Fun fact : Although the Germans invaded most of Europe and also fought in North Africa and eventually against US/British/Canadian/Anzac troops 81% of their casualties were suffered in russia
*look at this "The Fallen of World War II". It's just INSANE how many people the Soviet Union lost in World War II. Especially compared to other countries. But at the same time, America and Great Britain believe that victory in this war belongs to them, and the council allegedly helped a little. It's just not fair. Not to mention the fact that there is a well-known fact that America was not sure until the last who to help in this war, the fascists did not want to, and the Soviet seems to be the enemy. And only when Soviet began to fight back at the cost of millions of lives - America decided to open a second front in order, as it is now known, to appropriate the title of the winner in this war. But fortunately there is the Internet and now it will not be possible to rewrite history. The whole world remembers who freed him. It was the Soviet Union, at the cost of 20 million lives...*
@@Katar1x That is factually incorrect in several ways. The Soviet Union lost so many soldiers and civilians in large part due to their own cruelty against the soviet people. (I'm not sure if you forgot that when it was mentioned in The Fallen of World War 2.) Also, the Soviets subjugated everyone country they "freed" the west had to step up and save them some years later. It's not that America was not unsure of who to help, the US didn't want to be a part of the war at all. Only once they were attacked did they enter officially, but for many years before that, the US was essentially donating massive amounts of food, weapons, and other material to all the allies including the Soviet Union. I didn't bother reading most of the middle of your comment since it's just you expressing your opinion so I won't reply to that. But yeah I respect your attempt but it needs a little work good try though.
Studying the eastern front of WW2 is very interesting. The changes in the front lines and the different offensives really makes you realize how complex the troop allocations and logistical networks are and how massive this war really is. It also helps to put in perspective the current war in Ukraine.
Those were millions of lives gone in every months and weeks, and dramastic labor power, money had been invested in these battles; billions of people stopped working at industries and markets but became the war machines, all the wealth that people from Europe and Asia tried to stockpiling during the past centuries were mostly smashed... Of course it was fun, and the topic of wwii will be fun for a very long time, we today are still using the mindset of Yalta to construct the root of this world and the politics within it. Many hidden lies and altered history fact will come out soon after Russia's war against Ukrain, when we no longer need to pay respect to the most catastrophic government in human history. Then there will be more to discuss about for WWII, publicly
Yup. Artillery is the king of battle, but logistics is the god of war. One of the main reasons Soviet Union lost so many soldiers was due to poor logistics which resulted in frequent equipment shortages, which in turn forced generals to trade casualties for time to get the heavy weapons they need to crack through the defenses.
The eastern front of WW2 is something that the world has never seen before. This war has left the greatest scar on both sides. No war will ever be bloody or brutal compared to eastern front.
Yeah, because just like when the Germans invaded France prior they used the methods they always use ( Encirclement ) Which here the battle of the bugle they drained way too many of their own resources and troops
@@revisionistfrontier yep, and because Hitler was going completely mental, and he wanted to try and preserve German sovereignty for as long as possible. But of course that did not happen, I’ve learned a lot more since this comment from 9 months ago 😂
At no point during the war after 1941 did Germany have less than 2/3 of their forces facing the Bolsheviks. If they did not proceed with Operation Barbarossa, they would have easily secured Africa, and refocused all efforts to the British, aiming to bring the Empire to its knees. D-day would never have been possible - Germany was superior numerically, technologically, and they were in another world in terms of doctrine. Only the USSR could match Germany in 44/45 in doctrine, the allies still had inferior armoured warfare doctrines. Russian people must be so proud of their achievement - after the fall of France, the world viewed the German war machine as invincible, and it may as well still be, if not for the USSR.
The Germans...superior technologically...? Keep dreaming mate. And no the Allies did not have inferior armor doctrine, there's a *myth* that they did spawned by people completely overlooking statistical fact and over relying on the historical farce of a flawed memoir of a former US soldier who hated working on tanks which goes by the name of "Death Traps". The same people who think the Germans had better tanks are the same people that think the Sherman was a bad tank when it was statistically both in hard and soft factors one of the best war machines of the war.
Fun fact: the German invasion of the soviets was the largest ground invasion ever, resulting in the most casualties and dangerous battles ever. For instance, the battle of Stalingrad.
Fun fact: the September 9 terrorist attack in New York was one of the largest terrorist attacks in US history, thousands of people were injured that day. About what kind of fun are you talking about?
Definitely. As a US citizen. I can confidently say that the soviet union played the largest deciding factor of defeating Germany. They fought the majority of them by far. I remember reading something a long time ago in my studies that 8 out of every 10 Germans who fell died in the eastern front. While US played the largest factor in defeating the Japanese. I don't know how it is now. But back in my highschool years we were taught pretty much that US is the biggest deciding factor of the war. I don't recall almost anything being mentioned of the Soviet Union at all.
The only reason they could do that though was because of lend-lease. I'm not taking away their bravery at all, but what I'm saying is that the wouldn't have been successful without the supplies they were getting. The US was also supplying the Allies with weapons and stuff way before they actually got directly involved with the war. Also I know you only talked about Germany, but many people forget the US was helping in Europe and Africa while at the same time fighting the Japanese in the Pacific front.
@@SubtleHawk even the lend-lease could not made the role of USA bigger than USSR in WW2 man. No one deny US contribution for the victory, but you can not rewrite the history and take out the USSR position as the no.1 factor for that.
@@SubtleHawk indeed that's true. The North African campaign isn't really talked about that much for some reason these days. Got to also respect fighting on three fronts at the same time.
The same goes for D-day and the other major Allied powers, both served to split German forces so that no one front was getting the full might of the German military.
@@Dragon-lc5ml Yes, and either set of events missing at that point in the war would have been a loss for the one that did happen. It split supply lines in two different directions across extreme distances away from Germany itself, which was already having problems with getting supplies in the first place. It certainly helped that the Soviets were literally burning all the supplies they left behind as the Germans moved toward Moscow, that meant the Germans couldn't just resupply locally with Soviet supplies, and that the German leadership was so incompetent that they not only chose to go ahead with Operation Barbarossa at a time when the brutal winter of Russia would cost them a large section of the armor they sent and so incompetent that they tried to air drop supplies to their troops surrounded at the Battle of Stalingrad, instead supplying the defending Soviets with German supplies. However, the things keeping the full might of the Germans off the Soviets at the time were the unsuccessful German attempts to take Great Britain and the Allied invasion of occupied, or as they were known by their German puppet state name, Vichy, France along with the subsequent push toward Berlin from there.
