Hitler's generals wanted to let the winter pass b4 attacking moscow, but he refused to halt the advance. What a fool hitler was about this point. Also the winter clothing. How could the highly-trained, organized, equipped german army not think of suppling winter clothing? They deserved to loose. Although Stalin was also very stupid for not believing that the nazis were planning to attack. Whenever you concentrate power into one dictator, this shit happens and the people suffer.
@Phead128 but japan is no puppet nor follower,during that time.its pride is very very high.they have other plans,and US had been provoking japan for some years.japan is itching to crush US.but it cant handle both russia,US n western allies.if japan did attacked russia,they would be having a big problem.specially that japan had been beaten by russia twice...
@teslagod2003 Japan was too concerned with its conquest of Asia to devote attention to a war with the Russians. Hence, the non-aggression pact. The US delayed the assault on Japan, relative to its work against Germany, because Japan had overextended itself and could not further expand without severe detriment to its supply lines. Stalin recognized this reality and then was able to permit Tzukoff to assault Germany with alacrity.
@P1B1U1H1 are you saying that stalin copied what US did to japan?because your comments were seems like a riddle for me.no offense meant,though.coz i really find it hard to understand what you mean.and makes me think long and hard before i could reply at all...
@teslagod2003 Neither munificence nor a desire to imitate the US existed. Japan twice tried to fight Tzukoff and got crushed. This, as well as the need to devote all resources to conquering Asia, mandated Japan's agreement.. The agreement was a gold mine for Russia because it meant crack winter Siberian forces could be used to destroy the Germans.
really, the US had been provoking Japan? As I understand it, the US put an oil embargo on Japan because they were invading other countries to get oil. They were overextended and needed resources from other countries.
@deirup510 and US never invaded anyone to get the resouces they want?you must be joking right?US stated to be neutral,when in fact they were picking sides,where's the neutrality there?tsk...
and the thing at peal harbor,US actually sacrificed it,just to raise hatred to the japs,when infact,they could really repel the assault...
japan never sacrificed any land they held,most of it was taken with full and great determination and will...
@teslagod2003 The main reason the Japanese went to war with The US is because was that they recieved most of their oil and food stuffs from the United States. Roosevelt haulted all trade to the Japanese so they attacted Pearl Harbor hoping it would make Roosevelt come to the bargining table and resume trade. Ya! Dis Knotts so gooda ideache for dem iz itza?
If Germany had 'taken' Moscow is a moot point. USSR would not have laid down it's arms, and 'taking' a city of that size would have been massively problematic, as is seen in the battles for Leningrad and Stalingrad.
That being said, it is a futile exercise playing the -if- game with history. It is difficult enough to trace and catalogue the historiography of an event without injecting an -if- to muddy the issue. The -if- game is pop-culture and not a game played by the serious academic.
@teslagod2003 Yes, hail to the murderer of the cream of the Red Army in the thirties, hail to the dictator that outlived fascism only to continue his own terror regime, hail to the paranoiac who refused to believe Hitler would attack, hail to the agressor of Finland, Estland, Latvia, Lithuania, hail to the one who exported grain when the Ukraine was starving...
@teslagod2003 Collectivation of the Ukraine forced starvation upon hundreds of thousands of people. The "Purges" of the 1930's decimated Soviet leadership.
The murder of Tukhachevsky robbed the Soviets of any defenses against Fascist aggression. All crimes of Stalin and his stooge, Beria. It was only the heroic fighting of the "muzhiks", the peasants, and devoted fighting men that saved the East from Hitler.
@Braunheim huh?so,you think russia could have been saved if stalin is not their leader?i dont think other russian leader would be able to endure hitler during that time,many russians and soviets have supported stalin,because he is stalin,if it is someone else,the world would have been doomed,tsk...
stalin took out his enemies,who he knows can betray russia and would be willing to serve the nazis,tsk...
@Braunheim yeah right,like those guys would be able to do anything if stalin is not the soviet premier,tsk...
just believe what you think is best for your own brain,but for me,it is stalin who lead russia and defeated hitler...
do you know vlad of transylvania?he is far more brutal than any1 that has ever lived,yet he is a hero for his people,why?coz his brutality forces his people to be disciplined and even the turks who invaded them to leave his kingdom,tsk...
Who was the german officer shown from around 1:04 to 1:14 of this video who speaks of losing 200 men of his battalion during that first 2 weeks of that first winter?
And though I'm disgusted by Hitler as a man, German soldiers should not be damned just because they were following the will of their country. War is a terrible thing that forces people to make terrible choices.
You can't just throw out comments like that when you obviously don't know the causes of the war. The entire world was facing a depression and war at the same time so it's impossible to just throw stereotypes and generalities around like they are nothing.Stalin was paranoid, but given the past he probably had reason to be cautious.
4:10 says everything. There was another comment by Nazi soldiers, about Russian soldiers. Russians didn't scream and cry when wounded. Right there they realized what they are up against, in Moscow. I think this is also when they realized they had walked right into Stalin's deception scheme, playing a victim.
If I had to guess, she was probably mutilated like many Russian girls and women were by the retreating germans as "fuck you" gesture to the Russian men. It certainly makes the brutality the Russians showed on the advance to Berlin a bit more understandible albeit just as deplorable.
I was mainly speaking of the opposing forces but, yes, you are right. Through the prism of hindsight my original comment now seems incredibly stupid and insensitive.
At 5:40, the children and their parents hanging on nooses? Most Kraut pussies taken prisoner would have been slow-knived, 'just for fun', here's some Concentration camp style torture, you Kraut pussy-ass. Of the 90,000 pussy Krauts taken prisoner, 6000 came back - these were literally the cocksuckers for Russian guards - :).
The winter had no effect on the T42 Russian tanks or Russians. It's because Germans are pussies, is why their "disease" were so easily cleaned-up by Zukhov. Germans came into contact with Zukhov and his Siberian divisions - 'real' men - and the krauts just died like insects in their path.
Such a 'tremendous psychological and material blow' was so great that the Russians simply ignored it and kept pushing 'til they reached Dolfie's bunker ...
