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  • @joinefl
    @joinefl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3186

    Top 10 moments before disasters..
    "Steiner's counter assault will give us the upperhand."

    • @spicyleaves8876
      @spicyleaves8876 2 ปีที่แล้ว +162

      “Mein fuher…..”

    • @spicyleaves8876
      @spicyleaves8876 2 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      @Lucas Lombardo “THE ATTACK WAS AN ORDER, HOW DARE HE DISOBEY AN ORDER!”

    • @pajeirussaurio1405
      @pajeirussaurio1405 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      Bringen sind mir Fegelien! Fegelein! Fegelien!

    • @MeatyTF2Mercs
      @MeatyTF2Mercs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      @@spicyleaves8876 Mein Fuher, i can't permit you to insult the soldiers!

    • @spicyleaves8876
      @spicyleaves8876 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@MeatyTF2Mercs “They are cowards! They dont care for thr national socialist dream! I should have liquidated my officers, like stalin!”

  • @antoniasalinas513
    @antoniasalinas513 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6618

    "Don't worry, Steiner's assault will save us."

    • @vaporwave2359
      @vaporwave2359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +578

      "Meine fuhrer...."
      "Steinters corps was wiped out in sheelow heights after a Soviet attack...."

    • @desmondmolina3142
      @desmondmolina3142 2 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      He will, don't worry

    • @VaqueroCoyote
      @VaqueroCoyote 2 ปีที่แล้ว +198

      @SL - 07JT 782426 The Valleys Sr PS
      Shitler: *FURIOUS KRAUT NOISES*

    • @erenyeager3829
      @erenyeager3829 2 ปีที่แล้ว +252

      @SL - 07JT 782426 The Valleys Sr PS _Removes glasses shakily_
      "The following men, stay here: Keitel, Jodl, Krebs, and Burgdorf."

    • @gamevidz8763
      @gamevidz8763 2 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      How did he actually believe that one attack was going to turn the tides of the war.

  • @johncharlton199
    @johncharlton199 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4112

    Having the most advanced jet fighter at the time doesn't matter if you don't have the fuel to get it off the ground lol

    • @benno._.72
      @benno._.72 2 ปีที่แล้ว +413

      B-but muh wunderwaffe..!
      -every wehraboo, probably

    • @rikk319
      @rikk319 2 ปีที่แล้ว +357

      Or the spare parts to replace the quickly worn-out engines. Or the skilled pilots to man them. Or the numbers to make a difference. Or the infrastructure and safety for their engineers to keep from being leap-frogged within a year or so by Western engineers with even better planes.

    • @aurelian2641
      @aurelian2641 2 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      @@rikk319 Mostly high skilled and ranked pilots flew ME 262, because this plane was highly dangerous and difficult to start and land.
      That also explains the good K/D rating.
      Adolf Galland, General of the Luftwaffe, said:
      I am completly confessed If we just have 300 ME 262 at a time, we would be able to shoot down 200 Bombers a day. Two weeks and the Allies have to stop any bombing raids at daylight.
      Hitler mistake was to want a „Blitzbomber“. So this great jet fighter was heavily delayed because they tried to make a bomber out of it. Idiocity, but this made the war shorter and the russians did not capture more of germany

    • @spg1794
      @spg1794 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      not to mention the countless supertanks left to rust in the factory for lack of go-go juice.

    • @innosam123
      @innosam123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@rikk319 The issue was not stupidity, but simply the fact Germany *did not have the resources available.*
      When people complain about German offensives lacking fuel, they tend to act as if Germany *could* get more fuel, when in reality, they *couldn’t.*
      It wasn’t an oversight, it was Germany facing the harsh realities of the war.
      Germany’s only decent source of oil was Romania, and even that was small compared to Texas or Baku.
      Mass production of spares and equipment would have made things worse- specialized ‘wunderwaffe’ actually saved more fuel in relative proportion to their individual destructive power (except maybe the V-2).

  • @maxkronader5225
    @maxkronader5225 2 ปีที่แล้ว +623

    In a way, Barbarossa was analogous to Lee's attempt to circle Washington DC and force a negotiated end to the War Between the States. In both cases rapid maneuver and audacity attempted a quick win against a larger enemy with more manpower and natural resources.
    A big difference though was that Lee knew that eventual victory was not possible after being stopped at Gettysburg; Hitler thought that being stopped in Russia was just a speed bump.

    • @ginnyledwell8923
      @ginnyledwell8923 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Fantastic comparison. Never would've seen the similarities if you didn't point it out.

    • @Snarflelocker
      @Snarflelocker ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Adolph thought it was just a speed bump after he took another bump of speed.

    • @A_Black_Sheep94
      @A_Black_Sheep94 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Lee lost because he wrapped his master plan around a cigar and he either dropped it or it fell out of his pocket. A union soldier found the cigar thinking it was his lucky day only to find Lee's master plan, showed it to his superior, and from their it went to Grant, the other generals, and Lincoln which allowed them to counteract his maneuver. It was a stroke of luck.

    • @Snarflelocker
      @Snarflelocker ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@A_Black_Sheep94 This benefited Lee when he discovered similar plans at another battle, and saved Lee at another major battle when the Union commander (who I will not dignify by naming) didn't believe Lee's step-by-step plans could fall into his hands.
      The Civil War could've been over that day.
      You of course know of which battle I speak, right?

    • @A_Black_Sheep94
      @A_Black_Sheep94 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Snarflelocker Are you talking about McClellan lol? He is well known for doing... nothing.

  • @Unertl28
    @Unertl28 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4788

    Steiner: "Don't worry guys, I have a plan"
    **Steiner has left the game**

    • @aidenlapina2614
      @aidenlapina2614 2 ปีที่แล้ว +160

      DANG IT STEINER COST US THE GAME

    • @hackse4883
      @hackse4883 2 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      @@aidenlapina2614 steiner throwing

    • @JoePro84
      @JoePro84 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lmao xD

    • @JohnSmith-ox3gy
      @JohnSmith-ox3gy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Screw you guys, I'm going home.

    • @BatCostumeGuy
      @BatCostumeGuy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN

  • @jerrycoob4750
    @jerrycoob4750 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1466

    "Soldiers of the Volkssturm are now being sent to the front in pairs. One throws a stone, and the other shouts "boom!"."

    • @bhawnabambroo6300
      @bhawnabambroo6300 2 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      This joke is underrated.

    • @jerrycoob4750
      @jerrycoob4750 2 ปีที่แล้ว +148

      @@bhawnabambroo6300 Apparently it was a whisper joke that went around during the war

    • @UnluckyCantaloupe4
      @UnluckyCantaloupe4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That must have happened 😂😂😂

    • @murkywateradminssions5219
      @murkywateradminssions5219 2 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      "Franz throw the stone"
      "Okay Peter"
      *clears throat* "GRENATE!"
      *clears throat* "*explosion noises*"

    • @ShinSheel
      @ShinSheel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Wouldn't be surprised to hear it nowadays about Ukrainian volunteer batallion, lol

  • @spg1794
    @spg1794 2 ปีที่แล้ว +574

    "the allies cant put together an amphibious invasion"
    allies : "what if we just pounded a poorly defended section of the coast with absolutely everything we had?"
    germans: wait what

    • @slavic_viking9638
      @slavic_viking9638 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      I wouldn't call Normandie a poorly defended section of the coast as the Allies almost failed D - day and given that Rommel did not check and prepare Normandie since he thought that the Allies might attack calais instead so if Normandie was prepared for an operation like D - day the Allies might have failed the invasion

    • @AttackHelicopter987
      @AttackHelicopter987 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@slavic_viking9638 Erwin Rommel knew that the commonwealth and the americans were going to land at normandy

    • @theranger1304
      @theranger1304 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@slavic_viking9638 If the beaches assaulted by the Allies HAD been adequately defended and prepared, there was no way the Germans would have lost to the Allied offensive short of a miracle.

