WW2 in Estonia - 1941

For three and a half months in 1941 Estonia became a battleground between Germany and the Soviet Union. Being on the left flank of the German drive on Leningrad the country became split between the German forces and the Red Army in mid July 1941. After that both sides attempted to capitalize on the limited maneuvering room to encircle and destroy each others forces as Germany attempted to capture the Soviet naval bases in Estonia while Red Army did everything to retain them.
Data from the The National Archives of Estonia was used to create the map.
This video is based on assets originally created for the Estonian War Museum. esm.ee/
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[@tigersharkwoo]

i think this guy may be estonian

[@dirtrallysim8296]

I was just thinking same .

[@longjohnson]

he is estonian

[@ambal1]

@@longjohnson U have no evidences, comrad

[@ryanc742]

Tigersharkwoo he is

[@longjohnson]

@@ambal1 he made a video

[@finnkruse1915]

This is just the best animated history content on KZbin Period.

[@fuminarokonoe5272]

Nah

[@sveinerlingbjerkestrand2458]

This guy has obviously never heard of Indy Neidell and co

[@harleyokeefe5193]

Boldizsár Fekete not really, it’s historical but it can’t even compete with the detail

[@harleyokeefe5193]

smakka lakka 1. He said animated 2. Eastory does the map animation on the WW2 channel

[@Doochos]

That's debatable

[@HistoryHustle]

Eastory back to his roots.

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

I agree.

[@pallabicollectionsvlog]

,

[@ausore9832]

@@pasdepseudo8519 you want luxembourg to annex france?

[@vincent5880]

@@pasdepseudo8519 belgique

[@ausore9832]

@@pasdepseudo8519 i dont know man, i dont think people living in france would enjoy being annexed by luxembourg.

[@stevej71393]

The Baltic States in WW2 gave new meaning to the phrase "between a rock and a hard place"

[@LechuZcechu]

Tell it to Poles lol

[@jakemitchell7786]

@@LechuZcechu Same thing, except both the rock and the hard place are on fire and covered in spikes.

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

@@LechuZcechu The poles had it better. They atleast got land after the war unlike Latvija and Estonia who lost it.

[@eccentricthinker142]

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 Looks at iron curtain.... uhhhhhh...

[@TheKarofaar]

​@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 Nope, they had the same borders but integrated in the federation. They only lost "some kind of independence". Just like now.

[@CarthagoMike]

Denmark: _surrenders in less than a day_ Tip of the peninsula of an Estonian island: _fights for two weeks before being overrun_

[@ika5666]

Much longer fight on Sinim"ae hills (Blue Hills) on the Russian-Estonian border near Narva when Russians tried to return back in 1944. One whole Soviet army was wiped out there and the Soviets had to change their strategic planning of the attack on Koenigsberg.

[@ridhaslimani2396]

Denmark surrendered in less than a 6 hours :/

[@vloggereveryweek2458]

He is from estonia,he has perfect accent when pronouncing estonian city names.

[@proof4469]

Or he could be a Chinese teenage girl with a really good Estonian accent. Nobody knows online.

[@albertsaks9262]

@@proof4469 he is. He even made Estonian version

[@timomastosalo]

@@proof4469 What is the likelyhood? :)

[@heikkisallinen9012]

Is he already knighted in Estonia or something ( with Artur Rehi ) for the favour of promoting his country on-line.

[@proof4469]

@@heikkisallinen9012 sounds like it's pretty easy to be knighted there

[@ancientmonotheism5118]

Whenever he uploads a video, I reinstall my HOI4

[@seanp.anim15]

XD

[@Gaxy-eo6jb]

Relatable bro

[@ThomasTubeHD]

One day, Eastary will upload an ultimate video about World War 2 covering all battles across the world and I can't wait to see it

[@loops7858]

just watch "ww2 in real time"

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

@@loops7858 I would not want to watch for so many years.

[@Towarzysz_Prywiak]

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 your waste

[@johnknapp952]

@@loops7858 Yes, I understand that Eastary is providing his maps for "WW2 in Real Time"

[@user-xe1pr3it9l]

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 well,the videos about different battles are appearing for years allready.So it will take few years to whach everything one way or another...Sure,only not for thouse,who will find the channel after all of that.

