German Army Furthest East 1942 - How Far Did the Germans Advance into Russia?

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Exactly how Far East into the Soviet Union did the Germans manage to advance - find out here...
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@graved1gger Год назад

video sponsored by russian game dev studio... kinda hilarious. Wonder what historians would say 80 years from now

@SyntheticVoices Год назад

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@questlove_satx Год назад

These stupid commercials that you have to put in there: It's like serving McDonald's at the Waldorf-Astoria.

@lisbon1492 Год назад

Great video, Mark! Thank you so much!

@rogerdodger1790 Год назад

Excellent as per usual Mark 👍🏻

@lessparks7802 Год назад

My late Father-in-Law was a motorcycle dispatch rider with an Engineer unit. He estimated that his unit was about 20 kilometers from Stalingrad when for unknown reasons his commanding officer sent part of his unit, including him, back westward. The rest of the unit proceeded east. None came back. The remnants of his unit were reassigned and he ended up going to Northern Italy. Wether by luck or God’s grace, he survived the war and eventually immigrated to America in 1951 where he raised his family. He passed this past summer just 2 months shy of 101. My, how the fortunes of war can play out.

@Ramzi1944 Год назад

Why do you think the commanding officer sent him back?

@pweter351 Год назад

They saved some so the unit could be rebuilt around the survivors

@moistmike4150 Год назад

@@Ramzi1944 He wanted Les Sparks to be born.

@tguy7707 Год назад

This reminds me of listening to my middle school history teacher tell us about how all her uncles and a number of older cousins were sent to the east and non ever returned. She said they just never came home and they never received any word on what happened to them. Her father was “lucky” and was sent west.

@commiecrusher Год назад

Your last sentence is relatble. My grandpa went to volunteer in Canada 1939. When he took his physical it was discovered he had Polio in one of his arms. He worked so hard around the farm that he was able to keep that arm strong. He then hooped on a train and tried to enlist in 2 other provinces, but each time they found the Polio and wouldn't allow him to join the army. Hard to believe a disease that killed so many might be the only reason me and my entire family are here today.

@westernmialumni5428 Год назад

My uncle, was part of the German "Caucasus offensive" as he called it. In his diary, he mentions the cities of Rostov, Armavir, Grigoropolisk, Mozdok, Elbrus, Krasnodar. Here is an extract from his diary, "Some areas in the Caucasus I really liked, as the scenery there reminded me of my home county. Interaction with the locals also was easy, they were very friendly towards us. I always got from them what I was asking for, although we were generous towards them as well. I was surprised, seeing the cleanliness in many of their houses". On October 15, 1942, he was struck with jaundice and was sent back via train to a hospital in Metz, France. He never returned to the eastern front and by February 1943, he was reassigned to the 10th SS Panzer Division that was being assembled in France. His diary details the movements of the 10th SS though to the end of the war.

@pewpew2204 6 месяцев назад

I would love to read that diary!

@antarctis 2 месяца назад

It's a sad fact to remember that the local people were severely punished for fraternizing with the enemy shortly after.

@at1970 Год назад

I remember years ago, seeing a documentary about Stalingrad. A Russian was showing an English visitor the devastation that had occurred in Stalingrad. When asked what he thought, the Englishman remarked that it was astonishing that the Germans had gotten that far while walking, riding horses and using a ragtag collection of ad hoc trucks and half broken down vehicles.

@tavish4699 Год назад

People allways bring that up to downplay the german army I think exactly because of that its so very impressive

@at1970 Год назад

@@tavish4699 Exactly my point.

@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- Год назад

Yeah people forget the Germans didn't have a fully mechanised fighting force, to be able to advance that far with horses is impressive.

@clausaurich Год назад

The Wehrmacht was very well organized. The perfect interplay between Luftwaffe, artillery and infantry. However, they were not equipped for hard winter combat.

@mrevil6442 Год назад

@Emil u need to remember that against the soviet Union all the eurpean countries contribute to German forces . So it wasn't the German forces only but the whole Europe

@bigteach25 Год назад

Mark, as a history teacher and enthusiast, you are a treasure.

@rogerdodger1790 Год назад

Agreed, consistently high quality, informative, engaging. Couldn't ask for more. Well done Mark.

@charlesmulhern3349 Год назад

100%

@charlesmulhern3349 Год назад

Beautiful. 🍁

@mrmaje1 Год назад

brown nose

@bigteach25 Год назад

@@wikusvandemerwe7251Defend your statement. Ill listen. That's the best part, learning more.

@MrDavkoz Год назад

As a collector of WWII memorabilia I can say that my most cherished item is a German WWII situational map of Stalingrad dated 9/11/1942. It's shows various German fighting units, including 4th Pzr Arm and 6th Arm. It's got the name LW Kpfgr Oberst Stahel circled on the map. I believe they didn't advance much further into the city after this date.

@nodarkthings Год назад

what a great thing to own

@Rick2010100 Год назад

The city was taken at the 19. November 1942, only some Russian sniper remained in the factory area in the northern part of the city.

