I was semi-expecting that in those new remade episodes they put out recently Indy would start saying "bye" before hanging up, right after the guy on the other end says "Maclunkey!" (so we no longer think of Indy as this cold-blooded not-bye-saying-phone-up-hanger).
Indy's mom: "How has the weather been at your place? It's been rainy all week here." Indy: "Really?" Indy's mom: "Yes, has it been nice and sunny for you?" Indy: "Uh huh." Indy's mom: "Oh that's nice. Will you have time to visit sometime soon? I was thinking-" Indy: "Okay." *hangs up*
@@polendri4812You got it backward. Indy learned his phone etiquette from Mama Indy. It’s well known she’d hang up mid-sentence anytime Indy’s war reports began to ramble.
Germany: "Hey Japan, we could use some help. We're attacking a nation with a large landmass and a huge population." Japan: *Glances at China* "Welcome to the Club."
their concern at this point was how to avoid or win a war with their former ally after defeating the USSR and China. this is part of why they sucked at strategic coordination; also, they believed themselves racially superior to their enemies. consequently no need to ask each other for aid. smh lol
Germany :''also they're putting up really tough resistance despite having worse military organisation and technology because we're trying to genocide them, pls halp'' Japan:
@@QuizmasterLaw Yeah, by the very nature of Imperial Japan, they could only have allies that were far away. They had a "Japan is the only thing that matters" mentality that put ancient Chinese dynasties to shame.
I was curious about that too. Maybe google translator with pronunciation? Btw Polish cities (some occupied by Russians at this moment) were pronounced very well by Indy. Good job.
Soviet math textbook: If it takes 10 days for German army to move 1/3 of a way to Moscow, how long will it take them to enter Moscow? Answer: Infinity.
Martin Gilbert makes a mistake here (which is used as s resource) at 03:37 , Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney sunk Italian cruiser Bartolemeo Colleoni in 19th July 1940 not in July 1941
@@neiloflongbeck5705 yeah, from what I'm seeing Sydney went back to the Australia area from February 1941. Battle of Cape Spada, where Bartoleomo Colleoni was sunk, took place on July 19, 1940.
As a fun sidenote, at this point, there are actually 30 000 soviet troops in Finland, manning the Hanko peninsula, which is on the southern coast, between Helsinki and Turku. They were placed there at the end of the Winter War precisely in case Finland misbehaved, but are now boxed in by Finnish units. Since both armies have their focus and priorities elsewhere, the Finns manning that front lack the strength to destroy the pocket and the soviets lack the support they would need to break out and threaten Helsinki. Very little fighting will occur, until finally the soviets are evacuated by sea in December.
@@Southsideindy No problem U guys have millions of followers so u will always have millions ready to correct u. Thats a good thing to have, I believe, and as you said, to keep you on your toes. Great series. Keep up the good work!
@@Southsideindy The best people admit to, and correct their mistakes. The worst double down ad continue to deny. Well done for all you great work. I wondered how you would cover the darker side of WW2, but I think the tone is correct.
My Great-Grandfather was a crewman on the HMAS Waterhen. Only casualty from memory was one sailor being hit in the head by a flying can of Bully Beef. Never though his ship would be brought up on a history show. Great stuff.
In the chaos of war.... A sailor gets killed by a can of beef!? I can see his ghost was probably pretty peeved being killed by a can of beef. Probably was German Beef.
@colin minhinnick they didn't demand sharia law, that's like saying America demanded the constitution. If you look at the sharia law implemented under the Ottoman Empire it is no different from contemporary laws in other nations such as the UK and sometimes was more progressive. I.e. legalising gay people.
@@Max-is4qu I'm going to disagree. For the last 3000-4000 years, most of the known wars were fought in the Middle East. Probably because it had the first cities and sich you know.
@@Alex-cw3rz to the extent that Ottoman law was more tolerant than contemporary European laws, it was because the Ottoman government was not being strict about following sharia. There is one notable exception, that religious minorities such as Jews might not be actively persecuted if that community accepted its status as dhimmi and paid the specified poll tax.
It really looks like the USSR has no chance. Call me crazy, but I fully expect the writers to make them win in the end anyway. Can't wait to see how it unfolds. Thank you all for the episode!
@@Johnny-Thunder Yeah you'd think the Germans would have learnt that lesson from history wouldn't you and been prepared for the conditions. From my own research though I have some idea why they weren't prepared for that kind of weather - they expected the fight to be over before winter. They were delayed by Mussolini's attack on Greece which when it ran into trouble required German help which delayed the German attack on Russia by 6 weeks. Also Hitler massively underestimated the strength of the Soviet army. There is a voice recording of him talking frankly with Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Defence Forces in which he admits this. Here it is: th-cam.com/video/ClR9tcpKZec/w-d-xo.html
I have learned more from watching this series then any other World War Two series either in book, television, or movie form. Thanks for all the hard work
@@johnbelland5276 For the longest time growing up I had always thought the skulls were an artificial aesthetic placed by developers in WW2 games to make the SS look more evil than they already were (as if it was needed). Had no idea they were an actual part of the uniform.
@@armorsmith43 and? Go ahead, make the connection of why since it is an older symbol the SS weren't really that bad. Since that is what you are going for.
Communists all over Europe are making plans to start shooting Germans and to carry out other armed actions, in an effort to discourage the Germans from transferring occupation troops to the Eastern Front. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Georges
As recommended by another commenter, the drinking rules have now changed. From June 22 until further notice, drink every time Indy says "encircled" and/or mentions German logistical issues.
A far better understanding of the reality on the ground when we are told the story on a week by week basis, I'm a big fan and learning a great deal more than I did before. Thanks
"If you'd like to see the War Against Humanity episodes..." Well... I didn't LIKE seeing them, I hope no-one did. They should be seen nonetheless, for educational purposes.
Outstanding commentary, content, coverage, speakers voice, map displays. You have a special talent for getting ALOT of info out in a short amount of time, thank you so much sir, enjoyed this. SHOUT OUT TO ALL CHANNEL DONORS, YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME
Moscow was not the only goal of Barbarossa. Barbarossa's original objectives were to reach Arhangelsk-Astrahan line ( the A-A line) wich include taking Leningrad, Murmansk, all Ukraine, Stalingrad, Caucasus, taking Moscow and everything beyond it until Urals. And that before winter 😅
Another tie with a lovely colour scheme and great detailing. The blue clashes with the red from the back of the waistcoat, though, and Indy's awesome intensity sees him lean over about 50% of the video. 3/5 because it's still a lovely tie
@@VRichardsn This very much depends on the occasion and your build. As a general rule you can't go wrong with single breasted. Double breasted needs to be tailored to perfection and even then it's quite formal and looks best on skinny guys, imo
I always find it amusing the Germans are already running into totally predictable issues. Did the General Staff assume foot soldiers could run marathons to keep up?
It seems like the Germans were really good at trusting in best case scenarios and totally ignoring the possibility of a worst case scenario. But I suppose you wouldn't attack Russia at all without such a mindset.
They thought it would be just like in 1918 (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk) but this time within 4 months instead of 4 years for the Russian war machine to collapse. They underestimated the tenacity of the Soviet political system and their ability to rebuild divisions from scratch. Stalin's USSR simply wasn't Lenin's Russia of 1918.
@@yarpen26 In all fairness, majority of ancient armies did not have to travel such vast distances. Mongol army is the only exception but even then, we're talking months and years, not days.
Operation Exporter continues in Syria and Lebanon, 100 times smaller in scale than Barbarossa, but definitely not that small in its strategical value to control the routes to Africa, Persia and India
Pavlov's miscalculation cost him his life, but more likely he was the official scapegoat for the collapse of the western front. One has to remember the Russians had a severe shortage of trained officers at the beginning of the war.
