This episode covers the goals of the belligerents in February 1945. Goals that on the Allied side will be revised at the Yalta Conference, where Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin take decisions that continue to decide the fate of Humanity to this day in 2024. In a few days we will come out with a video covering the deliberations, and decisions at the Yalta Conference. It is the TimeGhost Army that enables us to do these deep dives into our common history. Join us at www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory

Imagine thinking the war is lost for axis... Steiner is about to turn the tide...

Germans goal right now in 1945: buy a nice Little plot of Land in south america.

I really appreciate that you call Speer Hitler's "Chief Slaver". It's ridiculous how his reputation was repaired post war.

Himmler in 1945: you know, am something of an army group commander myself

Indy didn’t want to get out fancied in the wardrobe department this time.

Holy shit Indy has long sleeves

It’s so funny to see Indy gesturing so enthusiastically while Sparty is speaking. At first I thought he was mocking him but now I’m of the mind that he just can’t contain himself!

I really like that you highlighted how the War in Asia is expected to go on for at least another year. To many histories write from the point of view that the ”August End date" with atomic weapons was already known. "Why are they fighting Japan in Burma in 1945? Obviously, they should know that a super secret american weapons system and a surprise soviet entry will happen in a few months" The people in charge do not know that. Everyone in Asia is operating under the assumption that Japanese forces will need to be defeated and pried out of each of their holdings in Asia one by one.

Poland is the perfect example of the Ancient Greek Proverb, "The Strong does at it wills, and the Weak suffers what it must".

Can t wait to see the look of Indy s face when he speaks about Steiner's counteroffensive.

I’m pretty sure the best thing to come out of WW2 was this channel.

Indies hands levitating when Sparty was talking was the main takeaway from this episode, they kept distracting me 😂

A surprise 40 minute special on a Thursday night? yes please!

This is the stage in a Paradox game where you have given up but still continue in the hope that the rng doesn't let you down.

Gang, this was a phenomenal episode. You all are so good at this.

Japan: “We neeeeed ONE last final decisive victory!!” USA: “how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man 😠”

I feel that whenever Indy says "this is modern war!" Is equivalent to whenever Obi-Wan Kenobi says "hello there!"

Indy is performing his audition for Bradley Cooper's part as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro with the hand gestures.

incredible to me that it was clear to everyone that the war would end in Allied victory by now, but the war raged on for another 3 months in Europe and another 6 months in Asia. Heart wrenching.

Mussolini: is there ANY chance I could change sides??

The axis goal rn is hoping 5 year olds make for great flak gunners because the 12 year olds have been promoted to field marshal positions.

I always find it funny when modern Stalinists talk up how much the USSR sacrificed to defeat Germany in WWII, and how they basically did most of the work by themselves. The funny part, at least to me, is how they ALWAYS just happen to leave out the parts in history where the USSR were seceretly and illegaly helping Germany rebuild its military might by allowing them to stay away from prying eyes while carrying out exercises to test which units, tactics, and theories would be most effecrive, even to the point of staging entire mock battles with fake canvas screen tanks on a truck or bicycle. It let them experiment with airplanes and learn with mock-divebombing runs, dogfights, etc. And IIRC was even the birthplace of the Luftwaffe's Infamous Fallschirmjägers. Then let's not forget the BIG one, the fact they actively worked together to invade and split Poland. Yeah they were still ideological enemies that were destined to come to blows eventually, but that doesn't deny the fact they occasionally worked towards a common goal and didn't mind assisting or being assisted by the other while they working towards it. They also try blaming USSR's casualties on the West for not opening a 2nd front sooner, despite the fact the West was already fighting on enough Front's to cover the whole globe. We were fighting in the skies over the UK, across the Atlantic, in the Mediterranean and North Seas, throughout the entirety of the North, central, and South Pacific with "D-Day" just being another month or two for them while island hopping, fighting even more U-Boats off the west coast of Africa and the east coast of the US, carrying out more amphibious landings in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy, India and Burma all the way up through Indochina and into China itself to team up with both sides or their currently paused Civil War, the Nationalist and Communist parties, etc... So it's pretty funny the West had ALL THAT they had to simultaneously deal with, meanwhile the mighty USSR, the great and unstoppable BEAR; needs us to, NO, DEMANDS we open a second front against Germany so the USSR can get some breathing room or something. And Remember, these were the same guys HELPING Hitler for the first Year an a Half of the War; and the same ones that refused to help us with, or declare war on Japan. Instead choosing to remain neutral to them until the USSR could finally attempt to swoop in and take as much land land for themselves as they could after we'd done all the work to defeat Japan.

