And American media said Russia failed by not taking over Ukraine in three days. Meanwhile months earlier we leave a 20 year war in Afghanistan with out tails between our legs. What a joke!
As is common with this channel, the title is misleading. The German army faced a Soviet Army, not a Ukrainian one. The fighters came from all over the Soviet Union.
It is quite eerie to me, to see and hear of towns , villages and regions were those battles took place almost 80 years ago in this excellent short documentary only to see and hear the names of the same towns being ravaged by war again , almost 80 years later.
Great to see these battles being covered. Normally historians just go from Kursk to Berlin. But this shows the long arduous fight the Russians had to do to win the war against the Germans. Great work!
should youtube german memoirs stories, blood red snow , panzers on eastern front, all german memoirs are frikin mind blowing the sht they went through . brave af
The irony of Hitler vs Ukraine is that when he invaded, they welcomed him as saviors from Stalin. In the 1920s-30s he nationalized all land in Russia and the various Republics, which caused all farmers everywhere to lose their farms. When they objected, Stalin starved out Ukrainians, causing millions of people to die. SO, when the Germans arrived in 1941, they were welcomed and were invited to come to farmers houses to eat a home cooked meal. To their eternal regret, they rejected the Ukrainians' hospitality and started programs of relocation and genocide. Had they accepted the hospitality, they'd have had a tremendous ally in their fight against Russia. It ended up that the Ukrainians then hated the Russians and Germans equally and conducted guerilla operations against both. Lesson to be learned: "when somebody offers to help you against your enemies, accept their help and do not try to destroy them."
You're writing nonsense. Russian Russians were not hated by Ukrainians, on the contrary, during the war Ukrainians fought together with Russians and with other peoples of the USSR, defending their united Soviet Homeland. Ukrainians made up about 17% of the population of the USSR, and in the Red Army during the war Ukrainians were about 23%. In addition to the Red Army, tens of thousands of Ukrainians fought against the fascists in Soviet partisan detachments. The number of Soviet partisans in the territory of the Ukrainian SSR occupied by the Germans exceeded 200,000 people, most of them were Ukrainians. 2021 Ukrainian for heroism shown in the fight against fascism was awarded the highest title in the USSR - Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded the Golden Hero Star. 7 million Ukrainians fought in the ranks of the Red Army and in Soviet partisan detachments during the war. And those about whom you write are Bandera. These are renegades, colloquialists who disgraced the Ukrainian people. There were 15,000 to 400,000 of them at different periods, that is, much fewer than the Ukrainians who fought in the Red Army and participated in the Soviet partisan movement. Soviet Ukrainians fought with Bandera. All this information is available on the Internet. You write that the Germans in vain did not accept the help of Ukrainians. That's not true. Bandera collaborated with the Germans. But the Germans could not give Bandera what they needed - an independent Ukrainian state. Because the Nazi doctrine of expanding living space to the east did not provide for independent states for the Slavs in these territories. Realizing this, the Banderites stopped cooperating with the Germans, but sometimes they still took joint actions against the Soviet troops and partisans. Ты пишешь чушь. Русских украинцы не ненавидели, наоборот, во время войны украинцы сражались вместе с русскими и с другими народами СССР, защищая свою единую Советскую Родину. Украинцы составляли около 17% населения СССР, а в Красной Армии во время войны украинцев было около 23%. Помимо Красной Армии, десятки тысяч украинцев сражались против фашистов в советских партизанских отрядах. Численность советских партизан на оккупированной немцами территории Украинской ССР превысила 200 000 человек, большинство из них были украинцами. 2021 украинец за героизм, проявленный в борьбе с фашизмом, был удостоен высшего звания в СССР - Героя Советского Союза и награжден Золотой Звездой Героя. В общей сложности более 7 миллионов украинцев воевали в рядах Красной Армии и в советских партизанских отрядах во время войны. А те, о ком вы пишете, - это бандеровцы. Это отщепенцы, коллоборционисты, которые опозорили украинский народ. В разные периоды их было от 15 000 до 400 000, то есть намного меньше, чем украинцев, воевавших в Красной Армии и участвовавших в советском партизанском движении. Советские украинцы воевали с бандеровцами. Вся эта информация доступна в Интернете. Вы пишете, что немцы напрасно не приняли помощь украинцев. Это неправда. Бандера сотрудничал с немцами. Но немцы не смогли дать Бандере то, что им было нужно, - независимое украинское государство. Потому что нацистская доктрина расширения жизненного пространства на восток не предусматривала создания независимых государств для славян на этих территориях. Поняв это, бандеровцы перестали сотрудничать с немцами, но иногда все же предпринимали совместные действия против советских войск и партизан.
It's sobering to think that on the basis of time and chance, anyone today could have been in that battle, fighting on either side. I thank God that I was born after that war.
Rich, old power hungry men need to stop inventing wars that they do not fight in. They engineer multitudes of needless deaths and inflict untold suffering on innocents just for their egos.
The generations that were lost….I can’t compare or comprehend the horror that a soldier is forced to bear witness to in times of war. God bless them all. ✝️
read or watch audible german memoirs on youtube to really find out the day in day out cosntant intensity and run ins with deaths insane books out there
My dad was a Ukrainian peasant boy through WW2. I had one uncle in the Red Army, another in the Waffen SS. The family sent him with the Germans when they left, they hated and feared communists. They were sent to Siberia. He came to Australia and became a proud Australian, he was glad to leave east European hatred and brutality behind and never looked back. He was a simple man who made me proud to be an Australian.
@@loyalpiper the Red Army was like a rolling rape machine so I can understand how people would choose to fight with the germans instead of waiting for the reds to come to my defenseless village.
Depth Penetrations in Ukraine Sectors during WW2 By USSR was Extremely Successful Because Soviet commanders understood & Realized German Armies had not sufficient capabilities to launching assaults against enemy flanks ..thanks for sharing
It is remarkable the risk taken by those who caught the footage that is displayed herein. They really put their lives on the line in order to get the footage thereof.
one can only be saddened by any government that doesn't care about their military. To not give support and materials needed and just see them as fodder to keep the enemy busy but demanding they all die for a government that doesn't care about them....we all know much about the bravery and training of the German soldier, along with their willingness to commit atrocities, but to waste such an army is a sign of how bad the leadership and Hitler were becoming.
Politicians in General across the western world have long stopped caring about the citizenry, look at the myth of Covid, tyrants have created Sheep with the AXIS of evil , MSM , BIG TECH , Western Governments.
Hitler was all about using everyone and then dooming them after he used them. A real pos. I wonder what he would have done with the SS if he won WWII, I bet he would have killed all the non Germans.
Hitler was a huge drug addict soooo yeahh an artist was trying to be a politician was high on drugs like crack and knew nothing of battle tactics, closest to tactics he knew was vague fairy tales about fierce knights persevering through impossible odds , he thought persevering and staying rooted would win him the war Alongside his beliefs too, this was doomed to fail utterly
Finally, a Field Marshall ignoring a corporal. I recently read “The Forgotten Soldier” written by a former German soldier. Amazing how depleted the German Army was in all ways by the fall of 1943. Great book.
I am just reading "Le soldat oublié" of Guy Sajer in French. I've just finished chapter of terrible battle of Belgorod they are beginning 1944 (winter) . Russians took heavy losses but by Soviets artillery made lost of damage to Germans. Most shocking description of German soldiers going mad on Russian artillery bombardment in a trench
Makes you wonder how many lifes could have been spared, had the USA decided to set food on the european continent earlier. Of course the US Americans decided to wait it out and paid the Russians with material and cash. Sad for the Russian lifes lost and an important lesson for those who ally up with the USA today and in the future.
