Volgograd

Yeah.

It's, it's probably Stalingrad.

Uh, Stalingrad.

Sorry.

Is what I think.

I believe it.

And so however many, whatever percentage of Jews were Zionists at the time probably were thinking very much like this.

One modern commentator, I know him personally, he is a veteran and a former camp inmate, concludes, quote, Even among the older veterans these days, I have not come across people with such clarity of thought and depth of understanding as Shulam Dane, who perished at Stalingrad, possessed.

They were also needed in order to maintain support from the West and would be of further use to him personally.

He never parted from his beloved assistant, Lev Meklis, and from the Civil War at Tsaritsyn, his faithful aide, Moses Rekimovich.

I noticed how you started reading more slowly at that point.

You know, the very concept of support from the West.

Yeah.

It's, it's probably Stalingrad.

Oh, Stalingrad.

Sorry.

It's one of the things.

I believe it.

Um, and so however many, whatever percentage of Jews were Zionists at the time probably were thinking very much like this.

One modern commentator, I know him personally, he is a veteran and a former camp inmate, concludes, quote, "Even among the older veterans these days, I have not come across people with such clarity of thought and depth of understanding as Shulam Dane, who perished at Stalingrad, p- possessed." Quote, "Two fascist monsters interlocked in deadly embrace.

Yeah, exactly.

I can definitely resupply Stalingrad from the air.

100%.

Yeah, no worries.

Six guys.

Six guys.

Six guys Stalingrad.

We've run out of

The guy's born in Moscow.

Might as well be Stalingrad.

I understand him not having the same kind of demeanor as many other coaches.

He grew up fighting bears.

They were also needed in order to maintain support from the West and would be of further use to him personally.

He never parted from his beloved assistant, Lev Mekhlis, and from the Civil War at Tsaritsyn, his faithful aide, Moses Rakhimovich.

I noticed how you started reading more slowly at that point.

You know, the very concept of support from the West.

Hello everyone and welcome back.

Today we are traveling to the banks of the Volga River to a city that became the setting for one of the most brutal and consequential battles in human history, Stalingrad.

For more than five months, German and Soviet soldiers fought through factories, apartment buildings, railway stations, basements, sewers, and mountains of rubble.

It was a battle in which a single staircase could become a front line, a single room could change hands several times, and survival could depend on holding a broken wall for just one more night.

By the end, an entire German army had been surrounded and destroyed.

Stalingrad did not end the Second World War, but it changed its direction.

To understand why, we have to return to the summer of 1942 when Nazi Germany still appeared frighteningly powerful.

A year earlier, Hitler had launched Operation Barbarossa, the enormous invasion of the Soviet Union.

So at this point in the war, Hitler and his little band of Nazis still have quite a firm grip over the continent of Europe, but it's not all going as smoothly as he would like.

Over on the Eastern Front, the Germans have suffered a catastrophic defeat in Stalingrad, which saw around 90,000 soldiers surrender to the Russians, who are finally starting to push the Germans back.

Italy looks vulnerable.

They were never ready to start this war, but the pace of Germany's advance was so rapid, Italy was worried it would be over before they'd got going and they would really miss out on any spoils of war, so they just went in unprepared.