I can never get enough WW2 Barbarossa, Blau, Uranus, or any WW2 campaign. Legit let out an audible “ayyy!!” When I saw this video pop up on my feed. Love catching these as i lay up for bed
It's Operation Drumbeat for me. Recently found a huge interest in U-Boats and life on board them but I had no idea they operated just off the east coast of the US and Canada for a time. Like one crew was just in awe of the NYC skyline at night.
Hitlers first defeat happened a year before with the Air Battle of Britain leaving the Luftwaffe unable to control the air over Russia during Barbarossa! Also showed the Germans were not the Master race after all
This is a troll. No clue what they are talking about. Unless you are talking about the quicker defeat of Germany and operation paperclip with the scientists coming to the US. That is quite a stretch.
Like sun tzu said” always give your enemy an avenue of retreat for if you back your enemy into a corner they will fight like dogs” don’t put your enemy on deaths ground because the alternative is fight and die but your may win!
So it was the winter that won. And the reason winter got them was because they delayed 3 months in Greece. The original Barbarossa was suppose to start sometime in March April but then they had to intervene through operation Mariza since Mussolini got clobbered in Greece.
Germans sustain heavy losses regardless. Even if they start typhoon on 10 September, what it took to get there was too costly. German high command thinks that soviet manpower is far less that what it really is. the wehrmacht's not set up for close quarter street fighting. Meaning they siege moscow. The soviets will not surrender. Soviet reserve troops launch a massive counter attack that turns into an encirclement. The balkans campaign only costs the Germans about 11,500 casualties. What's that, about a division? It turns out that the soviets were far deeper than german intelligence suggested. Can't envision germany being successful without at least shelving their ideology so that they can use the masses of eastern Europe against stalin. Possibly having Japan go for Siberia rather than attacking pearl. But those are some heavy alternate scenarios as japan and germany were never that close and those Germans were nothing if not their ideology.
No. Remember, winter affected both sides. They lost because the Soviets had millions more men and didn't give up. They were destined to fail unless the Soviets just quit - and that didn't happen.
@@ЮрийГабрилович tell that to Napoleon...it wasn't the Russian Army that won. They just retreated (brilliance on the part of Kutuzov) and let the Russian winter have its toll
The Germans had just never experienced an enemy that fought back like the Russians by the end of September’41 the Germans had suffered 500k casualties an unsustainable number for their army and the War was already lost . In Dec. of ‘41 Stalin was already talking to Churchill about how they would divide up postwar Germany.
@@Smudgeroon74 I never said anything formal was reached . Informal communications in Dec of 41’ Stalin was probing Churchill on how to divide Germany and again in Moscow in 42’ face to face they made agreements on the division of Berlin . This is why Berlin is divided even though the Russians conquered the city .
@@Smudgeroon74 absolutely at Tehran , Yalta and Potsdam post war division of Europe was formalized with US participation. The point is Stalin had the hubris and apparently foresight to begin negotiations with Churchill in December of 1941 on how to divide Germany with the British whilst the German army was poised 50 kilometers from Moscow .
By early July, the German armies were running into fresh new well equipped Russian armies. German supply issues were beginning to affect the progress of the advance.
@@davidcalhoun1731 besides the Siberians, who did not take part until the battle of Moscow in December, I would not call any Russian army in 1941 to be well equipped. The T 34 had not yet been into production fully and they were a few here and there as 1941 went on armies were equipped with the T26 mostly which the Germans were able to knock out easily. What surprised the Germans more than anything else was surrounded Russian units to the death, and caused them lots of casualties and slow down their advance and tied up the infantry armored units waiting to rush ahead
@@BufordTGleason The KV-1 was a complete surprise to the Germans. There were some units that had a good number of T-34’s but were used in penny packets. By July 10th the Germans were realizing something was amiss. The Russian frontier armies had been decimated by then. At Smolensk is where the Russian second echelon armies surprised the Germans. Supply issues were beginning and the German infantry armies were slowed by the Russians not surrendering after surrounded.
One note that the producers got wrong/inaccurate. The Nazis knew that the US was a dangerous opponent (many were WW1 veterans). However, one of the driving forces was the belief that the US would declare war on Germany anyway and that it was better for morale for Germany to declare war first. There was a lot to support this point of view since the US and Germany were essentially already at war in the Atlantic with USN ships authorized to fire on German submarines and German submarines attacking US merchant ships. It also makes sense on some level to declare war on your terms, rather than waiting and risking the US declaring war at a time when Germany had even fewer resources to respond with. It certainly wasn't a great decision, but it was not Hitler's biggest blunder by any stretch.
The German declaration of war came at a point where it was expected that the 6th army would occupy the final 10% of stalingrad finally capturing the city and fully defeating the red army. If the red army capitulated Germany would have the resources needed to fight both the UK and United States.
@@bsaintnyc This makes no sense, the German army with these resourses could not hope to compete with the number of American troops that they could bring. Attrition is a real thing.
If Operation Barbarossa have been started earlier rather than putting up with that side-show in the Balkans and Yugoslavia, it may have changed the course of the Russo-German War.
@@marianmaslak According to historical records, the German invasion of the Balkans, known as Operation Marita, began on April 6, 1941 and resulted in the surrender of Yugoslavia on April 17, 1941 and the fall of Greece on April 27, 1941. This campaign lasting approximately 3 weeks delayed the start of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which had originally been planned to begin on May 15, 1941. As a result, the invasion of the Soviet Union was pushed back by approximately 4-6 weeks, delaying the start of Barbarossa until June 22, 1941. The Balkans campaign prior to Barbarossa resulted in a delay of around 4-6 weeks for the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union.If they had started earlier, they possibly would have captured Moscow and other key industrial Soviet cities, and would not have been caught by the Russian Autumn mud and winter at the most critical point of Barbarossa. How is that a myth? FYI, a myth is a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation.
