This is insanely high-effort content. I can't believe the research it must have taken to track the movements of every single division in the Eastern Front, it helps me have a much better sense of context whenever I read about WWII now, kudos to the creator.
Yes, this series is a must watch if you are reading and learning about the Eastern Front. Paper maps and descriptive text can only do so much in describing how the war played out. Actually seeing it unfold in animation with such detail is incredibly informative.
Akuratist ov Because those you mentioned weren’t large enough to be shown on a map on a scale like this. The danish for example, where barely a few hundred to few. Besides, there ARE italian units on the map, you just didn’t pay enough attention to notice.
My Grandfather fought Germans in one of those square boxes, died somewhere near Kharkov. From what the vets tell us - the fighting was extreme, both sides fought with utmost ferocity AND skill.
My Grandpa fought in battle of stalingrad, battle of Sevastopol and fought in Romania, Bulgaria, hungary and Austria. He fought for the Soviet union and he survived the war. He fought on southern front basically
@@nilfootballgamer9085 As a current sailor in the US, I respect both of your grandparents for their efforts. I wish our countries had better relations in the modern age.
Just imagine all of the men, materials, vehicles, and planes that were needed for the whole of the Eastern Front. It's astounding to even think about the sheer numbers from both sides.
@ this is the eastern front its the called the first example of armoured warfare for a reason all infantry were mobile and had tucks tanks where seen everywhere shooting other tanks 2km away
@@onvawynog4696 That front was a long painful front and he is already doing videos together with channel "world war 2" where he will probably cover the most of Chinese front after 1939.
@Roughman seriously, I can't imagine the extent of HQ work needed to mangage a front that huge. P.s. the length of the front is what always boggled my mind.
@@bombarderoazul yeah but soviet armies were not as big a a german or allied army. They were generally the size of a german corps, sometimes even smaller.
Just make sure to have anti-tank in your infantry divisions and 150+ Divisions on the frontline. Don't allow your flanks to be covered by the Italians, Romanians, or Hungarians!
Imagine the number of ARMIES ( represented by tiny numbers). I have just read about the North African Front and the battles only happened with few armies. The Eastern Front was insane and breathtaking.
Soviet Armies was pretty small if compare with other armies, which made them more flexible but in same time need alot officers which Soviet didnt have at the start of war
@@aussie870 At the end of Civil war , Soviet had 5millions soldiers This number dropped to 600 thousands after that as Soviet demobilized the Red Army . After 1933 or 1934 , Soviet Red Army increase it size one against because of the threat from Germany At 1935 Red Army had 1.3 millions soldiers and even at this point , the officers were not enough for the army At 1937 The Purge happened , around 30 thousands military personals got executed (not confirmed as nothing about the Purge can be confirmed) but around 50% of the Red Army officers got Purged or Dismissed or sent to Gulag or etc ... while many of them came back to the rank at 1942 , the lack of officer worsened after the Purge as suddenly half of the Red Army top disappeared (mostly to re education camps (or we calling them Gulag)) At 1939 even after half of the officers got removed , the expanding of Red Army didn't stop . They had 1.8 millions soldiers before the Winter War. The failure of Red Army in Winter War made Stalin believed that Red Army was in no position to be in any big war so he decided to expanding it even further .... (Red Army size after the war would be around 1.5millions soldiers) At the point of operation Barbarossa , Red Army had 3milions soldiers in 300 divisions . And ofcourse , with that rapid size increase army , there was no way Soviet could supply their army with enough officers
to solve the lack of officer , they made the officer rank simpler and ... the early months of eastern front was like : German generals play a chess game while Soviet generals play chinese go chess game . The chess pieces in German generals chess table were the officers played smaller chess game while the go pieces of Soviet generals go chess tables ... had to report to their generals to decide a move.
A lot of people have the impression that the Soviets succeeded just by throwing cannon fodder at the Germans and that the winter did most of the killing. The truth is that there was some really good generalship in the Red Army too.
John Smith > From 1942 onwards, Germany had severe oil shortages Fuel consumption in thousands of tons. 1941 Wehrmacht - 4567 thousand tons. Red Army - 1718 (half a year). 1942 Wehrmacht - 4410 thousand tons. Red Army - 2765 thousand tons. 1943 Wehrmacht - 4762 thousand tons. Red Army - 3338 thousand tons. > Soviets took absurd casualties that they were only able to afford due to their massive population size. USSR mobilized 35 million people throughout the war, Germany mobilized 20 million. At the end of the war, Germany used old people and children and its human resources ran out, so the percentage of its military losses was higher than soviet. > Around 20 million dead with a k/d ratio well below 1 even up to and during the battle of Berlin. 20 million is military + civilian casualties. The total ratio of military casualties should not exceed 2 : 1. Losses in the battle for Berlin were in favor of the Red Army. However, the criterion of victory is not the losses, but the achievement of the main goals. > The eventual Soviet victory, especially when accounting for Allied aid, is not admirable at all. The help of the allies was only a bonus in relation to the Soviet economic efforts. The USSR deserves respect because it defeated the Axis bloc with less industrial potential than Germany, especially after the occupation.
@@JohnSmith-1066 "Around 20 million dead" Most of the dead are civilians whom the Germans killed in their rear. Losses among the military: 8,668,000 - the USSR (the main part in 1941), 5,076,000 - Germans. Together with the Germans, several other countries fought against the USSR. The USSR had no advantage in the number of people. In addition, almost all of continental Europe worked for Germany. The USSR lost its main industrial areas in 1941, 73 million people (1/3 of the total population of the USSR) were under German occupation. By the end of 1941, the USSR was lagging behind the Axis countries in terms of population and industry, but nevertheless won the war. The successes of the Germans in 1941 are associated with the surprise attack and unpreparedness of the Soviet army for war. Just before the war in the USSR, major reforms began in the army. They were not completed by 1941, many units of the army were not equipped with equipment, many lacked soldiers, etc. If the war began 2 years later, it would have ended much faster.
@@JohnSmith-1066 20 million dead is including civilians, military dead are about 8.9 million, including almost 2 million that died in Nazi concentration camps, german dead are 4.3 million, soviet casualties were very heavy, but mostly in the first 2 years, as the red army became a better fighting force, they inflicted very heavy casualties on the germans, in the last six months of 1944, Germany lost 800,000 men, and also Germany didn't really have any significant fuel shortage until the red army captured Romania,
It's very interesting to realize that the "battle of Kursk" was not a singular event (~armies collide at a field) as it's often portrayed but a rather a long sequence of continuous maneuvers.
First of all, it was a battle of intelligences. It can't be shown on a map. but soviet intel did an amazing job, securing the victory of red army troops.
@Reunite The British Empire Perhaps, but my definiton of intelligence is acquiring information by clever means. Having somebody just betray the plans to you is merely luck.
the battle of kursk was just taking on for a week as than the germany realised they can'T win and the soviet would have made an big push anyways and without losing alot man in the battle of kursk it would have been even better + they could have used that information to make an offensive somewhere else and make the germans give up all dreams about kursk
@@bomschhofmann1644 No kidding! And the level of detail! I think I've learned more by watching these Eastern Front video series than by reading all the history books I've read about it and all the TV documentaries put together!
No wonder. TV's are lying and bending facts left and right, while youtubers try to stay as accurate as possible. So obviously people would prefer actual history to the crooked surrogate bend to fit the current political agenda.
@@Wow4ik4ik ну, предположим, Курск разобрали не так чтобы очень, уделив больше внимания последующим наступлениям. И это хорошо, потому что про Курск говорят много, а вот про последующие наступления, например, под Смоленском - куда меньше. Ждём последнюю/предпоследнюю часть.
