The Mistake That Killed Hitler | Full Documentary

[@ilokivi]

Contrary to the narrator's assertion at 12:08, by January 1945 Germany had already lost occupied territories in France, Belgium, Italy, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Greece, Yugoslavia, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia, Hungary and most of Poland. It was still fighting, not for victory but to avoid defeat.

[@MilitarySummaryChannel2024]

Hitler's invasion of Russia failed for the same reasons Napoleon's invasion of Russia failed. Stiff resistance, the harsh Russian winter and incredibly long supply lines!

[@tjanderson5892]

Wasn't actually winter that led to failure. More the fact that they weren't able to defeat the SU within a couple months max like they planned.

[@michaelmckeel3992]

Don't forget the massive aid provided by the communist's greatest ally... the USA.

[@normanklein3155]

I didn't know that Napoleon's invasion of Russia failed for a lack of gasoline.

[@kieranororke620]

​@@normanklein3155True, but fodder for horses and food for men were effectively the same thing in 1812.

[@Josh-hr5mc]

Well it's many reasons for the failure they still could have won the war 1-2 years later. It was mistake after mistake after mistake​@@tjanderson5892

[@tommeredith7462]

Hitler would admonish his soldier’s freezing to death in Russia, be a Man fight until death. Meanwhile soldiers had frostbite missing ears, fingers and Manhood extremities.

[@canuck_gamer3359]

Hitler authored a catalogue of mistakes. And it could very easily be argued that the only difference between his early so called "successes" and his ultimate defeat was that his luck changed. More accurately, he faced determined and organized resistance.

[@VickersV]

No he just got power hungry

[@ridethecurve55]

And started overruling his generals, making many bad judgements about the tactics of the war on the Eastern Front. Splitting up armies, moving forward too fast, before the enemy was defeated behind the front line, issuing no warm clothing, not paying attention to stretched supply lines, etc.

[@markmathisen3908]

Huge, and I mean HUGE appreciation and respect for not blurring out history like 99.9% of every other YT video about war, especially WWII. History should never be censored, particularly the things that are supposed to warn us about repeating past conflicts! 👍👏 🫡

[@Foul_Quince]

but the history they are telling is SO inaccurate!!

[@shellimendoza7332]

We cannot let history repeat itself 😢

[@danieldonnelly3602]

The neighbor lady, always said that he was always such a nice boy.

[@tvpackvalue7955]

LOL

[@donLatitisavanderworken]

Using the attack on the USS Arizona to show the attacks in Europe is NOT COOL

[@ridethecurve55]

It was TOTALLY KEWL, because it triggered Germany's declaration of war on the US. Without that happening, the US may not have ever declared war on Germany. That was one of Hitler's biggest mistakes which, of course, led to Germany's eventual demise.

[@davidhatton583]

Stalingrad had relatively few civilian casualties as most people who lived there left as the battle heated up

[@timchaney8184]

Nothing new here - just a rehash of all the events of WWII

[@guitarguymi]

That's what documentaries are. A rehash of events.

[@Foul_Quince]

a very inaccurate one!

[@sthrich635]

Yes, with all the "Hitler's fault" myth from the overrated German Wehrmacht. Just the old History channels stuff.

[@ravenasylum-m2z]

A mouse would neva build his own trap!! Man will always build his own trap

[@davidhatton583]

Skipped right over the part where Hitler declared war unilaterally on the USA. At this moment the US was Only really interested in getting back at Japan. Seems to me Hitler had very little understanding of what the USA was capable of. Maybe he was trying to Help the Japanese per their agreements… but the Japanese Never helped him at all… and even the relatively small diversion of resources to the pacific region didn’t really help… the Allies NEVER let the pacific really interfere with their efforts in Europe

[@radomirratkovic9014]

The man who deprived the Europe ( and the world) of its former self ...Very incapable leader ...he was never general and he has found himself in the charge of the entire fighting force ...How sad for Germany and the rest of Europe?!? Sooo many mistakes ...Confucius :" The one who thinks that he knows but in reality does not know is that danger one - stay away from him" ...We have never had a chance to stay away from him because he used that loophole in democratic elected system to create the Hell on the Earth .While USA became strong and powerful thanx for democratic system

[@christopherpollard8420]

The main problem is that Hitler couldn’t lead ants to a picnic.

[@Face2theScr33n]

The problem is that Russia had developed the SKS rifle and was about to tool up and produce 1 million of them annually. Had Germany waited, they would have had an even more difficult task. Many Russians were sent into battle unarmed with instructions to pick up a rifle from the guy in front of them after he gets killed. Also, the USA gave the Soviets the equivalent of over $150 billion of today's dollars. Without that, Germany actually stood a good chance. Or at least it wasn't as crazy and stupid as some would have us believe. No, I'm not romanticizing the Nazis, just trying to be objective. Imagine if a million more Soviets had an SKS to take into battle. It would have been way too late to invade them then. PS I hadn't thought of it much until I got an SKS and was researching its history. Quite a good rifle for its designated task. Simple yet elegant. I can field strip it pretty quick because it's only like 7 parts, 4 of which come out on the first step.

