Germany- "Okay Romania, we really need you to hold the front in the South!" Romania- "I don't even know who you are"

@ollikoskinen1

4 жыл бұрын

"I have never met this man in my life."

@Peace-ot7wm

4 жыл бұрын

ZachsFilms the Romanian are so trustful like today 😂😂

@elvirjade4742

4 жыл бұрын

@i wonder if you're reading this Oh come on, I am sure it's not all that bad.

@elvirjade4742

4 жыл бұрын

@i wonder if you're reading this I traveled to Romania 6 years ago. Visited Bucharest and a lot of medieval castles. Was quite an interesting experience. Believe me, my Russia is a bigger shithole rn :)

@BanryuTV

4 жыл бұрын

@i wonder if you're reading this I talked to a random romanian hes so ashamed of his corrupt country and his thief people.

Bulgaria, Finland and Romania be like “I’ve never met this Germany in my life”

@sanmaz1019

4 жыл бұрын

And Italy

@iok21a

4 жыл бұрын

sanmaz Italy would be more like “What’s a Germany?”

@sanmaz1019

4 жыл бұрын

Italy would be like a flood. And Germany how can be flood himself?

@ajappinen1007

4 жыл бұрын

SUOMI MAINITTU PERRRKELE

@legend9181

4 жыл бұрын

@@ajappinen1007 torilla tavataan

I learned about Army Group Center from my grandfather who was stationed in Germany at the end/after the war. He had met a german survivor of the encirclement, who told him about the Eastern front. Combined with my grandfathers Normandy stories and "I was hunted house by house" Dutch stories, it's a miracle I was ever born.

This guy teached me in 20 minutes more than my history teacher could in 4 years

@galinaperova1618

10 ай бұрын

I am Russian and I know the history of WW2 as it was in favor of our lessons

@AbbeyRoadkill1

7 ай бұрын

That's what I love about these KZread history videos. They're so succinct and yet packed with so much information.

@tsdobbi

Ай бұрын

History classes in primary school and highschool cover way too much to go into detail on battlefield strategy and tactics of specific wars....A history class on WW2 specifically in college? Sure.

@doctorwatermelon4680

15 күн бұрын

Clearly your English teacher too, since you don't know it's taught instead of teached.

This is truly your Magnum Opus, fantastic work on this Eastory.

@ComradeHellas

4 жыл бұрын

Truly decent effort. Kudos to the lad.

@TheOperationsRoom

4 жыл бұрын

Oustanding work once again

@daviddavis4885

4 жыл бұрын

RedGaming Studio four now

@gibberconfirm166

3 жыл бұрын

It's so weirdly fast and concise, I read books about this shit all day and these videos are marvels in odd clarity, all the encirclement battles nobody even thinks of after they read "Stalingrad" books vaguely blow your mind.

Germany: Team!!!??? Italy has disconnected Finland has disconnected Romania joined the enemy team. Bulgaria has disconnected. Japan: I am on the other side of the map!

@Mavd-mk9iq

4 жыл бұрын

Soviet union connected party Germany left the party

@maxim3783

4 жыл бұрын

Japan: lost connection

@levvy3006

4 жыл бұрын

Finland Joined the Soviet army in removing Nazis in 1944.

@DrJones20

4 жыл бұрын

Hungary: I'm still with you man!

@lorenzpaulinho1154

4 жыл бұрын

A part of Italy joined the enemy team

Thank you for this glorious explanation of the complexities of war. I never knew the detail of this, having read and seen many sources. This is a triumph.

Amazing work! A simple yet comprehensive animated video with so much efforts and details.. good job..

Finally,the best series on KZread completed.

@Nugcon

4 жыл бұрын

yes

@xxdarkslayerlord1922

4 жыл бұрын

He should do a series on the Pacific theater of WW2

@ComradeHellas

4 жыл бұрын

Slava CCCP

@justinlo3799

4 жыл бұрын

Is a good series but I don't know is it the best because there are so many good ones out there like the great war and second world war.

@ComradeHellas

4 жыл бұрын

@@justinlo3799 why do we keep calling WWI the "great war". 🤔

Great finale! Was looking forward to seeing who would win! :D

@Wow4ik4ik

4 жыл бұрын

Steiner's counter-offensive solved all problems and defeated the whole red army )))

@thatdodude1464

4 жыл бұрын

How do people comment so early

@pleasednut3881

4 жыл бұрын

@@thatdodude1464 notifications

@ProbablyRv

4 жыл бұрын

@@thatdodude1464 Patreon

@samarthkumar1060

4 жыл бұрын

@天堂心臟 check out : THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE

Thank you - this covers so much !! It would have taken me dozens of hours to have learned this. The scope and ferocity of fighting on the Eastern front is impossible for most to even begin to imagine.. ,

Far more people should see this... Brilliant series, you've earned my subscription and so many more, Eastory, I'm sure you medal's lost in the post. This is probably the best video about the Eastern Front on KZread.

Play the video in reverse if you wanna see Steiner's glorious counter-attack.

@Philip54622

3 жыл бұрын

Yes yes I will

@redstar5883

3 жыл бұрын

how? on mobile btw

@isaacpowrie465

3 жыл бұрын

Me dont understand

@Franckyyy1609

3 жыл бұрын

u mad man

@farelhigam5785

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

And today is the 22nd of June, the day Germany started the war against USSR. Previous video was February the 2nd, the day the battle for Stalingrad was won. Thank you for sticking to these dates, you’re the best!

@randomclouds4404

4 жыл бұрын

I think it's also to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Bagration.

@GoogleGebruiker

4 жыл бұрын

78 years ago

@GG_Man123

4 жыл бұрын

Wait really???

@Loup-mx7yt

4 жыл бұрын

Smetana Dvorak today, June 23rd, the red army launched operation bagration, this would lead to the liberation of bielorussia and to the start of the end of the Second World War.

