Battle for Pavlov's House (WWII)

Pavlov’s House
The stronghold of the 13th Guards was located at the bombed out NKVD headquarters, a soviet government law enforcement agency. From this location, the troops resisted the initial German assault and took to improving their defensive position. On September 25th, the commander of the 42nd Guards Rifle Regiment ordered the men of his 3rd Rifle Battalion to capture two buildings that seemed like a good position for setting up a defense against German attacks. Junior Sergeant Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov of the 13th Guards Rifle Division was tasked with seizing one of the buildings at the edge of the 9th January Square. On September 27th, followed by three soldiers from his squad, Pavlov entered the building under the cover of night and drove the defending Germans out of it. Once in their hands, the commander of the 42nd regiment designated it “Pavlov’s House”.

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Credit:
Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
Script: Dejan Milivojevic
Narrator:

Chris Kane

Sources:
Antill, Peter D., and Peter Dennis. Stalingrad 1942. Osprey Pub., 2007.
Roberts, Geoffrey. Victory at Stalingrad the Battle That Changed History. Longman, 2002.
Walsh, Stephen. Stalingrad 1942-1943: The Infernal Cauldron. Simon & Schuster, 2000.

[Crazy-itti]

In Russia, there is a joke about the battle of Stalingrad: a little boy goes to Uncle Hans and asks:
- What is the largest city in the world?
- Stalingrad. My friends and I crossed the same street for 2 weeks

[planderlinde]

Fun Fact: Despite being the sight of one of the bloodiest battles in history Stalingrad was barely mentioned in the original plans to take the Caucuses. Originally the 6th army was to keep going south to the Caucuses along with the other German armies. At most Stalingrad was supposed to be surrounded and shelled to disrupt Soviet resupply and to keep the Red Army there pinned down to prevent counterattacks.

[KOTYAR]

It was marked in every German map as "fortress". Vasiliy Chuikov was commanding troops in Stalingrad, he was in China during Sino-Japanese war, and learned a lot from what he saw in Shanghai. Particularly, Defense of Sihang Warehouse. Read about it, it's amazing what those Chinese soldiers managed to do.

[DavidMarcus]

I remember this building, I've seen this in the original call of duty mission. The history of it was very different from the game itself, thanks simple history for this lesson.

[Lupintherd.]

to give you a perspective of how bloody the battle of Stalingrad was the axis forces suffered 747, 300–868, 374 combat casualties while the Russians had 1, 129, 619 casualties all during five months, one week, and three days of fighting.

this is what makes the story of Pavlov's house plausible.

[Mmjk_]

Its crazy that in the battle of Stalingrad alone, the germans alone lost more soldiers than the UK and US combined in the whole war...

[grimtea]

I remember this. Possibly the most difficult mission In all of COD.

RIP Jacob Pavlov and all other heroes

[adman]

The Germans called it “The Fortress”
The Russians simply called it “Pavlov’s House”

[Raxer_th]

I still remember one mission in the oriiginal CoD that set in this building. Very action packed mission.

[rifroll]

The Germans lost more people trying to take this house than they did while capturing Paris lol

[sammyiscool]

Imagine being the owner of the house and you see a bunch of germans near your house and just saying
"Get out of my property!"

[smoggless]

Just defended Pavlov’s house in HLL as a Soviet. This video is perfect timing.

[TANMAY_RMLIMS]

Saving this house was one of the most difficult mission in Call of duty 1

[thunderbird]

Fun fact. The battle of Stalingrad was the single most bloody battle in human history.

[searaider]

Red Orchestra 2 Heroes of Stalingrad portrayed this skirmish very well. Memories of screaming soldiers and blood still haunts me.

[Momotarou]

My great grandpa might've been there. I don't know that much about him, but I know that he was an Engineer in the Wehrmacht, was on the eastern front and got captured in Stalingrad. He was sent to Gulag and survived by translating german tank/machine manuals into russian to help their war effort. He made it back to germany many years later. Honestly he is one of the bravest people I know and an unsung hero for the CCCP

[rosaria]

It's fascinating reading stories like these that show how the best perimeter defense can mean victory or defeat, like this one, the Jadotville siege, the Danzig post office incident in 1939, and many other "single target" defenses in history.

[Trgn]

Never forget 1.4 million, mainly women and children, died due to starvation and bombardment of Stalingrad. One of the most gruesome humanitarian crisis of WW2.

[micman]

Pavlov's House, one of the greatest last stand in history mostly unknow

[BettyHopeMusic]

learned so much from the simple history team... thank you so much for all your work!