Eastern Front animated: 1941
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2018
- In the summer of 1941 German army was the strongest in Europe and was preparing to use its superiority to defeat the Soviet Union in a three-month lightning campaign. The Soviets, on the other hand, were preparing for a long war and had built up a strong war economy, but the modernization and expansion of the Red Army was still underway and its methods and organization were not yet fully tested in battle. Can the Wehrmacht damage the Soviet Union enough to prevent a recovery or can the Soviets hold until their long-term advantages start to have a strong impact on the war?
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Symbols:
drive.google.com/open?id=1FVG...
Main sources for orders of battle and frontline positions:
www.wwii-photos-maps.com/
www.rkka.ru/imaps.htm
bdsa.ru/
80% of the divisional OOB and 95% of corps OOB shown in the video may be considered correct, (in places, where it is not simplified.)
Troop and POW numbers:
www.operationbarbarossa.net/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_...
Map:
Terrain
Europe: Elevation map of Europe - European Environment Agency.
Outside Europe: maps-for-free.com/
Infrastructure:
USSR: Europa 1: 2,500,000 Deutsche Heereskarte: Europaische Russland. 1943.
Other: British 1944 1:2000,000 maps of Europe.
Nerves Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Germans: killed 3M Soviets. Soviets: Just summon 4M men.
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Crazy to think that this was one long frontline, stretched thousands of miles, and each of those miles filled with soldiers, constantly fighting.
Goes beyond imagination
The greatest war in our human history. It's going to take a cataclysmic event for us to go back to this type of warfare. In the meantime, get ready for World War 3: Cyber-Nuclear-Robotic warfare!
Even then you could see German's did not have the man power to hold out a total war in the Soviet Union. Hitler was warned many times. Hitler was so foolish taking them on without any long term plan. Surely by 1942 Hitlers agents in USA told him USA was developing an Atom bomb? He was a real man of low intelligence Hitler on the battle field but a genius at political manipulation he shuld have left the War to the Wehrmacht.
@@coronavinny5886 If he didn't attack, Stalin would have eventually. Barbarossa was a huge initial success. They captured the entire standing russian army.
@@coronavinny5886 in hindsight he seems stupid, but you always need to remember what happened before the invasion. Germany conquered europe and did defeat France. Hitler never imagined that so quickly. That gave them the feeling that they can defeat all enemies.
Second important thing: the ussr had huge losses in the finland war and the world thought that stalins army is just s rotten building, hitler thought the same and that wasnt stupidity, it was a common expectation on every side back then. :-)
The western media even announced , shortly after the attack began, that the ussr is doomed.
It seemed that they all were really really wrong :-)
The numbers really hit you, imagine having 1 million troops defending moscow, but all of a sudden half of that 1 million is encircled and captured all of a sudden, imagine being a soviet commander in that moment.
В таком случае тебя бы отдали под трибунал из-за неспособности командовать
Quite possibly the greatest comeback in human history.
Pretty easy when the other boxer expends all his energy in Round 2
The Germans would have never won because of lack of resources, and the fact the Russians are not the French.
I never knew moving lines and circles could be satisfying.
Eternal Glory To Russians Heroes!
Rappa Kalja like murica in France and Germany
@Rappa Kalja and what about france and Britain?
@Rappa Kalja warcrimes will always be part of War, not defending the people who commit them.
@Vsatyk so German actions are justified then the genocide of millions of men kids and women were right then since it was war
1941: Germans in Rostov.
1945: Soviets in Rostock.
Rostock is slavic city
@Der Panda Yes, the northwest of Germany WAS Slavic lands...
@@dewastator9176 Rostock - Germany city
@G E T R E K T 905 lmao
@G E T R E K T 905
What Islam have to do with this conversation?
The Soviet Union was truly a behemoth. They lost the equivalent of the entire German army in a few months and were still able to mount a successful defense. Incredible.
Самой сильной армией мира в 1940 была французская армия, которая была вся разбита и сдалась в плен.
СССР не потерял армию в 1941, а понес потери, которые компенсировались мобилизацией. СССР победил в 1941, сорвав немецкий план молниеностной войны.
@@nz2191 Это миф о слабости армии Франции. Изучай. Была самой сильной. И по танкам, и по авиации, и по артиллерии и т.д.
In december the russian army attacked on the intere front ,this is more incredible how was this possible after the losses they had?
more like stalin got his head stuck out of the ground and called siberian trained soldiers to fight in the eastern front and crush a stupid hitler who took control and ignored all his generals, declared war on the USA for no reason causing another front to be dealt with, made pointless assaults and refused to entrench in the winter or pull back even though his forces were freezing.
Because the germans were occupied with several war fronts. What saved the USSR from being totally occupied was the winter, transiberian and poor german judgment to fight several fronts
By the way this is the PERFECT format for war history fans! Seriously please make tons of these. I would love nothing more than a few playlists of these day by day videos of every battle and frontline change for the entire war.
