I never tire of good, detailed, astute war documentaries; been watching them since I was a child. It is far more entertaining to me than fictional history. KZread has a fine collection, much of which I already own.

@footsoldier857

5 жыл бұрын

I am like minded: a topic that draws me every time. I do worry for the future of humanity.

@footsoldier857

5 жыл бұрын

@Flattop box Be careful in your assumptions. Knowledge is power and it will happen again. It is in our programming: desire peace, prepare for war, e.t.c.

@fernandoflores4115

4 жыл бұрын

Correct Smooch !!

@antwill7916

4 жыл бұрын

I watch these in the background while I work. They are simultaneously educational, entertaining, and un-intrusive. I couldn’t agree more w your comment

@tonyromano6220

3 жыл бұрын

Smooches yes Sir!

What truly amazed me is the hardship that soldier,sailors and airmen endured, without faltering. All military suffer in some way, but combat can become a defining moment in your life. Times that you will never forget and sometimes you wish you could.

Excellent. Objective. Most of the film footage actually matches the narrative. Good series...thumbs up.

@HateTheIRS

3 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed.

It must have been absolute hell fighting on the frontline. The winter would have been unbearable. The rain making your clothes all wet. The long nights with no sleep. Lack of food. The Eastern Front was horrific.

@Bluesit32

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, the problem with the rain wasn't the soaked clothes. It was the mud that did them in. Progress slowed to a crawl. The mud was extremely sticky and thick. It took twice as much effort to march half as far. Utterly exhausting. Any vehicle without treads would sink in the mud, tires spinning uselessly. The Germans hadn't seen the like.

@adammcgirt7123

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine being a Russian soldier during the war. The penal divisions would make soldiers clear mine fields marching in rank and file across them at gunpoint!! It was bad on both sides, but the Russian ppl as a whole went thru some bad stuff

@karrole88

2 жыл бұрын

@@adammcgirt7123 that was a lie and a propaganda, i know penal battalion was real but marching their own soldiers into the minefields never happened.

@yurigagarin8574

Жыл бұрын

Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942 by David Stahel has several chapters with very graphic depictions of the unbearable and brutal conditions.

@christopherjcarson

Жыл бұрын

One to chase up,thanks for recommending!

I love this series so much. Some of my favorites besides the battlefields narrated by Tim Piggott Smith.

German army was built for mobility. Forcing them into "hold to the last man" situations and taking away their power to maneuver was one of the biggest blunders of the war.

@lorimeyers3839

Жыл бұрын

Far from it. Out of the 152 German divisions in operation Barbarossa, only 19 were Panzer divisions and 14 were motorized. The ratio of four soldiers to tanks was 1,000 to 1. The ratio of horses to tanks was 185 to 1. The vast majority of Germans marched on foot and were heavily reliant upon 625,000 horses. Their spearheads were mobile, but 90% of their infantry fighting divisions weren’t mobile at all. Hitler’s stand your ground order actually saved the Wehrmacht from sure destruction in army group center in December 1941. And by the time the Germans reached Stalingrad they were out of fuel and low on manpower, rendering their machinery useless. Something like 18% of German divisions in the south in 1942 were equipped for offensive operations. Most were only capable of defense at the time of Case Blue.

John Erickson, great South Shields accent and hosted Soviet and NATO little get together of generals in his university quarters during the Cold War

Thanks for posting this interesting documentary.

Outstanding documentary!! Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for posting these awesome videos

Army Group South had the support of Luftflotte 4 under Generaloberst Alexander Löhr not Luftflotte 1

Take a shot of vodka (or schnapps) every time Hitler refuses a request to withdraw.

@mulapare2593

3 жыл бұрын

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@tobokanisebele8919

2 жыл бұрын

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Great series of clips Vasile- much obliged (Y)

I just recently talked to a friend of mine who told me she just had 3 boys born and presented them first time to her great grandmother in law. The reaction of old granny was and I quote. "Gut! Sehr gut, dann haben wir bald wieder neue Soldaten. Good, very good, then we will have new soldiers soon." My friend was shoked to hear that reaction in an rather admitting tone. It shows the spirit put into the people during the NS-Regime and how it prevails in them.

THIS SERIES SHOULD BE IN COLOUR

The thing with a mobile anything is that it requires oil. And the Germans were running on fumes.

An excellent and informative documentary.

