Eastern Front animated: 1942

The initial Axis invasion of the Soviet Union had ended with their forces being overextended and the Red Army counterattacked them during the winter. The fighting eventually became a stalemate. During the summer of 1942 both sides planned to undertake a major offensive in order to inflict a decisive defeat on their opponent. The question was - who would be able to gain the initiative first.
Patreon: / eastory
Sources:
David Glantz - When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler.
Earl F. Ziemke, Magna E. Bauer III - Moscow To Stalingrad: Decision In The East.
Gregory Liedtke - Enduring the Whirlwind: The German Army and the Russo-German War 1941-1943.
Unit symbols:
drive.google.com/open?id=1WN2...
Order of Battle:
www.wwii-photos-maps.com/
www.rkka.ru/imaps.htm
bdsa.ru/
pamyat-naroda.ru/ops/
Map:
Terrain
Europe: Elevation map of Europe - European Environment Agency.
Outside Europe: maps-for-free.com/
Infrastructure:
USSR: Europa 1: 2,500,000 Deutsche Heereskarte: Europaische Russland. 1943.
Other: British 1944 1:2000,000 maps of Europe.
Nerves Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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[@undeadlegion9484]

There are documentaries out there with massive budgets and professional directors that aren't nearly as informative and easy to follow as this guy. 10/10

[@gibberconfirm166]

Yeah I read a ton of the books, and there really is something magical about the concision and clarity and speed of this presentation. I respect what I've seen of the Battlestorm Series, but almost opposite issue, there, it's excruciatingly detailed. Like I'd love to see a 20 minute version in this style on, say, just Stalingrad, or Kursk.

[@B1SCOOP]

I don't even recall watching any TV documentary which relied at all on the overview map of the battlefield, just to let you more easily grasp the progression of war. Usually it's lazy voiceover like somebody is reading history schoolbook with stock archive footage you've already seen in another documentary.

[@B1SCOOP]

@Kiril Burinskij thanks a bunch!

[@crimsonstrykr]

Wise he did one for Fall Blau alone. That has some "curious" troop movements leading up to Stalingrad

[@MarlboroughBlenheim1]

Good pictorial summary

[@usun_current5786]

this is the most detailed info about troop movements I've seen in my entire life presented in such concise format. great work!

[@Justin.Martyr]

*BUT he CAN'T Say, EXTERMINATED!!!! He says Destroyed!!!!*

[@noobmansuperstarboy]

Justin Martyr what?

[@kstreet7438]

Noobmansuperstarboy probably means this “Vernichtungskrie” it means war of extermination or annihilation

[@onewhosaysgoose4831]

@@LordBruuh Definately more detailed, but a hell of a lot less concise. Only listened to that stalingrad series like 3 times as it comes out.

[@peknive8331]

I’ve watched this series about 10 times now

[@Supremaque]

"... The amount of prisoners was limited. 22.000 POW..." Image any army in the word nowadays losing 22.000 men in one day.

[@jordanastro4694]

Just shows the immense scale of WW2.

[@grievetan]

If you think this is big, just keep in mind that 2 million people fought in battle of Kursk

[@Epokgamer942]

Imagne lost almost a milion men (encirclement of the Kiev)

[@SovetUnion63]

AFTER NUCLEAR STRIKE LOSSESE WILL BE IN MILLIONS.

[@Epokgamer942]

@@SovetUnion63 but we talking about encirclement not atomic bomb

[@gutsandgears]

This was an excellent documentary of the highest quality. It clearly shows the strategic and tactical thinking of both Germans and Soviets, which other videos could not really convey. Awesome work.

[@andrewtate9511]

First

[@LightningYtpl]

True

[@Helpseriously]

deserves more attention

[@Bulgarian_Coastline]

@@Helpseriously Quite right.

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

Keep in mind whenever you see a square disappear that's thousands of lives lost

[@wellingtonrodrigues7654]

THATS A LOTTA DAMAGE !

[@evoluxman9935]

@15 is legal In Europe Soviets lost more only becasue 1941 and early 1942. By 1944 and 1945, germans were losing way more soldiers than soviets. For exemple, in Bagration (soviet counterpart of barbarossa in a way), germans lost twice as much men (290 000 killed and 150 000 captured but 180 000 dead for soviets). And for cruelty... well it depended of who you were. If you were pure german, yeah, life was better than basic russian counterpart. However, if you were jew, homosexual, or anything but pure aryan, it was an other thing. Also, all the countries occupied (France, Belgium, Danemark,...) did suffer a lot, and poland was just annihilated (16% of the population died, with 3 millions polish and as much polish jews), just for the nazis. Also also, just Stalin. This dude was just mad. After he was dead, it was pretty OK. Quality of life wasn't that bad, and there's a reason so many people wanted USSR back in late 90-early 2000. But if you're talking about soviet regime under stalin, well it's hard to say.

