In hindsight maybe the Allies should have fought with Germany against the USSR. I am not saying turn a blind eye too their crimes. Eastern Europe suffered after WW2 because of Stalin and his cronies.
@@AnnaLuchia they all was on amph´s . google-picture search this: PILOTS TO MANY MISSIONS? ... and you find even a advertise-poster for it. or google: ww2 benzedrine and you find more info. it was new at this time and the people was not so clever back in 1942 to use search engines to inform himself for side-effects. but i guess you are in the age where the typical stereotype infos from history-channel or discovery channel or even some teachers has good function.
@@scotsman555Oh yeah, that is what you say instead of ,,thank you''... Let's forgive nazis the concentration camps, Holocaust and fucking genocide of slavic people and let's blame Soviet people for bringing peace to Europe? Soviet Union lost 27 million people in that war, our ancestors fought for freedom, for humanity and for the MOTHERLAND. Stalin was only a fucking dictator who also killed 30 millions of soviet people. But don't you dare to compare him and glorious soldiers of Red army. You know what? Have you ever heard of Elbe river and what happened there? American, British and Soviet soldiers met there, they were BROTHERS and they fought against ONE enemy. So please keep your dirty mouth closed and learn history. British Empire and US had way more war crimes than Russia/USSR ever. But in WW2 they were ALLIES.
You want to congratulate the Nazi propaganda photographers, attached to the invading German armies, whilst they engage in slaughtering vast numbers of sacrificial Russians….strange choice
@@ryanschneider3324 Ok,80 years. But how technology & society has changed in that time.Those early cameras were heavy,cumbersome & the developing,projecting,storing etc. It says to me that in those precarious,moving war fronts they are commendable.
@@coconuciferanuts339 They were heavy, even back in the sixties, I know, carry around with you 3 Nikon F3's and few ED lenses, supplies film and whatever else you may need. Consider to name few, the Bolex all metal film cameras, that's right film that would have to be developed later.
The Russians were gonna whip them no matter what else happened. They had too many soldiers, the natural resources, a subservient culture and a dictator at least as brutal as Hitler who was willing to kill every Russian and every German to win.
@@duanelinstrom4292 And glad we won. But congratulations on missing the point completely. Pound for pound the German army really was the best on the planet. One on one they would have smashed anyone, including us. Hate to say it but yeah. And they almost whipped the whole developed world.....alone.
@jamesirvine9493 lol no they fucking werent, what you're doing is spreading the "clean wehrmacht" myth when most of them until 1944 CHOSE that position, don't even try to defend people like the SS either, the pieces of shit who ran the camps and did more war crimes than the entire allied side as a whole "normal" my ass
Not true. While there have been a fair share of wars since WW2, the combined death tolls of all these wars is not even 25-40% of WW2's death toll. So, yes large conflicts still exists, but the number of people who have never known war and live in relative safety had grown exponentially due to international regulations and treaties.
Truely, you hear the numbers but it is impossible to fathom it... every one of them a son, father, brother.... each one with their own story. Insane and tragic to think about.
I think even an experienced soldier today can´t imagine the brutality of the Eastern Front. My grandfather never said a word about this time after he returned home from russian captivity in 1948. Once a year he traveled to Heiligenbeil, East Prussia, to honor two fallen comrades who fell to save his life. He did this until shortly before his death in 1983.
@@SuperGermanIrishdamn Russians were too merciful. Considering what your grandpa did to Russians it’s basically injustice that Rus let him live….bur hey, Russian kind heart never wavers
My grandpa was a german soldier at the eastern front. He passed away about 20 years ago. We never spoke much to nothing about that time. I regret that now. At the the end of his life, with upcoming demtia all the things that he has seen kept up to him again. A stupid waste of life and resources on all sides.
"On all sides..." It's not a waste of resources when you are defending yourselves against another side intent on wiping you out of existence. On the contrary, it is a valuable use of resources, for which they are left no choice.
They were all set up by the Rothschild war profiteers... All sides... Those who caused the problem also sold the solution, and are doing it all over again today.
In all honesty. I think a good portion of that comes from the fact that the Western front was literally under supplied, under strength, and mismanaged as hell by Hitler. While the Eastern front was the meat grinding war of annihilation.
I’m not sure people see them as unable to fight. I think it’s just the opposite. They were the biggest super power in the world in 1939. And on top of that Germanys culture was a culture of war, with hardened and experienced warfighters, that was the best in the world tactics wise.
@@damanithegoat9653 You are illiterate and reckless. 27 million Soviets died, more than half of them civilians (bad and untrained soldiers?!?). The USA lost 0 civilians (is also logical) and that is the main reason why the western and eastern fronts could not be brutal "equally". It was a mass murder because all Slavs were subhuman to the Nazis and were purposefully enslaved or murdered. Sounds kind of inhuman and brutal, doesn't it? Let us add Stalingrad. In this single industrial TOWN five times more Wehrmacht troops perished than in the whole operation of Overlord. More than 60 percent of the ENTIRE Wehrmacht was on the Eastern Front. Think about it.
My Grandfather was at the eastern front. Krakau and other places . He was at a prisoner of war camp in sibiria . Many of his comrades died there . They had nothing to eat and it was a very strong winter. Later ,when they were released, he walked home all the way to germany by himself and sometimes in a train. He died when i was 2 or 3 years old . RIP .
@@powertothegods so your grandfather was a murderer with no morals like many.. it's good that he went to the camp and survived, it was certainly hard for him to sleep peacefully even after returning home until his last breath :)
Your Grandfather and all of his comrades were Heroes dont let the brainwashed sheeps tell you otherwise, they fought to free all humanity but the devil owns this world for now and evil won in the end.
These first images are a reminder that the WW2 German soldiers mainly walked to battle. The notorious blitzkreig was not more than a shock element to break through enemy lines to "make a hole". The bulk of the Wehrmacht had very little in the way of motorized transport. When Russia was invaded the Germans crossed the border with over twice as many horses as trucks and when the winter came their diet contained a large portion of horsemeat.
This is two years after the war began. That this army could not do in the vast expanse of Russia what a much stronger army could do earlier in the comparatively cozy confines of Poland does not mean the blitzkrieg was overestimated.
Yes, my dad was in the US Army in WWII. He fought in the Philippines. He said they walked all the time, seldom had motor transport. When he made that remark we were looking at video of modern Army transport in Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s hard to determine what “all the time” really means.
Depends. When Blitzkrieg operations actually happened, they used their motorised divisions. So men on trucks and armoured fighting vehicles, in addition to tanks in panzer divisions. With the "regular infantry" following behind. Regulary infantry was mostly used to defend statically and hold positions, but not in large offensive operations as the main "spear". What I'm trying to say is that the motorized component of the WW2 German Army infantry was crucial and essential for the blitzkrieg operations. It's not like they were trying to use regular non motorised infantrymen for blitzkrieg stuff. They used non motorised infantry and even cavalry as it should be used.
Essentially correct. Barbarossa was stalled several times because the spearhead out ran it's following forces. The German logistics was never able to supply its army beyond 500 miles, as stated by the commander of logistics to the OKW before Barbarossa stepped off. It was begun a month late as well, because of supply issues and concern about spring mud, thus placing the entire effort in jeopardy because of winter in Russia - which turned out to be the worst in decades. Also, German mobility in Europe was by trains and trucks rolling on hi-ways and improved hard packed well maintained roads that were well marked. This simply did not exist on the Russian frontier with most travel being done over rutted, narrow farm roads. Add the early rains of 1941 that turned it all into quagmire, and the recipe for distaster was laid out. Once you stepped off beyond Poland, you were back in the conditions of Napoleon in 1812. Incidently, the same thing happened to the Russians when they invaded Ukraine in September - early rains that kept the Russians lined up on raised farm roads, instead of fanning out across the land.
But not impossible. The USSR was weak in that its top-heaviness (Stalin ran everything) and strong in its geography. If Hitler had devoted all his strength to knocking out Stalin, he would have defeated the USSR. Instead, he faffed about, trying to do several things instead of the most important thing. It's the same mistake he made earlier in switching to bombing British civilians instead of finishing off the RAF. Make no mistake...Germany could have won. If someone more sane and competent had been leading them, they would have, and there's no telling what the world would look like today.
@@siler7Germany could never have reasonably pulled through with a victory during the war. They didn’t have the resources, population, or time to win a total war against 3 of the largest economies on the planet, all at once. Especially when all 3 were supporting each other with lend lease. The part you said about the Battle of Britain blunder was true though. However it’s debatable if a “victory” in the air during the battle would have pushed the British to the negotiating table, seeing the pathetically small size of the Kriegsmarine. The only option for victory would be to take out one at a time, infeasible due to both the Brits and Americans being allied, and the Soviets at least considered partners.
