Germany destroyed 38k soviets tanks, over 18k soviet planes, taken prisoner of 10 million soviet prisoners, killed another 15 million soviet soldiers. Most countries would of fell as a result of this.
." And how we burned in the labour camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive, and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if people had not simply sat there, palling with terror, but had understood that they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up an ambush of s half-dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The cursed machine would have ground to a halt. If, if, if ! We didn't love freedom enough. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterwards....." - AlexanderSolzhenitsyn, writer, gulagPrisoner, Nobel Peace Prize recipient. TheJews called theirBolshevist raids in the middle of the night ' Pajama parties ', when they would drag individuals and families away to their inhumanGulags, torture and firing squads..☠️⭐☠️...." TheCommunist soul is the soul ofJudaism. Hence it follows, that in theRussianRevolution * , the triumph ofCommunism was the triumph ofJudaism. " - RabbiWaton, ' A Program For TheJews And Humanity ', NY 1939. ☠️☠️......" TheBolshevistRevolution * inRussia was the work ofJewish brains, ofJewish dissatisfaction, ofJewish planning, who's goal is to create a NEW ORDER in the world. What was performed in so excellent a way inRussia, shall become reality all over the world. " - ' The AmericanHebrew ', September 10, 1920. ( * aCoupDétet funded from WallStreet thatGenocided over66million WhiteRussians, another16+million in Ukraine'sHolodomor's, tens of millions inChina afterRittenbergCoeEpsteinAdler brought in theirCommunism). 🎄....... " You have to understand, the leadingBolsheviks who took over Russia, were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatered they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. BolshevismCommitted the greatest slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators. " + 🎄...... " WithoutJews there would never have beenBolshevism. To aJew nothing is more insulting than the truth. The bloodthirsty jewishTerrorists have murdered sixty six million inRussia from 1918-57. " - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, writer, gulagPrisoner, Nobel Peace Prize recipient. ☠️☠️☠️....... "We mean the word 'red' literally because we shall shed such floods of blood as will make all the human losses suffered in the capitalist wars quake and pale by comparison. The biggest bankers across the ocean will work in the closest possible contact with us. If we win the revolution, we shall establish the power ofZionism upon the wreckage of the revolution's funeral, and we shall became a power before which the whole world will sink to its knees. We shall show what real power is. By means of terror and bloodbaths, we shall reduce the Russian intelligentsia to a state of complete stupefaction and idiocy and to an animal existence... At the moment, our young men in their leather jackets, who are the sons of watchmakers from Odessa, Orsha, Gomel and Vinnitsa, know how to hate everything Russian! What pleasure they take in physically destroying the Russian intelligentsia - officers, academics and writers !..." -Taken from the "Memoirs" of Aron Simanovich, a jeweller at the court of the Tsar's Imperial Majesty..... ☠️☠️.... " AntiCommunism is antiSemitism. " - ' TheJewish Voice ', page 23, National Council of JewishCommunists, July-August 1943. gab.com/ROBODAN/posts/109404819053367088 ......gab.com/BothEyesOpen/posts/109578707246188552 .." The great RussianRevolution was indeed accomplished by the hands ofJews. There are noJews in the ranks of the RedArmy as far as Privates are concerned, but in the Committees, and in the Soviet organization as Commissars, theJews are gallantly leading the masses. The symbol ofJewry has become the symbol of the proletariat, which can be seen in the fact of the adoption of the FIVE POINTED STAR, which in former times was the symbol ofZIONISM andJEWRY. " - rabbiMichaelCohn, ' TheCommunist ', April, 13, 1919.
Alot of those numbers are overstated. People just took the German accounts at face value since the Soviet accounts were ridiculously small. Most of the losses Germans claimed were as a result of units being encircled.. but many of those soldiers escaped
And the Germans didn't have plans for logistics. E.g. Russian railways were set to a different gauge than the rest of Europe, so German trains couldn't run on Russian rails. That meant the Germans had to rely on captured Russian trains to carry supplies. That meant the Nazis never had enough trains for logistics and what they did have regularly broke down with no easy way to repair them.
Blitzkrieg was effective on smaller countries like the Netherlands,Belgium, half of Poland and half of France. Russia's vastness did the Germans in.Too big of a distance between the front and Germany to be covered by their logistic.
the scariest thing is that this is about as long ago as a human life. it is still very recent history, and we do not realize that enough. it is still very recent by human standards.
Their supply lines were too long. Their line was too weak in too many plances when the Russians finally did counter properly, after Stalingrad they should have all been allowed to perform a rapid and effective defensive retreat instead of just delaying the inevitable and slowly weakening all the force in the east. Lack of oil, hoping to capture the supplies they needed while their armies literally freeze and starve to death. It was a clusterfk like no other.
Their supply issues wouldn’t have been a problem if they used trucks instead of horses. Ppl assume the entire German military was fast and maneuverable because of Blitzkrieg but most of their army relied on horses. The Russians were equipped with American trucks.
@@BostonsF1nest Yes the Germans had no trucks and they starved Europe to death as they took all the farm horses so nobody could plough nor plant fodder so there was no cattle nor crops.
We live in primitive times. I dream of the distant day when the men and women whose death is necessary to decide a “winner” tell their leaders to find some other way to settle their dispute.
@@hansolowe19 oddly no. or at least not likely, put i will concede that it is in the realm of plausibility. What while happen is something that we are seeing right now in Ukraine. Trench Warfare, long rang ballistic bombardment, drone strikes and SOFs.
4:00 You forgot to mention that originally the Italians were tasked to take the Balcans, to secure the Romanian oil fields, but failed, so German troops had to be diverted.
man... i remember watching this series at about 4 am in the late 90s to early 00s... back in the days before watching videos online was possible at home... im talkin dial -up times!! lol
@@irieite9666 I usually build my own PCs and I had the case open on one of them but I didn’t look closely inside when the fan on one of the quad core chips started making a loud noise as it ran… I assumed the bearings were dying… then eventually I checked more closely and found a cooked lizard between the heat synch and the fan!!! Lol
The real reason for their defeat was that the Germans massively underestimated the strength of the Soviets. Even after losing massive numbers in 41 the Soviets were still able to start winning within a year and half. Imagine if Stalin would have been just a little more competent or lucky in 41/42, the war would have been over years earlier. In short the Germans should not have entertained the notion they had a serious chance of winning. This is what happens when you base your strategy on racism or bigotry rather than on reality. This is lesson that has still not been learnt by modern aggressors.
As now western countries underestimated the strength of Russia. Russia is producing more weapons than all countries in NATO combine. Russia is more than gas station.
The reason was simple. Germany was fighting in many fronts. Even so, they defeated russia in WWI. Stupid to think that the outcome of war depends on the driving ideology. Bad guys have won often enough in history.
And boots with metal hobnails Russian infantry also did not wear socks - no blisters Instead they wrapped cloth bands around toes and feet Also sometimes stuffed straw down their boots
Speaking of strategic errors-- This program gets the German talkeover of the Balkan wrong as far as motives.. Hitlers army had been planning on invading Russia by the Middle of may 1941-- But Because the Greeks kicked the snot out of the italians under Mussollini Germany had to go to Italys rescue.. It only took 5 weeks.. But those 5 weeks meant that Germans didn't get to the outskirts of Moscow until November / december after General winter had intervened on the side of the Russians. The Russians counterattacked stalling the Germans. And from there the Germans were never able to regain their earlier sucesses.. best Bruce Peek
Actually modern historian do not think the Balkan distraction affected the launch date of Barbarossa. The weather was bad in the USSR so they could not start earlier, and the Germans actually did better when General winter was around since the muddy roads were frozen and their tanks could proceed towards Moscow. It was the annual rains of October that slowed the Germans down. There is really no way that the socialists of Germany could have won that war once the allies decided they would resist. Britain blocked oil to the continent in 1939 and by itself likely would have eventually beaten Germany but it may have taken decades like the cold war.
