I think it's a fine supplemental tool that would perhaps make for a great pre-exam review in an academic setting. If I had had these sorts of tools way back in my school days, history might not have been my least favorite subject then (It certainly isn't now).
This video really helps put into perspective just how big and devastating WW2 was. Army sizes in the millions, tens and hundreds of thousands captured or killed on a daily basis. It really represents why we cannot let such a conflict of this scale happen again. Just look at how painful it is to loose a few thousand US soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan today. If anyone ever says "WW3 wouldn't be that bad! We could handle it!" Show them this video and tell them it would be x10 worse and with nukes.
If someone says WW3 wouldn't be that bad just show them the math of just how few modern nukes it would take to wipe out 99% of the world's population. Nuclear proliferation was the most dangerous thing to ever happen.
Terrifying stuff but unlikely ww3 is gonna be suicidal for all so who risks starting it yes there is the Russia Ukraine war but Russia will not use nukes just because the west supports Ukraine even the Russian government isn't that stupid
@@gguy3600 nah. Only about 7 billion. Countries like Switzerland and China have tons of bomb shelters to house entire populations in under their cities
I've been obsessed with looking at and drawing maps for as long as I can remember and definitely agree that when maps and History combine it helps me better understand both aspects! Especially when you see those "history of the world" map time lapses and you can see what each individual part of history co-existed at the same time as another !
The numbers really shows how quickly Germany got out numbered in east but it took until 1943 before they get pushed back for real. Meanwhile the struggles on the Western front while being 2-4 times larger in army size as well. The Germans were probably the greatest defenders of all time with those odds. During WW1 it was fairly even because the French and British kept killing themselves in offensives.
It's not because German war strategy was superior it's because the soviets knew they could replace their losses so to the Soviet government why plan great offensives if you can win by throwing men at the enemy Germany couldn't do that to the same extent as Stalin one said one death is a tragedy one thousand deaths is a statistic
@@damianyoung7923 absolutely not. The German doctrines were vastly superior in the beginning, as the Soviets were doing irrational stuff in panic. Meanwhile when they started attacking, the Germans proved to be very good at mobile defense which is how they saved themselves at Rzhev for almost a year. The mobile defense proved so succesful that they even inflicted a significant amount of casualties on the western front despite being completely out matched there as well. The Soviets knew how hard it was to crack them which is why they went for these very large offensives, which made the highly mobile defense less effective
@@TrashskillsRS I wasn't saying Soviet strategy was superior either , but Stalin's purge of military personnel did alot for the Germans when war actually came if anything the Germans where enjoying such large Scale of success in the begining was due to their surprise attacks and blitzkrieg and sorry but what else could the soviets do but throw men at the enemy their tanks where less advanced their infantry training was garbage also the top down command system that both the nazis and soviets used put huge military decisions on only a few men that often overlooked major components of the battle that is why countries like the UK , The U.S. took fewer casualties because to the U.S. and Uk gave the power of decisions to lower ranked officials meaning they could improvise in ways nazis or soviets couldn't so I disagree I believe the western allies had superior tactics because yes they moved slowly because they had no real reason to move at the same speed the nazis did western allies they took their time because they could
@@damianyoung7923 the soviets didnt just "throw men at the enemy" and they did have great offensives. Look at operation bagration, where they basically liberated all of belorussia and the center german army, or a quarter of german troops, had been obliteratedn. The northern troops were also trapped in estonia. Or operation uranus, where around 800k german soldiers in total died with most of them being encircled.
9:20 - I will clarify that by the time of the battle of Moscow, the Third Reich had captured the most densely populated territories of the USSR, where 74.5 million people lived. The Union had to dispose of only 122.2 million citizens that they had left. For comparison, Germany alone had a population of 90 million people, and taking into account the conquered territories and satellite countries, the human resources of the Reich amounted to 297 million people. The widespread use of slave labor and the industrial capacities of the occupied countries also allowed Germany to mobilize a larger percentage of the population into the army (unfortunately, I lost the exact number, but for some idea I will indicate that it was more than in the USSR, where 70 % of the total number of men aged 15-49 years old has been in the armed forces). In general, the ability of both countries to make up for losses was approximately the same, however, in the Third Reich, initially the war in the USSR was not taken seriously enough and mass mobilizations and a complete transfer of the economy to military needs were not carried out. This was done only in 1943, when the industry of the USSR reached its full capacity and the initiative was seized.
The whole story of the Germans being unable to replace losses is I think their excuse during the war for the failure. In 1942 and early 1943, the Soviets got themselves into multiple meat grinders, which should have seriously depleted the manpower pool. Rzhev and Stalingrad was about 2.5 million casualties, and then to top it off you have the Dnepr river battles which was easily another 1.5 million over almost half the front. The Germans apparently could not recover from this while the Soviets did, even though Germany is still very much in control of Europe, their troop numbers should be more or less matching the Soviet numbers. I guess this must indicate that while the Soviets had been doing terrible things to themselves, when Nazism came along all differences were shoved aside and defeating Fascism was the focus.
as many countries we occupied, there was pretty much no support. most eastern europe countries only joined out of fear and backstabbed at the right moment for them. italy was THE joke and japan was already exhausted fighting waves of chinese when they 'joined' the axis. it was germany VS everyone.
Maps do help a lot, though it's also easy to lose a lot with them. I do wish this could have zoomed out more to see what was happening in Africa and Asia more clearly. It dropped text about countries off the map being impacted or getting involved, but it would be nice to have this perspective on those as well. I'm assuming this was picked due to size and the focus being on Germany. I'd love to see someone do a series of videos examining each country's participation in the war. I only just learned about Mexico's participation in the Pacific and Brasil's participation in Europe. The Middle East is of course dramatically impacted as well, which is vital to know now with the situation there. It always amazes me just how much of the world played a role in these conflicts..