Your videos are the best. I'm now a subscriber

Hitler told his generals that he expected the campaign against Russia to be concluded in 13 weeks. It was therefore supposed to be finished by the end of September 1941. Instead, it lasted almost 4 years. Hitler attacked southern Russia in 1942 not because he wanted to surprise Stalin, but because Germany was running out of petroleum. German troops marched in Russia (instead of being carried by trucks) because there wasn't enough fuel to move them. Likewise, much of the German army's supplies were transported by horse because there wasn't enough fuel to move them otherwise.

@Bluesit32

5 жыл бұрын

In fairness, the Red Army had just struggled with Finland. Anyone could have been led to believe that the USSR was militarily weak.

This was a really good series of documentaries

Stalingrad was the craziest battle ever fought.... hats off to the toughness of those that defended the city.... amazing

@Dilley_G45

Жыл бұрын

Hats off to the German and Romanian soldiers fighting the Soviets, the most evil regime ever in europe

Hitler played into Soviet's strength by attempting to hold ground. It's analogous to a quick boxer who tries to outwrestle a sumo.

@Bluesit32

5 жыл бұрын

Good analogy. This is exactly the case. The German Army specialized in hitting hard, hitting fast, and moving on. They HAD to. Supplies were limited so they had to win quickly.

One of the best military formations to walk a battlefield these guys fought to the bitter end.

really top shelf documentary, just fascinating...

Fantastic documentary.

Currently studying Stalingrad...thanks for timely upload !!

@Thebestbigboyjoe

9 жыл бұрын

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@animalspirits3917

9 жыл бұрын

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@brufnus

5 жыл бұрын

I've been studying it from the inside a couple of times, going there on my motorbike - it's a very lovely and interesting city; you should go there some day! :-D Oh, and the best part - the inhabitants are, like Russians in general, very hospitable and helpful. I love that country with all my heart!

splendid lecturer from Sandhurst..

Very thanks for the upload

The German Wehrmacht of WW2 was certainly a truly formidable force and the German soldiers, officers, NCO's and rankers were some of the best soldiers in human history.....but, one must never, ever forget that the Wehrmacht had prior to the war sold its soul and honour to a devilish regime intent on world domination and genocide. Many German soldiers were extremely courageous and honourable individuals but the cause they fought and died for so tenaciously up to the very end was not worth one iota of their loyalty - they had truly been led to the gates of hell.

When you know that your going to be destroyed if you don’t move.... then move .... if not... it’s the same as helping the enemy. So..... screw orders from people who aren’t there.....

This is lovely stuff..

Very well done!

walsh must put them to sleep at sandhurst

This video is very good!!

Great dokumentin on east front 😉!!!...

How interesting is that Hitler forbade city fighting in 1941 in Leningrad because of the lessons of Kiev but then committed to Stalingrad ... there was no need to take that city, just half-encircle it and secure the flank on the Volga down to Astrakhan and secure the main objective: the oil fields. Withdrawing from the Rhzev salient and shortening the lines in the center could have given the extra troops (especially if Halder was replaced sooner). The Germans in 1942 still did not understand that this was the very last slim chance to win the war - all SS troops and all reserves should have been thrown into this and even then it was a dubious adventure, pushing 800 km more on an overstretched supply line securing a 400 km flank on the Volga and taking the oil fields. Had they cut off the oil that would have seriously changed the war. But the Germans are still not fighting a total war at this point all their economy is still not mobilized and 42 is when the Soviets are in full swing and the land-lease arrives is significant amounts.

@tomtom34b

5 жыл бұрын

The germans wrongly assumed that the russians were on their last leg of reserves. IF that assumption were to be true, there would have been no reason to NOT expand into the caucasus at that time. They were wrong and should have been more cautious, but hindsight is 20/20...

@haroldfiedler6549

5 жыл бұрын

Wow, I guess we'll have to make sure you're commanding the entire army next time there's a world war. What an incredible simpleton you are.

@haroldfiedler6549

5 жыл бұрын

@@tomtom34b As typical you're getting "the Germans" which I supposedly guess you mean "the generals" mixed up with Hitler. Do you even know the definition for the word "dictatorship." Your intelligence and understanding of the war is at least a micron thick. Congratulations.