This series really demonstrates how the German mastery of maneuver warfare and superior experience was countered by the Russians mastery of attrition warfare and their General's rapidly increasing skill and familiarity with German tactics. You can actually see the Russians trying new things as their troops become more experienced and disciplined, this is a great way to learn about this stuff.
That, and the Red Army being constantly on the offensive somewhere, frequently shifting focus to keep the Germans off balance and constantly busy, unable to catch its breath long enough to take the initiative.
@G E T R E K T 905 By your words Russia selling gas and oil to Europe is a life saving event and US sanctioning North Stream 2 is an attack on democracy
@G E T R E K T 905 read who is the leader in lend-lease - Great Britain, not Russia. And read when there really were deliveries. It was the second half of 1942 and 43. Before that there was no lend-lease or it was scanty
@G E T R E K T 905 Lend lease helped massively, but the USSR still would have won without it though it would have taken much longer. And I don’t think an alternate history video is the best source for making commentary on WWII, no matter how well researched.
This! This is what should be in RUclips Rewind. This videos is a masterpiece, considering it's educational and informational value and lack of content with similar quality and details.
This video is an absolute masterpiece. It gives us an amazing vantage point towards the front. Things become much clearer when looked at from above. Thank you!!
Damn this is great series. The music matches the changes of pace and visuals so well. I can tell this is a labor of love. Im definitely going to keep watching.
Defending Russia was a logistics nightmare too. The Russians suffered more casualties trying to attack in the winter and muddy seasons than the Germans did.
exactly, D-day fails to compare to the success of Bagration due to the incompetance of the german high command the entire army group centre was destroyed
I need to see how bagration was achieved, the germans were holding back the red army very well up to mid 1944. Although they were losing ground , but at bagration the red army finally ruptured the German front and pretty much annihilated army group centre.
Andrey, last time I checked, no US solider had a 'warm home' in Europe, but yet we have 10's of thousands of soldiers buried there. And I also looked as hard as I could for the graves of Russian soldiers throughout the Pacific from the "Great Patriotic War" fought against Japan, but I can't find a single one....
@@uio890138 Yes US landed Europe in 44 but war started in 39 you know and somebody had to deal with 154 german divisions. And also russians defeated Japanese in 1945 in China.
This is amazing, it is so much easier to understand what happened than reading texts, history education like this would have been so much more interesting for everyone! Really appreciate this, the difficulties, the knowledge and research required to make this happen is tremendous. I hope this kind of animation could be used more often elsewhere for education purposes.
@@enterthedragon2689можем повторить появился как рас от самих солдат после ВОВ и означал лишь что если кто либо ещё опять сунется к нам то они сделают это ещё раз
@@YresTA Сделают ещё раз что? 27 миллионов смертей советских граждан? Боже, какой же ты долбоёб. Найди мне хоть одно подтверждение, что ветераны ВОВ так говорили. Никогда они такого не говорил. Сам выдумал хуйню, так ещё и приписал её ветеранам, которые со слезами на глазах вспоминали события той войны. Что они на самом деле говорили, так это: "лишь бы не было войны" и "пусть вашему поколению никогда не удастся узнать, что такое война" -- это я помню лично, когда в седьмом классе к нам в школу пригласили нескольких ветеранов нашего города. Учитывая, что ты не знаешь, как пишутся элементарные слова на русском языке ("как рас"), я не удивлён, что ты несёшь полную чепуху. Необразованный кусок тупого говна. "Можем повторить" -- слоган современных дураков, которые забыли, чем пожертвовали советские граждане, сколько их было убито. Забыли цену, которую уплатили простые люди, чтобы победить. Поэтому свою помойку открывают, и воняют про "можем повторить" со своих пропёрженных диванов, потому что они не знают, что такое война, они не были тогда там. Никто никогда не захочет такого повторения с сожжёнными деревнями с людьми внутри, с концлагерями, пытками и другими ужасами. Дебил ёбанный, блядь.
8:00 KIROVOGRAD. We have heard stories about the fierce defence capabilities of US airborne at Bastogne and British airborne in Arnhem. Here we have the German 2nd airborne aiding the defence of Kirovograd (as element of 11th Infantry Corp shown on the map) until spring while being vastly outnumbered and armed only with Panzerschrecks against Soviet tanks, losing half of the division in the process. The division would then be redeployed to fight against the D-Day invasion in Normandy, as seen in Band of Brothers episode 3. The German 1st airborne is more well know. See 10:35, in Italy. Monte Cassino.
@VendPrekmurec Never thought that from anything I was taught or read. Some of those places,especially in the south,could get very warm in the summer months,certainly between June and September. It's just that,with heavy rains common in October causing thick mud on a sketchy road patchwork spread over vast distances and the coming of snow,ice and seriously sub-zero temperatures between November and at least February the Russian winter was a factor that could be used to the Red Army's advantage and caught the Germans not fully prepared or equipped.
Ralph Jackson the advantage for the Nazis was the whole European fascist alliance against Russia which was still suffering from civil war, but instead of everything (the fact that the whole Europe - without few countries) they still have won the war. Whole fascist Europe could not take 5% of Russian territory and were already destroyed on the Russian periphery, border, in Stalingrad.Winter was not eternal from 1939 to 1945. Do you think that winter was not stopping the Russians from destroying Nazis? Millions of people (before that healthy, young) froze to death becouse of the occupation of Leningrad.
This helps me understand war in general, and this WWII in particular, better than anything I've ever read or seen. I've learned about salients and pockets, and I love it. What a great series.
Dear Eastory, I just watched all of your "Brilliant Plan to Win WW2" videos, and I gotta say: they were some of the most interesting and informative videos about WW2 that I have ever seen. I learned so much from them! I really hope that you could also make a Brilliant Plan video about Imperial Japan as well, as I expect that you would make it very informative and fun to watch.
I really see these videos as groundbreaking work. Finally someone uses the digital media and digital tools to create something new and worthwhile in the context of (military) history. Amazing, or maybe also worrying, that it was created by private person(s) and not "official" historians. I hope it inspires more stuff like this. Maybe even the same but on divisional level? That would be so great!
@@Nikola95inYT Not just at Stalingrad, but everywhere in the Eastern front. All these pocket liquidations and POW captures in 1941 didn't come for free, like in France. Most of them cost the Germans large casualties. So did rapid advance into enemy territory for hundreds of kilometers under fire from Soviet bombers. Most pessimistic (as it turns out realistic) German generals started writing in their diaries that the war appears to be lost as early as fall of 1941.
@@mikey-lastnamey7976 reason pretty simple. The goal for the war was to destroy red army by the end of summer, let it crumble, and let the soviet government crumble with it. little did they know...
As a fellow ww2 history lover i truly think your videos are one of the best military history videos on youtube in terms of accuracy and entertainment value. i really look forward to your video on 1945!
@slovene ball yep we're talking about the same. That offensive were they throwed houndreds of thoudsends of men and vehicules agaist the germans straight to the west. And army group center was crushed under million of soviet boots laking any decent tactic
this was special to me, just one of the most interesting videos i saw, and i saw many on this subject. But they don't compare to this one. This is well worth downloading and saving.
