The WW2 Duel to the Death
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- In June 1942, aiming to crush the Soviet Army and secure the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler launched Operation Case Blue. The German plan called for a renewed blitzkrieg to seize the oil fields of the Caucasus, vital for choking off the Soviets and injecting new blood into the Nazi war machine. It was to be one of consequential clashes of World War 2, yet both Hitler and Joseph Stalin seemed intent on out doing each other to see who could lose it first.
Stalin would play his opening error before the German offensive even began. After the Soviets intercepted the full plans of Case Blue from a downed aircraft, Stalin, in his paranoid wisdom, suspected deception and ignored the critical intelligence.
Not to be outdone, Hitler countered with his own mistake of remarkable hubris. Following Stalin’s failure to prepare a defense, Hitler underestimated the difficulty of the remaining campaign and divided his forces - sending one towards the oil fields as planned and the other towards Stalingrad as a simultaneous objective.
Through these blunders combined, the stage was set for a moment that would change everything about the war…
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Gotta wonder, As the German army steamrolled over the Russians, If Stalin ever asked himself 'maybe I should not have purged all my top military people?" LOL
And invaded Finland
@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- Arguably the Finnish war went as badly for Stalin as it did precisely because he'd murdered his best and brightest officers, and thus didn't have them to lead his troops when he attacked Finland.
@@seanbigay1042 Stalin also sent the wrong units to attack Finland, the troops trained for the winter climates were stationed in Siberia on the border watching the Japanese army.
Stalin was a true monster who doomed his own people. Thank God that Soviet soldiers were true warriors and saved the world from those violent brutes.
@@mirquellasantos2716soviets thanking God lol thats ironic
Great video
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Westley,we have green across the board here at cape Canaveral. Push the start button on the control panel to start the count down.3,2,1,and,we have liftoff.Sit back,and let the spaceship do all the work.If and when you realize that you can't make it to the twilight zone.......Eject.
Sharp end war actions leave everyone with a total loss of rational grounding, never to return.
In describing Russian defence positions; “Supported by NKVD” actually meant NKVD in the rear executing any Russians trying to retreat
Stalin "not one step back"
Easy to say for Stalin whom never once during the war visited the front
This literally never happened. Stop listening to Hollywood you lobotomy victim. NKVD blocking detachments executed nobody on spot
@@guyherd6071 I mean, statistically speaking, he has higher stats than the mustached fellow. But when you got commies teaching history, that tends to get overlooked.
It’s easy to take territory it’s not so easy to hold it .
We need like an hour long semi doc to fall asleep to
Great info but you talk too fast. There's a lot of info packed in there so I had to slow it down to catch it all. Please slow it down just a little.
I just wish one day I'd take the time to put the dark dark series in chronological order of occurrence
I’m with you on that one
Happy Halloween Dark Docs
Stalingrad wasn't the death of the German armed forces during WW2. At the same time the Germans won the battle to the North which the Soviet attack with a larger force. Stalingrad was the secondary offensive. The Germans also launched the Kursk offensive and the Eastern front was in a 3 month stalemate in 1944 until the allies launched D day and once it looked like the allies had a stronghold in France then the Soviets launched their most successful offensive which was a bigger loss for the Germans than Stalingrad.
When you lose a whole army corp, it's a really bad day. They also lost out badly in Tunis or nicknamed Tunisgrad losing more troops and equipment. Early 1943 was a real shocker for the German military establishment, and the realisation that things were only going to get worse kept on rolling on. Operation Citadel kept on being delayed as Hitler wanted more Panthers and Tiger 1s to equip the Panzer divisions which gave the asoviets more time mine to build defences in depth which would blunt any armoured attack in minefields and antitank gun screens. Plus, Italy forced out of the war with the invasion of Sicily and landings on the Italian mainland in Europe. 1943, a real mongrel year that spelled the rising tide against the Nazis in Europe. Plus, none of the allies except Churchill, who now was a junior member of the alliance, wanted to have a negotiated peace settlement on any terms. So unconditional surrender was the nightmare the German high command and Hitler faced. Even the battle against the Uboats was achieving success for the allies. The bombing of Germany was heating up. The tide started to turn in all areas in 1943 against Germany.
I could even argue Germany really lost when they failed to capture Moscow back in 41
So Stalin's mistake actually helped him
Such is Luck - Favors the Prepared Mind.
Stalin had Rossokovky released and said there must have been a clerical error, certainly his vicious torture by the NKVD was a mistake! With Zhukov, and other generals, Rossokovsky helped take Berlin. Rossokovsky having one parent being Polish, Stalin actually put him in control of Poland after the war ended.
@12:00 that guy be puffing hard, with the 1000 yard pin needles stare.
At 0:06 you can see Col. Klink to the left of Hitler giving expert advice.
I think that's actually Walter Model, with Benito Mussolini in the left foreground and Wilhelm Keitel in the background, but maybe I'm merely a Stammlager Luft sergeant who knows nothing! Nuss-zing!
