World At War: Barbarossa Part 2 of 6

[fredhubner]

@orkneymist I hope it's not sex ....

[TheFlyingBat]

I think in my personal opinion that even if the German High command and Hitler had deicded to push for Moscow earlier in say August-September 1941, it would of ended up the same. My scenario: The German army captures Moscow in September/October 1941 in bitter fighting. Hitler makes a speech saying that the russian army is defeated.

[TheFlyingBat]

The Germans would of halted and consilidated their lines and formed a defense around Moscow possibly taking on minor assaults to push their lines maybe 20-30 miles passed Moscow to strengthen the defense so that the Russians couldnt get through. Then in December 1941 the soviets would of still sent the Siberan troops to take back Moscow and it would of been a success. If not Stalingrad woulda taken place with Moscow in German hands and operation mars woulda kicked em out in early 43.

[th3gtr]

Does anyone know the song/march that plays at 4:23? I'd appreciate it very much.

[sirstrong1st]

This is great history research I applaud you.

[ss90ss444]

And how did that work out for Mr.Molotov? Lost over 100 000 men in the stupid Winter War. Leningrad was still sieged by the german forces and in small part of the siege was under finnish control. One million died.

Half-million died after the Siege was lifted and they pushed germans and finns out of Karelia, Leningrad areas and North plus the Baltics.

Siege was wrong yes but so was attacking finns and the balts.

[scribendi777]

@ss90ss444  agreed

[goosetits]

@ 1:00 .... lol!

[smell0my0nipples]

the footage of the russians on the plane was incredible

[corn1971]

One has to wonder why Hitler declared war on the US following Pearl Harbor? Japan refused to declare war on USSR after Germany invaded. Although Roosevelt wanted to join Britain in European war, it wasn't a sure thing at the time still and the US only declared war on Japan. If the US never entered the European front, it's unlikely Britain would have ever been able to of gone on the offensive and invade the continent alone. Let alone the resources it never would have had w/o the US involved.

[PrettyBrg]

@corn1971

Hitler knew a war with the USA was inevitable, since he over estimated the Japanese he thought they would be able to hold down the USA in the pacific and limit any capabilities of the US in the Atlantic to a point that he could handle. He was also pretty sure it was going to happen, and he wanted to look strong by being the declaring party and not having war declared on him first.

[supergirl2025]

Stalin really had inexperienced troops at the beginning since he killed too many with experience. Their tanks were better but the operators weren't. Their air campaigns were poorly coordinated. Hitler's mistakes were what opened the doors to beating the Nazis.

[Blubba1]

One correction: Barabarossa wasn't a "prussian emperor". Frederick I Barbarossa (1122 – 10 June 1190) of the Hohenstaufen dynasty was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152. Prussia was established centuries later. I didn't expect such an inaccuracy in a documentary like this.

[antimatterXXXIII]

It should be pointed out that the campaign of Frederick I "Barbarossa" also ended in disaster for his army - he drowned after being carried away by the current of the stream in which he was bathing, leaving his army in chaos.

[Hayden001953]

Do you think that Molotov had orders to be stubborn and intractable, or was that just Molotov?

[P1B1U1H1]

@Hayden001953 Molotov was brilliant; the stertorous manner was almost certainly mandated by the particular situation. Hitler and Stalin knew war was inevitable. Alexander Nevsky was created in 1938. Many of Stalin's pre war excesses can be in part explained by a desire to prepare for this conflict.

[Blodfjez]

we love you, moosebelly!

[FightingForFreedom23]

Interestingly enough, it was actually families like the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, the Hapsburgs, the Windsors, with their banking houses out of New York, London, Paris, as well as Berlin, Moscow and Rome, that funded the entire war, on all sides. They all met together and collaborated and set up international banks in Switzerland. Thats why Switzerland remained neutral and not even the Nazis touched it. The truth is, the war was manipulated, by the leaders of all sides, into happening.

[Blodfjez]

word of truth.

[dodge96neon]

at about 3:03 the man refers to the finns as dangerous people. i will never look at the people of finland anymore than dangerous people.

[bcfcjc]

It doesn't matter when this was made. Simply the best WW2 documentary ever!

[roddyjojo]

The white-bearded fellow from 6:45 to 6:50 strolling with Stalin, this is Kalinin correct? Can anyone confirm? Thanks

[bcfcjc]

@roddyjojo

Correct

[roddyjojo]

@bcfcjc Cheers

[davidbrianfisher]

Don't invade Russia its far too vast, in fact don't invade anywhere it just doesnt work anymore this isn't the 16th century.

