As per my analysis, if hitler after conquering poland, should have started operation barbarosa. ANALYSIS War with Russia in starting of 1940 instead of france (NO FC WESTERN FRONT) Moscow over by mid to late 1941. PREPARATION FOR PARIS ATTACKING WEST FROM BELGUIM (AS HE DID) and southern flank from current ukraine. Boom if he did that, this comment would have been in German 😅

Maybe I'm nuts but the main reason Hitler lost the war was attacking Russia leading to a war on 2 fronts. Just imagine him bolstering the Africa Corp along with the Italians, taking Egypt and pushing through to the Middle East Oil fields. What a dummy Hitler was considering his contempt for history and Napoleons disaster.

The War was not only won by attrition, but when Grant via "Sherman's March to the Sea," took the war to the (Southern People), It was the 19th Century equivalent of dropping the two Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki! Defeat the people, to win the war! You don't defeat an enemy by winning battles upon the battlefield! We lost Vietnam, because we were never prepared to wipe out the countries that were the true antecedent causes of the conflict! Had it not been for "Sherman's March, " the war would have somehow continued! Possibly?

I had to stop listening. what Vietnam are you talking about?

If your entire argument boils down to "Hitler was an idiot and didn't let competent people do their jobs" you don't need 36 minutes for that.

Indians scholars are literally novice and biased in this area

Very interesting. WWII was about the Holocaust and to get the genocide started and to keep it running, and Nazi ideologi made Germany loose the war.

Actually it was Herman Goering that made the promise that no bombers would reach Berlin!

An Anglosaxon nation fighting another Anglosaxon nation? You mean a Germanic Nation fighting another Germanic nation. It is easy to see other people' s mistakes, rather than your own, I mean Americans lost the wars in Vietnam, then in Iraq and then in Afghanistan,didn't they?

I would add Forts Henry and Donelson to the list of Turning Points. Rise of Grant. Opened the Confederate heartland to invasion vis the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.

As soon as the southern guy lied about the reason for succession, I stopped the nonsense #MAGA

The guy with the camera is excellent at keeping the camera on his smiling face. But is extremely terrible showing us what he's talking about on the big screen.

If the USA doesn't take the Philippines from Spain then Germany would have, and the treatment of the Filipinos would have been much worse. Although that would have lead to Japan taking the Philippines from Germany in WW1 and thus no Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. After the Spanish-American War, Cuba and the Philippines should have both been put on the road to independence, with a clear road map. However, neither should have been granted immediate independence, even though both wanted it. They simply weren't prepared for all that it entailed.

re: one of the Q&A - "massacre" refers to the extent of the casualties inflicted on the losing side, not the legitimacy of the attack. The patron relationships are an interesting aspect of Filipino culture I had never heard of before.

HE WAS STUPIDAND A FOOL

Why Hitler lost the war? Answer: Methamphetamine and Doctor Theodore Morell.

Promoting Jewish supremacism lol not equals, but jews were the best germans? Lol

This an extremely emotional southerner; his main issue is to be entertaining.

Lee never fully embraced a total war strategy. The confederacy’s greatest advantage was having interior lines where they could reinforce one area, win the battle, and then moved their troops to another area to do the same. Lee should have never went to Gettysburg, he should have send Longstreet and Pickett to Vicksburg via Corinth to crush Grant. Johnson could have pinned Grant to Pemberton if he had enough troops.

If wikipedia has to remind me that the holocaust happened, it just makes me question whether it did more. "don't question small hat tribe"

A CIA report from January 1968 made it clear that North Vietnam had a population of 18 million and adequate manpower reserves to fight a long war. Westmoreland must have known this. So why did he think a war of attrition would work?

He makes an interesting point about the outrage that would have resulted from President Obama arresting Eric Cantor. That’s effectively no different from President Joe Biden‘s Department of Justice putting his number one political opponent Donald Trump on trial in an election year, 2024. Interesting how times have changed in only ten years. 🤔

I didn't qualify as a YT historian for this because I was born in 1943, long after Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain covered the groundwork. I guess we had to wait for Ike so the Yanks could claim they won the war for us.

Probably, Westmoreland’s and the administration’s biggest error was underestimating the communist infiltration of all levels of the South Vietnamese government and the effectiveness of guerrilla warfare at the hamlet, village, and Province level. Also, the flow of arms from China and Russia, and the vast jungle environment made it a logistical nightmare for even the best of generals. It was a proxy war between the super powers. I was there from 1967-68 with the USMC.

I bet the german would have won Vietnam and Afghanistan

The policy objective of the Cotton-Oligarch Cartel of the Gulf and Atlantic Southern States that financed the Southern War was to maximize cotton exports in exchange for hard currency. That is all. Everything else is propaganda rationalization with wedge issues.

I thoroughly enjoy watching, listening to or reading everything to do with the Great War and the ONE THING which truly pisses me off is that every single person who speaks on or writes about the Great War seemingly purposefully neglects speaking or writing about US financial backing of the Entente as well as what became the naval blockade by England of Germany making it a militaristic and economic necessity for Germany to do many of the things which many people characterize as making them the bad guys in the war. It's pure bullshit

