The Final Battles of World War II | Countdown to Surrender - The Last 100 Days | Ep. 2

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  • @tommybrown9534
    @tommybrown9534 5 місяців тому +7

    I swear i just can't get enough of war documentaries.. particularly WW2 videos and more specifically, the Pacific theatre. Ive always gravitated towards history's major violent events

    • @petereynolds4557
      @petereynolds4557 4 місяці тому

      me too. Pacific, Omaha, Hurtegen Forest, Monte Cassino. I think its coz its just the furthest from anything i can ever see myself doing.

    • @gerridaniels405
      @gerridaniels405 2 місяці тому

      Was stationed in Germany for one year. Have seen some of these places
      Very interesting.

  • @rosslanius8989
    @rosslanius8989 9 місяців тому +90

    This is interesting. The censorship is disturbing. Why does anyone believe they should decide what I can view?

    • @CNCTEMATIC
      @CNCTEMATIC 7 місяців тому +6

      yep. welcome to the 2020s

    • @paulross7540
      @paulross7540 6 місяців тому

      Ĺu
      😊😊😮😊

    • @Cece-dad17
      @Cece-dad17 6 місяців тому +2

      Find it elsewhere then?

    • @250txc
      @250txc 6 місяців тому

      Why see all these horror? Maybe you are a psychopath with no empathy? Glad your side lost.

    • @tricotdiko1435
      @tricotdiko1435 5 місяців тому +5

      Start your own UA-cam then. You make the company, you own the company then you can make the rules. Get it?

  • @neilrundell9620
    @neilrundell9620 4 місяці тому +19

    I to enjoyed the live footage. I can not get enough of WWII history. But I am glad that I was not fighting age and living in those times. If anyone deserves a prayer, its those people.

    • @tumelotshekedi2525
      @tumelotshekedi2525 2 місяці тому

      It is somehow in a bad way, a good thing that wwii happened then. So the world could how destructive war is, how destructive nuclear weapons are. Imagine if this was to happen now with all these advanced nuclear weapons.

  • @verbalswagrawkey1932
    @verbalswagrawkey1932 8 місяців тому +6

    Very good, I’ve never seen most of this footage.

  • @CNCTEMATIC
    @CNCTEMATIC 7 місяців тому +2

    noticed Patton's diary does not say "this is a big show" where quoted

  • @edwarddelarosa8228
    @edwarddelarosa8228 7 місяців тому +3

    The best Doc on the Waffen SS as a fighting force that's been compiled .

  • @joslynscott466
    @joslynscott466 9 місяців тому +7

    Excellent. A must watch

  • @swastika27
    @swastika27 9 місяців тому +6

    very educational documentary.. i love watching this kind of docu learning a lot from history which i never heard from my old school kudos to uploader

  • @Chainyanker007
    @Chainyanker007 8 місяців тому +4

    There’s a great video on another channel about the bridge at Ramagen. Critical action by a few American soldiers saved the bridge at least long enough for a few thousand soldiers and many tanks could cross. The bridge later collapsed killing a few dozen soldiers and engineers working to repair the bridge. But by then two pontoon bridges had been built. Germans threw everything they had at the bridge but failed.

  • @garymorgan8915
    @garymorgan8915 10 місяців тому +89

    You shouldn't blur the image,we need to see it, to remember

    • @patricklemire9278
      @patricklemire9278 10 місяців тому +1

      I don’t think the creators want to do it, youtube is anti history

    • @saifulsidek2724
      @saifulsidek2724 10 місяців тому

      UA-cam administration will says no and will be yellow dollars,u wont gets money from youtubes when that happen.....no youtube content creator don,t want to get money from their content right??

    • @michaelporter2574
      @michaelporter2574 9 місяців тому +5

      Agreed....

    • @Chainyanker007
      @Chainyanker007 8 місяців тому +2

      Up to a point. Don’t think people want to see corpses in pieces.

    • @whoami-eb7cq
      @whoami-eb7cq 8 місяців тому +3

      Don't need to see it,your imagination can do the job.Plus youtube will demonitize the channel and then nothing

  • @martintapia9374
    @martintapia9374 9 місяців тому +10

    👏😃
    Superb documental. THANK YOU so much‼️
    ...quite professional

  • @harrydeanbrown6166
    @harrydeanbrown6166 9 місяців тому +12

    Excellent film. I taught German history, have a lifelong interest in Germany, and was greatly pleased with this video. SIDE NOTE: Who is the arrogant fool who blurs images on UA-cam? We who pay for the "premium" edition of UA-cam should not have to shell out money to be insulted. I will contact UA-cam about this and I hope that thousands of other viewers do as well. UA-cam's practices, no matter how well motivated, are akin to those of Josef Goebbels.

