So many left out: Douglas MacArthur, Charles DeGaulle, Harold Alexander, "Hap" Arnold, Jimmy Doolittle, Ira Eaker, George Kenney, Curtis LeMay, Carl Spaatz, Omar Bradley, Mark Clark, Lucien Truscott, Fleet Admirals Ernest J. King and Chester Nimitz, and I could go on.
It's "interesting" to note that 147 generals, Confederate and Union, died in battle during the Civil War. Most led from the front, not in a tent in the rear.
@@brarob2089 First, I apologize if I appeared indifferent, but you did see I put "interesting" in quotes. Secondly, being in the Army during Nam, decisions made by the upper echelon regarding combat maneuvers was literally criminal. One LTC sent the infantry across a "field" to reach point B in X amount of time. The LTC, looking at a map, did not know this was a bog - slogging through hip deep swamp. The first two weeks of Hue was a slaughterhouse as generals refused to believe this was a full out assault of a division (12-15,000) of North Vietnamese combat seasoned troops. Of course it is a different war than the Civil War but it does not excuse the incompetence of military leadership that are not at least involved in the second person for what is happening on the front.
I would respectfully nominate Dwight David Eisenhower as the most influential of the war's "protagonists." He coordinated the Allied alliance, not an easy task due to egos involved. He transitioned into civilian leadership of the USA, warning us all of the "Military-Industrial Complex" who thrives on war. He also recognized the futility of the USA stepping into France's colonial war in Indo China. Thank you.
But I heard he ended Korea by showing the commies our nuclear cannon and told them we would start using it. Confirm Google. In 1953, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower threatened the use of nuclear weapons to end the Korean War if the Chinese refused to negotiate.
I willl second your statement about Ike. I am 75 and have lived a life of peace thanks to the greatest generation. However 2 of my friends went to Indo China and didnt come back.
So many famous men were left out. Starting with Yamamoto and Nimitz to name a few. If you named Patton you should have also named Bradley. I should mention I don't see Rommel's Name. I know the video is about men who survived WW2, but still, Rommel was almost considered a rock star in Germany.
You forgot General of the Army Omar Bradley, Fleet Admiral Ernest King, USAAF General of the Air Force Hap Arnold, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, General Jimmy Doolittle, General Viscount Slim, and even the godawful General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.
You can't say WW2 generals, and then keep it limited to the European theater. How abour McArthur, King, Nimitz? And the Japanese and Chinese generals? Last I checked, they were all in that conflict.
Not one of the finest hours of the Allies to treat their opponents as criminals while the vast majority of German generals did simply they same as themselves : serving their fatherland.
They were directly involved in acts that were 100% against the human race as a whole. The generals executed were involved in directing their men to kill civilians based on nothing but race or educational background. The people highest up the chain carry the most responsibility and if anyone was going to be held to account it was them. They shamed themselves and the human race. Punishing them was a perfectly sensible course of action. Men women and children for absolutely no reason other than race hatred were let into ditches and shot in the back of the head. And in enormous amounts. The leaders of these men who directed such barbarity hold the greatest of dishonor.
The Second World War in Europe was the second attempt by Germany to impose German kultur on the West, the second war following the end of the first by only 21 years. There were no clean hands in the Heer, and typical German brutality towards POWs and civilians under their control was documented many times under the authority of OKW. They rolled over Belgium and the Netherlands twice in 30 years, inflicted thousands of atrocities against those populations that included outright murder, starvation, and forced emigration to Germany to serve as forced labor. We aren't even speaking about the SS, none of whom ever acted in a manner defensible in a court of law. Their murder of 6 million Jews in Europe was facilitated by the German command structure from top to bottom. Where in the hell did you get your education, from under a rock? "I was only following the orders of der Fuhrer!" is not then and not now a defense for committing crimes against POWs and civilians, nor was it a defense for waging an aggressive war with the aim of stealing territory by force and murdering local populations deemed inferior to the Aryan master race. The only case where "whataboutism" succeeded as a defense was accepted by the Allies with regard to unrestricted submarine warfare, and even then criminal prosecutions were made against Uboat crews who machine gunned civilians in the water after they had sunk their ships.