*Hitler* : You are part of this offensive, but I do not grant you permission to advance without further support *Panzer divisions* : How can you do this? This is outrageous, its unfair! How can you have panzer divisions, and NOT let me overextend my supply lines??
Evolution of the Soviet forces from july 1st to august 1st: At the front: Divisions: -106 rifle divisions => 187 rifle divisions (+81). -37 tank divisions => 46 tank divisions (+9). -20 motor rifle divisions => 16 motor rifle divisions (-4). -7 cavalry divisions => 20 cavalry divisions (+13). -2 air defense divisions => 2 air defense divisions (=) Independent brigades: -9 airborne brigades => 15 airborne brigades (+6). -6 air defense brigades => 22 air defense brigades (+16) -4 rifle brigades => 3 rifle brigades (-1) -8 artillery brigades => 8 artillery brigades (=). -0 opolcheniye brigades* => 20 opolcheniye brigades (+20) -0 tank brigades => 7 tank brigades (+7) Regiments: -0 rifle regiments => 8 rifle regiments (+8) -90 artillery regiments => 142 artillery regiments (+52) -42 fortified garrisons => 27 fortified garrisons (-15) -9 motorcycle regiments => 5 motorcycle regiments (-4) -18 engineer regiments => 63 engineer regiments (+45) In reserve: Divisions: -47 rifle divisions => 0 rifle divisions (-47). -11 tank divisions => 0 tank divisions (-11). -6 motor rifle divisions => 0 motor rifle divisions (-6). Regiments: -24 artillery regiments => 5 artillery regiments (-19) -5 motorcycle regiments => 0 motorcycle regiments (-5) In other fronts: Divisions: -46 rifle divisions => 81 rifle divisions (+35). -10 tank divisions => 5 tank divisions (-5). -6 cavalry divisions => 24 cavalry divisions (+18). -4 motor rifle divisions => 2 motor rifle divisions (-2). Brigades: -4 airborne brigades => 1 airborne brigade (-3). -1 motor rifle brigade => 1 motor rifle brigade (=). -20 air defense brigades => 20 air defense brigades (=). Regiments: -60 artillery regiments => 51 artillery regiments (-9). -15 fortified garrisons => 12 fortified garrisons (-3). -12 engineer regiments => 6 engineer regiments (-6). -2 air defense regiments => 1 air defense regiment (-1). *Opolcheniye: Local militias raised by the NKVD. Note: the units in "other fronts" are mostly facing the Japanese, and not at war: the negative changes in units indicate transference from those other fronts to the active fronts and active reserves in Europe. Note 2: the Soviet cavalry divisions, unlike their counterparts in other countries, were actually partially mechanised and included at least 1 tank battalion each. Source: ВОЕННО-НАУЧНОЕ УПРАВЛЕНИЕ ГЕНЕРАЛЬНОГО ШТАБА (Военно-исторический отдел): БОЕВОЙ СОСТАВ СОВЕТСКОЙ АРМИИ - ЧАСТЬ I (июнь-декабрь 1941 года). Типография Военной академии ГШ, МОСКВА 1963.
@@shawnr771 I will keep posting these evolutions once a month until december. They give a glance on how the situation was on paper (I can also give the number of units by army group if you want).
"The Russian colossus has been underestimated by us... whenever a dozen divisions are destroyed, the Russians replace them with another dozen." - Franz Halder
@@henrik3291 Well, there is also the thing that the Germans didn't actually destroy most of the divisions that they reported as destroyed: they attacked their command structures, but if (and this happened a lot) at least one or two of the regiments forming that division were able to escape and reform, the Soviets could reinforce that division back to full strengh in a few weeks at most.
Fantastic as always! The largest war in human history deserves all the minute detail you are providing. And I do not think mentioning the activities of the Einsatzgruppen behind the lines is out of place. From Nazi Germany's perspective, the killings were apart of the same war rather than separate from it.
I think about that train loaded with art and historical relics, how they took priority over actual people and I have to ask: am I worth a Rembrandt? No.
Dear Indy and team Thank you for this series as it a great way to engage people to how the war unfolded and to put people in the shoes of people who lived through these events. However I’ve being watching it to help me with a project of mine which is a plot for a tv series and this I do have to point out a couple of errors that are in relation to this week. 1. I do remember that hmas waterhen was apparently sunk by Italian Stuka dive bombers and there was no casualties 2. In regards to hmas Sydney , she served in the Mediterranean just before Italy joined the war , was involved in the battle of Calabria and the Espero convoy in which she assisted sinking the espero , than at the battle of cape Spada off Crete she sank the bartolomeo colleoni on July the 19th 1940, She also participated in both straits of otranto raid. Finally too I think she was returning to Australia at this point because of the Australian government was concerned about German raiders in the area and what did happen is really interesting about how long it took for the Australian people to find out (her loss )finally too I believe the Australian prime ministers was in England meeting Churchill between April 1940 and July that lead to his downfall as prime minster Keep up the good work though
I'm trying to understand how this might look from a British perspective (because I am British) in 1941, and it just looks really, really crap at the moment. And we aren''t even anywhere near the worst bit yet. Yay....
@Sky Winger i think he was referring to the British perspective on Russia. Just imagine, your army has been completely defeated in france, norway, asia, and British generals have desperately waiting for the Soviets to enter the war, and once they do, they get completely overrun.
@colin minhinnick well, i mean dunkirk and losing all their equipment, i would consider that a defeat, even if they did see some victories (counterattack against rommels forces for exanple)
I'll quote Albert Cohen, a Greek-born Jewish refugee living in London at the time. "With a fixed smile, England hopefully begins the hopeless struggle...France is beaten. We'll win. We can't use bases in Ireland. We'll win. Hungary joins Germany. We'll win. We're beaten in Greece, in Libya, in Crete. We'll win. English towns are destroyed. We'll win. Ships bringing food and arms are sunk. We'll win...So childishly confident in the future that they make you shed tears of pity, admiration and faith".
@colin minhinnick yes i see your point, but im jist poonting out how dire thee situation looks. Yes it wasnt fair that britain was fighting on three continents at once but these are still defeats
11:38 Leningrad seems a little uncomfortably too close to joint Finnish and German attacks. Sounds good that they are evacuating 200K people out of the city, it looks like a matter of time before those attacks might overwhelm's the city's defenses...
One of the reasons why soviets attacked Finland in 1939 was to move the border away from the Leningrad actually. If you think that it was close in 1941, then consider that finnish-soviet border of 1939 is today located ...28km inside the St.Petersburg. Not that it makes soviet attack justified, but they certainly had strategic reasons for that.
@@markvorobjov6185 Problem is that the Winter War only caused the exact thing that it sought to avoid. Without the Winter War the Finns would have been rather unlikely to be willing participants in the WW II.
It will be the longest siege in modern history. 900 days. And it will starve a great number of the population to death. The people will eat their horses, dogs, and cats. They will scrape the paste off their wallpaper and eat it. They will eat their candles for the tallow. And eventually, they will begin eating their dead.
@@WandererRTF That's an area of alternate history. Maybe they would have not, maybe they would have. They still had other grudges against ussr (like their support for finnish reds during civil war) and no doubt Germany would pressure Finland to join. But yeah, Winter war made Finns 100% join any german invasion of ussr.
@@markvorobjov6185 The inherent problem is political. Finland was (and still is) a parliamentary democracy (republic). It is only the parliament which can decide to go to war. And it had agrarian-social democrat majority (both prior to the Winter War fully against offensive war). Mannerheim or Ryti simply had no power to just declare one. Also without the Winter War Finland would have been much less prepared for a war, and even more so with regards to an offensive war. The groups which held grudges were a small minority and had no real power in Finland (party that sort of represented them - IKL - had 8 out of 200 seats in the parliament). So it is really hard to see how it could have happened.