@@IMP_ROM Taking out one at a time was the point of what I said. The opportunity to do that was when the RAF was weak. Germany didn't need a navy if they had air superiority...the RN would have been able to do little without air support. Certainly Germany couldn't have occupied Britain, but a treaty was a very real option. If Germany had ruled the skies, Churchill would have been replaced with somebody who was willing to make a deal. Then an earlier, more focused attack on Moscow, and Europe could look very different today.
Actually the opposite is true. They used horses so they could continue their offences especially in winter when the mud on the Russian roads turns into a stodgy quick sand forcing vehicles to stop and break down, so horses were much more efficient
One interesting thing is that German army had logistical problems and lack of fuel so often that they were never fully mechanized from 1940-1945. There are even accounts of half of Rommel's fuel in Africa being utilized by the same trucks that had a goal to get that same fuel to his frontline. At least on the east and west their supply lines always utilized horses. On the contrary all allies were fully mechanized by the end of WW2.
Yes pretty much from 1941 onwards, the logistics people and leadership knew it was just a matter of time until they ran out of fuel, metal and other vital resources. Especially when they failed at getting the oil from the Caucasus and Romania.
@@LK-bz9sk Even as an American I cringe at the self-congratulation claiming that the west won the war. Albert Speer had a great line in one of his books about telling Hitler when the war would be over based on when what natural resources would have Russian soldiers standing on them. Speer got himself fired from that.
Having read many memoirs I have no idea how anybody survived the Eastern front. Retreating two years, outnumbered, outgunned, undersupplied. Talk about a will to survive.
@@davide1241 Hitler had exactly 0% chance of defeating the Soviets, if there is any place on Earth that is has always been undefeatable, it’s Russia. Too big, too brutal. General Winter is unbeatable,
no that's not tears, that's just a bit of fatigue..i look like this most of the time.. i never cry. That's the face of a resilient man, i wouldn't really want to face against him, because that's the man who will feel pain and keep pushing.
Apparently when De Gaulle visited a battered Moscow (following the battle of Moscow) he remarked to his host ‘an amazing Army’ to which his Russian host replied ‘thank you’. And De Gaulle allegedly replied, ‘No, I meant the Wehrmacht, that they reached this far’
Correct, except it was Stalingrad. He said: " Ah, Stalingrad, a remarkable people, a very great people." The correspondent thought he was talking of the Russians. " ...I'm not speaking of the Russians but of the Germans. To have come so far! "
There is no source as it is fake statement from one of the neonazi pseudo documentaries like ‘the greatest lie ever told’ or ‘fisting Europa’… all lies!
@@meht43-BringitBadger The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between September 1941 and January 1942
What have u done for your beliefs beyond whining on the internet? The men on all sides were true heroes, this was back when armies were composed of the best and brightest, not the ghetto /trailer park employment scheme they are today
@@nigel900 This is a massive fallacy. Ordinary soldiers in war do a job, often with an implicit or even explicit threat of being shot if they don't. I'm not saying it's impossible to make a moral or ethical judgment about soldiers who "obey orders" but it's so much more complex than making the assumption they share the beliefs of their political leaders. Even those who do end up going along and fighting mostly continue to fight because of much closer more personal reasons; fight for the friends they have to their left and right. War is terrible.
@@VenaGT both armies were made up of normal men with families waiting for them back home. No matter who fought for the "good guys or the bad guys", the soldiers deserve to be remembered. (also i just want to let you know that the soviet union also invaded my families country, neither side was in the right)
@@galacticbananastopmotions7292 Well....yes and no. The "average" German soldier(family as well) was bolstered by his ideas of racial superiority, and used said ideology as a justification for his invasion of foreign sovereign countries and the atrocities committed. So in the case of the Russians vs. the Germans, only one side was the invader. Slavs were considered untermenschen, after all. (The case of the Russians vs. the Poles is exactly the same(at the same time), with the Russians being the ones invading and committing the atrocities.) So in terms of remembrance, one side should always be remembered for doing their worst. But in no way assume I think the Soviets were justified in their ideology, and crimes, or were somehow better in any way. There is not much difference between the nazis and the communists/socialists. Just different colorful banners. I was born in Prague. I can tell you all about the tanks rolling in, in '68.
The Red Army increased their ranks from 1.5 million in spring of 1939, to 5.7 million in spring of 1941 without declaring mobilization and alarming with that the neighbor countries. The law that made this possible allowed as well for the preparation of 18 million reservists, so that at any moment they could fill the ranks with the desired numbers of Soldiers.
@@CM-ve1bz crazy what happens when you were a feudal backwater up until 5-10 years prior to the war as opposed to the most industrialized country in Europe
Because what most people don't seem to know, russia was planning on betraying hitler. They were preparing for an offensive....not defensive which is why they were nearly wiped out at the beginning of Germanys offensive on them which they nearly succeeded. Obviously at this point, Germany's forces were better men then the russians will ever be. nazi hitler and his party were evil but the whole of russia was no different. That even today they are poorly uneducated and brainwashed into hating everyone and they commit war crimes in Ukraine for some tyrant by the name of vladolf hitler.
Too bad the people that have the film couldn't put a date and area with the sections of film. Not too many people are able to recognize the landscape and areas unless they are from there and almost from the period of time. Thank you for your work and hopefully I have given you a idea to go with the next one. Some of the footage has been around the block and time also.
Well as a long-time armchair historian of WWII, about 40 years, I look for tactical markings, their gear, types of vehicles, and the gear and clothing the troops are wearing if it's not documented. So if you see MG-34s's its most likely from early war and not 1942-43, and it's at least 1942 if you see a Pz III J at 4:01 for example which arrived in time for Case Blue.
since most of these clips are from the german wochenschau which was the weekly propaganda news that you could go and see in the cinemas you most likely can find out where it was filmed since the anaouncer usually tells what unit they were following that week and whats going on in the clips
Hugo Boss himself was a member of the Nazi party since 1931. And his clothing company utilized forced labour drawn from German-occupied territories to make uniforms for the SS and the German army.
Yes.Good point. The Authoriative government or whatever the power unit is sends others to do the dirty work.Maybe we could say the same about every occupation.That a member of parliament should also clean the toilet block as part of training. In some Scandanavian countries I think they do this kind of thing.
My great-grandfather fought in WW2. He was a partisan officer in Yugoslavia and he encountered both the Italians and the Germans. I was about 11 when he passed at the age of 99 but I didn't hear many stories from him, although he had many to tell, because I didn't know much about the war but I vividly remember one of them. His group of partisans captured many Italian soldiers, kept them in barracks as POWs and treated them with respect, but they were kept only in their underwear XD. We still have his war medals, captured German binoculars and an officer's watch both in pristine condition and there is even a photograph of him and Tito.
I am not sure, if it's only a coincidense... But people, who went through hard times of hunger and suffering lived exceptionally long... 99 years is exceptional.
so? at least they did something to help soviets defeat wehrmacht unlike americans joining last year of war killed few leftovers of wehrmacht and claiming they won the war
This is a good compilation of footage, some of which I've seen before in various documentaries and videos. The music however, was incredibly annoying as it keeps fading out to random bumping noises, and constantly changing the volume level. After about a minute, I muted the sound and watched the rest.
Germany underestimated the size of Russian army, they thought it was similar size to their army but by end of 1941 they captured 3 million soldiers. If Japan attacked Russia from the east and Germany could have captured Moscow but Germany wanted to invade Russia by 6-8 weeks which wouldn’t have been possible.
Germany were very close to defeating the USSR, but due to logistic and fuel problems they could not reach there goal, the germans got too ahead of themselves, one of the biggest causes for the failing comes primaraily down to there fuel shortage, which that is the main reason they hit stalingrad to get to the south of russia to hit there oil.
If Japan would have attacked from the east it would have token them a while to get set up because Russia’s eastern part was like a huge buffer. It was insignificant to the Russians. All the important things are in the western side of Russia.
@@rommeltrommel137 As of December 1, 1941, the USSR against Japan had 24 infantry, 2 cavalry, 4 tank, 23 aviation divisions, 20 infantry, 20 tank, 4 aviation brigades + 15 fortified areas. 1 343 307 people, 8777 guns and mortars, 2124 tanks and self-propelled guns, 3178 aircraft and 96 ships. protown.ru/information/hide/5452.html (rus) The Soviet Union had 4 types of aircraft that could fly from the Vladivostok region to the Japanese islands After Germany violated the non-aggression pact, Stalin did not believe that Japan would not attack
Die deutsche Armee war, bei allen Missetaten, die mutigste und beste Armee der Welt. Sie wurde duch die Intrigen von Churchill, der russischen Überlegenheit der Kampfkräfte, dem Winter, den Waffenlieferungen usw. besiegt. Schaut man sich die Stärke der Armeen beider Länder zum Beginn des Krieges an, dann wird man sich dieser Tatsachen bewusst! Na ja ein Vielfrontenkrieg ist nicht gewinnbar und die Verbündeten, na ja....
