Operation Barbarossa Time-Lapse Map - Eastern Front 1941-1942 - WW2
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2021
- A year ago we covered the largest invasion in history: Operation Barbarossa - the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union. Here is the time-lapse map of the whole one year campaign in the USSR.
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We originally posted this video to our social media accounts to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the commencement of Operation Barbarossa. It got so much positive feedback that we decided to upload it to CZcams for a wider audience to see. It's an almost hypnotic visualization of the first year of that huge campaign.
A lot of people here at TimeGhost work together to make our coverage of WW2 happen, but a special mention here has to go to Eastory. Since before the commencement of the Winter War, he has been researching and animating the maps we use to visualize this vast and complicated conflict.
Eastory is now taking a step back from his collaboration with TimeGhost and we want to take this opportunity to give him a huge Thank You.
We are immensely grateful for the skill and dedication he has lent to this project, with the added value of both clear overview and historical detail. We are of course sad to see Eastory go, but we wish him the best of luck with all future projects. (You can find his work here: czcams.com/users/eastory)
Don't worry about our remaining coverage of the war, though. Two long-time TimeGhost pros, Daniel and Markus, will be working together to make sure you will still see high-quality maps in all our WW2 episodes.
If you're new to the channel and want to catch up - or if you want to just refresh your memory - you can watch our episode on the launch of Operation Barbarossa here: czcams.com/video/eXZHX6oB_4w/video.html
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I first saw it in ⏲️ 👻 🎖 Facebook page. Looks great in visualisation of 1 year Operation barbadosa Axis advance.
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Shame that eastory is leaving the collaboration! Will we stop seeing map visualizations soon?
pretty impressive to watch that even though it is really tough to get the dimensions right how huge that attack had been and the full scale of operations along such a long frontier from north cape to sebastopol and not in just a straight line moving ahead but a long and winding one with spear heads far ahead and other units far, far behind and huge gaps we had seen only in the outbreak of WW1 in the race to the sea of autumn 1914.
Can we see divisions next time please?
The Soviet counter offensive of Winter 41/42 really pushed the Germans back more than one might think
Stalingrad almost happened a year early, yeah.
I still will never understand why the Germans and the Japanese didn't coordinate an offensive to hit the Soviets from both sides. At least if the Japanese were able to hold a Soviet Army group in Siberia it may have ended better for the Germans. Alas, the Germans could've done many things differently. Lol
@@DisgruntledHippo Japanese threat actually forced USSr to keep over a million-strong army on its eastern border for the entire war
@@DisgruntledHippo The Japanese needed rubber, oil and tin. And Siberia doesent exactly have good infrastructure and terrain for a large invasion
@@stc3145 plus they were beat down by the Soviet army the last time they met in battle
How I imagine my hoi4 game going vs how they actually go.
lol hearts of iron is more like, 1,000 russian divisions at your border waiting.
@@canadious6933 yea the USSR is never as stupid in HOI4 as they were in real life for some reason lol.
Watch some tutorials. This was years ago... but on my first playthrough i got all the way to Moscow, but couldnt quite push them to the Urals. But by my second playthrough I completely crushed them. You just have to make your divisions with a certain streamlined width and use your tanks to just plow long paths to encircle divisions.
@@nuggetpiece Yeah, the AI in HOI4 has a lot of issues that are easily exploitable. The main one that is relevant for the Eastern Front, though, is that the AI isn't able to recover in the same way the real Soviet Union could. If you deal the same damage to the AI in HOI4 as the Germans did in Barbarossa IRL, the AI will basically have nothing left, and it will be an extended period before they even get close to recovering.
Now, that lack of being able to recover/hold-on is likely tied to other parts where it's not up-to-par, such as in building war industry or in how in prioritizes what to produce. The system for recruiting soldiers in HOI4 also likely inhibits how well the AI does, as the AI doesn't seem to want to deploy "green" troops ever, even in a dire situation.
Problem with Hoi is when you beat the soviet armies on the initial border they generally just collapse
Damn, it's actually incredible how much territory Germany managed to take in this time. And I hadn't realized how much of it was lost in that winter.
