Stalin wanted to bring the communism to West Europe and encircle it military. His last demands 1940 in Berlin : "Molotov stubbornly insisted on his demands: free hand in Finland and Romania, protectorate over Bulgaria, bases on the Bosporus. Hitler denied, even threatening bluntly that he would not tolerate a new war against Finland. Molotov specified this in this final meeting The Soviet Union had extensive interest in the Balkans - including Hungary, Yugoslavia and Greece; he wanted to know what Germany was planning to do with Poland, questioned Swedish neutrality and brought the Danish Straits into play. Stalin had announced his price of the Soviet - German pact." " Under the impression produced by Molotov’s insistence on Soviet rights,Hitler had told Göring that he was confirmed in his decision to attack the Soviet Union .‘The decision over European hegemony will be made in the struggle against Russia." ( Hitler-Stalin Parallel Lives" A. Bullock)
Stalin-Molotov's demands meant nothing less than the cancellation of the German-Soviet friendship pact. Molotov even said directly that the Soviets regarded the 1939 pact as practically non-existent. This was a deliberate threat and disregard for Germany and its sphere of interest in Europe. This was the reason for Hitler's attack, which was pre-emptive, and not his alleged greed for "Lebensraum".
@@krohnhardt Yes you are right and not forget Stalin's communist World Revolution. He didn't quite get away with it, but at least he enslaved all of Eastern Europe for over 40 years. If D Day had not been successful and the Western Allies had not arrived in Berlin in time, he would have taken over Western Europe too. Churchill had started securing the British Isles and had the plan "Operation Unthinkable " prepared. To attack Stalin in July 1945 with the US Army and a rearmed Wehrmacht.
The alliance between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies was an unnatural one. It was a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. It is worth noting how quickly it fell apart once Nazi Germany was defeated.
The cold War was just a show.Capitalism and communism are two sides of the same coin.Bolsheviks couldn't have gained power without finances from wall street.
The west and the Nazi would have been more likely natural allies as they have common goal of anti Russia. This was later proved to be true by the fact that the Nazi troops surrendered en mass willingly to the Anglo Americans and later most of the Nazis were forgiven and many were allowed to serve on civilian and military posts in west Germany and NATO. The US and British were fond of the Nazis because of they were being staunch anti communist and russophobes
It's weird as sovists hated the west just as much. In soviet empire you could go to gulag for "praising American technology". And the west shouldnhave stopped all support as soon as soviets had stopped the invasion instead of supplying tge evil empire and let them replace one dictator with a worse one
@@dorzy207so unless you personally been somewhere we don't know if anything happened or even existed? Ok by that logic slavery never happened because we was never been there before
I may not have been there , but I know that Manstein came up with the plan. All you people that think Hitler was anything but an empty shell are the ones who should have been there. You wouldn't have survived.
@6:45 Misinformation: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union did not "simultaneously" invade Poland. Germany attacked on September 1. Soviet forces didn't enter Poland until September 17th. By that date, most of western poland had been occupied by Nazi forces, and Warsaw was encircled.
Well Ty Mr Pedantic. The Russians already conspired with the Nazis to invade Poland. So for all intents it was simultaneous and if you were a Pole, then you’d feel like it was.
It was still under the non aggression pact . Soviets were implicated by their inaction alone which isolated Poland and helped facilitate the german invasion. So it is not inaccurate to say they simultaneously invaded . Poland was isolated from day 1 50% because of the Soviets.
@@lukeskywalker3329 Words have meaning. Troops don't invade if they don't actually invade. As for inaction, that's much better than, say, giving over 5 entire countries to the Nazis and fascists *before* September 1939, as the Western Allies did. (Ethiopia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Spain, & Albania). Greatly empowered the Axis with gifts of entire countries.
Totally agree… lived in Germany too,that Siberian wind cuts thru you, the screaming cold I called it. But the further East you go it gets far colder than the -28c I experienced. They had it face on attacking Russia.. Words useless
And Germans waged so called Der Vernichtungskrieg (War on Destruction) on the Eastern Front. This was absolutely no match for the war in the West. The French losing the war with Hitler lost their statehood, essentially, but there was never a perspective for their extermination as a nation. In the East Germans envisaged the death of thirty million Russians only at the first stage of occupation. With a perspective of totally substituting the Russian population by the German one in a period of roughly one hundred years. For Russians it was literally the war for survival.