@visionist7 Год назад

Please post a video I wanna see it 😯

@tachikaze222 Год назад

LW is Luftwaffe and googling I see it was the 9th Flak Division. On OKW's daily situational map they are one of the few units identified by name like that. Ended up replacing the 16th Pz Division's positions in the extreme NE corner of the pocket, right on the Volga, so after the 16h Mot pulled back this LW Kampfgruppe was in fact the easternmost combat troops of the WM . . .

@RoCK3rAD Год назад

@@Rick2010100 the city was never truly taken over in terms of a military perspective because there were still sizable amounts of Russians still in their city. My first psg in the army was in the battle of fallujah and described the building clearings as the most important thing in the operation.

@chrish9698 Год назад

This answers a question that I’ve always wondered about, the furthest point east that any single German unit or even solider reached. Another very well researched and expertly presented video!!

@aka99 Год назад

The luftwaffe bombed astrachan and grosny. Also Gorki, northeast of Moscow.

@Physiker17 Год назад

Well a lot of them spend time in POW camps in Siberia, if that counts.

@Ghreinos Год назад

@@aka99 Yeah ok that means Germany also made it to Britain, but nobody would say this, because it were just the airplanes.

@aka99 Год назад

I did not say so. I just wanted to mention they bombed these cities, not they were with soldiers on foods there

@SirAntoniousBlock Год назад

Well technically there were German military attaches in Japan.

@charliebath1462 Год назад

I had heard this story before and always wondered if the German patrol had actually reached the Caspian Sea. It always amazed me that Heinkel 111s from KG100 flew anti-shipping missions over the Caspian Sea around that time! Also, don't forget the Italian plane that secretly flew across the Soviet Union eastwards on a journey to Japan in 1942, and somehow made it all the way there!

@nicolaslecellier6980 Год назад

We need a video about this italian plane!

@towgod7985 7 месяцев назад

What Italian aircraft was that, and when?

@spuwho Год назад

The Wehrmacht Engineers also built a make shift bridge across the Kerch Strait in the Crimea. While most of it was made up of driven logs with planks on top, reportedly they were able to cover the deep channel with pontoons. It was the first bridge across the Kerch until the current Kerch Bridge was built. Some remnants of the former German built bridge were found when construction commenced on the current one. Mostly log stumps.

@TheLocalLt Год назад

It was indeed the first Kerch Straight bridge but it wasn’t the last one before the current one. The Soviets also tried to build one right after they recaptured Crimea, but theirs was destroyed in a storm and never rebuilt. Both the German and Soviet bridges were for trains only, the current one with parallel rail/road spans is the first ever road bridge at Kerch. However it may not last much longer, given the fact that it’s already been attacked once and the Ukrainians haven’t even started their Crimea campaign yet

@nottherealpaulsmith 11 месяцев назад

@@TheLocalLt yeah you might want to revise that last sentence

@TheLocalLt 11 месяцев назад

@@nottherealpaulsmith the Crimea bridge has now been attacked a second time and the Russians have given up using it… they now route all their supplies to Crimea through the “land bridge”

@yellowyellow7476 6 месяцев назад

@@TheLocalLt maybe third time will be the charm? hahaha

@r.a.dalton8807 Год назад

It's good to see some coverage of the WWII war in the east by your channel. Most people don't realize that over 70% of the German armed forces, including many of their best units, were always in the east, yet we see little coverage of the war in the east when it comes to RU-vid videos. I hope you will consider doing many more videos about the war in the east in the future.

@djzrobzombie2813 Год назад

Because you tube is controlled by Hollywood..... And who controls Hollywood?

@krisfrederick5001 Год назад

I don't know where the hell you're looking, there is so much. Watch World War 2 in Real Time from the TimeGhostArmy. Amazing detail

@Dayrahl Год назад

Kind of mute comment everyone knows about the eastern front and how much larger the battles where. Stalingrad is more well known that market garden, and the African campaigns. Italy I'd argue has the lesser known battles.

@flyingstock5979 Год назад

Yes there is a very different view of things depending on where you from. It always seems that Americans only have the western front and DDay and the Argonnes in mind, while here in Germany it’s totally different and when we think of the Second World War, most people think of the eastern front.

@Dayrahl Год назад

@@djzrobzombie2813 I'm almost expecting your take is Jews. But I could be wrong you could be making a comment about American exceptionalism.

@ChairmanMeow1 Год назад

1.5 million troops, I cant even imagine that in my mind

@AleXoEx0 6 месяцев назад

Look up the battle of Kursk, largest tank battle in history, now THAT is unimaginable.

@inhocsignovinces1081 Год назад

My maternal grandfather served as a lorry driver, with the 5th Jager Division, part of Army Group North, tasked with the capture of Moscow. In May 45, he managed to cross the Elbe River surrendering to the western allies. He was from Fullstein, Sudetenland.

