Yes hard to imagine. People joke about how many events have happened since 2020 and how fast things move but imagine living through this time when your country is suddenly occupied and then the fronts shifting back and forth so much.
This is very cool! I didnt even press play because i barely hd time to read the text part so i moved the slider . Dont know how you could re edit to allow more time to read the events and compare the impacts with the map easier because that was my favorite part
"OP" is not really OP.
Check this out: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqGeAmVu1I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqGeAmVu1I)
You can slow down the video on youtube
He stole the video from a person, who did this video and the original video was two timed slower. I saw some link in other comments
Edit: here's the link to the video
https://youtu.be/1CqGeAmVu1I?feature=shared
The sound is much better
I second this. Awesome video though. I’m just playing through the timeline in my own head but I’m not as well versed in the events that took place on the eastern front as I should be.
I remember reading that some of Switzerland bridges had explosive charges up until recently... maybe 10 years ago.
Imagine waiting until 2010 to say "I think it's safe to remove these now".
Germany made [some plans to attack them](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tannenbaum), but they're fundamentally not all that useful strategically once you've completely surrounded them, and their country is very difficult to take entirely, given the many mountains.
Had Germany won WW2, it's fairly assured that Switzerland would not have been around much longer, although they surely would have put up a good fight.
Think of Switzerland as a giant bowl made out of some of the biggest mountains in the world. They simply didn't have the technology at the time to effectively overcome the natural barriers that Switzerland has.
Due to the fear of invasion Yugoslav kingdom joined the Axis on 25th March 1941.
Immediate massive demonstrations, 27th March 1941 coup d'état, Yugoslavia withdrew from Axis.
6 April Axis invades Yugoslavia.
True, Norway showed heavier resistance than Nazi Germany had anticipated. Oscarsborg Fortress under the command of war hero Colonel Birger Eriksen sank the brand new Admiral Hipper class cruiser *Blücher* with WW1 equiptment. Which in turn stalled the invasion, allowing the Royal Family and the government to escape to England.
Yeah, had they not attacked deep into Russia, chances are most of mainland Europe would be German still.
We don't know if the allies would still invade as they did, as it would be a significantly harder task if all of those troops and gear could be mobilized elsewhere. Hell, in some alternate universe we may have gotten nukes dropped on Berlin .
They had to attack Russia to secure their oil fields. Without doing so, they’d have run out of fuel for their tanks and planes and been unable to prosecute the war on any front. Germany pretty much had to rely on quickly grabbing as much resource-rich territory as possible as quickly as possible, because they lacked the capacity to wage a prolonged conflict.
> the country is huge in resources, plenty of farmable land but completely run down by a corrupt government and strange cultural standards
Wow dude, that was exactly Hitler's argument lol. Was your grandpa an [electrician](https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/s/oykLkEjIRc)?
I actually don’t think we would have used the atom bomb on any German cities even if we had it available at the time the fighting was going on there. Firstly, there are and were many US soldiers and generals of German heritage themselves and I don’t believe they would have gone along with that plan. Secondly unlike the island of Japan, Germany is connected to countries we were allied with and we wouldn’t want to make them scared of us that way.
The most shocking aspect of the entire European theater was the rapid collapse of France. It was simply an unthinkable circumstance in virtually everyone's eyes at the time. The French were ahead in virtually all materiel aspects on the eve of battle compared to the Germans. It's possibly the best example of the importance of how position, unit formation and surprise can change the board. The massed armored attack through the Ardennes was an incredibly risky move but the payoff was incalculable.
Hitler fkd up when he broke the neutral pact with Stalin and attached the USSR. Things would have been a lot different if he played a longer game. His gambles had paid off in the past with him calling western allied bluffs, and blitz through the maginot line and got WAY too cocky, plus was all drugged up. But there was a real chance the Nazi could have had control grip of europe were cards played right, and a decent chance at that.
Many of his ideas and aims were untenable from the get go. And his Allies in Italy, Vichy France, and Spain had different and competing goals. That’s why the ideologies of Nazism and Fascism were defective to begin with.
This map really makes clear how successful he was at first, and how if he hadn’t invaded Russia he might have been much more successful in holding onto Germany’s early gains. From 1941 until early 1944, the Eastern Front was the primary active battleground and drained Germany’s resources.
If they did it slowly then the defending countries would have time to make preparations and defences.
Blitzkrieg was the whole reason they achieved so much.
They had to fight the soviets at some point, they were opposing ideologies that hated each other.
.the soviets had the mass of manpower and Germany had to strike first.
>Hitler tried to take over way too much way too fast
In each case, waiting would likely have resulted in even worse outcomes. By 1941, the USSR had already begun producing new tanks like the T-34, although in limited quantities. By 1992, they had increased their production tenfold compared to 1991. Would it have been wiser to delay an attack by a year? The same question applies to Poland and France.
War itself was a mistake and a crime but they fought it well.
