Hitler: Uncovering his Fatal Obsession | Part 2 | Time is Blood 1942-1945 | Full Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Episode 2 begins after the desperate German winter of 1941. Yet 1942 began badly for the Soviets, with more vicious Nazi campaigning seeing millions more Russians captured and starved. The Nazi plan to win greater Lebensraum for the German people was working. They thrusted south and eastwards, leaving trails of burning villages as they went. Murdering scores. The Russians were being forced into headlong retreats; the hearts of the Russian people seemed broken - morale was at its lowest ebb, and annihilation reared its head on the horizon. There was a desperate need for a change in fortunes. Hitler’s decision to make a rash dash for Stalingrad would set the scene for such a change - and for one of the most infamous and grim battles imaginable; patterned out in house to house close-quarters fighting. Through sheer grit and sacrifice the Russians were able to repel the Germans; creating a victory of mythic proportions that reversed the momentum of the war and rescued Soviet morale from the depths of despair. Stalingrad paved the way for another historic defensive victory at Kursk, in the largest land battle of all time. At Kursk, the plains were blackened by a clash between millions of men on each side and never-before-seen numbers of tanks. The result was a final exhaustion of Nazi offensive power; their ability to fight on the front foot was spent. Kursk marked the beginning of a Soviet ‘steamroller’ advance towards Berlin, which would finally end in the ironic triumph of the subhuman Untermensch, flying his flag from Hitler’s capital. The partition of Berlin would follow, with half of Hitler’s country being left under the control of the western Allies, and half under the control of the Soviets: setting the scene for half a century more of tension and ideological struggle.
The release of this documentary series will mark the year WWII became the most catastrophic conflict in human history. From the 1920s a detestation of the Soviet Untermenschen had been a central part of Hitler’s ideology. A war with Soviet Russia was always a precondition for the success of his racial vision; for the flourishing of Aryan man. When Hitler did eventually invade Russia in 1941, it took the Soviets entirely by surprise - until this point, the two nations had been freely cooperating. What followed was a campaign of unparalleled barbarism, on a scale of destruction unmatched in history. The Red Army’s disastrous initial response would gradually be turned around through elemental spirit, enormous human sacrifice and strategic intuition. Some of the most famous battles in the history of warfare would pan out through this epochal struggle. Eventually, the Soviet ‘steamroller’ would turn things around, repelling the invaders, recapturing scarred, lost territory, and marching all the way to Berlin, where the Hammer and Sickle would fly from the Reichstag; the Untermensch now standing astride Hitler’s capital. The partition of Berlin would follow, setting the scene for the Cold War and 50 years of Communist domination in Eastern Europe.
Cast: Professor Professor Donald Rayfield - Queen Mary University of London & Author, Dr Klaus Schmider, Royal Academy Sandhurst & author of “Hitler’s Fatal Miscalculation, Sir Anthony Beevor,Historian & author of ‘Stalingrad’, Professor Sir Richard Evans, Cambridge University & author of ‘The Third Reich at War’, Sir Max Hastings, Historian & author of ‘All Hell Let Loose’.
Director: Lyndy Saville
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Dictatorship are made by people, a clique of people who benefits from it and the masses who are forced to believe it.
Sir. ALHAGIE SEDIA
@@KevinLance-ne3to Thanks
I love how everyone says what little the Americans were doing. As an American I have to point out while we we’re supplying the allied armies we was fighting the whole japan empire by ourselves while still fighting in this war also.
Not to mention the B29 project was the single most expensive military project in history, in addition to the manhattan project
your grammar betrays your purported nationality
No one can doubt that the USA was fighting hard during ww2. But you show your total figjammery by saying the Americans were fighting the whole Japanese empire by them selves. Bullshit!
@@user-rm4rq7nu2f Oh, well it happens...
Never judge everyone based on one.
@@masoncamera273 As Johnny Carson would say..."I did not know that!"
In 1940 Germany had the best army man for man in the world but unfortunately for Hitler the Russian boogeyman was just over the horizon with unlimited manpower, land, resources and manufacturing capacity than Germany could ever hope to have.
Roll TIDE
@Jakez408 The Soviets did NOT have a larger industrial base than the Germans. As for manpower here the Soviets had substantially more, but hardly unlimited.
@@dennisweidner288 Then and Now, who has the larger base? Russia 1000,s missiles a day, Germany none. It has always been so and always be so. In 1941 Germany was like the 13 y.o boy going to Las Vegas with is weeks allowance.
@@Jakez408 Actually Russia has de-industrialized. Russia produces a lot of raw materials, but its industrial base is very small. It imports an increasing proportion of industrial products from China because it manufactures so little itself. Putin is too stupid to recognize that is a danger for Russia.
i@@Jakez408The Soviet manpower advantage was the crucial factor. Though the Soviets did have vast resources, Germany had almost the whole industrial base of Europe at their disposal, but no other country could have survived having almost its entire 200 division army destroyed in 1941 only to immediately come straight back with another Red Army of equal size to fight the rest of the campaign.