No oil/fuel, supply lines way too stretched. You can play any strategy computer game, if you have endless troops and buildings producing tanks like the Soviets, you can just mark them all together with your mouse and send straight forward against an esports pro who has 1/4 of your tanks and troops and his tanks have only little fuel left + you are allowed to lose many battles like that because your base is several screens away on the map.
@@MarkHumphrey-fi7we but that would give the commies another year of preparation, and another year to receive aid from the western powers, another year of resources spent fighting the Brits. I'm not saying your wrong, just saying.
Hitler's biggest problem was that he understood the mechanics of international thuggery and frontline tactical military operations but not the importance of international piracy and full access to strategic materials.
I always wondered why H man made fairly decent military decisions until halfway thru the war, then suddenly started making horrible military decisions, sacking 35 of his top military officers explains a lot
Attacking the much larger red army with a fraction of the tanks the reds had and low fuel supplies was a disastrous move. It was a gamble that the Soviet Union would collapse politically and militarily under the force of the invasion, but that outcome was never particularly likely.
He was insanely doped on a number of narcotics, all day everyday. He essentially lost his mind absolutely, halfway through the war and it catalysed his defeat.
Germany did short decicie campaings. She needed time te recoup, plan and gather strgeht after each one. After Juyne 1941 it was full on 25/7 in the east. No more waiting, building up reserves first...
There have been books by a group of traitors in the German army and administration. They were giving away German plans to the Soviets. They were ordering units to retreat without notifying their neighbours. One of those guys became of Mayor of Hamburg after the war. The Germans called these people the Red Orchestra.
The other thing about the Russians. They didn't have as much trouble with their tanks and weapons in winter because they were used to the cold and what what to do to stop machines freezing. Also there tanks had wider tracks so were better on soft ground.
Thier tanks still froze and got stuck in the mud, that's why most IF not all of thier counterattacks failed until 1943 with the introduction of the IS-2
Paulus couldn't break out. There was no fuel, no supply and not enough mechanized vehicles available. Any break out attempt would have ended in a total desaster anyway. 6th army's fate was sealed.
@1363behrouz You have the sympathy of all of us who know anything about the subject. Now go out and learn enough to correct what you have just "learned."
Yup. Had he secured the Atlantic properly, continued on to take Britain and held peace with the Soviet Union it would have been a very different story. He could have gone into Russia 2 years later and wiped the floor with it when fully prepared.
As a result of Operation Barbarossa, the Soviets instigated the creation of "an elaborate system of buffer and client states, designed to insulate the Soviet Union from any possible future attack."
Stalin was a peaceful creature? Did you forget what Russia did on September 17th 1939? Did you forget the Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement? Who prepared this programm? Who is that ignorant?
As soon as Stalin decided not to give up in the first month - the War was decided. There was simply no way the Germans could beat the endless millions of Soviet troops, resources, and distances.
It wasn't an invasion. It was a desperate counter offensive into a massive deployment. And soviet tanks outdated? The soviets had more amphibious tanks (4600) than every german tank type (2800) combined! The KV-2 was the ONLY heavy tank in the world at that time. The T-100 could remove it tracks and drive with 100 km/h over the German autobahn. It was specificly designed for that... The real numbers: On June 22, 1941 the Red Army possessed no less than - 24,000 tanks, including 1,861 type T-34 tanks (a medium tank, perhaps the most effective armored weapon of the entire war) and KV (Klim Voroshilov) tanks (a series of heavy tanks), which had no equal anywhere in the world; 358 units of these were manufactured in 1940, while 1,503 units were manufactured in the first six months of 1941. Since 1938, the Air Forces of the Red Army had received a total of - 23,245 military aircraft, including 3,719 aircraft of the latest design. The Red Army also had - 148,000 artillery pieces and mortars of all types and systems. The inventory of the Red Navy, in addition to a multiplicity of ships of other types, had 291 or, according to Soviet sources, - at least 213 submarines. This meant that the Soviet Armed Forces had a larger fleet of submarines than any other country in the world, outnumbering those of the world’s leading maritime nation, Great Britain, more than four-fold in terms of the number of submarines. - one million paratroopers. (more than 5x the rest of the world combined.) rule of thumb: If you want to take a country, you you have to outnumber the enemy by at least 3:1. Sources: - Suvorov: Stalin the chief culprit - Joachim Hoffmann: Stalin's Vernichtungskrieg 1941-1945 - Erkki Hautamäki: Suomi myrskyn silmässä - Official blue-white book of Finland: Finland reveals her secret documents on Soviet policy March 1940 - June 1941 (1941).
Russian winter don't forget the most important part millions of Russian soldiers and a bravery of a Russian soldier that other countries did not have. Also T34 and IL2
Everyone knew there wasa rough winter in Russia. That theoru is just "It can't be the evil commies that did it" thinking. Same with the lend lease as most importnat of all thinking, The scond front or at elast teh therat of one did much more (helkp by lend lese to the UK for sure).
Its not a stupid theory it is one reason of out of some other. Especially because that exact Winter of 41 was the hardest and coldest in the past 100 years before
As the greatest marshal commander of the Second World War said in the answer - "My army fought in the same winter environment" and being attacked first which is a serious advantage for Germans, even more, they did not prepare anything for a counterattack!
Wrong, Adam. It's silly cartoon stuff, missing all the most important facts, substituting weirdie dream stuff like the importance of the English in Greece.
The main reason they lost was because they underestimated the enemy. Just like Russia which invaded Ukraine with only 200,000 troops expecting Ukraine to fall within days. Now in the third year war is still going on.
@@JDDC-tq7qm Now yes but not in the begining. Who in his right mind will attack such a large country with a million strong army with only 200,000 troops?
Yes, I believe they should had of taken the Suez and tried to make peace with Britain before embarking on Barbarossa. Though it's easy to critique the past and who knows.
@@indian2003 that's what I said now Russia is fighting smart the thing is Russia thought Ukraine was going to negotiate with them until Ukraine refused and choose to fight now Ukraine is paying the price
It's the blurring out that puts me off, just so it can me monetised, as one comment also said the same story rehashed, heard many say History hit is not worth the subscription due to 20 minutes videos etc shame great idea but it's the blurring that makes me turn off.
Do you know that land-lease began only after a fundamental change towards the Soviet Union? After winning the key battles of Kursk and Stalingrad in 1942.
Lend lease contribution only saw implementation when the reds were already on the offensive. Look at the losses. U.S. : about 400,000 globally from 1941-1945. Soviet Union: 25 million + on a single front. Stop giving U.S. so much credit. If Germany didn't invade soviets, there would be no western front. Spilled blood of every man on the eastern front bought U.S. and U.K. time and space to do anything they wanted. Atlantic naval warfare, air raids, offensives in Africa, Italy, preparation for offensive in France in 1944 and creation of the atomic bomb in U.S. If Germany had all of its resources and manpower focused on the west, Africa and the Atlantic ocean, there would be no amphibious operation strong enough to overcome Hitler's war machine. Churchill, FDR and numerous western generals knew and commented that without soviets, there would be no victory.
Germany controlled 300 mln people in 1941, and almost most of the western european industry. Lend-lease accounted for $13bln , while USSR GDP in 1941 was $366bln.
@@dmitryletov8138 "Controlled." By that you mean hundreds of millions of former enemies that required constant policing and monitoring to keep in check including thousands of partisans creating havoc in the overstreched german supply lines so that it was necessary to sent hundreds of thousands of troops to the rear while they were badly needed in the frontline? And by "controlling" most of the western industries you mean factories that were being targeted by bombers and sabouteurs with a very hostile work force? And the content of the aid is more important than its monetary value. The US provided fuel, ammo, explosives and food, absolutely vital supplies. Its important to know that numbers, but also the reality behind those numbers because of the $366bln that the USSR produced in 1941, how much of it were useful military supplies? Bercause diapers, tractors, refrigerators, chairs and tables are nice to have but they're not much use in the battlefield.
