Hi everyone, I'm sorry for the very long wait in uploads, however, hopefully you will understand why, as it has taken me almost a year to research and produce this video.
On September 1st, 1939, Germany declares war on Poland and throws the world into the largest conflict humanity has ever seen. I have done my best to do accurate borders, encirclements and army sizes.
If you see any mistakes or inaccuraices, or if you simply just have suggestions, then let me kno in the comments and I will include them in my next video!
Besides, sit back and relax, I hope that you enjoy the video!
Definitely shows how WWII was much much more of a Soviet-German thing in Europe than it really was an American thing.
Still, the western front was just as strategically important to German high command as the eastern front was. The percentage of Axis forces in the east dropped from 80% to 60% over the span of 1944.
It certainly was American thing as well. If the Americans stayed out of the war and never did the Lend Lease program, the borders in Europe would look much different
For Real. The USSR role on WW2 media(like movies) is way to undervalued, while the USA role is way to overvalued
@@idk_pineapple2691 lets face it they would prolly get destroyed whitout allied help which was what happened.
@@moisesrosario9716 That's only because Russia doesn't make as many movies as the US does. Can't blame American studios for making movies about their own country's history.
Some people are talking about how France fell within 6 weeks of the German invasion, or how Norway fell in but a few months, or a block of residential building stood for 8 weeks, but nobody talks about how Denmark survived Germany for an incredible... 6 hours.
The invasion of Norway took 2 months.
"Among German-occupied territories in Western Europe, this made Norway the country to withstand the German invasion for the longest period of time - approximately two months." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Norway
Yeah the Vikings on Bicycles
Yeah the Vikings on Bicycles
Yeah the Vikings on Bicycles
What I love most is getting so engrossed in reading the text of the wars advancement until a clash of words makes it unreadable. Thank you.
Ikr
Thats the tragedy of war
@billynamer Yes, the video is good but there is a technical / UI problem in that the captions at the bottom left of the screen are too fast-moving. But when the video is paused to better read & absorb the captions, they are semi-obscured by info in the youtube video progress bar.
Definitely this was a true Word War
@@kevinindublinI agree. An above average IQ (perhaps 110-130?) Person, are ya? Noice. Because who the he'll takes the time to think it out and focus on the facts of reality rather than one's own preferences and emotions?
This guy dropped the best visualization with the hardest soundtracks and audio clips and then dipped.. respect!!!
the text is constantly fucking up though... i guess most people are just watching for the visuals..
Do you ever watch pornography?
@@ActionAlligatorYeah
@@ActionAlligator 1% off perfection matters little when you're 99% there
@@freedomgoddess honestly it seemed like a full quarter of the texts were screwed up, which was half the reason i was interested. so, quite a bit more than 1% :(
Fun fact: a tractor factory in Stalingrad kept defending itself as long as whole France did
This tractor factory was destroyed by capitalism couple years ago, w/o Hitler. Russians capitalist did it :(
Don’t forget about Pavlov’s house
Hence the French recognising the huge role the Battle of Stalingrad played in weakening the German army, named one of its Paris Metro station as Stalingrad
Legit?
@@bewarsu is that legit? I never knew that if its true.
Hollywood always portrays WW2 from such a USA-centric perspective, but the sheer volume of conflict that commenced on the eastern front is crazy. Apparently 80% of the axis army was there.
It’s no secret that there is an agenda in portraying the war that way
Indeed! And 80% of its army was destroyed by USSR, they also destroyed 1 mln kwantong Japanese army in 1945 in a few months while today they claim that UK and USA won the war. Thankfully, people are not that stupid and so many westerners including Americans and British know at least something about the Eastern front and that time on FB send pics of a Soviet soldier put a red flag on Reachstag but FB banned them all (facepalm), it was 1 or 2 years ago on a V-day, idk about this year though
What happened on the western front was nothing compared to the brutality of the eastern front. Even soldiers who fought on the eastern front and were later reassigned to the western front attested to this, and stated that the western front was quote "A fairyland in comparison".
Tbh, and as far as I read about the subject, the Western Front was very reduced in terms of numbers, compared to those in the Eastern Front, not to mention the combat conditions (winter, scorched land policy, inch earned inch lost combat). Also, the Pacific Campaign had several moments that can be compared to the Eastern Front, in terms of brutality and head on combat (deep jungle and guerrila warfare isnt nice). Not saying the WF was a walk in the park, but besides one or another campaign regarding the Normandy Landings (the Bulge) and one or another moment regarding the Italy campaign (Anzio or Mount Cassino), they werent as vicious and brutal as other clashes happening in the EF or relating the Pacific campaign.
The only american movie who is clise to the war is Enemy at the gate
I used To watch this same video every week and today we watched it at my history class. Felt amazing.
Wtf why would you watch this vid every week? I smell cap
@@Sniper2k19 im just interested about history
Probably autistic @@Sniper2k19
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Lmao where is the world going.... Useless rudeness often comes from people who have no self esteem, and who just want to see people cry.
My great-grandfather was a foreman in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. He defended Leningrad, fought against the Germans and Finns on the Volchov front, and at the end of 1944 his division was transferred to Poland to participate in the Vistula-Oder operation. He went through the whole war, but died very absurdly - on May 13, 1945, his company was clearing an airfield in Czechoslovakia from the last fighting Nazis, and before surrendering, the Germans left barrels of methyl alcohol there. After the fight, they found them and drank them, as a result, everyone, including my great-grandfather, died of poisoning.
I never knew the sheer scale of the encirclements in Barbarossa and it is absolutely stunning that the Soviets managed to win
Some three million Soviets were in captivity by the time Germany reached Stalingrad, with another couple million casualties... And that was only the beginning of the red army's reserves!
it helps to have a much larger population i guess LOL
they won by making the people go hungry, and the scorched earth policies which made every civilian near the front line starve. also the killing of the kulaks, who refused collectivization, and the no step back policy which prevented retreat and killed millions. losing a few T-26s and BT-7s wasn’t gonna do anything when they cant even penetrate howitzer shields. come 1942 you have T34-76s and an army that knows the german city boy’s greatest weakness (hand to hand combat with rough farmers.) To Stalin, civillians are a liability when captured by the germans, and taking their stuff means the germans won’t get it. All the deaths were used to buy time, which he needed to mobilize his army.
@@c15a who won
@@c15a "no step back policy which prevented retreat and killed millions" This has been debunked so many times.
This new concept has lots of potential. It gives more insight on how powerful countries actually were. Usually, you only have country sizes, which can easily be deceptive. Of course, there’s still a lot more to it than that.
Definitely. This shows the real numbers
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It's a step in the right direction, we would need supply situation too, manpower doesn't really say much
Actually, you can also use how well a country is doing to tell how powerful it is.
If you really think country sizes correlates directly towards their military powers then you must be thinking African country are world class
0:00 Invasion of Poland 0:36 Winter War 1:25 Germans invade Denmark and Norway 1:36 Invasion of France and Benelux 2:02 The Battle of Britain 2:42 Italians invade Greece 3:42 Germans invade Yugoslavia 4:09 OPERATION BABBARASSA 8:52 Allies land in Sicily 10:59 D-Day 11:25 Allies land in Southern France 11:35 Uprising in Yugoslavia 11:39 Finland leaves the War 13:08 Germany Capitulates Here’s all the goods
You did a great job portraying the changing front lines during the war! If you know what battle you're looking for, it's quite easy to find it in this time lapse. The parts of the map that are circled when armies have been surrounded gave me a new appreciation for how effective and widespread it was to try and create those scenarios. Clearly some of the smartest minds in the world got together to orchestrate this fight for dominance. What a great showcase of how two giant, amorphous animals fought a war of annihilation on a monumental scale.
