1941: The Soviets won't last long. 1942: The end of the Soviets will be complete. 1943: Damn Soviets. Eliminate the Kursk salient and we will be rolling like last year. 1944: I wish we eliminated the Kursk salient. 1945: I wish we didn't invade the USSR.
@RompeIdiotasConRetraso 69 it's debatable and no one really agrees with anyone else, but the Germans still had a realistic chance of beating the Soviets until Kursk. Stalingrad and Africa was the end of the beginning, Sicily and Kursk was the beginning of the end. Bagration and Normandy were the nails going into the coffin lid. Berlin was the burial.
I learned about Army Group Center from my grandfather who was stationed in Germany at the end/after the war. He had met a german survivor of the encirclement, who told him about the Eastern front. Combined with my grandfathers Normandy stories and "I was hunted house by house" Dutch stories, it's a miracle I was ever born.
Thank you - this covers so much !! It would have taken me dozens of hours to have learned this. The scope and ferocity of fighting on the Eastern front is impossible for most to even begin to imagine.. ,
It's so weirdly fast and concise, I read books about this shit all day and these videos are marvels in odd clarity, all the encirclement battles nobody even thinks of after they read "Stalingrad" books vaguely blow your mind.
80% of the German army was destroyed in the eastern front..I just can't imagine what would have happened if the Russian lost in the east. I would be probably writing this in German
Far more people should see this... Brilliant series, you've earned my subscription and so many more, Eastory, I'm sure you medal's lost in the post. This is probably the best video about the Eastern Front on UA-cam.
@i wonder if you're reading this I traveled to Romania 6 years ago. Visited Bucharest and a lot of medieval castles. Was quite an interesting experience. Believe me, my Russia is a bigger shithole rn :)
Nah They didn't mean only 1/3 of the Panzers were left, and the infantry lost all their combat units and were replaced with inexperienced troops. Then Winter hit. Operation Barbarossa was brutal during the first few months and the Germans never encountered such fierce resistance
@RadicalJunior Germany had the most superior militairy in the world at the time + element of surprise they would have had any1 bro. Take away those 2 elements and they would have never gotten near Stalingrad. Only after USA joined the war Germany lost that edge. The most impressive feat in WW2 is Russia pushing back Germany with pretty much manpower alone and if you look at the Stalingrad numbers you will be shocked
as an Australian we were taught about the western front and the pacific war, the eastern front was barely mentioned as a tiny little footnote. its shocking to see a video like this and realize how important the soviet offensive was. i guess with the Cold War they wanted to downplay the communist share of the victory
Yes. I was born and brought up in New Zealand and at school in the 60s we were taught the plucky Brits, with us Anzacs (and some help from the USA) won the war.
Good that you know it now. Western propaganda is a huge lie and mind control. The price for that Victory was over 20 millions deads of Soviet people, millions of those people were civilians killed by Nazi Germans during the occupation. Plus Nazi Europeans took over 6 millions Jewish lives all over the Europe. Soviet union is the reason why Nazi don't rule the world now. As for western front - well, I have respect for those brave soldiers, but they only joined the war when the result was obvious and it was only matter of time. Yes, USA entered Europe at the end of the war only to gain control over Europe after the WWII, but as fot the soldiers who gave their lives to fight Nazis - I gave all my respect and honor. Too bad, that after war Western propaganda washed the brains of their people.
The entire Second World War was against the USSR, against the first and only state in which all profits from production were public and there was not a single billionaire parasite !!!! World War II was the last attempt to defeat the state itself with the help of force with the fairest system invented
@Ricardo Allmeida 20 million? Or maybe 100 billion, don't you? You always have to lie !!!! Steal property that is built on free labor, slaves? You are a brainwashed idiot, you are a slave with the help of which they build their property)))
History classes in primary school and highschool cover way too much to go into detail on battlefield strategy and tactics of specific wars....A history class on WW2 specifically in college? Sure.
5:19 There was some funny story about gaining acces to Baltic sea. One general decided to take glass of water from Baltic sea and deliver it personaly to Stalin. When soldier, who literaly spent few days on plane with that glass, finaly came to Stalin he said:"Glass of water from reconquered Baltic States!" by that time they lost this part. Stalin and other people laughed and then he said to soldier:"Go back to your general and tell him to return water where he took it"
And today is the 22nd of June, the day Germany started the war against USSR. Previous video was February the 2nd, the day the battle for Stalingrad was won. Thank you for sticking to these dates, you’re the best!
Smetana Dvorak today, June 23rd, the red army launched operation bagration, this would lead to the liberation of bielorussia and to the start of the end of the Second World War.
@@Loup-mx7yt It was June 22, exactly 3 years after the start of Operation Barbarrosa. Stalin purposely launched Operation Bagration exactly 3 years after that.
TIK made a whole series about that, including a video discussing exactly this question. (12. episode) The series: ua-cam.com/video/uJsjxSfB7Ls/v-deo.html
hq3473 yeah, evacuation was nearly impossible. But holding on to the curland pocket made some sense aswell. Clearly Eastprussia was prioritized in Terms of evacuation because of the benefits for holding on on baltic territory. (Submarine training bases, army group north could hold their ground, keeping finland as long i the war as possible)
Well think about why Hitler did this. He had two options and two options olny: Victory or death. There was no middle ground for him, no survivial in defeat. So slim as the chances might have been its actually logical from his position to plan for a victory in the future rather than planing on delaying the advance a little longer. At least to me this makes sense - if your willing to sacrifice houndrets of thousands of your own for very small chance to live on. He obviously was willing to do that.
Glad to see this great channel explaining to Americans and other Angloids about the role of the USSR in WWII. Also Steiner nerds be like: "Where is Moskowien?"
The USSR defeated German and Japanese fascism. One struggled with industry across Europe. Freed the whole of Europe and Asia from fascism. The Americans were the only ones in the world to drop 2 nuclear bombs on the civilian wooden cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the USSR had already defeated the Kwantung army in the Manchuria of China. Communism as the most just society United people, not killed. Look at China's communism now. The Chinese Communists are working on the Soviet economy.
@@artart3644 Half of what you are saying just sounds like dumb rambling, you a Russian troll trying to promote some glorified image of communism? You seem to skip on the part that this same just society of communism is to blame for about 8 million plus deaths under Stalin (low estimate, high is about 20 million) and about 50-70 million deaths under Communist Mao Zedong's rule in China. In other words the death toll under these 2 great periods of communist society exceeded the total death toll during WW2. And now back to you smart ass ;)
There is something I do when the war is lost. I get my weapon and kill myself before Hitler kills me for my incompetence Don’t judge me I live in the HOI4 universe but I somehow got to this universe
Eh well, War is broadly speaking about destroying the enemy. Encirclement is just one way of approach. Attrition, “surgical” strikes, economic war, propaganda are just some of the rest of the tools that can be used.
More than that. WWI wouldn't have been four years long if it was so simple. Germany and Austria - Hungary were caught up between UK - France and Russia.
I learned practically nothing about the eastern front of World War 2 in my history class. They really just mentioned Stalingrad and the fall of Berlin in 1945 and that was it. But while our history teacher spent altogether maybe 10 minutes explaining the Eastern Front, we spent at least 80% of the time we spent learning about World War 2 talking about D Day, Pearl Harbor and the use of the atomic bombs on Japan. Talk about downplaying the greatest global conflict in human history by only teaching half the story.
would it be a surprise for you, that post-soviet schools learn at history classes nothing except eastern front stuff? And, I assume, asian folks are like "What? Europe? Africa? They had war too? Why nobody told me at school about this shit?"
@@economicapple2609 is it though because of your school history classes? And what you mean "know"? Dude above once heard word "Stalingrad" at class - does it count as he "know" about eastern front?
15:05 for those wondering: The 3rd SS Panzerkorps that you can see north of Berlin is the "Kampfgruppe Steiner". The same Kampfgruppe that Hitler ordered to relieve Berlin but failed to do so, resulting in a rage of Hitler best remembered in the movie "Downfall".
It's not just merely 10 tanks, most of the 3rd army have been engaging the soviet defensively. Steiner only had 2 police battalions available for the assault and they had no heavy weapons, definitely suicidal to even try attacking the sieging belorussian army
It's amazing that the Battle of the Bulge, which is known as one of the biggest and bloodiest battles the US saw in WWII was basically a tiny footnote compared to the saga of the Eastern front. I knew that the Eastern front was massive and horrific, but until I watched this series did not understand just how much. Thank you for creating these videos. EDIT: Thanks to those who left thoughtful and interesting replies. I want to rant because others are missing the point of my comment and want to argue for no reason about the least important things: I said footnote IN COMPARISON. Example: WWI was less destructive globally IN COMPARISON to WWII. I am not saying WWI was any less tragic.
And battle of the bulge, the Germans specifically brought troops from the Eastern front to ardennes because they were considered tougher and battle hardened.
matthew arnold we did great part of wwii fighting Japan Italy and Germans in the west Europe, but here we comparing whole eastern campaign of 6 million + Germans 80% of best German army with Battle of the Bulge where 400 thousand and later 50 thousand more Germans surprise attacked us on western front. Clearly it’s unfair to compare whole campaign vs just 1 battle but however if you do compare such than of course Battle Of The Bulge will be like a tiny footnote which is more popular here in the US than whole eastern campaign. Most people here in US just don’t understand how big wwii was. Most movies about wwii you will see here is about little part of a huge monstrous war that it was. We don’t even celebrate V day and don’t even know when is the V day, but Russians do even today still celebrate May 9 every year.
