WW2 From the German Perspective (Full Documentary) | Animated History
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Beevor, Antony (1994). Crete:The Battle and the Resistance Westview Press. pg 231
Beevor, Antony (1998). Stalingrad. New York: Viking. Pg 41-42
Beevor, Antony (2012). The Second World War. New York: Back Bay Books. Pg 158.
Browning, Christopher (2004). The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 - March 1942. Lincoln and Jerusalem: University of Nebraska Press and Yad Vashem.
Glantz, David (2011). Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk, Volume 2. Birmingham: Helion & Company
Glantz, David M. (2003). Before Stalingrad : Barbarossa - Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941. Stroud: Tempus. Pg 31
Glantz, David (2001). The Soviet-German War 1941-1945: Myths and Realities: A Survey Essay. Pg 9.
Hammond, Bryn. El Alamein: The Battle that Turned the Tide of the Second World War. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
Hooker, Richard D. Jr. (Spring 1999). "'The World Will Hold Its Breath': Reinterpreting Operation Barbarossa". Parameters. United States Army War College: Pg 150-164
Jackson, Ashley (2006). The British Empire and the Second World War. London & New York: pg 106
Riefenstahl, Leni (1987). Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir. New York: Picador. Pg 295.
Schreiber, Gerhard; Stegemann, Bernd; Vogel, Detlef (1995). Germany and the Second World War: The Mediterranean, South-east Europe, and North Africa, 1939-1941. Vol. III. London: Oxford University Press. Pg 530-531.
Tomasevich, Jozo. War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945. Stanford University Press, 1975.
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Rice, Mark A. The Practice Of Operational Art In Operation Weserübung: The German Invasion Of Norway 1940 (N.p.: Lucknow Books, 2014).
Shepperd, Alan. France 1940: Blitzkrieg in the West (United Kingdom: Bloomsbury USA, 1990).
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Plus many more... Find them in the descriptions of our videos on "How did Germany Storm Europe," "Beginning of the End," "D-Day German Perspective," and "Endsieg."
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Can you do a video on zeppelins?
Could you do ww2 from the Belgian perspective next?
Woah
Nice! New video
Brusilov offensive?
For the non-politically active Germans, I've heard the war described as: "We were estatic after the victory over France and were expecting peace and the spoils of victory. Instead, the war kept going. And going."
Which is never addressed in the Vid...in a Vid about the German perspective. Yeah!
@@mikhailiagacesa3406 Armchair History does nothing but /his/ propaganda
Yea but they got greedy
@@BrianMarcus-nz7cs Who are "they"? You do realize that they did not were voting on their strategic decisions? And even Hitler was forced to react thorugout the war after he miscalcucated the British reaction
A quick peace was the hope of the German public in 1940, but Hitler wanted Lebensraum.
1939-1941: “Winning is fun”
1942-1948: “Losing is not fun”
I think you meant 1945
@@thefirstkingdogo1126No, 1958
@@Pao234_ u mean 1948 right
Well denazification went on well after 1945. I wonder why we never talk about that period 😅
@@Btn1136 It didn't lol. Many prominent Nazis were classified as followers and continued their political careers in Post-War Germany, that's also the reason the 68-generation wanted to speak about the crimes of the Nazis (their parent generation).
My German grandfather (born 1934) watched this whole video without pause & was fascinated the entire time by how much information was out there that he didn't know. Thank you for making this knowledge so accessible
Your german grandfather dont know german history? Sad
@@benscoke5777I think they mean, didn’t know much about what was behind the scenes of the war.
@@TheFinderOvDrama but even that is kinda weird
@ygnj3840 - assuming you're American, you think you know all of American History and the details behind current events as we live them?
Ha, exactly.
@@The_FSOJ I'm german
Just wanted to swing in and say: I really love how you covered Canada's involvement and successes in the war effort. It's funny how many people forget that our country was not only involved, but was regarded as having some of the most terrifying troops to deal with.
When people don’t realize it was an actual WORLD WAR lol
Canada? Terrifying?!! Really????
its not a sports contest, chill out
@@dreso8945You have no idea, how monstrous Canada is when they're in Wartime. They are absolute Units.
@@dramaticstyle9431 can you tell me about the wars that the Canadian army had ?
I'm really interested to know .
One day the Armchair will create a 5 hour long all inclusive compilation/documentary of WW2
One day the Armchair will create a 5 hour long all inclusive compilation/documentary of WW3
@@scherzo0 One day a living breathing armchair birthed from radiation will create a documentary about ww4
Perhaps.
Mayhaps..