    • @Grummsh00
      @Grummsh00 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@theranger1304 The Allies simply would have attacked elsewhere. The Germans were doomed.

    • @theranger1304
      @theranger1304 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@Grummsh00 It's not a case of "simply" attacking elsewhere. It was a full sledged invasion. They had already committed entirely to this plan.
      Failure to break through the German defensive line would have cost the Allies enormous casualties and TIME.
      Thankfully they did not fail. But to say the Germans were doomed at this point is very untrue. The writing was on the wall, but the tide of the war could still have been majorly swung if the Allies had failed the Normandy invasion.

  • @TotalRookie_LV
    @TotalRookie_LV 2 ปีที่แล้ว +405

    Besides underestimating the resolve of Western Allies, Hitler also "forgot" about the Eastern one - Allies could coordinate their operations pounding Nazis from whichever side was weaker at the moment, to force Germans relocating their forces, and so they did.

    • @geoffstemen3652
      @geoffstemen3652 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Khaleesi moment

    • @HuubHeesakkers
      @HuubHeesakkers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Resolve of the western allies? It was Churchill, who was funded by bankers, that rejected any truces (which Hitler offered many times). And if it wasn't for their overwhelming supplies and logistics, the western allies would have not been so anxious to wage war. After all, they used up the Russians before the true battle even began.

    • @NewMessi7
      @NewMessi7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@HuubHeesakkers why should churchill accept peace, when Hitler attacked Poland and betrayed the Munich Treaty ?

    • @HuubHeesakkers
      @HuubHeesakkers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@NewMessi7 Because the British population did not want war but were forced upon it anyways by Churchill - who was funded into power by the big bankers? Who also funded Hitler? WW2 was meant to happen to destroy nationalism in Europe so the European Union could happen and the mass refugees be allowed inside Europe to destroy culture and racial heritage.

    • @How23497
      @How23497 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@HuubHeesakkers "funded into power" lemme see your source on that one buddy

  • @TheWhampoaClique
    @TheWhampoaClique 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1668

    Hitler: We have Steiner, his counter attack will save us
    Krebs and Jodl: The Attack didn’t take place
    Hitler: GOD DAMN IT

    • @TheWhampoaClique
      @TheWhampoaClique 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @Exists Lol yes we need more memes

    • @mitchelreimer6934
      @mitchelreimer6934 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Don’t blaspheme

    • @MrBigCookieCrumble
      @MrBigCookieCrumble 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      "Mein Fuhrer.. you have been banned from Xbox live"

    • @mushvigabbasov3951
      @mushvigabbasov3951 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      WW3 in HOI4 Style Mapping
      th-cam.com/video/SIVEfof3fBQ/w-d-xo.html

    • @theyalesubrailfan1849
      @theyalesubrailfan1849 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Steiner soldiers:
      Ok random 3 year old here is a rifle. Now go shoot tank

  • @Swaggaccino
    @Swaggaccino 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4844

    Legend has it, Hitler is still waiting for Steiner's counterattack.

    • @mapeditorjon5306
      @mapeditorjon5306 2 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      @Adolf Hitler R u in Argentina rn

    • @mapeditorjon5306
      @mapeditorjon5306 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @Adolf Hitler No wayyyy

    • @mapeditorjon5306
      @mapeditorjon5306 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @Jayo Delaware I was just making a joke

    • @yummyyum36719
      @yummyyum36719 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Somewhere in Argentina....

    • @ku8721
      @ku8721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Legend has it Mike Lindell is still waiting for Trump to be reinstated too!!!

  • @kevinhealey6540
    @kevinhealey6540 2 ปีที่แล้ว +575

    I was stationed in Germany in 70s and 80s.
    The Germans who lived during the time of the war told me that in 1943 everybody knew the was lost.
    They listened to the BBC which was always right on target and reporting what was really happening.
    They also had wounded soldiers coming back from the Russian Front and they were telling people, "It's just a matter of time."
    They didn't bother listening to German Broadcasts because they only reported that they were winning by attrition and the big time offensive was coming.

    • @MotherMao
      @MotherMao 2 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      is it true hitler made call of duty black ops and made nazi zombies

    • @tripodindustry6991
      @tripodindustry6991 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@MotherMao FR

    • @edgarallanpoe209
      @edgarallanpoe209 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@MotherMao yes its true i made it in 1944

    • @dunhillsupramk3
      @dunhillsupramk3 ปีที่แล้ว

      its sort of current day America and our war with inflation, its only a matter of time...

    • @Shiggityshiggtyschwa
      @Shiggityshiggtyschwa ปีที่แล้ว +18

      "German Broadcasts ... only reported that they were winning by attrition and the big time offensive was coming" Hmm. See, now in present time this is how BBC treats Ukraine reporting. Any loss is a victory by attrition.

  • @shikikankillzone4239
    @shikikankillzone4239 2 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    Legends say that Steiner is still preparing his counter-attack. The world will quake when it happens, we should brace for it

    • @john.d.rockefeller2538
      @john.d.rockefeller2538 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Legends say he haunts online forums recruiting soldiers.

    • @schmeatgaming853
      @schmeatgaming853 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe his Counter Attack really is the Judgement day mentioned in the Bible....

  • @talleywa5772
    @talleywa5772 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2032

    So basically Hitler's master plan can be summed up with.
    1. Armored blitzkrieg
    2. Form pincers
    3. Encircle
    4. ?????
    5. Endsieg?

    • @Civility1
      @Civility1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +214

      6. Profit

    • @fazole
      @fazole 2 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      No, this was the general's plan. War of movement and encirclement is an old Prussian tactic. But it failed in the expanse of the USSR and under overwhelming air supremacy.

    • @jacksonmacpherson6101
      @jacksonmacpherson6101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +208

      To be fair operation Barbarossa was basically
      1.) Invade Russia
      2.) Reach Moscow
      3.) Win

    • @paogene1288
      @paogene1288 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Ja ja Enseig.

    • @torpeedobootkamchatka2750
      @torpeedobootkamchatka2750 2 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      @@jacksonmacpherson6101 no, too many steps
      the plan was more like
      1) Defeat Russia
      2) Win

  • @NightDocs
    @NightDocs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7060

    You guys keep raising the bar with these animations

    • @fwarmaan
      @fwarmaan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      fr

    • @Patrick_919
      @Patrick_919 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      In his earlier videos he was recruiting additional animators. Looks like he found some.

    • @romania5106
      @romania5106 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Soon they will look like war propaganda from the 1800s

    • @xGoodOldSmurfehx
      @xGoodOldSmurfehx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      yes but the video contains so many inaccuracies or outright misinformation im actually offended by some of it as i find it insulting
      usually i dont get that many issues with the video content but this time it was terrible

    • @romanreyes3215
      @romanreyes3215 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @@xGoodOldSmurfehx if I may inquire where Do you see the issues that you have spotted, because if your right you should enlighten us, because as far as I can see, I am unable to confirm nor deny which are the issues that you have spotted…?

