Vistula-Oder Offensive: Every Day [WW2]

[@Aph1de]

It's insane how fast the Soviets advanced through most of Poland in less than 1 month

[@dakota4396]

They had a strict teacher.

[@stefanodadamo6809]

Soviet flesh plus Anglo-American logistics

[@NikitaAnastasyuk]

​@@stefanodadamo6809Anglo-American logistics accounted for only 6% of the army's total equipment

[@vitraxgdanski1305]

​@@stefanodadamo6809are you stupid

[@stefanodadamo6809]

@@NikitaAnastasyuk not the big numbers, but the specialties. Much more than 6% of trucks, or 6% of canned rations, or 6% of boots, or 6% of brand new railways locomotives, or 6% of aluminium (expressly asked for by Stalin, for use in aeronautics construction). Watching at the grand total of Soviet war effort and production, Anglo-American help looks relatively minor, but it proved decisive to allow the Red Army's great march west.

[@samlosco8441]

Can you imagine being a German veteran that had fought since 1941, still alive at this point? From entering the Soviet Union with a huge advantage, killing or capturing millions of men, annihilating the air force, destroying thousands of tanks, etc. Then the setback at Moscow, the successes of Fall Blau, the defeat at Stalingrad, a year of grinding warfare in 1943, the devastation of Bagration, and the collapse of the Axis alliance. Then you sit in a trench in January 1945, and the artillery unleashes hell again. Despite all the death and destruction your armies caused, you now face a Soviet army of over 6 million men. It must have felt like it would never end

[@frosten5746]

Over 6 million. It was about 10-12 millions

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

​@@frosten5746 5-6 million were in reserve, 7 million were on thhe front

[@gladys2563]

Soviet Union had 24 million casualties. 16 million were civilian.

[@abuhajar4222]

@@gladys2563 28 million casualties. 20 million were civilian

[@belgianfried]

Friends, Krivosheev lists 8.5 million military fatalities, 233,000 agent/paramilitary (SMERSH, NKVD, Border Guards, etc), and 27 million civilian fatalities.

[@Tgungen]

These videos might be some of the most underrated in the whole platform, the amount of research goes into these is insane

[@wariacix750]

Love how you worked on accurate data here, even showed the data points. Really professional job!

[@cactuscartocratus7228]

Amazing work! For so long I was disappointed that there were no mapping videos about the situation in Poland in the later parts of WW2. And now there finally is one and with the best quality! Hopefully you will also make the Silesian, Pomeranian and East Prussian offensives. Greetings from Poland! 🇵🇱

[@unhomesenzill4366]

Excellent work as always.

[@samdaman2939]

Legend drops another amazingly detailed video!

[@alexG106]

Bro in a month they went from being outside of Warsaw to nearly attacking Berlin if not for the order to hold and reinforce the flanks. Insane how much of a juggernaut the Red Army was by this point.

[@ahennessy7998]

Given the ww2 channel just did a deployment special on this yesterday this is insanely good timing

[@_kaboom826]

Awesome! Its not often that you get to hear about the Vistula-Oder Offensive

[@oajajaj]

I have been waiting for this for months

[@advocatusdiaboli4861]

There's a small mistake in the northeast, the town of Suwalki wasn't annexed by the Soviets in 1939 and thus was a Polish enclave during the war. Still, a great video! I especially liked the pre-war Polish border reappearing on the liberated territory. Looking forward to more videos on WW2 operations!

[@advocatusdiaboli4861]

Also, the southeastern border is from after August 1945, the wartime border went more along the San River.

[@yanxishan6575]

@@advocatusdiaboli4861 Do you know the name of this agreement?

[@BayronYGaleas]

@@yanxishan6575 The Border Agreement between Poland and the USSR of 16 August 1945

[@BayronYGaleas]

this border is a variant of the curzon line

[@BettyNg-v8h]

​@@BayronYGaleasIn fact, on July 27, 1944, Poland and the Soviet Union secretly signed a border treaty.

