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@fillyourasswithfireanddest4875

3 жыл бұрын

Eastory why u dead inside

@oceanthing9901

3 жыл бұрын

Finally!

@joanterueljurado5867

3 жыл бұрын

will you do the timelapse front of the spanish civil war?

@Trainstoppersunited

3 жыл бұрын

Why aren’t you talking in this video?

@peknive8331

3 жыл бұрын

@@Trainstoppersunited he’s probably busy with his other job and wasn’t able to properly write a good script. Coronavirus causing so many people to lose their jobs probably isn’t helping either.

don't worry Steiner's counter attack will solve everything

@defdandef5841

3 жыл бұрын

Mein führer... Steiner...

@ZearthGJL

3 жыл бұрын

@@defdandef5841 Steiner could not have enough forces rallied for an attack. Steiner's attack did not occur.

@sweetballs4742

3 жыл бұрын

These people will stay here: Keitel, Jodl, Krebs and Burgdorf.

@tka3

3 жыл бұрын

That was an order! Steiner's attack was an order!

@opossumbandit4960

3 жыл бұрын

Who are you, that you dare resist my order?

History Channel: Who are you? Eastory: I am you but with fewer aliens.

@thedemocraticfilipino6417

3 жыл бұрын

"Fewer" - Stannis Baratheon

@ldavidtw2000

3 жыл бұрын

"Fewer" - Davos Seaworth, a few episodes later

@KEvronista

3 жыл бұрын

*"fewer aliens"* litotes, eh? KEvron

@hushpuppy1735

3 жыл бұрын

I am you but with no aliens

@matthewbadley5063

3 жыл бұрын

"It was aliens" - History Channel "A lie, take it out."

Where's your narration like you did on the Eastern front videos? to be honest the music with your narration (YOU NARRATING) with the music from the Germany Russia Eastern front is the best ww2 videos on KZread. Don't allow somebody else to come in

@Eastory

3 жыл бұрын

There will be one with narration, this is just a result of me compiling the data to understand the events better. As the episode with the narration will not feature so many details, I decided to publish the raw data in a separate video, as it has a value of its own for some people.

@yvngxnightmare

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eastory will the narration video be dropping this month?

@thefool8234

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eastory I like your Narration better you have a nice voice

@justmymage

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eastory In the future would it be possible to include the amount of POW's that are the results from encirclements? In video or audio, or preferrably both. Does add to it since we can see how huge it actually is (Since on map its sort of hard to visualize is a pocket 8.000 troops or 80.000)

@megarboh790

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eastory Hopefully your narration won't be in the same tone you did with the war thunder sponsor, I really like your chill voice

Doesn't feel the same without you narrating...

@ANWRocketMan

3 жыл бұрын

As with the 1940 video, he will probably release a narrated version a little later.

@user-zk3fu4hk1j

3 жыл бұрын

@@ANWRocketMan yes, he cofirmed it in the comments

@AdrianDeer

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah his accent and voice is just great for this!

@AnuDugala

3 жыл бұрын

I m crying because i saw onion

@violettt22

3 жыл бұрын

@@AdrianDeer I'm curious, what's his accent? Baltic region?

When the world needed him the most, he came back!

@taxevasiongaming

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@thefool8234

3 жыл бұрын

Facts

@aaronmyers1982

3 жыл бұрын

Who?

@randowdude6847

3 жыл бұрын

@@aaronmyers1982 the avatar smartass

@thefool8234

3 жыл бұрын

@@aaronmyers1982 Um you haven't heard they found a way to bring Stalin back to life

Here I am, reading "Western Front in Real Time" title, expecting an 11-month long video.

@Xcyiterr

3 жыл бұрын

same

@rhn122

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, rly thought this would be the 1000-part series

@alwaysnegativecomments1903

3 жыл бұрын

@G E T R E K T 905 woooosh

@missnizny9278

3 жыл бұрын

@G E T R E K T 905 r/woosh

@mattep74

3 жыл бұрын

Wait three years and the watch timeghost do that

I would love to see one about the Italian campaign and the North African campaing too! Amazing video as always.

@Eastory

3 жыл бұрын

Request noted

@twlimoon

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eastory That would be nice!

@marianobosch04

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eastory. In future... South África camping?

@morisco56

3 жыл бұрын

@@marianobosch04 camping ?

@marianobosch04

3 жыл бұрын

@@morisco56. Sorry, my english is bad, "South África front".

Video: “2 years in real time” Me: “getting excited” Video: “is not 17520 hours long” Me: “sad noises”

@universenerdd

2 жыл бұрын

I feel scammed for something I didn’t pay for

it lacks perhaps the landing in southern france, but otherwise perfect

@389383

3 жыл бұрын

Would love to see a separate one just on that.

