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    The Road to Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War 2, it also changed the face of modern warfare. In August 1942 Hitler’s huge sixth army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost. In this dramatic programme, based on the definitive book by Professor John Erickson, the true tale unfolds with the use of gripping archival footage. In an astonishing reversal of fortunes the Russians encircle and trap their Nazi enemy. This is the story of the epic battle for the ruins of a city that cost more than a million lives.
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  • @user-gw0k3b4s3dhh
    @user-gw0k3b4s3dhh Рік тому +23

    The Greatest Story Never Told

    • @den264
      @den264 3 місяці тому +4

      The two world wars is the greatest story ever. This component of the second world war is the greatest battle ever told.

    • @TheWorld-xs8ly
      @TheWorld-xs8ly 2 місяці тому

      😂😅

    • @iamconsumerrr
      @iamconsumerrr Місяць тому

      ​​@@den264yeah. Two world war were started by bankers Federal Reserved System. They won in 1944, Bretton-Woods agreements. Now they controll the World. (CIA, governments, world organizations, corporations, NASA etc)

    • @msasal-ks5nl
      @msasal-ks5nl Місяць тому +3

      its been told since 1946.

    • @user-uy8wx4pk4h
      @user-uy8wx4pk4h 14 днів тому

      Yea this doc is j-ish propaganda. 5 minutes in and I turned it off

  • @viorelpiscanu9425
    @viorelpiscanu9425 9 місяців тому +18

    Many thanks for your videos regarding WW2 in the East....very good history lessons even today..... Humans have short memories unfortunatelly....

  • @gregorywhite9095
    @gregorywhite9095 9 місяців тому +3

    My fascination with the invasion of the USSR and the siege of Stalingrad knows no bounds. This documentary is one of the best retellings of these events. But the puerile ads that interrupt it make me question the ultimate value of the sacrifices made.

  • @deltasquire
    @deltasquire 2 роки тому +123

    Jimmy Duggin deserves to be recognized for his writing. Images are wonderful and support the words, but the words the narrator speaks are what makes this the best doc on the Eastern Front I have ever seen. It has done much to add to my understanding of many things, but also of what is happening in Ukrane as I write. Kudos.

    • @nobodyspecial4702
      @nobodyspecial4702 2 роки тому +17

      Too bad this version of history is a little short on accuracy and pushes forward a pretty English-centric viewpoint. Things like "It would be 18 months to 2 years before Britain herself would be capable of mounting an attack on the mainland of Europe..." which was only possible because the US poured hundreds of thousands of soldiers and almost unlimited equipment for all the allies into England to invade Europe and which only happened when US generals told Churchill, who had repeatedly vetoed any invasion of the mainland, they didn't care if he was against an invasion since it would be US forces which provided the vast majority of men and materiel for one. English planning amounted to an invasion of Africa, another wasteful invasion of Italy and years of delays. And Polish cavalry never charged tanks.

    • @bcalvert321
      @bcalvert321 Рік тому +6

      @@nobodyspecial4702 Yes Poland Calvary did charge German tanks. Netflix WW2 in Color also has documentation of it. As for Churchhill, he did not want to invade France because He thought no one had a chance. He was almost right. It took the blunders of Hitler and the slowness of the German Generals to regroup and find out where the actual invasion was taking place before they could regroup together and fight back as one army. But it was close to ending on the beaches as Rommel had predicted.

    • @nobodyspecial4702
      @nobodyspecial4702 Рік тому +7

      ​@@bcalvert321 "Almost right" doesn't matter. If the Germans had their act together and rushed their tanks to the beaches to stop the invasion....they would have been destroyed by the guns of the naval vessels and air support long before they ever got to the beaches. The American staff had considered the possibility and prepared for it.

    • @bcalvert321
      @bcalvert321 Рік тому

      @@nobodyspecial4702 Maybe but if they had been called up when they were first needed they would have killed maybe a few thousand because we had nothing in the air or land that could stop them. The ships were not capable of hitting that far back into France.

    • @normandgagnon8336
      @normandgagnon8336 Рік тому +1

      @@nobodyspecial4702k

  • @bhok5228
    @bhok5228 2 роки тому +52

    please add subtitles, this series deserve it

    • @jayo3074
      @jayo3074 2 роки тому +3

      No

    • @cepelinai123
      @cepelinai123 Рік тому +6

      Series deserved but you didn't

    • @aaronblank2318
      @aaronblank2318 Рік тому +2

      I would totally do it, but I can't figure out how for someone else's video.

    • @smokeykitty6023
      @smokeykitty6023 Місяць тому

      I agree. Some of us are older now...

  • @snazzysailor
    @snazzysailor 2 роки тому +18

    Excellent documentary, thanks

  • @brandong.1857
    @brandong.1857 Рік тому +8

    Nice footage. Thanks for this.

  • @bigronnie9629
    @bigronnie9629 2 роки тому +87

    “Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.”
    -- Joseph Stalin

    • @chepito2443
      @chepito2443 2 роки тому +8

      So crazy , in fact the russians are a little more daring then the americanos are in fact

    • @michaelbruns449
      @michaelbruns449 Рік тому +6

      A little more enslaved.

    • @Anonymous-qj3sf
      @Anonymous-qj3sf Рік тому +5

      Although Lend Lease is highly overrated. Assistance in weapons was insignificant. The main significant help of Lend Lease falls on logistics

    • @johnmc3862
      @johnmc3862 Рік тому

      @@chepito2443 Russian lives mean nothing to Russia unfortunately.

    • @user-zr5yw2st1e
      @user-zr5yw2st1e Рік тому +5

      Помощь Америки была менее 5%. Основная китай,Монголия,Корея и тогда независимая Тува

  • @turnthepage867
    @turnthepage867 3 місяці тому +3

    This is a detailed explanation of what happened... spectacular.

  • @youngim1011
    @youngim1011 Рік тому +7

    Stalingrad book is my favorite all time ,read over and over .

  • @pietrietveld1842
    @pietrietveld1842 2 роки тому +22

    Amazing good documantation about the war in the east my compliments for this work thanks for sharing .

