The Luftwaffe and Barbarossa, Part II - No Longer Masters of the Sky

The Luftwaffe and Barbarossa, Part II - No Longer Masters of the Sky - WW2 Special

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As Barbarossa unfolds and the Germans take ever more Soviet territory, they have ever fewer planes with which to fly over it. What does this mean for the forces on the ground? What does this mean for their other theaters of war?
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@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

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@ClickWasd 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Indy, this episode got me wondering how the USSR became such a industrial powerhouse between the 2 world wars? It seems like during the beginning of the Great Wars series they were so backwards in terms of undustrial power, but the the WW2 series they seem to be rolling out aircrafts and tanks by the handful.

@Bambabah 3 жыл бұрын

@@ClickWasd Check the Time Ghost channel Interwar years series...

@USSChicago-pl2fq 3 жыл бұрын

What was the Kriegsmarines role in Barbarossa?

@potato88872 3 жыл бұрын

Are you going to talk about when a group of italian fly over the URSS to reach Japan to tell them that the american have break their secrets code?

@davethompson3326 3 жыл бұрын

@@USSChicago-pl2fq Minute They had no access to the Black Sea and pretty small forces in the Baltic, the Soviets had forces in both Biggest concern would be Russian subs in the Baltic until they slung a net across to Finlandd

@rakaman27 3 жыл бұрын

Luftwaffe: We'll shoot down all the aircraft and have total air superiority. Everyone: What about all the factories making those aircraft? Luftwaffe: The what?

@hscollier 3 жыл бұрын

After being a student of WWI and WWII for fifty plus years I normally don’t learn a lot of new information when watching WWI or WWII themed programs. This series, and whatever Indy does, is a HUGE exception to that. Every episode I get new and important information and analysis about every aspect of relevant history the program is focusing on. And to top it off the presentation is better than a Hollywood style production. If all history were taught with this quality of writing and production we would have a much better informed citizenry because a lot more people would watch history programs like this, and would actually learn something relevant. I’m a USAF vet, son of a WWII 82nd AB combat vet, grandson of a 90th Div, WWI combat vet and have heard many stories from them about their experiences. It seems like Indy’s series on the wars have more relevant information and analysis, and give me a deeper understanding of the context of the war periods than anything I’ve ever seen produced.

@v44n7 3 жыл бұрын

you can check TIK also, his youtube channel is filled with deatails never heard in other places

@elonmush4793 3 жыл бұрын

I can't watch the History Channel any more. So much air time with so little information...

@edwinbrozek2969 3 жыл бұрын

Agree with you totally. The packaging and delivery of these various series puts it ALL into perspective.

@TheDirtysouthfan 3 жыл бұрын

@@elonmush4793 I remember a documentary on Louis 14th, and they didn't say one thing he did. They just kept repeating that he was majestic and powerful. It was so bad......

@RexyH267 3 жыл бұрын

For additional excellent WWII, coverage check out the Mark Felton channel.

@chalernch.483 3 жыл бұрын

Hermann goring would be more useful as a bomb than being the commander of the luftwaffe Edit : I made this comment as a funny and lighthearted joke, but some of you guys really can’t take jokes.

@jrk1666 3 жыл бұрын

"fat man"

@PMMagro 3 жыл бұрын

You sure, I heard Germans need no butter ...

@cd6xc 3 жыл бұрын

Would do a lot of area damage, for sure. Also a lot of poison gas.

@GaldirEonai 3 жыл бұрын

Considering the drugs he's on he'd probably count as a chemical weapon...

@Darwinek 3 жыл бұрын

You mean Hermann Mayer

@0utc4st1985 3 жыл бұрын

"Germany needed planes against Britain and in North Africa" It's almost like fighting a 3 front war is a bad idea.

@dongiovanni4331 3 жыл бұрын

Unless you are the US, then you can mount global amphibious assaults. The western allies captured Rome, landed at Normandy, and landed at Saipan all in June 1944.

@tyvernoverlord5363 3 жыл бұрын

*4 Fronts actually -Western Europe -Eastern Europe -Italy/Med -North Africa And yeah they triple fucked themselves over

@evanulven8249 3 жыл бұрын

@@dongiovanni4331 The US military was an oddball in the modern era due to it's massive logistical strength. It benefited from having possibly the most capable industrial and agricultural base and whole corps of logistical support. The benefit of effectively unlimited money. Now, I say *was* because now the US has either outsourced it's industry or frittered it away, and is happily wrecking it's agricultural base for short term profit and nationalist fanaticism.

@dongiovanni4331 3 жыл бұрын

@@evanulven8249 I disagree on the was part. The problem is that the us is not well equipped to fight asymetric warfare as it has taken emphasis off the diplomatic side of foreign policy.