But if Hitler hadn't attacked the Russian army would have become too strong for the wehrmacht! So Barbarossa was a succes. Hitler led a smaller force into Russia with great losses, though he brought great damage to the Russians.
What are you talking about? Do you even know? Russia took a major hit to its landscape, moral, and population. Germany took a major hit to its soldiers and showcased a patent flaw in Hitler's strategy to take Russia: You can't beat nature. The only winner in the Barbarossa operation was the winter season. Don't ever forget that people must DIE during war. What happened Russia during that campaign was horrible for both sides.
This is patently absurd. In the four large engagements of the Eastern Front - Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk - the "invincible" Nazis were 0-4.
NOW BECAUSE YOU SAID THAT I DIDNT GIVE ANY FACTS HERE ARE SOME: Casualties and losses Allied leaders Over 61,000,000 Axis leaders Total dead Over 12,000,000 NOW IF THERE IS SOMEBODY STUPID ENOUGH TO TELL ME THAT OVER 70 MILLION DEAD PEOPLE IS A VICTORY FOR MANKIND THAN YOU SHOULD KILL YOURSELF!
Well you really made your point with excellent facts, knowledge of history, and well spoken. Now fuck off moron. The United Kingdom and it's Empire, by fighting, saved the world from the darkest time, Russia deserved all it got for signing that infamous Pact with Hitler in '39.
before the war the brits were stealing and killing people around the world, and when the germans attack, they start crying like little girls, cuz america and the russians, germans didn't take over britain.
dear yoyoman, it doesn't matter who won, the u s a was not in the war, they would never have entered if japan had not attacked pearl, the uk and it's allies would have fought on, they never needed your men, just supplies, lend-lease is a misnomer, britain had to give america bases, former british islands, gold, etc., that's why when it was all over , the u s was rich, and the brits who saved the world were impoverished, example; rationing went on for years after the end in britain.
Americans didnt save the world> They entered the war very late in the game. The Americans lost at most around 300 thousand, compare that to Soviets which lost near 30 million people! So who defeated Germany. It was Russian man power and American industry, but not American man power.
America was only the strongest power at the end of WW2 because there was not fighting on it's soil. Sure soldiers were killed, but al of Europe was decimated. America's greatest power during the war was being able to make a large amounts of supplies in a small amount of time. Naturally when your country isn't a huk of ruins at the end of the war you can get along better than countries that have to rebuild.
and if it wasn't for Japan germany could have one without U.s. it was more simple because a quarter of all major allied powers were supplied by U.s. amd the the Anti comintern pact clearly says fight russians on the eastern front
They deployed 3million righ so why didn't they divide into two groups and then if they were good and fresh in Ukraine they could come in as back up it would be like a surprise attack
Sept.6 40, the Whermacht were defeated decisevly by the R.A.F. This ended "Operation Sealion" i.e. the conquest of Great Britain. Yes 20 million Russians died, the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-agression pact, allowed Germany a free hand in Europe, Russia got half of Poland and no war. That came back to haunt them, after France fell, Britain Stood Alone against an axis of evil.
Almost surreal. The Eastern front was so brutal. Russia does have this mistique about it... the endless plains, and the "ants against the elephant" analogy...
The soil near Stalingrad is full of human bone fragments, left from millions of people slaughtered mostly by the pigheadedness of two mad-dog dictators slugging it out at everyone else's expense.
The Germans could have easily won. When the German Army first entered Russia, they were hailed as liberators. Many Soviet troops, especially amongst the Ukranians, simply joined the Germans and fought on their side.
Unfortunately for the Soviet people, it wasn't the Germans that were behind the invasion. It was the Nazis. And the Nazis were just as bad as the Bolsheviks.
And that's when they lost. Beating the Bolsheviks would have been easy. Defeating the Russian people was impossible.
Germany would have won if they invaded Russia April 1, 1941 instead of June ,that would put them in Moscow around 10 Oct 1941,the Russians would not have recovered psychologically nor physically. The war would then be won. The Russians were brutal with their own people that's why Germans in Ukraine were welcomed as liberators but the Germans screwed that up by mistreating them also, that is probably why they lost you can't mistreat people and expect to win.
I do not agree with this at all! Thank God the Soviet government was able to turn the tide! It save us (Britain and the United States) millions of men! We had a vested interest in who won on the Eastern Front, and thank God it was our ally, the Soviet Union!
The Battle of Moscow is the real turning point of the war. Yes, the Germans would advance in the Spring of 1942 again, but the cutting edge of invincibility had been destroyed. The Soviet soldier had prove himself stupendously heroic. The Soviet High Command had shown they had surprises up their sleeve just as the Germans thought they were finished. How many times Hitler said the Soviets had no more reserves.They are at the end of the road.Every time, he was wrong! That is where the war was won!
mcshotgun, yes that line of logic cd conclude the BofB was the turning point. If "turning point" is where offensive action gives way defence thereafter, then Stalingrad is the turning point (although the BofKursk was German offensive action). The BofMoscow sees the Wehrmacht thrown into headlong retreat for the 1st time. The lustre of unbeatability is tarnished and the conviction of it, destroyed. BofB meant UK wd survive, but we do not know if cd Hitler cd return as he attacked Russia instead.
Zhukov must have advised Stalin, to stay, to bolster troop and civilian morale - hard to attach goodness to Stalin, but there must have been some of that.
Poor Germans - Russians didn't want prisoners - they would stink to much! Stench of a German would be too putrid, have to bulldoze them all underground takes time and fuel, wasted on scum!! :)
There was a PBS documentary on Barbarossa which talked about why Hitler couldn't get the winter clothes for the German soldiers, it is because Stalin would have noticed the fluctuation in the price and demand for wool on the world market and Stalin would have figured out it was being acquired by Germany and he would know that those coats were to supply the German army and he'd know in advance that Hitler was going to invade Russia.
that song that starts playing at around 7:13 in the background....man, makes you pretty pissed off if ur German of how close they came to Moscow and ended the war in victory, but instead those brave and professional soldiers just froze to death cuz the dumbfucks in Berlin wouldnt even listen to their requests for some warm cloths....
