This dude is talking like he’s mad the confederacy lost. He’s butt hurt hundreds of years later. He idolizes Lee. What a clown

Perhaps another way to say it; I believe that Hitler should have gone off and screwed Eva and let the generals achieve his objectives, get up and then tell them the next objective, before going back to screwing Eva. Then there were all the thousand cuts or failings in code, oil, aircraft, submarines, etc.

Had Hitler stayed out of Afrika. He may have used Rommel's Ghost Division to secure the oil in Crimea. This would have allowed Guderian to continue on to Moscow. Or, assign Rommel on The Atlantic Wall to prepare for invasion in 1941. By helping Benito, Adolf lost time, men and weapons.

its almost like he wanted to be defeated,odd.

I feel honored to see our own lifting the flag high more blessings🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲

Michael Jackson is the greatest performer I. History he would be no 1.

AH was delusional, a gangster, a manipulator and in no way a strategist. His only goal should have been the defeat of the ussr. No genocide, no totalitarian state, foster nationalism of ALL Germans, of all ethnicities and develop rapport with the west.

Hitler was on the spectrum

23:05 Chinese navy is bigger than US navy in number of ships but not in total displacement.

Starts at 11:45

Don't listen to American propaganda. The real reason why Hitler lost was becos he attacked USSR. Even if it is a one-on-one war with Nazi Germany vs USSR alone, Nazi Germany will still lose in a matter of a few years.

This is incredibly fascinating stuff and explains a lot of why the actions of the US military in Vietnam seemed so pointless and ridiculous.

I don’t think there were that many strategic mistakes except declaring war on the US. Germany lost because of a lack of stuff. Men, food, steel, aluminum, petroleum and factories left standing. I had a friend in Paris in 1944. He was 14. He watched an American GI cleaning the wheel bearings from his jeep. He removed the bearings, filled his helmet with gasoline, rinsed the crud out of bearing and, to my friend’s amazement he took the helmet full of gas and pitched it on the ground, without a care in the world. At that moment my friend knew the allies would win. The germans were conserving every ounce of gas. It’s used was severely restricted. The allies pretty much had unlimited supplies of everything, relatively speaking. Once german POWs found themselves on ships headed for America they were eating better than they did with the Wehrmacht! It was all about supply. The bombing offensive made it impossible to supply a war on 3 fronts and the uboat menace was over.

If T-Rump wins, someone could be giving this same lecture about him in 80 years.

One also sees the influence of amphetamine on hitlers hyper active decision making.

No fan of Westmoreland here.....but shift your targets to higher ups.....Dulles, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, McNamara.....all share the blame....especially the Democrat administrations....from a Navy Vietnam Vet

"German generals were Nazi sympsthizets, not a trustworthy bunch.." Brilliant observation! Would they have been more trustworthy if they had been Allieds or Soviet sympsthizers?

I would love to know what he thinks the allies' greatest secret weapon was: Hitler or Goering ? LOL !

His invasion was delayed by several months because he had to go pull Mussolini's fat out of the fire in Greece & North Africa wasn't it ? He should have delayed it till the following year. I never considered his reasoning ofNazi vs Wermact (sp). Brilliant. War College - thank you so much for putting this out !

Great presentation

Germany lost because it lacked the resources to win.

Berlin, 29 April, 1945, 4 a.m. [final writing before his death] "It is untrue that I or anyone else in Germany wanted war in 1939. It was wanted and provoked solely by international statesmen either of Jewish origin or working for Jewish interests. I have made too many offers for the limitation and control of armaments, which posterity will not be cowardly enough always to disregard, for responsibility for the outbreak of this war to be placed on me. Nor have I ever wished that, after the appalling First World War, there would ever be a second against either England or America. Centuries will go by, but from the ruins of our towns and monuments the hatred of those ultimately responsible will always grow anew against the people whom we have to thank for all this: international Jewry and its henchmen."

Very interesting.

The smol hats tricked the 3 largest empires in the world at the time to gang up on Germany and destroy it, simply for being an example of how it's possible to live without the smol hats and their usury. With the odds that Hitler was working with, he would have had to have been a god to have won the war.

The secret US weapon was the Federal Reserve System. Unlimited war production based on the creation of debt. Unfortunately for the USA, this system has just now reached its limits.

The story about how the Battle of Britain changed is mentiolned in the BBC-PBS series Battlefield. Great series. Watched almost all 30 episodes.

The ways of Hitler are very similar to those of Trump. They both have the same characteristics! That aside, this was a very informative presentation!

Meanwhile the west is going down...

