Stalingrad: What Was It Like To Fight In History's Bloodiest Battle? | War Story

This blurring out of scenes is the blurring out of history. People need to witness history, no matter how terrible. We go there over and over again.

This old lady's story is just heartbreaking. They way she speaks ... it feels like her memories are still haunting her. Just terrible.

Stop blurring history. Its ridiculous

My family came from Germany after ww2 in 1951 and 2 of my relatives were in the German army. One was in Stalingrad and I remember him saying when I was a kid that they knew for quite some time they would lose and the leadership often talked bad about hitlers choices wondering why he would send them where he did. He was wounded about a month before the Germans were surrounded and lost his left foot. He said it was the best thing that happened to him because it was the only reason he got to leave.

So, basically this was a battle between two dictators with huge egos. But to coward enough to fight their own battles. Men that don't even know each other get to die on their behave.

Respect to all men and women whom fought/fight for their country. War is ugly and brutal. RIP to all those who lost their lives.

Remember to watch The World at War from 1973.

"I want my mom" 38:30 Something so horrible about that.

Reading a German soldiers memories about the battle of Stalingrad is truly shocking. How he was so scared he wet his pants on numerous occasions and the stress and trauma caused him and his comrade's to go nearly insane. They ate human flesh to survive and he wasn't released from captivity until 1954.

From what I understand it truly was the Bloodiest Battle of any other fight in any war!!!

3:09 In the distance is a belfry and domed church. It is a few blocks uphill from the main railyard. It was a vantage point for some photos of downtown Stalingrad. In the foreground is the Square of Fallen Fighters. The light colored Univermag building is across the street. 3:15 The white obelisk in the Square. 3:21 Univermag building. 3:23 Gogolia Ulitsa, in the direction of Stalingrad 1. 4:05 View of downtown from the belfry. 4:18 13:46 The ruined corner by Gogolia & Ostrovskaya. 4:23 Telephoto view from a neighborhood near Ovrag Bannyi. The E-shaped building is School № 34. It is now part of a medical college (near the intersection of Zorge & Lenina). To the right is the earthen embankment for a road crossing Bannyi. Beyond are some of Krasnyi Oktiabr's oil tanks. The Volga is seen beyond. 7:37 Seen from a sand spit across the Volga near Krasnaya Sloboda, the riverfront near downtown. The bluffs are notched where gullies Krutoi and No Name debouche. At left are School № 38, and the L-shaped building. 7:42 The (administrative) Railwaymen's Building is at right. The flour mill is at center; its chimney casts its shadow on the building. At left are NKVD buildings. 17:26 Water tower for Stalingrad 2? 18:35 (Flopped. Left and right are reversed). Downtown Stalingrad in February soon after the Battle. 18:50 This building and the one across the intersection (of Ogareva & Raboche-Krestyanskaya) are still standing in 2024. They were the apartment House of Canning Factory Workers, and the apartment House of River Cargo Port Workers.

In Stalingrad during the peak of the fighting between October and November the average life expectancy of a newly arrived replacement was 24 hours.

imagine being the German side and suddenly late at night you hear Bolshevik music being played. that must been pretty haunting to hear.

38:31 is where i cried, am so thankful I dont have to bury and see my best friend killed.

Watching these documentaries gives me a great sense of perspective. A great deal of lessons could be learned today if we all truly acknowledged our history both good and bad.

I’m 28 and all my WW2 friends have passed on. I miss them. Hearing their stories and eye witness accounts of the war. It was awful for everyone. The civilians of every country, the Jews, the gypsies, and especially the soldiers. Doesn’t matter if you were Axis or Allied troops. The whole thing was awful. My friends saw and faced unimaginable things at 18 or 19 years old. My heartfelt thanks to what they endured.

So many innocent, young lives were taken away(Including soldiers) just because of some disgusting needs of politicians..

Amazing!🤩👍

Only half of the video is dealing with Stalingrad (!?). The other half is related to a Canadian Unit in Normandy. 26:39: "we didn't even give them a chance (to surrender) ... we have no place to put prisoners..." Interesting! So, if I understand correctly, when the Germans kill prisoners it's a war crime but when the Americans kill prisoners, it's a matter of logistics so to speak! After all it's true that "history is written by the victors", isn't it?

This is a very good Documentary. To bad Youtubers have to censor out some of the images of the realities of war.