Reading the memoirs and biographies of the German High Command, I was SHOCKED to read that Hitler made the entire nation swear fealty to HIM. Not to Germany, but to him, as if he WAS Germany. And that oath, whether the people realized it or not, was to die to the last man for Hitler, because he believed that was everyone's patriotic duty. It's why requests for supplies were ignored or delayed; he genuinely believed that the heart of the soldier would swell up so much with patriotism and duty, that victory would ALWAYS be achieved. And then when the tide shifted, the end was drawing near, he went scorched earth on Germany (beginning as early as 1943). If they couldn't win, they didn't deserve to live. But for Speer and a few other generals ignoring Hitler, their influence and orders saved the German people. Looking at the faces of the Germans.... they don't even know why they aren't supplied. They don't know why they can't get requisitions. The exhaustion in their faces, the body language of men trying to survive while under intense fire This footage is actually depressing.
А теперь судьбу Гитлера повторяет Зеленский.Он тоже хочет призвать на фронт всех молодых мужчин зная,что никогда не победят Россию. Не воюйте с русскими.
А теперь судьбу Гитлера повторяет Зеленский.Он хочет призвать в окопы всех молодых украинских мужчин,зная,что ему не победить Россию. Не воюйте с русскими.
Hi, love your video! Could you please link me to the photo of the German soldier looking toward the mountains? I’ve been looking for that image for about 3 years. Please help! Thanks.
I can`t understand that people vote for war: my father, a 25 year old student of arts had to give up his studies and was forced to work for the Westwall-Line in 1938, than 1939 included in the short battle against Polonia, the next station 1940 in Russia as a cartograph in Piskow. At first not much to do, until war starts he visited the region around the Peipus-sea , all churches and the historical buildings and learned some Russian words. Once he was saved by a Russian Farmer out of the Welikaya-stream in 1941, then in 1944 he was strong injured on the battlefield ( Kurlandkessel) he lost one leg, he was saved by Russian soldiers, once again in 1945 before he could reach one of the transports of wounded soldiers because he could not walk he was saved by the Russian Medical Service.He came home in 1947. I have never heard a bad word against Russia, because he knew exactly who was the devil in those battles. I would like somenbody from our government to beg for pardon because of 27 million dead russian people. And I hopte that time changes and we have a good time with Russia again.
Ich habe mir noch die alten Kriegsgeschichten von Opa angehört. Nord-Afrika , danach die 6. Atmee. Oft dachte ich, nicht schon wieder. Doch wir Kinder waren einfach zu respektvoll gegenüber dem alten Herren. Heute bin ich froh das ich das alles noch aus erster Hand gehört habe. Manchmal wenn ich diese Filme sehe, denke ich Opa kommt gleich ins Bild.
In the 21st century we have men doing sunbeds, whitening there teeth and taken selfie pictures for there instagram page, back then we had proper men . The guns were made out of wood, the men made out of steel !!!
My grandfather joined the Soviet military in 1936. My grandfather's original origin was Poland... But he died in 2014 due to heart disease, btw.. my grandfather was born in 1918, my grandfather was a hero♥️♥️♥️
@James Irvine it does matter because without proof, your words are empty and I don’t consider a single word you say. Your whole point is that “movies say x, but in reality it’s more like y” but all you can do is talk about y; what YOU think.
Germany was fighting almost the whole world. USA, Soviet, British Empire, France, Poland, Canada, Australia. They were the best military the world has ever seen.
For a few years, maybe. The best military the world has ever seen wouldn't have made the horrible decisions Hitler did. Also, the best military in the world, many in the SS, wouldn't be hellbent on exterminating human beings, like all slavs, for instance. And Jews.
True up to perhaps 1940, when the British beat them in the air with far less equipment and men. Oh, then they got beat in Africa, by the British and then the U.S. and it was a retreat by the Greatest Army from then on. The German Army was only great when they attacked unprepared nations and civilizians. The U.S. has the greatest army in history, no one knowledgeable of military history denies that fact. The U.S. emerged from WW2 as the greatest military in history with a larger and most modern technology, equipment, and the sheer number of serving personnel. It has remained that way ever since.
sometimes one thumb up is not enough 👍this year i turn 60ty and i can good remember when back in 1970tys my grandfather told me the story from a guy who lost his right foot under the knee by a us grenade shell in italy 1943. the man get transporte out of the "heat" fixed by ropes on a field kitchen trailer (gulschkanone) ... my grandfather was that guy. and vids like that allway will remember me on him.. thank you! btw, he was a great guy, playing (no matter woodenleg) often football with me and he was the best substitute you can have in the youth when your father is alcohol addicted.
To be honest (As an Englishman that had both grandfathers fought in the war,one in Burma the other in the royal navy) I respect the bravery of the Soviet soldiers and the Wehrmacht soldiers plus SOME SS units but not the rear following SS death units and the einsatzgruppen soldiers. This was an horrific confrontation which I have studied for years as a hobby.I was amazed that Hitler and his generals attempted such a feat when taking into account the sheer size of the country,weather and a man as stubborn as Hitler......STALIN. Hitler lost the war the very moment German boots stepped foot on Russian soil,regardless of his initial glitter of military achievements in the East. However what really is sad,utterly and totally SAD. We haven't learnt from that conflict nor have we learnt from the whole of both the world wars.
Our WW2 Vets are nearing their end.... if you know one or meet one, take that opportunity to treat them with the upmost respect and just talk with them about anything
My grandfather died long ago in the 90s, he fought the whole war from Poland, France to the Balkans and Russia. He was never willing to speak about it. All he wanted is peace. Once and for all.
The Russian army is like a bear… IT tramples over its own dead like gog and magog, sends men like locusts. They are a force not to be prodded like a bear in a den. The Wehrmacht embodied optimization, training and superior weaponry, the German eagle is symbolic of this fortitude and agility. The next war that was like this war has already begun.
It's sad to see the fear of death in those soldiers,a situation were they wish they were in bed alone some where away from that war,respect to all military forces .
Few years ago i was at a ww2 show and i met a group of both wehrmacht and American and i talked to both and one solider came to me while i was grabbing food from a truck and he asked me in broken english if i had family in the west and i told him yes i did" my grandfather was a tiger commander in the east then moved to the western front" the veteran proceeds to tell me he fought in the same unit as my grandfather and told me i looked just like him and he proceeded to do the wehrmacht salute and he decides to buy me a extra coffee, wonderful gentleman to talk too and have a conversation with guy didnt even look 90 at all!!
Thanks to soviet army for liberating europe and destroying nazis! my great grandma in czech republic was telling me story when i was kid what germans did to our people and how they were running from soviets when they were comming closer to city
und für was? Von Lobliedern auf dich haste nix mehr, weil die Blumen über dir wachsen. Nix mit ehrenvoll und glorreich. Sinnlos verheizt wurden die armen Jungs auf beiden Seiten, so wie jetzt wieder die Russen ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste ihre Leute gegen die Ukrainer verheizen. Warum und für was? Haben die aus den Millionen Toten, die sie verbuchen mussten, mal so gar nichts gelernt? Anscheinend wächst russisches Gras wohl schneller über Gräber und damit sind die Gefallenen aller Kriege wohl auch schneller vergessen oder ist es doch so simpel, dass sie einfach zahlenmäßig mehr Verfügungsmasse haben und damit prassen, heute wie damals? "Genosse Stalin, wir haben die Ortschaft gesichert. Verluste durch Feindeinwirkung: 324335 Soldaten, wir benötigen zwei neue Divisionen, um die Stellung zu halten. Ja, nehmen Sie sich soviele Männer wie Sie brauchen". Jo, kein WOrt über die Gefallenen, da wurde einfach neues Kanonenfutter angefordert und bewilligt. Punkt aus. Dafür im Dreck krepieren? Nee danke, da bin ich lieber Feigling. Ganz einfach, weil der Tod eines Infantrie oder Panzerschützen einfach null Unterschied macht. Ich glaub dieses romantische Bild gibts nicht oder vielleicht mal aber das stammt noch aus ner Zeit vor dem 20. Jh. als Feldzüge noch aus einer Schlacht bestanden und das längstens ne Woche ging. So standen natürlich auch die CHancen besser, durchzukommen als wenn so n Scheiß Krieg über Jahre sich hinzieht.
Lots of If's in this eastern front war...1. What if winter did not come early? 2. What if hitler followed his general's advice for the 2nd offensive for moscow instead of the south 3. Early retreat for the 6th army at the start of encirclement 4. What if hitler waited until the tiger, panther tanks & ME 262 came before the start of barbarossa? I still believe despite all these, they will still lose the war with russia bc of the sheer number in men and tanks....thereby extending the war further
Panther and Tiger probably would not even have been developed had it not been for Barbarossa and meeting the then superior t34's. And ME 262 was put out way too early in *our* timeline, and it still had issues, so you either have to wait 5 years, or rush development and get a way worse plane
@@astrum1508 Well, that's an easy one - nothing. Nothing would fucking change, because the volume of goods received by Lend-Lease amounted to *a whopping 4%* of everything produced by the USSR. Got any other dumb questions?
