Eastern Front animated: 1944/1945

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  • @zachsfilms845
    @zachsfilms845 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3402

    Germany- "Okay Romania, we really need you to hold the front in the South!"
    Romania- "I don't even know who you are"

    • @ollikoskinen1
      @ollikoskinen1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +395

      "I have never met this man in my life."

    • @Peace-ot7wm
      @Peace-ot7wm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      ZachsFilms the Romanian are so trustful like today 😂😂

    • @elvirjade4742
      @elvirjade4742 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @i wonder if you're reading this Oh come on, I am sure it's not all that bad.

    • @elvirjade4742
      @elvirjade4742 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @i wonder if you're reading this I traveled to Romania 6 years ago. Visited Bucharest and a lot of medieval castles. Was quite an interesting experience. Believe me, my Russia is a bigger shithole rn :)

    • @BanryuTV
      @BanryuTV 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @i wonder if you're reading this
      I talked to a random romanian hes so ashamed of his corrupt country and his thief people.

  • @DouglasEdward84
    @DouglasEdward84 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2511

    This is truly your Magnum Opus, fantastic work on this Eastory.

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Truly decent effort. Kudos to the lad.

    • @TheOperationsRoom
      @TheOperationsRoom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Oustanding work once again

    • @daviddavis4885
      @daviddavis4885 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      RedGaming Studio four now

    • @gibberconfirm166
      @gibberconfirm166 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's so weirdly fast and concise, I read books about this shit all day and these videos are marvels in odd clarity, all the encirclement battles nobody even thinks of after they read "Stalingrad" books vaguely blow your mind.

  • @iok21a
    @iok21a 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12021

    Bulgaria, Finland and Romania be like “I’ve never met this Germany in my life”

    • @sanmaz1019
      @sanmaz1019 5 ปีที่แล้ว +753

      And Italy

    • @iok21a
      @iok21a 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1164

      sanmaz Italy would be more like “What’s a Germany?”

    • @sanmaz1019
      @sanmaz1019 5 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      Italy would be like a flood. And Germany how can be flood himself?

    • @ajappinen1007
      @ajappinen1007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      SUOMI MAINITTU PERRRKELE

    • @legend9181
      @legend9181 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@ajappinen1007 torilla tavataan

  • @Tjd1982
    @Tjd1982 2 ปีที่แล้ว +181

    I learned about Army Group Center from my grandfather who was stationed in Germany at the end/after the war.
    He had met a german survivor of the encirclement, who told him about the Eastern front.
    Combined with my grandfathers Normandy stories and "I was hunted house by house" Dutch stories, it's a miracle I was ever born.

  • @kellerkornegayswag9431
    @kellerkornegayswag9431 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4966

    Finally,the best series on TH-cam completed.

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      yes

    • @xxdarkslayerlord1922
      @xxdarkslayerlord1922 5 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      He should do a series on the Pacific theater of WW2

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Slava CCCP

    • @justinlo3799
      @justinlo3799 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Is a good series but I don't know is it the best because there are so many good ones out there like the great war and second world war.

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@justinlo3799 why do we keep calling WWI the "great war". 🤔

  • @bbenjoe
    @bbenjoe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3007

    17:05 - Steiner's glorious attack begins.

  • @LibertyMapper
    @LibertyMapper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1254

    15:05 for those wondering: The 3rd SS Panzerkorps that you can see north of Berlin is the "Kampfgruppe Steiner". The same Kampfgruppe that Hitler ordered to relieve Berlin but failed to do so, resulting in a rage of Hitler best remembered in the movie "Downfall".

    • @kaletovhangar
      @kaletovhangar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      Like some other commenter said,what Steiner could have done with 10 tanks?

    • @LibertyMapper
      @LibertyMapper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +222

      @@kaletovhangar Absolutely nothing. It was delusional of Hitler to think that an attack could have done anything.

    • @exoels
      @exoels 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      DASHWA ANG BAFE

    • @brandonsarsland-brunner3390
      @brandonsarsland-brunner3390 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@kaletovhangar LOOK AT IT? DO YOU NOT SEE IT? Yeah me either lol they would have just gotten squashed like the rest of the panzer corps lol

    • @willsplayify
      @willsplayify 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      It's not just merely 10 tanks, most of the 3rd army have been engaging the soviet defensively. Steiner only had 2 police battalions available for the assault and they had no heavy weapons, definitely suicidal to even try attacking the sieging belorussian army

  • @alexandererickssen7254
    @alexandererickssen7254 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Far more people should see this... Brilliant series, you've earned my subscription and so many more, Eastory, I'm sure you medal's lost in the post. This is probably the best video about the Eastern Front on TH-cam.

  • @oilersridersbluejays
    @oilersridersbluejays 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2495

    1941: The Soviets won't last long.
    1942: The end of the Soviets will be complete.
    1943: Damn Soviets. Eliminate the Kursk salient and we will be rolling like last year.
    1944: I wish we eliminated the Kursk salient.
    1945: I wish we didn't invade the USSR.

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays 5 ปีที่แล้ว +200

      @RompeIdiotasConRetraso 69 it's debatable and no one really agrees with anyone else, but the Germans still had a realistic chance of beating the Soviets until Kursk. Stalingrad and Africa was the end of the beginning, Sicily and Kursk was the beginning of the end. Bagration and Normandy were the nails going into the coffin lid. Berlin was the burial.

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @RompeIdiotasConRetraso 69 thank you sir! Cheers from Canada.

    • @endloesung_der_braunen_frage
      @endloesung_der_braunen_frage 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      😂😂😂 savage

    • @yyyaaa3928
      @yyyaaa3928 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Big kick and it all fall - A Famous Painter

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@yyyaaa3928 I love that reference.

  • @daboyz6106
    @daboyz6106 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6272

    Play the video in reverse if you wanna see Steiner's glorious counter-attack.

  • @smetanadvorak362
    @smetanadvorak362 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1420

    And today is the 22nd of June, the day Germany started the war against USSR.
    Previous video was February the 2nd, the day the battle for Stalingrad was won.
    Thank you for sticking to these dates, you’re the best!

    • @randomclouds4404
      @randomclouds4404 5 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      I think it's also to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Bagration.

    • @GoogleGebruiker
      @GoogleGebruiker 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      78 years ago

    • @GG_Man123
      @GG_Man123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Wait really???

    • @Loup-mx7yt
      @Loup-mx7yt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Smetana Dvorak today, June 23rd, the red army launched operation bagration, this would lead to the liberation of bielorussia and to the start of the end of the Second World War.

    • @JoePro84
      @JoePro84 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@Loup-mx7yt It was June 22, exactly 3 years after the start of Operation Barbarrosa. Stalin purposely launched Operation Bagration exactly 3 years after that.

  • @jktrader37
    @jktrader37 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you - this covers so much !! It would have taken me dozens of hours to have learned this. The scope and ferocity of fighting on the Eastern front is impossible for most to even begin to imagine.. ,

  • @5kyEye
    @5kyEye 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5076

    Great finale! Was looking forward to seeing who would win! :D

    • @Wow4ik4ik
      @Wow4ik4ik 5 ปีที่แล้ว +378

      Steiner's counter-offensive solved all problems and defeated the whole red army )))

    • @thatdodude1464
      @thatdodude1464 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      How do people comment so early

    • @pleasednut3881
      @pleasednut3881 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@thatdodude1464 notifications

    • @ProbablyRv
      @ProbablyRv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@thatdodude1464 Patreon

    • @Zimbra8128
      @Zimbra8128 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @天堂心臟 check out : THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE

  • @bi-shop1803
    @bi-shop1803 5 ปีที่แล้ว +571

    5:19 There was some funny story about gaining acces to Baltic sea. One general decided to take glass of water from Baltic sea and deliver it personaly to Stalin. When soldier, who literaly spent few days on plane with that glass, finaly came to Stalin he said:"Glass of water from reconquered Baltic States!" by that time they lost this part. Stalin and other people laughed and then he said to soldier:"Go back to your general and tell him to return water where he took it"

    • @МуслимШихамматов-у1л
      @МуслимШихамматов-у1л 5 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      That was general Ivan Bagramyan, that did it

    • @fulcrum2951
      @fulcrum2951 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      The mad lad general

    • @kalevi5814
      @kalevi5814 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      @@Rzhaba Balkan and Baltic are two completely different things

    • @day12333
      @day12333 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@Rzhaba arent all seas salty?

    • @adhdlama2403
      @adhdlama2403 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Damn that's a nice responce

  • @GuardianMilsim
    @GuardianMilsim 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2530

    Steiner's counter attack will commence any minute now
    Update: The 9th Army is encircled

    • @josh-kg1rb
      @josh-kg1rb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +131

      Steiner was captured last month and executed

    • @lhaviland8602
      @lhaviland8602 5 ปีที่แล้ว +131

      What about FEGHELEIN!

    • @josh-kg1rb
      @josh-kg1rb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Hes on the western front encircled in denmark

    • @josh-kg1rb
      @josh-kg1rb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Manstein is the prauge

    • @firesight968
      @firesight968 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      And Rommel committed suicide.

  • @andreidragan3242
    @andreidragan3242 2 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    This guy teached me in 20 minutes more than my history teacher could in 4 years

    • @galinaperova1618
      @galinaperova1618 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I am Russian and I know the history of WW2 as it was in favor of our lessons

    • @AbbeyRoadkill1
      @AbbeyRoadkill1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's what I love about these TH-cam history videos. They're so succinct and yet packed with so much information.

    • @tsdobbi
      @tsdobbi 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      History classes in primary school and highschool cover way too much to go into detail on battlefield strategy and tactics of specific wars....A history class on WW2 specifically in college? Sure.

