The 7 Reasons Why the Wehrmacht Continued to Fight Until Its Annihilation in 1945
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- How could the German Army continue fighting in 1945? What did the soldiers think about the final outcome of the war? What was the morale of the troops like? What role did war propaganda play? What final hope did the German soldiers cling to? Was peace worse than war?
Next, in this program we are going to analyze the 7 main reasons why the German Army continued fighting when everything was lost.
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00:00 Context 1945
01:35 1- Stop the Soviets
03:22 2- Alliance with the United States
05:45 3- Peace will be worse than War
07:26 4- Miracle Weapons
07:50 5- Enemies exhausted
08:32 6- Defense of his homeland and family
09:33 7- That's what they ordered me - Розваги
My dad was born and raised in Nuremberg. He was 8 years old in 1945. He told me that shortly after President Roosevelt's death, a man ran through his street, yelling "Roosevelt is dead - we're going to win the war".
Wish I would have known your Father he must have been a great man!
yeah they got him like the fuck us all over unite or de against a cmmon foe its simple
Spartans of XX century. sadly they lost. and with them: Europe.
go to london or paris.... not white cities anymore
@@Bryansijbenwhat me no habla compadre
@@user-hl3qv8qg2s I got told not to tell u how I feel.If u judge people by the color of their skin their language or their religion ur a burden to peace and prosperity
A typically grim Teutonic joke sums it up, “enjoy the war, the peace will be worse”.
😂
Sounds like Ukrainian joke nowadays.
Supposedly the people of Berlin at Christmas 1945 joked: "Give your loved one something he can use, give him a coffin."
If Hitler:
1) Did not attack the USSR in June 1941
2) Choke the British through the Suez Canal
3) Did not declare war on America in December 1941
The outcome of the war could have been different.
@@oldi184 No. Socialist Germany lost the war the day Great Britain declared war. Britain embargoed oil to the continent and every economy the socialist Germans conquered became a millstone as they had no energy to power it. By the end of the war the whole continent of Europe was starving because the Germans took all the horses off all of the farms to use in the war. Britain alone could have taken down Germany as long as the USSR did not GIVE Germany supplies. It may have been more like what happened in the cold war with a long time to starve out the continent.
As soon as Stalin was able to successfully move factories eastward deeper into Russia and outside the bombing range of the Luftwaffe, Germany had lost the war. Germany simply could not outproduce Russia AND America. The very fact that Germany even held on as long as it did, is a testament to how advanced their war machine was from a technological standpoint. For example 4 Panzers could easily take out about 50 Russian tanks on the eastern front, that was the ratio. The problem, at least for Germany though, is that for every 50 tanks Russia lost, Russia was producing hundreds to replace
Germany's main problem was always, lack of fuel. Well into 1942, Germany was powering it's war machine with fuel purchased from the Soviet Union. The partially successful air raid on Ploesti in 1943 further cut into their fuel supply. Then, in 1944 Germany lost access to Romanian and Hungarian oil supplies. At this point, Germany was totally dependent on synthetic fuel, produced from coal. USAAF concentrated on bombing these syn fuel plants, until literally, Germany ran out of gas in early 1945.
It's interesting to know that the synthetic fuel plants used processes designed and tested by the U.S., and the plants were built based on U.S. designs. All this was done before the war started.
L9
@@stevenwoeste7428 Not only did American financial interests help build/finance Germanys war machine, they did the same with Japan. You need to have bad guys if you want to justify extremely lucrative and profitable wars.
@@joshmonus and you think that anybody thouth that in 1933 to 1935 that germany would start another world war3
I note that there is no reference to the personal loyalty oath to Hitler. That seemed to keep a lot of them fighting till Hitler died.
How could it not?
Correction: Stalin began "Bagration" NOT "a few days", but 16 days later, which is almost the same delay (17 days) Stalin played against Hitler in their war against Poland.
Both sides were equally evil. The most evil of them are with the Chinese Communist. I can go with the Germans, but not the concentration camps no way. That's where they lose me.
