Exactly this. I can understand victors demonizing the losers, but to do it so cartoonishly? And so many people believe it? It's absolutely insane from my perspective.
@@rabbiezekielgoldberg2497 True. I see the NSDAP as having been more left than right due to their socialist economics. But I don't see them as having been the outlandish boogeymen both sides have made them into in their attempts at virtue signaling
"Thus, the Soviets pledged peace, while frantically preparing for war. More then 2,500 new concrete fortifications were built between 1939 and 1940, 160 divisions were made combat ready. 60 tank divisions were on full alert. In 1941, the Soviets had 17,000 tanks, and by 1942 they had 35,000, while the Germans only had 10 Panzer tank divisions in 1941. The Soviets had 92,000 pieces of artillery. 17,500 combat planes in 1940, outnumbered the German Luftwaffe. With such preparations for war going on, Hitler had only one choice; Invade the Soviet Union immediately, or face annihilation. Hitler did not go into Russia with any great optimism. He told me later on; "When I entered Russia, I was like a man facing a shut door. I knew I had to crash through it, but without knowing what was behind it." Hitler's Russia campaign was a "last chance" campaign. He knew the Soviets were strong, but, above all, he knew they were going to get stronger." -- Leon Degrelle, Belgian leader, and later SS-Obersturmbannführer of the 5th Walloon contingent.
Most Soviet tanks and aircraft were grossly outdated or in disrepair..... and this argument goes with the assumption that the Nazis had accurate information on Soviet assets and stockpiles, which they literally didn't.
Regardless of what anyone thinks of the NSDAP and Hitler, without them Europe would’ve fallen to communism more totally and completely than we could imagine. Don’t get me wrong, Europe is currently occupied by an ideology akin to communism 2.0, but I digress.
one thing is cold winter finland where tanks, arilerry and basically everything gets stuck facing a well prepared army in defensive positions, another is a hot summer plain with km of fields with practically no defensive positions created, oh the more you know....@@what-uy7go
@@what-uy7go ... but, were they totally annihilated or not? Where do you think the Red Army juggernaut came from? Sheer spontaneous magic? What actually happened shows that the USSR could totally annihilate Germany, and so they did. Would they have done it hadn´t Germany attacked first? I think that´s fairly likely. So Germany was fairly likely forced to attack the USSR, with no guarantee of winning. So desperate was Germany´s position in the summer of 1941, all appearances notwithstanding.
After decades of being told to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears, you finally feel what its like to see clearly. "Why do my eyes hurt, Morpheus?" "You've ever used them before"
Hitler's " race obsessed supervilain Persona" was the main reason I began to doubt the historical narrative. It felt too Hollywoodish, glorified the allies to an extreme level and kept dodging the reason why he would target Jews in the first place.
He was sadly a fool. He knew the truth clearly from his books and speeches, but for some reason ignored his own reasoning and massacred millions and millions of children of slavic and jewish descent, completely idiotic and counterproductive to his actual cause.
Hmm You look as smaet guy. Considering geo position of SSSR And facts that germany made tour de france 1940..... Where exactly would you position your( soviet) forces? Second question is of stagering 30 mil people killed in soviet union during ww2 only 8,5 were soldiers died on battlefield and captivity. Who killed all these civilians and why?
@@tomobraica4399 the point is, I never knew the soviets were mobilized and ready. What we're taught is that 'oh big bad guy germany suddenly betrayed poor innocent russia and surprise attacked them for no reason' etc etc
@@jeffr3773 soviet army was devastated by stalin purge.Rokososky suposed to be executed.after Finland disaster they were reforming their army.it was comunist country and as well in cold war they wanted to spread theur ideology,not ocupying other nation. On other hand Hitler was from beggining mark aa enemy of state comunists and Jews Also lebensraum was plan.he even published book mein kampf.
Victor Suvorov was given access to the Soviet military archives after the USSR fell. The result of years of researching them was his book " Icebreaker" which revealed Stalin was weeks away from invading Germany
He was sooo weeks away from invading the poor little nazis that the red army completly collapsed on day one of the invation Liek, seriously, you cannot tell me that the same army that was resonsible for the disaster of misk would have been prepared to invade Nazis truly are retards
@Iamnotracistlmao pretty much. If they were preparing for an offensive, the soviet resistance wouldn't have collapsed as easy as it did. I mean, ffs, the air force got wiped out on day one and you expect me to bealive that this army was in any shape of starting and offensive war. If anything, it would have ended like the italian 10th army in egypt, but ×10 times worse
@@ToddiusMaximus i'm still waiting to be show the "army" that was about to roll though the reich in 41. All i saw were untrained conscrips armed with sticks
It's called propaganda and plagiarizing Wikipedia. That's how he gets them out so fast. You already know the story you want to tell, plagiarize Wikipedia/other sources using confirmation bias to discover those sources and 💥 BOOM 💥 you have a new video each week and income 💰 from producing garbage 🗑️
Barbarossa was a giant spoiling attack that overran Soviet divisions and their storage dumps pre-positioned along the western border. That’s why the number of Soviet casualties and prisoners were staggering.
@@StefanR-h1l "Border"? I think you're mislead. The Soviets were echeloned in depth in three lines to a depth of 500km (According to published plans MP-41 and DP-41). There's nothing about the facts to debunk, but clearly you need to do some basic research on Red Army dispositions. After that, maybe you can start looking at how early most of those Soviet units were in their formation as new organizations. All were understrength, underequipped, undertrained, and incapable of major operations (offensive or defensive) which explains the horrible losses of 1941-42.
@@Mitch_Richard44 the 4th Soviet army wasn’t stationed at the Romanian border in no man’s land (with more tanks than the entire eastern Wehrmacht)? Gee my grandfather (who fought for the Soviets) must’ve lied. The OKW diary’s speaks volumes - they estimated 170 divisions on the Soviet side yet later registered more than 300 - that’s from internal documents. Taking Romania would’ve castrated the German oil supply , killing the Wehrmacht in 2/3 weeks max. If there was a nation that couldn’t fight a defensive war it was Germany . Stalin had Europe at a checkmate , Hitler flipped the board .
@@StefanR-h1l I've been all of this in spades over the last 30 years. If you want to buy into the Suvorov BS, be my guest. If you want to talk about original documentation, Mobilization Plan MP-41 and Deployment Plan DP-41 are exactly that. Red Army units were mobilized and deployed to these plans, and that is corroborated by Wehrmacht reports of when/where they encountered them. David Glantz dug into Red Army archives and demonstrated in detail Red Army force generation and all of the issues they had at that time. He also demonstrated their stated intentions from archival material. Suvorov and others like him don't address this key information as it would debunk their entire position.
My faith in humanity wains when I see people lacking any critical thinking about this period. People just repeat brain dead narratives and 80IQ takes. This presentation is much more truthful and common sense driven.
"If Slavic people were regarded as inferior race then why Nazis have no problem in recruiting them into Waffen SS??" Nazis believed that there is an existence called the "Aryan Soul". In their belief, all inferior people have Aryan soul and when they die, their Aryan soul will leave their body and possess the body of German people thus making the German people become more Aryan. In other word, Nazis recruited the inferior race to fight for them not as allies but as a "tool" for them to make the German people more "pure Aryan" Source: Himmler's foreign executioner by Christopher Hale Himmler's insane reason for recruiting non-German in the Waffen SS by TikHistory
Its hypocritical how earlier on he says the alliance with the Soviet Union was out of convenience not out of genuine likeness, but then argues that alliances with Bulgaria and Slovenia must mean they were on the same page
No dispute here..Hitler say war with the USSR as inevitable. He also belived that communism was an invention of the Jews, so destroying it was doubly important. Where he went wrong was in his estimation of the Red Army-he believed that they had 200 frontline divsions (2 million men) plaus 150 reserves (1.5 million)-this is my he thought he had won by October 1941. Little did he know that the Russians had more than twice this total.
There's a lot that goes into this. The Soviets failed horrendously in Finland, a tiny country with little industrial or military might. The Germans also mopped the floor with the French army and the BEF in 1940, which were considered the best armies in the world at that time. Add all of this with the fact that Stalin had completely gutted his officer corps and was incredibly unpopular in the Soviet Union. There was a reason why Hitler believed that all you had to do was "kick open the door and the whole rotten structure will crumble" or something along those lines. When the Germans invaded there were actually small scale revolts in the Baltic countries and even in Ukraine, though this quickly changed.
The Nazis viewed the Soviets as subhuman so they were more than happy to accept bad intel as it aligned with their ideology. This is why they also never came up with a backup plan if Barbarossa failed. Hitler made idiotic decisions one after the other due to his unwillingness to take the Soviets seriously because of their race, and paid the price for it by plunging the Axis into a fundamentally unwinnable war
"Little did he know that the Russians had more than twice this total" - WOW that's a lot considering it's JUST the Russians, just one major ethnic group subject to the Soviet Union !! So, how many divisions did the Ukrainians, Georgians, etc., have ?
Welk put! Whaf baffles me to this day is why there intelligenge on Russian strenght was so poor!? I know the sabotage argument Admiral Canaris thd 'Rote Capelle' etc,that they led Hitler to sleep walk himself to destruction?
@@salahdeanclemens2226 Hitler actually despised Germany, no sane politician will gamble with destiny of millions (well they are mostly narcissists and few psychopaths) , resulting after all that stupid game in such a misery and humiliations.
whenever you get through your current queue, I think a video on the supposed kidnappings of polish and other slavic children could be interesting. it's definitely one of the topics I see most discussed relating to the NS regime.
It's very well documented. Of the children old enough to remember their parents about 2/3 chose to return to their countries, but a good 1/3 chose to stay with the German families they'd been given to.
@SgtRocko Yeah you got a chouce stay here look the allies are rebuilding. Or...you can go to where its also bomb3d and under communism and well even kids would have heard of the rape of Berlin kids ain't dumb
The Soviets made no secret of their distrust and disdain of Nazi Germany. They had a military pact with Czechoslovakia, a country that Germany attacked. The USSR asked Poland for permission to send troops through its territory to attack Germany and invited Britain and France to join. The Poles refused
It's honestly kind of interesting finding out that the German army was the most diverse army of its time even though they are supposedly big bad racists😂 it's almost like the term racist was invented by the Communists Jew Leon Trotsky whose real name was Lev davidovich bronstein
"Diversity" became a necessity after Barbarossa's failure produced an unsustainable attrition rate. Diversity has nothing to do with NS ideology. BTW; the most diverse army was the British, then the French, US, etc.
@mitchrichards1532 Diversity has a lot to do with the National Socialist ideology. The National Socialist believed that the world should be full of many different races and many different nationalities, and they should all separately be in charge of their own destiny. Otherwise known as Woodrow Wilson's self-determination. And if those people in those countries determine that they do not want others in their Homeland, then they have that right. Nobody wants to be a minority in their own Homeland. Germany had the most diverse Army because there were many different European nations as well as African and Asian Nations that fought for them. You have to include all of the nationalities that fought for them unless you don't consider "white people" diverse. There's many different kinds of Europeans. Each European race is extremely diverse. I'm not going to list every single country in Europe for you. You can figure it out. The Welsh are not the same as the Slavs. The Celts are not the same as the Sicilians just because there's a small amount of brown people doesn't mean it's not diverse. For some reason nowadays diversity just means fewer white people more brown people. Why is the white man not allowed to have a country all for himself why must we share with all of the third world. If they're not as prosperous as us that's their own f****** fault if we were all actually equal they would be on the same standing as us but they're not they fight tooth and nail to come here to be near us. We don't have to help them. We don't have to hurt them either if they go home.
@@Osama_Zyn_Laden Not buying what you're selling. NS ideology does not match what you're saying, and you are ignoring the colonial empires of the UK, Frace, and the US and how diverse they were and still are.
@@Osama_Zyn_LadenWhat, so decades of colonization is the Africans fault now? And do you really think the Nazis fought for diversity and self determination? 😂 Unreal
What an egregious claim by that author. I’ve also come across a few military historians which give an utterly ridiculous explanation for events, then go on to give a good information about the military side of things. I have recently been reading a book on French Napoleonic infantry tactics, and the book gives good details on the actual battles, but he makes outrageous statements before talking about each campaign saying “From the moment he took power Bonaparte sole desire was to wage war and conquer Europe, and he would do anything to achieve this task” It’s utterly nonsense, they have to insert their triggered silly opinions into everything. Napoleon fought 7 wars, 5 of which were defensive against degenerate stagnant monarchies who were paid by the city of London and who worked with the ‘Redshields’ to take down a regime which threatened the power of money lenders in Europe, these monarchs were fixated on ‘balance of power’ and taking back pride and some lost lands, but ultimately empowered the banks to such an extent that they would surpass monarchies and do away with them within 100 years. The Austrian emperor elevated the Roth family to nobility status in 1818 which enabled them to marry into royalty. This was after Napoleons ‘infamous decrees’ had expired, in which he banned a certain type of people from economic positions and French press and media. I’m going on a bit of a tangent here but I feel people in dissident right circles misunderstand the Napoleonic wars, which are usually portrayed as ‘based monarchs fighting against liberal expansionist France’ but the reality is Napoleon was the based man who ended the revolution and reversed 70% of it, undermining the secret societies who caused it and then these people used their influence is London to start bribing miss informed monarchs to go to war to topple his proto fascistic regime
That’s the great thing about historic interpretation: once one understands that history is nothing but a series of reactions to reactions and more reactions, everything makes sense and the rather juvenile “good vs. bad” interpretation becomes nothing but a badly written comic book fit only for bitter old cat ladies and low IQ groups only interested in history as a political cudgel. Without a degenerate revolution, there would have been no Napoleon. Without a degenerate monarchy, there’d have been no revolution. Same goes for Hitler: no degenerate Communist threat to the German middle class, no Hitler. No World War, no serious Communist threat, etc. The good thing for Napoleon’s reputation is that now, over two hundred years later, the idea that he was just a war-mongering ogre is fading away. I expect Hitler’s reputation to take a similar arc. By the year 2140, the propaganda will probably have faded enough for historians to look at the subject more objectively. Sooner, of course, if those guardians of the narrative disappear.