[@Admiral2Kolchak]

Evoluxman I agree mostly but your statement in the beginning about casualties is partly false. The last major offensive of the war on the Eastern front (Vistula Oder) saw Zhukov and Konev make costly mistakes that resulted in the soviets losing twice as many men against a poorly equipped and desperate enemy. Battles such as Seelow and Konigsberg reeked of soviet over confidence leading to unnecessary deaths.

[@LevQWERTY]

@15 is legal In Europeсоветский режим был наиболее варварским??? Расскажи это миллионам убитых евреев и их детей осёл.

[@zheqingzhang6136]

@15 is legal In Europe Soviet Union saved your countries many times in history. They suffered tens of millions casualties, while US, UK were waiting for them to die. Show some respect

[@OuterGalaxyLounge]

The German/Soviet conflict on the Eastern front never gets old, never fails to be completely fascinating. I've read tons of books on it, and have many more to go. This animation is a fantastic supplement to the great books.

[@KrisWustrow]

@kevin r -- which 3 books would you recommend to start?

[@MrTone075]

Extremely fascinating. So many lives lost, though.

[@alterego157]

It's the biggest bloodbath mankind has ever seen

[@1993Redemption]

It's The Unstoppable Force (Germany) vs. The Immovable Object (Russia). One side has the ultimate offensive capabilities, and the other has the ultimate defensive advantages.

[@Gerbs1913]

With such a massive conflict there's no shortage of events to look into.

[@SNVampyre]

One of my grand fathers was in 371 division. There is some document that he died near Rzhev, but he survived and lived till 1995. Now I see his "quad" on the screen. Another great grand father died somewhere in Stalingrad...

[@mookins45]

they saved the world

[@gunarsmiezis9321]

@@mookins45 ???

[@SNVampyre]

@jebi ga It must be misprint or do you think that Russians are antisemitists?

[@y.b4251]

@@mookins45 they won the war, the world is far from saved.

[@Yanramich]

@jebi ga.. What?

[@user-kd3lm3fn6t]

welcome to KZbin comments, where everyone suddenly becomes a logistic and strategic genius

[@captain_noo]

well there wouldn't be 10 year olds who would come to this video, they probably wouldn't understand some of the things hey you guys could stop replying to me now

[@potatoshaga]

stolen

[@nerevarchthn6860]

edwardmashberg1 but it seems like it does need a genius to understand that the german soldiers weren’t nazis

[@janmegas4700]

@@nerevarchthn6860 Not all of them sure. But at least half was or was sympathetic to their government's actions in some form. There is a reason why the fighting on the eastern front was so cruel. Because they made it happen from day 1.

[@minimilchshaker8219]

Riverton Cooper Why so harsh? I mean, of course many still believed in the Nazi ideology and what happened was terrible, but still, not all German soldiers were Nazis, many didn't want to die for the dream of their government.

[@joanj94]

It's like History channel, but now with actual History :D

[@jared3400]

How true!

[@rodigoduterte9192]

aserehuehue its like history channel, but it only use map :v

[@maxmagnus777]

few years in the future he will be selling toy cars for 10 000$ :P

[@vouspartezenvoyagenoncarje1972]

It is like history channel without all comments about nazis’ flying saucers

[@cvetomirgeorgiev9106]

Next up on the history channel: 10pm- Nazi wonder weapons they were never going to build but we will say they would have 11pm- Acting like Hitler survived ww2 when he totally didnt. 12pm- Selling warehouses

[@Litany_of_Fury]

It's like a documentary without the bullshit filler. I love it!

[@toserveman9317]

There is very little about _teevee_ that is redeemable.

[@Litany_of_Fury]

@@toserveman9317 The availability of information and entertainment at short notice to the population?

[@Technocratos90]

12:00 These 8 seconds costed 2,5m dead men to both sides. Rzhev battle is called Rzhev Meatgrinder for a reason.

[@covid-2320]

Impressive that so many people died for, literally, nothing.