I believe an earlier start to Barbarossa may have resulted in a Russian defeat. Yet the other allies would have won after a few more years. The unknown is what nuclear weapons might have been involved, and by whom.
The mental images you painted regarding the miserable conditions during the battle of Stalingrad were about as bleak as can get. "Excuse me Mr. Wolfenhäusersteinbergerdörff, but I'm trying to eat this moldy, maggot-infused Schnitzelwurst and you've got the audacity to drop trow and start poöpenfärten right next to me?"
One particularly jarring note….Herr Gitface was 52 years old when Barbarossa started, so why did the makers of this doco use a bloke who looks about 32?
lol they take a lot of the same historic video clips obviously. Idk if you’re talking about the narrators or ppl being interviewed. But that is really the same where productions edit and mix already existing content to create new content
During Barbarossa Germany always had a shortage of Air cover due to its defeat a year before against the British during THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN. It also had no Navy again due to the lose of the Graf spee, Bismark and a whole flotilla at Narvik
@@Smudgeroon74 It's something that requires a lifetime of reading, studying and not taking any single source as gospel. There's always an agenda at work. History is written to suite those people in power.
The logisticians told the military planners that blitzkrieg would penetrate 600 miles into the USSR and then outrun its supply line, which was still supported with the use of 600,000 horses. After the initial successes, the advance stalled after about 600 miles.
I would imagine that using horses in Russian conditions was better than using mechanised vehicles. In the same way that Amundsen using huskies was wiser than Scott's choice of mechanised vehicles in 1912.
I like the video but hate the reenactments. There's no need to show actors do something obvious. For the rest there are original pictures of the people involved enough.
So, basically, according to this documentary, Goering was getting high as JU 88, while his army was getting obliterated.. and that contributed greatly to the collapse of the offensive
41:30 major error: Mussolini was NOT overthrown by a 'popular uprising'. It was the result of an internal intrigue led by other major fascist leaders (e.g. Grandi, Ciano (husband of Mussolinis daughter Edda!), Bottai) in "agreement" with the italian king (July, 24 1943, during the Gran Consiglio del Fascismo held in Palazzo Venezia, Rome. By the way; 5 days before the Allied bombed (a part of) Rome, causing 3000 victims, and causing real fear in the fascist high ranks.
what's going on with all of the censorship all of a sudden?? that's crazy! few years ago I watched normal documentaries on youtube. It shouldn't be this way.
Yugoslavia or not the fact remains that the German Army after 5 months of fighting and Hitler's strategic blunder of diverting his army to Kiev was exhausted when they reached the outskirts of Moscow. All their seasoned veterans of the French campaign had been killed and the Germans were about to be hit by 22 fresh divisions of Siberian troops which had defeated the Japanese under Zhukov and 1000 new T 34 tanks. They would have had to retreat 160 odd miles as happened and would have been the beginning of the end for Germany. Even if Zhukov's offensive did not work the Russians would have retreated to the Urals and in winter formed another offensive from the inexhaustible reserves of manpower and equipment the USSR had.
The Germans simply could not match Russia in any area -troops, tanks, guns, planes..in fact by June 1941 Russia outmatched Germany in all areas. This meant that Germany could attack the Russians but not win-this was proven over and over-the 1942 Southern offensive (intended to capture the Caspian oil fields failed (Stalingrad), and the German Kursk offensive failed...
If I were in Hitler's place, I never would've initiated an operation like Barbarossa. That way, the Germans would've been saved a great deal of effort.
In my opinion, the reason Operation Barbarossa failed, was because of Hitlers meddling. And I am glad at some point in the operation. That he put all of his generals on the side lines. And made most, or all of the battle plans himself. And while these plans were being carried out. I understand that he would frequently change his mind.
This was an excellent documentary. I do object to the photo censorshilp of warfare. By tidying up historical images of this war, you are only making it seem not as gruesome as it was, and further, makes war more palatable to next generation.
This is why persona education is important too. This history is too dumbed down in public schools and the political and historical nuances and contexts are lost. It’s historical documentaries like this that allow people to understand how history happened how it did and how to recognize when it rears its head again
There were several mistakes made. The Balkan campaign prevented the offensive beginning on time. As the time schedule began to unravel, no consideration was made for the preservation of force. Or withdrawal to more defensible positions. The failure to subdue the British insure that forces had to remain in the west. The American ability to render resource support to both England and the USSR. With preservation of forces and better defensive positions, the Red Army would have been bled horribly. This would have put the Germans in a much stronger position in 1942 and better supply lines. If the area conquered by the Germans had of been treated differently, many additional divisions could have been filled and less partisan activities would have released more troops.
To hear a historian say that Goering was an able Commander and one of the best Leader's in WW2 is just ludicrous. I voted it down just on that fact. Things would have been far better for the German Luftwaffe if some like Richthofen had been in charge. I stopped watching 30-mins after those comments were made.
If you kept watching they point out that was how he was perceived by the germans because of WW1, but by WW2 he was a mess in large part due to morphine addiction & any war prowess was gone
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get the logistics right and you will always have an opportunity
I thought that was pretty rubbish -as documentaries go and a 'hotch -potch' of clipped films just stuck together . I give it a 3 out of 10 in my view . Makers need to look at Mark Felton docs !
He had not lost. His first attempt using air power had failed. But if he had launched a D-Day type seaborne invasion and send his armies into that instead of focusing on Russia, who knows what would have happened.
Germany had no idea about the revolution in warfare the aircraft carrier and airplanes would have in my opinion. I think this is shown by his building the Bismarck and Tirpitz, he valued battleships more, likely because they had bigger guns on them and thought they would sink the carriers first. This is pure speculation on my part though.
