From Stalingrad To Berlin: The Key Battles That Took Down Hitler | Battles Won & Lost | War Stories

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From the brutal street-to-street fighting in Stalingrad to the final battle in Berlin, we delve into the key battles of the Second World War that brought the downfall of Hitler and the Nazi regime.
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00:00 Stalingrad
12:02 Singapore
21:30 Anzio Landing
29:25 Monte Cassino
36:00 Philippine Sea
42:00 Battle Of Britain
50:11 Kokoda Track Campaign
1:01:05 Suomussalmi
1:07:55 Kasserine Pass
1:13:25 Burma Campaign
1:21:40 Convoy PQ17
1:29:05 Moscow
1:39:50 Dunkirk
1:49:20 Malaya
1:57:00 River Plate
2:04:20 Market Garden
2:12:50 Battle Of Syria
2:19:15 Battle Of Berlin
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    @WarStoriesChannel@WarStoriesChannel11 ай бұрын
    • 40,000 Allied lives ? That alone was more than what McArthur lost in the PTO .

      @JohnEglick-oz6cd@JohnEglick-oz6cd10 ай бұрын
    • 😂😂😂😂❤😂😂😂😂❤😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂❤😂❤😂❤😂❤*,:

      @damaephanwar5237@damaephanwar523710 ай бұрын
    • Put the material according to the period it was used like showing tiger and panther during the battle of Moscow "operation typhoon "that took place in 1941 while they been in use from 1942-1943 on

      @mohelemadembe2630@mohelemadembe26309 ай бұрын
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      @ludovicoapuan2134@ludovicoapuan21349 ай бұрын
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      @ludovicoapuan2134@ludovicoapuan21349 ай бұрын
  • My Father was in the russian convoys thankfully he survived and I applied successfully for the Arctic Star after he passed away. Very proud of what he did.

    @cyndy2484@cyndy24844 ай бұрын
    • Respects to his memory and service. The lack of recognition given to the personnel who kept the USSR supplied until almost all of them had passed on was disgraceful. The UK govt repeatedly blocked the Soviet then Russian offers of awards of the "Ushakov medal" to RN sailors who had taken part in the Arctic convoys, it was only afer 2014 when again most of the veterans had passed on that the Russian awards were generally permitted.

      @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684@walterkronkitesleftshoe66844 ай бұрын
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    @richardwhitfill5253@richardwhitfill52539 ай бұрын
  • The French Battle Plan never changes: Run, Hide, Surrender, Collaborate.

    @nandi123@nandi1237 ай бұрын
    • French should just change their flag from blue red and white to full white already.

      @candlesinwoodenroom4888@candlesinwoodenroom48882 ай бұрын
    • No that's the Italians.

      @lyndoncmp5751@lyndoncmp5751Ай бұрын
    • Why does France plant trees along their roads? Because the german solidier likes to march in the shadow ;)

      @komabot5285@komabot5285Күн бұрын
  • When I saw the credits,I knew Michael Cove wrote this, sounds exactly like PRICE OF EMPIRE a great Documentary also. Thanks Michael.

    @ronaldburd3012@ronaldburd30122 ай бұрын
  • I so much appreciate the Australian perspective in this whole series, and am so glad that they bring into the light names and armies that people only know from reading the few books about the tough campaigns in Asia where the Australians took a major role. More have been published in the past 15 years, but I love seeing the film footage and hearing about their quiet heroism wherever they fought.

    @voraciousreader3341@voraciousreader334110 ай бұрын
    • And New Zealand

      @TheDaverobinson@TheDaverobinson8 ай бұрын
  • A wonderful channel that deserves all respect, appreciation and pride. Accurate and useful information in a sophisticated and beautiful manner. I wish you lasting success. I have the utmost respect and admiration for your great honor for these wonderful works. I hope you success

    @MWM-dj6dn@MWM-dj6dn Жыл бұрын
    • They will continue to exist for as long as they continue to pay for the rights to show the work and programming of other networks. If it weren't for the History Channel, they'd lose half of their content. Nevermind the other sources they pluck material from.

      @justlucky8254@justlucky825411 ай бұрын
  • War Stories Great Channel very well presented and very informative ❤

    @STX-BTC@STX-BTC7 ай бұрын
  • wish you continuous success . A very beautiful and wonderful work that deserves admiration and all appreciation. Never stop.. It would be great if all your works are translated into Arabic. I wish you well and happiness. Thank you for your exceptional and distinguished effort in presenting this very beautiful work

    @MWM-dj6dn@MWM-dj6dn Жыл бұрын
  • This is fantastic!!!

    @Theearthtraveler@Theearthtraveler8 ай бұрын
  • On May 18 the Polish flag flew above the ruins 🇵🇱 very proud.

    @karolramut9065@karolramut90653 ай бұрын
  • The German army was falling apart starting fall 1941, even before the first winter. They had supply, and fuel problems, and many of the equipment and men were falling apart and not being replaced. It took 1942 for the Red Army to build up to the level to be able to take advantage of this growing German army's weakness. Stalingrad underlined that Barbarossa was a huge mistake. Germans knew about Napoleon's experience invading Russia, but they did not object to Hitler's plans!

