Why was The Battle of Stalingrad so Deadly?

Why was The Battle of Stalingrad so Deadly?
The Battle of Stalingrad. Inarguably one of the most merciless and destructive battles throughout history. Resulting in nearly two million total casualties between August 23, 1942, through February 2, 1943, the German siege resulted in a decisive victory for the Soviets… although at the cost of over a million Russian casualties. The numbers of the Battle of Stalingrad seem ridiculously high, on both sides. So, why was the Battle of Stalingrad so deadly?
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[@stevedavenport1202]

I think a military historian could spend an entire career studying this battle.

[@Waybackwhennn]

If you haven’t already, watch TIKS series on the battle for Stalingrad, each episode he made is like 45mins- 1hour long and has over 10 episodes, it’s all on KZbin with academic references. Rip to those brave men who faught in Stalingrad from both sides, so sad to think about.

[@cuchuoi12]

what are there to study about?

[@user-ph6ej4mk4z]

@@Waybackwhennn rip for both sides? Many russians disagree with you. The germans was nazi. I'm glad nazi was defeated. And don't feel sorry for them.

[@tonyvu2011]

@@user-ph6ej4mk4z The Germans were professional soldiers who followed orders from their political leader. Similar to Soviet under Stalin, many innocent Russians were killed by their own security forces, did that mean all those Soviet security personnel who followed Stalin's orders were all evil?

[@user-ph6ej4mk4z]

@@tonyvu2011 similar to Soviet under Stalin?! Yeah, very similar. But Soviet was not a fascist country. Soviet didn't consider jews or any nationality like no-human being. You can google "Untermensch". What it means. You can read what professional solders thought about russians at the start of the war. They've changed their minds, when started to loose. But that was by the price of millions innocent russian civilians. Ask germans if they proud that their grandfathers participated in Stalingrad or in the war.

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

I’d say one of the reasons that casualties were so high was because of the nature of the combat in Stalingrad. It was all fought room by room, house by house, so there was lots of extremely intense urban fighting in the city. The Russians and Germans would have been literally a stones throwaway from each other’s trenches and bunkers.

[@AtroFear]

Yeah, there was also huge animosity and hatred towards eachother as literally both of the ideologies are eachothers nemesis. The germans hated the soviets and the soviets hated the germans. Chuikov also adopted the hugging tactic during the battle of stalingrad, which did certainly contribute to the high death tolls. What it meant was that he put his frontline soldiers as close as physically possible to the german frontline. The reasoning behind that was that the germans would have great difficulties in using their perfected art of combined arms warfare. You simply could not do air or artillery bombing in conjunction with an offensive due to the extreme risk of hitting your own soldiers. This completely messed up their tactical means of warfare. Stalingrad was fucking brutal to say the least... extreme close quarters, both armies being extremely starved, snipers and machine gun nests everywhere aswell as artillery and air bombings were scaringly frequent. It's probably the worst place in time and place to be in the history of humanity. People lost their humanity completely in that grotesque battle.

[@natedog1619]

@@AtroFear I always thought that trench warfare of WWI was the most brutal in human history. I still cannot fathom how WWII resulted in twice the casualties as WWI, with the new tactics and mobile warfare I suppose. WWII must have been 5x more intense in some battles than I had previously assumed.

[@miguel151420]

@@natedog1619 not necessarily intense, since trench warfare in WWI was, without a doubt, the most ruthless and cruel fighting humanity has ever see. Stalingrad though, was just the apocalypse, kinda like Verdun was in WWI. Very similar tbh.

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

@@miguel151420 The Somme was another bloodbath, in just one day before a 4 month deployment over 20,000 men died.

[@miguel151420]

@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- Indeed

[@thezeroalchemist277]

Order 227 is actually about retreating without orders (and retreat orders did go out) and the death penalty was only for the officers of those units, and not every single soldier. Furthermore, even those caught retreating would usually get sent to penal battalions and into suicide missions, rather than outright executions, since the USSR could not simply throw away vital manpower.

[@ottovonbisharck8388]

after reading this i ain't going to have a peaceful sleep tonight..... 👁️👄👁️

[@hermanhedning4220]

Also once in a penal battalion you could "redeem yourself in blood " and be allowed to rejoin a ordinary army unit.

[@xstriker69]

>”...and into suicide missions,..” What incentive would soviet soldiers have to carry out a suicide mission when they know the alternative is getting executed by the USSR on the spot. What evidence is there to suggest this ?

[@thezeroalchemist277]

@@xstriker69 1 Wanting to protect their families/country/whatever. Despite the myths, you would still be sent out armed and with orders. You could still do your part and for some people that can be motivating. 2 Ensuring the political safety of your family, since the families of those purged or executed would carry the stint for the rest of their lives, which would at least limit their mobility and access to jobs and that kind of stuff, and at worst could be also arrested for the crimes of the family member. Serving well, or until death, in a penal battalion, would rehabilitate you and your family 3. If you serve well and survive (a possibility, although probably unlikely), you get rehabilitated and reintegrate into the formal army, and later civilian life 4. While court-martialling people for disobeying orders in wartime was pretty commonplace in all armies, I would personally not disobey orders in a penal battalion.

[@hermanhedning4220]

I would argue that they werent suicide missions per say but that they were ordered to do the most dangerous jobs, clear mines etc. The soviet union was despite the myths in desperate need of man power and wouldnt send men to die unnecessarily.

[@Kyyyylle]

Imagine being such a chad that you keep churning out tanks from burning factories

[@jamesricker3997]

They were sending tanks out right into combat without painting them. They kept building tanks until the Germans started jumping through the factory windows

[@ipseipse5010]

@@jamesricker3997 It is unlikely that you will be told this in history lessons. The factories that built tanks in a short time were evacuated and rebuilt from scratch in a matter of days. It was civil heroism. In Stalingrad, Russian and German soldiers were often behind a thin wall from each other. There was hell going on. truth. But the Russians defended Pavlov's house alone longer than the whole of France. Do not anger the Russians, they are a good people, but if you do, run

[@radomirratkovic4407]

Russians and the rest of Slavonic people's are descendants of Aryans that invaded India...was told that by Indians themselves...My first neighbour was Punjabi guy by the name Sorab (Plinius mentions them,Ptolomeius cartographer places them on the north between Black Sea and Caspian Sea)...In Vedas there is a mentioning of King Servants by the way that guy Sorab comes from Brahmanic caste...and Sorab is very old traditional name from where he comes from...Linguistically Vedas are closest to today's Slovene language out of all European languages and modern blood type analysis and science show that it is the true fact that protoSlavs or Soraboi(Serbs) or Scythian Farmers (Herodotus) are the Aryans who invaded India and who brought new civilisation wave...National Socialism falsificated not only Hebrew texts and tried to create Aryan Bible but also the history of the Aryans as well and all the rest just to justify push to the East...Little towns folk were not ready for great ideas steaming out from socially more progressive movements...Stalin was murderer but that whole nazi thing was built on false dogmas...

