164 - Stalingrad, Stalingrad, Stalingrad, No Retreat! - WW2 - October 16, 1942

Подписаться 1 млн

Просмотров 354 тыс.

50% 1

The Americans win a naval victory off Guadalcanal and even manage to reinforce the Marines there with the first Army units to arrive, but as the week ends the Japanese launch a major offensive on the island. Meanwhile far across the globe, Adolf Hitler orders that all German offensive operations except those at Stalingrad and in the Caucasus cease. There is plenty to do in Stalingrad, though, because this week all hell breaks loose there.
Join us on Patreon: / timeghosthistory
Or join the TimeGhost Army directly at: timeghost.tv/s...
Check out our TimeGhost History RU-vid channel: / timeghost
Between 2 Wars: • Between 2 Wars
Follow WW2 Day by Day on Instagram: @ww2_day_by_day
Follow TimeGhost History on Instagram: @timeghosthistory
Like us on Facebook: / timeghosthistory
Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer
Creative Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Creative Producer: Maria Kyhle
Written by: Indy Neidell
Research by: Indy Neidell
Edited by: Iryna Dulka
Map animations by: Daniel Weiss
Map research by: Markus Linke
Sound design by: Marek Kamiński
Colorizations by:
- Mikołaj Uchman
- Daniel Weiss
- Julius Jääskeläinen - / jjcolorization
- Olga Shirnina, a.k.a. Klimbim - klimbim2014.wo...
- Norman Stewart - oldtimesincolo...
- Dememorabilia - / dememorabilia
Source literature list: bit.ly/SourcesWW2
Archive footage: Screenocean/Reuters - www.screenocea...
Image sources:
- IWM: HU 5163
- Bundesarchiv: Bild_146-1971-016-25, Bild_183-J20513, Bild_183-B22478
Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound:
- Easy Target - Rannar Sillard
- Dragon King - Jo Wandrini
- Death And Glory 3 - Johannes Bornlöf
- Spellbound - Edward Karl Hanson
- On the Edge of Change - Brightarm Orchestra
- At the Front - Phoenix Tail
- Dark Beginning - Johan Hynynen
- The Beast - Dream Cave
- It's Not a Game - Philip Ayers
- To War! - Jo Wandrini
A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

Опубликовано:

29 сен 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 970

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Adolf Hitler has ordered that the entirety of the German offensives be focused on Stalingrad and the Caucasus Mountains. The belief is held by many that German conquest of the oil in this region would win them the war. In his book "Wages of Destruction" historian Adam Tooze comments on the absurdity of this all. Here is what Tooze had to say about the assumption by Nazi synthetics industrialist Carl Krauch that he would be able to raise air fuel production to 3 million tons following the conquest of the caucuses: "Here was the perverse logic of Barbarossa in a nutshell. The conquest of the oilfields of the Caucasus, 2,000 kilometres deep in the Soviet Union, was not treated as the awesome military-industrial undertaking that it was. It was inserted as a precondition into another gargantuan industrial plan designed to allow the Luftwaffe to fight an air war, not against the Soviet Union, but against the looming air fleet of Britain and the United States." p.452

@tremor3258 3 года назад

I know Germany did a very strong job industrializing through the last half of the 19th into the 20th, but is there any sort of historical precedent for this kind of industrial plan (developing and repairing the oil fields, and upgrading their production and the refinery capacity to make use of it) succeeding to give such confidence, or was it simply fear of being seen to fail?

@pnutz_2 3 года назад

there's a meme about Wages of Destruction that like 1984 no one has read it, so grats on getting a copy

@johnlenin830 2 года назад

The 37th Guards Rifle Division during the war passed 2800 kilometers with battles, forcing 39 river obstacles, liberated 50 cities and more than 1500 other settlements; destroyed and captured about 60 thousand soldiers and officers of the enemy. Six thousand soldiers of the division were awarded military orders and medals, twenty were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The division is one of the four formations of the Red Army, awarded the highest - 1 degree of the Order of Kutuzov.

@lucaszerafa178 2 года назад

Even if the Germans took Baku and the oil fields, wouldn’t the Soviets just sabotage them so the Germans couldn’t use them?

@tihomirrasperic 2 года назад

@@lucaszerafa178 Brits and American will bomb field (Brits already have plan for that)

@canthama2703 3 года назад

Indy...that was an incredible narration at the very last 3 minutes of this video...simply breathtaking, your ability to narrate the tension and aprehension is simply awesome...congrats my friend and all the TG team.👏👏👏

@Landon_Lucas 2 года назад

Yea indy is the best i never miss his episodes

@b4nterontilt245 2 года назад

You're breathtaking!

@zulubeatz1 2 года назад

Agreed he brought it to life very well

@seangraner297 2 года назад

Totally buy that music did about 50% of the work lol

@BBQDad463 2 года назад

I concur with OP wholeheartedly.

2 года назад

Even though I know how events will soon unfold, for a moment I thought Stalingrad will fall. Great narration.

@damienmiquel8513 2 года назад

Holy smoke... I had no idea that Mid-October 1942 was so decisive for Stalingrad. It is still mind-blowing to imagine there are survivors or any will to fight in the soviet lines after such a punch in the guts.

@vladimpaler3498 3 года назад

I wonder how much the USSR actually knew about Wehrmacht strength. The 6th Panzer Army is almost tapped out with corps the size of divisions, divisions the size of battalions, etc. They have cannibalized just about every person they can from other non-combat operations and have zero reserves. Their losses are very high and there are no where near enough replacements. The best they can hope for is a Pyrrhic victory, and the worst...

@TheStephaneAdam 2 года назад

Maybe, but for the defenders of Stalingrad it still means being outnumbered and outgunned. It's easy to say Nazi Germany was doomed with hindsight, but at the time the Red Army wasn't in good shape either.

@VedranCro 2 года назад

They knew, that's how Operation Uranus happened

@davidwright7193 2 года назад

Zhukov had worked this out in late August/early September. He has new tank armies forming east of the Volga. He is trickling in just enough force into Stalingrad to hold the Volga bank and keep the 6th Army focused on the city. When the cold weather comes he will deliver the sucker punch.

@VindicAlpha 2 года назад

@@davidwright7193 Zhukov must have felt the pressure of that balancing act throughout autumn 1942. "Am I sending Chuikov enough forces? Will he hold? Will Stalingrad fall?"

