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@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz

Жыл бұрын

FYI, that shutter Sfx only works with a flash frame, edit wise. Cheers great stuff

@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz

Жыл бұрын

I don’t see how Hitler could have been anything other than a Ratschild asset. He completely destroyed the Reich he helped create. Total p.o.s.

Ай бұрын

most of his generals were pro-vajazzle.

Everyone knew the score but the "big guy" lived in a drug induced fantasyland where every day counted as a victory.

I had read where Von Manstein was quoted as saying Hitler was a "tiger" at planning, but a "wimp" when it came to execution.

@MP_Monarch

26 күн бұрын

Xd manstein very Trustfull source

@garycombs5721

12 күн бұрын

You read a lie.

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This was an excellent video. Very well reported. Good job.

Great video with really interesting info showing that Hitler was his own worst enemy. I kept trying to figure out if the narration was computer generated or not, but once you appeared on screen I realized that it was a translation app and a very good one. Just subscribed.

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@joesmith6357

11 ай бұрын

Tragically?? Thx God the Russians destroyed the nazis!

Great channel! Best from Hamburg

In 1956 , West Germany was the biggest and fastest growing economy in Europe. For me it says it all about the Germans - 1945 , 5 m soldiers dead ( 80% from Soviet front ), 10 m soldiers pows, country split into 4 zones ,infrstructure destroyed, cities in ruins, millions of German citizens and ethnic German citizens displaced, and yet 11 years later, biggest economy in Europe again with only half a country - in ww2 as in ww1, strategically they lost in their poor choice of alliances

@markwarnberg9504

Жыл бұрын

Thank´s to the Marshel Plan and the German will to rise up again.

@scotttyson8661

Жыл бұрын

Too bad Merkel Woke them .

@chaimrosenberg5632

Жыл бұрын

Thanks to the George Marshall plan the Americans build them up not like Nazi Germany that took everything away from everyone like a bunch of thieves and criminals

@markwarnberg9504

Жыл бұрын

@Булат Тимиргазин Not without Americas Lend/Lease Program and without the 2nd front Russia would have lost even more men. Remember...It was America and the British who drove Rommel out of North Africa denying Germany badly needed oil.

@erenu8292

11 ай бұрын

Poor choice of allies was but one of several factors in Germany's defeat. Hubris was the main one.

One point not made is allowing Stalin to take over the eastern third of Poland, the Baltic states etc. in 1939-40, moving the German front 250 miles further from Moscow.

@ChuckNorris-gv8pv

Жыл бұрын

I think that was the only way to ensure soviets wouldn’t attack during mid 1940 when the germans were dealing with france

@jasonlee8156

Жыл бұрын

That was the result of a peace treaty signed between Germany and the USSR in 1939. Both countries agreed to it so here Hitler was to blame for that.

@jone8626

2 күн бұрын

That was when they were allies. In reality Stalin had already made a deal with Churchill to launch war on Germany. Something Hitler found out during the winter war when they forced a Soviet Diplomat plane down that was returning from London. Stalin had plans to invade Germany in 1941 September. Those documents have been declassified and are available to read. War with Russia was always going to happen, thanks to Churchill who made the pact with Stalin. Which is why England and France never declared war on USSR when they invaded Poland. Even thou they had a defensive pact with Poland. BTW in the deal Churchill made, he allowed Stalin to take Finland, Baltics, Ukraine and Romania. Just so they could destroy Germany once and for all.

It's hard to imagine how the war would have gone if the German general staff did not operate in a constant state of fear, trepidation, and restraint. But if the generals had been free to impose more of their will I think there are three things Hitler did that they would have opposed the most: (1) By the beginning of the war, anti-Jewish sentiment had spread due to Hitler's national narrative that began in 1930. This would include his subordinates, of course, but deep down, few of his generals were interested in extermining the Jews to the point of setting up concentration camps and especially since the effort took away resources better spent in actual combat against enemies. Keep in mind, German Jews were patriotic before Hitler came to power. Their contribution to Germany's war effort would have been enormous - but instead, Hitler threw away not just a segment of his population but an awful lot of brainpower and abilities when he instituted his Final Solution. (2) When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hitler in his glee foolishly declared war on the United States. Some may see it as a moot point and it's likely the U.S. would have entered the war with Britain against Germany regardless of such a declaration, but when Hitler did that it unified a divided American nation that differed on whether to get involved in a European war. It also supported the rationale of the Allied leadership to deal with Germany first, and then Japan. (3) The biggest blunder was Hitler's decision to break his pact with Stalin and attack the Soviet Union. His general staff knew it was foolhardy. They knew how far the supply lines would be stretched, they knew about the intolerable weather conditions, and I think they knew more than Hitler the mind of Stalin and the Russian people in their resolve to resist the German invasion. The eastern front was a meat grinder that depleted Germany of much of its military power. Try and imagine if the pact with Stalin held up and all those men, supplies, munitions and panzer divisions were available to resist the Normandy invasion in 1944.

