182. Operation Barbarossa

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The Rest Is History

Күн бұрын

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@robspecht9550 2 жыл бұрын

This is criminally underviewed. You chaps are top notch.

@etahenry3377 11 ай бұрын

No, just smug

@donrobertson4940 11 ай бұрын

Most people listen to the podcast.

@Sean-p3o 6 күн бұрын

@@etahenry3377Hear what your saying But they are still worth listening too even if they are delusional about being the good guys re the current crisis

@Sean-p3o 6 күн бұрын

Criminal lack of understanding of Russian concerns about Americans on their border

@alancartwright5338 10 ай бұрын

Fully agree this podcast series is brilliant!

@Canadian_Skeptical Ай бұрын

even know its done by two white males!!

@blairhicks9553 2 жыл бұрын

Keep doing these podcasts. Well spoken and credentials galore. Build it and they will come

@11th_Moon 2 ай бұрын

Great talk, we all need more history knowledge! I am Russian, my grandparents spent their teen years either under nazi occupation or were war prizoners. This episode sends me chills. Hate hate all the wars 😢

@Sean-p3o 6 күн бұрын

Britains elites loves wars as do most of the population

@WHITERAGS 2 жыл бұрын

Would love to hear both of them do shows together. They play off each other well. Big fan of both.

@victoriamacgregor5466 28 күн бұрын

Best history podcast around

@WHITERAGS 2 жыл бұрын

Love Tom Holland and James Holland

@sifridbassoon 3 ай бұрын

You guys are absolutely fascinating! Your short explanation of why the Germans had all these vehicles but couldn't use them for lack of parts that fit. Excellent

@GregoryMumm 17 күн бұрын

There is also a smaller, but significant, encirclement at Bryansk in 10/41, south of Smolensk.

@yogeeswarpal Жыл бұрын

I needed more about the trucks tbh

@IanCross-xj2gj 5 ай бұрын

50% of the Wehrmacht trucks were US designed Ford and General Motors. Germany didn't manufacture jeeps or many trucks.

@Canadian_Skeptical Ай бұрын

Happy Christman, England! From Canada.

@fionamclaughlin8236 3 ай бұрын

Lads ,you guys are first class, thanks!

@juanfervalencia 8 ай бұрын

You guys are my new addiction

@amanullahkariapper2503 28 күн бұрын

49:53 le mot juste, bravo !

@paul_Leeds_UK Ай бұрын

Absolutely love your channel guys, ive recently watched the documentarys europa : the last battle and the secret masonic victory of world war 2 which give a very different version to the one written by the winners, i wondered if youd watched these and would be really interested in your opinions... Keep the great episodes coming cant get enough.... hooked 😊

@GregoryMumm 17 күн бұрын

It was the Kiev, not Kursk, encirclement in September 1941 (initial misidentification, corrected shortly thereafter in the broadcast), but that was not the last major encirclement of the year: a comparably successful one was executed by AGC at Vyazma between Smolensk and Moscow in early October 1941.

@GregoryMumm 17 күн бұрын

It seems more historically accurate to identify the end of the Barbarossa campaign (and, with it, operation Typhoon) as occurring on 12/5/41, not mid-September 1941, when AGC suspends the effort to capture Moscow, on its doorstep.

@juanfervalencia 8 ай бұрын

Delightful

@davidpryle3935 10 ай бұрын

It wasn’t that the Soviets were “completely useless” in the winter war, it was actually because the Finns were so unbelievably good.

@OnlineEnglish-wl5rp 8 ай бұрын

Some say it was a feint to make the Germans underestimate the Red Army's true capabilities and weapons build up

@alexandermalinowski4277 4 ай бұрын

Sorry, but untrue. Soviet Army was terrible, but improved slowly with time. Finns were superb and therefore could exploit weaknesses of Red Army

@dvt6778 9 ай бұрын

Excellent episode. But why the hell is James shouting and speaking at 100mph?

@robertcottam8824 29 күн бұрын

He does so in order to be extraordinarily irritating. And he succeeds very well, doesn’t he?

@marys33794 2 күн бұрын

I agree their guest James Holland speaks way too fast. Thankfully, his brother Tom speaks in a slower style showing patience for the listeners. 👍 👌

@koxwell 9 ай бұрын

I love the topic but would enjoy it more with a more conversational style. Too much energy cutting off interesting branches. Bit frustrating.

@Ed-om9xy 9 ай бұрын

it's interesting, I see what you mean, you could do five pods out of this

@woo9238 5 ай бұрын

Well done

@kamila3362 5 ай бұрын

What is your take on Victor Suborov Icebreaker book?

@exmachina2600 2 жыл бұрын

Let the man talk about his trucks!

@robertdarby6553 2 жыл бұрын

I could have listened to a whole podcast just describing the 2,000 different types of truck.