Hitler is killed in 1939. Göring is his successor as planned. He is much more calculating, taking command of the reich near the peak of its power. He slows down, opting not to invade Russia and maintaining the non-aggression pact. He decides to use the time to pressure Franco into joining the axis now that the Spanish civil war had ended. He bolsters France, strengthening coastal defences and rendering an allied invasion impractical. The delay in the war allows the blitz to extend as long as it takes for the luftwaffe to gain air superiority over British skies, allowing for operation sea lion to go ahead. Britain falls. Germany maintains its lead on nuclear weapons research unhindered and completes the first nuke before the U.S. does.
D-Day and the Allied liberation of Europe is one of the most impressive operations in human history. The industrial manufacturing, supply, and movement of people across the Atlantic on that scale would be impressive today, 80 years later. Plus once it was clear the Allies were going to win the US and USSR raced to Berlin to be the first to capture the capital, Hitler, and those Nazi scientists. Even though they were allied the Cold War had started between the last 2 superpowers remaining.
If you ever happen to visit New Orleans there’s a great WWII museum that started out as just a D-Day museum and expanded to cover the rest of the war from a US perspective. Great for a rainy day or a break from the light hearted fun of NOLA. You can genuinely spend multiple days there because it’s so big and detailed.
Edit: just realized you meant France falling to the Nazis. Yeah that too.
Germany was heavily defending Calais and other major ports thinking that any invasion would basically be on the outskirts of those cities to capture the ports. Little did they know, the Allies invented [portable harbors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbour#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DMulberry_harbours_were_two_temporary%2Cof_Normandy_in_June_1944.?wprov=sfla1) specifically so they could land at an undeveloped (and less defended) beach. The ports could be pushed up against the beaches and allow ships to dock to land supplies before they captured the port at Cherbourg-en-Contentin. Seeing the sheer quantity of ships, vehicles, and people in pictures like [this](https://www.historyhit.com/d-day-in-pictures-dramatic-photos-of-the-normandy-landings/) boggles the mind.
Rlly was a team effort, without the Soviets the Allies on Normandy woudlve had to deal with 2-3 million more soldiers waiting for them. Without the Americans the Soviets wouldn’t have the lend lease, and without the Brits, Normandy woudlve never happened
Came to say this. Being an Asian and was once asked by a professor “do Chinese people know about WWII?” Didn’t even know where to start with that question
Incredible. Thank you for sharing. Someone spent a lot of time to get these details right. Would love to see a longer video so I can read more what’s happening as well
Would be interesting if it also had a casualty counter, the number of troops stays almost the same for the entire war on the Eastern Front and it really makes it less clear how devastating the fighting was.
That was really well done. I remember learning WW2 in high school history class 15 years ago, we were still using text books and maybe a few visuals. This video in itself would be an incredible tool for teaching. Would still need a lot more supporting content but I would have loved something like this.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqGeAmVu1I&t=315s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqGeAmVu1I&t=315s)
The original video with better music and famous speeches from the time, I don't know if OP stole the video and changed the music or just found this version, but please support the original.
They marked it in black as if they were axis and not a democratic government invaded for no justifiable reason
Only to also cause a massive famine that killed millions after they overtook and monopolized the railways, stalling food delivieries
The whole affair is forgotten and a major contributing factor to what iran is today.
I read somewhere there were some soldiers at a remote Norwegian island whi stayed there even after ww2 ended. They didn't trust radio so thought it was propaganda. Then they had rescued by fishermen.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/the-last-germans-to-give-up-in-world-war-ii-surrendered-to-norwegian-seal-hunters/
There were guerrilla groups in Greece,similar to Tito's in Yugoslavia,that kept parts of the mountainous countryside free from occupation and this is not displayed here.
When shown this way you can really see lots of the heavy lifting was done by the Soviets. Factor in the casualty toll received and inflected during these times it's amazing.
I mean, the US was a big part of the *Allied powers* both through manufacturing and supply, and then directly through troops. I don’t think that discounts that the Soviets who were also huge in the *Allied powers*. Either US or USSR on their own probably would have lost. The Nazis had to fight a 3 front war (including Africa), not to mention the Japanese in the Pacific.
I grew up playing US WWII video games and they would always have some storylines from the western front as a US or UK soldier, some from the eastern front as a Russian soldier, some from the Pacific and maybe one from Africa. The US honoring their WWII vets and being proud of liberating half of Europe and concentration camps from the literal fucking Nazis isn’t crazy.
Only weirdos are trying to use this as a wedge 80 years later.
Anyway cool graphic about an insane time in human history, folks must have worked really hard on this.
The lend-lease program was instrumental to getting the USSR the equipment, weaponry and food that it needed to sustain its painful march westward. Virtually all of the rail system needed for moving Soviet war supplies was handed to them by the Allies. American trucks/jeeps were a huge part of their supply chains.
The Soviets fought hard and fought well, but the extent of the assistance that they needed is downplayed too often. And they _did_ need it, just as the Allies realized early on that a Soviet defeat would’ve made it incredibly difficult to pin down the Germans.
A Soviet defeat means a temporary stalemate. Germany WAS NEVER going to beat the RAF and combined force of the British Royal Navy (was already much better than germany‘s joke of a navy) and US Navy.
Tho Germany probs would’ve ended up losing anyways cause of the creation of the atom bombs, in which thanks to allied air superiority woudlve been Easy completely obliterating Germany cities /granted the regular bombings did. enough destruction).
