@@Tamirpop I mean he makes up funny stories that have nothing to do with history. His comments on Stalingrad have been my first exposure to his very uninformed grasp on history.
@@Tamirpop You're listening to a nincompoop. He doesn't have any clue about history and is just retelling the fables that were taught to us. Then he passes them off to you like he's old and wise.
@@The2ndFirst seems that you have a personal problem with the man. Ok so you can present what you know about the "real" history instead of the "fables" as you called them.
I am at the process of listening to your lectures, its hard to stop listening simply because they are great and sincere and entertaining knowledge Thank you
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you for posting your lectures and interviews! You have students all over the world. Thank you for the time you put into your research and thank you for the thinking it clearly takes to pull it all together.
This guy's job is in an Austin TX Junior College, next door to a high end university, after working at Univ. of Maryland. That says Something about what his peirs and superiors think of him.
Professor, please write few books on Middle-East, US Foreign Policy and WWII and all other topics that you are well versed in. I had already purchased your fiction book, just to show my gratitude for all the knowledge that I've gained from your videos (despite I only read non-fiction). I wish I was where you are so I could gatecrash all your lectures. Sincere, heartfelt gratitude Sir!
actually, i heard in one of his lectures that that one isn’t purely fiction. i didn’t read it yet, but maybe dig a little deeper? you’d be surprised ^^. i think the lecture was called “unerasing the erased”.
I’ve been binge watching Dr. Roy’s lectures for three days. I hope the students at Austin College know and appreciate the quality of their education. My community college classes are laughable and embarrassing.
I am from Canada and I would travel to Austin just to get to listen to Dr Casagranda! Does he do speaking engagement? Cause damn he sure makes history lessons so much more substance then other teachers I've heard! I think I've probably listened to every one of his vids! Thank you!
He mentioned the German soldiers were drinking heavily to get through the battle. My father-in-law fought for the Viet Cong for 10 years from 1965 until the end of the American War in 1975. He told me the same thing about that fighting. They drank a lot. He quit drinking after the war and never started again.
Roy turns history into an amazing captivating story with neutral bias. I'm jealous of his students. I'm addicted to his videos, and I'm learning so much history, It's not even funny.
Overall this lecture is pretty fantastic. It is worth noting a few things though, Dr. Casagranda brings up a lot of events regarding the soviets that are only ever mentioned in German war memoirs. The soviet order 227 (not one step back) was directed towards the officer corps, not the average soldier. It is widely regarded as a myth that the soviets shot retreating footsoldiers, the order was used to get rid of the spirit of "we can just keep retreating" that a lot of the officer corps had. The Soviets did have "barrier soldiers" who would stay behind the line and arrest retreating soldiers, but they very rarely shot them and more often than not would just send them back towards the front.
It's not as if we don't have paper trails for such blocking detachments -- imagine a single company of 100 men covering an operational area of several if not 10 km's (I forget the actual prescribed width for these formations). It simply makes no sense to assert that the Soviets had the excess man power to staff hundreds if not thousands of active frontline combat in order to "machine-gun" their own fleeing troops. Sad to see the Dr. repeat such information so assertively
Strange thing - when discussing the Blitzkrieg Dr. Casagranda have not mentioned Poland was half occupied by Germany but the other half by Soviet Union. On 17.Sep.1939 Soviet Union attacked Poland from east and occupied the east half of the country. Actually Poland was occupied by both Germany and Soviet Union and against the popular opinion, technically and factually the Soviet Union stepped in WWII as aggressor.
@@marcusc5170 well 3 out of 4 German soldiers died on eastern front in wwii. the price ussr paid in this war was unbelievable and the suffering of the people was unimaginable. but motivation of Stalin in this war in 1939 was much like the nazi's, i guess.
Thank u Dr. Roy Casangranda yet another interesting lecture. One remark 1:02:10 although the bombing campaign helped the ministry of propaganda and public enlightenment, it is interesting to note in this context that it forced the luftwaffe to recall airplanes from the fronts. This helped the soviet air forces to gain air dominance earlier than they otherwise would have. Flak 88's who were often used in an anti-tank role also had to be recalled from the frontlines, severely reducing anti-tank capabilities of infantry regiments, staffing these anti-air guns also took lot of girlpower. All these elements have let militarian historians to conclude that the bombing raids had a negative overall effect on the capabilities of germany to wage war.
