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

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

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Berlin April 1945: Hitler’s 1000 year Reich must face its final reckoning as the Red Army closes in on the German capital and the last savage chapter in the Battle for Europe begins.
Stalin’s plan is to attack Berlin on three fronts and encircle it. The Western powers stand back as his Marshals, Zhukov, Konev and Rokossovsky compete to avenge the Nazis murderous war in the East and raise the Red Flag over the Reichstag. Zhukov’s forces are first to cross the river Oder in overwhelming numbers to attack the main German defensive line at Seelow Heights, but they meet with huge resistance.
Hitler’s capital will not fall easily, some of the most die-hard SS units; many of them foreign volunteers with nowhere left to run, will make their last stand amid its ruins. A Panzer Army and two army groups, supported by a home guard made up of police, old men and Hitler Youth will fight for every suburb, street and, eventually, every room against a Red Army comprised of over two million troops and thousands of artillery pieces, planes and tanks. For their part Stalin’s commanders are willing to sacrifice any number of men to meet his punishing schedule and capture the political heart of Berlin by May Day 1945. Zhukov loses 30,000 men at Seelow before he is able to press on into the city.
Many of the surviving Nazi high command, including the Fuhrer, shelter from the unrelenting Soviet onslaught deep below the ruined streets. During the battle the Red Army and the Western Allies finally meet on the banks of the Elbe. In the Führerbunker, Hitler marries Eva Braun and shortly afterwards the two of them commit suicide, their bodies buried and burned in the garden of the Reichs Chancellery on the 30th of April.
Over sixteen days of fighting the Soviets suffer enormous losses and Berlin’s civilian population pay a terrible price. As the Red Army range through the Berlin suburbs, they wreak the revenge that many expected. But it is on a scale no one dared imagine. Over 100,000 women and girls are raped and thousands die as a result. Many more civilians die as they attempt to escape west towards the US and British lines.
Just one day after the great Soviet festival of May Day, with the battle still raging below, several soldiers and official photographers scale the exterior of the Reichstag and hoist the Red Flag from its shattered roof. It is an act of carefully staged political propaganda that delivers to Stalin exactly what he’s ordered, the Fall of Berlin and the symbolic capitulation of the entire Nazi regime. It would soon be followed by the actual German surrender and the end of the war in Europe.
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@nxlv_8362 8 ай бұрын

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

@patriciabrenner9216 7 ай бұрын

I thanks G-d.

@dalewegan9058 7 ай бұрын

@@patriciabrenner9216is a great place to ❤. N0

@GerardPereira-bd6vr Ай бұрын

Why are you a Neo Facist

@pontifixmax 6 ай бұрын

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

@ruhri0411 5 ай бұрын

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

@gilmangus83 5 ай бұрын

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

@franc9111 5 ай бұрын

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

@CosmicGrind 4 ай бұрын

I thought the exact same when I went for holiday there

@jojo2.092 4 ай бұрын

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

@billinct860 Жыл бұрын

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

@FullNelson007 Жыл бұрын

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

@dalebechtel8904 Жыл бұрын

Couldn’t agree more. You tube is a joke

@SuperGamer3000 Жыл бұрын

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

@horrorfan1455 Жыл бұрын

KZfaqs glory days are way behind them

@sirleo5103 Жыл бұрын

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

@irinawatkins6150 8 ай бұрын

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

@1745vlad 3 ай бұрын

Agreed,

@user-nb8mr4lk4l 3 ай бұрын

Pero porque Alemania atacó a Rusia, porque?

@ogbighomie9738 3 ай бұрын

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

@Mouth_of_Sauron. 2 ай бұрын

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

@user-fw4pr4kh1v 2 ай бұрын

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

@samanthaeduardamoreira1630 8 ай бұрын

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

@artram1655 8 ай бұрын

I visited Berlin recently. So much history there

@flournoymason8961 Жыл бұрын

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

@dianeeyestone2040 5 ай бұрын

sow

@Shiloh7377 Жыл бұрын

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

@SuperMrHiggins Жыл бұрын

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

@Shiloh7377 Жыл бұрын

@@SuperMrHiggins true...

@simpsbelongtothegulags3702 Жыл бұрын

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

@Shiloh7377 Жыл бұрын

@@simpsbelongtothegulags3702 true, very true

@zombiesRUseless6880 Жыл бұрын

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

@richardwhitfill5253 9 ай бұрын

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

@davidhoward4715 Жыл бұрын

"As you sow, so shall you reap."

@pmtspmts8441 Жыл бұрын

Funny no one say what these Germans did to people

@thegamingchef3304 9 ай бұрын

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

@AbsoluteZero-lv8js 11 ай бұрын

Eastern Front was absolutely brutal

@cuthbertjolly4859 6 ай бұрын

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

@cuthbertjolly4859 6 ай бұрын

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

@joethekinghawk7514 4 ай бұрын

Much much much much worse.

