Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "Battlestorm Stalingrad E7 - Operation Nord" video.

You should also watch the TIK History program "Why no German reinforcements at Stalingrad". It is a real eye opener on why the 6th Army was basically bleeding to death on the steppes outside the city. Also makes you wonder what the OKH was thinking, or not in this case.
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@jussim.konttinen4981 Sorry, couldn't help myself. Given your name I would assume that English is not your first language. The wording was such that it could easily be misconstrued. In addition, that type of humor runs in our family. Hope you weren't offended. Kinda like the time when my sister asked the French contingent if they were going flying, and they responded in French that they were. She rather quickly responded, "Oh, you're going to steal the plane?" (french verb Voler = to fly, to steal).
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@danielkurtovic9099 Thats OK. Try living in a place where the final snowfall of the year was May 22, maximum annual snowfall was around 4 metres, and summer temperatures never got above 20C. And people wonder why I am "allergic" to the snow.
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Not too surprising in some ways. One need only look at the losses due to disease on other fronts, including the Allied forces. I may be wrong in my recollection, but I seem to recall that during the Buna campaign in New Guinea, the Americans and Australians lost almost twice as many men to disease as they did to combat. Disease was also a problem (seldom mentioned) in accounts of the Desert and Sicilian campaigns. Indeed, my father, who was flying with the Desert Air Force at the time, caught malaria in Sicily in late 1943 or early 1944. Add in the borderline malnutrition, lack of drinking water, excessive heat causing heat exhaustion and heat stroke, and one has a recipe for major issues with losses due to disease on the Stalingrad front.
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Thank you very much for covering this battle in such detail with GOOD MAPS! If Glantz and House's history of the battle fails at any point, it is in their poor maps, which make it almost impossible to follow the movements of the units. In fact, the poor quality of these maps is such that I am absolutely positive they are merely scanning in and printing the original German maps used by the 6th Army. Also, this episode illustrates why the Soviet soldiers came up with the joke that, "The 4th Tank Army is an army with four tanks".
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@jussim.konttinen4981 Declare war on Finland?
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@Edax_Royeaux Try Cannae and 60,000 Roman dead in an afternoon.
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@TheImperatorKnight Don't worry about it. To err is human, to forgive is not company policy ... or something like that. I have written a number of peer reviewed papers, and reviewed about half a dozen papers for scientific journals (as well as a couple of fantasy novels), and no matter how hard you try, typos always show up. If you are doing this project solo, you are doing an excellent job. Even if you are not, I can tell you from experience that if you have written something, you brain stops seeing the mistakes (like 10 to the power of 0 is NOT 0, but 1). Always helps to have an assistant or two look things over if you can. And even then ...
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