The Battle of Stalingrad

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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From August 1942 to February 1943, the Germans and the Soviets engaged in what would become the most brutal and bloodiest battle in human history. The battle took place in a city that probably had greater psychological and propaganda value than it did actual strategic value. The battle, in many respects, was the high water mark of Nazi Germany and the turning point of the enter war in Europe. Learn more about the Battle of Stalingrad and how it changed the entire course of the Second World War on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/eed MasterClass Get up to 50% off at MASTERCLASS.COM/EVERYWHERE Quince Go to quince.com/daily for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order! ButcherBox New users that sign up for ButcherBox will receive 2 lbs of grass-fed ground beef in every box for the lifetime of their subscription + $20 off your first box when you use code daily at checkout! Subscribe to the podcast! https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Austin Oetken & Cameron Kieffer Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	From August 1942 to February 1943, the Germans and the Soviets engaged in what would become the most brutal and bloodiest battle in human history.
0:09.9	The battle took place in a city that probably had greater psychological and propaganda value than it did actual strategic value.
0:17.0	The battle, in many respects, was the high watermark for Nazi Germany and the turning point of the entire war in Europe.
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1:54.8	The Battle of Stalingrad was the worst battle in the world's worst war, and that says quite a bit.
2:04.9	The city of Stalingrad was the name given to the city of Volgagrad from 1925 to 1961. After St. Petersburg was posthumously renamed Leningrad after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, Stalin decided that he needed a city
2:11.2	named after himself as well. The name was reverted back to Volga Grad as part of the de-Stalinization
2:17.3	efforts under Nikita Khrushchev after Stalin Volgagrad as part of the de-Stalinization efforts under
2:18.0	Nikita Khrushchev after Stalin's death. For the rest of this episode, I will be referring to it as
2:23.5	Stalingrad, as that was its name during the war, and that is how it is universally referred to
2:28.7	by historians covering this period. The renaming of the city was actually an important part of the battle which was to take
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