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We are going to explain from here, exactly.
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So what happened on the eastern front from the spring of 1942
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up to the end of the year?
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We are going to explain from the spring in 1942
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up to February in 1943.
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And we are going to focus on the eastern front.
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So the spring of 1942, we are going
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to travel to the spring of 1942.
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The spring of 1942 brought the same rainfall
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than in the autumn.
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So it was very, very, very difficult for the German army
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to advance.
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And remember that the Germans were defeated
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in the Battle of Moscow in December.
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So Hitler, in the Battle of Moscow and even before,
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made another mistake, one more.
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When Hitler was defeated in the Battle of Moscow,
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when he saw the level of rainfall in the spring,
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he took another decision.
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He made another mistake because he drove his troops.
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He took his troops after the Battle of Moscow
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from the center to the city of Stalingrad.
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Why?
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Because I will say that in the spring of 1942,
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production was really important for the Germans.
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They were focused on production because they ran out of oil.
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They were looking for more resources.
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They knew that in order to carry on in this war,
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they needed oil, petrol.
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They didn't have enough oil, and that's
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why Hitler took this decision to move his troops
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from the center, from Moscow, to the city of Stalingrad.
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Hitler moved his troops to Stalingrad
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because he was looking for the resources in the Caucasus
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mountains.
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In the area of Baku, in the Caucasus mountains,
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it was the area of the main reserves of oil
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in the Soviet Union.
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And Hitler moved his troops to the south
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in order to take these resources that Germany needed to carry
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on fighting in this war.
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So he moved his troops from Moscow
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to the city of Stalingrad.
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And it was another mistake.
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Actually, the Allies were planning
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to assassinate Hitler many, many times.
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There were many, many attempts.
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But in this moment, they stopped all these plans
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to assassinate Hitler because they would prefer
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to have Hitler in power.
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Hitler was making many, many mistakes.
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And at this point of war, the Allies
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would prefer to have Hitler in power
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instead of looking for missions to assassinate him.
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They would prefer him in power.
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So we are going to see in this lesson the three
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different ways, or there were three different push
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to defeat the Soviet Union, the Germans.
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We are going to see in this lesson the three
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different ways that the Germans undertook,
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that the Germans undertook, llevaron a cabo,
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three different ways that the Germans undertook
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to defeat the Soviet Union.
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The first one was in August.
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The second one was in October.
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They tried the final one in November.
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But we will see what happened.
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We have one question.
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You want to ask me one question?
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Now is everything clear so far?
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Yes?
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OK.
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I'm going to carry on.
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So what happened in these three different ways?
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We need to remember the first one.
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The first one was in August.
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On the 23rd of August in 1942, it
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was the moment when the Germans launched a huge attack
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over the city of Stalingrad.
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Remember, they moved basically all their troops
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from the center to the city of Stalingrad.
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And in August, they launched a massive attack,
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a massive bombing over the city of Stalingrad.
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They did to Stalingrad what they
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had done before to Warsaw, Rotterdam, and also
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several cities in Great Britain.
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So as a consequence, they left the city a pile of rubble,
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a pile of escombros, due to this massive bombing.
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But they left the city a pile of rubble,
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but they couldn't advance.
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The Germans couldn't advance, because all the roads
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were a quack mire, quack mire.
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Estaban en malas condiciones.
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Las carreteras se habían convertido en pantanosas,
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quack mires.
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And also, the city was a pile of rubble,
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and they couldn't advance.
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So it was another mistake.
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They bombed the city.
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There was a massive bombing, but it wasn't decisive.
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They couldn't advance.
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And what was the answer for the Soviet Union
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when the Germans bombed the city of Stalingrad?
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The answer for the Soviet Union was the following.
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What happened at that time?
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What happened was the following.
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The Soviet Union fought.
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They used one special tactic.
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The Soviet Union and Stalin decided
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to fight for every house, for every factory
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in the city of Stalingrad, because they turned this attack
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into a symbol for the Soviet Union.
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Stalin thought that the main way to win this war
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was to resist in Stalingrad.
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And for this reason, the Soviet Union
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fought for every house, for every factory, for every bridge.
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The Germans called this war the War of Rats.
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Why?
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Because Stalin used all the resources
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that he had to defeat the Germans in Stalingrad.
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For example, 200 citizens were used to build fortresses,
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to dig entrenchments.