Montgomery had many failings but he was a brilliant tactician and involved his men in his outlying thoughts but was sometimes rather full of himself which led to bad relationships with those of similar rank especially the American generals. I was born a few months after WW2 but I studied this war in Western Europe and I remember reading a book that said if you were a General in the British army you just got on with the project you were assigned were you only communicated with the war office, but when promoted to Field Marshall you stepped into the realms of politics and this is were Montgomery failed the most because he lacked the tact required by politicians which almost led to his replacement because of off hand treatment of the American General staff, but luckily he was informally warned and he quickly mended fences with the Americans. But later in life he was again in hot water with the Americans by making unforgivable comments during an interview. He was not the only high ranking military man to fail in political circles.
Clarke was regarded by both Patton and Ike as glory hound . His record of going after Rome instead of cutting off the German army in retreat in Italy is proof. His bone head move prolong the Italian campaign for months and cost thousand of lives.
No not really. Generals and field Marshalls not directly tied to war crimes were generally treated fine and lived full lives. Many of them however were obviously culpable in war crimes and deserved punishment.
You are right. And I might add every German General officer and Field Marshall knew exactly what Hitler was going to do and how he was going to do it. This included the extermination of milions and enslavement of far more. So they were culpable too but no one discusses this. They just say the were loyal and great soldiers. Bullshit. @@singed8853
@@singed8853 A Feld Marshall is a solder NOT a politician. He has to follow orders. Why weren't the Bolsheviks officers working in the secret service apparatus all across Eastern Europe in the early 90s executed??? Why wasn't there a Nurnberg trial for the Bolsheviks who murdered millions of civilians IN PEACE TIME???
@@stephengallagher2209most were not but it isn’t really relevant to my comment or the one above. War crimes were more limited back then but included killing prisoners of war and genocide.
De Gaulle, although he fought in the Battle of France, became a political leader and didn't command in battle for the remainder of the war. Incidentally, he was only ever an Acting Brigade General, and once he resigned as acting head of state after the war and retired to write his memoirs, he was paid a colonel's pension. Once President of France, if he was ever at an occasion when it was appropriate to wear his uniform, he wore his Brigade General's insignia, and I sometimes think he was making a point about being held back from promotion before the war!
Another wonderful video shared by an excellent War academy channel...thank you for sharing....it's shameful for some field marshals and Generals treated by their's political authoritatives ...I think only general Aesenhour treated well because correctly he understood the USA 🇺🇸 policies even after the WW2
The Allies knew that quantity succeeded over quality in this war. What a petty revenge to treat their opponents like that. Never in history have the winners treated a defeated former enemy more unfair and shameful.
SS generals knew , more or less, that they were doing dirty deeds. Great ww2 German generals were not concerned with genocide like the ss. Anyhow, from my point of view, Manstein, Balck, Hoth, Hausser and Guderian were amazing strategists. 👏 great program. 👍.
@@cfox7811 as a historian yes. Britain treated them horribly from the time they were invaded until they were no longer useful to the British war effort.
Ya. Treated badly for terrorizing Europe, signing off on the deaths of thousands of POWs and civilians, and turning blind eyes to massacres and ethnic cleansing taking place in their area of operation. Veritable choir boys material.
In the USA, any officer ranked higher than O-10 does not retire, they are simply not assigned duties. Therefore, Eisenhower did not retire in 1962, he did not retire at all. Eisenhower's commission, rank, and seniority had just been restored in 1961, so retiring a year later would have been an insult to the Army, Congress, and President Kennedy.
Sadly he kept telling the world how wonderful he was and then tried to start WW3 by openly talking about making the Korean war fully worldwide by nuking China. How the US awarded him the MoH is beyond me.
