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Scorched Earth S4/E1 - Army Group North

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  • @SNP-1999
    @SNP-19995 жыл бұрын

    My wife's uncle was a soldier in Army Group North who went "Missing in Action" in 1943. He had been wounded in action and was sent back alone to the nearest aid station in the rear of the front line. He never made it back and was never seen again. This was before the later in 1944 - 45 implemented summary executions of retreating soldiers, particularly by the infamous fanatical Nazi general Schörner, who had soldiers merely walking in the wrong direction hanged or shot for allegedly being cowards, so this fate did not appear to have overcome him. He may have been apprehended by partisans and killed, or a stray shell may have killed him, but the International Red Cross after the war could only confirm that no trace of him was ever found. This was of course a tragedy for his family and his parents, to their dying days, never gave up hope that he may have been captured by the Red Army and may return home once again from a prison camp. We have a photograph of him in uniform in our home and some lovely drawings he rendered during the war, some of them of military scenes and others of German soldiers, most probably his comrades. He was only one soldier of millions who died during Hitler's war, also a victim of an ideology that he and his family did not support and of Hitler's megalomania. Even as an Englishman, an expatriate living since the 1970's in Germany, whose father fought as a British airman against Germany in the war, I can fully understand the great loss my wife's family suffered and the great sadness of my father- in- law, who lost his beloved elder brother to the madness of war and Hitler's ambitions. Some viewers may think "Serves him right for fighting for Hitler and being in Russia in the first place" but he and most of the millions of young German men called up for service by the Nazi dictatorship never had an option. You either went or you were sent to a concentration camp, if not executed immediately after a short, one sided trial. He didn't choose to be in Russia that fateful day, but he was, and he paid the ultimate price for his government's idiotic and mad policies. RIP Onkel Ulli.

  • @tigertank3024

    @tigertank3024

    3 жыл бұрын

    dhollins you’re an idiot

  • @t-rockthekornb7758

    @t-rockthekornb7758

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tigertank3024 Those who forget are doomed to repeat history.

  • @Aaron-cw5gt

    @Aaron-cw5gt

    3 жыл бұрын

    @dhollins did you not read the comment above?

  • @thekoneill8

    @thekoneill8

    3 жыл бұрын

    @dhollins You’re an Ass

  • @altair458

    @altair458

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this comment

  • @davidmbeckmann
    @davidmbeckmann5 жыл бұрын

    In all the Baltic’s the Germans were recognized as liberators and again in 44 and 45 the Baltic peoples fought to the end against the Communists. They even fought as partisans after 1945.

  • @bbbabrock
    @bbbabrock9 жыл бұрын

    I quite liked this. Thanks. I am no military scholar. But still, too often, these WWII docs merely go over t exact same info as all t others. Whereas this one was detailed enuf that I was presented w quite a bit of info that I was previously unaware of. For instance, I was already familiar w t Demyanks pocket and how it influenced Stalingrad. But in this I learned of three other pockets (one Russian and two German) that I was unfamiliar w.

  • @tylercates8165
    @tylercates81655 жыл бұрын

    What a sad end to the hardest working most loyal army group.

  • @alexanderchenf1

    @alexanderchenf1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Tyler Cates You cared about socialism. Socialism didn’t give a f ck on you

  • @arseymcpherson

    @arseymcpherson

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@alexanderchenf1 the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Anyway, are you seriously suggesting that capitalism cares about you? At least on socialism you get free healthcare.

  • @MrBiggs-od7pp

    @MrBiggs-od7pp

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@alexanderchenf1 that meth hit was too good wasn't it?

  • @droog1967
    @droog19679 жыл бұрын

    Interestingly, British citizens were permitted to volunteer to fight for Finland after the Soviet attack on that country. Some did, and ultimately found themselves under German command in Army Group North.

  • @OhDannyboy7

    @OhDannyboy7

    5 жыл бұрын

    +droog1967 Really?! Wow, I have not heard that. Can you direct me to a reputable source? That is highly fascinating.

  • @CAES7777

    @CAES7777

    5 жыл бұрын

    Under command? Caputured?

  • @AwesomeDude272

    @AwesomeDude272

    5 жыл бұрын

    Look Chah Shway That was not the case right from the beginning. The US supported UDSSR right from the beginning of the German attack.

  • @mikhailv67tv

    @mikhailv67tv

    5 жыл бұрын

    An Australian citizen ex soldier returned from fighting in Iraq recently he caused a bit of a conundrum. He fought for the Kurds. There is legislation in Australia against fighting in foreign conflicts. In turned out he was not charged. The Kurdish expat community welcomed him back in Australia as a hero. The Sunnis in Australia were silent.