  • @brianschwarz
    @brianschwarz 2 роки тому +4

    Excellent work. Thank you.

  • @TheRenaissanceGuys
    @TheRenaissanceGuys 2 роки тому +15

    Excellent documentary!

  • @theofanisgkinos6240
    @theofanisgkinos6240 Рік тому +4

    Simply brilliant!

  • @chadczternastek
    @chadczternastek Рік тому +25

    Wow that opening quote by Göering along with the background music just about gave my goosebumps. Like the quote was powerful. Göering also said another good one about no plane is gonna be flying over Germany. 😂 The Allies had that written on a plane I seen.

    • @LeeZaslofsky
      @LeeZaslofsky 9 місяців тому +3

      Goering visited the West Wall at one point during the war. His pledge that "If the British bomb Germany, my name is Meyer" was still his motto. While inspecting the base, some British planes flew overhead, en route to a bombing raid. A soldier mentioned that to Goering. Goering's response was to lose his temper and deny that any Biritsh planes had passed overhead. But the soldier insisted that he had recongnized British planes. Goering then sholted "I ORDER you that there were no British planes!" The soldier said "Jawohl, Herr Reichsmarschall!" but the look on his face, seen by his fellow soldiers, was masterpiece of sarcasm.

    • @joeyj6808
      @joeyj6808 7 місяців тому

      When Herr Goering says, "they'll never bomb dis place"
      We heil! Heil! Right in Herr Goering's face!

    • @LeeZaslofsky
      @LeeZaslofsky 7 місяців тому +2

      He actually said "If they bomb Germany, my name is Meyer."

    • @danielmori501
      @danielmori501 3 місяці тому

      Why would any quote from Goering give you goosebumps?

  • @robertjelinski5113
    @robertjelinski5113 2 дні тому

    Superb documentary, amazing video footage. Thank you so much!

  • @steven1franco
    @steven1franco 2 роки тому +6

    We all appreciate this great document thank you very much for the upload.

  • @mugshot749
    @mugshot749 2 роки тому +18

    Professor John Errickson wrote this book and the sequel Road to Berlin, I have both of them they are brilliant works.

    • @generaldilvry69
      @generaldilvry69 Рік тому +1

      Interesting I would line it up chronologically in reverse. Also how do you separate the two projects? Barbarosa ended with the battle of Berlin

    • @OK9131
      @OK9131 Рік тому

      0⁰

  • @petersoakell6950
    @petersoakell6950 Рік тому +1

    subbed, thanks for putting this out there.

  • @fasteddie8782
    @fasteddie8782 2 місяці тому

    Great job.. thanks for the uploads

  • @paullevsunov2554
    @paullevsunov2554 Рік тому +4

    An excellent presentation

  • @USSTOLEDOSSN769
    @USSTOLEDOSSN769 2 роки тому +5

    10:19 Great quote by Sir Winston Churchill.

    • @user-ld9hx7eh8b
      @user-ld9hx7eh8b Рік тому

      "I hate the subhuman Hindus with their animal religion"... (Winston Churchill)

  • @jimmypresa9396
    @jimmypresa9396 Рік тому +1

    one of the best documentaries I watched.

  • @MomentsInTrading
    @MomentsInTrading 5 місяців тому

    I really enjoyed this. Well made!

  • @patrickbarrett5650
    @patrickbarrett5650 2 роки тому +79

    Brilliant narration, beautifully done. 👏🏻

    • @adamevert1618
      @adamevert1618 2 роки тому +2

      with a tiny pinch of propaganda

    • @intercommerce
      @intercommerce Рік тому +2

      Appalling, the arrogance of Nazism & Sovietism, frightening that this happened in Europe, so-called cultural bastion of the world, in my parents' time. Utter disregard for human life. Starvation, homelessness, torture, mass murder, and destruction on an inconceivable level. The saddest chapter in humanity, viewed on UA-cam from the comfort of my living room. And the Russians are still falling for the propaganda & lies of their leader, willing marching & attacking civilians and soldiers alike, killing & being killed, all for nothing...utter madness. Dear Lord stop the violence...life is fragile enough without this...

    • @johnhatchel9681
      @johnhatchel9681 Рік тому

      I agree.

    • @DmitryTihomirow
      @DmitryTihomirow Рік тому

      @@intercommerce, You are a victim of anti-Soviet propaganda. Comparing Nazi Germany and the USSR is blasphemy!
      Only stupid and illiterate people, unable to think critically, can see something in common between Nazi and communist ideology.
      The communists saved the world from Nazism, but after 1945 the capitalist countries began the Cold War, the United States created the atomic bomb.
      Maybe the USSR dropped atomic bombs on the peaceful cities of Japan? Maybe the USSR burned Vietnamese villages with napalm along with people? Maybe the USSR bombed Belgrade, destroyed churches and houses, killed civilians? Maybe the USSR destroyed peaceful life in Libya? Maybe the USSR attacked Iraq, killed the legitimate head of state and doomed the Iraqis to decades of chaos?
      Even after 1991, the capitalist countries did not calm down - they began to expand NATO eastward to the borders of Russia.
      Are you blind and can't see all this? Or are you a zombie?
      Вы - жертва антисоветской пропаганды. Сравнивать нацистскую Германию и СССР кощунство! Только неумные и безграмотные люди, неспособные критически мыслить, могут видеть что-то общее между нацистской и коммунистической идеологией.Коммунисты спасли мир от нацизма, но после 45 года капиталистические страны начали "холодную войну", США создали атомную бомбу. Может быть СССР сбросил атомные бомбы на мирные города Японии? Может быть СССР сжигал напалмом вьетнамские деревни вместе с людьми? Может быть СССР бомбил Белград, разрушал храмы и жилые дома, убивал мирных людей? Может быть СССР разрушил мирную жизнь в Ливии? Может быть СССР напал на Ирак, убил законного главу государства и обрёк иракцев на десятилетия хаоса? Даже после 91 года капиталистические страны не успокоились - стали расширять НАТО на восток к границам России. Вы слепые и не видите всего этого? Или вы зомби?