They came so close . So many things could have gone differently, if the Russian people had been less tenacious in defence of their home land. Rest assured we couldn't have coped with all the extra divisions in the West. If they'd prevailed in the East. It's underestimated over here just how much of a debt the then Soviets are owed by her allies. She paid the highest butchers bill no question to help beat Nazism. Respect due. !♥️
@@Free-Bodge79 I think it's debatable whether Germany ever actually had a chance, but without using hindsight, at the time... it must've felt close and brutal.
@@gcircle I think you're right. Anything we say or think about it today , is with the benefit of hindsight. Thank god we didn't have to live through it. Makes you wonder how much awareness of the bigger picture there would have been at the time for all parties involved. Not much I can imagine for your average infantry man. Harsh , close and brutal would be at the forefront of plenty a mind . I think realistically they could have easily took it . It was incredibly close.
@名誉と苦痛 the world 🌍 would be a very different place if they had of. 👺
@@Free-Bodge79 It is worth noting that previous invasions of Russia (most notably Napoleon's) actually succeeded in taking Moscow, which the rulers of the time sacked and burned to deny Napoleon's army the benefits of a conquered capital.
Whether the Soviets would have managed to hold together had Moscow fallen is an open question - after all, Alexander I and his government and military had actually *planned* Moscow's fall and deliberately engineered it as a trap: conquest of Moscow carried with it the promise of a collapsed or surrendered Russian Empire and, more importantly, enough supplies for the French Army to last through the winter. They got neither of these things and were eventually forced to endure an absolutely brutal withdrawal back to French territory.
Conversely, Stalin never really considered giving up Moscow, even temporarily. (This seems to be a character trait of his in general, even seeming to surrender is almost as anathema to him as believing his intelligence reports.) With the manufacturing infrastructure that had been moved all the way to Siberia available, the Red Army would still have had the supplies it needed to continue the fight, but the loss of the government and high level command would have left them without any sort of coordination.
It seems likely that even if Stalin had refused to leave Moscow, one or more of his more insightful generals (Zhukov and Timoshenko come to mind) would have probably attempted a withdrawal that would allow critical staff officers and necessary records to survive, which would have allowed the Soviets to continue the war as a national fighting force (rather than just a mob of soldiers with no commander to work out a high level strategy), and it's at least possible that they would have still managed to turn the tide. (Major turning points like Stalingrad and Kursk would have likely happened elsewhere and at a later date, which would have extended the war overall, unless the western Allies had somehow sped up their timetable.
Rzhev looks like an absolute nightmare for both sides. I can see why Stalin thought a German attack would come there in Summer 1942.
Rzhev WAS an absolute nightmare of such proportions that language breaks down talking about it. More than half a million dead and more than 1.1 million to perhaps even 2.5 million wounded and sick over fourteen months, it is a forgotten Verdun, a seemingly endless charnel house of swamps and forests where no one truly won. The city of
Rzhev itself went from a place of 56,000 to only 150 when it was liberated at the end of the fighting, and entire battalions on both sides became casualties to a man. There's a reason it was called The Meat-Grinder, and why a popular Russian poem after the war had a line that simply read "I died at Rzhev".
At & around Rzhev, what had been a fairly coherent front line disintegrated into a broken-up, jagged tangle of salients & pockets.
If the Germans wanted another shot at taking Moscow, Rzhev was a possible jumping-off point, although Rzhev in itself was not particularly important.
@@stevekaczynski3793 Rzhev was important for the Soviets, because it was a railway junction. If they captured it, they could coordinate their offensives better.
The fact it ends in 42 and it was another 2 years to push that all the way back is even wilder.
Funfact: The germans held some parts of soviet territory until the capitulation of the third reich.
@@johgekpoint6299 Which does make sense. Once the momentum was in favor of the Soviets, they started making a hard push towards the German homeland in order to destroy both the last remnants of the Nazi war machine and it's central command/government. You're not gonna bother carefully mopping up and reconquering all the enemies strongpoints, you just surround them and besiege them while the main force goes for the strategically important targets.
