The Crushing Defeat of the German Center and North Army Group in 1944 | Complete series

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  • How was the Soviet offensive that completely destroyed the German Center Army Group in the summer of 1944? Why was it so effective and forceful? How did the Germans react? Did Walter Model have something to do with it? What happened to the German armored reserves? How did the 1944 Minsk battle unfold? What happened to Army Group North trapped in Courland? Later in this program, we are going to analyze all these events, and we are going to get a good idea of what happened in the summer of 1944 on the eastern front...
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    9:30 Counter-offensive in Warsaw
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  • @diedertspijkerboer
    @diedertspijkerboer 12 днів тому +6

    Rokossovski was probably the most undervalued Soviet general. He might have been a much better supreme commander than Zhukov who, in my view, was much more a meat grinder style strategist with less imagination.

    • @wackadakka3134
      @wackadakka3134 4 дні тому

      and all after being arrested and tortured by the NKVD for months

  • @saradolphin3242
    @saradolphin3242 6 місяців тому +18

    Thanks for a Full Description of Army Group Centers Collapse!

  • @PeterSodhi
    @PeterSodhi 6 місяців тому +36

    The single greatest offensive in WWII ... Hollywood never heard of it

    • @peterlynchchannel
      @peterlynchchannel 6 місяців тому +15

      They're too busy making endless portrayals of the first day of Overlord.

    • @Crashed131963
      @Crashed131963 6 місяців тому +11

      Bagration was was 2 weeks after D-Day and larger in scale yet many never heard of it .

    • @joeywheelerii9136
      @joeywheelerii9136 5 місяців тому +8

      Not America's jobs to make movies portraying Russian perspective.

    • @annoyingbstard9407
      @annoyingbstard9407 5 місяців тому +6

      Hollywood is on the other side of the globe.

    • @AquaTeenHungerForce_4_Life
      @AquaTeenHungerForce_4_Life 2 місяці тому +1

      Where is Hollywood Russia? I have never heard of it.
      You want a Ruskie propaganda film? Ask Republicans to make one for you.

  • @JGD185
    @JGD185 6 місяців тому +32

    Bagration was Barbarossa in reverse

    • @ScottHendrix-yz3du
      @ScottHendrix-yz3du 17 днів тому +1

      Not even close!!!
      Operation Barbarossa was absolutely huge and covered way way more land while Russia had massive amounts of help from the allies in the west.

    • @1RadicalDreamer
      @1RadicalDreamer 13 днів тому +2

      @@ScottHendrix-yz3duit was. inform yourselves.

    • @ScottHendrix-yz3du
      @ScottHendrix-yz3du 13 днів тому +1

      @@1RadicalDreamer I'm a ww 2 Historian with 40 years of dedicated studies and I specialize on the Eastern front.
      Operation BARBAROSSA covered the entire eastern Europe and western front while operation bagration was a small area and a small amount of soldiers compared.
      The allies had already destroyed most of the kregmarines, the luftwaffa, the German economy and 90 PERCENT of Germanys oil at this point.
      The US ended up taking down almost 5 million German soldiers and 20,000 anti tank weapons were pulled from Russia and sent back to Germany to fight allied bombings.
      Before bagration millions of soldiers had been pulled off the eastern front especially off of the central line and sent back to try to stop allied advancement.

    • @georgewashington6497
      @georgewashington6497 4 дні тому

      @@ScottHendrix-yz3du "US ended up taking down almost 5 million German soldiers".
      The whole Operation Barbarossa had 3.8 million people on German side. It was the largest invasion in the history. I guess your history books didn't teach you about mathematics.

  • @AtlasAugustus
    @AtlasAugustus 6 місяців тому +20

    I love the longer videos. This is comfort content.

  • @robertkubicki126
    @robertkubicki126 5 місяців тому +15

    I could watch videos like this all day long. Very informative.

    • @timrutkevich3222
      @timrutkevich3222 16 днів тому

      The narrator can not pronounce any word properly

    • @jimtennison1
      @jimtennison1 11 днів тому

      ​@@timrutkevich3222 Me too. Very interesting.

  • @pathogab3528
    @pathogab3528 6 місяців тому +19

    This was an excellent and well researched vid.

  • @andrewmarino5441
    @andrewmarino5441 5 місяців тому +33

    Army Group North held out longer than every army group and was the one army group that was never completly destroyed by a Soviet offensive until it surrendered in Courland

    • @roccozocco9630
      @roccozocco9630 5 місяців тому +8

      It is Ironic that the most neglected army group held out the longest. They really must have learned to turn shit upside down and made the best of it.

    • @greenkoopa
      @greenkoopa 5 місяців тому

      They hit all their strategic targets too, neither of the others did
      I can't watch this garbage content dude can't even narrate himself

    • @annoyingbstard9407
      @annoyingbstard9407 5 місяців тому +2

      They surrendered isn’t actually proof of their superiority you know?

    • @marco26gdm
      @marco26gdm 5 місяців тому +4

      Army group north has witnessed the least fighting of all eastern front units hence they still had many highly experienced soldiers and good organization. They held out for so long because they were good, but a main reason was that they were sidelined for the battle of Germany anyways, so there was no strategic intent for the soviets to force their destruction.