    • @jerryhamer
      @jerryhamer 3 місяці тому

      Sadly youtube will always make them pixle out those images.

    • @sidgar1
      @sidgar1 2 місяці тому

      Agreed. History must be presented as it was, not sanitized to conceal the true horrors of war

  • @larryehrlich57
    @larryehrlich57 5 місяців тому +6

    I love Cologne Germany, I use to fly cargo jumbo jets internationally all over the world...including to Cologne...its a buetiful city and nice people. I've been retired for 10 years now...getting old with good health. Blue Sky's.

  • @bob2732
    @bob2732 8 місяців тому +72

    I too must protest this pixelation or blurring out in certain scenes. History cannot be concealed, it must be shown as it was.

    • @1badhaircut
      @1badhaircut 5 місяців тому +1

      When I used to shoot news video I filmed horrific scenes that were edited-out - “burger” was the term - really bad was “turbo-burger” - had to be censored - caused me nightmares.

    • @scottwade1697
      @scottwade1697 4 місяці тому

      I won't even watch this video unless I can find an unblurred version. As soon as I saw the first blurred out bit I stopped watching. Too bad because it looks like a very well made production!

    • @UShistorymatters
      @UShistorymatters 2 місяці тому

      It's not the way this platform works. Those who post don't want to lose monetization for their work.

    • @dr.barrycohn5461
      @dr.barrycohn5461 Місяць тому

      Prey tell what part of history was concealed to you? Dead bodies?

  • @a.castro4091
    @a.castro4091 8 місяців тому +4

    As a WW2 history buff, I really enjoy it.

  • @stevenporter1952
    @stevenporter1952 6 місяців тому +23

    The Greatest Generation who sacrificed so much to keep America free from the evil people who were hell bent to destroy the world for their gain are passing away at a rate of over 1500 souls a day. As of 2024, there remain only 130,000. Respect, accolades are deserved for these brave patriots. Thank you The Greatest Generation.

    • @johnord684
      @johnord684 5 місяців тому +5

      Only America eh,what about the Brits,Canadian,Australian,New Zealand,Indian ,French,Dutch,Soviet and countless other nations involved who sacrificed a generation for the nations freedom.

    • @scottwade1697
      @scottwade1697 4 місяці тому +1

      @@johnord684 Good point! I'm American but my Canadian uncle fought in Italy during WWII. He was an artilleryman firing the big guns.

    • @glennhalila8279
      @glennhalila8279 4 місяці тому +3

      I had two Great Uncle's, both from New York City, who served in the Army in the European Theater during WWII. My Uncle Sammy Miller was captured in the Battle of the Bulge, and Luckily survived and was released. My Uncle Charlie Huff was a Tail-Gunner on a Bomber and also survived the war getting a good job in the garment district of New York and was in the Teamsters Union. I was at his bedside in a Broward County Florida Hospital right before he passed and at his funeral in which Military Personnel gave him a twenty one gun salute and an American Flag. I was able to obtain VA Spousal Benefits for his wife (my Aunt Martha), which enabled her to live the rest of her days in a South Florida Nursing Home.

    • @wimschmied3800
      @wimschmied3800 3 місяці тому

      Complete delusion. The US gov is one of the greatest evils of this world.

    • @bettyhudson979
      @bettyhudson979 2 місяці тому

      @@johnord684WHAT ABOUT RECOGNIZING THE BLACK AMERICAN AND MEN OF COLOR FROM VARIOUS BRITISH COLONIES THAT FOUGHT AND DIED FOR FREEDOM THAT THEY DID NOT HAVE THEMSELVES 😭

  • @johnadams5489
    @johnadams5489 9 місяців тому +14

    The German Soldiers and the people that were close to the Rhine knew the war was over once they saw the Allies were IN Germany and surrendered instead of putting up a fight. Smart.

  • @asullivan4047
    @asullivan4047 10 місяців тому +24

    Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Along with the usual censoring of pictures. Who are they to decide what the viewers can & cannot see.

    • @Mikkall
      @Mikkall 9 місяців тому

      Commie Google Snowflakes

    • @250txc
      @250txc 6 місяців тому

      Why see all these horror? Maybe you are a psychopath with no empathy? Glad your side lost.

  • @ronaldstrange8981
    @ronaldstrange8981 10 місяців тому +12

    Such an excellent and well produced documentary. Most grateful, so please accept my sincere thanks. England, January, 2024.

  • @akoito1992
    @akoito1992 9 місяців тому +4

    this is good docu film, this worth showing of how war is to learn is all but destruction of mankind and greed of power to mankind

  • @briggsak05
    @briggsak05 9 місяців тому +7

    Thanks for the history

  • @paulhurst7748
    @paulhurst7748 10 місяців тому +34

    What's up with the blurry part?