He lost coz Steiner didn't attack

Priorizing ideology over the nation makes you a criminal, not an idealog

Someone should use a Time Machine and go back and tell hitler all of this info.

Wrong leadership! Know thyself, he did not know who he was.

30:40 - Hitler did not initiate nor give the order for the Jews to be murdered en masse. The "Final Solution" was the brainchild of Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Security Main Office and SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann at the January 1942 Wannsee Conference - from a directive from Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring to "solve the Jewish question". Hitler was extensively kept out of this plan and the minutes of the meeting. Hitler had a standing order that the Jews were not to be killed en masse because he wanted to use them as a slave labor. Ministerialdirektor Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger: Deputy Head of the Reich Chancellery openly objected to the idea of gassing the Jews en masse because of Hitler's standing order to not do so. Hitler was kept in the dark about the mass extermination by his underlings. The reason given to other officials was that Hitler was too busy fighting the war to be bothered about such small tasks. The real reason was the Reich could not offer livable conditions for that many people: housing, food clothing, medical treatment etc. The burden to the war machine was too great and the commandants of the labor camps were complaining about not having enough resources to control that many people at one time. Now does this absolve Hitler of the mass extermination of over 6 million Jews? Nope. He was still an immensely evil person, but he has been incorrectly blamed for the "Final Solution" when he literally had nothing to do with it. Hitler is used by historians because his name is instantly recognizable over Heydrich, Eichmann or Göring.

Too many! From starting a multi-front war (yes, only two fronts at first, but in the end? It was THREE! You had the Brits, US, Canadians etc. coming from France and from Italy and the Soviets coming from Russia! To wasting troops (holding Stalingrad, giving the order that they couldn't retreat to regroup etc.), to building weapons that didn't do much other that terrorize civilians in Britain (V1 and V2!) or were not effective (Schwerer Gustav railway gun) or tied up too many resources! Hell, with Type XXIII U-Boat entering the war 2-3 years earlier much could have been done, they were after all in every way superior to the older subs of the type VII(C) and those older boats were wreaking havoc on convoys to Britain and even the Soviet Union, even with ASDIC (today known as sonar!) and radar! Especially if they had been combined with anechoic tiles of U-480 they would have been downright kings of the sea, staying underwater almost all the time snorkeling and diving with their extremely large battery banks! Also: Declaring war on the US? Seriously! He hadn't learned from WW1, where they US helped the Triple Entente win (well: French and Brits - the Russians had after all dropped out of the war, after we sent them Lenin back!)

Hilarious shots of sleeping audience. eg 31:39 good talk

It was a sad history for all of us! My father was a combat commander under General Vangpao from 1969 to 1972. American left Vietnam and the communist also took over Laos in 1975. The Vietnam War affected everyone of us! Thank to all Americans who served!

And just like today they f*cked around for a year and a half. Got organized and ground it into dust. How history will remember it.

A small bankrupt nation jumps the three largest empires the world has ever seen.

So you’re saying blind ideology is dangerous….

Dear sir, we are in 2024. The era of the Soviet dictatorship has ended. We don't need Keitel or Hitler or You to tell us how many weapons the Russians had on 22 june 1941. The Soviet archives have been opened and Russian military historians write for us the exact numbers. We don't have to make assumptions or speculations. What does Mikhail Meltyukhov tell us in Stalin's Missed Chance? The exact number of Soviet tanks (15687), planes (10743) and artillery (59787) on 22 june 1941. He also tells us the German numbers, but we don't have to believe him. We have them from the Germans. We have nothing to argue here! These are the dates, surely! And these data mean furnaces and heavy metallurgical industry; it means the processing of millions of tons of steel, it means research with multiple teams for more than ten years (some of the teams were doing this from behind bars) and millions of people put to work on armaments since 1927. It means an army to manage all this armament. Only the first strategic front (I use the Soviet name) had 6-7 million people and was secretly incorporated on June 22, 1941. The second strategic front was in the process of formation and also had 6-7 million people. The third strategic front was planned in the military plans. So the USSR in total had an army in preparation of approximately 20 million soldiers. And he used them all until 1945. Hitler didn't know who he was dealing with! The conclusion is clear: USSR prepared for war with someone big; not Finland, not Romania, not Bulgaria, obviously. Guess who it could be? Germany, that is Europe. See the situation after 1945 and draw your own conclusion if I was wrong in what I say!? And, when you do so much preparation and there is little that I showed, you don't rely on chance! Maybe the Hitler madman is attacking me?! It was obvious that he was "dying" for the Polish corridor that would connect Germany to Konigsberg. Hitler told the Poles, give me the Polish corridor and I will protect you from the Russians who want territories from you. On England's advice, Poland refused it. And then Hitler allied himself with the Russians. And Stalin was just waiting for that. And this was the deception with the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact. Everything I wrote to you are facts, not opinions. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with the secret annex is real. Only the interpretation that some or others give it differs. But the historical development is real. Answer the question yourself: 1.Why doesn't England declare war on the USSR, which attacked Poland (England's ally) on September 17, 1939. 2. Do you think that Hitler wanted a war on two fronts with the USSR, Great Britain and the USA?3. Do you think that we Eastern Europeans, who know exactly the situation, can still believe in the theory that Hitler attacked the USSR because he needed the vital space when the German army stretched from Norway to North Africa and had occupied almost all of Europe? 4. And, at that moment(22 june 1941), Germany and the USSR had a non-aggression pact signed not even two years before! Why should they attack each other, they were just kind of allies. I mean, why should Hitler attack his ally with whom he had done good business and divided countries? Because he was crazy? Nonsense! If you answer these questions honestly, you will see that the theory (about WW2) that we heard for 50 years in communist countries is false. The communist parties have told us enough, don't tell you to us the same!