@@RubyBandUSA It's just a comparison. The way that the POWER of bobs dropped at Hiroshima/Nagasaki were "footnotes" compared to the tzar bomba. Here I am not saying that the events at Hiroshima/Nagasaki are footnotes. Likewise with my comment, I was in no way minimizing the battle itself, but understanding the sheer scope of battles in the Eastern front.
Am reading "The Fall of Berlin 1945" by Antony Beevor - this animation was really helpful in understanding the expansive front. Stunning the number of people involved, whether in an army or civilian. Many thanks for the video.
Finland just wanted their lost land back from the 1938 winter war with Russia. Finland got off lucky at the end of the war and was not taken completely over by Stalin like Eastern Europe in the end.
It would be very good, just it got spoiled by some errors, like: 4:35. No, the problem were not any German concentration, but Stalin just wanted to get Polish resistance in Warsaw slaughtered first, as it makes installing any puppets later much easier.
Another error is number of POW's in Austria 550.000 at the end of video which is not accurate, it was 600.000 civilians and 200.000 soldiers mostly Croats who has been slaughtered on sadistic ways by Tito's partizans in bloodbath sloughterhouse better known as Bleiburg massacre 536.000 dead and burried alive.
@@karakteran8406 sadistic ways huh?? Shame on you! Most of them who were taken back to Yugoslavia and killed were ustashe, other nazi collaborators and war criminals who wanted to avoid their comeuppance by defecting outside of Yugoslavia! Did you ever heard of concentration camps Jasenovac, Stara Gradiska?? Jastrebarsko????? Jastrebarsko CC was the only camp that was established especially for killing children!!
Nije li tužno videti kako je neko toliko ogrezao u domovinskoj (ustaškoj) propagandi i još sebi daje za pravo da nekome drugome priča kako mu je ispran mozak.. Druže pa ti mozga nemaš, sve su ti popile ustaše! Ne znam ko je ovde trol kad si ti prvi koji je ovde počeo da širi ustaško-hrvatske brljotine i laži! Ne samo to, već su ti i rečenice koje si napisao toliko generične, izveštačene i već vidjene da je toliko očigledno da nisu tvoje! People, don't mind him, he is just another ustashe-lover who will deny anything that goes against his "beliefs" and country, which has commited its own genocide against Serbs, Gypsies and all other unwanted groups in WW2! Jasenovac and other camps and genocide are far from myth, but an undisputed truth, and you Croats should be ashamed of it, not proud.
@G E T R E K T 905 I'm sorry that I didn't conform to the meme standard that you were seeking. However, must I remind you that the essence of meme, according to the one who formulate the word himself Richard Dawkins, draws parallels between the nature of gene and genetic adaptation. Therefore, to Dawkins and similar to genes, memes mutate.
Thks for you comment bro! deaths WW2... 1) 520 000 French 2) 400 000 Italians 3) 320 000 British 4) 325 000 Americans 5) 364 000 Chechs and Slovaks 6) 1 600 000 Yugoslavians 7) 6 028 000 Poles 8) 9 700 000 Germans 9) 20 000 000 Soviets and many more from other countries..... YOUR NAME IS UNKNOW.... YOUR DEAD IS IMMORTAL!!!!
Thing is, war history is less useful than context and global history It’s better to know why war happened and what were the consequences than how war was fought (eventho its more interesting)
I StM I no one gives a shit to why that only needs a small segment but to say how it happened people wouldn’t want war and they’ll appreciate things more
Seeing only animated units, numbers and lines sometimes makes you forget, how many lives were lost with each movement of the front, how many cities and villages were devastated. Hard to imagine the scale of such an onslaught
It really is sad, because all of these troops were conscripts, forced into a war that they didn’t want to do, while the commanders would just throw themselves at the enemy’s, and the tanks while effective were prone to break down, especially the tiger b and elephant tank, so Germany’s strong armor doesn’t really work that well if you can’t weld the armor together correctly
This is essentially a war general's view of war, numbers and lines on a map. However, behind every number there is a mind, a soul, memories of being a child, and a love for someone.
For example of how little those give context, take Leningrad. From Sep 8, 1941 - Jan 27, 1944, the city was under siege of the Germans. Outside of a water route as their only lifeline, it was essentially encircled by Germany and Finnish troops and passed over. Daily food was so scarce for the 2 million residents who remained that it got down to 125 grams of bread, basically a single thick slice of bread. People burned their own furniture to stay warm, killed animals in the local zoo to eat if not their own pets and even the deceased in some cases. When not dealing with this, they were working in makeshift armament facilities with no roofs; This coupled with the bombing raids and artillery threats on a near daily basis made living a hell in Leningrad. But again, if you look at a map, it looks like troops from the opposing armies worked to bypass it entirely. We could potentially ignore the real demoralizing struggle of those people.
1918, German Empire: the war is lost, we have no more resources, the enemy will only get stronger, it is impossible to turn the tide. We surrender 1944, Nazi Germany: the war is lost, we have no more resources, the enemy will only get stronger. bRiNg In ThE 14 yEaR oLdS wHiLe wE wAiT fOr A sUpEr WeApOn
I really appreciate these videos for how you showed the topography (elevation and rivers), those are so important but not typically shown at that level of visibility in many maps of the war
as an american born in the 50's, you can imagine how facinating this video is to me. I am glad i lived long enough to see this!!!!!!!!! I wish my father had lived long enough to see it. He finished ROTC in '45, and was discharged before the Korean War, and loved ww2 history, which, as this docu demonstrates more clearly than most, he never really knew much of the true strategic and tactical history of what had actually happened. But, I have! If there is an afterlife, I will tell him. Again, many thanks.
The USSR defeated German and Japanese fascism. One struggled with industry across Europe. Freed the whole of Europe and Asia from fascism. The Americans were the only ones in the world to drop 2 nuclear bombs on the civilian wooden cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the USSR had already defeated the Kwantung army in the Manchuria of China. Communism as the most just society United people, not killed. Look at China's communism now. The Chinese Communists are working on the Soviet economy. Try live.
@@artart3644 Not completely accurate. First this was a team effort. I know the popular thing to say is that the US entered when the Russians already had it wrapped up, but that's just simply false. US was involved for years by keeping Britain alive - see liberty ships. US was engaged heavily in Western Europe, Italy, and North Africa, not to mention the entire Pacific. The Russians alone would have never been able to finish off Germany, let alone take on the entire empire of Japan. So as with every war ever, it was a team effort. The other thing is the implication that the US nuked civilian wooden cities. Also a false implication. Yes, one purpose of these weapons was to hopefully force Japan to withdraw out of fear. But the targets were chosen because they were vital centers of the Japanese military industrial complex.
This video is straight up a lie, 4:35 No, the problem were not any German forces, Stalin just wanted to get Polish resistance in Warsaw slaughtered first, as it makes installing any puppets later much easier.
@@majkel1684 Red Army couldn't help Army Krajowa simply because they needed time to rest and resupply. Our communication and supply lines at that time were piece of shit, and very often our units had to face Germans outnumbered and with outdated weapons, especially tanks. At that time we were fighting really hard to hold the footholds on western coast of Wisla river. How could we help the uprising if most of Red Army units in Poland were down to 25-50% of their standard quantity when it started? And with constant German counterattacks? Also, we did send you firearms via air drops.
Grandpa came home in 1946. Machine gunner. Mentally unstable and hard alcoholic. I remember, when drunk he spoke random German phrases. Me and my brother used to ask him: How many germans did you kill, grandpa? He was like: "Why should I kill humans, are you crazy?"
@Alexandre Renzetti no it doesnt. Although America contributed in the annihilation of Nazi Germany the Soviet Union and the UK basically hard carried the allies
@Alexandre Renzetti you seem to forget that the Soviet Union destroyed itself and not by FOREIGN powers... big difference. And even with a "weak" economy the Soviet Union and nowadays Russia had/has perhaps the strongest and most experienced army in the world...
more like "yo, remember when you gave northern Transylvania to Hungary, and southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria? we remember. The red army sends their regards."
@@scasino9358 Northen-Tranilvania in that time had hungarian majority. the romanians why annexed the area of trnasnistria where the romanians had only 7-8% of the full population?
@Marek Tužák lmao what does this have to do with anything? Operation bagration raped 3 of 4 German army groups the Germans had on the Eastern front in 1944.
For all the meme lords out there, Steiner is in the black bubble labelled "3 SS" at 14:58. He was brought there from Courland in January 1945 and was given command of most of the units north of Berlin. Though the map shows multiple German armored/mechanized corps, Steiner's force had been eviscerated at that point and had about 10 tanks in total. Hitler ordered Steiner to attack the pincer that juts out at 15:06, but Steiner was neither willing nor able to obey. Thus, Berlin was encircled and Hitler finally realized that it was the end - after blaming everyone else, of course.