@tonyromano6220 Ай бұрын

Beyond comprehension.

@andrewsmith3257 Ай бұрын

The Pacific..was also brutal

@chrisvandenhoek5335 8 ай бұрын

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

@braddavid902 10 ай бұрын

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

@charrua59 9 ай бұрын

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

@krakrtreacysr907 9 ай бұрын

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

@thalmoragent9344 9 ай бұрын

Not all of them were heroes...

@krakrtreacysr907 9 ай бұрын

@@thalmoragent9344nor were they all bad

@ArcticKnight98 8 ай бұрын

@@thalmoragent9344more where than americans

@theChiral Жыл бұрын

Europe never learns. They are at it again

@stanzanossi 9 ай бұрын

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

@theChiral 9 ай бұрын

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

@fistowar Жыл бұрын

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

@mikejames5743 Жыл бұрын

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

@thalmoragent9344 9 ай бұрын

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

@Darthdesmond 8 ай бұрын

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

@BrianFalarski-jv4xp 6 ай бұрын

Yep

@danielnavarro5369 Жыл бұрын

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

@gern7535 Жыл бұрын

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

@noone-td8rc Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@John_shepard Жыл бұрын

Yes listening with headphones suck

@ramamohamed8392 7 ай бұрын

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

@chadczternastek Жыл бұрын

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

@KorgKapperi 10 ай бұрын

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

@KorgKapperi 10 ай бұрын

Nothing compared to hamburg

@billinct860 10 ай бұрын

@@KorgKapperi War is hell.

@charrua59 9 ай бұрын

2 million German women raped by russian soldiers

@edl1973 Жыл бұрын

Love these. Keep them coming. Thank

@noone-td8rc Жыл бұрын

Thanks you man.

@mycull Жыл бұрын

My right ear is feeling so lonely.

@mrtiabrown Жыл бұрын

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

@stomper5432 Жыл бұрын

look ot up yourself

@lucashofstad Жыл бұрын

The camera man never dies

@dougrobbins5367 Жыл бұрын

KZfaq rules. You can't get too graphic.

@martingrey2231 10 ай бұрын

You'll have to go to WPD for that.

@seth101-hv4st 7 ай бұрын

Actually many camera men and reporters did die in WW2.

@mjs3343 8 ай бұрын

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

@franc9111 7 ай бұрын

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

@scaredy-cat 8 ай бұрын

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

@franc9111 5 ай бұрын

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

@hiousuke Жыл бұрын

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

@mistershepherd6808 Жыл бұрын

What censorship? What am I missing?

@renek243 Жыл бұрын

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

@gordonilaoa1275 Жыл бұрын

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

@jamesmaddison4546 9 ай бұрын

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

@noktinnkynoktinnky1329 4 ай бұрын

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

@rebekahwhite2939 Жыл бұрын

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

@darrelneidiffer6777 Жыл бұрын

Sound is funky. Still worth the time.🎉

@lucashofstad Жыл бұрын

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

@gordonilaoa1275 Жыл бұрын

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

@CM-ve1bz 10 ай бұрын

The last American killed in WWll was a cameraman

@mikethebike2456 9 ай бұрын

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

@paulzellman9632 Жыл бұрын

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

@mikejames5743 Жыл бұрын

spoken like a true judeo bolshevik

@dookjade3238 Жыл бұрын

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

@Anglo_Saxon1 Жыл бұрын

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

@sjonroosgeurius9714 Жыл бұрын

He talk about young soldiers not their leaders

@dougrobbins5367 Жыл бұрын

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

@azazelzel6954 Жыл бұрын

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

@teddymcfail4359 10 ай бұрын

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

@Jere. 5 ай бұрын

I've read that too.. Makes you wonder

@andrewsmith3257 Ай бұрын

The Generals were incompetent 😅

@JihaddJay Жыл бұрын

You can do without the blurring in scenes. It degrades the meaning that a documentary is trying to convey.

@jayjohn9680 Жыл бұрын

I’ve seen war… you have to look at the enemy IN THE EYES!!! I then became a pest control expert. I came accross the termite queen. When youre dealing with that you know you’re dealing with pure hell, and if youre not careful it’ll unleash a swarm of a million termites that’ll be eating you ALIVE!!!🤯🤯🤯

@zakimtshali8105 Жыл бұрын

My favorite channel

@andrecharlier2555 Жыл бұрын

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

@Mortablunt 4 ай бұрын

Artemvosk

@RanenVoinik Жыл бұрын

Superb documentary 👏

@DARkwindowsdrawn Жыл бұрын

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

@terryschnaider5374 11 ай бұрын

Good episode. 🇨🇦🔥

@1RadicalDreamer Жыл бұрын

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

@lloydchristmas1086 Жыл бұрын

Big tech supports communism whats new?

