Downfall: The Battle of Berlin 1945 (Documentary)

[@realtimehistory]

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[@theblackhand6485]

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[@Stps872]

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[@inappropriatejohnson]

Thanks again, Jesse, and thanks to all that worked on this.

[@jessealexander2695]

You're welcome!

[@BlueCollaredGrit]

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[@Aakkosti]

3:09 You know you’ve made it as a history channel when you can cite yourself as a source.

[@realtimehistory]

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[@nvelsen1975]

When 'because I said so' is no longer a fallacy, but an argument. 😆

[@LuGer212]

Citing oneself was always the most credible source of estimeed scholars. - me, on the internet, 2024.

[@punishedvenomsnake716]

I can never get enough about the Battle of Berlin, such a fascinating struggle, a real epic in the history of war without equal. The end of not only the most lethal war in human history but also of the most ideologically driven conflict. Imagine being a Soviet soldier and planting the red flag in the home of an enemy who didn't even consider you a human being. The vindication in victory must have been beyond description.

[@kbanghart]

But then the Reich lived on in the survivors, and that must have been maddening.

[@kungfuchimp5788]

The battle for one city with its casualties and losses, compared to nearly all following conflicts (barring China and southeast Asia), is unbelievable. My father-in-law was born in '39 Berlin and luckily lived through the carnage... he won't talk about it.

[@Nicolas-ol7jl]

ofcourse because he was a baby that time duh

[@kungfuchimp5788]

@Nicolas-ol7jl Apparent you can't perform basic math calculations?

[@LeicaFleury]

@@Nicolas-ol7jl The battle of berlin took place when this person's father was already six years old.

[@BobFisher.]

Thanks for the excellent content as always

[@masudashizue777]

Our high school German teacher, Miss Preis, was in the midst of all of this. How she managed to survive and move to Okinawa to teach us German for the Department of Defense in the 1970's is a mystery.

[@PeterMayer]

Same with my entire family.

[@micahthegodjr]

You're channel is the only history channel I have seen that I watch the entire video without falling asleep.

[@octavian9279]

What a great video..the quality and information in all of your videos never cease to amaze me

[@mademan7641]

A big thank you to Real Time History and all of the work you guys do

[@Henrywinswars]

Ive been waiting for this! Ive always wanted to know more about this battle.

[@umber_wall]

thanks for keeping educational programming alive.

[@Pawn445]

holy cow first time watching on this channel. mind blowing documentary style.

[@realtimehistory]

Welcome aboard!

[@DimaGrudin]

Excellent and unique coverage, well done!

[@Nicolas-ol7jl]

your narration, your animation and video is so amazing. it is so gripping as if Im a soldier in berlin

[@Curlyhowardfan]

😮I thought I would never see this on KZbin! Thank you Real time History!😊

[@davidtrotter269]

Again, you never cease to provide in-depth and factual content. even in the abridged version, it's an excellent dive in a pitoval point in human history. Love the content and keep telling the astounding, vivacious, real history ❤

[@theplayerofus319]

thx for the upload

[@brianmcevoy1990]

Wouldnt it have been something if they caught Hitler and Goebels alive.

[@coling3957]

everyone knew it would never happen. it was why neither went on the run.. too much risk of capture and then the inevitable humiliation and execution...... the fate of all fallen dictators.

[@kbanghart]

​@@coling3957Himmler went on the run for a little bit, but he was wayyyyy delusional.

[@TheRealTalar]

Amazing video, as always! Also thanks for mentioning Polish troops as a part of the Soviet force, it's something that's rarely mentioned and remembered, even here in Poland.

[@bigsarge2085]

Fascinating, thank you!

[@johnhart125]

This was a terrible thing as all war is, having seen its horror first hand, I found this heartbreaking but very informative. A great video, now Ill have to watch the 16 days video. In small batches to be sure

[@Agooo13431]

"We freed Europe from fascism and they will never forgive us." General Zukhov

[@cheften2mk]

The flags may be different but the methods are the same. As a Cod game said 14 years ago

[@LethalJizzle]

Poland: Yeah thanks a bunch. You're so helpful.

[@lawnbb12372]

I wouldn't say freed, more like under new management.

[@bluesteel8376]

@@lawnbb12372 Ya, the soviets definitely did not free anyone or any country.

[@H3LLGHA5T]

maybe because communism was no better than fascism

[@fookdatchit]

Cracking narration as always. Top post TYVM

[@HistoryBeyondBordersTV]

the excellent content, many thanks

[@stevenewman1393]

😉👍Very nicely greatly well done and very wonderfully well informatively explained and executed in every detail way shape and format provided on "Downfall: The Battle of Berlin 1945!"; A job very nicely fabulously well done indeed Sir's!👌.

