THE LIBERATION OF FRANCE: ua-cam.com/video/QJ9mshYAH38/v-deo.html THE LIBERATION OF BELGIUM: ua-cam.com/video/Vh_GduTpjN8/v-deo.html THE LIBERATION OF HOLLAND: ua-cam.com/video/Kg5GEEMtCsI/v-deo.html THE CONQUEST OF WESTERN GERMANY: ua-cam.com/video/nqjVGk_qUqM/v-deo.html
My great grandparents who lived in Ukraine during the war said that there was a German soldier who got separated from his unit and basically just became part of the village and married a local girl and lived his whole life as a Russian. I bring this up because another Ukrainian from the same village got caught by the Germans and one way or another fought for them in the Ardennes. Eventually captured by 106th infantey division and lived in America for a while. Eventually in the 1960s came back to Ukraine and was friends with the German the rest of both their lives.
@@daviddoran3673 the fact that any slavi person would join the nazi, who wanted to enslave and exterminate the Slavi peaples should tell you how nice the Soviets were to slavic peaple in Ukraine. Not defending evil nazi by pointing out evil communism, I hate both
Well I've heard about localized counterattacks as Allied forces crossed the Rhine, I never heard of any full offensive by the Germans in the West after the battle of the Ardennes. Thank you for this.
My grandfather John M.Shoemaker,Pfc. served in this battle near Sarreguemines,France with 2nd platoon,G co.,2nd battalion ,253rd regiment,63rd Division (attached to the 44th Division for Norwind), U.S. 7th Army. He later earned CIB,Bronze star for valor, purple heart, bronze star for service and presidential unit citation ribbon among other medals. He loved Gen. "Sandy" Patch- buried at West Point. In 1990 I took a train from Paris through Saarbruken to Frankfurt to see my Uncle Col. Kenneth Key, USAF at Ramstein AFB.I had a strange feeling when we stopped at Saarbruken. I had no idea of this history at that time. Thanks for your good work. J.R.S.,Jr.,Esq.,Alabama,U.S.A.
Saturday night in the studio and a break for a cup of chocolate, watch some history, and try and translate it for my dog who has come in to lie by the fan. Dog looked confused by the snow ;-) Well done Stefan as this often gets overlooked.
Thank you for work and Information. My Onkel has been fallen there, as Member of Volksgrenadierdivision Nr. 47. His Grave is nearly Hagenau. Long history. A good man. I wished he'd be alive. So I'll remember him and all his comrades.
My Father Lawrence J. Ferolie 1st Lieutenant 7th Army, 12thAD, C-66th AIB fought in Nordwind at Colmar Pass. My Father was said it was very cold that Winter protecting the Rear supply line of Patton's 3rd Army March up too Bastogne. My Father said that the German Wermacht were great Soldiers and Fought Hard. He liberated 2 CC Camps in 4/45 Landsberg and Dachau. Thank you for your Video you explained Nordwind to me in detail.
You ROCK You've moved into my top 10... I've yet to skip any when your notification comes up. I'm looking forward to going thru your playlist in the future... good stuff! Thanks 👍
I have my coffee and I am sitting at my desk with eyes and ear open and ready for learning professor Stefan! Loved this video and being a history teacher I have heard of this offensive but you told the story so well and some of the details you spoke of are things I didn’t know so thank you for the fantastic history lesson!
As always, great presentation Stefan! I thoroughly enjoyed the topic covered. Not many talk of Operation Nordwind. Many are/ have been under the impression that the Ardennes Offensive was the last major offensive operation by the German military forces.
@@HistoryHustle Honestly he didnt speak about it much at all. I mean he'd mention army practices for keeping my socks dry when we camped in snow when I was in the Boy Scouts or maybe he'd point out something in a war movie that was ridiculous but as for his experiences not that much. But once I was older he told me about a few things like they were running wire for communications he volunteered because whoever did got a hot meal. He said they came upon a German soldier by a tree who my Dad said could have shot them but didnt and a soldier he was with shot the German instead. I guess my Dad always wondered why he wasn't shot. He told me bodies turn black in the frigid temperatures. He told me about a guy they considered lucky because he was shot thru the butt cheeks and got to be pulled off the front line because of the wound. When my Dad came home he gave away his medals, his patches, his German and French money and wanted zero to do with it. He stayed at a farm (my Grandfather's) that's now a hunting resort and he used to go out alone and track deer but wanted nothing to do with shooting them. My Dad hated war and wanted no one else to have to fight in one. He and other WW2 vets volunteered for Korea but the only way he'd do it was to not have to go thru basic training again since he thought they were already trained and ready to go. The Army said no. So I know he fought room to room in Grosbliederstroff liberating that town and I know he suffered from sleeping in the cold ground and maybe from crossing frozen streams and rivers. I know he lost friends there and that I'm proud of his service and sacrifice.
