Week 233 - German Desperation in Korsun Pocket - February 11, 1944
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2023
- It is crisis mode in the Korsun Pocket this week for the Axis troops surrounded, but they are also losing ground all over the Eastern Front this week, including the big prize of Nikopol. In Italy, it is a different story as the Germans play offense at Anzio, though with only small gains.
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Really great content as always but I think the title is one week off. It says February 18 not 11. Just thought I'd give you guys a heads up. Love all your work and I'm proud to be part of the Timeghost Army!
@@markmikula4388 Oh I almost didn't notice that at first. Good spotting there!
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EDIT: I saw my name! I saw my name! Yay!🥳
I’m beginning to understand why Colonel Klink and Sergeant Schultz always seemed so reluctant to be sent to the Russian front.
My favorite scene in Schindler's List is when Schindler is looking for his worker and the German soldiers on the train platform can't be bothered to help. Then Oscar says "Welp Gentlemen I will see to it that you are in Southern Russia by the end of the month" and then they quickly assist him haha
The treatment of POWs - on both sides - was also terrible on the eastern front. Atrocities were met with further atrocities in retribution. Supplies were low and POWs were left to starve or freeze as troops didn't have enough for themselves. And on top of all of that the Soviets were seeking to retake their own country that had been invaded, giving them much more of a personal stake in things.
German soldiers on leave before being sent to the East often drank themselves silly and/or visited brothels, suspecting that this might be their last R & R before death on the Russian Front.
@@firingallcylinders2949 That was apparently an incident in summer 1942. Which explains why he specified southern Russia - they were potentially en route to join Operation Blau and did not welcome the idea.
Considering Soviet POWS in German custody actually had a lower survival rate than British and American POWS in Japanese custody its safe to say it was bad. If you go by the higher estimates over 60 percent died.
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Gotta love those out-of-studio edits.
Not picking nits. Just loving the hilarity of the editing and post process. Keep on. I love y'all.
So if anyone else was wondering if Eberhard von Mackensen, mentioned in this episode, is related to August von Mackensen of WWI fame. The answer is yes its his Son.
Eberhard was the fourth son of Mackenson and his hat of awesomeness
@Indiana Jones and he looks quite alot like his father
Thank you, I was wondering that indeed
I've been told that with Prussian officers, assume the same name means the same family
@Derrick White Basically, yes. The Prussian officer corps was based on nepotism to a ridiculous degree. There were also lots of connections between the families, Manstein's relation to the Hindenburg family is one of many examples. During the Kaiserreich, only officers from noble families and of the high middle class could become officers, which explains why Germany started WW2 with so many aristocrats at the helm. Once WW1 broke out, many men became officers without influential families backing them up, and those would rise to the top during the latter half of WW2.
A sidenote this week on February 8 1944 is that Major William Sidney, 1st Viscount de L'Isle, will be awarded the Victoria Cross for leading an attack on enemy positions at Anzio in Italy. Although he was wounded, he would refuse medical treatment until his objectives had been made secure. In doing so, he followed in the footsteps of his father-in-law, Field Marshal Lord Gort who had also been badly wounded whilst winning the same medal during World War One.
This story could make for a dark, gritty reboot of "Meet The Parents"
Now he can consumate the marriage, congratulations Viscount!
Wasn't Gort a personal favourite with Churchill? Then died in a plane crash leaving Montgomery to be placed head of desert force's army! Fate is weird!
@@leemichael2154 No, you're confusing Lt.-Gen. William "Strafer" Gott, who should have taken over the 8th Army with Field Marshal Viscount John Vereker, Lord Gort, commander of the BEF in France 1940 and later Governor of Malta.
@@Bonifazius743 ah thanks bud got mixed up but was just commenting on memory!
Thank you for the map insert when showing the battle maps. It help understanding where geographically where the battle is taking place.
Hi, very happy to know it's helpful! Thanks so much for watching.
That’s Daniel Weiss kicking some geographic a$$ so we know where we are!
It really is. When dealing with the fighting in Ukraine around Nikopol without it I found myself going to Google Maps to get a better sense of the geography. Especially since the current war is often taking place in many of the same areas that I recognized by name but didn't seem as obvious just from the map. I think part of it is because the Dnipro is shown as so narrow on this map.
@@Belgand the Dnipro used to look quite diffrent back then. It got it's modern shape when the Soviets built a lot of hydroelectric dams and resevoirs
I'll add my support for the insert, it really helps with situational awareness, thank you.