You are wrong, comrade. We have endless reserves of Mongols and Chinese. They fight worse than us, but they are a hell of a lot xD _p.s. I'm Belarus-Russian ;-)_
Germany: Ok guys we need to turn this thing around Italy: Sorry my mom called me for dinner Romania: Sorry my mom called me for dinner Bulgaria: Sorry my mom called me for dinner Finland: Sorry my mom called me for dinner Hungary: ok we can 3v1 the- Japan: dude help i'm being 3v1ed!
Slovakia:Hey guys sorry I was afk-WTH HAPPEND HERE?! GERMANY HELP! Germany:I also need help... Slovakia:oh, well I am already dead -USSR killed Slovakia- -Slovakcoolgamer69 left the game- - Finnlandthepro changed teams- Finnland:Perkele Germany:Scheisse. -DeutscherProGamer commited suicide- Western Allies:GG Guys :) USSR:All too easy...
Starting at 8:58 : Quote - Greece "was not considered important by the Red Army". No, it was not because of that. It was because Churchill wanted Greece under British control, in order to secure the edge of the British Empire (that Churchill thought that it will survive). To make sure that Stalin will not plunge his fingers into Greece, Churchill told Stalin that he can grab Romania in any way he wants. Mark the irony: The Greeks, big lovers of Communism / Socialism in the 20th century, were forced to remain Capitalist. The Romanians, who in a nation of 19 million had a Communist Party of about 400 members, who had 6 million small land owners who hated to give up their property, were forced to become Socialist.
The Greeks did not become lovers of socialism until 1981 when the Socialist Party "PASOK" came to power, and began giving "free stuff" to everyone in order gain votes for the next 20 years. Where did they get the money? The answer is from the European Union, who had given the socialists money to upgrade Greece's infrastructure as soon as they became a member in 1981, only for them to take all of that money and just give it away by swelling the public sector with useless workers producing stamps on goverment documents. Greece was not socialist up until that time. I'm lucky to have been born in the late 70's and was able to live through this time, and to hear accounts from people of what it was like before the useless socialists came to power and began to brainwash not one but two generations and make them dependent on the government instead of allowing private business to flourish and bring about economic prosperity.
@@angelovalavanis2314 Good to hear that some Greeks still oppose this socialist lunacy :D We in Poland have to deal with a basically socialist party whose leadership is going nuts over taking full power, with the coronavirus being a good excuse.. And most people who vote for that party are people who experienced communism (people in their 50,60 and 70ties) which is extra dumb :D But "common folk" just love that "free stuff"..
Vuk Todic the germans still wouldve lost even if they hadnt invaded the USSR, the vast amount of fuel needed to destroy britain and its allies would essentially bankrupt germany without the need of the soviets.
Allies (and Comiterm): UK: We have the planes, leave Luftwaffe to us USSR: We'll fight their army, but we need stuff. USA: We have stuff Axis: Japan attacks China Germany sends attache to China Italy invades Greece. And fails Japan prepares to invade USSR Germany does Ribbentrop-Molotov with USSR Germany attacks USSR Japan signs non-aggression with USSR
@Aggressive Tubesock I agree, and the landing in southern france is called operation dragoon. The landing in normandy was only a diversion for operation dragoon, or so i have heard.
Fun fact: There was one battle where Americans and Germans were on the same side. The 'Battle of Schloss Itter' happened on May 5, 1945. German (Wehrmacht) and American soldiers, along with a group of high ranking allied pows were fighting a batallion of die hard ss soldiers who laid siege on the castle. It was "the strangest battle" of the war.
As 60(+) yo American, really grateful to have seen this before my death! My obession w ww2 documentaries started with the BBC World at War series as a child, and dozens and dozens since (the History Channel in the US in the late 80s and 90s) but never have I seen anything like this. Many thanks
If you haven't already, check out the World War Two channel (That's its name). they are doing a day by day history of the war in real time. they are up to May, 1942 now.
Believe it or not, Hogans Heroes started my fascination with the eastern Front. Every time col. Klink screwed up, he was told he would be sent to the Russian front. Klink would be aghast and do panic. Made me wonder how bad the Russian front was.
@@MetalDetroit I think Hogan summed it up nicely once, "It's big, it's cold, it's east of here, and there are a lot of guys named Ivan shooting at you."
Thank you for this glorious explanation of the complexities of war. I never knew the detail of this, having read and seen many sources. This is a triumph.
I also noticed that the Soviets in this episode had to decide between making a final push for the capital or securing the flanks first, which is how Eastory described the German choice in the 1941 episode.
bificommander Astute observation, but in this case the decision wasn’t made upon ensuring victory, as Germany had lost the war by that time. The Soviet’s wanted to gather as much land as possible before the war ended
Switzerland got "accidentally" bombed a few times, though it is speculated that these were intended to stop Swiss munitions production for the German army.
you can read every document, every history book, every plan, but when you watch a map with colours moving on it, you can get a true scale of how dramatic this conflict was, amazing video 11/10 👍
@@ekisfrole3118 My friend, you're wrong. The Soviet Union for four years restrained and counterattacked the Nazis, and the allies in the end helped and a huge thank you to them for this in Russia honor the memory and mourn for all those killed in the war. It is a pity that the West is beginning to forget all the grief that the Nazis brought to Europe and Russia and forget who suffered the brunt of the war. Forget who took the brunt and drove the Nazis back into their hole.
There is a collection of Zhukov's memoirs and reflections, where he describes in great detail the operations on the Soviet-German front, exactly Operation Bagration, to destroy Army Group Center. In my youth, I read all his books almost non-stop for a month, it was very interesting. I also read a lot of German literature translated into Russian, memories and reflections of German marshals, generals and soldiers, as well as watched almost all documentaries about World War II and about Patton, Montgomery and Eisenhower
Everybody talking abaout how Italy Switched sides when they started losing. But no one is talking about HOW ALL OF GERMANY ALLIES SWITCHED SIDES WHEN THEY STARTED LOSING.
@Mate 800 even its an alliacne of conflicted interest. Romania gets in because its economically dependent on Germany but hated Hungary for taking Transylvania. Slovakia and Hungary hated each other due to the war between them in 1939 shortly after Slovakia is established
@@viktoriaviktoria9327 They stand alone becose they wanted vanish other people, they dont assimilate conquered lands like Rome. And all victories of 3 Reich where versus smaller or same size countries. They not win with UK,Russia or USA. Germany could control all EU but they end as kidnaped country.
@@czechoslovakpatriot4773 yea I know but at that point in the war it was pointless to try and recapture land/oil and using already limited resources on pointless offensives, it was just a waste of resources in my opinion, not like it mattered in the end but still
As a military historian, I'd give anything to have a recording of the Zhukov war councils he held before any major campaign. Even more interesting were the sandbox re-creations of the battlefield. The largest ever, for Berlin, had everything down to the gas stations...
@@SmilingIbis when I wrote that it meant that germanys gas stations were closed mostly to conserve fuel for the war effort. It was just a joke like “lol when were they ever on”
Let's say the battle of the bulge never happens and courland is fully evacuated by december 1944. How much longer does that give the germans in your assesment?
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thank you so much for yuor crews co-workers to make this video this is more understand the war in europe. i acknowledge you works this keeps the histories alive... thank you again.
@@ГеоргийЛабинский-т1о Ну и какого чёрта ? Кто не погиб мог быть убит зверюгами из победителей,власовцев перешедших на сторону пражского сопротивления не оставляли в живых когда попадали с сталинский плен.
1939, WW2 started Allies in 1940: not yet Allies in 1941: not yet Allies in 1942: not yet Allies in 1943: mb now..? Allies in 1944: ohh shit, sovet already in center of Europe, go go go 1945, WW2 finished
I think you might be forgetting North Africa, Italy, the bombing raids and oh yeah, the enormous amount of materiel supplied to the Red Army by the Americans and notably the British, whose industrial capacity even after the Blitz was equal to the Soviets.
@@seang3019 "Material suplied to the Red army by america", bitch pls why dont you talk of Ford and GM helping the nazi? Search it then talk, americans think they are the center of everything, boys you are 244 years old country and you go everywhere to tell people how to rule their country, first fix the mess you have in your house.
@@WHAWBOY Firstly, the amount of goods and resources sold to the Axis throughout the war, by profiteering companies such as Ford and Standard Oil are dwarfed by the amount of materiel given to the Soviets by the US and Britain. Secondly, I'm not American. I am however a graduate in American and Russian history. And thirdly, how about we keep the discussion on a civil footing?
@@seang3019 you forgot to menrion that most supplies were sent by allies to Russia in 1945 when it didnt play major role already. Italy and North Africa campaigns was insignifficant comparing to Eastern Front. Just google number of soldiers in Africa and in Eastern front
Outstanding and incredible work. Much appreciation for your dedication, historical accuracy and knowledge. I've really enjoyed this project and hope to see more from you in the future. Cheers from Italy.
1941: The Soviets won't last long.
1942: The end of the Soviets will be complete.
1943: Damn Soviets. Eliminate the Kursk salient and we will be rolling like last year.
1944: I wish we eliminated the Kursk salient.
1945: I wish we didn't invade the USSR.
@RompeIdiotasConRetraso 69 it's debatable and no one really agrees with anyone else, but the Germans still had a realistic chance of beating the Soviets until Kursk. Stalingrad and Africa was the end of the beginning, Sicily and Kursk was the beginning of the end. Bagration and Normandy were the nails going into the coffin lid. Berlin was the burial.
