The Operation Barbarossa Myth

Many historians claim that Operation Barbarossa was some kind of 'Race War'. Is this really true though? Was Hitler insane? Who would attempt such a thing in the middle of a war against the British Empire and her seemingly limitless resources? Perhaps there was a more logical reason for the war? I'll be taking on the narrative espoused by historians such as the one I cover in the book, Jonathan Trigg, let me know what you think.
Patreon : / zoomerhistorian
SubscribeStar: www.subscribestar.com/zoomerh...
KZbin Membership: / @zoomerhistorian
One-Time Donations: www.buymeacoffee.com/ZoomerHi...
Telegram: t.me/zoomerhistorian
Stalin's War - Sean McMeekin
Death on the Don - Jonathan Trigg
The Origins of the Second World War - A.J.P Taylor
Various direct quotes as well as the sources from 'The Lebensraum myth'

[@rabbiezekielgoldberg2497]

Many historians view Hitler as more of a Marvel supervillain than a historical figure.

[@ZoomerHistorian]

Maybe the infinity stones were in the urals

[@fador1337]

Exactly this. I can understand victors demonizing the losers, but to do it so cartoonishly? And so many people believe it? It's absolutely insane from my perspective.

[@SonofTiamat]

The Left and Right like to play political hot potato with him

[@rabbiezekielgoldberg2497]

@@SonofTiamatIt's a convenient way to distract people away from how similar they are to one another.

[@SonofTiamat]

@@rabbiezekielgoldberg2497 True. I see the NSDAP as having been more left than right due to their socialist economics. But I don't see them as having been the outlandish boogeymen both sides have made them into in their attempts at virtue signaling

[@keithsledger6282]

Zoomer historian did not kill himself

[@zupnanazwa]

Damn thats unlucky. He should've followed his leader

[@keithsledger6282]

@@zupnanazwa CRINGE

[@old_account189]

​@@zupnanazwato live on the beaches of Argentina?

[@tbone5726]

​@zupnanazwa What's it like to have no internal dialougue? Imagine not being able to rotate an apple in your own mind.

[@aloptuleamagnificanton4983]

@@tbone5726 You need a medal for that comment !

[@chickenmcfuggits7985]

160+ Divisions on your border. I think the FBI calls that shit a clue…..

[@nkristianschmidt]

planning to invade ussr started in the fall of 1940

[@tomobraica4399]

Hmm You look as smaet guy. Considering geo position of SSSR And facts that germany made tour de france 1940..... Where exactly would you position your( soviet) forces? Second question is of stagering 30 mil people killed in soviet union during ww2 only 8,5 were soldiers died on battlefield and captivity. Who killed all these civilians and why?

[@jeffr3773]

@@tomobraica4399 the point is, I never knew the soviets were mobilized and ready. What we're taught is that 'oh big bad guy germany suddenly betrayed poor innocent russia and surprise attacked them for no reason' etc etc

[@tomobraica4399]

@@jeffr3773 soviet army was devastated by stalin purge.Rokososky suposed to be executed.after Finland disaster they were reforming their army.it was comunist country and as well in cold war they wanted to spread theur ideology,not ocupying other nation. On other hand Hitler was from beggining mark aa enemy of state comunists and Jews Also lebensraum was plan.he even published book mein kampf.

[@cousinzeke4888]

Unless they're Mexican, then the FBI doesn't say a word.

[@D3V10U5_1]

"Thus, the Soviets pledged peace, while frantically preparing for war. More then 2,500 new concrete fortifications were built between 1939 and 1940, 160 divisions were made combat ready. 60 tank divisions were on full alert. In 1941, the Soviets had 17,000 tanks, and by 1942 they had 35,000, while the Germans only had 10 Panzer tank divisions in 1941. The Soviets had 92,000 pieces of artillery. 17,500 combat planes in 1940, outnumbered the German Luftwaffe. With such preparations for war going on, Hitler had only one choice; Invade the Soviet Union immediately, or face annihilation. Hitler did not go into Russia with any great optimism. He told me later on; "When I entered Russia, I was like a man facing a shut door. I knew I had to crash through it, but without knowing what was behind it." Hitler's Russia campaign was a "last chance" campaign. He knew the Soviets were strong, but, above all, he knew they were going to get stronger." -- Leon Degrelle, Belgian leader, and later SS-Obersturmbannführer of the 5th Walloon contingent.

[@what-uy7go]

Most Soviet tanks and aircraft were grossly outdated or in disrepair..... and this argument goes with the assumption that the Nazis had accurate information on Soviet assets and stockpiles, which they literally didn't.

[@arth-ritisoutdooradventure7467]

Regardless of what anyone thinks of the NSDAP and Hitler, without them Europe would’ve fallen to communism more totally and completely than we could imagine. Don’t get me wrong, Europe is currently occupied by an ideology akin to communism 2.0, but I digress.

[@what-uy7go]

@@justusP9101 Total annihilation by an army that had failed to take finland... ok

[@Capnight1fr]

one thing is cold winter finland where tanks, arilerry and basically everything gets stuck facing a well prepared army in defensive positions, another is a hot summer plain with km of fields with practically no defensive positions created, oh the more you know....@@what-uy7go

[@javiergilvidal1558]

@@what-uy7go ... but, were they totally annihilated or not? Where do you think the Red Army juggernaut came from? Sheer spontaneous magic? What actually happened shows that the USSR could totally annihilate Germany, and so they did. Would they have done it hadn´t Germany attacked first? I think that´s fairly likely. So Germany was fairly likely forced to attack the USSR, with no guarantee of winning. So desperate was Germany´s position in the summer of 1941, all appearances notwithstanding.

[@jholt03]

Even after hearing pretty much the same propaganda for over 50 years, when you finally do hear the real truth you just know it.

[@actuallyKriminell]

After decades of being told to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears, you finally feel what its like to see clearly. "Why do my eyes hurt, Morpheus?" "You've ever used them before"

[@nolongerspeedrunning5435]

@@actuallyKriminell 💀💀💀💀Are you serious bro💀💀💀💀Do what A.H. did in his bunker 1945

[@GloryFit]

@@nolongerspeedrunning5435What? Escape?

[@nolongerspeedrunning5435]

@@GloryFit 💀💀Are you stupid there's no evidence to support that claim

[@SonofTiamat]

​Bro, passive-aggressive zoomer skull emojis, bro

[@shootfirst2097]

Victor Suvorov was given access to the Soviet military archives after the USSR fell. The result of years of researching them was his book " Icebreaker" which revealed Stalin was weeks away from invading Germany

[@elmascapo6588]

He was sooo weeks away from invading the poor little nazis that the red army completly collapsed on day one of the invation Liek, seriously, you cannot tell me that the same army that was resonsible for the disaster of misk would have been prepared to invade Nazis truly are retards

[@Iamnotracistlmao]

@@elmascapo6588 because they got caught off guard lmao?????

[@elmascapo6588]

@@Iamnotracistlmao pretty much. If they were preparing for an offensive, the soviet resistance wouldn't have collapsed as easy as it did. I mean, ffs, the air force got wiped out on day one and you expect me to bealive that this army was in any shape of starting and offensive war. If anything, it would have ended like the italian 10th army in egypt, but ×10 times worse

[@ToddiusMaximus]

@@elmascapo6588😆😆 yeah that’s not right at all

[@elmascapo6588]

@@ToddiusMaximus i'm still waiting to be show the "army" that was about to roll though the reich in 41. All i saw were untrained conscrips armed with sticks

[@LordHoward]

The fact that you can produce so many long, high-quality videos this quickly is insane. Awesome job!