@jasonjjordan1075 Год назад

Love your work, great stuff. Very cool productions, sir.

@JDFloyd Год назад

Dr. Felton - these types of videos, about obscure subjects / actions in WWII are the most fascinating. I have a suggestion for an obscure WWII battle / area; the period between Dec 8th 1941, and Feb / Mar 1942 when the U.S. Military was evacuating the Philippines towards Australian. I have read a few bits about under equipped & out manned retreats that would be worth understanding in-depth.

@zacharyallen3870 Год назад

GOTTA LISTEN TO DAN CARLIN HARDCORE HISTORY ON THE PACIFIC WAR

@duncancurtis5971 Год назад

Sven Hassel The Bloody Road To Death.

@christopherpook4269 Год назад

Stalingrad? Obscure? Jeez! Stalingrad was one of the main turning points of the war. Everything that happened in the west was a sideshow to the Eastern front. something like 5 times as many casualties in this one battle as the whole of the US military during the whole of your engagement in WW2, across the whole world.

@claykalmar8131 Год назад

I knew it was Army Group A in the Caucasus and not Army Group B in Stalingrad, but I did not know about the long range patrols. Very interesting!

@aka99 Год назад

The Luftwaffe bombed Astrachan and Grosny and also Gorki. A city northeast of Moscow.

@michaelporzio7384 Год назад

Puts the whole operation (Fall Blau) in prospective. The Germans were totally overextended and wrongly believed that the Red Army was finished. Amazing that Von Manstein was able to extricate these forces intact and then counterattack after the Soviets launched Operation Uranus and collapsed the Don Front.

@user-gq1ct7ed8h 6 месяцев назад

The machinist I was apprenticed to in 1974 told me he reached the Caspian in 1942 with a motorbike and sidecar combination. He and the driver didn't stay long because they had to return to their unit. I'd just started work in a small town in north-west Germany. Back then, all the machinists in the factory had been in the German forces during WW2.

@Stevojacks Год назад

Mark, wonderfully done. I enjoy these whenever they come out. While I understand you are a busy man, perhaps making a video on the American Navajo code talkers. U remember hearing stories while I would translate ASL (American sign language) on the Navajo nation. It is a memory and a story that should not die. Many thanks

@IrishCarney Год назад

There was a movie about it that came out in 2002: "Wind Talkers".

@vk2ig Год назад

@@IrishCarney The movie was very Hollywood, of course, but it did have the positive result of highlighting one of the important contributions of the USA's indigenous peoples to the war effort. I'd be interested in hearing what Dr. Felton would have to say on this topic.

@IrishCarney Год назад

@@vk2ig I often thought that the Allies could have used minority languages in a similar way to baffle the European Axis. I wonder why they didn't.

@Whatisthisstupidfinghandle Год назад

Very interesting story and sounds like a dangerous mission so far ahead of the lines. I wonder if they gave the mission to their best scouts or people they didn’t like. Either way, amazing they made it back

@tachikaze222 Год назад

16th Motorized was an elite unit and they found the Red Army to be as scarce on the ground between Stalingrad and Grozny as they were

@waspvenomlemonade2717 Год назад

They all wanted to go defeat the bolsheviks its such important work.

@IrishCarney Год назад

It was probably fairly routine, something that had been done all summer long as they advanced eastward, and also back in 1941. Each time one team or other did it they probably broke the record for furthest-east advance. Little did this team know, I suppose, that they would be the last, furthest one.

@lisanalgaib555 Год назад

Many German Divisions of the first waves had a so called Aufklaerungs-Abteilung (reconnaissance detachment). This detachment consisted of armored vehicles, or light tanks, motorcycle companies, artillery units, pioneer units, etc. It was basically a motorized spearhead. Even Infantry Divisions had such a detachment. They were meant to find weak points in enemy lines and push through. So, it was rather the best soldiers and not such you want to get rid of.

@moodswingy1973 Год назад

@@waspvenomlemonade2717 I hate the Bolsheviks (and the Russian's today) as much as anyone. Stalin starved entire populations and his Red Army implemented the greatest campaign of rape as a weapon of war in human history but they were (barely) the lesser of two evils. Hitler's obsession (yes TIK, madman Hitler) with systematically incinerating Europe's Jewish population was so ambitious and focused he was willing to let it suck up precious resources that could have been used to drive the Western allies into the English channel. The Bolshevik's obsession with class was evil, but Germany's obsession with racial purity was much more dangerous for humanity. Hitler had to go. Of course, if you are a believer in a clean Wehrmacht, or worse, a believer in Hitler's genocidal program, you won't see it this way.

@guillaumegiroux9425 Год назад

It’s so weird to see Izyum at 2:11. Crazy to think how close we are of that now.

@tachikaze222 Год назад

yeah the Germans went from Izyum in June to Stalingrad in September! What happened in Izyum in '42 would also be a good Felton video, there's a decent Wochenschau newsreel on it.

