fatherland vs motherland, the custody battle that will decide Europe future.

Germany: "Hey Japan, we could use some help. We're attacking a nation with a large landmass and a huge population." Japan: *Glances at China* "Welcome to the Club."

Indy finally tells the guy on the other end of the phone "bye" instead of just hanging up. A true turning point of the war.

Someone: * invades Russia * Russia: I have a torch and I'm not afraid to light my lands on fire

Soviet math textbook: If it takes 10 days for German army to move 1/3 of a way to Moscow, how long will it take them to enter Moscow? Answer: Infinity.

Amazed by how Indy manages to say all those Russian names in a row!

Germany now: "rAte mY eNCircLeMenT."

" It is no exaggeration to say that the campaign in Russia has been won in 14 days. " What a quote.

It really looks like the USSR has no chance. Call me crazy, but I fully expect the writers to make them win in the end anyway. Can't wait to see how it unfolds. Thank you all for the episode!

Soviet Union: The Fascists commit a lot of warcrimes against my population. China: I feel you Bro.

German Officer: "Are... are we the bad guys?"

Martin Gilbert makes a mistake here (which is used as s resource) at 03:37 , Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney sunk Italian cruiser Bartolemeo Colleoni in 19th July 1940 not in July 1941

As a fun sidenote, at this point, there are actually 30 000 soviet troops in Finland, manning the Hanko peninsula, which is on the southern coast, between Helsinki and Turku. They were placed there at the end of the Winter War precisely in case Finland misbehaved, but are now boxed in by Finnish units. Since both armies have their focus and priorities elsewhere, the Finns manning that front lack the strength to destroy the pocket and the soviets lack the support they would need to break out and threaten Helsinki. Very little fighting will occur, until finally the soviets are evacuated by sea in December.

Correction: HMAS Sydney sank Colleoni in 19th JULY 1940 in Battle of Cape Spada. You guys actually covered it in real time in July 1940 episodes!

Weird seeing those battlegrounds in Syria at places that are currently being destroyed by war aswell

After months of relatively little action, I have completely forgotten how gorgeous the troop movements look on those maps. Those are amazing

People in 2020: Man, this year has just been horribly chaotic and nearly impossible to follow People in 1941: First time?

My Great-Grandfather was a crewman on the HMAS Waterhen. Only casualty from memory was one sailor being hit in the head by a flying can of Bully Beef. Never though his ship would be brought up on a history show. Great stuff.

As recommended by another commenter, the drinking rules have now changed. From June 22 until further notice, drink every time Indy says "encircled" and/or mentions German logistical issues.

Also on this day: In Belgrade Communist Party of Yugoslavia decided to start the armed rebelion against occupation forces.

Thank you Indy for using kilometers. God bless you.

I’m happy that these episodes are getting longer, since there’s more to talk about. Its the thing I look forward to every week.

Episode of operation Barbarossa begins Eastory: "My time to shine!"

"If you'd like to see the War Against Humanity episodes..." Well... I didn't LIKE seeing them, I hope no-one did. They should be seen nonetheless, for educational purposes.

I love how the painting of Hotzendorf is just watching indy while he talks about the huge problems with the wehrmacht

I have learned more from watching this series then any other World War Two series either in book, television, or movie form. Thanks for all the hard work

Another tie with a lovely colour scheme and great detailing. The blue clashes with the red from the back of the waistcoat, though, and Indy's awesome intensity sees him lean over about 50% of the video. 3/5 because it's still a lovely tie

Thanks Indi , You make history more interesting than the old HISTORY CHANNEL series.

Outstanding commentary, content, coverage, speakers voice, map displays. You have a special talent for getting ALOT of info out in a short amount of time, thank you so much sir, enjoyed this. SHOUT OUT TO ALL CHANNEL DONORS, YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME

The United Kingdom just completed focus "Special Air Service"

Keep on the amazing show guys. Great work!

1/3 the way to Moscow, only two more weeks until Germany takes the USSR... right?

Pavlov's miscalculation cost him his life, but more likely he was the official scapegoat for the collapse of the western front. One has to remember the Russians had a severe shortage of trained officers at the beginning of the war.

I’m very excited about operation Barbarossa since the week by week series make it really clear how large this battle was. Thank you Indy and the team!