My grandpa’s cousin was captured in Nordwind while fighting with the Wehrmacht. Captured January 1 and survived the war. That’s all I know. Wish there was a way to learn more.
Strasbourg, which had fallen to the French 1st Army unexpectedly quickly, was now a major political objective - to Hitler, and also to De Gaulle, but not to the soldier Eisenhower, who had been prepared to give it up in order to shorten his line, and release forces for Devers - the correct military solution which avoids taking territory before the enemy forces are defeated. In the event, the Germans were not strong enough to retake the city which Eisenhower was compelled to hold, after protests from France
Thank you for this video. I grew up and live right in the Nordwind area, it's a shame that no French people focus on this subject which is really my passion, as a non-Alsatian you know our history better than almost all the inhabitants of the region. same. Congratulations to you for your research and for your videos, quick question where did you find the archives? What software do you use? I would dream of doing the same in French :)
Excellent video Stefan! Please maybe cover Operation Spring Awakening. I think that would get you a ton of views. Seeing how one channel with like 5k subs made a video about it and got over 500k views.
Thanks. Operation Spring Awakening was planned when I was in Budapest. I wanted to make a trip to Székesfehérvár where the battle took place. Too bad I got sick so I couldn't. Sorry, I won't travel to Hungary anytime soon.
The battle of Manstein (maybe Kharkov 2) was also a masterpiece. And the battle of France and the defense of the Siegfried line (Hürtgen forest). The Germans stopped the advance of the Allies.
0:18 in Panzer General 2 the "defending the Reich" campaign does not include the battle of the Bulge but does include the Nordwind offensive , so it is not so much unknown (to me at least)
That is a great video about that Pyrrhic Victory of Germany. A battle which showed weakness of the Waffen SS Army in contrast of Weirmacht. It also showed that the young German Generals were not as talented Commanders than those who served at the Beginning of the war. The fast rank growing of Germans officers made them handle battles over their own habilities. With the 7000 French Casualties + 14 000 Americans Casualties against 23 000 Germans ones, the global statement appeared to be balanced. In fact, men, material and weapons lost by Germans would be much more difficult to replace than those lost by Allies Forces.
Mark Felton already let the Panther and Tiger out of the bag...but I can never get enough WW2 History and you're great. Himmler always wanted to play soldier. P.S. Are they twins? 05:00 👀
Speechless!! Fabulous episode!! I never heard much of this battle!! I guess the bulge is what is taught in North America!! And I’ve always wondered if they had not wasted the resources if they could have defended Berlin from the east?? With this info the question is more serious!! Thanks again!!
The Soviet Operation Bagration had annihilated Army group Centre...85 Wehrmacht divisions, up to 1 million men were destroyed....the Red Army were taking Berlin one way or another.
Its actualy quite impresive that a country the alies and sovjets believed was on the brink of collaps actualy managed to find the resources for three major offensives in quick succesion , Battle of the bulg +bodemplatte , nordwind and Operation spring awakening. If they kept their reserves in to place and all resources spend on those offensives on defensive position they could have lasted longer with all the consequences as at the end of the war even the russians where exausted , over extended . and with the fragile relations with the alies on the western front . and with market garden as low point . it could have been an even mesier final months of the war.
@@julianshepherd2038 That is a stupid awnser as they brits made different comments when the dutch surrenderd in may 1940. And could aply to britain as well why would they continue a war they already where knocked out of .
One last roar from the once mighty Wehrmacht, sadly it was only slightly more than a nuisance for the Allies who enjoyed greater superiority in all terms. A very nice video, loved the monument dedicated to the fallen soldiers, and the artillery piece as well!
The Allies had localized superiority and greater capacity to replace losses but the Germans still had plenty of manpower and material, check out the hundreds of tanks and aircraft that were captured in Norway when the war ended, literally several divisions worth of equipment, what they did not have was enough fuel to operate them
@@luxembourgishempire2826 yes, sadly it was all in vain, all was lost and they still decided to throw their lives because of a lunatic who failed to admit it
Hi HH Just an idea: What about an in depth series of resistance in Europe during WWII? You could start with the Dutch resistance. I know there is a lot to tell about ie. Gestapos infiltration of big parts of the resistance with huge cost.
