In every factory in the Soviet Union at the time was a poster with the slogan” everything for the front, everything for the victory”. The enormous sacrifice of the Soviet people is so often forgotten but I thank you for highlighting this
You are right ! The problem the slogan poster was placed, and printed, long time before 21 June 1941 ! Like May 1939 ! CCCP was in war production from that year and month.
When I hear that music start, I know the good stuff you gentlemen produce is about to begin. Many, many thanks for the great content you produce and research you put into your finished product here.
Loved the maps, loved the photographs, loved the footage, loved the carefully researched figures and statistics, loved the care put in the script and the thoroughness of the holistic view, loved the lack of any inevitably subjective opinions (elsewhere carelessly thrown around ad nauseam), loved the narration, loved the overall aim behind your work! THANK YOU!!!!
Georgi, this was actually one of your more important recent videos. Though it does not on the surface seem like much positive is happening on the front, in many and varied important ways Ukraine is getting stronger and more capable every day. As always, we most appreciate your frankness and honesty. Please keep doing what you are doing and God bless you and your endeavors…and, Slava Ukraini!
Just watched this, it is EXCELLENT! Great work,Anton. The time and effort you invested is valuable. The video's background assumptions, root causes and German miscalculations come together to describe a coherent reason for Operation Uranus success. The detailed comparison in material and manpower also validate the operation's success.
Enjoy this series immensely. We are at last benefiting from the proper historiographical methods that have, up until now, for whatever reasons, been woefully neglected. Along with TIK’s Battlestorm series and Anton Joly’s contributions we are finally peeking behind the many distorted, simplified established narratives. What I don’t understand is why there isn’t a similar effort to match the great demand for a series that would serve to act upon the popular questions: What should/could have the Axis have done to ensure the greatest chance of Blau’s success? At what point was their cause lost and why? Why was the Axis most important (recognised) campaign of the war so terribly neglected in so many ways? These are questions which I believe many Eastern Front enthusiasts are desperate for the UA-cam academic community to take seriously, as not only is it interesting but also answers perhaps one of the most critical and widely held assumptions : that the Axis did not do all that they could to ensure success. Prost
Excellent points. Indeed there's still far too few coverage of many aspects of the Soviet-German war, and we're here to remedy for that. Thanks for your interest!
@@Armageddon4145 I think the most important factor of any battle,or drawn out war,is the overall commander in chief.As WW 2 raged on,Hitler continued to make huge mistakes that the German army could not rebound from.His first mistake on the eastern front,was to ignore warnings from his top commanders,such as Gen Paulus ,of an imminent counterattack north and south of Stalingrad.Hitler grossly underestimated the will of the Russian people,and how vast a country that Russian really was.12 time zones across ,and the Ural mountains where soldiers could have held out for years.The German supply problem was also a knife thru the heart..If you look at photos of Hitler from Jan 43 to Jan 45,you can tell he was quickly deteriorating in his mind and his body.He aged 50 yrs in just 3,knowing his area of operations were quickly shrinking by the day.President Roosevelt also aged very quickly from 43 to 45.Right after his assassination attempt failed,he found out the enigma code had been compromised and became even more recluse.
Awesome video as always. You should make a series on the Italian military in WW2. Finding documentaries on Italy and their military in WW2 that go into the level of detail that you do in your videos. Is damn near impossible.
@@StoutProper There has to be an interesting story behind the Iranian translation. Edit : Sometimes Wikipedia can be useful. It would be surprising if there wasn't an Iranian translation. Perhaps there is a video on YT somewhere that documents their long standing ties.
@@vespasian606 Wikipedia is useful for very basic facts, like who was the president of the us in 1912 and what if the capital of Somali. Anything else is severely subjective and frequently charges depending on the opinion and political beliefs of the last person to edit it. Wikipedia also has a very strange definition of trusted sources
More people should watch this. Not for the sake of the excellent preparation of source material and its solid and well tempered exhibition, but just to take in these final words.
Now I have seen all three and have had a great enhancement of my education about this very critical battle of the Stalingrad campaign as whole... thanks for your hard work 😃, keepem coming.Salute!
The Studebaker trucks the Soviets received from the U.S. Lend Lease, was a game breaker. This was a major factor in the Soviets being able to drastically improve their offensive capabilities.
