My dad was born and raised in Nuremberg. He was 8 years old in 1945. He told me that shortly after President Roosevelt's death, a man ran through his street, yelling "Roosevelt is dead - we're going to win the war".

@janvannoord3012

2 ай бұрын

Wish I would have known your Father he must have been a great man!

@Bryansijben

2 ай бұрын

yeah they got him like the fuck us all over unite or de against a cmmon foe its simple

@user-hl3qv8qg2s

2 ай бұрын

Spartans of XX century. sadly they lost. and with them: Europe. go to london or paris.... not white cities anymore

@user-lv3xo9it5q

Ай бұрын

​@@Bryansijbenwhat me no habla compadre

@user-lv3xo9it5q

Ай бұрын

​@@user-hl3qv8qg2s I got told not to tell u how I feel.If u judge people by the color of their skin their language or their religion ur a burden to peace and prosperity

A typically grim Teutonic joke sums it up, “enjoy the war, the peace will be worse”.

@jamesdeluca6657

2 ай бұрын

😂

@darkwoodwarlord

2 ай бұрын

Sounds like Ukrainian joke nowadays.

@SuperOdyss

2 ай бұрын

Supposedly the people of Berlin at Christmas 1945 joked: "Give your loved one something he can use, give him a coffin."

@oldi184

2 ай бұрын

If Hitler: 1) Did not attack the USSR in June 1941 2) Choke the British through the Suez Canal 3) Did not declare war on America in December 1941 The outcome of the war could have been different.

@SuperOdyss

2 ай бұрын

@@oldi184 No. Socialist Germany lost the war the day Great Britain declared war. Britain embargoed oil to the continent and every economy the socialist Germans conquered became a millstone as they had no energy to power it. By the end of the war the whole continent of Europe was starving because the Germans took all the horses off all of the farms to use in the war. Britain alone could have taken down Germany as long as the USSR did not GIVE Germany supplies. It may have been more like what happened in the cold war with a long time to starve out the continent.

As soon as Stalin was able to successfully move factories eastward deeper into Russia and outside the bombing range of the Luftwaffe, Germany had lost the war. Germany simply could not outproduce Russia AND America. The very fact that Germany even held on as long as it did, is a testament to how advanced their war machine was from a technological standpoint. For example 4 Panzers could easily take out about 50 Russian tanks on the eastern front, that was the ratio. The problem, at least for Germany though, is that for every 50 tanks Russia lost, Russia was producing hundreds to replace

@Gallagherfreak100

2 ай бұрын

Germany's main problem was always, lack of fuel. Well into 1942, Germany was powering it's war machine with fuel purchased from the Soviet Union. The partially successful air raid on Ploesti in 1943 further cut into their fuel supply. Then, in 1944 Germany lost access to Romanian and Hungarian oil supplies. At this point, Germany was totally dependent on synthetic fuel, produced from coal. USAAF concentrated on bombing these syn fuel plants, until literally, Germany ran out of gas in early 1945.

@stevenwoeste7428

2 ай бұрын

It's interesting to know that the synthetic fuel plants used processes designed and tested by the U.S., and the plants were built based on U.S. designs. All this was done before the war started.

@williamgordon3262

2 ай бұрын

L9

@joshmonus

2 ай бұрын

​@@stevenwoeste7428 Not only did American financial interests help build/finance Germanys war machine, they did the same with Japan. You need to have bad guys if you want to justify extremely lucrative and profitable wars.

@ratatataget

2 ай бұрын

​@@joshmonus and you think that anybody thouth that in 1933 to 1935 that germany would start another world war3

Very concise and correct reasoning for the continuing of resistance even when all was lost. Would be a good lesson for other conflicts, (Find out the reasons why your enemy fights ~~then fight against those reasons).

Correction: Stalin began "Bagration" NOT "a few days", but 16 days later, which is almost the same delay (17 days) Stalin played against Hitler in their war against Poland.

@Fuxerz

2 ай бұрын

Both sides were equally evil. The most evil of them are with the Chinese Communist. I can go with the Germans, but not the concentration camps no way. That's where they lose me.

