Eastern Front animated: 1944/1945
In 1944 Germany still refuses to surrender. This means that the Red Army and the Western Allies must move into the Reich to end the war. If before the Germans had to fight on foreign soil with extended supply lines, then now the tables are turned. The Allied numerical superiority of just 2:1 may give Germany a fair chance in conducting a defense.
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Map:
Terrain
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Infrastructure:
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Other: British 1944 1:2000,000 maps of Europe.
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Bulgaria, Finland and Romania be like “I’ve never met this Germany in my life”
And Italy
sanmaz Italy would be more like “What’s a Germany?”
Italy would be like a flood. And Germany how can be flood himself?
SUOMI MAINITTU PERRRKELE
@@ajappinen1007 torilla tavataan
Germany- "Okay Romania, we really need you to hold the front in the South!" Romania- "I don't even know who you are"
"I have never met this man in my life."
ZachsFilms the Romanian are so trustful like today 😂😂
@i wonder if you're reading this Oh come on, I am sure it's not all that bad.
@i wonder if you're reading this I traveled to Romania 6 years ago. Visited Bucharest and a lot of medieval castles. Was quite an interesting experience. Believe me, my Russia is a bigger shithole rn :)
@i wonder if you're reading this I talked to a random romanian hes so ashamed of his corrupt country and his thief people.
I learned about Army Group Center from my grandfather who was stationed in Germany at the end/after the war. He had met a german survivor of the encirclement, who told him about the Eastern front. Combined with my grandfathers Normandy stories and "I was hunted house by house" Dutch stories, it's a miracle I was ever born.
This guy teached me in 20 minutes more than my history teacher could in 4 years
I am Russian and I know the history of WW2 as it was in favor of our lessons
That's what I love about these KZhead history videos. They're so succinct and yet packed with so much information.
History classes in primary school and highschool cover way too much to go into detail on battlefield strategy and tactics of specific wars....A history class on WW2 specifically in college? Sure.
Clearly your English teacher too, since you don't know it's taught instead of teached.
Teached you? Maybe try watching some 1st grade English youtube videos.
Play the video in reverse if you wanna see Steiner's glorious counter-attack.
Yes yes I will
how? on mobile btw
Me dont understand
u mad man
Lol
Germany: Team!!!??? Italy has disconnected Finland has disconnected Romania joined the enemy team. Bulgaria has disconnected. Japan: I am on the other side of the map!
Soviet union connected party Germany left the party
Japan: lost connection
Finland Joined the Soviet army in removing Nazis in 1944.
Hungary: I'm still with you man!
A part of Italy joined the enemy team
Amazing work! A simple yet comprehensive animated video with so much efforts and details.. good job..
Thank you - this covers so much !! It would have taken me dozens of hours to have learned this. The scope and ferocity of fighting on the Eastern front is impossible for most to even begin to imagine.. ,
This is truly your Magnum Opus, fantastic work on this Eastory.
Truly decent effort. Kudos to the lad.
Oustanding work once again
RedGaming Studio four now
It's so weirdly fast and concise, I read books about this shit all day and these videos are marvels in odd clarity, all the encirclement battles nobody even thinks of after they read "Stalingrad" books vaguely blow your mind.
17:05 - Steiner's glorious attack begins.
Well you got me fooled
Now I to be drowned by Vodka and Bavarian beer at same times
hahq
Why are you gay
Aaaaaand it´s gone!
Thank you for taking your time to make this. Very informative.
Far more people should see this... Brilliant series, you've earned my subscription and so many more, Eastory, I'm sure you medal's lost in the post. This is probably the best video about the Eastern Front on KZhead.
Finally,the best series on KZhead completed.
yes
He should do a series on the Pacific theater of WW2
Slava CCCP
Is a good series but I don't know is it the best because there are so many good ones out there like the great war and second world war.
@@justinlo3799 why do we keep calling WWI the "great war". 🤔
Allies: So which side are you on exactly? Finland: Yes.
Finland just wanted their lost land back from the 1938 winter war with Russia. Finland got off lucky at the end of the war and was not taken completely over by Stalin like Eastern Europe in the end.
@@Crashed131963 1939-1940
@@lesliefranklin1870 OOOPs , thanks.
Finnish in Lenningrad: hipitty hoppity your part of your country is now our property Russians: NANI!
Törni: any side that kill commies.
This is a great visual way to present this part of the conflict, thank you! Would be great to see similar for the Pacific.
These visuals are incredible. Thank you ! Please make more 🙏
5:19 There was some funny story about gaining acces to Baltic sea. One general decided to take glass of water from Baltic sea and deliver it personaly to Stalin. When soldier, who literaly spent few days on plane with that glass, finaly came to Stalin he said:"Glass of water from reconquered Baltic States!" by that time they lost this part. Stalin and other people laughed and then he said to soldier:"Go back to your general and tell him to return water where he took it"
That was general Ivan Bagramyan, that did it
The mad lad general
@@lepsinadesutulaya Balkan and Baltic are two completely different things
@@lepsinadesutulaya arent all seas salty?
Damn that's a nice responce
Soviet Union: They had us in the first half, not gonna lie
Radical Junior Soviet Union just pulled out a uno fucking reverse card
@@user-od2ju7ci9x во во а сша напали в 1944 потому что поняли что ссср всю европу захватит и решили тоже кусок отхапать.
Они не хотели чтобы Европа была Социалистическай.
