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The Final BLITZKRIEG before Stalingrad City! BATTLESTORM STALINGRAD E13
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2020
- Hermann Hoth finally gets his 4th Panzer Army on the move, in what will turn out to be the final successful Blitzkrieg of the Stalingrad Campaign. The 48th Panzer Corps smashed through the 126th Rifle Division and raced off towards Stalingrad, causing chaos in the 64th Army. Shumilov reacts by pulling back his tanks, but the 64th Army is taken by surprise and is out of position. Eremenko must accept the inevitable - that his line is broken and that the city of Stalingrad is probably about to fall.
(This was formerly S5/E13)
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Hey guys! Robert Kellner (grandson of Friedrich Kellner) has just posted a comment in last week's video, and I've pinned it so all of your can go read it ua-cam.com/video/gP0WxmqDg5s/v-deo.html
He's talking about the authenticity of the diary 👍 thought you might want to check it out!
Can you talk about the balkan countries in some of your future video?
@Светлин Цолов - at some point I intend to do a follow-up to the Yugoslavian video I did recently on the Chetniks. Not sure when that will be though
It's not Panzerfausten, it's Panzerfausts.
Njaa, it's also not Panzerfausts, it's Panzerfäuste.
Isn't it great to discover tanks run on moral boosts and not oil, ammo and supplies. No wonder the Germans needed a big front; they needed a big moral boost.
How come you didn't use the pictures I send to you for the germans. Some of them can be used without permission.
Mass Slaughter, Endless Agony, Warcrimes 24/7
Me and the rest of the TIK fans: *Can't wait for it to start!!*
Are we the bad guys?
I'm glad someone got the reference ;)
@@TheImperatorKnight I like their joke about the sickle symbol too :)
@@TheImperatorKnight Hey, pirates are fun!
@Wulf Sure. In nature, you can find some organisms that are cannibalistic, or mate with their offspring, or behave like human serial-killers. "So why shouldn't we?" Most civilised human beings know the answer to that.
Still havent reached the city and we are already at season 5 man that is DEDICATION
Its really amazing and a shame there isnt a 10 part HBO episode about the war in the east and specifically the battle for stalingrad, I never realized the scope of WW2 until watching TIK's videos
@@nationalcarshippinginc645 TIK should stand for "The Ignored Knowledge". 👌
@tik my grandfather was apart of the 106th infantry division that was captured outside of St Vith in the first few days of the battle of the bulge he was than sent to Bad Orb POW camp for the duration of the war. If you ever do a video on the 106th that got captured that would be cool!
@@nationalcarshippinginc645 If you haven't seen it yet, check out the Russian series "Soviet Storm: World War II in the East". It's from a perspective we don't see much in western shows.
@@Raskolnikov70 It is very well done. I like how it contains relatively little Soviet propaganda, unlike the series they released in the 1970s. It even cleared up something that had been puzzling up to now. TIK did a video on how the 6th Army didn't receive troop reinforcements throughout the summer and early fall of 1942, and blamed it on Halder. However, if you watch the episode on the "Rzhev Meat Grinder", you will see why. There was a very valid reason, and one that yet again shows how overstretched the Germans were in 1942.
I’m not sure if this is intentional on TIK’s part or not, but the pacing of the presentation - even when watching the Stalingrad videos back-to-back in the playlist - really conveys the frustrations both sides must have experienced. The Germans keep trying for a big success and a Soviet collapse, the Russians keep trying to stop the Germans cold. For months, neither side succeeded in achieving their strategic goals. As tunnel vision set in and successes became measured in individual factories and then houses and then rooms, only the Soviets had the vision to develop an effective plan for a decisive break in the stalemate.
Definitely a German failing, similar to Goemler and Himloes leadership, gute nacht, stille Hohenzollernstrasse. 🙏
Pretty remarkable (and appalling) to see how much of a meat grinder this campaign is before we even get to the events WITHIN the city and its immediate surrounds.
Great material as usual.
Imagine if I had started this series on, let's say, the 13th of September 1942... Viewers would have gotten the wrong impression of the battle. I hope by doing this in full, everyone is realizing that Stalingrad is so much more than just the city itself (although the city is probably the bit everyone wants to hear about)
@@TheImperatorKnight The map you made for this video certainly helps to build the right impression then. That was an impressive zoom-out! (8 minutes in). I don't think we've seen that in the Stalingrad series so far?