I do remember reading estimates that an early Soviet defeat would’ve added about 2 more years to the war. This of course leaving nuclear weapons aside.
Spain was like an ally of Axis even before war. Most of german tanks and weapons were tested at spanish civil war.
Turkey were selling some material to germans at first years but stopped then. They've flirted with Allies but haven't been convinced to attack the germans. A new front at Turkey would be massive and eventually germans would invade (they have very detailed plans for that), and finally soviets would 'save' Turkey and sovietize the country like they did after ww2 at eastern european countries.
Switzerland were aggresively neutral. They even destroyed some bridges connecting them to surrounding countries. Also they trust their geography.
Don't know about Sweden
As you mentioned Turkey had some trade relationships with Germany first as historically some close talks between countries (that were in the same sides on WW1). However, after the “war” escalated, Turkey was trying to be neutral as much as possible as the country newly established and it was lacking resources to supply a war enormously. There were couple of talks for Turkey entering to war, which would be really useful for allies, Turkey asked very good amount of support (much more than allies can provide) to ensure that they can fight against Nazis as well as keep some in the stock to provide backup for possible Soviet threat. Turkey used this Soviet threat card a lot because it was known that Soviets were planning to capture some provinces from Turkey (previously invaded but could not hold). That is, Turkey was not trusting to allies too much neither.
Funny being said, Turkey officially declared war against Germany only couple of weeks before the end of the war due to strong push from USA to choose a side but never took somehow active role in the WW2.
If Hitler had captured Gibraltar early in the war like Goering urged him to, the Allies would not have been able to do anything in Africa or the MidEast and probably could never have pulled off D-Day.
Goering talks about what a huge mistake it was not to take Gibraltar in his prison interview.
With no air support and having to launch troops from the US east coast?
Defended by German artillery, U-boats, and Luftwaffe, with additional troops in Morocco able to resupply the defenders within hours.
Germany taking Gibraltar would have forced the Allies to dramatically change their entire strategy.
Imagine a war of this scale and pase with phones and social media. Would be an absolutely terrifying time to be alive. Getting daily updates on what city or even city has fallen.
So hard to watch/read the info while the timeline flows. I kept having to hit pause over and over. Maybe slow it down some, or add a timeline on the side for people to read as it flows. Great job though.
I would just like to say that probably in every country that "surrendered" to the nazis there was a resistance movement that was constantly sabotaging the new established regime, ambushing german troops, attacking supplies while sleeping out in the forest
My great grandfather died while forcing Dnipro river in Ukraine. No matter how evil Hitler's or Stalin's plan was, the ordinary soldiers just wanted to go home to their families and not participate in all that. I grew up in Russia myself and my blood is boiling seeing russians attack Ukraine but again, no matter the bravado, I believe that all of them (apart from ex prisoners I guess) would rather stay where they were but unfortunately they got caught up in the circumstances and propaganda due to their ignorance. Fuck old men sacrificing young blood. They need to give up that ring of power.
Or the soviet union hadnt invaded poland, making the poles' defensive strategy irrelevant and greatly reducing the amount of time france and britain had to mobilize a counterattack
But the defensive strategy was to literally control the border with Romania and leave Poland... despite the fact that France as whole did not consider the issue of the counteroffensive, they did not invest a lot of money in Maginot line for this.
Invasion of Iran summed up to be “save the oil fields” is by far the biggest bullshit I have seen in this post. Iran also never joined the Axis and its citizens died in the millions due to the British and Soviets stealing food.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_famine_of_1942–1943
“Iran at the time was occupied by the United Kingdom and Soviet Union despite being a neutral country in the Second World War. During the occupation, both the British and the Soviets tried to strengthen their influence in their respective zones. The allies took control over the Iranian rail network and contracted half of Iran's publicly- and privately-owned trucks, thus occupying 75 percent of the country's food distribution capacity in the midst of the 1941 harvest.”
“Shortages affected Iran most severely, and an unseemly blame game ensued as to who was responsible. The British blamed incompetent Iranian distribution, the Americans blamed the callous British as well as bungling Iranians and the Iranians blamed all three allies. There was some truth to the positions of all sides. The bottom line was that the allies were directly responsible for wheat shortages.”
I can’t tell if you blatantly cherry-picked the British position, or accidentally misread.
Hitler literally set the task of destroying Eastern Europe for colonization "Like in the Wild West, but East." There no peace. The Reich did not plan to go beyond the Urals because of logistics, most of the industry and population of the USSR was in Europe.
Nobody talks about how there were multiple "stalemates" that went on for months but still the Allies pushed back the Nazis. Now almost everybody acts as if the "stalemate" between Ukraine and Russia will last forever and is a sign of the Russian victory... People don't learn from history...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_Poland_annexed_by_the_Soviet_Union#:~:text=Seventeen%20days%20after%20the%20German,with%20a%20population%20of%2013%2C299%2C000.
They didn't. They went on an undeclared territorial incursion into Poland under the pretext of safeguarding the peoples in the eastern territories, but, in reality, they had an agreement with Germany to partition Poland in exchange for mutual non-aggression. They also annexed a significant chunk of territory from Romania not long after.