That’s probably not that likely. As long as the Soviets don’t supply the Germans, the Germans would’ve eventually ran out of the necessary supplies and resources to fight all the allies. It’s also very likely that the USA would’ve nuked Germany if the war in Europe hadn’t been decided by the time the bomb was ready. The only small chance that the Axis had of winning WW2 would be if the American Revolution failed and operation sea lion succeeded.
the soviets were doing more than holding them off before D day, part of the reason we wanted to do D is because if we didn't the whole continent would be speaking Russian by the end if we didn't. Also encirclement has been used as a strategy in military conflicts ever since the days when we fought with spears.
It's obvious for a lot of reasons that the eastern front was where most of the war happened, but another subtle example is comparing the numbers of encircled troops. Dunkirk was 400k and they were evacuated. But in the Soviet Union it was 300k+ at Minsk, 300k+ at Smolensk, almost 700k at Kiev, and ~100k at many other smaller cities like Odessa, Sevastopol, Tallinn, etc. Russia had about a dozen Dunkirk situations in a couple of months, and none of them were rescued. Well I guess technically Leningrad was rescued, but that was three years waiting!
Hitler allowed British troops to evacuate from Dunkirk bc he wanted to appease them so they would make peace. However bc they didn't get peace Hitler was forced to invade Soviet Union.
14:06 "The Uk and US" See below. Everyone forgets that Canada was there. Independently there I may add. 1 of the 5 DDay landings was done by Canada. Also regarded as the most successful of the lot . Juno or Juno Beach was one of five beaches of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 during the Second World War. The beach spanned from Courseulles, a village just east of the British beach Gold, to Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, and just west of the British beach Sword. Taking Juno was the responsibility of the Canadian Army, with sea transport, mine sweeping, and a naval bombardment force provided by the Royal Canadian Navy and the British Royal Navy as well as elements from the Free French, Norwegian, and other Allied navies. The objectives of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on D-Day were to cut the Caen-Bayeux road, seize the Carpiquet airport west of Caen, and form a link between the two British beaches on either flank.
@@neoxperson7858 Canada was fully independent in foreign affairs as of the time of ww2, and independently declared war on Germany. In fact, the Prime Minister of Canada made a show of establishing tgat fact, waiting until the 10th of September (7 days after the UK) to declare war on Germany to demonstrate that Canada was fully independent of the UK. The Canadian Parliament decided to independently declare war and made sure the world knew it. So yes, Canada was part of the Commonwealth. But a independent country with its own army.
You should watch a video on the Spanish Civil war. There’s a good 10 minute one by Feature History and it’s a good video to get an overview of the Spanish civil war
It's actually both, if either D-day or the fighting on the eastern front had not been happening at the same time, German forces would have been able to concentrate on each separately, allowing 100% of their total resources to go toward each during the time that each was attempted. The D-day invasion was also helped by the efforts of a misinformation campaign to direct German forces to a false landing site in Calais, splitting the forces that actually did deploy to Normandy even further.
@@jajurvonhohenzollern5542 Yeah, he wasn't exactly a military genius to say the least, should have left the military decisions to his generals, they would have at least had enough sense to make decisions like pull out of the Battle of Stalingrad before their forces got completely surrounded by eastern Allied troops and cut off from supplies only later for their attempted airdrop to resupply said troops to fail by not dropping anywhere close to the amount of supplies needed OR promised. Maybe Rommel would have done a better job (loosely related side note, Rommel actually wasn't really that bad a guy. He only fought for the Nazi's because they were the ruling party of Germany at the time and he was fiercely loyal to his country. He was actually part of the plot to assassinate the leader of said ruling party, Adolf Hitler, his own boss, on July 20th, 1944 at the Wolf's Lair and was captured as one of the surviving perpetrators, being given the choice of execution like the rest or to go out on a cyanide pill with the story being that a strafing run injured him at Normandy and he died of those injuries because of how much he meant as a tool of the Nazi party).
Looking at a lot of battle plans from D-Day two things are certain, the only two reason we won D-Day is because of Germany having a war on 3 fronts as well as a botched jump from the paratrooper group around Omaha beach, they landed in the wrong spot but succeeded in their mission. If it hadn't been for them landing in the wrong place D-Day would have been lost.
not to mention that germans killed off Rommel, who had predicted an allied landing in normandy and was to reinforce that area, cause most of the german troops in the atlantikwall were in brittanny, D-Day could have been the greatest military disaster in history if it werent for the germans killing off their only chance at repelling it
Tobe fair Luke it weren't only German soldiers that participated in Operation Barbarossa, but other Axis armies and foreign Waffen-SS- volunteers as well.
5:18 The Italian invasion of Egypt was a total catastrophe for the Italians, much worse than the Greco-Italian war. The British were outnumbered 4:1 yet they still completely bitchslapped the Italians, even to the point that the British ended up outnumbering the Italians 2:1. If not for the arrival of German reinforcements under Rommel, the Italian colony of Libya would have been conquered much earlier and the freed up troops would have probably ended the war sooner.
We italians suck at war....i mean, not through all history, but definetly from 1800 to nowdays...even our indipendence wars, we always sucked and we just got saved by the french
@@alessandromauri5407 to be fair, the average Italian unit was poorly equiped and the Italian high command was inadequate. The Italian soldiers were as brave as any, even German commanders such as Rommel mentioned that. Looking at the Italian invasion of Greece, what it comes down to wasn't the fact that the Italian soldiers weren't brave or competent fighters individually, but the fact that it was a hastily prepared and inadequately equiped invasion. Greece had been preparing for that war since the 15th of August while Italian generals received notice a few day before the invasion. Greetings from Greece friend
You Do Forget that Soviets also Suffered Heavy casualties on Their southern eastern Front against Japan. They also Helped the China to Form the Manchuria, Fighting back towards Mongolia, Which Estimated 300.000 Red Army Soldiers have died.
The original video contains an error that I spotted...not critical, but significant enough to note. The video claims that planning for Barbarossa began in December of 1940, but that is incorrect...the planning began in July of 1940...it was DONE and approved in December 1940. ✌
Keep in mind that at some point 3.1 million Germans were fighting against 9 to 10 million Allied forces (of which mostly soviet union) and in April 45 2.3 million vs 10.6 million troops
3:33 honestly German troops were in norway before 12april just look at the area near Narvik basically it's a gap in the northern part basically looking like the shape of an open mouth from the side
This would be absolutely WILD to do for the French Revolutionary Wars- Napleonic wars. On one hand, some of the coalitions were beaten in just a few months, or a handful of battles, probably making the map animation part not too bad. On the other hand, how to display the map and numbers would be a bit harder unless the just go with a Red France and blue for everyone else as they change hands. Also the numbers of the true size of some armies like Russia are disputed, Battle of Bordinio. But then again, nobody will ever know the true size of the Soviet Army either.