I’ve never realised how terrifyingly close the Germans were to Moscow.
That's why Russia has always feared an invasion from the west
Look at the way the Russian rail network is laid out and consider how disastrous it would have been to lose moscow, or even have it encircled.
The Germans were in Moscow I think
@@ronkaufhold6253 nope they could have went to moscow but the closest army chose to help encrircle other soviet armies
Even if they took moscow it wasn't meant the end. Napoleon actually took the moscow and still he lost.
The Operation Barbarossa section gives me chills every time. The music, the gigantic numbers, hundreds upon hundreds of thousands encircled. 80% of men born in the USSR in 1922 would be dead by the war's end, and those three months reflect it wholesale. The air raid sirens and general chaos of the music really drive home how barbaric it was.
Только чтсла врут. У германии 5.5 миллиона человек включая 800 тысяч из остальных европейских стран.
@@user-xi4wm8zw5m Germany had only 3.4 million 326k were romanian and 400k Italian 75k Hungarian (these ain't entirely accurate but they are close)
@@user-xi4wm8zw5m 5,5 mln had stalin's red army. The true lie is that the red army had never fewer soldiers than the Bundesware. Saying the other means repeating and distributing the soviet's myths.
I like the word 'barbaric' in this context. People in high places, considered to be god-like, actually just a bunch of hobos killing innocent people for nothing.
@@vyacheslavromantovsky1238 the other 2m was in Siberia and other fronta
your the best, man. Idk if this started the army sizes trend but if it didn’t it will still be a masterpiece and a part of KZhead’s best history videos ever.
BUT...Poland had not only 250,000 soldiers mobilized at the beginning of the German raid against Poland on September 1, 1939. Poland has mobilized 1 million soldiers. The number of German soldiers is also wrong. Because Germany has mobilized 2 million soldiers and not just 1.8 million. It would also be good if the betrayal of Poland in 1939 was somehow mentioned in the video. The British and French declaration of war 1939 against Germany served only for saving face. The British and the French did not intend to keep to the contractual commitment and to attack massively in the west. They wanted to sacrifice Poland for peace with the Germans! This was the continuation of British and French foolish appeasement politics of the 30s! By the way, if British and French had massive attacked the Germans in the West, the Germans would have lost the war because they were not prepared for a two-fronts war!
@@GreatPolishWingedHussarsyea and also no holocaust if the stupid governments of the UK and France got their shit together
А сейчас такие армии не нужны, спутники скопление увидят и туда прилетит Himars/Искандер
@@smachnaya_bebra2006 Сегодня солдаты по-прежнему сражаются друг с другом винтовками, а не только ракетами.
@@smachnaya_bebra2006 Вы получаете от меня большой палец вверх, потому что славянские братья всегда получают от меня большой палец вверх.
This is still my favourite ww2 video ever, it’s incredible
same for me if the text wasn't all fucked up
0:00 - Germany Invades Poland 0:07 - USSR Invades Eastern Poland 0:14 - Poland Seizes to Exist as a country 0:34 - USSR attacks Finland in what would be called the 'Winter War' 1:24 - Germany invades Denmark, Norway 1:35 - Invasion of France and Beneleux Countries 1:49 - Italy joins the war against France and UK 1:49 - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania Annexed by USSR 1:52 - France Surrenders 1:53 - USSR Annexes Bessarabia 2:22 - Italian Libya attacks Egypt which is Ruled by the United Kingdom 2:40 - Italian Albania attacks Greece, a small push is there 2:45 - Italian Push is halted 2:47 - Greek Counterattack against Italy 2:50 - Hungary Joins Axis 2:50 - Romania Joins Axis 3:11 - USSR offers to join Axis Powers, but its declined (text given) 3:12 - A counter-attack in Africa by British Egypt 3:26 - Bulgaria joins Axis Powers 3:35 - Yugoslavia join Axis Powers 3:37 - They withdraw from Axis Powers, as the Fascist Government is removed 3:41 - Yugoslavia join Allies, Axis invade the country 3:44 - Yugoslavia Surrenders 3:45 - British Troops exacuvate Greece as the country is invaded and occupied by the Axis Powers. 3:46 - Italian Push into Egypt 3:46 - The Allies invade Iraq to limit oil imports 3:57 - Operation Barbarossa is almost ready... 4:00 - Iraq capitulates 4:01 - Vichy-France controlled Syria and Lebanon are invaded by the allies. 4:09 - *Germany and Axis Powers invade USSR, the largest invasion in history. (3 million troops)* 4:10 - Finland joins Axis powers 5:13 - Japan attacks Pearl Harbour. USA joins the war, in side of the allies. 5:14 - The Red Army makes a counter-offensive against axis 6:28 - There is a german offensive towards the Causcases, to get Oil. 7:19 - Allies invade large parts of Africa, which is controlled by Vichy-France, A german puppet state 7:24 - *In the Battle of Stalingrad, 400,000 german troops are surrendered; A.K.A. the 6th Army.* 7:26 - Axis Soldiers withdraw from the region. 7:43 - A huge push into Libya 7:53 - Only Tunisia is left, for north african land of Axis Powers 8:51 - Allies invade italy 9:12 - Italy Surrenders after another attack, but is quickly taken again from German Troops 9:13 - Allies continue invading Italy, USSR slowly makes a counter-offensive 10:31 - USSR Troops reach Romanian Border 10:54 - 'Operation Overlord' successfully works. Allies invade German France 11:05 - 'Operation Bagration' is a success. Large amounts of land are captured. 11:28 - Romania Captiluates; Paris liberates 11:34 - Bulgaria Captiluates 11:36 - Finland signs a peace treaty 11:45 - Allied Soldiers land on coast of Greece 12:14 - The Battle of the Buldge 12:43 - Allies enter German Lands 12:44 - USSR Soldiers capture Vienna 12:54 - Berlin is captured 13:00 - Germany's Ruler ____ 13:02 - Germany Uncontrolably surrenders. 13:05 - *WORLD WAR II ENDS.* pls like this took like forever
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Damn nice work
6:00 - Switcherland : yeepee!
Thanks for the timeline. Improvement suggestion: 13:02 Germany's unconditional surrender. "Uncontrolled" is a typo I guess
Every number in these statistics was an actual breathing, young human being with an unique valuable life. The staggering loss of life in this terrible war is heartbreaking.
This phrase is veryyyyy.poweful
Especially in Operation Barbarossa, and in China.
'' A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.'' - Joseph Stalin. No wonder why Soviet Union suffered the most casulaties than any other nation during the second world war.
Well wait for ww3. This is going to be greatest calamity.
@@rennor3498 fr, we often forget how brutally EVERY nation was affected by this war
Masterpiece Christopher. Thanks.
Unreal video! and exactly what I’ve tried to picture in my head after watching many WW2 documentaries and movies
Soviets: ”we have 4 million soldiers” Germany: *encircles 500k men* ”how about now?” Soviets: ”we have 5 million soldiers”
Germany: *kills 9 million soviet soldiers* Soviets: we have 13 million soldiers
87% of the Red Army soldiers, which served in WW2, died. I think about 30% of the German soldiers died. But one recognizes with what a high cost of blood Stalin bought this victory. A human life has had no value in the Soviet Union. 10 million dead Red Army soldiers. 17 million dead Soviet citizens. An unimaginable amount.
