There were many reasons for this. 1) At this time Germans were at the gate of Moscow, they thought that USSR will fall 2) If they did it, then Japan will declare war on USSR which will divert USSR forces 3) they can fight unrestricted submarine warfare.
@James Henderson that's partially true but it was Germany in the gulf of Mexico that started shooting down American ships.before Theodore roosevelt gave the orders
3:03 -- Hitler had hoped that Japan would declare war on the U.S.S.R. ? He seemed to have forgotten that he signed a non-aggression pact with the U.S.S.R. while the Soviets were beating the Japanese during the Battles of Khalkhin Gol. He also seemed to have forgotten that as a result of the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, Japan and the U.S.S.R. had signed a non-aggression treaty on April 13, 1941. So Hitler expected Japan to forgive his neglect of them during a critical time -- and he expected the Japanese to declare war on a third enemy that had already thoroughly trounced them -- while the Japanese were also busy fighting the Chinese and the Americans. In short, Hitler wanted Japan to fight a 3-front war, while Hitler himself was struggling to fight a 2-front war.
Kevin Byrne Your calculation is wrong. Hitler also fight a 3 front war ( UK,USSR and USA ) Hitler had reason to expect that Japan will enter in a war against USSR, because : 1/ he was hinted and persuaded by japans that Japan could enter in a war against USSR 2/ at that time he already fight a 2-front war ( UK and USSR ) ...and entering in war against USA - 3 front On the other side Japan's maneuver to stay away from a war against USSR was ''awarded'' by Stalin in August 1945 when he declared war to Japan despite a non-aggression pact with the USSR :)
@James Henderson Right,the chronological sequence was as follow : Roosevelt declared USA as ''neutral country'' but actually he involved USA in a not declared war against Germany. - 4 November 1939 the USA as neutral country started export of weapons and military equipment for UK and France - 15 June 1940 Roosevelt declared that USA will augment the aid for France but only if France continue the war against Germany - 27 June 1940 Roosevelt gives order : every non military german ship in US ports must be under arrest - US military ships are engaged as guardians of every british convoy - Mars 1941 all german ships in US ports are confiscated by US government - 7 July 1941 the neutral Iceland is occupied by the ''neutral USA '' - 10 July 1941 Roosevelt gives order to US military ships for attacking every german military ship or submarine - 11 September Roosevelt declared that US military ships will attack not only the military but EVERY german ship Finally, Hitler, respecting the Haag Convention from 1907 ,made a formal declaration of war.
@James Henderson Germany and Japan agreed to declare war on any country that attacked them and visa versa. However Japan attacked the USA so it wasn't necessary for Germany to declare war on the United States.
@James Henderson Good USA should have been involved sooner anyway. Stalin was constantly at the USA to open a second front. By the way, I've asked you to cite your source for this statement of , "shoot on sight'... So far you've given me nothing.
I had a good friend who was a nurse in WW2 Germany. I asked her when she knew the war was lost...her reply?...Dec 11, 1941. The day the US declared war on Germany.
Her point was that once the US declared war, Germany was doomed. The US declaration of war was passed by houses of Congress and signed by FDR at 3:05 PM 11 Dec 1941 Eastern Standard Time (approx Midnight Germany time) .
I am part German, and my family on my mother's side lived in Germany during the war. This nurse of your's was quite clairvoyant-- because no one else in Germany at that time thought the war was anywhere near being lost in 1941. Germany had only suffered one major setback by '41, the sinking of the Bismarck. But they continued to dominate in every theater of the war. No German seriously believed the U.S. would ever send troops to Europe to fight a losing fight. Someone is either making stuff up based on hindsight or they were psychic.
11 December, the US Congress voted to declare war on Germany; the House vote was 393 - 0, the Senate vote was 88 - 0; President Roosevelt signed the declaration at 3:05 PM EST 11 December 1941. It was in response to Germany's declaration of war on the US. If you read the Congressional Record for that date, you would see this.
RVC. My friend was taking care of the German casualties from the Eastern Front during the winter of 1941. (Barbarossa) She saw first hand what punsihment the Russians meted out to the German Army. What she saw did not match with what Goebbels was spouting. She knew that the Germans could not possibly withstand that level of casualty. When the US declared war, she knew Germany was doomed.
I would like to give you the benefit of the doubt, but this story just doesn't ring true. It is highly unlikely that any German in 1941 would have felt this way. They had had nothing but success up until then, Stalingrad hadn't taken place yet, and they had every reason to believe in victory. Goebbels' propaganda was pretty accurate in 1941-- the Russians were retreating everywhere. Even in Great Britain polls taken among the English population revealed that the majority thought Germany would win the war. In 1944 this attitude might be believable, but even then the average German was not particularly afraid of an American invasion. To me this sounds like a case of a person looking back on history based on what we know now and allowing it to color their thoughts. I think your nurse friend was trying to appear more prescient than she possibly could be.
Lolz USA joined the war very late and until then Germany had already lost on eastern front against USSR…If Nazi Germany had gone in war against USA from the beginning, USA wouldn’t have any chance to even use nuclear weapons…!
It's funny how in Hitler's speech on declaring war on the US that he remarked "Roosevelt and the Jewish community have started WW2", so was happening when Hitler attacked Poland back in 39 or swallowed up Czechoslovakia in 38🤔
Declaring war on the U.S. while fighting a defensive war against the U.S.S.R. was probably not the wisest decision. Some people defend Hitler's decision, saying that the U.S. was already helping Britain far beyond the standards of an ostensibly "neutral" nation, but there's a difference between tolerating a nation that sells war materiel to your enemy -- and having several million fresh enemy soldiers appear on your doorstep.
America was not sitting by passively. We had aircraft in China fighting the Japanese long before the official declaration of war. Roosevelt needed a legit reason and pearl Harbor gave it to him. Yes I believe he knew the Japanese would bomb pearl Harbor. 5 aircraft carriers were conspicuously absent. He knew.
From U.K. The final payment of that massive financial debt owed to the US for war material was not made until 31st December 2006. It left Britain impoverished and helped the US into becoming the top world power.
The minute Hitler declare war against United States it was over for Germany like Winston Churchill said on the night of December 7th 1941 when I went to sleep that night I slept the sleep of the saved because Churchill I knew that was the end game the axis have lost the war!!!😀😀🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷
@James Henderson As you apparently believe the United States declared war in September, 1941, then I believe we know how seriously we should take such a comment.
@James Henderson I thought you wrote : 'Churchill murdered 128 Americans on RMS Lusitania' which is, of course, nonsense. Firstly, what has a liner crossing the Atlantic got to do with transporting munitions to the Western Front? Secondly, a US Court in 1918 stated that the small quantity of weapons carried aboard Lusitania (4200 cases of small arms ammunition, 18 fuse cases, and 125 shrapnel cases without powder) did not constitute 'War Munitions.' Thirdly, Hospital Ships were regularly inspected, without warning, by neutral powers (notably Spain) in WW1 to ensure that they were complying with the 1907 Hague Convention on Hospital Ships. Several British ships were inspected, without adverse comment. Fourthly, although the German Government made this claim in early 1917, at around the same time as they commenced unrestricted submarine warfare, they do not appear to have produced anything more concrete to substantiate it. Do you perhaps think Churchill was Jack the Ripper as well? After all, he was all of 14 years old in 1888.
@James Henderson Well, not according to a US Court of Inquiry, or inspections by the Spanish government. Your evidence for this, other than what appears to be personal bigotry, would be, then? According to which international rules of warfare in existence in 1914 was the RN blockade of the Central Powers illegal?