I think one overlooked reason was that the end was quick. From September 1944-February 1945 the German people saw the allies stuck in Poland or stuck in France. They could still fool themselves that the Reich could hold out, they repelled the attack on Warsaw in the east and the Bridge too far in the west. Then in about 12 weeks the whole country was swallowed up.

"it was about winning or being eternal slaves".. and today that hits hard..

@iwillnoteatzebugs

27 күн бұрын

Yep today they are slaves of USA . Eveey nation in europe is a vassal of USA

@merkabah2

17 күн бұрын

would have been a different kind of slave waking up in the third reich each day

Out with a bang instead of a whimper

@tolik5929

2 ай бұрын

Out is out . Just sayin

@mstash5

2 ай бұрын

@@tolik5929 we're coming back.

@tolik5929

2 ай бұрын

@@mstash5 Have fun with that ...all of EU might want to learn to speak Chinese . Fortunately , we are isolated by geography .....I kind of envy Austrailia in that respect .

@SeamHead33

2 ай бұрын

@@tolik5929 so which side are you on?

@tolik5929

2 ай бұрын

@@SeamHead33 The side that won .

Thank You so much for taking the time and research to answer, with great clarity, this complex and fascinating question. I believe All of your points are quite valid, and essentiall correct. Again, my heartfelt Thanks, to You!

Very concise and accurate explanation for heightened German resistance even when the war was lost.

@ronaldmessina4229

2 ай бұрын

It is too dang bad that the GERMAN resistance continued on to fight until the bitter end 😢,just because they were ordered to do so 😢😢

@piyushsharan406

2 ай бұрын

@@ronaldmessina4229 they weren't ordered to. they literally wanted to resist till the end.

@techelitesareadisease8816

2 ай бұрын

@@ronaldmessina4229 They continued because they were righteous and their enemies were not. It is that simple.

@fluffy1931

2 ай бұрын

@@techelitesareadisease8816 Nothing to do with getting curb stomped all the way back into the heart of the 'fatherland' is that simple.

@Gregarius91

2 ай бұрын

​@@fluffy1931Communism is an economic failure. That is what the Germans were fighting.

Another reason for german troops at the eastern front was that they didnt want to get captured by the soviet.

@VoxMax1200

17 күн бұрын

And in the end they were still captured by the Soviets. What nonsense.😂

Knowing what happened in Rhine Meadows and some of what happened to pow's turned slaves in ussr, I will never surrender.

By far the main reason for the insistence on "fighting to the death" can be found in the allies' declaration at Casablanca (1943) which clearly and irrevocably stated that the only way WWII was going to end was with the "unconditional surrender" of all Axis forces. This gave Goebbels his rational for "total war" and excluded any possibility of a negotiated outcome or a "cease fire" type armistice such as that ending WWI. As one German fighter pilot described in years later, "We had nothing to lose." That was clearly reason #1.

@user-hs1qq1rs9d

2 ай бұрын

Tak masz absolutna racje

@danf4447

2 ай бұрын

and yet somehow the fighter pilot lived...meaning he either didnt believe it , was a coward, or accidently was such a bad pilot he managed to live through it. .... pathetic.

@megaham1552

2 ай бұрын

Which is related to the 3rd point

@genehornung3295

2 ай бұрын

@charlescole3040 Unless they had surrendered en masse, the members of the German military had to keep fighting, because they would have been shot for cowardice if they didn't. On the Eastern Front, dying in combat was preferable to a long, slow death in a Siberian labor camp. Many of them were also still loyal to Hitler. The large majority of the letters sent home by the doomed members of the 6th army in Stalingrad said that they were proud to die for the Führer.

@patnor7354

2 ай бұрын

@@genehornung3295 You do realize that the letters were being read by censors, and that the soldiers would have known that..?

I note that there is no reference to the personal loyalty oath to Hitler. That seemed to keep a lot of them fighting till Hitler died.

@mstash5

2 ай бұрын

How could it not?

@Cyd99

Ай бұрын

What is a man without his word?

