Eastern Front animated: 1944/1945

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  • Опубліковано 20 чер 2019
  • In 1944 Germany still refuses to surrender. This means that the Red Army and the Western Allies must move into the Reich to end the war. If before the Germans had to fight on foreign soil with extended supply lines, then now the tables are turned. The Allied numerical superiority of just 2:1 may give Germany a fair chance in conducting a defense.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 11 тис.

  • @USERZ123XD
    @USERZ123XD 4 роки тому +8250

    Germany: Team!!!???
    Italy has disconnected
    Finland has disconnected
    Romania joined the enemy team.
    Bulgaria has disconnected.
    Japan: I am on the other side of the map!

    • @Mavd-mk9iq
      @Mavd-mk9iq 4 роки тому +473

      Soviet union connected party
      Germany left the party

    • @maxim3783
      @maxim3783 4 роки тому +601

      Japan: lost connection

    • @levvy3006
      @levvy3006 4 роки тому +247

      Finland Joined the Soviet army in removing Nazis in 1944.

    • @DrJones20
      @DrJones20 4 роки тому +437

      Hungary: I'm still with you man!

    • @lorenzpaulinho1154
      @lorenzpaulinho1154 4 роки тому +157

      A part of Italy joined the enemy team

  • @iok21a
    @iok21a 4 роки тому +11470

    Bulgaria, Finland and Romania be like “I’ve never met this Germany in my life”

    • @sanmaz1019
      @sanmaz1019 4 роки тому +720

      And Italy

    • @iok21a
      @iok21a 4 роки тому +1122

      sanmaz Italy would be more like “What’s a Germany?”

    • @sanmaz1019
      @sanmaz1019 4 роки тому +135

      Italy would be like a flood. And Germany how can be flood himself?

    • @ajappinen1007
      @ajappinen1007 4 роки тому +79

      SUOMI MAINITTU PERRRKELE

    • @legend9181
      @legend9181 4 роки тому +31

      @@ajappinen1007 torilla tavataan

  • @Tjd1982
    @Tjd1982 Рік тому +87

    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.

  • @andreidragan3242
    @andreidragan3242 Рік тому +158

    This guy teached me in 20 minutes more than my history teacher could in 4 years

    • @galinaperova1618
      @galinaperova1618 10 місяців тому +4

      I am Russian and I know the history of WW2 as it was in favor of our lessons

    • @AbbeyRoadkill1
      @AbbeyRoadkill1 7 місяців тому +3

      That's what I love about these UA-cam history videos. They're so succinct and yet packed with so much information.

    • @tsdobbi
      @tsdobbi Місяць тому +4

      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.

    • @doctorwatermelon4680
      @doctorwatermelon4680 18 днів тому +1

      Clearly your English teacher too, since you don't know it's taught instead of teached.

  • @DouglasEdward84
    @DouglasEdward84 4 роки тому +2449

    This is truly your Magnum Opus, fantastic work on this Eastory.

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 4 роки тому +25

      Truly decent effort. Kudos to the lad.

    • @TheOperationsRoom
      @TheOperationsRoom 4 роки тому +21

      Oustanding work once again

    • @daviddavis4885
      @daviddavis4885 4 роки тому +1

      RedGaming Studio four now

    • @gibberconfirm166
      @gibberconfirm166 3 роки тому +1

      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.

  • @zachsfilms845
    @zachsfilms845 4 роки тому +3031

    Germany- "Okay Romania, we really need you to hold the front in the South!"
    Romania- "I don't even know who you are"

    • @ollikoskinen1
      @ollikoskinen1 4 роки тому +364

      "I have never met this man in my life."

    • @Peace-ot7wm
      @Peace-ot7wm 4 роки тому +67

      ZachsFilms the Romanian are so trustful like today 😂😂

    • @elvirjade4742
      @elvirjade4742 4 роки тому +33

      @i wonder if you're reading this Oh come on, I am sure it's not all that bad.

    • @elvirjade4742
      @elvirjade4742 4 роки тому +37

      @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 :)

    • @BanryuTV
      @BanryuTV 4 роки тому +24

      @i wonder if you're reading this
      I talked to a random romanian hes so ashamed of his corrupt country and his thief people.

  • @megapangolin1093
    @megapangolin1093 2 роки тому +11

    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.

  • @jktrader37
    @jktrader37 Рік тому +3

    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.. ,

  • @daboyz6106
    @daboyz6106 3 роки тому +5941

    Play the video in reverse if you wanna see Steiner's glorious counter-attack.

  • @bbenjoe
    @bbenjoe 4 роки тому +2894

    17:05 - Steiner's glorious attack begins.

  • @puneetverma6730
    @puneetverma6730 3 роки тому +5

    Amazing work! A simple yet comprehensive animated video with so much efforts and details.. good job..

  • @alexandererickssen7254
    @alexandererickssen7254 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @radicaljunior
    @radicaljunior 4 роки тому +5486

    Soviet Union: They had us in the first half, not gonna lie

    • @bdog2802
      @bdog2802 4 роки тому +287

      Radical Junior Soviet Union just pulled out a uno fucking reverse card

    • @scorpionscorpions446
      @scorpionscorpions446 4 роки тому +116

      @@user-od2ju7ci9x во во а сша напали в 1944 потому что поняли что ссср всю европу захватит и решили тоже кусок отхапать.

