*Fun fact:* After the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Stalin ordered the recent film "Alexander Nevsky" to be withdrawn from circulation, due to its German-Russian conflict. Once Operation Barbarossa began, Stalin ordered the film to be shown every day in all Russian cinemas
He went into isolation while sending millions to die. A synopsis of every war ever if you ask me. The guys who declare it are far away safe and sound while the men that had no say in it are forced to fight and die.
The Treaty of Locarno and the Treaty of Berlin. Stalin's hopes of an communist germany were crushed by the freikops so he had to sign the non-aggression pact.
@@jacobsantiago5693 mongols invaded a multitude of different countries over the course of a 100+ years. Germany invaded one of the biggest empires to ever exist right away
Not to mention the size of the Mongol's armies even at the peak and most generous estimate of 200,000 warriors, was few compared to the nearly 4 million German soldiers.
@@FadeintotheShadows generic basic information about entire Barbarossa planning, no focus on the first day as promised, very little details about first day, no mention about battle for Brest fortress either.
@@francismcdonnell8149 I watched the whole video. No details except bombarding soviet airfields and a bit about Stalin's reaction. For example the start of the first significant engagement on the ground is missing (battle for Brest Fortress).
For some reason they chose to name Danzig, "Gdansk", even tho Poland was not controlling the city anymore. I think it's illegal in America to pronounce and use actual names correctly.
I thought for sure that this video would be about what happened TWENTY FOUR HOURS after Germany . . . Instead, a history lesson known by everyone who knows about WWII. A lot of nothing.
bruh this has so many fallacious inaccuracies, you should look beyond NATO for your history. if this is "common knowledge" then you've been taught propaganda
To be fair the way the red army fell on it's face in Finland it's easy to see how Hitler thought they were an incompetent fighting force. At that time they very much were. It took years of total war before the Soviets became an effective fighting force
Very true and as was stated in video the Russians lost 5 million MORE lives in the war than Germany. No matter how you slice it, though they eventually fought back and won, in the initial stage German soldiers wiped the floor with Russian troops.
The soviet union would have collapsed without british-american aid. Considering the hostilies of the allies against the soviet union, effectively considering them a german ally (Operation Pike, Plan R 4) it wasn't too farfetched. If leningrad or stalingrad fell the russian army would have collapsed, the first could easily have happened had the finns joined the siege.
@@r0dani3lbLOL can't you see the difference? Ukraine has USA and its european slaves as its allies. Without them Ukraine would have been crushed in matter of days.
"Paranoid against potential soviet invasion" - It was not potential, there are facts that soviets were concentrating forces in Belarus (there are de-classified Russian documents about it ). Don't make him look stupid, he was not. He knew that only chance to take over larger army is by being first to attack. He never wanted second front, he had no choice, it was dilemma for him.
How does concenteating forces in Belarus show that the Soviets were planning an assault? It is more likely the Soviets increased the army in respons to Germany doing it
"Now they say that the allies never helped us, but it can't be denied that the Americans gave us so many goods without which we wouldn't have been able to form our reserves and continue the war," Soviet General Georgy Zhukov.
I'll give you a well-known fact with historians at the time but is not talked about now. The reason why German forces in 1941 were able to so easily encircle the Red Army forces was because the Red Army stationed on Germany's border was in Offensive mode. Meaning, that later intelligence showed, that Stalin was planning on invading Germany one month after operation Barbarossa was launched. So the notion that they were "good allies" is completely false
Thats a Legend spread by Germans from the begin of the Invasion. Only Point. Stalin itself didnt think they are war ready. I dont believe that. Btw i m German
@@Wanwan-mq3jw That explains a lot. Indoctrination. You don't believe in facts because they are against the narration of the propaganda. But it is widely known that the Bolsheviks, Stalin, believed in world revolution. Also the allocation of the red army shows that they were about to attack. This falls in line with the reports about that units unfit to defend. This is not a legend but a fact. We have a number of scientists from different countries who found indications. We know that there are hundreds of propaganda stories made up to cover inconvenient facts for the soviet side. Grow up and accept that history is not a fairy tale and not everything lines up with the story that is told with an intention. I grew up in the GDR and the number of propaganda stories that we were told is legion. The only way to look through is "where is the beef?", what are the actual facts? And Stalin was fighting a string of wars just before. The Soviet Union was always ready for war.
Hitler never said he wouldn't have attacked had he known the tank strength of the Soviets (which was actually 35,000+ and not 14,000) in the recorded converstaion with Finnish CIC Mannerheim(5:18). What he said was that he would have commented that his Generals were crazy for thinking they had so many tanks but that even if it were true, he would have attacked anyway most likely based on the performance of the Soviets in the Winter War and of the purges.
It is interesting to see how Operation Sealion would have gone, could have completely destroyed the German Navy and thrown the German Army back into the channel could have sent the war in a completely different route
Another reason for Operation Barbarossa was because the Red Army had positioned strong units near the Romanian border, thus threatened the oil fields in that country which were vital for Germany. If the USSR had occupied Romania in 1941, then it would have been game over for Germany even before Barbarossa would start.
The reason for the invasion was desperation. The Reich was consuming more than 9.5 million tons of oil than it produced in 1940 after conquering France, Norway and the low countries. If they did not secure the oil fields of the Caucuses they would be unable to conclude the war with the British Empire successfully. This was in large part why the timetable for Barbarossa stipulated victory requirement by the Fall of 1941. Case Blue was the last ditch attempt to secure the oil fields and continue the war. After that, Germany lacked the ability for multi front offensives and was increasingly reduced to static defense in the hopes for a favorable negotiated peace.
PITTSBURGH PRODUCED MORE STEEL THAN THE GERMANS. 1,500 FACTORIES WERE RELOCATED TO THE URALS IN TWENTY FOUR HOURS. THEY WERENT GONNA WIN. THE SOVIETS JUST PAKCED UP AND LEFT. AND ENACTED THE SAME SCORCHED EARTH TACTIC TO CREATE AN DEFENSIVE ZONE.
Which is why bararossa was flawed they focused the center and not south. Perhaphs of they had the right focus and started sooner they would have reached stalingrad in 1941
True. The Soviets tried to get into the Axis block, but Germany gave the cold shoulder. Soviet-German relations soured when the Soviets took too much of Bukevina, in violation of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
I love how people try to make Germany and Soviets seem like some sort of allies cause they signed a non-aggression but nobody says the same thing about the French and British even though they let Germany take Czechoslovakia without any consequences.
Or proposed operation "Unthinkable" for that matter. Or British-Japanese agreements that led to invasion of China and Mongolia. Or Soviet-British negotiations in 1939. Or the whole political context of 1930s.
5:16 FALSE... While there is no explicit statement from Hitler himself acknowledging that he would not have attacked if he had known about the Russian tank strength, many historians believe that this underestimation was a critical factor in the eventual failure of the invasion.
Fax though, also the winter. Hitler had to take into account the fact that Russia's climate was more than just harsh in winters, and also it's population was 10 times as big as Germany's population, which also played a crucial role in Russia's victory.
