CoD: World at War still remains my most favourite of the CoD series because it has both the Nazi-Soviet war and The Pacific War - two areas I'm very passionate about!
Fun fact: Many Soviet soldiers wrote their names and other stuff as graffiti on the interior walls of the Reichstag, and some of that graffiti was intentionally not cleaned up when the building was rennovated after reunification. You can still see it today and it is frequently passed by lawmakers.
@Oskar Dirlewanger Surprising that you find some time to aid Goebbles in spouting misinformation between all the genociding you are doing, Mr Dirlewanger. Then again, projection has always been part of the right and you would know about evil.
@@borntofeel1152 yeah kinda tragic. They fought a war which was bigger than themselves and they were used to die for a propaganda piece they would have already won without.
Those Germans in front of and inside the Reichstag were thinking of the next few seconds not the last few years. It was the Russians that had to worry about getting home or not, because they weren't home and they weren't likely to get back to it if they really wanted that building 👩🔧🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺
That last line: “thousands of their dead or dying comrades could now see that it had all been worth it - or at least they could have, if it wasn’t dark.”
There is apparently a great story of a young German Major who was assigned to Hilter's Berlin Headquarters for his Eastern front heroism. In the final hours the headquarters staff was epileptic regarding the pending Soviet assault. To the dismay of the staff the young major said "there one good thing about all this. Soon we will be able to take the street car from the Eastern Front to the Western Front".
Well but technically he was wrong even about this, since Berlin was a pocket battle behind the Eastern Front Main Combat Line that moved further west, fighting retreating German Armies up until they reached the Elbe, at some points (e.g. Torgau) linking up with US Forces. Unless, he would've known about what the Western Allies and the Soviets agreed upon for Post War Germany, calling the borders of the occupation zones "front lines", but that would've been awkward in a political, peaceful setting.
I lived in Berlin for a few years, the fact that you can still see battle scars to this day means that the battle of Berlin must have been hell on earth
It sounds as if it was among the materiel the West provided to the Soviets via lend-lease, as such it was technically a Soviet tank, just British-built.
@@stc3145 It's remarkable that Stalin killed magnitudes more than Hitler and under far worse conditions yet is idolized so much today in popular culture and media
@@Azerkeux Who is idolizing Stalin? People romanticize communism and the propaganda, but even among tankies I've never seen anyone saying 'Stalin did nothing wrong'
@@Azerkeux Still never seen Stalin or Hitler be idolised in popular culture, sure there are people that do but by no means is it the majority. It might seem that way on social media because it tailors what it shows you based on its algorithms. Also mainstream media doesn't Idolise either of them either so not sure what popular culture your apart of but it appears different to mine lol.
@@xXBisquitsXx So why are Stalin memes tacitly endorsed on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram but if you post a hitler meme it will get pulled down, the stalin memes are openly available on the baked-in GIFs widget
So, my takeaway from this is when we used flak guns as super effective anti-infantry weapons in Battlefield 1942, we were actually engaging in highly accurate battle reenactments.
Uuuuh, yes, the German Flak was used as anti infantry, and even anti tank/ anti vehicle extensively during the whole war, it was one of the most feared weapons to run into when attacking because it's ammunition fuses could be set to explode mid air at whatever distance, so the shells could be fired at infantry, just above the ground and they would explode mid air, turning anyone in the vicinity into mincemeat. Towards the first half of the war they were used successfully as anti-armour as well, until the allies got wise and thickened their armour.
@@BFVsnypEzI really don't think that "...until the allies strengthens their armour" is correct. The 88mm flak cannon was blowing up KV and T-34 tanks before it was cool (1941). The main armour of the war didn't get much thicker than that, with the T-34 not getting any armour improvements to the hull throughout the war. The 88mm flak could easily penetrate the Sherman, too. Churchill or IS2 are the only tanks I could think of that would have enough armour, or a Sherman Assault tank. Both were rare compared to the medium tanks.
@@robbob9273 So.. Can't talk about Japanese soldiers plundering China in 1930's and 40's because it's racist? Or does that "rule" only apply to Soviet troops?
@@timberwolfe1645Soviet Pilot: YESSS I FINALLY GET TO GO TO BERLIN, I WILL SHOW THESE FASCIST PIGS THE MIGHT OF OUR AIR FORCE, FOR THE GLORY OF STAL- Commissar: uh comrade you are not going there to fight Soviet Pilot: I’m sorry what?!?!?!? Commissar: you’re just taking this flag and make drop on Reichstag Soviet Pilot:😃 > 🙂 > 😐 > 😠 > 😡
This battle seems to always get glossed over, I suppose because the end result was pretty much inevitable. I'm glad to see more detail than I've ever been taught before!
Some old books I got (like, the books are 30 years in the family) tell much of this story already. Together they were like 6000 pages, so not surprising it covered a lot of topics. Looking at the numbers, it was indeed a done deal from the start.
“No one will every read this, if you lack the stomach to kill for your country then at least show me that you are willing to die for it” Later on “CHERNOV, Nooooooo. Someone should read this”
@@hq3473 Many so called re enforcement Army Hitler ordered to come to Berlin Defense were instead running to Western line to surrender .. thousands of them at a time ... no body wanted to be near the Soviets ... fearing the wrath of the Red Army for what the Germans had done on the Eastern Front !
@@Hero.Lone-Wolf Oh yeah. This is the reason the last of the german defenders were fighting tooth and nail. After the atrocities that had been done at the Eastern Front, even the germans knew surrender would likely lead you to death... or a fate worse than death. The Soviet leadership threw away lives as disposable in a quest for personal glory. But the germans knew this was the end of the line. There is a saying the germans had during the war, when the Soviets began scoring victories, and coming ever closer to Berlin: "Enjoy the war. The peace will be terrible." This is the reason you should avoid an escalation of conflict. When it happens, God have mercy on you, because humans will not.