You are absolutely right my friend..Millions of ordinary people died of hunger in ww2 in modern day Bangladesh and Kolkata when Winston Churchill ordered to collect all the wheat saying that indians breed like rabbits and shiped it to Britain to make bread for allied troops fighting in the Italy and Normandy....soviets were also supplied with food by USA and UK even then millions died of starvation their due to wrong policies of Stalin and scorched earth policy both of soviets and Germans ... Only the siege of Leningrad and battle of Stalingrad led to the death of more than five millions and forced the citizens to cannabolism but it was not going to happen if Stalin has allowed evacuation of civilians from these cities....
Stalin always knew Germany was going to invade the Soviet Union, the reason the invasion surprised him is he was 100% sure Hitler would not invade as long as he still had Britain to deal with
Yes but the operation was still ongoing in 1942 and was for the vast majority of the time successful. From Sunday the 22nd of June 1941, until Thursday the 1st of January 1942. It became Hitler’s obsession during 1942. Bc he wouldn’t let his armies retreat and regroup. He forced them to overextend their supply lines and have to face the winter unprepared. Weren’t you listening?
@@flashgordon6670hitler wasn t obssesed with the invasion by 1942, by that point he had no alternative but to finnish what he started and get the oil which germany desperately needs to continue the war, and he allowed a lot of retreats even during the battle of moscow, there were few cases where retreat would have been suicide and he again listened to his generals and for their suggestion gave the 2th army a standfast order
You consider the US and UK supplying military aid and humanitarian aid to the USSR to keep the Soviet Union in the war to not only be _criminal_ acts, but _criminal_ acts *_exceeding_* the death and destruction caused by Adolph Hitler from 1933-1945?
It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage documentary about Barbarossa operation part 1... Thank you 🙏(the war channel ) for sharing this magnificent documentary
No coats for German troops? That completely a logistics matter. If you have only one rail line to the front, what are you going to send? Ammo, food, spare parts to keep the several different types of armor going, medical supplies, or clothes? The Germans lost the war in the East due to poor logistics. The rail lines and roads in the Soviet Union just couldnt support their invasion. Half of German armor conked out from dust and the wear and tear of Soviet dirt roads. So do you ship spare parts or coats?
@@soberanisfam1323 I agree. But we werent there and we now have the knowledge that they lacked.The plan was to capture Moscow by Winter. The Germans were locked into that plan.
ALL THESE EXPERTS AND NOT ONE IS STATING THE FACT THAT THE OPERATION WAS SLATED TO HAVE BEGUN 3 MONTHS earliery!!!!! IF IT HAD THINGS WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY DIFFERENT
All these people taking part in this documentary. I wonder what their opinion is on WW3 happening from their knowledge of the past and wisdom if any to pass on.✌️☘️
As for Marshal Tukhachevskiy. Don't overestimate him as an capable army commander. Essentially, he was a lieutenant of WW1, who was captured as a POW in the beginning of the war and could escape only at the end of it. So he had practically no expirience of the Great War with its millions sized armies. All his expirience was with the Civil War but it was a very peculiar war. The Reds managed to mobilise up to 10 mln people into the Red Army, which was far far more than the Whites. But the trick was that they have at any given moment only armies the size of tens of thousands at most. Why? Because of incessant mass desertions. You can't install a real discipline in the civil war, it's impossible. So there were numerous cases when one and the same man was drafted several times in the Red Army and in the meantime he even managed to serve in this or that White Army! Add to that the fact that the Civil War was led with mainly small arms (even machine guns were in short supply) and light field artillery. No aircraft and tanks in single numbers. That wasn't the experience for the future big war
The T-34 production ramped up with all the USA steel. It was an incredible invention by the Soviets with the tilted armor. It astonished the Nazis when they encountered it.
As for M-R pact, one hasn't to forget that it was signed only after many months' tripartite talks between USSR on one side and Britain and France, on the other these talks had been absolutely fruitless, first and foremost because western delegation had no authority for signing a biding agreement. The stance of the British delegation was even more harder: it had a specific instruction not to tell anything significant to the Soviet side. Maybe Stalin was paranoid, but he certainly felt scam and treachery.