@mitchmatthews6713 Год назад

Another excellent class session, Dr. Felton!

@TheWilferch Год назад

Another fantastic and detailed account of this campaign !.....I've researched many sources of info on this....but all fail to combine info and maps and film..... in such a thorough yet easily summarized fashion. Great work...

@mushtaqahmed6718 Год назад

My late father was also in Indian British army .when Germany attacked on France ,my father was in France and during the fight,/war his unit was ordered to step back gradually and to board on military ships for going to England to protect it from German attack .My father was luckily escaped from an air attack by German air force while retreating back to board on ship. My father was luckily saved during the world war 2 and he came back to his home safely.

@thespatulaa Год назад

This is very interesting....my great grandfather served in the Burma Campaign with Army Supply Corps, he was taken POW...later joined Pakistan Army and served in Kashmir War lol, retired as a Honorary Lieutenant in '65... A question which country did he join after the War

@odysseus2656 Год назад

Sounds like the British used the Indian troops like they used the Canadian and Australian ones - sent them into battle first.

@newvideosystem8592 Год назад

This channel is great at answering questions I didn't know I had

@exchequerguy4037 Год назад

Another great Mark Felton video :) I had heard a scouting party had reached the Caspian Sea but did not know the details.

@lawrencestrabala6146 Год назад

Great work and video as always Dr. Felton!

@matthewobrien3527 Год назад

Very detailed description of the reconnaissance units.

@citadel9611 Год назад

Dr. Felton's videos have been a delight to watch for years, and I could not be more grateful. Thank you Dr. Felton.

@shannonquinn8687 Год назад

Very interesting Mark. Hope to see more of these types of videos.

@dongilleo9743 Год назад

Did any of the men in these far flung scouting parties survive the war? What a story they could tell! Imagine a documentary twenty years after the war, taking one or a group of these men back out to that furthest point, and getting a picture of them.

@vk2ig Год назад

I wonder if they would've been allowed into the USSR only 20 years after the war?

@dongilleo9743 Год назад

@@vk2ig You are probably right. I was trying to come up with a time frame when they would mostly still be alive and young enough to be able to make such a trip. In reality, they would be unwelcome while the USSR was still functioning, and even 50 years after the war Russia wouldn't want them to visit either.

@MatijaCG Год назад

In Moscow, there is a monument where Germans reached the farthest. It's called Ezhi monument, and funny thing is there is an Ikea more closer to the center of Moscow than were German troops reached.

@wtharris2343 Год назад

@@MatijaCG There is also such a monument outside the city formerly known as Leningrad

@martinusvanbrederode4080 Год назад

@@MatijaCG The funny thing is that IKEA is not German.

@ph1785 Год назад

My uncle was in WWII , his grandson published a book of the photos going across Europe, he told his grandson most of casualties from his unit and other platoons was crossing the rivers into Germany from machine gun fire from the Germans, he told his grandson that crossing the river all his unit was shot up and killed in the raft accepted him and other soldier , he realize how lucky he was that day .

@morenofranco9235 Год назад

Excellent presentation, as always. Thanks, Mark.

@petertyper1 Год назад

You the man Mark! Love your work as always!!

@nordicson2835 Год назад

Another interesting and informative post.. you have taught me more than my university professors, thank you.

@benisaten Год назад

Thank You Dr. Felton, for all of your hard work, research, and fascinating videos. The amount of detail, and the video footage you include is top notch. Always a 👍. Cheers from 🇨🇦✌️.

@croonyerzoonyer Год назад

Looking forward to the next round of this!

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 Год назад

many thanks for sharing I appreciate your Hard work Dr Mark Felton

@Roller_Ghoster Год назад

Love Mark's other content but WW2 is the historical stuff I love the best.

@joejoe11tennessee Год назад

A son to a Vietnam Vet and a grandson to a WWII Vet. I proudly share your history channel with my to young boys now. Thank you Dr. Felton 🤝

@paulmurphy42 Год назад

Keep 'em coming Mark!

@iansteel5569 Год назад

Great work Mark, amazing they got that far.

@Jaxxy-tu7wy Год назад

I study military history I genuinely think that the German army in 1941 was by far the best military force in centuries. Hitler just pushed them too far with his radical tactics and not listening to seasoned General’s from WW1 etc. Could be a very different story if he wasn’t in charge of it all .

@aka99 Год назад

You’re not alone with that opinion.

@charleschauffe4350 Год назад

@@aka99 Yep, i am another that agrees with this assessment. Overextended lines & lack of long range bombers sealed their fate.

@carolinekaplan542 Год назад

Maybe if they hadn’t been so obsessed with killing my relatives including my great great grandfather and nine families they could have won.