@kr0k0deilos 2 года назад

Chuikov noted in one of his reports (if I'm correct in mid september ) that the enemy's offensive has lost it punching force and that they seem less organized and more predictable... Ofcourse while he said that his own devisions were zeroed or reduced to the sizes of battalions.

@Brandon-a-writer 2 года назад

Richard Overy's account in the great patriotic war is the best account of the eastern front in a single volume, especially as companion piece to the dictators, hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia. this series has a breadth and level of detail impossible literally at any other point in history. You look great, Indy! great research staff and presentation

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Thank you very much!

@ziggytheassassin5835 2 года назад

The stalingrad segment has got to be the best segment of any WW2 episode.

@eetutorri8767 2 года назад

So about Italian 8th Army (or ARMIR, Armata Italiana in Russia) which is between Romanian 3rd and Hungarian 2nd Army (more of because so that they don't start shooting at each other) was during this time of some 235.000 men formed into 12 divisions and various sub-units. And like the 3rd Romanian Army (and 2nd Hungarian) they held section of Don river that was over extended and Soviets would actually establish bridgeheads over Don (in effort to divert Germans from Stalingrad) as Italians could not muster enough supplies or men to retake them. And this was apparently a "quiet front". Well despite this rather large effort, Italians have in practical sense little to none armored support. Only armor units the Italians had was separate armored battalion of L6/40s light tanks (which was more of evolution L3/35 tankette) and tank destroyer unit (used more like assault guns though) of Semovente 47/32s. Neither which would offer real resistance to any concerned Soviet tanks in case of an breakthrough. Italians used mainly the 47/32 light gun for anti-tank work (with few units having Pak36) which was only really useful against light tanks but only real danger to T-34s if they jammed the gun into its tracks. So Italians quickly learned the art of making molotov cocktails and satchel charges to take on heavier Soviet tanks. Or field artillery. So to correct this rather obvious weakness, Germans generously gave Italians Pak97/38s which was actually enough to form a heavy anti-tank battery of 6 guns for each division. Which was in practical sense nothing for the distances Italians needed to hold.

@Vlad79500 2 года назад

@Catalin Corciovei "When the tank was repaired, caught up of ours. We came to the area, I will never forget, the Khlebny Cossack farm. Three kilometers away is another farm - Petrovsky. It was also occupied by Soviet tanks, but not by our brigade. There was a lowland between the farmsteads located on the hills. Early in the morning, the 8th Italian Army went along it in a huge, continuous crowd, fleeing from the encirclement. When the advanced units of the Italians caught up with us, the command went along the columns: “Forward! Press! " That's when we gave them from two flanks! I've never seen such a mess again. The Italian army was literally rubbed into the ground. It was necessary to look into our eyes in order to understand how much anger and hatred we had then! And crushed these Italians like bedbugs. Winter, our tanks are painted white with lime. And when they left the battle, the tanks became red below the tower. Like they were swimming in blood. I looked at the caterpillars - where the hand stuck, where is the piece of the skull. It was a terrible sight. Took crowds of prisoners that day. After this defeat, the 8th Italian Army actually ceased to exist, in any case, I never saw a single Italian at the front."

@yes_head 2 года назад

Awesome episode. The week sees both Guadalcanal AND Stalingrad heating up to a fever pitch. I guess one could say the entire outcome of WW2 was coming down to these two focal points.

@lycaonpictus9662 2 года назад

...and soon we'll be hearing more about some place in Africa called El Alamein

@KJAkk 2 года назад

Just wait for November 13th-15th or so at Guadalcanal.

@euanthomas1313 2 года назад

That's one of the best I've seen so far. Great work people.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Thank you!

@Murphy82nd 2 года назад

This was masterfully done.

@dCash117 2 года назад

Dang it I'm going to have to play a couple call of duties after my Halloween playlist

@artkoenig9434 2 года назад

Your delivery was perfect on this episode, Indy. I had the impression I was listening to a prizefight with two gigantic boxers duking it out for the championship. Well done, sir!

@Blipvertus 2 года назад

Another smashing episode! The Guadalcanal campaign has always been very interesting to me. Another RU-vid channel, Drachinifel, did a multi part series covering the campaign. I think it would be interesting for you to do a special where you, Drachinifel and other historians discuss certain topics in more depth. The different perspectives alone would make for really interesting discussions.

@Salt0fTheEarth 2 года назад

That last quote from Chuikov is amazing, where is it from?

@javi009z 2 года назад

Nobody, not even Chuikov believed the city could be held for much longer

@billd.iniowa2263 2 года назад

Best WWII series on RU-vid.

@Gonboo 2 года назад

Admiral Scott looks like Dennis Hopper.

@DavidHuber63 2 года назад

Superb, thank you!

@calebhastey1042 2 года назад

Kongo and haruna were battlecriusers not battleships, minor point but…

@henrybostick5167 2 года назад

How did Admiral Scott lose two of his 4 scout planes? Were they shot down? Get lost and run out of fuel? Just wondering...

@GA-jn7oo 2 года назад

Как всегда интересно 💪👍

@konstantinyurlov2138 2 года назад

16:19 Paulus is not a "von"

@yamchadragonball6983 2 года назад

Almost sounds like a ww1 battle in stalingrad

@willyreeves319 2 года назад

Stalingrad was a far larger battle in terms of casualties than any WW1 battle and lasted longer than all but Verdun i think

@yamchadragonball6983 2 года назад

@@willyreeves319 Wasn't referring to size, length or casualties. The way this part of the battle was fought seems eerily similar to WW1 western front battles. An entrenches soviet army getting shelled, moving to new positions etc.

@gamingpostman1552 2 года назад

supercool video

@visassess8607 2 года назад

I can't wait until 1944-1945

@eldorados_lost_searcher 2 года назад

I'm guessing the other end of the phone conversation was full of spoilers.

@Methylimidazol 2 года назад

17:54 That does not look like a T-34. Does anybody know what that really is?

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Others do agree that it is a T34 waralbum.ru/4098/

@firingallcylinders2949 2 года назад

It's actually crazy just how many battles start with massive bombardments where they unleash everything they have, only for the defenders to be still there and the offensive to meet heavy resistance.