@JoePro84

4 жыл бұрын

@@Loup-mx7yt It was June 22, exactly 3 years after the start of Operation Barbarrosa. Stalin purposely launched Operation Bagration exactly 3 years after that.

This is a great visual way to present this part of the conflict, thank you! Would be great to see similar for the Pacific.

Am reading "The Fall of Berlin 1945" by Antony Beevor - this animation was really helpful in understanding the expansive front. Stunning the number of people involved, whether in an army or civilian. Many thanks for the video.

17:05 - Steiner's glorious attack begins.

@dankmcgee6992

4 жыл бұрын

Well you got me fooled

@grimmschneider6708

4 жыл бұрын

Now I to be drowned by Vodka and Bavarian beer at same times

@rylecruzyt6398

4 жыл бұрын

hahq

@OPANAAAAAA

4 жыл бұрын

Why are you gay

@Igiveashitofaname

4 жыл бұрын

Aaaaaand it´s gone!

Allies: So which side are you on exactly? Finland: Yes.

@Crashed131963

4 жыл бұрын

Finland just wanted their lost land back from the 1938 winter war with Russia. Finland got off lucky at the end of the war and was not taken completely over by Stalin like Eastern Europe in the end.

@lesliefranklin1870

4 жыл бұрын

@@Crashed131963 1939-1940

@Crashed131963

4 жыл бұрын

@@lesliefranklin1870 OOOPs , thanks.

@ashdsf_

4 жыл бұрын

Finnish in Lenningrad: hipitty hoppity your part of your country is now our property Russians: NANI!

@taskdon769

4 жыл бұрын

Törni: any side that kill commies.

This video has always been an inspiration. Excelent job mate. Excelent work in WW2 as well.

These visuals are incredible. Thank you ! Please make more 🙏

5:19 There was some funny story about gaining acces to Baltic sea. One general decided to take glass of water from Baltic sea and deliver it personaly to Stalin. When soldier, who literaly spent few days on plane with that glass, finaly came to Stalin he said:"Glass of water from reconquered Baltic States!" by that time they lost this part. Stalin and other people laughed and then he said to soldier:"Go back to your general and tell him to return water where he took it"

@user-vr2pc2dm5j

4 жыл бұрын

That was general Ivan Bagramyan, that did it

@fulcrum2951

4 жыл бұрын

The mad lad general

@kalevi5814

4 жыл бұрын

@@lepsinadesutulaya Balkan and Baltic are two completely different things

@wrangle123

4 жыл бұрын

@@lepsinadesutulaya arent all seas salty?

@adhdlama2403

4 жыл бұрын

Damn that's a nice responce

Hitler: I’m going to invade the Soviet’s capital Stalin: *pull out reverse uno card*

@oilersridersbluejays

4 жыл бұрын

Stalin: +4, change the colour to red. Hitler: nein! Stalin: red +2, red +2, red miss a turn, red back to me, red + 2, UNO, red 0, OUT-O!

@braziliummarches6810

4 жыл бұрын

You are genius!

@usaball9190

3 жыл бұрын

@G E T R E K T 905 I'm sorry that I didn't conform to the meme standard that you were seeking. However, must I remind you that the essence of meme, according to the one who formulate the word himself Richard Dawkins, draws parallels between the nature of gene and genetic adaptation. Therefore, to Dawkins and similar to genes, memes mutate.

@cactusgamingyt9960

3 жыл бұрын

@G E T R E K T 905 maybe you, are the dumb one here

@alaxs

2 жыл бұрын

Thks for you comment bro! deaths WW2... 1) 520 000 French 2) 400 000 Italians 3) 320 000 British 4) 325 000 Americans 5) 364 000 Chechs and Slovaks 6) 1 600 000 Yugoslavians 7) 6 028 000 Poles 8) 9 700 000 Germans 9) 20 000 000 Soviets and many more from other countries..... YOUR NAME IS UNKNOW.... YOUR DEAD IS IMMORTAL!!!!

動画の内容も分かりやすかったし、日本語訳も的確だからすごい分かりやすかった！

Thank you for taking your time to make this. Very informative.

15:05 for those wondering: The 3rd SS Panzerkorps that you can see north of Berlin is the "Kampfgruppe Steiner". The same Kampfgruppe that Hitler ordered to relieve Berlin but failed to do so, resulting in a rage of Hitler best remembered in the movie "Downfall".

@kaletovhangar

3 жыл бұрын

Like some other commenter said,what Steiner could have done with 10 tanks?

@LibertyMapper

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaletovhangar Absolutely nothing. It was delusional of Hitler to think that an attack could have done anything.

@exoels

2 жыл бұрын

DASHWA ANG BAFE

@brandonsarsland-brunner3390

2 жыл бұрын

@@kaletovhangar LOOK AT IT? DO YOU NOT SEE IT? Yeah me either lol they would have just gotten squashed like the rest of the panzer corps lol

@willsplayify

2 жыл бұрын

It's not just merely 10 tanks, most of the 3rd army have been engaging the soviet defensively. Steiner only had 2 police battalions available for the assault and they had no heavy weapons, definitely suicidal to even try attacking the sieging belorussian army

Soviet Union: They had us in the first half, not gonna lie

@bdog2802

4 жыл бұрын

Radical Junior Soviet Union just pulled out a uno fucking reverse card

@scorpionscorpions446

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-od2ju7ci9x во во а сша напали в 1944 потому что поняли что ссср всю европу захватит и решили тоже кусок отхапать.

@user-jp2yq6ip2o

4 жыл бұрын

Они не хотели чтобы Европа была Социалистическай.