If the United States wasn't allied with the Soviet Union the Soviet Union would very likely have suffered much much more cuz the American supplies helped the Soviets create a lot of their equipment.
@@derth9230 The ww2 was won with teamwork, the Allies had to work together and side by side to defeat the Axis, only in that way could victory be achieved.
@@derth9230 Both those who say that the USA did everything and those who say that the USSR did everything are ignorant, both together with the British Empire were vital elements in the defeat of the Axis.
As a Korean/Russian, we embody a spirit that thrives in adversity and battles fiercely until the very end! It’s in our blood, and soldiers dreaded fighting in the East. 🇷🇺🇰🇷💪
@@zorz767 definitely marked a turning point but the Churchill quote had more value, Sense it was a call for the British people to defend and fight for their country as it was at stake
@@willkrueger3857 just gonna stop u there, how can someone who was sick in the head with the intentions of killing millions of innocent people who also wanted to make the world kneel to his tyranny compare to the fight for freedom and against tyranny?
@@bigmanchungie8685 It's very telling that you've never heard a word he's said, but feel you understand him this well. Do you not have even the SLIGHTEST bit of doubt in your mind, as to whether your "knowledge" of history is influenced by living in the world of the victors?
The resistence in Yugoslavia wasnt showed, from 1941 they startes to liberate themselfs, first The Royal Yugoslav army and Chetniks combained, but when USSR got invaded communist partisans lead by Tito would always go in villages and procceded to eliminate German forces in the area, knowing that 100 for 1 German rule He sometimes exploited that and whole villages (avr. at that time at least 1000 per village or less) went with them. In all big cities there wouldve been operatives spying on Germans, while they were activly fighting against N. Germany, Italy, Ustase Croatians, Bulgarians, Chetniks, and SS combained. Yugoslavia lost around 1.3 milion man mostly Serbs and Macedonians. But communists and Royal Yugoslav army have menaged ti liberate themselfs and after 1944 R.Y.A had to cooparate with Germans for ammo and supplies against commies and remaning Italian units that have defected to Tito. Battle of Neretva is a good example with a battle of Drvnar.
If you ever get the time could react Halo Evolutions : Mona lisa on YT, I think you'll really enjoy it. Also it's pretty long so maybe cut into two parts, much appreciated!
I watched his video several times he nailed it with those numbers and the information he provided. By the way thank you for your service to the free world from a U.S. Army vet 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Since you've watched Russia vs China vs USA military ads comparison, maybe you can watch some more military ads from other countries. Or Russia vs Ukraine military ads comparison at least)
D-day was called a failure because they did meet their assigned goals and the Germans didn’t even had their full force prepared and they could really did anything because Hitler was asleep only one tank unit was there out of 9 and ONE almost derailed the entire invasion. I call it Allied bravery but most of it was honestly luck. I’m proud to be German and I hate the Nazi’s but I’m proud of what the MILITARY did in the war... just astounding
Think "quantity" becomes more important the larger the conflict. For instance, since say the Vietnam War USA has been able to largely rely on "quality" (armaments and technology) as their primary weapon while if say a war with China or Russia to break out the numbers would become important again.
in ww2 doesn't matter what you are you fight and most were combatants with others being Medics and engineers, though engineers were lowers in numbers compared to medics.
You are right about that brother, but it was the USA who was supplying the Soviet with weapons , food , clothing , the Soviet all they got was men and oil ...
Mongolia contributed more than the United States. This is your stupid propaganda to elevate the United States, that only thanks to it the world defeated fascism, but in fact, only at the end of the war did it join in order to steal the victory and appropriate it for itself
Important to remember that this is only showing land battles and not air and naval battles, and only in Europe, so it's less than half of the full story.
I like how he is waiting for DDay as if its the decisive event, lol. The Germans couldnt defeat the Soviet Union at all after 1941. By 1944, Germany was completely broken by the Soviets. The war was over when D-Day happened
Dday its a massive event, the biggest naval invasion in history. Its epic such as the start of barbarossa and the encirclement of 6th army. People like emphasis on this kind of things. Soviets have two of them, stalingrad and kursk. Let us enjoy dday!
They could have if D-day never happened. Both eastern and western fronts were necessary, if the Germans had been allowed the luxury of concentrating all their forces on one, they would have won.
@@UrMomEatsShitt That didn't help, but it was the combination of everything that cost them the war. If any one of those factors had been in the Germans' favor, they would have won. This war was A LOT more complicated than 'the US beat them' or 'the Russians beat them.' The fact that Hitler made extremely grave tactical errors was yet another major factor working against the Germans, the winter cost the Germans on the eastern front a majority of their armored support during Operation Barbarossa, D-day and the preceding misinformation campaign by double agents, plus the two different fronts on opposite ends of the war, split German forces so much that supply lines were extremely overstretched.
I did a school project on operation Barbarossa and the germans were actually super close to capturing key cities that could've lead to the Soviet Union severely weakened but hitler was crazy and didn't push for those cities plus a few other reasons due to commanders I think.
Taking Moscow would've done nothing, do you really think that Stalin would just roll his eyes and say "I give up" just because they took the capital? Not a chance in hell. He planned on putting every man, woman, and child in the Union between him and the Germans and did so.
@13:30 the reason I suggested the war production documentary is because of this couldn't have won the war without Russia thing, it's way more complex than any of those arguments
D-Day didn't solve anything anymore. because the Battle of Kursk was on 08/23/2023 where the Germans lost and lost a huge number of their new tanks. D-Day was only because the Allies wanted to be remembered by history too, and no more. they were afraid until the last moment, until they were sure that the Germans had become weak!
april 8/9 1940 Battle of Narvik begun ... my hometown in Norway there's a movie coming about it Battle of Narvik Question : will you see it when it comes out mate ?