They only requested warm clothing in October, the acquiring of 3 million winter coats would have taken 6 months. If it was going to be done it should have been done during the summer.
No, Hitler was right to conquer the Ukraine instead of Moscow, Germany needed the Ukrainian food supplies to survive the British naval blockade against the continent of Europe and the Ukraine was far more valuable in food resources than Moscow.
For those idiots who think the Germans were stopped only due to the Russian winter , didn't the Russians also have to deal with the same weather?
If the Germans were less prepared than the Soviets for the weather, then their army was by definition deficient. All the Nazi generals blamed Hitler for losing as an excuse for their own failings.
The Soviets had more of a handicap beginning with the absence of almost every top general . They were murdered by Stalin in the purges.
Number of factors involved here. Hitle presented an idealogy that the Germans were a superior race and the soldiers believed that everyone was inferior. You cant treat the people you conquer like that. If the people of those terrorities were better treated by the Germans and the Germans fought with moral and integrity, things wouldve been different. You just cant win a War when you use barbaric tactics in the long run.
"...i saw the russian tank running through the field and snow, our own tanks couldn't drive and shoot, because it was too cold..."
I agree the russians had their own problems, but they had to be better prepared, they couldn't let a third of their army freeze to death every year. But even if the dull russian army had the same problems as the germans, the siberians were equipped and trained to fight in this territory.
Why didn't the German generals request winter coats in advance way back in July? Because they were just as unprepared as Hitler was, their minds were focused on a sudden victory rather than planning ahead.
its impossible to take hundreds of thousands of prisoners and feed them clothe them house them, the only sensible thing to do is kill them, I'll be damned if I capture someone in war that im going to share my food sorry charly..
had they retreated and came back a few months later..the russian military would still be very weak and they would have won..the russian airforce was destroyed, mist of their equipment etc....fukkin hitler and his stubburness
Let me guess.....schroeder is a nasty, immature, spotty Russian youth, convinced that Stalin's USSR was a great country. It was not. Over 20 million Russians died under Stalin's purges, famines, forced Labour and in the Gulag. Most were guilty of NOTHING. Under Lenin and Stalin the soviet people suffered more than during WW11 itself. You are a pathetic cretin, whose rantings dishonour those millions who died during the nightmare of communist tyranny just as evil as Nazism.
Well the people I was freinds with were Yugoslavions, and it was their uncles and grandfathers who were occupied. However, they spoke glowingly of how they were treated by the German army, although Hitler hated the slavs. They kept saying the German army acted "profesenial" and never raped or pillaged. But, I dont know about how it was against the Russians. My guess is that the German army was ok to Russia, but the SS units were not.
there is a great deal of evidence to prove that the german army - not just the SS - committed acts of atrocity to civilians within all of the countries they invaded. jews were systematically rounded up and 'dealt with' throughout europe, no doubt professionally. if there is one thing that the nazis were professional at was murder. militarily they were inept because they had such poor leadership drunk on power and incapable of grasping the determination of the russians to drive them out.
red army soldiers liberate their comrades only to shoot them for being in enemy hands for too long. they also liberated US POWS from German captivity and sent them to Gulags.
WE NOW KNOW atrocities like Katyn Massacre & certain work camps in Poland & Czech that were thought to be Nazi were actually Russian. Look it up
Stalin & his regime didnt give a damn about his people, just look at the 25 million more deaths caused by communist oppression in the next 3 post war decades
well maybe Germans didnt rape so much because they were fresh off from Paris and Berlin and from their homes, not because they were more ''moral'' ??? And the Soviets had fought for 4 years in harsh, unimaginable conditions just because a crazy Austrian fuck named Hitler needed ''lebensraum'' ?
I have this series, it is great and offers perspective that can no longer be had, since many of the soldiers who speak in this documentry are now dead.
However, at 5:48 and after, the Germans are portrayed as brutal to the Russian civilians. Is this true? I have spoken to people in Europe who were occupied by the Germans, and it is said that the German army is the most professinal in the world, and never hurt or rape civilians. So what is the truth here?
have any of the people you've spoken to been Russians? keep in mind that Hitler only made his pact with Stalin because he knew Britain and France would declare war when he invaded Poland...but, underneath that initial cloak of civil agreement, Hitler had a deep-seated hatred of Russians, believing the Soviet Empire was controlled by Jews...the entire nation was sub-human in his mind.
u should watch 'When Hitler Fought Stalin' on Youtube
it shows how both Hitler & Stalin used threat to fight threat in the Russian populace.
eg: Any russian civillians who so much as talk to the german occupants, even when the Red Army is nowhere near to protect them, Red Army partisans would execute them. even when starvation is idle.
If present day leadership reviewed this brilliant documentary, I wonder if they'd resist war.
PoliticalPars 1 year ago
Hitler's generals wanted to let the winter pass b4 attacking moscow, but he refused to halt the advance. What a fool hitler was about this point. Also the winter clothing. How could the highly-trained, organized, equipped german army not think of suppling winter clothing? They deserved to loose. Although Stalin was also very stupid for not believing that the nazis were planning to attack. Whenever you concentrate power into one dictator, this shit happens and the people suffer.
LeCommensale 1 year ago
War is hell.
5inthehole 1 year ago
Such suffering to endure.
umasbob 1 year ago
Fascinating that the Russian counter-attack outside Moscow happened on the same day as Pearl Harbor. That was the day the Germans lost the war.
antimatterXXXIII 1 year ago
Brilliant!
ObltKG4 1 year ago
World at war une EXCELLENTE série.
Bravo à ses concepteurs. Elle nous permet de mieux comprendre cette infame tragédie du vingtième sciècle.
knightmars12mf 1 year ago
had the japanese attacked Siberia, Soviet Union would be fighting 2 fronts and would probably been fucked.