[@VietnameseBoii]

When the world need him most, he returned

[@outerspace7391]

The legend is back

[@SLAPPEDbyAhat]

Another excellent video, and I appreciate the brief flash at the end displaying the data points. Although this is only the slightest glimpses at the methodology and research involved, this still makes it a cut above the rest when it comes to the perception of historical accuracy. A slight shame that more couldn’t be shown of Yugoslavia to the south. It would be interesting, if difficult, to display geographically the partisans campaign. According to one source they even built a bridge to assist the Red Army: “the peasants, on their own initiative, armed themselves with axes, shovels, saws, and began to make a crossing…” [1] I look forward to the continued depiction of WW2 history in the form of flowing colors! 1) “Trust me sis”. Independent Research Publishing 2025

[@micahistory]

nice video man. glad to see you back!

[@schynobonk]

crazy to think about that this happened exactly 79 years ago

[@aksmex2576]

The Legend is back.

[@Brslld]

What going against numerical, planning and organizational/leadership superiority does to a mf:

[@tylerclayton6081]

They both collapsed quite spectacularly in the end…the two most evil empires in history

[@Brslld]

@@tylerclayton6081 Good Ending

[@lmperlum]

​@@tylerclayton6081no

[@proudhellene5874]

Stop believing what the enemies of the Germans tell you about them.@@tylerclayton6081

[@darklysm8345]

"leadership superiority " In which universe lmao

[@Matthew_080]

Amazing work, thank you!

[@ethronium7240]

babe wake up new Yan Xishan video

[@HaSt113]

Nice work. Greetings from Poland

[@BettyNg-v8h]

The video does not show one detail. In the secret treaty between the USSR and the Polish People's Republic of July 22, 1944, the border between the USSR and Polish was delineated, and the USSR also recognized that the border between Polish and Germany was along the Oder-Vistula River.

[@yanxishan6575]

Do you know the name of this agreement?

[@BettyNg-v8h]

​@@yanxishan6575And, to correct myself, the fact is that the Polish-German border is drawn at the Oder-Neisse(not Vistula) line, and the date of the agreement is July 27th(not 22).

[@BettyNg-v8h]

​@@yanxishan6575Соглашение между правительством Союза Советских Социалистических Республик и Польским Комитетом Национального Освобождения о советско-польской границе. Москва, 27 июля 1944 г.

[@arlanwidiansyah]

Good video as always but however, German Empire in WW2?

[@lallawmzuali6083]

German Reich could be translated into German Empire

[@OrionAltHist]

Nice work!

[@Anwwoo]

I will call this "Campaign: Fate of the Citadel"

[@EdinProfa]

Makes you realize every front in WW2 except Eastern and maybe China were like skirmish-size.

[@extrahistory8956]

Well, the China front was a bit weird. While absolutely massive and involving some of the largest military offensives that the Japanese ever went on, most of the fighting was a division level between at most 5 divisions on either side.

[@randomdude5187]

Damn look at the pace they advance per day, that's crazy!

[@oajajaj]

0:25: Wait I think I figured it out is that forces under Walther Nehring?

[@yanxishan6575]

Yes

[@yanxishan6575]

There were other such forces that made their way back to German lines but they were smaller and I couldn't find information on them

[@oajajaj]

What were such forces?​@@yanxishan6575

[@yanxishan6575]

@@oajajaj I'm not sure

[@matejrasic7539]

Masterpiece!

[@heremapping4484]

Awesome work

[@aksmex2576]

I did not know about this offensive, and it is crazy because the Soviets captured half Poland worth of land in a week.

[@manojoogo5003]

I really like showing the borders by who is in control of them. Why did you not draw the border between Soviet annexed Transcarpathia and Czechoslovakia though?

[@oajajaj]

Soviets annexed Transcarpathia only later

[@pepitamapping]

amazing job!

[@florinivan6907]

The fact that the germans collapsed so quickly tells you just how weak their defences were. Once the soviets broke through the front the germans collapsed more or less. It was only the soviets streching themselves too thin that stopped any further advances.

[@andrefarfan4372]

Great video.

[@stephmod7434]

If the Germans succeed in the battle of the Bulge what would the outcome of this offensive be?

[@SPSR2005KZ]

Hello again

[@stephmod7434]

@@SPSR2005KZ hello!

[@Hoshihar]

Более высокие боевые потери, затянутая война с Рейхом.

