Berlin 1945: Last Stand of the Nazis | Frontlines Ep. 07 | Documentary

[@pontifixmax]

I was in Berlin last year. While walking around this city, I found it difficult to comprehend that it had been utterly destroyed during WW2, and then split in two for decades after that. Mind you, Berlin looks very "new" compared to other European capitals precisely for this reason.

[@ruhri0411]

Before the war, Berlin was a splendid city with countless buildings full of character. At the time, Berlin was one of the largest cities in the world with 4.5 million inhabitants. (Incidentally, this figure has never been matched; currently 3.8 million people live in the city). You probably also walked around the area around Alexanderplatz, the TV tower and the rebuilt palace. At Alex there were some splendid department stores, behind Alexanderplatz station up to the city palace was Berlin's old town with many alleys and squares, everything was destroyed in the war and not rebuilt, instead the communists created this boring, huge square. Or look at old photos of Belle Alliance Platz, a place where people liked to live back then. Today it's still a round square with generic blocks that has become one of the worst crime hotspots in the city. You could say that Berlin was not only totally destroyed in the war, it also lost its soul forever.

[@gilmangus83]

The Germans and Japanese have gleaming modern cities. The U.S. has an apocalyptic urban core. What gives?

[@franc9111]

@@ruhri0411 The East German government in the years immediately following the War had to face a pretty desperate situation, the Soviets had seized enormous amounts of materials and infrastructure, so they had to rebuild housing and factories with what they had and much of the industry in Berlin had either been destroyed or gone West. Most of the important architecture was to be found in East Berlin. Inevitably as the regime became harder and harder to put up with, many professionals such as engineers, architects, intellectuals and academics managed to get out. As time went by, the regime did try to restore some of the more important architectural buildings in Berlin and of course notably in Dresden, as well. In the centre of Berlin, they even tried to recreate a small area between the Red Town Hall and the River Spree, where you can now find a restaurant - the Nut Tree and a Christmas shop, for example, which look vaguely old and original, but of course they aren't. Since Reunification, a lot of work has been done on all the major monuments, such as the Cathedral, the Museum Island (though I don't like the modern entrance they've added to the Pegamon, it doesn't fit in with the other buildings around it at all).

[@FalseNi9e]

I thought the exact same when I went for holiday there

[@jojo2.092]

That's where the cartel hide their money in Germany no longer than Cayman Islands😂

[@billinct860]

I hate this being censored! I'm an adult and like to see uncensored original material. I see the downfall of KZbin over what is or isn't allowed according to them.

[@FullNelson007]

I totally agree. We don't watch it to see the censored version..💯💯

[@dalebechtel8904]

Couldn’t agree more. You tube is a joke

[@TeslaCat333]

It’s too gory, there’s so many recordings from nazis camps that was sealed by Russians and Americans it’s not for showing up they hold these in secret archives because they are insane videos of Jewish people being tortured and burned alive.

[@horrorfan1455]

KZbins glory days are way behind them

[@sirleo5103]

Welcome to America where censorship reigns supreme and the phrase "freedom of speech" is mere words on a piece of paper. The fact that people are blocked from seeing reality is the reason America has raised generations of pussies who are entitled and suffer "trauma" and "mental illness" all the time.

[@irinawatkins6150]

I wish you did show what German did in Russia, so the viewers could understand why every Russian wanted the revenge. My family lost everyone except my grandmother!! All!!!

[@1745vlad]

Agreed,

[@FlorencioArce-d7j]

Pero porque Alemania atacó a Rusia, porque?

[@ogbighomie9738]

Everyone knows the atrocities what the Third Reich soldiers did to the Soviet civilians

[@Mouth_of_Sauron.]

Нет, не хочет каждый россиянин мстить. Тех немцев уже нет и они сполна заплатили за все свои злодеяния, а современные немцы не причастны к ужасам Второй мировой войны.

[@LjubomirZuna]

WW2 is the real reason why Europe dont like Russia,they have almost all combine with NAZIs fight against USSR.Same like now under fake NATO security,they fear RF fury to the dath and that is good so.They shuld fear.From Croatia

[@nxlv_8362]

I get chills when he says “Berlin has fallen to the red army”

[@patriciabrenner9216]

I thanks G-d.

[@dalewegan9058]

​@@patriciabrenner9216is a great place to ❤. N0

[@GerardPereira-bd6vr]

Why are you a Neo Facist

[@georgiosvarachidis6596]

URAAAAHHHH!!!!!

[@johnnywilliams7160]

The russian people deserve a lot of credit for defeating the hate monger and his wicked regime.I salute you and thank you for your sacrifice.

[@denislaferriere2693]

And it goes on our very present era...202o and now....

