Comments by "Cary Black" (@caryblack5985) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. It irritates me that Richtofen is constantly criticizing Paulus and the 6th Army for being slow and other perceived failures yet his Luftwaffe is facing a very weak and ineffective Soviet air force and minimal flack except on the East side of the Volga. He seems to have no conception of the casualties and difficulties facing the troops in urban fighting.
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  2.  @ducthman4737  I would not say most rather some hated the communist system especially in the Ukraine. However they soon learned that the Nazis were likely to kill them and certainly stole their food and oppressed them. That's why the Partisan movement grew larger and larger throughout the war.
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  3.  @dickesbrot5724  Unfortunately there are so many numbskulls commenting that it is difficult to know when someone is not serious. I apologize for mistaking your comment.
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  4. Rdiculous it is known that it was staged by the SS as an excuse to attack Poland
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  5. And we have to take into account the fuel shortage which would limit many divisions and also the distance they could possibly retreat.
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  6. He was always anti-Soviet and a bit of a fool politically. This is quoted but he did not seem reluctant to take on the Nazis when he was commanding.
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  7.  @Cloudman572  It is unfortunate. Many people who watch this film will never open a real history book. Probably the most widely read book on Stalingrad is Beevors and although he dug up some interesting facts it is just fair as to accuracy and quite outdated. For those who do not want to invest in a 5 part, very expensive and lengthy books by Glantz I recommend Isaev Stalingrad City On Fire which is excellent from the Soviet view but offers a good amount of information on the German side.
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  8. Well argued and comprehensive. It is ludicrous to think a major withdrawal of all the forces in Stalingrad could be done in a day or two. The disposition of the forces scattered both within the city and along the northern perimeter would take quite a time to organize and lines of defense were absolutely necessary or the units of the 6th Army would be easily defeated if they lacked any cohesion.
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  9.  @bobflatman278  Richtofen should have realized fighting in a city is not movement but digging out defenders dug in behind rubble. Especially since he created it.
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  10.  @Edax_Royeaux  It was propaganda. The soviets would have pushed the Germans back or defeated them much earlier if they could. The idea of encircling the Germans only became plan in Sept 1942. This does not take away from the fact that the Soviets carried out the plan successfully.
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  11. Enough of the Nazi comments
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  12.  @juliantheapostate8295  They had sent many horses back from the front lines to winter quarters. Whatever vehicles they had they were in bad shape for fuel. TIK mentioned one of the German divisions did not have enough fuel to get to the fighting when sent. I think it was the 44th.
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  13.  @steenkigerrider5340  Sounds like Trump and his handling of Covid.
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  14. Stalin did execute generals in 1941 but very few or none from 1942 and on. Hitler was not lenient to any generals involved in the July 20th plot.
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  15. Congratulations on the video Tik. Don't be discouraged if the video has a much smaller number of views than your other videos. The main reasons are the video is age restricted, some people do not want to see the suffering in the war and some do not want to hear about their "side" comitting war crimes. Too many people think war is like Hearts of Iron or World of Tanks. No blood no suffering and no death. It is important that people know what happens in war and that often it is the civilians that suufer more than the troops. Keep making videos so people understand that WII is not just about moving armies aound on a map.
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  16.  @promecio8085  No asshole you are the one crying for your Nazis
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  17. Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLNfOyOBo68&t=14s
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  18. Hilter and the general staff wanted Leningrad taken and troops were sent there. At the center there was reason to fear a collapse in the heavy fighting so it could not be ignored. In the south originally Stalingrad was to be taken and THEN advance to the Caucuses but the plan changed to simultaneous offensives leading to splitting the army into Groups A and B. It seems that several bad decisions were made based on doing too much too quickly for the manpower they had. 2
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  19. Nazi synpathizer
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  20. Yes there was heavy fighting in both the central sector and also in the north where Manstein and the 11th army were to take Leningrad but were unable to launch an offensive because the Soviet attack was very heavy there and were only able to hand onto their positions. So the Wehrmacht was facing attacks on 2 army groups and launching offensives at Stalingrad Army Group B and in the Caucasus Army Group A. It seems to me they had enough manpower to cover their losses but lacked enough to do all they were attempting. Could they have allocated their forces better? Perhaps but it is hard to know exactly where the priority was.
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  21. By rairoad. The steam engines used coal.
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  22. Camouflage and strong antiaircraft guns.
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  23. Yes but the Germans have more tanks available and the Luftwaffe contols the air entirely.
