The Battle of Raseiniai 1941
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Emptiness - Savva Dudin
All This Scoring Action - Kevin MacLeod
Heroes - Artur Tokhtash
Narrated by Dan Boud - danboud.com
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Thanks wasn't expecting this one tonight
What if i already have it installed?
I hope you do more WWII battles on your channel.
Do you have a Patreon?
After this do some napoleonic era battles
An land battle in WW2?
Its happening boys, TODAY IS A SPECIAL DAY
I've been waiting so long for this moment
Probably to sell the ad but I enjoyed it regardless haha
Imagine how much history there is written in perfect detail from ww1 and 2.
@@Andytlp Infinite. INFINITE BAZ!!!!!!!
I'm the captain now We can consult the God Manstein himself!
8:05 "Sounds way more badass..." "Badass" being the widely accepted term between historians in their parlance.
Not only does it sound more badass. . . .it also sounds more Bazass.
Teenage gamer term
@ Hernando Malinche , Yeah
Anyway...
my favorite part in every episode is "the battle was about to begin" sounds kinda epic tbh
Indeed!
fr fr
“Let’s get ready to Rumble”
World of Warship OST
That tank reminds me of that berserker in Stamford Bridge.
The lone Viking who hacked around 42 or more English soldiers.
Me to
Lovecraft Well actually it was fairly common for the Vikings to take a large man and completely cover them in plate armor before giving them vast amounts of something similar to hash. It was used as an intimidation tactic, since one dude killing four or five people usually scares any sane person who sees that.
@@trojan5876 that's straight up wrong. The viking era pre dated plate armor by about 300 years. Secondly, it was most likely magic mushrooms. If you gave them Hash youd have some stoned vikings trying to stuff as much bread in their mouths rather than a fierce killing machine.
Milo Clesham Magic mushrooms? I couldn’t imagine a worse drug to get hyped up for vicious murdering.
"The KV-2, or if you are german, the 'Oh shit, driver full-reverse!' "
-Potential History, "Historical Unicum Guide to the KV-2"
KV-2 is the wet dream of all SV players on WOT and WT. Just one HE shot and you can hear enemy curse you from the other side without chat channel
And they say bigger tanks aren't better.
“Privet!”
“OH SCHEISSE!!!!!”
BOOM!!!!!!
“Dasvidaniya!”
The kv2 is a fucking nightmare for most other tanks in WoT. Lights and meds are almost always a one shot. Heavies can be a 2-3 shot if penetration succeeds
KV-2 was essentially pointless in tank-to-tank battles, as it was howitzer on tracks, designed to bust heavy fortifications as direct replacement of aging t-35. During first weeks of conflict, some of them didn't even have HE rounds, supplied only with anti-concrete rounds.
As a Lithuanian I am just happy that Baz is finally covering a battle in my country:)
As a Latvian I am happy for you. :D
@@RYD3R74 :)))))
That's hardly a significant mark on our country. That's like a Cherokee being happy about the battle of Gettysburg.
@@BigBoiTurboslav yeah I am not saying that is is, but history channels very rarely talk about anything to do with Lithuania
What about the northern crusade?
German Tank Commanders: You are surrounded!
One Soviet Bad Boy: All I am surrounded by is fear. And dead man.
Permission to quote this in my fantasy book?
@@MedeivalWarfare thats a quote from star wars
@@erikzidan2601 oh well. Disney is on my ass now
good, we do not need to aim then
Can we all take a moment to appreciate these animations, zooming in and out on the battlefield, the moving turrets, the smoke when a shell gets fired...
German Army: It's over Solyankin, we have the high ground.
One lone KV-1 Tank: You underestimate my power!
Reduced to burning scrap metal.
@@reginaldinoenchillada3513 After it took a good amount of Nazis and reduced them to a scrap metal
Didn't the soviet tank have the highround in this case
@@cv4809 It would make sense, but KV-1 eventually gets destroyed so it has to be Anakin
@Il Dotten in cost of 3 soviet tank division, that's the spirit to stop them for 3 days.
Oh man WWII land battles? You’re too much Baz 👍🏻
Hope he posts some Navy stuff too...his Bismarck video was my favorite
Sad Beemer Boi same!
I also recommend cheking out the WWII channel from Real time History and Eastory
@@blitzy3244 agreed plus the north cape video is excellent too.
SSJ I completely agree with you on that because I am really interested in the battles that happened on the southern and center and northern routes of invasion during Operation Barbosa
The narrator said "bada s s."
I didn't know I wanted that until I heard it.
I feel better now.
You are most welcome!
You can hear the hint of a laugh ("Oh yes, I did!") in his voice just after he says it. Brilliant!