    • @doctorwatermelon4680
      @doctorwatermelon4680 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Clearly your English teacher too, since you don't know it's taught instead of teached.

    • @HyzersGR
      @HyzersGR 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Teached you? Maybe try watching some 1st grade English youtube videos.

  • @gentil77
    @gentil77 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3912

    80% of the German army was destroyed in the eastern front..I just can't imagine what would have happened
    if the Russian lost in the east. I would be probably writing this in German

    • @thebigmonstaandy6644
      @thebigmonstaandy6644 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      where are you coming from ?

    • @lukasbecker1201
      @lukasbecker1201 5 ปีที่แล้ว +467

      Deutsch ist eine sehr schöne Sprache!
      German is a very nice language!

    • @gentil77
      @gentil77 5 ปีที่แล้ว +219

      @@lukasbecker1201 Yes , of course but the 1939
      german army was close to dominate the world.

    • @gentil77
      @gentil77 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@thebigmonstaandy6644 From the americas ..and you?

    • @thebigmonstaandy6644
      @thebigmonstaandy6644 5 ปีที่แล้ว +178

      @@gentil77 Germany.Why do think,you would probably writing in German,if Sowjets lost in the east?Hitler would never invade USA.

  • @shmickpingo1
    @shmickpingo1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3359

    as an Australian we were taught about the western front and the pacific war, the eastern front was barely mentioned as a tiny little footnote. its shocking to see a video like this and realize how important the soviet offensive was.
    i guess with the Cold War they wanted to downplay the communist share of the victory

    • @markcarey8426
      @markcarey8426 4 ปีที่แล้ว +239

      Yes. I was born and brought up in New Zealand and at school in the 60s we were taught the plucky Brits, with us Anzacs (and some help from the USA) won the war.

    • @markcarey8426
      @markcarey8426 4 ปีที่แล้ว +177

      @Ricardo Allmeida Nah. Germany was wearing thin by this time but the Soviet Union could've kept pumping out blood and machinery forever.

    • @ShadKS18XL
      @ShadKS18XL 4 ปีที่แล้ว +232

      Good that you know it now. Western propaganda is a huge lie and mind control.
      The price for that Victory was over 20 millions deads of Soviet people, millions of those people were civilians killed by Nazi Germans during the occupation.
      Plus Nazi Europeans took over 6 millions Jewish lives all over the Europe.
      Soviet union is the reason why Nazi don't rule the world now.
      As for western front - well, I have respect for those brave soldiers, but they only joined the war when the result was obvious and it was only matter of time. Yes, USA entered Europe at the end of the war only to gain control over Europe after the WWII, but as fot the soldiers who gave their lives to fight Nazis - I gave all my respect and honor.
      Too bad, that after war Western propaganda washed the brains of their people.

    • @Vanyaivanov3
      @Vanyaivanov3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +214

      The entire Second World War was against the USSR, against the first and only state in which all profits from production were public and there was not a single billionaire parasite !!!! World War II was the last attempt to defeat the state itself with the help of force with the fairest system invented

    • @Vanyaivanov3
      @Vanyaivanov3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @Ricardo Allmeida 20 million? Or maybe 100 billion, don't you? You always have to lie !!!! Steal property that is built on free labor, slaves? You are a brainwashed idiot, you are a slave with the help of which they build their property)))

  • @youngminpark3173
    @youngminpark3173 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2961

    It's amazing that the Battle of the Bulge, which is known as one of the biggest and bloodiest battles the US saw in WWII was basically a tiny footnote compared to the saga of the Eastern front. I knew that the Eastern front was massive and horrific, but until I watched this series did not understand just how much. Thank you for creating these videos.
    EDIT: Thanks to those who left thoughtful and interesting replies. I want to rant because others are missing the point of my comment and want to argue for no reason about the least important things: I said footnote IN COMPARISON. Example: WWI was less destructive globally IN COMPARISON to WWII. I am not saying WWI was any less tragic.

    • @bombarderoazul
      @bombarderoazul 5 ปีที่แล้ว +223

      And battle of the bulge, the Germans specifically brought troops from the Eastern front to ardennes because they were considered tougher and battle hardened.

    • @RubyBandUSA
      @RubyBandUSA 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      that's a wrong way to characterize the Battle Of The Bulge ("a tiny footnote")

    • @rocketman2408
      @rocketman2408 5 ปีที่แล้ว +224

      Ruby band it is what it is if you compare to the eastern front scale

    • @rocketman2408
      @rocketman2408 5 ปีที่แล้ว +193

      matthew arnold we did great part of wwii fighting Japan Italy and Germans in the west Europe, but here we comparing whole eastern campaign of 6 million + Germans 80% of best German army with Battle of the Bulge where 400 thousand and later 50 thousand more Germans surprise attacked us on western front. Clearly it’s unfair to compare whole campaign vs just 1 battle but however if you do compare such than of course Battle Of The Bulge will be like a tiny footnote which is more popular here in the US than whole eastern campaign. Most people here in US just don’t understand how big wwii was. Most movies about wwii you will see here is about little part of a huge monstrous war that it was. We don’t even celebrate V day and don’t even know when is the V day, but Russians do even today still celebrate May 9 every year.

    • @youngminpark3173
      @youngminpark3173 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @@RubyBandUSA It's just a comparison. The way that the POWER of bobs dropped at Hiroshima/Nagasaki were "footnotes" compared to the tzar bomba. Here I am not saying that the events at Hiroshima/Nagasaki are footnotes. Likewise with my comment, I was in no way minimizing the battle itself, but understanding the sheer scope of battles in the Eastern front.

  • @ThomasRaich
    @ThomasRaich 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Am reading "The Fall of Berlin 1945" by Antony Beevor - this animation was really helpful in understanding the expansive front. Stunning the number of people involved, whether in an army or civilian. Many thanks for the video.

  • @JDthegamer209
    @JDthegamer209 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4214

    I learned practically nothing about the eastern front of World War 2 in my history class. They really just mentioned Stalingrad and the fall of Berlin in 1945 and that was it. But while our history teacher spent altogether maybe 10 minutes explaining the Eastern Front, we spent at least 80% of the time we spent learning about World War 2 talking about D Day, Pearl Harbor and the use of the atomic bombs on Japan. Talk about downplaying the greatest global conflict in human history by only teaching half the story.

    • @praetorhispaniae4832
      @praetorhispaniae4832 4 ปีที่แล้ว +490

      would it be a surprise for you, that post-soviet schools learn at history classes nothing except eastern front stuff?
      And, I assume, asian folks are like "What? Europe? Africa? They had war too? Why nobody told me at school about this shit?"

    • @economicapple2609
      @economicapple2609 4 ปีที่แล้ว +348

      Excuse me I'm asian and I know about all fronts ._.

    • @praetorhispaniae4832
      @praetorhispaniae4832 4 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      @@economicapple2609 is it though because of your school history classes? And what you mean "know"? Dude above once heard word "Stalingrad" at class - does it count as he "know" about eastern front?

    • @economicapple2609
      @economicapple2609 4 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      @@praetorhispaniae4832 well uh not because of school lol asians read widely.

    • @praetorhispaniae4832
      @praetorhispaniae4832 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      @@economicapple2609 that's what I was pointing on

  • @awesomemangoes8072
    @awesomemangoes8072 5 ปีที่แล้ว +375

    I appreciate this video of HARD WORK!

    • @TheOperationsRoom
      @TheOperationsRoom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You can just see the man hours put in to this

    • @AKaptijn94
      @AKaptijn94 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheOperationsRoom The Germans and Soviets spent years for this video, that's what i call HARD WORK.

    • @TheOperationsRoom
      @TheOperationsRoom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AKaptijn94 You certainly aren't wrong there

  • @nixxel2278
    @nixxel2278 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1211

    That's by far the best and most accurate WW2 documentary I've ever seen. Thanks! :D

    • @michelangelobuonarroti4958
      @michelangelobuonarroti4958 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Well Eastern Front, but not all of WW2

    • @useodyseeorbitchute9450
      @useodyseeorbitchute9450 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      It would be very good, just it got spoiled by some errors, like: 4:35. No, the problem were not any German concentration, but Stalin just wanted to get Polish resistance in Warsaw slaughtered first, as it makes installing any puppets later much easier.

    • @karakteran8406
      @karakteran8406 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Another error is number of POW's in Austria 550.000 at the end of video which is not accurate, it was 600.000 civilians and 200.000 soldiers mostly Croats who has been slaughtered on sadistic ways by Tito's partizans in bloodbath sloughterhouse better known as Bleiburg massacre 536.000 dead and burried alive.

    • @YTuseraL2694
      @YTuseraL2694 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@karakteran8406 sadistic ways huh?? Shame on you! Most of them who were taken back to Yugoslavia and killed were ustashe, other nazi collaborators and war criminals who wanted to avoid their comeuppance by defecting outside of Yugoslavia! Did you ever heard of concentration camps Jasenovac, Stara Gradiska?? Jastrebarsko????? Jastrebarsko CC was the only camp that was established especially for killing children!!

    • @YTuseraL2694
      @YTuseraL2694 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nije li tužno videti kako je neko toliko ogrezao u domovinskoj (ustaškoj) propagandi i još sebi daje za pravo da nekome drugome priča kako mu je ispran mozak.. Druže pa ti mozga nemaš, sve su ti popile ustaše! Ne znam ko je ovde trol kad si ti prvi koji je ovde počeo da širi ustaško-hrvatske brljotine i laži! Ne samo to, već su ti i rečenice koje si napisao toliko generične, izveštačene i već vidjene da je toliko očigledno da nisu tvoje! People, don't mind him, he is just another ustashe-lover who will deny anything that goes against his "beliefs" and country, which has commited its own genocide against Serbs, Gypsies and all other unwanted groups in WW2! Jasenovac and other camps and genocide are far from myth, but an undisputed truth, and you Croats should be ashamed of it, not proud.