Finns: alright we have to divide up the work into clear seperate objectives, each seperate missions to progress without the other. Germans: lmao attack that way I guess
When you go over the Syrian campaign in World War Two it always kind of hits me because a lot of these battle names are names of places that are again being ripped apart by total war.
And no mention of how warfare went actually on Lapland so I add something. Focusing on Salla as that saw the most action at this time. Attack agaisnt fomerly finnish Salla went slowly. German 163rd and Finnish 6th Divisions attack went well (6th SS did absolutely not) and started to bypass Soviet defences from North and South and Germans would win the race to Salla on 10.7, almost trapping Soviet defenders. And then 163rd and 6th noticed that they got no artillery to continue against Soviet positions for many months. Let me explain, this far north there is no road network or railroad for transporting in any kind of quantity. It can be best explained as walking paths that occasionally can be wide enough for an horse carriage. But instead going through these paths German 163rd and Finnish 6th send infantry regiments through the rocky, tree filled terrain and ignoring Soviet positions entirely. They could do that because Soviets had good defensive positions and the sole railway line to back it up but they were extended to their limit and they could not defend the whole border. But this creates such an logistical nightmares for Germans and Finnish that it isn't funny. Everything that needs any kind of external equipment was more less gonna take forever to be moved, there is practically no roads that vehicles could use and not to mention horse carriages. Everything that is needed is either carried by hand or on back of an horse. This also included animal feed as this north there is no vegetation that horses could eat. And then some horses will have to be put down because of broken ribs. Not because of falling or anything similar but because of equipment horses carried smacked against their ribs. This more or less expains why instead of two weeks of marching it will take much longer to reach Kantalahti. And still somehow Germans managed to advance with some shitty French tanks on terrain that was so hostile. Sure, many broke down but it is still quite impressive.
When we're on brutality, I think it's worth to note that the Soviets attempted to evacuate political prisoners from the west, and hundreds and thousands were shot as a result.
i wish you'd have a special on stalin's day by day reaction to the invasion during the first few days of barbarossa. it's very interesting is shock, depression, and then rallying.
Another tie with a lovely colour scheme and great detailing. The blue clashes with the red from the back of the waistcoat, though, and Indy's awesome intensity sees him lean over about 50% of the video. 2.5/5 because it's still a solid tie
About Battle of Atlantic ,I should mention , six day long battle of Convoy HX133 ends at 29th June 1941 and results were shockingly low for German Navy , only five U-Boats were able to intercept this convoy and sunk total of six merchant ships out of forty one. In return Royal Navy and Royal Canadian convoy escorts were able to sink two U-Boats (U-556 and U-651) That means only three merchant ships sunk per a U-Boat lost , a ratio German Navy can not keep up. For next of the summer for nine weeks (till September 1941) no Allied convoys were attacked in North Atlantic basin , thanks to increasing number of developing RAF Coastal Command patrols , intalling and use of radar more and more on convoy escorts and ULTRA intelligence with which Royal Navy Admiralty simply rerouted convoys away from U-Boat patrol zones. During this period more than six million tons of shipping passed from British ports
The advantage would see saw back and forth like that in the Battle of the Atlantic between the convoys and the U-boats until the final breaking of the U-boat arm in May of 1943. Which is a very long time from now..
For the life of me, I will never know why anyone in the French colonies took up arms to defend the Vichy regime. Not only was Vichy a illegitimate collaborationist government, there was little immediate threat facing colonies like Syria if they instead sided with the Free French. Anyway, great episode as always
France was neutral, that’s why they took up arms. They had to defend their neutrality, or the Germans could punish them at home where, despite their neutrality, they were forced to garrison tens of thousands of German troops in a military occupation, a possibility the Germans acted on when the governments of French Morocco and French Algeria agreed, against the wishes of Vichy, to host allied troops after being defeated by the Americans, the Germans punished France when they tried to commandere the French fleet but the French were able to scuttle it in time, although in addition tens of thousands of French were deported to Germany for slave labor as additional punishment. There were severe consequences for the French people for breaking neutrality, you have to keep that in mind.
Also: “ch” in Rybachy is a “Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate”(apparently there is such thing XD) The closest English equivalent is “Voiceless postalveolar affricate”(I honestly can’t tell the difference XD) like in “chip”.
Рыбачий ч = tch. It's transliterated into English as CH. English spelling seems so irregular in part because it transliterates from many languages and in each of them does so regularly. for real fun allow me to introduce you to pinyin X, Sh, Q, Ch, Zh, J, and R.
Alveolar ridge is a bony edge right behind your upper teeth. Postalveolar means that this ch sound is pronounced with your tongue touching the place right behind this ridge. Palate goes further back in your mouth, so for a russian ch sound you touch a bit more back part of your mouth with a little more back part of your tongue. It makes the sound slightly "softer", but you can barely hear the difference
@@QuizmasterLaw can you be son kind and explain those letters and how to spell them? I've always wondered about them but I don't remember finding an answer
@@jakubcesarzdakos5442 The Russian alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet, with a few Hebrew letters tossed in. So if you already can read the Greek alphabet it's much easier. If you also read the Hebrew alphabet then it's nothing. but for real fun 让我介绍汉字。
Hey, great presentation ! I just found you Indy, but am lovin the delivery and the presentation. At first I thought that it might be good for my HS History students. After a couple of watches, I realize that it would them in the dust. You really have to have the background knowledge to follow this delivery. Great though, thanks again !
Did you hear that?? Indy said, "'Bye" before he hung up the phone! He's coming along - pretty soon, it'll be 'please' and 'thank you' and 'Let me take that for you' ... !
I appreciate your explanation of all this what my grandfather went through in the German army. Addictive information. Watch this daily. I’m a Ups driver and watch this constantly. Safely of course. Keep it up sir. Big fan.
For me as a Finn, I kind of understand why the decision to go to war again seemed sensible at the time. The co-belligerent seems almost invincible on land, and I can bet that they wanted to retake all the lost territory and homes.
@@Dimetropteryx It's arguable Finland wouldn't have been attacked if they hadn't allowed German troops to enter the country. By the time Barbarossa kicked off, the Finnish army was combat ready, there were some 40 000 German troops in Finland, Finnish submarines were laying mines off of Estonia and Finnish Air Force planes had been given new markings that matched the Germans. There is no doubt that Finland, albeit acting in a very narrow political space, was at this point intentionally siding with Germany with the intent of recapturing the lands lost in the Winter War. To save face they waited for Soviet bombings of Finland before declaring war. Regardless, I think OP hits the nail here: Germany seemed invincible, and many Finns were left bitter after the disappointing end result of the Winter War (though it is now recognized as probably the best possible outcome, at the many Finns had been buying the government propaganda that they were going to win the war, and losing territory after fighting so valiantly was a devastating experience). Not to mention that the help the Allies had promised during the Winter War had never materialized. Germany seemed a pretty good bet in 1941.
Soviet Union soke to secure Leningrad in the Winter war againts German attack from Finnish territory by grabbing some land in 1939. Is it a wonder, the Finns tried to secure their national existence by grabbing some land in 1941 ( advancing to so called three-isthmus-line ) to gain some additional strategic depth againts future aggressions from the east After all, every country has their security interests and want to cherish their national determination.
Very impressed with the episode and how you covered the Japanese. Just going to say that quoting Halder on anything especially Hitler should be avoided since he blamed everything on him and made his diary with that emphasis in mind.