Something's telling me that would exceed the 128 GB video limit UA-cam has.
A massive documentary about the German perspective?!
This is gonna be great!
It ie not a masive documentary,but a colection of small documentary he united,if you watch it you notice them,they didnt even remove the otro and intro of them
You know what i mean. I know it’s a series of documentaries but it still fun to recap his videos in one documentary
All Yeah!
Good because my great grandfather said the Western powers should have stayed out of it.
@@curllizy9488 true
@1:18:18 My workshop crew watches this channel on our lunch break on occasion, and every time we see your pipe everyone cheers and takes a puff or three on our pipes that we all made here at the shop. Thanks for the excellent productions!
When the armchair historian uploads a one and a half hour video you know it’s gonna be good
immediatelly watching
isn't this just a compilation of his previous uploads?
@@airplayruleNo I don't think it is
You said it man
How quickly you produce these long high quality is astounding. Keep up the great work!
Not to belittle the effort but they are just a collation of previous videos - its great though to have them in one single video....
Still they have to compile them and cut and add certain transitions
quickly? lol
Watch the “greatest story never told” or “europa the last battle” if you want the german perspective
@@Basedlocation pure fascist propaganda
This is the best and probably the most detailed animated account of WWII EVER come across.
Keep up the good work.
Uh yeah cause there’s a total of like 3 animated versions of WWII
He said nothing about why Germans were pissed off and what haapened to them before it started which is a bit lame if you're making a video about Germans perspective... But it's difficult to honestly do that cause people don't like hearing those bits for some reason lol
@@chrisom4699 Because then they'd realize that they have been lied to--from every angle--for the past ~80 years and they'll realize that Germany was totally justified, and trying to do the world a favor on a scale never seen before.
But hey, at least we have Trans Story Hour.
That is true@@chrisom4699
@@chrisom4699As always.
I love the video, so much analysis and so in depth. The animation is simply superb! An uncle of mine, being a military historian, once visited Omaha Beach. He was so surprised that the embankments were so vertical, although he knew of it already. It's really one thing to read or see a photo of and another to see in person. Very quieting.
Awesome work Armchair Historia! Your animations keep getting better and your work is great as usual! One thing I want to say is Halder was responsible for operation Barbarossa. In 1940, Paulus and Wegner told Halder that Germany could not succeed in the Eastern front because of logistics problems. Yet, Halder decided to proceed with the invasion!
Additionally Halder, Guderain decided to go for Moscow while Hitler wanted to go South for the oil in 1941
I think all the German Generals not just Hitler wanted war but they lead a quick success in France get over their head
The Germans lost because the British refused to surrender and they ran out of oil. And Yugoslavia stalled barbarossa. AH bit more than he could chew
Watch the “greatest story never told” or “europa the last battle” if you want the german perspective
Hitler didn’t die in Berlin, he escaped to Argentina. See the film Greywolf.
@@flashgordon6670 👽
@@flashgordon6670 “my source is I made it up”
Thanks! You and the armchair team are at least in the top3 (probably #1) of all WW2 content creators. Thanks again
Give this man some likes for that 2$
Finally a dono in a currency I know lol
Well… that’s assuming it’s US dollars lol
@@stargazer-elite ah yes dino
@@Ritz38GOSH DANG IT AUTOCORRECT AAAAAAAAAAAAH lol thanks for telling me 😅
@@stargazer-elite also "finely" bro wtf is your autocorrect on 💀💀
Seeing your progress along the way, I want to give props for how far your animation has come.
Nice man stoked to see how your production quality and everything in general has improved and refined over the years of you creating this channel. Your work has paid off (and the work of your team as well too!)
Keep em' coming, I love history!
Such amazing content. I think i speaking on the behalf of all your viewers, when I say that you guys make such one-of-a-kind content. You guys are irreplaceable to us. Thank you for everything you do for us. Long live The Armchair Historian!
armchair historian PIN THIS this dude gave like $10
@@zach1841 he probably doesn't even have time to read comments much putting all this work in
@@zach1841 bruh …. _$10?!?_ 😂😂😂 I use a 10 as a cumrag bruh 🤦♂️ why are you so surprised
don't ever speak for me
Are we not gonna talk about the thumbnail hugarys and italys borders are drawn wrong
This isn’t “from the German perspective” this is just an analysis of the events that happened if anything it’s the allied perspective
Yes, just the regular old story. Nothing else nothing more.
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Well yes, if you want the German perspective just watch Nazi propaganda where the Nazis speak incoherently about how the Jews are the ones responsible for this and that while they themselves take money from the German people behind their backs and use it to purchase yachts and villas.