[@Leo-pz5ge]

Yeah, his videos are quality.

[@rhysnichols8608]

It’s not overly hard, it’s just stock footage with a lecture on top. Good videos but it’s not a complex production

[@user-qw6zj5ix9k]

High quality nazi propaganda

[@zxyarky4383]

@@rhysnichols8608🍪

[@zombiekilldemon]

It's called propaganda and plagiarizing Wikipedia. That's how he gets them out so fast. You already know the story you want to tell, plagiarize Wikipedia/other sources using confirmation bias to discover those sources and 💥 BOOM 💥 you have a new video each week and income 💰 from producing garbage 🗑️

[@uttamvaix]

Based and redpilled

[@LordHoward]

Are you asking for him to get shdw-band (yes it didn’t let me write that word)? Because all your соmmеnts go through a filtеr and they will flag this

[@bugsbunny508]

Nazis were loser dogs. There is no based things.

[@In-hoc-signo-vinces]

@@LordHoward it doesn't really matter the content of the video will go through a filter and it'll be shadow banned anyway

[@aldershof_49]

fake!

[@user-bf7ix7fq3d]

Based? Based??? Based in your ass!

[@rhysnichols8608]

My faith in humanity wains when I see people lacking any critical thinking about this period. People just repeat brain dead narratives and 80IQ takes. This presentation is much more truthful and common sense driven.

[@hafizihilmibinabdulhalim1004]

"If Slavic people were regarded as inferior race then why Nazis have no problem in recruiting them into Waffen SS??" Nazis believed that there is an existence called the "Aryan Soul". In their belief, all inferior people have Aryan soul and when they die, their Aryan soul will leave their body and possess the body of German people thus making the German people become more Aryan. In other word, Nazis recruited the inferior race to fight for them not as allies but as a "tool" for them to make the German people more "pure Aryan" Source: Himmler's foreign executioner by Christopher Hale Himmler's insane reason for recruiting non-German in the Waffen SS by TikHistory

[@jeffr3773]

I love how the comments are literally 100% positive, no jew slaves or brainwashed shills

[@ethanfast6329]

​@@jeffr3773give it time. This channel will be banned just like the many before it. It's disheartening

[@filipesugden1982]

man those are the masses for you, you wont get any better than that

[@randomhuman2595]

Its hypocritical how earlier on he says the alliance with the Soviet Union was out of convenience not out of genuine likeness, but then argues that alliances with Bulgaria and Slovenia must mean they were on the same page

[@llcvtmimmlde7168]

Hitler's " race obsessed supervilain Persona" was the main reason I began to doubt the historical narrative. It felt too Hollywoodish, glorified the allies to an extreme level and kept dodging the reason why he would target Jews in the first place.

[@larsliamvilhelm]

"hE tArGetED jEwS bECaUSe oF hOW tHeY lOoKeD" in unironically the most common "explanation" for it i've heard from normies.

[@JahNgomba-ir2zi]

Hitler was race obsessed and nazism is race obsessed. That’s the based of their ideology

[@dudebro91-fn7rz]

​@larsliamvilhelm So did the holocaust happen or if it didn't happen?Should it have happened?

[@becomeunlimited]

He was sadly a fool. He knew the truth clearly from his books and speeches, but for some reason ignored his own reasoning and massacred millions and millions of children of slavic and jewish descent, completely idiotic and counterproductive to his actual cause.

[@rhysnichols8608]

What an egregious claim by that author. I’ve also come across a few military historians which give an utterly ridiculous explanation for events, then go on to give a good information about the military side of things. I have recently been reading a book on French Napoleonic infantry tactics, and the book gives good details on the actual battles, but he makes outrageous statements before talking about each campaign saying “From the moment he took power Bonaparte sole desire was to wage war and conquer Europe, and he would do anything to achieve this task” It’s utterly nonsense, they have to insert their triggered silly opinions into everything. Napoleon fought 7 wars, 5 of which were defensive against degenerate stagnant monarchies who were paid by the city of London and who worked with the ‘Redshields’ to take down a regime which threatened the power of money lenders in Europe, these monarchs were fixated on ‘balance of power’ and taking back pride and some lost lands, but ultimately empowered the banks to such an extent that they would surpass monarchies and do away with them within 100 years. The Austrian emperor elevated the Roth family to nobility status in 1818 which enabled them to marry into royalty. This was after Napoleons ‘infamous decrees’ had expired, in which he banned a certain type of people from economic positions and French press and media. I’m going on a bit of a tangent here but I feel people in dissident right circles misunderstand the Napoleonic wars, which are usually portrayed as ‘based monarchs fighting against liberal expansionist France’ but the reality is Napoleon was the based man who ended the revolution and reversed 70% of it, undermining the secret societies who caused it and then these people used their influence is London to start bribing miss informed monarchs to go to war to topple his proto fascistic regime

[@HiraethRestorations]

That’s the great thing about historic interpretation: once one understands that history is nothing but a series of reactions to reactions and more reactions, everything makes sense and the rather juvenile “good vs. bad” interpretation becomes nothing but a badly written comic book fit only for bitter old cat ladies and low IQ groups only interested in history as a political cudgel. Without a degenerate revolution, there would have been no Napoleon. Without a degenerate monarchy, there’d have been no revolution. Same goes for Hitler: no degenerate Communist threat to the German middle class, no Hitler. No World War, no serious Communist threat, etc. The good thing for Napoleon’s reputation is that now, over two hundred years later, the idea that he was just a war-mongering ogre is fading away. I expect Hitler’s reputation to take a similar arc. By the year 2140, the propaganda will probably have faded enough for historians to look at the subject more objectively. Sooner, of course, if those guardians of the narrative disappear.

[@gabrielfranca4845]

Si

[@mitchrussianimmersionchann63]

What're some books about Napoeleon you'd recommend?

[@John-pc2yr]

Didn't Napoleon free the Jewish people though

[@rhysnichols8608]

@@John-pc2yr He emancipated them from ghettos because he didn’t want a state within a state. He attempted to reform them and culturally assimilate them. After a few months he saw he wasn’t getting anywhere and then passed laws against them

[@Afrikaans_Jung]

Babe, wakeup - new ZH video just dropped.

[@robrob9050]

Revision of history 2.0

[@salahdeanclemens2226]

@@robrob9050 basically

[@robrob9050]

@@salahdeanclemens2226 Hitler actually despised Germany, no sane politician will gamble with destiny of millions (well they are mostly narcissists and few psychopaths) , resulting after all that stupid game in such a misery and humiliations.

[@GGGONEXT67]

Nobody watching this has ever touched a woman and they never will

[@RustyShackleford]

I'm amazed this video has stayed up 5+ months on this platform. Well done.

[@grovehoLP]

You have created a very important piece of media with this one. Great job.

[@InspiriumESOO]

Hitler apologist Zoomer Historian exposed: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqbGo3loha11hcU

[@carcsaw_]

whenever you get through your current queue, I think a video on the supposed kidnappings of polish and other slavic children could be interesting. it's definitely one of the topics I see most discussed relating to the NS regime.

[@SgtRocko]

It's very well documented. Of the children old enough to remember their parents about 2/3 chose to return to their countries, but a good 1/3 chose to stay with the German families they'd been given to.