You forget that Russia aided Hitler's Germany in Weapons R&D and Production circumventing the Treaty of Versailles for more than a decade prior to 1941.
@@dennisweidner288 Yet without the abilities to enforce, as today, look East. I can remember disagreeing about our navs and had to find chill until first light to prove East. It's strange knowing that you are the only one who's correct, dawn proved it.
Germans lost a lot in Smolensk including many of the veterans who had fought in France that the Generals came to the conclusion this is going to be a long war.
Very interesting Video But All the Historians omit one quite important fact about the Shiny Mechanised German Army Invading Russia in 1941 and that was only about 30 percent was Mechanised the rest or the other 70 percent was Horse Drawn so the Infantry and Artillery etc. All had to play catch up with the Mechanised Spearheads along with the supplies etc. and thus Negating Blitzkrieg into rather more like a Caterpillar with the slower parts always playing Catch up until its in Retreat!
If Hitler had accepted the alliance that Stalin had proposed...they'd have won the war. The Soviets would have been the same bullet sponges for the Nazis that they were for the western Allies in the end. Whichever side had the Soviet Union had the victory just in sheer numbers.
Exaclty! with the Russians, they could of fended off the Americans from the upper north regions closing passage of the Atlantic while the Japanese would close the Pacific. the Americans wouldint be able to bring aid to Britian and with her greatest ally being France out of the picture, Britain was on her own for the first time in centuries. he could of slowly pulled apart their empire starting with India and working his great army all the way up leaving Britain starving and defenseless while the Americans and anzac stand on their own against 2 formidable enemies on the eastern front. his arrogance costed him to pull off what many conquers couldn't in the end. Not to mention, it was his commanders that won him France, he let that go to his head and believed it was his strategy.
The story that the majority of Hitler’s generals opposed Operation Barbarossa is a post war myth. In early 1941 the German General Staff thought it would not be too difficult to accomplish. Many of Hitler’s generals shared his contempt for the Slavs. They were also shared his anti semitism.
What are your sources? Sounds like you’re making things up. Because from what I know German generals had already been against the invasion of Poland and very vocal about it which created an eternal friction between the staff and Hiler + some German general themselves had known Slavic ancestry by the way.
Operation Barbarossa was nothing to do with racial superiority or any other justification such as Liebensraum[living space]. This did not apply to the invasion of the Soviet Union, because by April 1941 the Reds had 170 divisions of soldiers just waiting at Europe's eastern front, ready to invade. Barbarossa was an attempt to destroy the threat of Bolshevism forever.. also it wasn't just Germany. It was a 6 nation attack : including the armies of Finland, Romania, Hungary, Italy[60,000], Croatia and 47,000 Spanish soldiers[the Republican side was sponsored by the Soviet union during the bloody Spanish civil war so even though Spain was neutral during World War 2, General Franco knew about the dangers of the communist Reds]... there were also 2 divisions of Belgian troops going into Russia... the Waffen SS were the ideological shock troops of Europe at this time and were the first truly multi-national European army..
Your comment just reveals lack of understanding of historical context. Germany was very interested in expansionism, including before and during ww1. Like Japan and Italy, Germany’s economic ideology relied on the need for capture of resources and expansion so that it could be more self reliant. And even other nations, like Britain obviously did this during colonialism. Obviously, East, where the so called inferior Slavs and Jews lived, the land was rich in vast resources. Germany was very crowded, did not by itself have many natural resources, and Hitler envisioned a self sufficient Germany. Lebensraum wasn’t anything knew. It was part of the psyche of many Germans before Hitler even came to power. And finally as mentioned, Hitler’s foreign policy isn’t even unique; all the axis powers believed in expansionism for similar reasons, although not as racially motivated.
Hitler did not devise the plan to invade France himself. [19:00] That was an incredibly stupid comment. But he did select the plan devised by Manstein/Guderian'. That is true.
Yes, Hitler didn’t die in the Fuhrer bunker, they always get that bit wrong. He and Eva Braun escaped to Argentina. Watch the documentary film Greywolf and Mark Felton videos Find the Fuhrer, if you don’t believe me.