  • @heinzguderian9980

    @heinzguderian9980

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Robs You really need to educate yourself more before spouting some misinformation. There was ONE REGIMENT of French volunteers (638 Infanterie-Regiment). Not "entire divisions". You are grossly exaggerating the number. And they were "gullible fools" who fought for a dictator's interests.

  • @jorgegutierrez4654
    @jorgegutierrez46549 жыл бұрын

    Army group North was the only ones whom actually archived there gold.

  • @judclark7376
    @judclark73769 жыл бұрын

    what a coincidence, I'm following my own scotched earth policy right now

  • @Pinakij

    @Pinakij

    5 жыл бұрын

    On the Rocks?

  • @tonnywildweasel8138

    @tonnywildweasel8138

    4 жыл бұрын

    My favorite tactic. Prosit !

  • @JamesinAZ

    @JamesinAZ

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm doing my own 'Scorched Earth' policy myself at the moment. Made a mistake, and thought Taco Bell was a good idea earlier in the evening.

  • @Dinco422
    @Dinco4227 жыл бұрын

    Merci pentru seria de documentare!! Salvezi vieti!

  • @chadczternastek
    @chadczternastek Жыл бұрын

    Some people don't realize that in most of video clips there is no audio. Meaning all the 💥 explosions and siren sounds from the Stuka's are edited in. That being said, theses here do a damn good job at making the uploads/documentaries seem like it's right there. Some of the multi-explosions are tough to edit I bet. So high five for the great dub job.

  • @Osckarre
    @Osckarre5 жыл бұрын

    My God how did I miss this treasure trove? Thanks for sharing

  • @nancytortorici-dunham6783
    @nancytortorici-dunham67834 жыл бұрын

    My grandfather and all my uncles fought on the eastern front. My grandfather was a Corporal driving an Opel truck delivering supplies. He was in Army Group South and all the way down to the Caucasus Mountains and Maikop Oil fields. I could go on and on.

  • @fnayr00

    @fnayr00

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wow you must have many stories

  • @likegod2unga99

    @likegod2unga99

    2 жыл бұрын

    Please go on I could read about it all day this is my favorite part of history and I would like to research it further if you have any free time I would like to read what you have to teach and tell about this time in history and I'm a black guy in America who grew up in "the hood" I used to sell crack on the street but I always loved this part of history so please share with me if nobody else cares

  • @franklinnose
    @franklinnose4 жыл бұрын

    Great documentary! Thanks for posting!

  • @user-ci9ns7lh5q
    @user-ci9ns7lh5q9 жыл бұрын

    This Series of video is very great

  • @tamzidkarim9402
    @tamzidkarim94025 жыл бұрын

    Such a loss of such competent fighting force and its brave men..

  • @bodasactra
    @bodasactra5 жыл бұрын

    Professor John Erickson is the absolute authority in the west on the WW2 Soviet battles. This documentary is one of the best you can watch. I read Erickson's books on the topic. I recommend them. The Finns were the best fighters of WW2. The Germans said it first and often.

  • @nolank19

    @nolank19

    5 жыл бұрын

    bodasactra Glantz is the absolute authority*

  • @morokolli8700
    @morokolli87003 жыл бұрын

    This is good document

  • @Arthur-tx8fd
    @Arthur-tx8fd2 ай бұрын

    Excellent documentary!! I didn't hear how Hitler was evil and how horrible the Nazis were just pure history at its core. Some of these historians furnished me with information i could understand

  • @legallyresistingtyranny5901
    @legallyresistingtyranny59012 жыл бұрын

    It was very admirable how the citizens of Leningrad held out for three years, with almost no supplies coming in, yet they refused to surrender.

  • @lordmozart3087

    @lordmozart3087

    Жыл бұрын

    Do you think they had a choice?

  • @patwiggins6969
    @patwiggins69695 жыл бұрын

    So they sent them to Leningrad, when they got there they were told not to take it, siphoned troops off to other fronts and left the rest there. With no leaves or chance of ever going home. Am I understanding this right?

  • @puuuuuuch
    @puuuuuuch9 жыл бұрын

    7:45 "These lightning advances were greeted with joy by the citizens of cities like Riga, where the Estonian population viewed the German army as liberators." Riga = Latvia, not Estonia....

