We hope you enjoyed episode one of this six part miniseries. Next episode we will cover the deployment of hundreds of Tanks and guns as the II SS Panzer Corps and the 5th Guards Tank Army prepare for battle! We will be making more of these miniseries now that our weekly coverage is over. It’s the Timeghost Army that makes this all possible, so join here at: www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory
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I really appreciate this series and maybe other following going in depth into the details which was not possible during "the first series". And I guess there are still lots of topics to look at a second time and more deeper than back then. Hats off !
8:40 - Indies german pronounciation has improved a lot - for example the SS Obergruppenführer is a complicated german word and usually butchered by americans but this one was damn good. Same for the word "Das Reich" with the complicate "ch" at the end where usually americans use a kind of Ryke like dyke. Same for Leibstandarte where he speaks out the last "e" like in Porsche which Americans usually cut and wonder, why germans do not understand when they speak about Porsch ... while germans now it with a herable and long "e". Just to let the non german speaker know that this is really good pronounciation and that he takes care for the german words and its pronounciation and that is a lot of effort at least at this level and through a complete video. 10:15 - and I also like this animation of the conversation in this kind of setup between the 2 generals pictures looking like an old typewriter or stenograph typing the text in real time where other channels throw the full text onto the screen reading that. It is not so distracting cause you follow the narrator and the words coming in where in the full text at once methods you start to read the text while you do not listen to the voice cause your reading is faster and you will be soon ahead of the voice.
@@robertjarman3703we saw it. In pointed to Jake, and Jake answered he’d checked, but if you haven’t heard back from him by end of Sunday, please send again because then the email could have been lost in the spam filters.
You guys have done and continue to do amazing work. I genuinely think you've pioneered a whole new approach to telling the story and history of conflicts that influences your contemporaries. Keep creating content like this that rivals Sparty's Mustache in its magnificence
So many accounts of this battle just spend 30 minutes repeating the old cliches about two vast tank armies running headlong into each other and causing carnage, and they leave out any real details of the battle. This channel gives the detail behind the headlines. Well done guys.
My headcanon is that its his army of time travelling journalists as they document the war while infiltrated in the various cobelligerents' armed forces
Never though I would see the TimeGhost crew giving us an even deeper analisys of my fav WW2 battle after that awesome special regular episode 2 and a hal years ago, but here we are and I cannot express houw grateful I am for it. Thank you TG crew and carry on. Excelsior!
Was literally thinking this morning as I got my breakfast, ‘boy, I do miss the regular Sunday morning WW2 episode’, and lo and behold, here is this special! A special thank you indeed for continuing on with more in-depth WW2 coverage!
It is interesting how the Battle of Prokhorovka came about On the first day of the operation, the Germans overran the Russian 6th Army and ran into the dug-in 1st Russian Tank Army in the second echelon Vatutin wanted the 1st Tank Army to counterattack, but Katukov refused and asked the front to change order, Katukov dig-in the T-34 up to the turret in the ground and thus stopped the German advance The Germans encountered "weaker resistance" to the east towards Prokhorovka and that's where they then turned Unfortunately for the 5th Tank Army, they did not have time to dig in, but literally marched into battle The rest is history
I hadn't heard of Kursk until (age 10) I read Issue 1 of War Monthly in 1970, the scale of forces involved was shocking, Quite an eye-opener, as so little info seemed available on E Front. I thought I must have read the most brutal episode of the war little knowing I still had the Winter War, the Kyiv catastrophe, doomed Sevastopol and the Crimea, the bloody, brutal Stalingrad and Caucasus Campaign, the sheer desperation of attempting to reopen routes to Leningrad, plus the appallingly dreadful Rzhev Meat grinder and Op Bagration to discover. For all its ghastly faults and even allowing for lend lease support, I shall never truly understand just how the Soviet State managed to lose so much at the start, yet sustain a savage defence, then finally go on the offensive.
This is absolutely amazing, keeping the channel and history alive. And one of my favorite battles of WW2 as the first episode? Hell yeah, can't wait for more of these!
@@spartacus-olsson I wonder if you'll tell the stories of certain Axis and Allied divisions throughout the war. Especially the obscure ones like those besieged at Dunkirk in 1944-5. So fanatical was the German resolve there that they started eating sawdust instead of surrendering
"That's the legend!?" I could almost hear the words "but is this really the case?" next. Great content and the era really gives itself to a granular historical review.