This gives me hope that someone may think "Maybe Stalin and USSR leadership wasnt idiots?". WW2 was difficulty=hard, no questions, but Soviets managed to develop backward country that lost to Japan before WW1, and cant even supply its troops with basic supplies in the end of WW1, ruined even more after Civil war+Foreign troops invasion into industrial country that managed to survive insane blows in WW2, transfer this new industry to eastern regions and increase production even more. This difficultylvl=insane. And even more insane considering that soon after the war, burnt, ruined and pillaged country that lost 27 mil lives managed to create nuclear bomb. If you love WW2 history, most likely you will love to learn more about Soviet leadership, there is lots remarkable things there. I think this ppl at least deserve fair view on their deeds.
that was what hitler and stalin were doing everyday like chess pieces on the eastern front from 1941 to 1945 ! and Stalin won the match after all the sacrifices of the russian soldier, with the end game and checkmate in Berlin!
@G E T R E K T 905 kinda, but you cannot say US won. 80% of german casualties were on the Eastern Front. When the US landed on D-Day, USSR already destroyed german armies and had entered some of Konigsberg. They had liberated eastern europe and depleted resources. They also started using better strategy and recovered their old strength which made them dependent on US less than they were in 41-42. They also completed most of their military recovery which allowed them to advance deeper. But yea, both the US and USSR were the key to Allied victory ( UK too because of their african and asian campaigns while liberating South East Asia )
Although I'm not from Europe but I like European history. They are Intelligent, brave, disciplined and hard working. Love from the tiny Aisan Country 🇧🇩Bangladesh.
0:46 my Grandpa was a Marshal (an Italian rank equivalent to an American Sergeant Major) in the Italian expeditionary force in Russia. He took part in the battles in the caucasus and Eastern Ukraine, before the force was recalled to Italy due to the allied invasion. During a skirmish with the Soviet forces, a comrade of his was wounded. He carried him for kilometres before becoming exhausted, and told him "I'll make sure someone comes to aid you", before being forced to leave him below a tree. Years later, after the war, the two met again.
@@hanzcastillo3099 I’m not quite sure if this is true, as it’s an oral story passed down my father’s family tree, but the two weren’t really friends, they just met eachother after the war. It could also be that the other Italian soldier was captured by the soviets and then released
I just want to thank you for your great effort in creating this series! There are so many WW2 documentaries whose main point is political; they aim to show how wrong Hitler (or Stalin) was and only focus superficially on the actual fighting and movement of troops in order to quickly prove their point: 'Hitler did xyz and lost the war'. You on the other hand spend time researching the facts and present them without a hint of prejudice for either side and let us viewers do the interpreting - so again thanks. Hopefully many others will be inspired by this and follow your lead! Greetz
Удивительно, какой степени выдержку нужно иметь, чтобы сделать подобного кач-ва видео. Снимаю перед вами шляпу. Очень бы хотелось видеть подобный цикл видео о Гражданской войне в России, всё таки Эстония сыграла там не последнюю роль)
So from 2:00 to 2:30 is Mansteins "Miracle on the Don". Seeing it in the context of the bigger picture, it loses the significance that I'd attached to it from book reading alone. Thank you for your animated map - should be taught in every school.
I'd say it looks rather significative instead. The lad managed to rally an army group that was retreating in total disarray and not only stopped the advancing soviets, he actually turned the tide, even if only for a while, and got the army group back as a cohese unit. Quite a good performance, considering that the group had just lost a big chunk of it's forces at Stalingrad.
@@r.c.1881 Yep Agreed, a tremendous result under the circumstances. It just looked more like a blip compared to the other movements on the animated map, than I'd imagined it would be.
Imagine being a German in Stalingrad and knowing that the nearest friendly city is well over 100 km away... Edit: The replies are a train wreck, don't look at them.
my grandpa was fighting in stalingrad, got badly injured from a soviet grenade. he got out of stalingrad because of his injury just before the german troops were circled
@@duckduckov4362 Both sides are the victims of the war, blame the leader not the people. There are no good and bad guy in a war, only the winner and the loser.
Man.. watching the 'details' makes me realize the significance of the general belief at staff level that after Stalingrad Germany REALLY had.. lost the war
Most of the generals actually did not believe that the war was lost at the time. Erich von Manstein would bloat about the counteroffensive in the south where they took back Kharkov for a little while, in his memoirs after the war. It was primarily after they lost the battle of Kursk and Crimera. Most of the generals from earlier on in the war, would at that point in 1944 have been dismissed if not dead or captured. A lot of the after thoughts was that everything was lost after Stalingrad, especially by the replacement generals who were put in to salvage the seemingly unsalvageable situation. Especially from the notes that became the movie "The Downfall" the blame game of a lost cause between the generals originates. But that is not different from when you have almost lost a sports match and start after-rationalizing.
@G E T R E K T 905 lol lend lease was large on the point of view of the US but is a very tiny fraction of material on the scale of the eastern front. If lend lease did not happen nothing would have changed.
when I deal with the countless minor irritants and inconveniences of daily life I think of the incalculable human misery of this war theater. this video really means a lot to me. thanks for the effort.
German siege of Sevastopol lasted for more than half a year, from October 30, 1941 to July 4, 1942. Soviet siege of Sevastopol ended in less than two weeks and the city was captured on May 9, 1944.
It's the same with Koenigsberg. Hitler turned the city into a fortress and said that the Russians had defended Sevastopol for 8 months, and the Germans could defend Konigsberg for even longer. When the Russians approached Konigsberg, they dropped leaflets over the city: "we defended Sevastopol for 8 months, and took it in 2 weeks. We will also take Koenigsberg in 2 weeks." And they kept their word, taking Konigsberg even faster.
@@AWtify this is probably the dumbest comparison I've ever seen on the internet. Sevastopol was THE soviet naval base, one of the strongest if not the strongest fortress of its time with loads of elite entrenched troops, supplies, heavy bunkers and giant coastal artillery, yet the Germans systematically took it. Königsberg was nothing more than a regular city with a bunch of German civilians as a "militia" against the massive Soviet heavy artillery and airforce in 1945. Hitler may have designated it as a fortress, but it lacked everything Sevastopol had in comparison.
@@ironfortitude9817 how come the most intelligent Europeans never knew of the winter and the overwhelmig number of men in th USSR? it's either they were stupid or you are.
@@alexalexin9491 Easy to state knowing the outcome ... If being intelligent meant people made no mistakes or unforseen circumstances didn't occur humanity would alreadybhave colonized Mars ...
الكاتب هو مهندس النفس البشريه قال / جوزيف ستالين اعكسها ليس هجوم عكسي رتبها قال / جوزيف ستالين الثقافه هي اخر مايبقى لك بعد ان تنسى كل ماتعلمته في المدرسه /.
The thing is, if Steiner attacked the Germans could of won the war. If the attack was succesful the German's would of got enough momentum to push the soviets back to Moscow in 1945 and win the war
Question Eastory At 7:40 where and how did the Soviets just get all of that manpower from to get to 6 million men? Was it reserves from eastern Russia, newly trained troops or the Soviets always had them?
I really admire you for all your hard work in animating all those units and borders. The amount of effort you put in it should pay. I really appreciate your videos, hope your next series will be about the asian, african and/or pacific fronts in wwii. Anyway whatever you do I'm sure it'll be good ! Thanks from France !
Exactly. They just wanted to stop the REDs. Not to help France, Netherlands et al. As they couldn't be sure that REDs would stop after taking the whole of Europe..
@@konstantina.khmelev152 Stalin was pleading for another front on the West to divert troops, and the Soviets captured all territory they "liberated" from the Nazis, and raped and murdered their way through. 2+ million German women were raped.
@@DaniboyBR2 Information about 2 million raped women in Germany is based on speculation, not fact. The Soviet Union lost about 26 million people (perhaps even more), the number of raped women is not known exactly. However, the Soviet command strictly intersected attempts to rape and murder the Germans. Some soldiers were hanged in public. By the way, the number of 2 million may have been huge for anti-Soviet propaganda. In general, this number is constantly changing, and even an approximate number is difficult to find.