I don't think there was anything hitlah could do that could win or lose the war with USSR. USSR simply a larger country. Just like China was too big for Japan to control totally.
It was mostly a failure of logistics. Russian railroad tracks were different sizes than rest of Europe and the Russians burned them. Germany was low on trucks and were depending on trains so they had to lay track as they moved forward. Germany was low on oil when the war started (and was the actual reason for the war) so coal was their primary fuel and trains were the only form of transportation that could use it. Russia also scorch earthed as they retreated leaving no supplies for an army that was supposed to forage for supplies as they moved. It was a logistic clusterfork like the Napoleon's death march. The US supplied a huge number of trucks to USSR after the invasion which greatly helped them beat back the Germans. The USSR was able to get supplies to the front far faster and more efficiently than the Germans. Supplies for the Germans came by rail and then where commonly moved by horse and wagon to front lines. The number of horses that died in both great wars was measured in the millions. Originally used for transportation they eventually became a food source for starving soldiers and populations.
But Germany has very little fossil fuels (only poor quality lignite coal). Germans needed Russian petroleum. That is why Germans tried. Fast forward to today. Germany was finally getting the same Russian petroleum/gas, cheap, but this time USA ruined it. Just a matter of time before Germans realize how evil USA is, and make friends with Russia.
Not progressing onto Moscow in ‘41 was not…imho…a “strategic error”…as is well-documented Germany’s foodstuffs situation was about to become acute and the National Socialists needed to secure Ukraine to secure their food supplies; they also needed a base in Southern Russia in which to make a run at the Russian oilfields as Germany was acutely short on oil supplies in which to wage war. Good thing the Germans failed in any case.
Words of wisdom spoken here!, Americas massive logistical support of Russia played a decisive role! Americans you are the slaves of your money masters, you know who i am talking about, the same crowd that sent millions from Brooklyn all the way to Leningrad to finance the Bolshevik takeover of Russia!
@@JoaoSoares-rs6ecthe will of the Russian people to defend their homeland will overpower anything even without usa help Russia would win the a greater price tho
idk,theirs a lot of ppl who agree with that and a lot of ppl who dont and both sides have good points,I think the only way to have beaten the USSR was to have dealt with Britain first,and they were beating em in the battle for Britian but Goering changed from attacking the airfields to civilian targets and that gave the Brits the breathing space they needed,but the Brits were definitely losing the air war before that blunder,although it was getting expensive,it was working,but who knows,couldve wouldve shouldve right oh,and one more thing,if the Japanese had attacked from the East and Finland the north,then maybe the USSR couldve been defeated
They never had enough fuel, food and soldiers for a continuous campaign. Germany simply did not have the logistical capability to take over a country as large and with as many people as a Soviet union in 1941. As long as the Soviet did not surrender and continue to resist that the Germans would not have ever been able to completely subdueresistance
The weather at the time was too bad for motorized operations. It had rained a lot in March to May and the roads were muddy. Moving supply trucks or tanks would be very dificult making blitzkrieg look more like turtlekrieg. The germans waited for dry weather and dry russian roads.
Germany always have 80% of its best troops against SSSR, yes the fate of WW2 was decided at Stalingrad and Kursk. Without attacking SSSR, Germany would win WW2.
The only way for Germans to defeat USSR was to show they would be a better alternative to Stalin's regime. But for the Nazis they were subhumans and they treated them accordingly giving them no other option but to fight until the end, no matter what. The narration mentions millions of soldiers been captured during the first phase of the war, didn't say what happened to them as well as the civilians to the captured territories..... Guess... Eternal glory to the Red Army and the 25+++ million Soviets, who gave their lives to defeat the monster.
The biggest mistake the Germans made was that in Oct of 41 they were in remarkable good shape , they up to that point had a regimen of combat for 3 weeks and rest reorganize for 1 week. So there it was at end of Oct in great shape with winter about to begin they broke that regimen in trying to get to Moscow. And they wasted the advantage they had.
You would too,thinking Moscow was the ultimate conquest in such a vast realm as the Soviet Union.keep in mind by the time operation Barbarossa commenced the soviets had already evacuated all the essential industries and infrastructures deep into Siberia.they would continue to resist and harass the nazis long after Moscow had fallen.
They nearly made it to Moscow. Had they not postponed the original date of Barbarossa to invade the Balkans, and thus gotten stuck in the mud and snow, things may have turned out differently. Then again, General Winter has quite the track record...
Germany never had a chance. Not enough men, tanks, oil, food anything. Supply lines 1500 km long. Invaded with infantry still using horses, 625000 horses. Read David Stahel.
@Shindoi- not even close. Attacking forces should have 3:1 force ratio. Not including ussr reserves which vastly skewed it Germany wasn't even close to that. There ratio of tanks was 1:5, 3000 (1200 mark 1+2) versus 15000 Soviet tanks (11000ish t26 and BT's)
Blurring out the carnage minimizes the carnage of war. True documentaries show everything that was actually filmed of the war by the correspondent photographers. If filming death of fallen troops was not important it would have not been filmed in the first place. Shame on you in your attempts to eliminate the facts of war.
You could watch the R rated version from the original producer by a physical copy I think. If children watch this they will be tramautized, hence the reason. because you tube is watched by millions of children.
The soviet union would invade the reich eventually. Question is: would it be better to defend against the soviets rather than conquer them? Germany would still fight a 2 front war that way
Not even Eisenhower ever intervened in day-to-day operations despite being Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, except for if it needed mediation of sorts. FDR was far smarter.
Less than three minutes into the video and a gross factual error. "Soviet Union was unprepared". These lies get repeated so much that some people started to believe them. Soviet Union had twenty years (1921 to 1941) to prepare for war. And they did - they had the largest army with the best equipment and strategically weakened enemy. The Reich was in two years into the war already with most potent powers turned against them (UK, US). The US was willing to provide USSR with a lot - raw materials, garments, food and war equipment (tanks, lorries, jeeps, planes), and they did. If this is not being prepared, than I do not know what is.
They were unprepared for an attack at the time it happened. Stalin was aware of the damage done to the Red Army and though he expected a German invasion he hoped he had put it off for another year or two. Perhaps it might be better described as unexpected than unprepared. Also though the USA was certainly more inclined to support the British Empire at the time of Barbarossa it was still technically neutral. It was German policy and strategy under the Nazis to go East and no amount of good advice to the contrary would change Hitler's mind.
They were not prepared... The ease with which the Wehrmacht beat France Poland didn't make Stalin realize that the Germany wasn't fighting a "normal" war...
this must be old, some details are overhauled. also, i could barely see a single actual strategic mistake causing the failure of operation barbarossa pointed out in an obvious way. - no preparedness for winter (for the soldiers, horses and for their machines) - not listening to the generals when it came to the 3 (or rather 2) armygroups - delaying the attack - the attempt of subjugation of yugoslavia by force instead of establishing your own pro-axis puppet with minimal funding in comparison to what actually happened - no planning for rasputica - the bloody storming of sevastopol instead of sth more calculated or bypassing all of crimea, leaving them strangled in the peninsula with a minimal force to be able to continue the war of movement everything else was tactical in nature, maybe operational, but my last two points could already be counted as such i advise people to look up TIKhistory, the guy is a historian/economist and focuses on better sources. he also does a lot of related content to be able to understand ww2 in a much deeper way than you're taught anywhere else.
Greece was already fighting with Italy from 28 October 1940 and the Greek army was even double outnumbered.Ahens did not fall quickly and easily.They even pushed back Italian troops several kilometres in the Albania.