Some people say that the Nazis are left wing and socialist. But is this really the case? Or is it just a case of modern day right wing libertarian wishful thinking based on false definitions of conservatism, liberalism and socialism?
I'm Indy Neidell, AWK AWK!! 😂 Sorry, been watching a lot of Sabaton History lately. I actually went and watched the Panzerkampf episode again as a prelude to watching this. Thank you for what you do, you're among the best Indy!! 🙂
I was thrilled to see this thumbnail pop up. Having read Martin Caiden's "The Tigers Are Burning" when I was around 10 years old, this particular battle has frequently captured my interest when considering the Eastern Front. As always, I'm really going to enjoy this miniseries! -Erik Wade, Capt., TGA
WHEW! I didn’t time travel after all! When I awakened and checked my subscriptions for new videos and came upon The Battle of Kursk that I know I saw 2+ years ago but it was brand new you can understand my confusion! I’m very excited you will go into detail about this battle within the battle-it deserves its own spotlight. *****Don’t forget, even though STAVKA were pretty sure Kursk was where the Germans were going to attack, Stalin actually got the battle plans from his ‘Lucy’ spy ring based in Switzerland from spy code name ‘Werther’ whom Stalin thought was in OKW. Unfortunately for history, we don’t have his name. I suspect Werther was really the British feeding info from Enigma to the Lucy ring. We know this was done because Stalin wasn’t told about Enigma and Bletchley Park, but whenever the US or UK tried to tip him off, the ever paranoid Stalin didn’t believe them so the Brits fed the info through Switzerland and the Lucy ring.
@@haroldearlgray5629 I would have to disagree. The actual engagement at Prokhorovka was mostly a tank engagement as part of the larger Operation Citadel.
Lacking time to watch all the documentaries I'd like, I feel very lucky and immensely pleased to notice the name Prokhorovka, vaguely remembered from a video game, and find out that we're getting a whole mini-series about it. Thank you, this I gotta see!
You should make a documentary on the Forgotten 500, the American airmen shot down by the nazis on the bombing run of oilfields in Romania and saved by the Četniks in Serbia.
For those interested in the engineering aspect of this battle, I recommend the book of Paul Kennedy “Engineers of Victory” notably the chapter on how to defeat the blitzkrieg. He goes in detail on the multiple ways the allies successfully defended against the German blitzkrieg, precisely on the battle of El Alamein and Kursk.
As always, thank you for your work, your dedication to ensuring that history does not fall into dusty shadows. It's all to easy to forget what happened, and ignoring history which opens up for such terrible things to potentially happen again. We cannot forget what happens during war, and specially not the lessons to be learned from it.
excellent- and motivational! reorganizing the amps and wires- lots and lots of wires /cables for the subwoofers to make space for a new HTPC in the rack- comparatively speaking - should be easy after this great intro to the series
Delicious absolutely delicious plz do cover the Kokada track, hurtgen forest, seelow hights. Perhaps even a special on the different siege's that went on during the war
I like the idea of revisiting stuff, It'd be interesting to do something about the german pockets in france after the ally broked through (maybe a special showing what it was like in those pockets?)
You never really hear about the year 1943 in ww2 games and films/Documentarys. It's usually always 1939, invasion of poland, to 1940 invasion of france, then 1941 japanese attack pearl harbour then to 1942 in stalingrad and then skips straight to d day 1944, then to berlin 1945. Thats why I find 1943 to be most interesting.
Hello World War II I'm pretty new to the channel ( maybe around July or August this year ) and I have thoroughly enjoyed the episodes I have watched and this Channel is one I look to for GOOD INFORMATION I also definitely enjoyed this particular episode and I'd like to ask if you plan on doing more episodes like these in the future I'd certainly like to see more on the Invasion of Poland in 1939 as it's quite undercovered in my opinion. That's really all I have to say oh wait I also wanted to say Indy your pronunciation of names was quite good. Thanks for the effort you put into your content 👋.
We do plan to have more specials like this covering different events of the war, as to what exactly though you'll just have to wait and see. Thanks for the suggestion!
Looks like I'll have to wait and see then 😂 looking forward to it though thanks for the work you put in to your content it's really just marvellous 👍
It’s literally 90 seconds into the video when I say that this is the LEGEND of prokhorovka and I’m gonna talk about the reality. You really didn’t even watch that far before commenting?
