Battlefield S1/E6 - The Battle of Berlin
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Directed by Dave Flitton, Andy Aitken, Justin McCarthy
Produced by Dave Flitton (series prod.), David McWhinnie, Ken Maliphant, David Rozalla
Written by Dave Flitton, Andy Aitken
Narrated by Tim Piggott-Smith; Jonathan Booth
Music by David Galbraith
Distributed by Public Broadcasting Service
Release date(s) 1994
Running time 6 116-minute episodes
Country USA
Language English
This narrator is just amzing
Tim Pigott-Smith is his name. Sadly, he passed away in 2017.
Agree, the best IMO
"Don't worry, Steiner's attack will fix everything"
Yeah, where's Steiner?!
Great witty post
Rip keitel, Jodl, Krebs und Burgdorf
This is the definitive documentary series on World War Two. It’s the best by far.
they should remake it with better quality and more information, it would make my day
''The Soviet ''dictator'' could not go against him '' ?, ''but with Stalin nothing was for certain'' ? hahahaha . ''It's the best by far'' ? Propaganda at it's best
Ww2 in color on Netflix is still the best
Kyrie Eleison Try watching the World At War an old 1973/1974 series it is awesome for its time.
World at War is much better, and this one is very good.
Seventy five years later in 2020, the carnage of the Battle of Berlin is difficult to comprehend. God willing, nothing like this will ever happen again.
its hard to comprehend; i do believe even the REMOTELY closest thing there has ever been in the modern era post ww2, was the iran iraq war....BOTH sides threw all they had at one another, like germany and the ussr, LONG war of attrition. It was similar, in that iraq was smaller in land and population, fighting iran that had sheer numbers in its favor.
@punkacesixxx you misunderstand. i didnt say anything topped that. i said the CLOSEST thing to it, AFTER ww2, was the iran-iraq war. MILLIONS died. No, not tens of millions, but millions, none the less. No other war fought post ww2 came close to that. Im making comparions, where it was similar. Im not claiming the scope and scale are identical, not at all. im simply saying that it too, was a massive war of attrition (but not the same scope and size, to clarify, BUT big still, for what it involved)
There's no God
Nuclear weapons essentially ensures it won’t be a slow burn apocalypse, rather a 90 second hellscape into oblivion. Unfortunately this doesn’t apply to developing / non nuclear countries in which the only wars have ever since been located
@@ThePeanutButterCup13 That's what you think. Keep telling yourself that....you're in for an unpleasant shock.
I think that this is the best episode of the entire Battlefield series.
I think it's a close-second after The Battle For Russia
They're all great episodes. This is by far the greatest and most well detailed series about WWII than any other I have come across. Rest In Peace Tim Piggott Smith and thanks a ton for the awesome narration.
Yes I watch this episode every week at least
Excellent video. I have watch it many times.
I vote Midway.
I was there with the Red Army all those years ago. I survived Stalingrad, later I met an old friend, Captain Viktor Reznov. We fought through the Seelow Heights, the through the outskirts of Berlin, through the flooded subways, and finally on top of the Reichstag itself.
Thank you for your service.
@@garetroth5683 You can hear his story in detail while staying at his mother’s Airbnb. She still does all the cooking and is especially known for her borscht and Courgette caviar. She survived Stalingrad as a battlefield nurse and cook during that engagement after losing her husband at Leningrad.
RIP Tom Pigot Smith. Great narrator.
That's the narrator? I've heard of him, sorry to hear he's passed away.
Timothy Pigot Smith
@@okkywisnumurti4294 RIP.
He was a great one. His voice reminds me of Eric Idle, just a bit.
Great Actor to my friend
half a million shells in 30 minutes this must be a record that will never be broken
I hope it's never broken
Aren't you glad you weren't there to witness it in person!
16,666 per minute or 277 per second!
sounds like fake news
@@jakobbergman4854 I have no idea but it would make sense planes can only carry so much and have to fly there & back. Arty can keep firing shells constantly once in range. I would point out allied Bombing was a huge factor in German production helping the Soviets regain the initiative in 43 while also lend lease was going strong. Lend lease was aimed at Soviet short falls within their inventory all those trucks & trains helped make red army mobile again so they could finally try deep battle concepts. Not to mention some years the Soviets got more aluminum than the entire US Navy which is key for production of aircraft. Even if one says lend lease was only X % let’s say 10% I can’t remember the actual percentage it doesn’t sound like much to civilians but 10% of military equipment during a war is huge especially if your conducting a fighting retreat and relocating & building your industry . Stalin got in right the Soviets paid in blood the Allies paid just not in blood but then again the Allies didn’t purge the military leadership killing the best & brightest and also didn’t sign pacts with Hitler to start the war lol 😂. So Stalin kinda had it coming without agreeing to his half of Poland Hitler would of been isolated and possibly never invaded Poland or maybe he invades & gets defeated earlier if he attacks.