Despite the overlapped texts, I loved the video! I was excited to see your reaction! This video puts into perspective how each day goes by and how the lines on the map change so frequently. Also the fact that those numbers are ACTUAL people. I guess "one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic."
Loved the music, a smash up of Mars by Holst with Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner! Perfect music. What great source video. I enjoyed and learned from your reaction :)
@@fortetwomusic Yes kudos for the idea and execution. Now that I think about it, those two songs are more or less the same tempo and key I suppose. I image there was some 'correcting.' Maybe some aggressive arranger could also merge that with Bolero, although the mood is entirely different. Still that would be cool to hear.
A combination of everything for me. Video is great example of teachers being creative in there fields of study. I don't mind reading about history however the book must fun to read otherwise I am not going to read it. Studying world history as become more fun since leaving school. The best part of the this is no paper work and the second part are creative teachers. I just love watching different creative teacher on the Internet.
I liked a lot of things about the video. The thing I would change, is I would have a narrator and slow down the timeline. Maybe a 10 minute video for every year of the war. I just feel with the music, the caption, and the fact that things were changing all over the map at the same time, so much was missed.
I'd appreciate if soon you'd react to some events from the Balkans and Eastern Europe, especially the ones I suggest: 1) Complete history of Belarus by Art's Animations 2) Complete history of Romania by Juice Glass 3) "Soviet Storm: WWII in the East" by Starmedia (beware, whole series is long as hell) 3) "Subversives" by Starmedia (you're lucky that it has subtitles or you wouldn't understand anything)
Pretty intense stuff! The text can definitely be better (perhaps pause the animation a second or two to allow people to read what's going on in real time)
Nice video, mr. terry! maps are definitely useful for wars, it's way too abstract for me if people are just describing it. I need to see what's happening.
my great grandfather fought on the eastern front. he told me that he could see the lights in moscow. They werent far. Well. He got cought by thr soviets and thrown into a copper mine and lost a leg in there. 14 years later he got released and turned back home. Many of his friends diddnt and he felt alone ever since. Overall, great telling of the sizes, great video at all.
@Mr. Terry History Something you missed was the line "Talks between Germany and USSR of a Soviet Entry into the Axis". This is something that does not get enough attention, and the relationship of Germany and the Soviet Union between the declaration on Poland and the beginning of Operation Barbarossa is something that is tragically understudied. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was not merely a non-aggression pact, but also a trade, research, and friendship agreement with a clause that had the potential to call in the Soviet Union against Great Britain if they did not agree to "reasonable" terms for the end of the war. This opens up the possibility of a separate timeline where Hitler, instead of declaring war on the Soviet Union, invites them into the Axis.
The Germans and Austrians were as strong willed as the Russians and Ukranians, that's why the eastern front was so brutal, they truly were two sides of the same coin
Maps and numbers and stuff have always done it for me. I absolutely love maps and how they change over time. I watched that video a while ago, it is excellent.
Get video, it’s very helpful as many of the information is separated into the theatres of war. Ie Africa, Italy, Russia, and France. I noted that you didn’t say that the UK was on its own.
I wish I would have seen something like this in school. Until now (I am nearly 30 now) I never realized how much Territory all that really was, because is was alle text and text and text and text. Visual aid does SO much.
After seeing this video, I began to wonder if the Allies would've even had a chance to win if it weren't for the Soviet Union. The amount of soldiers they had is mind-boggling, and to me, for the most part, were like the driving force for the Allied forces in the war. Once the Allies landed and invaded Italy, I think that was the straw that broke the camel's back, because of the insane front on the east pushing the Germans back, now they had to worry about a substantial Allied force coming at them from the south, and then with D-Day and the Invasion of Normandy, that was the point of no return, in my opinion, now being pushed on at least 3 different sides, with the Soviet Union still having an absolute insanely large fighting force still pushing at Germany.
Fun fact, as soon as Yugoslavia capitulated, pockets of ressistance started forming all over the country(mostly in serbia) The communist partisans have liberated almost the entirety of yugoslavia by the time the Soviets arrived, once the red army came to help the partisans, they together liberated Belgrade on November 24th and the names of all the fallen partisans and members of the red army are engraved in over 200 stone plates in the ground.
I know this is about the entirety of Europe (And north Africa), but watching this timelapse really shows how Italy was not at all the soft underbelly of Europe, as Chruchill said. I would love to see you reacting to the video The Armchair Historian has on the invasion of Italy
Italy was getting stalled hard by the Greeks until Germany came in and bailed them out. Italy was getting pushed back by British forces in North Africa until Germany sent forces in to back them up and do most of the work. Italy surrendered when the Allies invaded and the Germans raced in (invaded from the north and even captured Italian soldiers as POWs) to hold them back. That was German forces holding off half of Italy that whole time not Italians. Italians did repay Germany invading them after they surrendered by engaging in resistance movements in German occupied Italy though.
@@Mcree114 I get what you're saying, but I think you misunderstood me, I was talking about Italy, as in the country. Geographically speaking. A country with lots of mountains and rough terrain, which is quite the opposite of a soft underbelly.
@@LucasIogurte I see what you mean. Militarily Italy was the soft underbelly but geographically it was a fortress of a peninsula. Mountainous and with little room for big mechanized warfare encirclements.
Well, it wasn't called "soft underbelly" because of the geographic location, but because of the relatively weaker military defenses. On the Eastern Front, as well as on the Western Front, the Germans had built heavy defenses that Italy could not match. Italy was indeed the "soft underbelly" and you can see that well in the video of how quickly the Allies advanced after landing in southern Italy. Only when the Italian government capitulated and Germany occupied the country from the north did the Allies hardly get any further. Only when the Russians started their offensive and the Allies opened two more fronts (Normandy and southern France) did the southern front slowly start to move again because the Germans had to retreat.