    • @markcummings1319
      @markcummings1319 4 місяці тому

      Blurring out on a war film - jezz.

    • @paulhurst7748
      @paulhurst7748 4 місяці тому

      @@markcummings1319 It's You Tube, they are now blurring out alcohol and cleavage.

    • @hesky10
      @hesky10 Місяць тому

      ​@@paulhurst7748blurring out a journalist seems a bit harsh lol

  • @JC-kk5wg
    @JC-kk5wg 8 місяців тому +2

    Several scenes are blurred out. Why we have seen many brutal war images.
    Excellent explanations that tie into other research validating what was presented. Good Job Thank you.

  • @jollyjohnthepirate3168
    @jollyjohnthepirate3168 10 місяців тому +31

    The Army Corps of Engineers quickly built 3 bridges at Ramagen. So even after the bridge failed nothing changed. Nothing could stop the allies.

    • @robertcottam8824
      @robertcottam8824 10 місяців тому

      Particularly after Montgomery and Bradley launched Varsity.

    • @raywhitehead730
      @raywhitehead730 10 місяців тому +4

      By the time the Remain bridge finally fell into the river, over 15,000 American troops had already gone across it.

    • @jamesbetker6862
      @jamesbetker6862 9 місяців тому +1

      When the bridge at Remagen collapsed there were many ambulances on it sending wounded Americans to rear areas.

    • @jollyjohnthepirate3168
      @jollyjohnthepirate3168 9 місяців тому +4

      The motto of the Corps of Engineers was " The difficult we can do almost immediately. The impossible might take just a little longer." They ment it. The Germans were shocked by the speed of the combat engineers as they assembled the bridges at Ramagen.

  • @jeffreykoran4820
    @jeffreykoran4820 4 місяці тому +12

    THE BRITISH WERE LUCKY TO HAVE WINSTON CHURCHILL...HE SINGLE HANDELLY KEPT THEM TOGETHER

    • @Avi-h1w
      @Avi-h1w 3 місяці тому

      United States singlehandedly won the war!!!

    • @asc.445
      @asc.445 2 місяці тому

      The British are a stoic people.

  • @Spiritofaconure
    @Spiritofaconure 10 місяців тому +12

    16:27 how did anyone support a man who talked like that, it seems crazy that an entire civilization embraced this attitude, I imagine these people had fun in the beginning easily winning victory after victory, until winter comes along and takes out more enemies than the Soviet regime did, and once they started retreating and freezing I imagine it wasn’t so fun anymore, and I bet the fear was very palpable in the soldiers knowing that all the horrible things they did will return to them in one form or another and know great darkness and despair will soon hang over there country and lives like a cloud

  • @LIVING_IN_BASTROP
    @LIVING_IN_BASTROP 10 місяців тому +195

    Please stop blurring out the bodies, people need to see the brutality, so it is understood and not repeated.

    • @FrenchFries235
      @FrenchFries235 9 місяців тому

      It's UA-cam. They will either remove the video, demonetize it or simply make it more obscure by the search algorithm by not recommending it to users or not showing it in the search results. YT has draconian moderation rules.

    • @jamesdean9781
      @jamesdean9781 9 місяців тому +44

      Well you can’t post videos on UA-cam that have unblurred dead bodies or else the documentary will get taken down and nobody will get to see it so you should probably take that up with UA-cam terms of service people lol

    • @beyondthen4621
      @beyondthen4621 8 місяців тому +15

      I use too see all kinds of dead years ago on You Tube.

    • @nathanielnelson5123
      @nathanielnelson5123 8 місяців тому

      There are other documentaries that show the brutality of war @LIVING_IN_BASTROP:World at War.
      Color of War.
      Victory at Sea.
      All on UA-cam

    • @maxasaurus3008
      @maxasaurus3008 7 місяців тому +7

      I HATE it when they do this, and you CAN post bodies on UA-cam I see them all day. I think it gets demonetized so they blur, or maybe the documentaries are old and they haven’t caught it. Either way it makes me so mad.

  • @martintowse6812
    @martintowse6812 10 місяців тому +13

    Wonderful insight into the final days thankyou.

  • @Steve-gx9ot
    @Steve-gx9ot 10 місяців тому +8

    Excellent video!!!❤❤❤❤ SUPER INTERESTING!!!

  • @jhonijoker1293
    @jhonijoker1293 9 місяців тому +2

    Aku suka menonton documentary tentang sejarah perang dunia ke 2

  • @Jason-ke2nj
    @Jason-ke2nj 10 місяців тому +20

    That last speach of goerbals..audience didn't look very convinced 😂😂😂

  • @WilliamCooper-l6f
    @WilliamCooper-l6f 9 місяців тому +4

    As the completion of the repairs, repainting, and refitting of the USS Texas, Battleship Texas, BB-35 draws closer, is there anything your channel can do to spotlight this excellent legendary warship?