@@John-pc2yr He emancipated them from ghettos because he didn’t want a state within a state. He attempted to reform them and culturally assimilate them. After a few months he saw he wasn’t getting anywhere and then passed laws against them
It does sound like we have been fed a processed version of history to fit our narrative. it will be interesting to watch as an American as I watch our government seem to take increasingly poorly thought out, stands on stupid issues, and then become very inflexible on them. They will be interesting to see how that works out for us. We have a lot of advantages that Germans didn’t, but The sense of what an American is is almost gone.
Thankyou for this clear -headed examination of this myth. I live in Ukraine. Some anecdotes to add. My family is from Galicia and relatives served in the German army/SS and, in the previous war, the Austrian army. However, I currently live in central Ukraine (in a town which had significant KGB and red army HQs). The Soviet indoctrination system is only now being questioned, finally. I remember having discussions with people, early in the war, who expressed dislike or distrust of us Galicians because we were "collaborators" (yet, serving the people who did the Holodomor only 8 years prior, and a famous massacre of thousands of Ukrainians, mostly peasants, in this city, only 3 years earlier, somehow made one a patriot????). A particular individual, a woman about a generation older than myself, despite stating these beliefs recounted her grandmother's wartime experiences thus: 4 of her grandmother's siblings died in the Holodomor. Grandmother herself lived on a farm with her mother and surviving siblings when the Germans came. She was about 6 or 7 at this time. Her mother, naively believing Red propaganda, had been terrified and warned her daughter about the evil germans. They hid, either in the forest or barn, but the mom noticed her daughter was missing. She found her back at the house, singing songs for the German soldiers, one of whom was playing an accordion. The Germans gave the child chocolate and were friendly. This became a pattern. They did take some of the cows, but paid in real money for them, and left one behind to provide milk for the children (compare with soviet policies 8 years earlier...). When the Russians came, the mother smeared the daughter in animal feces and mud and hid her in the forest. They stole the cow the Germans had left behind. Yet the Russians were heroes and liberators....I asked this woman, and, from her stunned reaction, it was clear she'd never once thought about this question in her 50+ yearsof life: if the Germans were so evil and the Soviets so good, why did your grandmother get to sing for chocolate with the Germans, yet have to be smeared in mud and dung and hidden from the Russians? Keep in mind, this girl was between 6-9 years old at the relevant time. Use your imagination. Gradually, as the missiles fall, some minds change... without guilt, I brag to people who had bad opinions of my ancestors before the war, see, we were right all along. Hard to argue with a cruise missile.
@@michaelwarenycia7588 Such a fascinating story, by the way if you don't mind can you share your thoughts on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict of today ? I would like to hear the input of a Ukranian NUZI apologist such as you and myself as well. We know that modern Russia of Putin is very different and much better in so many ways compared to the brutal USSR regime of the past so my point is why are Ukrainians so hellbent to fight and be hostile towards the modern orthodox rehabilitated nation of Russia ? Like do Ukrainians really think that the "globalist small hat" dominated West loves the Ukrainians more than their brother nation Russia and that they are not being used as pawns just to weaken Russia determined to fight to the last Ukrainian for globalist agenda ? Also what is your opinion on the nation state alliance Ukraine-Belarus-Russia working and prosspering together with full soverignity from the Western powers and the small hat elites ?
Hey Zoomer Historian, I know this is quite unrelated but I’ve just been curious of the citations or sources you used for your Hitler’s aims in WW2 video, it would be appreciated if you could show the books and citations to support the Danzig genocide. Thank you, and sorry as I know it was posted a few months back.
@@alexanderspear9464 To discern between the truth and propaganda. Much of it is exaggerated or invented, but there is no doubt they still committed many atrocities, it’s just about being accurate and fair.
At First I was avoiding your videos because your profile pic makes it look like a oversimplified-history type meme-history video (And I hate those), when I finally gave it a chance I was impressed, and now I am hooked. Gut gemacht ZH!
@@ZoomerHistorian"If Slavic people were regarded as inferior race then why Nazis have no problem in recruiting them into Waffen SS??" Nazis believed that there is an existence called the "Aryan Soul". In their belief, all inferior people have Aryan soul and when they die, their Aryan soul will leave their body and possess the body of German people thus making the German people become more Aryan. In other word, Nazis recruited the inferior race to fight for them not as allies but as a "tool" for them to make the German people more "pure Aryan" Source: Hitler's foreign executioner by Christopher Hale Himmler's insane reason for recruiting non-German in the Waffen SS by TikHistory
Lenin wanted world revolution while Stalin insisted on consolidating his regime as it was in 1930. But by 1940, he decided to engage in an expansion that was frightening - Eastern Finland, the Baltic states, Bessarabia and Eastern Poland and then all of Eastern Europe in the late 1940's.
You mean "socialism in one country." Naaah. Never believe anything they wrote. Their most-cherished works of "pure theory" were always just propaganda for a moment in time. The first two Five Year Plans were all about developing the heavy industry and infrastructure needed for mass production of war materiel. The third Five Year Plan was all about going to war.
Very nice video, as always! I love your very well explained talks and the excelent footage you show. Thank you! I just have a few remarks: If you want to know, how Hitler felt, declaring war und the Soviet Union, read his quote about the start of Operation Barbarossa: "I felt like I had bust open a door, not knowing what awaited me behind it". Regarding the plans Hitler had for Europe, Degrelle said, that his plans were for France to be the cultural center, Germany the industrial center and Russia would be like America, where everyone can make his wishes come true and try to become what he always wanted. So Russia would be the land of unlimited possibilties. Thats because of the immense spare land Russia had. So his plans were not to enslave everyone and to settle Germans there. Many russians fought for Germany in WW2. Just look at the Cossacks of the Wehrmacht.
Ah, imagine a world where that had happened. Especially if America and Britain had their heads on right. The British Empire and navy, America’s military and economic might, France’s beauty, Germany’s industry and genius, and the open and wild Russian frontier. The standard of living and high civilization would be so much greater than we could dream of, damn near a utopia.
The east was to be settled by germanic people and the slavs would either be deported or [redacted]. Himmler had already set plans in motion for this, starting some small organisations tasked with bringing germanics to the newly conquered territories.
Ну были казаки да, были ещё много кого, только массово это практика стала лишь после 1943 года, люди чтобы не умереть с голода и от не по сильного труда и не на такое пойти могли, все мы русские помним ваши брошюры про унтерменшей и сожжение деревень и другие ваши европейские зверства , у того же Дегреля есть воспоминания где советские военнопленные занимались людоедством лишь бы не умереть и они СС стояли и смеялись над этим, так же на оккупированных территориях проводилась полита массового голода, это правда что это была война расс, наша раса сказалась сильнее и история рассудила ,кто есть Унтермеш, мы слишком благородная нация и не ответили вам зеркально в полной мере
Hitler was foremost among those referring to Barbarossa as a "race war." In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote of a growing Aryan population needing "lebensraum," and the place that would provide it was the Soviet lands in the East (Belarus and Ukraine). Further, since those lands were already populated by Slavs, considered to be "untermenschen," they would have to be emptied, with only enough of the local population that would be needed as farm labor or domestic help allowed to survive. Hitler was a mass murderer on a historic scale, even without including the Holocaust.
I remember a video, maybe potential history?, where he "deboonked" the claim that the soviets were gearing up for invasion, and I remember that in that video he talked about an ex soviet general leaking plans after the war, now I am probably wrong and misremembering but hey. Also is there anything on the fact that the Brits had apparently warned the soviets of imminent invasion to which Stalin didn't care. Also also in Mussolini's last interview he apparently said that he was against the invasion of Russia thinking that he should have let the soviets attack which kind of implies that everyone in the Axis knew things were gonna blow off Anyway cool videos and I like how you present the information, keep it up
I disagree 07:50 - Hitlers argument was as you claim and say, "The soviets are poised and ready for attack". When Operation Barbarossa started, the Soviets were outnumbered on every front. Baltic Republics : 21 Soviet Divisions vs 34 German Divisions Belorussia : 26 Soviet Divisions vs 36 German divisions Ukraine : 45 Soviet Divisions vs 57 German Divisions Germanies divisions were at full strength with high morale. Soviet divisions were not, and in peacetime conditions, listening to political speeches over digging in. The USSR did recover from the civil war going from 1.5 Million troops to 5 million. With mass industrialisation in all sectors, as they were far behind their western counter parts. If you looked at how Stalin reacted when war was declared or what the Soviet Generals were stating it's clear they did not want War with Germany, Stalin hid himself, Zhukov complained for days of no state of readiness.
Exactly. The Soviets were too outnumbered and they took so much pounding that the Germans went till Stalingrad. It's only after Stalin mobilized the Red Army that they fought back and started their western retaliatory conquest. But people get too carried away by this video. Because an alternative opinion that claims as a non-mainstream one is so appealing even though not always true. It's unfortunate.
@larsliamvilhelm You clearly have not and I'm not going to bother repeating it, he did not have 160 divisions ready to strike, read the comment. And no they aren't, look for them you won't find them, the only documents of such were of Churchill's plans to invade the USSR in 1945 (Operation Unthinkable). Now I know you're just speaking nonsense.....
The soviets were outnumbered simply because they were not ready. The Soviet army was still reorganizing and was not ready for war. Over time, they would have been prepared, that's the entire point. Germany attacked BEFORE the soviets were ready to attack.
@@Centurio_1 I understand that, it's a valid argument for pre-emptive strike. However it comes off as a weak argument when there are/were no Soviet plans to invade all of Germany back then, and they weren't ready or preparing to do so. In other words heresay..... Whereas the same can't be said by Germany of course.
How could it be a "r ace war" when hundreds of thousands of Slavs including Russians joined the Germans? The war in the east was a war of practical necessity first and perhaps an ideological war second.
"If Slavic people were regarded as inferior race then why Nazis have no problem in recruiting them into Waffen SS??" Nazis believed that there is an existence called the "Aryan Soul". In their belief, all inferior people have Aryan soul and when they die, their Aryan soul will leave their body and possess the body of German people thus making the German people become more Aryan. In other word, Nazis recruited the inferior race to fight for them not as allies but as a "tool" for them to make the German people more "pure Aryan" Source: Hitler's foreign executioner by Christopher Hale Himmler's insane reason for recruiting non-German in the Waffen SS by TikHistory
@@hafizihilmibinabdulhalim1004 I don't know how true this is but the Germans definitely did believe in "honorary aryans" (such as Turkic people who could be used to fight the USSR). Also, Croats would be considered slavicised Goths, Bulgarians slavicised Turks and Czechs and some Poles slavicised Germans. This is why they were allowed to be allies of Germany. Though chances are that post-war they too would be exterminated.
The Drang Nang Osten (Barbarossa) was an 8 nation pre emptive strike against the USSR launched a mere 3 weeks before Stalin's intended attack on Eastern Europe (Operation Thunder) scheduled to commence on July 10, 1941.
Why didnt soviet union have its troops prepares for this invasion ? Why would the entire tank force , airforce , ground forces be at the state of total millitary unreadiness ? 3 WEEKS !!!! Or would Stalin tell them like in 20 days we are going to invade Germany or what ? Why didnt Ussr had its 23000 tanks near the border 3 weeks before attack ? Why it didnt had more than 4 million personnel on the border ?
@@MisterOcclusion The einsatzgruppen were a security measurement to quell partisans and sabotage and not to “exterminate populations”. 🤦🏻♂️ thats utterly preposterous.
@@MisterOcclusion They were a security measurement to quell partisans and sabotage and not to “exterminate populations”. 🤦🏻♂️ thats utterly preposterous.
I bought a book called Battle of britain: analyzing WW2. It was all fine and dandy until it all sounded like I was reading an OpEd from CNN or Rachel Maddow about Germany in WW2. I paused to look at the author again, because I couldn't believe the sheer amount of unfounded caricature he was writing.
Zoomer, dare ya to make a extensive video about Hess and why he took that flight and was hidden and imprisoned in isolation. Not many address this obvious guilty behavior and something juicy is behind that mess, cheers.
I always found it weird how revisionists don’t say it with chest. Just say it with chest that he wanted Eastern Europe for land, he even had speeches complaining how Britain controlled 1/4ths of the globe and Germans had no colonies. And how 66 million Germans deserved this land AND then some. Imagine if people said “Napoleon never wanted all that land, it was just false history.” It’s okay to admit it, i know he lost in the end but don’t re write it
The problem with ww2 history is you have one side saying there was a preposterous marvel supervillain and the other saying that absolutely everything is a lie and he was actually good, instead of looking at the facts of the scenario. Both sides ignore facts that challenge their already cemented opinion of the matter.
Only issue with this is at 0:54 describing Stalinism as hyper Internationalist. Especially with the Trotskyite purges and the policy of socialism in one country. Calling it that is a bit disingenuous. It's fair to argue for calling it internationalist but at end of the day, its nitpicking on one word within a 15min vid
I did say Communism instead of Stalinism to make that distinction however that didn't stop the Soviets setting up puppet governments all over Eastern Europe
I just want to say and add that yes, germany did see it as a race war and that view became more prevelant during the war but it is not in the way you think. To qoute robert ley in 1945 during a speech he said: "this struggle we are now in is a struggle of race. The germans, the nordics and the european races against judah and her helpers." Almost every single speech you can find of the time emphasises that it is a European struggle, for the soul of Europe and civilisation. It's about the volken Familien. Against capitalism and marxism that both banded together to destroy a new and dangerous to them economic system.