  • @slaviclettuce7937
    @slaviclettuce7937 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Glad to see this great channel explaining to Americans and other Angloids about the role of the USSR in WWII.
    Also Steiner nerds be like: "Where is Moskowien?"

    • @Kakashi_Senseiofficial
      @Kakashi_Senseiofficial ปีที่แล้ว

      The USSR was dumb. Shouldn't have allied the Nazis. The USSR only won thanks to US land lease lol.

  • @Smartacus98
    @Smartacus98 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2896

    Allies: So which side are you on exactly?
    Finland: Yes.

    • @Crashed131963
      @Crashed131963 5 ปีที่แล้ว +187

      Finland just wanted their lost land back from the 1938 winter war with Russia.
      Finland got off lucky at the end of the war and was not taken completely over by Stalin like Eastern Europe in the end.

    • @lesliefranklin1870
      @lesliefranklin1870 5 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      @@Crashed131963 1939-1940

    • @Crashed131963
      @Crashed131963 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@lesliefranklin1870 OOOPs , thanks.

    • @ashdsf_
      @ashdsf_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Finnish in Lenningrad: hipitty hoppity your part of your country is now our property
      Russians: NANI!

    • @taskdon769
      @taskdon769 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Törni: any side that kill commies.

  • @quocvietophu1627
    @quocvietophu1627 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1857

    Germany: Alright guys we got this.
    Romania: *I serve the Soviet Union*

    • @db4ch
      @db4ch 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Bruh

    • @yeeterdeleter6306
      @yeeterdeleter6306 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Truly made me laugh

    • @artart3644
      @artart3644 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      The USSR defeated German and Japanese fascism. One struggled with industry across Europe. Freed the whole of Europe and Asia from fascism. The Americans were the only ones in the world to drop 2 nuclear bombs on the civilian wooden cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the USSR had already defeated the Kwantung army in the Manchuria of China. Communism as the most just society United people, not killed. Look at China's communism now. The Chinese Communists are working on the Soviet economy.

    • @HT-gv1be
      @HT-gv1be 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Quốc Việt Đỗ Phú fucking pussy holes fuck the Eastern European’s no loyalty

    • @sanderb2537
      @sanderb2537 5 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      @@artart3644 Half of what you are saying just sounds like dumb rambling, you a Russian troll trying to promote some glorified image of communism? You seem to skip on the part that this same just society of communism is to blame for about 8 million plus deaths under Stalin (low estimate, high is about 20 million) and about 50-70 million deaths under Communist Mao Zedong's rule in China. In other words the death toll under these 2 great periods of communist society exceeded the total death toll during WW2. And now back to you smart ass ;)

  • @radicaljunior
    @radicaljunior 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5609

    Soviet Union: They had us in the first half, not gonna lie

    • @bdog2802
      @bdog2802 5 ปีที่แล้ว +296

      Radical Junior Soviet Union just pulled out a uno fucking reverse card

    • @scorpionscorpions446
      @scorpionscorpions446 5 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      @@Влад-д3ы4ш во во а сша напали в 1944 потому что поняли что ссср всю европу захватит и решили тоже кусок отхапать.

    • @НикитаЖигарь-б4ч
      @НикитаЖигарь-б4ч 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Они не хотели чтобы Европа была Социалистическай.

    • @TannerWilliam07
      @TannerWilliam07 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Nah They didn't mean only 1/3 of the Panzers were left, and the infantry lost all their combat units and were replaced with inexperienced troops. Then Winter hit.
      Operation Barbarossa was brutal during the first few months and the Germans never encountered such fierce resistance

    • @BlaneNostalgia
      @BlaneNostalgia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @RadicalJunior Germany had the most superior militairy in the world at the time + element of surprise they would have had any1 bro. Take away those 2 elements and they would have never gotten near Stalingrad. Only after USA joined the war Germany lost that edge. The most impressive feat in WW2 is Russia pushing back Germany with pretty much manpower alone and if you look at the Stalingrad numbers you will be shocked

  • @mishacol
    @mishacol 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Grandpa came home in 1946. Machine gunner. Mentally unstable and hard alcoholic. I remember, when drunk he spoke random German phrases. Me and my brother used to ask him: How many germans did you kill, grandpa? He was like: "Why should I kill humans, are you crazy?"

  • @GhostOps21
    @GhostOps21 5 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    Dude, this was a fantastic series of the upmost greatest quality. The quality of the maps, frontlines, and units is simply incredible. 10/10

  • @masonluo4049
    @masonluo4049 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3570

    LOL Germany in 1945 be like: we are gonna leave the troops in Russia territory just in case of future offensives

    • @zeriyx
      @zeriyx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +421

      the delusion

    • @gameer0037
      @gameer0037 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      TIK made a whole series about that, including a video discussing exactly this question. (12. episode)
      The series: th-cam.com/video/uJsjxSfB7Ls/w-d-xo.html

    • @hq3473
      @hq3473 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      @@gameer0037 it was quite a good show.
      Seems like "springboard" was largely propaganda, and evacuation was basically impossible.

    • @gameer0037
      @gameer0037 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      hq3473 yeah, evacuation was nearly impossible. But holding on to the curland pocket made some sense aswell. Clearly Eastprussia was prioritized in Terms of evacuation because of the benefits for holding on on baltic territory. (Submarine training bases, army group north could hold their ground, keeping finland as long i the war as possible)

    • @machtharry
      @machtharry 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Well think about why Hitler did this. He had two options and two options olny: Victory or death. There was no middle ground for him, no survivial in defeat.
      So slim as the chances might have been its actually logical from his position to plan for a victory in the future rather than planing on delaying the advance a little longer.
      At least to me this makes sense - if your willing to sacrifice houndrets of thousands of your own for very small chance to live on. He obviously was willing to do that.

  • @usaball9190
    @usaball9190 5 ปีที่แล้ว +689

    Hitler: I’m going to invade the Soviet’s capital
    Stalin: *pull out reverse uno card*

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Stalin: +4, change the colour to red.
      Hitler: nein!
      Stalin: red +2, red +2, red miss a turn, red back to me, red + 2, UNO, red 0, OUT-O!

    • @braziliummarches6810
      @braziliummarches6810 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You are genius!

    • @usaball9190
      @usaball9190 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @G E T R E K T 905 I'm sorry that I didn't conform to the meme standard that you were seeking. However, must I remind you that the essence of meme, according to the one who formulate the word himself Richard Dawkins, draws parallels between the nature of gene and genetic adaptation. Therefore, to Dawkins and similar to genes, memes mutate.

    • @cactusgamingyt9960
      @cactusgamingyt9960 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @G E T R E K T 905 maybe you, are the dumb one here

    • @alaxs
      @alaxs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thks for you comment bro!
      deaths WW2...
      1) 520 000 French
      2) 400 000 Italians
      3) 320 000 British
      4) 325 000 Americans
      5) 364 000 Chechs and Slovaks
      6) 1 600 000 Yugoslavians
      7) 6 028 000 Poles
      8) 9 700 000 Germans
      9) 20 000 000 Soviets
      and many more from other countries..... YOUR NAME IS UNKNOW.... YOUR DEAD IS IMMORTAL!!!!

  • @HistoricDefense
    @HistoricDefense 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Fun fact: There was one battle where Americans and Germans were on the same side. The 'Battle of Schloss Itter' happened on May 5, 1945. German (Wehrmacht) and American soldiers, along with a group of high ranking allied pows were fighting a batallion of die hard ss soldiers who laid siege on the castle. It was "the strangest battle" of the war.

  • @canderousordo8271
    @canderousordo8271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +707

    Seeing only animated units, numbers and lines sometimes makes you forget, how many lives were lost with each movement of the front, how many cities and villages were devastated. Hard to imagine the scale of such an onslaught

    • @rnin689
      @rnin689 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      It really is sad, because all of these troops were conscripts, forced into a war that they didn’t want to do, while the commanders would just throw themselves at the enemy’s, and the tanks while effective were prone to break down, especially the tiger b and elephant tank, so Germany’s strong armor doesn’t really work that well if you can’t weld the armor together correctly

    • @SpaceMissile
      @SpaceMissile 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      the next level of this would be to cut in some shots of the wartime action. maybe a picture-in-picture or something.

    • @NeonVars
      @NeonVars 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      This is essentially a war general's view of war, numbers and lines on a map. However, behind every number there is a mind, a soul, memories of being a child, and a love for someone.

    • @Gungho73
      @Gungho73 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      For example of how little those give context, take Leningrad. From Sep 8, 1941 - Jan 27, 1944, the city was under siege of the Germans. Outside of a water route as their only lifeline, it was essentially encircled by Germany and Finnish troops and passed over. Daily food was so scarce for the 2 million residents who remained that it got down to 125 grams of bread, basically a single thick slice of bread. People burned their own furniture to stay warm, killed animals in the local zoo to eat if not their own pets and even the deceased in some cases. When not dealing with this, they were working in makeshift armament facilities with no roofs; This coupled with the bombing raids and artillery threats on a near daily basis made living a hell in Leningrad. But again, if you look at a map, it looks like troops from the opposing armies worked to bypass it entirely. We could potentially ignore the real demoralizing struggle of those people.

    • @Candiedbacon75
      @Candiedbacon75 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Gungho73 True, very true. But this was just a quick overview of the front. The details on the other hand would make ones skin crawl.

