A slice of starwars lore with a pinch of WWll added in what's not to like

Actually, Hitler's military advisers largely supported the attack on the Soviet Union. The only significant opposition was from the logistics officers. Potential history has a 3 part series on operation barbarossa if anyone is interested.

The Star Wars analogy was extremely tenuous, but the WW 2 history analysis was excellent! Thank you.

I wrote a 60k word essay about the Winter War as part of graduating and while it is true, that the political commisars and a lack of well trained officers from a regimental level upwards, the fact that most of the soviet soldiers lacked the necessary training to cope with the almost primeval forest on the karelian peninsula, ineffective tank tactics (once a breakthrough was achieved, the tanks often continued to push forward and essentially left theri infantry behind, which often resulted in the tank getting taken out by coordinated artillery strikes or getting left behind by the crews after they ran out of fuel) and the fact that the soviets depended on roads (which the finns brutally took advantage of via the socalled motti-tactic) were rather significant factors as well. Just thought id go ahead and post this, since the winter war is a rather interesting topic and maybe this comment helps giving it a bit more attention.

A few minor historical errors but in the whole a excellent excellent video.

For the first four minutes I completely forgot that this is a Star Wars video.

I wanna point out that you’re overplaying Hitler’s lunacy. Yes, he was crazy, but he had full support from his generals when planning Barbarossa. In fact, Hitler wanted the oil fields and other resources that Russia had, as Germans had quite bad supply situations in regards to fuel. Hitler’s generals then fucked up by going for Moscow, hoping to repeat the french campaign. The general chief of staff in the Nazi war cabinet was basically putting a smokescreen between him and what his generals were actually doing. Was Hitler a strategic genius? No. Was he the one making all the bad decisions? HELL NO.

Ya see this is why demilitarisation didn’t happen in our world there’s always going to be that one jackass that doesn’t follow the rules

This series seems like a fun way to get demonetised

Interesting comparison video. Taking concepts from historical events and contrasting them with scenes within a fictional universe is a very interesting topic and a good angle of critiquing many fictional franchises and key events within them. Another possible comparison I found would come from the major Stalingrad vibes from the battle of christophisis. Also I think I recall a behind the scenes feature that stated that the battle of Ryloth was made to mirror operation overlord and the allied liberation of France.

Generation Tech covering WW2 history? I didn't know it was my birthday

Some of your history is a bit off... and on a few points... Point One: The invasion of Poland was NOT a violation of the Munich Agreement. That had already happened. The Munich Agreement in 1938 only gave Germany the Sudetenland, the part of Czechoslovakia that directly borders Germany and at the time contained a large German population. The diplomatic argument was that the return of the territory to German rule would help correct errors from the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. What was the thing that violated the Munich Agreement was when Hitler invaded what remained of Czechoslovakia and granted the Slovaks "independence" and effectively turned Bohemia into a German "protectorate." That was what violated the Munich agreement, not the invasion of Poland. In fact it would be this action that would lead the French and British to guarantee Polish independence, which then in turn set up the Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact. Point Two: The negotiations between the West and the Soviets and the Nazis and the Soviets was not quite so simple. France and Britain were not necessarily looking for a Soviet ally and they did generally recognize that the Soviets weren't "good guys" either. Given German actions having just taken Czechoslovakia before making demands on Poland, the French and British did have some interest in putting Germany in a two front war, which in 1939 was possible given the fact that Hitler had essentially been looking for a war with the Soviets since writing "Mein Kampf" in the 1920s, but at the same time, they weren't keen on allowing the Soviets territorial demands in 1939. Stalin wanted territory every bit as much as Hitler did, and while the French and British weren't going to fight Stalin over it, neither were they going to just ok handing territory over. In contrast, while Hitler didn't really expect the Allies to declare war in 1939, he also knew that if he got in a two front war, he risked defeat... as happened in WWI. Thus he made political sacrifices regarding Soviet ambitions in Eastern Europe, mostly on the basis of if Germany had to fight France and Britain, they would need a clean eastern flank and could always break the pact later. Point Three: The German military was actually quite okay with Barbarossa. Much of the idea that Hitler pushed the German military into it is the result of post 1945 generals' memoirs in which they foisted blame onto Hitler, knowing that Hitler was dead and could not defend his positions. In reality the outright opposition to Barbarossa was limited. Many actually saw the invasion of the Soviet Union as a great potential boon that would enable Germany to fight the kind of war it wanted to fight and would enable them to gain the material resources that they had wanted and threw their support behind. About the only real opposition that the German military had regarding Barbarossa was HOW to do it, not whether or not TO do it. It's one of those great ironies of history that with regard to many of the decisions regarding actions on the Eastern Front... Hitler's emphasis on the economic side of the invasion, which made Kiev and Kharkov important was actually the smarter choice than the army's fixation on Moscow. Point Four: The Winter War was not what triggered the German decision to invade the Soviet Union. It may have been what gave the Nazis the confidence that they could pull it off successfully, but it wasn't why conquering the Soviets was wanted. That actually relates to many of the economic principles the Nazis had which didn't like "free trade" and had thus set up a driving need in Germany to advance east. For the ultimate end goal was Baku and the oil fields of the Caucasus to feed the German war machine. The Ukraine would then feed the German people and potentially enable Germany to gain economic self-sufficiency... And these economic arguments made within Germany probably would have ultimately pushed them to war, regardless of the results of the Winter War. Point Five: The German army was not a "highly mechanized" force. Its Panzer and Mechanized divisions were, but these were actually only a small part of the German army as a whole, and even these units depended heavily on using captured vehicles to support their logistics. Much of the German army in 1941 was actually heavily reliant on horse drawn transport for logistics, artillery support, and even communications at times. If you're interested, you can check out TIK's channel. He does A LOT on WW2 and will often have plenty of sources to support the arguments made... That said... the errors I've pointed to here are minor nitpicks and the exact details won't be something that non-history majors will notice. And I would agree with the comparison between the First Battle of Kharkov and the Battle of Geonosis.