I recently found This channel and now I am addicted to this channel. you guys always bring well prepared videos.

I always find it amusing the Germans are already running into totally predictable issues. Did the General Staff assume foot soldiers could run marathons to keep up?

A far better understanding of the reality on the ground when we are told the story on a week by week basis, I'm a big fan and learning a great deal more than I did before. Thanks

Operation Exporter continues in Syria and Lebanon, 100 times smaller in scale than Barbarossa, but definitely not that small in its strategical value to control the routes to Africa, Persia and India

I think about that train loaded with art and historical relics, how they took priority over actual people and I have to ask: am I worth a Rembrandt? No.

More awesome work by Indy, Sparty, and the TimeGhost crew. Can't wait to help support you guys financially again at some point soon...

*Hitler* : You are part of this offensive, but I do not grant you permission to advance without further support *Panzer divisions* : How can you do this? This is outrageous, its unfair! How can you have panzer divisions, and NOT let me overextend my supply lines??

The saddest part of every week for me, is when the weekly ww2 episode ends

The quality of the maps is absolutely amazing.

I can't wait to see what happens next. Been waiting for days, I guess that means I'm hooked. Thanks, TimeGhost.

Is that the first time Indy says "bye" to the person on the phone?

When you go over the Syrian campaign in World War Two it always kind of hits me because a lot of these battle names are names of places that are again being ripped apart by total war.

BEST history series... BEST narrator... I can't get enough and yes I did Patreon

Evolution of the Soviet forces from july 1st to august 1st: At the front: Divisions: -106 rifle divisions => 187 rifle divisions (+81). -37 tank divisions => 46 tank divisions (+9). -20 motor rifle divisions => 16 motor rifle divisions (-4). -7 cavalry divisions => 20 cavalry divisions (+13). -2 air defense divisions => 2 air defense divisions (=) Independent brigades: -9 airborne brigades => 15 airborne brigades (+6). -6 air defense brigades => 22 air defense brigades (+16) -4 rifle brigades => 3 rifle brigades (-1) -8 artillery brigades => 8 artillery brigades (=). -0 opolcheniye brigades* => 20 opolcheniye brigades (+20) -0 tank brigades => 7 tank brigades (+7) Regiments: -0 rifle regiments => 8 rifle regiments (+8) -90 artillery regiments => 142 artillery regiments (+52) -42 fortified garrisons => 27 fortified garrisons (-15) -9 motorcycle regiments => 5 motorcycle regiments (-4) -18 engineer regiments => 63 engineer regiments (+45) In reserve: Divisions: -47 rifle divisions => 0 rifle divisions (-47). -11 tank divisions => 0 tank divisions (-11). -6 motor rifle divisions => 0 motor rifle divisions (-6). Regiments: -24 artillery regiments => 5 artillery regiments (-19) -5 motorcycle regiments => 0 motorcycle regiments (-5) In other fronts: Divisions: -46 rifle divisions => 81 rifle divisions (+35). -10 tank divisions => 5 tank divisions (-5). -6 cavalry divisions => 24 cavalry divisions (+18). -4 motor rifle divisions => 2 motor rifle divisions (-2). Brigades: -4 airborne brigades => 1 airborne brigade (-3). -1 motor rifle brigade => 1 motor rifle brigade (=). -20 air defense brigades => 20 air defense brigades (=). Regiments: -60 artillery regiments => 51 artillery regiments (-9). -15 fortified garrisons => 12 fortified garrisons (-3). -12 engineer regiments => 6 engineer regiments (-6). -2 air defense regiments => 1 air defense regiment (-1). *Opolcheniye: Local militias raised by the NKVD. Note: the units in "other fronts" are mostly facing the Japanese, and not at war: the negative changes in units indicate transference from those other fronts to the active fronts and active reserves in Europe. Note 2: the Soviet cavalry divisions, unlike their counterparts in other countries, were actually partially mechanised and included at least 1 tank battalion each. Source: ВОЕННО-НАУЧНОЕ УПРАВЛЕНИЕ ГЕНЕРАЛЬНОГО ШТАБА (Военно-исторический отдел): БОЕВОЙ СОСТАВ СОВЕТСКОЙ АРМИИ - ЧАСТЬ I (июнь-декабрь 1941 года). Типография Военной академии ГШ, МОСКВА 1963.