[stardaddyo9]

hitler had little understanding of the time and space problems that face an attacking army in russian. the country is vast, it's terrain difficult and it's army large. under the best circumstances barbarossa had a chance to succeed. but the weather in russia has a history of not providing ideal circumstances for invaders.

[sirdard1]

wow man! they were having compact personal cameras in 1941. 4:45

[Rico8458]

5 weeks. dang 5 weeks cost him moscow.

[the82spartans]

Ha!

1:02 good one.

[n8tivguitar]

4:30 what about the salvation army :)

[Atheist037]

i love the music 5:17 to 6:14

[makerwidow]

anyone else catch the "World War Two: Behind Closed Doors - Stalin, the Nazis and the West" series last year on the bbc, was pretty good and covered the prelude and duration of barbarossa

[jon1156]

It's remarkable to me how many of these Nazis are free at this point to participate in this tremendous film series. The generals I suppose were "just following orders" but why weren't Hitler's translator and especially Albert Speer in prison or executed?

[VagabondOracle]

by this time they were released. It's not like there were hundreds of high ranking Nazi officials in prison there were a handful of the top officials. Most were either dead or on the run. They weren't going to execute a translator for god's sake and Speers served his sentence full (20 years I think). Also don't be so easily misled by the "just following orders" excuse. It's a poor justification at best.

[fernan2901]

Hitler did not regarded the americans or the british as "inferior race" like the jews or the gypsies. Moreover he was encouraged by the british domination of India for his racial remarks. He did not wanted to fight them at first; it was their opposition of his plans in eastern Europe that lead him to declare war on western allies.

[fredhubner]

Dolfie considered Americans as a mixed race with a few germanic colonies ... and he also considered the Italians a negrified race ... apart from that, he also used to say that "a toad is degenerate frog" ...

[mustwinder]

Hitler, phsycially, must have aged 20 years from 1940 to 1945. He looks young and able in 1940, he looks like a 70 year old dying man by the end of the war.

[faeembrugh]

Well he was diagnosed with hardening of the arteries in 1940 and his doctor gave him a fairly unhealthy range of uppers and downers too. Should have smoked, drank and ate meat just like Churchill!

[mustwinder]

@faeembrugh I think he was addicted to Morphine and speed, his doctor was a sick SOB too. He may very well have had Parkinson's too, because he also had a bad tremble by the end of the war.

[fredhubner]

His doctor used to inject daily and small dosages of strychnine ... amongst other quackery recipes ...

[mustwinder]

@fredhubner That may or may not explain his physical problems he developed late in the war. Could have been Parkinson's too, but if he did indeed have injections of such foul substances, it would have caused problems.

[fredhubner]

Mustwinder, the curious thing is that such symptoms only appeared after Barbarossa went unaccordingly to what he planned ... so I believe that it was a strong psychosomatic sort of bodily disorder ... but of course all the shit he pumped in himself definitely played a major role ... but what triggered it was certainly psychological ...

[mustwinder]

@fredhubner I believe he was physically ill but there is no question that stress can aggravate illness, and speed up the disease process. I can't imagine he had any peace after Stalingrad. The combination of stress and drugs may have broken him physically, it wouldn't be unheard of.

[habsmeister09]

Because he had syphilis, and the only known treatment that was effective was developed by a German Jewish bacteriologist named Paul Ehrlich. Hitler would not take the drug.

[fredhubner]

Are you sure he had syphilis ?!!! ... Never heard it before ...

[JAGDPANTHER20]

Hitler also took steroides.

[fredhubner]

JAGDPANTHER20, I've never heard or read anything confirming what you claim ... in fact, I don't think they had the ability or knowledge to produce steroids back in in the 30s and 40s ...

[JAGDPANTHER20]

Go research the steroids derived from gerbils. given to the SS

[fredhubner]

C'mon fella ... even in the 60s they we did not have the technology to produce anything but gland juice ... hormomes would only be isolated a long time after the 40s ...

[JAGDPANTHER20]

I say you to search.

[fredhubner]

JAGDPANTHER20, fella I'll fill you in with facts you simply ignore ... anabolic steroids began to appear in sport sometime after the 1948 Olympic Games and Amphetamines, which had been widely used by soldiers in the Second World War, crossed over into sports in the early 1950s .... the nazis had no clue as to how produce hormones, most specially steroids ... they were fed with gland juice from gerbils ... that's why they acted like rodents ...