@TannerWilliam07

4 жыл бұрын

Nah They didn't mean only 1/3 of the Panzers were left, and the infantry lost all their combat units and were replaced with inexperienced troops. Then Winter hit. Operation Barbarossa was brutal during the first few months and the Germans never encountered such fierce resistance

@BlaneNostalgia

4 жыл бұрын

@RadicalJunior Germany had the most superior militairy in the world at the time + element of surprise they would have had any1 bro. Take away those 2 elements and they would have never gotten near Stalingrad. Only after USA joined the war Germany lost that edge. The most impressive feat in WW2 is Russia pushing back Germany with pretty much manpower alone and if you look at the Stalingrad numbers you will be shocked

Sheer excellence. That's why I still love KZread. Thank you very much for those historical contributions.

Excellent. This visual form of presentation is one of the best tools to teach history.

Steiner's counter attack will commence any minute now Update: The 9th Army is encircled

@josh-kg1rb

4 жыл бұрын

Steiner was captured last month and executed

@lhaviland8602

4 жыл бұрын

What about FEGHELEIN!

@josh-kg1rb

4 жыл бұрын

Hes on the western front encircled in denmark

@josh-kg1rb

4 жыл бұрын

Manstein is the prauge

@firesight968

4 жыл бұрын

And Rommel committed suicide.

Army Group Center: *EXISTS* Stalin: Im gonna do whats called a pro-gamer move

@r.c.1881

4 жыл бұрын

Zukhov: I'm going to end these men's whole career!

@vikingskippen

4 жыл бұрын

@@r.c.1881 stalin's gamer moves were knowing what to delegate. zhukov's def the mvp

@cytrynowy_melon6604

4 жыл бұрын

@@vikingskippen Zhukov was pretty lame, just glorified by soviet propaganda. He made a lot of stupid decisions. Won because he had more men.

@mohammadnooriman4185

4 жыл бұрын

@@cytrynowy_melon6604 Really?!

@ov4arkachannel596

4 жыл бұрын

Tom Wheeler please just read books , not Wikipedia

This is honestly amazing and fascinating. Great job.

@static_map

5 ай бұрын

Do you know in which app author make his animations( war consequence)?

thank you so much for yuor crews co-workers to make this video this is more understand the war in europe. i acknowledge you works this keeps the histories alive... thank you again.

LOL Germany in 1945 be like: we are gonna leave the troops in Russia territory just in case of future offensives

@zeriyx

4 жыл бұрын

the delusion

@gameer0037

4 жыл бұрын

TIK made a whole series about that, including a video discussing exactly this question. (12. episode) The series: kzread.info/dash/bejne/p36nzNqMlqWdfNY.html

@hq3473

4 жыл бұрын

@@gameer0037 it was quite a good show. Seems like "springboard" was largely propaganda, and evacuation was basically impossible.

@gameer0037

4 жыл бұрын

hq3473 yeah, evacuation was nearly impossible. But holding on to the curland pocket made some sense aswell. Clearly Eastprussia was prioritized in Terms of evacuation because of the benefits for holding on on baltic territory. (Submarine training bases, army group north could hold their ground, keeping finland as long i the war as possible)

@machtharry

4 жыл бұрын

Well think about why Hitler did this. He had two options and two options olny: Victory or death. There was no middle ground for him, no survivial in defeat. So slim as the chances might have been its actually logical from his position to plan for a victory in the future rather than planing on delaying the advance a little longer. At least to me this makes sense - if your willing to sacrifice houndrets of thousands of your own for very small chance to live on. He obviously was willing to do that.

*Germany on the phone:* I need you to hold Romania! *Romania:* new phone who dis?

@bogdanvojnovic989

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahhaha

@scasino9358

4 жыл бұрын

more like "yo, remember when you gave northern Transylvania to Hungary, and southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria? we remember. The red army sends their regards."

@peternemeth4073

4 жыл бұрын

@@scasino9358 Northen-Tranilvania in that time had hungarian majority. the romanians why annexed the area of trnasnistria where the romanians had only 7-8% of the full population?

@matyasszabo6361

4 жыл бұрын

@@scasino9358 "when you came BACK to Hungary.."

@toyotacoralla9310

4 жыл бұрын

This is Patrick!!!

You and the great war taught me more about the world wars than school ever did thanks you

Мой дед дошёл до Берлина. Сначала был артиллеристом, а потом взяли его в разведку. Сейчас смотрю и думаю: как он там выжил?!

@hashirrizwan6371

Жыл бұрын

Was he a German soldier

@alexanderwolf8766

10 ай бұрын

@@hashirrizwan6371 It is written that he reached Berlin. Where did he come from and who could he be?

@harryrg1250

6 ай бұрын

It was a Bolshevik plague, like all the Soviets and their rotten communism

@shiyian

3 ай бұрын

​@@hashirrizwan6371bro r U high the comment is in the Cyrillic alphabet so its not a German dude typing this plus no German counterattacks reached berlin

@bartoszgolik2430

Ай бұрын

@@hashirrizwan6371 for this to happen, he would have had to be Stirlitz. There is no other option.

Smh Germany could just open console and write Annex sov

@RamRam.720

4 жыл бұрын

tag eng *deletes entire army* tag ger

@blaine8197

4 жыл бұрын

Erel Batish They were using Ironman mode

@baronmunchhausen7727

4 жыл бұрын

@Fabian Kirchgessner Was willst du hier?

@baronmunchhausen7727

4 жыл бұрын

@Fabian Kirchgessner Lern Deutsch, lese Kant!

@cccpredarmy

4 жыл бұрын

impossible against all mighty soviet hax0rs

Germany: Alright guys we got this. Romania: *I serve the Soviet Union*

@db4ch

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh

@yeeterdeleter6306

4 жыл бұрын

Truly made me laugh

@artart3644

4 жыл бұрын

The USSR defeated German and Japanese fascism. One struggled with industry across Europe. Freed the whole of Europe and Asia from fascism. The Americans were the only ones in the world to drop 2 nuclear bombs on the civilian wooden cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the USSR had already defeated the Kwantung army in the Manchuria of China. Communism as the most just society United people, not killed. Look at China's communism now. The Chinese Communists are working on the Soviet economy.

