The Final Battles of World War II | Countdown to Surrender - The Last 100 Days | Ep. 2
March 6, 1945: During World War II, Cologne falls to the Allies, marking the capture of the first major German city. US troops secure the intact Rhine bridge in Remagen. Stalin orders immediate planning for Berlin's conquest, emphasizing its avoidance by his allies. Goebbels attempts to boost German morale through fear-inducing newsreels. Hitler, refusing to leave the Reich Chancellery, orders executions and destruction in contested areas. British and American forces successfully plan the Rhine crossing, a decisive moment in the Western front. Simultaneously, the Red Army captures Posen and Königsberg, eyeing Berlin as the next target.
Documentary: Countdown to Surrender - The Last 100 Days
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I too must protest this pixelation or blurring out in certain scenes. History cannot be concealed, it must be shown as it was.
👏😃 Superb documental. THANK YOU so much‼️ ...quite professional
This is interesting. The censorship is disturbing. Why does anyone believe they should decide what I can view?
yep. welcome to the 2020s
Ĺu 😊😊😮😊
Find it elsewhere then?
Why see all these horror? Maybe you are a psychopath with no empathy? Glad your side lost.
Excellent. A must watch
Wonderful insight into the final days thankyou.
very educational documentary.. i love watching this kind of docu learning a lot from history which i never heard from my old school kudos to uploader
Thanks for the history
What's up with the blurry part?
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Along with the usual censoring of pictures. Who are they to decide what the viewers can & cannot see.
Commie Google Snowflakes
Why see all these horror? Maybe you are a psychopath with no empathy? Glad your side lost.
You shouldn't blur the image,we need to see it, to remember
I don’t think the creators want to do it, youtube is anti history
KZhead administration will says no and will be yellow dollars,u wont gets money from youtubes when that happen.....no youtube content creator don,t want to get money from their content right??
KZhead algorithm tends to either ban or put the videos to a lower status so nobody sees the video if there is the true images of war and gore.
Agreed....
Up to a point. Don’t think people want to see corpses in pieces.
Excellent video!!!❤❤❤❤ SUPER INTERESTING!!!
It is getting good!
Several scenes are blurred out. Why we have seen many brutal war images. Excellent explanations that tie into other research validating what was presented. Good Job Thank you.
Very good, I’ve never seen most of this footage.
The Greatest Generation who sacrificed so much to keep America free from the evil people who were hell bent to destroy the world for their gain are passing away at a rate of over 1500 souls a day. As of 2024, there remain only 130,000. Respect, accolades are deserved for these brave patriots. Thank you The Greatest Generation.
Please stop blurring out the bodies, people need to see the brutality, so it is understood and not repeated.
It's KZhead. They will either remove the video, demonetize it or simply make it more obscure by the search algorithm by not recommending it to users or not showing it in the search results. YT has draconian moderation rules.
Well you can’t post videos on KZhead that have unblurred dead bodies or else the documentary will get taken down and nobody will get to see it so you should probably take that up with KZhead terms of service people lol
I use too see all kinds of dead years ago on You Tube.
There are other documentaries that show the brutality of war @LIVING_IN_BASTROP:World at War. Color of War. Victory at Sea. All on KZhead
I HATE it when they do this, and you CAN post bodies on KZhead I see them all day. I think it gets demonetized so they blur, or maybe the documentaries are old and they haven’t caught it. Either way it makes me so mad.
Such an excellent and well produced documentary. Most grateful, so please accept my sincere thanks. England, January, 2024.
As a WW2 history buff, I really enjoy it.
Wow...... those guillotine machines. German efficiency right there, folks.... 😉 Great documentary, btw, and I watch a lot of WW2 docs 👍👍❤️😊😊
this is good docu film, this worth showing of how war is to learn is all but destruction of mankind and greed of power to mankind
The Army Corps of Engineers quickly built 3 bridges at Ramagen. So even after the bridge failed nothing changed. Nothing could stop the allies.
Particularly after Montgomery and Bradley launched Varsity.
By the time the Remain bridge finally fell into the river, over 15,000 American troops had already gone across it.
When the bridge at Remagen collapsed there were many ambulances on it sending wounded Americans to rear areas.
The motto of the Corps of Engineers was " The difficult we can do almost immediately. The impossible might take just a little longer." They ment it. The Germans were shocked by the speed of the combat engineers as they assembled the bridges at Ramagen.
Insightful expose with first person perspective and footage seldom seen by audiences in the USA. Very well done.