Nazism regime failures started over(in the sky of ) Britain 🇬🇧 island ... before Barbarossa... Barbarossa operations started upon the first defeat in the western front... when an authority is going on failures continuously ... a simple question is, is German people deceived by Nazism regime propagandists or German people deceived themselves through frightened pressures of Nazism regime internal policies .... or combination between two factors created that blindness until the end.
Not enough is considered about the one month delay when the German right flank, the Balkans, which was supposed to be stabilized by the diplomatic Jugoslavija Sporazum ,was disrupted by a coup and Germany had to waste armies to invade the Balkans, making the whole timetable of 'Before Winter ' fail.
In both ww1 and ww2, it was almost the whole world VS the German forces alone at closing stages of a war. Incredible display of German military power. I think if they had resources then maybe war is prolonged for few more years.
Operation Barbarossa was nothing to do with racial superiority or any other justification such as Liebensraum[living space]. This did not apply to the invasion of the Soviet Union, because by April 1941 the Reds had 170 divisions of soldiers just waiting at Europe's eastern front, ready to invade. Barbarossa was an attempt to destroy the threat of Bolshevism forever.. also it wasn't just Germany. It was a 6 nation attack : including the armies of Finland, Romania, Hungary, Italy[60,000], Croatia and 47,000 Spanish soldiers[the Republican side was sponsored by the Soviet union during the bloody Spanish civil war so even though Spain was neutral during World War 2, General Franco knew about the dangers of the communist Reds]... there were also 2 divisions of Belgian troops going into Russia... the Waffen SS were the ideological shock troops of Europe at this time and were the first truly multi-national European army..
Why does this channel blur some images even though other channels don't? It makes no sense. If you don't want to see graphic images of actual combat or other things associated with war, don't watch a channel called "War Stories". It's pretty simple.
The German people said, ‘if Hess is such a loon, why is he still in his post’? Easily answered. We were to sack him that very day but he beat us to the punch.
When you really think about war it is usually about one race thinking they are better than the enemy race. The answer is not blind acceptance of other value systems but trying to find common ground all nations should explore. War is usually the result of one nation trying to impose their values on other nations. Almost EVERY country is guilty of this. We may not understand why a country may require to have women wear a covering over their faces for example, but saying their wrong is never good. I guess what I’m saying is no nation should force their values on other nations. Like America who might as well say here accept these bombs of freedom instead of exhausting all diplomatic efforts to resolve issues. Then, and only then, should violence be considered. When profit is placed before human rights and dignity only bad can come from it. Too many wars were, and still are, fought over resources. So in reality greed is the biggest factor when it comes to STARTING any war. Usually the attacking country seeks to gain, or in some cases, protect resources they would otherwise lose or not have access to. What gets me is that there is plenty to go around but people will not give up any without a fight. When is too much too much. It really comes down to giving and taking. Too many nations are on the take while giving slowly dies because of greed. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because the USA sanctioned them from oil and other resources for attacking China which Japan did to gain more resources to supply their desire for conquest & expansion. Again, greed shows up here in a big way. To me it’s all about morality as well but even that becomes difficult because of the way moral issues are perceived differently by various cultures. Because most people today think there is no absolute moral authority, red lines for some may be green lights for others etc.. So while absolute morality becomes rejected, the one rejecting wants to be seen as absolutely correct. If we all truly walked in Love there would be no red lines to cross because Love would prevent anyone from doing anything bad to others. There is a book that explains what we see today. The book says that in our time the love of many would wax cold and when you remove love from the world hate takes its place. Can you see more love or more hate in our world today? That book is the Bible and it says God is love but more and more people today reject God as they wonder how people can be so driven by hate. If there is no God then who determines what and who is right or wrong. Even murder itself is sometimes justified by what I see as dangerous value systems. If anyone says there is no God then tell me why there is right and wrong. If it is all subjective, and we ourselves determine right and wrong, then a child molester will say there is nothing WRONG with what they are doing. You see how not having moral absolutes can lead to justification of any behavior. Even interpretation of law can change without morality said law was founded on. Law can be used as a weapon if you take morality out of the equation.
@@omutvtube3910go through and space paragraphs in it. Makes it easier for ppl to read. However, the sentiment in that essay was greatly misguided and really just flat wrong in most parts. Demonstrates a lack of historical awareness on past warfare. Simplifies actual warfare to factors that aren’t significant factors in most wars. Then when ya mentioned that actual relevant part about resources, ya showed a lack of understanding at how important and scarce the cultivating of resources actually is. The global economy relies heavily on these resources that you claimed was only desired for bc of greed. Unfortunately nothing can be farthest from the truth. Not to say your delusional w/ your beliefs, but they are truly misguided and show a great lack of understanding of how the world economy works and why warfare is such a critical aspect of the human experience and not something that will ever be avoided. The ideology you posses is one that is shared mostly by young ppl who haven’t grown enough to realize the realities of the human experiences along w/ the how and why humans have been able to evolve and maintain our spot atop the global food chain
The USSR would have collapsed without the Lend-Lease Act and help from Britain (intelligence). Loss of food would have sealed the fate of the soviets (unless helped by foreign powers fighting for communism) The soviets got enough food from the USA to feed its soldiers for the rest of the war, 12 million boots , 60 percent aluminum and steel, a lot of tin , 90 percent of railway equipment ( the soviets would never have been able to conduct offensives so fast and transfer their main armies to critical points , 300000 trucks were given , 65 percent of aviation fuel and much more apart from 15 percent tanks ,aircrafts Soviet sympathizers say "only 15 per cent was given to USSR"
Actually, Barbarosa could have worked, if... 1) The Wehrmacht had a coherent plan for in invasion that didn't assume a Soviet collapse within months, such as targetting and taking Moscow and neglecting the southern area in first year, establishing strong winter lines of defense, then going for the south in the following year. 2) Treating the people's of the Baltic states and Ukraine as "allies" to be liberated and enlisting them into the war effort. 3) Being ready for the Russian winter. But, this would not have happened because they were, you know, NAZIs being led by an egomaniac.
