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Beevor, Antony. Berlin: The Downfall 1945. London: Viking Press, 2002.
Bellamy, Chris. Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War: A Modern History. London: Pan, 2009.
Glantz, David M, and Jonathan M House. When Titans Clashed : How the Red Army Stopped Hitler. Lawrence, Kansas University Press Of Kansas, 1995.
Hastings, Max. Inferno: The World At War, 1939-1945. New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2012.
Hillers, Marta. A Woman in Berlin. MacMillan Publishers, New York City :2005.
Grossman, Vasiliĭ, Antony Beevor, and Luba Vinogradova. A Writer at War : A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945. New York: Vintage Books, 2007.
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Venkov, Igor N. “How the Berlin Garrison Surrendered 2 May 1945.” Army History, 17 (1990): 20-25. www.jstor.org/stable/26302914.
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This is good
I Dont Like vpns
Forgive for asking but could you do a video about North Korea
Meh
Epic
"Why fight room to room when you could just destroy the room?"
Why did paulus never think of that
BOMBS AWAY
@@Spiderfisch he was too busy freezing to death
Pretty much the Soviet way of thinking.
Is that American speech?
Fun fact: One of the last diplomats to visit Hitler in his bunker was Thai ambassador, and one of the last units to defend his bunker and Reich Chancellery was French Waffen SS Battalion "Charlemagne".
...and Hitler's last meal was spaghetti with tomato sauce (N.Ohler says that).
And his last act before retiring to quarters to end it was playing mario on his NES.
Fun fact that is not widely known.
@@More_Row Hitler was a well known gamer, late in the evenings when the soviets advanced Hitler, to lift his spirits would play a round of hoi4 with the boys (Goebels & Börman)
@@theoldcavalier7451 In a desperate attempt to win the war Hitler challenged MnM to a rap battle but ended up loosing, he was so ashamed that he shot him self in the head.
(Source: The History Channel)
Yes, there were indeed French SS in the Battle of Berlin. However, there were only 300 ~ 500+ French SS men who were a part of the "SS Sturm-Battalion Charlemagne" Not the entire SS Charlemagne division. According to Tony le Tissier's book about the French SS, Antony Beevor's book about the Battle of Berlin, Mark Felton's video, and some other sources.
I was in Berlin very recently. The thing about Hitler's bunker is just how close the Reichstag actually was to his bunker. Standing at the area where the entrance leading to the lower bunker was situated it was possible to see the flag upon the Reichstag. The Soviets were incredibly close to Hitler's location when they were fighting in the Reichstag. Just one street corner away, the Red Army was barely 8 minutes walk away.
Did they know this?
@@Demonetization_Symbol no
8 minute walk in a war torn city is like a full day of fighting.
@@crashtestdummy2337 or in Stalingrad 3 months
14:40 Reminds Zelensky, doesn't it?)))
The size of eastern front battles still blows my mind. As an American, I'm used to learning about Pacific WW2 battles involving hundreds and sometimes thousands of troops on the bigger islands.
I cannot fathom what is was like to see MILLIONS of men sweeping across the steppe into these enormous battles. Just insane.
your country participated in wide fronts in the western front, albeit in a smaller scale
@@sleepyuser5189 the only real massive US land operation was D-Day. Period.
The Soviets had
Leningrad Breakthrough
Operation Uran
Moscow Counteroffensive
Operation Bagration
Etc.
The Kursk battle was literally the largest tank battle ever and possibly the largest battle, overall, ever.
look up chinese battles of history
@@parrotcraft7503The U.S. fielded 2 massive armies on opposite ends of the planet with tens of thousands of ships, planes, heavy bombers, aircraft carriers, submarines etc etc. The Eastern front was a slugging match, static defense and retreat. The operations in the Pacific dwarf them in quite a few ways. The Asian-Pacific Theater had been at war since 1937 with more dead civilians than Europe by 1945. America fielded over 500,00 men with thousands of ships at Okinawa alone. No other country had the types of logistics and overall firepower covering the globe as did the U.S. but please keep talking about Stalingrad and its headbutting approach to warfare. Germans couldn't even supply themselves on land and the Soviets were receiving lend lease trucks, radios, parts, fuel etc from the US with lend-lease. Since Europeans did very little overall fighting and massive amphibious landings they like to downplay its scale and focus on the Eastern European slugfest.
I love the "Downfall" inspired thumbnail. Absolutely incredible film. You forget you're even watching one and not a documentary, or even in the room yourself. The fact that it was done by the Germans themselves, makes it all the more stunning.
How unfortunate that the film has just been made into this huge meme where the Fuhrer rants about _anything._
@@deleetiusproductions3497 funny enough, the meme is how I found the movie. I’m glad it’s out there because people who care about the subject are led to one of the best films of the Second World War.