More like "Baz-ass," am I right?
Germans: I have an army
Soviets: WE have a lone KV tank
Germans: I mean sure that's kind of scary for a while but that's not going to slow us down forever
Soviets: Can't hear you over all this shit of yours I'm exploding!
Your supply routes are blocked... *Panik*
...by a lone KV-1 tank. *Kalm*
...by a lone KV-1 tank. *PANIK O SHI-*
Germans 1942: we have tigers
Would only be more epic if the Soviet National Anthem was blaring when that KV1 showed up lmao
@@kiepyon1: "Germans 1942: we have tigers"
Yes, they will win the Battle at Stalingrad!!
Germans than in 1942: Oh, shit, this is Goebbels Fake Propaganda!
We have no Tigers on Easten Front in 1942!
Tiger I Combat history
First actions:
Eager to make use of the powerful new weapon, Hitler ordered the vehicle be pressed into service months earlier than had been planned.
A platoon of four Tigers went into action on 23 September 1942 near Leningrad.
Operating in swampy, forested terrain, their movement was largely confined to roads and tracks, making defence against them far easier.
Many of these early models were plagued by problems with the transmission, which had difficulty handling the great weight of the vehicle if pushed too hard.
It took time for drivers to learn how to avoid overtaxing the engine and transmission, and many broke down.
The most significant event from this engagement was that one of the Tigers became stuck in swampy ground and had to be abandoned.
Captured largely intact, it enabled the Soviets to study the design and prepare countermeasures.
The 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion was deployed to the Don Front in the autumn of 1942, but arrived too late to participate in Operation Winter Storm, the attempt to relieve Stalingrad.
It was subsequently engaged in heavy defensive fighting in the Rostov-on-Don and adjacent sectors in January and February 1943.
Ostfront
Der erste Einsatz des Tigers fand am 29. August 1942 im Abschnitt der Heeresgruppe Nord bei Mga in der Nähe von Leningrad statt, an dem neben vier Panzern auch Techniker von Henschel teilnahmen.
Der wegen Hitlers Ungeduld verfrühte Einsatz der noch unausgereiften Konstruktion endete in einem Fehlschlag, da in dem für schwere Panzer ungeeigneten Gelände drei der vier Fahrzeuge wegen technischer Defekte ausfielen und umständlich mit jeweils drei schweren Zugkraftwagen Sd.Kfz. 9 geborgen werden mussten.
Die havarierten Panzer konnten nur durch aufwendige Reparaturen mit extra aus Deutschland eingeflogenen Ersatzteilen wieder einsatzklar gemacht werden, jedoch fielen beim nächsten Einsatz Mitte September wieder alle vier aus, wovon ein nicht mehr bergefähiger Panzer gesprengt werden musste.
Neben diesem Ausfall führte die erfolglose Operation zum Verlust der Geheimhaltung und des Überraschungsmomentes.
I swear, sponsors can bring out the best historical content out of youtubers.
Lol marketing
You can thank capitalism
Sponsors can make encounters of little relevance into something much more significant.
Yeah I don't mind advertising if it actually helps the creator and if it makes the video better
60 seconds of watching world of tanks is worth it when the other 99% of the video is amazing
Monsieur Pepe Agreed
Baz Battle on the medieval Battles : Amazing and Epic
Baz Battle on WWII Battles :
Just Perfect
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The Cooler Daniel
This battle was one of my favorites to learn about, if only because of the sheer tenacity the tank and the crew put up. It halted the advance of the entire division for over a day, alone. Utter respect.
Also, I prefer the idea that it was a KV-2, albeit on the simple basis of it indeed being more badass.
I never believed an obscure battle like this would ever be featured on such a prominent channel. I always thought this KV's last stand was badass, so awesome seeing Baz show it!
I wonder if he will keep going with these battles in the Northern part of the Eastern Front, because there is at least one other encounter like this...just that this time the KV-1s managed to withdraw after destroying a whole German column.
real life "Fury"
If it engaged targets at such long ranges with the "amazing" optics the russians had, it is even harder to think that it was a kv-2 with that way harder-to shoot gun..
This is one of those minor engagements that is nonetheless absolutely fascinating. The smaller war stories, the actions of individual soldiers, the battles within battles, footnotes of the bigger engagements, but portraying actual people rather than numbers. I love those.
it was a kv-2, there were 6 crew found inside the tank. if it was a kv-1 there would only be 5 crew.
N O I C E
Nope, it was most likely a KV1 because of the ammo capacity, the KV2 wouldn't hold out for 24 hours and its turret rotated too slowly. The 6th man was likely a surviving commander of some other tank that the crew picked up - among the 6 buried bodies, two had officer belts and insignia. The KV1 was roomy enough for one extra person.