  • @casparcoaster1936
    @casparcoaster1936 5 ปีที่แล้ว +808

    as an american born in the 50's, you can imagine how facinating this video is to me. I am glad i lived long enough to see this!!!!!!!!! I wish my father had lived long enough to see it. He finished ROTC in '45, and was discharged before the Korean War, and loved ww2 history, which, as this docu demonstrates more clearly than most, he never really knew much of the true strategic and tactical history of what had actually happened. But, I have! If there is an afterlife, I will tell him. Again, many thanks.

    • @artart3644
      @artart3644 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      The USSR defeated German and Japanese fascism. One struggled with industry across Europe. Freed the whole of Europe and Asia from fascism. The Americans were the only ones in the world to drop 2 nuclear bombs on the civilian wooden cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the USSR had already defeated the Kwantung army in the Manchuria of China. Communism as the most just society United people, not killed. Look at China's communism now. The Chinese Communists are working on the Soviet economy. Try live.

    • @unetortue3429
      @unetortue3429 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Art Art China isn’t communist.

    • @luvee659
      @luvee659 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@artart3644 The commies took on the army and the Americans took on the navy

    • @yourlocalengineer
      @yourlocalengineer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@artart3644 Le tme ask you one thing: did your grandparents live within the non russian parts of the soviet union?

    • @bonkersmcgee4356
      @bonkersmcgee4356 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@artart3644 Not completely accurate. First this was a team effort. I know the popular thing to say is that the US entered when the Russians already had it wrapped up, but that's just simply false. US was involved for years by keeping Britain alive - see liberty ships. US was engaged heavily in Western Europe, Italy, and North Africa, not to mention the entire Pacific. The Russians alone would have never been able to finish off Germany, let alone take on the entire empire of Japan. So as with every war ever, it was a team effort. The other thing is the implication that the US nuked civilian wooden cities. Also a false implication. Yes, one purpose of these weapons was to hopefully force Japan to withdraw out of fear. But the targets were chosen because they were vital centers of the Japanese military industrial complex.

  • @stevej71393
    @stevej71393 4 ปีที่แล้ว +653

    For all the meme lords out there, Steiner is in the black bubble labelled "3 SS" at 14:58. He was brought there from Courland in January 1945 and was given command of most of the units north of Berlin. Though the map shows multiple German armored/mechanized corps, Steiner's force had been eviscerated at that point and had about 10 tanks in total. Hitler ordered Steiner to attack the pincer that juts out at 15:06, but Steiner was neither willing nor able to obey. Thus, Berlin was encircled and Hitler finally realized that it was the end - after blaming everyone else, of course.

    • @LeoMajor1
      @LeoMajor1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      got em

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      got em

    • @discodesanti2459
      @discodesanti2459 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      His attack will get it under control.

    • @kazioglod
      @kazioglod 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      He knew already in 1942 that they're gone

    • @PLKartofel
      @PLKartofel 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      i did my own reaserch before i seen the comment lul

  • @obiwanduglobi6359
    @obiwanduglobi6359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Sheer excellence. That's why I still love TH-cam. Thank you very much for those historical contributions.

  • @erel751
    @erel751 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1990

    Smh Germany could just open console and write
    Annex sov

    • @RamRam.720
      @RamRam.720 5 ปีที่แล้ว +390

      tag eng
      *deletes entire army*
      tag ger

    • @blaine8197
      @blaine8197 5 ปีที่แล้ว +252

      Erel Batish They were using Ironman mode

    • @baronmunchhausen7727
      @baronmunchhausen7727 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Fabian Kirchgessner Was willst du hier?

    • @baronmunchhausen7727
      @baronmunchhausen7727 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Fabian Kirchgessner Lern Deutsch, lese Kant!

    • @cccpredarmy
      @cccpredarmy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      impossible against all mighty soviet hax0rs

  • @aserehuehue
    @aserehuehue 5 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    Excellent job as always, I'm so proud to be one of your patreons haha

  • @hamzaalsayyed2700
    @hamzaalsayyed2700 5 ปีที่แล้ว +750

    Army Group Center: *EXISTS*
    Stalin: Im gonna do whats called a pro-gamer move

    • @r.c.1881
      @r.c.1881 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Zukhov: I'm going to end these men's whole career!

    • @vikingskippen
      @vikingskippen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@r.c.1881 stalin's gamer moves were knowing what to delegate. zhukov's def the mvp

    • @cytrynowy_melon6604
      @cytrynowy_melon6604 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vikingskippen Zhukov was pretty lame, just glorified by soviet propaganda. He made a lot of stupid decisions. Won because he had more men.

    • @mohammadnooriman4185
      @mohammadnooriman4185 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@cytrynowy_melon6604 Really?!

    • @ov4arkachannel596
      @ov4arkachannel596 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tom Wheeler please just read books , not Wikipedia

  • @cpdm1
    @cpdm1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This is a great visual way to present this part of the conflict, thank you! Would be great to see similar for the Pacific.

  • @feha6580
    @feha6580 5 ปีที่แล้ว +799

    *Germany on the phone:*
    I need you to hold Romania!
    *Romania:* new phone who dis?

    • @bogdanvojnovic989
      @bogdanvojnovic989 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahahhaha

    • @scasino9358
      @scasino9358 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      more like "yo, remember when you gave northern Transylvania to Hungary, and southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria? we remember. The red army sends their regards."

    • @peternemeth4073
      @peternemeth4073 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@scasino9358 Northen-Tranilvania in that time had hungarian majority. the romanians why annexed the area of trnasnistria where the romanians had only 7-8% of the full population?

    • @matyasszabo6361
      @matyasszabo6361 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@scasino9358 "when you came BACK to Hungary.."

    • @toyotacoralla9310
      @toyotacoralla9310 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is Patrick!!!

  • @uneamedeterminee4994
    @uneamedeterminee4994 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    ...
    I'm lost for words, this is a little masterpiece...
    Congratulations, you have achieved a work of a truly impressive quality...

    • @scrimherolex1496
      @scrimherolex1496 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Une âme déterminée what’s up French brother

    • @majkel1684
      @majkel1684 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      This video is straight up a lie, 4:35 No, the problem were not any German forces, Stalin just wanted to get Polish resistance in Warsaw slaughtered first, as it makes installing any puppets later much easier.

    • @marluxia8832
      @marluxia8832 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@majkel1684 Red Army couldn't help Army Krajowa simply because they needed time to rest and resupply. Our communication and supply lines at that time were piece of shit, and very often our units had to face Germans outnumbered and with outdated weapons, especially tanks. At that time we were fighting really hard to hold the footholds on western coast of Wisla river. How could we help the uprising if most of Red Army units in Poland were down to 25-50% of their standard quantity when it started? And with constant German counterattacks? Also, we did send you firearms via air drops.

  • @hamzaalsayyed2700
    @hamzaalsayyed2700 5 ปีที่แล้ว +554

    That moment when you join the Kriegsmarine in 1945 but they send you to the eastern front anyways

    • @blitzkrieg7353
      @blitzkrieg7353 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Bruh moment

    • @patdan123
      @patdan123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      That guy: I WANT TO LIVE !!!! (Spongebob reference.)

    • @joem1668
      @joem1668 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      would you have been sent to a uboat

    • @dodojesus4529
      @dodojesus4529 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Either that or that former fishing boat outfitted with what looks to be an antique cannon

    • @Pikkabuu
      @Pikkabuu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@joem1668
      Actually going to the front was safer than serving in an U-boat. Only 1/6th of soldiers serving in an U-boat survived the war.

  • @ほっしーくん-i6e
    @ほっしーくん-i6e 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    動画の内容も分かりやすかったし、日本語訳も的確だからすごい分かりやすかった!

  • @expressionamidstcacophony390
    @expressionamidstcacophony390 5 ปีที่แล้ว +613

    If my history classes had been like this, I would have paid attention.

    • @luciusvernus3174
      @luciusvernus3174 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      excautly

    • @IStMl
      @IStMl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Thing is, war history is less useful than context and global history
      It’s better to know why war happened and what were the consequences than how war was fought (eventho its more interesting)

    • @WomanBettar59
      @WomanBettar59 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I StM I no one gives a shit to why that only needs a small segment but to say how it happened people wouldn’t want war and they’ll appreciate things more

    • @50shekels
      @50shekels 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ExpressionAmidstCacophony the excuses of a mediocre value man

    • @VineFynn
      @VineFynn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@WomanBettar59 knowing positions and manuveurs hardly informs people of the horrors of war

  • @kaleblanoue5010
    @kaleblanoue5010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2414

    Well, it’s 2021 and we’re still waiting for Steiner’s attack

    • @Willigula
      @Willigula 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Winning comment.

    • @xGARIDx
      @xGARIDx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +153

      Dude Steiner is in Argentina 🇦🇷 he is renforcing Germans for uprising

    • @user-ko3te7oy6d
      @user-ko3te7oy6d 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      @@xGARIDx If Steiner carried out his attack he could've relieved Berlin and push Russia and the allies back to their capitals

    • @marcokite
      @marcokite 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      any day now...any day now

    • @bork661
      @bork661 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      He is still waiting for the 25th panzergrenadier Division, they could be there any minute now

  • @joeylonglegs4309
    @joeylonglegs4309 4 ปีที่แล้ว +549

    Germany: Ok guys we need to turn this thing around
    Italy: Sorry my mom called me for dinner
    Romania: Sorry my mom called me for dinner
    Bulgaria: Sorry my mom called me for dinner
    Finland: Sorry my mom called me for dinner
    Hungary: ok we can 3v1 the-
    Japan: dude help i'm being 3v1ed!