So where do you think they got this footage from mate? Ps. Insightful expose with first person perspective 'wats that even mean if ya dont mind plz?
@@davechristian7543 Been watching WWII film for 60 years. I don't recall seeing some of this, especially some of the Soviet footage. First person perspective is interviews and diaries from the people who where there, not after-the-fact opinions and conclusions drawn by others years later.
That last speach of goerbals..audience didn't look very convinced 😂😂😂
I'm not convinced by your spelling.
@@anthonyreed480 🤣🤣🫡🫡
Goebbels
America owes its freedom to the U.S. Navy who somehow fought two wars at the same time...unbelievable.
Three fronts. Pacific, European, African.
Battle of the Atlantic was also a front.
Aku suka menonton documentary tentang sejarah perang dunia ke 2
Two documentaries I recommend: 1. Europa the last battle. 2. The greatest story never told.
How long till the Googliots censor you?
16:27 how did anyone support a man who talked like that, it seems crazy that an entire civilization embraced this attitude, I imagine these people had fun in the beginning easily winning victory after victory, until winter comes along and takes out more enemies than the Soviet regime did, and once they started retreating and freezing I imagine it wasn’t so fun anymore, and I bet the fear was very palpable in the soldiers knowing that all the horrible things they did will return to them in one form or another and know great darkness and despair will soon hang over there country and lives like a cloud
Another thing Patton said: "We let the wrong side win"...
The best Doc on the Waffen SS as a fighting force that's been compiled .
The German Soldiers and the people that were close to the Rhine knew the war was over once they saw the Allies were IN Germany and surrendered instead of putting up a fight. Smart.
Imagine, if you will, a world where that maniac had got into art school.
There’s a great video on another channel about the bridge at Ramagen. Critical action by a few American soldiers saved the bridge at least long enough for a few thousand soldiers and many tanks could cross. The bridge later collapsed killing a few dozen soldiers and engineers working to repair the bridge. But by then two pontoon bridges had been built. Germans threw everything they had at the bridge but failed.
The final battle of WWII was in Borneo against the Japanese. Australian troops with US support, Europe was well over.
I'm almost certain Britain was in that war
The Industrial Revolution ushered in the dominance of science and technology over philosophy.
The hordes of Russian soldiers had never seen things such as pianos and other niceties of civilization and many homes were burned to the ground in eastern Germany.
good doc not seen before but I feel it is unnecessary and a dishonor to those that gave so much to have to censor what is war in a factual war documentary
Excellent film. I taught German history, have a lifelong interest in Germany, and was greatly pleased with this video. SIDE NOTE: Who is the arrogant fool who blurs images on KZhead? We who pay for the "premium" edition of KZhead should not have to shell out money to be insulted. I will contact KZhead about this and I hope that thousands of other viewers do as well. KZhead's practices, no matter how well motivated, are akin to those of Josef Goebbels.
As the completion of the repairs, repainting, and refitting of the USS Texas, Battleship Texas, BB-35 draws closer, is there anything your channel can do to spotlight this excellent legendary warship?
It must have been the ultimate stress. You know the whole thing has weeks to go and you don’t want to be the last to die like those poor bastards on 11/11 in WWI.
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The fall of Remagn , Germany and the taking of it's bridge was remarked upon by Eisenhower. He called it one of the most significant events of the war. On March, 7, 1955 then President Eisenhower hosted the "Society Of the Remagen Bridgehead" in the Whitehouse. Where he lavishly praised those who took the bridge. Many who were at that storming of the bridge were present. (But not my father in law, another story) The letter issued by the President to the Society at that event, can be seen, on line at the: American Presidency Project.
Must include the Battle of the Bulge
I was born right after WW2. We had a neighbor that was in Patton's 3rd Army during WW2. He told me that "Patton didn't care how many solders he killed, American or German. Patten thought that War was for Glory. Its a good thing that Ike put his thump on him.
Maybe so, but you need generals that have the stones to prosecute war, when it's necessary. Men have always died in war. When you let fear of injury dictate battlefield decisions, you are fighting defensively, not to win
Your neighbor is wrong .
German soldiers where smart to surrender
@13:41...16 years old? He looks more like 12 or 10 at most...such a shame what war does to our youth.
I thought WW2 didn't finish until the Japanese surrendered. This video says that it finished after the defeat of Germany.
Please kindly make a short reel alongwith the list of 57 alleged in the July 17 plot & other political prisoners who were annihilated during April 15, 1945 please, please....