Out with a bang instead of a whimper
Out is out . Just sayin
@@tolik5929 we're coming back.
@@mstash5 Have fun with that ...all of EU might want to learn to speak Chinese . Fortunately , we are isolated by geography .....I kind of envy Austrailia in that respect .
@@tolik5929 so which side are you on?
@@SeamHead33 The side that won .
Very concise and accurate explanation for heightened German resistance even when the war was lost.
It is too dang bad that the GERMAN resistance continued on to fight until the bitter end 😢,just because they were ordered to do so 😢😢
@@ronaldmessina4229 they weren't ordered to. they literally wanted to resist till the end.
@@ronaldmessina4229 They continued because they were righteous and their enemies were not. It is that simple.
@@techelitesareadisease8816 Nothing to do with getting curb stomped all the way back into the heart of the 'fatherland' is that simple.
@@fluffy1931Communism is an economic failure. That is what the Germans were fighting.
I think one overlooked reason was that the end was quick. From September 1944-February 1945 the German people saw the allies stuck in Poland or stuck in France. They could still fool themselves that the Reich could hold out, they repelled the attack on Warsaw in the east and the Bridge too far in the west. Then in about 12 weeks the whole country was swallowed up.
Very concise and correct reasoning for the continuing of resistance even when all was lost. Would be a good lesson for other conflicts, (Find out the reasons why your enemy fights ~~then fight against those reasons).
Thank You so much for taking the time and research to answer, with great clarity, this complex and fascinating question. I believe All of your points are quite valid, and essentiall correct. Again, my heartfelt Thanks, to You!
The war went on for so long that many of the soldiers were conditioned to fight and didn’t know anything else. After years of kill or be killed, what other option did they have but to continue until the end?
German soldiers called it "Schicksalgemeinshaft," brotherhood of fate. And that summed it up.
Very few Soldiers actually made through "years of War" - those fighting I the last year were mostly newcomers, old and young, with little experience, with a few veterans among them.
The most casualties happened I the last year of the war.
Spartans of XX century. sadly they lost. and with them: Europe.
go to london or paris.... not white cities anymore
You didnt mention the Morgenthau Plan which must have played a part.
Yes. I was going to say that. I understand some German soldiers gave that plan as a reason for continued resistance.
I am not sure how much the Germans knew of that plan otherwise Goebbels would have really used it.
@@SuperOdyss It was actually published by accident in September 1944 and used quite heavily in propaganda. However, the actual experience the Germans got from their encounters with the Americans somewhat dampened the impact.
By far the main reason for the insistence on "fighting to the death" can be found in the allies' declaration at Casablanca (1943) which clearly and irrevocably stated that the only way WWII was going to end was with the "unconditional surrender" of all Axis forces. This gave Goebbels his rational for "total war" and excluded any possibility of a negotiated outcome or a "cease fire" type armistice such as that ending WWI. As one German fighter pilot described in years later, "We had nothing to lose." That was clearly reason #1.
Tak masz absolutna racje
and yet somehow the fighter pilot lived...meaning he either didnt believe it , was a coward, or accidently was such a bad pilot he managed to live through it. .... pathetic.
Which is related to the 3rd point
@charlescole3040 Unless they had surrendered en masse, the members of the German military had to keep fighting, because they would have been shot for cowardice if they didn't. On the Eastern Front, dying in combat was preferable to a long, slow death in a Siberian labor camp. Many of them were also still loyal to Hitler. The large majority of the letters sent home by the doomed members of the 6th army in Stalingrad said that they were proud to die for the Führer.
@@genehornung3295 You do realize that the letters were being read by censors, and that the soldiers would have known that..?
Wow comments breathe life into my collapsing soul
We're out here, Mike.
Thank you.
It was a wonderful explanation about 7 reasons that imposed German warriors fought furiously on three sides....I think there was no alternative situational for ending the war about Germany. I think 6,7 ,and number 1 were the most efficiency factors that encouraged German warriors to fight stubbornly and furiously .. Thank you 🙏 ( war academy) channel for sharing.