The Germans kept producing more tanks planes and guns year over year through the bombing raids. All we accomplished was the murder of millions of women, children and elderly, refugees. And the destruction of ancient European architecture and artwork. The amount of men we lost, the resources sunk into those missions would have been better spent elsewhere.
@@Noorlatgamer I agree with the sentiment. To clarify, I meant the vast majority of people with Internet access. The ones who don't, cannot enable the channel/content to go viral.
@@rayzimmerman6740 I agree with you completely. People dont have attention span. What I would say though is for while now vines / shorts / tiktok short form videos are the trend. So Austin School could use short videos to link back to longer ones. They could also run short courses with credit for an international audience. You can find ways to market to people even with the constraint of low attention span externality that mobile phones cause.
@@Noorlatgamer I admire your optimism - in as much as you think shorter videos would get engagement. I don't think it would meet with much success, but perhaps it's worth a shot? New York minutes are now New York moments. There are few exceptions that prove the rule. I think one would have to identify those "influencers" who are swimming against the tide, and get them on board to make the content relevant, as opposed to Austin School. The challenge is the appeal and stickability. In an increasingly self obsessed, opinionated, argumentative landscape, where everything is measured in likes, views and subscribers - this type of content doesn't quite fit. Look at our world leaders in the recent past - Bush Junior, Blair, Trump, Boris, Putin, Erdogan, Modi et al. With the exception of Putin, these are democratically elected leaders. To Paraphrase Kaku - its like we're all sitting in a car, driving at a great speed towards a brick wall, and we're arguing whose going to drive. I think George Harrison summed it up in the song "I, me, mine" all those years ago. Broadly speaking, this generation doesn't listen to Albums. I'd wager that by and large, they would have to look up George Harrison. As for smart phones, you know what they say - they're only as smart as the person holding it.
The first president of Algerian, Ahmed Benbella, and one of the leaders of the war of Algerian independence, was a decorated hero of the battle of Monte Casino, and was decorated by General De Gaulle himself. He later said in an interview that companies of 120 men of Algerians would go up to storm German position and less than 20-30 men would come back from the assault. That was the price Algerians paid for the independence of France. The reward was the famous massacres of 8 Mai 1945, on V-day, when Algerian went out to celebrate victory with illegal Algerian flags, and claim the independence that De Gaulle promised them in his Brazzaville speech in Congo in 1942. They massacred over 40 thousand Algerians over a period of three months to "teach" them to accept colonialism. That's France dark past for you.
1:07:30 .. there is some confusion here; there seems to be a proposal that is simultaneously bad for the Germans but also for the Russians, to engage in a battle at Stalingrad. We are to believe that they are both sides making a mistake, and both sides more likely to lose the entire war as a result of the Battle of Stalingrad.
Stalingrad itself wasn't strategically significant. All those deaths were for bragging rights, basically. So it was a stupid reason to fight, for both sides. However, if the Germans had conquered Stalingrad, maybe Hitler would've allowed his soldiers to redeploy and abandon the city. We will never know. So the fact that the Nazis kept throwing soldiers there weakened their fronts, guaranteeing their eventual defeat. If all Hitler cared about was to be able to say "I conquered the city named after Stalin", then holding it would be irrelevant. Stalin had no way to know if that would happen. He only cared about saving face. But maybe, in a different timeline, Stalin did the strategic thing and ignored Stalingrad, by doing so, allowed Hitler to achieve this stupid goal, and maybe Hitler would've let his generals operate the front in a more effective manner after it. This could've changed the war. I think that's why people see this as an absolute stupid mistake from the Germans, but aren't that harsh about the Soviets. Like... If your enemy is fixated in committing a stupid mistake, exploit it the max you can. Unintentionally, that's what Stalin did.
I beg to differ. These guys did far a better job: ua-cam.com/video/6W5QYdfQhmc/v-deo.htmlsi=xX2oAJhEDVMcc-BR delves more profoundly into the topic. It's in Russian but the subtitles are in English. Don't get me wrong, I love Casagranda's lectures related to the Middle East, but Stalingrad demands thoroughness and objectivity.