@James Henderson How would these men know, assuming that such letters existed? Wartime mail was subject to careful censorship, and men aboard hospital ships did not spend their time wandering around unsupervised. Please provide source material. Blockade was certainly not illegal under the 1907 Hague Convention. For obvious reasons, the British would never have ratified such a clause anyway. Churchill did not invade Russia. A number of allied nations supported the White Russians, including British & Commonwealth troops, French, Greek, Estonians, Italians, Japanese, and 13000 American troops in the Murmansk area. Your posts suggest Churchill thought the whole thing up on his own. It wasn't an 'invasion; in any case, by the way. Similarly, Churchill certainly supported the use of chemical weapons, but the suggestion that he encouraged their use against Russian civilians only appeared for the first time in an article in the British 'Guardian' newspaper in September, 2013. The source for this article was Simon Jones, from the BBC, in 1999. Churchill did instruct Ironside, in command at Archangel, to use DM gas, in retaliation for a mustard gas attack on Allied troops by Bolsheviks, using gas captured from German stocks. The only recorded use of DM was at Chunova, were 11 Bolshevik soldiers were affected. It appears to have been an unpleasant, but non-lethal, form of tear gas. You don't suppose Churchill was the mysterious figure on the 'Grassy Knoll' do you? It would certainly fit in neatly with your oddly bigoted obsession about him.
@phyllis brady Rommel was no traitor. He wanted to save Germany from an obvious fate. He was smart enough to see Hitler's policies were going to destroy Germany. I will say one thing about Rommel, he supported Hitler at first, so did many German general's but after he attacked Russia many could see Hitler was crazy, plus all the murders.
@@kev03103 Rommel was a loyal Nazi who never joined the plot against Hitler. He fully supported war with the United States due to American aid to the British Empire.
@@markharrison2544 From what I have read, many books on the period this was impression. Rommel started out an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler, however as time went on this enthusiasm waned. After learning about the destruction of the European Jews, operation barbarosa, and when Hitler FORMALLY declared war on the USA, Rommel felt the Hitler would ultimately destroy Germany. In fact, Rommel had discussions with Hitler about ending the war. He was consulted on valgarie but how much of a participant he was is unknown. When the actual perpetrators were tortured some gave up Rommel. I don't doubt the the Nazis made him take cyanide. I don't know why you are questioning this, it's been written about. Certainly Rommel was bright enough to see the writing on the wall , and that Germany would lose the war. Many other general's felt the same way especially after Stalingrad and the German's inability to take Moscow which was 18 miles away. Logistical support was nil, the lend lease agreement and the Russians ability to steadily produce tanks was phenomenal. After the Allis landed in Normandy, and the loses of northern Africa, Italy, anyone could clearly see that it was a mater of time.
@@kev03103 The United States declared war on Germany when Roosevelt gave the shoot on sight order. Rommel was a lifelong anti-Semite who fully supported Barbarossa. Taking Moscow would have made zero difference.
@@markharrison2544 How did Rommel die than? Why did so many authors say otherwise? I really don't even care about Rommel, except what you're saying is many historians got things wrong.
When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Roosevelt agreed to extend Lend-Lease to the Soviets. Thus, Roosevelt had committed the U.S. to the Allied side with a policy of "all aid short of war."[245] In August 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill conducted a highly secret bilateral meeting in which they drafted the Atlantic Charter, conceptually outlining global wartime and postwar goals. This would be the first of several wartime conferences;[246] Churchill and Roosevelt would meet ten more times in person.[247] Though Churchill pressed for an American declaration of war against Germany, Roosevelt believed that Congress would reject any attempt to bring the United States into the war.[248] In September, a German submarine fired on the U.S. destroyer Greer, and Roosevelt declared that the U.S. Navy would assume an escort role for Allied convoys in the Atlantic as far east as Great Britain and would fire upon German ships or submarines (U-boats) of the Kriegsmarine if they entered the U.S. Navy zone. This "shoot on sight" policy effectively declared naval war on Germany and was favored by Americans by a margin of 2-to-1.[249]
Dr Horst Mulheim wrote in his book that Hitler used to have Whale Blubber and onions for breakfast most mornings. It was instructed by his personal physician.
This is one of the most idiotic assessments of all time. It's like saying that declaring that you are in a football game at halftime is a "blunder." Why? You've already played two quarters against the other team and everybody knows it. To declare war in 1941 was simply an observation of fact. The presumption here is that without Hitler's speech the U.S. would never have gotten into the war. That's ridiculous. The U.S. had already chosen sides, and it wasn't with Germany! The U.S. had been assisting Great Britain since before the war began in 1939. They had been sending vast quantities of war materials to Russia. They were arming all of Germany's enemies. Was Hitler supposed to go on pretending none of this was happening? Germany had no ability to strike at the U.S. Did anyone think they were going to get into ships and sail across the Atlantic and land on the Jersey shore? It's beyond absurd. They didn't have a single plane the could even reach the U.S. They could barely bomb England and get back home on the limited range of their bombers and fighters. This declaration had ZERO effect on the outcome of the war.
Most of that is true, however Hitler to this point had not allowed his uboats to attack the lend lease vessels. Although America was supplying both fronts we were not engaging with military force. Hitler's declaration allowed the US to put boots on the ground so to speak and the uboats to openly attack U.S. shipping in the security zone....
Germany did actually send U Boats to the east coast. They sank a lot of US ships. They knew Great Britain was the key that the allies needed to invade Europe so they had to destroy them. Since he didn't they were unable to do so. If they did, they likely could've drove a larger military presence westward towards the US.
Another cool thing about the lend lease act is that after the war most of the debt was absolved anyway and the Allie’s didn’t have to really pay much at all for American supplies or weapons considering the American economy was the only stable economy in the world at that time and most countries wouldn’t be able to pay off the debts for decades
Correct. Everybody always raves about Hitler’s oratorical skills, but actually both Roosevelt’s and Churchill’s sober, measured words were far more effective.
The thing that I always wondered was would the US have fought Germany anyways? Two facts that support the theory that it would have happened; 1) We (US) were already sending supplies, volunteer troops, and equipment (tanks planes and ships) to Great Britain and the USSR. 2) Roosevelt was talking to Great Britain before the war started about how Hitler was the greater threat and needed to be dealt with before Japan (from The Grand Alliance by Winston Churchill written after the war).
Roosevelt publicly confirmed on 11 September 1941 that the US Navy had been ordered to shoot on sight at all Axis ships and submarines in the Atlantic.
@@jedirevan1582 There's a very elaborate war game scenario worked out on CZcams by some history professor that basically says the USSR could not have defeated Germany without US supplies. The US provided about 15% of Soviet war materials and that made a critical difference. So, regardless of when or if the US would have fought in Europe, the Soviets could not have won without American help. I believe it was Churchill who convinced Roosevelt to help the Russians. However, if the war had dragged on and if the Holocaust had been more extensive, it"s doubtful there would have been enough Zionists to have founded Israel.
Let me say first I’m great full the Axis powers were defeated, but it is interesting to look at what ifs or had they done this instead of that situations. Germany should not have attacked Russia until England was defeated. They also should have worked closer with their allies, especially Japan. If Germany , and Japan coordinated an attack on the Soviet Union. Together they would have brought the Soviet down.
I agree with that assessment. Had Germany and Japan coordinated an attack against the USSR, no doubt Germany would have defeated the Soviet Union. Also, the US probably would have either stayed neutral and avoided sending the war materials to Russia which proved crucial. The documentary tends to blame Hitler for his "blunders" but I think that Japan should take most of the responsibility for the outcome of WWII.
