"Brilliant" plans to win WWII: How Germany planned to win the Battle of Atlantic?

During World War II Germany attempted to defeat the Great Britain by sinking its merchant fleet with its U-boat arm. This drew it into a prolonged struggle for technological supremacy with the Allies. The video discusses how new weapons and technologies influenced the Battle of Atlantic.
Patreon: / eastory
Sources:
1) Uboat.net
2) Wikipedia
3) John Keegan - Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda (2003)
4) Jonathan Dimbleby - The Battle of the Atlantic : how the allies won the war (2016)
0:32 - The Enigma Machine:
Enigma Machine at the Imperial War Museum, London.
Photo: Karsten Sperling commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
0:48 - Map of the Atlantic - Google Maps.
1:15 - Helmet decal of Kriegsmarine.
Users Lancaster and F l a n k e r.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsm...
1:20 - Flag of the Admiralty Board.
User: Wally Wiglet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral...
1:21 - Flag of the United Kingdom.
User: Anomie.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fl...
02:02 - XCOM: Enemy Unknown autopsy scene.
02:14 - Minesweeper.
02:29 (and later) - Locations of ships sunk by the Axis - uboat.net.
uboat.net/allies/merchants/
Graph - Goal - 300 000 tonnes per month. Statistics -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losses_...
03:42 - Typex cipher machine.
The Crypto Museum.
www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/uk...
04:40 - Graph "New goal" - 700 000 tonnes per month
08:13 - U.S. Navy diagram of a Type XXI U-boat.
User: Megapixie.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_XX...

[@gamer7234]

When you max out the tech tree and immediately lose the game

[@duckquack8562]

Ikr its so ANNOYING

[@liberator101]

I either overinvest into tech or into army, it's so hard to balance.

[@economicapple2609]

HOI4

[@pivotp0int530]

I almost never invest into navy tech until 41 or later

[@sonicvenom8292]

Another factor in the war is America began making thousands of liberty and other types of ships during the war, which lessened the effect of sinking the same amount of ships.

[@FuriousIdea]

Just spam fighters and naval bombers over the english channel so you can naval invade, works in hoi4

[@CommanderToad307]

Tabourda mate it was a joke about a video game called Hearts of Iron 4 calm it down

[@FuriousIdea]

^this Its a joke man lol

[@Atesz222]

Calm your tits down man, geez... that was a game reference...

[@garret16]

Tabourba You're an Idiot

[@fulcrum2951]

R/wooosh

[@Epicalogical]

S C H N O R K E L

[@lbn5715]

dumb af. in german its called schnorchel and in english its snorkel, so its wrong from both ways.

[@patriotgames1000]

Engage the super special schnorchel , ve are under ver tack.

[@DonnaChamberson]

SCH NOR KLË

[@luftwaffle4327]

Germany, the maker of a meme

[@aml-zq5mc]

Wow the technology back then was very impressive.

[@bp837]

You just had to go there, didn't you? There is no German race, numnuts.

[@witty2898]

Geras Al-Aqras muslim

[@witty2898]

Geras Al-Aqras get rid of u libtards

[@majungasaurusaaaa]

War certainly does drive weapon innovation. Now in peace time our digital tech has made incredible progress. But our firearms, aircrafts and tanks are still that of 20 years ago. Many countries are still using older stuff than that.

[@dwarvensphere1094]

Its the reason you see such an explosion in technology avaliable to the public between 1945 and 1975. There was such a large investment in R&D (Especially for the British and Americans who always had the upperhand in technology throughout the war) during the war it almost doubled the rate of technological advancement

[@SilentArrow2001]

I got a counter to you’re counter of my counter that was countering your counter that was set to counter my counter

[@icecold1805]

Call of Duty: Counter warfare.

[@Chrinik]

That's actually the reason why technologic development skyrockets during wartime, because everybody tries to leapfrog each other and counter enemy tech. Compare the technological levels in 1939 and 1945 and you will find it has advanced by several magnitudes.

[@a-drewg1716]

same with WWI where all of the technological advancements in just airplane technology went from still basically gliders in 4 years to basically fully functioning airplanes but then in the interwar periods almost no technological advancements were really made and pretty much WWI era planes where still being used but then by the end of WWII we had practically had jet fighters.

