The Stalingrad Front Strikes | Operation Uranus Part V

[@hisdadjames4876]

Thank you for paying homage to, yet building upon, TIKs series. As he often says, ‘history lies in the heart of the debate’, so it is great to hear you challenging his account.....so respectfully. Classy!👏👏

[@Gnosis639]

I am thoroughly enjoying TIK's Stalingrad series. It is truly groundbreaking way of covering Eastern Front battles. Dead are the days of 40min (at most) videos of entire battles. We've had enough. No more appetizer amount of information. Give us the appetizer, full coarse, desert, drinks and a take home box. Outside of Tik this channel has been the only other i pay attention too. Everyone else give the same over and over.

[@Armageddon4145]

Thanks a lot!

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

Right!

[@Winkie007]

Hi! This video is one of the best so far you and TIK have a different view of a historical event; the discourse is great, this is not to be confused with discord. Kudos to you and TIK! And everyone that helped. Great work, SH

[@Armageddon4145]

Thank you Steven!

[@Winkie007]

Thank you too Anton👍

[@stevecoscia]

Terrific video, Anton. Your attention to detail and factual research is appreciated. The story of Operation Uranus is always exciting and informative no matter how many books I read and documentaries I watch. There is still much to learn.

[@Armageddon4145]

Right, Steve, there's so much to learn yet!

[@duniagowes]

These series are gems. Better than TIK's who tend to bias & put his thought & conclusion (where he shouldn't do) based only in assumptions. I prefer this series. Appreciate your works.

[@Armageddon4145]

Many thanks. Appreciate

[@Khazad_666]

Great episode, I have been fan since Stalingrad Data Base channel times. Real maps, real photos, sometimes real characters dialogs being voiced over by your team creates original content. Debates with TIK channel gives additional insight to problems that are not clear. Cheers from Poland. Na zdrowie!

[@Armageddon4145]

Thanks a lot!

[@tiberiusgracchus4222]

Excellent! I have always been fascinated with this battle and this is a great series.

[@lorimeyers3839]

Finally!! I never thought another video would come!

[@Armageddon4145]

They are harder to come by now. Difficult context

[@lorimeyers3839]

@@Armageddon4145 all good, men. I am not a patron member, so I completely understand. It’s a second full time job. I also understand those who pay for content as well, but you do what you have to for yourself. Your material up to this point is the first piece of narrated confrontations and communications, verbal and written to be posted online, and KZbin. Nobody has ever done it the way you guys have. Credit to y’all

[@sherirobinson6867]

I've been waiting for this episode!

[@jerryglen986]

Fantastic. Finally detailed information from the greatest battle in human history.

[@paulcateiii]

thank you for posting - can't wait for more

[@alejandrocasalegno1657]

Very good Anton.....it was.worth waiting for this new video!!!! Me alegro que estas de vuelta.😁

[@Armageddon4145]

Thank you Alejandro, glad this met your expectations!

[@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623]

For all those who wondered why the Germans, and Hitler in particular let 6th Army be encircled, this has happened before. 2 German Corps got surrounded in Demyansk in januari 1942 and held out for 4 months until it was relieved. Also, until then Soviet offensives had always had met with limited success and usually failed spectacularly. The success of Uranus in this regard is not so much that it managed to encircle 6th Army, but that it had succeeded at all. After all, Operation Mars, seen as the main show by Moscow, failed miserably. So we have the Germans underestimating Soviet abilities and a successful similar encirclement and relief in the past. It is not that strange therefore for the Germans to think they could weather the storm and repeat past success.

[@Odysseus88]

Nah.... They didn’t have a choice in the matter. The scale and speed in which this trap developed was overwhelming in terms of soviet manpower and material. A Million men and fresh equipment on the flanks after a major battle of attrition surgically attacking and directed towards the more weaker axis minors at that critical juncture, wow! The reality on the ground leading up to this event would lead one to conclude this to be impossible and imaginary. Which reminds me. In order for an attack on the Soviet Union to even be possible the german high command, especially Hitler, had to operate in a framework of denial in regards to soviet reserves, never mind the colossal challenge presented by the terrain, distances, times frames for success and the weather which was a concern in the beginning thus the, “all we have to do is kick in the front door and the whole rotten structure would come crashing down” comment. The lesson here is even when all the facts and statistics in reality, in real time, lead one to a logical conclusion, sometimes there’s an even bigger picture that the best minds can’t fathom do to this false framework of rationale (denial of soviet reserve potential ) in which they are operating in. But what choice did they have once the ball got rolling?

[@tamjeff1751]

@@Odysseus88 the dominoes were falling way too fast for high command to react and all that's left was the air lift...