Phead128 1 year ago
@Phead128 but japan is no puppet nor follower,during that time.its pride is very very high.they have other plans,and US had been provoking japan for some years.japan is itching to crush US.but it cant handle both russia,US n western allies.if japan did attacked russia,they would be having a big problem.specially that japan had been beaten by russia twice...
teslagod2003 1 year ago
@teslagod2003 Japan was too concerned with its conquest of Asia to devote attention to a war with the Russians. Hence, the non-aggression pact. The US delayed the assault on Japan, relative to its work against Germany, because Japan had overextended itself and could not further expand without severe detriment to its supply lines. Stalin recognized this reality and then was able to permit Tzukoff to assault Germany with alacrity.
P1B1U1H1 1 year ago
@P1B1U1H1 are you saying that stalin copied what US did to japan?because your comments were seems like a riddle for me.no offense meant,though.coz i really find it hard to understand what you mean.and makes me think long and hard before i could reply at all...
teslagod2003 1 year ago
@teslagod2003 Neither munificence nor a desire to imitate the US existed. Japan twice tried to fight Tzukoff and got crushed. This, as well as the need to devote all resources to conquering Asia, mandated Japan's agreement.. The agreement was a gold mine for Russia because it meant crack winter Siberian forces could be used to destroy the Germans.
P1B1U1H1 1 year ago
@teslagod2003
really, the US had been provoking Japan? As I understand it, the US put an oil embargo on Japan because they were invading other countries to get oil. They were overextended and needed resources from other countries.
deirup510 1 year ago
@deirup510 and US never invaded anyone to get the resouces they want?you must be joking right?US stated to be neutral,when in fact they were picking sides,where's the neutrality there?tsk...
and the thing at peal harbor,US actually sacrificed it,just to raise hatred to the japs,when infact,they could really repel the assault...
japan never sacrificed any land they held,most of it was taken with full and great determination and will...
teslagod2003 1 year ago
@teslagod2003 The main reason the Japanese went to war with The US is because was that they recieved most of their oil and food stuffs from the United States. Roosevelt haulted all trade to the Japanese so they attacted Pearl Harbor hoping it would make Roosevelt come to the bargining table and resume trade. Ya! Dis Knotts so gooda ideache for dem iz itza?
5inthehole 1 year ago
Fantastic series thanks for posting mate.
davidbrianfisher 1 year ago
Comrade kill your German.
Noid111 1 year ago
thk for posting,saw the film when i was a kid,
saw Sir issac at the ferris wheel in spore a few yrs ago i think
hlimkb 1 year ago
So much courage, so much valor, i never knew the soviet union but i know that its citizens were the strongest in history
alexander33345 1 year ago
If Germany had 'taken' Moscow is a moot point. USSR would not have laid down it's arms, and 'taking' a city of that size would have been massively problematic, as is seen in the battles for Leningrad and Stalingrad.
That being said, it is a futile exercise playing the -if- game with history. It is difficult enough to trace and catalogue the historiography of an event without injecting an -if- to muddy the issue. The -if- game is pop-culture and not a game played by the serious academic.
OneWorldHistory 1 year ago
zhukov,definitely the best of soviet union generals,if not for him,ussr would have fallen,with stalin's blessings on what he did ofcourse...
teslagod2003 1 year ago
hail to STALIN!
teslagod2003 1 year ago
@teslagod2003 Yes, hail to the murderer of the cream of the Red Army in the thirties, hail to the dictator that outlived fascism only to continue his own terror regime, hail to the paranoiac who refused to believe Hitler would attack, hail to the agressor of Finland, Estland, Latvia, Lithuania, hail to the one who exported grain when the Ukraine was starving...
jlnijholt 1 year ago
@jlnijholt then i guess you know nothing of stalin at all,all you know is what was western propaganda said...
tsk...
now i know why our world is in greatest perill right now,tsk...
teslagod2003 1 year ago
@teslagod2003 Collectivation of the Ukraine forced starvation upon hundreds of thousands of people. The "Purges" of the 1930's decimated Soviet leadership.
The murder of Tukhachevsky robbed the Soviets of any defenses against Fascist aggression. All crimes of Stalin and his stooge, Beria. It was only the heroic fighting of the "muzhiks", the peasants, and devoted fighting men that saved the East from Hitler.
Braunheim 1 year ago
@Braunheim huh?so,you think russia could have been saved if stalin is not their leader?i dont think other russian leader would be able to endure hitler during that time,many russians and soviets have supported stalin,because he is stalin,if it is someone else,the world would have been doomed,tsk...
stalin took out his enemies,who he knows can betray russia and would be willing to serve the nazis,tsk...
teslagod2003 1 year ago
@Braunheim the clear up my last comment,it was vlad III the impaler Prince of Wallachia of transylvania....
teslagod2003 1 year ago
@teslagod2003 Stalin was a psychotic bastard - Hail instead to the Russian people. Don't mess with them!
TheBelovedButterfly 1 year ago
@teslagod2003 more like hail Zhukov, Hail Chuikov, Hail Rokosossky....
Braunheim 1 year ago
@Braunheim yeah right,like those guys would be able to do anything if stalin is not the soviet premier,tsk...
just believe what you think is best for your own brain,but for me,it is stalin who lead russia and defeated hitler...
do you know vlad of transylvania?he is far more brutal than any1 that has ever lived,yet he is a hero for his people,why?coz his brutality forces his people to be disciplined and even the turks who invaded them to leave his kingdom,tsk...
teslagod2003 1 year ago
Then the great collide begun bringing it to where it came from...
HungerStrikeUs 1 year ago
Does anyone know the name of the haunting German march that occurs at 7:10 when the Germans are retreating from Moscow?
shostyfan 1 year ago
Nazis probably would of won if they invaded in Spring 41 instead of the summer.
FUCKyouANDyourPIGmom 1 year ago
@FUCKyouANDyourPIGmom
I doubt it with Hitler in charge.
It wasnt really the lack of time that cracked the Germans in Russia but mostly Hitlers own ideas and changes to the planned operation.
Like the Germans themself say in this doc, more soldiers died from the climate conditions then from enemy fire.
Those conditions were thanks to Hitler's order to keep advacing instead of halting and resupply for next year.
Hitler had the best generals on the planet but he didnt listen to them.