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Fantastic as always! The largest war in human history deserves all the minute detail you are providing. And I do not think mentioning the activities of the Einsatzgruppen behind the lines is out of place. From Nazi Germany's perspective, the killings were apart of the same war rather than separate from it.

Dear Indy and team Thank you for this series as it a great way to engage people to how the war unfolded and to put people in the shoes of people who lived through these events. However I’ve being watching it to help me with a project of mine which is a plot for a tv series and this I do have to point out a couple of errors that are in relation to this week. 1. I do remember that hmas waterhen was apparently sunk by Italian Stuka dive bombers and there was no casualties 2. In regards to hmas Sydney , she served in the Mediterranean just before Italy joined the war , was involved in the battle of Calabria and the Espero convoy in which she assisted sinking the espero , than at the battle of cape Spada off Crete she sank the bartolomeo colleoni on July the 19th 1940, She also participated in both straits of otranto raid. Finally too I think she was returning to Australia at this point because of the Australian government was concerned about German raiders in the area and what did happen is really interesting about how long it took for the Australian people to find out (her loss )finally too I believe the Australian prime ministers was in England meeting Churchill between April 1940 and July that lead to his downfall as prime minster Keep up the good work though

"It might be hard to think that's not an understatement" my brain. exe has stopped working

And no mention of how warfare went actually on Lapland so I add something. Focusing on Salla as that saw the most action at this time. Attack agaisnt fomerly finnish Salla went slowly. German 163rd and Finnish 6th Divisions attack went well (6th SS did absolutely not) and started to bypass Soviet defences from North and South and Germans would win the race to Salla on 10.7, almost trapping Soviet defenders. And then 163rd and 6th noticed that they got no artillery to continue against Soviet positions for many months. Let me explain, this far north there is no road network or railroad for transporting in any kind of quantity. It can be best explained as walking paths that occasionally can be wide enough for an horse carriage. But instead going through these paths German 163rd and Finnish 6th send infantry regiments through the rocky, tree filled terrain and ignoring Soviet positions entirely. They could do that because Soviets had good defensive positions and the sole railway line to back it up but they were extended to their limit and they could not defend the whole border. But this creates such an logistical nightmares for Germans and Finnish that it isn't funny. Everything that needs any kind of external equipment was more less gonna take forever to be moved, there is practically no roads that vehicles could use and not to mention horse carriages. Everything that is needed is either carried by hand or on back of an horse. This also included animal feed as this north there is no vegetation that horses could eat. And then some horses will have to be put down because of broken ribs. Not because of falling or anything similar but because of equipment horses carried smacked against their ribs. This more or less expains why instead of two weeks of marching it will take much longer to reach Kantalahti. And still somehow Germans managed to advance with some shitty French tanks on terrain that was so hostile. Sure, many broke down but it is still quite impressive.

i wish you'd have a special on stalin's day by day reaction to the invasion during the first few days of barbarossa. it's very interesting is shock, depression, and then rallying.

Hey, great presentation ! I just found you Indy, but am lovin the delivery and the presentation. At first I thought that it might be good for my HS History students. After a couple of watches, I realize that it would them in the dust. You really have to have the background knowledge to follow this delivery. Great though, thanks again !

My humble Thank you to The Team. Great educational material .

Another tie with a lovely colour scheme and great detailing. The blue clashes with the red from the back of the waistcoat, though, and Indy's awesome intensity sees him lean over about 50% of the video. 2.5/5 because it's still a solid tie

11:38 Leningrad seems a little uncomfortably too close to joint Finnish and German attacks. Sounds good that they are evacuating 200K people out of the city, it looks like a matter of time before those attacks might overwhelm's the city's defenses...

At 2.51 the first mention of General Slim - the British Army's greatest general since Wellington.

This whole series is simply awesome.

For the life of me, I will never know why anyone in the French colonies took up arms to defend the Vichy regime. Not only was Vichy a illegitimate collaborationist government, there was little immediate threat facing colonies like Syria if they instead sided with the Free French. Anyway, great episode as always

Finns: alright we have to divide up the work into clear seperate objectives, each seperate missions to progress without the other. Germans: lmao attack that way I guess

I enjoy watching your show every day at three o' clock.