Nah They didn't mean only 1/3 of the Panzers were left, and the infantry lost all their combat units and were replaced with inexperienced troops. Then Winter hit. Operation Barbarossa was brutal during the first few months and the Germans never encountered such fierce resistance
@RadicalJunior Germany had the most superior militairy in the world at the time + element of surprise they would have had any1 bro. Take away those 2 elements and they would have never gotten near Stalingrad. Only after USA joined the war Germany lost that edge. The most impressive feat in WW2 is Russia pushing back Germany with pretty much manpower alone and if you look at the Stalingrad numbers you will be shocked
Sheer excellence. That's why I still love KZhead. Thank you very much for those historical contributions.
This video has always been an inspiration. Excelent job mate. Excelent work in WW2 as well.
Great finale! Was looking forward to seeing who would win! :D
Steiner's counter-offensive solved all problems and defeated the whole red army )))
How do people comment so early
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Hitler: I’m going to invade the Soviet’s capital Stalin: *pull out reverse uno card*
Stalin: +4, change the colour to red. Hitler: nein! Stalin: red +2, red +2, red miss a turn, red back to me, red + 2, UNO, red 0, OUT-O!
You are genius!
@G E T R E K T 905 I'm sorry that I didn't conform to the meme standard that you were seeking. However, must I remind you that the essence of meme, according to the one who formulate the word himself Richard Dawkins, draws parallels between the nature of gene and genetic adaptation. Therefore, to Dawkins and similar to genes, memes mutate.
@G E T R E K T 905 maybe you, are the dumb one here
Thks for you comment bro! deaths WW2... 1) 520 000 French 2) 400 000 Italians 3) 320 000 British 4) 325 000 Americans 5) 364 000 Chechs and Slovaks 6) 1 600 000 Yugoslavians 7) 6 028 000 Poles 8) 9 700 000 Germans 9) 20 000 000 Soviets and many more from other countries..... YOUR NAME IS UNKNOW.... YOUR DEAD IS IMMORTAL!!!!
Am reading "The Fall of Berlin 1945" by Antony Beevor - this animation was really helpful in understanding the expansive front. Stunning the number of people involved, whether in an army or civilian. Many thanks for the video.
thank you so much for yuor crews co-workers to make this video this is more understand the war in europe. i acknowledge you works this keeps the histories alive... thank you again.
Germany: Alright guys we got this. Romania: *I serve the Soviet Union*
Bruh
Truly made me laugh
The USSR defeated German and Japanese fascism. One struggled with industry across Europe. Freed the whole of Europe and Asia from fascism. The Americans were the only ones in the world to drop 2 nuclear bombs on the civilian wooden cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the USSR had already defeated the Kwantung army in the Manchuria of China. Communism as the most just society United people, not killed. Look at China's communism now. The Chinese Communists are working on the Soviet economy.
Quốc Việt Đỗ Phú fucking pussy holes fuck the Eastern European’s no loyalty
@@artart3644 Half of what you are saying just sounds like dumb rambling, you a Russian troll trying to promote some glorified image of communism? You seem to skip on the part that this same just society of communism is to blame for about 8 million plus deaths under Stalin (low estimate, high is about 20 million) and about 50-70 million deaths under Communist Mao Zedong's rule in China. In other words the death toll under these 2 great periods of communist society exceeded the total death toll during WW2. And now back to you smart ass ;)
Steiner's counter attack will commence any minute now Update: The 9th Army is encircled
Steiner was captured last month and executed
What about FEGHELEIN!
Hes on the western front encircled in denmark
Manstein is the prauge
And Rommel committed suicide.
Thank you for this glorious explanation of the complexities of war. I never knew the detail of this, having read and seen many sources. This is a triumph.
1941: The Soviets won't last long. 1942: The end of the Soviets will be complete. 1943: Damn Soviets. Eliminate the Kursk salient and we will be rolling like last year. 1944: I wish we eliminated the Kursk salient. 1945: I wish we didn't invade the USSR.
@RompeIdiotasConRetraso 69 it's debatable and no one really agrees with anyone else, but the Germans still had a realistic chance of beating the Soviets until Kursk. Stalingrad and Africa was the end of the beginning, Sicily and Kursk was the beginning of the end. Bagration and Normandy were the nails going into the coffin lid. Berlin was the burial.
@RompeIdiotasConRetraso 69 thank you sir! Cheers from Canada.
😂😂😂 savage
Big kick and it all fall - A Famous Painter
@@yyyaaa3928 I love that reference.
Smh Germany could just open console and write Annex sov
tag eng *deletes entire army* tag ger
Erel Batish They were using Ironman mode
@Fabian Kirchgessner Was willst du hier?
@Fabian Kirchgessner Lern Deutsch, lese Kant!
impossible against all mighty soviet hax0rs
Excellent. This visual form of presentation is one of the best tools to teach history.
You and the great war taught me more about the world wars than school ever did thanks you
Well, it’s 2021 and we’re still waiting for Steiner’s attack
Winning comment.
Dude Steiner is in Argentina 🇦🇷 he is renforcing Germans for uprising
@@xGARIDx If Steiner carried out his attack he could've relieved Berlin and push Russia and the allies back to their capitals
any day now...any day now
He is still waiting for the 25th panzergrenadier Division, they could be there any minute now
80% of the German army was destroyed in the eastern front..I just can't imagine what would have happened if the Russian lost in the east. I would be probably writing this in German
where are you coming from ?
Deutsch ist eine sehr schöne Sprache! German is a very nice language!
@@lukasbecker1201 Yes , of course but the 1939 german army was close to dominate the world.
@@thebigmonstaandy6644 From the americas ..and you?
@@gentil77 Germany.Why do think,you would probably writing in German,if Sowjets lost in the east?Hitler would never invade USA.
Great way of explaining such a difficult subject!
This is honestly amazing and fascinating. Great job.
Do you know in which app author make his animations( war consequence)?
And today is the 22nd of June, the day Germany started the war against USSR. Previous video was February the 2nd, the day the battle for Stalingrad was won. Thank you for sticking to these dates, you’re the best!