Yeah you have Mx but not by who you think. You’ve been lied to by neonazis on TH-cam trying to whitewash the greatest war crimes and mass murder in history. And you believe them.
Germany certainly did not have the greatest military of all time, that's just ignorant. They didn't even have the greatest military at that time obviously, unless they won the war and I'm mistaken. They defeated Poland only because the Soviets invaded Poland at the same time. They defeated France because the French generals were 100 years old and brain dead. Other than that, who did they defeat? The answer is NOBODY. The US had by far the greatest military, and kicked them around like a cat toy when they got there. Greatest military ever, maybe the most stylish when they marched. Stylish fancy boys, that's something to be proud of.
The Brits we're holding out and fighting Nazi Germany in WWII. American only entered WWII after the Japanese attack in Pearl Harbour. Otherwise the would'nt have even bothered
My grand father was in the waffen SS 1940-45. He said he was so sorry for cooking GEWS in the ovens. He said poor GEWSS where baked like bagels. He said he was just having a good time trying to chill out. He said too bad they did not have micro wave ovens back then. It would of been faster. .. Grand pa cracks me up when he laughs about all the baking they did. I laugh too. You go Grand ..pa...keep baking them....ha....ha....ha...!!
Stalin wanted to bring the communism to West Europe and encircle it military. His last demands 1940 in Berlin :
"Molotov stubbornly insisted on his demands: free hand in Finland and Romania, protectorate over Bulgaria, bases on the Bosporus. Hitler denied, even threatening bluntly that he would not tolerate a new war against Finland. Molotov specified this in this final meeting The Soviet Union had extensive interest in the Balkans - including Hungary, Yugoslavia and Greece; he wanted to know what Germany was planning to do with Poland, questioned Swedish neutrality and brought the Danish Straits into play. Stalin had announced his price of the Soviet - German pact."
" Under the impression produced by Molotov’s insistence on Soviet rights,Hitler had told Göring that he was confirmed in his decision to attack the Soviet Union .‘The decision over European hegemony will be made in the struggle against Russia." ( Hitler-Stalin Parallel Lives" A. Bullock)
Stalin-Molotov's demands meant nothing less than the cancellation of the German-Soviet friendship pact. Molotov even said directly that the Soviets regarded the 1939 pact as practically non-existent. This was a deliberate threat and disregard for Germany and its sphere of interest in Europe. This was the reason for Hitler's attack, which was pre-emptive, and not his alleged greed for "Lebensraum".
@@krohnhardt Yes you are right and not forget Stalin's communist World Revolution.
He didn't quite get away with it, but at least he enslaved all of Eastern Europe for over 40 years. If D Day had not been successful and the Western Allies had not arrived in Berlin in time, he would have taken over Western Europe too. Churchill had started securing the British Isles and had the plan "Operation Unthinkable " prepared. To attack Stalin in July 1945 with the US Army and a rearmed Wehrmacht.
Basically a preemptive strike against Russia.
Fabricated lies to justify invasion of Russia by the Nazis. However you may find the invasion of Poland by Germany was much more justifiable
Excellent, a new Ostfront video to fall asleep to…😴 bet I’m not the only one…..
I did fall asleep watching in the afternoon. I had to reload the page when I woke up to get closure.
Only if I already saw it
Groovy
The alliance between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies was an unnatural one. It was a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. It is worth noting how quickly it fell apart once Nazi Germany was defeated.
The cold War was just a show.Capitalism and communism are two sides of the same coin.Bolsheviks couldn't have gained power without finances from wall street.
The west and the Nazi would have been more likely natural allies as they have common goal of anti Russia. This was later proved to be true by the fact that the Nazi troops surrendered en mass willingly to the Anglo Americans and later most of the Nazis were forgiven and many were allowed to serve on civilian and military posts in west Germany and NATO. The US and British were fond of the Nazis because of they were being staunch anti communist and russophobes
It's weird as sovists hated the west just as much. In soviet empire you could go to gulag for "praising American technology". And the west shouldnhave stopped all support as soon as soviets had stopped the invasion instead of supplying tge evil empire and let them replace one dictator with a worse one
Europa the last battle ..
