I mean it's really not that simple, cruisers are better suited for fighting destroyers but still it's more like a well balanced fleet will beat a poorly balanced one. If you just send 1 battleship against a group of destroyers the battleship will probably be overwhelmed, as happened during WWII. And a single submarine also wont be a perfect counter to a battleship. Really the best counter to a battleship is another battleship. So what you need to do is create a fleet where you have battleships which can counter the enemies battleship, cruisers to keep your battleships safe and help with air cover, destroyers to further assist with air cover and to screen and hunt down enemy ships. If all of these work in tandem you can create an effective fleet which can use it's battleship optimally and keep them safe.
Minor historical inaccuracy, the Polish had begun attempting to crack Enigma before the war even started they had seized a machine and sent it too Britain allowing them to join (and later continue after poland fell) effort. Later the British had captured an encrypter from a Uboat allowing them to succesfully decrypt the code
Polish did not attempting to crack Enigma, they did crack Enigma, and give the method to French and British in August of 1939. Polish also build automated decipher system called "bomb" to speed up the process (manual decoding took 3 days). Polish build 6 bomb that work in tandem, however over time that become insufficient as German encryption become more complex and it required 60 Bombs. That wa beyond capability of Polish team at that time. Once they give the plans to British secret service, that work was continue by Alan Turing and his team. Even the name "Bomb" wa conceive by Polish cipher group of Mariana Rejewskiego, Jerzego Różyckiego and Henryka Zygalskiego
The "special operations" you said the British used to get their hands on the enigma machine were actually copies constructed by the Poles and gifted to the British (and French) in 1938. The Poles had already broken the Enigma technology prior to the start of the War, using the skills of several brilliant Polish mathematicians, and had been listening to German communications until the Germans added some extra complexity to the machines (adding two extra rotors, which would necessitate 10 times the manpower of deciphering on the part of the Poles) which the Poles simply lacked the funds to overcome. The British worked off of the initial Polish breakthrough. To quote Gordon Welchman (who would become the head of the project to overcome German Army and Airforce Enigma ciphers): "Hut 6 Ultra would never have gotten off the ground if we had not learned from the Poles, in the nick of time, the details both of the German military version of the commercial Enigma machine, and of the operating procedures that were in use." Seems like you could have given a small reference to the Poles right there, given how critical they were to the Allied efforts to overcome the Enigma cypher, and how their tremendous role in this piece of WWII history is constantly overlooked for seemingly no apparent reason other than to attribute "single-handed" credit to the British for accomplishing what was in reality, a joint Allied effort.
History is written by the victors, Poland was one of the countries that lost the most in ww2 and then they got stuck behind the iron curtain for the next 40 - 50 years. Thanks to that many accomplishments made by the Poles are ignored.
Not to take anything away from the Polish successes in early breakthroughs in Enigma, but check out the stories of the U-110, U-570, and U-559, among others, to which I'm sure the video poster was referring. Back to the Polish, though, to remember that - as I recall - some of the Polish team who'd broken Enigma were captured by the Germans, but did not reveal anything that they knew, despite what they must have suffered.
@@JakubB2000 history was not written by the victors There's hundreds of articles praising the poles for breaking the enigma yet you claimed no one ever praised them
@@ralphraffles1394 because they know that germas will attack them so why they needed to break informations about the german will attack them? Piłsudski know that there will be polish-german war in 33 :/
Enigma! Polish guys broke the Enigma for the British. Just saying. WW2 was fascinating. As for U-Boots, I didn't realize how much of an issue resurfacing was. It's always stated in history books, but never explained.
Yeah, they don't teach us anything like that in school. Instead a whole horseload of unimportant dates. Basically submarines at the time were really more of a "small warship capable of operating underwater" rather than full fledged submarine as we know them today. They had to operate mostly on the surface and submerge only if in danger, sacrificing over 50% of their speed while doing so. Furthermore, the U-boot captains actually preferred to perform torpedo attacks while surfaced, under cover of night, in groups (famous wolfpacks).
For anyone wondering, the Enigma was cracked by a bunch of code breakers in Bletchley Park, one man named Alan Turing is credited for heading the team and was treated horribly by his country after the war, ending his own life in 54'
The Canadians Navy was protecting the first convey attacked with an acoustic torpedo. Without examining one and within 48 hours they had worked out what had attacked them and developed the towed decoy. Made of wood it cost only $24 Canadian.
The Kriegsmarine never had a chance. The war started too early, Donitz never had enough subs to seriously affect the supplying of England. Refurbishment of shipping alone more than made up losses. Add in US production and the cumulative affect was that even at the height of convoy losses in early '43 the allies were making more ships than the Germans could sink. German production and technology never caught up. The allies scientific advances far out stripped any tech the Germans had. 96% of shipping reached England.