The funny thing is the Allies did know of the German build up before these final offensives, the Bulge and Nordwind. Various US Army G-2 staffs had identified it. They weren't stupid. But the senior commanders all believed the German incapable of offensive action at this stage of the war. And it seems that they were right. The Germans ran out of fuel before they even reached the Meuse river much less Antwerp. So who is looking stupid now.
Anything bad mentioned about how bad or how close the allies lost or could have lost a conflict was omitted from the history books. Another Example: is Operation Winter Storm. Where as in December 16 to the 22rd Elements of German/Italian Troops at a 2-1 disadvantage smashed the US 92nd (The Buffalo Soldiers) into a route.
Hello, I'm looking for old footage of the US Army from Dec. 44 to Jan. 45. it's about the invasion of germany/saarland. The places are Walsheim, Gersheim, Reinheim Bliesbrück, Seyweiler, Medelsheim. Many Thanks
@@HistoryHustle my father started in north Africa with I think the 2nd armored than was in operation Husky made it out alive he was shooting so fast and had so many targets the gun jammed he had to jump out of the tank under fire to ramrod the shell out. He lost a tank during the invasion when the duck operator out ranked my father and told him get these tanks of my ship my father said the water is to deep and it was , lost that tank probably still sitting on the floor of the Mediterranean after this battle he maned a gun on the ship for battle points during a storm a ammo box fell snapping his leg he was sent home and stayed to help whip new armored division into shape for the invasion of France they needed him because of his combat experience. He landed in southern France with the 14th armored was a tank commander till the end of the war his tank was hit many times but him and most of his men survived one lost his leg when a shell made it into the turret was spinning around like a red hot donut when they were escaping out the hatch the man ahead of my father's leg touched that shell spinning cutting his leg off they had to run a couple hundred feet to find some cover the man who lost his leg kept up with the other men hoping on one leg. He survived . My father lost his driver when a nazi youth jumped up from a hole in the street hit the driver with something my father said was like a posterous round I don't think it was a panzer faust maybe a panzer shrek my father said if it didn't hit his driver it would have killed everyone in the tank I guess the driver's body absorbed the impact my dad said the driver disappeared only his legs were left in the tank. My dad said those nazi youth killed an American soldier in every town they went through.
@@HistoryHustle during operation Husky the germans had their 88s in a loading dock of a hospital and were cutting our guy's down bad no matter how hard they tried they couldn't hit those 88s the only thing they could do was have everyone shot at the hospital at once so it would collapse but the hospital was in use so non of the officer's would call in the artillery barrage my father finally called in the strike bringing the hospital down on the 88s silencing them for good . I asked my father how could he do that he said he couldn't stand seeing those 88s destroying our guys and he explained because the germans placed their guns in that position hiding behind people it was on them for the innocent lives lost. My father was scared of those 88s .
Hi Stefan, Nord Wind was not the last Major German Offensive but it was the greatest offensive in the west. De realy last Offensive of the germans was - Frühlingserwachen (Spring Awakening) - in 1945 at Lake Balaton (Hungary).
Sorry but the Ardennes Offensive was much larger, in terms of combatants and casualties, of armor, artillery, aircraft, than this offensive. Twice as large, in fact. But you are right in saying that people know very little about it, Audie Murphy Exploits notwithstanding. General Devers, especially, was a fine commander. Only historians recognize his name now.
I wouldn't say that the German infiltrators caused panic among the Allies. I'd say that they caused confusion as the Allied command had to make sure that all orders were legit and so troops would know if they got false orders from that new major who just got to them. Not to mention if that fresh unit that came to free the guards of a bridge are legit.
Omg I had to wildest dream. That Stalin launch nukes and it hit LA and I was the new iron man and I basically had to save my mom and grandma after another bomb was set in New York and flew them to an island. And all the worlds nukes were released. It’s a lot more and it felt so real it was nuts. These dreams always end up like this when I leave some audio book of a nazi or nkvd on lol it was amaaahzin Himmler looked like a beeta! Lol
They knew that putting the same effort on the Eastern front would yield poor results , because the Soviets could recoup heavy losses fairly easily .............Western allies , not so much .