Clausewitzz 1 year ago
@Clausewitzz
An extra 2 months would of let them take Moscow before the winter.....
FUCKyouANDyourPIGmom 1 year ago
that german officer was actually in charge of all CIA operations in europe during the 50's
Rico8458 1 year ago
Do you know his name?
pmaidhof 1 year ago
where was the german air force?
Rico8458 1 year ago
UNLEASH THE FUCKING SIBERIANS!!!
SunKing968 1 year ago 2
5*'s
the82spartans 1 year ago
Who was the german officer shown from around 1:04 to 1:14 of this video who speaks of losing 200 men of his battalion during that first 2 weeks of that first winter?
pmaidhof 1 year ago
Russian winter,vastness,nazi cruelty againest the people,Hitler's stubborness & of course human tenacity defeated the Germans.
nololwacan 1 year ago
And though I'm disgusted by Hitler as a man, German soldiers should not be damned just because they were following the will of their country. War is a terrible thing that forces people to make terrible choices.
iorekbyrnison1 2 years ago
You can't just throw out comments like that when you obviously don't know the causes of the war. The entire world was facing a depression and war at the same time so it's impossible to just throw stereotypes and generalities around like they are nothing.Stalin was paranoid, but given the past he probably had reason to be cautious.
iorekbyrnison1 2 years ago 2
4:10 says everything. There was another comment by Nazi soldiers, about Russian soldiers. Russians didn't scream and cry when wounded. Right there they realized what they are up against, in Moscow. I think this is also when they realized they had walked right into Stalin's deception scheme, playing a victim.
83ls 2 years ago
That poor little girl with a nightie on,I hate to think what her story was
fusilier45 2 years ago 14
@fusilier45
If I had to guess, she was probably mutilated like many Russian girls and women were by the retreating germans as "fuck you" gesture to the Russian men. It certainly makes the brutality the Russians showed on the advance to Berlin a bit more understandible albeit just as deplorable.
LiveGoat 2 years ago
World at War, simply the best commentary on WW2 ever made.
alexa00911 2 years ago 30
@alexa00911,I think its a Documentary
fusilier45 2 years ago
evil colided and butchered each other and made the free world a favour.
cikular 2 years ago
Two of the most evil groups, the Soviets and the Nazis, slaughtering each other. I think that this is the perfect example of a self-cleaning oven.
brodybear83 2 years ago
@brodybear83 Don't forget, you're also talking about millions of innocents.
Seabirdinflight7 2 years ago 3
I was mainly speaking of the opposing forces but, yes, you are right. Through the prism of hindsight my original comment now seems incredibly stupid and insensitive.
brodybear83 2 years ago
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At 5:40, the children and their parents hanging on nooses? Most Kraut pussies taken prisoner would have been slow-knived, 'just for fun', here's some Concentration camp style torture, you Kraut pussy-ass. Of the 90,000 pussy Krauts taken prisoner, 6000 came back - these were literally the cocksuckers for Russian guards - :).
fuhmeregan 2 years ago
I don't doubt that ... Germany is a society which culturally does accept sodomy and general cocksucking manoeuvres ...
fredhubner 2 years ago
The winter had no effect on the T42 Russian tanks or Russians. It's because Germans are pussies, is why their "disease" were so easily cleaned-up by Zukhov. Germans came into contact with Zukhov and his Siberian divisions - 'real' men - and the krauts just died like insects in their path.
fuhmeregan 2 years ago
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Yeah, the Germans were pussies...get a clue...
PeterMayer 2 years ago
yes yes, Germany paid the highest for this. occupation for 40 years.
unrar2020 2 years ago
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all historians will tell you ....even without winter ,the massive red army ,assisted by the u.s. economy .....couldnt fail!
cathkin33 2 years ago
Does anyone know what the sign says a 7:50?
midyrvette 2 years ago
"Fallen here on November 28 1941 for Greater Germany" and a list of the soldiers' names and birthdays. Most were 20 years old apparently.
jon1156 2 years ago
The winter defeated the germans in operation Barbarossa, not the fucking soviets.
iSnoreee 2 years ago 2
2000 la asian division
jinshiksung 2 years ago
@iSnoreee YES ,like Napoleon ! the general Winter !
lookgooddz 2 years ago
fucking iSnoreee
iguzik 2 years ago
Such a 'tremendous psychological and material blow' was so great that the Russians simply ignored it and kept pushing 'til they reached Dolfie's bunker ...
fredhubner 2 years ago 3
People must understand thought Moscow could not be captured Barbarossa inflicted tremendous psychological and material blow to the Russians.
With 3.5 Million Russians dead, over double that number captured Barbarossa was a Success.
The failure came when Hitler again made the same mistakes next year during his invasion of Stalingrad.
1. Delay the attack up till june giving very less time for the Wehrmacht to completely destroy.
2. Not provide winter clothing again at Stalingrad.
indianpatriot 2 years ago
Barbarossa was a success? HA hA GERMANS RAN LIKE KIDS FROM THE SIBERIAN TROOPS MAKING RUSSIA VICOROUS ONCE AGAIN!
SLAVAROSSIE 2 years ago
But if Hitler hadn't attacked the Russian army would have become too strong for the wehrmacht! So Barbarossa was a succes. Hitler led a smaller force into Russia with great losses, though he brought great damage to the Russians.
redpaw550 2 years ago
Barbarossa, a "succes"? Well i believe that's why the east germans had Soviet troops running all over their country for some 50 years to come...
skinnyskaller 2 years ago
@SLAVAROSSIE you won because Evil always wins !
lookgooddz 2 years ago
What are you talking about? Do you even know? Russia took a major hit to its landscape, moral, and population. Germany took a major hit to its soldiers and showcased a patent flaw in Hitler's strategy to take Russia: You can't beat nature. The only winner in the Barbarossa operation was the winter season. Don't ever forget that people must DIE during war. What happened Russia during that campaign was horrible for both sides.
iorekbyrnison1 2 years ago
This is patently absurd. In the four large engagements of the Eastern Front - Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk - the "invincible" Nazis were 0-4.