The problem with your assesement is that you are ignorant to the fact that Germany did not want war with the west. They tried everything they could to bring peace and eventually make them allies in the future. Thats why he went soft on England and even made peace offers throughout the war. England wouldnt hear it. They simply wanted to destroy Germany to restore the balance of power back to Great Brittain. Its the reason the war was fought in the first place. As far s you being glad the Axis were defeated, this too is sheer ignorance. Germany was fighting communism. And communism was the biggest threat to not only Europe, but the world. Dont you find it funny that immediately after the war, the USSR was our enemy in a little thing called the Cold War for 50 years? When Germany was defeated, half of Europe fell under communism, and it spread throughout asia. Had Germany one, there's be no communism. The world would have been far better off. Think about that next time you complain about North Korea or China as "threats"
@@BratvaTV Germany did not want war with the west so it invaded Poland. Germany did not want war with the west so it invaded France. Germany did not want war with the west so it invaded Denmark, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands. So, after conquering all of western Europe, they made peace offerings to England. You must think the British are idiots. What would be Great Britain's place in the world with the Nazis controlling Europe? It would have been powerless. Communism was a threat, I agree. But the Nazis were racists and opposed to parliamentary and liberal democracies. Germany was the major threat of that era. So, your contention is that somehow, countries like China, Japan and Korea would all be in a close, warm relationship with Europe and America today if communism had been defeated. That's wishful thinking. They fought long before communism ever existed and they'll still be at odds once communism's gone, as well.
@@tanler7953 I dont understand what people dont get about how the war went. Germany invaded Poland after failed peaceful and reasonable negotiations for the return of Danzig. A German city inside Poland. There was a diplomatic attempt for this and the request was reasonable, but for some odd reason Poland refused to negotiate. So Germany invades on Sep 1, 1939. Two days later, England and France declare war on Germany. A conflict that had nothing to do with them. That was the start of ww2. This is what caused Germany to go west. They had war declared on them by the west, what were they supposed to do, just sit there and wait for the war to come to them? They had to go on the offensive if they were being threatened with war. This is why the invaded the low countries to get to get to France and to protect their interest and to beat the west to the punch. But they did not simply "invade" France unprovoked. WTF. Also, Poland fell in just three weeks, Hitler offered peace to the west. Rebuffed. France falls, Hitler offers peace, rebuffed. Dunkirk, England runs way, Hitler offers peace, rebuffed. And these peace offers werent made out of cowardice or because they were losing, but because they genuinely wanted peace with the west. They're only enemy was bolshevism/communism. Even as late as Feb 1945, Hitler again offered to hold off the eastern front for as long as possible until the west can come and help, and of course why would the west want to help. They didnt care. But Germany falls, and half of Europe falls to communism. Great job. Germany was racist? So was the US and GB. Even more so. Tens times worse, in fact. The irony is so thick you can choke. Jesse Owens was praised in Germany and the first time in their life that the black athletes were ever able to go anywhere unrestricted. Back home, Owens had to use the service entrance to a banquet being held in his honor! lol And yes, they were against parliamentary and liberal democracies...they tried that and it didnt work. I know you think democracy is great, but Germany solved its problems in just a few short yeasr, meanwhile the worlds biggest democracies were in a great depression and the difference between the rich and the poor is so lob sided. 1% owns half the wealth. Yeah capitalism. National Socialism put the community above the individual, but it did not take their freedom. You could be as successful and own private business, so long as your greed did not come at the expense to the community. Unlike liberal democracies with unrestricted capitalism that always leads to abuse. The rich control the media, the government etc. How's life in the US now, pretty great right? yeah, for the 1%. theyre making record profits, mean while the other 90+ are barely getting by. Germany had figured it out. The west did not want those ideas to spread. Hence theyre mission was to destroy Germany and why Hitler is the most vilified man in history. Yet if you stopped time on August 31, 1939 he would go down as one of the greatest men in history. his achievements were unprecedented.
@@BratvaTV Since Britain and France made it clear that the invasion of Poland would be an act of war, it was Germany's decision to start the war. Both Britain and France considered the occupation of Poland by Germany an unacceptable change to the balance of power in Europe. If the US and GB were so racist then where were the extermination camps for blacks? National Socialism did put the community above the individual. However, in all the countries that Germany occupied, it was the Germans who were put above everyone else. I agree with your criticism of contemporary unrestricted capitalism. But the Nazi solution would not have worked for America or western Europe.
Germany & Japan Empires made the wrong move by making die-hard America joined in WWII to fight against them while *they had not won victories over their strong foes* Britain, Russia, and China. Germany fought Britain on the western front and Russia on the eastern front as the same as Japan fought China on the western front and America on the eastern front (Pacific Ocean). *America joined in to strengthen the Allies* to fight to defeat the Axis. Victories come to those who rely on the forces of good (The Right Move). 😎
WW II started on 3rd September 1939 until Japan attacked US Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941. *America declared war on Japan and German on December 8, 1941.* WW II had been for 27 months before America joined in.
What the fuck are you smoking? Britain was getting their asses handed to them almost everywhere from the middle east to Singapore. The only thing they did was deny the Luftwaffe aerial domination over the English Channel. The Soviet Union was on the verge of total destruction before America completely entered the war and China..... was being butchered by the Japanese with no end in sight. Victory wasn't even a sure thing for the allies until Stalingrad and El Alamein in late 1942-early 1943.
Nazi Germany lost WW2 the moment they attacked the Soviet Union. The battle of Moscow caused Germany to have to fight a long war of attrition instead of a shorter war of maneuver. The Soviet Union had vastly more manpower, industrial power, and resources for a long war of attrition. Eventually the Soviet Army got a whole lot better tactically and strategically against the Wehrmacht culminating in the decisive battle of Stalingrad in 1942. The Axis satellite countries of Hungary, Italy, and Rumania combined with Germany lost over ONE MILLION men in the Stalingrad disaster. These Axis satellite countries lost almost their entire armies at Stalingrad and related encirclement battles. These defeats left Germany all alone on thenEastern Front. The entry of America into the war helped the Soviet Union on the margins but overall the Soviet Army defeated the Wehrmacht by themselves with 80 percent of casualties in the European Theater on the Eastern front. So America helped the Soviet Union but by the time Hitler declared war on the U.S.A. the German Wehrmacht had lost the strategic objectives of Operation Barbarossa in 1941 at the battle of Moscow. Nazi Germany lost the war with Operation Blue at the battle of Stalingrad in 1942. Those pesky Russians with their T-34 tanks, their battalions of tank riders with submachineguns, their massive artillery barrages, and their Yak fighters and Sturmovick ground attack planes blasted the German Wehrmacht back to Berlin. So the American war declaration helped but at Stalingrad and Moscow it didn't matter too much until 1943 when Lend Lease aid and air bombing really got going.
Without the invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany would have run out of oil in August 1941 and been unable to continue the war against the British Empire. The Soviets were receiving Lend-Lease from July 1941.