@stevekaczynski3793 3 жыл бұрын

@@evanulven8249 Much of the West European black market in 1944-5 was based on US military supplies "falling off the back of trucks".

@fuferito 3 жыл бұрын

Adapting a quote by Frederick the Great of Prussia fits Germany well. "Those who attack everything attack nothing."

@jackcoleman5955 3 жыл бұрын

Well said!

@hellavadeal 3 жыл бұрын

I think that went " He that defends everything defends nothing. " But it does work both way sort of.

@armyvet8279 3 жыл бұрын

@@hellavadeal you are right. He got it backwards.

@USSAnimeNCC- 3 жыл бұрын

Having weak forces everywhere is not a good idea giving u no room to attack or defend

@salt_factory7566 3 жыл бұрын

He specifically states he’s reworking/modifying the phrase

@baltichammer6162 3 жыл бұрын

The deeper you dig into the details of the German forces, the more its apparent why some of the ranking German officers were not enthused about a war in the Soviet Union. Its amazing they have gotten this far into the Soviet Union, but then the Soviets had their own self-inflicted problems also.

@htoodoh5770 3 жыл бұрын

The Germans have no choice but to invade Soviet Union.

@aleembaksh1880 3 жыл бұрын

@@htoodoh5770 Well yes they needed the resources, but dude, why didn't they finish up in Africa?

@jaxwagen4238 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly it seems like if Stalin had taken the intelligence warning of the invasion even remotely serious the Soviets would have crushed the Wehrmacht in 1941.

@htoodoh5770 3 жыл бұрын

@Águila701 No, the Germans need oil and food. Saudi Arabia at the time didn't have the facility to processed crude oil so the Caucasus is the next best option.

@htoodoh5770 3 жыл бұрын

@@aleembaksh1880 1941 was actually the best year to invade USSR. Joseph Stalin had purge many military officer so they weren't very prepared to defend against German.

@andregurkenstein9192 3 жыл бұрын

Find yourself a guy that smiles at you like Kesselring does in the thumbnail

@morisco56 3 жыл бұрын

Me, I make that smile everytime I torture my victims

@TheCimbrianBull 3 жыл бұрын

Kesselring and chill!

@greenkoopa 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😢

@RifleEyez 3 жыл бұрын

He was known as smiling Albert after all

@ninaakari5181 3 жыл бұрын

He is smiling his pain away

@baswdc2165 3 жыл бұрын

What is Hermann Meyer doing? I thought he had the Luftwaffe covered!

@feivelwilliamaudiestevianto 3 жыл бұрын

Yes he did, he did covered the luftwaffe, he covered it the luftwaffe in rubble

@baltichammer6162 3 жыл бұрын

He has been busy collecting art and furniture all around Europe. Why do you ask, is there a war somewhere that needs his attention??

@TheCimbrianBull 3 жыл бұрын

Hermann the German.

@paulmeier8817 3 жыл бұрын

No pLanEs oVEr geRmAny

@ASTROPLANET13 3 жыл бұрын

I don't think Hermann is that fat....

@Morikvendy 3 жыл бұрын

My grandmother told me how, when she was a young girl, they had watches on Moscow roofs to stop the incendiary bombs from putting houses ablaze. They had buckets of sand to stop the fire. Also, when the cold weather striked, they used those bombs in the stoves- it was very cold, not enough wood for keeping house warm, and incendiary bombs were cut in pieces and used as a fuel.

@alexamerling79 3 жыл бұрын

By Normandy, the Germans had a joke: "If a plane is invisible, its ours."

@L30n4rdo6 3 жыл бұрын

German joke in 1944 "If you see a white plane, it's American. If you see a black plane, it's British, but if you see nothing, it's the Luftwaffe"

@alexamerling79 3 жыл бұрын

@@L30n4rdo6 thats it ^

@thurin84 3 жыл бұрын

a new recruit asks an old hand how to identify enemy aircraft. he reply; "if it is brown, it is british. if it is green, it is russian. if it is silver, it is american. if it is invisible, it s ours."

@gammaraygem 3 жыл бұрын

"in panic, the enemy fled after us" Russian army joke.

@alexandernevsky333 3 жыл бұрын

Side note about the Luftwaffe. When I was in the army (a long time ago) I served with a guy who's grandfather was a Luftwaffe ace (57 confirmed kills from the Blitz through the Russian Campaign). By the end of the war he was flying ME-262's. On April 26, 1945 he knew the war was over and was tired of P-51's following him back to base after every attack on bombers he conducted. He decided that the war was, in fact, over. He took his jet far above a group of bombers, dove straight through a B-17 box, shooting one up on his way through and left the plane in a dive and jumped out at 8,000 feet. Making certain sure that he was behind British lines first. That was the end of the war for him. Clever fellow.