Goering had lost the Battle of Britain. Then helped lose Stalingrad by lying about his ability to supply it by air. Used HE177 planes which were defective. And UK had denied Stalins request for British infantry divisions......
Historical archives/footage should not be censored.
Not the channels fault for UA-cam guidelines
It appears that UA-cam and in general are acting like its 1936 Germany with their censorships.
@@matthewmiller6987 google
Censorship increases viewability in a lot of these cases. Some of us don't want to see our 30th mangled corpse.
@@mkgibertjrit’s called reality.
I can never get enough WW2 Barbarossa, Blau, Uranus, or any WW2 campaign. Legit let out an audible “ayyy!!” When I saw this video pop up on my feed. Love catching these as i lay up for bed
Me too, I'm watched all tiks stalingrad vids
Me 3 😊
haha same
It's Operation Drumbeat for me. Recently found a huge interest in U-Boats and life on board them but I had no idea they operated just off the east coast of the US and Canada for a time. Like one crew was just in awe of the NYC skyline at night.
@@BobbaFett312 I noticed new uploads on Stalingrad but others have disappeared unfortunately.
No mention of the Soviet counter offensive in Dec 1941 The first time the Wermacht was beaten
This documentary made me laugh, it aggrandized US participation in Europe as a game changer when it was not. Russians won the war.
@@iorr98false
Hitlers first defeat happened a year before with the Air Battle of Britain leaving the Luftwaffe unable to control the air over Russia during Barbarossa! Also showed the Germans were not the Master race after all
@@kbanghart no, it's the truth..the Soviet Union won the war
@@sfugid I was talking to the other person
I love this channel! Please never stop uploading!!
R.I.P To my grandfather
Fought in the Battle of Dnipro
The failure of Operation Barbarossa contributed to the success of Project Manhattan.
how so?
well, yes and no actually.
Really, I can't see any connection at all.
This is a troll. No clue what they are talking about. Unless you are talking about the quicker defeat of Germany and operation paperclip with the scientists coming to the US. That is quite a stretch.
Like sun tzu said” always give your enemy an avenue of retreat for if you back your enemy into a corner they will fight like dogs” don’t put your enemy on deaths ground because the alternative is fight and die but your may win!
*sun tazoo
One piece of bread between 8 people and a “taste” of warm water is so insane to think about.
@@thebrtsh1 only to you.
@@donkeyslayer9879 🤡
@@donkeyslayer9879 alright keyboard soldier
@@donkeyslayer9879you would’ve died 24 hours into WW2 and you’re a homosexual
So it was the winter that won. And the reason winter got them was because they delayed 3 months in Greece. The original Barbarossa was suppose to start sometime in March April but then they had to intervene through operation Mariza since Mussolini got clobbered in Greece.
Germans sustain heavy losses regardless. Even if they start typhoon on 10 September, what it took to get there was too costly. German high command thinks that soviet manpower is far less that what it really is. the wehrmacht's not set up for close quarter street fighting. Meaning they siege moscow. The soviets will not surrender. Soviet reserve troops launch a massive counter attack that turns into an encirclement. The balkans campaign only costs the Germans about 11,500 casualties. What's that, about a division? It turns out that the soviets were far deeper than german intelligence suggested. Can't envision germany being successful without at least shelving their ideology so that they can use the masses of eastern Europe against stalin. Possibly having Japan go for Siberia rather than attacking pearl. But those are some heavy alternate scenarios as japan and germany were never that close and those Germans were nothing if not their ideology.
Winters don't win wars Armies do
No. Remember, winter affected both sides. They lost because the Soviets had millions more men and didn't give up. They were destined to fail unless the Soviets just quit - and that didn't happen.
@@MichaelDiFede yes👍
@@ЮрийГабрилович tell that to Napoleon...it wasn't the Russian Army that won. They just retreated (brilliance on the part of Kutuzov) and let the Russian winter have its toll
Never knew Goring was just a “tomb robber” of sorts? Pillaging of art and artifacts.
Yes he also lost a lot of weight!😮due to his meth and oxycodone habit!!!😮
Göring lost his weight in allied capivitiy and he became way more focused. @@Roger-lt9fe
The Germans had just never experienced an enemy that fought back like the Russians by the end of September’41 the Germans had suffered 500k casualties an unsustainable number for their army and the War was already lost . In Dec. of ‘41 Stalin was already talking to Churchill about how they would divide up postwar Germany.
@gregorymilla9213 no, Stalin and Churchill had no formal contact until the Tehran conference in 1943...
@@Smudgeroon74 I never said anything formal was reached . Informal communications in Dec of 41’ Stalin was probing Churchill on how to divide Germany and again in Moscow in 42’ face to face they made agreements on the division of Berlin .
This is why Berlin is divided even though the Russians conquered the city .
@@gregorymilla9213 was the Americans involved in these discussions at any point?
@@Smudgeroon74 absolutely at Tehran , Yalta and Potsdam post war division of Europe was formalized with US participation.
The point is Stalin had the hubris and apparently foresight to begin negotiations with Churchill in December of 1941 on how to divide Germany with the British whilst the German army was poised 50 kilometers from Moscow .
@@gregorymilla9213 what books can you recommend on this subject?