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And actually, Stalin gave the order
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to the Soviet Union forces who were fighting in Stalingrad
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to retreat, basically to arrest anyone
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who retreated without orders.
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So imagine the situation.
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Stalin gave the order to the troops
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to arrest anyone who retreated from the front.
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And also, Stalin created some special units
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who were behind the advanced troops.
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So imagine the advanced troops.
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Imagine advancing troops who were
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fighting against the Germans.
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Stalin created a special unit who
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was behind the advancing troops to gun down anyone
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or every soldier who turned around to flee.
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So it was very, very tough.
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Stalin wanted to resist it up to the end.
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And questions up to here?
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If these units, these special units that Stalin established,
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had a name or something to it?
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They were part of the troops.
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They were part of the Soviet Union army.
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And as far as I know, they didn't have a special name.
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But it was very representative that Stalin
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was very committed to win this battle against Hitler
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because he understood from the very beginning
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that it was decisive.
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OK, perfect.
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Thank you.
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So let's carry on.
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What happened next?
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So from August in 1942, I will say, up to October,
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the Germans of the Soviet Union were
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fighting for every street in Stalingrad.
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And they couldn't, both armies were not
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able to advance from August up to October.
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And the Germans in October, they were
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waiting for more resources, more weaponry, fresh troops.
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Tropas de reemplazo, fresh troops.
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So the Germans were waiting from August to October
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for more resources, because in October,
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they prepared another push, another wave of attacks.
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So in October, pay attention to this data, to this figure.
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22nd German divisions besieged the city of Stalingrad.
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On the 4th of October, 22 German divisions besieged the city
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of Stalingrad.
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It was the 6th German army.
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And the 6th German army, under the command of von Paulus,
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surrounded and sieged the city of Stalingrad,
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because they were looking for another push.
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It was the decisive wave of attacks from the Germans.
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But they couldn't win this battle.
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Basically, for three different reasons
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that I'm going to explain right now.
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Stalin and General Zhukov knew about the German attack.
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They knew in advance about the German tactic.
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But they didn't have the same opinion
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about how to defend the city, because Stalin
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wanted to use all resources available.
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But General Zhukov didn't agree with this idea.
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And he convinced his boss, he convinced Stalin
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to change his tactic.
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So Stalin wanted to use all resources available
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in terms of weaponry, in terms of soldiers.
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But General Zhukov had more experience in war.
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And he convinced his boss, Stalin, to change his tactic.
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So Zhukov, for example, knew that the best German armies
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were in the west, in the west of the city of Stalingrad.
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And Zhukov knew that, in terms of technology,
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the Soviet Union was superior to the Germans.
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Because the Soviet Union were producing,
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at that point in war, 2,000 tanks.
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And the Soviet tanks were superior.
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The T-34, the Soviet tank, the T-34,
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was superior to the Panzers or German Tigers.
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That's why I don't agree with this idea
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that they didn't have enough weaponry in the year of 1942.
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Because in terms of technology, in 1942,
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they were superior to the Germans by a long way,
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as you can see here within this figure.
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So Zhukov basically was planning the following.
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He was planning, I don't know if you are following me,
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he was planning to move the Soviet troops from the south
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up to the east, and from the east
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to move his troops up to the north.
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Because General Zhukov knew that the Italians and the Romanians
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were defending the German line in the north.
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So Zhukov knew that the best of the German army
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was in the west, and he knew also
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that the worst of the German troops
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were in the north, because they were composed
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by Italians and Romanian troops.
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And they didn't have as much experience
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as the German troops.
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So in September, I don't know if you can see here perfectly
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the movement in September.
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Basically, Zhukov moved his troops
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from the south up to the east, and from the east
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up to the north.
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As you can see, the Italians and the Romanians were here.
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And General Zhukov launched a huge counterattack
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in November, because he was planning
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to look up, to lock up, to encircle the Germans.
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It was the brilliant Soviet tactic
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that General Zhukov carried out during the month
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at the end of September and at the beginning of November
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in 1942.
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Questions up to here?
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Ask me, Lara.
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Lara, do you have a question?
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No, I think it was from before.
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OK.
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Thank you.
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Could you repeat the thing you just said?
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It's just that I didn't hear it.
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OK.
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The Zhukov tactic.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Zhukov was planning to encircle.
