Hitlers Biggest Defeat: The Battle of Stalingrad

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  @writtenplague · 3 years ago

  🤔 I wish that HBO would make a mini series Stalingrad with all the battles beginning to end. With all these historical details, I would love to see that!!!!

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• JO

  @johnmoorefilm · 3 years ago (edited)

  “195,000 men, specifically for Uranus…” I’m a big enough man to admit i giggled. 53, and I giggled….ah well😅

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• US

  @user-k6q4r · 9 months ago

  A  German soldier wrote in his diary that 30 of his Comrades went into the brick factory and only 7 came out.

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• AD

  @admiralyisoonshin4995 · 3 years ago (edited)

  The battle of Stalingrad was the greatest turning point of WW2 in Europe. I read the book of it when I was 13 years old. Very impressive and unforgettable war history in WW2.

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  @Americal-v6r · 2 years ago

  Viewed several videos on the Stalingrad battle. One in particular was the disintering of one mass German grave site in Russia to be reburied on German soil. The massive injuries, amputations,mangled skeletal remains were horrific. It must have been pure *ell for them.

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• DO

  @donaldhambright969 · 1 year ago

  My girl friends father was a me109   pilot ..he was the last one to fly out of the pocket before the runway was taken...I'm 60 and was glad to hear his story over dinner one night long ago in the 1980s..

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• BI

  @BigBlue1026 · 2 years ago

  My Dad was a Merchant Marine during the war and told me horror stories of the convoys of liberty ships delivering supplies through the N Atlantic up into Russia. When they weren't dodging U-boats they were busy chopping ice off the decks to keep the ships from capsizing. The ships were loaded and even had equipment tied down on the deck. In one case I remember him telling about a railroad locomotive strapped down on the deck. One time he was so tired when they arrived in port at Russia that he slept through a attack on the port by German bombers and woke up to find that the pier they were tied to was burning.

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• XX

  @xx133 · 2 years ago (edited)

  It should be noted that the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was signed prior to WWII starting. A non-aggression pact was also signed by the UK during this period prior to the war. Characterizing the USSR as a German ally, is like characterizing the UK as German allies. It should be noted that the U.S. supplied Germany with supplies well into WWII.

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• IS

  @istvanfuzak9998 · 2 years ago

  Let’s not forget the significance of Richard Sorge. He informed Soviet HQ, that Japan will NOT attack the Soviet Union, so Stalin was able to move big forces from the East border to Stalingrad.

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• JA

  @Jacknthebox-n8l · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLWN6CqD1PQ&amp;t=2595">43:15</a> “ How Stalin was able to pull off a stunning victory”<br>Give credit where credit’s due. Marshal Zhukov, along with his staff, competent generals, well prepared logistics, and of course the element of surprise, is what made operation Uranus successful.

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• SH

  @shirleymuhleisen683 · 1 year ago

  Excellent. Very familiar with Stalingrad, but always appreciate a great refresher. Appreciated the films, narration and contrasts/comparisons of Hitler and Stalin. I’d never known of Goering “eulogy” radio broadcast and it was one of the most disturbing thing I’ve learned lately

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• IA

  @ianrob4760 · 1 year ago

  what makes this one of the best docs out there on stalingrad is having historians of the quality of Guy and James who can tell the history in such a greta way anyone can understand

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