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While Stalingrad may be the most famous battle of the Eastern Front in World War II, it was not Germany’s most decisive defeat. The Soviet offensive known as Operation Bagration completely annihilated Army Group Center and collapsed the German front line; in part one of this two-part video, we explore how the Soviets outmaneuvered their German foes and broke through their defenses.
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Sources:
Adair, Paul, Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The collapse of Army Group Centre, Sterling Pub. Co., London, 1994
Citino, Robert,The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945. University Press of Kansas, 2017
Glantz, David M, The Battle for Leningrad: 1941-1944. University Press of Kansas, 2002
Glantz, David M.; House, Jonathan, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1995, Also available at: archive.org/details/whentitan... Retrieved 12 August 2020.
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Please make a video on the Boer war and great trek
can you do the Korean war as well
@@keithshaylofjerezabayosait168 Yeah, Korea would be awesome
Model was the only person who manage tio not loss many ground in army group north
@@keithshaylofjerezabayosait168 yes would agree
"How do we convince the germans we are attacking the south?"
"What if we attack the south?"
Genius
@@abdiganiaden Thing is, they actually planned an operation down in the south and so planning a surprise attack on the main front to break the main German army would be the best timing and absolutely genius. They did it at e same time which also prevented Germans from sending reinforcements from south to the area where the main attack was cos they were also under heavy attack.
Germany fell into one of the oldest tactics. Send 20% army to point A and make as much noise as possible, while the remaining 80% at the same time surround and capture point B as quick as possible before move and assist point A. This method is in Arts of War Sun Tzu.
@@pablogonzalez2226
China knows with Biden at the helm, they can waltz into Taiwan as Putin can waltz into the Ukraine if they choose to, at a time of their choosing.
Traitor Trump already sold them out, and us.
@@alexfunk1810 all the ppl moving their businesses to China fueled they're growth. In the name of profits
Stalingrad- a bloody nose
Kursk - a broken arm
Bargration - A broken back
Battle for Berlin- a broken neck
With a broken heart.
at barbarossa they lost their ability to conduct major offensive action on a wide front, at stalingrad and kursk (belgogrod) they lost their ability to conduct major offensive action on a limited front and at the battle for hungary (more precisely the budapest breakthrough/reconnection attempt) the german army even lost it's ability to conduct minor offensive action on a limited front, after that point they were a defending force, not a fighting/attacking one
Meanwhile in a bunker - headshot
@@rockpalace9919 TF
“They came for our blood, and now they drown in their own”
Viktor Reznov
Their land Their Blood
My grandfather, born in Ukraine, took part in this operation. Now he is 98 years old and lives in Minsk.
Is he dead?
He was born in 1923 then. 80% of the Soviet males born in 1923 didn't survive in WWII
@@s4rthakforreal Yes, he was. But he did. Last month he met his 99.
@@user-jy9eo8en8x I see. He knows a lot of stories about this operation then. My great grandpa served for British India in the Imphal battle against the Japanese
My Ukranian friend's tell me that without Ukranians help, Russia would have lost the War.
The animation has gotten so much better over the years
Da
Reminds me of growing up watching Family guy and American dad: the graphics would get better and better/ more high definition each season. Animation is cool stuff.
Yes
If only youtube recommended it like normal videos he'd have over 2mil subs by now
Yep. Been here since it was crap
"The German Army is a machine, and machines can be broken"
- Konstantin Rokossovsky
So you idolize communists?
He idolized Russians and that's based
@@tomanderson9774 yes.
@@ROBA05 Well, Rokossovsky was a Pole, and the Red Army itself consisted of different nationalities. There were not only Russians there)
@@user-xl2it6wg1l at least you come out and say. All of the communists I interact with here on youtube are too scared to admit it
I really love the detail at 15:47 with the soviet flag, it's not the soviet flag people tend to picture which came about in 1955, it's the older one, which is only slightly different but the variant of the hammer and sickle is different, and I just like that attention to detail.
That's called the Sickle of Sun
Agreed. This is the hammer and sickle variant that was widely used under General Secretary Stalin's consolidation in office from '36 up until two years after his death in '55.
The red army was terrifying once it got rolling.
There biggest problem was in the early days they were constantly on the defensive. By this stage of the war, they were following exactly the doctrine the army had been designed for.......with devastating results. It did not help that the Russian people were starting to discover what the Germans had been doing in the conquered areas. Nothing like a cranky Russian to mess with your day.
yep you gotta admit communist and yes Stalin did agreat job of building upp that army.central planning helped as fuk also, just to mobilize population and industry. dont get me wrong Stalin was fuktard of a human being, but he exceled in that role, when its war.lol.
Yea
During the Battle for Stalingrad, Stalin said:: "They are now fighting for the sacred soil of Mother Russia".
@@glenchapman3899 The German position at this stage in the war looks very weak indeed. They were trying to defend a huge front with dwindling forces. Once the Soviets started the big push, the only effective strategy was to pull back to Poland and prepare a better defence for the advance. As we know the German high command was tightly controlled by the Nazi leadership and the invasion of the USSR was deeply flawed and its cruel and barbarous actions on the indigenous population entirely counterproductive. Such a fall back would not be countenanced and any opportunity of seeking terms to end the fighting not an option.
Germany: BETTER DEAD THAN RED! Right guys?
Romania: ...
Bulgaria: Red doesn't seem so bad anymore
@Kpro_11's ASMR Channel Who? Bulgaria always loved russia due to their shared history
@Moritz der Echte yh russia invaded the Balkan and with the help of Bulgarian revolutionaries and partisans they broke through the ottoman defence line and stopped their attack only 100 km from Konstantinopel
@@zigo373 I'm Bulgarian and we hate russia
@@Fifotsariat Не говори глупости
@@Fifotsariat bro wtf are you talking about
You've heard of the tree's are speaking Vietnamese, introducing, The minefield is speaking Russian.
The sewers speaking polish
@@icantcomeupwithagoodusername24 snow start speak finnish
Lol!
@@orange8420 white army is the strongest army you bolshevik coward
@@Grusken19 you lost so no
People like to think the Russians only won by numbers. That's false. The Soviets also won by superior strategy.
@VinAr Run Nice try Wehraboo. Who knew that bad weather only effects one side? And how funny that early on the Germans had larger numbers? In fact once they no longer outnumber the soviets they stop winning. Imagine that. Supplies? The soviets had lost the entire western part of their country to German occupation. But sure... those poor Germans. GTFO with this nonsense.