According to Victor Suvarov's Ice Breaker Stalin was planning to invade in July. There was no other way out than to take the gamble of a preemptive strike.
@@creely123 Russia was nowhere near ready to attack Germany in July 1941, and Victor Suvarov words should be taken with a pinch of salt, he was into conspiracy theory.
The main reason was that the USSR was about to invade, it positioned a large amount of troops at the border without defensive positions. Barbarossa started as a preventive attack and had so much sucess initially partly because of this
the soviets positioned their border guard next to the border? wow.. you'd think the bolshevik 50000 billion strong army would be able to fend the germans off with their own invasion being imminent and all
Taking on Russia while he still had Britain at his back providing a platform for the rest of the Empire and potentially the United States was stupid. A genuine rookie mistake.
There was no alternative. Britain outproduced Germany in fighters. Meaning German y had no hope in winning the war quickly. Meanwhile, the Soviets would grow in strenth. Time was not on Germany's side.
3:20 The reasons for the postponement of Barbarossa from the initially planned date of 15 May to the actual invasion date of 22 June 1941 (a 38-day delay) are debated. The reason most commonly cited is the unforeseen contingency of invading Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941, due to Serbian revolt against siding their country with Nazis, and subsequent coup d'état.
Funny thing is, Hitler expected a similar situation to what happened to the Russian Empire, remember that in WW1 the Russian Empire had also performed poorly at the start while suffering Famine and starvation combined with mostly horrible Military leaders, However Hitler hadn't planned on Lend Lease or the fact that the Soviet people wouldn't revolt against the government, add in the fact that He thought all of the USSR talented generals were dead, It makes sense why He expected the same result the German Empire got against Russia.
The picture at 2:30 with the X marks is wrong; Budyonny (left, top row) and Voroshilov (middle, seated) survived the Great Purge. The guy on the right side, seated is Alexander Yegorov and he died in 1939.
Incorrect facts. Germany preemptively attacked the Soviets who were going to invade first. It was not by choice, it was for the defense of not only Germany but of all of Europe.
I feel like Stalins initial blundered response actually played a significant part in Germany's eventual loss. I mean, if the Soviets put up more resistance, Hitler would have never continually underestimated the Russians. And instead of heading south to cut off oil supplies, Hitler may have stayed on course for Moscow, and might have even taken Moscow.
Barbarossa, what to say. It's unbelievably ambitious, but if it's pulled off very, very quickly it may very well have worked. Still just an insane gamble, especially when you fighting another war simultaneously.
Videos like this most often leave out the fact that Germany was in dire need of resources which they had gotten most of from the Soviets, with Romania at second place. But the Soviets then suddenly stopped giving the agreed-upon resources to Germany and only reduced it from there, while at the same time making threats against Germany‘s allies such as Romania (also Finland I think), while using the resources as a way to pressure Germany into giving up support for Romania, Finland and others. The mustache man and German high-command were very seriously expecting and fearing an invasion of German allies in the not so distant future and afterwards of even Germany itself, with the possibility of the Soviets themselves even joining forces with the British amd opening up an offensive 2 front war. In fact Hiler thought that beating the Soviets swiftly would make the British join Germany’s side and if not then Germany would at least secure enough resources in case they don’t join Germany and are going to keep on fighting in the future, with maybe even the Americans joining on the British side (which he expected they would openly do sooner or later, in case the British kept on fighting).
The Germans advanced 500 km in 3 weeks. After that, they could not supply their troops anymore, because they had not enough trucks and no railroads. The Germans had to wait for 10 weeks to restart the drive on Moscow! Again they broke through the Soviet front and advanced 300 km in 2 weeks. Then they were stopped by the mud in oktober. Again they had no supply lines after the advance. The Soviets were now very well supplied, just 100 km from Moscow with trains running. In december temperatures dropped to -40 degrees C. German trucks and locomotives broke down and the German supply network was almost completely disrupted.
I once read a book about this, many German generals said to Hitler that it was to early in the War to attack the Soviet Union at this point. It would have been optimal in 2-3 years. But who knows, in 2-3 years the Soviets had also ramping up their own war economy and would have ended in the same situation as what we know now.
Oil. They needed the oil. Also the focus was supposed to be south, to the oil fields, but Halder kept re-directing supplies/manpower to center because he thought taking Moscow was more important.
The origin date of the attack was May 20th if they have attackd on this day probably history have changed because operations in the balkans also hitler didn't give operational freedom to his generals
bennyklabarpan7002 is an nounce. The Germans missed 8 million trained soviet reservists, the Soviets had relocated their industry to the Urals within the first 24 hours of the invasion. 50% of Panzer Corps A and B were wiped out within the first months. German tanks were regularly beaten by the T-34. The Soviets had an massive arms industry and the ablity to arm everybody. Lend Lease could have been blocked by the Japanese but they didnt. The Soviet army had the leadership of Georgy Zhukov and Konstantin Rothisky. Germany was running out of oil even before the war with the Luftwaffe raids on London.
Hitler did not say he would not have attached - he is recorded (secret recording) speaking with Marshal Mannerheim saying that had he had know the Soviet’s had 20,000 tanks, the decision to invade would have been even more difficult, but he would still have made it…
10:10 or not, there would have been much more resistance from the soviet part, that is for sure, we know that later in the war, Germans were still beating the hell out of Russians even though they were on retreat and outnumbered such as the third battle of Harkov or battle of Târgu Frumos
Why Hitler thought invading USSR is a valid idea: 1. The Political system of USSR. during late 1930s was a complete mess. It was filled with fear, paranoia, purges, and sanctions from west. This was a major factor as the Great Purge had just recently ended in 1938. 2. Soviet economy and population. Because of Stalin, USSR was suffering heavily fron economical crises as Stalin wouldn't stop invading other countries much like Germany which pissed the West and they heavily sanctioned USSR, leading to a global economical isolation. Stalinist Communism also had messed up USSR had, The Ukrainian famine is a great example. 3. The Geography and military of USSR. The USSR just like Poland, is heavily located in the great european plain, which means it's significantly easier to Blitz large forces inside USSR as the terrain isn't a issue anymore. 4. The main industrial location of USSR. Nearly the whole USSR is located in the western part of Russia which like the size of China. In this small area, most Soviet industries, population, and major cities as well as the captial is located. Which means if German forces just swiftly takes this area, Soviet union then would be left utterly helpless and brink of collapse. 5. The hate towards slavic people and Communism. Hitler hated Soviets because in his eyes they had so much land for themselves meanwhile Germany was out here suffering with its massive population in a small area. Hitler viewed slavs as inferior to his Germanic population and the failure of Soviet union to annex Finland further intensified this belief he had. 6. Nazi Germany itself. Nazi Germany during the early stages of 1941 was world's one of the most powerful nations, if not the most powerful in world. The German tecnology in war was revolutionary for its time, no other nation was as advance as the Germans were in engeneering of advance War-machines. Blitzkrieg, Panzers, The Luftwaffe. All this combined was incredible formidable. Hitler even before the WW-II started he had already been preparing Germany for a long and resources straining war. He had made Germany very self-sufficient in terms of Military, Economy, and resources. Ensuring Germany can effectively fight long wars without collapsing. this is a major reason why Nazi Germany able to fight a multiple front war for such a long period of time by itself, is because Hitler had been planning for WW-II from the staet. In my opinion, these are the main reasons why the Austrian painter thought operation barbarosa could work out. Although he didn't prepared himself about what if UK and USA started heavy supplying USSR and potentially opening a new front.