    • @gingerli5820
      @gingerli5820 Рік тому

      @@intercommerce What do you think they are doing in this country, the US, right now? The population is dutifully queuing up to take poisonous toxins that are mendaciously called vaccines that are killing them. They are being harangued with racist propaganda via the fascist media that they believe. Murder, killing and crime are at unprecedented levels. The country is being invaded by the third world at the behest of the present administration. And all you can be appalled at is the what, how and why of what happened in Europe 80 plus years ago?

  • @RobertJamesChinneryH
    @RobertJamesChinneryH Рік тому +18

    excellent, accurate and historic narrative...university level history...highly recommended!

    • @gliderreserve9544
      @gliderreserve9544 Рік тому +3

      Very informative and interesting to view.

    • @NOOBKIAtv
      @NOOBKIAtv Рік тому +2

      Yes! More information and less emotional propaganda !

  • @ramondrongonui1024
    @ramondrongonui1024 Рік тому +1

    Excellent documentary amazing footage...

  • @snobear41
    @snobear41 Рік тому +1

    Documentary, not movie. Just started watching very well done so far!

  • @kennypool
    @kennypool Рік тому +3

    I spoke to a German soldier in 1988, he told me all about the horror and eating frozen bodies . Horrible

    • @kennypool
      @kennypool Рік тому

      @Mister Google they are people. This guy was there

  • @tbone2859
    @tbone2859 2 роки тому +256

    “ a world of slaves and masters”. Good corporate slogan for Amazon

    • @vanlendl1
      @vanlendl1 2 роки тому +16

      If not for Amazon then surely for Quatar.

    • @Falcon_Serbia
      @Falcon_Serbia Рік тому +2

      For the entire liberal woes order

    • @gliderreserve9544
      @gliderreserve9544 Рік тому +14

      "War Pigs"

    • @damintten
      @damintten Рік тому +8

      "Amazon"- corporations what's the difference the end stage of the system is only one amazon;)

    • @scaredy-cat
      @scaredy-cat Рік тому +19

      Don’t use Amazon if you don’t like it, freedom of choice

  • @brianelliott4923
    @brianelliott4923 Рік тому +1

    Magnificent .

  • @l4j3b
    @l4j3b 9 місяців тому

    Thanks!

  • @johnsamsungs7570
    @johnsamsungs7570 Рік тому +10

    The charging of tanks by Calvary is a myth!

    • @stevek8829
      @stevek8829 Рік тому

      Yes, it's a shame anyone can pass myths here.

  • @gusyates1839
    @gusyates1839 2 роки тому +3

    Interesting documentary

  • @CacophonyOfDestruction
    @CacophonyOfDestruction Рік тому

    Thanks for the annoying ringing sound in the background that made me believe I had tinnitus for a bit until I paused this video. I needed that today.

  • @ricardos.cabral8409
    @ricardos.cabral8409 Рік тому +2

    Excelente

  • @francoisgilibert1877
    @francoisgilibert1877 Рік тому +6

    Parmi les meilleurs documentaires de guerre que j'ai vus. Commenté dans un anglais trés pur , que j'ai compris facilement . Merci monsieur pour votre excellent travail d'historien . Je m'abonne à votre chaine .

  • @stevebrindle1724
    @stevebrindle1724 2 роки тому +3

    An excellent documentary!

  • @VDP207
    @VDP207 7 місяців тому +1

    I did not realize the full extent of Stalin's purges. I had to go back again to make sure i heard the narrator correctly!

  • @santiagocesteromarina1578
    @santiagocesteromarina1578 Рік тому

    Muchas gracias

  • @wombatwilly1002
    @wombatwilly1002 2 роки тому +3

    Superb presentation.I think you meant to say millimeters not centimeters when describing Panzer three armour thickness!

    • @tomperkin2505
      @tomperkin2505 Рік тому +1

      No, it's cm

    • @caspian5964
      @caspian5964 Рік тому

      @@tomperkin2505 so the panzer three had 8-30cm thick armour 💀 - sounds about right

    • @markprange2430
      @markprange2430 9 місяців тому

      ​@@caspian5964: 12 inches?

  • @marcelmarceli8238
    @marcelmarceli8238 2 роки тому +102

    The Polish cavalry made over 10 charges and almost all of them were successful. Not a single charge was against armored units.

    • @bnipmnaa
      @bnipmnaa 2 роки тому +29

      Absolutely true! It's a myth that the Poles charged tanks with cavalry.

    • @JohnSmith-cw4ve
      @JohnSmith-cw4ve 2 роки тому +9

      @@bnipmnaa I've always wondered about that.

    • @cranekraken24
      @cranekraken24 2 роки тому +5

      The propaganda from a leftist bent never ends.

    • @dday881
      @dday881 2 роки тому +21

      My understanding it is that a in one or those instances a Polish cavalry brigade charged a German infantry brigade well they were encamped, routed the infantry then found themselves charging at a concealed bunch of German tanks, only to be fired on and routed by them themselves. So I guess technically they did unintentionally. There’s no doubt though that the poles used a lot of machine gun armed cavalry division‘s to compensate for their lack of motorized infantry division though.
      All countries use cavalry back then they were a common army unit. So it’s not really a point of embarrassment for the poles. Evidently some Italian journalist wrote about it claiming the Poles just charge the tanks with lances, also it was primarily the Soviets that kept that myth going after the war in their military academies to emphasize not getting bogged down in outdated tactics.
      So I mean it’s techniques true, just needs context.

    • @adams4441
      @adams4441 2 роки тому +13

      @@bnipmnaa 💯 That is German propaganda that people believe to this day.

  • @polyticks69
    @polyticks69 Рік тому

    Very informative movie

  • @Victorromain
    @Victorromain 9 місяців тому +10

    This video documentary is arguably one of the most definitive and informative videos I have ever had the pleasure of watching and learning ever more about the history of World War Two and the titanic, brutal battles on the Eastern Front - a topic I have been closely studying for many years now.

    • @Eric-sn4qz
      @Eric-sn4qz 6 місяців тому

      This is garbage. What does a atomic bomb explosion from 1945 have to due with Stalingrad?