[@konstantinriumin2657]

I laugh every time Eastory says "Towards Tallin" because it sounds like "Towards-Stalin". I imagine Stalin as a city-sized man that Germans try to track down and capture

[@TapOnX]

There used to be a game with a similar theme, "Stalin vs. Martians"

[@jevinliu4658]

@@TapOnX Sounds boring. Stalin can rip up a Martian tripod with his bare hands and not get hurt.

[@jevinliu4658]

@jpc1918 Trotsky: I never did a thing over there!

[@eksiarvamus]

*Tallinn

[@markhenley3097]

How about towards Reval?

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Lesson of the day, evacuate immediately if cut off.

[@cccpredarmy]

This video, eventhough quite precise, does leave out a good portion of information out. If SU would have evacuated earlier it would have maybe be better of on tactical level but would loose strategically...

[@shaafalikhan3704]

@@cccpredarmy How so?

[@proof4469]

I think they were told to stay to slow down Germany's main attacks east. Soviets in Estonia means less Germans in Russia for a longer time.

[@defdandef5841]

*ahem* Dunkirk

[@lijger1]

@@proof4469 And that means more time to mobilize Russian reserves.

[@millutoivonen]

I'd be interested in seeing winter/continuation war in a format like this. Keep up the great work! 🇫🇮🇪🇪

[@crovear1]

this!

[@lordbeaverhistory]

There is actually one abou the Winter War, just search for the 1939 to 1940 Ww2 conflicts (he made the maps while indy Neidell made the speaker)

[@LEFT4BASS]

This might be my favorite history channel, and it’s not for lack of competition. There are so many details, and things are explained so clearly.

[@McRocket]

You've done it again. Made a tiny part of the war into something fascinating. And dang - do I love that animation. Thank you.

[@SantiFiore]

I´m pretty sure every Estonian is proud of your work!

[@edusc6893]

@@littlerussianmax5831 wait a second you are a Russian

[@romulusdraco1801]

We are :d

[@edusc6893]

@@romulusdraco1801 ye

[@tobangafeufeu]

It's honestly so exciting seeing all those circles fighting against each other. There must be a lot of work documenting the movement of all those little troops

[@stonecold007]

You should've been there.

[@RudyG01]

Most of these battles seem like Germany defeating the Soviets in detail.

[@markvorobjov6185]

Sounds like next video will be about the same process, but in reverse.

[@edusc6893]

yeah lmao

[@April-jl3su]

That's what Blitzkrieg seems to be to me for the most part

[@burnstick1380]

@@markvorobjov6185 not necessarily, the russian had the advantage in numbers. You don't really need defeat in detail if you got the numbers (even tho it's very nice)

[@albertsaks9262]

Brian - maybe in 3 months. I know that the Estonian version will be out by month or more

[@wojtekimbier]

I just watched your Estonian war of independence video yesterday, this is amazing!

[@alchemist6819]

Animation quality has substantially improved! keep up th great work!

[@falconsfan312]

Best history channel on YT, it's not even close. I love it that you deal with less known topics! Keep going

[@paullupu7352]

You have the most underrated channel on youtube. Amazing work, great job!

[@diegotorres-siclait3526]

Thank you for this great detail, please make more of all the Ostheer/Red Army Operations! And please include distance scale! These videos are the most valuable WWII Army Operation videos on KZbin! Great work!

[@onetwothreefour3957]

great content as always, my man! keep it up

[@keithehredt753]

Thanks, great coverage. Appreciate your time

[@LosNiggaRO]

Never had much interest into Estonia, but your videos on Estonia are some of the most interesting on this website. You can feel the passion put into them.

[@rickj895]

bravo bravo!! great job looking forward to the rest and i cant wait to see the other fronts! (I am glad you went back to your roots!)

[@silver_dem0n525]

Interesting to make a video about only one country in the offensive. I've never seen one covering the offensive in Estonia. Great work!

[@abnerjack2277]

The videos are the best out there in terms of troop movement. Great video!

[@andremesot5144]

What a wonderful work and presentation ! Love this kind of animated maps, big congrats !!

[@Tornado1487p1]

Eastory back at the content that matters: estonian military history

[@LaIiwon]

Estonian what please?

[@pallabicollectionsvlog]

Eastry is Estonian

[@Loga4ov]

Estonian military history??? Don't make me laugh!