[@leolimann269]

@@covid-2320 Well, that offensive prevented germans from thinking, that Soviet Union had been able to carry out another operation in the south. Thus, the victory in Stalingrad partially justifies the casualties in the center. However, it's quite controversial regarding equipment and people's lives lost there...

[@leolimann269]

@Dan Gurău You'll never know the truth, to be honest. There were two general operations, which cost up to million losses in total...

[@derritter4970]

Dan Gurău And how many Soviet and German soldiers died from both sides?

[@derritter4970]

Covid-23 Soviet died for motherland, Germans for idiotic plans of Hitler

[@mebeasensei]

I would love to see this sort of detail applied to an animated map of the Stalingrad pocket. Anyone else? Please vote this up so the wonderful creator(s) might do it.

[@cumulushalo576]

Watch Stalingrad campaign by Army University Press 👍

[@foxtrot2908]

See TIK's Battlestorm Stalingrad series.

[@BERENCEV]

No time wasted for repeating all the boring facts as in the most documentaries, but rather actual historical events seen here like never before, in such interactive way that allows to understand and see the whole picture of the war on Eastern Front like no documentaries would tell... Great work.

[@frjoethesecond]

I knew it'd be worth the wait. Great work.

[@papageitaucher618]

"oh look everybody I'm a patreon :P"

[@ComradeHellas]

*S T A L I N G R A D*

[@comradered2876]

*WE* knew

[@breadthatsred5815]

Can we talk about the fact that this guy provided subtitles of 8 different languages (including Arabic!)?! This is very rare on KZbin.

[@413TECH]

22

[@onrch]

@@413TECH 23

[@shrekdonkey3683]

69th like

[@dakota6050]

@@shrekdonkey3683 70th* screw your reddit moment

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

I highly doubt he did it himself or hired people to do it In youtube you can enable the option of letting people add subtitles to your videos, which explains why there are subs in all languages

[@Heisenpaper1]

This channel is the most detailed and helpful I have ever seen. It makes stuff way more affascinating than other random mapping videos and I really have to say good job. 10/10

[@quietus13]

I almost never comment, but I am moved to make an exception for these exceptional animations of the Eastern front. You have better articulated the nuances and massive scale of this conflict in your 12 minute videos than I've seen hour-long, "professional" documentaries accomplish. Well done.

[@sbove]

Agree 110%. These animations are absolute gold.

[@yilmaz.design]

@@sbove thx

[@yannicandbeatrice8616]

@@yilmaz.design Agree... It's the divisional detail that really makes the point, the early German successes, the advances, the massive pockets of destroyed Soviet divisions, and the gradual thinning out of German lines the longer it went on, the further they drove. Excellent!

[@toamdur]

Accurate man gj:)

[@kentwiseman9246]

agreed , outstanding.

[@Chiaros]

How can this guy have so few Patreons? We must quickly deal with that error and support his war effort against click baiters and general idiocy!

[@spyrojyro7202]

Георги Ставрев He’s right, it’s a channel we cannot afford to lose.

[@leonardorivas8142]

Not his war effort comrade. Ours

[@bensagal-morris8072]

Spyro Jyro When thinking of whether or not to support him, all I could think was, “do it.”

[@frothfrenzy]

I agree. We should strive to prevent encirclement from other channels and widen the gap to his Patreon pocket.

[@PointReflex]

@@frothfrenzy Right on!, I just telegraphed Goering and he confirmed that 5 formations of flying Wunderwaffes are coming to provide air support. ... in any minute now... ... ... ... ...

[@chrisanon2560]

Until watching these videos I never realized just how wide the Eastern Front was and just how many men, tanks and battles there were. There was so much going on.

[@looinrims]

If it further exaggerates the point, every army regulation made after June 1941 was made with the assumption the reader was on the eastern front, always referring to the Russian, their land, equipment, tactics, and preferences

[@illuha3691]

Thats what your education is doing they trying to rewrite the history and doesnt want you to now how much impact did Soviet Union!

[@870Slugger]

Yea it makes the western front look like child's play

[@Bartooc]

Great work this is the best visualization of WW2 I've ever seen put into such a small timeframe.

[@moralfagov]

Crazy amount of work, great job man!

[@dinodom000]

Awesome visualisation!! Thanks for all your hard work!