Ussr was completely industralised and weapon exporter and biggest power after america At that time..big economic failure. And famine ended in 1932 which was a normal issue in Russia for a millenium and from 1932-1953 stalin was the general secretary and no famines happened
@@Rildar famine was a normal issue in russia for a millenium.stalin ended that in 1932. There is no famines when he was the toppest position in ussr for next twenty years. Holodomor is a ukranazi propaganda
@@Rildar that's what I said famines ended in 1932, a famine happened in russia in 1932 which was last of the series of famines happened in russia for a millenium
@@dmitryletov8138 If there was no war when D-day had happened I'm sure the soviets would have joined as well, unlike the allies they did not liberate, they gained land on it. They did the same thing with Japan as they joined the Asian front a day before the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, which is how they got all of Sakhalin.
@@dmitryletov8138 Your soldier numbers are completely incorrect. Way too high for Germany and too low for the Soviets. Also the Japanese wouldn’t have invaded the Soviet Union and the Soviets knew this thanks to one of their most successful spy (who ironically was a German communist who emigrated to the Soviet Union in the 1930s). And the Soviets even then were ready for a possible Japanese invasion with their troops stationed in Siberia.
2:36 You made two errors in the photo of the purge victims: Budyonny (the one with the huge moustouche) survived the purges, but Yegorov (the one on the lower right) did not.
For the first few days of the German invasion Stalin had a nervous breakdown and was paralyzed by indecision and disbelief. This is how the Germans were able to advance so quickly through the Stalin Line, as Soviet troops manning it had no orders to resist and were in complete confusion as to what was happening.
They messed up bad because they should have kept going eastward so that the Russians could not have a chance to make a stand and have Japan invade from the east coast.
What? Stalin knew the invasion was inevitable, the question was when. He tried to buy another year or two before Red Army can finish it's rearmament and didn't expect Hitler to start the war on two fronts.
They did not want peace. They were already planning to invade first according to Victor Suvarov's Ice Breaker. So it was either invade first or be invaded.
Great video, Just as an aside, the picture showing the red army generals purged in the late 30s at 2:30 has Semyon Budyonny( top left ) marked as dead and A. Yegorav(bottom right) as alive. It is the other way around.
The video seems to miss that the invasion of the USSR was the Nazis’ end goal from day 1, and everyone knew it. They weren’t exactly secretive about it. The Soviets fully expected the Germans to attack eventually, and the whole point of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was to earn the USSR enough time to prepare for it. They just didn’t expect it this early.
A video with this kind of title should assume that the viewer is already quite knowledgeable about the general history of WW2 and that of Operation Barbarossa in particular, and is expecting detailed information about what actually happened in the first 24 hours of the invasion, how the attack started, how far the Germans got during the first day, what countermeasures did the Soviets take and start taking, what kind of losses both sides took, what the propaganda/diplomatic effort was on both sides etc.
Soviets never could have stopped the most experienced divisions on earth at their full strength at that land border initially. This AI/American said Soviets could have ended the invasion first day lol
bro they got like 50km close to Moscow and the Soviets got encircled numerous times on the way, they probably lost soldiers in the millions just during Barbarossa. Not only that, they were outnumbered at the start too. Get off the copium already
@@Kynodras basic history...? Which you probably skipped, but that is alright. You probably think HOI4 memes are serious education materials. "Based on Soviet archives (casualties): 566,852 killed in action (101,471 of whom died in hospital of wounds) 235,339 died from non-combat causes 1,336,147 sick or wounded via combat and non-combat causes 2,335,482 missing in action or captured 21,200 aircraft, of which 10,600 were lost to combat 20,500 tanks destroyed" This was between 22 June-5 December 1941. From Wiki. "WhAt ArE YoU EvEn oN AbOuT", go back to HOI4.
How crucial was that lost 38 days of summer weather. Momentum is everything. Still, i think the Axis really needed a fourth army group with another million men if they were to win.
I dont find entirely true that Germany chose to attack Russia in the first World War. It was anticipated reaction of the German - Austro-Hungarian alliance on the declaration against Austria-Hungary. Actually von Schlieffen, when planning the army movements many years before, was very worried of how to play the war on two fronts and as we know today... he was right.
How odd that the reason given as 'might be' for the delay in Barbarossa was 'Italy's invasion of Greece' without mentioning that British and Commonwealth forces were sent there to assist the Greeks. Funny that! Also, Churchill declared support for the USSR BEFORE Stalin admitted he had been invaded!
Stalin sent molotov to berlin in 1940s. Stalin had 5 conditions which the Soviet union will join the axis pact, (1) Germany will depart Finland for exchanging nickel and wood , thus a mutual treaty is needed (2) Soviet bases must be established in Bulgaria in next few months through mutual friendly relationships (3) Japanese must be renounced the the northern Sakhalin for rights of oil and coal (5) An affirmation must be made between Soviet union and Bulgar through political necessity. After Hitler hear this from Stalin ,he called his generals in meeting, then Hitler said " Germany victory is unbearable for Russia, She must be brought down to our knees,Stalin wants more and more,he is cold blooded killer.That's why Hitler lunched massive invasion in soviet union.
I'm pretty sure you got the "Germany asked the USSR to join the Axis powers" wrong. I thought it was Stalin who asked Hitler to join the Axis, but Hitler left him on red haha. Or maybe Hitler asked first, then Stalin asked before Barbarossa.
*"Stalin orders the Invasion of Persia"* with British help seeing the invasion of Russia by Germany as a trifling matter was the Moscow Russia response after two weeks of Barbarossa actually.😮😮😮😮
Hitler neglected the southern side of Operation Barbarossa. He relied on the separatist tendencies of the Ukrainians and anti-communist Muslims in the Crimea and the Caucasus, so he believed that they would help him against the communists. Therefore, he placed only one panzer division in the south, unlike the center and north, which contained two panzer divisions. It was the neglect of the southern sector and the late timing of the operation that wrote the end of the Third Reich.
Bro, it's not luftlafil😂, it's Luftwaffe, also it's not Belarussia its Belarus. And why are there only ukrainian citys and a few others showen on the map? If you are making a map with citys show atleast all of the majores, like Riga, Talinn, Vilnius, Smolensk, Gomel, Pskov, Kursk, Novgorod, like there is more then ukrainian citys and three others, i understand your a big suporter of Ukraine but bro, that is not an exquse.
I think since 2022 most of Knowledgia's videos have been AI Generated. The script is definitely AI Generated and I believe the voice likely is now too. The map is either AI Generated now or extremely poorly crafted, considering there is tons of errors, for example Syria being independent, China controlling Mongolia and Tibet, the Turkish southern border and just things that I feel would be odd considering the style of the map for a human to have made, for example United Kingdom appearing twice in British colonies, and then Norway saying "German Occupied". I've ended up unsubscribing and will probably try and get RUclips to stop recommending me the channel because ChatGPT is not accurate and usually the videos just make no sense or answer the question of the title anymore.