I would be a good thing to mention Soviet attrocities against Polish political prisoners in Lwów and outskirts of Przemyśl in first days of Soviet-German war
@@astroNexx not really. Battle for right bank Przemyśl was significant in slowing down German advance in the south. If I remember well, Germans lost there 4 days, and even Soviets counterattack succesfully at 23rd or 24th of June... That is whole other story than German G.A Centre or G.A North. I've read about prisoners taken from prison at Rokitniańska Street, being thrown by soviet state security forces (GB NKVD) into wells near village Niżankowice and left there to die... I was born in Przemyśl, I grew up and lived there for 22 years before I moved to bigger city 10 years ago, but despite that I don't think that you know what is, what I call: "touch of history"... Austro-Hungarian fortress, part of independet Poland after fight for city between Ukrainians and Poles, city divided in half between Soviets and Germans, German attack at dawn of 22nd of June... about 150 000 tousand of German Soldiers dead near the Przemyś during war in 1939, 1941, 1944 that you can count in their war cementery of that period... Indy was there in 2015 during The Great War show and i think that he knows exactly what that city witnessed in first half on 20th century, so I'm personally a bit dissapointed that crew of WW2 missed that detail, not by being a Pole but as someone who's actually aware of that historical touch that is present in my family place.
A masterful episode! I'd miss only a thing or two... I wonder, has the Western Military District commander General Petrov, already been arrested and shot by that time, or not yet? And, by that time, has that District's Red Airforce commander (sorry, forgot the name) already shot himself after his airborne inspection of the destroyed Soviet airfields? I know, stupid questions... Still, a masterful video! Cheers TimeGhost Team!
@Mars Attacks When will comrade Stalin be relieved of his duties and judged for refusing to believe in the Germany attacking so soon? I guess any day now.
@@herrakaarme We can have that "accountability thing" undermine the myth of Stalin's infallibility can we? If we did then "the whole rotten structure" might actually fall in.
Very nice modern spread collar. Not too extreme like many other spread collars. Good size for your face and the collar/head opening on the vest. Works well with the tie knot.
13:02 As a sidenote, what the Soviets were doing was raising new units all around the country, meanwhile they had the already established (and most of them experienced) units from the Far East sent to the frontlines in Europe, while these units were replaced by other newly raised divisions that could hold the line if needed but were not expected to fight for the moment.
I wonder if nukes would be called something like 'Tubes' if the British built their own bomb rather than donating their research to the Americans and transferring their scientists over there.
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Indy finally tells the guy on the other end of the phone "bye" instead of just hanging up.
A true turning point of the war.
With all this carnage, one really starts to appreciate the people around them, ya know?
I was semi-expecting that in those new remade episodes they put out recently Indy would start saying "bye" before hanging up, right after the guy on the other end says "Maclunkey!" (so we no longer think of Indy as this cold-blooded not-bye-saying-phone-up-hanger).
Indy's mom: "How has the weather been at your place? It's been rainy all week here."
Indy: "Really?"
Indy's mom: "Yes, has it been nice and sunny for you?"
Indy: "Uh huh."
Indy's mom: "Oh that's nice. Will you have time to visit sometime soon? I was thinking-"
Indy: "Okay." *hangs up*
@@polendri4812You got it backward. Indy learned his phone etiquette from Mama Indy. It’s well known she’d hang up mid-sentence anytime Indy’s war reports began to ramble.
fatherland vs motherland, the custody battle that will decide Europe future.
@Darkey lol
Which one is which? Hitler tended to describe Germany as the "motherland", but in common language Germans talk about the fatherland
then uncle from across the ocean comes in to bring some sort of sense to the situation (oh how times change)
Wait, they still can't agree who gets to keep Poland? This has been going on for a ages now.
STALIN TOOK THE KIDS! 🤣🤣🤣
Germany: "Hey Japan, we could use some help. We're attacking a nation with a large landmass and a huge population."
Japan: *Glances at China* "Welcome to the Club."
Japan: First time?
their concern at this point was how to avoid or win a war with their former ally after defeating the USSR and China.
this is part of why they sucked at strategic coordination; also, they believed themselves racially superior to their enemies. consequently no need to ask each other for aid. smh lol
France: Listen closely kid...
Germany :''also they're putting up really tough resistance despite having worse military organisation and technology because we're trying to genocide them, pls halp''
Japan:
@@QuizmasterLaw Yeah, by the very nature of Imperial Japan, they could only have allies that were far away.
They had a "Japan is the only thing that matters" mentality that put ancient Chinese dynasties to shame.
Someone: * invades Russia *
Russia: I have a torch and I'm not afraid to light my lands on fire
Russia , Wallachia and Moldavia the scorched earth buddies
Someone could’ve learned from history... (ahem Napoleon)
@André Luis yeah this war was quite different from Napoleonic wars.
Mongol Horde: * invades with a torch *
@@randonameit4984 and horse archers.
Amazed by how Indy manages to say all those Russian names in a row!
He's actually fairly good at pronouncing non English words
But how do you pronounce "kh" in russian ? Like in Boukharine or Arkhangelsk ?
I guess all that training while making The Great War paid off!
I was curious about that too. Maybe google translator with pronunciation? Btw Polish cities (some occupied by Russians at this moment) were pronounced very well by Indy. Good job.
He's been speaking Russian place names for six years now.
Soviet math textbook: If it takes 10 days for German army to move 1/3 of a way to Moscow, how long will it take them to enter Moscow?
Answer: Infinity.
Nah, quite a bit of them will enter the Moscow soon enough. But as prisoners of war.
it's that exercise in asymptotes with the frog that can never quite jump into the pond
@Erich Kirk to the gulags
@Erich Kirk im not that well informed on that. Thanks for pointing that out
The speed of the German advance approaches zero with the temperature.
After months of relatively little action, I have completely forgotten how gorgeous the troop movements look on those maps. Those are amazing
Eastory is really good. The maps got much better when he joined.
Ieuan Hunt they recently redid the first 15 episodes with Eastory maps so they are all gorgeous now.
Germany now: "rAte mY eNCircLeMenT."
4/10, more holes than a Swiss cheese.
Jonathan Luoto nice
7.8/10 all things considered 🙄
"That was the 7th time you've shown an encirclement in class, hitler."
Martin Gilbert makes a mistake here (which is used as s resource) at 03:37 , Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney sunk Italian cruiser Bartolemeo Colleoni in 19th July 1940 not in July 1941
@@neiloflongbeck5705 yeah, from what I'm seeing Sydney went back to the Australia area from February 1941. Battle of Cape Spada, where Bartoleomo Colleoni was sunk, took place on July 19, 1940.
@@kemarisite
They even said Sydney sank Colleoni back in July 1940 episode
As a fun sidenote, at this point, there are actually 30 000 soviet troops in Finland, manning the Hanko peninsula, which is on the southern coast, between Helsinki and Turku. They were placed there at the end of the Winter War precisely in case Finland misbehaved, but are now boxed in by Finnish units. Since both armies have their focus and priorities elsewhere, the Finns manning that front lack the strength to destroy the pocket and the soviets lack the support they would need to break out and threaten Helsinki. Very little fighting will occur, until finally the soviets are evacuated by sea in December.
Correction:
HMAS Sydney sank Colleoni in 19th JULY 1940 in Battle of Cape Spada. You guys actually covered it in real time in July 1940 episodes!
Thanks for keeping me on my toes. it's a lot of info to get straight and sometimes it can be a bit overwhelming. I stand corrected.
@@Southsideindy Can you guys add that into video description or pinned comment? Otherwise people will keep mentioning it in comments :)
@@Southsideindy
No problem
U guys have millions of followers so u will always have millions ready to correct u. Thats a good thing to have, I believe, and as you said, to keep you on your toes.
Great series. Keep up the good work!
@@Southsideindy The best people admit to, and correct their mistakes. The worst double down ad continue to deny. Well done for all you great work. I wondered how you would cover the darker side of WW2, but I think the tone is correct.
@@Southsideindy It is O.K , We will still Tune in !
" It is no exaggeration to say that the campaign in Russia has been won in 14 days. "
What a quote.
Right up there with "peace of our time"
My Great-Grandfather was a crewman on the HMAS Waterhen. Only casualty from memory was one sailor being hit in the head by a flying can of Bully Beef.
Never though his ship would be brought up on a history show. Great stuff.