    • @user-jp2yq6ip2o
      @user-jp2yq6ip2o 4 роки тому +45

      Они не хотели чтобы Европа была Социалистическай.

    • @TannerWilliam07
      @TannerWilliam07 4 роки тому +39

      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

    • @BlaneNostalgia
      @BlaneNostalgia 4 роки тому +43

      @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

  • @kellerkornegayswag9431
    @kellerkornegayswag9431 4 роки тому +4935

    Finally,the best series on UA-cam completed.

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 4 роки тому +11

      yes

    • @xxdarkslayerlord1922
      @xxdarkslayerlord1922 4 роки тому +91

      He should do a series on the Pacific theater of WW2

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 4 роки тому +23

      Slava CCCP

    • @justinlo3799
      @justinlo3799 4 роки тому +4

      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.

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 4 роки тому +4

      @@justinlo3799 why do we keep calling WWI the "great war". 🤔

  • @cpdm1
    @cpdm1 2 роки тому +7

    This is a great visual way to present this part of the conflict, thank you! Would be great to see similar for the Pacific.

  • @ThomasRaich
    @ThomasRaich 3 роки тому +31

    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.

  • @5kyEye
    @5kyEye 4 роки тому +5041

    Great finale! Was looking forward to seeing who would win! :D

    • @Wow4ik4ik
      @Wow4ik4ik 4 роки тому +373

      Steiner's counter-offensive solved all problems and defeated the whole red army )))

    • @thatdodude1464
      @thatdodude1464 4 роки тому +23

      How do people comment so early

    • @pleasednut3881
      @pleasednut3881 4 роки тому +19

      @@thatdodude1464 notifications

    • @ProbablyRv
      @ProbablyRv 4 роки тому +25

      @@thatdodude1464 Patreon

    • @samarthkumar1060
      @samarthkumar1060 4 роки тому +15

      @天堂心臟 check out : THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE

  • @GuardianMilsim
    @GuardianMilsim 4 роки тому +2429

    Steiner's counter attack will commence any minute now
    Update: The 9th Army is encircled

    • @josh-kg1rb
      @josh-kg1rb 4 роки тому +127

      Steiner was captured last month and executed

    • @lhaviland8602
      @lhaviland8602 4 роки тому +129

      What about FEGHELEIN!

    • @josh-kg1rb
      @josh-kg1rb 4 роки тому +70

      Hes on the western front encircled in denmark

    • @josh-kg1rb
      @josh-kg1rb 4 роки тому +44

      Manstein is the prauge

    • @firesight968
      @firesight968 4 роки тому +33

      And Rommel committed suicide.

  • @aaronhill3529
    @aaronhill3529 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for taking your time to make this. Very informative.

  • @obiwanduglobi6359
    @obiwanduglobi6359 2 роки тому +2

    Sheer excellence. That's why I still love UA-cam. Thank you very much for those historical contributions.

  • @bi-shop1803
    @bi-shop1803 4 роки тому +524

    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"

    • @user-vr2pc2dm5j
      @user-vr2pc2dm5j 4 роки тому +102

      That was general Ivan Bagramyan, that did it

    • @fulcrum2951
      @fulcrum2951 4 роки тому +22

      The mad lad general

    • @kalevi5814
      @kalevi5814 4 роки тому +69

      @@lepsinadesutulaya Balkan and Baltic are two completely different things

    • @wrangle123
      @wrangle123 4 роки тому +13

      @@lepsinadesutulaya arent all seas salty?

    • @adhdlama2403
      @adhdlama2403 4 роки тому +4

      Damn that's a nice responce

  • @smetanadvorak362
    @smetanadvorak362 4 роки тому +1402

    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!

    • @randomclouds4404
      @randomclouds4404 4 роки тому +116

      I think it's also to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Bagration.

    • @GoogleGebruiker
      @GoogleGebruiker 4 роки тому +5

      78 years ago

    • @GG_Man123
      @GG_Man123 4 роки тому +4

      Wait really???

    • @Loup-mx7yt
      @Loup-mx7yt 4 роки тому +19

      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.

    • @JoePro84
      @JoePro84 4 роки тому +15

      @@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.

  • @user-uw8nt3sr3p
    @user-uw8nt3sr3p Рік тому +1

    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!

  • @annishenko
    @annishenko 2 місяці тому +1

    These visuals are incredible. Thank you ! Please make more 🙏

  • @Smartacus98
    @Smartacus98 4 роки тому +2853

    Allies: So which side are you on exactly?
    Finland: Yes.

    • @Crashed131963
      @Crashed131963 4 роки тому +177

      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.

    • @lesliefranklin1870
      @lesliefranklin1870 4 роки тому +72

      @@Crashed131963 1939-1940

    • @Crashed131963
      @Crashed131963 4 роки тому +34

      @@lesliefranklin1870 OOOPs , thanks.

