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@Eva Braun’s New Jewish Husband The concept on paper as an ideology is good, but the people who leads it are the problem, it's all about execution....maybe literal ones too..
@@suhandatanker It's not necessarily the execution. The concept on paper, too, has a critical flaw: Communism requires a benevolent leader that can catch the balance between total state control of the economy and still allow to prevent authoritarian dictatorial governments. The problem here is that no such person existed, exists, or ever will exist because this is human nature to be greedy, exploitative, dominant and authoritarian.
Canada has a joking reputation of being overly polite but in both World Wars they were the equivalent of Mike Tyson on PCP with how absolutely hard went. Some of the absolutely best soldiers in history.
Canadians were known for going into war when needed with absolute savagery. In WW1 they were know for storming enemy trenches and killing every soldier no matter if they ended up surrendering . There was a case where Canadian battalions said ‘ eff that’ to the Christmas Day cease fire and stormed trenches and killed all the enemy.
@@HarryBalzak that’s a very watered down statement on Canadian independence. Besides in terms of WW2 Canada independently joined. By the time 1982 was came around Canada was almost entirely independent. Your statement seems very dismissive 🤷♂️
It's unbelievable how courageous the allied forces who stormed the beaches of Normandy were. Well done, Armchair. The animation, the history, and the storytelling are tremendous.
He was already deranged by that time. But, he wanted Germany to keep fighting for many reasons. He was actually doing well with his plans at least till 42. He didn't want Moscow campaign and it backfired and pretty much cost them the Eastern Front.
@@Ghreinos Took them 5 years to bomb Germany when Germany was already on its deathbed and defeated. Arthur Harris was seriously overrated and funny that he was abandoned by his own people after the war. Göring bombed Britain when Britain was powerful enough to defend its turf. Britain and France could've stopped the war in 38, 39 or even in 40 had they tried. Or even in 41 when Germany was busy with Barbarossa. Sending 1000 planes would've done the job in 41, but, hey! You guys were playing rock paper scissor and started your campaign in Africa. Lol! Italy? Really?
I just cant get my head arround as a graphic designer and amateur motion designer, how well done these animatsion are. Keep up the amazing work you and the whole team :)
@@generalmartok3990 That's how I measure things. Twins! I work in the intelligence community right now and i judge certain things by cups of coffee needed. It's nice to have an expert confirm how long I thought it would take.
The soldier wasn't suffering from PTSD; he had malaria. Ironically, it was *Patton himself* who was suffering combat fatigue at the time, coupled with a lack of sleep, and since he was in denial about it, he projected it onto someone else who just happened to seem uninjured compared to the other soldiers in the field hospital. After his head cleared and he was made aware of the soldier's actual situation, Patton summoned the private to his office and sincerely apologized for slapping him: "I didn't know you were sick."
I am blown away by the artistry and devotion that must have been placed on this animation!! Wow!! Finally a way to show my kids an accurate historical telling of WW2 in Europe. And being that its animated my kids are really into it and citing many details.
You Canadians deserve as much credit as every one for helping fight the Nazis in WW2. Americans, Canadians, Brits, Aussies, and more all died fighting beside one another to free Europe and defeat Japan
I really appreciate the references to the Ghost Army at 9:20. I recently started reading a book about them and doing more research into them and it's caused me to have this great appreciation for how large of a role they really played. I mean they not only orchestrated this huge ruse on the landings but more that almost 20 times did they also fool front line troops into believing that entire tank divisions were in one place while they were actually on the move. They used the inflatable tanks for this, gargantuan Navy ship speakers to play the sound of tanks revving. They made fake inflatable artillery guns with special effects to make them sound like real artillery guns with flash and all. Genuinely they were genius all of them.
my great grandpa, Staff Sergeant Julius Wetter survived Omaha Beach and the rest of the war in Europe and lived until 2004. he saved many lives after yelling for everyone to take off their packs.
I don’t suppose anyone’s heard of the Battle of Glorieta Pass? A civil war battle in New Mexico. I would love to see this as another animated video on this channel 😁
ep - heard of it and even walked the battlefield. It is part of the National Park System and can be visited via Pecos National Monument. Awesome area of New Mexico. it was the battle that stopped the Confederate advance towards Fort Union and a possible invasion of Colorado.
I compile a playlist two weeks before because you guys hadn't created a full documentary, or made a playlist for the WF. And now today, this, well..... I am happy a full documentary is here. Please Griff, if you make a long series about something, make it a full documentary it's easier to see videos that way thanks :D (BTW love your vids, keep goin!)
I learned about the Pointe-du-Hoc "debacle" from playing video games. IIRC, it was a mission in one of the earlier Medal of Honor games and I remember being pissed as a kid going through that mission for basically no reason, so imagine how those rangers felt losing half their fellow soldiers for a target that had already been "neutralized".
The guns were still there and operational just moved back a little from their firing positions. The rangers took out five of them. Vets are furious about the above myth pushed by films and games.
@@philipamos4333 Exactly, the guns where still operational, and still being used against the landings. Those Rangers were able to take them out, and save lives.
This (along with many others from Griffin and the team) is such a well made video. Informative in both a tactical and strategic sense, yet never losing sight of the human impact of the war and the struggles that individuals and groups of people face. You and your team are amazing storytellers.
