1800 Bodies Of WWII German Soldiers Found Inside Stalingrad

Over 70 years after the end of the Second World War, a shocking discovery was made inside of Volgograd, the city which was formerly known as Stalingrad. The bodies of 1800 German soldiers were discovered inside of a mass grave by builders, and these remains had been dumped in the ground by Soviet Red Army forces at the end of the deadliest battle of the Second World War. Stalingrad became the most costly battle in military history, and each year many mass graves containing the remains of the victims of the battle are discovered. But what was the story of these 1800 German soldiers?
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[@macflod]

I was speaking to a girl from Volgograd (was Stalingrad in ww2). She told me that even today when there is construction they still find buried skeletons from the war. Their are unknown graves and bodies discovered all over the place.

[@tbcy3zj]

That was stated in the video. Pay attention.

[@damienwilloughby]

@@tbcy3zj 😮

[@mirola73]

When there are millions of deaths in the city and around it then yes, that's what you get.

[@stewartgreig3272]

I can believe that.

[@BeckVMH]

@@tbcy3zj The OP’s comment simply provides a personal corroboration on the details provided in the video.

[@russellszczepanski4414]

2,000,000 dead in one long battle. Impossible to comprehend that level of Evil.

[@PaulBrower-bw4jw]

Two of the maddest regimes that ever existed...

[@Well194k]

@@PaulBrower-bw4jwone was fighting his own other one had no choice because behind him had an other comrade one if he turns back he got shot by his own comrade

[@ives3572]

"War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst." - Harry Emerson Fosdick

[@carlcomo196]

I would imagine that Stalingrad would be one the most haunted places on Earth!!!;)

[@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking]

Always blows my mind, just how many once-fantastic cities of rich history - you can no longer visit. They were turned to dust. And worse, recently. My grandmother could have seen these places, as a child. Described them. Europe today: Is a land of Replacements.

[@danstoevskijoe]

Europe is 2500 years old culturally speaking. It makes sense that wars and development change the geography and architecture. That's why we call Rome THE ETERNAL CITY

[@PaulBrower-bw4jw]

@@danstoevskijoe In London one can go through one layer of wreckage after another, the first layer the consequences of the Blitz, until one finds Roman ruins. Heck, the Romans were constructing new buildings atop Roman wreckage.

[@danstoevskijoe]

@@PaulBrower-bw4jw you can find more Roman stuff in the small city of Aquileia. We have so much stuff around Europe that every day we find Roman remains somewhere. In Rome we've been trying to complete the third line of the underground for 35 years and it's always stopped cuz they find things

[@BrianHayter-zl2uc]

Absolutely hell on earth, much respect for all who fought there. 🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@davidryan4454]

No respect for nazis ! Funny how quickly Germany was forgiven for its's evil & how equally quickly Russia was forgotten for winning WW2. Now Germany want to invade Russia again following decades of NATO encroachment. Germany runs NATO. They still want Russia. Our kids in Europe will be forced to fight

[@bobjames6622]

NO respect for the Germans. They were invaders. They only sorrow is that ANY of them survived their trespass.

[@ericscottstevens]

About 3 funeral pyres disposed of a large amounts of German dead, the ground was too frozen for mass burial but they had to do something.. These funeral pyres were either sites of former German field hospitals, the Pitomnik and Gumrak airfields, or thousands of bodies collected and carried to designated areas for weeks and weeks. Nikita Khrushchev recounted gleefully attending the Stalingrad funeral fire pyres. He said he witnessed something horrific and nightmarish and decided not to attend any more, even if they were the enemy.

[@7Steveski]

Surprising that Khrushchev would be bothered by funeral pyres, as the Bolsheviks/Communists would kill 5 or 6 times as many of their own people than the Nazis killed.

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

During the battle, the German's flew into Stalingrad a forensic pathologist from Berlin to find out why thousands of German soldiers were simply "dropping dead" and 6th army doctors were stumped. He conducted autopsies and was surprised at what he found. It's an interesting story if you want to read about it.