  • @onebeartoe
    @onebeartoe 10 місяців тому +7

    It is getting good!

  • @johntillotson4254
    @johntillotson4254 3 місяці тому

    Thank you for great documentary

  • @AngryVet1143
    @AngryVet1143 6 місяців тому +17

    Stop the blur.

  • @NevilleShepheard-uh8re
    @NevilleShepheard-uh8re 9 місяців тому +6

    The final battle of WWII was in Borneo against the Japanese. Australian troops with US support, Europe was well over.

  • @Wadidiz
    @Wadidiz 3 місяці тому

    Great documentary, and thanks for using metric measurements.

  • @davids736
    @davids736 10 місяців тому +15

    Wow...... those guillotine machines. German efficiency right there, folks.... 😉
    Great documentary, btw, and I watch a lot of WW2 docs 👍👍❤️😊😊

  • @yohanneschane3647
    @yohanneschane3647 10 місяців тому +4

    The Industrial Revolution ushered in the dominance of science and technology over philosophy.

    • @jamesbetker6862
      @jamesbetker6862 9 місяців тому

      The hordes of Russian soldiers had never seen things such as pianos and other niceties of civilization and many homes were burned to the ground in eastern Germany.

  • @patricklemire9278
    @patricklemire9278 10 місяців тому +27

    It must have been the ultimate stress. You know the whole thing has weeks to go and you don’t want to be the last to die like those poor bastards on 11/11 in WWI.

  • @dustylover100
    @dustylover100 10 місяців тому +4

    World War II did not end in Europe. The European Theater did. The war was still being fought half a world away.

  • @annehersey9895
    @annehersey9895 5 місяців тому +1

    Patton and Monty had such a rivalry and Patton ALWAYS wanted to beat Monty starting in Sicily when Monty was to take Messina and Patton changed his trajectory to get there before him!

  • @raywhitehead730
    @raywhitehead730 10 місяців тому +7

    The fall of Remagn , Germany and the taking of it's bridge was remarked upon by Eisenhower. He called it one of the most significant events of the war. On March, 7, 1955 then President Eisenhower hosted the "Society Of the Remagen Bridgehead" in the Whitehouse. Where he lavishly praised those who took the bridge. Many who were at that storming of the bridge were present. (But not my father in law, another story) The letter issued by the President to the Society at that event, can be seen, on line at the: American Presidency Project.

  • @mutualbeard
    @mutualbeard 10 місяців тому +4

    I thought WW2 didn't finish until the Japanese surrendered. This video says that it finished after the defeat of Germany.

  • @kevincaldwell4707
    @kevincaldwell4707 10 місяців тому +6

    @13:41...16 years old? He looks more like 12 or 10 at most...such a shame what war does to our youth.

  • @munda2103
    @munda2103 10 місяців тому +12

    “We liberated Europe from fasicim. But they will never forgive us”

    • @Lamont-fy2xj
      @Lamont-fy2xj 10 місяців тому

      What do you mean

    • @annoyingbstard9407
      @annoyingbstard9407 10 місяців тому +2

      Your inability to spell fascism suggests your opinions may be less than remarkable.

    • @cska2001
      @cska2001 9 місяців тому

      Marshall Georgi Zhukov.

    • @godsgoodnessandgrace
      @godsgoodnessandgrace 5 місяців тому

      ​@@annoyingbstard9407 your name says it all 😏

    • @krm8494
      @krm8494 3 місяці тому

      Who's we? New Zealanders? Indians? South Africans? ... Do you really know who did what, when and where?

  • @michaelkelly7101
    @michaelkelly7101 7 місяців тому +8

    Stop blurring history

  • @adriaancoetsee
    @adriaancoetsee 10 місяців тому +83

    Pixelated really, you want to depict a lesson in history but don't want to show the civvies the true face of war??

    • @loganzacher9911
      @loganzacher9911 10 місяців тому

      You can likely thank the platform for the censorship, seeing that UA-cam typically flags/outright bans any videos that show the true gory reality of the war. It's unfortunate that people are so keen on whitewashing and censoring things like this

    • @jameskane6280
      @jameskane6280 10 місяців тому +16

      Evil censors from UA-cam require this.

    • @George-dx9nc
      @George-dx9nc 10 місяців тому +4

      ​@@jameskane6280I believe the censoring was done in the 40s

    • @unbiasedbios00
      @unbiasedbios00 10 місяців тому +5

      It's UA-cam forcing him to do it

    • @TheBlackdog8
      @TheBlackdog8 9 місяців тому

      Pussification of the world by youtube’s liberals. It’s sad.