antimatterXXXIII 2 years ago
You left out : Riga, Smolensk, Kharkov, and Kiev :) 4-0 to nazis there
obbabob 2 years ago
Okay so they scored a couple of touchdowns. Even the Bills do that.
antimatterXXXIII 2 years ago
It seems that if Hitler hadn't postponed Barbarossa for those five weeks to invade Yugoslavia he could've taken Moscow and held up for the winter.
thx291 2 years ago
NOW BECAUSE YOU SAID THAT I DIDNT GIVE ANY FACTS HERE ARE SOME: Casualties and losses Allied leaders Over 61,000,000 Axis leaders Total dead Over 12,000,000 NOW IF THERE IS SOMEBODY STUPID ENOUGH TO TELL ME THAT OVER 70 MILLION DEAD PEOPLE IS A VICTORY FOR MANKIND THAN YOU SHOULD KILL YOURSELF!
bkraytchev 2 years ago
2 days after the russian offensive the japanese struck at pearl harbor. WOW.
lack of co-ordinated strategy lost the war for NaziGermany. cool.
CRUDSLUDGE 2 years ago
There is no winner in a war!
bkraytchev 2 years ago
Banal comment, depends on the particular war, in WW2 Great Britain stood up for Freedom, and won.
locheelad2 2 years ago
BS...
bkraytchev 2 years ago
Well you really made your point with excellent facts, knowledge of history, and well spoken. Now fuck off moron. The United Kingdom and it's Empire, by fighting, saved the world from the darkest time, Russia deserved all it got for signing that infamous Pact with Hitler in '39.
locheelad2 2 years ago
before the war the brits were stealing and killing people around the world, and when the germans attack, they start crying like little girls, cuz america and the russians, germans didn't take over britain.
baskovich 2 years ago
we should have a fucking all-out war against the fucking english, i think that, scots and irish would be happy.
god save the world from the cocksucker queen, and bless the united states of AMERICA.
baskovich 2 years ago
what fucking freedom, by the time britts were killing people in india, africa and stealing from them
baskovich 2 years ago
German pussies, Get owned by our Ice warriors
MillitaryMind927 2 years ago
dear yoyoman, it doesn't matter who won, the u s a was not in the war, they would never have entered if japan had not attacked pearl, the uk and it's allies would have fought on, they never needed your men, just supplies, lend-lease is a misnomer, britain had to give america bases, former british islands, gold, etc., that's why when it was all over , the u s was rich, and the brits who saved the world were impoverished, example; rationing went on for years after the end in britain.
locheelad2 2 years ago
very true
rationing went on for 5-15 years depends on want stuff
rule Brittanna
evilferret132 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
english man, can suck my dick, the ones that saved the world were the americans and the russians, scots are cool.
baskovich 2 years ago
Americans didnt save the world> They entered the war very late in the game. The Americans lost at most around 300 thousand, compare that to Soviets which lost near 30 million people! So who defeated Germany. It was Russian man power and American industry, but not American man power.
jeffman3003 2 years ago
America was only the strongest power at the end of WW2 because there was not fighting on it's soil. Sure soldiers were killed, but al of Europe was decimated. America's greatest power during the war was being able to make a large amounts of supplies in a small amount of time. Naturally when your country isn't a huk of ruins at the end of the war you can get along better than countries that have to rebuild.
iorekbyrnison1 2 years ago 2
and if it wasn't for Japan germany could have one without U.s. it was more simple because a quarter of all major allied powers were supplied by U.s. amd the the Anti comintern pact clearly says fight russians on the eastern front
yoyoman347 2 years ago
They deployed 3million righ so why didn't they divide into two groups and then if they were good and fresh in Ukraine they could come in as back up it would be like a surprise attack
yoyoman347 2 years ago
@1:04 Whoa, david bowie!
kaseybren 2 years ago
hitler had won ww2 if it had not been for the russian winter,
joshuahimself 2 years ago
Sept.6 40, the Whermacht were defeated decisevly by the R.A.F. This ended "Operation Sealion" i.e. the conquest of Great Britain. Yes 20 million Russians died, the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-agression pact, allowed Germany a free hand in Europe, Russia got half of Poland and no war. That came back to haunt them, after France fell, Britain Stood Alone against an axis of evil.
locheelad2 2 years ago
Almost surreal. The Eastern front was so brutal. Russia does have this mistique about it... the endless plains, and the "ants against the elephant" analogy...
karlkarlkarl1234 2 years ago
The soil near Stalingrad is full of human bone fragments, left from millions of people slaughtered mostly by the pigheadedness of two mad-dog dictators slugging it out at everyone else's expense.
Landrew0 2 years ago
The Germans could have easily won. When the German Army first entered Russia, they were hailed as liberators. Many Soviet troops, especially amongst the Ukranians, simply joined the Germans and fought on their side.
Unfortunately for the Soviet people, it wasn't the Germans that were behind the invasion. It was the Nazis. And the Nazis were just as bad as the Bolsheviks.
And that's when they lost. Beating the Bolsheviks would have been easy. Defeating the Russian people was impossible.
DrCruel 2 years ago 7
Germany could have won, right. The NAZIs were evil incarnate. did you watch this video?? di you see what they did to innocent civilians.
what a bunch of despicable barbarians!
kenramonet 2 years ago
Germany would have won if they invaded Russia April 1, 1941 instead of June ,that would put them in Moscow around 10 Oct 1941,the Russians would not have recovered psychologically nor physically. The war would then be won. The Russians were brutal with their own people that's why Germans in Ukraine were welcomed as liberators but the Germans screwed that up by mistreating them also, that is probably why they lost you can't mistreat people and expect to win.
eduardalet 2 years ago
Agreed, the biggest mistake the germans made was waging a war of extermination. but then again, that was the point of the war in the east anyway
nath6644 2 years ago
Why could Russian tanks and weapons work in cold weather and not German ??
donatsu8 2 years ago
They're tanks used a different kind of fuel that doesn't freeze.
