The tide begins to turn.
In this episode of History with Dad, we pick up in the frozen winter of 1941–42, as the German advance stalls outside Moscow and the Red Army begins to fight back. From there, we follow Hitler’s disastrous southern gamble into the oil fields of the Caucasus, and then dig deep into the rubble of Stalingrad — the city that refused to fall.
We spotlight snipers, saboteurs, and the brutal street-by-street combat that turned Stalingrad into the graveyard of Nazi ambition. Then it’s on to Operation Uranus, the Soviet trap that sealed the fate of the German Sixth Army, and the staggering human cost of the battle — with over 2 million casualties on both sides.
We wrap up with a look at how Stalingrad changed the war, reshaped both armies, and set the Red Army on the road to Berlin.
This episode covers:
· The winter counteroffensive of 1941–42
· Case Blue and Hitler’s overreach in the south
· The siege and defense of Stalingrad
· Vasily Zaitsev and the sniper war
· The Soviet counterattack: Operation Uranus
· The surrender of the Sixth Army
· The human cost of the battle
· How Stalingrad changed the course of the war
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