@@markharrison2544 :American Lend Lease aid to the Soviet Union was miniscule in 1941. The British provided most of Lend Lease aid to the Soviet Union in 1941 and 42. Americans really didn't make meaningful Lend Lease aid shipments until early 1943. It is hard to say how much Lend Lease aid was sent in 1942 or judge its impact for the Soviet Union. Lend Lease aid sent to the British was then transfered to the Soviet Union with some being sunk by U-boats. Probably this Lend Lease aid impact was marginal at best until in early 1943. The United States had to supply the rapidly mobilizing American Army divisions and Air Forces and Navy ships building up in 1942 and 1943. We delivered some M3 Grant tanks, P-39 Aircobras and P-40's in this early phase. The hard reality for Americans is that during the two biggeset battles of the war at Moscow in 1941 and at Stalingrad in 1942, the Soviet Union fought with its own resources, its own weapons, its own armies under its own generals to defeat the German Wehrmacht. American Lend Lease aid made a large contribution with Studebaker trucks, winter clothing and footgear, and canned foodstuffs like Spam. The Bell P-39 and P-63 were highly successful aircraft for the Soviet Army Air Force delivered in meanigful quantities. The Soviet Army became a highly mobile force with American trucks pulling their artillery and heavy equipment. It took a long while to get the Iran railway line open to the USSR and the Murmansk run was really dangerous in 1942. So it is best to say American Lend Lease aid helped the Soviet Union stay in the war and end the war sooner. Lend lease aid allowed the Soviet factories to build huge quantities of guns, small arms, tanks, warplanes, and ammunition. Historians I have read seem to think this is the best way to look at Lend Lease supplies. Lend Lease allowed the Soviets to the great bulk of their industrial cpacity to build weapons while America produced supplies, food and vehicles for the Soviet war effort.
@@markharrison2544 : The British provided Valentine tanks, Matilda tanks, and Hurricane fighters besides American Lend Lease supplies. The Soviets liked to put a 76.2mm tank gun on the Matilda tank. Kursk was the largest tank battle in 1943 but the Soviet Army launched large attacks pushing the Wehrmacht out of their initial positions in the north and south part of the Kursk bulge followed by large scale offensives driving the Germans to the Dnepr river. So it get jumbled in the mind with one attack followed by another and another. But the Stalingrad battle was probably the largest battle of the war up to Operation Bagration in 1944. Several Hungarian and German Armies were also destroyed in encrclement operations near Voronezh during the Stalingrad counteroffensive. The largest battle was Operation Bagration on June 22, 1944 that destroyed German Army Group Center. This battle also included substantial million man Soviet Army attacks with thousands of tanks and warplanes in the Ukraine. The Soviet Army was on the offensive everywhere continuously in the summer and autumn of 1944.
The Soviet Union started World War II by allying with Nazi Germany to invade Poland in 1939. My grandfather worked in a munitions factory in 1941 and all the Lend-Lease they sent to the Soviets came from the United States.
they did it because they could of defeated them with the help of japan japans naval capabilitys was far superior the us but the us had good plane capabilitys wich was better than naval capabilitys and also the us hardly did anything in the war it almost only the soviets and yes the us had nukes but lots of the sientists working the bomb were russian spies
As a retired American military officer, I agree. But never before in history has a nation sent a well-equipped, well supplied army of 1.2 million men 3000 miles across an ocean to invade a fortified continent to deliver the death blow. Both the United States and the Soviet Union were capable of defeating Nazi Germany by themselves. It is a shame that the A-bomb was not ready for deployment against the nazis. It would have stopped a lot of clap-trap about its use on Japan. Don't want your head chewed? Don't pull on the tail of the tiger(s).
If you think attacking the Soviet Union was a mistake then you are a fucking idiot who just spouts nonsense without research like a sheep. Germany NEEDED to invade the Soviet Union to get to the Caucasus mountains for oil.
The soviet union was unprepared for war, hence Stalin ordered that nothing should be done to offend Hitler when the german army was redeployed to the east (before the invasion even took place). The soviet union would’ve fallen before the end of the summer, but Hitler ordered to stall the final advance on Moscow until the Ukraine would be completely occupied, which was the actual blunder committed by Hitler.
@@kev03103 The shoot on sight order was a declaration of war, and meant the United States was at war with Germany and Italy in the Battle of the Atlantic.
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So stupid, declaring war on a country with almost infinite resources across an ocean while stuck in a quagmire in Russia, genius 😒
There were many reasons for this.
1) At this time Germans were at the gate of Moscow, they thought that USSR will fall
2) If they did it, then Japan will declare war on USSR which will divert USSR forces
3) they can fight unrestricted submarine warfare.
@James Henderson that's partially true but it was Germany in the gulf of Mexico that started shooting down American ships.before Theodore roosevelt gave the orders
@James Henderson because German submarines were shooting down American ships. The final straw is when they shot a civilian ship in the Gulf of Mexico
Die Slow Roosevelt did to himself with him actively supplying Britain only via lend-lease & wasn’t acting like a neutral nation
@@suryaprakash2126 they underestimated usa
I was so lucky that I wasn't born on that time
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No fucking way!!!! Military Blunders!!!! The greatest fucking show on the History channel. Finally after all these years! You rock!!!!!!!!!!
3:03 -- Hitler had hoped that Japan would declare war on the U.S.S.R. ?
He seemed to have forgotten that he signed a non-aggression pact with the U.S.S.R. while the Soviets were beating the Japanese during the Battles of Khalkhin Gol. He also seemed to have forgotten that as a result of the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, Japan and the U.S.S.R. had signed a non-aggression treaty on April 13, 1941.
So Hitler expected Japan to forgive his neglect of them during a critical time -- and he expected the Japanese to declare war on a third enemy that had already thoroughly trounced them -- while the Japanese were also busy fighting the Chinese and the Americans. In short, Hitler wanted Japan to fight a 3-front war, while Hitler himself was struggling to fight a 2-front war.
Kevin Byrne Your calculation is wrong.
Hitler also fight a 3 front war ( UK,USSR and USA )
Hitler had reason to expect that Japan will enter in a war against USSR, because :
1/ he was hinted and persuaded by japans that Japan could enter in a war against USSR
2/ at that time he already fight a 2-front war ( UK and USSR ) ...and entering in war against USA - 3 front
On the other side Japan's maneuver to stay away from a war against USSR was ''awarded'' by Stalin in August 1945 when he declared war to Japan despite a non-aggression pact with the USSR :)
@James Henderson Right,the chronological sequence was as follow :
Roosevelt declared USA as ''neutral country'' but actually he involved USA in a not declared war against Germany.
- 4 November 1939 the USA as neutral country started export of weapons and military equipment for UK and France
- 15 June 1940 Roosevelt declared that USA will augment the aid for France but only if France continue the war against Germany
- 27 June 1940 Roosevelt gives order : every non military german ship in US ports must be under arrest
- US military ships are engaged as guardians of every british convoy
- Mars 1941 all german ships in US ports are confiscated by US government
- 7 July 1941 the neutral Iceland is occupied by the ''neutral USA ''
- 10 July 1941 Roosevelt gives order to US military ships for attacking every german military ship or submarine
- 11 September Roosevelt declared that US military ships will attack not only the military but EVERY german ship
Finally, Hitler, respecting the Haag Convention from 1907 ,made a formal declaration of war.
@James Henderson Germany and Japan agreed to declare war on any country that attacked them and visa versa. However Japan attacked the USA so it wasn't necessary for Germany to declare war on the United States.
@@kev03103 Except that America declared war on Japan. So if they are to stand and fall together that is also a declaration of war against Germany.
@James Henderson Good USA should have been involved sooner anyway. Stalin was constantly at the USA to open a second front. By the way, I've asked you to cite your source for this statement of , "shoot on sight'... So far you've given me nothing.
Now check out Hitlers speech during this declaration
Why? What are we listening out for in the speech?
@James Henderson Thanks to spies, US already know that Germany will wage war so Roosevelt moved earlier than Hitler.