@johnharrington1800

17 күн бұрын

The problem with the last point is Hitler was always going to attack the Soviet Union. Hitler hated Bolshevism since its inception and regarded it as a Jewish construct. He regarded Slava as untermencshen and he intended to depopulate the East and repopulate the region with "Aryan" people. A lot of these what if websites like to postulate what would have happened if Hitler never attacked the Soviet Union. It's a fool's errand. He was always going to invade the Soviet Union.

@raptorhacker599

15 күн бұрын

lol dude jewry declared war on germany. and japan was already under attack by the US just not in an obvious manner. thats why they chose to strike first to buy time.

Another great video

very good video!

Another great video.

@waracademy128

Жыл бұрын

Ty

It is amazing how fast this unraveling happened. Jumped too fast and got caught.

It's was big blunders that German attacked former Soviet union

@ronaldmessina4229

10 ай бұрын

hitler broke the non-aggression treaty that existed with the Russians, thought that he was a god, and that nothing could defeat the German armies..but time proved him to be a very bad dumb ass, many soldiers and civilians died because of his asinine decisions

@dalegribble1560

25 күн бұрын

They figured they needed to strike since Stalin wanted to invade Germany/Western Europe eventually anyways. The Nazi Germans got too greedy by picking a fight with the US and UK. Stalin wanted to spread Socialism/Communism but the Nazis also wanted to spread their ideology under the guise of defending Europe from Bolshevism. I agree with Patton that the wrong enemy was defeated though.

At 1:32, the guy in the right hand side of Himmler is indian revolutionary leader Subhas Chandra Bose.

I always had a image of Himmler as a crazy and lunatic man who think more with "passion" than with logic, I believed the way he was show in Downfall was "innacurate" but after this relate, he seem to be more logical than I expected. Of course by this point his was much more focused on how to save himself from execution or life in prision (maybe even a Gulag) but still he may not had been a pure fanactical like many believed.

@jasonlee8156

Жыл бұрын

Also he turned out a traitor to Hitler because he was trying to negotiate with the allies for a peace deal. When the situation was turning out to be hopeless he did what he could to save his own sorry ass. So yes he lost his nazi fanaticism, and was willing to give it up if it meant getting out of Germany and to a safer place.

@garycombs5721

12 күн бұрын

Himmler was far more of an opportunist than fanatic, always looking for ways to increase in power.

Excellent lesson from. History. What is Rauses book titled ?

hi, I have never heard of this general. I hope you make a bio video of his commands in ww2

That is so interesting and very amazing to know that Himmler said he agreed with the general. Wow that is pretty amazing stuff to think about at that time. And that Himmler said this to Hitler in the years prior. Most generals and high ranking leaders disagreed with operation Barborossa anyway but noone dared say anything. Great video and a nice glimpse into the thinking of Himmler.

@matty6848

Жыл бұрын

Agreed Jordan. I think most Generals knew that the beginning of operation Barborossa it was the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. As they History always repeats itself. Napoleon’s army suffered and lost in Russia due too the harsh winters, so did the British. What the Hell Hitler was thinking too repeat the exact same mistake is anyones guess?

@fatihorkunss

Жыл бұрын

Poland invasion was a mistake. Germans must defeat western allies first before attack soviets. Who would guarantie U.S would not enter battle? U.S waits for critical moment for war as they did same at ww1.

@infinity697

Жыл бұрын

were they against the operation strategy of barborossa? Or only against fighting two fronts?

@jordanwagner6212

Жыл бұрын

@@infinity697 both essentially

@severusfloki5778

Жыл бұрын

@@jordanwagner6212 Not really. They were reluctant at first, but the initial strategy worked GREAT. Once problems started, doubts and worries were being heard and that’s where bad decisions were taken. 100km more towards Moscow and Barbarossa would’ve been the greatest victory in military history, don’t forget that. Timing, logistics and luck were off.

I always wondered what would have happened if AH patronized the jews instead of demonizing them. My grandfather, who at that time was living in Norway as a Gunsmith apprentice under a Jewish weapon maker, said how talented his master was and when his master was deported he not only lost his master but the local population lost their best place to buy quality weapons. He also used to say many jews were at that time were good craftsmen of many things.

