Royal Armouries, Fort Nelson - 1942 Stalingrad Factory

Building upon the success of the unique First World War trench display at the "Over the Top 1917" event in 2007 at the Royal Armouries museum, Fort Nelson, near Portsmouth, the set was redesigned for Easter 2008. This time, as part of the "Achtung Panzer" WWII event, it became a factory in the embattled city of Stalingrad, 1942. Several thousand visitors endured weather conditions reminiscent of the Eastern Front to see it in action over the Easter weekend.

You can see the set in action again as an 1864 Petersburg American Civil War fortification (complete with Victorian mortar firing) for the "Stars & Stripes" through the ages event on Sun 4th & Mon 5th May. Then again as a WWI trench during the 90th anniversary "Over the Top 1918" event on Sun 25th & Mon 26th May 2008 and the Veteran's Day comemorations on Sat 5th & Sun 6th July 2008. For further details go to www.royalarmouries.org/whatson and click on Fort Nelson.

The Stalingrad Factory set was constructed and filmed by Stephen Wisdom of Ancient Wisdom and manned by The 2nd Guards Division. With thanks to Mark Griffin, Alex Smyth, Simon, Karl and Nick Hall's team at Sabre Sales in Southsea.

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[Warplant]

good video.

p.s. what is that Music in the back ground?

[RoyalArmouries]

It's "Battle on the Ice" by Prokofiev, from his score for the 1938 Eisenstein film "Alexander Nevsky"

[KrazyTaliban]

blah blah blah kill some one eventually!

[whowantsabighug]

@johnson1095 But then they would be speaking Russian with a funny accent.

[lukefromdownunder]

@ResidentEvilDeadAim that is a carbine model of the mauser...

[johnson1095]

At least do a russian accent.

[ResidentEvilDeadAim]

@doogims12345 not really the only used em in africa they mainly used kar98

[ChrisDonaldsonVideos]

:( i go to like every reinactment you do and the one i miss is this :P please do it again :/

[kjm45cal]

simply amazing. I would love to do somthing like this, at some of our events.

[mauser3846]

i know he put the wrong rds in the rifle

[doogims12345]

mauser was the german rifle

[mauser3846]

were those 8mm mauser rds you put in there