@@deleetiusproductions3497 Thats meme culture, move is great!
Bruno Ganz's Hitler is the most accurate depiction of him in movies ever. From looks to mannerism, everything.
@@gigachad7153 True, mad corporal and ex painter, lucid daydreams of defeating uSSR in 1945
I've been waiting for a remastered version of this. It was worth the wait.
Indeed, it was worth it.
Pretty much a remake
Wait this is a remaster? Or Remake rather of a older video?
@@lucask4377 seems like it.
@@itsblitz4437 ...YES?!
16:37
"My Führer...Steiner..."
"Steiner couldn't mass sufficient forces for an assault. Steiner's assault didn't happen."
*takes off glasses while visibly shaking*
"The following stay in here"
"Keitel. Jodl, Kreps and Burgdorf."
It's hard to imagine how epic the parliament battle was like. It was so brutal & epic, that no one can talk about the battle of Berlin without mentioning both sides fighting over this single building.
It’s comparable to when the Jedi were fighting the 501st and Vader in the Jedi temple when order 66 was given in the hallways to room to room combat
@@percdigest8402 oh god I’m getting flashbacks to battlefront 2 (2005) the lightsabers oh the lightsabers
mm yes i am a grown man forced into battle and watched my friends die in a heartbeat beside me mm yes sehr epic
The Reichstag building had little value to the Nazis, it was a symbol of parliamentary democracy and was neglected since the Reichstag fire.
Yes. Men dying is epic. smh
“I wanted to shout, to call to all our brothers, our soldiers, who are lying in the Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian and Polish earth, who sleep forever on the fields of our battles: Comrades, can you hear us? We’ve done it!” Millions of Soviet troops and civilians dead, I couldn’t imagine what it’s like being able to see a finish line after such a conflict.
Grossman was the most underrated writer of the twentieth century. If only he was allowed the freedom to publish Life and Fate in his life time. He deserved to see it's success
Now Soviets are fighting against each other.
Tragic fate 😭😥
@@KillerofWestoids humans always find more reasons and invent more technology to kill each other. It’s how it’s always been and always will be :(
I got chills.
Stalin would kill millions more.
imagine the poor soviet who went from stalingrad to berlin and winning only to get shot in the final securing of the city
A sad occurrence indeed but I'm sure most of the Red Army would have been glad to give their all in the final round. They'd suffered enough as it was.
someone has to be the final KIA in every war... surviving is always a matter of luck.
I went this year to Berlin, I was walking past a building in which the bullet holes were still visible to this day, the city is very interesting, there’s so much History to be found there, from the Prussian buildings to the Cold war buildings like the East German TV tower. There’s so much to be seen there. I recommend it to anyone who’s into History like myself to visit the German capital. I’ll be back one day to discover the rest of the city, since I only went for 2 days, which is too short.
@IlluminatiReign you’re welcome! I hope that you have the oppurtinity to do so
Pope‘s revenge
next time you should check out the unterwelten (underworld) museums. the stasi museum was interesting too
@@jimothypersson8306 thanks for the recommendation.
Be careful. Berlin turned into a dangerous zone with all the refugees. A lot if knifemen from afrika walk on the streets
“Mark my words, Comrade… One day things will change. We will take the fight to their land… To their people… To their blood.”
-Viktor Reznov (Call of Duty: World at War)
actually the russians made it clear they were fighting the nazis and NOT the german people...
"Citizens of Berlin! A ring of steel surrounds your rotten city! We will crush all those who dare resist the will of the Red Army!"
Oh, no. Not video games quotes.
@@thundabearz5092 if you played waw you would understand.
@@madman2555 i did. That's a fucking video game and this was a real life event.
I'm glad you added the note on civilian casualties at the end. Just imagine having been an innocent civilian anywhere between Berlin and Moscow during the second world war. War destroys everything
Innocent is a questionable word to describe WW2 Berlin inhabitants. But I do feel bad for good people suffering.
@@kevinaguilar7541 they were inocent people in berlin as in moscow maybe not the man but there were women childern too people forget that the Soviets did atrocities too
@@nicolasberky145 being just a women or a child doesn't exempt you from being a bad person. Remember the Hitler youth?
And I acknowledge the ussr atrocities. Both sides suck, but one side sucks more.
@@kevinaguilar7541 psycho detected
@@kevinaguilar7541 Don't bring up the hitler youth. People are talking about the non-combatant women and children. Those were innocent.
I love how there’s just a Wunderwaffe blueprint among the weapons blueprints at 10:11
I think that's a weapon from one of the Wolfenstein games, lol.