May I ask you a question? It's one I often wonder about.. Why did BOTH Napoleon and Hitler make the EXACT same mistake ? I mean, Napoleon got bogged down in a pretty nasty war in Spain, so why did Napoleon go east to Russia? Why take such a monumental risk? Same with HitIer!! Here are two men who just LITERALLY conquered Europe, they tripled their territory (or something like that) SO why not just STOP, and solidify their holdings ? I mean imagine if Hitler just stopped after Yugoslavia. He literally controls all of Europe at this point (except Spain) But ill never understand why the two men didnt stop and keep what they had. They both wanted more and more and more and eventually lost it all.
15:23 they completely skipped over the first concentration camp being found by Soviet forces July 23rd 1944, same with the liberation of Auschwitz January 27th 1945 16:34
12:55 Talking about bombing Sicily and invasion of Italy, completely ignoring one of the greatest tank battle in history (Battle of Kursk) and just slightly mentioning it as "some movement on the eastern front". I'm pretty sure it was Soviets who turn "some" attention of the axis powers by full scale offensive, not letting germans reinforce their troops in Italy. 15:50 What does it mean "FInland held itself off"? Finnish troops were defeated during the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk operation and lost the war. "Had the Soviets been vitally concerned about Finland, there is no doubt that Finnish independence would have been extinguished" - US Library of Congress. I mean maybe I'm being too pushy, but that's not how you're supposed to teach history.. The teaching of history should be objective and rational, touching on all aspects of a particular event, and this is just sticking to your own line.
I feel like U.S. history classes are focusing more on their respective front of the war, briefly mentioning significant operations in the East, sidelining the Winter and especially the Continuation War, and completely ignoring Iraq and Iran's involvement in the war. Much more emphasis is put on the Pacific Theater and everything during and after D-Day, Operation Torch seemed to be portrayed as like a little side operation and Italy post-1942 was only a bit more than Trench warfare in 1917-1918. The entire North African and Middle Eastern Campaign was breezed through and partly ignored when compared to D-Day which had its own monologue, especially with Operation Bagration being arguably just as important if not more and occurring almost at the same time.
yeaaa Denmark fell in 6 hours the Only resistance they really got when landing on Sjælland Was the Royal Lifeguard..... The danish troops in Jylland wasent notified about the surrender and kept fighting for a little while longer they were expecting reinforcements in Haderslev but never got any whatch the movie called April 9th with Pilou Asbæk as headroll for it also the guy i known for game of thrones at the Known danebowl Jamie lannister and Euron Greyjoy defenatly worth wacthing :D
I actually had little idea of how much the USSR took place in the war it's been so long since I've seen an in depth video. I really need to do a good documentary dive.
Mr Terry, you should consider starting a gofundme or something of that nature to buy a period WW2 US Army Uniform to wear during these kinds of videos, that would be awesome!
would be a sad day for the US and UK. But anyway, wouldve never happened. We hates each other due to ideology, bolshewism was the main enemy of us, not the USSR
Yo could you please react to Felz documentaries? They're very well done. Maybe WW2 content has been quite saturated so perhaps a look on his cold war documentary would be interesting
The reason only 250,000 Polish troops were at the border, is because most troops were behind a defensive position on the Vistula river. Thats also why the amount of Polish troope increased so much
I would love to see you react to either or both of Jeremy clarksons documentaries about the Victoria Cross and the St. Nazaire raid. Top teir documentaries
hey can you make a reaction video on "How to Survive Victorian London" by BlueJay? i've suggested it in your discord channel, now i'm suggesting it here just in case you see this while checking the comments
I would've liked to hear commentary on the Middle Eastern Front with Iraq and Iran during 1941, as well as North Africa during the battles of El Alamein and the Continuation War when Finland aided in the Invasion of the Soviet Union but the video was moving quite fast so I understand it a bit hard to call out everything.
I noticed in WW2 the Germans had 4/5 of there Army Stack in Russia. If they used only 3/5, they could of taken all of Northern Africa and the Middle East and it's Oil Fields. If they Captured the English and French Troops in Dunkirk in June 1940. Bombed only Air Ports in England, plus Landed an Infantry Army and taken all the UK. The Allies would not be able to bomb German Industry, in 43,44. Letting the Germans build a Large Number of Weapons. Meaning Hitler should of let the Generals run the War. Also the Germans should of Attacked Russia in May 1942, with 4.85 million men. In 4 Army Groups (With 12 Infantry Army's and 6 Panzer Grouppen). Plus 4 Air Army's (With 7000 War Playns). So having taken France,UK, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Germany would be in an Excellent Position then. As long as the Japanese, Attacked the US Pacific Fleet in Hawaii, in December 1943. Making some Piece Agreement with the US, to gain time and build more. So the US would not build its Armed Forces yet at a Full Capacity. Only Starting to build in 44, 45. Were by the End of 1942, the Germans would of taken Most of European Russia, Northern Africa and Middle East. Moving into Sudan, Ethiopia, Erythrea and Somalia. After S.Arabia, Persia and Kuwait in 1943. And also Attack East 500 km, into Russia and the Caucasus in March 1943. Reaching the A Line at the End of September 1943. Germany would of Won the War.
they were suppied by ship -russias navy was pretty bad and the britains didn't really dare to come that close into axis area at that point (subs excluded) this way, they had the impact of forcing the soviets to leave units behind the actual frontlines and also keep a possible bridgehead for pooooossible future offensives.... well, i mean, sure they knew there were no offensives really avaible at this point...
From my view it’s not so much that the Russians are so great at fighting in winter as the invaders always are unprepared for it and suffer greatly because of that
6:23 thank god the soviets didn’t enter the axis powers. Frankly, unless the west could somehow by a complete miracle, prop up China AND India into industrializing for the allied front, that’d be certain game over at that point. Axis victory
And the number of soldiers, they were so easily able to get 2-1 advantage against the Germans even after losing literally millions of troops already. The longer the war lasted the less chance the Germans had.
@emeraldfinder5 Eh, the industrial might of the US and economic output of the US were unchallenged even despite the effects of the Great Depression. Couple that with the British Empire and France, of whom were(still are today) in the top largest Economies.