@baltichammer6162 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. He went out with a bang in a calculated way.

@alexandernevsky333 3 жыл бұрын

@A10 go brtt brtt I can't recall. It was 40 years ago.

@LuvBorderCollies 3 жыл бұрын

All but the most deluded Nazis knew the end was here. My brother in law's dad was an NCO of a AAA battery in Berlin. He knew there was no point in continuing the fight, so he took his soldiers and set out for the Allied lines. I don't know how he avoided Soviet forces but he found an American unit and surrendered his unit to them. However, what he did not know was the Soviets had lists of German units they wanted as "special" POWs, and they'd given the lists to the Allies. Apparently anyone who helped defend Berlin was "special" even if they had never left Germany or even seen a Russian in their life. So the Americans turned him and his unit over to the Russians for a "People's Democratic Vacation Camp" in Siberia. He survived 5 or 7 years in Siberia but was effected mentally the rest of his life with anxiety and paranoia about the "Russians were coming". FWIW he was never a supporter of the National Socialist cause or its beliefs. Just a farm boy drafted into the military.

@BangFarang1 3 жыл бұрын

@@alexandernevsky333 They didn't fly jets, they were propellers.

@kurtweinstein8450 3 жыл бұрын

@@BangFarang1 Me262 was a late war German jet. I believe the first jet ever put into active military service.

@perfectlyfine1675 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine if Kesselring will continue to be called "Smiling Albert", perhaps even if he's mentioned in War Against Humanity.

@lennardlee4483 3 жыл бұрын

Don't know man, looks like he is thinking "we are so fucked"

@DY-xl6rq 3 жыл бұрын

@@lennardlee4483 probably

@bonniecrickle7499 3 жыл бұрын

I thought he just looked really pleased with his new hat.

@garretth8224 3 жыл бұрын

@Tom Butthurt He wasn't the only Nazi doctor who committed atrocities.

@s13rras 3 жыл бұрын

Yes he will

@BrianSmith-nu3lg 3 жыл бұрын

I never thought that the Luftwaffe suffered any substantial casualties during the Barbarossa campaign The old documentaries never give more Then a one sentence mention Thank you again for bringing light to these historical gems.

@LuvBorderCollies 3 жыл бұрын

The older documentaries didn't have access to the information we have today. But most films/shows skipped over available details due to time constraints or time required to research(budget$$).

@sintasirait835 3 жыл бұрын

I guess the myth of german invincibilty is propagated more intensely during the cold war to antagonise the russian as subhuman or so.

@coryfice1881 3 жыл бұрын

@@sintasirait835 Those myths were written by the German Generals post war, and were considered fact until the Russians opened their archives after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Another case of the losers writing history.

@HardwareHerr 3 жыл бұрын

@@coryfice1881 I doubt that the exact figures of german losses even from 1941 were available to the russians and only to them.

@coryfice1881 3 жыл бұрын

@@HardwareHerr No, but the myths like the Russian hoard and unarmed soldiers charging Germans, and if only Adolf listened to (me) his generals started with the German generals writing the history for the west.

@JuanMatteoReal 3 жыл бұрын

Finally a blessed happy Albert Kesselring. Never seen that one, ever.

@stc3145 3 жыл бұрын

The good Uncle Albert.

@s13rras 3 жыл бұрын

Yesssirrr

@learningthroughpain.7215 3 жыл бұрын

Unbiased history, oversimplified, and now you. This is a good day for historic channel

@ritaDas-xl4kz 3 жыл бұрын

Truely

@Pippus4 3 жыл бұрын

I suggest also TIK, for excruciantly detailed documentaries on the war

@remenir97 3 жыл бұрын

Pippus meh, not impressed by it honestly. Is my least likeable history channel.

@ritaDas-xl4kz 3 жыл бұрын

@@remenir97 Then do you see epic history tv

@davethompson3326 3 жыл бұрын

Have you tried books They're great!

@bobsmith2815 3 жыл бұрын

The Night Witches of the Soviet Air Force might make a good segment for a follow up to this. They used old aircraft very effectively at great risk

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

We actually covered the Night Witches, along with the Sabaton song about their story here -kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o7GUZcJ4rNqygqs.html.

@davidpowell3347 2 жыл бұрын

Yes that is a very interesting thing and I think greatly increased the stress and anxiety of the young German conscripts. Never knew when the night witching would come in the dark of the night and it was impossible to be awake all of the time.

