I fall asleep to one of these each night!

@warrendomask1565

3 жыл бұрын

exactly.

@HUMPTYNUGGET

3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic arent they

@bricebeaulac

3 жыл бұрын

Ah man there’s a group of us!

@JesusGonzalez-dv8dh

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@pjtdecor

2 жыл бұрын

The best way to end the day if you have Tinnitus like myself!

Me Too! I’m a WW2 Buff. So thankful we have the documentary films and especially the Battlefield Series! (My Favorite) My father was in the US Navy September 1943-September 1945. He was in SBDs, got injured in a training exercise and went over to PBYs for Atlantic Coastal Patrol and Rescue. He was a Radioman & Gunner.

@MarkHarrison733

5 ай бұрын

One of Stalin's useful idiots.

Your not alone when it comes too falling asleep too one of these each night lol......literally turn it on just for that purpose. Honestly don’t think I’ve finished a whole episode yet in two years lol .....love it

@davidwallace3871

2 жыл бұрын

im the same as well

@sydhendrix4853

2 жыл бұрын

Why is listening to a british dude talk about ww2 the most relaxing thing ever

@ryankohl2913

2 жыл бұрын

Same for me

@TheCurlsCrazy

2 жыл бұрын

same

@bishop6218

2 жыл бұрын

About to do the same myszzzzzzz 😴

These history episodes are the best. I was born in 68. Absolutely they are the best. Absolutely & perfectly on point. These are great to watch.

All of these wwll documentaries heavily remind me of my Grandad and my GreatGrandad , they were both full-time professional Army officers in the Greek Royal Army. Miss you guys❗

@MrAchilles43

2 жыл бұрын

May their Memory be Eternal

@mrlodwick

2 жыл бұрын

They gave us the first victory against the axis - never forget! Love on them bro!

@griffinfashion3180

2 жыл бұрын

Their memory is eternal to us, but why don't you react when the speaking person says that we got help from British troops during the invasion of Italians which we repelled and conquered territory in Albania and after that during the German invasion. Let the world know that we fought alone till the Rupel fort was forced to surrender. There were no British troops here, they were busy preparing their defence.

@pimpompoom93726

2 жыл бұрын

@@griffinfashion3180 The Brits assisted when the Germans invaded, Greece was stood alone against Italy. My relatives fought the Italians, Albanians and then the Germans and Bulgarians.

@HueyPPLong

2 жыл бұрын

@@griffinfashion3180 Oh yeah the mighty Hellenic Air Force stood alone, all 45 fighter planes and 24 bombers… Cmon lol the Britain Air Force was there from the beginning as well.

Thank you for uploading these. I remember the series from Discovery Channel here in Europe. I've always taken TV documentaries about WW2 with a grain of salt as they usually stereo-typically just scratch the surface and can be quite Anglo-Saxon centric whilst my main interest comprises deep international and national socioeconomic, political and diplomatic factual history between 1800 and 1945; profound social-economic and political changes occurring and that of societal structures and core movements, how, and moreover... exact causalities. Matters are elusive, however, this one about the Campaign in the Balkans and the parts leading up to WW2 is well done and goes a bit deeper into cross-border politics.

@johndonovan5235

11 ай бұрын

God, listen to you, Einstein. Please tell us how mentally supreme u think u are.

Remember not so long ago when we didn’t have to listen to things to fall asleep? It’s been like this for at least a decade for me, but I’ve been around for 3 plus and I’m quite sure most of my life hasn’t been like this.

My grandfather used to tell me stories of the roaring engine of German bombers headin to Belgrade. He never forgot that sound untill he passed away in 2005. He told me how he will always remember a german SS officer riding a horse standing near a bridge over the Sava river, overseeing Croatian forces entering my town on the northern Croat-Bosnian border. He was 12 years old back than.

@SimbaLabrador

5 жыл бұрын

Iz kojeg si grada? Wich town are you from?

@darkostanisavljevic1105

4 жыл бұрын

@@SimbaLabrador beograd, konju, ako ti kaze da su ustase ulazile i da je most na savi, nije Nis sigurno

@colinandrew89

4 жыл бұрын

Archangel1991 thank you for sharing you’re story

@lukapaic7560

4 жыл бұрын

Darko Stanisavljević ti si glup sinko ili ne znas citati

@samomarincek478

4 жыл бұрын

@@darkostanisavljevic1105 ovo se ti zove kultura.

Thanks for all these uploads! Love great docs like this. Don’t make em this well anymore.

@jondeare

Жыл бұрын

Go to "10,000 Day War - Vietnam".

@nicholascollora6709

Жыл бұрын

Open the archives

@pozloadescobar

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree. All the new docs seem to assume the viewers have a 5 second attention span. They have cheesy "suspenseful" melodramatic narration, unnecessary CGI, bad colorization, and above all less information and research. "Quantity over quality" seems to be the media mantra of our age

A great late friend of my was a B-24 pilot who made it through all the Ploesti raids without a scratch. His plane was hit by flak numerous times, but he and his crew returned safely. Col. Larry Weimer, USAAC, RIP.

