Alexey Isaev. The Little-Known Great Patriotic War. The Little-Known “Uran”: Why the Germans “Missed” the Counteroffensive at Stalingrad
Issue 964.
07.12.2022.
“The Little-Known ‘Uran’: Why the Germans ‘Missed’ the Counteroffensive at Stalingrad.”
What was the strategic situation around Stalingrad in November 1942? What was the nature of Hitler’s order to shift to a strategic defense? Why did the Germans consider the Stalingrad front to be of little significance? Why did the Germans underestimate the scale of the Soviet offensive? why the Germans deceived themselves with inflated reports of Red Army losses, how the USSR maintained and increased production of T-34 tanks, why the Germans believed they could successfully hold their defenses during the winter campaign of 1942, what powerful reserves were being sent from Western Europe to the Soviet-German front; why the Romanian armies became a problem for the Germans at Stalingrad; how combat-ready the Romanian units were; the little-known risks of Operation Uranus; what made General Vatutin’s decision the right one, about the disaster that befell the Romanian army; how mice disabled the Czech-made tanks of the German 48th Panzer Corps; why Colonel Filippov’s advance detachment of the 26th Tank Corps managed to capture a strategic crossing over the Don River; how the Germans on the bridge could not believe their eyes, how Isa Pliev’s cavalry corps successfully destroyed 120 German tanks, the southern flank of the Stalingrad offensive, why the high mobility of two Soviet mechanized corps astonished the Germans, how the Germans lost track of the Russian units that had broken through their defenses, the consequences of Paulus’s mistakes, how Soviet tankers seized German delicacies to celebrate Christmas, how the infantry reinforced tank breakthroughs to encircle the Germans at Stalingrad; the Germans’ attempts to hold the front along the Chir River; whether von Stumpfeld’s group was “Russian”; why the success of the Soviet Army’s massive Operation Uranus was not guaranteed, and how the Germans launched their “Blitzkrieg” near Stalingrad—watch and listen to the latest episode from our series “The Little-Known Great Patriotic War.”
The Russian Radio University welcomes Alexey Valeryevich Isaev, Ph.D. in History and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Military History of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The episode premiered on December 7, 2022.
Video on Rutube — https://rutube.ru/video/bf0ab7b2ddfb99c601460cfce469915d/
YouTube video — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24KubWht-uE
Video on VKontakte — https://vk.com/video249972065_456261435
Video on smotrim.ru — https://smotrim.ru/audio/2668519
Source: https://rutube.ru/video/bf0ab7b2ddfb99c601460cfce469915d/
