Week 258 - The Warsaw Uprising Begins! - WW2 - August 5, 1944
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- As the Red Army closes in on Warsaw, the Polish Home Army in the city rises up against the German forces. Up in the north the Red Army takes Kaunas. The Allies take Florence in Italy this week, well, half of it, and in France break out of Normandy and into Brittany. The Allies also finally take Myitkyina in Burma after many weeks of siege, and in the Marianas take Tinian and nearly finish taking Guam. And in Finland the President resigns, which could have serious implications for Finland remaining in the war.
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With the Red Army so close to the city, surely Stalin's troops with come to Warsaw's aid. Right?
With the uprising main purpose being to steal the red army victory (literally taking the city after the red army defeat the Germans) which is justified since Stalin and the reds are so bad, the Poles surly won't complain if the Soviets didn't Rush to help them in their anti Soviet plotting right???
Нет
Poles should have called TimeGhost army
Of course they would, it’s not like a river and a panzer division will destroy the soviet offensive and crush the Warsaw uprising, right?
As of August 1, 1944 the Germans have had 2,171,951 deaths on the Eastern Front and approximately 6,400,000 wounded. They will have an additional 277,465 deaths in August and a further 800,000 wounded.Since the beginning of Bagration and the advances of the Soviets in both the north and south the Germans will have 589,425 death
Funny that Stalin called anyone a bandit, considering he started as a bank robber.
Irony so thick you can scoop it up and serve in an ice cream cone.
Guess he knew’em when he saw’em. Personal experience.
@@vasiliyshukshin7466look at this commie lover. I bet you support putin
They always project.
@@vasiliyshukshin7466Yup. Takes one to know one.
258 weeks in and you're still delivering all these stories with a freshness and excitement. It's an amazing achievement guys.
Thank you so much, and thanks for watching!
Lies
@@bogdanszopa6002Bro what
Every August 1st at 5:00 PM (Godzina "W"), all of Warsaw stops and the sirens go off to commemorate the start of The Uprising.
My grandfather participated in the Warsaw uprising (and had previously been a message runner to the ghetto during the ghetto uprising). He was captured by the Germans and sent to a concentration camp, but ironically this saved his life (though severely scarring him, both literally and figuratively, the Germans actually partly skinned him alive, some of this I only found out through inference and piecing things together immediately before and after he died, as he deflected sometimes with euphemisms). He was to be executed by the Soviets as he was on a list of theirs, but fortunately his camp was liberated by American forces.
what was his name, last name and pseudonym? I work in the Museum of Warsaw Uprising
What a story. Your grandfather must've had a guardian angel looking out for him.
@Warszawski_Modernizm I was there last year and it is the most memorable museum! The displayed red and white bloody armbands is something special.
Now two years in a row I tip my hat at 5 o'clock on August 1st.
@@brokenbridge6316 Or a guardian kapo?
@@Raskolnikov70---Possibly
An interesting side note this week on August 2 1944 is that Leutnant Erich Sommer will fly an Arado Ar 234 V7 prototype jet aircraft over the Allied Normandy beachheads in France while the two Rb 50/30 cameras on board took a photograph every 11 seconds. This would become the first jet aircraft reconnaissance mission in aviation history.
That's pretty cool, thanks for the info.
Arado Ar 234 was one of the most innovative airplanes of the second world war. It was not enough to make any difference to the war's outcome like many things Germany did.
A highly advanced jet fighter flying over positions where the enemy below has no chance of stopping them? Gives off major U2 vibes.
The birth of the spy plane
Spartacus' episode about the Nazi crimes during the Warsaw Uprising is going to be disturbing. He spoke about it on the Sabaton History channel and it was really something truly disgusting.
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You mean: German crimes
Like how evil can you be right? goddamn nazis
I fear for Spartacus' mental health. While Indy gets to talk about the relatively fun stuff, the moving frontlines, Spartacus had to talk about the most dark and disturbing parts of the war for 5 years straight. I do not envy his job.
Especially when he covers the Direlwanger brigade...
Indy's ability to pronounce Slavic, Russian and German names a amazing!
That was one of the first things I noticed when I started to watch the channel.
Well, he still strugles a lot with Polish ones, but with time, he may get it.
To be honest, he struggles with German names too.
Polish ones are hard to listen
I noticed it too. Also he seem to pronounce Chinese names well
The Polish situation in WWII is so sad.
Yeah, geography really screwed them in that regard. There was just no way they could not have ended up under Soviet rule.