Ty
They knew that the Soviets were going to do unto them that which they had done to the Soviet Union.
Not quite right - they knew the Soviets would do to them what they had done to their own people since 1917.
In other words: they already knew what was later going to be described by Gerard Menuhin in "Tell The Truth And Shame The Devil"; or by "Europa - The Last Battle"..........
If you don't know either check them out, interesting stuff to say the least.
@@theoderich1168 Europe the last battle is a horrible 'documentary'. Use more credible sources from true historians.
@@danielnavarro537 If only 30 % of this "documenntary" are more or less true history appears in a new light.
Once you find out how "science" works, be it Physics, History or Ethnology you stop taking it too serious.
"Facts" that make it into the mainstream narrative are carefully selected and as far as I can seethey mostly serve economic or political interests.
When the pandemic started in Germany it was announced that "millions" would die; most people actually suffered from the vaccination and not from the disease....
Those "true historians" you are alluding to will probably be the ones recognised by the mainstream but does that guarantee truth....?
they were going to to become the fastest economically growing eastern bloc country that maintained german history and tradition combined with socialism? they got 50 million people killed for that?
@@danielnavarro537not one argument given why it’s a bad documentary.
Good history Channel
I like your programs.
Do you over-dub into English?
They were BASED
They were unparalleled in their Basedness 😎
@@cb-7422 100%
Had the best drip too.
The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath.
Excellent again. Thank You. I heard one U.S. veteran say, "I wanted to go home, but my father was wounded in WWI & we were doing it again. I had a two year old son & I was willing to keep on fighting & if necessary die to keep him out of this. We were going to end it". I've heard other veterans say similar things. The Unconditonal Surrender Demand was supported by the majority of the Allied populations. Yes there was no "Fourteen Points" in The Second World War. That had already been tried.
Turbo Capitalism. The fourteen points that were not really considered - instead especially France wanted to punished Germany and the US (Wall Street) wanted their money backm(after all, during WW1 the US Stock Market went down everytime Germany won a Battle, as the UK and France had to win in order to pay back Murica).
So Germany had to accept the blame for WW1 to be ordered to pay. And then the Allies wondered why that lead to another war.
BTW, if was Germany AND RUSSIA that invaded Poland in 1939 - the Western Allies allied with Russia, and Russia even kept eastern Poland after the War...
@@matt47110815 Yes, All Power to the Soviets. I always get a Commie moron who totally misunderstands the point.
If "Fourteen Points" would have been in place, no WW2 would have taken place. Instead of this, the betray of Versailles was in place, and France wasn't even willing to fullfill that eg didn't to anything against the Polish uprises in Silesia in 1919/1920, although they had te mandate.
@@tom170670 I knew that I would get a comment like yours. I agree with all your points. My point was though, it was to late to correct the mistakes of the past & the Allies had to make a policy that was tailored for the situation at the time. With Nazi & Japanese fanaticism as it was, Unconditional Surrender, the occupation of those countries, & dismantling their ability to make war, were deemed to be the only option.
Unconditional surrender never shortens wars.
The Germany of those times received exactly what they doled out in Europe x10. All Germany had to do to save it's people from being pounded to rubble is surrender. Yes, that surrender had to be unconditional...and so it was.
Indeed, there was a debate within the FDR administration between conditional and unconditional surrender. Obviously, the unconditional surrender camp won the debate.
But it stops future wars
@@shauny2285
You are correct. I think the Allies wanted no repeat of the aftermath of WWI. There was a myth in Germany about being betrayed by elements in their society. In addition this myth also made reference to the German military not being beaten on the battlefield. At the conclusion of the European theater of WWII there was no doubt in anyones mind Germany had lost the war.
@@captainamerica6525 Damit ihr euren Morgenthau-Plan möglichst schnell in die Tat umsetzen könnt und Deutschland noch schneller ausplündern könnt? NEIN
Or put simply they believed in what they fought for. A very rare sentiment especially lately.