[@radomirratkovic4407]

And so many people died fighting for the wrong concept build up on lies and quasi science..My mum lost all of her family and lost her father who was killed without of court hearing...murdered with his commarades by the victors...They are an army with no grave...Man who raised my mother and who taught me to walk,Croat man.was there and was wounded and he survived and was taken by plane back to Germany to hospital from were he escaped and became fugitive..deserter if you like..but he was demoralised...he somehow with help from other Croats made his way to Zagreb and was helped to regulate his status by some Croat official who helped him to join Croatian Home Guard...Somehow he survived the war but was in hiding till late 1948. only his mother knew the hiding place and was bringing a food to him...He was physically and psychologically very strong person,was still fighting for Axis till the end but that whole Russian experience was too much for him...He was americanophile and didn't like the Russians...He raised me but I had the other influences in life as well and live with the motto that only Truth liberates...The moment quasi science is used to create some new dogma,the moment they revise the history books in order to build up false alibis and excuses for their future actions that's the moment when warning red light should come on..If West intervened earlier on when Germany started to rearm again against the treaty the war would not happened..Few hundreds maybe a thousand would die in intervention but not a millions in the disaster we still remember as world war 2...

[@arystanbeck914]

And most of them were old men, women and kids.

[@davey7452]

This battle is an example of Total War, both sides were involved in all out fighting they were either victorious or dead.

[@agamemnonofmycenae5258]

Hardly any other choice, considering the Wehrmacht took no prisoners of war, soldier or civilian. At least the Red Arny left people alive, when they turned the tide.

[@stalinsaysgulagtime2350]

@@agamemnonofmycenae5258 Death would be much better than living in Soviet Gulags... they were much worse than Concentration Camps.

[@agamemnonofmycenae5258]

@@stalinsaysgulagtime2350 Are you seriously making such a take? Gulags were forced labour camps. People survived them even after 10,15 years. Concetration camps had basically one purpose. Extermination. With no holds barred the people there were subjected to the worst things imaginable. Read about Mengele, if you want the specifics.

[@stalinsaysgulagtime2350]

@@agamemnonofmycenae5258 That is my exact argument, at least death came quickly. In Soviet Gulags, they wanted you alive to suffer.

[@agamemnonofmycenae5258]

@@stalinsaysgulagtime2350 I did not know being sewn with your twin is a death done quick. What a revelation!

[@vitoscaletta8014]

“- Lt. Hans von Witzland: The best thing about the cold is... - Fritz Reiser: You don't have to worry about sunburn.” - Stalingrad (1993) movie

[@Sweetasthesun]

I love that movie! So emotional and just strong in so many ways!

[@MrRoboticeyes]

I still have PTSD about battle of stalingrad and the whole eastern front because of this movie

[@Moshiko926]

"what's your name?" "muller" "we've got to many of those... at least until the next attack"

[@davidhimmelsbach557]

Irony: snow reflects so much light that such things as Snow Burn and blindness often occur. Snow blindness is why skiers usually wear dark goggles... not clear lenses.

[@stumpedii8639]

frostburn is worse.. don't remember anyones body parts falling off from sunburn.

[@mikepravica2140]

Only the Russians could continue making tanks in Stalingrad all the while being under siege from the nazis. What an incredible story!

[@radrook2153]

The Germans were probably wondering where all those tanks were coming from. At one point in the war, Hitler was informed that hundreds of Russian tanks had been destroyed and that the next day hundreds more appeared on the battlefield. He called them liars because to him that kind of constant and rapid replacement of tanks seemed impossible. In short, he underestimated the Russian industrial capabilities.

[@gerforgold5794]

@@radrook2153 supplied by usa all the time ^^

[@FinnishHammerItOn]

@@radrook2153 land lease and pouring tons of raw materials/ half materials into the Soviet Industry made that possible

[@TheRockyTopRock]

(In a factory given to them by the Americans)

[@mrbrown7668]

The t-34 tank was built rapidly and poorly made back then

[@ThatBasedGuy]

"But Stalin, they're just citizens living in Stalingrad" "I don't know man, seems kinda soldiers to me"

[@nandinhocunha440]

" and go to gulag"

[@radomirratkovic4407]

@@nandinhocunha440 Exactly

[@lividbutton2813]

so whats up with the pfp

[@Echani3007]

@@lividbutton2813 Maybe he's Chinese, maybe he's a communist, though I do not know of communist who are fans of China except the biggest losers of the left; Dengists.

[@ascendedbro1828]

It is a myth. Until august 20 1942 there were 100 thousands evacuated.

[@JohnDoe-zj5dj]

“Germany’s chancellor”, are you not allowed to say Hitler?

[@Kannot2023]

Maybe the algorithm demonitize video with "german chancellor"

[@josephstalin4385]

He fears me.

[@wakenbake9546]

Yes youtube's algorithm demonitizes/flags most videos that have anything to do with germany in ww1/ww2.

[@thelastprussian6491]

@@Kannot2023 but they mention Stalin. What kind of person would make the step to monitize Stalin while demonitze Hitler?

[@thelastprussian6491]

@@wakenbake9546 why not demonitize the Soviet Union too?

[@TamadorStoneskin]

I lived in Stalingrad (now Volgograd) for about 6 months in 2015. The War Museum there is one of the coolest places I’ve ever been. The monument of Мамая Курган (Mamaya Kurgan) is chillingly beautiful. I also met a veteran of the battle who told me a little about his time. According to him women and small children were allowed to evacuate (when there were boats to evacuate on) but the male population was forced to stay.

[@Puzzoozoo]

Did you ever go and see Pavlovs House?

[@TamadorStoneskin]

@@Puzzoozoo a replica of it sits in the war museum. There’s a bunch of cool stuff there, including a bronze map of the city. They project the battle lines with excerpts from the diaries of people who were there on the map it’s pretty cool.

[@user-thecatcher]

It's Mamaev Kurgan

[@davidandersson422]

caught me off guard with "operation uranus" LOL

[@firingallcylinders2949]

Well the Germans did get bent over so there's some irony there

[@miker.9138]

They penetrated the flanks!!!

[@ZacharyReaper]

Same

[@ronnietarnacke5153]

They penetrated deep into the germans rear .

[@elfulano5884]

@@ronnietarnacke5153 Apparently, it paid off.

[@keikei2942]

One correction, a major reason for taking Stalingrad is that taking it was necessary to take the oil from the Caucasus Mountains. At this point Germany was very low on oil, and taking Stalingrad would have allowed German forces to cut off Red Army units in the Caucasuses and push in

[@ecksdee1637]

Last Time i was this early we were still waiting for Steiners Attack

[@Knowledgia]

"Das war ein Befehl!"

[@morisco56]

Shtaina

[@spicyleaves8876]

@@Knowledgia "Fegelein!"

[@tarik1923]

@@Knowledgia der Angriff Steiners war ein Befehl

[@godwrote01]

Mein F, Steiner konnte nicht genügen Kräfte für einen Angriff massieren, der Angriff Steiners ist nicht erfolgt.