Lol
@@TheWorldIsAWorld This is how the authorities of the country are now voicing in Ukraine, 16 missiles were fired by Russia. Ukraine shot down 14 air defense missiles, but there are 6 hits on the infostructure😂😂😂
@@bayerischerkerl6788 how does the war in Ukraine always find a way to get into every argument? Like fr…
The overlapping text: 4:20 - 4:22 : - Soviet industry moved behind the Ural mountains in great speed - Assistance Pact signed between the United Kingdom and the USSR 4:32 - 4:36: - A Spanish volunteer division arrives on the Eastern Front - Hitler, against the advice of his generals, shifts some forces from the Moscow offensive - British and Soviet troops invade Iran to save the Abadan oilfields 6:49 - 7:26 - Lack of Munitions forces Rommel into a standstill - The Red army offers more resistance around Stalingrad. German focus shifts towards the city - The German military agrees that seizing Stalingrad will starve the Caucasus front and end all southern resistance - The long fight for Stalingrad begins, with huge losses suffered on both sides - The long front line has resulted in the Axis forces being spread thin,with multiple sectors being barely manned - Allies plan invasion in Axis Held North Africa - Soviet begin building up for Operation Uranus; The encirclement of Stalingrad - German forces attacks in Caucasus - only small gains achieved - British and American forces land in Morocco and Algeria. Vichy France seized by the German army
I hope this gets a lot more likes, thank you for this
You are a god
I hope the dude reuploads.
Everyone like it so it goes to the top. It needs to be pinned
Thank you! It’s a shame it got so many views so quickly as I don’t think he’ll reupload it now. Itwould be great to have this A: with the correct text, and B: with the text in a better position to read it and watch the advancements at the same time
Brilliant.....just brilliant! Congratulations on such a feat. Keep it up!
This is truly amazing. I had to pause it a hundred times to read the text and sometimes the text was over lapping making it impossible to read. But still an amazing visualization of what happened ever day during the war. I would watch an hour long version of this where the video auto paused and the text was readable. Thank you for uploading this!
Too bad the text overlaps in some parts making it impossible to read. But overall, amazing work!
Yep - I thought most of them were happening in 1942 if it helps to locate them on the video
Yeah especially for a KZhead upload, all the text appears and dissapears so fast. And if you pause to read the seek bar covers it.
yes please fix the text overlap, it prevents understanding of the context for some significant bits
Yeah, such an epic video let down by this oversight.
Yeah, and at 11:18 there is nothing about Warsaw Uprising on August 1st, 1944. Why? The uprising in Yugoslavia is mentioned, but nothing about the Polish uprising! Im surprised. It was the largest anti-nazi guerrilla uprising in history. Why didn't they mention that?
This actually shows how terrifyingly close Germany was to full-on Europe domination.
What's weird to think is what if they won? Would they mellow out? Would they slowly break up? Would independence be granted at some point? All empires ended at one point or the other. Not in like 5 years, but in like 100 years.
@@usul573 the man in the high castle…..that’s really good tv show about alternate history when nazis and Japan would’ve won the war. Interesting but also terrifying
@@usul573 Germany wouldn't have been able to keep up with controlling all this new land. Remember conquests require lots of power and wealth to control. They had very little oil and that's a major problem for any modern military that's why they invaded russia and made a mad dash for southern Russian oil fields. Besides the economic problems.. French people would have revolted like the soviet Union did and you can only brutalise people into submission for so long, also russian and German conflict was inevitable.
Europe and Asia actually
Sad really
I am from Russia, a Kazakh who was born here, I know the full history of my country, about 1.5 million Soviet soldiers were captured during the entire war, and the streets in Staliningrad held the defense for months.
Ооо. Я Русский. Прочитал Казах, про себя подумал, наши 😊😊😊 Вечная Слава Нашим Героям.
@@tritri6651узкие достойные ученики гитлера
@@tritri6651 5,7 million were captured, around 3 million died
5,7 million were captured, around 3 million died
Thank you for this, great work.
in the Second World War , they held out against the German troops: Denmark - 6 hours; Luxembourg - 1 day; Holland - 5 days; Yugoslavia - 11 days; Belgium - 18 days; Greece - 24 days; Poland - 27 days; France - 1 month and 12 days; Norway - 2 months and 1 day. Pavlov's house in Stalingrad lasted 58 days
"France - 1 month and 12 days;" France was done in two weeks. The invasion started on May 10, and hundreds of thousands of allied troops were lining up on Dunkirk to flee by the 26th. 16 days from normal life in one of the most developed nations on earth to complete annihilation. This is worth remembering the next time anyone questions military spending.
@@gooble69 funny that you mention military spending yet US its more akin to what germany did back then: Force other nations to comply with what they want or suddenly be "enemy of the Glory of the Nation" , not to mention the casual presence of certain companies on those countries too, im sure that its also unrelated. Literally just like Germany back then. Ah, irony.
@@toobig7150 "US its more akin to what germany did back then" In your pea brain I'm sure you thought that made sense when you wrote it...
Greece always falls easy
Brest fortress - 32 days
Whats amazing is the amount of soldiers they still had right up until the end, now countries struggle to muster armies a fraction of that size
@@gutser The Russians who liberated camps? Whose side should we be on?
@@CanadianPrepper no wars require that amount of mobilization today luckily. But seeing how a weakened and almost economically collapsed Germany could build such a powerful army that quickly, im of what people could do with todays far more destructive weapons.
@@gutser you're forgetting something.. There are militas in Luhansk and Dontesk actively fighting Ukraine... there weren't militias in the countries that USSR and Germany conquered that defected to the Axis powers so your propaganda ends here
Платить надо солдатам тогда всё было на вере в родину или нацию
@@lks11 Except there were such militias, entire legions (of hundreds of thousands collaborators) mobilized from the USSR territories for the German forces. So your propaganda ends before it even begins.
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Definitely one of the best territorial transition videos on KZhead
This was such an insane war , the sheer scale of it is crazy.
但这不是重点，重点在于它使世界上大多数人类遭遇危机
@@matsumiyama1609 How does it "put most of the world in crisis"..? It's been over since 1945? Do you mean the current trouble between china & Taiwan? Or perhaps the dictator of Russia invading Ukraine?
@@matsumiyama1609 Anime girls are real?
What?i don't know
@@donarthiazi2443 all wars
Regardless of the overlapping text this is seriously one of the most impressive historical videos I've seen, incredible work
Amazing video! Without the overlap I would rate it 10/10 for perfect.
@@wassentme1891 As a Corsican I'd rate it 0/10 lmao
Honestly it's not bad, but you just have to take a look at the end of the video to see that Corsica is supposed to be blue
@@Jean20B do Corsicans speak French or Italian?
@@candodggolotm7547 French, we also have our own language (Corsican / corsu) that sounds more Italian than French
This was an INCREDIBLE video! A bit hard to follow (especially when the text description overlaps xD!). It will never stop amazing me how Swittzerland stood its neutral ground in the exact middle of this clusterfuck, lol.
Через неё США торговали с Гитлером. И США и Гитлеру это было выгодно, поэтому её оставили нейтральной.