This is the best and most comprehensive documentary about the Battle of Berlin, end of story.
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Let's not forget the atrocities that the red army committed also while everyone points at Germany for their supposed war crimes. The red army were ruthless, merciless killers that murdered young German soldiers after they had surrendered in a fight and also committed mass sexual assault against German females in Berlin.
@@WolffenBreon let’s not forget the allies war crimes lmao
@@WolffenBreon My grandfather served in intelligence, once, on a mission in enemy territory, a reconnaissance group stumbled upon a stone building, it was necessary to check, they removed the sentry, entered the building and there 50 SS men slept, everyone was pinned stabbed up in the back of the head so that the SS would not shout.
@@WolffenBreon German wikipedia address de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlacht_um_Berlin Die Führung der Roten Armee befürchtete, dass es in der Euphorie des Sieges, gefördert durch Alkohol, zu Gewalttaten an der deutschen Zivilbevölkerung kommen würde. Deshalb gab Marschall Rokossowski einen Tagesbefehl heraus, nach dem Plünderern und Vergewaltigern das Kriegsgericht oder die unverzügliche Erschießung drohte. Obwohl sich auch andere Offiziere der Roten Armee darum bemühten, Racheakte der Soldaten zu verhindern, entlud sich nach der Einnahme von Berlin der Schmerz über die zahlreichen sowjetischen Verluste und die Opfer des ideologisch motivierten Vernichtungskriegs seitens des Deutschen Reiches in Rachsucht durch zahlreiche Plünderungen und Vergewaltigungen. English wikipedia address en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin In those areas that the Red Army had captured and before the fighting in the centre of the city had stopped, the Soviet authorities took measures to start restoring essential services.[128] Almost all transport in and out of the city had been rendered inoperative, and bombed-out sewers had contaminated the city's water supplies.[129] The Soviet authorities appointed local Germans to head each city block, and organised the cleaning-up.[128] The Red Army made a major effort to feed the residents of the city.[128] Most Germans, both soldiers and civilians, were grateful to receive food issued at Red Army soup kitchens, which began on Colonel-General Berzarin's orders.[130]
Welcome To The Comment Section! Where Everyone is a 5 Star General, Historian & a Veteran of a War They Never Fought!
Блядь Россия Your quackers
I was a door gunner on the Space Shuttle.
Brother I don't find many people blogging on U/tube with your intelligence. Give yourself a pat on the back from me.
I'm a 10- Star General on my keyboard. I would have easily won the battle on my own. But only on my keyboard....I don't have enough generals or tanks or planes. Or millions of unfortunate infantrymen to die for me.
Its true everyone in the comment section is an ass. But the biggest ass of all is RobZone.
My dad would fall asleep to these exact documentaries 15 years ago. 😂
At 26:54 the video stated that Zhukhov "had never once been defeated in battle." That's incorrect. Zhukhov was defeated at the Battle of Rzhev, in the Summer of 1942.
It wasn't really a defeat but a bloody stalemate that Zhukov called off.
No one really talks about Rzhev, which is a shame.
@@StonewallTitlow Ah Rzhez, the human meat grinder.
@@oo4125 seems like every battle the Soviets were involved in was a meat grinder.
Russian battles were meat grinders? Unlike Europeans laying down weapons in two weeks and giving their women over to nazis and entertaining them in every European capitols. 😢 It was only Russians, that ground Nazis into submission and capitulation
Been watching this documentary series since a young boy with my poppy on the history channel I always come back to watch them
Before watching this video, I had no idea that the Battle of Berlin was so intense and destructive...
the Soviet losses were terrible.
@@kantenklaus9753 Soviet losses? Of all losses? Lol. Gtfo commie
I'm glad you're taking that step to learn history.
Incomprehensible to me is that, I was born only 18 years later and the city only had minimal damage left. I found a few remainders of arsenal, hand granates and stuff, saw a few holes in buildings, but otherwise Berlin was rebuild.