I love that this channel does no gimmicks and bad jokes. Quality remains extremely high. Thank you!
Well… “Good vibes only!” and Uncle Adolf with adorbs hearts in his eyes for the ubermensch… has something to say about the jokes part. 🤣
Lol… and Hitler hurting his foot on the Stalingrad door, then doing the allusion to the French “danced the jig” propaganda… yeah, there are plenty of bad jokes in here… and a gimmick or two, as well. Nothing wrong with it… great channel. Just sayin’. 😆
Pepe Silvia joke at 25:47
There’s jokes and gimmicks all over, what are you even talking about
To the creator: Bare with my story. I added this video to my queue and after a couple minutes was going to move forward. I usually prefer video documentaries vs animated ones. But I started doing household chores but left it on in the background. The more it played the more intrigued I became. I am a WWII history buff and a follower of Mark Felton. Anyway I sat down and kept watching and thoroughly enjoyed your work. In particular your significant telling of the post war years. Typically most creators only cover Nuremburg but you dove deeper. I knew the basics such as 10 yrs in Russia etc but you did an excellent job and I learned some things. I liked and subscribed. I look forward to watching more of your work.
I’m usually not a big fan of war history but I loved this documentary, very clearly explained and kept my attention the whole time. Excellent presentation!
well when its simplified like a child tale with good vs evil i can understand how it might appeal more to your avg iqd person.
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You seems like a funny guy.
@@cruiserpt3840my god just shut up honestly you sound like a clown
@@cruiserpt3840:D hahaha you're so mad
I never thought I’d be glad for the sponsor part of the video
Had no idea it was coming out
Interesting that Stalingrad and Fall Blau get a like passing mention but then Normandy has like 10 minutes.
Correction like 30 minutes about Normandy.
That’s Western bias for ya
My grandfather piloted one of those gliders. He ended up breaking his ankle, but continued fighting for two weeks before he was able to get his ankle medically tended to.
A breathtaking production. Very well done.
Absolutely fantastic!!! Thank you so much for making this. Excellent commentary.
The way you educate your audience is truly immaculate! Forever grateful for this channel!
I don't know if anyone noticed, but I love the inclusion of the Wunderwaffe DG-2 from cod zombies in the form of a blueprint at timestamp 57:47
Great work . Surprised how balanced and deeply researched
A FULL DOCUMENTARY??? YESSSSS!
Not to belittle the effort but they are just a collation of previous videos - its great though to have them in one single video....
Watch the “greatest story never told” or “europa the last battle” if you want the german perspective
@@berenger1002 yeah you are right, still cool tho
@@Basedlocation I watched Europa. Really, REALLY fucking eye opening. Had me in denial for over a month as well as I didn't want to believe what I was seeing since it completely goes against EVERYTHING I've learned about AH and WWII. But I think it's imperative everyone hears the other side, and come to their own conclusions.
You know it's a good day when the Armchair Historian uploads
Yessir
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Stolen comment
A 1 and half hour. Then its Godly
A minor correction, but one that gets repeated often and is completely incorrect -
Germany declaring war on the United States did not "honor it's treaty obligations" at all.
Germany was under no obligation to declare war on the United States, which made Hitler's decision even more baffling. According to the treaties with Japan and Italy, those countries were only obligated to declare war if one of THEM was attacked. So because Japan attacked the United States, Germany had no obligation at all. The same reason why Japan didn't declare war against every country Germany attacked.
Hitler had two arguments for going to war against the United States, 1) A state of war practically existed already with the US supplying Britain and protecting its convoys, so by declaring open war, Germany could now attack those supply convoys directly and interrupt the flow of supplies to its enemy Britain, and 2) It would entice the Japanese to join him in the fight against the Soviet Union, where he needed help. (The second one didn't work out so well... sorry Hitler.)
You know it’s good when you can’t find yourself to be bothered by anything but to enjoy this masterpiece
Wow! What an amazing well put together video! Thank you for it!
What a WONDERFUL Sunday morning this has turned out to be with an hour and a half quality documentary. Thank You...
If you were being stepped on by the world you'd lash out too. Germany's come back between the world wars was a show of strength it's people have
this is Netflix material, thank you for such amazing work, thank you and your entire tam.
The information in this was so good I had to start writing everything down with a ball point pen
Wow, just amazing, thanks very much Griffin for such a beautiful video, especially with such high quality
with any other youtuber i would never watch a video this long but you make it so fun and interesting!
thanks for this amazing video, i love to watch your video’s. continue the good work
This is a nice Chronological lineup of the WW2 videos from start to end. I really enjoyed it. Thank you Armchair Historian!