[@Boyd2342]

@@Loga4ov Mr. Russian

[@Gummy_Sarcasm_Provider]

Estonian MILITARY history? What? Now i understand who love that idiotic videos. Ty m8.

[@cowcow2308]

We need to get a steel division 2 army general on the entirety of operation Barbarossa honestly. This channel is definitely my favorite when it comes to World War Two contents

[@internationalarmy3984]

It’s nice to see that this channel is still up and running

[@nicolasgil8068]

Finally! I love your videos, they are really good explained!

[@harzinsel4922]

Very high quality work, well done! Great to see the less known operations that don't make it into Call of Duty campaigns get such detailed coverage.

[@marianobosch04]

Amo lo vídeos de este canal, me encanta este estilo de formato que te explica detalladamente los avances. Además en Estonia, mi país favorito de Europa🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪

[@KHK001]

Amazing! as always, love those WW2 videos

[@Honza135]

Thanks man! I really enyou your work! I just realized that you collaborate with WW2 in real time, so I give them subscribe as well.

[@ErisFan]

Estonian in 1941: So we are free now? German: Well yes, but actually, no.

[@f0nt]

More free than with the soviets tho

[@oomerimunni]

Germany: More like under new management.

[@HeroHoundoom]

@@f0nt Well I'm afraid it's more complicated than that.

[@f0nt]

@@HeroHoundoom Alright, why is it so "complicated" then ? Did the germans send thousands of people to siberia ? No. Did germans let us atleast use our national flag ? Yes. Did Soviets ? Yes to first and No to second. Tell me why do you think its complicated.

[@abotz5396]

@@f0nt I am an Estonian jew, I disagree.

[@REDALERTBRAZIL]

Sir, your work is simply amazing! I'm your fan! :) greetings from Brazil.

[@WilliamsDinis]

Congratulations on this amazing work.

[@KameronAbear]

I really enjoyed the video. Very informative and engaging with the animation 👌

[@s0r1ns3c]

How do you do research on these? How long do these usually take? Either way, these videos are very well-made and it shows how much hard work you put into them.

[@Eastory]

I use the situation maps that were created by both armies during the war. This one took half a year (working on and off) to complete.

[@s0r1ns3c]

Eastory super impressive, thanks for making these

[@ChrisDynamo]

@@Eastory Acquire minions, pump out more vids bro.

[@barry5784]

YEEEES HES STILL UPLOADING

[@jansmigiel6592]

I love this profile!!! So much quality knowledge and passion to history

[@markchor]

Always have cool videos, I appreciate your work!

[@ismaelbutt5105]

6:40 the huge gap in the German front. Soviet generals: I'll ignore that

[@dannya1854]

Bear in mind these maps don't show the environment and not every commander had a satellite view of the battle.

[@andremartin9571]

maybe there were german battalions or companies we dont see on the map because they are smaller than regiments, thats what we are seeing, it's not like hoi4

[@Towarzysz_Prywiak]

Already new episod, awesome job !

[@angusburston9980]

Only channel I drop everything to watch when new vid is out👍

[@Alltid1337]

Love your content! keep up the awesome work!

[@joshmanson7371]

I would literally start another world war for Eastory to animate it

[@hushpuppy1735]

Uhhh

[@fede98k54]

Here... *hands gun* Just kill an important guy and start a diplomatic crisis, the rest of the world will do the job for you :D

[@ItsJustAyo]

@@fede98k54 9 Months ago, December 18 2020, President Joe Biden was assassinated by an unknown person, today, 18 august 2021, we see massive Chinese and Russian military groups in San Diego and Vancouver. We are arming 50 million people to defend the United States of America, wait. General! I see a missile coming in the speed of mach 9 it says… NUK- [to be continued]

[@ISKTR114]

The choice and usage of the background-music in this video was excellent in my humble opinion. It really set the mood.

[@joemaydaytv7354]

Brilliant videos good Sir, they are a joy to watch! :)

[@thedarkwolf3920]

Hope you didnt stop making videos. This is amazing!

[@monkeymeier4811]

Hey, could you please cover the fighting in the memel region. I'm working on transcribing the memoires of a german soldier who fought there (jan 1945) and I have a hard time understanding where exactly he fought. Your videos make it easy to understand. Thanks!!