So we can listen to Hitler’s lies?
I had a good friend who was a nurse in WW2 Germany. I asked her when she knew the war was lost...her reply?...Dec 11, 1941. The day the US declared war on Germany.
Her point was that once the US declared war, Germany was doomed. The US declaration of war was passed by houses of Congress and signed by FDR at 3:05 PM 11 Dec 1941 Eastern Standard Time (approx Midnight Germany time) .
I am part German, and my family on my mother's side lived in Germany during the war. This nurse of your's was quite clairvoyant-- because no one else in Germany at that time thought the war was anywhere near being lost in 1941. Germany had only suffered one major setback by '41, the sinking of the Bismarck. But they continued to dominate in every theater of the war. No German seriously believed the U.S. would ever send troops to Europe to fight a losing fight. Someone is either making stuff up based on hindsight or they were psychic.
11 December, the US Congress voted to declare war on Germany; the House vote was 393 - 0, the Senate vote was 88 - 0; President Roosevelt signed the declaration at 3:05 PM EST 11 December 1941. It was in response to Germany's declaration of war on the US. If you read the Congressional Record for that date, you would see this.
RVC. My friend was taking care of the German casualties from the Eastern Front during the winter of 1941. (Barbarossa) She saw first hand what punsihment the Russians meted out to the German Army. What she saw did not match with what Goebbels was spouting. She knew that the Germans could not possibly withstand that level of casualty. When the US declared war, she knew Germany was doomed.
I would like to give you the benefit of the doubt, but this story just doesn't ring true. It is highly unlikely that any German in 1941 would have felt this way. They had had nothing but success up until then, Stalingrad hadn't taken place yet, and they had every reason to believe in victory. Goebbels' propaganda was pretty accurate in 1941-- the Russians were retreating everywhere. Even in Great Britain polls taken among the English population revealed that the majority thought Germany would win the war.
In 1944 this attitude might be believable, but even then the average German was not particularly afraid of an American invasion. To me this sounds like a case of a person looking back on history based on what we know now and allowing it to color their thoughts. I think your nurse friend was trying to appear more prescient than she possibly could be.
When jerman and his friends declare attack USA...
Nuclear attack japan destroy hiroshima and nagasaki ..
Germany leave a chat... 🤣
Lolz USA joined the war very late and until then Germany had already lost on eastern front against USSR…If Nazi Germany had gone in war against USA from the beginning, USA wouldn’t have any chance to even use nuclear weapons…!
Germany took the L
yup and im glad they did
@The Bandit The united states was a huge threat for germanys longevity , even hitler knew this
@The Bandit & now a days germany is extremely weak, gotta love the present, The U.s would obliterate germany
Because of Japan's attack on Pearl Habor
all becouse of it
It's funny how in Hitler's speech on declaring war on the US that he remarked "Roosevelt and the Jewish community have started WW2", so was happening when Hitler attacked Poland back in 39 or swallowed up Czechoslovakia in 38🤔
Poland invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938 and annexed Zaolzie. Why do you think the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939?
Declaring war on the U.S. while fighting a defensive war against the U.S.S.R. was probably not the wisest decision.
Some people defend Hitler's decision, saying that the U.S. was already helping Britain far beyond the standards of an ostensibly "neutral" nation, but there's a difference between tolerating a nation that sells war materiel to your enemy -- and having several million fresh enemy soldiers appear on your doorstep.
The US was already attacking Germany and Italy.
They weren't fighting a defensive war against the Soviets at the time of the declaration you idiot.
America was not sitting by passively. We had aircraft in China fighting the Japanese long before the official declaration of war. Roosevelt needed a legit reason and pearl Harbor gave it to him. Yes I believe he knew the Japanese would bomb pearl Harbor. 5 aircraft carriers were conspicuously absent. He knew.
This comment works as a statement and it holds truth in the broadest way.
Robert bishop Because Roosevelt could see the future and knew that Air Craft Carries were the future of naval battles
From U.K. The final payment of that massive financial debt owed to the US for war material was not made until 31st December 2006. It left Britain impoverished and helped the US into becoming the top world power.
So fucking glad Ike bankrupted sterling in 1956.
@Aarons117 Impoverished, at least you can honestly work your way out of that.
Excuses while Germany rebounds from two world wars and recessions.
The minute Hitler declare war against United States it was over for Germany like Winston Churchill said on the night of December 7th 1941 when I went to sleep that night I slept the sleep of the saved because Churchill I knew that was the end game the axis have lost the war!!!😀😀🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷
The United States was already at war with Germany.
@James Henderson As you apparently believe the United States declared war in September, 1941, then I believe we know how seriously we should take such a comment.
@James Henderson I thought you wrote : 'Churchill murdered 128 Americans on RMS Lusitania' which is, of course, nonsense.
Firstly, what has a liner crossing the Atlantic got to do with transporting munitions to the Western Front? Secondly, a US Court in 1918 stated that the small quantity of weapons carried aboard Lusitania (4200 cases of small arms ammunition, 18 fuse cases, and 125 shrapnel cases without powder) did not constitute 'War Munitions.'
Thirdly, Hospital Ships were regularly inspected, without warning, by neutral powers (notably Spain) in WW1 to ensure that they were complying with the 1907 Hague Convention on Hospital Ships. Several British ships were inspected, without adverse comment.
Fourthly, although the German Government made this claim in early 1917, at around the same time as they commenced unrestricted submarine warfare, they do not appear to have produced anything more concrete to substantiate it.
Do you perhaps think Churchill was Jack the Ripper as well? After all, he was all of 14 years old in 1888.
@James Henderson Well, not according to a US Court of Inquiry, or inspections by the Spanish government. Your evidence for this, other than what appears to be personal bigotry, would be, then?
According to which international rules of warfare in existence in 1914 was the RN blockade of the Central Powers illegal?
@James Henderson How would these men know, assuming that such letters existed? Wartime mail was subject to careful censorship, and men aboard hospital ships did not spend their time wandering around unsupervised. Please provide source material.
Blockade was certainly not illegal under the 1907 Hague Convention. For obvious reasons, the British would never have ratified such a clause anyway.
Churchill did not invade Russia. A number of allied nations supported the White Russians, including British & Commonwealth troops, French, Greek, Estonians, Italians, Japanese, and 13000 American troops in the Murmansk area. Your posts suggest Churchill thought the whole thing up on his own. It wasn't an 'invasion; in any case, by the way.
Similarly, Churchill certainly supported the use of chemical weapons, but the suggestion that he encouraged their use against Russian civilians only appeared for the first time in an article in the British 'Guardian' newspaper in September, 2013. The source for this article was Simon Jones, from the BBC, in 1999. Churchill did instruct Ironside, in command at Archangel, to use DM gas, in retaliation for a mustard gas attack on Allied troops by Bolsheviks, using gas captured from German stocks.
The only recorded use of DM was at Chunova, were 11 Bolshevik soldiers were affected. It appears to have been an unpleasant, but non-lethal, form of tear gas.
You don't suppose Churchill was the mysterious figure on the 'Grassy Knoll' do you? It would certainly fit in neatly with your oddly bigoted obsession about him.
Sea Lion would not have worked even with Air Superiority. It was a no go from the start.
@James Henderson 1. No he didn't
2. What's your point?
@James Henderson nonsense. Where's your source ?
@James Henderson They wanted to have maintenance done on their tanks...
The fact Hitler declared war on USA in 9/11 and the twin tower attack also 9/11 bruh
No.
