Thank you for continuously posting new content that isn't biased. I religiously watched your "combat" and "intense" footage segments and have watched a couple docs as well. Can't wait to see this one!
Sehr interessant gemacht👍. Aber paar Details fehlten noch, beispielsweise das noch Tage nach der Kapitulation der gesamten 6. Armee , es immer noch Widerstandsnester gab , wo deutsche Soldaten immer noch kämpften ( Hallejula,das müssen ultra harte Männer gewesen sein). Ebenfalls denke ich ,das es wissenswert ist, das der Kessel zuletzt noch aufgesplittet wurde in Nord und Südkessel , da die Rote Armee einen Keil in der Mitte legen konnte und das der Nordkessel es war,der zuletzt kapitulierte. It's very interesting👍 I belive that some details have to be named too. That germans soldiers fought after the end of the 6. Army, a few days after the end of the "main fight". And also that the Red Army split the 6. Army in two Battlefields as they break through the 6. Army, the North and the South Battlefield , the North Armygroup fight a few days longer than the southern Army Part. I belive that this was interesting too (sorry my english isn't perfect)
@@정복희-h5o very interesting answer from you, with interesting news about the story. You have nothing to say , I belive. But you try it without anything, that's great😀🤣
Not a single tear for German soldiers cause they tortured and killed babies and small children. My only tears are for Soviet soldiers who were real heroes.
There were also a vast number of suicides in the 6th Army as they were aware of what fate awaited them.. death from hunger, hypothermia, bullets, or capture.
@@kpaxchocho3327 they knew it but they also knew they had the momentum by fall 1941 the devastating winter that year changed the momentum in the Soviets favor and they did not let it go
A German push beyond Voronezh was an overextension. The farther the Germans "succeeded" in getting east-the more indefensible the position and the larger the haul. Any German presence, including strong flank protection by Manstein, was doomed in a Winter Offensive.
Colorization here is good enuff but somebody needs to colorize Eastern Front footage to the level of Peter Jackson's 'They Shall Never Grow Old' - that made 1916 look like yesterday! Dont know why a very high quality colorization of the Eastern Front WWII battles hasn't ever been done as have with the Anglo-American battles!?
I’m by no means am a military man, but upon watching these documentaries one thing I struggle to comprehend is the arrogance and the incompetence of the Wehrmacht high command. Can someone explain to me why mansteins 5th army was fucking around near Leningrad when the 6th army was locked in combat at Stalingrad? The 5th army could have been committed to the assault on Stalingrad itself or at least guarding its flanks. If the 5th army had been used properly the battle may not have been a disastrous defeat for the Germans. The capture of important strategic objectives wins wars far surer than symbolic victories. The very purpose of this battle was to secure the flank of army group B against counterattacks. Why in the the world would the Germans redirect the 5th army towards army group north when army group south was fighting for the very oil that Germany needed to win the war? I realize I’m just some guy and that hindsight it 20/20 but you’d think that the so called military geniuses within the Wehrmacht would have recognized the true path to victory. Was the Wehrmacht defeat at Stalingrad symptomatic of hitters incompetence? Was the German high command too fixated on symbolic victories rather than vital military victories? Bureaucracy appears to be the downfall of the once vaunted Wehrmacht.
*I believe that the moment when the USSR Red Army started gaining the upper hand was when Hitler tried to take control of the Eastern Front, instead of letting the EXPERIENCED & Battle Tested Generals & German High Command that were in charge of the Eastern Front.... Hitler was surrounded by "Yes Men", scared to really confront Hitler & tell him hes wrong and the Generals & High Command should have complete control over the armies of Germany, in fear of being killed if Hitler was in a bad mood or high as hell off Methamphetamine.* *Believe it or not, BEFORE "Operation Barbarossa", the German High Command actually did "War Games" to see if Operation Barbarossa could actually be accomplished or not.... And to really no ones surprise, the Generals said that it would be damn near impossible to hold Stalingrad & Lenningrad.... They were able to lay siege at Lenningrad for a long time, trying to starve the population while the Germans avoided brutal close quarters urban combat like Stalingrad. Hitler was just too obsessed with capturing & HOLDING Stalingrad even though everyone said it was impossible but didnt have the influence or courage to stop Hitler.*
Very true and if they 6th army would have just went around Stalingrad and crossed river and had a large foothold on other side the city could have been choked off with the 1 millions troops inside without food supply without ammo and would have just died or surrendered there . Instead just fighting head long into a ruble pile million on million without going across river cutting off supplies was borderline stupid well actually it was stupid and borderline criminal.