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Well some people say that battle of Brody/Dubno in 1941 was the biggest tank battle in history, where tanks fought against tanks, not against diches and hidden positions.
In fact, other battles had involved more tanks, but never before or since have so many armoured vehicles - more than 800 in all - clashed at pointblank range
Prokhorovka is certainly the most known tank battle of all time, but "Dubno Brody" during the initial invasion (1941) was far bigger in terms of number of tanks :) Prokhorovka had around 1000 tanks all told. Dubno Brody had over 4000 (on paper) :)
It depends on how you calculate it, Dubno Brody had units with more tanks, but tanks that fought against other tanks will be similiar to Prokhorovka since many tanks broke down before being used, some were just not used before the fight were effectively over. A good reason as to why the battle of Kursk is so well known as the biggest tank battle is due to the overall offensive being the last one the germans seemingly could turn the tide back in their favor. Dubno Brody isn't well known as it happened at a time and place that did not see much focus by historians comparred to the large encirclements happening futher north.
@@MrWolfgangtube I've seen several interviews of him, usually on channels like "Military Aviation History", etc. He certainly knows his stuff, but i am not wrong :)
It’s just 90 or so seconds into the video that I say this is the LEGEND of prokhorovka and I’m gonna talk about the reality. You really didn’t even watch that far before making that comment?
@@WorldWarTwo hopeful, we could get an special episode on the Danish August "Revolt" of 1943 in the future. It would be nice to have someone in English go in-depth with it
Love your guys video, keep em up! also wanted to shout out a question to Indy on a game I discovered. Were you by chance the voice actor for the radio operator in Helldivers 1? The voice sounded very familiar and thought it might be you.
The reality is, that the battle of Kursk is the most misunderstood battle of all times. Germany could have won, had they kept all Tigers with the SS Pz Grenadier Div. in the South. But they didn't.
The German's lost because they waited to attack it came way to late the Russian's built defense in depth and the German Amy lost way to many tanks and men.
Or maybe the Germans lost because the attack was a stupid idea to begin with. When even Hitler says no further attack, perhaps he should have stuck with that.
11:48 That guy in the forefront is just posing, pulling the trigger and nothing is happening. The bolt's not moving, no muzzle flash, no recoil, nothing. Not surprised if after the politruks saw this he was sent to the gulag.
Back in the game, I see. Btw, just checked out the doc where you list all your sources. The 1944-45 ones are still missing. Any plans to complete them?
![True Size of a Krieg Siege Army (Infantry) [999.M41] 3D Documentary](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/k9RNVqx_HQ4/mqdefault.jpg)
I'M INDY NYDELL AND THIS IS WW 2.
God, how I miss this every Saturday.
@@gmnotyet yeah, me too👍
@@jasonmussett2129 Yeah. I'm not get used to hearing "This is Korean war" yet
Sycophants are not stimulating to say the least..
What happened to Der Schwartzkopf Division??
Try spelling his surname correctly Sir..
We hope you enjoyed episode one of this six part miniseries. Next episode we will cover the deployment of hundreds of Tanks and guns as the II SS Panzer Corps and the 5th Guards Tank Army prepare for battle! We will be making more of these miniseries now that our weekly coverage is over.
It’s the Timeghost Army that makes this all possible, so join here at: www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory
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I really appreciate this series and maybe other following going in depth into the details which was not possible during "the first series". And I guess there are still lots of topics to look at a second time and more deeper than back then.
Hats off !
8:40 - Indies german pronounciation has improved a lot - for example the SS Obergruppenführer is a complicated german word and usually butchered by americans but this one was damn good. Same for the word "Das Reich" with the complicate "ch" at the end where usually americans use a kind of Ryke like dyke. Same for Leibstandarte where he speaks out the last "e" like in Porsche which Americans usually cut and wonder, why germans do not understand when they speak about Porsch ... while germans now it with a herable and long "e".
Just to let the non german speaker know that this is really good pronounciation and that he takes care for the german words and its pronounciation and that is a lot of effort at least at this level and through a complete video.
10:15 - and I also like this animation of the conversation in this kind of setup between the 2 generals pictures looking like an old typewriter or stenograph typing the text in real time where other channels throw the full text onto the screen reading that. It is not so distracting cause you follow the narrator and the words coming in where in the full text at once methods you start to read the text while you do not listen to the voice cause your reading is faster and you will be soon ahead of the voice.