I am late but just keep in mind America was sending all the munitions, food and clothing. That the Soviets could not make because all the men were fighting.
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I Just wanted to acknowledge the tremendous effort that it would take to research and animate something like this, and express my appreciation.
you can show appreciation by supporting him on patreon for very little. most people choose not even for big creators so it means alot
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I Just wanted to acknowledge the tremendous effort that it would take to defeat the nazis on the Eastern Front, and express my appreciation.
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DUDE YOU’RE KILLING ME! THIS SERIES IS SO FREAKIN’ GOOD
It is beyond good.
Yea it’s freaking amazing the details and information
This is insanely high-effort content. I can't believe the research it must have taken to track the movements of every single division in the Eastern Front, it helps me have a much better sense of context whenever I read about WWII now, kudos to the creator.
Yes, this series is a must watch if you are reading and learning about the Eastern Front. Paper maps and descriptive text can only do so much in describing how the war played out. Actually seeing it unfold in animation with such detail is incredibly informative.
Probably the authors of the video used some specialized software to create such complicated diagrams.
Akuratist ov
Because those you mentioned weren’t large enough to be shown on a map on a scale like this. The danish for example, where barely a few hundred to few. Besides, there ARE italian units on the map, you just didn’t pay enough attention to notice.
@@Hobbitangle
It was a group effort.
Note the credits at the end of each video.
Yeah considering that the red army mobilized around 800 divisions
My Grandfather fought Germans in one of those square boxes, died somewhere near Kharkov. From what the vets tell us - the fighting was extreme, both sides fought with utmost ferocity AND skill.
My Grandpa fought in battle of stalingrad, battle of Sevastopol and fought in Romania, Bulgaria, hungary and Austria. He fought for the Soviet union and he survived the war. He fought on southern front basically
@@nilfootballgamer9085 As a current sailor in the US, I respect both of your grandparents for their efforts. I wish our countries had better relations in the modern age.
@@poseidon527 Yes I agree. God bless you. We love US 🇺🇸 too.
@Fatih Cetin Yes that is true.
My family was murdered by one of those square boxes.
I have never been so entertained by bubbles floating around on a map
Yeah
You should play hoi4.
@@suryaprakash2126 I do lel
@@CRE-cl1dv Lol, what else we need? People who play hoi4 will easily understand this.
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I was waiting for this, nice work as always :D
Very great & informative video as always, can't wait for the western front series 44/45
Hai inspector disini
Gak nyangka mimin nonton channel yang kurang terkenal kali
it will be short video, i think
@@manghariz2211 Hi Inspector! Hehehehe iya ni .. kan bikin konten butuh byk inspirasi jg 🤓
@@marcelobamb No, I think it will be longer, I have a feeling that Es will combine Western & Southern Front 🤓
@@InspectHistory wkwkwkw btw kapan upload min
Just imagine all of the men, materials, vehicles, and planes that were needed for the whole of the Eastern Front. It's astounding to even think about the sheer numbers from both sides.
@ There's also all of auxiliary equipment, replacement parts, fuel barrels, medical, food, artillery, jeeps, trucks, trains, ammunition, etc...
Think how that war could have gone if natzis could have not killed their mans (holocaust)
@ this is the eastern front its the called the first example of armoured warfare for a reason all infantry were mobile and had tucks tanks where seen everywhere shooting other tanks 2km away
@@angelovalavanis2314 German army was 80% horse drawn army no motorized vehicles they were using horses
@@kingcobra7183 No motorized vehicles?
Yes! New vid. I love these videos
I hope he does the chinese front after, but thats just wishful thinking
@@onvawynog4696 That front was a long painful front and he is already doing videos together with channel "world war 2" where he will probably cover the most of Chinese front after 1939.
A good Nazi is the dead nazi
Incorporating all the 1943 soviet divisions must have been a terrible lot of work.
Very well done.
Just wait until 45'
Danig Acosta I think they brought back the corps by then.
@Roughman seriously, I can't imagine the extent of HQ work needed to mangage a front that huge. P.s. the length of the front is what always boggled my mind.
Yes the red army was gigantic, something like 70 field armies, 5 shock armies, 8 tank armies, 11 guards armies,
@@bombarderoazul yeah but soviet armies were not as big a a german or allied army. They were generally the size of a german corps, sometimes even smaller.
Takes notes for next Hearts of Iron 4 game
Just make sure to have anti-tank in your infantry divisions and 150+ Divisions on the frontline. Don't allow your flanks to be covered by the Italians, Romanians, or Hungarians!
thats why im here
If u play against AI maybe
Ter mee too
im tryna kill soviet union with only 47 divisions.
Imagine the number of ARMIES ( represented by tiny numbers). I have just read about the North African Front and the battles only happened with few armies. The Eastern Front was insane and breathtaking.
Soviet Armies was pretty small if compare with other armies, which made them more flexible but in same time need alot officers which Soviet didnt have at the start of war
@@SanarySeggnete I wonder why the Soviets didn't have many officers at the start of the war. A real head-scratcher that is.
@@aussie870
At the end of Civil war , Soviet had 5millions soldiers
This number dropped to 600 thousands after that as Soviet demobilized the Red Army .
After 1933 or 1934 , Soviet Red Army increase it size one against because of the threat from Germany
At 1935 Red Army had 1.3 millions soldiers
and even at this point , the officers were not enough for the army
At 1937 The Purge happened , around 30 thousands military personals got executed (not confirmed as nothing about the Purge can be confirmed) but around 50% of the Red Army officers got Purged or Dismissed or sent to Gulag or etc ... while many of them came back to the rank at 1942 , the lack of officer worsened after the Purge as suddenly half of the Red Army top disappeared (mostly to re education camps (or we calling them Gulag))
At 1939 even after half of the officers got removed , the expanding of Red Army didn't stop . They had 1.8 millions soldiers before the Winter War.
The failure of Red Army in Winter War made Stalin believed that Red Army was in no position to be in any big war so he decided to expanding it even further .... (Red Army size after the war would be around 1.5millions soldiers)
At the point of operation Barbarossa , Red Army had 3milions soldiers in 300 divisions .
And ofcourse , with that rapid size increase army , there was no way Soviet could supply their army with enough officers
to solve the lack of officer , they made the officer rank simpler and ...
the early months of eastern front was like : German generals play a chess game while Soviet generals play chinese go chess game .
The chess pieces in German generals chess table were the officers played smaller chess game while the go pieces of Soviet generals go chess tables ... had to report to their generals to decide a move.
@@SanarySeggnete I'll be honest I said what I said as a joke, I knew about the Great Purge.
But this was a lot of information, thanks a lot lol.
A lot of people have the impression that the Soviets succeeded just by throwing cannon fodder at the Germans and that the winter did most of the killing. The truth is that there was some really good generalship in the Red Army too.
Thats right Russians got great proficiency in planning and carrying out great offensives in 1944 and 45.
indeed. the "primitive Russians" completely outsmarted, outmaneuvered, outthought and then annihilated the Nazi 6th Army at Stalingrad.
John Smith
> From 1942 onwards, Germany had severe oil shortages
Fuel consumption in thousands of tons.
1941
Wehrmacht - 4567 thousand tons. Red Army - 1718 (half a year).
1942
Wehrmacht - 4410 thousand tons. Red Army - 2765 thousand tons.
1943
Wehrmacht - 4762 thousand tons. Red Army - 3338 thousand tons.