[@fiyum333]

the war ends in june instead of may

[@stephmod7434]

​@@fiyum333and propably all of Germany will be under Soviet control.

[@WackChen]

what a map amirght guys

[@The-yz5rn]

Yea?

[@SuperHappyBros]

It took a month for the most culturally significant region in all of Germany, East Prussia, to die.

[@yanxishan6575]

Sort of. The advances actually mostly stalled out after this, and the remaining pockets around Königsberg wouldn't be cleared out until April. However about 80% of East Prussia's population fled (or were murdered by the Red Army) during the events depicted in this video, so in that sense East Prussia really was destroyed in January 1945.

[@kommandantwunder6785]

​@@yanxishan6575"or were murdered by red army" Are you for real?

[@yanxishan6575]

​@@kommandantwunder6785 I am, Soviet war crimes in Eastern Europe are well-known, however you could argue my wording was misleading since the number of Germans in East Prussia who were killed in the invasion is far less than the number who fled (thousands vs.millions)

[@Adonnus100]

@@kommandantwunder6785 I talked to a guy from East Prussia a few years ago. He said he still remembers the sounds of women screaming at night when the Russians came in.

[@samlosco8441]

@@yanxishan6575 Do you have any theories as to why the Red Army was much more brutal in East Prussia than it was in other German territories like Silesia, Berlin/Brandenburg, etc? My thought is that, since East Prussia was the first real German province to collapse, there was a lot of spontaneous acts of violence committed by troops due to the hatred they felt towards Germans. But as far as I know, the Red Army actually clamped down on the wrongdoers quite harshly, and many Red Army soldiers were executed for their crimes by other Red Army men (far more got away with it of course). It seems that they became at least slightly more disciplined by April/May

[@maldivesgaming737]

nice

[@oajajaj]

What is the story of the leftover Germans behind enemy lines then fleeing back to germany

[@dakota4396]

What dataset?

[@jonseilim4321]

The Red Army is the Strongest!

[@gigachad3457]

Pff soviest defeated germany by help from usa england france itp.

[@Sharkoon030]

@@gigachad3457lend lease only came in significant numbers in 1943

[@konstantinbush295]

@@gigachad3457 Of course not. We all know that the Russians won only thanks to General Frost! 🤣 [throw your propaganda textbooks in the trash]

[@gigachad3457]

@@konstantinbush295 :) prove your russian books are not propaganda

[@konstantinbush295]

@@gigachad3457 It was especially funny that for some reason you decided that France also helped the USSR, although at that time it was a country occupied by Hitler. >>itp Oh, I see that you are actually Comrade Commissar!

[@albertobohon.]

Please make more ww2 maps videos

[@SPSR2005KZ]

German empire?

[@Maser_ko]

Reich - Empire

[@alexanderiliev1431]

What did you use as a source?

[@yanxishan6575]

At some point it will be added to the description

[@aheron234513465]

"German Empire" - Lol, with emperor Adolf I of Austria as ruler.

[@anonymous49276]

Reich in English means empire

[@trevormangus625]

Keep it up!

[@unknownus63]

Look at those puny counter offensives in East Prussia

[@UNSCWarCriminal]

Thank you General Yan Xishan!

[@Pioneer_DE]

Very cool

[@kazioglod]

Suwałki was integral part of Nazi Reich since 1939, it was never an official part of Soviet Union in any form.

[@CAProductions051]

I forgot I was subscribed to you

[@jokejoestar7392]

I remember that the border of soviet union and poland was changed after war, so the south-east part border have sone problem.

[@MaslAlek]

Jedna zaraza zastąpiła drugą

[@maciejqas7515]

Dokładnie tak

[@exelkaa1136]

German Empire? What?

[@nojusy1992]

The Official name of Germany from 1871 - 1945 was the German Reich translated to literally into English one of the translation can be Empire but during this time from 1943 - 1945 it was officially called the Greater German Reich

[@polishwaster]

Wasn't there German zone in Slovakia?

[@yanxishan6575]

Yes, this is an error in the video, although since Slovakia was occupied in late 1944, perhaps really the whole of Slovakia should be shown as under German military administration.

[@winston96]

German Empire?

[@squidthesquid1233]

german reich literally means german empire

[@georgejpg]

@@squidthesquid1233 Reich means realm, not empire. Imperium is the german word for empire.