@21nrn

Жыл бұрын

The jews declared war on Germany first in 1932… history is written by the victors.. look at the world today….”we fought the wrong side” general Patton

@QuakerPop

Жыл бұрын

Probably would have won given that German Jewish scientists created the theoretical framework for the atomic bomb. They only came to work on it in the US when they realized it was do or die, understanding what it would mean for the world if Hitler got it first

@orlandofurioso7958

11 ай бұрын

"We won because our German scientists were better than Hitler's," as a general answered as to why Hitler lost WW2, the answer pregnant with the obvious that not only had Germany's Jewish scientists, but other Jewish scientists from Europe, fled to America. It truly was a brain drain.

@billmago7991

11 ай бұрын

A lot of the scientist invoved with the manhatten project were german jews who escaped germany before the war started......Churchills deputy secretary was asked once what won the war for us ,his responce was our german scientists were better than their german scientists

This shows the difference between Hitler and Stalin, no General would tell the NKVD Chief this and breathe much longer. The nazis liked to think of themselves as civilized ( hardly a word associated with nazis) which is part of the reason no Generals were executed for incompetence or just for the hell of it. The coup is different of course. Stalin nearly destroyed his country w the purges but no one dared this kind of banter in the USSR....

@sureshot8399

22 күн бұрын

Fun Fact: Stalin's purges on his military before the war were as a direct result of German espionage designed (successfully) to weaken the Soviet Union prior to the war Germany knew was coming. German spies and disinformation led Stalin to wipe out his upper Military in a paranoid fit of fear and it was all arranged by the Germans. One wonders how much more effective the Soviets would have been without that sneakiness.

1:30 the person next to Himmler was Subhas Chandra Bose, an Indian freedom fighter who'd met with AH himself about Germany helping to liberate India from the British Raj.

@shankarchat

Жыл бұрын

Yes, this was way before this part of the war in 1945. During the fighting depicted here, he was in South East Asia leading the INA in Burma

@PolishBehemoth

11 ай бұрын

How the hell would that jave logistically worked out? No way the germans could have reached supplies to india. Unless they made a telegram to japan to help them out. Or unless they totally whooped as on russia.

@karlheinzvonkroemann2217

Ай бұрын

@@shankarchat A lot of mistakes are made with photographs of WW2. Most people never catch them.

@karlheinzvonkroemann2217

Ай бұрын

@@PolishBehemoth WHO ever said that they did? The Japanese took the vast majority of Indian POW's mostly in and around Singapore in early 1942. They trained and equppied them. Make sense yet? There's actually a movie made by the Indian film industry that portrays an old Indian man who as a younger man was a soldier in the INA fighting against the Brits. The whole army may have have been around 50k strong at it's top strength.

@bildhunger

24 күн бұрын

​@@PolishBehemoththe Plan was the africa corps meet the part of the heeresgruppe south, witch come from the Kaukasus in Persia and then went to india. They also planed roits in arabia, persia, the whole middle east.

How do we know what Himmler said in private conversations? What are your sources

100 percent correct !!!

Napoleon took Moskow and did nothing with it. He lived in Moskow for months. He was chief of Moskow. There is no significance in Stalingrad, Moskow or whatever city you might think of. The only significance are resources and strategic positions to defend resources. The aim of the german army from the begining of the war should have been getting the Caucasus oil fields and defend them. The rest should have been of secondary importance. Once ressources secured they would have conquered gradually the rest of the country or how much they wanted. Because Stalin's tanks were running of fuel right? What's the point to destroy them when you can simply make them lack fuel. That was a tactic germans couldn't comprehend because was not taught in german military classes.

@jeffkujawa803

Жыл бұрын

I could not agree with you more and I commend you for making short work of the tough question of whether this one or that one ?should have done this or that ?and over and over it goes …again and again etc., they go with that either strategically or tactical ..?.. about the eastern theater of this war…I thank you for coming straight to the old adage of ( like Benjamin Franklin said …it’s never common) …Common Sense … ….you hit the nail right on the head

@PolishBehemoth

11 ай бұрын

Not at all. Totally foolish statement you said. The bulk of the forces was by moscow and inbetween stalingrad. If they went straight for oil fields only they would have been annihalated. Besides, the americans were sending supplies from the east. Surely some oil could have made it.

@JamesJames-jt3ts

11 ай бұрын

@@PolishBehemoth The only major thing Hilter failed to anticipate was the impact of the land/lease program. So he had 2 options. Defeat the soviets in the first year before the effects of lend/lease to take place. To achieve this everything had to run smoothly on the direction of Moskow. Second option was to keep a defence line of at least 1.5mil soldiers on the polish border. Then with 2mil soldiers to go straight for the Caucasus ressources. Problem with the Caucasus is that is prone to be cut off quite easily due to the Black Sea on the west flank. But they could have achieved that in the first year for sure due to the soviets disarray. Getting to Caucasus probably would have convinced Turkey to enter the war on the Axis side. With Turkey on their side and soviets cut off from oil i guess the war in the east was essentially over. There was no way the land/lease could have provided that huge amount of oil the soviet war machine needed to go on.