@@ZoomerHistorian I often see a quote attributed to AH, but haven't been able to verify. If we lose this war, then Europe will be all but finished within 100 years. Any idea ?
@@Karl_BurtonIt does make sense. Today's Europe is a place where the native population can be replaced and turned into a minority on their ancestral lands in a matter of days. Of course I'm referring to the catastrophe on the Italian island of Lampedusa. The National Socialists also released a poster titled "France in 100 Years" that shows the Native French on display like animals at a zoo with the "New French" negros watching them. They were able to see the future and have proved themselves to be right. Western Europe is all but finished. If Europe is to survive, the future lies in the East.
These videos are very informative and very enjoyable to watch but history really makes me hate the Allies 😅 for their progandization of the Nazi Germany. I feel like we could have something great in todays days and age if only war mongering allies didnt meddle with european life
The Chief Culprit by Vladimir Rezun is basically just his earlier book Icebreaker. The title better reflects the subject. Yes, The USSR wanted Germany to be its icebreaker and embroil Europe in an exhausting WWI-type war. But that isn't really what the book's about.
Have you read Main Kampf? Hitler lays out his ideas of Lebensraum pretty clearly, specifically targeting the nations to the East. He is also clear on how he feels about Slavs. Also, assuming that his army would happily fight his race war doesn't mean he didn't deceive and propagandize them anyways. He lied about the Gleiwitz incident, why wouldn't he lie about Operation Barbarossa as well? Also, by 1941 you'd have to be stupid not to deploy troops to your border in Europe.
UK (later USA) will come in any time soon, and Russia is waiting for an opportune moment to strike. Worst case is you get crushed between the two while doing nothing. They take the chances & strike the most probable one (invading the UK via the ocean was a joke let alone US)
Have YOU read it? Because I have and he made no mention of exterminating slavs. Lebensraum was basically Germany's version of manifest destiny. The rest of your comment is nothing but suppositions, with no way to verify.
@@BigJohnson-g3j I also made no mention of exterminating Slavs. I am aware of the parallels between Lebensraum and manifest destiny, but Lebensraum is inherently connected to white supremacism. Slavs were considered untermensch by the Nazis, which is one of the reasons Hitler wanted to take Slavic countries for Lebensraum. Please learn about the Hunger Plan. Your second point is irrelevant because this video was 80% suppositions.
The Soviet-German pact was a pact of convenience for both parties. Hitler and Stalin BOTH knew war between them was inevitable. Hitler invaded first because he wanted to beat Stalin to the punch.
03:10 the railroad gauges on the Soviet/German border were European gauges because they were built by Germany when Poland was under imperial German rule . It isn't like the Soviets built them to threaten Germany after the Brest-Livostok border was established in 1939.
Great point, reminded me that the Germans did actually work on the rail system on thir side of the new border. People need to look up the "Otto Program" -Deutsche Reichsbahn.
How many railroads do you think they built in one year during war time??? No, the vast majority were newer construction. This is a ridiculous assertion.
@@gratefulguy4130 Actually what is stated in the video is just plain bad information. The "New" Soviet-German border was the old border of 1914, thus the railroad gauges were different on each side of it. The German side was upgraded under "plan Otto" by the Deutches Reichsbahn in 1940-41. The Soviet side was not upgraded and remained old, worn, and in many cases was still using "temporary" structures built by the Czar's Army in 1915/16. The Poles did little to standardize. Zoomer states it was all new built by the Soviets to invade the West, which is completely false info.
Once Poland was partitioned, were the borders not approximately the same as they had been during imperial times? Legitimate question, I’m trying to get to the truth of this.
Keep making these videos. This is the history I needed to learn back in school. It angers me how many decades I spent believing the trash my school history books fed me.
I have thoroughly studied Adam Clark’s “Barbarossa”. Although written with an obvious bias; the historical documents (German High Command meetings and directives) do contradict a few of the assertions here. It repays study too, to note WHEN Mien Kamph was written, inasmuch as the “7 pages about living space”. Too, it is documented that Hitler is repeatedly recorded as wanting the Soviet oil fields in Baku and the nickel of the Petsamo region. I respect the scholarship represented in this video and find that singular theory proposed here should be seriously perused but on first examination it clashes with many official documents recovered after WWII.
I agree, it is completely true that hitler did wish for those fields of oil and nickel, however ultimately the soviets did have a buildup of troops too and that did make him feel pressured to attack before he got attacked, would have they attacked is another thing, most likely not immideatly but likely, so in the end truth's probably in the middle, yet the idea that he wanted to attack the USSR just to cleans and expand his race to the mountains is just fundamentally wrong, he did want to destroy communism, but he was fully aware that perhaps he was too late
The problem with saying “the war against the Soviet Union wasn’t a race war” is that it was. You are correct in concluding that Operation Barbarossa was meant to wage war against-and defeat-communism in the East. But ask yourself this: what did Hitler and the Nazis view communism to be inextricably linked with? The answer is Judaism. It’s true that the German military and SS ranks were filled with dozens of different ethnicities, even including Slavs. And it’s true that the Germans found allies in different Slavic groups during the Operation. But which ethnic group did not find themselves within German ranks? Jews. This was by design.
@larsliamvilhelm Despite Mr. H’s dislike of capitalism, which he did indeed link to Jews, as you mentioned, capitalism was not threatening to take over a defeated and ruined Germany post-WW1. Mr. H feared that a communist Germany governed by Jews would permanently prevent Germany from ever rising again. So, naturally, communism (and the Jews that were associated with it) were his primary target. You’ll also find that the more you study Mr. H and his ideology, the more inconsistencies, contradictions, and confusion you’ll discover.
The jewish bolshevik communists killed 60 million christians. Thats according to the world famous author Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his book '200 years together' who lived through it. They used mass murder and multiple manufactured intentional famines. Close to all the Bolshevik leadership and officers were jewish and were not shy about thier ethnic hatred for russians. A lot of that hatred stems from the jewish teachings of the Talmud which heavily influenced Moses Hess who laid the foundations of what would be called communism and Marxism. The most dangerous thing to all people of all nations is interest. Both communism and capitalism rely on interest from privately owned typically jewish banks. Hitler used an economic structure that did not rely on interest or the central banks to bring Germany out of poverty and into prosperity. If Germany's economic model were to catch on it would mean the end of interest and therefore the end of the jewish banking cartels. I implore anyone interested to watch the documentary Europa the last battle. Also read The history of central banking and the enslavement of mankind by stephen Goodson. He was a high level executive at a south african central bank and saw the tomfoolery first hand.
Can you provide a source for the Soviet troop buildup and railroad gauge type on the border prior to Operation Barbarossa? I’m doing research for a book.
The Soviets did no railway upgrade on their side of the border, the German plan was "Programm Otto" (good article on Feldgrau). The best secondary source for the Soviet situation prior to Barbarossa is "Stumbling Colossus" by David Glantz. I say secondary source because books are supposed to be written from primary sources/primary evidence (your own research, analysis, and interpretation), not other people's books.
@@seanhoffmeyer442 Nothing, he's making empty statements mixed with a few select quotes from secondary sources. That's how historical distortion works if you weren't aware.
Of course, why else would the Soviets have built up 20,000+ tanks and millions more men conscripted. Their military was growing rapidly by the day. Germany HAD to react.
@@WakaWaka2468Stalin recruiting more men when the world's largest army, led by a man who explicitly stated in his most popular book he wanted to eradicate the entire slavic and Jewish race, is on his border? Who would've thought? Why is it not okay for the Soviets to put troops and set up defensive positions within it's own fucking borders?
My grandma read 'my struggle' to me when i was a kid before we covered WWII in school. I didn't know it then, but our family came to America during the time of "operation paperclip". The amount of racism Aryans experience today and throughout my lifetime is a travesty and also predicted by an artist from Austria. We can't even claim to be our race, we are forced to choose 'caucasian' even though none of our ancestors are from the caucus mountain region, nor are we slavs...
Not what Caucasian means, my struggle is literally a piece of propoganda written by a man with extreme views, Aryans are not the subject of even considerable amounts of discrimination today nor are they even a real racial or ethnic classification in the way people think. The term aryan originated in the context used by the nazis from Arthur de Gobineau, in a grander goal of his to justify racism and racial superiority of "Aryans." Real Aryans are mostly Iranian Indo-Europeans but that's not even worth going into as that's not how the term originated in the first place. The whole world consists of so so so many ethnicities that have no bearing on how we should treat each other, but that's not what the people Zoomer Historian apologizes for believe. You have no reason to call yourself Aryan as that's not what you are, even if the nazi party wanted your predecessors to classify themselves as that. If you came from Germany then you probably have ethnic ties to a mix of Germanic and very likely many non Germanic peoples. The reason people have a stigma about self proclaimed Aryans is because the term was quite literally adopted by the nazis to reinforce and further establish a concrete classification of racially and ethnically superior Germanic people. There's so much evidence proving how deranged and incorrect Hitler was, from his own mouth and from those close to him, and many others. Please take a moment to step back and consider the opinions of those who disagree with you, I especially suggest a video debunking Zoomer Historian by What Why How
@@ilikesnakes4695 😂😂😂 there's zero chance I'm reading a huge rant from an indoctrinated internet kid, but thanks for taking the time to write that novel.
@@Ballstavius I was just trying to have a genuine conversation with you, but if you don't wanna read that it's fine. I just suggest What Why How's video debunking him. Please at least watch it and expose yourself to the opposition's ideas like I have here.
@@ilikesnakes4695 no you were right, I'm good. I don't have "genuine conversations" with someone so deeply indoctrinated that they don't believe that there's anything wrong about denying an entire races existence. Go tell a Japanese person they're Chinese and explain to them why all Asians are the same so they really have no ethnic identity. Oh wait, you wouldn't because it's not true. Not all white people are caucus slavs either.
You defend a border with bunkers and trenches - not millions of soldiers waiting in no-man’s-land. That’s the worst case scenario for every army - get hit during mobilization. That’s why they collapsed so quickly, they weren’t prepared to fight a defensive war.
I disagree with the ideologies being completely different, yes, originally the communists were international minded and wanted an international revolution with the Soviet Union as only a stepping stone towards a world revolution spreading it to Germany and the West ... but their loss in the Polish-Soviet war in the early 1920 brought about a radical change, from the international communist idea to the national idea ... Stalin was not one of the internationals he was thinking in local terms and with the purge of 1937 he really took out the international element so prevalent before. Controversially, after 1937 the Soviet socialism was leaning towards a national direction and it was getting close to the national socialism. They could have coexisted and cooperated from 1940 there was no deep ideological reason for the war between them.
Hitler founded a reason to attack SSSR. He was too stupid. He was thinking It's going to be easy ride on the East. In reality, it was the begining of the end for the Third Reich. Barbarossa was the greatest mistake ever. The Germans should have kept to the pact. Only idiot can invade SSSR. It was an impossible mission.
Well this is so stupid, I am speechless. And let me tell you, as someone who’s grandfather and uncle fought in WWII on non nazziii side, I can tell you that my grandfather was anti communist before war started, and ended up as decorated war veteran from same communist he actually hate. When I ask him to explain me that as a teenager, he told me, that when war started, he was wishing that communism go to hell, but since he is proud Slavic man, he couldn’t stay on side, he was forced to decide on the end, death or slavery from nazzziii or fight and resistance, and he decided to fight, unfortunately only one he can join to fight were Partizans, who were communists. And they did not like him, but they also were fighting for survival and they let him be, and even awarded him for war efforts with medals. I also ask him why he didn’t join to the so called volunteer anti communist troop that join Germans, he said; I did not hate my Slavic origins and I didn’t want to be a servant of Germans, cause problem with Slavic SS troops was that they were ideologically full of people who main motivation is hatred toward other Slavs, Jews or Gypsies; and they were will to serve their masters if they can have right to be above the ethnic group they hate; my grandfather told me that those kind of people are been more evil and committed more atrocities then Germans themselves. I heard that one American abolitionist once said; I will be more successful in freeing slaves, only if they know that they are slaves. Unfortunately my Grandfather died and did not lived to see collapse of communism, and I remember he always use to say that is idiotic nonsense that will on the end fall apart, once people woke up. And I remember my dad telling him to shut up, cause we gone a get arrested cause of him lol Sorry for my poor English
@@Schabulla No, my father is from Serbia, former Yugoslavia, and my mother was from Bratislava, Slovakia, former Czechoslovakia. My Grandfather I was talking about is from northern Serbia, from place that is only 8 km from border with Romania. I still remember Yugoslavian communism and my mother remember Czechoslovakian version. Complicated story, of my origin and my grow up has exposed me to the things that most people on west do not know nothing about. My grandpa uses to talk publicly and freely , how he do not like communism, and communist politicians, that were on power in past, that is why my dad always try to tell him that we will all get in trouble because of him, people do get arrested and jailed all the time in those days, and my dad has told me that he was several times warned by some people that my grandpa is talking too much, but somehow everybody knew him and he was a war hero, so they let him talk and mostly ignore him, for his and our luck.
