Much more than one army… 2 Romanian armies 2 Hungarian armies The entire Italian expeditionary force of 250,000 men Half the 4th Panzer army 3rd panzer army was gutted The entire 6th army Everyone just focuses on the 6th army. An entire army group was annihilated. It was such a much larger calamity that turned the tide of the war.

@user-nx5ks3tl6w

7 ай бұрын

Всё верно, но 3 танковой там не было!

@tylerpeck8047

7 ай бұрын

They got gutted with the Russian push out of the Caucuses. I was discussing total losses of the campaign.

@user-nx5ks3tl6w

7 ай бұрын

1 танковая наступала на Кавказ, 4 на Сталинград! 3 танковая и 2 были в центре!

@smokeykitty6023

Ай бұрын

1 in 3 fighting for Germany were foreign troops that Hitler just used as cannon fodder with no intention of giving them a piece of the spoils should they win the war. I'm surprised that they fell for it...

@gggmmmxspace

18 күн бұрын

I’m not interested in saying that the winner was the strong or not or if the fight was right or not… Also because it has been a one of the many tragedies of the war… I just say that Russia used too many troops bad tactic for coordination while Germany at the same time gave not the right support to their their allies… using them just like numbers, so a bad tactic in that kind of scenario… bad strategies and tactics are the turning point of all bad results

So brutal, that the Soviets allowed him to live out his life in luxury in the DDR while his men died in the Gulags.

@MrDomingo55

8 ай бұрын

Most surrendered Germans of 6th army never reached so called Gulags. German 6th army has been on very inadequate rations for months and were actually dying in large numbers even before surrender. One may consider 5% survival rate as very low but that only applies to this specific group of German prisoners. All other captured German prisoners of WW2 has much better odds of survival in captivity. Paulus and other commanders never lacked food during the battle of Stalingrad so were not starving although possibly not as well fed as as would normally be the case. As commanders they had to function at all times.

@althesmith

8 ай бұрын

This is what a lot of people forget. Like the inmates of many of the camps, the Germans had in many cases irreversible physical damage due to the conditions of malnutrition and cold prior to their capture. With the best medical care available, many of them still would have died. Soviets barely had sufficient medical care for their own casualties, let alone for prisoners.

@shhinobii

6 ай бұрын

@@althesmithOn the other hand, Soviet prisoners had 60% death rate in German camps, while Western prisoners had 3-5%. No comment

@slimdiddyd

6 ай бұрын

@@shhinobiithe western countries were signatory to the Geneva convention. The soviets weren’t, and as such were not afforded the same protections as the other allied nations.

@shhinobii

6 ай бұрын

@@slimdiddyd Congratulations, you speak like a true Nazi.

Still can't believe the German high command let this happen..🤦 An entire army ...gone.

@landonlacy1954

9 ай бұрын

Yeah it's pretty crazy. And your absolutely correct in blaming the German high command instead of just Hitler. Many people tend to blame Hitler entirely for many of the disasters the Germans faced during WW2. But the failure to stand up to Hitler for the sake of their men, and their very nation. Is the biggest failure of the German officer corps.

@conceptalfa

9 ай бұрын

They tried to save the 6th army, via Manstein, but it showed impossible to open that westwards corridor, russians of course weren't stupid and knew they are going try that way so they blocked it with everything they had....

@DeepTexas

9 ай бұрын

Hitler was kind of an asshole.

@aurorathekitty7854

9 ай бұрын

They took to much to quick and left their flanks protected by the less equipped less trained Romanians and the cream of the 6th army trapped in Stalingrad and Hitler's obsession of grabbing as much territory as possible retreat wasn't allowed to often

@CorneliuZeleaCodreanu9

9 ай бұрын

​@@aurorathekitty7854romanians were defending with one anti tank gun against an average of 25 russian tanks. It was literally impossible. Not to mention the other numbers, i ll just point out that before the frontline was broken, they haven t received any supplies for 3 days. No food, no ammo, no reinforcements

To this day the real truth has not come out what really transpired between Hitler and Manstein. All we know is what Manstein revealed in his memoirs and which is only clearing his name from this monumental disaster. What we do know with absolute certainty is that Paulus had prepared his army for the anticipated breakout orders and had requested at least three times for the order which never came. Manstein knew that Hitler would not authorize the breakout and hoped once the relief army neared the Stalingrad pocket Hitler would see sense and give the order to break free from the pocket. When the relief failed the whole southern front was in danger of total collapse and to keep the 6th Army fighting became of paramount importance as it tied up substantial Soviet forces which otherwise would be free to ensure the destruction of the entire southern front. Manstein was aware of this and knew the importance of keeping 6th Army engaged. Paulus was blamed but the actual blame lay with his immediate superior Manstein as he never issued the order for the breakout as Hitler had forbidden it and also delayed its surrender which lead to horrific casualties in the days before the actual surrender..