@@maciejniedzielski7496 Un super livre. A great book! Perspective from a soldier instead of the way more numerous overall battle description like this video. Nothing wrong with that of course, but it makes so many viewers not understand the hell soldiers go through.
@@MVProfits for me especially moving is his description of Gdańsk - Danzig in February March 1945 . Heavy fights then. City rebuilt by Polish workers and architects after war probably with help of German PoWs. I come from this city. Still there are German trenches in the forest a the city borders. Guy Sajer is exact they are facing south west. Soviet Army of Rokossowski attacked from that direction cause east of city was flooded by Germans
My father in law fought here, first with Pzg Abt. 559 and, after its destruction, in Oct, Nov. and Dec. 1943 with Kampfgruppe Das Reich (also called Kampfgruppe Lammerding). Discipline was extreme, if you can imagine what I mean. No more war.
*I've been wanting someone to do a video on this for a while now, and out of all the people your the one to make the video :D* This is excellent and the title will get more people educated lol
A lot of people say manstein is over hyped, and well he is, but he was pretty damn good, not as good as he thought he was but better than most other generals in the war regardless of what nation they represented
I don't get why people think he is good as a soldier I would have never fought under such inept commander. There were many generals on all sides that were way better but they were not only overshadowed but had their victories stolen from them by so called famous "good' generals who like this video is pretty poor!
@@mustangmanmustangman4596 you would have fought under him if you were told to, and I'm not saying he was a good person, just that he was a good commander,a POS? Yeah, but he wasn't as good as he thought he was no
@@Swellington_ no I would not fought under him. He disgraces the men that I fought under and with because for them honor and inspiring others to greatness were ideas that came from the very top down but for special forces that is the norm( highly trained & motivated) Even our office staff were highly trained soldiers not because the army wanted it was because my C O wanted it that way so it happened and there was never any room for arrogance, just quietly knowing we were actually the best and proved it. I'm sure Manstein had some good leadership qualitities but measured against my SF Commander he pales in comparison. Sorry, I'm getting long here or have offended anyone! After what I experienced some men from WW2 inspire me & some dont
@@markwebster5749 I think you mean Prokhorovka or maybe that's lost in translation to english. I'm aware of where it was, and I'm aware that Prokhorovka is often cited as the largest tank battle in history but it isn't. Not sure if you've ever watched TIK history but he has some very good content on the eastern front backed by the best sources on the subject. Here's a link to the video where he talks about dubno: ua-cam.com/video/nA2286viUyw/v-deo.html
Excellent and accurate recount of the prolonged battle there 80 years ago. Those who do not study their history are doomed to repeat it...I am here to learn, not listen to opinionated blowhards. Great content, more please!
@@nemiw4429 There are always risks in thinking you are getting the truth or accurately studying and understanding history if you only use secondary source material.
This was obviously way before Ukraine turned into a gay refuge led by that evil puppet of Obiden, Soros and NATO, 🕺👠"Zalenskyy the Magnificthent!!"🤸♂👠{0.o} Remember......Pridesez Parades + Giant Asian Hornets = COMEDY!! 🤣
I don't know how I could possibly feel sorry for the German soldiers, but while watching and listening Dark Docs, and seeing them slaughtered senselessly, made me think how terrified they must have been.
The eastern front was literally hell. Either side surrendered you’d be killed or wish you were dead. Retreat or desert and your own ppl might kill you. Stay and fight you’ll likely die.
As an American I can tell you that if not for the Russians we might not have won WW2. Period. Can you imagine Dday with no eastern front for Germany to worry about? Barbarossa was the largest invasion force in the history of the world and yet were defeated by Russia. We did send them lots of money and equipment, and they lost 20 million people.
If the Germans would have had the equipment and supplies in Normandy that they had on the Eastern Front, the invasion would have been over within 24 hours, including the cleaning up of the beaches.
A story of two evil governments pitted against one another with no care the lives of men. The men that were fighting this against each other paid the price. The Soviets would say they were repealing them from their land, but their leader was as bad or worse by his historical record! Putin seems to want to be remembered this way too! We should be beyond things like this in today's modern world, yet we aren't. Men like this should never be allowed to try to wield their power against the rest of the world while keeping their own countries in the dark to their true intentions. Absolute power is too much for any man, not one can handle it, and this is what happens when they try.
I think Putin fooled allot of people in the beginning of his presidency. Governments in the West really wanted to believe that the cold war was over and that Russia could actually be a reliable partner in bringing Russia into the global economy while respecting human rights. By 2014 it was clear that he was going down a different path.
Guess you think Biden is some kind of Jesus.The man is no better then a craze old powerful politicians who concerns is money and more power for his corrupt government
@@dougybrownie481 I don't even like Biden, that's the good thing about being an American, we don't have to like the person in charge, and we don't die if we say so that to the world to hear! Freedom means more than most of the world will ever know!
Yeah. Same time here so many Putin Russia supporters in comments... What do they get if Russia wins? What they expect? Why they think that world will be better?
@michael reilly you’re right! It is a misleading title as half the Ukrainians ( west Ukraine) welcomed the Germans as liberators and killed their own ( east Ukraine) as they were more on the Russian side ( Soviet Union)
Hitler's arrogance and shortsightedness doomed the German army here.Had lessons been learned from past failed invasions,and had the occupiers not met the local populace with brutality-the outcome may have been different.Instead the Germans suffered in Ukraine through the harsh winters to be overwhelmed by the swarming commies
I don't understand the emphasis on Ukraine rather than referring to the Soviet Union in the title... Is it because it being a "hot" topic right now and therefore might get more views? Is using Ukraine in the title something as harmless as click bait or is it something else? If Ukraine wasn't at conflict would this title still be the same? I already know the answer... Great video nonetheless. Long time subscriber
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A lot of military experts believed that Manstein was not only Germany's most brilliant Field Marshal but the most brilliant on any side. He masterminded the attack on France that broke a superpowers back in just a matter of weeks not to mention the British Expeditionary Force was defeated along with them.
@@hannibalbarca4372 yes Hitler being delusional from being injected everyday with methamphetamines and downers at night. He was probably nearly insane by the time he made the decision to take on the Soviets when he hadn't even defeated Britain yet. They didn't have the manpower or the industry to keep up with Hitler's ambitions.
@@adamelam6385 he wasn't that good. He had no head for large scale strategy, and was always pushing for retreat, even at the expense of vital resources Germany needed to maintain the war. What he did do was write a biased memoir which contradicted many records in the German archives. He very much wanted to act like he did no wrong.
I am shocked how many people here confusing Ukrainian front of Russian army with Ukraine fighting it. Title of this video doesnt help eaither, as it is misliding(politely stating) people thinking Ukrainians were fighting it. They were fighting it along with many other nationalities of Russian Army.
Аre you confusing anything yourself? There was no Russian army then, there was the Soviet Red Army. The Ukrainian front was not in the Russian army, but in the Soviet one. Вы сами ничего не путаете? Тогда еще не было русской армии, была Советская Красная Армия. Украинский фронт был не в российской армии, а в советской.
@@Дмитрий_Тихомиров Nice try throwing a shadow at my main point without arguing it. What's next, pointing out that i misspelled "misliding"? Get to the point instead of spell policing. Yes, technically i should've said Soviet or Red Army. Calling USSR Russia is still very common. Prior to '91, if anyone would asked me where I'm from, the response was always Russia.