  • @inkedseahear
    @inkedseahear 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    16:06 I like the attention to details, the US soldiers' animations aren't simply recycled because the M1 was semi-automatic while most other nations were bolt action.

  • @Dog_gone_it
    @Dog_gone_it 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I love how I can just kick back and throw on endless videos of yours and my students will all pass their tests and enjoy the class. They even do their homework. Such a break from actual teaching precovid

  • @Augustus_Imperator
    @Augustus_Imperator 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1626

    "We are short in oil and manpower, what do we do?"
    "Assault useless locations to consume more of it"

    • @ceu160193
      @ceu160193 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Maybe there will be oil?

    • @stoicalsilence
      @stoicalsilence 2 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      The caucasus were rich in oil, hence the Operation

    • @metalfire86able
      @metalfire86able 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      The initial operation was good but they prefer Stalingrad than real objective.
      Hitler n Commander chief staff was a stupid/blind in that case

    • @ceu160193
      @ceu160193 2 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @@metalfire86able Stalingrad was important as transport hub - you can't really transport oil otherwise.

    • @aksmex2576
      @aksmex2576 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@metalfire86able their whole plan initially relied on a surprise invasion of their ally.

  • @p0xus
    @p0xus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2071

    1:40 It kills me whenever a company says "military-grade encryption" it means literally nothing, except to say it's encrypted in some way. It's a big red flag whenever a company uses this kind of language.

    • @afailureofaanimator6744
      @afailureofaanimator6744 2 ปีที่แล้ว +237

      Well it is a good marketing tool to those ignorant

    • @thecommunistdoggo1008
      @thecommunistdoggo1008 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      What about politician's always on about military grade assualt rifles

    • @p0xus
      @p0xus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      @@thecommunistdoggo1008 Rifles do have a Mil Spec. Encryption doesnt.

    • @thecommunistdoggo1008
      @thecommunistdoggo1008 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@p0xus Ehhhh that's debatable mil spec is kinda not a good thing usually

    • @p0xus
      @p0xus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @@thecommunistdoggo1008 Its litterally what "military grade" means. Wether good or not is an entirely different thing.

  • @peterkropotkin6224
    @peterkropotkin6224 2 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    The Allies won the war not by luck. It wasn't simply a near escape, as some historians might try to argue. The Axis Powers took on a task that was too big for them and were incapable of knocking out key powers because they were very likely completely out of reach and capable of withstanding initial blows. The Allies adapted, regrouped, mobilized, and were able to wear out their overstretched, under-resourced opponents through attrition and economic, technological, and military superiority.

    • @Mcbignuts
      @Mcbignuts ปีที่แล้ว

      Allied victory was purely a matter of larger natural resources, endless industrial production and the german shortcomings in these areas, particularly fuel and navy
      Germany was choked by an economic sea blockade, was unable to fight the British on the water, forcing them to resort to u boat tactics, had too little oil and Hitler had failed to clear house following him taking power
      It's unbelievable how many ppl within the german high command were sabotaging hitler's orders
      The Germans could have inflicted 10 Dunkirks and 10 more Kiev encirclements, but allied material quantity was simply too much to overcome

    • @pyromania1018
      @pyromania1018 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Not to mention the ability to pragmatically restrain their personal feelings on certain things in order to achieve mutual goals. Conversely, the Axis was a shaky alliance of convenience characterized by mutual deceit, little coordination, and laughably poor leadership.

    • @janmale7767
      @janmale7767 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Not so sure about the 'technological superiority' but outnumbered, under resourced al of that for sure, but ultimately the west was fooled into fightingvfor their own demise, yoj are losing your countries to 3rd world invaders, you deserve to you fools!
      DARWIN AWARDS!

    • @bitshox1215
      @bitshox1215 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Also, a large reason why the allies lost so hard in the early war was because of an insane amount of incompetence on their part.

    • @justusP9101
      @justusP9101 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Technological? Hah. The only reason the allies won is because of previous subjucation of other nations and lands

  • @bg1052
    @bg1052 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    10:12 This makes it look like operation citadel was Hitlers idea when, from my understanding, it wasn't. It was an idea his generals had and Hitler actually hated it. Apparently saying "Everytime I think about operation citadel my stomach turns over". I'm not at all defending him at, it's just something I noticed.

    • @packersfanforlife7903
      @packersfanforlife7903 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Either way he okayed it as at that time he took full charge of everything. Hitler was basically playing a massive game of Strategic Command: World at War only the enemy troops and tanks actually started showing up at his door. Unrealistic Operations with made up cheat coded in units which didn't really exist!

  • @HistoryOfRevolutions
    @HistoryOfRevolutions 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2069

    "Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule"
    - Friedrich Nietzsche

    • @mampoetsinkosi8350
      @mampoetsinkosi8350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Didn't he go mad

    • @SoulDuckling126
      @SoulDuckling126 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Circlejerks, fans/stans and echo chamber, the best kind of group

    • @aos8695
      @aos8695 2 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      @@mampoetsinkosi8350 he was one of those rare individuals lol

    • @thecalmclone2813
      @thecalmclone2813 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mampoetsinkosi8350
      He got brain cancer

    • @AdmiralBonetoPick
      @AdmiralBonetoPick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Nietzsche was based, before that was even a thing.

  • @ZearthGJL
    @ZearthGJL 2 ปีที่แล้ว +620

    "This enraged Hitler, who punished him severely."

    • @KerlenFur
      @KerlenFur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      Making oversimplified jokes?
      There is a tax for that

    • @MarkProsXD
      @MarkProsXD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      @@KerlenFur Commenting an oversimplified joke under an oversimplified joke?
      There's a tax for that!

    • @the.real.cia.langley
      @the.real.cia.langley 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @@MarkProsXD Commenting an oversimplified joke under an oversimplified joke, under another oversimplified joke?
      There's a tax for that!

    • @nickpaulclash2
      @nickpaulclash2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@the.real.cia.langley Dude. Uncool :(

    • @bluenicholasbf2142
      @bluenicholasbf2142 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@nickpaulclash2 changing an oversimplified joke to another oversimplified joke under a few other oversimplified jokes?
      To the guillotine!

  • @alandye6471
    @alandye6471 2 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    Very well done! I'm always fascinated by the psychology of the losing sides (Germany and Japan) in WW2. How they managed to keep morale so far past the point of a realistic chance of victory...

    • @HansLasser
      @HansLasser 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Don't underestimate the power of denial.

    • @podomuss
      @podomuss 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@HansLasser Ignorance as well
      The two things usually work hand in hand

    • @conveyor2
      @conveyor2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      slow boiling the frog.

    • @soulplexis
      @soulplexis ปีที่แล้ว

      Japan was never gonna win a major victory long term even in china there was so much resistance no way they could keep china their slave nation

    • @vermilion6966
      @vermilion6966 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      propaganda and denial

  • @obliviousogre1908
    @obliviousogre1908 2 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    German Propaganda Ministry: "The Allies lack the expertise to launch an amphibious invasion of Europe!"
    D-day: *"I'm about to end this man's whole career."*

    • @AYVYN
      @AYVYN 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      America traveling an ocean and invading Europe is one of the most impressive military feats in human history

    • @youraveragescotsman7119
      @youraveragescotsman7119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AYVYN
      I mean they had the UK as a staging point to stock supplies and the RN made up 80% of the ships on D-Day.