Thanks for this animation. I visited Berlin several years ago and as I’m a fan of military history, when I visited the Reichstag Building I tried to see where fighting took place and using Wikipedia, I compared it to what I could see there. I walked this in chronological order. What blew my mind was this area is actually quite small in real life and how it took the Soviets days to get from the Moltkebrucke bridge to the Reichstag building, it looks just a few hundred metres in length and now takes seconds to walk the Soviets advance from the bridge.
When I started to read the collection of books from my parents, this battle was one of the first that I read in full, and I really wondered: if a bridge and a few buildings take this long, how did they ever capture a whole country? This was about as fast as the battles of the first world war, but being the last rat hole time matered little anymore.
@@notmenotme614 Yeah. I'm just glad I live in a time of relative peace compared to 76 years ago I guess. In 1945 I'd have been prime age for joining the military.
@@RsRj-qd2cg That wouldn't of happened, the Germans likely would have fought until every last one of them were killed as they only surrendered after the flag was hoisted on the roof and the soviet generals were on a deadline, they were expected to have that flag on that roof BY a specific date or there would be punishments for those that failed to reach it.
"The large columns beside the point of the soviet entrance became covered in blood" Damn, imagine that you have survived going through deadly mini fortress outside the Reichstag but then you saw a pile of bodies laying on the ground covered in blood beside an entrance which you should pass through it to prevent the embarrassment of your leadership. For all World War 2 soldiers that have sacrificed their lives for the freedoms we enjoy today, thank you for your services sir!
I mean, Blue is normally used for "Friendly" forces and Red is used for "Enemies" in military diagrams. That's why friendly fire is often referred to as "Blue-on-Blue".
@@cyrosubod2317 for real man and this is peoples' lives were talking about too. The inhumanity and disregard for human life back then is just astounding.
Imagine a good BFV, where they'd included this... maybe as a rush map or 'carrier-attack' ish-mode? so much potential in that scenario... that game was such a waste. This video however is gold!
@@SOLOcan Or Enlisted. It's made by Gaijin using the same engine as War Thunder, and one of the campaigns is the Battle of Berlin in which you can actually fight this exact battle. I remember ragequitting when the Germans stopped us in the building of the Ministry of the Interior. We tried a flanking move and could see the Reichstag itself but snipers and mgs from the Kroll Opera House basically ended the battle.
Mark is more of a interesting story teller than tactical overview stuffs.... you might wanna compare to Tik. But Tik is a historian more. But hey. Love it.
Mark Felton literally reads wikipedia articles and uses copyright free visuals which most of times are literally not related. The worst "historian" on youtube.
This has to legitimately be the best channel on youtube. You put so much effort into these videos, and it shows. Big ups man, you're doing an amazing job.
Oh God I can't tell you how happy this makes me. I've heard narrations of this battle before but I'm not great at visualizing this stuff in my head. Thank you 🙌🤍🤍🤍
This is easily one of my FAVORITE channels! Fantastic work and great content. Please keep it up, we wait with bated breath for the next episode! May I suggest the tractor building in Stalingrad or the fire bombing of Dresden?
It was probably beautiful and wasn't very old having been opened in 1894, still in it's prime when burned and at this hosting of room to room fighting 👩🔧🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺
@@sickre I don't think it was the "elites" forcing people to fight in 1945...there were plenty of opportunities to defect or avoid frontline duty by then. Those who fought in Berlin were all there because they wanted to fight.
It’s sad that they died on probably the last charge of the war, just as the war in Europe had ended. Such as waste. The Soviet victory was inevitable, they could have simply sieged the building and waited it out.
after the bombs dropped my country immediately declared independence and quickly went on war with the Dutch and Allied occupiers, for us its now or never to be free from Europeans, and after experiencing a brutal Japanese rule to our country
@@robto Considering some of these charges is straight into mg nests with dozens of bodies being stopped at a doorway, no way they will survive that storm of bullets.
Thanks for this. One of my favorite moments of modern warfare history. Couldn't even imagine the other worldly scene. Warriors on both sides. Bless em.
I’m used to the larger scale engagement plans from TOR. This “zoomed in” plan view depicting groups of individual soldiers within a single building is fantastic!!
Have you considered selling T-shirts with The Operations Room logo...like from teespring or zazzle? Regardless, keep up the amazing work at your own pace! Everything you do is worth the wait.
I was literally just looking at your channel like an hour before you uploaded this thinking "damn wish there was a new vid" haha. Any chance you could do some Australian battles such as the battle of Long Tan or any of the battles from Afghanistan?
Yay the eastern front. I am a million times more interested by this than the western front since it was at such a huge unbelievable scale in terms of land battles!
8:11 *"Kills his dogs, his wife and himself" Didn't Eva Braun kill herself with poison? This is the first time somebody describes their demise a murder-suicide type of thing!*
According to recently unclassified documents from US intelligence agencies Mr H escaped to South America in a submarine and lived there for the rest of his life. There is 1 known picture that exists of him from after the escape. There is not much interest to rewrite all history books and therefor it's not common knowledge. The documents are out there if you want to read them. The only witnesses to Mr H killing himself was his one of is own bodyguards and his secretary, two of his most loyal. The only body that was found was outside the bunker, badly burned but confirmed to not be him, although he had similar appearance. The dead man was a body double that was supposed to verify the story that he was dead. The secretary and bodyguard kept repeating the story to the very day they died taking the truth with them to the grave. Of course US intelligence services did not fall for it and they knew the truth later on. But in the end, The war was won, huge profits where made and the official story was more than good enough.