[@richpontone1]

When you fight inside a city, then your casualties go up tremendously. Remember, the Soviet Army lost as many soldiers as the Germans but the Soviets had a greater number of men and women that they could throw into the fight. In the final thrusts against the Germans, General Zhukov threw his main forces against the German flanks, and those flanks were defended by mostly Romanians, Italians and Spaniards who had little motivation to fight. As for fighting in a city, General Eisenhower refused to involve Allied troops in attacking Berlin giving that job to the Soviet Army, The Soviets lost over 100,000 soldiers in killed and wounded, something the Allies refused to pay that price in human lives. Remember, the Russians realized that this was a war of extermination. If they lost, the Russian people would either be exterminated or enslaved until they die from starvation, or being overworked. The Russians understood that and fought harder than any people did before.

[@Kupferdrahtful]

The Soviet’s lost way more men then the axis

[@xycid]

Spaniards? i stopped reading after that. Spain was neutral in WWII

[@HumanSupremacist]

@@xycid The Spanish sent volunteers to the Eastern front. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaepY3mLidmNjc0

[@ferreiroferroso3224]

@@xycid Looks like someone never heard about division azul

[@joshua6207]

Napolean was the one with a 600,000 man super army with Italians, spanish and Portuguese... he came out of russia with only 90,000 men. Napoleon and hitler both made the mistake of trying to invade a country where the weather can defeat you before there army.

[@WheelsRCool]

Part of the reason the battle was so deadly is because the Germans bombed the city to smithereens, which meant there was rubble everywhere, which made it very difficult for the German troops to maneuver their tanks and troops. Furthermore, the Soviets then took advantage of this and utilized the rubble to build up lines of trenches that the Germans were forced to repeatedly go over top of. These trenches connected defensive nodes armed with machine guns, which the Soviets used to create interlocking fields of machine gun fire. The trenches also allowed for constant communication between the defensive nodes. In addition, the Soviets used the sewers to maneuver and have communication. In addition, General Chuikov who Stalin had sent in to take command, utilized a strategy which he called "Hug the Enemy," meaning you wanted to be no more than say a grenade throw away from the enemy. This would make it bloody for the enemy and also deny the enemy his ability to use his heavy weapons as they would kill their own men along with the enemy's. Pushing through all of this thus turned Stalingrad into a literal meat grinder. Division after division of the 6th Army was poured into Stalingrad. This required the army to pull more and more troops from the flanks to re-enforce the center, thus weakening the flanks further and further.

[@lisasommer7982]

My grandpa died in the „Kessel“ of Stalingrad with nearly the complete 6th German Army. Watchin this gave me shivers. What an unimaginable hell for both sides. RIP to all the senseless killed humans and animals of this war.

[@barrylyndon80]

Aus welcher Stadt stammt Dein Großvater?

[@SupraStringing11b]

My great grandpa fought in the battle of Stalingrad. He was a medic and got his ear shot off while in the truck. Proceeded to fight back until his whole company was just about wiped out. He hid in the sewer for 3 days until he heard Russian voices again.

[@lu77xiaojun37]

That is epic!

[@antonboludo8886]

Great! My uncle was there on the German side. He lost a leg there. He spent 4 years in the Soviet prisons, but used the time to learn Russian, Hungarian and Romanian. He also made many friends. He returned to Germany but never complained about his experiences there. He always kept a smile and a sense of humour.

[@southbrazosbass244]

Smart, can't say I wouldn't do the same. Sounds exactly like the best move when overrun. Maybe an occasional explosive ambush if I had the means, I bet those sewers were used by many.

[@antonboludo8886]

@Dharmic Indian Yes, he was a POW for four years and also lost a leg.

[@antonboludo8886]

@Dharmic Indian I guess the Soviet doctors. I never asked him nor my father. They are both gone now, so I cannot know for sure.

[@Saygex45]

Don't worry, Steiner's counter-attack will save the German 6th Army

[@hannibalbarca7220]

Yes

[@Clegane90]

Steiner....

[@user-dl2yg6dk7i]

Yeah and Hitler will not rant.

[@pringleaddict5827]

You should be loyal to wizard Hitler, not muggle Hitler *ron*

[@mrcool2107]

@@pringleaddict5827 hitler is a painter

[@user-ho7xv6ig2r]

My grandma in this battle was a little girl moving-giving smokes to the soldiers in the front lines

[@pittsburghpirate58]

Long live her memory in the defense of the Great Patriotic War..!

[@Kevinthelast]

@@pittsburghpirate58 but his/her name is, greek?

[@jasdeepsingh7874]

Damn your grandma was a badass.

[@user-ho7xv6ig2r]

@@Kevinthelast my grandmother met my Greek grandfather in Uzbekistan in former soviet union

[@user-zt1hx3ci2v]

Interesting fate. Hello from Stalingrad

[@WeSeGe]

It was deadly cause they were killing each other, Duuuuuh.

[@alexmaddox8307]

:O

[@alexmaddox8307]

Wow

[@pram0385]

Lmao

[@ivokantarski6220]

It had such high numbers because there were litteraly millions of soldiers and fkin long battle. Idiotos knowledgikos tells his own narrative.

[@adonisguy3243]

tha battle was a BRAWL! house to house brawls, hand to hand, chairs, bottles, butter knife, etc.

[@jamesricker3997]

Short answer: prolonged close quarters Urban combat is going to rack up casualties

[@radrook2153]

Funny how Hitler had the habit of halting his forces and weakening them by dividing them at crucial moments. At Stalingrad, that deviation took three weeks during which time the Russians prepared a defense and brought up reinforcements.

[@basedmonitored5191]

“The Chancellor” 😂

[@Knowledgia]

Improvise, Adapt, Overcome

[@basedmonitored5191]

@@Knowledgia The overlords are listening.

[@hensontauro]

@@Knowledgia Improvisieren, Anpassen, Überwinden

[@PeterMcJackass]

It's "DER FÜHRER!"

[@gbarberis7402]

@@PeterMcJackass i think is die fuhrer

[@bobted6266]

7:13 man my sense of humor hasn't changed since 6th grade

[@borisborkovic8894]

What's so funny?

[@jawadsabih4979]

@@borisborkovic8894he said operation "uranus" and if you pronounce it, it is your anus

[@borisborkovic8894]

@@jawadsabih4979ok

[@EuropaTelesBTR]

All I have to say: "Red orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad".

[@detrogamus2619]

Good game.

[@wisemankugelmemicus1701]

It was made by the original devs behind Call of Duty 2 and it shows lmao although it sucks that Red Orchestra has no campaign, yeah basically just play the Soviet campaign of Call of Duty 2. It’s pretty much the same game minus the much improved and more realistic Red Orchestra gameplay.

[@detrogamus2619]

@@wisemankugelmemicus1701 Didn't know that. Interesting.

[@Levi_o_Lusitano]

Ah a person of culture i see. RO rules!

[@EuropaTelesBTR]

@@Levi_o_Lusitano Hey mano, como estás? Sou eu o Ruieurope. Já não jogo a uns quantos meses, espero que esteja tudo bem. Um grande abraço. RO2 forever!

[@arystanbeck914]

Those heroic women of 1077 who fought German Panzers toe to toe! I weep for your lives lost and bow to your courage.

