Comments by "Cary Black" (@caryblack5985) on "Did the Romanians flee? The First Day of Operation Uranus! BATTLESTORM STALINGRAD E35" video.

  1. You are right. The Italian 8th Army and the 2nd Hungarian army were also along the Don to the west.
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  2.  @cccpredarmy  Lascar held out the 1st day and for the remaining 4 days until out of ammo and food and surrounded. Deny it but it still happened. I don't care what you think think since this is the reality. So if you want to deny that is up to you.
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  3. There is the possibility of those aircraft to be used in combat in the future. They may only be temporarily unusable because of minor problems such as inability to start or need spare parts that will be available soon.
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  4. He dismissed Rudel's comment because of the weather at the time and recent evidence that the Romanians did resist the Soviet attack better than the narrative given by the Germans.
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  5.  @tlmoller  There was the Italian 8th Army, the Hungarian 2nd Army and German formations near Voronezh. Most German troops in the South were at Stalingrad or in the Caucasus.
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  6. The Romanians would not be interested in fighting in the West. They were out to get Transnistria and Bukovina which they had to cede to the Soviets. They were also promised Soviet territory including Odessa. The Italians and Hungarians were asked to supply men for the Eastern Front by Hitler and they complied. They were not needed in the West in the summer of 1942.
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  7.  @mumin7229  There were no unimportant parts to send them to. There were attacks vital for Germany in the Caucasus to get oil. The Soviets were fighting in the center at Rezhv and Hitler wanted to take Leningrad in the North but was unable to do so since the Soviets attacked. There were no quiet places and the Germans needed the axis troops to advance in the South or they would be too short of manpower to carry out the offensive.
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  8. No
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  9. In some areas he mentioned the Soviets did not advance.
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  10.  @cccpredarmy  If you are attacked by tanks and promised antitank weapons but they are never delivered it is pretty difficult to stop a tank corps or division. Some Romanian divisions held firm especially General Lascar. See this After the Romanian front was broken at the Battle of Stalingrad, General Lascăr took command of the remains of the Romanian Third Army and kept fighting for 4 days. The only unit under his command that managed to escape encirclement was the battalion led by major Gheorghe Răscănescu. Lascăr was taken prisoner on November 22, 1942, spending the years 1943–1945 in captivity in the Soviet Union.
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  11. Good guy? no.
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  12. They were able to concentrate their reserves and they outproduced the Germans in tanks, aircraft and artillery.
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  13.  @roberts1711  He does not of course. He makes his judgement on evaluating the evidence. That what you do when you judge what someone claims in his book. You can't be sure about what happened unless the claim is impossible. Tik gave his opinion and you can disagree. The current research by Glantz and others show the Romanians resisted at first but started to collapse when overwhelmed by Soviet tanks.
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  14. There were Axis forces in the Caicasus , at Rhezv and at Leningrad as well as at Stalingrad.
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  15. Ration strength is the total number of troops they have as opposed to combat troops. Ration strength takes into account all support troops such as truck drivers mechanics cooks etc.
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  16. Their logistics was a problem even in 1941. By 1942 their logistics were in crises in the South. There was not enough train capacity tosupply the army and their only hope was a quick victory.
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  17. Yes ther was but in diminished intensity and continued to diminish as German troops were pulled out of the city.
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  18.  @thedarkechoes1236  No not even as much as shown in the last episodes of fighting in the city that TIK described.
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  19. They should not have started the war in the first place.
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  20. Most were sent to Leningrad to conquer it but the Soviet offensive made that impossible and the Germans just hung on to their positions.
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  21. See the following https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Army_(Hungary)
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  22.  @themrchappi1  Well they had the reserves and they launched both Uranus in the South and Mars in the center at the same time. Only the Germans thought they were ready to collapse. Although it took two months to get the troops organized, trained and equipped.
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  23.  @themrchappi1  You start with the wrong premise. The Soviet Union was not close to collapsing. That was what the Germans thought. In December 1941 they were able to raise additional troops to throw the Germans back from Moscow. In 1942 they continued to attack the Germans around Leningrad but not successfully In 1942 the Soviets were fighting hard at Rezhv. In 1942 when Hitler saw the Soviets retreating in the South instead of standing and being encircled he thought the Soviets were finished. Instead they raised millions of men and launched Operation Mars in the center and Uranus at Stalingrad and were able to provide them with fresh planes, tanks and artillery. The Soviets were not collapsing except in the minds of Hitler and some of his generals. Stalingrad proved them wrong.
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  24. What you are saying that the Germans should withdraw to the Oder River only a few kilometers from Berlin. If they did that now it would require a retreat of many hundreds of miles which would probably be impossible and actually pointless as to retreat that far that quickly would have destroyed their armies.
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  25. Every book I have read by respected historians says it is incorrect.
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  26. Arrogance played a part as well as the idea that the Soviets would be attacking in the enter, Operation Mars which the Germans expected. They did not believe the Soviets could launch two major attacks. They also believed that the attack would fail as the other attacks to the north of Stalingrad failed.
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  27. See the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalry_corps_(Soviet_Union)
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  28. It wasn't bigger in terms of length, casualties, troops fighting and length of time.
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  29. In Russian it is pronounced Uran.
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