This series was at least as good as any professionally done Discovery channel production. The maps were very well done and looked to be quite accurate. Your narration was also very good. If you ever wish to continue, you have my best wishes and support.
Thanks for making this series! I really enjoyed it. Wish you'd make more videos, but I can totally understand the real life obligations making that difficult to justify
You are an amazing creator would who goes into detail very well while still keeping the presentation interesting and intriguing. Please continue making wonderful content.
I thought this was very well done and if you do get back to making more documentaries at any time I absolutely will be onboard. Good luck in whatever you do!
Really enjoyed it! Especially your unbiased view. Seemed very professional. Other series about the various theatres would be very nice to see n the future. kind regards form germany
Congratulations, exitings videos to understand very well the development of one of biggest and important operation in WWII. The maps and explanations are clear and easy to leran about it
Thankyou... You have done a great job... Hope so I'll find some new videos on your channel so I'm subscribing it. As ur effort was wonderful. Thanx a lot man
Great series, my gratitude to you good sir. When you do have some more time on hand... Please consider making any videos on Fall Blau. You are really talented at making these kind of videos.
This is a very nice series of videos. Which highly details the first six months of battles between the Soviets and Germans. The statistical detail of these engagements using information from newer history books produced give a much different version from the books of old. and a much more accurate one. The one huge everlasting question will always be did the German army ever have any chance of total victory with this initial offensive. I believe that there was one chance and you mentioned it in your last video. As strange as that sounds, regime change including Stalin.s early removal was Germany's only true chance. He held them together through the difficult early phase of this war. just as Hitler held Germany together until the end.
Well interesting series, would be interesting to see further videos like this covering the whole eastern front war. I know that's a big task but have you thought about doing videos just at a much slower pace? You could make it a multi-year project rather than a 2 month project for the 12 videos you've released so far. Even 1 video a month would be a decent pace.
Holy shit, when they say it was a war of extermination it really was. It was a brutal war like no other in all of Human history. The losses on both sides were appalling.
The Soviets realized that Japan was not going to invade Siberia, and so the 1,000,000 in reserve there could move toward the front lines against Germany. It was a humongous boost.
You make an interesting comment, paraphrasing 'Operation Barbarossa was doomed to failure. Even if Moscow was taken, the Russians could retreat to the east and the Soviets would keep fighting as long as Stalin was in charge'. The thing is, Stalin had decided to stay in Moscow against the counsel of his advisors, so the taking of Moscow would have resulted in his death or capture. I note that he did evacuate much of the government in mid-October to Kyubishev.
What the maker of this video seems to forget or to ignore, when he says that the Red Army survived thanks to Stalin (and would have lost if he would have been killed and replaced by someone willing to surrender) is the fact that Nazi-Germany was fighting a war of total annihilation, their goal being the enslavement of the whole Soviet population (they considered the Soviet people as "Untermenschen" ('subhumans')) and to conquer all Soviet resources (oil, grain, raw supplies etc.). The Soviet people and Red Army were well aware of this and they had no other choice than to fight or to get killed. So they would never surrender, regardless of Stalin or whoever. They would keep on fighting to the bitter end or win the war. We all know what finally happened.
The historic Russian love of their native land runs very deep. The Russian people look upon her as a Mother, calling her Mother Russia. Whereas the Germans looked upon their native land as the Fatherland. A classic fight of ying and yang.
Thanks for great and very hardwork on these videos, esp Barbarossa series, but you're unactive for about 1 year, where did you go , please make a series about Fall Blau, or did you just make another channel ? if anyone knows answer to where the Jack of War went or is he still active, please answer me, his videos were awesome and i wanna find out if he's still active and where, thanks
Wish ya’d come out with some new stuff. I always find myself coming back to these videos over the years. I agree that Barbarossa was doomed from the start. Stalin would have only moved his government further and further to the East had the Germans made it to Moscow and beyond. Not a very well planned offensive in my opinion.
I suggest that Soviet Union might continue fighting not only after the fall of Moscow, but even if Stalin was not anymore in power. Previous events were of such nature that to stop fighting by Soviet Union was not possible.