@@DarkElfDiva nah brother, thats COD WaW zombies kinda wunderwaffe
@@herrdoctor2895 I'm having nightmares after seeing the map from 19:37 so many god damn grenades I remember finally completing that mission after 2 days of ruthlessly trying then that same day I completed Heart of the Reich I finished the World at War campaign on Veteran which put an end to 4 years of playing that campaign on veteran cause I quit for 2 years after reaching Burn 'Em Out and getting to the final part.
Absolutely incredible! The touching of morale, and especially always coming back to the motive of extreme rage for vengeance is spot on. Bravo!
Not only did Moustache man went on the epic "The War is Lost" rant.
But he also went on a rant that his XBox Live had been canceled and that he couldn't find Waldo in the Where's Waldo books.
Finally he’s covered this! Thank you so much man. I learned a lot from this and oversimplified’s channel and you really help me with my studies of history. I appreciate you. Please continue this!
He already covered this one this is just an updated version
@@loke801 Correct. Although, I can see why they thought it hadn’t been covered yet. It’s been three years, after all.
Check documentary Soviet Storm on youtube. Best documentary about ww2 from Russia perspective.
by studio Star Media
@@loke801 True
You know it's going to be good when it's a remastered video in 2022. Honestly looking forward towards a new "downfall of germany in the west front" with your new animators. Can't wait to start watching.
If you don’t already watch him, look up the CZcams channel “Eastory”.’ He makes some great animated maps.
@@randomguy2023 great channel!
I visited one of those tunnels in Berlin. It was an eerie feeling when I walked in. I could feel the energy and it was odd knowing the Germans fought for Berlin in the same area where I was at
A diary entry of a German Officer at the Seelow Hights:
"A deafening noise fills the air. Compared to everything that has happened before, this is no longer a barrage, it is a hurricane that tears everything up above us, in front of us and behind us. The sky is glowing red, as if it is about to burst at any moment. The ground shakes, trembles and rocks like a ship in a force 10 wind."
This was the most terrible barrage to hit German Forces. It showed many youths, why even the most fearless veterans fered the katyusha. It wasnt called Stalin Organ for nothing
I always love how he goes in depth with the details and context with any topic. Wish my teachers were like this.
Many teachers want to be like this, they want to enflame your desire to learn, but suffer from critical shortages of time and money and a large number of children to teach and care for.
You should consider the pay check of a teacher, amount of stress caused by class(es) and the short amount of time to teach and also the time limit because they CAN'T go to deep in something because there's other stuff to cover, btw i see an azur lane enjoyer as well
Here in Germany, teaching about specific battles of the second world war is actually disallowed or at least discouraged to avoid young student developping a sense of national pride for the Nazis
@@tiredtraveler4536 "Nazis". Apostrophes denote possession or contraction but are never used for pluralisation.
As a former teacher, albeit not history teacher, many kids just don’t care. They care enough to pass usually but that’s about it.
I'm German and my family is from Berlin. My grandfather, living in the outskirts of the city, told me that when the Soviets advanced, the Wehrmacht shelled the outskirts of the city from the city-center. The Germans living there as well as the attacking Soviets would seek shelter in the same rooms/cellars, sitting side by side, even sharing their food with eachother.
Then the Soviet soldiers also shared your great grandmother, you grandmother and great aunt with them at gunpoint.
@@stevecooper7883 That is neither a nice nor a funny comment. I could tell you many devastating stories that he also told, but r*pe is thank god not among his personal experiences.
@@ianp727 It wasn't funny. Your comment disregarded the absolute barbarity of the godless soviet soldiers.
@@stevecooper7883 My comment doesn't disregard anything because it is an isolated account of personal experience from an individual who experienced the horrors of the battle of Berlin when he was thirteen years old.
@@ianp727 Thanks for sharing the story. See, it's not difficult to just be nice. The actions of the Soviets are not justified by any measure, but at the same time it must be mentioned that it was hardly the whole organisation. People constantly male the same valid point for the wehrmacht, its no different for the Red Army. Still, I sympathise with all who are forced to face the horrors of war.
This is my 3rd video watched by this channel. I used to see lots of these videos but i didnt watch them. Then one day I tried it and it was brilliant, crystal-clear explained with beautiful animations. You and your team should be proud of these videos and making more people learn history easier and more interestingly. Thank You!
My Grandfather took indirectly part at the battle. He was drafted in 1942, aged 15 to the Flak.
When he was 17, he was sent to the RAD, the Reichsarbeitsdienst. He dug a defensive line in front of Berlin. He told of Gun Emplacments, Trenches and simple earth bunkers. From what he told, it must have been terrible. There wasnt enough fuel to keep intact the already rare machines, so they had no support by machinery. THe ground was frozen, it was the winter of 1944, one of the coldest in Germany. He said, every single centimetre was torture, and he cursed those that watched and ordered in silence, because they hadnt done a thing to support them. He is usually calm and reserved, but he called them names when he told about it that i defenitly don't wanna repeat here.