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 9 місяців тому +3

    Regarding matters of personnel and loyalty, one can never be too sure...or too vigilant. -Stalin

  • @kevinmorgan8439
    @kevinmorgan8439 2 роки тому +1

    @4DigitalMedia - What’s that female chorus music @ -28:06 ?? I was actually looking for this melody for years now !

  • @grandcrowdadforde6127
    @grandcrowdadforde6127 Рік тому +2

    excellent doc ! too often these productions bog down.... not this one!

  • @blutexas
    @blutexas 2 роки тому +24

    kudos to the writers who picked up many points and subtilties most docs completely miss

  • @runedharma22
    @runedharma22 Рік тому +19

    My friend whose father was in the German Army, and survived Barbarossa from beginning to end.

    • @francoisgilibert1877
      @francoisgilibert1877 Рік тому

      Il a eu de la chance . Mon grand pére aussi a survécu à cette guerre . Honneur à nos anciens.

    • @OK9131
      @OK9131 Рік тому

      ​@@francoisgilibert18776:00 😅0

    • @tgwcl6194
      @tgwcl6194 9 місяців тому

      Two family members were executed by the genocidal killing machine called 'Germany army' ................

    • @joebloggs2862
      @joebloggs2862 9 місяців тому +2

      Pity should have died.

    • @cragjones1799
      @cragjones1799 9 місяців тому

      Unlikely

  • @jazz4asahel
    @jazz4asahel Рік тому

    48:54 One slick way of getting into his tank.

  • @clarkewi
    @clarkewi 2 роки тому

    Epic.

  • @patkearney9320
    @patkearney9320 2 роки тому +5

    I think in years to come the Germans will be seen like the 300 Spartans the fight they fought against the allies was amazing the courage they had was amazing. Pity they served a nasty system.

    • @DmitryTihomirow
      @DmitryTihomirow Рік тому +1

      Are you delusional or do not understand the essence of Nazi ideology?
      Вы бредите или не понимаете сущности нацистской идеологии?

    • @alfredfrends8959
      @alfredfrends8959 Рік тому

      Почти вся европа воевала и помогала против ссср

    • @patkearney9320
      @patkearney9320 9 місяців тому

      @@DmitryTihomirowO indeed I do I’m speaking of fighting men not what cause they fought for or against, the bottom line they took on the world and fought the fight. When have so few fought so many. Forget about the nazi shit, I’m talking from a military point of view. History will be kind to the line swine ordinary German soldiers.

  • @apvenczel
    @apvenczel 3 місяці тому +7

    In a courtroom David Irving said, “if the soldiers that stormed the Normandy beaches in June 1944 could see England as it is today they wouldn’t have gone 40 yards up that beach”.

    • @merdalors5661
      @merdalors5661 3 місяці тому +1

      What about usa today ?

    • @johnsecord8539
      @johnsecord8539 2 місяці тому +4

      Same with the USA.

    • @mongieboy
      @mongieboy 2 місяці тому +1

      As an Englishman that hurts. I would never have said a word against my country before and still won't as an old soldier. How different would it be if the Germans won the War? We, as England would have been ok, the world would have amazing progress in so many areas but ur forgetting about the suffering of others. So, I disagree. The average German was a soldier but the nazi? A different subject totally so do not disrespect our brave men and women who went and fought and thousands died 4 the greater good.

    • @mongieboy
      @mongieboy 2 місяці тому +1

      And u Americans? Imagine if the Japanese had won the Pacific war? Look what happened 2 our pow's by them. So shut up and see the world 4 what it is and what it was then. No soldier would be ashamed of what they achieved and 4 u 2 say it? Wow.

  • @Wakefoilman
    @Wakefoilman Рік тому

    Well done! Now how do I find part 2?

  • @teedtad2534
    @teedtad2534 9 місяців тому

    Camera men during those days did a very good job!!

  • @martynhanson
    @martynhanson Рік тому +8

    Interesting stuff. I'd like this guy to take the same approach to the creation, expansion and consolidation of the British Empire.

    • @voraciousreader3341
      @voraciousreader3341 Рік тому

      Do you read history books? That’s the best way to gain perspective over something as broad as the subject you propose, which I suspect would need at least 10 documentaries, and you still wouldn’t get a good idea of what happened in roughy 400 years.

    • @martynhanson
      @martynhanson Рік тому

      @@voraciousreader3341 History books? You could read 20 in any library in the UK and you still would have no clue about the eastern front. Anyway, what about the East India Company? Hardly any young person knows about what they did.

    • @davehallett810
      @davehallett810 4 місяці тому

      ​@@martynhansonTo be fair the British navy ended slavery and they did it at huge financial cost and thousands of British sailors lives 🇬🇧

  • @user-bh7ed7pe2u
    @user-bh7ed7pe2u 2 роки тому +84

    Мой дед был участником этой битвы в должности командира роты стрелковой дивизии. За полтора месяца боев он имеет две награды-медаль За Отвагу и Орден Очественной Войны. В обоих случаях согласно приказов он возглавлял лично атаку роты, достигшей в последствии успехов. Было ему тогда 24 года.23 ноября 42 года во время боя за станицу Новогниловская( она сейчас не существует) он был тяжело ранен снайпером разрывной пулей. Я сталкивался с немцами за границей, я уважаю этот народ и понимаю, что давно настало время забыть все это.

    • @spaniardsrk5108
      @spaniardsrk5108 2 роки тому +32

      Regardless of what our word leaders decide, remember that it is old men that make decisions. Americans like me wish for peace with russian citizens.

    • @BB-vq6cb
      @BB-vq6cb 2 роки тому +22

      You should be very proud of your Grandfather fighting so hard to defend his country. Stalingrad really showed the Russian fighting spirit. Cheers from America

    • @rebelwithoutaclue8164
      @rebelwithoutaclue8164 2 роки тому +2

      The allemani were always unter menchen since the Romans tried to subdue it.