@roguenation6720

Ай бұрын

yea. tell that to the troops deployed in Stalingrad. the longer that war dragged out they started loosing faith in him. "he was sending us to our deaths" that was in a memoir of one of the lieutenants stationed there. a absolute waste, one of the best advance military's of all time both the Wehrmacht and the SS division. elite soldiers and had some of the best gear but controlled by a corpral and a mad man. a shame and army like that under a good leader could of been one of the best defences Europe has. and everyone already feared and respected the Germans military even before the 3rd Reich

@mop330

16 күн бұрын

probably because it wasn't real

You didnt mention the Morgenthau Plan which must have played a part.

@chuckdacon4797

2 ай бұрын

Yes. I was going to say that. I understand some German soldiers gave that plan as a reason for continued resistance.

@SuperOdyss

2 ай бұрын

I am not sure how much the Germans knew of that plan otherwise Goebbels would have really used it.

@GhostRider659

Ай бұрын

@@SuperOdyss It was actually published by accident in September 1944 and used quite heavily in propaganda. However, the actual experience the Germans got from their encounters with the Americans somewhat dampened the impact.

The war went on for so long that many of the soldiers were conditioned to fight and didn’t know anything else. After years of kill or be killed, what other option did they have but to continue until the end?

@chrisschultz8598

2 ай бұрын

German soldiers called it "Schicksalgemeinshaft," brotherhood of fate. And that summed it up.

@matt47110815

2 ай бұрын

Very few Soldiers actually made through "years of War" - those fighting I the last year were mostly newcomers, old and young, with little experience, with a few veterans among them. The most casualties happened I the last year of the war.

@user-hl3qv8qg2s

2 ай бұрын

Spartans of XX century. sadly they lost. and with them: Europe. go to london or paris.... not white cities anymore

@Jean_Jacques148

12 күн бұрын

@@user-hl3qv8qg2sstop spamming your sad neonatologist rhetoric

The sense of honour played the major role. Never forget that aspect.

The German „propaganda“ was correct about what would happen.

Thank you.

The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath.

@sevensice

3 күн бұрын

Batte of Evermore

It was a wonderful explanation about 7 reasons that imposed German warriors fought furiously on three sides....I think there was no alternative situational for ending the war about Germany. I think 6,7 ,and number 1 were the most efficiency factors that encouraged German warriors to fight stubbornly and furiously .. Thank you 🙏 ( war academy) channel for sharing.

@waracademy128

2 ай бұрын

Ty

@GermanClaus

Ай бұрын

It's funny - your wording seems as if you ware praising the soldiers of THE Nazi Army :D

The Wehrmacht and SS troops weren't "annihilated", but clearly defeated with terrible losses. Except the units in occupied Norway and Denmark. Losses not only on the battlefields but also in captivity.

Wow comments breathe life into my collapsing soul

@georgewilkie3580

2 ай бұрын

We're out here, Mike.

Or put simply they believed in what they fought for. A very rare sentiment especially lately.

“Then they will see how Germans fight” bro we already saw how you fight

Very informative content

They sought an alliance with the British as well.

@user-st9eo2ox7w

2 ай бұрын

The fusfsfsfit called churchill prevented this

I like your programs. Do you over-dub into English?

It’s crazy how close things could have changed in WW2, like the US wanting to take out Russia and land lease the Nazis, instead of supplying Russia which is why Russia was able to stand its ground.

@Jean_Jacques148

12 күн бұрын

Russia would had stood its ground anyway, they’d moved all of their industry far from the front, safe from Luftwaffe bombing

German troops had staunchness and tenacity that followed em to the grave. Surrendering to the Western Allies in June of 1944 would have given the 3rd Reich forces full protection by the American, British, French, and other western forces against the Soviet Russians.

Good history Channel

"The only way to achieve peace is to make the prospect of war seems hopeless"

It would not have made a difference what Hitler or Germans wanted. Britain wanted to completely knockout and destroy Germany. That is why they never agreed to cease fire. Not 1941 and certainly not in 1944-45. US wanted to occupy Europe which they have to this date. They did want Soviet weak which by end of the war Soviets were exhausted and the half of Europe they got like Soviet Union were in ruins. This exhausted Soviet block eventually collapsed in 1991. The effects of WWII stayed in Europe till early 2000.