He was later injured by an american machine gun. He surived by pure luck, that he wasn't hit by a light-shell
Your grandfather was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1942?
The part about the commissars re enforcing the sentiment amongst the troops to be terrifying and avenge their people and motherland was really eye opening. As silly as it may sound it reminds me of the beginning of the WaW mission Ring of steel ,commissar Markhov preaching to the infantry to be as violent and merciless as possible to the enemy before the subsequent assault. For me his speech was one of the most iconic bits in the game. To know it was somewhat based in reality makes it more vivid and badass.
"war crimes are bad ass"
@@wurzel9671 "Its only a war crime if we lose!"
''avenge their people and motherland'' yet alot of their rear guard units who came from the untouched far east were the ones commiting heinous '''revenge'' on the local berlin female population. what motherland were they avenging?
If it was your wife, mother or sister at the hands of the Red Army, being raped in front of you, I doubt you would call it “bad ass”
@@kasualmechanic4854 you seem to have misplaced a strawman here, better collect it
20:04 the story of who actually hoisted the flag, and the truth behind that iconic image is a very interesting one
True weren’t there 3 squads told to hoist the Soviet flag
@@delta1-248 2 got bogged down, one has a guy that does looting
According to the UC Santa Barbara's escholarship name "Of Tablecloths and Soviet Relics: A Study of the Banner of Victory (Znamia Pobedy)" by Anne M. Platoff, the true story is:
1) Those two soviet soldiers in the animation should'nt be Sergeant Mikhail Alekseevich Egorov and Junior Sergeant Meliton Var-lamovich Kantariia who raised the "Victory Banner #5". But they are Khaldei's flag raisers that featured in the famous STAGED photo taken by Evgenii Anan’evich Khaldei, Soviet Jewish photographer from the Ukraine.
2) Interestingly enough, there was another guy that supposed to be credited among the real Flag raisers too (Egorov and Kantariia), his name is Lieutenant Aleksei Prokop’evich Berest from Ukraine. The reason why his name was removed is not exactly known and a lot of people seem to have certain theories about this as well.
My favorite detail about the battle is that many Germans in the bunkers began writing “Learn Russian fast” on the walls as many feared the Red Army to such an extent
Это их совесть мучила. Если знаешь историю восточного фронта - поймёшь. Я беларус, и знаю - что советы их НЕНАВИДЕЛИ
And for good reason
Amazing video, the quality of the animation only gets better everytime! 💗🤞✨
Fun fact:
One of the original Soviet Flag-Bearers ontop of the Reichstag was wearing two handwatches when their iconic photo was taken,
This was illegal (Cause of No Looting i believe) and the Photo was subsequently editted to make it 1 Handwatch instead of two.
some people say it wasn't a watch but a hand compass or something like that, but it looked like a watch. idr the details.
Not two handwatches, it was like 8
Those aren't the original flag raisers though. They are Khaldei's flag raisers that featured in the famous staged photo taken by Evgenii Anan’evich Khaldei. According to the UC Santa Barbara's escholarship name "Of Tablecloths and Soviet Relics: A Study of the Banner of Victory (Znamia Pobedy)" by Anne M. Platoff.
I thought there were more than 2 watches.
"Mein Failure, Steiner...."
"Steiner's counter attack failed to commence. He lacked sufficient manpower for a counterattack"
@@kasualmechanic4854
*Takes off glasses*
"The following will stay: Keitel, Jodl, Krebs and Burgdorf"
@@josevictorionunez9312THAT WAS AN ORDER! STEINER'S ATTACK WAS AN ORDER?! WHO ARE YOU TO DARE TO OPPOSE MY ORDERS?!
This is so well put together. Keep up the fantastic work!
This was very informative. And I appreciated the opening appearance by and quote from Vassily Grossman, one of my favorite writers!
I remember watching the original video you guys made. It feels like it has all come full circle now. Good work Griffen.
No better way to start a chill Saturday morning than by watching a video on one of the most dramatic battles in history 💀
I like how Stalin sent in 2,500,000 men into just capturing Berlin while Putin thought he could capture all of Ukraine with only 250,000 men.
Putin is not going to capture all of Ukraine, he just wants to destroy the mainly-fascist army.
@@handlemonium even less than that
He thought he could bomb kyiv to make them become all uncoordinated, taking the airport to deliver men that way and such. But backfired immensely. I suppose NATO expected a little bit of resistance but not this extent. Since they were already being trained by NATO. The thing is, everybody (even the US) expected it to not last more than a week or two. Like the famous saying when they the US offered him to fly out of kyiv and he just asked for ammunition, not a flight. Essentially zelenskyy 100% saved Ukraine. if he left, Ukraine would've become a part of Russia today. And getting that back would be nearly impossible. This is more crucial than anyone can comprehend here.