@HT-gv1be

4 жыл бұрын

Quốc Việt Đỗ Phú fucking pussy holes fuck the Eastern European’s no loyalty

@sanderb2537

4 жыл бұрын

@@artart3644 Half of what you are saying just sounds like dumb rambling, you a Russian troll trying to promote some glorified image of communism? You seem to skip on the part that this same just society of communism is to blame for about 8 million plus deaths under Stalin (low estimate, high is about 20 million) and about 50-70 million deaths under Communist Mao Zedong's rule in China. In other words the death toll under these 2 great periods of communist society exceeded the total death toll during WW2. And now back to you smart ass ;)

Best animated war clips yet. THANKS

Legends say that Steiner is still planning his counter attack

@noobf8783

3 жыл бұрын

Fuck you

@anessabri777

2 жыл бұрын

the legend say that hitler is still counfusing that steiner didn't attack

This is why you don’t play in Ironman Mode.

@degs1549

4 жыл бұрын

i mean the nazis could just /annex SOV lol

@nerevarchthn6860

4 жыл бұрын

DEGS *germans

@Cobretsov2022

4 жыл бұрын

There is something I do when the war is lost. I get my weapon and kill myself before Hitler kills me for my incompetence Don’t judge me I live in the HOI4 universe but I somehow got to this universe

@scalaphandre

4 жыл бұрын

Need to produce more tank and do more encerclement, russis is really easy to fight in early game

@kikopintascraft5283

4 жыл бұрын

Ironman mode just doesn't allow you to use commands

I appreciate this video of HARD WORK!

@TheOperationsRoom

4 жыл бұрын

You can just see the man hours put in to this

@AKaptijn94

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheOperationsRoom The Germans and Soviets spent years for this video, that's what i call HARD WORK.

@TheOperationsRoom

4 жыл бұрын

@@AKaptijn94 You certainly aren't wrong there

Excellent video. The narrative and explanation is clear. Bravo!

80% of the German army was destroyed in the eastern front..I just can't imagine what would have happened if the Russian lost in the east. I would be probably writing this in German

@thebigmonstaandy6644

4 жыл бұрын

where are you coming from ?

@lukasbecker1201

4 жыл бұрын

Deutsch ist eine sehr schöne Sprache! German is a very nice language!

@gentil77

4 жыл бұрын

@@lukasbecker1201 Yes , of course but the 1939 german army was close to dominate the world.

@gentil77

4 жыл бұрын

@@thebigmonstaandy6644 From the americas ..and you?

@thebigmonstaandy6644

4 жыл бұрын

@@gentil77 Germany.Why do think,you would probably writing in German,if Sowjets lost in the east?Hitler would never invade USA.

as an Australian we were taught about the western front and the pacific war, the eastern front was barely mentioned as a tiny little footnote. its shocking to see a video like this and realize how important the soviet offensive was. i guess with the Cold War they wanted to downplay the communist share of the victory

@markcarey8426

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. I was born and brought up in New Zealand and at school in the 60s we were taught the plucky Brits, with us Anzacs (and some help from the USA) won the war.

@markcarey8426

3 жыл бұрын

@Ricardo Allmeida Nah. Germany was wearing thin by this time but the Soviet Union could've kept pumping out blood and machinery forever.

@ShadKS18XL

3 жыл бұрын

Good that you know it now. Western propaganda is a huge lie and mind control. The price for that Victory was over 20 millions deads of Soviet people, millions of those people were civilians killed by Nazi Germans during the occupation. Plus Nazi Europeans took over 6 millions Jewish lives all over the Europe. Soviet union is the reason why Nazi don't rule the world now. As for western front - well, I have respect for those brave soldiers, but they only joined the war when the result was obvious and it was only matter of time. Yes, USA entered Europe at the end of the war only to gain control over Europe after the WWII, but as fot the soldiers who gave their lives to fight Nazis - I gave all my respect and honor. Too bad, that after war Western propaganda washed the brains of their people.

@Vanyaivanov3

3 жыл бұрын

The entire Second World War was against the USSR, against the first and only state in which all profits from production were public and there was not a single billionaire parasite !!!! World War II was the last attempt to defeat the state itself with the help of force with the fairest system invented

@Vanyaivanov3

3 жыл бұрын

@Ricardo Allmeida 20 million? Or maybe 100 billion, don't you? You always have to lie !!!! Steal property that is built on free labor, slaves? You are a brainwashed idiot, you are a slave with the help of which they build their property)))

Great way of explaining such a difficult subject!

Glad to see this great channel explaining to Americans and other Angloids about the role of the USSR in WWII. Also Steiner nerds be like: "Where is Moskowien?"

@mr.someone6128

Жыл бұрын

The USSR was dumb. Shouldn't have allied the Nazis. The USSR only won thanks to US land lease lol.

Well, it’s 2021 and we’re still waiting for Steiner’s attack

@Willigula

3 жыл бұрын

Winning comment.

@xGARIDx

3 жыл бұрын

Dude Steiner is in Argentina 🇦🇷 he is renforcing Germans for uprising

@user-ko3te7oy6d

3 жыл бұрын

@@xGARIDx If Steiner carried out his attack he could've relieved Berlin and push Russia and the allies back to their capitals

@marcokite

3 жыл бұрын

any day now...any day now

@bork661

3 жыл бұрын

He is still waiting for the 25th panzergrenadier Division, they could be there any minute now

That's by far the best and most accurate WW2 documentary I've ever seen. Thanks! :D

@michelangelobuonarroti4958

4 жыл бұрын

Well Eastern Front, but not all of WW2

@useodyseeorbitchute9450

4 жыл бұрын

It would be very good, just it got spoiled by some errors, like: 4:35. No, the problem were not any German concentration, but Stalin just wanted to get Polish resistance in Warsaw slaughtered first, as it makes installing any puppets later much easier.