This. This is what history documentaries should look like. Well done.
@Max Mustermann I obrve da way home
Year but the Background should still be a bigger Point than the fighting
@Ar Wi Stalin didnt want to attack , he even hoped that peace will last 10 years
[Redacted] Watch Epic TV History, they're a great channel for documentaries as well!
Thanks for the suggestion Chief, I’ll check ‘em out.
The USSR pulled the greatest "They had us in the first half" in history
Underrated comment
@@White-Man True, kind of morbid really.
@@White-Man USSR was outnumbered in the first year of the war
@@White-Man in what way is communism worse than fascism? Communism isn’t even bad. The only issue is that there was never a true communist country. China claims to be communist but uses a capitalist economic system. Fascism on the other hand, has been shown to clearly not work. Let’s take Italy for instance. The whole basis of italian fascism was military efficiency, and we all know how that went. Fascism is a vague right wing political force that is not strong enough to unite its citizens together the same way capitalism and communism is able to. Capitalism promotes individualism, while communism promotes collectivism, whereas fascism is basically ‘I have no clue wtf I’m doing.’
@@White-Man also fascism is absolutely useless and stupid. Unlike communism and capitalism which both have set beliefs and ideas, fascism doesn’t. It is just an extremely vague term. Just look at how many countries we considered as fascist during ww2 despite how different their governments actually are. Italy, Germany, Japan, Hungary, and Spain are all considered fascist during ww2, yet each and every one of them are completely different. That’s because there’s no set definition of what fascism is aside from extreme nationalism. It is a weak and ineffective government that lies to its people.
Germany in November 1941: We're gonna make it!... Wait, why do I hear boss music?
*Siberian reinforcements arrive*
Ridiculous 🤣
Russia wouldn't have stand a chance against Germany...if Germany would have only fought against the Russians.
@Eastory This content is amazing, having accurate troop movements in real time across such a large front is a difficult task, you did a great job.
Your profile pic is Yemen flag not german.
@@eliasziad7864 I am aware the flag is upsidedown
It's insane to think how close the Germans really got to Moscow. The more i read into the eastern front the more it amazes me with its ferocity, and horror. I can't imagine living in those times
Noah Weaver No matter, Moscow would have already been in ruins by the time the Germans arrived, the Soviets were not like the French in that aspect. Stalin was willing to put every man, woman and child between him and the Germans, and in that process burn the entire Union in order to stop the Germans from having any of it.
@@dragonache705 I mean he had already prepped the Kreml for self destruction
@Andris Falks Simple answer to a hard question.
USSR has a bit more resources that Germans, this is true. But the war problem has too many variables. Imagine, what would has happened if Japan and Turkey attacked USSR?
@Andris Falks The German plan from the beginning was to encircle Moscow. Destroying a pocket in Moscow is very little like fighting in Stalingrad while it can still receive supply and reinforcements. Regardless, though, their logistical capability and men in the field in 1941 wasn't enough to get the job done either way.
fcking unbelievable the Russians experienced their "stalingrad" three times. Lost 663.000 in Smolensk, 420.000 in Białystok and Minsk, 665.000 Kiev. Russians lost in the first year more soldier than the whole fcking german army have mens. But they dont care.
On the other side Germany lost in Stalingrad 300.000 Soldier and that was a shock from which they did not recover. Remember that the russians lost over 500.000 men in stalingrad too. But even in the year 1943 Germans punch very hard. Battle of Kursk: Soviet lost 863.000 and 7000 tanks (as the fcking defender), Germany lost 203.000 and 1200 tanks.
How can a small country like Germany fight 4 years so successfully against the big Player Russia while they are fighting in North Africa and Yugoslavia (partisan) at the same time?
Holy. Crap. I need more, I've never been so hyped up at little lines and numbers before.
Kyle Li so you dont know the Historia Civilis
Hakan Tokyay this animation is 200x better
Every little edge of that line that moves is a group or more of Humans
I would like to see a video on gab.AI
I love looking at little pockets and thinking "wow thousands of people died in that little drawing of a circle.
Huh.
I watch a lot of battlefield animation and yours was done with an expertness that I have not seen before ... This was outstanding work thank you
My grand grandma left her two daughters and conscripted to the volunteer regimen as a nurse. On March 5, 1942 she carried away from the battlefield 15 wounded soldiers, then got wounded herself in the belly. When they tried to bandage her, she said: 'Help those who will live, you won't save me'. She died in a hospital on March 8.
We always remember her, and the war should never happen again
The fidelity to the dates, troop movements and even to the individual numbers of the Divisions involved is truly astonishing! This truly shows the quality of the content and the amount of research put into it. Nice Work!
indeed very impressive video - its worth noting though that the unit size represented by an icon is a Corps (XXX) and not a division (XX).
Let me remind you that Crimea and Sevastopol in particular were defended longer than the whole of France.