[@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623]

@@Odysseus88 >>Nah.... They didn’t have a choice in the matter. The scale and speed in which this trap developed was overwhelming in terms of soviet manpower and material.>

[@Odysseus88]

@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 Hey don’t get me wrong both you and I are operating in the same framework of rationale that the historians have programmed and you get an A+. well done!!! I’m just trying to operate a little outside that framework by saying, there’s more to it. The Soviets pulled off what appeared to be the unimaginable at that pinnacle moment of German victory! What a shift in polarity it must have been. Sometimes I believe/think Hitler was conditioned like a dog, given a platform and amplified, so “they” the ruling classes could build him up and take him/germany down all by design hook, line and sinker. Perhaps the German military just got lucky for a while. Trust me we are all born into a realm that existed way before us and in that sense the true masters of this BF Skinner box known as society are 100 steps ahead of us! And it’s by design. In that sense we should all come to the same logical conclusions given enough time to study the historians. And I see you have. But there’s more. It’s that logical conclusion that becomes the trap! Especially when men conspire! Trust me they didn’t even know what hitt’em! I do it all the time.

[@aragti6060]

True analysis, thought they could weather as before and all needed was to buy some time. Hitler also had no idea the magnitude of the problem unlike his generals on the ground or atleast taken by his ilogic fantasies as usual.

[@--Dani]

Between your excellent content on the battle between the Don and the Volga along with TiK's series has inspired me to read a few of the newer and more accurate books on it as well...what a cataclysmic human tragedy when two totalitarian ideologies lock horns in a battle to the death. As always love the content keep up great work 👍

[@Armageddon4145]

Thank you Dan

[@--Dani]

@@Armageddon4145 Thank you sir, I found Death of the Wehrmacht, and Death of the Leaping Horseman by Citino, Mark respectively to be great reads, Glantz to he honest seems a bit intimidating of a read for a amature, would love any recomendations. 👍

[@LavrencicUrban]

HAPPY NEW YEAR ANTON AND THE CREW! AS FAR AS THE LAST POINT OF THIS VIDEO GOES, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, TIK WAS REFERING TO THE ALMOST FORMED ROMANIAN ARMY GROUP SPECIFICALLY, RATHER THAN THE 4TH ARMY. IN EITHER CASE, THANK YOU FOR THIS PARALLEL SERIES!

[@Armageddon4145]

Thanks a lot and Happy New Year!

[@victorydaydeepstate]

Nice to see lend-lease American Studebaker US6 2 1/2 ton 6×6 Trucks at Stalingrad

[@Centrodemasa]

Thanks a lot guys!!!!....from Chile

[@huntersmith8153]

Great video..long wait till next one?

[@dmdj8588]

Always, contents of gold 🙏

[@joeqmix]

this would be so much better with a little graphics help in the maps. You don't have to have all the units moving around "animated". But just a circle or an arrow flashing superimposed on the unit or town you are talking about to go along with the narration.

[@Love.life.ashigzoya]

Very rare history . Thanks

[@davidhauge5706]

now I have an idea what lead to the succes of Uranus what factors lead to the failure of mars.

[@RedProg]

Thank you

[@Mastergraduate]

Good documentary.

[@the1ghost764]

Excellent

[@mechaboy0226]

A withdrawal at least to the chir don region southwards could have been a good fallback line but that was just wishful thinking at the time logistically a retreat by the 6th army was not possible at this time

[@Armageddon4145]

Thanks for your feedback. Indeed a coordinated retreat wasn't possible. But a chaotic one was... maybe it should have been less catastrophic in the end. And surely it would have been attempted if they could foresee what was to come and the failed rescue operation.

[@mechaboy0226]

@@Armageddon4145 indeed But this is what happens when u deal with an oil crisis and bad logistics Everything is a role of the dice

[@seanpoltzer1107]

I hate to be complaining, especially since I don't contribute in the creation of these amazing documentary series, however; I am disappointed having to wait a month or longer to see your latest 14min episode. I want more videos , perhaps twice per month, and a much longer run time. I mean no disrespect to your work....I love it, but being selfish I want more, longer episodes. thanks guys for the time and effort you put into your work. your loyal fan....Sean

[@Armageddon4145]

I understand, Sean. Doing all the possible given the circumstances. And it was shortened because I intended to release a complement in a few days (just released now). Thanks for your interest!

[@skoopsro7656]

Great work

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

nice introducing

[@amsfountain8792]

I am bit confused about 4th Panzer army. Which units did it have?

