Paulus's 6th Army ORDER OF BATTLE - Before Stalingrad 

*Notes* It’s 9 corps, not 8. And it’s also 4 panzer divisions, not 3. Only noticed when I was editing and too late to go back. Yes! I can’t count! Map shown is actually for the 24th of July rather than the 23rd, simply because it turns out I don’t have an accurate map for the 23rd of July. The reason for doing the order of battle on the 23rd of July is because I will be following the events in detail from the 24th of July 1942 to the 2nd of February 1943 in my upcoming Stalingrad documentary. When’s it coming? Well, considering it’s taken me 55 minutes just to tell you which units are in the 6th Army, I think we can confidently say “in a bit”. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PMEXIocRfOg.html I do not know if 44th Infantry Division had a reconnaissance battalion. If it did, I don’t know which one it is. I also don’t know the artillery unit for 60th Motorized Division - let me know if you know! Several other units don’t have unit symbols or generals, and I don’t know the leaders for a lot of them. If you can help me out, please do! *Important Links* Please consider supporting me on *Patreon* and help make more videos like this possible www.patreon.com/TIKhistory Link to MHV video “Organization & Structure of a German Infantry Division in World War 2” ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_tiH5YCa8Qs.html Link to my “The MAIN Reason Why Germany Lost WW2 - OIL” video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kVo5I0xNRhg.html Link to my “Croatian Legion” video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bVbqdD6CmOI.html Link to Don't Buy This Book! "With Paulus at Stalingrad" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-51_6olyYPDo.html Link to “Death of the Leaping Horsemen Book Review” ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sPNhk7ForPw.html *Selected Bibliography/Sources* Adam, W. Rühle, O. “With Paulus at Stalingrad.” Pen and Sword Books, 2015. Beevor, A. “The Second World War.” Phoenix, 2012. Glantz, D. House, J. “The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 1. To the Gates of Stalingrad. Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942.” University Press of Kansas, 2009. Glantz, D. House, J. “The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2. Armageddon in Stalingrad: September-November 1942.” University Press of Kansas, 2009. Glantz, D. House, J. “The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 1. To the Gates of Stalingrad. Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942.” University Press of Kansas, 2009. Glantz, D. House, J. “The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3. Endgame at Stalingrad Book One: November 1942..” University Press of Kansas, 2014. Glantz, D. House, J. “The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3. Endgame at Stalingrad Book Two: December 1942-February 1943.” University Press of Kansas, 2014. Heiber, H. Glantz, D. “Hitler and his Generals. Military Conferences 1942-1945.” Enigma Books, 2004. Mitcham, S. “Hitler’s Legions: German Army Order of Battle World War II.” Redwood Burn Limited, 1985. Mitcham, S. “German Order of Battle: Volume One: 1st-290th Infantry Divisions in WWII.” Stackpole Books, 2007. Mitcham, S. “German Order of Battle: Volume Two: 291st-999th Infantry Divisions, Named Infantry Divisions, and Special Divisions in WWII.” Stackpole Books, 2007. Mitcham, S. “German Order of Battle: Volume Three: Panzer, Panzer Grenadier, and Waffen SS Divisions in WWII.” Stackpole Books, 2007. Mark, J. Obhodas, A. “Croatian Legion: The 369th Reinforced (Croatian) Infantry Regiment on the Eastern Front 1941-1943.” Leaping Horsemen Books, 2010. Mark, J. “Death of the Leaping Horsemen: The 24th Panzer Division in Stalingrad 12th August - 20th November 1942.” Stackpole Books, Kindle 2003. Mark, J. “Panzer Krieg: Volume 1: German Armoured Operations at Stalingrad.” Leaping Horsemen Books, 2017. Thanks for watching!

a million times better than the innaccurate rubbish on the history channel i've been shaking my head at over the last 15 years!

the unit symbols represent the unit type: For infantry, the X represents crossed rifles; the artillery dot represents a cannon ball; the horizontal E of engineers represents a bridge, the oval of armor units represents the tracks of a tank, the zig zag of the signals unit represents a bolt of lightning, or electricity.

i can understand the 22nd div. and their rodent problems. a few years ago, i went out to start the truck. i thought the fuel pump was out. nope. a mouse had chewed through the 3 sending unit wires and the 4 fuel pump wires. all 7 wires were cut. a very efficient mouse.

As a historian, history teacher, WW2 enthousiast, scale modeller and wargamer, all I can say is OMNOMNOMNOM. This is excellent content!