@simeoncolby1972

3 жыл бұрын

@@389383 The southern landings in France otherwise known as Operation Dragoon was initially meant to happen in conjunction the the Normandy landings but ended up happening two months later due to supplies. The Germans put up a good defense until the front line in the North collapsed after the Falaise Pocket and fell back towards Metz and the Vogues mountains preparing to assist the Germans in the north for a possible counter- attack that never came after Falaise. Then as you can see from the video they pretty much don't move unless their flank to the north was exposed or to elude the French forces in the sector.

Hang on a minute! I thought this was Eastory, not Westory! False advertising!

@gabrielgan2971

3 жыл бұрын

Technically from the America point of view, Western Europe is in the East of America : P

@eemeliissakoff5348

3 жыл бұрын

@@gabrielgan2971 then technically everything can be west and everything can be east.

@micahtshibangu7402

3 жыл бұрын

😂 his channel is called eastory because it is a mash of the two words Estonia and history. Which his channel was originally based around and is his nationality(I assume)

@alexandrebenoin40

3 жыл бұрын

@@micahtshibangu7402 yes he his Estonian and it is good to have other point of view than anglo-saxon one's

@KaiWut

3 жыл бұрын

Weastory

7:27 when you activate the offensive order while the enemy has no troops on the front

Very nice but I'm missing one feature that was present on eastern front videos - information about POWs taken in pockets.

@Eastory

3 жыл бұрын

It will be in the video with narration.

@MrMCMLXXV

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eastory Nice, thx.

@taxevasiongaming

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eastory just glad you're back you always make great content

@jorelemes

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eastory may i suggest this thesis for you to use in your narration when it comes to the supply issues and eisenhower's choices? krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/40364

@MrNicoJac

3 жыл бұрын

@@jorelemes Did you already receive a grade for it? :) I read the abstract, but I'm not a military guy.... What did the Allies run too low of? Food, ammo, spare parts, or fuel? (or everything?) Congrats on your thesis, it must be a great relief to have it completed! ^^

It’s 2021, and we’re STILL waiting for Steiner’s attack

@looinrims

3 жыл бұрын

He just needs to mobilize the reserves

@shanejones6955

3 жыл бұрын

I was told he's still in the latrine. Apparently he's got a serious case of the runs. 😁

@numerouno1976

3 жыл бұрын

Don't worry my friend he is trying to find enough reserves then the counterattack will be launched.

@Natsumithegreat

3 жыл бұрын

He's preparing a triple pronged pincer maneuver to take place in 2045 from Argentina, Antarctica, and the Moon

@undeadnightorc

2 жыл бұрын

Mein Fuhrer... Steiner... Steiner didn't have enough force. The attack didn't take place.

2:31 The 319th Division in the Channel Islands just hoping that nobody notices them as the Allies sweep through Normandy

@silenthunteruk

3 жыл бұрын

They stayed there until the end of the war. The islands were too strongly fortified with too few actual inhabitants for an attack to be deemed worth it. The Germans surrendered on 9 May, which is their Liberation Day.

@NorseNorman

3 жыл бұрын

@@silenthunteruk I remember my late grandfather telling me about how he felt on liberation day after having been under occupation for 5 years. I think about the hardships he described everyday May 9th.

@schlafrigerschmidt5659

2 жыл бұрын

well it is a static infantry division, indeed too static

Americans: hey we may get to liberate prauge. Russians: *NIET*

@konstancemakjaveli

3 жыл бұрын

they wouldnt have liberated it even if they had seized it. Czhechia was in Soviet sphere of influence after the Yalta conference

@Dayvit78

3 жыл бұрын

I also like how you see the Russians just chillin near Berlin, then when the Allies get near, they zoom in YOINK.

@HoLSurena

3 жыл бұрын

Patton wanted to do it and even has everything ready for the assault but Eisenhower didnt allow him to attack

@woahholdyourcomment

3 жыл бұрын

Dayvit78 they’re not chilling. They’re dealing the Germans in konigsberg and securing their flank, in previous Eastory videos

@bbcmotd

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dayvit78 They are a little bit busy fighting the fierce resistance after 4 years of battle, having marched from Moscow

Watch Northern Germany at 7:50. You can see the mad Canadian dash to the Baltic coast at Wismar to stop the Soviets from rounding the bend and moving into Denmark to control the Danish Straits. Such a minor detail that flashes by in less than a couple seconds, but singlehandedly may have prevented massive Soviet influence in Scandinavia in the Cold War. So many minor details like this, I love your work Eastory!

@bbcmotd

3 жыл бұрын

Weren't the spheres of influence already discussed before that during Stalin-Churchill-American president at the time conferences like Yalta?