@@julianshepherd2038 at the begunning of the war they had excellent and innovative strategies. Plus ardennes offensive was brilliant however many times in operations luck plays an important role
@@HistoryHustle Yes thats what i do. I save them up until a day when i am not so upset about how this world got jacked up then watch them back to back. Lol 😉. Honestly i get very upset inside when i learn things in history that happened that nobody gets told about and the majority of people don't have knowledge of. Usually this information paints in the spots left blank and then the whole picture looks very different then the one we got showed originally by the official history. In a way i think we are still fighting WW1.
THE LIBERATION OF FRANCE: ua-cam.com/video/QJ9mshYAH38/v-deo.html
THE LIBERATION OF BELGIUM: ua-cam.com/video/Vh_GduTpjN8/v-deo.html
THE LIBERATION OF HOLLAND: ua-cam.com/video/Kg5GEEMtCsI/v-deo.html
THE CONQUEST OF WESTERN GERMANY: ua-cam.com/video/nqjVGk_qUqM/v-deo.html
Have you considered Churchill Secret Army
@@julianshepherd2038 do tell!
My great grandparents who lived in Ukraine during the war said that there was a German soldier who got separated from his unit and basically just became part of the village and married a local girl and lived his whole life as a Russian. I bring this up because another Ukrainian from the same village got caught by the Germans and one way or another fought for them in the Ardennes. Eventually captured by 106th infantey division and lived in America for a while. Eventually in the 1960s came back to Ukraine and was friends with the German the rest of both their lives.
Ukrainians and Wehrmacht soldiers were interchangeable in WW2.
@@daviddoran3673 hey I recognize you
@@daviddoran3673 the fact that any slavi person would join the nazi, who wanted to enslave and exterminate the Slavi peaples should tell you how nice the Soviets were to slavic peaple in Ukraine. Not defending evil nazi by pointing out evil communism, I hate both
Hi Sergei, interesting to read. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks Sir Stefan for covering this offensive which is unknown to many people. Sir you're the reason I became a history buff.
Thanks for replying 👍
Well I've heard about localized counterattacks as Allied forces crossed the Rhine, I never heard of any full offensive by the Germans in the West after the battle of the Ardennes. Thank you for this.
Thanks for your reply!
My grandfather John M.Shoemaker,Pfc. served in this battle near Sarreguemines,France with 2nd platoon,G co.,2nd battalion ,253rd regiment,63rd Division (attached to the 44th Division for Norwind), U.S. 7th Army. He later earned CIB,Bronze star for valor, purple heart, bronze star for service and presidential unit citation ribbon among other medals. He loved Gen. "Sandy" Patch- buried at West Point. In 1990 I took a train from Paris through Saarbruken to Frankfurt to see my Uncle Col. Kenneth Key, USAF at Ramstein AFB.I had a strange feeling when we stopped at Saarbruken. I had no idea of this history at that time. Thanks for your good work. J.R.S.,Jr.,Esq.,Alabama,U.S.A.
Thanks for sharing this.
Saturday night in the studio and a break for a cup of chocolate, watch some history, and try and translate it for my dog who has come in to lie by the fan. Dog looked confused by the snow ;-) Well done Stefan as this often gets overlooked.
Many thanks as always 🙂
Thank you for bringing many of us to places we'll likely never see. Cheers from Minnesota, USA.
Thanks for watching.
Thank you Stefan for making history interesting to learn. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹
Great to read again 🙂
Mooi in beeld gebracht, Stefan. Eerlijk zo op zaterdagmiddag.
Dank. Goed weekend 👍
Thank you for work and Information. My Onkel has been fallen there, as Member of Volksgrenadierdivision Nr. 47. His Grave is nearly Hagenau. Long history. A good man. I wished he'd be alive. So I'll remember him and all his comrades.
Thanks for your reply.
My Father Lawrence J. Ferolie 1st Lieutenant 7th Army, 12thAD, C-66th AIB fought in Nordwind at Colmar Pass. My Father was said it was very cold that Winter protecting the Rear supply line of Patton's 3rd Army March up too Bastogne.
My Father said that the German Wermacht were great Soldiers and Fought Hard. He liberated 2 CC Camps in 4/45 Landsberg and Dachau. Thank you for your Video you explained Nordwind to me in detail.
GFM Blaskowitz would be worth a video. Interesting character.
Sure is!
Kick ass history lesson yet again. Cheers my friend.
Cheers!
I knew you would cover this Stephan!
Thanks so much!
Also the video was even better because you were on the location.
Love your videos!
Glad you appreciate it. Many thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanks for the video. It’s been most interesting to watch.
Thank you for watching!
Love your video’s Stefan very detailed and fun. Ga zo door!
Dank, Martijn!