@aidenhall8593 2 года назад

true john milton but in reality i believe that artillery bombardment is just not that effective against prepared positions, the chance of actually hitting a position directly which is needed for damage is just too small. All you are doing is suppressing the enemy, which is why creeping barrages are the most effective. I find it baffling that they did not even attempt a creeping barrage.

@jmoore4477 2 года назад

There's a theory out there that artillery, bombs, and unguided rockets are less about stopping power and focus on shell shock value. One figure suggests only 10% of an infantry force needs to be killed this way for mass shock and hysteria to set in, rendering a force unfit for combat. In the case of the Red Army in 1942, clearly short term state pride and fear of refusing or failing orders were stronger than long term psychological trauma.

@TheBreadB 2 года назад

Iwo Jima in a couple of years...

@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 2 года назад

There has been plenty of cases where a massive bombardment did what it was supposed to do. But it has to be planned well, executed well and there has to be proper concentration of required artillery. The Germans overall never managed to get the same concentration of artillery as the Allies and Soviets would in the 2nd half of the war, but in the 1st half, with their enemy usually on the back foot and reeling it was usually enough.

@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 2 года назад

@@aidenhall8593 Thing is with the creeping barrage, it works best in trench warfare for limited advances. Which was the case all the time in WW, as after all artillery only has a limited range. Once the advance moved out of the range of artillery it was usually end game for the advance and relocating the artillery forward took time. And the pace of operations and advance in WW2 was WAY faster then in WW1. Which meant creeping barrages were of limited value. And overall I doubt the Germans even had the amount of artillery pieces for such operations. The massive bombardment they unleashed for this operation was probably mild to what Germans troops got to experience later in the war on a regular basis. But for the 62nd army, whose units consisted of shattered divisions in name only, with soldiers tired, on the backfoot, suffering from lack of sleep and supplies it was probably massive.

@Soviettiger84 2 года назад

This is amazing. I have seen a lot of documentaries and read a lot about the Stalingrad battle. But Indy tells the action has develops so mesmerizingly... I felt Chuikov's desperation to fall back, but also the resolution of everybody to hold the line against all. Just amazing. I was heartbroken when Indy said “and the week comes to an end”. Thank you for all your work!!!

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Thank you for being a fan! Your appreciation means the world to us.

@whiteguymcgee4997 2 года назад

There’s a video series on RU-vid that does and in depth from the beginning of the battle to the end by TIK. Great stuff.

@nuzulqreshna3575 2 года назад

@@whiteguymcgee4997 sadly TIK is not weekly episodes, but his research and long video are amazing and detail.

@whiteguymcgee4997 2 года назад

@@nuzulqreshna3575 no but he does have 25+ of them which is a nice start

@Bloop3r 2 года назад

@@whiteguymcgee4997 i love when he puts them all together

@florianlipp5452 2 года назад

Let just sink in that sentence: "Communication was possible only by radio - because all telephone lines had melted". That was one hell of a battle!

@joseaca1010 2 года назад

i really like this quote about the battle "The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those scorching howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure"

@migueltrujillo8929 2 года назад

Yeah, it was hell indeed.

@Arashmickey 2 года назад

Hotline Stalingrad

@DMS-pq8 2 года назад

Only Verdun comes close

@stevekaczynski3793 2 года назад

The normal danger with field telephone lines was that enemy artillery or bombs would cut them, but Stalingrad just took the circle of hell one stage lower.

@legatvsdecimvs3406 2 года назад

Sgt. Zaitsev had been part of a Marine Battalion Machinegun unit(armed with Maxims and PPSh-41's) of the 284th Rifle Division that fought around Mamayev Hill(Kurgan). He had recently been issued a Sniper rifle after using a "regular" rifle without optics to take out German MG-34 positions on the hill. After which he became a Sniper team commander until late in the battle when he was wounded. Until 1942 he was a Navy accountant at the Soviet Pacific Fleet, and had volunteered to be sent Stalingrad. He was around 27 years old at the time and lived until 1991. He was educated and had worked at a factory construction site before joining the Soviet Navy. At a younger age he was a hunter in central Russia, which is when he learned to shoot and face off with sometimes dangerous animals. After the war he met several times with Gen. Chuikov at various veteran anniversaries.

@umjackd 2 года назад

Ah, but did he have a love triangle with a radio operator and an NKVD propaganda officer?

@ragman2623 2 года назад

@@umjackd 😂😂😂

@_NDC 2 года назад

His memoirs were published in English earlier this year, actually!

@JudsonMatt88 2 года назад

Great info on Vasily Zaitsev. He was a hero of the Battle of Stalingrad and for the Soviet Union for sure.

@specialnewb9821 2 года назад

@@umjackd I don't think Chernova made it up. Well, not ALL of it. Just most of it!

@javi009z 2 года назад

When he said "There is no land for us across the Volga" Everyone knew this was literally a fight to the death💀

@stephenwood6663 2 года назад

Reading between the lines, I rather get the impression that Stalin didn't expect Chuikov and his men to survive, but he was prepared to spend their lives if it meant buying Zhukov enough time to prepare his double-envelopment. The Volga's too broad to easily bridge, which limits the danger of a German breakthrough: the city's a trap, and Chuikov has the dubious honour of being the cheese.

@srinivasgorur-shandilya1788 2 года назад

We will never know, but contemporary sources do reference the dramatic shift in sentiment before and during Stalingrad. Barbarossa was a disaster but a lot of the retreat following that was strategic, with the soviets using the time honoured Russian tactic of trading space for time. But as German advances grew greater and greater there was a sense of panic, in that maybe the reason the red army was retreating so rapidly was not because this was a strategic move but they were just getting crushed by the nazis. Stalingrad changed that. It showed the world that the red army could take the hardest punch the nazis could throw at them, and stop them, and beat them.

@yes_head 2 года назад

The line earlier in the episode about how the Germans seemed to be looking forward to a winter offensive seems odd. I feel like both sides knew that any continuation of the action into the winter could only aid the Soviets. Hence the frenzy of activity this week in Stalingrad.

@michailtavonius3360 2 года назад

@@yes_head A winter offensive over frozen ground was deemed a better option than the autumn/spring quagmire of the southern steppes. The Germans couldn't know how hard the winter would become.

@yes_head 2 года назад

@@michailtavonius3360 Like they didn't know how crappy the Russian roads would be? I'd say then they lost that war through an astonishingly poor understanding of the land they were going to be attacking.