12:14 oh we remember. A lot of people give the Italians a lot of shit for how poor their army was during ww2. However people who actually know history know that Italians where good as individual soldiers, and made up 2/3 of the afrika korps and pulled their own weight during the North African campaign, which is seen as a German battlefield because of Erwin Rommel. Not to mention the Italians that got sent to the eastern front (I don’t know all that much about Italians on the eastern front but I know that they where fairly decent)
@@acusticamenteconvusional9936 The Italian army could hold their own with their German counterparts, however the Italian officers and leadership were dog ass
I know you're probably young, but no. What you saw was territories that were occupied by other countries. For example, the Soviets did not annex part of Greece, it didn't become part of the Soviet Union, but there was a Soviet military presence there.
yeeeesss well about Denmark it took 6 hours the first resistance they met in copenhagen was the Royal guards.... but Jylland still was fighting even tho the King had surrendered but the message hadent come to them yet there was no way Denmark could have done anything against them in any way it would have been worse loss of life than the long on we did.... one of My great grandfathers fled to Sweden and another was sabotaging the germans and they hid guns under the floor... my grandfather told me he was 10 when it began and eventurly at some point the german soldiers stayed at their farm so they could do nothing... they saw a plane got shot down in Jylland as well sooo yea mine was defenatly occupied a that point :/
people used to say russia won the war because they killed the most germans and supplied the most troops. until people found out later that they would have been completely unable to mobilize those troops to the frontline without the massive amount of train and rail equipment as well as things like food supplied to them by the united states (so much food that you can still find canned goods donated by the united states in ww2 in russia to this day) and even kruschev himself said that stalin admitted repeatedly in private that without american material aid russia would have fallen.
Нет. Всë что мы видим - это бездействие США при нападении Германии на СССР. А потом США как бы присоединились, но только когда Советский Союз стал прорываться вперëд. США было выгодно уничтожение Германией СССР.
@@Конь_без_пальто мы буквально построили ваши железные дороги и предоставили вам десятки тысяч вагонов, а также миллионы банок с едой и такими вещами, как одеяла и боеприпасы, и никогда не взимали с вас за это плату. вы не смогли бы мобилизовать достаточно войск, чтобы остановить немцев без помощи Соединенных Штатов, и тогда Россия пала бы. мы предоставили эту материальную поддержку каждой союзной стране в войне, а также сражались с немцами и итальянцами в Европе и почти в одиночку разгромили японскую империю на Тихом океане. русские не выиграли войну только потому, что бросили на нацистов больше людей. если бы Соединенные Штаты присоединились к оси вместо союзников, то ВСЕ союзные страны (включая Россию) были бы захвачены и завоеваны в кратчайшие сроки.
Take a look at the Eastern Front from June to August 1944. That was Bagration and the destruction of Army Group Center. The Germans lost more men than they had defending France.
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Fun fact : Although the Germans invaded most of Europe and also fought in North Africa and eventually against US/British/Canadian/Anzac troops
81% of their casualties were suffered in russia
*look at this "The Fallen of World War II". It's just INSANE how many people the Soviet Union lost in World War II. Especially compared to other countries. But at the same time, America and Great Britain believe that victory in this war belongs to them, and the council allegedly helped a little. It's just not fair. Not to mention the fact that there is a well-known fact that America was not sure until the last who to help in this war, the fascists did not want to, and the Soviet seems to be the enemy. And only when Soviet began to fight back at the cost of millions of lives - America decided to open a second front in order, as it is now known, to appropriate the title of the winner in this war. But fortunately there is the Internet and now it will not be possible to rewrite history. The whole world remembers who freed him. It was the Soviet Union, at the cost of 20 million lives...*
@@Katar1x Thats not what happened, get rekt
@@antoinelachapelle3405 that true
@@Katar1x That is factually incorrect in several ways. The Soviet Union lost so many soldiers and civilians in large part due to their own cruelty against the soviet people. (I'm not sure if you forgot that when it was mentioned in The Fallen of World War 2.) Also, the Soviets subjugated everyone country they "freed" the west had to step up and save them some years later. It's not that America was not unsure of who to help, the US didn't want to be a part of the war at all. Only once they were attacked did they enter officially, but for many years before that, the US was essentially donating massive amounts of food, weapons, and other material to all the allies including the Soviet Union. I didn't bother reading most of the middle of your comment since it's just you expressing your opinion so I won't reply to that. But yeah I respect your attempt but it needs a little work good try though.
@@Chris-fo6bt victory my guy
Studying the eastern front of WW2 is very interesting. The changes in the front lines and the different offensives really makes you realize how complex the troop allocations and logistical networks are and how massive this war really is. It also helps to put in perspective the current war in Ukraine.
Those were millions of lives gone in every months and weeks, and dramastic labor power, money had been invested in these battles; billions of people stopped working at industries and markets but became the war machines, all the wealth that people from Europe and Asia tried to stockpiling during the past centuries were mostly smashed... Of course it was fun, and the topic of wwii will be fun for a very long time, we today are still using the mindset of Yalta to construct the root of this world and the politics within it. Many hidden lies and altered history fact will come out soon after Russia's war against Ukrain, when we no longer need to pay respect to the most catastrophic government in human history. Then there will be more to discuss about for WWII, publicly
Yup. Artillery is the king of battle, but logistics is the god of war. One of the main reasons Soviet Union lost so many soldiers was due to poor logistics which resulted in frequent equipment shortages, which in turn forced generals to trade casualties for time to get the heavy weapons they need to crack through the defenses.
The eastern front of WW2 is something that the world has never seen before. This war has left the greatest scar on both sides. No war will ever be bloody or brutal compared to eastern front.
@@insirable3127Как русский я могу сказать. Если бы не эта война нас было бы гораздо больше . Каждая семья потеряла человека.
Just a note, that “little spur” near the end at December ‘44 / January ‘45 was the Battle of the Bulge
Just a little spur
*Last major German offensive*
Lmao
@@antoinelachapelle3405 when you try an offensive when you literally don’t have oil
Yeah, because just like when the Germans invaded France prior they used the methods they always use ( Encirclement ) Which here the battle of the bugle they drained way too many of their own resources and troops
@@TonicVideos17 By this time the Germans were heavily outnumbered, so it was nearly impossible to repeat that same success.
@@revisionistfrontier yep, and because Hitler was going completely mental, and he wanted to try and preserve German sovereignty for as long as possible. But of course that did not happen, I’ve learned a lot more since this comment from 9 months ago 😂
"italy helped germany" correction: germany helpted italy
lol what?
@@PanosB67 Italy was a pathetic joke during the war.
@@PanosB67 italy did nothing during the war, and consistently needed help from Germany
@@CatalystGP I knew that already. I don't even remember why I wrote that comment
Такого союзника как Италия врагу не пожелаешь.
At no point during the war after 1941 did Germany have less than 2/3 of their forces facing the Bolsheviks. If they did not proceed with Operation Barbarossa, they would have easily secured Africa, and refocused all efforts to the British, aiming to bring the Empire to its knees. D-day would never have been possible - Germany was superior numerically, technologically, and they were in another world in terms of doctrine. Only the USSR could match Germany in 44/45 in doctrine, the allies still had inferior armoured warfare doctrines.