> Soviets took absurd casualties that they were only able to afford due to their massive population size.
USSR mobilized 35 million people throughout the war, Germany mobilized 20 million. At the end of the war, Germany used old people and children and its human resources ran out, so the percentage of its military losses was higher than soviet.
> Around 20 million dead with a k/d ratio well below 1 even up to and during the battle of Berlin.
20 million is military + civilian casualties. The total ratio of military casualties should not exceed 2 : 1. Losses in the battle for Berlin were in favor of the Red Army. However, the criterion of victory is not the losses, but the achievement of the main goals.
> The eventual Soviet victory, especially when accounting for Allied aid, is not admirable at all.
The help of the allies was only a bonus in relation to the Soviet economic efforts. The USSR deserves respect because it defeated the Axis bloc with less industrial potential than Germany, especially after the occupation.
@@JohnSmith-1066 "Around 20 million dead" Most of the dead are civilians whom the Germans killed in their rear. Losses among the military: 8,668,000 - the USSR (the main part in 1941), 5,076,000 - Germans. Together with the Germans, several other countries fought against the USSR. The USSR had no advantage in the number of people. In addition, almost all of continental Europe worked for Germany. The USSR lost its main industrial areas in 1941, 73 million people (1/3 of the total population of the USSR) were under German occupation. By the end of 1941, the USSR was lagging behind the Axis countries in terms of population and industry, but nevertheless won the war.
The successes of the Germans in 1941 are associated with the surprise attack and unpreparedness of the Soviet army for war. Just before the war in the USSR, major reforms began in the army. They were not completed by 1941, many units of the army were not equipped with equipment, many lacked soldiers, etc. If the war began 2 years later, it would have ended much faster.
@@JohnSmith-1066 20 million dead is including civilians, military dead are about 8.9 million, including almost 2 million that died in Nazi concentration camps, german dead are 4.3 million, soviet casualties were very heavy, but mostly in the first 2 years, as the red army became a better fighting force, they inflicted very heavy casualties on the germans, in the last six months of 1944, Germany lost 800,000 men, and also Germany didn't really have any significant fuel shortage until the red army captured Romania,
AMAZIN' !!!! I HAD BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR THIS !!!!!!!
After watching your eastern front videos I am realizing, that this battle front has been the greatest of all human history.
But western propaganda continues to suggest that the eastern front was a minor event of the WWII.
Russia is more big than France, thats why Eastern Front was more WOW! than Western Front
Johnny Adams Doesn’t matter about the land size..? What matters is 85% of the German army was on the eastern front
@@userprecisealt4136 More Land = More Man to Cover it.
@@Juan-wx5xz That goes for the same for the soviets defending tho, more land = more soldiers to defend the entire front line
We’re back again
good ol times 😮💨
It will age anyway just like their own 2023 counter offensive🗿
@@Chevalier4253 they learned their lesson
@@BinBoyTheRobloxian yeah, by overextending their front and sacrificing their soldiers for some pr
в мешках приедут
It's very interesting to realize that the "battle of Kursk" was not a singular event (~armies collide at a field) as it's often portrayed but a rather a long sequence of continuous maneuvers.
First of all, it was a battle of intelligences. It can't be shown on a map. but soviet intel did an amazing job, securing the victory of red army troops.
Teorically the next soviet operations are not consider part of the battle of Kursk properly but without it such a success would be imposible to reach
@@gravelking2.071 Getting the German battle plans nicely packaged in the mail likely had more to do with it than any Soviet Intelligence.
@Reunite The British Empire Perhaps, but my definiton of intelligence is acquiring information by clever means. Having somebody just betray the plans to you is merely luck.
the battle of kursk was just taking on for a week as than the germany realised they can'T win and the soviet would have made an big push anyways and without losing alot man in the battle of kursk it would have been even better + they could have used that information to make an offensive somewhere else and make the germans give up all dreams about kursk
youtube historians have completely replaced all of TV's "educational" channels
Yeah, those video have so much more informations than every TV documantry
@@bomschhofmann1644 No kidding! And the level of detail! I think I've learned more by watching these Eastern Front video series than by reading all the history books I've read about it and all the TV documentaries put together!
No wonder. TV's are lying and bending facts left and right, while youtubers try to stay as accurate as possible. So obviously people would prefer actual history to the crooked surrogate bend to fit the current political agenda.
TV news and history is Manipulated by American and English Maniacs. Due to Cold War to take foolish People's sympathies.
@@mer3abec Calm down my friend, he is only a troll.
КЛЕВО!!! Очень большой труд был вложен в эту карту, огромное спасибо!)
10 сталинских ударов на карте и курская битва в движении !
такое на военной кафедре/Вузе не стыдно ставить и разбирать
@@Wow4ik4ik ну, предположим, Курск разобрали не так чтобы очень, уделив больше внимания последующим наступлениям. И это хорошо, потому что про Курск говорят много, а вот про последующие наступления, например, под Смоленском - куда меньше. Ждём последнюю/предпоследнюю часть.
У меня у одного чувство, что пара немецких дивизий удерживало столько русских? В чем подвох?
@@Wow4ik4ik I like to think "10 Zhukov strikes" ! either way.... Russia was awesome.
@@Wow4ik4ik ......and Rokossovsky is a 'favorite' for the best 'back hand strike' - Operation Bagration !
This series really demonstrates how the German mastery of maneuver warfare and superior experience was countered by the Russians mastery of attrition warfare and their General's rapidly increasing skill and familiarity with German tactics. You can actually see the Russians trying new things as their troops become more experienced and disciplined, this is a great way to learn about this stuff.
That, and the Red Army being constantly on the offensive somewhere, frequently shifting focus to keep the Germans off balance and constantly busy, unable to catch its breath long enough to take the initiative.
@G E T R E K T 905 By your words Russia selling gas and oil to Europe is a life saving event and US sanctioning North Stream 2 is an attack on democracy
@G E T R E K T 905 read who is the leader in lend-lease - Great Britain, not Russia. And read when there really were deliveries. It was the second half of 1942 and 43. Before that there was no lend-lease or it was scanty
@G E T R E K T 905 lol lend lease didnt do that much contrary to what is believed.
@G E T R E K T 905
Lend lease helped massively, but the USSR still would have won without it though it would have taken much longer. And I don’t think an alternate history video is the best source for making commentary on WWII, no matter how well researched.
This! This is what should be in RUclips Rewind. This videos is a masterpiece, considering it's educational and informational value and lack of content with similar quality and details.
I've been waiting for this :D
I am suprised its 2 years yet no reply
Hi iron
This video is an absolute masterpiece. It gives us an amazing vantage point towards the front. Things become much clearer when looked at from above. Thank you!!
Damn this is great series.
The music matches the changes of pace and visuals so well. I can tell this is a labor of love. Im definitely going to keep watching.
Guess who’s back
🇦🇹🥸🖌
back again
The GERMAN TANKS!
@@justjustice8968 Tell a friend
German tanks and little stalin.
Germany:*has 60 circles
USSR : Aww...thats cute. How about FOUR HUNDRED SQUARES
yeah, but one circle is 2-3 times bigger than square by number of troops
German circles are corps that have at least 2 or 3 divisions normaly. Soviet squares are divisions that are half size of german division.
nah looks like 1000 to me
German Circle = Army
Soviet big square = Army
Soviet small square = Division
Soviet divisions are smaller than the German average division.
Eso significa calidad por sobre la cantidad. La cantidad era lo único que podia derrotar al Eje
The amount of data in this is insane.
Invading Russia is a logistics nightmare
So stay out сука
NobleStar Lion
Nah
@@noblestar7742 Pol pot was the victim of American propaganda all the same as the other communist leaders and his people supported him.