@VinAr Run Lol Wehraboo. Soviet Deep Battle was everything the "Blitzkrieg" wanted to be
Germany lost the war in the east after Kursk, but her back was broken after Operation Bagration.
nah they lost at stalingrad, the idea that they lost at kursk stems from the fact that the red army gave them breathing time after stalingrad (technically after manstein stabilized the southern sector) and so the germans thought the red army was still the reacting force and not the acting one but they weren't broken, they were preparing, the germans misinterpreted this as still "having a chance" but no matter how kursk (technically belgogrod) would have ended (not that the germans could have won it) the loss at stalingrad decided the war in the east, everything after that was fighting a lost war
@maon is right they officially lost at stalingrad, by the time Kursk rolled in Germany was on her knees, no food, no oil, no ammunition, air superiority was already going downhill for the luftwaffe
@@gotem2219 Not right, Germany still had matched tank numbers on the eastern front, they still had air superiority. Troop numbers mean nothing when the opposing side has matched tank and air superiority. This all changed after 1943, and you can that on maps. The Wehrmacht simply collapsed. Soviet production was kicking in and outproducing Germany in everything that Germany was losing. Allied bombing campaigns on German production facilities was taking it's toll. Germany was finished in 1944. They still had a sizeable force, but it was a poorly supplied and broken force.
@@gotem2219 Germany had more than enough supply when it came to civilian IC needs. Germany only started to feel total war in 1944.
@@electronicfarts5105 i disagree you don't take into account of logistics at all, even before Stalingrad started they were critically short on ammunition/oil/food/spare parts, and you clearly don't know how important it is to have infantry with tanks, they cannot conduct proper pinschers as well as clearing pockets of enemies as well as capturing cities, tanks were useful on open plains, it was so bad during Stalingrad that they used horses to wheel in supplies from the railroad to all the way to the Stalingrad front cause there was a shortage of oil and the same horses they used were slaughtered because there was no food, the ammunition situation was so bad that they could only shoot their rifles only if they had a clear shot to kill, making every shot count, Luftwaffe were getting depleted to the point they started dropping tyres and other random spare parts from the sky because there were not enough bombs, yes the Germans had more tanks and planes how's that going to help if those tanks&planes don't have the ammo or oil to be used in battle? The Germans had reserves, dozens of tanks in the repair shop ready the problem was their front lines were so stretched that even if they deployed more troops/vehicles they simply did not have the logistics to provide what was needed, the troops already in Stalingrad were suffering heavily due to shortage, so numerical superiority does not matter here, why do you think Hitler gives directive order preventing the 6th army from retreating from Stalingrad? He knows if he retreats from the city that the war is essentially over, they wouldn't have had enough troops/oil/armor to conduct another offensive of this scale as well as to ever to take the city and to continue the war , JULY 1943 was the 1st time Hitler takes a hard opioid wanna know why? Cause he know's he fucked by then, they've already lost irreplace veterans by 1942 and oldmen,young men without even proper equipment and ammunition were being used to replace divisions lost in the war, make no mistake both the Weherment and the Soviets lost hundreds of thousands of men. Look into the diaries of the Wecharmat in 1942 after Stalingrad, even the infantry knows the war is lost, at that point they're just hoping they can outlive the war, the morale of German superiority was gone after that, and went straight downhill from there, I recommend you watch some TIK videos he goes in depth explaining step by step. You clearly are underestimating
"poorly supplied" , Germans stopped supplying the Stalingrad pocket cause they were losing so many dam planes from AA flaks doing so, the 3rd reich was on her knees in Stalingrad, Kursk was simply the dagger that sealed its fate for good. War was never supposed to go into 1942, they planned on winning against the Soviets in September 1941 only a few months of the start of Barbarossa which was completely overstretch regardless and the reason was that quartermaster and Hitler knew they would not have the necessary oil and logistics to fight a prolong war its called BLITZKRIEG for a reason, please comeback if you have other opinions
I'll never get over that Germany named maybe their most important offensive for a guy who fell off his horse and drowned in a somewhat shallow river
I agree. Also basically asking to curse the entire operation.
It's a funny parallel between the man and the operation; both had grand achievements and vision earlier on only to ultimately end in tragedy.
According to one source, Frederick actually had a heart attack at that same moment, killing him before the water could.
@@SuperGman117 This actually makes a tonne of sense, but even if the heart attack may not have killed him, it still would have paralysed him long enough to fall into the water and drown.
@@mashek331 That's also a likely possibility.
Fun Fact: Operation Bagration was named after Pytor Bagration, a great general that served the Russian Imperial army in the late 1700s to the early 1800s.
I'm always thinking about the Georgian dynasty in general when I see the Operation's name.
@@Vitalis94 Bagration actually served during the Romanov Dynasty.
@@thehistorybuilder6390 Yes, you already said that and I'm fully aware of this. :P It's just that he was a prince of Bagration dynasty, and even less people know about this Georgian dynasty than Pyotr himself.
@@Vitalis94 Ok.
Is that the same Bagration who fought in the Napoleonic War? I once heard that name in Epic History TV videos.
Germany: Man, all you really need to deal with these Reds is a few dozen mines, am I right, boys?
T-34 Mine Flail Tanks: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
@John Beige You wish
@@elseggs6504 When and where were minesweeper machines like that used before Operation Overlord? I've never heard them mentioned in any other context before that.
@@reginabillotti This happened in the same month, there was no way they could copy them that quickly.
@@megajimmyfive Yea, the Russians had been developing a mineroller since the Winter War and started building them for T-34's in 1942. Hardly a new invention though, the British already saw the use for Mineroller tank during WW1 but the Armistice happened before they could be used in battle.
Germany relied way too much on mines.
Operation Begration: Ultimate GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN moment
Our lawn
and then I enter your lawn.
The Germans wanted to parade through the streets of Moscow, so the generous Soviets made sure they did.
!
Yu can see the video of this actual "parade" on TH-cam.
The identifier of the video is JC6oJURg6Pk.
Your so kind and always so correct .
Yes
As prisoners, and spoils of war the Soviets won
A lot of people still hold the misconception that the Russians defeated the Germans by just pouring in their troops. This is just another example of how utterly incorrect this is. The Russians beat the Germans also on the strategic and tactical levels too. Georgy Zhukov still is one of the greatest strategists to ever live.
у Германии было много войск с 41-45гг.
Германии помогали Финляндия, Румыния, Италия... почти вся европа. рейхстаг защищали французы!!!
у СССР было больше войск это миф.
еще надо смотреть боевые потери. они равные!
This is very true.
britain and russia were on the verge of collapse then lend lease came in and turned the tied
A lot of people still hold the misconception than soviet union consists only of russians
@Олег Широбоков Between June 1941 and May 1945, Britain delivered to the USSR:
3,000+ Hurricanes aircraft
4,000+ other aircraft
27 naval vessels
5,218 tanks (including 1,380 Valentines from Canada)
5,000+ anti-tank guns
4,020 ambulances and trucks
323 machinery trucks (mobile vehicle workshops equipped with generators and all the welding and power tools required to perform heavy servicing)
1,212 Universal Carriers and Loyd Carriers (with another 1,348 from Canada)
1,721 motorcycles
£1.15bn worth of aircraft engines
1,474 radar sets
4,338 radio sets
600 naval radar and sonar sets
Hundreds of naval guns
15 million pairs of boots
In total 4 million tonnes of war material including food and medical supplies were delivered. The munitions totaled £308m (not including naval munitions supplied), the food and raw materials totaled £120m in 1946 index. In accordance with the Anglo-Soviet Military Supplies Agreement of June 27, 1942, military aid sent from Britain to the Soviet Union during the war was entirely free of charge.