    • @user-gg9hg8go6j
      @user-gg9hg8go6j Місяць тому +1

      Курляндская группировка была окружена. Целью Красной Армии было освобождение Европы и добивание фашистского зверя в его логове. На Курлянлскую групировку не было смысла тратить силы.

  • @designlife4living547
    @designlife4living547 5 місяців тому +9

    Great presentation. The battle for Cortland turned out to be non strategic in nature, just a battle of attrition. It had no impact on the war other than delaying ALLIED VICTORY.

    • @marco26gdm
      @marco26gdm 5 місяців тому

      The battle of Courland had the strategic means of keeping army group north away from the defense of the Reich, had the Germans managed to evacuate AG northin a good order, these troops might’ve delayed allied victory by a few days or even weeks.

  • @johnj1842
    @johnj1842 4 дні тому

    My father was there! 3rd Panzer Group Army Group Center. He was folded into the battle for Minsk. Barely escaped and headed West hoping to get captured by Allies...NOT Russians. Im here because he was able to escape. What a horrible time in our humanity

  • @permaculturaextremadura
    @permaculturaextremadura 5 місяців тому +5

    The reality of Army Group North was the impossibility of withdrawing such a big army. In fact the withdrawal was constant by ship and more than 200.000 was sendt to Germany but there was not enought ships to return all troops to the mainland.

  • @Ettrick8
    @Ettrick8 2 місяці тому

    An excellent and highlt informative video. Thanks for posting it and I've now subscribed to your channel.

  • @liamodhomnallain4326
    @liamodhomnallain4326 6 місяців тому +6

    Awesome content and insights!!

    • @tomortale2333
      @tomortale2333 3 місяці тому

      wermack bearmark shermark lemarchk...really?

  • @Theearthtraveler
    @Theearthtraveler 6 місяців тому +4

    Great explanation!

  • @657449
    @657449 5 місяців тому +3

    Another great video.

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 6 місяців тому +8

    It was the best ..military counter offensives launched by Walter model..thank you war academy channel for sharing it

    • @jackjohnsen8506
      @jackjohnsen8506 5 місяців тому

      so you think Model was a Hero?...LMFAO

    • @leonardopicconi781
      @leonardopicconi781 4 місяці тому

      ​@jackjohnsen8506 well, he was, for Germany. Tojo is a Japanese hero, and an horrible nightmare for Russian history. So yeah, if you consider the German perspective Model, Hitler's firefighter, was a war hero. I mean, MacArthur had the most of his Japanese POW killed 'cause "they slowed the advance". Same for Patton in Sicily, for example. And many people consider them war heroes nonetheless

  • @dougjamesvandals
    @dougjamesvandals 5 місяців тому +7

    Originally the generals wanted to use 3 army groups to attack Moscow...Hitler split them up into 3 separate targets ... He sealed his own fate

    • @yangho8
      @yangho8 5 місяців тому +5

      Nah hitler learnt from napoleon campaign. Napoleon focus to moscow and leave russian armies at urk and baltic complely destroyed the Grand army. At the 1942 campaign, hitler now focus single target: baku oilfields, but german stucked deep inside and destruction of the 6th army. In any case, russia too big and deep both napoleon and hilter didnt prepare enough to fully defeat it.

    • @jackjohnsen8506
      @jackjohnsen8506 5 місяців тому

      HITLER SEALED HIS OWN , AND GERMANYS FATE, WHEN HE DIDN'T TAKE ON THE BRITISH, AND LEFT A PLACE TO INVADE THE FRENCH COAST, LATER IN THE WAR....among many other mistakes like declairing war on the Nation that Defeated Him...The USA.....

    • @shauntaylor6040
      @shauntaylor6040 5 місяців тому +7

      Capturing Moscow not relevant that was the lesson of Napoleon.

    • @lucianraphael9527
      @lucianraphael9527 5 місяців тому +1

      Look at the exposed and extended flanks of army group Center before army group Center and south took Kiev. A 3 army group advance towards moscow would’ve concluded in some or all of the 3 army groups being cut off by a soviet thrust from northwestern Russia and Ukraine

    • @yangho8
      @yangho8 5 місяців тому +1

      btw the fact that originally german broke into moscow and move slowly at flanks. but the battle of brody the southwestern front massed 2500 tanks counterattack almost wipe the german 1st tank group (750 tanks). kv1 kv2 proved invincible vs german lighter tanks. only dive bombers rescued the german in the time. soviet loss all tanks in the battle but german now stop attacked moscow and swing tank group south to encircled the se front at kiev.

  • @Wo1fLarsen
    @Wo1fLarsen 6 місяців тому +10

    Good presentation. A skilled, human narrator would have really brought it to life. Probably not cost effective though.

    • @bigmandrel
      @bigmandrel 5 місяців тому

      Right. You should hear how the Japanese pronounce Vivaldi!

    • @godgunsandgoldens
      @godgunsandgoldens 5 місяців тому +4

      Yes, the pronunciation of General Model was laughable.

  • @emanueleabrami8355
    @emanueleabrami8355 3 місяці тому +15

    Can we have real humans instead of machines please?