[@matthewcalhoun4011]

they are going down in history as heroes

[@stevshaboba7476]

@@matthewcalhoun4011 Who ?

[@shadowfreddyplays3517]

@@stevshaboba7476 joe mama

[@Pacific-qu7en]

@@shadowfreddyplays3517 😂

[@bagofrats3464]

Yeah its not like millions of young boys died too simp

[@MrMajorasOcarina]

Now that is dedication: You let bombs go off next to your microphone just to recreate the sounds of artillery fire & bombings! Thank you for doing something so risky, just to have great background noise!!! You're a true hero

[@laurynasrimkus6825]

Operation Uranus never fails.

[@morongovalley940]

Nazis got it from behind

[@radrook2153]

It was doomed to failure by Hitler’s refusal to permit the Sixth army to vacate Stalingrad and meet them part of the way. They got as close as possible but had to turn back.

[@AbsoluteZero-lv8js]

The freezing cold soviet winter also play a massive role in this battle.

[@antonboludo8886]

One of my uncles was at that battle. He was a POW for 4 years after that. He lost a leg, but came back, but learned fluent Russian, Romanian and Hungarian. He used the time there well, and never complained about anything about his time there.

[@yeshuasage3724]

A real man made of steel He was at war, traumatized and tested to the max and lost his limbs, but went onto learn the local languages and never complained

[@antonboludo8886]

@@yeshuasage3724 Yes, this is correct. God Bless Him and God Bless You! :D

[@yuribrito1504]

За Волгой для нас земли нет! Good Video! Stalingrad, in MY historical analysis, was even more catastrophic, deadly, overwhelming and HUMILIATING for the so-called Axis "Satellite" Armies in Russia, which included General Dumitrescu's 3rd Romanian Army, General Constantinescu's 4th Romanian Army, General Gusztáv Jány's 2nd Hungarian Army and General (Generale d'Armata) Italo Gariboldi's 8th Italian Army. All of these aforementioned armies had obsolete equipments. The bulk of the Romanian armies, for example, were formed by infantry divisions, trained to trench warfare. Moreover, the vast majority of the Romanian equipment was obsolete. The Romanian main anti-tank weapon, for example, was the French 37 mm cannon of 1916! It was not for nothing, therefore, that Operation Uranus focused on the Romanian armies. Note: Gusztáv Jány's 2nd Hungarian Army, in particular, was virtually annihilated at Stalingrad, more precisely during Operation Little Saturn (December 1942 - February 1943). Following the attack carried out by Filipp Golikov's Voronezh Front (which included Ivan Chernyakhovsky's 60th Army, Kirill Moskalenko's 40th Army, Nikandr Chibisov's 38th Army and Pavel Rybalko's 3rd Tank Army), the Hungarian 2nd Army was completely annihilated (the Hungarian casualties reached the figure of 84%)! The Romanian armies, in turn, were completely destroyed by the Soviets after Operation Uranus, more precisely by Nikolai Vatutin's Southwestern Front (which included Dmitry Lelyushenko's 1st Guards Army, Romanenko's 5th Tank Army and Ivan Chistyakov's 21st Army). Ion Antonescu, the Romanian leader, simply lost two ENTIRE ARMIES at Stalingrad (Dumitrescu's 3rd Army and Constantinescu's 4th Army). Altogether, about 18 Romanian divisions were destroyed. The 8th Italian Army, however, was also severely hit and destroyed. All the 10 divisions that made up Generale d'Armata Italo Gariboldi's 8th Italian Army, with no exceptions, were completely annihilated or reduced, including the 9th ID "Pasubio", the 52nd ID "Torino", the 2nd ID "Sforzesca", the 3rd Cavalry Division "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta", the 3rd ID "Ravenna", the 5th ID "Cosseria", the 3rd Alpine Division "Julia", the 4th Alpine Division "Cuneense", the 2nd Alpine Division "Tridentina" and the 156th ID "Vicenza". Note (2): The Italians did not participate directly in the Battle of Stalingrad. However, the Italians were the primary targets of Operation "Little Saturn" (December 1942), the "continuation" of Operation Uranus, whose primary objective was the destruction of Gariboldi's 8th Italian Army and Gusztáv Jány's 2nd Hungarian Army. While the 8th Italian Army was surrounded by General Vasily Kuznetsov's 1st Guards Army (supported by Dmitry Lelyushenko's 3rd Guards Army), the Hungarians, as I mentioned before, were attacked and destroyed by Filipp Golikov's Voronezh Front. All the 10 aforementioned Italian divisions were attacked and destroyed. • Generale di Divisione (Divisional general/Major General) Guido Boselli's 9th ID "Pasubio", Roberto Lerici's 52nd ID "Torino", Carlo Pellegrini's 2nd ID "Sforzesca", and Ettore de Blasio's 3rd Cavalry Division "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta", for example, were surrounded and destroyed by Kuznetsov's 1st Guards Army. • Generale di Divisione Francesco Dupont's 3rd ID "Ravenna" and Enrico Gazzale's 5th ID "Cosseria", in turn, were also attacked by the Soviet 1st Guards Army during Operation Little Saturn (December 1942), whose primary objective, as I mentioned before, was the complete destruction of the Italian 8th Army. • Umberto Ricagno's 3rd Alpine Division "Julia" and Emilio Battisti's 4th Alpine Division "Cuneense", on the other hand, were destroyed by Fyodor Kharitonov's 6th Soviet Army. • Etelvoldo Pascolini's 156th ID "Vicenza" and Luigi Reverberi's 2nd Alpine Division "Tridentina", lastly, were also severely reduced. By the end of 1942, the 8th Italian Army was in shambles. Altogether, the Italians lost 114.520 soldiers in Russia! Stalingrad, therefore, was not only catastrophic for Hitler, where he lost Paulus' 6th Army and its 20 divisions (including Hans-Georg Leyser's 29th Motorized Division, Max Pfeffer's 297th ID, Richard Stempel's 371st ID, Hans-Heinrich von Armin's 113th ID, Heinrich-Anton Deboi's 44th ID, Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz's 384th ID, Alexander von Daniels' 376th ID, Helmuth Schlömer's 3rd Motorized Division, Hans-Adolf von Arenstorff's 60th Motorized Division, Günther Angern's 16th Panzer Division, Richard von Schwerin's 79th ID, Bernhard Steinmetz's 305th ID, Martin Lattmann's 14th Panzer Division, Arno von Lenski's 24th Panzer Division, Carl Rodenburg's 76th ID, Alexander von Hartmann's 71st ID, Werner Sanne's 100th ID, Otto Korfes' 295th ID, Erich Magnus' 389th ID and Georg Pfeiffer's 94th ID), but it was also catastrophic for Mussolini (who lost an entire army at Stalingrad), Antonescu (who lost TWO ENTIRE ARMIES at Stalingrad) and Miklós Horthy (who also lost an entire army at Stalingrad). The central point of all German operations in 1942 (especially Case Blue), in my historical analysis, should have been the Caucasus. The German primary attention should have been Wilhelm List's Army Group A (which included Kleist's 1st Panzer Army, Richard Ruoff's 17th Army and Manstein's 11th Army), NOT Weichs' Army Group B (which included Paulus' 6th Army). Had it not been for the diversion of troops and resources from Army Group A to Army Group B, Kleist's panzers would rapidly reach the Armavir-Salsk-Maykop-Grozny-Baku line (reaching Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia). Hitler's first major mistake within this sector, for example, was to transfer and divert Manstein's 11th Army to Leningrad. List's initial intention was to use the 11th Army as a mobile reserve formation during his campaign, using it whenever the campaign demanded. However, Hitler interfered in List's plans and diverted the 11th Army to Leningrad. Following Hitler's decision, List lost almost half of his infantry force. Nevertheless, Kleist's 1st Panzer Army conquered Armavir, Salsk and Maykop. Ruoff's 17th Army, on the other hand, seized Rostov. Moreover, the 17th Army also destroyed the pockets of resistance left by Kleist's panzers. Army Group A's "Achilles' Heel", however, was not necessarily the Soviet troops themselves, but the lack of fuel! As Kleist reported after the war: "The main cause of our failure was the lack of fuel". If the 1st Panzer Army had received enough fuel, the Germans could have advanced almost unopposed towards Baku. By the end of August, List's advance was completely halted. As Kleist said after the war: "We could have achieved our goal if my forces had not been gradually diverted to Stalingrad". Stalingrad, therefore, was Hitler's greatest obsession! Note (3): Hitler imagined that his position at Stalingrad in October 1942 was similar to Falkenhayn's position at Verdun (September 1916). The conquest/destruction of Stalingrad, in my historical analysis, was a personal confrontation between Hitler and Stalin. Stalingrad was vital for his "great and real task" ("Große und eigentliche Aufgabe"): the struggle with Bolshevism (Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Bolschewismus). Hitler passionately believed that the Russians "had already used their last reserves during the first winter of the war". Moreover, he assured Paulus that the Russians were at the "end of their forces" ("Die Russen sind am Ende ihrer Kraft"). By the end of October 1942, however, virtually the entire western bank of the Volga was already in German hands (including 90% of Stalingrad itself). The analysis made by General Sir Charles Gwynn (1870-1963), a retired British army officer when the Battle of Stalingrad took place, is perfectly correct: "The Germans must, from a purely military point of view, have begun to doubt whether it is really worth expending men and materials in an attempt to complete the capture of the city by assault. The Germans have already achieved much of their objective, as they practically destroyed Stalingrad as a center of war industries, gaining a position that allows them to interrupt the traffic on the Volga". Gwynn's analysis, in my opinion, was perfectly correct. Stalingrad was completely neutralized by the end of 1942. In October/November 1942, Stalingrad no longer had any strategic importance. Rather than focusing on the Caucasus and Caspian Sea oil fields (mainly Baku), Hitler, for his part, maintained his attention 100% focused on Stalingrad. The reason for that? Simple pride! As I mentioned before, the conquest/destruction of Stalingrad was a matter of honor for Hitler, that is, his true obsession. The destruction of the city bearing Stalin's name (STALINgrad), therefore, was his main goal/obsession. After Stalingrad, the Germans never regained their former military glory. In my own words, Stalingrad became a "symbol of the Soviet resistance and victory" ("Символ советского сопротивления и победы"). Hitler simply lost an entire army because of his foolish obsession/ego.