Hitler: It's come to my attention that you have a large number of Units near my borders. I request that you move them elsewhere to avoid causing undue distress to my citizens. Stalin: We mean no harm. Our units are merely passing through the area
My man, with all due respect, Hitler literally wrote in Mein Kampf that the destruction of the Bastron of Judeo-Bolshevism, was the main goal, and that the Bastron of said Judeo-Bolshevism, was the Soviet Union in Hitler's eyes. The entire point of Hitler's Nazism, was the destruction, complete and utter destruction, of the Soviet Union. That is why he invaded Poland, that is why he invaded the Soviet Union, it is unknown whether the Soviets were preparing to invade Germany, and most historians agree that Operation Barbarossa, is not a pre-emptive strike, which is attacking an enemy before they attack you first, we don't know if the Soviets actually wanted to attack the Soviet Union, yes, they prepared forts, but that's a defence, not useful when attacking, and they prepared their army, but you can't be surprised by that, Germany just conquered most of Europe, *and Hitler wrote an entire book where in he described how he would destroy your nation.* 16 million civilians, at the minimum, died under German occupation. That is 264 times more than who died in France and Western Europe. It was a purposeful genocide, in acted by Hitler, to destroy Judeo-Bolshevism. Which he saw as the greatest threat to the Aryan race. You are purposely spreading a pro-Nazi narrative, and that is disgusting to put it nicely.
Yes brother he is. Please read my comment I just left under this NaZi propaganda of a video. It’s crazy to deny thousands of mass murder cities across the occupied Soviet territories like Baby Yar. I myself have 4 relatives who were castrated by Germans in concentration camps. Germans literally had a mass genocide in occupied soviet territories on a far bigger scale than the genocide committed in Central Europe
Yeah this is fucking crazy. I was genuinely in shock hearing the amount of mental gymnastics this guy uses. So much for a 'historian' constantly giving his opinions and saying things with no claims to back it up, and criticising other historians while being a terrible excuse for one himself.
@tempejkl god dude thank God, i feel like this singular comment thread is the only safe haven for common sense and basic historical knowledge. The rest is a sludge of nazi propaganda and apologetics
@@phatlewt2932 Hitler invaded Poland because he wanted to destroy the Soviet Union, he hated the eastern slavs, 6 million poles were killed in the war, of which a sixth were military personal. He believed that the Jews made communism and that jewish communism would lead to the collapse of human society, because at that time, the west depended more on the east for food and the east needed the west for material, if the east developed, Hitler thought they would stop trading with the west, leading to the collapse of nations, leading to Jewish communism rising, because Hitler believed Jews couldn't form nations, every nation would collapse and as a result, humans would go extinct, I'm explaining thhis because I don't want to paint Hitler as, 'he racist, he evil >:(,' he's evil because he thinks what he's doing is correct Anyway, Poland, I'm gonna be real with you, I actually do not know why Hitler wanted to kill all of the poles, I just know he genocided them, you don't accidentally murder a fifth of a countries population after all. I think it's because of Lebensraum, Hitler saw the Eastern lands as Germany's destiny, and the only way to keep Germany alive. Now, I'm gonna be vastly over simplifying chapter 14 of Mein kampf, yes, I've read most of the chapter, no I haven't read mein kampf, I've been meaning too, no, I'm not a nazi, far too many people hear me reading mein kampf or explaining Hitler's ideas and think Nazi, yes, I do want to understand Hitlers ideology, and the best way to do that is through reading his book where he explains it Simply, chapter 14 is about three major things, land, resources and people. Hitler believes there is a set amount of resources in a land, and there is a maximum capacity for said land, where if the capacity is reached, people will use all of the resources in the land and die off, this is the primary thing driving forward his thought process, Europe as a whole at this time, doesn't have a lot, the Soviet Union is the only one with enough for a nation, enough food, enough oil and steel, which Germany needs all three of them, aluminium comes from Sweden, food from Ukraine and other resources from Europe. Hitler believes for Germany to survive as a nation, he must get these resources, and the people of Germany must get their land. But they can't use it if someone else is already there, so, you kill them or deport them. That's what i think is happening in Poland, Hitler sees it as the living space his people need for survival, and so the best course of action in his eyes would be to destroy Poland and the Soviet Union population, because, you need living space, and there already isn't enough. That's why I think Poland was genocided during WW2, why it was invaded, and why Hhitler was evil. Remember, Hitler isn't evil because he did this horrible thing, he's evil because he thought he was right
Nice vid and I agree that war was inevitable between Nazi Germany and the USSR but to be accurate Stalin wasn't as hyperinternationalist as other Bolsheviks. He was more of a pragmatist concerned about the survival of his regime. He did promote the policy of Socialism in one country.
@@BQD_Central Guess you don't know that the secret protocol of the German USSR Non-aggression Pact signed Aug '39 placed the Baltic states, Finland and Bessarabia in the Soviet sphere of influence. Thus Stalin had a free hand to do what he wanted with them without any German interference.
I have never heard of any old person who lived through or was born during WW2 who says that they preferred the soviets. Universally they say that they were treated better under german rule.
I sure do wonder what the legend surrounding Frederick Barbarossa is, the man who's namesake was used for the operation. Surely, it could have no relation to the intention of the invasion.
Its hypocritical how earlier on he says the alliance with the Soviet Union was out of convenience not out of genuine likeness, but then argue that alliances with Bulgaria and Slovenia must mean they were on the same page
Not hypocritical. Your English comprehension is lacking. Those countries actually fought with the Nazis, side by side, not against them. It's possible to deceive and enemy while being true to an ally at the same time.
I have always read that the Germans had to change all of the Soviet rail gauges to fit the German rolling stock. This is the first I am hearing that the Soviets had built to the German gauge.
@@danlowe8684 No, the Soviets did not build to the European gauge. The Germans had to convert from European to wide gauge when they crossed the frontier in June 1941. The Poles had been building/converting their system to European gauge between 1920-1939. The Soviets had converted some of the Polish to wide gauge in 1940-41.
I think you overstate the sophistication of the German people, it’s probably not true the German would blindly support a race war. So there is a need for justification for war. Second, the breathing room Hitler wanted was explained in Mein Kampf. Basically, I think there’s a mix of ideological motivation and practical reason for the invasion.
You are right, there was a race element. But not enough for starting world war, they're not stupid. But yeah our holy Churchill wanted to reduce Earth's population for his narrow agenda.
Russia has a history of being invaded, and they had been as recently as during their post WW1 civil war. The purges and Stalin's fear of his own military, indicates to me that the USSR was trying to build a huge buffer between it and the Reich. Every operation the USSR conducted militarily leading up to Barbarossa shows this. They were trying to create buffer states through negotiation and conquest because they feared Germany. Otherwise, why was Stalin trying to placate AH by sending him oil right up until the invasion? ZH COMPLETELY leaves out this fact.
Not sure i agree with all of this....Stalin was surely exerting blackmail re: Germany and seizing as much land as possible. But Russian forces were NOT concentrated along Germany's border....troops were further inland though supplies were stationed closer to the front. The idea was for the army to move westward towards its own hidden supplies so as to counter any German invasion....as it turned out, the Germans moved faster than the Soviets and captured many of these supplies. War was NOT inevitable at least not in the immediate future; Stalin was shook by the way Germany took France out in just 6 weeks.. he was in fact doing everything he could to placate Hitler by the massive amounts of raw materials that continued to flow into Germany prior to June 22, 1941.
The reason why Hitler wanted to invade the Soviet Union in 1941 is the same as Napoleon wanting to invade Russia in 1812. They both thought they could win.
I’d bet my life on the fact that if Hitler doesn’t go in the Soviet Union exists today ; with its border being the Atlantic. The Germans would’ve beaten the Soviets without western help though.
Many historians view Hitler as more of a Marvel supervillain than a historical figure.
Maybe the infinity stones were in the urals
Exactly this. I can understand victors demonizing the losers, but to do it so cartoonishly? And so many people believe it? It's absolutely insane from my perspective.
The Left and Right like to play political hot potato with him
@@Chud_Bud_SupremeIt's a convenient way to distract people away from how similar they are to one another.
@@rabbiezekielgoldberg2497 True. I see the NSDAP as having been more left than right due to their socialist economics. But I don't see them as having been the outlandish boogeymen both sides have made them into in their attempts at virtue signaling
Zoomer historian did not kill himself
Damn thats unlucky. He should've followed his leader
@@zupnanazwa CRINGE
@@zupnanazwato live on the beaches of Argentina?
@zupnanazwa What's it like to have no internal dialougue? Imagine not being able to rotate an apple in your own mind.
@@tbone5726 You need a medal for that comment !
"Thus, the Soviets pledged peace, while frantically preparing for war. More then 2,500 new concrete fortifications were built between 1939 and 1940, 160 divisions were made combat ready. 60 tank divisions were on full alert. In 1941, the Soviets had 17,000 tanks, and by 1942 they had 35,000, while the Germans only had 10 Panzer tank divisions in 1941. The Soviets had 92,000 pieces of artillery. 17,500 combat planes in 1940, outnumbered the German Luftwaffe.
With such preparations for war going on, Hitler had only one choice; Invade the Soviet Union immediately, or face annihilation. Hitler did not go into Russia with any great optimism. He told me later on; "When I entered Russia, I was like a man facing a shut door. I knew I had to crash through it, but without knowing what was behind it." Hitler's Russia campaign was a "last chance" campaign.
He knew the Soviets were strong, but, above all, he knew they were going to get stronger."
-- Leon Degrelle, Belgian leader, and later SS-Obersturmbannführer of the 5th Walloon contingent.
Most Soviet tanks and aircraft were grossly outdated or in disrepair..... and this argument goes with the assumption that the Nazis had accurate information on Soviet assets and stockpiles, which they literally didn't.
Regardless of what anyone thinks of the NSDAP and Hitler, without them Europe would’ve fallen to communism more totally and completely than we could imagine.
Don’t get me wrong, Europe is currently occupied by an ideology akin to communism 2.0, but I digress.
@@justusP9101 Total annihilation by an army that had failed to take finland... ok
one thing is cold winter finland where tanks, arilerry and basically everything gets stuck facing a well prepared army in defensive positions, another is a hot summer plain with km of fields with practically no defensive positions created, oh the more you know....@@what-uy7go
@@what-uy7go ... but, were they totally annihilated or not? Where do you think the Red Army juggernaut came from? Sheer spontaneous magic? What actually happened shows that the USSR could totally annihilate Germany, and so they did. Would they have done it hadn´t Germany attacked first? I think that´s fairly likely. So Germany was fairly likely forced to attack the USSR, with no guarantee of winning. So desperate was Germany´s position in the summer of 1941, all appearances notwithstanding.
Even after hearing pretty much the same propaganda for over 50 years, when you finally do hear the real truth you just know it.
After decades of being told to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears, you finally feel what its like to see clearly.
"Why do my eyes hurt, Morpheus?"
"You've ever used them before"
@@actuallyKriminell 💀💀💀💀Are you serious bro💀💀💀💀Do what A.H. did in his bunker 1945
@@nolongerspeedrunning5435What? Escape?
@@GloryFit 💀💀Are you stupid there's no evidence to support that claim
Bro, passive-aggressive zoomer skull emojis, bro
Hitler's " race obsessed supervilain Persona" was the main reason I began to doubt the historical narrative. It felt too Hollywoodish, glorified the allies to an extreme level and kept dodging the reason why he would target Jews in the first place.
Hitler was race obsessed and nazism is race obsessed. That’s the based of their ideology
@larsliamvilhelm So did the holocaust happen or if it didn't happen?Should it have happened?
He was sadly a fool. He knew the truth clearly from his books and speeches, but for some reason ignored his own reasoning and massacred millions and millions of children of slavic and jewish descent, completely idiotic and counterproductive to his actual cause.
@@becomeunlimited "For some reason the idiot I idealize ended up doing something idiotic" brother
@@becomeunlimited No he didn't.
160+ Divisions on your border. I think the FBI calls that shit a clue…..
planning to invade ussr started in the fall of 1940
Hmm
You look as smaet guy.
Considering geo position of SSSR
And facts that germany made tour de france 1940.....
Where exactly would you position your( soviet) forces?
Second question is of stagering 30 mil people killed in soviet union during ww2 only 8,5 were soldiers died on battlefield and captivity.
Who killed all these civilians and why?
@@tomobraica4399 the point is, I never knew the soviets were mobilized and ready. What we're taught is that 'oh big bad guy germany suddenly betrayed poor innocent russia and surprise attacked them for no reason' etc etc
@@jeffr3773 soviet army was devastated by stalin purge.Rokososky suposed to be executed.after Finland disaster they were reforming their army.it was comunist country and as well in cold war they wanted to spread theur ideology,not ocupying other nation.
On other hand Hitler was from beggining mark aa enemy of state comunists and Jews
Also lebensraum was plan.he even published book mein kampf.
Unless they're Mexican, then the FBI doesn't say a word.
Victor Suvorov was given access to the Soviet military archives after the USSR fell. The result of years of researching them was his book " Icebreaker" which revealed Stalin was weeks away from invading Germany
He was sooo weeks away from invading the poor little nazis that the red army completly collapsed on day one of the invation
Liek, seriously, you cannot tell me that the same army that was resonsible for the disaster of misk would have been prepared to invade
Nazis truly are retards
@Iamnotracistlmao pretty much. If they were preparing for an offensive, the soviet resistance wouldn't have collapsed as easy as it did.
I mean, ffs, the air force got wiped out on day one and you expect me to bealive that this army was in any shape of starting and offensive war.
If anything, it would have ended like the italian 10th army in egypt, but ×10 times worse
@@elmascapo6588😆😆 yeah that’s not right at all
@@ToddiusMaximus i'm still waiting to be show the "army" that was about to roll though the reich in 41. All i saw were untrained conscrips armed with sticks
@@elmascapo6588 you're right, but people in these comments are too stupid to actually look at what happened during the opening stages of barbarossa
I'm amazed this video has stayed up 5+ months on this platform. Well done.