Amazing work as always. You could easily narrate for the BBC. 11:37 is the scene from the end of the D Day landings in Saving Private Ryan. The soldier in the middle right is sprawled face down dead near the tank trap in the same way one of Ryan's brothers was.
This is one of the few "animated/cartoon" history channels I watch because, whereas others omit important details in an effort to be concise and visually appealing, this channel lets us have our cake and eat it too. We get maps, timelines, battle plans, division names and types, all displayed in a seamless and immersive manner, an example being at 13:47. Another thing I like is the semi-realistic illustration style, so that I don't have to guess which historical figure is being portrayed based on a stick figure wearing a generic uniform. Cool stuff.
I'd like to see Downfall of Germany on the Eastern Front someday. That'd be pretty entertaining. Pus the Art Style, Graphics and overall quality from this one would've improved a lot. really great animations! keep it up!
@@blasterelforg7276 Operation Bagration only covered Bagration. I want the entire Eastern Front, not just some small operations. plus the Defense of Moscow, Siege of Leningrad and Battle of Stalingrad would all be enhance from pervious styles.
@@imaginewt9616 Stalingrad has been covered by 10 million channels on UA-cam. Why you want every channel repeating the same story at the expense of lesser known ones? If every channel starts sounding the same it takes away from originality.
Bagration is the d-day of the east. As France was in the west, Belarus is in the east. However, given the scope of this video. I could say he could start everything that happened from June 1944-April 1945 of the east.
That the fact that German defences at Normandy is weak compared to other parts of Hiter’s Atlantic wall shows how much more destruction D-Day would have been if the Allies landed elsewhere
Stalin begged Roosevelt and Churchill to open up a 2nd front to take the pressure off of him. This is why the Italian mainland landings took place... and later, the French coast. Many badly needed German divisions had to be pulled from the Eastern Front because of this. Stalin got his wish.
Jerry There was already a, second front though in reality, keeping many resources away from thr Eastern Front. The war in North Africa/Med the Atlantic and the bombing of Germany. If not for that, the USSR would likely have lost. These tied down significant German resources, even before Italy and Normandy. 2/3 of German wartime expense and material resources went on the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine and these were mostly destroyed in the west. Already by the end of 1942 only 24% of German fighters were on the Eastern Front. That dropped to 17% by the end of 1943. The air war over Germany alone kept 1/3 of all German artillery inside Germany.
@@jerryjeromehawkins1712 Actually the british delayed helping stalin cuz they wanted to weaken the USSR. BUt once they understood that if the USSR fell, they the west would have no hope, they then decided to open the fron.t
I repeat what I said over a year ago. As a reader of WW2 for over 50 years , I find this series of Armchair Historian videos Excellent. Concise and precise wording. Very appropriate and comprehensive analysis and graphics. 100% worthy. Not one single solitary wasted part. No rambling nor digressions that take interest away. I also repeat that something done on this level could very well be used as a Learning Tool/Aid for teaching our students History. Kudos......keep up the GREAT work. If you wish to Add to your videos to show battles ? Perhaps the Slow walk up the New Guinea coast and the Solomon Chain. The air and sea battles included. The Reduction of Rabaul. The terribly slow campaign up Italy. Chindits and Marauders in China. Battle of the Atlantic. If you have already done some of these , then I must watch them. Again....GREAT work. Keep it up.
You should do a more in depth video about the Falaise Gap massacre. My grandpa, part of the 90th ID, passed through there after the fighting had subsided. He shared a lot of his experiences during the war with me but he would never talk about the gap. I just know that it impacted him more than any other event he witnessed during WW2.
Among the Canadian there was a figure familiar to sci-fi fans. James Doohan, better known as "Scotty" of Star Trek. He lost fingers from one hand, to German bullets, on D-day
In the Scene in The Next Generation where Scotty is in onboard The Enterprise D he and Picard shared a toast to the original Enterprise and you can see his hand with the missing fingers
May I make a slight criticism? I believe that the 'floating' tanks were released too far from the beaches in the American sector and that they performed quite well for the British, also that the use of specialised armour (to help clear mines for instance) was spurned by US forces to their detriment?
Kind of. Most were set off late except for the 741st battalion. After reading an article in Wikipedia. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD_tank#:~:text=Also%2C%20the%20tanks%20of%20741st,mi%20(4.8%20km)%20offshore. It says that the dd tanks were took out by cannons, but mostly the 6 ft. High waves, which were 5 feet higher than they were designed for. Yes, tanks of the 741st battalion were set about a mile farther than they were made to. This led american crew members to radio back to drop them closer, which led to the destruction of the rest of the tanks under german cannon fire. The only tanks that made it were those that had sailers as skippers. Also American troops had been counting on bulldozer Sherman's to clear obstacles, however much of them were destroyed. Sword beach had had calm seas, while Juno beach could only launch one battalion, leading to heavy casualties Utah beach lost I think 2 dd tanks, while gold beach had taken lots of tank casualties, but displayed the power of sherman crab tanks As for Americans ignoring them, I have heard both ways, one that their thinking was too constrained and that Americans always think they know best, and the other is that while Bradley did order much of them, Eisenhower did not have time/ resources to get them and train american troops to use them and them learn how to apply them.
Rob, Similarly, the American built Mulberry Harbour (Jerry built) was completely destroyed by channel storms whereas the British built harbour although severly damaged was reparable. It seems the Americans always want to reinvent the wheel.