@yiannimil1

4 жыл бұрын

do you know from what airbases he flew from??

@Venezolano410

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry to read that your friend survived.

@rudolphguarnacci197

2 жыл бұрын

@@Venezolano410 Why?

@GermLoc

9 ай бұрын

@@rudolphguarnacci197 there might be translation errors as to why it seems if written by someone fluent it would be regarded as disrespectful but It might be due to it not being the natural tongue spoken by Venezolano410.

Battlefield series is best so far. Nicely done narrated an explained in details.Congratulation. I LOVE IT.

Very well done Documentary, excellent narration and history to relate how the Balkans, Hitler's southern flank, was secured by his army invading Greece and Yugoslavia and then he turned towards Russia who in the end defeated the German Armies.

what an awesome, incredible work of information and ART you have put together. Thank you from me and everyone who wants to advance their limited knowledge of this timeline of history.

@fpscanada3862

4 жыл бұрын

lol. show aired in the very early 2000s iirc

This is by far my favorite WW2 doc series (other than “World at war “ which is apparently impossible to watch online ) . It does such a wonderful job ! I’d love to see this done with updated graphics and a lil more in-depth battlefield tactical analysis!

@vincentlefebvre9255

2 жыл бұрын

You are absolutely right about those series.

@olathebrian

Жыл бұрын

I believe World at War can be viewed online at Internet Archive.

@user-xh5wj4tw8k

Жыл бұрын

you can find World at War on daily motion

@HareK0nnen

6 ай бұрын

ppl are so gamer brained they demand updated graphics for films as well

@Gweb52

6 ай бұрын

@@HareK0nnen ugh . I just want updated graphics to show new information and better/clearer layout of battlefield tactics as it relates to terrain, weather, man power etc . One of the goals of these series should be to get across the massive scale . But sure , it’s this damn gaming generation. The same generation that posts these documentaries on your handheld super computer

I think of all the time and effort it takes to make a documentary like this and I greatly appreciate it these are so informative and to the facts they are complete joy to watch excellent excellent work

@RogueSabre

Жыл бұрын

I've obtained more knowledge from these documentaries than a dozen good well written books on ww2

Thanks so much for these it very helpful to those of us who are damaged. It very well put together, thank you.

My grandfather was in WW2 in the Pacific . Thought he told me one day " they could have made 10 times the fight bombers , saving life's and having the same affect " On his last tour he was sent Guam and worked on the Enola Gay .

@smokymcpot5917

2 жыл бұрын

I thank your grandfather for his service. The greatest generation ever.

This is a segment of World War Two which is often overlooked.

@steaustin8789

2 жыл бұрын

🚫🔴🔨🌙🔴🚫

Great documentary..,to fall asleep to

The best WW2 documentary's out there in my opinion .

A few gems revealed in this most interesting documentary. Most interesting for me was the following: 1) The bombing of the Tiger production facility reduced the number of Tigers being produced from 100/month . . . which suggests that Tiger was meant to be a main item of issue, rather than a limited production specialist vehicle.

@eminmammadov8863

2 жыл бұрын

Not enough fuel for that

@USER351

2 жыл бұрын

One has to take these statements with a grain of salt. They do not tell the whole story.

Red Army might not have been able to render much of an assist to Yugoslavia in 1941 - the Red Army was still trying to recover from the Stalin Purges. Their performance in the Winter War with Finland was a real eye opener.

@ostapbendervan7874

4 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I forgot how long Stalin was in power HOLY CHRIST HE SURELY ADMIRE BY AFRICAN.LEADERS

@CarstenOepping

2 жыл бұрын

bullshit. if that would be true Germany could never have beaten France. it was not the purges but general unpreparedness on many different levels. there are so many one cant list all of them. but from the start Germany never had a chance to win the war against the soviets. the main reason: to few man. the birthrate from 1914 to 1924 and even to 32 was very low. and many childs die from malnutrition and diseases. very few german woman could afford even one child more. second main reason: infrastructure in Russia and the vast distances.

@gleeart

2 жыл бұрын

@@CarstenOepping Also Hitler ignored his logistics experts telling him not to invade Russia with a force pulled by horses..bit like invading USA with rowing boats.

@gueigudze1759

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder, if the Winter war won by the USSR for 3 months (1-month failure, 1-month preparing, 1-month for winning) is showing how bad Red Army is, what is 2 weeks campaign in France telling us about the French and the British armies?

@ogana_M

2 жыл бұрын

@@gleeart .The biggest problem was when Mussolini decided to invade Greece and Hitler had to send in German troops to help Italy.This diversion of troops delayed his timetable to invade the USSR and by the time German troops invaded, they had lost more than a month.This would later prove to be disastrous during the battle for Moscow as the harsh soviet winter set in for which German troops had not prepared.

Thanks for posting this AND thanks for leaving the "comments" section open! Too many cowards post interesting docs and stifle the discussion.. This is informative and interesting. Some of my family were in the Balkans for one reason or another and experienced the Hitlerite terror personally.