You seem to forget that the Soviet Union had the biggest number of generals that were killed IN COMBAT. General Triantafyllov in the defence of Moscow in 1941, General Federenko in Ukraine in 1944 and many others.
No problem with the great video or content. May want to consider eliminating "finally", simply indicating that the individual died or passed away on this date. Narragansett Bay
Field Marshal Montgomery had a physical toughness about him that was once described as a hank of compressed steel as well as being described as unbeatable and unbearable.
Most German generals and soldiers fulfilled their duty for their fatherland honorable. And most German generals were much better and more successful army leaders than most of the Allied generals with the exception of Patton. They definitely didn’t deserve such humiliating treatment.
Patton wasn't in the same league as Guderian, Rommel, Hoth and the list goes on, he was a bit or a lot lower depending on the German commander in comparision. However, Patton was some what a German in heart so I would put him in the Axis camp. He spoke German fluently, was assassinated after the war for telling his own truth out loud and finally he always sympthized with the Germans and even wanted to attack the Soivets in 1945.
Senior and incompetent. This video is about able commanders, it's a shame that Admiral Karl Donitz wasn't mentioned since he was more dangerous than all the commanders in this video. Also, general Vatutin was some what a medium skilled Soviet officer who deserves a slot in this video.
@@Kammler262 Macarthur senior and incompetent? Stupid fool. He is America's caesar. He retired but recalled to lead the allies in Pacific war. His war is different from European war because the allies must leap-frog from island to island instead of by land. There could be no North Korea had they allow macarthur's plan to cross the yalu river to china and finish the communist problem which up to now is the problem of the free world.
This debate is interesting. Nobody ever complained when Germany used her massive and over-whelming population, industrial and military advantage to crush much weaker opponents. Do you think Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, Yugoslavia and Greece had the resources to fight evenly? But when Germany found itself on the other side of the same gun (against USA) everyone screams and shouts Foul.
@@kereckelizabeth3625 Idiotic comment. The Germans didn't have fun times capturing those countries. However, they attacked those countries plus France and England and the rest of the planet at the same time aided by the worthless Italians. The Germans managed to hold on for almost 3 years with nothing fighting against endless masses from Asia and North America combined with defeated armies from France and Poland. German defeat was more glorious than the Allied pyrrhic victory.
Arguably the best General in the war was Field Marshall Rommel. He was one of the most famous Generals of WW2!!! He is a hero in two ways. He was a hero of the German military for his brilliance and success. He is also a hero because of his siding with the German people and humanity as he was involved in at least one of the attempts to kill Hitler. Those who tried to stop Hitler are are the biggest heroes of Germany. Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz was one of the most famous officers in Nazi Germany. How was he left out? He was more famous than any of the German Field Marshals on your list. General Omar Bradley was an excellent officer but is he the most famous? Famous would have to be by country right? The thought being that in the US we probably know none of the Soviet officers but that shouldn't disqualify them. How did you measure if Bradley belonged? Why not Admiral Nimitz? Douglas MacArthur? Did you mention Marshal Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto? With the possible exception of General Bradley, all of the ones above make more sense than what you used. No opinion on the Soviet officers at all. Select General Tomoyuki Yamashita and Yamamoto for Japan & whosoever else you want. Honestly I have tried but I don't understand the standards used to select the people you chose.
Patton. His premature death was a political relief to those in the West, Along with The Russians. But isn't it strange that most of these Generals all had those in Power worried. Hmmmm, Just like Caesar.
One of the reasons in age gap between the German Generals and Soviet Generals is because so many were purged and executed during the Great Terror. Very few if any of Soviet Generals were officers in Great war or Russian Civil war.
His crowning achievement is how he managed the Occupation of Japan, which pretty much reinvented the country. It's something that almost never gets noticed much. I don't think that there is anybody that has that on there resume.