  • @Treetop64

    @Treetop64

    9 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, noticed that, though it could be argued that the popular sentiment was shared throughout the Baltics, including in Kaunas, Riga, Tallinn, and elsewhere.

  • @NapoleonLouverture

    @NapoleonLouverture

    9 жыл бұрын

    it's titled "Scotched Earth", what do you expect?!

  • @monicafuglestad2621

    @monicafuglestad2621

    9 жыл бұрын

    NapoleonLouverture I expected whiskey on the rocks.... not much scotch here though :(

  • @raboesperto

    @raboesperto

    9 жыл бұрын

    NapoleonLouverture lol, indeed, i just noticed it, myself .. lmao

  • @fratersol

    @fratersol

    5 жыл бұрын

    Darth Mongoose yes correct

  • @mikhailv67tv
    @mikhailv67tv5 жыл бұрын

    Makes you wonder who went home? AGC was completely obliterated at Bagration AGN didn't go home according to the doco. AGS had Stalingrad

  • @SNP-1999
    @SNP-19995 жыл бұрын

    Viewers should also check the "TIK" channel for the series "The Courland Pocket" which goes into great detail describing the political background, the strategies of both sides, very detailed Orders of Battle and of course, the military operations and battles fought in the Balkan States in 1944-45. Great research lies behind the series and the producer has come up with an interesting and more probable conclusion that, contrary to what all the German generals said and wrote after the war, Hitler did not forbid the armies to withdraw from Estonia etc. In fact, he agreed to a organised withdrawal in stages....the rest you can please take from the series. 🌟 This documentary about Army Group North however is also excellent and for once in such films, the experts making comments really do know what they are talking about. It was interesting that the Army Group command never allowed one of its Divisions to be withdrawn from the front line, fearing that it would be immediately transferred to one of the other two Army Groups. This shows clearly that the best Wehrmacht troops were in Army Group North, which again makes it clear that later in 1944 - 45 the German army's best soldiers were sacrificed fighting a rear guard action that they couldn't win. Whose "fault" this was - Hitler's or his Generals (please see my comment above) - is debatable, but the fact remains that a whole Army Group (!) was left out to hang and dry by its High Command.

  • @TheSaturnV
    @TheSaturnV5 жыл бұрын

    Is Steven Walsh trying to keep from waking his mother down the hall?

  • @lundilar

    @lundilar

    3 жыл бұрын

    He is horrible!

  • @morokolli8700
    @morokolli87003 жыл бұрын

    This is good document!!.

  • @jona.scholt4362
    @jona.scholt43625 жыл бұрын

    @ 5:00 "And three security divisions." (Cue ominous sound effect)

  • @svegxl
    @svegxl Жыл бұрын

    This channel should have millions of subscribers, They have some good stuff here.

  • @morokolli8700
    @morokolli87003 жыл бұрын

    This is good document.

  • @nickphillips4559
    @nickphillips4559 Жыл бұрын

    GOD Bless y'all!!!!!!!

  • @donfrandsen7778
    @donfrandsen77782 жыл бұрын

    Outstanding Video and subject eastern front madness

  • @andraslibal
    @andraslibal5 жыл бұрын

    Had Army Group North enjoyed priority in reinforcements and equipment it might have entirely encircled Leningrad, but more importantly it might have cut the Kola peninsula off from Russia. With a German submarine base in the White Sea the whole land-lease route from Murmansk and across the Barents sea could have been shut down. Moscow was indeed the worst possible target in late 1941 - either push for the White Sea in the North in conjunction with the Finnish, or keep the panzers in the Ukraine and set up 1942 early - a push to the Don and perhaps even Voronezh and Rostov was feasible in late 1941 had the Army group center just stopped at Smolensk and dug in. A 1942 summer offensive starting from those bridgeheads might have cut off the Caucasus and the oil. In this respect pushing for Moscow was about as senseless as bombing London.

  • @TheMCD1989
    @TheMCD19895 жыл бұрын

    How did they manage to feed 200.000 horses with 1940s equipment? That's almost as crazy to me as all the other numbers.

  • @henstrongagunaeto8042
    @henstrongagunaeto80422 жыл бұрын

    Excellent

  • @anthonydemont9035
    @anthonydemont9035 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome Documentary 💯💯💯💯💥💥💥💥💥

  • @jorgegutierrez4654
    @jorgegutierrez46549 жыл бұрын

    That,at least for a brief moment.

  • @CommunistSpyware
    @CommunistSpyware9 жыл бұрын

    if we keep trying to make hell on earth, we may finally awake the real demons.