@@nikolakaravida9670 it’s a debate as is, although based on recent information it can be assumed it was a KV-2, although once again, it’s still highly debatable
Montemayor, BazBattles and The Operations Room, the holy trinity of animated time-lapse videos of historical battles.
Where is Monte? Hope he's alright. Still awaiting part 2 of The Battle of Midway.
Eastory?
yeah, don´t forget Eastory and his fantastic work
You guys are missing out Historigraph! He is definitely also one of the best on YT, and recently did some lesser known battles such as the siege of Budapest.
And Epic History TV!
Best voice on CZcams. I love history and with your voice, it makes it so perfectly informative.
Baz made such a good decision hiring Dan Boud
if you enjoy great narrator I can also recommend the epic history channel
The narration is actually done by a voice actor
Ye I jerk off a lot to his voice
NoNoseProduction wish I could say you’re funny but I’d be lying.
Entire army group north "were doing a great job but this 1 tank is in the way"
Russian tank "where are we??? Wheres the objective??? Screw it were staying here"
German AT gunner " wtf is that how do we even penetrate it!!"
Tactical Artillery Genius: “Get me the Karl Gustav. There is no kill like overkill.”
Germans: just go around the tank and destroy the whole division, loosing only 300 men and 8 tanks in the process
WE DIDN'T PENETRATE THEIR ARMOR
"Vehicles better suited to the Wehrmachts needs."
*Laughs in Sturmtiger*
@Águila701 380 mm of testosterone fueled and nationalism fed glory
@Águila701 vroom
And so began Hitler's fetish for unnecessarily large and expensive guns...
"Mein fuhrer, we more tanks and planes against the Soviets!"
"YOU WILL TAKE THIS BIG SUPER DUPER UBER CANNON!"
"Uber Cannon looks good, but we really need more conventional weapons!"
"UBER CANNON SUPER! WILL SAVE FATHERLAND! MAKE BOOM BOOM!"
"We need guns, and bullets, and winter clothing! And we need-"
"DON'T QUESTION ME! UBER CANNON WILL WIN WAR FOR ME! STABLE GENIUS!"
Meow
@Águila701 If shoot at just the right angle it plays Wagner's sonata Ride of the Valkyries
"Oh hey, there's only one tank blocking our route! We got this."
NYET
Yessss! More of these!
Agreed, that was great! I would love to see the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, a unique tank engagement.
Finallyy ww2 vids
its hard to editing video like this
A fun fact is: As a world of tanks player, there is a medal in the game that's called the "Raseiniai heroes medal". If you are playing the PC version you need to destroy 14 out of 15 enemy vehicles with your own to get it, while in the blitz version you need to destroy the whole enemy team (7 vehicles), I believe. So they pay homage for the battle in a way.
Ohhhhh I got so close last battle then.2.5 k damage and 6 destroyed in a kv1s... dammit
@@KSPUnitedYT i got it using the nightmare TD . 3.4k damage 7 kills
@@ab6789 ah, the nightmare. I hate it. It's so damn annoying/
Yeah, I was super lucky once and killed in M4 sherman 14 tanks and i got that medal!
I think there was a picture of said lone tank at Raseiniai...
...and that was the Kliment Voroshilov 2 tank (the massive 150mm-gun KV-2 tank).
The bodies of the crew that had piloted the KV tank were taken out by German infantrymen and buried with full honors by the side of the road (the Germans were impressed by their show of endurance and strength given their odds). Six crew members laid there (three never identified). The fate of the battered KV is unknown, though most likely scrapped.
I wish you'd make more of these type of war.
Modern battles seems less suited since the frontline spans across countries
@@feryth He pulled it off pretty well though, as he has done in the past with naval battles.
Showing the frontline as a whole (1:40) is still achievable with modern warfare and serves no problem. Zooming in on the battle is where the issues kinda come into play.
For land battles though if he wants to show how the progress of the whole battle is going than what he did at 3:17 seems to work pretty efficiently, although I didn't quite understand what each box represented but through time I could get used to it.
So I think the largest problem is determining how to best utilize shots like the one at (7:40), since the frontline stretches miles across when and where specifically shall we zoom in to show the battle from the closest angle which is much easier in medieval videos? Well just like in medieval battles, in modern battles certain events are more significant and seem to stick out.