Some things could have been done better from the German part: use Portugal as a base + occupy the Azores and provide air cover and observation in the Atlantic. Occupy Gibraltar. Avoid unnecessary chitchat keep maximum radio silence and always assume Enigma can be broken. Build the Type XXI much earlier with the snorkels and deploy them in large numbers. Defend northern France and sub bases from air raids with radar (+ develop Me 262 earlier and use them as interceptors) instead of wasting the Luftwaffe on useless bombing raids over England. Finally: never start a second front in the East, don't ally with Japan and avoid implicating the US as long as possible and concentrate efforts only on Britain. But hindsight is always 20/20 :)
If Hitler didn't stop using mass paratrooper invasion tactics, he could have gained a city on the British eastern coast, and easily launched a larger sea invasion force from one of the Scandinavian countries.
0:55 , wow, just like in hearts of iron 4! ..except submarines cant catch battleships so carriers and battleships have no counter. Rock, paper, scissors where paper cant beat rock. :I
Marek Tuzak because I was not having options so I gone to America but you should know they tortured me, my plans of Energy mass conversion they stole from me and I was responsible for this but they fuckers are dumb don't have brains therefore when people ask Americans who controlled Berlin in 1942 they say it was Germany itself you can understand how much fool are they
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As the Germans continuously introduced improvements to their Enigma machine, it had to be "broken" several times over. Enigma was indeed first broken by the Poles, but by the Battle of Atlantic the Germans had upgraded their methods, which rendered the messages unreadable. So it had to be broken again by the British.
Eastory Thanks for correcting this guy. Poles should get credit for their early efforts in the Enigma code but it pisses me off how nationalistic polaks try and dismiss the efforts of the British, especially the incredible work at Bletchley park, ultra and boarding sinking u boats to grab their enigma machines.
the polish do that with anything amazing in ww2 e.g. "they won the battle of Britain for us". and sometimes their jingo tendencies will take credit for any historical moment that changed history e.g. Poland saved Christendom is an exaggerated way of saving the polish hussars supported the Austrians in one of the sieges of Vienna.
As the Battle of the Atlantic progressed the quality of new U-Boats and their new crews diminished. By the end of the war 80% of German submariner were dead
If I recall correctly, the Germans didn't have much of a choice. They built these submarines in secret. Well... as secretly as they could... Germans loved their submarines after all...
Another factor in the war is America began making thousands of liberty and other types of ships during the war, which lessened the effect of sinking the same amount of ships.
That's actually the reason why technologic development skyrockets during wartime, because everybody tries to leapfrog each other and counter enemy tech. Compare the technological levels in 1939 and 1945 and you will find it has advanced by several magnitudes.
same with WWI where all of the technological advancements in just airplane technology went from still basically gliders in 4 years to basically fully functioning airplanes but then in the interwar periods almost no technological advancements were really made and pretty much WWI era planes where still being used but then by the end of WWII we had practically had jet fighters.
@Headhunter_FRANK: Germany was not exactly a naval power by any definition of hte word. The navy was geared entirely towards this plan, wich was about the best it could manage. For a proper Invasion of Britain or even the US, we would have needed to develop a entirely new Navy focussing on Surface Vessels.
War certainly does drive weapon innovation. Now in peace time our digital tech has made incredible progress. But our firearms, aircrafts and tanks are still that of 20 years ago. Many countries are still using older stuff than that.
Its the reason you see such an explosion in technology avaliable to the public between 1945 and 1975. There was such a large investment in R&D (Especially for the British and Americans who always had the upperhand in technology throughout the war) during the war it almost doubled the rate of technological advancement
Who would win: Highly advanced submarines which only need to go above water to refuel every so often, firing highly advanced torpedos, automatically going for the loudest thing around. Or 2 pipes and a very bright flashlight
such submarine would not need acoustic torpedo. actually type XXI could go under convoy and shoot torpedoes under it so it would just avoid escort. but by that time battle was already lost anyway.
Germany: "We've got just a weapon for you, English!" Britain: "We've got a counter for it." Germany: "We've got just a weapon for you, English!" Britain: "We've got a counter for it" Germany: "We've got just a weapon for you, English!" Britain: "We've got a counter for it" Germany: "We've got just a weapon for you, English!" Britain: "Alright just stop."
Nei Eduardo De Paula It was a joke literally about country having their own consciousness and interacting like a human being please don’t take it seriously
@Anthony Wilson "people like being ignorant." Do you even realize how childish and arrogant you sound? Everyone who has not seen this video is ignorant? Work on your disgusting attitude.