The trucks and perhaps food may have help the Soviet cause . but lets not forget all the food , weapons , horses and material Germany confiscated from all the occupied Countries . all that was equal or more the Soviet ever received from the US ..
Good, but maybe a few other lessons 1) Germany - convince your troops that the enemy is a race of subhumans who exist only to be destroyed 2) Germany -teach your troops that they are fated to conquer all 3) Germany - convince your opponents that you are there to kill them and to destroy everything that they hold dear (that there is no place for them East of the Volga) 4) treat your allies with disdain, deprive them of the necessary tools to assist you. 5) Germany - convince the allies of your enemies that they must pay any cost to keep your enemies in the war.
Sorry for this. Yes, there's a small editing mistake, it should run like this: "their supplies were still a matter of concern and they were largely relying on the planned capture of enemy depots."
I have heard some very different points of view about this battle so far that I hadn’t considered before, but the men of 6th Army were sacrificed to save the much larger Army of the Caucuses.
This fine documentary didn't mention the lavish amount of arms,food and everything else the allies piled on. They skimmed over it but the reality was that the allies fed the Russian army and gave them 10's of thousands of vehicles and so forth.
If it is important to get a 360 view and all perspectives of a historical event are important to understand it then how much important are these things to understanding an event that is happening now. With a press who wants to play judge and jury instead of that of a witness, play the power behind the throne with the people who have to make the decisions, who prefer to tell us what to think and not giving what we need to think it is impossible.
Knew it had to be coming soon as TIK's battlestorm was getting to Uranus. To Rostov??? Wow. Excuse my language but the Germans sure screwed the pooch, what a disaster. Love the content 👍👍👍
If anything a Soviet offensive that managed to make it to Rostov would have cut off 2 German Army Groups. I reckon that the Germans thought that would have been the obvious place to aim for for the Soviets. And maybe what they would have done if the situation were reversed. And maybe also what they thought they could expect from the Soviets based on past offensives. Which all had been grand in their strategic aims. That the Soviets might actually set themselves a realistic aim that the still recovering Red Army could actually achieve was probably the real surprise and why it actually succeeded.
@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 I agree, to Rostov would have been a bigger disaster if it succeeded in keeping a break out or in from happening by the Germans. The fact that’s what they thought the objective was in OKH makes their preparations even more strange and foolish.
Yes to Rostov. They even made a run at it but Manstien forted it with what he had left over form trying the brake thought It was mostly stop though by the fuel problem the Russians had There si little written bout this in any records I got my information form a man who survived it on the Russian side. He was one who got out by going over to the USA side in April of '45 He still had his ID papers and all Rank Cpt Cant remember is name as i meant him but once in '78. He was born in 1910 so dead now Wish I had written his story down but I was juist 30 and thought all ppl will be alive in a few yr and i can get back to him and so this and get more stories from him but a Month later i moved from CA to IR So many WW2 Vets i got talk to back then and i never thought of even using a tape recorder This is why I am writing my life stories and saving them to the cloud so that osme day an historian will have them to read and know what one man did with is life before computer
Brotha I absolutely love your videos I soak in all of this information. But your basic editing needs to improve. One big example being Sentences are cut off many times at the end
Excellent work but a few editing errors have crept in. 11:59 'that would never take place' not 'that would never took place' and 12:02 spoken commentary abruptly cut off, 17:08 the electrical cables were gnawed through during Winter, but the commentary says 'Summer.' At 19:10 you show a Black guy about to drive a truck. If you want l can have a listen to your next edition prior to release if you like, l would love to help.
Thanks for your interest, and for the heads-up. The first 2 points are mistakes indeed (already discussed here in comments). But the last 2 are not. The cables were gnawed in summer. The guy is not black, it's just poor brightness. Thanks
While the preparations for Operation Uranus were under way, the Soviets were able to feed just enough units in to the city of Stalingrad, to keep it from falling.
Think if they had transferred divisions from France or maybe even Norway in September, the war may have lasted another year on the east...what a debacle.
Can we set up a course for Anglo's on the proper pronunciation of Uranus so that it doesn't sound like that indelicate part of their anatomy that most of us don't want to think about? Herr moustachioed Patreon being the culprit here, although TIK a repeat offender would probably require more serious measures.
Whoever really planned this operation; in any case, this Operation was brilliant. I love hearing how so many Fascists, after the fact, had warned Hitler of the buildup but they were ignored. Wishful thinking 💭 I think.