@@PlayerBRUV true, but the Soviet Union had practically unlimited oil and other raw resources, which they could lend to Germany in exchange for whatever technology they need at the time. Remember, the main thing that was holding Germany back was their supplies
crazy to think, that if hitler did mess with the soviets, he may have never lost europe and the world would be much different. the allies, and D-day was obviously a huge success. but looking at the eastern front and the sheer army size concentrated over there, would the Dday landings have succeeded if those 2Million troops were able to reinforce the west. Soviets lost more soliders than any other nation in the war. Us western countries tend to forget that.
It always makes me stunned how much the Soviet union had of soldiers I mean after the German launched their offense by the time they reached Moscow they already had captured 3 million Soviet soldiers as war prisoners not mentioning the numbers that were killed but the Soviet red army seems to never end even after that they even boasted their army to reach 6 million !!
Sry to tell you as a german, but even if Hitler would have died in this assassination there would have been large war, cause Hitler was only marionette even if he things of himself as The Führer, the real Leaders high rank miltary, industrial moguls would have found themselfs some other, cause the plans were on the table, my great-great Grandfather highly decorated General left luckily 1939 the military cause he don't wanted to fight anymore, sadly my great grandfather don't and as high officer he paid for it after the war in russian Gulag
@@bigronnie9629 thank you but he didn't die on east Front he died in Gulag in aftermath and the remaining family got punished also, confiscating of the house by sowjet Administration and his children my grandpa and his brother and sister weren't allowed to get a normal work, only low labor was allowed for them, that is why I only got work at a winery, working for minimum and if he wouldn't had a contact in the Administration he never would have get even a small thing from family belongings from the house
Big difference between WW I and WW II The Netherlands wanted to stay neutral both times WW I it was respected and we were left alone WW II germany decided to take over our country despite the wish for being left alone Because of WW I not taking place in our country it isn't tought as much as WW II, it's still tought because it's a major event in history Written by a dutch person
Around the end of the war, you can see the fact where the Germans would rather surrender to the Western forces rather than the soviets just simply by the numbers with 2 million in the East to 800 thousand in the West.
this nonsense bout the Russians and Winter is just wrong anyway. First of all: all know about Russia and Winter. It was no new information. Secondly, everyone with eyes could see that also Germany fought the Russians in winter and won many battles. In fact Russia is among the countries who always lost battles if equal or lower numbers and even with far superior numbers were often hold (and failed if there was no other backups front lines from the other super powers).Plus, what many ignore, Russia was among the aggressors (just a bit delayed). Their plot twist later (after they got attacked) should not always hide that ...
There's just one thing I don't understand with this map: why the hell Corsica hadn't be freed actually? 🤷♂ Did someone else notice it or am I the only one (which I highly doubt in fact)?
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What do you think of this video style? Do you find it as an effective way to learn? As a teacher, I'd love to hear your feedback!
Yes. I love map videos. If you know at least some of the context, it puts the bigger picture of history into perspective.
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It’s great but it just takes no much time to make
I think it's a fine supplemental tool that would perhaps make for a great pre-exam review in an academic setting. If I had had these sorts of tools way back in my school days, history might not have been my least favorite subject then (It certainly isn't now).
I am impressed with the speed with which Germany lost ground in the last month of the european war.
This video really helps put into perspective just how big and devastating WW2 was. Army sizes in the millions, tens and hundreds of thousands captured or killed on a daily basis. It really represents why we cannot let such a conflict of this scale happen again. Just look at how painful it is to loose a few thousand US soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan today. If anyone ever says "WW3 wouldn't be that bad! We could handle it!" Show them this video and tell them it would be x10 worse and with nukes.
If someone says WW3 wouldn't be that bad just show them the math of just how few modern nukes it would take to wipe out 99% of the world's population. Nuclear proliferation was the most dangerous thing to ever happen.
Ww3 would likely last a few hours and end with billions of deaths.
Really amazing how much Japan fucked everything up.
Terrifying stuff but unlikely ww3 is gonna be suicidal for all so who risks starting it yes there is the Russia Ukraine war but Russia will not use nukes just because the west supports Ukraine even the Russian government isn't that stupid
@@gguy3600 nah. Only about 7 billion. Countries like Switzerland and China have tons of bomb shelters to house entire populations in under their cities
I am honored to have watching Christopher’s timelapses. This is something new, and he hit gold quite frankly.
"Hitler's about to die, 3, 2, 1, dead." I snorted so hard it woke my girlfriend up.
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I've been obsessed with looking at and drawing maps for as long as I can remember and definitely agree that when maps and History combine it helps me better understand both aspects! Especially when you see those "history of the world" map time lapses and you can see what each individual part of history co-existed at the same time as another !
I've always loved that video and the love intensifies more when the guy said it took him around an entire year to complete it
Truly impressive!
@@MrTerry im mongolian and i love genghis khan is on intro 🇲🇳
Btw love ur videos
I didn't expect a reaction to this. Very excited to see your reaction
Wasn't disappointed in the slightest
The numbers really shows how quickly Germany got out numbered in east but it took until 1943 before they get pushed back for real.
Meanwhile the struggles on the Western front while being 2-4 times larger in army size as well.
The Germans were probably the greatest defenders of all time with those odds. During WW1 it was fairly even because the French and British kept killing themselves in offensives.
It's not because German war strategy was superior it's because the soviets knew they could replace their losses so to the Soviet government why plan great offensives if you can win by throwing men at the enemy Germany couldn't do that to the same extent as Stalin one said one death is a tragedy one thousand deaths is a statistic
@@damianyoung7923 exactly
@@damianyoung7923 absolutely not. The German doctrines were vastly superior in the beginning, as the Soviets were doing irrational stuff in panic.
Meanwhile when they started attacking, the Germans proved to be very good at mobile defense which is how they saved themselves at Rzhev for almost a year.