@@RedAction333 The Khmer Rouge where so fucked up that even Vietnam had to intervene. Pol Pot was just another genocidal scumbag.
Defending Russia was a logistics nightmare too. The Russians suffered more casualties trying to attack in the winter and muddy seasons than the Germans did.
oh boy here comes
*_B A G R A T I O N_*
Shhhhhh, spoilers.
Swiggins oioioioioioioioi
exactly, D-day fails to compare to the success of Bagration due to the incompetance of the german high command the entire army group centre was destroyed
oh lawd he comin
I need to see how bagration was achieved, the germans were holding back the red army very well up to mid 1944. Although they were losing ground , but at bagration the red army finally ruptured the German front and pretty much annihilated army group centre.
Every time that red line moves several thousand soldiers died.
Imagine the western front of ww1
That's the cost russians had to pay while US was sitting in their warn homes.
Andrey, last time I checked, no US solider had a 'warm home' in Europe, but yet we have 10's of thousands of soldiers buried there. And I also looked as hard as I could for the graves of Russian soldiers throughout the Pacific from the "Great Patriotic War" fought against Japan, but I can't find a single one....
@@uio890138 Yes US landed Europe in 44 but war started in 39 you know and somebody had to deal with 154 german divisions. And also russians defeated Japanese in 1945 in China.
@@AndreyLuzinov Africa? Italy? Go learn history.
Nice video, very informative 👍
Вы говорите о курской битве а я думал это видео на русском
This is amazing, it is so much easier to understand what happened than reading texts, history education like this would have been so much more interesting for everyone! Really appreciate this, the difficulties, the knowledge and research required to make this happen is tremendous. I hope this kind of animation could be used more often elsewhere for education purposes.
For more than 2 years, Army Group Center enjoyed the relatively calm and stable front.
Summer is coming.
Um, Rzhev salient? Operation Mars? Aka the "Meatgrinder". Not calm, just suppressed.
The legend is back!
Omg finally! I was waiting for this for so long!
Благодарность за проделанный труд.
Мурашки по коже, когда видишь сколько людей полегло в той войне.
@Complex CR Germans tried to make the soviets go extinct. This war was a survival war for the soviet union
Мурашки по коже? Можем повторить?
@floron7777да в начале войны у нас были проблемы с командованием, у нас считали что мы сможем остановить легко немецкое наступление
@@enterthedragon2689можем повторить появился как рас от самих солдат после ВОВ и означал лишь что если кто либо ещё опять сунется к нам то они сделают это ещё раз
@@YresTA Сделают ещё раз что? 27 миллионов смертей советских граждан? Боже, какой же ты долбоёб. Найди мне хоть одно подтверждение, что ветераны ВОВ так говорили. Никогда они такого не говорил. Сам выдумал хуйню, так ещё и приписал её ветеранам, которые со слезами на глазах вспоминали события той войны. Что они на самом деле говорили, так это: "лишь бы не было войны" и "пусть вашему поколению никогда не удастся узнать, что такое война" -- это я помню лично, когда в седьмом классе к нам в школу пригласили нескольких ветеранов нашего города. Учитывая, что ты не знаешь, как пишутся элементарные слова на русском языке ("как рас"), я не удивлён, что ты несёшь полную чепуху. Необразованный кусок тупого говна. "Можем повторить" -- слоган современных дураков, которые забыли, чем пожертвовали советские граждане, сколько их было убито. Забыли цену, которую уплатили простые люди, чтобы победить. Поэтому свою помойку открывают, и воняют про "можем повторить" со своих пропёрженных диванов, потому что они не знают, что такое война, они не были тогда там. Никто никогда не захочет такого повторения с сожжёнными деревнями с людьми внутри, с концлагерями, пытками и другими ужасами. Дебил ёбанный, блядь.
8:00
KIROVOGRAD.
We have heard stories about the fierce defence capabilities of US airborne at Bastogne and British airborne in Arnhem. Here we have the German 2nd airborne aiding the defence of Kirovograd (as element of 11th Infantry Corp shown on the map) until spring while being vastly outnumbered and armed only with Panzerschrecks against Soviet tanks, losing half of the division in the process. The division would then be redeployed to fight against the D-Day invasion in Normandy, as seen in Band of Brothers episode 3.
The German 1st airborne is more well know. See 10:35, in Italy. Monte Cassino.
SO, you want to tell us that the winter from 1939 to 1945 WAS NOT ETERNAL LIKE THE HISTORIANS TELL US?!
and General Frost doesn't exist?
And the aliens didn’t help the nazis?
Yes, and he even dares to say that not only frost has beaten the Germans.. It seems like Russian army also have done something.
@VendPrekmurec Never thought that from anything I was taught or read. Some of those places,especially in the south,could get very warm in the summer months,certainly between June and September. It's just that,with heavy rains common in October causing thick mud on a sketchy road patchwork spread over vast distances and the coming of snow,ice and seriously sub-zero temperatures between November and at least February the Russian winter was a factor that could be used to the Red Army's advantage and caught the Germans not fully prepared or equipped.
Ralph Jackson the advantage for the Nazis was the whole European fascist alliance against Russia which was still suffering from civil war, but instead of everything (the fact that the whole Europe - without few countries) they still have won the war. Whole fascist Europe could not take 5% of Russian territory and were already destroyed on the Russian periphery, border, in Stalingrad.Winter was not eternal from 1939 to 1945. Do you think that winter was not stopping the Russians from destroying Nazis? Millions of people (before that healthy, young) froze to death becouse of the occupation of Leningrad.
This helps me understand war in general, and this WWII in particular, better than anything I've ever read or seen. I've learned about salients and pockets, and I love it. What a great series.
Truly remarkable, commemorating a brave, tough army campaign. Thank you for the immense effort.
Who else predicted this to be posted today ? (FEBRUARY 2nd) the day the germans surrendered in Stalingrad.
That is a nice coincidence indeed :)
Or Shakira's birthday
@FREE 3021 The most decisive battle of WW2 is "Battles around Rzhev".
The Emperor> Ground hogs of course!
@@Eastory When's 1945 going to be launched? I think I'm more expectant of that video than I was of the 3rd Season of Rick & Morty
we need a remake of this: Eastern Front: 2022
@TAWOG It would be incredibly interesting.
@TAWOG stalemate? We forgot ab ww1
A ww1 series would be cool
Nah do the italian or African fronts
Don't compare these wars.
This is such an outstanding video. I had been looking for information like this in a lot of different places but didn't find it until now.
Out of all the documentaries this just blows them outta the water, straight and to the point, perfect.
its for the people interested in the war and not the ideological stuff
I'm so happy to know this gem-like channel.
And thank you so much for translating it into Korean.I subscribed right away. XD
Circles: "HOLD THE LINE!"
Squares: " LUL "
Don't dare you encircle a square
hard to wait for Bagration episode to be posted.
the anticipation is making me hard
I remember watching this on day 1, and boy am i still watching it because the animation and details put to it is just so good and satisfying..
The Red Army was probably the best self learning army in the history - for 4 years they grow in experience and mastery so much!
For the highest price in the history...
Jajajaja you stupid
And you wrong
@@jeremiatampubolon6149
Not really, he's right
@@jeremiatampubolon6149 He's right tho.
Dear Eastory,
I just watched all of your "Brilliant Plan to Win WW2" videos, and I gotta say: they were some of the most interesting and informative videos about WW2 that I have ever seen. I learned so much from them! I really hope that you could also make a Brilliant Plan video about Imperial Japan as well, as I expect that you would make it very informative and fun to watch.