@lewistaylor2858

5 жыл бұрын

they need to cut the Volga to secure the flank of army group B diverted south into the caucasus, there was no need to take Stalingrad to do so, but the entire southern wing of the red army hinged on Stalingrad as it had on Kiev and Smolensk in 1941

@andraslibal

5 жыл бұрын

@@lewistaylor2858 what I am suggesting is securing the West bank of the Don river which was well within their means from Voronezh to Serafimovich to Kalach, then build a line from Kotelnikova to Elista and to the Kuma river reaching the Caspian. Never venture into Stalingrad that is unimportant the important part is the oil from the Caucasus. Leave the Kalmye steppe open so that the Russians would have to charge through open terrain into a fortified defensive position on a river bank with armored reserves behind it to quickly counterattack, Mannstein did that in 43 after Stalingrad so surely in 42 he could have done it even more so with Luftflotte 4 still reigning in the sky. Once the oil is cut off, the Soviets are seriously set back and Germany has plenty oil to keep the Wehrmacht running. In this grand scheme Rhzev can be given up gradually via flexible defense causing maximum Russian casualties diverting from the south front, most German reinforcements need to go South and minor Axis troops go north to around Rhzev to gradually withdraw from that line (the north is more forested armor is not that important there). Stalingrad did not need to be the hinge.

I would not say AG South was the least successful initially... The battle for Brody was the largest Tank battle in history even dwarfing Kursk in terms of time and disposition of forces and AG South was up against truly some of the best formations the Russians had at the time.

@christopherjcarson

Жыл бұрын

Helpful,to know.Have heard of other significant tank clashes,that one does sound interesting.

Noticed a glaring mistake: Army Group South had Luftflotte 4 under Alexander Löhr, Luftflotte 1 under Keller was part of Army Group North (check the other video).

@cybertronian2005

2 жыл бұрын

also 9:27, 2nd Panzer Army under Manstein when it should say Guderian

Never understood what Hitler considered victory at Stalingrad. The city had been bombed to rubble. The Soviets could continue to ferry troops across the Volga river because they controlled it's east bank.

I really enjoy the way that the two experts can disagree with each other but it's done respectfully. It's hard to remember when differing opinions were allowed to coexist respectfully.

@grantsmythe8625

2 жыл бұрын

The great disrespect that people now dump upon each other automatically came in with Trumpism and the tsunami of foreign, paid trolls. I've been on social media since 2012 and have seen discourse degenerate since around the fall of 2015.

@bookaufman9643

2 жыл бұрын

@@grantsmythe8625 yep. Fake news and conspiracy theories and us versus them is destroying this country people believe completely insane things and somehow now public health has become politicized. It's beyond comprehension. I studied political science in college but now I can't watch a moment of politics. It's like a giant disease has come calling and I'm not talking about just covid.

@grantsmythe8625

2 жыл бұрын

@@bookaufman9643 Oh my goodness how right you are. People are just automatically rude, arrogant and spiteful. This fight can not be won using current methods. The only way to win is not to fight, just drop it, forget it and walk away. Minds cannot be changed through fighting. I'm sick of it. I'm out of it.

does anyone know where I can find this series on DVD?

The other more prominent problem experienced by German forces in the East was the inadequate supply of Panzers especially the Tigers and Panthers which were desperate in need to reinforce the weakening lines encountering Soviet counter-assaults on all fronts. Although Schwere Panzer-Abteilung divisions were present, it was never going to be enough to halt the inevitable defeat of the Third Reich since the disastrous Battle of Kursk in Operation Zitadel.

At 30:00... who made that map, showing Stalingrad on the wrong side of the river? :-/

This KZread channel rules

All Germany had to do is send Army Group A to encircled Stalingrad from the southwest and just completely cut off the Russians. Thank the lord Hilter didn't understand anything about war... and wars single greatest commodity above anything, is Time. He did the same thing in the battle of Britain.

@UberGlenn66

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, Time was never on Germany's side...it was only a matter of time before the US would bring its military/industrial might to the Continent...And his continuous underestimation of Russian Strength and Production Capacity....

I've got to commend this production, it is very objective and doesn't have the usual bile associated with British accounts of WWII.

@horsepower523

8 жыл бұрын

+Cyclops8888 Indeed. It's great to watch such an unbiased documentary. Just pure facts and no jewish propaganda, very nice.

@coreywhite3225

7 жыл бұрын

hexagon523 hey I agree on this stuff because I've done a lot of research but what do you think of the the scorched earth decree?