Germany should have went after the oil fields in Russia first refresher didn't have fuel how could they have moved the massive number of tanks does oil fields are so far south they would have had a logistic nightmare just to keep their troops Supply
There were no such agreement. So there is nothing to mention. There was an agreemen on sphere of influence, which many countries have, for instanse US has Monro doctrine
And yes, Jackson Lee is correct when he (-?) makes reference to the massacres in Katyn Forest, wherein the Soviets slaughtered over 20,000 Polish officers in said forest and then had the brazen audacity to blame their hideous crimes on the Germans. Unconscionable...
@@jacksonlee3771 read it, read Molotov-Ribentrop pact, there is no single word about any war with Poland. Molotov-Ribetrop set spheres of influences, and nothing else there. The same is in US Monroe doctrine, so what - US plans to invide every single american country?
Germany was kind of forced to launch Operation Barbarossa. When they signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, they had no intention to attack the Soviets after just 2 years. They had planned to invade Poland, France and after that they planned to force Britain for peace. After that they planned to build a new Europe. When they had achieved that, they would attack the Soviets with whole Europe. But, they couldnt force Britain make peace. They were close but it didnt happen. The existince of Britain in the war ruined their plans. Because when Britain was in the war, it meant that USA also could join the war after a while. The Americans were openly supporting the British. Sending their destroyers to provoke the Germans. Sending equipments to Britain. Making terrible speeches against Germany. So it was clear that they were preparing for war. This fear forced the Germans to attack the Soviets. Before USA was ready, they had to knock out the Soviets. Otherwise they would fight 2 massive fronts. This is why Barbarossa failed. Because of Britain.
In June 1941 Stalin had no strategy in place to defend Russia from such a massive attack. There was no Masterplan Zhukov in charge and stalin had executed any general who advised a defence in depth strategy to bleed such a german attack. All Stalin had done was to kill half the Red Army officers in the 1930,s as he was paranoid of an uprising against him and placed all his airforce and many divisions on the Polish border to be annihilated on the first day of the invasion. I would say Stalin actually worked against the USSR and it was a miracle the USSR defeated Germany at all.
The narration contradicts itself by saying that the city of Stalingrad was of little strategic importance but then a few minutes later states that Stalingrad was 'an important industrial centre ' that produced a lot of munitions - so was it an important city for the Germans to attack or not?!
Germany destroyed 38k soviets tanks, over 18k soviet planes, taken prisoner of 10 million soviet prisoners, killed another 15 million soviet soldiers. Most countries would of fell as a result of this.
." And how we burned in the labour camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive, and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if people had not simply sat there, palling with terror, but had understood that they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up an ambush of s half-dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The cursed machine would have ground to a halt. If, if, if ! We didn't love freedom enough. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterwards....." - AlexanderSolzhenitsyn, writer, gulagPrisoner, Nobel Peace Prize recipient. TheJews called theirBolshevist raids in the middle of the night ' Pajama parties ', when they would drag individuals and families away to their inhumanGulags, torture and firing squads..☠️⭐☠️...." TheCommunist soul is the soul ofJudaism. Hence it follows, that in theRussianRevolution * , the triumph ofCommunism was the triumph ofJudaism. " - RabbiWaton, ' A Program For TheJews And Humanity ', NY 1939. ☠️☠️......" TheBolshevistRevolution * inRussia was the work ofJewish brains, ofJewish dissatisfaction, ofJewish planning, who's goal is to create a NEW ORDER in the world. What was performed in so excellent a way inRussia, shall become reality all over the world. " - ' The AmericanHebrew ', September 10, 1920. ( * aCoupDétet funded from WallStreet thatGenocided over66million WhiteRussians, another16+million in Ukraine'sHolodomor's, tens of millions inChina afterRittenbergCoeEpsteinAdler brought in theirCommunism). 🎄....... " You have to understand, the leadingBolsheviks who took over Russia, were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatered they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. BolshevismCommitted the greatest slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators. " + 🎄...... " WithoutJews there would never have beenBolshevism. To aJew nothing is more insulting than the truth. The bloodthirsty jewishTerrorists have murdered sixty six million inRussia from 1918-57. " - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, writer, gulagPrisoner, Nobel Peace Prize recipient. ☠️☠️☠️....... "We mean the word 'red' literally because we shall shed such floods of blood as will make all the human losses suffered in the capitalist wars quake and pale by comparison. The biggest bankers across the ocean will work in the closest possible contact with us. If we win the revolution, we shall establish the power ofZionism upon the wreckage of the revolution's funeral, and we shall became a power before which the whole world will sink to its knees. We shall show what real power is. By means of terror and bloodbaths, we shall reduce the Russian intelligentsia to a state of complete stupefaction and idiocy and to an animal existence... At the moment, our young men in their leather jackets, who are the sons of watchmakers from Odessa, Orsha, Gomel and Vinnitsa, know how to hate everything Russian! What pleasure they take in physically destroying the Russian intelligentsia - officers, academics and writers !..." -Taken from the "Memoirs" of Aron Simanovich, a jeweller at the court of the Tsar's Imperial Majesty..... ☠️☠️.... " AntiCommunism is antiSemitism. " - ' TheJewish Voice ', page 23, National Council of JewishCommunists, July-August 1943.
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And bare in mind a third of Hitler's power was in West Europe
Alot of those numbers are overstated. People just took the German accounts at face value since the Soviet accounts were ridiculously small. Most of the losses Germans claimed were as a result of units being encircled.. but many of those soldiers escaped
have* can't you spell?
Many of those 15 million soldiers killed were actually murdered civilians
The problem with blitzkreig is it exhaust a lot of supplies in a relatively short period. Making it very difficult to keep it up.
フランス戦は1か月程度で、天候も良く。土地は固くて機動に適していた。しかもスターリンから燃料供給を得られていた。
And the Germans didn't have plans for logistics. E.g. Russian railways were set to a different gauge than the rest of Europe, so German trains couldn't run on Russian rails. That meant the Germans had to rely on captured Russian trains to carry supplies. That meant the Nazis never had enough trains for logistics and what they did have regularly broke down with no easy way to repair them.
Blitzkrieg was effective on smaller countries like the Netherlands,Belgium, half of Poland and half of France. Russia's vastness did the Germans in.Too big of a distance between the front and Germany to be covered by their logistic.
@@ill_bred_demon9059 yeah and soviets retreated all of their tanks
Correct, Barbarossa couldn't be successful but the idea behind was that Soviet Union would collapse by itself after getting a stron snap.
The day Germany marched into Russia was the day they lost the way. The Day Japan attacked the U.S. is the day they lost.
No?! Really! Wow!!!! I think you’re the first one to have ever figure it out. You must be a genius! ❤
@@AnastasioCostaMeno do you even understand point of comments?
Germany had previously marched into russia and won the war WWI.
they came for the women...
Germany was never Not going to invade Russia that was Hitler's whole goal
the scariest thing is that this is about as long ago as a human life. it is still very recent history, and we do not realize that enough. it is still very recent by human standards.
Yeah, this is like a day ago compared to the Roman times and not even a century-old
Their supply lines were too long. Their line was too weak in too many plances when the Russians finally did counter properly, after Stalingrad they should have all been allowed to perform a rapid and effective defensive retreat instead of just delaying the inevitable and slowly weakening all the force in the east. Lack of oil, hoping to capture the supplies they needed while their armies literally freeze and starve to death. It was a clusterfk like no other.
It was an ongoing shared fantasy. Daily defensive action's, constant retreat.
And US lend lease to the USSR. Uncle Sam saved the reds.
Keep lying to yourself where was American lend lease when Napoleon invaded Russia 😂😂@@RafaelSantos-pi8py
Their supply issues wouldn’t have been a problem if they used trucks instead of horses. Ppl assume the entire German military was fast and maneuverable because of Blitzkrieg but most of their army relied on horses. The Russians were equipped with American trucks.
@@BostonsF1nest Yes the Germans had no trucks and they starved Europe to death as they took all the farm horses so nobody could plough nor plant fodder so there was no cattle nor crops.
Its insane to think all of this actually happened. WW2 i mean. Its nuts..