    • @ashdsf_
      @ashdsf_ 4 роки тому +26

      Finnish in Lenningrad: hipitty hoppity your part of your country is now our property
      Russians: NANI!

    • @taskdon769
      @taskdon769 4 роки тому +19

      Törni: any side that kill commies.

  • @erel751
    @erel751 4 роки тому +1957

    Smh Germany could just open console and write
    Annex sov

    • @RamRam.720
      @RamRam.720 4 роки тому +387

      tag eng
      *deletes entire army*
      tag ger

    • @blaine8197
      @blaine8197 4 роки тому +247

      Erel Batish They were using Ironman mode

    • @baronmunchhausen7727
      @baronmunchhausen7727 4 роки тому +2

      @Fabian Kirchgessner Was willst du hier?

    • @baronmunchhausen7727
      @baronmunchhausen7727 4 роки тому +1

      @Fabian Kirchgessner Lern Deutsch, lese Kant!

    • @cccpredarmy
      @cccpredarmy 4 роки тому +4

      impossible against all mighty soviet hax0rs

  • @nickbuckley4371
    @nickbuckley4371 3 роки тому +6

    You and the great war taught me more about the world wars than school ever did thanks you

  • @mobilehome5078
    @mobilehome5078 2 роки тому +2

    Excellent. This visual form of presentation is one of the best tools to teach history.

  • @usaball9190
    @usaball9190 4 роки тому +652

    Hitler: I’m going to invade the Soviet’s capital
    Stalin: *pull out reverse uno card*

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays 4 роки тому +12

      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!

    • @braziliummarches6810
      @braziliummarches6810 4 роки тому +1

      You are genius!

    • @usaball9190
      @usaball9190 3 роки тому

      @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.

    • @cactusgamingyt9960
      @cactusgamingyt9960 3 роки тому

      @G E T R E K T 905 maybe you, are the dumb one here

    • @alaxs
      @alaxs 2 роки тому

      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!!!!

  • @oilersridersbluejays
    @oilersridersbluejays 4 роки тому +2369

    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.

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays 4 роки тому +190

      @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.

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays 4 роки тому +9

      @RompeIdiotasConRetraso 69 thank you sir! Cheers from Canada.

    • @endloesung_der_braunen_frage
      @endloesung_der_braunen_frage 4 роки тому +3

      😂😂😂 savage

    • @yyyaaa3928
      @yyyaaa3928 4 роки тому +13

      Big kick and it all fall - A Famous Painter

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays 4 роки тому +3

      @@yyyaaa3928 I love that reference.

  • @bardoquillocrisantobenur1709
    @bardoquillocrisantobenur1709 3 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @EnemigoalasPuertas
    @EnemigoalasPuertas 2 роки тому +5

    This video has always been an inspiration. Excelent job mate. Excelent work in WW2 as well.

  • @ethanha3163
    @ethanha3163 4 роки тому +1072

    This is why you don’t play in Ironman Mode.

    • @degs1549
      @degs1549 4 роки тому +77

      i mean the nazis could just /annex SOV lol

    • @nerevarchthn6860
      @nerevarchthn6860 4 роки тому +8

      DEGS *germans

    • @Cobretsov2022
      @Cobretsov2022 4 роки тому +47

      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

    • @scalaphandre
      @scalaphandre 4 роки тому +5

      Need to produce more tank and do more encerclement, russis is really easy to fight in early game

    • @kikopintascraft5283
      @kikopintascraft5283 4 роки тому +2

      Ironman mode just doesn't allow you to use commands

  • @kaleblanoue5010
    @kaleblanoue5010 3 роки тому +2404

    Well, it’s 2021 and we’re still waiting for Steiner’s attack

    • @Willigula
      @Willigula 3 роки тому +44

      Winning comment.

    • @xGARIDx
      @xGARIDx 3 роки тому +147

      Dude Steiner is in Argentina 🇦🇷 he is renforcing Germans for uprising

    • @user-ko3te7oy6d
      @user-ko3te7oy6d 3 роки тому +101

      @@xGARIDx If Steiner carried out his attack he could've relieved Berlin and push Russia and the allies back to their capitals

    • @marcokite
      @marcokite 3 роки тому +23

      any day now...any day now

    • @bork661
      @bork661 3 роки тому +37

      He is still waiting for the 25th panzergrenadier Division, they could be there any minute now

  • @GeneralBongmeister
    @GeneralBongmeister Рік тому +11

    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
    👍

  • @quocvietophu1627
    @quocvietophu1627 4 роки тому +1801

    Germany: Alright guys we got this.
    Romania: *I serve the Soviet Union*

    • @db4ch
      @db4ch 4 роки тому +33

      Bruh

    • @yeeterdeleter6306
      @yeeterdeleter6306 4 роки тому +14

      Truly made me laugh

    • @artart3644
      @artart3644 4 роки тому +55

      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.

    • @HT-gv1be
      @HT-gv1be 4 роки тому +7

      Quốc Việt Đỗ Phú fucking pussy holes fuck the Eastern European’s no loyalty

    • @sanderb2537
      @sanderb2537 4 роки тому +81

      @@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 ;)

  • @LibertyMapper
    @LibertyMapper 3 роки тому +1236

    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".