@marycampbell3431 Год назад

If Hitler wasn't in charge there likely wouldn't have been an invasion of Russia

@MrProsat Год назад

it was because Hitler DIDN'T listen to infantry generals from WW1 that the Germans were so successful. They lost v the Soviet Union because it was simply too big and the Germans were terrible at logistics. Since Fredrick the Great, they've been in search of the decisive victory, full speed ahead, forget about the flanks or supplies. Going against an opponent with endless land and no real single objectives that could knock USSR out of the war, it was inevitable, once the Russians decided they were not going to collapse after Minsk.

@davefloyd9443 Год назад

Love your WW2 videos. I'm currently researching 43rd Wessex Division and am having trouble with the enigma that was Lt. General Gwylim Ivo Thomas, a gruff, tough, inflexible time served WW1 artilleryman, who, perplexingly looked like a lanky Hitler and was renowned for his his skillful, timely, calling in of 3rd AGRA's firepower and brutally uncompromising use of his very well trained converted territorial division. The legend has it Monty called him "Von Thomas" in a backhanded compliment with regard to his own tough battles in North Africa with General Willhelm Ritter von Thoma. The 43rd Wessex earned a fearsome reputation amongst German troops who nicknamed them 'The Yellow Devils' due to their yellow wyvern insignia. Would enjoy seeing a Felton deep dive into some of the lesser known Generals, such as Thomas, of the Northeast Europe campaign.

@patrickjctownsend Год назад

My father fought in the 43rd (he won his MC as an FOO during Operation Veritable near Cleve - night of 13 / 14 February 1945 - what a Valentine Day!). In the history of the 43rd I think that he was nicknamed Von Thoma (without the "s"). There is a TV programme about 43 Wessex division during WW2 which is somewhere on youtube - Search for "The 1965 story of the 43rd Wessex Division during WW2" It is in three parts and is very interesting.

@y_ffordd Год назад

A very good and informative video, Im sure many will be interested in your sponsor, so even that ties in nicely. Well done Mark.

@marvwatkins7029 Год назад

Good to know. I always wondered about this. Will done, as usual.

@eleanorkett1129 Год назад

Watching Mark Felton's detailed and stimulating presentations, I find myself making my own war plans.

@justinlanger7109 Год назад

Are you looking for a right hand man?

@justinlanger7109 Год назад

@SteuerInnenzahler I'm on standby comrade. Third times a charm.

@hyrondongle2473 Год назад

Dear Dr. Mark. You’re a shining light in the dark world that is called RU-vid and modern history documentaries. Kind regards from The 🇳🇱

@johnhammond9962 Год назад

Thank you for these excellent maps. I just learned so much

@Rockzor98 Месяц назад

These WW2 documentaries are the best on RU-vid. I love the details and accuracy, and especially the voice. It really gives you the WW2 feeling.

@Fafnir53 Год назад

Mark - Another fascinating effort. I was surprised to see that the "furthest east" reached wasn't the Moscow area at all. Russian geography really is a bit overwhelming in scale.

@sbam4881 Год назад

Great video as always. The 16th Mot's fighting potential was wasted by Paulus IMO though as it _wasn't_ "the only unit that could be spared to guard this vast no-mans land." Paulus had subordinated to him 4 Romanian cavalry divisions (1st, 4th, 5th and 7th). Cavalry, useless in both urban fighting and fixed flank protection against armour are however excellent at maintaining lines of communication, partisan suppression _and_ forward reconnaissance. Any one or more of those divisions should have been used in that role. The 16th Mot, an excellent full strength (rare even at that stage of the war in the Wehrmacht) veteran division was nominally attached to 2nd Hungarian for some reason and assigned to a role that saw it take little part in the fighting until the collapse and withdrawal out of the Caucasus.The 16th would have been much better used attached to the 4th Pz Armee as part of a (never established) bridgehead over the Volga just South of Stalingrad that could sweep out and eliminate Soviet supplies, reinforcement and artillery position on the East bank that were left completely untouched by Paulus but just left to the Luftwaffe. Sorry, as a person who wargamed Stalingrad 4 times as Heer at Sandhurst (and won them), it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine of how badly that campaign was executed.😅

@user-sr7vt8xl3h 7 месяцев назад

Do not forget the fals information of " Fremde Heere Ost".

@Wmk12345. Год назад

YOUR VIDEOS ARE AWSOME KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK BEST WW2 CHANNEL

@leomarkaable1 Год назад

Would someday Dr. Felton produce a video on Viktor Suvorov's thesis? It would be a real contribution to understanding WW2.

@Digmen1 Год назад

It was amazing how far they actually got with mainly horse drawn transport! (and marching on foot)

@user-rd8rv6nb7f Год назад

@@ronbunn1349 Those are propaganda videos most of the German army was not mechanized and most soldiers marched on foot and on horses

@Chris-ut6eq 6 месяцев назад

Very interesting part of the push east. I'd not heard about this before watching the video. Thank you.

@russwoodward8251 Год назад

Really fascinating. Thanks again.

@HistoryHustle Год назад

The images of Wehrmacht soldiers on camals are very fascinating to watch.