They were brought from the Siberian front once Stalin realized they wouldn't have to fight Japan. Conclusion, not even the Soviets would have survived a 2 front war.
Moscow was a much greater prize in 1941 than 1812. Crucially it was the centre of the rail network. Heinz Guderian went ballistic when Hitler refused to advance in July & announced the war is lost. The genius knew.
I was told it would've taken every truck in the German Army to get them into Moscow; that Hitler never had the logistical reach, so he lost the war the day he started it.
I disagree. Taking Moscow would have disrupted the entire Russian defense of the entire front as all rail lines must pass through Moscow. Cutting the rail lines would have meant an end to supply of Leningrad and that of Stalingrad as well.
Why do u think there was no way Germany to win only because of population? Germany had just twice (2.5?) less population, so only twice less manpower. This isn't so crucial after so dramatical losses from soviet side at the beginning. I mean, I also think Germany had no chances at all, but not only because of manpower. It was much more complicated.
So Funny Obviously there were many other factors at play making a German victory next to impossible, but I think you're underestimating the importance of such a huge manpower advantage. Having 2.5 times as many people in the Soviet Union has far reaching impacts beyond the ability to absorb huge numbers of casualties and continue fighting. It means 2.5 times as many people available to work in the factories and on the farms as well. The products of this massive labor machine had to travel relatively short distances to make their way to the front. Whereas the numerically outclassed Germans had to stretch their supply lines and materiel repair/manufacturing capacity over thousands of miles to reach into the USSR. All the while their military resources and manpower were spread thin occupying and defending virtually the whole European continent. This means, in reality, the manpower disparity at the front and in materiel management was far greater than the overall difference between their populations.
So Funny are you serious? german nazi forces were of a total of 3.5 million in all, while the "soviet union has "6 million soldiers " that includes their reserve. thats like twice the number of soldiers of german forces!
Not only that but Germany had a front in Africa (later Italy) to supply also, and they had to station troops in Norway, Denmark, Holland/Belgium and France incase an allied landing was to take place, add to that allied bombing Germany proper and the partisans all over europe making life difficult for the Germans (there was an uprising in Yugoslavia in 1941 that was never put down). If you take all of that into account there were no chance for Germany to win once their advance halted in Soviet. If you take the allies out of the equation Germany very likely would have crushed Soviet.
Correct if I'm not right. In most occupated states in europe Germans had collaboration forces, who helped to take control over those states. So it wasn't necessary to increase number of occupation forces from state to state.
So Funny There were collaborationist regimes/factions in some of the occupied areas, but certainly nowhere near enough to render significant numbers of occupying German forces unnecessary. What people (Keiser) are ignoring are the critical factors of organizational and personnel morale. German allies (especially Italians, Romanians, etc. - see Russian flanking/encirclement at Stalingrad) and volunteers from occupied countries proved to be very fickle and often extremely weak fighters. They couldn't just call up more people into service from occupied countries and expect that to effectively reinforce the Heer. The Russians were fighting for their homes and families; German allies were fighting for some dubiously competent dictator from another country.
Stalin refused to leave Moscow, brushing aside advice to leave the city. Had the Germans encircled the city and captured Stalin it might have been the end. Hitler from new documentation and analysis never favoured taking Moscow, his objective was always South through Ukraine and the Caucuses, If they cut off a large part of Russian food supply and oil, their ability to fight a mechanised war was over. Strong evidence that Russian in 1942 was on the brink of starvation and fuel shortages....
Grenadier loyal to the king. Bullshit. Patriotism only takes you so far. (Why did 3.3 million Soviets surrender in 1941?). Fear takes you the rest of the way.
My grandmothers brother died in first months of war, in a german pocket. They refused to surrender and fought being totally surrounded. My grandfather fought in battle for Moscow and made it all the way to Berlin. You know i asked many veterans about the motivation. And i found one common thing. They hated nazis and were angry at the point they cound care about death no more. People ramming aircraft and throwing themselves on machine gun points were common for Red Army.
