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!
@@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 👩🔧🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺
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.
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 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.
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
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.
This is such a great concept for a History Show. I don't know why no one has thought of this before. You feel like a Staff Operations officer receiving a briefing
@@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:😃 > 🙂 > 😐 > 😠 > 😡
“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”
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.
@@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.
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".
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!
@@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.
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.
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 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.
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’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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
These are not my topdown figures this time, no need to mention me as an author of them. Also, the lack of russian sources is highly noticeable in this research. By 1945, soviet infantry was probably the most experienced and well-equipped amongst the other warring nations and they knew how to assault such buildings better than anyone else on this planet. There were no such zerg rushes like in this video - the whole square with Reichstag itself was heavilly bombarded by all sorts of artillery and tanks before the assault, and each window of reichstag had at least one soviet machine gun or a couple or rifles watching over it. The majority of soviet casualties were inflicted inside the building - soldiers used grenades and TNT to flush out the germans in intense CQB. They even used burning petrol to flush out the germans out of the basements. Again, these infantrymen endured Stalingrad and plethora of German "festungs" assaults. There were no human waves of any kind - Red Army divisions took heavy casualties during the whole war, and some rifle divisions had 5 thousand men under them. Men shortages were huge, even artillerymen were often sent on the front to fulfill infantryman duties. The shortage of men was compensated by impressive combat experience and overall firepower of the division. There were no huge waves or "red tides" assaulting the Reichstag, the building was taken by small, experienced and well-organised assault groups. Also, some people here stating that it was pointless to assault this building and it wasn't worth it. Well, it's an urban warfare. Germans made a strongpoint out of this building and you can't ignore it. They even have some tanks in vicinity. In other words, whenever you like this political regime or not, 1945 Red Army was the world`s finest military. You can't expect these men to do such stupid stereotypical frontal assaults with casualties they couldn't afford at the time. Learn russian sources for a change.
@@robertkalinic335 Sadly most of my sources are in Russian. I don't know if these sources were translated, but you should check out Isaev and Fyodor Danilovich Vorobyev. Vladimir Zolotarev aslo did a good job covering Berlin operation.
К сожалению, это все глас вопиющего в пустыне. 95% комментаторов (включая автора видео) настолько промыты западной пропагандой, что не могут даже допустить мысли о том, что Красная армия никогда не воевала мясными волнами в стиле Первой мировой, что у нее никогда не было того бреда в виде одной винтовка на троих. Они даже не могут банально зайти на вики и посмотреть цифры потерь в берлинской операции, чтобы вопрос зерг рашей отпал сам собой. И еще смеют что-то блеять про "жестокость" советской армии, имеющей "разрешение Сталина" насиловать и грабить. Настоящие наследники Геббельса. Мерзость.
@@Grantovichvzm Can those sources actually be trusted though? They were subject to Soviet censorship. E.g. I know for a fact that Soviet generals had to edit their memoirs to get them published.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Great stuff, as usual. I'd love to hear more about that sole British tank unit. I'm sure there's a great story to be told about that one and how they were the only ones to make it there.
@@r-saint TIK is a legend. He will release 9 hour long videos on just one battle. Like what kind of person has that much dedication to a youtube history channel? Not to mention he covers controversial stuff and really has to try super hard to not get demonetized. Imagine combing through a script like that for any algorithm killing language or demonetization red flags.
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.
Might be a bit overly enthusiastic in terms of showing a red tide of soviets getting cut down in droves, no? Overall the soviets took fewer casualties than the germans in the battle for Berlin, and in the Reichstag area total soviet casualties (killed and wounded) was around 500, which means that given there was around 500 defenders with 100 surviving at the end to be captured, the soviets took about 1-to-1 losses. "Pinned down" or "repulsed" doesn't mean the entire attacking force was destroyed.
Am I the only one that is having "Enlisted" flashbacks? I was playing with people on discord and I told them several time that the building on the end of the map was the Reichstag. But they didn't believe it. Saying it must be some other building. It makes you kind of shudder to see this video and realize that the map in the game looks exactly like the one in this video.