Is it an assumption, or even a false assumption to believe that life is linear? After all, we count the years from 1 to 2023, we count our ages from 1 to 79 or so. And after all, we can see with our own eyes that a human being from the time an individual is born, the person grows, ages , and becomes old. Thus, life seems linear. So what happens to people, and in this case, these generals, who lived to 60, or 70. Or 80? Their lives were linear ? Or is life cyclical ? After all, the earth rotates , and rotates around the sun. But shouldn't time be measured cyclical ly ?
judging the most influential,, rather the most effective od these was zhukov,,fought for and defend himself against the devil at his back waiting to eat him live, stalin,and the devil to his front,,hitlers armies,the greates t of physical and mental strength was necessary to accomplish this
The moral of the video is, winner or looser, everbody is the looser of this life. So no need to kill each other and turn the world into a hell. God forgive us.
Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz outlived them all and died in 1980 with 89.
Omar Bradley had 5 stars and died in 1981.
@@miketerry6036 yes, but he received the 5th star after WW2
Generalmajor Heinrich Eberbach died in 1992 at the age of 97.
@@Engineer1897no 96
No Omar Bradley did. He died in 1981.
You totally forgot about General Omar Bradley who was the very last WW2 US Army and 5 Star General who passed away in 1981
So many left out: Douglas MacArthur, Charles DeGaulle, Harold Alexander, "Hap" Arnold, Jimmy Doolittle, Ira Eaker, George Kenney, Curtis LeMay, Carl Spaatz, Omar Bradley, Mark Clark, Lucien Truscott, Fleet Admirals Ernest J. King and Chester Nimitz, and I could go on.
It's "interesting" to note that 147 generals, Confederate and Union, died in battle during the Civil War. Most led from the front, not in a tent in the rear.
Its not "interesting" at all, you just don't understand how warfare has evolved and think war is some chivalrous game.
@@brarob2089 First, I apologize if I appeared indifferent, but you did see I put "interesting" in quotes. Secondly, being in the Army during Nam, decisions made by the upper echelon regarding combat maneuvers was literally criminal. One LTC sent the infantry across a "field" to reach point B in X amount of time. The LTC, looking at a map, did not know this was a bog - slogging through hip deep swamp. The first two weeks of Hue was a slaughterhouse as generals refused to believe this was a full out assault of a division (12-15,000) of North Vietnamese combat seasoned troops. Of course it is a different war than the Civil War but it does not excuse the incompetence of military leadership that are not at least involved in the second person for what is happening on the front.
Good coverage keep it up
I would respectfully nominate Dwight David Eisenhower as the most influential of the war's "protagonists." He coordinated the Allied alliance, not an easy task due to egos involved. He transitioned into civilian leadership of the USA, warning us all of the "Military-Industrial Complex" who thrives on war. He also recognized the futility of the USA stepping into France's colonial war in Indo China. Thank you.
But also didn't stand up for the peoples of Easter Europe against soviet oppression.
But I heard he ended Korea by showing the commies our nuclear cannon and told them we would start using it. Confirm Google. In 1953, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower threatened the use of nuclear weapons to end the Korean War if the Chinese refused to negotiate.
I willl second your statement about Ike. I am 75 and have lived a life of peace thanks to the greatest generation. However 2 of my friends went to Indo China and didnt come back.
Great video
Smiling Albert Kesselring!
this a mark felton type video. very cool
where did you find the video of rundstedt and rommel? Never seen it before
What about Omar Bradley. Five stars just like Eisenhower and lived till 1981.
I would add MacArthur.
So many famous men were left out. Starting with Yamamoto and Nimitz to name a few. If you named Patton you should have also named Bradley. I should mention I don't see Rommel's Name. I know the video is about men who survived WW2, but still, Rommel was almost considered a rock star in Germany.
You forgot General of the Army Omar Bradley, Fleet Admiral Ernest King, USAAF General of the Air Force Hap Arnold, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, General Jimmy Doolittle, General Viscount Slim, and even the godawful General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.