A few misinformation points. Most glaring is that any meaningful amounts of help started arriving well after the Stalingrad battle. Even Kursk, in mid 1943, was almost 100% Russian affairs. Meaningful amounts started arriving in 2nd half of 1943, not in time even for Kursk battle preparation. In other wards the war was won by the time meaningful amounts of equipment and materials started arriving from the USA.
Russia/ USSR had wonn before materials from USA came if it came at all because the convoys up north sea and over to USSR was the most dangerous route for ships under the whole WW 2 and it wasn't much that came in to USSR, so they wasn't in need of materials and food, WW 2 was wonn by russian steel, weapons,blood and life and a highly intelligent proud people, they broke the back of germany at Stalingrad, at Kursk Russia broke the germans neck and from that day russian soldiers hunted nazis from Kursk to Berlin and boy did many went to Siberia as POW, survivors came home to germany in 1956
Me on February 23: Man, the Soviet-German War was a real nightmare, I hope Eastern Europe never repeats an experience like that ever again Me on February 24: Ah shit.
This is why I cannot comprehend Russia going in on the Ukraine....obviously, all the bloodshed & horror seemed to have no longevity after 80 years...DAMN!!!GOD BLESS the wronged as well as the wrong doers
@@aaronallen7821 Russia going into Ukraine is not as simple issue as you think, nato or simply US forced Russia's hand by slowly but surely advancing on its borders, stopping them nato in Ukraine is a better option than fighting them in Russia.
June 41 Germany sweeps into the USSR taking prisoner or killing 1m Russian troops and destroying all heavy industry. 16 months later the Russians respawn 1m soldiers 1000 tanks, 5000 artillery pieces. 1500 planes. It is mind blowing what they did. In 1941, the Soviets built 6274 tanks. against Germany's 3,623. In 1942 USSR built 24,639 tanks against Germany's 5,530. 1943 saw Germany produce a record 11,601 tanks against Russia's 22,000. When you add in Lend lease. The Russians must be producing 4x or 5x tanks,planes,artillery to the Germans every year of the war. Amazed that the Germans lasted to 45.
It is my understanding that a German force in Stalingrad was supposed to be a vanguard shielding Army Group A in the Caucasus. As it turned out, the Sixth Army ended up diverting several Red Army divisions so that Army Group A under Von Manstein's orders was able to *withdraw* from the region instead.
The russian have a long history of be underrated......happen in the XVIII century...again in the.XIX....in the XX....now in XXI. Is a big.......very big mistake underrate Russia....... Muy bueno Anton!!!🙂🙂
It's also a very big mistake to marginalize logistical considerations. The distance and terrain comparison between France, Low Countries vs USSR is much greater in the East. Hitler's strategic genius evaporated in the great expanse of Russia. Scorched earth is kryptonite to an invader that relies on foraging.
neither the Americans nor the British recognised the art of mobile warfare that was developed following ww1 This was not True for the Russians.They developed a world class system called deep battle and operational art. but the problem for russians was thet Stalin purged the military of its leadership. This is why russians suffered early defeats. but already in 42 a new bread of young russian comanders and generals was coming.And the changes in russian preformance was breath taking. all of it culmunatin into a grand crusando called Operation Bagration in 1944.
Paulus despised the little corporal and placed _no_ value on his promotion to field marshal by this person of low stature that thugs had brought to power. His own heritage to which he owed his selection was that of aristocracy, _von_ Paulus. A staff officer to whom field commanders paid lip service, then went their own way said nothing of Paulus competence or lack thereof. Paulus was unsuited to the task of field command, lacked ruthlessness, wasted men and material and was otherwise _incompetent._ Hitler’s fatal mistake was that he had lost sight of his base of support and too soon wishing to cloak himself with a modicum of respectability chose _pedigree_ over _merit._ A skillful tactician would have enjoyed success and eluded entrapment. The war that Hitler was destined to win was lost at Stalingrad.
The Soviets isolated and captured the 6th army in order to rescue Paulus. His imprisonment a thinly disguised vacation. The Soviets knew that Paulus was the weak link in the chain, a commander-by-entitlement devoid of battlefield acumen. POW Paulus was allowed to phone his colleagues, eroding and undermining their confidence and faith in Hitler. If Hitler’s downfall may be attributed to any single party that person should be Paulus. Without Paulus assuming command the probability is high that Hitler might have enjoyed at least a partial victory, being permitted to retain Russian territory west of the Volga River, in order to stem the flow of Communism westward, in exchange for withdrawing from France and the other European nations that he had conquered.
