Episodes

  • Episode 519-Defeat is Always Possible. But Will it Be Today?

    Episode 519-Defeat is Always Possible. But Will it Be Today?
    Mar 13 2025
    Stalingrad’s defenders are pushed to the breaking point. Worse, they are only sometimes given help by Zhukov. The Germans attack again and the defense all but collapses. Fortunately, the attackers get tired and the Russians hang on. Meanwhile, while Zhukov is making moves behind the lines, certain German officers realize, how weak the Romanian divisions are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    22 mins
  • Episode 518-Stalin's Latest Mistake

    Episode 518-Stalin's Latest Mistake
    Mar 10 2025
    The attack against northern Stalingrad fairs well, still the defenders on holding on. But Stalin is unsatisfied, he wants counter attacks. It will waste men and ammunition, but no one argues with Stalin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    24 mins
  • Episode 517-The Black Hole That Is Stalingrad

    Episode 517-The Black Hole That Is Stalingrad
    Mar 6 2025
    As Gen. Paulus’ second major attack on Stalingrad gets underway, he’s even more impatient as he had been offered a promotion. But first, he must take the city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    28 mins
  • Episode 516-Holding Stalingrad by the Skin of their Teeth

    Episode 516-Holding Stalingrad by the Skin of their Teeth
    Mar 3 2025
    Now that German forces are inside Stalingrad, the fighting centers around the Main Ferry Terminal, the Grain Elevator and the heights of Mamayev Kurgan Park. Both sides will take these locations only to lose them again and again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    24 mins
  • Episode 515-Rat Warfare in Stalingrad

    Episode 515-Rat Warfare in Stalingrad
    Feb 27 2025
    Axis forces enter Stalingrad. But the Germans, unused to urban warfare, adapt as best they can. Whereas the new local commander of the defenders, Vasily Chuikov, will fight like a cornered rat and will quickly devise tactics to counter German advantages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    24 mins
  • Episode 514-Zhukov Arrives at Stalingrad

    Episode 514-Zhukov Arrives at Stalingrad
    Feb 24 2025
    Though Army Group B approaches Stalingrad, all does not go according to plan. Thus Gen. Paulus calls on Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen and his Fliegerkorps 8 to bomb Stalingrad for 48 hours. The destruction is terrible, still, the defenders will not yield. And while Marshal Zhukov readies Stalingrad’s defenses, Berlin starts taking men from Army Group South as they are needed elsewhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    28 mins
  • Episode 513-Stalingrad or Bust

    Episode 513-Stalingrad or Bust
    Feb 21 2025
    Dividing Army Group South, both the Baku Oil Fields and Stalingrad are to be captured. Berlin believes this will weaken Soviet Russia’s war effort. But between Gen. Zhukov’s leadership and Lend Lease material reaching Russia by June 1942, Gen. Paulus’ 6th Army is in for a surprise. Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wwii45 Twitter @WW2Podcaster TikTok-@wwiiguy Instagram - rayharrisjr youtube- https://www.youtube.com/@historyofwwiipodcast8712 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    27 mins
  • Episode 512-Operation Anthropoid

    Episode 512-Operation Anthropoid
    Feb 17 2025
    First, a summary of Stalin’s late winter, early spring 1942 counter attacks, along the entire Eastern Front. They mostly fail and cost hundreds of thousands of Soviet lives, but the Germans are checked once again. Then we turn to the Axis losing one of their own, in Operation Anthropoid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    30 mins