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The History of WWII Podcast

Episode 466-Odessa Has Fallen

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.54.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The final episode of the Siege of Odessa. The port city will fall, but not before tying down over 300,000 Axis troops for months. Odessa will be the first Hero City of the Soviet Union. And in their evacuation, the Soviets leave several nasty surprises for the city’s new owners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast episode 466 Odessa has

0:17.8

fallen. Last time we watched as the last two weeks of September

0:23.0

turned from the Siege of Odessa

0:25.0

to the Slaughterhouse of Odessa.

0:27.0

Both sides went on the offensive.

0:29.0

The access because more German troops had been brought in

0:32.0

and for the Russians, simply because there was nothing good coming from having the enemy so close.

0:39.0

Smashed bodies and guns lay around the contested defensive perimeter.

0:45.3

Many of those bodies that had been Soviet fighters had come from the Navy or Crimea and they had

0:51.0

played their part in this atritional war.

0:54.3

But when the smoke cleared, the enemy was still there,

0:57.5

closing in from the north and south,

0:59.9

while the Western approaches were held back, but a great cost.

1:05.2

And though other Germans were at the gates of Leningrad by this point and other Germans were

1:10.0

threatening the approaches to Moscow itself, the Stavka still found the means to send

1:15.0

to this beleaguered city Odessa just over 12,000 soldiers, 70 large guns, 15 tanks,

1:22.2

and a battalion of Cayushka rocket launchers.

1:26.5

The last item impressed the defenders and knowing that Stalin himself approved the shipment,

1:32.0

the arrival of such weapons ran through the ranks faster than diarrhea.

1:37.1

Still, as the Germans were pouring more men in, the Soviet reinforcements did not alter the fact

1:46.0

that there was still a 4 to 1 ratio in terms of fighting personnel.

1:48.4

When these reinforcements landed at Odessa, they were cheered by the old and young, but no one else.

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