Ukrainians/Belorusians/Poles made absolute majority of soldiers in 1st Ukrainian front...1,650,000 Ukrainians died fighting in Red Army ...be grateful and wipe that letter Z from your tanks.
@@h2didenkov, If you want others to be accurate, then be accurate yourself. You are talking about other nationalities who fought alongside Ukrainians in the Ukrainian fronts of the Soviet Red Army, but any of their descendants, reading in your comment that you call the Soviet army Russian, will be outraged and object to you. And I read such objections very often. They will tell you that their grandfathers fought not in the Russian, but in the Soviet army. It is strange that you are offended by the inaccuracy declaring all the servicemen of the Ukrainian fronts to be Ukrainians, but at the same time you do not want to understand that others will certainly be offended by the announcement of all Red Army soldiers as Russians. You see in my remark only a quibble. Если вы хотите, чтобы другие были точны, тогда будьте точны сами. Вы говорите о других национальностях, которые сражались бок о бок с украинцами на украинских фронтах Советской Красной Армии, но любой из их потомков, прочитав в вашем комментарии, что вы называете Советскую армию русской, будет возмущен и возразит вам. И я очень часто читаю такие возражения. Они скажут вам, что их деды воевали не в российской, а в советской армии. Странно, что вас оскорбляет неточность, объявляющая всех военнослужащих украинских фронтов украинцами, но в то же время вы не хотите понимать, что другие наверняка будут оскорблены объявлением всех солдат Красной Армии русскими. Вы видите в моем замечании только придирку.
@@freelancerxxx, 1st Ukrainian Front is the former Voronezh Front, and previously the Bryansk Front. It was formed on the territory of the Voronezh region of the RSFSR. And the Lviv regiment, which was part of this front, was formed on the territory of the Vologda oboast of the RSFSR. As part of the 1st Ukrainian Front, Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles were in the majority, if only they were all put together. Who, for what and whom should I thank? And how are those events related to the letter "Z"? 1 Украинский фронт - это бывший Воронежский фронт, а ранее Брянский фронт. Он был образован на территории Воронежской области РСФСР. А Львовский полк, входивший в состав этого фронта, был сформирован на территории Вологодской области РСФСР. В составе 1-го Украинского фронта украинцы, белорусы и поляки составляли большинство, если только их всех собрать вместе. Кого, за что и кого я должен благодарить? И как эти события связаны с буквой "Z"?
Years of studying, watching, learning of all the historical data I have learned one thing. The Americans and their western Allie’s didn’t suffer as much or as costly as what occurred on the eastern fronts. Just freaking brutal.
The americans entered the war at the end. The most impressive feats were not by the Soviet army but by the Russian people for what they endured. I will also never forget Winston Churchill's courage for not surrendering when he had all of western Europe against him
Allies knew Stalin had manpower and he had no problem sending millions for certain death. So all they had to do was help him in money and resources. Smart play
@@ЯрБерест the war did affect Russia deeply aswell. Victory day is literally sacred to them. Many Russians cities e.g. rostov, Kursk, Smolensk, Tula, Leningrad, Moscow and obviously Stalingrad all suffered greatly, some were completely destroyed. Every town, village and city in Russia has massive monuments erected in memory of the fallen in WW2.
good site and good footage, I like to study WW II history, especially the war on the Eastern Front - tough, harsh weather, hard fighting on both sides; infantry, tanks and weapons enduring freezing temperatures in the winter, - thanks for the history you share
12:15 that is a picture of an IS-7. This existed only in prototype form and was cancelled in favor of the T-10, I think you meant to use a picture of an IS-2 lol
I dont think he left his army. People forget the tournament and gauntlet that germany went throught to get to eastern euro. Germany already had wiped through most of europe. Thats alot of work. Then remember they took on the brits, french, russians, and then the usa entered the war. Thats alot to take on man.
Russian tanks ignoring German troop concentrations were so great that they ran across Wehrmacht horse drawn supply columns and depots and drove around them to get to their objective, even passing them on the roads. The Germans stood and incredulously expecting to be captured watched the T-34s depart over the horizon.
This sounds very good but for myself unfamiliar with the Geography I need more maps/diagrams to understand what your talking about on this topic, thanks anyway.
Jan 25 , 2023 Just watch Dima ‘s channel “ Military Summary “ . A replay of the 1943 battle is soon to happen at the same location . Weird . Horrible . 80 yrs later .
I see people trying to rewrite the narrative about the soviet defence of Nazi dream Europe. Destroying Soviet monument is simply giving credit to Hitler and crediting the effort of the collective soviet union to Ukraine is total foolishness.
80 years later, in 2014 after a coup d'etat removing a democratically elected leader, again Ukrainians welcomed a fascist state in Kiev and even proposed sanctification of the fascist Bandera. Zelinsky threatened to back out of the Budapest Nuclear Weapons agreement: Since 2014, Ukraine has tried three times to convene consultations with the guarantor states of the Budapest Memorandum. Three times without success. Today Ukraine will do it for the fourth time. I, as President, will do this for the first time. But both Ukraine and I are doing this for *the last time.* I am initiating consultations in the framework of the Budapest Memorandum. The Minister of Foreign Affairs was commissioned to convene them. If they do not happen again or their results do not guarantee security for our country, Ukraine will have every right to believe that the *Budapest Memorandum is not working and all the package decisions of 1994 are in doubt."* Zelinsky, Valodimir, "Address to Munich Security Conference" (2/19/22). The installation of NATO and nuclear weapons in the nation through which two World Wars were launched upon Russia and the Soviet Union is understood to be a provocation. ua-cam.com/video/OHocgZjbgFM/v-deo.html The armed threat and the installation of a fascist state in Ukraine, after a 2014 coup d'etat, set the stage for the hostile seizure of the Russian Federation's resources. We now have WW 9.
This makes me think of the phrase " when hell freezes over". Not that it applies to this, It's just the imagery of a frozen hellscape where war is breaking out all around. It's insane that humans actually survived this, not to mention humans also inflicted this on each other.
Yes!.. I keep on taking a deep breath as I watched those -10 Celsius temp being endured by infantry on foot!... Someone told me,in Japan he noted that at -10 Celcius temp're,the overhead electrical wire along the street- snapped due to very cold temperature....If the metal cant withstand the coldness,how much more the human body!...
@@alexandermole3260 even tho it's written from perspective of devoted national socialist it's very interesting account and I'm not sure if he wrote it without help, but if so he definitely had a writing talent. Especially his descriptions of nature and weather are great almost poetic. It's called "campaign in Russia, wafflen $$ on eastern front"
One very important thing that is compleatly lacking in this video his Hitlers reason for not allowing retreat. The region of Ukraine this fight took place in was vital for the entire german war industry as it had some of its only available nickel mines in 1943. While militarily it was logically to retreat, economically it was an absolute desaster to retreat. Any attempt, no matter how futile, had to be made to keep this area for the german war economy to not take a massive hit. It was basically the question of potentially saving an army or keeping germanys ability to continue the war as a hole. Hitler often clashed with his military staff over these kind of decisions because the military only thought in military terms and usually didnt think about ressources and the war economy at all. Germanys war economy massively suffered do to lack of ressources from 1942 onwards and the quality of equipmeant went down really fast. Basically a german tank in 1942 and a german tank in 1944 were quality wise compleatly different. This went through the entire war production. ms and usually didnt thing So no it wasnt just "mad man Hitler" deciding to suicide his soldiers. That is a cold war narrative pushed by former german generals to shift all the blame for any failures on Hitler (trying to make themselfs look good as they wanted new jobs in the post war army).