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He wanted to lock up the German divisions.
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For this reason, Zhukov used the technology
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to move very, very quickly his forces, first of all,
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from the south to the east, and from the east to the north.
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Because he knew that the worst of the German troops
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were in the north.
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In the north, the German troops were composed mainly
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by Italians and Romanians.
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They didn't have as much experience
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as the Germans who were in the west.
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The best of the German troops were in the west.
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It was the 6th German Army under the command of von Paulus.
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And Zhukov used this brilliant tactic, as you can see here,
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to move very, very quickly his troops
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and to push here, to attack here the Italians and the Romanians,
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because he wanted to complete the encirclement.
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He was planning to encircle.
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He was planning to look up the Germans in a circle
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around the city of Stalingrad.
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So the push began in what month?
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At the end of?
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At the end of October?
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No.
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No?
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Yes.
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No.
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November?
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At the end of September, it began the encirclement.
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Zhukov knew that the Germans were preparing an attack
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at the beginning of October.
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The Germans had 20 second divisions.
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It means almost, pay attention, 300,000 soldiers
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to defeat Stalingrad.
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So Hitler put everything, all his resources
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available to conquest Stalingrad.
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And Zhukov knew that the Germans were preparing the push,
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the final attack in October.
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So he began to move his troops in September.
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He carried out in October.
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And in November, in November, at the beginning of November,
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he was close to complete the encirclement, the encirclement.
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OK?
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So what do you think?
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Did the encirclement succeed or not?
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Yes, exactly.
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On the 19th of November, Zhukov completed the encirclement.
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And the Italians, Romanians, and above all, Germans
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were caught in the middle.
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They were surrounded completely by the Soviet Union
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with this brilliant tactic of General Zhukov.
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And what happened next?
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Obviously, since that moment, since that moment,
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the Germans didn't have enough resources.
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They couldn't get more resources, troops, food from abroad.
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And the encirclement is rank.
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The Germans, the Italians, and the Romanians
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were caught in the middle.
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And the only way out was to surrender.
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OK?
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The Soviet Union won the Battle of Stalingrad
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at the end of December.
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At the end of December and at the beginning of January,
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the Soviet Union won this battle because, basically, the Germans
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didn't get the resources that they needed to carry on.
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But as I said in another class, because Alejandro Loera also
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asked me this question, which was really, really nice,
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the Soviet Union hadn't won this war.
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I would say that it wouldn't be impossible for the Soviet Union
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to win this battle without the resources from the United
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States, which were coming from here, from the north.
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OK?
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If it hadn't been for the resources of the United States,
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it would not have, the Soviet Union
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would not have won this war, this battle.
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The resources came from the north.
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And it was key when, it was very important in this battle
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when the United States and the Soviet Union
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signed this treaty, the Land Lease Act.
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It was the moment in 1941, it was the moment in 1941
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when the Soviet Union, since that treaty,
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they received the resources from the north, from this point,
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from the port of Archangel and Mumarks.
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And the Soviet Union got the resources
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from the north to the resistance of the siege in Moscow,
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Leningrad, and also Stalingrad.
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This moment wouldn't be impossible
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without the resources from the United States.
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So as I said before, von Paulus, Alejandro, tell me.
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This, what you have just said, is
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that without the help of the Americans,
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they wouldn't have been able to win in Stalingrad, right?
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Yes, exactly.
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If it hadn't been for the resources from the States,
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the Soviet Union would not have won this battle
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because it was true.
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In 1940 and in 1941, they were in crisis.
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The Soviet troops were in chaos, disarray.
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And they needed more weaponry, more oil, more food
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to resist it against the Germans.
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And it was key this moment when the United States in March
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in 1941, and we really need to pay attention
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because it was before Pearl Harbor.
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It was before Pearl Harbor because Pearl Harbor took place
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in December.
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And in March, United States signed a treaty
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with the UK and the Soviet Union to provide them resources.
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So as I said, von Paulus surrendered in January in 1942.
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And what happened from January onwards?
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What happened was the following.
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The Soviet Union withstood the siege,
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and von Paulus surrendered.
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And from that moment, the German troops
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retreated from Stalingrad up to the city of Kiev.
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Once the Germans were defeated in Stalingrad,
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von Paulus, once the Germans were defeated in Stalingrad
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in January in 1933, the Germans retreated from Stalingrad
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up to the city of Kiev.
