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Pretty prejudicial language to describe Ike as "abandoning" the Berliners. They had no right to expect him to sacrifice his soldiers to help them, and he had no responsibility towards them. He was right to choose the course he did.
General Patton saw it differently 11:33
As I read more and more about WW2, I find myself in continual agreement with Eisenhower’s decisions. His decision on Berlin is no exception.
I agree it actually makes me angry , what arrogance they almost destroyed humanity, morons
@@user-wk4ec5fn6w Patton not only wanted Berlin He wanted to ally with Germany and go after Russia
I've spent much more time in Hitler's bunker than in my own basement in recent months.
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill had given Berlin to Stalin and the Soviet Armed Forces at Yalta in February 1945 because the Russians were only 40 miles from Berlin along the Oder River and the U.S and British Armies were still 100's of miles away but Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt did get Greece at Yalta because they wanted to anchor their Southern Flank leading into the Oil Rich Middle East. General Eisenhower's Official Announcement on April 12, 1945 that was of little or no significance after the Big Three met at Yalta in February of 1945 and already decided that Berlin would fall in to the Soviet Zone. Sincerely, Daniel P. Kneeland, Grafton, Ma.
Nice summation Daniel, thank you.
The allies were not dumb enough to fight a Stalingrad type street fighting battle over a city already bombed to rubble and surrounded . Russians did not care , it is why Russia lost 5 million more soldiers than the German losing side in WW2.
Great info...but why put your presumed location in a youtube comment? It's not necessary and looks kind of out of place.
The only two countries behind Russian lines after the war and Stalin handed back was Greece and Austria ,
@@Crashed131963Stalin never even made it to Greece. Following a supposed 'gentleman's agreement' with Churchill alone that Greece would come under western influence, the British sent a unit to occupy Athens in late '44 and soon after the Greek Civil War broke out. Even then Stalin sort-of kept to the deal as he didn't supply the communist forces in that war and as a result they were defeated.
Vic Morrow, Rick Jason, and my dad piqued my interest in WW2 stories, and videos like this one keep that interest alive.
combat ! Great show
When I was a young schoolboy, my friends and I watched Combat! every day. Later, I heard one of the Charles Manson females say that they all did, too. I hadn't thought of it in decades, until now. But I was pretty sure that it had an exclamation point in it's title.
Oliver Cromwell was reincarnated 74 years later as George Washington who returned as Robert E. Lee reincarnated as Eisenhower. Lee was a tobacco farmer but never smoked. "I was afraid I would like it too much." Ike was a chain-smoker. The only house Ike & Mamie ever owned was their Gettysburg Farm where they found the body of a Confederate soldier. Ike's first command was at Camp Colt on the grounds of Pickett's Charge. Afterward, he returned to Camp Meade then set out on the Lincoln Highway. Mussolini (d 4/28/45) was a false messiah. The fascist dictator was reincarnated as Donald Trump 666 (b 6/14/46). Fuhrer(6 letters) Adolph(6) Hitler(6) (d 4/30/45) was a false messiah. He reincarnated as George Walker Bush Jr. (b 7/6/46) the "2nd Beast"/Antichrist. - Seal #7: Reincarnation Theory - 26 Principles See 7seals.blogspot.com - only the Returned Christ, Franklin, Lincoln, and Einstein reincarnated could produce that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'.
It makes a certain kind of sense. "The Russians want Berlin so bad, let them take the casualties to take it. As long as it gets taken, that what matters."
It would be inserting oneself into the middle of the ultimate grudge battle. Are you sure that's really what you want to do?
I agree
Eisenhower came from the tactical school of thought to avoid key cities and only engage-defeat the enemy army in the field. At the time, he changed his strategy through assisting the Free French Army in taking Paris. Originally Ike wanted to bypass Paris and engage with the retreating Germany Army leaving France.
Such a strategy might have ended the war sooner, but I cannot imagine that DeGaulle would have obeyed an order not to liberate Paris.