No one talks about how good the Red Army was during the second half of ww2. By 1943/44 they were the strongest army in the world. They practiced combined arms, highly motorized, highly experienced, and were tenacious. They also had something like 6 million soldiers by 1944. Without a doubt the best army in World War 2.
Very true. By this point in the war, the Soviets were experts in warfare and had learned over the years.
@@danielnavarro537 the Germans were still the best army in the world, If they had trucks and fuel in the quantity the Russians had they would of easily won the Eastern front. Good they didn't but German troops literally ran out of ammunition mowing down soviets men and armour
@@danielnavarro537 the Germans were best army to be honest
Given that soviets had 9:1 superiority in artillery and 7:1 superiority in tanks and also in aircraft even than the soviets took more losses at bagration
It was not something to be proud of when you have such as huge superiority
Germans couldn't even use what they had due to lack of fuel and transport
Germans were bombed too by Western allies
Germans achieved great victories with less loss of life such as at kiev 1941 ,operation Mars and 3rd battle of kharkov
@@ericvonmanstein2112 Yeah your right but I think German military losses later on war was more than Soviets. The war of annihilation even makes German glorified for some time led to their ultimate defeats as most of the Soviet Union hated them. The bombings wouldn't gonna affect much of their supply lines, but in the battlefield Stalin admires American air superiority than his own. Their economic capabilities and pre-planning make Soviet Union powerful than Germans in economy as not most of German's economic hubs are mobilized for war. But the problem with casualties is true on Soviet sides, they lacked training as most of them are reserves with their equipments as well as allied lend-lease wouldn't gonna take effect until 1943.
@@Markov16 I agree for most part
But lend lease played an absolutely huge role in Soviet military victories
Zhukov said "it was Soviet artillery that won the war,but it were American trucks that moved the Soviet artillery"
Lend lease is often underestimated stating that only 15 percent of Soviet military effort
In reality it was much more than that
The Americans and British supplied the soviets with 40 percent of steel, 70 percent of aluminium,aviation fuel , 20 million pairs of boots,and enough food for rest of war plus (15 percent tanks and other material too)
Without which soviets would had to divert huge men to these things
Basically Americans provided means for at least 50 percent of Soviet tanks and aircrafts and also how to run them
On other hand the inefficiency of German industry was due to lack of fuel and acute labor shortage because "the Germans were not freely supplied with uniform,boots,food ,steel ,aluminium and fuel for free. Germany had to synthesize and work extremely hard for everything,so population was diverted in agriculture and other parts,Bombings effected them most
Overall German economy was impressive since 1938 . The German government funded their all military operations without help from international bankers . All of the nations took help from bankers and were indepted . The German economy despite allied bombing and so many defeats didn't crash after 5 years
Salaries and basic grants were given even in April 1945 .
Germany: Operation Ba-
Soviet Russia: Operation Bagration
Soviet Union*
@@user-wz5ry7tm7e Axis countries Germany, Rumania, Hungary, Italy: Barbarossa
@@francisco-vd9yv i know which countries were in axis
@@francisco-vd9yv The funny part is that Finland had I think 4 or 5 operations for the opening of the Continuation War.
@@Weesee_I I listed those countries because many people think and say that it was poor Germany alone against the world, and yes, I didn't include Finland, Croatia and maybe some others.
And people still say Soviets had no tactics
Because they want to make lame excuses that Soviets just kept sending millions of soldiers to die and Nazis ran out of bullets. Reality was Soviets had superior tactics, manpower and equipment.
@@pacus123 true
@@pacus123 Not superior tactics. But they obviously werent dumb.
@@peterlustig6888 No, the Soviets had superior tactics. They used their equipment well and also fought to the conditions. The Nazis thought they were superior to the Soviets and underestimated them
lol soviets had the best tactics? is this some kind of joke never heard of Blitzkrieg?
"Konstantin"
"Yes Ivanov?"
"Do you see Army Group Centre?"
"Yes"
"I don't want to"
"Yes Sir"
LOL SO FUNNY
Hmm, Russian memes
Hahaa
Stalin my brother
Lenin my father
Hitler my enemy
I didn't know that Stalin was Ivanov.
My life won't be as usual enymore...
This was good documentary, no political bias. Just like a true historian should do, just the facts.
Also very high quality and artistic visuals for the format.
Its impossible to completely escape bias. Just minimise it.
@@sandran17 Yes and bias has been turned way down in this one.
bias comes from selection of events to describe, level of detail, wording, and depth of research. Also, primary sources are biased too. but he doesn't often tell people what someone's/some group's motivations were unless there's evidence for it. i agree this is excellent content
Yes, that was a very good piece of it
This operation is often overshadowed by D-Day or Stalingrad, but it is just as important. Thank you for bringing awareness to the forgotten battles of history!
D-Day is joke compared to any operation undertaken by either soviets or nazis on the eastern front
Forgotten? Maybe for people who have never researched WW2.
Perhaps in russia, people celebrate this event on the streets
Его источники по цифрам, полное гавно.
@@kousand9917for people, who "knows" history from cinema
Germans: "Minefield."
Soviets: "OURfield."
Underrated))
@Wu Bing Jin ushankas are pretty great when its cold ngl.
Neinfield
Haha funny communism
*OURSfield, "our" is not the plural equivalent of "mine".
I'm seeing a lot of complaints that we didn't call out the Soviets for failing to support the Warsaw Uprising. In several weeks we're going to release a video specifically on Life in German-Occupied Poland where we will more properly address this.
I've been waiting it for a long time and I'm so happy to hear that the facts I provided will finally be hopefully used! Goodluck on the videos!
Thank you!!
Thank you for addressing this as I was about to make a comment regarding the lack of attention on the Soviets decision to allow the Warsaw uprising to be crushed.
I've read that the Germans were actually producing enough tanks to replace losses on the Eastern Front, but they didn't have the infrastructure, crews or fuel to get them there. Is this accurate?
Luigi is Hitler
I don't know why there's not alot of documentaries on operation bagration. It's a huge battle and the largest German defeat in ww2 and possibly history. I would love to see a more in depth look at everything in it. Like the officers involved, the tactics.. ect ect...
Я просто удивлен. Взвешенный подход к истории без истерии и пропаганды. Не думал что такое еще возможно в англоговорящем сегменте ютуба. Спасибо автору.