And yet - after stalin's death, Beria was the best chance for true liberalisation in Soviet Union. If he wasn't murdered by zhukov, Khrushchev et consortes, the Cold War could have been finished thirty years sooner.
Moscow was a Rail Hub.. Napoleon didn't Conquer anything but a Glorified Village.. Moscow in 41 connected Several Fronts.. including Oil from the Caucasus to The Plants in the Urals..no comparison really..
Germany and the Soviet Union 1 VS 1 during ww2 would make Germany the winner, i'll tell you why. The Soviet Union had lend lease from the US, but even with the lend lease it would not have been able to survive against Germany, Germany had so much more to think about than focusing 100% on Russia during ww2, Germany got all their cities and factories bombed, but even then their production increased by three times from 1943 to 1944. The only main problem by then was oil. But imagine if Britain and the US didn't drop one bomb on Germany, and did not fight Germany at all from after the fall of France, then Germany could go on the offencive in the east time and time again, much like the battle of Kursk, only they would be able to fill the gaps of the losses, also they would not retreat forced from the Battle of Kursk to Italy, and yeah, when it comes to the thing leading up to Italy, there would be no fighting in north Africa, wich means one of Hitlers best generals would also be joining the fight in Russia. And Germany would have total air supremacy! They would be able to use the entire Luftwaffe at the east, no planes needed to try and prevent any bomb runs. Also the V1 and the V2 rockets would all be directed on Russia instead of firing at the already much bombed London, many other wounder weapons would still be under work since they don't get delayed by constant bombing. Also then the Atlantic Wall wich was a huge mess and a waste of resources, would instead use all slave labour in the east or in factories instead of wasting concrete and iron on places that didn't even see battle, and that mess stretched from Spain to northern Norway (Where i am from). So yeah, The Soviet Union would collapse when they realized there would be no more men to throw into the German meatgrinder. At the end of ww2 Russia had lost a huge chunk of it's population. Germany on the other hand had alot of it's army captured and imprisoned because of total chaos fighting basically against the whole world.
Also I think tha they would have been able to act much faster and use their "blitzkrieg" in a much more efficient way due to more stable and continious supply lines, which would have provided vital supplies to the stretched frontlines. Further the spearheading tank divisions with their motorized support might have been used continiously and wouldnt have to stop and wait that often due to the lack of supplies. Quint essenz for me would be: they would have been able to steadily use their proven tactics and safe vital time, that the soviets needed.
Also I think tha they would have been able to act much faster and use their "blitzkrieg" in a much more efficient way due to more stable and continious supply lines, which would have provided vital supplies to the stretched frontlines. Further the spearheading tank divisions with their motorized support might have been used continiously and wouldnt have to stop and wait that often due to the lack of supplies. Quint essenz for me would be: they would have been able to steadily use their proven tactics and safe vital time, that the soviets needed.
Yes, i agreed, right before the Battle of Kursk started Hitler sent valuable armored units to south Italy because of the US-British landings there. Also he sent many units from the eastern front back and forward after the D-Day landings. Germany also had 200000 soldiers stationed in Norway to prevent the allies re-taking Norway. Not to mention all the resources put in to the Atlantic Wall was a huge waste of time, that mess stretched from Spain to northern Norway (3 hours from were i am from). And i believe Rommel and the men sent to Africa would have done a lot if they fought in the Soviet Union. Also only some 1/3 of the Luftwaffe was used in the Soviet Union, the rest was used against US and British bombers. There were over 1 million men stationed at flak canons (Anti air canons) All over Europe to try to stop US and British bombers. Imagine all this and more used only on the eastern front.
Yes, Japan had it's biggest successes invading poor countries, Japan land army was like a strong worl war 1 army, but if they used it just to put a little pressure on Russia in Siberia, that would make paranoid Stalin rethinking of retreating the forces he had stationed there to Moscow, and that might have helped the Germans a lot. But it seems like Japan didn't have many clear goals like Germany did, and that was their failure. Stalin broke their pact and steamrolled them out of China after finishing up with Germany with the rest of the allies.
Ha Ha bad nazi pope dreams. Hitler never acted in his best interests in WWII and the main problem on the Eastern Front was a total underestimate of Russian forces and capabilities.