    @babakbabak5329@babakbabak532911 ай бұрын
  • My father was in the New Zealand 22nd battalion (infantry) at Cassino. He said "The bloody Germans were up there alright!" The allies also bombed the town itself which was a mistake as it made it exponentially difficult to dislodge the Germans as the ruins made it easier for the Germans to defend. Streets blocked so couldn't use tanks, etc.

    @johnthorburn3712@johnthorburn371210 ай бұрын
    • Interesting

      @gih3297@gih32979 ай бұрын
    • Tyvm to your Dad for helping to save the world!

      @RogerLewis-ey2tt@RogerLewis-ey2tt8 ай бұрын
    • @@RogerLewis-ey2tt Thanks Roger, Dad passed away about 10 years ago, but I'll pass your thoughts on, when next I see him! Cheers J

      @johnthorburn3712@johnthorburn37128 ай бұрын
    • @@johnthorburn3712my grandad fought in Egypt with the 2nd NZEF until having his eye blown out by a grenade. He’s with your grandad John.

      @TheEarl777@TheEarl7777 ай бұрын
    • Same mistake the Germans made in bombing Stalingrad .

      @JohnEglick-oz6cd@JohnEglick-oz6cd7 ай бұрын
  • Amazing!

    @doogboy@doogboy10 ай бұрын
  • I must say this documentary is very insightful and very much interesting

    @BriantheTreeFeller@BriantheTreeFeller5 ай бұрын
  • 10:12 could you imagine waiting for that to end so you can surrender and just hoping you survive long enough

    @moemonte88@moemonte882 ай бұрын
  • From Stalingrad to Berlin in every Blitzkrieg i get in my heart in pumping for blood, pumping for blood.

    @supernus8684@supernus86849 ай бұрын
  • Operation paperclip makes me realize they really didn't lose world war 2!

    @FunnyImpala-jn6wk@FunnyImpala-jn6wk3 ай бұрын
    • Tf the haven’t , when there’s Nazis getting wheeled out from his colony at age 90+ they deffo haven’t lol , and if they did , Nazism live amongs most Israelis

      @Dino_Hunter_420@Dino_Hunter_4202 ай бұрын
  • Then after their defeat at Stalingrad, those German soldiers went straight to the gulag. After watching a video on the gulag and what went on there, I wonder if they would have been better off fighting to the very last man/bullet as the propaganda claimed.

    @Khalith@Khalith Жыл бұрын
    • Considering only five thousand came back out of 91k prisoners.

      @deneshbhaskar8650@deneshbhaskar8650 Жыл бұрын
    • @@deneshbhaskar8650 Better than 0 if they would have fought to the last man. Those survivors were needed back home to help raise their wife's new kid 🤣🤣

      @chownful@chownful11 ай бұрын
    • Absolutely

      @Joseph-fw6xx@Joseph-fw6xx11 ай бұрын
    • Field marshals and generals captured at Stalingrad were actually treated pretty well, they had their own headquarters under guard in Moscow. The enlisted men were marched to Siberia and other gulags. I was shocked when I learned about that. I thought they just sent them all to gulag.

      @C77-C77@C77-C778 ай бұрын
  • I appreciate that this program was focused around the more, lets say impactful/direct engagements and of course, all of them impactful just by the amount of resources and manpower alone. However, in addition to direct clashes between military forces I think that many resistance/anti fascist movements like in in the Balkans, France, Scandinavian region, England, China and many more are not to be seen as less important and deserve at least a honorable mention if only briefly and as a whole. These deserve a whole other program in itself.

    @VemiX1000@VemiX100010 ай бұрын
    • A great point and one not discussed enough in my opinion. The little man...or woman....fighting back against the oppressor....We need this now too.

      @patrickb9881@patrickb98819 ай бұрын
    • How can the new Zealand troops fighting in the Pacific against the Japanese be a "crucial" turning point to Hitler's downfall?

      @cagg2927@cagg29275 күн бұрын
  • Great Channel here!!!

    @thegringo.08@thegringo.0811 ай бұрын
  • You didn't mention operation Bagration. Red Army.

    @user-yf6hy2ql4f@user-yf6hy2ql4f7 ай бұрын
  • Why are you repackaging the same shows over and over and spamming them as 'different' content?

    @davidf67@davidf6711 ай бұрын
  • Thank you for uploading. , War never ends

    @owlgothic248@owlgothic248 Жыл бұрын
  • It was an informative episode with accurate evaluation....covered most battles and operations of WW2

    @mohammedsaysrashid3587@mohammedsaysrashid3587 Жыл бұрын
    • Nope. Wrong evaluation.

      @siddarthgrewal@siddarthgrewal6 ай бұрын
  • Both Friedrich and Arthur were incompetent tactically, you never put an adminstrator (pencil pusher) at the head of a combat div.That's why Ike never took a line combatant command,he was smart enough to know nothing good ever comes of it.