[@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329]

Thank you dude!

[@AwayWithYouVileBeggar]

It's funny because Germany could've helped both the Romanian and Hungarian armies by giving them some of the captured Soviet equipment and thus modernizing their divisions, especially when it comes to tanks and anti tank guns. Instead they'd send it back to Germany to smelt it for steel and after Uranus threw a fit at their "allies" because, shocker, they couldn't stop hordes of tanks with WWI anti tank equipment, good will and courage. The Axis Alliance in a nutshell right there.

[@DouglasEdward84]

@@AwayWithYouVileBeggar The Romanians especially Dumitrescu, also warned the Germans about the build up of Soviets and requested help to eliminate the last Soviet bridgehead over the Don but were refused. The Luftwaffe commander Richtoffen went rogue and sent them as much help as he could get away with.

[@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568]

I see your point. Romanians, Italians and Hungarians were poorly equipped foe the battle and less politically motivated. So for that matter only the German 6th Army counted as a professional fighting force in all regards. But have you noticed that of all the documentaries of this battle, so far this seems to be the only one that depicts the actual amount of Soviet Armies surrounded the sole German 6th Army in Stalingrad. Nevertheless, so-called historians always boast of the catastrophic defeat of the Germans, as if Soviet strategy or some merit was superior. I see none. Beside this German guy name Gehlen who was in charge of intelligence in that sector (who later worked for the CIA after the war, I understand) failed to warn his superiors of the massive concentration of troops in October 1942. So by the time the Germans were encircled, they still did not have a clear picture of what was going on. Other encircled German battle groups had previously been supplied by air. Marshal Herman Göring assured Hitler that his Luftwaffe could do the job. But eventually he never delivered on his word, at a time when to much time had elapsed. Air commander Richthofen also complained that von Paulus troops were fighting defensively in Stalingrad, instead of trying to reach von Hoth's attempt to reach Stalingrad. And for that matter von Paulus had only served as adjutant to Field Marshal von Reichenau, previous commander of the German 6th Army. Many factors influenced the final fate of the doomed 6th Army. Not just Hitler's ego.

[@Nightdare]

@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 You might wanna check out TIKhistory on YT for a LONG series called Battlestorm Stalingrad (currently at 39 eps of at least 30 minutes each,, and still going) for a very elaborate breakdown of the battle

[@user-lq5yx1ke5k]

Highly recommend TIK's documentary on this battle, possibly the best documentary ever made.

[@randomname2159]

not possibly...surely

[@Kieran84ire]

He’s not a proper historian, he doesn’t know the difference between socialism and fascism. The Battlefield documentary series was and is still the best documentary to cover Stalingrad.

[@zmajooov]

@@Kieran84ire I would argue that he knows precisely what is the difference between socialism and fascism, sadly people that only vaguely bothered to read up on both ideologies make the claims like you did just now.

[@Kieran84ire]

@@zmajooov this is the guy who thinks Hitler's national socialism and Stalin's socialism are the same thing; as much as a mess as Mein Kampf is, I think it aptly demonstrates Hitler was not a socialist and despised socialism and communism in it's entirety. The chap has videos over 40 mins long where he tries to argue national socialism and socialism are the same thing, anyone with the barest understanding of history knows they are not. He does so because he has a massive chip on his shoulder about socialism. Historians don't do that, they don't view history through a lens of ideology.

[@boll0cks45]

@@Kieran84ire Full degree British university ? I guess your ideology will not allow you to see that the older people who watch his presentations already know that Hitler was a socialist because it was taught in schools in the 1970s before the woke lefties took over education in British schools .You have probably been indoctrinated already by your education.

[@petepaul615]

I love how these videos bring every know it all into one fold!