Stalin actively tried to pursue an alliance with France and the UK before Molotov-Ribbentrop. They refused. Positing the pact as arising abstracted from this is kind of disingenuous.
The German army was never designed of siege warfare. Its key to success was mobility combined with violence of action. The Russians erased an entire German Field Army from the order of battle. It was a loss that Germany would never recover from.
There were three turning points at the Eastern Front: a) Stalingrad in Winter 42/43 was a pschological turning point, as the Sowjet could convince themself that they could win a significant battle against the Germans. This gave confidence. b) Operation Bagration in Summer '44 was such a overwhelming success for the Red Army, so that they became sure after this event that they will win the war. Before that, there were still doubts. So this was the obvious military turning point. c) In hindsight, historians tell us that the war was lost for Germany in late 1941, after if became clear that the Wehrmacht's Blitzkrieg had fizzeled near Moscow. Germany was not capable to sustain a war of attrition - neither by personnel, weapons, fuel, logistics, This was the real, but hidden turning point.
The Panther tank was the best tank in the war. The Germans did not produce enough of them and ran short of parts but sheer power, speed and agility no tank could match the Panther. The Soviets just produced more tanks. Thank you lend lease
Afaik, the reason Germans were so predicteble in battle of kurst, at that time british broke German secret code machine Enigma, so soviets knew detailed German tactics.
Oh i can teach the Doctor something .... Jerry can ... the Brits call Germans Jerries .. during the Desert battles in WW2 the Brits found out that the German petrol cans were much better than the English ones were .. they leaked less .. so the English army would use German petrol cans when ever they could and called them Jerry cans :)
Very good lecture but a few historical oversights,mistakes or falsehoods on the details. For example..when talking about The Nightwitches you state that "no airforce in World War 2 flew at night"(1:17:05). This is simply not true as the Royal Airforce bombed Germany(Dortmund Raid) at night May 10-11 1940 and would later begin heavy night bomber raids throughout the rest of the war. Germany would also begin a night campaign over Britain September 7,1940(Black Saturday). Night operations for air forces were rather commonplace throughout the war in many countries. Also it is a gross oversight when talking about armored forces in the war when one focuses only on the "gun-armor" issue of "the best". You clearly forgot the single most important piece of kit..the wireless radio. Communication is the key to early victories for Germany. There were many other instances but overall an entertaining lecture that one can only hope inspires listeners to do a bit of independent research.
At 01:20:00. I don’t believe for a second the Russians sent soldiers in to battle with no boots or weapon. Citation is needed cos it sounds like bull crap to me.
I actually found his storytelling skills awesome, but he often say misleading things and wrong facts. But that’s nothing serious, since he’s telling the story in a such energetic and entertaining way! 😂
Of course Stalingrad's name is important as propaganda but more important it was a main railroad and supply chunk point at that time plus it would be the stronghold to hold off Soviets attack south to cut off Caucasus. Hitler also emphisised that that was not reason the name of the city to attack there. What actual reason was cutting the volga river which was and still main supply arteria from the allies by newly opened Iran supply route and oil from Caucasus. So it was a very reasonable object to take the city. Also token action to create pocket of Kiev was a right call as well I believe. History shows (Napoleon's campaigne) if there is an army eager to fight against you to take back what its own outside the city walls, you still have a fight to win against it. PS: Please stop considering a man who conquered Europe as a stupid warlord sir. There is no limitless power in the end.
I really enjoy listening to Dr.Roy, he weaves a great narrative but...I'm often left wondering how much of what he says is accurate. Im not a Ph.d in history but I'am a pretty learned amatuer (WW2, European Neolithic through the M.ages and revolutinary political history) and I know for a fact somethings he has said are down right false. For example...In a YT video of one his talks he talks about the origin of the name "Germans". He basically asserts that the Germanic people got their name from the "fact" that their oral histories say they came from the Kerman region of Iran. Incorrect...Their oral history says no such thing and this is taken from the Prose Edda written by Snorri Sturluson, an Icelandic catholic monk, whos objective was to preserve the mythology and folklore of his culture. In order to do that he had to give Germanic peoples an origin based in history among other things (More or less Eqauting Baldr with Jesus and Loki with Satan...Which we also see in The Poetic Edda) to balance between what was acceptable to the papacy and what was Pagan. That origin was that G.People were descended from a technologically and martially superior tribe of "Asamen" or asian men, eastern steppe peoples i.e. A Yamnaya-esque society...("Asamen....Æsir) We have Snorri to thank in part for preserving the old stories about Thor and stuff. ANYWAYS...Thats just one example I have about his historical accuracy. TLDR: Dr.Roy is entertaining but says things that arn't accurate sometimes.