@@astrum1508 Yeeeh, sure, that's real cute. Except they forgot to mention a few teeny-tiny details 😂 As I said earlier, the volume of goods received by Lend-Lease amounted to 4% of everything produced by the USSR. According to Raymond Goldsmith from the US Department of War Production, allied assistance did not exceed 1/10 of Soviet arms production (I emphasize: not total, but only *arms* production). The vast majority of machinery, equipment and materials were delivered to the USSR in 1943-1945. That is, *after* a turning point during the war. So, for example, in 1941, Lend-Lease delivered goods worth about 100 million $, which amounted to less than 1% of the total supply. By the end of 1942 it was 27,6%. Thus, more than 70% of Lend-Lease deliveries fell on 1943-1945. An even more significant example is automobiles: as of April 30, 1944, only 215 thousand units were delivered. That is, more than half of the Lend-Lease cars were delivered to the USSR in the last year of the war. That's fucking *magnificent.* I don’t even know what we would do without such MONUMENTAL contribution. And of course, as if that is not enough, most of the equipment delivered was *obsolete fucking garbage.* Look at that sick, state of the art Lend-Lease tank: miro.medium.com/max/1000/1*ZvvrYJ-XrqmU02D6ObhNFQ.png Take a good hard look. What a beast. What a game-changer! But absolutely all of these merits fade before the fact that *the US also helped the Third Reich* throughout the war. During the Nuremberg trials the President of the Imperial Bank Hjalmar Schacht said in anger: “If you want to judge German industrialists, put US businessmen next to them, because the Opel factory that produced military equipment was owned and funded by General Motors”. And he was right. Schacht gave dozens of such examples. The Americans led a successful business with the Third Reich. IBM supplied the Germans with computers, spare parts and paper for them. During the war Standard Oil not only sold millions of barrels of oil to the Third Reich, but also created a gas station for German submarines in the Canary Islands. By the way, the company was owned by the Rockefeller family. It was Rockefeller's fuel that powered Nazi tank blitzkrieg. After the war, investigators found that during the most intense warfare, Rockefellers shipped through his shell companies more than 10,000 tons of cotton to the Germans for gunpowder production. At the same time, the supply of the US and USSR army via Lend-Lease was constantly delayed or not carried out in full. You know what? During the war, Coca-Cola established production of Fanta in Germany. Coca-fucking-Cola 🙄 This list just goes on and on and on. Moreover, it was mainly military products: components for V-rockets, special communications equipment, fuses for shells, radar equipment and much more. The US made a fortune in this war. At the cost of blood of foreign soldiers in a foreign land. Which, in fact, was their true goal, because: “If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way *let them kill as many as possible* " - Harry S. Truman. Nuff said. So yeah, give me a fucking break with all that "muh Lend-Lease" bullshit 👌
@@ralfybaby My point was focusing on the atrocity of war. The reality of war through the lens of documentation. War should never be glorified...but we need to learn from our mistakes, and remember those who served and those who fell
Wow amazing and scary footage. At 2.38 there's a left-handed Wehrmacht Sniper! His K98 rifle must have been modified for him, as he was probably a fine marksman in training but a lefty 😁👍
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In hindsight maybe the Allies should have fought with Germany against the USSR. I am not saying turn a blind eye too their crimes. Eastern Europe suffered after WW2 because of Stalin and his cronies.
@@AnnaLuchia they all was on amph´s . google-picture search this: PILOTS TO MANY MISSIONS? ... and you find even a advertise-poster for it. or google: ww2 benzedrine and you find more info. it was new at this time and the people was not so clever back in 1942 to use search engines to inform himself for side-effects. but i guess you are in the age where the typical stereotype infos from history-channel or discovery channel or even some teachers has good function.
the same cronies are in the WH now!@@scotsman555
@@scotsman555Oh yeah, that is what you say instead of ,,thank you''... Let's forgive nazis the concentration camps, Holocaust and fucking genocide of slavic people and let's blame Soviet people for bringing peace to Europe? Soviet Union lost 27 million people in that war, our ancestors fought for freedom, for humanity and for the MOTHERLAND. Stalin was only a fucking dictator who also killed 30 millions of soviet people. But don't you dare to compare him and glorious soldiers of Red army. You know what? Have you ever heard of Elbe river and what happened there? American, British and Soviet soldiers met there, they were BROTHERS and they fought against ONE enemy. So please keep your dirty mouth closed and learn history. British Empire and US had way more war crimes than Russia/USSR ever. But in WW2 they were ALLIES.
@@scotsman555And the allies would have been crushed
Such incredible footage from so long ago.Whatever we think of this war,the photographers who made these historic films need to be congratulated.
You want to congratulate the Nazi propaganda photographers, attached to the invading German armies, whilst they engage in slaughtering vast numbers of sacrificial Russians….strange choice
It wasn't that long ago
@@ryanschneider3324 Ok,80 years. But how technology & society has changed in that time.Those early cameras were heavy,cumbersome & the developing,projecting,storing etc. It says to me that in those precarious,moving war fronts they are commendable.
@@coconuciferanuts339 They were heavy, even back in the sixties, I know, carry around with you 3 Nikon F3's and few ED lenses, supplies film and whatever else you may need. Consider to name few, the Bolex all metal film cameras, that's right film that would have to be developed later.
@ryanschneider3324
It wasn't that long ago
Uhhh yes it was 🤦🏻♂️
Germany had the best army man has ever seen, but fighting 3 superpowers and in 2 fronts was a bridge too far.
The Russians were gonna whip them no matter what else happened. They had too many soldiers, the natural resources, a subservient culture and a dictator at least as brutal as Hitler who was willing to kill every Russian and every German to win.
Yep.
The US fought simultaneously on three fronts and won them all.
@@duanelinstrom4292 And glad we won. But congratulations on missing the point completely. Pound for pound the German army really was the best on the planet. One on one they would have smashed anyone, including us. Hate to say it but yeah. And they almost whipped the whole developed world.....alone.
america fought all three major axis powers (if you include japan as axis) on 3-4 fronts and still won
“How the hell did I end up here?” It’s what every soldier here is thinking.
@jamesirvine9493 lol no they fucking werent, what you're doing is spreading the "clean wehrmacht" myth when most of them until 1944 CHOSE that position, don't even try to defend people like the SS either, the pieces of shit who ran the camps and did more war crimes than the entire allied side as a whole "normal" my ass
If hell truly existed on this planet, It could only be here
Even the horses.
Deranged leaders and politicians as all wars begin.
The germans knew what they are fighting for
Their faces say it all - fatigue, fear, trepidation….
And we’ve learn’t little or forgotten a lot.
Not true. While there have been a fair share of wars since WW2, the combined death tolls of all these wars is not even 25-40% of WW2's death toll.
So, yes large conflicts still exists, but the number of people who have never known war and live in relative safety had grown exponentially due to international regulations and treaties.
I wonder how many of those young men made it back to Germany alive?
This is exactly what i wanted to say
@@RobCummingsпочти все кто попал на эти кадры умерли в боях. Процент выживаемости так мал,что даже попасть в плен уже достижение
@@RobCummingsI wonder how many innocent civilians they killed in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Who cares if they returned back
I can’t imagine the destruction on the eastern front, the figures are insane to look at
Truely, you hear the numbers but it is impossible to fathom it... every one of them a son, father, brother.... each one with their own story. Insane and tragic to think about.
and look at asshole Putin is doing today
I think even an experienced soldier today can´t imagine the brutality of the Eastern Front. My grandfather never said a word about this time after he returned home from russian captivity in 1948. Once a year he traveled to Heiligenbeil, East Prussia, to honor two fallen comrades who fell to save his life. He did this until shortly before his death in 1983.
Ww2 in Europe was basically just a Russo German war with small side events on the west
@@SuperGermanIrishdamn Russians were too merciful. Considering what your grandpa did to Russians it’s basically injustice that Rus let him live….bur hey, Russian kind heart never wavers
My grandpa was a german soldier at the eastern front. He passed away about 20 years ago. We never spoke much to nothing about that time. I regret that now. At the the end of his life, with upcoming demtia all the things that he has seen kept up to him again. A stupid waste of life and resources on all sides.
Well it should serve as a reminder never to attack Slavs again.
@@heimdall2471 they,re attacking themselves right now!
Soviet Union losses was not stupid.
They attacked themselves already. Russian attack on Poland does ring a bell? But probably you know shit.
"On all sides..." It's not a waste of resources when you are defending yourselves against another side intent on wiping you out of existence. On the contrary, it is a valuable use of resources, for which they are left no choice.
Greatest struggle mankind has ever seen.
So far.
THE NEXT ONE WILL BE THE LAST!
@@lisalise1622 buckle up, it`s already started...in 3 years or so it`ll be in full swing...
@@ca9968 yipee cant wait
and the Kampf continues...until EVERY Communist Marxist is exterminated.
