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Holocaust and Uprising: Episode 46
Season 2 Episode 17
In April 1943, Jewish people forced into the grossly overcrowded ghetto in Warsaw rose up against the nazis, killing hundreds of SS soldiers. The War…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Third Battle of Kharkiv: Episode 45
Season 2 Episode 16
After their stunning, bloody defeat at Stalingrad, the Germans withdrew west to the Donets River in Ukraine, and the Red Army swept ahead as much as …
2 years, 8 months ago
Movement returns to the Eastern Front: Episode 44
Season 2 Episode 2
After the 6th Army's surrender at Stalingrad, rapid, far-ranging mobility returns to the war on the Eastern Front, as German and Soviet forces advanc…
2 years, 8 months ago
Two victories: Stalingrad and Leningrad, 1943 — Beyond Barbarossa, episode 43
Season 2 Episode 15
The Red Army finally scores two major victories in January 1943 — in the two cities where it mattered most.
Map 1: End of the battle of Stalingrad
M…
2 years, 9 months ago
Stalingrad: Ultimatum and Fantasy
Season 2 Episode 14
The Germans in the Stalingrad cauldron reject the Soviets' final offer of surrender. The Red Army responds by crushing the cauldron.
Map 1: The end o…
2 years, 9 months ago
A Stalingrad Christmas: Beyond Barbarossa, Episode 41
Season 2 Episode 13
For the Germans of the 6th Army, Christmas 1942 was a hungry Yule in the freezing Cauldron.
Map 1: Operation Uranus, November and December 1942
Map …
2 years, 10 months ago
Winter Storm & Little Saturn: Beyond Barbarossa, episode 40
Season 2 Episode 12
Warfare usually slows down in winter. Not so in Russia in 1942. The Germans launch another huge attack to relieve the 6th Army in Stalingrad. But the…
2 years, 11 months ago
Operation Mars: Beyond Barbarossa, episode 39
Season 2 Episode 11
As three Red Army Fronts move on the German flanks west and south of Stalingrad, two more attack the Rzhev-Vyazma salient west of Moscow. Is it a di…
2 years, 11 months ago
Operation Uranus: Beyond Barbarossa, episode 38
Season 2 Episode 10
The Soviet high command's strategy to defeat the Germans at Stalingrad took the invaders by surprise.
Map 1: The German flanks
Map 2: Operation Uranu…
3 years ago
Stalingrad part 3: Shocking casualties
Season 2 Episode 9
The third installment describing the biggest single battle in history: the siege of Stalingrad.
By November 1942, the casualties for attackers and de…
3 years ago