General Omar Bradley died in 1981 at the age of 88.
excellent
You can't say WW2 generals, and then keep it limited to the European theater. How abour McArthur, King, Nimitz? And the Japanese and Chinese generals? Last I checked, they were all in that conflict.
Not one of the finest hours of the Allies to treat their opponents as criminals while the vast majority of German generals did simply they same as themselves : serving their fatherland.
Fully agree
They were involved in war crimes. They knew it was coming.
They were directly involved in acts that were 100% against the human race as a whole. The generals executed were involved in directing their men to kill civilians based on nothing but race or educational background. The people highest up the chain carry the most responsibility and if anyone was going to be held to account it was them. They shamed themselves and the human race. Punishing them was a perfectly sensible course of action.
Men women and children for absolutely no reason other than race hatred were let into ditches and shot in the back of the head. And in enormous amounts. The leaders of these men who directed such barbarity hold the greatest of dishonor.
The Second World War in Europe was the second attempt by Germany to impose German kultur on the West, the second war following the end of the first by only 21 years.
There were no clean hands in the Heer, and typical German brutality towards POWs and civilians under their control was documented many times under the authority of OKW.
They rolled over Belgium and the Netherlands twice in 30 years, inflicted thousands of atrocities against those populations that included outright murder, starvation, and forced emigration to Germany to serve as forced labor.
We aren't even speaking about the SS, none of whom ever acted in a manner defensible in a court of law. Their murder of 6 million Jews in Europe was facilitated by the German command structure from top to bottom.
Where in the hell did you get your education, from under a rock?
"I was only following the orders of der Fuhrer!" is not then and not now a defense for committing crimes against POWs and civilians, nor was it a defense for waging an aggressive war with the aim of stealing territory by force and murdering local populations deemed inferior to the Aryan master race.
The only case where "whataboutism" succeeded as a defense was accepted by the Allies with regard to unrestricted submarine warfare, and even then criminal prosecutions were made against Uboat crews who machine gunned civilians in the water after they had sunk their ships.
They forgot Omar Bradley who died in 1981.
Montgomery had many failings but he was a brilliant tactician and involved his men in his outlying thoughts but was sometimes rather full of himself which led to bad relationships with those of similar rank especially the American generals. I was born a few months after WW2 but I studied this war in Western Europe and I remember reading a book that said if you were a General in the British army you just got on with the project you were assigned were you only communicated with the war office, but when promoted to Field Marshall you stepped into the realms of politics and this is were Montgomery failed the most because he lacked the tact required by politicians which almost led to his replacement because of off hand treatment of the American General staff, but luckily he was informally warned and he quickly mended fences with the Americans. But later in life he was again in hot water with the Americans by making unforgivable comments during an interview. He was not the only high ranking military man to fail in political circles.
Good history Chanel
My favorite was Omar Bradley died in 1981 at 88 years old
American General Mark Clark died in 1984, the last of the great WW2 flag officers.
Clarke was regarded by both Patton and Ike as glory hound . His record of going after Rome instead of cutting off the German army in retreat in Italy is proof. His bone head move prolong the Italian campaign for months and cost thousand of lives.
Absolutely shameful the way those field marshals and generals were treated.
No not really. Generals and field Marshalls not directly tied to war crimes were generally treated fine and lived full lives.
Many of them however were obviously culpable in war crimes and deserved punishment.
You are right. And I might add every German General officer and Field Marshall knew exactly what Hitler was going to do and how he was going to do it. This included the extermination of milions and enslavement of far more. So they were culpable too but no one discusses this. They just say the were loyal and great soldiers. Bullshit. @@singed8853
@@singed8853 A Feld Marshall is a solder NOT a politician. He has to follow orders. Why weren't the Bolsheviks officers working in the secret service apparatus all across Eastern Europe in the early 90s executed??? Why wasn't there a Nurnberg trial for the Bolsheviks who murdered millions of civilians IN PEACE TIME???