Александр,я тоже был приятно удивлён,переводя комментарии англоязычного населения!!!Значит ещё не всё потеряно!!!)))
По сравнению с нашими историками которые откровенно гнут свою линию, поверх истории, на западе одни образцы объективности и непредвзятости.
@@ik2254 Только походу не к Российской истории!!!!!!
@@user-ep4en1lc2b да не, вполне объективно. По сравнению с тем что наши про запад откровенно пиздят, они говорят считай чистую правду. Есть чутка предвзятости иногда, но опять таки, ни в какое сравнение с тем, как наши откровенно чернят запад
@@ik2254 а почему называется "восточный фронт"?
Watching the encirclement animation slowly closing around Minsk made my inner Hoi4 nerd extremely anxious
shii dawg shoulda built medium tanks
Try countering outside Minsk with ur 5 heavy tonks outside Minsk at the north, and pin the force from inside the pocket, then with the red army encircled, and hopefully destroyed, you do a standard push back on the southern pincer. Then while the Soviet offensive is stalled near minsk, use the forces near romanis and bessarabia to counter the Soviet forces and advance into Ukraine.
That's my thought process if this was hoi4, but I doubt it would work irl
just justify on poland 1936, then invade soviets and easy win with just the starter divisions.
@@noodled6145 As a Soviet player, I almost always invade Poland in 1936 and turn France Communist, and turn Poland into Communist puppet, by 1939 Communist Poland has built up a decent army, and we got Germany surrounded hard.
I know right. It is like just fall back into favourable defense line
12:53 “Heya! I am dimitri with an I, this is dmitri with a DM, and this is Dimitry with a Y.”
Lol
Where all twin brother just like my other 50 twin brothers
What?
Do you mean that they write their names in different languages?
@@sodinc its primarily for joke purposes, I made a joke about them during Griffin’s editing stream
It's ya boi Dimitri walking down the streets
Being a belarusian myself, it's a pleasure to watch a high-quality video about the operation that liberated my entire country from occupation
Also, [bo'brujsk], [mogi'ljov]
Also №2, the animation at 12:11 was legit great
Liberated it so it would be enslaved under Stalin.
@@DaniboyBR2 please, delete this dumb comment.
My country regained and exceeded its production values in less than 10 years, and Minsk literally was rebuilt from the ruins.
All of that mostly thanks to the materials coming from other republics while Belarus couldn't cover its own needs.
If you call that slavery, I'd rather have it than what we have now.
@@MDzmitry Do you realize this was at the expense of slave labour, the death of tens of millions of people correct? I understand you wanting the best for your country but our wealth shouldn't depend on expropriation and mass murder as it often does.
Yeah bro
LIBERATED
Poles have a good joke
"What is worse than being occupied by germans?
Being liberated by soviets"
Give back Brześć and pisnk
Stalin: do you see Army group center?
Soviet military: yes, Comrade Stalin
Stalin: I don't want to
You copied a mediocre comment.
The Soviet infantry charge with the battle cry 'URAAAAAHHHHH' was the last sound a lot of German soldiers ever heard.
"Fritz... bring mein brown leiderhosen..."
That's not entirely accurate, the Oprah was the second to last sound. The last was the bark of a ppsh.
@@dmar4194 OK. I wasn't there.
@@anthonyricchiuti4128 just a joke my friend ;P
When the mine field starts yelling URAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! URAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
It’s good to see more and more light being shed on Bagration. It’s tough to visualize just how massive of a loss this way. An entire Army Group, Army Group Center, the Army Group that had tormented the Russians since June of ‘41, was effectively expunged.
Here’s another one: th-cam.com/video/rJAEdLnZsgI/w-d-xo.html
Soviets not russians
@@artinrahideh1229
It’s interesting that we make that distinction. The phrase “Soviet” or “Soviet Army” wasn’t adopted until 1946 and as far as composition wise, the Red Army was dominated by Russians. The Wehrmacht Heer and SS had many Austrians, Czechs, Belgians, etc etc but we still refer to them as “The Germans”. Origin, composition and phraseology of the time contribute to that.
@@nateweter4012 whilst the majority were ethnic Russians, the totality was not. There were more ethnicities than I can be bothered counting: Uzbeks, Georgians, Armenians, Tatars, Ukrainians, etc. They fought under the Soviet flag, not the Russian flag, so I think it's not fair to those ethnic minorities to white-wash them as "the Russian army."
@Duck Go Quacks more like erased from existence
my great uncles participated in Bagration. they were Jewish tractor engineers in Ukraine, they fled the Shoah and joined up with the Belarusian red army as tank operators
Excellent presentation! The Eastern Front is the most interesting part of WW2.
My therapist: mineflail T-34 doesn't exist, it can't hurt you
Mineflail T-34: URA URA URA URA URA
FINNNALLLLLLLY A MEME ON THAT lol
What does that chant actually mean?
@@varun-xu8gv It's just a noise, a battle cry, like pirates or the US civil war era rebel yell.
Those are just rollers in front of the treads. A lot of modern vehicles have them now to trigger IEDs. The sherman had a legit mine flail.
@@Meirstein Mine-roller didn't sound as cool, though. I love mine flails. They're an amazing solution to the problem. They also have a small but hard to ignore chance of accidentally launching the mines in random directions instead of detonating them, while simultaneously smashing the fuse mech so badly you can't safely disarm them, wherever they happen to land. Highly chaotic fun for the whole platoon!
Germans: spends an entire day laying mines on the front
Soviet: *sweeps the mines with T-34s with mine rollers*
Hitler: So how's the war goin on the Eastern Front?
Generals: and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming
@@generalfred9426 potential history?
@@polygonalfortress yep
Mineswepers go brrrrrr-bam-brrrr-bam-brrrr-bam-brrrr
@@generalfred9426 we ran out of ammo after the 5 the wave.
My great grand uncle was a soviet tank commander during the war. He and his friends litteraly built their own T34 and set out westward. They took part in Operation Bagration and knocked out some 80 tanks, and became one of the biggest tank commanders in Leninagorsk and Kazan. He then became a history teacher, and spoke little of the war. He isn't well known, but is a legend in both cities. He took part in the battle of Stalingrad, Kursk and Operation Bagration and even made it to Berlin.
Lol I'm calling 🧢 on those 80+ "confirmed" tank kills. Your great grand uncle wasn't a call of duty main character. If it were true he'd have his name written in the history books and he'd be pretty widely known. What was your great-grand uncle's name?
Soviet Union broke the invincibility of the Wehrmacht in Stalingrad and broke the back of the German war-machine in this operation once and for all, love to Soviet heroes.
Konstantin Rokossovsky is the most underrated world war 2 general
In the West, of course, the same as Vasilevsky. But the operation itself was developed by the head of the Operations Directorate and Deputy Chief of the General Staff for Strategic Planning Alexei Innokentievich Antonov. The rest was already corrected directly at the front.