Its heavily tied to the fact that germany so devoutly believed they only lost the war because the home population lost faith. In their minds they never lost militarily. So this time they fought to the end

Unconditional surrender never shortens wars.

@captainamerica6525

2 ай бұрын

The Germany of those times received exactly what they doled out in Europe x10. All Germany had to do to save it's people from being pounded to rubble is surrender. Yes, that surrender had to be unconditional...and so it was.

@shauny2285

2 ай бұрын

Indeed, there was a debate within the FDR administration between conditional and unconditional surrender. Obviously, the unconditional surrender camp won the debate.

@smallbutmightymma6171

2 ай бұрын

But it stops future wars

@captainamerica6525

2 ай бұрын

​@@shauny2285 You are correct. I think the Allies wanted no repeat of the aftermath of WWI. There was a myth in Germany about being betrayed by elements in their society. In addition this myth also made reference to the German military not being beaten on the battlefield. At the conclusion of the European theater of WWII there was no doubt in anyones mind Germany had lost the war.

@JessicaErnst-Yesilyurt-cl3oo

2 ай бұрын

@@captainamerica6525 Damit ihr euren Morgenthau-Plan möglichst schnell in die Tat umsetzen könnt und Deutschland noch schneller ausplündern könnt? NEIN

Didn’t have a choice, the allies were unanimous in unconditional surrender for the axis powers. No side deal was going to be cut. The USSR was on a rampage out for blood. The Red Army shot SS men on site and regular troops were in brutal labor gulags till the mid 1950’s for example. The Nazis knew the reality, delay the gallows another day with the blood of the young and old fighting a lost war.

They knew that the Soviets were going to do unto them that which they had done to the Soviet Union.

@theoderich1168

2 ай бұрын

Not quite right - they knew the Soviets would do to them what they had done to their own people since 1917. In other words: they already knew what was later going to be described by Gerard Menuhin in "Tell The Truth And Shame The Devil"; or by "Europa - The Last Battle".......... If you don't know either check them out, interesting stuff to say the least.

@danielnavarro537

2 ай бұрын

@@theoderich1168 Europe the last battle is a horrible 'documentary'. Use more credible sources from true historians.

@theoderich1168

2 ай бұрын

@@danielnavarro537 If only 30 % of this "documenntary" are more or less true history appears in a new light. Once you find out how "science" works, be it Physics, History or Ethnology you stop taking it too serious. "Facts" that make it into the mainstream narrative are carefully selected and as far as I can seethey mostly serve economic or political interests. When the pandemic started in Germany it was announced that "millions" would die; most people actually suffered from the vaccination and not from the disease.... Those "true historians" you are alluding to will probably be the ones recognised by the mainstream but does that guarantee truth....?

@guyuscoolius2326

2 ай бұрын

they were going to to become the fastest economically growing eastern bloc country that maintained german history and tradition combined with socialism? they got 50 million people killed for that?

@jhonjhon3715

Ай бұрын

@@danielnavarro537not one argument given why it’s a bad documentary.

They fought for their survival ...

The result of WW1 also would have played a factor. Both the "stab in the back" narrative and the Versailles "Peace With Honour" which turned out to be a lie.

0:10 It’s pretty cool to see Switzerland just chilling there, unbothered

All true, but the biggest reason was that Hitler wouldn’t allow surrender. Kershaw examines this in his book, ‘The End’. Any German soldier who suggested surrender, was shot. And a lot of soldiers still had faith in the Fuhrer.

@Whatt787

Ай бұрын

Germany shot dead 10,000 of their own soldiers for desertion cowardice, and defeatism

They should've just reclaimed German speaking lands for Germans and made their empire so great that no one would mess with them.

@danielhicks4826

Ай бұрын

Agreed they pushed to far its a damn shame cause all for nothing the anti European ironically named EU is disgusting, wide open borders, Whites even saying the words" I dont hate my people and think we should have nations where were the majority in our own nation" is slandered as "racist' by there own disgusting leftists etc etc.

@merkabah2

17 күн бұрын

greed and gluttony wins

@bart170

17 күн бұрын

This will be the downfall of our bigger eastern neighbour now pushing towards europe expanding and stealing land.