@@Greyhound0111 Germany couldnt even provide its own forces or its allied armies with full equippmeant, what on earth would trying to arm the ukranians do for them if they cant even arm the romanians or hungarians they are actually allied to properly? Weapons dont exist by wishful thinking
yes... clarifying: German, unlike english, is totally phonetic, looking at how it is written tells you exactly how to pronounce it. ei sound is the same as in spine, tine, kind, find, sky, eye, fry, ie sound is the same as in spleen, teen, fiend, clean, bean, ...
Don't pay any attention to the assclowns who criticize your word usage, vocabulary, and grammar. They should all make a video so we can see how perfect they are. Just keep doing what you're doing.
Why? He needs to be called out when he makes glaring mistakes. Like calling the 5th SS Biking over and over. It's Wiking as in Viking. Little things DO matter if your teaching history to others
Your attitude is what leads to errors being repeated and ultimately being promoted as fact. Not acceptable for a channel purporting to analyse and explain history.
4:50 you talk of Stalin liberating Ukraine, however many Ukrainian's preferred Hitler as he did not starve them in the decades prior like Stalin had done... so to call him there liberator.
@@tonyclough9844 Well, Stalin was smart enough (Later in the war) to listen to his senior officers regarding what strategy to apply to fight the Germans Hitler did not, and we all know what happend eventually. A stubborn man that just could not understand that strategic withdrawal can ultimately can give you an upperhand over your enemy.
Manstein had the good sense & guts to ignore Hitlers' insane 'stay put' order & retreat knowing his troops were far out numbered. This was the opposite of Paulus in Stalingrad who knew his troops needed to retreat but did what Hitler ordered & they were all encircled, killed or captured & only 6% of those captured ever made it back to Germany at the end of WWII. Hitler had no understanding of battlefield tactics regarding retreat.
Manstein actually tricked Paulus into staying in Stalingrad by telling Hitler that they should stay while claiming to Paulus that he was trying to get him out.
@@chuboasshippo2181 It pleased Hitler and kept Paulus on hold while the back up supplies and troops were being sent to the rescue. But as we know that largely failed and so the rest is, well, history.
The scale of this conflict is nearly beyond comprehension. It’s completely baffling
And American media said Russia failed by not taking over Ukraine in three days. Meanwhile months earlier we leave a 20 year war in Afghanistan with out tails between our legs. What a joke!
very much so
Think of the fact that literally hundreds of thousands of soldiers died it’s actually crazy compared to today.
@@Fersure121 millions bro no country was truly unaffected
@@Fersure121 millions, and that’s coming to Ukraine soon again
As is common with this channel, the title is misleading. The German army faced a Soviet Army, not a Ukrainian one. The fighters came from all over the Soviet Union.
I think some Ukrainians fought with the Germans against the Soviets. I am not sure how many
I believe the title signifies that it happened in Ukraine
@@13MAM13 Quite a few collaborated with the Nazis
He’s going for easy hits with the misleading title
Amen! And it's safe to say at least 50% Ukrainians were against Soviets as well as Germans
It is quite eerie to me, to see and hear of towns , villages and regions were those battles took place almost 80 years ago in this excellent short documentary only to see and hear the names of the same towns being ravaged by war again , almost 80 years later.
But thus time its the US and Nato as the instigator's.
今、此の瞬間
昨日迄、親戚付き合いが、今は、敵
其れが、アカ認知症露助が、行って居るウクライナ侵攻
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80 years well thosevand almost all major city`s for 1000of years sad aint it
Ukraine is number 1 country in child sex trafficking
Not to mention the Holodomor ...
Great to see these battles being covered. Normally historians just go from Kursk to Berlin. But this shows the long arduous fight the Russians had to do to win the war against the Germans. Great work!
Not russians, but Soviets which made up all people of ex-soviet states
Yeah, the 10 blows need more coverage too
@@FvckruSSia-c6m correct, though Russians comprised like 70% of the army
should youtube german memoirs stories, blood red snow , panzers on eastern front, all german memoirs are frikin mind blowing the sht they went through . brave af
Mostly Russians, many other Peoples joined the Germans, for better or worse
Really enjoyed how this was put together and also the battle, you never disappoint with these mini documentaries! Keep it up
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The irony of Hitler vs Ukraine is that when he invaded, they welcomed him as saviors from Stalin. In the 1920s-30s he nationalized all land in Russia and the various Republics, which caused all farmers everywhere to lose their farms. When they objected, Stalin starved out Ukrainians, causing millions of people to die. SO, when the Germans arrived in 1941, they were welcomed and were invited to come to farmers houses to eat a home cooked meal. To their eternal regret, they rejected the Ukrainians' hospitality and started programs of relocation and genocide. Had they accepted the hospitality, they'd have had a tremendous ally in their fight against Russia. It ended up that the Ukrainians then hated the Russians and Germans equally and conducted guerilla operations against both. Lesson to be learned: "when somebody offers to help you against your enemies, accept their help and do not try to destroy them."
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"...
The Ukrainians seem to always get the short end of the stick. The Germans and the Russians f them over.
Ukrainian "death squads" hunted down and killed 400,000 Jews. Why no one even mentions this?
fake Nazi propaganda . who fuckin believe on these ?
You're writing nonsense. Russian Russians were not hated by Ukrainians, on the contrary, during the war Ukrainians fought together with Russians and with other peoples of the USSR, defending their united Soviet Homeland. Ukrainians made up about 17% of the population of the USSR, and in the Red Army during the war Ukrainians were about 23%. In addition to the Red Army, tens of thousands of Ukrainians fought against the fascists in Soviet partisan detachments. The number of Soviet partisans in the territory of the Ukrainian SSR occupied by the Germans exceeded 200,000 people, most of them were Ukrainians. 2021 Ukrainian for heroism shown in the fight against fascism was awarded the highest title in the USSR - Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded the Golden Hero Star. 7 million Ukrainians fought in the ranks of the Red Army and in Soviet partisan detachments during the war. And those about whom you write are Bandera. These are renegades, colloquialists who disgraced the Ukrainian people. There were 15,000 to 400,000 of them at different periods, that is, much fewer than the Ukrainians who fought in the Red Army and participated in the Soviet partisan movement. Soviet Ukrainians fought with Bandera. All this information is available on the Internet.
You write that the Germans in vain did not accept the help of Ukrainians. That's not true. Bandera collaborated with the Germans. But the Germans could not give Bandera what they needed - an independent Ukrainian state. Because the Nazi doctrine of expanding living space to the east did not provide for independent states for the Slavs in these territories. Realizing this, the Banderites stopped cooperating with the Germans, but sometimes they still took joint actions against the Soviet troops and partisans.
Ты пишешь чушь. Русских украинцы не ненавидели, наоборот, во время войны украинцы сражались вместе с русскими и с другими народами СССР, защищая свою единую Советскую Родину. Украинцы составляли около 17% населения СССР, а в Красной Армии во время войны украинцев было около 23%. Помимо Красной Армии, десятки тысяч украинцев сражались против фашистов в советских партизанских отрядах. Численность советских партизан на оккупированной немцами территории Украинской ССР превысила 200 000 человек, большинство из них были украинцами. 2021 украинец за героизм, проявленный в борьбе с фашизмом, был удостоен высшего звания в СССР - Героя Советского Союза и награжден Золотой Звездой Героя. В общей сложности более 7 миллионов украинцев воевали в рядах Красной Армии и в советских партизанских отрядах во время войны. А те, о ком вы пишете, - это бандеровцы. Это отщепенцы, коллоборционисты, которые опозорили украинский народ. В разные периоды их было от 15 000 до 400 000, то есть намного меньше, чем украинцев, воевавших в Красной Армии и участвовавших в советском партизанском движении. Советские украинцы воевали с бандеровцами. Вся эта информация доступна в Интернете.