  • @Weshopwizard
    @Weshopwizard 10 місяців тому +10

    Imagine, if you will, a world where that maniac had got into art school.

    • @shawnydAB
      @shawnydAB 4 місяці тому

      Or the soldier shoots him in WW2 as he limps to the ? "Other side" coward? SMH..

  • @johnadams5489
    @johnadams5489 9 місяців тому +5

    I was born right after WW2. We had a neighbor that was in Patton's 3rd Army during WW2. He told me that "Patton didn't care how many solders he killed, American or German. Patten thought that War was for Glory. Its a good thing that Ike put his thump on him.

    • @edwardjoy3820
      @edwardjoy3820 9 місяців тому +2

      Maybe so, but you need generals that have the stones to prosecute war, when it's necessary. Men have always died in war. When you let fear of injury dictate battlefield decisions, you are fighting defensively, not to win

    • @bjmartin5225
      @bjmartin5225 8 місяців тому +1

      Your neighbor is wrong .

    • @louisdriscoll2580
      @louisdriscoll2580 8 місяців тому

      German soldiers where smart to surrender

    • @DavidDundaff-eg4xn
      @DavidDundaff-eg4xn 6 місяців тому +1

      Well, like the venerable, esteemed Gen. William Techumseh Sherman remarked during his romp thru Atlanta, "All war is hell." No doubt.
      Bottom line, to win a war, you have to make it more brutal against your enemy, so they don't do it to you. Make it so bestial, so brutal, your enemy will shake in his boots when he hears you coming.

  • @sherifftouray9317
    @sherifftouray9317 8 місяців тому +2

    War is the worst thing to happen because no one win in both side to be honest. Good over Evils let lives as humans being . Peace 🕊️ love and unity and respect for one another. For God sake enough with this senseless war enough is enough.

  • @georadzo787
    @georadzo787 5 місяців тому +2

    How does the last 100 days video only encompass the last 63?

  • @MrTikka1950
    @MrTikka1950 9 місяців тому +4

    Stop this blurring. We are adults.

  • @Ubique2927
    @Ubique2927 10 місяців тому +12

    How can the commentator mispronounce Remagen when a German is repeatedly saying it correctly?

  • @mikeveis6393
    @mikeveis6393 10 місяців тому +3

    Must include the Battle of the Bulge

  • @petersmith4202
    @petersmith4202 9 місяців тому +4

    I'm almost certain Britain was in that war

  • @careyroberts3924
    @careyroberts3924 9 місяців тому +9

    Another thing Patton said: "We let the wrong side win"...

    • @dongertan3320
      @dongertan3320 5 місяців тому

      Exactly. They let the communist jews win.

  • @bikenavbm1229
    @bikenavbm1229 10 місяців тому +4

    good doc not seen before but I feel it is unnecessary and a dishonor to those that gave so much to have to censor what is war in a factual war documentary

  • @stevehicks8944
    @stevehicks8944 10 місяців тому +13

    I chuckle at British complaints about Patton. Patton was everything Montgomery wasn’t: a decisive leader who took what he had and did the best with it. All you have to do is look at the utter failure of Operation Market Garden to understand this fact.

    • @brustar5152
      @brustar5152 10 місяців тому +3

      A real pity your grasp of factual history has you believing that Market Garden was Montgomery's original plan and that it hadn't been co-opted by an American General making it all but unnachievable as originally planned. Gen Gavin diverted the majority of his force to the City of Nijmegen instead of seizing the bridge and the wheels fell off the whole operation at that point because without the bridge at Nijmegen, there could be no originally planned by Monty relieving troops arriving at Arnem. Gavin screwed the pooch by prioritizing the city instead of the bridge and there went the ball game.

    • @robertcottam8824
      @robertcottam8824 10 місяців тому +2

      @@brustar5152
      One thinks, from various comments, that Mr. Hicks has a bit of a crush on George C Scott…
      Best wishes

    • @waveygravey9347
      @waveygravey9347 10 місяців тому +3

      The 82nd and their failure to take the Nijmegen bridge was the reason Market Garden failed. Thanks, America.

    • @caractacusbrittania7442
      @caractacusbrittania7442 10 місяців тому

      Montys plan was startling in its scope and strategy,
      Ignore the film a bridge too far, that's just dickie
      Attenborough being the wet liberal.
      It was a magnificently designed strategy,
      Worthy of rommel, manstein or guderian,
      95 % successfull ,
      The other 5% a result of a combination of personal decisions by
      Boy browning, gavin ,
      And a combination of minute failings that when added together ensured failure,
      Unlike Mark Clark in Italy who landed, then dug in........ A beached whale instead of a tiger.