Promotion for Field Marshall , for F. Paulus , was nothing, but message from Berlin "shoot yourself". Also interrogation (there was nothing brutal there), or better to say , short conversation between Rokossovsky ,Voronov and Paulus in Don front HQ , was not first , but second interrogation. First was in Stalingrad, by General Shimilov . In fact, in the documentary, you mix the recordings from two separate interrogations. Footage in Don front HQ as well in Stalingrad, was done by legendary Roman Karmen (close friend of Rokossovsky) , by permission from Don Front commander Rokossovsky. There is on web today , full transcript of booth interrogations. First initial in Stalingrad and second one in Don front HQ. Unlike soldiers , German 6th army high ranking officers lived a sort of comfortable life for the rest of the war in Camp Suzdal, where they were granted military honor and uniforms. Paulus on each interrogation when entered in rooms used Nazi salute. In first interrogation Gen Schmidt and Col. Adam were with Paulus , during second interrogation in Don front HQ, Paulus was alone.

@HeilAmarth

7 ай бұрын

"Officers lived a sort of comfortable life for the rest of the war" Yeah right, for sure people like Paulus coward, who co-operated with Soviets. Dietrich von Saucken disagreed and was beaten to wheel chair for the rest of his life. Like many others.

@centralcoastcommunitywatch

7 ай бұрын

this guy jus made me not watch the video lmao

@azbaroj

7 ай бұрын

Thanks . You give much more information than this KZreadr .

@DanBeech-ht7sw

6 ай бұрын

​@@HeilAmartha coward such as yourself would have no concept about having to take the courageous decision to ignore the monorchid corporal in order to save the lives of the doomed army. Paulus was correct. Had you been a soldier at Stalingrad with your morale sapped after weeks of cold, starvation and being thrown under a bus by the filthy Nazi party, you would have wanted Paulus to surrender earlier. However you would not have been there. You'd have done everything you could to get a job in a concentration camp.

@Garwfechan-ry5lk

6 ай бұрын

Very Correct, mis information about Stalingrad is astounding, mainly by American websites!

Paulus executed several hundred of his soldiers for alleged cowardice. When the Soviets showed up outside his command post the real coward Paulus quickly surrendered to save his own skin.

@user-nx5ks3tl6w

7 ай бұрын

И ты бы сдался если Гитлер так поступил бы с тобой!

@user-ox7xr8nu4t

20 күн бұрын

He went even further than that. During the Nuremberg Trials he betrayed his entire country by claiming that Germany had started WW2 as a "war of aggression", because he told the court that he was part of the team that had laid out the plan, to attack an unspicious and completely innocent Stalinist Russia. And what's even worse: Western Allies completely swallowed the story.

@vladcraioveanu233

20 күн бұрын

Why he ordered the killing of those Germans who gave up? ​@@user-nx5ks3tl6w

@NelsonMandela961

16 күн бұрын

source?

@user-ox7xr8nu4t

16 күн бұрын

He cut a deal with the Russians, betrayed his country at Nuremberg and lived a comfy life in former East Germany under the Communists.

Hitler: "I still promoted him to quarterback." What is this? The SuperBowl? 😢 8:25

Was that brutal interrogation, you got to be kidding!!!🤔🧐💤💤💤💤

@jeffclark7888

9 ай бұрын

Precisely. Embarrassing.

@maryannallen9885

15 күн бұрын

I think these videos are posted by people that don’t speak English. So they’re not sure on how to use words in the English language. Cut them some slack

@Frozenduckling

15 күн бұрын

@@maryannallen9885it’s posted by ai bots

The title is a misnomer. The conversation did not seem brutal at all.

@ramuner2816

6 ай бұрын

Exactly!!!

@Rocky-sn6fl

6 ай бұрын

Yes it is.

@thecappeningchannel515

6 ай бұрын

Clickbait. He also confusedly mixed the first two interviews with Paulus.

@ericsonhazeltine5064

2 күн бұрын

Agreed

My Grandfather, an Italian POW who escaped from a Russian POW camp and made it back to Western Europe in 1949, said then they were marched to Russia in the snow, if anyone stopped to help someone who fell they were immediately shot dead. At the POW camp they were given one potato a day and cup of water. Those without skills were made to work outside and most died but those with trades were made to work in factories and he was put to a work in a fighter aircraft factory to rivet parts together. He said the Russian people were not bad and not much better off than them but at the time most had extremely low education or none at all. The prisoners were told the war was not over but when they started seeing the name of the countries where some of the parts where made they became suspicious and came to the conclusion that the war must have ended. When they escaped, they spread out in smaller groups and were chased and I believe some were caught. Of those who escaped, they had to go through the snow and survive off the land and some got bad frostbite and had to be left behind as they did not have the strength to carry them. I think some died in hospital when they arrived as well, at the 'river Danube', not sure exactly which city but it could be as far as Austria. Because they weren't 100% sure the war was over they were in hiding all the time and looked shockingly bad when they finally entered a city.

@andrewgates8158

19 күн бұрын

Slave system marxism

That was a fantastic video. Always wondered what happened during the interrogation.

@janpierzchala2004

8 ай бұрын

nothing particularly brutal I am sure

@YThome7

19 күн бұрын

Russians are "brutal" indeed :-)

Thank you very much for this amazing content. Ive literally binge watched 10 videos so far excellent presentation and very well made for the History nerds like me thanks so much.

The surviving soldiers never forgave Pauli’s.

@terryadams2652

8 ай бұрын

Paulus obviously surrendered himself (since he didn't want to end his own life at the time of capture), just didn't want to admit it. He was a dishonest coward.

@janvusnic

8 ай бұрын

How do you know? They had a death wish???

@gunguide9201

8 ай бұрын

It is true...