That's hardly a fair comparison. The Soviet still held vast amount of land even during the farthest German advance. Not every European countries had the luxuries of huge territories like the Russian.
@@vrisbrianm4720 At the beginning of the war with Germany, France had resources, weapons, and even some territory. In fact, the whole of Europe was not particularly resistant to resistance. And when they were quickly captured, they began to fight on the side of former "enemies". Only great Britain seriously fought back!
@@art_means_artificial France has been one of the most successful military powers in Europe throughout its history, but world war 2 was a disaster which gave them that reputation. France also historically had a barely functioning government through much of its history after the revolution
I wouldn't say it's a fair comparison, the Soviet Union lost of territory before the Germans were stopped was several times bigger than all of France also unlike the Soviets they were not facing anhilation
To be honest, one Pavlov house in Stalingrad was held longer than the whole of France.
I've probably watched this over 20 times by now, it's just so interesting.
Very good job
I probably watched it 100 times by now 🤣
Brilliant video. I'd love the see the entire front over the year: it's great to see the focus on each area, but it'd be great to see what all three army groups were doing at the same time.
Germans in 1941: This will be easy.
Germans in 1945: Well that was the worst idea we've had.
@robgvm
They should have finished their attacks against Britain and consolidated troops for the invasion of the Soviet Union. It's clear now that if you must invade the Soviets it should be with your full effort, not a rushed attack. In 1941 the Germans were fighting the British, fighting in Africa, and then decided to invade the Soviet Union. They had three fronts, that's the dumbest move they could have made. And by 1943 they would have had a lot of defenses set up on their eastern borders as well as more troops dedicated to that fight. The Soviets took enough casualties as it is, and with a fully formed German defense they would have taken even more casualties as a result. The Soviets after the Winter War were bloodied and were attempting to reform their ranks, adopting a defensive posture and not wanting to invade anything quite then. Inevitably, they may have invaded western Europe, but they did not want a repeat of World War 1 which is why they wanted a buffer zone between themselves and Germany.
@robgvm It's a tricky one, if the soviets were left to their own devices they would eventually have become unstoppable, and the Germans would have been crushed, but attacking early was clearly not a winning strategy, at least the way they did it. Perhaps attemping to finish off the Allies first before securing what remained of their Navy and heavily reinforcing the eastern front would have been the best option, though with Germany suffering it's first major defeat at the hand of the British it made them switch targets. If Japan had attacked from the east then things would have been a lot different, even if Turkey attacked from the south things would have been a lot different, it still may not have been enough but these battle lines would have been moved along a lot further. Better communication between the AXIS would have helped a lot.
yah? And how would the "others" look at this? Commies attacking a capitalist state? As soon as they would have done it there would be no land lease. problems in far east with Japan/US. UK would sign a peace treaty with Nazis.
@robgvm Indeed. Soviet would have attacked them. They had 1000000 paratroopers for exable. Paratroopers are an offensive core. Not many people know these things! It was a good plan to attack them and they would have won hadn't spent time fighting the Greeks after Italian defeat.
soviets had 2,7 mil troops in the eve of invasion and 1 mil of those were paratroopers?!!
Honestly, if I had played as Stalin, I'd have ragequitted after the Kiev encirclement.
It's not a well-known fact among Western public, but Stalin almost did ragequit at the start of the war. Translate using google translate this article: ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Реакция_Сталина_на_начало_Великой_Отечественной_войны
(name of the article can be translated roughly as "The Reaction of Stalin at the Start of the Great Patriotic War")
Dude there is no surrender
FIGHT TO THE DEATH!!!
I think that was the whole German game plan. Beyond achieving that they did not have much else ...
@@iyanev You must be fun at parties.
@@nyl0n733 yea me and the boys drinking and discussing ww2 politics sounds fun to me
Imagine how many people died, took a last breath with all their individual history, family, hopes, dreams - each time a line changes only a wee bit.
The level of detail here is amazing. Well done.
This is by far the best video on the eastern front.
Kenny911able it’s more of the the whole animation style is just a work of art, showing the flexing of the front line and movement gaps, it’s pretty cool.
Kenny911able я буду смотреть его позже
I agree, this is by far the best video I've seen on the war on the eastern front.
Big huge congratulations for the great job.
You can choose english language as well, it was made in 2005-2006. Finally, its one of the best version of history about Eastern front and Great Patriotic War. english.pobediteli.ru/
Valentino K.
At the *whole* border you dummy.
This is amazing
you cant say that III was gonna say that!
no.. this is scary..
Why is this so entertaining, I keep coming back to these videos!
Good job!
watching this after the brilliant plans to run a youtube channell video makes you fully appretie how much effort has been put into every single video. please keep the good work up we will always support you.
I honestly can't imagine the amount of work needed to make this, you could have just used a moving frontline, but instead you decided to look into what each division from both sides was doing at the time. You deserve more recognition.
ikr like how the hell did he manage this
What exactly makes you think that this is what actually happened and aint just playback of another HoI game?