I cant stop watching videos of this mans lectures.
I wish there was a ton more..this man has taught me sooooooooo much Dr Roy you are so much appreciated!
I'm on day 6. 😂
If you're not careful , his profound , detail explanations , if exposed too long can cause ptsd .. something dr Roy suffers from to a mild extent
All great minds do @@sonyjoseph5426
same
The best historical storyteller in the US!
Sadly, they are just stories and not any sort of truth.
@@The2ndFirst what do you mean exactly by your needless comment?
@@Tamirpop I mean he makes up funny stories that have nothing to do with history. His comments on Stalingrad have been my first exposure to his very uninformed grasp on history.
@@Tamirpop You're listening to a nincompoop. He doesn't have any clue about history and is just retelling the fables that were taught to us. Then he passes them off to you like he's old and wise.
@@The2ndFirst seems that you have a personal problem with the man. Ok so you can present what you know about the "real" history instead of the "fables" as you called them.
I swear, I learned more from Dr. Casagranda than I did from my Drs here in Belgium. Thanks for that!
You didn't learn anything.
maybe you don't want to learn
He is amazing
@Oners82 no from his Phd profs in belgium
@Oners82 Dr. Casagranda is a revisionist though are you aware?
I am at the process of listening to your lectures, its hard to stop listening simply because they are great and sincere and entertaining knowledge
Thank you
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you for posting your lectures and interviews! You have students all over the world. Thank you for the time you put into your research and thank you for the thinking it clearly takes to pull it all together.
he barely does research, the claim ww2 lasted 8 years is blatantly wrong, ww2 started in 1939 and the japanese invasion of china didnt start it off
This guy Is so underrated, I major I'm history and never had a teacher make so many interesting facts about history that I already learned about
this guy is wrong in like 90% of the shit he waffles about
Same here
@@HippoDripposuch as?
This guy's job is in an Austin TX Junior College, next door to a high end university, after working at Univ. of Maryland. That says Something about what his peirs and superiors think of him.
I am so thrilled!! I love listening to him. Please add some more lectures soon.
Professor, please write few books on Middle-East, US Foreign Policy and WWII and all other topics that you are well versed in. I had already purchased your fiction book, just to show my gratitude for all the knowledge that I've gained from your videos (despite I only read non-fiction). I wish I was where you are so I could gatecrash all your lectures. Sincere, heartfelt gratitude Sir!
actually, i heard in one of his lectures that that one isn’t purely fiction. i didn’t read it yet, but maybe dig a little deeper? you’d be surprised ^^.
i think the lecture was called “unerasing the erased”.
The amount of knowledge this man has is very impressive.
I want to go to this guys class everyday
I’ve been binge watching Dr. Roy’s lectures for three days. I hope the students at Austin College know and appreciate the quality of their education. My community college classes are laughable and embarrassing.
Me too.I think I have ptsd at this point
How come this channel has only 50k subs. It should be millions..
because not everyone in this new generation appreciates history, they always say it is old people story
hahaha
The legendary Roy Casagranada at it again!!
with more wrong historical ANECDOTES
@@derick3482 maybe you can correct him with your own professional lecture. Link me
when that comes out…
@@Historiehomme just google enabling act and german federal election 1933
he is distorting truth
@@derick3482 what did he say that was false?
@@Historiehomme you didn't watch the video why did you then even comment, bro?
I am from Canada and I would travel to Austin just to get to listen to Dr Casagranda! Does he do speaking engagement? Cause damn he sure makes history lessons so much more substance then other teachers I've heard! I think I've probably listened to every one of his vids! Thank you!
He mentioned the German soldiers were drinking heavily to get through the battle. My father-in-law fought for the Viet Cong for 10 years from 1965 until the end of the American War in 1975. He told me the same thing about that fighting. They drank a lot. He quit drinking after the war and never started again.