[@silviamaringer9426]

Stalin war ein Tyrann und hat jeden in den Gulag entsorgt der ihm nicht gepasst hat. Außerdem hat Stalin das Massaker von katyn, dass er selbst verursacht hat, die Nazis beschuldigt.

[@kagolobyadalton5773]

And General P" comes driving around on his Jeep the job is done by the red tops😊 big up to the reds

[@stanzanossi]

You are quite right, but sadly the Russians are acting like the Nazis did during their present invasion of Ukraine!😮

[@thalmoragent9344]

Russian soldiers didn't stop at killing German soldiers... they killed plenty of Civilians as well...

[@1RadicalDreamer]

They show the hammer and sickle but not the swastika? History shouldn’t be censored.

[@lloydchristmas1086]

Big tech supports communism whats new?

[@Xxheadshot420xX]

Agreed history should be truth and facts only hiding anything should not be even considered

[@PK__44]

You can find the swastika uncensored almost anywhere lol. It’s just so KZbin doesn’t strike him

[@Xxheadshot420xX]

@@PK__44 right the point is that KZbin should not censor history

[@PK__44]

@@Xxheadshot420xX yup KZbin is soft

[@fistowar]

Payback for the horrific sieges of Moscow, Leningrad, and Stalingrad must have been on the Russians mind.

[@mikejames5743]

those sieges were payback for what the judeo bolshevik red army was doing to Silesians, Germans etc prior to WW2.

[@thalmoragent9344]

Trading civilian lives for civilian lives is still terrible for any military to commit.

[@Darthdesmond]

@@thalmoragent9344one set of civilians cheered on the slaughter of the others.

[@BrianFalarski-jv4xp]

Yep

[@ФилиппОстапенко-м4й]

Блокады этих городов не было,,-Ленинград сняли с довольствия-посчитав почти потерянным,-запретив эвакуауию,-как и в Сталинграде,-гражданским запретили покидать город..москва свободно снабжалась...

[@flournoymason8961]

You reap what you sew. They only got back what they had given out.

[@dianeeyestone2040]

sow

[@Shiloh7377]

It's crazy to think that it's not even been 100 years since an ego maniac went on a killing spree.....

[@SuperMrHiggins]

Ego Maniacs are always going on killing spree's. Though that era takes a pretty big slice of the "worst times and places to be alive".

[@Shiloh7377]

@@SuperMrHiggins true...

[@simpsbelongtothegulags3702]

@@Shiloh7377 too many ego maniacs but the worse ones live longer

[@Shiloh7377]

@@simpsbelongtothegulags3702 true, very true

[@zombiesRUseless6880]

Ego maniac? They're all ego maniacs. WW1 was started to create the state of Isr@el,and WW2 was created to get the people to go along with a glob@l committee, which is now known as the UN. They tried to o get people to get to go along with a global committee after WW1, which they callled the league of nations, but people weren't going along with it. Fast forward to after WW2, and they changed the name from league of nations to the UN, and people accepted it, because they were tired of war. Two world wars in less than thirty years, and they had enough, and were promised global peace as long as everyone accepted the UN. Global peace, that was a pile of horse sh*t. It was to form their one world govt.

[@braddavid902]

Imagine being a Russian soldier and March all the way to Berlin only to die in days before the war ends. Heroes

[@charrua59]

They were known for being rapist. The Russians are coming the Russians are coming is something they used too scare children if they wouldn't sleep in many countries after the war

[@krakrtreacysr907]

Zeros,,, and a 100000 dead ones at that..... Whats heroic about a bunch of untermesch rapist????

[@thalmoragent9344]

Not all of them were heroes...

[@krakrtreacysr907]

@@thalmoragent9344nor were they all bad

[@ArcticKnight98]

​@@thalmoragent9344more where than americans

[@pmtspmts8441]

Funny no one say what these Germans did to people

[@seanliver593]

The nazis infiltrated American society post war still alive today

[@mrtiabrown]

Show the real footage of the dead and show the public what war is really like

[@stomper2888]

look ot up yourself

[@Nightriders2009]

The camera man never dies

[@dougrobbins5367]

KZbin rules. You can't get too graphic.

[@martingrey2231]

You'll have to go to WPD for that.

[@seth101-hv4st]

Actually many camera men and reporters did die in WW2.

[@AbsoluteZero-lv8js]

Eastern Front was absolutely brutal

[@cuthbertjolly4859]

The Eastern Front saw the most intense battles in world history.

[@cuthbertjolly4859]

The Eastern Front saw the most intense battles in world history.

[@joethekinghawk7514]

Much much much much worse.

[@tonyromano6220]

Beyond comprehension.

[@andrewsmith3257]

The Pacific..was also brutal

[@armandvanderspil4905]

Bedankt

[@paulzellman9632]

The young Russian boys who died and won the European Eastern Front in WW2 must be forever congratulated and respected.