Вы пишете, что немцы напрасно не приняли помощь украинцев. Это неправда. Бандера сотрудничал с немцами. Но немцы не смогли дать Бандере то, что им было нужно, - независимое украинское государство. Потому что нацистская доктрина расширения жизненного пространства на восток не предусматривала создания независимых государств для славян на этих территориях. Поняв это, бандеровцы перестали сотрудничать с немцами, но иногда все же предпринимали совместные действия против советских войск и партизан.
It's sobering to think that on the basis of time and chance, anyone today could have been in that battle, fighting on either side. I thank God that I was born after that war.
Not anyone, fallacy of observation and position, only northern Eurasians.
Cool..!!
Lmao, wait til you see WW3
Do you know what's going on globally right now? WW3 is on the horizon.
Rich, old power hungry men need to stop inventing wars that they do not fight in. They engineer multitudes of needless deaths and inflict untold suffering on innocents just for their egos.
The generations that were lost….I can’t compare or comprehend the horror that a soldier is forced to bear witness to in times of war. God bless them all. ✝️
read or watch audible german memoirs on youtube to really find out the day in day out cosntant intensity and run ins with deaths
insane books out there
My dad was a Ukrainian peasant boy through WW2. I had one uncle in the Red Army, another in the Waffen SS. The family sent him with the Germans when they left, they hated and feared communists. They were sent to Siberia. He came to Australia and became a proud Australian, he was glad to leave east European hatred and brutality behind and never looked back. He was a simple man who made me proud to be an Australian.
Hehe your pops fought with the nazis
@@noone7692 well so did mine Freikorps Danemark kia battle for blue hills 44
@@kurtmogensen4815 he was also nazi sympathizer mercenary.
@@noone7692 for some it was a better option than to be taken by the soveits
@@loyalpiper the Red Army was like a rolling rape machine so I can understand how people would choose to fight with the germans instead of waiting for the reds to come to my defenseless village.
Could you imagine the gut wrenching realization that the 1500 wounded that were left behind felt?
More maps needed! Otherwise , excellent documentary, as always.
Depth Penetrations in Ukraine Sectors during WW2 By USSR was Extremely Successful Because Soviet commanders understood & Realized German Armies had not sufficient capabilities to launching assaults against enemy flanks ..thanks for sharing
Gen. Stemerman was also killed in the breakout when his staff car was hit by a shell.
thanks to all allied troops who died today in 1944 on the beaches of Normandy. u will NEVER be forgotten.
Thanks for what?
Except by Pedo Joe Biden.
Thanks for letting communism spread like a cancer all over the world....
@@luisg.5700 An ideology which killed 100,000,000.
Can you imagine the guys who got killed in the water before they even hit the beach? What a way to go.
It is remarkable the risk taken by those who caught the footage that is displayed herein. They really put their lives on the line in order to get the footage thereof.
Keep in mind that much of it was filmed after the war. That doesn't make it any less impressive.
I think about that too. And preserving the footage!
one can only be saddened by any government that doesn't care about their military. To not give support and materials needed and just see them as fodder to keep the enemy busy but demanding they all die for a government that doesn't care about them....we all know much about the bravery and training of the German soldier, along with their willingness to commit atrocities, but to waste such an army is a sign of how bad the leadership and Hitler were becoming.
Politicians in General across the western world have long stopped caring about the citizenry, look at the myth of Covid, tyrants have created Sheep with the AXIS of evil , MSM , BIG TECH , Western Governments.
Hitler was all about using everyone and then dooming them after he used them. A real pos. I wonder what he would have done with the SS if he won WWII, I bet he would have killed all the non Germans.
Very reminiscent of today’s Vladolf Putler...
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Yes, very much the same principle.
Hitler was a huge drug addict soooo yeahh an artist was trying to be a politician was high on drugs like crack and knew nothing of battle tactics, closest to tactics he knew was vague fairy tales about fierce knights persevering through impossible odds , he thought persevering and staying rooted would win him the war
Alongside his beliefs too, this was doomed to fail utterly
Finally, a Field Marshall ignoring a corporal. I recently read “The Forgotten Soldier” written by a former German soldier. Amazing how depleted the German Army was in all ways by the fall of 1943. Great book.
I am just reading "Le soldat oublié" of Guy Sajer in French. I've just finished chapter of terrible battle of Belgorod they are beginning 1944 (winter) . Russians took heavy losses but by Soviets artillery made lost of damage to Germans. Most shocking description of German soldiers going mad on Russian artillery bombardment in a trench
Makes you wonder how many lifes could have been spared, had the USA decided to set food on the european continent earlier. Of course the US Americans decided to wait it out and paid the Russians with material and cash. Sad for the Russian lifes lost and an important lesson for those who ally up with the USA today and in the future.
@@maciejniedzielski7496 Un super livre. A great book! Perspective from a soldier instead of the way more numerous overall battle description like this video. Nothing wrong with that of course, but it makes so many viewers not understand the hell soldiers go through.
@@MVProfits yes, sometimes shocking with everyday soldier's hardlife
@@MVProfits for me especially moving is his description of Gdańsk - Danzig in February March 1945 . Heavy fights then. City rebuilt by Polish workers and architects after war probably with help of German PoWs. I come from this city. Still there are German trenches in the forest a the city borders. Guy Sajer is exact they are facing south west. Soviet Army of Rokossowski attacked from that direction cause east of city was flooded by Germans
General stemmermann was my grandfather, unfortunately I never got to meet him, he was killed in the Cherkasy pocket.
Sorry for your loss and respect to your grandfather. Glory to heroes. May he rest in peace
Respect
seriously?
@@gennarosavastano9424 Respect? He drove threw cities Killing civilians burning their homes killing Families.. No respect needed.
@@BIGHAL2000 lol sure.
Another excellent episode. Thankyou for your awesome content.
Another replies movie
My father in law fought here, first with Pzg Abt. 559 and, after its destruction, in Oct, Nov. and Dec. 1943 with Kampfgruppe Das Reich (also called Kampfgruppe Lammerding). Discipline was extreme, if you can imagine what I mean. No more war.
war is forever until Christ returns and destroys this universe
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This is excellent and the title will get more people educated lol
Mega upvotes !!!
A lot of people say manstein is over hyped, and well he is, but he was pretty damn good, not as good as he thought he was but better than most other generals in the war regardless of what nation they represented
Manstein was pretty badass
I don't get why people think he is good as a soldier I would have never fought under such inept commander. There were many generals on all sides that were way better but they were not only overshadowed but had their victories stolen from them by so called famous "good' generals who like this video is pretty poor!
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Ok wise guy Name Them !!!