@AJ Simo - correct, we haven't seen a zoom-out like that before. This is because I've just made a breakthrough with the animation software and processes. I won't bore you with the details, but now I can animate things I couldn't animate before :)
@@TheImperatorKnight I'm glad you did it this way. 13 episodes in and we haven't even reached the city yet. How has this period of the war been ignored for so long? Especially considering how much it wore down the advancing Germans and played as much of a part in stopping them at the Volga as anyone defending a tractor factory ever did.
@@TheImperatorKnight I am 100% with you on that. I've been reading military history for more than 30 years, and lots about Russian history more broadly (don't know why I became interested in it, possibly due to wondering why it has never been the nation perhaps one might have thought it might have been given its natural resources and talented people), and I find the greater detail terrific. In some ways I'm more interested in all the non-city stuff as it's so important to understanding how and why what happened did.
I've always said it's a shame more people haven't been taught just what the Soviet Union went through in WW2 as it might have helped them understand some of the Soviet's seeming paranoia in later years.
Loving the series, thanks for the reply.
Cheers
Finally back to the action
Sorry for the delay. It does take time though for me to do the scripts and get everything edited and prepared
@@TheImperatorKnight totally understandable TIK, this is a huge and unprecedented amount of work, entire TV channels with huge teams & money never managed to even come close to your level of detail. Keep with this amazing work, you are a gem for humanity! I can't stop thinking the future generations that will watch this amazing documentaries
@@v44n7 I agree. This series and the others on this channel are far ahead of any other documentaries.
@@TheImperatorKnight Don't worry TIK, quality over speed anyday. Keep up the great work!
The action never seemed to stop, even though most of the historical coverage of this time has been "The Wehrmacht started advancing in the south again in 1942 and then reached the gates of Stalingrad..." Boy did they leave a lot out.
Thank you TIK. Outstanding content, commentary and coverage. Shout out to all channel donors, Anton, Brad, Indy & mark f.
To be honest, I don’t really care if it’s 7 days or 7 weeks. This is high quality stuff man. And I’m happy to see it whenever you’re ready to post it
Glad to hear! Some people aren't as patient as you are though, sadly :)
Completely agree. Tik's hard work is worth waiting for and i'd far rather wait for his best than something rushed. Also the guy's clearly driven as it is, undue pressure from an impatient audience is out of order.
Sorokin: Well, we held on from 5-10am, where is my/our statue Shumilov?
He had a very interesting life. Surviving german POW camps. Nazis wanted him to cooperate but he refused many times. He was freed later from concentration camp by allied troops and returned back to USSR.
@@artiombeknazaryan7542 Any idea how he was treated on his return? This looks like one of those rare cases where the Soviets taken prisoner could document that they stood their ground and fought instead of retreating.
> Any idea how he was treated on his return?
@@Raskolnikov70 10 years in gulags. 58-1b penal code. Treason by military personel. For being POW. Rehabilitated during destalinization. He did get order of the Patriotic War, 1st class before his death in 1985. 126th got the statue in form of mass grave monument.
@@tokul76 Sounds about right for Stalinist Russia. Punish the hard workers, decorate the incompetent. Let's face it, even Zhukov got on Stalin's bad side after the war. I just glad Shumilov did receive proper recognition for his generalship here.
@@nicholasconder4703 Shumilov got enough medals to paint the wall. hero's star and grave monument in form of big woman with a sword on the hill near Volgograd. Sorokin got six awards and felt guilty for 126th not getting recognition til his death. His order of patriotic war was almost posthumous. Difference between colonel+pow commanding a division and colonel general commanding an army. I like Chuikov's photo more. Maybe he got more medals than Shumilov or he is not using his awards for self defense.
Max punishment for 58-1b is execution. Soviets were probably running out of men in 1948 and did not want to lose more in last Stalin's represions.
*"This is Wehr the fun begins."*
I see what you did wehr.
Pass me the Luftwaffles
@@TheImperatorKnight Bewehr the wehr and tear.
@@TheImperatorKnight I didn't know the SS Walloon Legion had an air arm.
@@TheImperatorKnight Ya see son, that's why the U.S. won the war, them germans were still using them old Luftwaffles of theirs, we on the other hand were using properly made American Blueberry Pancakes!