While video is intresting and comprehensive (given the information availible) it does not answer the question how the soviets came to be the genius planners so suddenly. You state numerous times that all their previous major offensives failed while from this point of time forward they suddenly where solid in planning. It is not feasible to teach general staff work during war, you need years of school and more so - tradition, which was lost in Russia long before 1937 purge. I would like to point you to that according to official historiography Churchill came to Moscow in august 1942 emptyhanded - during the biggest crisis Soviets faced during the war, the furthest german advance ever - he told Stalin to beat it, no second front, no Murmansk lend lease (due to PQ-17), only promises. That is no offical visit, you can't arrive officially this way just to have a drink with Stalin. There is a theory that Churchill arrived with British general staff think tank headed by Claude Auchinleck. No actual basis for this claim aside from pure speculation but this way you can exlpain sudden soviet planning ability much more realistically.
Zhukov was responsible for planning an offensive at Khalkhin Gol (1939) and the Battle of Moscow (Dec 1941). Tsaritsyn was won by the Bolsheviks in 1920. IMO the basis to plan an offensive such as Operation Uran was there, as personified by Zhukov and Stalin. Chuikov's forces were being used as bait. STAVKA was becoming more meticulous in their operational and strategic planning as the war progressed from the fall of 1942 onwards. While still being reckless with the lives of soldiers, this is a change from the 1941 position where the Russian defense was to sacrifice men to gain time.
No!! Stop the Soviets. Seize Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea. Force the Soviets to retreat all the way up the Volga to Kuibyshev. Then drive Stalin and the surviving Bolsheviks on into Siberia. UGH!!! I hate the Soviets!! But....... are the Nazis any better? Dilemma
In every factory in the Soviet Union at the time was a poster with the slogan” everything for the front, everything for the victory”. The enormous sacrifice of the Soviet people is so often forgotten but I thank you for highlighting this
You are right ! The problem the slogan poster was placed, and printed, long time before 21 June 1941 ! Like May 1939 ! CCCP was in war production from that year and month.
When I hear that music start, I know the good stuff you gentlemen produce is about to begin. Many, many thanks for the great content you produce and research you put into your finished product here.
Much appreciated!
I’m a delivery driver. Listening to your videos really makes my job easier.
Great content!
Loved the maps, loved the photographs, loved the footage, loved the carefully researched figures and statistics, loved the care put in the script and the thoroughness of the holistic view, loved the lack of any inevitably subjective opinions (elsewhere carelessly thrown around ad nauseam), loved the narration, loved the overall aim behind your work! THANK YOU!!!!
Many thanks for your interest, very appreciated!
How true! Duration is almost my only subject of grunge :-)
@@TukozAki haha indeed!!
@@Armageddon4145 have to agree. It’s rare these days to encounter a complete absence of political or other subjective bias. Thank you
I'm so happy with the documentary good work
TIK recommended that I come here a few months ago and glad I had taken his advice.
These series are literally some of the most finest history documentaries ive ever watched. please make more!
Thanks a lot!
a great way to start my weekend - thanks guys
Georgi, this was actually one of your more important recent videos. Though it does not on the surface seem like much positive is happening on the front, in many and varied important ways Ukraine is getting stronger and more capable every day. As always, we most appreciate your frankness and honesty. Please keep doing what you are doing and God bless you and your endeavors…and, Slava Ukraini!
Just watched this, it is EXCELLENT! Great work,Anton. The time and effort you invested is valuable. The video's background assumptions, root causes and German miscalculations come together to describe a coherent reason for Operation Uranus success. The detailed comparison in material and manpower also validate the operation's success.
Thanks a lot guys!!!....I was wating this, great job!!!
Great channel. bingeing this stuff now i get the concept after like 7 videos and they keep getting better
Enjoy this series immensely. We are at last benefiting from the proper historiographical methods that have, up until now, for whatever reasons, been woefully neglected.
Along with TIK’s Battlestorm series and Anton Joly’s contributions we are finally peeking behind the many distorted, simplified established narratives.