One of the best channels there is, glad I found you

This pumped me up so much...it's like pre-fight footage showing the stats of both fighters designed to hype you up for the big fight! TIK, you've seriously set the quality standard astronomically high for future documentaries from other "historians" in the realm of historical details, their accuracy, and lack of bias. So much so that I just can't watch any of the other documentaries on RU-vid (or anywhere else for that matter) without feeling as if something is missing. Stalingrad is going to be a masterpiece!!! TIK for life..Thank you for creating these vids btw.

Best sentence: Does not survive the Battle of Stalingrad.

Your videos started out as well thought out and informative. You are getting better.... thank you for all of your hard work.

I always heard my great grandpa was wounded somewhere near Stalingrad. He actually managed to make it back to Romania after the war but had a weird twitch in his eye (I think the bullet was close to his lung). This video kind of explains how he got there so thank you for making it.

awesome to see, TIK, could not have been easy to collate all this, hat's off to you mate o7

My late very good friend 'Kurt Adam' was a medic in the 6th army. He was shot in the neck by a Russian partisan and evacuated to the west, so missed going into the bag with the rest of them. I have some of his medals. I have a picture of him with his first wife and child, both of whom were killed in a British Bomb raid. I knew his second wife and his daughter. All now sadly gone. I think your presentations are among the best i have seen. Military History is my thing!

Favorite history channel, you need waaaaaay more subs

I certainly care about the bread the Wehrmacht were eating! I think the food situation, especially on the Eastern Front, is often underlooked when you think of how many of the soldiers were fighting underfed, distracted by hunger pains and weakened from lack of energy

You can tell, this TIK guy puts so much work in his videos! great channel

Cant get enough of the profound knowledge embedded in TIKs videos and narrations ; deeply impressed by his knowings about the cases...thank you TIK !

This level of detail was VERY interesting. It was also interesting how you were able to give information on the fates of their commanders

Wonderfully well done, keep it up you good man!

Dude you're an absolute genius!!! I cant get enough...glad I subbed!!

Excellent and fantastic documented, as allways! Congrats!

Been really looking forward to this one. Thank you TIK! Keep up the great work sir.

That terrifyingly repetitive phrase "This Division did not survive the battle of Stalingrad." I was actually deeply moved by this whole video. Thanks so much Tik.

Your grasp of all things historical, in respect to your chosen topics, is nothing short of extraordinary, whether your presentations be scripted or not. Very impressed with your thoroughness and engaging manner of delivery. Kudos!

Excellent informative video. Keep them coming

I am a Yankee with a love for the Eastern Front. I find the story of the German 6th Army very intriguing... So, so happy that I found your channel. Thank you so very much.

your videos are gold man, I rarely hit notification button on RU-vid, but for this channel, it is a must, keep up the good work!

TIK - you truly are a superb military historian. I thought I had reasonably good knowledge of the Stalingrad campaign . I’ve had to totally think again - thanks for these brilliant videos.

Wow very thorough! Looking forward to the full documentary you keep teasing!

Great research! Keep up the good work!

This is amazing! I've never before had an interest in ww2 history, but I've been binging your videos and really grown to like what you teach! Do you have any literature recommendations for a new learner?

Well done TIK! I thoroughly enjoy your documentaries. I find them to be accurate and well presented. Lots of personal learning from your dedicated work and effort. Cheers.

I love the detail you go into and the explanations, where so many sources give you facts with absolute certainty, even when they are wrong, you tell us what you know, where the info came from, what you don't know and couldn't find good data on, what is your best guess, what you think and why. This gives us so much more detail and understanding about what was really happening and why. I really appreciate the effort you put into your research and the vid's you make, it's true history.

Fascinating video. Listing each unit and their destruction really strikes home what a catastrophic defeat this was for the Germans. Looking forward to future videos about the actual battle.

Excellent information ... you're also correct about wikipedia ...

Agree with your start date, TIK. The issuance of Directive 45 on 23 July named Stalingrad as an objective for 6th Army for the first time. Never thought I could find an hour-long briefing on order of battle entertaining--but...I did! You are an excellent teller of history. Good work!

Quality work, very impressed.

I'll say it so TIK doesn't have to. Smash that like and subscribe! Smash it like it's the 29th motorized division (which did not survive the battle of Stalingrad).

Ah, a TIK video about Stalingrad.. This should be good. Hoping for another quality vid, probably not too high of an expectation since you usually deliver quality stuff.

This is great and informative. It makes lunch at my high school a bit more educational, at least when my friends arent here or not talking. Love the videos!

Beautifully done. As always

order of battles is intresting plz so some more. also would like to see some focus on minor nations or fronts.

I love how you don’t fall into the “popular beliefs” but give us 100% accurate information. I also loved how you tried to stump with “the only non-German “ division to fight IN Stalingrad. Very interesting; very informative! Thank you 🙏😁👍👏👏👏

Outstanding Thanks for sharing

Well done. Thank you very much.