@goneham4015 3 жыл бұрын

I’m sure Germany’s Air Force will be able to support them on their inevitable push on Stalingrad...

@Blazo_Djurovic 3 жыл бұрын

Funny you should say that. One of major reasons they even managed to claw their way that forward and didn't stall on the Don was due to incredible effort by Luftwafe.

@LuvBorderCollies 3 жыл бұрын

Should be hooking up with Japanese forces in the east in a couple weeks, no problem!!

@danielkurtovic9099 3 жыл бұрын

nope , they try but failed unlike Demiansk pocket. Red air force crush them at Stalingrad, Luftwaffe lost over 500 planes. Go check TIK he had excellent video about Case Blue ( operation Stalingrad ) inside is colapse of Luftwaffe support to 6th army.

@Blazo_Djurovic 3 жыл бұрын

@@danielkurtovic9099 I think you are misunderstanding which phase of the battle I meant. I think you are referring to the phase after they got pocketed. I'm referring to the initial German assault towards Kalatch and the meat grinder there and the fact that Luftwafe played a key part in helping the ground push through through stubborn Soviet resistance. And during those initial stages Red Air Force presence was pretty damn weak and uncoordinated.

@antoinemozart243 2 жыл бұрын

Yes and after bombing stupidly Stalingrad. But yes they really supported the ground troops until......they couldn't !!!

@piper51786 3 жыл бұрын

I never realised just how under equipped in every possible aspect the Germans where from the very outset of Barbarossa.

@GaldirEonai 3 жыл бұрын

Didn't help that the entirety of their contingency planning was "our natural superiority will see us through this". See also: The empire of Japan...

@LuvBorderCollies 3 жыл бұрын

Same here. IMHO the success was obtained by the tough, motivated, trained soldiers and their NCOs on the front lines. It helps to have some brass like Rommel and Guderian also.

@MrJoshua1875 3 жыл бұрын

@@htoodoh5770 He did. He had the choice 100%. His aggression and warped beliefs they were inferior were HIS choices. Those reasons brought the threat of a Soviet invasion.

@Kevin-mx1vi 3 жыл бұрын

Germany has few strategic materials and is geographically poorly placed, so they relied utterly on quick victories to overcome the logistical problems and allow themselves time to re-equip. The general staff knew that they could not hope to resupply sufficiently in any prolonged war. Hence, when Barbarossa did not produce the expected (and required) victory, things went downhill for them.

@borisv8766 3 жыл бұрын

Under equipped from the foresight perspective. They must've thought, they had enough of everything for the "2-3 month war."

@jackcoleman5955 3 жыл бұрын

“...and were when the Luftwaffe were winning!” Brutal. It is almost like Germany was fighting against the whole world...

@sintasirait835 3 жыл бұрын

you don't say ;)

@sintasirait835 3 жыл бұрын

i mean even at hitler mannerheim tape, he begin realise that fighting 3 superpower at once isn't a good idea

@stevekaczynski3793 3 жыл бұрын

A bit like the Tsarist army's 1916 Brusilov offensive. Huge Russian losses that may have contributed to revolution the following year, but they were winning and came close to knocking Austria-Hungary out of the war.

@lynnwood7205 3 жыл бұрын

Still, it took the majority of the industrial production of the USA, and British Empire and all of the industrial production of the USSR to defeat Germany.

@Lex-dw7ng 3 жыл бұрын

@@lynnwood7205 it didn't. Just because it was all used doesn't mean it was "needed".

@frankwhite3406 3 жыл бұрын

This was just the time when The Luftwaffe needed a Long Range - 4 Engine Heavy Bomber , similar to a Lancaster or B-17 Flying fortress/B-52 . This would have enabled them to conduct effective heavy raids on Moscow and to hit Soviet Powerstations / Oil Production and Aircraft / Tank Factories which were located East of Moscow in the Soviet hinterland! Splendid Episode Indeed !!!

@gianniverschueren870 3 жыл бұрын

Simple and businesslike tie, but not bad at all. 3/5

@wolf_b0i981 3 жыл бұрын

Great piece. I never actually realized how quickly the german air superiority was lost nor the sheer number of planes the soviets had back in reserve.

@nicholasconder4703 3 жыл бұрын

But remember, most of the planes were obsolete. Really obsolete.

@jarrodvsinclair 3 жыл бұрын

This is the most underrated channel on KZfaq.

@davethompson3326 3 жыл бұрын

i had no idea of the attrition rate of both men & machines in the early stages during the great victories Pyrrhus must have been laughing his ass off

@nicholasconder4703 3 жыл бұрын

As General Pyrrhus may said to his aide, "We've got to stop winning like this".

@CelestialSwann 3 жыл бұрын

Is it just me or does Albert Kesselring looks like a German Admiral Yamamoto?