The mobile defense proved so succesful that they even inflicted a significant amount of casualties on the western front despite being completely out matched there as well.
The Soviets knew how hard it was to crack them which is why they went for these very large offensives, which made the highly mobile defense less effective
@@TrashskillsRS I wasn't saying Soviet strategy was superior either , but Stalin's purge of military personnel did alot for the Germans when war actually came if anything the Germans where enjoying such large Scale of success in the begining was due to their surprise attacks and blitzkrieg and sorry but what else could the soviets do but throw men at the enemy their tanks where less advanced their infantry training was garbage also the top down command system that both the nazis and soviets used put huge military decisions on only a few men that often overlooked major components of the battle that is why countries like the UK , The U.S. took fewer casualties because to the U.S. and Uk gave the power of decisions to lower ranked officials meaning they could improvise in ways nazis or soviets couldn't so I disagree I believe the western allies had superior tactics because yes they moved slowly because they had no real reason to move at the same speed the nazis did western allies they took their time because they could
@@damianyoung7923 the soviets didnt just "throw men at the enemy" and they did have great offensives. Look at operation bagration, where they basically liberated all of belorussia and the center german army, or a quarter of german troops, had been obliteratedn. The northern troops were also trapped in estonia. Or operation uranus, where around 800k german soldiers in total died with most of them being encircled.
9:20 - I will clarify that by the time of the battle of Moscow, the Third Reich had captured the most densely populated territories of the USSR, where 74.5 million people lived. The Union had to dispose of only 122.2 million citizens that they had left.
For comparison, Germany alone had a population of 90 million people, and taking into account the conquered territories and satellite countries, the human resources of the Reich amounted to 297 million people. The widespread use of slave labor and the industrial capacities of the occupied countries also allowed Germany to mobilize a larger percentage of the population into the army (unfortunately, I lost the exact number, but for some idea I will indicate that it was more than in the USSR, where 70 % of the total number of men aged 15-49 years old has been in the armed forces).
In general, the ability of both countries to make up for losses was approximately the same, however, in the Third Reich, initially the war in the USSR was not taken seriously enough and mass mobilizations and a complete transfer of the economy to military needs were not carried out. This was done only in 1943, when the industry of the USSR reached its full capacity and the initiative was seized.
The whole story of the Germans being unable to replace losses is I think their excuse during the war for the failure. In 1942 and early 1943, the Soviets got themselves into multiple meat grinders, which should have seriously depleted the manpower pool. Rzhev and Stalingrad was about 2.5 million casualties, and then to top it off you have the Dnepr river battles which was easily another 1.5 million over almost half the front. The Germans apparently could not recover from this while the Soviets did, even though Germany is still very much in control of Europe, their troop numbers should be more or less matching the Soviet numbers. I guess this must indicate that while the Soviets had been doing terrible things to themselves, when Nazism came along all differences were shoved aside and defeating Fascism was the focus.
@@jrus690, well, I indicated the human resources of the parties to the conflict.
As for the (military) losses, they were comparable.
as many countries we occupied, there was pretty much no support.
most eastern europe countries only joined out of fear and backstabbed at the right moment for them.
italy was THE joke and japan was already exhausted fighting waves of chinese when they 'joined' the axis.
it was germany VS everyone.
@@Blei1986Just like ww1
Maps do help a lot, though it's also easy to lose a lot with them. I do wish this could have zoomed out more to see what was happening in Africa and Asia more clearly. It dropped text about countries off the map being impacted or getting involved, but it would be nice to have this perspective on those as well. I'm assuming this was picked due to size and the focus being on Germany.
I'd love to see someone do a series of videos examining each country's participation in the war. I only just learned about Mexico's participation in the Pacific and Brasil's participation in Europe. The Middle East is of course dramatically impacted as well, which is vital to know now with the situation there. It always amazes me just how much of the world played a role in these conflicts..
I find that sort of learning with the history and geography really interesting too. Great for learning.
Anyone else chuckle when Mr Terry began a 3 second count down to Hitler's death lol?
From Eisenhower's speech to the end was the best of the video! I love the music!!!
Despite the overlapped texts, I loved the video! I was excited to see your reaction! This video puts into perspective how each day goes by and how the lines on the map change so frequently. Also the fact that those numbers are ACTUAL people. I guess "one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic."
Thank you so much for this
Loved the music, a smash up of Mars by Holst with Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner! Perfect music. What great source video. I enjoyed and learned from your reaction :)
Yes, that was ingenious! I wish I knew the soundtrack creator...
@@fortetwomusic Yes kudos for the idea and execution. Now that I think about it, those two songs are more or less the same tempo and key I suppose. I image there was some 'correcting.' Maybe some aggressive arranger could also merge that with Bolero, although the mood is entirely different. Still that would be cool to hear.
Some of the music was from the Hearts of Iron IV soundtrack as well, absolutely perfect for this video lol
The music is from Hearts of Iron 2/3/4 soundtracks by Andreas Waldetoft
I love the we shall never surrender speech.
Great video as always
A combination of everything for me. Video is great example of teachers being creative in there fields of study. I don't mind reading about history however the book must fun to read otherwise I am not going to read it. Studying world history as become more fun since leaving school. The best part of the this is no paper work and the second part are creative teachers. I just love watching different creative teacher on the Internet.
I love history but school makes it very hard for people to like it but channels like these show how fun history is
If they have another video of the War in the Pacific, I think that would be interesting.
I liked a lot of things about the video. The thing I would change, is I would have a narrator and slow down the timeline. Maybe a 10 minute video for every year of the war. I just feel with the music, the caption, and the fact that things were changing all over the map at the same time, so much was missed.