    • @user_698
      @user_698 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Slovakia:Hey guys sorry I was afk-WTH HAPPEND HERE?!
      GERMANY HELP!
      Germany:I also need help...
      Slovakia:oh, well I am already dead
      -USSR killed Slovakia-
      -Slovakcoolgamer69 left the game-
      - Finnlandthepro changed teams-
      Finnland:Perkele
      Germany:Scheisse.
      -DeutscherProGamer commited suicide-
      Western Allies:GG Guys :)
      USSR:All too easy...

    • @bork661
      @bork661 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Hoi4 mp in a nutshell

    • @morganv7895
      @morganv7895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Nah for japan it should be: I’m on the other said of the map!

    • @leminh2659
      @leminh2659 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Double crossing, coward b*tches. Shame on them (Nazi is bad tho)

    • @forsakensecrets8023
      @forsakensecrets8023 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user_698 watch yo language im german and btw its scheiße

  • @Hirameki_Oktavian
    @Hirameki_Oktavian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Мой дед дошёл до Берлина. Сначала был артиллеристом, а потом взяли его в разведку. Сейчас смотрю и думаю: как он там выжил?!

    • @H4sh1r_1
      @H4sh1r_1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Was he a German soldier

    • @alexanderwolf8766
      @alexanderwolf8766 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@H4sh1r_1
      It is written that he reached Berlin. Where did he come from and who could he be?

    • @harryrg1250
      @harryrg1250 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was a Bolshevik plague, like all the Soviets and their rotten communism

    • @shiyian
      @shiyian 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@H4sh1r_1bro r U high the comment is in the Cyrillic alphabet so its not a German dude typing this plus no German counterattacks reached berlin

    • @bartoszgolik2430
      @bartoszgolik2430 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@H4sh1r_1 for this to happen, he would have had to be Stirlitz. There is no other option.

  • @ethanha3163
    @ethanha3163 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1097

    This is why you don’t play in Ironman Mode.

    • @degs1549
      @degs1549 4 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      i mean the nazis could just /annex SOV lol

    • @nerevarchthn6860
      @nerevarchthn6860 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      DEGS *germans

    • @Cobretsov2022
      @Cobretsov2022 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      There is something I do when the war is lost.
      I get my weapon and kill myself before Hitler kills me for my incompetence
      Don’t judge me I live in the HOI4 universe but I somehow got to this universe

    • @scalaphandre
      @scalaphandre 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Need to produce more tank and do more encerclement, russis is really easy to fight in early game

    • @kikopintascraft5283
      @kikopintascraft5283 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ironman mode just doesn't allow you to use commands

  • @ruskibeaner5983
    @ruskibeaner5983 5 ปีที่แล้ว +277

    Soviets: make final preparations for operation bagration
    Germans: why do I hear boss music?

    • @frenchcommune6099
      @frenchcommune6099 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      *g e t 4 , 5 'd*

    • @fuckoffgoogle9747
      @fuckoffgoogle9747 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @Marek Tužák salty boi

    • @IOStalin
      @IOStalin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @Marek Tužák shut up fascist filth, yuo lost the war so suck it up and fuck off

    • @ruskibeaner5983
      @ruskibeaner5983 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Marek Tužák lmao what does this have to do with anything? Operation bagration raped 3 of 4 German army groups the Germans had on the Eastern front in 1944.

    • @sirducky3459
      @sirducky3459 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Marek Tužák Go to the gulags

  • @SomeGuy-lr7ms
    @SomeGuy-lr7ms 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1535

    Soviet: *enter the Balkans*
    Bulgaria and Romania: I've never met Germany my whole life!

    • @AdrianRO1918
      @AdrianRO1918 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      russia in 1991: i dont feel so good
      ukraine: get yo ass out of our land

    • @soulreaper5510
      @soulreaper5510 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Alexei *mongol horns blowing in the east*

    • @uncleadi
      @uncleadi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @@AdrianRO1918 the irony here is that parts of current Ukraine and Crimea was never Ukrainian. It was given to them by the soviets.

    • @AdrianRO1918
      @AdrianRO1918 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@uncleadi neither was north bucovina or southern bessarabia, but thats a topic i dont care about discussing

    • @AdrianRO1918
      @AdrianRO1918 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Alexei no lol

  • @EnemigoalasPuertas
    @EnemigoalasPuertas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This video has always been an inspiration. Excelent job mate. Excelent work in WW2 as well.

  • @lgjosh2481
    @lgjosh2481 5 ปีที่แล้ว +279

    Uploaded on June 22,2019
    I see you're a man of history.

    • @Trajan114
      @Trajan114 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      But why doesn’t anyone care about the afrika corps

    • @lgjosh2481
      @lgjosh2481 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🎵Unser Rommel🎵
      I care. Honestly was pretty amazing how it went down.

    • @peryaful
      @peryaful 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Trajan114 Hahaha))) Afrika cares)

  • @casparcoaster1936
    @casparcoaster1936 4 ปีที่แล้ว +840

    As 60(+) yo American, really grateful to have seen this before my death! My obession w ww2 documentaries started with the BBC World at War series as a child, and dozens and dozens since (the History Channel in the US in the late 80s and 90s) but never have I seen anything like this. Many thanks

    • @deimos5789
      @deimos5789 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      man, you will live for many more decades before you die.

    • @alexandersalmas21
      @alexandersalmas21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Check out the Apocalypse series on WWII (and WWI) if you haven't already. They are my favorite docs on the two great wars.

    • @odysseusrex5908
      @odysseusrex5908 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      If you haven't already, check out the World War Two channel (That's its name). they are doing a day by day history of the war in real time. they are up to May, 1942 now.

    • @MetalDetroit
      @MetalDetroit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Believe it or not, Hogans Heroes started my fascination with the eastern Front. Every time col. Klink screwed up, he was told he would be sent to the Russian front. Klink would be aghast and do panic. Made me wonder how bad the Russian front was.

    • @odysseusrex5908
      @odysseusrex5908 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@MetalDetroit I think Hogan summed it up nicely once, "It's big, it's cold, it's east of here, and there are a lot of guys named Ivan shooting at you."

  • @everythingiseconomics9742
    @everythingiseconomics9742 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1411

    1918, German Empire: the war is lost, we have no more resources, the enemy will only get stronger, it is impossible to turn the tide. We surrender
    1944, Nazi Germany: the war is lost, we have no more resources, the enemy will only get stronger. bRiNg In ThE 14 yEaR oLdS wHiLe wE wAiT fOr A sUpEr WeApOn

    • @ziggytheassassin5835
      @ziggytheassassin5835 5 ปีที่แล้ว +407

      The war will be won when Steiner begins his counter attack on the soviets

    • @raidalshare
      @raidalshare 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lol

    • @samuelwithers2221
      @samuelwithers2221 5 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      @@ziggytheassassin5835 Steiner will counterattack and everything will be alright

    • @wokeaf1337
      @wokeaf1337 5 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      if just the 14years old could have hold Nazi Großreich for 2 more months, Europe would have experienced the atom bomb instead of japan lmao

    • @applesaucedog2642
      @applesaucedog2642 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      ZiggyThe assassin sir... Steiner... could not amass enough troops...

  • @annishenko
    @annishenko 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    These visuals are incredible. Thank you ! Please make more 🙏

  • @olivergustafsson8173
    @olivergustafsson8173 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2750

    Stalin: want to hear a joke?
    hitler: sure
    stalin: moscow
    hitler: I don't get it
    stalin: exactly

    • @pinadeiro
      @pinadeiro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Foking lololol XD

    • @vitoremanuel4374
      @vitoremanuel4374 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Helsinki

    • @mikeymoo8262
      @mikeymoo8262 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Beautiful

    • @thewurstman1100
      @thewurstman1100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@mikeymoo8262 *BLYATIFUL*

    • @Jux925
      @Jux925 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Napoleon: haha, I get it!

  • @FlorinSutu
    @FlorinSutu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +429

    Starting at 8:58 : Quote - Greece "was not considered important by the Red Army".
    No, it was not because of that.
    It was because Churchill wanted Greece under British control, in order to secure the edge of the British Empire (that Churchill thought that it will survive).
    To make sure that Stalin will not plunge his fingers into Greece, Churchill told Stalin that he can grab Romania in any way he wants.
    Mark the irony: The Greeks, big lovers of Communism / Socialism in the 20th century, were forced to remain Capitalist.
    The Romanians, who in a nation of 19 million had a Communist Party of about 400 members, who had 6 million small land owners who hated to give up their property, were forced to become Socialist.

    • @mrcaboosevg6089
      @mrcaboosevg6089 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Britain nor even America was in a position to do much about it, holding onto Greece was just about the best thing Churchill could have done

    • @angelovalavanis2314
      @angelovalavanis2314 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      The Greeks did not become lovers of socialism until 1981 when the Socialist Party "PASOK" came to power, and began giving "free stuff" to everyone in order gain votes for the next 20 years. Where did they get the money? The answer is from the European Union, who had given the socialists money to upgrade Greece's infrastructure as soon as they became a member in 1981, only for them to take all of that money and just give it away by swelling the public sector with useless workers producing stamps on goverment documents. Greece was not socialist up until that time. I'm lucky to have been born in the late 70's and was able to live through this time, and to hear accounts from people of what it was like before the useless socialists came to power and began to brainwash not one but two generations and make them dependent on the government instead of allowing private business to flourish and bring about economic prosperity.