On that note, another Funfact: Dunkirk under Nazi occupation didn't surrender until days after the Nazi government had surrendered. The Nazi's had built it up as one of their big strongholds to keep the allies occupied, but in the end it only managed to divert a relatively small force (only somewhat larger than the garrison) that laid siege to it for 7 months while things like Operation Market Garden, the fighting in the Ardennes and the eventual advance towards Berlin were happening many miles away.
Come summer 1943 the Germans push into the south, going as far as the caucuses and seizing briefly vital oil fields key to winning the war. However they can't hold them nor repair the damage in time to get enough oil to keep maneuver or blitz warfare going. They run dry and that's game over.. dam British blockade!
On peut dite presque troisan
Adding casualties, prisoners and civilians killed as cumulative numbers on both sides would pinpoint the pure horror of this part of the war.
Amazing content once again.
Eastory has a 10 minute video with prisioners and showing each division
It is possible to make one that shows the cumulative deaths rather than land occupation. But it would be a lot more work,probably requiring a team with mapmaking experts.
Would be almost impossible to make, since in the chaos of the first few weeks of the invasion, the soviet side's official accounts were... well, not the priority, and many casualties were marked as missing, while people who changed battalions were marked dead.
Funny how a map changing color represents the death and suffering of so many. :(
lmao wait no that's not funny... lmao
That's the thing with these maps and videos. We always lose sight of the fact that these were men in individual fights to make this map change. But the abstraction is too much
@@s1mplem4gic58 It *is* possible to make a version of this that shows the deaths instead of land occupation but that'd require external help I think.
Just like we get easily lost in casualty numbers. It's hard to realise, when you see a satistic of 50000 people killed, that all of them where indivintiuals who suffered uniquely horrible deaths.
@SmithandJones256 He means funny " peculiar", not funny "haha". Look at the sadness he finishes with.
Can't imagine how convoluted it would be if the field armies were indicated as part of the time lapse map.
There is a 10 minute video that is the same but with each division the channel is Eastory, he makes the maps for this one also
check the timeline by eastory
You need to look at the super videos on the Eastory channel that do just that, and for many military engagements.
This is a cheap version of what Eastory does already
Look up 'Eastory' on youtube - he does just what you've said.
This is very precise as you can clearly see the panzer formations going in first. I wonder if in the future an interactive map can be made where you can go forward and back in time and zoom in to an extend where you can even see the battalions.
That sounds like something more for the regular channels, in which the particular Panzer divisions and what have you are indicated to an extent. Also, I'm pretty sure Eastory as something along those lines.
Eastory breaks it down by Divisions
@@theoutlook55 yeah, but eastory isn't perfect either. I think this one is a bit more precise, since here you can see, as the guy above already mentioned, the Panzers moving forward. You could also add a timed casualty count, which both this and eastory maps miss.
German logistical general before Barbarossa:
- Our logistics will get us as far as Smolensk.
Considering the following logistic collapse, he was right.
The Germans never truly planned to continue to fight in Moscow and such, they thought after they had destroyed the whole red army in the south they would have surrendered (just like France did, the Germans didn’t reached Paris either, they surrendered before) but in this case they didn’t and therefore the soviets kept throwing ppl at the Germans and the Germans had to fight wars on an gigantic border
@@Herr_KommissarI think that that's not entirely true, the nazi high command was probably not as delusional to think that the nation, which's citizens you want to eradicate, will surrender. They did think that it would simply disintegrate after the first military successes of the Wehrmacht, and that they could march the last half way to Moscow with no army opposing them. So they didn't want an official surrender, but they did think that they could literally exterminate the Red Army.
@@bring_back_dislikes your right, perhaps they didn’t expect an official surrender but as I indicated they did indeed not imagine they had to fight their way to the outskirts of Moscow.
He never said that. He said that after reaching Smolensk there will be a need for operational pause to build up supply depots on Soviet territory and link up railway lines, after regauging them. If there was a case, then how the Wehrmacht covered another 250+ kilometers since Operation Typhoon has started?