[@mikejames5743]

spoken like a true judeo bolshevik

[@dookjade3238]

Except for all the mass rapes of woman and children and murder of civilians.

[@Anglo_Saxon1]

Yes,they by far did most of the bleeding, and were often nothing but Stalin's cannon fodder.Unlike the Allied leaders who actually cared about the lives of their soldiers.

[@sjonroosgeurius9714]

He talk about young soldiers not their leaders

[@dougrobbins5367]

@@sjonroosgeurius9714 He may talk of their leaders if he wishes to do so. They were also brave and skillful, and you don't make rules for anyone here.

[@davidhoward4715]

"As you sow, so shall you reap."

[@richardwhitfill5253]

I love the history documentaries KZbin provides. Thank you.Richard in Dallas

[@azazelzel6954]

Germans still had over 200,000 troops in Norway during the Battle of Berlin, utter madness.

[@teddymcfail4359]

And your point? Who else was going to watch over the Norway populations? Do you need a spanking?

[@Jere.]

I've read that too.. Makes you wonder

[@andrewsmith3257]

The Generals were incompetent 😅

[@leedoss6905]

​@@andrewsmith3257Hitler was incompetent. Imagine a failed artist lunatic running the biggest war in history.

[@kdfulton3152]

The Battle of Berlin was Stalingrad on steroids. After seeing first hand the cruel damage and vast destruction by the Fascists, the Red Army was primed and full of retribution and they had earned the right. And Ike knew the Germans were done; why should he risk 2 million + American lives for bragging rights? Besides, Berlin itself was going to be divided into sectors. It made good strategic sense to let Stalin take Berlin, especially when America still had Japan to invade, he thought at that time. And he was right; taking Berlin and her outer-laying suburbs was another meat grinder.

[@theChiral]

Europe never learns. They are at it again

[@stanzanossi]

It is not just Europe! It is the whole world!😢

[@theChiral]

@@stanzanossi Europe loves wars. Large scale wars. History is clear

[@dell113211]

старые грабли ждут, если европа снова в деле, то может в этих граблях есть какая то прелесть?

[@paulpalmer6364]

In what way? Please explain!

[@dell113211]

@@paulpalmer6364 европа как идиот который однажды наступил на грабли которые ударили по голове и сегодня пытается опять наступить на те же грабли отсюда вывод - или нравится или с головой не дружит

[@chadczternastek]

I can't even begin to imagine the chaos that was Berlin, London, just any person during World War 2. I don't think anyone was immune to the brutality of war.

[@KorgKapperi]

My hometown suffered around 100 air raids, medieval centre was hit, more than 800 historical buildings zeroed, paintings by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci burned.. 11000 casualities

[@KorgKapperi]

Nothing compared to hamburg

[@billinct860]

@@KorgKapperi War is hell.

[@charrua59]

2 million German women raped by russian soldiers

[@hiousuke]

A very good documentary, but is kind of sad to see it censored, it's history here what we are watching, it's so stupid censoring it, it demerits all the excellent work poured on it.

[@mistershepherd6808]

What censorship? What am I missing?

[@renek243]

@@mistershepherd6808 graphic scenes being blurred, hard to miss really.

[@gordonilaoa1275]

I think this is why there's new history app platforms... As YT blanket bans on everything.

[@jamesmaddison4546]

​@@gordonilaoa1275has NOTHING TO DO WITH KZbin. I watched this on tv and it was censored on tv dude 🤦 whiners man blaming the wrong stuff

[@noktinnkynoktinnky1329]

​@@jamesmaddison4546duh that what they always do moron you want to see someone head split open on everyday tv to traumatized young children who happen to be watching tv? Wow what a great parents you are

[@張理-d8d]

while German soldiers slaughtered around, where were these German civilians ? yes, they could always excuse themselves of knowing nothing at all ! but, unless all the German civilians were idiots, they should had had noticed that many of those slaughters happened beyond the German territory, why they never asked why our soldiers were fighting abroad ? they deserved what happened after the Soviets came !

[@mirquellasantos2716]

I agree with you 100%. The smell of human decay can't be missed and I'm pretty sure Germans back then had noses. They all knew but just didn't care.

[@stanzanossi]

. Maybe many German civilians did not know because they really were idiots, as you yourself mentioned!😊

[@BELCAN57]

Some elements of the 9th Army managed to fight their way towards the 12th Army which was on the Western Front. Those survivors managed to surrender to the Americans and British.

[@dleechristy]

cowards

[@johnavast5939]

Dummy

[@gaoxiaen1]

@@dleechristy Ofcourse. They're willing to send others to their deaths, but not themselves. Just like Bunker Grandpa!

[@The_Crazy_Monkey75]

@@dleechristy Not really, they were smart.

[@hajime2k]

And most of them got turned over to the Soviets in the end.