In this video Baz mainly wanted to show the last stand of the KV tank, the battle of Raiseinai was pretty insignificant in the whole grand scheme of things but we needed background on the story of the KV tank so it worked well. Now if he made a video about a battle in general, like for example a famous one like D-Day or Stalingrad. He could split it up into parts, choosing to zoom in on the most intense action moments of the battle like the crossing of the volga for Stalingrad or certain sectors of Omaha Beach for D-Day. Showcasing modern warfare definitely requires longer videos though. But I think it's perfectly achievable, he doesn't even need to cover famous battles as it never was really his thing.
The Soviets, on the other hand, weren't standing idle in the arms race. They would soon unleash a powerful new weapon against the Germans; while its armor is not as thick as the KV-series tanks, the T-34/76 sported superior reliability, simple and fairly cheap design, an equally powerful cannon, and most importantly sloped armor.
Still unreliable in some cases but the Germans were envious
That tank is the modern day equivalent of the one crazy viking chopping down Englishmen at Stamford Bridge...
Thats exactly what i thought too, since this channel covered it already
He wasn’t English, he was Norwegian.. it was the English who was attacking the bridge.
If the first Englishman had stabbed the berserker dead, after which dozens of Englishmen sat around waiting, wondering if he was really dead, while he wasn't actually doing anything.
Since that's how this went. The soviet crew died quickly from internal spalling, but the Germans 'wanting to make sure' took them way too long as they kept shooting.
@ Yeah, yeah, and their Panzers and Flak were burned down because the KV-1 crew was already dead?
@@guestimator121 XD
A lone tank holding out on a strategic road is literally the plot of fury
@GabricksLEGO yeah it was. Hollywood is so dumb.
See, this is why I think the story of the lone KV has been played up, both by the Germans and the Soviets. I mean, the Soviet had to have infantry support. Otherwise, what prevented the German infantry from simply closing in and finish it off?
That's were the similarities end. Fury shows how one single Sherman held out against a well equipped Waffen-SS panzergrenadier battalion. Even a small Volkssturm group with panzerfausts could have finished it. As stupid as Hollywood gets.
@Dwarov 1 A lone and immobile tank is very, very easy to be stalked upon by infantry. A typical KV-1 (going with the video's author theory of it being the most likely) has 3 machine guns: one coaxial, one in the hull and one in the back of the turret.
For starters, tanks are almost blind and deaf. That alone is a huge handicap.
Now, the machine guns can track only two targets at once: one with the hull machine gun and one with the turret machine gun (if you aim the front coxial, you won't be able to aim the back of the turret one).
And if you approach from the side, you nullify the hull machine gun. Furthermore, if the crew choses to fight back with personal weapons, it cannot man the weapons from inside the tank, and the best they can carry are submachine guns, which are next to useless past 50 meters... not to mentiont that exposing themselves to fire it would mean that now the Germans have a shot at the crew unprotected, and they will win a firefight since they can bring to bear longer ranged weapons, and in greater numbers.
@Dwarov 1
_Tanks are not blind and deaf if the engine is not working_
How are you going to turn the turret without the engine running? You can't use the turret motor and you would be resorted to turn the turret around by hand, which was very slow due to the weight of the turret (it was roomy and well armored, after all).
Also, tanks are very much blind and deaf. It is very difficult to hear your surroundings through 100 mm of armor, even more so when 6 men are working in a very confined space. I won't even try if we take into account the din of battle.
Same for seeing. Have you ever been on a tank? If you don't have the opportunity to hop into one, download good simulator, like T-34 vs Tiger and give it a try, you will quickly see. People who haven't experienced a tank first hand cannot understand how difficult it is to keep track of your surroundings, due to the very limited and narrow fields of view the means of observation provide.
_You do realise that they don't need to hit the infantry, right? Just by firing the HE shell in the vague direcrion they can already hit the infantry_
So by not hitting the infantry they hit the infantry. This phrase doesn't make any sense. Also, this is not a point and click mobile game. Hitting an infantryman with the F-32 gun is not easy feat. The infantry can approach from pretty much any angle in a 360º, or better yet, _from every angle_ What is the KV-1 going to do then? It can fire only at one target at a time. How much time do you think an infantryman can take to cover some 700 meters? It is all it takes.
And besides, it doesn't even matter! This is not a KV-1 vs 5 men (and it would be a pretty even fight too), it is against an entire division. The infantry can simply rush the tank and there is nothing the tank can do about it, besides killing a few soldiers with a little luck.
That is why infantry supports tanks when fighting enemy infantry. Tanks are very vulnerable against infantry, specially if they cannot take advantage of their mobility like in this case.
_It very much can man the weapons if onld the driver and radio operator fight back They are not doing anything either way_
Two tankists (which by definition are not trained infantryman nor do not have any particular training in marksmanship) are going to fight off a large attack. Sure.