@allangibson8494

Ай бұрын

Stalingrad controlled the fuel supplies from the Caucasus up the Volga to Moscow. Russia continued to fight because oil and armaments were supplied from the west through Iran.

They lost because they showed their hand too early causing their opponents to realize what quitting would mean.

@dalegribble1560

25 күн бұрын

Two fronts, underestimation, and arrogance also didn't help matters plus being spread so thin during the winter of 42-43 in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had home field advantage plus they could replace men and material much quicker. It's crazy since the Germans definitely won by body count lol

@kurtvonfricken6829

8 күн бұрын

@@dalegribble1560 The vast majority of deaths in WW2 were Allied civilians. Mostly Chinese and Russian.

I'm amazed how many people, including myself, are so fascinated by the Third Reich's demise from 1943-1945. It's a miracle the government lasted as long as it did considering the chaos around them and all the assaination plots against Hitler. I think we humans in general are just fascinated with how people react when the crap hits the fan.

@katarinalove8649

Жыл бұрын

America is headed the same way

@haeuptlingaberja4927

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure that "miracle" is the best word here, mate. A collapse in 1943 would have saved many, many millions of lives.

@Mr.PoliticallyIncorrect

Жыл бұрын

@@haeuptlingaberja4927 Not saying it was great it did, but considering the circumstances it was a "miracle" regardless of my personal opinion

@jeffreyball6618

Жыл бұрын

@@katarinalove8649 i hope not

@senorpepper3405

Жыл бұрын

​@@katarinalove8649 how so, friend?

in the beginning 1941 the generals were all in favorite of the war. the drop-off of the professionals increased year by year after1943

Never fight a war on two fronts at the same time.

It seems sort of obvious that Hitler never had been trained as an officer with higher command. In WW1 he may have gotten a medal for bravery, but that didn´t help when it came to lead an entire army.

@jasonlee8156

Жыл бұрын

True. And just because you served in the trenches as a regular conscript doesn't make you a military strategist, or genius like Napoleon. Had he simply left the conduct of the war to his generals without interfering then the situation would have turned out differently.

@svenerikjohansson8130

Жыл бұрын

@@jasonlee8156 Yes. In fact I think I heard that one of the reasons allied plans to assasinate Hitler with a sniper were canceled was that the allies saw Hitler himself as their "best ally", because of his strategical mistakes. Napoleon (who was the Hitler of his time) differed from the actual Hitler in the way that he was scilled in strategy. However Napoleon had a little of the same kind of stubbornness that Hitler had. In april 1814 he wanted to continue the fight with a counter offensive when the allies had taken Paris and the troup ratio on French soil was maybe 4 or 5 to 1 between alllies and Napoleons troups. By then his generals said "stop". By then they didn´t want to sacrifice more soldiers (and civilians) lives. Napoleon fell, was exciled to Elba,and Louis XVIII came to the throne. But Napoleon returned in 1815 for the 100 days, willing to fight all Europe despite the low odds, when it came to resources and number of soldiers. So even Napoleon might have overestimated his strength by then compared to his enemies.

@csbenzo

Ай бұрын

Mind you if AH had died of a heart attack just before the final assault on Moscow in 1941 but Germany had still lost the war, people would be saying: “… if only AH had lived, things would have been different !”

Hitler knew giving up the war was giving up his life. How was he expected to respond to Himmler's entreaty?? If Germany capitulated, where was Hitler to go?? I'm sure Himmler understood this, too.

The Nazis made the mistake of getting involved in Yugoslavia in the spring 1941. As a result the Barbarossa Feldzug was postponed until June 22. If they had stayed out of the Balkans spring 1941 the attack on Soviet Union might have taken place months earlier and would probably have reached Moscow before winter set in.

@joelgoldberg3019

Жыл бұрын

Had they attacked on May 15 as they wanted to they would have run into the Spring rasputitsa (the rainy, muddy season) in Russia.

@floycewhite6991

11 ай бұрын

Germany never developed the sort of wide-tracked chassis needed to traverse marshes and deep snow. So Germany was unable to move until the unusually wet spring came to an end. Fact is, Germany had no medium or heavy tanks at the front on June 22, either. Their light tanks had to mass and land multiple shots to deal with the T-34.

Thanks

So, A Hitter heard but did not listen or accept and everyone was labeled a defeatist...and no one could knock off the main reason of the defeat...the Leader that got the nation in it's mess

Hitler failed too often to listen to his military staff, Hitler underestimated the size of the Red army and many times failed to follow the advice of his Generals which led to the capture of huge number of the Wehrmacht to the enemy.