    • @MegaKonradb
      @MegaKonradb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@angelovalavanis2314 Good to hear that some Greeks still oppose this socialist lunacy :D We in Poland have to deal with a basically socialist party whose leadership is going nuts over taking full power, with the coronavirus being a good excuse.. And most people who vote for that party are people who experienced communism (people in their 50,60 and 70ties) which is extra dumb :D But "common folk" just love that "free stuff"..

    • @katalbinson6562
      @katalbinson6562 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      MegaKonradb What he was trying to say is that socialism or communism was much more popular in Greece than Romania (back then).

    • @angelovalavanis2314
      @angelovalavanis2314 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@katalbinson6562 I don't think that was so.

  • @kamel3d
    @kamel3d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1438

    Basically war is how to incircle your enemy

    • @sgg6643
      @sgg6643 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      How can a verified person only have 5 likes?

    • @YiannissB.
      @YiannissB. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +145

      Eh well, War is broadly speaking about destroying the enemy. Encirclement is just one way of approach. Attrition, “surgical” strikes, economic war, propaganda are just some of the rest of the tools that can be used.

    • @nooneinparticular9837
      @nooneinparticular9837 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      In that time period. Pretty impossible to do that in Vietnam.

    • @jesusmarialopezgonzalez1006
      @jesusmarialopezgonzalez1006 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      More than that. WWI wouldn't have been four years long if it was so simple. Germany and Austria - Hungary were caught up between UK - France and Russia.

    • @zoli11
      @zoli11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@jesusmarialopezgonzalez1006 Also tanks didn't play a role in WW I, but made blitzkrieg possible with their speed.

  • @alexroselle
    @alexroselle 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really appreciate these videos for how you showed the topography (elevation and rivers), those are so important but not typically shown at that level of visibility in many maps of the war

  • @thedriper2983
    @thedriper2983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2505

    Soviet: destroying 80% of the Germany army
    America and British: "We are catching up"

    • @thedriper2983
      @thedriper2983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @Vinlon Voss its just an joke

    • @Robbiehans
      @Robbiehans 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      68%

    • @thedriper2983
      @thedriper2983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Robbiehans thanks

    • @beckyeversham3143
      @beckyeversham3143 4 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      @@Robbiehans 69*

    • @thedriper2983
      @thedriper2983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@dennisweidner288 thanks for the inforation dude

  • @umontortle
    @umontortle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +377

    Axis: *has a new plan*
    Soviets : Nice plan, would be a shame if we knew it.

    • @mahromac
      @mahromac 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      and they knew it

    • @heavyartillery-qm5hu
      @heavyartillery-qm5hu 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      British intel, American money and Soviet blood won the war

  • @Nashkelov
    @Nashkelov 5 ปีที่แล้ว +279

    6:30 64th Corps where are you going!?Oh no he have AirPods he can’t hear us

    • @APFS-DS
      @APFS-DS 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      MF just yote out of France smh..

    • @andrewrobeson6714
      @andrewrobeson6714 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahaha

    • @user-oz3sk8ec2e
      @user-oz3sk8ec2e 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      he be takin a french countrywide tour xd

    • @dulguunnorjinbat6136
      @dulguunnorjinbat6136 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Aggressive Tubesock I agree, and the landing in southern france is called operation dragoon. The landing in normandy was only a diversion for operation dragoon, or so i have heard.

    • @danbogdan9578
      @danbogdan9578 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They were doing the "tour de france" but got captured on the way.

  • @cherylhersperger3145
    @cherylhersperger3145 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I am writing a book about my life in intersection with a Soviet Red Army Officer who I met in the USA. The series of videos regarding the movements from 1942 to 1945 confirmed his recollections as further evidenced through his battle certificates. Thank you for putting this together so accurately and comprehensively.

  • @meccnr3536
    @meccnr3536 5 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Magnificent work done out there!
    Will wait for "Pacific War Animated: Series"!

    • @tinko2349
      @tinko2349 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You'll probably never see that on this channel

    • @thepainkiller4939
      @thepainkiller4939 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The channel name is "EASTory", so I don't expect this to happen.

    • @tf2anti963
      @tf2anti963 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      The channel is named eastory buddy

    • @bificommander7472
      @bificommander7472 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hey, far east is still east.

    • @thepainkiller4939
      @thepainkiller4939 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bificommander7472 in other words, "it's free real estate"

  • @SimplySpace
    @SimplySpace 5 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    A new Eastory WWII video, my day is complete. I love your videos.

  • @bruhbruh-st6vm
    @bruhbruh-st6vm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +364

    Germany: Alright, Bulgaria and Romania, i need you to hold off the soviets
    Bulgaria & Romania: Wait a minute........ Who are you?

    • @ekisfrole3118
      @ekisfrole3118 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Many thanks to the Soviets for helping us to fight back the Germans

    • @0306368368
      @0306368368 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ekisfrole3118 My friend, you're wrong. The Soviet Union for four years restrained and counterattacked the Nazis, and the allies in the end helped and a huge thank you to them for this in Russia honor the memory and mourn for all those killed in the war. It is a pity that the West is beginning to forget all the grief that the Nazis brought to Europe and Russia and forget who suffered the brunt of the war. Forget who took the brunt and drove the Nazis back into their hole.

    • @bs2202
      @bs2202 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *The Western Allies Have Joined The Game*

    • @hq3473
      @hq3473 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Romania: new phone, who dis?

    • @구독자500명되면이같은
      @구독자500명되면이같은 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      If it werent for useless romanians, they wouldnt have lost stalingrad

  • @megapangolin1093
    @megapangolin1093 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Thank you for this glorious explanation of the complexities of war. I never knew the detail of this, having read and seen many sources. This is a triumph.

  • @michelangeloceccardi3871
    @michelangeloceccardi3871 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    OMG i waited for this a long time! Glad to hear you again bud

  • @thomasaquinas5262
    @thomasaquinas5262 4 ปีที่แล้ว +249

    As a military historian, I'd give anything to have a recording of the Zhukov war councils he held before any major campaign. Even more interesting were the sandbox re-creations of the battlefield. The largest ever, for Berlin, had everything down to the gas stations...

    • @brandonsarsland-brunner3390
      @brandonsarsland-brunner3390 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Lmao Berlin had gas stations

    • @SmilingIbis
      @SmilingIbis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@brandonsarsland-brunner3390 Where did you think they got the gas to slosh on Hitler's corpse in a half-hearted effort to "cremate" the body?

    • @brandonsarsland-brunner3390
      @brandonsarsland-brunner3390 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@SmilingIbis when I wrote that it meant that germanys gas stations were closed mostly to conserve fuel for the war effort. It was just a joke like “lol when were they ever on”

    • @lukeallison3713
      @lukeallison3713 ปีที่แล้ว

      Let's say the battle of the bulge never happens and courland is fully evacuated by december 1944. How much longer does that give the germans in your assesment?

  • @Acheiropoietos
    @Acheiropoietos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    This took so much work and effort. Smooth animation, choreographed narration, detail upon detail, accuracy, brevity. Absolutely flabbergasted.

  • @lawrencewood289
    @lawrencewood289 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Excellent video. The narrative and explanation is clear. Bravo!

  • @alimoradi8454
    @alimoradi8454 5 ปีที่แล้ว +703

    The secret of politics? make a good deal with Russia.
    - Otto von Bismarck -

    • @gustavschnitzel
      @gustavschnitzel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +166

      Don't lead a war with two fronts. And NEVER lead a war with Russia.
      - Otto von Bismarck -

    • @anastasiskolovos4924
      @anastasiskolovos4924 5 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      @Alexandre Renzetti no it doesnt. Although America contributed in the annihilation of Nazi Germany the Soviet Union and the UK basically hard carried the allies

    • @ivanlazarevic78
      @ivanlazarevic78 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @Alexandre Renzetti it was cold.If it got hot that would off been a problem

    • @gustavschnitzel
      @gustavschnitzel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      @Alexandre Renzetti you seem to forget that the Soviet Union destroyed itself and not by FOREIGN powers... big difference. And even with a "weak" economy the Soviet Union and nowadays Russia had/has perhaps the strongest and most experienced army in the world...

    • @centurymemes1208
      @centurymemes1208 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@gustavschnitzel
      But soviet union didn't destroyed itself it was
      *GRAPHITE*

  • @thealt8038
    @thealt8038 4 ปีที่แล้ว +673

    Germany after losing Berlin: well boys to Prague we go

    • @ninlog
      @ninlog 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Wat

    • @teddiedoggo8965
      @teddiedoggo8965 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@ninlog hoi4 meme

    • @user-theyellowfox8
      @user-theyellowfox8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      To Buenos-Aires

    • @Philip54622
      @Philip54622 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      In my endseig games its always kiel because the western allies capture Hamburg, Hannover and Munich and the Soviets everything else

  • @schurup2994
    @schurup2994 5 ปีที่แล้ว +285

    Germany : Hol'up bois we got this.
    Romania has left the server.
    Bulgaria has left the server.
    Finland has left the server.

    • @Danielklark
      @Danielklark 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      no longer with bois

    • @yourlocalt72
      @yourlocalt72 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      what about Italy?

    • @blueberrybuttercake2942
      @blueberrybuttercake2942 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@yourlocalt72 Italy has left the server earlier. They have bad connection.

    • @jesszusmarijja2737
      @jesszusmarijja2737 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hungary fights to the bitter end!

    • @RisvoldTheGreat
      @RisvoldTheGreat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I hate unoriginal fucks like you. Follow the crowd like a sheep with that left server shit. Unoriginal bitch

  • @bardoquillocrisantobenur1709
    @bardoquillocrisantobenur1709 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thank you so much for yuor crews co-workers to make this video this is more understand the war in europe. i acknowledge you works this keeps the histories alive... thank you again.