What I don’t understand is why there isn’t a similar effort to match the great demand for a series that would serve to act upon the popular questions:
What should/could have the Axis have done to ensure the greatest chance of Blau’s success?
At what point was their cause lost and why?
Why was the Axis most important (recognised) campaign of the war so terribly neglected in so many ways?
These are questions which I believe many Eastern Front enthusiasts are desperate for the UA-cam academic community to take seriously, as not only is it interesting but also answers perhaps one of the most critical and widely held assumptions : that the Axis did not do all that they could to ensure success.
Prost
Excellent points. Indeed there's still far too few coverage of many aspects of the Soviet-German war, and we're here to remedy for that. Thanks for your interest!
@@Armageddon4145 I think the most important factor of any battle,or drawn out war,is the overall commander in chief.As WW 2 raged on,Hitler continued to make huge mistakes that the German army could not rebound from.His first mistake on the eastern front,was to ignore warnings from his top commanders,such as Gen Paulus ,of an imminent counterattack north and south of Stalingrad.Hitler grossly underestimated the will of the Russian people,and how vast a country that Russian really was.12 time zones across ,and the Ural mountains where soldiers could have held out for years.The German supply problem was also a knife thru the heart..If you look at photos of Hitler from Jan 43 to Jan 45,you can tell he was quickly deteriorating in his mind and his body.He aged 50 yrs in just 3,knowing his area of operations were quickly shrinking by the day.President Roosevelt also aged very quickly from 43 to 45.Right after his assassination attempt failed,he found out the enigma code had been compromised and became even more recluse.
Try Mark Felton and military aviation visualised too
My grandfather died at Kletskaia in that day.may he rest in peace
Awesome video as always.
You should make a series on the Italian military in WW2. Finding documentaries on Italy and their military in WW2 that go into the level of detail that you do in your videos. Is damn near impossible.
They’re available in Italian, and interestingly in Iranian.
@@StoutProper There has to be an interesting story behind the Iranian translation.
Edit : Sometimes Wikipedia can be useful. It would be surprising if there wasn't an Iranian translation. Perhaps there is a video on YT somewhere that documents their long standing ties.
@@vespasian606 Wikipedia is useful for very basic facts, like who was the president of the us in 1912 and what if the capital of Somali. Anything else is severely subjective and frequently charges depending on the opinion and political beliefs of the last person to edit it. Wikipedia also has a very strange definition of trusted sources
Incredible documentary work. Thank you so much for sharing it!
I love the series. Great job guys!!
Great job !
More people should watch this. Not for the sake of the excellent preparation of source material and its solid and well tempered exhibition, but just to take in these final words.
You mean those by Steve?
@@Armageddon4145 yes sir!
What a great channel, I especially love the in the bunker conferences!
80 years ago to this very day, it began.
A 20 year old back then would be 100 years old now.
Excellent coverage!
Easily one of my top channels for WW ll!
Have I been anxiously awaiting this video! ❤this channel! 👍👍👏👏💟☮️
Hope you enjoyed it, KD :)
@@Armageddon4145 Yes Sir! I enjoyed it immensely, as I do all your work here on Armageddon! 👏👏
Thanks for the great work on the video! :)
Channel needs way more subs. Great stuff!
Now I have seen all three and have had a great enhancement of my education about this very critical battle of the Stalingrad campaign as whole... thanks for your hard work 😃, keepem coming.Salute!
Sure, this was only the intro... The day to day sequence is beginning!
@@Armageddon4145 I will be watching for them...thanks for the heads up.
@@Armageddon4145 I must say...this is not the beginning of the end but it is the end of the beginning 😂. Salute.
You have an editing mistake in the vid at 16:10 where it off mid-senten...
Yes...already answered here. Thanks for the heads-up!
The Studebaker trucks the Soviets received from the U.S. Lend Lease, was a game breaker. This was a major factor in the Soviets being able to drastically improve their offensive capabilities.
The trucks and perhaps food may have help the Soviet cause . but lets not forget all the food , weapons , horses and material Germany confiscated from all the occupied Countries . all that was equal or more the Soviet ever received from the US ..
@@stironeceno Good Grief! Can't keep comments on the subject.
hahahaha
Wonderfully done video.. Thank you!!
