You guys might have my absolute favorite channel on KZfaq. I'm a truck driver and I put on these documentaries and just let them play. And whenever I'm feeling sorry for myself because I'm having a rough day I watch the deadliest roads LoL. I start to count my blessings pretty quickly.

The Battle of Kursk is fascinating to me. Imagine thousands of tanks on the wide open plain in an all out free-for-all battle. Imagine being an infantry man during all of that.

Wow, what a spectacular vid! Rare and previously unseen footage, clear explanations, and a good pace, felt like I was only watching for 20 minutes before it ended... bravo, msrs!

Some of the real problems is that Hitler left millions of troops in Norway, East Prussia, the Channel Islands, Greece, Northen Italy, Austria, and the French ports instead of collapsing back into the German heartland. That should have been in his errors list.

It's interesting that in fact, EVERYTHING Hitler ever did was a huge gamble. The only difference was that his early aggressions were not opposed because the world was so desperate to avoid another war. But think about it, even the Beer Hall Putsch was a huge gamble and so was just about everything he did later, when he was in power. The greatest reflection of Hitler's total incompetence as a military leader is that the Allies actually abandoned their plans to assassinate him. He was going to bring about the downfall of Germany faster than anyone else could- end of story.

Très bon documentaire. Rapide et complet.

精彩的纪录片，非常感谢。

Excellent film. Thank you.

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Can't read the translation captions when you dark it out.

Maravilloso documental,muchas gracias.

A thousand greetings, great respect and admiration for your esteemed and wonderful channel, which provided accurate and useful information. I wish you lasting success. A wonderful work and a great effort that deserves pride, appreciation and pride. My utmost respect and appreciation to you

Hitler commanded an army, wasn’t capable of leading a squad

His worst decision was USSR who broke his back, D-Day was only against 7 Divisions.

Всегда удивляли те люди, которые строят собственные суждения и представления о других исходя не из реальных фактов, а на основе ложных и даже вымышленных собственных представлений. А потом вдруг оказывается, что реальность совсем не та, которую они себе воображали. Так и с Гитлером, который воспринимал Францию как военного противника гораздо серьезней, чем Советский Союз. При этом он затратил на взятие Франции чуть более 2 месяцев, а на проигрыш со слабой Россией почти 4 года.

Превосходный документальный фильм - трагедии Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 никогда повторять не нужно ужас.

Hitler realized that there was a need for a siege like a small battle, but he was late in executing such operations. The small battle was excellent, but it lacked some strength to protect it. If Hitler had a million soldiers, he added weapons to protect the forces that would carry out the operation. It would have succeeded.

The Ardennes attack is unnecessary? Sorry i can't gave on this point Even Model and Rundstedt whose opposed the offensive admitted that they can only delay defeat if they remain on defensive all the time A more realistic plan is "Operation Hebrstnebel" presented by the 2 Field Marshals

Operation Case Blue, also known as Fall Blau, was the German Army's 1942 summer offensive in the Eastern Front during World War II. It had two main objectives: to capture the city of Stalingrad and to seize the oil-rich Caucasus region. Here's an enhanced analysis of the decision to split the German Army Group South into Army Group A and Army Group B for this operation. 1. **Security of Flanks:** The capture of Stalingrad was essential for the safety of the German Army's flank. Stalingrad was a significant industrial city and a key transportation hub. Its capture would cut off the Soviets from their Volga River supply route and protect the German Army's flank from counterattacks. If Stalingrad wasn't secured first, the German Army advancing towards the Caucasus could be threatened by a potential Soviet counter-offensive from the Stalingrad area, risking encirclement and cut-off from their supply lines. The splitting of Army Group South enabled part of the force to focus on securing Stalingrad, thus providing this essential flank cover. 2. **Logistical Challenges:** The logistical infrastructure in the Eastern Front posed significant challenges to a force the size of the German Army. The area had a sparse network of roads and railways, many of which were incompatible with German systems due to differences in rail gauge. A single, undivided army group advancing towards Stalingrad could quickly overwhelm the available infrastructure, leading to supply bottlenecks, slowed troop movements, and stretched communication lines. The division of the force eased pressure on the logistical chain, allowing for more efficient troop movement and resource allocation. The two army groups could take separate routes, thus spreading the logistical load and mitigating the risk of overstretching their supply lines. 3. **Multiple Objectives:** Operation Case Blue was ambitious, aiming to achieve two substantial objectives simultaneously: capture Stalingrad and seize the oil-rich Caucasus. Splitting the force allowed the Germans to pursue these two objectives concurrently, hoping to accelerate their strategic goals. Army Group A could advance towards the Caucasus while Army Group B dealt with Stalingrad. This strategy, while theoretically allowing for greater ground to be covered, also introduced the risks associated with divided forces, such as the inability to support one another quickly in the event of strong resistance or counterattacks. In summary, the decision to split Army Group South into Army Group A and Army Group B was driven by strategic considerations related to flank security, logistical challenges, and the simultaneous pursuit of multiple objectives. This move, while having its theoretical advantages, also added to the complexity of the operation and exposed the German forces to additional risks, as was revealed in the subsequent course of events.

