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@HistoryHaty

27 күн бұрын

As a history nerd, I think getting Nebula is worth the buy.

@ramonhernandez3160

21 күн бұрын

How much a year for Nabular ?

@HistoryHaty

21 күн бұрын

@@ramonhernandez3160 Not that much, but I forget.

Jesse THE narrator with a master of oratory and a man with ethics. Outstanding effort as usual from all your team mate .

@matthewskillo5320

22 күн бұрын

Is this guy a relative of John Travolta, or is it just in my mind?

@secretagent86

21 күн бұрын

I hate artificial voices… won’t watch those

@ColinFreeman-kh9us

6 күн бұрын

@@secretagent86 same.

No narrator is better than you. Perfect amount of detail

@sergeantscumbag2116

27 күн бұрын

I agree jesse is awesome

@jessealexander2695

27 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@Cubeforc3

26 күн бұрын

He pronounces the English, German and Russian names well. Normally the English documentaires butcher German names and the German ones are barely understandable when they speak English.

@catgladwell5684

26 күн бұрын

Could do without the cod British accent. Sounds parodic.

@Despiser25

26 күн бұрын

You seem to be confusing the writing and production with the narration. I come from an age when the narrator was Lawrence Olivier, lol. This doesn't hold a candle but millennials are truly broken. Its very difficult for people who know nothing to have skill or taste, lol.

My profile pic is my great uncle Earl, who was KIA fighting Germans in the “soft underbelly of Europe.” To this day I wonder if he was wearing his “I love you” helmet when charging German positions in the mountains of Italy.

@matthewhenson2585

26 күн бұрын

My opa worked in the wolfs lair running the phone switch bord for the furer

@jevonp

26 күн бұрын

Looks like true gentleman! Rip

@ryanplaschat4151

21 күн бұрын

So what u jew

@JesseG1997

19 күн бұрын

🫡

@marvinmartian8842

14 күн бұрын

RIP Uncle Earl. The world needs more people like him

OMG! This video is the closest to reading a book that I have ever seen. Information dense and professionally narrated in North American English. This channel is gold! 🥇

@lezerp

28 минут бұрын

ÅÅ••…ØØØøøøø …

This channel has taught me how to say so many European place names properly, thank you for that!

@thomas19994

25 күн бұрын

All the Italians name were butchered, I can assure you that

Honestly, would like to see some videos on Japan and China in 1943. It was rather unique year in both the Pacific and Asia.

@realtimehistory

27 күн бұрын

well, wouldn't you know where our next video on the Sino-Japanese War is headed.

@extrahistory8956

27 күн бұрын

@@realtimehistory Oh... talk about exciting!

@sisleymichael

26 күн бұрын

@@realtimehistory Yahoo!

@Benepene

26 күн бұрын

There are Only two Wikipedia articles that Made me throw up. That being the sacking of Nankang and the pillaging of Sbrenica(during the Balkan wars of 1995). Both are pretty mich how the Japanese behaved in China.

@hanmoou4127

17 күн бұрын

@@realtimehistory battle of Changsha would be interesting!

“Britain’s Italians” DAMN!!😂😂 shots fired

@seonewport363

7 күн бұрын

uummm, maybe that's why us Americans like pizza so much ....?

Very well done! This isn’t just a repeat of other documentaries-it is far more detailed.

Wonderful detail. And one of the best narrators that I have ever heard.

@realtimehistory

25 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I think I speak for everyone here: you're all brilliant at all you do & we all appreciate everything you do. Thank you👍

People, make sure you like an subscribe. This is one of the best, unbiased, concise documentary channels on KZread.

@Kim_YoJong

5 күн бұрын

Biased towards Americans

@Quickandslick

5 күн бұрын

@@Kim_YoJong can you give an example of how it's biased please.

Excellent video with great research and facts and figures of casualties and equipment. A definitive keeper. Thanks

I love the comparisons between the perception of events at the time and the more recent research. It really demonstrates how biased and innacurate our perception of real time events can get, with different people often making mutually exclusive claims. For that alone, you deserve a huge amount of respect.

@samsungtap4183

17 күн бұрын

What are you talking about "Hollywood" the American history curriculum ?

@bigwoody4704

5 күн бұрын

@@samsungtap4183 ♦Hollywood wasn't there when 198,000 Tommies got tossed into the Channel - Monty was.​ ♦Hollywood didn't make 81,000 Tommies surrender at Singapore ♦Hollywood didn't make 32,000 Tommies surrender at Tobruk ♦Hollywood didn't sign a deal with The Reich annexing the Czech Republic - Britain did. ♦Hollywood didn't stop Britain from crossing the 30 mile channel for 4 full years - after getting driven into it ♦Hollywood never showed up at Market Garden,neither did Monty ♦Hollywood didn't fill ship after ship with tanks,trucks,,halftracks,men,material,munitions, planes,provisions,food,fuel for the duration of the war to prop up the crown. ♦Hollywood didn't promise that Caen would be taken in D+1,Monty did and finally took it 43 days later. ♦Hollywood didn't promise before Market Garden that they'd go to Berlin then couldn't even make it to Arnhem - Monty did ♦Hollywood didn't give 16 U.S.Divisions to Monty's 21st Army Group,IKE did. Then Bernard was practically the last one to cross over the Rhine with them ♦Monty didn't destroy 90% of German Armor Allied Air Corps did. ♦Hollywood didn't make up stories about Bernard bathing little boys Nigel Hamilton reported them in The Full Monty . ♦Hollwood wasn't "evacuated" from: Norway,Netherlands, Belgium and France,Dunkirk in 1940 Greece, Crete,Hong Kong and Libya in 1941 Tobruk and Dieppe,Singapore in 1942 Want to know who was?

I love how realistic Hoi4 lore can get

It must have been cool to be Italian American in Sicily in your 20s and get to meet old people who knew your grandparents before they moved to America. That must have been frigging intense!

@tomahawk6847

Күн бұрын

My moms family came from Alia near Palermo in the late 1800's through New Orleans, but all my uncles on that side were in the USAAF in the pacific during the war. Interesting thought though!

Seriously a great documentary and the fact we all get it free is amazing. You deserve way more views and subscribers for this amazing research and thorough analysis and work, great 2 hours

Finished this release. Incredibly thorough.

When you guys do videos over 1 hour i love this, its a massive win with 2 hour long documentaries. Please cover the rest of the conflict this detailed if you so have the time and supplies, aswell as if you plan it of course. Much Gratidtude, i can't wait to watch this

@realtimehistory

23 күн бұрын

we will continue with this concept. already started our 1940 coverage and there will be a full version once its done.

@saxo9266

22 күн бұрын

​@@realtimehistoryVery glad to hear! Thank you

thank you for the constant effort and great quality of content.

Excellent and detailed documentary. I was glued to it throughout. Incidentally, my father participated in the Sicily invasion, third wave. He was antiaircraft and, when there were no more German planes to shoot at, he was converted to military police and guarded German POWs in Belgium.

Fantastic video as usual! One of the best history channels on youtube.

Great presentation on an area generally lightly covered. Half way through and will continue tomorrow.

@Swellington_

26 күн бұрын

lightly covered? Huh?

Very interesting. One thing when looking at the maps of the Netherlands: Some parts weren't land in the war, and were only drained in 1955 and 1968 (Flevopolder).

Never realized General Payton was 6' 1&1/2" tall, and President Eisenhower was 5'10" .

@jerrycoleman882

21 күн бұрын

FYI : Their height wasn't in this video. I simply saw the picture of them standing side by side and got curious even to look it up.

Another great documentary! Thank you for all the hard work

Great video! One thought: Rommel claiming that the inexperienced Americans did well does not tell us much about the actual American performance. He has an interest in exaggerating his enemy's aptitude. The same phenomenon also explains the origins of the myth of absolute German military superiority. To cover up their own faults, the French, British and Soviet commanders exaggerated the doctrinal, technical and organizational strengths of the Germans. I am not saying people like Rommel and von Manstein weren't gifted commanders, Germans were badly organized or armed. All I am saying is, you don't ask someone who is bruised up and lost a fight how big their opponent was. They are bound to exaggerate.

@realtimehistory

26 күн бұрын

Rommel was most impressed with the American ability to learn and adapt quickly in Tunisia. He warned his superiors about this in Normandy, but was largely ignored.

Maps and real footage is helpful to understand history of this war!

Awesome! Could you do 44 and 45 too?

@realtimehistory

27 күн бұрын

we have already started with 1940 (our Battle of France video), but we will do the other years in this style as well and hopefully also the other fronts. If you can't wait for 1945, check out our two documentary series "16 Days in Berlin" and "Rhineland 45" on Nebula.

Superb documentary, thanks mate!

Great video. Very informative.

Another excellent production

Epic video thank you

One of the best documentary...great!!!!

Great stuff Jesse!

EXCELLENT. Very comprhensive description of the WW II. Thanks very much. Greetings from Mexico City.

really great doco, thanks

One of, if not THE, best documentaries I've ever seen. Excellent German too.

Excellent video.

I read a book in the 1990s where General Model states that "The British are superb with infantry" and "US armour is brave"... i cannot remember the name of the book though sadly.

Fantastic ! Kudos to the whole team !

Kiitos!

Is this new or just a compilation of previous videos?

@InPriceWeTrust

27 күн бұрын

After watching the entire thing, I can say it’s a mix of both

@techguy6241

27 күн бұрын

@@InPriceWeTrust Ty 🙏

@realtimehistory

27 күн бұрын

the main thing we added here was the chapter about the Holocaust and the conclusion at the end. plus a few smaller things in between like a deeper look at Casablanca, the Western Appraoches Tactical Unit

@tristanmcloughlin3165

27 күн бұрын

I was making a bad joke, sorry haha. It just got posted so I thought I’d respond

@techguy6241

27 күн бұрын

@@realtimehistory The reason i asked was because i already watched your videos separately, except the napoleon ones, should probably get to those soon. Your videos are always worth the wait, i especially enjoy the soldier diaries you throw in.

Your work is up there with Ken Burns & World at War (but MORE detailed.) Thank you Jesse et al👏

I'm really glad y'all made this series! But also... PLEASE may we have a crumb of new Napoleon content?!

@realtimehistory

26 күн бұрын

we would love to make more Napoleon. Unfortunately our 1813 videos where unmitigated disasters in terms of views. And we run a business. But if build up a comfortable position where we can take more risks again, Napoleon is back on the menu.

@andrewsoboeiro6979

22 күн бұрын

@@realtimehistory alright, I have officially subscribed to y'all on Nebula-- I'd been thinking about it for some time, & this pushed me over the top. Here's hoping this will get you a little closer to the financial cushion needed to make more Napoleon content-- & maybe you might consider doing this as a promotion, like "want more Napoleon videos? Subscribe to Nebula!"

you got a new subscriber

Love the work! Y'all are legendary for the historian community!

Thank you.

Great video, I'd love one about the turning point being the Moscow Counter-Offensive. An in-depth look at the shattering of german forces along the front that lost them the war and sent them back reeling.

5:09 "Britain's Italians" lol

@HistoryHaty

26 күн бұрын

Hahaha

@bigwoody4704

26 күн бұрын

lol, Ya know what's funnier Monty couldn't cross the ENGLISH CHANNEL for 4 full years after getting driven into it. Then ran away 3000 miles in to a Desert

@tonyromano6220

23 күн бұрын

@@bigwoody4704really?

@bigwoody4704

23 күн бұрын

Well June 1940 he along with Commanders Brooke & Gort got driven to dunkirk and they escaped the beach on mostly fishing boats and pleasure craft. Then came back across 4 yrs later with the GIs. After stops in the desert/Sicily/Italy

@dtsosie5836

5 күн бұрын

I thought that was a "cute" statement 😂

Outstanding documentary. Thank you for sharing.

The true turning point in Europe was Kursk July-1943. That battle decided whether Eastern Europe would live under National Socialism or Communisim for the next 50 years.

13:43 it's a small thing, but who would have removed the muzzle brake? Was it that technologically significant that it's capture was desired/undesirable, or did Patton want a mighty paperweight?

In Europe, Stalingrad. In the Pacific, Midway.

@eclepticearth

18 күн бұрын

Midway was 1942.

Tooze in Wages of Destruction makes the crucial point that the bombing campaign generally diverted industrial capacity from what they needed to win the war on the ground, comparing for example production of fighters vs tanks. He makes a persuasive case that opportunity cost makes Allied bombing more decisive than the direct cost suggests.

My father was one of the Marines ordered to disperse the bonus army. He was in the Corps from 1927 until 1968. He said it was.the.only order he carried out that he was ashamed of.

Much Thanks to; Alan Turing and those brilliant cryptographers at Bletchley Park for cracking the 'Enigma' code!

What happened to all those German prisoners. What was the cost to handle and detain them? Amazing. Thanks, Thailand Paul

@deeppurple883

20 күн бұрын

Most died. Five thousand survived to go home in 1955,6,. ✌️ ☘️

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

13 күн бұрын

~250,000 Axis troops surrounded by the soviet's "Operation Uranus" at Stalingrad ~90,000 Axis troops survived to surrender at the fall of Stalingrad in Feb 1943. ~5000 Axis troops survived soviet imprisonment to return to Germany in the mid 1950s. But for sheer loss of troop numbers the Axis suffered 330,000 troops lost with their collapse in the North African campaign. The difference being that the vast majority of those troops lived to return to italy and Germany after the war.

@bigwoody4704

5 күн бұрын

more like 250,000 and over half of those were Italian. The Afrika Korps was defeated by ULTRA,RAF & RN cutting off german provisions and American supply/logistics

50:30 Macky Steinhof! The man was a legend, not only with the Luftwaffe but with the US Air Force. His service after the war with the resurrected Luftwaffe made him many friends in the US. Macky lost his eyelids in the fire from the crash of his Me-262. Slept with a mask for years until a German surgeon crafted eyelids for him. Ask me where he got the skin for the graft.

@realtimehistory

23 күн бұрын

oh I know where they graft skin like that

How do you guys make your history animations.

@realtimehistory

27 күн бұрын

Everything is done in After Effects. For the maps specifically we use a plugin called Geolayers which is very powerful but also very complex. 3D animations are done with a plugin called Element 3D, though we are on the verge of upgrading to something more full fledged.

@HistoryHaty

26 күн бұрын

@@realtimehistory It must take lots of work to make one history documentary. Thanks for sacrificing lot of your time and effort to teach us more history. The World shall never forget the the it’s past.

My great grandfather fought in the 12th panzer division hitlerjugend and was captured at Normandy he died in frankfurt germany 4 years ago. I miss when he used to tell me some of his war stories rip grandpa😢

Amazing video. Idk if you’ve done this but could you touch on or make a video about sonderkommandos?

@realtimehistory

8 күн бұрын

it's a tough topic to show because of KZread's advertising guidelines. But we will see if we can

Hannibal will be proud of sicily campaign

I wish you guys did a 3-4 hour doc on just Kursk

Great quality in-depth doco thank you

The Logistics of war are staggering

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

13 күн бұрын

If only we put as much effort into peace !!!!

Not forgotten thie well done ✅

Jesse has forgotten to mention the Battle of Takrouna on the advance to Enfidaville - The 2nd NZ Division had a hard time taking this hilltop citadel and the 28th Maori Battalion eventually captured the hilltop village - British General Brian Horrocks (XIII Corps) called it "The finest feat of arms I witnessed in the entire war!"

That's wild how many more losses the Red Army sustained in Kursk compared to the Axis, yet they still won the battle. To the Germans at the time it must have really felt like the Soviet reserves in manpower and equipment were endless. 🤷

48:02 wait what? "D-Day"? The invasion of Sicily was also called D-Day?

@jessealexander2695

26 күн бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_(military_term)

@chriswarburtonbrown1566

26 күн бұрын

'D-day' and 'H-hour' were simply military terms for 'start time' in a big operation.

1943 was when things fell apart but one can hardly call it a turning point...that happened earlier.

Not that all war isn’t brutal However fighting in the desert as an infantry man . Oppressive heat trying to run in sand and dust. Brutal.

I have never heard anyone describe 1943 as a forgotten year.

@carpediem7654

26 күн бұрын

That's what the Germans called it

@yasserbencheikh2626

23 күн бұрын

I guess forgotten because of the disasters of 1944-45 and the successes of earlier years even though 1943 is the year of Stalingrad and Kursk…

It once over once they lost at Stalingrad. Even if they did everything perfectly after this including winning at Kursk which was possible and even if Rommel also had a successful attacking encircling the Americans. It would not matter the Soviets could replace the men and equipment while it would delay the war on eastern front by maybe a year. Even if Rommel had defeated the Americans the British were still coming from Egypt and the Americans could replace the men and equipment. It just delays the inevitable Germany needed the resources of the Soviets once it failed to get the oil it was going to end in defeat. Even if Germany continues to pull amazing victories it would just end in Berlin being nuked and the Allies and Soviets overwhelming the Axis with men and bombing German industry. The Allies were committed they were not going to make a peace with Germany.

only other time it turned in their favor was Sep 44

3:25 For the Italians, that's probably a fate worse than death: British food breaks the Geneva convention!