@user-ph4ny9ip8j

3 жыл бұрын

@@bbcmotd They were but it wasnt like it was they trusted eachother or could rely on that alone. You can see in what happened in real life wherever the red army stepped the regime also was red

@bbcmotd

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-ph4ny9ip8j Of course there were trust issues, and the USSR did not want American missiles at its doorstep (especially since that's exactly what happened with NATO and US missiles in places like Turkey), still for example the Red Army took Vienna in 1945, yet left it later as per the agreements (and again, Austria was supposed to be permanently neutral under such agreements, but still joined NATO despite them).

@JRobbySh

3 жыл бұрын

The Canucks do not get adequate credit for their efforts A small army but a large effort..

@friedolin705

3 жыл бұрын

@@bbcmotd Austria isn't in NATO and never was.

U.S.A.: "Time's up boys let's do this, OPERATION COBRA!" U.K.: "Oh shit, he went in".

@Cancoillotteman

3 жыл бұрын

LEEEEEROY COBRA !

@matthewbadley5063

3 жыл бұрын

Ironically the Germans were about to attack into the flank of Cobra after they moved into Brittany. But the allies moved really fast through the Loire valley and caught the Germans in the flank before they could launch their offensive.

@liamevers115

3 жыл бұрын

During operation cobra hitler called in his last panzer units to launch a counterattack cutting off the Americans in Brittany. The panzer units goal was Avranches but they failed and were encircled in the falaise pocket

Well 2021 is off to a flying start with Eastory finally back

'In real time' huh? Better buckle in for this year-long video then.

@corbinglenn2567

3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes I see you are a man of culture

@doyle5948

3 жыл бұрын

hahahahahaa

@jommydavi2197

3 жыл бұрын

Better than actually living through 2021 tho

@corbinglenn2567

3 жыл бұрын

@G E T R E K T 905 then leave let us have our own jokes

@Yanilovesmya

3 жыл бұрын

@@jommydavi2197 no

Market Garden may have failed to get across the Rhine, but it put a huge salient in the front and kept great numbers of Germans tied down in The Netherlands, when they were needed to defend The Reich.

Germans at Paris: retreat by Germans seeing little ports near Normandy: WE MUST DEFEND TO THE DEATH Edit: Don’t worry, I understand the reasons for the retreat and the defense of Normandy. I just think from a frontline perspective it looks funny.

@sharkronical

3 жыл бұрын

Also there's no way there wouldn't be any even worse uprisings when the Allies were already in the mainland, plus retreating to Rhine is way safer to ensure no encirclement

@awitcher5303

3 жыл бұрын

Defending the port's was actually really usefull since it complicated allied logistics

@oLii96x

3 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Aloysius Gumulyo no really, the german commander of paris did not want to fight a unnecesary battle over the city

@yatsumleung8618

3 жыл бұрын

@@oLii96x Paris garrison commander was ordered by Hitler not to abandon the city unless it's a heap of ruins. He chose to take a cyanide pill.

@jonezy5340

3 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Aloysius Gumulyo where the french got their tanks or arms to fight? vichy france or free france troops?

8:49 Steiner's glorius counter attack begins

Person from Eindhoven here. as seem from 3:20. in all those cities including mine we still celebrate our liberation day and operation market garder every year with old vehicles and veterans coming over.

@dreamymaxxx3394

Жыл бұрын

Hows the empire going bro?

German Troops chilling in calais be like: Yo when the war is starting?

@TheLMCGuy

2 жыл бұрын

XD

@brad5907

2 жыл бұрын

Untill August the german thought that the landing in Normandy was a distraction to hide the real landing in Calais.

You can kinda see this in the depiction...before it was liberated, Paris was all but surrounded by American troops. The Free French contingent was brought up and Free French troops were the ones who physically pushed the Germans out of Paris and entered the city proudly, to the raucous welcome of the Parisians.

@dylan8670

3 жыл бұрын

@G E T R E K T 905 You guess wrong, I'm an American. Read it yourself, buddy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_of_Paris

This always shows me new things. I hadn’t realised the Allies were on the outskirts of Paris as Falaise was raging. Or that the eastern flank of the Market Garden salient was so weak for so long. Also the way the SS divisions were held behind the infantry front, committed, and then pulled out of the line as soon as the action is over.

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@tanaymehta4529

3 жыл бұрын

R3s just casually spreading cancer in their elite pizza-delivery-mobiles turns me on.

@fanta-cool7532

3 жыл бұрын

@@tanaymehta4529 You ok bro?