And not all that long ago
We live in primitive times. I dream of the distant day when the men and women whose death is necessary to decide a “winner” tell their leaders to find some other way to settle their dispute.
Ww3 will be with drone swarms. Or worse.
@@hansolowe19 oddly no. or at least not likely, put i will concede that it is in the realm of plausibility. What while happen is something that we are seeing right now in Ukraine. Trench Warfare, long rang ballistic bombardment, drone strikes and SOFs.
Oh, and it will repeat itself. Just wait 10 years and Europe will be in Ruins again.
4:00 You forgot to mention that originally the Italians were tasked to take the Balcans, to secure the Romanian oil fields, but failed, so German troops had to be diverted.
man... i remember watching this series at about 4 am in the late 90s to early 00s... back in the days before watching videos online was possible at home... im talkin dial -up times!! lol
Back before it was all f***ing ADHD 80% recapping what was already recapped
This show was always on. Tried true and faithful. Iconic narrator.
The good old history channel days
When I used to fire up my Windows XP cpu there was so much dust in the fan it sounded like a Stuka dive bombing.
@@irieite9666 I usually build my own PCs and I had the case open on one of them but I didn’t look closely inside when the fan on one of the quad core chips started making a loud noise as it ran… I assumed the bearings were dying… then eventually I checked more closely and found a cooked lizard between the heat synch and the fan!!! Lol
Not a phone in sight. Just people living in the moment
Aah there is an ancient landline ☎️. Watch from 33:32
*dying
@@FHi349 lol good eye buddy xD
Kinda agree with you. See too many people walking around with mobile glued to an ear..... 😮😂
Yet the phone also helps a lot more people remember these times so they're not forgotten
I was in a ww2 documentary mood this evening so this was great timing
The real reason for their defeat was that the Germans massively underestimated the strength of the Soviets. Even after losing massive numbers in 41 the Soviets were still able to start winning within a year and half. Imagine if Stalin would have been just a little more competent or lucky in 41/42, the war would have been over years earlier. In short the Germans should not have entertained the notion they had a serious chance of winning. This is what happens when you base your strategy on racism or bigotry rather than on reality. This is lesson that has still not been learnt by modern aggressors.
As now western countries underestimated the strength of Russia. Russia is producing more weapons than all countries in NATO combine. Russia is more than gas station.
Imagine if the French had competent leadership. In many ways socialist Germany was kind of lucky at the start.
Agree with your view
So true.
The reason was simple. Germany was fighting in many fronts. Even so, they defeated russia in WWI. Stupid to think that the outcome of war depends on the driving ideology. Bad guys have won often enough in history.
Unlike the 66 diff rehashed WW2 Eastern Front vids this 1 is actually the great WW2 In Color series from '09.
Germans fighting in minus 45 degrees in their summer clothes is something of a sight. 🤣
yeah like what where they thinking. Its not like they didnt have winter clothes, but just didnt issue them in time. Idiots
I go out in my goose down coat when it's zero and I'm cold can't imagine the summer clothes they wore at minus 40 degrees
And boots with metal hobnails
Russian infantry also did not wear socks - no blisters
Instead they wrapped cloth bands around toes and feet
Also sometimes stuffed straw down their boots
Και με τις ίδιες στολές πήγαν στο Σταλινγκρατ __40 βαθμούς Κελσίου 😅
Not even Meth was enough to warm them up in that brutal Russian winter
Speaking of strategic errors-- This program gets the German talkeover of the Balkan wrong as far as motives.. Hitlers army had been planning on invading Russia by the Middle of may 1941-- But Because the Greeks kicked the snot out of the italians under Mussollini Germany had to go to Italys rescue.. It only took 5 weeks.. But those 5 weeks meant that Germans didn't get to the outskirts of Moscow until November / december after General winter had intervened on the side of the Russians. The Russians counterattacked stalling the Germans. And from there the Germans were never able to regain their earlier sucesses..
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Actually modern historian do not think the Balkan distraction affected the launch date of Barbarossa. The weather was bad in the USSR so they could not start earlier, and the Germans actually did better when General winter was around since the muddy roads were frozen and their tanks could proceed towards Moscow. It was the annual rains of October that slowed the Germans down.
There is really no way that the socialists of Germany could have won that war once the allies decided they would resist. Britain blocked oil to the continent in 1939 and by itself likely would have eventually beaten Germany but it may have taken decades like the cold war.
Yes true, this is a relevant fact that has been surprisingly completely omitted in this video. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_invasion_of_Greece
Why blurry some things here thats part of history and other stuff on youtube is open for everyone to see
TH-cam does it.
Sadly some ignorant people think censorship is a good idea.
Never gets old
Sir you are a man of culture.
Starts out old. Bunch of silly English fiction.
*turns around to look for cops
No oil/fuel, supply lines way too stretched. You can play any strategy computer game, if you have endless troops and buildings producing tanks like the Soviets, you can just mark them all together with your mouse and send straight forward against an esports pro who has 1/4 of your tanks and troops and his tanks have only little fuel left + you are allowed to lose many battles like that because your base is several screens away on the map.
It's not mentioned that Italy's failed invasion of Greece is what prompted Germany to delay Operation Barbarossa and invade Greece.
That was the first and biggest mistake, He left the start too late,should have waited until the following year and allacked that April
@@MarkHumphrey-fi7we but that would give the commies another year of preparation, and another year to receive aid from the western powers, another year of resources spent fighting the Brits. I'm not saying your wrong, just saying.
It is mentioned in episode 6, the Mediterranean episode, they were saving it 🙂
History repeats its self.Great lesson we learn from these doc.
A problem is that people don't learn from history and continue to repeat the same mistakes. Some people want to regress to the 1800s.
Pol Pot, Mau, Lenin, Stalin, they all make the 1800s look pretty darn good....
But russia/soviet union was beaten in the past.. even by the poles shortly after ww1 and they lost in 1917 in ww1
@@nerminerminerminermi Poles have been the jackals throughout their history. Their nickname "Hyena of Europe" suits them.
putin didn’t learn the lesson. Now Lend Lease style support helps Ukraine while russia is weakening relatively.
Hitler's biggest problem was that he understood the mechanics of international thuggery and frontline tactical military operations but not the importance of international piracy and full access to strategic materials.
Hitler’s tactic was bluff and blitzkrieg.
Best summary I have seen. Great work thank you
Not.
Sloppy English propaganda, Mike.
I always wondered why H man made fairly decent military decisions until halfway thru the war, then suddenly started making horrible military decisions, sacking 35 of his top military officers explains a lot
Attacking the much larger red army with a fraction of the tanks the reds had and low fuel supplies was a disastrous move. It was a gamble that the Soviet Union would collapse politically and militarily under the force of the invasion, but that outcome was never particularly likely.
He was insanely doped on a number of narcotics, all day everyday. He essentially lost his mind absolutely, halfway through the war and it catalysed his defeat.
Germany did short decicie campaings. She needed time te recoup, plan and gather strgeht after each one. After Juyne 1941 it was full on 25/7 in the east. No more waiting, building up reserves first...
@@ryancampbell5788. See “Blitzed” book
There have been books by a group of traitors in the German army and administration. They were giving away German plans to the Soviets. They were ordering units to retreat without notifying their neighbours. One of those guys became of Mayor of Hamburg after the war. The Germans called these people the Red Orchestra.
The other thing about the Russians. They didn't have as much trouble with their tanks and weapons in winter because they were used to the cold and what what to do to stop machines freezing. Also there tanks had wider tracks so were better on soft ground.
Thier tanks still froze and got stuck in the mud, that's why most IF not all of thier counterattacks failed until 1943 with the introduction of the IS-2
Russian vehicles powered on diesel which freezes at lower temperature than petrol
This is an episode from The World at War from 1973. It is narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier. Best documentary on WWII hands down.