All those young boys, which they were, both sides, suffered horrifically. And their families. Just pure evil what evil men will do.
They were all set up by the Rothschild war profiteers... All sides... Those who caused the problem also sold the solution, and are doing it all over again today.
The world is ruled by good men and evil men a better world would be ruled by good men and good women
And they continue too
Yes, pure evil. A pure evil Germany was trying to stop.
@@sayckeone in that case everyone who went to war till now is pure evil.
"Mothers, your sons have returned to you as changed men. They've seen the horrors of war and will never be the same."
So ist es Krieg und Gewalt verändert den Menschen !
Where is this quote from?
The German army was a strong and fierce enemy. It sucks people see them as goofy and can’t fight portrayed in those crappy WW2 Hollywood movies.
In all honesty. I think a good portion of that comes from the fact that the Western front was literally under supplied, under strength, and mismanaged as hell by Hitler. While the Eastern front was the meat grinding war of annihilation.
Because they deserve no glory at all. They lost
@@destroyerarmor2846 "You don't ask victors if they were telling truth"
I’m not sure people see them as unable to fight. I think it’s just the opposite. They were the biggest super power in the world in 1939. And on top of that Germanys culture was a culture of war, with hardened and experienced warfighters, that was the best in the world tactics wise.
As it said the Victor's write history.
the western front looked like a playground compared to the eastern one
Nah the Western front was just as brutal, the eastern front just had more casualties
That just shows you how good a American and British alliance is, both of those countries know how to reserve soldiers unlike the USSR
@@damanithegoat9653 You are illiterate and reckless. 27 million Soviets died, more than half of them civilians (bad and untrained soldiers?!?). The USA lost 0 civilians (is also logical) and that is the main reason why the western and eastern fronts could not be brutal "equally". It was a mass murder because all Slavs were subhuman to the Nazis and were purposefully enslaved or murdered. Sounds kind of inhuman and brutal, doesn't it? Let us add Stalingrad. In this single industrial TOWN five times more Wehrmacht troops perished than in the whole operation of Overlord. More than 60 percent of the ENTIRE Wehrmacht was on the Eastern Front. Think about it.
@@damanithegoat9653 thats not true
@@tobyford189 It’s very true
My Grandfather was at the eastern front. Krakau and other places . He was at a prisoner of war camp in sibiria . Many of his comrades died there . They had nothing to eat and it was a very strong winter. Later ,when they were released, he walked home all the way to germany by himself and sometimes in a train. He died when i was 2 or 3 years old . RIP .
I'm glad he did make it all the way back home to Germany. He must have been a very tough man to survive all that.
@@cranegantry868 yeah . Sadly i never spoke to him .
@@powertothegods so your grandfather was a murderer with no morals like many.. it's good that he went to the camp and survived, it was certainly hard for him to sleep peacefully even after returning home until his last breath :)
Your Grandfather and all of his comrades were Heroes dont let the brainwashed sheeps tell you otherwise, they fought to free all humanity but the devil owns this world for now and evil won in the end.
Das war ein unglaublich hartes Los !
These first images are a reminder that the WW2 German soldiers mainly walked to battle. The notorious blitzkreig was not more than a shock element to break through enemy lines to "make a hole". The bulk of the Wehrmacht had very little in the way of motorized transport. When Russia was invaded the Germans crossed the border with over twice as many horses as trucks and when the winter came their diet contained a large portion of horsemeat.
This is two years after the war began. That this army could not do in the vast expanse of Russia what a much stronger army could do earlier in the comparatively cozy confines of Poland does not mean the blitzkrieg was overestimated.
Yea, the average Wehrmact soldier walked every day 25 to 40 km for 1-2 weeks to get to the next fighting place.
Yes, my dad was in the US Army in WWII. He fought in the Philippines. He said they walked all the time, seldom had motor transport. When he made that remark we were looking at video of modern Army transport in Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s hard to determine what “all the time” really means.
Depends. When Blitzkrieg operations actually happened, they used their motorised divisions.
So men on trucks and armoured fighting vehicles, in addition to tanks in panzer divisions.
With the "regular infantry" following behind. Regulary infantry was mostly used to defend statically and hold positions, but not in large offensive operations as the main "spear".
What I'm trying to say is that the motorized component of the WW2 German Army infantry was crucial and essential for the blitzkrieg operations.
It's not like they were trying to use regular non motorised infantrymen for blitzkrieg stuff. They used non motorised infantry and even cavalry as it should be used.
Essentially correct.
Barbarossa was stalled several times because the spearhead out ran it's following forces. The German logistics was never able to supply its army beyond 500 miles, as stated by the commander of logistics to the OKW before Barbarossa stepped off. It was begun a month late as well, because of supply issues and concern about spring mud, thus placing the entire effort in jeopardy because of winter in Russia - which turned out to be the worst in decades.
Also, German mobility in Europe was by trains and trucks rolling on hi-ways and improved hard packed well maintained roads that were well marked. This simply did not exist on the Russian frontier with most travel being done over rutted, narrow farm roads. Add the early rains of 1941 that turned it all into quagmire, and the recipe for distaster was laid out. Once you stepped off beyond Poland, you were back in the conditions of Napoleon in 1812.
Incidently, the same thing happened to the Russians when they invaded Ukraine in September - early rains that kept the Russians lined up on raised farm roads, instead of fanning out across the land.
When you see the Germans moving supplies, into an area as large as the Soviet Union, with horses you knew victory would be hard to achieve.
But not impossible. The USSR was weak in that its top-heaviness (Stalin ran everything) and strong in its geography. If Hitler had devoted all his strength to knocking out Stalin, he would have defeated the USSR. Instead, he faffed about, trying to do several things instead of the most important thing. It's the same mistake he made earlier in switching to bombing British civilians instead of finishing off the RAF.
Make no mistake...Germany could have won. If someone more sane and competent had been leading them, they would have, and there's no telling what the world would look like today.
@@siler7Germany could never have reasonably pulled through with a victory during the war. They didn’t have the resources, population, or time to win a total war against 3 of the largest economies on the planet, all at once. Especially when all 3 were supporting each other with lend lease.
The part you said about the Battle of Britain blunder was true though. However it’s debatable if a “victory” in the air during the battle would have pushed the British to the negotiating table, seeing the pathetically small size of the Kriegsmarine.
The only option for victory would be to take out one at a time, infeasible due to both the Brits and Americans being allied, and the Soviets at least considered partners.
@@IMP_ROM Taking out one at a time was the point of what I said. The opportunity to do that was when the RAF was weak. Germany didn't need a navy if they had air superiority...the RN would have been able to do little without air support. Certainly Germany couldn't have occupied Britain, but a treaty was a very real option. If Germany had ruled the skies, Churchill would have been replaced with somebody who was willing to make a deal. Then an earlier, more focused attack on Moscow, and Europe could look very different today.
@@siler7 Reasonable.
Actually the opposite is true. They used horses so they could continue their offences especially in winter when the mud on the Russian roads turns into a stodgy quick sand forcing vehicles to stop and break down, so horses were much more efficient
One interesting thing is that German army had logistical problems and lack of fuel so often that they were never fully mechanized from 1940-1945. There are even accounts of half of Rommel's fuel in Africa being utilized by the same trucks that had a goal to get that same fuel to his frontline. At least on the east and west their supply lines always utilized horses. On the contrary all allies were fully mechanized by the end of WW2.
That's why the nazis were impressive, they literally fought against the world
the push on Moscow,they could only supply 1 panzer division,leaving the rest of Panzers behind
@@reicheagle1942 there airforce was also low on fuel aswell being serverly damaged from the RAF
Yes pretty much from 1941 onwards, the logistics people and leadership knew it was just a matter of time until they ran out of fuel, metal and other vital resources. Especially when they failed at getting the oil from the Caucasus and Romania.
@@LK-bz9sk Even as an American I cringe at the self-congratulation claiming that the west won the war. Albert Speer had a great line in one of his books about telling Hitler when the war would be over based on when what natural resources would have Russian soldiers standing on them. Speer got himself fired from that.
Having read many memoirs I have no idea how anybody survived the Eastern front. Retreating two years, outnumbered, outgunned, undersupplied. Talk about a will to survive.
The commissars on the back lines machine gunning their own helped bolster said will.
Retreating one year you mean for the soviets? The soviets got their first small victories in late 41 and early to mid 42 before stalin grad.
Forgotten Solider is a wild book
The most terrible book describing the war from the Soviet side is “Memories of the War” by Nikolai Nikulin.
@VenaGT Enemy at the Gates
Hitler was wrong when he said “We have only to kick in the front door and the whole rotten edifice will come tumbling”.
It did crumble, unfortunately it's fallen on his head
Maybe if the rest of the world didn't supple them with endless shit.
@@davide1241 Hitler had exactly 0% chance of defeating the Soviets, if there is any place on Earth that is has always been undefeatable, it’s Russia. Too big, too brutal. General Winter is unbeatable,
@Soldier Goy and maybe if the country wasn't as big.