Well done video. Too many people unnecessarily critique narrative down to the last word just shit up and take the point for what it is! Eventho we all know about ww2 we can always still learn more and this video does that. I’m very impressed on the different outlooks and explanations. let alone the facts that, me as a military historian, I’ve just learned 🤷🏽♂️🏆💯
YT are deleting my posts of 2 days ago. All I said was Germany did not defeat Russia in WW1 but Russia changed government in 1917 and made peace with Germany.
That is true the Russians had problems at home and withdrew from fighting Germany, which freed approx l million German soldiers to return to the fight in Europe
@Jakez408 Germany did defeat Russia which is why the Bolsheviks made peace.
And the Russians saved 15% on their car insurance by switching to Geico.
They have done that to me for months and blocked my comments for 24 hours at least five times,the kicker is they don't tell you what post or comment it was that they claim gave them cause to block me and delete my comments.
@@markdunigan805 Yes it is the woke minds at Google, rhe same people who pretend to be protecting democracy.
8:52 It's not like Hitler was riding on a horse in front of the army and "he sees on the river a city" named after Stalin. Hitler himself said he wanted to cut off the Volga river. The name wasn't important to him, yet historians especially on TV perpetuate this lie. There were many cities with Stalins name and names of politburo members taken by this point.
That’s what happens when you lose a war: you have to prepare for the next phase!
Yeah I've notices this also.
Another major wrong I see in a lot of ww2 docs is The footage of Hitler supposedly giving H.Y Iron crosses on his last birthday.
That footage was taken two months prior, in Febuary 1945. Always confused me because I had heard the Soviet artillery was so heavy on big H's b-day that there was practically no going outside. So I was always like, how'd they get that footage...
Well now we know they were lieing I guess.
Long live the orators in this youtube offering from an hour ago
The British historians act like the Pacific War did not even exist. "The American Army were doing remarkably little" in the fall of 1942. Tell that to the men of Guadalcanal.
Without the US, Britain would have been conquered by 1942.
Paulus acted sensibly, he remained at his position until there was no hope! They probably were out of food and ammunition. There is no shame in surrender and choosing not to commit suicide.Also, Paulus was Catholic, its against his faith to kill himself.
@EamonnMurphy-cc1dt Paulis helped plan Barbarossa. It obviously was no against his faith to commit aggression and terrible atrocities.
@@dennisweidner288 Noted with thanks. 'Do not judge less you be judged' 🙏
@@EamonnMurphy-cc1dt I take that injunction seriously, but toward people in my personal life. Historical figures are a different matter. What are we discussing here, but the judgment of history.
You bring up an interesting matter in the modern discussion of Islam in the West. I am reminded of Jesus' injunction about casting the first stone. as opposed to Mohammed who was in favor of stoning the hell out of sinners.
@@dennisweidner288 Noted with thanks. Interesting! Personally, I see no fault in defending those who can not defend themselves, whether they are historical or not (with kindness though) I have noted that many historians give Paulus a hard time. They make out he should have disobeyed his orders and broke out of the siege while also not doing what was expected of him ie: Committing suicide. Then they go on to say that he was put up in a fine house on the Russian side and was allowed to send some gifts or letters to his relations in Germany. I find his actions in this instance to be consistent with a man of honor. Also, If the Russians decided to treat him with some respect and grant a few lenience's, that is their affair. I have no real interest in Islam and its teachings. I do believe that any kind of condemnation or criticism of others is something I need to avoid.
@@EamonnMurphy-cc1dt There is nothing wrong in assessing historical figures--both defending and criticizing them. Paulis can be assessed in military terms. He does not come out well. He played a major role in planning Barbarossa. and of course Case Blue. These were the most important campaigns of the War.
Now it is historically incorrect to use modern values to judge history. figures. But there are some moral contents across cultures and times. And at any rate, World War II is modern history. Mass murder is surely a moral constant.
Now when in benefitted hin, he supported National Socialism. After capture hr quickly supported Coonumism. That says a great deal about his character.
My German grandfather was on the Ostfront...
That's brutal. Did he survive?
From 1942 the nazis were fighting the biggest empire of the world, the biggest economy and the biggest army,and yet it took almost 3 years to defeat them, outstanding!!!
Russian's were told their backs were against the wall at Stalingrad, there was no place to retreat to. Any map shows ASIA beyond Stalingrad.....no place to retreat?