Ok, so a mainland Asia update:
The Chinese Army in India (X-Force) is advancing slowly into Northwest Burma from India through the Hukawng valley.
The first US ground forces in mainland Asia, the roughly 3,000 men Merrill's Marauders, have arrived in India and are in transit to Ledo. The hope is that they can be used as a mobile, long range infiltration force to disrupt the Japanese rear while they are busy facing the advance X force.
In West Central Burma, the Battle of the Admin Box between the British Indian Army and the Japanese Army is ongoing. (The Japanese allied Indian National Army under Bose is also here, but Japanese failure to adequately feed and arm them mean that they have little combat effectiveness)
The Chindits launched their second operation on February 5th, "Operation Thunder" leaving Assam and moving cross country in North Burma to prepare airstrips for renewed combat behind enemy lines.
In mainland China, Japan is prepping for operation Ichi-go, their largest operation of the entire war, in the coming spring.
The Chinese for their part are suffering from famine and hyperinflation. China had been a net food importer before the war and the Japanese blockade has long since stopped these imports. Before the war, customs tax revenue on imports were a significant source of revenue. These revenues have been gone for 6 years. As a result, the Chinese government has been printing money to pay for the war. This has caused runaway inflation. What would have cost 100 yuan in spring of 1937, costs 3,200 in 1944.
Corruption, which had always been a problem, is being supercharged as people scrabble to survive in the midst of scarcity and inflation.
For the Chinese army, the combat effectiveness of most units, never high to begin with, is severely degraded. While a trickle of US aid is getting through over the Hump (some 14,000 tons in January 1944) 97% of that tonnage is going to support US air forces and personnel in China. But even if the number was 100%, it would still be a drop in the bucket relative to the needs of a 2.5 million man army. For context, a single liberty ship can hold 10,000 tons. Domestically, China can only produce small arms and some light artillery. Fuel, vehicles, and advanced munitions all have to be imported. Thus the Chinese army in early 1944 is in the process of deterioration. The plan is to focus on retaking Burma and hope that bulk of the army can hold together until China can be adequately connected to the industrial firehose of allied shipping.
The first exception the generally diminished quality of Chinese forces are the previously mentioned Chinese Army in India. This started as the remains of two divisions of the Chinese army that were forced to flee to India from Burma in 1942. Once in India, the Indian army funded their maintenance and upkeep while the Americans provided weaponry and training. They have been reconstituted by flying troops back to India on the return journey from the Hump. In February of 1944, they have 3 divisions, some 50,000 troops and are the best trained, best equipped, best fed, and best led troops in the Chinese army. The only problem is that they are in Burma at the moment.
The second exception is Y-Force in Yunnan on the Burmese border. These are some 175,000 Chinese troops. The 3% of Hump Tonnage that the Chinese get to disburse has generally been sent to these units. In addition, there is an American training and staff operation here seeking to get them up to speed on US training/equipment. However, in early 1944, Y-force being better than most of the Chinese army means that instead of "about to waste away" it is merely "malnourished and less poorly equipped." They are a potential reserve of combat capable troops, but America expects them to be attacking into Burma very soon.
Thanks for this info. I wish this theater would still be covered in the main episodes.
@@jliller Yeah, why don’t they?
@@eluc_s2510 because most secondary sources on Ww2 in English ignore it since most primary sources are in Chinese and Japanese.
The unit was redesignated the 1st Air Commando Group on 25 March 1944. It provided fighter cover, bomb striking power, and air transport services for the Chindits (Wingate's Raiders), fighting behind enemy lines in Burma. Operations included airdrop and landing of troops, food, and equipment; evacuation of casualties; and attacks against enemy airfields and lines of communication.
Thank you for the information.
This is why this community is so good.
There are millions of untold stories and many in the community fill in the gaps.
Nobody could possibly know or cover everything.
Never heard about the German generals that showed up at the front to broadcast to the Axis troops. Fascinating. Great series.
And Hitler's reprisal
Interestingly, the Committee For A Free Germany that was sponsored by the Soviets opted for the colours black white red in its propaganda material, because of its German nationalist overtones. The black red gold of the Weimar Republic (and today's Germany) was rejected.
The Soviet advance overran the Lutsk area rapidly. This was a key target of the Tsarist army's Brusilov offensive in 1916, but the mechanised warfare of 1944 meant the Red Army covered ground in days that Brusilov's attack had taken months to seize.
Only 28 years late...