A German soldier told a story that he and a large group of other Germans were captured after a battle in 1945, as they sat in a open field guarded by American soldiers, the German soldier telling the story said He and many of them still believed that Hitler was going to turn the tide or war with new wonder weapons that were being kept secret and then only used when all the allied armies were allowed to advance into Germany so they could be wiped out with Hitlers new secret weapons, So they all thought they were not being beaten on the battlefield but everything was a plan to make the allies think they were winning to draw them in, So as this kind of talk began to circulate among his comrades a renewed sense of enthusiasm began to lift their spirit and it spread where others began to believe it also, It was in that time a really strong wind began blowing from seemingly out of no where , it was in that moment the German soldier said He and others believed it was one of Hitlers wonder weapons being used and this was the moment that Germany was turning the war around, But after a minute or so the wind stopped blowing hard and settled down to a mild breeze, The German soldier said it was in that moment that he realized how he had been brainwashed everything he was told was a lie and that the war was lost

enjoyed the video but the ai voice is such a throw off especially when trying to do that like echo-y voice when reading a quote

Not true. There were some 150K Wehrmacht and other forces of Germans in North and South Holland provinces still after wars end. They did not fight until their deaths. They just wanted to go home.

Excellent again. Thank You. I heard one U.S. veteran say, "I wanted to go home, but my father was wounded in WWI & we were doing it again. I had a two year old son & I was willing to keep on fighting & if necessary die to keep him out of this. We were going to end it". I've heard other veterans say similar things. The Unconditonal Surrender Demand was supported by the majority of the Allied populations. Yes there was no "Fourteen Points" in The Second World War. That had already been tried.

@matt47110815

2 ай бұрын

Turbo Capitalism. The fourteen points that were not really considered - instead especially France wanted to punished Germany and the US (Wall Street) wanted their money backm(after all, during WW1 the US Stock Market went down everytime Germany won a Battle, as the UK and France had to win in order to pay back Murica). So Germany had to accept the blame for WW1 to be ordered to pay. And then the Allies wondered why that lead to another war. BTW, if was Germany AND RUSSIA that invaded Poland in 1939 - the Western Allies allied with Russia, and Russia even kept eastern Poland after the War...

@robertsansone1680

2 ай бұрын

@@matt47110815 Yes, All Power to the Soviets. I always get a Commie moron who totally misunderstands the point.

@tom170670

2 ай бұрын

If "Fourteen Points" would have been in place, no WW2 would have taken place. Instead of this, the betray of Versailles was in place, and France wasn't even willing to fullfill that eg didn't to anything against the Polish uprises in Silesia in 1919/1920, although they had te mandate.

@robertsansone1680

2 ай бұрын

@@tom170670 I knew that I would get a comment like yours. I agree with all your points. My point was though, it was to late to correct the mistakes of the past & the Allies had to make a policy that was tailored for the situation at the time. With Nazi & Japanese fanaticism as it was, Unconditional Surrender, the occupation of those countries, & dismantling their ability to make war, were deemed to be the only option.

Living in North America it not a easy answer to understand .

This was very well done and historically accurate, but you didn't mention the fact that the German soldier had taken an oath to Hitler to fight to the end. I have to say that much of the propaganda about what the Russians would do, did take place. Women were raped, and men were sent to Siberia.

@danielhicks4826

Ай бұрын

Not propaganda if its true, in that case it happened to be true everything said about the Bolsheviks are true they are some of the bloody worst most savage in modern history.

Have you deliberately left out the most important reason of all - the Morgenthau Plan for a defeated Germany? It was only the cold war with the USSR that prevented it from being fully implemented I read.

We gotta change folks. Losing 140k Americans in Europe for no real reason is unacceptable. After Kursk, the war was over. German expansionism had collapsed. D-Day NEVER needed to happen. The worst thing is- Allied and Soviet leadership knew this. After the Battle for Britian, the Allies knew Germany had been beat in the West. No demands for peace were even uttered! Why say you? We'll never know. BTW, FUFDR!