Just an amazing documentary.I,ve watched a ton of them on WWll.None were as informative as this.

@marybrown3925

2 жыл бұрын

🙏🎉

@allandavis8201

2 жыл бұрын

You could try the 1970s series “The World At War” it is a United Kingdom 🇬🇧 production narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier, I used to sit and watch it with my dad on a Sunday (I think) evening, I was surprised it never put me off joining the RAF in 1979, I wonder if dad wanted me to see how war really was, no Hollywood glitz and glamour, if so he didn’t put me off, I stayed in the RAF for 24 years, demobbed in 2003, and I would do it all again at the drop of a hat. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@beebers99

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Very informative without all the editorial shoved down our throats.

Guderian's inspiration @1:43 was not Liddle Hart or Fuller but red army strategists like Tukachevsky who pioneered the concept and application of deep armored operational penetration

@bishop6218

2 жыл бұрын

And De Gaulle too, it seems.

Damn! This was a great documentary 2 decades of deep diving the rabbit hole of ww2 and not much excites me but this was really good. 🙏

@janvandeven906

Жыл бұрын

try the vietnam docu next just as good

This and then the Burma campaign need a lot more in-depth coverage like this!!

80% of this episode doesn't deal with the Balkans in any way.

@mrlongpork3955

8 жыл бұрын

+dIRECT0R I was thinking the exact same thing! WoW

@carlmiran3232

8 жыл бұрын

+Mr Longpork Oh kid i think you do not know what are the Balkans countries

@mrlongpork3955

8 жыл бұрын

Carl Miran Are you kidding?

@dIRECTOR259

8 жыл бұрын

+Mr Longpork I think he's kidding...

@friday3810

8 жыл бұрын

+dIRECT0R Grece, Yugoslavia (Slovenia, serbia, croatia, bosnia herzegovina, montenegro), Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, so basicaly they stayed within the balkans for most of the time, the rest was relevant for what was going on there. So wheres the proplem?

The terms "Russian" and "Soviet" should not be conflated, as they generally are here.

Thank you for this excellent documentary. It is a brilliant piece of work for teaching and learning about the most heartwrenching war in history.

@giannisreal8775

2 жыл бұрын

Its wrong and lie. Never help uk to Greece when attack us italy.. NEVER. Only after.. when attack us germany..

We fought the wrong enemy, as Patton confirmed.

Excellent presentation. Thankyou for your work. Lots of new footage there for me.

@cpmenninga

4 жыл бұрын

It reminded me that most ww2 footage is propaganda. It’s still interesting, but weird.

You're right on both points, but my contention is that Hitler sealed his fate over England, where he lost half of his air force and best pilots. It was just a matter of time before Russia would defeat him regardless of what he did. You can build new planes to replace those lost, but replacing experienced pilots requires a lot more time. Then he split his forces 3 ways, wasting time on Moscow and Leningrad, instead of using all of his forces to take the oil fields.

As a strategic zone South of Carpathian range and west of Dniester river was considered Balkans in that time. Because all alliances of Romania(Slovakia Yugoslavia etc) was against Hungary expansionist wave.And Hungary was a allied of Bulgaria. So all that area was a preaty muck the same with the same problems . It's not a geografic issue ,because my country Romania is north of Danube so not in Balkans to, so it's more a strategic view of the problem.

@KermitFrazierdotcom

4 жыл бұрын

Vasile Iuga ☆ Thank You for posting these hard to find classic documentaries! Ignore the Haters, they want to start up "for profit" channels using your material. Thank You Very Much!

Man, if this was season 6, Battlefield really went to hell. It was really interesting in it's first season, with a focused approach to explaining a campaign, this was all over the map with no focus. Certainly not a focus on the Balkan campaign.

@pimpompoom93726

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree, this documentary is typical British-bias bulltwaddle. Unbalanced and focused mainly on UK forces and the Soviets.

@soloar2007

2 жыл бұрын

thank you. I thought after 40 minutes it must be mislabeled. Where is the German campaign....in the balkans????

I wish this same production had followed dates and time-lines rather than grouping subjects. Each time they change subject, the dates start all over again. That makes the entire campaign confusing. One moment it's 1944 and the next it's 1942 again. I know this is just a personal opinion > Overall I love these old history lessons.

One of the best WWII documentaries I’ve ever seen. I love this stuff !!!!

when German troops entered Greece, 99% of Greek army was in Albanian front against italians. All great (english, american, russian, german)generals admit that greek resistance had consiquence to suffer Nazis the awful and fatal russian winter.

@pimpompoom93726

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. British war documentaries give short-shrift to everyone except for UK forces and-curiously-the Soviets.

Thank You Mr. Luga...love this series!

And I thought I was the only person to fall asleep each night while listening to one of these documentaries.

You are partly correct but that is not the full story,Hitler's biggest mistake was to declare war on the USA. He had a pact with Japan to come to her assistance if she was attacked as Japan was the aggressor Hitler did not need to declare war on the USA. If he had not declared war on the USA then the USA would have concentrated on defeating Japan first and not Germany. His big blunder also was invading Russia in June instead of May,those extra 4 weeks he would have been in Moscow before winter.