[@Legio__X]

The amount of research and time dedication is amazing. Well done

[@Ciaofornow]

Thank you for creating these videos. Really helps me understand history through visual aid. Keep them coming

[@fazole]

Your use of graphics really enlightened me about the situation in 1942. I have watched a lot of presentations and have read a few books on the Eastern Front, and this is the first time I realized how active and nearly successful the Soviets were in their early 1942 operations. I think that the fact that the Germans survived these attacks and were able to break out of the Vyazma pocket gave them the overconfidence to remain in the Stalingrad Pocket. It also shows that either Hitler was delusional or was feigning confidence when he declared the Red Army was finished in summer 1942.

[@ysin9698]

Yes, I made the same connection. The Vyazma pocket may have been a sort of Pyrrhic victory which led to the disastrous decision to supply the Stalingrad pocket with the Luftwaffe.

[@marschma]

You re right, being able to support the troops encircled first by air supply made them believe they would be able to do the same, vast overestimation of the Luftwaffes capability at this time.

[@user-mm6tz1gu2g]

It's Russian,dude

[@eminyilmaz1851]

That may be true but I think it's much more complicated. Germans knew keeping 6th army in Stalingrad means keeping huge Soviet force immobile, thus protecting the main front from collapsing.

[@Nugcon]

How do you even research this? Like marking every division's location and stuff. Seems like a pretty tedious job, and I respect you for that.

[@michael___684]

He spoke about how much time it takes in the previous video. Spoiler: A LOT OF TIME

[@Eastory]

I usually get their locations from the contemporary situation maps that have been posted online.

[@solonsolon9496]

Where are they posted online?

[@EburdeyGordei4]

Watch Soviet Storm series

[@jeffjohnson1054]

Seeing the vast numbers of soviet forces is just wow. Endless fucking humanity to feed to hun cannons. Balls of steel men.

It is really hard to overstate how much I enjoy these videos.

[@artemis360]

Fantastically detailed summary. Amazing work. Music and narration are perfect. Tense but not distracting. Well done.

[@fancymelon5127]

*Soviet Union has become player controlled*

[@p1colo79]

And more important: Soviet Union gets unlimited supplies from USA

[@endloesung_der_braunen_frage]

@@p1colo79 They didn't win because the USA supplied them, that is Not the only reason

[@super_heavy_battleship4205]

Western lend-lease to the soviet union did jack shot for the union.

[@notbryan1323]

tag SOV research all add_latest_equipment 1000000000

[@fristnamelastname5549]

Soviet Union: *Enters GTM* I SEE NO GOD UP HERE! OTHER THEN ME!

[@edvard8449]

That Italian division holding off half the front alone xD

[@aleksaradojicic8114]

Its corps, but its still impresive.

[@aleksaradojicic8114]

@@biliepan379 Same, its corp.

[@edvard8449]

@@biliepan379 that's LIX Korps, composed by 50.000 men, but yeah.

[@edvard8449]

@@biliepan379 yeah, maybe it's an error, however the Italian division is the Sforzesca 2nd Infantry Division, who in fact fought alone and won against 30 000 Soviets, saving the whole Army Group South from encirclement. They fought with bayonets after they ran out of ammunition. It was composed of 9000 men.

[@randomguy-tg7ok]

Where's the Italian Division?

[@seth917]

Outstanding video. The detailed movement of the army divisions and units is what I always haf been curious to see in motion. Thank you.

[@JosiahJS976]

This video is absolutely amazing. I could never have the patience to work this hard on a video. Outstanding.

[@user-eg2kj4ng9e]

Found on animation 10 guards rifle corps, where fought my grandfather. All shows for sure! Hats off to the creators!!! Нашел на анимации 10 гвардейский стрелковый корпус, где воевал мой дедушка. Всё показано точно! Снимаю шляпу перед создателями!!!

[@theortheo2401]

Your grandfather is a hero Aleksei :) hats off to him

[@texxture]

guards - сторожевой, с английского. gvardeyskiy - гвардейский = элитный корпус, с лучшей подготовкой бойцов чем в остальных частях. да, это калька с иностранного слова, но имеющая другое значение в русском языке. называя части сторожевыми - те доносишь неправильный смысл до иностранцев.

[@maximivanov8467]

@@texxture, nope, “guards division” (brigade, etc.) is the proper translation of “гвардейская дивизия” (бригада и т.п.). Google it.