In the chaos of war....
A sailor gets killed by a can of beef!?
I can see his ghost was probably pretty peeved being killed by a can of beef.
Probably was German Beef.
Weird seeing those battlegrounds in Syria at places that are currently being destroyed by war aswell
@Zachary Durocher it was pretty peaceful up to the 20th century though, it all went downhill after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
@Zachary Durocher well that's an incredibly stupid statement.
@colin minhinnick they didn't demand sharia law, that's like saying America demanded the constitution. If you look at the sharia law implemented under the Ottoman Empire it is no different from contemporary laws in other nations such as the UK and sometimes was more progressive. I.e. legalising gay people.
@@Max-is4qu I'm going to disagree. For the last 3000-4000 years, most of the known wars were fought in the Middle East. Probably because it had the first cities and sich you know.
@@Alex-cw3rz to the extent that Ottoman law was more tolerant than contemporary European laws, it was because the Ottoman government was not being strict about following sharia. There is one notable exception, that religious minorities such as Jews might not be actively persecuted if that community accepted its status as dhimmi and paid the specified poll tax.
It really looks like the USSR has no chance. Call me crazy, but I fully expect the writers to make them win in the end anyway. Can't wait to see how it unfolds. Thank you all for the episode!
Russian Bias - first our games, now our histories.
Spoiler alert: the Russian winter sets in.
@@silverbullet2008bb That would be such a ripoff from Napoleon!
@@Johnny-Thunder Yeah you'd think the Germans would have learnt that lesson from history wouldn't you and been prepared for the conditions. From my own research though I have some idea why they weren't prepared for that kind of weather - they expected the fight to be over before winter. They were delayed by Mussolini's attack on Greece which when it ran into trouble required German help which delayed the German attack on Russia by 6 weeks. Also Hitler massively underestimated the strength of the Soviet army. There is a voice recording of him talking frankly with Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Defence Forces in which he admits this. Here it is: th-cam.com/video/ClR9tcpKZec/w-d-xo.html
silverbullet2008bb th-cam.com/video/fV0ussbeFCE/w-d-xo.html
I’m happy that these episodes are getting longer, since there’s more to talk about. Its the thing I look forward to every week.
Wow. Is that a commentary on how bad 2020 is going?
@@xJavelin1No.
Just wait until the Pacific War!
yes longer episodes.
Soviet Union: The Fascists commit a lot of warcrimes against my population.
China: I feel you Bro.
Also China and Soviet Union: Commits alot of warcrimes against thier own population.
Cpl. Rook Chiang compared to Mao looks like a saint.
@Cpl. Rook yeah, you are right, i should have specified, that it was mainly about those damn communists under command of mao zedong
People in 2020: Man, this year has just been horribly chaotic and nearly impossible to follow
People in 1941: First time?
People in 1918:Amateurs
@@AureliusLaurentius1099 people in 1347, you pandemic noobs in 2020
@@lauzagneandloopnaai4744 536 AD/CE: *Pathetic*
@@dagalealtd4888 People in 1177 BCE: *Pussies*
I have learned more from watching this series then any other World War Two series either in book, television, or movie form. Thanks for all the hard work
Thanks Indi , You make history more interesting than the old HISTORY CHANNEL series.
German Officer: "Are... are we the bad guys?"
They've got skulls on their uniforms, you know.
@@johnbelland5276 For the longest time growing up I had always thought the skulls were an artificial aesthetic placed by developers in WW2 games to make the SS look more evil than they already were (as if it was needed). Had no idea they were an actual part of the uniform.
@@ArtrexisLives The skulls originated in the Napoleonic wars.
@@armorsmith43 and? Go ahead, make the connection of why since it is an older symbol the SS weren't really that bad. Since that is what you are going for.
Mitchell and Webb reference?
Also on this day: In Belgrade Communist Party of Yugoslavia decided to start the armed rebelion against occupation forces.
Communists all over Europe are making plans to start shooting Germans and to carry out other armed actions, in an effort to discourage the Germans from transferring occupation troops to the Eastern Front.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Georges
[Уз маршала Тита intensifies]
As recommended by another commenter, the drinking rules have now changed. From June 22 until further notice, drink every time Indy says "encircled" and/or mentions German logistical issues.
I fear for your integrity
Y u maek me do this, i can no wlk anymore n i only watch a smal bits of wpisode this on
I fear this will encourage public drunkenness and give rise to health issues.
Hi, I’m here about my liver failure?
Thank you Indy for using kilometers. God bless you.
I’m very excited about operation Barbarossa since the week by week series make it really clear how large this battle was. Thank you Indy and the team!
You're very welcome! Glad you appreciate what we're doing.
A far better understanding of the reality on the ground when we are told the story on a week by week basis, I'm a big fan and learning a great deal more than I did before. Thanks
The quality of the maps is absolutely amazing.
Credit goes to Eastory for this.
Episode of operation Barbarossa begins
Eastory: "My time to shine!"
"If you'd like to see the War Against Humanity episodes..."
Well... I didn't LIKE seeing them, I hope no-one did. They should be seen nonetheless, for educational purposes.
I don't know which word to use, but they were interesting in a nasty way. It's astounding to see how humanity can so easily be lost.
@Reunite The British Empire What do you mean?
Mateusz Cetnar Typical neo-nazi propaganda idiot.
The road to peace is war!
dont be that guy
Outstanding commentary, content, coverage, speakers voice, map displays. You have a special talent for getting ALOT of info out in a short amount of time, thank you so much sir, enjoyed this. SHOUT OUT TO ALL CHANNEL DONORS, YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME
1/3 the way to Moscow, only two more weeks until Germany takes the USSR... right?
No, the USSR is too big to be conquered in one month, maybe Moscow will be conquered, but not the USSR.
@dragosstanciu meant take the USSR as in taking Moscow and forcing a surrender treaty
@@indianajones4321 The Soviet communists will not surrender as long as Stalin is alive.
Moscow was not the only goal of Barbarossa.
Barbarossa's original objectives were to reach Arhangelsk-Astrahan line ( the A-A line) wich include taking Leningrad, Murmansk, all Ukraine, Stalingrad, Caucasus, taking Moscow and everything beyond it until Urals.
And that before winter 😅
They will slow down because of logistics, but the war will certainly be over by Christmas.
I love how the painting of Hotzendorf is just watching indy while he talks about the huge problems with the wehrmacht
Another tie with a lovely colour scheme and great detailing. The blue clashes with the red from the back of the waistcoat, though, and Indy's awesome intensity sees him lean over about 50% of the video. 3/5 because it's still a lovely tie
I require fashion advice: double breasted or single breasted suits?
So how would you rate the 1934 Hugo Boss collection; the iconic SS uniforms?
@@VRichardsn This very much depends on the occasion and your build. As a general rule you can't go wrong with single breasted. Double breasted needs to be tailored to perfection and even then it's quite formal and looks best on skinny guys, imo
@@TheCimbrianBull It's a historic myth that Hugo Boss designed the SS uniforms--he did not. Karl Diebitsch did.
I come to these videos and always look for your fashion comments.
You are a gift to this community.
I recently found This channel and now I am addicted to this channel. you guys always bring well prepared videos.
I always find it amusing the Germans are already running into totally predictable issues. Did the General Staff assume foot soldiers could run marathons to keep up?
It seems like the Germans were really good at trusting in best case scenarios and totally ignoring the possibility of a worst case scenario. But I suppose you wouldn't attack Russia at all without such a mindset.
I'll be honest, it has always amazed me how even ancient armies could somehow make the infantry move as fast as the cavalry.
They thought it would be just like in 1918 (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk) but this time within 4 months instead of 4 years for the Russian war machine to collapse.
They underestimated the tenacity of the Soviet political system and their ability to rebuild divisions from scratch. Stalin's USSR simply wasn't Lenin's Russia of 1918.