Thought Midway was the turning point and Omaha beach was the only engagement in Europe.

"Never have so many been buggered about by so few".

@OneofInfinity.

13 күн бұрын

That claim hasn't aged well this last 5 years.

Donald Tump's uncle as a civilian worked in Britain on advanced Radar technology and recieved the highst awards a civilian could recieve from the British.

The fight between the bomber mafia and fighter advocates like Claire Chennault saw a ban on drop tanks. Companies built them to be able to fly across the US & for export. The P-47 by summer of 43 had British drop tanks made of papier-mâché tanks. Also by the time of the second ball barring raid proper there were tanks with just enough range to get close. A second wave of P-47’s could have held off the Germans. The P-51 was a better plane in many ways but the P-47 was a more rugged and had more firepower. The P-51 was used as an excuse to why the bombers didn’t get through as they built their jobs on.

Any chance you could make a video on commando actions during the war from beginning with the raids on the occupied Norwegian wale oil industry to the end? Probably even cover both sides, like the Brandenburgers and the German use of special SS para units against the Yugoslavian partisans.

@realtimehistory

26 күн бұрын

problem with these units is that they were rarely if ever accompanied by photographers or camera men. so we could tell you what they did, but not show you.

@HistoryGameV

21 күн бұрын

@@realtimehistory Kinda obvious yeah.

Fall Blau and it’s failure was the turning point. Not after the Germans had already lost the initiative, obviously.

cool

1:01:03 "the british 3rd division..." I think that's meant to be "U.S." not "British".

My grandfather died Stalingrad 1943 Don river

Small calender point, action in North Africa, Moscow, Stalingrad, Coral sea, Midway, Papua NG, and the Solomons largely set the stage for inevitable AXIS downfall during late 1942. 1943 seems more like the Act 1 curtains dropping, and intermission, before Act 2 (1944) began.

Some German African-corps units were dispatched to the southern Russia during summer of the '42. in awake of the battle for Stalingrad. Those nazy units even reached near Grozny

⭐️ A lot of information 👍 Unfortunately it is given in a very big hurry. 🤦‍♂️ 🙄

I believe that the turning point was the battle of Moscow, November - December 1941, the beginning of the beginning of the end.

Rommel was not calling America and Britain’s Italians by the time General Patton was there even if he was bringing in green troops! They may have been green out of boot camp, but they were certainly ready for a fight, and they gave it to them. After that, Rommel totally respected them.

I like this but it is a things that go bang turning point world view. While military success is important in determining a turning point its not where the turn happened. Take Russia and the battle for Stalingrad its the development of weapons systems ,factories, training of troops and myriad other things that enabled the successful battle of stalingrad that was the turning point. The battle was the cumulation of those things. Not enough attention is paid to logistics and the business of getting ready for war. Its a things that go bang world view. I still really like it but the pointy end of the spear is the cumulation not the cause.

@realtimehistory

26 күн бұрын

when we talk about 1942, we will spend a bit more time with how the different allies "built the spear"

@markwilliamson5796

25 күн бұрын

@@realtimehistory I look forward to that

Excellent content!

1941 August hitler turning the tanks to the south and taking his foot off the Moscow push was the end

The reason Axiss uboat losses were so great, is because of Allied Sonar comming into sevice ! That is why Allied convoys were able to get across the Atlantic. ! Mike.

That Encyclopedia Britannica always with the blue misinformation box !

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The turning point was on the approach to Moscow, and the subsequent Russian counteroffensive; and it was costly and poorly managed but the general staff knew then that they had overreached 😅

Funny that you don't mention the Bletchley Park Enigma effort, which did more to change the war than any other advancement in "technology". Perhaps it may be due to your inherent American bias, which is evident, although quite subtly, throughout this video.

Hello

This is awesome. Second best after Napoleon invasion of Russia.