[@Sphynra]

Where is the 10 Guards Rifle Corps? I want to find them too

[@user-eg2kj4ng9e]

@@Sphynra 10:26 near Ordzhonikidze

[@sbove]

These animations are absolutely amazing! A true labor of love and the first time I've ever seen *anything* that put the full and gargantuan scope of Eastern Front maneuvers in clear focus. Thank you for the stellar effort. I'm going over to Patreon ASAP to help fund 1943 ;-)

[@ziros22]

How am I just now finding these videos? dude, you are amazing

[@samj4348]

same, saw the first and missed this 1

[@tomaszkrol5602]

really, you are a genius. thanks to you and all your co-workers for creating this brilliant piece of work. you rocked it!

[@stvor4701]

Eastory, Вы сделали огромную работу. Я видел много информации по теме ВОВ, но так наглядно, доступно и динамично, на моей памяти, впервые подали именно Вы. Снимаю шляпу. Спасибо. Удачи Вам и побольше подписчиков.

[@eugenhartwig]

Присоединяюсь, - и так ещё на русском и немецком, никакой идеологии, правильно показанные факты.

[@rutorrutor3640]

вот тоже достойно - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWTEh4x3jdemhac

[@rickpin_0612]

Wtf

[@eugenhartwig]

@@rutorrutor3640 Да, действительно интересно,с большим числом важных фактов, даже таких которые в советской школе принципиально не назывались - оккупация Персии когда гитлеровские войска делали полное окружение Ленинграда(кстати несколько дивизий Черчилля и три сталинские армии при оккупации Персии),но не так пластично и с идеологией (пленные красноармейцы погибли больше по вине Сталина - сначала пленных красноармейцев отпускали,но с началом партизанской войны пленных красноармейцев оставляли в проходных лагерях военнопленных где нечего было жрать из-за сожженных Сталиным полей и угнанного в советский тыл скота). У Сталина были огромные силы НКВД и железнодорожников для никому не нужного выселения немцев Поволжья и не было эшелонов для эвакуации женщин и детей из Ленинграда явно прифронтового города,это было гарантией голодной холодной гибели многих сотен тысяч ленинградцев в блокадном Ленинграде и советских немцев в местах изгнания,концлагерях трудармии на Урале. 1)ТРИ АРМИИ ДЛЯ ОККУПАЦИИ ПЕРСИИ 2)ВЫСЕЛЕНИЕ НЕМЦЕВ ПОВОЛЖЬЯ СИЛАМИ НКВД И ЖЕЛЕЗНОДОРОЖНИКОВ ➡ БЛОКАДА ЛЕНИНГРАДА С БОЛЬШИМИ ЖЕРТВАМИ

[@rutorrutor3640]

@@eugenhartwig Пленные погибли по вине Сталина - это бред! Вы завязывайте с тяжелыми наркотиками. Не отпускали пленных - более того - часто захватывали как военнопленных просто местных мужчин призывного возраста. Отпустили в самом начале войны что-то около 100 000 местных на Западной Украине. А вот 2-2,5 млн захваченных пленных никто никуда не отпускал. Немцы исходили из того что чем больше их умрет - тем лучше. Кстати это было военное преступление.

[@Peter-vl9fz]

Wow this is amazing. So much work. Glad you put it out there!

[@kieronwhite5191]

Well done I really enjoyed watching your videos, very informative and a great over view of the war on the eastern front, keep up the great work,👍

[@alejandrobetancourt4902]

You are amazing. This level of detail is nuts.

[@General_Townes]

Jesus, this is so well detailed, I love the videos you make. Keep up the good work.

[@rafalpanwojny]

learned more in 13min than in whole school year, sorry Mr. Smith

[@user-mm6tz1gu2g]

Mr. Smith is not upset,bro

[@user-mm6tz1gu2g]

Mr. Smith is not upset ,bro!

[@filipjuda4652]

Fajnie, polaczku, że masz masz w szkole nauczyciela Smitha.

[@MagnaVictus]

Schools are intended to give a global and general view of history. The Eastern front is so complex that no teacher could ever finish this subject in one year of school. Mr. Smith's name should be cleared haha

[@neeznh4571]

Mr. Smith: :'(

[@wepzuk6730]

You deserve a thumbs up for the effort you put into this video.

[@StudentLoanJustice]

Excellent presentation! Have been looking for something like this for quite some time! Thank you.

[@williammaxwell4172]

This is so educational. I'm a huge WWII guy but this goes into far more detail than I am familiar with, and doesn't clickbait, but rather pays great attention to detail, etc. Great job!

[@EdisonLin2763]

Once again lovely work Eastory! Very detailed and the animations are very nice. It will be worth the wait for the next one!

