Still, the western front was just as strategically important to German high command as the eastern front was. The percentage of Axis forces in the east dropped from 80% to 60% over the span of 1944.

It certainly was American thing as well. If the Americans stayed out of the war and never did the Lend Lease program, the borders in Europe would look much different

For Real. The USSR role on WW2 media(like movies) is way to undervalued, while the USA role is way to overvalued

@@idk_pineapple2691 lets face it they would prolly get destroyed whitout allied help which was what happened.

@@moisesrosario9716 That's only because Russia doesn't make as many movies as the US does. Can't blame American studios for making movies about their own country's history.

The invasion of Norway took 2 months.

"Among German-occupied territories in Western Europe, this made Norway the country to withstand the German invasion for the longest period of time - approximately two months." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Norway

Yeah the Vikings on Bicycles

Yeah the Vikings on Bicycles

Yeah the Vikings on Bicycles

Ikr

Thats the tragedy of war

@billynamer Yes, the video is good but there is a technical / UI problem in that the captions at the bottom left of the screen are too fast-moving. But when the video is paused to better read & absorb the captions, they are semi-obscured by info in the youtube video progress bar.

Definitely this was a true Word War

​@@kevinindublinI agree. An above average IQ (perhaps 110-130?) Person, are ya? Noice. Because who the he'll takes the time to think it out and focus on the facts of reality rather than one's own preferences and emotions?

the text is constantly fucking up though... i guess most people are just watching for the visuals..

Do you ever watch pornography?

​@@ActionAlligatorYeah

@@ActionAlligator 1% off perfection matters little when you're 99% there

@@freedomgoddess honestly it seemed like a full quarter of the texts were screwed up, which was half the reason i was interested. so, quite a bit more than 1% :(

It’s no secret that there is an agenda in portraying the war that way

Indeed! And 80% of its army was destroyed by USSR, they also destroyed 1 mln kwantong Japanese army in 1945 in a few months while today they claim that UK and USA won the war. Thankfully, people are not that stupid and so many westerners including Americans and British know at least something about the Eastern front and that time on FB send pics of a Soviet soldier put a red flag on Reachstag but FB banned them all (facepalm), it was 1 or 2 years ago on a V-day, idk about this year though

What happened on the western front was nothing compared to the brutality of the eastern front. Even soldiers who fought on the eastern front and were later reassigned to the western front attested to this, and stated that the western front was quote "A fairyland in comparison".

Tbh, and as far as I read about the subject, the Western Front was very reduced in terms of numbers, compared to those in the Eastern Front, not to mention the combat conditions (winter, scorched land policy, inch earned inch lost combat). Also, the Pacific Campaign had several moments that can be compared to the Eastern Front, in terms of brutality and head on combat (deep jungle and guerrila warfare isnt nice). Not saying the WF was a walk in the park, but besides one or another campaign regarding the Normandy Landings (the Bulge) and one or another moment regarding the Italy campaign (Anzio or Mount Cassino), they werent as vicious and brutal as other clashes happening in the EF or relating the Pacific campaign.

The only american movie who is clise to the war is Enemy at the gate

This tractor factory was destroyed by capitalism couple years ago, w/o Hitler. Russians capitalist did it :(

Don’t forget about Pavlov’s house

Hence the French recognising the huge role the Battle of Stalingrad played in weakening the German army, named one of its Paris Metro station as Stalingrad

Legit?

@@bewarsu is that legit? I never knew that if its true.

Wtf why would you watch this vid every week? I smell cap

@@Sniper2k19 im just interested about history

Probably autistic ​@@Sniper2k19

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Lmao where is the world going.... Useless rudeness often comes from people who have no self esteem, and who just want to see people cry.

Some three million Soviets were in captivity by the time Germany reached Stalingrad, with another couple million casualties... And that was only the beginning of the red army's reserves!

it helps to have a much larger population i guess LOL

they won by making the people go hungry, and the scorched earth policies which made every civilian near the front line starve. also the killing of the kulaks, who refused collectivization, and the no step back policy which prevented retreat and killed millions. losing a few T-26s and BT-7s wasn’t gonna do anything when they cant even penetrate howitzer shields. come 1942 you have T34-76s and an army that knows the german city boy’s greatest weakness (hand to hand combat with rough farmers.) To Stalin, civillians are a liability when captured by the germans, and taking their stuff means the germans won’t get it. All the deaths were used to buy time, which he needed to mobilize his army.

@@c15a who won

@@c15a "no step back policy which prevented retreat and killed millions" This has been debunked so many times.

Definitely. This shows the real numbers

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It's a step in the right direction, we would need supply situation too, manpower doesn't really say much

Actually, you can also use how well a country is doing to tell how powerful it is.

If you really think country sizes correlates directly towards their military powers then you must be thinking African country are world class

Только чтсла врут. У германии 5.5 миллиона человек включая 800 тысяч из остальных европейских стран.

@@user-xi4wm8zw5m Germany had only 3.4 million 326k were romanian and 400k Italian 75k Hungarian (these ain't entirely accurate but they are close)

@@user-xi4wm8zw5m 5,5 mln had stalin's red army. The true lie is that the red army had never fewer soldiers than the Bundesware. Saying the other means repeating and distributing the soviet's myths.