WW2 was Man vs. Evil and Man lost. Some things are so noble and so holy that they are worth fighting for until the last man and dying for.
Oh c'mon. National Socialism isn't noble, it's an grotesque, brutal Ideology which is more harmful to Humanity than Communism.
@KoeppenLP you're wrong
@@SeamHead33if there was nothing worth dying for, what are you living for?
@swhip897 your question doesn't make sense, reread my comment
So, mass murder and totalitarian terror is good?
The sense of honour played the major role. Never forget that aspect.
enjoyed the video but the ai voice is such a throw off especially when trying to do that like echo-y voice when reading a quote
They sought an alliance with the British as well.
The fusfsfsfit called churchill prevented this
The Wehrmacht and SS troops weren't "annihilated", but clearly defeated with terrible losses. Except the units in occupied Norway and Denmark.
Losses not only on the battlefields but also in captivity.
Living in North America it not a easy answer to understand .
They still had a really huge Army, with men and arms and lots and lots of equipment to fight, but they could've fought on very well indeed
Its heavily tied to the fact that germany so devoutly believed they only lost the war because the home population lost faith. In their minds they never lost militarily. So this time they fought to the end
They fought for their survival ...
This was very well done and historically accurate, but you didn't mention the fact that the German soldier had taken an oath to Hitler to fight to the end. I have to say that much of the propaganda about what the Russians would do, did take place. Women were raped, and men were sent to Siberia.
Not propaganda if its true, in that case it happened to be true everything said about the Bolsheviks are true they are some of the bloody worst most savage in modern history.
If the allies had not stated "unconditional surrender" as their war aim it would have led to a couple of problems: 1) suspicion among them that one or more were angling for a separate and earlier peace plan. This suspicion was already present on the part of the Russians against US/UK. The 'early option' would have made this problem much greater. 2) if an early-out option had been present it might have led to agitation by some of the public of the western allies to end the war early. The people were already war-weary and many faced potential future loss of family members as the war dragged on and they perceived that war aims had been accomplished.
Yup
Just completely forgot about that🤣, kinda a big thing
To gain time for the Diebner team for finishing the Nuclear Bomb, finally it was tested in Ohrdruf Thuringia but they had no wide range working rocket delivery system for the nukes. War was over before they could finish the america rocket A16.
German soldiers also knew about their own government's crimes against humanity and the Wehrmacht's contribution to those crimes didn't want to be hanged. That's one of the reasons they fought so hard and didn't want to be captured.
I belive the Channel "Historias bélicas que merecen ser contadas" is copying you, just translating what you say to spanish
Although it won't be popular, I believe there was little in wartime Britain that was not controlled by the authorities.
Obviously a virtual impossibility but would be intrigued to discover the ratios of the German populace who possessed even a vague notion of what was occurring in the East. Surely if it had been widespread then greater numbers would have swerved fighting to the bitter end although patriosm remains a strong pull.
They should've just reclaimed German speaking lands for Germans and made their empire so great that no one would mess with them.
Agreed they pushed to far its a damn shame cause all for nothing the anti European ironically named EU is disgusting, wide open borders, Whites even saying the words" I dont hate my people and think we should have nations where were the majority in our own nation" is slandered as "racist' by there own disgusting leftists etc etc.
04/08/24: Superb narration. "Unconditional surrender" is a red herring. The Germans --- the minority of a one-time HUGE army --- weren't going to quit fighting, no matter what.
Except that they did unconditionally surrender you would be right.
@@captainamerica6525 Nice cliche. Write when you get work.
I don't need to try to rewrite history as you seem to be trying to do. Please tell us under what conditions Germany surrendered in WWII. Waiting@@donreed
Have you deliberately left out the most important reason of all - the Morgenthau Plan for a defeated Germany? It was only the cold war with the USSR that prevented it from being fully implemented I read.
Doesn't matter if it would have helped or not. One should not make deals with insane people or countries. If you dont fight until complete and total surrender, then you will condemn your children to re fight the same enemy.