Correct. He was a 3 time Hero of the Soviet Union and deserved more
He was born in Warsaw. In 1949-1956 he was Polish minister of defence.
@@michabiaczynski9990 bla bla bla soviet repressions against polish people... Soviet marshal Rokossovsky an ethical Polish....
Soviet ideology was never built on hate to other nations, but on class ideology.
@@michabiaczynski9990 Well, no one is arguing.Father is Polish, mother is Russian.
This operation seriously isn’t talked about enough. Thanks for making this .
„Men are walking over German corpses. Corpses, hundreds and thousands of them, pave the road, lie in ditches, under the pines, in the green barley. In some places, vehicles have to drive over the corpses, so densely they lie upon the ground. A cauldron of death was boiling here, where the revenge was carried out”
- Wassili Semjonowitsch Grossman
Lol what were the germans expecting ? Mercy ? Lol
Maybe those corpses were actually Russians because I read that more than 26 million Russian military and civilians were killed by the Germans against 8 million German dead.
Hans Becker "Devil on my shoulder."
He witnessed these events and describes how he tried to break through to the west. He also describes how people immediately died who tried to drink water from puddles. The old man escorted the Germans, warning that he would shoot everyone who drank water from the stream. You will understand if you read the book.
@@scooterbob4432 on attack soviets had times less actual losses than Germany. Most if USSR casualties were injuries and sickness
@Nevermind only counting military losses
Absolutely loving the content you produce. As an avid history buff, I really enjoy the attention to detail and historical accuracy you put into all of your videos. Keep up the awesome work!
There seems to be a misconception about the Russian "Ura" battle cry.
They didn't shout "Uh! RAh! Uh! RAh!" in unison like line infantry would do in the past to keep the cadence.
It was usually one officer shouting a motivational slogan (think something like "Fowards brothers/comrades, for the motherland!") followed by a long "Uraaaaaaaa!" after which the men would begin shouting "Uraaaaaaa!" on their own time.
The fact that it sounded like a chaotic howling and not a united chant was actually more frightening to the enemy. Made it sound like there were more soldiers than there actually were, at the same time making the enemy feel like they were attacked by a horde of mindless fearless blood thirsty beasts.
"The Russians are not men, but some sort of cast iron creatures; they never get tired, and are not afraid of fire"
To be fair this misconception is somewhat based on the reality. If you look at Russian military parades you can hear a "triple ura" which consists of two short ones and one long one. And the short ones sound quite close to what is in this video.
@@ptyzix Yes that is true. On parades you have to march in unison and chant in unison. That's the hole point of a parade.
During an infantry charge, the tactical doctrine of the Red Army in WW2 dictated that once the attacking infantry has gotten whitin 100 meters of the enemy, the command to charge is to be given and the infantry is to charge at the enemy with battle cries and "destroy him at close range with rifles, grenades and bayonets" . Unlike the Americans, who relied on superior firepower and overwealmed the enemy with huge volumes of fire until they retreated or surrendered, the Soviets had their infantry charge and overrun the enemy position, flushing them out at close range with all available weapons.
This is partly where the myth of the Soviet human wave comes from.
Back to the battle cries, they were continious and loud, which increased the morale of the attacking soldiers, reduced the chances of them breaking off the assault once casualties have been taken and also demoralised the enemy.
@@ptyzix That was also practiced by other armies, the Romanian one for example, which had an identical "URA!" battle cry and also used it on the attack to motivate their infantry.
@Blesava Konjina I dom't know if it was a joke or not because the link you gave was incomplete and thus I couldn't watch whatever you linked, but there's no "H" in "URA" .
If you want to write it in English, it would be something like "OORAH" , but with a very long "AH" . You basically have to scream it until you start running out of breath.
@@daniels_0399 during late war, USSR also pounds the hell out of German fortifications before attacking, with massive sticks like 203 mm or 280 mm and the frightening Katyushas.
History documentary: "and on the 6th of June Germany suffered its worst defeat yet on the beaches of Normandy“
Bagration: am I a joke to you?
Keyword: "yet". Bagration started 16 days later.
@@gargravarr2 Stalingrad Kursk
@@yegorperepelytsya7812 actually in Tunisia just a couple/ few months after Stalingrad,both fought at approx same time ,the Western Allies forced the surrender of an Axis army about as large as that lost at Stalingrad
@@mikeneufield2855 if we assume hall stalingrad compaign axis lost 1,5 million soldiers dead wounded missing and captured, at stalingrad germans lost all its momentum , during kurks they lost their armoured core and pretty much last chances of winning the war
@@yegorperepelytsya7812yes nd with last months of Africa campaign the Axis ,lost probly at least 1/2 million, at same time as Stalingrad,and the Italians also lost their,last, field force then with the invasion of Sicily then Italy the Western Allies knocked Germanys only European ally out of the war and Germany then had to garrison and fight italy too, with an entire army,.the Allies also landing in Sicily on July 10th ' 43 at height of Kursk battle and Germans had to divert forces south forces they,badly, needed on the Eastern front. So it was a combined Allied effort, Western n Soviet
Well done. My wife is from Gomel Belarus. I have traveled there many times and explored a lot and also learned some history you don't usually hear in the books. South of Bobriuck is a small village on the Berezina called Krasny Bereg. Red Beach. The Red Army caught 19000 German troops in the area and surrounded them next to the river. The Germans tried to break out one night and the Soviets were waiting. Only some 700 managed to get through the lines. It's estimated some 11000 were taken prisoner and 6000 were killed on the banks of the Berezina river.
I always referred to this as the 'Destruction of Army Group Center' (Heer Gruppe Mitte). This defeat truly removed the illusion of a German-Russian contest; instead, after this, it was strictly mopping up the remaining German elements left behind and a race to Berlin.
Nothing like armchair historian to start your day.
Batman approved.
I ending my day with it
You said it my friend!👍🏽💯
@@devchaitanyatiwari5997 I'm dining with it
I got my cappuccino and watching this best part of the day. Such amazing content looking at different parts of history that we don't see often unless we really dig in.
Yet again we learn nothing about the history of the armchair
He just keeps clickbaiting this bs. Tbh if we don’t get a vid about his armchairs history in the next month I’m unsubscribing
@@thomasbrady3827 i agree man when does he show the history of his armchair!?!??!?!?!?
Lol 😂
That would make a good History Guy video.
Fr this is so unfair, why don’t we learn about armchair history, I clicked on this channel to learn about furniture history and I’m getting this dumb world war 2 stuff
This was truly Germany’s greatest military defeat.
Imo it was Stalingrad getting encircled, when that happened Germany had already lost pretty much
Nothing has ever brought goosebumps like these than the opening scene of this video.