Really nicely done map, one of the best that I have seen. It would have been nice if there was some more indication of some other major cities (maybe written with smaller fonts), but otherwise it is quite fine.
Indeed. A reupload with this included would be nice. Shouldn't be to difficult to do.
I think the intent was to just show the ebb and flow of the frontines.
You have the commented, 20 minutes version on Eastory's channel.
at this scale, it looks like a immune system cell fighting off a virus.
Two viruses fighting each other
Or two competing bacterial colonies fighting for the Petri dish.
@trainbomb Any of the "isms" can be seen as viral in several different ways, in the mind's of people and how it crawls across the face of the planet. Generally to the detriment to the existing structures and organizations. Ya know, just like a virus.
@trainbomb Why would it not? Its just another philosophical construct propagated by its advocates ("believers") just like every other one in human history.
@trainbomb That has zero to do with my post, humanism, or anything else I can think of.
The Soviet Union also used its gulag system which instituted slavery and as a means of committing mass murder against those it found undesirable.
Amazing animation, really shows the intensity of the armored pushes and how far they went without their infantry support.
Thank you WW2, TimeGhost and especially Eastory for the map creation
Eastory is really good at what he does
Never thought I would be excited by maps, but Eastory's amazing work proved me wrong. Good luck Eastory and thanks for the all beautiful maps over the years.
Ironically, the skinny streaks of the advancements look like lightning bolts. Blitzkrieg.
That was incredible, I would like to see this done from 41 through 45. The land gained and lost is insane. Thanks for posting, love your videos.
Thank you 🙂 And thanks for watching!
Wow, thanks for posting this! I know a lot of work went into this little, one minute project.
Much kudos to the graphics team that put this together!
the speed at the start realy surprised me
Imagine a word, in which the Germans didn't treated the easter europeans as Untermenschen aka Slaves, while not conducting the Holocaust (giving them 500000 - 1000000 more workers and soldiers while freeing up capacity for death transports and anti parisan fights.
I wonder if that wouldn't have been enough to free Europe from Bolshekism while creating an European Union with a strong German influance. Like what we have now, only without having wasted milions of live, bilions of money, and the urgancy to import islamic raised people into Europe. Don't get me wrong: if have no problems with muslims. But its sad how Europe destroyed itself. Firtst over nothing in WW1, followed by a frace of an peace treaty leading into fascim and WW2....
@@xwormwood Germany went into war to make everything to the east of Poland its own personal Africa. Please enlighten me how Germans were supposed to treat Slavs fairly if they intended to enslave, suppress and exploit them?
@@xwormwood Well, Hittlet got elected on a platform of: enslave the Jews, rob them of their possessions, usurp the resources of the East, and use this to enrich German workers; unite the German nation against this common enemy and use lethal force if necessary.
@@xwormwood what have muslims got to do with this
@@xwormwood what if nazis werent nazis
I am amazed at how accurate the map is! Congrats Joram & your team from a fan from Lebanon. Keep up with your great work!
Thank you, we will! 🙂
Excellent summary of the campaign! It really highlights the dynamics of the invasion, the lightning fast advance by the Germans in the summer of 41, then the grinding halt at the gates of Moscow and the ensuing winter debacle. Very interesting also to see how many more Soviet pockets than German ones end up being closed and eventually defeated.
Thanks a bunch!
And finally the germans successfully holding on to the saliences, and managing to counter and destroy sone soviet forces.
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen from this channel so far!
This is really well done. Thanks for putting this together.
Great job, Eastory, as always!
This isnt eastory
Christmas came early. I love animated maps, thank you
Nicely informative video. Gives the casual viewer a good idea of the events of Operation Barbarossa.
Absolutely beautiful work!
I like it!! My mind was working overtime working out the corresponding battles to the movements and dates
Spectacular video & research.
That was really cool! More of this please and thank you!
Truly lighting speed they went in the first month
Yeah, this was really cool. Well done 👏
Really great visual!
