Nice vid. Your flim clips showed the main difference between the German and Russian tactics. The Germans used combined arms with their artillery (including AT guns), infantry (including AT guns) and air power along side their tanks while the Russians tended to send their tanks in either alone or with very little support. It was not until late in Stalingrad or even after that they learned this lesson from the Germans. The Germans were not heavily motorised either in fact I think that they only had 9 mechanised divisions at the start of Barbarossa. All the rest relid on horses and their feet.
Nice representation, especially the film clips. Good work. Historical TIP: German Infantry specialists armed with specialized anti-tank weapons took out most soviet heavier tanks and not their tanks. At least in the early stages of the invasion. At that point, Tank on Tank fights were not intended but happened out of tactical reasons.
very offputting intro and not going to continue watching maybe you should for once read not about but the actual "Generalplan" Ost itself ....or the documents claimed to be that one, lol plenty of Slavs fought alongside the Reich ! my great grandfather from Kiev assisted them in their liberation attempt and they exterminated neither him, his ewish wife, nor their 2 daughters
I am aware that Slavs fought alongside the Germans. For instance, Slavs called Hiwis volunteered and/or were recruited by Germany to help in their fight against the Soviets. Some Ukrainian Hiwis wanted Ukrainian autonomy, while others wanted to avoid punishment from Germans. However, it's important to remeber that history is not black and white; some Ukrainians, Belorussians, Baltic peoples, etc collaborated with the Germans, but millions more fought along side the Soviets against Germany. Many Slavs became victims of the genocidal German policies. Generalplan Ost was a real thing, and a primary motive behind the invasion of the USSR.
@@General_History it's a number of wild proposals distorted into a "plan" to portray the losers as evil megalomaniac aggressors when artificially constructed Chechoslovakia was divided only the german parts came to Germany, while the rest became slav Slovakia and new territories of pseudo-magyar but actually slav Hungary and slav Poland .......yes Poland ! not even a year before the Corridor Question escalated, Poland got new territories from its mortal enemy, the vile, evil Reich slav Hungarians, Slovaks and semislav Romanians fought as whole nations against the USSR until they were forced to attack the West, just like millions of other Slavs were forced to do this before if a soviet citizen refused to "volunteer" to defend the Motherland (apparently a synonym for Stalin's clique) the NKWD would've offed him on the spot and for those poor soldiers who weren't motivated enough to join the next futile human wave, it often was the always somewhere present politruk or a blocking detachment that sealed their fate without the NKWD pointing often very literal guns to their heads, millions switched to the sides of the liberators and fought in the Русская освободительная армия, other military units or supported them as HiWis.........mostly very unforced ! when the train which was supposed to evacuate my great grandfather and his family to Germany hit a mine and partly derailed, he and others happily grabbed the guns handed over to them to go on a spontaneous partisan hunt you should know that people who are interested in such topics usually know to at least a certain degree what happened back then hope your pledge of allegiance to the dishonest status quo was worth the chunk of credibility you lost with this intro and whatever else maybe came after it
According to economic theory, i.e. that international trade augments the consumption possibilities of a country, it does, indeed, not really make sense. (We could argue that, in the long term, the Soviet Union was probably not the best trading partner, since Stalin had ambitions to go West. Hitler didn't want the Soviet Union to develop too much, due to German technology. It would only enhance the Soviet's military capabilities in a military conflict.) But, in this case, we are speaking about Hitler, who believed that the Third Reich should become an autarky. Furthermore, the believe that the Germans should conquer the East was a very old idea (cfr. Drang nach Osten).
Actually, there were social and economic reasons. First, Hitler wanted to colonize Eastern Europe (look up Generalplan Ost) and repopulate the region with ethnic germans. In addition, while Germany benefitted from trading with the USSR, Hitler did not see it as a long-term solution and wanted undisputed control over all of the USSR's population and resources. Germany never saw the economic agreement as something for the long-term, and they did not want to give up their own resources and technology (including warships they were reluctant to give away). Keep in mind that the invasion was supposed to be no more than 6 months, thus Hitler assumed he would be able to seize all of the USSR's resources without a long conflict.