If the allies had not stated "unconditional surrender" as their war aim it would have led to a couple of problems: 1) suspicion among them that one or more were angling for a separate and earlier peace plan. This suspicion was already present on the part of the Russians against US/UK. The 'early option' would have made this problem much greater. 2) if an early-out option had been present it might have led to agitation by some of the public of the western allies to end the war early. The people were already war-weary and many faced potential future loss of family members as the war dragged on and they perceived that war aims had been accomplished.

They still had a really huge Army, with men and arms and lots and lots of equipment to fight, but they could've fought on very well indeed

WW2 was Man vs. Evil and Man lost. Some things are so noble and so holy that they are worth fighting for until the last man and dying for.

@KoeppenLP

2 ай бұрын

Oh c'mon. National Socialism isn't noble, it's an grotesque, brutal Ideology which is more harmful to Humanity than Communism.

@SeamHead33

2 ай бұрын

​@KoeppenLP you're wrong

@swhip897

2 ай бұрын

​@@SeamHead33if there was nothing worth dying for, what are you living for?

@SeamHead33

2 ай бұрын

@swhip897 your question doesn't make sense, reread my comment

@chrisschultz8598

2 ай бұрын

So, mass murder and totalitarian terror is good?

Ruhe in frieden kameraden.✋🥀

Yup

Although it won't be popular, I believe there was little in wartime Britain that was not controlled by the authorities.

To gain time for the Diebner team for finishing the Nuclear Bomb, finally it was tested in Ohrdruf Thuringia but they had no wide range working rocket delivery system for the nukes. War was over before they could finish the america rocket A16.

@merkabah2

17 күн бұрын

i still cant figure out if that test fizzled out or it was a big conspiracy theory.. i think the latter

@Schlipperschlopper

17 күн бұрын

@@merkabah2 thatbtest took place and another one on bug island ner Rugen and another one within the destert of pustynia błędowska in Poland

Unconditional surrender made sure the Nazi leaders would do anything to keep this going. All the factors listed are accurate, but this is the biggest one. Even soldiers, as like mentioned, they wouldn't want to face slavery while leaving their families behind.

Obviously a virtual impossibility but would be intrigued to discover the ratios of the German populace who possessed even a vague notion of what was occurring in the East. Surely if it had been widespread then greater numbers would have swerved fighting to the bitter end although patriosm remains a strong pull.

I think this experience somehow shaped the US decision to nuke Japan in 1945. The Japanese learnt to build their war machine from Germany and were far more hardcore despite being inferior in weapons.

I belive the Channel "Historias bélicas que merecen ser contadas" is copying you, just translating what you say to spanish

Just completely forgot about that🤣, kinda a big thing

Doesn't matter if it would have helped or not. One should not make deals with insane people or countries. If you dont fight until complete and total surrender, then you will condemn your children to re fight the same enemy.

i live in California there was a German camp here they were treated good some didn't go back to Germany you can see it still to day they have become Americans

04/08/24: Superb narration. "Unconditional surrender" is a red herring. The Germans --- the minority of a one-time HUGE army --- weren't going to quit fighting, no matter what.

@captainamerica6525

Ай бұрын

Except that they did unconditionally surrender you would be right.

@donreed

Ай бұрын

@@captainamerica6525 Nice cliche. Write when you get work.

@captainamerica6525

Ай бұрын

​I don't​ need to try to rewrite history as you seem to be trying to do. Please tell us under what conditions Germany surrendered in WWII. Waiting@@donreed

I heard from some documentary , hitl3r want take south first before invade soviet but his general say invade soviet first . That's was a mistake cuz he invade south that is middle east they got oil reserve and able to control many thing .

The German attempt to capture Antwerp in the 1944 Battle of the Bulge very nearly succeeded. If it had done it would have been a huge setback for the western allies, and the Germans hoped that by making a further advance by the west impossible in the short term and very costly in the longer term, they could secure more generous peace terms. I doubt if any senior Nazi commander actually believed that winning the war wss a serious possibility unless Hitler could come up with wunderwaffen like the atomic bomb. In fact the Nazi A-bomb was still years away..

@sobobwas6871

2 ай бұрын

Very nearly? Hardly, they didn’t even cross the Meuse and if they had it was backstopped by reserves.