    @kdtune33@kdtune33 Жыл бұрын
    • See😊

      @jameswest4259@jameswest425911 ай бұрын
    • He obviously wasn't that good of a pencil pusher either. No one was asking him to grab a rifle and defend the line. He just needed the IQ to understand the pen is mightier than a sword and write up ✍ a proper plan. His enemies was out there beating him with brains - not muscle.

      @blackmamba___@blackmamba___7 ай бұрын
  • I plan to go back in time with my suitcase of early 20th century German money to bribe that art school into not rejecting young Adolf's art work. Wish me luck. Bye everyone 😂

    @coffeetalk924@coffeetalk92411 ай бұрын
    • He was good at painting buildings.

      @tomd6704@tomd670411 ай бұрын
    • Germany was gonna throw down again but the holacost probably wouldn't have happened

      @4playpowerful@4playpowerful10 ай бұрын
    • That may work, jews love money....

      @Steven-mo7td@Steven-mo7td9 ай бұрын
    • Oh my, and there you are in Vienna, Austria with Reichsmark...the wrong currency! Americans, too ignorant to do anything.

      @einalt@einalt9 ай бұрын
    • I suppose you failed.

      @kadavropodden@kadavropodden9 ай бұрын
  • "When the Soviet Union entered the war..." When the Soviet Union changed sides is a the correct statement.

    @artistforfreedom@artistforfreedom8 ай бұрын
    • Not really

      @sarpcesur7648@sarpcesur76484 ай бұрын
    • Let me guess, free ukriane too? Dull.

      @donetski7324@donetski7324Ай бұрын
  • Awesome!

    @othaVada@othaVada Жыл бұрын
  • So children we have learnt today without the slaves and porters you cannot win a war. Unsung heroes.

    @siddarthgrewal@siddarthgrewal6 ай бұрын
  • From stalingrad to Berlin and every disco I get in 🎵🎵

    @jamiebarnes1923@jamiebarnes19238 ай бұрын
    • underrated comment

      @stephenjamesrousseau799@stephenjamesrousseau799Ай бұрын
  • My friends grandfather served in the Germany army and fought at monte casino. and he said that they had orders to not occupy or fight from the monastery. However once it had been destroyed they then got orders to dig in and occupy the rubble as now it was a great defensive location. So yea it was one of the bad decisions of the Allie's during ww2. As it costs a lot more lives and made the battle last longer then it would have. I personally feel like bombing it was clearly not necessary and ruined an ancient Building.

    @mikerage1011@mikerage10116 ай бұрын
  • Wish they wouldn't have included the little war games table with those two guys and their ridiculous expressions moving little colored pieces around the table. It added absolutely nothing to the show when they first started using that.

    @justlucky8254@justlucky825411 ай бұрын
    • I was just thinking that myself. Why did they do that? No contour lines on the land maps... no discussion. Weird and boring.

      @daydays12@daydays1210 ай бұрын
  • The parade of German prisoners in Moscow had nothing to do with Stalingrad. The parade was held after the success of Operation Bagration, which was in 1944. The sequence of events in this documentary is sometimes mistaken..

    @monjettgraham2989@monjettgraham298910 ай бұрын
    • Very true .

      @Crashed131963@Crashed1319639 ай бұрын
  • Another fantastic presentation

    @kevinc.3579@kevinc.3579 Жыл бұрын
  • The Battle For Britain was won cause of just about everyone in the country was involved and believed in the leadership. I think history if it changed just a few variables would of worked for the worst. Like at the same time you have this leader who brought Germany out of the impossible. Got the whole country involved as well. Kn one hand you have a powerful navy with U-Boats ripping out your guts, and the other hand you got this lunatic controlling, or trying to control. Imagine being a Field Marshal or decorated General, and this corporal from Austria telling you that you are wrong, and you know you are right.

    @chadczternastek@chadczternastek Жыл бұрын
    • Look at russia today it's the same thing without the camps

      @briandstephmoore4910@briandstephmoore4910 Жыл бұрын
    • I think the battle of Britain was a draw. The nazis could of used those fighter planes more importantly those dead and captured airmen in Russia

      @deneshbhaskar8650@deneshbhaskar8650 Жыл бұрын
    • Battle for Britain was won by Germany. How can we tell? Because England kept calling the US for help.

      @Metromania2022@Metromania202211 ай бұрын
    • @@deneshbhaskar8650 It wasn't a draw because Germany didn't achieve air superiority. They failed. The Battle of Britain was to compel Britain to sue for peace. And/or invading Britain itself.

      @getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917@getmeoutofsanfrancisco991710 ай бұрын
  • The Italian Campaign in the ETO , and the Burma(Myanmar ) Campaign in the PTO , should get more acknowledgement of their underestimated significance in WW2 .

    @JohnEglick-oz6cd@JohnEglick-oz6cd10 ай бұрын
  • The fact the Japanese bayoneted the head of a surrendering army is one of the many reasons why the fury unleashed on Japan by the US should of been 100x worse. These people were barbaric.

