I thank The War Channel and commend you for having the courage to post these testimonies of brutal, barbaric and inhuman conditions of WW2. Thank you for allowing them to be seen without visual censorship, as painful and horrific as they are. It is extremely difficult to accept that such crimes against humanity took place, yet here is proof. It sickens me to the depths of my soul . I have no words to express my sorrow for those victims.
I don’t think any Russian general came out with their humanity. Sacrificing Millions of men just to slightly slow the German advance. Horrible strategy that only paid off thanks to the weather being the coldest in a century. Don’t confuse good results with good actions. Even a blind squirrel is finds a nut sometimes. And believe me this god awful Russian military is that blind squirrel.
Rokossovsky demonstrated his care for his troops by planning well and not using the standard head on attack as standard for other Soviet generals. He achieved advances with a lower body count than Zhukov or Koniev.
one of the most in depth narration of the german, russian war. The details of this battle of attrition and survival is very well narrated.. One of the great documentaries that is well above the rest.. History is the greatest teacher we all need to heed and learn from and not try to repeat this kind of carnage ever again.
This is the best two hour eastern front doc. Forgotten War, Soviet Storm are very good too. Thanks for posting another document of the war on humanity.
Great film content and narrative,well worth the time to watch... absolutely brutal and encompassing anything that was fed into that grist mill of war between the Germans and Soviets... titanically horrific.
The Siege of Leningrad has always amazed me. That anyone could have survived that hell is beyond my imagination. But not only did the Soviet people survive it, but they destroyed their foes, and defeated the Hitlerites. I hope the world never forgets the courage of the Soviet people and the bravery of the Red Army.
WOW. That was an incredible documentary. The best I have seen in WW2. Though so very sad, so very disturbing, yet so very accurate. How can we today complain from the little disturbances of our lives when we see such human suffering in wars. Especially WW1 and WW2. An incredible job in creating this truthful accurate painful time in human history. It teaches me, all of us, what true human suffering is and for us to be thankful for what we have today, regardless of our setbacks, challenges and our own sufferings. Yes, we are never alone in our pain and sufferings.
A sad footnote to the siege of Leningrad. Postwar, Stalin purged the Communist leadership in the city out of jealousy and paranoia. 😢 A sad reward for their loyalty.
Since the heirs of fascism will be defeated in this new modern liberal fascist form, I hope it will be put into the American educational system, for all the evils, madness, self-destruction, terror, fascist violence, imposed propaganda all over the world...... it will be teaching in schools about that crazy liberal fascist ideology, so that this greatest evil never happens again to humanity, these insidious, hidden fascists, wolves in sheep's wool, who perfected fascism, so that they were not pure fascists, or they do not present themselves as revealed open fascists, where they will openly declare, propagate, impose, for their evil ideas of madness, because such fascists were defeated, so these Liberal Fascists with the hope of their evil Devilish victory, and with insidious, evil, Devilish, hiding behind the sacred human achievements, democracy, justice, equality, brotherhood... They committed the greatest evil in the history of mankind.
its almoast unbelieve that humans can treat the people in that war the eastern people have so much suffer its a great warcrime and crima against humanity .i am verry impressed from this documantation .
@@brianbrady4496 . Agreed. How ever it is a fact that the YT Europeans did in a Arab guy who we call Jesus today. My mentioning it here was that it has a lot of cruelty in it. It has incest. Poking out eyes. Drunks. Pedophilia... Well, if that, is your reference, your guide post then what you see people do should not surprise us you. That was my point to the original post.
This documentary was one of the most brutal and savage war documentaries that I have ever watched, especially the footage around the 25 to 30 minute mark. Those images of murdered men, women and children are going to haunt me for a long time. I cannot even begin to imagine what it must have been like to have been caught up in a conflict of such hellish magnitude, especially when one considers the levels of atrocities committed by both sides. However, certain elements of the Wermacht and, in particular, the demonic SS, unleashed a type of cruelty on the Russian population that had never before been witnessed in modern times. It's no wonder that the Russians exacted a harsh revenge on their German tormentors when they invaded the Fatherland in early 1945. To this day, I am not sure if there has been as brutal and savage a conflict as the one between Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany during WW2. The scale of suffering and destruction, especially on the Russian side, was absolutely mind boggling. 😳
to gwmba1989: the Germans, under Hitler's regime basically tried to exterminate all of those living, in the areas they conquered, in order to repopulate them with Germans. That was their idea: kill all the Jews, Christians, communists, atheists, gypsies, Slavs, and anyone else living there, wipe their country and their people, off the face of the earth, and repopulate it, with an expanding (and hungry) German Christian population. Never mind that most of those they'd be killing, in order to achieve this goal, were mostly Christians, and not just Jews. They might've killed Jews first, but they were out to kill everybody, and annihilate the area of that country, that they occupied. By war's end, they succeeded in completely destroying, and removing all traces of, 600 towns and 1100 villages, taking away all people,livestock, building materials, tools, and crops--and leaving nothing but wasteland--where there had been a community there, before. Facing complete annihilation--and knowing about it firsthand--is it any wonder that everyone there united to fight a total war against such inhumane outside invaders? among many other books that i have read about