Thank you for giving me something to look forward to on Saturdays.

I would be a good thing to mention Soviet attrocities against Polish political prisoners in Lwów and outskirts of Przemyśl in first days of Soviet-German war

When we're on brutality, I think it's worth to note that the Soviets attempted to evacuate political prisoners from the west, and hundreds and thousands were shot as a result.

Did you hear that?? Indy said, "'Bye" before he hung up the phone! He's coming along - pretty soon, it'll be 'please' and 'thank you' and 'Let me take that for you' ... !

Sorge deserves an episode of his own.

About Battle of Atlantic ,I should mention , six day long battle of Convoy HX133 ends at 29th June 1941 and results were shockingly low for German Navy , only five U-Boats were able to intercept this convoy and sunk total of six merchant ships out of forty one. In return Royal Navy and Royal Canadian convoy escorts were able to sink two U-Boats (U-556 and U-651) That means only three merchant ships sunk per a U-Boat lost , a ratio German Navy can not keep up. For next of the summer for nine weeks (till September 1941) no Allied convoys were attacked in North Atlantic basin , thanks to increasing number of developing RAF Coastal Command patrols , intalling and use of radar more and more on convoy escorts and ULTRA intelligence with which Royal Navy Admiralty simply rerouted convoys away from U-Boat patrol zones. During this period more than six million tons of shipping passed from British ports

German Supply: *overextended* Attrition: It’s free real estate

Well done with the maps, Eastory!

Great video! Great presentation!

I'm trying to understand how this might look from a British perspective (because I am British) in 1941, and it just looks really, really crap at the moment. And we aren''t even anywhere near the worst bit yet. Yay....

For me as a Finn, I kind of understand why the decision to go to war again seemed sensible at the time. The co-belligerent seems almost invincible on land, and I can bet that they wanted to retake all the lost territory and homes.

I'm a new subscriber and this channel is amazing Thank you for doing in quarantine

I appreciate your explanation of all this what my grandfather went through in the German army. Addictive information. Watch this daily. I’m a Ups driver and watch this constantly. Safely of course. Keep it up sir. Big fan.

Very impressed with the episode and how you covered the Japanese. Just going to say that quoting Halder on anything especially Hitler should be avoided since he blamed everything on him and made his diary with that emphasis in mind.

A note to Stalin from the Soviet command at Minsk : everyone but you saw this coming

Great production as usual. Tou guys are the best.

Great content Thank you !

Also: “ch” in Rybachy is a “Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate”(apparently there is such thing XD) The closest English equivalent is “Voiceless postalveolar affricate”(I honestly can’t tell the difference XD) like in “chip”.

War in Syria: The name of the wars changes, the important places stay the same

I finally caught up! In two months I watched all of The Great War, Between Two Wars, and now I’m caught up with World War 2.

Great work keeping history alive amazing effort. Thank you.

Leopard 2A5 players: *rushes forward* "Wait a minute, this is kinda familiar"

"or Else they would be super nice to them" LMAO that cracked me up

Thanks- another great episode👍

Enjoyed this shared video and Indy's badass skeletons!

A masterful episode! I'd miss only a thing or two... I wonder, has the Western Military District commander General Petrov, already been arrested and shot by that time, or not yet? And, by that time, has that District's Red Airforce commander (sorry, forgot the name) already shot himself after his airborne inspection of the destroyed Soviet airfields? I know, stupid questions... Still, a masterful video! Cheers TimeGhost Team!

Scorched earth policy: break the glass during any emergency

A splendid episode. Very well done indeed!

Great video. I liked how informative it was. This is a great history channel.

10:50 This summarizes my average Hearts of Iron 4 Gameplay. Huh

I feel like it may in fact be an exaggeration to say that the campaign in Russia has been won in 14 days.

Great work on this episode

I enjoy your videos. Thanks for taking the time.

Reckless. Thats the one word that has allways come up in my mind when the German tactics and strategies in WW2 has come up.

The Germans took Bialystok? I think a certain Bialystok is gonna write a musical about that in the future😂

I've just discovered The Great War channel like a year ago and now there's a WW2 channel with 100 episodes even though I'm still in 1915

"I don't know why I found that amusing." Well I found it amusing that you forgot your reason for thinking it was amusing :) keep up the good work!