The Meat Grinder Before the Factories | Stalingrad 1942

28 September 1942, 11:00. On a bare slope below three white apartment blocks, a Ukrainian volunteer runs the last thirty metres towards a German position with two boxes of machine-gun ammunition on his shoulders. A Soviet sniper shoots him through the throat ten metres from the door. By nightfall, the men he was carrying bullets to are the last reserve of their battalion. ❤️ HELP MAKE EPISODE 5 HAPPEN Each episode takes weeks of research, writing and editing. This channel exists only because of viewers like you. ☕ Buy me a coffee (one-time support): https://buymeacoffee.com/documentaries 🎖️ Join on Patreon and get access to 200+ documentaries, early access to new episodes and a say in what comes next: https://www.patreon.com/ShadowsOfConflicts Episode 4 of a mini-series following the 24th Panzer Division through the Battle of Stalingrad, told through the eyes of Obergefreiter Emil Vogel and the men of his section. From the sniper-swept slope below the white blocks to the night battle in the gardens of the workers' settlement, from the burned district where only the chimneys still stand to the Schnellhefter block and its football ground, these are the days in which the division fought house by house to the walls of the Barrikady gun factory, as the men who fought there might have lived them. ▶️ Missed the previous episodes? Episode 1: https://youtu.be/IjYUcYGqMLw Episode 2: https://youtu.be/wbsfLd3qS1Y Episode 3: https://youtu.be/8p__yUGEA7Y 📜 PRIMARY SOURCES Kriegstagebuch (war diary) of the 24. Panzer-Division, 1942 – German military records, US National Archives (NARA), microfilm series T-315 Vasily Chuikov – The Battle for Stalingrad (memoir of the commander of the Soviet 62nd Army) Vasily Grossman – A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941–1945 (wartime notebooks, ed. Antony Beevor & Luba Vinogradova) Reinhold Busch – Survivors of Stalingrad: Eyewitness Accounts from the 6th Army, 1942–43 📚 SECONDARY SOURCES & FURTHER READING Jason D. Mark – Death of the Leaping Horseman: 24. Panzer-Division in Stalingrad Antony Beevor – Stalingrad (1998) David M. Glantz & Jonathan M. House – Armageddon in Stalingrad (2009) ℹ️ NOTE Emil Vogel and the men of his section are fictional characters. The units, commanders, places, dates and events of the campaign are based on the historical record. Archival footage is used for illustrative purposes and does not always depict the exact events described. The narrator is a soldier of the Wehrmacht. His views are shown, not shared. This episode depicts war crimes, including the use of prisoners to carry ammunition under fire, the killing of a wounded prisoner after interrogation and the summary execution of civilians as alleged partisans, because they happened. It does not glorify or endorse any ideology or regime. Music By: 'Decoherence' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 🔔 Subscribe to follow the 24th Panzer Division through Stalingrad — Episode 5 coming soon: the Barrikady. #Stalingrad #WW2 #24thPanzer #Barrikady #EasternFront #History #WWII #MilitaryHistory