Some people are talking about how France fell within 6 weeks of the German invasion, or how Norway fell in but a few months, or a block of residential building stood for 8 weeks, but nobody talks about how Denmark survived Germany for an incredible... 6 hours.

Definitely shows how WWII was much much more of a Soviet-German thing in Europe than it really was an American thing.

What I love most is getting so engrossed in reading the text of the wars advancement until a clash of words makes it unreadable. Thank you.

I used To watch this same video every week and today we watched it at my history class. Felt amazing.

Hollywood always portrays WW2 from such a USA-centric perspective, but the sheer volume of conflict that commenced on the eastern front is crazy. Apparently 80% of the axis army was there.

The Operation Barbarossa section gives me chills every time. The music, the gigantic numbers, hundreds upon hundreds of thousands encircled. 80% of men born in the USSR in 1922 would be dead by the war's end, and those three months reflect it wholesale. The air raid sirens and general chaos of the music really drive home how barbaric it was.

My great-grandfather was a foreman in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. He defended Leningrad, fought against the Germans and Finns on the Volchov front, and at the end of 1944 his division was transferred to Poland to participate in the Vistula-Oder operation. He went through the whole war, but died very absurdly - on May 13, 1945, his company was clearing an airfield in Czechoslovakia from the last fighting Nazis, and before surrendering, the Germans left barrels of methyl alcohol there. After the fight, they found them and drank them, as a result, everyone, including my great-grandfather, died of poisoning.

This is still my favourite ww2 video ever, it’s incredible

Fun fact: a tractor factory in Stalingrad kept defending itself as long as whole France did

I never knew the sheer scale of the encirclements in Barbarossa and it is absolutely stunning that the Soviets managed to win

your the best, man. Idk if this started the army sizes trend but if it didn’t it will still be a masterpiece and a part of KZfaq’s best history videos ever.

Yugoslavia:*Joins Axis* Yugoslavia:*Leaves Axis* Yugoslavia:*Joins Allies* Yugoslavia:Refuses to elaborate

This new concept has lots of potential. It gives more insight on how powerful countries actually were. Usually, you only have country sizes, which can easily be deceptive. Of course, there’s still a lot more to it than that.

0:00 - Germany Invades Poland 0:07 - USSR Invades Eastern Poland 0:14 - Poland Seizes to Exist as a country 0:34 - USSR attacks Finland in what would be called the 'Winter War' 1:24 - Germany invades Denmark, Norway 1:35 - Invasion of France and Beneleux Countries 1:49 - Italy joins the war against France and UK 1:49 - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania Annexed by USSR 1:52 - France Surrenders 1:53 - USSR Annexes Bessarabia 2:22 - Italian Libya attacks Egypt which is Ruled by the United Kingdom 2:40 - Italian Albania attacks Greece, a small push is there 2:45 - Italian Push is halted 2:47 - Greek Counterattack against Italy 2:50 - Hungary Joins Axis 2:50 - Romania Joins Axis 3:11 - USSR offers to join Axis Powers, but its declined (text given) 3:12 - A counter-attack in Africa by British Egypt 3:26 - Bulgaria joins Axis Powers 3:35 - Yugoslavia join Axis Powers 3:37 - They withdraw from Axis Powers, as the Fascist Government is removed 3:41 - Yugoslavia join Allies, Axis invade the country 3:44 - Yugoslavia Surrenders 3:45 - British Troops exacuvate Greece as the country is invaded and occupied by the Axis Powers. 3:46 - Italian Push into Egypt 3:46 - The Allies invade Iraq to limit oil imports 3:57 - Operation Barbarossa is almost ready... 4:00 - Iraq capitulates 4:01 - Vichy-France controlled Syria and Lebanon are invaded by the allies. 4:09 - *Germany and Axis Powers invade USSR, the largest invasion in history. (3 million troops)* 4:10 - Finland joins Axis powers 5:13 - Japan attacks Pearl Harbour. USA joins the war, in side of the allies. 5:14 - The Red Army makes a counter-offensive against axis 6:28 - There is a german offensive towards the Causcases, to get Oil. 7:19 - Allies invade large parts of Africa, which is controlled by Vichy-France, A german puppet state 7:24 - *In the Battle of Stalingrad, 400,000 german troops are surrendered; A.K.A. the 6th Army.* 7:26 - Axis Soldiers withdraw from the region. 7:43 - A huge push into Libya 7:53 - Only Tunisia is left, for north african land of Axis Powers 8:51 - Allies invade italy 9:12 - Italy Surrenders after another attack, but is quickly taken again from German Troops 9:13 - Allies continue invading Italy, USSR slowly makes a counter-offensive 10:31 - USSR Troops reach Romanian Border 10:54 - 'Operation Overlord' successfully works. Allies invade German France 11:05 - 'Operation Bagration' is a success. Large amounts of land are captured. 11:28 - Romania Captiluates; Paris liberates 11:34 - Bulgaria Captiluates 11:36 - Finland signs a peace treaty 11:45 - Allied Soldiers land on coast of Greece 12:14 - The Battle of the Buldge 12:43 - Allies enter German Lands 12:44 - USSR Soldiers capture Vienna 12:54 - Berlin is captured 13:00 - Germany's Ruler ____ 13:02 - Germany Uncontrolably surrenders. 13:05 - *WORLD WAR II ENDS.* pls like this took like forever