@@samuelsstuffyt yeah, you are right, you know, i've also realised other time that this chanel is qite weard in that, that it makes a lot of misstakes wich bother me. This is the only time ( i thinck ) that this chanal has crosed the line and i just had to poited out, it really bothers me
Things so dependent on stalin had hitler attacked on day he was completely mad and out of it paranoid or depressed the soviet union might have fallen or collapsed. Damn this is completely nuts how one mans mood on one day can change history
The German army lost time during the conquest of Ukraine. Kyiv was taken only after more than 3 months (!), this gave Moscow time to form defense lines around Moscow and winter came.
Due to the spring rains - flooding all the rivers the Wehrmacht had to cross and soaking the ground - invading the Soviet Union on May 15th was impossible anyway.
It is Kiev, not Kyiv. When you put Prague on the map and not Praha, Kyiv is completely wrong. Not to mention that it has always been Kiev, before the first "Kyiv writer" has appeared on the planet.
Ah, keeping up with the age-old tradition of never showing the historical borders of Bulgaria (edit: and the Balkans as a whole) accurately. Sorry for the nitpick, video's great other than that.
They’re have started to do the same with Germany too these days. Even in this video the German borders shown are incorrect. But this is the least ridiculous mistake. Already seen ww2 Germany with todays borders or German Empire with Weimar borders…
There is this weird assumption these days that authoritarians are somehow natural allies. This is a willfully ignorant misunderstanding of authoritarians' worldview.
Weirdest mispronunciation of Luftwaffe I've ever heard. What did I even hear there? Luftlall? Luftlattel? Nice to see this video acknowledge the forgotten Axis power of Bulgaira, though.
I always wondered how things would have worked out if the Germans would have treated the peasants like fellow Germans instead of killing them and turning them into partisans.
It was, Iceland was occupied by British troops following the fall of Denmark (of which Iceland was a possession of). They turned it over to the Americans in June ‘41 until the end of the war.
Before everybody is going to say that im being biased because im Greek, That is NOT true: The Germans lost operation Barbarossa INDIRECTLY because of their untimely involvement in the Balkans and especially Greece.
@@tomaszmurzyn9123 Yes. That's why Yugoslavia fell in only 4 days! 5 peoples of 5 nations fell in only 4 days while Greece needed almost a month to surrender! Even the Netherlands fought longer, harder, and better than the whole of Yugoslavia! Shameful!!!
@@greekwarrior5373 yugoslavian partisants fought whole war and did more then greeks for whole war Also didnt have such help from allied troops like greece and faced full might of Wermacht not of italian dogs xD
*Fun fact:* After the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Stalin ordered the recent film "Alexander Nevsky" to be withdrawn from circulation, due to its German-Russian conflict. Once Operation Barbarossa began, Stalin ordered the film to be shown every day in all Russian cinemas
According to the Soviet officials, Stalin shat his pants when he heard about Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union.
@@hentehoo27not far from reality, he went into isolation for week or so
He was shock, unexpected n inprepared despite the spies n the west had warning him but he didn't believe
He went into isolation while sending millions to die. A synopsis of every war ever if you ask me. The guys who declare it are far away safe and sound while the men that had no say in it are forced to fight and die.
The Treaty of Locarno and the Treaty of Berlin. Stalin's hopes of an communist germany were crushed by the freikops so he had to sign the non-aggression pact.
It was not one of the largest land invasions to ever occur. It was the largest invasion in human history.
You forgot about the Mongols
@@jacobsantiago5693 mongols invaded a multitude of different countries over the course of a 100+ years.
Germany invaded one of the biggest empires to ever exist right away
Not to mention the size of the Mongol's armies even at the peak and most generous estimate of 200,000 warriors, was few compared to the nearly 4 million German soldiers.
D Day was in fact bigger than.
@@boerekableRead and comprehend he said LAND INVASION. LAND.
No details about first 24 hours as promised
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8:38. What on Earth are you talking about?
@@FadeintotheShadows generic basic information about entire Barbarossa planning, no focus on the first day as promised, very little details about first day, no mention about battle for Brest fortress either.
@@DanielGrabarekagree with u
@@francismcdonnell8149 I watched the whole video. No details except bombarding soviet airfields and a bit about Stalin's reaction. For example the start of the first significant engagement on the ground is missing (battle for Brest Fortress).
'' Luftwatl'' 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥
I came her looking for this exact comment. Is this AI I wonder? I dont watch enough videos on this channel to know better...
I think he's trying to say "luftflotte" meaning air fleet... but I think he messed it up a little bit?
it's the Aztecs joining the German airforce
i heard this too, then pronounced it properly after the 3 he pronounced weirdl;y.. something fishys going on
For some reason they chose to name Danzig, "Gdansk", even tho Poland was not controlling the city anymore. I think it's illegal in America to pronounce and use actual names correctly.
I thought for sure that this video would be about what happened TWENTY FOUR HOURS after Germany . . . Instead, a history lesson known by everyone who knows about WWII. A lot of nothing.
literally coped from wikipedia 💀
Must be quite nice to know EVERYTHING!!
LOL
bruh this has so many fallacious inaccuracies, you should look beyond NATO for your history. if this is "common knowledge" then you've been taught propaganda
@@davidhughes8357 its not hard to know everything about WWII.
@@matthewbarabas3052 it is. Actually, it may be humanly impossible for a single individual to know every documented information of WW2
'What happened on the first day' - 75% of the video is about before it. I was hoping for more details.
Yeah. Really basic video
To be fair the way the red army fell on it's face in Finland it's easy to see how Hitler thought they were an incompetent fighting force. At that time they very much were. It took years of total war before the Soviets became an effective fighting force
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Very true and as was stated in video the Russians lost 5 million MORE lives in the war than Germany. No matter how you slice it, though they eventually fought back and won, in the initial stage German soldiers wiped the floor with Russian troops.
@@JoshuaHistoryBuff And the Red air force was torn apart!
Didn’t help that the us joined the war effort and supplied the soviets
"We only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down" oh what irony that statement was...
They then broke their ankle kicking it and the door came crashing down on them.
Yea... Basically what Putin had in mind when invaded Ukraine .
The soviet union would have collapsed without british-american aid. Considering the hostilies of the allies against the soviet union, effectively considering them a german ally (Operation Pike, Plan R 4) it wasn't too farfetched. If leningrad or stalingrad fell the russian army would have collapsed, the first could easily have happened had the finns joined the siege.
@@r0dani3lbLOL can't you see the difference? Ukraine has USA and its european slaves as its allies. Without them Ukraine would have been crushed in matter of days.
@@bennyklabarpan7002bladantly untrue.
"Paranoid against potential soviet invasion" - It was not potential, there are facts that soviets were concentrating forces in Belarus (there are de-classified Russian documents about it ). Don't make him look stupid, he was not. He knew that only chance to take over larger army is by being first to attack. He never wanted second front, he had no choice, it was dilemma for him.