[@Glen.Danielsen]

Very insightful, incisive perspective. I have never heard this thinking before, and it rings very true. 💛🙏🏼

[@chingading957]

Please more WW2 videos. I would love to see your take on the battle of Midway

[@bbenjoe]

- Why Stalingrad is the largest city on Earth? - ??? - Because it takes a hundred days to get from one end to other other.

[@BrandonHanson]

Another terrific video. Love these history videos. Keep it up.

[@JohnDoe-jq4re]

Your description of 227 was misleading as it only applied to officers who ordered unauthorized withdrawals

[@SDOne-or6vm]

anticommunist myths are hard to kill

[@channelbro]

Here 11 Second Ago!

[@morisco56]

No one cares

[@spicyleaves8876]

@@morisco56 Did anyone ask you?

[@YouhavetoBelieve3347]

*@KNOWLEDGIA COULD U PLS MAKE A VIDEO ON FRAXINETUM, THE MUSLM EMIRATE OF SWITZERLAND‼️‼️*

[@RYII-mm9gu]

my great great grandfather was a pilot in the soviet air force in Stalingrad, when winter came he could not fly because the oil had frozen, so he fought on the ground

[@antonboludo8886]

Stalingrad was only in 1942-1943. How can you you have already have 5 generations since then?

[@milibibi2152]

@@antonboludo8886 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@juancosentino8327]

@@antonboludo8886 My uncle is an old englishman whose grandfather fought in wwi and died in wwii. Poor people have children at 20 or less. I think that in modern west europa it is less common today

[@antonboludo8886]

@@juancosentino8327 I do not believe you.

[@Sigrid_Von_Sincluster]

IMPORTANT NOTE ON ORDER 227: the order primarely refered to the officers and commissars who allowed thous disastrous disorganized retreats in the prior year, contrary to popular belief it did not = in a you "will not retreat no matter what and if you even look behind your shoulder you will imidiatly get shot" like it is portrated in popular movies and this vid , because retreats did happen, the problem was that early in the war the soviet army was plagued by officers issuing unapproved retreat orders, AAAND this was true for every single army in the world, i allways found it odd that this was something the soviet got shit for when it came to insubordonation or deserters yet the same treatment was applyed to the americans, british , candians, germans, etc. good vid on the subject, but a little bit more research into order 227 would have bean appreciated, we all know the effect of the decisions of the soviet regime on both it's civilian and armed population, there is no point in makeing up stuff.

[@firingallcylinders2949]

Yea I mean look at WW1, British officers shot men who ran back into the trench after going over the top.

[@elseggs6504]

@@firingallcylinders2949 Or the Reason why the Christmas armistice was a one-time thing

[@alexanderballa6152]

I think it comes down to the cold war demonize the sovits and make tne west look better

[@Sigrid_Von_Sincluster]

@@alexanderballa6152 yep, allthough i do prefer the west system (i'm from east europe so we know that this whole comunist system is no bueno) it does annoy me when the west side just makes shit up about the soviets, the world agreed that it was not a good system that's why it fell, and ofc there was propaganda on the soviet side, no doubt about it, but as far as i can see, there was never as much as it is on the west side, granted the citizen were not as well educated so not as much propaganda was needed to convince them of what to think/do, but i think the west overdid it.

[@alexanderballa6152]

@@Sigrid_Von_Sincluster they did over do it a bit in the usa as of anything that helps the workers aka gives more money for them to put in the econamy witch = more money for evryone

[@christopherpeery7436]

I can just picture stalin saying, "execute order 227. Not one step back" Soviet general: it shall be done my lord

[@nerwikmascot]

No lords, and my, everyone is comrade, even Stalin

[@dmonleon24]

BLAST HIM

[@vladworldzmason8244]

Man, another good example of poor educated sample, who just threw a phase that not worth a $0.1, guys you should stop poison the air, Gretta will find and will take all the lithium from you.

[@jairomendoza238]

Haha getting

[@devileye90]

the way they said they were still churning out tanks in the battle of stalingrad even with the enemies overrunning the city must’ve felt like an intense game of battlefield repairing your tank after it’s badly damaged except it’s real life

[@Ghost-vi8qm]

Funny how this city alone held out longer then all of France did... And even won!

[@brianpetersen570]

By barbaric means and catastrophic expenses. France was so dead set on avoiding the devastation of another great war that once they realized they were out maneuvered and outmatched they had to surrender.

[@YoutubSosetXui]

@@brianpetersen570 that's what it takes sometimes. Or you could be a coward and surrender to Nazi I guess 🙄

[@brianpetersen570]

@@YoutubSosetXui Wow you're so brave from your behind your keyboard- I can tell you're quite the war hero

[@PrvnCoke]

@@Jeff-fe8rf bullshit, germany suffered much more during and after ww1 and they had no help like the french

[@countalucard3405]

😂😂😂😂😂👌

[@cornelbacauanu1544]

Very well-made and explained video. This was the turning point of the war on the east front.

[@radrook2153]

I consider the turning point when the NAZIS were repelled at Leningrad and Moscow. Prior to that, the NAZIS seemed unstoppable.

[@cornelbacauanu1544]

@@radrook2153 I am not an expert on WWII on the Eastern Front, however, from the evidence I saw, the Stalingrad defeat was the begging of the end of Natzis in Russia

[@radrook2153]

@@cornelbacauanu1544 It can certainly be viewed that way. Only one more battle was fought where they had the initiative and that was at Kursk. But generally speaking, most historians, if not all, would agree with you that.

[@Emanon...]

"Uranus" very aptly named for how it ended for the Germans

[@wildsurfer12]

1:53 You forgot to mention that Germany had to tweek it’s plan by splitting the Army Group South into two because Germany needed oil so badly that it no longer had the time or resources to take Stalingrad and the Caucuses oil fields separately before running out of fuel.

[@declancotter722]

@Yieri the panzer division wouldn't have helped. German logistics were soo bad that they would have run out of fuel before they were encircled. Tik's video on case blue explains why they were withdrawn quite well

[@TaiChiGhost]

A Russian friend (and fellow Baby Boomer) told me that it was the "Katushka Rockets" that saved the Russians. She wasn't actually there, but her parents were. Interesting factoid from a History Prof. at San Francisco State; until the Germans violated their non-aggression pact with Stalin, the Russians were actually supplying ammunition to the Germans.

[@pepl6726]

the Americans supplied the Germans with ammunition, as well as food and clothing until 1944, so calm down, money rules the world

[@senorpepper3405]

​@pepl can I get a source?

[@brokenbridge6316]

Great video. It was pretty informative.

[@michaelsanchez1361]

I was there with Viktor Reznov. And it's pure madness

[@Knowledgia]

Dimitri, you are?

[@panzerkampfwagenv1939]

Yes

[@atomant2969]

Stfu lies 😂😂😂😂

[@benborja3200]

Once again you cheat death!

[@vladimirvonmongol6368]

I think the name of the city is self-explaining, why it was so deadly and so heavily defended

[@radomirratkovic4407]

That's right cousin...

[@gogaonzhezhora8640]

It had nothing to do with the name(except for Gefreiter Hitler maybe). It was the last defencible position on Volga. Beyond that the Germans would enter the wide steppe to march on the Baku oil fields.