    • @kaletovhangar
      @kaletovhangar 3 роки тому +104

      Like some other commenter said,what Steiner could have done with 10 tanks?

    • @LibertyMapper
      @LibertyMapper 3 роки тому +219

      @@kaletovhangar Absolutely nothing. It was delusional of Hitler to think that an attack could have done anything.

    • @exoels
      @exoels 2 роки тому +31

      DASHWA ANG BAFE

    • @brandonsarsland-brunner3390
      @brandonsarsland-brunner3390 2 роки тому +16

      @@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

    • @willsplayify
      @willsplayify 2 роки тому +78

      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

  • @lutepalsenberg7397
    @lutepalsenberg7397 2 роки тому +1

    Great way of explaining such a difficult subject!

  • @otaliesin2133
    @otaliesin2133 2 роки тому

    Best animated war clips yet. THANKS

  • @gentil77
    @gentil77 4 роки тому +3838

    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

    • @thebigmonstaandy6644
      @thebigmonstaandy6644 4 роки тому +42

      where are you coming from ?

    • @lukasbecker1201
      @lukasbecker1201 4 роки тому +452

      Deutsch ist eine sehr schöne Sprache!
      German is a very nice language!

    • @gentil77
      @gentil77 4 роки тому +210

      @@lukasbecker1201 Yes , of course but the 1939
      german army was close to dominate the world.

    • @gentil77
      @gentil77 4 роки тому +43

      @@thebigmonstaandy6644 From the americas ..and you?

    • @thebigmonstaandy6644
      @thebigmonstaandy6644 4 роки тому +173

      @@gentil77 Germany.Why do think,you would probably writing in German,if Sowjets lost in the east?Hitler would never invade USA.

  • @shmickpingo1
    @shmickpingo1 3 роки тому +3355

    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

    • @markcarey8426
      @markcarey8426 3 роки тому +232

      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.

    • @markcarey8426
      @markcarey8426 3 роки тому +175

      @Ricardo Allmeida Nah. Germany was wearing thin by this time but the Soviet Union could've kept pumping out blood and machinery forever.

    • @ShadKS18XL
      @ShadKS18XL 3 роки тому +232

      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.

    • @Vanyaivanov3
      @Vanyaivanov3 3 роки тому +210

      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

    • @Vanyaivanov3
      @Vanyaivanov3 3 роки тому +59

      @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)))

  • @someonewithoutaname6624
    @someonewithoutaname6624 5 місяців тому +1

    This is honestly amazing and fascinating. Great job.

    • @static_map
      @static_map 5 місяців тому

      Do you know in which app author make his animations( war consequence)?

  • @270kenritt
    @270kenritt 2 роки тому

    Excellent description of the EASTERN Front...
    Thanks for this project.

  • @awesomemangoes8072
    @awesomemangoes8072 4 роки тому +370

    I appreciate this video of HARD WORK!

    • @TheOperationsRoom
      @TheOperationsRoom 4 роки тому +6

      You can just see the man hours put in to this

    • @AKaptijn94
      @AKaptijn94 4 роки тому +2

      @@TheOperationsRoom The Germans and Soviets spent years for this video, that's what i call HARD WORK.

    • @TheOperationsRoom
      @TheOperationsRoom 4 роки тому +1

      @@AKaptijn94 You certainly aren't wrong there

  • @hamzaalsayyed2700
    @hamzaalsayyed2700 4 роки тому +740

    Army Group Center: *EXISTS*
    Stalin: Im gonna do whats called a pro-gamer move

    • @r.c.1881
      @r.c.1881 4 роки тому +54

      Zukhov: I'm going to end these men's whole career!

    • @vikingskippen
      @vikingskippen 4 роки тому +8

      @@r.c.1881 stalin's gamer moves were knowing what to delegate. zhukov's def the mvp

    • @cytrynowy_melon6604
      @cytrynowy_melon6604 4 роки тому

      @@vikingskippen Zhukov was pretty lame, just glorified by soviet propaganda. He made a lot of stupid decisions. Won because he had more men.

    • @mohammadnooriman4185
      @mohammadnooriman4185 4 роки тому +3

      @@cytrynowy_melon6604 Really?!

    • @ov4arkachannel596
      @ov4arkachannel596 4 роки тому +2

      Tom Wheeler please just read books , not Wikipedia

  • @lawrencewood289
    @lawrencewood289 7 місяців тому +1

    Excellent video. The narrative and explanation is clear. Bravo!

  • @cherylhersperger3145
    @cherylhersperger3145 2 роки тому +17

    I am writing a book about my life in intersection with a Soviet Red Army Officer who I met in the USA. The series of videos regarding the movements from 1942 to 1945 confirmed his recollections as further evidenced through his battle certificates. Thank you for putting this together so accurately and comprehensively.

  • @JDthegamer209
    @JDthegamer209 4 роки тому +4192

    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.

    • @praetorhispaniae4832
      @praetorhispaniae4832 4 роки тому +491

      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
      @economicapple2609 4 роки тому +344

      Excuse me I'm asian and I know about all fronts ._.