@@yarpen26 In all fairness, majority of ancient armies did not have to travel such vast distances. Mongol army is the only exception but even then, we're talking months and years, not days.
The whole “rotten structure” was mean’t to crumble as soon as they kicked the door down...
The saddest part of every week for me, is when the weekly ww2 episode ends
BEST history series... BEST narrator... I can't get enough and yes I did Patreon
This episode feels nostalgic not juse because how early the war is here but also since this was uploaded during the pandemic. I was wfm back then.
Operation Exporter continues in Syria and Lebanon, 100 times smaller in scale than Barbarossa, but definitely not that small in its strategical value to control the routes to Africa, Persia and India
Pavlov's miscalculation cost him his life, but more likely he was the official scapegoat for the collapse of the western front. One has to remember the Russians had a severe shortage of trained officers at the beginning of the war.
Yes but normal countries would retire them with a pension not with a bullet
The United Kingdom just completed focus "Special Air Service"
A fellow HOI4 player, I see
Fellow hoi4 players!
Those are going to be some SASsy bois.
@@TheCimbrianBull Indeed they will, just ask the axis in north africa
*Hitler* : You are part of this offensive, but I do not grant you permission to advance without further support
*Panzer divisions* : How can you do this? This is outrageous, its unfair! How can you have panzer divisions, and NOT let me overextend my supply lines??
Tank commanders still think like this.
M1 Abrams outruns every thing on the battle field.
What slows it down is running out of fuel.
One of my favorite channels on TH-cam
Evolution of the Soviet forces from july 1st to august 1st:
At the front:
Divisions:
-106 rifle divisions => 187 rifle divisions (+81).
-37 tank divisions => 46 tank divisions (+9).
-20 motor rifle divisions => 16 motor rifle divisions (-4).
-7 cavalry divisions => 20 cavalry divisions (+13).
-2 air defense divisions => 2 air defense divisions (=)
Independent brigades:
-9 airborne brigades => 15 airborne brigades (+6).
-6 air defense brigades => 22 air defense brigades (+16)
-4 rifle brigades => 3 rifle brigades (-1)
-8 artillery brigades => 8 artillery brigades (=).
-0 opolcheniye brigades* => 20 opolcheniye brigades (+20)
-0 tank brigades => 7 tank brigades (+7)
Regiments:
-0 rifle regiments => 8 rifle regiments (+8)
-90 artillery regiments => 142 artillery regiments (+52)
-42 fortified garrisons => 27 fortified garrisons (-15)
-9 motorcycle regiments => 5 motorcycle regiments (-4)
-18 engineer regiments => 63 engineer regiments (+45)
In reserve:
Divisions:
-47 rifle divisions => 0 rifle divisions (-47).
-11 tank divisions => 0 tank divisions (-11).
-6 motor rifle divisions => 0 motor rifle divisions (-6).
Regiments:
-24 artillery regiments => 5 artillery regiments (-19)
-5 motorcycle regiments => 0 motorcycle regiments (-5)
In other fronts:
Divisions:
-46 rifle divisions => 81 rifle divisions (+35).
-10 tank divisions => 5 tank divisions (-5).
-6 cavalry divisions => 24 cavalry divisions (+18).
-4 motor rifle divisions => 2 motor rifle divisions (-2).
Brigades:
-4 airborne brigades => 1 airborne brigade (-3).
-1 motor rifle brigade => 1 motor rifle brigade (=).
-20 air defense brigades => 20 air defense brigades (=).
Regiments:
-60 artillery regiments => 51 artillery regiments (-9).
-15 fortified garrisons => 12 fortified garrisons (-3).
-12 engineer regiments => 6 engineer regiments (-6).
-2 air defense regiments => 1 air defense regiment (-1).
*Opolcheniye: Local militias raised by the NKVD.
Note: the units in "other fronts" are mostly facing the Japanese, and not at war: the negative changes in units indicate transference from those other fronts to the active fronts and active reserves in Europe.
Note 2: the Soviet cavalry divisions, unlike their counterparts in other countries, were actually partially mechanised and included at least 1 tank battalion each.
Source: ВОЕННО-НАУЧНОЕ УПРАВЛЕНИЕ ГЕНЕРАЛЬНОГО ШТАБА (Военно-исторический отдел): БОЕВОЙ СОСТАВ СОВЕТСКОЙ АРМИИ - ЧАСТЬ I (июнь-декабрь 1941 года). Типография Военной академии ГШ, МОСКВА 1963.
Thanks for the effort.
Dang son
@@shawnr771 I will keep posting these evolutions once a month until december. They give a glance on how the situation was on paper (I can also give the number of units by army group if you want).
"The Russian colossus has been underestimated by us... whenever a dozen divisions are destroyed, the Russians replace them with another dozen." - Franz Halder
@@henrik3291 Well, there is also the thing that the Germans didn't actually destroy most of the divisions that they reported as destroyed: they attacked their command structures, but if (and this happened a lot) at least one or two of the regiments forming that division were able to escape and reform, the Soviets could reinforce that division back to full strengh in a few weeks at most.
Fantastic as always! The largest war in human history deserves all the minute detail you are providing. And I do not think mentioning the activities of the Einsatzgruppen behind the lines is out of place.
From Nazi Germany's perspective, the killings were apart of the same war rather than separate from it.
I think about that train loaded with art and historical relics, how they took priority over actual people and I have to ask:
am I worth a Rembrandt?
No.
"It might be hard to think that's not an understatement"
my brain. exe has stopped working
I’m glad to know I wasn’t the only one lol, took me 3 minutes to get it
Sorge deserves an episode of his own.
German Supply: *overextended*
Attrition: It’s free real estate
Not funny you know? Childish jokes
Terrible meme
Keep on the amazing show guys. Great work!
At 2.51 the first mention of General Slim - the British Army's greatest general since Wellington.
Dear Indy and team
Thank you for this series as it a great way to engage people to how the war unfolded and to put people in the shoes of people who lived through these events. However I’ve being watching it to help me with a project of mine which is a plot for a tv series and this I do have to point out a couple of errors that are in relation to this week.
1. I do remember that hmas waterhen was apparently sunk by Italian Stuka dive bombers and there was no casualties
2. In regards to hmas Sydney , she served in the Mediterranean just before Italy joined the war , was involved in the battle of Calabria and the Espero convoy in which she assisted sinking the espero , than at the battle of cape Spada off Crete she sank the bartolomeo colleoni on July the 19th 1940, She also participated in both straits of otranto raid. Finally too I think she was returning to Australia at this point because of the Australian government was concerned about German raiders in the area and what did happen is really interesting about how long it took for the Australian people to find out (her loss )finally too I believe the Australian prime ministers was in England meeting Churchill between April 1940 and July that lead to his downfall as prime minster
Keep up the good work though
I'm trying to understand how this might look from a British perspective (because I am British) in 1941, and it just looks really, really crap at the moment. And we aren''t even anywhere near the worst bit yet. Yay....
@Sky Winger in Europe. They are about to have a bad time in the Pacific.
@Sky Winger i think he was referring to the British perspective on Russia. Just imagine, your army has been completely defeated in france, norway, asia, and British generals have desperately waiting for the Soviets to enter the war, and once they do, they get completely overrun.
@colin minhinnick well, i mean dunkirk and losing all their equipment, i would consider that a defeat, even if they did see some victories (counterattack against rommels forces for exanple)
I'll quote Albert Cohen, a Greek-born Jewish refugee living in London at the time.
"With a fixed smile, England hopefully begins the hopeless struggle...France is beaten. We'll win. We can't use bases in Ireland. We'll win. Hungary joins Germany. We'll win. We're beaten in Greece, in Libya, in Crete. We'll win. English towns are destroyed. We'll win. Ships bringing food and arms are sunk. We'll win...So childishly confident in the future that they make you shed tears of pity, admiration and faith".