The fact that this channel exists period, amazes me! 😂
The fact that you can produce so many long, high-quality videos this quickly is insane. Awesome job!
Yeah, his videos are quality.
It’s not overly hard, it’s just stock footage with a lecture on top. Good videos but it’s not a complex production
High quality nazi propaganda
@@rhysnichols8608🍪
It's called propaganda and plagiarizing Wikipedia. That's how he gets them out so fast. You already know the story you want to tell, plagiarize Wikipedia/other sources using confirmation bias to discover those sources and 💥 BOOM 💥 you have a new video each week and income 💰 from producing garbage 🗑️
Barbarossa was a giant spoiling attack that overran Soviet divisions and their storage dumps pre-positioned along the western border. That’s why the number of Soviet casualties and prisoners were staggering.
False information, debunked long ago.
@@Mitch_Richard44can’t debunk the numbers of prisoners / losses and military material that the Soviets had at their border son
@@StefanR-h1l "Border"? I think you're mislead. The Soviets were echeloned in depth in three lines to a depth of 500km (According to published plans MP-41 and DP-41).
There's nothing about the facts to debunk, but clearly you need to do some basic research on Red Army dispositions. After that, maybe you can start looking at how early most of those Soviet units were in their formation as new organizations. All were understrength, underequipped, undertrained, and incapable of major operations (offensive or defensive) which explains the horrible losses of 1941-42.
@@Mitch_Richard44 the 4th Soviet army wasn’t stationed at the Romanian border in no man’s land (with more tanks than the entire eastern Wehrmacht)? Gee my grandfather (who fought for the Soviets) must’ve lied.
The OKW diary’s speaks volumes - they estimated 170 divisions on the Soviet side yet later registered more than 300 - that’s from internal documents.
Taking Romania would’ve castrated the German oil supply , killing the Wehrmacht in 2/3 weeks max. If there was a nation that couldn’t fight a defensive war it was Germany .
Stalin had Europe at a checkmate , Hitler flipped the board .
@@StefanR-h1l I've been all of this in spades over the last 30 years. If you want to buy into the Suvorov BS, be my guest.
If you want to talk about original documentation, Mobilization Plan MP-41 and Deployment Plan DP-41 are exactly that. Red Army units were mobilized and deployed to these plans, and that is corroborated by Wehrmacht reports of when/where they encountered them. David Glantz dug into Red Army archives and demonstrated in detail Red Army force generation and all of the issues they had at that time. He also demonstrated their stated intentions from archival material. Suvorov and others like him don't address this key information as it would debunk their entire position.
My faith in humanity wains when I see people lacking any critical thinking about this period. People just repeat brain dead narratives and 80IQ takes. This presentation is much more truthful and common sense driven.
"If Slavic people were regarded as inferior race then why Nazis have no problem in recruiting them into Waffen SS??"
Nazis believed that there is an existence called the "Aryan Soul". In their belief, all inferior people have Aryan soul and when they die, their Aryan soul will leave their body and possess the body of German people thus making the German people become more Aryan. In other word, Nazis recruited the inferior race to fight for them not as allies but as a "tool" for them to make the German people more "pure Aryan"
Source:
Himmler's foreign executioner by Christopher Hale
Himmler's insane reason for recruiting non-German in the Waffen SS by TikHistory
I love how the comments are literally 100% positive, no jew slaves or brainwashed shills
@@jeffr3773give it time. This channel will be banned just like the many before it. It's disheartening
man those are the masses for you, you wont get any better than that
Its hypocritical how earlier on he says the alliance with the Soviet Union was out of convenience not out of genuine likeness, but then argues that alliances with Bulgaria and Slovenia must mean they were on the same page
No dispute here..Hitler say war with the USSR as inevitable. He also belived that communism was an invention of the Jews, so destroying it was doubly important. Where he went wrong was in his estimation of the Red Army-he believed that they had 200 frontline divsions (2 million men) plaus 150 reserves (1.5 million)-this is my he thought he had won by October 1941. Little did he know that the Russians had more than twice this total.
There's a lot that goes into this. The Soviets failed horrendously in Finland, a tiny country with little industrial or military might. The Germans also mopped the floor with the French army and the BEF in 1940, which were considered the best armies in the world at that time. Add all of this with the fact that Stalin had completely gutted his officer corps and was incredibly unpopular in the Soviet Union. There was a reason why Hitler believed that all you had to do was "kick open the door and the whole rotten structure will crumble" or something along those lines. When the Germans invaded there were actually small scale revolts in the Baltic countries and even in Ukraine, though this quickly changed.
The Nazis viewed the Soviets as subhuman so they were more than happy to accept bad intel as it aligned with their ideology. This is why they also never came up with a backup plan if Barbarossa failed. Hitler made idiotic decisions one after the other due to his unwillingness to take the Soviets seriously because of their race, and paid the price for it by plunging the Axis into a fundamentally unwinnable war
Communism was co-opted by Karl Marx... hes a J
"Little did he know that the Russians had more than twice this total" - WOW that's a lot considering it's JUST the Russians, just one major ethnic group subject to the Soviet Union !! So, how many divisions did the Ukrainians, Georgians, etc., have ?
Welk put! Whaf baffles me to this day is why there intelligenge on Russian strenght was so poor!? I know the sabotage argument Admiral Canaris thd 'Rote Capelle' etc,that they led Hitler to sleep walk himself to destruction?
Babe, wakeup - new ZH video just dropped.
Revision of history 2.0
@@robrob9050 basically
@@salahdeanclemens2226 Hitler actually despised Germany, no sane politician will gamble with destiny of millions (well they are mostly narcissists and few psychopaths) , resulting after all that stupid game in such a misery and humiliations.
Nobody watching this has ever touched a woman and they never will
@@robrob9050 Good revision.
Based and redpilled
Are you asking for him to get shdw-band (yes it didn’t let me write that word)? Because all your соmmеnts go through a filtеr and they will flag this
Nazis were loser dogs. There is no based things.
@@LordHoward it doesn't really matter the content of the video will go through a filter and it'll be shadow banned anyway
fake!
Based? Based??? Based in your ass!
Loving the recent vids ZH!
Thanks very much mate!
You have created a very important piece of media with this one. Great job.
Hitler apologist Zoomer Historian exposed:
ruclips.net/video/0ucrF2PHBOc/видео.html
whenever you get through your current queue, I think a video on the supposed kidnappings of polish and other slavic children could be interesting. it's definitely one of the topics I see most discussed relating to the NS regime.
It's very well documented. Of the children old enough to remember their parents about 2/3 chose to return to their countries, but a good 1/3 chose to stay with the German families they'd been given to.
specifically blonde and blue-eyed slavic children, I believe the myth went
@SgtRocko Yeah you got a chouce stay here look the allies are rebuilding. Or...you can go to where its also bomb3d and under communism and well even kids would have heard of the rape of Berlin kids ain't dumb
Its not a myth...
@@sadsovietspy never said it was or wasn't billy boy 🤠
The Soviets made no secret of their distrust and disdain of Nazi Germany. They had a military pact with Czechoslovakia, a country that Germany attacked. The USSR asked Poland for permission to send troops through its territory to attack Germany and invited Britain and France to join. The Poles refused
It's honestly kind of interesting finding out that the German army was the most diverse army of its time even though they are supposedly big bad racists😂 it's almost like the term racist was invented by the Communists Jew Leon Trotsky whose real name was Lev davidovich bronstein
"Diversity" became a necessity after Barbarossa's failure produced an unsustainable attrition rate. Diversity has nothing to do with NS ideology.
BTW; the most diverse army was the British, then the French, US, etc.
@mitchrichards1532 Diversity has a lot to do with the National Socialist ideology. The National Socialist believed that the world should be full of many different races and many different nationalities, and they should all separately be in charge of their own destiny. Otherwise known as Woodrow Wilson's self-determination. And if those people in those countries determine that they do not want others in their Homeland, then they have that right. Nobody wants to be a minority in their own Homeland. Germany had the most diverse Army because there were many different European nations as well as African and Asian Nations that fought for them. You have to include all of the nationalities that fought for them unless you don't consider "white people" diverse. There's many different kinds of Europeans. Each European race is extremely diverse. I'm not going to list every single country in Europe for you. You can figure it out. The Welsh are not the same as the Slavs. The Celts are not the same as the Sicilians just because there's a small amount of brown people doesn't mean it's not diverse. For some reason nowadays diversity just means fewer white people more brown people. Why is the white man not allowed to have a country all for himself why must we share with all of the third world. If they're not as prosperous as us that's their own f****** fault if we were all actually equal they would be on the same standing as us but they're not they fight tooth and nail to come here to be near us. We don't have to help them. We don't have to hurt them either if they go home.
@@Osama_Zyn_Laden Not buying what you're selling. NS ideology does not match what you're saying, and you are ignoring the colonial empires of the UK, Frace, and the US and how diverse they were and still are.
@@Osama_Zyn_LadenWhat, so decades of colonization is the Africans fault now? And do you really think the Nazis fought for diversity and self determination? 😂 Unreal
What an egregious claim by that author. I’ve also come across a few military historians which give an utterly ridiculous explanation for events, then go on to give a good information about the military side of things. I have recently been reading a book on French Napoleonic infantry tactics, and the book gives good details on the actual battles, but he makes outrageous statements before talking about each campaign saying “From the moment he took power Bonaparte sole desire was to wage war and conquer Europe, and he would do anything to achieve this task”
It’s utterly nonsense, they have to insert their triggered silly opinions into everything. Napoleon fought 7 wars, 5 of which were defensive against degenerate stagnant monarchies who were paid by the city of London and who worked with the ‘Redshields’ to take down a regime which threatened the power of money lenders in Europe, these monarchs were fixated on ‘balance of power’ and taking back pride and some lost lands, but ultimately empowered the banks to such an extent that they would surpass monarchies and do away with them within 100 years. The Austrian emperor elevated the Roth family to nobility status in 1818 which enabled them to marry into royalty. This was after Napoleons ‘infamous decrees’ had expired, in which he banned a certain type of people from economic positions and French press and media. I’m going on a bit of a tangent here but I feel people in dissident right circles misunderstand the Napoleonic wars, which are usually portrayed as ‘based monarchs fighting against liberal expansionist France’ but the reality is Napoleon was the based man who ended the revolution and reversed 70% of it, undermining the secret societies who caused it and then these people used their influence is London to start bribing miss informed monarchs to go to war to topple his proto fascistic regime
That’s the great thing about historic interpretation: once one understands that history is nothing but a series of reactions to reactions and more reactions, everything makes sense and the rather juvenile “good vs. bad” interpretation becomes nothing but a badly written comic book fit only for bitter old cat ladies and low IQ groups only interested in history as a political cudgel. Without a degenerate revolution, there would have been no Napoleon. Without a degenerate monarchy, there’d have been no revolution. Same goes for Hitler: no degenerate Communist threat to the German middle class, no Hitler. No World War, no serious Communist threat, etc.
The good thing for Napoleon’s reputation is that now, over two hundred years later, the idea that he was just a war-mongering ogre is fading away. I expect Hitler’s reputation to take a similar arc. By the year 2140, the propaganda will probably have faded enough for historians to look at the subject more objectively. Sooner, of course, if those guardians of the narrative disappear.
Si
What're some books about Napoeleon you'd recommend?
Didn't Napoleon free the Jewish people though
@@John-pc2yr
He emancipated them from ghettos because he didn’t want a state within a state. He attempted to reform them and culturally assimilate them. After a few months he saw he wasn’t getting anywhere and then passed laws against them
It does sound like we have been fed a processed version of history to fit our narrative. it will be interesting to watch as an American as I watch our government seem to take increasingly poorly thought out, stands on stupid issues, and then become very inflexible on them. They will be interesting to see how that works out for us. We have a lot of advantages that Germans didn’t, but The sense of what an American is is almost gone.
Your solution to the problems caused by capitalism is more capitalism? I have bad news for you my friend.
So, Your solution is socialism; sounds unsustainable, doesn't even work in practice 😂
The western world is in dire trouble since 1945, the USA had literally given western society a slow poisoning of liberalism and degeneracy.
Don’t be a coward it’s Judaism nothing else there the shepherd among the sheep there the white mans mortal enemy
This channel is fresh air in this age , hope it last.
Thankyou for this clear -headed examination of this myth. I live in Ukraine. Some anecdotes to add. My family is from Galicia and relatives served in the German army/SS and, in the previous war, the Austrian army. However, I currently live in central Ukraine (in a town which had significant KGB and red army HQs). The Soviet indoctrination system is only now being questioned, finally. I remember having discussions with people, early in the war, who expressed dislike or distrust of us Galicians because we were "collaborators" (yet, serving the people who did the Holodomor only 8 years prior, and a famous massacre of thousands of Ukrainians, mostly peasants, in this city, only 3 years earlier, somehow made one a patriot????). A particular individual, a woman about a generation older than myself, despite stating these beliefs recounted her grandmother's wartime experiences thus: 4 of her grandmother's siblings died in the Holodomor. Grandmother herself lived on a farm with her mother and surviving siblings when the Germans came. She was about 6 or 7 at this time. Her mother, naively believing Red propaganda, had been terrified and warned her daughter about the evil germans. They hid, either in the forest or barn, but the mom noticed her daughter was missing. She found her back at the house, singing songs for the German soldiers, one of whom was playing an accordion. The Germans gave the child chocolate and were friendly. This became a pattern. They did take some of the cows, but paid in real money for them, and left one behind to provide milk for the children (compare with soviet policies 8 years earlier...). When the Russians came, the mother smeared the daughter in animal feces and mud and hid her in the forest. They stole the cow the Germans had left behind. Yet the Russians were heroes and liberators....I asked this woman, and, from her stunned reaction, it was clear she'd never once thought about this question in her 50+ yearsof life: if the Germans were so evil and the Soviets so good, why did your grandmother get to sing for chocolate with the Germans, yet have to be smeared in mud and dung and hidden from the Russians? Keep in mind, this girl was between 6-9 years old at the relevant time. Use your imagination. Gradually, as the missiles fall, some minds change... without guilt, I brag to people who had bad opinions of my ancestors before the war, see, we were right all along. Hard to argue with a cruise missile.