    • @praetorhispaniae4832
      @praetorhispaniae4832 4 роки тому +97

      @@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?

    • @economicapple2609
      @economicapple2609 4 роки тому +114

      @@praetorhispaniae4832 well uh not because of school lol asians read widely.

    • @praetorhispaniae4832
      @praetorhispaniae4832 4 роки тому +80

      @@economicapple2609 that's what I was pointing on

  • @expressionamidstcacophony390
    @expressionamidstcacophony390 4 роки тому +613

    If my history classes had been like this, I would have paid attention.

    • @luciusvernus3174
      @luciusvernus3174 4 роки тому +9

      excautly

    • @IStMl
      @IStMl 4 роки тому +44

      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)

    • @pigpimp6912
      @pigpimp6912 4 роки тому +2

      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

    • @50shekels
      @50shekels 4 роки тому +1

      ExpressionAmidstCacophony the excuses of a mediocre value man

    • @VineFynn
      @VineFynn 4 роки тому +2

      @@pigpimp6912 knowing positions and manuveurs hardly informs people of the horrors of war

  • @mrmikecakic
    @mrmikecakic Рік тому +1

    Great animation! Better explained than any of books i had as a student!

  • @Mehmet-jx5cc
    @Mehmet-jx5cc 3 роки тому +46

    Legends say that Steiner is still planning his counter attack

    • @noobf8783
      @noobf8783 3 роки тому

      Fuck you

    • @anessabri777
      @anessabri777 2 роки тому +1

      the legend say that hitler is still counfusing that steiner didn't attack

  • @feha6580
    @feha6580 4 роки тому +793

    *Germany on the phone:*
    I need you to hold Romania!
    *Romania:* new phone who dis?

    • @bogdanvojnovic989
      @bogdanvojnovic989 4 роки тому

      Hahahhaha

    • @scasino9358
      @scasino9358 4 роки тому +39

      more like "yo, remember when you gave northern Transylvania to Hungary, and southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria? we remember. The red army sends their regards."

    • @peternemeth4073
      @peternemeth4073 4 роки тому +7

      @@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?

    • @matyasszabo6361
      @matyasszabo6361 4 роки тому +5

      @@scasino9358 "when you came BACK to Hungary.."

    • @toyotacoralla9310
      @toyotacoralla9310 4 роки тому +1

      This is Patrick!!!

  • @hamzaalsayyed2700
    @hamzaalsayyed2700 4 роки тому +542

    That moment when you join the Kriegsmarine in 1945 but they send you to the eastern front anyways

    • @blitzkrieg7353
      @blitzkrieg7353 4 роки тому +39

      Bruh moment

    • @patdan123
      @patdan123 4 роки тому +16

      That guy: I WANT TO LIVE !!!! (Spongebob reference.)

    • @joem1668
      @joem1668 4 роки тому +3

      would you have been sent to a uboat

    • @dodojesus4529
      @dodojesus4529 4 роки тому +6

      Either that or that former fishing boat outfitted with what looks to be an antique cannon

    • @Pikkabuu
      @Pikkabuu 4 роки тому +16

      @@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.

  • @benjaminkurilla3943
    @benjaminkurilla3943 2 роки тому +4

    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.

  • @xenai.
    @xenai. Рік тому

    This video help me aton about the Eastern front. I learned about both fronts, but i didnt know too much about the eastern one
    This video gave alot if info about how greatly the push to Berlin was there

  • @kamel3d
    @kamel3d 3 роки тому +1426

    Basically war is how to incircle your enemy

    • @oleksandrspasichenko7093
      @oleksandrspasichenko7093 3 роки тому +98

      Blitzkrieg tactics - yes

    • @sgg6643
      @sgg6643 3 роки тому +21

      How can a verified person only have 5 likes?

    • @YiannissB.
      @YiannissB. 3 роки тому +141

      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.

    • @nooneinparticular9837
      @nooneinparticular9837 3 роки тому +19

      In that time period. Pretty impossible to do that in Vietnam.

    • @jesusmarialopezgonzalez1006
      @jesusmarialopezgonzalez1006 3 роки тому +13

      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.

  • @youngminpark3173
    @youngminpark3173 4 роки тому +2955

    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.

    • @bombarderoazul
      @bombarderoazul 4 роки тому +223

      And battle of the bulge, the Germans specifically brought troops from the Eastern front to ardennes because they were considered tougher and battle hardened.

    • @RubyBandUSA
      @RubyBandUSA 4 роки тому +38

      that's a wrong way to characterize the Battle Of The Bulge ("a tiny footnote")

    • @rocketman2408
      @rocketman2408 4 роки тому +224

      Ruby band it is what it is if you compare to the eastern front scale

    • @rocketman2408
      @rocketman2408 4 роки тому +194

      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.

    • @youngminpark3173
      @youngminpark3173 4 роки тому +59

      @@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.

  • @Midwayy10
    @Midwayy10 2 роки тому

    This guy and oversimplified I swear they make the best content. *_(in my opinion)_*

  • @MetalDetroit
    @MetalDetroit 2 роки тому +1

    Well done ! Thank you. Fascinated by the eastern front

  • @casparcoaster1936
    @casparcoaster1936 4 роки тому +805

    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.