[@riko_sandokan]

Reappearance of old Polish border is a nice detail

[@yanxishan6575]

Of course, I needed to show national frontiers in the video, but the Allies and Axis recognised different frontiers for Europe (in this case the Nazis annexed western parts of Poland which the Allies did not recognise). So how to reconcile this? In past animations I experimented with many solutions, but was not satisfied with them, eventually I decided to do this which I think solves the problem appropriately.

[@barsukascool]

You got the borders wrong (annexations of mustache man)

[@pindol69]

You dont understand it,do you?

[@barsukascool]

@@pindol69 what exactly?

[@andrewmarino5441]

In terms of numbers this was Germanys worst defeat and had the highest amount of Germans killed of any operation in the whole war.

[@flame9826]

German Empire? Is it Alternate history or what😂😂😂. German Empire ceased to exist in 1919

[@TIMVOCALIST]

Reich - Empire

[@paulbrower]

Practically an inverse of the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939.

[@Alexander-Russky1900]

Слава Великой Армии, уничтожившей нацизм!

[@becalelbecalelew7262]

Некорректная карта. Рейх оккупировал ряд польских земель (Ostgebiete), Генерал-губернаторство имело Галицию, Карпатская Русь принадлежала Венгрии

[@福音-t1i]

Where is Chinese civil war 😢

[@oajajaj]

It's inaccurate

[@Free_3333]

0:48 кто пернул?

[@th3ninja]

гитлер

[@Mussolini1941]

name of the song

[@yanxishan6575]

The name of the song is always shown at the end of the video.

[@Disco-Mike]

Oh No, they used Blitzkrieg against us. Scheiße

[@georgeousthegorgeous]

German WHAT?

[@HistoricDefense]

At this point the Soviets' numerical superiority was about 3 : 1. Considering this, it's quite surprising how the Germans menaged to fight until early may.

[@srbin26]

The losses of the German army here are more than 400 thousand people, which is 10 times more than the losses of the Soviets. This is the answer to your question.

[@samlosco8441]

I don't know how Hitler had the audacity to move two whole divisions away from this front just before the attack, all while confidently assuming the Soviet build-up was a bluff. How can you get your ass beat so many times in the previous 2 years and still fall for such nonsense? Not that the Germans had a chance anyway

[@yanxishan6575]

It does seem as though Hitler was not good at learning from his mistakes, at least after 1933. Alternatively, the Soviets might be credited for achieving excellence in maskirovka.

[@tylerclayton6081]

This offensive was executed immediately after Germany had shifted most of its focus towards the western front. They moved a lot of armor and air power to the west for a doomed offensive

[@srbin26]

nevertheless, at the time of the Soviet attack, 560 thousand German soldiers were concentrated on the Rhine, and 800 thousand Germans held the defense in Poland.

[@luc4sperez340]

Liberation of Poland

[@damianstaszek]

"Liberation" of Poland

[@luc4sperez340]

@@damianstaszek Was it better to remain under Nazi rule?

[@damianstaszek]

@@luc4sperez340 still poland wasn't libarated in 1945

[@luc4sperez340]

@@damianstaszek That is your opinion and I respect it, I believe that Poland was liberated in 1944-45 I'm not a communist or anything like that.

[@MurzynZBangladeszu]

@@luc4sperez340 Liberation in communist times had a concrete definition and has nothing to milder conditions, Hungary also were "liberated".

[@matrix-u1n]

German empire lol

[@Random_Panda_eating_cake]

German Reich could be translated as empire

[@hmmm3210]

​@@Random_Panda_eating_cake Reich is a monarchy and imperialism neutral word. It was called the Reich even after ww1 and before Hitler took over

[@georgejpg]

@@Random_Panda_eating_cake Or more accurately be translated as 'German realm', or just 'Germany'.

[@nickname_error2091]

german empire in 1945

[@tjxure]

no lithuanian partisans, bad 👎

[@cheezycrackers8677]

Very, VERY sad.

[@josephstalin331]

Poles should be grateful to the Russians for freeing them.

[@dukeneby3791]

This was the same country that invaded and Annexed a half of their country 5 years prior. I don't think they should be grateful for that.