@bernardedwards8461

2 ай бұрын

@@sobobwas6871 It was stopped mainly by lack of fuel and the failure to capture an Allied fuel depot. Also the weather relented in January and enabled the west to use its airpower, which had previously been grounded. But for these factors the Germans might have reached Antwerp.

@sobobwas6871

2 ай бұрын

@@bernardedwards8461 ? Is your only research the film? A bit more than lack of fuel stopped them.

@bernardedwards8461

2 ай бұрын

@@sobobwas6871 Understandably there was resistance, but it is debatable how effective thart resistance would have been if the Nazis had all the fuel they needed. It was a gamble, and had the cards fallen in their favour it might have succeeded. Haven't seen the film.

@sobobwas6871

2 ай бұрын

@@bernardedwards8461 ? If they couldn’t even get to the Meuse, a large river crossing that by the time they got close then there was little chance of getting any further. Once the northern flank was reorganised and natural barriers to the advance such as weight limited bridges, terrain and road networks then any chance of success was very low. Then factor in the British reserve holding the Meuse, the massive response from American divisions from the south, the weather clearing and it was destined to fail. Fuel was one of many many strategic issues the German forces were to struggle with.

While continuing the fight will always be debated, the question i have is why Germany didnot resort to fighting as guerillas or some type of Fabian strategy (like the Romans used against the Carthaginians of Hannibal) Any expert commentary on this?

@Origami84

Ай бұрын

Guerilla works only against an enemy not willing to slaughter the civilians so long as it could eliminate insurgents. The red army would have killed literally every last german, if pushed. As for fabian tactics, they dont work nowadays anymore. They worked at the time only because armies were compact and slow.

@joseavila5747

24 күн бұрын

they did at Hürtgen Forest

If we look at Germany today, the "peace will be worse than war" is a spot on, perfectly valid argument.

@mstash5

2 ай бұрын

Truly

@thatgermanicguy

2 ай бұрын

My aunt had told me how she learned how the allies (especially the British) had done a lot to erase and demonize the culture in Germany. I’m no fan nor that I like nazism and fascism, but once you take away a man’s identity, he will spiral into the next conformity of destruction.

Do you know, what the hero thieves were? A troup of fanatic NS forces, who hanged every man they suspected of lack of believing in the "Endsieg", but they were saving their dear lives, when the allied came. They murdered numerous civil magistrates who would save their small toowns and villages. If my dad were still alive, he could tell horror stories of the "hero thieves" and the fear of young soldiers, who did clear know, the breakdown.

There were German wonder weapons. Two of them were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

simple answer because they knew who was coming to them they've been there before

Why my comment was deleted?

@Fuxerz

2 ай бұрын

Algorithms, my friend. Nothing to do with the author of this page. Fluff tube.😂

@SeamHead33

2 ай бұрын

yewtube

@waracademy128

2 ай бұрын

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@blitzy3244

2 ай бұрын

You aren't allowed to speak positively on the Germans or defend them even if your take is correct and factual

@Arselpang

2 ай бұрын

@@SeamHead33 Haha! 🤣

Number 8 Austrian painter gave them meths to fight

14 seconds in... the map made me leave. "III Reich" and "URSS" are both wrong lmfao.

Would be interesting to see what result would of been if Germany and Soviets joined together, Europe would of been conquered and UK would of eventually starved to death if Germans and Soviets could of blockade UK

They were BASED

@cb-7422

2 ай бұрын

They were unparalleled in their Basedness 😎

@SeamHead33

2 ай бұрын

@@cb-7422 100%

@manmadeaids

Ай бұрын

Had the best drip too.

@GrandSnow469

24 күн бұрын

Didn't know killing millions of white people is considered "based", how the times have changed

@Jean_Jacques148

12 күн бұрын

Based by fighting a useless fight they’d lose anyway? I respect fighting honorably but they literally started a destructive war, they got what was coming to them. Although innocents shouldn’t be dying for Hitlers ego.

After Kursk there was absolutely no way to win the war in Russia. If the decision had been made to dig in in 1943 as had been done around Rzev and simply assume a defensive posture to rest and reequip the Wehrmacht for a renewed push in 1944 then MAYBE they could have done it, but not after Zitadel.