@@handlemoniumits like the bay of pigs invasion except they werent trying to conceal it at all and russian army just sucks
Amazing content Griffin, I hope to be able to support your channel one day but until then hopefully this encouragement will do. Thank you!
This is your best work yet, keep going!
Man, am i the only going to tears hearing Vasily Grossman words? Such a heavy and bloody struggle, i would literally scream
" Guys, that's it, that's our final victory, all our pain, our suffering are for this moment for our mother, our sons and daughters, our parents, for the blood of millions they shed in our homeland, TO BERLIIIN!! "
Yes, because countless of those soldiers would then be murdered by the NKVD or sent to work in some shitty factory till they were 70. Things wouldn't get better in the USSR until the 60s, but then they reached a high point and started declining again all the way until the fall of the soviet union. It's depressing af.
imagine the relief they felt
@@thelordofcringe tf do you mean? Do you really think the soldiers who storm berlin would be put into Gulag? What is wrong with you, and 8 working hours in the soviet union and pension system did exist, and it is not up to 70, housing are provided, free healthcare are provided
@@thelordofcringe I mean it was hell in the Soviet Union but it was a certain kind of hell
@@briantarigan7685 look at his name bro...
“The Allies pushed into Germany on both sides. The Soviet Union took Warsaw and kept pushing to Berlin. In his bunker, Mustache man realized that all hope was lost. Berlin fell, and with it Mustache Man’s dream of a great German Empire. Two of the Axis nations have been knocked out, one more to go.”
Oversimplified
Meanwhile, in the bunker...
Squared-Moustached Man: This is all because of *Fegelein!* *FEGELEIN!!* *FEGELEIN!!!*
@@jamesmmcgill "If Fegelein hadn't been so influential in the SS, we would've won the war!"
“Don’t worry guys who name I forgot assault will save us!”
@@nadersaid2215 My Fuhrer, Steiner was his name. He, uh...
Always love to see another AMAZING video by my favorite history channel!
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Correct ! Yes DonwFall
Thanks for ur videos. I really like history and you just explain it in a very fun way. I also like that you guys don’t always talk about WWII, so it’s not always the same thing. Thanks to the Armchair Historian group for making such great videos :)
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I love your channel Griffin Johnsen! Its one of the best of its kind. Greetings from Argentina!!!
16:17
"With Steiner's assault, that will all come into order."
Hitler.
“They come for our blood, but instead bathe in their own!” -Sgt. Viktor Resnov, Call of Duty: World at War
The Miller-Petrenko perspective of the game taught me better history than actual history books.
@@crbkqw sad
This one has been my most anticipated remaster ever since I watched the original.
You make such good videos, I hope you will blow to the top soon. Great work .
Top tier historical content done in a way that doesn't show the same old stock footage we've seen numerous times. Fantastic job to the whole Armchair Historian Team.
Thank you for this video! My great grandfather grandfather 3 granduncles great granduncle fought as the Soviets in World war II. Sadly 2 of my Granduncle's Great granduncle didn't make it, they only survived until 1941.
I have been waiting for a more recent video from you covering this topic. Thanks so much!
Fantastic high quality videos as always
I love the Wunderwaffe DG-2 Easter egg you put in you’re video Mr. A.C.H that was pretty clever
It's nice to see you remastered this, you should remaster more like these in the future.
Another great video, amazing job of depicting this battle
holding out hope for a video about Castle Itter
I love this channel, it is so interesting and makes subjects that perhaps wouldn't be entirely enticing very catching and enjoyable. I hope one day my channel (also a history channel) will be as gripping as yours! Best the Knight of History.
Wow, great job on the Russian voiceover! I’m Russian and I highly appreciate you and your team for going the extra mile and your hard work!!!
Let’s not fail to mention that Polish units also raised the Polish colours on the Reichstag. Poetic justice.
Im from Poland my grandpa fought in battle of Berlin in Polish people's army he was in artillery.
yeah and were shot nearly by the Soviets. The Soviets were just as bad as the Germans
Love the Poles. Bunch of chads
Hooray for puppet states!
Fun fact last German victory was against the Polish as well in April 20th at the battle of Bautzen
An amazing video as per usual. Keep it up!
I am Russian. My great-grandfather participated in the battle for Berlin. He was a tank driver, got injured and returned home. He talked about how tank caterpillars could not go because human guts were wound around them ... War is very scary and no one needs it. Before the war in Ukraine, everyone told me about it, but I couldn’t even imagine what it was, waking up with the realization that your country is at war and seeing a video of the places where you were when they were destroyed by the hands of your own country (I lived in Ukraine 3 years) Appreciate your peaceful sky above your head
Phew, tank god he wasn't obliterated by a king tiger
AMAZING video! So good! You are the only resource I trust!