@Radbot776

6 ай бұрын

It wasn’t Paulus it was Hitler Paulus wanted to retreat

I admire and thank you for the material you put out on your channel. One thing I find myself wondering whenever I come back to Stalingrad.. are there any known accounts or recollections from any of the 5,000 German soldiers who actually made it back to their homes?

@bpaulb880

9 ай бұрын

there are some. they are in the ww2 stories series on you tube.

@yuryskrip5500

8 ай бұрын

There's the whole book. It's called 'The betrayed soldiers'. The author, Helmut Velts (or maybe Welts, i am not sure) was a commander of the pioneer battalion and was captured during the general surrender of the 6th Army. It's one of the best discription of the battle of Stalingrad that I know.

@davidroberttaylor57

8 ай бұрын

'Breakout at Stalingrad' by Heinrich Gerlach written whilst in captivity.

@jeffreyball6618

8 ай бұрын

@@yuryskrip5500 i hope to read it

@cazzodicanio

7 ай бұрын

​@@yuryskrip5500 Helmut Welz - Verratene Grenadiere I don't know, if this book exists in English.

Everything I read about Paulus' conduct after capture, makes me think less and less of him. He and his staff cared way more about their image, food they were served, and so on, and next to nothing about their men. And while Hitler taught the Soviets would torture him, leaving him to rot in a Lubianka cell and shoot him after months of agony, Paulus simply collaborated. While only 5k of the captured common soldiers made it back to Germany alive. To think that Paulus had an active hand in designing the plans of the brutal invasion,.yet he suffered less.

@richardsymonds5159

8 ай бұрын

My Mother in Law was a Wartime nurse in Ayr Hospital Scotland and was appalled at the callous attitude of Captured Officers towards their men under treatment there. So why would Paulus be any different?!!

@persimmontea6383

7 ай бұрын

He redeemed himself at Nuremberg when the Nazi thugs tried to cast the invasion of Russia as an act of self defense. Paulus testified that he knew it was an act of aggression.

@Demy1970

7 ай бұрын

Paulus was a paper pusher who was in way over his head

@davelorenz3285

7 ай бұрын

@@richardsymonds5159❤l

@RichardSmith-ew3xz

7 ай бұрын

The German Officer class the “junkers” were the equivalent of the British landed gentry, who are the Senior Officers in the British Army. These people still have servants. They inhabit a different world from most of us. They have a sense of entitlement and privilege. We are peasants to these people. We are the blood that wins their medals and promotions.

If he was a great general, he should have saved many soldiers by violating orders and breaking through the siege like SS Hauser. Even if he failed. But he was a petty, indecisive, and cowardly commander.If the 6th Army was a dead ex-commander, it would. Marshal behavior after the surrender was worse than that of the private first class.He sat in front of a warm stove as his men died in the camp.The tragedy of the Sixth Army is that the commander was Faulus.

@janvusnic

8 ай бұрын

Yes , and then press "save game" to save progress.

@charleschauffe5884

8 ай бұрын

Totally agree- Paulus knew what was happening, he should have immediately withdrawn to save the 6th Army, consequences from Berlin command be damned! Did he really think his soldiers were going to be cared for by the Russians? What a joke! That weasel Paulus surrendered, then defected to save his own skin. We can only speculate as to what would have happened if the 6th Army survived the encirclement. My view is that it may have prolonged Germany's defense, but nothing was going to stop eventual Russian invasion, especially with Germany fighting 2 fronts and dwindling supplies, while the U.S. was pumping out supplies & equipment at light speed for the Allies.

@MVProfits

8 ай бұрын

Yessss. To all you wrote.

@MrDomingo55

8 ай бұрын

I would suggest you all stop throwing mud and go and watch TIK channel's series on Stalingrad.

@Joe_Peroni

8 ай бұрын

@@charleschauffe5884 "The weasel Paulus"? The situation was HOPELESS. They had 4 options: freeze to death, starve to death, wait to be killed by the Russians, or surrender. Surrendering was the only hope in hell they had of surviving. And just to add to his misery, Paulus had dysentery.

Paulus' fate was far better than many of his countrymen who died of cold, starvation, torture and mutilation in the battlefields and in the Gulags. He also had his revenge on his Nazi superiors at the Nuremberg trials. Yes, he was monitored under East German secret police until his death. His life of comparative peace and living to an old age.

@arefkr

6 ай бұрын

He died in 1957 at age of 67, which is not really that old.

@givannijonckheere6475

5 ай бұрын

True!

@hollowgonzalo4329

17 күн бұрын

@arefkr You should see how young his men were

@Cyd99

16 күн бұрын

@@arefkrit is for a Stalingrad veteran.

Great job, Goering.

Von Paulus should have followed his own military instinct and retreated before his entire Army got encircled by Russians. His refusal to disobey Hitler’s insane demand caused the destruction of his Army. He violated the trust his soldiers had on his leadership. The basic tenet of not getting encircled and avoiding the pincer movement by your enemy is ingrained in every junior officers of any military and Paulus knew that as well and yet he allowed his Army to fall into that trap, just because idiot Hitler told him to stand his ground at Stalingrad.