My great grandfather was in the 6th army he died in the battle on October 10th 1942 the 6th army was formed October 10th 1939 and what is crazy is i was born October 10 th 1992 its crazy. I can't imagine what he went through and how he died but another thing after he died that makes me mad is my great grandmother got a letter pretty much saying thank you for your husband's service and she received a stove and a radio from Hitler. Shortly after that her and my grandfather and my great aunt fled into the mountains in austria and came across the Americans if im correct my great grandfather by marriage was in the OSS thats how he encountered ky great grandmother she became a translator for the U.S then in 1946 they got married and she went to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in the USA its just crazy thinking about it at this moment i had two great grandfather's in the same war but one in the nazi 6th army which is ky biological great grandfather then my other one was in the oss. Thank you for your content after watching this it just got me thinking about where i came from and what my relatives witnessed my great grandfather was the only one to fight for Hitler since the rest in my family got executed by the gestapos i doubt he wasn't happy about doing the stuff he did but if he didn't im sure the gestapos probably would of killed him my great grandmother and then my grandfather wouldn't of been born and nor my mom and me and yeah its just wild he may of been on the nazi side but hes still my hero he gave up his life at a very young age just to keep his kids and wife alive
Did you guys bother to do any research at all about Stalingrad or did you just get the Clift notes on Paulus' book and say "yep this is all the truth I need!". Paulus did not reject his promotion to Field Marshall. When the Soviets first mey him he demanded they address him as a field matshall showung the promotion from Hitler because he was still in a Colonel generals uniform. He refused to defy Hitlers orders to the end even when the Soviets tried to get him to save lives. He would not surrender the army. He lived in absolute comfort in captivity unlike his men. He was given an apartment and a small staff. He could have trued gor a breakout many times but refused to disobey Hitler. Hitler refused to allow them to breakout because they were keeping several Soviet armies tied down instead of attacking the Germans elsewhere while they quickly evacuated the Caucasus area. Paulus never cared for his men like Reichenau his predecessor did. Paulus kept throwing them into the buzzsaw in Stalingrad never getting much of an overall assault going. If he had been a better general the Germans woukd have taken Stalingrad fairly quickly.
Been a WW2 junkie for decades. To me, Stalingrad is a lot like Verdun or Vicksburg. Yes, it was decisive and took months, destroying thousands of lives. But it was basically a large siege and as interesting as watching grass grow. Oh boy, 20 square meters of a factory changed hands today. The Soviets have the peak of the dung heap. Oops, now the Germans have retaken the dung heap. And on, and on. Welcome back to Bakhmut, 1942 style. Here is the TLDR version: Germans rolled up to a city on a key river that provided a supply route into Russia. They got themselves deeply enmeshed in taking it while a zillion kilometers from home. Eventually the Soviets surrounded the overstretched Germans. The Luftwaffe couldn't keep the ground forces supplied and Sixth Army finally surrendered in early 1943. Here is an actual fact that makes a real difference in understanding the outcome of World War Two. The Soviets and Japan were neutrals toward one another after a nasty battle in 1939. Once the US and USSR worked out the Lend-Lease details, HALF of all American Lend-Lease aid to the USSR used the "Western Route." Hundreds of American-built Liberty ships were turned over to the Soviets and flew Soviet flags while keeping all their peacetime running lights running at night. Their crews were actually American merchant mariners who sailed across the Pacific Ocean, passing through the Sea of Japan (!) to offload their cargoes in eastern ports like Vladivostock. The American crewmen often waved back and forth to Japanese fishermen along the way. Those cargoes were then sent to battle the Germans via the Trans Siberian Railroad. American-built aircraft like the P-39, P-63, and A-20 flew to Alaska, then across the Bering Sea to Siberia. Again, HALF of all Soviet Lend-Lease was sent right past the American and Japanese Pacific fleets to go on and kill Germans. What difference was closing the Volga River going to make as long as supplies kept moving via Vladivostock, the railroads, Murmansk, Archangel, the Persian Route, and so on? The USSR was the world's largest nation, by far. It can't be surrounded. Don't forget, the Germans divided their forces in 1942, trying to take the Baku oil fields AND Stalingrad at the same time. The two are separated by 1200 km / 750 miles. That's like trying to take Houston and El Paso or Chicago and New York City at the same time. Insane.
Nonsense! Stop repeating the garbage that Hitler was incompetent.They had to cut off the Volga, because the masses of Aid from the USA where coming up the Volga River.
Paulus, and his aides, were recorded by hidden microphones. They didn't care much about their men, especially not his staff. Disgusting, really. Out of the 90k+ German prisoners, barely 5K returned to Germany. Paulus was treated well and he worked for Soviet propaganda. It was shameful. Especially since he worked significantly on Barbarossa and on defeating the Soviets. As usual, regular soldiers are treated like crap. So much for "workers solidarity" from the "workers' paradise" Soviet regime.
Paulus followed orders. Hitler was the one who left the 6th army to perish. Paulus to a certain point, believed the fuhrer was gonna get them out. They became sacrificial lambs in order to save the Caucasus army group. A sad but necessary evil in time of war.