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  24. It is close to Nazism
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  25. He is documenting the fighting in this series not the war crimes.
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  26. Not in Stalingrad
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  27. They outproduced the Germans in tanks, aircraft and artillery in every year from 1942 on. They put together a large force of troops that the Germans did not think they could. They executed a plan of encirclement when the Germans believed that since they had defeated every attack on the northern line that it would necessarily fail.
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  28. Also small boats can be hidden and are extremely difficult to hit compared to a medium or large ship. If you don't think the luftwaffe tried you are mistaken.
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  29. They certainly believed in their ideas. They would have feared that if word got out what they were doing would hurt them in public opinion. That is why they would say evacuated to the East instead of killed.
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  30. I am sure they were not but how does that excuse the Germans?
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  31.  @hastalavictoriasiempre2730  My books said SS and they killed one or more persons to have bodies to help make the supposed attack more believable. The ploy was originated or run by Heydrich. This is what wikipedia says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident
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  32. All the Soviets could do is hang on. Even though urban warfare favors defense the Germans had more armored fighting vehicles, artillery and had air superiority in Stalingrad. It doesn't change until November.
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  33. I suggest you don't watch it if you don't like it.
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  34.  @ricardokowalski1579  Hard to say. Certainly the success against France helped. Also the Soviets struggle to defeat Finland in 1940 was a factor especially when Finland was so small compared to the USSR.
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  35. They are getting supplies but not enough and slowly. Reinforcements sent to the city come from the troops along the Don. The Germans withdraw their troops and replace them with the Romanians and other allies.
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  36. Well all the information is from books of Glantz, Isaev and Mark. However Tik has managed to create a narrative from them and using maps has made it possible to follow even the more complex aspects of the 4 month battle.
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  37. That question has several aspects. The Germans believed the attack would come in the center and that the Soviets could not manage two great offenses at the same time. They were prepared for for Mars in the center but not for Uranus in the south. They were also overconfident as they has beaten back all the Kotluban attacks in the north (there were 4). They overestimated themselves and underestimated the Soviets.
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  38. He uses Isaev a lot and last I heard he was a Russian historian.
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  39. The Germans used many T34s and artillery captured from the Soviets. You also see photos of German soldiers with Soviet submachine guns.
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  40. True there were were major attacks by the Soviets at Rzhev. They sent Manstein and 11th Army to Leningrad. They split Army Group South into A and B to simultaneously attack Stalingrad and the Caucasus when they were supposed to capture or neutralize Stalingrad and THEN go on to the Caucasus.
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  41. The artillery was well camouflaged and well protected by anti aircraft guns.
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  42. Up till the 1990s and the release of official Soviet archives the West traditionally did not trust the Soviet versions. On top of that much of the history was written by German officers who were the "guests" of the US Army. On top of that he cold war and the language barrier had an effect. It was wasn't till Glantz and the Russian historians of the 2000s that we got much of the Soviet story. Citino and other historians have commented on this.
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  43. The cavalry was important arm for the Soviets. They usually fought dismounted but the use of horses in a land with few roads gave them extra mobility. Here is some information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalry_corps_(Soviet_Union)
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  44. Casualty should mean killed or wounded. Losses can be killed, wounded, missing or captured. Wounded is generally thought to be 3 times the number killed. In 1941 the vast majority of the Soviet losses were pows who were later starved to death or perished because of exposure in pow camps in the winter of 1941-42.
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  45.  @aleksazunjic9672  Well he was pretty consistently negative about Paulus' conduct of the battle.
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  46. Across the Volga and that is why they are in supply crisis because the ice flows on the Volga is making supply extremely difficult.
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  47. Cary Black 3 minutes ago (edited) The Stalingrad area was serviced only by 3 single track railway lines which were regularly interrupted by air attacks and partisans. Trucks were worn out and fuel scarce. Horses were sent back to winter quarters . By October the 6th Army was receiving less then half its required daily trainloads of supply. The 6th Army would face a hunger catastrophe even if they seized the entire city Fritz Ostkrieg p. 297.
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  48.  @QuizmasterLaw  I don't understand. You mean that Stalin traveled to the front to meet with Zhukov? That can't be right. The meetings with the Stavka and Stalin were in Moscow.
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  49. As of November 1 1942 the Germans had 699,353 deaths and approximately 2,100,000 wounded on the Eastern Front alone. This of course does not take into account the huge losses for November and December 1942 and January 1943.
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  50. No Manstein was unaware of the Soviet reserves.
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