Redstamp History: credits and sources

Soviet Rails Were 9 cm Too Wide for Hitler's Trains (Moscow, 1941)

Credits and sources for this video.

Images (6)

• Bock von bock
  WSOY kirjapaino Porvoo. Public domain.
• Mosca 1941 ritirata
  sconosciuto. Public domain.
• Mosca 1941 ritirata 2
  sconosciuto. Public domain.
• Prokudin-Gorskii-23
  Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii. Public domain.
• Wojska niemieckie w trudnym terenie na froncie wschodnim (2-1104)
  Planik. Public domain.
• Wojska niemieckie w trudnym terenie na froncie wschodnim (2-1105)
  Muller. Public domain.

Films (1)

• Why We Fight 5 – The Battle of Russia (1943)
  "Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia" (1943), Frank Capra — US War Department / US National Archives (RG 111), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Sources (4)

• Wikipedia (en), "Russian gauge"
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_gauge
• German railway troops' records (Bundesarchiv, RH 66/713)
• H. G. W. Davie, "The Influence of Railways on Military Operations in the Russo-German War"
  hgwdavie.com/blog/2018/3/9/the-influence-of-railways-on-military-operations-in-the-russo-german-war-19411945
• E. Ziemke and M. Bauer, "Moscow to Stalingrad: Decision in the East", ch. II (U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1987)

Notes

Russian gauge (1,524 mm) and standard gauge (1,435 mm): Wikipedia, "Russian gauge". 16,148 km of track converted by 8 October 1941, for the whole front: German railway troops' records (Bundesarchiv, RH 66/713); the same total is discussed by H. G. W. Davie, "The Influence of Railways on Military Operations in the Russo-German War", who dates it to August. Captured Soviet engines and wagons ("barely a tenth of what was needed") and the winter clothing left in storage: E. Ziemke and M. Bauer, "Moscow to Stalingrad: Decision in the East", ch. II (U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1987). The "thirty trains a day, eighteen at best" figures are given by a single unsigned source: hence "by one account".

The locomotives, wagons, tracks, crates and thermometers are drawings, not photographs. Railway lines on the map are schematic: unconverted lines are dotted, and only Moscow is named. Maps: Natural Earth (public domain). Education only.