I think it's also to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Bagration.
78 years ago
Wait really???
Smetana Dvorak today, June 23rd, the red army launched operation bagration, this would lead to the liberation of bielorussia and to the start of the end of the Second World War.
@@Loup-mx7yt It was June 22, exactly 3 years after the start of Operation Barbarrosa. Stalin purposely launched Operation Bagration exactly 3 years after that.
Army Group Center: *EXISTS* Stalin: Im gonna do whats called a pro-gamer move
Zukhov: I'm going to end these men's whole career!
@@r.c.1881 stalin's gamer moves were knowing what to delegate. zhukov's def the mvp
@@vikingskippen Zhukov was pretty lame, just glorified by soviet propaganda. He made a lot of stupid decisions. Won because he had more men.
@@cytrynowy_melon6604 Really?!
Tom Wheeler please just read books , not Wikipedia
動画の内容も分かりやすかったし、日本語訳も的確だからすごい分かりやすかった！
Best animated war clips yet. THANKS
Basically war is how to incircle your enemy
Blitzkrieg tactics - yes
How can a verified person only have 5 likes?
Eh well, War is broadly speaking about destroying the enemy. Encirclement is just one way of approach. Attrition, “surgical” strikes, economic war, propaganda are just some of the rest of the tools that can be used.
In that time period. Pretty impossible to do that in Vietnam.
More than that. WWI wouldn't have been four years long if it was so simple. Germany and Austria - Hungary were caught up between UK - France and Russia.
This is why you don’t play in Ironman Mode.
i mean the nazis could just /annex SOV lol
DEGS *germans
There is something I do when the war is lost. I get my weapon and kill myself before Hitler kills me for my incompetence Don’t judge me I live in the HOI4 universe but I somehow got to this universe
Need to produce more tank and do more encerclement, russis is really easy to fight in early game
Ironman mode just doesn't allow you to use commands
Excellent description of the EASTERN Front... Thanks for this project.
you can read every document, every history book, every plan, but when you watch a map with colours moving on it, you can get a true scale of how dramatic this conflict was, amazing video 11/10 👍
15:05 for those wondering: The 3rd SS Panzerkorps that you can see north of Berlin is the "Kampfgruppe Steiner". The same Kampfgruppe that Hitler ordered to relieve Berlin but failed to do so, resulting in a rage of Hitler best remembered in the movie "Downfall".
Like some other commenter said,what Steiner could have done with 10 tanks?
@@kaletovhangar Absolutely nothing. It was delusional of Hitler to think that an attack could have done anything.
DASHWA ANG BAFE
@@kaletovhangar LOOK AT IT? DO YOU NOT SEE IT? Yeah me either lol they would have just gotten squashed like the rest of the panzer corps lol
It's not just merely 10 tanks, most of the 3rd army have been engaging the soviet defensively. Steiner only had 2 police battalions available for the assault and they had no heavy weapons, definitely suicidal to even try attacking the sieging belorussian army
*Germany on the phone:* I need you to hold Romania! *Romania:* new phone who dis?
Hahahhaha
more like "yo, remember when you gave northern Transylvania to Hungary, and southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria? we remember. The red army sends their regards."
@@scasino9358 Northen-Tranilvania in that time had hungarian majority. the romanians why annexed the area of trnasnistria where the romanians had only 7-8% of the full population?
@@scasino9358 "when you came BACK to Hungary.."
This is Patrick!!!
Excellent video. The narrative and explanation is clear. Bravo!
6:25 - I love that switzerland is a lake :D
as an Australian we were taught about the western front and the pacific war, the eastern front was barely mentioned as a tiny little footnote. its shocking to see a video like this and realize how important the soviet offensive was. i guess with the Cold War they wanted to downplay the communist share of the victory
Yes. I was born and brought up in New Zealand and at school in the 60s we were taught the plucky Brits, with us Anzacs (and some help from the USA) won the war.
@Ricardo Allmeida Nah. Germany was wearing thin by this time but the Soviet Union could've kept pumping out blood and machinery forever.
Good that you know it now. Western propaganda is a huge lie and mind control. The price for that Victory was over 20 millions deads of Soviet people, millions of those people were civilians killed by Nazi Germans during the occupation. Plus Nazi Europeans took over 6 millions Jewish lives all over the Europe. Soviet union is the reason why Nazi don't rule the world now. As for western front - well, I have respect for those brave soldiers, but they only joined the war when the result was obvious and it was only matter of time. Yes, USA entered Europe at the end of the war only to gain control over Europe after the WWII, but as fot the soldiers who gave their lives to fight Nazis - I gave all my respect and honor. Too bad, that after war Western propaganda washed the brains of their people.
The entire Second World War was against the USSR, against the first and only state in which all profits from production were public and there was not a single billionaire parasite !!!! World War II was the last attempt to defeat the state itself with the help of force with the fairest system invented
@Ricardo Allmeida 20 million? Or maybe 100 billion, don't you? You always have to lie !!!! Steal property that is built on free labor, slaves? You are a brainwashed idiot, you are a slave with the help of which they build their property)))
Soviet: destroying 80% of the Germany army America and British: "We are catching up"
@Vinlon Voss its just an joke
68%
@@robberhans9307 thanks
@@robberhans9307 69*
@@dennisweidner288 thanks for the inforation dude
Glad to see this great channel explaining to Americans and other Angloids about the role of the USSR in WWII. Also Steiner nerds be like: "Where is Moskowien?"
The USSR was dumb. Shouldn't have allied the Nazis. The USSR only won thanks to US land lease lol.