    @POPJack1717@POPJack1717 Жыл бұрын
    • まるでアメリカ自身は野蛮人でないかのような言い方だな。

      @Tokyocitizens@Tokyocitizens Жыл бұрын
    • @@Tokyocitizens all is fair in love and war

      @irvingsmith6559@irvingsmith655911 ай бұрын
    • ''These people were barbaric.'' you mean like the US army that slaugthered women and children in My Lai?

      @fatboy1837@fatboy183711 ай бұрын
    • @@Tokyocitizens The Americans were not even close to as cruel, they weren't conducting vivisection on live pregnant women for example. Please, for the memory of their millions of brutalized, enslaved, and raped victims, educate yourself on the atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Government.

      @pleasedisregardthefollowin5568@pleasedisregardthefollowin556811 ай бұрын
    • @@pleasedisregardthefollowin5568 原子爆弾で何万人もの人を蒸発死させることはそれほど残酷ではないのですか?実際、日本統治下で在日米兵は多くの日本人女性を犯したことを知らないあなたこそ歴史の勉強をちゃんとしてください。

      @Tokyocitizens@Tokyocitizens11 ай бұрын
  • Stalingrad, Kursk and Bagration decided how the Europen war would end. On land anyway.

    @21stcenturysucks39@21stcenturysucks3911 ай бұрын
  • History is just too insane o_o

    @SunnyLovetts@SunnyLovetts Жыл бұрын
    • Wow. Heavy.

      @Hunter_Nebid@Hunter_Nebid11 ай бұрын
  • Tora, Tora, Tora were the codewords spoken by Genda as he was flying over Pearl Harbor. They indicated that surprise had been achieved. The words that started everything were "Climb Mount Niitaka."

    @mikeaguilar5764@mikeaguilar57645 ай бұрын
  • I can’t believe 2013 was 6 years ago

    @colinslaboden@colinslaboden11 ай бұрын
    • Government Math.

      @steverose3318@steverose33182 ай бұрын
  • History hit hands down has the best ww1 and ww2 documentaries

    @percanatord3461@percanatord3461 Жыл бұрын
  • At 1:06 is a description of the Winter War between Russia (Soviet Union) and Finland. The Russians lined their tanks up along roads which made them extremely vulnerable to lightly armed ski troops who decimated the Russian tank forces. The Finns called it "mutti," stacking up wood in the forest, except the wood was dead Russian soldiers. Much the same thing happened during Russia's invasion of Ukraine where the tanks were allowed to form a traffic jam on the road to Kiev. You would think that by now the Russian generals would know that tanks without flanking infantry support are highly vulnerable to ambush from enfilading fire from foot soldiers. This is basic soldiering which in this age of drone attacks is more important than ever.

    @petermarch7278@petermarch727810 ай бұрын
    • How can "lightly armed" troops of any kind "decimate" armoured vehicles? Did they take their skis off and smash the tanks up with them? Your reading is so shallow, you don't even know that they had no AT really, apart from a really good, but impractical AT rifle and improvised devices like molotov cocktails and sticky bombs, right? Do you think you can just send it with ski troops straight into stalled armoured columns, because the machine guns on those tanks would make mincemeat out of them, which was why the Finnish troops never did that. It was instead like a snowy Vietnam where the Finnish troops used hit and run tactics or always stayed very well hidden, and that was what stalled the Red army, which is not the Russian army, you seem to be confused like the Americans are about that. Do you think that by Operation Bagration or when they took Berlin, something the Allies could not do, that they had the same problems, or that they were not by then experts in deep penetration into enemy territory, because they were and had the equipment for it, unlike in the Winter war, when they were also so badly purged since 1938, they basically did not have officers, right, because most historians say that about the Red army of the Winter EWar to account for that, as opposed to your "theory" (sic) that they still do not know about battle formations like column and line to this day somehow. So you are also wrong that the Red army and later Russian army never could do that. Why the stalled operation outside of Kiev was such a travesty to Russian doctrine was that they have trained in Ukraine for many decades and know the land exactly, every single road and track from their old Warsaw Pact maps. They also have extensive vehicles and tanks that can operate off-road and can even be amphibious, because of how bad the Russian and Ukrainian roads are. You can't get a factoid from this while watching it, then add that to some news you saw last year and then try to mash them together into some sort of inexpert opinion about weapons and tactics like that, since you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Columns on roads always get "flanked" as you mangle it, that has been happening since the 18th Century and was why back then there is column formation for faster travel on road and a broad formation to engage the enemy. Drones do not make that even more the case, word salad; now go and read a book and stop wasting people's time on your tenuous fairy stories. However, it was the Russians who used drones first since 2014, that is why the trenches there are covered, because the Russians were using drones to drop grenades into them. It was a new tactic then, if you could read you would know that and not blunder so easily into that counterfactual either.

      @Oscuros@Oscuros9 ай бұрын
    • Rant much??

      @forlornhope1521@forlornhope15217 ай бұрын
    • se on motti eikä miköö perkelehen mutti

      @mottipaa@mottipaa6 ай бұрын
  • the video mentions "Friedrich Von Paulus". This is not correct : the German commander was called just "Friedrich Paulus". He was not a noble, contrary to many German generals.

    @gruzfruz8200@gruzfruz82002 ай бұрын
  • The loss of 40000 Allied lives @ Monte Casino battle , that went on for nearly 6 mo's. was more than 1/2 of wat McArthur lost in nearly his whole campaign in the PTO , not to denigrate the grim struggled in the PTO.

    @JohnEglick-oz6cd@JohnEglick-oz6cd10 ай бұрын
    • Not a soft underbelly. :-/

      @RogerLewis-ey2tt@RogerLewis-ey2tt8 ай бұрын
    • Why is it that Ive never heard of the battle of Monte Casino until today? I know all the main points of this war, studied Stalingrad, Moscow, etc. It sees like this battle is never discussed.

      @bunjijumper5345@bunjijumper53457 ай бұрын
    • To be fair, the battle of Monte Casino can't even be said in the same sentence as. Stalingrad. 40,000 allied lives? really? It's tough to even care when Stalingrad alone saw the death of over a million on each side, not to mention the million lost over the entire eastern front. In general, most of the fighting was done on the eastern front, so a smaller battle on the less significant, western front is not necessarily going to make it into a curriculum that doesn't even have enough time to fully cover the battles that truly changed the course of the war and world history.@@bunjijumper5345

      @KillerLlamma@KillerLlamma7 ай бұрын
    • Monte Cassino is typical day on the Eastern front.

      @user-nr5tp2jo3u@user-nr5tp2jo3u7 ай бұрын
    • @@user-nr5tp2jo3u Every minute of the day on the Eastern/ Russian front ,vwhere my mom's pop was kia . He was a major in the 2nd Waffen SS "DAS REICH " Panzer Grenadier Div . .Her POP was kia in the Battle for Kursk mid -July 1943.

      @JohnEglick-oz6cd@JohnEglick-oz6cd7 ай бұрын
  • I would recommend to stay in a "timeline". Starting with "Stalingrad" and talikng about "Dunkirk" at the end ?

    @komabot5285@komabot5285Күн бұрын
  • Good documentary - but they should be using the nations flag on the battle plans to make it easier to understand...not colors that don't mean anything

    @MrMichaellee5353@MrMichaellee535311 ай бұрын
    • Thing is, a lot of battles in WW2 involved multinational troops. Just as an example, if anyone has seen the movie "The Battle of Britain", at the end of the movie it lists a breakdown of the nationalities of the pilots involved. And no, they weren't all British. In fact 15 other nations also participated. And that wasn't a singuar event. Battle of the Bulge didn;t involve just Americans, but also British and Canadians. Easier to have a neutral display.

      @lisahesslink2267@lisahesslink22672 ай бұрын
    • You fight under the color of your flag...period - irrespective of what nationality your are.@@lisahesslink2267

      @MrMichaellee5353@MrMichaellee53532 ай бұрын
    • @lisahesslink2267 But in the Battle of Britain the air force was singular. The Royal Air Force. There weren't other air forces and non British planes involved. 80% of the pilots and 100% of the planes, radar stations and ground spotters were British.

      @lyndoncmp5751@lyndoncmp5751Ай бұрын
  • Wow

    @xanderrodriguez4354@xanderrodriguez43549 ай бұрын
  • At 7:15 he said that the Germans in the Stalingrad pocket burned all of their resources including their food. That obviously never happened. The soldiers were starving within a couple weeks of the encirclement. They weren't clueless morons, and they certainly wouldn't have destroyed the very small amount of food that they had. Where do they get these commentators?

    @zeronzemesh7718@zeronzemesh771811 ай бұрын
    • The germans destroyed a lot of their supplies during the retreat. I've read about it in multiple different memoirs of German soldiers who were actually there.

      @kornpop1557@kornpop15579 ай бұрын
    • Did you khnow how people suffer in temperature-30? More that from hunger. Is posible that thay burn food worm body

      @tuanrobertglowacki516@tuanrobertglowacki5163 ай бұрын
  • *The commercial at **05:00** is annoyingly loud!*

    @TheBestDog@TheBestDog11 ай бұрын
    • What commercial?

      @CokeIstDerMan@CokeIstDerMan3 ай бұрын
  • I always wondered why the Germans basically drove right at Stalingrad….. why not cross the Volga north and south of the city , then cut off the supply lines.Just starve them out.Any ideas/ opinions?

    @crowejoy@crowejoy8 ай бұрын
    • Why he didn't just quit while he was ahead. He invaded a few countries and the league of nations didn't do $hit in the beginning. No one wanted another World war but he already decided long time ago that he was going to continue to push his luck and see where it takes him 😢

      @blackmamba___@blackmamba___7 ай бұрын
    • The Volga was a considerable obstacle to be crossing at thte end of a VERY precarious supply line, and the terrain east of the river at that point is marshland for hundreds of miles. The Soviets held the only road leading to Stalingrad from the east, the rest being impassible, like the Pripet marshes in Byelorussia / Ukraine.

      @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684@walterkronkitesleftshoe66847 ай бұрын
    • @@blackmamba___ Do you think the allies would just let him quietly consolidate what the nazis had conquered? From 1943 onwards the nazis were fighting defensively on all fronts.

      @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684@walterkronkitesleftshoe66847 ай бұрын
  • Interesting stories. It would be better to have some text labels on the map: towns, rivers, etc.

    @bob456fk6@bob456fk610 ай бұрын
  • 11:21 those German troops being shown were from Army Group Center captured in the summer of 1944 Why not show the footage of the actual prisoners taken after the fall of the 6th Army at Stalingrad?

    @Rickasaurus@Rickasaurus3 ай бұрын
  • Not impressed. First mistake came in the opening seconds: Paulus was just Paulus - he did not have a 'von'. This is sloppy, and reduces my trust in the rest of this effusion.

    @marklandon9058@marklandon905811 ай бұрын
  • No winter clap and winter storm is different

    @toker6664@toker66649 ай бұрын
  • Anyone else think that the historian Dr. Stahel looks A LOT like James Rolfe from AVGN? It's all I can think when he's on screen lol.

    @markmathisen3908@markmathisen39083 ай бұрын
  • Anyone who lived and died during that time and era m..would never be the same ,even after the artillery FELL silent...

    @Lance-Dillinger@Lance-Dillinger3 ай бұрын
  • No. Every war is a defeat. Just one side loses the most.

    @CogitoErgoSumFortis@CogitoErgoSumFortis10 ай бұрын
    • After ww2 the US was much better off than it was before the war . WW2 ended the 1930s great depression .

      @Crashed131963@Crashed1319639 ай бұрын
    • @@Crashed131963 yeah, but the US lost its freedom in exchange. The Military Industrial Complex (MIC) emerged thanks to WW2. The non-interventionalist tendency it people had before the conflict dissappeared and the US became the official rival to the USSR for global influence. The MIC gained more influence over american politics, with a world war budget that never deflated after being scaled to that proportion for 'emergency and temporary' measures in order to win the war. I'd argue the US lost more than many, whilst not in lives. Again, there are no victors in war. Only lesser losers.

      @CogitoErgoSumFortis@CogitoErgoSumFortis9 ай бұрын
  • 37:00 is the literal definition of awakened a sleeping Giant. There was no way Japan would of won this war in the long run, even if nukes weren't used. More peoole would of perished on both sides though because Japan would of literally fought to the last man, woman and child.

    @POPJack1717@POPJack1717 Жыл бұрын
    • Japan and Germany had their own nuclear programs but didn't care much about them luckily

      @user-gs5pi3rf2g@user-gs5pi3rf2g Жыл бұрын
    • We could have blockaded Japan into surrender. Incinerating tens of thousands of non-combatants with nuclear weapons was pointless.

      @yankeedoodle1963@yankeedoodle1963 Жыл бұрын
    • @@yankeedoodle1963, you are absolutely right. The Japanese expressed their readiness to surrender immediately after the USSR entered the war, because they were well aware that they could not fight on two fronts. This is indicated by archival documents. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is just the first act of the Cold War. Japan was on its last legs, nuclear bombing was not required to force it to surrender, the United States simply needed to demonstrate its new weapons to the USSR. Roosevelt, if he were alive, would not have done this. Вы абсолютно правы. Японцы выразили готовность сдаться сразу же после вступления СССР в войну, потому что прекрасно осознавали, что не могут воевать на два фронта. Об этом говорят архивные документы. Бомбёжка Хиросимы и Нагасаки - это просто первый акт "холодной войны". Япония была на последнем издыхании, чтоб заставить её сдаться ядерных бомбардировок не требовалось, США просто было нужно продемонстрировать СССР своё новое оружие. Рузвельт, если бы был жив, этого бы не сделал.

      @DmitryTihomirow@DmitryTihomirow Жыл бұрын
    • @@DmitryTihomirow So why didn't Japan surrender before the bombings - since archival documents show they were warned ahead of time? And then why didn't they immediately surrender after Hiroshima bombing?

      @chownful@chownful11 ай бұрын
    • @@yankeedoodle1963 Mass starvation of tens of millions is not a preferable alternative to incinerating tens of thousands of non-combatants.

      @pleasedisregardthefollowin5568@pleasedisregardthefollowin556811 ай бұрын
  • the pronounciation of Nijmegen was unforgivable

    @BasedPoliwhirl@BasedPoliwhirl Жыл бұрын
    • Yeah, but then again: even Auschwitz isn’t actually pronounced “Auschwitz”; It’s “Oświęcim” in Polish. Butchering names and places is something that is almost inevitable: You can’t expect people to pronounce everything correctly, even though it would show more respect.

      @kristofvandycke6687@kristofvandycke668711 ай бұрын
    • ​@@kristofvandycke6687 Didn't mean to make any sort of serious claim with that, and not really implying any sort of disrespect on the part of the video producer. Just thought it was funny that the narrator would have never heard that word pronounced out loud before, if anybody has ever watched A Bridge Too Far or even Band of Brothers they would know.

      @BasedPoliwhirl@BasedPoliwhirl11 ай бұрын
  • Ah, goodnight y'all!

    @radiantlife2800@radiantlife2800 Жыл бұрын
  • "During operation Uranus they were manouvering in his rear" Ay yo..

    @larsmonsen88@larsmonsen888 ай бұрын
  • Победа и только победа СССР 💪👍👍👍👍

    @misterBin440@misterBin4406 ай бұрын
  • After watching more than a hundred ww2 videos I'm just now learning Singapore was involved.

    @Softail77us@Softail77us6 ай бұрын
    • Then I suggest you are American

      @terryzanger7152@terryzanger71523 ай бұрын
    • I’m an American and I laughed at both of these comments. Because you are not an American,you think you have know more and suffered more, think again. On the bottom we’re all the same.@@terryzanger7152

      @ronaldburd3012@ronaldburd30122 ай бұрын
  • @16:13 lmao that guy is such a troll redt in peace soldiers 🙏🕊️

    @percanatord3461@percanatord3461 Жыл бұрын
  • During winterwar In lapland of Finland were semd Ukranien soldiers, whom had newer seen winter, and at least fought in sutch condisons

    @jonivoutilainen6997@jonivoutilainen69979 ай бұрын
  • 👍👍👍!!!

    @conceptalfa@conceptalfa Жыл бұрын
  • The no defined results of Kursk made a massive damage on German mechanical divisions. Instead the Russian mechanical was almost infinite on that scale 🤔🤔🤔

    @mariaeugeniadominguez9419@mariaeugeniadominguez94199 ай бұрын
  • Hiter was tweeking last 6 months before his suicide of all the highs and withdrawals than high , his mind was kept out of the failures his genrals was having due them looking for their own exit plan away from the troops. Im sure he had many Military leaders go m.i.a. during russian Offensive.

    @user619tlsdca5@user619tlsdca5 Жыл бұрын
  • “Operation Uranus meant to trap the Germans.” - 🤤 😋

    @TheBestDog@TheBestDog11 ай бұрын
  • 3:41 Operation uranus 🤣🤣

    @franklogrim8510@franklogrim85109 ай бұрын
  • 2 BIG MISTAKES. 1,NOT DEVELOPING NUKES. 2,TRYING TO FIGHT A WAR AND SPENDING HUGE RESOURCES ON EXTERMINATING PEOPLE SIMULTANEOUSLY.

    @davidfleming6220@davidfleming622011 ай бұрын
  • How time flys

    @aimeethomson7806@aimeethomson78066 ай бұрын
  • نرجو ترجمه فلم اللغه العربيه

    @ahmedqassem6572@ahmedqassem657211 ай бұрын
  • Hi

    @Rich69348@Rich693484 ай бұрын
  • Qween is dead whit Churchill 😇

    @lyubomirfilipov2801@lyubomirfilipov28018 ай бұрын
  • Brave little Detling is now doomed to be a housing estate.

    @alexhayden2303@alexhayden23039 ай бұрын
  • Not even Field Marshal von Manstein could take the Germans out of Stalingrad.

    @charlesparkakacharliekeybo6639@charlesparkakacharliekeybo663911 ай бұрын
  • Blood is thicker than water..

    @davidpeppert9168@davidpeppert9168Ай бұрын
  • Knew a dude , my neighbor , who fought with the USAs 38th Division ( Cyclone Division ) that fought in the Phillipines through dense jungle , malaria., Unbearable heat , and a tough , tenacious well dug in Japanese force . He reluctant to talk about it for it brought about bad times .

    @JohnEglick-oz6cd@JohnEglick-oz6cd10 ай бұрын
    • My grandpa was there they called it the island wars! He was awarded a silver star and 2 Purple Hearts for his time in the Philippines and Japan.

      @tammyforbes2101@tammyforbes210110 ай бұрын
    • @@tammyforbes2101 Did he mean "The Island Wars " as far as the Island archipilego of the Phillipines , or of the Island hoping campaigns on the PTO ?

      @JohnEglick-oz6cd@JohnEglick-oz6cd10 ай бұрын
    • I once had an uncle who visited Guam.

      @johnlawler4241@johnlawler424110 ай бұрын
    • @@johnlawler4241 Your uncle was in the USA Army , or USMC , because those two military branches were savagely fighting the Imperialist / Japanese dug in those mountainous caves . The rough topography was idea for hidden machine gun nests , and sniper kill zones , hidden artillery guns , motors , and booby traps . The Marines there , fighting in Guam would later be formed , or integrated into the 3rd Marine Division that took part in "The Battle for/ ( of) Iwo - Jima . A battle that claimed nearly 5 1/2 USA Marine lives , and where the famous US of As flag was raised on My. Suribachi about mid 2/1945 , and with another PTO battle for an Island ahead Okinawa around early4/1945 . That island conflict cost nearly 9 1/2 American lives .