[HerrHarrer]

JAGDPANTHER20, "The first human hormone to be produced commercially was Insulin, and the second, produced in 1956 by Li and Papkoff, was Human Growth hormone."

[JAGDPANTHER20]

Why would it have been commercial? Its experimental.

[HerrHarrer]

@JAGDPANTHER20 , therefore the asswipes SS men who took it were no more than guinea pigs ... the results wouldn't be known for many years to come ... during all these years of the development of anabolic steroids there was a time scientists came to a point of believing it was inocuous ... then, around the seventies, someone tried massive dosages ...

[scorkungen]

The Brits were a piece of cake for Hitler. But how foolish to attack Russia.

[pardeepsinghk]

So were the Americans between 1941 to 1943.

[EinfrierenNachte]

Well the Americans you cant really blame they were half way around the world in unfamiliar territory and fighting against the best army in the world..Hitler never even wanted to fight the USA, until they bombed German ships in the Atlantic. His actual fuhrer train that was armored and protected by Anti aircraft guns, troops, etc.. was named "Amerika" before their declaration of war on the U.S. Just goes to show you he had alot of respect for the United States at one point.

[pardeepsinghk]

Errr....as I recall Hitler declared war on you.

And if you had ever read Main Kampg, Hitler hated Americans as they were "half neegro and half jewish"...basically the Americans had a "diluted race" and were under the control of Jewish bankers.

Hitler actually wanted an alliance with Britian as he viewed the British as aryans.

Hitler even said he prefered an Englishman 1,000 times more than an American...read Mein Kampf before you think Hitler liked America.

[EinfrierenNachte]

I never said he "liked" America. Hitler thought every country was under control of Jewish bankers, not just America...whats your point? lmao. Like I said, he respected America and really did not want to go to war with them because of their global positioning and power. But like I said he had to because of Americas constant aiding to the allied war effort...Sorry I havnt read all of Mein Kampf I'm sure you have....*rolls eyes*

[pardeepsinghk]

Hitler wanted war with America..as he wanted to control the world.

[fredhubner]

Pardeepsinghk, "As for the Swiss, we can use them, at the best, as hotel-keepers" (Dolfie Hitler in "Hitler's Secret Conversations" - page 53 - third paragraph)

[TheNightBadger]

Worth pointing out that German spies had informed Hitler of a plan by the Russians to attack Germany in Spring 1942. This was why the Russians were caught off guard when the Germans attacked - they were reorganising the front. This doc was made during the cold war before documents were declassified. Could the Germans have beaten the Russians in Spring '42? Maybe, but Hitler's choice to attack in '41 was a sound one.

[USMCM249gunner]

7:15 thats beautiful.........Hitler couldve achieved an alliance and spared those people a couple of genocides but.....no the western imperialist powers had to interfere

[patsyd80]

best ww2 doc ever. if tou only ever watch one documentry on ww2 this is it. sums it all up perfectly. not going on about what make of tank or new plane. this really gets down to the whole thing as it happend. not that theirs nothing wrong with tanks of ww2 or etc etc. but its good to hear the real story from the people who was their.magnifiqe bravo damsbelly.

[ffgghhj77]

Without the Yugolasvia's rebel,Russia could be defeated.The Germans would have 5 more weeks in hand (!)

[krazyrussian101]

without Russia..United Kingdom could be defeated..without United Kingdom..United States could be defeat..without United States the world could have been nazi..your statement is a fallacy and contains a slippery slope

[ffgghhj77]

Oh my! I forgot to say thanks for all their efforts in saving this world... You don't think I'm a nazi, do you? My statement was solely about the fact that in a grand victory there may be some things that were somewhat ignored at that time that can be very decisive for the outcome of the entire history.

[krazyrussian101]

are you? lol

[USMCM249gunner]

it doesnt fuckin matter, he shouldnt have to explain shit

[thx291]

I thought Finland had already surrendered to the Soviets in early 1940?

[ffgghhj77]

They signed an artimiste just like France to Germany.

[JimmySmers]

There is a mistake on that map of Europe at 6:57 which claims to be from March 1941. Hungary had already re-acquired Northern Transylvania from Romania with the August 30, 1940 Second Vienna Award so Romania wouldn't be as large as it is in that map. That map isn't accurate after the summer of 1940.

[3NUNS]

Hey guys. Notice how Paul Schmidt's English accent mimics that of the late Neville Chamberlain.

[kipastra]

superb,the greatest actor ever,narrates the greatest documentery ever!