Well done ! Thank you. Fascinated by the eastern front
LOL Germany in 1945 be like: we are gonna leave the troops in Russia territory just in case of future offensives
the delusion
TIK made a whole series about that, including a video discussing exactly this question. (12. episode) The series: kzhead.info/sun/qK6smtyLnXRtf6s/bejne.html
@@gameer0037 it was quite a good show. Seems like "springboard" was largely propaganda, and evacuation was basically impossible.
hq3473 yeah, evacuation was nearly impossible. But holding on to the curland pocket made some sense aswell. Clearly Eastprussia was prioritized in Terms of evacuation because of the benefits for holding on on baltic territory. (Submarine training bases, army group north could hold their ground, keeping finland as long i the war as possible)
Well think about why Hitler did this. He had two options and two options olny: Victory or death. There was no middle ground for him, no survivial in defeat. So slim as the chances might have been its actually logical from his position to plan for a victory in the future rather than planing on delaying the advance a little longer. At least to me this makes sense - if your willing to sacrifice houndrets of thousands of your own for very small chance to live on. He obviously was willing to do that.
Soviet: *enter the Balkans* Bulgaria and Romania: I've never met Germany my whole life!
russia in 1991: i dont feel so good ukraine: get yo ass out of our land
@Alexei *mongol horns blowing in the east*
@@nxibba the irony here is that parts of current Ukraine and Crimea was never Ukrainian. It was given to them by the soviets.
@@uncleadi neither was north bucovina or southern bessarabia, but thats a topic i dont care about discussing
@Alexei no lol
Legends say that Steiner is still planning his counter attack
Fuck you
the legend say that hitler is still counfusing that steiner didn't attack
Great stuff, thanks!!!
I learned practically nothing about the eastern front of World War 2 in my history class. They really just mentioned Stalingrad and the fall of Berlin in 1945 and that was it. But while our history teacher spent altogether maybe 10 minutes explaining the Eastern Front, we spent at least 80% of the time we spent learning about World War 2 talking about D Day, Pearl Harbor and the use of the atomic bombs on Japan. Talk about downplaying the greatest global conflict in human history by only teaching half the story.
would it be a surprise for you, that post-soviet schools learn at history classes nothing except eastern front stuff? And, I assume, asian folks are like "What? Europe? Africa? They had war too? Why nobody told me at school about this shit?"
Excuse me I'm asian and I know about all fronts ._.
@@economicapple2609 is it though because of your school history classes? And what you mean "know"? Dude above once heard word "Stalingrad" at class - does it count as he "know" about eastern front?
@@praetorhispaniae4832 well uh not because of school lol asians read widely.
@@economicapple2609 that's what I was pointing on
Stalin: want to hear a joke? hitler: sure stalin: moscow hitler: I don't get it stalin: exactly
Foking lololol XD
Helsinki
Beautiful
@@mikeymoo8262 *BLYATIFUL*
Napoleon: haha, I get it!
I am writing a book about my life in intersection with a Soviet Red Army Officer who I met in the USA. The series of videos regarding the movements from 1942 to 1945 confirmed his recollections as further evidenced through his battle certificates. Thank you for putting this together so accurately and comprehensively.
Great animation! Better explained than any of books i had as a student!
Just thanks for the series!
I appreciate this video of HARD WORK!
You can just see the man hours put in to this
@@TheOperationsRoom The Germans and Soviets spent years for this video, that's what i call HARD WORK.
@@AKaptijn94 You certainly aren't wrong there
It's amazing that the Battle of the Bulge, which is known as one of the biggest and bloodiest battles the US saw in WWII was basically a tiny footnote compared to the saga of the Eastern front. I knew that the Eastern front was massive and horrific, but until I watched this series did not understand just how much. Thank you for creating these videos. EDIT: Thanks to those who left thoughtful and interesting replies. I want to rant because others are missing the point of my comment and want to argue for no reason about the least important things: I said footnote IN COMPARISON. Example: WWI was less destructive globally IN COMPARISON to WWII. I am not saying WWI was any less tragic.
And battle of the bulge, the Germans specifically brought troops from the Eastern front to ardennes because they were considered tougher and battle hardened.
that's a wrong way to characterize the Battle Of The Bulge ("a tiny footnote")
Ruby band it is what it is if you compare to the eastern front scale
matthew arnold we did great part of wwii fighting Japan Italy and Germans in the west Europe, but here we comparing whole eastern campaign of 6 million + Germans 80% of best German army with Battle of the Bulge where 400 thousand and later 50 thousand more Germans surprise attacked us on western front. Clearly it’s unfair to compare whole campaign vs just 1 battle but however if you do compare such than of course Battle Of The Bulge will be like a tiny footnote which is more popular here in the US than whole eastern campaign. Most people here in US just don’t understand how big wwii was. Most movies about wwii you will see here is about little part of a huge monstrous war that it was. We don’t even celebrate V day and don’t even know when is the V day, but Russians do even today still celebrate May 9 every year.
@@RubyBandUSA It's just a comparison. The way that the POWER of bobs dropped at Hiroshima/Nagasaki were "footnotes" compared to the tzar bomba. Here I am not saying that the events at Hiroshima/Nagasaki are footnotes. Likewise with my comment, I was in no way minimizing the battle itself, but understanding the sheer scope of battles in the Eastern front.
Мой дед дошёл до Берлина. Сначала был артиллеристом, а потом взяли его в разведку. Сейчас смотрю и думаю: как он там выжил?!
Was he a German soldier
@@hashirrizwan6371 It is written that he reached Berlin. Where did he come from and who could he be?
It was a Bolshevik plague, like all the Soviets and their rotten communism
@@hashirrizwan6371bro r U high the comment is in the Cyrillic alphabet so its not a German dude typing this plus no German counterattacks reached berlin
@@hashirrizwan6371 for this to happen, he would have had to be Stirlitz. There is no other option.