I think we need to guard against viewing WW2 in Europe as one in which the Germans made mistake after mistake while the Allies got it all right. There were plenty of mistakes made on the Allied side, to which should be addedd a number of questionable operations which made little difference to the ultimate outcome. Maybe wars are won by the side that makes the least mistakes.

Very interesting..Hitlers First Great Mistake was to March into Poland instead of pushing for a political settlement for their Eastern Territories and Secondly allowing the British Expeditionary Force to escape at Dunkirk Hindsight is a wonderful thing But Hitler in the Ascendancy would Not Be!

Wish these weren't captions to hard to follow trying to read !

Invading Russia was dumb at the time. Germany should have slowed down and regrouped for a few years to fortify, build strength and technology with allies.

I wonder why this channel doesn’t cover Stalins long list of battle failures and pointlessly sacrificed troops… 🤔

after 43 it was over

min 14.24 it was beyond von Paulus's strength to think about his soldiers and Germany he would have ended up in front of the firing squad if he did that instead, although advanced in rank to be forced to kill himself, he did not, which says everything about his character

23:37 that’s also nonsense, we never told the Russians we could decrypt German communications. Luckily for us Stalin was so dum he never believed what we told him anyway

Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job making it easier for viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Class A research project!!! Special thanks to the allied forces/civilian resistance groups who fought/perished/survived fighting the axis powers. Knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible. But still continued with the invasion of axis controlled areas. Till Germany surrendered.

........ beginning to wonder, whatever happened to that German soldier on the right, in the thumbnail photo? That clip is in so many WW2 documentaries/photos.

I am reading a book called, "Hitler And His Generals" oh my God what an amazing, book. Like how Hitler lived all those years, no wonder why he thought he was invincible. He should of been offed at least four times. Each time he skimmed by, sometimes he didn't even know how close it came. If anyone is interested in this kind of video and you want to actually read what a lot of the documentaries read, to get a feel for Hitler. Wow there is a lot people don't know. One of my biggest fascinations is how bad Russia wanted Hitler's body. They brought all the bodies in the bunker back to Russia. People who believe Hitler went to South America or Argentina are in need of a brain scan. What cracks me up is there is a lot of people who put their creditably on the line to write a book saying that Hitler in fact did make it thru the war. Because of their creditably, it got some momentum and now a bunch of people think Hitler made it thru a war. At the time period, Hitler was our version of Osama Bin Laden. Ain't no amount of surgery gonna fix him to where people won't notice him. I literally almost got into a fist fight with tards who think he survived.

I never understood why an army entered a destroyed city, when the enemy was numerically superior, and the target was the industry in the Ural Mountains

Hitler committed number of mistakes, Britain, was at war but Hitler, declared war on Soviet Union on 22 June 1941.In England wounded Churchill was sitting, British army and population was venengful against Germany, Hitler entered two front war, instead of concentrating on Moscow, he went on three fronts in Soviet Union. Finally, in December 1941, Hitler committed mistake of his life, by declaring war against U S.A.

Pourquoi lorsqu'il y a des commentaires en anglais ceux ci ne sont t'ils pas sous titrés en français ?

Ça m'écoeure tellement de voir un titre en français et que le documentaire est en anglais.

Ardenne and Eifel Attacks had been a great strategic mistake by the allied. They could had been much faster, if they had gone northern to reach the rhine.

is it likely that from the very beginning his Generals knew that the war could never be won but were too afraid to say anything?

8 Submarines and 167 warships , maybe something odd is going on ... 😅😂

The Three Major Allies of the Russky Generals and the Krasnia Armia were :::: January, February, and Adolph Hitler (Gitleru).