@Xxheadshot420xX Жыл бұрын

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

@PK__44 Жыл бұрын

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

@Xxheadshot420xX Жыл бұрын

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

@PK__44 Жыл бұрын

@@Xxheadshot420xX yup KZfaq is soft

@pacsqcfan9718 Жыл бұрын

This is nothing comparing to Stalingrad.

@prcc Жыл бұрын

Why no sound on the right channel?

@cascadianrangers728 Жыл бұрын

Look at all the kv1 footage! Love it

@user-lq9zo5lx5z Жыл бұрын

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

@mirquellasantos2716 Жыл бұрын

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

@stanzanossi 9 ай бұрын

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

@ricksanchez5002 Жыл бұрын

BTW, this was a very good documentary.

@leegramling1533 9 ай бұрын

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

@franc9111 7 ай бұрын

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

@fpscanada3862 8 ай бұрын

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

@johnnywilliams7160 Жыл бұрын

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

@denislaferriere2693 11 ай бұрын

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

@silviamaringer9426 10 ай бұрын

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

@kagolobyadalton5773 9 ай бұрын

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

@stanzanossi 9 ай бұрын

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

@thalmoragent9344 9 ай бұрын

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

@joejones8810 7 ай бұрын

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

@hochlaenderhigh8317 8 ай бұрын

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

@Alexzander19736 Жыл бұрын

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

@BELCAN57 Жыл бұрын

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

@dleechristy Жыл бұрын

cowards

@johnavast5939 11 ай бұрын

Dummy

@gaoxiaen1 10 ай бұрын

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

@The_Crazy_Monkey75 10 ай бұрын

@@dleechristy Not really, they were smart.

@hajime2k 9 ай бұрын

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

@herrcobblermachen Жыл бұрын

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

@macfly6237 Жыл бұрын

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

@tiffanie888 Жыл бұрын

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

@angrydoggy9170 Жыл бұрын

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

@MonTube2006 Жыл бұрын

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

@hattorihanzo562 Жыл бұрын

@@macfly6237 individual people have karma germans arent a hive

@HyBr1dRaNg3r 5 ай бұрын

Curious as to why the ppsh 41 was used when there was the pps 43?🤔It was 1945 and the 43 was a cheaper gun, though I’m not sure of total production numbers

@robertbruce7686 Жыл бұрын

Audio on 1 channel only?

@jpmtlhead39 Жыл бұрын

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

@Skipjack7814 Жыл бұрын

"Fegelein!! Fegelein FEGELEIN!!!!"

@jonasemilaksnes Жыл бұрын

6:31 anyone know what song that is?

@eddyeddyd Жыл бұрын

Good video

@bakulubaka8661 Жыл бұрын

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

@duncanchizizi6543 Жыл бұрын

About 7 to 10 years.

@GooseGumlizzard 9 ай бұрын

about a decade

@stanzanossi 9 ай бұрын

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

@zapdunga12 Жыл бұрын

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

@normanshaw1970 Жыл бұрын

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

@carlgreisheimer8701 Жыл бұрын

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

@sirleo5103 Жыл бұрын

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

@sirleo5103 Жыл бұрын

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

@carlgreisheimer8701 Жыл бұрын

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

@tomaserlandsson7546 10 ай бұрын

Why is the sound in mono?

@eddyeddyd Жыл бұрын

Excellent

@kdfulton3152 Жыл бұрын

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

@armandvanderspil4905 7 ай бұрын

Bedankt

@hackcult3738 Жыл бұрын

no audio?

@rhapsody85 Жыл бұрын

The sound is messed up

@trtj200 Жыл бұрын

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

@austinlancaster7982 11 ай бұрын

they love to forget about that

@koontzzlyrics8098 8 ай бұрын

And it wasn't given for free

@ario.gaming 6 ай бұрын

Cuman truck doang😆

@robertstennett7566 3 ай бұрын

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

@user-gg9hg8go6j 11 сағат бұрын

😊прям всё американские грузовики. Оплаченные русской кровушкой.

@sammurphy3343 11 ай бұрын

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

@henryfox6293 9 ай бұрын

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

@thalmoragent9344 9 ай бұрын

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

@ryanvogel9610 Ай бұрын

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

@Anglo_Saxon1 Жыл бұрын

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

@wisdom_hunter9036 Жыл бұрын

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

@Crashed131963 Жыл бұрын

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

@wisdom_hunter9036 Жыл бұрын

@@Crashed131963 will do my friend. Appreciate it 👍

@marceletiennou5182 Жыл бұрын

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

@Daniel-fq5vq Жыл бұрын

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

@marceletiennou5182 Жыл бұрын

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

@csabaszep8162 Жыл бұрын

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

@extrahistory8956 Жыл бұрын

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

@johnberger4687 Жыл бұрын

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

@yashojha137 Жыл бұрын

@@johnberger4687 he won the war

@johnberger4687 Жыл бұрын

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

@sirleo5103 Жыл бұрын

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

@DBEdwards Жыл бұрын

Amazing footage. I have never seen this before

@mvamedia5199 2 ай бұрын

why is this audio mono?