I like the word 'barbaric' in this context. People in high places, considered to be god-like, actually just a bunch of hobos killing innocent people for nothing.

@@vyacheslavromantovsky1238 the other 2m was in Siberia and other fronta

This phrase is veryyyyy.poweful

Especially in Operation Barbarossa, and in China.

'' A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.'' - Joseph Stalin. No wonder why Soviet Union suffered the most casulaties than any other nation during the second world war.

Well wait for ww3. This is going to be greatest calamity.

@@rennor3498 fr, we often forget how brutally EVERY nation was affected by this war

BUT...Poland had not only 250,000 soldiers mobilized at the beginning of the German raid against Poland on September 1, 1939. Poland has mobilized 1 million soldiers. The number of German soldiers is also wrong. Because Germany has mobilized 2 million soldiers and not just 1.8 million. It would also be good if the betrayal of Poland in 1939 was somehow mentioned in the video. The British and French declaration of war 1939 against Germany served only for saving face. The British and the French did not intend to keep to the contractual commitment and to attack massively in the west. They wanted to sacrifice Poland for peace with the Germans! This was the continuation of British and French foolish appeasement politics of the 30s! By the way, if British and French had massive attacked the Germans in the West, the Germans would have lost the war because they were not prepared for a two-fronts war!

@@GreatPolishWingedHussarsyea and also no holocaust if the stupid governments of the UK and France got their shit together

А сейчас такие армии не нужны, спутники скопление увидят и туда прилетит Himars/Искандер

@@smachnaya_bebra2006 Сегодня солдаты по-прежнему сражаются друг с другом винтовками, а не только ракетами.

@@smachnaya_bebra2006 Вы получаете от меня большой палец вверх, потому что славянские братья всегда получают от меня большой палец вверх.

That's why Russia has always feared an invasion from the west

Look at the way the Russian rail network is laid out and consider how disastrous it would have been to lose moscow, or even have it encircled.

The Germans were in Moscow I think

@@ronkaufhold6253 nope they could have went to moscow but the closest army chose to help encrircle other soviet armies

Even if they took moscow it wasn't meant the end. Napoleon actually took the moscow and still he lost.

@@gutser The Russians who liberated camps? Whose side should we be on?

@@CanadianPrepper no wars require that amount of mobilization today luckily. But seeing how a weakened and almost economically collapsed Germany could build such a powerful army that quickly, im of what people could do with todays far more destructive weapons.

@@gutser you're forgetting something.. There are militas in Luhansk and Dontesk actively fighting Ukraine... there weren't militias in the countries that USSR and Germany conquered that defected to the Axis powers so your propaganda ends here

Платить надо солдатам тогда всё было на вере в родину или нацию

@@lks11 Except there were such militias, entire legions (of hundreds of thousands collaborators) mobilized from the USSR territories for the German forces. So your propaganda ends before it even begins.

same for me if the text wasn't all fucked up

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Damn nice work

6:00 - Switcherland : yeepee!

Thanks for the timeline. Improvement suggestion: 13:02 Germany's unconditional surrender. "Uncontrolled" is a typo I guess

Amazing video! Without the overlap I would rate it 10/10 for perfect.

@@wassentme1891 As a Corsican I'd rate it 0/10 lmao

Honestly it's not bad, but you just have to take a look at the end of the video to see that Corsica is supposed to be blue

@@Jean20B do Corsicans speak French or Italian?

@@candodggolotm7547 French, we also have our own language (Corsican / corsu) that sounds more Italian than French

Yep - I thought most of them were happening in 1942 if it helps to locate them on the video

Yeah especially for a KZfaq upload, all the text appears and dissapears so fast. And if you pause to read the seek bar covers it.

yes please fix the text overlap, it prevents understanding of the context for some significant bits

Yeah, such an epic video let down by this oversight.

Yeah, and at 11:18 there is nothing about Warsaw Uprising on August 1st, 1944. Why? The uprising in Yugoslavia is mentioned, but nothing about the Polish uprising! Im surprised. It was the largest anti-nazi guerrilla uprising in history. Why didn't they mention that?

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebV7Zr2Fnr6Rc2g.html

Whats HOI4

@@Nietabs Hearts of iron 4

is it made with HOI4?

@@szalailaszlovid No, I guess he used After Effects.

Despite what a lot of movies say, most Axis soldiers were the same. Not every single one of them was a psychopathic SS soldier.

Sonder

​@@charlesburns7391yeah, and probably many people from occupied europe ended up being conscripted if they weren't exterminated

@@charlesburns7391They were still complicit, and many ware quite aware and even partook in war crimes and other atrocities

Agree. Except communist and nazis off course.

There’s also a severe storm weather alert when the Russian winter comes

the attention to detail even in the music is perfect

@@Karan3321 Notice that the snow melts during the Spring on the map

Um… really? Cry? Lol WW2 for men is like BTS for women at this point

June 22nd, 1941. The day hell came to earth.

Через неё США торговали с Гитлером. И США и Гитлеру это было выгодно, поэтому её оставили нейтральной.