@twiliblade 2 года назад

@@yes_head what can expect from an enemy that under estimates their enemy so entirely to not even understand their land

@CrimsonDragon15 2 года назад

"There is no land for us beyond the Volga!"

@Norg1 2 года назад

acctually there was alot of land east of the volga

@PeliSotilas 2 года назад

@@Norg1 Not for the soldiers in Stalingrad, none of them would get the chance to cross the Volga while the enemy were in Stalingrad.

@gwtpictgwtpict4214 2 года назад

@@Norg1 Geographically, yes, lots of it. But you're missing the point, we stand here or we fall.

@Norg1 2 года назад

@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 i meant the Soviets had troops east of the volga north and south of the river many divisions and im guessing planning for operation Neptune i wonder how long they were planning this ???? and if theu were luring the germans in further east

@gwtpictgwtpict4214 2 года назад

@@Norg1 If Stalingrad falls the Germans secure their left flank and can concentrate on the Caucases and the oil. The Russians need that oil too. I think the Russians saw the opportunity to overextend, and then defeat the Germans at Stalingrad, but that needed Stalingrad to hold.

@korbell1089 2 года назад

You really have to feel for Chuikov, its impossible to command an army when you're too busy fighting for your life. On the other hand, had he moved across the river the morale hit would have destroyed his army. A man can fight harder if he knows his boss is in it just as deep as he is.

@789know 2 года назад

Also he already/will get his command post blown apart/destroyed multiple times already and come out alive everytime. He did his best. Fortune is on his side. His thinking of moving make sense. Had he stay there, without hindsight like we had, he may have been killed next time another command post of his is destroyed. Keep having to move/losing contact after having command post destroyed didn't really help him as well

@MrNicoJac 2 года назад

Well, but simultaneously it's also really hard to stay in touch and issue commands when there a mile-wide river in between. So it made both morale and practical sense.

@totallynotalpharius2283 2 года назад

What a commander he was

@markprange2430 2 года назад

@@789know: Chuikov had 8 command posts. Mamayev Kurgan Tsaritsyn Bunker Mouth of Reka Tsaritsa Barrikady oil depot Near Pencil Ravine Near 62nd Landing by KO Near Tennisschlager West of Tennisschlager

@edmundcowan9131 2 года назад

Stalin would have had him shot either way.

@BBQDad463 2 года назад

This video constitutes a masterpiece. The research, the writing, and the presentation are all superb. Thank you!😎

@piarpeggio 3 года назад

The final portion of the video about Stalingrad is chilling, to say the least. Can you imagine what goes on in somebody's mind when they realize the fullest extent of "fighting until their last drop of blood" against such an overpowering enemy? I know it is overused to the point where it has lost its meaning, but we're really lucky that we weren't born in a time when we would have had to live such a deadly reality.

@TheEvertw 2 года назад

No-one can decide the age in which they are born, but all have to make the best of it.

@Ronald98 2 года назад

if i can't beat them back, then i won't retreat, i shall die where i stand!

@dongately2817 2 года назад

Its bone chilling to imagine such a situation - and then place yourself in it.

@macleunin 2 года назад

The sheer brutality brutality of Stalingrad!

@sapereaude6274 2 года назад

Check back in a few years to see if we are still so lucky

@100Kakdela 2 года назад

The narration at the end was mesmerising. Almost brought tears to my eyes. Well done Indy and the team. The choice of music and script was amazing.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Thank you!

@patricofritz4094 2 года назад

@@WorldWarTwo Wow there are so many episodes in this World War 2 series it is amazing it is a whole 8 seasons worth show and your work is amazing and superb Indy a d team.Do you work with Drachinifel on matters relating to ships I love your Great War series as well .

@halahala6425 2 года назад

Wow, that's how it's supposed to be done. Such a great episode, I can't wait for the next one next week. Thanks guys!

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed this episode!

@yourstruly4817 2 года назад

Hard to believe that it's still two and a half years until Hitler will be ranting about Fortnite

@devvy_01 2 года назад

A man of culture I see

@konstantinriumin2657 2 года назад

Steiner's attack will capture Stalingrad soon!

@sergius993 2 года назад

DAS WAR EIN BEFEHL!

@firingallcylinders2949 2 года назад

This series is flying by though. I feel like we just went over the Battle of Britain. We're 6 months from Patton in Africa, then it's only a short time from then to Sicily then before we know it D-Day will be upon us.

@JustSomeCanuck 2 года назад

Don't forget the dinosaur romance novels. He HATES those.

@briantarigan7685 2 года назад

The Gallant stand of the 37th Guard rifle division and the rest of 62nd army in stalingrad against such an overwhelming firepowers and numbers is something that i rarely heard in popular media The more i heard about stalingrad,the more i hate that dog shit they call enemy at the gates, the way the movie depict red army soldiers is straight up insult.

@mointz 2 года назад

There is a very good German movie simply titled Stalingrad you may consider watching, it does a much better job than that enemy at the gates trash.

@mointz 2 года назад

In addition, the book "enemy at the gates" is also excellent, being an account of the whole battle, though it's a shame the title was tarnished by the movie

@johnlenin830 2 года назад

@cheriefsadeksadek2108 2 года назад

You would se a gallant if not More astonishing stand of The German 9th army in April 1945 lead by Busser and The Underrated Defencive Legendary General gothard Heinrici , Holding out 3 days on zeelow heights even against overwhelming odds of 10 to 1 and No air cover and Few Tanks , Fuel , Men and A shortage of ammo making the Soviets waste a huge artillery barage Making it fall on Empty Lines they had withdrawn from earlier so typical of Gothard Heinrici tactics, and they inflicted Heavy Casualties on the Soviets who suffered +30k casualties and hundreds of tanks destroyed , just 1 week before the battle took place Hitler Took away thousands of men , ammo , fuel and Dozens of tanks in 7 battle hardened Panzer Divisions to Prague from Heinrici thinking the Soviet offensive was not aimed at Berlin if he didn't do so Heinrici could have held out Georgy Zhukov army and Ivan Konev Army for more than a week too bad gothard Heinrici wasn't Always Given More attention by the German High Command

@interestingengineering291 2 года назад

@@cheriefsadeksadek2108 except in Stalingrad there was no place to fall back to

@johnlenin830 2 года назад

@gunman47 3 года назад

An interesting sidenote this week on October 15 1942 is that *Alfred Jodl* , Chief of Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), suggested to Adolf Hitler that he should order Vichy France to beef up its defences in its North African held territories. This was because they had received intelligence recently suggesting that there were a possibility of an Allied attack there soon (a reference to Operation Torch which is currently still in planning). However, Hitler rejected this suggestion as he thought the Italians would object to any moves that strengthened France.