Where does ur father live now? Assuming ur an American living in Vietnam?
Thanks a lot for sharing these lectures 🙏🙏🙏
I wish more people watch his lectures.
Sir, I thoroughly enjoy your videos.
You do a great job at putting events together.
Thank You.
Superb content by a talented storyteller Dr Roy
I love this professor soo much ❤
1:33:11 "If there's a stupid thing somebody can do - definitely prepare for it!" 😂😂😂😂😂 Quote of the lecture!
Can't believe some students left at the Q&A. Fascinating stuff!
Maybe because they’re forced to wear masks I wouldn’t stayed. Or I wouldn’t of wore a mask.
Roy turns history into an amazing captivating story with neutral bias. I'm jealous of his students. I'm addicted to his videos, and I'm learning so much history, It's not even funny.
Respect to Professor Miller and thanks to the interviewer. We need more academics to shine a light on what most of us in society are completely blind.
Overall this lecture is pretty fantastic. It is worth noting a few things though, Dr. Casagranda brings up a lot of events regarding the soviets that are only ever mentioned in German war memoirs. The soviet order 227 (not one step back) was directed towards the officer corps, not the average soldier. It is widely regarded as a myth that the soviets shot retreating footsoldiers, the order was used to get rid of the spirit of "we can just keep retreating" that a lot of the officer corps had. The Soviets did have "barrier soldiers" who would stay behind the line and arrest retreating soldiers, but they very rarely shot them and more often than not would just send them back towards the front.
It's not as if we don't have paper trails for such blocking detachments -- imagine a single company of 100 men covering an operational area of several if not 10 km's (I forget the actual prescribed width for these formations). It simply makes no sense to assert that the Soviets had the excess man power to staff hundreds if not thousands of active frontline combat in order to "machine-gun" their own fleeing troops. Sad to see the Dr. repeat such information so assertively
It shows the man is honest . I like how he put things simple to understand.. can i get a chair for any lecture
Fantastic lecture! I would love a 1080p upload so I can see all the visuals/maps better.
Strange thing - when discussing the Blitzkrieg Dr. Casagranda have not mentioned Poland was half occupied by Germany but the other half by Soviet Union. On 17.Sep.1939 Soviet Union attacked Poland from east and occupied the east half of the country. Actually Poland was occupied by both Germany and Soviet Union and against the popular opinion, technically and factually the Soviet Union stepped in WWII as aggressor.
Very true.
One could make the point the Sovjets overcame the Nazi war machine, also against popular opinion. 🙏
@@marcusc5170 well 3 out of 4 German soldiers died on eastern front in wwii. the price ussr paid in this war was unbelievable and the suffering of the people was unimaginable. but motivation of Stalin in this war in 1939 was much like the nazi's, i guess.
Love the passion! Another solid historiographical presentation.
Great man knows how tell story in intresting way
I would say that WW II started on 18 July 1936... in Spain.
Love the lecture keep it up.
Thank u Dr. Roy Casangranda yet another interesting lecture. One remark 1:02:10 although the bombing campaign helped the ministry of propaganda and public enlightenment, it is interesting to note in this context that it forced the luftwaffe to recall airplanes from the fronts. This helped the soviet air forces to gain air dominance earlier than they otherwise would have. Flak 88's who were often used in an anti-tank role also had to be recalled from the frontlines, severely reducing anti-tank capabilities of infantry regiments, staffing these anti-air guns also took lot of girlpower. All these elements have let militarian historians to conclude that the bombing raids had a negative overall effect on the capabilities of germany to wage war.
The Germans kept producing more tanks planes and guns year over year through the bombing raids. All we accomplished was the murder of millions of women, children and elderly, refugees. And the destruction of ancient European architecture and artwork.
The amount of men we lost, the resources sunk into those missions would have been better spent elsewhere.
Love watching his talks, so knowledgeable.
It was called Operation Uranus because you're getting furked 😅
Thank you Dr. Roy
great lecture
How has this channel not gone viral??
Because tthe vast majority doesn't have time to listen, assimilate and absorb.
@@rayzimmerman6740 True, but also lack of online presence.