@@HistoryHustle Marijn😉
Does tend to get overshadowed by the Ardennes ofensive further North Thanks for this video Stefan
Hey Daniel, thanks for watching!
You ROCK
You've moved into my top 10... I've yet to skip any when your notification comes up. I'm looking forward to going thru your playlist in the future... good stuff! Thanks 👍
Awesome to read, Sheri. Many thanks!
Your series are getting better. Maybe a episode about the battle of the schelde?
Thanks! One day I'll cover the Schelde. For the meanwhile: the movie is on Netflix now.
@@HistoryHustle saw it! Pretty nice movie. But a short docu would be very nice and I think interesting for lots of people. Keep up the good work.
Was weer een interessante en mooie aflevering zoals altijd.
Topie 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Geweldig, bedankt!
Now, that is some very handsomely colourised footage, and very well edited, too, Stefan. Congratulations.
Thanks 👍🏻
Thanks for this video. I knew about the Ardennes offensive ("The Battle of the Bulge") but I didn't know about this operation. Very informative.
Thank you, Dan!
Thank you for covering this topic. I don't know why I have never heard of this battle, and I have read a lot about World War 2.
Thanks for your reply!
I have my coffee and I am sitting at my desk with eyes and ear open and ready for learning professor Stefan! Loved this video and being a history teacher I have heard of this offensive but you told the story so well and some of the details you spoke of are things I didn’t know so thank you for the fantastic history lesson!
Great to read, Nick. Thanks for your enthusiasm!
Thank you I enjoyed the documentary.
Thanks for watching 👍
As always, great presentation Stefan! I thoroughly enjoyed the topic covered. Not many talk of Operation Nordwind. Many are/ have been under the impression that the Ardennes Offensive was the last major offensive operation by the German military forces.
Thanks for your reply!
My Dad fought in it, he was in the 70th Division 275th Regiment . He was a Rifleman and was there that cold winter of 1944/1945
Respect. What else did he tell you about his experiences?
@@HistoryHustle Honestly he didnt speak about it much at all. I mean he'd mention army practices for keeping my socks dry when we camped in snow when I was in the Boy Scouts or maybe he'd point out something in a war movie that was ridiculous but as for his experiences not that much. But once I was older he told me about a few things like they were running wire for communications he volunteered because whoever did got a hot meal. He said they came upon a German soldier by a tree who my Dad said could have shot them but didnt and a soldier he was with shot the German instead. I guess my Dad always wondered why he wasn't shot. He told me bodies turn black in the frigid temperatures. He told me about a guy they considered lucky because he was shot thru the butt cheeks and got to be pulled off the front line because of the wound. When my Dad came home he gave away his medals, his patches, his German and French money and wanted zero to do with it. He stayed at a farm (my Grandfather's) that's now a hunting resort and he used to go out alone and track deer but wanted nothing to do with shooting them. My Dad hated war and wanted no one else to have to fight in one. He and other WW2 vets volunteered for Korea but the only way he'd do it was to not have to go thru basic training again since he thought they were already trained and ready to go. The Army said no. So I know he fought room to room in Grosbliederstroff liberating that town and I know he suffered from sleeping in the cold ground and maybe from crossing frozen streams and rivers. I know he lost friends there and that I'm proud of his service and sacrifice.
Very interesting to read, thank you for sharing this.
My grandpa’s cousin was captured in Nordwind while fighting with the Wehrmacht. Captured January 1 and survived the war. That’s all I know. Wish there was a way to learn more.
I understand. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks brother. Well done
Cheers, Keith!
Great video...one of Fruhlingewachsen would be great too...
Thanks. You mean Operation Spring Awakening? Sorry, I won't travel to Hungary anytime soon.
Ik vind dat je hier steeds beter in wordt! Mooi gedaan!💪
Thanks, Max!
Strasbourg, which had fallen to the French 1st Army unexpectedly quickly, was now a major political objective - to Hitler, and also to De Gaulle, but not to the soldier Eisenhower, who had been prepared to give it up in order to shorten his line, and release forces for Devers - the correct military solution which avoids taking territory before the enemy forces are defeated. In the event, the Germans were not strong enough to retake the city which Eisenhower was compelled to hold, after protests from France
Thanks for sharing your insights on this.
“Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.”
― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind
Interesting quote.
Great video as always! I really appreciate you and the awesome content!
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Very good video
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6:56 Hans! Get ze Flammenwerfer!
Lol
I knew very little about this. Thank you so much for digging into this!
Groet 🌷, T.