The attacking of Russia was the GREATEST blunder of all his blunders.
no, just the incompetent hitlering of it
Japan was neutral in the war against the Soviet Union.
not really the war was inevitable between them
Agreed
He couldn't beat England so he desides to attack the USSR. What a retarded misfit.
Rommel said the same thing, you lost the war by declaring war against America.
@phyllis brady Rommel was no traitor. He wanted to save Germany from an obvious fate. He was smart enough to see Hitler's policies were going to destroy Germany. I will say one thing about Rommel, he supported Hitler at first, so did many German general's but after he attacked Russia many could see Hitler was crazy, plus all the murders.
@@kev03103 Rommel was a loyal Nazi who never joined the plot against Hitler. He fully supported war with the United States due to American aid to the British Empire.
@@markharrison2544 From what I have read, many books on the period this was impression. Rommel started out an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler, however as time went on this enthusiasm waned. After learning about the destruction of the European Jews, operation barbarosa, and when Hitler FORMALLY declared war on the USA, Rommel felt the Hitler would ultimately destroy Germany. In fact, Rommel had discussions with Hitler about ending the war. He was consulted on valgarie but how much of a participant he was is unknown. When the actual perpetrators were tortured some gave up Rommel. I don't doubt the the Nazis made him take cyanide. I don't know why you are questioning this, it's been written about. Certainly Rommel was bright enough to see the writing on the wall , and that Germany would lose the war. Many other general's felt the same way especially after Stalingrad and the German's inability to take Moscow which was 18 miles away. Logistical support was nil, the lend lease agreement and the Russians ability to steadily produce tanks was phenomenal. After the Allis landed in Normandy, and the loses of northern Africa, Italy, anyone could clearly see that it was a mater of time.
@@kev03103 The United States declared war on Germany when Roosevelt gave the shoot on sight order. Rommel was a lifelong anti-Semite who fully supported Barbarossa. Taking Moscow would have made zero difference.
@@markharrison2544 How did Rommel die than? Why did so many authors say otherwise? I really don't even care about Rommel, except what you're saying is many historians got things wrong.
Is too much weight been given to declarations of war countries can and do manufacture incidents to bring about conflict
The question was "why" ? In my opinion he wasn't right upstairs.
Who’s here after Iran threaten the US
Me but not worried about a war that won’t happen.
CaL 76 u sure you never know but hopefully your correct
James Henderson Iran threatened us.
@@croatianwarmaster7872 nah fam we would easily wipe of them.
@@croatianwarmaster7872 your from Croatia?
When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Roosevelt agreed to extend Lend-Lease to the Soviets. Thus, Roosevelt had committed the U.S. to the Allied side with a policy of "all aid short of war."[245]
In August 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill conducted a highly secret bilateral meeting in which they drafted the Atlantic Charter, conceptually outlining global wartime and postwar goals. This would be the first of several wartime conferences;[246] Churchill and Roosevelt would meet ten more times in person.[247] Though Churchill pressed for an American declaration of war against Germany, Roosevelt believed that Congress would reject any attempt to bring the United States into the war.[248] In September, a German submarine fired on the U.S. destroyer Greer, and Roosevelt declared that the U.S. Navy would assume an escort role for Allied convoys in the Atlantic as far east as Great Britain and would fire upon German ships or submarines (U-boats) of the Kriegsmarine if they entered the U.S. Navy zone. This "shoot on sight" policy effectively declared naval war on Germany and was favored by Americans by a margin of 2-to-1.[249]
That was excellent policy 👍. Lend your neighbor a hose if his 🏠 is burning. I love FDR. He kept the Yanks out of the war for years.
Hi Adolph, what is hell like?
I like how all documentaries potray hitler as a poor victim
Dr Horst Mulheim wrote in his book that Hitler used to have Whale Blubber and onions for breakfast most mornings. It was instructed by his personal physician.
"Oops"
Lend lease was a smart move on Roosevelts part.
Backing China over Japan in 1940 was a huge mistake.
@@markharrison2544 why? Japan had long planned to attack pearl Harbor.
@@robertbishop5357 Because China is now the world superpower. The United States had long planned to attack Japan.
@@markharrison2544 to be a super power you have to have a blue water navy. China can barely control its surrounding waters
@@robertbishop5357China communists and Russians dictatorship are thankful to USA
This is one of the most idiotic assessments of all time. It's like saying that declaring that you are in a football game at halftime is a "blunder." Why? You've already played two quarters against the other team and everybody knows it. To declare war in 1941 was simply an observation of fact.
The presumption here is that without Hitler's speech the U.S. would never have gotten into the war. That's ridiculous. The U.S. had already chosen sides, and it wasn't with Germany! The U.S. had been assisting Great Britain since before the war began in 1939. They had been sending vast quantities of war materials to Russia. They were arming all of Germany's enemies. Was Hitler supposed to go on pretending none of this was happening?
Germany had no ability to strike at the U.S. Did anyone think they were going to get into ships and sail across the Atlantic and land on the Jersey shore? It's beyond absurd. They didn't have a single plane the could even reach the U.S. They could barely bomb England and get back home on the limited range of their bombers and fighters.
This declaration had ZERO effect on the outcome of the war.
Most of that is true, however Hitler to this point had not allowed his uboats to attack the lend lease vessels. Although America was supplying both fronts we were not engaging with military force. Hitler's declaration allowed the US to put boots on the ground so to speak and the uboats to openly attack U.S. shipping in the security zone....
The US Navy was already attacking Axis ships and submarines.
Germany did actually send U Boats to the east coast. They sank a lot of US ships. They knew Great Britain was the key that the allies needed to invade Europe so they had to destroy them. Since he didn't they were unable to do so. If they did, they likely could've drove a larger military presence westward towards the US.
Reichs "This declaration had ZERO effect on the outcome of the war." Words never uttered by any historian.
The US was already at war with Germany and Italy.
The lair has no boundaries no limitations no restrictions
Another cool thing about the lend lease act is that after the war most of the debt was absolved anyway and the Allie’s didn’t have to really pay much at all for American supplies or weapons considering the American economy was the only stable economy in the world at that time and most countries wouldn’t be able to pay off the debts for decades
The UK had to repay all of the debt. It only finished repaying in December 2006.
@@MarkHarrison733 ya a small fraction
@@ballsonyourmomschin1781 It had to repay all of it.
did war will confine itself, as called european war,
WWI already declared no such things at all
Makes no sense
Listen to the Roosevelt declaration. That is statesmanship. Not theatre, not media, but oratory of decisive politics at a time when most needed.
Yes! It was an excellent speech. Understated, less says more. The intonation in his voice is strength personified.
Correct. Everybody always raves about Hitler’s oratorical skills, but actually both Roosevelt’s and Churchill’s sober, measured words were far more effective.
Roosevelt should have been impeached for causing the attack on Pearl Harbor.
@@markharrison2544 That conspiracy theory is a load of shit.
@@benoitpellet1657Hitler was a better orator when he’s not screaming.Churchill was a drunkin man and could barely speak
19:36 They are talking about the war in Europe, so why play the Marine's hymn?
Good question. Nice catch, Rich.
human error things happen bro
Shitler was overrated as hell 😂🤦🏻♂️
@James Henderson
True, brownie points for him for that.
But, he ran like a coward when thr Allies were in Berlin
great film!
Military Blunders was the greatest show on the History Channel
Japan is the most ambitious country of them all.
They saw what happened to their brother "China". They felt becoming like the western powers that they could avoid a similar fate.