@RompeIdiotasConRetraso 69 thank you sir! Cheers from Canada.
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@@yyyaaa3928 I love that reference.
Bulgaria, Finland and Romania be like “I’ve never met this Germany in my life”
And Italy
sanmaz Italy would be more like “What’s a Germany?”
Italy would be like a flood. And Germany how can be flood himself?
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@@ajappinen1007 torilla tavataan
17:05 - Steiner's glorious attack begins.
Well you got me fooled
Now I to be drowned by Vodka and Bavarian beer at same times
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Why are you gay
Aaaaaand it´s gone!
I learned about Army Group Center from my grandfather who was stationed in Germany at the end/after the war.
He had met a german survivor of the encirclement, who told him about the Eastern front.
Combined with my grandfathers Normandy stories and "I was hunted house by house" Dutch stories, it's a miracle I was ever born.
Play the video in reverse if you wanna see Steiner's glorious counter-attack.
Yes yes I will
how? on mobile btw
Me dont understand
u mad man
Lol
Steiner's counter attack will commence any minute now
Update: The 9th Army is encircled
Steiner was captured last month and executed
What about FEGHELEIN!
Hes on the western front encircled in denmark
Manstein is the prauge
And Rommel committed suicide.
Finally,the best series on UA-cam completed.
yes
He should do a series on the Pacific theater of WW2
Slava CCCP
Is a good series but I don't know is it the best because there are so many good ones out there like the great war and second world war.
@@justinlo3799 why do we keep calling WWI the "great war". 🤔
Thank you - this covers so much !! It would have taken me dozens of hours to have learned this. The scope and ferocity of fighting on the Eastern front is impossible for most to even begin to imagine.. ,
This is truly your Magnum Opus, fantastic work on this Eastory.
Truly decent effort. Kudos to the lad.
Oustanding work once again
RedGaming Studio four now
It's so weirdly fast and concise, I read books about this shit all day and these videos are marvels in odd clarity, all the encirclement battles nobody even thinks of after they read "Stalingrad" books vaguely blow your mind.
Great finale! Was looking forward to seeing who would win! :D
Steiner's counter-offensive solved all problems and defeated the whole red army )))
How do people comment so early
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80% of the German army was destroyed in the eastern front..I just can't imagine what would have happened
if the Russian lost in the east. I would be probably writing this in German
where are you coming from ?
Deutsch ist eine sehr schöne Sprache!
German is a very nice language!
@@lukasbecker1201 Yes , of course but the 1939
german army was close to dominate the world.
@@thebigmonstaandy6644 From the americas ..and you?
@@gentil77 Germany.Why do think,you would probably writing in German,if Sowjets lost in the east?Hitler would never invade USA.
Far more people should see this... Brilliant series, you've earned my subscription and so many more, Eastory, I'm sure you medal's lost in the post. This is probably the best video about the Eastern Front on UA-cam.
Germany- "Okay Romania, we really need you to hold the front in the South!"
Romania- "I don't even know who you are"
"I have never met this man in my life."
ZachsFilms the Romanian are so trustful like today 😂😂
@i wonder if you're reading this Oh come on, I am sure it's not all that bad.
@i wonder if you're reading this I traveled to Romania 6 years ago. Visited Bucharest and a lot of medieval castles. Was quite an interesting experience. Believe me, my Russia is a bigger shithole rn :)
@i wonder if you're reading this
I talked to a random romanian hes so ashamed of his corrupt country and his thief people.
Soviet Union: They had us in the first half, not gonna lie
Radical Junior Soviet Union just pulled out a uno fucking reverse card
@@Влад-д3ы4ш во во а сша напали в 1944 потому что поняли что ссср всю европу захватит и решили тоже кусок отхапать.
Они не хотели чтобы Европа была Социалистическай.
Nah They didn't mean only 1/3 of the Panzers were left, and the infantry lost all their combat units and were replaced with inexperienced troops. Then Winter hit.
Operation Barbarossa was brutal during the first few months and the Germans never encountered such fierce resistance
@RadicalJunior Germany had the most superior militairy in the world at the time + element of surprise they would have had any1 bro. Take away those 2 elements and they would have never gotten near Stalingrad. Only after USA joined the war Germany lost that edge. The most impressive feat in WW2 is Russia pushing back Germany with pretty much manpower alone and if you look at the Stalingrad numbers you will be shocked
as an Australian we were taught about the western front and the pacific war, the eastern front was barely mentioned as a tiny little footnote. its shocking to see a video like this and realize how important the soviet offensive was.
i guess with the Cold War they wanted to downplay the communist share of the victory
Yes. I was born and brought up in New Zealand and at school in the 60s we were taught the plucky Brits, with us Anzacs (and some help from the USA) won the war.
@Ricardo Allmeida Nah. Germany was wearing thin by this time but the Soviet Union could've kept pumping out blood and machinery forever.
Good that you know it now. Western propaganda is a huge lie and mind control.
The price for that Victory was over 20 millions deads of Soviet people, millions of those people were civilians killed by Nazi Germans during the occupation.
Plus Nazi Europeans took over 6 millions Jewish lives all over the Europe.
Soviet union is the reason why Nazi don't rule the world now.
As for western front - well, I have respect for those brave soldiers, but they only joined the war when the result was obvious and it was only matter of time. Yes, USA entered Europe at the end of the war only to gain control over Europe after the WWII, but as fot the soldiers who gave their lives to fight Nazis - I gave all my respect and honor.
Too bad, that after war Western propaganda washed the brains of their people.
The entire Second World War was against the USSR, against the first and only state in which all profits from production were public and there was not a single billionaire parasite !!!! World War II was the last attempt to defeat the state itself with the help of force with the fairest system invented
@Ricardo Allmeida 20 million? Or maybe 100 billion, don't you? You always have to lie !!!! Steal property that is built on free labor, slaves? You are a brainwashed idiot, you are a slave with the help of which they build their property)))
This guy teached me in 20 minutes more than my history teacher could in 4 years
I am Russian and I know the history of WW2 as it was in favor of our lessons
That's what I love about these UA-cam history videos. They're so succinct and yet packed with so much information.
History classes in primary school and highschool cover way too much to go into detail on battlefield strategy and tactics of specific wars....A history class on WW2 specifically in college? Sure.
Clearly your English teacher too, since you don't know it's taught instead of teached.
Teached you? Maybe try watching some 1st grade English youtube videos.
5:19 There was some funny story about gaining acces to Baltic sea. One general decided to take glass of water from Baltic sea and deliver it personaly to Stalin. When soldier, who literaly spent few days on plane with that glass, finaly came to Stalin he said:"Glass of water from reconquered Baltic States!" by that time they lost this part. Stalin and other people laughed and then he said to soldier:"Go back to your general and tell him to return water where he took it"
That was general Ivan Bagramyan, that did it
The mad lad general
@@Rzhaba Balkan and Baltic are two completely different things
@@Rzhaba arent all seas salty?
Damn that's a nice responce
And today is the 22nd of June, the day Germany started the war against USSR.
Previous video was February the 2nd, the day the battle for Stalingrad was won.
Thank you for sticking to these dates, you’re the best!
I think it's also to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Bagration.
78 years ago
Wait really???
Smetana Dvorak today, June 23rd, the red army launched operation bagration, this would lead to the liberation of bielorussia and to the start of the end of the Second World War.
@@Loup-mx7yt It was June 22, exactly 3 years after the start of Operation Barbarrosa. Stalin purposely launched Operation Bagration exactly 3 years after that.
LOL Germany in 1945 be like: we are gonna leave the troops in Russia territory just in case of future offensives
the delusion
TIK made a whole series about that, including a video discussing exactly this question. (12. episode)
The series: ua-cam.com/video/uJsjxSfB7Ls/v-deo.html
@@gameer0037 it was quite a good show.
Seems like "springboard" was largely propaganda, and evacuation was basically impossible.
hq3473 yeah, evacuation was nearly impossible. But holding on to the curland pocket made some sense aswell. Clearly Eastprussia was prioritized in Terms of evacuation because of the benefits for holding on on baltic territory. (Submarine training bases, army group north could hold their ground, keeping finland as long i the war as possible)
Well think about why Hitler did this. He had two options and two options olny: Victory or death. There was no middle ground for him, no survivial in defeat.
So slim as the chances might have been its actually logical from his position to plan for a victory in the future rather than planing on delaying the advance a little longer.
At least to me this makes sense - if your willing to sacrifice houndrets of thousands of your own for very small chance to live on. He obviously was willing to do that.
Glad to see this great channel explaining to Americans and other Angloids about the role of the USSR in WWII.
Also Steiner nerds be like: "Where is Moskowien?"
The USSR was dumb. Shouldn't have allied the Nazis. The USSR only won thanks to US land lease lol.
Smh Germany could just open console and write
Annex sov
tag eng
*deletes entire army*
tag ger
Erel Batish They were using Ironman mode
@Fabian Kirchgessner Was willst du hier?
@Fabian Kirchgessner Lern Deutsch, lese Kant!
impossible against all mighty soviet hax0rs
I appreciate this video of HARD WORK!