Did I just see a Wunderwaffe DG-2 blueprint? The references on your videos are getting awesome!
"Citizens of Berlin! A ring of steel surrounds your rotten city! We will crush all those who dare to resist the will of the Red Army! Abandon your posts! Abandon your homes! Abandon all hope!"
"sh*t, we need to cross these bolsheviks"
flee flee for your lives
URRAAA!!!
just beat world at war on veteran the other day, I still hear the tink tink of grenades in my nightmares
URRRRAAA!!!
I'm not sure if you're really interested or not but the Crusades would be a cool subject to cover, you're very interesting to listen to you and do a good job portraying what you were talking about.
I feel I panned your PNG Australia vs Japan video like a year ago , this is much better Griffin keep up the good work
"Our grip tightens around the black heart of Berlin. The Führer demands all to shed their last drop of blood in it's defense. The old, the young, the weak. If they stand for Germany, they die for Germany. Building by building. Room by room. One rat at a time." - Victor Reznov from CoD World At War
UUUURRRA!
The most badass quote in any cod game
ooh, makes me wanna play WaW again
Step 1!
Ha ha
Couldn’t have dreamed about a better topic! Awesomeeee guys! Made my day
Wait a second, you’re saying that my favorite bit of orchestra was played for this battle?!?
My appreciation for this piece of history has escalated tenfold!!!
Albert Speer claims the orchestra played 'Gotterdammerung' during the battle for Berlin. Perhaps they played several selections from the 'Ring' series.
And I think he attributed the Ride of the Valkyries to Strauss (it was Mahler). *pushes up glasses*
16:55 - 1.5 million Soviet troops are troops ON THE ENTIRE FRONT, and 40 thousand German troops are ONLY the garrison of Berlin.
I know that you most likely took this information from World at War, but the information there was false.
The fall of Berlin is an underreported event, thanks for this video. But I suspect there is even more to uncover in this area.
It is underreported because in Western schools when you learn about World War 2 they go out of their way to make the Eastern front sound like a side story instead of the Main Event. The vast majority of German troops and material were sent east to be put in the meat grinder. The Allies in the Western theatre didn't see armies even half the size, even during the Ardennes Offensive.
@@timothyhouse1622 And Eastern schools dont learn how significant the Western part truly was.
@@stc3145 I'm sure you actually don't know what Eastern school curriculum is and just felt the need to defend against someone saying the west ignores Soviet contributions.
bUt RuSsiA cOuLdnT wIn wiThOuT lEnD LeAsE.
Well, maybe, but the Allies couldnt win without the Soviets.
It isn't underreported, it's THE best-known Eastern Front battle except maybe Stalingrad.
@@timothyhouse1622 No they don’t, they obviously focus on their own country’s history more. When it comes to most kids in school you can be glad if 10% of thr knowledge is retained
This channel keeps getting better and better.
16:08
This comparison of Hitler to Frederick The Great has also another meaning. In the XVIII century, during 7-years war there was a thing called "Miracle of the house of Brandenburg".The point was that during the 7 years war, Prussia was fighting against Russia, Austria and bunch of other countries and they were in a really harsh spot. When Prussia was about to lose, Empress Elizabeth of the Russian Empire died, therefore getting Russia out of the war and saving Prussia. Frederick The Great named that "Miracle of the house of Brandenburg". 200 years later, when Hitler was sitting infuriated and depressed in his bunker with no perspectives for winning the war, he heard in the radio about the death of Roosevelt. He hoped that this event will brake the America and he named that "The 3rd miracle of the house of Brandenburg". But unfortunately for him, Truman jumped on the president's chair right away, and the war ended.
The Battle of Berlin has been the most iconic battle of History
Eh... Stalingrad?
[Intro]
Dieses Lied ist meinem Volk gewidmet.
Und alle Vorfahren, die alles Erdenkliche möglich gemacht haben
Opfer, um Blut und Boden zu schützen und zu bewahren.
In diesem Jahrtausend kämpfe gegen den ewigen Feind von allem Edlen und Schönen.
Wir werden nie vergessen, woher wir kommen und wer wir sind.
Du bist die Perle dieses Planeten.
Ihr reiches Erbe ist weit überlegen.
Seit sie vom Thron gestürzt sind,
Die Leute wollten sie zurück.
Nur sie bedrohen das Ungeziefer.
Wenn jemand fragt: Liebst du dein Volk?
Dann steh einfach auf, schau ihm ins Gesicht und sag:
[Chorus]
Es ist das Beste auf der Welt,
Drum will der Jude, dass es fällt,
aber es steht stolz da, unser deutsches Volk.
Es trägt das letzte reine Blut,
Drum ist es nicht gut, ein Diener zu sein.
Es ist stolz, unser deutsches Volk.