Finland mentioned, Meet in the marketplace!

Allen, in the last video about Terminators you left out T-720s, T-799, lots and lots of T-800 variations. Theirs at least 4 types not designed for infiltration that are extremely dangerous. Also you left out the Xenomorph-Terminators, and the Robocop Terminator.

I can't believe they recreated Battle of Genosis in real life.

Did He just compare the Nazi's to the clone army Funny seeing what happend in the end

Thanks for truth about first years of WW2. Its very important for us Poles.

Props to your research of the conflict in Kharkov

Hey Alan or Alen? Either or I wanted to say I really enjoy the content you make. I am a big Star Wars fan and Military enthusiast. My favorite videos so far have been you going through the different equipment for each galactic army. Now your teaching history in a way people could understand how it has played out in real life and how it'll always be in reality or in our imagination. Thank you for being you, supporting our fellow human because F*** those dolphins right?

Nice to see some informations about how the WWII start and beginning a tragic history of my country. I'm Polish.

I really like this series

Nice subtle dig at Indie Nidel =D.

Chamberlain was not naive. The moment he returned from signing the Munich agreement, he advised that he found Hitler deeply untrustworthy and immediately began preparing for the inevitable war. He saw it coming, he just wanted the public to be able to hope that it wouldn't; "Peace in our time" was to stop the public being terrified at the idea of another world war.

Great video, but a small note that I don't see in comments. USSR wasn't demilitarised, in fact it had a large combat rediness ,and was pulled to the USSR - Germany border. An invasion much larger than barbarossa was planed by Soviet high command, in hopes of capturing most of europe ( since it was crippled by wermacht) .Biggest reason why first months of Barbarossa was so succesfull, was because Hitler attacked a ready for assault force just 2 months before soviet attack was planned, meaning large amount of troops, supplies, and everything else valuable within few hundred miles was captured without resistance. Still a great comparison.

Very nice video it blew my mind I never realized the extreme similarities between the 2 battles

I really enjoyed this, it allowed me to learn more about history.

oddly enough the comaperison to that WW2 battel would cross my mind till now reasons i love coming to this channel learning new things keep up the good work!

Please do more real life version battles like this one again. It's surprising how George Lucas got some of the major clone war battles from real life conflicts like this

That's funny a Choice for Geonosis which battle wise more closely resembles the battle of D-Day in importance... unless you found a closer resembling and just as epic and brilliantly executed a battle in which case cant wait to see what you found.

Looking forward to this series

2:00 Fascism and Communism are similar … Reminds me of a cartoon I saw pre internet of two South American peasants sitting around a village square with a tank on one side. One ask the other. "I keep forgetting, is our government Fascist or Communist?"