[@vladimirvonmongol6368]

@@gogaonzhezhora8640 r/woosh

[@karlik4861]

lmao, that explanation is savage

[@gogaonzhezhora8640]

@@vladimirvonmongol6368 deutsche Tugenden - Überheblichkeit und Besserwisserei. How efficient of you.

[@50shekels]

Because James Bisonette didn’t sponsor it

[@hannibalbarca7220]

Lmao

[@gocool_2.0]

😂😂😂 Forgot Kelly the money maker and robwater house

[@LichsuhoathinhDrabattle]

*I hope there will be more videos about world history and Vietnam. Thank you team, every video is good 👏🏻*

[@bigmac8168]

So very Good and informative video!! Keep em Commin👍🔥⚔️

[@hasibulislam6250]

Imagine yourself in Stalingrad during WWII

[@mustipunyaemail]

Hell hole.

[@morisco56]

I would become a real man

[@firingallcylinders2949]

@@morisco56 *dead man

[@cipriantodoran1674]

I do have better thoughts..

[@HandsOfSweed]

Yeah. That's a hard pass.

[@Asgard2208]

Any chance you guys could do a video on the Battle of Rzhev, a battle which I think is very much overlooked and important in WW2? The casualties were also horrendous, although not on the scale of Stalingrad.

[@joelgobeh7343]

I like the way the narrator explains with such enthusiasm

[@MARCKULTIMATE]

In reality, order "not step back" or you can be ejecuted by treason happened in all armies. The political comisaries were 1 to 10000 soldiers to watch, so the numbers of ejecutions were low. Another point is that the city wasn't evacuated, that is untrue. Not all the citizens, but they rescued half of the population or more

[@MARCKULTIMATE]

Besides, is insulting that you said is Stalin's fault the more deads, the NAZIS invaded the country and masacre civilians, we can speak today because millions of soviets fight until the last breath to liberate their country and europe from the 3 reich

[@stone8905]

propoganda

[@mr.2083]

Great you bring up the no step back order. There's too many myths about it. TIK has a great video about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gICucnx6pbSMbpI&ab_channel=TIK

[@nihalbhandary162]

@@mr.2083 His series on Stalingrad is excellent! and is currently ongoing with 20+episodes. Also, the disproportionate amount of soldiers dying in captivity is more due to the condition they surrendered ( many were starving and simply perished before they even marched to the camps).

[@AudieHolland]

@@nihalbhandary162 If you look up the total amount of German POWs dying in Soviet captivity, the number is much lower for all of the other battles on the Eastern Front. Out of 3 million captured German soldiers on the Eastern Front, between 300,000 - 1,000,000 died in Soviet captivity. Out of 5.7 million captured Soviet soldiers, over 3 million were killed while in German captivity, most in the first few years of the war

[@jacksonfoxtrot]

"inarguably one of the most merciless and destructive battles" Quite frankly, the most merciless and destructive. There were no such bloodiest battles in the human history comparable to Stalingrad - just take a look at the losses combined for goodness sake.

[@bedstuyrover]

It is said that the battle of Moscow was the biggest battle in history.

[@jacksonfoxtrot]

@@bedstuyrover It is said that it's enough to compare the losses at Stalingrad with the losses in the battle of Moscow to find the truth

[@bedstuyrover]

@@jacksonfoxtrot total casualties for the battle of Moscow was 2.5 million.

[@jacksonfoxtrot]

@@bedstuyrover wiki says otherwise. 1.5m at its top

[@bedstuyrover]

@@jacksonfoxtrot Wiki is considered to be inaccurate. Rodric Braithwaite wrote an interesting account of the battle of Moscow called " Moscow 1941". As i read it several years ago i do not recall his figures but he leaves you in no doubt as to the fact that the battle was the largest in history. I had a look at history .com, they give a figure of 2.5 million; they also state that millions of troops were rotated on this enormous battlefield. It is rather puzzling why greater emphasis is not placed on this conflict for this was the true turning point of ww2. With the Soviets taking staggering losses, and the Wehrmacht victorious everywhere, the German high command expected a crushing victory at the capitol. the fact that a crushing defeat occurred was indicative of the end for Germany. From that point on, it was a war of attrition. Germany's slender resources could not hope to keep up with the vast resources of the USSR.

[@tefibos]

Great video. Good job!

[@nicolaenicolae3289]

Great content, keep it up!

[@Knowledgia]

Thank you!

[@Barnsy40]

This is the real content of value on KZbin.

[@asdf3568]

Stalingrad was an extremely important junction necessary for the Germans to take in order for them to meet their objectives. It had nothing to do with the city name.

[@AstroTheFungus]

What if you would do the same to the Battle of El Alamain or the Battle if Midway?

[@wanderalmeida9584]

Great video. Thanks from Brazil.

[@ripwednesdayadams]

The Soviets really went through hell and are the MVPs of WWII. Chuikov’s brilliant “hug the enemy” strategy and his command style during the battle of Stalingrad made operation Uranus possible.

[@ilyapopov2818]

Get your facts straight. Sovets started evacuation of people long before German attack. Over 100 thousands were evaluated. A lot of people were evaluated during the battle.

[@DarkPsychoMessiah]

And yet there were civilians inside the city

[@splifstar85]

@@DarkPsychoMessiah yea, because they couldn’t evacuate everyone in time, as the Germans began bombing the Volga crossing before they even got to the city limits

[@healingpotionthatkillsyoui1844]

no

[@historyofromaniabucharest9011]

The great battle in history Battle of Stalingrad:🇩🇪Germany, 🇷🇴Romania,🇭🇺Hungary and 🇮🇹Italy vs Soviet Union☭

[@moisuomi]

That is the Chinese flag.

[@historyofromaniabucharest9011]

@@moisuomi There is no Soviet one, so I put something to look more like

[@moisuomi]

@@historyofromaniabucharest9011 ☭

[@historyofromaniabucharest9011]

@@moisuomi however, it is not the real red flag, but it works

[@alexanderbogdan8327]

Put Romanians and Hungarians on the same team and see what happens 😬

[@s.jackson502]

Excellent reporting comrade.

[@danielunnamed9438]

Great video, not everything is perfect, but still it's impressive to see such material from english-speaking. But this video is lack of 227 orders text. In my opinion it was very important order during this devastating war.

[@jwil4286]

The reason the USSR could call in Siberian forces was because they knew Japan wouldn’t attack unless Moscow fell. Imagine if on December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Vladivostok instead of Pearl Harbor

[@TheNorthie]

While this was going on, another deadly set of battles around Rzhev were going on. Over a million Russians, possibly more were lost in pointless attacks. While German positions were constantly attacked and precious reserves that could have turned the tide at Stalingrad were sent to Rzhev. The Soviets nickname the battlesite: The Rzhev Meat Grinder.

[@Mentol_]

Soviet casualties killed in all Rzhev operations amount to 392 thousand people. But if you add the wounded, there are 1.1 million. People confuse the wounded with the dead.