[@jeffkujawa803]

Yes …that sounds great … did you read this in an article or from a book ?

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

@@jeffkujawa803 I read an article, but there is a book on the subject, I would like to read it. 🙂

[@hauntedmoodylady]

The explanation is obvious, yet that hellish circumstance/event is probably the only time in history which it occurred..

[@johnwright291]

I came across this several years ago. What the investigation found was that the soldiers were suffering from malnutrition.

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

@@johnwright291 That was part of it.

[@richardsimms251]

Terrific video. Thank you RS. Canada

[@robertpadman4837]

I read recently the Italians helped the Russians and the course of the war indirectly .. Mussolini was pissed because he wanted to attack and capture the Romanian oil fields .. but Hitler got there first ...so he attacked Greece via the northern mountains ... beaten back by a corageous small Greek army . Hitler had to divert eastern front troops to Greece ....pushing back and stalling the Stalingrad advance by 6 weeks plunging the poorly clothed German troops into the depths of winter ... possibly could have overun the Russians otherwise .. how accurate this is i ldont know ... please comment if you know more

[@Gungho1a]

I wanted say you are wrong, but I doubt the six weeks and half a million+ troops would have helped much in Russia, if anything they would have added to the wehrmachts problems. The core issues on the eastern front were that the wehrmacht was unprepared for the environment, including mud, dust, cold, heat. The german industrial base was not prepared for a drawn out war, and finally, the ultimate cause of failure was that the germans had no idea how to win. Even if they had taken leningrad and moscow, why would the soviets surrender? They likely would have burnt and levelled the cities first. As it was, the further you go east in russia the broader your front gets, and tgeore russians you have in your rear areas. The germans were essentially on the defensive sixteen months after the invasion, against a nation and army they belied was at its last gasp. Barbarossa was the army's strategic mistake equivalent to the luftwaffe's battle of britain...they fought noth because they thought they had to fight, grossly underestimated what they needed to fight, and had no definitive idea of under what conditions their enemy would give up.

[@stevepelham9010]

Mussolini was the real head of the Fascists/Nationalists around the world he made friends he gave his support. Hitler did not. Mussolini never wanted as to expand to the East. He him self Franco (Spain) and Mannerheim (Finland) tryed to convince Hitler as to be pleased as he got almost all of Europe, going into Russia would be an great failiure The Britts discovered this crack so they feed Hitlers disturbed mind. Winston Churchill wanned an slaughter as Stalingrad, two flies in one slap..his main closest concern was Mussolini and yes it might have been true that Mussolini had him talks with Stalin as there where no bad blood inbeetwen them two leaders and also with others as leaders in the Balkans already in an early stage as to prevent Hitler from going East wich in turn led Germany as to advance into the Balkans and Greece.

[@lucas82]

Capture the Romanian oil fields? The Romanians were on the same side and those oil fields were already in use for the Axis war effort.

[@gloriasalas2237]

En esa batalla no sólo murieron soldados sinó miles de civiles que habitaban Stalingrado. Los rusos defendían su territorio de la invasión del ejército alemán. Rusia tuvo mas de 20 millones de muertos durante esa guerra

[@Carolinel673]

27.000000 million

[@BeckVMH]

Interesting details. CrocodileTears channel details past exhumation of WWII bodies and the specific difficulties of identification and with a forensic approach. For instance, German dog tags did not have the name, but coded numbers, make the task complicated.

[@victorbeauvois]

You always come with some gems I've had the privilege to go Stalingrad seen it with my Eyes this battle won the war for the Soviet Union

[@divisionnordland1609]

They should stay home...

[@indianjoe52]

R.I.P. 6th Army soldiers

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was a wonderful historical coverage video about German mass grave..in Volgagrad city...German army returned corpses to Germany selectively of high-class members, Bourgeois class members only....others bared in battlefields under ruined constructions....all armies are doing same thing....whey all messed soldiers having family poorness background and lower rankings?