I'm in tears. Your ww2 videos are the best, I would also really want to see an every-hour video on the same topic(landings, western front). Nice job, Estonia ;)

This was an awesome video as usual, and here are a few constructive comments: - Will there be a release in a resolution higher than 1080p? Sometimes, city names and unit numbers get harder to read. - Like other people stated, we love your narration, and you said you might do a video with narration but less precise; why not as precise with narration? We love your work so we can wait longer if needed :) - It's nice to see the numbers of POWs - I wonder why there aren't more german units showing up in Schleswig-Holstein at the end? - Maybe at the end you could unzoom the map to show the pockets of Germans in Western Europe to show the POWs who only surrendered in May, for example in some harbours of western France /Brittany with U-Boot bases? Also would have been nice to see the Brittany area at the moment when the US troops storm the city of Brest bloodily, which made them not storm other french harbours with U-Boot bases, such as Lorient. In any case, this is an excellent video and we are super grateful you took the time to make it! Thanks!

@Eastory

3 жыл бұрын

Ideally I would make the video into a homepage, where you could zoom all the way in. But the video itself would not be made in full resolution. The rendering times for this resolution are very long already. The video with narration will focus on some parts of the action leaving the duration of some events on the map compressed in time. It will also not be fully in chronological order. I agree with the PoW-s. I should have added them here. I may mention the Brest in the video with narration, but I am not sure as of now.

@thatguy04444

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eastory It would be great if you'd include a key for what the unit icons mean. I figured out some of them, but coming up empty on others.

Awesome detail. Can’t imagine how long it took you to do all this. Excited for the one with narration too 👍🏼

Brilliant as always. It's just surprising how different the Western Front is to the East. The Germans always seemed to be in such a terrible position in terms of manpower.

@yulusleonard985

3 жыл бұрын

And firepower. Thoat Operation cobra drom TNT equivalent to tinny nuke on panzer Lehr. They hit hard and you cant recover from that unless they royally fucked up their followup like market garden. The Soviet mostly use mortar instead aerial bombardment so the Germans always have time to rally and counter attack.

@jakubstanicek6726

3 жыл бұрын

Main difference for me is that on this video, circles represent divisions, while on the eastern front each circle is entire corps :). The scale is completely different

@jorelemes

3 жыл бұрын

@@jakubstanicek6726 Soviet tank corps had less soldiers and tanks than british and american (and german) divisions

@MrNicoJac

3 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Aloysius Gumulyo It wasn't even as much a problem of manpower as it was of manufacturing industry. I mean, like, if everyone has their personal tank and plane, you can do a lot more than if your entire country has to share one rifle. And at the end, Germany was very low on manpower, but even lower on stuff. (and with more stuff you can take less losses and inflict more, so it's a negative spiral)

@ruka3219

Жыл бұрын

@@jorelemes but they had much more divisions

Excellent video, I am glad you showed the major operations conducted on the Western front. I enjoyed it very much. Keep up the good work.

3:04 My hometown is liberated. Nothing about Operation Dragoon?

@Eastory

3 жыл бұрын

Operation Dragoon will be covered in an episode with narration. In this one it was hard to add it with the Real Time format.

@Viguier89

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eastory Cool.

@oLii96x

3 жыл бұрын

your hometown is the entire north of france? :D

@Viguier89

3 жыл бұрын

@@oLii96x Of course.

@stacystables117

3 жыл бұрын

@@Viguier89 C‘est Amiens, j‘assume...?

I used to think Market-garden achieve so little cause they retreated to the starting point after a while, now I see they have made great progress and kept what they occupied. So the operation as a whole was successful, it just cost too much.

@YoloHanSolo

3 жыл бұрын

Well that is not true. The goal was to secure a bridgehead over the Rhine river which they failed. If they succeeded the road to berlin would be open.

@dyingember8661

3 жыл бұрын

@@YoloHanSolo But at least they gain something from it, it not completely lost and casualties were not that high.

@YoloHanSolo

3 жыл бұрын

@@dyingember8661 That is true. But I would hardly say that Market Garden was a success, neither a defeat... Would call it a blunder? Their supply line was already stretched and that operation wasted their limited resources.

@daddysempaichan

3 жыл бұрын

The Operation as a whole was a failure, as it failed to achieve its goal, which was to open an invasion route into Germany, that's an undisputed fact. However, just because it's a failure, doesn't mean that the Allies were gonna give up their gains or not salvage something out of it. Just because the operation was a failure, doesn't mean that nothing was gained from said failed operation. In this case, liberation of several Dutch cities, as well as taking and holding several bridges that normally would've been destroyed had the Allies advance normally. It was just not all the bridges thou that made it a failure.

@ErnstGaede

2 жыл бұрын

Dyingember Operation was nearly disaster,so many POWs were given to germans. In spite of that disaster,Netherlands couldn't be liberated until the end of the war,8 may. After this blunder Montgomery wasn't given a single OK title(OK is opportunity of leading an operation)

This looks like a walk in the park if you compare it with the eastern front videos

@ONI_002

3 жыл бұрын

it wasnt

@theortheo2401

3 жыл бұрын

@@ONI_002 The western front was a walk in the park if you compare it to the east.

