964. А.В. Исаев: Малоизвестный "Уран": почему немцы "проспали" контрнаступление под Сталинградом

Episode 964. December 7, 2022. "The Little-Known Uranus": Why the Germans "Missed" the Counteroffensive at Stalingrad." What was the strategic situation around Stalingrad in November 1942, about Hitler's order to go on the strategic defensive, why the Stalingrad direction was insignificant for the Germans, why the Germans underestimated the scale of the Soviet offensive, why the Germans deceived themselves with inflated reports of the Red Army's losses, how the USSR maintained and increased the production of T-34 tanks, why the Germans thought they could successfully hold the defense in the winter campaign of 1942, what powerful reserves were coming from Western Europe to the Soviet-German front, why the Romanian armies at Stalingrad became a problem for the Germans, how combat-ready were the Romanian units, about the little-known risks of Operation Uranus, what was the correctness of General Vatutin's decision, about the catastrophe of the Romanian army, how mice disabled the Czech-made tanks of the German 48th Panzer Corps, why the advance detachment of Colonel Filippov of the 26th Panzer Corps managed to capture the strategic The crossing of the Don, how the Germans couldn't believe their eyes on the bridge, how Isa Pliev's cavalry corps successfully defeated 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 the Russian units that broke through the defense, the consequences of Paulus's mistakes, how Soviet tank crews captured German delicacies for Christmas celebrations, how infantry supported tank breakthroughs to encircle the Germans in Stalingrad, the German attempts to hold the front along the Chir River, whether von Stumpfeld's group was "Russian," why the success of the grand Soviet operation "Uranus" was not guaranteed, how the Germans achieved their "blitzkrieg" at Stalingrad—watch and listen to the next conversation from our project "The Little-Known Great Patriotic War." Alexey Valerievich Isaev, PhD in History and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Military History of the Russian Ministry of Defense, is a guest at the Russian Radio University. The episode premiered on December 7, 2022.