Germany lost the war for the same reasons Japan did. The US had an industrial base that was 2nd to none. The US had two large oceans and peaceful neighbors starting in the 19th century and through until the advent of the ICMB the US was almost impossible to attack the homeland. This industrial base was the primary reason the North won the American Civil War. Before the splitting of the atom, no nation could sustain a war without this industrial base and the fuel to drive both. The strategic attacks that eventually came both night and day over Germany crippled their industrial base, and they were cut off from fuel supplies. The German Luftwaffe was basically rendered impotent to stop these attacks. By the spring of 1945, the US industrial base made the US the most powerful country on Earth. Another thing the US had going for it that Japan did not have and I don't think Germany had. Natural deposits of Iron ore and Crude Oil. The ability to start a war is easy. In the days before nuclear weapons whether you won or lost said war came down to the ability to sustain that war. If you can't you are guaranteed to lose it!

Breath taking expose and a climactic tryst of German miligary leadership with destiny of Germany . Thank you . MAJ GEN IA.

The last three months everything was in total disarray. Soldiers were deserting left and right and trying to make their way to give themselves up to the English army. There were units that were just fighting so the civilian population could make a break for it to the allies. Hitler was giving orders to Gauleiters to blow up bridges, factories, power stations so it would not fall into the hands of the invaders. The Gauleiters didn't do it because they realized it would be vital to the civilian population eventually to survive. I was stationed in Germany in the 70s and one German told me that Goebbels was making radio speeches about how the war was being won. There was scarcely anything to eat. Strange things were happening as well. Goring was arrested by the SS on orders of Hitler to stand trial for treason. Goring was on foot with them going somewhere. They had a confrontation by chance with a unit of Luftwaffe soldiers. Goring explained the situation to the Luftwaffe unit. The Luftwaffe soldiers took Goring away from them and saved his life. Hitler got married. Him and his bride committing suicide the next day. On the same day Hitler got married, Hitler made Goebbels Bundeskanzler, (That's like the president). Goebbels was very proud of this. The day after he received this honor, he killed all of his children by having them poisoned, shot his wife with her permission and then shot himself. The majority of commandants in charge of POW camps had the sense not to follow through on orders to liquidate the camps. Majority of them were Luftwaffe officers.

@PolishBehemoth

11 ай бұрын

lol this is insanity! Its like a cult of death by suicide poison! This reminds me of the self massacres by aztec natives and their own people. The devil always brings a cult of death! These nazis were satanic and devil worshippers!

So much spilled milk to cry over

What is the name of the background soundtrack

@waracademy128

Жыл бұрын

Bso Empire earth

@christopherkalu7258

Жыл бұрын

@@waracademy128 Thank you for your help

Tragically the war was lost for Germany when they failed to capture Moscow in 1941, had they done so the Soviets would have incurred at least 1,000,000 casualties and the Germans would have captured Zhukov as well probably and Stalin would have fled east for his life and would have been done in by his own soon thereafter. Moscow was so critically important because all train/rail traffic in the Soviet Union either began or ended in Moscow, it was also the absolute center of Stalin's power an adminstrative/state security machine, and lastly it was by far the single greatest industrial base in the entire Soviet Union. Guderian could have taken it in October 1941 had Hilter only allowed it.

@frankhernandez6883

Жыл бұрын

not so much failed, but diverted to the South for the encirclement of Soviet forces. You are right that Russia would've been split in half if Moscow would've been captured due to ALL the rail traffic going through there, thus making Lenningrad an easier nut to crack as well.

@charlescole3040

Жыл бұрын

The war was lost as a result of numerous very, very stupid meglomaniacal decisions by Hitler. First, he forced the beginning of the war by invading Poland in the way he did. This could have been accomplished in a much less "world threatening" way, e.g. making it a territorial dispute over the Danzig Corridor. Next, in the west, when Hitler overruled Generals Halder and Guderian and sided with von Rundstedt as to "taking a break" instead of annihilating the entire British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk, Hitler allowed Great Britain to "live to fight another day." Next, the decision to attack the USSR (Operation Barbaross) was scheduled to launch after the iniitial spring thaw. Instead, Hitler delayed its launch to deploy forces south to prop up his buddy, the feckless idiot Mussolini. This cost the German Wehrmacht at least six weeks of ideal weather for combat operations. And then there were the completely stupid and, from a tactical point of view, indefensible blunders Hitler made when, for example, he re-routed the attacking forces headed for Moscow to deploy far to the south to finish the campaign in the Ukraine (to take Kiev). Another inexplicable and indefensible waste of precious time, virtually ensuring that the Wehrmacht would have to deal with the horrible Russian winter weather. But the crown jewel in Hitler's clown cap came on Dec 11, 1941 when, in a totally irrational hope of involving the Japanese in the war against Stalin, Hitler unilaterally declared war on the USA. After Pearl Harbor, FDR would NEVER have been able to justfy to Americans declaring war on Germany. Instead, Hitler did it for him. That was the fatal blow to any hopes the Germans had for Endsieg (final victory). All these faux pas and blunders combined to produce the results shown in this video. They followed as naturally as day does night. No one could or should have been (or ever be) suprised at the outcome.

