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

  1.  @timobrienwells  TIK doesn't just use Glantz but also uses Isaev and Hayward and also Jason Marks. If you are watching this series you should know that.
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  2.  @timobrienwells  And if Glantz Hayward and Isaev are in your opinion not any good what historians do you use for the battle of Stalingrad?
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  3. They also had insufficient transport planes and the weather was against them. Also the Soviet air force was gaining in strength.
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  4. So are the Nazis
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  5. They did change the rails but often did a shoddy job since they were in a rush.. In many cases even changing rails was not enough because there was only a single line and that was a bottleneck in itself. Further you do not mention constant partisan attacks on the railways and motor transport columns which had a very negative effect on supplies to the front. The Germans were in the USSR for over 4 years and the supply situation never was good.
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  6.  @thehistoryenthusiast4956  There are several other books to explore: Jean Ancel The History of the Holocaust in Romania, Mihai Polenc The Holocaust in the Romanian Borderlands, Henry Eaton The Origins and Onset of the Romanian Holocaust, Randolph Braham the Destruction of the of the Romanian and Ukrainian Jews During the Antonescu Era, Radu Ioanid The Holocaust in Romania, Radu Ioanid The Iasi Pogrom June-July 1941 a Photo Documentary Matatias Carp Holocaust in Romania Facts and Documents.
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  7. The Stalingrad videos come out about every 4 weeks. He certainly is not done.
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  8. He left Stalingrad and shows up later at Kursk in Operation Citadel.
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  9. The luftwaffe was already bringing some supplies in. They could not bring enough to supply the shortage.
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  10.  @chrishoff402  This would not be practical and have reduced even further the supplies the 6th Army received. Night drops are very tricky and night navigation in the middle of winter in the Soviet Union would be a nightmare.
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  11.  @frerderickbays2762  The Soviets did not get replacements everyday. Many days they received no reinforcement at all and were severely short of ammunition since supplies were not available at times from the East bank. Also Paulus pulled additional men from the line of the Don for reinforcement to be replaced by Romanian troops. You will see this as the series progresses so you are mistaken.
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  12. Both sides were short of food and it depends on what period of time in 1942 you are talking about. The Soviets received food aid from the US and the situation improved as the war went on. The Germans confiscated food from occupied territories to supplement what they produced. It got worse as the war went on. In Stalingrad it depended on how supplies were available. The Soviets (not Russians) often had supply and food shortages as they were supplied from across the Volga. The Germans were at the end of a long and difficult supply line and the amount of food available was insufficient. After they were encircled it became a crisis and starvation followed.
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  13. No they were behind because of unexpected resistance. They did underestimate the number of troops they encircled.
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  14. Not enough times.
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  15. There were huge Soviet attacks around Rzhev at army group Center and there was urgent need for replacements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Rzhev
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  16. How could the Finns help stalingrad as they werea thousand miles away? Perhaps you meant Leningrad. The inns invaded the USSR along with the Germans. Not every Axis partner agreed to send troops to the Stalingrad area and the Finns having a very small population had no extra troops to send away from their front. Sending troops to Stalingrad is not what defines being in the Axis.
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  17. They were used as laborers, and other support troops which freed more Germans for the front lines.
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  18. Yes urban fighting advantages the defense especially in Stalingrad.
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  19. They did and evacuated the wounded also.
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  20. It also should be remembered that ubtil Nov 1942 only about 1/2 of France was under occupation. The rest was governed by Vichy France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_military_administration_in_occupied_France_during_World_War_II#/media/File:FranceOccupee.jpg
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  21. Every general who wrote memoirs was a hero.
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  22. By the end of September 1942 that is when the Germans entered Stalingrad the Germans had 674,361 deaths on the Eastern front. The Soviets had well over 5.700,000 deaths.
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  23. Isaev Stalingrad City On Fire is good and TIK does use it in his videos.
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  24. Not true just a myth
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  25. Keep watching for the surrender although the Nazis claimed all the men died and fought to the last bullet.
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  26. They had no units in the east that were not busy. The Soviets are attacking Army Group Center and Army Group North. Paulus is using his troops along the Don. As the Romanians and Italians and Hungarians take over these duties he starts feeding them into the city. If there are any reserves they are in France and it takes weeks to properly train, equip and transport them thousands of miles.