@@robertjarman3703we saw it. In pointed to Jake, and Jake answered he’d checked, but if you haven’t heard back from him by end of Sunday, please send again because then the email could have been lost in the spam filters.
Every time you say “state farm,” I keep thinking you’re gonna sell insurance; it’s unavoidable
I was thinking those two words sounded familiar, but I couldn’t quite place it.
Never thought that kolkhoz is a State Farm
Well if you lived off of a State Farm I have a feeling you’d need life insurance 😂😂😂
@@shapshooter8669
would not need house insurance
You guys have done and continue to do amazing work. I genuinely think you've pioneered a whole new approach to telling the story and history of conflicts that influences your contemporaries. Keep creating content like this that rivals Sparty's Mustache in its magnificence
So many accounts of this battle just spend 30 minutes repeating the old cliches about two vast tank armies running headlong into each other and causing carnage, and they leave out any real details of the battle.
This channel gives the detail behind the headlines. Well done guys.
Who are you talking to on the phone Indy? Its the great WWII mystery of them all... Worthy of its own series...
My headcanon is that its his army of time travelling journalists as they document the war while infiltrated in the various cobelligerents' armed forces
The Man in the High Castle
He answered that in the end-of-WWII Q&A. It might have been Conrad von Hotzendorf?
General Steiner
Never though I would see the TimeGhost crew giving us an even deeper analisys of my fav WW2 battle after that awesome special regular episode 2 and a hal years ago, but here we are and I cannot express houw grateful I am for it. Thank you TG crew and carry on. Excelsior!
Was literally thinking this morning as I got my breakfast, ‘boy, I do miss the regular Sunday morning WW2 episode’, and lo and behold, here is this special! A special thank you indeed for continuing on with more in-depth WW2 coverage!
It is interesting how the Battle of Prokhorovka came about
On the first day of the operation, the Germans overran the Russian 6th Army and ran into the dug-in 1st Russian Tank Army in the second echelon
Vatutin wanted the 1st Tank Army to counterattack, but Katukov refused and asked the front to change order,
Katukov dig-in the T-34 up to the turret in the ground and thus stopped the German advance
The Germans encountered "weaker resistance" to the east towards Prokhorovka and that's where they then turned
Unfortunately for the 5th Tank Army, they did not have time to dig in, but literally marched into battle
The rest is history
world war 2 series on one of the most devastating battles of WW2? EXCELLENT!!
World war 2 squared?
I hadn't heard of Kursk until (age 10) I read Issue 1 of War Monthly in 1970, the scale of forces involved was shocking,
Quite an eye-opener, as so little info seemed available on E Front. I thought I must have read the most brutal episode of the war little knowing I still had the Winter War, the Kyiv catastrophe, doomed Sevastopol and the Crimea, the bloody, brutal Stalingrad and Caucasus Campaign, the sheer desperation of attempting to reopen routes to Leningrad, plus the appallingly dreadful Rzhev Meat grinder and Op Bagration to discover.
For all its ghastly faults and even allowing for lend lease support, I shall never truly understand just how the Soviet State managed to lose so much at the start, yet sustain a savage defence, then finally go on the offensive.
This is absolutely amazing, keeping the channel and history alive. And one of my favorite battles of WW2 as the first episode? Hell yeah, can't wait for more of these!
You know it...
Thanks for watching, stay tuned for more!
Fun fact: the commander of the Tiger platoon, newly reassigned from working with StuGs, is a promising young officer named Michael Wittmann.
The person that got killed by a Canadian shoemaker?
@@modest_spice6083 The very same! XD
"We might lose Kursk!"
"Oh no..anyway send the steppe front" Soviet..probably
And they also got pretty much mauled.
Everything I know about WW2 I learned from Indy. These videos are the best online.
You guys never chased to impress me ! Best Ww2 series and mini-series in history !
Heck yeah
Are the plans to do more such specials on other events during the war? Cause this is great! I love that you guys are continuing to flush stuff out!
Absolutely!
@@spartacus-olssonthat’s awesome! I really appreciate all the work y’all do!
@@spartacus-olsson I wonder if you'll tell the stories of certain Axis and Allied divisions throughout the war. Especially the obscure ones like those besieged at Dunkirk in 1944-5. So fanatical was the German resolve there that they started eating sawdust instead of surrendering
"That's the legend!?" I could almost hear the words "but is this really the case?" next. Great content and the era really gives itself to a granular historical review.