You should have been left to fester in the hellhole of your own doing.
My parents said similar things about London. It was impressive how quickly and well the east end was rebuilt. I believe Berlin was so heavily invested in because of the cold war rivelry. It was important for each side to show they could rebuild their parts of Berlin
@@AdamMGTF maybe, 👍
@@AdamMGTFthe east only used berlin like a parasite on a host who is run by a puppet government. You can see the evidence everywhere, and its the most common way to describe east berlin.
Vasile is smart for posting these, i rewatch when i go to sleep, ww2 always fascinated me
I love the Battlefield series. There are no better documentary series. The narrator is superb. So much better then some 25 year old qho cannot pronounce words or a robot.
Benefit of being "proper" TV
Amen.
This is a well put together series, with an intelligent narrator who can read basic English and pronounce German and Russian names with received pronunciations. So pleasant to hear.
I am a freak about narration. This guy is second to none.
What are “received pronunciations?”
The transformation from the Red Army of 1941 to the Red Army of 1945 is unequalled in land war military history.
Lend Lease Act and weather saved Russia.
@@kimchi2780 Helped, definitely. Was it absolutely instrumental in victory? Impossible to say. But to say it's the only thing that saved them is ridiculous and kind of ignorant. I'd say the one thing that 'saved' them the most was the 20 years the Soviets spent obsessively building up their heavy industry, and then coupled with that was the early decision Stalin made to dismantle all of the factories in eastern Europe and move them east to the Urals and beyond. It meant that foe the whole war, even though Europe was a battlefield and the Nazis were burning everything they came across, the Soviets could still crank out thousands of T-34s every month and planes and bullets and bombs and everything else.
@@elrondhubbard7059 bob
@@kimchi2780plus the Soviets sacrificed their troops, Zukoff for instance boasted of clearing minefields by simply marching his troops through them. Germany were fighting on three fronts too, four if you count the Battle of the Atlantic. Hitlers mistake was declaring war on the unlimited manufacturing resources of the USA.
red army and stalin should be prosecuted with germans and meet same fate, Stalin killed 5x more people than Hitler, Communism and Nazism are the same thing with different signs.
I have always admired Marshal Zhukov he was one tough sob thanks for the series. Watching from Somalia.
Arguably the best WW2 series. This episode, The Battle of Midway, and The Battle of Normandy and outstanding in their scope of these epic events. Excellent narration by Tim Piggot Smith.
Never gets old watching this episode, final victory, very satisfying.
My favorite kind of documentary shows destroyed German cities.I love watching the bombs fall. I wish you there were more footage on Tokyo being bombed, but being wood and paper it was mostly just ashes. Still,…would be fun to see.
Satisfying? Really?
@@johntechwriter Watching the final destruction of the 3rd reich? yea, that is satisfying. They didn't get even half the pain they deserved.
@@Mutrino imagine being so stuck up with allied propaganda that you think Germans were not human and that the Allies were all the while the good guys. They simply won through strength in numbers (Soviets), through production (USA), through being a coward for (at the time the ever expanding) Communism (France and Britain). Germany was the last bulwark against Bolshevism in WW2, but post war you see these same countries and "alliances" fighting. Wonder how that'll play out.. Oh, we have people crying over McDonald's, people crying when their (wrong) voice isn't heard, and so forth. This is the world that your heroes brought. Enjoy it.
A lot killed were kids Hitler youth fought in this battle..
I used to watch these doc with my grandfather. He would tell me what he remembered from the war era. He himself was too young to have gone to war, being only 12 at the time.
The best documentary on battle of Berlin...
Anyone else here reporting for the bedtime battalion?
This series is amazing. I wish they did more seasons on other wars as well. Documentary series like this no longer get made and are a thing of the past and it sucks
I think they may have done some on Vietnam.
@@cmdc778 yes but only one season and it was not as in-depth as the previous season and the season that came after it. It was kind of a let down. But what I think would be absolutely awesome. Is to shift the series to the revolutionary war, the civil war, ww1, the Napoleonic wars, the Six day war, etc etc. with how well they did this series. It would be guaranteed to be awesome.
@@landonlacy1954 I agree that would be awesome. I can see how this kind of program is not for everyone but, for those of us who can appreciate what it does, it is fascinating.
This serie was made in 1994 and 1995. In my opinion very good. Watched at Discovery Channel than, as 14 - 15 years old. Now almost 30 years ago.