[@pieterwillembotha6719]

specifically blonde and blue-eyed slavic children, I believe the myth went

[@davidleonard1813]

​@SgtRocko Yeah you got a chouce stay here look the allies are rebuilding. Or...you can go to where its also bomb3d and under communism and we​ll even kids would have heard of the rape of Berlin kids ain't dumb

[@sadsovietspy]

Its not a myth...

[@carcsaw_]

@@sadsovietspy never said it was or wasn't billy boy 🤠

[@Aureus_]

Loving the recent vids ZH!

[@ZoomerHistorian]

Thanks very much mate!

[@genekelly8467]

No dispute here..Hitler say war with the USSR as inevitable. He also belived that communism was an invention of the Jews, so destroying it was doubly important. Where he went wrong was in his estimation of the Red Army-he believed that they had 200 frontline divsions (2 million men) plaus 150 reserves (1.5 million)-this is my he thought he had won by October 1941. Little did he know that the Russians had more than twice this total.

[@oglocbaby520]

There's a lot that goes into this. The Soviets failed horrendously in Finland, a tiny country with little industrial or military might. The Germans also mopped the floor with the French army and the BEF in 1940, which were considered the best armies in the world at that time. Add all of this with the fact that Stalin had completely gutted his officer corps and was incredibly unpopular in the Soviet Union. There was a reason why Hitler believed that all you had to do was "kick open the door and the whole rotten structure will crumble" or something along those lines. When the Germans invaded there were actually small scale revolts in the Baltic countries and even in Ukraine, though this quickly changed.

[@rohunsaigal2576]

The Nazis viewed the Soviets as subhuman so they were more than happy to accept bad intel as it aligned with their ideology. This is why they also never came up with a backup plan if Barbarossa failed. Hitler made idiotic decisions one after the other due to his unwillingness to take the Soviets seriously because of their race, and paid the price for it by plunging the Axis into a fundamentally unwinnable war

[@mattshaw4016]

Communism was co-opted by Karl Marx... hes a J

[@Desertduleler_88]

The western world is in dire trouble since 1945, the USA had literally given western society a slow poisoning of liberalism and degeneracy.

[@wiz59]

Hey Zoomer Historian, I know this is quite unrelated but I’ve just been curious of the citations or sources you used for your Hitler’s aims in WW2 video, it would be appreciated if you could show the books and citations to support the Danzig genocide. Thank you, and sorry as I know it was posted a few months back.

[@ZoomerHistorian]

It'll be covered in depth very soon, we're at 1939 now on the Hitler series

[@wiz59]

@@ZoomerHistorian Thank you.

[@MTNManReviews]

Yeah, I'd love to go to my local library and start getting some of these books...😂😅

[@pattersonstopmotions1282]

@@ZoomerHistorianthere are some serious flaws in this video that make me physically cringe and struggle to keep a straight face. you say that if the germans recruited so many in the east, why would they ever want to exterminate them? Well in a separate video regarding the annexation of Alsace Lorraine, you literally state yourself that the Germans plans for Europe changed throughout the war according to the circumstances. It is laughable that you completely ignore various pieces of important historical evidence as if you were purposely trying to avoid them. In “Mein Kampf” Hitler directly states “We stop the endless German movement to the south and west, and turn our gaze toward the land in the East. At long last, we break off the colonial and commercial policy of the pre-War period and shift to the soil policy of the future. But when we speak of new territory in Europe today we must principally think of Russia and the border States subject to her.” Obviously from the start, national socialism was a policy that included autarky, and in order to achieve this, the German nation would’ve had to expand east to secure the industry and agriculture not only for Germany itself but to, as Hitler saw it, prevent a “judeo bolshevik” uprising in the western world which even you allude to in this video by calling Barbarossa a pre emptive strike. Another extremely important piece of evidence is the Barbarossa decree, which stated that The eastern front (referring to the initial plans, NOT after Germanys manpower situation deteriorated and they were forced to mass recruit easterners) would be a War of Extermination, and that all German soldiers would be exempt from committing war crimes. The “Guidelines for the Conduct of the Troops in Russia” issued on May 19 1941 to the Wehrmacht states that Germanys war would be a "historic task to liberate the German people once forever from the Asiatic-Jewish danger” and though you may argue that Germanys plans changed, which they did, again as Germanys situation deteriorated, it is thus clear that Germanys initial plans for the east was a war of annihilation and hence destruction of the “asiatic” eastern races and Judeo-Bolshevism.

[@EthanWinstanley1]

Another grand video 🔥

[@drifter5375]

Great to see you here Ethan, I love your videos!

[@EthanWinstanley1]

@drifter5375 🤝good to see you here too !

[@michaelwarenycia7588]

Thankyou for this clear -headed examination of this myth. I live in Ukraine. Some anecdotes to add. My family is from Galicia and relatives served in the German army/SS and, in the previous war, the Austrian army. However, I currently live in central Ukraine (in a town which had significant KGB and red army HQs). The Soviet indoctrination system is only now being questioned, finally. I remember having discussions with people, early in the war, who expressed dislike or distrust of us Galicians because we were "collaborators" (yet, serving the people who did the Holodomor only 8 years prior, and a famous massacre of thousands of Ukrainians, mostly peasants, in this city, only 3 years earlier, somehow made one a patriot????). A particular individual, a woman about a generation older than myself, despite stating these beliefs recounted her grandmother's wartime experiences thus: 4 of her grandmother's siblings died in the Holodomor. Grandmother herself lived on a farm with her mother and surviving siblings when the Germans came. She was about 6 or 7 at this time. Her mother, naively believing Red propaganda, had been terrified and warned her daughter about the evil germans. They hid, either in the forest or barn, but the mom noticed her daughter was missing. She found her back at the house, singing songs for the German soldiers, one of whom was playing an accordion. The Germans gave the child chocolate and were friendly. This became a pattern. They did take some of the cows, but paid in real money for them, and left one behind to provide milk for the children (compare with soviet policies 8 years earlier...). When the Russians came, the mother smeared the daughter in animal feces and mud and hid her in the forest. They stole the cow the Germans had left behind. Yet the Russians were heroes and liberators....I asked this woman, and, from her stunned reaction, it was clear she'd never once thought about this question in her 50+ yearsof life: if the Germans were so evil and the Soviets so good, why did your grandmother get to sing for chocolate with the Germans, yet have to be smeared in mud and dung and hidden from the Russians? Keep in mind, this girl was between 6-9 years old at the relevant time. Use your imagination. Gradually, as the missiles fall, some minds change... without guilt, I brag to people who had bad opinions of my ancestors before the war, see, we were right all along. Hard to argue with a cruise missile.

[@therewillbeguitar8078]

This was a good read. My thoughts and prayers go out to your nation in this troubling time.

[@michaelwarenycia7588]

@@therewillbeguitar8078 thankyou.

[@neogaki]

Another lying Nazi

[@basileusandy9798]

@@michaelwarenycia7588 Such a fascinating story, by the way if you don't mind can you share your thoughts on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict of today ? I would like to hear the input of a Ukranian NUZI apologist such as you and myself as well. We know that modern Russia of Putin is very different and much better in so many ways compared to the brutal USSR regime of the past so my point is why are Ukrainians so hellbent to fight and be hostile towards the modern orthodox rehabilitated nation of Russia ? Like do Ukrainians really think that the "globalist small hat" dominated West loves the Ukrainians more than their brother nation Russia and that they are not being used as pawns just to weaken Russia determined to fight to the last Ukrainian for globalist agenda ? Also what is your opinion on the nation state alliance Ukraine-Belarus-Russia working and prosspering together with full soverignity from the Western powers and the small hat elites ?