You can just see the man hours put in to this
@@TheOperationsRoom The Germans and Soviets spent years for this video, that's what i call HARD WORK.
@@AKaptijn94 You certainly aren't wrong there
Germany: Alright guys we got this.
Romania: *I serve the Soviet Union*
Bruh
Truly made me laugh
The USSR defeated German and Japanese fascism. One struggled with industry across Europe. Freed the whole of Europe and Asia from fascism. The Americans were the only ones in the world to drop 2 nuclear bombs on the civilian wooden cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the USSR had already defeated the Kwantung army in the Manchuria of China. Communism as the most just society United people, not killed. Look at China's communism now. The Chinese Communists are working on the Soviet economy.
Quốc Việt Đỗ Phú fucking pussy holes fuck the Eastern European’s no loyalty
@@artart3644 Half of what you are saying just sounds like dumb rambling, you a Russian troll trying to promote some glorified image of communism? You seem to skip on the part that this same just society of communism is to blame for about 8 million plus deaths under Stalin (low estimate, high is about 20 million) and about 50-70 million deaths under Communist Mao Zedong's rule in China. In other words the death toll under these 2 great periods of communist society exceeded the total death toll during WW2. And now back to you smart ass ;)
Sheer excellence. That's why I still love UA-cam. Thank you very much for those historical contributions.
Well, it’s 2021 and we’re still waiting for Steiner’s attack
Winning comment.
Dude Steiner is in Argentina 🇦🇷 he is renforcing Germans for uprising
@@xGARIDx If Steiner carried out his attack he could've relieved Berlin and push Russia and the allies back to their capitals
any day now...any day now
He is still waiting for the 25th panzergrenadier Division, they could be there any minute now
This is why you don’t play in Ironman Mode.
i mean the nazis could just /annex SOV lol
DEGS *germans
There is something I do when the war is lost.
I get my weapon and kill myself before Hitler kills me for my incompetence
Don’t judge me I live in the HOI4 universe but I somehow got to this universe
Need to produce more tank and do more encerclement, russis is really easy to fight in early game
Ironman mode just doesn't allow you to use commands
Basically war is how to incircle your enemy
How can a verified person only have 5 likes?
Eh well, War is broadly speaking about destroying the enemy. Encirclement is just one way of approach. Attrition, “surgical” strikes, economic war, propaganda are just some of the rest of the tools that can be used.
In that time period. Pretty impossible to do that in Vietnam.
More than that. WWI wouldn't have been four years long if it was so simple. Germany and Austria - Hungary were caught up between UK - France and Russia.
@@jesusmarialopezgonzalez1006 Also tanks didn't play a role in WW I, but made blitzkrieg possible with their speed.
動画の内容も分かりやすかったし、日本語訳も的確だからすごい分かりやすかった！
I learned practically nothing about the eastern front of World War 2 in my history class. They really just mentioned Stalingrad and the fall of Berlin in 1945 and that was it. But while our history teacher spent altogether maybe 10 minutes explaining the Eastern Front, we spent at least 80% of the time we spent learning about World War 2 talking about D Day, Pearl Harbor and the use of the atomic bombs on Japan. Talk about downplaying the greatest global conflict in human history by only teaching half the story.
would it be a surprise for you, that post-soviet schools learn at history classes nothing except eastern front stuff?
And, I assume, asian folks are like "What? Europe? Africa? They had war too? Why nobody told me at school about this shit?"
Excuse me I'm asian and I know about all fronts ._.
@@economicapple2609 is it though because of your school history classes? And what you mean "know"? Dude above once heard word "Stalingrad" at class - does it count as he "know" about eastern front?
@@praetorhispaniae4832 well uh not because of school lol asians read widely.
@@economicapple2609 that's what I was pointing on
15:05 for those wondering: The 3rd SS Panzerkorps that you can see north of Berlin is the "Kampfgruppe Steiner". The same Kampfgruppe that Hitler ordered to relieve Berlin but failed to do so, resulting in a rage of Hitler best remembered in the movie "Downfall".
Like some other commenter said,what Steiner could have done with 10 tanks?
@@kaletovhangar Absolutely nothing. It was delusional of Hitler to think that an attack could have done anything.
DASHWA ANG BAFE
@@kaletovhangar LOOK AT IT? DO YOU NOT SEE IT? Yeah me either lol they would have just gotten squashed like the rest of the panzer corps lol
It's not just merely 10 tanks, most of the 3rd army have been engaging the soviet defensively. Steiner only had 2 police battalions available for the assault and they had no heavy weapons, definitely suicidal to even try attacking the sieging belorussian army
It's amazing that the Battle of the Bulge, which is known as one of the biggest and bloodiest battles the US saw in WWII was basically a tiny footnote compared to the saga of the Eastern front. I knew that the Eastern front was massive and horrific, but until I watched this series did not understand just how much. Thank you for creating these videos.
EDIT: Thanks to those who left thoughtful and interesting replies. I want to rant because others are missing the point of my comment and want to argue for no reason about the least important things: I said footnote IN COMPARISON. Example: WWI was less destructive globally IN COMPARISON to WWII. I am not saying WWI was any less tragic.
And battle of the bulge, the Germans specifically brought troops from the Eastern front to ardennes because they were considered tougher and battle hardened.
that's a wrong way to characterize the Battle Of The Bulge ("a tiny footnote")
Ruby band it is what it is if you compare to the eastern front scale
matthew arnold we did great part of wwii fighting Japan Italy and Germans in the west Europe, but here we comparing whole eastern campaign of 6 million + Germans 80% of best German army with Battle of the Bulge where 400 thousand and later 50 thousand more Germans surprise attacked us on western front. Clearly it’s unfair to compare whole campaign vs just 1 battle but however if you do compare such than of course Battle Of The Bulge will be like a tiny footnote which is more popular here in the US than whole eastern campaign. Most people here in US just don’t understand how big wwii was. Most movies about wwii you will see here is about little part of a huge monstrous war that it was. We don’t even celebrate V day and don’t even know when is the V day, but Russians do even today still celebrate May 9 every year.
@@RubyBandUSA It's just a comparison. The way that the POWER of bobs dropped at Hiroshima/Nagasaki were "footnotes" compared to the tzar bomba. Here I am not saying that the events at Hiroshima/Nagasaki are footnotes. Likewise with my comment, I was in no way minimizing the battle itself, but understanding the sheer scope of battles in the Eastern front.
Am reading "The Fall of Berlin 1945" by Antony Beevor - this animation was really helpful in understanding the expansive front. Stunning the number of people involved, whether in an army or civilian. Many thanks for the video.
That moment when you join the Kriegsmarine in 1945 but they send you to the eastern front anyways
Bruh moment
That guy: I WANT TO LIVE !!!! (Spongebob reference.)
would you have been sent to a uboat
Either that or that former fishing boat outfitted with what looks to be an antique cannon
@@joem1668
Actually going to the front was safer than serving in an U-boat. Only 1/6th of soldiers serving in an U-boat survived the war.
Allies: So which side are you on exactly?
Finland: Yes.
Finland just wanted their lost land back from the 1938 winter war with Russia.
Finland got off lucky at the end of the war and was not taken completely over by Stalin like Eastern Europe in the end.
@@Crashed131963 1939-1940
@@lesliefranklin1870 OOOPs , thanks.
Finnish in Lenningrad: hipitty hoppity your part of your country is now our property
Russians: NANI!
Törni: any side that kill commies.
That's by far the best and most accurate WW2 documentary I've ever seen. Thanks! :D
Well Eastern Front, but not all of WW2
It would be very good, just it got spoiled by some errors, like: 4:35. No, the problem were not any German concentration, but Stalin just wanted to get Polish resistance in Warsaw slaughtered first, as it makes installing any puppets later much easier.
Another error is number of POW's in Austria 550.000 at the end of video which is not accurate, it was 600.000 civilians and 200.000 soldiers mostly Croats who has been slaughtered on sadistic ways by Tito's partizans in bloodbath sloughterhouse better known as Bleiburg massacre 536.000 dead and burried alive.
@@karakteran8406 sadistic ways huh?? Shame on you! Most of them who were taken back to Yugoslavia and killed were ustashe, other nazi collaborators and war criminals who wanted to avoid their comeuppance by defecting outside of Yugoslavia! Did you ever heard of concentration camps Jasenovac, Stara Gradiska?? Jastrebarsko????? Jastrebarsko CC was the only camp that was established especially for killing children!!
Nije li tužno videti kako je neko toliko ogrezao u domovinskoj (ustaškoj) propagandi i još sebi daje za pravo da nekome drugome priča kako mu je ispran mozak.. Druže pa ti mozga nemaš, sve su ti popile ustaše! Ne znam ko je ovde trol kad si ti prvi koji je ovde počeo da širi ustaško-hrvatske brljotine i laži! Ne samo to, već su ti i rečenice koje si napisao toliko generične, izveštačene i već vidjene da je toliko očigledno da nisu tvoje! People, don't mind him, he is just another ustashe-lover who will deny anything that goes against his "beliefs" and country, which has commited its own genocide against Serbs, Gypsies and all other unwanted groups in WW2! Jasenovac and other camps and genocide are far from myth, but an undisputed truth, and you Croats should be ashamed of it, not proud.