@IEATU95

6 ай бұрын

I am a nationalist but I agree hitler was a terrible tactician and destroyed our national armies, fuck him

@yuvi3738

6 ай бұрын

This is completely false

@CsImre

6 ай бұрын

His name was Friedrich Paulus, no "von", he wasn't a nobleman (nor a Prussian) contrary to many other top German officers.

@ArizonaAirspace

6 ай бұрын

@@CsImre I guess you are right about that.

When your commanding officer surrenders, that is being a quitter. A sad message to his brave troops.

What exactly was brutal about the Paulus interrogation ?! Had he been tortured ? Or offended ? As far as I am informed,as a captured german Field Marshal he had a propagandistical value and received quite a high class treatment. Later on he was placed in a russian datcha,even with a private cook. While his soldiers as POW were dying like flies.

@mercomania

8 ай бұрын

Allowed to live out his life in comfort in the DDR while his men died in the Gulags.

@jeffreyball6618

8 ай бұрын

Sad

@user-nx5ks3tl6w

7 ай бұрын

Когда то было по другому?

@mercomania

7 ай бұрын

While his men died. Shame on him.

It's somehow typical that Paulus was upset about his rank. Especially since he was promoted to Filed Marshall PRECISELY because no German Marshall was supposed to ever be taken alive in the event of defeat. His 'honour' was seemingly ,shall we say, selective.

@eamonnmurphy5385

8 ай бұрын

I think if you are a soldier in custody, you might be expected to inform your captors of your proper rank. Also, is it dishonorable to surender in his circumstances where all is lost and you have done your best in the circumstances. It's quite feasable that Paulus being a Catholic had no intention of ever committing suicide as it was against his beliefs.

@momeara7482

7 ай бұрын

It was hardly Paulus's fault that the madman had decided to promote him.

This is what operational hubris and a belief the Soviets were finished does. The Russians proved to be more resilient then the Germans realized. Paulus had no other option but to surrender.

@SuperNevile

3 ай бұрын

That, and massively extended German supply lines (Napoleon had the same problem in Moscow). There was only so much that could be supplied by air. Hitler had an obsession with taking a city named after his nemesis, and expected his troops to hold it to the death. It was his vision not theirs. Any retreat from there, after a 'breakout' would have been harried by the Soviets (that happened with Napoleon too), with I expect, the same massive losses. Heads you lose, Tails you lose. The Soviets had moved a lot of production east of the Volga, by this stage of the war and had armies, tanks and artillery ready to move west. I keep asking myself, how much "lebensraum" did Germany think it "needed"?

Hardly brutal. Asked if he needed anything before being questioned.

@CarlMartin-hw3ev

Ай бұрын

Standard procedure, Einstein. Otherwise they won't cooperate, and all interrogation is a waste of time. Study war much? Methinks not.

How do you think you will feel if you are in captivity in a foreign country without knowing what will happen to your life? You simply can't think straight anymore. Living on rations for months, severely emaciated, suffering a psychological collapse due to the pressure on his shoulders, will he ever see his family, let alone Germany, again. This is not Paul's fault but Hitler's fault. If Hitler had listened to Paulus, everyone would have gotten out alive.

What was brutal about the interrogation - the only brutality was his inability to sign the order to save many men's lives.

@givannijonckheere6475

5 ай бұрын

true!

Brutal!you are having a laugh, I went through far worse on the escape and evasion part of my senior NCO's course.

Cool stuff.

Yes, it was correct that after Paulus surrendered that he not order the remaining fighting soldiers to surrender. With the loss of a leader in the military, leadership falls to the senior person present and it is his decision on whether to continue fighting or surrender. Isolated groups could still offer resistance, possibly return to their own lines or choose to surrender if the conditions warranted it. In my opinion, when an officer surrenders his forces, the only thing he commands is those POWs with him. This was the mistake that Wainwright made in the Philippines when he ordered all forces to surrender, sending thousands of US and Philippine soldiers into captivity even though there were still many capable of fighting on the other islands. The issue is Hitler ordering Paulus to continue fighting while surrounded instead of attempting a breakout when they still had the ability to do so. Hitler's propaganda machine had already told Germany that Stalingrad was captured and Hitler wasn't about to order a retreat. Instead he let the 6th Army be destroyed and then in March of 1943 he created a new one from scratch. That new 6th Army surrendered to the US Army in May 1945.

@eze8970

9 ай бұрын

They never really had the ability to breakout, the Axis were already too short of fuel, fighting troops, ammunition & other supplies, which is why their offensive stalled in the first place. The Axis main lorry park & a tank repair depot were captured early on (as the lorries had no fuel). You cannot just disengage when surrounded, & have to move your attacking troops & all supplies into position, whilst still maintaining the line. The Axis had huge numbers of support troops, but experienced fighting men were a lot thinner on the ground. The German plan to do this itself would take 1-2 weeks. By that time, the Soviets had advanced too far for the very limited Axis fuel, ammunition & food reserves. In reality, the Axis troops would have advanced out into the open, in snowy, freezing winter weather. Operationally, there was no reason to retreat either, as erroneously, the Luftwaffe said they could resupply, the German Army High Command still thought this was another localised Soviet breakthrough, & Hitler knew they couldn't replace the 6th Army heavy weapons. He couldn't attack in this area again without them.