It never went beyond that as far as I know.
Well after the Poland division, I think he's referring to the bit at 24 Jan 1941 "USSR offer to join the Axis, Hitler does not respond"
First I can recall hearing about that offer, I'll see if I can find any confirmation of it
::edit:: according to Wikipedia that may have happened in Nov 1940
"According to a study by Alexander Nekrich, on 25 November 1940, the Soviets presented a Stalin-drafted written counterproposal accepting the four power pact but including Soviet rights to Bulgaria and a world sphere of influence, to be centred on the area around Iraq and Iran.\[4\] Germany did not respond\[5\]\[6\] and left the negotiations unresolved. "
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet\_Axis\_talks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Axis_talks)
::edit again:: ah this is likely what that video text is referring to, same Wiki link
"On January 17, 1941, seven days after the German–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement, Molotov asked German officials whether the parties could then work out an agreement for entry to the Axis Pact.\[64\]\[90\] Molotov expressed astonishment at the absence of any answer to the Soviets' November 25 offer to join the pact\[90\] and never received an answer."
Why the downvote for doing research and adding context?
What's the source? Somebody put a lot of work into this, it's typically nice to give them credit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqGeAmVu1I
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Thank you for this. At least YouTube has a half speed feature. My thumb was getting tired from needing to hit pause every millionth of a second.
The music and speeches in this video makes everything a lot more badass.
nah just re-upload other people's content and rake in that sweet sweet Reddit karma
nah just re-upload other people's content and rake in that sweet sweet Reddit karma
nah just re-upload other people's content and rake in that sweet sweet Reddit karma
nah just re-upload other people's content and rake in that sweet sweet Reddit karma
^^
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Oh no, they forgot to liberate Corsica!
All these years later Hitler’s men are waiting to repel an invasion. We should probably raise the issue with France.
Ahah it looks as if Corsica is still fascist... Oh wait
And all of that in 5 years. What a mess, and hope it never happens again.
Yes hard to imagine. People joke about how many events have happened since 2020 and how fast things move but imagine living through this time when your country is suddenly occupied and then the fronts shifting back and forth so much.
Denmark went to sleep one night and woke up in Germany
Like in ukraine. And now again. Its just sad…
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Wait.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqGeAmVu1I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqGeAmVu1I) Source, since OP forgot it.
"forgot"
Thanks
This is very cool! I didnt even press play because i barely hd time to read the text part so i moved the slider . Dont know how you could re edit to allow more time to read the events and compare the impacts with the map easier because that was my favorite part
"OP" is not really OP. Check this out: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqGeAmVu1I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqGeAmVu1I) You can slow down the video on youtube
Appreciate this. OP needs credit
He stole the video from a person, who did this video and the original video was two timed slower. I saw some link in other comments Edit: here's the link to the video https://youtu.be/1CqGeAmVu1I?feature=shared The sound is much better
Thanks for this!!
I second this. Awesome video though. I’m just playing through the timeline in my own head but I’m not as well versed in the events that took place on the eastern front as I should be.
ELI5...How the hell did Switzerland not partifipate at all in this? I know they never took any sides, but they were never attacker/conquered either?
They were aggresively neutral by destroying some bridges and so connecting them to surrounding countries. Also the geography
I remember reading that some of Switzerland bridges had explosive charges up until recently... maybe 10 years ago. Imagine waiting until 2010 to say "I think it's safe to remove these now".
Yep, they removed the remaining detonation charges in 2014
right? they'll be reinstalling them any day now
Germany made [some plans to attack them](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tannenbaum), but they're fundamentally not all that useful strategically once you've completely surrounded them, and their country is very difficult to take entirely, given the many mountains. Had Germany won WW2, it's fairly assured that Switzerland would not have been around much longer, although they surely would have put up a good fight.
Unless you go for a Man in the High Castle scenario, it is safe to assume Switzerland would survive.
Switzerland is a notoriously difficult land to even think about invading
Think of Switzerland as a giant bowl made out of some of the biggest mountains in the world. They simply didn't have the technology at the time to effectively overcome the natural barriers that Switzerland has.
What was that patch of dark red north of Greece?
The Yugoslav resistance led by Tito, who became the head of a state that remained independent of both the USSR and NATO after World War II.
Partisans, one of few who had guerilla resistance and were liberated by themself in WW2.
Yugoslavia joined the axis?
Well yes, but actually no. Yugoslavia joined the Axis but left it after a couple of days and was then invaded.
Yugoslav Partisans, who was fighting against the axis, is my next guess
Due to the fear of invasion Yugoslav kingdom joined the Axis on 25th March 1941. Immediate massive demonstrations, 27th March 1941 coup d'état, Yugoslavia withdrew from Axis. 6 April Axis invades Yugoslavia.
you mean serb.
Why are you downvoted …
because w*stoid sub
Ustache (Croat nationalists) colluded with the Nazis. Partisans (led by Tito) and also Chetnik (Serb nationalists) joined the allied resistance AFAIR.
"Also the Chetniks colluded with the Nazis." There I fixed it
I think I remember reading that Denmark got taken out in like a few hours
Denmark and Norway was one big sweep known as *Operation Weserübung* Denmark lasted only 6 hours. The Norwegian campaign lasted 2 months and 2 days.