    • @codyartiaga685
      @codyartiaga685 2 роки тому +10

      Look I do not think Stalin was a good leader.. but I give all respect to the Russian soldier

    • @russellrykhus9130
      @russellrykhus9130 2 роки тому +10

      If we forget the horrors of Hitler we will be forced to relive it. Just look at what's happening in Ukraine. Instead we must learn from history and always fight against dictators.

  • @ash9366
    @ash9366 9 місяців тому +1

    WWIl DOCUMENTARY AT IT'S BEST 👍
    SIMPLY EXPLAINED 🤔

  • @jiritichy7967
    @jiritichy7967 Рік тому +2

    A few points suggested for minor corrections in this otherwise excellent document. There is no mention of the situation regarding Japan. Kolkhoz is incorrectly pronounced holkoz and Kazan as Khazan.

  • @canusakommando9692
    @canusakommando9692 2 роки тому +27

    My cousins Grandfather spent 13.5years in a gulag. He was a tank mechanic in the sixth army. He walked home. 3000 km to Turkey then onto Canada.
    My Grandfather always thought of the German as an enemy until his dying day.

    • @nationalist464
      @nationalist464 2 роки тому +16

      Your cousins grandfather was in Gulag , Oppressed by own government , Ans still hated Germans , What a fool

    • @JohnSmith-un9jm
      @JohnSmith-un9jm 2 роки тому +1

      That was my grandfather!

    • @stalintheliberator2454
      @stalintheliberator2454 2 роки тому +14

      @@nationalist464 youre fool here lol, his grandfathers served in german sixth army)) He was oppressed by Soviet Union,not by his own nazi regime) No wonder he hated nazi regime that destroyed his life. Russians were not oppressed by their own regime,thats why they won WW2

    • @brunokirchensittenbach9294
      @brunokirchensittenbach9294 2 роки тому +2

      What do you expect the Russian send him?? ..To Cancún to sip Margaritas or Piña 🍍 coladas??…A freaking Nazi a tool of mass murder invading foreign land simple as that…

    • @bawsack69
      @bawsack69 2 роки тому +5

      My great grandfather died in a concentration camp during the holocaust. He was drunk and fell out the guard tower, broke his neck. Tragic.

  • @joeyj6808
    @joeyj6808 7 місяців тому +4

    I think it's important to note that the Red Army beat the Hitlerites despite Stalin, not because of him. Great job on the doc!

    • @j.dunlop8295
      @j.dunlop8295 2 місяці тому +2

      Definitely so! Generals got Stalin to leave them to it, he went after recruiting farmers as soldiers, leading to famine! (What a true loser!)😮 Heroes of WW2, were the Russian people! In spite of Stalin!

    • @joeyj6808
      @joeyj6808 2 місяці тому

      Amen, comrade! I could not agree more!@@j.dunlop8295

    • @syourke3
      @syourke3 26 днів тому

      Stalin did rally the Russian people with patriotic radio directed and he didn’t abandon Moscow when the German army was ten miles away. And he did have the good sense to get out of the way and let his generals (Zhukov) make the big decisions. Unlike Hitler who insisted on running the war himself. So to that extent, he deserves some credit. And without Stalin’s insane industrial action program over the 1930’s, the SU wouldn’t have succeeded in building all those tanks. But he ignored all the warnings about Hitler’s intention to invade in 1941 and he refused to allow his generals withdraw to defensible positions. Which was really inexcusable.

    • @joeyj6808
      @joeyj6808 26 днів тому

      @@syourke3 Don't forget how he froze up for days after Barbarossa began. Literally froze while his nation was attacked.

    • @syourke3
      @syourke3 26 днів тому

      @@joeyj6808 Yeah, I know. He totally fell skate for a week or two. But then he rallied and took charge. His decision not to leave Moscow was courageous and sensible. His closest advisors were urging him to leave and go East but he didn’t, he stayed and fight from Moscow. And above all, he didn’t try to tell Zhukov how to fight the war.

  • @doogboy
    @doogboy Рік тому +1

    WOW!

  • @cresenteayo3638
    @cresenteayo3638 Рік тому

    For practicing strategists in whatever field or profession either, military, law enforcement, academe, business or private field, certain fundamental principles govern. Ignore it one lead to crushing defeat, learned it then blunders and temporary set backs steers way to final victory.

  • @Dullborn
    @Dullborn 2 роки тому +43

    Despite knowing the tale fairly well, this documentary is particularly engaging, although I wish they used the words "Soviets" instead of Russians...Have seen many of these documentaries on the subject and each one drops a little bit of knowledge for me...I did not know about the Churchman who stepped up and into the silence from the shocked Stalin...On to Part 2

    • @s.t.lacroix372
      @s.t.lacroix372 2 роки тому +5

      The absolutely best Stalingrad documentary is the 2-DVD series 'Stalingrad - Die Hölle entkommen', a German production which was aired on the national German channel ZDF I believe.. First hand accounts of the soldiers who were there and survived it, mixed with historical news reels.. All in German of course, but the DVD's have subtitles

    • @ruslantito2337
      @ruslantito2337 2 роки тому +6

      Do you know history so well that you are willing to believe the fairy tales of a stunned Stalin?
      That's ridiculous)

    • @Dullborn
      @Dullborn 2 роки тому

      @@s.t.lacroix372 Thanks for the tip

    • @Dullborn
      @Dullborn 2 роки тому +2

      @@ruslantito2337 You should take this up with the producers of this (and several others) Documentary....Whether I believe that Stalin was stunned, fighting at the Front or talking to Alexander Nevsky through a Ouija Board matters not...

    • @ruslantito2337
      @ruslantito2337 2 роки тому +6

      @@Dullborn And it's not a matter of faith ... there are trivial documents and logic ...
      1. Stalin is not a teenager, under his belt he had underground activities, exile, revolution, civil war (in which there was more chaos than in the entire Second World War), internal political struggle with Trotsky (and its victory) ... I am silent about domestic issues, which he solved.
      2. In the office where Stalin worked - kept a trivial (as is customary) record of visits to this office ... it marks the hours of Stalin and those who visited him ...
      one can only imagine what chaos it is for a man, one must be multitasking and with a strong psyche...