My understanding is that they suffered more deaths in WW2 than Nazi Germany, but they never gave up fighting the Nazis, and even more so when their country was occupied by the Germans and Soviets
Some of it was self inflicted, as they did piss of all of their neighbors in the interwar period besides Romania and Latvia.
@@graceneilitz7661What exactly are they gonna do? Both the Germans and Soviets don't recognize the existence of their country. They can't exactly be friendly with them with that kind of attitude.
WW 2 Poland: Odds.of success, 0, death, guaranteed, what are waiting for? Let's go.
Just as the Uprising began in Warsaw, the 1st Polish Armoured Division was deployed to Normandy. You can see it appear on the map at 14:22. I have a hunch we might hear about this unit in the future.
Pincer at Falaise
Polish Armour about to singlehandedly fuck the entire German fifth army.
@@lewis730 spoilers dude!
Legendary fighters right there
Salute to the poles and to their contributions
To all the brave souls who gave their lives to be free.
Lest we forget in these times of indulgence
@@detroitdave9512 Indeed
Let's hope we don't repeat mistakes of the past
@@GRANOLA77 and yet we continue to make them let's not lose hope however that it will come true
Not only that they might be free, but that we might be.
As a teenager, I used to play war games with 1:76 models.
Now in my 50s, the one thing that strikes me the most is the number of casualties on all sides. So many lives lost, so much suffering. It's all in the thousands, week after week. One would think lessons had been learned.
In ther Imperial War Museum, here in London, many years back, a special event was an exhibition/revue of Greek warfare of the Athenian Repulican period, they quoted a General of the time, saying "Of course, the Young, ardent for activity, and knowing nothing of war, clamoured for it". People forget, the memety of the suffering vanishes, Politicians, ardent for power throw glib promises remding voters of some spurious glorious past, and with a little it would all be same again, glossing over the pain and effort required the first time round. We saw it in Britain just a few years back where we were urged to raise our Blitz Spirit for the cause of Brexit. Whehther you agreed wth the result or not it did show that the collective memory of the Blitz no longer contained the horror, the fear, any trace of real menace. Once we forget just how much pain war causes some politicain, here or some nearby country will notice a weakness they can expoit and we're back at it again
Often many forget the brutality of war, or seldom think about the actuality of what has taken place. We can only continue to remember in hopes of honouring those who lost their lives during times of conflict or try to learn from the errors of those who came before.
Thanks for watching.
- Jake
Hungarian divisions stationed near Warsaw, in the Kampinos forest actively supported the Poles in their uprising. Not only did these Hungarians hide partisans, but let whole Polish battalions pass through their checkpoints, even giving them their own weapons and there are accounts of multiple dozen Hungarians joining the Poles in their fight. There are many graves of these heroic Hungarians still in Warsaw today. If you're interested in the subject, there's an awesome documentary about it here on CZcams named "Warsaw corridor". 🇭🇺❤️🇵🇱
Thansk, interesting.
Nice flag
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@@loveroffunnyy Oh, so physical memorials are not enough? And what do you expect me to do? Link you source material, which CZcams does not allow? Your browser exists for a reason. I'll give you a hint, 3 keywords are all you need to use :)
This week may be a good week to watch the 2002 film *The Pianist* with the start of the Warsaw Uprising on August 1 1944 being portrayed and the impact that is felt on the pianist Władysław Szpilman as he is forced to constantly shelter and supplies amidst the ongoing fighting. There are also other notable films about the Warsaw Uprising, such at the 2014 Polish film *Warsaw 44* as well as the 2001 television film *Uprising* .
just watched it last night! can only subscribe to the sentiment
The 2001 movie is about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from 1943, there were two uprisings
@@olseneudezet1 both were mentioned in the movie I believe
Don't forget Andrzej Waja's trilogy on the Warsaw uprising, A Generation, Kanal,and Ashes And Diamonds.
I am a huge fan of historic movies and I defenetly need to watch it someday.
One of the two Marauders who remained unwounded and uninjured was its commander, Colonel Charles Hunter.
It's strange how often Hitler would demand no retreat and almost always allow the soldiers to retreat. He just forced them to wait until they lost a lot of men and would have to break out or face other harrowing odds.
Yes, it is almost as if he was an undercover Allied agent, trying to damage the Nazi cause in any way he could. He will soon show this ability in the Falaise Pocket, ordering an offensive against the Americans when he should have been ordering a retreat.
At the risk of sounding like I'm defending him, his orders to stand fast often made a lot of sense. Local commanders might not be happy about being told to remain in a situation where they know they'll be decimated (at best) or completely wiped out, but looking at the bigger picture as the H-man was it held the entire front line together for longer by sacrificing units to hold strongpoints. There are definitely times where he should have given the order to pull back sooner though.