Ike saw liberating a major city as becoming responsible for the supply of that city, a huge task, and wanted to stay focused on keeping his armies on the offensive.
But he ended up doing the exact opposite. He could well have pushed Western armies quite a bit further east, giving the Soviets much less territory to conquer than they ultimately had, and the West became responsible for feeding 3/4 of Berlin when the Soviets cut almost all transportation corridors to that city after the war ended.@@wildbikerbill6530
Ike knew that liberating Berlin would cost 100,000+ soldiers, so he let the Soviets do it who didn't care about their losses. Oliver Cromwell was reincarnated 74 years later as George Washington who returned as Robert E. Lee reincarnated as Eisenhower. Lee was a tobacco farmer but never smoked. "I was afraid I would like it too much." Ike was a chain-smoker. The only house Ike & Mamie ever owned was their Gettysburg Farm where they found the body of a Confederate soldier. Ike's first command was at Camp Colt on the grounds of Pickett's Charge. Afterward, he returned to Camp Meade then set out on the Lincon Highway. Mussolini (d 4/28/45) was a false messiah. The fascist dictator was reincarnated as Donald Trump 666 (b 6/14/46). Fuhrer(6 letters) Adolph(6) Hitler(6) (d 4/30/45) was a false messiah. He reincarnated as George Walker Bush Jr. (b 7/6/46) the "2nd Beast"/Antichrist. - Seal #7: Reincarnation Theory - 26 Principles See 7seals.blogspot.com - only the Returned Christ, Franklin, Lincoln, and Einstein reincarnated could produce that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'.
Very well done. I learned a lot I did not know. This helps it make more sense in reality.
Absolutely fabulous work of art documentary. I watched it 4 times in a row, and I'm not done. The way it ended i hope there is a continuation. Made me wanting more.
its ok world war 3 is just around the corner
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Mostly Murican Mickey Mouse propaganda
@@bdleo300 You need a real life
@@bdleo300 You mean Canadian. You can't even get your ignorance right. I guess that is the definition of the term.
Eva wasn't Hitler's mistress. She was a girlfriend. A man can't have a mistress unless he is married. 42:50
Unless they were into whips and chains.
@@castlerock58 Yes😂
they married at the end
Amazing video!!
Do not forget, in the big war picture those USA troops were needed in the Pacific to fight Japan. There was no knowledge of the A-Bomb for Ike and no guarantee it would work. The Russians were not fighting Japan, so that fight to defeat Japan was mostly an American undertaking and the casualties were high.
Actually the Russians were preparing to attack the Japanese, and actually did. The us conjecture that the bomb was used to try and keep the Russians out of Japan and that Japan also only surrendered because they didn't want Russians anywhere near Japan.
The Soviets had already defeated the Japanese. Therefore, knowing that they did not have enough forces to open an eastern front, the Russians were able to send reinforcements to Stalingrad and Moscow
The Russians fought against the Japanese as well as Australians. Definitely mostly Americans. But using Australia as port and protection made it easier. We were definitely determined and produced more people and weapons. But we can't make it seen like we faught the pacific sigle handly
@@thelastsoulja The Soviets hadn't defeated Japan, they had merely realised Japan was looking to go in a different direction.
@@Happiones Thats not true. In Khankin Gol the Soviets defeated the powerful Japanese army and its colonized Manchurian allies in 1939 with thousands of deaths for the Japanese. That's why there was no Japanese front against the USSR
You forget the horrendous casualties that the Soviet Union suffered in WWII. They lost around 27 million people during the war, including 8.7 million military and 19 million civilian deaths. The largest portion of military dead were 5.7 million ethnic Russians, followed by 1.3 million ethnic Ukrainians. A quarter of the people in the Soviet Union were wounded or killed. It is something that must always be taken into account.
