(1/10) Battlefield II Leningrad Ep6 World War II

[BetheHans]

Hitler is such a stupid Nazi thug who thought he knew everything. The German general staff was the best in the world and their advice would have been paid heed had it heard by any rational human being. Their prediction about the disaster of the Russian campaign would come true in the end. Yet Hitler paid no attention to their advice. Had I been Hitler, I would have immediately canceled the plan to invade Russia and instead, focused on enforcing Nazi rule over the occupied countries.

[tucknasty89]

Greatest documentary ever

[releasetaiwan]

The biggest mistake hitler made just like Napoleon, is to invade Russia and war continued into Russia winter, the short of supplies and troops with non-battle death.

German will face both east and west battle-line after 1942

[IMNODOCTOR]

@releasetaiwan Not really a mistake but it was really inevitable and was forced to make the "pre-emptive strike" choice in a no-win situation. Had Hitler been wise, he should have been contented with what he had and not invade Poland. The invasion of Danzig and treatment of Jews were his biggest mistakes as it was the reason why the allies went to war against Germany. If he hadn't done so...he could have won Einstein and others on his side.

[kevinnowhow]

I just looooove the Human Race.

[eckrich60]

I appreciate the plans for invasion that both Marcks and von Rundstedt proposed. But I disagree with the video that Stalin was not interested in war with Europe. See videos of Victor Suvorov for Stalin's very offensive plans of war against the West!

[tartan64tan]

Americans should read why Japan was neutral with the Soviets. In 1938-1939, Japan threw a few of their best divisions against the Soviets, but the Soviets beat up the Japanese both times. Had these battles been a stalemate, perhaps Japan would've invaded Siberia when the Germans invaded the Soviets. Because the Japanese signed a neutral act, the Soviets was free to send west 50 excellent crack divisions against the Germans in Dec. 1941

[tartan64tan]

Why do I say this?! I was stationed in Wildflecken, Germany or the ONE-INCH LINE in the 60's. I had to study how the Soviets fought in case the Soviets invaded thru the Fulda Gap. We had to live as long as possible and hope for reinforcements from the west. I am forever grateful for the Soviet sacrifice

[ElephantRage]

ETERNAL GLORY AND RESPECT FOR THE WOMEN AND MEN OF THE SOVIET UNION WHO FOUGHT BACK THE NAZI BEAST.

SPASIBA TOVARICH.

[orangedac]

Respect to Russia man.

They faced down the threat and kicked ass.

[Leonidas19981]

@orangedac

bad thing is they lost nearly wut? 10,000,000 people civilian and soldier alike

[hjorturerlend]

The battle of Leningrad was so long, that the germans didn´t treat it like "the battle of Leningrad", but a series of operations, with the goal of capturing Leningrad (thus the non-existant german casualty rates)

[dreamrsdiedreamsdont]

0:22 germans with kalashnikovs?!

[jumpthewestwagon]

@dreamrsdiedreamsdont actually AK-47 was copied and further development of a German Sturmgewehr 44 or whatever it was called. Ir was the first assault rifle that German came up with. Those people that designed it later went on establishing the company H&K.

[ljlassi]

This documentary seems to forget one massive thing. Finnish army commander Mannerheim refused to cut the Murmansk-Leningrad railway at north, which would have lead into total starvation.

One reason might be that finnish commanders usually hated nazis as much as the soviets, and some even (like mannerheim) even had their roots in Russia.

[FuyouJake]

@ljlassi

I think the reason is also that the Finns at that stage of the war didn't know who was going to win. So if they cut off Leningrad completely and it resulted in the starvation of millions and the complete destruction of the city, the Soviets would have never forgotten or forgiven it, and if the Soviets won the war they wouldn't have stopped until Finland was dust. Not interfering allowed them to keep the blood off their hands, and it worked as Finland got peace after the war.

[ljlassi]

@FuyouJake Yeah that was one big reason. Also Finns were not so sure would they want to see total nazi victory, as that would have lead into a nazi world domination. But in 1941 it looked almost clear that Germany was winning so that is not the only reason.

[FuyouJake]

@tranmere789

Bolshevism never had support in Leningrad? What a load of rubbish, the Russian Revolution in which the Bolsheviks came to power was IN Leningrad (then called Petrograd).

The capital was transferred to Moscow because Petrograd was too vulnerable and close to the border.