@karakteran8406

4 жыл бұрын

Another error is number of POW's in Austria 550.000 at the end of video which is not accurate, it was 600.000 civilians and 200.000 soldiers mostly Croats who has been slaughtered on sadistic ways by Tito's partizans in bloodbath sloughterhouse better known as Bleiburg massacre 536.000 dead and burried alive.

@YTuseraL2694

4 жыл бұрын

@@karakteran8406 sadistic ways huh?? Shame on you! Most of them who were taken back to Yugoslavia and killed were ustashe, other nazi collaborators and war criminals who wanted to avoid their comeuppance by defecting outside of Yugoslavia! Did you ever heard of concentration camps Jasenovac, Stara Gradiska?? Jastrebarsko????? Jastrebarsko CC was the only camp that was established especially for killing children!!

@YTuseraL2694

4 жыл бұрын

Nije li tužno videti kako je neko toliko ogrezao u domovinskoj (ustaškoj) propagandi i još sebi daje za pravo da nekome drugome priča kako mu je ispran mozak.. Druže pa ti mozga nemaš, sve su ti popile ustaše! Ne znam ko je ovde trol kad si ti prvi koji je ovde počeo da širi ustaško-hrvatske brljotine i laži! Ne samo to, već su ti i rečenice koje si napisao toliko generične, izveštačene i već vidjene da je toliko očigledno da nisu tvoje! People, don't mind him, he is just another ustashe-lover who will deny anything that goes against his "beliefs" and country, which has commited its own genocide against Serbs, Gypsies and all other unwanted groups in WW2! Jasenovac and other camps and genocide are far from myth, but an undisputed truth, and you Croats should be ashamed of it, not proud.

Excellent description of the EASTERN Front... Thanks for this project.

Автору спасибо.Я даже перевод особо не читал,просто приятно после обороны нашими Сталинграда наблюдать за красной линией.

Axis: *has a new plan* Soviets : Nice plan, would be a shame if we knew it.

@mahromac

4 жыл бұрын

and they knew it

6:25 - I love that switzerland is a lake :D

Finland surely don’t like to remember THIS fin-soviet war, don’t they?

@alexanderivkin7086

Жыл бұрын

In 1944 all the mistakes from 1939/1940 were avoided. First of all: No minus 40 degrees winter. For B4 Howitzers the Mannerheim-line was easy prey.

Excellent job as always, I'm so proud to be one of your patreons haha

@ryanmcsharry9405

3 жыл бұрын

First comment, nice.

I learned practically nothing about the eastern front of World War 2 in my history class. They really just mentioned Stalingrad and the fall of Berlin in 1945 and that was it. But while our history teacher spent altogether maybe 10 minutes explaining the Eastern Front, we spent at least 80% of the time we spent learning about World War 2 talking about D Day, Pearl Harbor and the use of the atomic bombs on Japan. Talk about downplaying the greatest global conflict in human history by only teaching half the story.

@praetorhispaniae4832

4 жыл бұрын

would it be a surprise for you, that post-soviet schools learn at history classes nothing except eastern front stuff? And, I assume, asian folks are like "What? Europe? Africa? They had war too? Why nobody told me at school about this shit?"

@economicapple2609

4 жыл бұрын

Excuse me I'm asian and I know about all fronts ._.

@praetorhispaniae4832

4 жыл бұрын

@@economicapple2609 is it though because of your school history classes? And what you mean "know"? Dude above once heard word "Stalingrad" at class - does it count as he "know" about eastern front?

@economicapple2609

4 жыл бұрын

@@praetorhispaniae4832 well uh not because of school lol asians read widely.

@praetorhispaniae4832

4 жыл бұрын

@@economicapple2609 that's what I was pointing on

Well done ! Thank you. Fascinated by the eastern front

This video help me aton about the Eastern front. I learned about both fronts, but i didnt know too much about the eastern one This video gave alot if info about how greatly the push to Berlin was there

as an american born in the 50's, you can imagine how facinating this video is to me. I am glad i lived long enough to see this!!!!!!!!! I wish my father had lived long enough to see it. He finished ROTC in '45, and was discharged before the Korean War, and loved ww2 history, which, as this docu demonstrates more clearly than most, he never really knew much of the true strategic and tactical history of what had actually happened. But, I have! If there is an afterlife, I will tell him. Again, many thanks.

@artart3644

4 жыл бұрын

The USSR defeated German and Japanese fascism. One struggled with industry across Europe. Freed the whole of Europe and Asia from fascism. The Americans were the only ones in the world to drop 2 nuclear bombs on the civilian wooden cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the USSR had already defeated the Kwantung army in the Manchuria of China. Communism as the most just society United people, not killed. Look at China's communism now. The Chinese Communists are working on the Soviet economy. Try live.

@unetortue3429

4 жыл бұрын

Art Art China isn’t communist.

@luvee659

4 жыл бұрын

@@artart3644 The commies took on the army and the Americans took on the navy

@yourlocalengineer

4 жыл бұрын

@@artart3644 Le tme ask you one thing: did your grandparents live within the non russian parts of the soviet union?

@bonkersmcgee4356

4 жыл бұрын

@@artart3644 Not completely accurate. First this was a team effort. I know the popular thing to say is that the US entered when the Russians already had it wrapped up, but that's just simply false. US was involved for years by keeping Britain alive - see liberty ships. US was engaged heavily in Western Europe, Italy, and North Africa, not to mention the entire Pacific. The Russians alone would have never been able to finish off Germany, let alone take on the entire empire of Japan. So as with every war ever, it was a team effort. The other thing is the implication that the US nuked civilian wooden cities. Also a false implication. Yes, one purpose of these weapons was to hopefully force Japan to withdraw out of fear. But the targets were chosen because they were vital centers of the Japanese military industrial complex.

1941: The Soviets won't last long. 1942: The end of the Soviets will be complete. 1943: Damn Soviets. Eliminate the Kursk salient and we will be rolling like last year. 1944: I wish we eliminated the Kursk salient. 1945: I wish we didn't invade the USSR.