[@chrisamburgey5507]

My grandmother was one of the thousands of civilians caught in the mayhem🥺

[@chush14]

Thanks for the video upload. Was hoping for a little less depressing of a topic though lol.

[@PeterMayer]

I don't know how my mother, her parents, and relatives made it while living in Berlin.

[@kbanghart]

That's wild

[@arjanasimov5933]

Thank you 🙏, very clear, detailed and of course very interesting presentation! 👍

[@jl88570]

Thank you very much for this Jesse. Excellent work. Make a video and for the Greco-italian war please 😉👍👌.

[@realtimehistory]

we will soon cover the Greece, at least the first half of the campaign in a video about the Mediterranean theatre in 1940

[@jl88570]

@realtimehistory Alright. Thank you very much. I'd also like to see more of the Napoleonic wars in the future. When you are available.

[@micahistory]

Great video, I love your documentaries

[@McPeanuts5738]

This deserves millions of views

[@henrikg1388]

Your videos are, as always, top notch. Such a madness!

[@patrickmcglynn5383]

Thank you for your compelling narrative and engaging visuals but most of all for your correct pronunciation.

[@Nicolas-ol7jl]

its such a well made video

[@Kanbei11]

I watched this on nebula but I wanted to say thank you for putting this out as well as the sixteen days in Berlin (which i still need to watch) I could also go for some Currywurst right now 😢

[@generalsandnapoleon]

Fascinating!

[@SortenRavn]

Really have to give it to you. Not many english speaking are so well in german name pronouncations Often the accent are super heavy but yours are pretty much spot on

[@jessealexander2695]

Thanks, I speak it fluently!

[@darthcanucks]

Please do the Boer War next🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@michaelhoffmann2891]

"you must be tired of life" in German is "ihr seid wohl lebensmüde", which has much more of the outright connotation of "you're suicidal".

[@Polar-nv1oy]

KZbin when they see educational video : 👺 When they see brain rot video : 🤑

[@RayRay-jg7pw]

what was that tiny tank at 3:20 ?

[@realtimehistory]

it's called a Leichter Ladungsträger Goliath

[@PeepingTom-xy9di]

@@realtimehistory the germans have crazy way of naming their weapons.

[@LemonHead-sq5ws]

It’s not a tank that’s a tracked mine called Goliath one of the first unmanned ground vehicles or UGVs

[@MichaelJansen-y5i]

It always makes me sad...

[@honodle7219]

William Schirer, in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, referred to this terrible battle and ending as "Gotterdammerung', the twilight of the gods.

[@bruhism173]

Vets talk about combat high, Imagine how high this would have gotten you.

[@ideas4682]

I am new here in this Channel and this is the first Video I subscribe..I'm not German, when I first heard this admin voice I was convinced that a German is Teaching about the Berlin war. Hearing a German perspective for the first time felt that Germans don't know much about themselves. As far as non-Germans know.. More to see your channel Videos & Thanks for those German Pronunciation..

[@aymankhan2670]

@realtimehistory please make a video series on Italian wars of unification against Austrian Empire

[@aarontheamazing1985]

Love you Jesse

[@AustrianPainter14]

Making the Soviet forces sound like humane liberators lol

[@andrewsoboeiro6979]

Curious why tanks & self-propelled guns are lumped together; aren’t those rather different things?

[@waveygravey9347]

Depends on how you define what a "tank" is.

[@hailexiao2770]

In urban combat, tanks generally aren't fighting other tanks or exploiting breakthroughs, but supporting infantry and destroying fortifications, ie assault gun work.

[@flarvin8945]

@@waveygravey9347 exactly. Many self-propelled guns would meet the some definitions of 'tank', an armored fighting vehicle with tracks and a gun.

[@LemonHead-sq5ws]

@@hailexiao2770that’s not what he asked

[@kidmohair8151]

"give me ten years and you won't recognize Germany". not quite last words and only moderately well known, but, a promise kept... (now. off to lunch!)

[@theblackhand6485]

But there sure was a American scout group containing journalists heading towards Berlin and entered It. It even could be there were some other scout groups too. Who knows.

[@graczek1tolamus]

10:29 At strehla or Leckwitz*. Torgau was 4,5h later ;p

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

1:03 why did he do this? And could any allied divisions reach Berlin?