  • @BadgerView
    @BadgerView 10 місяців тому +12

    Two documentaries I recommend:
    1. Europa the last battle.
    2. The greatest story never told.

    • @Mikkall
      @Mikkall 9 місяців тому

      How long till the Googliots censor you?

  • @georgegarcia1445
    @georgegarcia1445 6 місяців тому +2

    WWII did not end with the surrender of Germany in May 1945.
    last major battle of WWII was the Battle of Okinawa in which an estimated 200, 000 people, Military and civilian, died. Some estimates are even higher.

  • @sureshramakrishna1780
    @sureshramakrishna1780 9 місяців тому +2

    Please kindly make a short reel alongwith the list of 57 alleged in the July 17 plot & other political prisoners who were annihilated during April 15, 1945 please, please....

  • @seanbumstead1250
    @seanbumstead1250 10 місяців тому +10

    My 2 great uncles were fighting in the north in the Canadian Army🇨🇦

    • @cjstubejackofalltrade1551
      @cjstubejackofalltrade1551 10 місяців тому +2

      They wouldn't happy of what's happening in Palestine now

    • @robertcottam8824
      @robertcottam8824 10 місяців тому +2

      @@cjstubejackofalltrade1551
      And the relevance of your comment is what, precisely?
      If you were merely after attention, then here! - have five seconds of it and a shiny sixpence.

    • @monoramabhowmick4699
      @monoramabhowmick4699 10 місяців тому

      CANADA 🤣🤣🤣You mean the Present ""KHALISTANI STATE"" ❓😆😆😆😆😆😆

    • @robertcottam8824
      @robertcottam8824 10 місяців тому +1

      @@monoramabhowmick4699
      Most Indians of my acquaintance are lovely people, chotabai. Please don’t ruin your country’s reputation for decency.
      Namaste

  • @seanlander9321
    @seanlander9321 10 місяців тому +17

    The last major battle of WWII was the Australian capture of Borneo from the Japanese.

    • @seanlander9321
      @seanlander9321 10 місяців тому +2

      @@hardcorehistory9165 Huh? The Soviets attacked Manchuria as Japan was surrendering because of the atom bombs.

    • @igorzimin2518
      @igorzimin2518 10 місяців тому +5

      @@seanlander9321 I can argue that atomic bombs did not end the war - as before bombs were dropped Japan was bombed to rubble anyway. The victory over Japan was secured by Soviet forces defeating largest concentration of Japanese forces in north of China, if I don't mistake arout 70% of Japanese ground troops were stationed there. But yes, you from western world are thought another thing, that Abombs made Japanese to surrender, but we have our version, its only for specialists do decide which one was right

    • @seanlander9321
      @seanlander9321 10 місяців тому +9

      @@igorzimin2518 Not at all, as Hirohito confirmed, the atomic bombs forced Japan’s unconditional surrender.

    • @igorzimin2518
      @igorzimin2518 10 місяців тому +2

      @@seanlander9321 what exactly did he say? Just curious. And my version does not come out of thin air, many specialists argue that it happened this way

    • @seanlander9321
      @seanlander9321 10 місяців тому +4

      @@hardcorehistory9165 It’s not rocket surgery, the Soviet attack was after the atomic bombs, which is when Japan agreed to unconditional surrender.

  • @bungasujatmo1439
    @bungasujatmo1439 9 місяців тому +3

    Who gave you the right to blur the images? If you want to blur some, then everything should be considered not proper to be shown

  • @MUCHTRA1N
    @MUCHTRA1N 10 місяців тому +7

    Insightful expose with first person perspective and footage seldom seen by audiences in the USA. Very well done.

    • @davechristian7543
      @davechristian7543 10 місяців тому +1

      So where do you think they got this footage from mate? Ps. Insightful expose with first person perspective 'wats that even mean if ya dont mind plz?

    • @MUCHTRA1N
      @MUCHTRA1N 10 місяців тому +1

      @@davechristian7543 Been watching WWII film for 60 years. I don't recall seeing some of this, especially some of the Soviet footage. First person perspective is interviews and diaries from the people who where there, not after-the-fact opinions and conclusions drawn by others years later.

  • @matrox
    @matrox 10 місяців тому +12

    Patton and the US troops crossed the Rhine while Bernard Montgomery was still having his morning tea and crumpets.

    • @annoyingbstard9407
      @annoyingbstard9407 10 місяців тому +6

      The first units across were the 4th RTR of the 79th armoured division. Americans like to pretend this didn’t happen.😂

    • @matrox
      @matrox 10 місяців тому

      @@annoyingbstard9407 What date?🤔 What time?☝😫

    • @matrox
      @matrox 10 місяців тому

      @@annoyingbstard9407 I guess you mean Operation Plunder. That was a joint Ops between The Brits and Americans to get across at night to smuggle supplies. Actually 2 weeks before that a few Americans got across the bridge at Remagen before the Germans blew it up. But it still stands Pattons men were the first to get across the Rhine in force.