[@michaelwarenycia7588]

@@basileusandy9798 or maybe I should type with my thumbs here so more people can see...

[@trebabcock]

Have you read Main Kampf? Hitler lays out his ideas of Lebensraum pretty clearly, specifically targeting the nations to the East. He is also clear on how he feels about Slavs. Also, assuming that his army would happily fight his race war doesn't mean he didn't deceive and propagandize them anyways. He lied about the Gleiwitz incident, why wouldn't he lie about Operation Barbarossa as well? Also, by 1941 you'd have to be stupid not to deploy troops to your border in Europe.

[@motivationishere3483]

UK (later USA) will come in any time soon, and Russia is waiting for an opportune moment to strike. Worst case is you get crushed between the two while doing nothing. They take the chances & strike the most probable one (invading the UK via the ocean was a joke let alone US)

[@RagnarLothbrok2222]

Purple haired weirdo. Opinion discarded

[@user-qj6vg8gp3l]

Have YOU read it? Because I have and he made no mention of exterminating slavs. Lebensraum was basically Germany's version of manifest destiny. The rest of your comment is nothing but suppositions, with no way to verify.

[@user-qj6vg8gp3l]

Oh, and you said nothing to disprove what Zoomer Historian is saying.

[@trebabcock]

@@user-qj6vg8gp3l I also made no mention of exterminating Slavs. I am aware of the parallels between Lebensraum and manifest destiny, but Lebensraum is inherently connected to white supremacism. Slavs were considered untermensch by the Nazis, which is one of the reasons Hitler wanted to take Slavic countries for Lebensraum. Please learn about the Hunger Plan. Your second point is irrelevant because this video was 80% suppositions.

[@digger6843]

I am curious about the crimes of the German army in world war 2 are you intrested or do you think its possible to make a video on this subject?

[@ZoomerHistorian]

Yeah I will cover

[@digger6843]

thanks@@ZoomerHistorian

[@alexanderspear9464]

Why? Their is so much propaganda about them.

[@zexen6296]

everybody did crimes, it's war

[@rhysnichols8608]

@@alexanderspear9464 To discern between the truth and propaganda. Much of it is exaggerated or invented, but there is no doubt they still committed many atrocities, it’s just about being accurate and fair.

[@frederickvonhohuenstaffen6967]

I remember a video, maybe potential history?, where he "deboonked" the claim that the soviets were gearing up for invasion, and I remember that in that video he talked about an ex soviet general leaking plans after the war, now I am probably wrong and misremembering but hey. Also is there anything on the fact that the Brits had apparently warned the soviets of imminent invasion to which Stalin didn't care. Also also in Mussolini's last interview he apparently said that he was against the invasion of Russia thinking that he should have let the soviets attack which kind of implies that everyone in the Axis knew things were gonna blow off Anyway cool videos and I like how you present the information, keep it up

[@ZoomerHistorian]

Thanks very much mate

[@N0die]

What explains the Einsatzgruppen?

[@MisterOcclusion]

Conveniently forgotten, I had also noticed.

[@freckleheckler6311]

@@MisterOcclusion The einsatzgruppen were a security measurement to quell partisans and sabotage and not to “exterminate populations”. 🤦🏻‍♂️ thats utterly preposterous.

[@freckleheckler6311]

@@MisterOcclusion They were a security measurement to quell partisans and sabotage and not to “exterminate populations”. 🤦🏻‍♂️ thats utterly preposterous.

[@freckleheckler6311]

@@MisterOcclusion They were a security measurement to quell partisans and sabotage.

[@freckleheckler6311]

@@MisterOcclusion The einsatzgruppen were a security measurement to quell partisans

[@ArtisanRykard]

Another wonderful video my friend. Keep it up.

[@slavchomarinov9909]

I really like your videos but this with this one you got it quite exaggerated. The Soviet POWs in the initial phases of Operationa Barbarossa which had surrendered in the millions were left with no food and left to die, unlike the western front ones. 3 million up to Moscow. Does this sound like an occupier that would continue with business as usual after he wins the war?

[@captainchaserman7148]

Zoomer, your audio has had a evident vast improvement. Did you acquire a better microphone, by chance? 😂

[@Karl_Burton]

I was thinking the same

[@ZoomerHistorian]

I did not actually, I'm not sure why it's better but I noticed too, perhaps literally just the room

[@Karl_Burton]

@@ZoomerHistorian I often see a quote attributed to AH, but haven't been able to verify. If we lose this war, then Europe will be all but finished within 100 years. Any idea ?

[@Anatolpinist]

​​@@Karl_BurtonIt does make sense. Today's Europe is a place where the native population can be replaced and turned into a minority on their ancestral lands in a matter of days. Of course I'm referring to the catastrophe on the Italian island of Lampedusa. The National Socialists also released a poster titled "France in 100 Years" that shows the Native French on display like animals at a zoo with the "New French" negros watching them. They were able to see the future and have proved themselves to be right. Western Europe is all but finished. If Europe is to survive, the future lies in the East.

[@Karl_Burton]

@@Anatolpinist Ironically, the best chance would be for Russia to lead the way. Assisted by Hungary and Poland. Strange times.

[@SenorTucano]

Barbarossa was a giant spoiling attack that overran Soviet divisions and their storage dumps pre-positioned along the western border. That’s why the number of Soviet casualties and prisoners were staggering.

[@me-262gamingluftwaffememin2]

At First I was avoiding your videos because your profile pic makes it look like a oversimplified-history type meme-history video (And I hate those), when I finally gave it a chance I was impressed, and now I am hooked. Gut gemacht ZH!

[@mario_1683]

Very nice video, as always! I love your very well explained talks and the excelent footage you show. Thank you! I just have a few remarks: If you want to know, how Hitler felt, declaring war und the Soviet Union, read his quote about the start of Operation Barbarossa: "I felt like I had bust open a door, not knowing what awaited me behind it". Regarding the plans Hitler had for Europe, Degrelle said, that his plans were for France to be the cultural center, Germany the industrial center and Russia would be like America, where everyone can make his wishes come true and try to become what he always wanted. So Russia would be the land of unlimited possibilties. Thats because of the immense spare land Russia had. So his plans were not to enslave everyone and to settle Germans there. Many russians fought for Germany in WW2. Just look at the Cossacks of the Wehrmacht.

[@arth-ritisoutdooradventure7467]

Ah, imagine a world where that had happened. Especially if America and Britain had their heads on right. The British Empire and navy, America’s military and economic might, France’s beauty, Germany’s industry and genius, and the open and wild Russian frontier. The standard of living and high civilization would be so much greater than we could dream of, damn near a utopia.

[@sonsvensson2652]

The east was to be settled by germanic people and the slavs would either be deported or [redacted]. Himmler had already set plans in motion for this, starting some small organisations tasked with bringing germanics to the newly conquered territories.

[@user-ns3rm8vj8d]

Ну были казаки да, были ещё много кого, только массово это практика стала лишь после 1943 года, люди чтобы не умереть с голода и от не по сильного труда и не на такое пойти могли, все мы русские помним ваши брошюры про унтерменшей и сожжение деревень и другие ваши европейские зверства , у того же Дегреля есть воспоминания где советские военнопленные занимались людоедством лишь бы не умереть и они СС стояли и смеялись над этим, так же на оккупированных территориях проводилась полита массового голода, это правда что это была война расс, наша раса сказалась сильнее и история рассудила ,кто есть Унтермеш, мы слишком благородная нация и не ответили вам зеркально в полной мере

[@wotan8881]

This information comes from "Hitlers revolution" by Richard tedor

[@ilikesnakes4695]

I wish more people questioned this man's sources

[@wotan8881]

@@ilikesnakes4695 What he says in these videos are true.