@@pluto-9047 Use a search engine and you will get tons of results from mainstream media. There is also a book written about it. Btw I was wrong, there is actually two photos of him after the escape. Sources are US and British intelligence services and secret documents from them that now have been declassified.
What's worth mentioning, is that in the original photo of the soldiers planting the Soviet flag on the Reichstag, one of the soldiers is wearing two wrist watches, in the official picture made public in Russia one of the watches has been removed to obscure the fact that looting took place. Also, they added extra smoke in the background for dramatic effect.
Love listening to the historical battles with the animation to go along with them! makes it feel like you can see what really happened during the fights! keep up the awesome work!
First impression is "Wow, living through the entire invasion to die for some propaganda picture, because it has an arbitrary deadline"... But on the other hand, casualties would still happen, they happened the entire time before this battle... and the importance of this particular victory is actually really huge - its symbolically the triumphant final blow of the ENTIRE WW2 in Europe. All the millions of previous casualties kinda point to this moment, so it makes a bit more sense, that people were litterally dying to be the ones to do it.
Grasping that there is only one of any of us in all of history, in all the world, is a really difficult thing to do. All the time it's 'not me personally' getting shot or blown to bits, others can die like sheep, as long as it's not me. The new perspective that we are all real, and all unique, there will never be another me is a frightening one. This is why second-rate minds and sociopaths find politics a comfortable place to be.
That would be great, but I feel like it would be better if he first covered other battles in the Pacific as well as the rest of Leyte Gulf, all at its time of course
@@d.olivergutierrez8690 honestly I’d be happy to watch a video of him explaining how grass grows. The reason I’d like a video on Samar is that Drachinifel did an awesome video on it but I’d like to actually see the ships maneuvering and hear his commentary on it.
Great video! First I've ever seen a breakdown of what actually happened. Normally they just say soviets won and raised their banner. An awful lot of death for a symbol.
Rivalries and personalities of soviet generals are interesting. I don't really see many things about them, for example, I see a lot of Western and German biographies at book stores and can't recall seeing Zhukov on a cover before.
@LTrain45 45 I get that, western perspectives are abundant and I just find it boring that in 2021 there's still an emphasis on nazi generals biographies at book stores and libraries that I've visited.
@LTrain45 45 yeah, I wish there were more sources from soviet sodes translated into english. As someone who obviously don't know any Russian, the soviet side of history is so hard to get sometimes.
The book Berlin by Anthony Beevor is one of the most well written and thoroughly researched books I've ever read about these final parts of the war. It documents the raping of civilians by the soviet army and how thousands of soviet troops died from alcohol poisoning in the first days after Berlin was taken due to drinking pure alcohol used for vehicles.
Beevor is an amazing writer when it comes to the USSR in general due to being one of the few foreign historians who got to rummage through the Russian archives before they closed them back up. Had the chance of meeting him years ago, and he's a pretty cool guy.
I read the book but I didn't find the part where thousands soviet died from drinking "pure alcohol used for vehicle". The book did point out soviet soldiers were decreased from drinking non filtered industrial alcohol like chemicals due to their craving and because of the Nazi regime believed that intoxicated soldiers can't perform well, they didn't destroy the city's stockpile of wine - which lead to thousands of rape in the city by the Soviets.
I'd love to know how the individual movements of units are noted - I noticed how some seemed to flee and then return to areas and other details - are these details noted from testaments/first hand experiences?
I cant imagine so... that would be really really cool, but I'd also think veteran testimonials of that level of detail are extremly few and far between, unfortunately
@@thanesgames9685 That's what I'd think from the visuals but I did notice that the diagrams don't note PoW's and injured. Obviously the Reichstag siege was a vicious and probably merciless moment, but I can't see there being no captured defenders, especially if the NKVD might have seen intelligence value in survivors considering the political nature.
@@JRyan-lu5im Most were those who had sworn oaths to fight to the death. Also including people from other countries not able to go home. Most prisoners are taken when they give up themselves, not when they are overcome in close combat. During house to house fighting, surrender is VERY hard. Also, dozens around you do not take kind to your surrender and will kill you themselves.
Thank you for these super interesting narrations of WWI WWII and other wars. We watch all of them. Thank you for filling in some of the gaps we did not learn in high school back in the day circa 1990.
You forgot to show the image that was edited of them showing the flag, next to the original. The bannermen had stolen watches during their raid, and the Soviet union edited the photo so it doesn't show.
11:24 Never heard of mortars being used horizontally like that... Is there ever historacle record of troops trying to take out light vehicles or armor using a horizontally placed mortar??
Truly excellent, fascinating, and well put together video. This channel is a go to for me when I get some downtime, it's awesome and I appreciate the quality of the vids!
In reality it was actually Dimitri Petrenko and Reznov who took the Reichstag and the Germans there had a near unlimited supply of grenades.
Near unlimited isn't that much when fighting the USSR
I finished World At War just the other day.
And somehow Germans were particularly effective at using all their grenades at a single person
But the number of German bodies defending the Reichstag was limited and dwindling as the battle raged on.
"As heroes, we shall return to Russia's imbraces..." Victor Reznov
"You were killed by a grenade. Watch out for the grenade danger indicator."