The soviets often lacked radios in their vehicles and units, unlike their german foes. Outside that, most of their equipment was about equal, but that doesn't matter if you can't organize your forces to make use of greater numbers.

The primary reason the Nazis invaded the USSR was oil. The oil shortages during 1939 and 1940 meant that even with synthetic oil advancements made in the German heartland, the military would run dry in late 1941. The British navy blockade meant that no oil could be imported from countries like the US or Venezuela, Romania was not producing as much oil as was needed and the middle east was not industrialized enough or explored enough to make use of the oil deposits there. The Caucasus mountains and its rich oil deposits were really the only option, and the USSR was starting to refuse to send Germany more oil. This is why planning for Operation Barbarossa effectively ends in September of 1941, and why there was no consideration of Russian reserve divisions. Either Germany wins the war by then, or it runs out of oil.

I personally thought that during the battle of genosious (sorry i cant spell) when the Jedi were trapped i thought that was similar to the Vietnam war (if youve seen danger close then youll understand)

Man.....I love your videos to begin with...this takes the 🍰.

@9:05 The G.A.R had the element of surprise when the clones launched their assault/attack on the C.I.S and their droid factories on Geonosis. Yet, many of the droid transports/carriers that were assembled on Geonosis escaped destruction for future use in the Clone Wars. Despite the G.A.R Navy maintaining complete air superiority of the battlefield (including domination of outer space in spite of light resistance), the disappointing victory of the first battle of the war showed that the GAR was ill prepared to execute strategic plans. As further exemplified by the force-on-force collision over an open terrain. Cool but foolish, and it caused heavy casualties for the newly commissioned army.

Fallen Order looks good but I hope that Generation Tech will analyse it so that I can get a better understanding of the lore

When your listening to music but you get notified of a video from generation tech. Oh and btw notification squad

Amazing, thanks. I'm looking forward to watch this series.

Very good video Allen you missed one thing the Germans also got bogged down due to issues of being resupplied. The train tracks were of different sizes and caused issues for the Germans who's trains were wider this was a very big oversight on the Germans part.

4:00 it may sound strange but.. the Germans didn't have mechanized forces. They had a dozen or so Tank divisions and a few motorized divisions. The army was largely on foot. Why? Because of the reason they started the war: lack of oil.

A great video! Also, thank you for pointing out what should be the obvious that the they were nearly identical.

Great video!! I can’t wait fo the next episode!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Great analysis!

Cool!

Nice analysis, I'm excited to see more of it!

This channel should be named History tech.

I like this series' concept.

Wow Alan that is a lot of information I'm going to have to watch this video a couple of times to soak it all in. You are smart

Always enjoy your videos 😎😎

This is great man

3:50 Absolute madlad

That was cool. Thanks.

I love that you understand fascism and communism is the same thing. And you even once mentioned the genocide in China and brought up the cannibalism. I've been trying to explain to folks that when 50 million people die of starvation....there must have been A LOT of cannibalism involved! Keep up great work! I love these history lessons and how they relate to scifi events!!

Amazing -me 2019

I like the idea

This video misses the point of the soviet military, in 1941 at the beginning of Barbarossa being actually outnumbered by the Germans until more or less around the time of the Battle of Moscow and the fact that the soviets were going through a massive military expansion right in the middle of when the operation began which saw their numbers in the process of growing several fold causing them to not have enough officers properly trained yet by the time the nazis actually invaded. This was actually a larger factor that contributed to the ineptitude of the soviet officer corp than the purges ever were. I highly recommend the channel TIK for more info on this topic and general information when it comes to WW2 as a whole.

War. War never changes.

Kind of like what you are doing right now. When there is no Star Wars content to talk about you just keep talking anyway, in the hopes you can hang on until there is more Star Wars stuff to talk about.

Military “leaders” have underestimated their enemies for centuries….as in The Little Big Horn ….

Awesome video 👍🏼

Please do more! Umbara = vietnam?, Stalingrad = ?, Kursk = ?

still waiting for your clone wars history series tho

The invasion of France though Belgium was not a surprise attack in the usually sense it was more of a new attempt at a plan drawn up during the First World War which was called the Schlieffen Plan it didn't work in its entirety but did result in some ground being taken by the Imperial German Army. The difference being that they had mobile tanks infantry and a good air force which worked together through the fairly new invention of the radio which was in every single tank giving them a tactical advantage as orders could be done by radio instead of signal flags and the new concept called Blitzkrieg. The French and English where ill prepared for the German tactics and had slow cumbersome tanks that were easily overrun by Germany's more nimble panzers. The French and English where certain that if the Germans where to invade that they would do so directly from Germany itself through the Maginot Line, but the Germans where not stupid they went around it.