_SMGs are deadly at over 200 meters, not sure where you got that 50 meters part from_
Oh, most certainly they are deadly from 200 m. _If they hit_
Submachineguns are notoriously inaccurate past 50 meters (with some exceptions like the KP-31), due to firing heavy, slow pistol bullets travelling down a short barrel.
_But soviet tank crews recieved SVT-40s, PPSH-41s and nagant pistols as well as grenades and anti-tank charges_
Nonsense. Most tank crews only carried sidearms, for a simple reasons: weapons are bulky and take up a lot of space inside a cramped environment like that of the turret. And that is with a "compact" weapon like a submachinegun. An SVT-40 would be ridiculous inside a tank.
The state has spent a lot of time and resources into training tankists as to how best to operate their tank. Time and resources that it is wasted if they start fighting like infantry. That is why tankists are supposed to flee their tanks if the vehicle cannot fight anymore. The grunts of the infantry are meant to absorb gunfire, not the crewmen.
_It is almost impossible to sneak up on a lone tank while it's engine is not working simple due to it's HE shell alone_
Think about it for a second: the tank cannot track and engage more than one target at the same time. 5 guys running from different directions can close the distance with a tank in no time. And the closer the infantry is, the safer they are, because the tank doesn't have an angle to engage them.
That is why I am adamant in that the KV-1 had infantry support, otherwise Germans would have simply overrun it with soldiers.
We have all seen Fury. We all know how ridiculous and stupid the final stand was. Now how come we give the KV-1 myth a pass, when it is the exact same situation?
Soviet Sekrit Weapons made of superior Stalinium, the *KV-2*
Vive la Empereur!
Just don’t make it turn the turret if the tank is on even the slightest of inclines 😅
Stalin’s refrigerator
Fun fact, Stalin means Steel
I was born in rasiainiai im so proud of my town, thanks for making this video
"You shall not pass!"
-Soviet KV tank
I'm trying to sleep at 2 am
My mind: The battle was about to begin.
1:54 - Looks to the right... So Sweden located in central Russia, around Yaroslavl, Cherepovech Vologda and Ribinsk? Thats a big surprise, especially to people who live here.
Lithuanian sees "Raseiniai" in title: Oh cool
Samogitian seeing Raseiniai: *happy Žemaitija noises*
Amazing! I can't wail for another battles, e.g. Kursk battle , Staligrad or so on... It's a new page of your channel history.
I'd say the most direct influence was NOT the development of what would later become the Tiger as the Tiger was being developed since 1936, but rather the decision on mount the long 75mm antitank gun on the Pz4 and turn it into the main battle tank of the army, a role previously allocated to the Pz3.
Yup, that is true. The direct answer to T-34 and KV-1 threat was the Panther tank. The idea of a Heavy Tank used to create breakthroughs came to minds of germans before the war, and that eventually evolved into Tiger.
This is the film “Fury”. Русский edition
The last time I arrived this early, going outside was legal
Where are you that going outside is illegal?
It's still legal in non-fascists countries.
@SirTrash VEVO so going to particular area where massive amounts of people may gather is closed to options, but going outside isn't illegal. Stop being a fucking twat.
@@Bartooc in what countries is it currently illegal to go outside?
@SirTrash VEVO oh but you *can* still go outside. Stop gaslighting, twat. Give me countries where it's illegal to go outside. All of outside is not enveloped in parks and beaches. Only areas where large groups can gather and easily pass the virus on are closed, for good reason. Stop listening to conspiracy theories.
I'm originally from Raseiniai town and it's very thrilling to see this story on your channel. Thank you very much.
From wikipedia.
The KV-1 and KV-2, which we first met here, were really something! Our companies opened fire at about 800 yards, but it remained ineffective. We moved closer and closer to the enemy, who for his part continued to approach us unconcerned. Very soon we were facing each other at 50 to 100 yards. A fantastic exchange of fire took place without any visible German success. The Soviet tanks continued to advance, and all armour-piercing shells simply bounced off them. Thus we were presently faced with the alarming situation of the Russian tanks driving through the ranks of 1st Panzer Regiment towards our own infantry and our hinterland. Our Panzer Regiment therefore about turned and rumbled back with the KV-1s and KV-2s, roughly in line with them. In the course of that operation we succeeded in immobilizing some of them with special purpose shells at very close range 30 to 60 yards. A counter attack was launched and the Russians were thrown back. A protective front established and defensive fighting continued
Спасибо тому, кто сделал русские субтитры) и можно заценить это пушка-видео
The crew of that lone Soviet tank deserved the Gold Star, the highest award for courage in the Soviet armed forces which brings with it the title 'Hero of the Soviet Union.'