I worked in a major city in Siberia in 1996. Was looking around one day early on and realized with a shock that I was looking at an old man with white hair. Had to think for awhile why this old man had caused me to start so abruptly. It finally came to me, despite seeing hundreds, if not thousands of people a day in the crowded city, I hadn't seen an old man in a long time! TONS of old women were everywhere so where were the old men? Answer: THEY WERE ALL LONG DEAD. Killed in WWII, killed in the gulag, drank themselves to death, etc. Eventually got to know the old man who had shocked me with his existence, he showed me a green painted flashlight with an angled light head on it. Obviously military, I politely looked it over, there was lots of military hardware in everyday use in civilian hands at the time, an ancient, beat up flashlight didn't interest me much but I feigned interest to be polite and right as I was about to hand it back I saw the word "Eveready" stamped on the bottom. Flabbergasted for the second time by this so cheerful white haired little man, I tried, with my handful of words of Russin, to ask him where he got such a thing. An ancient photo album was eventually brought out and in it was a picture of the old man as a much younger man standing next to what was obviously an American jeep. He had been a jeep driver in WWII and had driven the lend/lease jeeps. And somehow had managed to hold on to an American flashlight for 50 years. But you are right, Russia suffered massive casualties in WWII, they lost an entire generation if not 2 generations of their men and that was still hurting them half a century later. Similar thing is happening today in Ukraine. Even if Russia takes the entire country tomorrow, they spent a large percentage of a generation of their young men (far and away the most productive cohort) to get it and the trade will NOT be worth it. The Russian population won't recover for at least 40 years, maybe more. A bunch of kids either won't be born or will grow up in a single mother household, which is a disaster.
As you've pointed out , nearly 1/2 of all deaths during WW II were Slavic peoples . ... and it was the Soviet Army who defeated most of the German Army . For some reason , this is rarely stated . However , the RAF and US Air force destroyed much Germany's manufacturing and destroyed the Luftwaffe . Also , the US then had to defeat the Japanese Imperial Navy and Army . .
It is called poor and reckless tactics and Stalin killed off many of the senior officers before the war started.
Why should Stalin profit by all those deaths?
or drank and smoked themselves to early deaths as they still do today. Soviets supplied ample booze to keep the population subdued.
I can't believe how young some of these "old" guys look, Farley Mowat from Canada looks like he could be talking about the Vietnam war let alone WW2 that happened almost 80 years ago now. I wonder when these interviews were taken. I also admire the courage of Timeline for not censoring the footage of dead bodies and the atrocities of war but we'll see what KZhead does once they find out.
What is strange is those classic videos of car accidents to scare young drivers actually show people crying in pain at accident sites, and have seen people die on film and even burned bodies being pulled from a truck. Right here on KZhead. Bleeding, screaming, dying in real time, not actors. The real deal.
Recommend reading Farley Mowat's book " And No Birds Sang "
It would have to have been some time ago since Farley Mowat died in 2014.
@@johnburns8660 First published in 1979 . Its a great read . I met him at a book signing , he seemed like a pretty down to earth guy . .
Ken Cottam is a good name.
I guess everybody forgot what the Germans did to Leningrad
No.
Why, and who 'forgot"?
Great video. Can't wait for part two. Thank you for including some Canadian content.
It's always nice to see we get some recognition, and he's quite the comic too
Yes, if anyone has a right to feel neglected it's the Canadians. Were it not for the "39th Parallel" I think many ppl wouldn't even have considered the Canadians were in the war.
@@sunshineandwarmth You mean 49th parallel?
Great idea and was enjoyable. I always thought the big three lines should have a continuous river river around the perimeter of the Lido deck
30:22 Zhukov was the only Russian general that Stalin wasn't able to "purge" because his troops were loyal to him over Stalin.
Underrated general
He was also stationed in far Eastern Russia before the war strategizing against the Japanese. Out of sight out of mind for Stalin perhaps….
@@larrymcjones The reason Stalin didn't "purge" him along with the others is that his troops would have protected him to the dead.
@@kidd32888 One reason Russia suffered such horrendous casualties is that Stalin "purged" all of his best generals so they couldn't challenge his power. All but one.
My favorite quote from Zhukov: “We have liberated Europe from fascism, and they will never forgive us”.
The ex soviet Union officer still could not tell the brutal truth.
a really good documentary
Max Hastings 'Armageddon' is a pretty clear and gripping read contrasting the difference between Germany's east and west fronts in 1944-5: The Russians were closer and moving faster; their Vistula-Oder offensive was VERY fast. It was obvious, from 1944, before Yalta, that the Russians would take Berlin. That the Russians had seen horrors that removed any scrupples about collateral damage and civilians was not a factor for decision makers. Being in the West did not avoid starvation in Europe in later 1945. Soviet ambitions post war was less concerning to the USA than to its allies.
A consequence of the failure of Market Garden. If Montgomery had been a better planner, he would have been across the Rhine and into Germany.
Ike wanted the Soviets to take it because they're willing to take the heavy losses.
I am sure the western allies soldiers rather not die to take Berlin
True The allies were not dumb enough to fight a Stalingrad type street fighting battle over a city already bombed to rubble and surrounded . Russians did not care , it is why Russia lost 5 million more soldiers than the German losing side in WW2.
Your stuff is 👍 great
Because Russians surrounded Berlin with 2 and a half million and had 3 more in reserves and nobody could stop the Russian juggernaut at that time. Russia might not have had the best Air Force or navy but the best/bigest/most infantry and tanks land power.
I don’t know about best. They were killed the most, so……
@@freezy8593 well anyone who's attacked by element of surprise would be
Quantity is a quality itself
The allies were not dumb enough to fight a Stalingrad type street fighting battle over a city already bombed to rubble and surrounded . Russians did not care , it is why Russia lost 5 million more soldiers than the German losing side in WW2.
yes because they destroyed the germans on mass@@freezy8593
By some accounts the Russians suffered upwards of a million casualties, it was probably less than that but whatever the number, it was a lot of people killed and wounded. The allies simply didnt want to absorb that kind of loss.
More insane, soldier losses were believed to be 8.7 million and civilian losses were 10 to 12 million so around 20 million in total, honestly have no clue how they kept fighting. Makes sense why they killed so many German civilians. Unfortunately they also r*ped a lot of them too. If anyone sees I'm wrong about anything please lmk but I think that's about right.
Wouldn't have made any sense losing a single soldier to capture territory that the Soviets were given to occupy.
Try more than 20 million dead. 😵
Altogether the Russians lost 22 million people,who can blame them for the way they treated the Germans
The Soviets essentially were the Allies
Eisenhower did not have the authority to make the decision as to whether to advance on Berlin or not. That decision was made by the top politicians in the United States. The US had gained the authority to make those decisions by being the largest of the western allies and the Bread basket of the western world. I believe at that point it was 3 to 1 as far as the soldiers of the US versus the British in Europe and it was very clear which way the future of power politics was going to be headed. Saying that Eisenhower decided not to go to Berlin would be like saying that Zhukov had made the decision to go to the German capital. Top generals don't make those kinds of decisions.
You're wrong. Learn some history.
@@davidhoward4715 Eisenhower was told what to do by Roosevelt and then Truman. Hybrid plenty of history and if you don't understand that basic fact then you're at an elementary school level of historical understanding.
@@bookaufman9643For sure such decisions as invading Berlin were not made by one person dictator style. However, Eisenhower knew the cost of invading Berlin, 340,000 dead Russians and wisely was in the camp of let them do it. Saved a lot of American lives.
@@JamesLee-yw8hk The USA still had Japan to defeat.
Oh, it's sweet how the elderly German lady blames the Americans and the Brits for not reaching Berlin first. Dang. 🤣
As if they would have been any different 😂
look what we did to the "jewel of SEA" singapore, i think?
@@Danger-fv2gzthey were way different if you were a German soldier trust me you would rather surrender to Americans than the Soviets
@@Danger-fv2gz You missed the point. Are you really this dumb?