Germany: *kills 9 million soviet soldiers* Soviets: we have 13 million soldiers

87% of the Red Army soldiers, which served in WW2, died. I think about 30% of the German soldiers died. But one recognizes with what a high cost of blood Stalin bought this victory. A human life has had no value in the Soviet Union. 10 million dead Red Army soldiers. 17 million dead Soviet citizens. An unimaginable amount.

Lol

​@@TheWorldIsAWorld This is how the authorities of the country are now voicing in Ukraine, 16 missiles were fired by Russia. Ukraine shot down 14 air defense missiles, but there are 6 hits on the infostructure😂😂😂

@@bayerischerkerl6788 how does the war in Ukraine always find a way to get into every argument? Like fr…

但这不是重点，重点在于它使世界上大多数人类遭遇危机

@@matsumiyama1609 How does it "put most of the world in crisis"..? It's been over since 1945? Do you mean the current trouble between china & Taiwan? Or perhaps the dictator of Russia invading Ukraine?

@@matsumiyama1609 Anime girls are real?

What?i don't know

@@donarthiazi2443 all wars

Ооо. Я Русский. Прочитал Казах, про себя подумал, наши 😊😊😊 Вечная Слава Нашим Героям.

@@tritri6651узкие достойные ученики гитлера

​@@tritri6651 5,7 million were captured, around 3 million died

5,7 million were captured, around 3 million died

i was about to say that

the world needs A.H.

@Acción Mayonesista funny guy with a mustache unfortunately did not have time to send your great-grandfathers to Madagascar.

@@user-vu6uo2lh2n didn't have enough time to send your ancestors to poland either...

@@user-vu6uo2lh2n haha funny based redditor guys im laughing!!! its so funny! so based!!!!

The music does a great job at conveying that sentiment you just described

Пока советы и немцы воевали и уничтожали свою экономику и инфраструктуру ,USA за это время заняла мировой трон .У меня складывается ощущение что Гитлера финансировали Американцы для того что бы поставить на колени европу

the entire US ww2 casualties in just one encirclement, Soviet losses was insanely huge

Amazing how fast the Germans were advancing in the Soviet territory, faster than they were in the invasion of Poland and France.

I feel you. I am German and the suffering that was contained within these few seconds honestly made me anxious. I will do my part to make sure that any of this does not happen again.

The track is “Hearts of Iron 3 - Storming Omaha Beach”. The actual song doesn’t have sirens, but a siren version will come up.

What's weird to think is what if they won? Would they mellow out? Would they slowly break up? Would independence be granted at some point? All empires ended at one point or the other. Not in like 5 years, but in like 100 years.

@@usul573 the man in the high castle…..that’s really good tv show about alternate history when nazis and Japan would’ve won the war. Interesting but also terrifying

@@usul573 Germany wouldn't have been able to keep up with controlling all this new land. Remember conquests require lots of power and wealth to control. They had very little oil and that's a major problem for any modern military that's why they invaded russia and made a mad dash for southern Russian oil fields. Besides the economic problems.. French people would have revolted like the soviet Union did and you can only brutalise people into submission for so long, also russian and German conflict was inevitable.

Europe and Asia actually

Sad really

No he didn't, I remember seeing one before his with him in the comments asking how the uploader did it.

@@PaulSchlock There probably were iterations of WW2 everyday before Emp. I was in the mapping "future of europes" community back in 2012, I know it very well. But his was the one who brought the genre to popularity. Tens of millions of views

@@PaulSchlock well yeah, but he WAS the one who made the genre of historical mapping more popular

@@epw6679 Yes, I agree with the fact that his was the one that launched it into popularity. I just didn't agree with the statement that he created the groundwork for these videos since he just copied someone else's template. Hopefully I didn't come off as a prick in my original comment.

I'm and Ollie Bye guy. OBG for life! All them other mappers are just fools with lines. OB slaps that paint with authority.

Я впервые узнал что в Африке тоже что-то происходило в это время)

Yes, such a glorious moment! 🐺🤗🐻

My favourite part

Goosebumps

German Nazi vs Soviet Union. The real big deal of the second world war.

Totally Agree with you! WWII had so many events and this video was perfect to connect my text-based knowledge with this perfect graphical representation of the war! I also never knew that there were so many Encirclements in Barbarossa. Also, the Music when DDay started gave me goosebumps with all the events happening. I hope he continues with this style of Videos! Maybe about WWI or the Pacific war of WWII

The music is from the Hearts of Iron 4 soundtrack in case you didn't know and wanted more of it

@@coygus4422 thats exactly why I thought it was good! lol

Ending always makes me sad.

@@coygus4422 but which songs?

@empty lol🤣🤣🤣🤣

​@empty I am not a resident of "The West", but, nevertheless, I will answer here, for the sake of completeness In Odessa, we remember your atrocities very well, so few people will have the pity that you tried to evoke in your comment. This doesn't mean that all those who survived the occupation by you now hate you forever. It simply means that there is no pity As for the snobbery on the part of the "civilized West" - look at world history аnd the real reason will become clear

@empty Well atleast ypur country is starting to develop

@@kosiachok_fm Готовьтесь к вступлению в России, одесситы

@@Anonymous-qj3sf бля, братан, ты можешь рашку хоть здесь не приплетать, пожалуйста?