  • @hamzaalsayyed2700
    @hamzaalsayyed2700 5 ปีที่แล้ว +254

    I have never been so entertained by bubbles floating around on a map

    • @dimitrissimitzis6944
      @dimitrissimitzis6944 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      play hio4

    • @issacarellano9909
      @issacarellano9909 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hamza Alsayyed you should watch historia civilis
      You maybe entertained by moving squares and rectangles

    • @Void_Wars
      @Void_Wars 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Josef Stalin no, bubbles are superior.

  • @0d1n69
    @0d1n69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1072

    1939, WW2 started
    Allies in 1940: not yet
    Allies in 1941: not yet
    Allies in 1942: not yet
    Allies in 1943: mb now..?
    Allies in 1944: ohh shit, sovet already in center of Europe, go go go
    1945, WW2 finished

    • @emil_developer2864
      @emil_developer2864 4 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      france is fine lol because they had no weapon only baguette

    • @seang3019
      @seang3019 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      I think you might be forgetting North Africa, Italy, the bombing raids and oh yeah, the enormous amount of materiel supplied to the Red Army by the Americans and notably the British, whose industrial capacity even after the Blitz was equal to the Soviets.

    • @WHAWBOY
      @WHAWBOY 4 ปีที่แล้ว +160

      @@seang3019 "Material suplied to the Red army by america", bitch pls why dont you talk of Ford and GM helping the nazi?
      Search it then talk, americans think they are the center of everything, boys you are 244 years old country and you go everywhere to tell people how to rule their country, first fix the mess you have in your house.

    • @seang3019
      @seang3019 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      @@WHAWBOY Firstly, the amount of goods and resources sold to the Axis throughout the war, by profiteering companies such as Ford and Standard Oil are dwarfed by the amount of materiel given to the Soviets by the US and Britain.
      Secondly, I'm not American. I am however a graduate in American and Russian history.
      And thirdly, how about we keep the discussion on a civil footing?

    • @DmitriyBch
      @DmitriyBch 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@seang3019 you forgot to menrion that most supplies were sent by allies to Russia in 1945 when it didnt play major role already. Italy and North Africa campaigns was insignifficant comparing to Eastern Front. Just google number of soldiers in Africa and in Eastern front

  • @leffegardmaneson6585
    @leffegardmaneson6585 5 ปีที่แล้ว +236

    As a German I can say, with Steiner's attack everything will be alright

    • @joshuajoseph5998
      @joshuajoseph5998 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Funny lol. I think u r praying to Allah ryt about now

    • @nebannijden330
      @nebannijden330 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You are wrong, comrade. We have endless reserves of Mongols and Chinese. They fight worse than us, but they are a hell of a lot xD
      _p.s. I'm Belarus-Russian ;-)_

    • @mrsky67
      @mrsky67 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      joshuajoseph No need to get stereotypical.

    • @afterchangey2554
      @afterchangey2554 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@joshuajoseph5998 ru making fun of religion?

    • @think9747
      @think9747 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@joshuajoseph5998 wtf he is from germany and why this comment ?

  • @oskarcommunelly3016
    @oskarcommunelly3016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Some Poles still thinking that Red Army didnt help their rebellion in Warsaw for some political purpose, but look at 4:44, Axis were still between us, brothers, Red Army didnt stop on political purpose. I know about terrible warcrimes in the beginning of war, from Soviets, from Army of Krajova, we all did bad things. Today we must become freinds, we must never repeat this mess, for peace in all world, much love to Poland from Russia 🇵🇱 🇵🇱🇵🇱❤️🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

    • @leventekovacs6301
      @leventekovacs6301 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed

    • @Damian.99
      @Damian.99 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      hahaha, now your sending migrants to Poland, good job. Brothers my ass.

    • @alaxs
      @alaxs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thks for you comment bro!
      deaths WW2...
      1) 520 000 French
      2) 400 000 Italians
      3) 320 000 British
      4) 325 000 Americans
      5) 364 000 Chechs and Slovaks
      6) 1 600 000 Yugoslavians
      7) 6 028 000 Poles
      8) 9 700 000 Germans
      9) 20 000 000 Soviets
      and many more from other countries..... YOUR NAME IS UNKNOW.... YOUR DEAD IS IMMORTAL!!!!

    • @livethefuture2492
      @livethefuture2492 ปีที่แล้ว

      No they very much didnt intend to help the uprising. Stalin knew what he was doing.
      They had already severed ties with the legitimate provisional government in London.
      And We all know what became of Poland after the war.
      The germans simply saved the Russians from putting down the uprising themselves.
      God knows they know very well how to put down uprisings, as they would end up doing in hungary 1956 and czechoslovakia in 1968.

  • @prodcross
    @prodcross 3 ปีที่แล้ว +320

    Russia: Less Then 100 Km From Berlin
    Germany: Sends The Last Of Their Panzers Down To Hungary To Perform Offensive Warefare

    • @czechoslovakpatriot4773
      @czechoslovakpatriot4773 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Because Hungary had some vital oil fields. By 1945 much of the synthetic oil plants in Germany proper were destroyed by Allied bombing.

    • @prodcross
      @prodcross 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@czechoslovakpatriot4773 yea I know but at that point in the war it was pointless to try and recapture land/oil and using already limited resources on pointless offensives, it was just a waste of resources in my opinion, not like it mattered in the end but still

    • @SpokoistvieSupreme
      @SpokoistvieSupreme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@prodcross that how much important the oil in war, this why america so love oil 😆

    • @FreeMan4096
      @FreeMan4096 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@czechoslovakpatriot4773 this guy reads!

    • @louissteven8862
      @louissteven8862 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Either hold tight and lose for sure or attack and MAYBE win.

  • @musicbeats8905
    @musicbeats8905 5 ปีที่แล้ว +601

    Europe: war waging
    Switzerland: eating popcorn

    • @stefann2461
      @stefann2461 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hotel: Trivago

    • @modermapper9840
      @modermapper9840 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Music Beats | Sweden: sh*ts itself out of fear

    • @lalolara123
      @lalolara123 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol Switzerland watching Europe and the rest of the world burn

    • @SmilingIbis
      @SmilingIbis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Switzerland got "accidentally" bombed a few times, though it is speculated that these were intended to stop Swiss munitions production for the German army.

    • @stefann2461
      @stefann2461 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      SmilingIbis wow, I never knew this

  • @covid-2320
    @covid-2320 4 ปีที่แล้ว +241

    Everybody talking abaout how Italy Switched sides when they started losing.
    But no one is talking about HOW ALL OF GERMANY ALLIES SWITCHED SIDES WHEN THEY STARTED LOSING.

    • @aryandrasetiawan5386
      @aryandrasetiawan5386 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Except japan

    • @Wiktorino1984
      @Wiktorino1984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Germans don't have many allies becose they conquering doctrine where so sick to accept. In Final they stand alone versus all.

    • @3dcomrade
      @3dcomrade 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @Mate 800 even its an alliacne of conflicted interest. Romania gets in because its economically dependent on Germany but hated Hungary for taking Transylvania. Slovakia and Hungary hated each other due to the war between them in 1939 shortly after Slovakia is established

    • @viktoriaviktoria9327
      @viktoriaviktoria9327 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Wiktorino1984 Its a fact that Germany stood alone versus whole world , I think many people respect that.

    • @Wiktorino1984
      @Wiktorino1984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@viktoriaviktoria9327 They stand alone becose they wanted vanish other people, they dont assimilate conquered lands like Rome. And all victories of 3 Reich where versus smaller or same size countries. They not win with UK,Russia or USA. Germany could control all EU but they end as kidnaped country.

  • @rewindselecta4936
    @rewindselecta4936 3 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    Спустя столько лет люди до сих пор делят победу в процентном соотношении. Победа была общая,победа всего адекватного мира над нацизмом. Нельзя допускать подобных войн в будущем,ибо все погибнут. Уважение падшим войнам всех стран,уважением всем работягам на полях и заводах! Земля пухом ушедшим ветеранам. Мир.

    • @eto_el_348
      @eto_el_348 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Клнечно делят, ведь западная пропаганда 70 лет плюет на память советских солдат, всячески принижая и даже вымывая их вклад в победу, которой бы просто не было без СССР.

    • @BibEvgen
      @BibEvgen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Победа общая, а значения для нас и для них разное. Для нас победа выживание в цивилизационном и в физическом плане, а для них? В Европе, на западе не было то что происходила у нас. По поводу победны над нацизмом, ты погорячился.

    • @Alekc_Tim
      @Alekc_Tim 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Победа Америки и России над Европой.

    • @Ромашка-с6ш
      @Ромашка-с6ш 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@eto_el_348 любую западную пропаганду переплевывает Российская. Чего только стоят выходящие фильмы при поддержке гос. фонда кино с их вопреки и за булочку с трамвайчиком

    • @eto_el_348
      @eto_el_348 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Ромашка-с6ш Как антисоветская пропаганда российского правительства оправдывает антисоветскую пропаганду запада? Более того, российская антисоветчина буквально квлька с западной пропаганды времен холодной войны. Она буквально неотличима, это одни и те же байки.

  • @niezkieowo6071
    @niezkieowo6071 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This was truly a masterpiece. I'm so glad i found this channel :)

  • @blaine8197
    @blaine8197 5 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Isn’t it ironic how the Germans suffered a major encirclement near Minsk just as the Soviet’s had years before?

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Minsk is a nice place in summer time apparently. No one wants to let it go!

    • @bificommander7472
      @bificommander7472 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I also noticed that the Soviets in this episode had to decide between making a final push for the capital or securing the flanks first, which is how Eastory described the German choice in the 1941 episode.