[@willbrown3694]

Stoßtruppen the jet fighter was invented in WW2

[@a-drewg1716]

I know, Germany used some very basic jet fighters as bomber killers but not as what we know as jet fighters today

[@NoFlu]

Who would win: Highly advanced submarines which only need to go above water to refuel every so often, firing highly advanced torpedos, automatically going for the loudest thing around. Or 2 pipes and a very bright flashlight

[@fulcrum2951]

NoFlu frying

[@NoFlu]

fulcrum 29 Mate, did you never consider the tactical advantages of deep frying every torpedo you use?

[@seanmac1793]

damn that's advanced tactics

[@fulcrum2951]

Cant disagree with that

[@jebise1126]

such submarine would not need acoustic torpedo. actually type XXI could go under convoy and shoot torpedoes under it so it would just avoid escort. but by that time battle was already lost anyway.

[@KvNoWs]

Who would win: A promising strategy with high technology that dumbfounded the allied countries Or Low tide

[@SephirothRyu]

The lower tech solution is not to be underestimated. The USA should learn from this.

[@1158supersiri]

Allied developed high technology as well- Their Sonar was better, there was the Manhattan project....

[@ahsanimam73]

KVN You dunno about radar?

[@xXCRiETXx]

imagine how the german pilot must have felt, after he dropped the bomb on the low tide :D

[@fishfashfosh]

Germany: "We've got just a weapon for you, English!" Britain: "We've got a counter for it." Germany: "We've got just a weapon for you, English!" Britain: "We've got a counter for it" Germany: "We've got just a weapon for you, English!" Britain: "We've got a counter for it" Germany: "We've got just a weapon for you, English!" Britain: "Alright just stop."

[@neieduardodepaula4556]

When did Britain say "Alright just stop"?... That corresponds to what time or event in World War II?

[@fishfashfosh]

Nei Eduardo De Paula It was a joke literally about country having their own consciousness and interacting like a human being please don’t take it seriously

[@fahad_hassan_92]

@@neieduardodepaula4556 End of World War II

[@negvey]

thumbs up for the battleships > Destroyers >submarines... no other youteber has ever pointed this out, its so good to learn new things

[@PyromancerRift]

This is the basics of war. No perfect weapon, only perfect targets and perfect counters.

[@mazditzo]

wargaming does that hhh

[@Raviollius]

Don't worry, carriers made all that shit meaningless.

[@despacitooof557]

Simple History 😑

[@hedgehog3180]

I mean it's really not that simple, cruisers are better suited for fighting destroyers but still it's more like a well balanced fleet will beat a poorly balanced one. If you just send 1 battleship against a group of destroyers the battleship will probably be overwhelmed, as happened during WWII. And a single submarine also wont be a perfect counter to a battleship. Really the best counter to a battleship is another battleship. So what you need to do is create a fleet where you have battleships which can counter the enemies battleship, cruisers to keep your battleships safe and help with air cover, destroyers to further assist with air cover and to screen and hunt down enemy ships. If all of these work in tandem you can create an effective fleet which can use it's battleship optimally and keep them safe.

[@martontinkovay5024]

Too much Hearts of Iron 4...

[@carterschwalb6252]

*stages Islamic coup in Guatemala*

[@HabboCoolcattim]

Alexander Romanov shit game

[@christopherg2347]

@Headhunter_FRANK: Germany was not exactly a naval power by any definition of hte word. The navy was geared entirely towards this plan, wich was about the best it could manage. For a proper Invasion of Britain or even the US, we would have needed to develop a entirely new Navy focussing on Surface Vessels.

[@x-fun3149]

Everyone knows the trick is to just strengthen those three strategic regions and watch

[@BlueDragon257257]

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[@VRichardsn]

The comic script and the funny drawings hide underneath a very deep understanding of WW II. Usually when I am watching a new historic channel for the first time I pay special attention to try and find common myths in order to gauge the capabilities of the creator, but with this one I could find no weakness. Bravo. Subscribed.

[@pjolex5896]

Yeah I do exactly the same

[@vadanevadas6960]

You censored the swastika: 0:30 Uncensored swastika: 1:18 CONSISTENCY EASTORY!

[@krisfrederick5001]

Yeah I noticed that it was in and out too, it's not like we don't know what it looks like, you're not protecting anyone.