@@justin36004 country? It's an empire
Best army - RIP grandfarther- served in Russia - -2 times wounded - POW for 2,5 years in Russia - Luckily came back and had a good life afterwards
Best Army??? How about F**k the Nazi's.
What an excellent video, with the music you put on you give the video a lot of elegance, good job.
My great grandfather fought on this front (german) He died in serbia
My great uncle survived stalingrad
Your great grandfather and uncle were great men. We should all be so lucky to have such great forefathers
My father also fought this war also. He finished it in 1945 in Viena, Austria.
Stalingrad is one word brother
No one survived Stalingrad dude, they all went to the lead mines, only like 500 were released in 1950
@@k98Lemur Soviet prisoner of war camps
The tears in his eyes at 3:48 say everything about war...
no that's not tears, that's just a bit of fatigue..i look like this most of the time.. i never cry. That's the face of a resilient man, i wouldn't really want to face against him, because that's the man who will feel pain and keep pushing.
Apparently when De Gaulle visited a battered Moscow (following the battle of Moscow) he remarked to his host ‘an amazing Army’ to which his Russian host replied ‘thank you’. And De Gaulle allegedly replied, ‘No, I meant the Wehrmacht, that they reached this far’
Correct, except it was Stalingrad. He said: " Ah, Stalingrad, a remarkable people, a very great people." The correspondent thought he was talking of the Russians. " ...I'm not speaking of the Russians but of the Germans. To have come so far! "
Moscow was never significantly targeted, I thin the quote was regarding Stalingrad…do some reasonable research
@@joemiller9931 source?
There is no source as it is fake statement from one of the neonazi pseudo documentaries like ‘the greatest lie ever told’ or ‘fisting Europa’… all lies!
@@meht43-BringitBadger The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between September 1941 and January 1942
All those men that had to fight to the death because of a handful of psychopaths.
They believed and followed those psychopaths without question…
@@nigel900 There will be a load more to come. Humans aren't the brightest bulbs.
@@nigel900 Nazis vs commies most on both sides were forced
What have u done for your beliefs beyond whining on the internet?
The men on all sides were true heroes, this was back when armies were composed of the best and brightest, not the ghetto /trailer park employment scheme they are today
@@nigel900 This is a massive fallacy. Ordinary soldiers in war do a job, often with an implicit or even explicit threat of being shot if they don't. I'm not saying it's impossible to make a moral or ethical judgment about soldiers who "obey orders" but it's so much more complex than making the assumption they share the beliefs of their political leaders. Even those who do end up going along and fighting mostly continue to fight because of much closer more personal reasons; fight for the friends they have to their left and right. War is terrible.
Impressive footage with fearless and brave men on both sides of the war
No one is fearless. Otherwise it wouldn't be brave anymore
Not fearless!
Bravery can’t exist without fear
Never forget the sacrifices of the Red Army and the Wehrmacht soldiers on the eastern front. They went through hell on earth.
@arthurmorgan8978 berlin is 100% german just liked prussia
One army sacrificed and one invaded. I'll let you figure it out.
@@VenaGT both armies were made up of normal men with families waiting for them back home. No matter who fought for the "good guys or the bad guys", the soldiers deserve to be remembered. (also i just want to let you know that the soviet union also invaded my families country, neither side was in the right)
@@galacticbananastopmotions7292 Well....yes and no. The "average" German soldier(family as well) was bolstered by his ideas of racial superiority, and used said ideology as a justification for his invasion of foreign sovereign countries and the atrocities committed. So in the case of the Russians vs. the Germans, only one side was the invader. Slavs were considered untermenschen, after all. (The case of the Russians vs. the Poles is exactly the same(at the same time), with the Russians being the ones invading and committing the atrocities.) So in terms of remembrance, one side should always be remembered for doing their worst. But in no way assume I think the Soviets were justified in their ideology, and crimes, or were somehow better in any way. There is not much difference between the nazis and the communists/socialists. Just different colorful banners. I was born in Prague. I can tell you all about the tanks rolling in, in '68.
@@VenaGTcommunism and capitalism are two sides of the same big nosed coin which united to defeat nationalism.That was the story of this war.
The Red Army increased their ranks from 1.5 million in spring of 1939, to 5.7 million in spring of 1941 without declaring mobilization and alarming with that the neighbor countries.
The law that made this possible allowed as well for the preparation of 18 million reservists, so that at any moment they could fill the ranks with the desired numbers of Soldiers.
And yet it still took them 4 years to advance the same distance you can drive in less than a day, while fighting on only one front.
Pity Stalin murdered 80% of the Red Army officers before it all kicked off.
@@CM-ve1bz crazy what happens when you were a feudal backwater up until 5-10 years prior to the war as opposed to the most industrialized country in Europe
@@CM-ve1bz Country that prepared for war for half a decade does better than country that did not prepare for war. What a shocker.
Because what most people don't seem to know, russia was planning on betraying hitler. They were preparing for an offensive....not defensive which is why they were nearly wiped out at the beginning of Germanys offensive on them which they nearly succeeded. Obviously at this point, Germany's forces were better men then the russians will ever be.
nazi hitler and his party were evil but the whole of russia was no different. That even today they are poorly uneducated and brainwashed into hating everyone and they commit war crimes in Ukraine for some tyrant by the name of vladolf hitler.
I am proud being the grandson of two of those man.
Me too
Was macht dich daran stolz?
Ich auch ❤
@@guidowilhelm4062 wieso??
@@irgendeinname9256 Bist du nicht Stolz auf deine Ahnen oder deine Nationalität?
Too bad the people that have the film couldn't put a date and area with the sections of film. Not too many people are able to recognize the landscape and areas unless they are from there and almost from the period of time. Thank you for your work and hopefully I have given you a idea to go with the next one. Some of the footage has been around the block and time also.
Wym ? It's Europe obliviously
Well as a long-time armchair historian of WWII, about 40 years, I look for tactical markings, their gear, types of vehicles, and the gear and clothing the troops are wearing if it's not documented. So if you see MG-34s's its most likely from early war and not 1942-43, and it's at least 1942 if you see a Pz III J at 4:01 for example which arrived in time for Case Blue.
3:52 4:10 4:11 Stalingrad North.
4:00 Railway near Orlovka?
Be grateful we even have the footage.
since most of these clips are from the german wochenschau which was the weekly propaganda news that you could go and see in the cinemas you most likely can find out where it was filmed since the anaouncer usually tells what unit they were following that week and whats going on in the clips
At 0:15 the soldier with the dogs looks like a model from a Hugo Boss front page. What a great style.
Hugo Boss himself was a member of the Nazi party since 1931. And his clothing company utilized forced labour drawn from German-occupied territories to make uniforms for the SS and the German army.
That was brilliant! Much respect.
Humanity began this path the moment kings ceased fighting in their own wars.
Yes.Good point. The Authoriative government or whatever the power unit is sends others to do the dirty work.Maybe we could say the same about every occupation.That a member of parliament should also clean the toilet block as part of training. In some Scandanavian countries I think they do this kind of thing.
My great-grandfather fought in WW2. He was a partisan officer in Yugoslavia and he encountered both the Italians and the Germans. I was about 11 when he passed at the age of 99 but I didn't hear many stories from him, although he had many to tell, because I didn't know much about the war but I vividly remember one of them. His group of partisans captured many Italian soldiers, kept them in barracks as POWs and treated them with respect, but they were kept only in their underwear XD. We still have his war medals, captured German binoculars and an officer's watch both in pristine condition and there is even a photograph of him and Tito.
I am not sure, if it's only a coincidense... But people, who went through hard times of hunger and suffering lived exceptionally long... 99 years is exceptional.
The yugoslavs were fierce fighters. No country told them what to do.Ever.
@@nicholasbrowning4558🥱 jugoslawien wurde in nur wenigen Wochen überrannt
Commie's
so? at least they did something to help soviets defeat wehrmacht unlike americans joining last year of war killed few leftovers of wehrmacht and claiming they won the war
Footage indeed, thanks for bringing that to me.
Respect & Regards, great Audio.
Best Wishes
i watched this video 5 times consecutively
Thanks for the support!
@@historyatwar most welcome sir thanks to u for preserving history
Yes I don't care what anyone says, ultimately WW2 was decided in the east despite the battle of Britain and Britain cracking the Enigma code etc.
That looks like very very hard work .
ur videos are breathtaking
This is a good compilation of footage, some of which I've seen before in various documentaries and videos. The music however, was incredibly annoying as it keeps fading out to random bumping noises, and constantly changing the volume level. After about a minute, I muted the sound and watched the rest.
German army discipline was excellent.
Yes, they we excellent, especially when slaughtering women, children, and old folks.
Germany underestimated the size of Russian army, they thought it was similar size to their army but by end of 1941 they captured 3 million soldiers. If Japan attacked Russia from the east and Germany could have captured Moscow but Germany wanted to invade Russia by 6-8 weeks which wouldn’t have been possible.