@@Ronald98 The faster pace of WW2 compared to WW1 is a general trend. French morale started to collapse in 1940 when the Germans relatively effortlessly got to places like Amiens and then Paris that had eluded them in 1914-18. Watching the map animation showing the Red Army go over ground in days that took months in 1916 is just another illustration of that.
And in 2023 they would be as slow as WW1 again 🙂
@@tancreddehauteville764 More casualty averse, though. In fact it seems to be Kiev that is picking people off the streets in order to send them to war, and ignoring casualties.
@@stevekaczynski3793 Yeah. The Russians are using big pop guns instead of massed 'hurrah' infantry assaults, as in WW2.
Wife’s Uncle Alton B. Wilson was KIA at Salerno on the 11th.
Silver star for gallantry in action on the 2nd.
Co. E, 142nd Regiment, 36th Division
Also worth noting: Eberhard von Mackenson is the fourth son of WW1 General August von Mackenson and his epic hat
"Some Belgian dude with pockets." Perfect.
Another side note this week on February 5 1944 is that the German Naval High Command will temporarily halt preparations for Operation Sealion, as they saw that at the current stage of the war, an invasion of Britain was not likely to happen. Ultimately it was never put into action during the war at all.
It took a while for that pfenning to drop, didn't it?
What? Operation Sealion was dead in the water after the Battle of Britain in September 1940 and even then it was foolish, who in there right mind in Naval High Command could even think this was still a good idea? 😂😂
@@cpj93070 Nazi high command was often delusional
Erm, fairly sure Operation Sealion was cancelled in September 1940?
In a few months the HOME GUARD AKA DADS ARMY will be given the order to stand down
I laughed when It got to the "Newest commissioned officers" portion. Was also really happy to be part of such a massive wave of signups! Love to see you all doing well!
Me too! Saw my name there and happy to see so many others!! 💕
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Since I am extemely sad and distressed due to earthquake in my home country Turkey , I could not add much this week.
Battle of Anzio goes on. German Ist Parachute Corps (four divisions) attacked 1st British Division held base of the salient west of Anzio bridgehead called Thumb , intending to capture Aprillia and The Factory. Four German divisions made relentless attacks on 1st British Division position between 7-10 February , finally forcing British defenders to retreat from Aprilla , The Factory and Carroceto train station. Two British battalions , Granediers and Irish Guards defending this sector almost disintegrated (former suffered almost %60 casaulties trying to defend base of Thumb against waves of German attacks) and their remnants had to retreat to a rear line that is more easy to defend in order not to be destroyed. General Penney commanding 1st British Division , suffering heavy casaulties in his division managed to extract his units to rear at Caves and Sunken Road sector on 9-10 February but he is very critical of General John Lucas , commander of VI Corps ,who was not bothering to visit the front and not sending any reinforcements to 1st Division when 45th US Division just landed and available.
But Germans could not celebrate anything in this victory either ,their own casaulties were extremely heavy too under heavy Allied artilley fire and they were expecting to capture their objectives in 12 hours at most not in three days. That screws their timetable for their all out massive offensive Operation Fishtrap to wipe out Anzio bridgehead , in order to gather up their forces , replace their losses and supplies and catch their breath , General Von Mackensen commander of 14th German Army , postpones the offensive to 14th February.
We are all shocked by what has happened in your country and Syria. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Thank you for your extra details!
Our thoughts are with all people affected by this horrible disaster.
My commiserations for the tragedy your country has suffered.
Thank you for the information.
The disaster in Syria and Turkey is heartbreaking.
I'm glad you're OK, i always look for your comments with enthusiasm - and my heart goes out to the Turkish people in this terrible time.
I'm a New Zealander and have attended commemorations at Gallipoli, and the grace and friendship of your people toward someone whose great grandfather invaded your country truly amazed me. Turks have great 'mana' (as we say in Te Reo/Maori), we respect you and feel your pain.
Indy being sympathetic: "Yeah, you'd think he might stay in Belgium." Of course I am pretty sure at this point Leon DeGrelle was wishing he had!😂
Hmm, who do I trust more regarding Lucas' decision to be cautious? The numerous high ranking members of the British and US militaries or Winston Churchill - who championed Gallipoli and this costly Italy campaign...
It sounded like Indy was like starting to do a Churchill impression when he read that one quote, but then three words in he thought better of it
One Wehrmacht general that is mentioned this week , is general lindemann, in the army group north area. I’m pretty sure that he is a cousin of Ernst lindemann , who was the captain of the battleship Bismarck
i want the coffee cup when Indie is talking into both phones with his best theatrical perplexed amazement . .