Why does it blur after 40:02? Did someone apply the lens blur effect for too long?
Definitely an error
Possibly a copyright problem. I've seen the same in other videos.
Welcome to the Wild WOKE World.
The last major battle of WWII was the Australian capture of Borneo from the Japanese.
@@hardcorehistory9165 Huh? The Soviets attacked Manchuria as Japan was surrendering because of the atom bombs.
@@seanlander9321 I can argue that atomic bombs did not end the war - as before bombs were dropped Japan was bombed to rubble anyway. The victory over Japan was secured by Soviet forces defeating largest concentration of Japanese forces in north of China, if I don't mistake arout 70% of Japanese ground troops were stationed there. But yes, you from western world are thought another thing, that Abombs made Japanese to surrender, but we have our version, its only for specialists do decide which one was right
@@igorzimin2518 Not at all, as Hirohito confirmed, the atomic bombs forced Japan’s unconditional surrender.
@@seanlander9321 what exactly did he say? Just curious. And my version does not come out of thin air, many specialists argue that it happened this way
@@hardcorehistory9165 It’s not rocket surgery, the Soviet attack was after the atomic bombs, which is when Japan agreed to unconditional surrender.
My 2 great uncles were fighting in the north in the Canadian Army🇨🇦
They wouldn't happy of what's happening in Palestine now
@@cjstubejackofalltrade1551 And the relevance of your comment is what, precisely? If you were merely after attention, then here! - have five seconds of it and a shiny sixpence.
CANADA 🤣🤣🤣You mean the Present ""KHALISTANI STATE"" ❓😆😆😆😆😆😆
@@monoramabhowmick4699 Most Indians of my acquaintance are lovely people, chotabai. Please don’t ruin your country’s reputation for decency. Namaste
23:44 Τα δύο αγαπημένα σκυλιά του ΜουρλοΧιτλερ ήταν η Μπλοντι και ο Σπεερ μέχρι τέλους
Patton was a great commander ( probrally the best ) who knew you had to go fast and keerp advancing on the enemy to win That said he was also a glory hound who got a lot of american soldiers unnecessarily killed for healines
“We liberated Europe from fasicim. But they will never forgive us”
What do you mean
Your inability to spell fascism suggests your opinions may be less than remarkable.
Marshall Georgi Zhukov.
I chuckle at British complaints about Patton. Patton was everything Montgomery wasn’t: a decisive leader who took what he had and did the best with it. All you have to do is look at the utter failure of Operation Market Garden to understand this fact.
A real pity your grasp of factual history has you believing that Market Garden was Montgomery's original plan and that it hadn't been co-opted by an American General making it all but unnachievable as originally planned. Gen Gavin diverted the majority of his force to the City of Nijmegen instead of seizing the bridge and the wheels fell off the whole operation at that point because without the bridge at Nijmegen, there could be no originally planned by Monty relieving troops arriving at Arnem. Gavin screwed the pooch by prioritizing the city instead of the bridge and there went the ball game.
@@brustar5152 One thinks, from various comments, that Mr. Hicks has a bit of a crush on George C Scott… Best wishes
The 82nd and their failure to take the Nijmegen bridge was the reason Market Garden failed. Thanks, America.
Montys plan was startling in its scope and strategy, Ignore the film a bridge too far, that's just dickie Attenborough being the wet liberal. It was a magnificently designed strategy, Worthy of rommel, manstein or guderian, 95 % successfull , The other 5% a result of a combination of personal decisions by Boy browning, gavin , And a combination of minute failings that when added together ensured failure, Unlike Mark Clark in Italy who landed, then dug in........ A beached whale instead of a tiger.
Watching from India.
20:23 Patton, the general that the Germans “fear more than any other allied commander” Yeah, sure 😒 more than Zhukov that beat the s#it of of them in several occasions…😊
That was the German perspective, not a conclusion drawn by the video maker. Zuchov takes a long time to marshall his overwhelming forces (artillery, troops). The USSR camps several months on the Oder before crossing. Patton reaches the Rhine and crosses immediately.
THE SOVIET UNION WON THE EUROPEAN THEATER OF WAR. PERIOD NO EXCEPTIONS Peace my friends
@@MUCHTRA1N Where did you get that spelling of Zhukov from? Or is that just a typo? Zhukov's main problem is that he was operating in the USSR ('Communist') and it took the Army >4 million troops killed, wounded, captured in 5 months to stall out the Germans.
its bullshit to compare eastern front to western, patton had clean way to reach that fast meanwhile all wermacht atention were on eastern front, allies totally faced nothing on west@@MUCHTRA1N
seems like u re looking speedrun statistic, like allies wouldnot stay with chance with german in 40 41 42 and 43, there was 0 chance to defeat german in that year @@MUCHTRA1N
noticed Patton's diary does not say "this is a big show" where quoted
Dead or alive, the war will eventually end in some way.