@@user-pm8je4fo7e No man other than TommyKay could've made that T H I C C encirclement of Kiev bro
@@frogchip6484 I have no idea who you talking about. I know one thing tho: your sentence does not answer my question.
@@user-pm8je4fo7e Yea it does it means that these encirclements in kiev and other places couldn't be done in hoi4.
Its insane if you realize how succesful germans were in the first year of the war yet they still did not manadge to break the russians.
Yeah the Germans were doomed from the start. No matter how successful they could be, they'd still run out of oil and move farther and farther from their points of supply.
Especially after the encirclement near Smolensk
@@tomogburn2462 Maybe in 1941/42 but there is an advantage defending, you dont need that much men to actually defend positions and the first winter in 1941 hit pretty hard. Still later on the russians mobilzed more and more troops and when the germans had to fight on the west in 1944 aswell, there was a "soviet horde" in the east, outnumbering their own forces.
At the end of the war, germans were outnumbered 1/12 at some battles.
The mighty German War Machine. They were indestructible. Even Stalin was nervous, but the Soviets had different plans. They weren’t loosing that war, no matter how many Soviets died.
@@rsears78 i would not say that germans were indestructible givne the fact that they lost
Thanks for the hardwork and research put in making this
I gotta say. As an American, thank you for all your efforts put into this series. We cover here are sadly ignorant of the role that the Soviets played in defeating the Nazis. Hopefully your videos will educate people like me more.
Did you know the Russians lost close to 27 million people (combined military and civilian killed) in WW 2? In 1940 their population was 194 million. That's almost 14% of their entire population killed.
@@knightwatchman
Yeah. But their sacrifice was not in vain. A madman was stopped in his tracks thanks to their sacrifice.
And no madman will ever....no wait
@@philiproe1661 the mad men were Chruchill,Stalin and Roosevelt
@@oztk5673
Obvious troll
I'd like to continue with 1942, but I don't know where to find the best sources. Could you suggest some sources that cover the overall strategic situation of the 1942 Eastern front (preferably located online)?
David Glantz's "When Titans Clashed" is an amazing overview of the entire war, hes a free PDF of the book: zodml.org/sites/default/files/%5BDavid_M._Glantz%2C_Jonathan_M._House%5D_When_Titans_C_0.pdf
Check out Pamyat Naroda . ru It's an Russian archival website. Amongst other things it has quite helpful maps of major operations superimposed over google maps, containing movements, major formations and the ability to change the dates as the offensive progresses - although the dates are spotty, some may have day by day, others a week or so. It's unfortunately almost all in cyrillic, so bring your language dictionary. I was unaware of your work until now. I shall follow with great interest. Such a tremendous task you have taken on.
:)
You can use this interactive online map english.pobediteli.ru/ . It actually has all frontline movement from 1941 to 1945, is in English and shows all major events happened at the time.
You can watch documentary series called "Soviet storm: WW2 in the east". You can find all of the episodes on the CZcams.
Love it!
THE WORLD IS FLAT YOU FOOL, RUSSIA MAJOR DOES NOT EXIST!!
IKR
better then yours XD
yup
LOL the animated Soviet divisions are glitching when they overlap
I always find myself coming back to this video because it always leaves me in awe just much the Red Army was steamrolled in the opening months of Barbarossa.
It was a catastrophe. And it is damn miracle that our ancestors managed to stop steamroller that was German army.
Yeah, the immense size of the front is just mind boggling. I doubt we will ever see anything like it again.
@@undeadnightorc from north to south it’s the biggest front in the entire history of war I believe.
Glorious isn't it?
Stalingrad alone took more lives than what the americans lost on the entire western front
Just mind boggling how the germans at the beginning of the operation just so casually and swiftly captured not hundreds, not thousands, but hundreds of thousands of soldiers. More than half a million troops captured in one massive thrust across this insane battle line is crazy. Looking at it on a map is one thing but to scale it up to real life shows just how massive this entire battle for Russia was. I heard there is a memorial in Moscow, that is made of tank traps showing how terrifyingly close Germany was to the city itself. Really shows just how powerful the German army truly was
Stalin hated the captured soviet army soldiers. Including his PoW son. He wanted them all dead instead of surrendered. When his son died by jumping on an electric camp fence Stalin commented that at least he did something good.
This shows mainly the insignificance of the Russian army.
@@user-ou9qd9no5n Red Army, not Russian. Maybe French army performed better? Or British? Or Polish?
@@AlexPovolotsky if France and Poland had the same infinite number of soldiers and territories as the USSR, their result would be much better than the USSR.
@@user-ou9qd9no5n ._.
No, they would've have collapsed. They wouldn't be willing to throw millions at a front to die
I smell good content.
Think deeper. Probably created in an undisclosed location to foment division between ex-WW II allies and demonstrate a biased view of who stopped the reich. peace.