These visuals are incredible. Thank you ! Please make more 🙏
Dude, this was a fantastic series of the upmost greatest quality. The quality of the maps, frontlines, and units is simply incredible. 10/10
Hitler: I’m going to invade the Soviet’s capital
Stalin: *pull out reverse uno card*
Stalin: +4, change the colour to red.
Hitler: nein!
Stalin: red +2, red +2, red miss a turn, red back to me, red + 2, UNO, red 0, OUT-O!
You are genius!
@G E T R E K T 905 I'm sorry that I didn't conform to the meme standard that you were seeking. However, must I remind you that the essence of meme, according to the one who formulate the word himself Richard Dawkins, draws parallels between the nature of gene and genetic adaptation. Therefore, to Dawkins and similar to genes, memes mutate.
@G E T R E K T 905 maybe you, are the dumb one here
Thks for you comment bro!
deaths WW2...
1) 520 000 French
2) 400 000 Italians
3) 320 000 British
4) 325 000 Americans
5) 364 000 Chechs and Slovaks
6) 1 600 000 Yugoslavians
7) 6 028 000 Poles
8) 9 700 000 Germans
9) 20 000 000 Soviets
and many more from other countries..... YOUR NAME IS UNKNOW.... YOUR DEAD IS IMMORTAL!!!!
Excellent job as always, I'm so proud to be one of your patreons haha
First comment, nice.
Excellent video. The narrative and explanation is clear. Bravo!
If my history classes had been like this, I would have paid attention.
excautly
Thing is, war history is less useful than context and global history
It’s better to know why war happened and what were the consequences than how war was fought (eventho its more interesting)
I StM I no one gives a shit to why that only needs a small segment but to say how it happened people wouldn’t want war and they’ll appreciate things more
ExpressionAmidstCacophony the excuses of a mediocre value man
@@WomanBettar59 knowing positions and manuveurs hardly informs people of the horrors of war
Seeing only animated units, numbers and lines sometimes makes you forget, how many lives were lost with each movement of the front, how many cities and villages were devastated. Hard to imagine the scale of such an onslaught
It really is sad, because all of these troops were conscripts, forced into a war that they didn’t want to do, while the commanders would just throw themselves at the enemy’s, and the tanks while effective were prone to break down, especially the tiger b and elephant tank, so Germany’s strong armor doesn’t really work that well if you can’t weld the armor together correctly
the next level of this would be to cut in some shots of the wartime action. maybe a picture-in-picture or something.
This is essentially a war general's view of war, numbers and lines on a map. However, behind every number there is a mind, a soul, memories of being a child, and a love for someone.
For example of how little those give context, take Leningrad. From Sep 8, 1941 - Jan 27, 1944, the city was under siege of the Germans. Outside of a water route as their only lifeline, it was essentially encircled by Germany and Finnish troops and passed over. Daily food was so scarce for the 2 million residents who remained that it got down to 125 grams of bread, basically a single thick slice of bread. People burned their own furniture to stay warm, killed animals in the local zoo to eat if not their own pets and even the deceased in some cases. When not dealing with this, they were working in makeshift armament facilities with no roofs; This coupled with the bombing raids and artillery threats on a near daily basis made living a hell in Leningrad. But again, if you look at a map, it looks like troops from the opposing armies worked to bypass it entirely. We could potentially ignore the real demoralizing struggle of those people.
@@Gungho73 True, very true. But this was just a quick overview of the front. The details on the other hand would make ones skin crawl.
1918, German Empire: the war is lost, we have no more resources, the enemy will only get stronger, it is impossible to turn the tide. We surrender
1944, Nazi Germany: the war is lost, we have no more resources, the enemy will only get stronger. bRiNg In ThE 14 yEaR oLdS wHiLe wE wAiT fOr A sUpEr WeApOn
The war will be won when Steiner begins his counter attack on the soviets
Lol
@@ziggytheassassin5835 Steiner will counterattack and everything will be alright
if just the 14years old could have hold Nazi Großreich for 2 more months, Europe would have experienced the atom bomb instead of japan lmao
ZiggyThe assassin sir... Steiner... could not amass enough troops...
I really appreciate these videos for how you showed the topography (elevation and rivers), those are so important but not typically shown at that level of visibility in many maps of the war
as an american born in the 50's, you can imagine how facinating this video is to me. I am glad i lived long enough to see this!!!!!!!!! I wish my father had lived long enough to see it. He finished ROTC in '45, and was discharged before the Korean War, and loved ww2 history, which, as this docu demonstrates more clearly than most, he never really knew much of the true strategic and tactical history of what had actually happened. But, I have! If there is an afterlife, I will tell him. Again, many thanks.
The USSR defeated German and Japanese fascism. One struggled with industry across Europe. Freed the whole of Europe and Asia from fascism. The Americans were the only ones in the world to drop 2 nuclear bombs on the civilian wooden cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the USSR had already defeated the Kwantung army in the Manchuria of China. Communism as the most just society United people, not killed. Look at China's communism now. The Chinese Communists are working on the Soviet economy. Try live.
Art Art China isn’t communist.
@@artart3644 The commies took on the army and the Americans took on the navy
@@artart3644 Le tme ask you one thing: did your grandparents live within the non russian parts of the soviet union?
@@artart3644 Not completely accurate. First this was a team effort. I know the popular thing to say is that the US entered when the Russians already had it wrapped up, but that's just simply false. US was involved for years by keeping Britain alive - see liberty ships. US was engaged heavily in Western Europe, Italy, and North Africa, not to mention the entire Pacific. The Russians alone would have never been able to finish off Germany, let alone take on the entire empire of Japan. So as with every war ever, it was a team effort. The other thing is the implication that the US nuked civilian wooden cities. Also a false implication. Yes, one purpose of these weapons was to hopefully force Japan to withdraw out of fear. But the targets were chosen because they were vital centers of the Japanese military industrial complex.
If I was Germany I'd Alt-F4 in June 1944
Except you can`t. And you`re stuck with same sucky team mates.
You should have Alt-F4 in 1939
Wtf is a toy channel doing in a comment section of a video that is about a war
@@aperson1385 maybe that channel wants to learn about WW2, chill!
@@aperson1385 The people who manage the channel are adults and keep it logged in?
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I'm lost for words, this is a little masterpiece...
Congratulations, you have achieved a work of a truly impressive quality...
Une âme déterminée what’s up French brother
This video is straight up a lie, 4:35 No, the problem were not any German forces, Stalin just wanted to get Polish resistance in Warsaw slaughtered first, as it makes installing any puppets later much easier.
@@majkel1684 Red Army couldn't help Army Krajowa simply because they needed time to rest and resupply. Our communication and supply lines at that time were piece of shit, and very often our units had to face Germans outnumbered and with outdated weapons, especially tanks. At that time we were fighting really hard to hold the footholds on western coast of Wisla river. How could we help the uprising if most of Red Army units in Poland were down to 25-50% of their standard quantity when it started? And with constant German counterattacks? Also, we did send you firearms via air drops.
Grandpa came home in 1946. Machine gunner. Mentally unstable and hard alcoholic. I remember, when drunk he spoke random German phrases. Me and my brother used to ask him: How many germans did you kill, grandpa? He was like: "Why should I kill humans, are you crazy?"
The secret of politics? make a good deal with Russia.
- Otto von Bismarck -
Don't lead a war with two fronts. And NEVER lead a war with Russia.
- Otto von Bismarck -
@Alexandre Renzetti no it doesnt. Although America contributed in the annihilation of Nazi Germany the Soviet Union and the UK basically hard carried the allies
@Alexandre Renzetti it was cold.If it got hot that would off been a problem
@Alexandre Renzetti you seem to forget that the Soviet Union destroyed itself and not by FOREIGN powers... big difference. And even with a "weak" economy the Soviet Union and nowadays Russia had/has perhaps the strongest and most experienced army in the world...
@@gustavschnitzel
But soviet union didn't destroyed itself it was
*GRAPHITE*
Soviet: *enter the Balkans*
Bulgaria and Romania: I've never met Germany my whole life!
russia in 1991: i dont feel so good
ukraine: get yo ass out of our land
@Alexei *mongol horns blowing in the east*
@@AdrianRO1918 the irony here is that parts of current Ukraine and Crimea was never Ukrainian. It was given to them by the soviets.
@@uncleadi neither was north bucovina or southern bessarabia, but thats a topic i dont care about discussing
@Alexei no lol
Army Group Center: *EXISTS*
Stalin: Im gonna do whats called a pro-gamer move
Zukhov: I'm going to end these men's whole career!
@@r.c.1881 stalin's gamer moves were knowing what to delegate. zhukov's def the mvp
@@vikingskippen Zhukov was pretty lame, just glorified by soviet propaganda. He made a lot of stupid decisions. Won because he had more men.
@@cytrynowy_melon6604 Really?!
Tom Wheeler please just read books , not Wikipedia
6:25 - I love that switzerland is a lake :D
Soviet: destroying 80% of the Germany army
America and British: "We are catching up"
@Vinlon Voss its just an joke
68%
@@Robbiehans thanks
@@Robbiehans 69*
@@dennisweidner288 thanks for the inforation dude
Axis: *has a new plan*
Soviets : Nice plan, would be a shame if we knew it.
and they knew it
British intel, American money and Soviet blood won the war
*Germany on the phone:*
I need you to hold Romania!