Ignoring the intelligence is right! No army since Gengis Khan's has attacked Russia or Tartaria or Eastern Europe or Central Asia or whatever you want to call it and successfully defeated the Russian Army or the Russian people. Hitler's Third Reich would of had to be able to use most if not all of it's military forces and resources to effectively defeat the Russians. They could not be fighting/attacking on multiple fronts in diverse places such as Africa, England, & the Atlantic Ocean and realistically expect to win against the Russian Empire. Why? The Russian winter is coming.
The great depression put all these events into play...the FED popped their own bubble aka roaring 20's...Jefferson had a great quote about THEM...a long time ago...shits and giggles...
So you should have went to war against America? They didn't enforce the Versailles Treaty in the 1930s.
No not really at all dude... Germany was sanctioned to death post ww1 absolutely annihilating whatever remnant of an economy that was left.
Japan would've been an ally like it was in ww1 if not for how they were treated at Versailles with the allies breaking their promises . Japan couldn't afford to be the valuable ally it was and when Versailles happened it left them no choice but to go take Asia, or face complete collapse of their nation. If the allies kept their promises to Japan then Japan never would of needed to do what it did.
As for Germany, it was a ruined state absolutely primed for a radical shift from a somewhat democratic state to fascism
“…who could loose it first…” LOL!!!
by then you had prepared his escape to neutral country where from you would pick him up
@11:20 I don't believe that helicopter was available then.
Germans had the first practical helicopter in 1936.
Look closely, its an airplane.
Dude has a hard time distinguishing between Soviet and Russian.
One is a dog the other is a hound.
@@CM-ve1bz one is a single nation, one is a conglomeration. Hardly a dog/hound argument. Ukranians served in the Red Army but if you call a Ukrainian a Russian you will magically find a knife between your ribs, and justifiably so. Your take is as temperate as your room temp IQ.
Same sh!t, different name.
New dark doc 😩
@9:48 says T34... shows T34-85
The battle was with his doctor and all the drugs he pumped him with lmao
word!
Ever noticed how propaganda often deals with trivial and childish things?
Sounds like America in 2023 😢
Very funny. But the cost was measured in human life by masses.
Look into who actually started WWII.@@sandordula5207
I wonder what Zelinski is up to today
sniffing coke with hunter figuring out how they can fill there pockets with Americans taxpayer money so they blackmail sleepy Joe into sending more money or zelinsky will let everyone know that hes giving money back to joe and other american politicians to fill there pockets by washing it through "helping Ukraine"
Hi there
If you feel that Hitler is hard to understand and that he did many seemingly non-sensical things, it is because they misrepresent his motivations. Simple as that..
For example?
If I went into details, UA-cam would delete my reply. But basically, everything he did is fully understandable from a logical point of view. What they say were his motivations is where the lie is.
Let's just say,.....it is no wonder they never put subtitles on his speeches.@@grantsmythe8625
@@grantsmythe8625he's gotta be a troll, he even has Hitler as a DreamWorks character as his pfp.
@@grindcoreninja6527 Ha!! Yes sir! I believe you. Anytime I run across a fan of Adolf Hitler, someone who is defending the indefensible, I scratch my head and wonder what his angle is.
And the fact that Hitler was all doped up!
You know, the more I hear about those Hitler and Stalin fellows, the less I like them.
The last defenders of Berlin, with the SS were actually a high percentage of non-German. They are Scandinavian, France, Belgium, and Dutch, who fought to the end, why God knows why I do not know, but they took the SS OATH and they stuck with it?🇦🇽🇳🇴👌
They fought to the end because they would most likely be executed if they returned home.
@@jimtoye2844 they fight to the end, because that’s what they wanted to do because they didn’t have to do that could be, it could be interpreted with Hamas fight against the Israeli intruders in the Gaza Strip, they’ll fight to the death, the fight to the end, no matter what the western media say and do, that. hope you and your family don’t have to suffer that demise?
@@WILLIAM1690WALES Hamas have nowhere else to go
@@WILLIAM1690WALES what mental gymnastics did you have to do to link Hamas with the waffen SS?
@@jimtoye2844 let me try to explain you as a simpleton an arsehole the Nazis could deal with the killing of Jews because they deem them to be subhuman. It could be said that the Israeli government deemed a life of a Palestinian, as less of a life form than a Jewish person that could apply to them and that’s hope that applies to you and your family. Your mother, your father, your sisters, your children and your offspring.WIR SIND DAS VOLK🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧
The Good Guys lost WW2 😢
Allegedly your good guys are still fighting in Ukraine to this day.
The people who murdered millions of jews are good guys?
Which Good Guys do you mean, the Nazis or the Soviets? Because the Soviets won the war, but at a terrible price: not only did Stalin murder many Red Army officers who could have given his soldiers competent leadership, but after the war many of these same soldiers came marching home to Stalin's gulags. As for the Nazis, not for nothing are they the go-to guys for representing evil personified.
People seem to forget the Russians were just as messed up as the Nazis
They lost, get over it
Ah ww2, the last time the usa won a war, but only with Russian , English/Indian, Canadian & Australian/NZ's help
Hail Satan!!!
Stalin at least was a daring and successful bank robber, while Hitler was a Courier and Corporal who never commanded until he owned everything.
Yeah, Stalin was nobody's friend, but after the von Stauffenberg Bomb blast, Hitlef was rekt mentally and physically.