While continuing the fight will always be debated, the question i have is why Germany didnot resort to fighting as guerillas or some type of Fabian strategy (like the Romans used against the Carthaginians of Hannibal) Any expert commentary on this?
The atrocities committed by the nazis on the Russian people from the beginning of operation barbarosa in June 41 were horrific … the fascists understood that they would be pay back .
Didn’t have a choice, the allies were unanimous in unconditional surrender for the axis powers. No side deal was going to be cut. The USSR was on a rampage out for blood. The Red Army shot SS men on site and regular troops were in brutal labor gulags till the mid 1950’s for example. The Nazis knew the reality, delay the gallows another day with the blood of the young and old fighting a lost war.
Why my comment was deleted?
Algorithms, my friend. Nothing to do with the author of this page. Fluff tube.😂
yewtube
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You aren't allowed to speak positively on the Germans or defend them even if your take is correct and factual
@@SeamHead33 Haha! 🤣
The German attempt to capture Antwerp in the 1944 Battle of the Bulge very nearly succeeded. If it had done it would have been a huge setback for the western allies, and the Germans hoped that by making a further advance by the west impossible in the short term and very costly in the longer term, they could secure more generous peace terms. I doubt if any senior Nazi commander actually believed that winning the war wss a serious possibility unless Hitler could come up with wunderwaffen like the atomic bomb. In fact the Nazi A-bomb was still years away..
Very nearly? Hardly, they didn’t even cross the Meuse and if they had it was backstopped by reserves.
@@sobobwas6871 It was stopped mainly by lack of fuel and the failure to capture an Allied fuel depot. Also the weather relented in January and enabled the west to use its airpower, which had previously been grounded. But for these factors the Germans might have reached Antwerp.
@@bernardedwards8461 ? Is your only research the film? A bit more than lack of fuel stopped them.
@@sobobwas6871 Understandably there was resistance, but it is debatable how effective thart resistance would have been if the Nazis had all the fuel they needed. It was a gamble, and had the cards fallen in their favour it might have succeeded. Haven't seen the film.
@@bernardedwards8461 ? If they couldn’t even get to the Meuse, a large river crossing that by the time they got close then there was little chance of getting any further. Once the northern flank was reorganised and natural barriers to the advance such as weight limited bridges, terrain and road networks then any chance of success was very low. Then factor in the British reserve holding the Meuse, the massive response from American divisions from the south, the weather clearing and it was destined to fail. Fuel was one of many many strategic issues the German forces were to struggle with.
i live in California there was a German camp here they were treated good some didn't go back to Germany you can see it still to day they have become Americans
The thumbnail looks like Robert DeNiro, without the pimple.
AND MOST. NATION COUNT.25% MORE FOR DRAW AND 40% FOR WIN.
There was no mention of the fear of retribution for the Nazi crimes committed against Jews and against the Russian people. Soldiers on the Eastern front in particular would have been aware of the atrocities that had taken place.
The German „propaganda“ was correct about what would happen.
All true, but the biggest reason was that Hitler wouldn’t allow surrender. Kershaw examines this in his book, ‘The End’. Any German soldier who suggested surrender, was shot. And a lot of soldiers still had faith in the Fuhrer.
Germany shot dead 10,000 of their own soldiers for desertion cowardice, and defeatism
It would not have made a difference what Hitler or Germans wanted. Britain wanted to completely knockout and destroy Germany. That is why they never agreed to cease fire. Not 1941 and certainly not in 1944-45. US wanted to occupy Europe which they have to this date. They did want Soviet weak which by end of the war Soviets were exhausted and the half of Europe they got like Soviet Union were in ruins. This exhausted Soviet block eventually collapsed in 1991. The effects of WWII stayed in Europe till early 2000.
Not true. There were some 150K Wehrmacht and other forces of Germans in North and South Holland provinces still after wars end. They did not fight until their deaths. They just wanted to go home.