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Thank you! Wish you could do more.
A real hidden gem of a video series, I still love coming back to it years later.
Boi why did you stop posting videos? Your content is gold!
Great content!
Please consider continuing the series. Please! 🙏
This series was at least as good as any professionally done Discovery channel production. The maps were very well done and looked to be quite accurate. Your narration was also very good. If you ever wish to continue, you have my best wishes and support.
Thanks for making this series! I really enjoyed it. Wish you'd make more videos, but I can totally understand the real life obligations making that difficult to justify
Thank you for making an outstanding series.
You are an amazing creator would who goes into detail very well while still keeping the presentation interesting and intriguing. Please continue making wonderful content.
awesome job. really short and to the point. thank you for your efforts. well done.
Thank you for providing a clear overview of Barbarossa. Nicely done!
great series and really enjoyable. hope you find the time to make more of these. thank you
Thank you such amazing series. It was really enjoying to watch. Hope you the best!
Great series indeed! visually descriptive and to the point!
Awesome series, loved the detail of the battles. Great work, really enjoyed each one of them.
excellent content, objective and unbiased narration.
Thanks for making this series, it's very cool
Thank you very much.. You have made a mark in simplifying it.
I appreciate your work and enjoyed this series.
I thought this was very well done and if you do get back to making more documentaries at any time I absolutely will be onboard. Good luck in whatever you do!
Great series, thanks for doing it. Good luck with life stuff.
Thank you for the great video series.
Great series, well made and very interesting.
Really enjoyed it!
Especially your unbiased view. Seemed very professional.
Other series about the various theatres would be very nice to see n the future.
kind regards form germany
where did you disappear?! your channel has the potential to blow up into the 100s of thousands or millions of subscribers!
Congratulations, exitings videos to understand very well the development of one of biggest and important operation in WWII. The maps and explanations are clear and easy to leran about it
I enjoyed your series very much. Great reference material here.
Thankyou... You have done a great job... Hope so I'll find some new videos on your channel so I'm subscribing it. As ur effort was wonderful. Thanx a lot man
I understand that your busy, but your videos were really good. Thanks I hope you return with new material.
please do continue. Very good work overall! Best wishes to you too!
Thank you and good job!
great work, I wish you continued
Great series, my gratitude to you good sir. When you do have some more time on hand... Please consider making any videos on Fall Blau. You are really talented at making these kind of videos.
Great work! Congrats!
Wow, that was very impressive! Congratulations on a job well done.
I so agree with the bit before the conclusion. Thanks so much
Thank you! I enjoyed your videos
Great videos
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Very good films. Well done. Thanks.
Really enjoyed the entire series
great series loved the maps and detail wish you well
Great series!
thanks so much for these awesome vids
great series! cheers!!!
Thank You for your making very inciteful video's
Im a new person here. I subscribed. But why you are not making more videos?
This is a very nice series of videos. Which highly details the first six months of battles between the Soviets and Germans. The statistical detail of these engagements using information from newer history books produced give a much different version from the books of old. and a much more accurate one. The one huge everlasting question will always be did the German army ever have any chance of total victory with this initial offensive. I believe that there was one chance and you mentioned it in your last video. As strange as that sounds, regime change including Stalin.s early removal was Germany's only true chance. He held them together through the difficult early phase of this war. just as Hitler held Germany together until the end.
Well interesting series, would be interesting to see further videos like this covering the whole eastern front war. I know that's a big task but have you thought about doing videos just at a much slower pace? You could make it a multi-year project rather than a 2 month project for the 12 videos you've released so far. Even 1 video a month would be a decent pace.
Good luck on your future endeavors
But I still hope you'll post occasionally
very good video
Great series! What happened to the channel though? It's been 2 years and no more content.
awsome channel bro
thank you :)
Thanks - Спасибо!
Holy shit, when they say it was a war of extermination it really was. It was a brutal war like no other in all of Human history. The losses on both sides were appalling.
Can you pls post similar video on leningrade and battle of Stalingrad
What is the sources for thise videos
Really excellent! You should be teaching history college level. Even West Point.