The thing that I always wondered was would the US have fought Germany anyways? Two facts that support the theory that it would have happened; 1) We (US) were already sending supplies, volunteer troops, and equipment (tanks planes and ships) to Great Britain and the USSR. 2) Roosevelt was talking to Great Britain before the war started about how Hitler was the greater threat and needed to be dealt with before Japan (from The Grand Alliance by Winston Churchill written after the war).
Roosevelt publicly confirmed on 11 September 1941 that the US Navy had been ordered to shoot on sight at all Axis ships and submarines in the Atlantic.
@@jedirevan1582 There's a very elaborate war game scenario worked out on CZcams by some history professor that basically says the USSR could not have defeated Germany without US supplies. The US provided about 15% of Soviet war materials and that made a critical difference. So, regardless of when or if the US would have fought in Europe, the Soviets could not have won without American help. I believe it was Churchill who convinced Roosevelt to help the Russians. However, if the war had dragged on and if the Holocaust had been more extensive, it"s doubtful there would have been enough Zionists to have founded Israel.
Very simple answer... Yes
I think it was pretty inevitable
Let me say first I’m great full the Axis
powers were defeated, but it is interesting to look at what ifs or had they done this instead of that situations. Germany should not have attacked Russia until England was defeated. They also should have worked closer with their allies, especially Japan. If Germany , and Japan coordinated an attack on the Soviet Union. Together they would have brought the Soviet down.
I agree with that assessment. Had Germany and Japan coordinated an attack against the USSR, no doubt Germany would have defeated the Soviet Union. Also, the US probably would have either stayed neutral and avoided sending the war materials to Russia which proved crucial. The documentary tends to blame Hitler for his "blunders" but I think that Japan should take most of the responsibility for the outcome of WWII.
The problem with your assesement is that you are ignorant to the fact that Germany did not want war with the west. They tried everything they could to bring peace and eventually make them allies in the future. Thats why he went soft on England and even made peace offers throughout the war. England wouldnt hear it. They simply wanted to destroy Germany to restore the balance of power back to Great Brittain. Its the reason the war was fought in the first place.
As far s you being glad the Axis were defeated, this too is sheer ignorance. Germany was fighting communism. And communism was the biggest threat to not only Europe, but the world. Dont you find it funny that immediately after the war, the USSR was our enemy in a little thing called the Cold War for 50 years? When Germany was defeated, half of Europe fell under communism, and it spread throughout asia. Had Germany one, there's be no communism. The world would have been far better off. Think about that next time you complain about North Korea or China as "threats"
@@BratvaTV Germany did not want war with the west so it invaded Poland. Germany did not want war with the west so it invaded France. Germany did not want war with the west so it invaded Denmark, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands. So, after conquering all of western Europe, they made peace offerings to England. You must think the British are idiots. What would be Great Britain's place in the world with the Nazis controlling Europe? It would have been powerless. Communism was a threat, I agree. But the Nazis were racists and opposed to parliamentary and liberal democracies. Germany was the major threat of that era. So, your contention is that somehow, countries like China, Japan and Korea would all be in a close, warm relationship with Europe and America today if communism had been defeated. That's wishful thinking. They fought long before communism ever existed and they'll still be at odds once communism's gone, as well.
@@tanler7953 I dont understand what people dont get about how the war went. Germany invaded Poland after failed peaceful and reasonable negotiations for the return of Danzig. A German city inside Poland. There was a diplomatic attempt for this and the request was reasonable, but for some odd reason Poland refused to negotiate. So Germany invades on Sep 1, 1939. Two days later, England and France declare war on Germany. A conflict that had nothing to do with them. That was the start of ww2. This is what caused Germany to go west. They had war declared on them by the west, what were they supposed to do, just sit there and wait for the war to come to them? They had to go on the offensive if they were being threatened with war. This is why the invaded the low countries to get to get to France and to protect their interest and to beat the west to the punch. But they did not simply "invade" France unprovoked. WTF.
Also, Poland fell in just three weeks, Hitler offered peace to the west. Rebuffed. France falls, Hitler offers peace, rebuffed. Dunkirk, England runs way, Hitler offers peace, rebuffed. And these peace offers werent made out of cowardice or because they were losing, but because they genuinely wanted peace with the west. They're only enemy was bolshevism/communism.
Even as late as Feb 1945, Hitler again offered to hold off the eastern front for as long as possible until the west can come and help, and of course why would the west want to help. They didnt care. But Germany falls, and half of Europe falls to communism. Great job.
Germany was racist? So was the US and GB. Even more so. Tens times worse, in fact. The irony is so thick you can choke. Jesse Owens was praised in Germany and the first time in their life that the black athletes were ever able to go anywhere unrestricted. Back home, Owens had to use the service entrance to a banquet being held in his honor! lol
And yes, they were against parliamentary and liberal democracies...they tried that and it didnt work. I know you think democracy is great, but Germany solved its problems in just a few short yeasr, meanwhile the worlds biggest democracies were in a great depression and the difference between the rich and the poor is so lob sided. 1% owns half the wealth. Yeah capitalism. National Socialism put the community above the individual, but it did not take their freedom. You could be as successful and own private business, so long as your greed did not come at the expense to the community. Unlike liberal democracies with unrestricted capitalism that always leads to abuse. The rich control the media, the government etc. How's life in the US now, pretty great right? yeah, for the 1%. theyre making record profits, mean while the other 90+ are barely getting by.
Germany had figured it out. The west did not want those ideas to spread. Hence theyre mission was to destroy Germany and why Hitler is the most vilified man in history. Yet if you stopped time on August 31, 1939 he would go down as one of the greatest men in history. his achievements were unprecedented.
@@BratvaTV Since Britain and France made it clear that the invasion of Poland would be an act of war, it was Germany's decision to start the war. Both Britain and France considered the occupation of Poland by Germany an unacceptable change to the balance of power in Europe. If the US and GB were so racist then where were the extermination camps for blacks? National Socialism did put the community above the individual. However, in all the countries that Germany occupied, it was the Germans who were put above everyone else. I agree with your criticism of contemporary unrestricted capitalism. But the Nazi solution would not have worked for America or western Europe.
Tiptoe Through the Tulips, God damn it!
Germany & Japan Empires made the wrong move by making die-hard America joined in WWII to fight against them while *they had not won victories over their strong foes* Britain, Russia, and China. Germany fought Britain on the western front and Russia on the eastern front as the same as Japan fought China on the western front and America on the eastern front (Pacific Ocean). *America joined in to strengthen the Allies* to fight to defeat the Axis. Victories come to those who rely on the forces of good (The Right Move). 😎
The US was already at war with the Axis.
WW II started on 3rd September 1939 until Japan attacked US Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941. *America declared war on Japan and German on December 8, 1941.* WW II had been for 27 months before America joined in.
On 11 September 1941 the US Navy began shooting on sight at all Axis ships and submarines in the Battle of the Atlantic.
What the fuck are you smoking? Britain was getting their asses handed to them almost everywhere from the middle east to Singapore. The only thing they did was deny the Luftwaffe aerial domination over the English Channel. The Soviet Union was on the verge of total destruction before America completely entered the war and China..... was being butchered by the Japanese with no end in sight. Victory wasn't even a sure thing for the allies until Stalingrad and El Alamein in late 1942-early 1943.
@@richardschiffman7657 Germany did not have the resources for a long war against the British Empire.