[@favouritesongs3339]

Please help me identify the correct statement, * Germans stopped smiling After WW2 * German stopped smiling after WW1 itself * From the old ages, Germans never knew how to smile

[@bubbapacha7672]

From a person who is mainly German. judging by family elders not sure they know how to smile or laugh

[@favouritesongs3339]

@@bubbapacha7672 Dear, I didn't understand your statement. Something very unique I noticed, Germans rarely smile, always having a serious depressed face. I used to think that this sadness is due to the extreme suffering they had during the wars, and it passed to generations. But to be frank, I do not know the real reason. I also heard that Russians also rarely smile. But I wonder what is the relationship between Russians and Germans when it comes to this unique smiling habit

[@bubbapacha7672]

@favouritesongs3339 basically I'm just saying that German's don't smile or really seem jovial at all. My family is mainly German and all my elders I've met had that painful... Bitter look on their face.

I think the battle of Kursk was more important than the Battle of Stalingrad. That is when the SS knew the war was lost.

[@dougmarshall4010]

The 6th army at Stalingrad could have broken out of encirclement and fallen back to defensive positions. Hitler forebade it.

[@BenjaminOsemudiamhenIyere]

stalingrad remains the turning point. the most brutal war was fought there. kursk was just about tanks

[@DavidJohnson-pv7sl]

Think I just watched a documentary about the America in 2024😢

[@Face2theScr33n]

At least the outgoing administration won't be around to stoke the flames of war much longer. Ukraine should have already been over long ago, but America and its allies make unreasonable demands like absolutely no negotiation while Putin is in power. Like it or not, Putin is not stepping down, nor will his people turn on him. If anything, demands like that bolster his support in Russia. So, billions of dollars have changed hands and made a lot of people quite wealthy. It sounds like you're afraid of the guy that didn't start any new wars instead of the current admin that has fanned the flames and gotten millions killed. Trump would rather make money from construction, not destruction. Furthermore, our current administration has failed millions of people devastated by hurricanes this year and has announced FEMA is out of money because they blew it all on illegal immigrants. It's inexcusable, but oh yeah orange man is a nazi...🙄

[@Nobody0512]

Oh look a triggered muppet who voted for the losing side 😂

[@johnhill3936]

24.55 "US Navy had been desolated"

[@Foul_Quince]

another inaccuracy. Pearl Harbour was a strategic failure because the Japanese didn't get any of the US carriers.

[@hlf_coder6272]

KZbin still doing their censor BS with the comments. Oh the irony

[@lewisdarne5852]

They should censor Guy Walters one of the narrators in this video. He is so full of it.

[@michaelarchangel1163]

@@lewisdarne5852 Someone should've told him not to keep saying German Rike !

[@67nairb]

While it's true that Hitler made the same big mistake that Napoleon did in 1812 by invading Russia, he wanted to do his conquest of that vast country a different way. Unlike Napoleon, Hitler did not want to take Moscow at first, it was not his top priority. His ambition was the Ukraine with all it's wheat and fertile land and the Caucasus oil fields in the south. Moscow could be dealt with at a later date. But for some strange reason in October, 1941, four months after unleashing Barbarossa, Hitler gave into generals' wishes and made Moscow the top priority in the conquest of Russia. Since when did Hitler give into anybody's wishes? His sudden shift to attack the Ukraine in August gave the Red Army time to fortify the Russian capitol's defenses and that proved to be a disaster not only for the Wehrmacht, but for Hitler and his Third Reich when the Russians launched a devastating counterattack before Moscow on December 6th. Hitler blamed the failure to take Moscow and other disasters on the Russian Front on his generals and that led to the dismissal or court martial of many competent officers including Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, the German Army's commander and chief.

[@Hidfhjccbxcbhc]

Wilson Churchill wasn't a born British, his grandmother was British.

[@MichaelSmith-ku8ci]

But the nazi party was a socialist party. The national Socialist workers party.

[@TheSaltydog07]

Bastogne made a dent. Thanks Dad❤

[@shyloswick]

Say what you want but this battle won ww2

[@67nairb]

The Tripartite Pact only bounded Germany & Italy to declare war on the the United States if said United States attacked their Japanese ally not the other way around. Hitler hoped that his declaration of war on the USA would encourage Japan to declare war on the USSR, but that never happened. Only in August 1945, three months after the defeat of Germany with Hitler dead, did Russia and Japan go to war with each other. This time Japan didn't declare war on Russia, but the other way around.