I knew the Germans were close to Moscow, but never that close...
hello mr. Smith.
Agent Smith lol with 3 worn out PZ2 tanks!
Soviet army was 2 or 3 times than the German expected.
Agent Smith bit never that close as napoleon was!
National Socialist Squad ok, they burned it so it was easy for napoleon to conquer,but did i ever say moscow was russian capital at the time?
i love these types of videos. WWII was so fascinating and terrifying at the same time.
Man this is insane video. This give such perspectiv to situation on eastern front. Thx u for that.
I went to Russia in 1998. I saw the monument showing where the German army was stopped. I went to 2 military museums and enjoyed my visit very much. The fight between Germany and Russia is history everyone needs to learn. Please spend some time learning about this aspect of WWII
Are you a Nazi-sympathizer?
@@tronalddump2267 are you an idiot?
David Christensen between Russia and Germany???? It was USSR!! Not just Russia
@@notyourdad361 Europeans are born with the idea that Russia is always winter. Do you think that Napoleon and Hitler were complete idiots and did not know anything about the winter? The reality is that they, based on their previous experience, planned to end the war long before the Russian winter. They did not know only that the Russians would be desperate to resist, unlike the Europeans. And will come in the answer, in the capital aggressor.
@@notyourdad361 а ты не думал что советские солдаты тоже испытывали дискомфорт от непогоды ? не зима выиграла войну, а самоотверженность и подвиг наших предков
The complexity and detail is astounding! Where can I donate? We need a whole series!
Yes, so simple idea. But realized at first.
Salokin agree!!
read a book
He has a Patreon. You can see the next part of this video there.
good idea! I also, when see good product, then want to donate for development support (and just to be thankful for :-) )
Thanks for making these detailed displays :)
Very well made mate, you just got a new sub
"Artillery is the king of the battlefield...logistics is his queen."
@Aggressive Tubesock lol
@Aggressive Tubesock maybe not a slut but def a bitch if you dont have it
Actually infantry is the queen of battle
@Matthew Littlejohn send the pawns in first.
But anyone who has played chess knows how valuable a well placed pawn is.
Or how impotent a crappy underdeveloped rook is.
Point is.
Artillery is the big killer in war. Artillery and mortars.
But if you got no supply lines...your offense (or defense) fails and its kaput army group south.
Alexander Butler
True but in WW2 Tanks where the real important part.
brilliant keep it up man !
Wonderful work. I just can t imagime how you ve drawn & animated such a massive historical & geographic stuff. The zooming map looks wonderful. Is it some freeware or you have modelled it???? Incredible work
Thanks. I got acquainted for the first time in such a convenient form. It was especially striking how large numbers of people took part, how many were captured.
If you don't want to wait for 1942 video to be finished, you can check out battlegifs on my Pateron page:
www.patreon.com/Eastory
Great work man. That's the most clean video of the eastern front!
Also, how far away is the 1942 video?
Thanks! I have animated it until September of 1942. I am trying to do a month in two days.
That's awesome! I can't wait
are you want to do videos in the weatren front and battels of erwin rommel in desert and german invasions
1942 time travel? 8:45
This is mind-blowing. Why nobody even had an idea like this before? A whole new perspective to WW2.
It is not "new perspective", it is real history. USSR has trashed 95% of Wehrmacht...
@G E T R E K T 905 *25%
@G E T R E K T 905 lol a lot of the machinery USA and UK sent was broken and unusable in Russia, it had to be heavily modified. USA was just watching Nazis steamrolling the commies. They used Hitler. Too bad for them Russian people didn't want to be the sacrificial sheep in this demonic anti Russian conquest. Marksism was forced on Russia with Western help.
@@tehdreamer President of USA, Roosevelt was highly pro-soviet. He had Soviet agents as advisors and during war he allowed Stalin to press his claims over eastern Europe. land-lease gave very needed supplies. Some Soviet divisions hadn't rifles and had to fight with some farm tools
@@patrolgaming4094
that was just an amazing video, you explained perfectly thanks
It is so crazy even though this video was made 5 years ago, it still is a good video and is viewed a lot today.😊 Eastory is my favorite channel😊.
My Dad who just passed away Fed 10 2020 fought on the Russia front on the German side in 1941. He was 21 years old. Later in the war he fought in Affrica. He became a POW in the US until 1945. We came to the US in 1954 I was 2 years old. American is my home I served in the U.S. Navy from 1973 to 1976. MCB 10 Seabees
@Alex C So much to know about what our family members had to do back then.
@Alex C my Dad told me He was never involved at the holocaust camps but do not tell anyone he was a German soldier until he passed away. He just passed away Feb 10 2020 at the age of 99. He was a awesome Father and friend
One of my great grandads was on the soviet side, he manages to survive the war but was subsequently purged.
respect
@Alex C My grandfather was killed in Kiev, while protecting his native land
How come I never manage to pull this off in Hearts of Iron 4??!!
Wrednax What do you mean?