[@jrodowens]

That sounds like an important and interesting task you've got there, one I wish I had the privelige of undertaking myself. That said - the chapter on Memel in Forgotten Soldier (Guy Sajer) was the most grim, heart-breaking & gut-wrenching one in a memoir that was mostly pretty rough and bleak (yet, compelling and fascinating..)

[@Spanish_Conquistador]

I understand what you mean but you've got to be realistic, he won't make a whole video for one person considering how much effort Eastory has to do

[@mr.c.3760]

It'd be nice to see casualty and force numbers more frequently and more than POW numbers. Great job overall!

[@Nonyobiz]

I appreciate so much your attention-to-detail of the Operational aspect of the opening months of Operation Barbarossa. Thank you Eastory.

[@fallingdown4958]

i absolutely love these videos, their entertaining and yet very good at teaching

[@vasilydmitriev7950]

Wow! Cool content! Author, apparently, is from Estonia.

[@ashraf7242]

Eastory is underrated channel!

[@AyrtonK33]

So cool that someone is making estonian content. I havent seen that in a while

[@kashual]

Glad to have you back, Great video.

[@juanantoniogragasin1685]

I would love to see Eastory do a cover on World War 1 particularly the Fields of Verdun. Now that would be awesome 😁.

[@ika5666]

Ask Westory.

[@_Westory]

@@ika5666 wot?

[@ronti2492]

Having spent the last half year in Estonia I reckon the gent behind Eastory is indeed Estonian. In my humble opinion, it is not only his Estonian accented English ( Latvian and Lithuanian people speak English with a completely different accent) , but his detail and obvious love of telling Estonia's story that clinches it for me. Go Estonia-I know one thing for sure, the people there will not go down without a fight next time. The EDF and the Kaitselit will be waiting for them in the forests, and not just with small arms!

[@Michael_x7]

His pronunciation of Estonian places is too good. There is no way he is not from Estonia

[@harnne3733]

He literally has made videos in Estonian. The video about the Estonian war of independence is translated.

[@asasas9146]

@@harnne3733 Yeah if i didnt remember bad he even confirmed to be himself to be estonian, somewhere...

[@ivarkich1543]

Lavians and Lithuanians are Indoeuropeans, but Estonians no. Latvian and Spanish are mutually more similar languages than Latvian and Estonian.

[@totalidot99]

He has even stated in one of his english videos he's estonian lol.

[@rymoo27]

This was a very awesome in-depth look!

[@andrewbicyclist4654]

Thank toy for Your zeal! Very informative!

[@ivarkich1543]

Very interesting explanation. It turns out that taking Estonia required to Germans eight times more time (4 months) than taking Lithuania and Latvia combined (2 weeks).

[@jurisprudens]

Naval operations are hard.

[@ivarkich1543]

@@jurisprudens The continental part took 2 months.

[@ivarkich1543]

In Estonia, the Soviets even managed to counterattack the Germans. In Lithuania and Latvia, they were still under confusion of the unexpected German attack on the USSR.

[@Krusesensei]

Lithuania and Latvia were attacked with ~25 Divisions. Estonina was attacked with 2 Divisions. ;)

[@natekaufman1982]

The consequences of underestimating the enemy

[@kaiserreich8814]

Как всегда, класс! 👍 Привет из Эстонии! ✌

[@jangelbrich7056]

Glad to hear for the first time genuine pronouciations of Estonian names of locations =) Besides that, this is an awesome chart animation!

[@tophatvn8278]

he is estonian so....

[@carlcencig9236]

Thank you for your excellent videos.

[@StickWithTrigger]

When Eastory found out the World War Two Channel won't talk about Estonia: Fine I'll do it myself.

[@kubix8049]

Do Winter War and Continuation War, please.

[@FrantisekBeer]

On your channel i give always like before the video starts :)

[@waleedhamayel217]

And when you thought the videos wouldn't get better! Awesome job eastory

[@mangoshi1251]

“Out of the frying pan and into the fire.” Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, and Ukraine in WW2. Edit: Eastern Poland as well.

[@25easytiger37]

At least Moldova had friendly Romanian occupation during the war

[@bringbackmy90s]

@@25easytiger37 Moldova and Bukovina were both Romanian before WW2

[@ErmakBrovar]

What does the Ukraine have to do with this? The Ukraine has been an integrate part of Russia for thousand years. Kiev is the mother of Russian cities.

