Germany 1942 ▶ Speech Adolf Hitler - München Löwenbräukeller (Part 3/6) Rede Adolf Hitlers am Vorabend des 19. Jahrestages des Bürgerbräu-Putsches (November 08, 1942) "Fall Blau" Battle of Stalingrad Cталинград
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Hitler's great misjudgements and overestimation of his own capabilities regarding the situation on the Eastern Front at the end of 1942 cost hundreds of thousands of Germans, Austrians, Romanians, Ukrainians, as well as Hungarians, Italians, Slovaks and Croats their lives by February 1943. The victims on the Soviet side resulting from Hitler's war are even greater. The whole Fall Blau / Blue Case, the attack on Stalingrad and the Caucasus, became the greatest military disaster in world history. Massive military and logistical mistakes were made, such as widely overrun front lines, lack of equipment and motorization, lack of supplies.
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Part 1: "In my eyes, we have already passed the most fateful test for our Volk in the year 1942. It was the winter of 1941-1942. Worse cannot and will not come. That we conquered this winter, this General Winter, that the German fronts stood up, and that we could again line up in the early spring, this proved, so I believe, that Providence was satisfied with the German Volk. It was a very difficult and a very hard test-all of us know this. Nevertheless, we did not only survive this difficult time, but we also calmly managed to order and rearrange the divisions for the attack, as well as the motorized and panzer units which were earmarked to begin the next offensive. I believe that, in looking back, we can be content with the past three years. The objective was always very sober; bold where it had to be bold, prudent where it could be prudent; unhurried where we had time, cautious where we believed that we had to be cautious under all circumstances. However, we were being daring where daring alone could help. For this year, we have drawn up a very simple program. First: under all circumstances, to hold what must be held. Second: It’s absolutely imperative to attack where an attack is necessary under all circumstances. The objective is clear: the destruction of the right arm of this international conspiracy of capitalism, plutocracy, and Bolshevism, which is the greatest danger that has ever hovered above our German Volk and against which we have been in battle for a year now. We have set ourselves several objectives here. I will briefly summarize in catchwords what has been accomplished in these few months in order to make you aware of it: The first objective was the securing of our superior position at the Black Sea and the final clearing of the Crimean Peninsula. Two battles served this purpose: that of Kerch and that of Sevastopol. Let me say that had our enemies had at least one success in these three years of war, then it would surely be impossible to speak with them at all, since they would no longer float here on earth, but in the clouds, bloated by conceit. After we had set things in order there, it appeared necessary to us to eliminate the bulge that had developed at Volkhov. It was cut off, and the enemy destroyed or captured. Then came the next task: preparing the breakthrough to the Don. In the meantime, the enemy chose a great offensive objective, namely, to break through to the banks of the Dnieper from Kharkov in order to bring about the collapse of our entire southern front. Perhaps you recall our enemies’ enthusiasm in following these operations. It ended in three battles and the complete destruction of more than seventy-five divisions of our Soviet enemy.
Thereupon, we lined up for our own great offensive. The first goal was to take from the enemy the last great breadbasket; second, to pull out from under him the last bit of coal that can be carbonized; third, to move up to his oil fields, either to take them or at least to shut him out of there; fifth, the attack was to be continued in order to cut off his last great arterial road, the Volga.
The objective was an area between the bend of the Don and the Volga, and the town of Stalingrad-not because the town bears Stalin’s name, which is unimportant-but exclusively because it is a strategically important area. And we were aware that the elimination of the Dnieper, the Don, and the Volga as traffic routes would be as terrible or worse for the Soviet Union, as it would be for Germany if we lost the Rhine, the Elbe, the Oder, or the Danube. On the mighty Volga stream alone, thirty million tons of goods are transported in six months.
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