The Final BLITZKRIEG before Stalingrad City! Battlestorm Stalingrad S5/E13

An excellent series very well done

Well put
So many wasted lives due to shit leadership and organisation
It might be interesting to review which side suffered most across the war from commanders unwillingness to react appropriately either from fear of direct punishment or from their cultural views of how "their army" ought to act

On a side note, I initially discounted the Soviet continued use of ATRs as being simply due to lack of better kit
However, their impact on thin skinned vehicles seems to have impeded or limited the deployment of armoured infantry, reducing support for panzer regiments
Has anyone written on that particular problem for the Wehrmacht?

The civilians mostly fleeing the city actually would have helped the Soviets I thought . Much easier to fight a brutal urban combat sans most of the civilians .

I have a question. Did you ever make a video or are you going to make one about the real happening behind the eastern front? I mean, you often hear the Germans had their “Einsatzgruppen“ and purged the territory of jews and other minorities, then you hear there was some kind of a civil war between soviet partisans and collaborating troops and I also hears about soviets in german uniforms killing their own people to increase the anti – german actions behind the front.
What is true and what is just propaganda? I don't and I didn't find that much informations in the internet.

The Germans simply needed more men, vehicles and fuel. None of these were available.

34:40
the correct German plural of Panzerfaust is neither "Panzerfausten" nor "Panzerfausts" but rather "Panzerfäuste".

Excellent video!

The destroyed HQ of 126 rifle division was descovered only comparatively recently. In 2005 I participated in the excavation and unearthing of the dead officers of 126 RD HQ. We found soviet leiutenant Rylov Georgy Aleksandrovich born in 1920 from Kyrovohrad (now Kropivnytskiy in Ukraine). He had a medallion on him, we were lucky to identify him. He was clutching an anti-tank granade in hand, so the whole HQ probably died fighting off german tanks and grenadiers.

By the way, here is a good photo of 126 rifle division commander Vladimir Sorokin http://s014.radikal.ru/i328/1707/98/8074a9fb2fd1.jpg

In 2012 colonel Sorokin finally got himself a monument – it is erected in township Privolnyi where colonel was buried in 1985.
http://www.mrzh.ru/pol/stalingrad/pic/24_02.jpg

At the end of 1944 and beging of 1945 why Nazis requesting German people to donate shoose,cloths,swetters,jackets for whermachant even though they had a staggering 200ton of gold kept in mercares mine?
And mercares mine area still in control of nazis why Hitler not used 200tons of gold from mine to war efforts?

Did Sorokin get his monument?

Panzerfausten is just the plural of Panzerfaust.

Haha a character from Hogan's Heroes made a appearance, I know nothing

What were the Italians doing during this whole endeavour?

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.

Soviet losses around Serafimovichi were also including “lightly wounded staying with their units”. But somehow it’s only mentioned for fascists as some kind of sign of victory or whatever. Weird comparison

Woooohooo a new season. Thanks you TIK! You're the best!

The bibliography shows Craig's "Enemy At The Gates" as 2015 (kindle), but the book was published first in 1974. I wonder if that might be a more relevant date for someone glancing at sources. This is the first time I've seen that book cited for anything (here contradicting one of Beevor's faulty impressions). I purchased a paperback copy in ~1976, with an embossed graphical cover. I found it to be a very compelling chronicle at the time for it was my only source of information on the battle at the time. I have not seen a critique of this book, so one wonders if it has worn well with age.

This entire series is the most underrated and informative visual history of the battle of Stalingrad…literally on the planet.

I know that I don’t have time for this but I still watch it

Panzerfausts were used in the relief of Demyansk, so they did already exist.

16:20 I think the Soviets made a mistake here… Instead of launching an assault against the 3rd Panzer Division and trying to reach the 26th tank Brigade in the other side of the pocket splitting the German 14th Corps in two, they should instead redeploy and attack the 160th Pz. batallion sector in the gap between the German 14th Corps and the 51st Corps in order to prevent the Germans from supplying or rescuing the 14th… And only them they should launch an attack against the 14th Corps from the now occupied gap between the German 14th and 51st pressing the 14th against the Volga river while the artillery at the other side of the river and the barges keep shelling them

To split the 14th Corps pocket in two by reaching the Soviet tank brigade at the other side is completely useless as the Germans still have the 51st Corps and the KG Kaegler to the east resupply and rescue both of the pockets, letting the Soviet 62nd and 64th armies cut off from the bulk of the Stalingrad front to the north… The main preoccupation of the Soviets should be the effectively cutting the 14th off from the rest of the 6th Army and push them east into surrender laying the corridor open between the Soviet 62nd and 64th and the rest of the front, thus keeping the Germans from close the encirclement at Stalingrad… Not just split the 14th German Corps, which will be rescued anyway

@28.15 did the russians know of this redeployment from the german spy who was supplying Stalin with daily reports from german high command?

33:29 so THAT is where the Shmirnov Vodka got its name !

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.