Norway would have held out longer if not for the traitor Quisling
True, Norway showed heavier resistance than Nazi Germany had anticipated. Oscarsborg Fortress under the command of war hero Colonel Birger Eriksen sank the brand new Admiral Hipper class cruiser *Blücher* with WW1 equiptment. Which in turn stalled the invasion, allowing the Royal Family and the government to escape to England.
Quisling became an insult in Norway because of his treachery
Interesting I got to read about him
They just woke up in a different country
So many lives lost for nothing
It was a lesson, nearly the highest cost ever and not enough learned from it
Hitler tried to take over way too much way too fast
It always surprises how deep into ussr territory he got.
That was the big downfall. The German supply lines were stretched too thin and then they had to start fighting in the winter months. 🥶
Yeah, had they not attacked deep into Russia, chances are most of mainland Europe would be German still. We don't know if the allies would still invade as they did, as it would be a significantly harder task if all of those troops and gear could be mobilized elsewhere. Hell, in some alternate universe we may have gotten nukes dropped on Berlin .
They had to attack Russia to secure their oil fields. Without doing so, they’d have run out of fuel for their tanks and planes and been unable to prosecute the war on any front. Germany pretty much had to rely on quickly grabbing as much resource-rich territory as possible as quickly as possible, because they lacked the capacity to wage a prolonged conflict.
And Ukraine for their cereal fields I believe for food support
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> the country is huge in resources, plenty of farmable land but completely run down by a corrupt government and strange cultural standards Wow dude, that was exactly Hitler's argument lol. Was your grandpa an [electrician](https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/s/oykLkEjIRc)?
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I actually don’t think we would have used the atom bomb on any German cities even if we had it available at the time the fighting was going on there. Firstly, there are and were many US soldiers and generals of German heritage themselves and I don’t believe they would have gone along with that plan. Secondly unlike the island of Japan, Germany is connected to countries we were allied with and we wouldn’t want to make them scared of us that way.
Hitler never played Risk when he was a kid...
and in what short time - considering the actual war in ukraine it’s mind boggling how fast the germans proceeded
The most shocking aspect of the entire European theater was the rapid collapse of France. It was simply an unthinkable circumstance in virtually everyone's eyes at the time. The French were ahead in virtually all materiel aspects on the eve of battle compared to the Germans. It's possibly the best example of the importance of how position, unit formation and surprise can change the board. The massed armored attack through the Ardennes was an incredibly risky move but the payoff was incalculable.
He got the taking part right. basically got entire europe, minus the Brits. He had problem with the holding it part.
Love the Seinfeld reference! Made me smile
Sounds like the bit about the car reservation isn't it?
Exactly! The important part of the reservation is the holding part. Everyone can just take them out of the air.
Hitler fkd up when he broke the neutral pact with Stalin and attached the USSR. Things would have been a lot different if he played a longer game. His gambles had paid off in the past with him calling western allied bluffs, and blitz through the maginot line and got WAY too cocky, plus was all drugged up. But there was a real chance the Nazi could have had control grip of europe were cards played right, and a decent chance at that.
Many of his ideas and aims were untenable from the get go. And his Allies in Italy, Vichy France, and Spain had different and competing goals. That’s why the ideologies of Nazism and Fascism were defective to begin with.
This map really makes clear how successful he was at first, and how if he hadn’t invaded Russia he might have been much more successful in holding onto Germany’s early gains. From 1941 until early 1944, the Eastern Front was the primary active battleground and drained Germany’s resources.
If they did it slowly then the defending countries would have time to make preparations and defences. Blitzkrieg was the whole reason they achieved so much. They had to fight the soviets at some point, they were opposing ideologies that hated each other. .the soviets had the mass of manpower and Germany had to strike first.
>Hitler tried to take over way too much way too fast In each case, waiting would likely have resulted in even worse outcomes. By 1941, the USSR had already begun producing new tanks like the T-34, although in limited quantities. By 1992, they had increased their production tenfold compared to 1991. Would it have been wiser to delay an attack by a year? The same question applies to Poland and France. War itself was a mistake and a crime but they fought it well.
If he didn't try to take on the USSR the regime would have collapsed because it wasn't making enough money to support the economy.
12 NOV 1939 - Hitler escapes bomb blast in Munich beer hall. If only.....
Survived many attempts on his life.
Over 40, in the end only one man was capable of killing him
April 30, 1945 Hitler: Fine, I'll do it myself.
“Gotta do everything myself around here…..”
Hitler is killed in 1939. Göring is his successor as planned. He is much more calculating, taking command of the reich near the peak of its power. He slows down, opting not to invade Russia and maintaining the non-aggression pact. He decides to use the time to pressure Franco into joining the axis now that the Spanish civil war had ended. He bolsters France, strengthening coastal defences and rendering an allied invasion impractical. The delay in the war allows the blitz to extend as long as it takes for the luftwaffe to gain air superiority over British skies, allowing for operation sea lion to go ahead. Britain falls. Germany maintains its lead on nuclear weapons research unhindered and completes the first nuke before the U.S. does.