Brilliant! The work that must have gone into this piece of art is astounding. The salients and pockets of resistance are really highlighted. Wonderful
Thank you very much! 🙂
@@WorldWarTwo It’s cool if it’s a no but just wondering if, this it possible to do again? Say like when we get to April 1943? It could be from June 1942 - April 1943
Could be a one time yearly thing for the eastern front. Showing Blau’s & Citadel’s progress & the Soviet counter-offensives up till February 1943 & April 1944 respectively?
Always excellent shows
Awesome stuff!
The Timeghost production quality only gets better as time goes on, it warms my heart
Wow... just when I thought I'd seen everything I needed. This is terrific.
Great job!!
The Axis ground forces in Romania invaded the USSR on 2 July 1941, a week after Barbarossa began.
That was really neat to see!
Excellent graphic!
Excellent
Your thumbnails are awesome. I like the color schemes.
Outstanding!
Thank you!
Seeing it on such a large scale, and fairly quickly changing map, really shows just how vast the front was - and how quickly it moved, relatively speaking.
Oh this was beautiful! I'll have dig into Gary Griggsby's version of the invasion now.
Stunning
This is the fast forward version of Eastory - Eastern Front. I like both this & Eastory vids.
This is a masterpiece
This is AWESOME.
Awesome 👍
Brilliant!
Eastory is so awesome
Well done!😎
this is so cool! will you have one for the whole war?
Thats the most satisfying map progression I have ever seen.
Quite fascinating. My congratulations to the WWII Team on the accomplishments in the making of the map.
Nice to be able to see it.
I didn't realize that this is something I needed to see, but this is very very useful in helping to outline the scale of things. Barbarossa was no small feat, and even though it eventually failed it had a huge and lasting cultural etc. impact that is felt even to this day.
Feels like a typical Hearts of Iron IV game session I'm playing with those Eastory maps. Incredible work there!
This looks amazing, good job
I would love to see more videos like this
Without doubt, I’ve never seen any wartime map come to life like this one does. More of the same please.
EXCELLENT
One word on this time lapse map! Cool!
Excellent map!!
Thank you!
Thanks Astrid & Sparty. Thanks Indy. Don't you love the excitement and enthusiasm that Astrid has. Hand and arm gestures & motivation. She has my attention the whole show. GREAT JOB ASTRID, SPARTY & INDY VERY GOOD TOO
I love Astrid and those hands ❤️❤️👏👏
This was Eastory's doing
@@lanceroparaca1413 is that the younger lady ?
excellent!
Thank you!
Very nice! This makes it a lot easier to understand the chronology of the various battles and events. Great job!
I love this type of perspective.
0:00 When you spill red wine on a beige carpet.
Germans seeing the Winter of 41 hit and the Soviet counteroffensives
"Well Hans...it's all downhill from here..."
No worries, Reinhard, Goebbles said we will be home by Christmas '42.
@@Pioneer_DE Hitler seeing a fortune teller,
"I see you...in a bunker...and Russians...Jesus that's a LOT of Russians..."
@@darklysm8345 little more than empty noise. The Germans and their allies couldn't knock the USSR out of the war, nor could Japan knock China, USA and Britain out of the war. It had become a war of attrition and logistics, which made defeat for the Axis merely a matter of when, not if.
@@darklysm8345 You're incorrect for a number of reasons. Firstly, attritional war is determined beyond simple will to fight, it encompasses manpower, logistical capacity and economics all of which the Axis nations were vastly inferior to their counterparts in. The level to which the USSR was close to collapse is still hotly debated to this day, what is fact is that there were provisions for the fall of Moscow and the Caucuses in 41 and 42 by the Soviets to continue the war, the memoirs of Zhukov and declassified documents from the Soviet archives make that clear, while losing Moscow would have been a blow, it would not have been a deathblow, nor would losing the oil fields translate to them being viable for the Axis, as standing orders would have ensured the destruction of the oil fields to such a degree as to make them unusable for at least two years, perhaps longer. Further Germany nor its partners had the method to transport and refine any oil they did capture. News outlets in the USA, British Empire, China and the USSR were all tightly controlled for what content to display, support for the war in Britain and the USA never dipped to levels that would indicate a collapse or desire for negotiated peace and the infrastructure of much of the USSR, Britain and the USA was far out of the reach of the Axis nations, while the opposite was true for their enemies. Even had Fall Blau succeeded in its overoptimistic goals, the Germans could not have held the territory gained or exploited it, much in the same way Japan's expansion actually hurt its economy and ability to defend itself.