@@mustangmanmustangman4596 you would have fought under him if you were told to, and I'm not saying he was a good person, just that he was a good commander,a POS? Yeah, but he wasn't as good as he thought he was no
@@Swellington_ no I would not fought under him. He disgraces the men that I fought under and with because for them honor and inspiring others to greatness were ideas that came from the very top down but for special forces that is the norm( highly trained & motivated) Even our office staff were highly trained soldiers not because the army wanted it was because my C O wanted it that way so it happened and there was never any room for arrogance, just quietly knowing we were actually the best and proved it. I'm sure Manstein had some good leadership qualitities but measured against my SF Commander he pales in comparison. Sorry, I'm getting long here or have offended anyone! After what I experienced some men from WW2 inspire me & some dont
Thank You for having posted this information about what happened, and for your narration on the topic.
1A erklaert und visuell sehr gut dargestellt ... TipTop
Explained very good 👍 ... and visually very well supported 👌
Largest tank battle in history was the battle of Dubno in 1941 during the early stages of Operation Barbarossa
Kursk was in prokhoroskvah
@@markwebster5749 I think you mean Prokhorovka or maybe that's lost in translation to english. I'm aware of where it was, and I'm aware that Prokhorovka is often cited as the largest tank battle in history but it isn't. Not sure if you've ever watched TIK history but he has some very good content on the eastern front backed by the best sources on the subject. Here's a link to the video where he talks about dubno: ua-cam.com/video/nA2286viUyw/v-deo.html
@@saucycardinal3322 al look it up cheers 👍🇬🇧
Another great video. I can't imagine what these troops went through. Sheer hell
Excellent and accurate recount of the prolonged battle there 80 years ago. Those who do not study their history are doomed to repeat it...I am here to learn, not listen to opinionated blowhards. Great content, more please!
Cringe to think its accurate. Read ww2 books or watch TIKhistory, but dont make these kimda comnents with no history background.
Learn you shall
@@nemiw4429 There are always risks in thinking you are getting the truth or accurately studying and understanding history if you only use secondary source material.
This was obviously way before Ukraine turned into a gay refuge led by that evil puppet of Obiden, Soros and NATO, 🕺👠"Zalenskyy the Magnificthent!!"🤸♂👠{0.o}
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Good points Senor. Though i think History does not quite Repeat as much as it 'Rhymes'. Same song(s) Different Tunes (Rhyms) :)
Once you invade you’re “all in”
Always love your content.
Looking forward to more as usual.
Je video's zijn super interessant! Ik leer er veel van, ga zo door!😄👍
Excellent voice for narrating WW2 documentaries
I don't know how I could possibly feel sorry for the German soldiers, but while watching and listening Dark Docs, and seeing them slaughtered senselessly, made me think how terrified they
must have been.
same. war is hell.
Think of being in any combat and you know you're at life's end.
The Soviets were our real enemy in WWII, General Patton was 100% correct when he said that we fought the wrong enemy in WWII
The eastern front was literally hell. Either side surrendered you’d be killed or wish you were dead. Retreat or desert and your own ppl might kill you. Stay and fight you’ll likely die.
Kinda had it coming.
Wow. Iam Colombian but my grandfather fought in the Eastern Front in the German Army. All I knew is he fought in the east. The hell he must of faced !
Maybe my grandfather killed him.
@@JohnSmith-mm8yd he died peacefully in Colombia. Joined the Colombian Army and fought alongside US troops in the Korean War.
@@TheColombiano89 How in the world a Colombian can join Nazi Army and after US army.. He had very original life.
@@JohnSmith-mm8yd Colombian Army. Colombia sent soldiers and ships to Korean war in 1950s
@@TheColombiano89 But How he joined Nazi army and why he fought on the evil side?
What a horrific battle!
Sorry to nitpick but Manstein is pronounced Man Stine not Man Steen.
Today is basically the same: The Red Army vs Nazis 2.0
As an American I can tell you that if not for the Russians we might not have won WW2. Period. Can you imagine Dday with no eastern front for Germany to worry about? Barbarossa was the largest invasion force in the history of the world and yet were defeated by Russia. We did send them lots of money and equipment, and they lost 20 million people.
If the Germans would have had the equipment and supplies in Normandy that they had on the Eastern Front, the invasion would have been over within 24 hours, including the cleaning up of the beaches.
A story of two evil governments pitted against one another with no care the lives of men. The men that were fighting this against each other paid the price. The Soviets would say they were repealing them from their land, but their leader was as bad or worse by his historical record! Putin seems to want to be remembered this way too! We should be beyond things like this in today's modern world, yet we aren't.
Men like this should never be allowed to try to wield their power against the rest of the world while keeping their own countries in the dark to their true intentions. Absolute power is too much for any man, not one can handle it, and this is what happens when they try.
I think Putin fooled allot of people in the beginning of his presidency. Governments in the West really wanted to believe that the cold war was over and that Russia could actually be a reliable partner in bringing Russia into the global economy while respecting human rights. By 2014 it was clear that he was going down a different path.
You don't pick who is in power. This war in Ukraine started in 2015. The Nazis attack the ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine.
Guess you think Biden is some kind of Jesus.The man is no better then a craze old powerful politicians who concerns is money and more power for his corrupt government
@@dougybrownie481 I don't even like Biden, that's the good thing about being an American, we don't have to like the person in charge, and we don't die if we say so that to the world to hear! Freedom means more than most of the world will ever know!
Yeah. Same time here so many Putin Russia supporters in comments... What do they get if Russia wins? What they expect? Why they think that world will be better?
You do great work on these videos 👍
@michael reilly you’re right! It is a misleading title as half the Ukrainians ( west Ukraine) welcomed the Germans as liberators and killed their own ( east Ukraine) as they were more on the Russian side ( Soviet Union)
Agree those troops are from Odessa same people that are now getting killed by Ukraine nazi government
One of very few true statements.
"Decimate" is not a synonym for "annihilate" or "defeat."
*& your Point is WUT, MooRon!!!???*
Eastern front and Russian Military machine ripped the German Army 🪖 apart during the second World war.
You mean the Russian winter did.
Hitler's arrogance and shortsightedness doomed the German army here.Had lessons been learned from past failed invasions,and had the occupiers not met the local populace with brutality-the outcome may have been different.Instead the Germans suffered in Ukraine through the harsh winters to be overwhelmed by the swarming commies
I don't understand the emphasis on Ukraine rather than referring to the Soviet Union in the title... Is it because it being a "hot" topic right now and therefore might get more views? Is using Ukraine in the title something as harmless as click bait or is it something else? If Ukraine wasn't at conflict would this title still be the same? I already know the answer... Great video nonetheless. Long time subscriber
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Show maps and movements in your videos. Otherwise, it's difficult to grasp all that you're saying.
This must have been hell on earth for both sides.
A lot of military experts believed that Manstein was not only Germany's most brilliant Field Marshal but the most brilliant on any side. He masterminded the attack on France that broke a superpowers back in just a matter of weeks not to mention the British Expeditionary Force was defeated along with them.
Apparently Manstein thought he was the best general as well.
@@brianwalsh1401 he was brilliant in Russia even with Hitler's poor decisions anchoring him down.
That's why Germany lost this war (again).
@@hannibalbarca4372 yes Hitler being delusional from being injected everyday with methamphetamines and downers at night. He was probably nearly insane by the time he made the decision to take on the Soviets when he hadn't even defeated Britain yet.
They didn't have the manpower or the industry to keep up with Hitler's ambitions.
@@adamelam6385 he wasn't that good. He had no head for large scale strategy, and was always pushing for retreat, even at the expense of vital resources Germany needed to maintain the war. What he did do was write a biased memoir which contradicted many records in the German archives. He very much wanted to act like he did no wrong.