Good, but maybe a few other lessons 1) Germany - convince your troops that the enemy is a race of subhumans who exist only to be destroyed 2) Germany -teach your troops that they are fated to conquer all 3) Germany - convince your opponents that you are there to kill them and to destroy everything that they hold dear (that there is no place for them East of the Volga) 4) treat your allies with disdain, deprive them of the necessary tools to assist you. 5) Germany - convince the allies of your enemies that they must pay any cost to keep your enemies in the war.
there are odd cuts here and there, but great video nonetheless. looking forward to the next one!
Amazing series, keep it up!
This is suspiciously perfectly lined up with TIK’s battlestorm episode.
Haha, you saw that, right?
Indeed we line up with Lewis, as explained in the first episode
Love this series.
Love it. But the video seams to hop in 16:09 and one time earlier??
Sorry for this. Yes, there's a small editing mistake, it should run like this:
"their supplies were still a matter of concern and they were largely relying on the planned capture of enemy depots."
another great vid well done
19:10 - is that the Red Ball Express?
@Armageddon at 16:05 there's a wrong cut
Yes. Thanks
this is just ridiculously good stuff
thanks a lot
I have heard some very different points of view about this battle so far that I hadn’t considered before, but the men of 6th Army were sacrificed to save the much larger Army of the Caucuses.
This fine documentary didn't mention the lavish amount of arms,food and everything else the allies piled on.
They skimmed over it but the reality was that the allies fed the Russian army and gave them 10's of thousands of vehicles and so forth.
Music at the start is great
Good one.
This is top quality history.
If it is important to get a 360 view and all perspectives of a historical event are important to understand it then how much important are these things to understanding an event that is happening now. With a press who wants to play judge and jury instead of that of a witness, play the power behind the throne with the people who have to make the decisions, who prefer to tell us what to think and not giving what we need to think it is impossible.
Feudal conditions as was common just DECADES ago. The Russian farmers still could go BACK to methods their fathers and grandfathers considered normal.
Do you get nervous when people hover around Uranus?
I noticed you are missing Anton Joly's IVth Volume of Stalingrad Battle Atlas. Great read. I also own all 4 Volumes.
Knew it had to be coming soon as TIK's battlestorm was getting to Uranus. To Rostov??? Wow. Excuse my language but the Germans sure screwed the pooch, what a disaster. Love the content 👍👍👍
If anything a Soviet offensive that managed to make it to Rostov would have cut off 2 German Army Groups. I reckon that the Germans thought that would have been the obvious place to aim for for the Soviets. And maybe what they would have done if the situation were reversed. And maybe also what they thought they could expect from the Soviets based on past offensives. Which all had been grand in their strategic aims. That the Soviets might actually set themselves a realistic aim that the still recovering Red Army could actually achieve was probably the real surprise and why it actually succeeded.
@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 I agree, to Rostov would have been a bigger disaster if it succeeded in keeping a break out or in from happening by the Germans. The fact that’s what they thought the objective was in OKH makes their preparations even more strange and foolish.
Yes to Rostov. They even made a run at it but Manstien forted it with what he had left over form trying the brake thought It was mostly stop though by the fuel problem the Russians had There si little written bout this in any records I got my information form a man who survived it on the Russian side. He was one who got out by going over to the USA side in April of '45 He still had his ID papers and all Rank Cpt Cant remember is name as i meant him but once in '78. He was born in 1910 so dead now Wish I had written his story down but I was juist 30 and thought all ppl will be alive in a few yr and i can get back to him and so this and get more stories from him but a Month later i moved from CA to IR
So many WW2 Vets i got talk to back then and i never thought of even using a tape recorder
This is why I am writing my life stories and saving them to the cloud so that osme day an historian will have them to read and know what one man did with is life before computer
Hitler and the German High Command ignored one of the basic rules of ground warfare: NEVER, UNDERESTIMATE YOUR ENEMIES' CAPABILITIES.
Brotha I absolutely love your videos I soak in all of this information. But your basic editing needs to improve. One big example being Sentences are cut off many times at the end
Excellent work but a few editing errors have crept in. 11:59 'that would never take place' not 'that would never took place' and 12:02 spoken commentary abruptly cut off, 17:08 the electrical cables were gnawed through during Winter, but the commentary says 'Summer.' At 19:10 you show a Black guy about to drive a truck. If you want l can have a listen to your next edition prior to release if you like, l would love to help.