@@mtsenskmtsensk5113 or maybe its because the American one hadnt been finished before the storm hit, also, the wreckage from the American one was used to reinforce the british one.
Would absolutely love to see more of these type documentaries. Keep it up, you are way ahead of any outlet out there. Attention to detail keeps you even closer and takes us right there.
22:10 has to be one of my most favorite details I’ve literally ever seen on this channel. The barrel of the MG42 getting so hot that it needed to be changed, and then the animation of it actually getting changed was incredible. These animations have gotten so much better.
Wow! That was amazing! The animation, the narration and the detail, all top notch. Well done, that must have taken hours and hours to put together, so thank you.
I think Dday is one of if not the proudest moments for the US. Its interesting to put yourself in the shoes of those young guys, I mean the paratroopers had no guarantee that the army would even secure the beach and they could easily just be surrounded and taken as pows. Or imagine what it was like as an 18 year old to watch the door drop on your landing craft to see constant machine gun fire, no cover, men in the fetal position crying, hundreds of dead bodies, and injured men writhing in pain. It mustve been surreal.
This whole thing is just.. wow amazing that i am speechless to see that wonderful work and heart put into this video with the animation and info needed to make it. Bravo Armchair!
A good short documentary could be the often overlooked Norwegian Campaign or the Arctic Convoys. These documentaries could be really good like these. I hope you consider this as an option. Overall very well made video. Keep up the good work. 👍
Very cool video! You can make one about the eastern front and talk about many forgotten nations that fought in the eastern front like Romania, Poland and Hungary. Keep up the good work
My great grandpa who served in France as a minesweeper said it best "Thank the gods for the Soviets, every bit of fighting they did kept us from further harm. I owe my life to their men who died so my friends and I would not."
I love learning about WW2, and you have been feuling that love by making a full documentary of Germany's downfall from the Western front! Can't wait to see the Pacific War on this channel one day or another!
@@angrydoggy9170 Oh, definitely a collective effort. I am a descendant of a Canadian soldier and a Dutch warbride. I recognize that the war was won with the value of the Allies. I am simply defining the weight and sacrifice of the Soviet Union had on the reich which caused 10 million casualties and irreplaceable material losses that simply dwarfs the western front's necessity to end the war entirely.
My grandpa did his part in the liberation of the city of Nice,helping to take back the police sation (gendarmerie). He was granted a Croix de Guerre avec Étoile de bronze (War-cross with bronze star) medal and a bit of money, he never went to get etheir. He was named Joseph Jorda and died before i could call him anything but "Pepe Jo'"
Great animation and production values. Really good job! I found the focus points to be similar to the ones that Rick Atkinson focused on in his trilogy. Honestly, reading contemporary WW2 Western Front histories, it's almost as if it's a surprise the Allies won. :)
You should do a documentary on the Battle of Guadalcanal in WWII make sure to include the Medal of Honor stories during the whole campaign such as John basilone, and Mitchell Paige, and all of the land and sea battles of the campaign definitely include the battle of the tenaru, battle of Edsons ridge, Henderson field, and every other important naval and land battle of the campaign
The Guadalcanal campaign is one of the more interesting of the war because it is almost unique in involving months of aerial, land, and air combat by forces that were still relatively evenly matched. Japan could have won it. Most campaigns in the Second World War only involved two of those three (typically land and air) or featured forces that were not evenly matched. D-Day for example had a naval component but Germany was in no position to contest the landings at sea, and by that point Allied air forces had achieved superiority in the skies over France.
One on the eastern front? This was amazing and so fun to watch. Must have taken a lot of work, I am subscribed to you will notification bells on! Earned a like.
This whole video, the entirety of people displaced or killed and city's ruined just shows shows the level of disruction. I love learning about it but it's always tough to take in the harsh reality
30:00 Yeah, if we ignore the Panzerdivisions, this is a brilliant plan (there were actual photos showing tanks, Market Garden is a pretty controvers topic)
Once I have money to spare I'm gonna subscribe to your patron. Your animation is great and I admire your persistence against UA-cam and it's bullshit. History should be remembered!
"Commonwealth" wasn't just a reference to British and Canadian forces. Australian forces were there too and presumably others. "Commonwealth," rather, refers to the "Commonwealth" (of) nations, which are all tied to Britain, usually as former colonies.
no australian troops fought in the western front pretty much the entire commonwealth force was made up of british and canadian troops with a couple polish divisions and smaller units from czech etc.
@@crumpetcommandos779 The Aussies and Kiwi armies fought in N Africa, before being dispatched to the Far East. Their airmen however stayed and fought with RAF and RCAF squadrons in Europe.
@@molnya2 I'm aware that the anzacs fought in North Africa and the Mediterranean as a whole, I meant north western Europe eg France Belgium ect. my point is there were no anzac ground units fighting in France..
Hope to see a large scale video like this one on the entire Eastern Front aswell, also in the Pacific War, from the Island Hopping Campaign, to the Sino-Japanese Front, the Burma Campaign, as well as MacArthur's Campaign through New Guinea to the Philippines.
Stalingrad and Moscow: Germany's downfall. These two defeats cost them nearly 2 million soldiers (deads and injured) and a vast amount of war materials/resources as well as the war overall. They failed to acquire the Caucasus which was their prime objective. Germans were retreating by February 1943 after Stalingrad's defeat. Moscow campaign was unnecessary and Austrian Guy knew that too. The generals followed the old tactic of "take their high-command down and you win" by choosing Moscow and it backfired badly. War was over by February 43. Germans were pushed out of SU before western allies made their drop in France.