Excellent absolutely. It could be interesting to do a sort of legenda for the circles and the squares in the map.in order to know the approssimative divisions composition.
Germany: Ok guys we need to turn this thing around Italy: Sorry my mom called me for dinner Romania: Sorry my mom called me for dinner Bulgaria: Sorry my mom called me for dinner Finland: Sorry my mom called me for dinner Hungary: ok we can 3v1 the- Japan: dude help i'm being 3v1ed!
Slovakia:Hey guys sorry I was afk-WTH HAPPEND HERE?! GERMANY HELP! Germany:I also need help... Slovakia:oh, well I am already dead -USSR killed Slovakia- -Slovakcoolgamer69 left the game- - Finnlandthepro changed teams- Finnland:Perkele Germany:Scheisse. -DeutscherProGamer commited suicide- Western Allies:GG Guys :) USSR:All too easy...
Hoi4 mp in a nutshell
Nah for japan it should be: I’m on the other said of the map!
Double crossing, coward b*tches. Shame on them (Nazi is bad tho)
@@user_698 watch yo language im german and btw its scheiße
Finland surely don’t like to remember THIS fin-soviet war, don’t they?
In 1944 all the mistakes from 1939/1940 were avoided. First of all: No minus 40 degrees winter. For B4 Howitzers the Mannerheim-line was easy prey.
Amazing Work!!!
If my history classes had been like this, I would have paid attention.
excautly
Thing is, war history is less useful than context and global history It’s better to know why war happened and what were the consequences than how war was fought (eventho its more interesting)
I StM I no one gives a shit to why that only needs a small segment but to say how it happened people wouldn’t want war and they’ll appreciate things more
ExpressionAmidstCacophony the excuses of a mediocre value man
@@pigpimp6912 knowing positions and manuveurs hardly informs people of the horrors of war
as an american born in the 50's, you can imagine how facinating this video is to me. I am glad i lived long enough to see this!!!!!!!!! I wish my father had lived long enough to see it. He finished ROTC in '45, and was discharged before the Korean War, and loved ww2 history, which, as this docu demonstrates more clearly than most, he never really knew much of the true strategic and tactical history of what had actually happened. But, I have! If there is an afterlife, I will tell him. Again, many thanks.
The USSR defeated German and Japanese fascism. One struggled with industry across Europe. Freed the whole of Europe and Asia from fascism. The Americans were the only ones in the world to drop 2 nuclear bombs on the civilian wooden cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the USSR had already defeated the Kwantung army in the Manchuria of China. Communism as the most just society United people, not killed. Look at China's communism now. The Chinese Communists are working on the Soviet economy. Try live.
Art Art China isn’t communist.
@@artart3644 The commies took on the army and the Americans took on the navy
@@artart3644 Le tme ask you one thing: did your grandparents live within the non russian parts of the soviet union?
@@artart3644 Not completely accurate. First this was a team effort. I know the popular thing to say is that the US entered when the Russians already had it wrapped up, but that's just simply false. US was involved for years by keeping Britain alive - see liberty ships. US was engaged heavily in Western Europe, Italy, and North Africa, not to mention the entire Pacific. The Russians alone would have never been able to finish off Germany, let alone take on the entire empire of Japan. So as with every war ever, it was a team effort. The other thing is the implication that the US nuked civilian wooden cities. Also a false implication. Yes, one purpose of these weapons was to hopefully force Japan to withdraw out of fear. But the targets were chosen because they were vital centers of the Japanese military industrial complex.
Great video, thanks!
This video help me aton about the Eastern front. I learned about both fronts, but i didnt know too much about the eastern one This video gave alot if info about how greatly the push to Berlin was there
That moment when you join the Kriegsmarine in 1945 but they send you to the eastern front anyways
Bruh moment
That guy: I WANT TO LIVE !!!! (Spongebob reference.)
would you have been sent to a uboat
Either that or that former fishing boat outfitted with what looks to be an antique cannon
@@joem1668 Actually going to the front was safer than serving in an U-boat. Only 1/6th of soldiers serving in an U-boat survived the war.
Axis: *has a new plan* Soviets : Nice plan, would be a shame if we knew it.
and they knew it
That was great, thank you.
Thank you so much !!
For all the meme lords out there, Steiner is in the black bubble labelled "3 SS" at 14:58. He was brought there from Courland in January 1945 and was given command of most of the units north of Berlin. Though the map shows multiple German armored/mechanized corps, Steiner's force had been eviscerated at that point and had about 10 tanks in total. Hitler ordered Steiner to attack the pincer that juts out at 15:06, but Steiner was neither willing nor able to obey. Thus, Berlin was encircled and Hitler finally realized that it was the end - after blaming everyone else, of course.
got em
got em
His attack will get it under control.
He knew already in 1942 that they're gone
i did my own reaserch before i seen the comment lul
Seeing only animated units, numbers and lines sometimes makes you forget, how many lives were lost with each movement of the front, how many cities and villages were devastated. Hard to imagine the scale of such an onslaught
It really is sad, because all of these troops were conscripts, forced into a war that they didn’t want to do, while the commanders would just throw themselves at the enemy’s, and the tanks while effective were prone to break down, especially the tiger b and elephant tank, so Germany’s strong armor doesn’t really work that well if you can’t weld the armor together correctly
the next level of this would be to cut in some shots of the wartime action. maybe a picture-in-picture or something.
This is essentially a war general's view of war, numbers and lines on a map. However, behind every number there is a mind, a soul, memories of being a child, and a love for someone.