@oilersridersbluejays

4 жыл бұрын

@RompeIdiotasConRetraso 69 it's debatable and no one really agrees with anyone else, but the Germans still had a realistic chance of beating the Soviets until Kursk. Stalingrad and Africa was the end of the beginning, Sicily and Kursk was the beginning of the end. Bagration and Normandy were the nails going into the coffin lid. Berlin was the burial.

@oilersridersbluejays

4 жыл бұрын

@RompeIdiotasConRetraso 69 thank you sir! Cheers from Canada.

@endloesung_der_braunen_frage

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 savage

@yyyaaa3928

4 жыл бұрын

Big kick and it all fall - A Famous Painter

@oilersridersbluejays

4 жыл бұрын

@@yyyaaa3928 I love that reference.

I like Your pronunciation of "Red" in "Red Army", so sweet.

Great animation! Better explained than any of books i had as a student!

Seeing only animated units, numbers and lines sometimes makes you forget, how many lives were lost with each movement of the front, how many cities and villages were devastated. Hard to imagine the scale of such an onslaught

@rnin689

2 жыл бұрын

It really is sad, because all of these troops were conscripts, forced into a war that they didn’t want to do, while the commanders would just throw themselves at the enemy’s, and the tanks while effective were prone to break down, especially the tiger b and elephant tank, so Germany’s strong armor doesn’t really work that well if you can’t weld the armor together correctly

@SpaceMissile

2 жыл бұрын

the next level of this would be to cut in some shots of the wartime action. maybe a picture-in-picture or something.

@NeonVars

2 жыл бұрын

This is essentially a war general's view of war, numbers and lines on a map. However, behind every number there is a mind, a soul, memories of being a child, and a love for someone.

@Gungho73

2 жыл бұрын

For example of how little those give context, take Leningrad. From Sep 8, 1941 - Jan 27, 1944, the city was under siege of the Germans. Outside of a water route as their only lifeline, it was essentially encircled by Germany and Finnish troops and passed over. Daily food was so scarce for the 2 million residents who remained that it got down to 125 grams of bread, basically a single thick slice of bread. People burned their own furniture to stay warm, killed animals in the local zoo to eat if not their own pets and even the deceased in some cases. When not dealing with this, they were working in makeshift armament facilities with no roofs; This coupled with the bombing raids and artillery threats on a near daily basis made living a hell in Leningrad. But again, if you look at a map, it looks like troops from the opposing armies worked to bypass it entirely. We could potentially ignore the real demoralizing struggle of those people.

@Candiedbacon75

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gungho73 True, very true. But this was just a quick overview of the front. The details on the other hand would make ones skin crawl.

If my history classes had been like this, I would have paid attention.

@luciusvernus3174

4 жыл бұрын

excautly

@IStMl

4 жыл бұрын

Thing is, war history is less useful than context and global history It’s better to know why war happened and what were the consequences than how war was fought (eventho its more interesting)

@pigpimp6912

4 жыл бұрын

I StM I no one gives a shit to why that only needs a small segment but to say how it happened people wouldn’t want war and they’ll appreciate things more

@50shekels

4 жыл бұрын

ExpressionAmidstCacophony the excuses of a mediocre value man

@VineFynn

4 жыл бұрын

@@pigpimp6912 knowing positions and manuveurs hardly informs people of the horrors of war

Grandpa came home in 1946. Machine gunner. Mentally unstable and hard alcoholic. I remember, when drunk he spoke random German phrases. Me and my brother used to ask him: How many germans did you kill, grandpa? He was like: "Why should I kill humans, are you crazy?"

There is a collection of Zhukov's memoirs and reflections, where he describes in great detail the operations on the Soviet-German front, exactly Operation Bagration, to destroy Army Group Center. In my youth, I read all his books almost non-stop for a month, it was very interesting. I also read a lot of German literature translated into Russian, memories and reflections of German marshals, generals and soldiers, as well as watched almost all documentaries about World War II and about Patton, Montgomery and Eisenhower

@ElizaWebbg

10 ай бұрын

Patton was the only non-Zionist on the Allied side. Very suspicious death circumstances.

It's amazing that the Battle of the Bulge, which is known as one of the biggest and bloodiest battles the US saw in WWII was basically a tiny footnote compared to the saga of the Eastern front. I knew that the Eastern front was massive and horrific, but until I watched this series did not understand just how much. Thank you for creating these videos. EDIT: Thanks to those who left thoughtful and interesting replies. I want to rant because others are missing the point of my comment and want to argue for no reason about the least important things: I said footnote IN COMPARISON. Example: WWI was less destructive globally IN COMPARISON to WWII. I am not saying WWI was any less tragic.

@bombarderoazul

4 жыл бұрын

And battle of the bulge, the Germans specifically brought troops from the Eastern front to ardennes because they were considered tougher and battle hardened.

@RubyBandUSA

4 жыл бұрын

that's a wrong way to characterize the Battle Of The Bulge ("a tiny footnote")

@rocketman2408

4 жыл бұрын

Ruby band it is what it is if you compare to the eastern front scale

@rocketman2408

4 жыл бұрын

matthew arnold we did great part of wwii fighting Japan Italy and Germans in the west Europe, but here we comparing whole eastern campaign of 6 million + Germans 80% of best German army with Battle of the Bulge where 400 thousand and later 50 thousand more Germans surprise attacked us on western front. Clearly it’s unfair to compare whole campaign vs just 1 battle but however if you do compare such than of course Battle Of The Bulge will be like a tiny footnote which is more popular here in the US than whole eastern campaign. Most people here in US just don’t understand how big wwii was. Most movies about wwii you will see here is about little part of a huge monstrous war that it was. We don’t even celebrate V day and don’t even know when is the V day, but Russians do even today still celebrate May 9 every year.