Germany were very close to defeating the USSR, but due to logistic and fuel problems they could not reach there goal, the germans got too ahead of themselves, one of the biggest causes for the failing comes primaraily down to there fuel shortage, which that is the main reason they hit stalingrad to get to the south of russia to hit there oil.
If Japan would have attacked from the east it would have token them a while to get set up because Russia’s eastern part was like a huge buffer. It was insignificant to the Russians. All the important things are in the western side of Russia.
@@rommeltrommel137 As of December 1, 1941, the USSR against Japan had 24 infantry, 2 cavalry, 4 tank, 23 aviation divisions, 20 infantry, 20 tank, 4 aviation brigades + 15 fortified areas. 1 343 307 people, 8777 guns and mortars, 2124 tanks and self-propelled guns, 3178 aircraft and 96 ships.
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The Soviet Union had 4 types of aircraft that could fly from the Vladivostok region to the Japanese islands
After Germany violated the non-aggression pact, Stalin did not believe that Japan would not attack
Die deutsche Armee war, bei allen Missetaten, die mutigste und beste Armee der Welt. Sie wurde duch die Intrigen von Churchill, der russischen Überlegenheit der Kampfkräfte, dem Winter, den Waffenlieferungen usw. besiegt. Schaut man sich die Stärke der Armeen beider Länder zum Beginn des Krieges an, dann wird man sich dieser Tatsachen bewusst! Na ja ein Vielfrontenkrieg ist nicht gewinnbar und die Verbündeten, na ja....
Most military experts of the time expected a german victory.
Reading the memoirs and biographies of the German High Command, I was SHOCKED to read that Hitler made the entire nation swear fealty to HIM. Not to Germany, but to him, as if he WAS Germany. And that oath, whether the people realized it or not, was to die to the last man for Hitler, because he believed that was everyone's patriotic duty. It's why requests for supplies were ignored or delayed; he genuinely believed that the heart of the soldier would swell up so much with patriotism and duty, that victory would ALWAYS be achieved.
And then when the tide shifted, the end was drawing near, he went scorched earth on Germany (beginning as early as 1943). If they couldn't win, they didn't deserve to live. But for Speer and a few other generals ignoring Hitler, their influence and orders saved the German people.
Looking at the faces of the Germans.... they don't even know why they aren't supplied. They don't know why they can't get requisitions. The exhaustion in their faces, the body language of men trying to survive while under intense fire
This footage is actually depressing.
А теперь судьбу Гитлера повторяет Зеленский.Он тоже хочет призвать на фронт всех молодых мужчин зная,что никогда не победят Россию.
Не воюйте с русскими.
А теперь судьбу Гитлера повторяет Зеленский.Он хочет призвать в окопы всех молодых украинских мужчин,зная,что ему не победить Россию.
Не воюйте с русскими.
Hi, love your video! Could you please link me to the photo of the German soldier looking toward the mountains? I’ve been looking for that image for about 3 years. Please help! Thanks.
Take a screen shot then use google image search
Salute to those cameraman who had captured these histories 🤙
Well stay healthy for all of us & Safety First! Peace ✌😉
every time i watch your videos, i learn something new!
What a strong army it was
Yes!
(then you find a stupid idiot replying: "TheY loST !!")
I can`t understand that people vote for war: my father, a 25 year old student of arts had to give up his studies and was forced to work for the Westwall-Line in 1938, than 1939 included in the short battle against Polonia, the next station 1940 in Russia as a cartograph in Piskow. At first not much to do, until war starts he visited the region around the Peipus-sea , all churches and the historical buildings and learned some Russian words. Once he was saved by a Russian Farmer out of the Welikaya-stream in 1941, then in 1944 he was strong injured on the battlefield ( Kurlandkessel) he lost one leg, he was saved by Russian soldiers, once again in 1945 before he could reach one of the transports of wounded soldiers because he could not walk he was saved by the Russian Medical Service.He came home in 1947.
I have never heard a bad word against Russia, because he knew exactly who was the devil in those battles. I would like somenbody from our government to beg for pardon because of 27 million dead russian people. And I hopte that time changes and we have a good time with Russia again.
Anathema to the godless soviet authority
Бог всегда с Россией❤
how remembers HCTerrorist ? The golden era.
Thanks for the upload
Unsere Väter, Urgroßväter, Onkel, Cousins, Brüder, Kameraden 😢
Manipuliert von der Propaganda
Ich habe mir noch die alten Kriegsgeschichten von Opa angehört. Nord-Afrika , danach die 6. Atmee. Oft dachte ich, nicht schon wieder. Doch wir Kinder waren einfach zu respektvoll gegenüber dem alten Herren. Heute bin ich froh das ich das alles noch aus erster Hand gehört habe. Manchmal wenn ich diese Filme sehe, denke ich Opa kommt gleich ins Bild.
Unser Blut
Brave warriors
Grew up in France so in school we watched more western fronts videos, glad to see the perspective from Estern Eu
I've always wondered how much more time has to pass by in order to be able to talk openly about this war and find out the truth about it..
Hard to believe this is almost 80 years ago. We will be there again some day likely sooner than we think.
Excellent camera work. I can’t believe they had dedicated film crews to document these battles.
Dan Carlins hardcore history ; Ghosts of the ostfront ,is a superb look into the lives of the soldiers on both sides.
1🎯🎯% SO GOOD
In the 21st century we have men doing sunbeds, whitening there teeth and taken selfie pictures for there instagram page, back then we had proper men . The guns were made out of wood, the men made out of steel !!!
Yes world is a softcocks now
My grandfather joined the Soviet military in 1936. My grandfather's original origin was Poland... But he died in 2014 due to heart disease, btw.. my grandfather was born in 1918, my grandfather was a hero♥️♥️♥️
Wow.people forget what an epic struggle WW2 was
No, I don’t think so. Our culture is built on WW2.
@James Irvine 1: what movies? 2: she can speak for herself.
@James Irvine it does matter because without proof, your words are empty and I don’t consider a single word you say. Your whole point is that “movies say x, but in reality it’s more like y” but all you can do is talk about y; what YOU think.
most of the images are from the campaign in france not russia, but good job!
Great footage bro💯
Thank you Germany for fighting to preserve European history and culture.
The audio is glitchy. Probably got flagged by TH-cam.
Yeah, anybody know the name of the song???
Incredible video…omg thank you so much
R.I.P to al the fallen soldiers 🫡🕊️
Could watch this all day long if it was in a chronological order of year and Theatre..thankyou
Quite a bit of footage I've never seen on this video... Absolutely powerful! God bless our country and it's protectors.. Thank you for the clip!
Germany was fighting almost the whole world. USA, Soviet, British Empire, France, Poland, Canada, Australia. They were the best military the world has ever seen.
For a few years, maybe. The best military the world has ever seen wouldn't have made the horrible decisions Hitler did. Also, the best military in the world, many in the SS, wouldn't be hellbent on exterminating human beings, like all slavs, for instance. And Jews.
С СССР она воевала в первую очередь, не забывайте что исход Войны решился в России!
True up to perhaps 1940, when the British beat them in the air with far less equipment and men. Oh, then they got beat in Africa, by the British and then the U.S. and it was a retreat by the Greatest Army from then on. The German Army was only great when they attacked unprepared nations and civilizians. The U.S. has the greatest army in history, no one knowledgeable of military history denies that fact. The U.S. emerged from WW2 as the greatest military in history with a larger and most modern technology, equipment, and the sheer number of serving personnel. It has remained that way ever since.
@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244они до сих пор воевали бы с Гитлером если бы не СССР!
Учите Историю, сэшэисты
With the most inept leader. If they hadn't attacked Russia, they could have conquered the whole of Europe.
sometimes one thumb up is not enough 👍this year i turn 60ty and i can good remember when back in 1970tys my grandfather told me the story from a guy who lost his right foot under the knee by a us grenade shell in italy 1943. the man get transporte out of the "heat" fixed by ropes on a field kitchen trailer (gulschkanone) ... my grandfather was that guy. and vids like that allway will remember me on him.. thank you! btw, he was a great guy, playing (no matter woodenleg) often football with me and he was the best substitute you can have in the youth when your father is alcohol addicted.
The score music has made this video epic
The G on the tank meant it was part of Panzergruppe Guderian
Best army ever
Outstanding presentation.
Whats with the sound?
To be honest (As an Englishman that had both grandfathers fought in the war,one in Burma the other in the royal navy) I respect the bravery of the Soviet soldiers and the Wehrmacht soldiers plus SOME SS units but not the rear following SS death units and the einsatzgruppen soldiers. This was an horrific confrontation which I have studied for years as a hobby.I was amazed that Hitler and his generals attempted such a feat when taking into account the sheer size of the country,weather and a man as stubborn as Hitler......STALIN.
Hitler lost the war the very moment German boots stepped foot on Russian soil,regardless of his initial glitter of military achievements in the East.
However what really is sad,utterly and totally SAD.
We haven't learnt from that conflict nor have we learnt from the whole of both the world wars.
Amzing video does any of these vids have the original sound to them or was not a thing back then
I pity the dog who was featured in the reels….its just so sad knowing its now dead
I fear history is doomed to repeat itself… only worse.
Our WW2 Vets are nearing their end.... if you know one or meet one, take that opportunity to treat them with the upmost respect and just talk with them about anything
My grandfather died long ago in the 90s, he fought the whole war from Poland, France to the Balkans and Russia. He was never willing to speak about it. All he wanted is peace. Once and for all.
Unprecedented ferocity and brutalities
*HELDEN❗🙏🏻*
The quality's incredible for WWII footage. Was it refined by AI?
The Russian army is like a bear… IT tramples over its own dead like gog and magog, sends men like locusts.
They are a force not to be prodded like a bear in a den.
The Wehrmacht embodied optimization, training and superior weaponry, the German eagle is symbolic of this fortitude and agility.
The next war that was like this war has already begun.
It's sad to see the fear of death in those soldiers,a situation were they wish they were in bed alone some where away from that war,respect to all military forces .
No respect to german war criminals
@@ipodman1910 Nor me, glad the invaders suffered, just like how they made the peasants suffer when they burned their homes.
Few years ago i was at a ww2 show and i met a group of both wehrmacht and American and i talked to both and one solider came to me while i was grabbing food from a truck and he asked me in broken english if i had family in the west and i told him yes i did" my grandfather was a tiger commander in the east then moved to the western front" the veteran proceeds to tell me he fought in the same unit as my grandfather and told me i looked just like him and he proceeded to do the wehrmacht salute and he decides to buy me a extra coffee, wonderful gentleman to talk too and have a conversation with guy didnt even look 90 at all!!
Germany never really had a chance. All they did was to create a lot of death and suffering.
Thanks to soviet army for liberating europe and destroying nazis! my great grandma in czech republic was telling me story when i was kid what germans did to our people and how they were running from soviets when they were comming closer to city
As I watched, my only thought: War. War never changes.
At least you haven't gotten any Fallout from your comment...😂
@@larryyocum2904 LOL
Krasse Bilder.
Aber ihr müsst nicht weinen: im Kampf ist nicht die schlechteste Art zu sterben.
und für was? Von Lobliedern auf dich haste nix mehr, weil die Blumen über dir wachsen. Nix mit ehrenvoll und glorreich. Sinnlos verheizt wurden die armen Jungs auf beiden Seiten, so wie jetzt wieder die Russen ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste ihre Leute gegen die Ukrainer verheizen. Warum und für was? Haben die aus den Millionen Toten, die sie verbuchen mussten, mal so gar nichts gelernt? Anscheinend wächst russisches Gras wohl schneller über Gräber und damit sind die Gefallenen aller Kriege wohl auch schneller vergessen oder ist es doch so simpel, dass sie einfach zahlenmäßig mehr Verfügungsmasse haben und damit prassen, heute wie damals?
"Genosse Stalin, wir haben die Ortschaft gesichert. Verluste durch Feindeinwirkung: 324335 Soldaten, wir benötigen zwei neue Divisionen, um die Stellung zu halten. Ja, nehmen Sie sich soviele Männer wie Sie brauchen". Jo, kein WOrt über die Gefallenen, da wurde einfach neues Kanonenfutter angefordert und bewilligt. Punkt aus. Dafür im Dreck krepieren? Nee danke, da bin ich lieber Feigling. Ganz einfach, weil der Tod eines Infantrie oder Panzerschützen einfach null Unterschied macht. Ich glaub dieses romantische Bild gibts nicht oder vielleicht mal aber das stammt noch aus ner Zeit vor dem 20. Jh. als Feldzüge noch aus einer Schlacht bestanden und das längstens ne Woche ging. So standen natürlich auch die CHancen besser, durchzukommen als wenn so n Scheiß Krieg über Jahre sich hinzieht.
nur wenn man für ein idiotisches Regime stirbt..
This isn't brutal. It's standard footage that's been shown a million times over.
Where's that thumbnail from? That's a really beautiful shot.
Anyone who stands up against international Zionism and fights for humanity and life, deserves glory and respect.
Lots of If's in this eastern front war...1. What if winter did not come early? 2. What if hitler followed his general's advice for the 2nd offensive for moscow instead of the south 3. Early retreat for the 6th army at the start of encirclement 4. What if hitler waited until the tiger, panther tanks & ME 262 came before the start of barbarossa?
I still believe despite all these, they will still lose the war with russia bc of the sheer number in men and tanks....thereby extending the war further
Panther and Tiger probably would not even have been developed had it not been for Barbarossa and meeting the then superior t34's. And ME 262 was put out way too early in *our* timeline, and it still had issues, so you either have to wait 5 years, or rush development and get a way worse plane
No it's what if America had not lend leased the soviets at all
@@astrum1508 Well, that's an easy one - nothing. Nothing would fucking change, because
the volume of goods received by Lend-Lease amounted to *a whopping 4%* of everything produced by the USSR. Got any other dumb questions?
@@insomnious7592 See this video and see how wrong you are th-cam.com/video/25ACv_4Sj7Q/w-d-xo.html
@@astrum1508 Yeeeh, sure, that's real cute. Except they forgot to mention a few teeny-tiny details 😂
As I said earlier, the volume of goods received by Lend-Lease amounted to 4% of everything produced by the USSR. According to Raymond Goldsmith from the US Department of War Production, allied assistance did not exceed 1/10 of Soviet arms production (I emphasize: not total, but only *arms* production).
The vast majority of machinery, equipment and materials were delivered to the USSR in 1943-1945. That is, *after* a turning point during the war. So, for example, in 1941, Lend-Lease delivered goods worth about 100 million $, which amounted to less than 1% of the total supply. By the end of 1942 it was 27,6%. Thus, more than 70% of Lend-Lease deliveries fell on 1943-1945. An even more significant example is automobiles: as of April 30, 1944, only 215 thousand units were delivered. That is, more than half of the Lend-Lease cars were delivered to the USSR in the last year of the war. That's fucking *magnificent.*
I don’t even know what we would do without such MONUMENTAL contribution. And of course, as if that is not enough, most of the equipment delivered was *obsolete fucking garbage.*
Look at that sick, state of the art Lend-Lease tank:
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Take a good hard look. What a beast. What a game-changer!
But absolutely all of these merits fade before the fact that *the US also helped the Third Reich* throughout the war. During the Nuremberg trials the President of the Imperial Bank Hjalmar Schacht said in anger: “If you want to judge German industrialists, put US businessmen next to them, because the Opel factory that produced military equipment was owned and funded by General Motors”. And he was right. Schacht gave dozens of such examples.
The Americans led a successful business with the Third Reich. IBM supplied the Germans with computers, spare parts and paper for them. During the war Standard Oil not only sold millions of barrels of oil to the Third Reich, but also created a gas station for German submarines in the Canary Islands. By the way, the company was owned by the Rockefeller family. It was Rockefeller's fuel that powered Nazi tank blitzkrieg. After the war, investigators found that during the most intense warfare, Rockefellers shipped through his shell companies more than 10,000 tons of cotton to the Germans for gunpowder production. At the same time, the supply of the US and USSR army via Lend-Lease was constantly delayed or not carried out in full. You know what? During the war, Coca-Cola established production of Fanta in Germany. Coca-fucking-Cola 🙄
This list just goes on and on and on. Moreover, it was mainly military products: components for V-rockets, special communications equipment, fuses for shells, radar equipment and much more.
The US made a fortune in this war. At the cost of blood of foreign soldiers in a foreign land. Which, in fact, was their true goal, because: “If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way *let them kill as many as possible* " - Harry S. Truman. Nuff said.
So yeah, give me a fucking break with all that "muh Lend-Lease" bullshit 👌
The forgotten soldier by guy sajer (German soldier on the eastern front)is one of the best books ever written about war
Is this the new HCT ?
It's a sad thing, for me at least, statistically, 59% of the soldiers you seen on this video never came home.
As one whose country was occupied by that lot for 5 long years I don't mind at all ....
@@ralfybaby My point was focusing on the atrocity of war. The reality of war through the lens of documentation. War should never be glorified...but we need to learn from our mistakes, and remember those who served and those who fell
if they were supporters of hitler, no loss
Wow amazing and scary footage. At 2.38 there's a left-handed Wehrmacht Sniper! His K98 rifle must have been modified for him, as he was probably a fine marksman in training but a lefty 😁👍
The greatest generation of all time ❤❤❤❤❤
If I were a German soldier I’d pray to be sent West.
If I were a German soldier i'd pray to be sent to Africa.
This is actualy incredible footage never seen it in sutch clarity
greatest war in history
I would’nt call it great more like horrific