But where is FEGELEIN??

"Hurrying heinz"

Guderian and Manstein were mostly the reasons behind the steamroll that turned into the second conquest of Europe after Napoleon did it first. There's a reason they could achieve it even coming from behind in material quantity and quality when everyone else expected the return of WWI trench warfare. If you seek overrated myths there's McArthur, Montgomery and a myriad of others in WW2.

German heroes

Just the planning phase for Operation Otto (then renamed Barbarossa in Dec 1940), the generals developed their initial plans for the invasion, and then it was presented to Hitler. From there Hitler didn't like it and told them how he wanted the invasion to go, micromanaging things in the updated planning, and then during the campaign.

Everyone knows that the greatest military masterminds are in KZbin comments sections.

Not all women know details of their husbands working life,I certainly didn't. Too boring.

Guderian was a visionary, his insistence on making Moscow the only objective was proven correct. His assessment of the capabilities of his own army, as well as the Soviets, was dead on. Guderian was a professional, his opinions were based on his experience. One thing usually missing from any analysis of German arms is the complete collapse of the Luftwaffe after 1943. Once air supremacy was lost, the German Army wasn’t effective.

Why is it one or the other? Like most historical figures, its a bit of both.

Guderian was a very good teacher, the Allies learned well, they paid a steep price but the lessons helped guarantee the Germans defeat!

Guderian was undeniably a brilliant panzer general. Also undeniable is that he built up his own legend by heavily endorsing Liddel Hart's writings who in turn flattered, helped build up Guderian into the legend he sought to become. A case of mutual flattery. This nexus was exposed in Alan Clark's work Barbarossa. He still deserves his place in history as among the greatest panzer generals of the two wars.

Guderian was an interesting case of a German general as while his field command was not much impressive compared to his more famous colleagues like Rommel, his experience in staff position did put him as one of the closest general to Fuhrer. His position as Inspector General of Panzer, unlike inspector general of other arms, was unique in that he got direct access to the Fuhrer, even bypassing Reserve army commander. In 1944 he even rose to the Army Chief of Staff. As such Guderian held more power than his Generaloberst rank suggested, arguably comparable to Field Marshal. Still as with most German Panzer generals, he did have a fair share of conflicts with the Fuhrer as the war progressed and the German military and logistics being less able due to shortage to conduct the mobile warfare these generals once held in high regards.

Conflict??? It was a "F"ing war!!! A conflict is where there is no formal declaration of war signed!

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Guderian was a victim of Hitler's micro-managing of military operations, his insistence on unconditional obedience, his intolerance of anyone who disagreed with him, tried to think for themselves....

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Good, but deserves more attention on 1941. Silly about the attempt to make him a criminal in the end. The Allies would've given their eye-teeth for a general like him.

A very above average general. Also very very good at self promotion. But being above average and innovative wasn't good enough for him. As very well articulated in this video

Curiously, the decision to concentrate armor was forced on the Germans due to the small number of tanks they had to work with.

My favorite is Mannstein but Guderian was one of the best .

The regime wasn’t perfect however was last stand for Europe. Look at Europe today and who controls both USA, UK and EU.

who play wc4 and feel his power 🗣️🔥🔥🙏

Amazing how people to this day believe Germany back then told you do be proud of who you are, you are white and Christian and be proud of it. Defend your land, defeat the dirty commies and to this day you think they are the bad guy

Trump thinks he's smarter than all of them.

No doubt he was a great general

First!

Hitler never wanted to invade Britain. Rudolph Hess along with Hitler sent many peace offerings after communist Poland persecuted and treated ethnic Germans very badly from the result of the treaty of Versailles.

The actual person who could have done anything to stop the Russians was the Army Group Head of Czechoslovakia. He had roughly 1 million soldiers and equipments but he didn't move as Hitler didn't order him to move. After the fall of Berlin, they all surrendered.

"Der Angriff Steiner's war ein Befehl!" 😉

"bizarre world view" Yeah, it's especially bizarre that people all over the world have shared it for millenia.

The Second Lady, Lina…what happened to her first husband??? Was he imprisoned or had he died? I see mention of a second husband with no mention of where the first went.

Imagine still believing the “good” guys won WW2.

1:05, Dutch NSB prominent (Henk) Johannes Feldmeijer, Standartenführer der Germaansche SS. Killed by an Allied warplane on February 22, 1945.

2:15, Himmler arrives st the Dutch NSB headquarters at the Maliebaan 35, Utrecht, Netherlands.

The Nuremberg trials were a kangaroo court and what's main purpose was meant to give closure to the war for the masses, not actually dish out justice. Sacrifice those not needed, and quietly let off those who would be useful. Selectively choosing which crimes to look at or ignore, or exaggerating or downplaying where convenient. Some of the tried deserved their fate, some didn't, some let go deserved worse, and some were rightfully let go, in the end it was political pragmatism that decided outcomes, not justice.

Steiner was like the 6th panzer army at that time..down to 6 tanks

Why Infamous Richthofen, because he was the enemy?

They went off to fight a bigger war...

The wives of leading Nazis all married British generals after the war.

RIP and Respect. A true Warrior.

How in HELL can you include footage of General Patton among these people? Patton was allegedly admired by many generals of the Third Reich for his skill in warfare, but he was their scourge, not their ally. 🤦‍♂

Images do not match the subject: why in Gods name is the maker using footage of operation Market Garden in this film?

My favorite Generals from WW2 are Gen. Courtney Hodges and Gen. Rokosovsky of Russia

Remove all those resources, and the allies would have collapsed

The Russians and her people did the heavy lifting vs Germany for most of World War II. Like France helping the USA in our Revolution for Independence the USA should be very grateful for the fighting and sacrifice of Russia and her people.

The Germans didnt invent Blitzkrieg, they were just the first ones to really adopt the tactic on a large scale

So the first one was really Jewish, only 7.5 years of imprisonment says all,

So what did they do that was wrong?

I care not for the thoughts of losers