The only thing I truly hated about COD WAW. Never could see that fucking indicator until a split second before detonation
That mission in hardcore took days, fuck!
if youre talking about CoD 2, then yes that mission on vetran took me a week to finish
CoD: World at War still remains my most favourite of the CoD series because it has both the Nazi-Soviet war and The Pacific War - two areas I'm very passionate about!
Last three missions on insane gave me ptsd.
Reporter: "so how does it feel to be one of those who captured the Reichstag?"
Valentine tank: "idk I got lost in transit and somehow ended up here"
The lone M3 Lee that somehow ended up in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria against the Japanese in 1945 feels your pain.
"Reichstag?? Bloody Hell, I thought I was in Tunisia!"
"someon' sae there was tea in hera', basterds loyed to me!"
@@drewinsur7321 HAMOND
Joke all you want, the valentine being there just shows how reliable the platform was.
Don’t worry Steineris going to arrive with reinforcements any day now…..
...any day now...
Steiner…
Steiner didn't have enough manpower the attack did not take place...
Hello iron
@@ballmuncher-hn1fq These men stay here, Kietel, Jodel, Krebs, and Bordorf
Fun fact: Many Soviet soldiers wrote their names and other stuff as graffiti on the interior walls of the Reichstag, and some of that graffiti was intentionally not cleaned up when the building was rennovated after reunification. You can still see it today and it is frequently passed by lawmakers.
Probably an effective reminder for most of them.
@Oskar Dirlewanger If your last name wasn't Dirlewanger one could almost take you seriously.
@@LOLERXP I mean
@Oskar Dirlewanger They're mere puppets, they don't care about their nation or people.
@Oskar Dirlewanger Surprising that you find some time to aid Goebbles in spouting misinformation between all the genociding you are doing, Mr Dirlewanger. Then again, projection has always been part of the right and you would know about evil.
Imagine surviving all the way across the eastern front only to die outside the Reichstag mere hours away from the end of the war.
@Kenneth Kuper For a fucking flag
@@Fuhrerjehova literally the most STUPID way to die, hundreds of men died for photo
@@borntofeel1152 yeah kinda tragic.
They fought a war which was bigger than themselves and they were used to die for a propaganda piece they would have already won without.
Modern odd ideas with selfie stick look not so bad in comparison.
Those Germans in front of and inside the Reichstag were thinking of the next few seconds not the last few years. It was the Russians that had to worry about getting home or not, because they weren't home and they weren't likely to get back to it if they really wanted that building 👩🔧🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺
That last line: “thousands of their dead or dying comrades could now see that it had all been worth it - or at least they could have, if it wasn’t dark.”
It wasn't a battle with their enemies. It was a race against time. And the Russians lost it.
same can probably be said about fall of soviet union
I feel like he left out that there would have been a ton of fires illuminating the area along with infantry flares etc.
Also, them being dead made it harder to see clearly.
…and they weren’t dead
There is apparently a great story of a young German Major who was assigned to Hilter's Berlin Headquarters for his Eastern front heroism. In the final hours the headquarters staff was epileptic regarding the pending Soviet assault. To the dismay of the staff the young major said "there one good thing about all this. Soon we will be able to take the street car from the Eastern Front to the Western Front".
epileptic? Do you mean apocalyptic (fearing the end of the world). I don't think they were having epileptic seisures.
@@kodiak2fitty "apoplectic" is usuallly the word used to express great anger
Well but technically he was wrong even about this, since Berlin was a pocket battle behind the Eastern Front Main Combat Line that moved further west, fighting retreating German Armies up until they reached the Elbe, at some points (e.g. Torgau) linking up with US Forces.
Unless, he would've known about what the Western Allies and the Soviets agreed upon for Post War Germany, calling the borders of the occupation zones "front lines", but that would've been awkward in a political, peaceful setting.
@@kodiak2fitty No, I meant epileptic.
@@MagiconIce It's called humor. In this case, gallows humor. And by the way, he would have only known it was a pocket battle if he was clairvoyant.
I lived in Berlin for a few years, the fact that you can still see battle scars to this day means that the battle of Berlin must have been hell on earth
It’s still hell on earth
Freeze-frame on Valentine: _“You’re all probably wondering how I got here?”_ * Baba O’Reilly begins playing *
"Oi mate, arent i supposed to be in ethopia"
The fact a British Tank was involved as well is interesting.
It sounds as if it was among the materiel the West provided to the Soviets via lend-lease, as such it was technically a Soviet tank, just British-built.
@@trekker105 what a weird logic
@@trekker105 I know that. Just thought it was interesting that something British made was involved in the push on the Reichstag.
British everywhere
WarThunder weirdness
"As long as you live, the heart of this army cannot be broken."
"As heroes we shall return to Russia"
Stalin: No, you go to Gulag
@@stc3145 It's remarkable that Stalin killed magnitudes more than Hitler and under far worse conditions yet is idolized so much today in popular culture and media
@@Azerkeux Who is idolizing Stalin? People romanticize communism and the propaganda, but even among tankies I've never seen anyone saying 'Stalin did nothing wrong'
@@Azerkeux Still never seen Stalin or Hitler be idolised in popular culture, sure there are people that do but by no means is it the majority. It might seem that way on social media because it tailors what it shows you based on its algorithms. Also mainstream media doesn't Idolise either of them either so not sure what popular culture your apart of but it appears different to mine lol.
@@xXBisquitsXx So why are Stalin memes tacitly endorsed on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram but if you post a hitler meme it will get pulled down, the stalin memes are openly available on the baked-in GIFs widget
The best "RUSH-B" in a history of warfare.
Hahaha
similar casualties to the ones ive experienced
Except you know, The soviets actually had tactics and weren't just asiatic hordes.
Rush Reichstag
@@unclelarry8842 There are no tactics in a close quarters fight
So, my takeaway from this is when we used flak guns as super effective anti-infantry weapons in Battlefield 1942, we were actually engaging in highly accurate battle reenactments.
the 88's were effective against EVERYTHING
Many anti air weapons tended to also serve as devastating anti infantry due to use of high density fragmentation or high fire rates during ww2
Uuuuh, yes, the German Flak was used as anti infantry, and even anti tank/ anti vehicle extensively during the whole war, it was one of the most feared weapons to run into when attacking because it's ammunition fuses could be set to explode mid air at whatever distance, so the shells could be fired at infantry, just above the ground and they would explode mid air, turning anyone in the vicinity into mincemeat. Towards the first half of the war they were used successfully as anti-armour as well, until the allies got wise and thickened their armour.
@@BFVsnypEzI really don't think that "...until the allies strengthens their armour" is correct. The 88mm flak cannon was blowing up KV and T-34 tanks before it was cool (1941). The main armour of the war didn't get much thicker than that, with the T-34 not getting any armour improvements to the hull throughout the war. The 88mm flak could easily penetrate the Sherman, too. Churchill or IS2 are the only tanks I could think of that would have enough armour, or a Sherman Assault tank. Both were rare compared to the medium tanks.
14:15 I think you forgot the historical account of the German Soldier being diced up by a machete before the flag was flown
Wow.... I wonder why that happened... could it be war and the human condition or you being racist to slavic folk?
@robbob9273 he's referring to call of duty world at war in the last scene in the last mission
@@robbob9273 So.. Can't talk about Japanese soldiers plundering China in 1930's and 40's because it's racist? Or does that "rule" only apply to Soviet troops?
Ta com pena? Ficou triste? Leva o nazi pra casa
“Steiner’s counter attack will bring everything under control”
- A soon to be “dead” man, Berlin April 1945 -
*Legends say that Steiner is still preparing his counter-attack*
In the OTHER direction
@troy Ferrington lol
It was the guy who killed Hitler.
"I want to register a complaint!" (angry man on the phone, sample on a Public Enemy track - could have been Adolf) :)
Imagine if the pilot had successfully hit the roof with his banner-lawn dart. Eternal hero of the Soviet Union right there
Well until it collapsed lol
@@cullenkerr6556 countries and governments are temporary, heroes are forever
Imagine being told that you were flying NOT to fight, but to risk your life to DROP a FLAG
Your heroes were looters and rapers
@@timberwolfe1645Soviet Pilot: YESSS I FINALLY GET TO GO TO BERLIN, I WILL SHOW THESE FASCIST PIGS THE MIGHT OF OUR AIR FORCE, FOR THE GLORY OF STAL-
Commissar: uh comrade you are not going there to fight
Soviet Pilot: I’m sorry what?!?!?!?
Commissar: you’re just taking this flag and make drop on Reichstag
Soviet Pilot:😃 > 🙂 > 😐 > 😠 > 😡
This battle seems to always get glossed over, I suppose because the end result was pretty much inevitable. I'm glad to see more detail than I've ever been taught before!
Some old books I got (like, the books are 30 years in the family) tell much of this story already. Together they were like 6000 pages, so not surprising it covered a lot of topics.
Looking at the numbers, it was indeed a done deal from the start.
Imagine the young German troops who were fighting at this last battle
I can't find the Führerbunker though! :)
@@louise_rose That was in the courtyard of the Reichs Chancellery.
The Soviets paid a very heavy price for this victory. The allies were wise to let the Soviets take Berlin for themselves.
Yet again, I’m blown away by your channel and your ability to convey such amazing stories with ease
“No one will every read this, if you lack the stomach to kill for your country then at least show me that you are willing to die for it”
Later on
“CHERNOV, Nooooooo. Someone should read this”
Reznov's revealing he truly cared about Chernov after crapping on him for the whole game is truly one of gaming's great character arcs
@cmd31220 yeah but only after the poor guy got burned alive at the steps of the Reichstag
God the whole Battle of Berlin must've been an unimaginably brutal affair.
All of WWII was
It could have been much worse. But Soviets surrounded Berlin so quickly relatively few troops managed to get in to defend it.
@@hq3473 Many so called re enforcement Army Hitler ordered to come to Berlin Defense were instead running to Western line to surrender .. thousands of them at a time ... no body wanted to be near the Soviets ... fearing the wrath of the Red Army for what the Germans had done on the Eastern Front !
@@Hero.Lone-Wolf Oh yeah. This is the reason the last of the german defenders were fighting tooth and nail. After the atrocities that had been done at the Eastern Front, even the germans knew surrender would likely lead you to death... or a fate worse than death.
The Soviet leadership threw away lives as disposable in a quest for personal glory. But the germans knew this was the end of the line. There is a saying the germans had during the war, when the Soviets began scoring victories, and coming ever closer to Berlin: "Enjoy the war. The peace will be terrible."
This is the reason you should avoid an escalation of conflict. When it happens, God have mercy on you, because humans will not.
@@IAsimov 'Enjoy the war, the peace will be terrible', is sure is a ominous statement.
Thanks for this animation. I visited Berlin several years ago and as I’m a fan of military history, when I visited the Reichstag Building I tried to see where fighting took place and using Wikipedia, I compared it to what I could see there. I walked this in chronological order. What blew my mind was this area is actually quite small in real life and how it took the Soviets days to get from the Moltkebrucke bridge to the Reichstag building, it looks just a few hundred metres in length and now takes seconds to walk the Soviets advance from the bridge.
Then again, you weren't being pinned down by field guns and mg fire, were you?
@@ladela7348 That's his whole point.
When I started to read the collection of books from my parents, this battle was one of the first that I read in full, and I really wondered: if a bridge and a few buildings take this long, how did they ever capture a whole country? This was about as fast as the battles of the first world war, but being the last rat hole time matered little anymore.
@@ladela7348 True. It must have been a murderous hail of fire from the defenders, to Soviets advancing just a few hundred metres.
@@notmenotme614 Yeah. I'm just glad I live in a time of relative peace compared to 76 years ago I guess. In 1945 I'd have been prime age for joining the military.
The Deadliest game of Reverse Capture the Flag the world has ever seen.
Definitely not the worst game of 'king of the hill' tho 😳
They could've just laid siege until the Germans died or surrendered.
@@RsRj-qd2cg That wouldn't of happened, the Germans likely would have fought until every last one of them were killed as they only surrendered after the flag was hoisted on the roof and the soviet generals were on a deadline, they were expected to have that flag on that roof BY a specific date or there would be punishments for those that failed to reach it.
@@RsRj-qd2cg yeah good luck trying that to the SS
@@RsRj-qd2cg Befitting reply for Leningrad
"The large columns beside the point of the soviet entrance became covered in blood"
Damn, imagine that you have survived going through deadly mini fortress outside the Reichstag but then you saw a pile of bodies laying on the ground covered in blood beside an entrance which you should pass through it to prevent the embarrassment of your leadership.
For all World War 2 soldiers that have sacrificed their lives for the freedoms we enjoy today, thank you for your services sir!
These are so incredibly well done. Thank you. Your work is greatly appreciated
My guys are back! Nice switch up. Wasn’t expecting this! Well done boys as usual!
Appreciate it!
Having the Soviet as blue in the battle map is kinda weird.
Well, allies blue axis red is kind of convention but yeah, it does feel weird
I mean, Blue is normally used for "Friendly" forces and Red is used for "Enemies" in military diagrams.
That's why friendly fire is often referred to as "Blue-on-Blue".
Should've used Red for SOV and Black for GER
@@dr_jj US and Britain as Blue, Germany as dark grey, Soviet as bright red, Italy as green and Japan as dark red is my opinion.
@@nhancao4790 that would work on symbolic map but on a military map, that would be pretty useless and confusing
You know it's a good day when Ops Room puts out a video...
Thanks!
Thank you!
Just found this channel this morning and can’t get enough. SUBSCRIBED!
This gave me a really good sense of the scale of killing and human carnage.
For real two whole battalions wiped out in less than 50m. 🤯
@Synchro another video i watched said that on JUST the 30th of April and 1st of may, the Soviets saw something like 150 KIA and 300+ wounded.
@@toluolaitan916 they do pilitics in this battle than tactics
@@cyrosubod2317 for real man and this is peoples' lives were talking about too. The inhumanity and disregard for human life back then is just astounding.
@Synchro in battle of Berlin polish casualties were 3K, soviet casualties were 81K and german were 400K and 380K POW.
This is the kind of content that I have become a patron on Patreon for.
Imagine a good BFV, where they'd included this... maybe as a rush map or 'carrier-attack' ish-mode? so much potential in that scenario...
that game was such a waste. This video however is gold!
Just play the first CoD mate
@@SOLOcan Or Enlisted. It's made by Gaijin using the same engine as War Thunder, and one of the campaigns is the Battle of Berlin in which you can actually fight this exact battle.
I remember ragequitting when the Germans stopped us in the building of the Ministry of the Interior. We tried a flanking move and could see the Reichstag itself but snipers and mgs from the Kroll Opera House basically ended the battle.
@@SOLOcan thanks, i do. But i like multiplayer ^^
@@ladela7348 Sounds exciting, i'll give it a try :D
@@SOLOcan CoD1, CoD United Offensive, CoD2, CoD:WaW.
Call of Duty 1 and Call of Duty: World at War for PC did a great job recreating this battle.
"Steiner's assault will take care of it."
"My Fuhrer...Steiner..."
Famous last words said before disaster
Might be one of my favorite Op Room videos ever. amazing stuff as always.
Wow, thanks!
Patiently waiting for battle of Mogadishu part 2. Your videos are awesome, and the quality just keeps getting better.
Astounding.
Did not expect this one! :) You’re giving Mark Felton a serious run for his money these days!
Mark is more of a interesting story teller than tactical overview stuffs.... you might wanna compare to Tik. But Tik is a historian more. But hey. Love it.
mark felton reddit history
@@MALITH666 whos tik?
Mark Felton literally reads wikipedia articles and uses copyright free visuals which most of times are literally not related. The worst "historian" on youtube.
@@juanmanuel7305 th-cam.com/users/TheImperatorKnightvideos
He does series of day by day hour by hour details.
Great content, one of the battles that I've always wondered about but that is rarely covered in history documentaries.
This is so well-made, even the generic icons give you a feel of the nightmare this battle was.
When will we got the second part to Black Hawk Down or will we get a part 2
yes pls
Let's just be patient, it'll come. Can't hasten quality, unless maybe if we were patreon supporters at least. Hehe
2030 probably.
This has to legitimately be the best channel on youtube. You put so much effort into these videos, and it shows. Big ups man, you're doing an amazing job.
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Oh God I can't tell you how happy this makes me. I've heard narrations of this battle before but I'm not great at visualizing this stuff in my head. Thank you 🙌🤍🤍🤍
Glad you enjoy it!
This is, by far, one of the coolest World War Two videos I've ever viewed.
i found this channel yesterday and have been on a non stop weekend binge. love it.