The title is wrong. The narration throughout the video says Soviet Union and not just Ukraine.
I am shocked how many people here confusing Ukrainian front of Russian army with Ukraine fighting it. Title of this video doesnt help eaither, as it is misliding(politely stating) people thinking Ukrainians were fighting it. They were fighting it along with many other nationalities of Russian Army.
Аre you confusing anything yourself? There was no Russian army then, there was the Soviet Red Army. The Ukrainian front was not in the Russian army, but in the Soviet one.
Вы сами ничего не путаете? Тогда еще не было русской армии, была Советская Красная Армия. Украинский фронт был не в российской армии, а в советской.
@@Дмитрий_Тихомиров Nice try throwing a shadow at my main point without arguing it. What's next, pointing out that i misspelled "misliding"? Get to the point instead of spell policing.
Yes, technically i should've said Soviet or Red Army. Calling USSR Russia is still very common. Prior to '91, if anyone would asked me where I'm from, the response was always Russia.
Ukrainians/Belorusians/Poles made absolute majority of soldiers in 1st Ukrainian front...1,650,000 Ukrainians died fighting in Red Army ...be grateful and wipe that letter Z from your tanks.
@@h2didenkov, If you want others to be accurate, then be accurate yourself. You are talking about other nationalities who fought alongside Ukrainians in the Ukrainian fronts of the Soviet Red Army, but any of their descendants, reading in your comment that you call the Soviet army Russian, will be outraged and object to you. And I read such objections very often. They will tell you that their grandfathers fought not in the Russian, but in the Soviet army. It is strange that you are offended by the inaccuracy declaring all the servicemen of the Ukrainian fronts to be Ukrainians, but at the same time you do not want to understand that others will certainly be offended by the announcement of all Red Army soldiers as Russians. You see in my remark only a quibble.
Если вы хотите, чтобы другие были точны, тогда будьте точны сами. Вы говорите о других национальностях, которые сражались бок о бок с украинцами на украинских фронтах Советской Красной Армии, но любой из их потомков, прочитав в вашем комментарии, что вы называете Советскую армию русской, будет возмущен и возразит вам. И я очень часто читаю такие возражения. Они скажут вам, что их деды воевали не в российской, а в советской армии. Странно, что вас оскорбляет неточность, объявляющая всех военнослужащих украинских фронтов украинцами, но в то же время вы не хотите понимать, что другие наверняка будут оскорблены объявлением всех солдат Красной Армии русскими. Вы видите в моем замечании только придирку.
@@freelancerxxx, 1st Ukrainian Front is the former Voronezh Front, and previously the Bryansk Front. It was formed on the territory of the Voronezh region of the RSFSR. And the Lviv regiment, which was part of this front, was formed on the territory of the Vologda oboast of the RSFSR. As part of the 1st Ukrainian Front, Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles were in the majority, if only they were all put together. Who, for what and whom should I thank? And how are those events related to the letter "Z"?
1 Украинский фронт - это бывший Воронежский фронт, а ранее Брянский фронт. Он был образован на территории Воронежской области РСФСР. А Львовский полк, входивший в состав этого фронта, был сформирован на территории Вологодской области РСФСР. В составе 1-го Украинского фронта украинцы, белорусы и поляки составляли большинство, если только их всех собрать вместе. Кого, за что и кого я должен благодарить? И как эти события связаны с буквой "Z"?
These videos are always great.
Years of studying, watching, learning of all the historical data I have learned one thing. The Americans and their western Allie’s didn’t suffer as much or as costly as what occurred on the eastern fronts. Just freaking brutal.
The americans entered the war at the end. The most impressive feats were not by the Soviet army but by the Russian people for what they endured. I will also never forget Winston Churchill's courage for not surrendering when he had all of western Europe against him
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Allies knew Stalin had manpower and he had no problem sending millions for certain death. So all they had to do was help him in money and resources. Smart play
@@ЯрБерест north Korean south Korean, same race. That's what I meant. What do Ukraine people speak?
@@ЯрБерест the war did affect Russia deeply aswell. Victory day is literally sacred to them. Many Russians cities e.g. rostov, Kursk, Smolensk, Tula, Leningrad, Moscow and obviously Stalingrad all suffered greatly, some were completely destroyed. Every town, village and city in Russia has massive monuments erected in memory of the fallen in WW2.
good site and good footage, I like to study WW II history, especially the war on the Eastern Front - tough, harsh weather, hard fighting on both sides; infantry, tanks and weapons enduring freezing temperatures in the winter, - thanks for the history you share
12:15 that is a picture of an IS-7. This existed only in prototype form and was cancelled in favor of the T-10, I think you meant to use a picture of an IS-2 lol
I think you missed the whole point of the video lol 😂
@@jhonsepulvedo6750 No. My comment is directed to that one image as he talked about IS-2s then shows an IS-7
Timely information, excellent work.
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I dont think he left his army. People forget the tournament and gauntlet that germany went throught to get to eastern euro. Germany already had wiped through most of europe. Thats alot of work. Then remember they took on the brits, french, russians, and then the usa entered the war. Thats alot to take on man.
never bite off more than you can chew
Russian tanks ignoring German troop concentrations were so great that they ran across Wehrmacht horse drawn supply columns and depots and drove around them to get to their objective, even passing them on the roads.
The Germans stood and incredulously expecting to be captured watched the T-34s depart over the horizon.
Thanks Doc. This is the only class I'm always looking forward, Keep it coming.😌
I liked it . The intensity of the narrative was an excellent presentation.!!
never have a army battled so hard ,acomplised so much against all odds, if it was under any other regime there would be material to 1000 of war movies
couldn't agree more. Don't care what they were fighting for, just that they fought at all
German soldiers were the best soldiers
@@ayoutubecommenter1827 Fighting for the worst person and cause. Ironic aint it.
@@EnergiaII "don't care what they were fighting for, ..." DESPICABLE COMMENT!
No, the Soviets did!
History does not repeat itself, it only rhymes.
Germans and Co. have to be reminded every 80 years.
What do I think of the tactics?
A. I'm glad I wasn't there.
SO BRUTAL! WAR IS HELL! SO UNFORGIVING...😢
This sounds very good but for myself unfamiliar with the Geography I need more maps/diagrams to understand what your talking about on this topic, thanks anyway.
Jan 25 , 2023
Just watch Dima ‘s channel “ Military Summary “ .
A replay of the 1943 battle is soon to happen at the same location . Weird . Horrible . 80 yrs later .
Hitler was an absolute fool to ignore the advice of his generals. His egomania spelled doom for so many lives on both sides.
Amazing video
As always
Thanks
Exceptional human being, here’s you’re participation award.
great video keep it up.
This was madness, just as it is repeated today in Ukraine.
The rout of the Germans in Russia is similar to the rout of Napoleon. Why have history if people don't learn from it!
I see people trying to rewrite the narrative about the soviet defence of Nazi dream Europe.
Destroying Soviet monument is simply giving credit to Hitler and crediting the effort of the collective soviet union to Ukraine is total foolishness.
80 years later, in 2014 after a coup d'etat removing a democratically elected leader, again Ukrainians welcomed a fascist state in Kiev and even proposed sanctification of the fascist Bandera. Zelinsky threatened to back out of the Budapest Nuclear Weapons agreement:
Since 2014, Ukraine has tried three times to convene consultations with the guarantor states of the Budapest Memorandum. Three times without success. Today Ukraine will do it for the fourth time. I, as President, will do this for the first time. But both Ukraine and I are doing this for *the last time.* I am initiating consultations in the framework of the Budapest Memorandum. The Minister of Foreign Affairs was commissioned to convene them. If they do not happen again or their results do not guarantee security for our country, Ukraine will have every right to believe that the *Budapest Memorandum is not working and all the package decisions of 1994 are in doubt."*
Zelinsky, Valodimir, "Address to Munich Security Conference" (2/19/22).