@StalinTheMan0fSteel 3 жыл бұрын

LOL it's just you!

@evardtil4507 3 жыл бұрын

I heard some say that Himmler looked like Hideki Tojo but this i agree with.

@SP-rt4ig 3 жыл бұрын

@@evardtil4507 Heinrich Tojo

@s13rras 3 жыл бұрын

Just u...

@Thranduil82 3 жыл бұрын

Those bombings of Moscow, make perfect sense as a political move to keep your allies happy, they are being bombed, but you're "doing something about it", the germans need Finland support in the north.

@Darwinek 3 жыл бұрын

Destroying only 37 buildings and killing 130 people is less than a drop in the ocean of Barbarossa. Another "masterstroke" by the Führer.

@stevekaczynski3793 3 жыл бұрын

@@Cancun771 The Japanese were quite alarmed and vindictive about the Doolittle raid. The German bombing of Moscow was somewhat token, however, although it contributed to the Soviets' keeping many of their best fighters and flak resources in the Moscow area.

@dpeasehead 3 жыл бұрын

@@Cancun771 the US crews and those who sent them all kind of saw the Dolittle raid as a sort of suicide mission with political motives, so the crews and planes (but not the aircraft carrier which launched them) were all deemed expendable. The Germans could not afford to lose so many trained night flying crews for such poor results in their attack on Moscow.

@stevekaczynski3793 3 жыл бұрын

@@dpeasehead Doolittle lost all of his planes and expected to be court-martialled on his return. Instead, he was rewarded.

@nicholasconder4703 3 жыл бұрын

@@Cancun771 It depends on the mind set of your enemy. The Doolittle Raid and the RAF raids on Berlin during the Battle of Britain, worked because both the Japanese and Germans were arrogant enough to think that they would never be attacked. The attack on Rotterdam in 1940 worked for similar (but not the same) reasons. It bruised their egos, and induced both to make major tactical and strategic blunders, although the Japanese blunder was arguably the greater than the Germans starting the bombing of London a few weeks earlier than originally planned. German bombing of London and Moscow, on the other hand, had no effect because both nations, and residents of those cities, more or less expected it (unlike the Dutch in 1940), so there was little or no shock value.

@creatoruser736 3 жыл бұрын

Not just Finland and Romania, the Soviet Air Force launched bombing raids on Germany at the start of the campaign. They even hit Berlin.

@lynnwood7205 3 жыл бұрын

Note: German Industrial production was not placed upon a war footing until 1943. That is, 24 hours a day, three shifts, six or seven days a week.

@nicholasconder4703 3 жыл бұрын

Three years after England went to war footing, and two years after Russia.

@stevekaczynski3793 3 жыл бұрын

It had a number of causes but the most important was probably Hitler's fear of putting too much strain on the home front.

@j.m.f5451 3 жыл бұрын

I couldn't help but crack up laughing as Indy said, with a totally straight face, he'd now be referring to Albert Kesselring as "Smiling Albert".

@nicholasconder4703 3 жыл бұрын

That's what the Allies called him in Italy.

@Valdagast 3 жыл бұрын

German Intelligence continues to underestimate the enemy.

@Lex-dw7ng 3 жыл бұрын

German intelligence just... isnt. I hope we get an episode specially on intelligence so we can see how thoroughly the NKVD infiltrated the Abwehr.

@stevekaczynski3793 3 жыл бұрын

@@Lex-dw7ng From what I gather, the Luftwaffe was the most infiltrated by Soviet intelligence. Schulze-Boysen, the key Rote Kapelle operative, was a Luftwaffe officer, but even after his arrest and execution the Soviets had a detailed account of a briefing given by Goering in 1943.

@timobrienwells 3 жыл бұрын

German intelligence was excellent.

@Valdagast 3 жыл бұрын

@@timobrienwells Then how did they mess up so badly in the Soviet Union? Was it a question of the people in charge didn't want to listen?

@Lex-dw7ng 3 жыл бұрын

@@timobrienwells they were defrauded of millions by a single Spanish dude who thought Nazis could suck it, their entire spy network in England were double agents and their spymaster for most of the war was working against the regimes interests if not outright collaborating with the enemy. German intelligence was a complete joke.

@shaider1982 3 жыл бұрын

2:25 I love the Millenium Falcon model in RAF colors👍

@jasonwurtz7350 3 жыл бұрын

7:25 Sunflower adds 5% accuracy to anti-aircraft fire

@midgard7645 3 жыл бұрын

Could we get an overview of the German economy for this year or a review of it since the start of the war?