Great series, by far my favorite. The episode on the battle of midway magnificent! Other series like history channels battle 360 are awful to watch. More about a show than facts and what happened. It’s a sad reminder that nowadays what you hear and see aren’t necessarily what really happened. This is a good old fashioned documentary, the way it should be…just the facts ma’am!
Smart move by the Allies not to take Berlin, it was to be in the Soviet governed area. The Soviets lost over 80,000 soldiers killed, nearly 2,000 tanks lost, and over 900 aircraft destroyed, all while Allied troops conducted mop-up operations in the West.
Reject Socialism “an enemy of my enemy is my friend”
But to the victor goes the spoils.
Cowardly
Germans lost 125,000 killed in this final battle, some 100,000 civilians were killed too
No it wasn't. East Berlin-Soviets, West Berlin-Allies
2024 and listen to these everyday
It's always great when you find a documentary with no ads.
Biggest Russian rush B in history
Atanasije Simic jdjdhdjdjd
B for Berlin
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I can just about imagine all Soviet Generals receiving orders from Stalin to "rush B dont stop"
Meanwhile the Allies were trying to reduce casualties with the class 3-2 A
While it is factually out of date in some regards, this series was outstanding in many areas.
you will never convince me that WW1 and 2 were not choregraphed events.
considering choregraphed means directed by......then yes, but then again every war is so.
by whom? explain in detail your beliefs
i have always admired marshal zukov he was one tough sob thanks for the series
I visited Berlin in 2016 and was astonished at how modern and bueatiful it is considering the complete devastating effects this battle had on the city. really shows German resolve
Erm... It's modern because almost all of it is less than 80 years old! That's the point. The city had to be totally rebuilt after 45
US $$$
@@robertbirch5676 if you mean it would have cost a lot. Yes for sure. If you mean it was built only with US money then no, not at all.
@AdamMGTF the Marshall plan was instrumental in the reconstruction of Berlin. Without American dollars Berlin would not exist as it does today.
The most epic and exciting episode of the whole series.
God bless us all
Well actually the Christians and the Church were on the fascist Nazi/Italian side while the atheists and agnostics were on the communists side and spoiler alert: the Nazis didn't win soooo....... *awkward*
@@LAFC. the church wasn’t on the nazis side lol the nazis killed polish Catholic priests
@@LAFC.The Nazi’s were not nominally a Christian group. Hitler himself was vehemently anti Christian, so were many others.
Stalin deceived Churchill and Roosevelt, and played each of them like a cheap fiddle.
Equal Opportunity War Criminal fuck you and Obama smd
Cool Jackster u serious? If u gotta ask it’s probably cuz u don’t know politics.
Cool Jackster I never said he didnt
Cool Jackster stared wanted? Yes he stared wanted. ? Someone please talk to this guy. I’m finished here.
He sure did
Battlefield is by far my favorite series on the topic of warfare specially WW2. Only hope they could restore or enhance the footage. But very thorough unbiased retelling and superb narration of the darkest years of humanity.
US and UK bomber crews did a lot to bring about the final defeat of the Wehrmacht.
Yes, especially when you consider how much high value material was pulled from the eastern front to protect against the massive air attacks. Materials like flak guns and aircrafts, with their crew.
American and British bomber crews did much to the spread of the Communists from Berlin to Peking
+@@speggeri90 What! The Soviets didn,t have an Air Force?
@@deutschpanzergrenadier7990 Soviets had air forces, yes.. this is surprising to you?
@@speggeri90 As someone who knows about just about every aircraft since the age of 10 what type of dumb question is that? I know all about Migs, Polikarkovs, Yaks, Lavochkins, Ilyusions IL2Ms-IL2M3s, Petylakovs PE-2 Peshkas and PE-8s, PO-2s, I-153s. What else do you want me to teach you?
Fascinating listen and much appreciate the upload. Liked and subscribed! My family has fought for the Wehrmacht during the second world war. My Grandfather was in the 6th army 44th infantry division and saw action in Poland, France and Kharkov. He was later captured along with thousands of men at Stalingrad. Ultimately he lost 80 pounds of body weight moving around different Russian labour camps post war before finally returning home to Germany in the 1950 and lived a long peaceful life. His younger brother started off the war in the East as part of the 439th Regiment of the 134th Division and was at the battle of Moscow then later he was one of 9 survivors out of 1,000 men in his regiment to die in the battle of Kursk where he was injured and furloughed as a result. He survived heavy allied bombing and returned to active combat in the end as part of the 512th heavy tank destroyer battalion as a loader for the Jagdtiger when he surrendered to the Americans in May 1945. The eldest brother out of the 3 served in the German navy as an officer. He was on submarine U-107 which sank British ship Colonial off Guinea, French West Africa; the entire crew of 100 survived and rescued by HMS Centurion.