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But they were persecuted by the troops,
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by the Soviet Union troops.
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And there was the decisive, and it
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happened, the decisive battle on the Eastern Front.
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After the Battle of Stalingrad, the vast majority
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of the people remember the Battle of Stalingrad.
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But actually, it was even more decisive,
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the Battle of the Kursk, that I'm
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going to explain in a minute.
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Because after Stalingrad, the German troops
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retreated to Kiev.
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They were persecuted by the Soviet Union,
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by General Sukhov, up to the city of Kursk, close to Kiev.
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And it was the moment when the Germans
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decided to have another, the last one, the last battle
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against the Soviet Union.
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Questions?
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Alejandro, Acetuno?
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No, Antonio was first.
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Hold on.
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Gau Paulus surrendered the-
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On the 30th of January, 19-
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43, será?
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Yes, it's a mistake.
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Thank you so much, Antonio.
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Nada.
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Who was Gau Paulus?
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O sea, Bon Paulus.
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Bon Paulus was the general of the 6th Army,
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the general who was in charge of the 6th Army.
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Thank you for the question.
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Do you remember the 6th Army who were in the West,
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who were waiting for the resources
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to attack finally in October Stalingrad?
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Bon Paulus was the general who was
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in charge of this final wave, of this final push
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over the city of Stalingrad.
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Bueno, era eso.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for the questions.
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To clarify.
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Luis?
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Alejandro, Acetuno.
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You said before that there were campaigns in August,
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which was the first one, then in October, which was this one
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that you explained finally, and then in November.
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Are you considering October and November together, or no?
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In November, Bon Paulus was preparing the final attack
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in October, but as he couldn't get the resources
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that he needed to undertake the final push,
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he was waiting also to November to carry on fighting
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against the Soviet Union.
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But the counterattack from the Soviet Union came before.
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It came before, and Bon Paulus didn't have enough time
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to undertake his final push.
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He was surprised.
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He was surprised by the Soviet Union tactic,
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and he was caught in the encirclement.
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More questions?
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So what happened in the Battle of the Kursk?
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We all know about the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Have you heard about the Battle of the Kursk?
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No?
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No.
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It was more decisive than the Battle of Stalingrad.
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I would say that the Battle of Stalingrad
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was a moral defeat by the Germans,
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but the final defeat took place in the Battle of the Kursk.
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What happened?
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The Germans retreated from Stalingrad up to Kiev,
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more or less, and they were persecuted by General Zhukov
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and the Soviet Union, and Hitler gave the order
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to Erich von Manstein to have a final battle
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in the Battle of the Kursk.
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Erich von Manstein was the one who
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had the idea to attack through their wings
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on the Western Front.
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I don't know if you remember, but it was the same general.
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So the final battle on the Eastern Front
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took place in the Battle of the Kursk,
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and we are going to see who was the winner.
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Elisa?
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I have a question.
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Why did the Soviet Union let the Germans retreat
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from Stalingrad to have another battle in Ukraine?
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Really good question, because the Soviet Union
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didn't want to take more prisoners,
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because it meant to feed them, and that's
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why they opened the encirclement.
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They knew that the Germans were defeated,
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and they knew that the Germans would retreat to Germany.
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But Hitler was very proud of himself,
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and he gave the order to Erich von Manstein
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to resist in Kiev around Ukraine,
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because he wanted to keep the resources.
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Remember that the Ukraine was the breadbasket of Europe,
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and Hitler needed the Ukraine to feed the German population.
00:29:32
That's why Hitler gave the order to resist up to the end.
00:29:37
And one question.
00:29:41
If they didn't want to take prisoners,
00:29:42
why didn't they just kill them?
00:29:45
Because it wasn't necessary.
00:29:48
I mean, 100,000 soldiers were resisted.
00:29:54
German soldiers resisted up to the end.
00:30:00
So imagine killing 100,000 soldiers.
00:30:04
Imagine killing this amount of soldiers.
00:30:10
It would be genocide, and for this reason,
00:30:13
they released them from the encirclement,
00:30:17
because they knew that they were defeated.
00:30:20
But instead, it was another mistake for Hitler,
00:30:23
because instead of using these soldiers
00:30:26
to defend his own country, he decided
00:30:28
to use them in the final battle of the Kursk.