10:59 this is not true, the Germans had been surrounded before in early 1942 by the Russians in Demyansk.

I fail to see how Hitler's strategic strikes on Britain changes anything with Op. Overlord.

Almost everything that went in the Allies favor was the weather . Dunkirk , Barbarossa, D-Day , the Battle of the Bulge. Do u doubt the existence of a higher power?

Africa corps and rommel could have been very useful in russia,Could have been sent south instead of guderian and got to moscow before the winter.

its funny listening to French folks discuss Germany's military errors in ww2. Kinda ironic.

Difference between Hitler and Staline is Staline soon understand he was not made to lead armies in the war and let that task to skilled general like Jukhov THe documentary forgot the First major mistake of Hitler during battle of Britain deciding to bomb towns unstead of following the initial plan du to the first english night raid

If Hitler made zero mistakes in the war Germany was still going to lose. No county could fight the USSR, UK and USA at once and win. It was just simple math.

I want the name of the guy in the thumbnail on the right. 😳

Hitler was no student of Napoleon... else he would have not made such a catastrophic mistake.

To say no military makes mistakes is like saying we never told a lie. That's all war is, mistakes after mistakes after even bigger mistakes!

Decent recap, but for the sake of getting it correct: it's not von Paulus, he's not a nobleman.

It's very easy to look back on WWII & criticize Adolf Hitler, but if you REALLY LOOK AT EACH EVENT that he failed, you can see the reason why he tried & yes gambled on these strategic decisions. First it is important to understand that all men & people who strive to accomplish huge achievements have to take risks & even gamble to win. When Hitler declared war on America after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, it would have been a stroke of genius if the Japanese had returned the favor & declared war on Russia, when Hitler invaded Russia. Russia would have had to fight a war on two fronts, & Germany most likely would have won its war against Russia. After that, America fighting on the side of the allies would be of little consequence. . .

It had been decided way before this that the Allies agreed the Soviets would take Berlin and the Americans would do a right flank and head to Bavaria where faulty intelligence had our commanders believing it was to be a last stand Mountainous Redoubt, but that never materialized and everyone gave up nicely and our guys spent the last few days in somewhat luxury with good food and drink.

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If Stalingrad did fall it would have left the British in a tricky position as most of there oil came from Iran and Iraq plus the 8 th army could of in theory been attacked from the rear while fighting in Egypt

Hitler also squandered 28 of 32 divisions of army group center in summer 1944, by refusing to retreat and consolidate.

PooTin should watch this, and learn.

This, being a French production, seems to gloss over the reluctance of Vichy forces to step aside and no try to resist the Americans and British in North Africa.

Why in is in inglish????

Pourquoi , ne parlez vous jamais de L'OPÉRATION PAPERCLIP !??????

9:58 savage but true lol. Hitler was a corporal.

Claiming that Hitler attacked Stalingrad just because of its name is so ridiculous to hear

The Russians that fought at Stalingrad pretty much had no choice if they didn't fight and kill Germans their officers the Russian officers would have killed the Russian soldiers and when soldiers are fighting for their home territory and know that annihilation other people and Country is what the enemy has intended one will fight to the death and as brutally as possible there are no rules to war then in the battle for Stalingrad during the battle there was no such thing as a prisoner. They were shot immediately and that went for both sides

As the Soviets hoisted their flag on Feb. 2, 1943, The very same time the Japanese was removing the last few off Guadalcanal and the American Flag would no longer need to come down, (back in September/October it was unknown who would control Guadalcanal, as it turned out we, the Americans learned the hard way that the Jungle had the firmest control over everything, The Jungle literally ate Men, never to be seen again).

4:00 I swear I've heard this music in SpongeBob SquarePants episodes LMAO I'm like 99% sure it's the same music. Probably some free public domain music or something but still funny lol someone let me know if they hear it too

the big problem with hitler was that he was demented and there was no mechanism by which the state or the german army could eliminate him 42 assassination attempts against the idiot were missed

@9:58 “That’s not something you teach corporals.” Wow, he just insulted Hitler 😅

Erreur : vers 8mn 50 , on parle de Octobre 1941 au lieu de 1942

I fell into a deep slumber an Autoplay brought me here tbh

Bagration....

We We We

Britain declared war unless Hitler pulled out of Poland. He should have stopped there. He had France. And lots of eastern farm land.