@@singed8853Because the allied generals were not guilty of war crimes? 😂
@@stephengallagher2209most were not but it isn’t really relevant to my comment or the one above.
War crimes were more limited back then but included killing prisoners of war and genocide.
Macarthur, Doenitz, Rommel, Yamashita, Percival, de Gaulle, Yamamoto, Spaatz, Krebs, Weidling is not on the list.
De Gaulle, although he fought in the Battle of France, became a political leader and didn't command in battle for the remainder of the war. Incidentally, he was only ever an Acting Brigade General, and once he resigned as acting head of state after the war and retired to write his memoirs, he was paid a colonel's pension. Once President of France, if he was ever at an occasion when it was appropriate to wear his uniform, he wore his Brigade General's insignia, and I sometimes think he was making a point about being held back from promotion before the war!
That was very interesting. I didn't know that Montgomery was the longest lived of all these WWII leaders.
He was brain-dead since 1942 ...
I'm almost sure that the last one who died has been Admiral Karl Doenitz. On the 1980.
Because he was less tired of them all...
Another wonderful video shared by an excellent War academy channel...thank you for sharing....it's shameful for some field marshals and Generals treated by their's political authoritatives ...I think only general Aesenhour treated well because correctly he understood the USA 🇺🇸 policies even after the WW2
The Goat Guderian
The Allies knew that quantity succeeded over quality in this war. What a petty revenge to treat their opponents like that.
Never in history have the winners treated a defeated former enemy more unfair and shameful.
After WWl the Germans were treated very poorly.
SS generals knew , more or less, that they were doing dirty deeds. Great ww2 German generals were not concerned with genocide like the ss. Anyhow, from my point of view, Manstein, Balck, Hoth, Hausser and Guderian were amazing strategists. 👏 great program. 👍.
Time to start reading history books. Are you aware of how the Polish army and its officer class was treated? I doubt it. Stop being an apologist.
@@cfox7811 as a historian yes. Britain treated them horribly from the time they were invaded until they were no longer useful to the British war effort.
Ya. Treated badly for terrorizing Europe, signing off on the deaths of thousands of POWs and civilians, and turning blind eyes to massacres and ethnic cleansing taking place in their area of operation. Veritable choir boys material.
Prior to WW2 Stalin murdered 35000 senior Red Army Officers hence the young age of wartime Soviet Marshalls.
In the USA, any officer ranked higher than O-10 does not retire, they are simply not assigned duties. Therefore, Eisenhower did not retire in 1962, he did not retire at all. Eisenhower's commission, rank, and seniority had just been restored in 1961, so retiring a year later would have been an insult to the Army, Congress, and President Kennedy.
Good history Channel
What happened to Douglas McArthur????
Sadly he kept telling the world how wonderful he was and then tried to start WW3 by openly talking about making the Korean war fully worldwide by nuking China. How the US awarded him the MoH is beyond me.
@@dave1234aust show us documents that Mac arthur was kept telling how wonderful he was.
Bernard Law Montgomery was born in Ireland ; which makes him Irish -- not English.
You seem to forget that the Soviet Union had the biggest number of generals that were killed IN COMBAT.
General Triantafyllov in the defence of Moscow in 1941, General Federenko in Ukraine in 1944 and many others.
No problem with the great video or content. May want to consider eliminating "finally", simply indicating that the individual died or passed away on this date. Narragansett Bay
Field Marshal Montgomery had a physical toughness about him that was once described as a hank of compressed steel as well as being described as unbeatable and unbearable.
Zhukov was my favourite.
A cold blooded murder.
Most German generals and soldiers fulfilled their duty for their fatherland honorable. And most German generals were much better and more successful army leaders than most of the Allied generals with the exception of Patton. They definitely didn’t deserve such humiliating treatment.