For example of how little those give context, take Leningrad. From Sep 8, 1941 - Jan 27, 1944, the city was under siege of the Germans. Outside of a water route as their only lifeline, it was essentially encircled by Germany and Finnish troops and passed over. Daily food was so scarce for the 2 million residents who remained that it got down to 125 grams of bread, basically a single thick slice of bread. People burned their own furniture to stay warm, killed animals in the local zoo to eat if not their own pets and even the deceased in some cases. When not dealing with this, they were working in makeshift armament facilities with no roofs; This coupled with the bombing raids and artillery threats on a near daily basis made living a hell in Leningrad. But again, if you look at a map, it looks like troops from the opposing armies worked to bypass it entirely. We could potentially ignore the real demoralizing struggle of those people.
@@Gungho73 True, very true. But this was just a quick overview of the front. The details on the other hand would make ones skin crawl.
Nicely done!
Finland really said” I don’t know that man”
Germany after losing Berlin: well boys to Prague we go
Wat
@@ninlog hoi4 meme
To Buenos-Aires
In my endseig games its always kiel because the western allies capture Hamburg, Hannover and Munich and the Soviets everything else
1918, German Empire: the war is lost, we have no more resources, the enemy will only get stronger, it is impossible to turn the tide. We surrender 1944, Nazi Germany: the war is lost, we have no more resources, the enemy will only get stronger. bRiNg In ThE 14 yEaR oLdS wHiLe wE wAiT fOr A sUpEr WeApOn
The war will be won when Steiner begins his counter attack on the soviets
Lol
@@ziggytheassassin5835 Steiner will counterattack and everything will be alright
if just the 14years old could have hold Nazi Großreich for 2 more months, Europe would have experienced the atom bomb instead of japan lmao
ZiggyThe assassin sir... Steiner... could not amass enough troops...
There is a collection of Zhukov's memoirs and reflections, where he describes in great detail the operations on the Soviet-German front, exactly Operation Bagration, to destroy Army Group Center. In my youth, I read all his books almost non-stop for a month, it was very interesting. I also read a lot of German literature translated into Russian, memories and reflections of German marshals, generals and soldiers, as well as watched almost all documentaries about World War II and about Patton, Montgomery and Eisenhower
Patton was the only non-Zionist on the Allied side. Very suspicious death circumstances.
Quality series, cheers
That's by far the best and most accurate WW2 documentary I've ever seen. Thanks! :D
Well Eastern Front, but not all of WW2
It would be very good, just it got spoiled by some errors, like: 4:35. No, the problem were not any German concentration, but Stalin just wanted to get Polish resistance in Warsaw slaughtered first, as it makes installing any puppets later much easier.
Another error is number of POW's in Austria 550.000 at the end of video which is not accurate, it was 600.000 civilians and 200.000 soldiers mostly Croats who has been slaughtered on sadistic ways by Tito's partizans in bloodbath sloughterhouse better known as Bleiburg massacre 536.000 dead and burried alive.
@@karakteran8406 sadistic ways huh?? Shame on you! Most of them who were taken back to Yugoslavia and killed were ustashe, other nazi collaborators and war criminals who wanted to avoid their comeuppance by defecting outside of Yugoslavia! Did you ever heard of concentration camps Jasenovac, Stara Gradiska?? Jastrebarsko????? Jastrebarsko CC was the only camp that was established especially for killing children!!
Nije li tužno videti kako je neko toliko ogrezao u domovinskoj (ustaškoj) propagandi i još sebi daje za pravo da nekome drugome priča kako mu je ispran mozak.. Druže pa ti mozga nemaš, sve su ti popile ustaše! Ne znam ko je ovde trol kad si ti prvi koji je ovde počeo da širi ustaško-hrvatske brljotine i laži! Ne samo to, već su ti i rečenice koje si napisao toliko generične, izveštačene i već vidjene da je toliko očigledno da nisu tvoje! People, don't mind him, he is just another ustashe-lover who will deny anything that goes against his "beliefs" and country, which has commited its own genocide against Serbs, Gypsies and all other unwanted groups in WW2! Jasenovac and other camps and genocide are far from myth, but an undisputed truth, and you Croats should be ashamed of it, not proud.
Excellent job as always, I'm so proud to be one of your patreons haha
First comment, nice.
This is really a great presentation, that you never get to see! You have to go to books that have maps in them.
Thank you so much..i have finally understood the war!
1939, WW2 started Allies in 1940: not yet Allies in 1941: not yet Allies in 1942: not yet Allies in 1943: mb now..? Allies in 1944: ohh shit, sovet already in center of Europe, go go go 1945, WW2 finished
france is fine lol because they had no weapon only baguette
I think you might be forgetting North Africa, Italy, the bombing raids and oh yeah, the enormous amount of materiel supplied to the Red Army by the Americans and notably the British, whose industrial capacity even after the Blitz was equal to the Soviets.
@@seang3019 "Material suplied to the Red army by america", bitch pls why dont you talk of Ford and GM helping the nazi? Search it then talk, americans think they are the center of everything, boys you are 244 years old country and you go everywhere to tell people how to rule their country, first fix the mess you have in your house.
@@WHAWBOY Firstly, the amount of goods and resources sold to the Axis throughout the war, by profiteering companies such as Ford and Standard Oil are dwarfed by the amount of materiel given to the Soviets by the US and Britain. Secondly, I'm not American. I am however a graduate in American and Russian history. And thirdly, how about we keep the discussion on a civil footing?
@@seang3019 you forgot to menrion that most supplies were sent by allies to Russia in 1945 when it didnt play major role already. Italy and North Africa campaigns was insignifficant comparing to Eastern Front. Just google number of soldiers in Africa and in Eastern front
Europe: war waging Switzerland: eating popcorn
Hotel: Trivago
Music Beats | Sweden: sh*ts itself out of fear
Lol Switzerland watching Europe and the rest of the world burn
Switzerland got "accidentally" bombed a few times, though it is speculated that these were intended to stop Swiss munitions production for the German army.