@bbcmotd

3 жыл бұрын

@@ONI_002 The Stalingrad battle alone was bigger than the whole of the Western front

@user-im3qu5ur7m

3 жыл бұрын

US lost 100k men in a war with Japan while China had around 5 million military casualties. Yet no one screams that "China defeated Japan". Losing trillions men isn't what actually defeats an enemy.

@bbcmotd

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-im3qu5ur7m The Red Army defeated some 85% of the elite German forces, and vehicles

Your the best animator and narrator. Only few can be like you (armchair,world War 2,extra credits) keep on going with these great content!

Nice touch with the bell's ringing when Paris is liberated.

Damn, germans had like 1 army on that front and almost no other troops from Atlantic to Berlin area

@rdg665

3 жыл бұрын

They had already lost he war long before the allied landings so it makes sense

@Malkuth-Gaming

3 жыл бұрын

@@rdg665 They lost the war in 1941 when they attacked Soviet... and then when Japan attacked Pearl Harbour.. :P

@rdg665

3 жыл бұрын

@@Malkuth-Gaming Yep exactly , But gotta say tho they almost very closely won against the Soviets at first but the extreme Soviet resistance stopped them just at a sword's edge at the last moments before collapsing all together along with the screwed and overextended German supply lines and it all reversed and went to shit for the Germans from there

@endloesung_der_braunen_frage

3 жыл бұрын

@@rdg665 No not really, but they did make it far

@generalfred9426

3 жыл бұрын

@@Malkuth-Gaming they lost the moment they declared war Germany just didn't have the resources and time to beat the allied powers

Always glad tonsee new videos from you. The amount of research made to create this must have been excruciating work.

The production quality and effort is stunning me again everytime i watch your videos

I was hoping you would narrate like you've done on your other videos. If you can redo the video with that I would greatly appreciate. Also great work.

@Eastory

3 жыл бұрын

I will do the video with the narration in some months

@bificommander7472

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eastory Excellent. I very much enjoy the maps with narration.

Amazing work! I love these videos. Could you perhaps make some sort of video covering behind the scenes and the process in making these? How you animate and how you research division movements and so on, would be really interesting.

Staggering effort and attention to detail as always. Thank you for your hard work!

Absolutely amazing. The amount of work that went into this...I cant even imagine. Thank you.

When you see the 1st Infantry and 2nd Armored join forces you know shit gets done.

@brycewalker3726

3 жыл бұрын

It’s a shame we deactivated the 2nd Armored. “Hell on Wheels” is by far the best nickname

suggestion for the future videos = second sino japanese war on another note: i just remembered playing medal of honor frontline whilst watching this... brilliant game

A new Eastory video??? Christmas came just a few days late this year. An absolutely stunning video as always. I'm really happy to see it.

Wonderful video! I love these animated maps just as much as your narrated videos. Keep up the good work!

Wow I couldn't believe the allies liberated Europe in just 8 minutes, massive respect o7

Amazing work as always, but I feel you could have added: - The several operations inside the Battle of the Scheldt like the way you did for the other operations. Showing the strategic importance of the city and clearing the Scheldt Estuary for allied logistics. - Antwerp X, the aa defense of Antwerp against V1 attacks.

This is awesome work as always! Thank you so much for making these

I'll say it again, absolutely amazing work. Thank you so much.

Hurray, you’re still with us.Thanks! Happy 2021.

@Eastory

3 жыл бұрын

Happy 2021!

I love this new way of showing the planned operations!

You are my first, my last, my everything... THANK YOUUUU!! WHAT A WORK!!

It's rare to see videos where the Battle of Metz is highlighted. Thank you for the video.

I'm early, I've been waiting months for this but finally it's here! I haven't watched the video yet but i know it's gonna be great! Edit: I just saw it it's absolutely amazing! I especially like the music choice near the end, keep it up!

American war movies and documentaries: The battle of France was fierce and bloody, the germans were a real menace The battle of france: Half the frontline is empty

@123214matt

3 жыл бұрын

The same was true for the war in the east. Large swaths of land were often guarded by as few as 10 men

@MrNicoJac

3 жыл бұрын

These tiny balls don't *necessarily* show the size of the divisions tho. Depending on the terrain, one division worth of men can either guard miles and miles of frontline, or maybe not even one. So I wish there was a version of this with brackets or something, to show how spread out a division was. Because right now it looks as if they could've just walked into Germany by taking another route. But if that had been the case, they probably would have done so 😆

Amazing Video, I really think adding the names of the Offensive plans, and colour changing major cities when they were captured was a very good visual addition.

You know this is the first time I could Actually visually APPRECIATE just how insanely overambitious Market Garden was.