The comic script and the funny drawings hide underneath a very deep understanding of WW II. Usually when I am watching a new historic channel for the first time I pay special attention to try and find common myths in order to gauge the capabilities of the creator, but with this one I could find no weakness. Bravo. Subscribed.
The Germans did not as much "chose" to wage a submarine war as they were forced to. Building a fleet could take a decade, building a fleet capable of overpowering the Royal Navy would last even more. And of course, the British, who already had enough shipyards to build a big fleet, would have kept increasing their navy while Germany was building its. Germany simply could not hope to win a naval arms race with England so the submarine blockade (and the air attack that failed during the Battle of Britain) were its only shots.
You're an idiot. The Nazis built subs because they were difficult to detect and destroy and because they were disproportionately effective against large surface ships. Plain and simple. Anti-shipping fighter bombers were even more disproportionately effective and that is why the US built a carrier fleet. The Germans never did so because they simply never had the ability to even construct carriers without having them destroyed mid-construction. Not to mention large surface ships...all of which were built before the war started. You literally have no fucking idea what you are talking about.
Essentially: One Side: We have a new Weapon. Other Side: We have a counter. One Side: Now we have a better new weapon Other Side: Now we have a better counter. And Repeat
This makes me remember a book about WW1's flying machines. There it explained how any tiny tecnological advantage could have serious consequencies, like a system that made machineguns fire through the propellers at the right time and gave the pilots a higher kill score, or a tiny modification that made a plane more maneurable, or allowed it to rise/lower faster. Or a stronger engine that allowed them to actually carry guns, as their only purpose at the time was as reconnosaince, and pilots would be issued rifles as their only defence. One german plane was even forced to land as allied ones literally pushed it down to the ground. They were clunky machines that no one knew how to pilot, and were seen by the higher ups as tanks were seen in WW2: something new they didn't understand. Any new invention could give such superiority, but only for a short time until it was countered by tactics or some other tecnology. This is evolution at it's finest.
the dutch plan: be neutral ok t hat didn't work plan b: fight them with your 100 year old army with cannons older then the generals controling the army and not get one of your cities carpetbombed well thats a fail lets just surrender guys this happend in 2 days
Enigma wasn't decrypted by British. It was decrypted by polish cryptoanalysts before war. Turing only upgraded their work when Germans upgraded their Enigmas.
The Polish didn't decipher enigma but made a very good and impressive start. They smuggled their work out of Poland when they were invaded so that Britain could use their work. They even managed to hide this fact from the Nazis, who as a result were impervous to attempts at cracking their secret codes.
mixererunio yes but in 1940 the Germans updated the enigma code and it was much harder to crack. The poles did start with it pretty well but the British got a major victory when they obtained a fully intact enigma machine from a U-Boat.
Its not the enigma machine that was important. That could be made outside Germany en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Enigma_double The code books were important. 1 time use codes from code books are unbreakable if you dont have that code book. Britain had to keep the capture of a code book a secret, cause Germans could just print different ones if they knew.
I like how he said "allies got there act together and in acted the convoy system" more like the American's finally listened to the British and in acted the convoy system
War technology is of course important to win a war; and Your summary is excellent. Resources of any kind are also important, and many documentaries are there about just that ... but You need something immaterial to win a war, but that is not "heroism" which German were best at in their propaganda ... they would have needed a just sake, and that they were lacking completely. Longing for hegemony (of any kind) AKA power is not sufficient, and has never been sufficient for any great power. In WWII, Germany completely failed (and never intended) to give the occupied zones anything good, instead there was purest exploitation and rape, especially on the Eastern front. Any empire based on violent power only will fall. Sooner or later. And so, the fall of the Nazi Reich was just a matter of time.
Yeah, that's true I think if they was more like a "good guys, liberators also" they could've gathered more support in socialist republics or any other occupied lands so there could've been less sabotage and all that shit Buuut they've done what they've done. Dunno if it's "good" or "not".. :s
0:56 "And the British lacked destroyers which could fill that role" How? The Royal Navy had more destroyers than anyone in the world. What COULD be the case and what you would be more accurate in saying is that perhaps the Home Fleet lacked destroyers and/or the British were spread out across the entire globe to the point that the amount of destroyers they could dedicate to fighting the U-Boats would be inadequate. But that's a very different picture than painting a picture where the Royal navy didn't have more destroyers than anyone in the war, which is the reality.
I basically agree with everything what you say. If I remember correctly, then what I meant, was that they didn't have enough destroyers for both combat and merchant escort duties. I didn't mean that the problem was that the Royal Navy was small, but that the task put on it was very big.