Unreal video! and exactly what I’ve tried to picture in my head after watching many WW2 documentaries and movies

You did a great job portraying the changing front lines during the war! If you know what battle you're looking for, it's quite easy to find it in this time lapse. The parts of the map that are circled when armies have been surrounded gave me a new appreciation for how effective and widespread it was to try and create those scenarios. Clearly some of the smartest minds in the world got together to orchestrate this fight for dominance. What a great showcase of how two giant, amorphous animals fought a war of annihilation on a monumental scale.

Every number in these statistics was an actual breathing, young human being with an unique valuable life. The staggering loss of life in this terrible war is heartbreaking.

Soviets: ”we have 4 million soldiers” Germany: *encircles 500k men* ”how about now?” Soviets: ”we have 5 million soldiers”

This is truly amazing. I had to pause it a hundred times to read the text and sometimes the text was over lapping making it impossible to read. But still an amazing visualization of what happened ever day during the war. I would watch an hour long version of this where the video auto paused and the text was readable. Thank you for uploading this!

This is a fantastic (and educational) video! The music, the historical audio reports, the map constantly changing. Excellent work Would love to see a Pacific Theatre version if possible :]

Too bad the text overlaps in some parts making it impossible to read. But overall, amazing work!

Regardless of the overlapping text this is seriously one of the most impressive historical videos I've seen, incredible work

I love how the music fits so well with everything that's going on.Great job

Brilliant.....just brilliant! Congratulations on such a feat. Keep it up!

The overlapping text: 4:20 - 4:22 : - Soviet industry moved behind the Ural mountains in great speed - Assistance Pact signed between the United Kingdom and the USSR 4:32 - 4:36: - A Spanish volunteer division arrives on the Eastern Front - Hitler, against the advice of his generals, shifts some forces from the Moscow offensive - British and Soviet troops invade Iran to save the Abadan oilfields 6:49 - 7:26 - Lack of Munitions forces Rommel into a standstill - The Red army offers more resistance around Stalingrad. German focus shifts towards the city - The German military agrees that seizing Stalingrad will starve the Caucasus front and end all southern resistance - The long fight for Stalingrad begins, with huge losses suffered on both sides - The long front line has resulted in the Axis forces being spread thin,with multiple sectors being barely manned - Allies plan invasion in Axis Held North Africa - Soviet begin building up for Operation Uranus; The encirclement of Stalingrad - German forces attacks in Caucasus - only small gains achieved - British and American forces land in Morocco and Algeria. Vichy France seized by the German army

Got chills at 4:10 the scale of the German-Soviet war was just so gargantuan and the amount of lives lost is impossible to wrap one's head around...

4:09 sends chills through my spine every single time I watch it

Masterpiece Christopher. Thanks.

I’ve never realised how terrifyingly close the Germans were to Moscow.

The fact that you transitioned from making HOI4 Timelapses to mapping historical conflicts with extensive research and real-time frontline and army size changes is absolutely incredible. Really well done.

Fun fact: Germans suffered more in trying to annex Stalingrad than whole of France

Definitely one of the best territorial transition videos on KZfaq

The sudden silence before Operation Barbarossa.... the sirens and music and the rapid advance of the germans almost makes me cry. This video is a masterpiece and by far the best mapping of WW2.