[@Dionysus784]

2:48 my hometown Kustrin

[@micahistory]

I also made a video on this topic but nice to see this here

[@TheMysteryDriver]

20:31 "the second world war in Europe ends on May 8th9th " 😅

[@grf15]

I always love this person's narration. What I hate, is the reality of rape in every sector of the war. China, Russia, Germany, Italy, and beyond, the list is tragic.

[@thebunkerparodie6368]

I read jean lopez book on hitler last days, it was interesting since it didn't solely focused on hitler himself and when it did, it sometimes had reports on his health from morell , it also mention the immediate post war.

[@pratapbalakrishna3036]

When , Eisenhower, insisted on , Unconditional Surrender' , this ensured tremendous defence of the Fatherland.by the Germans.

[@nvelsen1975]

"Could go for some Currywurst Lunch right now" Achievement unlocked: Assimilated fully into German society. 😉

[@AdmiralRamirez7]

8:25 those names are familiar

[@patrickfoley4185]

Love the currywurst shout out at the end. That's my go-to at the German Christmas festival here in Chicago. 😋

[@realtimehistory]

do you know which style they serve? The Ruhr area one (sausage in casing) or Berlin style (without casing). In any case glad you get to experience this culinary highlight of German cusinie.

[@NoMoreCrumbs]

Absolutely brutal environment to have to fight in. Can't imagine how tough the average red army soldier was

[@jarraandyftm]

No different from any soldier in any nation of the time.

[@MUHAMMADAWAIS-g6y]

Now battle of Leyte gulf,Stalingrad, kieve,Kharkov and leningrade

[@bayuajifebriyanto]

Steiner and wenck? Sound familiar name to me

[@AdmiralRamirez7]

These men will stay here

[@5552-d8b]

Viktor reznov “it is a honor and privilege”

[@snapdragon6601]

For a country that's so determined to stop the US from running a unipolar world, timing their military goals to line up with US political events (January 20th) sure makes it look to the rest of the world like they're continuing to dance to the same old American music. 🎶 😆

[@PepinieraDraghiceni]

👍👍

[@MaclovioJLopez]

Who did all the cleanup and the cost of repairs to rebuild Europe?

[@rbs1997]

So Steiner's counterattack, in fact, will not come

[@bro94ee]

What poles where there . Where did you get that evidence.

[@cgray8267]

Look it up … he is 100% correct , in fact a very famous picture exists of Polish infantry raising the polish flag over Berlin ! Over 200,000 took part in the initial push to Germany 🇩🇪

[@bro94ee]

@cgray8267 it was one guy from poland .

[@hlynnkeith9334]

Ja! Curriewurst!

[@aryan-bx9nk]

Despite western propoganda red army proved themselves the bravest army in 2nd world war

[@jessealexander2695]

Western propaganda praised the Red Army during WW2.

[@ron88303]

I'm not aware anybody said otherwise. Sorry if you're little feelings were hurt.

[@yigaedward7343]

Jesus is great that those times ended

[@pyeitme508]

YEp

[@estebancastellino3284]

👍

[@dericspencer5728]

Weird to see the conflagration in the Spreevald, had a branch of our family die out there.

[@Beijingbenj]

Sounds like Ukraine 2024 with Russia. History always repeats it.

[@ionized007]

What?

[@merlinwizard1000]

22nd, 6 December 2024

[@CharlesMosier-p6t]

Without the practices and influences of the USSR's allies the Soviet Union would not have overcome Germany. The Germans had committed substantial military and economic resources outside of the USSR throughout the war.

[@limeychefboy]

Goddamit, now i want currywurst:)

[@Ahhhhhhh-z1p]

I love how the germans made a anti-tank rocket propelled Gernade without recoil known as the Panzerfaust.

[@davey7452]

Many Germans were still fighting tooth and nail against the Soviets hoping the delay will allow their families and friends escape west.

[@lacasadelvideojuego3880]

Maybe they shouldn’t have started the war in first place

[@ErikLundgren-p5p]

Do u believe they had been asked?

[@Bolivianhyaguer]

As a soviet soldier says in his time: THEIR LAND, THEIR BLOOD!! 🧉🗿

[@js1423]

So, no mercy towards innocent civilians. How “heroic” from them

[@Cpt_John_Price]

"SUKA BLYAT RUSH B" in real life

[@theawesomeman9821]

By 1945, the Germans had no problems surrendering their towns, cities, and their own lives to the Americans and British without a fight. They were aware how lenient the Americans and British would be. However, when it came to the Soviets, the Germans fought desperately because they knew the Soviets would be cruel and commit atrocities.