@zaphikel4578 2 года назад

"We've analyzed their troop movements, sir, and there is a danger. Should I have vichy reinforce africa?" "Africa? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!"

@hypppo 2 года назад

@@zaphikel4578 More french troops in africa means more fighting men for the allies

@Cancoillotteman 2 года назад

@@hypppo That's actually true, as many of the French who remained loyal to Pétain (not just passive, I am talking of really loyal), did it because they believed he had a plan to defeat Germany

@johnkinsella5358 2 года назад

The diplomacy between 'neutral' Vichy France, Italy and neutral-but-friendly Spain posed Nazi Germany a few dilemmas in that theatre, especially as Hitler became increasingly less interested in diplomacy, in his 'allies' (you can't have allies if you are never yourself anyone's true ally- Nazi Germany could truly expect few allies and no friends given its aims and actions). He no longer rated Italian military capacity, had fading hopes Vichy France would contribute as an ally and couldn't see any way feeble, fascist Spain could really matter, and really wanted to just be Generalissimo in the Eastern Front, doing what (he imagined) he did best.

@BasePuma4007 2 года назад

Hitler did so many things that made them weaker lol.

@ravi06197 2 года назад

Tremendous respect to Chuikov and his 62nd Army at Stalingrad and to Vandegrift and the 1st Marine Division at Guadalcanal for standing up to wave after wave of attack by the Wehrmacht and the Japanese respectively and just refusing to give in. Just amazing courage, resolve and resilience.

@srinivasgorur-shandilya1788 2 года назад

We owe a lot to the defenders of Stalingrad. The world would be a very different place if they had not shown the incredible courage they did.

@Spectification 2 года назад

@@srinivasgorur-shandilya1788 Really? German army would not have steam for anything apart from anchoring the front on the Volga. I think, they would still get surrounded by the reserves massing in the back. Soldiers on both sides of the war went through something horrible, but I really dont think Germans could do much more, even if they eventually managed to push Soviets out...

@srinivasgorur-shandilya1788 2 года назад

@@Spectification we know that now, in hindsight. But put yourself in the shoes of someone there, with the nazis seemingly unstoppable.

@alexandrvasilev2865 2 года назад

@@Spectification But Stalingrad is a gate to Caspian sea and it's oil. It's very important transport hub. Controlling Stalingrad is like controlling Suez canal, or Panama canal, but on scales of central Russia. It could cause huge logistic problems to USSR.

@Spectification 2 года назад

@@srinivasgorur-shandilya1788 Exactly. We know it with hind sight and the original comment was exactly that, hindsight. I understand why Soviets and Germans did, what they did, but as we know now, the Russians at this point are massing significant reserves.

@joseaca1010 2 года назад

"The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those scorching howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure"

@userrrfriendly1908 2 года назад

Shivering... Who is the author of that quote?

@lesalbro8880 2 года назад

@@userrrfriendly1908 I'm pretty sure it was Chuikov. Edit: I should've been more sure because I was wrong. Correct answer is below.

@srinivasgorur-shandilya1788 2 года назад

Isn’t this from grossman’s Stalingrad?

@johnkinsella5358 2 года назад

From my recollection (not of the battle, I wasn't there, but of Beevor's book amid others), it was written by a German soldier in a letter home - possibly retrieved from his corpse by Soviet soldiers. Many the German letters back to home are extremely well-written and eloquent, reflective on the horrors of war, but their self-portrayal as victims in a conflict they started truly jars. The final story of Germany's war may be: they may not have got the war they wanted, but they got the war they asked for. Present-day German military historians remain baffled at the high international regard for German military prowess.

@gordybing1727 2 года назад

Hi All, Try the book "Last Letters from Stalingrad", various editions. I have never read it, it was on the book shelf of a guy I knew. Thanks, take care.

@igory3789 2 года назад

Highly recommend to visit Stalingrad ( Volgograd now). You cannot compare this experience with anything else, I assure you will hardly hold tears from the mixed feelings of sorrow, admiration of the bravery, terror soldiers and civilians experienced.

@KOMEKON67 2 года назад

Eternal glory to the defenders of Stalingrad. It's on my visiting list. Best wishes from Switzerland.

@rcgunner7086 2 года назад

The Russian Verdun.

@igory3789 2 года назад

@@rcgunner7086 In terms of bloodlines it is similar, but in terms of achievements Verdun turned into pointless static battle. While Stalingrad became a turning point of WWII.

@jonathanallard2128 2 года назад

The hindsight significance of a battle in any war is completely meaningless to the man fighting in the battle. Countless people have been through the worst circles of hell in unknown and insignificant battles. The significance doesn't diminish the experience in any way for them.

@talamioros 2 года назад

@@jonathanallard2128 Union soldier: Why are you fighting? Confederate soldier: 'Cuz you're down here! That's all the reason the ordinary soldier needs to see on the front line...

@oskarrasmussen7137 2 года назад

Stalingrad is reminding me a lot more of the big battles of WW1 more than any WW2 battle so far. No real clever manourvers, just weeks upon weeks of bombardment and a unending grind for inches of terrain.

@interestingengineering291 2 года назад

It’s unbelievable that they were able to hold on

@peterjackson2666 2 года назад

After WW1, the last thing the Germans wanted to do was fight such a battle, but there they were.

@lycaonpictus9662 2 года назад

That is just the nature of urban combat. It is still a war of fire & maneuver, but the nature of the terrain - if stubbornly defended, as it was with Stalingrad - greatly limits the opportunities for any large advances. You're essentially fighting through fortifications.

@BasePuma4007 2 года назад

Some of the battles during the American island hopping campaign in the pacific were like that, though just on an infinitesimally small scale compared to the mind numbing numbers of people and equipment involved in this particular war.

@cameronash5492 2 года назад

The way Indy describes Stalingrad reminds me of when he was describing Verdun during The Great War. Such a massive slaughter, in such a small area.

@stevekaczynski3793 2 года назад

It is amazing how many divisions were being jammed into such a small space, even if they were not necessarily full-strength.