@frankhernandez6883

Жыл бұрын

@@charlescole3040 Agree! The biggest was the declaration of war on the US. Russia could have still been winnable early on by taking Moscow (as said). It would have been a logistic nightmare to keep Leningrad for the Russians and then have the freed German divisions pulled East.

@davidb2206

Жыл бұрын

Needed those oilfields in the south, too, to continue fueling the war. It was a terrible quandary. But you simply can't run two-front wars or two-prong major operation missions like that. AH was clearly a genius and had the right idea with the Bolsheviks -- "head and shoulders above us all" as Dr. Lay said -- but he was not trained at the military general staff level and it did him in, by diluting the effort and available resources. Taking too many high risks.

@troyott2334

Жыл бұрын

@@davidb2206 The oil fields would have opened up to us in 1942 like a virgin on prom night after the fall of Moscow in 1941.

A very interesting insight into Himmler...

Himmler would probably have been on a level to discuss strategy with Col.Saunders

Make a video about Schörner

The german wehrmact generals were against the war from the beginning. They knew Germany did not have the man power, logistics and resources

Germany was out,produced simple as that.

@richardseip4954

Ай бұрын

Didn’t even shift to a real war economy until way too late. 1943 or something I believe.

Hitler was a sergent but Gens didnt have the guts to face him even Manstein or Paulus or Runsteid

@tomjones8516

Жыл бұрын

The maniac was a Corporal not a Sgt. The Krauts were an evil bunch like the so called tough guy on the street corner until some one gives him a good whack where he will melt like an ice cube on a hot summer day and never be heard from again.

@jasonlee8156

Жыл бұрын

He was actually a corporal. That's one rank lower than a sergeant.

Can you tell me the name of your country

Hitler didn't allow the strategies and tactics needed to stop the Soviets or even force the Allies for an honorable armistice... For example, the German withdrawal from Norway and Denmark, the building of in-depth defenses in all fronts and the termination of all offensive operations and permission of defensive ones only...

The corporal thought he knew more than generals

I much rather would like to know the thinking of the German generals in the years BEFORE 1945. Especially with regards to their opinion re the overall war aims. Whether they considered those aims realistic and achievable. What were the top Wehrmacht generals thinking for exampe of the the attack on Soviet Russia? Did they believe it would be possible to defeat Soviet Russia? I simply can't imagine that all these generals did was following orders. They must have developed their own opinion on the supposed overall war aims soon after September 1939.

When were these comments recorded (written down)? If in the years after the war, they are of very limited value due to retrospective rationality that utterly plagued the German High Command as well as the Japanese government officials in Tokyo in 1945-6. They rewrite their own stories to look more rational, fair, planned, and ethical. All qualitative researchers know about this problem today, but this was largely unknown in research methods in the postwar years.

I would really appreciate some information on how this was vetted to be the genuine words of the officer. Maybe they did keep word for word records. Not sure. I have just recently become aware of the people who Hitler got his ideology from, such as Karl Haushofer who should have been tried and hung at Nuremberg. This insanity of hitler trying to beat impossible odds came from him and a few others but mainly Haushofer.

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"IF" does not mean anything in history narrative... but only facts!

For me I believe the main reason for Germany failing was the only civilian in the war cabinet, Dennis Wheatley. He understood better than most the strengths and weaknesses of both sides. He was placed in the deception planners who then devised methods to receive the Germans and reinforce our country's strengths. The film, I was Monty's double mare after the war was but one of several deceptions which took place.

It was probably in a much better light than they told to the “alias” after the war and they were in jeopardy of prison & or death you know.

Famous words of von Rundstedt, " make peace, you fools. "

Germany should have sued for peace with Stalin either in early 1942 after the retreat from Moscow, or a year later after the Stalingrad disaster and the Third Battle of Kharkov in March 1943. Perhaps the last opportunity was immediately after the failure of the Kursk offensive in August 1943 as shortly after, the Red Army (by the end of 1943) was utterly unstoppable, just as Germany's troubles mounted on other fronts and Stalin would've had no reason to compromise.