After Kursk there was absolutely no way to win the war in Russia. If the decision had been made to dig in in 1943 as had been done around Rzev and simply assume a defensive posture to rest and reequip the Wehrmacht for a renewed push in 1944 then MAYBE they could have done it, but not after Zitadel.
the soviets that is wy the fought to the last man
Unfortunately they gave up long before the last bgr was reached.
Another reason for german troops at the eastern front was that they didnt want to get captured by the soviet.
In the last chapters of the wars, "Sippenhaft" was also heavely enforced.
This ment, that if you were found guilty of a crime against the German Volk (like desertion, refusal to fight, defeatism or others), not only you would be punished, but your relatives could also suffer, in a range that went from social ostracism and denying of public help (wich was the only way to get food-rations, coal for the winter, and other things you needed to survive), to internation in disclipinary battalions (not good), jail (bad), or konzentrarion-camps (worse), knowing meahnwhile, that your chidren woould be taken away from your family and rised by the state to be good n*zis and pay for your "sins" with their blood......
That`s definitively a good reason to fight till your last breath.......because, while you can have doubts about the fate of your family under russian or american occupation......they knowed DAMM WELL what was going to happen to them if they p*ssed ofthe german authorities......
Yea this is the reasons Private Snuffy was fighting to the end. Hitler and friends were selfishly trying to preserve their regime especially since entering Germany would decisively show everyone their crimes. They need to make some WWII movies showing the perspective of rank and file Private Snuffy types towards the end of WWII for the Germans. We like to watch war movies showing the victories of the allies which do not get me wrong is good but its also good to watch a movie showing the perspective of the Army in defeat also. I liked the movie "Downfall" (2004) because it did a good job of showing the end of the world from the perspective of the people going through the last days of the war from the last bastion of resistance in Berlin. You could really see the fear in the characters as they knew the rope was coming.
Hitler bit off far more than he could chew,when he decided to invade the USSR !
Well aren't you the master strategist.
The biggest mistake was dragging the USA into the war in 1941 because he gambled that japan would then in kind declare war on the USSR, something Japan didn't do.
its a large mis conception that people still believe hitler somehow had a choice in opperation barbarrosa. it was invade or be invaded, so premptive strategy was the only option. the russians were known to be gearing up for a full frontal invasion of western europe.
They feared communism 😢
we allied with communism. disgusting
They all knew about the Death camps in the end, it was a collective guilt. I have this from 2 former soldiers and some German civilians I talked to in the ´80´s . Those who talked did live outside Germany.
So Hitler probably escaped i only thought he was ready to get out
He did. He probably died in Spain somewhere early in the 1950's
Do you know, what the hero thieves were? A troup of fanatic NS forces, who hanged every man they suspected of lack of believing in the "Endsieg", but they were saving their dear lives, when the allied came. They murdered numerous civil magistrates who would save their small toowns and villages. If my dad were still alive, he could tell horror stories of the "hero thieves" and the fear of young soldiers, who did clear know, the breakdown.
Check Sönke Neitzel‘s „Kameraden“ to Unterstand the Frame of values („Werterahmen“) of the Wehrmacht soldiers
Number 8 Austrian painter gave them meths to fight
Only the French and Italians surrender or switch sides wen things aren’t going their way Germans Brit’s and even the bloody Spaniards are hard to subdue
You can add the Russians in that list even when their capital is taken they still fight back
spanish generals were bribed by british to lobby not join a adolf and not taking gibraltar
CURRENTLY ONWAY HV ABILITY OF MORE THAN A FRONT IN UNRIGHT.
They basically fought "The Alamo" for Western Civilization
Yours. And lost. Tough luck Adolf
So what happened after this Alamo? Western civilization went away?
@@chrisschultz8598Take a look around!
@@chrisschultz8598 Joined NATO
The west has been in decline since the day ww2 ended. It took a couple decades to put the pieces in place, but now we are seeing the fruits of the Frankfurt school in full effect. I still struggle to understand how they managed to get white people to accept their own annihilation. Some even celebrate the fact we are being bred out, some are so blind they aren't capable of seeing it, the rest, I include myself in this group, know what's happening and have existential dread, but know that people simply don't care.