I know this is years old, but you can have the biggest Navy in the world and still lack destroyers, but that might be too much thinking for nationalist assholes
We had over 400 Destroyers by the end of WWI, but naval treaties and budget cuts forced us to downgrade to just over 110. Imagine if the UK still had that number of Destroyers.
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Just spam fighters and naval bombers over the english channel so you can naval invade, works in hoi4
Tabourda mate it was a joke about a video game called Hearts of Iron 4 calm it down
^this
Its a joke man lol
Calm your tits down man, geez... that was a game reference...
Tabourba You're an Idiot
R/wooosh
thumbs up for the battleships > Destroyers >submarines... no other youteber has ever pointed this out, its so good to learn new things
This is the basics of war. No perfect weapon, only perfect targets and perfect counters.
wargaming does that hhh
Don't worry, carriers made all that shit meaningless.
Simple History 😑
I mean it's really not that simple, cruisers are better suited for fighting destroyers but still it's more like a well balanced fleet will beat a poorly balanced one. If you just send 1 battleship against a group of destroyers the battleship will probably be overwhelmed, as happened during WWII. And a single submarine also wont be a perfect counter to a battleship. Really the best counter to a battleship is another battleship. So what you need to do is create a fleet where you have battleships which can counter the enemies battleship, cruisers to keep your battleships safe and help with air cover, destroyers to further assist with air cover and to screen and hunt down enemy ships. If all of these work in tandem you can create an effective fleet which can use it's battleship optimally and keep them safe.
Minor historical inaccuracy, the Polish had begun attempting to crack Enigma before the war even started they had seized a machine and sent it too Britain allowing them to join (and later continue after poland fell) effort. Later the British had captured an encrypter from a Uboat allowing them to succesfully decrypt the code
well no the Poles did break the enigma code but the code was upgraded
Polish did not attempting to crack Enigma, they did crack Enigma, and give the method to French and British in August of 1939. Polish also build automated decipher system called "bomb" to speed up the process (manual decoding took 3 days). Polish build 6 bomb that work in tandem, however over time that become insufficient as German encryption become more complex and it required 60 Bombs.
That wa beyond capability of Polish team at that time. Once they give the plans to British secret service, that work was continue by Alan Turing and his team. Even the name "Bomb" wa conceive by Polish cipher group of Mariana Rejewskiego, Jerzego Różyckiego and Henryka Zygalskiego
poles never cracked naval enigma.
The Poles bought a machine I read. Enigma was sold on the (,fairly) open market before ww2.
i believe very similar machine was used in german trade navy. if not the same.
You censored the swastika: 0:30
Uncensored swastika: 1:18
CONSISTENCY EASTORY!
Yeah I noticed that it was in and out too, it's not like we don't know what it looks like, you're not protecting anyone.
Kris Frederick helps for German audiences
it helps with demonetization on RUclips to censor the swastika
@@コリンウォールド censoring history is a great way for it to repeat in the future. Don't help youtube making a mistake.
Mic_Glow They’re not censoring history, just a symbol
The "special operations" you said the British used to get their hands on the enigma machine were actually copies constructed by the Poles and gifted to the British (and French) in 1938. The Poles had already broken the Enigma technology prior to the start of the War, using the skills of several brilliant Polish mathematicians, and had been listening to German communications until the Germans added some extra complexity to the machines (adding two extra rotors, which would necessitate 10 times the manpower of deciphering on the part of the Poles) which the Poles simply lacked the funds to overcome. The British worked off of the initial Polish breakthrough. To quote Gordon Welchman (who would become the head of the project to overcome German Army and Airforce Enigma ciphers):
"Hut 6 Ultra would never have gotten off the ground if we had not learned from the Poles, in the nick of time, the details both of the German military version of the commercial Enigma machine, and of the operating procedures that were in use."
Seems like you could have given a small reference to the Poles right there, given how critical they were to the Allied efforts to overcome the Enigma cypher, and how their tremendous role in this piece of WWII history is constantly overlooked for seemingly no apparent reason other than to attribute "single-handed" credit to the British for accomplishing what was in reality, a joint Allied effort.
History is written by the victors, Poland was one of the countries that lost the most in ww2 and then they got stuck behind the iron curtain for the next 40 - 50 years. Thanks to that many accomplishments made by the Poles are ignored.
Not to take anything away from the Polish successes in early breakthroughs in Enigma, but check out the stories of the U-110, U-570, and U-559, among others, to which I'm sure the video poster was referring.