OK, Hitler lover
How does concenteating forces in Belarus show that the Soviets were planning an assault? It is more likely the Soviets increased the army in respons to Germany doing it
Russia started first. Germany carried out a pre-emptive strike.
thank you
sounds like Putin's propaganda today
"Now they say that the allies never helped us, but it can't be denied that the Americans gave us so many goods without which we wouldn't have been able to form our reserves and continue the war," Soviet General Georgy Zhukov.
Well, Europe and America needed Russia, so that was the price to pay.
@@faenethlorhalien Not according to Patton.
even without US and British aid the war in the east would have been won eventually, at a higher cost and a later date but the soviets would have won
Allied lend lease was estimated to only contributed to 8-10% of overall production of the soviet war machine
@@Kynodras Not according to Zhukov
I'll give you a well-known fact with historians at the time but is not talked about now. The reason why German forces in 1941 were able to so easily encircle the Red Army forces was because the Red Army stationed on Germany's border was in Offensive mode. Meaning, that later intelligence showed, that Stalin was planning on invading Germany one month after operation Barbarossa was launched. So the notion that they were "good allies" is completely false
This is just a theory. No serious Soviet offensive plans have been uncovered.
Thats a Legend spread by Germans from the begin of the Invasion. Only Point. Stalin itself didnt think they are war ready. I dont believe that. Btw i m German
@@Wanwan-mq3jw That explains a lot. Indoctrination. You don't believe in facts because they are against the narration of the propaganda. But it is widely known that the Bolsheviks, Stalin, believed in world revolution. Also the allocation of the red army shows that they were about to attack. This falls in line with the reports about that units unfit to defend. This is not a legend but a fact. We have a number of scientists from different countries who found indications. We know that there are hundreds of propaganda stories made up to cover inconvenient facts for the soviet side. Grow up and accept that history is not a fairy tale and not everything lines up with the story that is told with an intention. I grew up in the GDR and the number of propaganda stories that we were told is legion. The only way to look through is "where is the beef?", what are the actual facts?
And Stalin was fighting a string of wars just before. The Soviet Union was always ready for war.
Exactly.
Hitler never said he wouldn't have attacked had he known the tank strength of the Soviets (which was actually 35,000+ and not 14,000) in the recorded converstaion with Finnish CIC Mannerheim(5:18). What he said was that he would have commented that his Generals were crazy for thinking they had so many tanks but that even if it were true, he would have attacked anyway most likely based on the performance of the Soviets in the Winter War and of the purges.
Correction it was not just one of the largest land invasion,but THE LARGEST INVASION in the entire human military history.
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Which second front?
The Westfront was pacified at that time and no amphibious landing of the allies were yet to be planned
Africa and the Atlantic war was in full swing. The Atlantic being the biggest front germany fought in.
@@engineerenginering8633The Atlantic one lasted the entire war. Wouldn't say it involved more people than the eastern front however.
@@kstreet7438 it was the biggest front. In size terms.
Everyone forgets about the Mediterranean front :/
It is interesting to see how Operation Sealion would have gone, could have completely destroyed the German Navy and thrown the German Army back into the channel could have sent the war in a completely different route
Beautiful! Can you make more of this series acrossndiffernet conflicts and eras?
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Another reason for Operation Barbarossa was because the Red Army had positioned strong units near the Romanian border, thus threatened the oil fields in that country which were vital for Germany. If the USSR had occupied Romania in 1941, then it would have been game over for Germany even before Barbarossa would start.
The reason for the invasion was desperation. The Reich was consuming more than 9.5 million tons of oil than it produced in 1940 after conquering France, Norway and the low countries. If they did not secure the oil fields of the Caucuses they would be unable to conclude the war with the British Empire successfully. This was in large part why the timetable for Barbarossa stipulated victory requirement by the Fall of 1941. Case Blue was the last ditch attempt to secure the oil fields and continue the war. After that, Germany lacked the ability for multi front offensives and was increasingly reduced to static defense in the hopes for a favorable negotiated peace.
Very good facts!!
And for Lebensraum...
+ Nazi economy / spending could only be salvaged by conquest of new lands
PITTSBURGH PRODUCED MORE STEEL THAN THE GERMANS. 1,500 FACTORIES WERE RELOCATED TO THE URALS IN TWENTY FOUR HOURS. THEY WERENT GONNA WIN. THE SOVIETS JUST PAKCED UP AND LEFT. AND ENACTED THE SAME SCORCHED EARTH TACTIC TO CREATE AN DEFENSIVE ZONE.
Which is why bararossa was flawed they focused the center and not south. Perhaphs of they had the right focus and started sooner they would have reached stalingrad in 1941
2:01 there was never an offer from germany. it was from ussr to germany, but germany had already made plans to invade ussr by then.
True. The Soviets tried to get into the Axis block, but Germany gave the cold shoulder. Soviet-German relations soured when the Soviets took too much of Bukevina, in violation of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
@@georgem589 they didn't want to join axis
@@ahmedbabiker6562 Molotov went to Germany in november 1940, meeting both Vitler and Ribbentrop, to try to secure a deal with Germany.
I love how people try to make Germany and Soviets seem like some sort of allies cause they signed a non-aggression but nobody says the same thing about the French and British even though they let Germany take Czechoslovakia without any consequences.
or rejecting the policy of individual security brought forth by the USSR before the invasion on poland, horseshoe theory strikes again
Or proposed operation "Unthinkable" for that matter. Or British-Japanese agreements that led to invasion of China and Mongolia. Or Soviet-British negotiations in 1939. Or the whole political context of 1930s.
and nobody cares that the west is supporting literal nazis to fight russia right now
Poland had non-aggression pact too with Hitler
Reaching Moscow and taking the city are two different things. The battle for Moscow would make Stalingrad looking like picnic
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What the heck is a "Luftlottle" ?! :D
I think he said Luft waffles? 🧇
"BellaRussia"
@@baxter2606 He surely meant "Luftflotte" but i´ve never heard the word "Luftlottle" even in german before and i cant laugh no more
Waffles
@@P4Tri0t420 😭🙏🏻
5:16 FALSE... While there is no explicit statement from Hitler himself acknowledging that he would not have attacked if he had known about the Russian tank strength, many historians believe that this underestimation was a critical factor in the eventual failure of the invasion.
Fax though, also the winter. Hitler had to take into account the fact that Russia's climate was more than just harsh in winters, and also it's population was 10 times as big as Germany's population, which also played a crucial role in Russia's victory.
According to Victor Suvarov's Ice Breaker Stalin was planning to invade in July. There was no other way out than to take the gamble of a preemptive strike.
@@creely123 People shouldn't take Viktor Suvorov's work as gospel, but with a spoonful of salt.
@@creely123 Russia was nowhere near ready to attack Germany in July 1941, and Victor Suvarov words should be taken with a pinch of salt, he was into conspiracy theory.