[@insouciantFox]

This... this is a work of art. I wish I could mount this on my wall and just have it play forever. You deserve every ounce of praise this language is capable of giving. Bravo.

[@EliteCustomGamer]

These are so well made and makes it very easy to understand troop & army positions through the war.

[@johnsonjohnson7742]

YES! EASTORY IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SUCH A LONG TIME YAY! Im a big fan of you and your videos btw. Keep up the great work!

[@mircokunne5168]

Hello Eastory, thank you for your time to create such a great and amazing content. Please take your time that is necessary for the 1943 video, qualitiy is better then quantity! I am looking forward to this video. Another thing: when you are finished with the easten front series i think it could be awesome to combine all eastern front videos to a full documentation about the eastern front. You may also could add some real footage in this documentation, maybe with a collaboration with other history youtubers. That hopefully would bring you even more subscribers. You deserve so much more! Nevertheless I wish you great success and fun at creating KZbin content. Greetings from Germany to Estonia by Mirco :)

[@jaeger7693]

This teaches so much about deployment and encirclement tactics, thank you.

[@Disedinel]

gotta do some hoi4

[@richardm.4227]

This is amazing. I can't imagine the research and time that went into this. Would love to see the whole war this way, by front.

[@markhenley3097]

Took a while, but worth it. Great job on the video!

[@thekrcko7850]

I’m impressed by the video quality! Best historical animation I’ve seen in my life!

[@jobvanhetkaar8848]

I come back to this series at least every week. Very good content👍🏼

[@richardstone3473]

This presentation was so well presented. Every little part of it would be an intense appalling drama of it's own. Excellent.

[@MegHbIu_KopoJib]

За этим коротким видео скрывается огромная работа. Спасибо.

[@imyafamiliya6170]

Так же наглядно показывает на каких своих кровавых ошибках училась советская армия.

[@riazon703]

Если так, то в итоге покажет, как армия Третьего Рейха получила урок от Советской Армии, ведь основной план "блицкриг" они завалили в конце 1941, а вести затяжную войну на территории такой большой страны-это очень опасно.

[@lyagenda2k167]

Sterd S А зачем там строить заводы, если это просто «буфер»

[@namelessone5540]

Georgy Zhukov Ты задаешь ему слишком сложный вопрос. Лучше спроси, скачет ли он, для майдаунов это более понятно

[@user-gt7ob4sb3b]

А я то думал что была Бсср, где жили и строили свою республику беларусы, но нет, оказывается все что у нас есть только из-за сказочной доброты россиян. Спасибо вам!

[@justinmoore8581]

Best strategic level overview of the Sviet German front I've ever seen, congratulations.

[@RetroFotoHouse]

Thank you for an such a huge work done! Very interesting!

[@Brada988]

Very informative and with good real time animation. Excellent job!

[@jonhopwood8128]

Wish you could do videos for all the fronts in all the recent wars. You explain events so well.

[@KnownNiche1999]

11:24 USSR: **TELEPORTS BEHIND** NOTHING PERSONAL KID

[@alex39977]

at that point i think it would be pretty personal lol

[@wellingtonrodrigues7654]

NANI !?!?!

[@nopasaran3561]

Truly thank you so much for making this so easy to follow.

[@0teeteebee0]

This is amazing.. great insight on warfare.. nicely made dude👍🏻

[@gregsmith1548]

+24,800 POWs +22,800 POWs “The number of prisoners taken was limited”

[@Michaelonyoutub]

limited compared to other instances, they are lucky they loss less then 100k, most other encirclements up to this point have had high numbers like that

[@LD-xt1vo]

True. Entire *wars* are now fought with far fewer POWs.

[@iliketurtles5180]

Thats industrialized war for you

[@angelamagnus6615]

@@Michaelonyoutub like the second battle of Kharkov. Soviets lost like 220k men.

[@hereLiesThisTroper]

I'm not saying its better than the History Channel . . . . But it's better than the History Channel.

[@bobesponja7791]

well,i think H2 is even better than history channel

[@Theekaizt]

DeadTroperSociety A

[@neganrex5693]

I remember when the history channel was about history but now that is history.

[@agvideos1662]

Really excellent work. Animations help to explain the ebb and flow of war.

[@kevinbrennan-ji1so]

This series is very cool to watch. Thanks for doing this.

[@factoraptor]

I love how you pronounce "unable to" It really depicts how they were unable to do whatever they supposed to do..

[@stevenbuck3756]

Best military animation I’ve ever seen. Brilliant!