This was such an insane war , the sheer scale of it is crazy.

Thank you for this, great work.

EmpTigerstar laid the groundwork for historical war mapping with his WW2 almost a decade ago... you have now brought it to another level. I salute you good sir.

The air raid siren during the onset of Operation Barbarossa was a good touch. Kind of captured the moment

Best/most accurate WW2 video I have ever watched 👍

fantastic video. one suggestion would be to move the captions at the bottom to another area of the screen so that when you pause in youtube the controls don't block the caption. also make the captions bigger so you can see them along with what's happening on the video

This was fantastic. The concept of having army sizes on there put everything in a better perspective. The animation was smooth. The music choice was on point. The facts on the bottom of the screen were a nice touch. The random bits of transmissions and announcements were amazing. Excelent video.

saving this without having to scroll down much. 00:00 Kriegsgewitter - hoi2 01:35 Epic Battles - hoi3 02:02 Low Unity - hoi3 04:03 Storming Omaha Beach - hoi3 05:17 Leningrad - hoi3 06:08 demolition victory - cod2 07:00 Rise My Comrades - hoi3 08:26 War - hoi2 10:44 The Royal Air Force - hoi4

This was very helpful, thanks!

This was an INCREDIBLE video! A bit hard to follow (especially when the text description overlaps xD!). It will never stop amazing me how Swittzerland stood its neutral ground in the exact middle of this clusterfuck, lol.

Holy crap. This is the most amazing mapping video of World War 2 I have seen yet. The transitions are extremely smooth, the quality is great, and the army counter and encircled and captured numbers are almost as smooth as the transitions. You even added the background quality of Europe showing the winter snow on the land. This is amazing.

in the Second World War , they held out against the German troops: Denmark - 6 hours; Luxembourg - 1 day; Holland - 5 days; Yugoslavia - 11 days; Belgium - 18 days; Greece - 24 days; Poland - 27 days; France - 1 month and 12 days; Norway - 2 months and 1 day. Pavlov's house in Stalingrad lasted 58 days

yo I really really like how informational this video is with the texts, is there anyway you would consider redoing this so the events that happen at the same time would be listed in a readable manor so we can see what it says? This would probably be one of the best quick WWII timeline videos on the internet if you did that.

Awesome work thanks

Поразительное видео.... Всего за 12 минут. Судьбы и жизни миллионов людей. Спасибо за возможность наблюдать,, живую историю,,

This guy dropped the best visualization with the hardest soundtracks and audio clips and then dipped.. respect!!!

In this video, the snow is even drawn in the places where it was. This is a subtle but very cool detail.

Great video that took some effort

The Soviet major offensive against Finland that started on Jun 9th 1944 on Karelian Isthmus is missing and the front line is shown remaining stable until Finnish-Soviet armistice in Sep -44. Otherwise, brilliant work!

The eastern front was an unprecedented slugfest of endurance, desperation and blood. Years of brutal total war.

How long did this video take to make? This is excellent! My father says bravo 🙌

This is a real master piece.

I don't normally comment but this video is fantastic. Not what I was expecting next from this channel but definitely a great surprise

This was well worth the wait. The amount of map detail and the hour-by-hour changes are amazing, and the real-world events being shown help show you what they had to fight against. Bravo, Christopher. Bravo.

Great, and makes me think how much better it could be!

This is a crazy cool visual representation, could you do one for the pacific theater?

Incredible how fast the germans pushed across Russia for the first few couple of months of operation Barbarossa

4:09 I get goosebumps everytime I watch this. Scary as hell how quickly they covered ground

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This is pretty awesome

The troop numbers really put into perspective just how incompetent the Italian army was, they almost always outnumbered significantly their enemies and they still managed to lose

Whats amazing is the amount of soldiers they still had right up until the end, now countries struggle to muster armies a fraction of that size

Superb. Thank you very much for your work here.

4:08 you combined siren head sounds with hoi3 D day theme...and it fits Perfectly.

This actually shows how terrifyingly close Germany was to full-on Europe domination.

I've never seen a representation of WWII that conveys a sense of proportion, of the macro dynamics, as beautifully, detailed, and dramatically as this video does. Being able to study history with data visualizations like this one makes one thankful for living in this century. Thanks @Christopher!