  • @erich.marks0
    @erich.marks06 жыл бұрын

    38:30 zzzzzz...rrr...zzzzz... The "boom" wake me up

  • @jeremy28135
    @jeremy281355 жыл бұрын

    32:29 narraror laughs at "mushroom shaped pertrusion" lol

  • @ericpelote998
    @ericpelote9985 жыл бұрын

    Your opinion !! I learned something nevertheless cause i just listen

  • @oleriis-vestergaard6844
    @oleriis-vestergaard6844 Жыл бұрын

    The war in the artic was cold and hard - an after the finns switced side the 250.000 german soldiers walked over to Norway - the russian forces kept the pressure up even if the had gone into Norway - the scorced earth politic meant that the germans blew the hole infastructur up during retreat , Every - Thing went up by eksplosives leaving the area barren

  • @jonaskuiper5859
    @jonaskuiper58596 жыл бұрын

    The german army was the biggest horse army ever with 600000 horses.

  • @heinzguderian9980

    @heinzguderian9980

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yummy

  • @geraldfahey2681

    @geraldfahey2681

    5 жыл бұрын

    Those poor horses met a grisly fate

  • @sovietwombat8194

    @sovietwombat8194

    5 жыл бұрын

    Gerald Fahey so did the Wehrmacht

  • @geraldfahey2681

    @geraldfahey2681

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@sovietwombat8194 yes

  • @PRLcafe
    @PRLcafe5 жыл бұрын

    Riga has Latvian population historian bros !

  • @HeadsUpSnGGuY
    @HeadsUpSnGGuY9 жыл бұрын

    This episode is almost exactly like Battlefield: Leningrad. There is very little difference in the narration and script used between the two shows.

  • @alandemaio3043

    @alandemaio3043

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, this is a forgery...the narrator of Battlefield is much better though

  • @DeltaSniperZRR
    @DeltaSniperZRR6 жыл бұрын

    I have never heard of this documentary. A great in-depth view on the Eastern Front. Is this also available on dvd?

  • @robertbruce7772

    @robertbruce7772

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes it is with the title Scorched Earth Army Group North.

  • @lewistaylor2858
    @lewistaylor28585 жыл бұрын

    So if Army Group North had been given the divisions and resources it required to take Leningrad and then had taken the city and removed the northern wing of the Red army would Germany have won? would these 30 divisions that could have been sent to Army Group centre or provide an attack on Moscow from the North have given victory?

  • @soundslave
    @soundslave9 жыл бұрын

    I just noticed the title typo.

  • @Treetop64
    @Treetop649 жыл бұрын

    3:35 - "The Stukas of Luftflotte 1 were to provide the flying artillery for the lightning attack on June 22." Curious, since Luftflotte 1 had not a single Stuka assigned to it at the outbreak of hostilities against the Soviet Union. The bulk of the surviving Stukas (after the heavy losses suffered in the battle of Britain) went to Fliegerkorps II and VIII of Luftflotte 2 in the Center, and the remainder went to Fliegerkorps V of Luftflotte 4 in the South. In fact, at the start of Barbarossa, Luftflotte 1 also had no Heinkel 111s assigned to it (again due to losses over Britain). Both the Stukas and the Heinkel bombers would come some weeks later in relatively small numbers, in time for operations against Kronstadt. At the start, only three squadrons of Ju-88s - plus a headquarters squadron - would be available to Army Group North for dedicated bombing and ground-attack duties.

  • @ohhhSmooth
    @ohhhSmooth Жыл бұрын

    Correction: Ernst Busch was not Fieldmarshal in 1941 yet. He was promoted in 1943. Correction2: 7:48 Riga is the Capital of Latvia, not Estonia. (Seems to be a rhetorical mistake, but still quiet embarrassing)

  • @Veaseify
    @Veaseify9 жыл бұрын

    08:40 - that's what passed for a highway in Russia, easy to see how the Germans (or anybody else) would get bogged down in bad weather!

  • @kevjtnbtmglr
    @kevjtnbtmglr7 жыл бұрын

    14:40 the KV-1 was used against Finland in 1939-1940. How can it be unknown type.

  • @brianhoward1568
    @brianhoward15685 жыл бұрын

    The winter must have been unbearable on the front lines. Imagine a Russian Winter!

  • @thekoneill8

    @thekoneill8

    3 жыл бұрын

    You’ve never been to Wyoming in the winter have you?