@donbrashsux

8 ай бұрын

Hitlers vision was already lost .. I feel for all those poor soldiers 🙏

@baguiokid2

7 ай бұрын

The new 6th Army surrendered to the Americans and the following day were turned over to the Soviets. After the train ride to Russia at the train station, all 2,500 POW's were ordered to strip to their underwear and marched to the camp (15km) being pelted and stoned by the locals. Total humiliation!

@cwolf8841

6 ай бұрын

Paulus didn't surrender. He was captured by the Soviets.

@cwolf8841

6 ай бұрын

@@baguiokid2 The 6th Army was basically destroyed. Surrender to Americans?! There were no American units in Russia.

Sadly, both the Soviets & Nazis treated each others' prisoners of war appallingly - so many died unnecessarily.

Brutal interrogation ? It all sounded very gentlemanly to me.

From what was shown about the interrogation, where is the brutality?

Just read "The lighthouse of Stalingrad"the previous unpunished memoirs of one Fritz Roske who was instrumental in the fighting for the city a good read!

@user-nx5ks3tl6w

6 ай бұрын

Вильгельма Адама, адъютанта 6 армии!

At the beginning U have stated that "it was December 1943".This is not correct, it's December 1942.

I happaneed ro read the detailed discription of Paulus interrogation. There was nothing 'brutal' about it. Right to the contrary, it was very correct.

He was treated well, compared to the rest. 90,000 German prisoners were walked into the Russian wilderness, upon surrender. 5 years later, only 5000, made it home to Germany. As a previous commenter said, he lived a life of relative luxury in East Germany.

@YThome7

19 күн бұрын

I used to work with some former German PWO. Amazing, I can't even post words of some of them because you wouldn't believe me. One recalled that all prison wards were women because all Soviet men were at the front. That German was telling me with laughter that he even had sex with some of the Russian wards. Those three PWO spoke good Russian, they were engineers, understood Russian humor, it was easy and interesting to work with them. It was a huge industrial project of German company in the USSR, I learned a lot from them. On one occasion on very cold winter night our small bus got stuck in the middle of nowhere just 150 km from Moscow. Suddenly one of German PWO told in German to his fellow Germans that that was the place where he had fought his last battle before he had been wounded and taken prisoner. He was in his mid-fifties but in a great shape: tall, handsome, well groomed, well dressed. All these times one of our engineers was silent and gloomy. I knew that Russian guy very well, he was a decorated veteran of war: he looked like a seventy-year-old man, shabbily dressed, horrible teeth and dentistry made of stainless steel, his unshaven face all in wrinkles. He smoked nonstop. I translated few phrases of German conversation for that Russian. He pulled up his trousers and showed prostatic leg and said, "I lost my leg here". I felt sick in my stomach. He Russian man won the war - Germans lost. It turned out the German and the Russian were of the same age. These one of the stories that hunts me often.

@YThome7

4 күн бұрын

Werner von Braun, a high ranking Nazi, a technical deputy chief of Pine Munde concentration camp lived a real luxury life in the USA and together with another 147 Nazi built "american" Appollo project. Germans joke, it is good that there are no winds on the moon, otherwise everybody would see what is on the reverse side of American flag.

The Soviet generals behaved well; Paulus could have saved lives by ordering his men to surrender.

@liamanderson4992

15 күн бұрын

The Soviet Generals might have behaved well, but the prisoners would have fallen into the hands of the KGB. Listening to this, I can see 3 motivations for Paulus refusing to surrender (Not saying he was right) 1. Ego 2. Hopes of survival. He may have been thinking that if somehow Germany won or made a peace agreement, then if he had signed that order, Hitler would have had him shot 3. Bargaining chip. As long as he hasn't, but still can, sign that order, the Soviets needed him alive. Once his signature is on the document, they don't need him any more.

@rlkinnard

15 күн бұрын

@@liamanderson4992 And German troops had not behaved extremely well in their stay in the USSR and may have caused some negative feelings in the local population.

The most dramatic part of Paulus's story is when he showed up as a witness for the Nuremberg trial. The other Not-zees thought he was dead. But Paulus exacted his revenge.

@IEATU95

6 ай бұрын

He was a traitor and he is not in Valhalla.

The interrogation of Paulus was not brutal.

If "Stalingrad" had still be named "Wolgagrad" these armies could have made a strategic retreat. They died for Hitler's pride.

Paulus later turned on Hitler to save his own hide in my opinion.Hitler only made two public speeches in all of 1943 and one was on the battle at Stalingrad in a subdued monotone.

If it would have saved lives, either Soviet or German, he should have signed it.

*The attempt of Paulus to deny his surrender sounds bogus and I believe this play on words between being captured by surprise after terms of the surrender had been negotiated at his orders and his surrender was what was to be expected from a clever adolescent not a field marshal. I doubt anyone believed that the troops in the northern part of the ruined city were not under the authority of Paulus, including the field marshal himself. By refusing to order his men in the north to surrender, he was condemning them to certain death and since when did an army refuse the command of a field marshal? Paulus was a clever man and he was toying with the Soviets, unaware that his world and his values were collapsing. He was a Nazi who must have known that he had disappointed his Führer by being the first field marshal to be taken from his basement hiding place.*

@captainhurricane5705

9 ай бұрын

They weren't under his command.

