The Battle of Stalingrad Every Week with Maps

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A whole hour of maps and Indy's narration. What a treat

I remember once reading in Antony Beevor's Stalingrad that Paulus' hobby was recreating battle and planning maps of the Napoleonic wars. Honestly, it's easy to understand why, watching figures and arrows moving across a map is pretty fun.

Meanwhile, at German High Command: - Sir, we intercepted a Russian message to their whole line. - Well, what is it, what does it say?? - Prepare Uranus. - Oh Shhhhhhit

The thing I had never realised until watching this series' episodes on Stalingrad is just how close Chuikov and Yeremenko were to losing the West bank of the Volga. Zhukov really did come in at the last possible moment to save the day. Had he been delayed again it's entirely possible the city would have fallen. Not that it would have made much difference to the success of Uranus. Still, for the Soviet soldiers in the city, it must have come as a great relief to feel the pressure lift off them as victory became possible again.

51:01 this is actually wrong. Manstein never actually gave a breakout order to Paulus, even though he was repeatedly queried about it. The claim that he gave the order comes from Manstein‘s memoirs, but the war diaries and communication records of the respective armies make it clear that he didn’t. Everyone wants to be remembered as having defied Hitler, but the reality at the time was quite different. Notably, a breakout also didn’t make military sense from the German point of view.

The scale of this fighting boggles the mind. More Russian soldiers died in this battle than all US dead during WWII, on all fronts. These maps [great work!] show movements of Army Groups, not regiments or battalions. Massive piles of frozen corpses stacked like cordwood. Grisly piles of frozen limbs, like some horrible display in a nightmare butcher shop. The dead had parents, siblings, wives, children - they were humans. Statues are raised, bands played, colored cloth and pot metal awarded to the surviving soldiers... But only after those soldiers had to drag hundreds of thousands of corpses into mass graves. I think we all want our lives to have sort of meaning, but we don't want that meaning to be a single sad statistic among millions of other dreary statistics, while our stiff, frozen body is thrown into a hole. I appreciate this episode, as it shows the massive scale of death and destruction around Stalingrad. Brigade sized units attacking and defending a single building, over and over again. It's hard to grasp.

Poland fell in 28 days. In the same period of time, the Germans gained a few ruined building in Stalingrad. France fell in 38 days. In the same period of time, the Germans had only managed to cross the street in Stalingrad.

Imagine you're an 18-year-old Italian. You grew up near some sunny beach in southern Italy, swimming in the Med and chasing girls. The Christmas of 1942 finds you deep in Russia, getting overrun by the Red Army. And all you can wonder is, "how the hell did I end up here?"

The sheer amount of troop movements and actions in probably six months of fighting is unthinkable. And you guys managed to show it in a really simple (and tactical and strategical) way too! I congratulate you all on this one.

I have read most of Col. Glantz's tomes on Stalingrad. I believe you did a great service with your description of this horrible battle. Thank you for you research and fine presentation.

After watching most of the show, and there's still a lot to go, I'm convinced that the Soviet Union was the single greatest contributor for the destruction of Nazism

I applaud you guys. This is 90s Discovery Channel quality work. Back before they got inundated with "reality" TV shows and "Ancient Aliens". It reminds me of the Battlefield series. I think that was BBC originally though. Really spectacular work for a bunch of guys on YouTube. Again more professional than what you see on American "educational" TV these days.

Мой дед воевал с первого выстрела, Брестская Крепость продержалась 2 месяца в окружении, сражаясь до последнего солдата, мой дед дошёл до Берлина, и вернулся домой, Слава всем погибшим😢

Love the map work Time Ghost puts into this! So meticulous!

Thank you! For me as a History teacher, this kind of material is pure GOLD! I can only imagine the huge amount of time spend in research and in animations for this to be possible. So again thanks you for all the great work you do!

I think we all can agree tat this was epic, entertaining ans also very informative document. With Indy's narration and quality work TG team put to this, this was just great.

Excellent. David Glantz's incredible series on Stalingrad focuses (at least to some degree) on the conflict as it unfolded street-by-street & building-by-building. But only someone with Glantz's obsessive level of detail could do that.

Thank you for doing this! After watching your coverage of Stalingrad, I thought it (your coverage) was so powerful that it would be worthwhile to do exactly this (collecting all the coverage in one video), but then I thought that would be too much to ask. I'm glad you found a sponsor for this.

This is the best Stalingrad movie ever made