  • @chiefrebelangel817
    @chiefrebelangel8175 жыл бұрын

    46:44 , they didn't pay the price for fighting until the end, they paid the price for atrocities they did in their 4 years occupying ussr

  • @datsun7918
    @datsun79185 жыл бұрын

    Eternal glory. Warriors forever!

  • @arek314
    @arek3149 жыл бұрын

    14:25 I find it hard to believe that 150mm howtizers couldn't stop T-34/76 or KV-1. I assume it were 15 cm sIG 33 which had projectiles filled with 8,3 kg of explosives. To compare SU-152 with 152 mm howtizer could disable or destroy Tiger with HE blast alone had UP TO 8,8 kg, most models had around 6 kg of TNT.

  • @mattmccabe2312

    @mattmccabe2312

    5 жыл бұрын

    arek314 they could but questions was aiming,88 anti air was used one best cannons ever produced

  • @04u2cY
    @04u2cY5 жыл бұрын

    If Germany had fought on only one front western or Eastern front I wonder how things would of turned out.

  • @Mishkafofer

    @Mishkafofer

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not good. USA nuclear bombs were made for Germany but it lost before.

  • @mgtowdream8972

    @mgtowdream8972

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Mishkafofer very true. i think germany on one front would of dominate europe with ease until usa dropped the a bomb

  • @jefvarnadore2267
    @jefvarnadore22672 жыл бұрын

    What percentage of the German soldiers actually fought? What I mean is I know that some were mechanics others were cooks etc

  • @Radrook353
    @Radrook353 Жыл бұрын

    I can barely hear the narrator. Any way to boost the volume?

  • @scottyfox6376
    @scottyfox63765 жыл бұрын

    I've heard that the Allies could have tried to assassinate Adolf but decided to leave him in place. The theory was that his incompetence & interference was doing enough damage to the Werhmacht. Besides his likely replacement would be far more of a militarily competent (Goering ? or Raeder) & that wasn't desirable. Does anyone know of this subject pls?

  • @jonbyron38

    @jonbyron38

    5 жыл бұрын

    I have read the same

  • @manic2360

    @manic2360

    4 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/dWGE0piDc9uqiLQ.html

  • @Jeep4X
    @Jeep4X5 жыл бұрын

    They should have fired that Stephen Walsh guy from the RMA at Sandhurst. He's impossible to understand! He mumbles, talks quietly so you can't hear him, trails off during his comments. I pity his students! They probably have no idea what this guy says or teaches. Other than him a very interesting video.

  • @thinkingagain5966

    @thinkingagain5966

    5 жыл бұрын

    The guy is clearly on some kind of downers

  • @ftffighter
    @ftffighter9 жыл бұрын

    I'd like my scotched earth on the rocks please

  • @affafa100
    @affafa1003 жыл бұрын

    Anybody knows where I can get the background music at 14:00.

  • @maksmadman
    @maksmadman2 жыл бұрын

    That’s why the Killings were Severe at that Section... Latvians, Estonians, Lithuanians were friends and actually took and did best in atrocities..... Army Group North took certain Lands ...

  • @garytucker2769
    @garytucker27695 жыл бұрын

    RIP,superb soldiers.

  • @karagothshlomidabush3727
    @karagothshlomidabush37274 жыл бұрын

    there should be 100k likes on these videos not 2k

  • @xuan-gottfriedyang5094
    @xuan-gottfriedyang50947 жыл бұрын

    Heeresgruppe Kurland war die einzige Armeegruppe die nicht gezwungen wurde

  • @averagehans9190

    @averagehans9190

    4 жыл бұрын

    xuan-gottfried YANG Sie meinen „bezwungen“.

  • @karrole88
    @karrole888 ай бұрын

    Others waited untill germans were defeated and then claim victory😅.

  • @samkolkka7084
    @samkolkka70847 жыл бұрын

    There seems to be some strange contradictions in this document. On the other hand it says finns were actively participating in the siege of Leningrad and cut the Murmansk railway line and on the other hand it says finns did not do either and it was something russians never forgot. I know which part I believe is true. I've seen the letter russian authorities sent to finnish government during the war. Basically the letter said... "it will not be forgotten how finnish people refused to close the siege ring on Leningrad"

  • @jeanlastname2294
    @jeanlastname22945 жыл бұрын

    Why can't I hear half the shit that Stephen Walsh says?

  • @healdogtoe2c

    @healdogtoe2c

    5 жыл бұрын

    It is annoying, until you realize his commentary is redundant and rarely adds otherwise unnmentioned insight. Even so it is curious that they didn't notice he is constantly slipping into a whisper.