Why be a headache not a nice person

La Grande erreur a été d'arrêter la peinture à Serge Gainsbourg qui a bien fait d'arrêter

The NKVD were like the SS

Nothing was done to keep the Nazis the loony fringe minority thugs like they operated in most nations (the U.K. included) . With the 'right' financial backing this could've happened everywhere. The Nazi's massive rearmament was deliberately ignored , to facilitate a coming war of which the outcome was assured , no matter how long or bloody. Empire geo politics in action . Oh well, it was all for the better , some didn't emerge too bad after this slaughter , and wouldn't change this bloody history even if they could , and Germany became a vassal state for at least the next century . Even after the Soviets allowed German reunification and closed the back door ,Uncle Sam had no such plans and went ever further eastwards . All this presumably started because of Poland , which after 5 years and millions of deaths was delivered to another tyrant. D-Day didn't come for free , most liberated nations were presented with a hefty bill for all this from Washington , which would've been reasonable if the 1918 allied conglomerate had not helped the Nazis into the saddle in the first place , partly financed and appeased Adolf's party because he seemed such a dedicated anti communist. The U.K. managed finally to pay off her massive war debts in 2006. In effect partly financing the emerging post '45 "American Dream" while the rest of the world was chewing on a toothpick and keep up its trousers. Wars definitely have their use......Hi Ukraine ......👍🥴Eastern Europe proved the ideal place to cook up these conflicts.

they could have gotten a younger guy to play stauffenberg.

All of this makes me think of Putin with Ukraine. Big gamble, bad strategy, bad equipment, isolation of Hitler who does not listen to anybody, and bad understanding of the situation.

48:38 some n0body, talking down to the man who ran over their entire country in weeks 😹 Incredible rewriting of history there, I can see you don’t like talking about V1ichy France much either. I wonder who funds this channel? 🤔

The French criticizing military decisions? I can’t watch.

If Operation Autumn Mist had succeeded...then what? Still Kaput.

They should have allied with poland to fight Russia n then figured out land n boarders after that

How did he not know about the t34 and kv1 tanks before Barbarossa? Shocking lack of intelligence-gathering. Besides that, I think invading Britain would have been easier than Russia. I'm no military strategist but it's pretty obvious. Putting the u-boats in the channel would have helped as well.

"Why the Germans lost WW2?" Answer: 9:57

Bad video full of inaccurate info. Hitler couldn't retreat from Stalingrad because they would have had to leave all their weapons, artillery, and tanks that could not be replaced. Better to stay put and get supplies by air, which worked in front of Moscow. But the Air Force failed.

It was frustrating, the commentary is in French and I am falling asleep so I miss the caption s in English. This is why I watch documentaries to get ready for bed 😅

Hitler était un petit caporal si en face de lui en 1939 il avait eu des gens compétents autre chose que Gamelin il n’aurait pas gagné si facilement l’armée française n’était pas mauvaise mais mal commandé !

might as well have done the whole thing in French. To each their opinion but Hitler squandered that which was probably the best and motivated army in history like if if he was playing with toy soldiers. In spite of that they still had to get Germany by ways of combined efforts by the US GB and others. There are very little excused for war but in the hands of someone capable and strategic not stubborn, Germany would have dealt with the unimaginable amount of soldiers Stalin had and once that giant of an army gained momentum you needed an experienced cold headed leader who listened to his generals to stop it. Hitler was a gambler of sorts. If he at least would have been an advisable gambler. But i guess It was all for the best huh, Iron Curtain, multiple Nuclear missile crisis generally a 30 year old Cold war. That is why Churchill has my deepest admiration. He knew what was coming.

Opening second front was his biggest mistake.(russia)

It's extremely important that the millions of German soldiers and civilians that died in the war by and for Hitler......died for absolutely nothing. They gained zip for their sacrfice and suffering. Thanks all for one man and the millions who viewed him as a savior.

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He lost in the end, because of unsatisfying command of the french language...

envenenado a su amante no, a su esposa envenenó

Prego per favore parlare l'italiano grazie

“The Anglo-Saxon blockade” lol

In the modern day they call it Nato.

Hitler was a corporal in WW1, not exactly a master stragetician and given his lack of respect for his enemy his downfall was just a matter of time.

Are French historians cheaper to use?😟

A primeira rendição do exército alemão.

*Tout le Monde peut se gourer !... Au moins une fois ? Non* !