Antony James Beevor- The Eastern Front and the Military Context, 1941-1942

Antony James Beevor, Visiting Professor at University of London; University of Kent The Eastern Front and the Military Context, 1941-1942
the conference was held at Yad Vashem (Israeli official Holocaust museum). the conference discussed vireos aspects of the decisive year for the outcome of the war as well as the Jewish genocide.
the conference was organize by the Yad Vashem museum and the documentation center of North African Jewry in World war 2.

[@davidsabillon5182]

Audio is broken. It's too bad.

[@McIntyreBible]

Beevor is a knowledgable historian; he's worthy of attention!

[@bigbaba1111]

he writes amazing books. i read his berlin and stalingrad books. simply great writing.

[@flahertyrick88]

Stalingrad book is amazing

[@sgberta]

@@flahertyrick88 Agreed!

[@charleswinokoor6023]

Excellent historian and speaker.

[@mileskino8121]

great historian i like that hes not afraid to be blunt about all sides

[@thevillaaston7811]

'great historian i like that hes not afraid to be blunt about all sides' The Americans get off scot free so that Beevor keep his invitations to lecture in the USA.

[@mynamedoesntmatter8652]

@@thevillaaston7811 ???

[@thevillaaston7811]

@@mynamedoesntmatter8652 Beevor writes cheap rubbish about subjects that have long since done to death, all with a pronounced pro American tone so that he can sell books in the USA by the shed load, and to get hiom a never ending series of invitations to speak on the lucrative US lecture circuit.

[@mynamedoesntmatter8652]

@@thevillaaston7811 “Writes cheap rubbish.” And here you are. Alrighty then.

[@thevillaaston7811]

@@mynamedoesntmatter8652 And here I am.... And what does Beevor new to the subjects he writes about?.. He was not born until after the war ended, he was in and out of the peacetime army inside four years. He continues to pontificate about this, that and the other. Subjects that have long since been well covered by people who are far better qualified in regard to those events, usually by actually being at those events. Stil, its not all bad, word is, his books make great door stops.

[@stevebaker341]

There seemed to have people in the audience talking throughout Beevor's speech. Why? Translators?

[@mainstreet3023]

I’m reading ‘Stalingrad’ right now but I seem to read it in fits and starts.

[@asmodeus0454]

Of all their principal enemies' soldiers, that is, the soldiers of the principal anti-Hitler belligerents of the United States, Gt. Britain, and the Soviet Union, the Germans most respected, and most hated, the Russian, i.e., the Soviet soldier, for the courage and ferocity that he fought with on the battlefield. The Soviets were ruthless with the lives of their own men and fought relentlessly taking enormous losses to gain an objective without flinching or balking. (Many embittered Red Army soldiers came out of the war hating their own generals as much as the German enemy.) The Soviets bore the brunt of the war against Nazi Germany and fought by far the larger proportion of the Wehrmacht's land forces; and the Wehrmacht's and Waffen-SS's best land forces were in the East: From the mid-war period onward, the _Westfrontkämpfer_ was considered a second-rate soldier in Germany who had got soft performing only occupation duties in Western Europe and for not being in continual action against the enemy as he was in the East against the Red Army. The Germans' Eastern Front was the principal theater of their land war and the Soviet soldier was a much tougher proposition for the German soldier than either the British or American soldier. And the German veterans that fought both the Soviets and the Western Allies concede this themselves.

[@RuledByMars]

Audio is indecipherable

[@parkestanley2436]

Can't hear anything

[@mynamedoesntmatter8652]

Has CBS censored this too????????

[@aon10003]

Someone has done something with The voice so you cant hear it

[@mynamedoesntmatter8652]

CBS censors a lot of his work. I wonder if it’s them?

[@thomasaquinas2600]

WW2 was arranged or ended up being a land war(Russia, with Allied aid, vs. Germany), an air war(RAF and USAAF vs. Germany; US vs. Japan), a Uboat war (RN and USN vs. Germany), a surface fleet war (RN and USN vs. Germany; USN vs. Japan), and finally, an atomic war (USAAF vs. Japan). The costs were so staggering that the world has never recovered...

[@davidhull1481]

Am I the only one hearing garbled speech? Something seriously wrong with the sound.

[@thevillaaston7811]

The fault is with the speaker.