@@General_History Really? Show me the colonies of Germans Hitler setup in Russia. Lebensraum was about return of German lands lost in ww1, poland. a tit for tat And note, hilariously. While people got up in arms about when Germans did it. Who today talks about the massive theft of German lands (thousands of years of history) following European's defeat in ww2? What is Kalingrad again other than Lebensraum? Once again, despite your flim-flam refusal to admit to it. Germany HAD all the trade Germany needed from the East. All the wheat, all the oil. Now mr historian take note of this vital lesson from WW2 Two nations invaded Poland, not one. One was declared the evil enemy, the other was allied with and only one went on to conquer half the world and setup 50 years of bloody "cold war" and MAD AND unleash massive social warfare programs that destroyed what remained of the west. (and African states) its through hypocrisy and double standards that we begin to see the lies that is the official story of ww2
I'm not denying that Germany beneffited from Soviet trade. From a modern perspective, it is easy to argue to absurdity behind the German invasion, but to understand why Germany invaded it is neccesary to view it from a 1941, German lens. The trade agreement with the USSR was, according to Germany, something for the short-term. Hitler figured that it was better to seize ALL Soviet resources rather than just through trade. Indeed, Germany was reluctant to give away their own resources to the USSR, and they feared being overly dependent on the USSR. In addition, Hitler thought Germany could greatly benefit from slave labor in the east. I agree that Germany could not have made the progress they did without Soviet imports, and Germany believed they could conquer the USSR before their rsource stocks ran out. To Germany, it was better to conquer than to trade with the USSR in the *long-term*. I'll emphasize that Germany thought the invasion would be very easy. Now, the reason why there were not full German colonies in the east can be explained through one reason: Operation Barbarossa failed. With the threat of the Red Army, full settler colonies could not be fully established. However, preparations for these colonies were still carried out. The Holocaust was a part of these preparations, with over 1 million Soviet Jews being killed by Germans. Genocide was a primary German policy. Lebensraum includes to Polish lands, but it was not simply constricted to Polish lands. For instance, Germany seized Austria and Czechoslovakia before the war. Like I said, Soviet territory was also Lebensraum, and during the war Germany killed millions of Soviet "untermensh" (supposed "subhumans"), which they considered to be Jews, Roma, and Slavs. I fully agree with you that the ww2 narrative focuses on German atrocities (rightfully so), but that it lacks focus on Soviet crimes. The USSR commited crimes against Poles in 1939 (Katyn Massacre, for example). They also commited mass-rape and ethnic cleansing in Poland and Germany in 1945.
Stalin was getting ready to invade Europe and already invaded Finland ,Latvia ,Estonia ,Hitler hit them first ,so where were the Allies when these countries needed Aid ? no where to be seen
This was Truly the Largest tank battle of WWII.
Although the overwhelming vast majority of the tanks were light tanks, so it doesnt compare to later battles.
@@lyndoncmp5751 The largest TANK battle of WWII!!!
It wasn't ONE of the largest. It was the largest in history period.
Nice vid. Your flim clips showed the main difference between the German and Russian tactics. The Germans used combined arms with their artillery (including AT guns), infantry (including AT guns) and air power along side their tanks while the Russians tended to send their tanks in either alone or with very little support. It was not until late in Stalingrad or even after that they learned this lesson from the Germans. The Germans were not heavily motorised either in fact I think that they only had 9 mechanised divisions at the start of Barbarossa. All the rest relid on horses and their feet.
Nice representation, especially the film clips. Good work.
Historical TIP:
German Infantry specialists armed with specialized anti-tank weapons took out most soviet heavier tanks and not their tanks.
At least in the early stages of the invasion.
At that point, Tank on Tank fights were not intended but happened out of tactical reasons.
That makes sense
The overwhelming vast majority of the tanks were light tanks so it doesnt compare to Kursk and Normandy.
When comparing the types of tanks, yes. However, when comparing sheer number of tanks, Brody is the largest.
Tankista vs erika
7:10 They did that in Ukraine as well
very offputting intro and not going to continue watching
maybe you should for once read not about but the actual "Generalplan" Ost itself ....or the documents claimed to be that one, lol
plenty of Slavs fought alongside the Reich !
my great grandfather from Kiev assisted them in their liberation attempt and they exterminated neither him, his ewish wife, nor their 2 daughters
I am aware that Slavs fought alongside the Germans. For instance, Slavs called Hiwis volunteered and/or were recruited by Germany to help in their fight against the Soviets. Some Ukrainian Hiwis wanted Ukrainian autonomy, while others wanted to avoid punishment from Germans.
However, it's important to remeber that history is not black and white; some Ukrainians, Belorussians, Baltic peoples, etc collaborated with the Germans, but millions more fought along side the Soviets against Germany. Many Slavs became victims of the genocidal German policies. Generalplan Ost was a real thing, and a primary motive behind the invasion of the USSR.