[@jurisprudens]

ErmakBrovar Oh, just stop it... ✋

[@jurisprudens]

My impression is that Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians were mostly ok with the German occupation...

[@xxxrrrxxxrrr]

I´m honestly a little disappointed, that you didn´t expand on the Tallinn evacuation. Around 15 000 people died at sea, making it one of the worst naval disasters of all time.

[@PeeterViljamaa]

He did say that the soviets took heavy casualties evacuating troops from Tallinn, due to the minefields

[@50shekels]

I didn't know that. Thank you for that:) But perhaps he didn't either!

[@fluffy2688]

Actually the wost naval disaster of all time is the battle of midway

[@Charcosombrio_22]

​@@fluffy2688 Very different situations. Midway was a battle, the majority of casualties in the Tallinn evacuation were civilians and the death toll and sunken ships was far larger than Midway.

[@officerchad1213]

Yes please do more of these in-depth videos on ww2

[@henrinune3505]

Great quality content . The best untill now. Keep going on man. Make other videos.

[@varovaro1967]

Funny, I remember one day u didnt know what to do with your channel! And now its huge!

[@gianlucaloporto7905]

Do you animate the movements of the line and units or do you use some kind of progra m?

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

He does, he is not like emporor tigerstar who draws by hand every frame in his mapping videos.

[@NuclearMagneticResonance]

Very thorough work. Well done

[@Micro0644]

This is one of the best historical channels

[@Kriegter]

He did it a few years back, and now he's making a remastered version along with timeghost!

[@Ranio_]

No this video is about estonia from ww1

[@Ranio_]

@Dragooll no problem

[@danielnavarro537]

Now I am looking forward to the Battle of Narva and the situation of the Courland Pocket and how Army Group North fought in the Baltic countries.

[@BrandonConrady]

I love your content. I think it would be cool to do a video on the Soviet-Polish war of the 1920s.

[@SV-yf4et]

@Eastory Great content, keep it up! Just one small thing - forest brothers only fought starting from 1944. The insurgence of 1941 is a separate thing.

[@reichtangle9957]

Nice

[@user-uw2st5qy4k]

How do you edit these? They're really high quality animation

[@ivarkich1543]

This is really meticulous work.

[@user-ll8wv6rx5z]

You did a huge work. So understandable.

[@anttipikkusaari4855]

Very well done! This resonates as many places, especially on the islands, are very familiar from my solitary bird photography trips.

[@ThuNguyen-jy2jt]

Whenever you upload a video I would kill to see it.

[@Amani-zo8ic]

Sweats profoundly 😥

[@vilzupuupaa4680]

*sweats nervously*

[@leoisabell9797]

Profuse excretion of salt

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

8:15 E

[@Barwasser]

Way ahead of its time

[@PersonManManManMan]

E

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

E

[@Camman6972]

You make the best map videos, please make more.

[@hudsonb631]

Love your videos! keep it up!

[@vilzupuupaa4680]

Kauan eläköön etelän veljet!

[@pekkapikkuinen6896]

Harva ymmärtää

[@shibainu559]

Pls translate English.

[@rasmusk9617]

Translate: Long live southern brothers. You to my northern brothers

[@mruwuowo4599]

I speak estonian and i didnt understand a single word of that sentence.

[@rainerm490]

@@mruwuowo4599 Sama siin! Aga sain ainult ühest sõnast aru.

[@MrKuti89]

Suur tänu Estory inimeste harimise eest selles ajaloo etapis! Ning koaardis ning animatsioon on äärmiselt hea!

[@wepzuk6730]

Thumbs up for the extreme effort required to make a video like this.

[@satyardaei1245]

Very nice video, thank you guys!

[@ersonowy77]

Can you make Poland 1944-45?

[@crooxus3286]

we watchin this but all know the ending

[@Snoem]

Really dude?? Wow didnt know that.

[@martinbogado4924]

@@Snoem i DoN't kNoW

[@martinbogado4924]

We're watching this, But we all know the ending*

[@Snoem]

@@martinbogado4924 what was the point of that comment??

[@bringbackmy90s]

In the end the Berlin Wall crumbles together with all reds

[@nstice1]

I am loving you focused eastern front videos! Thanks for doing this!

[@ashraf7242]

Best history channel on KZbin!