Aphex217Twin 2 years ago
I do not agree with this at all! Thank God the Soviet government was able to turn the tide! It save us (Britain and the United States) millions of men! We had a vested interest in who won on the Eastern Front, and thank God it was our ally, the Soviet Union!
mc0558 2 years ago
The Battle of Moscow is the real turning point of the war. Yes, the Germans would advance in the Spring of 1942 again, but the cutting edge of invincibility had been destroyed. The Soviet soldier had prove himself stupendously heroic. The Soviet High Command had shown they had surprises up their sleeve just as the Germans thought they were finished. How many times Hitler said the Soviets had no more reserves.They are at the end of the road.Every time, he was wrong! That is where the war was won!
mc0558 2 years ago 2
Using that line of logic couldn't you say that the Battle of Britain was the turning point?
mcshotgun96 2 years ago
mcshotgun, yes that line of logic cd conclude the BofB was the turning point. If "turning point" is where offensive action gives way defence thereafter, then Stalingrad is the turning point (although the BofKursk was German offensive action). The BofMoscow sees the Wehrmacht thrown into headlong retreat for the 1st time. The lustre of unbeatability is tarnished and the conviction of it, destroyed. BofB meant UK wd survive, but we do not know if cd Hitler cd return as he attacked Russia instead.
mc0558 2 years ago
Germany is never to rise again as a military power.
lamrof 2 years ago
Most Russians have the faces of big babies.
TorchTexas 2 years ago
This is still the best documentary I think I've ever seen on Barbarossa...Can anyone recommend any that are even better?
SunKing968 2 years ago
Zhukov must have advised Stalin, to stay, to bolster troop and civilian morale - hard to attach goodness to Stalin, but there must have been some of that.
fuhmeregan 2 years ago
Stalin was no coward! He didn't need Zhukov to tell him this.
mc0558 2 years ago
Poor Germans - Russians didn't want prisoners - they would stink to much! Stench of a German would be too putrid, have to bulldoze them all underground takes time and fuel, wasted on scum!! :)
fuhmeregan 2 years ago
The Russians didn't even care for their own. That's even more sad. They must have know that their own people were scum.
TorchTexas 2 years ago
wish Hitler had given them the Cold clothes they deserved
indianpatriot 2 years ago
You nazi groupie! they lost, get over it. You are a loser.
peanut2587 2 years ago
There was a PBS documentary on Barbarossa which talked about why Hitler couldn't get the winter clothes for the German soldiers, it is because Stalin would have noticed the fluctuation in the price and demand for wool on the world market and Stalin would have figured out it was being acquired by Germany and he would know that those coats were to supply the German army and he'd know in advance that Hitler was going to invade Russia.
JimmySmers 2 years ago
he could have invaded then a day after got the coats...but didnt
blizkreg is easy of small nations...
it gets exbonetanly harder the bigger they get.....russia is the biggest......=imposible
evilferret132 2 years ago
Not impossible. Russia lucked out because of Hitler's interference with his diversion of tanks towards Kiev
ILLAsassin 2 years ago
that song that starts playing at around 7:13 in the background....man, makes you pretty pissed off if ur German of how close they came to Moscow and ended the war in victory, but instead those brave and professional soldiers just froze to death cuz the dumbfucks in Berlin wouldnt even listen to their requests for some warm cloths....
youngsamurai88 2 years ago
Makes ya thankful to the hand of Providence that the powers that be in Berlin were allowed to be blinded if you ask me.
Let's be honest about the situation here. It's not like they didn't have history books in order to gauge what happened to Napolean.
Kind of like young Nazis today not understanding that their defeat is inevitable due to their inabilities to understand the past.
Funny that they don't get that 18 stands for asshole too.
so . . . .88 . . 4118
ski2exs 2 years ago
dude, u need to get out more, seriously, hahaha
youngsamurai88 2 years ago
Oh now don't u worry 'bout that. . .seriously. I'm out everywhere. Just call me spud. LOL
ski2exs 2 years ago
They only requested warm clothing in October, the acquiring of 3 million winter coats would have taken 6 months. If it was going to be done it should have been done during the summer.
JimmySmers 2 years ago
no it was hitlers fault he should have just destroyed mocow then if that didnt finish it then strike stalingrad quick and then it was over
yoyoman347 2 years ago
No, Hitler was right to conquer the Ukraine instead of Moscow, Germany needed the Ukrainian food supplies to survive the British naval blockade against the continent of Europe and the Ukraine was far more valuable in food resources than Moscow.
JimmySmers 2 years ago
For those idiots who think the Germans were stopped only due to the Russian winter , didn't the Russians also have to deal with the same weather?
If the Germans were less prepared than the Soviets for the weather, then their army was by definition deficient. All the Nazi generals blamed Hitler for losing as an excuse for their own failings.
The Soviets had more of a handicap beginning with the absence of almost every top general . They were murdered by Stalin in the purges.
jaythehistorian1 2 years ago 3
Number of factors involved here. Hitle presented an idealogy that the Germans were a superior race and the soldiers believed that everyone was inferior. You cant treat the people you conquer like that. If the people of those terrorities were better treated by the Germans and the Germans fought with moral and integrity, things wouldve been different. You just cant win a War when you use barbaric tactics in the long run.
JayTsay 2 years ago
"...i saw the russian tank running through the field and snow, our own tanks couldn't drive and shoot, because it was too cold..."
I agree the russians had their own problems, but they had to be better prepared, they couldn't let a third of their army freeze to death every year. But even if the dull russian army had the same problems as the germans, the siberians were equipped and trained to fight in this territory.
Why do you think they weren't?
Hooovercat 2 years ago
Why didn't the German generals request winter coats in advance way back in July? Because they were just as unprepared as Hitler was, their minds were focused on a sudden victory rather than planning ahead.
JimmySmers 2 years ago
they did hitler said no
i think
evilferret132 2 years ago
Q. The greatest Russian General??
A. "General Winter!"
Soviets had what we Americans call; "Home Field Advantage"...
randy95023 2 years ago
Q2 Who was the best hman russian general in 1941
A2: Adolf Hitler. No plans for winter wars or listening to his army officers crying to strike for vital targets like Mosow BEFOER winter...