    • @AYVYN
      @AYVYN 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@youraveragescotsman7119 That’s true. We already kicked the U.K’s ass so they let us chill

    • @youraveragescotsman7119
      @youraveragescotsman7119 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AYVYN
      If we're going to the score then it's 1-1 between the UK and USA in terms of wars won against each other.
      As for the UK and Germany? 2-0.

    • @jaxky647
      @jaxky647 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@youraveragescotsman7119 actually give another point to US over UK because the war of 1812

  • @thomphin3261
    @thomphin3261 2 ปีที่แล้ว +353

    One thing I have always found interesting is the evolution of German propaganda during the war. There is a noticeable difference between the sunny, bright pre-war and early-war propaganda and the propaganda from 1943-1945. The art style and themes become noticeably darker. You can almost feel the desperation and anxiety when you look at it.

    • @DetectiveLopez.
      @DetectiveLopez. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Jayo Delaware What does that last statement mean in English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

    • @Wolf-wc1js
      @Wolf-wc1js 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@DetectiveLopez. I could be wrong but I believe it translates to the Luftwaffe (Air Force) pollutes the German air/sky. Again I could be wrong, German is my 3rd language

    • @Femlobster
      @Femlobster 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DetectiveLopez. the German Air Force polluted the German sky

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Wolf-wc1js No your right. Luftwaffe literally mean "Air Force" in German.

    • @Wolf-wc1js
      @Wolf-wc1js 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@concept5631 gotcha, I knew that Luftwaffe means Air Force since I’ve studied so much WW2 lol, I was just clarifying that my translation might not be entirely correct because again I’m not a native German speaker

  • @InvestmentJoy
    @InvestmentJoy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2462

    Can attest to the volkssturm resorting to farmers with shotguns. My neighbors dad ran into a plain clothes soldier holding a drilling rifle (two 16ga shotgun barrels plus a 9*57 Mauser barrel) while his unit was cleaning a old horse barn in Southern Germany during the last days.

    • @docpossum2460
      @docpossum2460 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Did they capture him?

    • @deesnuts4993
      @deesnuts4993 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Hey it's the vending machine guy

    • @Livelaughandlaughmore
      @Livelaughandlaughmore 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Wow it’s cool to see investment joy on a armchair history video

    • @InvestmentJoy
      @InvestmentJoy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +169

      @@docpossum2460 nope, when he leveled his drilling at my neighbors father, he shot him in the chest with his m1. Cleared the farm, set up base there, war ended shortly after, brought the drilling back home.

    • @jed-henrywitkowski6470
      @jed-henrywitkowski6470 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@InvestmentJoy Good. He was a partisan. A gurellia.

  • @mrmarcuscars2072
    @mrmarcuscars2072 2 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    As my grandmother once said: "I survived both Hitler and Stalin. They all die in the end like the rest of us. No one lives for ever, not even a tyrant."

    • @fullmetaltheorist
      @fullmetaltheorist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I like this quote.

    • @buzzlightyear1010
      @buzzlightyear1010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      let’s be honest your grandmother never said that 😂

    • @raptordoniv6779
      @raptordoniv6779 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@buzzlightyear1010 how do you know?

    • @googane7755
      @googane7755 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Stalin are Hitler are likely going to be remembered forever though and their actions ripple down to the modern world today.

    • @raptordoniv6779
      @raptordoniv6779 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@googane7755 yep there’s a quote, something like ‘men aren’t dead until their names have been uttered for the last time’, so unfortunately Hitler and Stalin will live theoretically forever.

  • @agent481989
    @agent481989 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Seeing the credits I'm impressed by the full on production this channel has created. Great work by a dedicated team!

  • @calebricks4890
    @calebricks4890 2 ปีที่แล้ว +426

    1:07 I thought the thumbnail was good, but my gosh, this is a masterpiece.

    • @stevemc01
      @stevemc01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      NO. KIDDING.

    • @VK-jy3pi
      @VK-jy3pi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah.

    • @ivanleech8499
      @ivanleech8499 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      11:23

    • @calebricks4890
      @calebricks4890 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ivanleech8499 Lol, that one's pretty good too.

    • @bruv8668
      @bruv8668 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      8:36 GigaKlaus

  • @Mr_M_History
    @Mr_M_History 2 ปีที่แล้ว +550

    The animations are next level. There's a reason why many history teachers are switching from using crash course videos to your videos when students ask for recommendations. Keep up the excellent work!

    • @alexcheremisin3596
      @alexcheremisin3596 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Crash Course animations are unbearable

    • @23tovarm5
      @23tovarm5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@alexcheremisin3596 ngl at least for me their fun in a way but yes way less intriguing than this fine work

    • @roadtonever
      @roadtonever 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Regarding crash course, I can't take a historian seriously if he's flashing his personal politics in plain sight.

  • @lsd5883
    @lsd5883 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    This has to be one of the best documentaries I have watched, from the editing to the story line to that epic statement at the end. Thank you.

  • @KionTheLion
    @KionTheLion 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    "In a scene that has been comedically mistranslated in countless TH-cam videos..."
    I think everyone here gets the reference lol

  • @blackegret666
    @blackegret666 2 ปีที่แล้ว +533

    That Thumbnail has so much meme material.

    • @supernovel7514
      @supernovel7514 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Looks like a piece of rule 34

    • @paddyjoe1884
      @paddyjoe1884 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      I'm wondering how long this will stay up given that they are displaying swastikas. Or maybe everyone constantly using the youtube symbol as a substitute has finally gotten the message across.

    • @randomuser5443
      @randomuser5443 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@supernovel7514
      NNOOO

    • @USSAnimeNCC-
      @USSAnimeNCC- 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Mexican Hitler never thought I’ll see that lol

    • @theyoutubenomad.3035
      @theyoutubenomad.3035 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@supernovel7514 heresy

  • @frederickthegreatpodcast382
    @frederickthegreatpodcast382 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1022

    I love that all of these comments are about Steiner’s nonexistent counterattack

    • @Akislav1990
      @Akislav1990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Tbf, that non-existence is one of the best moments of the war.

    • @darklysm8345
      @darklysm8345 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Its boring and overused

    • @nomobobby
      @nomobobby 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Steiner's counterattack will save us from this wave of cliches. Just you wait and see

    • @GMKGoji01
      @GMKGoji01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was expecting Downfall references in the comments.😅

    • @r.o.b8728
      @r.o.b8728 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      IT WILL HAPPEN JUST GIVE HIM SOME TIME

  • @garrisonnichols807
    @garrisonnichols807 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    When you look at the statistics of economic power population numbers and national military size when it comes to navy air force and army you see that the Axis powers Germany Japan and Italy just couldn't compete for a large scale long term war. They simply didn't have the population economy or military to win against the three biggest most powerful countries the USA British Empire and Soviet Union. In reality it's amazing the Axis powers lasted as long as they did.

    • @whyywudidmattar1632
      @whyywudidmattar1632 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well they did relly on the wests pacifist position which gave them years of doing what they wanted which costs millions of lives , they got away with a lot more than they should have and it cost a lot of blood

  • @ChiefEngineeringOfficer
    @ChiefEngineeringOfficer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The animation of the weapons and attention to detail is perfection. I really appreciate that.

  • @aubs400
    @aubs400 2 ปีที่แล้ว +556

    "Yes, this will totally counter the superior air force and navy of the British, the industrial and economic might of the US, the totally massive armies of the Soviets, and the rotation of the earth"- An Austrian Painter, midway through his vegetarian dinner

    • @tokul76
      @tokul76 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      At the start US was not at war and was promoting isolationism. "Superior" RAF does not have the range to get to Germany in their fighters. Germans had numerical advantage over Soviets at the start of Barbarosa.