@Szweminek797

3 жыл бұрын

And how absolutely pointless Nordwind was

@apollomars1678

3 жыл бұрын

Nordwind didnt suceeded, becausethey didnt had SS-troops with actual equipment support in these areas. in late 1944 there were no supply for the normal army, even for invasions. the Wacht am Rhein hinted, that the western front was a joke compared to the eastern front, because the nearly dead german army still suceeded to push and break defense lines of the USA under aircover. if the germans would have been able to get a million moresoldiers with supplies on the western front, the western front would have collapsed. of course, this is wishhfull thinkin, because the eastern front was allready lost on that point. Market Garden was a great offensive and they nearly suceeded to take the last objective, than the germans would have lost half of the dutch territority with one operation. the actual failed operation was the stop of the allies, US troops on the west wall around Karlsruhe. they didnt suceeded to break throw the defenses of thewest-wall/Siegfried-line in a swift move, got high causalities and pressured the british command to come up with a plan to break the line in the "weak" section of the north. the british tactical position was build on small but steady progress, while the US wanted to see a fast end of the war in europa to get more attention to the pacific war. Market garden ist the typical effect in a case of pressuring your allied forces to fight in an uncomfortable style to hide your own incompetence. a typical move of the US army (same in the african campaign)

@apollomars1678

Жыл бұрын

@@henryhudson9556 yes, there are tons of plans in a war operations to be flexible to the real front reality in your war-room. But they created here a real planned operation by simple possibilities of the British army in Market garden, while the majority of the British army bureaucrats denied any chances of success to this operation and the USA demanded such an unrealistic operation It was always kind of the actual plan of Market garden to get stopped on some river line by the Germans. Sadly it happen rather late, so the British army suffered heavier and unnecessary causalities. Even the endline of the operation and thereby the main disaster, the idiotic far away paradrops deep into enemy positions, who were unable to get relief and had to surrender, were in these areas, because the USA demanded certain "BIG" gains. *Not by the realistic estimates of the British staff, that was significant more experienced than the US staff.*

@Dariusz_1.618

9 ай бұрын

@@apollomars1678 1. Western Front was never max developed. If Germany would be stronger here, same would be Allies. Not mention that the best German units were on Western Front. Germany lost here in less than 1 year. Allies broke Atlantic Wall and Siegfried Line. 2. On the other hand Eastern Front was fully supported by Lend-Lease, Soviet Union was nearly collapsing and front lasted almost 4 years. Twice and more quantities of all things were on the Soviet side. 3. In a nutshell : USSR would have ceased to exist had it not been for the help of the Allies. Allies would have won against Germany anyway ( with true neutrality of USSR ).

@apollomars1678

9 ай бұрын

@@Dariusz_1.618 nope, the best German troops were in operation Barbarossa and were killed over some years of combat in these regions, while the Allies only fought parts of the army in Northern Africa and Italy. While some good units were redeployed on the west, the majority of these units were called experienced by their combat experience on the eastern front. It is easy to claim, that the Allies could have send more men to the western front, while they didn't send more men on the actual front. it is more likely, that the Allies were unable to send more men to collapse the West front already with invasions in Greece, southern France and Normandy at the same time. Your argument would simply come down, that you claim, that Allies let thousands of their own men die, so that they don't have to occupy Nazi-Germany themself and that they just gave 2/3 of Europa to the Soviets for giggles. In reality the Allies were simply unable to do war similar to the Soviet state (ignorant to live) and unable to overforce the western Axis forces (not even a million) even after Kursk and Stalingrad, they were unable to overcome less trained and heavily reduced units from the Axis, were nearly beaten just some months prior to the end by the last tankreserves of the Germans, who came from the eastern front in bad shape to the western front. None should ignore the accomplishments of the RAF (and later partly by the US airforce) to cripple the Axis industry (more important than the Lend-lease), but it is still the simple truths, that in pacific and Europa combined the Allies never lost half so many troops on any week, like the Soviets and Germans on any week only on the eastern front. Yes, soviets had big causalities, but the Germans were despread to keep their causalities down and they still overpower any scale of the western front. *Axis soldiers didn't died on the western front, they died on the eastern front, not by the Allies, by the Soviets.*

The Battle for Caen held up the allies advance for over a month. I learnt that today.

@braedenh6858

3 жыл бұрын

There were a few factors responsible for this. Remember that the American army was very green at this point. For all the training they had received, hardly any Allied troops had seen combat. The Allies also took some time getting their support units such as artillery and armor and heavy weapons landed and into action in numbers that would make a difference. Also, the Germans were excellent fighters. In an even fight they could easily hold their own, even the rear echelon troops. The Allies would need to bring up artillery and armor, call in air support, and get a significant numbers advantage to clear them from a position. Fortunately for the Allies, the German army lacked depth and reserves. The Germans couldn't replace casualties, so frontline units fought until they were unable to do so, but wearing them down took time. And once the German lines were pierced or were flanked the Allies could run amok in the rear.