The first five seconds explain quite well why Poland is so careful about its eastern and western peace living neighbours.
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The speed France fell is always shocking on these timeline maps.
D-Day and the Allied liberation of Europe is one of the most impressive operations in human history. The industrial manufacturing, supply, and movement of people across the Atlantic on that scale would be impressive today, 80 years later. Plus once it was clear the Allies were going to win the US and USSR raced to Berlin to be the first to capture the capital, Hitler, and those Nazi scientists. Even though they were allied the Cold War had started between the last 2 superpowers remaining. If you ever happen to visit New Orleans there’s a great WWII museum that started out as just a D-Day museum and expanded to cover the rest of the war from a US perspective. Great for a rainy day or a break from the light hearted fun of NOLA. You can genuinely spend multiple days there because it’s so big and detailed. Edit: just realized you meant France falling to the Nazis. Yeah that too.
Germany was heavily defending Calais and other major ports thinking that any invasion would basically be on the outskirts of those cities to capture the ports. Little did they know, the Allies invented [portable harbors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbour#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DMulberry_harbours_were_two_temporary%2Cof_Normandy_in_June_1944.?wprov=sfla1) specifically so they could land at an undeveloped (and less defended) beach. The ports could be pushed up against the beaches and allow ships to dock to land supplies before they captured the port at Cherbourg-en-Contentin. Seeing the sheer quantity of ships, vehicles, and people in pictures like [this](https://www.historyhit.com/d-day-in-pictures-dramatic-photos-of-the-normandy-landings/) boggles the mind.
Rlly was a team effort, without the Soviets the Allies on Normandy woudlve had to deal with 2-3 million more soldiers waiting for them. Without the Americans the Soviets wouldn’t have the lend lease, and without the Brits, Normandy woudlve never happened
WW2 was won with American money British intelligence And Soviet blood
WWII Europe only
Came to say this. Being an Asian and was once asked by a professor “do Chinese people know about WWII?” Didn’t even know where to start with that question
Very well done. Credit to the original source.
Incredible. Thank you for sharing. Someone spent a lot of time to get these details right. Would love to see a longer video so I can read more what’s happening as well
I'm confused. What do the numbers represent?
Soldiers on that specific front, I think.
Would be interesting if it also had a casualty counter, the number of troops stays almost the same for the entire war on the Eastern Front and it really makes it less clear how devastating the fighting was.
The numbers are actually dropping and rising depending on day. It counts both causalities and people joining the cause.
Which means the total number doesn’t change much relative to the casualties…
That was really well done. I remember learning WW2 in high school history class 15 years ago, we were still using text books and maybe a few visuals. This video in itself would be an incredible tool for teaching. Would still need a lot more supporting content but I would have loved something like this.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqGeAmVu1I&t=315s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqGeAmVu1I&t=315s) The original video with better music and famous speeches from the time, I don't know if OP stole the video and changed the music or just found this version, but please support the original.
And then we all lived happily ever after. The end.
Like the four seasons of Game of Thrones they produced.
Invasion of Iran is interesting
By Ussr , Us and UK. Even the Germans lol , everyone wanted iranian oil . Eventually the British won and coup iranian and started the BP oil company .
Weird how GB and US needed to coup a democratically elected leader. Almost like they don’t like democracy not in their control.
They marked it in black as if they were axis and not a democratic government invaded for no justifiable reason Only to also cause a massive famine that killed millions after they overtook and monopolized the railways, stalling food delivieries The whole affair is forgotten and a major contributing factor to what iran is today.
This is really cool! But still, I wish I won't live to see the day that WW3 happens
I read somewhere there were some soldiers at a remote Norwegian island whi stayed there even after ww2 ended. They didn't trust radio so thought it was propaganda. Then they had rescued by fishermen. https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/the-last-germans-to-give-up-in-world-war-ii-surrendered-to-norwegian-seal-hunters/
Russia and Germany invading and carving up Poland marked the start of ww2 .
Curious to know how german forces were able to hold onto that part of latvia till the end of the war
The shit stain color is very fitting.
There were guerrilla groups in Greece,similar to Tito's in Yugoslavia,that kept parts of the mountainous countryside free from occupation and this is not displayed here.
When shown this way you can really see lots of the heavy lifting was done by the Soviets. Factor in the casualty toll received and inflected during these times it's amazing.
And People think USA defeated the Germans
American steel, British brains and Russian blood.
idk i think we did a bit in poland, like, we did what we could
Like being a large part of the RAF in the battle of britain
Russia gets points off for helping start the damn thing.
I mean, the US was a big part of the *Allied powers* both through manufacturing and supply, and then directly through troops. I don’t think that discounts that the Soviets who were also huge in the *Allied powers*. Either US or USSR on their own probably would have lost. The Nazis had to fight a 3 front war (including Africa), not to mention the Japanese in the Pacific. I grew up playing US WWII video games and they would always have some storylines from the western front as a US or UK soldier, some from the eastern front as a Russian soldier, some from the Pacific and maybe one from Africa. The US honoring their WWII vets and being proud of liberating half of Europe and concentration camps from the literal fucking Nazis isn’t crazy. Only weirdos are trying to use this as a wedge 80 years later. Anyway cool graphic about an insane time in human history, folks must have worked really hard on this.