It was obvious(1939) and it is so obvious now(2024), that strategically Germany could not fight against an alliance formed by the USSR, the British Empire and the USA and win. And then how did Germany end up in this position? The answer has been given for a long time, but it contradicts the official narrative of the victorious powers. The answer is Hitler's deception by Stalin by concluding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Hitler declared in Mein Kampf since 1925 that if Germany fights on two fronts, east and west (as in WW1), it will lose the war because it does not have the resources for a conflict on two fronts. Who was in the east? USSR. Who was in the west? France and Great Britain. Who does Hitler "declare" to be the "natural" enemy of Germany for hundreds of years? Frankreich. Not on England who are Aryan brothers and not on Russians who are subhuman but have resources. And then Hitler makes a "compromise": he allies Germany in the east with the USSR in order to have his back covered and to have a free hand in the west to recover Alsace and Lorraine. This is what the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact is for; of non-aggression with the USSR. Of course, Stalin wants something in exchange: the Baltic countries, Bessarabia, a part of Finland as the Finns were too close to Leningrad, a part of Poland that did not exist for approx. 100 years. By doing this Hitler hoped to restore Germany as it was before WW1 even bigger because now it also had territories from the former Austro-Hungarian empire. It is obvious to any rational person that without the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact Hitler would not have ventured to attack Poland alone, with the potential threat for Germany of a war on two fronts, which he wanted to avoid at all costs. But Stalin was preparing his country for war since 1927 from the first five-year plan. The production of tanks handed over to the Red Army in 1938 is over 2400 tanks; in 1939 the red army receives over 3500 tanks from the industry. It is obvious that the USSR did not build this production of tanks to fight with Finland! Germany will attack on June 22, 1941 with 3410 tanks. Compare these numbers of the two "unprepared" combatants! Happy and naive Hitler rejoices: he is allied with the USSR (they have common territorial objectives) which secures his back from the east, he has their resources at his disposal, an invincible land army, a capable air force, he is weak at sea. But England can do nothing to him on land. And then, in agreement with Stalin, on September 1, 1939, he attacked Poland from the west, while Stalin was supposed to attack from the east. But the Surprise, the red army is not "prepared", and he is not informed about it. So, on September 3, 1939 Great Britain and France declared war on Germany because Germany had attacked the Polish ally. From now on, Germany was at war with France and its empire and Great Britain and its empire (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, "the empire on which the sun never sets" ). On September 17, 1939, the "prepared" Red Army attacked Poland. But, surprise again, France and Great Britain did not declare war on the USSR, which had attacked their ally. Hitler does not realize that the trap has closed. He is just a naive painter and eloquent orator. The deception with the Ribbentrop Molotov Pact had its effect. The situation described by Hitler in Mein Kampf with the war on two fronts (as in WW1) happened again. Germany is in the position of Sisyphus. No matter how hard Germany tries, it will lose the war. At sea, only the UK alone beats Germany at any time. In the air, only the US air force with its superfortresses and modern fighter planes beats Germany at anytime. Only on land, the situation seems a little more balanced, but if we consider only the 84,000 T34s compared to the 1,347 Tigers, the situation becomes clear. So oil, V1 and V2, Me262, Stalingrad, etc. are just details of a clear strategic situation that cannot be changed. A naive painter and eloquent orator (Hitler) who talked too much was deceived by a bank robber (Stalin) psychologically built to make his plans secretly. When Stalin attacked Finland on November 30, 1939, he sent Goering to "convince" the Finns to give in to the territorial claims of the Russians according to the secret annex of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (of which the Finns did not know); in this way the Germans "honored" their word given when signing the pact. After the capitulation of France in June 1940, the USSR gave an ultimatum to Romania on June 26, 1940 in which it demanded Bessarabia and northern Bucovina. After the advice received from Germany and Italy, the Tatarescu government agreed to submit to the Soviet conditions (Hitler again honored his word given to Stalin). In August 1940, when all the Luftwaffe and the land army were concentrated in the west and the Battle of England was taking place (July 10-October 31, 1940), and the Russians occupied the Herta land, which did not appear on the map as part of the territory that was supposed to be given to the USSR, Hitler also "achieves" the situation. The Russians were near Galati, 150 km from the Ploiesti oil area. Through a surprise attack, they occupied Ploiesti in 48 hours. For Germany, the war would have ended immediately without Romanian oil. After the Abwehr reports show the concentration of Red Army forces in Bessarabia, Hitler finally orders the preparation of the Barbarossa plan. In May 1941, Hitler, knowing from now on that he will fight on two fronts and trying to prevent this from happening, sends his secretary, Rudolf Hess, to try to conclude a separate peace with the British. The British will arrest him and keep him in captivity until 1987 as a great war criminal (he who was only a simple secretary and who had not participated in WW2). He will be "found" committed suicide in the prison with only one inmate, only him. But, because he was a fanatic obsessed with sports(in 1987 he was 93 years old) and loyalty who could not support the narrative of the victorious powers as others did (Paulus for example) he was never released except for dead. All this narrative is supported in books written by Suvorov and others such as Stalin's Missed Chance (Mikhail Meltyukhov) and which obviously contradict the official narrative of the victorious powers in WW2. Can these certain data be suppressed in 2024?