Hitler's original plan was to capture Murmansk and the oil fields before going to Moscow. But the Generals convinced him to go for Moscow first. Had they followed the original Barbarossa plans, aid from USA and Britain would have been stopped. Might not have captured the oil fields, but Russia wouldn't have anything to use the oil with as the aid from the states wouldn't reach them. Would actually been an easy win for Germany, taken maybe 2 years at the most before Soviet would be defeated. All you need to do is to look up how much aid they got from USA and Britain from the very first week of the war. Like they knew it was coming, ships were already loaded when the war started. INSANE amounts of military hardware, like tanks, trucks, planes, ammunition, Food, trains, etc etc etc. All that would never reach USSR and without it, Germany would have just destroyed what Soviet had at the start of the war and then just taken the rest without an fight. Just to give an idea, when German forces moved into Crimea, they ran into Brand new Ford 3 axle Trucks, brand new cannons from USA and UK, guns from USA and UK, and food from USA and T-34 TANKS made in USA. None of that would have been there had they captured Murmansk like was the original plan. Really good books written about WW2 based on Declassified documents, not what the winners made up, but What actually happened. Letters between world leaders, letters from secret agents, when you read these books, you will find out why and who started the war and when that decision was made. Here is a hint, the main culprit behind WW2 said in the early 30's after German GDP surpassed the British GDP. "Germany must be DESTROYED ONCE AND FOR ALL". After the war he wrote in his book. "the war was never about defeating Nazism, it was about Destroying Germany and Killing as many Germans as possible". This person is one of the biggest War criminals in the last 200 years. He ordered the air force to bomb all German cities that had not been bombed at the very end of the war. Where Millions of innocent civilians died.

How about those Russian Pacfronts.They gave the German Blitz trouble.

They thought - how to escape!

No. What did they SAY they thought of Hitler. Big difference.

Operation Barbarossa in June ‘41 and the illogical obsession with the final solution did in the Nazi war machine imo.

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Your title overstates your case. Himmler was not a military man. The General was one General (not the German Generals of your title). He saw things clearly and expressed his opinion--and it was accurate. But, as Himmler stated, there was no choice. The Generals in the field were not allowed to make their best decisions, they were to follow Hitler's instructions--sometimes to battalion detail! Some Generals were retired or fired and maybe even murdered for holding different opinions and expressing them to Hitler.

What's with the weird synthetic voice and strange guy being showed talking at the end?

WW2, WW2, WW2, WW2, WW2-OMG, look: more WW2!!

I wonder how long could the red army advance on Berlin could have been stalled if Hitler had left decisions to Generals such as Raus

Even though Germans are great nation, they are not good strategists and planners as the Anglo-Saxons. They utterly underestimate enemies, select poor allies and take chances.

@CarlMartin-hw3ev

Ай бұрын

Guess what. Anglo Saxons are Germans and Danish mixture. So they are. What you say is only true of a complete idiot named Hitler. A history or linguistic lesson might be helpful. Although American, I have lived in Denmark for about 40 years and not far from the German border.

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In a weird way, Germany, as a nation by and through Hitler, became self-destructive and suicidal in losing WWII. That is a hard thing to duplicate if you think about it.

@CarlMartin-hw3ev

Ай бұрын

Yet, the Japanese High Command, not the Japanese people though, did just that.

It's hard to believe that none of these generals got together and killed Hitler AND Himmler once it became clear (D-DAY) the war was lost.

@paulbarnes6124

Ай бұрын

There was 14 attempts on Hitler's life , he survived all

@jacksons1010

Ай бұрын

As General Raus clearly said, the German military knew the war was unwinnable long before D-Day.

I respect Germany, they hold machinists mechanics and many skilled trades in much higher regard than the USA.

Germany lost the war in a series a major blunders. Hitler divided the doubled the number of mechanized and armor divisions after the fall of France. Yet, armament production was still to low to supply the number of trucks to support logistical efforts. Tanks were still poorly and under sized in there main gun. Russia was starting production of the T34 which was simply to. operate but upgraded main gun when compared to the Pzlll. The German Air Force had no kong range bombers and what medium range were slow and had no radar. The development of FW 190 comes to slow to atler airpower backbto Germany. The m262 had developmental time wasted on turn it ito a dive bomber! Plus a shortage of metal to harden the jet blade in the jet engines. Thus engines had to be overhauled ever 10 hours!!!! The pathner l tank was needed by the spring of 1942.

To many in opposition mutants aliens hybrids scientists we couldn't do enough to get everything done

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@ronaldmessina4229

10 ай бұрын

Another selfish idiot who wants all of the language in anglosajón. All of the languages are correct to explain the situation

Wow blame everything on Hitler. No one saw that coming.