  • @JoeHinojosa-ph8yw
    @JoeHinojosa-ph8yw 9 днів тому +1

    Soviets learned Blitzkrieg from the BEST teachers, Der Wehrmacht.

  • @excod43
    @excod43 5 місяців тому +19

    The war would have dragged another 3 months longer if Army Groups North and Center were evacuated to the Vistula in Sep. 1944

    • @unknownunknown2654
      @unknownunknown2654 21 день тому

      How can you evacuate when you were surrounded? Lmaoooo

  • @rafaelmartinezmartinez2089
    @rafaelmartinezmartinez2089 6 місяців тому +5

    Excelente canal

  • @antoniasorianoperez2746
    @antoniasorianoperez2746 6 місяців тому +3

    Good history Channel

  • @user-ih1mo8vv7o
    @user-ih1mo8vv7o 5 місяців тому +1

    Excellent video

  • @jokesonyou1373
    @jokesonyou1373 3 місяці тому

    Really good doc. 🙂

  • @TheAmerican1963
    @TheAmerican1963 12 днів тому +2

    Great video ............. ditch the "AI" narration ...........

  • @samlazar1053
    @samlazar1053 27 днів тому +2

    Just remember in 1944 Germany ocupied most of Europe and had all of Europe working for its war.
    It also had 2 milion foreign tropps in its armies.
    This things often get overlookee
    Every 4th soldier in the Wehrmacht was not even a German.
    And the Germans only caunted German casualties

  • @southwestsideandy
    @southwestsideandy 5 місяців тому

    Outstanding description of operation bagration

  • @jamshediqbalrana416
    @jamshediqbalrana416 16 днів тому +1

    You may claim that Germans won the war, Hitlor was throned as emperor of England and they lived a happy life for all times to come.

  • @joeywheelerii9136
    @joeywheelerii9136 5 місяців тому +7

    The Germans really could have used their forces stuck in Normandy. The germans had less than 100 fighter planes defending army group center June 22nd. Also most of the German armor on the Eastern front was south where the Germans expected the main thrust of summer 44 to be.

    • @user-gg9hg8go6j
      @user-gg9hg8go6j Місяць тому

      Так им и надо!

    • @ScottHendrix-yz3du
      @ScottHendrix-yz3du 17 днів тому

      Hitler had 400,000 soldiers just sitting in Norway when Berlin was invaded.
      The US took down almost 5 million soldiers and most were in northern Italy and southern Europe.

    • @MagMar-kv9ne
      @MagMar-kv9ne 15 днів тому

      @@ScottHendrix-yz3du those 400 000 soldiers were NOT prime material. Think of older guys, mainly infantry, very few tanks and very few airplanes. It is not just how many men you have, it is very important how old they are and what their function is.

    • @ScottHendrix-yz3du
      @ScottHendrix-yz3du 15 днів тому +1

      @@MagMar-kv9ne most were of prime fighting age they just didn't have weapons and most of all fuel to move tanks and armored vehicles.
      The luftwaffa and kregmarine had hundreds of thousands of prime age men sent to fight in the front because they have no aviation fuel and the resources to keep them going.
      Hitler often sent his best SS units as well as his most trained soldiers to the west because he was convinced the west had the better soldiers and he refused to believe Russia could keep producing so many people. He never knew about Americas Germany first policy and was not convinced the US could produce so much war material so fast.
      The entire out of soldiers nonsense is a myth. Why you think that is because Berlin got cut off and the old men and boys in that region were rounded up and used as soldiers.
      Scattered across northern Italy and southern Europe as well as northern, central and south Germany, islands across around Europe, Norway and northern Europe had large formations of German soldiers trapped and unable to get to Berlin.

  • @luxbeci2
    @luxbeci2 5 місяців тому +3

    My grandfsthed died Stalingrad Don river 1943

  • @xXMisultinousXx
    @xXMisultinousXx 5 місяців тому +1

    Excuse me, is that Empire Earth music? Lol. Best game ever.

  • @agustinjr.iragana5443
    @agustinjr.iragana5443 6 місяців тому +9

    You forgot that russia wouldnt allow the allies to use russian airfields so that they assist the polish uprising

    • @annoyingbstard9407
      @annoyingbstard9407 5 місяців тому +1

      The allies were regularly using Soviet airfields. What are you talking about?

  • @asullivan4047
    @asullivan4047 21 день тому

    Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job along with detailed maps. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. The Ruskies could afford quadruple the casualties then the Germans could.😉. After Stalingrad the Ruskies had total control of the different battle fields.

  • @pedrokarstguimaraes1096
    @pedrokarstguimaraes1096 6 місяців тому +12

    It’s the first time I see someone explaining that russian hight comand had an inteligent strategy… yes, they knew how the enemy would think, and were hable to defeat him. They were not so bad as it always seam. Even so, russian hight command was responsible for terrible russian soldiers dearh… 🙄

    • @Crashed131963
      @Crashed131963 6 місяців тому

      Not often the winning side loses more soldiers than the losing side in a war.
      Russia were brave fighters not smart fighters .

    • @user-hp8yh4xu6n
      @user-hp8yh4xu6n Місяць тому

      What are you talking about? This is Western propaganda. The USSR won the war.