Cheers, Tonny!
@@HistoryHustle 🍺 proost Stefan
Thank you for this video. I grew up and live right in the Nordwind area, it's a shame that no French people focus on this subject which is really my passion, as a non-Alsatian you know our history better than almost all the inhabitants of the region. same. Congratulations to you for your research and for your videos, quick question where did you find the archives? What software do you use? I would dream of doing the same in French :)
Thanks for your reply. Sources can be found in the bio. I use Adobe Premiere to edit. Salut!
Excellent video Stefan! Please maybe cover Operation Spring Awakening. I think that would get you a ton of views. Seeing how one channel with like 5k subs made a video about it and got over 500k views.
Thanks. Operation Spring Awakening was planned when I was in Budapest. I wanted to make a trip to Székesfehérvár where the battle took place. Too bad I got sick so I couldn't. Sorry, I won't travel to Hungary anytime soon.
Good video
Thanks!!
The battle of Manstein (maybe Kharkov 2) was also a masterpiece. And the battle of France and the defense of the Siegfried line (Hürtgen forest). The Germans stopped the advance of the Allies.
Thanks for sharing this.
0:18 in Panzer General 2 the "defending the Reich" campaign does not include the battle of the Bulge but does include the Nordwind offensive , so it is not so much unknown (to me at least)
Compared to the Bulge I'd say it's pretty unknown to many. Do take "unknown" with a little grain of salt of course.
@@HistoryHustle ua-cam.com/video/9pb8vl-Ko8o/v-deo.html
It is said that the Alsace-Lorraine architecture and buldings are very close to the german style (enxaimel, or Fachwerk).
Obrigado! 🇧🇷
True. Colmar is a very beautiful city.
That is a great video about that Pyrrhic Victory of Germany.
A battle which showed weakness of the Waffen SS Army in contrast of Weirmacht. It also showed that the young German Generals were not as talented Commanders than those who served at the Beginning of the war. The fast rank growing of Germans officers made them handle battles over their own habilities.
With the 7000 French Casualties + 14 000 Americans Casualties against 23 000 Germans ones, the global statement appeared to be balanced.
In fact, men, material and weapons lost by Germans would be much more difficult to replace than those lost by Allies Forces.
Thanks for your reply!
My father was 141st Infantry, second battalion, e company. Captured 1.3.45 close to St Louis. Spent the rest of War at 4B.
Thanks for sharing.
Mark Felton already let the Panther and Tiger out of the bag...but I can never get enough WW2 History and you're great. Himmler always wanted to play soldier.
P.S.
Are they twins? 05:00 👀
lol, nope these were Devers and Patch.
Great video. BZ
Tthe US was stretched beyond thin on the front line.
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well done hus good vid could have been a bit longer
Hey Martin, thanks for your reply. I understand. My on-location vids are usually a bit shorter.
Speechless!! Fabulous episode!!
I never heard much of this battle!!
I guess the bulge is what is taught in North America!!
And I’ve always wondered if they had not wasted the resources if they could have defended Berlin from the east??
With this info the question is more serious!!
Thanks again!!
The Soviet Operation Bagration had annihilated Army group Centre...85 Wehrmacht divisions, up to 1 million men were destroyed....the Red Army were taking Berlin one way or another.
Thanks for your reply! Within two weeks another Hungary episode.
Its actualy quite impresive that a country the alies and sovjets believed was on the brink of collaps actualy managed to find the resources for three major offensives in quick succesion , Battle of the bulg +bodemplatte , nordwind and Operation spring awakening.
If they kept their reserves in to place and all resources spend on those offensives on defensive position they could have lasted longer with all the consequences as at the end of the war even the russians where exausted , over extended . and with the fragile relations with the alies on the western front . and with market garden as low point . it could have been an even mesier final months of the war.
you are forgetting operation Konrad in Hungary , just before "Spring Awakening"
@@gaudente1900 Ah true i forgot about that one . Thanks .
Unfortunately for the German people they didn't stop fighting when beaten.
That's not impressive, it's daft
@@julianshepherd2038 That is a stupid awnser as they brits made different comments when the dutch surrenderd in may 1940.
And could aply to britain as well why would they continue a war they already where knocked out of .
@Marcus: Thanks for your reply!
One last roar from the once mighty Wehrmacht, sadly it was only slightly more than a nuisance for the Allies who enjoyed greater superiority in all terms.
A very nice video, loved the monument dedicated to the fallen soldiers, and the artillery piece as well!