Did Japan surrender when Germany did??? There are 3 more months left to the war
The frequent blurring detractsand distracts from an otherwise good documentary
Who gave you the right to blur the images? If you want to blur some, then everything should be considered not proper to be shown
I understand blurring out the corpses, but why are the interviews starting at 40:00 blurry....whole picture is blurry.
Beevor, author of the famed but highly inaccurate 'Stalingrad' book, really can't hide his anti-Red Army feeling. Zhukov was more than a 'capable' commander!
Patton and the US troops crossed the Rhine while Bernard Montgomery was still having his morning tea and crumpets.
The first units across were the 4th RTR of the 79th armoured division. Americans like to pretend this didn’t happen.😂
@@annoyingbstard9407 What date?🤔 What time?☝😫
@@annoyingbstard9407 I guess you mean Operation Plunder. That was a joint Ops between The Brits and Americans to get across at night to smuggle supplies. Actually 2 weeks before that a few Americans got across the bridge at Remagen before the Germans blew it up. But it still stands Pattons men were the first to get across the Rhine in force.
We have crumpets for tea, not breakfast!
Britain was at war while the Yanks were still making money from both sides (Ford, GM, etc).
How can the commentator mispronounce Remagen when a German is repeatedly saying it correctly?
Really??
Did it really end or are we just continuing it?
Stop this blurring. We are adults.
World War II did not end in Europe. The European Theater did. The war was still being fought half a world away.
Watch (Europa last battle)10hr version....
Whar avout the Pacific theater?
What did the Germans expect!!!
At one point they were expecting to beat and subjugate all the bad people.
I think Ike had it right, make everyone from outlying villages to tour the camps at gunpoint But they all were aghast. When they cleaned the ash and skin off there roofs were they astonished , I really doubt it, let's be real, the heroes like Stauffenbergh stood. Up but as we see I America today, we have sheep, god help us.
To be fair you didn't see Roosevelt climb no hill after crossing the Rhine ;)
I agree really backwards.
The German referring to the allies as "we" is shameful and disgusting. These are your national ancestors like them or not and those defending germany were the civilians
02:31 See that car? That was an innocent civilian young woman simply trying to escape the danger. She later crawled out out the car from being shot and died in the street. The attacker had no clue who was in the car when they fired on her. An interview from the tankers years later expressed their regret when they found out who they had just killed. I think they tried to save her but she died within minutes. All captured on film I saw the film. Its sad. They ended up just covering her body with a coat or blanket after she died.
At least the Soviet soldiers regretted the incident. But the German SS, when faced with the millions they murdered in cold blood, didn't give it a second thought.
Pixelated really, you want to depict a lesson in history but don't want to show the civvies the true face of war??
You can likely thank the platform for the censorship, seeing that KZhead typically flags/outright bans any videos that show the true gory reality of the war. It's unfortunate that people are so keen on whitewashing and censoring things like this
Evil censors from KZhead require this.
@@jameskane6280I believe the censoring was done in the 40s
It's KZhead forcing him to do it
Pussification of the world by youtube’s liberals. It’s sad.
How many men in Zukov's so-called "eleven Armies"? Think about this before you answer, the First Marine Division is about 26,000 at full billet strength. Why the disparity between militaries on what is the complement of a Division, and better yet, so-called "Armies" as such. When I think of a Battalion, I think of about 800 men and machines, a Brigade, 4000 or more. Where the hell is the uniformity in numbers? Eleven Armies does not really tell us much anything starting at 49:48, except it was big. How big, how many men, and don't forget logistics and air power, because I understand that counts too?
The final battles of WWII were not in Germany but the south Pacific...lest ye' forget Pearl Harbor.
Technically, the last major battle of World War II was the battle for Okinawa, which lasted from April 1 1945 until June 22, 1945. That last major event of the war was the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
Last un European Theatre of war my Pedigree Chum.
Nope, the last major battle for the Allies was the Australian capture of Borneo from a force of 35000 Japanese.