Thanks for your interest, and for the heads-up. The first 2 points are mistakes indeed (already discussed here in comments).
But the last 2 are not.
The cables were gnawed in summer.
The guy is not black, it's just poor brightness.
Thanks
While the preparations for Operation Uranus were under way, the Soviets were able to feed just enough units in to the city of Stalingrad, to keep it from falling.
Think if they had transferred divisions from France or maybe even Norway in September, the war may have lasted another year on the east...what a debacle.
The Germans logistics could not adequately supply the 6th Army to begin with. Adding more troops and equipment into the battle would have been futile.
@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 yes, it was logistics that lost then the war most certainly
If they hadn’t opened up the eastern front at all Western Europe including Britain would still be part of the German 3rd riech
@@StoutProper yeah the millions of Soviet’s had nothing to do with it
David Glantz wrote the greatest historic piece on the Battle of Stalingrad, in a 4-book series.
That's what I always say.
Imagine been overran on Russian steppes during the winter. If even lucky be on the breakthrough left flank. Trekking back to friendly lines.
I have a macabre fascination about anything on the eastern front…it’s wonderfully savage!
Can we set up a course for Anglo's on the proper pronunciation of Uranus so that it doesn't sound like that indelicate part of their anatomy that most of us don't want to think about? Herr moustachioed Patreon being the culprit here, although TIK a repeat offender would probably require more serious measures.
Whoever really planned this operation; in any case, this Operation was brilliant. I love hearing how so many Fascists, after the fact, had warned Hitler of the buildup but they were ignored. Wishful thinking 💭 I think.
But it HAD few actual chances of success... More on this in the next episodes!
Same happened over the last 6 months around Ukraine
A few misinformation points. Most glaring is that any meaningful amounts of help started arriving well after the Stalingrad battle. Even Kursk, in mid 1943, was almost 100% Russian affairs. Meaningful amounts started arriving in 2nd half of 1943, not in time even for Kursk battle preparation. In other wards the war was won by the time meaningful amounts of equipment and materials started arriving from the USA.
Russia/ USSR had wonn before materials from USA came if it came at all because the convoys up north sea and over to USSR was the most dangerous route for ships under the whole WW 2 and it wasn't much that came in to USSR, so they wasn't in need of materials and food, WW 2 was wonn by russian steel, weapons,blood and life and a highly intelligent proud people, they broke the back of germany at Stalingrad, at Kursk Russia broke the germans neck and from that day russian soldiers hunted nazis from Kursk to Berlin and boy did many went to Siberia as POW, survivors came home to germany in 1956
Those who Ignore History are Doomed to repeat it,
Sir, are you a Kiwi?.......you definitely sound like one of us.......
Aussie
@@Armageddon4145 nice!!! A West Islander....
Me on February 23: Man, the Soviet-German War was a real nightmare, I hope Eastern Europe never repeats an experience like that ever again
Me on February 24: Ah shit.
This is why I cannot comprehend Russia going in on the Ukraine....obviously, all the bloodshed & horror seemed to have no longevity after 80 years...DAMN!!!GOD BLESS the wronged as well as the wrong doers
@@aaronallen7821 You need to listen to John Mearsheimer on this
@@aaronallen7821 Russia going into Ukraine is not as simple issue as you think, nato or simply US forced Russia's hand by slowly but surely advancing on its borders, stopping them nato in Ukraine is a better option than fighting them in Russia.
I watched tik’s video and hitler went as far to believe that Rostov would be the target
Not hilter rather the German military intelligence commander for the Eastern front, Reinhard Gehlen
June 41 Germany sweeps into the USSR taking prisoner or killing 1m Russian troops and destroying all heavy industry. 16 months later the Russians respawn 1m soldiers 1000 tanks, 5000 artillery pieces. 1500 planes. It is mind blowing what they did. In 1941, the Soviets built 6274 tanks. against Germany's 3,623. In 1942 USSR built 24,639 tanks against Germany's 5,530. 1943 saw Germany produce a record 11,601 tanks against Russia's 22,000. When you add in Lend lease. The Russians must be producing 4x or 5x tanks,planes,artillery to the Germans every year of the war. Amazed that the Germans lasted to 45.
Maybe underplayed the German logostical issues. The whole idea of taking Stalingrad and then holding it I believe was a pipe dream.