00:30:32
OK, Elisa?
00:30:38
Yeah.
00:30:39
Alejandro?
00:30:41
And that I would like to say in response to Elisa,
00:30:44
that killing soldiers from other army was like a war crime,
00:30:47
I think.
00:30:54
It's a war crime.
00:30:56
If you have prisoners, you have to maintain them.
00:30:57
Exactly.
00:31:01
You couldn't just kill them.
00:31:02
Exactly.
00:31:03
Because obviously, Hitler didn't follow the orders
00:31:05
from the League of Nations, from the international law.
00:31:09
But the Soviet Union and the Allies were following the law.
00:31:14
They were following the international law.
00:31:19
And according to international law,
00:31:21
you have to maintain all these soldiers to feed them.
00:31:23
You can't kill them.
00:31:27
Alejandro, what do you think?
00:31:28
That I understand what you're saying,
00:31:31
but at the same time, the Soviet Union
00:31:33
were having the gulags and all this kind of stuff.
00:31:37
Yes.
00:31:40
But they were giving one impression to abroad,
00:31:41
and other things happened.
00:31:45
Other things were the internal affairs of the Soviet Union
00:31:48
before the Second World War.
00:31:50
There were many contradictions in this war.
00:31:52
And also, Stalin gave the order to kill the police officers.
00:31:54
20,000 officers, police officers,
00:32:00
were called in the forest of Katyn.
00:32:05
And Stalin said that it was Hitler's fault,
00:32:08
but it was his own fault.
00:32:12
He gave the order, Stalin gave the order
00:32:13
to kill all these police officers
00:32:15
in the forest of Katyn.
00:32:18
Many contradictions.
00:32:22
Yes, class, exactly.
00:32:23
Thank you for the questions.
00:32:24
So what happened in the Battle of the Kursk?
00:32:26
In this battle, the tanks were key.
00:32:28
They were the key weaponry, because it
00:32:31
was the battle in which the tanks were very, very decisive.
00:32:35
And at this point in war, the Soviet tanks
00:32:41
were superior than the Tigers and the Panzers.
00:32:44
The T-34, this is an image of the T-34.
00:32:48
Yes, it's impressive.
00:32:51
Impressive.
00:32:53
The T-34 were superior than the Tigers and the Panzers.
00:32:56
And also, the Soviet Union were able to produce more tanks
00:33:01
than the Germany.
00:33:04
At this point in war, the industrialization,
00:33:06
which was undertaken by Stalin, was
00:33:10
able to produce more tanks than the Germans.
00:33:16
And it was true that the Soviet Union lost a lot of tanks
00:33:20
in these battles, even more than the Germans.
00:33:23
But they can't afford to do it, because they
00:33:27
were able to replace all these tanks,
00:33:30
because its own industrialization
00:33:34
was superior than the German industrialization
00:33:38
at this point.
00:33:42
They can't afford it.
00:33:43
And they won, because they had more tanks,
00:33:45
and because the T-34 was superior than the Tigers
00:33:48
and Panzers.
00:33:51
So they won this battle.
00:33:54
They won this battle.
00:33:55
And after this, in July 1943, the Germans
00:33:56
retreated to the territory of Germany.
00:34:01
Now, Hitler was committed to defend its own territory.
00:34:05
The Soviet Union were the winners on the Eastern Front.
00:34:11
They released the Ukraine.
00:34:15
The Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe,
00:34:17
belonged from that moment to the Soviet Union.
00:34:22
That's why the Soviet Union occupied the Ukraine
00:34:26
at the end of the war.
00:34:28
And also, it was the moment after the Battle of Kursk
00:34:30
when Stalin gave the order to release
00:34:34
the siege of Leningrad.
00:34:40
And they expelled the Germans from there.
00:34:43
So it was terrible for the citizens of Leningrad,
00:34:46
because they were under the rule.
00:34:51
They were under the rule of the Germans
00:34:53
from the beginning of this war, from 1941 up to 1944.
00:34:56
And also, as I said before, if it
00:35:08
hadn't been for the resources from the United States,
00:35:13
they would not have resisted up to the end.
00:35:19
It was key.
00:35:24
Also, the Lend-Lease Act and the Lend-Lease Bill
00:35:25
for the citizens of Leningrad.
00:35:29
We have finished.
00:35:31
Time for your questions.
00:35:32
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