I'd appreciate if soon you'd react to some events from the Balkans and Eastern Europe, especially the ones I suggest:
1) Complete history of Belarus by Art's Animations
2) Complete history of Romania by Juice Glass
3) "Soviet Storm: WWII in the East" by Starmedia (beware, whole series is long as hell)
3) "Subversives" by Starmedia (you're lucky that it has subtitles or you wouldn't understand anything)
I recently watched soviet storm is a masterpiece to better understand the eastern front (and the later far-eastern front)
Pretty intense stuff!
The text can definitely be better (perhaps pause the animation a second or two to allow people to read what's going on in real time)
Nice video, mr. terry! maps are definitely useful for wars, it's way too abstract for me if people are just describing it. I need to see what's happening.
my great grandfather fought on the eastern front. he told me that he could see the lights in moscow. They werent far. Well. He got cought by thr soviets and thrown into a copper mine and lost a leg in there. 14 years later he got released and turned back home. Many of his friends diddnt and he felt alone ever since.
Overall, great telling of the sizes, great video at all.
@Mr. Terry History
Something you missed was the line "Talks between Germany and USSR of a Soviet Entry into the Axis". This is something that does not get enough attention, and the relationship of Germany and the Soviet Union between the declaration on Poland and the beginning of Operation Barbarossa is something that is tragically understudied. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was not merely a non-aggression pact, but also a trade, research, and friendship agreement with a clause that had the potential to call in the Soviet Union against Great Britain if they did not agree to "reasonable" terms for the end of the war.
This opens up the possibility of a separate timeline where Hitler, instead of declaring war on the Soviet Union, invites them into the Axis.
You're right, the implications of what you discussed are huge.
Incredible how the Germans put up such resistance with dwindling forces later in the war.
The Germans and Austrians were as strong willed as the Russians and Ukranians, that's why the eastern front was so brutal, they truly were two sides of the same coin
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Maps and numbers and stuff have always done it for me. I absolutely love maps and how they change over time. I watched that video a while ago, it is excellent.
“Hitlers about to die. 3 2 1 dead” best quote in all of RUclips
Get video, it’s very helpful as many of the information is separated into the theatres of war. Ie Africa, Italy, Russia, and France. I noted that you didn’t say that the UK was on its own.
I wanna know what WW1 and WW2 would look like from space, like low orbit altitudes. Would I be able to see all of the smoke/explosions?
Or the gas attacks 😳
@@MrTerry Yikes
Been watching Christopher since his early HoI IV time lapse videos. He's always put a lot of work in his videos.
Love your videos!!!!
Greetings from a Greek defender from Albania and Italy invasion.I was in the field and i will die soon.Peace for ever Italian brothers.
you are literally the only youtube channel im subscribed to that i always have a hard time hearing.
11:54 For some reason I forgot that Joseph Goebbels, “Total War speech” happened just after the defeat of Fall Bleu.
*blau
I wish I would have seen something like this in school. Until now (I am nearly 30 now) I never realized how much Territory all that really was, because is was alle text and text and text and text. Visual aid does SO much.
I think Mr Terry would make a great HOI4 RUclipsr with his love of history and geography
Eastory did something similar that you should react to.
I enjoyed it as well
Very nice :)
Hitler is about to die in 3..2..1..dead is one of the best lines I have ever heard
0:03 Genghis Khan gets me everytime.
Are you going to react to the second part of the Lafayette series done by drawn of history?
It really is awesome!
I love that it good video
you should react to ww2 from finlands perspective by the armchair historian
if i member correctly, he is famous for taking reaction videos down.
First time in more than a year that I've seen a video of you! Is RUclips hiding you
After seeing this video, I began to wonder if the Allies would've even had a chance to win if it weren't for the Soviet Union. The amount of soldiers they had is mind-boggling, and to me, for the most part, were like the driving force for the Allied forces in the war.
Once the Allies landed and invaded Italy, I think that was the straw that broke the camel's back, because of the insane front on the east pushing the Germans back, now they had to worry about a substantial Allied force coming at them from the south, and then with D-Day and the Invasion of Normandy, that was the point of no return, in my opinion, now being pushed on at least 3 different sides, with the Soviet Union still having an absolute insanely large fighting force still pushing at Germany.
Fun fact, as soon as Yugoslavia capitulated, pockets of ressistance started forming all over the country(mostly in serbia) The communist partisans have liberated almost the entirety of yugoslavia by the time the Soviets arrived, once the red army came to help the partisans, they together liberated Belgrade on November 24th and the names of all the fallen partisans and members of the red army are engraved in over 200 stone plates in the ground.
Well of course they did silly. If they were captured they were executed. Most would fight back at that point right?
who cares about commies who kill their own people? forcing 15-49 year olds in the military is disgusting
I know this is about the entirety of Europe (And north Africa), but watching this timelapse really shows how Italy was not at all the soft underbelly of Europe, as Chruchill said.
I would love to see you reacting to the video The Armchair Historian has on the invasion of Italy
Italy was getting stalled hard by the Greeks until Germany came in and bailed them out. Italy was getting pushed back by British forces in North Africa until Germany sent forces in to back them up and do most of the work. Italy surrendered when the Allies invaded and the Germans raced in (invaded from the north and even captured Italian soldiers as POWs) to hold them back. That was German forces holding off half of Italy that whole time not Italians. Italians did repay Germany invading them after they surrendered by engaging in resistance movements in German occupied Italy though.
@@Mcree114 I get what you're saying, but I think you misunderstood me, I was talking about Italy, as in the country. Geographically speaking. A country with lots of mountains and rough terrain, which is quite the opposite of a soft underbelly.
@@LucasIogurte I see what you mean. Militarily Italy was the soft underbelly but geographically it was a fortress of a peninsula. Mountainous and with little room for big mechanized warfare encirclements.
Well, it wasn't called "soft underbelly" because of the geographic location, but because of the relatively weaker military defenses. On the Eastern Front, as well as on the Western Front, the Germans had built heavy defenses that Italy could not match.