It isn’t. This is WW2 in colour, the narrator is Robert Powell.
Great documentary. Excelent work 10/10
Paulus couldn't break out. There was no fuel, no supply and not enough mechanized vehicles available. Any break out attempt would have ended in a total desaster anyway. 6th army's fate was sealed.
When.
Agree. There was nowhere to break out to.
Paulus had to stay until Army Group A pulled out
Paulus surrenders ,Russians then capture Rostov group A is trapped , huge losses
Well yeah the nazis chew more than they could swallow.
He said, I came as an enemy and I leave as a Friend, His last words when Russians let him go..
one of the best documentaries i have ever seen
@1363behrouz
You have the sympathy of all of us who know anything about the subject.
Now go out and learn enough to correct what you have just "learned."
The mistake was attacking russia in the first place.
Russia was gonna attack germany, so they had to make a preeimtive strike. If germany waited for germany to be ready they were gonna lose anyway.
@@Nick71237 Not in 1941, Germany's attack was not pre-emptive.
@@MitchRichards44????
@@ExAzrael Must have replied to the wrong thread.
Yup. Had he secured the Atlantic properly, continued on to take Britain and held peace with the Soviet Union it would have been a very different story. He could have gone into Russia 2 years later and wiped the floor with it when fully prepared.
As a result of Operation Barbarossa, the Soviets instigated the creation of "an elaborate system of buffer and client states, designed to insulate the Soviet Union from any possible future attack."
They were already doing that. It started with Poland. The Red curtain
It worked. The USSR collapsed before anyone attacked it.
Correct. Stalin could have taken Berlin in autumn of 1944. But he sent his armies southwest instead to grab Eastern Europe territory.
Nonsense
That's a voice that tells the truth 🏆🙏
Stalin was a peaceful creature? Did you forget what Russia did on September 17th 1939? Did you forget the Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement? Who prepared this programm? Who is that ignorant?
A very nice historical summation.
As soon as Stalin decided not to give up in the first month - the War was decided. There was simply no way the Germans could beat the endless millions of Soviet troops, resources, and distances.
Invading in the first place was the strategic mistake
It was necessary because of the British blockade and growing Soviet strength relative to Germany. The mistake was Operation Typhoon.
It wasn't an invasion. It was a desperate counter offensive into a massive deployment. And soviet tanks outdated? The soviets had more amphibious tanks (4600) than every german tank type (2800) combined! The KV-2 was the ONLY heavy tank in the world at that time. The T-100 could remove it tracks and drive with 100 km/h over the German autobahn. It was specificly designed for that...
The real numbers:
On June 22, 1941 the Red Army possessed no less than
- 24,000 tanks, including 1,861 type T-34 tanks (a medium tank, perhaps the most effective armored weapon of the entire war) and KV (Klim Voroshilov) tanks (a series of heavy tanks), which had no equal anywhere in the world; 358 units of these were manufactured in 1940, while 1,503 units were manufactured in the first six months of 1941.
Since 1938, the Air Forces of the Red Army had received a total of
- 23,245 military aircraft, including 3,719 aircraft of the latest design. The Red Army also had
- 148,000 artillery pieces and mortars of all types and systems. The inventory of the Red Navy, in addition to
a multiplicity of ships of other types, had 291 or, according to Soviet sources,
- at least 213 submarines. This meant that the Soviet Armed Forces had a larger fleet of submarines than any other country in the world, outnumbering those of the world’s leading maritime nation, Great Britain, more than four-fold in terms of the number of submarines.
- one million paratroopers. (more than 5x the rest of the world combined.)
rule of thumb: If you want to take a country, you you have to outnumber the enemy by at least 3:1.
Sources:
- Suvorov: Stalin the chief culprit
- Joachim Hoffmann: Stalin's Vernichtungskrieg 1941-1945
- Erkki Hautamäki: Suomi myrskyn silmässä
- Official blue-white book of Finland: Finland reveals her secret documents on Soviet policy March 1940 - June 1941 (1941).
EXACTLY!!!!!
@@anargie5001Stalin was preparing to invade others, besides Poland and Finland.
So, the Germans had been defeated by General Winter! Stupid Cold War theory.
Russian winter don't forget the most important part millions of Russian soldiers and a bravery of a Russian soldier that other countries did not have.
Also T34 and IL2
Everyone knew there wasa rough winter in Russia. That theoru is just "It can't be the evil commies that did it" thinking.
Same with the lend lease as most importnat of all thinking, The scond front or at elast teh therat of one did much more (helkp by lend lese to the UK for sure).
Its not a stupid theory it is one reason of out of some other. Especially because that exact Winter of 41 was the hardest and coldest in the past 100 years before
NEVER fight Russians!
As the greatest marshal commander of the Second World War said in the answer - "My army fought in the same winter environment" and being attacked first which is a serious advantage for Germans, even more, they did not prepare anything for a counterattack!
Excellent!
This was a good quality docomentary. A bit glitchy re Stalingrad but on the whole a good summary. :)
Wrong, Adam. It's silly cartoon stuff, missing all the most important facts, substituting weirdie dream stuff like the importance of the English in Greece.
An elephant will easily overcome an ant.
But.....if you have enough ants they will eventually overwhelm the elephant.
21:41 this is what saved USSR. If not for the siberian units they would’ve lost the war.
I love to watch these videos with blurred images...
...well, if ya LOVE the videos so much- then why don't ya MARRY them...(?)
@@daleburrell6273u must have a low IQ for sure, or nothing to do in your life.
There was no way it would work because the Russians could simply send in there army's from the far east with zero worry from Japan.
The German General staff hadn't forseen this. A major flaw in their planning.
The best example of let your generals do the warring..
Well halder was also very bad in planning tbh.
Morning WW2 videos❤
Good to be here early 😁😁😁
The main reason they lost was because they underestimated the enemy. Just like Russia which invaded Ukraine with only 200,000 troops expecting Ukraine to fall within days. Now in the third year war is still going on.
yeah i agree
But difference is Russia is fighting smart in Ukraine now while Germany was making mistakes after mistakes against the Soviets
@@JDDC-tq7qm Now yes but not in the begining. Who in his right mind will attack such a large country with a million strong army with only 200,000 troops?
Yes, I believe they should had of taken the Suez and tried to make peace with Britain before embarking on Barbarossa. Though it's easy to critique the past and who knows.
@@indian2003 that's what I said now Russia is fighting smart the thing is Russia thought Ukraine was going to negotiate with them until Ukraine refused and choose to fight now Ukraine is paying the price
The t-34 did not weigh 37 tons, but 29 tons. One-sided video as well.
Germany invaded Greece thus delaying their invasion of Russia and the winter got them.
It's the blurring out that puts me off, just so it can me monetised, as one comment also said the same story rehashed, heard many say History hit is not worth the subscription due to 20 minutes videos etc shame great idea but it's the blurring that makes me turn off.
Finally, a channel talking about Hitler's Panzer relocations during Operation Blue.
WW2 day by day
1st Russia is too big, 2nd Germany was too small (especially in resources) 3rd That american lend-lease saved the russians even if they deny it.
Do you know that land-lease began only after a fundamental change towards the Soviet Union? After winning the key battles of Kursk and Stalingrad in 1942.
Lend lease contribution only saw implementation when the reds were already on the offensive. Look at the losses. U.S. : about 400,000 globally from 1941-1945. Soviet Union: 25 million + on a single front. Stop giving U.S. so much credit. If Germany didn't invade soviets, there would be no western front. Spilled blood of every man on the eastern front bought U.S. and U.K. time and space to do anything they wanted. Atlantic naval warfare, air raids, offensives in Africa, Italy, preparation for offensive in France in 1944 and creation of the atomic bomb in U.S. If Germany had all of its resources and manpower focused on the west, Africa and the Atlantic ocean, there would be no amphibious operation strong enough to overcome Hitler's war machine. Churchill, FDR and numerous western generals knew and commented that without soviets, there would be no victory.