Check out Eastory's WWII Eastern Front Animated..... some of my favorite youtube videos ever. He also did 44 and 45 Western Front.

This map is wrong. Initially Poland was much bigger. The USSR invaded eastern part of Poland in September (started 17 of September 1939).

i cannot verify if everything is perfectly to scale or anything but it seems pretty accurate. What i do not understand is the text at the bottom is misspelled and is covered up 6:51 and 2:29 "postphoned" instead of postponed haha. seems odd to me to put hours and hours and hours of effort into this but then have those weird text mistakes? either way epic video

its not accurate

so great. i can read every sentence at the bottom clearly :/

I hope this gets a lot more likes, thank you for this

You are a god

I hope the dude reuploads.

Everyone like it so it goes to the top. It needs to be pinned

Thank you! It’s a shame it got so many views so quickly as I don’t think he’ll reupload it now. Itwould be great to have this A: with the correct text, and B: with the text in a better position to read it and watch the advancements at the same time

3 years of nothing, suddently Initial D soundtrack plays

Later we will also need a WW3 version

@@welike4278 it hasent started....

it would just be a static image

@@Snowlandic Not yet but it will happen soon, leftism will meet its end because of it.

¡ON POINT!

its not all about Numbers, doesnt matter how many more ppl you have when the opponent is more strategic and technically advanced.

@@TPenthax That… that’s what I said… they were strategically incompetent despite having a numbers advantage

@@David_Gonzalez_ if you knew the history, you wouldn't write this since the beginning of the war, the regular army either surrendered or deserted, as a result, the USSR had only people who didn’t even hold a rifle in their hands, not to mention the fact that they had just finished military service

Bad commanders and generals, lack of proper equipment, bad leadership, low morale, officer corruption etc Lions led by donkeys

Because warfare isn't about who has more flesh and bones

thanks so much man

Thx this comment deserves 10 000 likes

Well this comment will 100% not be seen again, just used this alt account to see if I could spot my account with all the music listed on it, (yes I am the guy who wrote the original time stamps and specific music which this guy probably copied and pasted due to not being able to find it again) Anyways, back to the point, even 7k likes+ comments, especially the ones with the timestamps, will surely be lost, so make sure to do what this guy did if u wanna remember the music

Hero

Легенда

@@kostas0352 yes me too

@@kostas0352 yeah!

Me too

except the parts where you cant read whats being said on the bottom

Just discovered this channel and subscribed. don't know anything about the creator . I'm half way through the video and if they haven't blown up and become super popular here on youtube yet they should. This is everything I didn't actually know I wanted to see but now I'm watching it I'm thinking why hasn't this been done before

all decent generals were cut out during the purge or escaped long before, the command was confused and unorganized, Stalin personally did not believe until the last that the war had begun. Only the fleet did not suffer heavy losses on the first days of the war, because the commander-in-chief of the fleet ordered it to be put on alert

⚡war but Russian is a big big country ask the generals they new it was madness ❄💧❄☠️

@fenrar36 Where did you read that? The doctrine of the Soviet Union was that military operations would be conducted only on enemy territory, at least that's what they told the population of the country.

@fenrar36 complete freestyle theory, nice saga you are writing here

@@salvatorelucania9122 Red Army also increased in size from 500k to 2,5mln from 1937 to 1941. There weren't enough experienced officers. Also what you tell your population has nothing to do with what the actual military strategy is. How do you even imagine this? "Dear citizens of the Soviet Union, we calculate that in the event of a war with Nazi Germany, around 30 to 40 mln people in western regions will be under German occupation. We wish you all the best. Have a good day"

Yep same

Stalin didn’t let his country get ready, he was delusional.

​@Trevor Brannon 😂😂😂

While I despise the German government’s ideology at the time, I must say, their war machine was insanely effective.

@@user-uo9yb2qx8z +

"France - 1 month and 12 days;" France was done in two weeks. The invasion started on May 10, and hundreds of thousands of allied troops were lining up on Dunkirk to flee by the 26th. 16 days from normal life in one of the most developed nations on earth to complete annihilation. This is worth remembering the next time anyone questions military spending.

@@gooble69 funny that you mention military spending yet US its more akin to what germany did back then: Force other nations to comply with what they want or suddenly be "enemy of the Glory of the Nation" , not to mention the casual presence of certain companies on those countries too, im sure that its also unrelated. Literally just like Germany back then. Ah, irony.

@@toobig7150 "US its more akin to what germany did back then" In your pea brain I'm sure you thought that made sense when you wrote it...