@loganschuster4577 Год назад

He needs to do a video on the Me 262 A-2a/U2

@leonardcroft1467 Год назад

Thank You Dr. Felton Always Enjoy Your Videos !!

@ronaldbobeck1026 Год назад

Thank you. Great video.

@ScornedRemnant3935 Год назад

Outstanding video, like always. You made an understandable oversight at the 3:26 minute mark when you say the 2 Panzer Division reached the Terek River. I think you meant to say the 23 Panzer Division. Wilhelm Tieke, a machine gunner in SS Wiking during the Caucasus round trip wrote an outstanding book about this sojourn called "The Caucasus And The Oil". Tieke relates on page 143 how in early September 1942, Kampfgruppe von Bodenhausen, with elements of 13 Panzer Division and 23 Panzer Division made a reconnaissance-in-force to the railway junction 25 kilometers NE OF Grozny. Tieke claimed this severed the route for Allied supplies from the Persian Gulf to Stalingrad, but the Germans were overextended and had to promptly withdraw.

@aleksazunjic9672 Год назад

Furthest real German advance was to the town of Ordzhonikidze (named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze) by Army Group A, as late as 3rd November 1942. Just a few days from Operation Uranus, deep into South-East. Talking about divisional actions, not small reconnaissance companies.

@ScornedRemnant3935 Год назад

@@aleksazunjic9672 Yes, very significantly the 13 Panzer Division reached the northwest outskirts of Ordzhonikidze (which had a Jewish community) on the Georgian Military Road that led through the mountains to Tibilisi, the Georgian capital. Interestingly the German fighter ace of JG52, Gunther Rall, wrote in his book "My Logbook" about how during this time he and his wingman went on a freijagd and strafed the sleepy AA positions in Tbilisi. Earlier and significantly further east than Ordzhonikidze the main body of 13 Panzer Division and 23 Panzer Division were in the Mechenskaya-Naurskaya area where they were planning to attempt a river crossing from the north bank of the Terek on 1 September 1942. An even further advance was by Korps Felmy that reached Terekli-Mekteb near the Caspian Sea. Throughout this time the Germans were receiving a significant stream of Russian deserters, that speaks to the level of morale of at least some of the Russian forces. Dr. Ernst Rebentisch, a veteran of 23 Panzer Division offers some information also in his book, "Combat History of 23 Panzer Division in World War II".

@meinolfwestig9463 6 месяцев назад

My father made it there. First in Maikop then Ordzhonikidze, he pronounced it "Ortshonikitshe". Out of 220 men of his company, only 21 were left at that time. Yet they managed to take 45 Russians as POWs there.

@ScornedRemnant3935 6 месяцев назад

@@meinolfwestig9463 Wow, what an interesting story! Thanks for sharing. How I wish I could have spoken with your father. I'll bet he could tell countless interesting stories from his experiences.

@meinolfwestig9463 6 месяцев назад

@@ScornedRemnant3935 Marched 6000 km in Russia. Rostov, Crimea, Caucasus . 3 times seriously wounded. Took part in the re-capturing of Goldap/East Prussia. XX was kicked out by the Russians, then Wehrmacht took it back. He was captured later by the Americans and handed over to the French. Spend 9 months as POW. Starved by the French to 46 kg. Then 6 weeks at Paris Orly where the Americans gave them proper food. They had to have a certain minimum weight, before they were send back to Germany in 1946.

@RWN113 Год назад

Two uncles of mine died during the first year of Barbarossa, I am requesting how I may find their war record.

@JerseyDevil26 Год назад

By far the best channel on all of RU-vid.

@johnwalsh7256 Год назад

Great details Mark.

@planderlinde1969 Год назад

Fun Fact: The Proto Indo Europeans Hitler and his cronies spoke of had words for horses and beekeeping meaning that the Ayrian homeland would have been in the Caucuses and some parts of far eastern Ukraine. Ironic how it was in this area (The Caucuses) that his armies broke down and Germany would be firmly on the backfoot until their eventual defeat.

@andreworiez8920 Год назад

The major Irony is that after modern research into the Roma language it was discovered that they are in fact descended from the Aryans who took control of Northern India. Hitler packed the purest example of the people he claimed were "Supermen" off to the death camps.

@canadious6933 Год назад

I am not defending the idea of "Ayrian" because it is stupid, but I am pretty sure Indo Europeans is a broad term to designate the various groups of people migrating into the european continent at a time far before the ayrian race was referenced to

@snotnosewilly99 Год назад

Oil...the key to victory in WW2 It is rarely mentioned that Hitler's 1941 army in the Russia invasion included over 500,000 horses. Horse drawn wooden wagons was a key element in the supply of the army. Some of the horse drawn wooden wagons can be seen at 3:11 and 4:06. If you have very limited oil you use horses. The two countries that had large supplies of oil won WW2, USA and USSR.

@efone3553 Год назад

Outstanding content very informative

@marycampbell3431 Год назад

Interesting as always. It would have been good to show the furthest east point 'Sedovska' on the map at 7:06. The point on the large scale map at 7:46 appears to be east of the city of Astrakhan, which is unlikely.