    • @user-gg9hg8go6j
      @user-gg9hg8go6j Місяць тому

      Вам в головы вливали враньё всё время. Русские солдаты видя то что сотворили ваши не ужасные солдаты на своей Родине слишком гуманно обошлись с вами. А Советское командование научилось бить фашисткие.

  • @roderernst9990
    @roderernst9990 5 місяців тому

    This was Arranged and timed to coincide with D Day !

  • @736693
    @736693 3 місяці тому +1

    What if East Prussia & Pomerania East of the Oder River had been evacuated in 1944 prior to the January 1945 East Prussian Offensive?

  • @user-gg9hg8go6j
    @user-gg9hg8go6j Місяць тому +4

    Слава Советскому солдату освободителю!!! Слава товарищу Сталину!!!

  • @melgross
    @melgross Місяць тому

    The problem for Germany (and its allies, while they lasted) and why keeping those various pockets, rather than have those troops retreat, didn’t result in hindering the Soviets much, or the allies in the west when it was done there, was that the Soviets and western allies had so many more troops and armor that they could assault these pockets and continue their advances everywhere else at the same time. If the sides had been more equal, then that might have worked and their enemies would have been significantly slowed down, giving the Axis more time to bring up reserves and build more armor. But Hitler didn’t understand the difference in proportion between the Axis and the Allies.

  • @joechang8696
    @joechang8696 3 місяці тому +1

    The real value of US and British strategic bombing was all the aircraft and AA guns, which were good anti- tank capable, away from the eastern front

  • @stevenconnolly7907
    @stevenconnolly7907 5 місяців тому +1

    A missing piece in this discussion is Finland. Had army group Courland not remained in their positions. Finland might have been invaded and occupied instead of an armstace. 🗻

    • @normienatoraccelerator6512
      @normienatoraccelerator6512 2 місяці тому

      Finland was never occupied thanks to themselves, they kocked the germans out of their country themselves

  • @nadinehawkins6420
    @nadinehawkins6420 5 місяців тому

    Why did you slow the voice down at 18.15?

    • @Bob-gm1zq
      @Bob-gm1zq 18 днів тому

      It was a splice to an older video

  • @stevenconnolly7907
    @stevenconnolly7907 5 місяців тому +8

    In his memoirs Field Marshall Manstein states that it would have been possible to stalemate Russia by conducting a fighting withdrawal of all German army groups. 🦅

    • @StandaBlabol
      @StandaBlabol 5 місяців тому

      Mamnstein states a lot of b-shit.
      See channel tik-history here in youtube, most on Manstein memories are "colored" to avoid blame on himself...

    • @ivanlazarevic78
      @ivanlazarevic78 5 місяців тому +7

      It is easy in memoirs but in reality they would have been crushed no matter what they did.

    • @daveedesanta6318
      @daveedesanta6318 5 місяців тому +4

      Absolutely.
      Fighting Withdrawal, and Elastic Defense.
      Hitler's Stand and Fight order was what destroyed the Wehrmacht

    • @TheDavidlloydjones
      @TheDavidlloydjones 5 місяців тому

      @@daveedesanta6318
      No, Dave. Russian infantry and the democracies' vicious bombing are what destroyed the Wehrmacht.
      The nonsense you are repeating is typical of the fantasies the Germans told themselves for the sake of their own long-gone pride.

    • @jackjohnsen8506
      @jackjohnsen8506 5 місяців тому

      and you actually belive that BS?... ill bet you have lots of NaZI fLAGS IN THE bASEMENT...

  • @pijushguha3008
    @pijushguha3008 6 місяців тому

    I think soviet army try to continue kurland offence to engage german army and supply at very crucial moment and can able to mobilize their offensive in main front.

  • @shawnastephens1536
    @shawnastephens1536 2 місяці тому +2

    I love these videos. I felt sorry for the average German soldier. They were just thrown away like garbage by Hitler.

    • @user-gg9hg8go6j
      @user-gg9hg8go6j Місяць тому +1

      Странно вы всё желаете фашистких солдат? У которых руки по локоть в крови.

  • @jeffersonkee6440
    @jeffersonkee6440 6 місяців тому +1

    I wish the AI voice would pronounce German names and words more correctly. Overall though, a good video.

  • @user-rc2yo1dt5v
    @user-rc2yo1dt5v 3 місяці тому +1

    2:20 Sounds like NATO in Ukraine 🤫

  • @GeneralGayJay
    @GeneralGayJay 5 місяців тому +2

    What did they continue to fight if it was pointless..

    • @marco26gdm
      @marco26gdm 5 місяців тому +4

      A very complicated question you could hold a lecture about…

    • @stevenpace892
      @stevenpace892 16 днів тому

      Nazism was a belief in victory and invincibility. And any hint of defeatism was harshly punished.

    • @berlinkozyreva
      @berlinkozyreva 15 днів тому

      Because they thought could eventually win.
      After Dunkirk with France out of the fight Britisj kept fighting
      Soviets had Germans advancing on Moscow why didn't Stalin surrender?
      Because despite losing at the time they all thought they could eventually win

    • @GeneralGayJay
      @GeneralGayJay 15 днів тому

      @@berlinkozyreva yes but the situation with germany was different. They were cornered and didn’t have anywhere to go.