They're too busy learning the lore of some new mind numbing video game, or gushing about how good their favorite actor is..
There were German wonder weapons. Two of them were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Yup the Russians were not going all that way just turn around and go home.
A very last channel using an Al voice,shame.English isn't taught in Spain or what?
Imagine crying that the soviet will exterminate Germany after they tried and failed to exterminate people of the soviet union 😆
4:20 ma i introduce you to somthing most also did not knew. it was an actual plan. a brittish one supported buy patton. usa parliment did put an end to it.
If we look at Germany today, the "peace will be worse than war" is a spot on, perfectly valid argument.
Truly
My aunt had told me how she learned how the allies (especially the British) had done a lot to erase and demonize the culture in Germany. I’m no fan nor that I like nazism and fascism, but once you take away a man’s identity, he will spiral into the next conformity of destruction.
😊😊😊
The Last Knights of Europe
They fought for europe Against Bolshevism.😂
@@Fuxerz yeah
Knights? Nah, dude, the last monsters
@@mstash5 I've never killed anyone. But then again, I didnt spend my adolescence being indoctrinated into hatred like a lot of those guys were. They were made into monsters.
Not Knights. Butchers.
the atrocities of the German people left the allies with no choice but demand total surrender
There were few known German atrocities in January 1943 when the Allies demanded unconditional surrender. The atrocities of Stalin in peace times against his own countrymen were far more worse.
A world war is never fought for mere moral reasons but for ultimate POWER.
Like it didn't happen on the other side.😂
They were scared to death that the allies would behave almost as badly as the German armed forces.
German armed forces behaved more honourably than any other army.
@@mstash5You fool, did 40 million people in Poland and the USSR wake up someday and decide to unalive themselves ?
@@mstash5 Only on the western front
@@aAverageFan on all fronts.
@@mstash5 they murdered millions of civilians. And 3 million Russian POW's.
Simple, they knew the atrocities they committed and knew the Soviets weren’t going to just let them surrender.
You missed an important factor: Whereas American units always got new recruits to fill the ranks, German Wehrmacht followed anrnother principle: Units were formed and stayed that way, even if casualities reduced the ranks. That led to a situatuion , that soldiers in units fought shoulder to shoulder for years and thus friendship started. That way the inner coherence of German units was very strong and soldiers were not willing to leave their comrades and thus kept on fighting till the end.
Thats not how it worked at all. a military can't function if you don't replace losses in units
Only hope for the German people was to surrender to British or American troops and hope that they aren't sent to their homes in the Soviet sector of Germany.
Any country given this ultimatum would fight to the end.
It had nothing to do with “fanaticism” as so often was given the reason by some historians.
No "stabbed in the back" BS this time.
You’re funny.
Unconditional surrender prolonged the war by six months.
It's a no-brainer when you know you'll hang if they catch you.
Should of taken the German's up on their offer is what Patton allegedly thought.
It would have been an interesting alternate history.
Would their have been a Marshall Act had their been a defeated Soviet Union
Would their have been such a hard push toward the Space Program with a defeated Soviet Union?
Would Europe had witnessed such a long peace had their not been a shared threat and there would obviously not have the NATO Alliance without the threat of a USSR.
What would have become of all the proxy wars against communism had the USSR lost?
Would a defeated USSR have any impact on the growth of China?
No USSR invasion of Afghanistan, and the Taliban would not even exist?
How would the defeat of the USSR impact the Global Trade we know today?
Would there have been the mass exodus of Russian Jews had Stalin been defeated and if not what type of impact would that have had on the nation of Israel?
The world would look different and our history would almost certainly have been significantly altered.
People are the worst... well, maybe driver ants.
But Germans are the best.
never back down never what?
Galaxy Quest.
There was only one reason, they knew how monstrously barbaric the Soviets were.
Manipulation until the end 😳
They actually believed in their leaders....
Unlike the people that play this role today...
The next few months of springtime will become very interesting within Europe....
Because of unconditional surrender thats why