Outstanding video. You've out done yourself TIK. The new graphics features really help. And thankyou for the scale of kilometers AND miles! It is truly appreciated. I get a much better scope of the battle. A HUGE thankyou to Terri Young for the superb map work. Well done!
"The new graphics features really help."
I'm glad you noticed the improvement! Figured a few things out behind the scenes, which I won't bore you with the technical details, but it makes things a lot easier. And I've just discovered a new way of doing things, and it should (once I get a bit more used to it) allow a few new battle animations to happen, which I'm excited to try out :)
@@TheImperatorKnight Far out. ;-)
0:30 The fact that there's an "Army A", commanded by "List", thus being "A-List", is funnier than it should be.
Accordingly with General Giovanni Messe in his book "la Guerra al fronte Russo (the war at Russian front)", the officinal Italian reports for men killed, wounded and dispersed amounted to about 6000 losts for the defence in Serafimovič area (in Italy this battle is called "first defensive battle of the Don"). I hope to double check soon (i'm not at home at this moment) this data.
I'm still amazed at how well the Wietersheim's14th Panzer Corps did north of Stalingrad while being surrounded and attacked constantly. That's some top notch battle efficiency and efficacy right there.
Yes, and it also shows how poor the Soviets were at attacking at this stage. A combination of desperation and depleted units resulted in a lot of wasted men and tanks... which is only going to get worse in the near future...
@@TheImperatorKnight Can you do video on how losing so many men caused long term demographic damage to Russia?
Devastating presentation! The real history is almost completely the opposite of what I grew up reading back before the Soviet Union fell and the Russian archives became available to David Glantz and other historians. Most of the battles described in this documentary were complete blank spots in the Cold War Era histories I used to read. I can't believe how much fighting there was to the west of Stalingrad and even beyond the Don! The impact on me is like a light being turned on in a dark room. Blanks once filled in by my middle-school imagination are now fleshed out with a rich, full picture provided by eye-witness testimony from both sides of the lines! Unbelievably good. My $5/month should be the subscription price, not merely a voluntary contribution.
Bravo! Never seen such detailed issues about Stalingrad battle.And all Eastern Front. I can t wait for next episode! Congratulations TIK! You re the best. Greetings from Argentina!
"Soviets faced hordes of germans" I could almost hear pro-germans crying when Tik said these words.
A very exciting video, thank you Tik.
You also never hear from the Germans about how 300 sappers and AT gunners at Position Snipe completely upset Rommel's counterattack, damaging or destroying over 50 German and Italian tanks from both the 15th Panzer Division and Littorio Division. The Germans seldom seemed to give credit to their opponents. This arrogance definitely played a large part in their defeat.
@@nicholasconder4703 IMO that superiority idea was interfereng for them with the real picture. In memoirs they all were rock solid in their confidence of their tactical superiority over soviets.
In their interviews and memoirs they frequently say "tactical retreat", they never give up territory or being knocked out of it - tactical retreat, frequently after destroying several companies of infantry (see "Tigers in mud" for instance). But then, suddenly, soviets enter Berlin.
@@nicholasconder4703 you just described every army ever...
As someone in the comments of your Panzerfaust 1942 video correctly pointed out, "Panzerfausten" is actually sort of correct, if we ignore the missing Umlaut. In German, the sentence might have been "Ihre Waffen bestanden aus Maschinenpistolen, mehreren Handgranaten und ein paar Panzerfäusten." The word is in the dative case here. So it is a translation error, probably the translator did not know how to anglicise the word, so he did not change it, apart from losing the dots on the ä.
Thanks a lot for another great video! I love watching the map developments and the little comic episodes when talking between commanders happens. And you are also pleasant to listen to.
This entire series is the most underrated and informative visual history of the battle of Stalingrad...literally on the planet.
In school, we learned that the Germans basically strolled into Stalingrad, where the Soviet had made a huge trap for them. Our history teacher was kommunist, but he never managed to explain why he lived in Sweden if the Soviet Union was paradise on earth. A nice old man, but not in any way neutral in the history from 1918 onwards.
Yeah, the "history" that is taught here in the USA is a joke. You are so much better off to just read tons of books, from a variety of authors, and then use some critical thinking.
