Battle of Stalingrad: Operation Uranus and the Fall of Sixth Army

Military History Uncovered · Nov 9, 2026 · 17m · transcript

In November 1942, the German Sixth Army was locked in a brutal battle for Stalingrad on the Volga River. German troops had pushed deep into the city, but the campaign’s decisive vulnerability lay far beyond its ruined factories and riverbank districts.

This episode follows the Battle of Stalingrad from Germany’s 1942 southern offensive, Case Blue, through the street fighting that consumed the city. It examines how Soviet forces held a narrow foothold along the Volga while Soviet high command assembled Operation Uranus against the Romanian armies guarding the extended Axis line north and south…