[@ciuyr2510]

real unbiased history

[@richardvolbrecht2935]

The worst commander of all the possible 6th German Army commanders was Von Paulus. At least 5 SS or Wehrmacht Commanders when told by Hitler to not breakout of the unfolding encirclement of the 6th Army at Stalingrad would have broken out of the encirclement. SS Commanders Sepp Dittrich, Paul Haussr would not have hesitated to disregard Hitler's order Wehrmacht Commanders like Von Manstein, Guderian, and other skilled Wehrmacht commanders would likewise have completely disregarded Hitler's Order to not break out of the unfolding encirclement.

[@mrmelmba]

Paulus despised the little corporal and placed _no_ value on his promotion to field marshal by this person of low stature that thugs had brought to power. His own heritage to which he owed his selection was that of aristocracy, _von_ Paulus. A staff officer to whom field commanders paid lip service, then went their own way said nothing of Paulus competence or lack thereof. Paulus was unsuited to the task of field command, lacked ruthlessness, wasted men and material and was otherwise _incompetent._ Hitler’s fatal mistake was that he had lost sight of his base of support and too soon wishing to cloak himself with a modicum of respectability chose _pedigree_ over _merit._ A skillful tactician would have enjoyed success and eluded entrapment. The war that Hitler was destined to win was lost at Stalingrad. The Soviets isolated and captured the 6th army in order to rescue Paulus. His imprisonment a thinly disguised vacation. The Soviets knew that Paulus was the weak link in the chain, a commander-by-entitlement devoid of battlefield acumen. POW Paulus was allowed to phone his colleagues, eroding and undermining their confidence and faith in Hitler. If Hitler’s downfall may be attributed to any single party that person should be Paulus. Without Paulus assuming command the probability is high that Hitler might have enjoyed at least a partial victory, being permitted to retain Russian territory west of the Volga River, in order to stem the flow of Communism westward, in exchange for withdrawing from France and the other European nations that he had conquered.

[@tomheineman4369]

There were no tanks and trucks.

[@napoleonbonaparte937]

Stalingrad is the beginning of the end of Germany and Adolf Hitler.

[@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623]

Well, you are of course the expert in all disasters regarding Russia. 😉

[@sonnyjim5268]

Napoleon Bonaparte? Didn't you die like about 200 years ago?

[@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623]

@Alex From Boston I'd say not the acceleration of defeat as so much the handover of initiative. The failure of Barbarossa put the Germans in a war they couldn't win through clever maneuvering but put them in a war of attrition. Stalingrad and El Alamein saw them handover the strategic initiative to the Red Army and Allies respectively. Kursk was the acceleration of defeat, because that was the last time the Germans could still launch a major strategic operation in order to buy themselves some time. After that it was downhill along the entire way.

[@tamjeff1751]

Yes the morale went downhill after that...At least that's what the movies led you to believe

[@charleschase1300]

Paulus has a Texas accent.

[@romullen3971]

👍

[@__40su]

i like stalingrad

[@JGD185]

Krikey, Stalingrad is a real beaut

[@__40su]

hi tik

[@82dorrin]

Me: *A lifelong student of history who treats all WWII topics with great seriousness* Also Me: *Snickering uncontrollably whenever I hear "Uranus"*

[@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623]

Thankfully that joke is only funny in the English speaking world.

[@winston_872]

map are kind of useless, a few arrows indicating what are you talking bout, who is doing what, etc, are badly needed.

[@nikesan2472]

so basically Germany lost the war because of the weak Romanians. what was Hitler thinking?

[@surducalexandru9553]

Basicly you are a Smart person who does not think

[@peterlewerin4213]

What _was_ Hitler thinking? If the minor axis armies weren't good enough, why did he send the victorious 11.Armee from the Crimea to Leningrad of all places, instead of putting it on Paulus' flank? (And why were the elite Italian Alpini troops freezing and starving on the Don when they were supposed to help the 17.Armee reach the coast across the Caucasus?) The Romanians had performed well enough during the fighting in Ukraine. In late 1942 they were stretched out over a too long front in an area with few natural defences. The Germans, in their hurry to reach the city, had allowed the Soviets to retain large bridgeheads on the near side of the Don. The 6.Armee's performance was reduced by lack of supplies: the Romanians barely got any supply at all, so in the event their performance was surprisingly good, if only briefly so. While the Germans were largely unaware of Soviet concentrations on the Romanian sectors, the Soviets had all the intel they needed on the Romanians. They dealt out well measured hammer blows to destroy the cohesion of the Romanian armies. It's no more fair to call the Romanians weak than to call the frontline US regiments which were overrun in the Battle of the Bulge weak.

[@billy4072]

Some kind of Dads Army theme, pointy arrows would have actually helped instead of just a map plopped down ....🙄