@yourfavouritehistorian 2 года назад

There will be no battle in history that will simultaneously evoke bravery, resilience, death and unimaginable horror and destruction as the fight for Stalingrad

@cuentaprincipal3225 2 года назад

if the Russians captured you alive they cut off your genitals and all your limbs

@cuentaprincipal3225 2 года назад

terrorific

@Cardan011 2 года назад

@@cuentaprincipal3225 sources? Don’t make shit up

@pyatig 2 года назад

@UCBORZSqK_4tvBz6nWsU42-Q you’re an i ignorant fool

@cuentaprincipal3225 2 года назад

@@Cardan011 Did I wear your secretary's face? Virgin

@mattythefatty6442 2 года назад

Might be one of my favorite episodes of the year thank you!

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@hannahskipper2764 2 года назад

Red Army in Stalingrad: We're digging in, baby! To the bitter end. USA on Guadalcanal: We're digging in, baby! To the bitter end. Rommel: Hey, what about me?

@Idcanymore510 2 года назад

The heroic defence of Stalingrad by the tenacious 62nd Army really gets to Indy, you can see that. Not surprising though; truth is, it does stand virtually alone in the annals of military history as the most costly, most determined, and miraculous stand by any army anywhere.

@preferreduser6601 2 года назад

I never realized how hard Stalingrad was fought (without really thinking about it, as I was just aware that it dragged on for a while) and I admit my ignorance. Again, such great work, guys. In the beginning I was fascinated by your work as it showed me the perspective of the contemporary citizen, the speed and the incredible scope of destruction. How can the contemporary average person even start to understand this, being exposed to propaganda of different degrees of subtlety and visciousness? The scope of the series has become different now, as the timeline is told with almost perfect vision and hindsight, and, for instance, the human loss (including WOH with Spartacus' excellent work, of course) becomes clear. I find that experience deeply moving. The series provides an insight in history that I never thought possible in this format, big respect.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Thank you!

@specialnewb9821 2 года назад

Of course modern weapons are so so much more deadly and destructive than WW2 era gear that's it's difficult to understand as well.

@niranjansrinivasan4042 2 года назад

"Go back to the abyss that awaits you and your master"- Gandalf (Chuikov) "The world of men will fall, this is my hour"- Witch King of Angmar(Paulus)

@Cancoillotteman 2 года назад

Then who are the Rohirrims ? ^^

@niranjansrinivasan4042 2 года назад

@@Cancoillotteman Soviet armies at the flanks during Operation Uranus.

@blede8649 2 года назад

And Aragorn's army coming from the sea are the Americans in North Africa. Who are Éowyn and Merry though ?

@niranjansrinivasan4042 2 года назад

@@blede8649 soldiers going to Paulus' HQ maybe ?

@nicolasheung441 2 года назад

I recalled seeing an engraved wall in the Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex, facing Northeast against a row of statues. While I can't read Russian back then (nor do I now), the engravings could be roughly translated as such: "Storms of iron battered them in the face, yet they all advanced again and again. Superstition and fear gripped the enemy: 'Are those on the attack mortal!?' "

@EpicMRPancake 2 года назад

I prefer the badass things they said at the time to stuff Soviet propogandists put in after the fact.

@pyatig 2 года назад

@@EpicMRPancake there’s no propaganda needed in that holy place. I’d suggest you watch a video of the honor guard at the complex, it’s available on RU-vid

@EpicMRPancake 2 года назад

@@pyatig I mean 'Are those on the attack mortal?" is something Soviet propogandists wrote, rather than something we have records of some German commander or soldier saying. I'm not saying it isn't solemn or awesome, I just think what was really said and felt at the time is more compelling to hear about.

@extraho88 2 года назад

@@EpicMRPancake Diary of Wilhelm Hoffman, soldier in the 267th Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division of the German 6th Army. Entry on October 27: "...The Russians are not men, but some kind of cast-iron creatures: they never get tired and are not afraid of fire.". Close enough, right? Not everything said about bravery of men in any battle is a propaganda.

@EpicMRPancake 2 года назад

@@extraho88 There you go, that's what I meant.

@majormoolah5056 2 года назад

Always love your humane and well-researched videos. As Operation Mars and Operation Uranus draw closer, I would really like a feature video on the non-German armies on the Eastern Front. Germans relied on them heavily after Barbarossa, but there is frustratingly little detailed information or videos on them. It would be the perfect timing to look into them :D

@riccards 2 года назад

especially the SS Legionarries

@user-yk4yh5sn5m 2 года назад

I second this!

@jackneverquit1879 2 года назад

Outstanding idea. We've always heard of the German forces, granted they bore the brunt of this theater. But its as if history gives only passing notes if you will, on those such as Romanian, Hungarian and others that fought on the Eastern Front as well.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Unfortunately we don't have any plans to do whole episodes dedicated to non-German armies. We think their stories will be covered well enough in the regular series and other special episodes (like this one for example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eBMjRtf7iWA.html)

@majormoolah5056 2 года назад

@@WorldWarTwo Fair enough :) Thank you for the answer

@awitness5589 2 года назад

Let no one forget that it was not weather nor simple exhaustion that halted the march of the fascist monsters. It was blood, the blood of the brave defenders of the Hero City Stalingrad. Farmers, industrial workmen, fathers, brothers, and sons all under one red banner. A war not for ideology but for simple basic survival.

@Idcanymore510 2 года назад

Yes, too many lose sight of that.

@jsealejandro06 2 года назад

Authoritarians fighting authoritarians. There is not denying that the Soviets stopped the Nazis but they replaced a huge evil by a big evil and didn't matter who win, millions will not know liberty for decades to come

@HandleGF 2 года назад

The rest of the war seems a bit like yeah whatever in comparison with Stalingrad.

@blackhawk4ful 2 года назад

"There is no land for us beyond the Volga" truly is the soviet "Will fight them on the beaches"

@FilipSzB 2 года назад

Well is is more like "we shall never surrender"

@lycaonpictus9662 2 года назад

It wasn't just bluster or a slogan either, they meant it. On September 28th a German soldier fighting in Stalingrad by the name of William Hoffman recorded in his diary: "Our regiment is involved in constant heavy fighting. After the elevator was taken the Russians continued to defend themselves just as stubbornly. You don't see them at all, they have established themselves in houses and cellars and are firing on all sides, including from our rear - barbarians, they use gangster methods. In the blocks captured two days ago Russian soldiers appeared from somewhere or other and fighting has flared up with fresh vigour. Our men are being killed not only in the firing line, but in the rear, in buildings we have already occupied. The Russians have stopped surrendering at all. If we take any prisoners it's because they are hopelessly wounded, and can't move by themselves. Stalingrad is hell. Those who are merely wounded are lucky, they will doubtless be at home and celebrate victory with their families..."