This was a good read. My thoughts and prayers go out to your nation in this troubling time.
@@therewillbeguitar8078 thankyou.
Another lying Nazi
@@michaelwarenycia7588 Such a fascinating story, by the way if you don't mind can you share your thoughts on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict of today ? I would like to hear the input of a Ukranian NUZI apologist such as you and myself as well.
We know that modern Russia of Putin is very different and much better in so many ways compared to the brutal USSR regime of the past so my point is why are Ukrainians so hellbent to fight and be hostile towards the modern orthodox rehabilitated nation of Russia ? Like do Ukrainians really think that the "globalist small hat" dominated West loves the Ukrainians more than their brother nation Russia and that they are not being used as pawns just to weaken Russia determined to fight to the last Ukrainian for globalist agenda ?
Also what is your opinion on the nation state alliance Ukraine-Belarus-Russia working and prosspering together with full soverignity from the Western powers and the small hat elites ?
@@basileusandy9798 or maybe I should type with my thumbs here so more people can see...
Hey Zoomer Historian, I know this is quite unrelated but I’ve just been curious of the citations or sources you used for your Hitler’s aims in WW2 video, it would be appreciated if you could show the books and citations to support the Danzig genocide. Thank you, and sorry as I know it was posted a few months back.
It'll be covered in depth very soon, we're at 1939 now on the Hitler series
@@ZoomerHistorian Thank you.
Yeah, I'd love to go to my local library and start getting some of these books...😂😅
@pattersonstopmotions1282 I CTRL+F'd MEIN KAMPF AND YOUR QUOTE DOESN'T EXIST
Very nice to see a real historian on RUclips
Another grand video 🔥
Great to see you here Ethan, I love your videos!
@drifter5375 🤝good to see you here too !
I am curious about the crimes of the German army in world war 2 are you intrested or do you think its possible to make a video on this subject?
Yeah I will cover
thanks@@ZoomerHistorian
Why? Their is so much propaganda about them.
everybody did crimes, it's war
@@alexanderspear9464
To discern between the truth and propaganda. Much of it is exaggerated or invented, but there is no doubt they still committed many atrocities, it’s just about being accurate and fair.
Great video once again! Can't wait for the next one.
Thank you my friend! Working on it now, The Complete History of the SS-Charlemagne
At First I was avoiding your videos because your profile pic makes it look like a oversimplified-history type meme-history video (And I hate those), when I finally gave it a chance I was impressed, and now I am hooked. Gut gemacht ZH!
Excellent video.Keep them coming.
Thanks very much
@@ZoomerHistorian"If Slavic people were regarded as inferior race then why Nazis have no problem in recruiting them into Waffen SS??"
Nazis believed that there is an existence called the "Aryan Soul". In their belief, all inferior people have Aryan soul and when they die, their Aryan soul will leave their body and possess the body of German people thus making the German people become more Aryan. In other word, Nazis recruited the inferior race to fight for them not as allies but as a "tool" for them to make the German people more "pure Aryan"
Source:
Hitler's foreign executioner by Christopher Hale
Himmler's insane reason for recruiting non-German in the Waffen SS by TikHistory
Lenin wanted world revolution while Stalin insisted on consolidating his regime as it was in 1930. But by 1940, he decided to engage in an expansion that was frightening - Eastern Finland, the Baltic states, Bessarabia and Eastern Poland and then all of Eastern Europe in the late 1940's.
You mean "socialism in one country." Naaah. Never believe anything they wrote. Their most-cherished works of "pure theory" were always just propaganda for a moment in time. The first two Five Year Plans were all about developing the heavy industry and infrastructure needed for mass production of war materiel. The third Five Year Plan was all about going to war.
Very nice video, as always! I love your very well explained talks and the excelent footage you show. Thank you! I just have a few remarks:
If you want to know, how Hitler felt, declaring war und the Soviet Union, read his quote about the start of Operation Barbarossa: "I felt like I had bust open a door, not knowing what awaited me behind it".
Regarding the plans Hitler had for Europe, Degrelle said, that his plans were for France to be the cultural center, Germany the industrial center and Russia would be like America, where everyone can make his wishes come true and try to become what he always wanted. So Russia would be the land of unlimited possibilties. Thats because of the immense spare land Russia had. So his plans were not to enslave everyone and to settle Germans there.
Many russians fought for Germany in WW2. Just look at the Cossacks of the Wehrmacht.
Ah, imagine a world where that had happened. Especially if America and Britain had their heads on right. The British Empire and navy, America’s military and economic might, France’s beauty, Germany’s industry and genius, and the open and wild Russian frontier. The standard of living and high civilization would be so much greater than we could dream of, damn near a utopia.
The east was to be settled by germanic people and the slavs would either be deported or [redacted]. Himmler had already set plans in motion for this, starting some small organisations tasked with bringing germanics to the newly conquered territories.
Ну были казаки да, были ещё много кого, только массово это практика стала лишь после 1943 года, люди чтобы не умереть с голода и от не по сильного труда и не на такое пойти могли, все мы русские помним ваши брошюры про унтерменшей и сожжение деревень и другие ваши европейские зверства , у того же Дегреля есть воспоминания где советские военнопленные занимались людоедством лишь бы не умереть и они СС стояли и смеялись над этим, так же на оккупированных территориях проводилась полита массового голода, это правда что это была война расс, наша раса сказалась сильнее и история рассудила ,кто есть Унтермеш, мы слишком благородная нация и не ответили вам зеркально в полной мере
Hitler was foremost among those referring to Barbarossa as a "race war." In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote of a growing Aryan population needing "lebensraum," and the place that would provide it was the Soviet lands in the East (Belarus and Ukraine). Further, since those lands were already populated by Slavs, considered to be "untermenschen," they would have to be emptied, with only enough of the local population that would be needed as farm labor or domestic help allowed to survive. Hitler was a mass murderer on a historic scale, even without including the Holocaust.
Another great video. I really enjoy how you criticise both sides I know it's been said a thousand times but your channel is very refreshing
Thank you my friend, very few can keep politics out of it!
This channel is BS neo nazi propaganda
I remember a video, maybe potential history?, where he "deboonked" the claim that the soviets were gearing up for invasion, and I remember that in that video he talked about an ex soviet general leaking plans after the war, now I am probably wrong and misremembering but hey.
Also is there anything on the fact that the Brits had apparently warned the soviets of imminent invasion to which Stalin didn't care.
Also also in Mussolini's last interview he apparently said that he was against the invasion of Russia thinking that he should have let the soviets attack which kind of implies that everyone in the Axis knew things were gonna blow off
Anyway cool videos and I like how you present the information, keep it up
Thanks very much mate
Great video! Thank you my fellow zoomer for such high quality content, please continue spreading the truth!
Will do my friend!
I disagree
07:50 - Hitlers argument was as you claim and say, "The soviets are poised and ready for attack".
When Operation Barbarossa started, the Soviets were outnumbered on every front.
Baltic Republics : 21 Soviet Divisions vs 34 German Divisions
Belorussia : 26 Soviet Divisions vs 36 German divisions
Ukraine : 45 Soviet Divisions vs 57 German Divisions
Germanies divisions were at full strength with high morale.
Soviet divisions were not, and in peacetime conditions, listening to political speeches over digging in.
The USSR did recover from the civil war going from 1.5 Million troops to 5 million. With mass industrialisation in all sectors, as they were far behind their western counter parts. If you looked at how Stalin reacted when war was declared or what the Soviet Generals were stating it's clear they did not want War with Germany, Stalin hid himself, Zhukov complained for days of no state of readiness.
Exactly. The Soviets were too outnumbered and they took so much pounding that the Germans went till Stalingrad. It's only after Stalin mobilized the Red Army that they fought back and started their western retaliatory conquest. But people get too carried away by this video. Because an alternative opinion that claims as a non-mainstream one is so appealing even though not always true. It's unfortunate.
@larsliamvilhelm Did you even read my comment......
@larsliamvilhelm You clearly have not and I'm not going to bother repeating it, he did not have 160 divisions ready to strike, read the comment.
And no they aren't, look for them you won't find them, the only documents of such were of Churchill's plans to invade the USSR in 1945 (Operation Unthinkable). Now I know you're just speaking nonsense.....
The soviets were outnumbered simply because they were not ready. The Soviet army was still reorganizing and was not ready for war. Over time, they would have been prepared, that's the entire point. Germany attacked BEFORE the soviets were ready to attack.
@@Centurio_1 I understand that, it's a valid argument for pre-emptive strike.
However it comes off as a weak argument when there are/were no Soviet plans to invade all of Germany back then, and they weren't ready or preparing to do so. In other words heresay.....
Whereas the same can't be said by Germany of course.
How could it be a "r ace war" when hundreds of thousands of Slavs including Russians joined the Germans? The war in the east was a war of practical necessity first and perhaps an ideological war second.
"If Slavic people were regarded as inferior race then why Nazis have no problem in recruiting them into Waffen SS??"
Nazis believed that there is an existence called the "Aryan Soul". In their belief, all inferior people have Aryan soul and when they die, their Aryan soul will leave their body and possess the body of German people thus making the German people become more Aryan. In other word, Nazis recruited the inferior race to fight for them not as allies but as a "tool" for them to make the German people more "pure Aryan"
Source:
Hitler's foreign executioner by Christopher Hale
Himmler's insane reason for recruiting non-German in the Waffen SS by TikHistory
I dunno mate, maybe because so many civilians were slaughtered in concentration camps? Turned in to slaves for Hitlers regime?
@@hafizihilmibinabdulhalim1004 I don't know how true this is but the Germans definitely did believe in "honorary aryans" (such as Turkic people who could be used to fight the USSR). Also, Croats would be considered slavicised Goths, Bulgarians slavicised Turks and Czechs and some Poles slavicised Germans. This is why they were allowed to be allies of Germany. Though chances are that post-war they too would be exterminated.
The Drang Nang Osten (Barbarossa) was an 8 nation pre emptive strike against the USSR launched a mere 3 weeks before Stalin's intended attack on Eastern Europe (Operation Thunder) scheduled to commence on July 10, 1941.
Okay... good. I love the liberation of Europe, doesn't everybody?
Oh yeah
the liberation that would have ended, just like the one 1945, in 0 liberty and being a satellite again
Why didnt soviet union have its troops prepares for this invasion ? Why would the entire tank force , airforce , ground forces be at the state of total millitary unreadiness ? 3 WEEKS !!!! Or would Stalin tell them like in 20 days we are going to invade Germany or what ? Why didnt Ussr had its 23000 tanks near the border 3 weeks before attack ? Why it didnt had more than 4 million personnel on the border ?
@@socire72Liberation of what you marxist bastads
Another banger man. Keep it up. 😎👍
Germany truly had a diverse Vanguard in the fight against Bolshevism.
Diversity is evil and anti why t and anti traditional populations the world over
@@BlackJuck Sure the leadership was f**ked, but there were genuinely brave men fighting for the Axis. Like Leon Degrelle.
“Diverse” and still lost 😂 The immortal science of Marxism-Leninism ❤
What explains the Einsatzgruppen?
Conveniently forgotten, I had also noticed.
@@MisterOcclusion The einsatzgruppen were a security measurement to quell partisans and sabotage and not to “exterminate populations”. 🤦🏻♂️ thats utterly preposterous.
@@MisterOcclusion They were a security measurement to quell partisans and sabotage and not to “exterminate populations”. 🤦🏻♂️ thats utterly preposterous.
@@MisterOcclusion They were a security measurement to quell partisans and sabotage.
@@MisterOcclusion The einsatzgruppen were a security measurement to quell partisans
This information comes from "Hitlers revolution" by Richard tedor
I wish more people questioned this man's sources
@@ilikesnakes4695 What he says in these videos are true.
watch some TIK videos he actually sights his sources.. this guy is a joke
@@wotan8881 No this guy is the biggest liar and conspiracy theorist. turn on your brain
@@quasark5007 You're a fool
I bought a book called Battle of britain: analyzing WW2. It was all fine and dandy until it all sounded like I was reading an OpEd from CNN or Rachel Maddow about Germany in WW2. I paused to look at the author again, because I couldn't believe the sheer amount of unfounded caricature he was writing.
When you finish the Hitler series, could you consider making videos/series on top NSDAP members? i.e. Göring, Himmler, etc
I have a goring video soon which will probably be a couple hours long, just waiting on books to arrive
But yes, just not series, they’ll be long videos
Zoomer, dare ya to make a extensive video about Hess and why he took that flight and was hidden and imprisoned in isolation. Not many address this obvious guilty behavior and something juicy is behind that mess, cheers.
Book actually on the way about that
@@ZoomerHistorian
We yearn for unsullied truth.
I still can't get over the fact you're a zoomer. Thanks ever so much
Barely but yes hahah
@@ZoomerHistorian Seriously, thank you so much. I trust all your videos are backed up for when you need a new platform.