@scotttracy9333 3 жыл бұрын

Watch Tik and his vampire economy. He's also on KZfaq. He going into this subject very well.

@Satfenfilms 3 жыл бұрын

The book Stalingrad called early soviet ariel losses as "infanticide".

@GFM_90 3 жыл бұрын

This series enlightened me with this point of view, otherwise, I would always think Luftwaffe had air superiority in the early years of the war.

@IonoTheFanatics 3 жыл бұрын

I mean they did... in some places... The only problem is, there's too many places they need to be, too many front to support, too few of them to go around, too many attrition from losses, too few replacement coming in. For every place they have air superiority, dozens more that needs them do not. Like it's an amazing feat that they even managed to make a push and support for some of the front at all with the insane load placed on them by the strategic planner and how few they are.

@stevekaczynski3793 3 жыл бұрын

@@IonoTheFanatics By 1944 it was routine for German ground troops to complain about a lack of support by the Luftwaffe, but sometimes this happened as early as 1941, as the programme makes clear.

@fewyearsbehind9333 3 жыл бұрын

Best Regards to whole Time Ghost Army!!!

@GoErikTheRed 3 жыл бұрын

The longer this series goes on, the harder it is for me to imagine that the Nazis ever had any hope of winning

@genekelly8467 Жыл бұрын

Hitler himself acknowledged this: (Dec. 1941): "had I known of the (vast) soviet tank factories, I would never have started this war". Unfortunately, once you decide to ride the tiger, it is very difficult to get off!

@ollikoskinen1 3 жыл бұрын

An interesting development.

@TecuciMustard 3 жыл бұрын

When I see a new TimeGhost-Video in my feed I know it's gonna be a good day

@6412mars 3 жыл бұрын

Without a single doubt the most important channel on youtube for history buffs!

@scotttracy9333 3 жыл бұрын

I'd also recommend Tik, check out his videos on KZfaq. He provides incredible insight, and his Battlestorm series are incredible

@meh...9500 3 жыл бұрын

best channel ever i am a big fan I've been watching for ages and i also watched the great war channel.

@roymartin500 3 жыл бұрын

Indeed! Also, check into Mark Felton Productions channel. Dr. Mark Felton has some of best, obscure and most accurate content on KZfaq. I'm not taking anything away from The Time Ghost team, I'm just simply suggesting something else you may enjoy, cheers.

@BlueDebut 3 жыл бұрын

@@roymartin500 Mark is fantastic! Imagine if Indy and Mark do a collaboration

@roymartin500 3 жыл бұрын

@@BlueDebut there contrasting yet great styles and content would make that a win!

@howardbrandon11 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the Luftwaffe could've used a few of those Thousand-Year Albatrosses or whatever that model is up on the shelf ;)

@dlvivlviv 3 жыл бұрын

1. The tipping point was the Air battle over Kuban, after which USSR dominated the air. 2. Ilyushin Il-2 was the best ground-attack aircraft in the WWII.

@abeherbert6603 3 жыл бұрын

Will you do a similar video on the Soviet Air Force? Their collapse at the beginning of the campaign and the way they responded are quite interesting, as are the aircraft they used (such as the horribly under powered LaGG-3 eventually becoming the La-5)

@lexbor3511 3 жыл бұрын

"We are fifty years behind the advanced countries. We must make up this gap in 10 years. Either we do it or they will crush us" - from Stalin's speech in 1931.

@stevekaczynski3793 3 жыл бұрын

He ran through a list of all the countries that had defeated Imperial Russia, blaming the defeats on Russian backwardness and the superior industrial development of its enemies.

@Thursdaym2 Жыл бұрын

This channel is brilliant in the way the way the info is presented. From someone born just one day before the outbreak of WW2 in 1939.

@mrunseen3797 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, for shining a light on this.

@claymccarver6446 3 жыл бұрын

As a history buff I love this show I just found this about a week ago and I already watched all the Great War videos and the world war 2 videos

@edmundcowan9131 Жыл бұрын

Wwi next. 😊

@lasagnepod 3 жыл бұрын

Sneaky little Star Wars cameo there. Have I missed this in other episodes? Love it!

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

You have to cheat it out Daniel. Keep supporting our channels.

@lasagnepod 3 жыл бұрын

@@WorldWarTwo now I've seen it in one I can't unsee it in any of the others! I love your channel, keep up the good work! Makes my day when you guys release a new video.

@indianajones4321 3 жыл бұрын

I’d like to order part two of the Luftwaffle

@TheCimbrianBull 3 жыл бұрын

Would you like your waffles served with jam?

@indianajones4321 3 жыл бұрын

@TheCimbrianBull and with a side of bacon

@GaldirEonai 3 жыл бұрын

@@indianajones4321 That'd be Göring, then?