    • @artart3644
      @artart3644 4 роки тому +23

      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.

    • @unetortue3429
      @unetortue3429 4 роки тому +10

      Art Art China isn’t communist.

    • @luvee659
      @luvee659 4 роки тому +4

      @@artart3644 The commies took on the army and the Americans took on the navy

    • @yourlocalengineer
      @yourlocalengineer 4 роки тому +11

      @@artart3644 Le tme ask you one thing: did your grandparents live within the non russian parts of the soviet union?

    • @bonkersmcgee4356
      @bonkersmcgee4356 4 роки тому +27

      @@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.

  • @nixxel2278
    @nixxel2278 4 роки тому +1206

    That's by far the best and most accurate WW2 documentary I've ever seen. Thanks! :D

    • @michelangelobuonarroti4958
      @michelangelobuonarroti4958 4 роки тому +12

      Well Eastern Front, but not all of WW2

    • @useodyseeorbitchute9450
      @useodyseeorbitchute9450 4 роки тому +16

      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.

    • @karakteran8406
      @karakteran8406 4 роки тому +4

      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.

    • @YTuseraL2694
      @YTuseraL2694 4 роки тому +24

      @@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!!

    • @YTuseraL2694
      @YTuseraL2694 4 роки тому +4

      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.

  • @slaviclettuce7937
    @slaviclettuce7937 Рік тому +9

    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?"

    • @mr.someone6128
      @mr.someone6128 Рік тому

      The USSR was dumb. Shouldn't have allied the Nazis. The USSR only won thanks to US land lease lol.

  • @Gargamel_0
    @Gargamel_0 Рік тому

    This is why i recommended for my history teacher, he showed it and liked it. THEN started getting interested and shows oversimplified vids now.

  • @umontortle
    @umontortle 4 роки тому +371

    Axis: *has a new plan*
    Soviets : Nice plan, would be a shame if we knew it.

    • @mahromac
      @mahromac 4 роки тому +5

      and they knew it

  • @joanj94
    @joanj94 4 роки тому +174

    Excellent job as always, I'm so proud to be one of your patreons haha

  • @raggedclawstarcraft6562
    @raggedclawstarcraft6562 2 роки тому +7

    6:25 - I love that switzerland is a lake :D

  • @martinkompan439
    @martinkompan439 3 роки тому +9

    Thanks for adding the Slovak National Uprising into this video. Much appretiated.

  • @canderousordo8271
    @canderousordo8271 3 роки тому +699

    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

    • @rnin689
      @rnin689 2 роки тому +20

      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

    • @SpaceMissile
      @SpaceMissile 2 роки тому +7

      the next level of this would be to cut in some shots of the wartime action. maybe a picture-in-picture or something.

    • @NeonVars
      @NeonVars 2 роки тому +37

      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.

    • @Gungho73
      @Gungho73 2 роки тому +28

      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.

    • @Candiedbacon75
      @Candiedbacon75 2 роки тому +7

      @@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.

  • @masonluo4049
    @masonluo4049 4 роки тому +3549

    LOL Germany in 1945 be like: we are gonna leave the troops in Russia territory just in case of future offensives

    • @zeriyx
      @zeriyx 4 роки тому +409

      the delusion

    • @gameer0037
      @gameer0037 4 роки тому +82

      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
      @hq3473 4 роки тому +116

      @@gameer0037 it was quite a good show.
      Seems like "springboard" was largely propaganda, and evacuation was basically impossible.

    • @gameer0037
      @gameer0037 4 роки тому +63

      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)

    • @machtharry
      @machtharry 4 роки тому +82

      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.

  • @mikeandrews2851
    @mikeandrews2851 2 роки тому

    This is really a great presentation, that you never get to see! You have to go to books that have maps in them.

  • @alexnord5756
    @alexnord5756 11 місяців тому +4

    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

    • @ElizaWebbg
      @ElizaWebbg 10 місяців тому +2

      Patton was the only non-Zionist on the Allied side. Very suspicious death circumstances.

  • @thedriper2983
    @thedriper2983 3 роки тому +2487

    Soviet: destroying 80% of the Germany army
    America and British: "We are catching up"

  • @dtikvxcdgjbv7975
    @dtikvxcdgjbv7975 3 роки тому +7

    I like Your pronunciation of "Red" in "Red Army", so sweet.

  • @Hirameki_Oktavian
    @Hirameki_Oktavian 2 роки тому +68

    Мой дед дошёл до Берлина. Сначала был артиллеристом, а потом взяли его в разведку. Сейчас смотрю и думаю: как он там выжил?!

    • @hashirrizwan6371
      @hashirrizwan6371 Рік тому

      Was he a German soldier

    • @alexanderwolf8766
      @alexanderwolf8766 10 місяців тому +13

      @@hashirrizwan6371
      It is written that he reached Berlin. Where did he come from and who could he be?