First time seeing Patreon Content I finally became a member, this is by far thee most in depth and historically accurate series ever made on the topic of WW2. Ever. And the way it is presented and animated is enjoyable to watch and is above all, historically correct.
Same here :) Love getting to watch early
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@@WorldWarTwo series like this takes years to build and create. It is clear that the TimeGhost Team is truly in it to tell the story how it was and is. Not pushing any other narrative or just doing it for gain. It's awesome to see how far this channel and indeed the team have come from the first episode of WW2 when the war first started to now and see how the videos have evolved and changed over that time. The animations, sound, delivery, the story. It has evolved, much like the war. 10/10
Rather disappointed that the Battle of the Admin Box has had absolutely no coverage. The forgotten armies indeed.
Oh, Indy, such a flair for the dramatic! And love that "Ode to Joy" roll call!
I'm surprised we haven't gotten more "Buy War Bonds!" repurposed ads.
Great job Indy and team!
Thank you so much! Your kind words mean a great deal to our team.
Salute to all the new members
First time Patreon here. I’m glad I finally went and did it. I’m never gonna stop supporting this series until September 2nd 1945(assuming that’s the end).
Same, I started a Patreon account just to support them. Thanks guys for all the work
That might be the end for the World War 2, but probably not for Timeghost.
That’s an oddly specific date…what do you know that we don’t know? Are Patreons granted a view of the future? If so, that must be when Hitler’s wonder weapons are unleashed and the Allies sue for peace. 😂
They can always do Korea next. Then Vietnam. Then Iraq War I, then Iraq War II; Ukraine War I, Ukraine War 1.5. Human history will never run out of wars to tell.
Kleist is making plans to pull back in order to better position himself for another retreat... at this point you got to realise it's a wrap
It was a wrap at Stalingrad... it's survival now.
It was a wrap in late 1942 as all the big German offensives were tied up and bogged down. Stalingrad, North Africa will be the end of vast amounts of Axis troops.
But by mid 1943, it should have been clear the game was over. Axis troops in Stalingrad, North Africa capitulate. Scores of veteran troops, their equipment, lost forever. That's early 1943. Then the Germans commit their built up armor for Kursk, fails. Then the Western Allies do Sicily, Italy. Then the Russians do their push post-Kursk.
It was a wrap in 1943 as the Luftwaffe was being ground into dust.
Normally a gov't would sue for peace after such massive setbacks in so many locations in such short time. But the German leadership, knowing full well they got stuff to answer for, decide to keep the fight up. They shovel in men to pay for it and it will continue to do so until April 1945.
I can’t help but feel bad for Manstein. He’s either the most famous, or second most famous, behind Rommel, of Germany’s generals at this time. He’s pulled out a couple of victories that should have been disastrous defeats, but he’s still taking orders from a half-mad corporal who got kicked out of art school.
This series is History (of TV documentaries) in the making. Awesome work.
6:22 - it's freaking 1944 but Germans still haven't figured out that whole "supplying your troops with adequate clothing" thingie.
Everyone's excited for D-Day, I'm excited for Bagration
Mazel Tov!
I started watching this ww2 week by week last June and I'm finally up to date.
What an informative series this is.
I started watching 4 weeks ago, and am now up to date.
We are glad that you both find our content informative. Thank you.
@@joekemp83 Now this is some serious binge watching...
I always want to know more... Can't wait till the next episode and, and, promise, I won't look for the fates of Germans south of Leningrad and Nikopol nor the fate of the Allied in Anzio on Google. Keep up the great work!
Nice video this week Time Ghost Army. I hope your D-Day recordings are a great big success.
Great episode and great coverage, so professional as always
Once again, well done WW2 team!
Fantastic! Keep up the good work guys!
Thank you for the lesson.
This week was vintage Time Ghost. Good work!
Thank you for this great episode, especially for the eastern front )
Thank you for your perseverance in our enlightenment , well done.
Once again, an amazing episode!
I have taken a great shine to this channel 2 very big thumbs up
OMG!!! 18:52 my name, thank you for including. Hope my tiny contribution helps.
You would think by now that the German Generals would have gotten rid of Hitler by now-instead, millions of lives losy in the usless fighting of Feb.19440April 1945.
wow just found your channel. Excellent!
aaaaaaaaaaaaaah, Belgium gets a worthy mention in this episode, that's good to ... Oh.
Hi Indy
Another wonderful week.
Learned lot from your series.
Studied some books about second world war.
But certain details i got from you.
Thank you.