    • @black10872
      @black10872 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@tokul76 true. However, Roosevelt little by little geared the American economy to a war footing. The 1940 Louisiana Maneuvers was the largest peacetime war game ever done in US Army history at that time involving over 40,000 troops. Army Chief of Staff General Marshall was hard at work firing and selecting officers capable of leading a fully mechanized 20th century army.

    • @sighsgkj
      @sighsgkj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      At least he made it to the rank of (Bohemian) corporal

    • @seanwalker6460
      @seanwalker6460 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Say what you like about Hitler but he was some painter. He could do a 2 room apartment in an afternoon. TWO coats! Mel Brookes the Producers

    • @msreviews5576
      @msreviews5576 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      britain, when it was at war with Germany alone did not have the superior air force. Luftwaffe had a much better dive bombing arm and RAF had the edge on the bomber command. Luftwaffe was bigger. BOB was fought over british skies hence the higher losses, the same can be seen when RAF came head to head with Luftwaffe over Occupied European skies from the start of Barbarossa till the Moscow counter offensive.

  • @Yora21
    @Yora21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +630

    "Albert, don't hit me with them negative waves so early in the fiscal quarter."

    • @BadWebDiver
      @BadWebDiver 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Kelly's Heroes reference?

    • @masafelipe7033
      @masafelipe7033 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@BadWebDiver You sound like a weird sandwich.

    • @elisabethwittner5539
      @elisabethwittner5539 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Speer was a traitor lol

    • @occam7382
      @occam7382 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@elisabethwittner5539, then we should all be thankful he was a traitor.

    • @ndogg20
      @ndogg20 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@elisabethwittner5539 ,Speer was a con man elite. Conned his way to the top of the Reich and later conned his way out of the hangman's noose from the allies.

  • @hellasweet
    @hellasweet 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    8:11 Bro didn't even flinch all the way down

  • @Youngsquid97
    @Youngsquid97 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    at around 25:50 the last tile to fall off should have been Hitlers mustache

  • @hydronpowers9014
    @hydronpowers9014 2 ปีที่แล้ว +955

    "Why didn't I go back to Vienna to finish my art degree after selling my book?"
    Austrian Painter before shooting himself

    • @MikeSmith-vl5em
      @MikeSmith-vl5em 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Lmao! To bad we know he didn’t shoot him self and died of old age in South America.
      We know for a fact the body thought to be hitlers was actually a woman’s skeleton after DNA 🧬 testing

    • @UnluckyCantaloupe4
      @UnluckyCantaloupe4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You call Adolf Hitler 'austrian painter' but you made a joke on how he never became a full Austrian painter

    • @UnluckyCantaloupe4
      @UnluckyCantaloupe4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@MikeSmith-vl5em stfu

    • @joebama6825
      @joebama6825 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@UnluckyCantaloupe4 he had painted stuff before

    • @shaider1982
      @shaider1982 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, he can't, because he is not good enough.

  • @TheMemeDynamics
    @TheMemeDynamics 2 ปีที่แล้ว +808

    The thumbnail where Hitler laughing holding the book named "Mein Plan" is just so good

    • @nomobobby
      @nomobobby 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @Sergio Marc I mean, he was crazy with pride and hatard before. Now you add "dictator who knows he's going to lose everything soon" and you get the thumbnail. Perfect visual summery if you ask me. Even better than the Operation Citidal corkboard, which is impressive. Right metaphor and artstyle 10/10.

    • @_SoCalDude_
      @_SoCalDude_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It definitely got me to click on it 😅

    • @MVO884
      @MVO884 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Mein kampf translated: My battle. Not My plan.

    • @MVO884
      @MVO884 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Jayo Delaware Kampf means "battle". Its not funny to make jokes on this topic
      .

    • @toastytoast9800
      @toastytoast9800 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@MVO884 chill dude, its just a joke, hes trying to lighten the mood

  • @billieclark8870
    @billieclark8870 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    As a history major watching these videos is like being a kid in a candy store! Thank you!

  • @LighthouseCape
    @LighthouseCape 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    We could've won back Berlin if you guys rushed B and didn't leave the game after just *dying once!*
    -every Warthunder player, probably

  • @crackedfascist1533
    @crackedfascist1533 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3863

    Don’t worry lads! If we fall back to Berlin, Stiener’s counter-attack will save us!

    • @dubspool
      @dubspool 2 ปีที่แล้ว +230

      Yeah, he’ll definitely be able to muster enough men.

    • @crackedfascist1533
      @crackedfascist1533 2 ปีที่แล้ว +264

      Ja, and don’t worry about the Americans, we can hold them at the Rhine!

    • @Minute_Sniper
      @Minute_Sniper 2 ปีที่แล้ว +173

      What if you said steiner will save us
      But Krebs said: mein furheur...

    • @erenyeager3829
      @erenyeager3829 2 ปีที่แล้ว +230

      "My Führer... Steiner..."
      "Steiner couldn't raise enough forces. He suffers from a lack of troops."

    • @francescodegregorio2824
      @francescodegregorio2824 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      uh yeah about that

  • @dongiovanni4331
    @dongiovanni4331 2 ปีที่แล้ว +816

    I dont think you had enough medals on Zhukov's chest.

    • @matthewyabsley
      @matthewyabsley 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Should have had a 10m swimming badge at least. 😀

    • @jackp.richardson6415
      @jackp.richardson6415 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Hitler was such a dumbass. If he really wanted a wonder weapon that could've won the war, he should've invested in magnets!

    • @dongiovanni4331
      @dongiovanni4331 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @jabroni destroyer You seem to have missed the 101st Airborne Division and the 705th Tank Destoyer Batallion.
      Also, Do it again Col Clarke

    • @tylerchambers5809
      @tylerchambers5809 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don’t glorify communism!

    • @serronserron1320
      @serronserron1320 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Or the amount of German women he filled his bed with after the war
      lol

  • @maxinist
    @maxinist ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you, I searched for something similar to your video for a while!

  • @julianxe
    @julianxe 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Woah! The best video I've seen about this ever and I watched a lot! Amazing! Insane production value

  • @americantaxpayer4426
    @americantaxpayer4426 2 ปีที่แล้ว +551

    Only people who have never been in the military consider “military grade” an accolade

    • @alexcheremisin3596
      @alexcheremisin3596 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Lowest Bider

    • @129aslamnurfikrir4
      @129aslamnurfikrir4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      The only good military grade stuff are Swiss army knives and jerry cans

    • @tbt0380
      @tbt0380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@129aslamnurfikrir4 And maybe the boots depending where you are, but that's about it really

    • @jt95124
      @jt95124 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Just like a company, or a corporation, quality varies with situation. Your experience may vary. Some of it is quite good, some of it not good. Depends on development cycles, investment, and the competence of the particular people involved. Garand rifle, m-1 tank are good, M-14 rifle and Sheridan tank not good. Littoral combat ship bad, Fletcher destroyer good. And maintenance, if the prior users had abused the equipment. In general, competence and adequate resources are not always available, sometimes it is.

    • @APersonOnYouTubeX
      @APersonOnYouTubeX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@129aslamnurfikrir4 and helicopters

  • @harrisonlee9585
    @harrisonlee9585 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1086

    "The retreat was draining their gasoline, and the Soviet Army was draining their manpower" is a line worthy of Tolstoy.

