Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "Paulus's Late August Mistake? BATTLESTORM STALINGRAD E14" video.

  1.  @TheImperatorKnight  Weichs must have had a bad internet connection. But seriously, if what I read in "The German Way of War" is correct, Weichs is actually doing something that German Staff Officers were not supposed to do, try to run the battle from a distance through their subordinates.
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  2. No one expects the Russian minefield. Then again, a surprise minefield also stopped von Arnim and the Afrika Corps during the Battle of El Guettar.
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  3. No, they are still trying to defend the city, and are desperately trying to halt the German advance. The realization that they really have a shot at turning the tables won't really come about for a month or two yet.
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  4. There was a time frame of about 6 months when the M3 Lee/Grant was one of the best tanks around. Had they been put to better use, they might have won one or two battles between May and September 1942.
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  5. @Charles Yuditsky Well, there was probably some smoke AFTER the mines went off.
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  6. Wietersheim in the corner pocket?
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