@Gerhold102 Год назад

My father was a Gefreiter in the 36th Regiment, 9th ID, 17th Army - which took part in the Kuban campaign in the Caucasus in '42/'43. Prior to the allocation of the 9th ID to the 17th Army, it had been part of the 6th Army. C. 6000 Stalingrad Kriegsgefangener returned from Soviet captivity in 1954. He was also recuperating in Oesterreich from wounds when the 9th were overrun in the big Soviet push in Moldova in August '44. He ended up surviving a firefight along with all of his troop, in Kersteren, Holland in combat with elements of the 101st Prcht Division. He was told that there'd been a command to surrender - falsely, according to him. Later, under interrogation, he admitted to having 2 grenades hidden on his person - an immediate execution offence. The IO took the grenades with all his medals as forfeit - Eiserne Kreuzen I & II, Winterschlacht im Osten Medaille, Verwundeten Medaille in Silber, the Infanterie- Sturmabzeichen and possibly the Kuban Schild. "Luck" was the word he used to describe his survival. His proudest claim, only claim, was that he managed to keep all eight of his 17year olds Gruppe alive.

@hairydogstail Год назад

My late neighbor who was a field artillery observer under Patton said he liked the German people but had no love of the Russians..He watched a Russian tank deliberately run over German POW's along a road and saw the crimes they committed against the German civilians..

@HenryChinaski1 2 месяца назад

In my opinion German Caucasus offensive is the most interesting and exotic German campaign that is really badly covered in literature compared to all the other fronts and operations, almost zero memoired from soldiers, little from Leon Degrelle, and thats it - if anyone can recommend a detauled book on Caucasus operations or soldiers momoires please write!

@Gerhold102 2 месяца назад

@@HenryChinaski1 Also Army Group South 1941-1945 - Werner Haupt.

@Gerhold102 2 месяца назад

@@HenryChinaski1 did I post the info on The Oil and The Caucasus - Wilhelm Tieke?

@HenryChinaski1 2 месяца назад

@@Gerhold102 Now you did - thank you, I saw only the first comment about Werner Haput book. Tnx, cheers!

@olivier6984 Год назад

Would be very interesting to hear about the furthest east flight of German Luftwaffe in the war against Soviet Union

@marcwinfield1541 Год назад

There is a stoty about this. Maybe Mark Felton or another video creator has it on RU-vid. Flights from Germany and even one from Italy, in 1942, crossed Soviet territory surreptitiously, making it to Japan. And back again...

@paulkoelle3121 Год назад

Great topic! Ty mark!

@umbertopappalardi8667 Год назад

Quality content as always. Can you recommend me a history book or another source of information which describes this story? I had never heard of it and would like to find out more about it.

@dr.wilfriedhitzler1885 Год назад

My father was there as a soldier. He came from Biarritz, France, and then returned to France 1944, for D-Day defence where he was captured by Britains.

@anthonychinonso702 Год назад

a Frenchie captured by the Brits??? Wtf!?? I thought they were allies🤷🏿‍♂️? (please correct me if I'm being ignorant here🙏)

@psychiatry-is-eugenics Год назад

How did he join the German army ? Had to look up Biarritz , the southwest tip of France

@kdegraa Год назад

@@psychiatry-is-eugenics lots of French joined the German army. Some may have joined because it was the least worse option for them.

@psychiatry-is-eugenics Год назад

@@kdegraa true , but the details of his father’s epic journey would be of historical value

@SirAntoniousBlock Год назад

@@anthonychinonso702 He must've been a traitor, should've been handed over to the free French for punishment.

@barryirlandi4217 Год назад

"The War on the Eastern Front" by the SS Waloon is an amazing book

@jasonz7788 Год назад

Great work Sir thank you

@meinolfwestig9463 6 месяцев назад

My father made it to Maikop. That time out of 220 men of his company, there were only 21 left.

@stephencarroll9935 Год назад

Thats actually kinda cool that they reached the caspian sea

@emizerri Год назад

'cool'

@eliasziad7864 Год назад

They never did actually...

@williamgaston9812 Год назад

Interesting time to release this mark 🤔… 👍👍

@richardglady3009 Год назад

Very interesting. Thank you.

@clintinterface Год назад

I saw some german documentary where they stated out even if its not offical that some german soldiers were treated in a lazaret in the town of kizlyar. Rumors of soldiers went up north to a trainstation to see the caspian sea by emselfs, i cant recall if the managed it. But yeah, they got really far.

@anothersucker-Youcantfixstupid Год назад

Great video. More like this please. We love the eastern front.

@trucktalkvideos Год назад

Amazing to hear and great footage to so many of us though it was Stalingrad for all these years but the great Mark Felton has shown us it was far beyond that 😀

@paulpowell4871 Год назад

Always great stuff

@OrrinMonro Год назад

Another incredible Mark Felton Production! Mark, you have proven again how little we really know about World War II. Thank you. Can you recommend further reading on this topic?