[@judebreen2003]

Also Stalingrad was on the river meaning the Germans couldn’t encircle it like Minsk was or Smolensk and the Soviets could easily send more men into the city. The Germans also bombed the place completely to the ground which lead to the house to house fighting and deaths on both sides

[@deepalib3096]

I am studying WWII on the net..... All these videos are so interesting

[@konradheumann8342]

Brought to you by the same people who made "Mommy, why do people die when they're underwater too long?"

[@Junhuiwey]

Please make a video about the Battle of Manila. It is called the Stalingrad of the Pacific.

[@Peter43John]

In the words of Lawrence Olivier in, "The World at War": -"It was not just a defeat, it was a catastrophe. Enough equipment captured to supply one quarter of the entire German Army. "

[@therenegadepianotechnician5170]

Prior to Stalingrad, the Mongolian "siege of Bagdad" had the deadliest battle ever. A refusal to surrender and insulting the Mongolian general, after Bagdad's capture they spent 40 days killing everyone in the city. Militarily ,Stalingrad was a defeat the Germans would never recover from.

[@flyingpiggie979]

That’s not a battle. That’s just an execution.

[@krzysztofk1674]

And then they say that only nazis were bad, but ottomans, mongols, arabs and others in their opinion are probably good guys

[@nemopo2299]

@@krzysztofk1674 and the crusaders and every European kingdom that took part in colonisation... Anyone that committed a crime is a criminal... Doesn't matter where you come from...

[@therenegadepianotechnician5170]

@@flyingpiggie979 It became an execution ,but , the Abisaide Califate Sultan was over confident in his chances.

[@therenegadepianotechnician5170]

@@krzysztofk1674 Dont' count on me to vote for Trump , but its true history if viewed honestly does not make white people evil. It just shows that all humans will potentially do the same evil acts if given the opportunity. .

[@Jim-fi4dc]

One madman preventing his forces from breaking out the encirclement and another madman refusing to evacuate civilians and killing his own men while retreating.

[@AtroFear]

Wrong, Hitler was not preventing the retreat of the 6th army. It was actually because of Manstein who refused to listen to the will of Paulus and take action immediately upon the news of how bad things were going at Stalingrad. That being said, Hitler did absolutely often create "fortress" cities out of conquered territories in order to prevent losing said conquests. But this time, it was far from Hitlers fault.

[@declancotter722]

@@AtroFear also by the time German relieve attempt got going near Christmas the troops in the city had been encircled for over a month and were starving to death. By that point a breakout towards the relieve attempt would have been impossible given how short of supplies the germans were.

[@Internetbutthurt]

"It is a brave man who can be a coward in the Red Army" I.V. Stalin.

[@History_in_Urdu]

What is the name of animation app that u use for video making please answer my question

[@rogerpattube]

Name, rank and serial number is all you are entitled to under the Geneva Convention.

[@adamjurrens1897]

Good vid !!

[@fares9309]

POV: its your first time being this early lol

[@user-ec5cs8ti3m]

During the WW2 the city of Donetsk was called Stalino, there is a typo on your map in the very beginning of the video

[@ronaldwhite1730]

Thank - you .

[@oldmangimp2468]

Whut? Duncan Fisher doing a narration while SOBER? Shocked, shocked and amazed I am! . I may be way off base (and I couldn't find a credit for the narrator), but I swear that this is the voice of the great George Ledoux. . Now, back to the Solaris Arena!

[@rickchollett]

I think it had something to do with all the guns, bombs, tanks, artillery and aircraft. Add in some freezing weather and malnutrition and it was pretty damn dangerous.

[@janspup6232]

The 1077th were some bad ass ladies, basically fought to the death.

[@charlemagne996]

Nice way to use the map!

[@voiceofreason2674]

Zhukov and his 3rd Division is legendary

[@azazel5701]

Just imagine if this was in the mid 40s and the casualties surpassed millions, with todays tech and fighting techniques and strategies just imagine how many casualties will be made in the nezt major war

[@hunterroberts9951]

If you have never seen the German movie" Stalingrad"made in 1993 it's worth a watch.

[@joksimradovic4040]

TIK has some 30 episodes on this battle...I can not recommend that channel enough.

[@sinaboxter]

Volga-Don canal and the Tsimlyansk Reservoir(the large body of water on the lower Don) were completed in 1952, 10 years after when this video supposed to show.

[@Nikola95inYT]

This video is very poorly made. Everyone who studied WW2 just a little bit won't discover anything new. No front line are shown, no key towns, no dates. Luftwaffe was mentioned only in the beginning of operation and not during its end, when it was unable to supply troops, this was much more important.

[@impaugjuldivmax]

same with Dniepr reservoirs

[@EstephanyEncarnacion]

The description of the Soviet involvement in the war has always been weighed down in the West by prejudice. This video is the typical western work loaded with prejudices. The NKVD declasified documents mention about 278 exucution for backing out, on the entire Stalingrad front. The sporadic machine-gunning of routing troops by their own side is something the Germans also practiced, specially with their Romanian allies in Stalingrad.

[@kiwihaider3947]

Because thet sure always document it, when they kill their own soldiers. 😂😂

[@thomastorodo9968]

The whole shooting at your retreating troops might be simply a myth and the order was aimed primarily at officers, they were not allowed to retreat without order from their superior. There is an ongoing serie of videos made on the KZbin channel TIK that covers the battle for Stalingrad that gives way more informations and debunk a lot of clichés about it.

[@slavic_viking9638]

@@kiwihaider3947 because that's not how order 227 worked

[@mdokuch96]

@@kiwihaider3947 yes, you kinda have to do this. We speak about a totalitarian system where each your action must be accounted and noted - because each citizen/soldier is a state's asset and it is not your job to decide if the asset is worthy or not or "remove" that asset yourself without any explanation. There are paper-issued orders, there are combat journals of the unit, so every action of the unit is pretty traceable.

[@TheBanjoShowOfficial]

@@mdokuch96 and you would trust NKVD records? The department that was specifically tied with crushing political opposition, espionage, and torture?

[@kylechristianverdida7635]

Ahhh my memories with Reznov. The times...

[@lokmanekheyar3179]

i'm comfused i have 2 question 1) wasn't the name of the operation "CASE BLUE" or FALL BLAU ? 2) wasn't fedor von bock commander of army group center and gerd von runshtedth commander of army group south when fall blau happened ?

[@michaeleverson3801]

Those poor Italians. Lord knows most of them wanted no part of fighting and they ended up in maybe THE worst theater of the entire war.

[@RynaxAlien]

War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other

[@speedzero7478]

Roman! Did you fall asleep!!?

[@francisfonollera9788]

Stalin is specifically mentioned in the video but Hitler is only mentioned as "German Chancellor".

[@stumpedii8639]

yes the usa corporations censor history.. only the us official version is allowed.. not much to do with reality.. this is to allow a corrupt govt to exist and nullifiy the vote. which is only based on lies.. thus the corruption continues.

[@spicy7302]

@@stumpedii8639 wtf does the KZbin algorithm blocking adverts for the word Hitler have to do with your american paranoia and problems???

[@sjaakdewinter6258]

Very good video. this is how it was.

[@Ricostatue423]

A good visual representation of this is in the movie Enemy at the Gates