@@Noorlatgamer I agree with the sentiment. To clarify, I meant the vast majority of people with Internet access. The ones who don't, cannot enable the channel/content to go viral.
@@rayzimmerman6740 I agree with you completely. People dont have attention span. What I would say though is for while now vines / shorts / tiktok short form videos are the trend. So Austin School could use short videos to link back to longer ones.
They could also run short courses with credit for an international audience. You can find ways to market to people even with the constraint of low attention span externality that mobile phones cause.
@@Noorlatgamer I admire your optimism - in as much as you think shorter videos would get engagement. I don't think it would meet with much success, but perhaps it's worth a shot?
New York minutes are now New York moments. There are few exceptions that prove the rule.
I think one would have to identify those "influencers" who are swimming against the tide, and get them on board to make the content relevant, as opposed to Austin School.
The challenge is the appeal and stickability. In an increasingly self obsessed, opinionated, argumentative landscape, where everything is measured in likes, views and subscribers - this type of content doesn't quite fit.
Look at our world leaders in the recent past - Bush Junior, Blair, Trump, Boris, Putin, Erdogan, Modi et al. With the exception of Putin, these are democratically elected leaders.
To Paraphrase Kaku - its like we're all sitting in a car, driving at a great speed towards a brick wall, and we're arguing whose going to drive.
I think George Harrison summed it up in the song "I, me, mine" all those years ago. Broadly speaking, this generation doesn't listen to Albums. I'd wager that by and large, they would have to look up George Harrison.
As for smart phones, you know what they say - they're only as smart as the person holding it.
Germans are discipline masters. This makes them powerful when they decide to go in the same direction
I've been waiting to hear him for 2 years now.
Thanks for your awesome lectures. One point: the French had a lot of Algerians fighting in their midst, didn't they?
The first president of Algerian, Ahmed Benbella, and one of the leaders of the war of Algerian independence, was a decorated hero of the battle of Monte Casino, and was decorated by General De Gaulle himself. He later said in an interview that companies of 120 men of Algerians would go up to storm German position and less than 20-30 men would come back from the assault. That was the price Algerians paid for the independence of France. The reward was the famous massacres of 8 Mai 1945, on V-day, when Algerian went out to celebrate victory with illegal Algerian flags, and claim the independence that De Gaulle promised them in his Brazzaville speech in Congo in 1942. They massacred over 40 thousand Algerians over a period of three months to "teach" them to accept colonialism. That's France dark past for you.
@@NedBoukharinethey also graped a lot of Italian women
A brilliant communicator indeed
i am from uzbekistan, my great grandfather is veteran of stalingrad. if he wasnt veteran i wouldnt born thanks allah
👍🏽
Allahu ekber brother!!!
Alhumdulilla
Congratulations with something that happened 80 years ago.
Thanks allah for causing the unimaginably horrible suffering of millions of people so I could be born
Watched the whole video, good stuff
Love the WW2 stories
Great content! Thank you so much from Japan!
Love this guy, happy Veterans Day. 🎉
1:07:30 .. there is some confusion here; there seems to be a proposal that is simultaneously bad for the Germans but also for the Russians, to engage in a battle at Stalingrad. We are to believe that they are both sides making a mistake, and both sides more likely to lose the entire war as a result of the Battle of Stalingrad.
Stalingrad itself wasn't strategically significant. All those deaths were for bragging rights, basically.
So it was a stupid reason to fight, for both sides.
However, if the Germans had conquered Stalingrad, maybe Hitler would've allowed his soldiers to redeploy and abandon the city. We will never know. So the fact that the Nazis kept throwing soldiers there weakened their fronts, guaranteeing their eventual defeat.
If all Hitler cared about was to be able to say "I conquered the city named after Stalin", then holding it would be irrelevant.
Stalin had no way to know if that would happen. He only cared about saving face. But maybe, in a different timeline, Stalin did the strategic thing and ignored Stalingrad, by doing so, allowed Hitler to achieve this stupid goal, and maybe Hitler would've let his generals operate the front in a more effective manner after it. This could've changed the war.
I think that's why people see this as an absolute stupid mistake from the Germans, but aren't that harsh about the Soviets.