Please make more like these.
I genuinely enjoyed seeing those T-34s equipped with mine rollers.
In many instances the Soviets just marched streams of soldiers over mine fields just to detonate and clear an area. Their troops were just canon fodder to them. That's why their casualties were so astronomical.
@@marksauck8481 By astronomical casualties you mean around 1:1.3 loss ratio? You've got to consider that half of europe was fighting along with germany. For example, the german losses at stalingrad were around 330.000, but axis losses were 750k-850k. Also, soviet population was literally equal to german by 1942, again, without considering the manpower of that half of europe i was talking about.
@@marksauck8481 another victim of a tv propaganda
@@marksauck8481 No, that never happened, if hardly ever.
@@sovinr8658 Read the book; A Writer at War - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945. Check pages 72& 73 According to Russian military sources, 422,700 men died in punishment units during the war. I’ve read many books on WWII over my life time. Apparently some of you don’t do much reading.
Germany : Blitzkrieg= pincers in double envelopement
Soviet Union: deep battle: my pincers have pincers which have pincers and are at the front flank and rear
actually deep battle is not really close to blitzkrieg in actual ops there is no assumed weakpoint targeted in the enemies lines the soviets would mass reserves and use them once a break in the line was made (and usually there were multiple ones) they'd immediately surge with all available armored vehicles (tanks, IFVs,APCs) through all those lines tactics are essentially the same but you are grinding down the enemy to where theres more than one possible place to slam into (basically perfect for defending russia bad for attacking small places where supply would be an issue say belgium)
@@30cal23 Deep operation involves the interaction of different types of troops and the suppression of the enemy's defense at its entire depth. In contrast to the blitzkrieg, which involves the possibility of separating tank units from the masses of infantry or neglecting heavy artillery in favor of assault aircraft. The Soviets in Bagration actively used artillery, such as a double barrage to suppress two enemy lines at once. So a big role was played not so much by numerical superiority, but by the ability to combine the efforts of different branches of the armed forces to achieve a synergistic effect. This allowed the Soviets to complete the rearmament of the army by 1943 and the military industry to reach its maximum capacity by about the same time.
You have the freedom to do this with a overwhelming superiority - as with the initial situation during operation Bagration. Thats not a Soviet thing, thats a law of warfare...:)
@@mikeromney4712 In principle, any such operation involves the ability to concentrate superior firepower on a suitable sector of the front, to develop and consolidate success. A classic combination of fire and maneuver.
There is a soviet Warsaw song that has lines "We come from the ground, from the sky and from the sea" XD
God this was so good
The Armchair Historian is awesome. His narration is crystal clear and the accompanying animations bring life to the often confusing facts and figures. This is an achievement worth noting and supporting. Beautiful!
I did a project on this. I was astounded at the fact that this extremely decisive battle is not covered at all here in the west very little. I mean like, 25% of German power in the East destroyed? Bruh Overlord was nothing to this
Cold war undermined soviet contribution.
@@southerncoast822 mhm. Both sides did this. I saw a comment on how his friends father (russian) always wanted to learn how desisive (his words not mine) overlord was and vice versa with the commentors father.
@@southerncoast822 The U.S. didn’t show up late though. Japan and Germany declared war on the U.S. The U.S. pushed the Germans, French, and Italians out of North Africa. The U.S. pushed the Germans out of Italy and France. The U.S. could have taken Berlin but Eisenhower didn’t want to. Saying the USSR beat the Germans is just revisionist history.
@@horationelson2212 looool
That’s what I thought when I learned of this from another channel (he also had the translated orders from the Soviets). It was the perfect use of “deep battle “. They destroyed more soldiers in one battle than the entirety of the rest the allies were fighting.
I mean look at the Americans losing 600,000 soldiers during the entire war compared to the Soviets who lost the same in one battle (Stalingrad). That’s why Stalin was pleading to FDR and Churchill to open another front ASAP and thought they were stalling (they were ). You know the saying WWII was “won with British intelligence, American steel and Russian blood”.
The swastika wheel crumbling into panzers animation was dope.
Time stamp?
Nvm
It is a great visual metaphor. This channels really up its game.
It's an image imitating a piece of soviet propaganda from the time of this operation which was exactly the same image.
@@raptordoniv6779 12:11
i love how stlin said : ''its stallin' time'' and stalled all over the place.truly touched my heart
Truly a moment of Joseph Stallin
@@augustfromalbion5297 ikr
Hey you know what’s even more funnier then your useless comment. Is when Biden said that he created bidenomics so he can help Yabkees get out of debt and help bring the middle class back up. That was very funny definitely touched my heart :)
16:24 That whole cinematic showed all the horrors of war
germans: *whitsling*
also germans: why do i hear boss music?
soviets: *URA intensefieses*
@@copeharder7554 man, i wish Germany succeded.
@@charlzofficial8244 if you ain't German nor aryan, you ain't goona live
@@copeharder7554 cope harder
@@kkdario08 So original
@@copeharder7554 the red army curb stomped your beloved Nazis
As an American, I'm always blown away by how tough the Russian people are in videos like this. Massive respect. I just wish we all could just get along....
Many USA people only know that d-day is the only cause of German defeat 😁
@Justus Immelmann that's not correct... and a bit simplistic
@Justus Immelmann yes, it is called alliance. Do you think the Anglo-Americans could win the war without the Eastern Front??
About the war in Afghanistan, you forgot to mention that the tribesmen were massively supported by USA... Otherwise one could say the tribesmen in Indochina kicked some American asses...
@Justus Immelmann why do you people act like this? In an alliance of three super powers each one was crucial. On top of thst what you said isnt true the american lend lease kicked in in 1943 but which point the germans were fucked. But that literally doesnt matter its the fact you show no respect to the brave russian soldiers who fought to destroy the nazis which is really embarrassing.
@Justus Immelmann Have you literally wrote something about lend lease in every single thread of that comment section? And they tell us about russian bots....
the IS2(early) and the IS2(1944) also took part in operation Bagration assisting in the heaviest breakthrough there are photos even seeing these heavy breakthrough tanks with the mine roller attached.
Red Army went from defeat to victory. Tough, hard-learned lessons were used to destroy Hitler's military. Their huge land mass, incredible snipers, hardened infantry, shock & guards armies, awesome armored forces of T-34s, legendary defenses, artillery, camouflage, strong air power, performed the lightening war of movement better than the Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS, and also battered them in urban combat. The Red Army defeated Hitler, the US Army Air Force, British RAF firebombed German cities, troops & bases. On June 6, 1944, D-Day, Western Allied ground forces landed in Normandy & doomed the Third Reich.
'Quantity has a quality of its own' -Soviet philosophy
Hitler: 'Well quality has a quantity of its...actually that makes no sense.'