Actually there is a recording made in Finland in which Hitler states that if he had known about those tank numbers he would not have attacked the USSR
The main reason was that the USSR was about to invade, it positioned a large amount of troops at the border without defensive positions. Barbarossa started as a preventive attack and had so much sucess initially partly because of this
the soviets positioned their border guard next to the border? wow.. you'd think the bolshevik 50000 billion strong army would be able to fend the germans off with their own invasion being imminent and all
If the Soviets had planned an offensive detailed plans would have leaked decades ago. They haven't. Because there were none.
There is no evidence to support your claim!
@@theLegendarySpaceCaptain it's all true the minister of propaganda said so
@@guyuscoolius2326 Who?
I’ve ALWAYS wondered this! You only ever hear about when winter hit
Taking on Russia while he still had Britain at his back providing a platform for the rest of the Empire and potentially the United States was stupid. A genuine rookie mistake.
Same mistake Napoleon made
There was no alternative. Britain outproduced Germany in fighters. Meaning German y had no hope in winning the war quickly. Meanwhile, the Soviets would grow in strenth. Time was not on Germany's side.
“One of the largest land invasions”
It was without question the largest land invasion in history. Nothing comparable in terms of size or scale.
Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was broken by the Soviets, by annexing part of Romania which was in the german sphere of influence
Correct, northern Bukovina.
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The reasons for the postponement of Barbarossa from the initially planned date of 15 May to the actual invasion date of 22 June 1941 (a 38-day delay) are debated. The reason most commonly cited is the unforeseen contingency of invading Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941, due to Serbian revolt against siding their country with Nazis, and subsequent coup d'état.
Also If Italy had not invaded Greece this would have made Serbians less eager to overthrow their own government.
No, it was because the Italian fiasco of their invasion of Greece that delayed the invasion.
Funny thing is, Hitler expected a similar situation to what happened to the Russian Empire, remember that in WW1 the Russian Empire had also performed poorly at the start while suffering Famine and starvation combined with mostly horrible Military leaders, However Hitler hadn't planned on Lend Lease or the fact that the Soviet people wouldn't revolt against the government, add in the fact that He thought all of the USSR talented generals were dead, It makes sense why He expected the same result the German Empire got against Russia.
2:34 Why is Budyonny crossed out? He wasn't purged.
They just messed up Budyonny and Yegorov lol they made a bunch of mistakes in this doc
Still good content though
The picture at 2:30 with the X marks is wrong; Budyonny (left, top row) and Voroshilov (middle, seated) survived the Great Purge. The guy on the right side, seated is Alexander Yegorov and he died in 1939.
Soviets would have attacked Germany later if the germans didnt attack first
Incorrect facts. Germany preemptively attacked the Soviets who were going to invade first. It was not by choice, it was for the defense of not only Germany but of all of Europe.
They were not ready for even a defense let alone an invasion
This is shit that neo nazis say.
I feel like Stalins initial blundered response actually played a significant part in Germany's eventual loss. I mean, if the Soviets put up more resistance, Hitler would have never continually underestimated the Russians. And instead of heading south to cut off oil supplies, Hitler may have stayed on course for Moscow, and might have even taken Moscow.
wtf is the map in 9:36
Ai video
What's wrong with the map?
@@Serjo777 just look it makes no sende
@@Serjo777 it's inaccurate too the point of I'm so confused on how it ended up in the video
@@JacobFrapsit’s clearly how far the Germans made it in the first 24 hours 😂😂😂
Love Germany 🇩🇪 from Russia
Love Russia
From Germany
Never again 🇩🇪❤️🇷🇺
That's just paradox
Love to Germany and Russia from india ...Two great countries
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Barbarossa, what to say. It's unbelievably ambitious, but if it's pulled off very, very quickly it may very well have worked. Still just an insane gamble, especially when you fighting another war simultaneously.
Videos like this most often leave out the fact that Germany was in dire need of resources which they had gotten most of from the Soviets, with Romania at second place. But the Soviets then suddenly stopped giving the agreed-upon resources to Germany and only reduced it from there, while at the same time making threats against Germany‘s allies such as Romania (also Finland I think), while using the resources as a way to pressure Germany into giving up support for Romania, Finland and others. The mustache man and German high-command were very seriously expecting and fearing an invasion of German allies in the not so distant future and afterwards of even Germany itself, with the possibility of the Soviets themselves even joining forces with the British amd opening up an offensive 2 front war.
In fact Hiler thought that beating the Soviets swiftly would make the British join Germany’s side and if not then Germany would at least secure enough resources in case they don’t join Germany and are going to keep on fighting in the future, with maybe even the Americans joining on the British side (which he expected they would openly do sooner or later, in case the British kept on fighting).
The Germans advanced 500 km in 3 weeks. After that, they could not supply their troops anymore, because they had not enough trucks and no railroads. The Germans had to wait for 10 weeks to restart the drive on Moscow! Again they broke through the Soviet front and advanced 300 km in 2 weeks. Then they were stopped by the mud in oktober. Again they had no supply lines after the advance.
The Soviets were now very well supplied, just 100 km from Moscow with trains running. In december temperatures dropped to -40 degrees C. German trucks and locomotives broke down and the German supply network was almost completely disrupted.
I once read a book about this, many German generals said to Hitler that it was to early in the War to attack the Soviet Union at this point. It would have been optimal in 2-3 years. But who knows, in 2-3 years the Soviets had also ramping up their own war economy and would have ended in the same situation as what we know now.
Oil. They needed the oil. Also the focus was supposed to be south, to the oil fields, but Halder kept re-directing supplies/manpower to center because he thought taking Moscow was more important.
The origin date of the attack was May 20th if they have attackd on this day probably history have changed because operations in the balkans also hitler didn't give operational freedom to his generals
Fact: You spelled Kijev wrong.
I love your videos.❤
The downfall of europe started
bennyklabarpan7002 is an nounce. The Germans missed 8 million trained soviet reservists, the Soviets had relocated their industry to the Urals within the first 24 hours of the invasion. 50% of Panzer Corps A and B were wiped out within the first months. German tanks were regularly beaten by the T-34. The Soviets had an massive arms industry and the ablity to arm everybody. Lend Lease could have been blocked by the Japanese but they didnt. The Soviet army had the leadership of Georgy Zhukov and Konstantin Rothisky.
Germany was running out of oil even before the war with the Luftwaffe raids on London.
Too much propaganda xDD
Hitler did not say he would not have attached - he is recorded (secret recording) speaking with Marshal Mannerheim saying that had he had know the Soviet’s had 20,000 tanks, the decision to invade would have been even more difficult, but he would still have made it…
0:10 Ah yes, my favorite Balkan nation. Bulgaira. And we can't forget about the Meiterranan Sea. And who can forget the city of Kiyv. Come on, guys.
Well kiyv is actually the Ukrainian spelling for Kiev 🤓🤓🤓 (I’m sorry 😭)
@@nomeaningrlly69spelt Kyiv though not Kiyv
10:01 Moscow in German hands
I'm sorry, I cannot recognize this map unless I see the all mighty DEUTSCHLAND.