Interesting story. Thank you for sharing. I am a Russian originally from the Ukraine. In my family in 1941 there were 17 adult men. None of them returned from the war. My great granddad was a communist and the head of the village and he was executed by germans on the first day they entered the village. The only male in the family who survived was my grandfather. He and his sister were 14 years old in 1941 and were driven as slaves to Germany but managed to escape from a train and walk back home. In 1943 their village was liberated by the Soviet army and he was enlisted to fight the remaining germans and benderovtsev - ukrainians who served in the SS for germans and killed civilians. He returned from the war with 7 wounds and 2 splinters of a bomb near his heart. May never again there will be a war like this. Peace to all us.
My grandfather was a Polish Jew who fought for the French Legion. Before I read Forgotten Soldier, I really believed that the Germans were just brainless murderers, But now I believe that the Germans were brave and sacrificed themselves for a crazy god. My friends what a massacre it was, Russian German Polish Greek Serbian Romanian! Let's enjoy these moments before the next one, and the next time someone proposes a massacre let's send him to hell.
So you’re proud that they helped kill MILLIONS of people? They may not have worked in the concentration camps, but they helped prop up the psychos that created the camps. That’s not something I’d go putting out there, “yeah gramps and his brothers were some of the murderers that wiped out Jews, gays, jehovah witnesses, Romany, Polish and the disabled. We sure are proud of their heinous, racist, disgusting acts! Doesn’t look good.
This is so so good. Soviet storm is very good too but it's propaganda alot. The technical effects are great tho. Timeline is great too. I'm very grateful we have these awesome docs.
I noticed in Soviet Storm a lot of the German actors are very overweight, lol
Where did the British meet the Russians?
5:44 gosh darn check out that beard
So odd to see.
Excellent documentary.
The King Tiger was an impressive tank.
so was l.
Fuck ur pfp and u
@@zurdddtk3025 Enjoy your stupidity. At least you have something. LOL!!
But king tiger is ded
@@letfreedomring6906 yes at least I have something unlike your ass
i like how Zhukovs trench had a wood veneer. Very stylish.
Así es como se hace una serie, como Battlefield ... 👋👋👋👋🇦🇷🇦🇷
You young people look at this and thank God you never lived in such a world.
in some parts of the world today, they do live in such a world; ;
You are right of course.
Maybe some of them should though. The stuff I read on these blogs is scary.
Stalin died at the hands of Lavrentiy Beria, who was responsible for Stalin's safety. How ironic.
Because he knew what was coming
There is no proof for your assertion. Only Stalin stood between Beria and his many enemies. The moment his master died, Beria would have had much to answer for, and they both knew this.
Im pretty sure it was a brian hemorage
@@zacharypayne4080 Brian was innocent...
Any good books on that? Thanks
hate how he says sturmovik. - STUR MO VIK
Excellent!
That Russian arty strike: 278 shells land every second for half an hour. Just imagine.
"arty" strike,if you're a girl that's very cute,not so much if you are a boy.
Sounds like me after eating beans
@@kinte1870 lol
Nounismisation receiving that? Hell. Pure hell
That would be the "Get Hit" part of "Talk Shit Get Hit".
Save his force from instant innalation. Ten thousand artillery guns, half million shells in 30 minutes. Thats what I call warfare. Period.
Battle of Helms Deep was pretty lit too!
The Soviets still had 8 million men and 100,000 tanks in 1945. The Nazis could never have won against such numbers.
soviet cant stop the barbarossa operation without the us material support. anyway long live Russia
Artus de la Rochelle US Material didn't arrive until late 1942. The Soviets DID stop Barbarossa without US material support.
Artus de la Rochelle lendlease support accounted for about 5 to 11 percent. It helped the soviet union, but it was not crucial to the final victory.
Italy won the war for the Soviets with their incompetence needing help against the Greeks thus postponing Barbarossa with a month, that month would have given the Wehrmacht time to further crush the Soviets and capture Moscow before the onset of 1941 winter, which in turn would have lead to soviet capitulation.