Back to the Polish, though, to remember that - as I recall - some of the Polish team who'd broken Enigma were captured by the Germans, but did not reveal anything that they knew, despite what they must have suffered.
How did the Poles not decipher the messages detailing the German invasion of Poland? Or perhaps they did?
@@JakubB2000 history was not written by the victors
There's hundreds of articles praising the poles for breaking the enigma yet you claimed no one ever praised them
@@ralphraffles1394 because they know that germas will attack them so why they needed to break informations about the german will attack them? Piłsudski know that there will be polish-german war in 33 :/
silent hunter 3 taught me everything about u boats in ww2
Yux.T N. Well the Navy doesn’t train us on U-Boats and destroyers by playing video games!😂 you broke ma laughing!
Hsj Bah hehe, yeah i know its just a game...stuff like minelaying and milk cows don’t exist in the game, neither do wolfpacks on campaign mode
Enigma! Polish guys broke the Enigma for the British. Just saying.
WW2 was fascinating.
As for U-Boots, I didn't realize how much of an issue resurfacing was. It's always stated in history books, but never explained.
Yeah, they don't teach us anything like that in school. Instead a whole horseload of unimportant dates.
Basically submarines at the time were really more of a "small warship capable of operating underwater" rather than full fledged submarine as we know them today. They had to operate mostly on the surface and submerge only if in danger, sacrificing over 50% of their speed while doing so. Furthermore, the U-boot captains actually preferred to perform torpedo attacks while surfaced, under cover of night, in groups (famous wolfpacks).
That XCOM reference was spicy!
I freakin' love this channel. Period.
I love how the British just manage to make technology that easily counters the new German tech within like a year of the new tech being released.
Nice animation and a very enjoyable way of narrating, great video
Great vid, can't wait for the next episode in the series
This channel is great.
For anyone wondering, the Enigma was cracked by a bunch of code breakers in Bletchley Park, one man named Alan Turing is credited for heading the team and was treated horribly by his country after the war, ending his own life in 54'
Very very informative :)
please keeping making these
Please make more of these videos! They are awesome! The French one was amazing!
Brilliantly made video.
Awesome vid - thanks!
Nice combination between German and English: the / der Schnorkel ;)
The Canadians Navy was protecting the first convey attacked with an acoustic torpedo. Without examining one and within 48 hours they had worked out what had attacked them and developed the towed decoy. Made of wood it cost only $24 Canadian.
I started a counter that counted all the counters in this clip.
2:03 Nice X-Com reference.
2:04 Heh, okay that's cute Vahlen
Please make an episode on Japan.
Apparently this was the only aspect of the war that worried Churchill.
Holy shit i didnt know a u-boat reached the gulf of mexico.
"a" boat?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Caribbean
PLEASE more "Brillant" plans! :D
Where are the rest at? The two you made are good
Voynich manuscript at 3:56 “ unreadable”. Well done.....
lmao the beginning's beatles reference with the yellow submarine.
Has no one mentioned SUBscribe at the end?!
this reminds me of that "trace buster buster" scene from that movie
I love these, please make more
a really good video
Waiting for next video
Very informative!
Hope you’re planning on releasing the fourth plan!
The Kriegsmarine never had a chance. The war started too early, Donitz never had enough subs to seriously affect the supplying of England. Refurbishment of shipping alone more than made up losses. Add in US production and the cumulative affect was that even at the height of convoy losses in early '43 the allies were making more ships than the Germans could sink. German production and technology never caught up. The allies scientific advances far out stripped any tech the Germans had. 96% of shipping reached England.
that us fake bill bird. the kriegsmarine has chance to win only by hiding the enigma machine.
you know nothing
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Nope, they were screwed either way. They can't hide something when the enemy is boarding their ship and stealing it.
Wow, the technology back then was very impressive.
there is a footage of german u-boat looking new york night lights...but i can't find it, i saw it in "ww2 in color" footages
That beatles joke though
Aircraft coverage explained how u-256 survived its last patrol in 1944.
I almost listened to this without watching the video. What an egregious error that would have been.
2:05 nice reference.
Excuse me, i'm just gonnna
"accidentally" drop our newest invention to defeat you.
Should have added how the German code was broken using the first computing device
I love this channel and yellow submarines
Still waiting for British battle plans
Just wonder if you can include Japan and China in this series, since they are major players in the war as well.