Best/most accurate WW2 video I have ever watched 👍
Got chills at 4:10 the scale of the German-Soviet war was just so gargantuan and the amount of lives lost is impossible to wrap one's head around...
The music does a great job at conveying that sentiment you just described
Пока советы и немцы воевали и уничтожали свою экономику и инфраструктуру ,USA за это время заняла мировой трон .У меня складывается ощущение что Гитлера финансировали Американцы для того что бы поставить на колени европу
the entire US ww2 casualties in just one encirclement, Soviet losses was insanely huge
Amazing how fast the Germans were advancing in the Soviet territory, faster than they were in the invasion of Poland and France.
I feel you. I am German and the suffering that was contained within these few seconds honestly made me anxious. I will do my part to make sure that any of this does not happen again.
The sudden silence before Operation Barbarossa.... the sirens and music and the rapid advance of the germans almost makes me cry. This video is a masterpiece and by far the best mapping of WW2.
There’s also a severe storm weather alert when the Russian winter comes
the attention to detail even in the music is perfect
@@Karan3321 Notice that the snow melts during the Spring on the map
Um… really? Cry? Lol WW2 for men is like BTS for women at this point
June 22nd, 1941. The day hell came to earth.
Some statistics said: By 1989 population of USSR must've been around 394 millions. In fact it was 288. Because of the losses in WW2
that was mostly due to low birth rates dude, the enitrety of europe has suffered from that, those estimates were made BEFORE birth control and abortion became legalised, literally killed far more than every war combined
@@dopaminedreams1122 thats wrong. without WW2 and a relatively peaceful reality the number of the USSR were in fact around 400, maybe even more (you have to count all the dead people who add to the baby boomers children and so on - the birthrate low (under 2.1) was after that ... this means the due to the WW2 lowered population overall got with less population into the last baby boom generation (and between ww2 and that phase) - which makes of course the native population outcome much lower)
The troop numbers really put into perspective just how incompetent the Italian army was, they almost always outnumbered significantly their enemies and they still managed to lose
its not all about Numbers, doesnt matter how many more ppl you have when the opponent is more strategic and technically advanced.
@@TPenthax That… that’s what I said… they were strategically incompetent despite having a numbers advantage
@@David_Gonzalez_ if you knew the history, you wouldn't write this since the beginning of the war, the regular army either surrendered or deserted, as a result, the USSR had only people who didn’t even hold a rifle in their hands, not to mention the fact that they had just finished military service
Bad commanders and generals, lack of proper equipment, bad leadership, low morale, officer corruption etc Lions led by donkeys
Because warfare isn't about who has more flesh and bones
Incredible how fast the germans pushed across Russia for the first few couple of months of operation Barbarossa
all decent generals were cut out during the purge or escaped long before, the command was confused and unorganized, Stalin personally did not believe until the last that the war had begun. Only the fleet did not suffer heavy losses on the first days of the war, because the commander-in-chief of the fleet ordered it to be put on alert
⚡war but Russian is a big big country ask the generals they new it was madness ❄💧❄☠️
@fenrar36 Where did you read that? The doctrine of the Soviet Union was that military operations would be conducted only on enemy territory, at least that's what they told the population of the country.
@fenrar36 complete freestyle theory, nice saga you are writing here
@@salvatorelucania9122 Red Army also increased in size from 500k to 2,5mln from 1937 to 1941. There weren't enough experienced officers. Also what you tell your population has nothing to do with what the actual military strategy is. How do you even imagine this? "Dear citizens of the Soviet Union, we calculate that in the event of a war with Nazi Germany, around 30 to 40 mln people in western regions will be under German occupation. We wish you all the best. Have a good day"
This was very helpful, thanks!
4:20 It’s insane how much happened at the same time..also the music choice is perfect
The track is “Hearts of Iron 3 - Storming Omaha Beach”. The actual song doesn’t have sirens, but a siren version will come up.
saving this without having to scroll down much. 00:00 Kriegsgewitter - hoi2 01:35 Epic Battles - hoi3 02:02 Low Unity - hoi3 04:03 Storming Omaha Beach - hoi3 05:17 Leningrad - hoi3 06:08 demolition victory - cod2 07:00 Rise My Comrades - hoi3 08:26 War - hoi2 10:44 The Royal Air Force - hoi4
thanks so much man
Thx this comment deserves 10 000 likes
Well this comment will 100% not be seen again, just used this alt account to see if I could spot my account with all the music listed on it, (yes I am the guy who wrote the original time stamps and specific music which this guy probably copied and pasted due to not being able to find it again) Anyways, back to the point, even 7k likes+ comments, especially the ones with the timestamps, will surely be lost, so make sure to do what this guy did if u wanna remember the music
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The fact that you transitioned from making HOI4 Timelapses to mapping historical conflicts with extensive research and real-time frontline and army size changes is absolutely incredible. Really well done.
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Whats HOI4
@@Nietabs Hearts of iron 4
is it made with HOI4?
@@szalailaszlovid No, I guess he used After Effects.
fantastic video. one suggestion would be to move the captions at the bottom to another area of the screen so that when you pause in youtube the controls don't block the caption. also make the captions bigger so you can see them along with what's happening on the video
yo I really really like how informational this video is with the texts, is there anyway you would consider redoing this so the events that happen at the same time would be listed in a readable manor so we can see what it says? This would probably be one of the best quick WWII timeline videos on the internet if you did that.
The air raid siren during the onset of Operation Barbarossa was a good touch. Kind of captured the moment
Yes, such a glorious moment! 🐺🤗🐻
My favourite part
Goosebumps
German Nazi vs Soviet Union. The real big deal of the second world war.
4:07 The sheer numbers of troops invading the Soviet Union is crazy and what's even more scary are the numbers of Soviet troops encircled and captured by the Germans during operation Barbarossa. Truly mind boggling.
You will probably be surprised, but the author forgot to add Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine personnel for the German army. In total, about 4 million Germans invaded the USSR and about 870 thousand allies. The author also forgot to add the personnel of the Air Force, Navy and NKVD for the USSR. Total should be 3.2 million (instead of 2.7) on June 22nd. But of course not all of them were near the border. In addition, for some reason, the author showed the Finnish army separately, and included the Red Army that opposed it in this region in the total number.
Operation Barbarossa is not only unfilmable, but I'd say it's damn near unimaginable. A 3 million man offensive is like 300 Battle of Helms Deeps going off across six months and 600,000 square kilometers.
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@@usul573largest human offensive in human history, and most probably of all time. Also those 6 months confrontation did almost 80% ww2 theatre( more than pacific eastern and southern theatre combined)
What purges of officer corps do to an army
Soviet:relax bro we have 4 million solider on the front Germany Encirclement 870.000K soviet solider Germany:ok bolshevik what are you going to do now Soviet:we have 8 million solider
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ok that made me laugh
Same, but because of the grammar.@@justacat2
سنتين بالضبط على هذا المقطع المتقن👏🏻❤️🔥
We often forget that every single number was a real person with real family, friends and aspirations. Every single one with their own story worthy of a book. My heart goes out to every fallen allied soldier. May humanity learn from its mistakes.
Despite what a lot of movies say, most Axis soldiers were the same. Not every single one of them was a psychopathic SS soldier.
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@@charlesburns7391yeah, and probably many people from occupied europe ended up being conscripted if they weren't exterminated
@@charlesburns7391They were still complicit, and many ware quite aware and even partook in war crimes and other atrocities
Agree. Except communist and nazis off course.