[@garrettstickel1189]

watch some TIK videos he actually sights his sources.. this guy is a joke

[@quasark5007]

@@wotan8881 No this guy is the biggest liar and conspiracy theorist. turn on your brain

[@wotan8881]

@@quasark5007 You're a fool

[@eliewieselwasaliar-jk7zu]

Excellent video.Keep them coming.

[@ZoomerHistorian]

Thanks very much

[@hafizihilmibinabdulhalim1004]

​​​@@ZoomerHistorian"If Slavic people were regarded as inferior race then why Nazis have no problem in recruiting them into Waffen SS??" Nazis believed that there is an existence called the "Aryan Soul". In their belief, all inferior people have Aryan soul and when they die, their Aryan soul will leave their body and possess the body of German people thus making the German people become more Aryan. In other word, Nazis recruited the inferior race to fight for them not as allies but as a "tool" for them to make the German people more "pure Aryan" Source: Hitler's foreign executioner by Christopher Hale Himmler's insane reason for recruiting non-German in the Waffen SS by TikHistory

[@feilx5567]

Another great video. I really enjoy how you criticise both sides I know it's been said a thousand times but your channel is very refreshing

[@ZoomerHistorian]

Thank you my friend, very few can keep politics out of it!

[@flagassault9715]

This channel is BS neo nazi propaganda

[@hyperthulean8649]

I sure do wonder what the legend surrounding Frederick Barbarossa is, the man who's namesake was used for the operation. Surely, it could have no relation to the intention of the invasion.

[@ilikesnakes4695]

Our Germans?! Never!!!!

[@novemberwitch5561]

Excellent video, as always.

[@ZoomerHistorian]

Means the world

[@BleedingSnow]

I disagree 07:50 - Hitlers argument was as you claim and say, "The soviets are poised and ready for attack". When Operation Barbarossa started, the Soviets were outnumbered on every front. Baltic Republics : 21 Soviet Divisions vs 34 German Divisions Belorussia : 26 Soviet Divisions vs 36 German divisions Ukraine : 45 Soviet Divisions vs 57 German Divisions Germanies divisions were at full strength with high morale. Soviet divisions were not, and in peacetime conditions, listening to political speeches over digging in. The USSR did recover from the civil war going from 1.5 Million troops to 5 million. With mass industrialisation in all sectors, as they were far behind their western counter parts. If you looked at how Stalin reacted when war was declared or what the Soviet Generals were stating it's clear they did not want War with Germany, Stalin hid himself, Zhukov complained for days of no state of readiness.

[@bhaskarbharath]

Exactly. The Soviets were too outnumbered and they took so much pounding that the Germans went till Stalingrad. It's only after Stalin mobilized the Red Army that they fought back and started their western retaliatory conquest. But people get too carried away by this video. Because an alternative opinion that claims as a non-mainstream one is so appealing even though not always true. It's unfortunate.

[@larsliamvilhelm]

Soviet Union had 160 combat-ready divisions ...

[@BleedingSnow]

@@larsliamvilhelm Did you even read my comment......

[@larsliamvilhelm]

@@BleedingSnow Yeah, it's just that it's nonsensical... Why did Stalin have 160 divisions ready to strike, while also expanding westwards in the Baltics and Romania if he so desperately wanted to avoid war? Also i'm pretty sure there have been documents found after the USSR fell that proves that he was indeed planning to attack Germany at the earliest opportune moment.

[@BleedingSnow]

@@larsliamvilhelm You clearly have not and I'm not going to bother repeating it, he did not have 160 divisions ready to strike, read the comment. And no they aren't, look for them you won't find them, the only documents of such were of Churchill's plans to invade the USSR in 1945 (Operation Unthinkable). Now I know you're just speaking nonsense.....

[@brotube5496]

Great video! Thank you my fellow zoomer for such high quality content, please continue spreading the truth!

[@ZoomerHistorian]

Will do my friend!

[@Max-fs5gc]

hey guys where can I find online sources such as websites and videos for this stuff? interested to learn more.

[@KenuDRoger]

Search EUROPA THE LAST BATTLE 2017

[@KenuDRoger]

EUROPE THE LAST BATTLE 2017

[@Mousedib]

When you finish the Hitler series, could you consider making videos/series on top NSDAP members? i.e. Göring, Himmler, etc

[@ZoomerHistorian]

I have a goring video soon which will probably be a couple hours long, just waiting on books to arrive

[@ZoomerHistorian]

But yes, just not series, they’ll be long videos

[@cjthebeesknees]

Zoomer, dare ya to make a extensive video about Hess and why he took that flight and was hidden and imprisoned in isolation. Not many address this obvious guilty behavior and something juicy is behind that mess, cheers.

[@ZoomerHistorian]

Book actually on the way about that

[@cjthebeesknees]

@@ZoomerHistorian We yearn for unsullied truth.

[@Skasaka]

RIP the Ploiesti oil fields

[@chickenmcfuggits7985]

I’m going to miss those guys

[@JohnsJohnson-ns5xm]

It does sound like we have been fed a processed version of history to fit our narrative. it will be interesting to watch as an American as I watch our government seem to take increasingly poorly thought out, stands on stupid issues, and then become very inflexible on them. They will be interesting to see how that works out for us. We have a lot of advantages that Germans didn’t, but The sense of what an American is is almost gone.

[@tempejkl]

Your solution to the problems caused by capitalism is more capitalism? I have bad news for you my friend.

[@SahilHossain-ff4if]

So, Your solution is socialism; sounds unsustainable, doesn't even work in practice 😂

[@Damontable]

Who paid Churchill to go to war?

[@dikfrik5236]

Jews

[@user-qx6ej7je4r]

Rothschilds and other Crypto Jews

[@crusader2112]

Another banger man. Keep it up. 😎👍 Germany truly had a diverse Vanguard in the fight against Bolshevism.

[@Castragroup]

Diversity is evil and anti why t and anti traditional populations the world over

[@crusader2112]

@@BlackJuck Sure the leadership was f**ked, but there were genuinely brave men fighting for the Axis. Like Leon Degrelle.

[@DeVolksrepubliek]

“Diverse” and still lost 😂 The immortal science of Marxism-Leninism ❤

[@aapoahola9725]

Great video once again! Can't wait for the next one.

[@ZoomerHistorian]

Thank you my friend! Working on it now, The Complete History of the SS-Charlemagne

[@Commissar_4735]

then why they killed 20 million civilians

[@tiagomonteiro130]

Why did Stalin not let the population escape forcing them to be in the crossfire, why did the Soviets rape and murder their own Civillian population for being occupied by Germany, the Soviets blamed all they did on Germany even the murder of Polish officers in 1940 which was impossible since Germany wasn't even in the Soviet part of the country at the time.

[@tiagomonteiro130]

Lol there are so many stories of German Soldiers liberating Soviet occupied villages and cities and being greeted as heroes, they got flowers food Army medics helped Civillians so much they had a lack on the front lines, and in 1944 many joined the German retreat under the Soldiers protection, not to mention the millions who fought in the German military itself in combat and none combat roles.

[@tiagomonteiro130]

Why did the Soviets threaten Multiple times in history that they would spread communism around the world, starting Multiple Revolutions such as the Spanish one and Weimar German one killing priests burning churches and rape and murder like always, then build a missive military and invade and build large armies at borders in 1939 and 1941.