@TheCimbrianBull 3 жыл бұрын

@@GaldirEonai Göring is busy promoting his underpants to overpants, so it's not going to be with bacon this time. 😁

@stevekaczynski3793 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCimbrianBull There was a joke that Goering had started parading down streets in Berlin naked except for a cellophane wrapping. He wanted to show Germans what a side of ham looked like.

@ldmitruk 3 жыл бұрын

David Stahel's series of books on the eastern front are excellent. I recommend them highly.

@nicholasconder4703 3 жыл бұрын

So are Glantz's books. Great narratives of battles and campaigns.

@outwiththem 3 жыл бұрын

Great assessment. Im a military trained Flight Instructor.. USA..

@markroberts9577 2 жыл бұрын

Just another fantastic video about a subject matter that many other documentaries have completely missed

@WorldWarTwo 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@remenir97 3 жыл бұрын

Cool, glad you guys brought up a video. Destroyed my boredom.

@naveenraj2008eee 3 жыл бұрын

Indy's narration is so good.. It nice to hear history from him.. Can't miss any episode.. Thanks team...🙏

@americanpatriot2422 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding video and presentation.

@tonyhayes4980 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent,a whole new perspective for me,congratulations to you all,stay safe❤️

@rabihrac 3 жыл бұрын

I loved this episode. The content is much tastier to my brain than the lunch that I was eating while watching it was to my tongue! Keep up the excellent work. Cheers Indy and crew!!

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rabih! Hope you enjoyed your lunch and the video!

@istvansipos9940 3 жыл бұрын

10:08 Jürgen, kannst you rememper how bad it vas to fight a zwei front var, ja? Dann let's fight a four front var zis time, ja! Was kann possiply go wronk...

@frankwhite3406 3 жыл бұрын

It was at this point in the War that the Luftwaffe really missed out not having a long range 4 engine strategic bomber in service. In the form of a Avro Lancaster / B-17 Flying fortress class of heavy bomber Aircraft !!! Ps The Italian , Hungarian , Croatian , Romanian , Finish and Spanish Airforces were also inaction along side their German Allies over the USSR . Particularly in the 1941/43 period of fighting on the Eastern Front.

@casparcoaster1936 3 жыл бұрын

Starting to feel guilty I havent donated any mullah... never hear enough about the airwar in Barborossa, many thanks, really enjoying this!!!!!!!!!!!!

@robsol123 3 жыл бұрын

These videos you guys do are amazing - love em 👍🇬🇧💙

@miguelhuaman8280 3 жыл бұрын

All I see is that the Nazis lost the moment they attacked the Soviet Union.

@richardglady3009 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. Thank you.

@haroldearlgray5629 3 жыл бұрын

Love Indy's presentation

@brokenbridge6316 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. I thought that the German Airforce had been able to cover everything in their field of operations at this time. But man was I wrong. German industry really should've increased to cover the losses in aircraft. Great video.

@jasonabbott5546 3 жыл бұрын

I keep hearing the name David Stahel a lot. Make me glad I have all of his books. It would be cool if Indy could talk him into coming on for an interview. He has to be the expert on the Eastern Front

@TiglathPileser3 3 жыл бұрын

Love the coverage of the war.

@LTrotsky21stCentury 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent presentation.

@phillipsmith4501 2 жыл бұрын

Try again ! I have added your subscription to my list of much watch videos , you give a very knowledgeable explain the story great with awsome footage cheers mate from Australia.

@harpomarx7777 3 жыл бұрын

Just discovered your excellent channel and subscribed. I like the 40's ambience and the fact that you don't have a Brit accent ;) for me to stumble over. Nicely done.

@stc3145 3 жыл бұрын

Were you going to do a video on the state of the Red Airforce in 1941?

@ritaDas-xl4kz 3 жыл бұрын

Kesslring is always smiling :) truly great.

@LuvBorderCollies 3 жыл бұрын

He could be a diplomat with that smile. :)

@ritaDas-xl4kz 3 жыл бұрын

@@LuvBorderCollies Maybe

@uncletimo6059 2 жыл бұрын

excellent episode

@georgenelson8284 3 жыл бұрын

Another great special episode.

@jjmachuca 3 жыл бұрын

More of these videos of follow-up, please. Thank you!

@jasondrew5768 2 жыл бұрын

Good video Indy!

@georgewilliams8448 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent!!