this war, the recent Western publication, of an old Soviet posthumous manuscript that I absorbed 100%, is entitled: "Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper", upon which the recent subtitled Russian movie, Battle For Sevastopol, is based. I am not in favor of communism (socialists loyal to Moscow), nor of Nazis (socialists loyal to Berlin)--and I despise socialism, which gives all power and control, to the state, and removes all individual freedoms and liberties, in the process--I believe in free market enterprise, capitalism, and democracy. However, given the annihilation that her people and her country were facing, regardless of their f'd up government, economy and political situation--is it any wonder that she, like millions of others, chose to do whatever she could, to fight this horrific invader/annihilator? can you imagine a 25 year old graduate student, who last year was studying history and archaeology, by September, 1942, had already been wounded 4 times, in 15 months of hellish combat in trenches, and personally was officially credited with having killed 309 Nazis, as a sniper, while having lost a lover, and later her husband, dying in combat, beside her? and, at 25 years old, in 1942, she was probably the best sniper (though not the highest scoring one, by far), in the world--far better than anyone we had, at the time. (Why? Because she had worked at an arms factory, from age 15 to 19, then studied at Kiev University from 19 to 24, where she learned the physics of ballistics and metallurgy, in addition to her practical exposure to it, in the manufacture of weapons, and metal working, in that factory. And she was trained through a Soviet youth group, in marksmanship, explosives and camouflage, before she ever enlisted in the army, when the war broke out, in June of 1941.) this is the extreme, that every one in that poor unfortunate country (already crippled by Stalin's insane socialist rule), had to go through, in order to defend their families, their communities, and their country--or face total annihilation. we here in America can only imagine what that was like: two great socialist powers, intent on destroying each other. and as much as I hated Stalin's government and the hell of communist dictatorship, in all fairness to the Russian people, I think that they ended up treating the Germans, better than the Nazis treated the Russians. Both sides lost a lot. But, the Russians, as badly as they treated the Germans, after winning, were not about to completely destroy the German people the way the Nazis tried to destroy the Russian people. I'm not making any excuses for the hell of socialist rule, under the Iron Curtain, after the war, or for all of the Germans who died during that war (many killed by Western Allies, and bombing, not just by the Red Army)--but who can excuse the 27 MILLION, who were killed, in the Soviet Union, during that war? Perhaps ten million Germans died, including many in combat, but who started that war? who tried to wipe out, not just the government, but all of the people, in the Soviet Union? and, in this quite excellent Brit documentary, from the 1990's, we see some of the results of this annihilation attempt, firsthand--as horrific as they are. WW2 was no joke--and Russia suffered heavily during it--hopefully we will not have to see anything like it, again, in our lifetime...
Tag 39:00, Hitler splits Army Group South into two smaller forces. A strategic blunder given that his prime objective in 1942 was to capture the oil fields in the South.
I've never quite subscribed to the idea that the bombing of the luftwaffe is what made Stalingrad so easily defendable. Stalingrad's buildings would have all been destroyed by artillery sooner or later. The bombing just made it happen faster.
@@markprange2430 I'm aware of that. A lot of the famous battles were fought in those buildings. Most of those buildings that weren't destroyed were at least severely damaged.
@@faharoon357 troll attempt FAIL. All of those together do not amount to the amount of suffering the Germans bestowed upon the people of the Soviet Union and three-quarters of Europe North Africa the baltics Norway and Beyond.
@@badmonkey2222 . I see YT lives are worth more are they? You seem not to know that upwards of forty million indigenous have been killed and continue to be killed at the hands of YT America. Now include other countless Dark skinned peoples from around the world and you get a number that is hard to put your mind on. BTW, you do know that the YT Americans are still at war with the Moro people. A war that they started around 1898.
An excellent series. As a military historian I find these movies fairly accurate. The Germans have the victory away. Go after Moscow with a fierce fire, drive onto Baku for oil. Bomb the tank plants in Leningrad and send Rommel everything he needs in North Africa. Get after the convoys with the U-Boats and have Rommel drive through Egypt to cut the Suez canal. Link up by the Black sea and crush Moscow before General Winter has his say. But ...
This movie contains propaganda from that period. Like the fact that the Germans forgot their winter clothes. Or charges of the Polish cavalry on tanks. And a few more.
@Simon Paterson What kind of research? The Germans never said they would defeat Russia in four months, because that's what you mean when you say they weren't needed, according to Hitler. The only reason why the Germans did not have winter clothes was logistics and not the lack of these clothes. You should know it since you're researching it.
@Simon Paterson Where and when did he say it. And under what circumstances. Since the German staff assumed that in the summer they would reach Smoleńk the farthest and they would have to organize logistics first to be able to go further east.
I saw part 2, but was a part 3 made? part 2 only gets to the beginning of the battle, for the city. it was very detailed, but a clearly unfinished story. why was a road to stalingrad part 3, never made?
I wonder why the wehrmacht didn't have winter gear packed and ready to go on a regular basis. Not that they didn't bring it with them, I can understand that(taking up valuable space in the logistics line etc). But the Germans had to ask for donations from the civilian population(winter relief), when they finally admitted that they would not be done with the Russians in 1941. One would think that the professional army should always have stuff like that ready to move.