@youngminpark3173

4 жыл бұрын

@@RubyBandUSA It's just a comparison. The way that the POWER of bobs dropped at Hiroshima/Nagasaki were "footnotes" compared to the tzar bomba. Here I am not saying that the events at Hiroshima/Nagasaki are footnotes. Likewise with my comment, I was in no way minimizing the battle itself, but understanding the sheer scope of battles in the Eastern front.

Soviet: destroying 80% of the Germany army America and British: "We are catching up"

@thedriper2983

3 жыл бұрын

@Vinlon Voss its just an joke

@robberhans9307

3 жыл бұрын

68%

@thedriper2983

3 жыл бұрын

@@robberhans9307 thanks

@beckyeversham3143

3 жыл бұрын

@@robberhans9307 69*

@thedriper2983

3 жыл бұрын

@@dennisweidner288 thanks for the inforation dude

Thanks for adding the Slovak National Uprising into this video. Much appretiated.

That was great, thank you.

Soviet: *enter the Balkans* Bulgaria and Romania: I've never met Germany my whole life!

@nxibba

4 жыл бұрын

russia in 1991: i dont feel so good ukraine: get yo ass out of our land

@soulreaper5510

4 жыл бұрын

@Alexei *mongol horns blowing in the east*

@uncleadi

3 жыл бұрын

@@nxibba the irony here is that parts of current Ukraine and Crimea was never Ukrainian. It was given to them by the soviets.

@nxibba

3 жыл бұрын

@@uncleadi neither was north bucovina or southern bessarabia, but thats a topic i dont care about discussing

@nxibba

3 жыл бұрын

@Alexei no lol

That moment when you join the Kriegsmarine in 1945 but they send you to the eastern front anyways

@blitzkrieg7353

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh moment

@patdan123

4 жыл бұрын

That guy: I WANT TO LIVE !!!! (Spongebob reference.)

@joem1668

4 жыл бұрын

would you have been sent to a uboat

@dodojesus4529

4 жыл бұрын

Either that or that former fishing boat outfitted with what looks to be an antique cannon

@Pikkabuu

4 жыл бұрын

@@joem1668 Actually going to the front was safer than serving in an U-boat. Only 1/6th of soldiers serving in an U-boat survived the war.

Great stuff, thanks!!!

Great video, thanks!

As 60(+) yo American, really grateful to have seen this before my death! My obession w ww2 documentaries started with the BBC World at War series as a child, and dozens and dozens since (the History Channel in the US in the late 80s and 90s) but never have I seen anything like this. Many thanks

@deimos5789

3 жыл бұрын

man, you will live for many more decades before you die.

@alexandersalmas21

2 жыл бұрын

Check out the Apocalypse series on WWII (and WWI) if you haven't already. They are my favorite docs on the two great wars.

@odysseusrex5908

2 жыл бұрын

If you haven't already, check out the World War Two channel (That's its name). they are doing a day by day history of the war in real time. they are up to May, 1942 now.

@MetalDetroit

2 жыл бұрын

Believe it or not, Hogans Heroes started my fascination with the eastern Front. Every time col. Klink screwed up, he was told he would be sent to the Russian front. Klink would be aghast and do panic. Made me wonder how bad the Russian front was.

@odysseusrex5908

2 жыл бұрын

@@MetalDetroit I think Hogan summed it up nicely once, "It's big, it's cold, it's east of here, and there are a lot of guys named Ivan shooting at you."

Dude, this was a fantastic series of the upmost greatest quality. The quality of the maps, frontlines, and units is simply incredible. 10/10

This is really a great presentation, that you never get to see! You have to go to books that have maps in them.

you can read every document, every history book, every plan, but when you watch a map with colours moving on it, you can get a true scale of how dramatic this conflict was, amazing video 11/10 👍

For all the meme lords out there, Steiner is in the black bubble labelled "3 SS" at 14:58. He was brought there from Courland in January 1945 and was given command of most of the units north of Berlin. Though the map shows multiple German armored/mechanized corps, Steiner's force had been eviscerated at that point and had about 10 tanks in total. Hitler ordered Steiner to attack the pincer that juts out at 15:06, but Steiner was neither willing nor able to obey. Thus, Berlin was encircled and Hitler finally realized that it was the end - after blaming everyone else, of course.

@LeoMajor1

3 жыл бұрын

got em

@Nugcon

3 жыл бұрын

got em

@discodesanti2459

3 жыл бұрын

His attack will get it under control.

@kazioglod

3 жыл бұрын

He knew already in 1942 that they're gone

@PLKartofel

3 жыл бұрын

i did my own reaserch before i seen the comment lul

Stalin: want to hear a joke? hitler: sure stalin: moscow hitler: I don't get it stalin: exactly

@pinadeiro

4 жыл бұрын

Foking lololol XD

@vitoremanuel4374

4 жыл бұрын

Helsinki

@mikeymoo8262

4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@thewurstman1100

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikeymoo8262 *BLYATIFUL*

@Jux925

4 жыл бұрын

Napoleon: haha, I get it!

I am writing a book about my life in intersection with a Soviet Red Army Officer who I met in the USA. The series of videos regarding the movements from 1942 to 1945 confirmed his recollections as further evidenced through his battle certificates. Thank you for putting this together so accurately and comprehensively.

Finland really said” I don’t know that man”

Uploaded on June 22,2019 I see you're a man of history.

@El_Rey_Moglia

4 жыл бұрын

But why doesn’t anyone care about the afrika corps

@lgjosh2481

4 жыл бұрын

🎵Unser Rommel🎵 I care. Honestly was pretty amazing how it went down.

@peryaful

4 жыл бұрын

@@El_Rey_Moglia Hahaha))) Afrika cares)

Germany: Ok guys we need to turn this thing around Italy: Sorry my mom called me for dinner Romania: Sorry my mom called me for dinner Bulgaria: Sorry my mom called me for dinner Finland: Sorry my mom called me for dinner Hungary: ok we can 3v1 the- Japan: dude help i'm being 3v1ed!