@@General_History it's a number of wild proposals distorted into a "plan" to portray the losers as evil megalomaniac aggressors
when artificially constructed Chechoslovakia was divided only the german parts came to Germany, while the rest became slav Slovakia and new territories of pseudo-magyar but actually slav Hungary and slav Poland .......yes Poland ! not even a year before the Corridor Question escalated, Poland got new territories from its mortal enemy, the vile, evil Reich
slav Hungarians, Slovaks and semislav Romanians fought as whole nations against the USSR until they were forced to attack the West, just like millions of other Slavs were forced to do this before
if a soviet citizen refused to "volunteer" to defend the Motherland (apparently a synonym for Stalin's clique) the NKWD would've offed him on the spot and for those poor soldiers who weren't motivated enough to join the next futile human wave, it often was the always somewhere present politruk or a blocking detachment that sealed their fate
without the NKWD pointing often very literal guns to their heads, millions switched to the sides of the liberators and fought in the Русская освободительная армия, other military units or supported them as HiWis.........mostly very unforced !
when the train which was supposed to evacuate my great grandfather and his family to Germany hit a mine and partly derailed, he and others happily grabbed the guns handed over to them to go on a spontaneous partisan hunt
you should know that people who are interested in such topics usually know to at least a certain degree what happened back then
hope your pledge of allegiance to the dishonest status quo was worth the chunk of credibility you lost with this intro and whatever else maybe came after it
Wrong. Wrong. WRONG! Germany was TRADING with USSR. There was no economic nor social reasons to invade USSR. Did you do any research?
According to economic theory, i.e. that international trade augments the consumption possibilities of a country, it does, indeed, not really make sense. (We could argue that, in the long term, the Soviet Union was probably not the best trading partner, since Stalin had ambitions to go West. Hitler didn't want the Soviet Union to develop too much, due to German technology. It would only enhance the Soviet's military capabilities in a military conflict.)
But, in this case, we are speaking about Hitler, who believed that the Third Reich should become an autarky. Furthermore, the believe that the Germans should conquer the East was a very old idea (cfr. Drang nach Osten).
Actually, there were social and economic reasons. First, Hitler wanted to colonize Eastern Europe (look up Generalplan Ost) and repopulate the region with ethnic germans. In addition, while Germany benefitted from trading with the USSR, Hitler did not see it as a long-term solution and wanted undisputed control over all of the USSR's population and resources. Germany never saw the economic agreement as something for the long-term, and they did not want to give up their own resources and technology (including warships they were reluctant to give away). Keep in mind that the invasion was supposed to be no more than 6 months, thus Hitler assumed he would be able to seize all of the USSR's resources without a long conflict.
@@General_History Really? Show me the colonies of Germans Hitler setup in Russia.
Lebensraum was about return of German lands lost in ww1, poland. a tit for tat
And note, hilariously. While people got up in arms about when Germans did it.
Who today talks about the massive theft of German lands (thousands of years of history) following European's defeat in ww2?
What is Kalingrad again other than Lebensraum?
Once again, despite your flim-flam refusal to admit to it. Germany HAD all the trade Germany needed from the East. All the wheat, all the oil.
Now mr historian take note of this vital lesson from WW2
Two nations invaded Poland, not one.
One was declared the evil enemy, the other was allied with and only one went on to conquer half the world and setup 50 years of bloody "cold war" and MAD AND unleash massive social warfare programs that destroyed what remained of the west. (and African states)
its through hypocrisy and double standards that we begin to see the lies that is the official story of ww2
I'm not denying that Germany beneffited from Soviet trade. From a modern perspective, it is easy to argue to absurdity behind the German invasion, but to understand why Germany invaded it is neccesary to view it from a 1941, German lens.
The trade agreement with the USSR was, according to Germany, something for the short-term. Hitler figured that it was better to seize ALL Soviet resources rather than just through trade. Indeed, Germany was reluctant to give away their own resources to the USSR, and they feared being overly dependent on the USSR. In addition, Hitler thought Germany could greatly benefit from slave labor in the east.
I agree that Germany could not have made the progress they did without Soviet imports, and Germany believed they could conquer the USSR before their rsource stocks ran out. To Germany, it was better to conquer than to trade with the USSR in the *long-term*. I'll emphasize that Germany thought the invasion would be very easy.
Now, the reason why there were not full German colonies in the east can be explained through one reason: Operation Barbarossa failed. With the threat of the Red Army, full settler colonies could not be fully established. However, preparations for these colonies were still carried out. The Holocaust was a part of these preparations, with over 1 million Soviet Jews being killed by Germans. Genocide was a primary German policy.
Lebensraum includes to Polish lands, but it was not simply constricted to Polish lands. For instance, Germany seized Austria and Czechoslovakia before the war. Like I said, Soviet territory was also Lebensraum, and during the war Germany killed millions of Soviet "untermensh" (supposed "subhumans"), which they considered to be Jews, Roma, and Slavs.
I fully agree with you that the ww2 narrative focuses on German atrocities (rightfully so), but that it lacks focus on Soviet crimes. The USSR commited crimes against Poles in 1939 (Katyn Massacre, for example). They also commited mass-rape and ethnic cleansing in Poland and Germany in 1945.
Stalin was getting ready to invade Europe and already invaded Finland ,Latvia ,Estonia ,Hitler hit them first ,so where were the Allies when these countries needed Aid ? no where to be seen