[@gunterbreitfeld6421]

Klasse, thank´s for this detailled work!

[@mindeater2]

this series is my new favorite thing. I have watched it like 10 times in the last month

[@ThePRCommander]

This video series is much more informative, than any other professional history video. Thank you from Denmark.

[@poodiepie527]

Although it's looking a bit grim, I'm sure Germany will deliver the final blow to the Soviet Union and eliminate them in the next year!

[@Chiaros]

I blame the Romanians for messing up at Stalingrad.

[@danieldudin4071]

Георги Ставрев you should blame the German Command because they where the ones who thought that trusting to bad equipped Romanians without any anti tank was a good idea weapons

[@konstantinriumin2657]

Fortress Stalingrad will surely hold - Luftwaffe can supply it indefinitely.

[@johnscott353]

Lol

[@RoyRogerer]

So excited to see who wins! So far we have seen some amazing moves!

[@marekp5609]

Great work! Animation shows the scale od the operatorom Barbarossa...and impossibility of conquer such a big territory. Thanks!

[@karagothshlomidabush3727]

thank you for creating this video it is beyond legendary

[@NachiV]

3:56 what i plan on doing for the project 3:58 what i end up doing

[@sanelahajdarevic730]

Lol

[@TheFaveteLinguis]

Still, not bad. But in the end, your project got scrapped, you wound up in jail and separated into two parts one of which socialistic... what?

[@NachiV]

@@TheFaveteLinguis So you take memes litreally?

[@darklysm8345]

Both were impressive

[@yayksurahi4366]

This video makes me play Hearts of Iron 4 and encircle divisions

[@garoad2]

3 was better...

[@suryaprakash2126]

@@garoad2 I don't know about 3, but 4 is best

[@ImaginaShip]

No joke dude, I seriously want to load it up right now!

[@garoad2]

If you try 3 now, it'll seem dated. Just the inability to scale the UI for higher resolution is enough to make it almost unplayable now. But for a large number of people who played *all* versions, during the time they were released, 3 was the best for hard strategy. IV caters to more casual players. The larger number of provinces alone in III makes a huge difference. Too few/larger provinces limits the type and complexity of maneuvers you can carry out, for example. I wouldn't say IV is inferior in EVERY way, but I was much more hooked on III.

[@diomepa2100]

I wish the AI would be smart enough to to recover after such losses.

[@jasonharryphotog]

Great series, thanks for making them

[@4427126]

The best map I see ever!!! great work !!!! Thanks for your time!!

[@kwuwa]

Это безусловно лучшее видео про восточный фронт 1942 года.

[@ramibelhaj5151]

When ww2 videos will be over, ill translate them into russian and ill show these videos in russians schools Because such great visualisation will help kids to remember and understand better, than dry letters and numbers

[@snowcold5932]

Great idea. The heroes who defeated the Nazi war machine deserve to be remembered

[@ramibelhaj5151]

@@snowcold5932 its not a problem to remember heroes, we have a good school program about ww2, but this video will seriously help to understand global strategic view of ww2 campaign Our lessons sometimes concentrates on special directons, like stalingrad fights and we study it for 5 hours, and after that you hardly remember situation in global

[@user-nq1gc6od6j]

We have similar videos to this, I would say they are more informative, but it's always nice to see other perspective.

[@ramibelhaj5151]

@@user-nq1gc6od6j я учился с 1997 по 2008 год, были только примитивный старые видео времён ссср, с голосом диктора, по типу Левитана Они были перегружены, излишне пафосны и малоинформативны Будь у нас подобные материалы, было бы легче держать всю картинку в целом, а то как-то отрывками вышло, блоками А вообще, если бы это всё было ещё и интерактивным...

[@user-nq1gc6od6j]

Я закончил два года назад, нам показывали современные ролики со стратегическими картами, похожими на это видео, и картами отдельных боев. Мне понравилось. Насчет интерактивного материала, есть сайт pobediteli.ru, там хоть и без анимаций дивизий, но тоже впечатляет. Когда только отдельные бои рассматриваются, согласен, понимания довольно мало.

[@jmarcos1003]

The best content on WW2 eastern front that i ever seen. Thank you.

[@wandernundnatur]

Sehr gute sachliche Dokumentation, nur selten erfährt man etwas über die Strategie. Wirklich gute Beschreibung der gesamten Abläufe!

[@maltsev-vyacheslav]

Как бы то ни было - очень интересно посмотреть в таком анимированном виде. Большое спасибо автору!