  • @kikastra
    @kikastra 2 роки тому +9

    If you were Hitler, an obscure man who suddenly obtained power beyond your dreams, you might think everything you do is right too. We need to understand this.

    • @sam8404
      @sam8404 2 роки тому +3

      Doesn't change anything but ok.

    • @kikastra
      @kikastra 2 роки тому +1

      @@sam8404 Huh? Who said it "changes" anything?

    • @blackrabbit212
      @blackrabbit212 2 роки тому +1

      I think you are quite correct. The same could be said of many of our current crop of politicians.

    • @kikastra
      @kikastra 2 роки тому

      @@blackrabbit212 That's sort of what I was alluding to about why we need to understand that.

    • @charlesmaeger6162
      @charlesmaeger6162 2 роки тому

      Hitler had spent years in the trenches during WW I. He knew better.

  • @Lue_Serenity
    @Lue_Serenity 4 місяці тому +1

    Good times.. Good times

  • @ronaldwhite1730
    @ronaldwhite1730 Рік тому +1

    Thank you . ( 2022 / June / 13 )

  • @magatism
    @magatism 2 роки тому +7

    There's no honor among murderers as it turned out.

    • @patkearney9320
      @patkearney9320 2 роки тому +1

      Truly the only way to maintain honour amongst folk that murder, is to hold a political mindset Eire32

    • @codyartiaga685
      @codyartiaga685 2 роки тому

      Some people with badges... Some people with titles... Believe it's okay to murder other people that do not have badges and titles... They just call that justifiable killings.. but you are right it's still just murder it's still just f****** wrong... When they go see their God I'm pretty sure he's not going to recognize their badge of their f****** title and he's still just going to send them the hell just the same because that's exactly where the f*** they belong

  • @douglasthompson8927
    @douglasthompson8927 2 роки тому +3

    here we go again

  • @adanedwardspencer6891
    @adanedwardspencer6891 9 місяців тому +1

    I hope & pray that this loss of human life, NEVER happens again, the loss of life was unparalleled to anything that has ever happened, & the rise of dictators such as Adolf Hitler, & Joseph Stalin, NEVER stains the blood of human lives ever again, & if there is a hell, I hope that they are both there, suffering, like they have done to others, lest we forget.

  • @NicolasPerez-wb8rt
    @NicolasPerez-wb8rt 2 роки тому +1

    Hi! Can you allow the subtitles please. Cheers from Arg

  • @TheLeadSled
    @TheLeadSled 2 роки тому +21

    Hitler could of been stopped in 1939 before he destroyed so many lives. When his armies invaded Poland in September 1939 his border with France was lightly guarded, and if the French would've invaded they could of stopped him then and there, Hitler even said so himself. It so aggravating that 50 plus million died when it didn't have to happen.

    • @nationalist464
      @nationalist464 2 роки тому +8

      If you think Hitler was responsible for occurence of WW2 then you are wrong 😂😂

    • @judefinegan4280
      @judefinegan4280 2 роки тому +4

      Russia signed a peace treaty with Germany and they split up Poland with Hitler just for greed when they could of stopped them then before he built his military bigger.

    • @Mingus8
      @Mingus8 2 роки тому +3

      There was probably no country that could compete militarily with Germany in 1939. They were superior in everything ... materiel, tactics, weapons and above all perhaps motivation.

    • @nationalist464
      @nationalist464 2 роки тому +1

      @@Mingus8 Yes boy , That's exactly What I wanted to say , Literally they were far ahead than everyone , Their officer core , Their command structure ( After Napoleonic wars ) , their tactics , everything was superb

    • @Jinxohh
      @Jinxohh 2 роки тому +3

      @@judefinegan4280 no Russia was gearing up to invade Western Europe Germany decided to hit first fool

  • @gregmclaughlin2212
    @gregmclaughlin2212 Рік тому +4

    You wonder how many of the men shown in this documentary survived the war.

  • @axxellein
    @axxellein 2 роки тому

    TRES Heavy!!!

  • @cragjones1799
    @cragjones1799 9 місяців тому

    Zhukov was never dismissed from his post , the errors in this documentary are egregious...

  • @davidpowell3347
    @davidpowell3347 2 роки тому +4

    At 2;40 yes,a consequence that Russia does not want a hostile to it alliance operating on its border. An alliance that includes the nation that launched this in 1941.
    Sort of a reverse Cuban Missile Crisis.

    • @buckshot704
      @buckshot704 Рік тому +1

      Agreed. If the Chinese would build military bases in Canada or Mexico, the west would have a fit. Pity that more do not understand Eastern European history. Excellent documentary.

  • @landonburke2772
    @landonburke2772 2 роки тому +40

    Does any of this look familiar? No? Just wait...

  • @TheDavidlloydjones
    @TheDavidlloydjones 2 роки тому +2

    Hitler wasn't "forced to take" any gamble.
    Hitler deluded himself that he had chosen the right time for his long intended walk over.

  • @markkennedy5479
    @markkennedy5479 4 місяці тому

    When you look at what was at issue in this conflict, only to be confronted by the sheer inanity of the commercials that interrupt the telling of the tale, you do have to wonder what all the sacrifice was for.

  • @georgeelmerdenbrough6906
    @georgeelmerdenbrough6906 2 роки тому +9

    I am a " Know A Bit " not a " Know it All " ....I am only as of late interested enough to watch documentary after documentary . ADHD makes reading history books a real trial of commitment .

    • @kingcobra7183
      @kingcobra7183 2 роки тому

      There are tons of awesome WW2 books you just have to find them! With reading them being As fun as watching the WW2 documentary

    • @patrickdoggett959
      @patrickdoggett959 2 роки тому +2

      Audiobooks are awesome. Much easier and convenient

    • @kikastra
      @kikastra 2 роки тому

      No such thing as a know it all, if the person realizes they can't know it all.

    • @mcivor321
      @mcivor321 2 роки тому

      @@kingcobra7183 give me some examples man, might buy sum. Was gonna get a few ww2 comics as well

    • @georgeelmerdenbrough6906
      @georgeelmerdenbrough6906 2 роки тому

      @Hootie1980 Yeah , been there definitely

  • @gliderreserve9544
    @gliderreserve9544 Рік тому +22

    Excellent documentary. It was interesting, informative, and told from multiple perspectives. I'm ready for part 2. This video explains how far back the Ukraine, Estonia, and other nations that are in conflict now with Russia. Very informative. 🤙

    • @mariogastelum1463
      @mariogastelum1463 Рік тому +2

      how far back....??

    • @voraciousreader3341
      @voraciousreader3341 Рік тому +3

      @@mariogastelum1463 I think s/he was talking about the bad history between Russia and the Baltic States, which goes back to WWII. Obviously, the conflict goes back much much longer than that.

    • @rudolfkraffzick642
      @rudolfkraffzick642 Рік тому

      Not nations are in conflict with each others but governments, political alliances, ideologies.
      Living in Lithuania, I state there is few hatred between Russians and Lithuanians as peoples.
      There are fears of a new war, stipulated by the governments and the media.
      For example, Putin is described as a reborn Hitler and the Russian troops in Ukraine as war criminals, comitting countless atrocities.

    • @oleg_siberia
      @oleg_siberia 4 місяці тому

      Забудте про Украину,скоро эта страна будет только в истории,они сами этого захотели...

  • @pendleburyable
    @pendleburyable Рік тому +2

    2022. And so it goes.

  • @michaelbruns449
    @michaelbruns449 2 роки тому +42

    Awesome footage with perfect narration, fascinating, horrifying intolerance.
    "Those who live without knowing what happened before they were born, remain perpetually a child" - Marcus Cicero
    "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, simple minds discuss people" - Eleanor Roosevelt
    Taken by force without warning, like doomed robots marching into hell > 4:38

    • @ronalddunne3413
      @ronalddunne3413 2 роки тому +8

      Eleanor isnt really my idea of a "Go to" philosopher...

    • @karlheinzvonkroemann2217
      @karlheinzvonkroemann2217 2 роки тому +4

      @@ronalddunne3413 You're not kidding!

    • @michaelbruns449
      @michaelbruns449 2 роки тому +11

      @@ronalddunne3413 Its not who said it, but what was said that really matters.

    • @music2872
      @music2872 Рік тому

      @@michaelbruns449 so give proper credit and not credit some wanker cxxt tribe hatter

  • @lew123drums
    @lew123drums 2 роки тому +3

    Would love to watch these; however, I am almost deaf (I need subs) ... without them, it isn't possible to know what's happening. Please don't forget those of us who are disabled ...
    Thanks!

    • @TheWarChannel
      @TheWarChannel  2 роки тому +2

      We do understand, as this is a new venture for us we are working hard in the background to start providing subtitles/closed captions in the future, thank you for watching.

    • @indy_go_blue6048
      @indy_go_blue6048 2 роки тому +1

      @@TheWarChannel Please add your own if feasible. Those YT voice activated captions are literally a joke, funny as hell sometimes, but worthless to the people like lew123drums who actually NEEDS them.

    • @lew123drums
      @lew123drums Рік тому

      but I have watched this several times ... volume on 10! Great extra footage in this video which nicely supplements the standards.

  • @dicostigan1449
    @dicostigan1449 Рік тому +1

    It is my belief that we are on Earth to learn spiritual lessons. Myself and many others have had past-life experiences. Time itself seems to have speeded up. It seems this lovely Earth will soon only support a few so to me the millions of lives cut short in the first half of 20th century gave them time for re-birth.

  • @Melvorgazh
    @Melvorgazh Рік тому

    Anyone knows about a documentary about the Kriegsmarine during that period?
    There strangely seems to be little about the German Navy operations on the Eastern front and the Baltic Sea.
    Strange

  • @kenseavey9165
    @kenseavey9165 2 місяці тому

    I wish I could watch this. It looks well put together, but that ringing! I already have tinnitus goddamnit

  • @volvo1354
    @volvo1354 2 роки тому +10

    Stalin did not oppose the church during these critical moments, while he was hiding

    • @webkeeper
      @webkeeper 2 роки тому +1

      He was not hiding, he was waiting for someone to kill him. As the legend goes at least.

  • @KENACT1
    @KENACT1 2 роки тому +7

    If this is The Road To Stalingrad, where's Bob Hope and Bing Crosby?

    • @gilbertzimmerman2173
      @gilbertzimmerman2173 2 роки тому +1

      And Dorothy Lamour? Oh, my! 🍀

    • @kobold7763
      @kobold7763 2 роки тому

      Bing Crosby? In jail after drugging women with ludes.

  • @pyatig
    @pyatig 3 місяці тому

    Finally a docu that goes into the nuances of the Rib-Mol pact instead of “Soviets as bad asNazis” narrative

  • @GEFFEN64
    @GEFFEN64 2 роки тому +1

    Greatest Army

    • @williwass6837
      @williwass6837 2 роки тому

      Never have been a great Army!Especially not now anymore!

  • @sm70911
    @sm70911 2 роки тому +4

    The footage in the first minute is wrong ! @01:21 The Fallschirmajger with Panzerfaust was outside Caen in Normandy. Bro srsly.

    • @j3lny425
      @j3lny425 2 роки тому +2

      Sadly footage in there documentaries is usually wrong they use what they feel is illustrative not what is accurate. But sometimes they don't even try .

  • @thomasjamison2050
    @thomasjamison2050 2 роки тому +17

    The documentary overrates the western estimation of the Soviet military strength before WWII, particularly as a result of the war in Finland. Nobody thought too much of the Soviet Army, and none had any real idea of how many tanks Stalin actually had.

    • @ElectronFieldPulse
      @ElectronFieldPulse 2 роки тому +10

      This documentary gets a lot wrong. The Poles didn't charge tanks with horses, a few cavalrymen tried to use horses to plant bombs, but it isn't like an entire group just tried to charge them. Not a good quality documentary

    • @thomasjamison2050
      @thomasjamison2050 2 роки тому +7

      @@ElectronFieldPulse Agreed. I don't really care for some ideas TIK has when it comes to politics and such, though he's young, but he does a far better job of research and supplying relevant detail from secondary source material. Stephen Kotkin is far better because he speaks the right languages, which TIK doesn't, but Kotkin is primarily into the political side of the war and Stalin in particular. On a side note, I have been rather disappointed with the Ukrainians as they don't seem to use any horses these days. Manstein wrote that the toughest Russian units to deal with were the horse mounted Russians as they could move sixty miles overnight through terrain tanks could not cope with. I should think a man on horse back carrying a half dozed stingers would be quite formidable in the forests.