I really see these videos as groundbreaking work. Finally someone uses the digital media and digital tools to create something new and worthwhile in the context of (military) history. Amazing, or maybe also worrying, that it was created by private person(s) and not "official" historians. I hope it inspires more stuff like this. Maybe even the same but on divisional level? That would be so great!
I love how over the course of this series you can see the Soviet doctrine of Deep Battle in development and use
awwww, you can see the over extension of army group center by the end, i thought we were gonna see bagration
@@chrisbruhe yeah unlike before, the germans are essentially reacting to the soviets.
@@chrisbruhe well, it was not an issue in 1941... Besides numbers, quality is also matters. The best elite soldiers died at Stalingrad.
@@Nikola95inYT Not just at Stalingrad, but everywhere in the Eastern front. All these pocket liquidations and POW captures in 1941 didn't come for free, like in France. Most of them cost the Germans large casualties. So did rapid advance into enemy territory for hundreds of kilometers under fire from Soviet bombers. Most pessimistic (as it turns out realistic) German generals started writing in their diaries that the war appears to be lost as early as fall of 1941.
@@mikey-lastnamey7976 reason pretty simple. The goal for the war was to destroy red army by the end of summer, let it crumble, and let the soviet government crumble with it. little did they know...
@@mikey-lastnamey7976 you have a source about the pessimistic generals writing something like that? im curious
As a fellow ww2 history lover i truly think your videos are one of the best military history videos on youtube in terms of accuracy and entertainment value. i really look forward to your video on 1945!
Man you put much detail into thid simulation.. Image this happened in Real Life... it would have been the biggest war :0
and we might call it a World War
Oscar Mike Exactly
I can't even tell that you are joking or not
And we can make a cool sequel when former friend turns out to be a villian.
@@ducc999 And they start racing for controlling the world like a Chess game, and it can include some crazy cool bombs :o
We’re so back baby!!!
In the next episode there will be the Operation Bagration!
Dude, why havn't you posted spoiler alert first ?
@@websman5345 calm ur sarcasm
Yes, but before that I think the red army attacked Finland and captured karelia and petsamo regions
You mean the Bagration Human wave attack?
@slovene ball yep we're talking about the same. That offensive were they throwed houndreds of thoudsends of men and vehicules agaist the germans straight to the west. And army group center was crushed under million of soviet boots laking any decent tactic
*new video from eastory*
*stops car by the motorway to watch*
*eastory first*
*safety second*
Did you die?
Bloody hell, are you alive?
this was special to me, just one of the most interesting videos i saw, and i saw many on this subject. But they don't compare to this one. This is well worth downloading and saving.
History do not reapet it self but rhyme
Imagine, Polish intermarium invades Kursk, 2104.
@@IntermariumvsNeoKhazaria honestly at this point anything is possible heck the roman empire could even return
Also, somewhere during the Kursk operation, most likely in the north died one of my granddads. MIA. 1943.
Edit: he fought from USSR side.
Respect to your grandfather. Being a soldier on either side in such a terrible war is worthy of respect. Love from Australia. :)
Hero
Умер за Сталина.
Уважение и вечная им память !
Almost every russian lost someone in that war.
Спасибо за Ваш титанический труд. Дед погиб под Ригой. Начинал на Невском пятачке.
It's hard to imagine the scale of this conflict. Imagine having to command and coordinate so many armies .. boggles the mind.
And the worst of all supply them all.
This gives me hope that someone may think "Maybe Stalin and USSR leadership wasnt idiots?".
WW2 was difficulty=hard, no questions, but Soviets managed to develop backward country that lost to Japan before WW1, and cant even supply its troops with basic supplies in the end of WW1, ruined even more after Civil war+Foreign troops invasion into industrial country that managed to survive insane blows in WW2, transfer this new industry to eastern regions and increase production even more.
This difficultylvl=insane. And even more insane considering that soon after the war, burnt, ruined and pillaged country that lost 27 mil lives managed to create nuclear bomb. If you love WW2 history, most likely you will love to learn more about Soviet leadership, there is lots remarkable things there. I think this ppl at least deserve fair view on their deeds.
that was what hitler and stalin were doing everyday like chess pieces on the eastern front from 1941 to 1945 ! and Stalin won the match after all the sacrifices of the russian soldier, with the end game and checkmate in Berlin!
@G E T R E K T 905 sure
@G E T R E K T 905 kinda, but you cannot say US won. 80% of german casualties were on the Eastern Front. When the US landed on D-Day, USSR already destroyed german armies and had entered some of Konigsberg. They had liberated eastern europe and depleted resources. They also started using better strategy and recovered their old strength which made them dependent on US less than they were in 41-42. They also completed most of their military recovery which allowed them to advance deeper. But yea, both the US and USSR were the key to Allied victory ( UK too because of their african and asian campaigns while liberating South East Asia )
I like how the map changes colour in winter compared to summer, really puts the timeline in perspective
There's too many squares for the circles to win.
Squares smaller than circles by 3-4 times
@Haus Just like in the Western front
@Haus it was only outnumbered 1:3 at the very most
@Haus it was only outnumbered 1:3 at the very most
Which is a lot, considerig that 1:3 is 1 million against 3 million@@lincolndexter9514
Crazy work ! Every Time im watching your video im playing HOI4 after that !
Although I'm not from Europe but I like European history. They are Intelligent, brave, disciplined and hard working. Love from the tiny Aisan Country 🇧🇩Bangladesh.
I'm from Bangladesh too
Bangladesh is not a small country :D greetings from europe.
Bagladesh is bigger than 2/3rd of the european countries
I'm officially British but genetically Bangladeshi.
Bangladesh more like bang a dish
So much work. Excellent edition. A tremendous feat. 👏👏👏
I wish I could like this video more than once. This is amazing work.
Очень хорошо проработана карта с передвижением армий и двизий. Моё уважение!
"Very well developed map with the movement of armies and divisions. My respect!" -- Денис Зитьков
Great vid m8
As always!
0:46 my Grandpa was a Marshal (an Italian rank equivalent to an American Sergeant Major) in the Italian expeditionary force in Russia. He took part in the battles in the caucasus and Eastern Ukraine, before the force was recalled to Italy due to the allied invasion. During a skirmish with the Soviet forces, a comrade of his was wounded. He carried him for kilometres before becoming exhausted, and told him "I'll make sure someone comes to aid you", before being forced to leave him below a tree. Years later, after the war, the two met again.
do they both speak russian and their names are now Oleg and Sergej? After russifuckation?
Is this true? If so, this can be a great book about friendship.
@@hanzcastillo3099 I’m not quite sure if this is true, as it’s an oral story passed down my father’s family tree, but the two weren’t really friends, they just met eachother after the war. It could also be that the other Italian soldier was captured by the soviets and then released
I just want to thank you for your great effort in creating this series!
There are so many WW2 documentaries whose main point is political; they aim to show how wrong Hitler (or Stalin) was and only focus superficially on the actual fighting and movement of troops in order to quickly prove their point: 'Hitler did xyz and lost the war'.
You on the other hand spend time researching the facts and present them without a hint of prejudice for either side and let us viewers do the interpreting - so again thanks. Hopefully many others will be inspired by this and follow your lead!
Greetz
Удивительно, какой степени выдержку нужно иметь, чтобы сделать подобного кач-ва видео. Снимаю перед вами шляпу. Очень бы хотелось видеть подобный цикл видео о Гражданской войне в России, всё таки Эстония сыграла там не последнюю роль)
Видел на его патреоне сбор на гражданскую войну. Так что всё будет
You know what? I agree! ₩#¥£€*#》◇% indeed.