I really enjoy watching these animated history documentaries, thanks to everyone who put these together. I do have a request though, the pop-ups that have more detail to them are in my opinion not displayed long enough to completely read.
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You should to 1914 German Soldier versus 1914 French soldier . I feel like you should do more World War 1 stuff WWII has been done to death
@@Nottagilla griffin and his team needs money
Please, make another 50 minute video. These are awesome!
@@randomblitzplayer The same ones all over again.
The production value on these are insane. Congrats to the whole team on their great work!
Oh damn Alternate History the man themself
Dude your channel is awesome as well
You Have Some Great Videos Yet, Possible Better Quality On The Vids
Thanks man - and this video was released almost 2 years ago. I'd love to make one on the eastern front with improved animations, art, and sound.
@@TheArmchairHistorian Nice animated video by the way.
"General George i slapped the ptsd out of my soldiers Patton" i'm dead
I had to pause the video to revive myself.
An interesting form of therapy
9:30 thank me later
Patton doesn't kill you he just slaps the PTSD out of you
"We have defeated the wrong enemy" General Patton, post WW2.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Imagine he mades “Downfall of Germany | The Eastern Front | Full Documentary | Animated History”
@Eva Braun’s New Jewish Husband every man with a brain do lmao
Please
@Eva Braun’s New Jewish Husband The concept on paper as an ideology is good, but the people who leads it are the problem, it's all about execution....maybe literal ones too..
@@suhandatanker It's not necessarily the execution. The concept on paper, too, has a critical flaw: Communism requires a benevolent leader that can catch the balance between total state control of the economy and still allow to prevent authoritarian dictatorial governments.
The problem here is that no such person existed, exists, or ever will exist because this is human nature to be greedy, exploitative, dominant and authoritarian.
@Eva Braun’s New Jewish Husband wat dafuq did you say *loads nagant*
Really nice to see the Canadians getting the credit they deserve, most simply forget the many victories they have won throughout WWI and WWII
I never 4get our buddies to the north..yall have aleays had our back. And fight like hell u guys do.
**always...not "aleays" whatever that is
Canada has a joking reputation of being overly polite but in both World Wars they were the equivalent of Mike Tyson on PCP with how absolutely hard went. Some of the absolutely best soldiers in history.
Canadians were known for going into war when needed with absolute savagery. In WW1 they were know for storming enemy trenches and killing every soldier no matter if they ended up surrendering . There was a case where Canadian battalions said ‘ eff that’ to the Christmas Day cease fire and stormed trenches and killed all the enemy.
Canada was fighting under the British flag. Canada gained its independence from the crown in 1982.
@@HarryBalzak that’s a very watered down statement on Canadian independence. Besides in terms of WW2 Canada independently joined.
By the time 1982 was came around Canada was almost entirely independent.
Your statement seems very dismissive 🤷♂️
It's unbelievable how courageous the allied forces who stormed the beaches of Normandy were. Well done, Armchair. The animation, the history, and the storytelling are tremendous.
They had set up up Calais as a rouse and most bought it but some didn't
They fought hard so the Communists could win the war.
And what for...
@@rustyshackleford3316 The communists fought just as hard, Stalingrad had more casualties than D-Day
@@apophisRO do you like jews
"Hitler made only one big mistake when he built his Atlantic Wall. He forgot to put a roof on it."
- World War II U.S. paratrooper aphorism
Roofs didn't helped the citizens of Dresden, Hamburg and Cologne a bunker did.
He was already deranged by that time. But, he wanted Germany to keep fighting for many reasons. He was actually doing well with his plans at least till 42. He didn't want Moscow campaign and it backfired and pretty much cost them the Eastern Front.
@@Ghreinos Took them 5 years to bomb Germany when Germany was already on its deathbed and defeated. Arthur Harris was seriously overrated and funny that he was abandoned by his own people after the war. Göring bombed Britain when Britain was powerful enough to defend its turf. Britain and France could've stopped the war in 38, 39 or even in 40 had they tried. Or even in 41 when Germany was busy with Barbarossa. Sending 1000 planes would've done the job in 41, but, hey! You guys were playing rock paper scissor and started your campaign in Africa. Lol! Italy? Really?
@@erich2432 You know why they didn't defeat Germany in 1939, 1940 or 1941, because they couldn't.
Erich 24.
The RAF already dropped more bombs on Germany in 1941 than the RAF dropped on Britain in 1940.
UA-cam needs to stop surpressing these masterpieces omg
@Eva Braun’s New Jewish Husbandyou knwo you are supporting facist with it?
Ikr
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@Eva Braun’s New Jewish Husband 🤡
@Eva Braun’s New Jewish Husband your avatar says differnet
I just cant get my head arround as a graphic designer and amateur motion designer, how well done these animatsion are. Keep up the amazing work you and the whole team :)
Such wonderful productions, Awesome!
I'm only a hobby 2d and 3d designer and I can't even imagine how many hours of manpower it takes to produce these things.
As a fellow graphic designer, I'm measuring this production in bags of coffee. This probably required an entire Colombian farm to produce.
@@generalmartok3990 That's how I measure things. Twins! I work in the intelligence community right now and i judge certain things by cups of coffee needed. It's nice to have an expert confirm how long I thought it would take.