[@Euan_Miller43]

Kris Frederick helps for German audiences

[@user-sm8us5yt9h]

it helps with demonetization on KZbin to censor the swastika

[@Mic_Glow]

@@user-sm8us5yt9h censoring history is a great way for it to repeat in the future. Don't help youtube making a mistake.

[@michaelibrahim9275]

Mic_Glow They’re not censoring history, just a symbol

[@marcocappelli2236]

This makes me remember a book about WW1's flying machines. There it explained how any tiny tecnological advantage could have serious consequencies, like a system that made machineguns fire through the propellers at the right time and gave the pilots a higher kill score, or a tiny modification that made a plane more maneurable, or allowed it to rise/lower faster. Or a stronger engine that allowed them to actually carry guns, as their only purpose at the time was as reconnosaince, and pilots would be issued rifles as their only defence. One german plane was even forced to land as allied ones literally pushed it down to the ground. They were clunky machines that no one knew how to pilot, and were seen by the higher ups as tanks were seen in WW2: something new they didn't understand. Any new invention could give such superiority, but only for a short time until it was countered by tactics or some other tecnology. This is evolution at it's finest.

[@broefkip]

Minor historical inaccuracy, the Polish had begun attempting to crack Enigma before the war even started they had seized a machine and sent it too Britain allowing them to join (and later continue after poland fell) effort. Later the British had captured an encrypter from a Uboat allowing them to succesfully decrypt the code

[@a-drewg1716]

well no the Poles did break the enigma code but the code was upgraded

[@miroslawkaras7710]

Polish did not attempting to crack Enigma, they did crack Enigma, and give the method to French and British in August of 1939. Polish also build automated decipher system called "bomb" to speed up the process (manual decoding took 3 days). Polish build 6 bomb that work in tandem, however over time that become insufficient as German encryption become more complex and it required 60 Bombs. That wa beyond capability of Polish team at that time. Once they give the plans to British secret service, that work was continue by Alan Turing and his team. Even the name "Bomb" wa conceive by Polish cipher group of Mariana Rejewskiego, Jerzego Różyckiego and Henryka Zygalskiego

[@jebise1126]

poles never cracked naval enigma.

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

The Poles bought a machine I read. Enigma was sold on the (,fairly) open market before ww2.

[@jebise1126]

i believe very similar machine was used in german trade navy. if not the same.

[@JStamato]

Essentially: One Side: We have a new Weapon. Other Side: We have a counter. One Side: Now we have a better new weapon Other Side: Now we have a better counter. And Repeat

[@lukekinder4959]

Honestly this is fascinating. It just goes to show that you can spend hundreds of hours learning about WWII and still only scratch the surface.

[@flare_0532]

how does this have only 1k views

[@scottiebarnes21]

Flare _053 every one that could have watched has been sunk.

[@anthonywilson8366]

Flare _053 people like being ignorant.... But its up to 31k now

[@flare_0532]

yeah, it exploded quite quickly tbh

[@clausejoke1985]

@Anthony Wilson "people like being ignorant." Do you even realize how childish and arrogant you sound? Everyone who has not seen this video is ignorant? Work on your disgusting attitude.

[@jackhollaar2467]

because there is no part 3 or 4

[@varovaro1967]

What an extraordinary brief history of the Battle of the Atlantic! Congratulations!

[@buster117]

Awesome, thank you very much this explained to me the Atlantic war and the German plan , keep up the good work

[@adrianruhl8361]

fun fact about the type 21 after the war a brewery in frankfurt bought some unused hulls and now cider is made in them.

[@mrmr297]

0:56 I want to make a version of rock, paper, scissors were it's battleship, destroyer, submarine.

[@sergiojuanmembiela6223]

The Germans did not as much "chose" to wage a submarine war as they were forced to. Building a fleet could take a decade, building a fleet capable of overpowering the Royal Navy would last even more. And of course, the British, who already had enough shipyards to build a big fleet, would have kept increasing their navy while Germany was building its. Germany simply could not hope to win a naval arms race with England so the submarine blockade (and the air attack that failed during the Battle of Britain) were its only shots.

