Hitler's 1941 Invasion of Russia | Part 4: Fortress Stalingrad Anthology Of Heroes History

"In the blazing city, we do not suffer cowards..." - Vasily Chuikov.

This episode marks the penultimate episode of our series tracing Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's 1941 invasion of the USSR.

Join us as we follow Marshal Friedrich Paulus and the Wehrmacht 6th Army to their fateful end at Stalingrad. Through poignant handwritten letters, we'll delve into how frontline soldiers grappled with their mortality and the erosion of their faith in Nazi propaganda.
Throughout the episode, we explore the ingenious and brutal strategies employed by Marshall Vasily Chuikov to maintain order amidst the chaos.

In the desperate streets of Stalingrad, Rattenkrieg, or 'war of the rats,' emerged as a brutal form of close-quarters urban combat, marked by intense, chaotic skirmishes within the sprawling ruins of the city.
As the tide turns against the Wehrmacht, we witness the Nazi High Command's struggle against Adolf Hitler's insistence on a symbolic last stand.

The Battle of Stalingrad, often deemed the deadliest in history, holds a profound place in Russian pride today. Tune in to learn why.


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CHAPTERS:

00:00-Introduction

03:37-Main Characters Recap

06:30-Episode Start

12:18-Chuikov's Innovations

21:09-Wermacht on brink of victory

29:48-Luftwaffe Bombing Run

35:24-Red Army heroism

40:30-Wermacht dug in for winter

49:38-Operation Uranus begins


📓SOURCES:

Barbarossa Through Soviet Eyes: The First Twenty-Four Hours by Artem Drabkin, Alexei Isaev, Christopher Summerville 

Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History by Alexander Werth 

Blood red snow by by Günter K. Koschorrek

Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front by Boris Gorbachevsky

The forgotten soldiers by Guy Sajer 

Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front by Andreas Hartinger

Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy by Dmitri Volkogonov

Marshall of Victory: Memoirs of Giorgy Zhukov


Blitzed: Drugs In The Third Reich by Norman Ohler

The Diary of Wehrmacht Soldier William Hoffman

Various accounts: IREMEMBER.RU

German Propaganda Archive: Joseph Goebbels: 1933-1945 (calvin.edu)  

Barbarossa : the Russian-German conflict, 1941-45 by Alan Clarke 

Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East by David Stahel

Reminiscences and Reflections. Volume 1 by Georgii Konstantinovich Zhukov

The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans

 Moscow Strikes Back - 1942 USSR Propaganda Film

Molotovs Radio Broadcast: 

Transcript: https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/great-patriotic-war/pdf/22-06-1941-molotov-radiospeech.pdf



Audio: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1000646


 

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