Rudolph Hess had a very long time to reconsider his life's choices.
By early July, the German armies were running into fresh new well equipped Russian armies. German supply issues were beginning to affect the progress of the advance.
@@davidcalhoun1731 besides the Siberians, who did not take part until the battle of Moscow in December, I would not call any Russian army in 1941 to be well equipped. The T 34 had not yet been into production fully and they were a few here and there as 1941 went on armies were equipped with the T26 mostly which the Germans were able to knock out easily.
What surprised the Germans more than anything else was surrounded Russian units to the death, and caused them lots of casualties and slow down their advance and tied up the infantry armored units waiting to rush ahead
@@BufordTGleason The KV-1 was a complete surprise to the Germans. There were some units that had a good number of T-34’s but were used in penny packets. By July 10th the Germans were realizing something was amiss. The Russian frontier armies had been decimated by then. At Smolensk is where the Russian second echelon armies surprised the Germans. Supply issues were beginning and the German infantry armies were slowed by the Russians not surrendering after surrounded.
For the best of this conflict WW2 with Indy Nidel is by far the best documentary series of the war and WW1 and between the two wars
Indeed.That Pearl Harbor series by Indy was a fantastic one.
World at war
Boring as f in school, but when it's not being forced down your throat, top tier presentation, popcorn, and I'm all in. 🫡
This topic was never boring for me in school or in media. Youre just a dumb student
yeh the details u learn at school are the REAL history. the meaty stuff. this is basically a big tiktok video to relax to
Wasn't the Wolf's Lair in Rastenburg, East Prussia, not "Eastern Poland"? Winston Smith would be proud.
But it's Poland now.
One note that the producers got wrong/inaccurate. The Nazis knew that the US was a dangerous opponent (many were WW1 veterans). However, one of the driving forces was the belief that the US would declare war on Germany anyway and that it was better for morale for Germany to declare war first. There was a lot to support this point of view since the US and Germany were essentially already at war in the Atlantic with USN ships authorized to fire on German submarines and German submarines attacking US merchant ships. It also makes sense on some level to declare war on your terms, rather than waiting and risking the US declaring war at a time when Germany had even fewer resources to respond with. It certainly wasn't a great decision, but it was not Hitler's biggest blunder by any stretch.
The German declaration of war came at a point where it was expected that the 6th army would occupy the final 10% of stalingrad finally capturing the city and fully defeating the red army. If the red army capitulated Germany would have the resources needed to fight both the UK and United States.
@@bsaintnyc This makes no sense, the German army with these resourses could not hope to compete with the number of American troops that they could bring. Attrition is a real thing.
If Operation Barbarossa have been started earlier rather than putting up with that side-show in the Balkans and Yugoslavia, it may have changed the course of the Russo-German War.
It's a myth.
@@marianmaslak According to historical records, the German invasion of the Balkans, known as Operation Marita, began on April 6, 1941 and resulted in the surrender of Yugoslavia on April 17, 1941 and the fall of Greece on April 27, 1941. This campaign lasting approximately 3 weeks delayed the start of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which had originally been planned to begin on May 15, 1941. As a result, the invasion of the Soviet Union was pushed back by approximately 4-6 weeks, delaying the start of Barbarossa until June 22, 1941.
The Balkans campaign prior to Barbarossa resulted in a delay of around 4-6 weeks for the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union.If they had started earlier, they possibly would have captured Moscow and other key industrial Soviet cities, and would not have been caught by the Russian Autumn mud and winter at the most critical point of Barbarossa.
How is that a myth? FYI, a myth is a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation.
I doubt that. If he did, he would likely have had more of a problem with the UK and France, which might not have fell.
I believe an earlier start to Barbarossa may have resulted in a Russian defeat. Yet the other allies would have won after a few more years. The unknown is what nuclear weapons might have been involved, and by whom.
@@melgross France fell in 1940. We're talking about 1941. 😉😂
I already know all the history, but I can’t help myself.
Feel ya
There’s always small details that I learn. I’ve been watching and reading about WW2 heavily for over a decade
Russia is so big even Russians can’t handle it. . . to this day. . .
Disappointing. Wanted a documentary on Barbarossa and got one on Goring and Hitler's drug abuse and the war in general.
It is though related
This goebbles seems to be a literal inspiration for1984
He looks like Nosferatu.
he was.
Goebbles would be so proud of the modern Democrats
@@byrona.689 You say this when Republicans just tried to start a pogrom of Haitian immigrants over made up stories about them eating people's pets. 🤡
@@byrona.689They copied his propaganda style to a tee
The mental images you painted regarding the miserable conditions during the battle of Stalingrad were about as bleak as can get. "Excuse me Mr. Wolfenhäusersteinbergerdörff, but I'm trying to eat this moldy, maggot-infused Schnitzelwurst and you've got the audacity to drop trow and start poöpenfärten right next to me?"
One particularly jarring note….Herr Gitface was 52 years old when Barbarossa started, so why did the makers of this doco use a bloke who looks about 32?
made on the cheap.
"Operation Barbarossa" by Allan Clarke is a book well worth reading.
Allan Clarke is a journalist, not a historian.
@@IanCross-xj2gj did you read the book?
love these vids just finished mein kamph interesting book too say
Yeah you've got a potential president who thinks it's the way to go
@@markbriten6999his playbook actually
@@geepeso84 and don't they realise how well that ended?
@@markbriten6999 they don’t care. He hates the same people they hate.
@@markbriten6999 its a book nothing more nothing less and im not american we dont have a president but i enjoy all books from all genre's
Stop blurring out history!
They are doing what the natziez did trying to erase history
‘Acute, chronic constipation? You can have one but not the other, not at the same time.
perhaps they meant severe, not acute? 😅
Acute constipation is a contradiction in terms.