Make more episodes!!
Please make a 1942 don bend and Stalingrad video, I will be there this summer
The Soviets realized that Japan was not going to invade Siberia, and so the 1,000,000 in reserve there could move toward the front lines against Germany. It was a humongous boost.
Do 1942 visualized that would be great
hey man, great job!
the 1942 battles there's coming?
please says yes
thanks from brazil
You make an interesting comment, paraphrasing 'Operation Barbarossa was doomed to failure. Even if Moscow was taken, the Russians could retreat to the east and the Soviets would keep fighting as long as Stalin was in charge'. The thing is, Stalin had decided to stay in Moscow against the counsel of his advisors, so the taking of Moscow would have resulted in his death or capture. I note that he did evacuate much of the government in mid-October to Kyubishev.
What the maker of this video seems to forget or to ignore, when he says that the Red Army survived thanks to Stalin (and would have lost if he would have been killed and replaced by someone willing to surrender) is the fact that Nazi-Germany was fighting a war of total annihilation, their goal being the enslavement of the whole Soviet population (they considered the Soviet people as "Untermenschen" ('subhumans')) and to conquer all Soviet resources (oil, grain, raw supplies etc.). The Soviet people and Red Army were well aware of this and they had no other choice than to fight or to get killed. So they would never surrender, regardless of Stalin or whoever. They would keep on fighting to the bitter end or win the war. We all know what finally happened.
could you talk about the battles for rzhev
The historic Russian love of their native land runs very deep. The Russian people look upon her as a Mother, calling her Mother Russia. Whereas the Germans looked upon their native land as the Fatherland. A classic fight of ying and yang.
So mom beat the shit out of dad?
Artiom Beknazaryan lol yes
Thanks for great and very hardwork on these videos, esp Barbarossa series, but you're unactive for about 1 year, where did you go , please make a series about Fall Blau, or did you just make another channel ? if anyone knows answer to where the Jack of War went or is he still active, please answer me, his videos were awesome and i wanna find out if he's still active and where, thanks
how can i reach you?
Wish ya’d come out with some new stuff. I always find myself coming back to these videos over the years.
I agree that Barbarossa was doomed from the start. Stalin would have only moved his government further and further to the East had the Germans made it to Moscow and beyond. Not a very well planned offensive in my opinion.
I'm surprised you didn't even touch on Kursk
I suggest that Soviet Union might continue fighting not only after the fall of Moscow, but even if Stalin was not anymore in power. Previous events were of such nature that to stop fighting by Soviet Union was not possible.
Can i use screenshots of your video for a school project ? With source link
79 years ago
Hello jack , if leningrad was the industy complex , where from the Russian have 1500 aircraft to conter ?
They were brought from the Siberian front once Stalin realized they wouldn't have to fight Japan. Conclusion, not even the Soviets would have survived a 2 front war.
Yeah
The best trained army ever at that time ,sacrificed in the blinding snows before Moscow. Hitler as a strategist was the Soviets best ally.
I think you missed battle of Leningrad
Moscow was a much greater prize in 1941 than 1812. Crucially it was the centre of the rail network. Heinz Guderian went ballistic when Hitler refused to advance in July & announced the war is lost. The genius knew.
Hey Jack hope u can answer my question... If Moscow fall during that time ,will the soviet army will surrender ?
I was told it would've taken every truck in the German Army to get them into Moscow; that Hitler never had the logistical reach, so he lost the war the day he started it.
Man, are you the friend of Jerry Seinfeld? I need to look after my asses because I will laugh them off if you say yes. LOL
CHEERS
I disagree. Taking Moscow would have disrupted the entire Russian defense of the entire front as all rail lines must pass through Moscow. Cutting the rail lines would have meant an end to supply of Leningrad and that of Stalingrad as well.
Why do u think there was no way Germany to win only because of population? Germany had just twice (2.5?) less population, so only twice less manpower. This isn't so crucial after so dramatical losses from soviet side at the beginning. I mean, I also think Germany had no chances at all, but not only because of manpower. It was much more complicated.