@jean6872

9 ай бұрын

@@captainhurricane5705 I have no expertise in military law and cannot give an expert opinion regarding command authority of an army which has been split into three parts by an enemy. Perhaps it is the case that the highest ranking officer in a pocket has higher authority than a field marshal considered in command of the whole army. I am of the opinion which concurs with the Soviets that Field Marshal Paulus had authority over the beaten 6th but he acted in a sly manner by claiming he was not a party to the surrender although it was done by subordinates and he refused to order his men, even in the southern pocket where he was found, to surrender according to the terms, claiming that these soldiers were no longer under his command as he was a P.O.W. A nice try from a crafty Nazi.

@cellardoor9882

9 ай бұрын

sign or didn't sign, it would make absolutely no difference

@jean6872

9 ай бұрын

@@cellardoor9882 I'm not so sure.

@jeffreyball6618

8 ай бұрын

@@jean6872 cowàrd. Punk

What's brutal about talking to a guy

Army Group B overextended by continuing beyond Voronezh. Reaching the Don was a vast overextension. By mid-October General Paulus's forces beyond the Don would not have been able to escape encirclement.

@BossDropbear

7 ай бұрын

That makes the entire Fall Blau operation an overextension ... in hindsight yes, at the time less so. Stalingrad was not supposed to be a decisive meeting point at all. Paulus's job was to screen Army Group A's drive for oil in the Caucasus Mountains, Grozny first and then Baku. As it turned out Germany did not have enough force to achieve its aims, hence overextension. Not immediately apparent in the first phase of Fall Blau, but it was to Zhukov in September and to everyone but Hitler by early November.

Stalingrad never fell, it was defended and liberated

Paulus only defence was that he was in fact captured, and did not surrender that's why he wouldn't sign the document, Surrendering his remaining men.

@thecappeningchannel515

6 ай бұрын

You cant issue orders after you're a POW. Doesnt matter how you became one.

Me thinks Paulus suspected he woulda been executed had he teturned to Germany against Hitler's orders, & not signing the surrender somehow was he keeping face & at the same time throwing a bone to the Hitler regime.

The title is totally absurd: 'brutal' --e.g. they asked him if he had any special dietary needs. "Infamy"? such words echo Hitler's position alone. Is that what you intended?

A true general would have broken out of the pocket when he had the chance and saved his army his message to hitler should have been Stuff you.

@Occident.

9 ай бұрын

The nearest German lines were 59 miles away. They only had enough fuel to go 30 miles in a breakout. They would have been caught in the open step and slaughtered. They had no option but to stay put and resist.

@barryrammer7906

9 ай бұрын

Seydlitz broke out leaving Paulus flank exposed. Then after he did that he told Paulus. Paulus said you dont need instructions from me run your own army.

Mistake 1.Paulus held on to stalingrad on Hitler's orders...Went things went sideways ..He still heeded Hitler....2.once surrounded Hitler sent Manstien to free Paulus..But were stopped within 25 km from stalingrad..Paulus did not listen to Manstien (in his book ,If I remember correct) to break out simultaneously as the rescue was on...to link up....Manstien was forced to withdraw other wise his army too would have been encircled....

@ralph-vk4ql

9 ай бұрын

I think he was following Hitler's orders not to retreat as Hitler and Goebbels had already planned their heroic sacrifice. I could be wrong. If so let me know.

@hajime2k

9 ай бұрын

Manstein never gave Paulus the breakout order, according to TIK. By the time Manstein started his way delayed push, the Soviets brought up a fresh army to secure the outer encirclement. Manstein knew he couldn't relieve the pocket, which is why he never gave Paulus the breakout order, especially when the air supplies never gave the 6th Army enough supplies to even attempt a breakout or relief.

@judetexeira753

8 ай бұрын

@@ralph-vk4ql Right...cause stalingrad blocked a huge Russian army..which could have been used elsewhere

@judetexeira753

8 ай бұрын

@@hajime2k In his book..Manstien did mention that he did give the breakout order to paulus...IF I remember correctly.

@sdssds1086

7 ай бұрын

@@judetexeira753 He lied to save face after the war.

Paulus was a classical Prussian mlitarist type. He was one of the chief architects of the gigantic gamble that was the Barbarossa Plan. Other high-rankers were principally against this crazy endevour. The utter defeat in the Case Blau campaign and the imprisonment brought him into contact with reality outside the Nazi Exceptionalist Bubble. The Aryan Miracle wasn't happening. This rethink brought him to deep and sincere pacifism. Of course, West German elite, which never repented, preferred to write him off as a coward.

brutal interrogation or polite discussion over tea

I think Paulas had no right ti surrender his men who would be treated far more Harshly than he was. He surrendered them to a death cult, he surrendered them to slow dishonorable deaths. Much like the Marines who surrendered to the Japanese on Wake Island it would have been better to fight to the last bayonet.

@mp9313

14 күн бұрын

>80% of German PoWs returned home from Soviet captivity, so he did not really surrender them to slow dishonorable death.

Only person to blame Paulus He should have ordered the army to pull out But he let thousands to die and get captured Then Has coward he was surrendered to save his own skin The man had no balls

@user-nx5ks3tl6w

7 ай бұрын

Как ты можешь обвинять его, не побывав ши в его положении, у них у всех были яйца в отличие от современных приматов, но на тот момент они уже были тухлыми!

Hitler learns that Paulus surrendered to the Soviets: " No, no, you guys, I'm not doing the bit again. I'm sick of it and I'm out of pencils".