I think 'The Eastern Front: Road to Berlin 1' is where this picks up. I'm watching it now and the first 20 minutes have been about Stalingrad. I was wondering the same thing as you, though!
Knowing that the Nazis and USSR pretty much agreed on splitting Europe between them in the beginning, plus the fact that USSR invaded Finland, there should not be any "Russian national pride" for defeating the Nazis at Stalingrad. They clearly acted equal the invaders as Nazi Germany did. Nor should there be any mercy for the Kremlin regime ever again. They still desire control from Vladivostok to Lisbon; yet they have already proven that communism is not the way forward for human development, evolution, and happiness. It is time for it to dwindle to nothing like Nazi Germany. I read some of you mentioning "The New World Order" and weighing it against Stalin's totalitarian rule. Both failed miserably at the cost of hundreds of millions of lives. Seems rather cruel, teenage minded, backwards thinking and quite honestly uneducated to not have evolved your ways since the 1940s. "Neuropa" will not be Russian, nor Chinese or rightwing extremist. It will simply be European based on science, logic and humanism and obviously with close ties to any coalition supporting this world view. It is inevitable.
Winter conditions will kill you just think of Napoleon Third Reich is regular at the same time in the spring weather is nice and fresh air is it get there in the winter time
thanks for this excellent docu .I am 72 years young and my father was a SS officer of a division of SS-Totenkopf-division who broke in into Ucremia. Painfully for me, he died about 10 years ago just before he could tell me what happened there. It is something that will follow me the rest of my life, because he never wanted to talk with me. I think about this poor children and families who's waiting a life full of memories an trauma's .Thanks to Putin !!!
At least he had the "decency" not to talk about what he did. You can be sure that his hands were full of Jewish blood. I do not say RIP. Because you are his son I refrain from saying what I think.
Not your fault or your fathers’. Its these monster politicians whom are to blame. Hitler Stalin Putin Biden. They are the monsters who needlessly bring war and death on us so they can stay in power. Supported by socialist corrupt fools. Beware the biggest monster xi in China waiting to pounce on the remains of peace as Stalin did in 1939.
The official name of "the Order of the Frozen Flesh" was "the Winter Campaign Medal". The German soldiers mocked it as "the Frozen Meat Medal". The English translation "the Order of the Frozen Flesh" is not accurate as it fails to capture the derisive sarcasm of the medal's inofficial nickname.
Stalin refused negotiations initiated by the Germans to secure the release of his own son who was captured by the Germans in the early stages of Barbarossa. Stalin said (I am paraphrasing bc i do not remember the exact quote verbatim): "Why didn't he shoot himself instead of being taken prisoner?" Stalin's son was reported to have felt abandoned by his father (he was spot on) and he would later die in German captivity after attempting to escape and throwing himself on an electrified fence.
So disappointed. Tried to watch from my account and it just wouldn't play, even after I agreed that I wanted to watch the content. I'm 62 years old for heaven's sake. This is ridiculous. I found Part 1 very well done and wanted to continue but don't seem to be able to. I have watched far worse videos on UA-cam about the extermination camps and the Holocaust and never had to go through an age restricted process. This just won't play, not even on my computer. Really wanted to watch it.
Extraordinary production. Very well-done. The level of pitiful whining from various keyboard historians regarding certain statistics is appalling. The eastern front during WWII was the largest; tens of millions fought and died. Russia won. Germany lost. It beggars belief in the horror witnessed by all participants. I’m thankful such documentaries still exist in an era of increasing western censorship.
I read Guderian's memoirs....they were enlightening on how top level Tacticians like him were the only thing that held Germany together until all of them were sacked. At least he survived the war.
The Russians got fresh troops from the east to fight the Germans after they learned the Japanese would not attack them in late 41. The Japanese decided they would attack US interests in the Pacific instead. Bad mistake. Lol 😂
Another error: the bulk of the Red Air Force was not destroyed in the air, but on the ground, by a sunrise surprise attack of the Luftwaffe. German bombers had crossed the border at an altitude of 10 000 meters (33 000 feet) and since the Soviets had no radar... BOOM!
Great docu. But the end and the Gobbels quote applies to Stalin and the USSR, perhaps even more so because Stalin had so much more time to be a tyrant. The reason we hear so little of it and think that Nazism was so much worse is because the USSR ate mostly his own people. We portray Nazis so much worse is because at the time this was made the USSR still existed and was able to hide it longer. The Germans lost and so we got to all the secret documents of the 3rd Reich
Unfortunately, we are witnessing a repeat of the fascists in a new modern form - western liberal fascist, With terror on the whole world, violent imposition of the self-destructive ideology, liberal fascist where the minority terrorizes the majority, which has its own traditions, cultures, history, nation.... with Powerful Goebbels propaganda all over the world, they are trying to impose their liberal fascist anti-national, anti-cultural, anti-traditional, anti-historical, anti-moral, anti-human, anti-civilizational, anti-humanity..... Regime, crazy and self-destructive evil ideas...