    • @gordoncook5812
      @gordoncook5812 9 місяців тому +4

      We have crumpets for tea, not breakfast!

    • @photoisca7386
      @photoisca7386 9 місяців тому

      Britain was at war while the Yanks were still making money from both sides (Ford, GM, etc).

  • @ATRTAP
    @ATRTAP 9 місяців тому +2

    All that needless death, just imagine if the Germans came to their senses in January 1945.

  • @Ubique2927
    @Ubique2927 10 місяців тому +8

    What did the Germans expect!!!

    • @PolarExpress-ql3nk
      @PolarExpress-ql3nk 10 місяців тому

      At one point they were expecting to beat and subjugate all the bad people.

    • @josephlininger2677
      @josephlininger2677 10 місяців тому +1

      I think Ike had it right, make everyone from outlying villages to tour the camps at gunpoint But they all were aghast. When they cleaned the ash and skin off there roofs were they astonished , I really doubt it, let's be real, the heroes like Stauffenbergh stood. Up but as we see I America today, we have sheep, god help us.

  • @SomnathDe-h7d
    @SomnathDe-h7d 10 місяців тому +1

    Watching from India.

  • @ryanreedgibson
    @ryanreedgibson 10 місяців тому +7

    Why does it blur after 40:02? Did someone apply the lens blur effect for too long?

    • @hracekk
      @hracekk 10 місяців тому +1

      Definitely an error

    • @grahvis
      @grahvis 10 місяців тому +1

      Possibly a copyright problem. I've seen the same in other videos.

    • @dustylover100
      @dustylover100 10 місяців тому +1

      Welcome to the Wild WOKE World.

  • @berlinkozyreva
    @berlinkozyreva 8 місяців тому +2

    Patton was a great commander ( probrally the best ) who knew you had to go fast and keerp advancing on the enemy to win
    That said he was also a glory hound who got a lot of american soldiers unnecessarily killed for healines

  • @liberty_and_justice67
    @liberty_and_justice67 9 місяців тому +4

    As the Germans did to the Russians, the Russians did to the Germans. Can not say that I blame them, but very sad. Atrocity begets atrocity.

    • @cska2001
      @cska2001 9 місяців тому +2

      You, as well as 99,99% of Americans don't have a slytiest clue what the Germans did to the Soviet people. 27 million Soviet citizen died, 18 million of them were civilians. The Soviet movie " Come and See" should be The Must in every US high school history class!

    • @wimschmied3800
      @wimschmied3800 3 місяці тому

      The Germans didn't do to the Russians what the Red Army did to Germans.

  • @brianmurray1395
    @brianmurray1395 9 місяців тому +2

    Did it really end or are we just continuing it?

  • @arostwocents
    @arostwocents 9 місяців тому +1

    The German referring to the allies as "we" is shameful and disgusting. These are your national ancestors like them or not and those defending germany were the civilians

  • @turnthepage867
    @turnthepage867 10 місяців тому +17

    America owes its freedom to the U.S. Navy who somehow fought two wars at the same time...unbelievable.

  • @kostasvrionis781
    @kostasvrionis781 10 місяців тому +4

    23:44 Τα δύο αγαπημένα σκυλιά του ΜουρλοΧιτλερ ήταν η Μπλοντι και ο Σπεερ μέχρι τέλους

  • @danielanthony8373
    @danielanthony8373 7 місяців тому +1

    Why not put a content warning instead of blurring out the realities of war
    We don't need protection
    We are adults
    If anyone is squeamish they can turn it off

  • @caseylimbert266
    @caseylimbert266 10 місяців тому +2

    Wow, all these years and they still badmouth Patton

  • @MichaelWittrock-kr9gy
    @MichaelWittrock-kr9gy 6 місяців тому +1

    My father was German native American released from the war in 1945 in April .

  • @MichaelMitchell-nv4lf
    @MichaelMitchell-nv4lf 10 місяців тому +4

    Did Japan surrender when Germany did???
    There are 3 more months left to the war

  • @peterrobbins2862
    @peterrobbins2862 10 місяців тому +6

    The last 100 days of ww2 were fought in the pacific not Europe

    • @bradcobb3418
      @bradcobb3418 9 місяців тому

      exactly,my Dad was there in Burma after doing his bit in N africa and D Day..poor research.