Like... If your enemy is fixated in committing a stupid mistake, exploit it the max you can. Unintentionally, that's what Stalin did.
This lecture was better than the episode dedicated to Stalingrad in the best WW2 doc series 'world at war'.
I beg to differ. These guys did far a better job: ua-cam.com/video/6W5QYdfQhmc/v-deo.htmlsi=xX2oAJhEDVMcc-BR delves more profoundly into the topic. It's in Russian but the subtitles are in English. Don't get me wrong, I love Casagranda's lectures related to the Middle East, but Stalingrad demands thoroughness and objectivity.
Honestly i learned more in 2 hours about my countrys history than in 10 years of german school lessons.
Charles Le Gai Eaton, King of the Castle, gives an excellent perspective that makes sense of the capacity of 'good' people to do evil.
65 million deaths from WW2 is such an astounding fact that i was unaware of.
Wasn't the German plan in WW2 basically the same as Franco-prussiaj war? Go through lightly defended area and get between them and Paris?
1:17 the British flew their bombing raids at night.
And?
@@user-wx1ts2fm6lDr Casagranda made the claim that no other air forces flew at night, which is incorrect.
1:04:20 feels both incredibly relevant and ironic today.
I wanna know what those papers were being burned in front of Churchill when he flew to France after winning. What a time to be a live.
Love the History great job
Make videos about Indian History also please sir
Thank you 🙏
I just wish they would have footnotes regarding some of the conclusions he States almost like they are gospel
Stalin actively tried to pursue an alliance with France and the UK before Molotov-Ribbentrop. They refused. Positing the pact as arising abstracted from this is kind of disingenuous.
He’s right about Stalingrad. I played Call of Duty and had to clear out campers behind a brick wall multiple times. Ridiculous
Guessing this was recorded around 2016?
Posted Dec 2021. Covid era or he was still dutifully complying with covid- mask long hair.
AD ON he is always obese.
It’s professors like this guy who make college seem like a waste of time.
I hope you mean that in the way as you don’t need to spend money on college when you could listen to a great professor like this on UA-cam for free
I watch people who do this recovery of fallen soldiers. Some people can sense some smell or aura of the area where a person died or was buried.
The German army was never designed of siege warfare. Its key to success was mobility combined with violence of action.
The Russians erased an entire German Field Army from the order of battle. It was a loss that Germany would never recover from.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Phenomenal. Glued to the screen
There were three turning points at the Eastern Front:
a) Stalingrad in Winter 42/43 was a pschological turning point, as the Sowjet could convince themself that they could win a significant battle against the Germans. This gave confidence.
b) Operation Bagration in Summer '44 was such a overwhelming success for the Red Army, so that they became sure after this event that they will win the war. Before that, there were still doubts. So this was the obvious military turning point.
c) In hindsight, historians tell us that the war was lost for Germany in late 1941, after if became clear that the Wehrmacht's Blitzkrieg had fizzeled near Moscow. Germany was not capable to sustain a war of attrition - neither by personnel, weapons, fuel, logistics, This was the real, but hidden turning point.
The idea behind comisars with machine guns was that people in fronlines would know that their allies won't run and the same was true vice versa
The intro is so funny lol
hi from Portugal
This lecture reminds me of Dr Zhivago the movie
what's with the Dr. Zaius look?
Could you please 🙏tell us Who defeated the vikings ?
No one.
William the conqueror's children still rule England
Nobody. They were given normandy in france.
So fascinating
Can you Re-do this amazing lecture. The mask muffled the audio Badly!
Outstanding
It's clear Fred Armisen found this channel before anyone else
The Panther tank was the best tank in the war. The Germans did not produce enough of them and ran short of parts but sheer power, speed and agility no tank could match the Panther.
The Soviets just produced more tanks. Thank you lend lease
This was more fascinating than any stupid movie 👍
Afaik, the reason Germans were so predicteble in battle of kurst, at that time british broke German secret code machine Enigma, so soviets knew detailed German tactics.
Oh i can teach the Doctor something .... Jerry can ... the Brits call Germans Jerries .. during the Desert battles in WW2 the Brits found out that the German petrol cans were much better than the English ones were .. they leaked less .. so the English army would use German petrol cans when ever they could and called them Jerry cans :)
Very good lecture but a few historical oversights,mistakes or falsehoods on the details.