[@mileskino8121]

@@thevillaaston7811 relax hes one historian you dont have to agree with all his points compare them with others

[@Rawnervscope]

Um can't hear

[@PalleRasmussen]

It uis blatantly untrue that it was Göring who promised to supply Paulus. One of the persistent myths of WW2. IOt was not; it was either Milch or Jeschonnek (I forgot which).

[@laurancerobinson]

PalleRasmussen it was Generaloberst Hans Jeschonnek. Göring just backed him up. The other Luftwaffe heads disagreed.

[@Kyanzes]

Agreed. And even him, learning about the up-to-date situation, tried to walk back on it in the evening but Hitler remained adamant.

[@donniebargo964]

The audio is so bad you can't listen to this

[@thevillaaston7811]

Its probably done you a favour.

[@zvexevz]

Great historical overview, covering an impressive breadth. But I cannot understand why someone as widely read as Beevor continues to spread myths about certain details of WWII campaigns. For example the idea that Paulus never saw Sixth Army's encirclement coming, and was entirely shocked after Operation Uranus. In fact Paulus and his staff were well aware of the danger on their flanks, and placed little value on the dreadfully equipped and outgunned Romanian and Italian armies stationed there. The discussions at Sixth Army headquarters in early November were consumed by constant worry about the precariousness of their salient, despair at the attrition their forces were suffering in the urban fight in Stalingrad, and frustration with the German high command's refusal to countenance that the Soviets had any remaining reserves. OKW was convinced that the Red Army was on its dying days, and arrogantly dismissed the idea that the Soviets were even capable of carrying out a vast encirclement of the Wehrmacht's best units. Kesselschlacht for them was the exclusive purview of the superior Prussian military tradition. On November 19th, 1942 upon learning that Soviet mechanized forces were advancing deep into Sixth Army's rear, Paulus' initial reaction was as follows: "Now has happened what I have been forecasting for weeks. Hitler does not want to accept as true what every simple soldier can see. Keitel and Jodl have supported him in this. For weeks we have had nothing but empty words. Now we have to dish out the soup. We have no idea if it is possible to stop the Russian counteroffensive."

[@PMMagro]

Good lecturer, horrible audio

[@colinrow725]

Could anyone understand a word of this?

[@mynamedoesntmatter8652]

Not even close.

[@ernestinemccune5252]

😢

[@agentstevehaines9164]

Did nobody seriously notice this audio sounds lime it was recorded underwater using a potato from 100 yards away ?????????

[@nickhomyak6128]

No Mention of the Italians in relation to N Africa??

[@davidpryle3935]

Yeah, it’s strange they are not mentioned, particularly as they made up the majority of the Axis forces in North Africa.

[@HMSConqueror]

11:52. Not outgunned. The UK tanks where comparable to the panzers in most aspects (except for the lack of HE shells) but their constant idea of charging like balaclava to the nazi AT guns was a stupid tactic that caused a lot of casualties.

[@manoftheworld1000]

Ever given it a thought how similar *"Führer"* and *"furor"* sound?

[@MrHockeycrack]

Not quite if u pronounce it correctly.

[@ogMIRV]

the narrative starts in 44 jumps around that was not decided before mid at the Wahnnee konferance

[@ogMIRV]

This is to promote his new book that covers the entire war. came out 2012, The reason this is very Jew heavy is the location Yad Vashem Shoa Memorial . He has written 11 books about different battles

[@matthewgriffin7857]

Wtf??

[@pelontorjunta]

Most of military historians have very narrow battle centric perspective and especially focusing mainly just those slow and quite meaningless land battles. The fact that even Germany gave 55-58% of its munition production to air war is remarkable poorly understood by these apostles of WW2. That fact that USA was in warfare 20 times more combat effective than Stalin's backward armed forces led by incompetent mostly WW1 like commanders is also poorly recognized.

[@thevillaaston7811]

'USA was in warfare 20 times more combat effective than Stalin's backward armed forces' Which Hollywood history did you get that one from?...

[@mileskino8121]

when you spout numbers like 20 times please give a source thanks

[@thevillaaston7811]

It just pours out of Beevor like dung out of a cow's backside...plop, plop, plop.

[@thevillaaston7811]

It just pours out of Beevor like dung out of a cows backside...plop, plop, plop.