    • @berlinkozyreva
      @berlinkozyreva 15 днів тому

      @@GeneralGayJay no it wasn't. Britain was cornered and no where to go they still fault.
      The Soviets if anything had no where to go as well with Stalins no step back policy
      Besides Germans thought they were winning remember it was only late in the war that the battles were actually fought in Germany.
      Besides Germans kept getting hope on new equipment being constantly produced and the wonder weapons on the way.
      And finally no one wanted to surrender to Stalin. They all new how they would be treated as POW worse they didn't want USSR to conquer Germany. They knew how their families would be treated.
      There were a million rapes of women in Berlin in first 24 hours after it fell.

  • @michaelram3411
    @michaelram3411 6 місяців тому +7

    If it hadn't been for Britain and Usa,the reds would have suffered disastrous defeats in Moscow and St@lingrad

    • @stironeceno
      @stironeceno 6 місяців тому +5

      hahahahaha

    • @michaelram3411
      @michaelram3411 6 місяців тому

      @@stironeceno what do you mean?

    • @NikhilSingh-007
      @NikhilSingh-007 6 місяців тому +8

      You're delusional, Michael.

    • @Ukraineaissance2014
      @Ukraineaissance2014 6 місяців тому +2

      ​@@NikhilSingh-00730% of soviet equipment came from the western allies in 1942

    • @NikhilSingh-007
      @NikhilSingh-007 6 місяців тому

      @@Ukraineaissance2014, care to provide a source?

  • @rankoorovic7904
    @rankoorovic7904 18 днів тому

    Probably the most successful operation of the war naturally nobody knows about it.Also not known that it was coordinated with Overlord

  • @CHEGTO
    @CHEGTO 26 днів тому

    The Wehrmacht had about 400,000 personnel stationed in Norway during 1944 - 45 I wonder if them and there equipment could have made any difference in what was happening on all front’s . I mean south west and east not to mention all that had been lost in Africa Italy courland

  • @samlazar1053
    @samlazar1053 6 місяців тому +1

    Finaly casualties. The way the germans caunted their casualties is somewhat misleading. They caunted german loses but didnt include their allies. Every 4th soldier in the wehrmacht was not even a German, the Russsians caunted all russians and non russians alike

  • @69beratis4
    @69beratis4 4 місяці тому

    They tied up significant Russian forces in the North that would otherwise have been used in their push to the west, so I’m not sure what advantage there would have been to their being evacuated and redeployed.

  • @bigal7375
    @bigal7375 6 місяців тому

    Fantastic video. By the way..what is the background music that you use in your videos?

  • @penitent2401
    @penitent2401 5 місяців тому +1

    The W is pronounce like a V in german

  • @stevengirouard6840
    @stevengirouard6840 3 місяці тому

    Remember.. lennongrad is stallingrad...
    Ai ..... very deceiving

  • @chrisf8855
    @chrisf8855 6 місяців тому +2

    Good video but terrible pronunciation of German.

  • @kws1957
    @kws1957 16 днів тому

    Wars will definitely destroy humanity and now with nukes it will be much faster because mankind has developed nukes.

  • @stevengirouard6840
    @stevengirouard6840 3 місяці тому

    I stand corrected stallingrad became volgograd...
    Ai still deceiving😂

  • @amodpataskar5673
    @amodpataskar5673 Місяць тому

    Wonder why some general never thought of pulling out of Norway, with the European main land in this could have made some change

  • @ewki2962
    @ewki2962 6 місяців тому +1

    Informative video, thanks (AI pronouncing [bagraʃn] was fun)

  • @Fre3domAction
    @Fre3domAction 6 місяців тому +54

    Model was the very man you could count on in the darkest hours! Rzhev, Arnhem, Smolensk and even in Ardennes Offensive he was really loyal to his Commander in Chief yet had the courage and foresight to do what's right, faced with stupid "not a step back" orders. And he was so patriotic and responsible he couldn't imagine giving himself up to the allies while many under his command had fallen! RIP Marshal Model❤❤💯💔

    • @daleburrell6273
      @daleburrell6273 6 місяців тому

      ...AND LET'S REMEMBER THAT MODEL WAS SERVING AN EVIL REGIME, AND IN THE PROCESS, MODEL WAS AT LEAST INDIRECTLY FACILITATING WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE NAZI DEATH CAMPS!!!

    • @Kammler262
      @Kammler262 6 місяців тому +16

      @@rigasarzemnieks4230 Two uneducated men. Model was a total disaster, his victories at Rhzev were'nt his, he had the best panzer divisions at his disposal whereas Paulus had fewer, hence why Paulus could'nt protect his flanks properly while Model could, because Model had more Panzer divisions in 1942. Model was a total disaster in 1943 during operation Cidatel, he convinced Hitler to postponed the attack over and over again when Manstein wanted to attack as soon as possible. In 1944 Model was the brains behind the disaster of army group center, he urged Hitler to send all Panzer divisions to army group North Ukraine because he anticipated the next Soviet attack to occur there, of course when the Germans realized that the real attack was coming from Minsk it was too late and Army group Center and North were doomed. Model failed to carry out successful counter attacks in Holland after Monty failed operation Market Garden losing many needed Panther tanks and special Luftwaffe forces in the proccess.
      So many uneducated people worshiping Model for reasons that can be summed as, poor insights, education and lack of knowledge about who'se responsible for failed decisions that were made from 1943 and onwards. Model was never at the same level as Manstein or Even Rommel. Just an overhyped overrated dude.