@vatafakman

2 жыл бұрын

He would maybe,and then he d had Moscow and Stalingrad...and would blow his brain 44 instead od 45.Many lives would be saved

Battlefield is usually spot on with historical facts. They botched it here at 1:45. The Hitler-Stalin Pact was concluded on August 23, 1939 just days before he invaded Poland. In fact, if Stalin had refused him and signed the pact that the Brits were negotiating, WWII may have played out MUCH differently

I remember this being aired on Discovery Channel or National Geographic at night, with no commercials in between.

@robertmaguire1067

7 ай бұрын

That's luxury TV viewing right their ❤

UNKNOWN HEROS OF THE BALKANS

This series is next level in regards to the detail covered. Never seen a documentary with so much information. Absolutely awesome

@brandonmcgrew4367

6 ай бұрын

Oh my gosh this is so true. Ww2 documentaries these days are 35-40 minute garbage with generic info with terrible reinactments. This is nearly 2 hours with fully explained timelines and the people involved in chapters. This is where it’s at.

@landonlacy1954

6 ай бұрын

@@brandonmcgrew4367 exactly. So many people learn about WW2 mainly from documentaries and the poor quality of most WW2 documentaries is a big reason why there are so many misconceptions about the war. WW2 had so many different factors to it that shaped the war and we are failing to ensure future generations understand the history and the mistakes that led to the most destructive war in history and mistakes that we simply cannot afford to repeat. I mean it's actually hard to see some people talk about WW2 when every word that comes out of their mouths. Only serves to make it even more obvious that they have no idea what they are talking about. It's sad to see and it's even sadder to realize that this failure is completely of our own making.

Not enough about Greece and the Balcans generaly. I will say around 30 minutes out of 1 hour and 43 minutes. How can you call that documentary Campaign in the Balcans. It is mostly of russia vs germany.

@heinzgud8464

10 жыл бұрын

yeah this is pretty stupid

@dimostychalas9716

6 жыл бұрын

They dont care. They say that the british arrived to greece in weeks, rather than months, almost a year.

good job on the DL mate!!! best Doc series Ever.

My grandma was born on 6 April She’s still alive today and she has some amazing stories that I could listen for days

@ogana_M

2 жыл бұрын

You forgot to include the year.

Where is Balkan in this program. Waste of one hour constant pushing of forward button. Even guderian would be jealous of my forward progress

@Kleermaker1000

5 жыл бұрын

In the end Guderian had to retreat very fast.

@anthonyamato2171

5 жыл бұрын

Where is the forward button?

@teamstr259

5 жыл бұрын

Tap,Tap,Tap,Tap,Tap the screen!

@stephenarling1667

4 жыл бұрын

All Germany's allies were balkin' an' squabblin' 'stead o' fightin'.

@rakutzimbel4539

4 жыл бұрын

I guess by pushing "forward" you missed Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Ain't that Balkan enough for your taste?

Kursk was total folly since the Germans knew the Reds had heavily fortified the salient. It totally went against their previous policy of surprise and speed in attacks

@KermitFrazierdotcom

4 жыл бұрын

DawnOfTheDead991 ☆ Hitler was by that time brain damaged from Medical Mercury & the Stauffenburg Bomb. Not that he ever had a Clue anyway...

@DawnOfTheDead991

4 жыл бұрын

@@KermitFrazierdotcom The Germans still needed the Baku oil, which was the other direction.

@jasonedwards2426

2 жыл бұрын

And a full blown iv drug abuser for multiple years multiple times daily his brain was gone years prior to this

@DawnOfTheDead991

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonedwards2426 Hitler was bombed well over a year AFTER Kursk in August 44

@jasonedwards2426

2 жыл бұрын

@@DawnOfTheDead991 Hitler shooting up morning noon and night way before 44

Mr Felton your simply the best 😎👍

A great series of documentaries! Extremely well done by great professionals. A big thank you for your effort and talent from Romania! 🇹🇩

One thing that fueled the Red Army was resolve - after seeing Russia ravaged by the Germans, the Red Army was eager to give the Fatherland a big helping of the same treatment.

The Union Jack is missing its central white markings.

Wow great content on your channel! Thanks! Keep it going!

Excellent footage. Good job all the way around.

Thank you very much for the upload!

Who's the bright spark who overdubbed a prop engine's sound onto the ME-262 taking off?

@yiannimil1

4 жыл бұрын

lol

@kv6256

4 жыл бұрын

Thats a sperg level comment

@acooper8910

4 жыл бұрын

@@kv6256 Maybe lockdown's bringing out my inner aspie.

@kibbyken5975

2 жыл бұрын

The movie "Airplane" sound technicians?

excellent,thnx for the upload brother,a rare glimpse into the lives of heros whos stories would otherwise of been lost to the sand of times,respect sir

I was hoping to find a documentary from this series to learn a bit more about what was going on the territory of my country, you delivered. Great!

Very informative. One tends to think of it as a war between good and evil, but in the Balkans that is simply untenable. It sounds more like a series of wars between different kinds of evil.