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  27.  @azralandar  Here is what I found: In recent years other authors have offered more detail on the losses of each side. John Manrho and Ronald Pütz, published their findings in Bodenplatte: The Luftwaffe's Last Hope. According to their figures, taken from German and Allied sources, which include the remains of German airmen found up until 2003,[7] German casualties were 271 fighters destroyed, 65 single-engine fighters damaged and 9 twin-engine aircraft destroyed, and four damaged. Some 143 pilots were killed in action, 70 became prisoners of war and 21 were wounded in action.[8][9] The Allies lost 305 aircraft destroyed and 190 aircraft damaged.[10] A further 15 Allied aircraft were shot down and ten damaged. A further six were downed by other causes.[11] Manrho and Pütz have also deduced that only 17 German aircraft are certain to have been shot down by German Flak. Even if aircraft with unknown fates are added, it still gives a figure of only 30–35. They state that the notion that one-third of the German aircraft were shot down by friendly fire is "myth".[10]
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  28. Plays for me.
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  29. It was because the intelligence sources expected an attack in the center Operation Mars. They did not expect an attack in the south at Stalingrad. When they eventually decided there would be an attack at Stalingrad they expected it to be weak since they believed the Soviets could not mount two attacks and they were confident that the attack would be beaten off as the previous Kotluban offensives had been.
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  30. Good guy? no.
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  31. 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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  32.  @paulbabcock2428  I don't use the word genius. I think he was the best operational general in the German army. There were others who were very good such as Model and Henrici but they were mostly defensive specialists and had few if any offensive victories.
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  33. The Germans had air supremacy over Stalingrad. It did not change till Nov 1942. The Soviet air force tried but were outclasses by the more experienced Germans.
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  34. Not what they could do when they had fully learned the lesson of combined arms and improved tactical and operational efforts. That would show up in 1944 in Operation Bagration.
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  35. Where did you get that information There is no evidence he opposed Hitler. He was prosecuted for war crimes.
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  36. Because of the great attrition in the battles for the city and along the Kotluban region many combat troops were lost and so the number of rear area troops compared to combat troops began to be extreme.
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  37. That info is not always available and would be changing day to day. I think TIK is working pretty hard just doing what he is doing.
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  38. They were able to concentrate their reserves and they outproduced the Germans in tanks, aircraft and artillery.
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  39. Part of their fighting was do to fear of the Soviets and their retaliation for German atrocities.
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  40. You don't say. Tell us what is wrong.
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  41. Hitler was nominally a Christian. He did not support paganism as did Himmler. He would have liked a Christianity more in line with Nazi ideology and racial notions. And of course he opposed any Christians both clergy and lay that were in opposition to his government.
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  42. Not toot much difference. It was an honor for their successful operations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guards_unit_(Soviet_Union)
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  43. Zhukov had Stalin and the defense committee to contend with as the Germans had Hitler and Halder.
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  44. It is a starting place but not a finishing place.
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  45. There was almost no chance of the Germans reaching Baku. They captured Maikop but never reached Grozny which was 354 miles (not Kilometers) further.. From Miakop to Baku is another 676 miles or over 1000 kilometers. Not only would the Soviets stop fighting but the Germans would have to have a new logistics system.
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  46.  @michaelconnors7668  I don't think they planned to get the oil in Baku in 1941. They made the assumption that the USSR would collapse and that the fighting would be over in 8 to 12 weeks. That means that at the beginning of October the war with the USSR would end. Therefore no worries about logistics, no worries about what the winter would mean. It seems ludicrous now but they did think so. They also did not have to worry about oil since they had enough. The Germans were realistic enough to realize that they could not reach Baku in one campaign since they got as far as Rostov but could not hold it and Baku was 800 miles (1200+ kilometers) further but why worry since if the USSR collapsed they will get the oil in 1942.
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  47. IThink it applies to the battles outside the city in Stalingrad itself, the Northern flank attacks, reinforcements to both armies including Romanians Hungarians and Italians and Operation Uranus .
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  48.  @ScepticGinger89  I accept your explanation. You expressed yourself poorly and I took offense. If you are expressing sarcasm remember no one can see your facial expression or tone of voice.
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  49. The Germans invaded the USSR with 3,800,00 me. Would 45,00 men be much of a difference. The Germans had many more panzer divisions and tanks in the USSR. Would the panzers from N Africa make a difference not in any significant way.
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  50.  @Ph33NIXx  As to Fall Blau being to only offensive planned you are wrong. Operation Nordlicht was planned to encircle and take Leningrad. Manstein and the 11th Army was sent to the Leningrad area and because of the Soviet offensive the Germans wound up in a defensive battle that enabled them just to hang on. You may not have heard it but it happened but is not as well known and of course an offensive requires a buildup of troops. Tik did not go into the fighting at Rezvh and how many troops it took. TIK I think did a disservice by indicating numbers of troops sent but not giving any reasons for the imbalance of reinforcements. It naturally raises questions and without looking into reasons it seems just arbitrary. It was a not. Was it poor decision? maybe but without exploring the reasons it makes it difficult to make a judgment. I will await his full explanation for the way reinforcements were allocated.
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