You neglect to mention that of the 2 million Soviet POWs to survive capture, Stalin sent perhaps a million of those into the Gulags where death rates approached 50%. Its no wonder that many Soviet POW's volunteered to fight with the Germans against the Soviets and resisted bitterly when the US and UK forcibly repatriated them to the Soviets, most to certain death in Stalins camps.
Seems that Russian attitudes to life are the same as in WW2.Throwing endless bodies into the grinder. They must be approaching 2 to 3 times what US lost in Vietnam in only one year of fighting.
@@allenrowe6778 Respectfully, I cant agree with you. The Russians threw off communisim and repudiated Stalin. They understand better than anyone the dangers of unchecked state power. They went through enormous hardship with the collapse of the USSR in 1990. They are in the midst (like much of the west) of a serious demographic collapse. Most Russians can talk about parents or grand parents who suffered and died in WWII. Putins mother lived through the siege of Leningrad and saw her children perish in that horrible place. The Russians, of all people know the cost of war. There are good reasons to think that Russian deaths are a fraction of what Western talking heads want us to think. We don't know of course, but the best estimates from cemetaries and death notices are that Russian and DPR/LPR dead are less than 20,000. Painful, but Russians also understand that the war is existential and that the Western goal is the dismemberment of Russia (decolonization as the Americans put it) Part of the reason the Russians advance so slowly is that they are very focused on saving the lives of their soldiers. They are happy to let the artillery do it's job. In an attrition war, preserving your resources while damaging your enemy is the key to victory. The Germans failed to realize that at Verdun in WW1 the Russians have not missed that important lesson.
This film is not shy of addressing German war crimes committed on the Eastern front. Brave and controversial.
I thank The War Channel and commend you for having the courage to post these testimonies of brutal, barbaric and inhuman conditions of WW2. Thank you for allowing them to be seen without visual censorship, as painful and horrific as they are. It is extremely difficult to accept that such crimes against humanity took place, yet here is proof. It sickens me to the depths of my soul . I have no words to express my sorrow for those victims.
General Rokossovsky survived two mock executions while in camp. And to his honor, he came out still a humane man. My hero! ☮️💟 Awesome General 👍👏👏
AGREE FROM BRASIL =but never forget Zhukov, Vatutin, and other great generals from Russia,
@@sergiosalomon9307 and don't forget Putin, the greatest mastermind of military strategic
I don’t think any Russian general came out with their humanity. Sacrificing Millions of men just to slightly slow the German advance. Horrible strategy that only paid off thanks to the weather being the coldest in a century. Don’t confuse good results with good actions. Even a blind squirrel is finds a nut sometimes. And believe me this god awful Russian military is that blind squirrel.
@@Captain-Nostromo for NATO that is LOL
Rokossovsky demonstrated his care for his troops by planning well and not using the standard head on attack as standard for other Soviet generals. He achieved advances with a lower body count than Zhukov or Koniev.
one of the most in depth narration of the german, russian war. The details of this battle of attrition and survival is very well narrated.. One of the great documentaries that is well above the rest.. History is the greatest teacher we all need to heed and learn from and not try to repeat this kind of carnage ever again.
I agree.👍👍
So glad I've found this channel, great footage and narration...liked and subscribed ✨
Excellent video! Much footage I have not seen.
The utter ferocity of this eastern campaign simply cannot be imagined, despite the detailed accounts and statistics...
Watched a good amount of WW2 documentaries but this series ranks among the best. Footage I've never seen, unflinching narrative.
Yeah, they don't make them this anymore. Even on major TV networks that claim to be history channels.
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most of video not seen before, great work. bring people back to the history, bloody and miserable .
This is the best two hour eastern front doc. Forgotten War, Soviet Storm are very good too. Thanks for posting another document of the war on humanity.
Great film content and narrative,well worth the time to watch... absolutely brutal and encompassing anything that was fed into that grist mill of war between the Germans and Soviets... titanically horrific.
Awesome doc, spot on!
I just watched the first part. I'm excited for part 2. Great Historical account.
What a FANTASTIC JOB making this.👍👍
Couldn't imagine having to fight a war in winter conditions like that
I'm glad not to have been of military age in WWI many volunteered naively...or WWII on the Eastern front...no choice.
The Siege of Leningrad has always amazed me. That anyone could have survived that hell is beyond my imagination. But not only did the Soviet people survive it, but they destroyed their foes, and defeated the Hitlerites. I hope the world never forgets the courage of the Soviet people and the bravery of the Red Army.
Excellent 👍
Very good document with pictures never seen
Part 1 was awesome 👍😎💯
WOW. That was an incredible documentary. The best I have seen in WW2. Though so very sad, so very disturbing, yet so very accurate. How can we today complain from the little disturbances of our lives when we see such human suffering in wars. Especially WW1 and WW2. An incredible job in creating this truthful accurate painful time in human history. It teaches me, all of us, what true human suffering is and for us to be thankful for what we have today, regardless of our setbacks, challenges and our own sufferings. Yes, we are never alone in our pain and sufferings.
Look up Architecture of Doom, its as good but it talks about some of the inspiration for Nazism.