The world we live in today is awful. The result of the Axis losing.

Evil lost?

Seasoned Generals blindly following a psyco Corporal! What could go wrong ???

Imperial Germany managed to breakthrough the eastern front in WW1 and came near to advance more into Russia (already in soviet hands) than the wehmarcht did later. They could and should’ve stopped the war in the bogged down western front and finish off the russian state and the soviets once and for all. They failed to realize the russians were a far greater threat to them than the western powers.

@d0cteroof308

Жыл бұрын

Really? Imperial Germany had already dismantled the Russian Republic enough (Russia pretty much lost like third of their population and a majority of their industrial capacity in the Brest-Litovsk treaty). Not only that, but leaving the USSR to survive proved vital for the Germans during the interwar as both states were international outcasts, so they had good reason to support each other. People tend to forget about the secret German military training bases in Russia and the vital resource trade between each other.

@gaptaxi

11 ай бұрын

As Mountbatten liked to say, he said that in WW1 they were fighting for his family and they got murdered, and they refused to fight for the rich anymore. He was one of the very few that foresaw the destruction of Hitler due to the Soviets, ``They are fighting for themselves now!´´ And then after WW2 Stalin started murdering millions of his own citizens, no idea what Lord Mountbatten of the Romanov family thought about that?

The generals after Stalingrad should overthrown Hitler and sued for peace.

@alexbernhard5936

Ай бұрын

There were attempts. A lot of competent officers were drawn in and shot/forced to commit suicide, some that weren't even involved

The German Generals had all attended the Staff and War College prior to WW2 and all were studied on the Prussian General Carl Von Clausewitz whose guidelines were basically Germany had neither the manpower or logistics to win a long term war so Germany had to win short wars to be successful. Therefore the General Staff had begged Hitler to wait until 1945 to go to war when they believed they’d be able to win. The problem for Hitler is he knew Russia’s manufacturing capabilities and he believed if he waited until then, the war would be undeniable. would be

@myhonorwasloyalty

Жыл бұрын

The reason why say lost was because they were alone againts the whole world

@davidb2206

Жыл бұрын

Hitler had other info that was classified and has never been revealed. He could not even tell his generals, because it would compromise the sources. I believe he had Stalin's actual phone calls in the Kremlin, from the excellent Abwehr. Stalin had already decided to invade and take all of Western Europe. There is ample evidence if you "read between the lines" and study carefully Hitler's own "Proclamation to the German People" of June 22 in German newspapers and the eyewitness accounts such as that of Rudel ("Stuka Pilot") who was flying over the border. There were others besides Rudel, too, but they are not referenced and taught today, since the victors write the history.

@PolishBehemoth

11 ай бұрын

​@@myhonorwasloyaltylol Germany initiated all the wars! Thry made themselves against the world!

Himler was incompoop

@naradaian

Жыл бұрын

Loving your comment - in english its spelt -‘nincompoop’ but its not seen much in print xx

@ronaldmessina4229

10 ай бұрын

Also a NINcompoop , probably pooped on himself

@CarlMartin-hw3ev

Ай бұрын

That is to say....Not seen enough.

Heinrich Himmler was not a general but a chickenfarmer.

To Many commercials

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Soldiers of lion lead by sheep... and that sheep is adolf.....

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I only got about a third into this and couldn’t listen to that terrible AI voice anymore. It’s a shame because the material is very good.

What do the Americans think of their genocide of the indigenous Americans and stealing their country ?

@CarlMartin-hw3ev

Ай бұрын

'Twas not a country, Einstein. So sorry. History wins again.

Hitler knocked off all of the good ones. It was called the night of the long knives. A few of the other ones left and stood up until the end,they even bailed out. Yes!!. Hitler was his worst enemy. And the Allies knew it as well. CWA

@benkelly8376

Жыл бұрын

The night of the long knives was to eliminate the SA leadership. This was to placate the German army. Clueless comments

@bcreech17

Жыл бұрын

Did you just initial the end of a KZread comment?

@jasonlee8156

Жыл бұрын

You got it all wrong. Suggest you read up on that. Night of long knives was a politcal purge of the SA. Rival group of the SS led by Ernst Roehm. Considered by some to be even more Nazi than Hitler and the other Nazis. HItler didn't go after the generals until the assassination attempt against him in July of 1944.

It's pronounced Hien Riki. "Hin Reside" is killing me. Get someone real to read it.

WAR OF ATTRITION

Fatal decision...

No matter what may have happened Germany would have been defeated ultimately. A paper weight could not fight a super heavy weight. All credit to the Russians for making Hitler's defeat inevitable.

Germany lost and now the world is one giant toilet.