Germany smashed Russia Eastern Front WW1 but floundered Western exact opposite WW2 so difficult of course but not impossible Lol Father time did not repeat itself

Damn if you do, damn if you dont. Its a no win situation for the commander if the outcome is bad.

Hitler sounds like German Vegeta and I love it. However he did not sound like that at all.

PLEASE NOTE, THE RUSSIAN WORD "URAN" HAS TWO MEANINGS: 1.URANUS 2.URANIUM, IN THE CASE OF EASTERN OFFENSIVE IT WAS USED WITH THE LATTER MEANING, BECAUSE STALIN WAS DEBRIEFED ABOUT DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF URANIUAM DAYS BEFORE SELECTING THAT WORD FOR CODENAME. MY PLEASURE

Did all the 1,000,000 soviet women fought in front as soldiers weren’t half of them were in noncombat roles

Dudes-What happened to you!? I bought all your books Joly! C’mon and make us some videos…please!!?

Add about 19 minutes into this video there is a picture of a very beautiful blonde Russian aviatrix. I think she's a pilot from her jacket but I wonder if anybody knows who she is or was? She has a very strange look on her face.

Obviously Paulus was treated better than the hundreds of thousands of other prisoners that the Soviets took in World War II but if you look at everything from the Soviet side those prisoners had destroyed much of their nation. The German prisoners were treated horribly but no worse than the Soviets prisoners were treated. Obviously the field Marshal could not speak to that because he didn't know for one and then when he did know he had no ability to change it. If he had spoken out against the treatment of the regular German soldier he would have probably never seen home. Obviously Paulus was forced to make compromises. He was not a hero but he did eventually face down the criminality of what he had been a part of. In a way he was a lot like Albert Speer both of whom realized that they were on a tightrope as to what would happen to them when judgment came.

Fun fact: A hungarian company formed mainly from members of the Levente youth organisation was stationed in Schönefeld, in late April they retreated into Berlin and took up positions in Berlin-Westend, on a small hill near Angerburger Allee, They left their positions on the 1st of May and they would all either be killed or be taken prisoners by the soviets.

I find this entire lead up to Uranus from the German perspective fascinating.

He was like "soembody stole my panzers!" and Hitler was like "But I really really needed zem."

What if Paulus made a successful breakthrough and met Manstein?

Von paulus' later ideas should be taught and followed in the western world today. Instead we have the opposite ideas. This needs to change!

Tip: don't invade Russia.

The whole point of the offensive into the caucuses was to secure the Baku oil. Pulling troops out of the caucuses would’ve negated the whole operation. That simply wasn’t an option

Good show did enjoy it .only you forgot to mention how the bear was on it's ass B4 land lease and such or the fact they where chummy just a few years earlier while splitting up countries such as Poland . No the Russian army was not some unstoppable force they had ALOT of help and people who where just as afraid of there own commanders as the Germans .

This guy is a great narrator.

June 41 Germany sweeps into the USSR taking prisoner or killing 1m Russian troops and destroying all heavy industry. 16 months later the Russians respawn 1m soldiers 1000 tanks, 5000 artillery pieces. 1500 planes. It is mind blowing what they did. In 1941, the Soviets built 6274 tanks. against Germany's 3,623. In 1942 USSR built 24,639 tanks against Germany's 5,530. 1943 saw Germany produce a record 11,601 tanks against Russia's 22,000. When you add in Lend lease. The Russians must be producing 4x or 5x tanks,planes,artillery to the Germans every year of the war. Amazed that the Germans lasted to 45.

Romanians were tough, attacking tanks with grenages & Molotovs. Twenty pak40 guns in depth at each bridgehead would have stopped the tanks dead against the 3rd Army. Hitler lost the war because they couldn't supply 40 - 100 Pak guns to the Romanians. No wonder he was an insomniac after Stalingrad.

Epic narration. I don't say this often.

I read a German book on this battle in 1992. Supposedly only 1 Survivor eventually made it back to German lines.// He was in an aid station 100Ft underground in Sebastopol. A Russian railway artillery gun fired and the Survivor and Aid station both destroyed.

How humiliating that had to have been for pauls

Madness. Such horrible events. And for what? All that suffering for no sane reason.

I'm so looking forward to more content from the channel.

Anton You should do a review of your favourites.

Probably the most tumultuous moment in modern history 😢

This is a lot of work for historians aiming to research the historiography on the topic. Great video!

patiently awaiting Armageddon's return - nice seeing the StalData books on the shelf with the others

First! Best wishes ❤ Greetings from Czech republic! Jaroslav.

All testimonys from tortured POWs is invalid. In fact they are not even considered "prisoners of war" but were considered "DEC" disarmed enemy combatants, thus exempting them from all their rights. Nuremberg was a show trial with zero legitimacy.

Rest in piss, Paulus. Fcking traitor

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Didn't know Chuikov was French

Such a great series. I find myself coming back to watch this again and again, even years later.

I dont think you even need hindsight. I actually believe that an "Unorganized Retreat" is impossible. Can you imagine your squad command telling you, "Yea, Just... Run.. yea past those machine guns nests, tanks, divisions of infantry in every single window. Much less fording a river. It is simply a stupid idea. Only with that hindsight would you EVER even think of performing this maneuver. The ONLY situation is this.. you KNOW 5 percent of your troops will get out. Ok. So, you start the impossible run. Gather 300,000 starving men and tell them, " yeah boys, leave everything, just effing run. Yeah just literally sprint until you can't anymore or you get shot. Only 5 percent WILL get out if you dont start effing running boys. So, c'mon! Start running! SOME of you, MAYBE more than 5 percent will make it!!" Impossible.

Horrific infantry combat.

*Chuikov:* We demand unconditional surrender *Krebs:* Never! We will fight to the end! [Dude, look around you- this is the end!]

I love this content!! Very unique! I would subscribe and obsessively listen to a channel that featured translated archived radio counications during or around battles...

Thanks

He stabbed his boss in the back.

Love to the ones on both sides whom win endure and lose, and become pows the GROUND POUNDERS THE REAL MEN WHOM SUFFER THE WORST OF THE WORSE . Thank all of you 🙏 brave 💪🙏 ones whem fought, bled , Lost, won We love ❤❤all of you thank you for your service ❤️ Russia and Germany.

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