0:35 - Red Army was in a position to aid the Polish Home Army, but failed. The last thing Joe Steel wanted to deal with was a motivated, patriotic resistance that would likely turn on him when Germans went home.

@KermitFrazierdotcom

4 жыл бұрын

Ernest Spencer ☆ Stalin wasnt Paranoid. He was a Bank Robber with Sharp Instincts. The Perfect Soviet Supreme Commander!

The ME262 was a wicked airplane. But what the Allies didn't realize was that the engine design basically ate itself, needing to be replaced, not maintained, after a few minutes. There was no way the luftwaffe could have made a difference with these.

Great information on Eastern front. Very good.

At 48:40 - What follows is preposterous wrong: Bessarabia and Bukovina were NOT given to Romania "as part of the German-Russian pact of 1939". Exactly the opposite, in the "German-Russian pact of 1939", Soviet Union wanted Bessarabia and Bukovina while negotiating with Germany, and Germany had nothing against it (over the head of Romania, of course). Bessarabia and Bukovina belonged to modern Romania starting with 1918, and before that belonged from 1300's to 1812 to the Kingdom of Moldavia, that joined the Kingdom of Wallachia in 1859 to form Romania.

As I age, approach a time of observance, not participation in society, I feel what so many in Europe must have. 40 years under communism, a lifetime gone, to emerge into freedom but it's not their country anymore!

@olibranchoharadedog5886

4 жыл бұрын

Whose country is whose country anymore ? Poland is independent with barely any immigration. The Balkan states went from relative stability under Tito to a suicidal nationalist conflict, but they're now self-governing. Czech is a Republic, as is Slovakia. Hungary again has little immigration, and is run by a fascist, but that's their stupid choice. The Ukraine is independent, but in a covert war with an autocratic Russian despot. Still, pretty much their own countries if not all a little tyrannical.

@olibranchoharadedog5886

4 жыл бұрын

@Skodaman2 - the UK has had successive waves of conquest and mass migration since Neolithic times. The Beaker people effectively killed off the indigenous population. Culturally, recent immigrants to Europe have far more in common with their host countries than say for example the Romans and the Iceni. Overrun ? Invaded? Again people coming to the UK to work in the NHS or fruit picking are hardly unwelcome. Compare that to the merciless slaughter of the Anglo-Saxon hierarchy, the subjugation of its native people, customs and language, and the devastation of huge areas of Britain after the Norman Conquest of 1066. Yet this remains a defining characteristic of the nation. No doubt you're going to argue that massacres carried out by fellow Europeans are preferable to Indians opening cornershops. As seems to be the opinion of most of Odin's Muscle Marys throughout this thread. Next it'll be how Londoners really loved the Blitz because being bombed by Aryan supermen certainly beats eating a kebab. Fill your boots

@olibranchoharadedog5886

4 жыл бұрын

@Skodaman2 - I should also point out my original reply dealt with countries emerging from Communism in response to the first post .... As far as I can recall that would be the countries I listed, unless the UK's conversion to communism has passed everyone by.

Not mentioned in this documentary, during the attacks against the city of Ploești, the Royal Romanian Air Force took part in defense, alongside Luftwaffe. The Romanian pilots around Ploești used mainly Me-109's - some bought from Germany, others made in Romania under license. They also used the Romanian designed IAR-80. These pilots had shares in everything meaning war: successes, losses, deaths.

@UberGlenn66

5 жыл бұрын

Before switching sides and turning those weapons against the Germans...

@FlorinSutu

5 жыл бұрын

On August 23, 1944, in the speech broadcasted at radio, King Michael (of Romania), declared that Romania cannot continue its fight against Soviet Union and the Western Allies, but he did NOT ask the Romanian Army to fight against the Axis. His words at radio were that he hopes that the German Army will leave the Romanian territory with the order and discipline it was famous for. Many Romanian civilians really believed, for few hours, that "there is peace now", but the Romanian military personnel had no illusion about that, so the first reaction was to be alert and watch the neighboring Axis units. It was a big confusion for both sides for a short time. The first attacks came from a Hungarian unit, in Transylvania, about 2 hours after king Michael's radio speech. In the night between August 23 and August 24, the center (downtown) of Bucharest was bombed by Luftwaffe. Among victims: the royal palace, the national theater building etc. etc. etc. In the morning of August 24, a big German punch was tried and started from Ploiesti area toward the capital Bucharest. There are only 60 km / 40 miles between the 2 cities. That attack was stopped by the Romanian forces. Following the Luftwaffe's bombing during night, about 9000 Romanian soldiers present in and around Bucharest attacked and annihilated the 4000 German soldiers present in the same area, and that took 3 days. In only 24 hours from the king's radio speech, following confusion and hesitations, two close allies were now enemies in full rage of war, across hundreds and hundreds of miles of Romanian territory. * * * "switching sides" . . . * * * Finland did the same. Hungary tried do the same, but it failed. Bulgaria's government made a public statement that it cannot continue alongside the Axis about 5 days before that radio speech of the king of Romania. I think all this grudge about Romania's "betrayal" is because it did not allow to be disarmed and occupied like Italy and Hungary (the latter in March 1944). Good to remember, while Italy sued for peace from the first day of the Allied landing in the peninsula, the Romanian Army kept fighting and vigorously defended national territory for 5 months, after the Red Army reached the border of Romania in March 1944.