Wrednax You have to use tank force to encircle troops instead of attacking simultaneously with infantry.
Use 40 width divisions w/ logistics companies I recommend a 17/1/2/1 design(17 infantry, 2 anti air, 1 artillery, 1 anti tank) support arty, and engineer company as well as logistics company and perhaps field hospitals.Should get you through the eastern front no problem
You didnt dope your soldiers up on meth before combat.
40 width medium tanks with logistics and radio companies, encircle with air superiority and their infantry spam will become worthless.
Add me on steam if you want to fuck up the Soviets mate
so suspenseful! can't wait to find out what happens next! XD
btw, the music is perfect
This is incredibly well done.
This is definitely the most detailed animated map of the Eastern front I have ever seen, I always felt difficult to picture how the battlefront have shift from places to places, but with this kind of visualized map, this will have help us to understand the situation of all the units they were facing over there. Brilliant work.
This is some of the best video animation of a very complex subject I've seen anywhere on YT. You are to be congratulated for the quality of your work. To see the ebb and flow of the campaign in the way you've done, it, with the detail of units involved is very impressive. Thank you!
Enjoyed the video. Thanks for the hard work.
6:28 Unbelievable, thats 665.000 POW's.. When you count the total numbers of 1941, they're higher than Stalingrad losses.
That's not even close to Stalingrad. Stalingrad had 1.1 million Soviet casualties.
@@vqlcano1698 Plus, The battle at Rzhev, with a minimum of 1.3 / 1.5 and possible 2 millions red army soldiers lost, contributed in the victory at Stalingrad.
This is a really cool video, but it's crucial to remember that this wasn't just an empty battlefield like most of the Pacific Theater in WW2 with the ocean. Every time that red line moved, those were entire villages, towns, cities, millions of ordinary people that were mercilessly slaughtered in the crossfire, bombardment, and brutal occupation. It becomes totally different when you remember when grandparents were telling you about how they had the street where they lived bombed, the death they saw, and then basically had to starve for 2 years because the Germans cut off Soviet supply lines because of these military maneuvers.
War is hell.
Horse Radish , very well said....most of us have no concept of what happened.....to fully understand is to fully appreciate what they went through!
Empty battlefield in Pacific??? Do you know how many people were killed by the Japanese in China， Korea and Southeast Asia?
@@hwg5039 Pacific ocean is mostly empty, the war in Asia is a different battlefield, I should've made the distinction. and yes, Japanese atrocities upon the Chinese and others were very similar in brutality
Horse Radish it was worse in brutality
@@horseradish4046 At least they were doing 'european style' war despite of all that level of cruelty.
Japanese did 'intellectual savage' things in Asia. It was way beyond human imaginations to their colonies, and even to their soldiers.
Can't wait for the next one, this is seriously good stuff, keep it up dude!
HITLER: my troops are only less than 30km from Moscow
NAPOLEON: really? I was in Moscow city itself for 2 months. you are 300,000 inches short. but never mind
Hitler incorporated more land into his Empire than Napoleon did
@@flameofazazel598 Lol, not really. Most of Hitler's territorial gains can't really be called "part of the empire". For example a huge part of France wasn't under German administration, Vichy France was an independent ally to Nazi Germany.
@@mark-o-man6603 Yeah thats true
The winter: Such a fool.
@Wehrmacht nazi deutschland
Napoleon litteraly subjugated the entire continent, just like Hitler, differently from hitler, it subjugated Spain, Portugal, the entire Holy Roman Empire, Austria and Italy
Приятно знать что кто то интересуется восточным фронтом. Спс за качественный контент, желаю продвижения вашему каналу.
How can someone not be interested in Easter front when 80% of German army was busy fighting in the East :) At the end of the day, it was fighting in the East that decided the fate of the war.
@@povilas007 Ok, its true
I'm am American and I LOVE learning about the Eastern front. The scale is absolutely mind blowing
@@hanzzimmer1132 Thenk you for it!!! Thank you also for answering :)
@@povilas007 Спасибо
After having watched those videos a dozen of times, I had never noticed how the city names change from red colour to dark colour: this detail is a very nice touch! Thanks for having made such perfect videos!
The 48th and 14th Panzer Divison sneaking across the dnieper river be like imma end 750,000 careers
Ba ha ha!
This video and the whole series is still just one of the best frontline videos of WW2 out there and definetly the best about Operation Barbarossa...
Even after nearly 4 years since it's release I get goosebumps everytime when the german Blitzkrieg unfolds and the Panzers start their Encirclements...
Combined with the music it's just amazing...
😯😂👍
bro this animation is so good
the movements are wonderful
Incredible quality video! From the detailed troop movements and occupation, to the explanation that accompanies it. VERY well done!!
Pretty good video!
TIK ah I see I've found you away from your channel this time it seems!