What Stalin did in regard to Poland brings to mind the old adage: “How do you know when a Russian is lying? When his mouth is moving.”

German civilians: do the furher have any great plan to win the war??? Hitler: lads I ear that Argentina is lovely this time of the year

Indy’s drip is on point.

Love these types of "War Goals" videos. Been asking for it since TGW series and glad it was finally delivered. Well done

The work ethic on display by the Timeghost team in putting out so much extra content on the regular is so admirable! Your dedication is aspirational.

Absolutely bewildering this isn't a multi million sub channel. It absolutely will be and should be!

Never forget, those who don't know history are bound to repeat it's mistakes...

Wow, a 40 minute long Special episode video? We are truly spoiled from the World War Two team today. Thank you as always!

Sparty's "Well..." at 20:11 really sums it up

Sparty looks sharp, his bracelets make his watch shine

Gee whiz! Those three piece suits, sure are snappy, you must have used a year's clothing ration to get them. I hope they never go out of style.

I would like to see a session on the 'boring but important' aspects of the war, meaning the financial and economic costs to all participants.

An excellent and insightful episode. Thank you TimeGhost.

Love these longer format videos by you guys. I relish in all the details and nuance you're able to get into these specials, that you're not normally able to in the weekly episodes. Eastern Europe really got the short end of the stick when it came to great peace of 1945.

The Germans are definitely running out of time to build that secret moon base...

Best coverage. Thanks for this episode.

41 min and 12 seconds absolutely flew by. Great video!

Excellent episode, thanks to the whole team as the research and prep to put this together must have been immense.

Love you timeghost team and army🙏🏼

Thanks for the special!

Great instructive episode! Well done.

Once again, such incredible production going over this history!

Great teamwork. Great presentation. Thank you both so much.

Excellent analysis and presentation.

Great episode great work

Should of had Indy say “this is modern war” and then have sparty say “Never Forget”. Would of been legendary

Excellent double team presentation. Keep doing these, please.

Hi Indy and Sparty Awesome video and perfect explanation. And your suites are nice Thanks for another great special viddeo

You guys are just fantastic!

Wow another great episode! And very extended! This channel is the best of the best. Marvelous! Greetings from Argentina

Great video!

The hand gestures , body movement and facial gestures realy add to the intensity and drama of the well written narative. Thank you team. Sharp gear too.

Great video!! Very interesting!

Great job as usual

Looking great boys! Another awesome addition to the series.

Great video as always ❤

Thank you for the extended special lesson.

One mistake on Spartys part regarding Frederick the Great and the Seven Years War around 20:40: Frederick and Prussia did NOT end up with more territory after the war then before it. It was a "status ante bellum" peace treaty that ended the war in europe between austria and prussia. However Austria failed at achieving their goal of retaking Silesia which they had lost just a few years prior during the war of austrian succession to Fredericks Prussia. It was Austrias main war goal during the seven years war. Prussia was happy that they didnt lose anything at all with a status quo peace treaty. Also, Prussia wasnt broke yet at that point in time, Frederick still had enough money left to continue the war one potential year longer, however there was no army or soldiers to properly fight left that the money could buy. Prussia was bleed dry compleatly and all occupied territories had been looted clean(saxony). The money that was still in the war chest when the war ended would end up being used in reconstruction of the countryside after the war and to stabilize the Prussian currency again. Prussias economy by the wars end was compleatly dead and dry of any coin, it was pretty much a total war for Prussia by the end. Prussia would later on get a lot of land during the partitions of Poland in the later part of Fredericks rule.