I have so much love and respect for these men, no matter what campaign they fought in. This includes all servicemen no matter what year they fought in.

It was really the only time the far right and far left and everyone in between unified against a common enemy. Although the Italian high command had sent back a lot of the troops for the harvest Greece was still facing incredible odds. Greece and Finland were the two cases where no one expected victory. Yet they defeated two powers with a basic localized army.

@benrtomahawk

2 жыл бұрын

Socialism and communism are both far left.

@scorpiocanuck6321

2 жыл бұрын

@@benrtomahawk So European Socialists are far Left? How? Example France, Labour in England and Socialists in Germany.

Took me 3 days to watch this..it was very interesting

@pod9538

4 жыл бұрын

Delilah Rose well done Delilah there's a lot more out there.

Fascinating and horrifying simultaneously.

If eny of you here know where i can get the soundtrack for this series - a link or direction would be much appreciated.

There is certainly little focus in the Balkans. A lot of geographical and thematic jumping.

@KermitFrazierdotcom

4 жыл бұрын

Martin Bitter ☆ You're just unsettled cuz Hitler KHS and you never got to Shake his Hand.

France, which is the biggest country in Europe and one of the most populated, was occupied by the Nazis in just 3,5 weeks while Greece, a way smaller country, resisted for far more, fighting with Italians and Germans simultaneously.

@waragainstgreed

2 жыл бұрын

the geography is apples to oranges.

Vasile: these uploads are really good; I just watched Leningrad and learned many things I did not know; know I shall learn more. It is amusing to see comments some people write...:)

What an excellent documentary.

Where is the documentary about Greece?

@carpetfarmer

4 жыл бұрын

Make one

@wmelliott3802

4 жыл бұрын

@@carpetfarmer 😂

imagine being a citizen in europe at this time, where one side wanted to shoot you down where you slept and the other eventually put you in a camp to work to death, a lot of the time it was both. That's if you didn't die violently caught in ferocious combat. I mean, what can you do but accept a horrible fate?

@richardbono5540

4 жыл бұрын

Some family friends from Greece told of Germans packing civilians on a railroad car ahead of the locomotive to prevent sabotage. I also met some ethnic Germans from Yugoslavia who had to get out after Tito came to power. Another family friend, a German woman told of the largest "ethnic cleansing" of Germans from occupied territories after the war Who said "War is Hell"?

@mariettad12

4 жыл бұрын

Yup...what my family went through!!!

@mattcullen6109

4 жыл бұрын

@@mariettad12 so sorry it happened that way mate. I hope your family is doing better these days

@jamesredmond6699

4 жыл бұрын

I'm horrified just thinking about it.my ansestors lived though that shit . my people were slaves for 2000, year's dam!! that is so wrong so appreciate the opportunity you have to day all of you and your family have a wonderful day and I am still waiting for my freedom to day keep going Jimmy Door free us from tearrony

Funny thing I'm an African OEF-Afganistan veteran and this video helps fall asleep.

I found it funny that while showing a ME 262 both as it taxied for take off and in flight had the sound of a piston-engined airplane. Apparently, the sound editor was clueless about the subject matter.

Most of this documentary has nothing to do with the Balkans

@williamconnor8944

7 жыл бұрын

You oral farters arrn't old enough to know the truth, I REMEMBER IT.

@dragosstanciu9866

6 жыл бұрын

William Connor Are you all right?

@mikereger1186

6 жыл бұрын

Context is everything, in this case.

@acanoftuna1284

6 жыл бұрын

oral farters best insult ever coined by a human being

@bbbabrock

6 жыл бұрын

I came to comment section to say just that only to see you beat me to it. Like all that about "Hitler's wonder weapons". What does t V1 and V2 have to do w t Balkans? What does t fighting in Poland have to do w Balkans? How does Manstien being sacked and Leningrad being relieved relate? I was looking forward to seeing about Tito fighting Germans. But this had rather little of any of that.

Smallest book ever written..."Italian heroes of WW II".

@zheartsbanton4130

4 жыл бұрын

Lmaooooo

@ianwilkinson4602

2 жыл бұрын

Not true at all historically. Mussolini's ambitions were not shared by the rank and file of Italian troops, they had no appetite for war and were bullied into action, surrendering enmass as soon as was prudent to do so.

Thank you. Very well compiled, and Historically significant.

@robbiemify

5 жыл бұрын

and grossly inaccurate !!!!

They critically influenced the attack on Russia. Yugoslavia, Greece! Blowing the time table for the attack. Really assisted in the defeat of his forces in Russia by December 41. Thank God!

Commentary is wrong. Hitler and stalin signed their -- quote "infamous" -- pact before they both invaded Poland, not afterwards.

@rgrams6070

5 жыл бұрын

Good catch!

@johngregwar2830

5 жыл бұрын

Wrong Actually the pact was signed on 8/23/39 Nazi invaded in 9/1/39

@JEELEN2

5 жыл бұрын

@@johngregwar2830 So that would be before, not after. What's the point of your comment?

@johnferrandino4666

5 жыл бұрын

I noticed that also

@jadroves

4 жыл бұрын

@@johngregwar2830 The Pact was terminated on 22 June 1941, when the Wehrmacht launched Operation Barbarossa and invaded the Soviet Union.

The US bombing missions over the Ploesti oil fields in Rumania described in the first section of this video led to the biggest rescue of allied airmen (432 US and 80 other) in history . This was done by the Royal Yugoslav Army in the Homeland led by General Dragoljub Mihailovic . Google Halyard Mission. Mihailovic was awarded the Legion of Merit by President Roosevelt for this operation.

@simapark

2 жыл бұрын

@J J Your father was a Croat Nazi or a Serbian Communist and you are ashamed of this . The only Army in the whole of occupied Europe that fought against both Hitler and Stalin at the same time was the Royal Yugoslav Army in the Homeland . Everyone else allied themselves with one of these two monsters including the USA and the UK . At the end of the war General Mihailovic who rescued over 500 allied airmen which was recognised by President Truman could easily have left Yugodlavia but he chose to stay with his people unlike the cowardly Nazi Ante Pavelic who sneaked off to South America with his tail between his legs . It shows how ill informed you are because everyone knows General Mihailovic was shot ( not hanged) after his show trail by the Communist mass murderer Tito .

@simapark

2 жыл бұрын

@J J You have not only had your brain scrambled by Tito propaganda but you have now gone off on a drunken diatribe all of it inaccurate for example he was discovered in Bosnia not in Serbia and of course he could have left for safety as he obviously could have got on one of the planes he used to save all those allied airmen. All it would have taken was the Allies to invade through Greece rather than Italy and Tito would have had no chance but the Red Army arrived first so established that murderous dictator in power. Do you expect readers to think you know better than the President of the United States with all the intelligence apparatus at his disposal ? I will actually quote President Truman next ' General Mihailovic distinguished himself in an outstanding manner as Commander in Chief of the Yugoslavian army forces and later as Minister of War by organising and leading important resistance forces against the enemy which occupied Yugoslavia from December 1941 to December 1944. Through the undaunted effort of his troops, many United States airmen were rescued and returned safely to friendly control. General Mihailovich and his forces, although lacking adequate supplies, and fighting under extreme hardship, contributed materially to the allied cause, and were instrumental in obtaining a final allied victory. Harry S Truman March 29th 1948' I will leave it at that and hope that one day you will do more research before just repeating what you were told in your communist run school .

@simapark

2 жыл бұрын

@J J You are getting very desperate now as you are not only mixing up events in WW1 with events in WW2 but you are also revealing your character by making clearly racist statements such as 'Like each Serb he was killing civilians ' Do you realise you have said each (you obviously mean every but your English language skills are poor ) Serb was killing civilians so in your eyes there is not even one good Serb or one innocent Serb . You are obviously a racist and fanatic who can see no good in a whole nation . I'm sure you are not a brainwashed communist but a brainwashed Nazi lover who most likely would deny the Croatian Ustase Genocide of the Serb population that occurred in 1941 and which even shocked the occupying German and Italian troops in its brutality . I won't continue interacting with you as I don't talk to uneducated and brainwashed racists as it would be like talking to a piece of wood.

Solid sleeping material.

I used to watch this series years ago on the Military Channel I lived every episode.

This episode missed to mention ninety five percent of what happened in the Balkans during WW II

Fatal delay is a myth. Germany never had an adequate petroleum supply. They invaded with 2/3 of U-boats tied up at docks for lack of fuel.

Thank you very much for this beautiful documentary, useful information and very well narrated by Jonathan Booth.

In 1942 the Americans were flying jet fighter in complete form not in service but designed by Kelly Johnson.

Not enough about Greece and the Balcans. They should have focused on them and the minor axis powers only. Speaking of which. I really feel bad for Hungary and its citizens fate. Such a civilised country in central Europe falling to communism after WW2 after having lost so much of their land after WW1.

@MMircea

10 жыл бұрын

Just because YOU feel bad for Hungary's fate it doesn't mean that the country deserved a better fate due to a series of reasons: 1. Its main historical tactic to survive the existing surrounding nations was to assimilate and dissolve any element of foreign nationality within its annexed regions (romanians in Transylvania, czechs and slovaks in Moravia, ruthens in Transcarpathia, Serbs in Vojvodina, Croats in Croatia and so on). 2. As "civilised" as they seemed, Hungarian troops had nearly depleted all occupied territories of jews during WW2 3. It has lost 2/3 of its territory due to the fact that only 45% of "Greater Hungary's" population during the war were Hungarian (not to mention that out of these, many were so due to its assimilation policies from 1867) In all, Hungary was and to some extent still remains one of the most nationally intolerant countries which Europe has witnessed. It deserves no mercy or pity for what it has done and I actually believe that history has been too kind with them. Please keep your thoughts to yourself and read some alternative sources before starting any unnecessary debate.