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.
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 👩🔧🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺
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.
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.
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
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
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"
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.
This is such a great concept for a History Show. I don't know why no one has thought of this before. You feel like a Staff Operations officer receiving a briefing
It really does put things in better perspective than just showing old stock footage that everyone uses
@@kameronjones7139 It fills in the picture
Debriefing actually
exactly !
That's why it's called The Operations Room.
"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
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?
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
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:😃 > 🙂 > 😐 > 😠 > 😡
“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) :)
“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
Yet again, I’m blown away by your channel and your ability to convey such amazing stories with ease
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.
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.
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
Call of Duty 1 and Call of Duty: World at War for PC did a great job recreating this battle.
Just found this channel this morning and can’t get enough. SUBSCRIBED!
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
You know it's a good day when Ops Room puts out a video...
"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!
Great content, one of the battles that I've always wondered about but that is rarely covered in history documentaries.
My guys are back! Nice switch up. Wasn’t expecting this! Well done boys as usual!
Appreciate it!
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.
These are so incredibly well done. Thank you. Your work is greatly appreciated
This is so well-made, even the generic icons give you a feel of the nightmare this battle was.
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.
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.
Might be one of my favorite Op Room videos ever. amazing stuff as always.
Wow, thanks!
Have you ever considered doing medieval battles? Great work! This is an awesome way to show history.
This is, by far, one of the coolest World War Two videos I've ever viewed.
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.
Patiently waiting for battle of Mogadishu part 2. Your videos are awesome, and the quality just keeps getting better.
Astounding.
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!
i found this channel yesterday and have been on a non stop weekend binge. love it.
Thanks for taking the time on this. Very entertaining. I cant imaging the thoughts going through everybody's heads on these days.
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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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?
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.
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!!
Thanks. I have always wondered about the details of how this assault went down.
this was the longest wind-up for a punchline I've ever sat through
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!
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.
"Steiner's assault will take care of it."
"My Fuhrer...Steiner..."
Famous last words said before disaster
11:20 "Comrade, this is a mortar. Used horizontally, this becomes a bazooka."
1000 IQ level stuff
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.
A great presentation, fantastic insight, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellently done, keep up the 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.
Loving the layout of battle movements. Good work
Please don't stop making these videos.
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.
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
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
IMPRESSIVE, THE ANNIMATION ADDS A HUGE AMOUNT OF DETAIL. VERY WELL DONE
Never heard this story before. Happy to have heard it.
Another superb interpretation of something from WWII that we didn't really know a lot about due to conflicting stories and political shenanigan's. 👍
Let's try this again
-Steiner's attack will fix everything.
-Umn, Steiner....Steiner....
10:19 : "... and Hitlers personal troops, the Liebes Standard ...", pronounciation so bad it gives that unit a whole new meaning lol
Very nice, lets see Paul Alan's battle plans.
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
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!
These are not my topdown figures this time, no need to mention me as an author of them.
Also, the lack of russian sources is highly noticeable in this research. By 1945, soviet infantry was probably the most experienced and well-equipped amongst the other warring nations and they knew how to assault such buildings better than anyone else on this planet. There were no such zerg rushes like in this video - the whole square with Reichstag itself was heavilly bombarded by all sorts of artillery and tanks before the assault, and each window of reichstag had at least one soviet machine gun or a couple or rifles watching over it. The majority of soviet casualties were inflicted inside the building - soldiers used grenades and TNT to flush out the germans in intense CQB. They even used burning petrol to flush out the germans out of the basements.
Again, these infantrymen endured Stalingrad and plethora of German "festungs" assaults. There were no human waves of any kind - Red Army divisions took heavy casualties during the whole war, and some rifle divisions had 5 thousand men under them. Men shortages were huge, even artillerymen were often sent on the front to fulfill infantryman duties. The shortage of men was compensated by impressive combat experience and overall firepower of the division. There were no huge waves or "red tides" assaulting the Reichstag, the building was taken by small, experienced and well-organised assault groups.