Some people say that the Nazis are left wing and socialist.
But is this really the case? Or is it just a case of modern day right wing libertarian wishful thinking based on false definitions of conservatism, liberalism and socialism?
I'm Indy Neidell, AWK AWK!! 😂
Sorry, been watching a lot of Sabaton History lately.
I actually went and watched the Panzerkampf episode again as a prelude to watching this.
Thank you for what you do, you're among the best Indy!! 🙂
*Screaming Eagle intensifies*
Indy, every year you are better at this.
Best channel ever!
Greetings from Colombia.
Nice work. I like this format of a deeper dive into certain events that couldn’t be covered in the scope of the weekly updates.
Looking forward to this series, I wrote my MA Dissertation on Prokhorovka. Can't wait to see the TGA Analyse
Excellent! Can't wait for the rest, many thanks to Indy, Sparty, and all the rest for producing the greatest WW2 documentary the world has ever seen!
A competent and brilliant narrator with a real voice. Thank you for that!
I was thrilled to see this thumbnail pop up. Having read Martin Caiden's "The Tigers Are Burning" when I was around 10 years old, this particular battle has frequently captured my interest when considering the Eastern Front. As always, I'm really going to enjoy this miniseries! -Erik Wade, Capt., TGA
Thanks for being a member Erik.
WHEW! I didn’t time travel after all! When I awakened and checked my subscriptions for new videos and came upon The Battle of Kursk that I know I saw 2+ years ago but it was brand new you can understand my confusion! I’m very excited you will go into detail about this battle within the battle-it deserves its own spotlight. *****Don’t forget, even though STAVKA were pretty sure Kursk was where the Germans were going to attack, Stalin actually got the battle plans from his ‘Lucy’ spy ring based in Switzerland from spy code name ‘Werther’ whom Stalin thought was in OKW. Unfortunately for history, we don’t have his name. I suspect Werther was really the British feeding info from Enigma to the Lucy ring. We know this was done because Stalin wasn’t told about Enigma and Bletchley Park, but whenever the US or UK tried to tip him off, the ever paranoid Stalin didn’t believe them so the Brits fed the info through Switzerland and the Lucy ring.
Brits cant be trusted at all.
eg operation unthinkable
I was under the impression that the Battle of Brody (or Dubno) was the largest tank battle of history.
Wait and see 😉
But I’m an internet commenter! I need instant gratification. 😅
By number of tanks Dubno is by far the bigger battle but if you factor in other arms like infantry, artillery and aeroplanes prokhorovka is bigger
@@haroldearlgray5629 I would have to disagree. The actual engagement at Prokhorovka was mostly a tank engagement as part of the larger Operation Citadel.
Thanks!...for keeping the interst of history for me Alive by Making Specials like These
And thank you for watching!
Thanks!
Thank you for the superchat!
Amazing work! You've pioneered a new approach to historical storytelling about conflict, and it's clearly influencing others.
Love it! I really enjoy eastern front battle stories, especially between early 1943-end of 1944.
Lacking time to watch all the documentaries I'd like, I feel very lucky and immensely pleased to notice the name Prokhorovka, vaguely remembered from a video game, and find out that we're getting a whole mini-series about it. Thank you, this I gotta see!
You should make a documentary on the Forgotten 500, the American airmen shot down by the nazis on the bombing run of oilfields in Romania and saved by the Četniks in Serbia.
This doesn’t make sense.
@@DerDopWhich part?
Are you 5 😅@@DerDop
Funny how četniks were nazi allies and still helped the american airmen
@@SGT51 Actually Guys All Partisans On The Soviet Terriotry Were In Fact Soviet Or Soviet Aligned
The war is hell playlist is missing episode 55 of war against humanity, and episode 306,307,308 and 311
probably youtube censorship
Thanks for the alert! It's been corrected.
Really glad to see you back in the saddle again re. WWII! Keep these mini-series up--the detail is fascinating. Thanks for posting.
The Death Ride Kursk does the 4th Panzer Armee's attack and the Soviet Red Army and Red Guards defense in very great detail.
Oh, I like the new animated graphics being used for the mini-series. 2 thumbs up.
Thanx so much WWII channel. Keep up with these reports.