Italy was indeed the "soft underbelly" and you can see that well in the video of how quickly the Allies advanced after landing in southern Italy. Only when the Italian government capitulated and Germany occupied the country from the north did the Allies hardly get any further. Only when the Russians started their offensive and the Allies opened two more fronts (Normandy and southern France) did the southern front slowly start to move again because the Germans had to retreat.
May I ask you a question? It's one I often wonder about.. Why did BOTH Napoleon and Hitler make the EXACT same mistake ? I mean, Napoleon got bogged down in a pretty nasty war in Spain, so why did Napoleon go east to Russia? Why take such a monumental risk? Same with HitIer!! Here are two men who just LITERALLY conquered Europe, they tripled their territory (or something like that) SO why not just STOP, and solidify their holdings ? I mean imagine if Hitler just stopped after Yugoslavia. He literally controls all of Europe at this point (except Spain)
But ill never understand why the two men didnt stop and keep what they had. They both wanted more and more and more and eventually lost it all.
15:23 they completely skipped over the first concentration camp being found by Soviet forces July 23rd 1944, same with the liberation of Auschwitz January 27th 1945 16:34
Imagine committing to a high quality WWII video and only looking at Europe.
12:55 Talking about bombing Sicily and invasion of Italy, completely ignoring one of the greatest tank battle in history (Battle of Kursk) and just slightly mentioning it as "some movement on the eastern front". I'm pretty sure it was Soviets who turn "some" attention of the axis powers by full scale offensive, not letting germans reinforce their troops in Italy. 15:50 What does it mean "FInland held itself off"? Finnish troops were defeated during the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk operation and lost the war. "Had the Soviets been vitally concerned about Finland, there is no doubt that Finnish independence would have been extinguished" - US Library of Congress. I mean maybe I'm being too pushy, but that's not how you're supposed to teach history.. The teaching of history should be objective and rational, touching on all aspects of a particular event, and this is just sticking to your own line.
I feel like U.S. history classes are focusing more on their respective front of the war, briefly mentioning significant operations in the East, sidelining the Winter and especially the Continuation War, and completely ignoring Iraq and Iran's involvement in the war. Much more emphasis is put on the Pacific Theater and everything during and after D-Day, Operation Torch seemed to be portrayed as like a little side operation and Italy post-1942 was only a bit more than Trench warfare in 1917-1918. The entire North African and Middle Eastern Campaign was breezed through and partly ignored when compared to D-Day which had its own monologue, especially with Operation Bagration being arguably just as important if not more and occurring almost at the same time.
the war with the Finns was a failure, but we learned from it
yeaaa Denmark fell in 6 hours the Only resistance they really got when landing on Sjælland Was the Royal Lifeguard..... The danish troops in Jylland wasent notified about the surrender and kept fighting for a little while longer they were expecting reinforcements in Haderslev but never got any whatch the movie called April 9th with Pilou Asbæk as headroll for it also the guy i known for game of thrones at the Known danebowl Jamie lannister and Euron Greyjoy defenatly worth wacthing :D
I actually had little idea of how much the USSR took place in the war it's been so long since I've seen an in depth video.
I really need to do a good documentary dive.
I did the math and in the last weeks of the war, almost 2 million german soldiers were captured
Many surrendered voluntarily to the US and UK, to prevent death or being captured by the Russians.
Mr Terry, you should consider starting a gofundme or something of that nature to buy a period WW2 US Army Uniform to wear during these kinds of videos, that would be awesome!
I love that intro
I find it interesting that in 1941 Stalin offered to join axis imagine if Hitler said yes
would be a sad day for the US and UK. But anyway, wouldve never happened. We hates each other due to ideology, bolshewism was the main enemy of us, not the USSR
also soviet join nato
or russia empier join napolion
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa russia was allies with napoleon at one point, but was then attacked, because it traded with the british. or so i thought.
Can you react to a video called “World War 11 Every front with army sizes” it’s like this video except it shows ww2 all around the world happening
I wonder if he will do this for more recent wars like Iraq or Georgia. That'd be super cool
Yo could you please react to Felz documentaries? They're very well done. Maybe WW2 content has been quite saturated so perhaps a look on his cold war documentary would be interesting
that vid i watched when it was released got a lot of reaction
I guarantee you this:
You’ve NEVER beaten that Turtles Arcade Game.
The reason only 250,000 Polish troops were at the border, is because most troops were behind a defensive position on the Vistula river. Thats also why the amount of Polish troope increased so much
The Russians are good in Winter
The Fins are the Winter
Pretty sure Corsica was liberated far before what the video says, only a few weeks after the 8th of September 1943 and Italy's surrender
you should react to Potential History's Operation Barbarossa Series
I would love to see you react to either or both of Jeremy clarksons documentaries about the Victoria Cross and the St. Nazaire raid. Top teir documentaries
Thanks for the recs!
hey can you make a reaction video on "How to Survive Victorian London" by BlueJay? i've suggested it in your discord channel, now i'm suggesting it here just in case you see this while checking the comments
I would've liked to hear commentary on the Middle Eastern Front with Iraq and Iran during 1941, as well as North Africa during the battles of El Alamein and the Continuation War when Finland aided in the Invasion of the Soviet Union but the video was moving quite fast so I understand it a bit hard to call out everything.
I would use very strong air quotes when using the term 'liberated' within the same sentence with 'the USSR'.
What?
@@Krokodil82 we set our regimes of government there
Why didn’t Mr Terry stop world war 2?
They are a good channel "Eastory" on youtube that you will love.
I noticed in WW2 the Germans had 4/5 of there Army Stack in Russia.