SmilingIbis wow, I never knew this
Fun fact: There was one battle where Americans and Germans were on the same side. The 'Battle of Schloss Itter' happened on May 5, 1945. German (Wehrmacht) and American soldiers, along with a group of high ranking allied pows were fighting a batallion of die hard ss soldiers who laid siege on the castle. It was "the strangest battle" of the war.
Grandpa came home in 1946. Machine gunner. Mentally unstable and hard alcoholic. I remember, when drunk he spoke random German phrases. Me and my brother used to ask him: How many germans did you kill, grandpa? He was like: "Why should I kill humans, are you crazy?"
As 60(+) yo American, really grateful to have seen this before my death! My obession w ww2 documentaries started with the BBC World at War series as a child, and dozens and dozens since (the History Channel in the US in the late 80s and 90s) but never have I seen anything like this. Many thanks
man, you will live for many more decades before you die.
Check out the Apocalypse series on WWII (and WWI) if you haven't already. They are my favorite docs on the two great wars.
If you haven't already, check out the World War Two channel (That's its name). they are doing a day by day history of the war in real time. they are up to May, 1942 now.
Believe it or not, Hogans Heroes started my fascination with the eastern Front. Every time col. Klink screwed up, he was told he would be sent to the Russian front. Klink would be aghast and do panic. Made me wonder how bad the Russian front was.
@@MetalDetroit I think Hogan summed it up nicely once, "It's big, it's cold, it's east of here, and there are a lot of guys named Ivan shooting at you."
6:30 64th Corps where are you going!?Oh no he have AirPods he can’t hear us
MF just yote out of France smh..
Hahaha
he be takin a french countrywide tour xd
@Aggressive Tubesock I agree, and the landing in southern france is called operation dragoon. The landing in normandy was only a diversion for operation dragoon, or so i have heard.
They were doing the "tour de france" but got captured on the way.
Спустя столько лет люди до сих пор делят победу в процентном соотношении. Победа была общая,победа всего адекватного мира над нацизмом. Нельзя допускать подобных войн в будущем,ибо все погибнут. Уважение падшим войнам всех стран,уважением всем работягам на полях и заводах! Земля пухом ушедшим ветеранам. Мир.
Клнечно делят, ведь западная пропаганда 70 лет плюет на память советских солдат, всячески принижая и даже вымывая их вклад в победу, которой бы просто не было без СССР.
Победа общая, а значения для нас и для них разное. Для нас победа выживание в цивилизационном и в физическом плане, а для них? В Европе, на западе не было то что происходила у нас. По поводу победны над нацизмом, ты погорячился.
Победа Америки и России над Европой.
@@eto_el_348 любую западную пропаганду переплевывает Российская. Чего только стоят выходящие фильмы при поддержке гос. фонда кино с их вопреки и за булочку с трамвайчиком
@@user-wk1cd8ce7d Как антисоветская пропаганда российского правительства оправдывает антисоветскую пропаганду запада? Более того, российская антисоветчина буквально квлька с западной пропаганды времен холодной войны. Она буквально неотличима, это одни и те же байки.
This guy and oversimplified I swear they make the best content. *_(in my opinion)_*
Germany: Alright, Bulgaria and Romania, i need you to hold off the soviets Bulgaria & Romania: Wait a minute........ Who are you?
Many thanks to the Soviets for helping us to fight back the Germans
@@ekisfrole3118 My friend, you're wrong. The Soviet Union for four years restrained and counterattacked the Nazis, and the allies in the end helped and a huge thank you to them for this in Russia honor the memory and mourn for all those killed in the war. It is a pity that the West is beginning to forget all the grief that the Nazis brought to Europe and Russia and forget who suffered the brunt of the war. Forget who took the brunt and drove the Nazis back into their hole.
*The Western Allies Have Joined The Game*
Romania: new phone, who dis?
If it werent for useless romanians, they wouldnt have lost stalingrad
Germany : Hol'up bois we got this. Romania has left the server. Bulgaria has left the server. Finland has left the server.
no longer with bois
what about Italy?
@@yourlocalt72 Italy has left the server earlier. They have bad connection.
Hungary fights to the bitter end!
I hate unoriginal fucks like you. Follow the crowd like a sheep with that left server shit. Unoriginal bitch
Thanks for adding the Slovak National Uprising into this video. Much appretiated.
