Every seven seconds a German Soldier dies. Stalingrad, Mass Grave...

The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (later renamed Volgograd) in Southern Russia. The battle was marked by fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids, with the battle epitomizing urban warfare. It was the bloodiest battle of the Second World War, with both sides suffering enormous casualties.

On Christmas Day 1942, Radio Moscow broadcast a simple message to the members of General Friedrich Paulus's 6th Army besieged in the city of Stalingrad. To the background sound of a ticking clock came the message: *"Every seven seconds a German soldier dies. Stalingrad, mass grave."*

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[mikeponyforce]

Imagine you being a german soldier, lying in a small trench in a random plaza at Stalingrad, you feel cold, hungry, only a few of your comrades around, everything is silent, all you hear is this menssage playing on the city's speakers nonstop, the sound of the blizzard and heavy fighting in the distance...when suddenly, on the other side of the plaza, you hear someone scream

[Vixltlovescats]

This eerie sound was played during the battle of Stalingrad and the Soviets would put this audio during the battle to drive Germans crazy it translates: "Every 7 seconds in Stalingrad, a German soldier dies- Massgrave" and every time you hear it at the end of the audio a geramn soldier died and imagine this just repeating

[IDK-Now]

"I'm still here, but why, the führer was supposed to have sent reinforcements, damn this war"

[boredatwork]

My great grandfather died in Stalingrad

[Prauwlet]

I feel like some people just don't understand how apocalyptic ww2 was. More people died in stalingrad alone than in the entire american theatre, for instance.

[axlda]

Imagine being a German soldier away from your unit hiding, shivering from the cold, hungry, scared listening to this all the time while in the background you hear the shots of a Soviet sniper hunting your comrades, thinking that really every 7 seconds another of your friends will fall dead on the cold remains of Stalingrad

[zmtq]

The reason this audio is terrifying is cuz it lasted 7 seconds meaning that everytime a german soldier heard this they knew one of their comrades had died.

[yugoslavball]

“Stalingrad is no longer a city. By day it is a cloud of burning, blinding smoke. When night arrives, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to the other bank. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure.”

[DaBabeeIsReal-pqjg]

I'm glad I wasn't a soldier in Germany. In fact, I'm glad that I wasn't even a soldier regardless. I wasn't even alive at that time. However the visuals and the sounds from this video makes it 10x worse and it makes me feel like I'm right there 😰😰😰

[GlIsaacLHilongos]

And then suddenly you hear an Angery uraaa and hear a battalion of tanks charging towards your position 💀

[joemiller]

It should say "Jeder" seven seconds. By the way, when the German soldiers heard this, they deliberately targeted the area thought to be making the transmission.

[sceneshootergirl]

Honestly if you know both perspectives of history, Russian or German perspective it is both terrifying. The German perspective being, Being forced to kill or get killed; and the Soviet perspective seeing man made horrors of war.

[Exscusemylag]

Whats the name of the song being played in the background?

[sph]

Poor soldiers had to put up with this under harsh commandments and being away from their families.

[Platon_Svidrigailov]

сейчас в авдеевке русские включают для украинцев «похоронный марш»

[Salvidk]

Even tho both Germans and soviets were horrible and both committed genocide can’t imagine what the average German soldier felt fighting, lack of equipment and help from the fatherland and fighting enemies who actually know the weather better than anyone else