You're from the gold videos
@@justgold1 Hello again. Clearly you did mean ZH
@@Karl_BurtonGoebbels son was never killed
I always found it weird how revisionists don’t say it with chest. Just say it with chest that he wanted Eastern Europe for land, he even had speeches complaining how Britain controlled 1/4ths of the globe and Germans had no colonies. And how 66 million Germans deserved this land AND then some. Imagine if people said “Napoleon never wanted all that land, it was just false history.” It’s okay to admit it, i know he lost in the end but don’t re write it
I agree in spirit.
The problem with ww2 history is you have one side saying there was a preposterous marvel supervillain and the other saying that absolutely everything is a lie and he was actually good, instead of looking at the facts of the scenario. Both sides ignore facts that challenge their already cemented opinion of the matter.
Did you even fucking listen?
Only issue with this is at 0:54 describing Stalinism as hyper Internationalist. Especially with the Trotskyite purges and the policy of socialism in one country. Calling it that is a bit disingenuous. It's fair to argue for calling it internationalist but at end of the day, its nitpicking on one word within a 15min vid
I did say Communism instead of Stalinism to make that distinction however that didn't stop the Soviets setting up puppet governments all over Eastern Europe
@hollywoodsucks7202 I haven’t done anything
@@ZoomerHistorian Stalin was not an internationalist, he was actually kind of a white nationalist
@@Zeno308Internationalist, as in planning to spread Communism worldwide.
Internationalist.Meaning that he wanted to spread Communism internationally.
I just want to say and add that yes, germany did see it as a race war and that view became more prevelant during the war but it is not in the way you think. To qoute robert ley in 1945 during a speech he said: "this struggle we are now in is a struggle of race. The germans, the nordics and the european races against judah and her helpers." Almost every single speech you can find of the time emphasises that it is a European struggle, for the soul of Europe and civilisation. It's about the volken Familien. Against capitalism and marxism that both banded together to destroy a new and dangerous to them economic system.
RIP the Ploiesti oil fields
I’m going to miss those guys
Zoomer, your audio has had a evident vast improvement. Did you acquire a better microphone, by chance? 😂
I was thinking the same
I did not actually, I'm not sure why it's better but I noticed too, perhaps literally just the room
@@ZoomerHistorian I often see a quote attributed to AH, but haven't been able to verify. If we lose this war, then Europe will be all but finished within 100 years. Any idea ?
@@Karl_BurtonIt does make sense. Today's Europe is a place where the native population can be replaced and turned into a minority on their ancestral lands in a matter of days. Of course I'm referring to the catastrophe on the Italian island of Lampedusa. The National Socialists also released a poster titled "France in 100 Years" that shows the Native French on display like animals at a zoo with the "New French" negros watching them. They were able to see the future and have proved themselves to be right. Western Europe is all but finished. If Europe is to survive, the future lies in the East.
@@Stugots94 Ironically, the best chance would be for Russia to lead the way. Assisted by Hungary and Poland. Strange times.
These videos are very informative and very enjoyable to watch but history really makes me hate the Allies 😅 for their progandization of the Nazi Germany. I feel like we could have something great in todays days and age if only war mongering allies didnt meddle with european life
The Chief Culprit by Vladimir Rezun is basically just his earlier book Icebreaker. The title better reflects the subject. Yes, The USSR wanted Germany to be its icebreaker and embroil Europe in an exhausting WWI-type war. But that isn't really what the book's about.
6:45 I don’t know why but my nerd ass started laughing
Can you please do a video on all German peace offers and background for the offers
Have you read Main Kampf? Hitler lays out his ideas of Lebensraum pretty clearly, specifically targeting the nations to the East. He is also clear on how he feels about Slavs. Also, assuming that his army would happily fight his race war doesn't mean he didn't deceive and propagandize them anyways. He lied about the Gleiwitz incident, why wouldn't he lie about Operation Barbarossa as well? Also, by 1941 you'd have to be stupid not to deploy troops to your border in Europe.
UK (later USA) will come in any time soon, and Russia is waiting for an opportune moment to strike.
Worst case is you get crushed between the two while doing nothing. They take the chances & strike the most probable one (invading the UK via the ocean was a joke let alone US)
Purple haired weirdo. Opinion discarded
Have YOU read it? Because I have and he made no mention of exterminating slavs. Lebensraum was basically Germany's version of manifest destiny. The rest of your comment is nothing but suppositions, with no way to verify.
Oh, and you said nothing to disprove what Zoomer Historian is saying.
@@BigJohnson-g3j I also made no mention of exterminating Slavs. I am aware of the parallels between Lebensraum and manifest destiny, but Lebensraum is inherently connected to white supremacism. Slavs were considered untermensch by the Nazis, which is one of the reasons Hitler wanted to take Slavic countries for Lebensraum. Please learn about the Hunger Plan.
Your second point is irrelevant because this video was 80% suppositions.
The Soviet-German pact was a pact of convenience for both parties. Hitler and Stalin BOTH knew war between them was inevitable. Hitler invaded first because he wanted to beat Stalin to the punch.
03:10 the railroad gauges on the Soviet/German border were European gauges because they were built by Germany when Poland was under imperial German rule . It isn't like the Soviets built them to threaten Germany after the Brest-Livostok border was established in 1939.
Great point, reminded me that the Germans did actually work on the rail system on thir side of the new border. People need to look up the "Otto Program" -Deutsche Reichsbahn.
How many railroads do you think they built in one year during war time???
No, the vast majority were newer construction. This is a ridiculous assertion.
@@gratefulguy4130 I don't think that you grasped the point I was making.
@@gratefulguy4130 Actually what is stated in the video is just plain bad information. The "New" Soviet-German border was the old border of 1914, thus the railroad gauges were different on each side of it. The German side was upgraded under "plan Otto" by the Deutches Reichsbahn in 1940-41. The Soviet side was not upgraded and remained old, worn, and in many cases was still using "temporary" structures built by the Czar's Army in 1915/16. The Poles did little to standardize.
Zoomer states it was all new built by the Soviets to invade the West, which is completely false info.
Once Poland was partitioned, were the borders not approximately the same as they had been during imperial times? Legitimate question, I’m trying to get to the truth of this.
The most sane English-speaking "historian" on youtube:
what?
Pro - Fascist BS propaganda
@@timonurcikan8196 reality*
Keep making these videos. This is the history I needed to learn back in school. It angers me how many decades I spent believing the trash my school history books fed me.
That’s school which isn’t focused on history. They have to focus on other subjects. Even so, you can be able to learn history past school.
9:20 that’s so weird. This border that they claim isn’t even along the Ural Mountains!
I have thoroughly studied Adam Clark’s “Barbarossa”.
Although written with an obvious bias; the historical documents (German High Command meetings and directives) do contradict a few of the assertions here.
It repays study too, to note WHEN Mien Kamph was written, inasmuch as the “7 pages about living space”.
Too, it is documented that Hitler is repeatedly recorded as wanting the Soviet oil fields in Baku and the nickel of the Petsamo region.
I respect the scholarship represented in this video and find that singular theory proposed here should be seriously perused but on first examination it clashes with many official documents recovered after WWII.
I agree, it is completely true that hitler did wish for those fields of oil and nickel, however ultimately the soviets did have a buildup of troops too and that did make him feel pressured to attack before he got attacked, would have they attacked is another thing, most likely not immideatly but likely, so in the end truth's probably in the middle, yet the idea that he wanted to attack the USSR just to cleans and expand his race to the mountains is just fundamentally wrong, he did want to destroy communism, but he was fully aware that perhaps he was too late
The oilfields and copper mines were strategic ressources, not "lebensraum", because the oil supply was vanishing fast.
@@BQD_Central INDEED
Ive always said the west backed the wrong side
The problem with saying “the war against the Soviet Union wasn’t a race war” is that it was. You are correct in concluding that Operation Barbarossa was meant to wage war against-and defeat-communism in the East. But ask yourself this: what did Hitler and the Nazis view communism to be inextricably linked with? The answer is Judaism.
It’s true that the German military and SS ranks were filled with dozens of different ethnicities, even including Slavs. And it’s true that the Germans found allies in different Slavic groups during the Operation. But which ethnic group did not find themselves within German ranks? Jews. This was by design.
The Nuremberg Laws established different restrictions and degrees of liberty for half-jews, quarter-jews, and so on.
@larsliamvilhelm Despite Mr. H’s dislike of capitalism, which he did indeed link to Jews, as you mentioned, capitalism was not threatening to take over a defeated and ruined Germany post-WW1. Mr. H feared that a communist Germany governed by Jews would permanently prevent Germany from ever rising again. So, naturally, communism (and the Jews that were associated with it) were his primary target.
You’ll also find that the more you study Mr. H and his ideology, the more inconsistencies, contradictions, and confusion you’ll discover.
@@floycewhite6991Does that make it okay? Scum.
@larsliamvilhelmYes. Most of the Nazis policies only applied when convenient. Because they were based on arbitrary lies and not facts/science.
The jewish bolshevik communists killed 60 million christians. Thats according to the world famous author Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his book '200 years together' who lived through it. They used mass murder and multiple manufactured intentional famines. Close to all the Bolshevik leadership and officers were jewish and were not shy about thier ethnic hatred for russians. A lot of that hatred stems from the jewish teachings of the Talmud which heavily influenced Moses Hess who laid the foundations of what would be called communism and Marxism. The most dangerous thing to all people of all nations is interest. Both communism and capitalism rely on interest from privately owned typically jewish banks. Hitler used an economic structure that did not rely on interest or the central banks to bring Germany out of poverty and into prosperity. If Germany's economic model were to catch on it would mean the end of interest and therefore the end of the jewish banking cartels. I implore anyone interested to watch the documentary Europa the last battle. Also read The history of central banking and the enslavement of mankind by stephen Goodson. He was a high level executive at a south african central bank and saw the tomfoolery first hand.
Can you provide a source for the Soviet troop buildup and railroad gauge type on the border prior to Operation Barbarossa? I’m doing research for a book.
The Soviets did no railway upgrade on their side of the border, the German plan was "Programm Otto" (good article on Feldgrau).
The best secondary source for the Soviet situation prior to Barbarossa is "Stumbling Colossus" by David Glantz. I say secondary source because books are supposed to be written from primary sources/primary evidence (your own research, analysis, and interpretation), not other people's books.
@@Mitch_Richard44 what is Zoomer Historian referring to here then?
@@seanhoffmeyer442 Nothing, he's making empty statements mixed with a few select quotes from secondary sources. That's how historical distortion works if you weren't aware.
@ZoomerHistorian do you have a rebuttal for this guy?
@@seanhoffmeyer442 Nope...
Because he knew it was coming, anyway?
Of course, why else would the Soviets have built up 20,000+ tanks and millions more men conscripted. Their military was growing rapidly by the day. Germany HAD to react.
@@WakaWaka2468Stalin recruiting more men when the world's largest army, led by a man who explicitly stated in his most popular book he wanted to eradicate the entire slavic and Jewish race, is on his border? Who would've thought?
Why is it not okay for the Soviets to put troops and set up defensive positions within it's own fucking borders?
No ship ride would take weeks
My grandma read 'my struggle' to me when i was a kid before we covered WWII in school. I didn't know it then, but our family came to America during the time of "operation paperclip". The amount of racism Aryans experience today and throughout my lifetime is a travesty and also predicted by an artist from Austria. We can't even claim to be our race, we are forced to choose 'caucasian' even though none of our ancestors are from the caucus mountain region, nor are we slavs...
Not what Caucasian means, my struggle is literally a piece of propoganda written by a man with extreme views, Aryans are not the subject of even considerable amounts of discrimination today nor are they even a real racial or ethnic classification in the way people think. The term aryan originated in the context used by the nazis from Arthur de Gobineau, in a grander goal of his to justify racism and racial superiority of "Aryans." Real Aryans are mostly Iranian Indo-Europeans but that's not even worth going into as that's not how the term originated in the first place. The whole world consists of so so so many ethnicities that have no bearing on how we should treat each other, but that's not what the people Zoomer Historian apologizes for believe. You have no reason to call yourself Aryan as that's not what you are, even if the nazi party wanted your predecessors to classify themselves as that. If you came from Germany then you probably have ethnic ties to a mix of Germanic and very likely many non Germanic peoples. The reason people have a stigma about self proclaimed Aryans is because the term was quite literally adopted by the nazis to reinforce and further establish a concrete classification of racially and ethnically superior Germanic people. There's so much evidence proving how deranged and incorrect Hitler was, from his own mouth and from those close to him, and many others. Please take a moment to step back and consider the opinions of those who disagree with you, I especially suggest a video debunking Zoomer Historian by What Why How
@@ilikesnakes4695 😂😂😂 there's zero chance I'm reading a huge rant from an indoctrinated internet kid, but thanks for taking the time to write that novel.
@@Ballstavius I was just trying to have a genuine conversation with you, but if you don't wanna read that it's fine. I just suggest What Why How's video debunking him. Please at least watch it and expose yourself to the opposition's ideas like I have here.
@@ilikesnakes4695 no you were right, I'm good. I don't have "genuine conversations" with someone so deeply indoctrinated that they don't believe that there's anything wrong about denying an entire races existence. Go tell a Japanese person they're Chinese and explain to them why all Asians are the same so they really have no ethnic identity. Oh wait, you wouldn't because it's not true. Not all white people are caucus slavs either.
@@BallstaviusThe usual... typical Nazi, can't read.
Hitler should have considered all this when he partitioned Poland. Poland was the perfect buffer against the Soviets.