Wow… this is really impressive to see them number of troops on each side every day of the war. And how the scale tippled and - surprisingly - at the end both sides’ numbers started to shrink… was it due to the casualties or the troops deserting the frontline? But overall a great video, I am saving it

Yo, what did you use to make this? This is a masterpiece!

4:05 The operation Barbarossa part is so well edited! The music, the siren, OMG I got chills!

I think this is a good thing to show people the enormous size of post industrial revolution wars. You have millions of men fighting on fronts sometimes stretching over 1000km.

What an incredible, hard hitting, scholar spitting history video. Well done!

Amazing video!

A pacific version would be cool, it was also a massive war and the numbers of the war between Japan and China could be equally stunning. As well as to understand ally advancements in the pacific and Southeast Asia

We need a WW1 version of this. This is amazing! Thx for likes!

For those wondering the music in 4:10 is Storming omaha beach; and the music in 10:44 is The Royal Air Force

Insane work, so many battles all over that we'll never hear of

4:59 For those who wonder what was that red dot on the shore of the Black Sea, that was city Sevastopol. The heroic defense of it was from October 30th 1941 until July 4th 1942. It’s 8 month for one city.

00:00 Kriegsgewitter - hoi2 01:35 Epic Battles - hoi3 02:02 Low Unity - hoi3 04:03 Storming Omaha Beach - hoi3 05:17 Leningrad - hoi3 06:08 demolition victory - cod2 07:00 Rise My Comrades - hoi3 08:26 War - hoi2 10:44 The Royal Air Force - hoi4

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I love this concept. I’ve always loved the visualization of shifting maps throughout history. The audio and facts are just icing on the cake.

4:07 The sheer numbers of troops invading the Soviet Union is crazy and what's even more scary are the numbers of Soviet troops encircled and captured by the Germans during operation Barbarossa. Truly mind boggling.

I like your video, It helps me know about European history in the mid-twentieth century

Absolutely amazing video. Congratulation! Possible to have name of the musics -> A gorgeous choice!

I wish we would have had something like this in history class. When you have all that in text form and you have to read it month after month, sometimes not even in chronological order, it gets really difficult to have any idea how the war developed overall.

It’s incredible how long the Eastern Front took place between Germany and Russia before Allies landed in Normandy.

Love the Barbarossa track lol

great informational video!

This is insanely great. However, it would need a new version, with the text issues fixed, as the texts go on top of each other at times, and one can't decipher them even with the Enigma machine. Also, some version could have points in the map, telling what specifically is happening there. As is already said, this concept has great promise for historical info in an entertaining format. Especially also the audio is giving us so much atmoshpere and tension, making learning and understanding history as a narrative that much more compelling.

This is incredible! Well done. My only feedback is that it's very difficult to keep track of the ticker updates, the date and the troop movements all at the same time. Would be great if the layout were slightly different - I enjoy the audio so I wouldn't want running commentry. Really wonderful stuff. Well done.

Some statistics said: By 1989 population of USSR must've been around 394 millions. In fact it was 288. Because of the losses in WW2

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This video was seriously mind-numbing. I clicked thinking I would leave after 1 minute like on many others, but this is some genuine good work that actually had me hooked until the end. Great job!

My great-grandfather was born in a village not far from Vladivostok. He fought on the eastern front, in the southern sector. he was a member of the bomber crew, survived a plane crash and lost several fingers. He lived a happy life. He died in 2010.

0:00 Invasion of Poland 0:36 Winter War 1:25 Germans invade Denmark and Norway 1:36 Invasion of France and Benelux 2:02 The Battle of Britain 2:42 Italians invade Greece 3:42 Germans invade Yugoslavia 4:09 OPERATION BABBARASSA 8:52 Allies land in Sicily 10:59 D-Day 11:25 Allies land in Southern France 11:35 Uprising in Yugoslavia 11:39 Finland leaves the War 13:08 Germany Capitulates Here’s all the goods

4:08 this part give me goosebumps

It’s terrifying to see how quickly Germany took the majority of Europe. Also, if the Soviets had capitulated (unlikely since they had backup plans if Moscow fell) the the war likely would have been lost. The US were hesitant to get involved and the British simply didn’t have the scale to defend themselves and the oil fields from the power of the Axis, if they had lost either the Axis would have been insurmountable.