[@JurgenKrace]

0:40 Somewhere near Kerch my grand great father died. He was 33, had 3 childen. He was mobilized in august 1941 as an red army infantry soldier and sent to Frontline rightaway. He managed to survive 5 months... While many died within first days.

[@jake42731]

Your name sounds german, were you germans living in USSR? there were millions of them

[@JurgenKrace]

​@@jake42731 I am no german, neither were my relatives. Though there was whole german soviet rebublic, within USSR, which shortly after the war was disbannded. it's just my nickname, and it does sound german indeed :-)

[@rickpin_0612]

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[@jake42731]

@@JurgenKrace So was your grandpa russian? where did he live before he was mobilised, did your family manage any contact with him while he was deployed?

[@JurgenKrace]

@@jake42731 no, not russian. We are of mountain people of Caucasus. I was born in Uzbekistan, which was at that time still part of USSR. Because my parents decided to leave our indigenous area for bigger city, which was Tashkent. It's the same village from where all my family is from, including great grand father. He born there, and lived there, but died far away from home. I am not aware of any contacts with my great grand father, after he was mobilesed.

[@frpgplayer]

Everything presented is amazing. Great descriptions. I think what stands out to me most is the number of POW's. Look at the numbers! We hear about the large number of deaths in the war, but imagine fighting a battle and you now have hundreds of thousands of POWs. You have to guard them, move them, etc. That's an amazing logistic to consider while you're trying to fight a war. Imagine if no quarter.

[@confusedtuba4443]

Great job on the video, short, simple, and accurate

[@elwoodjardeo6133]

i just love rewatching the whole eastern front series because its entertaining as much as it is informative

[@user-qt1cp1be3u]

Soviet Storm. WW2 in the East. Episodes 1 - 9. English Subtitles. RussianHistoryEN kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5K8kH6li8mAitE Soviet Storm. WW2 in the East. Episodes 10 - 18. English Subtitles. RussianHistoryEN kzbin.info/www/bejne/fai0i6qtZcSBm9k

[@someonesnipple5081]

Finally I've heard a proper stress positioning in "Sevastopol". Every non-speaker mispronounce it by stressing a instead of the first o.

[@strills1234]

its just the way you'd say it in english

[@paulpoveda1828]

great great vid, all details historically accurate ! bravo

[@FoxxRN]

This seems, very useful. These documents are super inofromational from the units and battles. It's super to understand. I rate this video 9.8/10

[@tiffanyhill-anding8891]

Wow a person who makes videos for a living has tought me more than school ever will

[@klebermacedo7871]

"Rule number one, in the first page, of the first war book's chapter: Never march on Russia..." Bernard Montgomery

[@Imperium83]

So just sit and wait for them to become completely industrialized and mobilized, and only counter-attack them...?

[@kingshark3852]

Finland,Poland,mongol empire, are we a joke to you?

[@Coldfront15]

Kleber Macedo Lmao. Russia can be easily defeated by most western powers

[@user-ie4yy3hq6u]

@@Coldfront15 Hello Troll! This is a blatant lie. In fact, Russia is the only country that has always been able to resist the West throughout its history. Starting with the German crusaders (1242 Battle of the ice) and ending with the Second world war, over the course of 7 centuries, Russia often won against the West. Russia captured Berlin 3 times ( the seven years ' war - in 1760, the Russians destroyed the weapons factories in Berlin.) The Napoleonic wars (in 1813, Berlin was liberated from the French), the Second world war (in 1945). Russia captured Paris in 1814.

[@Coldfront15]

Алексей Васильев Ah yes when someone disagrees with you, first insult them by calling them a troll; then present your argument to make yourself look smart. I see. Very adequate. No point in continuing with a obvious *russian troll*

[@kristijanmedved2970]

Thank you for these videos.

[@rossistephane162]

Thanks for the work.

[@TomCox84]

I can't really say how accurate in detail these animations actually are, since I'm not a miitary historian, but if you did these animations all by yourself, this is some incredible work!! If they're really accurate, those are probably the best animations on this topic that I've ever seen. Please keep it coming! Would love to see this for whole WW2, not just Eastern front, as well as other major wars in history, no matter which ones.

[@Aemilius_.]

I can't wait for the next episode.

[@marcwhitlock5002]

dunno why but on top of being a good video so funny/satisfying to hear flank pronounced with that accent

[@robbie_]

This is really very, very good. Thanks for sharing.