This is easily one of my FAVORITE channels! Fantastic work and great content. Please keep it up, we wait with bated breath for the next episode! May I suggest the tractor building in Stalingrad or the fire bombing of Dresden?
What a waste of lives on both sides..to conquer a piece of rubble...
The elites don't give a fk about human life - look at today, billions are in lockdown over the flu...
@@sickre hahaha anti vaxxers are right then?
It was probably beautiful and wasn't very old having been opened in 1894, still in it's prime when burned and at this hosting of room to room fighting 👩🔧🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺
wAsTe Of LiVeS
@@sickre I don't think it was the "elites" forcing people to fight in 1945...there were plenty of opportunities to defect or avoid frontline duty by then. Those who fought in Berlin were all there because they wanted to fight.
Love all your vids. I dont care how long I have to wait for the next one, they're so well done its worth it!
Thanks for taking the time on this. Very entertaining. I cant imaging the thoughts going through everybody's heads on these days.
11:20 "Comrade, this is a mortar. Used horizontally, this becomes a bazooka."
1000 IQ level stuff
this was the longest wind-up for a punchline I've ever sat through
I feel those stars going out. Every single one of them is a family grieving.
So wasteful, war.
It’s sad that they died on probably the last charge of the war, just as the war in Europe had ended. Such as waste. The Soviet victory was inevitable, they could have simply sieged the building and waited it out.
after the bombs dropped my country immediately declared independence and quickly went on war with the Dutch and Allied occupiers, for us its now or never to be free from Europeans, and after experiencing a brutal Japanese rule to our country
Not all those stars going out represent KIA. It represents casualties, which includes soldiers being wounded and out of action.
@@robto Considering some of these charges is straight into mg nests with dozens of bodies being stopped at a doorway, no way they will survive that storm of bullets.
Not enough stars went out, evidentially, as they won the battle.
Thanks for this. One of my favorite moments of modern warfare history. Couldn't even imagine the other worldly scene. Warriors on both sides. Bless em.
Have you ever considered doing medieval battles? Great work! This is an awesome way to show history.
I’m used to the larger scale engagement plans from TOR. This “zoomed in” plan view depicting groups of individual soldiers within a single building is fantastic!!
A great presentation, fantastic insight, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellently done, keep up the good work!
Let's try this again
-Steiner's attack will fix everything.
-Umn, Steiner....Steiner....
Your videos get better and better
This is an amazing video, thanks for making it!
Have you considered selling T-shirts with The Operations Room logo...like from teespring or zazzle? Regardless, keep up the amazing work at your own pace! Everything you do is worth the wait.
Would that be of interest?
I’d totally buy one!
I was literally just looking at your channel like an hour before you uploaded this thinking "damn wish there was a new vid" haha. Any chance you could do some Australian battles such as the battle of Long Tan or any of the battles from Afghanistan?
no
Yay the eastern front.
I am a million times more interested by this than the western front since it was at such a huge unbelievable scale in terms of land battles!
Honestly, I'd love to learn more about the war in China. Huge battles as well
II don't care about the western front.The end goal of swapping genocidal dictators makes it feel pointless.
@@naamadossantossilva4736 I tend to not think of the politics and only the battles.
70% of the German army was on the Eastern Front
@@CountCorax I think he meant to write eastern xd
Thank you for this effort! Great Video
whoa, that was cool on 0:07 at this timestamp there was A fighter jet screaming by my house at the same time LoL. Very Great Video
Never heard this story before. Happy to have heard it.
8:11 *"Kills his dogs, his wife and himself" Didn't Eva Braun kill herself with poison? This is the first time somebody describes their demise a murder-suicide type of thing!*
According to recently unclassified documents from US intelligence agencies Mr H escaped to South America in a submarine and lived there for the rest of his life. There is 1 known picture that exists of him from after the escape. There is not much interest to rewrite all history books and therefor it's not common knowledge. The documents are out there if you want to read them. The only witnesses to Mr H killing himself was his one of is own bodyguards and his secretary, two of his most loyal. The only body that was found was outside the bunker, badly burned but confirmed to not be him, although he had similar appearance. The dead man was a body double that was supposed to verify the story that he was dead. The secretary and bodyguard kept repeating the story to the very day they died taking the truth with them to the grave. Of course US intelligence services did not fall for it and they knew the truth later on. But in the end, The war was won, huge profits where made and the official story was more than good enough.
@@LumocolorARTnr1319 Links and sources please?
@@pluto-9047 Use a search engine and you will get tons of results from mainstream media. There is also a book written about it. Btw I was wrong, there is actually two photos of him after the escape. Sources are US and British intelligence services and secret documents from them that now have been declassified.
@@LumocolorARTnr1319 Thought so.
@@LumocolorARTnr1319 straight up non sense. Can't even link a non partisan source
How did you manage to obtain such precise locations of each dead body? Or are those markings just placed at random?
Good video otherwise
Man, your videos are the best, well done
thanks so much for these videos. every one of them are amazing
Please don't stop making these videos.
Is there any way you can cover Juno Beach in the future?
Another superb interpretation of something from WWII that we didn't really know a lot about due to conflicting stories and political shenanigan's. 👍
Loving the layout of battle movements. Good work
What's worth mentioning, is that in the original photo of the soldiers planting the Soviet flag on the Reichstag, one of the soldiers is wearing two wrist watches, in the official picture made public in Russia one of the watches has been removed to obscure the fact that looting took place. Also, they added extra smoke in the background for dramatic effect.
Love listening to the historical battles with the animation to go along with them! makes it feel like you can see what really happened during the fights! keep up the awesome work!