    • @nandinibagai7636
      @nandinibagai7636 6 місяців тому

      He was a criminal at @ treatment of civilians on the eastern front.! The clean Wehrmacht myth lives on!

    • @oceanhome2023
      @oceanhome2023 6 місяців тому +4

      Model was the best because he looked OG with the Monocle !
      You got to have the Monocle !!

    • @Demun1649
      @Demun1649 6 місяців тому

      What does Freedom Action mean?

  • @ruadhagainagaidheal9398
    @ruadhagainagaidheal9398 5 місяців тому

    I think you are confusing, as so many people do, the Wehrmacht with the Heer. The Wehrmacht encompassed all of Nazi Germany’s armed forces, The Kriegsmarine, Heer and Luftwaffe. I might be wrong, but doubt the Kriegsmarine had much of a role in Army groups Centre and North.

  • @andreasvonderweiden1912
    @andreasvonderweiden1912 25 днів тому

    Is it posssible to offer the borders of 1918 in your good presentation? It looks very cazy to see the russian front of 1944 threatens the Oblast of Kaliningrad the northern part of our old east prussia...in spite of the former german east borderlines...by this way a question to all west Allies; Was it an good idea to support the russian occupation of east prussia instead of give this ares to poland or Luthenia...SUWALKI Problem...as a child of 7 years in 1970 I saw that this will bring problems in the future...

  • @garyyarago2096
    @garyyarago2096 18 днів тому

    Your simulated "human" with the robot voice creeps me out,Why bother? Otherwise superior production.

  • @josephlininger2677
    @josephlininger2677 5 місяців тому +1

    Good call and Stalin tried to say they were over stretched, ha , ha. Let none of us forget the poor poles, when i feel down i think if them and what those poor souls went through. Uncle joe was in reality a beast who no one forget our trucks saved the red army and our tanks and canned food was never paid back.

  • @Demun1649
    @Demun1649 6 місяців тому +2

    Model is pronounced "moːdəl", NOT Mo:Dell

    • @davidsabillon5182
      @davidsabillon5182 6 місяців тому

      It's an AI voice. Not bad actually.

    • @Demun1649
      @Demun1649 6 місяців тому +1

      @@davidsabillon5182 How can WRONG, be "not bad, actually"?

  • @greggrace967
    @greggrace967 19 днів тому

    For all that the world knows about Stalin, it's a pretty easy deduction, to be pretty certain he left the Poles asses swinging in the wind. The poor Poles..... they got shafted no matter which way the wind blew. And even worse the Jewish people there, were persecuted and killed long after the war ended. It's terrible what happened to that country.

  • @alexbowman7582
    @alexbowman7582 6 місяців тому +1

    What was the greatest WW2 German defeat? Obviously the 1945 capitulation. But what was the greatest military defeat? 5. Kursk, although not a true defeat Germany used up vast resources which if kept may have blunted Bagration. 4. Stalingrad, a whole German army and months of war production were destroyed but the Kessel bought time to allow a huge German army in the Caucuses to escape through Rostov which presumably Stalin must have been urging his generals to seize and block their easy retreat but by this time he listened. 3. France 44. Where more soldiers and equipment were lost than in Stalingrad. 2. Bagration. Army Group Centre completely destroyed. 1. Barbarossa. The German failure to end the war in 1941 meant the war was ultimately doomed to end in Germany’s defeat. Also Germany lost many soldiers in the battle.

    • @Crashed131963
      @Crashed131963 6 місяців тому

      6) Declaring war on the US.
      A country with 40 million more people and a manufacturing capacity 3X greater than Germany .

    • @alexbowman7582
      @alexbowman7582 6 місяців тому +1

      @@Crashed131963 10x greater

    • @davidsabillon5182
      @davidsabillon5182 6 місяців тому +2

      ​@@Crashed131963you could argue invading the Soviet Union in the first place was the biggest mistake.

    • @andrewmarino5441
      @andrewmarino5441 5 місяців тому

      In terms of numbers I would say Vistula Oder Offensive in Jan 1945. 295,000 were killed and another 200,000 were captured, 4th Panzer was virtually annihilated in the first 2 days of the offensive. The Soviets numerically had there best offensive number wise too only losing 195,000 compared to the Germans who lost 450,000 to 500,000 men

    • @alexbowman7582
      @alexbowman7582 5 місяців тому +1

      @@andrewmarino5441 presumably by that time there were many scratched up groups of old men, boys and stomach divisions.