Now if you could only create a 10 hour battlestorm documentary about the entire barbarossa campaign my life would be complete lol
TIK the legend himself
That was AWESOME! TIK, love your videos too! The animations made the Eastern front easier to understand!
@@shocken90 10 hours ? more like a year in his insane good style
I've always wondered how animated frontlines like this are made. Is there some kind of engine used or is all this done manually?
skillshare (no copyright infringement please)
@Competifod thanks for your non-answer
Same question here.
Adobe after effects, Create a shape from pen tool. Add keyframe to the line/strokes and start moving them like frame animation.
If you haven't seen it yet, he just released a tutorial in his 400k sub special.
1:30 not only was combat readiness an issue (many units were at peacetime strength) but many tanks were early models of light tanks with thin armor and light guns. They could neither protect against German medium tanks nor pierce their armor, making them effectively coffins-on-wheels whenever they confronted German armored units.
Wow. Such a good video man. Years of classroom study compressed into exciting minutes!
love this channel, you could become huge mate. been here since your first reddit post
2022 hold my Panzer divisions It's the 1940s again.
Good stuff. Well crafted video 👍🏻😎
Very good. Voice, music (style and volume), graphics and narrative. 11/10.
Loffy he stole it from a game
@@opzspice4780 Stole? He did not stole anything, the correct word is take.
@@thecakeisalie6392 took* :P
@@sinaonur2658 Well I was referring to the infinitive form (to take) but it's alright
Correction: 100000000/10
Take a sip every encirclement
Now I'm drunk! :)
Hoi4 standard gameplay under a smart player
fulcrum 29
Smart player? Abusing the horrendous AI barely requires intelligence.
The bastard ai overrun my fockin defense line full of well equipped units in a few days!
Take a sip of vodka, seems like stalin played this game
These days the new front line is again much closer to Moscow and Volgograd than it used to be in 1941. Will be good to create the same interactive maps you do about the invasion of the USSR for the updated situation since 1989.
Its hard when your front line cant be in Poland anymore.
@@zombiestory6353 Please explain a bit more. Right now the military border created by the Western Alliance is looking more advanced towards Russian heartlands than the invasion start line in 1941. Am I wrong?
@@NickVenture1 Warfare changed, though. Everything can happen if another war like this breaks out.
@@NickVenture1 There is no military border, there just is a border. Like every country has some.
@@ChaosEIC There are state borders with border guards and military units to watch them. Also exist many units to intervene in a war if necessary. There is NATO and many formations "at the borders" around Russia. Even in space have been established borders "to not cross" with military might. Ukraine's eastern border may be considered Russia's present day "Western Front Line". Looking at all the other borders of that kind my assumption is that "the military border" moved again much closer to Moscow than it was in 1941. This is how must be understood my initial comment about the borders ("Front line") of the military positions surrounding the USSR in June 1941.
Mate these big issue videos are good and interesting but for me you really excel at the more personal smaller issue videos like the 1st one you ever did. It allows your personality out more and the humour in that video is missing from the bigger issue ones. Hope to see more stories about individual history and stories that aren't as well known. Still awesome stuff though.
This series is you're magnum opus, it's so well done.
Why they don’t show us that in school
School here in the US does not seem interested in teaching kids to understand history, just teaching the parts that involve our country.
Man Sheiky I’m learning about this in US history right now
@Gregory Roberts
Knowing how the advance on soviet union was executed what which divisions attacked where has nothing to do with "Social Left Indoctrination center". How is it knowing that gonna help you anyway? The reason it's not taught in such detail is because it has little to do with US.
Propaganda
Swords Chant watch your mouth and go educate yourself
Great presentation many thanks!!
Very nice video. Congratulations !
I love the effort put into this.
This is brilliant. I've read so many books about the subject and seen maps of the front, but this brings it to life.
Completely agreed
7:54 I love the way he says „the German armour had finally returned“ epic stuff
I love how the soviet union had encirclments of 500.00 Men and it did not change a shit in the russian formation. Other Allied countries would have immidiately surrendered after such an big encirclement
Losses 0.5 million men*
Doenst even desturbe the linr
Even tho I have watched this video many times, I can't believe how the Soviets managed to win the war
Ikr
It was the total mobilization after 1941. Stalin had underestimated the threat of the Germans and only when the Germans advanced so far and quickly the Soviet Union changed to total mobilization and war industry
Note that most of the advances you see in this video were made by a few panzer divisions. You will notice that the infantry was always behind during the offensives, since it lacked motorized forces. Meaning the brunt of the fighting was suffered by these few units of panzer troops, that were far from Germany and which supply lines were severely strained. During Barbarossa, the German crushed the soviet forces, yes. But their offensive capabilities were pretty much gone by the time the soviet themselves were starting to learn their lessons and were beginning to coordinate their operations.
But at what cost?
Because of USA invaded , Germany will win
I enjoy watching these, good quality, map is well detailed, lines shown of advance and background music. And it also helps that he is from my homeland, i can tell from accent.