Too bad there was no Q & A afterwards. Besides being a demogogue, Hitler also made the mistake of surrounding himself with Diehard Nazis. Hitler proved to be an extreme risk taker who never seemed to have a fallback plan in case his initial plan failed. How could he have left over 3million german soldiers to try to survive in the Siberian winter without adequate clothing or provisions? The majority of the Nazi military ground forces were lost in that battle, and for no great strategic reason. The germans had destroyed an entire swath of the Russian country in their fight to take Moscow. There was no enemy behind them that would have stopped a controlled retreat to western Europe where theycould retreat and prepare to go back in the Spring to finish the job. Also, western Europe had been completely neutralized by the end of 1939. There was no risk of the English attacking Germany in the short term. England had been isolated and were on their own, and all of Churchill's pleading to Roosevelt had fallen on deaf ears since FDR was very reluctant 5o lose his voter base by commiting to another european war without being directly threatened Perhaps the bigger reason that Hitlerfailed was because he had been so successful early on in his march into the rest of Europe without facing any real military pushback that he undesetimated the remaining other countries and their militaries abilities to fight back effectively andr willingness to fight to the death ifnecessary. These remainibg countrieshad already observed Hitlers ruthlessness and deceipt - just by signing a peade accord with Chamberlain, and a pact with Stalin, both of which he quickly disgarded. Anotyer note: I watched the film Anthropoid last week, and the depiction of the german soldiers in this film as simply dumb thugs who wereconstantly having commands yelled at them, and ran blindly and obediently forward without question, is such a typical false stereotype as well. Besidesbeing well trained and well equiped, a big advantage tbe germans had was their ruthlessness towards the enemy. Having to worry about takibg prisoners, or what to do with civiluans seemed like a non important issue. Just kill them. So why go to such trouble to collect and house millions of jews , gays and commun8sts whe they could simply have been executed on the spot? There was too much contradiction in Hitler's decision on how to fight, where to fight, and who to fight. Once the enemy was given time to mobilize, it became more difficult for Hitler to finish off another coubtry in just a few days or weeks, unlesshe committed all of his forces to finish the job. Instead Hitler could not organize his forces efficiently- by 1941 he was already on to the next battle somewhere else without finishing the obes hehad started. There bever seemed to be a long term plan, just a long term ideology for the 3 reich to last a thousand years, but no road map to get there.

Westmoreland, the Herr General, who obfuscated and covered up the My Lai massacre, served the United States military industrial complex and his masters in the CIA. All whilst promoting the B.S. Communist threat domino lie.

What strategy? Attack a country three times your size with double your population. That's a bad strategic move.

Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.

LOL Empire's failing. Now what?

This guy standing in front of a red flag with a white circularish thing in the middle.....

So we means you're a traitor. Get lost.

Curious use of the word Anglo-Saxon to describe the Germans and British. At the time they would have erroneously said the British were Germanisch or Germanic - this would have been a good description of the language, rather than the people.

I was referring to the " Lincoln genocide" remark. Otherwise, this presentation was superb!

How can a blithering fool utter such bilge?

USA doing the same now letting China to do what it want and fighting with Muslims weak without weapons from 1990 until now. They need to follow the strategic goal not ideologic party goal wake up USA ...

No need for any lecture. Never march on Moscow is the reason. Napoleon, H1tler, and now Joe Biden.

COMPLETE & TOTAL 🐴💩!!! Germany was still 5 years from being READY, but there was a problem with the 'agressive' Polish who were playing their puppet part for Britain, France, and the U.S.. Btw, the same people who made sure you were coerced in 2021, they also taught you history. 😳 🇺🇸

I am not an expert, but a 2 front war campaign is never ideal. The German army was not equipped for winter war in the vast Russian territory was another factor. Then last but not least declaring war on the United States of America was his biggest mistake.

I listened to this at fast speed and it was still slow

camera man you suck, I need to see the Map not the bald heads I have gone to church with for over 50 years

This is pure gold!

Our Germans are better than their Germans is a line from All the Right Stuff, too.

Interesting take on the ideological view of war: the best generals (for the dictator) are the ones barely capable but completely loyal. Meritorious guys can coup the nation, men who lose can be shot for failure. Thus the SS can be set up to rival the Wehrmacht, and the Luftwaffe Hermann Goring division and the Fallschirmjaeger divisions could be rivals of both. Increasing internal tension, they simultaneously increased loyalty/dependency to the central leader. Kinda what's happening in Ukraine and the private military companies/national militias. Lots of parallels between Putin and Hitler.

Just a little info on Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia, the speaker: "Journalist Johann Hari has stated that Roberts' writings defended acts such as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, the Second Boer War concentration camps for Afrikaners during the Second Boer War, and mass internment in Northern Ireland (Operation Demetrius). Hari also wrote that Roberts made a speech at the expatriate South African Springbok Club, which flies the apartheid-era flag of South Africa and calls for "the re-establishment of civilised [i.e. white] rule throughout the African continent". Roberts claims that he did not realise the Springbok Club was racist when he took on the speaking engagement, despite the apartheid era flag, and the fact that the event was a commemoration of the 36th anniversary of UDI."

Thank you Mr. Knott, this is as complete and understandable an explanation of the whole of this battle that is not covered in any literature or media sources I have seen. I am more informed about this topic than before.

If I were to take a test, in principle, I could answer the questions strategically - either by answering questions in a certain order or in a certain way. But I would not be "at war" with the test. Sun Tzu says "supreme excellence" not "supreme excellence at warfare." Therefore, it's a composition fallacy to assume that because either non-violent winning or strategy are at play that what is at play is warfare. Further, to attribute violence to the whole of the civil right movement because of the violence of a minority of a minority when many were engaging non-violently is a cherry-picking fallacy.

At the University of South Carolina, if you spoke ill of General Westmoreland, the campus ROTC units would target you with muggings if they caught you alone. The Campus Police allowed the ROTC thugs a free hand acting as a rear guard for the ROTC punks. Lindsey Graham was born of this racist ROTC culture, a tin soldier weakling of so little honor.