[@touristguy87]

You're an idiot. The Nazis built subs because they were difficult to detect and destroy and because they were disproportionately effective against large surface ships. Plain and simple. Anti-shipping fighter bombers were even more disproportionately effective and that is why the US built a carrier fleet. The Germans never did so because they simply never had the ability to even construct carriers without having them destroyed mid-construction. Not to mention large surface ships...all of which were built before the war started. You literally have no fucking idea what you are talking about.

[@aloynium]

Fantastic video, detailed and informative but not too draining. Hope you can make more of such videos in addition to your other ones. The script of the videos is very quick and smooth.

[@whiteelephant3673]

This is soooo great, I've learned so much new, thank you, please keep the content up!

[@ShahjahanMasood]

This series will forever join my favorites Playlist

[@Papageno6666]

Love how you said Schnorkel

[@mathieugariepy2948]

Great series! I look foward to the next episode

[@mjameshenry]

Thank you for making this video. I learned so much from it.

[@jaquestrap]

The "special operations" you said the British used to get their hands on the enigma machine were actually copies constructed by the Poles and gifted to the British (and French) in 1938. The Poles had already broken the Enigma technology prior to the start of the War, using the skills of several brilliant Polish mathematicians, and had been listening to German communications until the Germans added some extra complexity to the machines (adding two extra rotors, which would necessitate 10 times the manpower of deciphering on the part of the Poles) which the Poles simply lacked the funds to overcome. The British worked off of the initial Polish breakthrough. To quote Gordon Welchman (who would become the head of the project to overcome German Army and Airforce Enigma ciphers): "Hut 6 Ultra would never have gotten off the ground if we had not learned from the Poles, in the nick of time, the details both of the German military version of the commercial Enigma machine, and of the operating procedures that were in use." Seems like you could have given a small reference to the Poles right there, given how critical they were to the Allied efforts to overcome the Enigma cypher, and how their tremendous role in this piece of WWII history is constantly overlooked for seemingly no apparent reason other than to attribute "single-handed" credit to the British for accomplishing what was in reality, a joint Allied effort.

[@JakubB2000]

History is written by the victors, Poland was one of the countries that lost the most in ww2 and then they got stuck behind the iron curtain for the next 40 - 50 years. Thanks to that many accomplishments made by the Poles are ignored.

[@MarkTheMorose]

Not to take anything away from the Polish successes in early breakthroughs in Enigma, but check out the stories of the U-110, U-570, and U-559, among others, to which I'm sure the video poster was referring. Back to the Polish, though, to remember that - as I recall - some of the Polish team who'd broken Enigma were captured by the Germans, but did not reveal anything that they knew, despite what they must have suffered.

[@ralphraffles1394]

How did the Poles not decipher the messages detailing the German invasion of Poland? Or perhaps they did?

[@fulcrum2951]

@@JakubB2000 history was not written by the victors There's hundreds of articles praising the poles for breaking the enigma yet you claimed no one ever praised them

[@dellylul5126]

@@ralphraffles1394 because they know that germas will attack them so why they needed to break informations about the german will attack them? Piłsudski know that there will be polish-german war in 33 :/

[@mickmickymick6927]

"To bring down the British Empire" *shows a tiny part of the empire as well as a completely different country.*

[@itsmealex8959]

He doesn't recognize the continental Congress as a legit authority and believes that the colonies still belong to Britain.

[@crunch9876]

lol what part of the vid is this?

[@johnballs1352]

@@itsmealex8959 Freedom or Death!

[@icecold1805]

Great, great analysis. I love the end, drawing conclusions of why this submarine warfare was just inneficient. Excelent work.

[@vizkopo3384]

thank you for producing quality content like this.

[@mustafahaithammohammedalha6194]

this series is wonderful and I am eager to see the fourth section regarding british plans. Is there going to be a fourth episode in the series?

[@Eastory]

Never say never, but at the moment I am focusing on making a series about the Western Front.

[@mustafahaithammohammedalha6194]

@@Eastory thanks for the response you deserve all support for your creativity!

[@Fish280492]

I like how he said "allies got there act together and in acted the convoy system" more like the American's finally listened to the British and in acted the convoy system

[@32simas]

This is really interesting and well animated. Subed without any further thought. keep it up.

[@Cdgaming4U]

Great vid, can't wait for the next episode in the series

[@kpmh2001]

I'm disappointed nobody got the XCOM reference around 2:02

[@aceous99]

nice 1 dood

[@tobymaynard5221]

I loved that Xcom reference

[@hint1k]

reverse engineering is not exactly an x-com invention.