MuppetLord1 Actually you mean Hitler won it, remember it was his idea to split up his army to capture Baku and Stalingrad at the same time, I highly doubt that Stalingrad meant that much to Stalin, or if it did I still think that he knew that it was more important to whittle down the German front (with human lives) while he could mass his armies, I do think it also had to do a lot with luck, imagine if the nazis hadnt of run out of fuel just 60 km from Stalingrad, maybe they could have forced a breakout and rescued those 300,000 left behind. Also remember Ukrainians wanted to join the nazis for what the Soviets had done, but they chose to work them to death and steal their resources instead.
Germans in 1945- Goliath unmanned robot with demolition charge attached Japanese in 1945- 50 cc go cart with a bundle of dynamite duct taped to driver's body
38:34 used in the film 1984
This is one HELL of a series! Each one episode is like a separated movie and YET they are not allowing you to forget, that to come to THIS point a bloody price must have been carved out through some part of land, leaving behind annihilated armies and cities in flames! ...what a History!...
Watched this great series in the early ninetees on the Discovery Channel. The use of authentic material, the great musical score and Tim Pigott-Smith's impressive narrative voice makes this the best series on World War 2. Thanks for the upload.
I AM IN LOVE❤ WITH THOSE GUNS. SAY HELLO NATO!
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What a truly outstanding documentary. No need to bring historians on camera or silly CGI. Just the facts laid out from start to finish along with awesome footage. 5 stars.
Best WW2 series ever with THE best ever narrator..👍
Thank you.
48:04 puts foliage on goliath 48:09 falls off gets ran over.
Many kudos to the person(s) who uploaded these wonderful WWII doc's. Truly amazing and educational.
"There was no option but to fight and die"
One of the greatest tragedies in history. Two evil ideologies battling for final survival, with millions of innocent people caught between and the fate of the entire continent in the balance.
Best documentary ever
Germany may have fired the first shot... but Mother Russia ejected the last shell.
Chances are it was probably a bullet that was fired last not an artillery shell
Zack Claussen I meant as in the shell for a bullet
That's true but it wasn't in Berlin, the last Soviet offensive was in Czechoslovakia, known as the Prague offensive, the red army captured the rest of German army about 900,000 men the rest were killed or fled west and surrendered to Western allies
Sad to hear the Russian soldiers were a bunch of rapists. Sick-
Yeah well we traded one evil dictator (Hitler) for another evil dictator (stalin). May they both rest in Hell.
I really like these documentaries very informative.and give you a view from each side.
Lots of people arguing about who was right and who was wrong. The answer is no one.
+Stephen John Carey But there were people who were wrong...it was the financiers like Standard Oil and CO. www.sott.net/article/298259-The-Americans-who-funded-Hitler-Nazis-German-economic-miracle-and-World-War-II
+IndochineQuinine You miss interpreted my comment. I'm meaning that right and wrong/good and evil are pretty much entirely based on someones perspective. History is written by the victor after all. Can you imagine if the Nazis won? I'm sure we'd be sitting here saying that the Allied powers were wrong. Also, that article is very interesting! Makes you wonder whats happening behind the scenes in todays world.
At this point in the war they were not fighting for the freedom of Jews they were fighting for the survival of them and there country
Baphomet LUCIFER I think you need to read my comment again. I said if the Nazi's HAD won. And I sure must be a neo Nazi when I vote for left wing political parties.
Amen
NOTE THAT RUSSIA HAD ABOUT 20 000 T72 AND T80 TANKS. THEY HAD 13 000 T34. IN WW2.
@10:20 "Hitler refused to sanction a timely withdrawal. This cost the Wehrmacht most of it's losses. 100,000 men and 600 precious tanks." Dumb old Hitler. If only he were smart, he would have allowed the Wehrmacht troops to carry those 600 out of fuel Tiger tanks back to Germany in a timely manner. Build makeshift stretchers out of bamboo, have two guys on each end. Keep a loader and gunner in the turret to cover the retreat. But Hitler just wasn't smart enough.
The fuel crisis meant it would have made zero difference.
Battlefield is an extraordinary documentary series! Thank you for posting it.
Northatlantic2012 Agreed, much respect to them 👍👍👍
1:42:01 SS. Nordland was composed of volunteers from Scandinavians countries. SS. Charlemagne was composed of volunteers from France
1:01:30 did he just say an hour and 47 minutes?😧
Thanks
The effect was stupefying
Only Tim Piggott
Battle for Berlin must have been so intense at the end. With the remaining males left were seniors and minors. I've seen stories of soldiers that seen everything, couldn't believe their eyes. Crazy how Germans over time, true colors show everything was just a facade.