In the last chapters of the wars, "Sippenhaft" was also heavely enforced. This ment, that if you were found guilty of a crime against the German Volk (like desertion, refusal to fight, defeatism or others), not only you would be punished, but your relatives could also suffer, in a range that went from social ostracism and denying of public help (wich was the only way to get food-rations, coal for the winter, and other things you needed to survive), to internation in disclipinary battalions (not good), jail (bad), or konzentrarion-camps (worse), knowing meahnwhile, that your chidren woould be taken away from your family and rised by the state to be good n*zis and pay for your "sins" with their blood...... That`s definitively a good reason to fight till your last breath.......because, while you can have doubts about the fate of your family under russian or american occupation......they knowed DAMM WELL what was going to happen to them if they p*ssed ofthe german authorities......

AND MOST. NATION COUNT.25% MORE FOR DRAW AND 40% FOR WIN.

The thumbnail looks like Robert DeNiro, without the pimple.

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Yup the Russians were not going all that way just turn around and go home.

Hitler bit off far more than he could chew,when he decided to invade the USSR !

@JG-tt4sz

2 ай бұрын

Well aren't you the master strategist.

@mrnygren2

2 ай бұрын

The biggest mistake was dragging the USA into the war in 1941 because he gambled that japan would then in kind declare war on the USSR, something Japan didn't do.

@WatchmyPlaylist.

Ай бұрын

its a large mis conception that people still believe hitler somehow had a choice in opperation barbarrosa. it was invade or be invaded, so premptive strategy was the only option. the russians were known to be gearing up for a full frontal invasion of western europe.

Yea this is the reasons Private Snuffy was fighting to the end. Hitler and friends were selfishly trying to preserve their regime especially since entering Germany would decisively show everyone their crimes. They need to make some WWII movies showing the perspective of rank and file Private Snuffy types towards the end of WWII for the Germans. We like to watch war movies showing the victories of the allies which do not get me wrong is good but its also good to watch a movie showing the perspective of the Army in defeat also. I liked the movie "Downfall" (2004) because it did a good job of showing the end of the world from the perspective of the people going through the last days of the war from the last bastion of resistance in Berlin. You could really see the fear in the characters as they knew the rope was coming.

Allies refused any surrender. Thus dragging on the war and deaths

The atrocities committed by the nazis on the Russian people from the beginning of operation barbarosa in June 41 were horrific … the fascists understood that they would be pay back .

the soviets that is wy the fought to the last man

There was only one reason, they knew how monstrously barbaric the Soviets were.

The Germans liked being solders . In other countries such as Italy the answer was no .Many of the out comes of how Allied victory are under lock and key .Germany today can be compared to a casino because its called the skim .

4:20 ma i introduce you to somthing most also did not knew. it was an actual plan. a brittish one supported buy patton. usa parliment did put an end to it.

There was no mention of the fear of retribution for the Nazi crimes committed against Jews and against the Russian people. Soldiers on the Eastern front in particular would have been aware of the atrocities that had taken place.

@genericscout5408

Ай бұрын

The answer would be, what's a Jew? is it a Indocambodian. You only fear retribution if you've been killing the women and children of wealthy elites...

They feared communism 😢

@WatchmyPlaylist.

Ай бұрын

we allied with communism. disgusting

Here comes the Keyboard SS. The Basement Berserkers 😂😂😂

They took the lesson from Stalingrad: surrender was NOT an option. Surrendering would be way worse

The only reason: the imposition of unconditional surrender by the Allies

Because they were patriotic and l9ved their country. And would fight to the last man. Like tf?

Only hope for the German people was to surrender to British or American troops and hope that they aren't sent to their homes in the Soviet sector of Germany.

Check Sönke Neitzel‘s „Kameraden“ to Unterstand the Frame of values („Werterahmen“) of the Wehrmacht soldiers

So Hitler probably escaped i only thought he was ready to get out

@Trust-me-I-am-a-dentist

2 ай бұрын

He did. He probably died in Spain somewhere early in the 1950's