TGSNT, Hellstorm, and David Cole's documentary are excellent if you want to hear the other sides perspective straight from the source.
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@@theodorechill what source? Like the old men of ww2?
@@McKeeNJackson Investigations, testimonies, official documents, the perspective of Germans that isn't the allied propaganda and trillion dollar narrative. Take Fred Leuchter for example. There are several documentaries you can watch and then study/look into that make the world make complete sense the way it is today.
@@theodorechillisn't he a holocaust denier?
The animators did such a great job
This is magnificently laid out. Thanks for posting this.
i cant believe a documentary of this length and quality is free on youtube
Awesome and Solid work! You are at 2 Million Mark very soon! Not even Steiner's attack can stop you
In all seriousness, Great work!
Please also mention Halder on how he ignored Paulus and Wegner's warning in 1940 about not winning on the Eastern Front
Amazing content guys, wasn't expecting this massive content drop.
Your welcome
Super gute Dokumentation, vielen Dank dafür! Hat sich gelohnt, mit den tollen Animationen.
Weidlings speech in Downfall is my favourite scene in any movie
I figured this would be a literal feature-length film with all the videos that have been made on this topic.
Good video! It always makes my day better when the armchair historian uploads
Not only Historical video, but the amount of memes is just gold.
These videos are incredible. Thank you so much for them.
The visuals in these documentarys are always stellar!
Holy hell, didin't expect for this masterpiece to release this quickly.
Not to belittle the effort but they are just a collation of previous videos - its great though to have them in one single video....
Very informative. Thank you for your time invested in this
It blows my mind that content like this is free to watch
Love your videos though I have to point out that tanks were in fact used in the invasion of Norway. Regardless of their numbers or impact, they participated in the battle for important inland sites such as Tretten in the Gausdal. These were Panzer II’s…
A wise man once said: "An artist can change the world".
Free palestine vs Expensive Israel
Iam Anti Septic
Wenn er heute existieren würde, würde er Türken und Araber mehr hassen als den Juden selbst.
@@wickendiana8310 or both could just share the land lol they both can share the city and make their own capitols elsewhere
@@stargazer-elite sure why not, seems good to me
I enjoyed every second of this documentary it’s very great I’m glad I came across this channel it looks good
I sincerely wish success on you in the future, as your content is always high-quality. I'm glad you met your Patreon goals.
1:03:54 Steiner? That name rings a bell …
1:04:06 … and the “Downfall” scene gets referred to.
Such an interesting topic! And great video, aiming to make mine this good so youre such an inspiration!
1:29:15 Beautifully said Griffin. Fantastic video as usual!
Armchair Historian casually uploading +1 hour documentary is perfect to sit back, relax and grab some snacks
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Not to belittle the effort but they are just a collation of previous videos - its great though to have them in one single video....
@@berenger1002 Stop copying and pasting your comment everywhere lol
Found this fascinating and exciting at times. Great production great work. Enjoy the little caricatures.
I just wanted to say thank you for using the aspect ratio you do for your videos
Maybe your best production yet. Great animation and love the storytelling
It's mind-boggling how much time, effort and talent was put into animating these videos. Wonder how much money they make. Why would anyone even agree to create all the artwork for and fully animate a 90 minute UA-cam video? How were they persuaded?
Amazing video brother keep up the awesome work!
Dude the memes in this are just absolute gold and had me cackling. So well executed hahaha.
Also one little thing but I've never heard someone pronounce "in earnest" as you do, "in ernst" at 44:05. I've always heard it pronounced as "in err-nist". Is that an accent thing?
Love these long version videos. Your WW2 content is fantastic.
Masterpiece work of immersive production, great narration, top-notch writing. One of the best history videos on UA-cam.
During the Ardenne offensive map sequence, the german armored units are caracterised as Pazner Division. Little typo
That ending segment talking about after the war was really refreshing since i never even thought about there being life after the war for those soldiers, as silly as that sounds. Really was great, thanks for the balls shart banger basado 😎👍
thank you man. i always loved history and i wished i had friends to discuss history and current events with but all my friends are bored with history or just pretend to understand it. with your vids you have allowed my friends to atleast tolerate history and to be somewhat curious. that alone is alot that your vids has done for me. i still have to look for more friends hahahah
Try some board games 😸
@@BrianMarcus-nz7cs my friends are only into chess and yugioh. which is ok and all but a war board game for 4-6 sounds like a blast !!!lol
Fantastic work griffin, you're invaluable to the history community on youtube! Id imagine this will be used in classes in schools
I know it takes alot of work and time to fit a big subject like this into a video and it's longer but alot of us still have the ability to pay attention long enough to really enjoy it. Thank u so much Armchair. Some subjects u just can't make a short video. Way too much info.