Oppppsss. "Hero of the Soviet Union was stalin"
@@brozjoszip6401 Tell that to the relatives of any one of the 30 million people who died as a result of Stalin's rule.
@@englishalan222Do you have any proofs of that nonsense about Stalin? And btw the title comes first and only than Golden Star medal usually with Order of Lenin.
@@sloptek1807 I do not waste my time going all over the web to provide sources to people like you because experience tells me I could search all day and come up with 10,000 sights and you would just say it is all lies and anti-Stalin western propaganda so I will not waste my time especially as it is all common knowledge and any one who wants to (like any one reading this) can find those sights with by searching themselves. People who deny Stalin committed those crimes I put in the same glass as holocaust deniers.
@@sloptek1807 And Gold tar does bring with it the title of HERO OF THE SOVIET UNION
One of the most badass examples of tank in combat was one of the many, many battles of the Ost Front.
This is brilliant I've been so excited for you guys to release a modern episode
Love this!!! No ww2 politics, just military strategy.
Make more of these deadass that’s so badass
A late night Baz Battles video? Thank you for this finest of gifts!
As for the video itself, this is one of those minor engagements that is nonetheless absolutely fascinating. The smaller war stories, the actions of individual soldiers, the battles within battles, footnotes of the bigger engagements, but portraying actual people rather than numbers. I love those.
I always have a soft spot for tank crews. I trained as one during my army days (conscription). Kudos to all tank crewmen who died in WW2. It was not easy.
According to some accounts, the dead crew was recovered and buried by the approaching German soldiers with full military honors, while in other accounts, the crew escaped from their crippled tank during the night.[17]
The 6th Panzer Division Kampfgruppe commander, General Erhard Raus, described it as a KV-1, which was damaged by several shots from an 88 mm anti-tank gun fired from behind the vehicle, while it was distracted by light Panzer 35(t) tanks from Panzer Battalion 65.[h] The KV-1 crew were killed by a pioneer engineer unit who pushed grenades through two holes made by the AT gun while the turret began moving again, with the other five or six shots having not fully penetrated. Apparently, the KV-1 crew had only been stunned by the shots which had entered the turret and were buried nearby with military honors by the German unit.[18]
In 1965, the remains of the crew were exhumed and reburied at the Soviet military cemetery in Raseiniai. According to research by Russian military historian Maksim Kolomiets, the tank may have been from the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 4th Tank Regiment, itself a part of the 2nd Tank Division. It is impossible to identify the crew because their personal documents were lost after being buried in the woods north of Raseiniai during the retreat, possibly by German troops.
@ Yeah, sure, you totally don't sound like a Wehraboo here.
@Il Dotten ffs. Anytime someone mentions that the average German behaved decently at times they are a Wehraboo. Every country has its villains and heroes. The war is over. The propaganda from the winners continue. Why? Could it be the reasons for fighting werent all one sided.
@Il Dotten nope. Had family that fought Germans and Japanese. I'm adult enough to know that but for the grace of God I could have been born either. You Germans have had so much guilt instilled in you it's should be criminal. I read recently where you finally paid off your reparations to Israel in submarines as a final payment. The Poles are still paying them for some reason as are the French.
In the US we had a civil war where the combined death toll was around a million. Doesn't sound like much till you look at our population of around 35-40 million. They tried that guilt crap on us as well. Fortunately we have to many examples of why the war was really fought.
Anyhow, the poor average German soldier will always be villainized while your Communist heroes will be celebrated. You do know the Soviets were planning on invading Germany right? They were beat to the punch. Your poor Soviets gobbled up Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, etc.. and tried to gobble Finland. They agreed to this with Germany but you have more sympathy for them. Is it bc of the juice? The Bolshevik killed millions of Christians but that's probably illegal to teach in Europe.
It's ok to be analytical and admire the heroics of a soldier no matter the uniform. Most of that time flowed the ideals of Western society while some followed the ideals of animals. Don't hate yourself or your people. I'm no Wehraboo, nor red army fanatic. I love my country but realize we got forced into the war by the Japanese and British. Regardless it seems we both enjoy history and learning. Best wishes and goid luck. Perhaps we will meet again on a history channel.
@@olliefoxx7165 Except the average German would send millions of soviet PoWs to starve in concentration camps. This is not SS, this is the average Wermacht.
@@nottoday3817 What do you think the Soviets did, and that includes millions of civilians? Stop whitewashing Stalin. Hell, even America did this to nearly a million Germans, and illegally stripped them of POW status. It's been 75 years. When are all these boneheads going to start realizing that it's not Hollywood black and white. All sides commit war crimes. And if we are to consider crimes against humanity, communist USSR was no better and by no means heroes.