YES I needed my WW2 fill after finally catching up with the channel (it took me binging all year)
For those interested in the engineering aspect of this battle, I recommend the book of Paul Kennedy “Engineers of Victory” notably the chapter on how to defeat the blitzkrieg. He goes in detail on the multiple ways the allies successfully defended against the German blitzkrieg, precisely on the battle of El Alamein and Kursk.
As always, thank you for your work, your dedication to ensuring that history does not fall into dusty shadows. It's all to easy to forget what happened, and ignoring history which opens up for such terrible things to potentially happen again. We cannot forget what happens during war, and specially not the lessons to be learned from it.
Excited for this series!
Great idea. Really looking forward to this kind of detail on the battle.
Stay tuned for more!
excellent- and motivational!
reorganizing the amps and wires- lots and lots of wires /cables for the subwoofers to make space for a new HTPC in the rack-
comparatively speaking - should be easy after this great intro to the series
Great vid, would love to see more of this kind of mini-series
I just rewatched your hour long 'compilation' of the battle of Stalingrad.
This feels like a good follow up.
Thanks guys!
Delicious absolutely delicious plz do cover the Kokada track, hurtgen forest, seelow hights. Perhaps even a special on the different siege's that went on during the war
From the fields of Prokhorovka, to the shores of Overlord
Thank you very much for doing this series!
I like the idea of revisiting stuff, It'd be interesting to do something about the german pockets in france after the ally broked through (maybe a special showing what it was like in those pockets?)
Fantastic series, love even more than ww2 series parts
Hope to see more of these in-depth battles! Also really liking the 3D maps
We’re back boys.
Thanks for doing this. I happen to be studying this battle currently.
And thanks for watching.
Fun to hear those magic words "I'm Indy Neidell, this is World War II" again (not quite how he said it this time, but you know what I mean).
You never really hear about the year 1943 in ww2 games and films/Documentarys. It's usually always 1939, invasion of poland, to 1940 invasion of france, then 1941 japanese attack pearl harbour then to 1942 in stalingrad and then skips straight to d day 1944, then to berlin 1945. Thats why I find 1943 to be most interesting.
Do you the Russian Campaign or Third Reich?
Like you i enjoy this mini serie. 😀 And your animated map are again improved (how is this possible ?😁) Keep the good work.
Can’t wait to watch the rest of this series…. Yall make better documentaries on ww2 then the fuckin history channel.
This will be the best researched documentary of this greatest of battles. Easy call. This team is the best!!
Hello World War II I'm pretty new to the channel ( maybe around July or August this year ) and I have thoroughly enjoyed the episodes I have watched and this Channel is one I look to for GOOD INFORMATION I also definitely enjoyed this particular episode and I'd like to ask if you plan on doing more episodes like these in the future I'd certainly like to see more on the Invasion of Poland in 1939 as it's quite undercovered in my opinion. That's really all I have to say oh wait I also wanted to say Indy your pronunciation of names was quite good. Thanks for the effort you put into your content 👋.
We do plan to have more specials like this covering different events of the war, as to what exactly though you'll just have to wait and see. Thanks for the suggestion!
Looks like I'll have to wait and see then 😂 looking forward to it though thanks for the work you put in to your content it's really just marvellous 👍
Informative and wonderful historical coverage video about southern part of citadel operations
The story telling is masterful!
Good to have that background back. Ganna bring Joakim or Per to speak of this battle in any chapter?
@@jumafallout who knows, who knows… 😉
Hi Indy
These mini series are interesting to watch after the full series world war 2,want more of this.
Thanks
Roman Töppel's Kursk is the best book I've read on the battle.
Exciting series ahead! Trying to get caught up.
Hell of a subject matter at Christmas time. I thought maybe the Battle of the Bulge? Happy Holidays all.
Great episode.....
Sir the war is over. As unbelievable as it is, it is finished. How about a nice special on growing grain ?
The largest tank battle in history was Dubno-Brody, fought June 23, 1941.
It’s literally 90 seconds into the video when I say that this is the LEGEND of prokhorovka and I’m gonna talk about the reality. You really didn’t even watch that far before commenting?
@@Southsideindy Another person made a similar comment as well.
It was @Lockerus
We found “that guy”
The Algorithm responded to my demands that Saturday mornings feature WWII with Indy!
I am indeed not a minuscule cog in the machine of the universe!
Aloha
Well some people say that battle of Brody/Dubno in 1941 was the biggest tank battle in history, where tanks fought against tanks, not against diches and hidden positions.