Batman lost braincells reading that
Lmao considering the fact they made multiple amounts of "quality" variants of multiple other multiples of mulitples of equipment, it indeed made no sense.
German Production was actually over engineered, as Ball Bearings on a Panther were designed to last years, but would only survive for an equivalent number of days or weeks on the front lines. This is why Soviet tanks such as the T-34 were so successful, as they could be produced in ever increasing numbers. Coupled with the T-34 mounting the more powerful 85mm Cannon, the Germans could not hope to repel the increased firepower brought to bear against them.
@@anthonym770 The bulk of German equipment was also lost when Stalingrad fell, so the new production also went to shore up the losses instead of bolstering the front lines. The best Defense is a good Offense, and Germany would be on the defensive for the rest of the war.
Hitler: 'Well quality has a quantity of its...actually that makes no sense.'
German logistical/maintenance engineers: "Quality is nice and all but CAN YOU PLEASE STOP MAKING OVERCOMPLICATED WEAPONS OF WAR?!? I WAS TRAINED TO FIX TANKS AND TRUCKS *NOT* IN-FUCKING-VENT WAYS TO FIX TANKS AND TRUCKS!"
I’m not here for the video, I’m only here to hear how “Bagration” is actually pronounced, thank you Griffin
lol
That is not how it's pronounced. Its Bag-ra-ti-ON, not Bag-RA-ti-on.
@@blackarrow1259 Fan of Napoleonic Wars here. It's Bag-ra-tyon from my understanding.
@@blackarrow1259 Honestly, I'll take it. Usually when people from the west are trying to pronounce 'operation Bagration", they make a funny rhyme.
@@dumbcow7722GD it is bar-ra-ti-on?! I is a vowel?!
That was an absolutely awesome piece of history that you presented, the graphics and the characters and the colours were all absolutely great. Thanks very much…. I really enjoyed that
Congrats, these are next level animations! love it
The Soviet’s had some badass military leaders during WWII. Zhukov, Vasilivesky. Rokossovsky, Konev, Vatutin, etc.
The Eastern Front doesn’t get nearly as much attention in the West as it should.
There was Zhukov and almost no one else. Unlike Monty or Patton his abilities did match his press, the war would have taken much longer for Russia without Zhukov.
This is the best book on the Eastern Front: "When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army stopped Hitler" by David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House. 2nd edition, 2015.
@@rick7424 thanks! Here's a great one about Kursk, one of my favorites: "Citadel" by Robin Cross.
Eastern from DOES get attention, but really lacks in Video games and Movies. Hollywood and Games always shows the Western Front smh
@@robertmaybeth3434 I am currently reading Glantz and House's work on Kursk, but thank you for the tip.
My grandfather was in the 8th Panzer Division. He was a Panzerjager. I think at this time his division was in the 4th panzer army. The 8th panzer division and my grandfather survived until 1945 when they were captured in Brno. I asked my Opa when he knew the war was lost. He said, “After Stalingrad fell we all knew it was over. It was just a matter of time. The “alter Hase” in the units knew how to survive. We just had to hang on until it was over”
Very interesting
Really very interesting! This is what I wanted to know. Stalingrad? Kursk? Weissrussland? When did German understand that they had lost the war?
My grandfather was in the 2nd Shock Army led by General Vlasov before his betrayal. He told me that when he had been wounded and lied down on the battlefield he thought: "It is a pity, to die at the age of 19". Thanks God, now he is almost 98 years old and well.
@@user-jy9eo8en8x I’m so glad your grandfather survived. I know my Opa often said he had nothing but respect for the Russian soldier. I asked him one time about his tank kills and if he put rings on his barrel of his panzerjager. He said killing human beings is nothing to celebrate. He was angry that I asked that and I never asked again
@@ericshelly2518 My Opa and I agree with you and your grandfather. War is evil. Let it never happen again
@@ericshelly2518 My grandfather was one of the youngest regiment commanders of the Red Army. Lieutenant-colonel at his 30. Commander of the 1331 infantry regiment of the 318 "Novorosiyskaya" infantry division, Separate Coastal Army, 4th Ukrainian Front. He had survived surrounding of Kiev, Battle of Moscow, Stalingrad and died with his regiment storming city of Sevastopol on 9.05.1944. ..it might be that our grandfathers fought each other at Stalingrad...
These animations looks incredible they are very engaging and informative. Great work.
Thank you for this fantastic animated review. I especially like the precision of facts that you lay out.
"Increasingly, the situation began to resemble the summer of 1941. But now the roles were reversed; it was the Germans turn to flee in terror and confusion under incessant attack from above. And now they could expect neither respite, nor mercy."
Soviet storm :)
An excellent documentary show about the whole of the war in the East, that you can find here on TH-cam. Recommended to anyone interested.
wtf are you talking about. They surrendered not fleed lmao
@@jeansaisrien1343 its a biased show
@@darklysm8345 you do know that the germans retreated right? that's basically fleed. wehraboo detected
@@cosmicdistortion4350 ok toxic alliboo, read a book lmao
This battle in a nutshell
The German army was literally curbed stomped by the ussr
Ww2 eastern front be like
Step 1 to rush B
This stomping was approved by a turtle
The ussr was knocked out in '41, they got up and bitch slapped the Germans in moscow, but the Germans knocked them out again. Then the Germans were bloating on the Soviets body, and when the Germans started walking away to grab their gun, the Soviets hit them with a vodka bottle.
@@copeharder7554 yep and it’s disgusting that people praise the communists, responsible for more deaths then old age.
It is well documented that the Soviets were still well reinforced. But were paused by Stalin's orders during the Warsaw uprising.
That way Stalin would kill 2 birds with one stone . The toll on German army . And the Polish in the uprising if also wiped out . Would ensure minimal resistance to the Soviet rule over Poland . This was a cold calculated act by Stalin . True to his form .
Stalin was a true master of realpolitik.
Augustus went months without cutting his beard or hair-a sign of mourning in Roman religious tradition-and often wailed, “Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!”
Hitler, screaming with a shaking hand: "Ernst Busch, give me back my Army Group Center!"
The Shmitler on the thumbnail makes me uncomfortable...
Hey, what does Shmitler even mean?!?! Please reply to me, buddy!
@@generalgta3528 mr. hilter
How do you think he felt in summer of 1944? Haha.
@@generalgta3528 1930s Trump
Its kinda hot...
*The last time I was this early, the 1936 Berlin Olympics was still a widely anticipated event!*
ok
At least Jesse Owens had a nice impression of Hitler XD
Last time I was this early this channel still had the balls to accurately represent history instead of censoring it.
@@pottierkurt1702 yeah, shitty YT demonetization policy
Last time I heard that joke, I fell my dinosaur.
They say a revenge is a dish best served cold. Revenge is a dish best served via a Katyusha and T-34 aswell.
Tip: Delete your divisions before they are destroyed by attrition.
