Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "The Final BLITZKRIEG before Stalingrad City! BATTLESTORM STALINGRAD E13" video.

You also never hear from the Germans about how 300 sappers and AT gunners at Position Snipe completely upset Rommel's counterattack, damaging or destroying over 50 German and Italian tanks from both the 15th Panzer Division and Littorio Division. The Germans seldom seemed to give credit to their opponents. This arrogance definitely played a large part in their defeat.
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Reading Glantz's Stalingrad series, you find that the "front" out towards Astrakhan is more like a series of outposts or small fortified positions in key areas. There was no solid line, just scattered units. Too much terrain, too few troops.
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tokul76 Sounds about right for Stalinist Russia. Punish the hard workers, decorate the incompetent. Let's face it, even Zhukov got on Stalin's bad side after the war. I just glad Shumilov did receive proper recognition for his generalship here.
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@Raskolnikov70 It is very well done. I like how it contains relatively little Soviet propaganda, unlike the series they released in the 1970s. It even cleared up something that had been puzzling up to now. TIK did a video on how the 6th Army didn't receive troop reinforcements throughout the summer and early fall of 1942, and blamed it on Halder. However, if you watch the episode on the "Rzhev Meat Grinder", you will see why. There was a very valid reason, and one that yet again shows how overstretched the Germans were in 1942.
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@Raskolnikov70 No, can't be. The Time Lords don't really believe in violence. Must have been the Temporal Integrity Commission.
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But I like Blitzkrieg, it sounds so, ... WW2.
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von Clausewitz, "War is the continuation of politics by other means". And, if you read about the Napoleonic Wars, economics too. How else did Napoleon fund his armies but by stealing from countries he overran?
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At the rate TIK is going, you'll have quite a wait.
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