[@pindol69]

Nah

[@lallawmzuali6083]

"Freeing them" lol

[@saidblanco7696]

For freeing them from the nazis? Yes. For "freeing" them? Nah.

[@gigachad3457]

Hahaa nice joke also allies helped russia with suplies

[@gitte8676]

Horrible

[@Mussolini1941]

The last line of defence 💔

[@xdgamer2765]

uh

[@elmariachi840]

German Empire - Смешно... Смотрите дети, так работает пропаганда

[@srbin26]

пропаганда чего? что германия была империалистической? слово "империя" там использовалось даже в названии государственных ведомств

[@elmariachi840]

@@srbin26 Ну да, была империя... с Кайзером во главе 🧐.А если что-то использовали или называли, так это "дань традиции"

[@flawwy]

Reich с немецкого это империя

[@evil1143]

Not particularly detailed or informative. 0/10. At least you've got the obnoxious music going full steam.

[@yanxishan6575]

What is it that you'd like to see?

[@evil1143]

@@yanxishan6575 Sorry for the slow response. I would suggest taking inspiration from channels like Eastory which focus more on the informative side of the offensive rather than the theatrical side of it. What you have here is at least a decade out of date, ever since emperor tigerstar made his viral ww2 vid so long ago youtube has become saturated with these kinds of amateur hour videos which still don't really stack up to the original anyway, in any case the way forward for these types of videos is to slow it down a bit and make it more specific and informative. Whenever Eastory drops a video everyone who's even remotely interested in this goes over to him to watch it because he's one of the only channels that does almost everything right. The way to one up someone like that is to make it even more informative while maintaining some sense of entertainment value I.e a better version of what he does, not an easy task but you asked me for my opinion. Second person of inspiration is TIKhistory not because he does videos like this but because he'll direct you to books and source material that you can use to integrate into future videos. Knowledge the ordinary goober who watches this sh!t wouldn't otherwise know about ww2 or even this offensive in particular. That key you have on screen isn't detailed enough or big enough, maybe my eyesight is going to sh!t but I almost have to squint to see it and the bright red contrasts terribly with the white city names, not that with the level of detail this video contains would justify even putting the city names in in the first place. All in all in my opinion you have to pick a style that is either a one or two hit wonder a decade ago that has since been done to death by literally everyone OR get serious about what you have to offer in terms of tangible value here, do people come away from your videos learning something new?

[@Mr.DalekLK]

The USSR did not liberate Poland, considering the Nazi occupation and the USSR occupation, the Germans were the salvation

[@SPSR2005KZ]

ahaha

[@dvnk6971]

lmfao nice joke

[@averagebohemian5791]

are you braindead?

[@konstantinbush295]

Hitler promised to make shoe polish out of the Poles. Perhaps this would be salvation

[@srbin26]

oh, if a Nazi makes soap out of you, does that save you?

[@fahoodie1852]

I’m gay

[@cavejohnson982]

good for you

[@maldivesgaming737]

cool

[@lilestojkovicii6618]

Nobody cares

[@redacted7060]

Face the wall

[@saidblanco7696]

Got the ahh Vistula offensive vibes

[@nabakunlaismime5526]

Gay soviets

[@srbin26]

a sovietophobe has no mind

[@nabakunlaismime5526]

@@srbin26 1992

[@srbin26]

@@nabakunlaismime5526 if you wanted to name the date of the collapse of the USSR, then you didn’t succeed

[@mohammadaminbehdarvandan603]

Germans could smashed those soviet forces in mobile warfare if hitler listened to general guderian and he evacuated courland pocket, norway, balkan, Italy and troops in ardennes for strengthening defence of the eastern front and counter attacking this offensive

[@srbin26]

After the defeat of the German forces at Kursk in 1943, I believe that the Germans would not have been able to stop the Soviet advance. But they could even out the losses. However, we have losses of the German army which exceeds the losses of the Soviets by 11 times

[@Brslld]

Lol, Hitler listened to his Generals regularly. Them losing ahain and again made Adolf convinced his Generals suck.

[@zalqert]

When you showed the points you marked to map this🥲 Takes a lot of effort to try to be as accurate as possible. Well done 👍