The Soviet major offensive against Finland that started on Jun 9th 1944 on Karelian Isthmus is missing and the front line is shown remaining stable until Finnish-Soviet armistice in Sep -44. Otherwise, brilliant work!
So what about Corsica which, according the video, remain Third Reich color even after Germany's capitulate? )
@@user-yr6ij1ve3f you are right they completely forgot lol
@@user-yr6ij1ve3f Corsica will never surrender
Also suwalki was part of the german not soviet zone of poland
@Деревенщина из Сибири - Абакан ты чушь-то не неси. Пакт о ненападении не означает что СССР и Германия были союзниками. Идиот.
Superb. Thank you very much for your work here.
This was fantastic. The concept of having army sizes on there put everything in a better perspective. The animation was smooth. The music choice was on point. The facts on the bottom of the screen were a nice touch. The random bits of transmissions and announcements were amazing. Excelent video.
Totally Agree with you! WWII had so many events and this video was perfect to connect my text-based knowledge with this perfect graphical representation of the war! I also never knew that there were so many Encirclements in Barbarossa. Also, the Music when DDay started gave me goosebumps with all the events happening. I hope he continues with this style of Videos! Maybe about WWI or the Pacific war of WWII
The music is from the Hearts of Iron 4 soundtrack in case you didn't know and wanted more of it
@@coygus4422 thats exactly why I thought it was good! lol
Ending always makes me sad.
@@coygus4422 but which songs?
A pacific version would be cool, it was also a massive war and the numbers of the war between Japan and China could be equally stunning. As well as to understand ally advancements in the pacific and Southeast Asia
ABSOLUTELY! - to put the dates in perspective, ending this "muh ww2 began on september 1939 derp" british fantasy - it would also be interesting to see the change in Japanese strategy the moment a headline runs on the bottom that says US WILL NOT SELL ANY MORE OIL TO JAPAN. of course, these are things that lead people to think, and thinking is not encouraged under our current regime...which is all the more reason for @Christopher to make the map!
Насколько мелкие цифры там будут? Их же не будет видно.
Asian war less than Stalingrad battle, what are u talking about
@@todjonson3195 может пора уже открыть глаза и перестать быть шовинистом? Начти с истории. Почитай сколько китайцев было уничтожено японскими милитаристами потом свои пуки в водичку в интернет выкладывай.
@@user-zc3kj2kr8b Глупец, я вообще-то о шрифте цифр в тихоокеанском регионе. На каждом острове их не нарисуешь.
Wow… this is really impressive to see them number of troops on each side every day of the war. And how the scale tippled and - surprisingly - at the end both sides’ numbers started to shrink… was it due to the casualties or the troops deserting the frontline? But overall a great video, I am saving it
4:09, this is a true definition of Blitzkrieg. Lighting War indeed...
They launched the invasion too late. If they did not get there by the cold winter the Russians could've countered it masterfully since they know how to battle in subzero temperatures the Germans thought this was going to be a quick wars like the others and failed miserably the element of weather and other key errors by Hitler lead to their demise.
I think this is a good thing to show people the enormous size of post industrial revolution wars. You have millions of men fighting on fronts sometimes stretching over 1000km.
Modern conflicts being less than a drop in the bucket compared to what was the sheer scale WW2. Sure there still some vicious fights...but they are rather brief by comparison once more...
@@RuralTowner If you convert the population in the 1940's to the population during the Napoleonic wars im pretty sure that was an even larger scale.
@@RuralTowner I am more just speaking about the enormous size of the armies that engaged each other in both world wars, both being periods where the great powers involved were fully industrialized. Napoleon's army that invaded Russia in 1812 was at that point the largest army ever raised in human history, and wasn't even as big as the German flanking force that invaded Belgium to get around the French defenses in August 1914. Of course today we have smaller proxy wars and nuclear deterrence (and generally more geopolitical stability, though that is changing for the worse) so major wars between great powers don't happen - atleast we haven't seen one since WW2 thankfully.
@@BasePuma4007 Exactly. Still have pitched battles even now but no more or at least extremely rare where entire brigades or even division strength forces move about seeking massive clashes as whole forces across huge contiguous fronts. Modern warfare is rather...truncated by comparison
@@RuralTowner Think how awful WWIII will be, the land war wont really start until after the nukes are dropped, literally Hell on earth.
My great-grandfather was born in a village not far from Vladivostok. He fought on the eastern front, in the southern sector. he was a member of the bomber crew, survived a plane crash and lost several fingers. He lived a happy life. He died in 2010.
Спасибо деду , низкий поклон 🙇♂️
А на чём Ваш прадед летал? Мой дед летал в полярной авиации, бортмеханик. PBY-1 GUBA, СССР Н-243. Погиб летом 42-го на Новой Земле (искали корабли PQ17, их на стоянке расстреляла U-601) What airplane did your great-grandfather fly? My grandfather flew in polar aviation as a flight mechanic. PBY-1 GUBA aircraft, registration number СССР H-243. He died in the summer of the 42nd on Novaya Zemlya (they were looking for PQ 17 ships, their airplane wah destroyed by U-601 submarine near Malye Karmakuly polar station)
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@@zagrivnyi К сожалению, я не застал его в сознательном возрасте и не мог узнать таких подробностей, а родственники не особо этим интересовались, хотя как мне кажется это конечно же нужно знать и помнить
my great grandfather fought in the kriegsmarine, his younger brother (15 yo) fought in the east the last year of the war, every year they told us storys about that time, they came to argentina after the war. No human should experience war.
Absolutely amazing video. Congratulation! Possible to have name of the musics -> A gorgeous choice!
If you search for the name of this video on KZhead and simply append the word “soundtrack”, to your search then you will find a playlist containing all the tracks that play in this video.
This is a real master piece.
The eastern front was an unprecedented slugfest of endurance, desperation and blood. Years of brutal total war.
@empty lol🤣🤣🤣🤣
@empty I am not a resident of "The West", but, nevertheless, I will answer here, for the sake of completeness In Odessa, we remember your atrocities very well, so few people will have the pity that you tried to evoke in your comment. This doesn't mean that all those who survived the occupation by you now hate you forever. It simply means that there is no pity As for the snobbery on the part of the "civilized West" - look at world history аnd the real reason will become clear
@empty Well atleast ypur country is starting to develop
@@kosiachok_fm Готовьтесь к вступлению в России, одесситы
@@Anonymous-qj3sf бля, братан, ты можешь рашку хоть здесь не приплетать, пожалуйста?
EmpTigerstar laid the groundwork for historical war mapping with his WW2 almost a decade ago... you have now brought it to another level. I salute you good sir.
No he didn't, I remember seeing one before his with him in the comments asking how the uploader did it.
@@PaulSchlock There probably were iterations of WW2 everyday before Emp. I was in the mapping "future of europes" community back in 2012, I know it very well. But his was the one who brought the genre to popularity. Tens of millions of views
@@PaulSchlock well yeah, but he WAS the one who made the genre of historical mapping more popular
@@epw6679 Yes, I agree with the fact that his was the one that launched it into popularity. I just didn't agree with the statement that he created the groundwork for these videos since he just copied someone else's template. Hopefully I didn't come off as a prick in my original comment.
I'm and Ollie Bye guy. OBG for life! All them other mappers are just fools with lines. OB slaps that paint with authority.