[@dominickstepper5302]

how was that an xcom reference?

[@thehyperioncorporation8416]

Zetos Stormrider the guy who is dissecting it is in an Xcom suit

[@kaijukaru9010]

So the allied scientists were in charge of alien autopsies after the invasion? 2:05

[@CoriolanBataille]

Awesome content ! Can’t wait to watch the others 2 !

[@chillout144]

Excellent video!!! I didnt know all that stuff!!! Well done mate

[@krzywygeneral]

Enigma was given by Poland after losing to Germany and USSR in 1939.

[@iain3713]

Not the naval enigma

[@derived12]

This is a really amazing presentation! Thank you for contributing historical narratives that have been lacking in the present History Channel! Seems that channel has shifted to pointless shows like Ice Road Truckers -_- . Again, this is great! I look forward to seeing more videos!

[@kolbasz3584]

Keep on uploading, great content : D

[@KyleLi]

I freakin' love this channel. Period.

[@BlitzOfTheReich]

Das Elektroboot XD

[@Eastory]

I was somewhat uncertain if people would get the reference on this one :)

[@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642]

+Eastory Which one of the remaining two episodes should I be expecting, the British, or the Soviet one?

[@conveyor2]

Creepy

[@artvinnd5534]

I don't know why but I laugh so hard on : Nein!!! Where are you going?!

[@rosscof3660]

Fantastic video. Very well done!

[@adamburjuva]

Dude these videos are wonderful. I subscribed and added this chanel to the adblock free list. Good job !

[@mixererunio1757]

Enigma wasn't decrypted by British. It was decrypted by polish cryptoanalysts before war. Turing only upgraded their work when Germans upgraded their Enigmas.

[@Arks200]

The british found a fully intact enigma machine on a submarine that a destroyer forced to surface. with that they were able to decrypt it

[@kmg1100]

The Polish didn't decipher enigma but made a very good and impressive start. They smuggled their work out of Poland when they were invaded so that Britain could use their work. They even managed to hide this fact from the Nazis, who as a result were impervous to attempts at cracking their secret codes.

[@mixererunio1757]

It isn't very hard to check it on wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma

[@Arks200]

mixererunio yes but in 1940 the Germans updated the enigma code and it was much harder to crack. The poles did start with it pretty well but the British got a major victory when they obtained a fully intact enigma machine from a U-Boat.

[@Paciat]

Its not the enigma machine that was important. That could be made outside Germany en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Enigma_double The code books were important. 1 time use codes from code books are unbreakable if you dont have that code book. Britain had to keep the capture of a code book a secret, cause Germans could just print different ones if they knew.

[@zethicalyt2406]

2:03 (XCOM) Commander! we Have A New “Autopsy” Its Called The “Magnetic Mine Autopsy”

[@bificommander7472]

"Commander, I would caution against using explosives." "... they ARE explosives!"

[@MrDaanjanssen]

Nice animation and a very enjoyable way of narrating, great video

[@VytenisGavelis]

Thanks, I've really learned a lot from this video!

[@Nikolaj11]

It's scary how well war fuels technological innovation. The battles for the Atlantic are a prime example of this.

[@KingSlimjeezy]

"a kingdom for some tea" lmfao

[@trycoldman2358]

This is a great video and I love the series!

[@sirierieott5882]

Found your channel via WWII, Indy & Co. Like you style. Subbed today!

[@Eastory]

Thanks for the sub!

[@cornellius01]

Amazing to think that the Germans planned to overwhelm the Royal navy. The song "rule Britannia" had it's 200 yr birthday in 1940, should've been a clue.

[@fernanF767]

"Rule Britannia" was made for a war they lost badly.

[@NoFlu]

I mean you still got the German song "Der Deutsche U-Bootmann" (the German sub-marineman) which is basically a diss track aimed at Churchill, so there was atleast one good thing that came from this....

[@mishkata348]

You brits were lucky you had the USA on your side...

[@GameFreak7744]

Of course we were lucky to have the USA on our side. We'd probably have starved without the supply line, and would have had a hell of a time trying to make ground in France without the manpower. On the flip side, we're all also pretty lucky that Britain was dogged enough to hold off the Nazi war machine, because without Britain as a forward base for the US troops, and without the RAF for air cover the US would also have had *big* problems trying to make ground in France by themselves.