I’ve watched this maybe a hundred times but it’s really well put together to the point that it can be that
Technically, according to the Tripartite Pact, the Germans were NOT obliged to declare war on the U.S., because Japan, not America, had been the aggressor.
I just love, love, your brand of story telling!😊
A better documentary called "The Greatest Story Never Told" has already been made from the true German perspective. But you can't find it on youtube anymore.
It is an probably incorrect Nazi propaganda film that goes against the provable morale truth that the denial or distortion of history in any way or sense is an assault on truth and understanding.
@@smidge6532 I reckon it depends on one's point of view.
Right before fully releasing Fire And Maneuver, he drops this masterpiece!
Brother I don't know if anyone ever told you but there is also history beyond ww2. You're are good content creator I want to see some other things from you.
He has done outside of ww2
He's done other videos on other moments of history. WW2 is just the most popular which Everyone enjoys.
It's also the most important thing to happen in the last 100 years
I’ve watched half of this, but have to go to work now! So far so good! Can’t wait to see how it ends!
(No spoilers please!)
If anyone wants to learn real reason behind WW2 Search for "Europa the last battle" it's 12 hour documentary about how Churchil collieded with Judea & Stalin to start WW2 with Germany.
Adolf Hitler: A Last Appeal to Reason
Yes. And so did the Germans. The eternal victim in this stupid narrative, Oy Vey !is in fact the eternal elephant in the room no one is allowed to point at and criticise.
Having taken a keen interest in modern history and the war I was fairly ignorant of the events immediately after it's conclusion. Well done this channel on providing such rich information, probably the best video from them yet!
Love these long video! Excellent work AH!
Very interesting and well narrated...thank you!
One thing I'd like to mention about the responsibility of soldiers for their action: What can a soldier do when governed by a criminal leadership and when being ordered to do criminal things? Regarding your argumentation, when he obeys, he will be killed by the Allies. When he rejects, he will be killed by his officers. So what can a soldier do then? Deserting means death, not doing what they are told means death, doing what they are told means death. Following your statements there is no way for the soldier to survive this, no matter what he does. That said, doesn't that seem quite unfair?
Germany needed every conquest to be quick so that they could get their men back to the factories. This worked in Poland and France but really fell on its face in Africa and the east.
The loss of Norway was one of the largest British blunders of the war imo.
“I was saving the planet from an Axis of Darkness, while you were back home opening National Parks! Yes!” Winston Churchill
"Bully! A challenge i love competion now where would i mount the stuffed head of a winston"
You're just awesome can't say enough about the job you guys do. Thank you Thank you thank you!!!!!
The use of memes and rotoscoping in this is brilliant.
An hour and a half of Armchair Historian!? Christmas came early!!!
The product quality of this is absolutely astounding - so engaging, illuminating and plain relatable - amazing job!
Why is nowhere in this documentary mentioned that Germany started the WW2 with its ally the USSR? Yes, Nazi Germany and the USSR were allies when the WW2 began and they had the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact with main goal to partition Central and Eastern Europe between them?
"Reactionary historians and ideologists are still busy pushing the myth of collusion between the Soviet Union and Hitler Germany. For example, the authors of the official West German history book, Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, write not about the German attack on Poland but about an alleged Germano-Soviet attack on Poland in September 1939,? Forrest C. Pogue in the United States tries to prove that the non-aggression treaty with Germany “arrayed the Soviet Union on the side of Hitler’? In 1979, these malicious fabrications were picked up by the ideological mentors of the Polish counter-revolution, the agents of the imperialist intelligence services, which entrenched themselves in the KOS-KOR and among the leaders of the much touted Solidarity. They interpret the liberation of Western Byelorussia and the Western Ukraine as Soviet annexation and equate Germany’s treacherous attack on Poland, which deprived it of its national independence, with the march of liberation of the Soviet army through territory which had been taken from Soviet Russia and which was under imminent threat of Nazi occupation."
I have learnt alot about WW2. Revisiting it only fills me with sadness.
Give us more 1 hour and 30 minutes instead of 30 minutes as this very good and I hope the only censorship is the thumbnail not video
Please do a video about WW2 from the Norwegian perspective or an invasion of Norway. Of all the early war invasions by Germany, Norway took the longest and during occupation they maintained a pretty successful resistance movement