With so many Russian divisions stationed at the border though, how was Germany able to make such major inroads?
They needed to get to Moscow so close but no cigar. Hitler s driver knew Germany had just lost the war.
They were mostly more inland and at the Romanian border. This guy talks huge bullshit.
Surprise & speed.
You defend a border with bunkers and trenches - not millions of soldiers waiting in no-man’s-land. That’s the worst case scenario for every army - get hit during mobilization. That’s why they collapsed so quickly, they weren’t prepared to fight a defensive war.
Because they WEREN'T In a defensive position. That's so easy to understand it's not even funny.
Big thanks for another great video.
No, thank you for supporting them!
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hey guys where can I find online sources such as websites and videos for this stuff? interested to learn more.
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Have people watched "europa, the last battle"?
It is quite literally written by a self proclaimed neo-nazi and is full of propaganda and misinformation
Have you even a brain?
The more I hear about the truth of WW2 the more I think Churchill was the real monster.
Gee, ain't it cute that THIS video is the one that is "Experiencing interruptions" for me? Find out why? I know why thanks mr youtube.
Your videos are good, I am afraid when you get too popular….
I disagree with the ideologies being completely different, yes, originally the communists were international minded and wanted an international revolution with the Soviet Union as only a stepping stone towards a world revolution spreading it to Germany and the West ... but their loss in the Polish-Soviet war in the early 1920 brought about a radical change, from the international communist idea to the national idea ... Stalin was not one of the internationals he was thinking in local terms and with the purge of 1937 he really took out the international element so prevalent before. Controversially, after 1937 the Soviet socialism was leaning towards a national direction and it was getting close to the national socialism. They could have coexisted and cooperated from 1940 there was no deep ideological reason for the war between them.
Hitler founded a reason to attack SSSR. He was too stupid. He was thinking It's going to be easy ride on the East. In reality, it was the begining of the end for the Third Reich. Barbarossa was the greatest mistake ever. The Germans should have kept to the pact. Only idiot can invade SSSR. It was an impossible mission.
Nationalist /=/ national socialist.
Nationalism in the west and in Asia, Africa, and other places are completely different things.
Well this is so stupid, I am speechless.
And let me tell you, as someone who’s grandfather and uncle fought in WWII on non nazziii side, I can tell you that my grandfather was anti communist before war started, and ended up as decorated war veteran from same communist he actually hate. When I ask him to explain me that as a teenager, he told me, that when war started, he was wishing that communism go to hell, but since he is proud Slavic man, he couldn’t stay on side, he was forced to decide on the end, death or slavery from nazzziii or fight and resistance, and he decided to fight, unfortunately only one he can join to fight were Partizans, who were communists. And they did not like him, but they also were fighting for survival and they let him be, and even awarded him for war efforts with medals.
I also ask him why he didn’t join to the so called volunteer anti communist troop that join Germans, he said; I did not hate my Slavic origins and I didn’t want to be a servant of Germans, cause problem with Slavic SS troops was that they were ideologically full of people who main motivation is hatred toward other Slavs, Jews or Gypsies; and they were will to serve their masters if they can have right to be above the ethnic group they hate; my grandfather told me that those kind of people are been more evil and committed more atrocities then Germans themselves.
I heard that one American abolitionist once said; I will be more successful in freeing slaves, only if they know that they are slaves. Unfortunately my Grandfather died and did not lived to see collapse of communism, and I remember he always use to say that is idiotic nonsense that will on the end fall apart, once people woke up. And I remember my dad telling him to shut up, cause we gone a get arrested cause of him lol
Sorry for my poor English
Very interesting comment! Are you from an ex-soviet country? Or why would you get arrested?
@@Schabulla No, my father is from Serbia, former Yugoslavia, and my mother was from Bratislava, Slovakia, former Czechoslovakia. My Grandfather I was talking about is from northern Serbia, from place that is only 8 km from border with Romania. I still remember Yugoslavian communism and my mother remember Czechoslovakian version. Complicated story, of my origin and my grow up has exposed me to the things that most people on west do not know nothing about.
My grandpa uses to talk publicly and freely , how he do not like communism, and communist politicians, that were on power in past, that is why my dad always try to tell him that we will all get in trouble because of him, people do get arrested and jailed all the time in those days, and my dad has told me that he was several times warned by some people that my grandpa is talking too much, but somehow everybody knew him and he was a war hero, so they let him talk and mostly ignore him, for his and our luck.
Excellent work, much appreciated.
That was a fascinating and very interesting video, thank you very much
Every single video on this channel would warrant a prison sentence in occupied Germany
Yup that’s how “democracy” works
Not true, he never denies the holocaust or promotes war in this video.
Hitler: It's come to my attention that you have a large number of Units near my borders. I request that you move them elsewhere to avoid causing undue distress to my citizens.
Stalin: We mean no harm. Our units are merely passing through the area
My man, with all due respect, Hitler literally wrote in Mein Kampf that the destruction of the Bastron of Judeo-Bolshevism, was the main goal, and that the Bastron of said Judeo-Bolshevism, was the Soviet Union in Hitler's eyes.
The entire point of Hitler's Nazism, was the destruction, complete and utter destruction, of the Soviet Union. That is why he invaded Poland, that is why he invaded the Soviet Union, it is unknown whether the Soviets were preparing to invade Germany, and most historians agree that Operation Barbarossa, is not a pre-emptive strike, which is attacking an enemy before they attack you first, we don't know if the Soviets actually wanted to attack the Soviet Union, yes, they prepared forts, but that's a defence, not useful when attacking, and they prepared their army, but you can't be surprised by that, Germany just conquered most of Europe, *and Hitler wrote an entire book where in he described how he would destroy your nation.*
16 million civilians, at the minimum, died under German occupation. That is 264 times more than who died in France and Western Europe. It was a purposeful genocide, in acted by Hitler, to destroy Judeo-Bolshevism. Which he saw as the greatest threat to the Aryan race.
You are purposely spreading a pro-Nazi narrative, and that is disgusting to put it nicely.
Yes brother he is. Please read my comment I just left under this NaZi propaganda of a video. It’s crazy to deny thousands of mass murder cities across the occupied Soviet territories like Baby Yar. I myself have 4 relatives who were castrated by Germans in concentration camps. Germans literally had a mass genocide in occupied soviet territories on a far bigger scale than the genocide committed in Central Europe
Yeah this is fucking crazy. I was genuinely in shock hearing the amount of mental gymnastics this guy uses. So much for a 'historian' constantly giving his opinions and saying things with no claims to back it up, and criticising other historians while being a terrible excuse for one himself.
@tempejkl god dude thank God, i feel like this singular comment thread is the only safe haven for common sense and basic historical knowledge. The rest is a sludge of nazi propaganda and apologetics
pretty sure that wasn't why Poland was invaded. Chalking it up to "hitler did this and that because he was hateful" is idiotic
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Hitler invaded Poland because he wanted to destroy the Soviet Union, he hated the eastern slavs, 6 million poles were killed in the war, of which a sixth were military personal. He believed that the Jews made communism and that jewish communism would lead to the collapse of human society, because at that time, the west depended more on the east for food and the east needed the west for material, if the east developed, Hitler thought they would stop trading with the west, leading to the collapse of nations, leading to Jewish communism rising, because Hitler believed Jews couldn't form nations, every nation would collapse and as a result, humans would go extinct, I'm explaining thhis because I don't want to paint Hitler as, 'he racist, he evil >:(,' he's evil because he thinks what he's doing is correct
Anyway, Poland, I'm gonna be real with you, I actually do not know why Hitler wanted to kill all of the poles, I just know he genocided them, you don't accidentally murder a fifth of a countries population after all. I think it's because of Lebensraum, Hitler saw the Eastern lands as Germany's destiny, and the only way to keep Germany alive.
Now, I'm gonna be vastly over simplifying chapter 14 of Mein kampf, yes, I've read most of the chapter, no I haven't read mein kampf, I've been meaning too, no, I'm not a nazi, far too many people hear me reading mein kampf or explaining Hitler's ideas and think Nazi, yes, I do want to understand Hitlers ideology, and the best way to do that is through reading his book where he explains it
Simply, chapter 14 is about three major things, land, resources and people. Hitler believes there is a set amount of resources in a land, and there is a maximum capacity for said land, where if the capacity is reached, people will use all of the resources in the land and die off, this is the primary thing driving forward his thought process, Europe as a whole at this time, doesn't have a lot, the Soviet Union is the only one with enough for a nation, enough food, enough oil and steel, which Germany needs all three of them, aluminium comes from Sweden, food from Ukraine and other resources from Europe. Hitler believes for Germany to survive as a nation, he must get these resources, and the people of Germany must get their land. But they can't use it if someone else is already there, so, you kill them or deport them. That's what i think is happening in Poland, Hitler sees it as the living space his people need for survival, and so the best course of action in his eyes would be to destroy Poland and the Soviet Union population, because, you need living space, and there already isn't enough.
That's why I think Poland was genocided during WW2, why it was invaded, and why Hhitler was evil.
Remember, Hitler isn't evil because he did this horrible thing, he's evil because he thought he was right
Nice vid and I agree that war was inevitable between Nazi Germany and the USSR but to be accurate Stalin wasn't as hyperinternationalist as other Bolsheviks. He was more of a pragmatist concerned about the survival of his regime. He did promote the policy of Socialism in one country.
For some reason he expanded the country with Finnish territory, Bessarabia, Eastern Poland and the Baltics. Huh.
@@BQD_Central Guess you don't know that the secret protocol of the German USSR Non-aggression Pact signed Aug '39 placed the Baltic states, Finland and Bessarabia in the Soviet sphere of influence. Thus Stalin had a free hand to do what he wanted with them without any German interference.
I have never heard of any old person who lived through or was born during WW2 who says that they preferred the soviets. Universally they say that they were treated better under german rule.
Ask any Polish peasant. Oh yeah, they were killed
this is a load of barnaclesss
@@zupnanazwa The Polish we 'mistreated' by everybody.
People forget the WW2 was the first oil war, the nations that controlled the supply of oil would dictate the world while the coal empires would fade
I sure do wonder what the legend surrounding Frederick Barbarossa is, the man who's namesake was used for the operation. Surely, it could have no relation to the intention of the invasion.
Our Germans?! Never!!!!
What is the relation?
You're refreshingly well informed of the non narrative version of WW2. The truth is far more interesting.
Its hypocritical how earlier on he says the alliance with the Soviet Union was out of convenience not out of genuine likeness, but then argue that alliances with Bulgaria and Slovenia must mean they were on the same page
Not hypocritical. Your English comprehension is lacking. Those countries actually fought with the Nazis, side by side, not against them. It's possible to deceive and enemy while being true to an ally at the same time.
@@BigJohnson-g3j The Soviets fought with the Germans against the Poles, that doesn't mean they liked each other
I have always read that the Germans had to change all of the Soviet rail gauges to fit the German rolling stock. This is the first I am hearing that the Soviets had built to the German gauge.
They didn't, its bad information.
@@Mitch_Richard44 For clarity: the Germans did not have to change Soviet rail gauges?
@@danlowe8684 No, the Soviets did not build to the European gauge.
The Germans had to convert from European to wide gauge when they crossed the frontier in June 1941. The Poles had been building/converting their system to European gauge between 1920-1939. The Soviets had converted some of the Polish to wide gauge in 1940-41.
@@Mitch_Richard44 Thank you!!!
I think you overstate the sophistication of the German people, it’s probably not true the German would blindly support a race war. So there is a need for justification for war. Second, the breathing room Hitler wanted was explained in Mein Kampf. Basically, I think there’s a mix of ideological motivation and practical reason for the invasion.
You are right, there was a race element. But not enough for starting world war, they're not stupid.
But yeah our holy Churchill wanted to reduce Earth's population for his narrow agenda.
How about you read what Hitler said about the war in 1941 and not what he said as a failed revolutionary in prision in 1925?
@@BQD_Central what about it
Russia has a history of being invaded, and they had been as recently as during their post WW1 civil war. The purges and Stalin's fear of his own military, indicates to me that the USSR was trying to build a huge buffer between it and the Reich. Every operation the USSR conducted militarily leading up to Barbarossa shows this. They were trying to create buffer states through negotiation and conquest because they feared Germany. Otherwise, why was Stalin trying to placate AH by sending him oil right up until the invasion? ZH COMPLETELY leaves out this fact.
man, this is soo educating, i feel like all the propaganda had a big impact on me
Not sure i agree with all of this....Stalin was surely exerting blackmail re: Germany and seizing as much land as possible. But Russian forces were NOT concentrated along Germany's border....troops were further inland though supplies were stationed closer to the front. The idea was for the army to move westward towards its own hidden supplies so as to counter any German invasion....as it turned out, the Germans moved faster than the Soviets and captured many of these supplies. War was NOT inevitable at least not in the immediate future; Stalin was shook by the way Germany took France out in just 6 weeks.. he was in fact doing everything he could to placate Hitler by the massive amounts of raw materials that continued to flow into Germany prior to June 22, 1941.
The reason why Hitler wanted to invade the Soviet Union in 1941 is the same as Napoleon wanting to invade Russia in 1812. They both thought they could win.
Well that's wrong. Any other mind reading of long dead people you'd like to share backed by nothing?
I’d bet my life on the fact that if Hitler doesn’t go in the Soviet Union exists today ; with its border being the Atlantic. The Germans would’ve beaten the Soviets without western help though.
They have a recording of hitler discussing how they knew Ussr was gona invade and all the npcs xould say was " dur his voice is deep"
Beautifully crafted documentary. Jam packed with information and citations to back it up.
bro thought this is legit