[@Ben.....]

The Germans never planned on "Overwhelming" the British navy. The video explained how the strategy was to literally starve Britain by destroying their merchant fleet. The video never even mentioned the German surface fleet.

[@itsrockyiv8209]

Germany: Invents acoustic torpedo. Britain: **Plays boom boom pow behind the ship**

[@viktordunaew5119]

Please more videos. Its too interesting to watch them :))

[@imborahey7568]

Loving your videos, keep it up! Hope that youll get more views

[@sir_duckington1245]

this whole war was: counter counter counter hey now we have a counter their just countering everything XD

[@laughinsohard7888]

Basically a constant "No u." contest.

[@alkalinelemons9239]

Very epic videos you make, keep up the good work!

[@miniaturesandstuff5209]

Amazing and well done video!!!

[@Fif0l]

Enigma! Polish guys broke the Enigma for the British. Just saying. WW2 was fascinating. As for U-Boots, I didn't realize how much of an issue resurfacing was. It's always stated in history books, but never explained.

[@ahriman935]

Yeah, they don't teach us anything like that in school. Instead a whole horseload of unimportant dates. Basically submarines at the time were really more of a "small warship capable of operating underwater" rather than full fledged submarine as we know them today. They had to operate mostly on the surface and submerge only if in danger, sacrificing over 50% of their speed while doing so. Furthermore, the U-boot captains actually preferred to perform torpedo attacks while surfaced, under cover of night, in groups (famous wolfpacks).

[@adamanderson3042]

0:56 "And the British lacked destroyers which could fill that role" How? The Royal Navy had more destroyers than anyone in the world. What COULD be the case and what you would be more accurate in saying is that perhaps the Home Fleet lacked destroyers and/or the British were spread out across the entire globe to the point that the amount of destroyers they could dedicate to fighting the U-Boats would be inadequate. But that's a very different picture than painting a picture where the Royal navy didn't have more destroyers than anyone in the war, which is the reality.

[@Eastory]

I basically agree with everything what you say. If I remember correctly, then what I meant, was that they didn't have enough destroyers for both combat and merchant escort duties. I didn't mean that the problem was that the Royal Navy was small, but that the task put on it was very big.

[@adamanderson3042]

@@Eastory Thumbs up!

[@nicocurti3478]

I know this is years old, but you can have the biggest Navy in the world and still lack destroyers, but that might be too much thinking for nationalist assholes

[@youraveragescotsman7119]

We had over 400 Destroyers by the end of WWI, but naval treaties and budget cuts forced us to downgrade to just over 110. Imagine if the UK still had that number of Destroyers.

[@janjankovicjahoda]

Your vids are simple briliant and the animations are just awesome. :-)

[@jordiedmond5744]

You have done great research well done

[@Vajperrr]

4:05 how many times do I have to repeat? Poles broke the enigma code.

[@b4nterontilt245]

@@Michael_png 3 Polish guys broke the enigma first then they pass their research on Brits who finished it

[@davarus]

"Schnorchel" xD

[@RobinOnYew]

this series is insane i am so glad i found this

[@theinnerparty5295]

Love your channel mate.

[@erykstojek1101]

The polish man broke the enigna code

[@b4nterontilt245]

3 guys

[@erdy2558]

Pierdole it was alan during

[@Philip54622]

Alan Turing wasnt polish

[@tomfurstyfield]

Has no one mentioned SUBscribe at the end?!

[@jordandickinson5996]

please keeping making these

[@richardbecker697]

Good content! Keep it up!

[@jangelbrich7056]

War technology is of course important to win a war; and Your summary is excellent. Resources of any kind are also important, and many documentaries are there about just that ... but You need something immaterial to win a war, but that is not "heroism" which German were best at in their propaganda ... they would have needed a just sake, and that they were lacking completely. Longing for hegemony (of any kind) AKA power is not sufficient, and has never been sufficient for any great power. In WWII, Germany completely failed (and never intended) to give the occupied zones anything good, instead there was purest exploitation and rape, especially on the Eastern front. Any empire based on violent power only will fall. Sooner or later. And so, the fall of the Nazi Reich was just a matter of time.