For example..when talking about The Nightwitches you state that "no airforce in World War 2 flew at night"(1:17:05). This is simply not true as the Royal Airforce bombed Germany(Dortmund Raid) at night May 10-11 1940 and would later begin heavy night bomber raids throughout the rest of the war. Germany would also begin a night campaign over Britain September 7,1940(Black Saturday). Night operations for air forces were rather commonplace throughout the war in many countries.
Also it is a gross oversight when talking about armored forces in the war when one focuses only on the "gun-armor" issue of "the best". You clearly forgot the single most important piece of kit..the wireless radio. Communication is the key to early victories for Germany.
There were many other instances but overall an entertaining lecture that one can only hope inspires listeners to do a bit of independent research.
Brilliant
Fun fact: Roy says guy-jant-ic instead of gigantic 48:57
Dr. The dude
At 01:20:00. I don’t believe for a second the Russians sent soldiers in to battle with no boots or weapon. Citation is needed cos it sounds like bull crap to me.
Very early in the war they didn’t have enough
I actually found his storytelling skills awesome, but he often say misleading things and wrong facts. But that’s nothing serious, since he’s telling the story in a such energetic and entertaining way! 😂
The Japanese are a very chilled people nowadays, but what they did in Asia was brutal.
We need him on drunk history
RE Poland and the speed and "go, go, go!" See also : meth. The Nazis used methamphetamine extensively in the early years of the war.
As a historian, you forget one very important thing I mean a fact Russians stabbed Poland in the back 17 days after Germans attacked Poland.
Poland didn't want to let russians to fight against german. It was arrogant politics from poland.
Germany and Soviets agreed to divide poland. Germany did it first and took the flak. Soviets did it later. Stalin was smart
Putin said that, it was russia who won the ww2 not the allies. US military is not good at ground offensive.
It’s Kyiv, Dr Casagrande, please don’t disappoint us
Thanks a lot
Of course Stalingrad's name is important as propaganda but more important it was a main railroad and supply chunk point at that time plus it would be the stronghold to hold off Soviets attack south to cut off Caucasus. Hitler also emphisised that that was not reason the name of the city to attack there. What actual reason was cutting the volga river which was and still main supply arteria from the allies by newly opened Iran supply route and oil from Caucasus. So it was a very reasonable object to take the city.
Also token action to create pocket of Kiev was a right call as well I believe. History shows (Napoleon's campaigne) if there is an army eager to fight against you to take back what its own outside the city walls, you still have a fight to win against it.
PS: Please stop considering a man who conquered Europe as a stupid warlord sir. There is no limitless power in the end.
He didn’t mention how the Germans lost this battle at all.
It's a lecture, part of a whole year course, not a movie
I really enjoy listening to Dr.Roy, he weaves a great narrative but...I'm often left wondering how much of what he says is accurate.
Im not a Ph.d in history but I'am a pretty learned amatuer (WW2, European Neolithic through the M.ages and revolutinary political history) and I know for a fact somethings he has said are down right false.
For example...In a YT video of one his talks he talks about the origin of the name "Germans". He basically asserts that the Germanic people got their name from the "fact" that their oral histories say they came from the Kerman region of Iran. Incorrect...Their oral history says no such thing and this is taken from the Prose Edda written by Snorri Sturluson, an Icelandic catholic monk, whos objective was to preserve the mythology and folklore of his culture. In order to do that he had to give Germanic peoples an origin based in history among other things (More or less Eqauting Baldr with Jesus and Loki with Satan...Which we also see in The Poetic Edda) to balance between what was acceptable to the papacy and what was Pagan. That origin was that G.People were descended from a technologically and martially superior tribe of "Asamen" or asian men, eastern steppe peoples i.e. A Yamnaya-esque society...("Asamen....Æsir)
We have Snorri to thank in part for preserving the old stories about Thor and stuff.
ANYWAYS...Thats just one example I have about his historical accuracy.
TLDR: Dr.Roy is entertaining but says things that arn't accurate sometimes.
Hey forgot Jerry Garcia in his list 😢
Won't be fooled again!
To these days we collect human remain all across frontline. I live in Murmansk and hundreds of people are still involved
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