PMMagro 2 years ago
Q3. The greatest American Admiral??
A3. "The Atlantic Ocean!"
yurom 2 years ago
One thing people have to realize is that
its impossible to take hundreds of thousands of prisoners and feed them clothe them house them, the only sensible thing to do is kill them, I'll be damned if I capture someone in war that im going to share my food sorry charly..
readynow12345 2 years ago
The Allies took hundreds of thousands of German prisoners, and they didnt kill them...
Agamemnon862 2 years ago
had they retreated and came back a few months later..the russian military would still be very weak and they would have won..the russian airforce was destroyed, mist of their equipment etc....fukkin hitler and his stubburness
fuckoff187 2 years ago 2
vodka doesnt freeze but nazi butt does!!! LMAO
westnblu 2 years ago
I will say this; Rumsfeld and Hitler have one thing in common, neither supplied their troops properly : ')
I guess war tactics and politics are not synonymous
DLynnguitarplayer 2 years ago 3
Long LIve Comrade Stalin!
Eternal shame to sociopathic nazi fags,their NATO/NWO/ZOG spiritual brothers and most importantly russian liberast traitors Gorby&Co!
S prazdnikom Pobedi,tovarishchi!
schroederdevrient 2 years ago
Let me guess.....schroeder is a nasty, immature, spotty Russian youth, convinced that Stalin's USSR was a great country. It was not. Over 20 million Russians died under Stalin's purges, famines, forced Labour and in the Gulag. Most were guilty of NOTHING. Under Lenin and Stalin the soviet people suffered more than during WW11 itself. You are a pathetic cretin, whose rantings dishonour those millions who died during the nightmare of communist tyranny just as evil as Nazism.
DrZenith 2 years ago
Yeah I'm pretty sure it was a tree... But hey whatever you think Wachetpower it's still funny as hell. Cheers!
BlastingFatHerns 2 years ago
Check out the jumping tree at 4:53! That spruce gets some serious air...
BlastingFatHerns 2 years ago
That was a person...
Wachetpower 2 years ago
looks an awful lot like a tree buddy
mdiddy6672 2 years ago
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BlastingFatHerns 2 years ago
russian winter freezes cannons. omg
abyssio 2 years ago 5
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witherwind33 2 years ago
Slava na vyeky sovyetskim geroyam...smert germancom vsem oni pust vsyegda nacisti i vragy,svinei vsyech !!!!!
mysong42 3 years ago 3
Well the people I was freinds with were Yugoslavions, and it was their uncles and grandfathers who were occupied. However, they spoke glowingly of how they were treated by the German army, although Hitler hated the slavs. They kept saying the German army acted "profesenial" and never raped or pillaged. But, I dont know about how it was against the Russians. My guess is that the German army was ok to Russia, but the SS units were not.
calimar28 3 years ago
there is a great deal of evidence to prove that the german army - not just the SS - committed acts of atrocity to civilians within all of the countries they invaded. jews were systematically rounded up and 'dealt with' throughout europe, no doubt professionally. if there is one thing that the nazis were professional at was murder. militarily they were inept because they had such poor leadership drunk on power and incapable of grasping the determination of the russians to drive them out.
bunterx 3 years ago 3
red army soldiers liberate their comrades only to shoot them for being in enemy hands for too long. they also liberated US POWS from German captivity and sent them to Gulags.
WE NOW KNOW atrocities like Katyn Massacre & certain work camps in Poland & Czech that were thought to be Nazi were actually Russian. Look it up
Stalin & his regime didnt give a damn about his people, just look at the 25 million more deaths caused by communist oppression in the next 3 post war decades
calibre9mm 2 years ago
well maybe Germans didnt rape so much because they were fresh off from Paris and Berlin and from their homes, not because they were more ''moral'' ??? And the Soviets had fought for 4 years in harsh, unimaginable conditions just because a crazy Austrian fuck named Hitler needed ''lebensraum'' ?
din33z 2 years ago
I have this series, it is great and offers perspective that can no longer be had, since many of the soldiers who speak in this documentry are now dead.
However, at 5:48 and after, the Germans are portrayed as brutal to the Russian civilians. Is this true? I have spoken to people in Europe who were occupied by the Germans, and it is said that the German army is the most professinal in the world, and never hurt or rape civilians. So what is the truth here?
calimar28 3 years ago
have any of the people you've spoken to been Russians? keep in mind that Hitler only made his pact with Stalin because he knew Britain and France would declare war when he invaded Poland...but, underneath that initial cloak of civil agreement, Hitler had a deep-seated hatred of Russians, believing the Soviet Empire was controlled by Jews...the entire nation was sub-human in his mind.
damoosebelly 3 years ago
u should watch 'When Hitler Fought Stalin' on Youtube
it shows how both Hitler & Stalin used threat to fight threat in the Russian populace.
eg: Any russian civillians who so much as talk to the german occupants, even when the Red Army is nowhere near to protect them, Red Army partisans would execute them. even when starvation is idle.
calibre9mm 3 years ago
Are you crazy? Nazis killed 21 million civilians and 3 of the 4 million Soviet POW. The German Army was the most barbaric one.
anaplastic 2 years ago 5
it might have been the german army but the murdering was carried out more likely as a result of nazi ideology
Angmarr 2 years ago
The German Army were the most barbaric in the history of the world is calimar 28 retarded ? on heavy duty drugs or both?
jaythehistorian1 2 years ago
all over chris davies socks
bluestar66677 3 years ago
BTW, Microsoft Windows is crap OS. Start to use Linux.
tranmere789 3 years ago
Does anyone know the name of the Battallion commander at 1:04.
transylman 3 years ago
At exactly 4.55 is that a human being flying to the left out of that blast??
karamarouge 3 years ago
Nah, its a tree.
transylman 3 years ago
And then the Russians strike back..
It was only a matter of time.
sidensvans54 3 years ago
This is document of 70's and didn't really tell the real background of this war. Instead they just told "conventional wisdom of Barbarossa".
tranmere789 3 years ago
Correct, the angle presented is outdated.
JimmySmers 3 years ago