The Times Germany Thought It Already Won — And What Happened Next

Warcharts is now on Spotify, for listening on the go 🎧 https://open.spotify.com/show/2lZCX7R... On November 8, 1942, Hitler told a Munich beer hall that Stalingrad was his: "We have it! There are only a few small pockets left." Eleven days later the Red Army attacked. On November 23 the German Sixth Army was surrounded, and by February 2, 1943, by the Soviet count, 91,000 Germans, including 24 generals, had been taken prisoner. This World War II documentary follows Stalingrad from the German side: the intelligence estimates that pointed the Soviet blow the wrong way, Operation Uranus, Göring's promise of 600 tons of air supply a day, Manstein's failed relief, and Paulus's last messages from the basement of the Univermag department store. It is told from the U.S. Army's official history and the words the Germans wrote at the time. Also in this video: the October 1941 announcement that the campaign in the East was decided, 57 days before the Soviet counteroffensive at Moscow; the German Tenth Army's telegram at Salerno saying American resistance was collapsing; and the road to Thala, where Rommel stopped after Kasserine Pass. If a man in your family fought at Salerno, in Tunisia or anywhere in that long war against Germany, leave his name and his unit in the comments so we can remember him with you. Chapters: 0:00 We Have It 5:51 What the Estimate Was Built On 15:08 The Promise of Six Hundred Tons 27:45 The Campaign in the East Is Decided 37:33 The Number They Got Wrong 45:39 December 53:52 Tenth Army Pursuing on Wide Front 1:03:33 What the Germans Saw 1:09:49 Ridgway's Paratroopers 1:20:20 The Road to Thala 1:29:21 Kasserine Pass 1:36:42 The Guns at Thala Sources: Randall Bytwerk, German Propaganda Archive: Stalingrad press coverage and Hitler's speech of 8 November 1942 (Calvin University): https://research.calvin.edu/german-pr... Earl F. Ziemke and Magna E. Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad: Decision in the East, ch. XXI (U.S. Army CMH, 1987): https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/... Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad, ch. XXII (U.S. Army CMH, 1987): https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/... Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad, ch. XXIII (U.S. Army CMH, 1987): https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/... Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad, ch. II (U.S. Army CMH, 1987): https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/... Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad, ch. III (U.S. Army CMH, 1987): https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/... Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad, ch. IV (U.S. Army CMH, 1987): https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/... Randall Bytwerk, German Propaganda Archive: Völkischer Beobachter, 10 October 1941 (Calvin University): https://research.calvin.edu/german-pr... Martin Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, ch. VII (U.S. Army CMH, 1969): https://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-... Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, ch. VIII (U.S. Army CMH, 1969): https://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-... George F. Howe, Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West, ch. XXI (U.S. Army CMH, 1957): https://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-... Howe, Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West, ch. XXIV (U.S. Army CMH, 1957): https://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-... This documentary uses archival film, photographs and the original terminology of the period for historical and educational purposes. It is not intended to glorify war or to offend any person, nation or group. #WW2 #Stalingrad FOOTAGE AND IMAGE SOURCES Internet Archive: https://archive.org U.S. National Archives: https://www.archives.gov Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org