Thank you Both,.... Extremely interesting and informative.....as per usual.

Excellent work Indy, Sparty, & team. You two look very dapper in your shades of gray suits.

Best show on youtube.

Thank you.

I came for the WW2 special, I stayed for Sparty's oustanding mustache

As usual...very good!

22:47 Burn one's bridges? That's an outlook of utter desperation.

Dam that was a long episode, but great as always. 👍

Just got done with Ryan's "Last Battle" and have Toland's "Last 100 Days", which I read many years ago in high school, and Erikson's two "Road To..." books on the way. Just in the mood to read on this time frame.

In South East Asia and the Pacific, it’s Australia that’s the somewhat unknown quotient. Australia has captured British and Dutch colonies. In 1945 Australia is the world’s fifth strongest military force and it wants to see its region secure and under its influence. The Americans largely take over, but still, it’s Australia that occupies a third of Japan in command of Britain (and also for the Korean War) and leads the war crime trials against the Japanese. Sure it plays second fiddle to the Americans, which all but the Soviets do too, but Australia is very different, it hasn’t any debts to anyone in 1945, in fact America hasn’t paid all its bills on Reverse Lend-Lease, and it’s in control of a region that dwarfs most of the powers that existed before 1939. While the big three are strutting their stuff, it’s only a matter of months before reality sets in and it’s really the big two in a world that’s incomprehensible to the Europeans who have their heads stuck in the gears of 1939.

Fantastic; have fond memories of September, 6 years ago.

This episodes goes a long way in explaining why the 1945 has such a heavy death toll on humanity.

Fascinating Episode once again. Thank you. Which remindes me. I still need to watch some D Day Episodes :)

Gotta love the Frederick the Great plug

Thanks!

Fascinating!!!

Many of the SS & officers are already packing their bags for Argentina

This is modern war. Boom. That statement put the period on a really outstanding episode. You guys are fabulous to do all the work it takes to put this series together. Thank you so much!

First of all, thank you to Indy, Spartacus and the entire production team of World War 2 - this series is brilliant. I have just finishing McCullough's "Truman", and when Roosevelt dies in office in April 1945, Goebbels wrote to Hitler that the 'it was written in the stars' that a German victory was imminent. I suppose that both he and Hitler thought that Truman would just roll over and sign a peace treaty like the eastern powers did with Frederick the Great in the 18th century. Complete lunacy, but still very interesting.

Winston was a great Artist , he love the Painting more than the War that I think

Bring on the show!

Riveting stuff. thanks. No kidding tho... I had an Uncle who was just like indie. Like when someone was trying to make a point he would mimic their gestures and point to the speaker and nod and you just never knew for sure if he was supporting or mocking. In the best possible sense of "mocking" that is.

Gotta love the long special episodes 😁

another damn good video from a history nut 👍👍

Yeah, this is amazing

A Bernadotte treating and dealing with the ennemy... How history repeats itself...

Two of you at the same time is not only too much; but twice as good❤👍🤟

Excellent 40 minute video WW2 team!

Speer like all engineers was 'looking ahead'

This must be a serious episode, Indy's wearing a suit.

Like it or not having clear goals on what a country wants to achieve in a war is important to winning it. Nicely done video Indy n Sparty.

Adolph Eichmann to Mrs Eichmann, “ honey, which is easier to learn, Spanish or Portuguese “?

5:20 FDR is just tired Parent saying “at least they’re not fighting“💀 😂

Right Astrid? "YES!"

Whoa this is def one of the longer eps

Great..

I believe one of the most important post war pivot points was the Bretton Woods Agreement and System, I would love to see a video on this.

Just a small correction - at 37:25 the correct name is the 最高戦争指導会議 (Saiko Senso Shido Kaigi) not Saiko Senso Shido Kaig.

Oh man only just saw this now. I have to go to bed. Have to watch it tomorrow 😅