@@Tekisasubakani for me, it was Sweden in the 80's. It was mainly dates of when Swedish kings died, or else just brushed over. The world wars got 1 chapter each, and it was basically useless. Finlands part in the WW2 was more or less completley wrong - and everyone knew it since most of the class had family friends, relatives or such that had gone to Finland to help them against the Soviets.
When there are too many communists in "paradise on earth" it creates problems :-)
This is a great series TIK. I've been reading about this battle for decades, but there's so much info here that I wasn't aware of. Even at this stage of the battle you can see the storm clouds gathering for the 6th Army. Paulus had to take the city, but by this point I don't see how he could - unless the Russian Army decided to adandon the whole West Bank.
I think that's the underlying problem; the Wermacht couldn't comprehend that not only were the forces that they were up against much better than they realised (until it was too late), but they also never understood that these people just weren't going to give up. Combine all that with the lack of oil, and realistically the whole campaign was pretty much doomed from the get-go.
I think they knew by now, at least at the highest levels since the corps and army commanders were the ones dealing with the constant logistical issues. They must have known that moving forward and trying a hail mary advance to take the oil fields was their only choice if they wanted to survive the war. Didn't matter how many more reserves the Soviets had, the Germans had to win or die trying.
Brilliant, I'm able to catch this edition during my lunch break here on the East coast - U.S. !
Bon Appétit!
Those Russians were astonishingly brave. Fighting to the bitter end at every point.
@@ofiterpunte Or the tractor factory ...
Just finished marathoning your older Battlestorms. This is just what I needed.
How did you like Crusader? Too long? ;)
@@TheImperatorKnight Too short ;). I also very liked Brevity and Battleaxe videos. But with all due respect I think you should remake them. They're great, but it's a little hard to understand what's going on...
Yes, those early North African Campaign videos were during my "experimental" phase haha
Perhaps I should remake them...
@Slawa Wacher - not true. You only have to wait two weeks (next Stalingrad will be out September 7th). Each season is 3 episodes. When the season begins, it's bi-weekly until the season ends. Then there's a gap of several weeks to allow me to do the scripts for the next season.
Great episode of an outstanding series. Btw: the correct german plural for "Panzerfaust" is "Panzerfäuste" (so neither "Panzerfausten" or "Panzerfausts")
cmon man. you know exactly that if you put two dots above the "a" it's a "gg wp, 404 Error, *blue screen*" for an english speaking person
Imagine having weapons from the future explode in your truck, strangest deaths ever
It wasn't the Soviets that blew up the truck, it was the Time Lords correcting a continnuity mistake.
@@Raskolnikov70 No, can't be. The Time Lords don't really believe in violence. Must have been the Temporal Integrity Commission.
Dear TIK, It is a coincidence that your narration of Battlestorm Stalingrad traces on 28th August, 1942 and today is 24th August, 2020. Also it is confirmed that general Wietersheim requested his Corp. withdrawl on 29/08/1942. Job well done, Sir !
Yes, quite a coincidence! I wish I could have done it like I did with Market Garden and release each video on the day it happened so people could follow that way, but it simply wouldn't have been possible :)
It is mind blowing to follow the action in so much detail! It feels so real, so close, but we already know how it ends! It is chilling! Great work TIK! Thanks!
Now into 32...they were kidding themselves that Astrakhan was possible. Great series 👍
Concerning the fight of the 126th Rifle Division:
According to the Russian sources, it is said that the Soviet command was aware about the concentration of the German forces and about the incoming attack. But no reinforcements were sent to the 126th RD, because Golikov and Shulimov were expecting the German main attack at Tundutovo station.
On august the 25th, the whole 64th Army had only 57 tanks and:
208th RD: around 800 men
29th RD: 7424 men (the strongest)
38th RD: 3558 men
204th RD: 5920 men
126th RD: 3783 men
138th RD: 3462 men
157th RD: 2096 men
154th NRB: 1958 men
Plus cadets regiments and the artillery crews.
Also, cadets from the Ordzhonikidze Cadets Regiment wrote is their letters that they had 120mm mortars, but they were not delivered with the mortar shells because of the Luftwaffe raids. They managed to damage several infantry trucks and panzers with anti-tank rifles but at the evening they were encircled. There were infantry fights at close range with the use of grenades and Molotov's cocktails. As the order to retreat arrived, the Regiment's HQ fled and abandoned their men. So, the order didn't even reach every single infantry man. The majority of the cadets run out of ammo and was captured. Some other were split to little groups (1 to 3 men) and managed to escape. At night, the steppe South-West of Stalingrad were full of those little groups of remnants trying to escape by following the light of the city in flames.
At the end of day the 126th RD had only 340 men left. Soviet soldiers blame the high-command for giving the order to retreat to late, as it led to an unuseful slaughter of soviet troops.
Sources:
waralbum.ru/bb/viewtopic.php?id=1099&p=2
Wonderful episode, quality is really top notch!!
When you’re sitting safely in Germany sipping hot tea it’s easy to criticize folks with little food, almost no rest, low on ammunition, infected with typhus, with most of their tanks in repair shops, etc.
Thank you TIK. Your videos are a legacy to future generations. Thank you for your hard work and dedication.
Today is a good day. Thank you so much for this series TIK.
0:15 „a host of armies“ is lowkey a pretty hilarious phrase.
This is fascinating. Also terrifying how close the Germans got to Astrakhan and Grozny at their height
Reading Glantz's Stalingrad series, you find that the "front" out towards Astrakhan is more like a series of outposts or small fortified positions in key areas. There was no solid line, just scattered units. Too much terrain, too few troops.
Really enjoying your channel and working my way through the eastern front. Keep up the good work. Stu NZ
Three years of hard work thanks, Lewis.
Please keep this Stalingrad series going regularly. Amazing works and very interesting to watch!
this start to look like two exhausted boxers going for the last round
And we've not even got to the city yet! It's only going to get worse from here - you haven't seen what Zhukov does either
@@TheImperatorKnight If I may add another comment. we are not even at the halfpoint of the war
the whole thing between Hoth and Richthofen shows a bit of a deeper issue, the high command not willing to accept that sometimes you need to step back and change plans.
Hoth has pulled back and is preparing for a major battle, traditional logic goes that the longer you prepare for an attack the better it will go, speed comes into effect AFTER combat has begun, that is when momentum and rapid decision making come into play. So the higher command badgering Hoth to attack sooner, which would give less results and waste a good opportunity, is endemic of people who get bogged down and arn't willing to accept that to continue hammering is a waste of effort.
This same attitude can be seen all over life whenever time is a factor, continuous rushed attempts to get complex projects completed when a seemingly longer and slower approach would actually get it done sooner.
Regarding 48 panzer corps actual attack it seemed to go fairly well for the Germans, the decision to withdraw at the end is rather uncharacteristic of what we come to expect from the Germans over extending themselves. I guess we'll see if this decision was correct or if it shows perhaps a growing caution in the German forces. Going by the map alone, the only mobile threat still existing was the 20th anti tank brigade since the rest of the 13th tank corps seems to have been mostly destroyed at this point the 126 division was a non factor at this point and the 157 was too far (and too depleted) to be a real threat. going by what you said regarding fuel reserves they should have had enough fuel to push across the river.
The soviets were disorganized and lacked reserves this is a time where momentum plays come into their own. Continuing the attack until fuel reserves were depleted would have further compelled the soviets to withdraw their now massively exposed armies, and deprived them of a potentially lethal defensive obstacle.
Three cheers for TIK, greatest WW2 historian of the digital age. 🏆
Finally! A new episode. It was a long wait.
(I hope that the upcoming episodes will be coming in faster rate, otherwise we will see 2022. before we see things happening in some of the battle landmarks)
Thanks for the great video.
I didn't get the point behind spending precious time on episode from "black cross, red star", it had no links to overall narrative.
What I really liked was taking the note on 124.Rifle Brigade entering the scene. 'Note these guys' - It was a nice touch. Keep doing that.
(Btw, my suggestion in this regard is to note on whenever 112 Rifle division (re-)entered the scene. It will be very interesting, because it happened so many times. While not the only 62.Army unit that got mauled in the fighting, got rested and refitted and sent back to fight once again, the 112RD was the absolute champion in this regard. Whenever there was a crisis in Red Army ranks, they found the unlucky 112RD being reorganized in the second echelon, and sent it back into the inferno.