So Funny Obviously there were many other factors at play making a German victory next to impossible, but I think you're underestimating the importance of such a huge manpower advantage. Having 2.5 times as many people in the Soviet Union has far reaching impacts beyond the ability to absorb huge numbers of casualties and continue fighting. It means 2.5 times as many people available to work in the factories and on the farms as well.
The products of this massive labor machine had to travel relatively short distances to make their way to the front. Whereas the numerically outclassed Germans had to stretch their supply lines and materiel repair/manufacturing capacity over thousands of miles to reach into the USSR. All the while their military resources and manpower were spread thin occupying and defending virtually the whole European continent.
This means, in reality, the manpower disparity at the front and in materiel management was far greater than the overall difference between their populations.
So Funny are you serious? german nazi forces were of a total of 3.5 million in all, while the "soviet union has "6 million soldiers " that includes their reserve. thats like twice the number of soldiers of german forces!
Not only that but Germany had a front in Africa (later Italy) to supply also, and they had to station troops in Norway, Denmark, Holland/Belgium and France incase an allied landing was to take place, add to that allied bombing Germany proper and the partisans all over europe making life difficult for the Germans (there was an uprising in Yugoslavia in 1941 that was never put down). If you take all of that into account there were no chance for Germany to win once their advance halted in Soviet. If you take the allies out of the equation Germany very likely would have crushed Soviet.
Correct if I'm not right. In most occupated states in europe Germans had collaboration forces, who helped to take control over those states. So it wasn't necessary to increase number of occupation forces from state to state.
So Funny There were collaborationist regimes/factions in some of the occupied areas, but certainly nowhere near enough to render significant numbers of occupying German forces unnecessary.
What people (Keiser) are ignoring are the critical factors of organizational and personnel morale. German allies (especially Italians, Romanians, etc. - see Russian flanking/encirclement at Stalingrad) and volunteers from occupied countries proved to be very fickle and often extremely weak fighters.
They couldn't just call up more people into service from occupied countries and expect that to effectively reinforce the Heer. The Russians were fighting for their homes and families; German allies were fighting for some dubiously competent dictator from another country.
Germans could win only one way : by treating better Nations of soviet Union and giving them chance of independence
I don't think it was possible with the nazi ideology they had.
btw V in "von" is like F
Rip another channel with big POTENTIAL died :(
How you know?
You don't fuck with Siberian troops in winter
Stalin refused to leave Moscow, brushing aside advice to leave the city. Had the Germans encircled the city and captured Stalin it might have been the end. Hitler from new documentation and analysis never favoured taking Moscow, his objective was always South through Ukraine and the Caucuses, If they cut off a large part of Russian food supply and oil, their ability to fight a mechanised war was over. Strong evidence that Russian in 1942 was on the brink of starvation and fuel shortages....
Soviets didn't fought for Stalin but for their Motherland, you completely disregard their patriotism.
Grenadier loyal to the king. Bullshit. Patriotism only takes you so far. (Why did 3.3 million Soviets surrender in 1941?). Fear takes you the rest of the way.
My grandmothers brother died in first months of war, in a german pocket. They refused to surrender and fought being totally surrounded. My grandfather fought in battle for Moscow and made it all the way to Berlin. You know i asked many veterans about the motivation. And i found one common thing. They hated nazis and were angry at the point they cound care about death no more. People ramming aircraft and throwing themselves on machine gun points were common for Red Army.
@@fupopanda Most of them surrenderd being deprived of any ammunitions to keep on fighting, not just at the first German shots.
В январе 42-го это уже провал плана «Барбаросса»
Btw Napoleon capture of Moscow woth nothing because the capital of Russia is st Peter
Capturing Moscow would cut 80 pct of Soviet industrial rail and river traffic.
if Stalin was killed next man was Beria.....he was much more brutal than Stalin......
Yeah, but he was too busy brutalizing Russian girls
Interesting. Gotta look into this guy.
And yet - after stalin's death, Beria was the best chance for true liberalisation in Soviet Union. If he wasn't murdered by zhukov, Khrushchev et consortes, the Cold War could have been finished thirty years sooner.