The Axis powers lost the war in 1941, with some historians actually stating that it was lost in 1940 due to fuel consumption and commitments. The Axis policies of abusing the people's they conquered created permanent unrest and increasingly effective resistance movements in occupied territory. When combined with Allied naval and air dominance as well as the sheer disparity in industrial, agricultural and other areas of logistics, the Axis had no realistic chance to win WWII outside of Allied capitulation in 1940-41. If the Allies continued the war, defeat for the Axis was only a question of "when" not "if" because the truth of the matter was that the Axis could not replace men, material or territorial losses anywhere near the Allies and as the war went on, that insurmountable slope would only grow.
@@darklysm8345 Again context is key to the situation, Vietnam was never fought in the conventional sense that WWII was, it was by the international climate a limited war, the USA and South Vietnam could not invade North Vietnam to definitively occupy it as this would have escalated the conflict by creating an impetus for China to invade to protect the North as well as providing further escalation with the Soviet Union. As such the US in Vietnam was restrained in what it could and could not do over a fifteen year period(actually longer if you count advisory roles) which combined with the openly televised nature of the conflict as well at the unpopular nature of it to begin with led to the outcome. Further, the North actually broke before the democracies did by signing peace and agreeing not to invade the South in the Paris Peace Conference of 1973, effectively meaning victory for the initial conditions of the US on paper, it was not until 1975, two years after all foreign troops save the embassy guard had been withdrawn that North Vietnam fully invaded the South and won.
These same instances cannot be applied to the conflict in WWII, where it was much more akin to a total war by all parties without much in the way of restriction.
Again taking Moscow had already been prepared for, the majority of Soviet industrial output had been moved to the Urals, imports and the Reserve Divisions all would have been matters for the Germans to have to deal with, which historically they were unable to due to the extent of the front and their own appalling logistical shortcomings. Even factoring in morale, the Axis cruelty and public portrayal of the conflict as a crusade and war of annihilation actively stiffened Soviet will to fight rather than weakened it.
Turkey had no intentions of joining the conflict, it was receiving stipends from Britain not to, nor was it in any shape to contribute to the Axis cause due to the still primitive and divided nature of its military, the mountain ranges between Turkey and the USSR make any invasion routes North along with the barely functional state of the Turkish navy impractical. The food shortage being worse doesn't translate to Soviet collapse either, as the Stavka had demonstrated repeated willingness to allow for civilian suffering in exchange for military predominance. The Axis powers were also suffering from food and material shortages at this time domestically and in their militaries-especially among Germany's allies on the Eastern Front. Of the two sides, the Soviets had consistently demonstrated the ability to endure more to achieve a strategic goal, that the Axis could not stop the Lend Lease, which only grew as the war progressed was further evidence of the untenable position of the Axis, as the war went on, the Axis would only grow weaker with the Allies growing stronger.
For why Fall Blau could not be maintained you have to look no further than the state of the German reserves compared to the Soviet ones. German reserves were increasingly becoming strained and overcommitted, the Germans did in fact commit their reserves at the end of Fall Blau to attempt to stabilize their front as the Soviets counterattacked, with limited success, the follow up in summer 1943 has the Soviets able to attack along multiple fronts with the Axis largely confined to the offensive operation at Kursk that achieved nothing. Much of the German's flanks were often held by Italian, Hungarian, Romanian and Albanian allies, which while certainly brave in their conduct were not equipped to fight effectively against the increasingly mechanized and numerically superior Soviets. A prime example can be seen in the relief effort for Stalingrad with German operational reserves unable to counter their Soviet opponents effectively.
The partisans don't defeat Nazi Germany but they do actually have a fairly impactful effect on hindering troop and supply movement. One attack in the Soviet Union in 1943 on a train destroyed 15 Tiger I tanks and several cars of parts for example. Partisans tied up troops, disrupted supplies and provided intel assets to Allied forces.