If you disband your division when they are encircled, the equipment goes back to the reserves?
@@sulfuricorange3722 yes
@@sulfuricorange3722 you lose 70% of it or something
@@notoriousblt1038 but if your whole army is annihilated you lose 100%?
@@sulfuricorange3722 no. If you are encircled you lose all of it
Fun fact: During the planning of a major Soviet offensive in 1944, a famous incident occurred that various sources consistently report in slightly different versions. Rokossovsky (born in Poland) disagreed with Stalin, who demanded in accordance with Soviet war practice a single break-through of the German frontline. Rokossovsky held firm in his argument for two points of break-through. Stalin ordered Rokossovsky to "go and think it over" three times, but every time it was the same answer. After the third time Stalin remained silent, but walked over to Rokossovsky and put a hand on his shoulder. A tense moment followed as the whole room waited for Stalin to rip the epaulette from Rokossovsky's shoulder; instead, Stalin said "Your confidence speaks for your sound judgement", and followed Rokossovsky's plan. The operation proved to be very successful for the Red Army and the Soviets liberated all of Byelorussian SSR and gained eastern Polish territories. The Army Group Centre faced destruction.
“The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken!”
- Konstantin Rokossovsky
@Boden McDaniel You ever been to Belarus? They still celebrate their Soviet past.
Your videos are amazing. You should have a History Channel series. As always, amazing video.
I appreciate how you use World at War sound effects whenever you can fit them in. Also, your videos are all amazing!
Great line from Victor Davis Hanson's book, "The Second World Wars": "What the Red Army did to the Wehrmacht terrified Europe for the next 50 years". Damn right.
The Wehrmacht was rampaging the Red Army for a good two years when force ratios weren't extremely loopsides in favour of the Red Army.
Despite having an numerical advantage of over 2:1 on the whole front just before Bagration commenced, the Red Army only achieved one major breakthrough on one point which still resulted in disproprtionate casualties. Cold war military generals and historians were studying the German operational tactics, not the Soviet ones for a good reason.
The Red Army's advantage lay in the extreme manpower advantage, nothing else.
@@davidjohn6913 Let me guess, you think the Nazi’s could have won the Second World War too?
@@chinsaw2727 he is a wehraboo don’t listen to him
@@Welsh7133 Y'all realize he's not wrong though, right? Everything he said is a fact. Just because you don't believe it doesn't make it so.
@@wiictvchannel1112 I never said his claims were false, he just seemed like a wehraboo (a type of person I despise) so I called him out for it
German: we have 300 new Tigers coming
Russia: laughs in 2000 T34 reserve
When you literally have more tanks than the enemy can destroy
@@mrporcupine4140 Plus when it's all but guaranteed that on-third of all Germans tanks will break down, and be abandoned for lack of parts. Tigers and Panthers were notoriously maintenance intensive.
@@blank557 Add that by 1944, Soviet Tankers were almost equally skilled as their German counterpart
@@dragonstormdipro1013 britain and russia were on the verge of collapse then lend lease came in and turned the tied
@@alessandroguermandi8828 Land lease alone can't win wars. US aids to Saudi Arabia or Pakistan have proven futile. However the effect of Land Lease were extremely important and helped Britain and Russia immensely.
The animation is just amazing! Bravo!!111
excellent animation! and great research and narration!
The Soviets had learned a lot by 1944, the mine-sweeper tanks being an example. They also exploited their tactical air superiority at a time when the Luftwaffe was a dwindling force. Their artillery strength was overwhelming by the time of Operation Bagration.
Agreed, ISU-152's pop into my mind whenever I watch that Russian documentary series "Soviet Storm WW2 in the East:Operation Bagration".
Operation Bagration: "Nazi Unit.... F*ck your unit, F*ck those divisions around you, F*ck the forest you're hiding in, and F*CK YOUUUU!!!"
@Justus Immelmann It was never to be a lasting union. When challenged to justify his alliance with Stalin,
Churchill replied; "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons"
@Justus Immelmann the US squeezing South America and killing independence movements around the world to steal their resources for cheap wasn’t poverty? Many countries are still suffering criminal sanctions. The Soviet Union was destroyed by civil war and multiple invasions, including by Poland. The thanks they got for stopping the Nazi war machine was an economic blockade conjured by Churchill and Truman. Keep talking of propaganda.
@Justus Immelmann I don’t do beliefs. I analyse and ponder FACTS.
STALINGRAD & NOT "D" DAY WAS WWII's TIPPING POINT
"D-day of Stalingrad", as TIK formulated it, decided more then d-day in Normandy, i guess.
Retrospectively, the Soviet officials considered Kursk to be the biggest turning point, Stalingrad second, Moscow third.
Germany had lost before the war even started. Their logistics capability was pathetic. As soon as they invaded the Soviet Union it was never going to end well for them. Barbarossa was a terribly planned operation.
D day was simply the cherry on top
Then again in Tunisia the Western Allies forced the surrender of an Axis army about as large as that lost at Stalingrad, just a couple/few months after Stalingrad. both battles were fought at approx the same time, with the culmination of the entire North African campaign beginning at El alamein with the Eighth Army under Montgomery and then at least another entire Allied army landed at and following Operation Torch
What an excellent review of this offensive. Brilliantly done.
0:57 😳Hearing that Red Army chant as they advance sends chills down my spine...
named after Georgian prince and brilliant general. One of the heavy hitters of the Napoleonic wars era.
That must have appealed to Stalin because he was Georgian too. Stalin also had a great affection for a Georgian literary figure named Koba, who was somewhat akin to a Georgian Robin Hood. Stalin used to use "Koba" to identify himself amongst his fellow Bolsheviks and some of his comrades referred to him by this name, especially in their appeals to him after he had them arrested.
@@hughmungus1767 so that's why they named that cheater ape koba in planet of the apes
Imagine after a tank attack you were the only one in the platoon that survived and then you hear "URA" coming from the distance
I'd just eat a bullet at that point
This is amazing. Great job. 👏🏻
I love how German High Command is regarded as this group of super generals with brilliant strokes of genius. They got owned time and again by the Soviets. They never saw anything coming. Incompetent at best.
Great new episode about an often overlooked offensive: nice animations and well narrated. Keep it up AH team!
@@copeharder7554 cope
@@copeharder7554 th-cam.com/video/sRuqaqTAW30/w-d-xo.html
@@pixel6698 ah yes israel's second place anthem
@@copeharder7554 Follow your funny moustache leader's example
@@pixel6698 Follow your Stalin's example, alone in his office,hated by his people,hurting from stroke, left to die by his doctors
Starts watching the video.
> Wow, animation's so good. This deserves a like already.
Few seconds later.
> Omfg he pronounced Bagration correctly, top tier creator, how do I give a second like?!
That opening was AWESOME.
0:56 admire the skull frame there