I think that Germany could have won if they had used Tabun later on
Moscow was a Rail Hub.. Napoleon didn't Conquer anything but a Glorified Village.. Moscow in 41 connected Several Fronts.. including Oil from the Caucasus to The Plants in the Urals..no comparison really..
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Germany and the Soviet Union 1 VS 1 during ww2 would make Germany the winner, i'll tell you why. The Soviet Union had lend lease from the US, but even with the lend lease it would not have been able to survive against Germany, Germany had so much more to think about than focusing 100% on Russia during ww2, Germany got all their cities and factories bombed, but even then their production increased by three times from 1943 to 1944. The only main problem by then was oil. But imagine if Britain and the US didn't drop one bomb on Germany, and did not fight Germany at all from after the fall of France, then Germany could go on the offencive in the east time and time again, much like the battle of Kursk, only they would be able to fill the gaps of the losses, also they would not retreat forced from the Battle of Kursk to Italy, and yeah, when it comes to the thing leading up to Italy, there would be no fighting in north Africa, wich means one of Hitlers best generals would also be joining the fight in Russia. And Germany would have total air supremacy! They would be able to use the entire Luftwaffe at the east, no planes needed to try and prevent any bomb runs. Also the V1 and the V2 rockets would all be directed on Russia instead of firing at the already much bombed London, many other wounder weapons would still be under work since they don't get delayed by constant bombing. Also then the Atlantic Wall wich was a huge mess and a waste of resources, would instead use all slave labour in the east or in factories instead of wasting concrete and iron on places that didn't even see battle, and that mess stretched from Spain to northern Norway (Where i am from). So yeah, The Soviet Union would collapse when they realized there would be no more men to throw into the German meatgrinder. At the end of ww2 Russia had lost a huge chunk of it's population. Germany on the other hand had alot of it's army captured and imprisoned because of total chaos fighting basically against the whole world.
Also I think tha they would have been able to act much faster and use their "blitzkrieg" in a much more efficient way due to more stable and continious supply lines, which would have provided vital supplies to the stretched frontlines. Further the spearheading tank divisions with their motorized support might have been used continiously and wouldnt have to stop and wait that often due to the lack of supplies.
Quint essenz for me would be: they would have been able to steadily use their proven tactics and safe vital time, that the soviets needed.
Also I think tha they would have been able to act much faster and use their "blitzkrieg" in a much more efficient way due to more stable and continious supply lines, which would have provided vital supplies to the stretched frontlines. Further the spearheading tank divisions with their motorized support might have been used continiously and wouldnt have to stop and wait that often due to the lack of supplies. Quint essenz for me would be: they would have been able to steadily use their proven tactics and safe vital time, that the soviets needed.
Yes, i agreed, right before the Battle of Kursk started Hitler sent valuable armored units to south Italy because of the US-British landings there. Also he sent many units from the eastern front back and forward after the D-Day landings. Germany also had 200000 soldiers stationed in Norway to prevent the allies re-taking Norway.
Not to mention all the resources put in to the Atlantic Wall was a huge waste of time, that mess stretched from Spain to northern Norway (3 hours from were i am from).
And i believe Rommel and the men sent to Africa would have done a lot if they fought in the Soviet Union.
Also only some 1/3 of the Luftwaffe was used in the Soviet Union, the rest was used against US and British bombers. There were over 1 million men stationed at flak canons (Anti air canons) All over Europe to try to stop US and British bombers.
Imagine all this and more used only on the eastern front.
Yes, Japan had it's biggest successes invading poor countries, Japan land army was like a strong worl war 1 army, but if they used it just to put a little pressure on Russia in Siberia, that would make paranoid Stalin rethinking of retreating the forces he had stationed there to Moscow, and that might have helped the Germans a lot.
But it seems like Japan didn't have many clear goals like Germany did, and that was their failure.
Stalin broke their pact and steamrolled them out of China after finishing up with Germany with the rest of the allies.
Ha Ha bad nazi pope dreams. Hitler never acted in his best interests in WWII and the main problem on the Eastern Front was a total underestimate of Russian forces and capabilities.