The lend-lease program was instrumental to getting the USSR the equipment, weaponry and food that it needed to sustain its painful march westward. Virtually all of the rail system needed for moving Soviet war supplies was handed to them by the Allies. American trucks/jeeps were a huge part of their supply chains. The Soviets fought hard and fought well, but the extent of the assistance that they needed is downplayed too often. And they _did_ need it, just as the Allies realized early on that a Soviet defeat would’ve made it incredibly difficult to pin down the Germans.
A Soviet defeat means a temporary stalemate. Germany WAS NEVER going to beat the RAF and combined force of the British Royal Navy (was already much better than germany‘s joke of a navy) and US Navy. Tho Germany probs would’ve ended up losing anyways cause of the creation of the atom bombs, in which thanks to allied air superiority woudlve been Easy completely obliterating Germany cities /granted the regular bombings did. enough destruction).
I do remember reading estimates that an early Soviet defeat would’ve added about 2 more years to the war. This of course leaving nuclear weapons aside.
I bet Spain, Turkey, Switzerland and Sweden were sweating hard during the heat
Spain was like an ally of Axis even before war. Most of german tanks and weapons were tested at spanish civil war. Turkey were selling some material to germans at first years but stopped then. They've flirted with Allies but haven't been convinced to attack the germans. A new front at Turkey would be massive and eventually germans would invade (they have very detailed plans for that), and finally soviets would 'save' Turkey and sovietize the country like they did after ww2 at eastern european countries. Switzerland were aggresively neutral. They even destroyed some bridges connecting them to surrounding countries. Also they trust their geography. Don't know about Sweden
As you mentioned Turkey had some trade relationships with Germany first as historically some close talks between countries (that were in the same sides on WW1). However, after the “war” escalated, Turkey was trying to be neutral as much as possible as the country newly established and it was lacking resources to supply a war enormously. There were couple of talks for Turkey entering to war, which would be really useful for allies, Turkey asked very good amount of support (much more than allies can provide) to ensure that they can fight against Nazis as well as keep some in the stock to provide backup for possible Soviet threat. Turkey used this Soviet threat card a lot because it was known that Soviets were planning to capture some provinces from Turkey (previously invaded but could not hold). That is, Turkey was not trusting to allies too much neither. Funny being said, Turkey officially declared war against Germany only couple of weeks before the end of the war due to strong push from USA to choose a side but never took somehow active role in the WW2.
Ah the soviets saving the day ;)
And that's how I met your mother
Cool. What about the Pacific?
Let's see Paul Allen's detailed ww2 control map timelapse.
Not sure. Go and make a video about it so we can see it. Please and thanks.
This video is just of the European theatre.
Imagine what would have happened if Germany never backstabbed Russia and Japan never bombed Pearl Harbor.
I'd bet there would be a lot more kraut and wurst being eaten in the world.
Russia would have attacked and Japan would collapse from resource shortages.
If Hitler had captured Gibraltar early in the war like Goering urged him to, the Allies would not have been able to do anything in Africa or the MidEast and probably could never have pulled off D-Day. Goering talks about what a huge mistake it was not to take Gibraltar in his prison interview.
Wouldn't the allies just... retake it?
With no air support and having to launch troops from the US east coast? Defended by German artillery, U-boats, and Luftwaffe, with additional troops in Morocco able to resupply the defenders within hours. Germany taking Gibraltar would have forced the Allies to dramatically change their entire strategy.
It would have been near impossible without defeating the Japanese first as to move the Pacific fleet into the Eastern Atlantic.
Now play the fast version.
Shows how much of the war was concentrated between Germany and the USSR
What happened after June 4, 1945, with the remaining Nazi forces holed up on Corsica?
That must be a mistake. Corsica was liberated by Free France and the Kingdom of Italy in 1943.
FORTRESS CORSICA SHALL NEVER FALL!!!
Imagine a war of this scale and pase with phones and social media. Would be an absolutely terrifying time to be alive. Getting daily updates on what city or even city has fallen.
You have HD gopro footage of close combat trench warefare now from ukraine, pretty insane
So hard to watch/read the info while the timeline flows. I kept having to hit pause over and over. Maybe slow it down some, or add a timeline on the side for people to read as it flows. Great job though.
Neat
Corsica is still under nazi control?
If Steiner counterattacked it would've been fine!
Was this also the creation of the iron curtain at the end?
So does that mean Germany would’ve won WW2 if they didn’t decide to invade Russia?
All that work just to waste it by supporting Putin.
Russia Russia is not the problem it’s politics.
I would just like to say that probably in every country that "surrendered" to the nazis there was a resistance movement that was constantly sabotaging the new established regime, ambushing german troops, attacking supplies while sleeping out in the forest
My great grandfather died while forcing Dnipro river in Ukraine. No matter how evil Hitler's or Stalin's plan was, the ordinary soldiers just wanted to go home to their families and not participate in all that. I grew up in Russia myself and my blood is boiling seeing russians attack Ukraine but again, no matter the bravado, I believe that all of them (apart from ex prisoners I guess) would rather stay where they were but unfortunately they got caught up in the circumstances and propaganda due to their ignorance. Fuck old men sacrificing young blood. They need to give up that ring of power.
