The Railwayman Who Blew Apart SS Troop Trains For Years To Avenge His Executed Father
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In July 1943, a twenty-seven-year-old Belarusian electrician crouched between the freight cars at the Osipovichi rail depot with four magnetic mines in a canvas bag. He was aiming for one SS ammunition wagon. What he did not know was that the wagon was parked next to a fuel train carrying five hundred tonnes of aviation gasoline — which was parked next to a transport carrying thirty-one Tiger tanks bound for the Battle of Kursk. In six hours the sky over Osipovichi would glow orange for forty kilometres.
This documentary reveals the untold story of Fyodor Krylovich, the third-generation Belarusian railwayman who executed the single largest act of sabotage in the entire Second World War to avenge his executed father. While Red Army units held the line hundreds of kilometres to the east, Krylovich walked into a German-occupied rail depot with the tools of his trade and detonated four trains in one night, destroying tanks the Wehrmacht was counting on for the largest tank battle in history.
Discover the sabotage tradecraft that let a lone electrician bring down an entire supply hub — the chemical time pencils, the eleven-minute freight schedule he memorised over a week of listening in the dark, and the small, deliberate movements of a man taught from childhood that good hands meant you could work without light.
🔥 In this video:
The Osipovichi Fireball: The single largest act of WWII sabotage — and the one man who set it.
Four Mines, Four Trains: The chain reaction that destroyed thirty-one Tigers bound for Kursk.
The Railwayman's Craft: How three generations of switchmen produced the Wehrmacht's worst nightmare.
The Executed Father: The killing that turned a signal engineer into a saboteur.
Chemical Time Pencils: The improvised technology that let one man vanish before the sky lit up.
Sources of Where I get my facts:
Slepyan, K. (2006) Stalin's Guerrillas: Soviet Partisans in World War II. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
Armstrong, J.A. (ed.) (1964) Soviet Partisans in World War II. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Musial, B. (2009) Sowjetische Partisanen 1941–1944: Mythos und Wirklichkeit. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
Rein, L. (2011) The Kings and the Pawns: Collaboration in Byelorussia during World War II. New York: Berghahn Books.
Shepherd, B. (2004) War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Disclaimer: This video is a historical documentary intended for educational purposes.
#SovietPartisans #Belarus #WWIIHistory #Osipovichi #RailSabotage #Kursk #SSHistory #Krylovich
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The Railwayman Who Blew Apart SS Troop Trains For Years To Avenge His Executed Father
Canadian War Stories
83,392 views
#SovietPartisans #Belarus #WWIIHistory
In July 1943, a twenty-seven-year-old Belarusian electrician crouched between the freight cars at the Osipovichi rail depot with four magnetic mines in a canvas bag. He was aiming for one SS ammunition wagon. What he did not know was that the wagon was parked next to a fuel train carrying five hundred tonnes of aviation gasoline — which was parked next to a transport carrying thirty-one Tiger tanks bound for the Battle of Kursk. In six hours the sky over Osipovichi would glow orange for forty kilometres.
This documentary reveals the untold story of Fyodor Krylovich, the third-generation Belarusian railwayman who executed the single largest act of sabotage in the entire Second World War to avenge his executed father. While Red Army units held the line hundreds of kilometres to the east, Krylovich walked into a German-occupied rail depot with the tools of his trade and detonated four trains in one night, destroying tanks the Wehrmacht was counting on for the largest tank battle in history.
Discover the sabotage tradecraft that let a lone electrician bring down an entire supply hub — the chemical time pencils, the eleven-minute freight schedule he memorised over a week of listening in the dark, and the small, deliberate movements of a man taught from childhood that good hands meant you could work without light.
🔥 In this video:
The Osipovichi Fireball: The single largest act of WWII sabotage — and the one man who set it.
Four Mines, Four Trains: The chain reaction that destroyed thirty-one Tigers bound for Kursk.
The Railwayman's Craft: How three generations of switchmen produced the Wehrmacht's worst nightmare.
The Executed Father: The killing that turned a signal engineer into a saboteur.
Chemical Time Pencils: The improvised technology that let one man vanish before the sky lit up.
Sources of Where I get my facts:
Slepyan, K. (2006) Stalin's Guerrillas: Soviet Partisans in World War II. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
Armstrong, J.A. (ed.) (1964) Soviet Partisans in World War II. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Musial, B. (2009) Sowjetische Partisanen 1941–1944: Mythos und Wirklichkeit. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
Rein, L. (2011) The Kings and the Pawns: Collaboration in Byelorussia during World War II. New York: Berghahn Books.
Shepherd, B. (2004) War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Disclaimer: This video is a historical documentary intended for educational purposes.
#SovietPartisans #Belarus #WWIIHistory #Osipovichi #RailSabotage #Kursk #SSHistory #Krylovich