    • @harryrg1250
      @harryrg1250 6 місяців тому

      It was a Bolshevik plague, like all the Soviets and their rotten communism

    • @shiyian
      @shiyian 4 місяці тому

      ​@@hashirrizwan6371bro r U high the comment is in the Cyrillic alphabet so its not a German dude typing this plus no German counterattacks reached berlin

    • @bartoszgolik2430
      @bartoszgolik2430 Місяць тому

      @@hashirrizwan6371 for this to happen, he would have had to be Stirlitz. There is no other option.

  • @stevej71393
    @stevej71393 4 роки тому +653

    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.

    • @LeoMajor1
      @LeoMajor1 3 роки тому +32

      got em

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 3 роки тому +5

      got em

    • @discodesanti2459
      @discodesanti2459 3 роки тому +58

      His attack will get it under control.

    • @kazioglod
      @kazioglod 3 роки тому +25

      He knew already in 1942 that they're gone

    • @PLKartofel
      @PLKartofel 3 роки тому

      i did my own reaserch before i seen the comment lul

  • @BDF30
    @BDF30 Рік тому

    Just thanks for the series!

  • @SomeGuy-lr7ms
    @SomeGuy-lr7ms 4 роки тому +1527

    Soviet: *enter the Balkans*
    Bulgaria and Romania: I've never met Germany my whole life!

    • @nxibba
      @nxibba 4 роки тому +20

      russia in 1991: i dont feel so good
      ukraine: get yo ass out of our land

    • @soulreaper5510
      @soulreaper5510 4 роки тому +2

      @Alexei *mongol horns blowing in the east*

    • @uncleadi
      @uncleadi 3 роки тому +53

      @@nxibba the irony here is that parts of current Ukraine and Crimea was never Ukrainian. It was given to them by the soviets.

    • @nxibba
      @nxibba 3 роки тому +7

      @@uncleadi neither was north bucovina or southern bessarabia, but thats a topic i dont care about discussing

    • @nxibba
      @nxibba 3 роки тому +1

      @Alexei no lol

  • @NikolayMIA
    @NikolayMIA Рік тому +11

    Finland surely don’t like to remember THIS fin-soviet war, don’t they?

    • @alexanderivkin7086
      @alexanderivkin7086 Рік тому +5

      In 1944 all the mistakes from 1939/1940 were avoided. First of all: No minus 40 degrees winter. For B4 Howitzers the Mannerheim-line was easy prey.

  • @Topdonsheikh
    @Topdonsheikh 7 місяців тому +3

    Finland really said” I don’t know that man”

  • @olivergustafsson8173
    @olivergustafsson8173 4 роки тому +2742

    Stalin: want to hear a joke?
    hitler: sure
    stalin: moscow
    hitler: I don't get it
    stalin: exactly

  • @joeylonglegs4309
    @joeylonglegs4309 3 роки тому +541

    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!

    • @user_698
      @user_698 3 роки тому +45

      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...

    • @bork661
      @bork661 3 роки тому +9

      Hoi4 mp in a nutshell

    • @morganv7895
      @morganv7895 3 роки тому +6

      Nah for japan it should be: I’m on the other said of the map!

    • @leminh2659
      @leminh2659 2 роки тому +2

      Double crossing, coward b*tches. Shame on them (Nazi is bad tho)

    • @forsakensecrets8023
      @forsakensecrets8023 2 роки тому

      @@user_698 watch yo language im german and btw its scheiße

  • @r.g6431
    @r.g6431 3 роки тому

    Thank you so much..i have finally understood the war!

  • @johnnyfortpants1415
    @johnnyfortpants1415 2 роки тому

    That was great, thank you.

  • @hamzaalsayyed2700
    @hamzaalsayyed2700 4 роки тому +255

    I have never been so entertained by bubbles floating around on a map

    • @dimitrissimitzis6944
      @dimitrissimitzis6944 4 роки тому +9

      play hio4

    • @issacarellano9909
      @issacarellano9909 4 роки тому +7

      Hamza Alsayyed you should watch historia civilis
      You maybe entertained by moving squares and rectangles

    • @Void_Wars
      @Void_Wars 4 роки тому +3

      Josef Stalin no, bubbles are superior.

  • @musicbeats8905
    @musicbeats8905 4 роки тому +604

    Europe: war waging
    Switzerland: eating popcorn

    • @stefann2461
      @stefann2461 4 роки тому +4

      Hotel: Trivago

    • @modermapper9840
      @modermapper9840 4 роки тому +4

      Music Beats | Sweden: sh*ts itself out of fear

    • @lalolara123
      @lalolara123 4 роки тому

      Lol Switzerland watching Europe and the rest of the world burn

    • @SmilingIbis
      @SmilingIbis 4 роки тому +2

      Switzerland got "accidentally" bombed a few times, though it is speculated that these were intended to stop Swiss munitions production for the German army.

    • @stefann2461
      @stefann2461 4 роки тому

      SmilingIbis wow, I never knew this

  • @stefano4776
    @stefano4776 2 роки тому

    Excellent absolutely. It could be interesting to do a sort of legenda for the circles and the squares in the map.in order to know the approssimative divisions composition.

  • @willsmith9325
    @willsmith9325 2 роки тому

    Thank you so much !!

