The German debacle of Stalingrad. THE GERMAN DEBACLE OF STALINGRAD. Marx. Archive Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In. a powerful offensive north of Kalach and on both sides of Vertyachiy and. Peskovatka ( Figure 1) the German Sixth Army, on 2. August 1. 94. 2 carried. Don River. Paragraph two of the Army Order, dated 1. August 1. 94. 2, stated: The Sixth Army. Don and Volga Rivers north of. Kalach- Stalingrad and secures them toward east and north. The army. will cross the Don River between Peskovatka and Ostrovski, constantly covering. The motorized units will then strike toward the hills between the Rossoshka. River and the, Bolzhaya Karanaya headwaters to the Volga River novth of. Stalingrad. Other units will develop from the northwest and capture Stalingrad. The Battle of Stalingrad - a summary. Over a million soldiers on all sides had died in the city. 1940-1945, and of Stalingrad to Berlin: The. On the evening of 2. August 1. 94. 2 General Hube and his Panzers took Rynok, the. Find Alexandr Ivanov movies, filmography, bio, co stars, photos, news and tweets. Get the latest on Alexandr Ivanov on Fandango. Friedrich Paulus - Stalingrad - Part 4 BloodTears1418. Soviets murdering German soldiers - Duration: 3:54. Stalingrad. German reconnoitering parties reached the. Volga, surveying the vast, melancholy countryside. Russia remembers Stalingrad battle as finest. Soviet satellite GDR until his death in 1957. Friedrich Paulus (1880 - 1957). Germany's four light divisions in 1939. Soviet soldiers were killed or captured and Paulus was. To think about the experiences of the Russian soldiers. Stalingrad is a five part. I met General ( Friedrich ) Paulus who. Russian artillery commander of the Sixty- second Army was among. Stalingrad but also of the entire southern army group commanded by. Timoschenko. My eyes met those of Paulus—questioning, almost unbelieving, for since 1. Russians had reached the end of their rope, too. Did we not remember the boastful. Russian armies, allegedly writhing in their death throes? How criminal such false judgment proved was demonstrated a few weeks later when. More than 150,000 Axis soldiers. He spent the next four days—when he should have been organizing the. Department of the Army, 1957) 48. Zeitzler, 'Stalingrad. The picture consists four parts. Soldiers of Freedom filmed in a genre of the historical chronicle. Russia Remembers Stalingrad Battle as. German dead and debris piled up in front of Kalinin, Moscow, Tula, and Tver. High Expectations Fade. The next few days passed amidst high tension and expectations. The 7. 1st Division. Lieutenant General von Hartmann) succeeded, without great losses, in crossing. Don River near Kalach, and by force fully pushing along the Karpovka valley. August 1. 94. 2, reached the southern section of Stalingrad. However. the final stroke, the end result of all the maneuvering—the capture of the city—did. Throughout the summer of 1. Kleist’s First Panzer Army and the Sixth Army against the divisions of. Timoschenko west southwest of Kharkov (1. May 1. 94. 2), the Russians had shown. They only changed these delaying tactics when they. Don River , near Kalach, then suddenly turned and faced the oncoming. German Sixth Army. The result was the near annihilation of the First Russian. Panzer Army and the Sixty- second Army; leaving hundreds of burned out tanks in a. Don river. In view of this there was some reason to assume that Staingrad would fall. Russian resistance would. Volga. This hope proved false. It is true we succeeded in capturing more than half of. Slowly, however, ”Russian. Red reinforcements reached the city from the railhead at. Kotluban and the northern sector was soon the scene of heavy Russian. This northern front connected the right wing of the German. Don River (partially utilizing portions of the. Tartar Wall) with the forces that had to secure Stalingrad against the north. However, the attacks against the “land bridge” failed. During the last days of. September 1. 94. 2 the Russian dared one more large- scale attack, employing many. The northern sector again was secure thanks to the soldierly qualities of. General Hube and his motorized and tank divisions of the XIV Panzer Army Corps. At the same tine, the inner city of Sta. Iingrad was the scene of the most. Every house, hut, skyscraper, factory, and silo- everything. Extreme heroism on both sides became a standard performance. Attack and defense. Stalingrad became the living hell for which it is remembered. Every corner and. Every foot of ground had to be literally torn from the defenders. The. heroism of Stalingrad, whether Russian or German, long will be remembered. German losses were alarmingly heavy. Slowly our divisions burned out and. The supply and reinforcement problem became still more. Verkhne Chirskaya on the west bank of the Don. From this. terminal point onward our trucks brought the supplies forward, using a 2. Now this means of supply started to fall apart, not so. Russian attacks as lack of spare parts. The nearest central. Kharkov and word reached us that they were almost “sold. As ,a consequence the quartermaster. Sixth Army was forced to fly out Ju 5. Junkers transport. Germany. Gradually the fighting for the land bridge ceased. The Russians realized the. German. Army from a northerly direction. The city itself however, never was quiet. Time. and again bitter fighting broke out; Entire rows of houses disappeared in dust. Fires raged. irmeseantly, creating a deathly shroud of smoke over the doomed city. Giant. construction girders were torn and bent into strange shapes and forms. Only in. cellars and bunkers was there life. There, troops and command posts huddled. Somehow they had managed to evade evacuation; somehow. What. else could they do? To try and reach the hinterland over endless steppes. At the point where the left wing of the land bridge touched the Don River in a. German main lines ran along the western bank of the. Don. In order to shorten the lines within the Kremenskaya loop of the Don River. Auguet 1. 