@user_698

3 жыл бұрын

Slovakia:Hey guys sorry I was afk-WTH HAPPEND HERE?! GERMANY HELP! Germany:I also need help... Slovakia:oh, well I am already dead -USSR killed Slovakia- -Slovakcoolgamer69 left the game- - Finnlandthepro changed teams- Finnland:Perkele Germany:Scheisse. -DeutscherProGamer commited suicide- Western Allies:GG Guys :) USSR:All too easy...

@bork661

3 жыл бұрын

Hoi4 mp in a nutshell

@morganv7895

3 жыл бұрын

Nah for japan it should be: I’m on the other said of the map!

@leminh2659

2 жыл бұрын

Double crossing, coward b*tches. Shame on them (Nazi is bad tho)

@forsakensecrets8023

2 жыл бұрын

@@user_698 watch yo language im german and btw its scheiße

This guy and oversimplified I swear they make the best content. *_(in my opinion)_*

Thank you so much !!

... I'm lost for words, this is a little masterpiece... Congratulations, you have achieved a work of a truly impressive quality...

@scrimherolex1496

4 жыл бұрын

Une âme déterminée what’s up French brother

@majkel1684

4 жыл бұрын

This video is straight up a lie, 4:35 No, the problem were not any German forces, Stalin just wanted to get Polish resistance in Warsaw slaughtered first, as it makes installing any puppets later much easier.

@marluxia8832

4 жыл бұрын

​@@majkel1684 Red Army couldn't help Army Krajowa simply because they needed time to rest and resupply. Our communication and supply lines at that time were piece of shit, and very often our units had to face Germans outnumbered and with outdated weapons, especially tanks. At that time we were fighting really hard to hold the footholds on western coast of Wisla river. How could we help the uprising if most of Red Army units in Poland were down to 25-50% of their standard quantity when it started? And with constant German counterattacks? Also, we did send you firearms via air drops.

Europe: war waging Switzerland: eating popcorn

@stefann2461

4 жыл бұрын

Hotel: Trivago

@modermapper9840

4 жыл бұрын

Music Beats | Sweden: sh*ts itself out of fear

@lalolara123

4 жыл бұрын

Lol Switzerland watching Europe and the rest of the world burn

@SmilingIbis

4 жыл бұрын

Switzerland got "accidentally" bombed a few times, though it is speculated that these were intended to stop Swiss munitions production for the German army.

@stefann2461

4 жыл бұрын

SmilingIbis wow, I never knew this

Amazing Work!!!

Nicely done!

Germany after losing Berlin: well boys to Prague we go

@ninlog

3 жыл бұрын

Wat

@teddiedoggo8965

3 жыл бұрын

@@ninlog hoi4 meme

@user-theyellowfox8

3 жыл бұрын

To Buenos-Aires

@Philip54622

3 жыл бұрын

In my endseig games its always kiel because the western allies capture Hamburg, Hannover and Munich and the Soviets everything else

6:30 64th Corps where are you going!?Oh no he have AirPods he can’t hear us

@flakmag1004

4 жыл бұрын

MF just yote out of France smh..

@andrewrobeson6714

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@user-oz3sk8ec2e

4 жыл бұрын

he be takin a french countrywide tour xd

@dulguunnorjinbat6136

4 жыл бұрын

@Aggressive Tubesock I agree, and the landing in southern france is called operation dragoon. The landing in normandy was only a diversion for operation dragoon, or so i have heard.

@danbogdan9578

4 жыл бұрын

They were doing the "tour de france" but got captured on the way.

Thank you so much..i have finally understood the war!

Just thanks for the series!

Quality series, cheers

I have never been so entertained by bubbles floating around on a map

@dimitrissimitzis6944

4 жыл бұрын

play hio4

@issacarellano9909

4 жыл бұрын

Hamza Alsayyed you should watch historia civilis You maybe entertained by moving squares and rectangles

@Void_Wars

4 жыл бұрын

Josef Stalin no, bubbles are superior.

As a military historian, I'd give anything to have a recording of the Zhukov war councils he held before any major campaign. Even more interesting were the sandbox re-creations of the battlefield. The largest ever, for Berlin, had everything down to the gas stations...

@brandonsarsland-brunner3390

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao Berlin had gas stations

@SmilingIbis

2 жыл бұрын

@@brandonsarsland-brunner3390 Where did you think they got the gas to slosh on Hitler's corpse in a half-hearted effort to "cremate" the body?

@brandonsarsland-brunner3390

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmilingIbis when I wrote that it meant that germanys gas stations were closed mostly to conserve fuel for the war effort. It was just a joke like “lol when were they ever on”

@lukeallison3713

5 ай бұрын

Let's say the battle of the bulge never happens and courland is fully evacuated by december 1944. How much longer does that give the germans in your assesment?

Good job at reaching 400k sub's!

Excellent absolutely. It could be interesting to do a sort of legenda for the circles and the squares in the map.in order to know the approssimative divisions composition.

Germany: Alright, Bulgaria and Romania, i need you to hold off the soviets Bulgaria & Romania: Wait a minute........ Who are you?

@ekisfrole3118

4 жыл бұрын

Many thanks to the Soviets for helping us to fight back the Germans

@0306368368

4 жыл бұрын

@@ekisfrole3118 My friend, you're wrong. The Soviet Union for four years restrained and counterattacked the Nazis, and the allies in the end helped and a huge thank you to them for this in Russia honor the memory and mourn for all those killed in the war. It is a pity that the West is beginning to forget all the grief that the Nazis brought to Europe and Russia and forget who suffered the brunt of the war. Forget who took the brunt and drove the Nazis back into their hole.

@bs2202

4 жыл бұрын

*The Western Allies Have Joined The Game*

@hq3473

4 жыл бұрын

Romania: new phone, who dis?

@user-up3dd1vw6b

4 жыл бұрын

If it werent for useless romanians, they wouldnt have lost stalingrad