Naval dominance was assured in the Pacific regardless of any of the events in 1941-42 due to the US construction far outpacing anything Japan, Germany or Italy could hope to match, even allowing for complete victory for the IJN without losses at Coral Sea and Midway, the Japanese could not realistically take Australia or Hawaii and with the code breakers, radar and the influx of new material into the war, Japan's hold on their gains was always going to be temporary by their own admission. The same is true in the Atlantic and Mediterranean as fuel shortages and commitments to the Eastern Front effectively crippled the Regia Marina and Kriegsmarine.
The problem wasn't aircraft production, but fuel and pilot allocation. The USSR wasn't collapsing and as such both it and the Southern front as well as commitments to counter strategic bombing had the Luftwaffe stretched beyond endurance already.
The entire aspect of D Day being successful was partly due to the over commitment of German forces in the East and South. Added to that, regardless of D Day, Operation Bagration still would annihilate Army Group Center and collapse the majority of the Eastern Front for the Germans in 1944. Germany was having to fight in the West, South and East while also tying up many troops in garrison, pacification and defense duty for occupied territories while the German economy was rapidly approaching breaking point. Even without D Day, the Soviets would still push the Axis back to Berlin, it would just take longer to accomplish as by 44-45 the USSR alone had enough military and economic power to crush the Third Reich and its allies in Europe.
You forget that war weariness and public outrage was just as much a threat in Japan and Germany and indeed was actively what toppled Fascist Italy. America, Britain and the USSR had all signed the agreement for Unconditional Surrender as the only acceptable outcome for the war and the US was willing to continue the war up to and including an invasion of the Japanese home islands. I'm sorry, but your opinion is incredibly unrealistic and ignores the insurmountable cascade of problems that the Axis simply could not endure anywhere near the level as the Allies.
The speed of the advance in June and July was insane.
So amazing and inspiring that they managed to fight them off at the last moment..
Very interesting to see the movement
Sorry to hear Eastory is leaving. Those are going to be some big shoes to fill! Please tell Daniel and Markus we're looking forward to seeing their work. Oh, and dont forget to include the scale of distance (miles and kilometers) because that is a vital part of any map.
Wait what??? 👀
What? How did It happen?
I suspected this after the last weekly episode. There was something different about the maps. Is there an explanation somewhere?
Nice
Excellent work!
The amount of data that is visualised here is astounding. Especially when you realise that it all had to be painstakingly extracted from daily reports from the units at the front, which probably contain many errors and contradictions.
WOW, simply, WOW.
This is epic
I truly hope that one of the closing videos for the WW2 channel is the final, ultimate timelapse to end all timelapses for the whole of WW2, that covers the whole war
Great! I do wonder though if it's possible to add the day somewhere? It's hard to find accurate day-to-day maps of the front line, and this would be perfect :)
This is amazing!
Give whoever did the music a raise.
Yeah
@Giovanni Gentile Born ready - Phoenix Tail
0:30 "sevastapol must fall"
Can y’all do a time lapse like this but 1941-1945. Ik there are some that cover that time period but this style is really nice
this is just awesome!
Uff impressive!!!
Whoa!!!! Eastory
So close yet so far!
It would be interesting for a video explaining how the time lapse is created or for that matter how are the maps shown in the weekly episodes created. I am particularly intrigued to know how do you determine which units where at any given time.
Eastory explained part of it.
I think he actually dives into the diaries of each and every division/company and plots them all out individually.
It's mind-bogglingly insane
Cool 😁
Really. F*cking. Cool!
That is awesome.(This time lapse not the War, please spare me)
Would also be nice to see the lives lost during all this. Like a tally counter somewhere in the video.
And that would also be a lot of work for you guys, but, if manageable, would be great.
The breakout locations give the advance a creepy look to it.
It's a cool graphic .
Playing Poland in Hearts of Iron 4 made me really appreciate just how damn far away Moscow is from Warsaw
Just WOW!
Thank you!