@MMircea

10 жыл бұрын

I was talking about 900 years worth of history...not 6 years of war...Look up to Vass Albert, Sandor Petofi or Layoss Kossuth's literature...or if you're so interested of the jewish topic from WW2...Look up for Horty's speech for when entering Satu Mare (Szatmar) in 1940, or any Arrow Cross speech from within that period. I admire their civilisation, their heritage, their capital city...but from that to assuming that they have been struck by a lightning bolt and that everything had been done to them without any guilt from their side is just ignorant...It was just history that punished them and nothing else

@Skorzeny64

10 жыл бұрын

Seamus O'Neil You've obviously never heard about the Hungarian Uprising of '56 then?? Or that it started out as a pogrom.. If there is anything worse than a drunk Irishman it's an uneducated Drunk Irishman - to be avoided at all costs, especially on Utube...Not enough Hedge schools, cutbacks...

@lavalauto9568

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for saying that lol. My grandfather survived WW2 in Budapest as a teenager. Going into the war his family was wealthy and owned 2 houses. 1 was destroyed in a allied air raid and the other was seized by the Red Army when they took the city. They finished the war with literally nothing and just my grandfather, his mother, and his 2 cousins as the only survivors of a family that was a few dozen. In 1956 he and other conscripts revolted against Soviet rule and tried to drive out the enforcers of the puppet communist regime. The Russians sent the Red Army to crush the revolt, and my grandfather managed to escape to Vienna during the chaos of the crackdown. Fearing that Europe would eventually be entirely overrun, he applied to come to Canada and arrived in Quebec City January 1958. All in all, WW2 in Europe really was among the darkest days humanity has ever lived through.

I maybe way off by saying this but whenever i Hear Marshal Zhukov i think of him as a Great General, Feared By Stalin Backstabbed by Nikita Krushchev.

@branon6565

5 жыл бұрын

Francis...that's different from how I think of him, that being he was just another piece of shit communist bastard....

Any ideas what's happening at 1:06:54? Re-purposing parachute material? Fashioning markers for air drops?

Absolutely!

"Campaign in the Balkans" 90% of film about Russians................

@tezzingtonsir28

8 жыл бұрын

Then make your own documentary.

@Kostelo13

8 жыл бұрын

+Trey Styles Respond of 6 years old

@tezzingtonsir28

8 жыл бұрын

+Kostelo13 To a 6 year old's complaint.

@illyrian44

8 жыл бұрын

+Breda Jake That the Balkans have nothing to do with fucking Russia?

@livadi9

7 жыл бұрын

the balkans don´t?

Factoid: Queen Elizabeth's mother-in-law was the former Queen of Greece and the sister of Lord Louis Mountbatten.

@tonyalanmarchant7330

4 жыл бұрын

@@Lucky-sh1dm i did hear that before

@alexandermelbaus2351

4 жыл бұрын

​@@Lucky-sh1dm Rape and eat children, does that mean they eat the children after they have been raped? There is no way you could know this, perhaps you suspect such things, only a fool makes such statements. A bigger fool would make these statements and think it wise to not include anything to support such things, only to declare them as facts.

@t.r.l.4377

4 жыл бұрын

@Críostóir Mac Dhubhdarach äääääääeeeehhhhhmm..... befor you get some funky ideas, nice by your Suggestion, but keep them, thank you. we had to deal with our own asholes. 😁

@lawsonj39

4 жыл бұрын

@Revelation 3 Your tin-foil hat's on crooked.

@lawsonj39

4 жыл бұрын

@Revelation 3 Your point seems to be that your anti-semitism is justified. But it's not.

I thought this was excellent with great detail and logistics that few documentaries can match. Only things I noticed were Packard Merlin engines for the P51 Mustangs. That was a Rolls Royce engine. Possibly, licensed out. And there was a lot of detail about the struggling Russian army but not a word about Stalin's purges decimating something like 30,000 of his most competent officers. This was about as long a slug as could possibly represent the brutal conflict, but meant as as a compliment.

@stironeceno

4 жыл бұрын

The purges came before the War started ,this series are about the war only .

@carpediem6568

4 жыл бұрын

@@stironeceno But those purges affected the War immensely. Without purges, the USSR would have done much better all throughout the conflict and not have lost anywhere near twenty million lives. Those 30,000 high ranking officers and generals purged, possibly accounted for half of the lost souls in Russia, or 10 million unnecessary deaths.

@billwilson3609

2 жыл бұрын

Rolls Royce designed and made the Merlin engines too slow to meet demand so asked Ford Motors for help. Henry Ford refused to since RR didn't have the exact specifications for each part that was required for mass production. Ford turned over the blueprints to Packard whose engineers basically redesigned the engine using fewer parts so it could be mass produced on a production line thus became known as the Packard Merlin.

The Balkans are always the tipping balance of Power both East for West ,soon West for East ,but trends start Here1!