@OlavBergman

5 жыл бұрын

Corey White Scorched earth is a veeery good decree. Yes, realy good :-)

@davidjarkeld2333

5 жыл бұрын

Bile of British accounts? Have you seen the crap the US put out!!

@haroldfiedler6549

5 жыл бұрын

I have to agree with you. This was a very level headed assessment without the usual British racist slant.

Pegasus produce a good documents!!.

Just.. :(. My grandfather was fighting at odessa. The other one grandfather, was comunist and also supposed to fight against soviet on western front. Were funny to see both of them arguing about ww2 "truth" and events.. before AND then after 1990, when comunist regime at least in theory.. was replaced with a democratic one. But back to ww2 eastern front events, one of the final blow for brave german army, was my nation betrayal caused by a puppet king which took soviet promises as good and arrested (then killed) the Great Romanian and Great Army Commander which was Marshal Ion Antonescu!

31:05 Ogareva boulevard seen from the Cannery's (apartment) House of Specialists on Raboche-Krestyanskaya Ulitsa. 31:08 A view west from near the Tram Car Barn south of the Tsaritsa.

@HateTheIRS

3 жыл бұрын

Wow

@mulapare2593

3 жыл бұрын

@@HateTheIRS Indeed

IMO, the battle of Stalingrad was lost before it even started by bombing the city into a wasteland. They took away Army group A's air cover which left them exposed to the Russian Air Force slowing down their drive into the Caucasus. By destroying Stalingrad they turned it into a hellish maze of bomb craters and debris which limited tanks, instead of looking for the enemy in windows & doorways now they can come out of anywhere.

@horsepower523

8 жыл бұрын

+Robert M Well said. Bombing Stalingrad into rubble was in hindsight a big mistake. It would've been much, much easier for the Wehrmacht to battle their way through an intact city.

@Oakeshott-ko8ig

7 жыл бұрын

They were defeated because they were overstretched. Their flanks, being held by thinly spread, ill-equipped Romanian and Hungarian forces, were vulnerable and the target of the Russian pincers that encircled the 6th army and heralded their doom.

Where didyou get the scorched earth series?

Dialog from a Russian or German soldier." Karkov was total hell. At least we won't be coming back here again."

Maikop is now spelled "Maykop." (@ 22:35) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maykop

It's far-fetched to call the battle of Kursk a turning point. By that time the German army had already suffered enormous casualties it couldn't possibly replace, it was overtaken by the Soviet Union in industrial output, while the Allied invasion of Sicily was imminent. What is often overlooked, perhaps because of Manstein's naivety, who claimed that he could have secured victory had Hitler not canceled the offensive, is that the Soviet army had massive reserves behind Kursk, which were readily available to immediately mitigate the -supposedly within reach- German encirclement of the Kursk salient, as well as the really massive casualties suffered by the Germans in Kursk as long as the operation lasted. And when I say massive, I don't refer to numbers per se, but to the percentage of casualties suffered by the actual combat troops, not the tens of thousands of men in supporting roles. The combat troops suffered casualties in some cases exceeding 50%. Therefore even if the Germans had succeeded in completing the encirclement of the salient, their immediate prospects were bleak to say the least.

19:18 Oh, I will argue you a lot right there. The Soviet Union was not yet the superpower it would be and it ultimately became, even though it had help. But the mere fact that it did become a superpower and managed to stop the German Army while the rest of the world prepared or simply watched. That means they were at least equal, if not an even more immediate and powerful threat to Germany than the Anglo Allies. Specially, since the American and British armies were also very far from what they would become. In many ways, by 1942, the Soviets were the only real threat to the Germans. Even more argument is how little Germany worried about the "besieged" British and the still far away USA. Hitler mistake was not declaring war in a "pre emptive strike". It was thinking he had a chance to start with. So, I call complete and transparent Western bias.

@LoneKharnivore

4 жыл бұрын

...how is a statement that the Red Army was the largest in the world 'Western bias?'

@jerrymarshall2095

Жыл бұрын

Of course u believe in western bias,that's what u are taught

"You wouldn't have had much fun in Stalingrad, would you... I said, you wouldn't have had much fun in Stalingrad, would you, ha, ha, ha?"