    • @blaine8197
      @blaine8197 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      bificommander Astute observation, but in this case the decision wasn’t made upon ensuring victory, as Germany had lost the war by that time. The Soviet’s wanted to gather as much land as possible before the war ended

  • @michaellynch5621
    @michaellynch5621 5 ปีที่แล้ว +362

    Konstantin Rokossovsky: Ты уже мертв.
    Army Group Center: Was?

    • @неслабыйповодкупитьутконоса
      @неслабыйповодкупитьутконоса 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Он же: сейчас мы нафаршируем твой зад яблоками и грушами,.как пелось у Катюши, как утку мы тебя, съедим на рождество ;)

    • @kmarasin
      @kmarasin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @First Name Last Name Wrong theater, you want the Pacific

    • @ShortT-RexLikeArms
      @ShortT-RexLikeArms 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@kmarasin Or Manchuria

    • @ollikoskinen1
      @ollikoskinen1 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @First Name Last Name "You are already encircled."

  • @1guyreckingkrew
    @1guyreckingkrew 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for taking your time to make this. Very informative.

  • @AvaToyShow
    @AvaToyShow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +571

    If I was Germany I'd Alt-F4 in June 1944

    • @jebatevrana
      @jebatevrana 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Except you can`t. And you`re stuck with same sucky team mates.

    • @jurtra9090
      @jurtra9090 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      You should have Alt-F4 in 1939

    • @aperson1385
      @aperson1385 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Wtf is a toy channel doing in a comment section of a video that is about a war

    • @jurtra9090
      @jurtra9090 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@aperson1385 maybe that channel wants to learn about WW2, chill!

    • @AvaToyShow
      @AvaToyShow 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@aperson1385 The people who manage the channel are adults and keep it logged in?

  • @HerrXenon_
    @HerrXenon_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Outstanding and incredible work. Much appreciation for your dedication, historical accuracy and knowledge. I've really enjoyed this project and hope to see more from you in the future. Cheers from Italy.

  • @impaugjuldivmax
    @impaugjuldivmax 5 ปีที่แล้ว +988

    11th minute..
    Eastern Front: 6,5M Soviets vs 3M Germans
    Western Front: 400k Americans vs 200k Germsns
    lol that is the real scale of WW2

    • @dmytrohnatchenko8541
      @dmytrohnatchenko8541 5 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      but soviets
      fought on tanks and planes of the allies, gunpowder and steel, steam locomotives and trucks. all this soviets ate canned food of the allies.

    • @pyroman010
      @pyroman010 5 ปีที่แล้ว +358

      @@dmytrohnatchenko8541 it is bull shit. Мost of the tanks, ammunition and food of the ussr produced itself. f the help of the allies amounted to at least 10% of the total amount needed, then this would be good.

    • @yeeterdeleter6306
      @yeeterdeleter6306 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Imperator Augustus yea

    • @urdnotwrex6969
      @urdnotwrex6969 5 ปีที่แล้ว +196

      @@dmytrohnatchenko8541 but soviets
      fought on tanks and planes of the allies, gunpowder and steel, steam locomotives and trucks. all this soviets ate canned food of the allies. YOU WHAT MATE? Confirmed things delivered to Soviets by USA are boots, jeep willys, m3 half track, Airacobras. UK delivered Churchills. They ofc lend lease it BUT NOT IN LIKE FUCKING GAME CHANGER. Russians had their own shit and lend lease just help them little bit increasing growing army. For example for four years from 1940 to 1944 Soviets made EVERY YEAR around 30 000 to 40 000 tanks, artyllery, AA, logistic trucks, vehicles like recon etc. Lend lease was around 1 000 to 2 000 of vehicles AND planes. In year 45 Allies (USA, Britain) together made around 20 000 vehicles. From year 1940 to 1944 they were around 30 000 per year (together). Germany was 4 000 from 1940 and raised to maximum of 8 000 vehicles. So stop with this propaganda bullshit of western broken civilization. Lets talk about for example how Chamberlain clapped Hitler for achieving victory of his Nazi party. Lets talk about Proud Boys Corp in Britain and nazi group in America. Or how Walt Disney supported Hitler. Lets talk about how Churchills imperialism killed 5 000 000 people in India. Lets talk about those things. Oh, if you even wanna say something to Molotov-Ribentrop pact, you should mention Britain pact with Hitler or we ALL should remeber the most disturbing one which started this whole fiasco. Munich pact: Germany-Italy-Britain-France pact to sell Czechoslovakia. LET THAT SINK IN!

    • @ikki-gaming8933
      @ikki-gaming8933 5 ปีที่แล้ว +149

      @@dmytrohnatchenko8541 I'm sorry for western people not wanting even to aknowledge that the soviets won the war. Your countries didn't do much to help stop the war and thanks to you Anne Frank died, she herself said "are they gonna let the soviets do all the war?" before she died. The USSR won the war, the UK and US played a minor, yet also important role in that. I understand patriotism, but so many brave russian soldiers gave their lifes to free us from nazism and all they get is not honor but "the USA won the war" blah blah blah.

  • @GeneralBongmeister
    @GeneralBongmeister ปีที่แล้ว +13

    you can read every document, every history book, every plan, but when you watch a map with colours moving on it, you can get a true scale of how dramatic this conflict was, amazing video 11/10
    👍

  • @neighbourskid9839
    @neighbourskid9839 5 ปีที่แล้ว +486

    Italy: I'm the best at switching sides in a war.
    Romania: Are you challenging me??

    • @joshellsworth355
      @joshellsworth355 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Well, there is "Roman" in Romania

    • @eric11
      @eric11 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @ roman empire

    • @Deem707
      @Deem707 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @ both Romanians and Italians claim to be descendants of Romans and both switched sides.

    • @GaussGauss-xt8pn
      @GaussGauss-xt8pn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well, consider that France did it TWO TIMES.

    • @stironeceno
      @stironeceno 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      What choice Italy and Romania had ? their weapons where not up to par with the allies . it was totally insane fighting

  • @negan_lq9499
    @negan_lq9499 5 ปีที่แล้ว +299

    Wow the eastern front is several times bigger than the western one

    • @faisalkhurshid8503
      @faisalkhurshid8503 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      No shit

    • @Chosen_One_V13
      @Chosen_One_V13 5 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      Amazing eh? Not so big in western movies so U could assume that Eastern Front was a walk in the park.

    • @xPlatiinHD
      @xPlatiinHD 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      no shit Sherlock

    • @dead_againonblitz6462
      @dead_againonblitz6462 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Vuk Todic the germans still wouldve lost even if they hadnt invaded the USSR, the vast amount of fuel needed to destroy britain and its allies would essentially bankrupt germany without the need of the soviets.

    • @michdem100
      @michdem100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Allies (and Comiterm):
      UK: We have the planes, leave Luftwaffe to us
      USSR: We'll fight their army, but we need stuff.
      USA: We have stuff
      Axis:
      Japan attacks China
      Germany sends attache to China
      Italy invades Greece. And fails
      Japan prepares to invade USSR
      Germany does Ribbentrop-Molotov with USSR
      Germany attacks USSR
      Japan signs non-aggression with USSR

  • @theinsanepumpkincarver
    @theinsanepumpkincarver 5 ปีที่แล้ว +471

    Germany can still win, Steiner's attack will turn things around!

    • @MrConstantine02
      @MrConstantine02 5 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      @@joshmayetballoon3103 DAS WAR EIN BEFEHL!!

    • @federicos8082
      @federicos8082 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@MrConstantine02 You forgot "The following stay here: Keitel, Jodl, Krebs and Burgdorf"

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Wenck will come.

    • @jeffreydirksen8121
      @jeffreydirksen8121 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      DER ANGRIFF STEINER WAHR EIN BEFEHL !!

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeffreydirksen8121 love it!

  • @mobilehome5078
    @mobilehome5078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent. This visual form of presentation is one of the best tools to teach history.

  • @filmedvertically8092
    @filmedvertically8092 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Holy shit, I've been waiting so long for this, thank you for putting all this effort into your videos, looking forward to the next video already

  • @peepingtom9342
    @peepingtom9342 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    15:11 Das war ein Befehl! Der Angriff Steiners war ein Befehl!

    • @eugenhartwig
      @eugenhartwig 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ГеоргийЛабинский-т1о Ну и какого чёрта ? Кто не погиб мог быть убит зверюгами из победителей,власовцев перешедших на сторону пражского сопротивления не оставляли в живых когда попадали с сталинский плен.

    • @ГеоргийЛабинский-т1о
      @ГеоргийЛабинский-т1о 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eugenhartwig что? О чём ты? При чём тут это?

    • @eugenhartwig
      @eugenhartwig 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ГеоргийЛабинский-т1о А при чём здесь Штайнэр и вождь на немецком с приказами и дружеским советом фюреру ?😂 Ты знаешь где метёшь ?

    • @ГеоргийЛабинский-т1о
      @ГеоргийЛабинский-т1о 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eugenhartwig при том, что в видео есть момент когда Штайнер не выполняет приказ Гитлера, а эти фразы из фильма про последние дни рейха.

    • @eugenhartwig
      @eugenhartwig 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ГеоргийЛабинский-т1о Значит говорили об одной и той-же теме.

  • @2D_SVD
    @2D_SVD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    Today I watched this series for the third time and only now did I notice that the narrator uses the same words to describe the Soviet plans for Berlin at 12:40 as they did for the German plans for Moscow way back in the beginning of the war. And I like it.

  • @dtikvxcdgjbv7975
    @dtikvxcdgjbv7975 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I like Your pronunciation of "Red" in "Red Army", so sweet.