On Stalingrad

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Stalingrad Virtual Staff Ride:

Stalingrad Information video:

https://youtu.be/68aCxImh330

[Alan Sharif]

Wow. Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

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Stalingrad: The Campaign

https://youtu.be/5p7EeTcktVU

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Stalingrad: The Battle for the Martenovskii Shop (Red October Factory)

https://youtu.be/1K0SFr2gPbc

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Eastern Front of WWII animated: 1942

https://youtu.be/pucJTYK7_Yo

If you would like to see more of this type of presentation on WWII, subscribe to Eastory here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCElybF ... SjgCf7I2sg

Liked it.

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Paulus's 6th Army ORDER OF BATTLE - Before Stalingrad

TIK provides another in-depth accounting of all the divisions and commanders belonging to the German 6th Armee. Very interesting stuff:

https://youtu.be/DCDjAqTUCmw

If you would like to see more of this type of presentation on the Stalingrad Campaign, subscribe to TIK here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfZz8F ... tcEJHM2kCg

An excellent channel about the Great Battles of WWII!

[Saint Ruth]

Here's a great video of the strategic decisions during the Stalingrad campaign:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP_QaNU5Uys

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Stalingrad: Cultural Representations.

Antony Beevor referred to this song in his book, Stalingrad - The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943...so I looked it up.

Der Zarewitsch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Zarewitsch
https://youtu.be/X1W7z0Qp61k

Alone, again alone
lonesome as ever
My youth was lost and wasted here
it passed in long and lonely fear
My heart is down and sad is my mind
I sit in gilded cage confined

A soldier stands on Volga bank
He stands on watch for his fatherland
At dead of night alone and far
No light of moon on him, no star
Motionless the steppe lies still
Now his eyes with tears start to fill
And he feels his heart being gnawed away
When alone he has to stay
Hear him say, hear him pray:

Are you in heaven forgetful of me
This heart yearns for love so fervently
So many angels live up there with thee
Send just one of them down here to me

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Stalingrad: Cultural Representations.

Katyusha

https://youtu.be/YoB4Vkvceo0

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Stalingrad: Cultural Representations.

The Sacred War - Alexandrov Red Army Choir

https://youtu.be/D0xGimfwDL4

Arise, vast country,
Arise for a fight to the death
Against the dark fascist force,
Against the cursed horde.

Chorus: (2x)
Let noble wrath
Boil over like a wave!
This is the people's war,
a Sacred war!

We shall repulse the oppressors
Of all ardent ideas.
The rapists and the plunderers,
The torturers of people.

Chorus

The black wings shall not dare
Fly over the Motherland,
On her spacious fields
The enemy shall not dare tread!

Chorus

We shall drive a bullet into the forehead
Of the rotten fascist filth,
For the scum of humanity
We shall build a solid coffin!

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Stalingrad: Cultural Representations.

Red Army Choir: Let's Go!

https://youtu.be/OjINuMEuSKA

We have still a long way to go,
Cheer up soldier, raise your head!
Regimental banners proudly fly,
And our commanders lead ahead.

So forward, march, march, march!
And for you, my dearest,
I‘ll write and send you letters.
Farewell! The bugle calls,
Hey, soldiers - march on!

They are brave lads, every warrior,
In the ranks with falcon eyes.
We became friends with a blazing glory,
Glory we won in the fight.

So forward, march, march, march!
And for you, my dearest,
I‘ll write and send you letters.
Farewell! The bugle calls,
Hey, soldiers - march on!

Let our foes remember this:
Do not threaten, but we say.
We went half round way with you.
If needed, we will repeat.

So forward, march, march, march!
And for you, my dearest,
I‘ll write and send you letters.
Farewell! The bugle calls,
Hey, soldiers - march on!

And now has come for us
Days of study and hard work.
Only flourished through the years
Our village and city folk!

So forward, march, march, march!
And for you, my dearest,
I‘ll write and send you letters.
Farewell! The bugle calls,
Hey, soldiers - march on!

[Alan Sharif]

Thanks again for the posts.

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Stalingrad: The Grain Elevator:

https://youtu.be/Z3pMF_8ik6A

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USSR: World War 2 Songs

WWII Era Soviet songs presented with a nice selection of period photography:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVlLSI ... w/featured

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Stalingrad: The Commissar's House

https://youtu.be/deXzTPe_TF4

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TIK: The REAL Story of Pavlov's House at Stalingrad:

https://youtu.be/Bc-rFzC63hU

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Letters from Stalingrad - Numbers, Censorship & Effects on the Homefront

https://youtu.be/ql-yeDWm04Q

Many other videos on the Eastern Front and Stalingrad at Military History Visualized:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK09g6 ... 0x1VCF1hgA

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Al Stewart: Roads to Moscow:

https://youtu.be/WOx1qNUMnCc

They crossed over the border the hour before dawn
Moving in lines through the day
Most of our planes were destroyed on the ground where they lay
Waiting for orders we held in the wood - word from the front never came
By evening the sound of the gunfire was miles away

Ah, softly we move through the shadows, slip away through the trees
Crossing their lines in the mists in the fields on our hands and our knees
And all that I ever was able to see
The fire in the air glowing red silhouetting the smoke on the breeze

All summer they drove us back through the Ukraine
Smolyensk and Viyasma soon fell
By autumn we stood with our backs to the town of Orel

Closer and closer to Moscow they come - riding the wind like a bell
General Guderian stands at the crest of the hill
Winter brought with her the rains, oceans of mud filled the roads
Gluing the tracks of their tanks to the ground while the sky filled with snow
And all that I ever was able to see
The fire in the air glowing red silhouetting the snow on the breeze

In the footsteps of Napoleon the shadow figures stagger through the winter
Falling back before the gates of Moscow,
Standing in the wings like an avenger
And far away behind their lines the partisans are stirring in the forest
Coming unexpectedly upon their outposts, growing like a promise

You'll never know, you'll never know
Which way to turn, which way to look, you'll never see us
As we're stealing through the blackness of the night
You'll never know, you'll never hear us
And the evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming
The morning road leads to Stalingrad, and the sky is softly humming

Two broken Tigers on fire in the night flicker their souls to the wind
We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin
It's been almost four years that I've carried a gun
At home it'll almost be spring
The flames of the Tigers are lighting the road to Berlin
Ah, quickly we move through the ruins that bow to the ground
The old men and children they send out to face us, they can't slow us down

And all that I ever was able to see
The eyes of the city are opening now it's the end of the dream
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
Now you can taste it in the wind, the war is over
And I listen to the clicking of the train wheels as we roll across the border
And now they ask me of the time
That I was caught behind their lines and taken prisoner
"They only held me for a day, a lucky break", I say;
They turn and listen closer
I'll never know, I'll never know
Why I was taken from the line and all the others
To board a special train and journey deep into the heart of holy Russia

And it's cold and damp in the transit camp, and the air is still and sullen
And the pale sun of October whispers the snow will soon be coming
And I wonder when I'll be home again and the morning answers
"Never"
And the evening sighs and the steely Russian skies go on forever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads_to_Moscow#Lyrics

[governato]

These archives of translated Russian sources is priceless for the maps and level of details relative to possible scenarios for "DW goes East" Here is an example. [edit: fixed a few links)

The Main page [edit: with different fronts and different years] is HERE (documents go up to 1945 wink wink)

Main page for the Summer 42 campaign is HERE

[bcgames]

Wow! Great resource. Thanks for sharing.