The installation of NATO and nuclear weapons in the nation through which two World Wars were launched upon Russia and the Soviet Union is understood to be a provocation.
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The armed threat and the installation of a fascist state in Ukraine, after a 2014 coup d'etat, set the stage for the hostile seizure of the Russian Federation's resources. We now have WW 9.
Imagine a politician like himmler being appointed as head of the army and being asked to take decisions when being surrounded by the enemy.
Great video. I hadn't heard of this battle.
Well done! 👍👌
Leaving armys to choke in ukraine is kind of a running theme these days i huh guys
What was that vehicle at 6:08? Pushed by a propeller?
Aerosani, looks like a Finnish model
Actually Soviet Union hands USSR
Trying to soak up that Ukraine love without admitting that they were f****** Russian
Ukraine , trapped in a horrific time loop . But for today SLAVA UKRAINI .
This makes me think of the phrase " when hell freezes over". Not that it applies to this, It's just the imagery of a frozen hellscape where war is breaking out all around. It's insane that humans actually survived this, not to mention humans also inflicted this on each other.
Mind boggling!!
It’s really not mind boggling at all it’s just gonna get worse till we implode on ourselves and end it all.
Yes!.. I keep on taking a deep breath as I watched those -10 Celsius temp being endured by infantry on foot!... Someone told me,in Japan he noted that at -10 Celcius temp're,the overhead electrical wire along the street- snapped due to very cold temperature....If the metal cant withstand the coldness,how much more the human body!...
Showing the same clip over & OVER, why!
I would recommend to anyone interested in this video and what it covers to read the book "The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer.
Excellent book. I recommend as well DeGrelles book on his few years at Eastern front with Vallonian Legion
Thank you for the recommendation. I will be looking into that book for sure.
@@alexandermole3260 even tho it's written from perspective of devoted national socialist it's very interesting account and I'm not sure if he wrote it without help, but if so he definitely had a writing talent. Especially his descriptions of nature and weather are great almost poetic. It's called "campaign in Russia, wafflen $$ on eastern front"
Wow war REALLY is hell!!
One very important thing that is compleatly lacking in this video his Hitlers reason for not allowing retreat.
The region of Ukraine this fight took place in was vital for the entire german war industry as it had some of its only available nickel mines in 1943. While militarily it was logically to retreat, economically it was an absolute desaster to retreat. Any attempt, no matter how futile, had to be made to keep this area for the german war economy to not take a massive hit. It was basically the question of potentially saving an army or keeping germanys ability to continue the war as a hole.
Hitler often clashed with his military staff over these kind of decisions because the military only thought in military terms and usually didnt think about ressources and the war economy at all.
Germanys war economy massively suffered do to lack of ressources from 1942 onwards and the quality of equipmeant went down really fast. Basically a german tank in 1942 and a german tank in 1944 were quality wise compleatly different. This went through the entire war production.
ms and usually didnt thing
So no it wasnt just "mad man Hitler" deciding to suicide his soldiers. That is a cold war narrative pushed by former german generals to shift all the blame for any failures on Hitler (trying to make themselfs look good as they wanted new jobs in the post war army).
Or if he had let the Ukrainian’s defend their own land who welcomed him as a saviour but were betrayed by the ‘wise man hitler’ . 🤡
@@Greyhound0111 Germany couldnt even provide its own forces or its allied armies with full equippmeant, what on earth would trying to arm the ukranians do for them if they cant even arm the romanians or hungarians they are actually allied to properly?
Weapons dont exist by wishful thinking
If it weren't for the title this would be a great video
Ahhh as the history of the world repeats it self once agian
Yeah. NSDAP is now named NATO and EU.
Russians fighting Nazi supporters?
It's a wonder anyone survived, they made them tough years ago, looks a bit to cold for today's youth,
0:25 In German "ei" is pronounced "i" and "ie" is pronounced "e".
yes... clarifying: German, unlike english, is totally phonetic, looking at how it is written tells you exactly how to pronounce it.
ei sound is the same as in spine, tine, kind, find, sky, eye, fry,
ie sound is the same as in spleen, teen, fiend, clean, bean, ...
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Hitler ordering his units to resist and hold the line while they get butchered and frozen in winter
While he is sipping wine in his mountain villa.
You just described all wars for the masses.
I though Hitler was teatotal.
wine ?
I read that title ENTIRELY WRONG there for a hot second XD
Don't pay any attention to the assclowns who criticize your word usage, vocabulary, and grammar. They should all make a video so we can see how perfect they are. Just keep doing what you're doing.
Why? He needs to be called out when he makes glaring mistakes. Like calling the 5th SS Biking over and over. It's Wiking as in Viking. Little things DO matter if your teaching history to others
Your attitude is what leads to errors being repeated and ultimately being promoted as fact. Not acceptable for a channel purporting to analyse and explain history.
People have been changed a lot after this great war. Today it is very difficult to understand what these people faced.
Ukranian hands ?
It was USSR. Another misleading title
@@u47mkbg i think the level of propaganda and brainwashing these day are mental
@Ante D Dje si ujo,sto ne volontiras ujo vidis da propase bez vas
@Ante D čuvam se za nas ujo,naš ples jos nije počeo
@Ante D Bez brige ujo jos smo tu,nece ti biti dosadno
Another well made effort, succint yet powerful. You should, however, ask a german speaker how to pronounce Manstein.
4:50 you talk of Stalin liberating Ukraine, however many Ukrainian's preferred Hitler as he did not starve them in the decades prior like Stalin had done... so to call him there liberator.
Yea in my part of Poland their "liberation" wan just another occupation, rape, murder, robbing and poverty
Different situation now
Fighting each other!
That's what happens when you command armies with emotion and delousion rather than logic.
Stalin did the same only he had more men a constant supply.
@@tonyclough9844 Well, Stalin was smart enough (Later in the war) to listen to his senior officers regarding what strategy to apply to fight the Germans
Hitler did not, and we all know what happend eventually.
A stubborn man that just could not understand that strategic withdrawal can ultimately can give you an upperhand over your enemy.
Similar to Russian attack on Kyiv just insanity
@@tonyclough9844 yep... 10x or so USSR soldiers died...
Manstein had the good sense & guts to ignore Hitlers' insane 'stay put' order & retreat knowing his troops were far out numbered. This was the opposite of Paulus in Stalingrad who knew his troops needed to retreat but did what Hitler ordered & they were all encircled, killed or captured & only 6% of those captured ever made it back to Germany at the end of WWII. Hitler had no understanding of battlefield tactics regarding retreat.
Manstein actually tricked Paulus into staying in Stalingrad by telling Hitler that they should stay while claiming to Paulus that he was trying to get him out.
What's the motivation for this?
@@chuboasshippo2181 It pleased Hitler and kept Paulus on hold while the back up supplies and troops were being sent to the rescue. But as we know that largely failed and so the rest is, well, history.
FAKE NEWS! Manstein didn't "trick" anyone. Another lunatic conspiracy theory!@
Great video. Great work as always.
Have a 1942 Mosin Nagant. Might’ve been there.
How they moved across Dnipro river? Bridges not destroyed?