[@Commissar_4735]

@@tiagomonteiro130 nazi simps , then they will be exported as slave labor in german war factories , and the ones who fought are mostly POWs and they had no choice either starve or fight

[@zxyarky4383]

6:45 I don’t know why but my nerd ass started laughing

[@Andrew-zr1jt]

This channel is fresh air in this age , hope it last.

[@joleaneshmoleane8358]

3:45 the same is true for normal Americans. We waited way too long to strike back and now it’s too late to win.

[@joleaneshmoleane8358]

Can you imagine how different the world would be if the USSR had lost and G would have won? And let’s assume the USA never entered the war in Europe. It’d be better in many ways if Germany had been allowed to win and rule over Northern Europe. There are so many problems we’re facing today, both politically and culturally similar to G’s situation leading them into WW2. Now the west is facing the same major problems G faced during after WW1 leading to WW2. I can totally sympathize with G, and I believe USSR and communist China were our true enemies. We should have either allied with G or just left them alone long enough to complete their agenda. If they’d been allowed to finish, there would be so many less problems…Specifically when it comes to degeneracy, collectivism, and the central banking debt slave system.

[@dogwklr]

Have people watched "europa, the last battle"?

[@ilikesnakes4695]

It is quite literally written by a self proclaimed neo-nazi and is full of propaganda and misinformation

[@quasark5007]

Have you even a brain?

[@Tomi-Grguric]

Regardless... the facts remain that Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union was a disaster for Germany and for Europe. He broke the Moral Law and Natural Law by invading first. The Moral Law states that if someone attacks you, you are then permitted to use the appropriate and required force to stop that attack and render your opponent incapable of any further harm. Hitler would have been much better off fighting a defensive war and he would have retained the moral high ground in posterity. Personally I believe nothing could have penetrated the Werhmacht if they had decided to just defend. By attacking, Hitler ensured that his supply chains were spread too thin and his army vulnerable to the ravages of attrition. By attacking, he essentially guaranteed that he would lose. Russia is too big, too many people. Hitler didn't just make a mistake... he f_cked up big time. Look at the world now.

[@Norg1]

I wonder how usa and uk would react if the soviet union attacked first say in spring 1942 By that time japan was going to attack usa no matter what in dec 1941 ..would germany be dumb enough to declare war on usa in 1941 then like be blindsided by the soviets like 4 months later The timeline would still kinda be the same germany vs all 3 world powers

[@bln150]

True. The Germans should have kept to the pact. Stalin wanted a good relations with Germany. Russians always wanted to cooperate with Germans. Barbarossa was the greatest mistake ever.

[@tempejkl]

@@bln150the Soviets did not want to co-operate with the Germans, they were forced to for their own existence because the Allies were so fucking useless and Poland kept blocking their efforts to protect Czechoslovakia. No wonder Stalin didn't allow the Polish interwar government to come back, they ran away like cowards, and then caused thousands to die from their own greed in the Warsaw Uprising.

[@user-ct8tk9nh8z]

The Drang Nang Osten (Barbarossa) was an 8 nation pre emptive strike against the USSR launched a mere 3 weeks before Stalin's intended attack on Eastern Europe (Operation Thunder) scheduled to commence on July 10, 1941.

[@tempejkl]

Okay... good. I love the liberation of Europe, doesn't everybody?

[@biggrug3968]

From what I've seen and read, especially Adolf's old writings, capturing the oil fields in Romania, and recognizing the Soviets as enemies to begin with, were certainly strategic and tactical validations for Hitler and his generals to agree that the Soviets were next on the list for war, however I don't think that encompasses his whole issue with them, and I personally don't think you mention the fact that the Soviets weren't the only ones who wanted war. Hitler, philosophically, hated the Bolsheviks and wrote constantly of his issues with them almost as much as he did the same writing about Jews. There's very clear writings that he wanted war against not just Soviet Russia but against the ideology of communism itself and its creators in Russia. Not trying to argue or say anything here is wrong, I just think saying the big reason that Hitler suddenly mobilized for war against Stalin was because there were oil fields he wanted and the Fins begged for help isn't realizing the full scope of Hitler's idea for the war he orchestrated. The main sources I've found the most credible for this come straight from Mein Kampf. Two big statements that stand out being, "In the Russian Bolshevism, we have to see the Jewish attempt for world dominance..." in chapter 28, pg 751, and, "The fight against the Jewish Bolshevisation demands a clear position against Soviet-Russia" in chapter 28, pg 752. These beliefs were helped by the fact that Nazi military leaders were very confident in fighting the Russians after they thoroughly whipped them during WW1, and, regardless of the sweet lies of Nazi memoirs written to the contrary because the generals could blame many of their own failing on a dead Hitler, they were far more nervous of another trench war with France, but with hiw quickly they forced France to capitulate and the complete pushback of the British, suddenly the generals were even more motivated to take on Russia with these new tactics in mind, even if Blitzkrieg was quite obviously not sustainable in Russia. I do not think his beliefs were the primary reason for invasion and I think i outlined other reasons why he chose to invade. However I don't completely agree that the Nazis were victims of Soviet aggression, rather they both very clearly were planning on war with each other, Hitler just happened to pull the trigger first. I also think this hate was for direct members of the Bolshevik party, not all Russians, his writings very clearly show his hate for communists, but not for all people under Soviet influence. He waged a philosophical war against Stalin, not Russia.

[@fredericksaxton3991]

I have often wondered if Hitler had waited a couple more years, then Stalin would have given up waiting and would have invaded Germany intending crashing through to the Atlantic. The Soviets had always talked of 'World Communism'. The British would have had the quandary of sitting out the invasion of Western Europe or joining forces with Hitler to defend Western Europe..

[@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle]

Your videps are interesting, but with this one you cite many historians and their books, but not Mein Kamf itself. There, he mes a clear case for hatred of the slavs and his plan for living space in the east. Primary sources need to be used more.

[@davids.jankelevich2234]

Interesting point of view, how will you explain the hundreds of burned down villages in Belarus, western Russia, and parts of Ukraine that had their populations exterminated by the Germans?

[@lukarausch7907]

Thats's what I think, what the dude Is saying is mostly correct, but when I think of the masacres the germans did in the Soviet Unión, I dont know what to think.

[@michaelfern4079]

These were a response to Stalins partisan warfare where the eastern front was divided up and allowed to let the NS pass only to regroup and attack from behind. After taking many casualties they had to deal with this which meant executing masses of people. Hitler said if they won the war, no one would ask them about this but if they lost, it wouldn’t matter anyway.

[@larsliamvilhelm]

Doesn't prove anything about it being a "race war"... Villages and cities are burned down/bombed in pretty much every single war. How do you explain the Dresden fire bombings in any other way then them targeting ethnic German civilians? Did the British/Americans also fight a race war? Roosevelt was a well-known anti-German.

[@robrob9050]

What was reason Greece and Yugoslavia were invaded?

[@mich5167]

Not seeing online where frenchman and slavic people fought along with the germans, where is that from?

[@tempejkl]

his source is he made it the fuck up. Only Baltic people's did really, the rest is just a lie. The amount of fucking mental gymnastics this guy does is insane.

[@vladbelonozhko339]

The war may have not been a race war but make no mistakes Slavs were seen as subhuman. The German country was filled with hate and it caught up to them eventually.