I think Paulus had some kind of breakdown

Hitler was playing way above his station of competence by assuming the high command. He was a painter, a dreamer, an ideologue, and a propagandist of highest order. But Hitler was a corporal, incompetent in military strategy. Hitler was full of himself, a gambler who ruined Germany, and Europe, and we live with the consequences today.

ivan most likely wasn't too enamored with Paulus and his men . As we know they went down in defeat but it took a heavy toll in order to secure victory .

Paulus and his Officers were treated IAW the Geneva Conventions with good food and housing. Their troops were sent to camps to perform slave labour and nearly all of them died. Paulus and his Officers went home to Germany and lived quiet lives until they died of natural causes.

@tomflendodo7297

8 ай бұрын

YES !!!! ALL of the German Soldiers were Sent to Labor Camps In SIBERIA !!! Most of them DIED There!!!!!!!!!

@janvusnic

8 ай бұрын

How were Soviet prisoners treated? I was in Mathausen near Berlin , 70 000 were killed in their first week during "medical examinations"

@HeinzGuderian_

8 ай бұрын

@@janvusnic they were treated horribly by the Germans. My point (obvious as it is) is the difference in treatment of those in charge vs those who simply followed orders. Those in charge should have been held to the same standard.

@cheeto8960

8 ай бұрын

Almost all died before the camps because they starving for a few months before and getting typhus and soviets also took 100k> Romanian and Hungarian soldiers and it was hard to feed everyone

@HeinzGuderian_

8 ай бұрын

@@cheeto8960 true, but misses my point. None of the Command Staff suffered at all after capture, other than maybe getting their feelings hurt. They were all treated IAW the Geneva Convention while the men who followed their orders were sent off to die in captivity.

I used to work with some former German PWO. Amazing, I can't even post words of some of them because you wouldn't believe me. One recalled that all prison wards were women because all Soviet men were at the front. That German was telling me with laughter that he even had sex with some of the Russian wards. Those three PWO spoke good Russian, they were engineers, understood Russian humor, it was easy and interesting to work with them. It was a huge industrial project of German company in the USSR, I learned a lot from them. On one occasion on very cold winter night our small bus got stuck in the middle of nowhere just 150 km from Moscow. Suddenly one of German PWO told in German to his fellow Germans that that was the place where he had fought his last battle before he had been wounded and taken prisoner. He was in his mid-fifties but in a great shape: tall, handsome, well groomed, well dressed. All these times one of our engineers was silent and gloomy. I knew that Russian guy very well, he was a decorated veteran of war: he looked like a seventy-year-old man, shabbily dressed, missing teeth and bad dentistry made of stainless steel, his unshaven face all in wrinkles of an earthy color. He smoked nonstop. I translated few phrases of German conversation for that Russian. He pulled up his trousers and showed prostatic leg and said, "I lost my leg here". I felt sick in my stomach. It turned out the German and the Russian were of the same age though the Russian looked horribly old and worn out. The Russian won the war - the German lost. These is one of the stories that hunts me often.

He ended up teaching in the Soviet military academy for few years after the war.

@user-nx5ks3tl6w

7 ай бұрын

Не правда, ему нечего было преподать Победителям!

@michaelpelzek8882

6 ай бұрын

​@@user-nx5ks3tl6w oh so America and the soviets had no interest in anything German cough cough scientist because they were the winners?

@Cbr978

5 ай бұрын

@@user-nx5ks3tl6wyou lost 30 million people to win, you suck.

Apparently Paulus was abandoned to his fate by the German high command who failed to send any type of supplies, weapons. It's as if the high German command betrayed Paulus, which led Paulus to surrender.

Paulus did not sign it because of his fear of criticism back home in Germany. How they would perceive a signed note by a Field Marshall surrendering like a coward.

Promoted him to quarterback?!!

The video mixes the two interrogations of Paulus. The first one was in Stalingrad, the other one in hq in Don.

@Ukraineaissance2014

6 ай бұрын

He said that.

First of all it was not brutal and second, you have mixed 2 separate interrogations that took place in different places and with different people into one. Next time do more research, this is a mess.

I doubt very much that Hitler used the word "quarterback" in referring to Paulus.

Paulus "I will not shoot myself for that corporal."

11:00 I was stationed in Germany during the 70s and talked with Germans who lived through it. They told me that most, at the time, tuned into the BBC because the German radio news stations were constantly were reporting that the war was being won by attrition and victory was in sight. The BBC report was always 100% accurate even when things were not going well for the allies. They told me that everyone knew the war at a certain point that the war was not going well and they also knew that in mid 43 the war was over and it was just a matter of time. Plus soldiers were coming back from the front missing an arm or leg(s). They were telling people it's over. When the Germans found out that a bomb was placed in a room where Hitler was, everyone knew exactly what it was all about and were hoping that he was dead, because it would mean there would be a surrender and the invasion into the country would not come about, only to find out he survived.

@mrwhips3623

6 ай бұрын

Lol that was the opinion of everyone

@KR72534

5 ай бұрын

Perhaps they told you what they thought you wanted to hear. After all, the war went on years longer and the Germans did not fight like demoralized men.