“It’s Powlus not Porlus” Thank you man! I like people who pronounce things in the correct way according to the language. Edit: Also I like the maps.

Definitely the best ww2 documentary channel on youtube. It's a real shame that you can't take part in the Time Ghost collab cause I think you would have definitely been their number 1 contributor.

Another amazing video, I sure hope you are making a good living at this stuff bud, it is a real treat to history buffs the world over. Good tidings from Detroit, USA.

Very valuable information. Thank you, TIK! 40:02 - LOL!! 😀

Well, there goes my Momday evening xD Thank you!

Thanks for all the work you put into this. Just some thoughts. As an artilleryman, part of an artillery battery deployed to Iraq as infantry, the battalion I was in had two batteries that were equipped with infantry gear and one stayed on the guns. The unit that stayed on its guns, on paper belonged to the 3rd BCT in Diayala, but it had sent a few guns down to Fallujah when things kicked off there. They only sent a few guns, but fired hundreds, if not thousands of shells. Historians may read about a mention 50 years from now from an obscure source and be confused by this unit being mentioned in both places, and think that it did not have elements that participated in Fallujah since the rest of the battery remained in Diyala. So while it is possible for generals and commanders to get things confused, it is also a possibility that subunits without designations were in places unknown to others simply because the documentation is not there. We had an attached MP company, converted battery units, detached gun sections, and added forward observers organized in sections all included in the batallion. Brigade QRF consisted of a mix of tank units and infantry units that varied in unit size throughout the campaign. I imagine with the size of the Stalingrad operation, (and many other operations) many transitional unit moves were made that went unnoticed on paper. The larger ones may have been noted, but I wonder how many of the smaller ones did not. On the subject of labelling an entire group, I'd be a bit more careful. Deporting people back to the Reich didn't necessarily mean the soldiers knew the conditions of those factories. I'm sure many did participate in activities that we would find repulsive now, and may have been repulsive by the standards of the day, but in the end armies are made up of individuals. Each has his moral standard, perception, tolerance, and outlook. Some viewed Germany's decision to go to war as an expansionistic opportunity and others viewed it as a necessary pre-emptive strike. While it's absolutely important to mention the orders, the deportation, and the destruction, nuance still has an important role in creating a narrative.

This chanel is awesome thank you dude!

Brilliant lecture, well done TIK.

The German Wikipedia spells it Sixt von Armin, Source is the "Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels"('Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility') and explicitly states the spelling "Arnim" is wrong.

On 39:45 in Russia we have joke about General frost , heat Pasha , Colonel rasputitsa and major mouse

Magnificent job TIK....cheers from Chile.

Explained it Near Perfect to me👍➡️your seminar lecture is A+

You probably already have it below but: "The insignia of the 79th Division is a grey Lorraine cross on a blue shield with a grey border; it was adopted during World War I. Having distinguished itself at Montfaucon, in Lorraine, the division selected the Cross of Lorraine, a symbol of triumph since the 15th Century, as its insignia". I have a photo of von Schwerin but I can't attach it here.

I approve this video.

Fantastic, finally the channel I’ve been looking for. Now we’re talking proper military lecturing. Excellent and professional

This is top notch information. Thank you.

The name is Sixt von Armin. There might be some confusion because there is also a German/Prussian noble dynasty "von Arnim". And there are quite a few German officers in WW2 named "von Arnim". But the officer mentioned by you was Sixt von Armin. Armin is also used as a first name and derivates from an old Germanic word meaning something like heroic. "Von Arnim" refers to the village "Arnim" which was protected by the castle "Arneburg". So the Graf von Arnim was the Earl of Arnim.

Thumbs up!

Amazing video!

Well covered. Great job.

Ion will be spelled as Yon or Eon as in RU-vid or Eat or living not Aion or Eion like in life. It is almost 100% spelled as yawn. So more or less Ion in Romanian is yawn, but means John.

Pretty comprehensive AND your German pronunciation is improving. It's interesting that you say the Battle of Stalingrad started in July 42 as the common story is Hitler thought the Soviet Army had been nearly eliminated since there was little resistance on the path to Stalingrad. Looking forward to your usual outstanding original analysis!

Gosh! Very comprehensive. Congratulations on the depth of your research.

Thanks so much for these videos, I really enjoy long history videos keep them coming.

Could you talk about the Air units involved inculding AA units around Stalingrad?