By that time he was probably a broken paranoiac man drugged out of his mind, swimming in delusions. I mean... even more broken and delusional than usual.
But Indy and Sparty already mentioned even early in the war he displayed signs of indecision, wishful thinking and paranoid distrust. (no wonder, the whole nazi philosophy he authored is based on antisemitic paranoia)
@@Raskolnikov70 it is quite often thought that Hitler's refusal to allow the sixth army to try to make an escape was probably the right decision. It definitely tied up a lot of soldiers that could have been pushing into weak German positions elsewhere. I think that sometimes Hitler got things right by accident. He had a ridiculous policy of no surrender/ fortresses, but sometimes holding out just happens to be the right thing to do. A broken clock is right twice a day.
@Raskolnikov70 only if Generals were bold and prepared enough like model and kelssering, surprisingly hiter do allow them to retreat.
festungkurland begins!
for red orchestra players, this was one of the classic maps, one of those massive forests with a fortified camp in the middle
Terrible map
Great map!
Hell let loose is just better
@@thilgu agreed, I didn't say it was classic because it was good lol
Happened to run into a man on the side of the road my senior year in high school. Turns out he was Mr. Clyde Miller, and he was on his way to Washington for the reunion of Merrill’s Marauders. We became pen pals and he even sent me some of his memorabilia. He passed away a few years ago. Incredible man with incredible stories. RIP Miller. Until next time.
Man, it is astonishing just through what the Marauders went through and what kind of an unit it was. Everyone was so deep into the fighting, being soldier or officer.. Those few that survived sure had many stories to tell
It would have been easy to glance over the fact that *at least this week* the red army is genuinely incapable of entering warsaw. However, the commitment to accurate unbiased story telling is what makes this channel the greatest on youtube.
They wouldn't have needed to enter, just make a credible attempt to attack the outer Defenses.
It's even more amazing that it takes them literally another 5 months to take Warsaw, what on earth were they doing all that time?
@@cpj93070Clearing out the near entirety of rhe Balkans and Baltics of German troops. Bagration is effectively over and the Red Army is shifting priorities elsewhere to secure its flanks for the drive on Berlin
@@porksterbob The sad thing is that Rokossovsky's force got pushed back. He was also Polish himself, and it must wound him greatly that he wasn't able to help the uprising, and that Stalin refused and even mocked the Home Army.
@@porksterbob Why do you think Germans had been trying to squash the uprising with degenerates and policemen, with regular units being either absent or constantly called away?
Hint: someone had been making those attacks you asked for, week after week. Soviets lost 180k people in that timeframe and they certainly did not kill themselves.
It's the first episode of the regular series where War against Humanity has been given 3 shout-outs within a span of 10 minutes. Gives you a feeling how many atrocities happen on the map as the pieces move.
Uprising lasted for more than 60 days. At the end the only thing that matter was protection of the civilians and recognition of the fighters as combatants acording to geneva convention. Those 60 days were slaughterhouse
"A week of uprising in Warsaw" - oh, there's a few weeks to come of that. The fact that Warsaw even exists right now is remarkable... and it's not because it lucked out in the fighting done there. Oh no, quite the opposite happened.
Indy didn’t mention this, But the American First Army is now under command of then Lieutenant General Courtney Hodges with Bradley now commanding the 12th Army Group, Which spoiler alert: Hodges will command First Army not just for the remainder of the war (During which time he received his fourth general star) but until his retirement in 1949
I would like to point out that Merrill's Marauders are a massive part of the modern US Army's 75th Ranger Regiment's lineage. The badge for Merrill's Marauders, which contains the sun from the National emblem of the Republic of China and the star from Burma's flag, is still the official insignia of the 75th Ranger Regiment.
Two years ago, I was priveledged to spend six weeks in Florence. I walked, Daily, across Pont Del Vecchio and Amerigo Vespucci. The views of the Arno, the racing shells at practice and the great (CHEAP) restaurants along the way to museums made me love the place.
I’m starting to think the Axis might be completely fucked.
At least Romania 🇷🇴 and Finland 🇫🇮 won't switch sides 😏😇.
Don't worry. Steiner counterattack will solve everything
Warsaw, city at war! Voices from underground, whispers of freedom. 1944, help that never came. Calling Warsaw, city at war! Voices from underground, whispers of freedom. Rise up and hear your call. History's calling you! Warsawo Walcz!
Warsawo Walcz!