Also, some people here stating that it was pointless to assault this building and it wasn't worth it. Well, it's an urban warfare. Germans made a strongpoint out of this building and you can't ignore it. They even have some tanks in vicinity.
In other words, whenever you like this political regime or not, 1945 Red Army was the world`s finest military. You can't expect these men to do such stupid stereotypical frontal assaults with casualties they couldn't afford at the time. Learn russian sources for a change.
Can you point me to some source pls?
@@robertkalinic335 Sadly most of my sources are in Russian. I don't know if these sources were translated, but you should check out Isaev and Fyodor Danilovich Vorobyev. Vladimir Zolotarev aslo did a good job covering Berlin operation.
@@Grantovichvzm many thanks
К сожалению, это все глас вопиющего в пустыне. 95% комментаторов (включая автора видео) настолько промыты западной пропагандой, что не могут даже допустить мысли о том, что Красная армия никогда не воевала мясными волнами в стиле Первой мировой, что у нее никогда не было того бреда в виде одной винтовка на троих. Они даже не могут банально зайти на вики и посмотреть цифры потерь в берлинской операции, чтобы вопрос зерг рашей отпал сам собой.
И еще смеют что-то блеять про "жестокость" советской армии, имеющей "разрешение Сталина" насиловать и грабить. Настоящие наследники Геббельса. Мерзость.
@@Grantovichvzm Can those sources actually be trusted though? They were subject to Soviet censorship. E.g. I know for a fact that Soviet generals had to edit their memoirs to get them published.
Good job creating an "infographic look" at the chaos that was happening!
This is an amazing video, thanks for making it!
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
One can only imagine how truly violent the fight would’ve been inside the Reichstag
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!
These videos are SO well done!! Great content.
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.
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.
Great stuff, as usual. I'd love to hear more about that sole British tank unit. I'm sure there's a great story to be told about that one and how they were the only ones to make it there.
It wasn’t a British tank unit, it was a British-made tank with a Soviet crew.
The UK and USA both provided tanks, aircraft, etc. to the USSR.
wtf this is pathetic
Reznov needs your help!
Man, your videos are the best, well done
Thank you for this effort! Great Video
The battle of Stalingrad would be good. Prolly takes a year for you to put together though
TIK is doing it, it will take like 5 years or so.
@@r-saint TIK is a legend. He will release 9 hour long videos on just one battle. Like what kind of person has that much dedication to a youtube history channel? Not to mention he covers controversial stuff and really has to try super hard to not get demonetized. Imagine combing through a script like that for any algorithm killing language or demonetization red flags.
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.
Might be a bit overly enthusiastic in terms of showing a red tide of soviets getting cut down in droves, no? Overall the soviets took fewer casualties than the germans in the battle for Berlin, and in the Reichstag area total soviet casualties (killed and wounded) was around 500, which means that given there was around 500 defenders with 100 surviving at the end to be captured, the soviets took about 1-to-1 losses.
"Pinned down" or "repulsed" doesn't mean the entire attacking force was destroyed.
Your battle maps make me realize how much work war thunder put into their map designs. Bravo for both of you.
How much they used to put into their maps you mean.
thanks so much for these videos. every one of them are amazing
Am I the only one that is having "Enlisted" flashbacks?
I was playing with people on discord and I told them several time that the building on the end of the map was the Reichstag. But they didn't believe it. Saying it must be some other building.
It makes you kind of shudder to see this video and realize that the map in the game looks exactly like the one in this video.
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
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!
I learned SO MUCH... much more than I had ever heard on any television show or other video. GREAT JOB.
Your videos get better and better
Relic wouldn’t let us have heavy arty because it would be too OP.
that's why you should only play the first company of heroes
Tell that to the dead infantrymen from both world wars. Cover is critically underrated.
That lonely Valentine tank plowing through in Berlin... A long way to Tipperary, indeed.
Katyusha launchers in direct-fire mode would've been quite the thing to see.
Thank you! Glad to see the details of the battle that my grandpa was a part and got his "For the capture of Berlin" medal.
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!