Comments by "bakters" (@bakters) on "Paulus's 6th Army ORDER OF BATTLE - Before Stalingrad" video.

  1. How many seconds till I pause the video to give a like? 3, 2, 1, Go! [...] 18 seconds. "The Battle of Stalingrad is not a battle. It's a seven month's campaign!"
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  2. A bit of constructive criticism and some answers to the questions you raised. (BTW - feel free to remove this post. I write it for You, not for Youtube.) 1. Since you insisted on pronouncing Paulus correctly, I think you should also improve your pronunciation of Reichenau. It's Reich-enau, like in reich, where "ch" is a soft "h" sound, not a "k" sound. The word "reich" as read by "google translate" sounds legit to my Polish ears. 2. 6th Army was not a "bunch of murderers". Sure there were some murderers there. Some created by war, some were already like that before, but most of those guys were just a bunch of kids. Therefore it's not wrong to sympathize with them. Any army can be turned into savages if the high command tolerates such behavior. Reichenau not just tolerated, not only approved of or even applauded, but simply ordered barbarity. He's responsible for what happened, and other people like him. Not those kids starved at Stalingrad (apart from those who actually deserved it, of course). 3. Walther is pronounced a Vahlter, not Walter. Schwerin is prononced as Shverin, not Shwerin. In general, German "w" is pronounced as English "v", and German "v" is pronounced and English "f". (I wouldn't bother with this, but you seem to care. Blame yourself... ;-)) 4. The only picture of Richard von Schverin I found which appears to be at least plausibly correct is this one: https://forum.axishistory.com/download/file.php?id=16558&sid=696d491b2196a7be8d5efc9929a80c30 It has been requested previously in 2003 in this thread: https://forum.axishistory.com//viewtopic.php?t=23159 . I can't tell if it's legit or not. It seems like somebody verified it at one time... Use it at your own risk. 5. The symbol for 79th Infantry Division can be found here: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/79e_division_d%27infanterie_(Allemagne) 6. It's Hans-Heinrich Sixt von Armin, or Germans don't know how to spell it either. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Heinrich_Sixt_von_Armin 7. The symbol visible at 13:54 appears to simply represent the 113th Infantry Division. It's their logo. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/113th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)) I've looked through a bunch of WWII German tactical symbols. I don't think they used this symbol for anything else, or I've just wasted about an hour of my time. Which is possible... 8. The symbol of 71 Infantry Division is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/71st_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht) I'll send what I've written before something freezes up and I lose it...
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  3. 9. Bruno Ritter von Hauenschild's picture is here: https://ww2gravestone.com/people/hauenschild-bruno-ritter-von/ And a direct link: https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/image126.jpg or here: https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/d450f93713cde68678229eb5f380566c-202x300.jpg
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