Another excellent episode. Bagration was covered excellently by your team, but I'm still surprised the Soviets are now crossing the Vistula - this past month really has thrown the eastern front into chaos.
The Warsaw uprising, much like the one on the ghetto is being given its fair respect. I look forward to Sparty's episodes.
Thank you for the kind comment.
The Uprising Museum in Warsaw is definitely worth visiting.
I also recommend Norman Davies' book on it.
Single best WW2 documentary out there.
Thank you so much and thanks for watching.
Wow, this episode was so heart rendering. I just salute everyone who got a mention.
Even more on the way unfortunately...
Wow, great information Indy! Hope you're not too winded.
I have been an army member at the captain level since The great war... I know these are all filmed a month or two in advance. I do realize how hard you work to cover everything.
Good job this week on properly pronouncing myitkyina.
All that aside, nothing illustrates the hopefully unconscious "Americans are the main characters" bias of the channel than the description of the end of the siege.
"Merrill's marauders and their allies"...
The Chinese divisions don't even get a name check. They were the 22nd, the 38th, the 30th and elements of the 50th.They are the majority of the squares on the map, but unnamed.
As the script says, "18,000 allied casualties" and 2,000 some original marauders.
Basic arithmetic says 16,000 of those casualties are mostly coming from Chinese troops with a few kachins and Indians from the Indian 36th division.
If the channel talked about D-day as "America and its allies", that would be called out. Yes, Eisenhower is an American in charge of the whole operation, but it would be diminishing the British and Canadians to only name the American part of the effort.
We hear about Stilwell being promoted, but more radio silence on the ongoing battle of hengyang. I was kind of expecting the news of his promotion to contrasted with his conflicts with CKS. China's best divisions have been in Burma on both the myitkyina front and the Yunnan front, while Japan is ripping the lungs out of China's core.
Just a sentence that says, "Meanwhile, in China, the siege of hengyang continues, but we will talk about that in later weeks."
Maybe this will all be explained in a mega episode in October when Stilwell delivers the letter to Chiang.
americans are also the main characters of (at least english-speaking) youtube, so they do have some hands on the purse here
@@pnutz_2that and, I’m on the side of Germany would’ve won ww2 if the US was actually neutral from the start. The US was definitely a power house.
That said, while they are the main character here along with the Soviets and Chinese, he has a point about China. I’ve been wanting a lot of China news as well, I guess it’s just not what most viewers are interested in? Or maybe it’s hard to get good records? Not sure.
They might dedicate a huge post at Instagram. Like they did with Bagration.
Well, maybe they'll do a big catch-up with China once things calm down around September/October? Episodes are already 25 minutes long.
There’s like 0 reliable Chinese sources tho
This was a fantastically informative episode, one of the best yet. Thank you for the great work.
Glad you enjoyed this one so much, thanks for watching.
I can't believe we are approaching the end. Thank you guys for five years of amazing work.
I’m not sure what you mean, it seems like this war is gonna last forever ;)
Thanks for sticking around for all these years!
-Will
Great documentation as always, thanks!!!👍👍👍
Thanks for watching 👍
Hi Indy
Another interesting week.
Seems like axis losing every where.
Can't wait for next week episode.
Thanks for covering.
Great video and coverage as always
Thank you!
At 17.57, there has been a mixup between Brest, Lorient and St Nazaire on the map...
Love the channel, keep up the good work!
Yeap, said cities (names added in red color on the map) look a bit disorganized.
Thank you for pointing that out, I'll relay it back too the team and see to get it amended. Thanks for watching!
- Jake
@@WorldWarTwo Noice ;-)
Nice work gang - I have a lot of catching up to do. Followed most of WW1 series. I can see these daily news bulletins being used as history student's resources for decades to come.
Thank you so much! That's very high praise 🙂
Your coverage of the war in the east continues in greater detail than I've ever read about or seen before. As an American very familiar with the campaign in France, it's really interesting to see how the Soviets took the Wehrmacht apart day by day. They're almost back to the prewar borders.
Fantastic video!
Thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching!
Great video. Nearer the end of this war things are sure getting really interesting.
Things sure are heating up, thanks for watching.
@@WorldWarTwo---Your welcome
Thank you again. The Warsaw uprising is a difficult topic and you help clarify it. Soviet prevarication over Post War Polish government, their precarity after the advance to Warsaw and the neccessary preparation for the subsequent Vistula-Oder campaign, are not often as well explained.
Great Video as always ❤
Thank you!
Excellent episode. I did notice however that some of the names of Port Cities in Brittany were mixed up though.
Thank you! And thanks for catching that, a note has been sent in 👍🏻
-Will
This week on August 5th 1944, the following missions in the Call of Duty series will begin:
*August 1 1944*
Falaise Road (also known as Operation Totalize) (Call of Duty 3) - As Private Joe Cole in Tilly-la- Campagne, France, you will first start off manning a 50 cal machine gun in a half-track clearing enemies in the path until the route is blocked by a destroyed tank and are forced to disembark. You will then need to take the North, South, East, and West entrances into town by clearing enemy machine gun posts and destroying Flak 88 guns along the way.
*August 5 1944*
Mayenne Bridge (Call of Duty 3) - As Private Nichols in Mayenne Bridge, Mayenne, France, you will first need to clear nearby houses in the area before proceeding to the courtyard of the castle to clear it of enemies. Once the other side of the river is reached using a boat at the docks, you will eventually reach Mayenne Bridge and have to defend it against enemy attacks while defusing planted bombs at the same time.
I'm absolutely loving the us armored division holding the front lines almost brings a tear to my eye, not to mention along side with the big red one and 4th infantry
Warsaw Rise!
best documentary of ww2 era!
Another good one.
Man, I feel bad for the Poles. From having their nation eaten up by Russia, Prussia and the Habsburgs, to being invaded by the USSR and Germany, in the case of the former, twice...
Well it was self-inflicted. Poland isn't the unicorn fluffy bastion of peace it's portrayed as
Many, many people were waiting for that. Voices from underground
whispers of freedom
I wish you a good day , Mr Indy Neidell ❤ thanks for the show !
I'll be sure to pass on the message! Thanks for watching.
- Jake
@@WorldWarTwo 😁😁😁
thanks indy and crew
Patton in Europe LETS GO!! Been waiting years for these episodes...
20:37 Japanese soldier surrenders from his pillbox but keeps that last cigarette as long as he can.
Great tie this week!
As brilliant as always 👍🎉❤
The Poles went through absolute hell & fought so bravely.
Very well said by me about the encirclement in the previous episode 🎉❤12:31
This week in French news.
The 30th, the Regiment of French SS volunteer (1 000 men strong) goes for the Eastern Front.
Laval meets Pétain in order to prepare the transition of the power back to De Gaulle. But they don’t want to do the same thing. Pétain wants to stay as the President and De Gaulle as Prime Minister by using the National Assembly with the help of the Senate, getting rid of Laval or by giving up his power directly. On the other hand, Laval wants to stay in power and reunites the National Assembly, by the Chamber of the Deputies, with Herriot, getting rid of Pétain.
The 31st, in Provence, Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, disappears on a reconnaissance flight. His plane will be found in the Mediterranean near Marseille in 2000 and authenticated in 2003. No conclusion was settled.
The 1st of August, the 2nd French Armored Division of Leclerc arrives in France. It’s the first “big” French unit to arrive in France. The division is under Patton.
The 2nd, the village of Velmanva in the Pyrenean is burned down after resistance fighters fled it.
The same day 44 French officers who are Alsatians are transferred in concentration camp for refusing to “volunteer” for the French SS division, only 4 accepted. Alsace and Moselle are at the time de facto annexed in the Reich (no treaty or any paper were signed).
The 3rd, half of the promotion of the Military School of Free France is paradropped in France to coordinate the maquis.
The 4th, the ordonnance saying that Vichy France is illegal and most of his law are null is published.
And of those Vichy Nazi's only 4 were ever tried for Crimes Against Humanity, despite the very large numbers involved in rounding up all the Jewiah people, Socialists, Roma, suspected Resistance fighters, etc that were rounded up by Vichy personnel en route to the concentration camps for slaughter. Even Petain was pardonned by De Gaulle (a man who would go on to commit massive War Crimes in Algeria, Vietnam, etc - maybe he knew what he was and was merely "fashioning the Battlefield" in anticipation). It seems the asiest way to avoid responsibility for Nazi Wae Ceimes, was to be a French Nazi
@@Cheeseatingjunlista Pétain was not pardonned. His sentence was commued to life imprisonment.
@@Cheeseatingjunlista Pardoning war criminals is nothing like what the Americans and British would do in occupied Germany and Japan. Because they wanted the Germans and Japanese on their side in the Cold War. And we saw in a LOT of former occupied countries that, after a short period of intense reckoning after liberation, once the main collaborators had been tried and executed, the trials and punishments for those in the tiers that carried out collaborist orders, quickly fell by the way side. In most countries there was a strong desire to put the war behind them and basically forget everything that had happened and move on. As for Petain, he still was France's main hero of WW1, the hero of Verdun, and the Vichy regime had enjoyed far more support in the early years of the war then De Gaulle had. He probably figured that was one hot potato that France was better off not choking on. And he was not involved in the war in Vietnam and for most of the war in Algeria, as he was in political exile from 1946 to 1958. And he did conclude in 1962 that France was better off with Algeria becoming independent. As for being a nation of collaborators, the Dutch take the cake. The higest percentage of their Jewish population being rounded up and sent to the camps by their own police and civil servants, and the highest number of volunteers for the Waffen SS, more then 50K. More Dutch served in German uniforms then they did in Allied uniforms. As I said after the war most war criminals here were absolved and the Dutch army did commit war crimes in the war to retake the Dutch East Indies too. As did the British in their post WW2 colonial wars, Kenya, Yemen and Oman come to mind. Insurgency wars are always very dirty wars.
It's fascinating to see that Petain actually thought that he could stay president once the Allies booted the Germans out of his country. And that he and Laval were scheming with each other even though the Nazi occupation was coming to an end and with it what remained of Vichy France. It sounds as surreal as the last days of Hitler in his bunker and Goering and Himmler plotting who gets to be in charge afterwards.
@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 in Algerian question, De Gaulle had same pragmatism that Pétain in 1940. Going to North Africa to resist in 1940 would make France have a hard occupation like Poland and bleeding dry.
Merrill’s marauders we’re reinstated in 1984 as the 3rd ranger battalion at fort benning.
Thanks TG
Thanks for watching!
I think you have misplayed saint Nazaire on the map around 18:00. The place you called Saint Nazaire is actually Lorient I think. Saint Nazaire is between Nantes and Vannes.
Execpt from this, excellent work, carry on ! :-D
The Hungarian units at 7:26 are II Reserve Corps, with 3 weak security (occupation) divisions, pushed back from Ukraine. They had mostly friendly relations with the local Poles and made it possible to bring in supplies and move out the wounded. You can find an interesting short film on that here: czcams.com/video/-YCSh7eSTSM/video.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eroica_(1958_film). A rather cynical film by Polish director Andrzej Munk.
Thanks for clarify
At 7:24 Walter Model bringing armored units from the Balkans to Warsaw may prove to be a bad move, because the Red Army is preparing something big on the Romanian Front.
Well the situation were already dire enough in both Poland and Baltics that the panzers were needed the most. Tbf the Romania leader do advice the remaining Germans in Romania to withdraw to shorter lines further south after aware most of the armor divisions were moved elsewhere. But again the advice fell to deaf ears.
That was always the problem for the Germans on the Eastern Front. They never had an army sized strategic reserve capable of handling such crisis. Unlike the Red Army which even in the darkest days of 1941 always managed to maintain such a reserve. As a result the Germans were always forced to shift forces from one front to another, weakening those other fronts for the inevitable next Soviet offensive. Which was why the Red Army staggered its offensives by design. The moment one offensive ran out of steam as the Germans threw in reinforcements from other fronts they unleashed a new one elsewhere.
With how massive gap they had in the center, refusing to reallocate those divisions could have resulted in Soviets actually crossing Vistula in force even in their exhausted state. Then there were East Prussian territories that were in danger from the south. Nothing like getting GA North into even larger bag.
Too many holes in the dike, not enough fingers to plug them all up. We've seen this coming since Barbarossa failed.
They are at the point where plugging one hole in the dyke just causes it to spring a leak elsewhere.
Video idea: you should post a video at the end of every month , summing up what happened that month in the war
@WorldWarTwo I think a time lapse of just the maps would be cool. You could split them up month by month and year by year and another one for the entire war at the end. You could also split them up by Eurasia and the pacific. You could do commentary over them but just ultra summarized.
Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Well, Warsaw Uprising. I was waiting to this sad tragedy with baited breath almost from the start of this channel :(
For me, a young Pole, it wasn't a uprising for independence, but rather, last desperate scream for freedom that was ignored by world.
Same…pride and dread commingled…. Keep strong my friend…
Asking authoritarian Soviet Union, Imperialist Britain and Segregationist United States for help with freedom. I doubt they know the word...
@@FernandoMendoza-dw8nz Watch Sparty's analysis of the Polish underground armies behaviour along the Ukrainian border at this time and you will discover Poles were quite capable of brutality and crimes against humanity, as well. No one comes out of WW2 looking like virgins.
Or a cynical last effort by the AK leadership to retain relevance.
It was not ignored by the world, there was just nothing the world could have done. Warsaw was at the extreme edge of Allied airpower, making it extremely hard to stage supply drops to Warsaw without Soviet assistance. Even if the Germans in the West surrendered and allowed the Allies to advance into Poland, the Red Army was always going to be much closer. Don't be one of those victim conspiracy thinkers who assigns blame onto everyone else. Simple geography always meant that Poland would end up in the Soviet sphere of influence. And Lvov had shown what would happen to the Home Army even if they had managed to liberate Warsaw. It was a Kobayashi Mary scenario from the start.
I love the intro phone call conversations
Cheers! ☎️
3:10 My mother's hometown of Tarnobrzeg has been liberated! Looks like it I think.
At 18:00 minutes in, the map shown has the ports of Brest, Lorient, and Saint-Nazaire labeled incorectly.
Falaise sounds like a nice town. Apparently they specialise in tailoring, especially pockets.
Nice map redesign
20:00 The map of Guam, and discussions of the fighting, of all the suffering and dying there, gives a bit of a different feeling when one has a bit of contrast (even if fiction, and not personal experience). I promise this is relevant, but a favourite anime series of mine (BanG Dream!) is a very wholesome series about music and rock bands, and in one of the recent movies some of the characters go on a trip to Guam to play a concert.
Guam, these days, is of course an American territory, and the characters are Japanese, being an interesting reversed parallel itself, but more than that it was seeing this group of friends spend time sightseeing around this beautiful tropical island, and performing music, something that provides joy, happiness, passion, and brings people together often regardless of language barriers (this is mentioned) and yet... within the same year to watch this WWII episode and see the same nationalities fighting a brutal, violent conflict over the exact same places, with endless death, pain, suffering, ritual suicides, desperation, hunger, and everything else that comes with war.
Seeing all of the half-dozen notable locations featured in that film fought over on this animated map (Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, LeoPalace Resort, Ypao Beach, Merizo Pier, Cetti Bay, Governor Joseph Flores Beach Park, Paseo Stadium), it was chilling, yet in an odd sense reassuring, in that we've moved past that to something much better.
I definitely had a similar sort of feeling seeing people today playing on the beaches of Normandy during that coverage, this odd combination of knowing that so many terrible things had happened in these exact places, yet at the same time that those things are over, and instead far more positive things have taken their place. And that we're incredibly lucky that those times are not our present.
I'm sure this is obvious but week after week just the sheer insane scope and scale of this conflict is almost too hard to fathom. Millions of people in what seems like a dozen different areas of conflict going on for years. Hindsight is clear and, looking back on it after the fact, I suppose it was always obvious how the war would turn out, but I do have to genuinely wonder what so many of these people were thinking during this time, on both sides. It must have been nothing short of hell and it's harrowing to imagine that (in a certain context) the worst is still yet to come.
It can be quite sobering when you really get into it can't it? Never forget.
Pamiętamy!
At 20:44 US soldier given the enemy a gig. The pic before that a Japanese already had a gig in his hand.
I sent Indy, Sparty, and Astrid a thank you letter for all the work you did and how important it was to me, including making me feel more valued despite the intellectual disabilities face.
Also, I presume that Justinian´s desk is still working well for Indy and the crew? It´s where he practiced pronouncing Przemyśl after-all for 14 hours a day between 2014 and 2018 so as to be the only non-Pole who could do it right. And a Carpathians offensive? Who the hell thought it was a good idea to resurrect Conrad Von Hötzendorf?
Someone in Moscow with his eyes set on controlling Eastern Europe perhaps?
This war needs more weaponized facial hair. You call that toothbrush on the H-man's face a moustache?
14:30 Nice to see all that allied Red, White & Blue pushing.
I don't know why it took until this week, BUT, it hit me in the opening of the report how much the red (German controlled) on the map had shrunk! It seems like just last month, the screen couldn't even hold all the red territory in the east! The summer after Stalingrad really did start the rather swift rollback of the Nazi forces! It's like they just gave up. From the surrender of Paulus' 6th Army on Feb 2, 1943 to the battle of Kursk-which is almost to the Ukrainan border-beginning on July 5 1943, it was only 5 months to take back a huge amount of lost territory! I love the story a map can tell.
The Stauffenberg bomb plot was carried out from awareness that Germany's military position was deteriorating fast.
Still no coverage of the siege of Hengyang...sigh
Love the new map
I...finally caught up? Started with the Great War about 6 months ago. It's been a journey!
Question out of left field, but does Indy partake in Immaculate Grid? Seems like something he'd like.
Suggested reading, "Lucky Forward" by Robert S. Allen. One of the earliest histories of General Patton and the Third Army.
General Patton was allowed to choose the code name for the Third Army, he chose "Lucky", and he became "Lucky Forward". Thanks, take care.
Thanks for the recommendation, Gordy!
Good Stuff.
I see ww2 video being uploaded... I click... And hit thumbs up...
With enemies like Hitler and Stalin and "friends" like Churchill and FDR Poland never had a chance. The miracle of history is that there is a Poland to this day!
With attacks from 3 different directions, I would be surprised if Germany can last another year. Japan however could probably last a couple more years unless something drastic were to happen!
Don't pin your hope's on these supposed allied wonder weapons, Hasn't worked for the germans😂
I thought it was more enjoyable and intriguing to infer what the other side of the phone was saying than to know for sure.
I don't blame people back then thinking "the war will be over by Christmas". Since D-day the Germans having a new major crisis every single week.
-250: D-day
-251: Soviet Offensive in Finland
-252: Beginning of Bagration
-253: Early Bagration pockets
-254: Minsk Pocket
-255: Lviv Offensive and pockets
-256: 20th July plot
-257: Finland effectively giving up
-258: Army group North trapped
(spoiler)
-259: Western Front collapsing
-260: Invasion of Southern France+Falaise Pocket
-261: Stalingrad 2.0 at Romania
-262: Loss of Romanian oil fields
And I could go on...
Bulgaria and Romania switch sides and then the German army withdrawal from Greece
Aah so finally Patton's on the scene. LET THE DRAMAS COMMENCE
I expect a WAH episode for the wola massacre.
As a side note, on Monday 31st of July, the Finnish Army launched Operation Hokki; the only Finnish Airborne operation of WWII. Captain Ilmari Honkanen, was ordered during the last weeks of the Continuation war to lead a commando strike at the Petrozavodsk railway yard. Fifty long-range patrolmen were to be flown in by floatplanes to one of the numerous lakes in Karelia behind the Soviet lines. The purpose of this operation was to cripple the Soviet railway transports between Petrozavodsk and Northern Karelia in order to disrupt Soviet supply lines for the Karelian Front.
The plan was bold, as were the troops, but as the operation was launched almost everything went awry: one of the three transport planes crashed, Captain Honkanen fell seriously ill and a material supply plane also crashed. The remaining 35 soldiers chose to abandon the original mission and instead decided to harass the enemy transportation lines between Petrozavodsk and Suoyarvi. Spoiler alert: The patrol broke a kilometer worth of railway and derailed a train between Villavaara (Villagora) and Kutisma (Kutizhma) on 16 August 1944 and then moved to a track near Säämäjärvi-Kutisma (Syamozero-Kutizhma) where they arrived on 23 August 1944. The track was mined with time delayed bombs and left intact for the time being. After this the patrol moved around the region up to the morning of 4 September when they were informed about the armistice. The patrol headed back to Finland, not willing to surrender to, nor to get found out by the Soviets. Captain Honkanen was flown out via a floatplane, as he was unable to make the journey on foot. There are some discrepancies between the interviewed men on whether or not the patrol shot two Soviet soldiers to avoid getting caught when crossing the border back to Finland after the armistice.
This is the kind of thing the Finns could have been doing since 1941 if they were serious about fighting the USSR. But stuck between two huge countries and afraid of getting ground to pieces by either, they took a more restrained watch-and-wait approach, holding territory and trying to keep their heads down instead of actively fighting the Soviets. If they'd seriously tried to disrupt the northern Lend-Lease route it would have been a huge issue for the Soviets and they would have had to divert a lot of units north to deal with it, the way Germany had to deal with partisans in their rear areas.
@Raskolnikov70 yep mannerheim want to play house with both allies and axis only for his nation to pay the huge price in 1944. The germas nearly captured the Kola peninsula in 1941 after breakthrough by fins in the south. But he ordered a halt after being intimidated by USA when not even declared war yet on Germany.
@@projectpitchfork860When did shooting soldiers become a war crime ? If they had captured them and executed them that would be a war crime but shooting someone isn't a war crime if it was every soldier who ever in the history of warfare shot someone would be a war criminal.
On the map of Brittany, in red, you have put Brest/St Nazaire and Lorient in the wrong places.
Other than that... love the show! 😉
5 August 1944.
Corporal John Evans of the 7th Armoured Division continues to fight in Operation Bluecoat, inching ever nearer to Mont Pinçon.
Sergeant Artyom Ivanov of the 13th Guards Rifle Division finally reaches the shore of the Vistula river in central Poland, approaching the city of Sandomierz on the western bank.