[@davehallett810]

​@@martynhansonTo be fair the British navy ended slavery and they did it at huge financial cost and thousands of British sailors lives 🇬🇧

[@volvo1354]

Stalin did not oppose the church during these critical moments, while he was hiding

[@webkeeper]

He was not hiding, he was waiting for someone to kill him. As the legend goes at least.

[@teedtad2534]

Camera men during those days did a very good job!!

[@ronaldwhite1730]

Thank you . ( 2022 / June / 13 )

[@sm70911]

The footage in the first minute is wrong ! @01:21 The Fallschirmajger with Panzerfaust was outside Caen in Normandy. Bro srsly.

[@j3lny425]

Sadly footage in there documentaries is usually wrong they use what they feel is illustrative not what is accurate. But sometimes they don't even try .

[@traceynorcross5666]

In 1975 I lived in Rochdale, Lancs, our neighbours were an old couple called Crux or Crox and told me their son had been a Member of British army intelligence during WW 2. After the war he managed to get the daughter of general Paulus out of east Germany and would marry her.

[@elizabethmchenry3102]

very interesting

[@lunafringe10]

I thought she married Rasputin.

[@carlosgomez1706]

I am secretly married to Sophia Vergara. Believe me, pinky promise

[@chrismorgan2800]

He did, got married?! Well, we're all very proud of him! Always were proud of 'em. Not the bad stuff, like what happened in '71...you know!!! What do I have to do, say! The shit that happened with\in the van, the van with the bubble window in the back...mural of a Viking on the side of it??! Ring any bells, any at all??!?

[@1_Fish.2_Fish.Red_Fish.]

@@carlosgomez1706 You can’t be.

[@Melvorgazh]

Anyone knows about a documentary about the Kriegsmarine during that period? There strangely seems to be little about the German Navy operations on the Eastern front and the Baltic Sea. Strange

[@pyatig]

Finally a docu that goes into the nuances of the Rib-Mol pact instead of “Soviets as bad asNazis” narrative

[@lew123drums]

Would love to watch these; however, I am almost deaf (I need subs) ... without them, it isn't possible to know what's happening. Please don't forget those of us who are disabled ... Thanks!

[@TheWarChannel]

We do understand, as this is a new venture for us we are working hard in the background to start providing subtitles/closed captions in the future, thank you for watching.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

@@TheWarChannel Please add your own if feasible. Those YT voice activated captions are literally a joke, funny as hell sometimes, but worthless to the people like lew123drums who actually NEEDS them.

[@lew123drums]

but I have watched this several times ... volume on 10! Great extra footage in this video which nicely supplements the standards.

[@thomasjamison2050]

The documentary overrates the western estimation of the Soviet military strength before WWII, particularly as a result of the war in Finland. Nobody thought too much of the Soviet Army, and none had any real idea of how many tanks Stalin actually had.

[@ElectronFieldPulse]

This documentary gets a lot wrong. The Poles didn't charge tanks with horses, a few cavalrymen tried to use horses to plant bombs, but it isn't like an entire group just tried to charge them. Not a good quality documentary

[@thomasjamison2050]

@@ElectronFieldPulse Agreed. I don't really care for some ideas TIK has when it comes to politics and such, though he's young, but he does a far better job of research and supplying relevant detail from secondary source material. Stephen Kotkin is far better because he speaks the right languages, which TIK doesn't, but Kotkin is primarily into the political side of the war and Stalin in particular. On a side note, I have been rather disappointed with the Ukrainians as they don't seem to use any horses these days. Manstein wrote that the toughest Russian units to deal with were the horse mounted Russians as they could move sixty miles overnight through terrain tanks could not cope with. I should think a man on horse back carrying a half dozed stingers would be quite formidable in the forests.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

@@ElectronFieldPulse What do you expect from the Brits? They lie about everything. The Soviets had 32k tanks and 30k+ aircraft in 1941, Stalin was obviously planning to invade Europe. Plus Stalin had already murdered 20+ million people by June of 1941. There's so much that we never hear about it isn't funny. The war should have ended in July of 1940. Alas, Churchill and FDR wanted a wider war and they made it happen.