Greece always falls easy

Brest fortress - 32 days

that was mostly due to low birth rates dude, the enitrety of europe has suffered from that, those estimates were made BEFORE birth control and abortion became legalised, literally killed far more than every war combined

@@dopaminedreams1122 thats wrong. without WW2 and a relatively peaceful reality the number of the USSR were in fact around 400, maybe even more (you have to count all the dead people who add to the baby boomers children and so on - the birthrate low (under 2.1) was after that ... this means the due to the WW2 lowered population overall got with less population into the last baby boom generation (and between ww2 and that phase) - which makes of course the native population outcome much lower)

The original soundtrack is called "Storming Omaha Beach", from a 2009 game called Hearts of Iron III. However, the track is significantly edited, such as being given a tone rising and that the use of this song starts near the end rather than the beginning of the soundtrack. Additionally, the presence of the sirens and alerts are not present. Here is a link to the original soundtrack on KZfaq: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ndt6jK-LyNqXkmQ.html

@@Outwatcher I love the additions, gives off such an ominous feeling. The war has escalated to it's "final form"

Super

And with one order 25 million people would be condemned to horrible deaths and millions more traumatized.

This video shows 2.7 million Sovjet soldiers in June 41, but Germany captures 3 million POWs in the first 4 weeks!

The patriotic sacrifice of these brave heros will never be forgotten.

The magic lies with these three letters: U, S and A.

@@sadettinarslan5324 no, Ussr had already pushed the germans back even before the americans joined the war

@@sadettinarslan5324 the soviets eliminated about 75% of all wermacht divisions

@@daseafrate2025 While their entire logistics arm was sent to them by Britain and the US. They could not have won without them.

Modern conflicts being less than a drop in the bucket compared to what was the sheer scale WW2. Sure there still some vicious fights...but they are rather brief by comparison once more...

@@RuralTowner If you convert the population in the 1940's to the population during the Napoleonic wars im pretty sure that was an even larger scale.

@@RuralTowner I am more just speaking about the enormous size of the armies that engaged each other in both world wars, both being periods where the great powers involved were fully industrialized. Napoleon's army that invaded Russia in 1812 was at that point the largest army ever raised in human history, and wasn't even as big as the German flanking force that invaded Belgium to get around the French defenses in August 1914. Of course today we have smaller proxy wars and nuclear deterrence (and generally more geopolitical stability, though that is changing for the worse) so major wars between great powers don't happen - atleast we haven't seen one since WW2 thankfully.

@@BasePuma4007 Exactly. Still have pitched battles even now but no more or at least extremely rare where entire brigades or even division strength forces move about seeking massive clashes as whole forces across huge contiguous fronts. Modern warfare is rather...truncated by comparison

@@RuralTowner Think how awful WWIII will be, the land war wont really start until after the nukes are dropped, literally Hell on earth.

