Comments by "Cary Black" (@caryblack5985) on "Chuikov's "most critical day" BATTLESTORM STALINGRAD E29" video.

  1. Camouflage and strong antiaircraft guns.
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  2. They are making an all out attack with reinforcements taken from areas on the Don and with the majority of the tanks they can spare along with an increase of Stuka sorties.
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  3. There were only 3 German divisions in N. Africa and not that many tanks certainly compared to the USSR. There would be no guarantee that Mussolini would send more soldiers to the USSR than he already did.
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  4. The Luftwaffe was bloated by thousands of men. Ground crews, aircrews and administrative staff of course were needed but thousands volunteered for the Luftwaffe because it looked more glamorous or seemed a better choice than serving in the army. Goering was willing to take these unnecessary men since it enhanced his standing and power against his rivals in the Nazi power struggle.
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  5. Listen there is plenty of blame to go around, Hitler, Halder, Zeitzler, von Weichs, Paulus and others. No one individual is responsible for all the mistakes. Without the fighting by the the Soviet army Stalingrad would fall.
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  6.  @KidoKoin  So did most of the military. Hitler gave in to Goering's request out of loyalty to his long time supporter.
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  7. There was always a chance that the Germans would take the city. Even Stalin thought the city would fall a couple of times. The Soviets were hanging on by a thread and the Germans were exhausting their striking power, supplies and troops. It could have gone either way. It was a race between how long would the Soviets hang on till the counterattack would be launched or would the Germans succeed in taking the city and be able to use all their troops to defend. My opinion is if the Germans succeeded only a week before Uranus it would have made no difference but this is purely speculation.
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  8. Goering was always supreme commander of the Luftwaffe in Berlin
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  9. In some books such as Isaev and it seems Chuikov left bank is on the east. In the US maps and our way of always orienting maps to the north the waet bank would be the east and the right bank the east. It is opposite for Isaev and Chuikov. It confused me for a while talking about the artillery being on the left bank when I knew they were stationed across the Volga not in the city. Their way of orienting is opposite so it would be better to say east and west instead of left bank and right bank.
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  10.  @billbolton  That is true but maps published in most or all US history books orient the map with north at top and south at bottom so east is right and west is left. It is a convention for US maps so anyone using a US map in a history book or familiar with the use of maps in them would expect when talking about left bank would assume west and talking about right bank would assume east. It may be different in European books.
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  11.  @gargravarr2  That maybe true but in the history books written in the US they do not seem to follow that convention. I am not talking about correct or incorrect but how east and west banks of rivers are conventionally designated in US history books. I don't think anyone in the US would think if you said I am on the west bank of the Mississippi would think you are on the eastern side.
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  12. They were on the east side of the Volga. They communicated by radio.
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