[@WhenInDarknessSeekTheLight]

The Germans knew the Western Allies were like them in their facist sympathies.

[@МаринаКислая-у5ф]

А ты не.знаешь что делали нацисты в Союзе?

[@LemonHead-sq5ws]

The tank letting the two Germans live is a bs story how would they even have understood him speaking Russian lol

[@crumpetcommandos779]

Didn't it say he crushed them with his treads?

[@kerberos623]

@@crumpetcommandos779two different stories. Thread crush was taking the heights early on, letting them live was later in berlin

[@crumpetcommandos779]

@@kerberos623 cheers man

[@joemiller9931]

There were Russians who spoke German, and vice versa.

[@barppoots4378]

Soviet orcs using meat wave tactics just like modern orcs today.

[@DanielGarcia-kw4ep]

That is a N4zi myth that the germans used to cope, and the west ate it all up because they would side with literal N4zis before communists, that is why they did othing to stop Hitler until it was too late. How ridicolous it is or the Ubermensch to be totally screwed up by the people they considered the scum of the earth, so butthurt that you're still coping decades before

[@nbaraona56]

Russian KIA = 150k max. Ukr KIA = 500k min.

[@sthrich635]

The German Reich all gave their fight to the very end inside Berlin itself. The Allies and Soviets weren't facing the Imperial army and Kaiser's mismanaged homefront that just gave up and walked away. This time they were facing the Third Reich Wehrmacht, SS, even Volkssturm together holding out to the last bullet. It was do or die and there would be no next chance or next fight from them - both Germans and Allies had made very sure of that.

[@jessealexander2695]

Many Germans, including SS, surrendered or ran away. Some Germans also fought on simply because they were afraid of summary executions by the SS or officers. We discuss this in the video. This is well documented, including by the Germans themselves.

[@raigarmullerson4838]

Wow, this is amazing. Thank you for all the hard work and effort you guys put in to make these videos. Cheers from Estonia

[@epicazeroth]

Great video overall as always, love the little nods to the Downfall movie. I think it's important to note that the Western Allies engaged in rape against German civilians as well, though not to the same extent as the Soviets.

[@lucagerulat307]

Statistically an allied soldier was as likely to rape a civilian as a soviet soldier. There were just a lot more soviet soldiers. Interestingly the least likely to rape were African American soldiers although Germans were the most afraid of these.

[@crumpetcommandos779]

Nowhere near the same extent

[@seanbumstead1250]

Donitz wasn't in Germany he was in command up North

[@chrille27]

How come there are so many soviet sources? I'd prefer to hear something less coloured by propaganda, considering everything they published during and after the war- about the war.

[@dpeasehead]

@chrille27: The whole "greatest generation" passion play which is pushed by many historians, politicians and common people in the west is just as much propaganda as anything which has emerged out of Russia about world war II. The downplaying of the roles and the price paid by Asian nations such as China and India and the disappearance of the central role that colonial troops played in enabling both the British Commonwealth to fight on and the French to play a role in 1944 and 1945 are just some of many huge holes in the western narratives of the war.

[@davideriksson399]

And still it sickens my heart to see a picture of the red flag in Berlin. 😢

[@DimaGrudin]

Немцы решили свою судьбу. How else would you have expected it to end.

[@paulcateiii]

may have ended differently without lend-lease

[@JNF590]

Their the reason that happened, they made the choice.

[@davideriksson399]

@@JNF590 You know thst the Soviet Union waged war or annexed Poland,Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania before. They would have invaded other European countries as well. Germany invaded pre emptively and would have succeeded if America wouldn't have given Russia deep pockets.

[@Guillaume_sono]

@@paulcateiiino

[@mikeeB-m5h]

Quite an odd one as the Red army's force command were designated to where the army(or majority) came from, as per the 2 Belurussian and 1 Ukrainian front, not as numbered army corps. Even in Soviet times, each nation in the block is different from each other, so why force it to become one block(or in the current status-invading ones neighbor)

[@jessealexander2695]

The Soviet Fronts (equivalent of Army Groups) were geographically designated for the place they were operating when created, not by ethnic makeup. There was no majority of Belarussians or Ukrainians in the Fronts carrying those names. Not that this in any way justifies Russia's current attempts to restore its empire today, of course.

[@WilkensTokarev3]

As a Russian I'll say Israel dislikes this 😅 🇷🇺🤜🇮🇱

[@МаринаКислая-у5ф]

Но мы их спасли от тотального уничтожения.