I like how we look at this video with moving lines and cool maneuvers and in reality it’s just P A I N A N D S U F F E R I N G
Amazing work
The German logistics officers have said it before the invasion: they can go in 800 km after that they need to stop and the supplies will never catch up and they will only have a stop and go campaign afterwards. Which is what happened. Also Germany never got more out of the Soviet Union in terms of raw materials, goods etc with war than what they were already getting in peacetime.
the Soviet burned down resources so that the Germans can never live off the land
@@lillyie does not matter ... the German logistics officers said they can only supply to 800 km. That is exactly what happened. You can't reload your guns or refuel your tanks off the land.
@robgvm they were at the end of their logistics capabilities. Germany did not have enough trucks to move things and they over-used the few they had, these broke down on the bad Russian roads. They had to rebuild the entire rail network because the Russian gauge was different. There are no rivers running East-West so shipping was limited to the Baltic at best. Distances inside Russia are immense and they were moving from west to east - from better to worse and worse roads. The mud was really just the last nail in the coffin. The Germans never thought about wide tracks, tracked supply vehicles (Raupenschleppers) etc before the experience of Russia. They were also running slowly out of fuel. They kept losing their tanks, trucks, airplanes, guns ... the last push on Moscow was done by an almost entirely infantry army, they were so severely depleted of everything they needed to keep going. It never got better, after that they could only replace losses while the Russians steadily built up to overwhelming numbers in tanks, guns, ammo, fuel (Land Lease helped a lot about 25% or more) and even in number of troops towards the end, even with very unfavorable kill ratios.
@syc 297 that is not correct you can look at the way it unfolded Hitler did want a Lebensraum in the east eventually but he gave up on that idea after the Molotov-Ribbentrop accords. We can see this from German military production in 1940, it was aimed mostly at the air and the sea and not on the land forces. Indeed Hitler wanted to conclude the war with Britain and was not gearing up for a massive land war with the Soviets. That only changed in 1940 November when the Soviets were demanding bases in Bulgaria and that is the moment when the talks broke down and the Germans started planning Barbarossa. That was the crucial moment of the war. At that point it was still possible to avoid a German-Russian war had Stalin demanded less. Hitler should have also been more flexible at that point because the Soviets later tried to re-start the negotiations, unsuccessfully.
Yes, at full capacity but a push to Moscow as well as the southern objectives was still very much doable before winter. Whether holding Moscow and the Volga from Leningrad to the Caucuses was enough for a Bolshevik collapse, I dunno. Glantz suspects not.
I learned more about the Eastern European Front in WWII from this one video than I did in all of high school and college. Wow, this was so amazingly good.
Incredible. Thank you.
It's very good explained with the card and the positions of both troops... 👍🤔
Makes me want to play some Hearts of Iron 4
+Joseph Stalin Well I'm Russian, so I must be a bot
+Joseph Stalin на то я и самовар
So no gulag?
Samovar maker
The ai in the 1.5.3 patch is rediculous it leaves the Frontline undefended and concentrate its forces in major victory points only which makes it very easy to encircle hundreds of divisions in one city even without the use of tanks
Hardly any challenge, I hope they fix it in the next patch
Smoozable but tanks are too quick
Incredibly well done. Even as someone who knows a lot about WWII, this was extraordinary.
Спасибо что хоть не рассказываете о том, что генерал мороз победил! В действительности в московском противостоянии силы были численно равные и условия были одни для всех, ну а контрнаступление ркка вообще пришлось на самые низкие температуры 1941го. Спасибо что не искажаете действительность!
Если бы не сталинские чистки генералов, то воевали бы более умело и не было бы 3 миллионов убитых и пленных в 1941 году. И вполне возможно выйграли бы войну уже в 43 или начале 44го года.
@@DelEbaUrmONIf Было возможно восстание генералов а так же увеличился бы риск коллаборационизма со стороны противников советской власти. Чистки были необходимы. К сожалению,без перегибов не обошлось,стоит признать
Ну так мороз и победил, сам же и подтверждаешь. У немцев ни техника не была приспособлена, ни одежды зимней не было, ни снабжения нормального - танки и машины бросали из-за отсутствия топлива, а жратву приходилось отбирать у местных.
Плюс они были вымотаны предыдущими месяцами боёв, подкреплений никаких не получали, а против них свежие одетые, снабжённые и накормленные армии большевиков. Какие уж тут "равные условия".
@@ikravchuk28 Сколько сралин не душил генералов, солдат (157 000 расстрелянных за годы войны только по приговорам трибуналов), простой народ, и всех несогласных, а "совецкая власть" сгнила и сдохла без всякой войны и без всяких "предателей". По причине своей лживости, тупости и нежизнеспособности.
@@user-tp4xp6vp9v
Не тебе,невежде,судить о сверхдержаве. Для начала выучи историю,разберись в причинах развала,а потом уже открывай свой рот. Стыдно.
Still watching after all these years.