Barbarossa part 2 In October 1941, the German army engaged in ferocious battles with the Red Army and used 561,000 75-mm shells, while the industry during that period produced only 75,000 of those shells. In December, 494,000 were used and 18,000 received from the factories. Only in January 1942 did Hitler make the decision to gradually begin the shift of German industry to fulfill wartime needs. During the course of World War II, the Red Army had the most powerful artillery in the world. The artillery was used correctly, meaning that it was secretly concentrated in masses on narrow strips of territory and used in sudden, intense strikes. Between 1939 and June 1941 the Red Army has got 82.000 new artillery guns. The famous M-30 122 mm was used by different armies till the end of XXth Century. 122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30) - Wikipedia In the Vistula-Oder operation, the Soviet command used 34,500 guns and mortars.They were not evenly distributed throughout the force, but rather concentrated on the strips where the breakthrough was to occur. In the strip covered by the 3rd Guards Army, the concentration reached 420 weapons per kilometre. In Berlin operation the Red Army used over 42,000 guns and mortars. Along the breakthrough areas, huge quantities of ammunition were concentrated, as well as huge quantities of weapons. Marshal Ivan Konev broke through thirty-six kilometres of front line, and used 8,626 weapons to do it. Marshal Zhukov concentrated fewer arms-7,318 guns and mortars-but broke through thirty kilometres of front line, so he actually had higher concentrations of artillery. The record was set in the area occupied by the 381st Rifle Division of the 2nd Shock Army, during the course of the East Prussian operation: 468 guns and mortars on one kilometre of front line, not counting the Katyusha salvo-fire installations Related What desperate tactics did the Red Army resort to during the earliest days of Operation Barbarossa? Tank ramming: When the turret was knocked out Improvised Airfields: on roads lit with candles and lanterns at night Refurbished crop duster bombers: Flown at night with then diving with the engines off to avoid detection. Destroying the Dnieper hydroelectric station to prevent the Germans crossing the river at the cost of unevacuated Villages downstream. Improvised tanks made from tractors I am leaving out human wave attacks since these tended to occur during the later phases of Barbarossa. Scorched earth policies of sending minimally trained civilian volunteers to commit acts of sabotage and arson. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya - Wikipedia Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, failed for the following reasons: The operation kept switching objectives when it should not have. This is seen primarily twice during the campaign First when the Battle of Kiev began on the 23rd of August and ended only a month later. Hitler diverted Panzers from the front lines keeping up the Blitzkrieg against the Soviets to Kiev to take it faster, and this should not have happened since Kiev was going to fall anyway and the Soviets were getting ready to counterattack due to the lack of Panzers invading Moscow. Second was the Battle of Stalingrad, which the Germans put so much effort into taking but lost over 300,000 men, which was a lot of men for Army Group South. If Hitler had kept the Panzers in army group center pushing the Soviets farther, then they may have been able to reach Moscow and possibly take it. The Russians would not have had much time to form a counterattack, and may have had to play defensive after the center of Soviet factories and morale was taken, alongside being the main Soviet railway hub. If the Wehrmacht had avoided Stalingrad and aimed to take it later, then the losses would be reduced by a lot and they may have been able to get closer to the Caucasus oil fields in the south, threatening Soviet supplies of fuel. The Luftwaffe, though effective at the Blitzkrieg, should have also attacked Soviet transport lines like Railways and Roads. The early victories of Barbarossa were thanks to the Luftwaffe and its arsenal of fighters and dive bombers wiping out Soviet airfields and troop concentrations. While this was remarkable and beneficial to the Reich, the Soviets had kept moving their tanks, equipment, troops, and factories eastwards by truck and train to prevent them falling to Germany. Keep in mind, the Soviets did have the T-34 and KV-1 tanks, but were not made in sufficient numbers, nor did they have proper crews to operate and maintain them. Nonetheless, this would lead to the following coming back to haunt Hitler after the Winter counterattacks of winter 1940-41, thus stopping the initial momentum of victories by the Wehrmacht. If the Luftwaffe had also attacked railways and roads during the early months of Barbarossa, then the Soviets would have had more trouble and less time trying to make new war machines and men to operate such. Losses in both manpower and machine would be so high that Moscow could have been threatened even more, giving way to the possibility of it being taken by Germany, like in Factor #1. The occupying Germans, unlike how they regarded the occupied western Europe, regarded the slavs as “Untermensch” and sought to kill them all off, ruining their chances to have extra help beat the Soviets. Adolf Hitler commenced operation Barbarossa for the reason of making more Lebensraum for the German people to settle in the future, and to rid Eastern Europe of the Slavic people and legacy, since he thought of them as inferior and as Communists. When the Western Soviet Socialist Republics were invaded, many of their people greeted and kindly regarded the invaders as liberators from Stalin’s rule-especially the Ukrainians since they suffered millions of deaths from the previous Holodomor. However, Nazi Germany suppressed the independence groups and placed harsh rule on the occupied people, thus giving more support for the Soviet cause. If Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party decided to treat the Ukrainians and other occupied peoples better, and maybe even create puppet states (possibly going as far as trying to reach out to ALL Soviet socialist republics of how Hitler was going to liberate them), then the Soviet Union could have been destabilized in many parts of the Nation. This would have saw insurrections, coups on SSR administrations, and revolts, thus overwhelming the Soviet Union with internal problems and causing it to fall. Note: the Germans don’t have to tolerate these people forever. Once operation Barbarossa succeeded, then the Slavs and other inferiors can be removed, since there is no one that will stop them. The poor Wehrmacht soldiers had no winter equipment to keep them toasty. This one is quite obvious, since the Nazi high command composing of Hitler and the OKH had planned for a victory by October, they didn’t expect an early winter that slowed down their tanks, froze their troops, and blinded their aircraft. This, alongside background info from Reasons #1 and #2 led to the failure of the original plan of Barbarossa, resulting in losses for army group center. This was seen again in Stalingrad when surrounded German troops slowly froze in the ruined city thanks to having summer equipment and bad supply lines. If the Wehrmacht was equipped with winter gear while it had the corrections of Reason #1 and #2, then Moscow could have been taken fast, and then could have kept up the momentum to take every settlement in the European part of the USSR, demoralizing the Red army and possibly forcing Russia to sign an armistice. In conclusion, repetitive objective switching, improper use of the Luftwaffe, treatment of occupied peoples, and lack of winter equipment were the major reasons that Barbarossa failed, That, and Adolf Hitler’s interference of planning.
Konstantin Rokossovsky: Ты уже мертв. Army Group Center: Was?
Он же: сейчас мы нафаршируем твой зад яблоками и грушами,.как пелось у Катюши, как утку мы тебя, съедим на рождество ;)
@First Name Last Name Wrong theater, you want the Pacific
@@kmarasin Or Manchuria
@First Name Last Name "You are already encircled."