@@BlueCollaredGrit Yes I agree. But it doesn't take away from my point. While captured Paulus, and mostly, his staff, cared more about what they would eat and mundane stuff than about the fate of their men. It was recorded. Clearly, they suffered the lack of food and all at the very end of the battle. Of course, it's normal for the top echelon to not have the same issues, they are privileged as they need to think and be as close to 100% as they can be, but still. Victors write history, but I don't get how Paulus is any example. He was not fit to be a leader on the battlefield, he was more a tactical pro, yet what he set out to do was a war of brutal conquest. Then he betrayed his camp. What a hero! No, I'm not saying I or 99% of people would have fared better in the circumstances, just that he is judged quite favorably despite what he did, just because he badmouthed Hitler when all was lost.
@@MVProfits the battles before Stalingrad were nothing short of amazing. 6th army probably wouldn’t have made it to Stalingrad let alone almost occupy the city without Paulus. People just see the defeat of Stalingrad never the many victorious battles to get them there. So yes, Paulus deserves more credit than you think. As far as treatment to the soldiers, German generals treated their soldiers with much love and respect. More than any other country at that time. That’s why they were so effective. Paulus stated to his troops that hardships were coming. But if they all held it together individually they can achieve success. Not exactly in those words but the situation was dire and lives were gonna be lost.
@@MVProfits Paulus in captivity did not betray anyone. He thought for Germany and himself for once. That was the moment he realized the Soviet people were not baby eating barbarians hitlers propaganda portrayed them to be. He seen them as competent and kind people.
@@MVProfits Paulus didn’t have a magic wand to stop the freezing cold, food, and ammunition shortages. The situation was dire. Hitler and Mannstein could’ve planned operation winter storm earlier to save them but that’s just another could of.
The great tragedy here is that in early June when Von Paulus first arrived at Stalingrad it could have been taken with ease as it was basically an open city, however Hitler once again intervened and divided his forces sending Von Paulus armies towards Baku to assist Von Kleists armies, when he returned it was a totally different story leading to the tragic debacle that followed.
In early June 6th Army was not yet near Stalingrad. An armored force reached the Volga outside the city near Latashinka and Rynok on August 23. This force was in danger of being cut off and destroyed. Forays were made into Spartanovka.
Hitler must surely have been a cunning guy in the beginning of his power period, but ordering to defend Stalingrad untill the last soldier without ammo and other life sustaning supplies is sheer madness, what is the point if the trupps (the entire army in this case) finally get either destroyed or wind up as POW:s? As well as losing all the equipment? Any idiot understands that pulling back, regrouping, resuppling and reattacking is the way to go!!! And he never learned either after that Stalingrad debacle but repeated the same bloody mistake time after time losing hundreds of thousands men and tons of equipment and supplies every time !!!😡😡
I would like to add the fact, that about 90.000 german soldiers went POW. And many years later only 5.000 made it back home to Germany. Many died on the way to the camps. Being POW I Russia was a death sentence..Hard work, no food and this harsh winter conditions, without warm clothes were a evil mixture. No movie, no book, nothing can describe the horror, these men suffered. It is just beyond everything we can imagine.
I read so many war stories from descendants of Stalingrad fighters all of them horrifying and how dare we to forget and repeat the same mistake especially in Russia war against Ukraine 2023. This we all need to know all over the world so we don't ever repeat it again.
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This was the cream of the German army the six Army that was annihilated and Stalingrad was the very top of the line of the German army and it's achievements in 1940 in France were incredible the world had never seen this kind of a fighting machine before and it triumphantly March through the streets of Paris of course I am really happy the Germans lost the war my mother grew up in the Netherlands while the War was happening and she lost a lot of her young Jewish friends she was raised with I saw her go through a lot of depression later on in life she blocked it out for most of her life to raise kids wife and mother because of the depression that it caused my mother she was probably one of the last victims of the Nazis where she killed herself with drugs and alcohol was slow as suicide and then none of us could understand I know I'll see her again she was a good person and that's what exactly God wants and now we have the Russians fighting in Stalingrad LOL those poor bastards you had they had no choice but to fight there was nowhere or nothing to retreat to after Stalingrad but just miles and miles of Russian stepland Russia this was you must win this battle and turn this war around and they were faced with if they didn't do just that they would be destroyed and fight they did not only did every Russian know it was a fight for survival of their country and people but for their lives because there was always a commissar that if you didn't fight and kill Germans he would most definitely kill you LOL what a battle this was Jesus Christ the American Army has never seen anything anything near this and I hope it doesn't and pray it doesn't
What valour. It was German generals who attacked Russsia despite a no war pact. Call him Hitler. Valour and endurance was shown by defendants til Hitler and co lost Germany and their lives by hanging or by cyanide and suicide.