@horusfalcon 3 жыл бұрын

It looks like the timing of your "right here" links is getting better! Little touches like that show the professionalism of your team, and only add to the already insightful analysis and presentation of historical facts that make this series so informative and even enjoyable in spots. (Certain subjects covered cannot be said to be enjoyable, but are most certainly understandable and well presented.) I won't do further Patreon than I do already (no sense in penalizing those creators I already support over my differences with Patreon over other matters), but I will seek out timeghost.tv and see what options are available there to support your work. UPDATE: Done! I'm in the army now...

@the1ghost764 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent.

@moizahmed8987 Жыл бұрын

7:09 oh so this is the origin of the "Smiling" Albert Kesselring nickname

@raven-dq6ox 3 жыл бұрын

9:14 is that just 4 maxims strapped together?

@stevekaczynski3793 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. They were often mounted on the back of vehicles. I have seen a photo of dead Red Army men lying around such a vehicle, probably killed by either strafing German aircraft or artillery. SPOILER Low-flying German aircraft in Barbarossa often encountered heavy machine-gun and rifle fire, frequently finding it more formidable than Soviet fighters, and Colonel-General von Schobert, 11th Army commander, may have fallen victim to it, perhaps even a quadruple Maxim, in September 1941 in Ukraine. His observation plane attempted a force-landing, probably after being hit by gunfire, but the field where it landed was a Soviet minefield, and the plane touched off landmines, killing von Schobert and his pilot. He was the first commander of a German Army to be killed in WW2.

@Inpreesme 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@unitedplankton2866 2 жыл бұрын

I like that you credit your sources.. It ads authority to your already detailed info..

@oskarrasmussen7137 3 жыл бұрын

Is it just me or does the thumbnail with the smiling German and the crashing German plane look like a "This is fine" meme?

@dskadd32 3 жыл бұрын

At 9:35 there's an image of refueling cart (I think), pulled by a horse. Is that a good symbol for the German war machine during the invasion?

@stevekaczynski3793 3 жыл бұрын

Testimony to fuel shortages. Why use a fuel truck when you can use a horse? But the Eastern Front was remarkable for its mix of hi-tech and low-tech.

@phillipsmith4501 2 жыл бұрын

I have come to really enjoy your channel I've subscribed ! Your veryb

@pnutz_2 3 жыл бұрын

"oh we'll just build our planes for 1v1s" you can't be everywhere at once then chief

@manojc677 3 жыл бұрын

Love your channel. Big fan

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support Manoj. You are awesome.

@nddavi58 3 жыл бұрын

Staggering incompetence from German high command in planning and executing operation Barbarossa

@piotrd.4850 3 жыл бұрын

Not that simple. Barbrossa was lost in other theaters and aspects before it even begun; anyway as Donald Rumsfeld said, "you go to the war with forces you have".

@williamtomkiel8215 3 жыл бұрын

Delightful . . . the attrition / replacement rate of planes and pilots was a major factor in the Battle of Britain as Hitler was already allocating resources for buildup to Barbarossa

@RoboticDragon 2 жыл бұрын

The cuban missile crisis special was pretty interesting, learned a bunch of things I hadnt yet come across.

@Eldiran1 3 жыл бұрын

i am a little dissapointing that you didn't chose a picture where smiling albert was already smiling ^^ anyhow , keep the good work , it's amazing!

@tostadatheviking7828 3 жыл бұрын

When your crippled logistics prevents you from having fuel and ammunition for your air force but that’s okay because the air force is also crippled

@user-qb9wc4mn5l 3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't help but notice that Indy is wearing the clock of Luftwaffe's pilots, aka Flieger Baumuster B

@earthenjadis8199 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but it appears to be a replica made in Asia - the case is too shiny. I have a modern Type-B "beobachtungsuhr" watch made by the German company Laco and the case and dial look different.

@stevekaczynski3793 3 жыл бұрын

2:41 - Captured Luftwaffe Oberfeldwebel pilot or aircrew member. Relatively few Germans were captured on the Eastern Front in 1941 and many of those were in the last month of the year, as a result of the major Soviet counter-attacks. Many of those who were captured prior to that were Luftwaffe who bailed out or crash-landed on Red Army-held territory. Moscow was particularly well defended. A shot-down Junkers 88 bomber, still more or less intact as it was probably crash-landed, was brought to Moscow and turned into a propaganda exhibit.

@stevebarrett9357 3 жыл бұрын

Another excellent episode. One thing I never got out of this conflict from the post-world war/pre-Soviet archive histories was how much of a bind the logistics were for the Germans. In many of the wargame simulations I've seen of this conflict, logistics is generally minimized or abstracted for simplicity and air power either not at all or also abstracted for simplicity. I grew up amazed at the 'awesomeness' of the Panzer generals and their accomplishments never being aware that air power contributed significantly to their success. It is wonderful to observe a view of the Wehrmacht which differs from the old narratives.