Russian people must be so proud of their achievement - after the fall of France, the world viewed the German war machine as invincible, and it may as well still be, if not for the USSR.
Still hard to believe that if Russia hadn't push back Germany 100% would've had the entire continent to themselves.
Soviets wouldn't have won without allied help allies destroyed most of germanies material and equipment capabilities.
@@ninjaa6952 no
The Germans...superior technologically...? Keep dreaming mate. And no the Allies did not have inferior armor doctrine, there's a *myth* that they did spawned by people completely overlooking statistical fact and over relying on the historical farce of a flawed memoir of a former US soldier who hated working on tanks which goes by the name of "Death Traps". The same people who think the Germans had better tanks are the same people that think the Sherman was a bad tank when it was statistically both in hard and soft factors one of the best war machines of the war.
@@ninjaa6952 read a real history, man
Fun fact: the German invasion of the soviets was the largest ground invasion ever, resulting in the most casualties and dangerous battles ever. For instance, the battle of Stalingrad.
Fun fact: the September 9 terrorist attack in New York was one of the largest terrorist attacks in US history, thousands of people were injured that day.
About what kind of fun are you talking about?
@@50pkafun fact: I like to say fun fact
@@50pka why would you call it fun??
@@12345krillin For the same reason as the author of the comment above.
@@50pka stop making fun of 9/11 then
Definitely. As a US citizen. I can confidently say that the soviet union played the largest deciding factor of defeating Germany. They fought the majority of them by far. I remember reading something a long time ago in my studies that 8 out of every 10 Germans who fell died in the eastern front. While US played the largest factor in defeating the Japanese. I don't know how it is now. But back in my highschool years we were taught pretty much that US is the biggest deciding factor of the war. I don't recall almost anything being mentioned of the Soviet Union at all.
The only reason they could do that though was because of lend-lease. I'm not taking away their bravery at all, but what I'm saying is that the wouldn't have been successful without the supplies they were getting. The US was also supplying the Allies with weapons and stuff way before they actually got directly involved with the war. Also I know you only talked about Germany, but many people forget the US was helping in Europe and Africa while at the same time fighting the Japanese in the Pacific front.
@@SubtleHawk even the lend-lease could not made the role of USA bigger than USSR in WW2 man. No one deny US contribution for the victory, but you can not rewrite the history and take out the USSR position as the no.1 factor for that.
@@SubtleHawk indeed that's true. The North African campaign isn't really talked about that much for some reason these days. Got to also respect fighting on three fronts at the same time.
USSR was the MVP against Germany
USA was the MVP against Japan
UK was the MVP against Italy
I'm teaching 6th grade history, and I teach it correctly.
Idk what you say but without the USSR, the Axis would emerge victorious in Europe
The same goes for D-day and the other major Allied powers, both served to split German forces so that no one front was getting the full might of the German military.
@@Alex20114Britain Usa Stepped when there was a turning point War
@@Dragon-lc5ml Yes, and either set of events missing at that point in the war would have been a loss for the one that did happen. It split supply lines in two different directions across extreme distances away from Germany itself, which was already having problems with getting supplies in the first place.
It certainly helped that the Soviets were literally burning all the supplies they left behind as the Germans moved toward Moscow, that meant the Germans couldn't just resupply locally with Soviet supplies, and that the German leadership was so incompetent that they not only chose to go ahead with Operation Barbarossa at a time when the brutal winter of Russia would cost them a large section of the armor they sent and so incompetent that they tried to air drop supplies to their troops surrounded at the Battle of Stalingrad, instead supplying the defending Soviets with German supplies.
However, the things keeping the full might of the Germans off the Soviets at the time were the unsuccessful German attempts to take Great Britain and the Allied invasion of occupied, or as they were known by their German puppet state name, Vichy, France along with the subsequent push toward Berlin from there.
That’s probably not that likely. As long as the Soviets don’t supply the Germans, the Germans would’ve eventually ran out of the necessary supplies and resources to fight all the allies.
It’s also very likely that the USA would’ve nuked Germany if the war in Europe hadn’t been decided by the time the bomb was ready. The only small chance that the Axis had of winning WW2 would be if the American Revolution failed and operation sea lion succeeded.
the soviets were doing more than holding them off before D day, part of the reason we wanted to do D is because if we didn't the whole continent would be speaking Russian by the end if we didn't. Also encirclement has been used as a strategy in military conflicts ever since the days when we fought with spears.
Ye but Germany still had a chance before dday
@@leventkok2111no they didn't after they lost Stalingrad it was over even before d day the soviets were already in poland
It's obvious for a lot of reasons that the eastern front was where most of the war happened, but another subtle example is comparing the numbers of encircled troops. Dunkirk was 400k and they were evacuated. But in the Soviet Union it was 300k+ at Minsk, 300k+ at Smolensk, almost 700k at Kiev, and ~100k at many other smaller cities like Odessa, Sevastopol, Tallinn, etc. Russia had about a dozen Dunkirk situations in a couple of months, and none of them were rescued. Well I guess technically Leningrad was rescued, but that was three years waiting!
Hitler allowed British troops to evacuate from Dunkirk bc he wanted to appease them so they would make peace. However bc they didn't get peace Hitler was forced to invade Soviet Union.
14:06 "The Uk and US"
See below. Everyone forgets that Canada was there. Independently there I may add. 1 of the 5 DDay landings was done by Canada. Also regarded as the most successful of the lot .
Juno or Juno Beach was one of five beaches of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 during the Second World War. The beach spanned from Courseulles, a village just east of the British beach Gold, to Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, and just west of the British beach Sword. Taking Juno was the responsibility of the Canadian Army, with sea transport, mine sweeping, and a naval bombardment force provided by the Royal Canadian Navy and the British Royal Navy as well as elements from the Free French, Norwegian, and other Allied navies. The objectives of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on D-Day were to cut the Caen-Bayeux road, seize the Carpiquet airport west of Caen, and form a link between the two British beaches on either flank.
You know that Canada was part of the British empire?
@@neoxperson7858 Canada was fully independent in foreign affairs as of the time of ww2, and independently declared war on Germany. In fact, the Prime Minister of Canada made a show of establishing tgat fact, waiting until the 10th of September (7 days after the UK) to declare war on Germany to demonstrate that Canada was fully independent of the UK. The Canadian Parliament decided to independently declare war and made sure the world knew it.
So yes, Canada was part of the Commonwealth. But a independent country with its own army.
Canadians on their way to write an essay about their landing at Juno on every single history video ever
I won’t forget my Canadian brothers! Fought like Tigers!