Acute AND chronic. It is used for both types, not both at once. XD I had to rewind it three times to hear the "and".
Is this stripped right from Hitlers inner circle show from Netflix lol I recognize the blurred face of hess
I'm pretty sure all these videos are mashup of videos from Netflix and History channel about WW2.
Ya think?
lol they take a lot of the same historic video clips obviously. Idk if you’re talking about the narrators or ppl being interviewed. But that is really the same where productions edit and mix already existing content to create new content
Welcome to UA-cam.
The film is on the historical record and can be gained from numerous sources.
Like Netflix.
During Barbarossa Germany always had a shortage of Air cover due to its defeat a year before against the British during THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN. It also had no Navy again due to the lose of the Graf spee, Bismark and a whole flotilla at Narvik
still finding a way to repost operation barbarossa docs
Kinda shallow, aren't you?
@@donkeyslayer9879 i used to like this channel, but theyre pumping out the same content with the same information and theyre getting a million views.
Also what's with the modern city clips given b&w filters and sped up? Didn't know Goebbels was promoting internet links back then. 😂
I get an ad every 5 minutes on this video. What the actual f?
80 years on and the truth is still nowhere to be found.
Not officially at least. You have to dig for it..
@@Smudgeroon74 It's something that requires a lifetime of reading, studying and not taking any single source as gospel. There's always an agenda at work. History is written to suite those people in power.
OK, and what is the "truth" then?
Could you be any more vague?
Join your leader to find the truth.
Oh, and the Wolf's Lair was in East Prussia, part of Germany at the time. Not 'eastern Poland'.
It is now.
and nowadays London is western Poland
Good video! Keep up the good work, you got a new subscriber!
where is part 2
how many videos are they making on same topic?
If Barbarossa had prioritized capturing the oil fields, the D-Day landings would've faced the sixth army manning the Atlantic wall.
The logisticians told the military planners that blitzkrieg would penetrate 600 miles into the USSR and then outrun its supply line, which was still supported with the use of 600,000 horses. After the initial successes, the advance stalled after about 600 miles.
I would imagine that using horses in Russian conditions was better than using mechanised vehicles. In the same way that Amundsen using huskies was wiser than Scott's choice of mechanised vehicles in 1912.
Yes. Blitzkreig - actually called Bewegungskreig, war of movement, by the Germans - doesn't work in a country as big as the USSR. Worked in France!
I like the video but hate the reenactments. There's no need to show actors do something obvious. For the rest there are original pictures of the people involved enough.
what's the connection between this channel and the Noiser podcast? or is it stolen?
So, basically, according to this documentary, Goering was getting high as JU 88, while his army was getting obliterated.. and that contributed greatly to the collapse of the offensive
41:30 major error: Mussolini was NOT overthrown by a 'popular uprising'. It was the result of an internal intrigue led by other major fascist leaders (e.g. Grandi, Ciano (husband of Mussolinis daughter Edda!), Bottai) in "agreement" with the italian king (July, 24 1943, during the Gran Consiglio del Fascismo held in Palazzo Venezia, Rome.
By the way; 5 days before the Allied bombed (a part of) Rome, causing 3000 victims, and causing real fear in the fascist high ranks.
15:05 "He's promised the German people the Soviet Union will be conquered is 6 weeks."
Ah yes. The original "special military operation".
what's going on with all of the censorship all of a sudden?? that's crazy! few years ago I watched normal documentaries on youtube. It shouldn't be this way.
Yugoslavia or not the fact remains that the German Army after 5 months of fighting and Hitler's strategic blunder of diverting his army to Kiev was exhausted when they reached the outskirts of Moscow. All their seasoned veterans of the French campaign had been killed and the Germans were about to be hit by 22 fresh divisions of Siberian troops which had defeated the Japanese under Zhukov and 1000 new T 34 tanks. They would have had to retreat 160 odd miles as happened and would have been the beginning of the end for Germany. Even if Zhukov's offensive did not work the Russians would have retreated to the Urals and in winter formed another offensive from the inexhaustible reserves of manpower and equipment the USSR had.
This overplays the americans and under plays the soviets.
The Germans simply could not match Russia in any area -troops, tanks, guns, planes..in fact by June 1941 Russia outmatched Germany in all areas. This meant that Germany could attack the Russians but not win-this was proven over and over-the 1942 Southern offensive (intended to capture the Caspian oil fields failed (Stalingrad), and the German Kursk offensive failed...
34:00 Stalingrad. They deliver a consignment of pepper. Another of condoms. There simply weren't sufficient supplies available.
Time is and will the end.
The old Smolensk Road.
The Hess story doesn't make any sense.
It's real life; it doesn't have to make sense.
Hess was bonkers. So it was entirely logical 😂
5-week-war eh... I'm sure someone said something similar a few years ago...
If I were in Hitler's place, I never would've initiated an operation like Barbarossa. That way, the Germans would've been saved a great deal of effort.
In my opinion, the reason Operation Barbarossa failed, was because of Hitlers meddling. And I am glad at some point in the operation. That he put all of his generals on the side lines. And made most, or all of the battle plans himself. And while these plans were being carried out. I understand that he would frequently change his mind.
This was an excellent documentary. I do object to the photo censorshilp of warfare. By tidying up historical images of this war, you are only making it seem not as gruesome as it was, and further, makes war more palatable to next generation.
This is why persona education is important too. This history is too dumbed down in public schools and the political and historical nuances and contexts are lost. It’s historical documentaries like this that allow people to understand how history happened how it did and how to recognize when it rears its head again
-32 Celsius, not Fahrenheit.
Not much difference, though -
-40c/-40f. -35c/-31f. -32c/about -26f.