Some things could have been done better from the German part: use Portugal as a base + occupy the Azores and provide air cover and observation in the Atlantic. Occupy Gibraltar. Avoid unnecessary chitchat keep maximum radio silence and always assume Enigma can be broken. Build the Type XXI much earlier with the snorkels and deploy them in large numbers. Defend northern France and sub bases from air raids with radar (+ develop Me 262 earlier and use them as interceptors) instead of wasting the Luftwaffe on useless bombing raids over England. Finally: never start a second front in the East, don't ally with Japan and avoid implicating the US as long as possible and concentrate efforts only on Britain. But hindsight is always 20/20 :)
Why didn't they just used like a super long Schnokel?
its actually schnorchel ... basic term for a pipe that makes you breath under water in german
You really should have too much supscripters (sorry for my English is not my mother lenguage)
Make a submarine that’s whole purpose isn’t to fuel others and carry supply’s and rations to other subs then use the advantage to full effect
They did do this.
If Hitler didn't stop using mass paratrooper invasion tactics, he could have gained a city on the British eastern coast, and easily launched a larger sea invasion force from one of the Scandinavian countries.
There is a mistake in your video. It wasn't British who cracked enigma. It was Polish
nice Beatles joke
4:25 Vichy France, different color? Turkey too.
0:55 , wow, just like in hearts of iron 4!
..except submarines cant catch battleships so carriers and battleships have no counter. Rock, paper, scissors where paper cant beat rock. :I
Germany was smart because I was thereLOL Einstein!!!!!!!
Marek Tuzak because I was not having options so I gone to America but you should know they tortured me, my plans of Energy mass conversion they stole from me and I was responsible for this but they fuckers are dumb don't have brains therefore when people ask Americans who controlled Berlin in 1942 they say it was Germany itself you can understand how much fool are they
Not sure if you're a troll
oh by the way I am Indian :)
DerpyProgrammer mind your language I am insulting any one so you to don't dare to say this or else I am gonna report you and will spam you in every social media please don't dare to say against any country I respect every country and I too think you do so
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Imagine if the plane didn't drop the mine
Eastory Poles broke enigma code I give you for days on correct this or I blocked this video.
As the Germans continuously introduced improvements to their Enigma machine, it had to be "broken" several times over. Enigma was indeed first broken by the Poles, but by the Battle of Atlantic the Germans had upgraded their methods, which rendered the messages unreadable. So it had to be broken again by the British.
Eastory Thanks for correcting this guy. Poles should get credit for their early efforts in the Enigma code but it pisses me off how nationalistic polaks try and dismiss the efforts of the British, especially the incredible work at Bletchley park, ultra and boarding sinking u boats to grab their enigma machines.
the polish do that with anything amazing in ww2 e.g. "they won the battle of Britain for us". and sometimes their jingo tendencies will take credit for any historical moment that changed history e.g. Poland saved Christendom is an exaggerated way of saving the polish hussars supported the Austrians in one of the sieges of Vienna.
ben dover I find that a lot of people say "we did this. It's because of us this happened" when a lot of both ww2 and ww1 were combined countries.
" I give you for days on correct this or I blocked this video" Minority complex hurts. :D
Just launch a naval invasion as soon as you declare war, you will instantly gain superiority and be able to sealion, gg ez.
this is not hoi4 bro
As the Battle of the Atlantic progressed the quality of new U-Boats and their new crews diminished. By the end of the war 80% of German submariner were dead
The Commonwealth broke Enigma.. not Britain. Specifically Poland in exile in London.
Typ XXI: the best of the best.
If I recall correctly, the Germans didn't have much of a choice. They built these submarines in secret. Well... as secretly as they could... Germans loved their submarines after all...
How about upload of the next episode 🤔
S C H N O R K E L
dumb af. in german its called schnorchel and in english its snorkel, so its wrong from both ways.
Engage the super special schnorchel , ve are under ver tack.
SCH NOR KLË
Germany, the maker of a meme
When you max out the tech tree and immediately lose the game
Ikr its so ANNOYING
I either overinvest into tech or into army, it's so hard to balance.
HOI4
I almost never invest into navy tech until 41 or later
Another factor in the war is America began making thousands of liberty and other types of ships during the war, which lessened the effect of sinking the same amount of ships.
I got a counter to you’re counter of my counter that was countering your counter that was set to counter my counter
Call of Duty: Counter warfare.
That's actually the reason why technologic development skyrockets during wartime, because everybody tries to leapfrog each other and counter enemy tech.
Compare the technological levels in 1939 and 1945 and you will find it has advanced by several magnitudes.
same with WWI where all of the technological advancements in just airplane technology went from still basically gliders in 4 years to basically fully functioning airplanes but then in the interwar periods almost no technological advancements were really made and pretty much WWI era planes where still being used but then by the end of WWII we had practically had jet fighters.
Stoßtruppen the jet fighter was invented in WW2
I know, Germany used some very basic jet fighters as bomber killers but not as what we know as jet fighters today
Too much Hearts of Iron 4...