Sorry but Hitler did not have the idea to go through the Arden it was Von Manstine
U was there ? U kno?
@@dorzy207so unless you personally been somewhere we don't know if anything happened or even existed? Ok by that logic slavery never happened because we was never been there before
@@satan899Right, what a dumb remark.
That's like old geezers KNOWING more about the moon landing because they were alive then. Not true.
I may not have been there , but I know that Manstein came up with the plan. All you people that think Hitler was anything but an empty shell are the ones who should have been there. You wouldn't have survived.
Absolutely correct. Anyone who has ever opened a book on World War II should know this.
@6:45 Misinformation: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union did not "simultaneously" invade Poland. Germany attacked on September 1. Soviet forces didn't enter Poland until September 17th. By that date, most of western poland had been occupied by Nazi forces, and Warsaw was encircled.
Well Ty Mr Pedantic. The Russians already conspired with the Nazis to invade Poland. So for all intents it was simultaneous and if you were a Pole, then you’d feel like it was.
Correct
It was still under the non aggression pact . Soviets were implicated by their inaction alone which isolated Poland and helped facilitate the german invasion.
So it is not inaccurate to say they simultaneously invaded . Poland was isolated from day 1 50% because of the Soviets.
@@lukeskywalker3329 Words have meaning. Troops don't invade if they don't actually invade.
As for inaction, that's much better than, say, giving over 5 entire countries to the Nazis and fascists *before* September 1939, as the Western Allies did. (Ethiopia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Spain, & Albania). Greatly empowered the Axis with gifts of entire countries.
Thank you bc that was bugging me
The Eastern Front was just beyond imagination...just unlimited horror
that's been a fact for a long long time yet time n again even now land wars in Russia vs Russia is not gonna work
Temujin "genghis khan" was far worse, he did all using swords, the murders after the battles that is.
As is the war in Ukraine.
@@samuelj2408 30 mill dead?
Totally agree… lived in Germany too,that Siberian wind cuts thru you, the screaming cold I called it.
But the further East you go it gets far colder than the -28c I experienced.
They had it face on attacking Russia..
Words useless
Do not underestimate the love of human beings for their homeland, rich or poor, strong or weak a home is never traded to anything else.
And Germans waged so called Der Vernichtungskrieg (War on Destruction) on the Eastern Front. This was absolutely no match for the war in the West. The French losing the war with Hitler lost their statehood, essentially, but there was never a perspective for their extermination as a nation. In the East Germans envisaged the death of thirty million Russians only at the first stage of occupation. With a perspective of totally substituting the Russian population by the German one in a period of roughly one hundred years. For Russians it was literally the war for survival.
I feel sorry for you.
A lot of his generals couldn’t stomach being subordinate to a corporal.
Great coverage on such a tough topic.
Stalin was way worse than Hitler
Did british not have hunger plan in india during ww2?
You are absolutely right my friend..Millions of ordinary people died of hunger in ww2 in modern day Bangladesh and Kolkata when Winston Churchill ordered to collect all the wheat saying that indians breed like rabbits and shiped it to Britain to make bread for allied troops fighting in the Italy and Normandy....soviets were also supplied with food by USA and UK even then millions died of starvation their due to wrong policies of Stalin and scorched earth policy both of soviets and Germans ... Only the siege of Leningrad and battle of Stalingrad led to the death of more than five millions and forced the citizens to cannabolism but it was not going to happen if Stalin has allowed evacuation of civilians from these cities....
Stalin always knew Germany was going to invade the Soviet Union, the reason the invasion surprised him is he was 100% sure Hitler would not invade as long as he still had Britain to deal with
Your title says 1942. The invasion occurred in the 1941! Whoever is interested in the war sees 1942 and says this is not worth watching.
Yeah, a YT Typo tragedy
Yes but the operation was still ongoing in 1942 and was for the vast majority of the time successful. From Sunday the 22nd of June 1941, until Thursday the 1st of January 1942.
It became Hitler’s obsession during 1942. Bc he wouldn’t let his armies retreat and regroup. He forced them to overextend their supply lines and have to face the winter unprepared.
Weren’t you listening?