Very nice, lets see Paul Alan's battle plans.
First impression is "Wow, living through the entire invasion to die for some propaganda picture, because it has an arbitrary deadline"...
But on the other hand, casualties would still happen, they happened the entire time before this battle... and the importance of this particular victory is actually really huge - its symbolically the triumphant final blow of the ENTIRE WW2 in Europe. All the millions of previous casualties kinda point to this moment, so it makes a bit more sense, that people were litterally dying to be the ones to do it.
Grasping that there is only one of any of us in all of history, in all the world, is a really difficult thing to do.
All the time it's 'not me personally' getting shot or blown to bits, others can die like sheep, as long as it's not me.
The new perspective that we are all real, and all unique, there will never be another me is a frightening one.
This is why second-rate minds and sociopaths find politics a comfortable place to be.
IMPRESSIVE, THE ANNIMATION ADDS A HUGE AMOUNT OF DETAIL. VERY WELL DONE
These videos are SO well done!! Great content.
Another awesome video! Could you do a video on the Battle off Samar?
That would be great, but I feel like it would be better if he first covered other battles in the Pacific as well as the rest of Leyte Gulf, all at its time of course
@@d.olivergutierrez8690 honestly I’d be happy to watch a video of him explaining how grass grows. The reason I’d like a video on Samar is that Drachinifel did an awesome video on it but I’d like to actually see the ships maneuvering and hear his commentary on it.
Great video! First I've ever seen a breakdown of what actually happened. Normally they just say soviets won and raised their banner. An awful lot of death for a symbol.
Rivalries and personalities of soviet generals are interesting. I don't really see many things about them, for example, I see a lot of Western and German biographies at book stores and can't recall seeing Zhukov on a cover before.
What rivalries? There are no rivalries in Communist paradise where everyone is equal! Now get back to work, comrade, or else!
@LTrain45 45 I get that, western perspectives are abundant and I just find it boring that in 2021 there's still an emphasis on nazi generals biographies at book stores and libraries that I've visited.
I'm just using book stores and libraries for example in this case
@LTrain45 45 yeah, I wish there were more sources from soviet sodes translated into english. As someone who obviously don't know any Russian, the soviet side of history is so hard to get sometimes.
A french author, called Jean Lopez made a book about Zhukov iirc
Dude, such amazing work.
Yes! I've been dying for a new OR video!
The book Berlin by Anthony Beevor is one of the most well written and thoroughly researched books I've ever read about these final parts of the war.
It documents the raping of civilians by the soviet army and how thousands of soviet troops died from alcohol poisoning in the first days after Berlin was taken due to drinking pure alcohol used for vehicles.
Beevor is an amazing writer when it comes to the USSR in general due to being one of the few foreign historians who got to rummage through the Russian archives before they closed them back up. Had the chance of meeting him years ago, and he's a pretty cool guy.
But fascists raped after soviets
You hate Soviet Union?
I read the book but I didn't find the part where thousands soviet died from drinking "pure alcohol used for vehicle". The book did point out soviet soldiers were decreased from drinking non filtered industrial alcohol like chemicals due to their craving and because of the Nazi regime believed that intoxicated soldiers can't perform well, they didn't destroy the city's stockpile of wine - which lead to thousands of rape in the city by the Soviets.
One can only imagine how truly violent the fight would’ve been inside the Reichstag
I'd love to know how the individual movements of units are noted - I noticed how some seemed to flee and then return to areas and other details - are these details noted from testaments/first hand experiences?
I cant imagine so... that would be really really cool, but I'd also think veteran testimonials of that level of detail are extremly few and far between, unfortunately
From the officers who didn't leave the building, I'd imagine. It looks like many units died out to a man.
@@thanesgames9685 That's what I'd think from the visuals but I did notice that the diagrams don't note PoW's and injured. Obviously the Reichstag siege was a vicious and probably merciless moment, but I can't see there being no captured defenders, especially if the NKVD might have seen intelligence value in survivors considering the political nature.
@@JRyan-lu5im Most were those who had sworn oaths to fight to the death. Also including people from other countries not able to go home. Most prisoners are taken when they give up themselves, not when they are overcome in close combat. During house to house fighting, surrender is VERY hard. Also, dozens around you do not take kind to your surrender and will kill you themselves.
@@JRyan-lu5im That is fair.
Thank you for these super interesting narrations of WWI WWII and other wars. We watch all of them. Thank you for filling in some of the gaps we did not learn in high school back in the day circa 1990.
Good job creating an "infographic look" at the chaos that was happening!
Can we get Pt 2 of Blackhawk down already??
You forgot to show the image that was edited of them showing the flag, next to the original. The bannermen had stolen watches during their raid, and the Soviet union edited the photo so it doesn't show.
Great video. Putting the last day's of Berlin under the Nazi's is a hell of a task to undertake. You did a fantastic job!
11:24
Never heard of mortars being used horizontally like that...
Is there ever historacle record of troops trying to take out light vehicles or armor using a horizontally placed mortar??
Extremely well made! Well done
That lonely Valentine tank plowing through in Berlin... A long way to Tipperary, indeed.
Me imagining the Reichstag attack on Call of duty: World at War.
Wasn't that the original COD?
@@shammy8703 original COD has battle of berlin but battle of berlin in COD WaW was more intense and more difficult
Make battle of Mogadishu part 2 plz plz I need to know what happens
Truly excellent, fascinating, and well put together video. This channel is a go to for me when I get some downtime, it's awesome and I appreciate the quality of the vids!
Great content as usual. I feel like a birthday boy whenever operations room uploads.