You should team up with potential history for this stuff. It’d be fucking awesome

Trade Federation defeated Naboo on the ground. They lost only because of one hotshot foreign fighter pilot getting a lucky shot.

Great episode and military comparisons. But, one interesting thing about the start of the war with the USSR. Thru all the different spies and moles that both sides were using to get intel and spread false information, some of the information that was getting thru was correct. I read this in a book, both Stalin and Hitler were aware that both sides were rearming, Stalin was modernizing and Hitler was already with a modern army, but, Stalin was ahead in his modernizing program and the army was afraid that if they waited to long, they would not be able to conquer the USSR, So Hitler gave the order to attack before Stalin could or would as the information that was coming in was telling everybody. But, thanks to Stalin's purges, he did more at the beginning as peoples comments below and your episode has shown to let the Germans walk thru the Soviets lines and with and destroy the Soviets army. Also, read the book "Hitler moves east 1941 - 1943", written by Paul Carell.

Im a huge fan of ww2 history and i like star wars so this is an excelent video

Can you do space battleship Yamato vs. The infinity

I don't think naive is a good way to describe Chamberlain. He didn't want to bring his country into a war if it was in any way avoidable.

I want The Fall of Jaburo and Operation British in Star Wars >

*War…War is **_Eternal_*

Because war...... War never changes....

Nope the tactics and strategies of war never change. Because when the airplane was invented we were still worrying about the logistics of moving our war elephants through mountainous terrain :P

So which side had plot armour? And are you comparing the Jedi to the SS? We all know the Space Nazi's were Palpatine's Empire.

Good stuff

The first thing I saw was an ad for pewd’s figurine...I left a like

So, what you're saying, Allen, is... war never changes?

great looks like they dealt with that rick guy

I thought the Old Republic was before the galactic republic that had the clone wars and the new republic that came after?

Napoleon was the last time the French were feared

old republic was a good thousand plus years before the clone wars. back before the rule of 2 was a thing

Yeah. A lot of people forget that the United States military wasn't always the colossus that it is today.

Nice

“In Star Wars, war-“ never changes?

Eeeeeh Poland was ready for war with Germany, just not a war with Germany and Russia at the same time

So what you're saying is Kharkov would've been a good target for American Atom Bombs in 1946?

I wonder whats the real live version of Knightfall

Tactics definitely change to reflect technology. Not to be that guy who corrects you, but I mean...

"Ardini" Forest is the Ardennes...."AR-DEN" - FYI

generation tech's allen metric conversion app on google play NOW.... please

Do one with umbara and vietnam

That moment when you from Kharkov( Harkiv, Harkov )

2:01 alan nazbol confirmed?

Into the mother land the republic army marched

I actually liked the choice of analogies...but that might be because I made the same one with my kids years ago when we first watched the hideous 2nd movie. I was educated in my undergrad as a military historian, including studying under the great Dennis Showalter. Kudos to hitting on the similarities of N@zism and Communism, and the men with the two most evil mustaches in modern history. As to the battle, the only big high level difference between SW and real life is the level of experience of the German forces vs Republic. This was still the height of German military might (before the winter of 1940-41), and had Kharkov been the focus off German advances at that point, Kharkov might well have fallen as quickly as Kyiv did. But with efforts focused on the drive to Moscow, Kharkov didn't get the support needed to end it before Soviet factories were moved. Of course in terms of history no one wants to see Germany succeed (though did the world suffer just as much as a result of Soviet victory given their dominance the next 40 years?). But it is one of the many points where history was significantly changed. Had Geneonosis gone worse, would Republic populations have demanded a new chancellor, seeing Palpatine as a peace Chancellor? We will never know... because it's fiction of course.

So the Destruction of the Death Star was the Battle of Midway in Real life or

2nd only to the french army? Wow, the allies must've thought very highly of themselves.

We have more men that bullets!!

isn't it pronounced "Harkiv" ? I really don't know...