@@DaniboyBR2 I will. Thank you for that information
We complain because war isn’t normal thankfully.
Very informative.
Fantastic production. Was a part 3 ever made? The battle of Stalingrad itself?
A well done video, it must have taken a long time to make...thank you very muc!h
I'm about to start reading Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor. This riveting documentary, superbly written abd narrated, was the best introduction.
Consider adding Tik's videos on Beevor's Stalingrad as well as his own takes on Stalingrad & other ww2 topics.
Excellent book.
A sad footnote to the siege of Leningrad. Postwar, Stalin purged the Communist leadership in the city out of jealousy and paranoia. 😢 A sad reward for their loyalty.
This series is up there with the best i've seen.
And the narrator is in my opinion the perfect voice for the job. :)
Do you have any clue about how i can find more about narrator (Tony May)?
@@user-lp3kd1ln7f No, sorry i have no idea.
@@Romin.777 Oh man, please help me, It's growing as a big problem for me day by day... I wanna know more about this charismatic voice..
Just wicked
thank you for producing this so accurate documentary . so rare video of the cruelty humankind to other humankind.
The only words that can accurately describe the events that took place in these times are 'Hell on Earth'
Incredible documentary. Only hope these are required viewing for The German education system.
Since the heirs of fascism will be defeated in this new modern liberal fascist form, I hope it will be put into the American educational system, for all the evils, madness, self-destruction, terror, fascist violence, imposed propaganda all over the world......
it will be teaching in schools about that crazy liberal fascist ideology, so that this greatest evil never happens again to humanity, these insidious, hidden fascists, wolves in sheep's wool, who perfected fascism, so that they were not pure fascists, or they do not present themselves as revealed open fascists, where they will openly declare, propagate, impose, for their evil ideas of madness, because such fascists were defeated, so these Liberal Fascists with the hope of their evil Devilish victory, and with insidious, evil, Devilish, hiding behind the sacred human achievements, democracy, justice, equality, brotherhood... They committed the greatest evil in the history of mankind.
Guadarian wrote a book titled "Achtung Panzer " . General Heinz Guadarian was one of the best Generals of WW2 .
There you have it, folks...the Master Race at its finest'
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Well done here
Superb and gripping. One detail however:
(26.10) Ohlendorf's name was not Erich but Otto
Good history if a bit condensed
its almoast unbelieve that humans can treat the people in that war the eastern people have so much suffer its a great warcrime and crima against humanity .i am verry impressed from this documantation .
The "humans"? Who do you name as humans?
Rasputitsa & General Winter... Two very powerful points in defending motherland... Something which Napoleon was familiar in 1812....
Difficult to watch the sufferings of the defenseless people. Very difficult.
The German war in Russia was the. Turning point in WW2
I have watched part one but cannot watch part two, I am 84
Watching this in 2023 Russia should remember the suffering that they had to endure
I still have difficulty watching these inhuman images. How these young people did these crimes against God is beyond belief!
Have you read the English Bible? Remember what the Europeans did to Jesus?
Bible is a fictional novel
@@brianbrady4496 . Agreed. How ever it is a fact that the YT Europeans did in a Arab guy who we call Jesus today.
My mentioning it here was that it has a lot of cruelty in it. It has incest. Poking out eyes. Drunks. Pedophilia... Well, if that, is your reference, your guide post then what you see people do should not surprise us you.
That was my point to the original post.
Gott mit Uns !!
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This documentary was one of the most brutal and savage war documentaries that I have ever watched, especially the footage around the 25 to 30 minute mark. Those images of murdered men, women and children are going to haunt me for a long time. I cannot even begin to imagine what it must have been like to have been caught up in a conflict of such hellish magnitude, especially when one considers the levels of atrocities committed by both sides. However, certain elements of the Wermacht and, in particular, the demonic SS, unleashed a type of cruelty on the Russian population that had never before been witnessed in modern times. It's no wonder that the Russians exacted a harsh revenge on their German tormentors when they invaded the Fatherland in early 1945. To this day, I am not sure if there has been as brutal and savage a conflict as the one between Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany during WW2. The scale of suffering and destruction, especially on the Russian side, was absolutely mind boggling. 😳
Actually, the russian government unleashed a far worse one on their own population BEFORE the war.
War between China and Japan was also very brutal.
@@st3019 Sure was! The Japanese regarded the Chinese as sub humans. Hitler also regarded the Russians as sub humans, hence the brutality!
