Battle For Russia Part 1 of 10

This documentary starts with a brief history of previous Russian invaders from the invasion by German Knights in 1242 through 1914 when Kaiser Wilhelm invaded Russia. By understanding Russia's rich and vast natural resources it is easy to understand why invaders would want to occupy this country. On June 22, 1941 Hitler launched an all out assault on Russia using...

200 Axis divisions (200 million men) driving toward Leningrad in the North, Moscow in the center and Ukraine in the South. By December the Germans had captured 500,000 square miles of Russia.
aHowever, the Germany Blitz failed to work against the Russians.

Read more here http://www.buyoutfootage.com/pages/titles/pd_dc_002.html#synopsis

Directed By: FRANK CAPRA, 1945

Category:

Education

Tags:

• russia
• world
• war
• invasion
• Hitler
• Stalin
• frank
• Capri
• movie

[fellbladepickle]

"200 Axis divisions (200 million men)"

200 million men? Some how, I doubt this...

[Docmate]

That was what the description on the movie mentioned.

[fellbladepickle]

Actual numbers were closer to 6.5 million men.

[Docmate]

OK whatever

[KnightCrawler2]

Its funny to see an American doc that is pro-Russian! lol

[12Oc7ock]

The enemy of our enemy back then was our friend.

[lukebccb]

Russians drink a lot of tea?

[mddemm]

thx 2 Russia, 4 the Victory against Nazis cunts!

[spacehopperballs]

@KnightCrawler2 Before WW1 Russia was an enemy and the Tzar helped the US fight the British but after the revolution during WW1 the Russian became Allies - hence the pro Russian propaganda of the time.

Later they pretended to be enemies so they could start the Arms race(I mean cold war)

[zacharyberne]

Was that Moscow 1941 in the opening I heard? :D I loved playing that song.

[HelenaXVI]

@fellbladepickle Just over 3 million men took part in operation Barbarossa. In total, about 5 million German soldiers had "visited" Russia during the whole war, I think.

[StSimonOfTrentV]

It took the enourmos size of Russia to stop the third reich. That right there is power.

[matthewm888888888888]

Germany lost the war when it failed to defeat Russia, and in addition to that, at its moment of failure, the US joined the war and its additional immense war potential further ensured Germany's defeat.

[MrKengre123]

1 division 20000 men

[Malovolpe]

200 million men??? I call bullshit

[5000jews]

@mrceebees14 i agree with you on hitlers ego but the winter of 41/42 is actually overatted in russias favour, although the germans suffered from frostbite and coldness, the russian likes suffered from starvation because their convoys could not travel over the snowy terrain.