@@flashgordon6670hitler wasn t obssesed with the invasion by 1942, by that point he had no alternative but to finnish what he started and get the oil which germany desperately needs to continue the war, and he allowed a lot of retreats even during the battle of moscow, there were few cases where retreat would have been suicide and he again listened to his generals and for their suggestion gave the 2th army a standfast order
Not a fan of Nazis of course, however aiding Russia by USA and GB was criminal
You consider the US and UK supplying military aid and humanitarian aid to the USSR to keep the Soviet Union in the war to not only be _criminal_ acts, but _criminal_ acts *_exceeding_* the death and destruction caused by Adolph Hitler from 1933-1945?
If not you would be speaking german
He couldn’t care less about his son….
Please correct the typo in the title... It's driving me "obsessed."
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It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage documentary about Barbarossa operation part 1... Thank you 🙏(the war channel ) for sharing this magnificent documentary
No coats for German troops? That completely a logistics matter. If you have only one rail line to the front, what are you going to send? Ammo, food, spare parts to keep the several different types of armor going, medical supplies, or clothes? The Germans lost the war in the East due to poor logistics. The rail lines and roads in the Soviet Union just couldnt support their invasion. Half of German armor conked out from dust and the wear and tear of Soviet dirt roads. So do you ship spare parts or coats?
Who will operate the weapons if your troops have no coats
@@soberanisfam1323 I agree. But we werent there and we now have the knowledge that they lacked.The plan was to capture Moscow by Winter. The Germans were locked into that plan.
16:35 Stalin's son Yakov wasn't captured in Smolensk he was captured in Vitebsk, Belarus. It's all there on the German propaganda leaflet.
Who Cares !! Bolshevik & VATNiK🤡
Tell me bro what's happening to yakov stalin son,?
ALL THESE EXPERTS AND NOT ONE IS STATING THE FACT THAT THE OPERATION WAS SLATED TO HAVE BEGUN 3 MONTHS earliery!!!!! IF IT HAD THINGS WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY DIFFERENT
No they wouldn’t. The weather wouldn’t have made a difference. They would have still lost.
All these people taking part in this documentary. I wonder what their opinion is on WW3 happening from their knowledge of the past and wisdom if any to pass on.✌️☘️
As for Marshal Tukhachevskiy. Don't overestimate him as an capable army commander. Essentially, he was a lieutenant of WW1, who was captured as a POW in the beginning of the war and could escape only at the end of it. So he had practically no expirience of the Great War with its millions sized armies. All his expirience was with the Civil War but it was a very peculiar war. The Reds managed to mobilise up to 10 mln people into the Red Army, which was far far more than the Whites. But the trick was that they have at any given moment only armies the size of tens of thousands at most. Why? Because of incessant mass desertions. You can't install a real discipline in the civil war, it's impossible. So there were numerous cases when one and the same man was drafted several times in the Red Army and in the meantime he even managed to serve in this or that White Army! Add to that the fact that the Civil War was led with mainly small arms (even machine guns were in short supply) and light field artillery. No aircraft and tanks in single numbers. That wasn't the experience for the future big war
You are all wrong Heinz Guderian came up with the idea.
Manstein took credit for it, and Hitler approved it.
🤓 smart ass #!!! ☝️👊💯
I love my GERMAN🐕🦺Shepard more then my Wife
The T-34 production ramped up with all the USA steel. It was an incredible invention by the Soviets with the tilted armor. It astonished the Nazis when they encountered it.
As for M-R pact, one hasn't to forget that it was signed only after many months' tripartite talks between USSR on one side and Britain and France, on the other these talks had been absolutely fruitless, first and foremost because western delegation had no authority for signing a biding agreement. The stance of the British delegation was even more harder: it had a specific instruction not to tell anything significant to the Soviet side. Maybe Stalin was paranoid, but he certainly felt scam and treachery.
You forget that Russia aided Hitler's Germany in Weapons R&D and Production circumventing the Treaty of Versailles for more than a decade prior to 1941.
Tyvm for that! I learned something, lol!
What are you trying to say, that if France, Britain and Russia all allied first, Hitler wouldn’t have invaded Russia?
What are you smoking?
