The ENTIRE Battle of Stalingrad in 10 Minutes

November 19, 1942. 7:30 a.m. About 3,500 Soviet guns open fire on the frozen steppe — and in four days, more than a quarter of a million Axis soldiers are trapped. This is the ENTIRE Battle of Stalingrad — from the tanks on the Volga to the 91,000 prisoners — in 10 minutes. ⏱️ Chapters 00:00 Cold open 00:58 Aug 1942: Tanks on the Volga 01:43 Sept 1942: The River 02:44 Height 102: Mamayev Kurgan 03:22 Oct 1942: The Factories 04:20 Nov 1942: Operation Uranus 05:36 The Airlift That Failed 06:25 Dec 1942: Winter Storm 07:32 Jan 1943: The Ring Closes 08:44 The 91,000 09:33 The Turning Point 📚 Sources: Antony Beevor, Stalingrad · Glantz & House, When Titans Clashed and the Stalingrad trilogy · Joel Hayward, Stopped at Stalingrad · Krivosheev, Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses · Overmans, Deutsche militärische Verluste · Chuikov, Vasilevsky and Manstein memoirs · USHMM · National WWII Museum 🗺️ Animated maps drawn for this video (approximate geography). 🖼️ IMAGE CREDITS — real archive photos & maps via Wikimedia Commons (cropped, toned and animated for this video) Bundesarchiv, Bild … (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE): 101I-277-0847-14 (Jacob); 183-1992-0903-502 (Klose); 101I-218-0502-32 (Lechner); 169-0882 (unknown); 101I-217-0496-04 (Klintzsch); 101I-617-2574-03 (Ollig); 146-1987-103-28A (unknown); 183-B22081 (unknown); 101I-617-2571-04 (Ollig); 169-0902 (unknown); 101I-083-3371-11 (unknown); 146-2006-0106 (Friedrich Gehrmann); 101I-003-3445-33 (Ullrich); 146-1992-055-33 (Mährlen); 183-B20535 (Lachmann); 183-E0406-0022-001 (unknown); Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F003028-0001, Lager Friedland, Ankunft von Kriegsheimkehrern (unknown); 183-E0406-0022-018 (unknown) RIA Novosti archive, image … (CC BY-SA 3.0): 303890 (Zelma); 2383 (Zelma); 2251 (Zelma); 44732 (Zelma); 602770 (Zelma); 450 (Zelma) "Statue „Mutter-Heimat ruft!“ auf dem Mamajew-Grabhügel" — Чуринъ — CC BY-SA 4.0 "German tank Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. G (Sd.Kfz. 161 2) (50829795103" — tormentor4555 — PDM-owner "Soviet army anti-aircraft gunner Tatiana Shmorgunova with th" — Cassowary Colorizations — CC BY 2.0 "Photographs of Stalingrad Battle by mos.ru 02" — Главархив Москвы — CC BY 4.0 "Монумент «Родина-мать зовёт!» на Мамаевом кургане" — Чуринъ — CC BY-SA 4.0 "Volgograd. View of Pavlov's House from Sovetskaya Street (Ja" — Bestalex — CC BY-SA 4.0 "Grave of zaitsev" — Konstantin Dorokhin — CC BY-SA 2.5 "Георгий Константинович Жуков в военной форме (cropped)" — не указан — CC BY 4.0 "Генерал-полковник А.М. Василевский в период подготовки контр" — unknown — CC BY 4.0 "German soldiers next to a JU-52- 3m at Pitomnik Airfield nea" — tormentor4555 — PDM-owner "Mamayev Kurgan Volgograd" — Arne Müseler — CC BY-SA 3.0 DE "Дважды Герой Советского Союза генерал-половник В. И. Чуйков " — unknown — CC BY 4.0 Public domain: U.S. Air Force / U.S. National Archives (Berlin Airlift), Soviet-era photos (Zelma, Strunnikov, Khaldei and others), Kurt Reuber's "Stalingrad Madonna" (1942) and other public-domain images. Animated maps: original artwork for this video. Licenses: CC BY-SA 3.0 DE creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de · CC BY-SA 3.0/4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 · CC BY 2.0/3.0/4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Each file can be found on commons.wikimedia.org by its archive number or title. #ww2 #history #stalingrad