[@thomasklimchuk441]

So what When Germans captured Soviet soldiers they were told not to take names or service numbers until they arrived at pow camps Thoubsands died along the marcs from lack of ffod and water The German guards and their allies refused to allow civilians to feed them

[@lukehorning3404]

I didn’t know that was the biggest for some reason I thought it would be D day

[@mikehunt8823]

The real war was the Germans against Russia, we were just a side show and distraction.

[@pierredecine1936]

Stalingrad is NOT near any Oil Fields !

[@isntrael]

rest in peace

[@MollyMcGuire100]

Easy to wargame Stalingrad. I would say it was a mistake to storm the city, after They already had a piece of Volga shoreline in September. Probably Paulus didn't want to go into Stalingrad. Still it would take allot of troops to surround Stalingrad, as the Russians would build up there.

[@jimboramba]

As patriotic an American as I am, the world owes Russia a never ending debt of gratitude for not faltering under operation barbarossa. Had the soviet union fell, DDay would have been nearly impossible to pull off.

[@ayadav77]

Debt? They were saving their own hide, not doing anybody a favour. As a nation, they were an evil aggressor, just better than the Germans. As individuals, they were usually worse.

[@american_cosmic]

And the Soviets don't beat the Germans without material support from the U.S.

[@PauloPereira-jj4jv]

@@american_cosmic ... actually, they could.

[@trygd100]

Russia is a fascist agressor state now. Nothing to thank them for

[@Graffenwehr]

That's very true - however you have to wonder about some of their methods. Even today, the Russians commonly use tactics which utilize the physical bodies of their people. In other words, rather than use diplomacy and good public policy to prevent conflict to start with; and then in the light of conflict, to have a trained professional military with maintained equipment (and plans/procedures) at the ready, they choose to allow corruption, under funding and raw blunt force to execute their policies. So, what you get is corruption which actually sews the conflict faster. Loss of non-military options to resolve the issue.. And then in the face of use of the sword, tons of equipment which has not been maintained, or is out of date; designs which make the vehicle or vessel vulnerable to enemy fire; lack of training; and poor intelligence/planning on how to address the problem for a successful outcome. Stalin did it in 1941 on, and Putin is doing it again today. Both rule(ed) from a basis of corruption and fear, and both allow corruption to rot out their systems in and institutions from top to bottom over time. Then, when the sh*t hits the fan, the system is loaded and it fails. So, they shove human beings into the meat grinder to break it. Their intelligence services are lacking, and where they are seeing things correctly, the management will not believe what they're saying is true. Stain did not believe Hitler would invade and hesitated; Putin was sure the US/NATO would not respond and was not prepared for that either. This is one reason the death toll in the USSR was so high during Barbarossa, and also now during the Invasion of Ukraine. All of this is a horrible loss for both the Russian people, the Ukrainian people and for the rest of us as well. Russia has a long history rich in the arts, sciences, and culture. They have tons and tons of natural resources -- and NONE of what is happening today was necessary for Putin to be wealthy and (taken another way) loved and revered by his people. Imagine if instead he had focused on cementing a democratic government in place; a open economy and reasonable leadership. He could have had it all - and instead chose to be greedy and think only of himself and glory to a regime that no longer exists (the USSR). What a waste.

[@jimlascola]

Mark is that you??

[@TheKeule33]

interesting. But why the weird pronunciationnnn?

[@gowdsake7103]

Ayeee haveeee no ideaaaaa but agrees is very odd, a short tongue is in there for sure

[@donaldg.freeman2804]

Most of these narrations are done by AI. We haven't gotten to the point yet that they get all the pronunciations right. I find it jarring. I don't know if there are overrides on particular words. I would think you could play it back and correct it but maybe its too much trouble.