*stages Islamic coup in Guatemala*
Alexander Romanov shit game
@Headhunter_FRANK: Germany was not exactly a naval power by any definition of hte word. The navy was geared entirely towards this plan, wich was about the best it could manage. For a proper Invasion of Britain or even the US, we would have needed to develop a entirely new Navy focussing on Surface Vessels.
Everyone knows the trick is to just strengthen those three strategic regions and watch
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Wow the technology back then was very impressive.
You just had to go there, didn't you? There is no German race, numnuts.
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Geras Al-Aqras get rid of u libtards
War certainly does drive weapon innovation. Now in peace time our digital tech has made incredible progress. But our firearms, aircrafts and tanks are still that of 20 years ago. Many countries are still using older stuff than that.
Its the reason you see such an explosion in technology avaliable to the public between 1945 and 1975. There was such a large investment in R&D (Especially for the British and Americans who always had the upperhand in technology throughout the war) during the war it almost doubled the rate of technological advancement
Who would win:
Highly advanced submarines which only need to go above water to refuel every so often, firing highly advanced torpedos, automatically going for the loudest thing around.
Or
2 pipes and a very bright flashlight
NoFlu frying
fulcrum 29 Mate, did you never consider the tactical advantages of deep frying every torpedo you use?
damn that's advanced tactics
Cant disagree with that
such submarine would not need acoustic torpedo. actually type XXI could go under convoy and shoot torpedoes under it so it would just avoid escort. but by that time battle was already lost anyway.
Germany: "We've got just a weapon for you, English!"
Britain: "We've got a counter for it."
Germany: "We've got just a weapon for you, English!"
Britain: "We've got a counter for it"
Germany: "We've got just a weapon for you, English!"
Britain: "We've got a counter for it"
Germany: "We've got just a weapon for you, English!"
Britain: "Alright just stop."
When did Britain say "Alright just stop"?... That corresponds to what time or event in World War II?
Nei Eduardo De Paula It was a joke literally about country having their own consciousness and interacting like a human being please don’t take it seriously
@@neieduardodepaula4556 End of World War II
how does this have only 1k views
Flare _053 every one that could have watched has been sunk.
Flare _053 people like being ignorant.... But its up to 31k now
yeah, it exploded quite quickly tbh
@Anthony Wilson
"people like being ignorant."
Do you even realize how childish and arrogant you sound?
Everyone who has not seen this video is ignorant?
Work on your disgusting attitude.
because there is no part 3 or 4
The comic script and the funny drawings hide underneath a very deep understanding of WW II. Usually when I am watching a new historic channel for the first time I pay special attention to try and find common myths in order to gauge the capabilities of the creator, but with this one I could find no weakness. Bravo.
Subscribed.
Yeah I do exactly the same
The Germans did not as much "chose" to wage a submarine war as they were forced to. Building a fleet could take a decade, building a fleet capable of overpowering the Royal Navy would last even more. And of course, the British, who already had enough shipyards to build a big fleet, would have kept increasing their navy while Germany was building its.
Germany simply could not hope to win a naval arms race with England so the submarine blockade (and the air attack that failed during the Battle of Britain) were its only shots.
You're an idiot. The Nazis built subs because they were difficult to detect and destroy and because they were disproportionately effective against large surface ships. Plain and simple. Anti-shipping fighter bombers were even more disproportionately effective and that is why the US built a carrier fleet. The Germans never did so because they simply never had the ability to even construct carriers without having them destroyed mid-construction. Not to mention large surface ships...all of which were built before the war started.
You literally have no fucking idea what you are talking about.
Essentially:
One Side: We have a new Weapon.
Other Side: We have a counter.
One Side: Now we have a better new weapon
Other Side: Now we have a better counter.
And Repeat
"To bring down the British Empire" *shows a tiny part of the empire as well as a completely different country.*
He doesn't recognize the continental Congress as a legit authority and believes that the colonies still belong to Britain.
lol what part of the vid is this?
@@itsmealex8959 Freedom or Death!
This makes me remember a book about WW1's flying machines. There it explained how any tiny tecnological advantage could have serious consequencies, like a system that made machineguns fire through the propellers at the right time and gave the pilots a higher kill score, or a tiny modification that made a plane more maneurable, or allowed it to rise/lower faster.
Or a stronger engine that allowed them to actually carry guns, as their only purpose at the time was as reconnosaince, and pilots would be issued rifles as their only defence. One german plane was even forced to land as allied ones literally pushed it down to the ground.