If Stalingrad was taken+held then the Volga River could be cut off which was huge lifeline of supplies to Moscow. In the southern direction all the forces occupied by Stalingrad could be used to tip the scales in the fight for the isolated Soviet territory in the Caucasus which included 2 or 3 cities with major oil fields which would immediately be denied to the Soviets and eventually be a major source to the Germans who at over relied on Romania for its oil. These oil fields were the goal of the whole years campaign. "No territory past the Volga" was just a phrase but it was a very real breaking point not to mention an army that eternally retreats at some point breaks down internally.
Amazing how Max Hastings can speak without ever moving his top lip. Stiff upper lip and all that, no doubt.
Stalingrad was certainly not the first outright defeat Hitler had suffered in the Soviet Union--that was the Red Army Winter Offensive (1941-42). The Germans never fully recovered from these losses. It was more important because Barbarossa was Germany's best chance to win the War. The Germans were at the peak of their power and the Soviets were not fully mobilized. The Red Air Force provided no support. Case Blue was a more limited shoe-string effort against a better-prepared and better-led Red Army with a recovering Red Air Force. And with the Western Allies expanding their effort in the West. Often ignored is that while the bulk of German MANPOWER was committed to the Ostkrieg, the bulk of German Industrial support was committed to the War in the West.
Can someone please correct the typo in the title on here?
It's driving me crazy, and making me "obsessed".
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Only tuned in now, is the typo corrected? English isn’t my native language, I struggle sometimes with spelling, so please don’t laugh if I haven’t noticed it. 😊
At 0:33 there's an Officer standing to Hitlers right. I've seen the shot many times but don't know who he is.Can The War Channel or anyone else provide a name?
Wolfram von Richthofen?
Field-Marshall Walter von Brauchitsch, fired by Hitler in December, 1941...
Wrong. GenerallOberst Eduard Dietl. Hero of Narvik Campaing
@@Ramoncito788 Stop pretending like you know anything about history. That's the only way to learn it.
None of the above. Also want to know after seeing dozens of times
Can you imagine the snowflakes of today with their pronouns and anxieties dealing with this reality. We would all be speaking either Russian or German.
Either way, the "pronouns" would disappear...
@glenntremblay5406 What are you talking about? Just look at how well the DEI Barbies performed in Butler Pennsylvania.
bruh have you not seen the Russia Ukraine war? you got gay Ukrainians in the trenches defending their country day and night.
@@enlightthehermit What do gay Ukranians have to do with DEI Barbies?.
@user-wj6dt5bq3w I suggest you read about Generalplan Ost and Hitler's plans for a defeated Britain. As well as his 'Secoind Book".
This is wrong about most of the German soldiers fighting with the Soviet Army. A vast majority of them were sent to Gulags in Siberia where they were staved to the point of some of them committing cannibalism of their dead comrades in arms in order to survive.
Despite having some decent guests. This attempt at a documentary hardly explains anything. The info graphic maps are useless.
Kursk bulge the size of the Isle of Wight?! Wales is a better comparison.
Beevor: "We are in a post-military society...' Really? I don't think so. Putin is no less of a totalitarian imperialist than Hitler or Stalin. It's just a question of scale.
It just makes them feel better about being European.
…I wonder who instigated the coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014.. Just I wonder…🧐🤨
Don't worry, Trump will knock him into line.....?
Well, consider his background. KGB and all. Have to agree tho.
@@dereks1264About George Bush-Clinton’s take a look at the U.S. foreign policy since the Monroe Doctrine specifically after WWll..??
Umm first off the Germans weren’t haulted by the Russian winter to take Moscow,,, Hitler is the one who actually told the generals stop your advance do not go into Moscow take two armies and go south to Stalingrad,,, taking Stalingrad wasn’t tactical but it bore Stalin name sake and Hitler wanted to take that city to take the Russian people’s morale
When the Germans launched Battle of Kursk
Zhukov just said...Not this time.
could have greater chance if he did not declare war against usa
I disagree with the premise of the show not 30 seconds in. Everyone wants to say the Germans were the best, this particular gentleman said they were the best ever. So, there's a million problems with that claim, but in short, at the start of the war when they saw their only successes, they outgunned and outmanned all others they went against. They picked the time and place they chose to fight. As soon as the war entered the eastern front, they began to overstretch their supply lines almost immediately. Once they couldn't effectively re-supply themselves, they never won again...at least not anything significant. Stalingrad, Moscow (the failure to ever reach it,) Kursk, the Baltics, nothing but a reverse march back to Berlin and annihilation. They couldn't stop the allies in Africa, Italy, France or Germany. One could certainly argue they were brave but to lay the claim on them as the GOAT...utter nonsense. Essentially, the 20th century scoreboard reads Allies 2, Axis 0. The American Marines were unstoppable in the Pacific. The Russians died in place or moved forward. Certainly, the Wehrmacht was good, but they fought with a LOT of advantages at the beginning. When the initiative was taken away from them, they knew nothing but retreat and dying for their Fuhrer.