@colin minhinnick yes i see your point, but im jist poonting out how dire thee situation looks. Yes it wasnt fair that britain was fighting on three continents at once but these are still defeats
I can't wait to see what happens next. Been waiting for days, I guess that means I'm hooked. Thanks, TimeGhost.
You're welcome. Thanks to you for watching.
11:38 Leningrad seems a little uncomfortably too close to joint Finnish and German attacks. Sounds good that they are evacuating 200K people out of the city, it looks like a matter of time before those attacks might overwhelm's the city's defenses...
One of the reasons why soviets attacked Finland in 1939 was to move the border away from the Leningrad actually. If you think that it was close in 1941, then consider that finnish-soviet border of 1939 is today located ...28km inside the St.Petersburg. Not that it makes soviet attack justified, but they certainly had strategic reasons for that.
@@markvorobjov6185 Problem is that the Winter War only caused the exact thing that it sought to avoid. Without the Winter War the Finns would have been rather unlikely to be willing participants in the WW II.
It will be the longest siege in modern history. 900 days. And it will starve a great number of the population to death. The people will eat their horses, dogs, and cats. They will scrape the paste off their wallpaper and eat it. They will eat their candles for the tallow. And eventually, they will begin eating their dead.
@@WandererRTF That's an area of alternate history. Maybe they would have not, maybe they would have. They still had other grudges against ussr (like their support for finnish reds during civil war) and no doubt Germany would pressure Finland to join. But yeah, Winter war made Finns 100% join any german invasion of ussr.
@@markvorobjov6185 The inherent problem is political. Finland was (and still is) a parliamentary democracy (republic). It is only the parliament which can decide to go to war. And it had agrarian-social democrat majority (both prior to the Winter War fully against offensive war). Mannerheim or Ryti simply had no power to just declare one.
Also without the Winter War Finland would have been much less prepared for a war, and even more so with regards to an offensive war. The groups which held grudges were a small minority and had no real power in Finland (party that sort of represented them - IKL - had 8 out of 200 seats in the parliament). So it is really hard to see how it could have happened.
Finns: alright we have to divide up the work into clear seperate objectives, each seperate missions to progress without the other.
Germans: lmao attack that way I guess
Is that the first time Indy says "bye" to the person on the phone?
When you go over the Syrian campaign in World War Two it always kind of hits me because a lot of these battle names are names of places that are again being ripped apart by total war.
French in Deir ezzor: are outflanked and surrender
SAA in Deir ezzor: are encircled, withstand several years of siege
And no mention of how warfare went actually on Lapland so I add something. Focusing on Salla as that saw the most action at this time.
Attack agaisnt fomerly finnish Salla went slowly. German 163rd and Finnish 6th Divisions attack went well (6th SS did absolutely not) and started to bypass Soviet defences from North and South and Germans would win the race to Salla on 10.7, almost trapping Soviet defenders. And then 163rd and 6th noticed that they got no artillery to continue against Soviet positions for many months.
Let me explain, this far north there is no road network or railroad for transporting in any kind of quantity. It can be best explained as walking paths that occasionally can be wide enough for an horse carriage. But instead going through these paths German 163rd and Finnish 6th send infantry regiments through the rocky, tree filled terrain and ignoring Soviet positions entirely. They could do that because Soviets had good defensive positions and the sole railway line to back it up but they were extended to their limit and they could not defend the whole border.
But this creates such an logistical nightmares for Germans and Finnish that it isn't funny. Everything that needs any kind of external equipment was more less gonna take forever to be moved, there is practically no roads that vehicles could use and not to mention horse carriages. Everything that is needed is either carried by hand or on back of an horse. This also included animal feed as this north there is no vegetation that horses could eat. And then some horses will have to be put down because of broken ribs. Not because of falling or anything similar but because of equipment horses carried smacked against their ribs. This more or less expains why instead of two weeks of marching it will take much longer to reach Kantalahti.
And still somehow Germans managed to advance with some shitty French tanks on terrain that was so hostile. Sure, many broke down but it is still quite impressive.
Thank you for giving me something to look forward to on Saturdays.
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
When we're on brutality, I think it's worth to note that the Soviets attempted to evacuate political prisoners from the west, and hundreds and thousands were shot as a result.
This whole series is simply awesome.
i wish you'd have a special on stalin's day by day reaction to the invasion during the first few days of barbarossa. it's very interesting is shock, depression, and then rallying.
I enjoy watching your show every day at three o' clock.
A note to Stalin from the Soviet command at Minsk : everyone but you saw this coming
Im not putting my name on that note comrade marshal i think your on your own there. 😇
@@derricklarsen462 Would not matter Stalin would just eliminate the entire chain of command.
@@shawnr771 😳 iknow. He didnt take any chances on that shit.
@@shawnr771 one can always hope to get lucky tho and maybeeee go on a nice camping trip for 20 years instead😎.
@@derricklarsen462 Siberia is not a nice camping trip.
More awesome work by Indy, Sparty, and the TimeGhost crew. Can't wait to help support you guys financially again at some point soon...
Another tie with a lovely colour scheme and great detailing. The blue clashes with the red from the back of the waistcoat, though, and Indy's awesome intensity sees him lean over about 50% of the video. 2.5/5 because it's still a solid tie
15:28 That view really hits home the change that just happened.
About Battle of Atlantic ,I should mention , six day long battle of Convoy HX133 ends at 29th June 1941 and results were shockingly low for German Navy , only five U-Boats were able to intercept this convoy and sunk total of six merchant ships out of forty one. In return Royal Navy and Royal Canadian convoy escorts were able to sink two U-Boats (U-556 and U-651) That means only three merchant ships sunk per a U-Boat lost , a ratio German Navy can not keep up. For next of the summer for nine weeks (till September 1941) no Allied convoys were attacked in North Atlantic basin , thanks to increasing number of developing RAF Coastal Command patrols , intalling and use of radar more and more on convoy escorts and ULTRA intelligence with which Royal Navy Admiralty simply rerouted convoys away from U-Boat patrol zones. During this period more than six million tons of shipping passed from British ports
A ratio like that is not a percentage.
The advantage would see saw back and forth like that in the Battle of the Atlantic between the convoys and the U-boats until the final breaking of the U-boat arm in May of 1943. Which is a very long time from now..
My humble Thank you to The Team. Great educational material .
For the life of me, I will never know why anyone in the French colonies took up arms to defend the Vichy regime. Not only was Vichy a illegitimate collaborationist government, there was little immediate threat facing colonies like Syria if they instead sided with the Free French. Anyway, great episode as always
France was neutral, that’s why they took up arms. They had to defend their neutrality, or the Germans could punish them at home where, despite their neutrality, they were forced to garrison tens of thousands of German troops in a military occupation, a possibility the Germans acted on when the governments of French Morocco and French Algeria agreed, against the wishes of Vichy, to host allied troops after being defeated by the Americans, the Germans punished France when they tried to commandere the French fleet but the French were able to scuttle it in time, although in addition tens of thousands of French were deported to Germany for slave labor as additional punishment. There were severe consequences for the French people for breaking neutrality, you have to keep that in mind.
Сильно и объемно! Внушает уважение такая кропотливая работа над историческими деталями!
Спасибо eprst45
Also: “ch” in Rybachy is a “Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate”(apparently there is such thing XD)
The closest English equivalent is “Voiceless postalveolar affricate”(I honestly can’t tell the difference XD) like in “chip”.
Rybachiy is simply Russian for "fishing".
Рыбачий
ч = tch. It's transliterated into English as CH. English spelling seems so irregular in part because it transliterates from many languages and in each of them does so regularly.
for real fun allow me to introduce you to pinyin X, Sh, Q, Ch, Zh, J, and R.