  • @azchick1820
    @azchick1820 10 місяців тому +4

    The frequent blurring detractsand distracts from an otherwise good documentary

  • @DiegoRodriguez-666
    @DiegoRodriguez-666 10 місяців тому +2

    That war historian looks like Robert DiNero

  • @3BK235Y
    @3BK235Y 8 місяців тому +2

    20:57-21:10 Why did Patton "get away with such things"? What was wrong in admitting the good qualities of your enemies?
    40:08 41:05 Why on earth are these images blurred?

  • @gonskie
    @gonskie 9 місяців тому +1

    There was competition bet Montgomery and Patton. Monty cooked the idea of Market Garden but failed

  • @Samuel-r7g
    @Samuel-r7g 17 днів тому

    At this stage, I should be certified a YT historian

  • @matrox
    @matrox 10 місяців тому +6

    02:31 See that car? That was an innocent civilian young woman simply trying to escape the danger. She later crawled out out the car from being shot and died in the street. The attacker had no clue who was in the car when they fired on her. An interview from the tankers years later expressed their regret when they found out who they had just killed. I think they tried to save her but she died within minutes. All captured on film I saw the film. Its sad. They ended up just covering her body with a coat or blanket after she died.

    • @gigie555
      @gigie555 10 місяців тому +4

      At least the Soviet soldiers regretted the incident. But the German SS, when faced with the millions they murdered in cold blood, didn't give it a second thought.

  • @rolandocera4701
    @rolandocera4701 8 місяців тому +2

    Thats in europe only..but the final days of ww2 is in the pacific.

  • @byronwarner3409
    @byronwarner3409 7 місяців тому +1

    I agree. Stop blurring reality.

  • @srb99100
    @srb99100 9 місяців тому +7

    Which woke organization now pixelates important history lessons????

  • @simpsbelongtothegulags3702
    @simpsbelongtothegulags3702 10 місяців тому +3

    no mention of Hungary and Yugoslavia?

  • @SamPride-vx7hx
    @SamPride-vx7hx 3 місяці тому

    Greatest generation

  • @garymacmillan
    @garymacmillan 9 місяців тому +1

    Germany's invasion of Russian was at least as horrific of the Russian payback.

  • @cliffordchase319
    @cliffordchase319 9 місяців тому +1

    I agree really backwards.

  • @r0osboz1
    @r0osboz1 9 місяців тому +1

    I understand blurring out the corpses, but why are the interviews starting at 40:00 blurry....whole picture is blurry.

  • @charlesjames1442
    @charlesjames1442 10 місяців тому +5

    When defeated by the victors, the supermen murdered and ran away.

  • @johnccargill4665
    @johnccargill4665 9 місяців тому +1

    Whar avout the Pacific theater?

  • @MichaelWittrock-kr9gy
    @MichaelWittrock-kr9gy 6 місяців тому +2

    I am 78 years old!!!!

    • @loneranger5349
      @loneranger5349 5 місяців тому

      Well good you happy birthday 🎂

    • @LubovUg
      @LubovUg 5 місяців тому

      I am 778 years old

  • @carlosenriquegonzalez-isla6523
    @carlosenriquegonzalez-isla6523 10 місяців тому +39

    20:23 Patton, the general that the Germans “fear more than any other allied commander” Yeah, sure 😒 more than Zhukov that beat the s#it of of them in several occasions…😊

    • @MUCHTRA1N
      @MUCHTRA1N 10 місяців тому +8

      That was the German perspective, not a conclusion drawn by the video maker. Zuchov takes a long time to marshall his overwhelming forces (artillery, troops). The USSR camps several months on the Oder before crossing. Patton reaches the Rhine and crosses immediately.

    • @malamuteaerospace6333
      @malamuteaerospace6333 10 місяців тому

      THE SOVIET UNION WON THE EUROPEAN THEATER OF WAR.
      PERIOD NO EXCEPTIONS
      Peace my friends

    • @PolarExpress-ql3nk
      @PolarExpress-ql3nk 10 місяців тому +2

      @@MUCHTRA1N Where did you get that spelling of Zhukov from? Or is that just a typo? Zhukov's main problem is that he was operating in the USSR ('Communist') and it took the Army >4 million troops killed, wounded, captured in 5 months to stall out the Germans.

    • @kkkkjjjj8113
      @kkkkjjjj8113 10 місяців тому

      its bullshit to compare eastern front to western, patton had clean way to reach that fast meanwhile all wermacht atention were on eastern front, allies totally faced nothing on west@@MUCHTRA1N

    • @kkkkjjjj8113
      @kkkkjjjj8113 10 місяців тому

      seems like u re looking speedrun statistic, like allies wouldnot stay with chance with german in 40 41 42 and 43, there was 0 chance to defeat german in that year @@MUCHTRA1N