By that logic also Australia, New Zealand, British Raj and South Africa
You should watch a video on the Spanish Civil war. There’s a good 10 minute one by Feature History and it’s a good video to get an overview of the Spanish civil war
yes
It's actually both, if either D-day or the fighting on the eastern front had not been happening at the same time, German forces would have been able to concentrate on each separately, allowing 100% of their total resources to go toward each during the time that each was attempted. The D-day invasion was also helped by the efforts of a misinformation campaign to direct German forces to a false landing site in Calais, splitting the forces that actually did deploy to Normandy even further.
yep that and the allies biggest cooperator in military affairs during the war ... mister mustache himself ignoring everyone and doing stupid shit
@@jajurvonhohenzollern5542 Yeah, he wasn't exactly a military genius to say the least, should have left the military decisions to his generals, they would have at least had enough sense to make decisions like pull out of the Battle of Stalingrad before their forces got completely surrounded by eastern Allied troops and cut off from supplies only later for their attempted airdrop to resupply said troops to fail by not dropping anywhere close to the amount of supplies needed OR promised. Maybe Rommel would have done a better job (loosely related side note, Rommel actually wasn't really that bad a guy. He only fought for the Nazi's because they were the ruling party of Germany at the time and he was fiercely loyal to his country. He was actually part of the plot to assassinate the leader of said ruling party, Adolf Hitler, his own boss, on July 20th, 1944 at the Wolf's Lair and was captured as one of the surviving perpetrators, being given the choice of execution like the rest or to go out on a cyanide pill with the story being that a strafing run injured him at Normandy and he died of those injuries because of how much he meant as a tool of the Nazi party).
Germany was already 100% focused on the Soviet Union
That Call of Duty 2 music during the 9th minute tho, so good
Looking at a lot of battle plans from D-Day two things are certain, the only two reason we won D-Day is because of Germany having a war on 3 fronts as well as a botched jump from the paratrooper group around Omaha beach, they landed in the wrong spot but succeeded in their mission. If it hadn't been for them landing in the wrong place D-Day would have been lost.
not to mention that germans killed off Rommel, who had predicted an allied landing in normandy and was to reinforce that area, cause most of the german troops in the atlantikwall were in brittanny, D-Day could have been the greatest military disaster in history if it werent for the germans killing off their only chance at repelling it
A note at 11:37 at the Bulge in the Soviet lines and then the push downward and upward from the Germans was the Battle of Kursk Salient.
Tobe fair Luke it weren't only German soldiers that participated in Operation Barbarossa, but other Axis armies and foreign Waffen-SS- volunteers as well.
5:18 The Italian invasion of Egypt was a total catastrophe for the Italians, much worse than the Greco-Italian war. The British were outnumbered 4:1 yet they still completely bitchslapped the Italians, even to the point that the British ended up outnumbering the Italians 2:1. If not for the arrival of German reinforcements under Rommel, the Italian colony of Libya would have been conquered much earlier and the freed up troops would have probably ended the war sooner.
Italians could've won the invasion of Egypt, all they had is shitty commanders and stuff
We italians suck at war....i mean, not through all history, but definetly from 1800 to nowdays...even our indipendence wars, we always sucked and we just got saved by the french
@@alessandromauri5407 We germans are the opposite. Its just for some reason we like to get gangbanged :).
@@alessandromauri5407 to be fair, the average Italian unit was poorly equiped and the Italian high command was inadequate. The Italian soldiers were as brave as any, even German commanders such as Rommel mentioned that. Looking at the Italian invasion of Greece, what it comes down to wasn't the fact that the Italian soldiers weren't brave or competent fighters individually, but the fact that it was a hastily prepared and inadequately equiped invasion. Greece had been preparing for that war since the 15th of August while Italian generals received notice a few day before the invasion.
Greetings from Greece friend
@@toast2300 lions lead by donkeys
I like how countries joined USSR pointed as 'annexed by USSR', when Hungary and Romania were pointed correctly as 'joined Axis'.
I like when USSR is being invaded and Mussolini is screaming in german in the background "WE WANT PEACE"
its impressive how fast the german empire gained its territory, its also a very interesting video
it wasnt an empire at that anymore.
@@semiramisubw4864 german occupied territory...
you mean nazi germany
@@austria-hungary7680 yes
@@grav_nl yes thats how empires are built....
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You Do Forget that Soviets also Suffered Heavy casualties on Their southern eastern Front against Japan. They also Helped the China to Form the Manchuria, Fighting back towards Mongolia, Which Estimated 300.000 Red Army Soldiers have died.
Ussr lost 12k men against japan
The original video contains an error that I spotted...not critical, but significant enough to note. The video claims that planning for Barbarossa began in December of 1940, but that is incorrect...the planning began in July of 1940...it was DONE and approved in December 1940. ✌
Keep in mind that at some point 3.1 million Germans were fighting against 9 to 10 million Allied forces (of which mostly soviet union) and in April 45 2.3 million vs 10.6 million troops
3:33 honestly German troops were in norway before 12april just look at the area near Narvik basically it's a gap in the northern part basically looking like the shape of an open mouth from the side
Love the WW2 related content
Saaame
this is the only youtuber that doesnt pause the video when reacting.
13:57 🤡
This was really cool!
I wonder if there is a matching video for this in the Pacific theater of war.
I was going to ask that under the original video, but then the overlapping text made me wonder if there was an actual person behind it.
Checkout a channel named Eastory ,he makes the similar type of content.
This would be absolutely WILD to do for the French Revolutionary Wars- Napleonic wars.
On one hand, some of the coalitions were beaten in just a few months, or a handful of battles, probably making the map animation part not too bad.
On the other hand, how to display the map and numbers would be a bit harder unless the just go with a Red France and blue for everyone else as they change hands.
Also the numbers of the true size of some armies like Russia are disputed, Battle of Bordinio. But then again, nobody will ever know the true size of the Soviet Army either.
If the United States wasn't allied with the Soviet Union the Soviet Union would very likely have suffered much much more cuz the American supplies helped the Soviets create a lot of their equipment.
yeah and people play off the usa as someone who does nothing in a group project.
@@derth9230
The ww2 was won with teamwork, the Allies had to work together and side by side to defeat the Axis, only in that way could victory be achieved.
@@condedooku9750 yeah ik but people underappreciate certain sides hard work.
@@derth9230 Both those who say that the USA did everything and those who say that the USSR did everything are ignorant, both together with the British Empire were vital elements in the defeat of the Axis.
@@condedooku9750 ye i agree they shouldn't undermine not one countries efforts whether they helped to the fullest or not.