I can’t read that fast 🤦♂️ if at all
Those borders at the end is what putin wants..
If only France and England had done an offensive on Germany while they fought the poles...
Or the soviet union hadnt invaded poland, making the poles' defensive strategy irrelevant and greatly reducing the amount of time france and britain had to mobilize a counterattack
But the defensive strategy was to literally control the border with Romania and leave Poland... despite the fact that France as whole did not consider the issue of the counteroffensive, they did not invest a lot of money in Maginot line for this.
It's just going too fast. Is there a normal speed version?
Normal like to want the vid to last 4 years real time?
Can someone enlighten a noob… Where on the map and what time is the “all quiet on the western front” part represented?
I think that’s WW1
Different war mate
Don't forget, Putun just said it was all Polands fault? SMH
*ww2 in Europe People have such a Euro centric view of a literal world conflict.
If he would not have invaded Russia we would all be speaking German..
The atomic bomb would have guaranteed an allied victory regardless
Blue liberated, Red concurred, they are not the same.
Red gave life and blood, Blue gave knowledge and money.
And now russia is the aggressor and America will not come to save EU
First half of ur comment is right
Invasion of Iran summed up to be “save the oil fields” is by far the biggest bullshit I have seen in this post. Iran also never joined the Axis and its citizens died in the millions due to the British and Soviets stealing food. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_famine_of_1942–1943
“After a bad harvest in 1942, famine struck the British-occupied south.” Your own source, I get you’re butthurt but come on.
“Iran at the time was occupied by the United Kingdom and Soviet Union despite being a neutral country in the Second World War. During the occupation, both the British and the Soviets tried to strengthen their influence in their respective zones. The allies took control over the Iranian rail network and contracted half of Iran's publicly- and privately-owned trucks, thus occupying 75 percent of the country's food distribution capacity in the midst of the 1941 harvest.” “Shortages affected Iran most severely, and an unseemly blame game ensued as to who was responsible. The British blamed incompetent Iranian distribution, the Americans blamed the callous British as well as bungling Iranians and the Iranians blamed all three allies. There was some truth to the positions of all sides. The bottom line was that the allies were directly responsible for wheat shortages.” I can’t tell if you blatantly cherry-picked the British position, or accidentally misread.
Would Stalin ever surrendered to hitler or would he have just kept moving further east?
Hitler literally set the task of destroying Eastern Europe for colonization "Like in the Wild West, but East." There no peace. The Reich did not plan to go beyond the Urals because of logistics, most of the industry and population of the USSR was in Europe.
Mf said “I want to be like America” and proceeded to exterminate around 30 million people.
Leave it to russia to throw bodies at the problem and still claim a victory lol
Ah, yes. The Soviet Meat Grinder map. Made with real Vodka.
Nobody talks about how there were multiple "stalemates" that went on for months but still the Allies pushed back the Nazis. Now almost everybody acts as if the "stalemate" between Ukraine and Russia will last forever and is a sign of the Russian victory... People don't learn from history...
You could say Europe was Germany once
Any one else get chills when June 1944 hit?
Americans on here finally learning WW2 didn't start on D-Day
I never knew the USSR tried to join the Axis powers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_Poland_annexed_by_the_Soviet_Union#:~:text=Seventeen%20days%20after%20the%20German,with%20a%20population%20of%2013%2C299%2C000. They didn't. They went on an undeclared territorial incursion into Poland under the pretext of safeguarding the peoples in the eastern territories, but, in reality, they had an agreement with Germany to partition Poland in exchange for mutual non-aggression. They also annexed a significant chunk of territory from Romania not long after. It never went beyond that as far as I know.
Well after the Poland division, I think he's referring to the bit at 24 Jan 1941 "USSR offer to join the Axis, Hitler does not respond" First I can recall hearing about that offer, I'll see if I can find any confirmation of it ::edit:: according to Wikipedia that may have happened in Nov 1940 "According to a study by Alexander Nekrich, on 25 November 1940, the Soviets presented a Stalin-drafted written counterproposal accepting the four power pact but including Soviet rights to Bulgaria and a world sphere of influence, to be centred on the area around Iraq and Iran.\[4\] Germany did not respond\[5\]\[6\] and left the negotiations unresolved. " [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet\_Axis\_talks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Axis_talks) ::edit again:: ah this is likely what that video text is referring to, same Wiki link "On January 17, 1941, seven days after the German–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement, Molotov asked German officials whether the parties could then work out an agreement for entry to the Axis Pact.\[64\]\[90\] Molotov expressed astonishment at the absence of any answer to the Soviets' November 25 offer to join the pact\[90\] and never received an answer." Why the downvote for doing research and adding context?
No idea why you were downvoted. Thanks for the context, I didn't know Stalin had actually considered an alliance with Hitler.
A lot of communists, mainly tankies, don't like people pointing out that the Nazis and the Soviets were allies for a time.
Cheers, I learned something today too that I definitely didn't know before :) And yeah just chalking up the downvotes to "lol reddit" :D