The debacle of the Nazi army started in Russia. We are lucky they never surrendered. 👍
to gwmba1989: the Germans, under Hitler's regime basically tried to exterminate all of those living, in the areas they conquered, in order to repopulate them with Germans. That was their idea: kill all the Jews, Christians, communists, atheists, gypsies, Slavs, and anyone else living there, wipe their country and their people, off the face of the earth, and repopulate it, with an expanding (and hungry) German Christian population. Never mind that most of those they'd be killing, in order to achieve this goal, were mostly Christians, and not just Jews. They might've killed Jews first, but they were out to kill everybody, and annihilate the area of that country, that they occupied. By war's end, they succeeded in completely destroying, and removing all traces of, 600 towns and 1100 villages, taking away all people,livestock, building materials, tools, and crops--and leaving nothing but wasteland--where there had been a community there, before. Facing complete annihilation--and knowing about it firsthand--is it any wonder that everyone there united to fight a total war against such inhumane outside invaders? among many other books that i have read about this war, the recent Western publication, of an old Soviet posthumous manuscript that I absorbed 100%, is entitled: "Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper", upon which the recent subtitled Russian movie, Battle For Sevastopol, is based. I am not in favor of communism (socialists loyal to Moscow), nor of Nazis (socialists loyal to Berlin)--and I despise socialism, which gives all power and control, to the state, and removes all individual freedoms and liberties, in the process--I believe in free market enterprise, capitalism, and democracy. However, given the annihilation that her people and her country were facing, regardless of their f'd up government, economy and political situation--is it any wonder that she, like millions of others, chose to do whatever she could, to fight this horrific invader/annihilator? can you imagine a 25 year old graduate student, who last year was studying history and archaeology, by September, 1942, had already been wounded 4 times, in 15 months of hellish combat in trenches, and personally was officially credited with having killed 309 Nazis, as a sniper, while having lost a lover, and later her husband, dying in combat, beside her? and, at 25 years old, in 1942, she was probably the best sniper (though not the highest scoring one, by far), in the world--far better than anyone we had, at the time. (Why? Because she had worked at an arms factory, from age 15 to 19, then studied at Kiev University from 19 to 24, where she learned the physics of ballistics and metallurgy, in addition to her practical exposure to it, in the manufacture of weapons, and metal working, in that factory. And she was trained through a Soviet youth group, in marksmanship, explosives and camouflage, before she ever enlisted in the army, when the war broke out, in June of 1941.) this is the extreme, that every one in that poor unfortunate country (already crippled by Stalin's insane socialist rule), had to go through, in order to defend their families, their communities, and their country--or face total annihilation. we here in America can only imagine what that was like: two great socialist powers, intent on destroying each other. and as much as I hated Stalin's government and the hell of communist dictatorship, in all fairness to the Russian people, I think that they ended up treating the Germans, better than the Nazis treated the Russians. Both sides lost a lot. But, the Russians, as badly as they treated the Germans, after winning, were not about to completely destroy the German people the way the Nazis tried to destroy the Russian people. I'm not making any excuses for the hell of socialist rule, under the Iron Curtain, after the war, or for all of the Germans who died during that war (many killed by Western Allies, and bombing, not just by the Red Army)--but who can excuse the 27 MILLION, who were killed, in the Soviet Union, during that war? Perhaps ten million Germans died, including many in combat, but who started that war? who tried to wipe out, not just the government, but all of the people, in the Soviet Union? and, in this quite excellent Brit documentary, from the 1990's, we see some of the results of this annihilation attempt, firsthand--as horrific as they are. WW2 was no joke--and Russia suffered heavily during it--hopefully we will not have to see anything like it, again, in our lifetime...
Tag 39:00, Hitler splits Army Group South into two smaller forces. A strategic blunder given that his prime objective in 1942 was to capture the oil fields in the South.
Correction. The einsatzgruppen commanders name was otto Ohlendorf not eric. Stellar video though.
The Russian winter makes western New York seem like Tahiti.
Humanity has learned nothing from its dark past.
I've never quite subscribed to the idea that the bombing of the luftwaffe is what made Stalingrad so easily defendable. Stalingrad's buildings would have all been destroyed by artillery sooner or later. The bombing just made it happen faster.
Not all of Stalingrad's buildings were destroyed. Some remained and are still standing.
@@markprange2430 I'm aware of that. A lot of the famous battles were fought in those buildings. Most of those buildings that weren't destroyed were at least severely damaged.
Why, oh why, wasn't there 4K video back then?
woow this is old 1990?
Some references to German 16th Army when it was the German 6th Army. The German 16th Army was always part of Army Group North.
That QUOTE at the end sounds somewhat prophetic. [Matthew 24: 4 -- 14]
If you want to see some more disturbing war history then watch Come and See. It's a Russian film about the war crimes. 👍👍👍👀
I'd rather watch the documentaries about how Stalin holocaust 20 million of his own people, and gets a pass
I can’t believe humans could treat other humans like that.
Sickening really.
Murder on a grand scale
Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, indigenous peoples all over the world...
@@faharoon357 troll attempt FAIL. All of those together do not amount to the amount of suffering the Germans bestowed upon the people of the Soviet Union and three-quarters of Europe North Africa the baltics Norway and Beyond.
@@badmonkey2222 . I see YT lives are worth more are they? You seem not to know that upwards of forty million indigenous have been killed and continue to be killed at the hands of YT America.
Now include other countless Dark skinned peoples from around the world and you get a number that is hard to put your mind on.
BTW, you do know that the YT Americans are still at war with the Moro people. A war that they started around 1898.
Why do you name "humans" those sadistic German murderers?
Murder on a World War scale.
Great story of courage bravery of Russian soldgers ❤
Part 3 ?
An excellent series. As a military historian I find these movies fairly accurate.
The Germans have the victory away.
Go after Moscow with a fierce fire, drive onto Baku for oil.