*Romania:* new phone who dis?
Hahahhaha
more like "yo, remember when you gave northern Transylvania to Hungary, and southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria? we remember. The red army sends their regards."
@@scasino9358 Northen-Tranilvania in that time had hungarian majority. the romanians why annexed the area of trnasnistria where the romanians had only 7-8% of the full population?
@@scasino9358 "when you came BACK to Hungary.."
This is Patrick!!!
This video has always been an inspiration. Excelent job mate. Excelent work in WW2 as well.
Germany after losing Berlin: well boys to Prague we go
Wat
@@ninlog hoi4 meme
To Buenos-Aires
In my endseig games its always kiel because the western allies capture Hamburg, Hannover and Munich and the Soviets everything else
Soviets: make final preparations for operation bagration
Germans: why do I hear boss music?
*g e t 4 , 5 'd*
@Marek Tužák salty boi
@Marek Tužák shut up fascist filth, yuo lost the war so suck it up and fuck off
@Marek Tužák lmao what does this have to do with anything? Operation bagration raped 3 of 4 German army groups the Germans had on the Eastern front in 1944.
Marek Tužák Go to the gulags
For all the meme lords out there, Steiner is in the black bubble labelled "3 SS" at 14:58. He was brought there from Courland in January 1945 and was given command of most of the units north of Berlin. Though the map shows multiple German armored/mechanized corps, Steiner's force had been eviscerated at that point and had about 10 tanks in total. Hitler ordered Steiner to attack the pincer that juts out at 15:06, but Steiner was neither willing nor able to obey. Thus, Berlin was encircled and Hitler finally realized that it was the end - after blaming everyone else, of course.
got em
got em
His attack will get it under control.
He knew already in 1942 that they're gone
i did my own reaserch before i seen the comment lul
Мой дед дошёл до Берлина. Сначала был артиллеристом, а потом взяли его в разведку. Сейчас смотрю и думаю: как он там выжил?!
Was he a German soldier
@@H4sh1r_1
It is written that he reached Berlin. Where did he come from and who could he be?
It was a Bolshevik plague, like all the Soviets and their rotten communism
@@H4sh1r_1bro r U high the comment is in the Cyrillic alphabet so its not a German dude typing this plus no German counterattacks reached berlin
@@H4sh1r_1 for this to happen, he would have had to be Stirlitz. There is no other option.
As a German I can say, with Steiner's attack everything will be alright
Funny lol. I think u r praying to Allah ryt about now
You are wrong, comrade. We have endless reserves of Mongols and Chinese. They fight worse than us, but they are a hell of a lot xD
_p.s. I'm Belarus-Russian ;-)_
joshuajoseph No need to get stereotypical.
@@joshuajoseph5998 ru making fun of religion?
@@joshuajoseph5998 wtf he is from germany and why this comment ?
Germany: Ok guys we need to turn this thing around
Italy: Sorry my mom called me for dinner
Romania: Sorry my mom called me for dinner
Bulgaria: Sorry my mom called me for dinner
Finland: Sorry my mom called me for dinner
Hungary: ok we can 3v1 the-
Japan: dude help i'm being 3v1ed!
Slovakia:Hey guys sorry I was afk-WTH HAPPEND HERE?!
GERMANY HELP!
Germany:I also need help...
Slovakia:oh, well I am already dead
-USSR killed Slovakia-
-Slovakcoolgamer69 left the game-
- Finnlandthepro changed teams-
Finnland:Perkele
Germany:Scheisse.
-DeutscherProGamer commited suicide-
Western Allies:GG Guys :)
USSR:All too easy...
Hoi4 mp in a nutshell
Nah for japan it should be: I’m on the other said of the map!
Double crossing, coward b*tches. Shame on them (Nazi is bad tho)
@@user_698 watch yo language im german and btw its scheiße
Starting at 8:58 : Quote - Greece "was not considered important by the Red Army".
No, it was not because of that.
It was because Churchill wanted Greece under British control, in order to secure the edge of the British Empire (that Churchill thought that it will survive).
To make sure that Stalin will not plunge his fingers into Greece, Churchill told Stalin that he can grab Romania in any way he wants.
Mark the irony: The Greeks, big lovers of Communism / Socialism in the 20th century, were forced to remain Capitalist.
The Romanians, who in a nation of 19 million had a Communist Party of about 400 members, who had 6 million small land owners who hated to give up their property, were forced to become Socialist.
Britain nor even America was in a position to do much about it, holding onto Greece was just about the best thing Churchill could have done
The Greeks did not become lovers of socialism until 1981 when the Socialist Party "PASOK" came to power, and began giving "free stuff" to everyone in order gain votes for the next 20 years. Where did they get the money? The answer is from the European Union, who had given the socialists money to upgrade Greece's infrastructure as soon as they became a member in 1981, only for them to take all of that money and just give it away by swelling the public sector with useless workers producing stamps on goverment documents. Greece was not socialist up until that time. I'm lucky to have been born in the late 70's and was able to live through this time, and to hear accounts from people of what it was like before the useless socialists came to power and began to brainwash not one but two generations and make them dependent on the government instead of allowing private business to flourish and bring about economic prosperity.
@@angelovalavanis2314 Good to hear that some Greeks still oppose this socialist lunacy :D We in Poland have to deal with a basically socialist party whose leadership is going nuts over taking full power, with the coronavirus being a good excuse.. And most people who vote for that party are people who experienced communism (people in their 50,60 and 70ties) which is extra dumb :D But "common folk" just love that "free stuff"..
MegaKonradb What he was trying to say is that socialism or communism was much more popular in Greece than Romania (back then).
@@katalbinson6562 I don't think that was so.
This is a great visual way to present this part of the conflict, thank you! Would be great to see similar for the Pacific.
Uploaded on June 22,2019
I see you're a man of history.
But why doesn’t anyone care about the afrika corps
🎵Unser Rommel🎵
I care. Honestly was pretty amazing how it went down.
@@Trajan114 Hahaha))) Afrika cares)
Stalin: want to hear a joke?
hitler: sure
stalin: moscow
hitler: I don't get it
stalin: exactly
Foking lololol XD
Helsinki
Beautiful
@@mikeymoo8262 *BLYATIFUL*
Napoleon: haha, I get it!
Konstantin Rokossovsky: Ты уже мертв.
Army Group Center: Was?
Он же: сейчас мы нафаршируем твой зад яблоками и грушами,.как пелось у Катюши, как утку мы тебя, съедим на рождество ;)
@First Name Last Name Wrong theater, you want the Pacific
@@kmarasin Or Manchuria
@First Name Last Name "You are already encircled."
I like Your pronunciation of "Red" in "Red Army", so sweet.
A new Eastory WWII video, my day is complete. I love your videos.
Wow the eastern front is several times bigger than the western one
No shit
Amazing eh? Not so big in western movies so U could assume that Eastern Front was a walk in the park.
no shit Sherlock
Vuk Todic the germans still wouldve lost even if they hadnt invaded the USSR, the vast amount of fuel needed to destroy britain and its allies would essentially bankrupt germany without the need of the soviets.
Allies (and Comiterm):
UK: We have the planes, leave Luftwaffe to us
USSR: We'll fight their army, but we need stuff.
USA: We have stuff
Axis:
Japan attacks China
Germany sends attache to China
Italy invades Greece. And fails
Japan prepares to invade USSR
Germany does Ribbentrop-Molotov with USSR
Germany attacks USSR
Japan signs non-aggression with USSR
6:30 64th Corps where are you going!?Oh no he have AirPods he can’t hear us
MF just yote out of France smh..
Hahaha
he be takin a french countrywide tour xd
@Aggressive Tubesock I agree, and the landing in southern france is called operation dragoon. The landing in normandy was only a diversion for operation dragoon, or so i have heard.
They were doing the "tour de france" but got captured on the way.
Fun fact: There was one battle where Americans and Germans were on the same side. The 'Battle of Schloss Itter' happened on May 5, 1945. German (Wehrmacht) and American soldiers, along with a group of high ranking allied pows were fighting a batallion of die hard ss soldiers who laid siege on the castle. It was "the strangest battle" of the war.
I have never been so entertained by bubbles floating around on a map
play hio4
Hamza Alsayyed you should watch historia civilis
You maybe entertained by moving squares and rectangles
Josef Stalin no, bubbles are superior.
As 60(+) yo American, really grateful to have seen this before my death! My obession w ww2 documentaries started with the BBC World at War series as a child, and dozens and dozens since (the History Channel in the US in the late 80s and 90s) but never have I seen anything like this. Many thanks
man, you will live for many more decades before you die.
Check out the Apocalypse series on WWII (and WWI) if you haven't already. They are my favorite docs on the two great wars.
If you haven't already, check out the World War Two channel (That's its name). they are doing a day by day history of the war in real time. they are up to May, 1942 now.
Believe it or not, Hogans Heroes started my fascination with the eastern Front. Every time col. Klink screwed up, he was told he would be sent to the Russian front. Klink would be aghast and do panic. Made me wonder how bad the Russian front was.
@@MetalDetroit I think Hogan summed it up nicely once, "It's big, it's cold, it's east of here, and there are a lot of guys named Ivan shooting at you."
Magnificent work done out there!