[@Foul_Quince]

and that war only ended when the USSR ceased to exist, so technically, Japan won!

[@67nairb]

@@Foul_Quince The war ended in 1945. So how could've Japan won?

[@Foul_Quince]

@@67nairb because there was never a peace treaty between the two countries - Japan and the USSR stayed, technically, at war right up until the USSR ceased to exist, so, strictly speaking, Japan won!

[@67nairb]

@@Foul_Quince If you're referring to the Kurile Islands issue you're partly right, but Russia leased those islands to Japan in 1875 when the former was still ruled by a czar and the latter was beginning to build an empire. But Stalin didn't care, he believed the Kuriles rightfully belonged to Russia be it ruled ruled by czars or commissars. However, there was one island a little off Japan's northern coast that the Russians occupied and annexed after the the latter went to war with the former. The Japanese claimed was not part of the Kurile Islands but was always part of Japan proper. And Japan did signa peace treaty with Soviet Union in the 1950s, someone at You Tube told me that. Apparently, the Japanese chose not to make that tiny island an issue, it wasn't worth a war. Japan itself was still recovering from one war which devastated that country. The Soviet Union was a military superpower and Japan's military was reduced as was Germany's after the war. So Japan did lose the war against the Soviets. It was only after the Soviet Union collapsed in the 1990s did Japan make an issue over that disputed island. So far it's still part of Russia, but this is way off topic. A little back on topic--do you think if Japan joined Germany in the war against Russia would World War II have had a very different outcome?

[@Foul_Quince]

@@67nairbMaybe - only of Stalin had of left Zhukov in command on the Western Front. Otherwise, they would have fought the Japanese the same way they fought the Germans - and the Japanese could even less afford that fight.

[@uriadelavaro3956]

Versailles was the ultimate sin.

[@Hidfhjccbxcbhc]

Dr. LISA PINE that British lady explaining the operation Barbarosa, is she alive now.

[@VilhelmHammershoi1666]

Logistically, Germany is surrounded

[@alanbrown1848]

I have little or no sympathy for such Fascist collaborators. When I visited Northern Belgium in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I stayed with a Flemish couple in Oosduinkerke in their mid-60s. They can remember and experience the dark days of German occupation. After liberation, her husband joined the fight against Hitler. When I asked him what he thought of the Germans, I can remember to this day, he said, quote, " I can forgive but not forget." You appear to be an apologist for the Flemish SS.

[@willboudreau1187]

"Chamberlain retired due to his health in 1940" ... ummm, not really. Just sayin'

[@heatherjones6647]

He was born.

[@cf6282]

They needed the oilfields in the south…as this was what the did not have..fuel to power their tanks, aircraft and ships.

[@TarElaRo]

All the hopes are in his children as a nation ....the starved children were sent in Africa as a model, he helped everyone

[@johngeverett]

@12:56 - talking about Hitler while showing footage of Pearl Harbor.

[@Votereform81]

And now look at britian 😢

[@druidia9]

Shooting himself in the head. World's shortest documentary.

[@Ros.A314]

Did he?

[@Foul_Quince]

Who wrote this rubbish? So full of inaccuracies and discredited info. For example, Germany and Itay were only bound to declare war under the Tripartite pact if Japan was ATTC+ACKED by another power, not if they attack them themselves. Also, Pearl Harbour was at least a tactical failure for Japan, because they destroyed 16 easily replaceable ships but didn't scratch the US carrier fleet. This came bacj to haunt them, strategically, at Midway - which was their Stalingrad.

[@RatchapoomThaongpong-j9n]

❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊 1:27

[@johni5355]

Little known fact: His real name was Bobby Hitler, but he changed it when he joined the National Socialist as he felt Adolf would have more of an appeal to the masses.

[@johnw.fordphotography4268]

Junk

[@frederikbjerre427]

He was socialist, big mistake.

[@JohnKobaRuddy]

He wasn't

[@change691]

He was a far right extremists and an awful human being.

[@jhosk]

He was a weak man.

[@tjanderson5892]

Came from the gutter to rule one of the greatest nations in the world

[@JohnKobaRuddy]

​@@tjanderson5892and was still quite weak. He even said the masses are weak and effeminate hence why a lot of people voted for him. Weak.

[@stevensteelforce2701]

He was Satan's son, to punish Germany for all the atrocities that they had committed for centuries towards Africa and America.

[@whelkshuffler]

He loved his mum.

[@angelchavez2885]

Well nothing killed him except himself supposedly but I think he vacationed in Argentina

[@Geoffrey-FrankHorgan]

itv was england vthat declared war on germany not germany against england. germany wanted to go against communisium did not want war with england. in a way it was england that started the whole thing

[@westwonic]

BS

[@eldominioniqqv]

Second 🎉