Sad but true
Time for you to start reading some history books boy.
@@cfox7811 that you should. Good morning and great day to you all!
You are TOTALLY biased, and tunnel visioned.
Patton wasn't in the same league as Guderian, Rommel, Hoth and the list goes on, he was a bit or a lot lower depending on the German commander in comparision. However, Patton was some what a German in heart so I would put him in the Axis camp. He spoke German fluently, was assassinated after the war for telling his own truth out loud and finally he always sympthized with the Germans and even wanted to attack the Soivets in 1945.
So many missed. Marshal, MacArthur, Arnold, Bradley....
I see Adrien Brody is a time traveler 🤔(8:12)
Title is misleading as this only covers European theatre…no mention of MacArthur or Bradley who were both senior to Patton.
Senior and incompetent. This video is about able commanders, it's a shame that Admiral Karl Donitz wasn't mentioned since he was more dangerous than all the commanders in this video. Also, general Vatutin was some what a medium skilled Soviet officer who deserves a slot in this video.
@@Kammler262 Macarthur senior and incompetent? Stupid fool. He is America's caesar. He retired but recalled to lead the allies in Pacific war. His war is different from European war because the allies must leap-frog from island to island instead of by land. There could be no North Korea had they allow macarthur's plan to cross the yalu river to china and finish the communist problem which up to now is the problem of the free world.
Please note that This video tells us about great generals Mac Arthur is not one of them
Guderian
A bit easier to win battles with massive resources.
Quantity succeeded over quality
@@peterhaller1179 The Seelow heights battles were simply wave after wave of forces sent in to be mown down. I could have done that ffs.
This debate is interesting. Nobody ever complained when Germany used her massive and over-whelming population, industrial and military advantage to crush much weaker opponents. Do you think Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, Yugoslavia and Greece had the resources to fight evenly? But when Germany found itself on the other side of the same gun (against USA) everyone screams and shouts Foul.
@@kereckelizabeth3625 Yes. They had more of everything. Holland had nuclear missiles.
@@kereckelizabeth3625 Idiotic comment. The Germans didn't have fun times capturing those countries. However, they attacked those countries plus France and England and the rest of the planet at the same time aided by the worthless Italians. The Germans managed to hold on for almost 3 years with nothing fighting against endless masses from Asia and North America combined with defeated armies from France and Poland. German defeat was more glorious than the Allied pyrrhic victory.
Arguably the best General in the war was Field Marshall Rommel. He was one of the most famous Generals of WW2!!! He is a hero in two ways. He was a hero of the German military for his brilliance and success. He is also a hero because of his siding with the German people and humanity as he was involved in at least one of the attempts to kill Hitler. Those who tried to stop Hitler are are the biggest heroes of Germany.
Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz was one of the most famous officers in Nazi Germany. How was he left out? He was more famous than any of the German Field Marshals on your list.
General Omar Bradley was an excellent officer but is he the most famous? Famous would have to be by country right? The thought being that in the US we probably know none of the Soviet officers but that shouldn't disqualify them. How did you measure if Bradley belonged? Why not Admiral Nimitz? Douglas MacArthur? Did you mention Marshal Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto? With the possible exception of General Bradley, all of the ones above make more sense than what you used.
No opinion on the Soviet officers at all. Select General Tomoyuki Yamashita and Yamamoto for Japan & whosoever else you want.
Honestly I have tried but I don't understand the standards used to select the people you chose.
Monty was a danger to the allies
Supreme allied commander Douglas macarthur died in April of 1964. Omar Bradly general of the army died in 1981.
Patton. His premature death was a political relief to those in the West, Along with The Russians.
But isn't it strange that most of these Generals all had those in Power worried. Hmmmm,
Just like Caesar.
you are only talking about the European part,
world war II actually also covered Eastern Asia and Pacific theaters.
very curious why you ignore ?
No man wait
I have a great “what if” scenario. In March 1945, Stalin dies, not Rosevelt. Who replaces him and how does the post war politics change?