Nazi Germany lost WW2 the moment they attacked the Soviet Union. The battle of Moscow caused Germany to have to fight a long war of attrition instead of a shorter war of maneuver. The Soviet Union had vastly more manpower, industrial power, and resources for a long war of attrition. Eventually the Soviet Army got a whole lot better tactically and strategically against the Wehrmacht culminating in the decisive battle of Stalingrad in 1942. The Axis satellite countries of Hungary, Italy, and Rumania combined with Germany lost over ONE MILLION men in the Stalingrad disaster. These Axis satellite countries lost almost their entire armies at Stalingrad and related encirclement battles. These defeats left Germany all alone on thenEastern Front.
The entry of America into the war helped the Soviet Union on the margins but overall the Soviet Army defeated the Wehrmacht by themselves with 80 percent of casualties in the European Theater on the Eastern front. So America helped the Soviet Union but by the time Hitler declared war on the U.S.A. the German Wehrmacht had lost the strategic objectives of Operation Barbarossa in 1941 at the battle of Moscow. Nazi Germany lost the war with Operation Blue at the battle of Stalingrad in 1942. Those pesky Russians with their T-34 tanks, their battalions of tank riders with submachineguns, their massive artillery barrages, and their Yak fighters and Sturmovick ground attack planes blasted the German Wehrmacht back to Berlin. So the American war declaration helped but at Stalingrad and Moscow it didn't matter too much until 1943 when Lend Lease aid and air bombing really got going.
Without the invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany would have run out of oil in August 1941 and been unable to continue the war against the British Empire.
The Soviets were receiving Lend-Lease from July 1941.
@@markharrison2544 :American Lend Lease aid to the Soviet Union was miniscule in 1941. The British provided most of Lend Lease aid to the Soviet Union in 1941 and 42. Americans really didn't make meaningful Lend Lease aid shipments until early 1943. It is hard to say how much Lend Lease aid was sent in 1942 or judge its impact for the Soviet Union. Lend Lease aid sent to the British was then transfered to the Soviet Union with some being sunk by U-boats. Probably this Lend Lease aid impact was marginal at best until in early 1943. The United States had to supply the rapidly mobilizing American Army divisions and Air Forces and Navy ships building up in 1942 and 1943. We delivered some M3 Grant tanks, P-39 Aircobras and P-40's in this early phase. The hard reality for Americans is that during the two biggeset battles of the war at Moscow in 1941 and at Stalingrad in 1942, the Soviet Union fought with its own resources, its own weapons, its own armies under its own generals to defeat the German Wehrmacht.
American Lend Lease aid made a large contribution with Studebaker trucks, winter clothing and footgear, and canned foodstuffs like Spam. The Bell P-39 and P-63 were highly successful aircraft for the Soviet Army Air Force delivered in meanigful quantities. The Soviet Army became a highly mobile force with American trucks pulling their artillery and heavy equipment. It took a long while to get the Iran railway line open to the USSR and the Murmansk run was really dangerous in 1942. So it is best to say American Lend Lease aid helped the Soviet Union stay in the war and end the war sooner. Lend lease aid allowed the Soviet factories to build huge quantities of guns, small arms, tanks, warplanes, and ammunition. Historians I have read seem to think this is the best way to look at Lend Lease supplies. Lend Lease allowed the Soviets to the great bulk of their industrial cpacity to build weapons while America produced supplies, food and vehicles for the Soviet war effort.
Most of the Lend-Lease from the UK came from the US.
The Battle of Kursk was the largest battle.
@@markharrison2544 : The British provided Valentine tanks, Matilda tanks, and Hurricane fighters besides American Lend Lease supplies. The Soviets liked to put a 76.2mm tank gun on the Matilda tank. Kursk was the largest tank battle in 1943 but the Soviet Army launched large attacks pushing the Wehrmacht out of their initial positions in the north and south part of the Kursk bulge followed by large scale offensives driving the Germans to the Dnepr river. So it get jumbled in the mind with one attack followed by another and another. But the Stalingrad battle was probably the largest battle of the war up to Operation Bagration in 1944. Several Hungarian and German Armies were also destroyed in encrclement operations near Voronezh during the Stalingrad counteroffensive. The largest battle was Operation Bagration on June 22, 1944 that destroyed German Army Group Center. This battle also included substantial million man Soviet Army attacks with thousands of tanks and warplanes in the Ukraine. The Soviet Army was on the offensive everywhere continuously in the summer and autumn of 1944.
The Soviet Union started World War II by allying with Nazi Germany to invade Poland in 1939.
My grandfather worked in a munitions factory in 1941 and all the Lend-Lease they sent to the Soviets came from the United States.
see: Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction. Tired, old outdated videos like this can only be viewed with the sound off.
The English speaking world was wrong but they had to much power and won but they where wrong all the time.
Jonas Kuiper because theyre sitting ducks & no one touched their land yet.
hindsight hindsight.....no way ggermany and japan could have defeated combined US/USSR. wasnt happening.
Japan and Germany could not beat the US alone even without the help of the UK and Russia.
The US lost in Korea and Vietnam.
@@markharrison2544 yeah we lost the politics, won the battles.
Trying to win militarily would have resulted in a Soviet invasion of western Europe, and nuclear war with the Soviet Union and China.
@@markharrison2544 i dont disagree.
they did it because they could of defeated them with the help of japan japans naval capabilitys was far superior the us but the us had good plane capabilitys wich was better than naval capabilitys and also the us hardly did anything in the war it almost only the soviets and yes the us had nukes but lots of the sientists working the bomb were russian spies
"...they could of defeated them..." "Could of?" ? What does this mean?
what i mean is if japan did not loose its carriers at midway there was a posibility to land an invasion of the us
Main blunder of Germany in WW2? They attacked the Soviet Union
As a retired American military officer, I agree. But never before in history has a nation sent a well-equipped, well supplied army of 1.2 million men 3000 miles across an ocean to invade a fortified continent to deliver the death blow. Both the United States and the Soviet Union were capable of defeating Nazi Germany by themselves. It is a shame that the A-bomb was not ready for deployment against the nazis. It would have stopped a lot of clap-trap about its use on Japan.
Don't want your head chewed? Don't pull on the tail of the tiger(s).
Atomic weapons could not be used in Europe.
lurking0death stfu commi
If you think attacking the Soviet Union was a mistake then you are a fucking idiot who just spouts nonsense without research like a sheep. Germany NEEDED to invade the Soviet Union to get to the Caucasus mountains for oil.
The soviet union was unprepared for war, hence Stalin ordered that nothing should be done to offend Hitler when the german army was redeployed to the east (before the invasion even took place). The soviet union would’ve fallen before the end of the summer, but Hitler ordered to stall the final advance on Moscow until the Ukraine would be completely occupied, which was the actual blunder committed by Hitler.
The United States declared war on Germany and Italy when Roosevelt gave the shoot on sight order.
The USA declared war on Germany only after Hitler declared war on the USA December 11, just a few days after pearl harbor, look it up.
@@kev03103 The USA declared war when Roosevelt publicly confirmed the shoot on sight order on 11 September 1941.
@@markharrison2544 bullshit
Bullshit
@@kev03103 The shoot on sight order was a declaration of war, and meant the United States was at war with Germany and Italy in the Battle of the Atlantic.
You have an excuse for everything Germany did during the war years. Much is propaganda.
@James Henderson There are other ways of ending colonialism. Ghandi is an excellent example.
@James Henderson Right Ghandi's path of nonviolence had nothing to do with it...
@James Henderson what would have set india free in the 1970s?
Rainbow Five and the Plan Dog memo show the US was always going to fight Germany and Italy as well as Japan.
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You must be joking.
Low propaganda. We’re in 2019,Who still believes this crap ?
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