    • @odysseus2656
      @odysseus2656 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      They retreated because they had no gasoline and the lack of gasoline did not allow the German socialists to bring their manpower and armaments to the eastern front.

    • @alcabone1126
      @alcabone1126 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@odysseus2656 German fascists*, they weren't really socialist

    • @Reichstaubenminister
      @Reichstaubenminister 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@alcabone1126 They were both fascist and socialist. You could almost say... national socialist.

    • @peterlindstrom4233
      @peterlindstrom4233 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@Reichstaubenminister They were not socialist at all, to imply anything else is madness.

    • @Reichstaubenminister
      @Reichstaubenminister 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@peterlindstrom4233 You clearly haven't done any research on your own.

  • @smilingearth5181
    @smilingearth5181 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Your daily reminder, viewer, that you and I are not immune to propaganda. Never think otherwise.

  • @Synchrimedia
    @Synchrimedia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Kudos to your art and animation teams for some great work!

  • @felixgaming_yt_5913
    @felixgaming_yt_5913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1152

    germany : DONT WORRY PEOPLE I WILL SAVE THIS
    also germany : *instantly dies*

    • @ordotectonicus8585
      @ordotectonicus8585 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nice Preußen pfp

    • @GMKGoji01
      @GMKGoji01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Das war ein befehl! Der augriff Steiners war befehl!

    • @felixgaming_yt_5913
      @felixgaming_yt_5913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@GMKGoji01 i dont read german but ill try

    • @fazole
      @fazole 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      We now know how deranged the political leadership of Germany and USSR was, yet somehow people believe and trust politicians and "experts" now. History rhymes and nowadays we have Botzis and Botzi Doktors. They had Klaus Barbie, we have Herr Doktor Anthony Assklown in Amerika. Power corrupts was true then and it's true now.

    • @felixgaming_yt_5913
      @felixgaming_yt_5913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@fazole power does corrupt

  • @dairydregone7146
    @dairydregone7146 2 ปีที่แล้ว +424

    "The Fuhrer demands all to shed the last drop of blood in its defense. The Old. The Young. The Weak." Vicktor Reznov form Call of Duty: World at War

    • @rbgerald2469
      @rbgerald2469 2 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      "If they stand for Germany; they die for Germany.
      Building by Building, Room by Room, One rat at a time!!"
      -Viktor Reznov, CoD World at War

    • @dairydregone7146
      @dairydregone7146 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@rbgerald2469 shoot! I forgot that's one of the best lines he ever said

    • @rbgerald2469
      @rbgerald2469 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@dairydregone7146 ..Just putting it as a reminder..:)

    • @randomclouds4404
      @randomclouds4404 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      When he was talking about the hangings, I remembered his line, "The Germans hang their cowards from trees!"

    • @GalahadGregory
      @GalahadGregory 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      "Do not count days. Do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed."

  • @ajmpatriot4899
    @ajmpatriot4899 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The German soldiers were also taking methamphetamine regularly, which helped boost “morale”.

  • @James-qb6cs
    @James-qb6cs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow I just discovered this channel - the animation is amazing! Keep up the great work!

  • @martinb.3997
    @martinb.3997 2 ปีที่แล้ว +598

    Germany: Don't worry, this one child division wich only armament is sticks surely can defeat the 2 million soviet soldiers assaulting Berlin!

    • @haydenalcorn8754
      @haydenalcorn8754 2 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      @The One You must be fun at parties.

    • @mors2846
      @mors2846 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @The One It was an edgy joke. No need to get triggered.

    • @ivanbadaev6621
      @ivanbadaev6621 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @The One wtf you make me cringe bro xD
      Cheers from a shallow-minded individual ^_^

    • @martinb.3997
      @martinb.3997 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @The One Man, you sure must be telling good jokes at the sensitivity crowd. Nice work showing how small is your sense of humor and intorelance to dark humour.

    • @jacob-bell
      @jacob-bell 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@martinb.3997 Doesn't take a professor at Harvard to realize it was a shitty joke, and it's not even dark humor. The only thing that made me laugh was the fact he can't spell "which" lmao

  • @moon_raven0495
    @moon_raven0495 2 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    Hitler: Steiner's attack will save us
    The general's: *nervous sweating*

    • @pagion3169
      @pagion3169 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I would rather kill myself then doing this plan

    • @manictiger
      @manictiger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@pagion3169
      Hitler would have made you. He had a lot of his command killed this way, after there was an attempt to poison him.

    • @afailureofaanimator6744
      @afailureofaanimator6744 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@manictiger and blow him up

  • @Satori_2024
    @Satori_2024 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?"
    Da bekomm ich jedesmal ne Gänsehaut. 😬

  • @prestonweaver3856
    @prestonweaver3856 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That was by far the smoothest transition from story line to Ads/Promos I have ever seen.

  • @Groovy_Bruce
    @Groovy_Bruce 2 ปีที่แล้ว +991

    Panzerfaust, a surprisingly ingenious and effective weapon. The single use flamethrower? Not so much. Highly, highly dangerous to the user, and unpredictable.

    • @ajaxslamgoody9736
      @ajaxslamgoody9736 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      America had their own version and was reloadable called the Bazooka.

    • @Wolf-wc1js
      @Wolf-wc1js 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      @@ajaxslamgoody9736 actually the Panzerschreck was a copy of the Bazooka

    • @militustoica
      @militustoica 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      I’m not sure who thought it would be a good idea to give single use flamethrowers to barely trained conscripts. Did they at least get carbines for after they were spent? Seems like a moronic waste of Germany’s heavily strained gasoline/petrol reserves by the last two years of the war, too.

    • @ceu160193
      @ceu160193 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@militustoica Point is, with flamethrower you don't really have to aim in close quarters to kill enemy. And bombing raids from Allies, on top of Soviets already being in city, meant, that vehicles to use fuel on were either useless, destroyed or ineffective.

    • @aristedecomgmailcom
      @aristedecomgmailcom 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Soldiers using flamethrowers need to be close in,and they may never get there。A bullet can travel further than a flame。

  • @flightedits7590
    @flightedits7590 2 ปีที่แล้ว +685

    "Steiner will save us it's ok guys chill"
    Hitler probably

    • @user-oi3jk4qo9j
      @user-oi3jk4qo9j 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Burgdoff(Fish lover):"Mein Fuhrer Steiner"
      Jodl(The bald objector):"Steiner has move his army to Elba River and surrender to amerikaner already..."

    • @flightedits7590
      @flightedits7590 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@user-oi3jk4qo9j fish fish fish fish fish fish fish

    • @user-oi3jk4qo9j
      @user-oi3jk4qo9j 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@flightedits7590 Hitler: shut up Your Fish Lover

    • @militustoica
      @militustoica 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Considering his daily methamphetamine habit, he probably didn’t believe in being chill until he got his barbiturate injection each night to allow his brain to sleep.

    • @militustoica
      @militustoica 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@user-oi3jk4qo9j 🤔

  • @thanasisrks4944
    @thanasisrks4944 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Steiner : I'll do what is called a pro move!
    Steiner has left the game

  • @TheZINGularity
    @TheZINGularity ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Göbbels sounds so romantic...
    "There is nothing between us, no anti-tank gun, no anti-tank obstacles, not a single soldier."🥰🥰
    He is such a poet, if only Adolf would have read that in the same way he did his speeches I don't think any state could resist.
    *Cough cough* pfffffffff

  • @haraldisdead
    @haraldisdead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    When you have to invade your own allies to keep them from switching sides, it's fucking over dude.