  • @ayelet5850
    @ayelet58504 жыл бұрын

    Tottenkompf division was in that Pocket

  • @SuperRip7
    @SuperRip72 жыл бұрын

    John Erickson died in 2002.

  • @JulianEmdon
    @JulianEmdon5 жыл бұрын

    Then who gave them the medals if they lost?

  • @skipschnepp8445
    @skipschnepp84455 жыл бұрын

    Men just trying to stay alive

  • @edwardstevens1438
    @edwardstevens14384 жыл бұрын

    The great German Heer.

  • @38dragoon38
    @38dragoon388 жыл бұрын

    "Scorched" not "scotched".

  • @williamfroh8830

    @williamfroh8830

    5 жыл бұрын

    38dragoon38 depending on if you speak American or. British English

  • @menges70
    @menges706 жыл бұрын

    What I so not understand ist the question of air suprority. Why could the Luftwaffe support their troops like the western Allied did later in France?

  • @valentincheval3878

    @valentincheval3878

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ressources. Oil. Production. Those are the three main reasons.

  • @ericpelote998

    @ericpelote998

    5 жыл бұрын

    Simple !!! No strategic bombers , short-range Fighters !!!

  • @peterconnell2496
    @peterconnell24965 жыл бұрын

    Few people get me as angry as that jerk from the military college. How dare he make so little effort to speak intelligibly. His primary function is to communicate, not affect schoolmaster who gets off on making his captive audience hang on his words. He barely moves his lips and sounds about to yawn. I have to FF him he is so annoying. No subtitles, but that's beside the point. How dare he?

  • @ericpelote998

    @ericpelote998

    5 жыл бұрын

    Are u serious ?

  • @donlucazz

    @donlucazz

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ericpelote998 I think he is, this Walsh is really not the right person for this job. "Horrible performance" still not enought for describe how bad he is.

  • @lundilar

    @lundilar

    3 жыл бұрын

    Peter, I feel you, man. He is so annoying, my blood pressure is rising.

  • @mikhailv67tv
    @mikhailv67tv5 жыл бұрын

    SOME RUSSIAN OR GERMAN OR BALTIC FILM PRODUCER NEEDS TO DO A FILM ON THE ARMY GROUP NORTH, WHAT A BUNCH H EROES AND WHAT A SLUG FEST

  • @stealmysunshine

    @stealmysunshine

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think theres a couple of clips of a film on KZread. Worth a search my friend

  • @EVANGELOSS54
    @EVANGELOSS548 жыл бұрын

    I tried up until 36:50 to NOT comment on the ridiculously annoying voice of Stephen Walsh ... like Ritter von Leeb i too FAILED

  • @ivm1983

    @ivm1983

    7 жыл бұрын

    Ridiculous and ANNOYING

  • @mathewpike2581

    @mathewpike2581

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes my god, guy has the weirdest speech cadence ever, as if there were someone turning the volume up and down while talking while Steven Walsh accomplishes this effect naturally lol

  • @mikhailv67tv

    @mikhailv67tv

    5 жыл бұрын

    I thought you'd attacked the Narrator.. no the rent a historian, yes I get it he's crap

  • @anttiniskanen9823
    @anttiniskanen98235 жыл бұрын

    Suka is ww2 a-10assault plane☺☺😉!!..

  • @geeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzz
    @geeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzz5 жыл бұрын

    I can sense a kind of respectful sadness at the downfall of this admirably heroic German army. I wonder how different things would be now had they won. Perhaps the UK should have left them to it and maybe Europe wouldn't have had Merkel & Macron and be in the mess it's in now. I'm not politically correct of course and probably not allowed to think or even consider that. I suppose it wouldn't have made any difference as we'd still all be owned by banks.

  • @laopang91362
    @laopang913625 жыл бұрын

    Aggression meets the bitter end. Hope we are all smarter today.

  • @gmiller8260

    @gmiller8260

    5 жыл бұрын

    People are sadly far dumber now than 80 years ago.

  • @maksmadman
    @maksmadman2 жыл бұрын

    It is Story Americans should look into

  • @davidwoods7408
    @davidwoods74085 жыл бұрын

    I hope Walsh doesn't lecture! His speaking habits are obnoxious.

  • @lundilar

    @lundilar

    3 жыл бұрын

    Amen!