Are you kidding? Western Front? Every 4 out of 5 German soldiers died on the Eastern Front. This is where WW2 was won.
The soldier wasn't suffering from PTSD; he had malaria. Ironically, it was *Patton himself* who was suffering combat fatigue at the time, coupled with a lack of sleep, and since he was in denial about it, he projected it onto someone else who just happened to seem uninjured compared to the other soldiers in the field hospital. After his head cleared and he was made aware of the soldier's actual situation, Patton summoned the private to his office and sincerely apologized for slapping him: "I didn't know you were sick."
I am blown away by the artistry and devotion that must have been placed on this animation!! Wow!! Finally a way to show my kids an accurate historical telling of WW2 in Europe. And being that its animated my kids are really into it and citing many details.
the animation is so well made, i love to learn about this topic more and more, keep up the good work!
If you want to learn more watch the greatest story never told or the last battle for Europa
Ehhh. I prefer the old style. But opinions are opinions
Are you kidding? Western Front? Every 4 out of 5 German soldiers died on the Eastern Front. This is where WW2 was won.
@@freedomfreedom6519 whatever you say yank
@@freedomfreedom6519 Average soviet glazer
Nice video as usual you’re one of the only good history content creators
Indeed
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What are the other good history content creators?
Check out Mark Felton
@@Zarafin History Matters
Thanks for covering the Canadian side so well. It is often overlooked, and I appreciate it!
You Canadians deserve as much credit as every one for helping fight the Nazis in WW2. Americans, Canadians, Brits, Aussies, and more all died fighting beside one another to free Europe and defeat Japan
@@ThwipThwipBoom No one deserves as much credit as the USA. The USA saved the world.
@@brucecampbell4528 Lol, They helped yes, but didnt do it themselves
I really appreciate the references to the Ghost Army at 9:20. I recently started reading a book about them and doing more research into them and it's caused me to have this great appreciation for how large of a role they really played. I mean they not only orchestrated this huge ruse on the landings but more that almost 20 times did they also fool front line troops into believing that entire tank divisions were in one place while they were actually on the move. They used the inflatable tanks for this, gargantuan Navy ship speakers to play the sound of tanks revving. They made fake inflatable artillery guns with special effects to make them sound like real artillery guns with flash and all. Genuinely they were genius all of them.
my great grandpa, Staff Sergeant Julius Wetter survived Omaha Beach and the rest of the war in Europe and lived until 2004. he saved many lives after yelling for everyone to take off their packs.
I don’t suppose anyone’s heard of the Battle of Glorieta Pass? A civil war battle in New Mexico. I would love to see this as another animated video on this channel 😁
Wasn't that the furthest Western Battle during the American Civil War?
ep - heard of it and even walked the battlefield. It is part of the National Park System and can be visited via Pecos National Monument. Awesome area of New Mexico. it was the battle that stopped the Confederate advance towards Fort Union and a possible invasion of Colorado.
Yes! A small but epic battle between California and Texas, with the Colorado volunteers swooping in and saving the day for the Union.
I love these longer documentaries, they’re really interesting and enjoyable, especially with the quality these things have.
69 likes, nice
I compile a playlist two weeks before because you guys hadn't created a full documentary, or made a playlist for the WF. And now today, this, well..... I am happy a full documentary is here. Please Griff, if you make a long series about something, make it a full documentary it's easier to see videos that way thanks :D
(BTW love your vids, keep goin!)
Shorter videos tend to do better on UA-cam so that might be a reason the team releases many videos in parts.
Well, you are not wrong about that
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I learned about the Pointe-du-Hoc "debacle" from playing video games. IIRC, it was a mission in one of the earlier Medal of Honor games and I remember being pissed as a kid going through that mission for basically no reason, so imagine how those rangers felt losing half their fellow soldiers for a target that had already been "neutralized".
The guns were still there and operational just moved back a little from their firing positions. The rangers took out five of them. Vets are furious about the above myth pushed by films and games.
@@philipamos4333 Exactly, the guns where still operational, and still being used against the landings. Those Rangers were able to take them out, and save lives.
That was Call Of Duty 2 i think.
This (along with many others from Griffin and the team) is such a well made video. Informative in both a tactical and strategic sense, yet never losing sight of the human impact of the war and the struggles that individuals and groups of people face. You and your team are amazing storytellers.
You should do a video on the Mesopotamia Campaign in WW1 or Bulgarian perspective of WW1. Keep up the good work armchair historian
Amazing work as always. You could easily narrate for the BBC.
11:37 is the scene from the end of the D Day landings in Saving Private Ryan. The soldier in the middle right is sprawled face down dead near the tank trap in the same way one of Ryan's brothers was.
6:27 priavate Doyle is in the door way of the bunker with a flamethrower
The content being uploaded is truly the peak of animated history content, I always look forward to these videos.
This is one of the few "animated/cartoon" history channels I watch because, whereas others omit important details in an effort to be concise and visually appealing, this channel lets us have our cake and eat it too. We get maps, timelines, battle plans, division names and types, all displayed in a seamless and immersive manner, an example being at 13:47. Another thing I like is the semi-realistic illustration style, so that I don't have to guess which historical figure is being portrayed based on a stick figure wearing a generic uniform. Cool stuff.
I'd like to see Downfall of Germany on the Eastern Front someday. That'd be pretty entertaining. Pus the Art Style, Graphics and overall quality from this one would've improved a lot. really great animations! keep it up!