  • @WarriorSobek
    @WarriorSobek 6 місяців тому

    Hm

  • @jamshediqbalrana416
    @jamshediqbalrana416 7 днів тому

    German absolute leader had never had military training but he became extreme military leader of the German nation. This thing is strange in itself. 95% of fighting force were simple recruits and not regular soldiers. Lightning war was simple surprise attacks and very easy to win. When the counter attacks started, German forces got beaten everywhere and supreme commander hided himself først and then committed suicide as a common and coward thief. He totally lacked the courage of a common soldier to get hold of his rifle and collide with russian soldiers and die in combat.

  • @daveh1869
    @daveh1869 8 днів тому

    His name was Model, with a long o, like bow, not like a model airplane.
    I can’t watch a documentary were the narrator, human or otherwise, cannot pronounce basic words, like Luftwaffe, or the names of the main generals.

  • @jamshediqbalrana416
    @jamshediqbalrana416 4 дні тому

    In one breath German defence is admired as invincible. In the second breath you mention 150000 German soldiers encircled and taken as prisoners. Whats the magiic here?

  • @genekelly8467
    @genekelly8467 6 місяців тому +4

    The Germans fiught tenaciously...but this cost the lives of 860,000 Germans and probably 500,000 Russians..for what?

    • @Rohilla313
      @Rohilla313 6 місяців тому

      Bagration cost the Germans 400,000 casualties and the Russians 700,000.

    • @NikhilSingh-007
      @NikhilSingh-007 6 місяців тому +1

      ​@@Rohilla313Soviet casualties were a bit less than you claim.

    • @daveedesanta6318
      @daveedesanta6318 5 місяців тому

      @@NikhilSingh-007 not really
      Russian Casualties are much higher than their claims. even total war deaths are far higher
      nothing truthful came out of the soviet union. even economic data and the rest are fake and inflated or deflated.
      you probably have not studied Soviet archives adn their contraries and unrealistic values

  • @greenkoopa
    @greenkoopa 5 місяців тому

    You need to read the script yourself, dont use bots it's disrespectful to those that fell in the War

  • @JoeHinojosa-ph8yw
    @JoeHinojosa-ph8yw 9 днів тому

    WO IST STEINER?

  • @ronalddunne3413
    @ronalddunne3413 6 місяців тому +5

    Hitler was a damn fool megalomaniac. "Those who don't learn from history are bound to repeat it". What was he thinking? Germany had no chance of defeating USSR, particularly while fighting Britain AND the USA.. But I state the obvious. Being all for the destruction of the Stalinist bolshevik regime, I am also for victory- or peace until victory is achievable.

    • @King_Stannis_Baratheon
      @King_Stannis_Baratheon 6 місяців тому +2

      You have a child’s view of this war. Reddit history, you think Russia wasn’t going to attack Germany inevitability?

    • @lucianraphael9527
      @lucianraphael9527 5 місяців тому

      @@King_Stannis_BaratheonProbably not.

  • @Unreallarrysniper
    @Unreallarrysniper 3 місяці тому

    Whats a laviv

  • @CRAZYHORSE19682003
    @CRAZYHORSE19682003 5 місяців тому

    It is crazy how shortening the front line as well as shortening the logistical supply lines didn't do much to stop the Soviet onslaught. The was was over in 1942 with the Stalingrad debacle, the Germans just didn't know it yet.

  • @GiovanniGeo
    @GiovanniGeo Місяць тому

    Ba-gra-tee-on

  • @jeffkujawa803
    @jeffkujawa803 18 днів тому +1

    It doesn’t matter which way the wind blows… the terribly ever present AI voiceover that provides the narrative is not only going to be pronouncing the names of the Germans incorrectly but I would like to add -the Russians too ….I know the wind has nothing to do with it …I just thought I’d throw that in

  • @user-wi9rf1zx5b
    @user-wi9rf1zx5b 5 місяців тому +50

    to be remembered that, Germany was fighting in 3 fronts: Africa, west and Russia, and fighting 50 Countries!

    • @TheDavidlloydjones
      @TheDavidlloydjones 5 місяців тому +25

      ...and losing piteously in all three.
      The Allies, by contrast, were fighting on four or five fronts and winning on all of them.
      That may be why God gave you five fingers -- so you don't stop thinking half way through your thought.

    • @lucianraphael9527
      @lucianraphael9527 5 місяців тому

      Germans weren’t in Africa anymore by 1944

    • @chaoscriminal
      @chaoscriminal 5 місяців тому +17

      germany was not fighting alone.. lmaoo. hungary, romania, italy, japan.. spanish volunteers.. various other legions. cmon now, germany was not alone

    • @dave8323
      @dave8323 5 місяців тому +5

      In 1944 it wasn't. And if you're going to suggest they were fighting 50 countries, you should include their allies

    • @luigi-zy3vr
      @luigi-zy3vr 4 місяці тому +4

      Ok. But who told them to do this...twice starting world war for what? The first to smash france and england and the second for hitler's illusion for lebensraum....they lost all of them initials...leningrad, moscow, caucasus oil, sealion and battle of england, el alamein and if france in 1940 had more serious generals they would have lost in france..

  • @geek49203
    @geek49203 5 місяців тому

    So, AI voiceover... and it sounds like the script was written by AI as well? "AI" is simply plagiarism by automation...