[puzokutya]

who's the narrator? it isn't laurence olivier is it?

[fusilier45]

@puzokutya,yeah hes good isnt he

[puzokutya]

he's (L.Oliver) bloody marvelous!

[DasReich42]

It's full of NEGRO?JEWS AND OTHER VERMINES OF ANY KIND,Corruption is everywhere on Europe that doesn't exist anymore,all the slaves from the east are here to destroy more our Beautiful Europe once! I fucking HATE niggers,jews that only thing to destroy a PURE RACE.Hitler you are a fucking asshole! SIEG HEIL MEINE EHRE EISST TREUE

[danbarnosu]

first off all lets take it these way....what would have have happened if the "idiot" called Hitler didn't exist and somebody else would have came to power and would have pushed Germany into war....

[Kelthuzad126]

khan is the only man in history to take Russia, if Hitler knew his history he would have known better.

[puzokutya]

who? oliver kahn the goalkeeper? alone? yeah he did always look like a bully.

[chasemarquis]

This Doc is older than me,yet it is the best doc I have ever seen. Damn British make the best Docs.

[14kip]

always wondered were the molotov coctail got its name. i know now :) . gr8 series .

[puzokutya]

funny thing is it is a finnish invention...don't know why they started calling it molotov....

[Noid111]

They called it that as a dig at the Soviet Foreign minister at the time who was making all the threats at Finland.

[youngrussianfollower]

Well it originates from the fact that the Soviets were dropping large cluster bomb like devices on the Finnish army and Finlands cities, Molotov, the soviet foreign minister claimed that these were aid packages being dropped instead of bombs so the Finns sarcastically called them Molotov bread baskets. When the Finns worked out a way to destroy tanks using only petrol and an empty bottle they called it the Molotov cocktail to accompany the breadbasket.

[VagabondOracle]

Because the Soviet minister Molotov claimed the bombing campaign against Finland were food drops. The Finnish nicknamed the bombs "Molotov bread baskets" and hence named them Molotov cocktails to go with the food.

[LordNick42]

Excellent documentary

[fuckoff187]

best ww2 series ever..40 years and still undefeated!

[NEWLOVE559]

@fuckoff187 i'm not sure it can be defeated

[roylee13]

The finns are very dangerous fucking people!!!

[DrZenith]

Damn right; the Finns fought bravely against the Russians, although vastly outnumbered and gave them a good kicking! Long live the Finns!

(1940: Finland, about 3 million people/ USSR, about 130 million people)

[DayveIsh]

The Finns were even winning victories against the Russians when the Germans were in full and total retreat to Poland.

They certainly are a very brave people.

[12GaugeLosAngeles]

hitler needed "operation mental patient". only man in history to make so many military decisions as a country's leader in the modern era. that led to the falling of the military. IMAGINE BUSH WAS A GROUND COMMANDER!!!

[Neofunk42]

OMG THIS IS SO GAY

[BigYveso]

I agree, i dont think any other series covers the war in so much detail, and really offers fresh information about the war. And the narration is so authoritive- it really feels as if you are being spoken to by a general or something- Olivier- 'nuff said

[DETROITER22]

this is the best ww2 series ever....thanks for the post.

[calibre9mm]

4:29 what a place to be. classic europe.

german cities are turning way too futuristic today for my tastes..

the reichstag has like this crazy sky ceiling or something...wtf

[redplague]

That's because I destroyed the old one in Call of Duty.

[GMeister14]

1:02 is great, really shows how the USSR felt! thanks damoosebelly :D

[Noid111]

Yes I love that cartoon too. Done by Zec of the Daily Mirror., one of his cartoons a year later incensed Churchill. In the great tradition of other British cartoonists Dyson and Low.

[cchj768]

thank you damoosebelly

[damoosebelly]

you are most welcome! thanks for watching!

[ThaSweKillah]

thats right russia/soviet is a hungry fucking bear.

[xjager513]

those slavians really helped , they didn't tand a chance against germany's army but they helped in pushing the russian offensive back by a few months which lead to an early campaign winter.

[bunterx]

helped? helped the nazis to murder civilians? I think you confuse the literal meaning of the world help. The nazis only helped themselves but fortunately they were no where near as clever as they thought they were - hence the complete defeat of the german army in the field in both the east and west.

[emmteez]

Yeah maybe he should have taken up poker instead of politics

[fredhubner]

He wouldn't survive a few hours in Las Vegas ...

[nobodykh]

hitler was to big a gambler he wanted all of the soviet union but he didn't relise at how large it was