@TheGreatest1974 Год назад

There are two very good autobiographical books available on eBay etc written by German snipers on the eastern front. They are both fascinating insights. Brilliant reads. One group of German soldiers in the Russian winter were so cold they had to keep moving around exercising just to stay alive. It was minus 60 and he said the trees were making cracking noises and stones were cracking in the cold.

@lilsyrupp5989 Год назад

@@TheGreatest1974 what’s it called?

@TheGreatest1974 Год назад

@@lilsyrupp5989 two books. First is ‘sniper on the eastern front’ by Albrecht Wacker. Second is ‘Sniper Ace, from the eastern front to Siberia’ by Bruno Sutkus. Both are excellent descriptions of what it was like for the soldiers. I couldn’t pick between them which is best. 👍

@lilsyrupp5989 Год назад

@@TheGreatest1974 thanks can’t wait to give them a read!

@TheGreatest1974 Год назад

@@lilsyrupp5989 no probs! They are great!👍

@Spitfiresammons Год назад

A fine piece of history Dr Felton .Can you do the history of Americans use captured German tanks during the battle of the bulge.

@chriszelez7970 Год назад

This was informative.

@TheSkinnay1 6 месяцев назад

Several years ago, I posted a comment that got pinned at the top of one of Mark’s early videos. I commented how I enjoyed the videos and how I got my father and grandfather interested in the channel and how the 3 of us bonded over our love of his WW2 content. Well 6-7 years later the grandfather is no longer with us and the father is slowly deteriorating from early onset dementia. These videos take me back to when I had both of them to look up to and make me smile. Thanks for the memories Mark, I’ll always be a big fan!

@theculturedthug6609 Год назад

Nice one Mark. Another very interesting video. You always seem to know what we ww2 history nuts want to watch.

@yaboykilla1187 Год назад

Always loved this channel keep up the great work mark 👌

@mikebeatty7814 6 месяцев назад

My Grandfather was an artillery commander in the Red Army in 1942. He told my father that after the battle of Kharkov, they were told to put up slight resistance and to keep retreating towards Stalingrad to draw as much of the German offensive towards Stalingrad. Evidently the encirclement was planned way in advance. They we being told by the political operatives that a huge trap was being planned for the Germans.

@mattgeorge90 Год назад

One of the best channels on RU-vid!

@musicmanbc9613 Год назад

Your knowledge is absolutely amazing. I love this channel so much!

@theblackhand6485 Год назад

@Mark Felton: Right. Never knew and always wondered how far the German Army went into Russia. The ultimate goal was Baku. That said, how far reached the German Army into the South of Russia? Which units were these? So far I know the German Army reached, came nearby, came close and/or passed a little further than the 'town' of Vladikavkaz. Here two imported roads came together: East to Grozny and Baku. And south the Russian Military Road over the mountains to Georgia, Tiblisi to Baku. Not sure if the German/Austrian Mountain troops reached Georgia after taking Mount Elbrus. There is a mountain pass there too.

@Timetraveler101 Год назад

Damn crispy pictures ..awesome info!

@SiloSoundStudios Год назад

Always cool to see footage of recon vehicles

@bartmuller9797 Год назад

Let's not forget what followed the 16th home ,a Russian wolf hound, it would serve as the divisional mascot and when the 16th became the 116th panzer it served as the regimental insignia, they were known as the windhunds!

@andrewedwards2211 Год назад

Mark, can u do an episode on Japanese German relations toward the end of the war? How japan felt about the fall of Italy and Nazi Germany

@user-qt1cp1be3u Год назад

"How japan felt about the fall of Italy and Nazi Germany" English Wikipedia address "Seppuku" Seppuku (切腹, 'cutting [the] belly'), sometimes referred to as hara-kiri (腹切り, lit. 'abdomen/belly cutting', a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honour but was also practised by other Japanese people during the Shōwa period (particularly officers near the end of World War II) to restore honour for themselves or for their families.[1][2][3] [29] In 1944, Hideyoshi Obata, a Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Army, committed seppuku in Yigo, Guam, following the Allied victory over the Japanese in the Second Battle of Guam.[30] Obata was posthumously promoted to the rank of general. Many other high-ranking military officials of Imperial Japan would go on to commit seppuku toward the latter half of World War II in 1944 and 1945, as the tide of the war turned against the Japanese, and it became clear that a Japanese victory of the war was not achievable.

@graememorrison333 Год назад

Of course, what we all want is the good doctor's analysis of what's going on in those area at the moment

@hoytoy100 Год назад

Great story and details.

@alanmountain5804 7 месяцев назад

Very interesting. In 2019 I drove from Rostov to Astrakhan through the Kalmyk Steppe. Its harsh arid grassland broken by small tracts of desert. A herd of wild steppe horses crossed the road in front of us. I always wondered how far along that road the Germans got