Looks like Hitler got his Uber und Unter mixed up when it came to mensches.

2:26: Germany is NOT an "Anglo - Saxon" nation, it is a partially Saxon nation, with other cultural and ethnic ancestors. Definitely not "Anglo".

Do not forget that GB and France declared war on Germany on the 3rd of Sept. 39! It is LLoyd George who, after the Versailles dictate was enforced on Germany is quoted for saying: "This is no peace treaty but an armistace for 22 years!." GB gave Poland a guarantee treaty against Germany to provoke Polish military actions which took place. Germans were being killed in former German territories by Polish military and civilians before the war broke out. Hitler didn´t need 400 U-Boats in 1939 as he had no intentions for world conflict.

'a war that they could have won' Turned it off right there. There was absolutely zero possibility that the germans could have won the war under quite literally any circumstances. They lacked the resources, logistical support and manpower and could never have done anything about that. They had next to nothing while going up against the combined military and industrial might of almost the entire rest of the planet That guy has no idea what he is talking about

40 percent of the red bomber force was probably twice the number of bombers that Germany and England possessed. See how it's done. Don't follow up with truth.

Party - OVER COUNTRY ? In play today ? 🤔

He maybe an historian,but he cant deliver the subject matter clearly.Mark felton is much better

This entire lecture is ridiculous. In Hitler's speech declaring war on the United States, he literally says " no one would attack America unless America itself provoked the attack". He understood full well the manufacturing power of the United States. He had seen it in WWI. Secondly, this guy seems to blame Hitler for Japan not invading the Soviet Union. Hitler had wanted Japan to invade the Soviet Union, but Japan literally made a non-aggression pact just a few months before Operation Barbarossa which freed up Stalin's troops in the east. In fact, even after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and was at war with the United States, Japan refused to attack lend-lease shipments going to the Soviet Union via Vladivostok(in the hopes Stalin would honor the non-aggression pact, he didn't). The reason Hitler declared the Japanese honorary Aryans, and talked up Japanese history, that Japan had never been defeated, was because he was desperate for allies. Moreover, there were only 200k Jews in Germany in 1939, not 6 million. And only a quarter of those original 200k Jews died during WWII(mostly of Typhus). Also, Germany was the one who essentially invented the atom bomb(at least in terms of theoretical physics). In fact, the reason the Manhattan Project got funded was because Albert Einstein wrote a letter warning that Germany would develop a bomb if America didn't develop it first. The only reason Germany didn't develop a bomb is because the German government didn't have the resources. The Manhattan Project was extremely expensive and required insane amounts of energy for uranium enrichment, among other things. The actual reason Hitler lost WWII was because the allies had nearly unlimited resources. The United States alone could practically keep everyone else supplied and equipped, and there was nothing Hitler could do about it.

"Can you imagine President Obama having Eric Cantor arrested today?" Can you imagine President Biden having Trump arrested? Boy, the times we live in. It's almost like a civil war, huh?