[@Centurio_1]

If the slavs were seen as subhumans, why were the czechs, bulgarians and slovakians considered aryan, if they were slavs? :o

[@vladbelonozhko339]

@@Centurio_1ya I’m sure they were😂 believe there actions not there words

[@Centurio_1]

@@vladbelonozhko339 Their actions were never trying to exterminate the slavs of Czechia and Slovakia. In fact, they were treated as citizens of the Third Reich.

[@vladbelonozhko339]

@@Centurio_1my grandpa was 14 when Nazi were marching through Ukraine, he fled into the corn field and they were shooting at him in the corn. A 14 year old unarmed boy. Don’t tell me about the Nazis. My grandparents lived through ww2. the Nazis were cold godless people and they’re government and system collapsed on itself as a result. If they followed Gods ways and minded there business they could’ve been leading nation today but there pride was the beginning of there fall

[@tempejkl]

@@Centurio_1Those same 'citizens of the Reich' are the ones who killed Heydrich 😂😂😂😂

[@FaustianDaydreams]

Excellent work, much appreciated.

[@AhatiMaat]

Don't know how your channel is surviving but keep spreading the truth. Excellent video.

[@Bayonet131]

Very nice to see a real historian on KZbin

[@14words83]

Can you please do a video on all German peace offers and background for the offers

[@charleswells5751]

Total BS to bring in other thesis, backed up by very little evidence and a lot of conclusions to call some other existing thesis wrong and made up.

[@signalhilltv5237]

I don't know about this video not saying everything in the video is incorrect but if you read the letters from German soldiers, they toss a lot of terms around white Russians (Belarus) Ivan, Rasputin, and they state that some Ukrainians look Nordic, Eskimo (probably Mongolian), so if it was about race, why would they discriminate against a people that could pass for German?

[@Hans_W.]

Every single video on this channel would warrant a prison sentence in occupied Germany

[@martianshoes]

I have thoroughly studied Adam Clark’s “Barbarossa”. Although written with an obvious bias; the historical documents (German High Command meetings and directives) do contradict a few of the assertions here. It repays study too, to note WHEN Mien Kamph was written, inasmuch as the “7 pages about living space”. Too, it is documented that Hitler is repeatedly recorded as wanting the Soviet oil fields in Baku and the nickel of the Petsamo region. I respect the scholarship represented in this video and find that singular theory proposed here should be seriously perused but on first examination it clashes with many official documents recovered after WWII.

[@Capnight1fr]

I agree, it is completely true that hitler did wish for those fields of oil and nickel, however ultimately the soviets did have a buildup of troops too and that did make him feel pressured to attack before he got attacked, would have they attacked is another thing, most likely not immideatly but likely, so in the end truth's probably in the middle, yet the idea that he wanted to attack the USSR just to cleans and expand his race to the mountains is just fundamentally wrong, he did want to destroy communism, but he was fully aware that perhaps he was too late

[@brominelover6747]

Great video as always

[@user-ff4lr2jj5r]

Not sure i agree with all of this....Stalin was surely exerting blackmail re: Germany and seizing as much land as possible. But Russian forces were NOT concentrated along Germany's border....troops were further inland though supplies were stationed closer to the front. The idea was for the army to move westward towards its own hidden supplies so as to counter any German invasion....as it turned out, the Germans moved faster than the Soviets and captured many of these supplies. War was NOT inevitable at least not in the immediate future; Stalin was shook by the way Germany took France out in just 6 weeks.. he was in fact doing everything he could to placate Hitler by the massive amounts of raw materials that continued to flow into Germany prior to June 22, 1941.

[@radec1566]

The railways were standard gauge because the Russians took eastern Poland in 1939 which had converted to standard gauge after independence from the Russian Empire.

[@TheWaller]

Big thanks for another great video.

[@ZoomerHistorian]

No, thank you for supporting them!

[@Alex_contreras]

Never lose your smile⚡️🫡

[@alexandermosin1362]

Best Natzi propaganda channel,now I can sleep well with my Mein Kumfp book at my side. Oh,and that historically accurate What Why How channel made a video about you being apologetic to most german well documented and well known war crimes.

[@anetakobularcikova5841]

Oh no. Soviets have their soldiers on their territory and they are develop military and economy ... It's threat to Europe! And whole world too! /S

[@tempejkl]

😂 good one my friend

[@iosefamr8289]

I shill.

[@SgtRocko]

I DO need to point out that the railroad tracks near the border were on former Polish and Baltics territory. It would've been a monumental task to replace them with standard wide (anti-invasion) Soviet tracks in so short a time. The fritzes gleefully used them when they attacked the USSR.

[@user-qj6vg8gp3l]

The Fritzes? Well we know where your biases lay.

[@tempejkl]

@@user-qj6vg8gp3lDid he lie?

[@yourtallness]

With so many Russian divisions stationed at the border though, how was Germany able to make such major inroads?

[@chipcook6646]

They needed to get to Moscow so close but no cigar. Hitler s driver knew Germany had just lost the war.

[@larsliamvilhelm]

Attacker's advantage and strategically + technologically superior. Also Germany had a LOT of divisions as well.

[@tempejkl]

They were mostly more inland and at the Romanian border. This guy talks huge bullshit.

[@florinelenaradamilea]

Surprise & speed.

[@Karl_Burton]

I still can't get over the fact you're a zoomer. Thanks ever so much

[@ZoomerHistorian]

Barely but yes hahah

[@Karl_Burton]

@@ZoomerHistorian Seriously, thank you so much. I trust all your videos are backed up for when you need a new platform.

[@justgold1]

You're from the gold videos

[@Karl_Burton]

@@justgold1 Hello again. Clearly you did mean ZH

[@user-qw6zj5ix9k]

@@Karl_BurtonGoebbels son was never killed

[@gvozdenkuronja7414]

Bro..... your man wrote the madafakin BOOK where he explained his world views, saying Germans needed those eastern, resources rich, fertile lands, for the use and prosperity of his people... Especially if those lands were occupied by the lower race in european hierarchy, backward Slavs (but he praised British and people of the US, together with the rest of northern/western europeans, and thought of them as equals on his race development scale)., It must be some real cosmic coincidence that 15 years after he wrote that book, he found him self in power in Germany, and was really invading those lands eastward as he wrote Germany must do, but now for COMPLETELY DIFFERENT REASONS, because of self-defense?! What a coincidence...

[@F.R.E.D.D2986]

My man, with all due respect, Hitler literally wrote in Mein Kampf that the destruction of the Bastron of Judeo-Bolshevism, was the main goal, and that the Bastron of said Judeo-Bolshevism, was the Soviet Union in Hitler's eyes. The entire point of Hitler's Nazism, was the destruction, complete and utter destruction, of the Soviet Union. That is why he invaded Poland, that is why he invaded the Soviet Union, it is unknown whether the Soviets were preparing to invade Germany, and most historians agree that Operation Barbarossa, is not a pre-emptive strike, which is attacking an enemy before they attack you first, we don't know if the Soviets actually wanted to attack the Soviet Union, yes, they prepared forts, but that's a defence, not useful when attacking, and they prepared their army, but you can't be surprised by that, Germany just conquered most of Europe, *and Hitler wrote an entire book where in he described how he would destroy your nation.* 16 million civilians, at the minimum, died under German occupation. That is 264 times more than who died in France and Western Europe. It was a purposeful genocide, in acted by Hitler, to destroy Judeo-Bolshevism. Which he saw as the greatest threat to the Aryan race. You are purposely spreading a pro-Nazi narrative, and that is disgusting to put it nicely.