Alveolar ridge is a bony edge right behind your upper teeth. Postalveolar means that this ch sound is pronounced with your tongue touching the place right behind this ridge. Palate goes further back in your mouth, so for a russian ch sound you touch a bit more back part of your mouth with a little more back part of your tongue. It makes the sound slightly "softer", but you can barely hear the difference
@@QuizmasterLaw can you be son kind and explain those letters and how to spell them? I've always wondered about them but I don't remember finding an answer
@@jakubcesarzdakos5442 The Russian alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet, with a few Hebrew letters tossed in. So if you already can read the Greek alphabet it's much easier. If you also read the Hebrew alphabet then it's nothing.
but for real fun 让我介绍汉字。
Hey, great presentation ! I just found you Indy, but am lovin the delivery and the presentation. At first I thought that it might be good for my HS History students. After a couple of watches, I realize that it would them in the dust. You really have to have the background knowledge to follow this delivery. Great though, thanks again !
Leopard 2A5 players: *rushes forward*
"Wait a minute, this is kinda familiar"
Did you hear that?? Indy said, "'Bye" before he hung up the phone! He's coming along - pretty soon, it'll be 'please' and 'thank you' and 'Let me take that for you' ... !
"or Else they would be super nice to them" LMAO that cracked me up
Great work keeping history alive amazing effort. Thank you.
Thank you Edmund, Stay tuned for much more
War in Syria: The name of the wars changes, the important places stay the same
I appreciate your explanation of all this what my grandfather went through in the German army. Addictive information. Watch this daily. I’m a Ups driver and watch this constantly. Safely of course. Keep it up sir. Big fan.
Thank you for being a fan! Your appreciation means a lot to us. Drive safely!
For me as a Finn, I kind of understand why the decision to go to war again seemed sensible at the time. The co-belligerent seems almost invincible on land, and I can bet that they wanted to retake all the lost territory and homes.
Plus Finland was already being attacked by the Soviet Union. What's it going to do, sit there and just allow it?
@@Dimetropteryx It's arguable Finland wouldn't have been attacked if they hadn't allowed German troops to enter the country. By the time Barbarossa kicked off, the Finnish army was combat ready, there were some 40 000 German troops in Finland, Finnish submarines were laying mines off of Estonia and Finnish Air Force planes had been given new markings that matched the Germans. There is no doubt that Finland, albeit acting in a very narrow political space, was at this point intentionally siding with Germany with the intent of recapturing the lands lost in the Winter War. To save face they waited for Soviet bombings of Finland before declaring war.
Regardless, I think OP hits the nail here: Germany seemed invincible, and many Finns were left bitter after the disappointing end result of the Winter War (though it is now recognized as probably the best possible outcome, at the many Finns had been buying the government propaganda that they were going to win the war, and losing territory after fighting so valiantly was a devastating experience). Not to mention that the help the Allies had promised during the Winter War had never materialized. Germany seemed a pretty good bet in 1941.
Soviet Union soke to secure Leningrad in the Winter war againts German attack from Finnish territory by grabbing some land in 1939. Is it a wonder, the Finns tried to secure their national existence by grabbing some land in 1941 ( advancing to so called three-isthmus-line ) to gain some additional strategic depth againts future aggressions from the east
After all, every country has their security interests and want to cherish their national determination.
Great video. I liked how informative it was. This is a great history channel.
Thank you! Happy to have you as a fan :)
@@WorldWarTwo---Your welcome.
Very impressed with the episode and how you covered the Japanese. Just going to say that quoting Halder on anything especially Hitler should be avoided since he blamed everything on him and made his diary with that emphasis in mind.
Great production as usual. Tou guys are the best.
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I would be a good thing to mention Soviet attrocities against Polish political prisoners in Lwów and outskirts of Przemyśl in first days of Soviet-German war
Man, the Poles just cant catch a break
@@astroNexx not really. Battle for right bank Przemyśl was significant in slowing down German advance in the south. If I remember well, Germans lost there 4 days, and even Soviets counterattack succesfully at 23rd or 24th of June... That is whole other story than German G.A Centre or G.A North.
I've read about prisoners taken from prison at Rokitniańska Street, being thrown by soviet state security forces (GB NKVD) into wells near village Niżankowice and left there to die...
I was born in Przemyśl, I grew up and lived there for 22 years before I moved to bigger city 10 years ago, but despite that I don't think that you know what is, what I call: "touch of history"... Austro-Hungarian fortress, part of independet Poland after fight for city between Ukrainians and Poles, city divided in half between Soviets and Germans, German attack at dawn of 22nd of June... about 150 000 tousand of German Soldiers dead near the Przemyś during war in 1939, 1941, 1944 that you can count in their war cementery of that period...
Indy was there in 2015 during The Great War show and i think that he knows exactly what that city witnessed in first half on 20th century, so I'm personally a bit dissapointed that crew of WW2 missed that detail, not by being a Pole but as someone who's actually aware of that historical touch that is present in my family place.
That is coming in the next WaH episode.
Didn't Molotov have that big smash single. Lol. GREAT JOB SIR
The Germans took Bialystok? I think a certain Bialystok is gonna write a musical about that in the future😂
Ian Moore Oooh... I see you, too, are a man of culture.
I enjoy your videos. Thanks for taking the time.
Thanks!
Scorched earth policy: break the glass during any emergency
Hitler: Orders the Panzers to halt at a critical juncture in the battle.
High command: Oh no not agian.
A masterful episode! I'd miss only a thing or two... I wonder, has the Western Military District commander General Petrov, already been arrested and shot by that time, or not yet? And, by that time, has that District's Red Airforce commander (sorry, forgot the name) already shot himself after his airborne inspection of the destroyed Soviet airfields? I know, stupid questions... Still, a masterful video! Cheers TimeGhost Team!
@Mars Attacks When will comrade Stalin be relieved of his duties and judged for refusing to believe in the Germany attacking so soon? I guess any day now.
@@herrakaarme We can have that "accountability thing" undermine the myth of Stalin's infallibility can we? If we did then "the whole rotten structure" might actually fall in.
I finally caught up! In two months I watched all of The Great War, Between Two Wars, and now I’m caught up with World War 2.
Reckless. Thats the one word that has allways come up in my mind when the German tactics and strategies in WW2 has come up.
Reckless? Why? Germany managed to defeat France IN 1940 and already controls half of Europe. So why reckless?
dragosstanciu See: Napoleon, 1812
@@kensurrency2564 What does Napoleon have to do with Barbarossa?
dragosstanciu Do your own research. They are very similar. General Winter defeats them both.
@@kensurrency2564 Napoleons army bled itself white way before there was any winter. In fact his retreat from Moscow began in fall and not in winter.
I've just discovered The Great War channel like a year ago and now there's a WW2 channel with 100 episodes even though I'm still in 1915
IIIrd Reich: Attacking USSR.
USSR: You will get what you payed for in WWI.
Very nice modern spread collar. Not too extreme like many other spread collars. Good size for your face and the collar/head opening on the vest. Works well with the tie knot.
I feel like it may in fact be an exaggeration to say that the campaign in Russia has been won in 14 days.
Halder bounced from pessimism to optimism and back again.
13:02 As a sidenote, what the Soviets were doing was raising new units all around the country, meanwhile they had the already established (and most of them experienced) units from the Far East sent to the frontlines in Europe, while these units were replaced by other newly raised divisions that could hold the line if needed but were not expected to fight for the moment.
10:50 This summarizes my average Hearts of Iron 4 Gameplay. Huh
Good ole British tricky names
Tank(of water): actually a big iron death tractor
Tube alloys: shiny nuclear things
History does rhyme, don't it.
I wonder if nukes would be called something like 'Tubes' if the British built their own bomb rather than donating their research to the Americans and transferring their scientists over there.
@@Dave_Sisson "Sir, we just finished construction of the first Biscuit Bomb!"
"Blood good work, lad!"