@@Danger-fv2gz would not have raped as many of the women if the western allies had taken Berlin. That's a difference
My grate grandpa was one of those brave German men that defend Berlin he was the only one in his unit to make it out of the city alive
Defending Berlin was futile. If the German army around and in Berlin had surrendered it would not have been substantially destroyed and many more Germans would have survived WWII.
Ur great grandpa was a dunce and a war criminal. Where is he now, Argentina? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Weapons of mass destruction, as we say today - I didn't find too many ... as we say today" - brilliant joke from the early neo-con era
Farley M, became a great Canadian writer
I wondered if this was the same man that became an author. .I have read some of his work. I quite enjoyed it.
That old Russian soldier saying "General Zukov wasnt the sort to let his soldiers run amok" and "Anyone caught breaking the regulation was seriously punished" and "it might have happened, but I certainly never saw anything like that" was LYING THROUGH HIS TEETH. How do I know? He's Russian - and his lips were moving.
Why start gossip and confuse a statement from someone who was there? A better comment would be the story behind why you hate the Russians.
To be fair from what I have read the Russian front line soldiers were much better behaved and were much more disciplined. The troops further back were less elite and well disciplined and were much more widely reported to be the ones engaged in civilian violence and rapes etc
Its tragic....idc what nation but women, children and the elderly never deserve this. I rather be taken out by a sniper while in uniform than watch a family member being assaulted with a gun in my face.
The allies were to busy rounding up the scientists and associated inventions e.g. The Blue Flame
Ike was concerned about American casualties.
Yep. Ike was a great General/Supreme Allied Commander. The US military was suffering high casualties in the Pacific, despite never losing a battle since crushing Japan at Midway. And casualties were projected to get worse as they approached the Japanese home islands where the Japanese had had lots of time to reinforce, hide, and plan. The European theater wasn't the US main battle, the Pacific was, and if casualties could be prevented in Europe in any way while wrapping up that conflict, Ike was determined to do it, as the plan was to send men from Europe to the Pacific after the Nazis were defeated. Had Europe been the only battle, Ike may have been more inclined to have listened to Patton about the Soviets.
The allies were not dumb enough to fight a Stalingrad type street fighting battle over a city already bombed to rubble and surrounded . Russians did not care , it is why Russia lost 5 million more soldiers than the German losing side in WW2.
@@C77-C77 Good Point . The Americans were committed in 2 major theaters of war and then the Cold War soon followed . At the Yalta Conference ( Feb 1945 ) , FDR wanted to secure Stalin's commitment to help the Asian Pacific War with Japan. Truman continued to secure Stalin's commitment at the Potsdam Conference ( July 1945 ). ,
6:56 Empire Earth sounds intensifies 😱😱
The Russian army wasn't portrait as a savage hoard, they WERE a savage hoard. My grandmother god rest her soul, told me stories of how the Red Army treated them and how they behaved once they started pushing the battle lines westward towards Germany. Looting, tapping and savagery were quite common in the Red Army, much as they're doing today in Ukraine, to them, life has no value, even among their own ranks. Another thing my grandmother told me and many people of her generation they've always waited for the Americans to libertate them from the iron curtain and the iron fist of the Communist Russia and their puppet governments.
My God, I often forget what WWII was like forJewish people and my family in Poland.
"I never experienced any of this." What a joke! No Russian soldier involved in the conflict ever interviewed had anything to do with the rapes and murders, but they all heard rumors of the rear echelon troopers that were up to 'funny business!' But of course, "I never did anything wrong!"😂😅🤣🤣🤣...
The wife might have been watching state Soviet tv. Like anyone would brazenly admit atrocities.
Must have been a coincidence...right?
8 to 80
The Mongolians were the worst of the worst.
Really? And you know this how?@@kato1224
The gold..simple
Farley Mowat was/is a pretty famous Canadian. an author and an environmentalist.. This documentary is excellent. My father served in Italy and he was buried in an explosion and his American soldier buddies dug him out!