@mattanderson6336 Жыл бұрын

37:32 They forgot to blur out two bodies.

@Xerroxi Жыл бұрын

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

@timtheman2981 9 ай бұрын

I was also reading somewhere that Eisenhower didn’t move on Berlin because he envisioned a lot of friendly fire in the battle if the western Allie’s did partake in the battle of Berlin.

@franc9111 7 ай бұрын

No, the different Allied sectors of Germany and later those in Berlin had already been designated by the political leaders. There was never any question of the Western Allies fighting their way into Berlin. Those American units that did go across Eastern Germany and over the border into Czechoslovakia had to return to their designated zone in Western Germany. In the North of Germany near the Danish border, they had to send in large numbers of British troops to counter the arrival of the Soviets, which wasn't what had been previously agreed. Thankfully, the Soviets backed down and returned eastwards.

@EVIL_THOUGHTS 8 ай бұрын

*"Hazards and catastrophes" - "Red army reaches Berlin"...excellent !*

@johnberger4687 Жыл бұрын

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

@joethekinghawk7514 8 ай бұрын

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

@gregorybaltzer2736 5 ай бұрын

They show nude bodies of holocaust victims..just saying

@gmshadowtraders Жыл бұрын

Total RESPECT to all who fought

@ericschneider9346 11 ай бұрын

Does this include the Nazis?

@thalmoragent9344 9 ай бұрын

@@ericschneider9346 Well, German soldiers who defended their homeland, sure German civilians didn't deserve to be sacked the way they were.

@frankiehunter. 4 ай бұрын

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

@theblondesiouxsiesioux 3 ай бұрын

Trolling I presume?

@LL-sk3do Жыл бұрын

Audio is only coming out of the left ear.

@mjs3343 8 ай бұрын

The Germans could have simply surrendered

@marclaporte3710 Жыл бұрын

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

@KannaFan 2 ай бұрын

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

@RRM13 Жыл бұрын

Hello from São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷.

@JeanLucCaptain Жыл бұрын

Ah the home of the Smoking Snakes!

@RRM13 Жыл бұрын

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

@kadimaalain2658 9 ай бұрын

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

@keithbrown7685 7 ай бұрын

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

@franc9111 Жыл бұрын

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

@michaelmelamed9103 Жыл бұрын

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

@darh3375 10 ай бұрын

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

@charrua59 9 ай бұрын

2 million raped German women to

@thalmoragent9344 9 ай бұрын

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

@seth101-hv4st 7 ай бұрын

It was nearly as big a battle as Stalingrad.

@mosesodhis365 Жыл бұрын

5.56 Was a dead horse blurred out 😁😁? Seriously!

@gregpenny4384 5 ай бұрын

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

@FrankandCents28 Жыл бұрын

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

@user-qc3um7zj8y 5 ай бұрын

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

@FrankandCents28 5 ай бұрын

@@user-qc3um7zj8yThe German army was weak. They had a very small air force that was easily defeated by Britain, they didn't have a navy, and their army was mostly on foot or horse drawn. They lacked a good supply line, and their industrial output was very small compared to the allies and Soviet Union. Germany only produced three thousand tanks per year compared to the Soviet Union's 35,000, or America's 30,000.

@polarbearwithaccesstointernet 4 ай бұрын

@@FrankandCents28 go back and learn history

@user-gg9hg8go6j 11 сағат бұрын

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

@AdelaUntalasco 5 ай бұрын

That's the war against each side..Abner & Joab ...

@razorblade6746 2 ай бұрын

Is anyone experiencing audio issuws with the video?

@koehlheebink2691 Жыл бұрын

Yeah try to upload this again. The audio is all screwed up. I was really looking forward to watching this, but it just feels weird now trying to pay attention.

@karrykistler1933 Жыл бұрын

Mine is fine?

@alanstone8798 9 ай бұрын

man wanted to attack almost the whole world ,but when he is attacked he is running and his generals 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@jamesdill2197 Жыл бұрын

What and why is this blocking/blurring going on?

@HHH-yy3cy 8 ай бұрын

I love the videos about with shots from Asia or Italia...

@billotto602 Жыл бұрын

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

@NorthCharlton Жыл бұрын

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

@ericellebracht3407 11 ай бұрын

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

@nickredbear4094 5 күн бұрын

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

@Muntan_17 5 ай бұрын

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