Have you heard of the "Black Cross Red Star" book series about the huge air war on the Eastern Front during World War II?

My grandfather joined the Soviet military in 1936. My grandfather's original origin was Poland... But he died in 2014 due to heart disease, btw.. my grandfather was born in 1918, my grandfather was a hero♥️♥️♥️

Amazing how reality is always second to the current political narrative. Before the current Russo-Ukraine War many prominent Western authors were singing the praises of the tactical expertise of the Soviet Army and denying that they ever used what amounted to mass uncoordinated WWI human wave tactics...all of course without really explaining how they lost so many troops. Then shortly after the Russo-Ukraine War the Western media was literally laughing at and making fun of the current Russian Army claiming they were using WWI human wave tactics and claiming they were going to lose within days. Here we are over 2 years later...hmmmm, how's that narrative working out now? If you read ANY Eastern Front book written before 1980, especially personal accounts, they all state how Soviet troops were herded into the battle line like cattle with devastating results. Guards Units being the exception. I guess all those actual Eastern Front veterans were lying. The problem is that Numbers do not lie.

4:40 or so "there origin was baseless and useless" well if they are not of the same origin then their level of commitment would be compromised. That's like having someone who wasn't born in the country in parliament. They were the proud saviours of Europe just that many ppl just haven't worked that out yet. Loved this presentation. Well spoken narrator. I found myself totally immersed. Well done.

but how airborne division ? all know are use ONLY in DEFENCE !!!

it makes me somewhat happy/sad to see them all look at the camera, not knowing they're looking at hundreds of years into the future ❤

Elite gene pool.

No more brother war!

The aircraft at 41:02 looks like a captured P-47 Thunderbolt rather than a German type. Doubt it would have been used in Kursk? The gun camera shots look like encounters between western allies and the Luftwaffe.

Mongolian shoting solbrors:🤔 Monolian worior:😎

The value of airmen during WW2... How many ground troops equaled the cost of a pilot?

Melodramatically verbose with richly layered cliche's. All the strings are nice, but it needs more cowbell.

Id rather live in Germany today then russia . Omg . What a terrible place to live . After ww2 . The cold war . Even today . Look what russia is doing in the Ukraine. Who are the real nazis. I was in Thailand last year . It's full of Ivans and Olga's. . The are dangerous. Drunks . Criminals .

Ultimately they achieved their goal of stopping Soviet domination of Europe.

I can see this being the U.S. Navy vs Peoples liberation navy in the South China Sea 🌊 hopefully we never see this day

That's an interesting aspect of this battle.

Interesting documentary, but it should've been shortened to 30 minutes by eliminating redundant content.

14:45 45 degrees Celsius? That’s 111.2 degrees! He forgot the “minus” 🥸

Killedi millions .Ttue bastards

Do not glorify bastards

I never knew I would see so many positive comments on Waffen SS who, if I am not wrong, were among the Nazi soldiers of Hitler.

Great documentary..very informative

Dang old luffwaffles

Thank you for this channel it’s brilliant

They like to write numbers on people's skin

nice video

Awesome work blew my mind. It's 2024 and your vid showed me how incredible this really was and that even with Hollywood movies and stuff i realize i honestly hardly can believe or understand that this really happened

i just hope therre as good as the germans that were the ww1 metal men

Мій дід служив у вермахту я горджусь ним.Мочили руских окупантів.Україна понад усе.

Those voice sound clips brought me back to my teenage days, cod1 🤣

I wonder if it was ever revealed who was Stslins mole within the German high command.

I'm American and wondering why BBC and most British documentaries are so much better than ours

Not true. De MG-42 was developed to enable cheaper and better mass-production, not because a higher rate of fire was necessary. The MG-34 was expensive to produce in comparison, and fewer could be made. Using stamped metal on the MG-42 enabled higher volumes for less money.

Sorry, I had to stop this film, as there were so many many scenes from air-combat with british and tons of american planes (guncamera for example) and also a german ace (Moelders) is in one scene, who was already dead for almost 2 years when this battle took place plus a scene from the german africa-corps, ouch. I understand that not all material can be from that one incident, but too much is simply too much.

Nazism and communism are both disgusting cults of Satan.

Amazing video as always

Any army that suffers 28 million casualties must be doing something wrong or has terrible leadership.

Corporal Hitler decided to fight a 2 front war . Germany followed the fool End of story

could you do a film about Hitlers first defaet, at Narvik in the april of 1940? Would be great, and you you could include the polish regiment of the podehale.

your video is very good. im a history buff and love a good film, but you have created a great film. love to follow you and your films!

amazing and beyond!!! Tnx for this higly top doc.!!! THANK YOU!!

Good video but a bit misleading with sequences with Junkers Ju 87A and Dornier 335 and some from the North Africa campaign.

Impressive, but one mapping error bugs me a little: Saint Petersburg was actually called Leningrad at this time.

Good narration, but unfortunately, not supported by clear maps.

Hubris and Nemisis , never far apart , with that swine hitler at the helm .

Germany could not make Tiger Tanks fast enough to make a significant impact on the war.

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The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys, and with men the price is usually blood and death

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