Background music is on point.
¡ON POINT!
Yugoslavia:*Joins Axis* Yugoslavia:*Leaves Axis* Yugoslavia:*Joins Allies* Yugoslavia:Refuses to elaborate
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then liberates themselves lmao
internal politics
It’s terrifying to see how quickly Germany took the majority of Europe. Also, if the Soviets had capitulated (unlikely since they had backup plans if Moscow fell) the the war likely would have been lost. The US were hesitant to get involved and the British simply didn’t have the scale to defend themselves and the oil fields from the power of the Axis, if they had lost either the Axis would have been insurmountable.
its also possible if hitler accepted the offer from ussr to join the axis they would've won, the soviet union wasn't unstoppable but they had large amounts of natural resources and grew quite strong in the later years of war then into the cold war
It’s because off the Poland and west-Ukrain union with the nazi
It is terrible to imagine the fate of the Jews and Slavs, which they could expect in the event of the fall of the USSR.
@@bigbear307 bruh
Не без помощи США , Германия быстро захватила Европу!!!!А в 1945 году ,политика США включила заднюю ,как всегда они и делали и делают!!!!
4:09 I get goosebumps everytime I watch this. Scary as hell how quickly they covered ground
Yep same
Stalin didn’t let his country get ready, he was delusional.
@Trevor Brannon 😂😂😂
While I despise the German government’s ideology at the time, I must say, their war machine was insanely effective.
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This is a crazy cool visual representation, could you do one for the pacific theater?
Remember, the War in Europe was primarily Germany vs the USSR. The War in the Pacific was primarily the USA vs Japan. Apparently, the Pacific front American veterans had very little in common with the European front American veterans due to just how differently the Japanese and Germans fought.
Holy crap. This is the most amazing mapping video of World War 2 I have seen yet. The transitions are extremely smooth, the quality is great, and the army counter and encircled and captured numbers are almost as smooth as the transitions. You even added the background quality of Europe showing the winter snow on the land. This is amazing.
Check out Eastory's WWII Eastern Front Animated..... some of my favorite youtube videos ever. He also did 44 and 45 Western Front.
This map is wrong. Initially Poland was much bigger. The USSR invaded eastern part of Poland in September (started 17 of September 1939).
i cannot verify if everything is perfectly to scale or anything but it seems pretty accurate. What i do not understand is the text at the bottom is misspelled and is covered up 6:51 and 2:29 "postphoned" instead of postponed haha. seems odd to me to put hours and hours and hours of effort into this but then have those weird text mistakes? either way epic video
its not accurate
so great. i can read every sentence at the bottom clearly :/
This could actually be used in history lectures at schools to give an impression on just how colossal the European front was, especially the Soviet one,
But this is complete nonsense! Poland had not only 250,000 soldiers mobilized at the beginning of the war on September 1, 1939. Poland has mobilized 1 million soldiers. The number of German soldiers is also wrong. Because Germany has mobilized 2 million soldiers and not just 1.8 million. It would also be good if the betrayal of Poland in 1939 was somehow mentioned in the video. The British and French declaration of war 1939 against Germany served only for saving face. The British and the French did not intend to keep to the contractual commitment and to attack massively in the west. They wanted to sacrifice Poland for peace with the Germans! This was the continuation of British and French foolish appeasement politics of the 30s! By the way, if British and French had massive attacked the Germans in the West, the Germans would have lost the war because they were not prepared for a two-fronts war! Since the betrayal of Poland is denied in the comments below, here is the detailed description of the betrayal of Poland. Before the war, a relief offensive was agreed with the British and French in the event of a German raid against Poland. The relief offensive was actually intended to force the enemy to fight on two fronts so that the Germans could not only concentrate their forces on the troops of one front, i.e. the Polish front.Which of course leads to the decisive weakening of the enemy. That's why Poland agreed with the French and British before the war three tactical main actions in the event of a German-Polish war contained the agreements with the British and French: 1. France immediately carries out an air campaign according to a pre-determined plan. 2. As soon as part of the French troops are ready (on the third day or so), France will progressively launch offensive actions with limited targets. 3. As soon as the main effort of Germany was directed against Poland, no later than 15 days after the German attack France with British support would begin with the bulk of its troops an offensive action against Germany. If, according to this plan the British and French had massively attacked the Germans in the west the victory would be certain because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war. So if British and French had massive attacked the Germans in the West, the Germans would have lost the war in 1939. But the British and French did not stick to this agreement and did not attack massively in the West. The British and French declaration of war 1939 against Germany served only for saving face. The British and French had no intention of honoring their treaty obligation under the treaty of alliance and launching a massive attack in the west. They wanted to sacrifice Poland for peace with the Germans! This was the continuation of British and French foolish appeasement politics of the 30s! Because the Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts Hitler himself said before the war that he played va banque. He used it to describe that he hoped he's lucky and that he correctly assessed the disloyalty of the Polish allies. Because Hitler knew that he would surely lose the war if the French and British attacked massively in the west. Therefore, the German troops in the west were given the express order not to do anything to provoke the French and British into an attack. That is why there was not the slightest attack by the Germans in the western in 1939. The French only mobilized their troops because they feared a German attack against France, which they wanted to repel, but they had no intention of attacking the Germans themselves. This was a betrayal of the Polish ally. The Germans had no chance in two-front war against Poland, French and British! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! By the way, the France and the British could have quickly discovered by enlightening their opponents during the attack that the Germans had little air support in the West because 90% of German front line aircraft were in Poland. Germans had also hardly any tanks in the West. And that the French and British could also quickly realized that the Siegfried Line was a fake. They just had to attack. Even the most incompetent of generals would have won against this weak German troops in the West. That would also have complied the agreement and the war plan concluded with Poland. British and French only had to have the will to fight and loyalty to their allies. The Germans had nothing in the West in 1939. Only inferior reserves without tanks and hardly any air support. Part of the reserve was without training! WITHOUT TRAINING! After war German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions." German General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in full force in September 1939 the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks." Franz Halder Chief of the German General Staff of the Army documents this fact in his war diary. "The Wehrmacht had been on the verge of a military logistical catastrophe in the Polish campaign. The happy ending after a few weeks saved her from having to stop the fight because of insufficient ammunition." For all that reasons the Germans had lost the war because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! But they didn't attack and thus shamefully betrayed Poland. Also e the French themselves proved that they were capable to attack in 1939! This was the Saar offensive! This offensive has clearly shown that the French were capable of attacking, contrary to the mendacious legends spread about the impossibility of a massive attack in the West to hide the fact that Poland had been betrayed by its allies. The fact is that even without British support, France was able to defeat the Germans in the West in 1939 without any problems. The pre-emptive mobilization was started in France on 26 August and on 1 September 1939, full mobilization was declared. Six days after the German raid on Poland, the French attacked and encountered little German resistance. A French offensive in the Rhine valley began on 7 September, four days after France declared war. The most of German army was preoccupied in the attack on Poland and the French enjoyed a decisive numerical advantage along the border. 90% of German frontline aircraft were in Poland. Eleven French divisions advanced along a 32 km (20 mi) line near city of Saarbrücken, against weak German opposition. The Germans retreated more as to fought. The French army advanced to as far as 8 km (5.0 mi) in some areas, and captured about 12 towns and villages unopposed...By 9 September the French occupied most of the Warndt Forest. The French 32nd Infantry Regiment made further gains on 12 September, seizing the German town of Brenschelbach. The French held German territory along all of the Rhine-Moselle front. But that was just a sham offensive on the Saar to deceive the Polish ally that there was an attack in the west according to the alliance agreement. So on 21 September French units were ordered to return to their starting positions on the Maginot Line. These cowards betrayed Poland and hid in their bunkers instead of continuing to fight. Incidentally, the fact that the Soviets attacked Poland in 1939 was the result of betrayal. Because the Soviets first waited and watched how the British and French reacted to the German raid on Poland. Only when it was obvious that the French and British would not massive attack in the west did the Soviets raid Poland 17 days after the German raid on September 17, 1939. Because the Soviets did not want a war against the French and British. Because the Soviets knew that it was very likely that the Americans would support the British and French in their fight against the Soviets. Because for the Americans in 1939, communism was the main danger. So if the French and British had attacked massively in the West as was agreed with Poland, Germany would be on the way to losing. This would be another reason why the Soviets would not have attacked Poland. Because then, after the Germans had been defeated, they would have to fight against the Poles, the French, the British, and very probably the Americans as well. Therefore, the betrayal of Poland in 1939 was also additionally reprehensible, because the betrayal also gave rise to the Soviet raid. In 1939 there was a good opportunity for a relatively quick victory against Germany. Because the Germans were too weak for a two-front war. For victory against Germany the British and French should have only acted according to the plan worked out with Poland for the event of a German raid on Poland. But instead they preferred to betray Poland cowardly. This betrayal of Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest but it was also a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War.