  • @peteclarke9416
    @peteclarke94162 жыл бұрын

    Stayed at large dint they, army group north. These battles seemed to decide the ultimate outcome of ww2. 6th army being the biggest catastrophy and a turning point

  • @backtosleep
    @backtosleep7 жыл бұрын

    Those poor soldiers. I wonder what ww3 will look like.

  • @xuan-gottfriedyang5094

    @xuan-gottfriedyang5094

    7 жыл бұрын

    I'm sure Russians would win, because they have so many 5th colonists in West europa and the states (see Brexit and Trump, and this year also Marie le Pen)

  • @xuan-gottfriedyang5094

    @xuan-gottfriedyang5094

    7 жыл бұрын

    likesmilitaryhistory Alan Moore I don't think so. The future wars take place in internet, cyberspace, the so called information-wars

  • @likesmilitaryhistoryalanmo9568

    @likesmilitaryhistoryalanmo9568

    7 жыл бұрын

    if that is the case that Russia would not stand a chance as US technology is years ahead of Russia.

  • @xuan-gottfriedyang5094

    @xuan-gottfriedyang5094

    7 жыл бұрын

    likesmilitaryhistory Alan Moore But russian have many 5th colonists in West europa In Germany they have afd and Linke in france they have front nationale

  • @xuan-gottfriedyang5094

    @xuan-gottfriedyang5094

    7 жыл бұрын

    likesmilitaryhistory Alan Moore I m not expert in IT technology and Cyberwar. But the fact is till now russian hackers have attacked Germany and the USA, not conversely

  • @adquidorator3374
    @adquidorator33745 жыл бұрын

    @27:30-27:50 sounds like a backwater to me.

  • @AuraSanatrix
    @AuraSanatrix8 жыл бұрын

    lawl scotched earth haha

  • @charlesjackson7904
    @charlesjackson7904 Жыл бұрын

    Micahs daddy was killed on the Stalin line

  • @simehong2000
    @simehong20005 жыл бұрын

    Devil : keep fight and kill each other homan..I don't like peace

  • @stealmysunshine

    @stealmysunshine

    5 жыл бұрын

    Agreed

  • @Collector422
    @Collector4225 жыл бұрын

    Why is that guy whispering????

  • @jussipankalainen6849
    @jussipankalainen68493 жыл бұрын

    I remember you

  • @finnmacaodhain2400
    @finnmacaodhain24005 жыл бұрын

    Are we sure it's Stephen's real voice? In my opinion it looks a bit like unsynched lip/dub stuff from Hong Kong movies in the 70s...

  • @fuzzydunlop7928
    @fuzzydunlop79285 жыл бұрын

    This is the second time I've seen this series fuck up the location of Riga. What the hell is wrong with them? lol

  • @martynmoore8512
    @martynmoore85129 жыл бұрын

    What are security divisions

  • @Greendragon420able

    @Greendragon420able

    9 жыл бұрын

    Police and rear area forces.

  • @MikeJones-mr8cn

    @MikeJones-mr8cn

    9 жыл бұрын

    ***** The Einstazgruppen were divided into 4 groups(A,B,C, and D) and came behind the army and killed everyone that they considered unwanted.

  • @MikeJones-mr8cn

    @MikeJones-mr8cn

    9 жыл бұрын

    The Einsatzgruppen were the security divisions that went behind the Army and murdered anyone they considered unwanted. They murdered around 1.4 million civilians on the Eastern front, mostly women and children who were shot in cold blood.

  • @scottyfox6376
    @scottyfox63765 жыл бұрын

    41:12min I don't often see the STG44 in action (auction price $28,750 US). Dear Santa I've been good this year & if you have some STG44's or MG42's (value $40,000 to $60,000 US) lying around I'd really really would like one in my stocking..🎅🎅🎅

  • @stealmysunshine

    @stealmysunshine

    5 жыл бұрын

    .22 lr versions are nice cheap modern reproductions. Though I'm assuming you're talking proper ones 😉. Funnily enough a load have turned up in the Syrian Civil War

  • @emirb.a.745d7
    @emirb.a.745d75 жыл бұрын

    That welsh guys needs a shake to fix his voice.

  • @lundilar

    @lundilar

    3 жыл бұрын

    No, he needs to be dismissed.

  • @WISKEYFOXTROT1
    @WISKEYFOXTROT15 жыл бұрын

    The guy with the pink shirt sounds like he has a curly black hair stuck in the back of his throat....speak up man!!