Question:What weapons did you use in the Royal Marines
“Italy helped Germany in this.” Kinda feel like it was the other way around.
if italy was neutral, the axis would have actually performed better lmao.
I've been waiting for more reactions to this amazing video!
Corsica:IM STILL STANDING
If I can propose. Now, that Halo is finished, how about now getting into Gears of War?
"Italy helped Germany in this" ?!? yeah...that kind of help you really need...
As a Korean/Russian, we embody a spirit that thrives in adversity and battles fiercely until the very end! It’s in our blood, and soldiers dreaded fighting in the East. 🇷🇺🇰🇷💪
Creator of this video should have done the "URA" when the Russians were closing in on Berlin.
You should react to eastory they make amazing WWII videos and they recently uploaded a video on Russia and Ukraine
When you were talking about d-day you only said usa and uk but Canada helped out on d-day too
4:53 The right answer that is people never know that Germany always help Italy
"Sir , the worst case happened!" "What ?! are we being Attacked?" "....No Sir we just allied the Italien ...." ".....F ck...."
@@jajurvonhohenzollern5542 lmao
The Churchill quote is probably one of the best speeches in history
He sounds like that was the 2000th time that he had to recite it in a month.
@@zorz767 definitely marked a turning point but the Churchill quote had more value, Sense it was a call for the British people to defend and fight for their country as it was at stake
Pretty much every one of Hitler's speeches outshine it entirely, most people just don't speak German, or haven't seen them with subtitles.
@@willkrueger3857 just gonna stop u there, how can someone who was sick in the head with the intentions of killing millions of innocent people who also wanted to make the world kneel to his tyranny compare to the fight for freedom and against tyranny?
@@bigmanchungie8685 It's very telling that you've never heard a word he's said, but feel you understand him this well. Do you not have even the SLIGHTEST bit of doubt in your mind, as to whether your "knowledge" of history is influenced by living in the world of the victors?
The resistence in Yugoslavia wasnt showed, from 1941 they startes to liberate themselfs, first The Royal Yugoslav army and Chetniks combained, but when USSR got invaded communist partisans lead by Tito would always go in villages and procceded to eliminate German forces in the area, knowing that 100 for 1 German rule He sometimes exploited that and whole villages (avr. at that time at least 1000 per village or less) went with them. In all big cities there wouldve been operatives spying on Germans, while they were activly fighting against N. Germany, Italy, Ustase Croatians, Bulgarians, Chetniks, and SS combained. Yugoslavia lost around 1.3 milion man mostly Serbs and Macedonians. But communists and Royal Yugoslav army have menaged ti liberate themselfs and after 1944 R.Y.A had to cooparate with Germans for ammo and supplies against commies and remaning Italian units that have defected to Tito. Battle of Neretva is a good example with a battle of Drvnar.
He says WOW for 15,000 dead.
winter war:
If you ever get the time could react Halo Evolutions : Mona lisa on YT, I think you'll really enjoy it. Also it's pretty long so maybe cut into two parts, much appreciated!
I watched his video several times he nailed it with those numbers and the information he provided. By the way thank you for your service to the free world from a U.S. Army vet 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
USSR?
@@Dragon-lc5ml sure why not
Since you've watched Russia vs China vs USA military ads comparison, maybe you can watch some more military ads from other countries. Or Russia vs Ukraine military ads comparison at least)
D-day was called a failure because they did meet their assigned goals and the Germans didn’t even had their full force prepared and they could really did anything because Hitler was asleep only one tank unit was there out of 9 and ONE almost derailed the entire invasion. I call it Allied bravery but most of it was honestly luck. I’m proud to be German and I hate the Nazi’s but I’m proud of what the MILITARY did in the war... just astounding
Speaking of like military schools, one of my friends was able to get right into West Point after being homeschooled for high school.
If you want a close up version of this type of content, you should check out Eastory's Videos on WW2...
Him: all of Europe Europe is just German
Switzerland: 🥲
The sponsors of this war in the center quietly smoke and watch.
Barbarossa actually killed 24 - 27 million Soviets all together
Mostly civilians, due to all of the genocide
Think "quantity" becomes more important the larger the conflict. For instance, since say the Vietnam War USA has been able to largely rely on "quality" (armaments and technology) as their primary weapon while if say a war with China or Russia to break out the numbers would become important again.
originalhuman:
originalhuman when an litterally 1 inch of the green screen didnt show: *SO U HAVE CHOOSEN DEATH?*
What I want to know is, what percentage of those millions of troops were combat roles?
in ww2 doesn't matter what you are you fight and most were combatants with others being Medics and engineers, though engineers were lowers in numbers compared to medics.
You are right about that brother, but it was the USA who was supplying the Soviet with weapons , food , clothing , the Soviet all they got was men and oil ...
Mongolia contributed more than the United States. This is your stupid propaganda to elevate the United States, that only thanks to it the world defeated fascism, but in fact, only at the end of the war did it join in order to steal the victory and appropriate it for itself
США почти ничего не делали. Только раздавали кредиты всем странам на восстановление. Сами то не пострадали, находясь вдали от всех.
Important to remember that this is only showing land battles and not air and naval battles, and only in Europe, so it's less than half of the full story.
14:39 that was the beast part about the western front in france
15:27 that's the Battle of the Bulge or The Ardennes Offenive or Wacht am Rhein
At the beginning of the war, Poland, France and England are allies, but no one reacts when Poland is attacked by Germany and Russia.
I really want to see this for the Asia-Pacific Theatre 1937-45.
Same here, sadly that theater just isn't as recognized as the eastern/western fronts of the European theater.
Hey, your audio cuts out from 2:49 to 3:40, at least when I'm watching. Might be a tech issue on my part, but it might be good to check that out.
No, it was a malfunction with his audio, it happened to me as well
I like how he is waiting for DDay as if its the decisive event, lol. The Germans couldnt defeat the Soviet Union at all after 1941. By 1944, Germany was completely broken by the Soviets. The war was over when D-Day happened
@Richard Myers As opposed to being Islamic?
Dday its a massive event, the biggest naval invasion in history. Its epic such as the start of barbarossa and the encirclement of 6th army. People like emphasis on this kind of things. Soviets have two of them, stalingrad and kursk. Let us enjoy dday!
They could have if D-day never happened. Both eastern and western fronts were necessary, if the Germans had been allowed the luxury of concentrating all their forces on one, they would have won.