The Allies had localized superiority and greater capacity to replace losses but the Germans still had plenty of manpower and material, check out the hundreds of tanks and aircraft that were captured in Norway when the war ended, literally several divisions worth of equipment, what they did not have was enough fuel to operate them
F the mighty Wehrmacht.
I'm very happy they were weak.
@@marcofava you can't win ww2 without fuel.
Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.
Sadly?
@@luxembourgishempire2826 yes, sadly it was all in vain, all was lost and they still decided to throw their lives because of a lunatic who failed to admit it
Operation Nordwind is a big part of the game Medal of Honor - Spearhead...
Okay! Haven't played that game.
Hi HH
Just an idea:
What about an in depth series of resistance in Europe during WWII? You could start with the Dutch resistance. I know there is a lot to tell about ie. Gestapos infiltration of big parts of the resistance with huge cost.
Interesting idea. Did you know I already covered the Dutch resistance:
ua-cam.com/video/u9DWNOhHK_g/v-deo.html
@@HistoryHustle Just saw the video and I can see there is a lot of stuff to go in depth with.
Please use Km when talking about distance. Only the Americans use Miles these days and they have to learn metric distances.
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The funny thing is the Allies did know of the German build up before these final offensives, the Bulge and Nordwind. Various US Army G-2 staffs had identified it. They weren't stupid. But the senior commanders all believed the German incapable of offensive action at this stage of the war. And it seems that they were right. The Germans ran out of fuel before they even reached the Meuse river much less Antwerp.
So who is looking stupid now.
Thanks for sharing your insights on this.
Could you cover the Battle of Bzura of the 1939 Polish-German war? It’s quite underrated if you ask me.
One day if I travel there.
Anything bad mentioned about how bad or how close the allies lost or could have lost a conflict was omitted from the history books. Another Example: is Operation Winter Storm. Where as in December 16 to the 22rd Elements of German/Italian Troops at a 2-1 disadvantage smashed the US 92nd (The Buffalo Soldiers) into a route.
I doubt it, I mean that the Allies would lose WW2. Think Germany lost it by 1942. Perhaps 1941 already..
What is considered heavy losses?
Always up for debate.
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Hello, I'm looking for old footage of the US Army from Dec. 44 to Jan. 45. it's about the invasion of germany/saarland. The places are Walsheim, Gersheim, Reinheim Bliesbrück, Seyweiler, Medelsheim. Many Thanks
Can't help you, sorry.
My father was in this battle 7th army 14th armored 48th/47th tank battalion
Thanks for sharing.
@@HistoryHustle my father started in north Africa with I think the 2nd armored than was in operation Husky made it out alive he was shooting so fast and had so many targets the gun jammed he had to jump out of the tank under fire to ramrod the shell out. He lost a tank during the invasion when the duck operator out ranked my father and told him get these tanks of my ship my father said the water is to deep and it was , lost that tank probably still sitting on the floor of the Mediterranean after this battle he maned a gun on the ship for battle points during a storm a ammo box fell snapping his leg he was sent home and stayed to help whip new armored division into shape for the invasion of France they needed him because of his combat experience. He landed in southern France with the 14th armored was a tank commander till the end of the war his tank was hit many times but him and most of his men survived one lost his leg when a shell made it into the turret was spinning around like a red hot donut when they were escaping out the hatch the man ahead of my father's leg touched that shell spinning cutting his leg off they had to run a couple hundred feet to find some cover the man who lost his leg kept up with the other men hoping on one leg. He survived . My father lost his driver when a nazi youth jumped up from a hole in the street hit the driver with something my father said was like a posterous round I don't think it was a panzer faust maybe a panzer shrek my father said if it didn't hit his driver it would have killed everyone in the tank I guess the driver's body absorbed the impact my dad said the driver disappeared only his legs were left in the tank. My dad said those nazi youth killed an American soldier in every town they went through.
Very interesting to read, thanks for writing this down.
@@HistoryHustle during operation Husky the germans had their 88s in a loading dock of a hospital and were cutting our guy's down bad no matter how hard they tried they couldn't hit those 88s the only thing they could do was have everyone shot at the hospital at once so it would collapse but the hospital was in use so non of the officer's would call in the artillery barrage my father finally called in the strike bringing the hospital down on the 88s silencing them for good . I asked my father how could he do that he said he couldn't stand seeing those 88s destroying our guys and he explained because the germans placed their guns in that position hiding behind people it was on them for the innocent lives lost. My father was scared of those 88s .