  • @casparcoaster1936
    @casparcoaster1936 3 роки тому +842

    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

    • @deimos5789
      @deimos5789 3 роки тому +45

      man, you will live for many more decades before you die.

    • @alexandersalmas21
      @alexandersalmas21 3 роки тому +5

      Check out the Apocalypse series on WWII (and WWI) if you haven't already. They are my favorite docs on the two great wars.

    • @odysseusrex5908
      @odysseusrex5908 2 роки тому +10

      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.

    • @MetalDetroit
      @MetalDetroit 2 роки тому +10

      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.

    • @odysseusrex5908
      @odysseusrex5908 2 роки тому +6

      @@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."

  • @GhostOps21
    @GhostOps21 4 роки тому +91

    Dude, this was a fantastic series of the upmost greatest quality. The quality of the maps, frontlines, and units is simply incredible. 10/10

  • @stanley_ree_yt7444
    @stanley_ree_yt7444 Рік тому +1

    even tho this Video was 3 years ago. i still rewatch it

  • @michaeljeanfreau5588
    @michaeljeanfreau5588 3 роки тому

    Great video, thanks!

  • @Nashkelov
    @Nashkelov 4 роки тому +277

    6:30 64th Corps where are you going!?Oh no he have AirPods he can’t hear us

    • @flakmag1004
      @flakmag1004 4 роки тому +38

      MF just yote out of France smh..

    • @andrewrobeson6714
      @andrewrobeson6714 4 роки тому

      Hahaha

    • @user-oz3sk8ec2e
      @user-oz3sk8ec2e 4 роки тому +32

      he be takin a french countrywide tour xd

    • @dulguunnorjinbat6136
      @dulguunnorjinbat6136 4 роки тому +6

      @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.

    • @danbogdan9578
      @danbogdan9578 4 роки тому +3

      They were doing the "tour de france" but got captured on the way.

  • @everythingiseconomics9742
    @everythingiseconomics9742 4 роки тому +1408

    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

    • @ziggytheassassin5835
      @ziggytheassassin5835 4 роки тому +404

      The war will be won when Steiner begins his counter attack on the soviets

    • @raidalshare
      @raidalshare 4 роки тому +3

      Lol

    • @samuelwithers2221
      @samuelwithers2221 4 роки тому +135

      @@ziggytheassassin5835 Steiner will counterattack and everything will be alright

    • @wokeaf1337
      @wokeaf1337 4 роки тому +96

      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

    • @applesaucedog2642
      @applesaucedog2642 4 роки тому +32

      ZiggyThe assassin sir... Steiner... could not amass enough troops...

  • @darrankaminski1247
    @darrankaminski1247 Рік тому

    Great stuff, thanks!!!

  • @TheMdmasrur001
    @TheMdmasrur001 3 роки тому +1

    One of the best tactical docu on WW II.

  • @FlorinSutu
    @FlorinSutu 4 роки тому +424

    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.

    • @mrcaboosevg6089
      @mrcaboosevg6089 4 роки тому +21

      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

    • @angelovalavanis2314
      @angelovalavanis2314 4 роки тому +24

      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.

    • @MegaKonradb
      @MegaKonradb 4 роки тому +20

      @@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"..

    • @katalbinson6562
      @katalbinson6562 4 роки тому +3

      MegaKonradb What he was trying to say is that socialism or communism was much more popular in Greece than Romania (back then).

    • @angelovalavanis2314
      @angelovalavanis2314 4 роки тому

      @@katalbinson6562 I don't think that was so.

  • @uneamedeterminee4994
    @uneamedeterminee4994 4 роки тому +62

    ...
    I'm lost for words, this is a little masterpiece...
    Congratulations, you have achieved a work of a truly impressive quality...

    • @scrimherolex1496
      @scrimherolex1496 4 роки тому +2

      Une âme déterminée what’s up French brother

    • @majkel1684
      @majkel1684 4 роки тому

      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.

    • @marluxia8832
      @marluxia8832 4 роки тому +1

      ​@@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.

  • @garlicchips811
    @garlicchips811 2 роки тому

    Quality series, cheers

  • @barackobama4847
    @barackobama4847 2 роки тому +6

    Every time I watch an eastern front video I’m like, “i wonder if Germany can change the tide of the war.” But then remembering what actually happened

  • @AvaToyShow
    @AvaToyShow 4 роки тому +570

    If I was Germany I'd Alt-F4 in June 1944

    • @jebatevrana
      @jebatevrana 3 роки тому +55

      Except you can`t. And you`re stuck with same sucky team mates.

    • @jurtra9090
      @jurtra9090 3 роки тому +37

      You should have Alt-F4 in 1939

    • @aperson1385
      @aperson1385 3 роки тому +52

      Wtf is a toy channel doing in a comment section of a video that is about a war

    • @jurtra9090
      @jurtra9090 3 роки тому +41

      @@aperson1385 maybe that channel wants to learn about WW2, chill!

    • @AvaToyShow
      @AvaToyShow 3 роки тому +23

      @@aperson1385 The people who manage the channel are adults and keep it logged in?