As a result of such turn of events, 112RD took part in all critical engagements out and inside of the city. While all the other units had one or two places where they stood their ground, the 112RD was all over the place: it fought on Don, it defended Gumrak, it came back to defend behind Razgulaevka, it fought on Mamaev Kurgan, it was sent back to defend workers settlements, in the end the remains ended up in Group Gorokhov. There is literally no part of the city without 112RD figthing there. And what makes it more interesting, it was far from being the best division of the 62.Army, (they didn't even have the Guards status), it suffered some heavy beating, but it never broke down or got routed. It fought like Rocky Balboa, wearing the enemy out by taking more shots than enemy could deliver, even got on the ropes or hit the floor quite often, but it always came up to return the punch.
It looked quite like the zombie movie cliche: took the bullet - fell down - and when everybody thought it was dead, it rose up, all ugly and disfigured, bleeding from all holes...and took the fight as if nothing had happened. I guess that for guys in Wehrmacht intelligence unit it it was like: "112 Division? Nochmal? Unmöglich, es wurde schon 3 mal zerstört!"
For it's quality to rise up again after it hit the ground, 112RD is the real underrated hero of the battle of Stalingrad, and it would be interesting to note every time they get back on their feet and take 'en guard' posture...again
Cheers!
Ah fuel, truly the real liquid courage.
Incredible job! Thank you so much!
Another exciting video. Keep it up TIK!
It's the final blitzkriiiiieeeg
*synth solo*
We're heading for Stalingrad (Stalingrad)
And still we stand tall
@@TheImperatorKnight I think "We're heading for Volga" would fit there better.
@@TheImperatorKnight Yeah Volga is better!
Boy you sure go into detail.it’s interesting to see what units of both sides were doing and all the casualties on both sides.keep up the great work
An excellent series very well done
Never knew the cousin of The Red Baron (WWI) Wolfram von Richtofen had such an important role in WW2
I wait for these videos to come out and appreciate the effort to make these. I'm going to pateron to support this
Thank you! You'll help make this series possible! :)
Another excellent video. Thank you very much for all the time and effort that you put into your videos as they are far better than most of the videos out there.
Apparently that trick with the bridges and dressing like the enemy was the Brandenburger's thing. There's a great book by one- "Blood and Soil Memoirs of a Brandenburger" by Sepp De Giampietro. His crew pulls it off multiple times. An audio version is floating around...
super good as always. cant wait for next part.
The last time I was this early, the Wehrmacht had fuel reserves.
You must not have been early for a long time.
Another wonderful History lesson!!!! Thank You
Amazing series, thank you TIK!
These videos are great. The more I think about this battle and the more I hear the more distressing this is. All of these young men and women sacrificing their lives and futures for two of the worst dictators in history, in a war of annihilation. All of the tragedy death and waste! Oh the humanity!
It's fascinating what people will fight and die for. They believed they were justified to do what they were doing.
@@TheImperatorKnight At this point it just feels like armies dashing themselves against each other. Where is the limit of human endurance, and where does the political rationale for fighting make no sense?
Those young men and women on Soviet side sacrificed their lives to save the world from nazi regime and you,me,TIK, and everyone else can be grateful they did that.
Not to worry Steiner will gather a relief force and break through soviet lines very soon.
So the Soviet front seems to be holding, I wonder what happens.
(Sees "Blitzkrieg" in the title)
Oh no.
Yup!
And it's a stark reminder of why doggedly holding on to every bit of ground in front of a defensive position is not a good thing to do.
@@randomguy-tg7ok you should always base your defense on preparing for your counter attack.
Man, what a fantastic job you have done TIK. Keep on with the good work, its amazing the amount of info you have gathered.
Brilliant. Love your series. Good job 👏🏼
Outstanding stuff. 👍 wow ! You are setting this up nicely and carefully. Well done. Thank you 👍
Happy to see new video released! Thank you TIK!
Brilliant video - thank you.
Smirnov got a Vodka named after him, so probably a gigachad.
When's the next one!? Let's go! These are solid gold and I can't get enough.
Next one is in two weeks
amazing piece of work... thanks alot
Fantastic info and work doing this complex campaign. Wonderful!
Woooohooo a new season. Thanks you TIK! You're the best!
Again, superb! Thank you for your work. I really appreciate what you are doing in this channel.
You know, I've read tons of books and articles on Stalingrad, but there's something about seeing the units move around on a map, with a narrator explaining these movements, that makes it so much more clear.
Guess I'm an auditory/visual learner. . .