@GreatPolishWingedHussars the troop numbers are well just that, troop numbers. The actual army is much bigger but are behind the front lines, i.e., logistics
@@oblivioneagle3464 Your claim is wrong and nonsense. Because in the video the total number of German troops is correctly stated. In this context, the total number of troops is always stated.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars The russian army had 12 million personal towards 1943 - 1944, while it correctly shows only 4 - 5 million on the front
@@oblivioneagle3464 Then that's another mistake in the video! But that was the Soviet Army!
Great video that took some effort
Awesome work thanks
00:00 Kriegsgewitter - hoi2 01:35 Epic Battles - hoi3 02:02 Low Unity - hoi3 04:03 Storming Omaha Beach - hoi3 05:17 Leningrad - hoi3 06:08 demolition victory - cod2 07:00 Rise My Comrades - hoi3 08:26 War - hoi2 10:44 The Royal Air Force - hoi4
Thx for the music man was wondering what music this video uses
@@anangrygamer6628 ngl i copied this off from someome, and posted for my own self because sometimes i play hoi4 and i wanna listen to some of them, a personal list lol, this is to remember them
@@iRON90111 that's the same reason why i'm taking those XD
@@guilhoerme159 aughhh
Thx so much
It’s incredible how long the Eastern Front took place between Germany and Russia before Allies landed in Normandy.
Ikr? That is why russians claims it was their war.
they did most of the fighting in Europe, the US is wanking off somewhere else and only decide to join the war when Japan bomb pearl habour and took their colony.
Don’t forget the bombing of cities for example. This video only shows the frontlines.
@@heyhoe168 потому что фашисты разрушили нам половину страны
Russia?
Insane work, so many battles all over that we'll never hear of
Я впервые узнал что в Африке тоже что-то происходило в это время)
Great, and makes me think how much better it could be!
What an incredible, hard hitting, scholar spitting history video. Well done!
I don't normally comment but this video is fantastic. Not what I was expecting next from this channel but definitely a great surprise
@@kostas0352 yes me too
@@kostas0352 yeah!
Me too
except the parts where you cant read whats being said on the bottom
Just discovered this channel and subscribed. don't know anything about the creator . I'm half way through the video and if they haven't blown up and become super popular here on youtube yet they should. This is everything I didn't actually know I wanted to see but now I'm watching it I'm thinking why hasn't this been done before
00:00 Kriegsgewitter - hoi2 01:35 Epic Battles - hoi3 02:02 Low Unity - hoi3 04:03 Storming Omaha Beach - hoi3 05:17 Leningrad - hoi3 06:08 demolition victory - cod2 07:00 Rise My Comrades - hoi3 08:26 War - hoi2 10:44 The Royal Air Force - hoi4 i needed to save this incase i get lost (not my comment) credits to roda guinto
you came to my rescue stupid shazam couldn't find music
yes ayush give credit keep it up
demolition victory from cod2 was a good touch
i love you
@Trevor Braun Yep, they should be
Hi! The video turned out to be very wonderful, but during the capture of the USSR, the place near Lake Ilmen (Veliky Novgorod) was under the control of the USSR, although it was captured and liberated only in 1944
Thank you so much, you make my little son Happy... now, it's a theme in 7 class in Germany...sorry for my english
I find it amazing how Russia survived the early German offensive despite so many losses and still come back strong enough to hold them back and eventually turn the tides. It seems it has always been the strategy of Russia to win wars not through quick decisive action but by lasting longer than the enemy.
Russia didn't exist at the time, anyways, their main strategy was to send as many troops as possible to overwhelm with infantry even if so many would die
@@raulvanesette7230 if you want to split hairs, Russia did exist as the Russian Soviet Republic, which dominated politics in the USSR, especially during WW2 when most of the other soviet republics didn't exist yet.
@@raulvanesette7230 А правили при этом то грузины то украинцы, иногда проскакивали русские XD
@@pallandoromestamo8861 А правили при этом то грузины то украинцы, иногда проскакивали русские XD
How can they not? Russia was huge. Infinite manpower and resources. Despite all that they wanted to join the Axis, and Hitler didn’t let them. Hitler could have easily let the USSR and USA fight, and then attacking them after they got exhausted. And no Putin today if he did that.
Those soviet losses in barbarossa and initial speed of the axis advance is mind blowing. The continued fighting, the colossal fightback of the soviets from Moscow, the size of stalingrad kursk bagration the drive on berlin and mind blowing.
Thanks, im from latvia and my grandmother was born in 1932 and she looks all scream of war
Soviet won the war
@@megaharbor8415 всегда прислуживали Европе
That’s what happens when you kill 70-80% of the Soviet high command.
@@vor5591 бот кремлевский
This is pretty awesome
First of all: great Job!! technical critics: 1) I have to pause often to fully read the subtitles and the youtube-bar overlays -> please lift the subtitles (I just realised I can slow down the video but then the sound ist not so nice anymore :) 2) in the middle the text was not clear. it seemed that 2 layers were on top of each other.
We need a WW1 version of this. This is amazing! Thx for likes!
3 years of nothing, suddently Initial D soundtrack plays
Later we will also need a WW3 version
@@welike4278 it hasent started....
it would just be a static image
@@Snowlandic Not yet but it will happen soon, leftism will meet its end because of it.
Outstanding work. That was really really good.
kzhead.info/sun/Z6tvlZiMmHyunoE/bejne.html ...
