STALINGRAD: THE DOOM {PT. 3 OF 3} {ENGLISH} {2003 INTERNATIONAL EMMY NOMINEE} (TV)
Summary
Part three of this three-part documentary about World War II's Battle of Stalingrad, waged between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany from 1942-1943. The story is told through newsreel and archival footage; photographs; original radio broadcasts featuring Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazis; letters from the battlefield; animated graphics; Soviet propaganda film clips; and Nazi propaganda film clips. It also features first-person accounts from the following people: soldiers from Germany's 6th Army, the division decimated at Stalingrad; German and Soviet doctors and nurses who treated casualties from both sides; Soviet Red Army soldiers who fought in Stalingrad; Stalingrad civilians who survived the battle; officers and other soldiers who witnessed planning and decision making at German headquarters in Stalingrad and Germany; and the wives and children of German officers who served at Stalingrad. This part begins 53 days into the Battle of Stalingrad, on January 8, 1943, with Hitler's refusal to allow the freezing, decimated, and starving 6th Army to surrender to the Soviets and covers the events which followed that fateful decision: the Red Army's breakthrough into the kessel; the final attempt by officers at Stalingrad to change Hitler's mind; the horrible conditions under which soldiers and civilians alike lived within the kessel; the fate of wounded German soldiers; cannibalism within Stalingrad; limited German airlifts from Russia; the further constriction of the kessel by the Red Army; discrepancies between treatment of officers and enlisted men; the eventual surrender and imprisonment of the remaining Germans in Stalingrad; death and disease on the march to the prison camps; treatment of Germans by the Soviets at prison camps; the embargo of Stalingrad-related news on the home front; Soviet proselytization of German prisoners; and the survivors' return to Germany. Commentators include German officers Manfred Gusovius, Winrich Behr, Bernhard Freytag Von Loringhoven, Albrecht Appelt, and Gerhard Dengler; 6th Army soldiers Heinz Kreutz, Herbert Wendeler, Hans Mroczinski, Hans Rostewitz, Heinz Thomas, Gunther Mai, Gerhard Munch, Heinz Martin, Helmut Tomisch, and Herman Behet; German medic Dr. Horst Rocholl; Russian civilians Boris Stepanov and Evgenia Zorova; Red Army soldiers Marija Rochlina, Oleg Burkowski, Fyodor Iltshenko, Raisa Galtshenko, and Lev Bezymenski; Red Army nurse Antonia Folomeva; German soldiers wives Hildegart Tomisch and Luzia Kollak; and soldier's daughter Doris Sicker.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by The Marc Haas and Helen Hotze Haas Foundations, 2003/2004.
Details
- NETWORK: ZDF (Germany)
- DATE: 2003
- RUNNING TIME: 0:53:13
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:79819
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: International Collection - Germany; World War II - Battle of Stalingrad
- SERIES RUN: ZDF (Germany) - TV, 2003
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Leopold Hoesch … Executive Producer
- Susanne Feikes … Production (Misc.), Series Producer
- Sebastian Dehnhardt … Director, Writer
- Manfred Oldenburg … Director, Writer
- Michaela Frings … Researcher
- Inna Levandovitch … Researcher
- Julia Melchior … Researcher
- Enjott Schneider … Music by
- Albrecht Appelt
- Herman Behet
- Winrich Behr
- Lev Bezymenski
- Oleg Burkowski
- Gerhard Dengler
- Antonia Folomeva
- Raissa Galtshenko
- Manfred Gusovius
- Adolf Hitler
- Fyodor Iltshenko
- Luzia Kollak
- Heinz Kreutz
- Gunther Mai
- Heinz Martin
- Hans Mroczinski
- Gerhard Munch
- Marija Rochlina
- Horst Rocholl
- Hanz Rostewitz
- Doris Sicker
- Boris Stepanov
- Heinz Thomas
- Hildegart Tomisch
- Helmut Tomisch
- Von Loringhoven, Berhard Freytag
- Herbert Wendeler
- Evgenia Zorova