Amazing content per usual
Thank you for watching, really happy to know you enjoyed the episode!
Excellent, as always
Nice Ode to Joy jumpscare. Almost fell off my chair there.
At the risk of sounding like a parrot this is still the quickest twenty minutes in my week long may it continue 😀😀😀
Followed this channel for years, this is my first time catching a premier, great episode as always.
Glad you could make it Ryan! Thanks!
10:19 Flawless overdub guys 😂
Not sure if I am allowed to post direct links to other RUclips content but Episode 4 of the Nazi Collaborators series covers Leon Degrelle's story really well. I actually was just able to track down and buy a full set of DVDs of the series a few weeks ago.
The Belgian documentary series The Oostfronters by Maurice de Wilde also has interviews with him and other Belgians in it. Degrelle appeared in full uniform while living in exile in Spain. The surrounding at Cherkasy Korsun has a special episode.
A wonderful historical coverage
Thank you so much for watching!
Am I wrong to assume that the Manganese in Nikopol that Hitler wanted was not there but in nearby Manganets? What a pun of a city name
Is it a pun? City names are often super literal.
@@matthewreinert9358 Exactly. There's a town in Sweden called Zinkgruvan and another in Australia called Iron Knob. Guess what they mine in those places?
@@Dave_Sisson And Asbestos Quebec.
There's a town in Northern California's Gold Country named "Copperopolis".
And a town in Northwest Pennsylvania named Oil City.
Thanks!
Great show guys!!
Thank you!
Another footnote re Leon Degrelle: Hitler said if he ever had a son he’d like him to be like Leon.
That is a claim I have never seen confirmed, but Degrelle was certainly favoured. The Wallonie unit was given full SS status, including the right to wear SS runes on the collar patch. This was due to Degrelle's influence. He overcame objections that only Germanic units were entitled to this, and French speakers like Wallonie were not considered Germanic.
@@stevekaczynski3793 interesting about the runes. I didn’t know that
This week Canadian Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar and his 1st Canadian Corps assumes control of the Adriatic front following a regrouping of 8th Army forces, including the departure of the 4th Indian and 78th British divisions to join the 5th Army front. 1st Corps now assumes responsibility over a seven mile front, manned by the 1st Canadian Division, next to the sea, the 8th Indian Division on the left and the British 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade, covering the Ortona-Orsogna Highway and the 5th Canadian Armoured Division in reserve. On the 9th, however; 5th Armour relieves 8th Indian who will remain with 1st Corps in reserve. With the addition of the 1st Army Group Royal Canadian Artillery on the 4th, Crerar now commands all the Canadian forces in Italy except for the 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade. Opposite 1st Corps remain the formidable German1st Parachute Division as well as the 305th, 334th Infantry Divisions, and “Blocking Group Bode”. These latter formations range from quite good to inexperienced (334th).
What may be of interest to some, is the growing camaraderie between the Canadians and the 8th Indian Division that started during the Sangro and Moro river operations back in November. Over the coming weeks Canadian and Indian troops will begin to train together. This “happy association” will continue for the remainder of the Italian campaign.
Thanks for the extra details Nick!
I read that in Indy’s voice.
¡Gracias!
As always loving this channel from Tasmania!
Great stuff as per
Thank you!
loving your zany graphics:
Spies and Ties > Hitler in some sort of negligee
Hitler's Jazz Band: of a trombone---- oh wow it's Hitler playing it!
Brilliant!!!
A certain Catalan has certainly fed the German intelligence agencies with a lot of information at this point, about troop movements in Britain.
BTW - the quote is from Hamlet
12:27 is this the same gerald templer that later fought the malayan emergency?
Yes
10:19 That's okay Indy, I've done the same thing more than once.
18:35 my mind saw the queue and immediately thought of the new recruits that show up for the next mission in Cannon Fodder
Gotta love the 17th Corps!
This is a very good series.
Thanks, Chris! You're a very good viewer!
16:10 huh, they did that b52 bombing run footage but 20 years early
8:59 the chair of infinite knowledge has failed us
Thank you for all the work you do. I was a few months behind due to a new job, but I finally caught up with the week-by-week retelling
Thanks Matthew!
I think i prefer the other outro where Indie himself does it. Facinating week as always however.
Thanks!