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this engagement is a famous one for those of us that studied miltary history and its nice to see..for it certainly dented the germans feelings of invincibility in their tanks...and guderian was shocked to the core when he heard of such stories and examined the facts :)
Many thanks Baz for the exceptionally interesting video series, as always. I must admit your WW2 series ones are mega interesting. Keep them coming! :)
Looking forward to one day seeing one made on Malta's heavy involvement in WW2. :D
You're emphasis on single battles is great. Please collaborate with Eastory on this 🔥. Also thanks for showing the fact that the Red Army did see some sucess in the early phases of war.
Who would draw the maps?
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Please do some of Suvorov's battles. That dude never lost a battle (and he had tons of them) and used some awesome tactics
Great video! This is the first battle that Baz has shown that I knew of already surprisingly.
My great grandfather served in German army during ww2.
He fought in raseiani,
He said his unit was completely destroyed by the soviet tank units.
He had shellshock and he never recovered throughout the whole war.
"Way more badass..."
Урааа! Finally one of my most favorite history channel covered WWII history!
Thank you!
Finally WW2 battles! I loved the WW2 videos of Wake Island and the other sea battles you did and have been waiting for more like it!
I love the narrator for your videos a lot because he is just awesome at narrating
Please more WW2 Battles! Maybe even WW1? These modern conflits need your soothing voice man!
Motion for BB to cover the Battle of Belleau Wood, the baptism of fire for the USMC
KV-2: “YOU SHALL NOT PASS”
Minh Vo Flak88: You think so?
Literally every single light tank on WoT: yessir
Oh nice! A World War video from BazBattle! Keep up the good work.
This was an incredible video, really enjoy all the videos you put out, but the suspense of tank engagements is amazing.
I have a lot of respect for the men in that tank. My great grandfather was also a tankist who fought to the death in Kiev the same year.
please do more of these
Excellent work !! The battle of Brest Fortress would be amazing to cover 👏
I just realized that multi-million dollar movies don't get me nearly as excited as a video like this, especially because it's WW2 tank. Whoever is behind this channel, you're awesome and I hope the algorithm blesses you with a couple million views on this one
Oh man finally
More battles of ww2, like battle of stalingrad, midway or El Alamein
The issue with that is that instead of minutes and hours, those battles sometimes took days and weeks.
Those ones have been done to death, I think doing lesser known battles would be better
WebOnion Years even..
WebOnion yeah right so he could do operation Uranus or midway
Love learning about smaller, mostly unknown but significant battles!
OMG Please do WW2 battles, i love your videos and the way you display and explain them is by far some of the best on youtube!
@1:54 I didn't realize Sweden went that far East.
it's me or Fury is the "American Version" of this battle?
yep, where as the fury was plausible because by then the Germans were reduced to fighting with sticks, and the Easy 8's were upguned and somewhat uparmoured shermans..
This happened because the KV series was such a slap to the face to the Germans, T34 too, the germans didnt have anything remotely in the same class. KV was moded out quickly for the same reason many later heavy german tanks kinda flopped, overworked engine, gearbox not up to the task, over stressed suspension.
@@anasevi9456 And then, after the war, lighter tanks became pretty much useless as the Main Battle Tank began to dominate the battlefield, bringing more armour and heavier caliber weapons, as well as increased speed. Honestly, the germans would've stood a better chance if they'd focused on upgrading the Panzer IV's and Panzer V's, rather than making ridiculously large tanks like the Maus, or heavy tanks like the Tiger 1 and 2. The other problem was a crippling lack of steel, oil and manpower, as well as a shortage of chromium. Had the germans been able to obtain these, advanced fighters such as the Me 262 could've been able to be made more reliable and in greater numbers, thus ensuring German Air superiority. Germany was kind of doomed from the start due to their lack of resources. They did make a great deal of progress, considering the scarcity of resources and the impoverished state the Treaty of Versailles left them in.
Note: I don't agree with the Nazi ideology. I do however admire their martial prowess and engineering. Also, regarding ridiculous designs, nothing beats the P1000 Ratte "landcruiser". That thing was an absolute behemoth, and definitely not practical at all.
There was also a similar incident on the Soviet side when a T-34 with only 2 crewmen stopped a whole battalion for 13 days. Sadly one of them died in the end for suffering too many wounds. It’s more relatable with Fury.
@@spartans-4196 it wasnt matter, Germany was out of manpower, oil and a lot of other products that needed to continue the war. They could not win after 1942 january cause of war declared on USA(against a bigger enemy then USSR) and loose at Stalingrad (lost half of the southern divisions, cca 1/5 of the total eastern army and they couldnt fill up the lines as easy as the USSR, so they had to make materials that "couldn't be destroyed", at least not so easy to prevent manpower and material loss)
@@anasevi9456 You bring it to the point, that was a lone warrior in a big offensive. US and soviets were too strong in the later period and german economy was blown away.