@colder5465 The Brutish and French were unwilling to turn over Poland and Eastern Europe to Stalin's tender mercies.
@@dennisweidner288 Yet without the abilities to enforce, as today, look East. I can remember disagreeing about our navs and had to find chill until first light to prove East. It's strange knowing that you are the only one who's correct, dawn proved it.
What you mean Russia has a winter? Nooo
Do the British have exclusive rights on WW2 documentaries. TH-cam seems to think so.
I always asked myself that too! 😂
It's Sir Max Hastings...he wrote EVERY book!
Only if it's the European theater of operations not so much if it's the Pacific theater.
Please elaborate, I haven’t heard about this before
The victors write history,,,,,,,,,there ya go
Germans lost a lot in Smolensk including many of the veterans who had fought in France that the Generals came to the conclusion this is going to be a long war.
Very interesting Video But All the Historians omit one quite important fact about the Shiny Mechanised German Army Invading Russia in 1941 and that was only about 30 percent was Mechanised the rest or the other 70 percent was Horse Drawn so the Infantry and Artillery etc. All had to play catch up with the Mechanised Spearheads along with the supplies etc. and thus Negating Blitzkrieg into rather more like a Caterpillar with the slower parts always playing Catch up until its in Retreat!
Nazi Germany was simply unprepared for the war they found themselves in.
Stalin should've read Mein Kampf. He would never have signed a treaty with Hitler if he had
He had eh book with passage underlined he new war way hitler wiz on but fought he had more time
The Newspaper shown (40:18) when speaking about Hitler assuming supreme power over the army is from 1938
Hitler was a megalomaniac as were most high ranking Nazi leaders.Germany did have however some of the finest military leaders of WW2.
If Hitler had accepted the alliance that Stalin had proposed...they'd have won the war. The Soviets would have been the same bullet sponges for the Nazis that they were for the western Allies in the end. Whichever side had the Soviet Union had the victory just in sheer numbers.
Exaclty! with the Russians, they could of fended off the Americans from the upper north regions closing passage of the Atlantic while the Japanese would close the Pacific. the Americans wouldint be able to bring aid to Britian and with her greatest ally being France out of the picture, Britain was on her own for the first time in centuries. he could of slowly pulled apart their empire starting with India and working his great army all the way up leaving Britain starving and defenseless while the Americans and anzac stand on their own against 2 formidable enemies on the eastern front. his arrogance costed him to pull off what many conquers couldn't in the end.
Not to mention, it was his commanders that won him France, he let that go to his head and believed it was his strategy.
Molotov? Isn't there a cocktail named after him?
don’t drink it !
10 minutes of silence! What’s up with that?
Nazis in Washington still obcessed....😂
A group of Englishmen pontificating on the story of the Invasion of the USSR? 😂
The story that the majority of Hitler’s generals opposed Operation Barbarossa is a post war myth. In early 1941 the German General Staff thought it would not be too difficult to accomplish. Many of Hitler’s generals shared his contempt for the Slavs. They were also shared his anti semitism.
What are your sources? Sounds like you’re making things up. Because from what I know German generals had already been against the invasion of Poland and very vocal about it which created an eternal friction between the staff and Hiler + some German general themselves had known Slavic ancestry by the way.
In the east Germany had more to deal with than Russia... US and British supplies came rushing into Russia
And tanks, planes, guns were being manufactured in the Urals by then
And Russia has a winter don’t you know.
According to the main title, how can this part - 1 be covering 1942 and not 1941 first? is there a part - 0?
The map of Europe is wrong. Kosovo And Metohia is part of Serbia.
The Wehrmacht would have conquered Russia but they couldn't because Germany didn't give them methamphetamines like they did earlier in the war.
Smoke pot and dont make war
What a load of nonsense 😂 not to mention that all sides drugged their soldiers
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Joe Biden and Mayorkas have been able to do it to the USA, open borders bro ... 😢
First! And congrats to a great channel.
22:00
Is this regular playback speed or is it in slow motion?
They never invaded simultaneously 😅
Girls when they get rejected by art school: *dramatic crying*
Boys when they get rejected by art school:
They become losers?
I wish the vienna art school had accepted him !
@hokro245fa would not have made a bit of difference.