[@lilmike2710]

Strength was in sheer numbers. Also materials. What they lacked was up to date technology. They were always behind the west in that regard. There wasn't exactly an abundance of competent engineers either. We can avoid going down a rabbit hole by avoiding the what-ifs but it's difficult to deny that the other allies tying up German forces and resources on several different fronts paid an enormous part in the red army's success in overwhelming the Germans. Discussions to allow them (Nazis and soviets) to destroy each other was on the table at one point. It certainly would have saved the world a ton of greif in the future.

[@thesixth2330]

Action speaks louder than words. France whole heartily believed the USSR would always be a bulwark against the NAZI's. And which line in particular were you referring to from the documentary? I didn't get that impression at all.

[@NicolasPerez-wb8rt]

Hi! Can you allow the subtitles please. Cheers from Arg

[@annoyingbstard9407]

Went on a bit. I’m going straight to part 2…running away from Stalingrad. That’s only two minutes long.

[@shaunjohnson9407]

Nah it's Auztwitzh or spell it right

[@adilachahbar3154]

3:12 Not only the Russians suffered losses, but all the citizens of the Soviet Union So when we talk about World War II Russia is just a republic in the Soviet Union like every Soviet republic And when we talk about World War II, we don't say Russia, but we say the Soviet Union I really do not understand the attempts of the West to demonize Russia, that it was itself the Soviet Union, while Russia was the one who ended the Soviet Union

[@tonyromano6220]

Western (US) government is corrupt and uses Russia as a false flag.

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

Really ? You don't understand ?

[@adilachahbar3154]

@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 I think I understand now America and its allies use Russia as a false flag after the collapse of the Soviet Union

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

@@adilachahbar3154 Try again . But this time skip the vodka

[@landonburke2772]

Does any of this look familiar? No? Just wait...

[@kryoboy2.074]

Yeah you called it

[@baddoopey]

No, next time it will be in color.

[@stevebrownrocks6376]

You ain’t seen nothin yet!

[@merkcityboy834]

@@stevebrownrocks6376 that’s what she said

[@greyowl7869]

@@merkcityboy834 oh...BAM!!!

[@axxellein]

TRES Heavy!!!

[@pendleburyable]

2022. And so it goes.

[@douglasthompson8927]

here we go again

[@KENACT1]

If this is The Road To Stalingrad, where's Bob Hope and Bing Crosby?

[@gilbertzimmerman2173]

And Dorothy Lamour? Oh, my! 🍀

[@kobold7763]

Bing Crosby? In jail after drugging women with ludes.

[@peterrhodes5663]

At 48:33 German MkIII had between 8-30 cm's of armour, and it only weighed 18 tons. Yeah. I don't think so.

[@dicostigan1449]

It is my belief that we are on Earth to learn spiritual lessons. Myself and many others have had past-life experiences. Time itself seems to have speeded up. It seems this lovely Earth will soon only support a few so to me the millions of lives cut short in the first half of 20th century gave them time for re-birth.

[@Falcon_Serbia]

Yes you are correct

[@hiseverest9074]

After research, one rifle for three soldiers were just Hollywood myth.

[@salvadorvizcarra769]

Many Myths have been created around Stalin and the USSR. MANY! Propaganda has always led us to believe that we, "The Yankees", beat Hitler. But, I have news for you: The US did not win the war against Germany. The Russians won it. The Allied Army of the US, UK, Canada, Belgium and France (and Poland, and other countries), was able to reach Normandy, thanks to the Soviets destroying the Nazis in Stalingrad, Leningrad and in Kurks, in 1943. It took them 289 days but the Russians won and without the help of nobody… OF NOBODY! Normandy was until June 1944, and Mr. “Hollywood” Patton did NOT manage to set foot on Germany until January 1945, when the Red Army was going over Berlin. General Patton was able to enter Germany only when the Russians were 180 kilometers from the Oder River. The Allies were defeated at Arnhem (Market Garden Sep. 25-1944), and at The Battle of the Bulge (Jan. 25-1945). General Patton was paralyzed without fuel, while the Red Army was preparing for its last offensive. Look: It took the Allies 8 months to advance only 550 kilometers from Normandy to Arnhem, and from there, start the Withdrawal to the border of France (What?), facing a virtually defeated German Army cuz USSR. Well… The US has been defeated in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Lebanon, Somalia and now, in Afghanistan. However, the powerful US Army defeated the tiny island of Grenada, as it faced a fearsome army of 287 Police Officers, since Grenada does NOT have an army. In fact, they were half this number, since the Policemen on the afternoon shift had not yet come to work. What seems incredible is the Fact that the US was defeated by Vietnam. What? Did the US lose the war against Nam? OMG! Against a poor country, underdeveloped, malnourished, without Navy, without Air Force, NO Marines, Green Berets, SEALs, Rangers, Delta Force, USMC, Rambos or Chuck Norris. Defeated by a country of peasants without strategic plans, no B-59 Bombers, PT-Boats, Atomic Submarines, without Aircraft Carriers, NO Continental Missiles, nor Tanks, Choppters, AR-15, Gatlin Machins, Flamethrowers, Napalm, Agent Orange... and to top it off, defeated by an army of teenagers who had no shoes… WITHOUT SHOES!!! Army that fought with bamboo sticks!!! Charlie Kicked Our Asses and even invaded our Embassy.