Er sieht deutsche Glückseligkeit und zittert vor Neid!
Hasst uns wegen unserer Überlegenheit!
Er ist das Gegenteil von arischer Ehrlichkeit!
Hat schon immer zu Kontroversen unter Europäern geführt.
Sie denken: "Wie kann das sein?“
Wie kann man so bösartig sein und dann Shoah schreien?
Oh nein, obwohl sie schon lange den Tod verdient haben.
Wurden sie schon immer einfach des Landes verwiesen?
dreihundert neunundfünfzig Mal bisher
Schuld, der totalitär Arier
Bankinstitute, Porno, Frankfurt Schule.
Alles Kranke und Böse, hinter dem Vorhang: der Jude.
Adorno, Marcuse, Hollywood-Filmproduzenten.
Wir lieben es, unsere Frauen und Kinder zu vergewaltigen.
Sollten wir nicht ernsthaft nachdenken!?;
Diese erbärmliche Kreatur vom Erdboden zu fegen.
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Yeah
Heil dem deutschen Volke, mögest du ewig leben!
Und heil dem deutschen Heimatboden!
Möge das Reich eines Tages wieder vereint sein!
Great documentary! Love the animation!
Should have played that meme-worthy scene, from the movie "Downfall," during the key part of battle, when Hitler basically lost his sh!t, and finally lost his will to fight on. It would have just been so perfect. And even though I have watched that scene basically a hundred times already, I would have happily watched it again.
It was in the "Endsieg" video, but yeah, it should have been here, too.
"Sist ohneir!" Throws pen
@@pyromania1018 Full title of the Endsieg video, please?
@@davidw.2791 Endsieg: Germany's Final Plan to Win WWII
@@pyromania1018 Thank you! (Although the Hitler in the thumbnail of that video looked more anime-like, lol.)
Keep up the good work, man!
You know these Soviet soldiers still deserve to be honored despite the Ukrainian and Russian war. Those soldiers that died fighting the Nazis and they were our allies. I see a lot of people in Europe not permitting wreaths and flowers to be laid by their memorials because of the Russian Ukraine war. And i dont agree with that.
Exactly!
These were the people who won WW2!
yup. no matter how you feel about the USSR, those men died fighting against all odds with the nazis who nearly destroyed their country
Also a lot of them were Ukrainian as well
Russians are fighting nazis rn as well in Ukraine. You can easily search for it, it’s still in CZcams.
they commited as much war crimes as the nazis did. No sympathy for them at all.
The mad lads have done it again! Love this channel
The fact that after being nearly defeated and fighting a war, the Soviet Union was still able to become a superpower during the Cold War says volumes about how powerful they were
Tbh I doubt the Soviets would've been defeated even if they had lost Moscow since there was a planned counterattack to retake the city and continue the fight.
During the winter of 1941, the Soviets had deployed the Siberian snow divisions to completely stop the germans as the weather worsened the German logistics and after 1941 any hopes of defeating the USSR wouldve been dashed as more soviets would be conscripted to fight the enemy as the germans would keep losing men they couldn't replace.
and just how stupid the nazis were
It's exactly like the Russo-Ukranian war. What stopped the Swift Victory was the unforeseen level of local resistance and unprecedented amounts of materiel support from allies.
@@Troopertroll was The stunning Manpower and industrial capacity that made The soviets Win, The leand-lease represents like 4%~ of The soviet production, most of The land lease come for The brits
@@Discussors no 😂. Soviets won against Hitler with the help of the allies . If IT was 1 vs 1 Hitler would defeated soviets
It's crazy to think that in just about two weeks around 200.000 people (soldiers and civilians) were killed in this battle for Berlin! What a bloodbath! And what a senseless one, the war was lost anyways. Beyond mind-blowing.
When I was in school veterans still were plenty, and on Victory Day they were invited to school to tell children about war. Even some teachers themselves were veterans. I remember the story of a participant of battle of Berlin. The assault during night in a spotlights was the most impressive event of his life. Also when they were fighting in the city itself, they got into house of German family, father, mother and 2 daughters. They just cut their veins and were bleeding to death. Solders asked a man, was he a member of Nazi party? He replied that yes, he was. Soldiers bandaged all the women, but not the man.
My OBeJe teacher had a similar story to tell
"Bandaged" the women
[Intro]
Dieses Lied ist meinem Volk gewidmet.
Und alle Vorfahren, die alles Erdenkliche möglich gemacht haben
Opfer, um Blut und Boden zu schützen und zu bewahren.
In diesem Jahrtausend kämpfe gegen den ewigen Feind von allem Edlen und Schönen.
Wir werden nie vergessen, woher wir kommen und wer wir sind.
Du bist die Perle dieses Planeten.
Ihr reiches Erbe ist weit überlegen.