@douglasclark8135

7 жыл бұрын

christosvoskresye

poor van Kleist, every time I see his name they call him "Kliest" XD

Where is episode 1 for Army Group North.

The Russians attributed the intelligence gained for Kursk from the Lucy Spy Ring but it could have been a cover for the Ring of Five (SpyCatcher Fame), the Cambridge Spy Ring.

@christopherjcarson

Жыл бұрын

Undoubtedly Bletchley park were a hidden hand in helping the Russian High command glean the intelligence and advantages necessary to win the battle of the Kursk!

Good show

Tell Ericson that Paulus wasn't a "von."

Does anybody know what year this was made? Mid to late 90s?

At 28:05 the map shows Stalingrad EAST of the Volga, lol!!

@brufnus

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, I noticed the same mistake. :-D

"dividing his forces." don't know what Bock was thinking but he certainly wasn't very concerned about his flanks. if he had surrounded Stalingrad they probably would have have created another envelopment and mass surrender. The Crimean offensive was needless and could have been avoided. Strangely it was never fortified for defense after Von Manstein's brilliant if costly Victory.

@elliottbrown1329

8 жыл бұрын

+Andrew Doolittle Bock did not have operational control of the theater of war- Hitler did.

@doolittlegeorge

8 жыл бұрын

+elliott brown who? I'm sorry I don't speak Austrian, tee hee. Seriously...after Kiev Hitler order his Generals to stop wiping entire Cities off the Map...Sebastopol was a major exception which if taken intact would have provided a VERY powerful defensive fortification. For another good example Google "MacCarthur vs Nimitz" and how to repeatedly come within an Ace of total annihilation repeatedly...only to somehow win. on how to "correctly" divide your forces Google Erwin Rommel and of course General Robert E Lee. in short..."never divide your forces." I do agree Hitler did take command of all Army Groups in the East...in December, 1941. No one ever really gave Army Group South "orders" really...with catastrophic consequences. Google OKH vs OKW...again not to disagree, thanks for your comments.

"Greeted as Liberators." Important part too..

no discussion on "staging areas". this is fully mechanized War requiring a vast battlespace just to organize.

@elliottbrown1329

8 жыл бұрын

+Andrew Doolittle The title of the film is Army Group South not prelude to operation Barbarossa.

@doolittlegeorge

8 жыл бұрын

+elliott brown as the Russians quickly discovered..."you don't just launch counteroffensives." just ask Heinz Guderain. there is a well thought out theory that the annihilation of Kiev was in fact a "happy accident"...meaning unlike what is presented here Army Group South fully intended on wiping Kiev off the map but was ordered by Hitler to not do that...so instead the German Army swung South of the City only to discover the bulk of the Red Army was not in the Center or North but sitting right in Kiev. For a good primer on these matters Google "US Marine Corps, Battle for Peleliu" "Should be over in two days, men! not even that!" not saying you're wrong just saying... thanks for your interest though as the USA and Russia are now engaged in a War for the Crimea...something that is about the only thing worse than a land invasion of East Asia...

@elliottbrown1329

8 жыл бұрын

+andrew Next time submit a comment worth reading.

@andrewdoolittle5336

8 жыл бұрын

+elliott brown all those dead with no graves or markers. you tell me why we the Americans are there...I'm all ears. My personal view is if you're going to go up against the Golden Horde you better bring your A Game...

von Rundstedt told Hitler he wanted to give up ground and stage a defensive front for the winter,Hitler refused him so Rundstedt told Hitler if he didn't have confidence in his leadership and judgment that he would like to offer his resignation,Hitler accepted his resignation and took his command.Hitler didn't just sack Rundstedt .

They spelled the names of General von Schubert and General von Kleist incorrectly... I wonder what else was not looked up by the makers of this documentary

Since the weather played a key role in stopping the German advance into Russia, one cannot help but wonder how things might have played out had the Germans initiated Barbarossa in early April rather than June 22. They wasted several months of good weather by delaying it until June.

@alliearscott3978

Жыл бұрын

Unlikely. The roads would've been way to muddy from the snow melting , and all the spring rains. I'm pretty sure that was one of reasons Germany didn't go in at April, and also because of the mess in Greece that musolini had started and couldn't finish.

Who forgot to set the sound at at a level it could be heard?

It's hard to get your head around the numbers involved eg 250k 6th army surrender or 600k Russian prisoners early on. This was very big stuff. Though when you consider 8 billion people now on the earth then perhaps peanuts.