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He didn’t Surrender, he was captured, and everything he said or did in the following days was correct. It’s the ameriKans that are bewildered that the Man followed his orders to the end. Everything would have been different only if Von Riechenau hadn’t had a heart attack and died, enabling such a weak man to be placed in charge of the best Army Germany had.

I heard he had wine and all kinds of goodies

I'm not shooting myself for this bohemian corporal!

everyone likes to say Paulus should have resisted til the end from the comfort of their home but the Nazi troops where under-fed, low on fuel and weapons and during the Rasputisa, Russian Arctic winter..

Paulus and the higher part of the German Army are not prepared to deal with one ideological and crazy leader

The Germans who surrendered were in very poor physical condition. Was their high death rate due to that or mistreatment by the Russians?

@user-nx5ks3tl6w

7 ай бұрын

А что им нужно было выдать талоны на усиленное питание?

Don't deal with serious things anymore, because that's not what you're for... When they brought Paulus, at first they didn't believe that it was him, because he failed extremely well, so they asked him to identify himself and immediately at the beginning of the questioning, Paulus started whining, expecting to be treated as an officer, presenting himself as a tourist who came to tour, not to war…

Soviet request that Paulus sign an order to soldiers under his command to lay down arms is a just one.

He became a general in the DDR after the war.

@user-nx5ks3tl6w

7 ай бұрын

Фельдмаршалом!

I have never heard that statistic before. More than half of the 91,000 captured died in the first 2 months of captivity. Probably marched every day in the freezing cold to Siberia.

Paulass thought of the national disgrace his surrender meant.

Where that sympathy for the Nazi comes from?

You left A LOT out

Hitler promoted him to quarterback? 😅😅😅 How does a mistranslation like that happen

Wow!!! as someone very interested in ww2, 3:40 blew my mind! it reveals so much about the mentality of Paulus and all the Germans. Very interesting! Paulus, to my understanding was more of a secretary than a general. He was nothing like Guderian or Rommel. He was a lickspittle whose career was built on carrying briefcases at meetings. One could argue he was the least able to be thrust into the center of the battle of the century, but such is fate.

@centralcoastcommunitywatch

7 ай бұрын

guderian was wack af

@fdllicks

7 ай бұрын

@@centralcoastcommunitywatch thanks for your well thought out, and coherent point. You could not be bothered to add anything useful, but you did put the effort into entering a swear word. I imagine your work here is pretty consistant with all the "work" you do in your real life.

@centralcoastcommunitywatch

7 ай бұрын

instead of attacking me, go check on yo momma's diabetes. guderian was hitlers lapdog. he knew the war was lost by 1943 yet accepted appointments with flashy titles and allowed german soldiers to be slaughtered. he did not stand up for what he believed in and is a shame to the officer class of the otherwise worthy prussian military. he was also not tried for war crimes which is hilarious. guderian politicked to save his own skin, not his country or his soldiers or german civilians. you must be related. pansy.@@fdllicks

@ltmund

6 ай бұрын

I really don't see Paulus like that. He was the scapegoat of the entire failure. I really can't see Rommel or Guderian fairing any better. The Soviets had won as soon as the decision to push for Moscow first was made instead of going for the oil.

Brutal?!

@conceptalfa

9 ай бұрын

Wondering the same!!!???🤔🧐 I'd take that interrogation under those grave circumstances any day!!!

Another wonderful historical coverage of the ultra bleak circumstances of the six army in Stalingrad .was shared by a respectful ( War academy)channel. Thanks for sharing. I think Marshall Paulus had no other option 🤔 what he did ... brutal interrogation wasn't suitable and equivalent to what the six army troops did and suffered, including Marshall (Paulus)... and sacrificed. When Marshall Paulus refused Soviets demands ,he recorded the last brave attitude in capitulate condition

@MVProfits

8 ай бұрын

Brave? He chose a brave death for his men while choosing capture and collaboration for himself!

The sub text is click bait.

Paulus contradicts himself: @5:26, "They wouldn't obey it anyway, since If I had surrendered, as you say, then that means that I have ceased to be their commander.", So, which way is it? *Paulus says he didn't surrender (just captured),* but then he says his troops won't obey his order to surrender since he surrendered.

Well , he got promoted to Quarter Back . That must have been a great consolation in the end .

Paulus died an old man. Most of his men weren't so lucky.

to say Goebbels correctly, say gebbels with your lips rounded.

Paulus should have disobeyed hitler and pulled out of stalingrad when he had the chance to do so.

@CarlMartin-hw3ev

Ай бұрын

If I were Paulus, I would have done so, knowing that I would lose my life to Hitler, but saved the lives of all my surviving soldiers.

War ? Is it any better this year? 🙏. RIP

I understand that Paulus asked Hitler for permission to break out and save the 6th army, but was refused, had Paulus been given permission to breakout, would have saved many soldiers, it's obvious to me that Hitler was to blame, not Paulus.

There was no brutal interrogation of Paulus. He was treated kindly and with respect. All the generals in Sovjet captivity was treaded cordially. Although most of them were asholes.

Von Paulus was NOT Brutally interrogated, he was treated as were the other Officers with respect and decency, with adequate food and literature to read, Stalin wanted to turn these officers with Truth about the War, many turned and worked with the Russians. Fact!

8:29 Paulus promoted to Quarterback.

Strategic circumstances buried an isolated Paulus ...Hitler running war made it happen ..