Bomb the tank plants in Leningrad and send Rommel everything he needs in North Africa. Get after the convoys with the U-Boats and have Rommel drive through Egypt to cut the Suez canal. Link up by the Black sea and crush Moscow before General Winter has his say.
But ...
This movie contains propaganda from that period. Like the fact that the Germans forgot their winter clothes. Or charges of the Polish cavalry on tanks. And a few more.
Suez did not matter Britain could get all the need from North America.
By mid 1943 radar and sonar made it suicidal to be in a U-Boat.
@Simon Paterson What kind of research? The Germans never said they would defeat Russia in four months, because that's what you mean when you say they weren't needed, according to Hitler. The only reason why the Germans did not have winter clothes was logistics and not the lack of these clothes. You should know it since you're researching it.
@Simon Paterson Where and when did he say it. And under what circumstances. Since the German staff assumed that in the summer they would reach Smoleńk the farthest and they would have to organize logistics first to be able to go further east.
Really?
At tag 30:12, Hitler takes personal command of the German Army high command. This accelerates the defeat of the third Reich.
I saw part 2, but was a part 3 made? part 2 only gets to the beginning of the battle, for the city. it was very detailed, but a clearly unfinished story. why was a road to stalingrad part 3, never made?
The Road to Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War 2
I wonder why the wehrmacht didn't have winter gear packed and ready to go on a regular basis. Not that they didn't bring it with them, I can understand that(taking up valuable space in the logistics line etc). But the Germans had to ask for donations from the civilian population(winter relief), when they finally admitted that they would not be done with the Russians in 1941. One would think that the professional army should always have stuff like that ready to move.
They taught and believed in a quick victory before the winter.
Is this the last episode?
I hope not.
@@keithehredt753 Dityo. Have you seen the Soviet Storm series? Start now if you have not yet.
@@imranzaki3687 thank you
I think 'The Eastern Front: Road to Berlin 1' is where this picks up. I'm watching it now and the first 20 minutes have been about Stalingrad. I was wondering the same thing as you, though!
Where is part 3?
Knowing that the Nazis and USSR pretty much agreed on splitting Europe between them in the beginning, plus the fact that USSR invaded Finland, there should not be any "Russian national pride" for defeating the Nazis at Stalingrad. They clearly acted equal the invaders as Nazi Germany did. Nor should there be any mercy for the Kremlin regime ever again. They still desire control from Vladivostok to Lisbon; yet they have already proven that communism is not the way forward for human development, evolution, and happiness. It is time for it to dwindle to nothing like Nazi Germany. I read some of you mentioning "The New World Order" and weighing it against Stalin's totalitarian rule. Both failed miserably at the cost of hundreds of millions of lives. Seems rather cruel, teenage minded, backwards thinking and quite honestly uneducated to not have evolved your ways since the 1940s. "Neuropa" will not be Russian, nor Chinese or rightwing extremist. It will simply be European based on science, logic and humanism and obviously with close ties to any coalition supporting this world view. It is inevitable.
Father winter took care of mother Russia.
Winter conditions will kill you just think of Napoleon Third Reich is regular at the same time in the spring weather is nice and fresh air is it get there in the winter time
The original version narrated by John Hedges in 1994 is way more impressive only because of the narration.
Is that version on UA-cam?
thanks for this excellent docu .I am 72 years young and my father was a SS officer of a division of SS-Totenkopf-division who broke in into Ucremia. Painfully for me, he died about 10 years ago just before he could tell me what happened there. It is something that will follow me the rest of my life, because he never wanted to talk with me. I think about this poor children and families who's waiting a life full of memories an trauma's .Thanks to Putin !!!
At least he had the "decency" not to talk about what he did. You can be sure that his hands were full of Jewish blood. I do not say RIP. Because you are his son I refrain from saying what I think.
Not your fault or your fathers’. Its these monster politicians whom are to blame. Hitler Stalin Putin Biden. They are the monsters who needlessly bring war and death on us so they can stay in power. Supported by socialist corrupt fools. Beware the biggest monster xi in China waiting to pounce on the remains of peace as Stalin did in 1939.
You have a lot of pity for your SS grandpa I wonder how much pity him and his unit had for the uncounted war crimes they committed..
The official name of "the Order of the Frozen Flesh" was "the Winter Campaign Medal". The German soldiers mocked it as "the Frozen Meat Medal". The English translation "the Order of the Frozen Flesh" is not accurate as it fails to capture the derisive sarcasm of the medal's inofficial nickname.
It's too bad there's no part 3 that would have told us the rest of the story.
yeah! im looking for it too. was there a third part?
There is a audio hum that’s a problem for me…hurts my ear after a while
Stalin refused negotiations initiated by the Germans to secure the release of his own son who was captured by the Germans in the early stages of Barbarossa.
Stalin said (I am paraphrasing bc i do not remember the exact quote verbatim): "Why didn't he shoot himself instead of being taken prisoner?"
Stalin's son was reported to have felt abandoned by his father (he was spot on) and he would later die in German captivity after attempting to escape and throwing himself on an electrified fence.
I thought it was Otto Olehndorf, who commanded an einzatsgruppe?