There were many reasons, however - we always understood the main reason was Russia had endured so much at the hands of the Nazis, it was their due.
Utter BS, Russia endured far worse after the war and so did Eastern Europe
There are various theories as to why the US military did not drive to Berlin. 'Yes' the Arnheim failure and the Battle of the Bulge did stop the Allied western front advance by several months, but perhaps the best reason was that the Russian forces were closer and the human cost was deemed not acceptable by General Eisenhower however, if Berlin was not to be the Western Allied goal, then , at least, the order could have been given to drive as quickly east as possible and to take as much territory as movement allowed possible. To have stoped 60 miles from Berlin was in retrospect, too short of a military halt and a distance of 10-15 miles would have been preferred. The Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 would prove the fallibility of stopping 60 miles away from an encircled Berlin. If General Eisenhower was strategically myopic in his failure to push eastward, Winston Churchill had no such reservations as he foresaw the emergence of the Cold War arising from the death throngs of the Third Reich. Churchill was proven to be correct, Eisenhower was proved wrong!
The poor animal is near Death almost thank you for saving the poor animal
Sounds like Orwell ?
Completely different experience for African American soldiers 💀
yup , wash those dishes boy
@@SilentBill-ze1gf Most of them experienced the same thing caucasian soldiers did, I believe the SS managed to surround a Unit of them put them all in one house and brutalized them, And some of African american soldiers even got the Medal of Honor.
@@SilentBill-ze1gf You will understand one day how shallow your world view is
Can't be bothered watching this. It doesn't take the better part of an hour to tell us that the reason the USA and the rest of the western allies didn't take Berlin was that Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt agreed at the Yalta conference that Stalin's forces should get Berlin and the western allies would stop at the Oder and this is what happened.
The 104th Division sat at the Oder waiting for the Russians and collected thousands of POWs. They claimed to be the closest US troops to Berlin.
US Military strategy is generally predicated on how to achieve its objectives with the least amount of (US) casualties possible.
Because Rome told him he/USA were not 🚫 permitted to do so
2:00 Soviet Army - not Russian Army.
It seems War Crimes are only committed by the defeated side.
46:00 these actors flagging each other is freaking me out. They are clearly not gun folk.
Ike allowed the Red Army to conquer Berlin due to the high cost. Ike saw that America would have soon been forced to give back a portion of the city to Old Man Russ. The Red Army moved south, not further west.
Very true that Eisenhower knew that Roosevelt/Truman and Churchill were going to capitulate to each and every one of Stalin's demands and that trying to beat the commies there would serve no conceivable purpose in the grand scheme of things. I don't agree with the "high cost" thing. The Russians incurred high casualties because they weren't terribly good at waging war in any way other than the brute force approach of being willing to take any losses necessary to win their objective. The Germans never had this luxury because they had no helpful allies sending them endless amounts of weapons and supplies, nor did they have the population that would support a war of attrition.
Allowed???
@@vaztome1 The Battle of Berlin was quite formidable and costly. The Red Army lost 20,000 men in that battle. Ike saw it better for the Reds to pay that big price instead of the American and British forces. The Reds did move south.
The war in Europe was coming to and end but the war in the Pacific was still going on
I was there…
because the western front was still strong until the eastern front fell
At 2:00...sweeping east, not west.
This has a few errors. The first is a clip with a woman that was not filmed in Germany, but was a Polish young woman who cried over her dead sister after the Germans invaded Poland. The claim that Montgomery wanted to free as many cities he could before the Russians could is rubbish. Churchill himself fixed it directly with Stalin, which area Stalin could occupy and which not. Basically, he just asked for Greece and that Yugoslavia was at least open. Wow, and the lies of the Russian about not committing any cruel acts in Germany??? Dear me. That's a lot of chutzpah!