But this is complete nonsense! Poland had not only 250,000 soldiers mobilized at the beginning of the war on September 1, 1939. Poland has mobilized 1 million soldiers. The number of German soldiers is also wrong. Because Germany has mobilized 2 million soldiers and not just 1.8 million. It would also be good if the betrayal of Poland in 1939 was somehow mentioned in the video. The British and French declaration of war 1939 against Germany served only for saving face. The British and the French did not intend to keep to the contractual commitment and to attack massively in the west. They wanted to sacrifice Poland for peace with the Germans! This was the continuation of British and French foolish appeasement politics of the 30s! By the way, if British and French had massive attacked the Germans in the West, the Germans would have lost the war because they were not prepared for a two-fronts war! Since the betrayal of Poland is denied in the comments below, here is the detailed description of the betrayal of Poland. Before the war, a relief offensive was agreed with the British and French in the event of a German raid against Poland. The relief offensive was actually intended to force the enemy to fight on two fronts so that the Germans could not only concentrate their forces on the troops of one front, i.e. the Polish front.Which of course leads to the decisive weakening of the enemy. That's why Poland agreed with the French and British before the war three tactical main actions in the event of a German-Polish war contained the agreements with the British and French: 1. France immediately carries out an air campaign according to a pre-determined plan. 2. As soon as part of the French troops are ready (on the third day or so), France will progressively launch offensive actions with limited targets. 3. As soon as the main effort of Germany was directed against Poland, no later than 15 days after the German attack France with British support would begin with the bulk of its troops an offensive action against Germany. If, according to this plan the British and French had massively attacked the Germans in the west the victory would be certain because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war. So if British and French had massive attacked the Germans in the West, the Germans would have lost the war in 1939. But the British and French did not stick to this agreement and did not attack massively in the West. The British and French declaration of war 1939 against Germany served only for saving face. The British and French had no intention of honoring their treaty obligation under the treaty of alliance and launching a massive attack in the west. They wanted to sacrifice Poland for peace with the Germans! This was the continuation of British and French foolish appeasement politics of the 30s! Because the Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts Hitler himself said before the war that he played va banque. He used it to describe that he hoped he's lucky and that he correctly assessed the disloyalty of the Polish allies. Because Hitler knew that he would surely lose the war if the French and British attacked massively in the west. Therefore, the German troops in the west were given the express order not to do anything to provoke the French and British into an attack. That is why there was not the slightest attack by the Germans in the western in 1939. The French only mobilized their troops because they feared a German attack against France, which they wanted to repel, but they had no intention of attacking the Germans themselves. This was a betrayal of the Polish ally. The Germans had no chance in two-front war against Poland, French and British! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! By the way, the France and the British could have quickly discovered by enlightening their opponents during the attack that the Germans had little air support in the West because 90% of German front line aircraft were in Poland. Germans had also hardly any tanks in the West. And that the French and British could also quickly realized that the Siegfried Line was a fake. They just had to attack. Even the most incompetent of generals would have won against this weak German troops in the West. That would also have complied the agreement and the war plan concluded with Poland. British and French only had to have the will to fight and loyalty to their allies. The Germans had nothing in the West in 1939. Only inferior reserves without tanks and hardly any air support. Part of the reserve was without training! WITHOUT TRAINING! After war German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions." German General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in full force in September 1939 the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks." Franz Halder Chief of the German General Staff of the Army documents this fact in his war diary. "The Wehrmacht had been on the verge of a military logistical catastrophe in the Polish campaign. The happy ending after a few weeks saved her from having to stop the fight because of insufficient ammunition." For all that reasons the Germans had lost the war because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! But they didn't attack and thus shamefully betrayed Poland. Also e the French themselves proved that they were capable to attack in 1939! This was the Saar offensive! This offensive has clearly shown that the French were capable of attacking, contrary to the mendacious legends spread about the impossibility of a massive attack in the West to hide the fact that Poland had been betrayed by its allies. The fact is that even without British support, France was able to defeat the Germans in the West in 1939 without any problems. The pre-emptive mobilization was started in France on 26 August and on 1 September 1939, full mobilization was declared. Six days after the German raid on Poland, the French attacked and encountered little German resistance. A French offensive in the Rhine valley began on 7 September, four days after France declared war. The most of German army was preoccupied in the attack on Poland and the French enjoyed a decisive numerical advantage along the border. 90% of German frontline aircraft were in Poland. Eleven French divisions advanced along a 32 km (20 mi) line near city of Saarbrücken, against weak German opposition. The Germans retreated more as to fought. The French army advanced to as far as 8 km (5.0 mi) in some areas, and captured about 12 towns and villages unopposed...By 9 September the French occupied most of the Warndt Forest. The French 32nd Infantry Regiment made further gains on 12 September, seizing the German town of Brenschelbach. The French held German territory along all of the Rhine-Moselle front. But that was just a sham offensive on the Saar to deceive the Polish ally that there was an attack in the west according to the alliance agreement. So on 21 September French units were ordered to return to their starting positions on the Maginot Line. These cowards betrayed Poland and hid in their bunkers instead of continuing to fight. Incidentally, the fact that the Soviets attacked Poland in 1939 was the result of betrayal. Because the Soviets first waited and watched how the British and French reacted to the German raid on Poland. Only when it was obvious that the French and British would not massive attack in the west did the Soviets raid Poland 17 days after the German raid on September 17, 1939. Because the Soviets did not want a war against the French and British. Because the Soviets knew that it was very likely that the Americans would support the British and French in their fight against the Soviets. Because for the Americans in 1939, communism was the main danger. So if the French and British had attacked massively in the West as was agreed with Poland, Germany would be on the way to losing. This would be another reason why the Soviets would not have attacked Poland. Because then, after the Germans had been defeated, they would have to fight against the Poles, the French, the British, and very probably the Americans as well. Therefore, the betrayal of Poland in 1939 was also additionally reprehensible, because the betrayal also gave rise to the Soviet raid. In 1939 there was a good opportunity for a relatively quick victory against Germany. Because the Germans were too weak for a two-front war. For victory against Germany the British and French should have only acted according to the plan worked out with Poland for the event of a German raid on Poland. But instead they preferred to betray Poland cowardly. This betrayal of Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest but it was also a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War.

​@GreatPolishWingedHussars the troop numbers are well just that, troop numbers. The actual army is much bigger but are behind the front lines, i.e., logistics

@@oblivioneagle3464 Your claim is wrong and nonsense. Because in the video the total number of German troops is correctly stated. In this context, the total number of troops is always stated.

@@GreatPolishWingedHussars The russian army had 12 million personal towards 1943 - 1944, while it correctly shows only 4 - 5 million on the front

@@oblivioneagle3464 Then that's another mistake in the video! But that was the Soviet Army!

They launched the invasion too late. If they did not get there by the cold winter the Russians could've countered it masterfully since they know how to battle in subzero temperatures the Germans thought this was going to be a quick wars like the others and failed miserably the element of weather and other key errors by Hitler lead to their demise.

ABSOLUTELY! - to put the dates in perspective, ending this "muh ww2 began on september 1939 derp" british fantasy - it would also be interesting to see the change in Japanese strategy the moment a headline runs on the bottom that says US WILL NOT SELL ANY MORE OIL TO JAPAN. of course, these are things that lead people to think, and thinking is not encouraged under our current regime...which is all the more reason for @Christopher to make the map!

Насколько мелкие цифры там будут? Их же не будет видно.

Asian war less than Stalingrad battle, what are u talking about

@@todjonson3195 может пора уже открыть глаза и перестать быть шовинистом? Начти с истории. Почитай сколько китайцев было уничтожено японскими милитаристами потом свои пуки в водичку в интернет выкладывай.