REMEMBER THAN MANY OF THE GERMAN SOLDIERS IN THOSE DEFENSIVE POSITIONS WERE SEASONED FIGHTERS FROM THE EARLIER BATTLES IN SOVIET RUSSIA AND THEIR GENERAL (HIENRICI) WAS THE BEST IN DEFENSIVE WARFARE.
And they were completely destroyed along with the evil they defended
thanks
Lots and lots of keyboard warriors here.
yeah and they think they know so much
+Sgreenenov13 absolutely
what are you dressed in your nazi uniform as your soviet boyfriend gives it to your ass till your eyeballs bug out !
Bob Saturday Easy there child, no need to go full angry.
good point
Alt History: "GERMANS WIN BATTLE OF BERLIN" In 1945 just as the beginning of the end starts for Berlin at Seelow Heights, Hitler makes drastic changes to the shrinking front lines. All remaining men, tank units and artillery are moved from the town of Seelow Heights and likewise all forces from the West are sent back to the main city of Berlin as the Fuhrer no longer wants them to be used in hopeless battles but rather a hard won battle for the allies, thus a chain of battles do not take place by the Germans, drawing back as many resources, divisions, panzers, and supplies. Hoping to inflict mass deaths on them as they attempt to take the great city of Berlin from the German people, adopting guerrilla tactics, suicide attacks and sniper campaigns into a much longer battle and quickly turns into a mirror of Stalingrad.........This now meant Hitler would make important changes to the front lines. He declared all forces from Seelow Heights, Halbe and across the Rhine to retreat back to Berlin for the defence of the glorious city, a battle until the very end. The German High Command never expected Hitler to suddenly soften like this. However, many were convinced he now saw reason and clarity, especially since the walls around Germany were closing in on him. Men, tanks, equipment, food and water were all poured back into the capital from across the front lines, the Berlin defence force now comprised of 500,000. This included soldiers, sailors, SS, civilians and Hitler youth, for the inner and outer skirts of the city. Now with greater manpower, heavier German defensive procedures were taken to help better fortify Berlin. August 16th, the Soviet offensive to capture Berlin went ahead with a mass force 2.4 million men ready. The Russians arrive in force with 2.4 million men in trains and tanks, attempting to storm their way through the outskirts not expecting much resistance. Morale is high among Soviet troops. Many of them stormed through houses and buildings carelessly allowing German troops to ambush and pick them off one by one. As Russian tanks move farther into the outskirts, they are easily destroyed by hidden German panzers and by the end of the first day 250 tanks destroyed by SS divisions. Famine and disease slowly poured in as the city was closed in on. However, the Germans did their best to stock up on food and weapons. The accumulation of weapons, remaining artillery and use of small firearms, continued to be poured in by what the army had left. Completely unorthodox by Nazi standards, the German army adopted extreme measures which proved highly successful in urban war, the use of hit and run tactics, sniper shootings, human shields and suicide bombings against Soviet units and tank units. The Hitler Youth mainly volunteered for the suicide attacks, one in particular used in defence of the Reichstag inflicted as many as 400 Soviet deaths. As part of the fall back the Luftwaffe was also taken back in order for the final long defence of Berlin and significant air power has been reserved for the final battle against Soviet troops. The Soviet army experienced colossal losses over the next few days, especially against its tanks which proved to be a disaster in the urban area. However, this did not effect any determination or weaken morale, the Soviets continued to storm the capital, going through buildings and houses. In fighting against young, old and weak men. The Soviets didn't expect this kind of harshness from the shrinking German resistance. However, it seemed far too much for high Soviet losses to be already as they were with loss of 100,000 men by 23 April as more Soviet troops poured into the city. For the Germans, this made them easy targets. As the Russian army continued their push into the Berlin, the Germans sustained heavy losses as well. The Russians could not use tanks any more so relied on heavy machine gun and artillery. Mass Soviet troops now pulled back, others remained in house-to-house fighting against German defenders until they are wiped out by the battle tested remnants of the Waffen SS, who bore the brunt of German casualties. The Battle of Berlin was declared over with a German victory on May 7th, 1945. German losses some 500,000 military dead, 50,000 civilian deaths. Soviet losses 1 million troops.