[@american_cosmic]

@@donaldg.freeman2804 The voiceover for this video isn't ai so i don't know how that's even relevant.

[@Izannaziza]

Real voice, English accent, not sure where in England but if I was to guess I’d say north but not too far north. Definitely not Liverpudlian haha.

[@w.s.4146]

Imagine if Adolf had kept the non-aggression pact with Russia and not sacrificed the amount of soldiers and material there..

[@MollyMcGuire100]

He could have spent His time dismantling the British Empire with the help of Arabs and Indians. He could have been a popular historical figure. Maybe, He would have wiped out the Jews of Palestine? Can't see him laying off the Jews. So I don't support that. Britain wasn't blameless, especially before WW1. They had an anti German stance because Germany made better products? Why did they even get involved in WW1? Which led to WW2. I'm British and I say this.

[@asdwerfwefgre637]

in my town, some 100 miles south of stalingrad. germans retreated in haste. they set the hospital building on fire, with their own german wounded still trapped inside. my old neighbor shared it with me. she said, she heard germans shouting, burning and dying all night long. kind of sad. but take into account. in my town the germans shot some 800 civilians, mostly women and children, some 600 were jewish families, on the first week of occupation. in general, my small town experienced a real blood bath during germans. after germans got kicked, red army came took over, NKVD, also continued shooting locals accused of collaboration. I mean how the fk are you supposed to fight germans, when largest red army could not stop them. But it did not prevent NKVD still shoot some locals anyway. Also, as a kid we used to explore old building, that was occupied by ghestapo. in 1980s building was some sort of administration purpose. We got into the basement, and found some 20, 1ton aviation german bombs, still in the box. I immediatly recognized those. When I shows the older man. His face became pale, as he was shocked to see them. Those bombs if detonated would leave a giant crater. But i think those bombs had an intent to detonate when german retreated with scortched earth policy. for some reason they did not explode. Then, there ere two locations of mass shootings. One of them in town, the other one in the ravine next to town. Most jews were shot in the ravine. Captured red army solders were shot in town next to the children hospital. The energy is still bad there. A lot of deadly accidents. In 1990s there were mass gang fights, with iron rods, bricks, knives, etc. Still bad energy spot to this day. And all trees that grow there, are all crocked and twisted. If you dont believe in ghosts, you should visit that place. A lot of horror happened there.

[@GaborKazan]

YES GHOST REAL.MANY DEAD PEOPLE WARS.

[@GaborKazan]

VERY HORROR PLACE.

[@Stilicho19801]

This memorial appears to be in a park. It should be in the center center.

[@ron56pvi13]

By the time the 6th Army surrendered, Wehrmacht soldiers were starving to death. Many of those who survived, died on their way to confinement. Hermann Goring was just as responsible as Stalin for their fate.

[@earlshaner4441]

The war of the Rat

[@janlindtner305]

👍👍👍

[@michaelshanahan4042]

I have to say the Russian played a massive part in the downfall of the Germans.people were a lot more hardy than today 😊

[@MollyMcGuire100]

Russians said Germans were soft, and they were right. These Men from rural Russia were tough.

[@davidcolley7714]

What an awful delivery you have

[@NewEnglandOtaku]

When I think of what was in Hitler's mind for this battle all I could think of was Daffy Duck banging on that giant explosive shell repeatedly.. That's literally all I could see in my mind for what he was thinking just spewing random phrases over and over while his generals were advising against it

[@tbcy3zj]

Cartoons had nothing to do with it. 30 million Russians died in the war. Grow up.

[@JamesBond-su7hj]

The German high command was garbage

[@michaelpiwcewicz1412]

KEEP FIGHTING AGAINST THE COMMIES AND ABC

[@luigiaschettino5373]

Onore ai soldati tedeschi

[@stefanogattoCH]

Penso che tutti i soldati meritino onore: russi, tedeschi, italiani, rumeni, ungheresi.. e che i governi rispettivi meritino il disonore corrispondente