The KV-1 had the same 76mm cannon as the T-34, which had a muzzle velocity of 613 m/s. The KV-2 had a huge 152mm cannon, however it's muzzle velocity was only 432-508 m/s. The German Panzer IV 75mm cannon had a muzzle velocity of 750 m/s. The German 88mm cannons had a muzzle velocity of 981m/s. Since energy equals mass times velocity, a larger shell would have more energy upon impact, but so would a shell traveling faster. Documentaries often mention the width of the bore of the cannon, when the length is just as important.
Great video. for now on, you are not just my favorite medieval and acient history chanel, but also the World War history chanel. keep going, because you work is incredible
These stories from the Eastern front are what I've been looking for in a WW2 Documentary! So tired of American POV.
Ya I would like the other POV. As an American it works for me. The Russians learnt much from the Finns in the Winter War.
1:55 I gotta ask...
Why is Sweden on the west and the east of the map? 😁
I love all your videos, especially the WW2 ones.
Have you considered to make a video of the Battle of Agincourt?
Wish you all the best in these times! Keep up the good work!
This is cool. I'm looking forward to BazBattles covering more modern battles.
MORE WW2 VID PLEASE!!
3 views and 35 seconds up when i watched
Love it how you guys cover all eras of warfare 👍
Keep up the excellent work Baz!
The battle for the throne of CZcams history channels between Baz battles and kings and generals
Personally I like Baz battles the sound effects of k&g is not that great
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I love your videos man. Keep up the amazing work.
Great video. It is good to learn about the smaller battles that are not covered adnauseaum on youtube. Thank you
Into the motherland the German army march
Absolutely love BazBattles! Wish I knew what the background ambiance was.
Amazing video. Would love more ww2 battles! Keep up the splendid work 😉
I read about this battle. Man those KV tanks were beasts.
I used to play Codename panzers and everytime I encountered KV2 tank during the German campaign I had to capture this monster. Then I had fun with it.
Outstanding piece of work as always ! I agree that BazzBattles is best known for ancient/medieval battles but man, can he make some great videos of modern warfare too. Great animation and content supported by an epic narrator .
If you don't yet have a Patreon account you should consider :)
Solyankin was drafted into the Red Army on June 17, 1920, and took part in battles on the Southern Front of the Civil War with the troops of Baron Peter Wrangel and the armed formations of Nestor Makhno.
Egor Nikolayevich studied at various courses of commanding officers, served in the infantry, and from December 1931 became a tanker. He knew how to drive and repair all combat vehicles that served in its parts.
An interesting detail that clearly describes Solyankin’s attitude towards his subordinates - during his service in Kazan, the Tatars were given pork, which they refused to eat; then the commander agreed with one of the collective farms on the supplies of horsemeat to the unit, which was greatly appreciated by the Tatars. To better understand subordinates, Solyankin even learned the Tatar language. He was appointed commander of the 2nd tank division on December 9, 1940.
An interesting order issued to them on June 20: Solyankin ordered to begin the evacuation of the rear of the families of commanding officerd , which helped save the lives of many wives and children of the military.
First clash
The first clash with Solyankin’s tanks made a stunning impression on the Germans: “The shells of German guns bounced off the thick armor of the enemy’s tanks. 100 German tanks could not stand the battle with 20 enemy dreadnoughts and suffered losses. Czech tanks Pz. 35 were crushed by enemy monsters. The same fate befell the battery of 150 mm howitzers, which fired until the last minute. Despite numerous hits, even at a distance of 200 meters howitzers could not damage a single tank. The situation was critical. Only the 88 mm anti-aircraft guns were able to knock out several KV-1s and force the rest to retreat into the forest.
Love it when Baz Battles does modern battles.
I like your soothing voice. Make the narration 10X better.
Seeing a WWII style battle on this channel. Not something I expected. but I liked it a lot. I would love to see more WWII battle video's on this channel.
A video about the battle of Tali-Ihantala would be wonderful. It's the biggest battle in Northern-European history. It was a part of the major Soviet offensive in the Eastern-Front, and the last major battle of Finland in the war, where Finland finally managed to halt the Soviet advance and sue for peace. The battle is often overlooked since there are many more important events that happened in 1944, but a video like this about that battle would be brilliant.
It's also rarely shown because, unlike this, there are few sponsors willing to pay for the amazing fight that the Finns put up as opposed to Russian companies paying to relive a bit of soviet history.
Another great video! Would love to see more tank battles on this channel :D