Beria ?
One of the reasons in age gap between the German Generals and Soviet Generals is because so many were purged and executed during the Great Terror. Very few if any of Soviet Generals were officers in Great war or Russian Civil war.
Could you let me know why you didn't include General Douglas MacArthur?.. You, War Academy, maybe you are HATED to 5 Star General Douglas MacArthur
A good dose of benign fluff..... Omar Bradley......
Truly shameful that those great German army leaders were treated like petty criminals. They did nothing else than fulfilling their duty as soldiers.
Many of them were criminals who commited war crimes. Their duty was also to uphold the Geneva convention which they did not.
You're right, a petty criminal doesn't massacre women and children for racial purification. That's the act of a full blown criminal.
Some of us would argue they WERE war criminals.
@@kereckelizabeth3625 some people also still argue that the earth is flat….
@@cfox7811 More like the Geneva Suggestions
A real shame how the German generals were treated by the Allies after the war 👎
Treated like war criminals ,liked they deserved to be .
Yes really shameful
That's what happens when you are loser it's a cold world we living in
All thanks to the spiteful yanks.
MacArthur undoudtedly deserves a lot more respect and recognition.
His crowning achievement is how he managed the Occupation of Japan, which pretty much reinvented the country. It's something that almost never gets noticed much. I don't think that there is anybody that has that on there resume.
Het can you at least have the death year date match what you are saying,
um Omar N. Bradley 04/08/1981
Manstein was the most prominent of all. then follows Jukov, the opponent of Stalin. :)
You didn't give exact reason of old age deaths. That don't do.
Why French not included?? General L'clerc
Don't forget "Le Général" De Gaulle. Became president of France. Kept the British out of the EEC (EU) twice.
Not sure I agree with the list, there was an air war too.
Manstein was working in the ministry of west gemany after the war
Gyooderian 😮
What caused the death of Eisenhower?
Gen Omar Bradley you omitted....
It will always be a secret about How Patton Died,,,,,
MacArthur????
If only Stalin allowed Zukhov, Konev and Rokosovsky to progress the USSR would be better
Is it an assumption, or even a false assumption to believe that life is linear? After all, we count the years from 1 to 2023, we count our ages from 1 to 79 or so. And after all, we can see with our own eyes that a human being from the time an individual is born, the person grows, ages , and becomes old. Thus, life seems linear. So what happens to people, and in this case, these generals, who lived to 60, or 70. Or 80? Their lives were linear ? Or is life cyclical ? After all, the earth rotates , and rotates around the sun. But shouldn't time be measured cyclical ly ?
Von Manstein and Patton. One for defense and the other for attack.
You would be surprised how many died in accidents on the us side
By far the best general of WWII was Erich von Manstein
General Motors is still going strong!
Decent video, but the announcer desperately needs to learn how to pronounce these peoples' names.
It's text to speech
I protest against including Montgomery in the list of great soldiers. He just doesnt belong here.
Care to detail why?
Wtf no Karl doniz
Manstein :)
Most of the Soviet Officers fell to Stalin's purges before WW2 even started. That is why the average age of their generals was 44 y.o..
judging the most influential,, rather the most effective od these was zhukov,,fought for and defend himself against the devil at his back waiting to eat him live, stalin,and the devil to his front,,hitlers armies,the greates t of physical and mental strength was necessary to accomplish this
General tchouïkov
General vatoutine
General rommel
General student
General mess of things.
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your title should be changed to World War II "European Theater",
because you mentioned no one in other theaters.
Poorly written, flatly narrated.
Your caption machine needs some urgent repair
no mention of Donitz , the highest rank ( Fuhrer ) and the longest lived
not a general.
@@cfox7811 Admiral is the navy rank of General.
The moral of the video is, winner or looser, everbody is the looser of this life. So no need to kill each other and turn the world into a hell.
God forgive us.