[@bottlethrower1544]

Proof?

[@lilmike2710]

What research? I hate to break it to you but that's no myth. It's %100 factual. Besides, there's not too many movies that even touch on the subject. "Enemy at the Gates" is one of very few. The one rifle to 3-4 men goes back even further than WW2. If you've been told otherwise then your "research" was a bunch of 🐂 💩

[@hiseverest9074]

@@bottlethrower1544 There is nothing to prove because there is no record of this ever happening. However, it is said that during the offence of the Russian Second Army at the battle of Lake Naroch WW1, more than 20,000 of their soldiers did not even have rifles.

[@acknodbikes5051]

@@bottlethrower1544 ahaha. Do you need proof that in reality everything was different than in Hollywood shit? clown

[@user-bp2ol5vn5v]

Забыли рассказать, как Сталин ел детей, а в это время заградительные отряды сразу расстреливали на плацу новобранцев с одной винтовкой на троих... угу... так всё и было, да-да... They forgot to tell how Stalin ate children, and at that time the barrage squads immediately shot recruits on the parade ground with one rifle for three... uh-huh... that's how it was, yes, yes...

[@acknodbikes5051]

lol. love it

[@user-zr5yw2st1e]

Нууу!!!! Батенька!чтото слабенько вы тут загнули!где настояшшшие ужасы?!эти уже приелись

[@doogboy]

WOW!

[@lorrycamill6502]

All German generals were all smile in the beginning of Russian invasion but at the end it was there death trap 🪤

[@peterreiss5937]

Hitler did not have any ambition for "world domination" as stated in the video. He was not even interested in Britian who he would have preferred to be a ally, until Britian declared war on Germany. A war that Britian could not possibly have won, and which America had to fight.

[@elizabethmchenry3102]

Hitler definitely had ambition to occupy all the other countries of Europe,especially Russia for his lebenstraum. He was lusting after the Baltic states for their oil and also Russia for their land and oil reserves. He was not really interested in Britain because he felt they could be his ally against Russia. His greed and his genocide of the European Jews was his downfall.

[@chepito2443]

Yea hitler was an asshole but he was the nazis asshole too bad he should've listened to his generals and not himself when it came to war . He basically had it all wrapped up but no he let his vanity more his ego take over and fuck up the 3rd reich and the thousands years

[@peterreiss5937]

@@elizabethmchenry3102 But that is not “world” domination. America is part of that world, and Hitler was not a threat.

[@jagenau6334]

The Germans couldn't even cross the English Channel, nevermind the Atlantic ocean. World domination !? Not a chance.

[@dorange_]

so he is "good guy" ? just curious bcoz what he did was a nightmare, millions of death bcoz of ' Hitler did not have any ambition for world domination'... let's forget about a "thing" inside Hitler mind.

[@dougclark8941]

Back for a second look. First-rate writing and editing.

[@Lue_Serenity]

Good times.. Good times

[@ronaldmayle1823]

These ads that I keep skipping over are a pain in the ass.

[@rayjames6096]

They did everything they could to make that war hell.

[@lunafringe10]

bd Biden slept thru history class at primary school. or else he wouldnt confront Putin now