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10:10 or not, there would have been much more resistance from the soviet part, that is for sure, we know that later in the war, Germans were still beating the hell out of Russians even though they were on retreat and outnumbered such as the third battle of Harkov or battle of Târgu Frumos
Why Hitler thought invading USSR is a valid idea:
1. The Political system of USSR. during late 1930s was a complete mess. It was filled with fear, paranoia, purges, and sanctions from west. This was a major factor as the Great Purge had just recently ended in 1938.
2. Soviet economy and population. Because of Stalin, USSR was suffering heavily fron economical crises as Stalin wouldn't stop invading other countries much like Germany which pissed the West and they heavily sanctioned USSR, leading to a global economical isolation. Stalinist Communism also had messed up USSR had, The Ukrainian famine is a great example.
3. The Geography and military of USSR. The USSR just like Poland, is heavily located in the great european plain, which means it's significantly easier to Blitz large forces inside USSR as the terrain isn't a issue anymore.
4. The main industrial location of USSR.
Nearly the whole USSR is located in the western part of Russia which like the size of China.
In this small area, most Soviet industries, population, and major cities as well as the captial is located. Which means if German forces just swiftly takes this area, Soviet union then would be left utterly helpless and brink of collapse.
5. The hate towards slavic people and Communism.
Hitler hated Soviets because in his eyes they had so much land for themselves meanwhile Germany was out here suffering with its massive population in a small area.
Hitler viewed slavs as inferior to his Germanic population and the failure of Soviet union to annex Finland further intensified this belief he had.
6. Nazi Germany itself.
Nazi Germany during the early stages of 1941 was world's one of the most powerful nations, if not the most powerful in world. The German tecnology in war was revolutionary for its time, no other nation was as advance as the Germans were in engeneering of advance War-machines.
Blitzkrieg, Panzers, The Luftwaffe. All this combined was incredible formidable.
Hitler even before the WW-II started he had already been preparing Germany for a long and resources straining war. He had made Germany very self-sufficient in terms of Military, Economy, and resources. Ensuring Germany can effectively fight long wars without collapsing. this is a major reason why Nazi Germany able to fight a multiple front war for such a long period of time by itself, is because Hitler had been planning for WW-II from the staet.
In my opinion, these are the main reasons why the Austrian painter thought operation barbarosa could work out. Although he didn't prepared himself about what if UK and USA started heavy supplying USSR and potentially opening a new front.
Ussr was completely industralised and weapon exporter and biggest power after america At that time..big economic failure. And famine ended in 1932 which was a normal issue in Russia for a millenium and from 1932-1953 stalin was the general secretary and no famines happened
@@Henry_john78 Uh, the Holodomor?
Mexico provided 60% of materials to USA, as well.
@@Rildar famine was a normal issue in russia for a millenium.stalin ended that in 1932. There is no famines when he was the toppest position in ussr for next twenty years. Holodomor is a ukranazi propaganda
@@Rildar that's what I said famines ended in 1932, a famine happened in russia in 1932 which was last of the series of famines happened in russia for a millenium
I love how the graphics from 'Why we fight' are still relevant, if not exactly indicative of how the actual German war machine worked.
Fun fact Stalin was getting ready to attack Germany. Russian was not an innocent bystander
Don't say BS. USSR had 6 mln solders total, Germany with their Axis allies had 13 mln of solders in Europe and 5 mln in Asia.
@@dmitryletov8138 If there was no war when D-day had happened I'm sure the soviets would have joined as well, unlike the allies they did not liberate, they gained land on it. They did the same thing with Japan as they joined the Asian front a day before the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, which is how they got all of Sakhalin.
@@dmitryletov8138Take it from Soviet author Victor Suvarov and his book Ice Breaker.
Evidence?
@@dmitryletov8138 Your soldier numbers are completely incorrect. Way too high for Germany and too low for the Soviets. Also the Japanese wouldn’t have invaded the Soviet Union and the Soviets knew this thanks to one of their most successful spy (who ironically was a German communist who emigrated to the Soviet Union in the 1930s). And the Soviets even then were ready for a possible Japanese invasion with their troops stationed in Siberia.
Thanks for still giving us the WWII videos my friend!🫡
2:36 You made two errors in the photo of the purge victims: Budyonny (the one with the huge moustouche) survived the purges, but Yegorov (the one on the lower right) did not.
Starlin: i know there are corruption, but 10% of real numbers work too.
soviet elite: yes?
places got bombed, infantry goes forward and joseph is alerted. There
For the first few days of the German invasion Stalin had a nervous breakdown and was paralyzed by indecision and disbelief. This is how the Germans were able to advance so quickly through the Stalin Line, as Soviet troops manning it had no orders to resist and were in complete confusion as to what was happening.
They messed up bad because they should have kept going eastward so that the Russians could not have a chance to make a stand and have Japan invade from the east coast.
USSR being unsuspecting is false, literally everyone was expecting. Oh sorry stalin thought otherwise tho
What? Stalin knew the invasion was inevitable, the question was when. He tried to buy another year or two before Red Army can finish it's rearmament and didn't expect Hitler to start the war on two fronts.
Russians chilling in their country: "Damn, peace is cool, don't you think?"
German soldiers approaching: *Peregrinus expectavi intensifies*
They did not want peace. They were already planning to invade first according to Victor Suvarov's Ice Breaker. So it was either invade first or be invaded.
I believe there was a video by Indy Neidel and his crew about the great Soviet industry relocation to Siberia in 1941, but I can't find it anymore.
This is something I would like Dr. Mark Felton to discuss 😁
Great video,
Just as an aside, the picture showing the red army generals purged in the late 30s at 2:30 has Semyon Budyonny( top left ) marked as dead and A. Yegorav(bottom right) as alive. It is the other way around.
This video came very timely
Patton said they fought the wrong enemy
Loved how you didn’t answer the title of the video. You must be running for public office.
The video seems to miss that the invasion of the USSR was the Nazis’ end goal from day 1, and everyone knew it. They weren’t exactly secretive about it. The Soviets fully expected the Germans to attack eventually, and the whole point of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was to earn the USSR enough time to prepare for it. They just didn’t expect it this early.
A video with this kind of title should assume that the viewer is already quite knowledgeable about the general history of WW2 and that of Operation Barbarossa in particular, and is expecting detailed information about what actually happened in the first 24 hours of the invasion, how the attack started, how far the Germans got during the first day, what countermeasures did the Soviets take and start taking, what kind of losses both sides took, what the propaganda/diplomatic effort was on both sides etc.
Soviets never could have stopped the most experienced divisions on earth at their full strength at that land border initially. This AI/American said Soviets could have ended the invasion first day lol
he tries to make stalin and the ussr look dumb
@@Kynodras had stalin not killed 20 million of his own people maybe he could have done something about it
bro they got like 50km close to Moscow and the Soviets got encircled numerous times on the way, they probably lost soldiers in the millions just during Barbarossa. Not only that, they were outnumbered at the start too. Get off the copium already
@@spicy7302 what are you even on about💀
@@Kynodras basic history...? Which you probably skipped, but that is alright. You probably think HOI4 memes are serious education materials.