@@user-zc3kj2kr8b Глупец, я вообще-то о шрифте цифр в тихоокеанском регионе. На каждом острове их не нарисуешь.

I only wished they showed all theaters of the war. The war in Europe wasn't the only battleground in WW2. There was the Pacific too.

@@rithvikmuthyalapati9754I thought it started in 1931 when Japan invaded Manchuria

Ikr? That is why russians claims it was their war.

they did most of the fighting in Europe, the US is wanking off somewhere else and only decide to join the war when Japan bomb pearl habour and took their colony.

Don’t forget the bombing of cities for example. This video only shows the frontlines.

@@heyhoe168 потому что фашисты разрушили нам половину страны

Russia?

But the data is not accurate. The Axis forces had an advantage of a million over the Red Army at the beginning of Barbarossa

@@paulpaulson7551 that number likely included support personnel (not sure if the video counts them) and the overall number can change depending on what source you look at i'm not entirely saying that the data is or isn't accurate, but that's my opinion on it

" accurately" how can you judge this? The amount of data shown is so big that is practely impossible to make sure all of it is correct.

@@paulpaulson7551 the data is fairly accurate... there are some data points that are not shown (they would be key here) such as Army size, reserves, material, people (and government) readiness, economy, number of killed and injured in action, number of prisoners (although a good job is done in regards to it in the press itself)...

@@paulpaulson7551 As it is shown in the video, if you count Finnish army the axis forces had more than million soldiers more than the red army on June 22.

And no mention of the Rats of Tobruk who held out until Rommel's capture

Это было мелкое событие. Он отобразил только те, которые достойны внимания.

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Yeah, but at 11:18 there is nothing about the Warsaw Uprising that broke out on August 1st, 1944, while a bit later in the video the uprising in Yugoslavia is mentioned, well. Warsaw Uprising was the largest anti-nazi guerrilla uprising in history of the world and the largest single military effort taken by any European resistance movement during World War II. Please have in mind, that the end of the WWII was not the end of the struggle for Polish people. The Soviet Union (Russia) told the world they liberated Polish people, but they actually took over Poland and occupied it for the next 44 years, till 1989. During that time, in the late 40s, the former members of the Polish anti-nazi resistance movement, later called the Cursed soldiers, started to fight against the next occupants, but were persecuted, captured and murdered by high-ranked communist officials, mostly of Jewish origin and that's why this topic is one of the biggest taboos of Polish history. Witold Pilecki is the greatest example of the Polish anti-nazi and anti-communist hero, pursued, tortured and sentenced to death by the Jewish-communist authorities. Check the origin of Józef Różański, Roman Romkowski or Julia Brystygier, read their bio. Now, don't you think it was an irony of fate?

The numbers are ludicrous. In 1941 Germany had over 7 million strong army, with over 5 million invasion force dedicated for Barbarossa.

​@@proudpolishherbsman2583 _> Warsaw Uprising was the largest anti-nazi guerrilla uprising in history of the world_ Hilarious. German provocateurs from Krayova Army (which probably killed more Jews than Germans) herded people into a hopeless uprising knowing with absolute certainty that it will be completely useless, which it was. And it wasn't even a big guerilla uprising by WW2 standards. _> The Soviet Union (Russia) told the world they liberated Polish people_ That's a fact. USSR also handed Poland its sovereignty, vast lands, and lots of economic aid. _> Witold Pilecki_ Who was working for the Germans all along. Nice Koolaid you are drinking over there. The usual Polish pastime - making up history because you have nothing to be proud of in the real one.

Слава КПСС!

So what about Corsica which, according the video, remain Third Reich color even after Germany's capitulate? )

@@user-yr6ij1ve3f you are right they completely forgot lol

@@user-yr6ij1ve3f Corsica will never surrender

Also suwalki was part of the german not soviet zone of poland

@Деревенщина из Сибири - Абакан ты чушь-то не неси. Пакт о ненападении не означает что СССР и Германия были союзниками. Идиот.

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then liberates themselves lmao

internal politics

Russia didn't exist at the time, anyways, their main strategy was to send as many troops as possible to overwhelm with infantry even if so many would die

@@raulvanesette7230 if you want to split hairs, Russia did exist as the Russian Soviet Republic, which dominated politics in the USSR, especially during WW2 when most of the other soviet republics didn't exist yet.

@@raulvanesette7230 А правили при этом то грузины то украинцы, иногда проскакивали русские XD

@@pallandoromestamo8861 А правили при этом то грузины то украинцы, иногда проскакивали русские XD

How can they not? Russia was huge. Infinite manpower and resources. Despite all that they wanted to join the Axis, and Hitler didn’t let them. Hitler could have easily let the USSR and USA fight, and then attacking them after they got exhausted. And no Putin today if he did that.