This series covered much of it already in an episode entitled "Operation Begration"
@@blasterelforg7276 Operation Bagration only covered Bagration. I want the entire Eastern Front, not just some small operations. plus the Defense of Moscow, Siege of Leningrad and Battle of Stalingrad would all be enhance from pervious styles.
@@imaginewt9616 Stalingrad has been covered by 10 million channels on UA-cam. Why you want every channel repeating the same story at the expense of lesser known ones? If every channel starts sounding the same it takes away from originality.
Bagration is the d-day of the east. As France was in the west, Belarus is in the east. However, given the scope of this video. I could say he could start everything that happened from June 1944-April 1945 of the east.
@@blasterelforg7276 Oh yeah because the Western Front has *never* been talked about...
I love this type of documentary, they’re so immersive and plenty of details, I really enjoy it.
UA-cam should recommend this to children who fall in love with history
That the fact that German defences at Normandy is weak compared to other parts of Hiter’s Atlantic wall shows how much more destruction D-Day would have been if the Allies landed elsewhere
Stalin begged Roosevelt and Churchill to open up a 2nd front to take the pressure off of him. This is why the Italian mainland landings took place... and later, the French coast.
Many badly needed German divisions had to be pulled from the Eastern Front because of this. Stalin got his wish.
Jerry
There was already a, second front though in reality, keeping many resources away from thr Eastern Front. The war in North Africa/Med the Atlantic and the bombing of Germany. If not for that, the USSR would likely have lost. These tied down significant German resources, even before Italy and Normandy.
2/3 of German wartime expense and material resources went on the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine and these were mostly destroyed in the west. Already by the end of 1942 only 24% of German fighters were on the Eastern Front. That dropped to 17% by the end of 1943.
The air war over Germany alone kept 1/3 of all German artillery inside Germany.
@@jerryjeromehawkins1712 Actually the british delayed helping stalin cuz they wanted to weaken the USSR. BUt once they understood that if the USSR fell, they the west would have no hope, they then decided to open the fron.t
@@dracoboomin6511 Stfu revisionist, provide some source to back up your claims
I repeat what I said over a year ago. As a reader of WW2 for over 50 years , I find this series of Armchair Historian videos Excellent. Concise and precise wording. Very appropriate and comprehensive analysis and graphics. 100% worthy. Not one single solitary wasted part. No rambling nor digressions that take interest away.
I also repeat that something done on this level could very well be used as a Learning Tool/Aid for teaching our students History.
Kudos......keep up the GREAT work.
If you wish to Add to your videos to show battles ? Perhaps the Slow walk up the New Guinea coast and the Solomon Chain. The air and sea battles included. The Reduction of Rabaul.
The terribly slow campaign up Italy.
Chindits and Marauders in China.
Battle of the Atlantic.
If you have already done some of these , then I must watch them. Again....GREAT work. Keep it up.
You should do a more in depth video about the Falaise Gap massacre. My grandpa, part of the 90th ID, passed through there after the fighting had subsided. He shared a lot of his experiences during the war with me but he would never talk about the gap. I just know that it impacted him more than any other event he witnessed during WW2.
The quality of this channel has really improved over the years. Fantastic work.
Among the Canadian there was a figure familiar to sci-fi fans. James Doohan, better known as "Scotty" of Star Trek. He lost fingers from one hand, to German bullets, on D-day
In the Scene in The Next Generation where Scotty is in onboard The Enterprise D he and Picard shared a toast to the original Enterprise and you can see his hand with the missing fingers
I’ve already watched countless video’s on nearly every operation of world war 2, but it’s like a drug, I CAN’T STOP WATCHING THEM
May I make a slight criticism? I believe that the 'floating' tanks were released too far from the beaches in the American sector and that they performed quite well for the British, also that the use of specialised armour (to help clear mines for instance) was spurned by US forces to their detriment?
@@brian_s.4063 and launched too far out?
Kind of. Most were set off late except for the 741st battalion. After reading an article in Wikipedia. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD_tank#:~:text=Also%2C%20the%20tanks%20of%20741st,mi%20(4.8%20km)%20offshore.
It says that the dd tanks were took out by cannons, but mostly the 6 ft. High waves, which were 5 feet higher than they were designed for. Yes, tanks of the 741st battalion were set about a mile farther than they were made to. This led american crew members to radio back to drop them closer, which led to the destruction of the rest of the tanks under german cannon fire. The only tanks that made it were those that had sailers as skippers.
Also American troops had been counting on bulldozer Sherman's to clear obstacles, however much of them were destroyed.
Sword beach had had calm seas, while Juno beach could only launch one battalion, leading to heavy casualties
Utah beach lost I think 2 dd tanks, while gold beach had taken lots of tank casualties, but displayed the power of sherman crab tanks
As for Americans ignoring them, I have heard both ways, one that their thinking was too constrained and that Americans always think they know best, and the other is that while Bradley did order much of them, Eisenhower did not have time/ resources to get them and train american troops to use them and them learn how to apply them.
@@brian_s.4063 So they were launched too early?
Rob, Similarly, the American built Mulberry Harbour (Jerry built) was completely destroyed by channel storms whereas the British built harbour although severly damaged was reparable. It seems the Americans always want to reinvent the wheel.
@@mtsenskmtsensk5113 or maybe its because the American one hadnt been finished before the storm hit, also, the wreckage from the American one was used to reinforce the british one.
Would absolutely love to see more of these type documentaries. Keep it up, you are way ahead of any outlet out there. Attention to detail keeps you even closer and takes us right there.
This is how amazing and rich history looks when UA-cam doesn't censor history
It don't matter that it's HISTORY!!!! geez.... it has to fit the "new" narrative. Re-arrange it to fit.
22:10 has to be one of my most favorite details I’ve literally ever seen on this channel. The barrel of the MG42 getting so hot that it needed to be changed, and then the animation of it actually getting changed was incredible. These animations have gotten so much better.
Wow! That was amazing! The animation, the narration and the detail, all top notch. Well done, that must have taken hours and hours to put together, so thank you.
I think Dday is one of if not the proudest moments for the US. Its interesting to put yourself in the shoes of those young guys, I mean the paratroopers had no guarantee that the army would even secure the beach and they could easily just be surrounded and taken as pows. Or imagine what it was like as an 18 year old to watch the door drop on your landing craft to see constant machine gun fire, no cover, men in the fetal position crying, hundreds of dead bodies, and injured men writhing in pain. It mustve been surreal.
This whole thing is just.. wow amazing that i am speechless to see that wonderful work and heart put into this video with the animation and info needed to make it. Bravo Armchair!
Oh yes I love videos like these! With full run downs, amazing art, and fantastic narration. Keep up the great work!
Would really like to see a full feature length documentary from you guys, could potentially be among the best documentaries ever made!
Yes please! I want more short documentaries like this!
A good short documentary could be the often overlooked Norwegian Campaign or the Arctic Convoys. These documentaries could be really good like these. I hope you consider this as an option. Overall very well made video. Keep up the good work. 👍
I never thought I would say this but “when you run out of ideas, you remake your own videos.”
Very cool video! You can make one about the eastern front and talk about many forgotten nations that fought in the eastern front like Romania, Poland and Hungary. Keep up the good work
Minor roles. He needs to do USSR though
I know this is late, but this is an amazing video. I 101% think the team should keep creating these short documentaries. Good work!
Absolutely amazing video, so much work into it and it paid off
26:51 "Although wounded and limping, the German Wolf still has its teeth"
What a line.
My great grandpa who served in France as a minesweeper said it best "Thank the gods for the Soviets, every bit of fighting they did kept us from further harm. I owe my life to their men who died so my friends and I would not."
The Soviets had massive loses just like the Chinese kept the Japanese occupied
Grandpa was delusional for thanking the soviets. He was in France didnt deal with soviets then.
Another masterful work from you!
Keep up the great work, even at the face of others!
I sure as hell love this channel so much I want to see more. Can we see the Eastern Front, Pacific war or North African campaign?
He's already done a video on the north African campaign.
@@pecadodeorgullo5963 As he said in THIS video, THIS video was already uploaded last year. I want you to think about that and everything else...
@@Aaron.Monroe watch your fucking attitude.
@@pecadodeorgullo5963 I'm blind
@@Aaron.Monroe I wonder why?
would love to see more such intresting and creative fragments of major world history events spun into a short video documentary
This video is amazing I love how long it was, I sat and watched every minute, your production and animation is also very good
Hands down the best produced documentary you have ever made. The scale and cinematic feel of it was insane, please try more like it.
I love learning about WW2, and you have been feuling that love by making a full documentary of Germany's downfall from the Western front! Can't wait to see the Pacific War on this channel one day or another!
An eastern front version of this would be amazing
You mean Russia's "Operation Bagration" only 2 weeks later and larger in scale.
Considering the eastern front is what actually was the downfall of Nazi Germany, yeah
@@bilbobaggins6251 Not really, the demise of the third reich was definitely a collective effort.
@@angrydoggy9170 Oh, definitely a collective effort. I am a descendant of a Canadian soldier and a Dutch warbride. I recognize that the war was won with the value of the Allies. I am simply defining the weight and sacrifice of the Soviet Union had on the reich which caused 10 million casualties and irreplaceable material losses that simply dwarfs the western front's necessity to end the war entirely.
@fuckyoutubepolicy staff I agree about the trucks
This is a fantastic video about Russia war production. ua-cam.com/video/fcpUdhj-9A8/v-deo.html
Absolutely LOVE these longer documentaries, keep up the great work!
Production quality is outstanding. Thank you
The ad roll right after that serious introduction was whiplash inducing
My grandpa did his part in the liberation of the city of Nice,helping to take back the police sation (gendarmerie). He was granted a Croix de Guerre avec Étoile de bronze (War-cross with bronze star) medal and a bit of money, he never went to get etheir.
He was named Joseph Jorda and died before i could call him anything but "Pepe Jo'"
Great animation and production values. Really good job! I found the focus points to be similar to the ones that Rick Atkinson focused on in his trilogy. Honestly, reading contemporary WW2 Western Front histories, it's almost as if it's a surprise the Allies won. :)
Can you do a video about the Second Italo-Ethiopian war from the Ethiopian view please.
Yes!!!
Absolutely love these animated history videos
A story that never gets old, we should never forget it.
Amazing video! Love this longer format!
Same
You should do a documentary on the Battle of Guadalcanal in WWII make sure to include the Medal of Honor stories during the whole campaign such as John basilone, and Mitchell Paige, and all of the land and sea battles of the campaign definitely include the battle of the tenaru, battle of Edsons ridge, Henderson field, and every other important naval and land battle of the campaign
The Guadalcanal campaign is one of the more interesting of the war because it is almost unique in involving months of aerial, land, and air combat by forces that were still relatively evenly matched. Japan could have won it.
Most campaigns in the Second World War only involved two of those three (typically land and air) or featured forces that were not evenly matched. D-Day for example had a naval component but Germany was in no position to contest the landings at sea, and by that point Allied air forces had achieved superiority in the skies over France.
Or, you know, just watch a regular documentary about it.
Basilone was a NJ native, Although he was from Buffalo spent most of his life in Raritan and was with the 1st Marine Division
21:06
Wilhelm Scream, very thoughtful.
12:58
*Shoots Tiger*
*Shell doesnt penetrate*
"Crikey."
The animation is just too good!
One on the eastern front? This was amazing and so fun to watch. Must have taken a lot of work, I am subscribed to you will notification bells on! Earned a like.
Love your channel keep it up!
The work thats been in put into this is phenomenal , love the illustrations 🙏🔥
Your animations have taking this to the next level. Pass on a good word to the artist(s).
This whole video, the entirety of people displaced or killed and city's ruined just shows shows the level of disruction. I love learning about it but it's always tough to take in the harsh reality
The detail of the German machinegunner changing his barrel is amazing, yet another great video.
More documentaries please!!!
I'm lost to the words to describe how impressed and happy I am with the quality of this, for free, on youtube. Thanks a hundred times over!
Huge Respect for the British 49th infantry division ‘Polar Bears’ for the liberation of my home town in Flanders, Belgium.
30:00 Yeah, if we ignore the Panzerdivisions, this is a brilliant plan (there were actual photos showing tanks, Market Garden is a pretty controvers topic)
Wasn’t market garden way after D-Day?
I’d love to see more of this- brilliant content.
Once I have money to spare I'm gonna subscribe to your patron. Your animation is great and I admire your persistence against UA-cam and it's bullshit. History should be remembered!
Somewhere around 40:26 I never knew Bradley got arrested like that! Sheeeeeesh!
What happened to the Japanese uniforms video?
God, I hope more war films are made from the perspective of other allied countries.
Viva la revolution!
The only other allied nation that doesn't parallel the US perspective is the USSR
"Commonwealth" wasn't just a reference to British and Canadian forces. Australian forces were there too and presumably others. "Commonwealth," rather, refers to the "Commonwealth" (of) nations, which are all tied to Britain, usually as former colonies.
no australian troops fought in the western front pretty much the entire commonwealth force was made up of british and canadian troops with a couple polish divisions and smaller units from czech etc.
@@crumpetcommandos779 The Aussies and Kiwi armies fought in N Africa, before being dispatched to the Far East. Their airmen however stayed and fought with RAF and RCAF squadrons in Europe.
@@molnya2 I'm aware that the anzacs fought in North Africa and the Mediterranean as a whole, I meant north western Europe eg France Belgium ect. my point is there were no anzac ground units fighting in France..
I love your videos man. They’ve been keeping me going lately
I love your animation and history narrations. Incredible I love your work better than Time and History channels 👍👍👍
Strange, isn't it that: minor 'Murcan successes are major victories; 'Murcan failures are 'allies' defeats...
Time for 'Murca to grow up?
Hope to see a large scale video like this one on the entire Eastern Front aswell, also in the Pacific War, from the Island Hopping Campaign, to the Sino-Japanese Front, the Burma Campaign, as well as MacArthur's Campaign through New Guinea to the Philippines.
It's so crazy to me that all of this was going on and Switzerland did absolutely nothing.
I see other people are here to ask about the Japanese uniforms video too 😂
Yes wher it go ? I didn't finish it now I'm frustrated I didn't finish 🤣
28:39: "[...] tasked with the liberation of the Netherlands, starting with the enormous port facilities of Antwerp."
Antwerp is in Belgium.
These shorts with animation, most excellent my friends😏
Did the Japanese camo video get taken down?
I was just watching it had had to take a run to the store real quick and its not existing anymore lol
@@blue_squadron4271 was there anything about the video that might be a reason?
Certainly didn’t happen this way in my recent HOI4 campaign.. The Allies sat there while they let Poland do all the work
The Poles won the Battle of Britain. Or so they keep telling us. All 100 pilots (out of 3,000) of them 😂.
If you do another of these, I would love to see the downfall of Germany (eastern front) and the downfall of Japan
And i would want to see the "Downfall of America" or "Downfall of Russia"
Stalingrad and Moscow: Germany's downfall. These two defeats cost them nearly 2 million soldiers (deads and injured) and a vast amount of war materials/resources as well as the war overall. They failed to acquire the Caucasus which was their prime objective. Germans were retreating by February 1943 after Stalingrad's defeat. Moscow campaign was unnecessary and Austrian Guy knew that too. The generals followed the old tactic of "take their high-command down and you win" by choosing Moscow and it backfired badly. War was over by February 43. Germans were pushed out of SU before western allies made their drop in France.
It feels illegal for a history channel to have graphics this gorgeous
I really enjoy watching these animated history documentaries, thanks to everyone who put these together. I do have a request though, the pop-ups that have more detail to them are in my opinion not displayed long enough to completely read.
The German Wolf still has its teeth….meanwhile the Russian Bear mauling it’s way through the eastern front