Comments by "Cary Black" (@caryblack5985) on "Devils in the Grain Elevator | BATTLESTORM STALINGRAD E21" video.

  1. Yes but the Germans have more tanks available and the Luftwaffe contols the air entirely.
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  2. He is documenting the fighting in this series not the war crimes.
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  3. 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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  4. Isaev Stalingrad City on Fire gives Soviet unit strengths but only brigades and divisions and not day to day but at certain times. I don't think all that data is readily available but read the book.
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  5.  @iddomargalit-friedman3897  Well in Isaev Stalingrad City On Fire, Zhukov was present at the Planning meetings regarding this Northern offensive and had input on the plans. He may not have ordered the offensive but I believe he was the STAVKA representative at Stalingrad and so had considerable authority. TIK can't cover everything and in order to get a complete picture you need to read the books on the subject. I recommend the Isaev book if you don't want to invest in Glantz's 5 volumes on Stalingrad.
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  6. They might have thought so or might have not but Hitler and the high command say you must take Stalingrad. If they refused they would simply be replaced. Also they have been fighting in the city for only 4 or 5 days and it looks like the Southern half may fall at any day.
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  7. No it doesn't. As we learn more about the battle and the archives have opened the understanding of what went on changes. In fact much information that is not favorable to the Soviets has come out. An example is Operation Mars which was simultaneous to Uranus. Mars was an offensive on the Moscow axis as Uranus was on the Stalingrad axis. Mars was a failure and Uranus was a success. Mars was never talked about and was almost unknown until Glantz ,the same historian who wrote the 5 volumes about Stalingrad, wrote about a book about it. Your idea is false and if you don't care for the facts given in these videos you can choose not to watch. You are entitled to your own opinion but not to your own facts.
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  8.  @dpt6849  Yes I missed the sarcasm because it sounded like some of the comments I have seen on other channels. However what I said is I feel accurate.
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  9. The Germans were certainly more able at the tactical and operational aspects of the war. It took time for the Soviets to reach a similar level of competence. If you look at the battles from late 1943 through 1945 you see the Soviets performing much better on those level. I think the Soviets performed as well as they could. Stalin whose reputation correctly as one who was willing to spill blood actually reprimanded at times commanders who wasted lives. It was not for humanitarian reasons but to waste soldiers lives hurt chances of victory. The problem was the training which was lacking until later in the war but they learned.
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  10. There were heavy AA snd Artillery on the East bank and the islands in the Volga. The germans tried repeatedly but reinforcements got through even with losses.
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  11.  @TheImperatorKnight  Up to the end of September the Wehrmacht had 675,320 dead on the Eastern Front. Figure about 3 times that many wounded. The Soviets probably over 6 million dead.
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  12. The Germans were getting support by removing their troops along the Don and replacing them with Romanians. Not right now but you will see this happening in the future.
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  13.  @krzysztofsachmacinski9591  Yes the Germans were arrogant. Remember at the Vinnitsa conference when Halder said they would take the city in 10 days but Paulus wasn't sure. When you have Hitler and the high command thinking this is going to be a short mop up operation but can't send any reinforcements it is a recipe for disaster.
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  14. Hard to say since it is speculation but they would have had a better chance.
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  15. You can read Island of Fire which covers the Soviet division around the Barrikady factory which was isolated but continued to fight as a unit until the full capture of Stalingrad by the Soviets they were there all the months of fighting and it was quite some time (January 1943) till the Soviets reached them.
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  16. Every general who wrote memoirs was a hero.
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  17. Zhukov had Stalin and the defense committee to contend with as the Germans had Hitler and Halder.
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  18. No the Germans were hard pressed to maintain their Northen defenses. An attack might have weakened them more than what they would gain.
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  19. The Germans are fighting in the Rzevh section in the Moscow axis. There are not much manpwoer and supplies to send to Stalingrad and of course the transport of supplies is still quite bad.
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  20. @BoybytheLake People often do not know what happened on other fronts. I am opposed to any of the allies claiming they won the war by themselves. It was a group effort.
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  21. Both sides were badly weakened. If you want to know the strengths of various Soviet divisions and brigades read Isaev Stalingrad City On Fire.
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  22.  @EdAtoZ  The Germans attacked the boats, they were not very successful. The booats were not docked right near Stalingrad but came from some distance upstresm and in the night. The Germans spent much of their artillery bombarding the landing areas.
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  23. Yes in Isaev's book on Stalingrad he uses left bank for the East bank and right bank for the West bank. It had me confused and I would have to transpose it in my mind. Again as pointed out it is the rule to align maps to the North. Interestingly the maps in the book are aligned North so the East bank is on the right.
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  24. They were very close to winning on the first day of the attack in the city. Chuikov believed that Stalingrad would have fallen if not for Rodimtsev's attack. Yes there probably was but we can never know because the decisions that were made led to failure.
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  25. This is the history of the fighting at Stalingrad. If you want a summation you can read Citino, Isaev and Glantz.
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  26. Beevor is not a very good or accurate source. Try Isaev Stalingrad City On Fire or the Glantz series but that is 5 volumes and quite expensive.
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  27. I feel TIK does an excellent job. But you must remember he gets his information from Isaev, Glantz, Joly and other respected historians. He did not figure this all up by himself.
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  28. The Luftwaffe ceratinly attacked boats on the Volga but they were not very successful.
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  29. Unfortunately for the Germans they did not have sufficient manpower so they they had to depend on their allies. Manstein was sent to the Leningrad area to conquer the city. The Soviet offensive made it impossible and the Germans just were able to hang on. The problem with the allies was one that the Germans contributed to. They knew that the Romanians lacked the training and equipment to be successful in stopping a major counteroffensive but the Germans kept taking their troops from the Don to reinforce Stalingrad. They promised the Romanians antitank guns but failed to deliver the guns. The Romanians warned them about the Soviet buildup bur the Germans did not withdraw troops to reinforce the Don. The result was a disaster. Manstein tried and failed to rescue the 6th Army and the front line was pushed back to where it started. Where the Germans would get the troops without using allies is unlikely. They were fighting at Leningrad on the Moscow axis in Stalingrad and the Caucasus. There were no additional German troops to spare.
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  30.  @mossbergshockwave9629  Maybe they should have but they did not and the Germans did not have the troops to handle the Soviet attacks at Leningrad near Moscow and starting offenses simultaneously at Stalingrad and the Caucasus. They did not have the men. They could have waited for thw Caucasus attack bt they did not. It was a big mistake.
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  31. The offensives in the in the North were ordered by Stalin and were often hasty and poorly coordinated. Also it was Zhukov not Eremenko who was in charge of the Northern offenses.
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  32.  @iddomargalit-friedman3897  Here is some information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Yeryomenko
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  33. How could they do that . The volga goes for hundreds of miles from Moscow to Astrakhan.
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  34. It is pretty clear that you probably had a 90% chance of being killed or wounded in Stalingrad.
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