The last major battle of WW2 was the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, cherub. August 1945. Manchuria is much bigger than Okinawa. The operations was rather larger than the Okinawa campaign too. Five times as many combat soldiers involved, in fact. The Japanese Emperor surrendered immediately…😉 Both the Burma and Borneo campaigns finished later than Okinawa, too. If you look at a map, you’ll see that both Borneo and Burma are a bit bigger than Okinawa. Pip pip!
@@robertcottam8824 The Soviet attack was mostly after the Japanese surrender. The Japanese couldn’t give two hoots for the Soviets as they hadn’t a navy or any amphibious craft to manage an attack on the Home Islands.
It was the last for the Americans. But it was at Japan's door step.
War is the worst thing to happen because no one win in both side to be honest. Good over Evils let lives as humans being . Peace 🕊️ love and unity and respect for one another. For God sake enough with this senseless war enough is enough.
44:00 -- hard to look at these germ killing devices ...
It took Patton three months and 27,104 dead and 86,267 wounded to take the Lorraine, a relative backwater, with the biggest army in NW Europe!. It just served to show Patton was a one trick donkey, totally screwed trying to take fixed defences, like Metz. Never asked about his losses, just how many tanks he had running! Sourced from United States Army Central - Robert P. Fullmer 2004.
Patton and McArthur were a pair to draw too.
Yes he had a large army that in October was sent for a brief R&R other wise forced on defensive because Ike gave Monty supplies to do an operation he failed at. Patton’s didn’t go on the offense until December because after Monty 1 army was working over the Haughten Forrest with supplies because they made a micro breach in the west wall.
@@rinkevichjm Wrong. the truth is operation Comet, a much smaller all-British plan was suggested by Montgomery. This was rejected and the much larger Market- Garden was put forward. Monty still commanded the ground troops Garden. But the planning for Market the Airborne side was planned by staff Officers of US Generals Brereton of the 1st Allied Airborne Army and Williams of IX Transport Command USAAF. Though the Airborne plan had many dangers, Eisenhower gave it the go, not Montgomery. Patton was ordered to halt before his fuel ran out. He ignored his orders and sent his men into battle on foot. The fuel shortage was because support troops in Normandy were selling fuel to the French Black market to fund lavish trips to Paris, kickbacks went as far as Washington!
@@billballbuster7186 Montgomery canceled Comet because he didn’t think it was grand enough to work as German resistance had build up due to the slow progress he was making. He was basically a one trick pony: it had to be grand to work large artillery large airborne large air support.
@@rinkevichjm No, Eisenhower at a SHAEF meeting 9-10-44 cancelled Comet, because he wanted to use the newly formed 1st Allied Airborne Army. It was to have been used in Operation Linnet, but this too was cancelled and Market-Garden proposed. The slow progress the allies were making was because of Eisenhower's "Broad Front" strategy. Along with large scale fuel thefts going to the French Black Market from the Normandy fuel dumps.
Wow, all these years and they still badmouth Patton
20:57-21:10 Why did Patton "get away with such things"? What was wrong in admitting the good qualities of your enemies? 40:08 41:05 Why on earth are these images blurred?
I like Paton!
The last 100 days of ww2 were fought in the pacific not Europe
exactly,my Dad was there in Burma after doing his bit in N africa and D Day..poor research.
There was competition bet Montgomery and Patton. Monty cooked the idea of Market Garden but failed
That war historian looks like Robert DiNero
As the Germans did to the Russians, the Russians did to the Germans. Can not say that I blame them, but very sad. Atrocity begets atrocity.
You, as well as 99,99% of Americans don't have a slytiest clue what the Germans did to the Soviet people. 27 million Soviet citizen died, 18 million of them were civilians. The Soviet movie " Come and See" should be The Must in every US high school history class!
no mention of Hungary and Yugoslavia?
All that needless death, just imagine if the Germans came to their senses in January 1945.
Extremely was an informative and wonderful historical coverage documentary....alliances also committed atrocities against German citizens including women raped ..
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Muslims are still doing that.
The Soviets had understandable revenge on their minds. The Soviets had their glory in the end.
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My father was German native American released from the war in 1945 in April .
The military sense in regard to Berlin was the location of plans for sophisticated weapons systems, nuclear. (Do not recollect the source)
The US spent billions of dollars, took several years of uranium enrichment, and large amounts of electrical power to get a very small amount of weapons grade uranium. Germany did not have the economic resources to do anything of value in an atomic program.
I agree. Stop blurring reality.
I am 78 years old!!!!
did that kid survive the war? If he did do you have any idea where is he now..
When defeated by the victors, the supermen murdered and ran away.
They should of study Arminus.
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