41:38 41:44 Over Kuperosnoe.
No. Once and for all. It was NOT the ingenious rust banger k.a. T 34
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WOW!
So disappointed. Tried to watch from my account and it just wouldn't play, even after I agreed that I wanted to watch the content. I'm 62 years old for heaven's sake. This is ridiculous. I found Part 1 very well done and wanted to continue but don't seem to be able to. I have watched far worse videos on UA-cam about the extermination camps and the Holocaust and never had to go through an age restricted process. This just won't play, not even on my computer. Really wanted to watch it.
Over 60,000 T-34's were built, before the Russians lost count ...
the worst is opening two lines on west and east simultaneously
It's not Erich but Otto Ohlendorf, Commander of Einsatzgruppe
Extraordinary production. Very well-done. The level of pitiful whining from various keyboard historians regarding certain statistics is appalling. The eastern front during WWII was the largest; tens of millions fought and died. Russia won. Germany lost. It beggars belief in the horror witnessed by all participants. I’m thankful such documentaries still exist in an era of increasing western censorship.
I read Guderian's memoirs....they were enlightening on how top level
Tacticians like him were the only thing that held Germany together until all of them were sacked. At least he survived the war.
A+
42:37 Stalin said that?
the most fascinating part of 2nd world war history, Stalingrad, Hitler's obsession most likely hastened the end of the Russian campaign.
It appears that that by The End of 1941 Fritz had shot his bolt.
When a country invades another , how can the aggressor call the other side ,the enemy
The Russians got fresh troops from the east to fight the Germans after they learned the Japanese would not attack them in late 41. The Japanese decided they would attack US interests in the Pacific instead. Bad mistake. Lol 😂
8:53 Blumentritt
Hell on earth
Mustafa sariatli sevgikervani
Another error: the bulk of the Red Air Force was not destroyed in the air, but on the ground, by a sunrise surprise attack of the Luftwaffe. German bombers had crossed the border at an altitude of 10 000 meters (33 000 feet) and since the Soviets had no radar... BOOM!
This was mentioned in part 1z
Great docu. But the end and the Gobbels quote applies to Stalin and the USSR, perhaps even more so because Stalin had so much more time to be a tyrant. The reason we hear so little of it and think that Nazism was so much worse is because the USSR ate mostly his own people. We portray Nazis so much worse is because at the time this was made the USSR still existed and was able to hide it longer. The Germans lost and so we got to all the secret documents of the 3rd Reich
The Error's in this series are too numerous too list, both parts 1 & 2. Sad fact that misinformation is still propagated more than 70 years later.
Second front for the USSR ? Seriously ?
Good document, but the part about t-34 is bullshit.
Unfortunately we are witnessing the repeat of Stalingrad in Ukraine, history always tends to repeat itself.
Unfortunately, we are witnessing a repeat of the fascists in a new modern form - western liberal fascist, With terror on the whole world, violent imposition of the self-destructive ideology, liberal fascist where the minority terrorizes the majority, which has its own traditions, cultures, history, nation.... with Powerful Goebbels propaganda all over the world, they are trying to impose their liberal fascist anti-national, anti-cultural, anti-traditional, anti-historical, anti-moral, anti-human, anti-civilizational, anti-humanity..... Regime, crazy and self-destructive evil ideas...
You neglect to mention that of the 2 million Soviet POWs to survive capture, Stalin sent perhaps a million of those into the Gulags where death rates approached 50%. Its no wonder that many Soviet POW's volunteered to fight with the Germans against the Soviets and resisted bitterly when the US and UK forcibly repatriated them to the Soviets, most to certain death in Stalins camps.
Yep, if you were caught by the germans, you most likely came back as a spy, according to stalin at least.
Seems that Russian attitudes to life are the same as in WW2.Throwing endless bodies into the grinder. They must be approaching 2 to 3 times what US lost in Vietnam in only one year of fighting.
@@allenrowe6778 Respectfully, I cant agree with you. The Russians threw off communisim and repudiated Stalin. They understand better than anyone the dangers of unchecked state power. They went through enormous hardship with the collapse of the USSR in 1990. They are in the midst (like much of the west) of a serious demographic collapse. Most Russians can talk about parents or grand parents who suffered and died in WWII. Putins mother lived through the siege of Leningrad and saw her children perish in that horrible place. The Russians, of all people know the cost of war.
There are good reasons to think that Russian deaths are a fraction of what Western talking heads want us to think. We don't know of course, but the best estimates from cemetaries and death notices are that Russian and DPR/LPR dead are less than 20,000. Painful, but Russians also understand that the war is existential and that the Western goal is the dismemberment of Russia (decolonization as the Americans put it) Part of the reason the Russians advance so slowly is that they are very focused on saving the lives of their soldiers. They are happy to let the artillery do it's job. In an attrition war, preserving your resources while damaging your enemy is the key to victory. The Germans failed to realize that at Verdun in WW1 the Russians have not missed that important lesson.
Master Spy Richard Sorge....
They mentioned only the Russian casualties but not the German ones.
Crazy to think some of the Russian tanks we see here are being used on Ukraines soil right now.