Hi Stefan,
Nord Wind was not the last Major German Offensive but it was the greatest offensive in the west.
De realy last Offensive of the germans was - Frühlingserwachen (Spring Awakening) - in 1945 at Lake Balaton (Hungary).
True, this video is about the last major German offensive in the west.
By Hitler's order on 22 April the last planned and executed offensive was the German 12th army push to rescue Berlin
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Ik heb eigenlijk een vraag die me al weken dwarszit: Moet je niet voor de klas staan?
Sta ik inmiddels al weer.
Sorry but the Ardennes Offensive was much larger, in terms of combatants and casualties, of armor, artillery, aircraft, than this offensive. Twice as large, in fact. But you are right in saying that people know very little about it, Audie Murphy Exploits notwithstanding. General Devers, especially, was a fine commander. Only historians recognize his name now.
Thanks for your reply. Citino claims Nordwind was almost as large.
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This is known as the battle of the Colmar pocket.
Actually the battle for the Colmar pocket followed after Nordwind and will be covered next week!
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What about Operation Blücher 1945 ?
What about that?
@@HistoryHustle It's happened in April 1945 after nordwind operation
I wouldn't consider it the last MAJOR German offensive.
I've heard Hitler had a tiny "Bulge"
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That's where it came down to. Thanks as always, James!
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My dad &Uncle we’re Ww2 vets. My dad Western Europe my Uncle Italy& southernEurope. Never forget.
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I wouldn't say that the German infiltrators caused panic among the Allies. I'd say that they caused confusion as the Allied command had to make sure that all orders were legit and so troops would know if they got false orders from that new major who just got to them. Not to mention if that fresh unit that came to free the guards of a bridge are legit.
I believe there was panic. Panic can be interpretated differently.
Was that the invasion of Hungary 1944 i haven't looked it up
Operation Margarethe and Panzerfaust. More on that later.
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I recognized some of the German Ardennes footage. It was actually staged post campaign for propaganda purposes!
True. Footage is rare and it can be staged. Either way it gives a proper impression.
A slugfest for the Grand Finale...what a useless waste of human lives...
Indeed.
Omg I had to wildest dream. That Stalin launch nukes and it hit LA and I was the new iron man and I basically had to save my mom and grandma after another bomb was set in New York and flew them to an island. And all the worlds nukes were released. It’s a lot more and it felt so real it was nuts.
These dreams always end up like this when I leave some audio book of a nazi or nkvd on lol it was amaaahzin
Himmler looked like a beeta! Lol
Wow, what a dream!
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Push back the Americans ! Let the Soviets reach Berlin first. It's not like those have a bigger score to settle...
Madness.
Pretty much.
There were later major german offensives then nordwind
Sorry, misread it. Of the western front its absolutely correct
No problem. It's true, Operation Spring Awakening was later, but it was on the eastern front in Hungary.
@@HistoryHustle yes that is true. Was more referring to operation potsdam in 1945, the last german offensive. Keep up the good work
They knew that putting the same effort on the Eastern front would yield poor results , because the Soviets could recoup heavy losses fairly easily .............Western allies , not so much .
Please explain.
Steiner's attack
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Or in more contemporary vocabulary: Operation Wokeness on Rhein 🤦♂️
Please explain.
@@HistoryHustle Operation Wacht am Rhein.
Don't get it too hard on me. It's just an association on the present day public denouncement going on.
I understand.
why are the Germans always the bad ones, I don't understand. we are such a friendly people
Always the bad ones?
This was a rather small offensive and a total waste of expansive material.
Small compared to earlier offensives yes.
Militarily it wasnt a tactical victory but a pyrrian victory and for me was not a victory since the germans failed to accomplish their targets
Fair point.
That's the Nazis. All tactics and no strategy. The point is to win the war not collect battle honours at the expense of the civilian population.
@@julianshepherd2038 at the begunning of the war they had excellent and innovative strategies. Plus ardennes offensive was brilliant however many times in operations luck plays an important role
Should have had more of these blows
Please explain.
Another Flop
Please explain.
I should of phrased that better. I meant that in the end, as one might expect. the offensive failed.
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@@HistoryHustle Yes thats what i do. I save them up until a day when i am not so upset about how this world got jacked up then watch them back to back. Lol 😉.
Honestly i get very upset inside when i learn things in history that happened that nobody gets told about and the majority of people don't have knowledge of. Usually this information paints in the spots left blank and then the whole picture looks very different then the one we got showed originally by the official history. In a way i think we are still fighting WW1.