Hitler might be the worst general in modern history. He had a poor understanding of tactics and was egotistical and arrogant.
This image of Hitler being incompetent and arrogant was created by leading German generals who survived execution and wrote their memoirs of the war. These memoirs were originally important sources for a history of WW2 but when more documentation was later recovered it was discovered these generals were generally supportive of Hitler’s plans, because they were making the most incredible fortunes in agreements with Hitler, rewarding them with endless property and spoils of war from the lands they invaded.
What was discovered is that German general staff of that time were basically incompetent and corrupt and willing to be so in order to be rewarded by Hitler.
Hitler was dead and they were able to get away with blaming him in order to cover up their own crimes, including war crimes which were ubiquitous amongst the German generals who supported Hitler’s genocidal aims
@@christophervaughan2637 He was a corporal for fucks sake he never even knew anything about even WW1 tactics
@@gowdsake7103 he was corporal in WW1 but Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces by the dawn of WW2 so why on earth are you referring to what he did twenty years before the time we are talking about? Can you explain that?
@@christophervaughan2637 People that mislead and try to depict him as an incompetent only makes it look worse that it took the entire world so long to defeat him.
@@Stephen-wb3wf that’s true and I think I recall Charlie Chaplin regretted the making of his film “the great dictator”, portraying Hitler as a bumbling fool, when Hitler later went on to conquer Europe, precisely because Chaplin felt he had misled people into thinking Hitler wasn’t intelligent enough to be dangerous
The advantage we have over dictators is that they always fu.
Russian cars start first go at minus 20 whilst American cars struggle at minus 5. It is better to get a donkey to pull your cart than no donkey at all.
@Jakez408 There were few American cars in the Soviet Union during 1941-42. Germany invaded the Soviet Union, not America. There were, however, a lot of trucks built in the Soviet American-designed factories. And beginning in 1943, huge numbers of American-built trucks and jeeps which apparently had no trouble starting.
@@dennisweidner288 These trucks were not for free. USSR was still paying the Americans back when it collapsed in 1991. America however fed the Red Army on bully beef and carried them to the front in trucks,whereas the Germans had to walk and transport supplies by wagons. And then there was the much needed aluminium. The co operation lasted till 1945 just enough to defeat Germany. Pity, the world could have been different today.
@@Jakez408 True, but why do you not mention the payment was pennies on the dollar? Or that the Imoted States offered aid after the War via the Marshall Plan? It was Stalin that rejected the aid, because America insisted that democracy was needed to qualify.
@@dennisweidner288 I based my conclusion having owned a Holden from GM in Australia and a new 2014 Lada bought in Moscow. The Lada was impressive after owning Australian cars whose starting ability is low in cold conditions. Also Australian cars are designed to fail after 5 years.
@@Jakez408f Ladas are such great cars why are they not sold outside of Russia? And Australia does not make cars.
Good documentary but I find the inaccurate maps kind of annoying. That black and red shading is only roughly specific
@davidjackson2179 Yes and not very accurate. The Red Army in 1941 put up a stronger fight in the Ukraine than further north. That is why the Panzers had to be diverted south from the drive on Moscow.
Breaking the Enigma machine was Hitler's downfall.
Mother russia 🇷🇺
Bad mother under Putin 🧐🇮🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺
Germany military were drugged up. These men had no real choice. War or death.
General were hottest trying to kill Hitler, what does that say about them 🙄😉🤷♀️
Germany military had bikes and horse, something wrong with this war.
Churchill to me was a loser ,self centered person. I watched every documentary and video and anything I could find on this war.
Nothing made sense.
The wars that are going on make me sick. I see greed /power hungry people. The people pay the price.
The world will never be at peace.
College teach our leaders and who know what they are really being taught.
Just ranting 🤷♀️
With religion the world will never be at peace
@faustinae3927 Churchill inherited a militarily weakened Britain. But Britain was the first country to successfully resist Hitler, largely because of Churchill's leadership.
The speaker at 14:15 trolling…
Post- military?? Would be first time in human history. Such a nonsense. Si vis pacem para bellum. Embarrassing
Stockholm syndrome…by Joseph Stalin.
Trump would of loved that enormous power!
Luckily, we have the Constitution. No dictators here, though we love hyperbole and fear mongering.
@@elainehiggins713 constitution strong 🇺🇸
@@elainehiggins713 He has stated he will ignore that
@@davidswift7776 Outdated ignorant and proud hmmmm
@davidswift7776 Trump believes in a strong military. But it is Biden's weakness that was a factor in the current instability around the world--including Ukraine. Putin invaded Crimea during the Obama presidency and Ukraine during the Biden presidency.