I would send army group center and group south too Moscow, and have group north cover their flank. Then have group south breakoff towards the oil fields after the capital was sacked. I believe those two groups could have got to Moscow probably 2 months earlier. All that being said, if Hitler would have let his general's fight without his input they would have beat Russia in 41

Stephen Walsh looks like his voice is putting his face to asleep 🙃 no disrespect obviously - great historical insight

'Outcome of WW2 was decided here', ehm, not entirely, as it did not do anything for the war in the Pacific.

@karrole88

2 жыл бұрын

Yes almost Entirely because defeating Japan was much easier than Germany.

28:15 stalingrad is wrong side of river.. but little mistake.

Good documentary, very informative, however; get rid of that guy from Sandhurst! About as interesting as wet laundry!

Its the same theme over and over , SUPPLY and more RE SUPPLY constantly is what wins or looses the Germans were always over their heads in that aspect in every theatre they were in

@patwiggins6969

5 жыл бұрын

From what I've heard the Germans barely had enough resources to start the war in the first place

@davidwatson8118

5 жыл бұрын

Fancy still using horses and expecting most your troops to walk everywhere.

@WheelsRCool

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidwatson8118 Well actually at the time, everyone did that. The Soviets were horse-drawn, the Japanese were horse-drawn, the Brits I believe were a good deal horse-drawn, etc...the only country that was fully motorized was the United States and that is because it was swimming in oil. The Soviets later in the war became more motorized when the Lend-Lease trucks and fuel from America started arriving.

@davidwatson8118

3 жыл бұрын

@@WheelsRCool The Brit's were motorised.

@WheelsRCool

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidwatson8118 Not as much early on, they weren't. They made sizable uses of horses until later in the war.

Hitler raised Germany , but buried at same time , great video.

There are many who state that Stalingrad had no strategic value. Not true. With the Baltic and Black sea ports inaccessible to shipping, the primary supply lines were either across Siberia or through The Persian Gulf, over-land to the Caspian Sea and up the Volga to central Russia. -- Stalingrad was a hot-bed of armaments factories. With German control of Stalingrad, Russia is a Japanese blockade of Vladivostok away from starvation.

@bukucarateen4217

8 жыл бұрын

+davess357 WHO gives a crap about that lol....Army Group South had the best defensive position at Rostov and Kerch. They could have held out for years there against any Russian aggression. The place of battle was MOSCOW. IT WAS THE CENTRAL SUPPLY HUB FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. WITHOUT THAT YOU SPLIT THE COUNTRY COMPLETELY UP IN FOUR GROUPS OR MORE. THEY RELIED ON EACH OTHER FOR SUPPLIES AND MEN. SO MOSCOW WOULD HAVE WON THEM THE WAR OR AT LEAST GOT THEM LENINGRAD AND STALINGRAD WITHOUT THE BIG BATTLES. THEY WOULD HAVE FORCED STALIN TO EITHER DIE IN THE CITY OR FLEE AND EITHER WAY IS A WIN FOR GERMAN PROPAGANDA. IF RUSSIA SAW STALIN RETREATING ITS OVER THEY WILL ALL QUIT BUT IF HE STAYED AND DIED THEN ALL THE LEADERSHIP OF RUSSIA WOULD DIE WITH HIM AND THEY'D STILL LOSE AND GERMANY WOULD KILL EVERY RUSSIA SINCE THEIR ARMY WOULD BE TOTALLY DISORGANIZED WITHOUT STALIN GIVING ORDERS. ZHUKOV AND TIMO AND SOME OTHERS MIGHT HAVE BEEN ROGUE ARMIES BUT THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN IT. THERE WAS NO WAY TO KEEP THEM SUPPLIED SO THEY WOULD ONLY DO SO MUCH BEFORE THEY DISBANDED OR GAVE UP. MOST LIKELY A LOT OF THEM WOULD RUN TO THE URALS AND TRY TO REGROUP TO DO SABOTAGE LATER ON.

@davess357

8 жыл бұрын

Buku Carateen -- I agree with your strategy. This particular subject matter was about the southern campaign...

