The Battle of Stalingrad, Animated: The Brutal Fight for the City | Part 2

The Battle of Stalingrad, Animated: The Brutal Fight for the City | Part 2 of 4 September to November 1942. The German Sixth Army reaches the Volga - and the war for Stalingrad shrinks to floors, stairwells and cellars. Sergeant Yakov Pavlov's men hold a single apartment block for nearly two months, the 13th Guards cross the river under fire, the factory district becomes the front line, and Lyudnikov's Island holds on. Meanwhile, hundreds of kilometres away in Moscow, a plan is taking shape that will turn the city into bait. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:18 Part I recap: the Sixth Army on the Volga 2:11 Chapter 1 - Into the Fire 4:40 Chapter 2 - Hugging the Enemy 5:42 Pavlov's House holds 6:32 Vasily Zaitsev 7:01 Chapter 3 - The Factory District 8:45 November: 90% of the city 9:25 Lyudnikov's Island 10:02 The sniper duel: legend or history? 10:23 The decision in Moscow 11:05 19 November 1942 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING Antony Beevor, Stalingrad (Viking, 1998) - quoted in the video (13th Guards Rifle Division losses) Vasily Chuikov, The Beginning of the Road / The Battle for Stalingrad (memoir; English ed. 1963) - quoted in the video David M. Glantz & Jonathan M. House, The Stalingrad Trilogy, vol. 2: Armageddon in Stalingrad, September-November 1942 (University Press of Kansas, 2009) Jochen Hellbeck, Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich (PublicAffairs, 2015) Order No. 227 of the People's Commissar of Defence of the USSR, 28 July 1942 (public domain) Adolf Hitler, speech to party veterans, Löwenbräukeller, Munich, 8 November 1942 Maps: own render (NASA Blue Marble, Natural Earth - public domain). Unit positions marked with a dashed border are approximate. Battlefield scenes are illustrations. ARCHIVE FILM Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia (1943, US War Department / Frank Capra) - Public domain - US National Archives via commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Why_We_Fight_The_Battle_of_Russia.webm MUSIC "Majestic Hills" and "Oppressive Gloom" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License - creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ #Stalingrad #WW2 #History