@IanCross-xj2gj 5 ай бұрын

@robertdarby6553 Wehrmacht trucks were largely US designs, Ford and General Motors. Strange but true.

@Truffle_Pup 10 ай бұрын

Although I enjoy listening to James, he is without a doubt a "Two Pinter". As in, you enjoy everything he says and love his enthusiasm, but you leave the pub before he comes to sit back down with his third pint.

@shoofly529 2 ай бұрын

Some historians now state that Stalins plan to not retreat, to suffer repeated defeats after defeats, was actually the correct strategy bc it turned the war from a blitzkrieg one into a war of attrition by wearing out the German Army. By December, 1941, the tide had essentaly turned with Generals January & Febuary yet to appear. A country of 90M (all in) cannot win a conventional war against a country with a (much younger) population of 185M. "Quantity has a quality all its own."-Stalin. Also the overwhelming majority of Eastern European Jews were concentrated in the former 'Pale of Settlement' region of eastern Poland/Ukraine/ Soviet Union border area. This made it much easer for German forces to initiate the 'Holocaust by Bullets' phase of the Holocaust.

@cliveclerkenville2637 8 ай бұрын

Target was the Azeri oilfields ?

@martinjohnson5498 Ай бұрын

1:20 I thought Tom was talking about the German invasion of France in 1914. Which the Germans would have been smarter to consider.

@launiesoult3248 3 ай бұрын

How long did it take the Soviets to set up a defense

@fibiusthegreat593 2 жыл бұрын

Great!!

@huyshe123 Күн бұрын

James - SLOW DOWN. Its interesting but exhausting.

@_eddiecole 10 ай бұрын

I did not know how much I did not know about ww2 lol

@wendyknight9574 5 күн бұрын

Your brother isn’t exactly restful, is he?

@martinbruno4567 9 ай бұрын

Interesting but too many commercials

@fastpublish 2 ай бұрын

Anyone who has ever experienced -27C in Moscow knows what's involved in trying to conquer Russia?

@jezalb2710 2 ай бұрын

It was the mud/rasputica that did it

@11th_Moon 2 ай бұрын

In 1942 winter it had famously dropped to -40 C

@fabioq6916 7 күн бұрын

The Kiev encirclement was the last German victory in the East? Who knew?

@anthonychase4364 10 ай бұрын

James, be very careful making bland parallels between "Putin's invasion of Ukraine" and other monumental military blunders. Reason? Ukraine has been contested territory for 1000 years.

@cliveclerkenville2637 8 ай бұрын

Putin did not invade Ukraine until the neocon plotting to annex the country became intolerable.

@daviebananas1735 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, they definitely haven’t been a sovereign country for decades. Perfectly reasonable to invade. Jesus H Christ.

@nickrails 7 күн бұрын

Eh? By that metric, most of Europe - including the British Isles - has been contested territory for 1000 years.

@anthonychase4364 7 күн бұрын

@nickrails correct. Because we in the so-called Western world are subject to a constant battering by a corrupt, discredited, and controlled media and their paymsters in New York, Washington, Brussels ( Blackrock, Vanguard, etc..), then it becomes political orthodoxy. We all should know who's interests are being served.

@Sean-p3o 6 күн бұрын

@@nickrailsOne of many contested regions in Europe For the current war I suggest watching Daniel Davis Deep Dive and Judge Napolitano Col Macgregor Ret Prof Glen Diesen And others

@helmutsecke3529 3 ай бұрын

Splendid chaps, absolutely top! Oh but I'd be chuffed in extremis if you boys could do a program on El Caudillo Francisco Franco. Jolly good!

@geraldbutler5484 4 ай бұрын

Why does Churchill call Germans ‘The Hun’.

@rad-guidance7 3 ай бұрын

Churchill referred to the Nazis as "the Huns" to evoke historical associations with the barbaric invasions of Europe by the Huns in the 5th century. By using this term, he aimed to emphasize the brutality and aggression of the Nazi regime during World War II, suggesting that they were a threat to civilization much like the Huns had been in their time. This characterization served to rally public sentiment against the Nazis and reinforce the moral imperative to fight them.

@HHM706 2 жыл бұрын

You were right the first when you said Germans

@Shapeguydude 2 жыл бұрын

💯

@serwombles8816 3 ай бұрын

Love your show guys can i recommend a very good vid on this done by TIK called why did the axis loose ww2. It explains very well alit of the stuff u guys covered here

@nickrails 7 күн бұрын

TIK is a complete nutjob - an alt-right conspiracy theorist who believes Covid was a pys-op and that the Nazis were left wing socialists. He's been disowned by every other mainstream historian because his views are factually baseless and totally mental. Its a shame, I used to like his battle videos.