Will wait for "Pacific War Animated: Series"!
You'll probably never see that on this channel
The channel name is "EASTory", so I don't expect this to happen.
The channel is named eastory buddy
Hey, far east is still east.
@@bificommander7472 in other words, "it's free real estate"
Thank you for this glorious explanation of the complexities of war. I never knew the detail of this, having read and seen many sources. This is a triumph.
OMG i waited for this a long time! Glad to hear you again bud
Isn’t it ironic how the Germans suffered a major encirclement near Minsk just as the Soviet’s had years before?
Minsk is a nice place in summer time apparently. No one wants to let it go!
I also noticed that the Soviets in this episode had to decide between making a final push for the capital or securing the flanks first, which is how Eastory described the German choice in the 1941 episode.
bificommander Astute observation, but in this case the decision wasn’t made upon ensuring victory, as Germany had lost the war by that time. The Soviet’s wanted to gather as much land as possible before the war ended
Europe: war waging
Switzerland: eating popcorn
Hotel: Trivago
Music Beats | Sweden: sh*ts itself out of fear
Lol Switzerland watching Europe and the rest of the world burn
Switzerland got "accidentally" bombed a few times, though it is speculated that these were intended to stop Swiss munitions production for the German army.
SmilingIbis wow, I never knew this
you can read every document, every history book, every plan, but when you watch a map with colours moving on it, you can get a true scale of how dramatic this conflict was, amazing video 11/10
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Germany can still win, Steiner's attack will turn things around!
@@joshmayetballoon3103 DAS WAR EIN BEFEHL!!
@@MrConstantine02 You forgot "The following stay here: Keitel, Jodl, Krebs and Burgdorf"
Wenck will come.
DER ANGRIFF STEINER WAHR EIN BEFEHL !!
@@jeffreydirksen8121 love it!
Germany: Alright, Bulgaria and Romania, i need you to hold off the soviets
Bulgaria & Romania: Wait a minute........ Who are you?
Many thanks to the Soviets for helping us to fight back the Germans
@@ekisfrole3118 My friend, you're wrong. The Soviet Union for four years restrained and counterattacked the Nazis, and the allies in the end helped and a huge thank you to them for this in Russia honor the memory and mourn for all those killed in the war. It is a pity that the West is beginning to forget all the grief that the Nazis brought to Europe and Russia and forget who suffered the brunt of the war. Forget who took the brunt and drove the Nazis back into their hole.
*The Western Allies Have Joined The Game*
Romania: new phone, who dis?
If it werent for useless romanians, they wouldnt have lost stalingrad
that feel when your Romanian ally starts speaking Russian..
Hungarians when the Romanian border starts speaking russian: 👁️👄👁️
Every german gangsta until their allies start to speak russian
logic 0
Мы бы и сами охуели
There is a collection of Zhukov's memoirs and reflections, where he describes in great detail the operations on the Soviet-German front, exactly Operation Bagration, to destroy Army Group Center. In my youth, I read all his books almost non-stop for a month, it was very interesting. I also read a lot of German literature translated into Russian, memories and reflections of German marshals, generals and soldiers, as well as watched almost all documentaries about World War II and about Patton, Montgomery and Eisenhower
Patton was the only non-Zionist on the Allied side. Very suspicious death circumstances.
Germany : Hol'up bois we got this.
Romania has left the server.
Bulgaria has left the server.
Finland has left the server.
no longer with bois
what about Italy?
@@yourlocalt72 Italy has left the server earlier. They have bad connection.
Hungary fights to the bitter end!
I hate unoriginal fucks like you. Follow the crowd like a sheep with that left server shit. Unoriginal bitch
*I've been looking forward to this*
CountDooku.gif
Easy boah
Everybody talking abaout how Italy Switched sides when they started losing.
But no one is talking about HOW ALL OF GERMANY ALLIES SWITCHED SIDES WHEN THEY STARTED LOSING.
Except japan
Germans don't have many allies becose they conquering doctrine where so sick to accept. In Final they stand alone versus all.
@Mate 800 even its an alliacne of conflicted interest. Romania gets in because its economically dependent on Germany but hated Hungary for taking Transylvania. Slovakia and Hungary hated each other due to the war between them in 1939 shortly after Slovakia is established
@@Wiktorino1984 Its a fact that Germany stood alone versus whole world , I think many people respect that.
@@viktoriaviktoria9327 They stand alone becose they wanted vanish other people, they dont assimilate conquered lands like Rome. And all victories of 3 Reich where versus smaller or same size countries. They not win with UK,Russia or USA. Germany could control all EU but they end as kidnaped country.
Excellent. This visual form of presentation is one of the best tools to teach history.
Russia: Less Then 100 Km From Berlin
Germany: Sends The Last Of Their Panzers Down To Hungary To Perform Offensive Warefare
Because Hungary had some vital oil fields. By 1945 much of the synthetic oil plants in Germany proper were destroyed by Allied bombing.
@@czechoslovakpatriot4773 yea I know but at that point in the war it was pointless to try and recapture land/oil and using already limited resources on pointless offensives, it was just a waste of resources in my opinion, not like it mattered in the end but still
@@prodcross that how much important the oil in war, this why america so love oil 😆
@@czechoslovakpatriot4773 this guy reads!
Either hold tight and lose for sure or attack and MAYBE win.
As a military historian, I'd give anything to have a recording of the Zhukov war councils he held before any major campaign. Even more interesting were the sandbox re-creations of the battlefield. The largest ever, for Berlin, had everything down to the gas stations...
Lmao Berlin had gas stations
@@brandonsarsland-brunner3390 Where did you think they got the gas to slosh on Hitler's corpse in a half-hearted effort to "cremate" the body?
@@SmilingIbis when I wrote that it meant that germanys gas stations were closed mostly to conserve fuel for the war effort. It was just a joke like “lol when were they ever on”
Let's say the battle of the bulge never happens and courland is fully evacuated by december 1944. How much longer does that give the germans in your assesment?
Thanks for marking Slovak National Uprising :)
Thanks for explaining why there was a random "Russian" flag!
100th like!
THAT WAS BETRAY!
@@Nashkelov STFY NAZI,....SOON WE R IN SERBIAN LUISITANIAN CITIES BERLIN ND DREZDEEN SLOTERING NAZI NATO ISIS TALMUDIC THERORIST ALLIENCE GNA GIN PROCESS,....FROM SERBIAN
And didn’t even mention Yugo partisans. Only marked 2 flags.
thank you so much for yuor crews co-workers to make this video this is more understand the war in europe. i acknowledge you works this keeps the histories alive... thank you again.
This was truly a masterpiece. I'm so glad i found this channel :)
Hitler's Berlin had been invaded...
*This angered his father, who punished him severely*
15:11 Das war ein Befehl! Der Angriff Steiners war ein Befehl!
@@ГеоргийЛабинский-т1о Ну и какого чёрта ? Кто не погиб мог быть убит зверюгами из победителей,власовцев перешедших на сторону пражского сопротивления не оставляли в живых когда попадали с сталинский плен.
@@eugenhartwig что? О чём ты? При чём тут это?
@@ГеоргийЛабинский-т1о А при чём здесь Штайнэр и вождь на немецком с приказами и дружеским советом фюреру ?😂 Ты знаешь где метёшь ?
@@eugenhartwig при том, что в видео есть момент когда Штайнер не выполняет приказ Гитлера, а эти фразы из фильма про последние дни рейха.
@@ГеоргийЛабинский-т1о Значит говорили об одной и той-же теме.
Thank you for taking your time to make this. Very informative.
This took so much work and effort. Smooth animation, choreographed narration, detail upon detail, accuracy, brevity. Absolutely flabbergasted.
1939, WW2 started
Allies in 1940: not yet
Allies in 1941: not yet
Allies in 1942: not yet
Allies in 1943: mb now..?
Allies in 1944: ohh shit, sovet already in center of Europe, go go go
1945, WW2 finished
france is fine lol because they had no weapon only baguette
I think you might be forgetting North Africa, Italy, the bombing raids and oh yeah, the enormous amount of materiel supplied to the Red Army by the Americans and notably the British, whose industrial capacity even after the Blitz was equal to the Soviets.
@@seang3019 "Material suplied to the Red army by america", bitch pls why dont you talk of Ford and GM helping the nazi?
Search it then talk, americans think they are the center of everything, boys you are 244 years old country and you go everywhere to tell people how to rule their country, first fix the mess you have in your house.
@@WHAWBOY Firstly, the amount of goods and resources sold to the Axis throughout the war, by profiteering companies such as Ford and Standard Oil are dwarfed by the amount of materiel given to the Soviets by the US and Britain.
Secondly, I'm not American. I am however a graduate in American and Russian history.
And thirdly, how about we keep the discussion on a civil footing?
@@seang3019 you forgot to menrion that most supplies were sent by allies to Russia in 1945 when it didnt play major role already. Italy and North Africa campaigns was insignifficant comparing to Eastern Front. Just google number of soldiers in Africa and in Eastern front
Outstanding and incredible work. Much appreciation for your dedication, historical accuracy and knowledge. I've really enjoyed this project and hope to see more from you in the future. Cheers from Italy.
This is honestly amazing and fascinating. Great job.
Do you know in which app author make his animations( war consequence)?