[@TheGlenofKrokot]

Yeah, that's true I think if they was more like a "good guys, liberators also" they could've gathered more support in socialist republics or any other occupied lands so there could've been less sabotage and all that shit Buuut they've done what they've done. Dunno if it's "good" or "not".. :s

[@ZinfinityX]

"""Snorkle""" was adopted

[@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785]

That was a pretty in depth (charge) lesson in ww2 submarine warfare! (Pardon the pun) Nice video!

[@onewhosaysgoose4831]

That ships-sunk graphic is pretty impressive, and helps quickly communicate the trends in submarine and anti-submarine operations.

[@natekaufman1982]

Please make an episode on Japan.

[@aaronpaul9188]

To win the battle of the atlantic, the germans had to sink allied shipping. The allies only had to prevent that shipping from being lost. The allies could use air power to force the submarines to travel submerged, where they were too slow to get into position against convoys. Escort carriers were the real game changer as they extended air cover for the entire length of the trip. A submarine that could travel as fast as a merchant ship while submerged would have been enormously helpful, but was never developed.

[@stealthyshadow567]

The axis powers had one job in WW2: don’t get the Soviets or the Americans involved. Thanks Japan

[@KemRod]

This is such a good series please finish it!

[@dennissein2119]

Really well done....enjoyed it....Thanks.

[@kymer6696]

Hitler from 1939: *travels on a time machine* *Watches this video* Hitler: interesting

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

Germany: I have a cunning plan. British Emp: As cunning as a fox, who's just appointed professor of cunning?

[@hansgruber788]

at Oxford University*

[@blooddeath29]

Very good video, please continue the series.

[@blooddeath29]

Also your Estonian War of Independence animated was done brilliantly, please give us more

[@paliga9837]

cant wait for part 3 and 4!!!

[@blueartvix4353]

" *Blockade* " me in hoi4: *sends paratroopers and makes uk surrender*

[@drunkenleaf7854]

For anyone wondering, the Enigma was cracked by a bunch of code breakers in Bletchley Park, one man named Alan Turing is credited for heading the team and was treated horribly by his country after the war, ending his own life in 54'

[@patrickpaganini]

Awesome vid - thanks!

[@speaklikeanative]

I love these, please make more

[@piotrwojcik6277]

its polish who decrypted enigma not british

[@anglo6248]

And We Never Surrender 😀🇬🇧

[@thepruh1151]

bloody Brits, you only won because of the millions of men the Soviet Union threw and America's help

[@anglo6248]

No

[@abbcc5996]

@@anglo6248 the eternal anglo ladies and gentlemen

[@joonamikkonen3735]

Without American supplies you indeed would have been overrrun. Same with Germany if it wasn’t for Romanian oil. The war would have ended a year earlier or even less.

[@TheMinocula]

thank you for this great review and illustrations! keep going you are one of my favorite channels! kind regards from switzerland (where we really neutral?) ;-)

[@Anomen1010]

fantastic video !

[@veryinactiveukmapping]

Hi boi

[@sirxavior1583]

Every naval power could pretty much crack small naval messages sent by there opponents simply using the brute force method. Cryptography doesn't guarantee your password/message won't be cracked just means it takes more time for someone to crack it. Each ring in the enigma machine just buys more time. The Germans thought it would be impossible for someone do all that computation which is correct. So the British created a turning machine (Precurser To Modern Computers) to do the same computation it would take a human to do in a fraction of the time.

[@fickmicpls8457]

SirXavior the Problem is for bruteforce needs many power wich they didnt have

[@sirxavior1583]

+Fick Mic Pls. I think your assuming they used RSA Encryption which is not how the Enigma machine worked, encryption was alot more basic then not like today. The enigma machine went from A-Z. So I already know that each character is at most 26 possible guesses, since 1 encrypted word contains 4 characters I can expect one word to be 26^4. That's 456,976 possibilities which can be done with a team of mathematicians, again a computer or turning machine can cut that down to nothing to solve, by the end of the day small message can be cracked. Again if I didn't know that brute force whouldn't work because I'm throwing random guesses. Most of the Naval powers already had some idea of the length of each others naval powers messages.

[@CommanderToad307]

*Turing machine

[@johnclayden1670]

Fascinating. And charming. Thank you.

[@McRocket]

Very interesting. Thank you.