@@thomashenebry8269 relax, bro, I was just making a hyperbole
Operation Barbarossa was nothing to do with racial superiority or any other justification such as Liebensraum[living space]. This did not apply to the invasion of the Soviet Union, because by April 1941 the Reds had 170 divisions of soldiers just waiting at Europe's eastern front, ready to invade. Barbarossa was an attempt to destroy the threat of Bolshevism forever.. also it wasn't just Germany. It was a 6 nation attack : including the armies of Finland, Romania, Hungary, Italy[60,000], Croatia and 47,000 Spanish soldiers[the Republican side was sponsored by the Soviet union during the bloody Spanish civil war so even though Spain was neutral during World War 2, General Franco knew about the dangers of the communist Reds]... there were also 2 divisions of Belgian troops going into Russia... the Waffen SS were the ideological shock troops of Europe at this time and were the first truly multi-national European army..
Your comment just reveals lack of understanding of historical context.
Germany was very interested in expansionism, including before and during ww1. Like Japan and Italy, Germany’s economic ideology relied on the need for capture of resources and expansion so that it could be more self reliant. And even other nations, like Britain obviously did this during colonialism. Obviously, East, where the so called inferior Slavs and Jews lived, the land was rich in vast resources.
Germany was very crowded, did not by itself have many natural resources, and Hitler envisioned a self sufficient Germany.
Lebensraum wasn’t anything knew. It was part of the psyche of many Germans before Hitler even came to power.
And finally as mentioned, Hitler’s foreign policy isn’t even unique; all the axis powers believed in expansionism for similar reasons, although not as racially motivated.
Hitlers worst enemy was himself.
a successful ''OPERATiON TYPHOON 2.0 🙏❤
Hitler did not devise the plan to invade France himself. [19:00] That was an incredibly stupid comment. But he did select the plan devised by Manstein/Guderian'. That is true.
Evil always overplays its hand.
He was a tiny bit less evil than Hitler.
Oy vey
Without english subtitles this and other videos are completely useless
Europa - the last battle
Nazi propaganda fantasy. Historians literally laugh at it and anyone who falls for 21st century Nazi movies.
WHY DIDNT THE IMPERIAL GERMAN ARMY TAKE RUSSIA?
We’ve been lied to about hitler, Nazism and the little hat people
the chewish people
Yes, Hitler didn’t die in the Fuhrer bunker, they always get that bit wrong.
He and Eva Braun escaped to Argentina. Watch the documentary film Greywolf and Mark Felton videos Find the Fuhrer, if you don’t believe me.
Yeah you have Mx but not by who you think. You’ve been lied to by neonazis on TH-cam trying to whitewash the greatest war crimes and mass murder in history. And you believe them.
Indeed. More and more are seeing through the lies especially given that what Britain is now is a direct consequence of WW2.
Germany certainly did not have the greatest military of all time, that's just ignorant. They didn't even have the greatest military at that time obviously, unless they won the war and I'm mistaken. They defeated Poland only because the Soviets invaded Poland at the same time. They defeated France because the French generals were 100 years old and brain dead. Other than that, who did they defeat? The answer is NOBODY. The US had by far the greatest military, and kicked them around like a cat toy when they got there. Greatest military ever, maybe the most stylish when they marched. Stylish fancy boys, that's something to be proud of.
Your ww2 knowledge basically is just this: memes. And that’s fine but then please stop polluting actual history channels
The Brits we're holding out and fighting Nazi Germany in WWII.
American only entered WWII after the Japanese attack in Pearl Harbour.
Otherwise the would'nt have even bothered
Superb documentary 👍
Too much emphasis on the winter…. the defeat was much sooner.
Oops 😮 🙊 my bad addie hitter
4:02 this is a absolute lie.. the Jews and Stalin were close and they actually had power In Russia during this time
My grand father was in the waffen SS 1940-45. He said he was so sorry for cooking
GEWS in the ovens.
He said poor GEWSS where baked like bagels.
He said he was just having a good time trying to chill out. He said too bad they
did not have micro wave ovens back then. It would of been faster.
.. Grand pa cracks me up when he laughs about all the baking they did. I laugh
too.
You go Grand ..pa...keep baking them....ha....ha....ha...!!