      @JohnEglick-oz6cd@JohnEglick-oz6cd10 ай бұрын
    • @@tammyforbes2101 I don't know if I inquired about this before , but what USA Army infantry Division he served under ? The Phillipines was mostly USA regular Army fighting the Imperialist / Fascist Japanese there ; a tough fight against a tough/ tenacious enemy the Japanese were deeply hunkered in , and had to be flushed out . Interestingly enough the Japanese were starting to surrender : a quite a few startling the Allied/ American troops .

      @JohnEglick-oz6cd@JohnEglick-oz6cd10 ай бұрын
  • 3:49 4:12

    @Bippitybobbity@Bippitybobbity6 ай бұрын
  • Bakhmut might be the closest thing to Stalingrad since.

    @Robespierres_Ghost@Robespierres_Ghost11 ай бұрын
    • Again won by Russia 😂

      @JASHVEER22@JASHVEER2211 ай бұрын
    • ​@@JASHVEER22May Putin get the Mussolini treatment he deserves, and may his serfs' reality crumble again.

      @neilhillis9858@neilhillis98586 ай бұрын
    • @@neilhillis9858 keep wishing 🤣

      @JASHVEER22@JASHVEER226 ай бұрын
  • You'd think Operation Bagration would have made the cut.

    @AlaskaErik@AlaskaErik10 ай бұрын
  • When montey beat romell at elamen 2nd time when we beat one off the best tacktishson off all t ime erwin romell aka the destert fox then starlingrad it was the beging off they end as the man like winton chur hill sed nuff sed we won

    @JohnWoolrich-ii6bl@JohnWoolrich-ii6bl10 ай бұрын
  • Living space? What happened to just buying a nice recliner?

    @allinfun829@allinfun8298 ай бұрын
    • Or maybe a 2 storey extension at the back of the Reichstag would have been more suitable?

      @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684@walterkronkitesleftshoe66847 ай бұрын
  • Ha. All defensive lines in Italy.... went from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic....

    @markgarin6355@markgarin635510 ай бұрын
  • Remember the winner changes everything. When you know that my country was colonized by one of the European nations. And it changed the culture which has a lasting impression to this day. A doctor disguises himself as a cleric, who is tasked with focusing natives to be obedient in worship and forget about worldly demands for their survival and responsibilities during life. And until now he has succeeded in making our natives become stupid and lose their nationalism. We need thinking together to become life wellbeing.

    @-FarellioFikriA@-FarellioFikriA7 ай бұрын
  • Why do they still make Paulus a "von"? His Name was Friedrich Paulus....

    @Gerd93.5@Gerd93.56 ай бұрын
  • 2:10 Molotov, Stalin, and Kruschev. 2:18 Fallen Fighters Square. 2:20 Gogolia Ulitsa? 2:28 2:29 2:46 Not Stalingrad 3:26 The Grain Elevator building. Still standing in 2023. 3:36 3:37 This was the Central Region of downtown. This street, Bolshievitskaya, had a church.

    @markprange2430@markprange243011 ай бұрын
  • Key battles? Many you showed were insignificant and footnotes. You left out most of the ACTUAL key battles.

    @snappingbear@snappingbear Жыл бұрын
  • Wow, not at all *_Stalingrad to Berlin._* Great material, but ...

    @BenTrem42@BenTrem423 ай бұрын
  • Monte Cassino where the Allies turn a Benedictine Abbey into a German stronghold. ..

    @robertbruce7686@robertbruce768610 ай бұрын
    • Sorted out by the Polish 2nd corp.

      @alexwiercinski4510@alexwiercinski45109 ай бұрын
  • Sad thing those Polish troops were rid of by Stalin to help the Allies overtake Monte Casino !

    @JohnEglick-oz6cd@JohnEglick-oz6cd10 ай бұрын
  • Fast forward…. Von derlyon a German is declared the head of Europe and spreads her lgb flag across Europe… Amazingly enough if you arrange 4 lgb flags at right angles to each other you can create a swastika… Coincidence….? 🤡

    @Kalus_Saxon@Kalus_Saxon11 ай бұрын
  • 42:33 Correction: The British empire which was 20 percent of the Earth’s landmass and a population of about 500 million people. Like they say Never forget.

    @reginaldmcnab3265@reginaldmcnab32655 ай бұрын
  • 👍

    @karloyu3484@karloyu348410 ай бұрын
  • Not to denigrate the PTO , but the air war over Europe claimed nearly 50000 Allied Airmen , mostly Americans , which is more than wat the USMC list in the whole of the PTO.

    @JohnEglick-oz6cd@JohnEglick-oz6cd10 ай бұрын
  • Listening to this doc i now know just ugly it got for Germany

    @Arthur-tx8fd@Arthur-tx8fd11 ай бұрын
  • I wish I had been there

    @jasonrobbins7589@jasonrobbins758911 ай бұрын
    • Just go to Ukraine 🇺🇦 right now. I know it's not the same as going back in time, but I'm sure you'll be able to still live out the emotions that those people were feeling at the time day after day.

      @blackmamba___@blackmamba___7 ай бұрын
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