@doolittlegeorge

8 жыл бұрын

+davess357 whenever I think of Stalin I think of Jabba the Hut for some reason. Stalin was an able military commander in World War 1...and witnessed first hand the Red Army getting crushed when it invaded Poland in 1920...AFTER World War 1 was "over." He had a lot of doubts about Leon Trotsky after the whole Warsaw fiasco...but he learned too..I think. For the record Hitler was a moron...but is worthy of study both as a person and a military figure imho. He's a very easy guy to "follow" sadly. the only "political" winner of World War 2 was FDR...and he died before the War ended. He only made one battlefield decision...but it was a big one, namely Leyte Gulf imho.

@davess357

8 жыл бұрын

andrew -- Are you high ??

@andrewdoolittle5336

8 жыл бұрын

I'd be more than high if you were the one in charge let alone trying to explain the history of the hapless Army Group South. These clowns should have been wiped out after one month of fighting with Goofy Gert the Staff Guy being Hitler's first public execution. Read David Glantz on this matter as he is totally spot on on what really was the the Russian strategy and how they understood even with Galloping Gert they had Army Group Center right where they wanted them. I do agree Germany could and in fact SHOULD hve defeated the Red Army in 1942 however. The destruction of Kiev was DEVASTATING...then followed up by an even GREATER disaster during the 2nd Battle of Kharkov PLUS Operation Bustard Hunt which was the real gateway to the Caucuses. I think Germany suffered from a lck of imagination when they crossed the Don at Vorehehnz and in a ferocious battle wiped out yet another massive Russian Army. At this point the SENSICAL approach would have been to turn North and take out Moscow once and for all by cutting off its Avenue of retreat and send the 300,000 man Norwegian Army "over the top" taking Murmansk and then wiping out Moscow once and for all. I see nothing the Russian Army holed up in Stalingrad could have done as the German Airforce had complete control of the air still in 1942.

Idiomatic phrase "Captive Romanian" has deeply rooted into Russian language as a synonym for "poor and hungry". Those POWs literally built some of city's factories, roads and other infrostructure, I am talking about Oskemen, Kazakhstan. We still have wasteland called "romanian cemetery". I was a small kid when my father was once mentioned this, it implies that not much of them returned back home, if any realy did. What I think, and I am sure my opinion tallies with thise of the rest of USSR citizens, they have washed away their blood guilt, as well as the rest of German POWs which worked for benefit of soviet industrialization in Sabirea. It might sound too cynical, but they got what they came for - 2 meters of soviet land for each.

Is stephan Walsh on Valium?

@thebrightside4267

7 жыл бұрын

it seems so. I'm sure he's saying some important and interesting stuff but hell I can't understand him. especially if the camera's not on him where I could at least try to read his lips.

@walterm.robertsiiiphd2157

7 жыл бұрын

He gives great info and analysis, but his presentation is like a waiter in a five-star restaurant who explains in luscious detail the ingredients and processes behind the entrees and appetizers.

@cdcopley3404

7 жыл бұрын

They need someone to sign language when he speaks. Or furnish us a lip reader. SPEAK UP STEPHAN!

@mikezinn7212

7 жыл бұрын

Yes!! especially when I just want french fries!

@andylipana5297

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe Maybe not!!!... Best docum. So far🤔!!!... Do it better!!!... Better valium than Pervitin😳🤪...

The boats the Germans we're using for river crossings...... Are those BMW motorcycle engines ? As outbourd engine

Man... that group of mountaineers at 25:00 that planted the flag are lucky as hell... sure their mission was dangerous but at least they were fighting the elements instead of the Russians AND the elements... the Eastern Front such as Stalingrad must be some of the worst fighting humankind has ever had to endure. Hell must be a more welcoming place then Stalingrad was during World War II

"and the Red Army was fleeing into Hell, too." *AND THEY BOTH DECIDED TO DIE TOGETHER THE END.* Move along..

I’d rather watch a good documentary rather than marvel or any other type of fiction that people today lose their shit over.

why the fuk is walsh whispering in all these vids???

@pi6913

5 жыл бұрын

To irritate you. It's working apparently.