Спасибо деду , низкий поклон 🙇‍♂️

А на чём Ваш прадед летал? Мой дед летал в полярной авиации, бортмеханик. PBY-1 GUBA, СССР Н-243. Погиб летом 42-го на Новой Земле (искали корабли PQ17, их на стоянке расстреляла U-601) What airplane did your great-grandfather fly? My grandfather flew in polar aviation as a flight mechanic. PBY-1 GUBA aircraft, registration number СССР H-243. He died in the summer of the 42nd on Novaya Zemlya (they were looking for PQ 17 ships, their airplane wah destroyed by U-601 submarine near Malye Karmakuly polar station)

Hero

@@zagrivnyi К сожалению, я не застал его в сознательном возрасте и не мог узнать таких подробностей, а родственники не особо этим интересовались, хотя как мне кажется это конечно же нужно знать и помнить

my great grandfather fought in the kriegsmarine, his younger brother (15 yo) fought in the east the last year of the war, every year they told us storys about that time, they came to argentina after the war. No human should experience war.

probably was made by him, just in disguise or something

You will probably be surprised, but the author forgot to add Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine personnel for the German army. In total, about 4 million Germans invaded the USSR and about 870 thousand allies. The author also forgot to add the personnel of the Air Force, Navy and NKVD for the USSR. Total should be 3.2 million (instead of 2.7) on June 22nd. But of course not all of them were near the border. In addition, for some reason, the author showed the Finnish army separately, and included the Red Army that opposed it in this region in the total number.

Operation Barbarossa is not only unfilmable, but I'd say it's damn near unimaginable. A 3 million man offensive is like 300 Battle of Helms Deeps going off across six months and 600,000 square kilometers.

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​@@usul573largest human offensive in human history, and most probably of all time. Also those 6 months confrontation did almost 80% ww2 theatre( more than pacific eastern and southern theatre combined)

What purges of officer corps do to an army

its also possible if hitler accepted the offer from ussr to join the axis they would've won, the soviet union wasn't unstoppable but they had large amounts of natural resources and grew quite strong in the later years of war then into the cold war

It’s because off the Poland and west-Ukrain union with the nazi

It is terrible to imagine the fate of the Jews and Slavs, which they could expect in the event of the fall of the USSR.

@@bigbear307 bruh

Не без помощи США , Германия быстро захватила Европу!!!!А в 1945 году ,политика США включила заднюю ,как всегда они и делали и делают!!!!

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the facts were just too quick, i had to slow down the vid to read it lol

But this is complete nonsense! Poland had not only 250,000 soldiers mobilized at the beginning of the war on September 1, 1939. Poland has mobilized 1 million soldiers. The number of German soldiers is also wrong. Because Germany has mobilized 2 million soldiers and not just 1.8 million. It would also be good if the betrayal of Poland in 1939 was somehow mentioned in the video. The British and French declaration of war 1939 against Germany served only for saving face. The British and the French did not intend to keep to the contractual commitment and to attack massively in the west. They wanted to sacrifice Poland for peace with the Germans! This was the continuation of British and French foolish appeasement politics of the 30s! By the way, if British and French had massive attacked the Germans in the West, the Germans would have lost the war because they were not prepared for a two-fronts war!

@@GreatPolishWingedHussars exactly, Hitler only went through with the invasion because he didn't expect the UK and France to declare war. Of course, they declared war and ended up doing nothing when the Franco-German border was lightly defended by Germany.

Те кто говорят, что без помощи американцев нас бы захватили, так знайте к 1943 году ленд лиз уже был исчерпан, а производство военной технике ссср было самым крупным в мире, наша победа была неизбежна, вопрос в том как быстро и сколько смертей

Десятки миллионов

Хочу дополнить, на 3:12 там говорится, что СССР хотела присоединиться к Оси(Axis), это полная ложь, в 41 году нам всё было известно и мы негативно относились к Германии.

@@Chernetsov_Rus СССР, сам был осью самостоятельно.

@@zipposw4037 , ну чё, коммунацики? А? Ну ладно, это неизлечимо, у таких как ты Сталин убил больше чем Гитлер, окно хоть в комнате открой, свежий воздух поможет.

@@Chernetsov_Rus Чё, высрал ? Причем тут, коммунауцики и Гитлер ?

Stalin: Hah, you fools, that was only 1% of my power.

@@Kaiserboo1871 Stalin used women and children as troops.

@@richardhumphrey2685 Stalin: *Worth It*

the really 'funny' part is, that german intelligency released the commie Lenin in WW1 to get rid of the russian frontline, by making the russian infight each other. the NOT SO 'funny' part is, that as a result, Stalin came into power, who didn't even care the slightest about manpower. he just threw everything in, no matter what. short: with a different leader, germany would have crushed russia, but as successful the WW1 operation was, it screwed us in WW2.

@@richardhumphrey2685 you prefered germany winning?

My grandfather was fighting in Stalingrad then got captured by the Red Army. But he had the luck to be still alive after the war ended and came back to Germany only to drink and whore all the money away and then dying by slipping off the stairs to the cellar.

So, you're Grandpa's we're fighting eachother??

@@lugulushackulus5223 my great grandfather was in the Indian Legion of the Waffen-SS!

Scheiss Nazis

Your grandfather is a hero, I take off my hat. My grandfather participated in the liberation of Warsaw, Prague and in the battle for Berlin, he was a machine gunner. My grandfather's brother was a tanker and fought in Stalingrad, received a medal "for courage" and "Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree"