WW2 - Western Front, 1944-1945. Part 2
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By November 1944 Nazi Germany was on the brink of defeat and the Allies were preparing to unleash the final offensive in some months. The Germans put all of their hope on a desperate counterattack on the Western Front.
01:22 Intro
01:57 Allied offensive in Alsace-Lorraine
02:19 Allied attack in the North (Operation Queen)
02:43 Planning the Ardennes offensive
03:22 Unfolding of the Ardennes offensive
04:03 January 1945
05:31 Rheinland offensive
07:19 Allied advance beyond the Rhine
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Even when in defeat, Germany attacks through Belgium
It's like lung cancer man smoking.
Three times they attacked Belgium and the Ardennes. Once in WW1, once in 1939 and the third time here
Belgium is like Germany's highway to Paris 🤣
lol
Attack France: attack Ardennes
Attack France: attack Ardennes
France attacked: attack Ardennes
It's like a Pavlov's dog.
*Germany, starts defense
Soviets: Starts offense
Allies: Starts offense
Switzerland: doubles chocolate production
LOL true 😂
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Hahaha
A
*MORE!*
- Switzerland Goverment in 1945 probably.
“That’s okay. If Steiner attacks, everything will be alright.”
Mein Fürher…
Steiner…
@@BigGuy-jp8jm Steiner couldn't mobilize enough men. He was unable to carry out the assault.
The following stay : Keitel, Jodl, Krebs and Burgdorf
@@jtgd These men will stay: Keitel, Jodl, Krebs, and Burgdorf.
@@user-lq5yx1ke5k That was an order!
You know Eastory that was a great way to represent a sponsor i hope they gave you a bonus
Yea I know. It’s the first time I’ve ever watched the sponsor part
@@coddpedo8946 me too!
@@coddpedo8946 It's the first time I've ever genuinely rewatched the sponsor part
@@benflokstra5609 e
You'll get my bonus >;)
*Eastory rhymes a sponsorship*
English teachers:
I'll take your entire stock
Was not expecting a Dr. Seuss rhyme.
Honestly it made watching it not feel like a complete waste of time
Im glad someone mentioned that
Eastory has some bars
Eesti laps
kalevipoeg
Yeah, they're good at languages and better at English than many native speakers.
I'm all about the trochaic tetramater.
“Steiner’s attack will bring things under control”
*Famous last words*
all i have to say to that is: DAS WAR EIN BEFEHL! DER ANGRIFF STEINERS WAR EIN BEFEHL
''The allies rushed in AN airborne div. (101) to hold the important road junction, of Bastogne''.Yeah yeah i kinda remember them from somewhere...
easy company, band of brothers...
"Nuts!"
I've heard that lightling cracked the ground there
@@ql9066 And something about thunder sounding and artillery pounding...
Also Little Rock high school
Play in reverse to see Steiner's glorious counter attack.
duuuuude
XDDD
imagine if the steiner's attack happened, it would be a disaster
for allies *of course*
According to historians, if Steiner did made his counterattack, he can reach Moscow and Washington in under 2 weeks
@@mapeditorjon5306 wtf?? i understimated historians!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@mapeditorjon5306 THATS BIASED HE WOULD MAKE IT IN 2 DAYS!!!!!!!
@@mapeditorjon5306 Lets talk seriously its entirely possible that counter offensive could have been launched, just like moscow has been saved
@@giroshi8902 Bit it would still have little effect. The Nazis were done.
christmas came early :o
right after oversimplified too
Yeah
I’m cool
Just waiting for Geo History/ Geo Histoire
Just on time
Anyone notice how the tables flipped and Germany became the one that was encircled in Dunkirk ? 4:06
wonder why the allies didn’t bother much on dunkirk and other pockets on france
@@glamosky 🤷♂️, I guess they wanted to haul ass into Germany to destroy their industry. Not like they were much of a threat anyways
@@glamosky they were no threats and they were but the Germans were to entrenched
😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
Hans 💔💔
@@glamosky
They took one of the French Atlantic ports... I can't remember which one... And when the German garrison finally surrendered, pretty much the only buildings left standing in the town were the U-boat pens. The French would try demolishing them after the war, and failed. So they're still standing to this day.
The port itself was a wreck and unusable, taking months to clear. After that bloody experience, they decided it was a waste of time trying to capture those ports so they just left them penned up and moved on.
I like how Eastory comes a few days after Oversimplified
he needed some time for the poem, that's why
Big win for history geeks
@Danrielplayz from a certain POV, this video might be preproduction for when the WW2 in Real Time channel needs these maps in 2024
@@mapeditorjon5306 youre not a history geek if you watch youtube videos to "learn" history
What exactly are you trying to say...?
2:40 By mid-december the allies had achieved their goal to create a Alfred Hitchcock-shaped frontline.
holy shit
Hahahaha they withdraw after taking a pic and said that they had completed their main objetive
Well, lads, we did it.
Pack it up, go home
I liked that rhyming during the sponsor
Is no one gonna talk about how cool his sponsor sales pitch was
Yeah, Great Courses Plus totally got their money's worth: I always skip past 'em, but I watched this one all the way through
@@PackerAlfred same
@@PackerAlfred really. The only advertisement that rewatch)
2:02 , this wild division that rushed to Strasbourg were the French (and spanniards!) of the 2nd armored division, 4 years earlier the leader (general Leclerc) catpured the Italian fort in Kufra (southern lybia) it was the first Free french victory, and swore (with this men) that he will never led down his weapons until he liberated Strasbourg.. on the date of his anniversay his Division liberated Strasbourg and the French flag rose above the city. A legendary unit.
An awseome video btw!
@Bob Watters 11 actually
7:49 Arguably the first few Hoi4 players those tested the game
the allies:"We're in the endgame now !"
You mean the germans
@@stephencarroll9935 i mean that was the allies after the Fall of France.
The Germans lost, so they’re in the 14,000,000 outcomes where they lost the endgame
@@jtgd oh thought you meant a time more relevant to the vid like 44/45 not 1940
Germany: this war is getting real intense right now Italy you're still with me right?
**Italy has left the chat**
Alternatively.
Italy: "Well, the war is lost, and any continued fighting will only increase our suffering for no gains. Time to get rid of the leaders who dragged us into this war and put a government in charge the allies can negotiate with, right Germany?"
Germany: "..."
Germany: "But we like funny moustache man."
@@aquila4460 Italy switched sides and betrayed the germans.. don't try to hide it... first in ww1 and again now
@@Ronald98 In ww1 Italy would have stod with the germans if austria humgary just gave them South tirol and Irstria
@@Ronald98 Matter of perspective. If half my country was occupied and my "ally" was strong arming me to stay in the war, I'd do the same
@@Ronald98 Ah yes. "Betrayed" The Germans by not joining their suicide cult and actually surrendering when the war is lost.
I live in a town in Germany, where the Siegfried Line/Westwall passed through, the Dragons Teeth are still there and I go there like every few weeks as it is a very nice spot to hang out
_I go there like every few weeks as it is a very nice spot to hang out_
Understandable; you don't want your picnic to be overrun by Allied armor.
This....was by far the most creative sponsor-advert I've seen in years
The Legend is back!
yes he is! he’s making videos more often now
Yup
@@aiwanano6507 is he?
@Denis Ryakhovskiy oh
Every time when I watch one of videos in this channel I am absolutely impressed. I really can’t wait for more quality WWII content. Fantastic job👏
3:09 Germans revisiting their greatest hits of 1940.
The sponsor as a poem gave me +50 years of life, I could listen to it non-stop 😂 amazing video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Been watching your stuff since you uploaded the "British plans to win WW2" video and I'm happy you've gotten a sponsor!
Keep up the quality content, much love from Latvia!
2:45 my great grandfather which served as the Germans died there, he was in the 363 division and died at the town of Liontch
judging by your profile picture it is more then logical that your great grandfather served for the Wehrmacht
@@mrsslav5593 you are not a russian nationalist, you live in north dakota
@@dshbvhjbfhvjb VPN And TOR my friend, i live in Czech republic
You can do the pacific front, the italian front, sino - japanese war and then you may go back in time or in the future. Back in time, may be everything before ww2 for example ww1, while in the future you may do something like the korean war, or any of the proxy - wars in the cold war. I hole you can use some of these ideas for your next videos.
I would love to see the Italian front as my great uncle fought and died there, but I think the Korean war or Sino-Japanese war might be more interesting
But which Pacific front? The fight against the Japanese was so fragmented, I suspect you mean either the Chinese front or the huge British and Indian campaign on the Burmese front. But there were so many others, especially the Americans and Australians fighting their own separate campaigns on islands rather than the Asian mainland.