[PrUnEJuIcEtHeThIrD]

Germany easily could've conquered all of Europe had Hitler just followed his generals' advice.

[Elivasfq]

@PrUnEJuIcEtHeThIrD Don't be so sure of that.

[Ccolebrooked]

@PrUnEJuIcEtHeThIrD For sure bro. I wonder what woulda happened then. America and Canada and Russia etc fighting Germany into the 50's maybe.

[Saccharin69]

what is the music used in these series!!! i would love to know thanks

[rcplanetim53]

awsome show... thanks... from your subscriber...

[lpaillet]

finland v. russia hahahahahaha

[raippaluoto]

@lpaillet 1939 500.000 red army soldiers death and wounded(winter war 105 day)

1941-45 500.000 more hahahahahahahahahahaha funny!

[RealmEternal]

Neo-nazi Russian skinheads needs to see this.

[Foenix47]

it is litle bit strange to hire in historycal(documental) fulm about staling just killing officers hi do it becouse hi have intelegens reports about hitler spys in army officers all ranks.... and hi dont think that war dont come to USSR pact about not atacking each oter (Ussr vs Germany) just to buy some time to better prepered to war...

[MrBadrostyle]

my love is from russia she is good women she is lives in OMSK

shje is told me lelingrad still more one year and never give up

[Foenix47]

@MrBadrostyle 900 days in blocade not 1 year 

[KinetiK138]

My version is broken at the 0:50 mark

[asimolok]

hitler counted the Finnish to attack but we didnt support him neiher we giwe our jews to hitler. mannerheim was a great hero of Finland both resisting the Soviet invasion and compromising Hitlers plans

[ss90ss444]

@asimolok

They wanted us to close the Siege. We were at Svir so they wanted us to come to Tikhvin.

It does not matter any how.

[Ncnk1]

I dont understand why germans still alive today i fought everyone got owned (Also civils) Usa, russia, britain got some of the country then they won the war ww1 GERMANS ww2 GERMANS why the fuck we just let them die all of them

[Ncnk1]

@Ncnk1 They may start a ww3

STUPID GERMANS

[michelledemers76]

@Ncnk1 ur a dumbass if a WW3 happens its becuase of the iraq's

[hermythewormy]

@michelledemers76 Or because of the Americans who invaded where they were not wanted?

[hermythewormy]

@Ncnk1 You must have the brain capacity of a fucking anchovy to think about human beings like that! What the fuck is wrong with you? You think german soldiers didn't have families who cried when they died, didn't have wives and children? The fight was not theirs.

[meishern]

Yes, 400 years ago with help of local traitors Poles briefly occupied Moscow. And over the last 200 years have paid dearly for that. Katyn Massacare in the eyes of some people was payback.

[copcorona]

@NavyForceVideo really? this is your city? that is cool. There is a book called Ivan's war. interesting read.

[Rico8458]

AH knew it could be done because the chinese Mongols did it. they conquered Russia. so it was possible. but his timing was wrong.

[Dogmeat1950]

hell Poland took over Moscow back in the day. and stayed for about a yar.

[Rico8458]

in political terms, look what AH did to germany in 10 years. from 1933 to 1943, that ten year period is amazing in social change and government control.

[Rico8458]

excellent counter point. good feedback. yes, we must always first define the terms then we can argue our case.

[ArantirSH]

Freedom means nothing really. Security in todays world is worth more to a family than freedom :P

[hermythewormy]

@ArantirSH I disagree! Look at todays society; no-one can lay claim to being totally safe, but we are free. If we weren't free, there would be uprisals the world over

[Rico8458]

socialism means one step away from communism means no private property. that is evil.

[poitrenaud]

Communism is Evil. And if you really ever lived under or "in" a Communist country, you would escape or kill yourself.

I know all about them. And, I say to you, "ALL" About them-

They are "Fascist" to the Maximum. And they say, Fascism is to the Right; Communism is to the Left"! Wrong-

both are Left- an accepted disambiguation.

Both Nazis(socialists) and the Communist control production, labor, agriculture, Industries, education, and "grant" and "withdraw" a person's worth as the State Sees Fit

[Rico8458]

fascism and socialism are the same thing, the same result = no freedom for the invidual person.

[DarkHour404]

socialism does not mean no freedom. Lots of places in Europe and socialist, and they are fine.

All people need is food, water, and people to talk to.

Its just people are spoiled with all this technology and money today that they forget what life even means anymore.

[Lachausis]

@DarkHour404 Because of this socialism Europe is flooded with immigrants.

[Rico8458]

interesting concept that one coin with two sides communism/socialism and fascism capitalism. yes, that is true.

[Skull4Scavenger]

What I never understood is why th french and british declared war on Germany for invading Poland, while they did not react that way when a few days after the germans the russians invaded Poland too. It was all arranged between Germany and Russia. Furthermore, where was allied 'indignancy', when the russians invaded poor Finland in december 1939? And everybody knew that Stalin was a certified butcher by then, Hitler had just succesfully finished his mastercourse for it.......

[jeffman3003]

Because if one looks into this with deep thought, one will notice that Bolshevism and Capitalism as Hitler coined it, are 2 sides of the same Zionist coin. The Zionist influence in Britain and the USA was tremendous and just like today dictates their foreign policy. Hitler was banking that the Europeian nations and Britian would support him It was never his intention to start up a 2 front war.

[tyskbulle]

@Skull4Scavenger Imagen yourself as the allies, woud it be smart to declare war on two super powers and risk getting them allied whit ichother. After the war, Churchill said: "We butcherd the wrong pig"

[EvilFingers]

@Skull4Scavenger

Politics and Isolationism.

[TheLloydA1]

@Skull4Scavenger britain new war with germany was certain and that fighting it by themselves would be fatel thats why whenever Russia was involved they did not react because they were a big allie its all war politics.

[LongHuII]

@Skull4Scavenger Would you want the UK to fight the Nazi's and the Soviets at the same time. Hitler and Stalin was in a pact. Finland were nazi collaborators. Would you want the Soviets to invade London over Poland or Finland? I'll say that the British & French thought that was to prevent the Germans from taking over parts of the Soviet Union. The Soviets took land from Finland before Leningrad happened.It was just common sense that Hitler might invade their cities like Poland. UN was against it

[HornblowerHoratio]

@LongHuII

UN? Like the international organisation created after WWII?

[LongHuII]

@HornblowerHoratio US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt first suggested using the name United Nations to refer to the Allies of World War II.[1] Roosevelt suggested the term to Winston Churchill who cited Byron's use of the phrase "united nations" in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which referred to the Allies at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Franklin Roosevelt adopted the name and the first official use of the term occurred on January 1, 1942 with the Declaration by the United Nations.

[MrPedros1989]

@Skull4Scavenger French and British signed millitary convention with Poland (that's why Axis attacked on 1.09.1939, not earlier). If they had reacted, war would've been won within a year at most. They didn't, because of foolish belief, that Hitler would be satisfied with his new posession and will not press further. It was a case with all previous German millitary actions. War with Brits and French broke out when THEY were attacked...

Stalin was powerfull leader,that's why he was in allies...

[alexart05]

@Skull4Scavenger Well, the reason why USSR made an agreemnet with Germany is simply because France and Britain refused Russia to form a coalition against Germany in 1938 hoping to direct German agression against Soviets. All further moves by USSR is the result of this. USSR wanted to protect itself from Germany by moving the border farther from the main cities. Therefore, war with Finland and invasion of Poland are results of this policy.

[YuriVII]

@Skull4Scavenger

With Finland they considered sending forces through Norway, but I think France and Britain understood that the Soviet Union would be at war very soon. Short answer: They disliked Hitler more than Stalin and wanted to wait for them to go to war so they could destroy themselves.

[eckrich60]

@Skull4Scavenger The political and economic leadership of the US and Britain supported Stalin and the Soviet Union. Therefore, Stalin could do no wrong! But the Jews and the communists in these countries hated Hitler and national socialism and any nationalist government in eastern or central Europe! And anyway, maybe Roosevelt only wanted a little war to raise the US out of its depression. And so, better to fight Germany than the Soviet Union, no?

[truvianni]

@eckrich60 This is not really true as the US was already out of its depresion by the time it entered the war

[Communist1980]

@Skull4Scavenger The US and Britain gave up after the White Army gave up the fight against the Red Army/USSR. Findland was originally territory of former Russia as well as Poland, so they viewed it as a reallocation of "lost territory."

[truvianni]

@Communist1980 what did the US and Britain give up?