    • @S1mcard
      @S1mcard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He knew he wouldn't win from the begin.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 2 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    Hitler hoped for a LOTR-style cavalry rescue from Steiner like in Helms Deep…

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yup.

    • @modest_spice6083
      @modest_spice6083 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @A Velsen Hitler! Hitler calls for aid!
      Steiner: And no one will answer. Muster the men, tomorrow, we make for the American lines.

    • @felixsubakti6907
      @felixsubakti6907 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The fact that LOTR is translated to German(with some censor editing from the gestapo) makes this multiple times hilarious

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@felixsubakti6907 Its made even more hilarious by the fact that Tolkien was a hardcore anti-Nazi and made that explicitly clear when the Nazi's reached out to him.

    • @felixsubakti6907
      @felixsubakti6907 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@concept5631 i forgot about that..... Tolkien was a British veteran too

  • @HermesLlain
    @HermesLlain 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Congratulations for such an amazing work!

  • @davidahlstrom7533
    @davidahlstrom7533 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Very good choice of examples and evidence. Quite informative, even for those who know WW2 well. I never heard of the single shot flame thrower. Very interesting, thanks for your fine history videos.

  • @hampter1279
    @hampter1279 2 ปีที่แล้ว +287

    Hitler: Don’t worry guys, I have a plan.
    >Hitler has left the game

    • @plusxz821
      @plusxz821 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Meanwhile somewhere in Buenos Aires
      >Hitler has joined the game<
      >Hitler has changed his nickname to "Señor Hilberto"

    • @clonesolar
      @clonesolar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      *German Democratic republic has joined the game*
      *Federal Republic of Germany has joined the game*

    • @slametdinatadinata645
      @slametdinatadinata645 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      -NAZISM the tiger(wildcraft) joined the game-
      >AXIS has joined game

  • @luckyman9457
    @luckyman9457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1159

    “Endsieg: Germany’s Final Plan to Win WW2”
    …Or, a good HOI4 mod.
    Edit: Some guy made the comment thread about Zionism lmao

  • @roymartin500
    @roymartin500 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your closing speech is the best I've ever heard. Great job.

  • @cybergrail
    @cybergrail 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent work. Thank you.

  • @ainternet239
    @ainternet239 2 ปีที่แล้ว +536

    In 2004, I was in Germany when the film "Der Untergang" (Downfall) came out - the source of all those TH-cam clips.
    I went to see it with a colleague and, after the end credits rolled, you could have heard a pin drop in the packed theater.

    • @peterpan408
      @peterpan408 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Dont mention the war..

    • @stefanlaskowski6660
      @stefanlaskowski6660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Excellent film. I bought the DVD early this year.

    • @piapenske9767
      @piapenske9767 2 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      Because the fikm showed us Germans that loosing the war was a huge catastrophy but winning the war would have been much worse for Germany. It was not just Hitler who was a complete psycho but most of his Generals and goverment officials. Those people didn´t want peace and prosperity for the german people they were just there to fullfill their mass psychosis no matter what.

    • @DLK96
      @DLK96 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@piapenske9767 Hitler actually started the war objectively i.e. Poland and the Western countries. The problem was Barbarossa; a purely ideological war. That's when the genuine insanity and inhumanity began to show and play out.

    • @sethd2115
      @sethd2115 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      @@DLK96 The war was always ideological. And involved gambles throughout. Eventually the gambler rolls craps.

  • @flawlessbinary7449
    @flawlessbinary7449 2 ปีที่แล้ว +356

    Sees “Endseig”
    *Hoi4 flashback*

    • @UnluckyCantaloupe4
      @UnluckyCantaloupe4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Spending a bunch of time preparing your divisions and inevitably loosing flashback

    • @ShinSheel
      @ShinSheel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Is there any sense to play Endsieg? It sounds cool, but I don't want to play a giant arse-reip

    • @2Links
      @2Links 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@ShinSheel Yes. Winning the 1943 scenario, or at least holding on, isn't too difficult. 1944 is more difficult but still possible. Don't try 1945.

    • @jonathand.t.5051
      @jonathand.t.5051 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Golden lost

    • @BatCostumeGuy
      @BatCostumeGuy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Batman would've won if he was in charge.

  • @MysteryArchives
    @MysteryArchives ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video!

  • @levi9n321
    @levi9n321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    a big compliment to all your animations and all the german writings and translations which are perfectly translated - coming from a german.
    really good and detailed videos

  • @RetardGamingHDx
    @RetardGamingHDx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +236

    im sure everyone else has said this but my god pay that animator a good raise

    • @lahire1805
      @lahire1805 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      An artist's work.

  • @ishaankamal6819
    @ishaankamal6819 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    27:35 Guys, I finally found Steiner's glorious assault.

  • @solidraven6986
    @solidraven6986 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your channel. Keep it up dude

  • @darrell9616
    @darrell9616 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks!

  • @DamonNomad82
    @DamonNomad82 2 ปีที่แล้ว +259

    My dad was in the US armed forces during the Cold War, and he and my mom were stationed in Germany in the late 1970s/early 1980s. My mom told me that she once visited a cemetery there, and practically every family had at least one male member who had died at age 16 or 17 in 1944 or 1945.

    • @vcv6560
      @vcv6560 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Atkinson (Liberation Trilogy) makes that point at the opening of An Army at Dawn. If a male was born in Germany 1920 he had a 1/3 chance of dying in WWII.

    • @ararune3734
      @ararune3734 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      They don't mention that when they claim women were oppressed

    • @p0xi842
      @p0xi842 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ararune3734 the oppression of a woman is different then what you are trying to say.
      Even then countless woman helped the war effort and died for it.
      Killed in concentration camps or bombed in factories.
      The oppression of a woman politically and economically has been the truth for a long time. There was once the saying in the usa why let a man teach children the abc for 20? Dollars a month when a woman can do it for 5 . And even then why can a woman not oppressed when their husband or son fights and dies? Does the oppression end when such a thing happens or do some things happen at the same time and are quite different ?
      Also the ussr did have woman as soldiers though as far as I know they only manned anti aircraft positions and where also famously pilots in the ussr.
      Without woman the war effort would have been severely Crippled too

    • @bonniespots149
      @bonniespots149 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ararune3734 what?

    • @icepicjoey
      @icepicjoey ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bonniespots149 Hes refering to the phlegmimism movement.

  • @andersgale9544
    @andersgale9544 2 ปีที่แล้ว +284

    HITLER: *WITH THE ATTACK OF STEINER EVERYTHING WILL BE FIXED*
    GENERALS: 🤐

    • @mushvigabbasov3951
      @mushvigabbasov3951 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      WW3 in HOI4 Style Mapping
      th-cam.com/video/SIVEfof3fBQ/w-d-xo.html

    • @BatCostumeGuy
      @BatCostumeGuy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Batman would've won if he was in charge.

    • @andersgale9544
      @andersgale9544 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@BatCostumeGuy no doubt about it

    • @davidmckab7527
      @davidmckab7527 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dom Toretto could've been leader he can win the war with Family

  • @brownie1886
    @brownie1886 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing visuals!

  • @buak809
    @buak809 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Whoever makes these animations should release a tutorial and receive a huge raise

  • @gareginnzhdehhimself
    @gareginnzhdehhimself 2 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    I think it's important to remember that Speer was a diehard Nazi, his refusal to enact the Nero decree merely came from an acceptance of reality.

