The ENTIRE Battle of Stalingrad: The City That Broke the German Army

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• GE

  @GeneralsofWW2 · 6 days ago

  The most fascinating part of Stalingrad is that while the Germans fought desperately for the last few hundred yards of ruined city, the battle was actually being decided far behind them on the weak Axis flanks. The Sixth Army captured almost 90% of Stalingrad, yet Operation Uranus turned that apparent victory into a trap that ultimately destroyed an entire field army.

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• JE

  @jerryneace98 · 8 days ago

  Good show

• AR

  @Armor-Ash · 9 days ago

  FACT SHEET - the Battle of Stalingrad<br><br>The trapped army: The German Sixth Army, about a quarter of a million Axis troops, encircled at Stalingrad by 23 November 1942. (Wikipedia, Operation Uranus)<br>The turn: Operation Uranus, 19 November 1942, struck the weak Romanian Third and Fourth Armies on the flanks and closed the ring near Kalach. (Wikipedia, Operation Uranus)<br>The bombing: On 23 August 1942 Luftflotte 4 flew about 1,600 sorties and killed roughly 40,000 civilians, one of the deadliest air raids before the atomic bombs. (Wikipedia, Bombing of Stalingrad)<br>Pavlov&apos;s House: A Soviet platoon held one apartment building for 58 days; Chuikov said the Germans lost more men there than taking Paris. (Wikipedia, Pavlov&apos;s House)<br>The airlift that failed: The Sixth Army needed about 300 tons a day to survive; the Luftwaffe averaged about 117. (Osprey, The Stalingrad Airlift)<br>The surrender: Paulus was made Field Marshal on 30 January 1943 and surrendered the next day; about 91,000 were captured and only 5,000 to 6,000 ever came home. (Britannica, Friedrich Paulus)<br>The cost: Axis losses topped 800,000; Soviet military losses ran near 1.1 million; often called the costliest single battle in history. (Britannica; ww2db)

• AD

  @AdamCarterExplores · 7 days ago

  loved the video!

• SE

  @seb5165 · 3 days ago

  Paulus was a self serving coward. He didn&apos;t break out in case he got shot for disobeying Hitler. He killed 250,000 of his own men to save his own. &nbsp;Disgrace!

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• ED

  @edwardgoering1237 · 7 days ago

  Yakov Pavlov a Real Hero ? Or did have Fear of NVKD in the back of his mind ! &nbsp;I think because of the Mass encirclements NVKD even threatened Soviet Soldiers Families if they slowed &nbsp; Stalin&apos;s Order &quot;Not One Step Back !!!!

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• FA

  @farmalmta · 7 days ago

  German unreasoning stubbornness did themselves in.

• AB

  @AbBen-m2h · 7 days ago

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