@blackhawk4ful 2 года назад

@@FilipSzB i know, i was refering to the overall weight of the phrase compared to churchil's speech, and since most people knows it as the "we'll fight in the beaches" speech i called it that way

@calripson 2 года назад

No one in Britain ever had to fight them on any British beaches unlike in the USSR where it was not a slogan but a life and death reality.

@joluoto 2 года назад

If you are kneesdeep in Russia and your vocaubulary involves "Winter Campaign", you have lost.

@jarradscarborough7915 2 года назад

unless you are finnish, or of course, mongol...

@ЕвгенийПавлюк-ж7к 2 года назад

@@jarradscarborough7915 finland lost all wars with ussr

@jarradscarborough7915 2 года назад

@@MrVlad12340 when rivers froze they used to use them to bypass town defences as a standard strategy, so they did still act in winter

@jarradscarborough7915 2 года назад

yall seem to mistaken the difference between 'campaign' and 'war', you can obviously lose a campaign, but still win a war....

@evanulven8249 2 года назад

@@MrVlad12340 They did not campaign in a Mongolian Steppe winter. However, they found the cold autumns around Kiev to be rather bracing.

@pnutz_2 2 года назад

9:53 that answers a question I had always had of 'what else was the wehrmacht doing while stalingrad was going on?'

@caryblack5985 2 года назад

They were on the offensive in the Caucasus and defending at Rzhev and at Leningrad.

@Yeeren 2 года назад

I think this episode might be Indy's best showing yet. The urgency and tention when describing the desperate fighting in Stalingrad almost made me feel like i was there.

@gunman47 3 года назад

This week on October 14 1942, the *Pistol Pete Showdown mission* of the 2003 video game *Medal of Honor: Rising Sun* begins as part of the Guadalcanal campaign. In this level as *Corporal Joseph Griffin* , you are to locate and rescue a lost Allied patrol, as well as to destroy the Pistol Pete artillery. You will meet up with Major Martin Clemens along the way and make your escape across a bridge.

@rare_kumiko 2 года назад

Damn, that one brings back memories!

@MichaelMyers87 2 года назад

I played that game as a kid, good times.

@cheriefsadeksadek2108 2 года назад

Thanks for the information

@Patrick_Cooper 2 года назад

I loved that game. What was the game where you played a Russian soldier attacking those buildings?

@gunman47 2 года назад

@@Patrick_Cooper Hmm is it Call of Duty 1's Parlov's House level possibly? Not sure which one you might be referring to exactly.

@Martin-sf8nx 2 года назад

There are a lot of history channels, but only here do we have a breathtaking presentation that gives life to what we see and hear. Documentaries often are a little dusty, this is a real new way of learning these tragic events in depth and tho many know how it ends, I am more captivated than on the end of Avengers : Endgame. Immense respect for all the work from Indy and the team !!

@mojobag01 2 года назад

And there's me wondering "How much oil have the Germans got left?" A most compelling series with outstanding production values.

@spaceman8935 2 года назад

Basically however much oil the Romanians can produce.

@BasePuma4007 2 года назад

I think I read somewhere that roughly 25% of the German economies total output of all war related production and resource development in 1942 was spent just in the battle of Stalingrad... I tend to think the Germans lost their chance to crush the Soviet Union after Barbarossa in 1941, but the above stated fact makes a compelling argument in favor of the war being decided by the outcome of the battle of Stalingrad.

@nygarmik 3 года назад

Last time I was this early, Halder was still chief of staff of the OKH.

@firingallcylinders2949 2 года назад

Anytime I hear that name I can only hear TIK saying: ..."I hate Halder"....

@apostolisnatsios7953 2 года назад

The Greatest battle of all time, won by the Heroic Soviet people.

@indianajones4321 2 года назад

It’s amazing how much was put into the battle of Stalingrad, and the effort put into these awesome episodes

@ਪੰਜਾਬੀ-ਸ4ਟ 2 года назад

Yeah

@MartinLopez-mo7tm 2 года назад

This was when the Germans threw in their finest and realized they would lose.

@kslatter1168 2 года назад

The entire Stalingrad section of this video is honestly incredible. Great narration and great work.

@jamesowsley8291 2 года назад

“The soldiers will not cross the river. They will remain, they will fight, and they will die” Wow that gave me chills. Well done Indy!

@Buffaloc 2 года назад

I have read over fifty books on WWII. I have learned more from your channel.. I am an old man (and Time Ghost Army private) and learning is difficult. The graphics, video clips and pictures help me to understand. Most all thanks Indy and I wish I still had to wear a tie like Indy instead of sweats.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Hey Bill! Thank you for deciding to support us, we could never do this without help from people like you. You have our gratitude and we hope you'll continue to enjoy our content and learn more from it. Cheers!

@dictatorofcanada4238 2 года назад

The courage of the defenders of Stalingrad must have been unparalleled. It’s difficult to imagine the Soviets managing to turn the tables on the Germans.

@peterjackson2666 2 года назад

There wasn’t time to mention it here, but all this time, the situation on the German flanks was slowly deteriorating, and they would eventually be encircled.

@renimusmaximus 2 года назад

I like how the flags are darker now, the light near solely on the USA and the USSR. The reason I guess is because Guadalcanal and Stalingrad?

@Noobmaster-ch7hr 2 года назад

Few soviet divisions hold entire german armies in stalingrad Meanwhile French : Taking notes

@briantarigan7685 2 года назад

Wehraboo:NOOOOOOO HORDES OF THEM SUPPOSED TO BE CHARGING GERMAN LINE WITHOUT WEAPONS

@TheStephaneAdam 2 года назад

@@briantarigan7685 ENEMY AT THE GATES IS A DOCUMENTARY! Man, I'm so glad this WWII myth is finally starting to die.