Germany controlled 300 mln people in 1941, and almost most of the western european industry.
Lend-lease accounted for $13bln , while USSR GDP in 1941 was $366bln.
@@dmitryletov8138 "Controlled." By that you mean hundreds of millions of former enemies that required constant policing and monitoring to keep in check including thousands of partisans creating havoc in the overstreched german supply lines so that it was necessary to sent hundreds of thousands of troops to the rear while they were badly needed in the frontline?
And by "controlling" most of the western industries you mean factories that were being targeted by bombers and sabouteurs with a very hostile work force?
And the content of the aid is more important than its monetary value. The US provided fuel, ammo, explosives and food, absolutely vital supplies. Its important to know that numbers, but also the reality behind those numbers because of the $366bln that the USSR produced in 1941, how much of it were useful military supplies? Bercause diapers, tractors, refrigerators, chairs and tables are nice to have but they're not much use in the battlefield.
It's about time Russia coughed up some cash for all of that lend lease war material that they received 😂
I don't think there was anything hitlah could do that could win or lose the war with USSR. USSR simply a larger country. Just like China was too big for Japan to control totally.
It was mostly a failure of logistics. Russian railroad tracks were different sizes than rest of Europe and the Russians burned them. Germany was low on trucks and were depending on trains so they had to lay track as they moved forward. Germany was low on oil when the war started (and was the actual reason for the war) so coal was their primary fuel and trains were the only form of transportation that could use it. Russia also scorch earthed as they retreated leaving no supplies for an army that was supposed to forage for supplies as they moved. It was a logistic clusterfork like the Napoleon's death march. The US supplied a huge number of trucks to USSR after the invasion which greatly helped them beat back the Germans. The USSR was able to get supplies to the front far faster and more efficiently than the Germans. Supplies for the Germans came by rail and then where commonly moved by horse and wagon to front lines. The number of horses that died in both great wars was measured in the millions. Originally used for transportation they eventually became a food source for starving soldiers and populations.
Hitler's Speeches had a "party like" feeling, like a modern day rock concert
Really? How many did you attend, Heinrich? Methinks you are full of it.
@@SuperOdyssjust watch the films taken at the time. He is right.
Actually, they seem to have more than a few similarities with Trump rallies. Totally baffling to those that haven't imbibed the koolaid.
@@StevenBrown-w5b You don't have to worry about illegitimate bribens speeches. They don't make sense (except the hate) and no one shows up to listen.
Yeah. His fans adored him 😂
All other aspects are moot.
Barbarossa was militarily insane.
Their southern flank was never secure!
But Germany has very little fossil fuels (only poor quality lignite coal). Germans needed Russian petroleum. That is why Germans tried.
Fast forward to today. Germany was finally getting the same Russian petroleum/gas, cheap, but this time USA ruined it. Just a matter of time before Germans realize how evil USA is, and make friends with Russia.
It was actually sound but should have had a Leningrad/Ukraine focus. Operation Typhoon doomed it.
@@michaeltaylor6907 Wrong. Look at a map from the Atlantic to the Levant. Note the strategic weakness which had to be resolved first.
So mote it be.
Not progressing onto Moscow in ‘41 was not…imho…a “strategic error”…as is well-documented Germany’s foodstuffs situation was about to become acute and the National Socialists needed to secure Ukraine to secure their food supplies; they also needed a base in Southern Russia in which to make a run at the Russian oilfields as Germany was acutely short on oil supplies in which to wage war. Good thing the Germans failed in any case.
Exactly 😂 taking Moscow would have done nothing but push Russia backwards and be like stalingrad v2
You infantile guys are funny. You are maybe only 15 years old and only ever read 2 books about ww2
It's ridiculous that history needs to be censored to appease to advertisers.
Declares war on the U.S while at war with Britain & the Soviet Union … yeah that wasn’t bright.
Essentially logistics, but we also have to admit one thing, if not for US help and supplies, Russia would have had greater difficulty if not lost
Train's, Locamotives and Rolling Stock into the ten's of thousands, many still running today were the critical difference
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg yes it was
Words of wisdom spoken here!, Americas massive logistical support of Russia played a decisive role! Americans you are the slaves of your money masters, you know who i am talking about, the same crowd that sent millions from Brooklyn all the way to Leningrad to finance the Bolshevik takeover of Russia!
Uncle Sam's lend lease saved the reds, even if the commies don't want to admit it.
@@JoaoSoares-rs6ecthe will of the Russian people to defend their homeland will overpower anything even without usa help Russia would win the a greater price tho
Barbarossa was delayed by a good 3 months. If it weren't for the delay and turmoil with the Balkan campaign, it would have ended differently...
How do you think it would end if they did it then
idk,theirs a lot of ppl who agree with that and a lot of ppl who dont and both sides have good points,I think the only way to have beaten the USSR was to have dealt with Britain first,and they were beating em in the battle for Britian but Goering changed from attacking the airfields to civilian targets and that gave the Brits the breathing space they needed,but the Brits were definitely losing the air war before that blunder,although it was getting expensive,it was working,but who knows,couldve wouldve shouldve right
oh,and one more thing,if the Japanese had attacked from the East and Finland the north,then maybe the USSR couldve been defeated
Ah an Italian tank commander
They never had enough fuel, food and soldiers for a continuous campaign. Germany simply did not have the logistical capability to take over a country as large and with as many people as a Soviet union in 1941.
As long as the Soviet did not surrender and continue to resist that the Germans would not have ever been able to completely subdueresistance
The weather at the time was too bad for motorized operations. It had rained a lot in March to May and the roads were muddy. Moving supply trucks or tanks would be very dificult making blitzkrieg look more like turtlekrieg. The germans waited for dry weather and dry russian roads.
49:05-49:15 "largest armored battle of ww2" - soviet propaganda detected.
Germany always have 80% of its best troops against SSSR, yes the fate of WW2 was decided at Stalingrad and Kursk. Without attacking SSSR, Germany would win WW2.
How is that propaganda?
Pro Ukroid detected
30:04 is that wilhelm keitel?
Your maps of Europe in 1941 is wrong!!france Netherlands and Norway was already occupied!! Wtf!!
Provide some links and it will help you prove right. I think it's important in this argument you present.
Stop it!! NO reason to get excited!!!
@@razzypatiencedoyledoyle7141 stating fact is indicative of excitement ??
There are a few things wrong in this particular video.
@@razzypatiencedoyledoyle7141Hey, this is war!! This could change our strategy completely!! 😂
Probably seen it already but....
I'll bite
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The world is just lucky that the winter intervened. Imagine if they won.
The only way for Germans to defeat USSR was to show they would be a better alternative to Stalin's regime. But for the Nazis they were subhumans and they treated them accordingly giving them no other option but to fight until the end, no matter what. The narration mentions millions of soldiers been captured during the first phase of the war, didn't say what happened to them as well as the civilians to the captured territories..... Guess...
Eternal glory to the Red Army and the 25+++ million Soviets, who gave their lives to defeat the monster.
Both sides blundered against each other in 1941. The Germans knew they didn't have the fuel to pull it off, but tried it anyway.
Thank you
My Dad told me a lot of things about WW2 in Europe.
Yet, Lessons are unlearned from these,
The biggest mistake the Germans made was that in Oct of 41 they were in remarkable good shape , they up to that point had a regimen of combat for 3 weeks and rest reorganize for 1 week. So there it was at end of Oct in great shape with winter about to begin they broke that regimen in trying to get to Moscow. And they wasted the advantage they had.
You would too,thinking Moscow was the ultimate conquest in such a vast realm as the Soviet Union.keep in mind by the time operation Barbarossa commenced the soviets had already evacuated all the essential industries and infrastructures deep into Siberia.they would continue to resist and harass the nazis long after Moscow had fallen.
Wonder what would have happened if Germany launched Barbarossa on Britain instead.