It is my understanding that a German force in Stalingrad was supposed to be a vanguard shielding Army Group A in the Caucasus. As it turned out, the Sixth Army ended up diverting several Red Army divisions so that Army Group A under Von Manstein's orders was able to *withdraw* from the region instead.
The russian have a long history of be underrated......happen in the XVIII century...again in the.XIX....in the XX....now in XXI.
Is a big.......very big mistake underrate Russia.......
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And you know the most incredible? It's that even after all that, people will still continue to underrate it.
@@Armageddon4145 Always was huge.......but Russia is ready to pay the price of victory!!!!
It's also a very big mistake to marginalize logistical considerations. The distance and terrain comparison between France, Low Countries vs USSR is much greater in the East. Hitler's strategic genius evaporated in the great expanse of Russia.
Scorched earth is kryptonite to an invader that relies on foraging.
neither the Americans nor the British recognised the art of mobile warfare that was developed following ww1
This was not True for the Russians.They developed a world class system called deep battle and operational art.
but the problem for russians was thet Stalin purged the military of its leadership. This is why russians suffered early defeats.
but already in 42 a new bread of young russian comanders and generals was coming.And the changes in russian preformance was breath taking.
all of it culmunatin into a grand crusando called Operation Bagration in 1944.
Paulus despised the little corporal and placed _no_ value on his promotion to field marshal by this person of low stature that thugs had brought to power. His own heritage to which he owed his selection was that of aristocracy, _von_ Paulus. A staff officer to whom field commanders paid lip service, then went their own way said nothing of Paulus competence or lack thereof. Paulus was unsuited to the task of field command, lacked ruthlessness, wasted men and material and was otherwise _incompetent._ Hitler’s fatal mistake was that he had lost sight of his base of support and too soon wishing to cloak himself with a modicum of respectability chose _pedigree_ over _merit._ A skillful tactician would have enjoyed success and eluded entrapment. The war that Hitler was destined to win was lost at Stalingrad.
The Soviets isolated and captured the 6th army in order to rescue Paulus. His imprisonment a thinly disguised vacation. The Soviets knew that Paulus was the weak link in the chain, a commander-by-entitlement devoid of battlefield acumen. POW Paulus was allowed to phone his colleagues, eroding and undermining their confidence and faith in Hitler. If Hitler’s downfall may be attributed to any single party that person should be Paulus. Without Paulus assuming command the probability is high that Hitler might have enjoyed at least a partial victory, being permitted to retain Russian territory west of the Volga River, in order to stem the flow of Communism westward, in exchange for withdrawing from France and the other European nations that he had conquered.
While video is intresting and comprehensive (given the information availible) it does not answer the question how the soviets came to be the genius planners so suddenly. You state numerous times that all their previous major offensives failed while from this point of time forward they suddenly where solid in planning. It is not feasible to teach general staff work during war, you need years of school and more so - tradition, which was lost in Russia long before 1937 purge.
I would like to point you to that according to official historiography Churchill came to Moscow in august 1942 emptyhanded - during the biggest crisis Soviets faced during the war, the furthest german advance ever - he told Stalin to beat it, no second front, no Murmansk lend lease (due to PQ-17), only promises. That is no offical visit, you can't arrive officially this way just to have a drink with Stalin. There is a theory that Churchill arrived with British general staff think tank headed by Claude Auchinleck. No actual basis for this claim aside from pure speculation but this way you can exlpain sudden soviet planning ability much more realistically.
Thanks for sharing
Zhukov was responsible for planning an offensive at Khalkhin Gol (1939) and the Battle of Moscow (Dec 1941). Tsaritsyn was won by the Bolsheviks in 1920. IMO the basis to plan an offensive such as Operation Uran was there, as personified by Zhukov and Stalin. Chuikov's forces were being used as bait.
STAVKA was becoming more meticulous in their operational and strategic planning as the war progressed from the fall of 1942 onwards. While still being reckless with the lives of soldiers, this is a change from the 1941 position where the Russian defense was to sacrifice men to gain time.
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Great content, dodgy editing.
No!! Stop the Soviets. Seize Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea. Force the Soviets to retreat all the way up the Volga to Kuibyshev. Then drive Stalin and the surviving Bolsheviks on into Siberia. UGH!!! I hate the Soviets!! But....... are the Nazis any better? Dilemma
Name your poison.
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Operation Uranus, a shitty experience for germany