@ЕвгенийПавлюк-ж7к 2 года назад

Some houses in Salingrad defended longer than France

@alfredredl326 2 года назад

*Holding part of an exhausted, undersupplied, undermaned Army thousands of kilometers away from Germany in excelent Defensive positions while recieving a constant stream of reinforcements. France didn't have that luxury.

@Noobmaster-ch7hr 2 года назад

@@alfredredl326 const stream of reinforcements under heavy air attacks , where enemy has complete air superiority

@averymiller2255 2 года назад

I am 25 years old and I would have been at the frontlines back then, well in a camp as I am jewish but that is besides the point, being, that I could imagine what it would entail, but by all that is dear war has a way with the minds of men. Keep up the good work, may we never forget

@dongately2817 2 года назад

Its hard to imagine what the soldiers on both sides must have been thinking and feeling. I draw a blank when I try to place myself in the position of those men.

@calebnasiatka5711 2 года назад

So glad you included the quote from Vasilli Zaitsev. His self written account, "Notes of a Russian Sniper" is my favorite first hand account of the battle and the everyday conditions for the men who fought in it!

@tomtd 2 года назад

What a fantastic presentation, relentlessly gripping, a masterpiece in narration.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Thank you! That's very high praise!

@emrecanaksakal8307 2 года назад

Indy, you are brilliant narrator, but this episode second half... Man, i feel ypu words, all of them. You are incredible, you and awesome people behind this work...

@vleytush 2 года назад

I'm thankful for those soldiers who saved our great city from foe's invasion. If they don't, we wouldn't be alive nowadays...

@Riverbed_Dreaming 2 года назад

Just as we think Stalingrad can’t get any more hellish, it keeps going up and up and up.

@JenniferinIllinois 2 года назад

Uh huh.... Sums it all up! Hehehe... The Soviets sure do love tractors, putting such an effort into protecting a tractor factory. ;)

@caryblack5985 2 года назад

By that time they were making T 34s

@alih6953 2 года назад

Great unbiased coverage please never stop making videos! Indy you are the best news anchor! CNN should hire you!

@kostasm6446 2 года назад

"There is no land for us beyond the Volga", this statement by Vasily Zaitsev to Chuikov this morning the 16th becomes the rallying word of the defenders of Stalingrad. Those words go out today through the grapevine of battered Soviet Unions in the city as just a simple truth: the soldiers will not cross the river...they will remain...they will fight...and they will die...Chuikov himself will write: "We swore to fight to the last drop of blood and only death could relieve us of that oath. We obeyed a call of our hearts...". Thank you Indy...

@alexamerling79 2 года назад

"It has been fantastic since morning; our aeroplanes and artillery have been hammering the Russian positions for hours on end; everything in sight is being blotted from the face of the earth..."-Wilhelm Hoffman, October 14, 1942.

@javi009z 2 года назад

October 14th. More than 200 German tanks thousands of infantry and 2,000 air sorties BLITZ the entire factory district. Glass rained down on the defenders below, blood everywhere The Soviet Commander collapsed trying to report to Chuikov what had happend

@interestingengineering291 2 года назад

I would too

@JustSomeCanuck 2 года назад

This war has gone on so long that Indy's ties are learning how to camouflage themselves against his shirt.

@vibingwithvinyl 2 года назад

Thank you for dropping the other party from that phone conversation. It's more entertaining now, it tickles my imagination.

@FilipSzB 2 года назад

I swear that Indy was about to cry in last few seconds of this video and who on the world could blame him.

@allanhughes7859 2 года назад

Jesus talk about passion in what you are saying This is better than watching a full blown film I am craping my self just by listening what must it have been like when at the front ???????????????????

@jorgeportocarrero1776 2 года назад

That ending was amazing. Indy rally is outdoing himself I read so many books about the battle I know that in a month operation Uranus will start and yet every episode I worry that the soviets will break that the Germans will take Stalingrad

@christopherjustice6411 2 года назад

Holy shit, Admiral Scott just pulled off Admiral Nelson’s “Cowabunga” maneuver.

@bangscutter 2 года назад

Germans: "We have bombed and shelled them to oblivion. Surely the defenders are destroyed or have retreated." Soviets: "Surprise! We're still here. And we're moving up closer to you! Now if you shell us, you'll get hit with friendly fire."

@georget8008 2 года назад

There is no land for us, beyond the Volga.... Not a step back. This is the WWII turning point. Stay tuned.

@excelon13 3 года назад

The amount of carnage at Stalingrad just boggles my mind, and we still have a few months to go there. I think the only other battle that could rival it is Okinawa in a few years. Excellent coverage, feels like I'm actually there watching these battles happen.

@PalleRasmussen 2 года назад

Try looking up the "Rhzev Meatgrinder". Generally the battles on the Eastern Front were extremely bloody.

@kr0k0deilos 2 года назад

Fierce as it was it wasn't even close to the battle of Stalingrad..... Battle of Okinawa (~2months) casualties/losses/captured: USA ~ 70.000 Japan ~125.000 Battle of Stalingrad (~5months) casualties/losses/captured: Axis ~1.000.000 Soviets ~1.100.000

@dietergermann2803 2 года назад

Verdun would be a rival, or the battle of the Somme (I.WW).

@nuzulqreshna3575 2 года назад

@@dietergermann2803well, Stalingrad is "Verdun of the east", the defender defends the City to death with a horrific number of casualties against the enemy onslaught.

@tihomirrasperic 2 года назад

@@DawidKov in fact the bloodiest battle in WWII is not in any of these written places it is an unnamed quota, in a forest in southern Ukraine * The SS division entered the forest from the west (they didn't take prisoners, they killed everyone) * The Russian Guards Division entered the forest from the east (Russians did not accept SS as prisoners, they would kill them immediately) Commanders of both divisions were given the task of "conquering and clearing the forest" you can guess the result ...

@viperblitz11 2 года назад

The final minute had similar energy to The Great War.

@cinquain0 2 года назад

This episode was bone chilling. We love you Indy!

@fite-4-ever876 2 года назад

We will need a supercut of the battle of Stalingrad once it is all done.

@actionswon9478 2 года назад

The fact that Stalingrad factory’s were being exchanged multiple times throughout one day just shows you how savage and horrific that fighting was.

@soloexperiencer 2 года назад

Excellent video and narration, as always. One tiny note from a native speaker, though: Tuapse is not "too-APS" but "too-up-SEH" - the E is not silent. Keep up the wonderful work!