Im sorry to find this incredibly cringy
you exist in a strange bubble.
Your post is contradictory in itself, to the point it becomes irrelevant.
Robert Biddle Did you even read the fucking comment?
The fuck?
The US provided the majority of industry, but the USSR paid the largest portion of the butchers bill
This is a battle without a clear side to root for. To find something worth remembering you have to dig a little bit and I think that the work done by General Heinrici is worth pulling out of this mechanized bloodbath. His work to try to save the lives of his army should be noted in history especially because they were set up to die for the Reich. His initial positioning and his later repositioning of those forces saved many soldiers who eventually survived the conflict. He faced the wrath of several German generals for moving his troops away from the battle in Berlin and by moving in that direction he saved his own life which would have been taken upon his arrival at the Capitol. It was very unusual for a German general at this late time in the war to try to save something for another day. 😊
Really?? It's that hard for you to choose whether to support defenders of European culture and people or to support murdering communist rapists?
love these documentaries...so comprehensive!:)
yeah its the best serie on the subject..many detail on troops mouvment
"the most horrific battle to have ever been fought in a city" Umm... Stalingrad...? XD
Draven Flores I thought the same thing. 478.000 soviet soldiers died in the battle of Stalingrad vs. 81.000 in Berlin.
Draven Flores And about (allegedly) 425,000 germans plus 81,000 soviets, it addds up.
The battle for Berlin? Stalingrad was the single most bloody battle in recorded history. One million dead on both sides.
Draven Flores Well, the battle of Stalingrad was fought over a long stretch of land, and the city itself was just the most eastern part of it.
Gaius Baltar definitely the most eastern part of it you are so right
... for 2 generations and more.
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I SEE PUTIN @ 1:52:38 he is one tough immortal man.
+realvipul wow! he is putin
100% Huylo... Putler with PPSh. A nasty creature learns how to attack Ukraine
Nah, Putin is just a midget coward who hides in a palace behind his trusted oligarchs.
Holy shit. You stayed awake that long? Here's your goddamned cookie.
Putins father was actually at a bridgehead in Leningrad. He was wounded in an area that had staggering casualties. I hate to say but if only he had been one of the fatalities...
What an impressive and unique transformation the red army and air force underwent! From the obsolete armed forces that could not beat the Finns to this extremely formidable steamroller that decimated the once mighty Wehrmacht!
Stathube Having your country invaded will do that. You either get your act together or perish. Lucky for Stalin he had left a few capable commanders alive after the purges.
The blind leading the blind. Thats what the Nazi's were.
Its funny when they viewed the leaders Stalin was named "dictator" not "premier", while Hitler was named "Fuhrer of Germany"!
Thanks Old Yallow.
C. Shearin Old?
Young Yeller just doesn't sound right
C. Shearin Why using an adjective to describe me in the first place? Just Yallow is enough!
Yallow Ayez Google "Old Yeller"-(1957 Movie). Just kidding with you, Yallow. Hope your not mad at me...Peace!
How much misery can one swine cause....
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Bagration was the greatest defeat suffered by the German army, it gutted army group center and trapped army group north in the curland peninsula. It was the blow that cripple the German army for the rest of the war in the east.
What about Berlin Zhukov? It wasn't that great after all, was it? 305k casualties and +60k dead seems a bit exaggerated, even for you isn't it?
dvchel true it was the last great battle of the war in Europe so that is true
Preston Zhukov Yes, but a flawed battle of you. Meaning not so great. Achieving this enormous amount of casualties is a real head breaker. Couldn't there have been less casualties?
dvchel we wanted the fascist beast alive and I was worried that an artillery bombardment of the city would kill everyone. And we didn't know about Hitler's bunker yet
Preston Zhukov What? Zhukov dropped thousands of tons of artillery on the city. Seeming to lack of care for the citizens. I even wonder if Konev was in Berlin or not. Anyhow. After the Battle, the city was completely ruined. Meaning the Berlin was bombed sh*t out of it by Red Army troops which Zhukov commanded. So I doubt it.
Interesting note, in the final days of the war there were 3 - 4 million Soviets on the Eastern front and 4.5 million allies on the western front against 2.5 million Germans altogether. 8 million vs 2.5 million, that many people fighting is almost unbelievable.
And that's without all the other countries, the partisans and considering the war at sea. The numbers are even more amazing when you remember that the human population was what... A seventh of what it is now? The numbers are indeed hard to imagine
Leave the world behind
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