Seit sie vom Thron gestürzt sind,
Die Leute wollten sie zurück.
Nur sie bedrohen das Ungeziefer.
Wenn jemand fragt: Liebst du dein Volk?
Dann steh einfach auf, schau ihm ins Gesicht und sag:
[Chorus]
Es ist das Beste auf der Welt,
Drum will der Jude, dass es fällt,
aber es steht stolz da, unser deutsches Volk.
Es trägt das letzte reine Blut,
Drum ist es nicht gut, ein Diener zu sein.
Es ist stolz, unser deutsches Volk.
Er sieht deutsche Glückseligkeit und zittert vor Neid!
Hasst uns wegen unserer Überlegenheit!
Er ist das Gegenteil von arischer Ehrlichkeit!
Hat schon immer zu Kontroversen unter Europäern geführt.
Sie denken: "Wie kann das sein?“
Wie kann man so bösartig sein und dann Shoah schreien?
Oh nein, obwohl sie schon lange den Tod verdient haben.
Wurden sie schon immer einfach des Landes verwiesen?
dreihundert neunundfünfzig Mal bisher
Schuld, der totalitär Arier
Bankinstitute, Porno, Frankfurt Schule.
Alles Kranke und Böse, hinter dem Vorhang: der Jude.
Adorno, Marcuse, Hollywood-Filmproduzenten.
Wir lieben es, unsere Frauen und Kinder zu vergewaltigen.
Sollten wir nicht ernsthaft nachdenken!?;
Diese erbärmliche Kreatur vom Erdboden zu fegen.
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Yeah
Heil dem deutschen Volke, mögest du ewig leben!
Und heil dem deutschen Heimatboden!
Möge das Reich eines Tages wieder vereint sein!
My great grandfather was in the РККА, he fought bravely from stalingrad to berlin
Talk about an adventure wow
You never disappoint us with your contents
I was dying for you to do a remake of this
I always like seeing Steiner's counter offensive guys there. They'll bring the situation under control.
Great opening! The 8th guards army was definitely NOT watching the rays of the morning sun glistening on the icey waters of the Oder river - that would have meant they were looking eastwards... 😂😂😂
Can you imagine if Hitler got captured alive by the Russians? God only knows what Stalin would have done to him. I heard somewhere that he wanted to put Hitler in Moscow Zoo as an exhibit, but I don't know the veracity of that, though he was certainly cruel enough to pull such a stunt.
He'd have been at nuremberg and then hung
Hitler died in Argentina
deserved
ahh yes , Hitler in underwear scratching his ass in Moscow zoo
@@nimdaqa Stalin killed more people Than Hitler but he died Like a king
I must say the armchair historian has come a long way. Truly a marvelous video
He did repeat lies and obfuscation over the Viet Nam and the Korean Wars. Luna Oi Nguyen debunks him.
@@jamiemcintosh3030 get better
@@dwightd.eisenhower2031 Whom? I?
@@jamiemcintosh3030 yes
@@dwightd.eisenhower2031 Why, Sir or Madam, or Miss?
No hasty withdrawal leaving behind $1.8Bn here. Here we fought until the last building, until the last man.
amazing video never disappoint love this chanel
I love your art and history narrative
Legend has it Hitler is still waiting for Steiner to have enough units
I’m not falling for that scam
Honestly never seen anything else done like this before.. very very cool. Well done!!
Thanks for the hard work.
Another absolute W from The Armchair Historian, love the videos man.
18:44 Giggitti!
May your pillow always be warm on both sides and your chick fil a cravings only come on sundays
family guy reference (real)
@@therealgeneralMacArthur what is your problem
@@bird6107 borderline personality disorder, why do you ask?
@@therealgeneralMacArthur L
You forgot that the defenders of the reichstag had an infinite amount of grenades
Well yes but eventually they would probably have run out I mean there was millions of Russians rolling into Berlin
@@harolddavis1493 lol i wasnt being serious it was more of a Cod WaW reference
I have an idea, what if you attach various operations or battles of the Japanese imperial army in a single video to explain the war in the Pacific?
Has anyone noticed the plans for the good old Wunderwaffle DG-2 from cod zombies at 10:13? Well done Armchair Historian
Was looking for this comment, amazing detail lol
Me too it caught my eye
I'd love to see a video similar to this but on the pacific front. The last battle before the nukes were dropped.
My grandfather, from Lithuania was fighting in the defence of berlin. He originally fought the Germans but after being forced to surrender after running out of ammunition and his entire platoon being wiped out they gave him the choice of POW camp or fight the Russians, who annexed them not long before. He told about how they would shoot around allied planes on the AA guns. All trust was taken away from them after the Germans found out. In the end he was ordered at gunpoint to destroy Russian tanks with a panzerfaust. He had a wild story.