пред последнюю?
Вообще никакой роли не сыграла.
Эстония сыграла роль говна на сапоге.
So from 2:00 to 2:30 is Mansteins "Miracle on the Don". Seeing it in the context of the bigger picture, it loses the significance that I'd attached to it from book reading alone. Thank you for your animated map - should be taught in every school.
I'd say it looks rather significative instead. The lad managed to rally an army group that was retreating in total disarray and not only stopped the advancing soviets, he actually turned the tide, even if only for a while, and got the army group back as a cohese unit. Quite a good performance, considering that the group had just lost a big chunk of it's forces at Stalingrad.
@@r.c.1881 Yep Agreed, a tremendous result under the circumstances. It just looked more like a blip compared to the other movements on the animated map, than I'd imagined it would be.
Imagine being a German in Stalingrad and knowing that the nearest friendly city is well over 100 km away...
Edit: The replies are a train wreck, don't look at them.
More like 1000km away lol
my grandpa was fighting in stalingrad, got badly injured from a soviet grenade. he got out of stalingrad because of his injury just before the german troops were circled
Imagine being one of 26m russian that died after invasion. I realy like how most of u are making german soldiers victims of that war.
@@duckduckov4362 Both sides are the victims of the war, blame the leader not the people. There are no good and bad guy in a war, only the winner and the loser.
@@duckduckov4362 German soldiers are victims.. *Litterly invades the soviet union with no declaretion of war"
*Eastory uploads video*
"Now this does put a smile on my face"
Man.. watching the 'details' makes me realize the significance of the general belief at staff level that after Stalingrad Germany REALLY had.. lost the war
Most of the generals actually did not believe that the war was lost at the time. Erich von Manstein would bloat about the counteroffensive in the south where they took back Kharkov for a little while, in his memoirs after the war.
It was primarily after they lost the battle of Kursk and Crimera. Most of the generals from earlier on in the war, would at that point in 1944 have been dismissed if not dead or captured.
A lot of the after thoughts was that everything was lost after Stalingrad, especially by the replacement generals who were put in to salvage the seemingly unsalvageable situation.
Especially from the notes that became the movie "The Downfall" the blame game of a lost cause between the generals originates. But that is not different from when you have almost lost a sports match and start after-rationalizing.
@G E T R E K T 905 lol lend lease was large on the point of view of the US but is a very tiny fraction of material on the scale of the eastern front. If lend lease did not happen nothing would have changed.
Awesome work! Can't wait to see Bagration.
Спасибо за Ваш труд, карта впечатляет своей достоверностью.
your videos is so intresting to watch. cant wait for more
We’re so back
Man this is getting interesting, I can't wait to find out who wins!
all i can say.. watched all ww2 videos-animations with enjoyment. This takes effort with tank divisions.. numbers.. attacks diffences. Very nice.
history repeats itself
fr
when I deal with the countless minor irritants and inconveniences of daily life I think of the incalculable human misery of this war theater. this video really means a lot to me. thanks for the effort.
10:15 nice flex by the encirced german units
Binny by the way, those black divisions are armored ones according to the google drive in the description.
Nicely put together brother
German siege of Sevastopol lasted for more than half a year, from October 30, 1941 to July 4, 1942.
Soviet siege of Sevastopol ended in less than two weeks and the city was captured on May 9, 1944.
It's the same with Koenigsberg. Hitler turned the city into a fortress and said that the Russians had defended Sevastopol for 8 months, and the Germans could defend Konigsberg for even longer. When the Russians approached Konigsberg, they dropped leaflets over the city: "we defended Sevastopol for 8 months, and took it in 2 weeks. We will also take Koenigsberg in 2 weeks." And they kept their word, taking Konigsberg even faster.
Battle of kharkov heheheh 😂😂
Most troops at sevastopol are romanian soldiers
Oğuzkaan korkmaz good try at trying to desmerit the soviet union, Not good enough.
@@AWtify this is probably the dumbest comparison I've ever seen on the internet. Sevastopol was THE soviet naval base, one of the strongest if not the strongest fortress of its time with loads of elite entrenched troops, supplies, heavy bunkers and giant coastal artillery, yet the Germans systematically took it. Königsberg was nothing more than a regular city with a bunch of German civilians as a "militia" against the massive Soviet heavy artillery and airforce in 1945. Hitler may have designated it as a fortress, but it lacked everything Sevastopol had in comparison.
Thx a lot for telling the truth behind great victory of my grandfathers. Apparently not winter won the war.
But it helped much more than you think ;)
It was the winter + overwhelming numbers of men and materials. The Germans are the most intelligent and efficient Europeans to ever exist!
@@ironfortitude9817 how come the most intelligent Europeans never knew of the winter and the overwhelmig number of men in th USSR? it's either they were stupid or you are.
@@alexalexin9491 Easy to state knowing the outcome ... If being intelligent meant people made no mistakes or unforseen circumstances didn't occur humanity would alreadybhave colonized Mars ...
Incredible Eastory, just incredible.
Nice to get a bigger picture of this crazy huge front!
Ah shit, here we go again
hm i wonder who will win now
Sweden?
I reckon the axis will win
Tannu Tuva
Guess we gotta stay tuned for the next episode
USA and China.... Everyone else lost
Steiner couldn’t get enough supplies for the counter attack
Hitler: I should have never trusted my generals
الكاتب هو مهندس النفس البشريه
قال / جوزيف ستالين
اعكسها ليس هجوم عكسي رتبها
قال / جوزيف ستالين
الثقافه هي اخر مايبقى لك بعد ان تنسى كل ماتعلمته في المدرسه /.
@@jajgjafd347 I translated that and it's a really good work of art of yours.
@@onurvx5996 wut does it says?
The thing is, if Steiner attacked the Germans could of won the war. If the attack was succesful the German's would of got enough momentum to push the soviets back to Moscow in 1945 and win the war
Question Eastory
At 7:40 where and how did the Soviets just get all of that manpower from to get to 6 million men?
Was it reserves from eastern Russia, newly trained troops or the Soviets always had them?
reserves and newly trained
I really admire you for all your hard work in animating all those units and borders. The amount of effort you put in it should pay. I really appreciate your videos, hope your next series will be about the asian, african and/or pacific fronts in wwii. Anyway whatever you do I'm sure it'll be good !
Thanks from France !
Excellent, just fantastic excellent job!! Cant wait till next video! Cheers from Argentina :D
"The western allies were landed in Italy .... the race to Berlin was on" - it was main reason of "help", not real help to USSR
Exactly. They just wanted to stop the REDs. Not to help France, Netherlands et al. As they couldn't be sure that REDs would stop after taking the whole of Europe..
@@konstantina.khmelev152 Stalin was pleading for another front on the West to divert troops, and the Soviets captured all territory they "liberated" from the Nazis, and raped and murdered their way through. 2+ million German women were raped.
@@DaniboyBR2 Information about 2 million raped women in Germany is based on speculation, not fact.
The Soviet Union lost about 26 million people (perhaps even more), the number of raped women is not known exactly. However, the Soviet command strictly intersected attempts to rape and murder the Germans. Some soldiers were hanged in public.
By the way, the number of 2 million may have been huge for anti-Soviet propaganda. In general, this number is constantly changing, and even an approximate number is difficult to find.
I am late but just keep in mind America was sending all the munitions, food and clothing. That the Soviets could not make because all the men were fighting.
@@DaniboyBR2 He pleaded in 1943,at the Tehran Conference. Mind you, Germany still posed a threat by then.