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No, we are not obligated to die for your ppl terrible choices
Beneath a sky still choked with smoke and ash, Where whispers danced of victory's final clash, A choice arose, a path for heroes tread, To Berlin's heart, or rest for weary dead. Ike, the stoic, map across his knee, Saw crimson lines where comrades soon might be. The Elbe's cold kiss, a boundary drawn, Between Red tide and westward stars at dawn. Churchill's fire, a plea through crackling lines, "Claim victory's prize, where history entwines!" But Stalin's gaze, a steely glint unseen, Whispered of claims, of empires yet to glean. From Ardennes' depths, the ghosts of battles past, Murmured of lives on frozen winds outcast. Could one last gamble, Berlin's crown to hold, Be worth the blood yet spilled, stories untold? The specter danced, a city in twilight, Reichstag's dome, a pyre against the night. And in that pause, a world began to shift, Iron Curtains drawn, where shadows danced and drifted. No thunderous clash, no final, valiant stand, Just silence fell across a broken land. Berlin, unclaimed, a symbol in the dust, Of choices made, of victories begrudged. History's echo whispers evermore, Of lives preserved, and battles fought before. Did prudence rule, or was ambition spurned? The Elbe's cold clasp, a question still unfurled.
Ive never seen worse gun safety than these actors 😂
Well that ended abruptly
good video but it doesn't answer the question the title posed. Leave the word why out of it and it will be more accurate. Eisenhower didn't race for Berlin at the end of WW2
Apparently, this is happening in Kiev right now.
Dafuq does that have to do with Eisenhower and Berlin?!
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We were spent
Smart move.
This is all very lame. Eisenhower avoided all direct thrusts into enemy territory. Every direct thrust in ww2 was met with being cut off at the base and forcing everyone to surrender or to hustle out of the pocket. He preferred a slow steady expansion along the entire front. He was also always limited by gasoline. As he said he was using 2 gallons of diesel to fly in one gallon for use in tanks.
Eisenhower looked to not lose Allied Lives First and Foremost... Control of Cities was Secondary...
The answer to the title of the video took ten seconds and the rest of this is the same regurgitated WWII info that you can find in a thousand videos.
This has to be from the 90s
Clearly there was no point in occupying more territory than one was prepared to defend in the long term. The ultimate Warsaw Pact/ demilitarized zone border between the Bight of Lubeck in the north and the Adriatic at Trieste is the shortest land border and therefore the easiest and cheapest to defend by both sides. Neither side had any other territorial interest at that time.
My Dad was a member of Patton’s Third Army, Fourth Armored Division, 37th Tank Battalion. He always said, “We could have taken Berlin…”. He also said of the Soviets that we destroyed the wrong enemy.
i know. blood n guts seemed like he was the only brass with any since. certainly they didnt like him and neither did the government - maybe. good chance they took him out in an “accident”
@@fatalberti My father adamantly believed Patton’s “accident” was deliberate.
Not the wrong enemy, only not every enemy.
@@aliensoup2420" ... If we fail to Liberate Europe from the Russians; We will have beaten the Nazis yet lost the War! I tell you we will have lost..."
Taking russia isnt the only thing Patton wanted he had enemies all around him even within his circle because of things concerning Technology for the future too.
Ike did not want the casualties...he was happy to let the Russians battle in Berlin
Russians suffer the grates lost fighting the nazis. I dont balme em for wanting revenge
Gotta admit the British looked so cute running around in their tin hats and Bermuda shorts. Of course without the Americans providing the supplies and performing the heavy lifting, they'd all be speak German today.
How dictators are similar, in 1945 and 2023.
Because those that truly run the world told him not to.
Roosevelt promised Stalin the Russians could take Berlin that's why they held up Patton who was moving in but denied gas for his armor 🤔🤔🤔🤔
We got rid of one tyrant for another tyrant.