@@Dave_Sisson i think the Second Sino-Japanese war is kinda similar to Vietnam War, in which Chinese used combined tactics of guerilla warfare with communist soldiers, and conventional warfare with kuomintang army and there were few major battles. The South East Asian and Pacific theatre would be more interesting as the Brits and Americans were the main destroyer of Imperial Japan, similar to how Soviet Union was the main protagonist of European theatre.
I would love to see the Korean war, I only have a vague picture of the movements
he did the second sino-japanese war thankfully
This is actually a very good video, great work Eastory!
Germans: (create flood)
Allies: Dam
I've heard a myriad of Lindybeige's Great Courses Plus plugs and enjoyed them thoroughly. But I must say, this one beats them all. I never knew, you were such a poet, Eastory.
What a coincidence, I just caught up on Part 1 yesterday after missing it. Thanks for the upload!
Okay everyone was talking about the commercial I deliberately skipped ... so I went and watched it ... and yeah it's good, I hope you got a phat bonus for that, you deserve it for the extra effort mate. Great quality just like your video.
that has got to be the greatest sponsorship pitch I have ever heard. good job :)
The Western and Eastern front video's were truly magnificent, learnt more from them than endless other documentaries
Keep up the great work
Love the videos. So happy to see a part 2. Even happier that the in-video promotion wasn’t Warpath or Raid Shadow legends.
Its always greeat to see another upload of yours!
yeah he makes very good and detailed videos I agree
Germany trying the old Push through the Ardennes 2: Electric Boogaloo
That sponser segment was one of the best things I've seen and I'm glad I didn't skip past it. Bravo sir!
That's the best written and delivered advertisement for The Great Courses Plus I've seen. I actually went back and watched it a second time. Well done! 😃
This was the best sponsorship I've ever seen xD
Lmao one of the few ads I listened all the way through
I've seen a lot of Great Courses plus sponsor comments, but yours is the best. Great video.
Absolutely brilliant job. The explanation with voice-over was very good, and so with especially the dates changing at the top.
Super cool so see the division my great grandfather fought with move around the map. Gives me a better sense of what he was apart of in the war.
Which division??? Allied or axis I'm assuming allied 🤣
I’ve been looking forward to this.
Yes
Same
My powers have doubled since the last time we've met, Count
agreed
@@gangstarappa Great! Twice the pride, double the fall
Eastory is back and is making videos more quickly now, what we needed; awesome
Thanks for a great part 2. I'll be watching these again for sure.
Eastory could u please make a video about Napoleon's invasjon of russia next if possible
Its really hard tho
I can explain he tried to take moscow succeded but failed to hold on to it because of the winter he retreated and then his plan failed
Look up Epic History video's. It cannot get any better than that.
@@olebrumm4832 He couldn't hold on on it because russians burned down their own cities, including moscow.
@@olebrumm4832 but he started his retreat in Autumn. What winter are you talking about? :D
Hitler's kill count: 1
And I'm pretty sure you guys know who he killed.
Actually his K/D is higher, cause he was a WW1 veteran, fighting on the frontlines
Himself
@@yordanberov8678 true
lol
Hitler
its rare that i dont skip thru ad reads, but that was hands down the best sponsor plug ive ever heard. had to listen to it twice
your videos are awesome, especially the attention to detail. Although i have never fact checked the numbers of the units haha.... research must take a lot of time. Great job!!
Hands down the best sponsorship segment I've ever seen!
That was one of the best sponsorships ive seen yet. Please continue this sponsorship trait lmao
Im still amazed at how you make these videos, but I'm glad they are reaching people because they are awesome!!!
I was waiting for this for soo long THANK YOU !
Very cool to see the 101st after just re-watching Band of Brothers last week!
I don't see the issue, Steiner's attack will resolve all of these problems.
Thanks for the hard work and great visuals. Its fun to Google some of the brigade names in the videos I see and learn some of their history.
Great work again,Buddy.
Omg did anyone realise that a german division was stuck at dunkirk the irony of that
@@akuheikeiserllen3078 Yeah, it was a fortress garrison to deny the port. Became pointless once the Allies got Antwerp, plus they cleared a few other ports on the coast. At that point they just maintained the siege until the end of the war rather than waste the lives storming the town.