It''s very true that Lucas was wise not to advance on Rome before forces from the South could reach his relatively small force . He kept the option to evacuate open . If he had gone to Rome ; he would be encircled by not only the counter attacking force but any other forces behind the lines of the main allied force . It's the main problem with narrow strung out advances . It's like a snake you ignore it's head and attack the flanks . The same problem might have happened at Arnhem if they broke out of the Bridge head along such a narrow supply line / advance . The German attack on France through the Ardennes, only succeeded because of the inept performance of the French and British . Even the small counter attack at Arras proved how vulnerable they were . At least as in the early stages Normandy , the large naval force could offer artillery support to the Anzio beach head .
Ah WWII isn’t over and Churchill is already looking to start WWIII.
Churchill is off his meds. Previously when the US arguing for more support for the Chinese, Churchill argued that support should go to the Soviets instead. What did he think would happen if he kept supporting the Soviets ?
3:23 The Amazing Mood Swing Wheel of Adolf Hitler! Where will it spin this week? Next week? Ten minutes from now? Euphoria? Implacable stubborness? Total stark lunacy? Stay tuned when we add a bonus Argentinan vacation to the wheel!
I remember Leon Degralle and his rexist party being a meme way back when in the hoi4 community and also his interesting story of after the war
Nikopol was not fundamental to Germany economy as Albert Speer wrote in his memories, the Balkans were fundamental for it. Germany lost huge territories in 1943 and 1944 but it continue to increase its war production until July 1944
@@coleprice413 Yes production increased and they were able to build more tanks and planes. However they were hurt by ever increased shortage of fuel. You can build a plane in days or even hours but it takes 17 years to grow a soldier and the Germans were increasingly short of troops compared to the Allies.
Part of this increase was also due to moving production from trucks to tanks and reducing the number of spare parts produced. This meant that tanks became harder and harder to repair and it was harder to move supplies to the front lines. German production still lagged far behind British, Soviet, and American production.
10:17 Seamless
10:18 interesting sound change
LOL at the new Captain's graphic and lol at the "17th" insert edit.
For all their talk about the things they want to do they *really* should buy Indy a good home muc because it's always noticeable when he has to record something extra.
It feels like we were just at Stalingrad and planning for Kursk to turn things back around
hey guys, i dont have the means to support you with cash, but i can turn off ad block to help out, so thats what i did :)
Now I just realized there hasn't been a mention of the Chinese front in a while.
Cause there hasn’t been anything much happening… but boy oh boy it gets busy VERY soon.
Just to point out something: The thumbnail is kinda irritating considering the troops at Korsun are nowhere near starving but well stocked in food as you said. So it could be worth a change ;)
Probably referring to the Japanese troops towards the end. Most of the 17th Army Group was stationed at Rabaul, and due to the constant aerial campaign, rarely got to enjoy any more food, as a result they found themselves starving by early February.
Well done Indy
ach der neun symfony bespeilt vor reiner,, wuuunderbar,,was diee mode STRENGgeteilt!
the only conductor who makes that syllable FF loud
*World War 2 Episode 233: The Phantom Menace*
Oh, wow! They have started the WW2 series? I hope this one is just as good as the WW1 series was (and still is).
Hi! I'm a citizen of Marhanets, Dnipropetrovsk oblast. I'm writing to let you know that you missed my town's name. It is "Marhanets" not "Manganets". I just found it fun because it feels like you translated in via Google Translate and it gave you the name of a chemical element - manganese, not the towns name :)
And yeah our town is called after it, but in Ukrainian, it is "марганець" with "R" not the "N".
Thanks for catching that, I’ll put a note in 👍🏻
@@WorldWarTwo That's the least I could do for you. Your videos and your team are a great relief in these dire times, so keep up the good work
17th corps gets a voiceover. The others are jealous.
it's been a while since the change, but I wanted to ask about the maps - what was the reason behind swapping from initialed ⚡ divisions eg TK, W to numbers?
Some divs, especially ss have special letter names, most have numbers
In the case of the germans , the units with the 2 thunder thingy , are SS divisions , the "good/effective/elite" SS divisions were the liebstandarte , das reich , totenkopf , wiking and prinz eugen , the others ranging from average to useless.
In the case of the soviets , that same ( but just one thunder icon ) represents shock armies , basicaly breakthrough formations.
If its a red star , its guards units , veteran shock rifle / tank / airborne / artilery units .
@@mariosarrionandia1972 I know what the SS divs are. pre-42 (I want to say off the top of my head) the named ones had initials for which one they were. I actually used the lightning emoji as an anti-algorithm measure so the comment didn't get youtube'd
I liked the Anzio movie with Peter Falk as the reporter but was it accurate?
Beethoven's Ninth was unexpected, but great!
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