@jorelemes

3 жыл бұрын

Thats because around Caen germany fielded their greatest armor strenght in 1944 and 1945, 33 tanks per mile, in comparison to 7 tanks per mile in the american sector in normandy, and 5 to 4 tanks per mile in the eastern front as a whole in 1944 and 1945 (zaloga 2015 armoured champion). Generally speaking germany had 600 tanks fighting the british and canadians in normandy per day, while it was around 100 to 200 fighting the americans. That difference remained from june to august.

@389383

3 жыл бұрын

@@braedenh6858 Wasn't Caen Montgomery's job?

@DrJones20

3 жыл бұрын

@@braedenh6858 Braedan harris. Americans weren't at Caen you noob. It was Brits and Canadians versus Germans

@jorelemes

3 жыл бұрын

@@389383 Montgomery's job was the entirety of normandy and he is as responsible for operation cobra as for Caen. Eisenhower only got effective command on September 1.

Indy Neidell: Hey man you made spoilers from our series xD

Don't forget that no division symbol doesn't mean there were no troops or battles/fights. On the map it looks like the allies just rolled over France no problem, while that is true compared to other fronts, cities and other strategic links were garrisoned and had to be fought to be taken!

Great to have you back Eastory!

I love your content Eastory! I don't like animated map video's without the actual troops animated, they just recolour the territories, but that isn't fun to watch. You animate the actual division and armies, I love that! Can you make a video about the 2nd China-Japan war? That topic really interests me, why didn't the Japanese crush the Chinese?

@Eastory

3 жыл бұрын

Sure can do! It is planned for the future.

I am so happy that the Germans left Paris peacefully, they could have destroyed it. I mean they took some paintings but it was mostly intact.

@germanfan6481

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly hitler tried but the allies were too quick

@Matt.71

3 жыл бұрын

The governor refused to blow up Paris and surrendered to leclerc's 2nd DB when it arrived, most of Paris was under resistance control anyway

@theinquisition_

3 жыл бұрын

@@Matt.71 yeah

@germanfan6481

3 жыл бұрын

@G E T R E K T 905 you could argue the reason he refused the order to burn Paris is the effectiveness of the French resistance, and the allied tank forces taking the area, which would not leave him time to burn it. Although you are correct in your 2nd statement. My point was that if the germans had managed to dig in near Paris and resistance there was crushed the city would have been burned down for sure.

Good to see you guys back!

I really missed your fantastic commentary! I hope you will make a second version with you talking us through it!

@Eastory

3 жыл бұрын

I will.

I tried to focus on the 101st and follow Richard Winters and his boys.

7:52 Right at the top the Canadian drove as fast as they could to block the russians from getting into denmark.

@ilkercanpolat8690

3 жыл бұрын

well played

@rdg665

3 жыл бұрын

Their cars were sure faster than the Soviets' lol

@bbcmotd

3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't matter. There had been Yalta agreements

@matteoburchi6122

3 жыл бұрын

@@bbcmotd there was no trust. For example Polonia should have been free with free elections and not under soviet sphere and, if I'm not wrong, Germany shold have been dismantled and not put togheter as the west did (I'm not sure with the last)

@demanischaffer

3 жыл бұрын

@@bbcmotd it kind of does matter Since all it takes is the Soviets getting any significant hold and you'd see communist parties popping up It was also agreed upon that Poland would have free and fair elections and we saw how that went with the Soviets

I was randomly thinking of checking your maps again and it turns out you made a new video! Awesome!

Loved seeing the operation names and intentions, would like to see that in future videos!

@Eastory

3 жыл бұрын

Noted!

Wow, I was just thinking of your videos last night. I was thinking you should cover North Africa. I realized I have almost no understanding of what went down when and where. Anyways, looking forward to this new video! Edit: I just learned last night that the Germans in Dunkirk held on for a lot longer than I realized. Also Edit: 2:30, Happy Birthday Grandpa! Down there is a 17yo kid, a farmer hand from Pennsylvania who couldn't even read, who enlisted several months before. 6:38 He caught three bullets at the Saar crossing, during Operation Grenade. It was a bloody night. Sometime after, I'm not sure when, he was promoted to 1st Sergeant before the end of the war. He stayed in Germany for two years, and learned to read and write... in German. Crazy guy. Went home and married his friends sister, who was killed the night he was shot. Was good at math, and became an architect, building homes in Florida. Befriended alot of big names in Hollywood, Steve McQueen for one. My mom remember McQueen staying at their home while he was in town for a race. Was a lay minister in his free time. Followed a tradition in our family. His great grandfather was an architect and built many churches in Pennsylvania. His grandpa was in the civil war. Surgeons assistant. He never spoke of the war. His father was a minister. The guy was a modern renaissance man. My mom taught him how to read (english) when he was in his 40s. And yeah, his drafts and sermons were written in German.