No matter, how you slice it. It’s friggin cold. Can’t imagine, having to rough it, with little food or supplies.
There were several mistakes made. The Balkan campaign prevented the offensive beginning on time. As the time schedule began to unravel, no consideration was made for the preservation of force. Or withdrawal to more defensible positions. The failure to subdue the British insure that forces had to remain in the west. The American ability to render resource support to both England and the USSR. With preservation of forces and better defensive positions, the Red Army would have been bled horribly. This would have put the Germans in a much stronger position in 1942 and better supply lines. If the area conquered by the Germans had of been treated differently, many additional divisions could have been filled and less partisan activities would have released more troops.
To hear a historian say that Goering was an able Commander and one of the best Leader's in WW2 is just ludicrous. I voted it down just on that fact. Things would have been far better for the German Luftwaffe if some like Richthofen had been in charge. I stopped watching 30-mins after those comments were made.
The documentary ended about 30 minutes after those comments were made
If you kept watching they point out that was how he was perceived by the germans because of WW1, but by WW2 he was a mess in large part due to morphine addiction & any war prowess was gone
get the logistics right and you will always have an opportunity
I thought that was pretty rubbish -as documentaries go and a 'hotch -potch' of clipped films just stuck together . I give it a 3 out of 10 in my view . Makers need to look at Mark Felton docs !
Why, at the 17.33 Point, do we see a modern-day cinema?
He has already lost the Battle Of Britain before he invaded the USSR
YOU NEED TO GO RESEARCH WW2
He had not lost. His first attempt using air power had failed. But if he had launched a D-Day type seaborne invasion and send his armies into that instead of focusing on Russia, who knows what would have happened.
@@Abee-un6zy Thats the thing though, he didn't . Not long later they lost Nth Africa also and from there is was all down hill.
@@Abee-un6zy Europa the last battle
Watch it
Germany had no idea about the revolution in warfare the aircraft carrier and airplanes would have in my opinion. I think this is shown by his building the Bismarck and Tirpitz, he valued battleships more, likely because they had bigger guns on them and thought they would sink the carriers first. This is pure speculation on my part though.
Nazism regime failures started over(in the sky of ) Britain 🇬🇧 island ... before Barbarossa... Barbarossa operations started upon the first defeat in the western front... when an authority is going on failures continuously ... a simple question is, is German people deceived by Nazism regime propagandists or German people deceived themselves through frightened pressures of Nazism regime internal policies .... or combination between two factors created that blindness until the end.
They should have released Hess after the war. He was one person who tried to end it.
Not enough is considered about the one month delay when the German right flank, the Balkans, which was supposed to be stabilized by the diplomatic Jugoslavija Sporazum ,was disrupted by a coup and Germany had to waste armies to invade the Balkans, making the whole timetable of 'Before Winter ' fail.
In both ww1 and ww2, it was almost the whole world VS the German forces alone at closing stages of a war. Incredible display of German military power. I think if they had resources then maybe war is prolonged for few more years.
It wasn't his blunnder we broke the enigma code
45:29-45:40 America in 2024
Operation Barbarossa was nothing to do with racial superiority or any other justification such as Liebensraum[living space]. This did not apply to the invasion of the Soviet Union, because by April 1941 the Reds had 170 divisions of soldiers just waiting at Europe's eastern front, ready to invade. Barbarossa was an attempt to destroy the threat of Bolshevism forever.. also it wasn't just Germany. It was a 6 nation attack : including the armies of Finland, Romania, Hungary, Italy[60,000], Croatia and 47,000 Spanish soldiers[the Republican side was sponsored by the Soviet union during the bloody Spanish civil war so even though Spain was neutral during World War 2, General Franco knew about the dangers of the communist Reds]... there were also 2 divisions of Belgian troops going into Russia... the Waffen SS were the ideological shock troops of Europe at this time and were the first truly multi-national European army..
Wrong side won :(
Why does this channel blur some images even though other channels don't? It makes no sense. If you don't want to see graphic images of actual combat or other things associated with war, don't watch a channel called "War Stories". It's pretty simple.
Cause they are afraid to be demonetized by youtube algorithm with their snowflake policies.
It was not a blunder, he had no choice. Stalin was about to attack his troops and go all the way through Europe.
they dont tell you this. all lies by the synagogue of Satan., - Apocalypse 3:9
mr sutton wherever you are rest easy and thank you for exposing the truth
What an insane introduction 🤣
Blunder? Stalin was going to attack Germany at some point anyway. So how was it a blunder?
No he wasn't
@@misterpinkandyellow74 Do you really believe Stalin was going to honor the non-aggression pact for the full 10 years?
@@Malvegil357 yes
@@misterpinkandyellow74 Then why did he break his 5 year non-aggression pact with Japan in August of 1945? It was set to expire in April of 1946.
@@Malvegil357 because Japan was I'm a weak position. Use your brain.
The German people said, ‘if Hess is such a loon, why is he still in his post’? Easily answered. We were to sack him that very day but he beat us to the punch.
You should have locked the drinks cabinet!