94. 2 to pull back the XI Army Corps. General Strecker) with its left flank anchored at Melo- Melovskiy and its right. Don River at Sirotinskaya. This was a serious retrograde movement. The commanders were- fully aware of the advantages thus gained by the Russian forces which, with one stroke. Don River loop. However, the German withdrawal could not be prevented, for the divisions in this. Ihe froritlines for fully 1. The troops were tired. German lines dangerously thin as long as they had to. Don loop. The XI German Army Corps—the left wing of the Sixth Army—neighbored on the 1st Romanian Cavalry Division which in turn was the right wing of the IV. Romanian Army Corps. Next to this Rornanian unit, in the direction of Voronezh. Italian and Hungarian units. The Hungarians, hereditary enemies of Romanians, wisely were separated from the. Romanians by the interposed Italian troops. The Italians were forever eying the. Royalist commanding general or the Fascist division commanders. The Hungarians. light units without rear echelons, fought only spasmodically. Their best. divisions stood, arms ready, not in Russia but in their own province of. Siebenbuergen, facing not Russians but their “allies,” the Rumanians. During the campaign in Russia this proved impossible. German troops for such tasks. Southward from Stalingrad the Fourth German Panzer Army (consisting largely of. Romanian infantry divisions) under Colonel General Hoth was too far drawn out to. First German Panzer Army far toward the south on the Terek River. Beginning in early October were unmistakable signs of buildup in the easily. Russian bridgehead area of the Don loop. Extensive, dense. Don permitted good camouflage, while two good railroad lines. Don and Volga enabled the enemy to resupply and reinforce his troops. It became more and more clear that the expected. Russian thrust would aim at the left and right flanks of the Sixth Army. Chirskaya area, thus closing the ring of steel and fire around the German. Stalingrad Army. Strangely, the Sixth Army was under the direct command of Hitler—safely and. Angerburgin East Prussia, about. OOO miles from this most critical point of the Eastern Front. Hitler ignored. all reports and warnings General Paulus submitted about the Russian in entions. Somehow the “greatest” strategist of all times could not be swerved from his. General Paulus was reprimanded. German general had to face, aswitness Field. Marshal von Bock who had opposed the Stalingrad offensive and was promptly. Colonel General von Weichs. General Paulus had pleaded for more troops, especially for the left flank of his. Russians struck at. Hitler. declined the request and added insult to injury by ordering three or four tank. Astrakhan. We. joked a great deal about this “caviar expedition.” In the same year Hitler wanted to capture Murmansk and Leningrad, while the. First Tank Army and the Seventeenth Army were scheduled to take Baku with its. The “oil brigades” were held in readiness. Irdady were rolling northward from Sevastopol for the. Leningrad. Strategy toward elimination of danger ,points was. Hitler no longer believed in—like a dream walker he moved about. Hitler Listened Too Late. Under the pressure of the increasing news on the hostile offensive preparations. Hitler agreed—too late—on 1. November that the 1st Romanian Panzer Division and. German 2. 2d Panzer Division be held in readiness under. Lieutenant General Heim in the area southwest of Kletskaya. From there they. could deploy as an operational reserve north or westward in case of a Russian. The 1st Romanian Panzer Division consisted of a mixture of. French and Czech tanks, the crews of which were in the process of their. Romanian troops, touching on the German left flank, could not be obtained—first. They had no tank defense weapon to speak of and all their. Russian T- 8. 4’s faced Romanian cavalry. They had been promised. Sometime during October 1. He did, however. bring a company of fortress engineers, troops especially trained for preparing. We all smiled when our. He was supposed to build concrete. Cement could be had only from Germany. The. poor general looked very much dejected when. At about the time this quixotic event took place the 3. Division in the. Stalingrad city area had orders to take Russian points of resistance in the. Combat engineers were to precede them, preparing the way, to. Volga River, there by cutting a Russian resistance pocket in half. Initial. success was all that was gained. Somehow the interplay between combat engineqrs. This failure showed a sagging combat. Sixth Army when the quartermaster general, Lieutenant General. Wagner, came to us to see for himself about, supply and replacement problems lie. During the summer of 1. This woeful fact had to be considered by any. Wagner. told us that he spoke earnestly to the chief of the general staff, Colonel. General Halder, about this situation, and asked him to bring the matter to the. Hitler himself. Halder agreed but streseed that he would have to. Hitler would be in a.
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