@Eastory

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, good idea!

America : prepare for trouble Britain: and make it double

@MasterQ18

3 жыл бұрын

Soviet Union: me?

@simonrobillard

3 жыл бұрын

Stalin: That's right !

@GoodGames.

3 жыл бұрын

Soviet Union: Make it triple cause I’m about to rumble

Im glad you are back!

the legend is back

The return of the king

me plays 2b2t and listens to a video in background: checks yt notifications eastory uploaded: insta click

@rivaantyc6826

3 жыл бұрын

I was on a smaller anarchy server (The Commune), and it was an insta click for me too.

I have just watched the band of Brothers and have learned the strategy that the allied forces have taken to VE. Thanks for this! New sub!

The very best visual of World War Two ever made. Thanks

Thank you for making this great animated videos, I only wished there was more. I know It takes ages. The only problem I have with this animation is that you don't show cities when showing offensive arrow. Anyways really great video.

@Eastory

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind when making the video with narration.

@matepastorcic679

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eastory Thank you for reading this.

I suggest an idea to make video about second Sino-Japanese war

@Eastory

3 жыл бұрын

Noted

This was really really well done, you have my subscription!!

@Eastory

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

YO THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR DOING THE WESTERN FRONT! Edit: 1944/1945 western front

Best birthday present ever :)

@Eastory

3 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday!

Great video! Love the map also. Where do you get them, or do you create your own maps?

@Eastory

3 жыл бұрын

I compiled it from many smaller maps made during ww2

This is a good sign! also love your ideos :) keep up the great work

Thank you for making this video!

We were waiting for a video for a long time but it was worth it But i wish u talked :/

Yes, the Western Front of 44/45 ended in 8 minutes. (It is a joke)

@heatgamer7008

3 жыл бұрын

I wish that could happen in real life

@spicyleaves8876

3 жыл бұрын

@@heatgamer7008 I wish both fronts ended in 8 minutes, but not sped up.

@zxbzxbzxb1

3 жыл бұрын

I know, and they make it look so difficult in films like Saving Private Ryan...

@F22onblockland

3 жыл бұрын

Weird fact is that the Soviet army of 2 million in August 1945 managed to destroy the Japanese army of 700,000 in Manchuria in about 11 days, and the Manchurian region is approximately approximately the size of the entire western front shown in this video. (France itself is approx. 160 million acres, Manchuria is approx. 250 million acres) The Soviets were damn scary.

@zxbzxbzxb1

3 жыл бұрын

@abis8 alpha8 although going by your figures, the Soviets inflicted more losses (700K), and also forced Romania out of the war (the allies also finished off Vichy France), not that it's a competition anyway. The allied and soviet forces were very different in composition, terrain, battle wearyness and experience, and the kind of opposition they faced so it's pointless drawing basic conclusions of who outperformed who I feel, unless you look at events in great detail

Top as always, thank you! 😊

I am so happy that you released a new video, I like your content

When people say snaking in hoi4 is "gamey" and unrealistic just show them 2:32 to 2:50

the entire western front was just allies pushing and germans retreating

@John-Ginger

3 жыл бұрын

I mean with the exception of when the Germans did limited attacks yeah

@brunor.1127

3 жыл бұрын

The fall of the low countries and France also counts as Western front bro

@andersonolb1793

3 жыл бұрын

And failling to encircle the germans (besides the Ruhr).

@notrius7754

3 жыл бұрын

@@andersonolb1793 and Brittany and falaise and Amsterdam

@andersonolb1793

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure we can call Brittany an encirclement like the Ruhr, but Falaise yes (despite the majority of german troops escaping the gap).

I’ve been waiting for this

This guy is a legend. I don't know how he got all this information but I won't question it and just sit back and relax 😁

The frontline was a bit to pale/translucent around the seigfreid line it got kind of hard to see it properly

When they said western front pale in comparison to the eastern front they aren't joking

@rdg665

3 жыл бұрын

The entirety of the western front was like a skirmish to control a small village in the eastern front

@rcgunner7086

3 жыл бұрын

To a degree, but there's a big thing to remember: US or British division (one of those little balls) was a big as a Soviet Corps- they mustered around 18,000 + men plus hundreds of vehicles and AFVs (plus the western allies were able to KEEP them up to those strengths too...). A typical Soviet division was lucky if it had a third of that number, so multiply what you see by two or three times and you'll get something that's more comparable. Then you've got to cram all of that in a MUCH smaller battlezone where flanks and weak spots are hard to find.

@rcgunner7086

3 жыл бұрын

@G E T R E K T 905 True, but also imagine that the US raise all 300+ divisions that it planned to raise too, with each US division being roughly the strength of a Soviet corps.

I wish you'd do videos on more than just WW2 and WW1