[Communist1980]

@truvianni supporting the white-army/tsar-loyalist

[truvianni]

@Communist1980 I knew you were going to say that but that is not true, to niet prawda.They never gave military support to the whites.Yes, they did send in troops but it was not to fight the reds which is nothing but Soviet propaganda.They send in troops to help evacuate their military warehouses and even their citizens but not to fight the reds though they reds may have attacked them and use their presense to justify other acts. 

[scrap222666]

@Communist1980 But aren't countries always formed from coups? Didn't even the great Russia itself have an humble beginning as a small city state nation with nearby lands and battle with other local landlords and cities? Fins are native to those lands and they fought for their independence just as the first Russians fought to claim what is nowardays Russia. It does not matter what rule was beforehand.

[jackzero99]

@Communist1980 Wrong you dumbass. Finland and Poland were originally Finland and Poland before the Russians invaded and stole their territory.

[GeraltOfSerbia]

@Skull4Scavenger Hitler and Stalin were dictators but Hitler is one responsible for death of more than 50 million people, Stalin was crazy ruler, Lenin in his will wrote that Stalin must be removed from the party because of his apsolutistic ideology but Stalin succesfully burned Lenin's will and brough suffer to people of Soviet Union, i cant believe that noone killed him before the war, some more able leader would stop nazis at borders instead of letting them massacre innocent people

[jackzero99]

@GeraltOfSerbia Half of the Soviet deaths were Stalin's fault. Stalin killed more Soviet citizens than Hitler

[GeraltOfSerbia]

@jackzero99 That is not true, Hitler is responsible for more than 50.000.000 civilians and soldiers killed in WW2 but looking at civilian casualties, Stalin's destruction of military capability of USSR in pre-war years actually led to deaths of more than 15.000.000 Soviet civilians during the war so that way you can actually say that Stalin is, although not directly, responsible for deaths of many more innocent people than Hitler...

[jackzero99]

@GeraltOfSerbia Your numbers are wrong; 50,000,000 is the total number of deaths in WWII including Asia.

[GeraltOfSerbia]

@jackzero99 Ok lets say it is exactly 50 million deaths, now would actually WW2 even start without Hitler and nazi Germany? I don't think so, sooner or later USSR, UK and USA would crush Japanese empire, Italy wouldnt dare to start war on their own. Civilian casualties in Asia were mostly cuz of Japanese massacres, for helping Doolitle's pilots, more than 100.000 Chinese were slaughtered by Japanese occupants in few months, best example of Japanese brutality in WW2

[iainhead]

Always makes me laugh to think that the survivors of Leningrad were secretly rounded up and executed after the war since Stalin suspected that they had lived isolated from his power for too long (ie during the siege). Why did 'we' side with him again???

[fuggsakes]

If Hitler had attacked Moscow and the Ukraine --> Caucasus and nothing else he would have won no question

[noblepuker]

i think the leningrad citizens had it worse than any other in ww2...except maybe those in berlin.I can't imagine the suffering.The grim faces of shellshocked children later in this doc says it all.

[Tecguy122]

If you can watch the 10 videos they are worth your time in gold and knoledge. Congratz and thank you for the videos. 5 star all of them

[LordTharapita]

I used to watch the "Battlefield" series a lot as a kid, hours a day. Good times. Awesome to find whole episodes on youtube.

[BloodlessKnight]

ya, good old days.

[HoustonGD]

Spelled Odessa not Odesa 07:32

[sonoki82]

@HoustonGD

HGD, I love your channel. Odesa is the Ukrainian spelling; Odessa is the Russian spelling. I am surprised that some Ukrainian nationalist Youtuber didn't rush to defend the Ukrainian spelling.

[jedurkee]

@HoustonGD I just searched the internet, and it appears that "Odesa" is a legitimate alternate spelling.

[LeHuyAnh]

@HoustonGD It's 'cause the documentary, for some reason, chose to spell it the way Ukrainians do (with one "s"), instead of the way Russians and everybody else does (with two s's).

[alanheath]

@HoustonGD What is spelt Odessa and not Odesa?

[itseasyforyou]

superb I'm gonna watch all 10 vids!!

[copcorona]

@itseasyforyou me too. Houston. I am glad I found your channel again!

[FelixRohatyn]

@itseasyforyou Who gives a shit?