[@artemchernev5199]

Yes brother he is. Please read my comment I just left under this NaZi propaganda of a video. It’s crazy to deny thousands of mass murder cities across the occupied Soviet territories like Baby Yar. I myself have 4 relatives who were castrated by Germans in concentration camps. Germans literally had a mass genocide in occupied soviet territories on a far bigger scale than the genocide committed in Central Europe

[@tempejkl]

Yeah this is fucking crazy. I was genuinely in shock hearing the amount of mental gymnastics this guy uses. So much for a 'historian' constantly giving his opinions and saying things with no claims to back it up, and criticising other historians while being a terrible excuse for one himself.

[@dobi2236]

​@tempejkl god dude thank God, i feel like this singular comment thread is the only safe haven for common sense and basic historical knowledge. The rest is a sludge of nazi propaganda and apologetics

[@phatlewt2932]

pretty sure that wasn't why Poland was invaded. Chalking it up to "hitler did this and that because he was hateful" is idiotic

[@F.R.E.D.D2986]

@@phatlewt2932 Hitler invaded Poland because he wanted to destroy the Soviet Union, he hated the eastern slavs, 6 million poles were killed in the war, of which a sixth were military personal. He believed that the Jews made communism and that jewish communism would lead to the collapse of human society, because at that time, the west depended more on the east for food and the east needed the west for material, if the east developed, Hitler thought they would stop trading with the west, leading to the collapse of nations, leading to Jewish communism rising, because Hitler believed Jews couldn't form nations, every nation would collapse and as a result, humans would go extinct, I'm explaining thhis because I don't want to paint Hitler as, 'he racist, he evil >:(,' he's evil because he thinks what he's doing is correct Anyway, Poland, I'm gonna be real with you, I actually do not know why Hitler wanted to kill all of the poles, I just know he genocided them, you don't accidentally murder a fifth of a countries population after all. I think it's because of Lebensraum, Hitler saw the Eastern lands as Germany's destiny, and the only way to keep Germany alive. Now, I'm gonna be vastly over simplifying chapter 14 of Mein kampf, yes, I've read most of the chapter, no I haven't read mein kampf, I've been meaning too, no, I'm not a nazi, far too many people hear me reading mein kampf or explaining Hitler's ideas and think Nazi, yes, I do want to understand Hitlers ideology, and the best way to do that is through reading his book where he explains it Simply, chapter 14 is about three major things, land, resources and people. Hitler believes there is a set amount of resources in a land, and there is a maximum capacity for said land, where if the capacity is reached, people will use all of the resources in the land and die off, this is the primary thing driving forward his thought process, Europe as a whole at this time, doesn't have a lot, the Soviet Union is the only one with enough for a nation, enough food, enough oil and steel, which Germany needs all three of them, aluminium comes from Sweden, food from Ukraine and other resources from Europe. Hitler believes for Germany to survive as a nation, he must get these resources, and the people of Germany must get their land. But they can't use it if someone else is already there, so, you kill them or deport them. That's what i think is happening in Poland, Hitler sees it as the living space his people need for survival, and so the best course of action in his eyes would be to destroy Poland and the Soviet Union population, because, you need living space, and there already isn't enough. That's why I think Poland was genocided during WW2, why it was invaded, and why Hhitler was evil. Remember, Hitler isn't evil because he did this horrible thing, he's evil because he thought he was right

[@nahumhabte6210]

Why was Stalin surprised when Hitler attacked?

[@edschell9411]

No ship ride would take weeks

[@rangerminiaturesandgaming3647]

Your videos are good, I am afraid when you get too popular….

[@Kugel--]

Only issue with this is at 0:54 describing Stalinism as hyper Internationalist. Especially with the Trotskyite purges and the policy of socialism in one country. Calling it that is a bit disingenuous. It's fair to argue for calling it internationalist but at end of the day, its nitpicking on one word within a 15min vid

[@ZoomerHistorian]

I did say Communism instead of Stalinism to make that distinction however that didn't stop the Soviets setting up puppet governments all over Eastern Europe

[@ZoomerHistorian]

@hollywoodsucks7202 I haven’t done anything

[@moiseiuritskythebutcherofp8469]

​​@@ZoomerHistorianWe know.Its our friend Susan.We are very old friends😅

[@Zeno308]

@@ZoomerHistorian Stalin was not an internationalist, he was actually kind of a white nationalist

[@lazarkaganovich8488]

​@@Zeno308Internationalist, as in planning to spread Communism worldwide.

[@stevederp9801]

Something that is ignored over and over again is America being chosen by France and England as the new power to take over there bases and ensure a western global domination would continue. France and England both fully knew after world war 1 that they simply didn’t have the resources or population to maintain their global colonial dominance. So they chose America as a source to be the world police as they gradually changed their colonial policies. Something that I firmly believe is that the Cold War was neo colonial tactics put in place. Think of every major country that ends their colonial rule. The constant fighting of the communist forces against US aligned forces. Every nation in Africa, the Middle East, South America and Asia wasted their resources by sending them to either Russia or America in exchange for weapons. We were able to hold off the development of these colonial nations for 40 years while the west and soviets increased their industrial capacities. While many of these countries were building their first roads and factories we were busy sending men to space and perfecting jet aircraft and helicopters. The entire point was to make it so that we would be more advanced and it would take 100 years for them to catch up. I would say we’re right on track for that timeline. We delayed the rest of the world from developing the technology to challenge us. Now finally countries like North Korea and Iran can make nuclear weapons. Now finally can countries like Turkey make drones.

[@yourmum256]

Good video mate

[@ZoomerHistorian]

Thanks very much my friend

[@kiralight2929]

Keep making these videos. This is the history I needed to learn back in school. It angers me how many decades I spent believing the trash my school history books fed me.

[@danielnavarro537]

That’s school which isn’t focused on history. They have to focus on other subjects. Even so, you can be able to learn history past school.

[@floycewhite6991]

The Chief Culprit by Vladimir Rezun is basically just his earlier book Icebreaker. The title better reflects the subject. Yes, The USSR wanted Germany to be its icebreaker and embroil Europe in an exhausting WWI-type war. But that isn't really what the book's about.

[@anthonyk1234]

Very insightful video, good job.

[@jordantroy8000]

Great vid

[@rustyking2728]

Great video.

[@scoopidywhoop7484]

9:20 that’s so weird. This border that they claim isn’t even along the Ural Mountains!

[@fartsfartington9019]

"I'm gay." -Zoomer Historian

[@thatlittlevoice6354]

Because he knew it was coming, anyway?

[@WakaWaka2468]

Of course, why else would the Soviets have built up 20,000+ tanks and millions more men conscripted. Their military was growing rapidly by the day. Germany HAD to react.

[@tempejkl]

@@WakaWaka2468Stalin recruiting more men when the world's largest army, led by a man who explicitly stated in his most popular book he wanted to eradicate the entire slavic and Jewish race, is on his border? Who would've thought? Why is it not okay for the Soviets to put troops and set up defensive positions within it's own fucking borders?

[@mrmackey8776]

3:22 uh no the brainwashed ones aren’t going to like this one

[@torcher3209]

Will you talk about the atrocities committed by the nazis against the slavic people such as wanting to exterminate most of them,such as in Serbia where they wiped out entire villages and killing millions of russians and other slavic groups? Or will you ignore that and call it propaganda?

[@FrancescusLover]

Did you even watched the video?

[@tarikmeric6117]

You are very good and good informed. You are a hero👍

[@simonshaffer]

Interesting.

[@redpyramid6843]

Top notch video

[@leonmorris7862]

Top notch nazi propaganda am I right ?