@@kellyshistory306 a) dont think the allied stopped bombing and shelling these pockets for a day. people talk about Dresden, while Hamburg was worse and the Ruhr-pocket was hell on earth. people talk about Dresden, because the right wing neonazis in easterngermany like to point at their Dresden, while Hamburg was even under NS-rule a SPD-city and the Ruhr was traditional left, often even communistic area. even today neonazis wont point at the biggest destruction and suffering of german civilians for political reasons, even after 80 years later. Dresden was in contrast a clever and reasonable bombing raid from a tactical perspective.
b) the civilians in these tows had to suffer from constant shelling and air-raids, evacuated in special bunkers, in some cases for days and the nazis/soldiers used explicit the last hours for big crimes against prisoners, forced workers and foreign civilians, even sometimes straight up pillaged their own population. partly, because the discipline lacked after the imminent doom. partly, because some people tried to escape at the cost of others, explicit the officers. in many cases officers send german soldiers to despreat last defends and than just used these "defenses" to break out and flee from the enemy for a "later defense"
And, ironically, those same trapped German troops on Dunkirk also launched the last German offensive of the war, operation Blücher, a tiny minor victory in April 1945.
Germany’s 2nd Ardenne Offensive proved that just because something worked once doesn’t mean it’ll work again.
Tbh if i was Hitler, i would have surrendered after France was liberated. The entire war post summer 1944 was an inevitable German defeat, and could have ended without millions dying for another 6 months.
Hitler didn't care, he even said it at the end in the bunker. 'The German people have proved weak and deserved to be wiped out', that was his Darwinian world view that only the strong race survived, that is why he initiated the "Nero Decree". As far as he was concerned, there was no future for Germany after he was gone, because they have proved weak and deserved to perish as nature intended. Why not fight the war to the end and gamble on things like the Ardennes, it didn't matter to him if he lost in May 1945 or August 1945, he was dead either way and he may as well go down fighting as long as the German people were willing to die for him and his regime.
Awesome video, as usual, but I wish there would be less music especially at the beginning (but for the end credits, music is absolutely fine and nice of course):
My point is that we love your voice and it doesn't need a musical background to distract us from it... :)
So glad you keep making your videos
Strange, the Allies didnt even bother to recapture Dunkirk
That Poem was straight Fire!!
Eastory kept his promise and is making videos more quickly
This is awesome
Thank you for this awesome work
Actually watched the add to see how good your sense of ryme is.
You are the best ww2 map animator by far
yeah agreed
Great video. The maps and animations are just perfect.
This has been the best advertisement of thegreatcorsesplus I've ever witnessed - might even try it after this
Legends say Hitler is still waiting for Steiner’s attack
He is living in argentina
@@takasmaka820 No.
@@takasmaka820 he is dead af, Hitler is over 100 years old
@@R4in46 Many people have lived over a 100.
Der Señor: **
That was the most chad integrated ad I have ever seen in a CZcams video. Hats off, brother.
Love watching these videos, keep up the great work!!!!
HEs back!
Niiiice I was just watching oversimplified Napoleon and ended it and now another interesting video I love history videos
Same with me. I was watching oversimplified Napoleon
yeah the timing was basically perfect
@@aiwanano6507 indeed 😂👌
finally!!! Thanks!!! I've been waiting anxiously
Will you also cover the Pacific theatre? Though I understand that research would likely be harder, I would still love to see the way the War went in Asia and the Pacific in detail! Keep up the amazing work!
where do u get such detailed info about exactly where the troops where moving and where they were and when? u must be looking at the wiki like 24/7 or sumtin xd
for some people history is love and they enjoy reading wiki 24/7 :)
He said in one video that he reads books and soldiers' diaries of WW2.
Theres a reason he mostly does ww2
Could you do something like this for Naval war in pacific with island hopping?
This is the only sponsorship I've watch with joy. Congrats!
Thank you for this awesome content
9:26 Steiners glorious counter attack
when the world needed him
he came back
Really enjoying every of your video
A few months late, but the ad-read was one of the best. Subbed.
We need an Italian and Balkan Fronts video.
That sponsor rhyming is unironically the most impressive thing eastory has done
A truly masterful series.
Amazing Vid!
its kinda funy at 3:12 that its the germans that are incircled at dunkirk
"Hey it's 2026, have Steiner attacked yet?"
Thank you for your magnificent videos!
Thanks man for this great video
Didn't know the germans were that outnumbered on the western front. 4.5mil vs 1mil men that's insane
They already expended most of their reserves on Ardennes Offensive and Eastern Front so they are really outnumbered by the Allies.
Are you planning to do something simmilar to this but for ww1?
I hope they do, would be amazing to see.
Your videos are always awesome!
I hope in one of your videos you could talk about the lake balaton offensive in March 1945, because that was the real last strategic offensive by the germans in ww2.
That intro was so good I actually feel like signing up now