Yeah, but at 11:18 there is nothing about the Warsaw Uprising that broke out on August 1st, 1944, while a bit later in the video the uprising in Yugoslavia is mentioned, well. Warsaw Uprising was the largest anti-nazi guerrilla uprising in history of the world and the largest single military effort taken by any European resistance movement during World War II. Please have in mind, that the end of the WWII was not the end of the struggle for Polish people. The Soviet Union (Russia) told the world they liberated Polish people, but they actually took over Poland and occupied it for the next 44 years, till 1989. During that time, in the late 40s, the former members of the Polish anti-nazi resistance movement, later called the Cursed soldiers, started to fight against the next occupants, but were persecuted, captured and murdered by high-ranked communist officials, mostly of Jewish origin and that's why this topic is one of the biggest taboos of Polish history. Witold Pilecki is the greatest example of the Polish anti-nazi and anti-communist hero, pursued, tortured and sentenced to death by the Jewish-communist authorities. Check the origin of Józef Różański, Roman Romkowski or Julia Brystygier, read their bio. Now, don't you think it was an irony of fate?
The numbers are ludicrous. In 1941 Germany had over 7 million strong army, with over 5 million invasion force dedicated for Barbarossa.
@@proudpolishherbsman2583 _> Warsaw Uprising was the largest anti-nazi guerrilla uprising in history of the world_ Hilarious. German provocateurs from Krayova Army (which probably killed more Jews than Germans) herded people into a hopeless uprising knowing with absolute certainty that it will be completely useless, which it was. And it wasn't even a big guerilla uprising by WW2 standards. _> The Soviet Union (Russia) told the world they liberated Polish people_ That's a fact. USSR also handed Poland its sovereignty, vast lands, and lots of economic aid. _> Witold Pilecki_ Who was working for the Germans all along. Nice Koolaid you are drinking over there. The usual Polish pastime - making up history because you have nothing to be proud of in the real one.
Слава КПСС!
4:08 you combined siren head sounds with hoi3 D day theme...and it fits Perfectly.
4:08 this part give me goosebumps
This is insanely great. However, it would need a new version, with the text issues fixed, as the texts go on top of each other at times, and one can't decipher them even with the Enigma machine. Also, some version could have points in the map, telling what specifically is happening there. As is already said, this concept has great promise for historical info in an entertaining format. Especially also the audio is giving us so much atmoshpere and tension, making learning and understanding history as a narrative that much more compelling.
Well said! This amount of research and then being uploaded with such cheap problems, like noone reviewed the video before the upoad.
May I also recommend using a map base contemporary to the events. Without the reservoirs along the lower Dnieper, Don and Volga, which emerged well after WW2.
it's all bs the music in the background ??? as if they were liberated???? what about the aftermath of world two 20milions prussians killed the cold war hello?> 40 years of communism ?? adolf hitler was stopping communism from spreading
@@mikelrodriguez3264 I agree!
Agree with all here. I even found some of the text a bit too fast. But you've done an amazing job! Just a small comment and it'll be stupidly small, and maybe an interesting fact but wasn't sure if you were aware but the Germans remained the main occupation force in the channel Islands up until May 1945. All that time the allies were in France and so close the Germans were left by their own military, they even made a raid on mainland France to capture allied soldiers for intelligence.
4:59 For those who wonder what was that red dot on the shore of the Black Sea, that was city Sevastopol. The heroic defense of it was from October 30th 1941 until July 4th 1942. It’s 8 month for one city.
Hero-city Sevastopol , and its Russian 😎
@@saveliartemjev40 Ukrainian
@@babahaze4638 nope...
@@babahaze4638 Russian.
@@babahaze4638 In that time was USSR, big country with a lot of nationals and Ukranians. In world war II Sevastopol and another Cities of this was a part of Russia.
In this video, the snow is even drawn in the places where it was. This is a subtle but very cool detail.
i love this video! can you do a napoleonic wars version maybe? ww1 was already done by someone else! this video is a masterpiece
probably was made by him, just in disguise or something
My great grandfather fought during Operation Barbarossa, my Grandpa still has a picture of him and his companions standing at a sign that said 100km till Moscow, when the germans were losing he got captured for 5 years and then he came back, he drove from Munich to Cologne with his bike. We even have the local newspaper from 1949 where they wrote that my Great Grandfather was the only one from our city who came back, his Name was Otto Schmeis, he died in 1957 due to lung cancer, but all I've heared was that the war and the capture broke him and he never talked about his experiences after he came back.
Terribly sad what was done to POWs by the Soviets and by the Germans. Heck: pretty much everyone, but those two were particularly bad to one another. May your great grandfather’s memory be held in honor.
@@Joemccxc he went to another country without a legit purpose, basically killing slavs in nazi uniform. I understand, that he had no other option, but there is no honor in that for sure
@@Joemccxc Not just those two, the Americans didn't even legally treat captured Germans as POWs, they were "enemy combatants", does that ring any bells?1,000s of them died in US captivity at the end of the war.
@@GregDeman And the Germans exterminated millions of innocent women and children. Guess The Good Guy won and the bad guys lost, eh?
@@GregDeman Fir God's sake, how can you compare 1000 german prisoners in US camps (from millions survived, treaten well) - compared to MILLIONS captured, beaten and enslaved in Russia for 10-20 years?
I wish we would have had something like this in history class. When you have all that in text form and you have to read it month after month, sometimes not even in chronological order, it gets really difficult to have any idea how the war developed overall.
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I realised the Nazis peak strength was at July 1943, just before the Battle Of kursk at yet they still lost that battle
@@huiyinghong3073 Not sure how you managed to reach such a wrong conclusion after watching this video. Things started to go awry way before that.
@@huiyinghong3073 Zima wygrała,i logistyka
Yeah but that wouldn't be good propaganda. It's better to confuse the students and mention the Holocaust survivors every other day
In World War II, Hitler's German Nazi forces were so powerful that all the countries of the entire European continent failed to defeat them. Eventually, the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union were able to defeat the German forces through a combined attack. This shows how efficient, brave and strong the German army was in World War II. The German arsenal was already well equipped with advanced technology. So the combined power of the whole world was used to defeat one Germany. Because of Germany's defeat, they are always belittled in Kerr movies, but it is true that they are truly a nation of Kerr heroes, because they alone are a hundred. And German nationalism is impossibly strong, so even after World War 2 it could not be suppressed even by the burden of debt. Well they turned around in a short amount of time. And the two Germanys were united after the Berlin Wall was broken, and the two superpowers like the United States and the Soviet Union could not hold them back. At present they have emerged as the strongest economic countries in the European continent. Thank you to all the people of Germany for uniting and staying together.
you forget australia new zealand and canada
@@Battlestar540 I don’t forget Australia, New Zealand, Canada. They are USA Allied forces or Western combined force,,,😊🇧🇩💗👍
Hitler was a very stupid leader
Love the Barbarossa track lol
I've never seen a representation of WWII that conveys a sense of proportion, of the macro dynamics, as beautifully, detailed, and dramatically as this video does. Being able to study history with data visualizations like this one makes one thankful for living in this century. Thanks @Christopher!
But the data is not accurate. The Axis forces had an advantage of a million over the Red Army at the beginning of Barbarossa
@@paulpaulson7551 that number likely included support personnel (not sure if the video counts them) and the overall number can change depending on what source you look at i'm not entirely saying that the data is or isn't accurate, but that's my opinion on it
" accurately" how can you judge this? The amount of data shown is so big that is practely impossible to make sure all of it is correct.
@@paulpaulson7551 the data is fairly accurate... there are some data points that are not shown (they would be key here) such as Army size, reserves, material, people (and government) readiness, economy, number of killed and injured in action, number of prisoners (although a good job is done in regards to it in the press itself)...
@@paulpaulson7551 As it is shown in the video, if you count Finnish army the axis forces had more than million soldiers more than the red army on June 22.