I don't think that the soldiers who fought in the battle of the bulge would consider operations citadel to be the last great German offensive. It was bigger but everything was bigger on that front. I think Hitler's offensive at the end of 1944 in the Ardennes was incredibly important though inevitably it was opposed and defeated by the allies and it's spelled the death knell for the Wermacht on the Western front

In Antony Beevor's "Berlin: The Downfall 1945" the author recounts stories of German soldiers retreating into the nation's capital, following a several year's long retreat from Soviet occupied territory in the East. Some of these Wehrmacht soldiers would have invariably come from the detritus of Army Group South. Beevor states that many of these Wehrmacht soldiers had to deal with incredible privation. Soldiers simply did not have the opportunity to change their under clothing for months. Many of us here stateside have dreamed of a hot shower after dealing with a hard day's slog taming the overgrowth within our suburban property, and changing into clean whites after exiting a benevolent bath. To not be afforded the opportunity of showering after months of combat, and when the opportunity arose, if it ever did, to not have a single clean pair of underwear seems beyond unbearable. But when you are dodging bullets. grenades, artillery, air strikes, katusha rocket hits and all other manner of destruction, a day without showering doing gardening work is a plight soldiers on both sides would have gladly substituted into.

Stalingrad exposed what was the fatal flaw in Hitler's plans..What is not ever talked about is that in fact, Von Manstein needed Paulus to breakout was because he lost a good part of his army because of the battle of Rhezev, had he had the Panzers, it is possible that Operation Thunder would have succeeded..

Stain forbid red cross help to red army prisoners who were captured,a thing that is never talked about is that a portion of ussr citizens hated Stalin,their was a large collaboration with the Germans, especially in baltics, Ukraine

The German Army staff planned for everything in great detail. When they murdered Russian civilians and military prisoners, or let them die by neglect, it was not an accident.

@scottyfox6376

5 жыл бұрын

250,000 Werhmacht encircled in Stalingrad with 90,000 surrendered & only 5,000 ever returned. That's 1 German soldier in every 50 surviving the generous conditions supplied by Stalin ! The war brutalized everyone & no-one is innocent. We only helped those Reds as a means to an end but as soon as the WW2 ended guess who was the enemy of the free world ?

@brianwilliams9605

5 жыл бұрын

@@scottyfox6376 3 million Soviet POWs didn't make it home. They were starved or worked to death. It doesn't justify the treatment of German POWs but the Russians fighting back found what happened to their comrades and civilians. The Germans couldn't expect fair treatment after that.

@haroldfiedler6549

5 жыл бұрын

The German Army never murdered any civilians but did kill communist partisans in France, the Balkans and of course occupied Soviet territories. As for Russian soldiers dying from neglect, that's a total non-argument as "liberated" Soviets prisoners were murdered outright by their countrymen or slowly murdered in the Gulag or Siberia. Stalin's own son was captured by the Germans and when Hitler proposed a trade on 2 or 3 occasions, Stalin cold-bloodedly turned them down. He had no more use for his own son than he did for 5.7 million Soviets soldiers captured by the Germans.

@kstreet7438

5 жыл бұрын

Harold Fiedler you are insane if you truly believe your first sentence.

@brufnus

5 жыл бұрын

@@scottyfox6376 Compared to the millions of Red Army prisoners who died in German captivity, I'd say the 85.000 from Stalingrad is a drop in the ocean. The Soviet Union lost four times as many people as Germany.... so I don't feel sorry for the Germans. They started it themselves and paid the price. The only truly innocent are the children.

was that a guy falling at 4:17?

@tonybroderick4808

5 жыл бұрын

It was a squirrel.

rumananian. ? were they from? lol

@ivantnt26

7 жыл бұрын

Rumanian or Romanian are both correct.

Orealy? An objective of Army Group South was Baku during the war gaming? Hardy Har Har. Anyone who dared state that would’ve been beaten to a pulp in 1941.

28:41 What aircraft is that? Does anybody know?

@Martin-fu7io

7 жыл бұрын

Do believe it is a Sukhoi Su-2

@mebeasensei

7 жыл бұрын

Martin Thanks. Looked up S-2 on wiki and it seems like it was replace by the Il-2 although it could fly much faster

The trapped Germans were in no shape to break out. They were starving.

Can anyone tell me the music starting at 11:47?

@HateTheIRS

3 жыл бұрын

I cannot

Hitler never paid a visit to the Region so he knew nothing about Southern Russia. Same said be true of Coastal France oddly enough.

21:54 what that statue mean a crocodile around the kids ?

@mulapare2593

3 жыл бұрын

Actually yes...good eye catch my friend!

Dang that guy in the tree gets pooped on at the 4:00 mark