Awesome documentary. I would suggest a more provocative theory earlier in the war for documentary. Why the US and Britain (FDR/Churchill) didn't capitulate to Stalin's demands to open a 2nd European invasion and allied front in 1943. Churchill allegedly claimed and convinced FDR that the Americans were not ready...but I suspect a different motive. Both the US and the UK knew the animal the Soviet Union truly was. I think Churchill wanted the Nazis to be softened by the Soviet troops...and for the savage Soviet army to bear the brunt of casualties. After WWI and the American Expedition Force sent to Siberia, the newly formed Soviet Government created the forced starvation of millions of Pols...and requested from the US Government financial and agricultural aid in 1920...and dangled the promise of US POW's held from both conflicts (despite being allies) being released as a bargaining tool. Aid was sent...and in 1921 100+ US POW's were freed...they spoke of many more still in captivity. Declassified reports as late as 1933 stated American POW's captured by Russians in WWI were still being held.
What about the thought that Stalin might not stop at Berlin. He had the most powerful tanks, good aircraft, transport provided by lend lease US trucks, every soldier had a automatic weapon and artillery by the multiple thousands. The Soviet Army was battle hardened. If the British and the Americans stood back with space they could find out what Stalin intended. It avoided blue on blue casualties, and do we know if the US had some A bombs just in case?? The US only had two for Nagasaki and Hiroshima??
As an ice hockey player, I rather admire Russians myself. Very interesting peoples.
Beautiful language, music, literature. Shocking history of stupidity, antisemitism, belligerence and gratuitous cruelty. As a people they are arrgoant bullies who believe that they are superior to all others on the planet, practice a form of exceptionalism that would make the ugliest American feel awkward. All that, and you can't trust them as far as you can throw them. One on one though, a Russian is a lovely human being. Keep them in groups less than three.
4:30 It was a mistake to let the Soviets to take Eastern Europe. Even in this way their military was rubbish. They won simply by pouring more people onto the battle field than the German could kill. Very much like the Zulu did with the English. An army with spears can defeat and army with guns, provided the spear chucker's are willing to suffer the maximum number of casualties. It's why so may more Russians died than all the other Allied powers, even more than the Germans.
I believe all of Europe not just the east would have been far better off under German influence Communism would be a thing of the past.
Nope. In 1944-45, the Red Army was far away the best (not just the biggest) in the world. The western Allies had better combined arms, but the Red Army had a decisive advantage in artillery, armour and (odd as it may sound) even logistics. Much like the Americans in 1942, the Soviets started out woefully incompetent but rapidly evolved after initial defeats. If the western Allies had attacked the Soviets in '45, it would've been a horrendous massacre on both sides with little territorial gain, even assuming that the Allied governments didn't collapse under public outrage.
@@Cailus3542 Guffaw. That's just risibly false.
Well, you know what they say about hindsight.
To let??? Soviets hit almost 80% of the german army and have the most powerfull army at the time. Anglo saxon are only better in burning to the ground cities by air force. Maybe they kill that way much more women and children then soviets. They, like germans, think they have special rights above others
cause he wanted the soviets to gain territory to ensure more mayhem after the war.
Russians had lost 2-3 million soldiers before we even got involved
Interesting documentary
The Soviets raised their flag over Berlin. We planted our flag on the moon. Checkmate.
The Russian guy still lying for Stalin
The Red Army's tactics and looting has persisted until today!😂
Pretty awful what happened to the women of Berlin but it was nothing like what the Germans did when they attacked Russia - no civilian prisoners lived .
The Russians may have to take Berlin again.
Because the Russians were closer?
This film prefers the Nazis over Russia.
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Heard players say the same thing about the huge Finals logo in years past.
General Paton wanted to get to Berlin before the Russians! He had foresight while General Eisenhower et al didn't have.
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Boah, the accent of the reenactment actresses is really terrible.
so funny to hear the American actors who are playing Germans speak German with an American accent
Have you ever watched the British comedy "allo, allo"? British actors speaking english w german accents (Gernan occupiers) and British actors speaking English w French accents (Resistance fighters). And a British agent pretending to be a French policeman speaking English badly bc he's supposed to be speaking French badly. The show was so good it went on longer than the WW2 event it was supposed to be portraying.😂
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sounds like BS to me. some truth some propaganda......Timeline is not the best source of info.