  • @lundilar
    @lundilar3 жыл бұрын

    I loathe these videos where no thought is given to the effectiveness of the commentators. Stephen Walsh is so soft-spoken that he has me pulling my hair out trying to comprehend what the hell he is saying. Please, I beg you, send him to Siberia somewhere.

  • @robertglenn5398
    @robertglenn53988 жыл бұрын

    Had Hitler possessed wisdom and an ego under logical control, Operation Barbarossa would have succeeded had he listened to his generals in the field. Guederian foresmost among the brainpower he had in order to inform Hitler the logistical concerns of attacking on a three prong front. Why HItler decided to merely encircle Leningrad, I've never understood. The artillery was of medium strength and could not have been expected to level a killing blow as well as the undermanned units engaged.

  • @likesmilitaryhistoryalanmo9568

    @likesmilitaryhistoryalanmo9568

    8 жыл бұрын

    +robert glenn If he had not been so brutal in the Soviet Union he could have raised an army of several million of anti-communist Soviets, there were many willing to fight against Stalin. In the Ukraine for instance there were anti-Communist partisans fighting a bitter war against pro-Soviet partisans, one Soviet General, General Nikolai Vatutin was ambushed and killed by one such group. Many people at first welcomed the Germans as liberators but as the brutal racial programes of the Nazi took a hold those same people turned against them and went into the forests to join the partisans

  • @widg3tswidgets416

    @widg3tswidgets416

    8 жыл бұрын

    You could say this of virtually every single city the Nazi army was in, or near to. Thats maneuver warfare. You pick and choose you're battles, and overwhelm the enemy where it counts. Maneuver warfare is great at overthrowing governments, and winning wars. It has it's weaknesses and the selection of targets to bear the full weight of your force is important, to say the least. But the idea that anyone was going to conquer Europe, and indeed, even moreso Russia, in any other manner is a joke. If you're planning to conquer, or fight amongst such a large landmass as russia, then the objective is, and has always to be-- Moscow, and nothing else. The rest of the brown, green, grey, and white stuff under your feet, the rest of the country...is just a distraction.

  • @mrlongpork3955

    @mrlongpork3955

    8 жыл бұрын

    +robert glenn I completely agree with you...Hitler's ego was so inflated by then and of course all the yes men surrounding him explains the obvious lack of logic there. Plus fact they chose to destroy the native people rather than have the opportunity of there help in destroying the government who was responsible for so much death. But there are other reasons of course like no long range bombers to destroy Russia's war arm's production.

  • @Veaseify

    @Veaseify

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Widg3t's Widgets Napoleon captured Moscow, the Russians just burnt it to the ground making it useless to the French..they have (or had) a different mentality to us Westerners...

  • @robertglenn5398

    @robertglenn5398

    8 жыл бұрын

    Krauty McLederhosen I like you, someone who actually knows. Love the name. Hey. Let's hear it for those marvelous bastards from the 6th army group, Wehrmacht. Cheers

  • @dennisweidner288
    @dennisweidner288 Жыл бұрын

    As in most of these videos, there is no explanation of why the Red Amy sustained such fr greater losses than the Ostheer. And I don't mean Brbrossa, but this was the case throughout the War.

  • @robertbruce7772

    @robertbruce7772

    Жыл бұрын

    Soviet casualties in E Prussia at the end were absolutely horrific!!!! They mirrored those during the opening phases of the war in the East. The Germans fought like possessed demons!

  • @dennisweidner288

    @dennisweidner288

    Жыл бұрын

    @@robertbruce7772 Nothing in all of history mirrored what happened in the opening phase of Barbarossa. The Soviet losses were monumental. We are talking about some 3 million men. Most were captured and then murdered by the Wehermancht (not the SS) in the winter of (1941-42). I take your point that the Germans fought hard, but I will point out to you that a substantial portion of German military losses occurred in the last year of the War--beginning with Bagratiion and to a lesser extent D-day.

  • @robertbruce7772

    @robertbruce7772

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dennisweidner288 The fighting for E Prussia produced a casualty rate that just about mirrors that. It was a fight to the death for the Germans and it showed in the amount of casualties on both sides. Russia sustained Barbarossa type casualties, while a ton of German understrength divisions were obliterated. It was a true Gotterdamrung for the Germans, but it was very horrendous for the Red Army.

  • @dennisweidner288

    @dennisweidner288

    Жыл бұрын

    @@robertbruce7772 What is your source for the Soviets losing 3 million men in East Prussia?

  • @martosjc
    @martosjc9 жыл бұрын

    no fucking volume as usual... great