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You must be kidding. It wasn't a failure. It was just plain stupid.
Germany would have been better off not attacking the Soviet Union to start with. Germany didn't stand a minimal chance.
They nearly made it to Moscow. Had they not postponed the original date of Barbarossa to invade the Balkans, and thus gotten stuck in the mud and snow, things may have turned out differently. Then again, General Winter has quite the track record...
It’s amazing how technologically advanced human beings were 100 years ago
Germany never had a chance. Not enough men, tanks, oil, food anything. Supply lines 1500 km long. Invaded with infantry still using horses, 625000 horses. Read David Stahel.
They did have enough men and tank till end of 42 or mid 43 depending on the souce
@Shindoi- not even close. Attacking forces should have 3:1 force ratio. Not including ussr reserves which vastly skewed it Germany wasn't even close to that. There ratio of tanks was 1:5, 3000 (1200 mark 1+2) versus 15000 Soviet tanks (11000ish t26 and BT's)
How can people do this such horrible things? :(
Blurring out the carnage minimizes the carnage of war. True documentaries show everything that was actually filmed of the war by the correspondent photographers. If filming death of fallen troops was not important it would have not been filmed in the first place. Shame on you in your attempts to eliminate the facts of war.
You could watch the R rated version from the original producer by a physical copy I think. If children watch this they will be tramautized, hence the reason. because you tube is watched by millions of children.
The soviet union would invade the reich eventually. Question is: would it be better to defend against the soviets rather than conquer them? Germany would still fight a 2 front war that way
Shorter supply line, less front to cover and less oil usage. The Germans would’ve definitely done better on a counteroffensive war.
Failure to knock the Brits out of the war seems to have been overlooked in this video as a major cause for the unsuccessful operation Barbarossa.
Explain….
@@mmusimapheto2924 2 Fronts. Masses of troops had to be kept in France
Nothing like the cart and a WW2 documentary
The best WW2 Documentaries are SOVIET STORM: WW2 In the East, WW2 in Color, The Operations Room and Kings & Generals.
BS, I was there!
You should listen to tikhisory’s series on Stalingrad.
imagine FDR telling Eisenhower or Patton how to army..
welp, thats the short answer on why..
Not even Eisenhower ever intervened in day-to-day operations despite being Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, except for if it needed mediation of sorts. FDR was far smarter.
General Winter
The German army still used horses to carry supplies even during ww2 instead of trucks thats insane
Most armies did that during ww2
@Shindoi- yes but Germany depended mainly on horses while everyone else used vehicles
why are hitler's speeches never subtitled?
its a narration of what happened rather than what went wrong
Less than three minutes into the video and a gross factual error. "Soviet Union was unprepared". These lies get repeated so much that some people started to believe them.
Soviet Union had twenty years (1921 to 1941) to prepare for war.
And they did - they had the largest army with the best equipment and strategically weakened enemy.
The Reich was in two years into the war already with most potent powers turned against them (UK, US).
The US was willing to provide USSR with a lot - raw materials, garments, food and war equipment (tanks, lorries, jeeps, planes), and they did.
If this is not being prepared, than I do not know what is.
They were unprepared for an attack at the time it happened. Stalin was aware of the damage done to the Red Army and though he expected a German invasion he hoped he had put it off for another year or two. Perhaps it might be better described as unexpected than unprepared. Also though the USA was certainly more inclined to support the British Empire at the time of Barbarossa it was still technically neutral. It was German policy and strategy under the Nazis to go East and no amount of good advice to the contrary would change Hitler's mind.
they are unprepared because russian civil war in 1918
They were not prepared... The ease with which the Wehrmacht beat France Poland didn't make Stalin realize that the Germany wasn't fighting a "normal" war...
Largest? Are you crazy? USSR had 6mln troops max in 1941, while Axis: Germany, Italy, Hungary, Japan, etc had around 18 mln troops altogether
this must be old, some details are overhauled. also, i could barely see a single actual strategic mistake causing the failure of operation barbarossa pointed out in an obvious way.
- no preparedness for winter (for the soldiers, horses and for their machines)
- not listening to the generals when it came to the 3 (or rather 2) armygroups
- delaying the attack
- the attempt of subjugation of yugoslavia by force instead of establishing your own pro-axis puppet with minimal funding in comparison to what actually happened
- no planning for rasputica
- the bloody storming of sevastopol instead of sth more calculated or bypassing all of crimea, leaving them strangled in the peninsula with a minimal force to be able to continue the war of movement
everything else was tactical in nature, maybe operational, but my last two points could already be counted as such
i advise people to look up TIKhistory, the guy is a historian/economist and focuses on better sources. he also does a lot of related content to be able to understand ww2 in a much deeper way than you're taught anywhere else.
Never never never go too war against Russia in Russia
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Greece was already fighting with Italy from 28 October 1940 and the Greek army was even double outnumbered.Ahens did not fall quickly and easily.They even pushed back Italian troops several kilometres in the Albania.
Winter and logistics were their downfall
U can't beat the Russian winter just ask Napoleon
And Charles XII of Sweden
Got anything else So Obvious to add?
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg we all know you had to Google it 😂
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg Pretty snarky comment but still humorous 🙂👍
Germany should have went after the oil fields in Russia first refresher didn't have fuel how could they have moved the massive number of tanks does oil fields are so far south they would have had a logistic nightmare just to keep their troops Supply
If Germany would have gone to the Russian oil fields, Russia would come to a complete stop.
No mention of russia and german agreement to invade poland from east and west. Katyn Forest
There were no such agreement. So there is nothing to mention. There was an agreemen on sphere of influence, which many countries have, for instanse US has Monro doctrine
@@dmitryletov8138 it was called the molotov- ribbentrop agreement. I'm sure u would not know about it. Censorship.
And yes, Jackson Lee is correct when he (-?) makes reference to the massacres in Katyn Forest, wherein the Soviets slaughtered over 20,000 Polish officers in said forest and then had the brazen audacity to blame their hideous crimes on the Germans. Unconscionable...
@@jacksonlee3771 read it, read Molotov-Ribentrop pact, there is no single word about any war with Poland. Molotov-Ribetrop set spheres of influences, and nothing else there. The same is in US Monroe doctrine, so what - US plans to invide every single american country?
@@ColinWrubleski-eq5shohh poor Polish officers, probably the same Polish officers that killed 50k of Soviet POWs 15 years earlier, right?
Germany was kind of forced to launch Operation Barbarossa. When they signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, they had no intention to attack the Soviets after just 2 years. They had planned to invade Poland, France and after that they planned to force Britain for peace. After that they planned to build a new Europe. When they had achieved that, they would attack the Soviets with whole Europe.
But, they couldnt force Britain make peace. They were close but it didnt happen. The existince of Britain in the war ruined their plans. Because when Britain was in the war, it meant that USA also could join the war after a while. The Americans were openly supporting the British. Sending their destroyers to provoke the Germans. Sending equipments to Britain. Making terrible speeches against Germany. So it was clear that they were preparing for war.
This fear forced the Germans to attack the Soviets. Before USA was ready, they had to knock out the Soviets. Otherwise they would fight 2 massive fronts.
This is why Barbarossa failed. Because of Britain.
In June 1941 Stalin had no strategy in place to defend Russia from such a massive attack. There was no Masterplan Zhukov in charge and stalin had executed any general who advised a defence in depth strategy to bleed such a german attack. All Stalin had done was to kill half the Red Army officers in the 1930,s as he was paranoid of an uprising against him and placed all his airforce and many divisions on the Polish border to be annihilated on the first day of the invasion. I would say Stalin actually worked against the USSR and it was a miracle the USSR defeated Germany at all.
The narration contradicts itself by saying that the city of Stalingrad was of little strategic importance but then a few minutes later states that Stalingrad was 'an important industrial centre ' that produced a lot of munitions - so was it an important city for the Germans to attack or not?!
I picked that up too..