This is why I LOVE YOU, Indy....
Did i ever said thank you for your work?
I think i did, but I'm sure that it could still be one more!
Thank you.
INDIE IS A HOOT ! THIS IS ONE OF HIS BEST VIDEOS. 👍
In fact, other battles had involved more tanks, but never before or since have so many armoured vehicles - more than 800 in all - clashed at pointblank range
5:45 "Have you looked at our caps recently? They have skulls on them. ... Are we ... are we the baddies?"
I had to rub my eyes! I think this is the town you take on sudden strike 4 the Kursk battle in the German campaign. Love this channel
Listening late. Thanks
Prokhorovka is certainly the most known tank battle of all time, but "Dubno Brody" during the initial invasion (1941) was far bigger in terms of number of tanks :)
Prokhorovka had around 1000 tanks all told. Dubno Brody had over 4000 (on paper) :)
Just wrong. I recommend the works of Dr. Roman Töppel, the leading expert on the Battle of Kursk
It depends on how you calculate it, Dubno Brody had units with more tanks, but tanks that fought against other tanks will be similiar to Prokhorovka since many tanks broke down before being used, some were just not used before the fight were effectively over. A good reason as to why the battle of Kursk is so well known as the biggest tank battle is due to the overall offensive being the last one the germans seemingly could turn the tide back in their favor. Dubno Brody isn't well known as it happened at a time and place that did not see much focus by historians comparred to the large encirclements happening futher north.
@@MrWolfgangtube I've seen several interviews of him, usually on channels like "Military Aviation History", etc. He certainly knows his stuff, but i am not wrong :)
@@sykeskills896 Very true. I was merely giving some pushback against Indy's opening statement of "biggest tank battle in history" :)
It’s just 90 or so seconds into the video that I say this is the LEGEND of prokhorovka and I’m gonna talk about the reality. You really didn’t even watch that far before making that comment?
It’s Rooten Tooten Vatutin!
Great to hear more details!
BTW, you don't need music, if that's what I heard. It sounded like an ice cream push cart, but this is December...
I think the real reason Indy's looking forward to doing this mini series is the necessity to constantly pronounce all these Russian place names.
I would be cool to see a video about the 9th army breakout 45
Its in the style of TIK and Stalingrad series
hi Indy, looking forward to this miniseries.
Any plans for future miniseries or special episode?
We do plan to do more of this type of content in the future.
- Jake
@@WorldWarTwo hopeful, we could get an special episode on the Danish August "Revolt" of 1943 in the future. It would be nice to have someone in English go in-depth with it
That image of Nikolai Vatutin reminds me of George from Seinfeld.
Nice new animation you used at around 10:55.
Love your guys video, keep em up! also wanted to shout out a question to Indy on a game I discovered. Were you by chance the voice actor for the radio operator in Helldivers 1? The voice sounded very familiar and thought it might be you.
Indy!!!! Thank the gods you are here.
You'll catch Indy every Saturday here on the World War Two channel and Tuesday on the Korean War channel.
What gods?
@@ahmedlisnjic7967Mars, Kartikeya, Ares, Thor, Huitzilopochtli, Sungmanito or one of those guys I’d surmise…
The reality is, that the battle of Kursk is the most misunderstood battle of all times. Germany could have won, had they kept all Tigers with the SS Pz Grenadier Div. in the South. But they didn't.
A breakthrough wouldn't have meant victory. The Soviets had huge reserves and a counterattack ready against the northern sector at Opel
The German's lost because they waited to attack it came way to late the Russian's built defense in depth and the German Amy lost way to many tanks and men.
Or maybe the Germans lost because the attack was a stupid idea to begin with. When even Hitler says no further attack, perhaps he should have stuck with that.
11:48 That guy in the forefront is just posing, pulling the trigger and nothing is happening. The bolt's not moving, no muzzle flash, no recoil, nothing. Not surprised if after the politruks saw this he was sent to the gulag.
Back in the game, I see.
Btw, just checked out the doc where you list all your sources. The 1944-45 ones are still missing. Any plans to complete them?
10:53 That caught me by surprise.😂
Seems relevant in 2024.
Funny that German tanks were operating in the Kursk area again this past August.
I can imagine the Tatinskaya vets in the 2nd Guards Tank Corps (ex-24th Tank Corps) going “Aw shit, here we go again…”
In Russia, you don’t march into the motherland, motherland marches into you…