Great work bud! -Dynamic presentation. -Maps, yessssssss. -Clear presentation of complex battle. -Would have loved to have seen just five minutes of strategic over view for context. You might find the book "The German Wars" by Stargardt instructive. He went into the archives and reviewed surviving letters and photo exchanges between the troops and the folks back home. Killing Jews and others: ordinary soldiery, some were all for it at the beginning, some ambivalent but soon fell in with the idea. The Germans had a secret unit in the Fatherland that read letters, listened in on the civil society, general morale stuff etc, and the destruction of the Jews was widely known and openingly discussed--it would be difficult for it to have been any other way reading the letters from the fronts and the pictures being sent home. But here's a staggering fact that Stargardt avers i.e. that by the spring of 1942 the Germans could only replace one out of every six casualties!!! Max Hastings, in a lecture, says that ninety percent of all casualties suffered by the Germans was on the Eastern Front. Good work on your part, look forward to more from you.

Now this is some fascinating stuff!

I join other subscribers in thanking you again for all your hard work. This is an excellent precursor to your much anticipated presentation of the battle itself. Giving the viewer a good working knowledge of what ground forces were committed prior to the actual engagement is invaluable. Perhaps a review of available air support would be useful, though i hesitate to add to your workload. I would imagine most of your audience have some knowledge of the subject, however the detail and depth of your presentation provides a far greater understanding of this conflict.

Please do a video like this for the Soviet side.

This is just a theory but I feel that strange symbol of the 113 division is made of the numerals of the division's number because that shape below the two lines resemble a three on its side.

Just discovered your channel, really like it. Keep up the good work producing content m8, subscribed!

This was well done. Your videos were always good and are getting better.

I remember when I owned the board game Streets of Stalingrad and they used the ww2 unit symbols not the NATO unit symbols you used here. As I recall some of the units have the unit symbols on them also. However this game is before the fall of the Soviet Union so I don't know how accurate it was. I do know people raved about the map and it's accuracy. It is limited to the units that went into the Stalingrad and adjacent towns and villages. My memory is there was also a historical section of the rules for each German unit.

Your opening on don't forget... Very responsible!👍

Great job. I like what you do man. Keep up the good work.

I've been binge watching scores of your videos over the best couple days! Love your stuff! Also I think a really cool video or even merch idea could be all the UN unit / battalion symbols with an explanation about what they mean

Great channel. I would just caution your dismissal of some sources and apparent “blind” trust in others. You should always maintain a good portion of scepticism toward any sources.

How many seconds till I pause the video to give a like? 3, 2, 1, Go! [...] *18 seconds.* "The Battle of Stalingrad is not a battle. It's a seven month's campaign!"

HAD to come back to this video after the series ended. What an epic docu-series....

You are awesome m8 .. keep up the good work love your videos I watch every day .

I can't hold laughter everytime he says operation "Uranus"

18:00. 376th shows corp symbol not division XXX vs XX just fyi Excellent work

Great video!

Will have to wait until after work to actually listen to this. But I am going ahead and liking it now. Also, relating to you releasing your Stalingrad thing all at once or in pieces, I listened to your entire Marketgarden thing all at once, and I didn't really mind your brief recaps of what I had just heard .

AC/DC get a mention, YEAH!

Go edit those Wiki articles, man! Good luck with the Stalingrad documentary, can't wait.

Thank you for posting the videos. I appreciate the work you put into the research and verification of the information you are posting. You even take the time to add graphic elements -- such as the photos and unit emblems. Nicely done; I agree with the previous post, the map on the wall looks great too! ;) These vidoes take a lot of time and effort! Surprisingly, I actually read through most of the comments, but then I didn't realize the video was posted today. :o A few hours and lots of interesting and informative posts already! I may have missed a post addressing this, but I was a little confused at 9:46 - 9:50 when you displayed the location of the 100th Jager Division on the map. You say, "on the 23rd of July it is northwest of Bokovskaia", Thanks for the map! However, I was expecting the location to be a little further to the left on the map, but maybe that should be my other left? :p Maybe I'm not reading the map right. Hrm, that makes me wonder, would it be helpful if a date was included on maps? Thanks again for all the work you put into making this available!

Great job, Good, hornest unbiased take on evens, love it!

♫ _Yeah Hauenschields 24th Panzer Division changes Order of Battle like a girl changes clothes_ ♫

I think many of us are well aware of the fact that there were German soldiers and units (in the regular Wehrmacht) that can be called bloody murderers, but to claim that all approximately 300.000 men of the 6th army are like them is a bit ridiculous, isn´t it?!

Very good research.

Finally today I learnt what all those rectangles mean, I always wanted to know it, thanks TIK for this explanation.

Sick with the flu, this makes better viewing than anything. Cheers.

And will you be saying leitinant for a Russian lieutenant?

IT BEGINS I was legitimately excited for this upload.

Really entertaining and informative