    • @karlheinzvonkroemann2217
      @karlheinzvonkroemann2217 2 роки тому

      @@ElectronFieldPulse What do you expect from the Brits? They lie about everything. The Soviets had 32k tanks and 30k+ aircraft in 1941, Stalin was obviously planning to invade Europe. Plus Stalin had already murdered 20+ million people by June of 1941. There's so much that we never hear about it isn't funny. The war should have ended in July of 1940. Alas, Churchill and FDR wanted a wider war and they made it happen.

    • @lilmike2710
      @lilmike2710 2 роки тому +7

      Strength was in sheer numbers.
      Also materials. What they lacked was up to date technology. They were always behind the west in that regard. There wasn't exactly an abundance of competent engineers either.
      We can avoid going down a rabbit hole by avoiding the what-ifs but it's difficult to deny that the other allies tying up German forces and resources on several different fronts paid an enormous part in the red army's success in overwhelming the Germans. Discussions to allow them (Nazis and soviets) to destroy each other was on the table at one point.
      It certainly would have saved the world a ton of greif in the future.

    • @thesixth2330
      @thesixth2330 2 роки тому +1

      Action speaks louder than words. France whole heartily believed the USSR would always be a bulwark against the NAZI's. And which line in particular were you referring to from the documentary? I didn't get that impression at all.

  • @cavscout62
    @cavscout62 Рік тому +2

    It’s a damn good thing that America was able to supply Russia after Nazi Germany invaded her giving her time to make up for Stalins insane Blunders or all of Europe would be under the swastika today. Hats off to the toughness and willingness to never surrender of the people of the soviet union! Those individual people, living in a repressive Police State under Stalin fought the Nazis to the death on an individual level in battle after battle and are now being forced to fight the Nazis in Ukraine once again. As an old Soldier they have my undying Respect and Admiration!

    • @Psychonaut165
      @Psychonaut165 Рік тому +4

      Germany had pretty much already lost the war before the USA joined. Their offensive had already stalled out at Moscow and the tide had already turned. It’s almost certain that the Allie’s would have won anyway even without the United States involvement . It just would have taken longer and cost more casualties.
      The thing that cost Germany the war wasn’t lend lease or the United States. It was Germanys crippling fuel shortages. Them failing to get the oil from the caucuses was probably their most limiting factor.

    • @acknodbikes5051
      @acknodbikes5051 Рік тому

      truth

    • @Falcon_Serbia
      @Falcon_Serbia Рік тому +2

      Germany ran out of fuel American supplies where minimal at best.

    • @danielainger8666
      @danielainger8666 7 місяців тому +2

      Americans need too read a few history books.

  • @JohnEglick-oz6cd
    @JohnEglick-oz6cd 7 місяців тому

    Stalin sure cleaned house !

  • @marksummers463
    @marksummers463 Рік тому +6

    `This is generally very good & objective. One thing it missed was the crucial tank battle of Dubno-Brody that occurred during the first week of Barbarossa. It was almost as big as the Battle of Kursk & was a by the numbers disaster for the Connunists.

    • @generaldilvry69
      @generaldilvry69 Рік тому +1

      It’s probably not very well documented because everybody died

    • @jonasdauerbrenner6432
      @jonasdauerbrenner6432 9 місяців тому

      its not objective at all.

    • @oleg_siberia
      @oleg_siberia 4 місяці тому

      А вы заметили что Россия всегда терпела поражения в начале всех войн,потом почему то войска русских всегда брали столицы своих врагов!!!Бог на стороне великой Росии!!!Даже после поражения от монголов Россия окзалась на границе Монголии спустя три столетияюи где теперь монголы,пасут лошадей.Америка может оказаться такой же Монголией,если не одумается...

  • @steveweinstein3222
    @steveweinstein3222 2 роки тому +4

    The writers and producers deserve applause. for giving such a concise, compressed version of events that includes all the necessary information. In fact, I've read several books and seen many docs on the subject, and there's a whole lot here that I didn't know. One teensy-weensy correction at 35:00: Centralizing Germany wasn't as disastrous as it proved to be in the USSR, but it was hot mess. Hitler hated details and the Party created a separate bureaucracy that fought with the Finance Minister, while the rush to re-arm meant the only foreign trade was in commodities like iron and petrol, and living standards fell considerably after an initial upswing.

    • @guillermoelenes7252
      @guillermoelenes7252 2 роки тому

      This is pure propaganda...

    • @steveweinstein3222
      @steveweinstein3222 2 роки тому

      @@guillermoelenes7252 Troll.

    • @kratoleaf7619
      @kratoleaf7619 2 роки тому

      Hitler did not want "world domination". He was fighting the Globalists (NATO). That is a lie. He wanted his territories back and to stop Bolchiviek Marxist Communism. Quit lying about history.

    • @nebojsanesic5326
      @nebojsanesic5326 2 роки тому

      They are mixing Balkan and Baltic dude! Among other things.

  • @jamielacourse7578
    @jamielacourse7578 2 роки тому +2

    Better than the usual crap. Nicely done.

  • @cuausafetyguy7426
    @cuausafetyguy7426 Місяць тому

    THIS is repeating today ! PEOPLE NEVER LEARN !

  • @marckg6950
    @marckg6950 2 роки тому +4

    I like the Bing Crosby Bob Hope version better

    • @rascallyrabbit717
      @rascallyrabbit717 2 роки тому +1

      On the road to Moscow

    • @marckg6950
      @marckg6950 2 роки тому

      @@rascallyrabbit717 Hope and Crosby never finished Road to Moscow, they got tired of beets and beet byproducts for breakfast lunch and dinner.