When you really think about war it is usually about one race thinking they are better than the enemy race. The answer is not blind acceptance of other value systems but trying to find common ground all nations should explore. War is usually the result of one nation trying to impose their values on other nations. Almost EVERY country is guilty of this. We may not understand why a country may require to have women wear a covering over their faces for example, but saying their wrong is never good. I guess what I’m saying is no nation should force their values on other nations. Like America who might as well say here accept these bombs of freedom instead of exhausting all diplomatic efforts to resolve issues. Then, and only then, should violence be considered. When profit is placed before human rights and dignity only bad can come from it. Too many wars were, and still are, fought over resources. So in reality greed is the biggest factor when it comes to STARTING any war. Usually the attacking country seeks to gain, or in some cases, protect resources they would otherwise lose or not have access to. What gets me is that there is plenty to go around but people will not give up any without a fight. When is too much too much. It really comes down to giving and taking. Too many nations are on the take while giving slowly dies because of greed. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because the USA sanctioned them from oil and other resources for attacking China which Japan did to gain more resources to supply their desire for conquest & expansion. Again, greed shows up here in a big way. To me it’s all about morality as well but even that becomes difficult because of the way moral issues are perceived differently by various cultures. Because most people today think there is no absolute moral authority, red lines for some may be green lights for others etc.. So while absolute morality becomes rejected, the one rejecting wants to be seen as absolutely correct. If we all truly walked in Love there would be no red lines to cross because Love would prevent anyone from doing anything bad to others. There is a book that explains what we see today. The book says that in our time the love of many would wax cold and when you remove love from the world hate takes its place. Can you see more love or more hate in our world today? That book is the Bible and it says God is love but more and more people today reject God as they wonder how people can be so driven by hate. If there is no God then who determines what and who is right or wrong. Even murder itself is sometimes justified by what I see as dangerous value systems. If anyone says there is no God then tell me why there is right and wrong. If it is all subjective, and we ourselves determine right and wrong, then a child molester will say there is nothing WRONG with what they are doing. You see how not having moral absolutes can lead to justification of any behavior. Even interpretation of law can change without morality said law was founded on. Law can be used as a weapon if you take morality out of the equation.
Can your comments possibly be a tad longer & contain more details in future, thank you. 😊
@@leddielive Wow I just realized what a rant I went on. So sorry. I could have condensed that quite a bit.
@@omutvtube3910go through and space paragraphs in it. Makes it easier for ppl to read. However, the sentiment in that essay was greatly misguided and really just flat wrong in most parts.
Demonstrates a lack of historical awareness on past warfare. Simplifies actual warfare to factors that aren’t significant factors in most wars. Then when ya mentioned that actual relevant part about resources, ya showed a lack of understanding at how important and scarce the cultivating of resources actually is. The global economy relies heavily on these resources that you claimed was only desired for bc of greed. Unfortunately nothing can be farthest from the truth.
Not to say your delusional w/ your beliefs, but they are truly misguided and show a great lack of understanding of how the world economy works and why warfare is such a critical aspect of the human experience and not something that will ever be avoided. The ideology you posses is one that is shared mostly by young ppl who haven’t grown enough to realize the realities of the human experiences along w/ the how and why humans have been able to evolve and maintain our spot atop the global food chain
That's just the propaganda. War is always about power.
@@TooLooze that’s an uneducated and idealistic way to look at it lol 😂. Funny bc the propagandist would actually agree w/ your assessment
As the saying goes, the war in Europe was won with "British brains, American brawn, and Russian blood."
Stalingrad was not Demyansk.
Just a lot of background NOISE!
Wow,a bunch of morally corrupt people in a position of power backstabbing eachother,who would have thought😂😂
The USSR would have collapsed without the Lend-Lease Act and help from Britain (intelligence).
Loss of food would have sealed the fate of the soviets (unless helped by foreign powers fighting for communism)
The soviets got enough food from the USA to feed its soldiers for the rest of the war,
12 million boots , 60 percent aluminum and steel, a lot of tin , 90 percent of railway equipment ( the soviets would never have been able to conduct offensives so fast and transfer their main armies to critical points , 300000 trucks were given , 65 percent of aviation fuel and much more apart from 15 percent tanks ,aircrafts
Soviet sympathizers say "only 15 per cent was given to USSR"
Immigration is not the issue, the system is. The PPC party just made an ad about this and crushing it
One of the poorest episodes, ever. Fake footage, some from ww-i, a waste of time.
cite your claims then.
Actually, Barbarosa could have worked, if...
1) The Wehrmacht had a coherent plan for in invasion that didn't assume a Soviet collapse within months, such as targetting and taking Moscow and neglecting the southern area in first year, establishing strong winter lines of defense, then going for the south in the following year.
2) Treating the people's of the Baltic states and Ukraine as "allies" to be liberated and enlisting them into the war effort.
3) Being ready for the Russian winter.
But, this would not have happened because they were, you know, NAZIs being led by an egomaniac.
NO
Definitely no. The Nazi's were only good at lightening war. The could never hold Moscow for a year. They probably knew that.
@@АлександрЯковлев-э4х No? Can you explain why?
How does one look after 1.5 million POWs?
they didnt about 10/20 % survived . maybe only 5% . it was fk all
@@sprintershepherd4359A simple google search shows your %’s are not even close…. Way more than that survived.
By looking the other way!
He could never defeat Russia
What opening music is this? I want to find it.
TIK has done a far better analysis
To much music
The Germans where a stone's throw from Moscow.
Goering had lost the Battle of Britain. Then helped lose Stalingrad by lying about his ability to supply it by air. Used HE177 planes which were defective.
And UK had denied Stalins request for British infantry divisions......
The situation was even more hopeless than often portrayed. There simply wasn't enough fuel and food to resupply the 6th Army besieged in Stalingrad.
Why. Why. Why. Napoleon showed what happens attacking Russia.
that's because western elite loves to play game " step on the next rake"
Why? Because the soviet union had been massing divisions along the border in preparation for a european invasion.
@@voshcheIn the 1980s my mum stood on a rake in our garden. It gave her a black eye.
Sometimes cartoons get it right!😅
He had no choice. Stalin would have attacked him in a much worse situation.
@@mikol2532 would in history doesn't work
Terriffic ww2 film
CAN'T HEAR A DARN THING!
Germans are amazing
13:53 Soviet Tie Fighters