Colonel S. F. Gorokhov held off the 16th Panzer Division, and other units, throughout the battle for Stalingrad, denying the link up of that unit with the attacking units, i.e. Gen. Seydlitz's 51st Corps, from the west against the factory district. During a time Gorokhov was cut off from the 62nd Army. TIK will tell it, I'm sure.
It was Group Gorokhov's (name changed as his command later encompassed other units) units which opposed the unit that my great uncle fought with, the 1/64 Pzr. Gren. Rgmt and in which he was wounded outside Spartakow(v)ka in October '42 and died 12 days later in the rear hospital at Kalatsch (Kalach on Don). He was shot in the head whilst in his vehicle. Col. Gorokhov went on to fight all the way to Berlin, commanding a corps. He attained the rank of general and became the chief of Soviet military administration in Germany.
Nice, a good addition to my weekend. Hope all is well TIK. I was given the first two volumes of David Glantz's Stalingrad series. Gonna take me a while to get through them! ^^
You were given them! Wow that's good! The third volume was quite difficult to get when I was purchasing them, so I hope you find a decent copy. Would recommend you read them along with this series because Glantz's maps aren't particularly great. All is well with me, yourself?
@@TheImperatorKnight I'll keep that mind. Your maps have been very helpful. Been ok across the pond. Things normal ish for now.
Excellent video!
Superb presentation! Thx for the post.
You know you always see watches being the main looted item in WW2, What was the average cost of a watch back then? Also was it a status symbol like a smart phone is today to allot of people?
I know that I don’t have time for this but I still watch it
I've been checking for this for a month it feels like. Enjoyed the other vids but this is the one I've really been waiting for
Hi tik love ur content
First! And glad to hear it!
Tik, stick to "Bewegungskrieg
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But I like Blitzkrieg, it sounds so, ... WW2.
I can feel my bone healing as I listen to mild British accent speaking about the glorius carnage on Volga
Superb Battlestorm vid as usual TIK but please do continue with the background prewar history. How can anyone understand the war without even considering its background in political, economic and social history? :)
You'll be happy to know that I've been intending to do a video about the difference between Fascism and National Socialism for a Patreon Q&A, but wanted to do a bit more research first because everyone complains if I don't use a million books to support what I'm saying when it comes to politics, economics and social history
@@TheImperatorKnight I'm very pleased to hear you're doing a video comparing the two. (My specialisation is 20th C. European PES history). I was just checking out the difference between SubscribeStar and Patreon today. :)
I saw too that many of your PES critics do so from the perspective of political ideology rather than a source-critical, document-based analysis of empirical history such as your own work. Which usually means a reluctance on their part to accept (documented) facts that contradict their strongly-held beliefs. B t w did you notice that Antifa agitators are often Revolutionary Syndicalists? ;) Not that I see many in W Yorks. :)
There's not much difference between Patreon and SubscribeStar, although Patreon itself is in huge financial and legal trouble at the minute, so there's a potential that it might be going under soon. Either way, you get your name in the videos and Q&A's etc depending on the tier... although I massively behind with all that stuff :(
And yes, a lot of the critics are nasty pieces of work who don't have manners and have no appreciation for evidence or a serious debate. In short, they're typical Syndicalists! I think it's ironic that they hate Fascism so much, when Fascism is literally the same thing. Another word for a trade 'union' (syndicate) was trade 'bundle'. A 'bundle' in Italian was the word "Fasci", which was a 'bundle' of sticks, and trade unions were called 'Fasci' prior to Mussolini coming along. Fascism is literally "power to the trade unions" - or Syndicalism/Corporatism. It's no wonder Syndicalists are so eager to say they're not Fascists.
You're quite right to point out the Syndicalist connection even if Mussolini came from the Directorate of the Italian Socialist Party and was the editor of its mainstream paper, "Avanti". Extremist squads remind me of fighting soccer tribes or flying pickets - with one side calling themselves "anti-hooligans." You tend to get a few extremist elements on UA-cam because they get more public access. You're continuing with your work without paying them much mind, which is absolutely the right thing to do.
I figured you were very much busy with all your projects. It really is impressive how much you get done. If Patreon close I can always just switch.