They were clunky machines that no one knew how to pilot, and were seen by the higher ups as tanks were seen in WW2: something new they didn't understand.
Any new invention could give such superiority, but only for a short time until it was countered by tactics or some other tecnology. This is evolution at it's finest.
Das Elektroboot XD
I was somewhat uncertain if people would get the reference on this one :)
+Eastory Which one of the remaining two episodes should I be expecting, the British, or the Soviet one?
Creepy
0:56 I want to make a version of rock, paper, scissors were it's battleship, destroyer, submarine.
fun fact about the type 21 after the war a brewery in frankfurt bought some unused hulls and now cider is made in them.
the dutch plan: be neutral
ok t hat didn't work plan b: fight them with your 100 year old army with cannons older then the generals controling the army and not get one of your cities carpetbombed
well thats a fail lets just surrender guys this happend in 2 days
Enigma was given by Poland after losing to Germany and USSR in 1939.
Not the naval enigma
So the allied scientists were in charge of alien autopsies after the invasion? 2:05
Honestly this is fascinating. It just goes to show that you can spend hundreds of hours learning about WWII and still only scratch the surface.
Enigma wasn't decrypted by British. It was decrypted by polish cryptoanalysts before war. Turing only upgraded their work when Germans upgraded their Enigmas.
The british found a fully intact enigma machine on a submarine that a destroyer forced to surface. with that they were able to decrypt it
The Polish didn't decipher enigma but made a very good and impressive start. They smuggled their work out of Poland when they were invaded so that Britain could use their work. They even managed to hide this fact from the Nazis, who as a result were impervous to attempts at cracking their secret codes.
It isn't very hard to check it on wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma
mixererunio yes but in 1940 the Germans updated the enigma code and it was much harder to crack. The poles did start with it pretty well but the British got a major victory when they obtained a fully intact enigma machine from a U-Boat.
Its not the enigma machine that was important. That could be made outside Germany en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Enigma_double
The code books were important. 1 time use codes from code books are unbreakable if you dont have that code book. Britain had to keep the capture of a code book a secret, cause Germans could just print different ones if they knew.
I like how he said "allies got there act together and in acted the convoy system" more like the American's finally listened to the British and in acted the convoy system
Basically a constant "No u." contest.
War technology is of course important to win a war; and Your summary is excellent. Resources of any kind are also important, and many documentaries are there about just that ... but You need something immaterial to win a war, but that is not "heroism" which German were best at in their propaganda ... they would have needed a just sake, and that they were lacking completely. Longing for hegemony (of any kind) AKA power is not sufficient, and has never been sufficient for any great power. In WWII, Germany completely failed (and never intended) to give the occupied zones anything good, instead there was purest exploitation and rape, especially on the Eastern front. Any empire based on violent power only will fall. Sooner or later. And so, the fall of the Nazi Reich was just a matter of time.
Yeah, that's true
I think if they was more like a "good guys, liberators also" they could've gathered more support in socialist republics or any other occupied lands so there could've been less sabotage and all that shit
Buuut they've done what they've done. Dunno if it's "good" or "not".. :s
I'm disappointed nobody got the XCOM reference around 2:02
nice 1 dood
I loved that Xcom reference
reverse engineering is not exactly an x-com invention.
how was that an xcom reference?
Zetos Stormrider the guy who is dissecting it is in an Xcom suit
Awesome, thank you very much this explained to me the Atlantic war and the German plan , keep up the good work
this whole war was: counter counter counter hey now we have a counter their just countering everything XD
The polish man broke the enigna code
3 guys
Pierdole it was alan during
Alan Turing wasnt polish
"a kingdom for some tea"
lmfao
its polish who decrypted enigma not british
0:56 "And the British lacked destroyers which could fill that role"
How? The Royal Navy had more destroyers than anyone in the world. What COULD be the case and what you would be more accurate in saying is that perhaps the Home Fleet lacked destroyers and/or the British were spread out across the entire globe to the point that the amount of destroyers they could dedicate to fighting the U-Boats would be inadequate. But that's a very different picture than painting a picture where the Royal navy didn't have more destroyers than anyone in the war, which is the reality.
I basically agree with everything what you say. If I remember correctly, then what I meant, was that they didn't have enough destroyers for both combat and merchant escort duties. I didn't mean that the problem was that the Royal Navy was small, but that the task put on it was very big.
@@Eastory Thumbs up!
I know this is years old, but you can have the biggest Navy in the world and still lack destroyers, but that might be too much thinking for nationalist assholes
We had over 400 Destroyers by the end of WWI, but naval treaties and budget cuts forced us to downgrade to just over 110.
Imagine if the UK still had that number of Destroyers.