"Based on Soviet archives (casualties):
566,852 killed in action (101,471 of whom died in hospital of wounds)
235,339 died from non-combat causes
1,336,147 sick or wounded via combat and non-combat causes
2,335,482 missing in action or captured
21,200 aircraft, of which 10,600 were lost to combat
20,500 tanks destroyed"
This was between 22 June-5 December 1941. From Wiki. "WhAt ArE YoU EvEn oN AbOuT", go back to HOI4.
How crucial was that lost 38 days of summer weather. Momentum is everything. Still, i think the Axis really needed a fourth army group with another million men if they were to win.
In my previous life i was a 17 year old girl that died Of Hunger in The City Leningrad.
Wait what.. I wanted to know about the first 24 hours…
How to make these maps
Please tell me :)
I dont find entirely true that Germany chose to attack Russia in the first World War. It was anticipated reaction of the German - Austro-Hungarian alliance on the declaration against Austria-Hungary. Actually von Schlieffen, when planning the army movements many years before, was very worried of how to play the war on two fronts and as we know today... he was right.
How odd that the reason given as 'might be' for the delay in Barbarossa was 'Italy's invasion of Greece' without mentioning that British and Commonwealth forces were sent there to assist the Greeks. Funny that!
Also, Churchill declared support for the USSR BEFORE Stalin admitted he had been invaded!
Two fronts, what could go wrong?
Stalin sent molotov to berlin in 1940s. Stalin had 5 conditions which the Soviet union will join the axis pact, (1) Germany will depart Finland for exchanging nickel and wood , thus a mutual treaty is needed (2) Soviet bases must be established in Bulgaria in next few months through mutual friendly relationships (3) Japanese must be renounced the the northern Sakhalin for rights of oil and coal (5) An affirmation must be made between Soviet union and Bulgar through political necessity. After Hitler hear this from Stalin ,he called his generals in meeting, then Hitler said " Germany victory is unbearable for Russia, She must be brought down to our knees,Stalin wants more and more,he is cold blooded killer.That's why Hitler lunched massive invasion in soviet union.
I'm pretty sure you got the "Germany asked the USSR to join the Axis powers" wrong. I thought it was Stalin who asked Hitler to join the Axis, but Hitler left him on red haha. Or maybe Hitler asked first, then Stalin asked before Barbarossa.
*"Stalin orders the Invasion of Persia"* with British help seeing the invasion of Russia by Germany as a trifling matter was the Moscow Russia response after two weeks of Barbarossa actually.😮😮😮😮
2:30 top left. Semyon Budyonniy wasn’t executed. It is a mistake in the video.
Hello @Knowledgia is ther any form to Contact you?
Hitler neglected the southern side of Operation Barbarossa. He relied on the separatist tendencies of the Ukrainians and anti-communist Muslims in the Crimea and the Caucasus, so he believed that they would help him against the communists. Therefore, he placed only one panzer division in the south, unlike the center and north, which contained two panzer divisions. It was the neglect of the southern sector and the late timing of the operation that wrote the end of the Third Reich.
Bro, it's not luftlafil😂, it's Luftwaffe, also it's not Belarussia its Belarus. And why are there only ukrainian citys and a few others showen on the map? If you are making a map with citys show atleast all of the majores, like Riga, Talinn, Vilnius, Smolensk, Gomel, Pskov, Kursk, Novgorod, like there is more then ukrainian citys and three others, i understand your a big suporter of Ukraine but bro, that is not an exquse.
I think since 2022 most of Knowledgia's videos have been AI Generated. The script is definitely AI Generated and I believe the voice likely is now too. The map is either AI Generated now or extremely poorly crafted, considering there is tons of errors, for example Syria being independent, China controlling Mongolia and Tibet, the Turkish southern border and just things that I feel would be odd considering the style of the map for a human to have made, for example United Kingdom appearing twice in British colonies, and then Norway saying "German Occupied".
I've ended up unsubscribing and will probably try and get RUclips to stop recommending me the channel because ChatGPT is not accurate and usually the videos just make no sense or answer the question of the title anymore.
@@samuelsstuffyt yeah, you are right, you know, i've also realised other time that this chanel is qite weard in that, that it makes a lot of misstakes wich bother me. This is the only time ( i thinck ) that this chanal has crosed the line and i just had to poited out, it really bothers me
Things so dependent on stalin had hitler attacked on day he was completely mad and out of it paranoid or depressed the soviet union might have fallen or collapsed. Damn this is completely nuts how one mans mood on one day can change history
2:32 there is a mistake, you crossed out semyon budyonny on the picture. he died in 1973
Can make a video about 30 years war
Hitler preemptively struck the soviets. They was in an all offensive position which is why the germans had so much success in the beginning
The German army lost time during the conquest of Ukraine. Kyiv was taken only after more than 3 months (!), this gave Moscow time to form defense lines around Moscow and winter came.
Great, another channel that was actually decent at one point now making lazy AI Generated videos.
Unsubscribed and blocked.
Due to the spring rains - flooding all the rivers the Wehrmacht had to cross and soaking the ground - invading the Soviet Union on May 15th was impossible anyway.
It is Kiev, not Kyiv. When you put Prague on the map and not Praha, Kyiv is completely wrong. Not to mention that it has always been Kiev, before the first "Kyiv writer" has appeared on the planet.
Good information
Hitler invaded for the same reason Napoleon did: He thought he could win.
Please keep the names of the cities as they were officially named at the time.
Ah, keeping up with the age-old tradition of never showing the historical borders of Bulgaria (edit: and the Balkans as a whole) accurately. Sorry for the nitpick, video's great other than that.
Not to mention misspelling Bulgaria as well
They’re have started to do the same with Germany too these days. Even in this video the German borders shown are incorrect. But this is the least ridiculous mistake. Already seen ww2 Germany with todays borders or German Empire with Weimar borders…
There is this weird assumption these days that authoritarians are somehow natural allies. This is a willfully ignorant misunderstanding of authoritarians' worldview.
Weirdest mispronunciation of Luftwaffe I've ever heard. What did I even hear there? Luftlall? Luftlattel? Nice to see this video acknowledge the forgotten Axis power of Bulgaira, though.
I always wondered how things would have worked out if the Germans would have treated the peasants like fellow Germans instead of killing them and turning them into partisans.
At the minute 2:15 Iceland wad under the UK
It was, Iceland was occupied by British troops following the fall of Denmark (of which Iceland was a possession of). They turned it over to the Americans in June ‘41 until the end of the war.
Can you make a video about "What if Romania was a great colonial state?"
Before everybody is going to say that im being biased because im Greek, That is NOT true: The Germans lost operation Barbarossa INDIRECTLY because of their untimely involvement in the Balkans and especially Greece.
Jugoslavia did more than grece
@@tomaszmurzyn9123 Yes. That's why Yugoslavia fell in only 4 days! 5 peoples of 5 nations fell in only 4 days while Greece needed almost a month to surrender! Even the Netherlands fought longer, harder, and better than the whole of Yugoslavia! Shameful!!!
@@greekwarrior5373 yugoslavian partisants fought whole war and did more then greeks for whole war
Also didnt have such help from allied troops like greece and faced full might of Wermacht not of italian dogs xD