Yep. The lack of oil, food and logistics of Germany was the doom of the war. Not winter or America lol
@@UrMomEatsShitt That didn't help, but it was the combination of everything that cost them the war. If any one of those factors had been in the Germans' favor, they would have won. This war was A LOT more complicated than 'the US beat them' or 'the Russians beat them.' The fact that Hitler made extremely grave tactical errors was yet another major factor working against the Germans, the winter cost the Germans on the eastern front a majority of their armored support during Operation Barbarossa, D-day and the preceding misinformation campaign by double agents, plus the two different fronts on opposite ends of the war, split German forces so much that supply lines were extremely overstretched.
hey @OriginalHuman remember the game Vanguard while you watching this ... the battle in africa and more
To give everyone an idea ww2 deaths was usually 1300 deaths per hour. They were literally dropping like flies.
"everything but England was gone" - ""Britsh""
Love when you react to wwII stuff!
You might also want to watch the "MARCH OF THE VALIANT: PHILIPPINE EXPEDITIONARY FILIPINO TROOPS TO KOREA"
asked the creator of the video to make a world war one version
"Guys, stop teamin on me."
you should watch more of this channels videos
they are mainly HOI4 but they are good
I did a school project on operation Barbarossa and the germans were actually super close to capturing key cities that could've lead to the Soviet Union severely weakened but hitler was crazy and didn't push for those cities plus a few other reasons due to commanders I think.
What cities?
@@neoxperson7858 Moscow, the German army advanced far into the Moscow suburbs but the attack was halted in order to focus on targets to the south
Taking Moscow would've done nothing, do you really think that Stalin would just roll his eyes and say "I give up" just because they took the capital? Not a chance in hell. He planned on putting every man, woman, and child in the Union between him and the Germans and did so.
14:05 it wasn’t just uk and us, Canada was involved too!!
@13:30 the reason I suggested the war production documentary is because of this couldn't have won the war without Russia thing, it's way more complex than any of those arguments
D-Day didn't solve anything anymore. because the Battle of Kursk was on 08/23/2023 where the Germans lost and lost a huge number of their new tanks. D-Day was only because the Allies wanted to be remembered by history too, and no more. they were afraid until the last moment, until they were sure that the Germans had become weak!
april 8/9 1940 Battle of Narvik begun ... my hometown in Norway there's a movie coming about it Battle of Narvik
Question : will you see it when it comes out mate ?
Снимут? Он вышел?
Кстати, знаешь нет, есть многосерийный фильм, где несколько серий про сопротивление в Норвегии, называется "Вечный зов". Невероятный фильм.
@@DedArnold the movie ?
just mind-blowing how the planet was totally engulfed in war
6:21 the help of italy 😂
12:14 oh we remember. A lot of people give the Italians a lot of shit for how poor their army was during ww2. However people who actually know history know that Italians where good as individual soldiers, and made up 2/3 of the afrika korps and pulled their own weight during the North African campaign, which is seen as a German battlefield because of Erwin Rommel. Not to mention the Italians that got sent to the eastern front (I don’t know all that much about Italians on the eastern front but I know that they where fairly decent)
Don't try to excuse them, Italy was utterly pathetic in ww2, just by looking at the invasion of Greece should make you get the idea
@@acusticamenteconvusional9936 The Italian army could hold their own with their German counterparts, however the Italian officers and leadership were dog ass
Guys Greece had a long piece at the end before ww2 and in the and soviet union took that so .. GREECE WAS IN THE SOVIET UNION?!
I know you're probably young, but no. What you saw was territories that were occupied by other countries. For example, the Soviets did not annex part of Greece, it didn't become part of the Soviet Union, but there was a Soviet military presence there.
7:50 Crimea, Sevastopol NEVER fall down
10:06 Operation Torch, BEGIN! MURICA!!!
fun fact did you know stalin wanted to join the axis but hitler did not respond
bro it was not only england it was ireland, spain, portugal, sweden,finland, iceland,
Mapsinanutsheel is good if you want ww1
Your dome piece is in the way of stalingrad.
13:48 Touch some grass?😂😂😂
The only reason UK held Germany is because its an island ,otherwise they would have been next France
yeeeesss well about Denmark it took 6 hours the first resistance they met in copenhagen was the Royal guards.... but Jylland still was fighting even tho the King had surrendered but the message hadent come to them yet there was no way Denmark could have done anything against them in any way it would have been worse loss of life than the long on we did.... one of My great grandfathers fled to Sweden and another was sabotaging the germans and they hid guns under the floor... my grandfather told me he was 10 when it began and eventurly at some point the german soldiers stayed at their farm so they could do nothing... they saw a plane got shot down in Jylland as well sooo yea mine was defenatly occupied a that point :/
I think you should rename the video to “world war 2 in Europe “ for this vid only shows Europe and the very northernmost parts of Africa.
people used to say russia won the war because they killed the most germans and supplied the most troops. until people found out later that they would have been completely unable to mobilize those troops to the frontline without the massive amount of train and rail equipment as well as things like food supplied to them by the united states (so much food that you can still find canned goods donated by the united states in ww2 in russia to this day) and even kruschev himself said that stalin admitted repeatedly in private that without american material aid russia would have fallen.
Нет. Всë что мы видим - это бездействие США при нападении Германии на СССР. А потом США как бы присоединились, но только когда Советский Союз стал прорываться вперëд. США было выгодно уничтожение Германией СССР.
@@Конь_без_пальто мы буквально построили ваши железные дороги и предоставили вам десятки тысяч вагонов, а также миллионы банок с едой и такими вещами, как одеяла и боеприпасы, и никогда не взимали с вас за это плату. вы не смогли бы мобилизовать достаточно войск, чтобы остановить немцев без помощи Соединенных Штатов, и тогда Россия пала бы. мы предоставили эту материальную поддержку каждой союзной стране в войне, а также сражались с немцами и итальянцами в Европе и почти в одиночку разгромили японскую империю на Тихом океане. русские не выиграли войну только потому, что бросили на нацистов больше людей.
если бы Соединенные Штаты присоединились к оси вместо союзников, то ВСЕ союзные страны (включая Россию) были бы захвачены и завоеваны в кратчайшие сроки.
People from all over Europe also fought on the German side on the eastern front! in some ways, it even looks like the current NATO.
Is it me or was the Tone away up to Minute 4
I'm embarrassed to say I never knew that Germany invaded north into Denmark and Norway, haha. I thought only the USSR fought that far north
To be fair, Denmark lasted what 6 hours? You could've slept through that in person.
Take a look at the Eastern Front from June to August 1944. That was Bagration and the destruction of Army Group Center. The Germans lost more men than they had defending France.
Where's the puppet states? (slovakia, croatia, serbia, greece, norway)
If it wasn't for Italy, Germany might've won
Italy? Did you mean USSR, US and UK?!