Best history series continues
TIK,
I have a question of a technical nature: now that the fight enters the city itself, and where the map scale will decrease from geographic towards the architectural markings, from towns and roads and rivers, towards the individual streets or buildings (or even intidvdual floors or even rooms inside a building), do you have any solution map wise? I guess that the current map style will soon become quite unsuitable to follow the narrative.
The same issue is with unit markings. While the NATO markings would fit the purpose in the open field, they would soon become too cumbersome to depict the curvy front lines and movements inside the city itself.
What is the plan in this regard?
Good question! But I'm not going to tell you the answer yet. Would rather you wait and find out 😉
@@TheImperatorKnight Of course that I will wait and find out. I am not unsubscribing any time soon :-). In other hand, you already replied. The main question was 'is there a plan?'. And it seems that there is ;-). That is all I wanted to know. Thanks!
I remember TIK saying in one of the comments that he'll go heavily into detail... Maybe the maps will be made like that?
@@mohammadshabih5293 inside Stalingrad, things can get VERY detailed. Down to the level of a single platoon. No map suits that.
@@vladocuro6570 city maps do
I am still trying to find out this. As late as mid- November, The Germans were still gaining some ground in Stalingrad itself, but how far did they get and did they continue to advance after the 20th?
Watching the episodes of this battle it seems that the soviets learned a lot from 41. They acted very mobile and avoided encirclements. Thus the 6th and 4th German armies were worn out during their way to Stalingrad.
Thank you for keep up with this!
126th rifle division especially when you consider it's merged with poor 208th rifle division, is comically unlucky. Hearing tik say we'll hear more about them doesn't bode well either
What was going on in the Gromoslavka/Myshkova area? It looks like both opponents flanks were hanging in the air?
hi, iam german, and i found a minor mistake.
Singular = eine (Panzer-)faust
Plural= viele (Panzer-)fäuste
And the "Brandenburger" where a elite regiment, but i really like your documentary. This must be a horrendous time and effort. And thx to your work I recognized the "bias" within german documentaries for the first time.
Cause you name it ,too. Over the years both sides fought harder and harder, till the reached the point of totale war, and that both sides tried to annihilate the enemy, and commited horrible war crimes, BUT:
In a german documentary: War crime, mass execution, war crime, mass execution, sending the yews to the gas chambers, and oh yes a "little" fighting happend, too. I guess it still is cause of "entnazificational" indoctrination. And i bet 99% of all germans dont know this, cause you need to see a foreign documentary first, to see the difference...
I would change the title. This has nothing to do with Blitzkrieg anymore, rather it is a Blitzkrieglein. Tank you for your engagement.
The more I watch this period of the Battle, the more I think Eremenko should take a lot of the blame for the Soviet catastrophes that happened at this point and led to not only Paulus almost taking the city, but the huge casualties the Soviets took in stopping him.
1. Eremenko (or possibly Lopatin) probably removed those two rifle divisions from the Stalingrad K (?) line, which either allowed the Germans to break through to the Volga or at least let them get through much easier and with fewer casualties. If Wietersheim‘s thrust had failed OR only succeeded with much bigger casualties that would have completely changed the strategic situation.
2. Either way, Eremenko is the one who could have chosen to pull the entire 62nd Army back to the K-Line, which would have made for a much more solid defense and at the very least would have bought time (which the Soviets badly needed).
3. And he also didn‘t allow the 64th to withdraw to more secure positions.
Other than Stalin, he really looks like the main culprit of things going wrong here.
I have an exam tommorow.
Exam can wait.
Good luck on your exam! History, or something else?
@@TheImperatorKnight Thanks Tik. It is Physiology as I study medicine. I have a passion for history still and the tiny details too which make your documentaries even greater.
Thank you
One can really get a sense of how often the supply situation dictated operations. I once believed that the quote 'If Paulus had not chosen to rest and refit in late July he could have taken Stalingrad on the march' - but this now seems too simplistic.
And also 4th Pz Army is not really an 'army' at all is it? 48,000 men and a few hundred tanks? That's an overblown corps or a Soviet sized army. I had always thought a 'Panzer Army' ought to consist of three corps, with each corps comprising a Panzer division, a motorised and infantry etc - which means their tank park should have been somewhere in the vicinity of over 500-600 tanks, plus Stugs attached to the motorised divisions.
Deep stuff. Respect!
Early gang ?
Been waiting patiently for this!
So good!