  • @andyx2299
    @andyx2299 6 місяців тому

    ERSTER

  • @yarpenzirgin1826
    @yarpenzirgin1826 Місяць тому

    What is wrong with all these people.
    Bagration is pronounced Bagra - tion, with "t" and operation was named after famous Russian general.
    It is not pronounced as it was an English word.

  • @CRAZYHORSE19682003
    @CRAZYHORSE19682003 5 місяців тому +2

    The Soviets proved that if you just throw enough numbers at the enemy subpar troops can overwhelm a smaller number of much better troops.

    • @lucianraphael9527
      @lucianraphael9527 5 місяців тому

      Please explain to me what deep operations theory is.

    • @fforepsnoemis4090
      @fforepsnoemis4090 3 місяці тому

      What are you talking about ?

    • @CRAZYHORSE19682003
      @CRAZYHORSE19682003 3 місяці тому

      @@fforepsnoemis4090 The Soviets simply overwhelmed the Germans with superior numbers. The Germans were better led, they were better soldiers but when you are outnumbered 10-1 better leadership and better soldiers will only get you so far.

    • @user-ic4lr5ir4c
      @user-ic4lr5ir4c 3 місяці тому

      So there were battles when Soviets outnumbered Germans 10 to 1? Kindly name a couple @@CRAZYHORSE19682003

  • @sherlocklucifer1190
    @sherlocklucifer1190 5 місяців тому

    Why you put in the borders of the current german country?

  • @tpl608
    @tpl608 5 місяців тому

    Why the stupid voice changing device?

  • @duniagowes
    @duniagowes 6 місяців тому +2

    What happend to Meinstein?

    • @ArmandoXGG
      @ArmandoXGG 6 місяців тому

      Hitler removed him

    • @NikhilSingh-007
      @NikhilSingh-007 6 місяців тому +4

      Dismissed, but with perks & hefty pension.

    • @duniagowes
      @duniagowes 6 місяців тому

      @@NikhilSingh-007 oh ya, that one! Thanks

    • @NikhilSingh-007
      @NikhilSingh-007 6 місяців тому +3

      @@duniagowes Manstein received the Swords of the Knight's Cross on 30 March 1944 and handed over control of Army Group South to Model on 2 April during a meeting at Hitler's mountain retreat, the Berghof. Model's adjutant, Günther Reichhelm, later described the scene and Manstein's response:
      He must have paid him compliments about his strategic skills during the attack operations, but he also said, "I cannot use you in the South. Field Marshal Model will take over." And Manstein replied, "My Führer ... please believe me when I say I will use all strategic means at my disposal to defend the soil in which my son lies buried."

  • @mralexlex
    @mralexlex 5 місяців тому

    Pronunciation is disastrous as Bagration to Wermacht. Learn to pronaunce foreign names.

  • @paulwiggins183
    @paulwiggins183 15 днів тому

    Please do something about the poor German pronunciation

  • @lucasisz
    @lucasisz Місяць тому

    and you should re-do the audio. Horrible wrong pronounciation of Names and cities

  • @TheDavidlloydjones
    @TheDavidlloydjones 5 місяців тому +1

    General Walter Model ==> moh-DELL', not moddle.
    This is AI speaking -- but with a very low level of intelligence.
    A step the makers need to take soon will be to give the program a memory of the thousand or so modt common oddities of pronunciation. Proper nouns, e.g. famous people's names, are an important part of this long overdue work.
    They are simply not ready to make any videos about WWII until they can get their machinery, their software, to pronounce the words, including names, involved.

    • @TheDavidlloydjones
      @TheDavidlloydjones 5 місяців тому

      Even if they don't have their speaking software working yet, couldn't they at least edit the text for correctness of translation from the writers' original language(s)? Spanish, was it?
      The Russians weren't "hiring" their own soldiers, for instance: they were employing them, though. 🤣😂😉

    • @annoyingbstard9407
      @annoyingbstard9407 5 місяців тому

      It’s not pronounced moh-dell. It’s mowdl. Please don’t overestimate your own intelligence. It makes you look even sillier.

  • @ferminromero2602
    @ferminromero2602 11 днів тому

    AI generated narration and voice. Difficult to listen to.

  • @aron7439
    @aron7439 5 місяців тому

    🪖🇷🇺💯🫡⚓️

  • @stevenwynn7162
    @stevenwynn7162 5 місяців тому

    So Russia actually helped to win WW2?….

  • @Felixmax507
    @Felixmax507 17 днів тому

    Very shallow. There is much better Russian documentary in English. Just type Soviet storm. 18 episodes

  • @AdrienneReneau-ky4sc
    @AdrienneReneau-ky4sc 17 днів тому

    WE ARE USA 🇺🇸

  • @bradisaacson4656
    @bradisaacson4656 12 днів тому

    My only comment is I wish your computer narrator would learn to pronounce German names properly. This thing is sad and laughable 😢🤣

  • @kevinbyrne4538
    @kevinbyrne4538 6 місяців тому +1

    The maps are in Spanish.

    • @waracademy128
      @waracademy128  6 місяців тому +1

      Yes

    • @kevinbyrne4538
      @kevinbyrne4538 6 місяців тому +1

      @@waracademy128 -- That would explain why an "artificial intelligence" voice is narrating the video. (Thank you for your work, sir.)