If they used only 3/5, they could of taken all of Northern Africa and the Middle East and it's Oil Fields. If they Captured the English and French Troops in Dunkirk in June 1940. Bombed only Air Ports in England, plus Landed an Infantry Army and taken all the UK. The Allies would not be able to bomb German Industry, in 43,44. Letting the Germans build a Large Number of Weapons. Meaning Hitler should of let the Generals run the War. Also the Germans should of Attacked Russia in May 1942, with 4.85 million men. In 4 Army Groups (With 12 Infantry Army's and 6 Panzer Grouppen). Plus 4 Air Army's (With 7000 War Playns). So having taken France,UK, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Germany would be in an Excellent Position then. As long as the Japanese, Attacked the US Pacific Fleet in Hawaii, in December 1943. Making some Piece Agreement with the US, to gain time and build more. So the US would not build its Armed Forces yet at a Full Capacity. Only Starting to build in 44, 45. Were by the End of 1942, the Germans would of taken Most of European Russia, Northern Africa and Middle East. Moving into Sudan, Ethiopia,
Erythrea and Somalia. After S.Arabia, Persia and Kuwait in 1943. And also Attack East 500 km, into Russia and the Caucasus in March 1943. Reaching the A Line at the End of September 1943. Germany would of Won the War.
Not gonna lie, the fact that there’s no number in Britain after Pearl Harbor is a sad missed opportunity
@Mr Terry, did you notice in late 1944 that in Baltic sea, there was encircled German units?
they were suppied by ship -russias navy was pretty bad and the britains didn't really dare to come that close into axis area at that point (subs excluded)
this way, they had the impact of forcing the soviets to leave units behind the actual frontlines and also keep a possible bridgehead for pooooossible future offensives....
well, i mean, sure they knew there were no offensives really avaible at this point...
From my view it’s not so much that the Russians are so great at fighting in winter as the invaders always are unprepared for it and suffer greatly because of that
winter doesn't last 4years
6:23 thank god the soviets didn’t enter the axis powers. Frankly, unless the west could somehow by a complete miracle, prop up China AND India into industrializing for the allied front, that’d be certain game over at that point. Axis victory
And the number of soldiers, they were so easily able to get 2-1 advantage against the Germans even after losing literally millions of troops already. The longer the war lasted the less chance the Germans had.
@emeraldfinder5 Eh, the industrial might of the US and economic output of the US were unchallenged even despite the effects of the Great Depression. Couple that with the British Empire and France, of whom were(still are today) in the top largest Economies.
@@PlayerBRUV true, but the Soviet Union had practically unlimited oil and other raw resources, which they could lend to Germany in exchange for whatever technology they need at the time. Remember, the main thing that was holding Germany back was their supplies
If you did a play by play where you talked in depth about each thing that happened, I would 100% watch that.
Like if you agree
I want him to be my history teacher
Russia in Ukraine repeats the lesson of Germany in Russia: then your offensive is behind logistics' schedule, you need to make a different war.
crazy to think, that if hitler did mess with the soviets, he may have never lost europe and the world would be much different.
the allies, and D-day was obviously a huge success. but looking at the eastern front and the sheer army size concentrated over there, would the Dday landings have succeeded if those 2Million troops were able to reinforce the west.
Soviets lost more soliders than any other nation in the war. Us western countries tend to forget that.
It always makes me stunned how much the Soviet union had of soldiers
I mean after the German launched their offense by the time they reached Moscow they already had captured 3 million Soviet soldiers as war prisoners not mentioning the numbers that were killed but the Soviet red army seems to never end even after that they even boasted their army to reach 6 million !!
Maby its was a union not only russia, they were more than 12 countries, it was a 3 countries vs 32 countries
I would not shake a stick to the finns, but the Siberians winter fighting Siberians are probably the best at it.
does this have the pacific theatre version?
I've always wondered how things would have played out if Hitler was assassinated in 1939?
Sry to tell you as a german, but even if Hitler would have died in this assassination there would have been large war, cause Hitler was only marionette even if he things of himself as The Führer, the real Leaders high rank miltary, industrial moguls would have found themselfs some other, cause the plans were on the table, my great-great Grandfather highly decorated General left luckily 1939 the military cause he don't wanted to fight anymore, sadly my great grandfather don't and as high officer he paid for it after the war in russian Gulag
@@georg788 Sorry to hear that about your Grandpa.The Eastern Front was truly Hell On Earth for both sides.
@@bigronnie9629 thank you but he didn't die on east Front he died in Gulag in aftermath and the remaining family got punished also, confiscating of the house by sowjet Administration and his children my grandpa and his brother and sister weren't allowed to get a normal work, only low labor was allowed for them, that is why I only got work at a winery, working for minimum and if he wouldn't had a contact in the Administration he never would have get even a small thing from family belongings from the house
He should react to a play through as Germany in hoi4
Big difference between WW I and WW II
The Netherlands wanted to stay neutral both times
WW I it was respected and we were left alone
WW II germany decided to take over our country despite the wish for being left alone
Because of WW I not taking place in our country it isn't tought as much as WW II, it's still tought because it's a major event in history
Written by a dutch person
Around the end of the war, you can see the fact where the Germans would rather surrender to the Western forces rather than the soviets just simply by the numbers with 2 million in the East to 800 thousand in the West.
this nonsense bout the Russians and Winter is just wrong anyway. First of all: all know about Russia and Winter. It was no new information. Secondly, everyone with eyes could see that also Germany fought the Russians in winter and won many battles. In fact Russia is among the countries who always lost battles if equal or lower numbers and even with far superior numbers were often hold (and failed if there was no other backups front lines from the other super powers).Plus, what many ignore, Russia was among the aggressors (just a bit delayed). Their plot twist later (after they got attacked) should not always hide that ...
There's just one thing I don't understand with this map: why the hell Corsica hadn't be freed actually? 🤷♂ Did someone else notice it or am I the only one (which I highly doubt in fact)?
*Nazi Germany takes over France*
U.S: you don't do that to my father
*Gets involved*
Canada: For dad America
U.S: For dad
Seems Corsica wasn't liberated ?
where is the eastern front?
Why would you think germany couldnt replace the moscow losses?
15:45 this is not historical acurate since Romania turned its weapons against Germany and fought along with the soviets in Hungary and Cehoslovacia
Nice video hitler build a powerful military but didn't know how to use it.