[@danielnavarro5369]

Why is the audio always messed up when you guys upload? Love your videos btw

[@gern7535]

Thank you. I was going to say the same thing.

[@noone-td8rc]

Thanks

[@John_shepard]

Yes listening with headphones suck

[@ramamohamed8392]

This comment saved my right earphone because I was about to smash it!!

[@csabaszep8162]

Right, so the claim that the Western Allies didn't want Berlin is ridiculous. I can imagine that they didn't want to pay the price in casualties for this brutal battle but saying they weren't interested in taking the city is outright stupid.

[@extrahistory8956]

Generals Montgomery and Patton wanted to go all the way to Berlin, but Allied Commander-in-Chief Eisenhower had determined that Berlin was no longer a desirable objective for the Western Allies. He chose to allow Stalin to take Berlin while the American and British forces drove through central Germany to split out the remaining German forces.

[@johnberger4687]

@@extrahistory8956 Eisenhower was either a fool or something worse.

[@yashojha137]

@@johnberger4687 he won the war

[@johnberger4687]

@@yashojha137 Thank you for your courteous comment. When dealling with Stalin possession was ":nine-tenths of the law." Should we hold Roosevelt responsible? I believe Churchill wanted the Western Allies to meet the Russians as far to the East as possible, but by 1945 Britain was very much the "junior partner" in the alliance.

[@sirleo5103]

​@Yash Ojha yeah, right after the Soviets softened up the Germans while they faced the brunt of the German military might for 4 years. 75% of all German military defeats were at the hands of the Soviets.

[@FrankandCents28]

What I still don't understand, is that an army as weak and small as Germany, attempted to invade the mighty Soviet Union. This was really a wasteful act of stupidity.

[@ВладСавицки]

Слабая и маленькая? В Россию вторглась немецкая армия в 3000 000 солдат. Кроме немецкой во вторжении участвовали - финская, итальянская, хорватская, венгерская, румынская армии. А также французские, норвежские, испанские, польские, австрийские части. А также добровольцы из Бельгии, Голландии, Словакии.

[@FrankandCents28]

​@@ВладСавицкиThe German army was weak. They had a very small air force that was easily defeated by Britain, they didn't have a navy, and their army was mostly on foot or horse drawn. They lacked a good supply line, and their industrial output was very small compared to the allies and Soviet Union. Germany only produced three thousand tanks per year compared to the Soviet Union's 35,000, or America's 30,000.

[@polarbearwithaccesstointernet]

​@@FrankandCents28 go back and learn history

[@Дмитрий-х9з4г]

До вторжения в СССР вермахт завоевал всю Европу. На тот момент она была самая современная т хорошо вооружённая армич.

[@davidharris7235]

Hitler's arrogance

[@andrecharlier2555]

In a sense, the battle of Berlin was Stalingrad in reverse. And urban combat is no joke: we see that again in Bakhmut right now...

[@Mortablunt]

Artemvosk

[@mjs3343]

Raising the Soviet flag on the Reichstag is akin to the US Marines raising the US flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Both were well photographed and used to inspire the victors and historical record.

[@franc9111]

They had to do at least twice, the second time in daylight.

[@trtj200]

One thing that isn't mentioned very much is the trucks the Russians used weren't Russian, they were Lend Lease American trucks.

[@austinlancaster7982]

they love to forget about that

[@koontzzlyrics8098]

And it wasn't given for free

[@ario.gaming]

Cuman truck doang😆

[@robertstennett7566]

They were Studebaker Trucks, but not all, some were Russian Trucks.

[@Дмитрий-х9з4г]

😊прям всё американские грузовики. Оплаченные русской кровушкой.

[@herrcobblermachen]

The terrible thing about a lot of the footage here of the civilians is filmed AFTER the war. In some ways Berlin was worse immediately after the war than in the last weeks of April and early May, but regardless the footage is really powerful

[@macfly6237]

Hate to say it but the Germans experience Karma for what they did not only to the Jews and gypsies but also the violence and hell they unleashed to the Slavic peoples of the Soviet Union.

[@tiffanie888]

@@macfly6237 And nobody talks about how Stalin killed millions of his OWN people and Jews and Gypsy's. The Soviet Union and the soldiers were just as bad. Did the German women deserve to be raped by Russian soldiers? Why did they pay Karma for just being women. These two men were equally terrible, History is always skewed to show the losers and how they deserved what they got. It is not black and white

[@angrydoggy9170]

@@macfly6237 The Soviets didn’t really need any help in regards to unleashing hell on the Slavic people.

[@MonTube2006]

​@@macfly6237 Karma he says... You're a grown man right ? Do you have posters depicting astrology and the cosmos too ?

[@hattorihanzo562]

@@macfly6237 individual people have karma germans arent a hive

[@artram1655]

I visited Berlin recently. So much history there

[@sammurphy3343]

The Fortification and defense was truly very well done. it was simply impossible to stop all the soviet soilders. Just too much.

[@henryfox6293]

It’s clearly possible Bc the soviets did it at Leningrad against a much healthier force

[@thalmoragent9344]

​​@@henryfox6293 Well.... did the Russians stop them, or the terrain surrounding the fort?

[@Nightriders2009]

Just to say congratulations to the camera man for surviving and never dieing

[@gordonilaoa1275]

I watched a documentary on WWII reporters... Very good watch.

[@CM-ve1bz]

The last American killed in WWll was a cameraman

[@mikethebike2456]

🛵 It's become the most common quote for comment sections.

[@jpmtlhead39]

The battle for Berlim its no more than the second battle of Stalingrad. Same protagonist's,same Horrible conditions,same result.

[@scaredy-cat]

Eisenhower strikes me as a political dupe in dealing with Stalin, as well as other so called leaders

[@franc9111]

The politicians had already decided the outcome, Eisenhower's telegram to Stalin was just confirmation of that. He was obeying orders. The US Military had also lost many men in combat in Europe and the war with the Japanese was far from over. Zhuvkov was also going to be sent out to the Soviet-Chinese border to begin a drive against the Japanese Army there. Nothing could be taken for granted.

[@samanthaeduardamoreira1630]

Absolutely gruesome battle: so many casualties. Horrific. Excellent documentary, it really puts things in perspective and shows how soldiers on both sides are destituted of any humanit other than the survival instinct.

[@rebekahwhite2939]

Some of my Dad Fred White's family members died in the Holocaust. My Dad, Fred White was born on April 23, 1917, and he was in the NAVY during World War 2. There are exhibits at some of the museums for documents that are kept on file for family members of people who died in the Holocaust. There is also a genealogy research library at some of the Jewish centers. My Dad, Fred White's gravesite is located at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York in Long Island.

[@johnberger4687]

Blurring the dead bodies (?) is childish defacement of history. The dead should not be censored out of history (with the possible exception of nude corpses). Anyone old enough to be interested in this history should be able to handle the occasional sight of a dead body or someone being carried on a stretcher.

[@joethekinghawk7514]

Welcome to censor and cancel culture, pathetic isn’t it.

[@gregorybaltzer2736]

They show nude bodies of holocaust victims..just saying

[@markprange2430]

25:08 Stalingrad--Germans in the old section downtown in mid-September 1942. 26:51 Stalingrad shown in German newsreel "Die Deutsche Wochenschau." 31:40 Stalingrad--Germans in the north corner of Barrikady gun factory. 31:44 Stalingrad North. 33:43 From a Soviet film on Stalingrad. 33:54 Stalingrad Center seen from the belfry of Svyatotroitskoi Church. 37:18 Stalingrad's old section downtown, on Bolshievitskaya Ulitsa. 37:27 Stalingrad North.

[@obi-wankenobi1750]

Lol

[@frankiehunter.]

Stalin was a very capable prime minister and minister of defence. He was really prepared for the war and showed great bravery, shrewdness and intelligence.

[@theblondesiouxsiesioux]

Trolling I presume?

[@PatrickW-en6cj]

@@theblondesiouxsiesiouxnot trolling, this is the normal brainwashed state of the average Russian

[@franc9111]

I don't know the figures (in fact I'm not sure that anyone does) of the German soldiers who survived in Berlin, but there is Soviet newsreel of the German generals coming out of underground shelters at the moment of surrender and then being placed on a street corner and having to salute their troops who are being marched off into captivity in front of them. The numbers of troops seem quite considerable and they also seem to be in quite reasonable condition. I understand that Soviet losses in Berlin on the other hand were enormous, because troops were sent directly into the line of fire en masse in tactics that were reminiscent of WW1.

[@michaelmelamed9103]

Fortress Berlin. Four days. Red army losses 81 000 killed and 280 000 wounded. German 92 000 killed and 220 000 wounded. 22 000 German civilians were killed.

[@darh3375]

My understanding also, and the largest battle of ww2 , the youngest German soldiers often fighting to their death.

[@charrua59]

2 million raped German women to

[@thalmoragent9344]

​@@darh3375 Yep, so many young men, it was a tragedy

[@seth101-hv4st]

It was nearly as big a battle as Stalingrad.

[@thegamingchef3304]

Something tells me his Generals didnt fear Hitler's wrath, but instead probably felt sorry for him towards the end of the war.

[@mycull]

My right ear is feeling so lonely.

[@chrisvandenhoek5335]

Tough as it is to see, the people who lived it can't blur things out, neither should we

[@raymundovergararoman2473]

I read in many military history books about the battle for Berlin, with statistics that the Germans had 1,500 tanks before the russians; but this is a fictitious figure because the 3rd panzerarmee of Manteuffel and the 9th army of Busse had 242 and 512 respectively that adds 756; so the remaining 744 were inoperative, and surely due to mechanical failures and lack of spare parts. Why historians never clears out anything about it?

[@glennmcdonald2028]

They didn't have enough Petrol at that time either...

[@raymundovergararoman2473]

@@glennmcdonald2028 fuel better said, you wanted to say fuel don't? Well, during the battle for berlin when the Germans leaded a last attack against Bautzen, still them had fuel. In the meantime the last panzersbteilungen available at Courland were fighting and the last few surviving hs-129 were bringing coverage to the German army in his withdrawal from Hungary. It's incredible but Germans still had fuel for various operations at the second half of April 1945

[@glennmcdonald2028]

@@raymundovergararoman2473 And they still ran out of fuel...Oil-fields gone, Refineries destroyed, Rail Transport Crippled...

[@raymundovergararoman2473]

​@@glennmcdonald2028 and no one denies it; what just is incredible for me is that, still were able to bring air coverage to his retreating troops in Hungary during April 1945, specially difficult because after the Hungarian surrender it was nothing but a huge hole at the position occupied by the former 3rd Hungarian army.

[@thewhitedoncheadle8345]

well how many parts does a spear need. surely its just steal and wood

[@pacsqcfan9718]

This is nothing comparing to Stalingrad.

[@Muntan_17]

31:00 That's because the Russians and other Slavic nations were greatly angered by the horrific atrocity committed by the Germans during the operation Barbarossa on the Slavic race whom they considered "inferior to German & Nordic Aryans". They wanted to settle the scores....

[@Anglo_Saxon1]

Eisenhower and his deputies weren't daft.Why waste 100.000 taking the City when someone else is chomping at the bit to do it instead.

[@bakulubaka8661]

I wonder how long it took to clean this mess up and rebuild the city of Berlin.

[@Napolean45]

About 7 to 10 years.

[@GooseGumlizzard]

about a decade

[@stanzanossi]

Don't worry, the Germans are never so happy as they are when they are cleaning things!😊😊😊

[@zapdunga12]

Could you imagine if we had to take Tokyo and Japan like this????

[@normanshaw1970]

they estimated 1 million casualties on the assault for Japan. They prepared by making purple hearts. The ones we give out today to soldiers were made in the 40s

[@carlgreisheimer8701]

@normanshaw1970 the Fire bombing that the USAAC Unleashed one night on TOKYO still holds the record (200,000) for the most people killed in one night's air raid.

[@sirleo5103]

Instead, they dropped nuclear bombs and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and irradiated 2 cities, ensuring generations of birth defects.

[@sirleo5103]

​@normanshaw1970 lol. Are there any other countries that reward their soldiers for being wounded? It's such a waste of resources. Imagine what all that metal can be used for.

[@carlgreisheimer8701]

@@sirleo5103 The metal used is so insignificant. But not acknowledging their sacrifice can have dire consequences

[@madgringo9263]

The biggest Battle in WW2 and the Red Army took Berlín in a few days.

[@CM-ve1bz]

It took the Russian army 4 years to advance the same distance you can drive in less than a day, while fighting on only one front

[@madgringo9263]

@@CM-ve1bz the Germán Army that invaded the USSR is the biggest invading force ever seen in human history.... The end result being; ...never was an Army so utterly defeated as the Germán and their other Fascists allied armies were by the Red Army in the USSR...Eastern Europe and Germany itself.....they even smashed the Japanese Army in Manchuria in the very end of Ww2.

[@wisdom_hunter9036]

Keep the bangers coming. Been studying about WW2 the past 6yrs. About to start my journey into WW1. Plus ive been reading books about the Nazis. I appreciate the work your putting on my guy. #GodSpeed

[@Crashed131963]

Watch the series "Soviet Storm" great WW2 documentary series. KZbin has it in their search.

[@wisdom_hunter9036]

@@Crashed131963 will do my friend. Appreciate it 👍

[@marceletiennou5182]

Les derniers défenseurs de la chancellerie de Berlin étaient français pas vraiment 1 honneur

[@Daniel-fq5vq]

Any good book recommendations? It’s almost about reading about monsters and villains when you think about it! Third Reich was a wicked foe but I’m glad af the allied powers stepped up so hard

[@marceletiennou5182]

Livre ,”les bienveillances, sur les crimes nazis dans les territoires de l’est

[@mattanderson6336]

37:32 They forgot to blur out two bodies.

[@Joe-ym6bw]

Germany was completely flattened amazing damage

[@onlythewise1]

ten countrys attack it

[@Crashed131963]

It was bombed day and night by the British and US for 2 years.

[@Crashed131963]

@@glennmcdonald2028 That means pretty well flatten.

[@ambercombs5346]

Russia should have kept Berlin. They obviously didn't learn their lesson.About poking the BEAR.Or they wouldn't be sending weapons to Ukraine.

[@firstname3343]

@@ambercombs5346 Lol like Russia didn't already try and fail with the Berlin Wall.

[@edl1973]

Love these. Keep them coming. Thank

[@noone-td8rc]

Thanks you man.

[@DD-fj2ut]

Blurry, blurry, blurry, so annoying to be treated like children….

[@kingdaviYT049]

Actually, Stalin never believed Eisenhower -- hence the urgency to capture it, and also the encirclement to make sure the Americans & Brits couldn't get there first.

[@franc9111]

Yes you are very right, this was in spite of the fact that this had been agreed upon beforehand. But in fact Stalin didn't trust anybody, so when the Nazis invaded Russia, he had to learn to trust his generals. He had previously purged most of the top Soviet Army officer corps to such an extent, that there weren't very many competent army strategists left. Even then, after the War he was very suspicious of them becoming more popular than himself. Zhuvkov was lucky, but of course he was sent away from Moscow, other generals didn't fare so well. Ironically it was Zhuvkov in agreement with others in the CP who enabled the arrest and execution of Beria after Stalin's death. Stalin didn't trust Beria either.

[@fpscanada3862]

My father said the food problem in eastern germany was so much worse after the war than even at the end of it.

[@ricksanchez5002]

BTW, this was a very good documentary.

[@ericellebracht3407]

Let's hope the war in the Ukraine doesn't get fought like this

[@jeanmeslier9491]

The Russian soldiers deserved Berlin. I have heard the argument pro and con since 1945. Yea, I'm that old.

[@davidharris7235]

Are you still here on 9/30/24?

[@joejones8810]

It is interesting to note that military tacticians are trained to recognize the evil of mankind and dismiss kindness.

[@documax123]

Stalin's march to Berlin was like Sherman's to Savannah, making Georgia (and Germany) howl.

[@charrua59]

They went on a raping campaign

[@sst6555]

Very poor comparison; Sherman did not target civilians, in fact tried not to harm them. but destroyed military factory and area's. of cities supporting them; and took food, livestock etc. from 20-40 miles in his line of March. to win a war , you have to destroy the enemy troops or there supply base. the Soviets did not target civilians as a battle plan, but if they are in the way they were destroyed, Repaid the same or worse treatment the Germans inflicted on Russian families, the German people thought of Russian people as animals, not even human beings in their thinking. The Germans only objective in Russia was to kill people, and take their land and resources.

[@documax123]

@sst6555 I guess you're saying that one of the sides of the comparison - or both - didn't then 'howl.' Or weren't a march with a destination then. Because that's all I said and referred to. Otherwise, thanks for your superior knowledge and the information.

[@marckcarbonelloifveteran410]

The Soviets and the Nazis were similarly evil. I did not glorify neither communists or Nazis. They were the same.

[@jsmcmxlvii]

Using Mussolini's definition of fascism, the merger of the state with the corporate sector, then the Communists were the biggest fascists of all. Under communism, the corporation and the government are the same thing.

[@РаненВойник]

Superb documentary 👏

[@prcc]

Why no sound on the right channel?

[@mjs3343]

The Germans could have simply surrendered

[@sujitkumardas911]

Winston churchill confessed in house of commons of british parliament, " it is the red army that has torn the guts out of german war machinary.... ". This is historically true. Before making comment one should keep it in mind that little knowledge is dangerous thing.

[@ramkanjeenterprises5416]

Very good documentary about world war 2. Just puts me on edge.

[@billotto602]

Is there ANYWHERE to watch these videos without Utube's effing CENSORSHIP ??? 🤬🤬🤬

[@NorthCharlton]

On American television mid-afternoon until society went crazy. Children being gunned down on the streets of our American cities, yet historic footage of a man carving up a horse carcass is too much for the sensitive hand flapping anxiety ridden schoolmarms of the modern era.

[@marclaporte3710]

I'm not saying this documentary is bad but.... they just don't make em like they used to. Real history buffs know exactly what I'm talking about.

[@brufnus]

In many ways, Berlin was the German version of Stalingrad, except for the duration.

[@Skipjack7814]

"Fegelein!! Fegelein FEGELEIN!!!!"

[@Alexzander19736]

1:23 What kinda gun is that. siege, bunkerknocker or .. ??

[@Beesareessential]

Brand new sub here. Keep putting out content like this and u have a loyal fan. ThNx

[@Netlife-001]

I stop watching any video that blurs out images. Managed 6 minutes with yours. Maybe if everyone does the same we can go back to sensible history uploads from youtube.

[@scotgrig6840]

All i could hear in the back of my mind while watching this is the russian theme from world at war with thousands upon thousands of russians yelling while the city is getting destroyed.

[@John_shepard]

Just replayed that this week hahah rip reznov

[@johnishikawa2200]

The German civilian population were getting a taste of what the civilians of the nations like Poland , France , the Netherlands , Denmark , Russia , and many other countries experienced when it was the German armies that waged aggressive war against those innocent people only a few short years before .

[@terryschnaider5374]

Good episode. 🇨🇦🔥

[@KannaFan]

20:01 that date seems wrong. Footage looks more like some time in July, 1944...

[@kadimaalain2658]

After watching this all I can say is women should never let their children love wars

[@keithbrown7685]

It's a two-person job. The father needs to have the attitude as well.

[@tomaserlandsson7546]

Why is the sound in mono?

[@cragjones1799]

Decent, but you have made some atrocious mistakes. Konev was not a "rival" of Zhukov, thats ridiculous. Zhukov was the supreme military leader , after Stalin of course, in the Red Army. Zhukov stood alone at the top of the military hierarchy. Zero dispute about this... Konev was a huge General but second tier under Zhukov

[@alone-tt8dg6ic6f]

Without Russia, France and the EU will never be competitive. Your product will be costlier than the US and China. China will purchase cheap passenger planes from the US and extract other opportunities. China will be beneficial like India and Asia to get cheap energy sources for production. The war is meant to destroy the EU economy by the US. Mr. Macron, where were your values when the US and all your Western allies invaded Iraq and Libya with false pretexts. Fell atom bomb on Japan, invade Vietnam, Colonise Africa, and fed your populace with slave labor? It is better to be independent rather than a puppet of the US.

[@harukrentz435]

And Zhukov saved Konev's a$$ when Stalin wanted to execute him at the start of the war! I think the only red army general who can match Zhukov was Konstatin Rokossovsky and he was senior to Zhukov!

[@neal.karn-jones]

Of course they were rivals. All Generals are rivals. Just because Zhukov was at the top doesn't mean there weren't dozens more Generals looking to take his place. Stalin made sure to play his Generals against each other so if there wasn't a natural or existing rivalry Stalin created one. That was how he worked. He played everyone against each other.

[@gregpenny4384]

do not like watching a doc that has been edited, what is the big deal with the old man cutting the horse being blanked out? I can't watch this. will go find it some where that has not destroyed this fantastic doc!

[@zakimtshali8105]

My favorite channel

[@hochlaenderhigh8317]

Thanks to the left speaker... this doku has sound on one side... poor, sad think, hope there is a reupload

[@Xerroxi]

my left ear enjoyed this video. but why censor history?

[@nickredbear4094]

5:55 was he cutting up a human or a animal whys it blurred out

[@MaheshMahesh-gz9fv]

Why Only US & UK The So Called Experts Opinion In Documentary ? Why not The Russian Military Expersts Preservative ?

[@toudi_p]

Because they say ww2 started for them in 1941 , not in 1939 when they invaded poland with germans

[@MaheshMahesh-gz9fv]

@@toudi_p Half Baked.

[@toudi_p]

@@MaheshMahesh-gz9fv medium rare

[@ryanvogel9610]

Where can i watch all these good documentaries without all the censoring?

[@eddyeddyd]

Good video

[@jonasemilaksnes]

6:31 anyone know what song that is?

[@orestesjaviervergaraborges9368]

Excellent documentary. Honor And Glory to the Soviet Army

[@garyallowayjralloway2126]

This why playing ww2 video games are the best because I demolished the red army in Berlin

[@cascadianrangers728]

Look at all the kv1 footage! Love it

[@ThatGuy-mu2rr]

The censoring is really pissing me off.

[@Joaocruz30]

02:32 Already at that time the Russians were hated... Yes, Of course there was a race between the USA and the USSR between the USA and the USSR to see who reached Berlin first, and even Winston Churchill also wanted the allies to advance quickly. It was diplomatic to have more bargaining chips in terms of the land invaded to prevent the Russians from taking a huge share of German territory. This was already predicting the Berlin Wall and what later became the Cold War with NATO and the Warsaw Pact!

[@franc9111]

Wrong. The division of Germany between the Allies had already been decided on. There was no question of the Western Allies fighting their way into Berlin.

[@westtexas7]

Took the world to defeat Germany.

[@dougrobbins5367]

So they're good at killing. If you think that makes them superior, pull your head out. Don't drag your knuckles along the ground. We beat you guys in 1945 and now you won't shut up.

[@mirquellasantos2716]

Germany is a great loser and it is used to losing.

[@ogbighomie9738]

To be fair the Soviets had regained hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land before the allied landings in France

[@RRM13]

Hello from São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷.

[@IronWarhorsesFun]

Ah the home of the Smoking Snakes!

[@RRM13]

@@IronWarhorsesFun Exactly. "A cobra vai fumar".