    • @MrDino1953
      @MrDino1953 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      At least he knew what reality was and accepted it as such. Unlike a certain modern-day orange demagogue in America.

    • @black10872
      @black10872 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@MrDino1953 How did i know someone will mention Trump? 😆

    • @Auden.
      @Auden. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      MrDino1953 ffs man guess you turn a blind eye to biden?

    • @WanderingLibertarian
      @WanderingLibertarian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@MrDino1953 Its absolutely hilarious when you leftists mention Trump at every possible turn. The man isn't even President anymore and you still obsess over him, this comment had nothing to do with politics

    • @Auden.
      @Auden. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @DANIEL BIN OMAR - these stimulus checks being sent out are not good hyper inflation is soon going to entail, unless we dont spend the money right away and only make wise monetary decisons, then hopefully the effects arent as bad

  • @Ifues-tb7is
    @Ifues-tb7is 2 ปีที่แล้ว +316

    “THIS PLAN Z CANT POSSIBLY FAIL!” -Nazis 1943-1945

    • @gareginnzhdehhimself
      @gareginnzhdehhimself 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Plan Z was an actual plan of the German Navy to make a large surface fleet

    • @afailureofaanimator6744
      @afailureofaanimator6744 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@gareginnzhdehhimself except it was less practical than planktons plan.

    • @aerouantshinyscales3944
      @aerouantshinyscales3944 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@gareginnzhdehhimself a plan that was obsolete for a navy since even before 1919

    • @jerrycoob4750
      @jerrycoob4750 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@aerouantshinyscales3944 High Seas Fleet II: Electric Boogaloo

    • @MagiconIce
      @MagiconIce 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      For context: It was one of the pre-war plans, so it doesn't really fit the theme of this video, but yeah, building a surface fleet large enough to succesfully challenge the British Fleet, even if it would be fighting alone (which wasn't the case then) within the timespan of 6 years is just delusional.
      The Nazis were and still are a crazy, dangerous bunch of people. I hope they never take power again anywhere on the world.

  • @zack9679
    @zack9679 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Armchair Historian!
    You freakin rock!
    Subscribed

  • @Pete_Finch
    @Pete_Finch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I actually just watched the "Pepe Sylvia" video from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia just before this video, so that picture of Hitler as Charlie Kelly got me good.

  • @vaporwave2359
    @vaporwave2359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    Operation Potsdam: cries in the corner

    • @vaporwave2359
      @vaporwave2359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@livethefuture2492 it's a joke

    • @ilianaghdifar1018
      @ilianaghdifar1018 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Operation spring awakening:WHY WHY YOU KNOW IM GONNA DIE

  • @randy_wit_dreads2913
    @randy_wit_dreads2913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +301

    "The world rejected his vision and he sought to punish it, starting with his own people."
    That hit different with the music.

    • @hungrymusicwolf
      @hungrymusicwolf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That felt real, like man that guy had a hatred for his opponents.

    • @msreviews5576
      @msreviews5576 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@hungrymusicwolf not all his opponents. The Western ones were treated on an equal footing. The problem in his mind were the slavs, jews and the plethora of other undesirables. People keep throwing "he wanted to kill all people" and similar silly statements but the minds of people like stalin, hitler, churchill were complicated. These monsters cared for their own and even that, as entities, as a whole. Not on an individual level.

    • @msreviews5576
      @msreviews5576 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      if he wanted to punish the world why didnt he release the nerve gas stockpiles on allied countries and soldiers? Just one plane would be enough to wreck a large area of people. Retaliation? but didnt he want to punish the world, starting with his own?

    • @bearthemexican6385
      @bearthemexican6385 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@msreviews5576 well that would require quite a lot of coordination, its not just as simple as unleashing gas back then, in terms of not wanting to kill all people maybe if they were blonde, blue eyed, and white then yeah but anything else will then be used as potential slaves to the factory or execution, african americans and some french Senegalese troops were not given the merciful feeling of surrender and were shot on sight without remorse

    • @AFGuidesHD
      @AFGuidesHD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it hits because that's what propaganda is designed to do.

  • @slammingskeeter1074
    @slammingskeeter1074 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is a great video, If thiers anyone that can put these animated pixels together, It is this guy.

  • @gregnote8818
    @gregnote8818 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a great insightful video.

  • @fluffehpancakes1102
    @fluffehpancakes1102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    They went in full kamikaze with that thumbnail, not caring about getting demonitized, respect +

    • @afailureofaanimator6744
      @afailureofaanimator6744 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The resistance

    • @noobdoggo
      @noobdoggo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      They got a sponsor so it's not a problem

    • @fluffehpancakes1102
      @fluffehpancakes1102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@noobdoggo Same thing can be said about the sponsors,not carring that their product is being shown over a nazi video

    • @noobdoggo
      @noobdoggo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@fluffehpancakes1102 it's a historic video and since it talks about a topic that gets a lot of attention they want to sponsor it, it's not a nazi video lol

    • @fluffehpancakes1102
      @fluffehpancakes1102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@noobdoggo Yeah my bad

  • @Drayran
    @Drayran 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1130

    Respect for having a voice actor who was willing to do this segment of Goebbels infamous Sportpalastrede. As a native speaker my heart cramps every time I hear these lines.

    • @TheLeadpepper
      @TheLeadpepper 2 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      I am English and feel for you! Angers me that I am listening to the words uttered by such a manipulative creature !! 4 minutes in and i gotta take a break!!

    • @clovergrass9439
      @clovergrass9439 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      We've been lied to by the victors...unless you're hasbara.

    • @thedivide9559
      @thedivide9559 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Sure thing "native speaker"

    • @APersonOnYouTubeX
      @APersonOnYouTubeX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      @@thedivide9559 ur American aren’t ya?

    • @thedivide9559
      @thedivide9559 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@APersonOnTH-camX So what if I am?

  • @max_x2
    @max_x2 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was the best segway I've seen so far. Bravo.

  • @alynromero8729
    @alynromero8729 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    These videos are incredible

  • @igdlackbig
    @igdlackbig 2 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    "Steiner, why didn't you attack?'
    "I forgor💀"

  • @vaporwave2359
    @vaporwave2359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +458

    After Hitler's 99 failed plans:
    Guys I got another idea to beat the soviets

    • @miguelguerreiro5280
      @miguelguerreiro5280 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      *Shoots himself*

    • @borntofeel1152
      @borntofeel1152 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Soviets HATE them, watch how these Germans plan to WIN the war

    • @ethank5059
      @ethank5059 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      ​@Gotthard Yus His previous plans didn't succeed though. He failed to knock out Britain and the blockade was starving Germany of resources while the Soviet Union was growing stronger over time. Had he decided not to invade the Soviet Union he still would have lost the war it would just have taken much longer. Ultimately winning the battle of France doesn't matter if you still lose the war.

    • @thediaz07
      @thediaz07 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ethank5059 but he still succeeded in taking over more than 13 countries....

    • @thediaz07
      @thediaz07 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Gotthard Yus yes, it worked well. The soviets getting help from the U.S gave them a major boost. If Germany had gone to another city other then Stalingrad they could've capture more oil. I forgot the country but it was in their grasps.

  • @inoshikachokonoyarobakayar2493
    @inoshikachokonoyarobakayar2493 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another brlliantly done video. 👌