113 - Martial Law in Moscow, but is the Cavalry coming? - WW2 - October 24, 1941 

hey was manstein a war criminal???

@@mananrawat9382 Yes

What is that lonely italian unit advancing in ukraine?

@@mananrawat9382 Manstein was sentenced for 18 years for war crimes. But as a prime example of western post-war hypocrisy, his mass-murdering of Jews, Communists and Russian civilians was quickly ignored and he was released after only three years and when he died 20 years later, he was buried with full military honors.

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Siege of Leningrad lasted roughly 3 years yea, ofc it was still going But about Crimea... Yeah, it would be occupied later than i was expecting

Yes, that's why the Soviets were, for lack of a better word, screwed. All these collosal defeats were occurring simultaneously

Thank you for the very kind words - means a lot to all of us.

The viscittudes of the war in Russia is having a huge influence on the US Japan negotiations happening at the moment. The US and the UK absolutely want to prevent Japan from being free to strike North.

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Dude that’s defeatism! This feels like the drive on whole of France in 1940!

The French can make it hard aswell it seems.

Brave man

Legend.

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I don't think you can be taken pow if you fight until the end

Think of the mindset that caused the Decembrist Revolt in 1825. Having Red Army soldiers experience time outside of the totalitarian system made them a risk going forward for Stalin, much the same as Tsarist Army officers were a risk to Nicholas I after returning from France. They bring with them ideas that could be poisonous to a system of socialist control

@@beetrootburger if this was the main reason, they could just politically reeducate them

@@maximilianolimamoreira5002 and they often did, most Soviet POW’s that were returned to their own forces went through evaluation camps, and I think about 85% or so were allowed to return to either the army or society, although they would be seen with some suspicion by the authorities and SMERSH units as well. Some were entered into penal battalions (shtrafniky) and others were sent to camps

Thank you for your kind words!

@@WorldWarTwo

Most of those documentary maps show modern borders or have many other problems XD

Should not use for home schooling maybe as additional education

Imagine if he was arrested just a day before sending that info to Stalin? Stalin would’ve been worried about a Japanese invasion for a long period of time. At least until December

Yeah pretty close

Not that it matters. Hitler will have Moscow in no time at all, and then the entire USSR will fall.

@@legostarwarsfan1662 they are Evacuating Moscow we have to remember that.

Not so surprising. He was sending out a lot of messages at this time through his radio operator Clausen because of the urgency of the situation. The Japanese did not crack the code but did know someone was sending messages, and they were closing in.

Use it, this is an apolitical history course. Better than anything I got in high school, college or university.

@@jgranger3532 seriously, we are very lucky to have such good content for free.

You should, it's very eye opening and insightful. Not many details are left out. Plus it's a weekly/daily thing so your son will ALWAYS be getting good educational material that you can test him on

Nice to see such a positive historical community in the comments section.

I intend to use it in my lessons after the new year. It's a fantastic source and is part of our curriculum for WW1 too. Really helps students understand context, change and consequence.

Looking at this I honestly wish there was a RU-vid history channel on our country as well

Nah, our history books just don't focus much on world history. They're too busy in romanticizing the Islamic rule in the subcontinent.

Nantes is a fairly large city and the Feldkommandant was a relatively high level target. He was probably the most senior German killed by the Resistance in France in 1941. The German killed by Colonel Fabien in the summer was much lower ranking.

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Hats off to the French resistance for not giving up in the face of this. This was a fight worth fighting and the resistance knew that all the people of France will be pulled into the struggle one way or the other, whether they like it or not, the Nazis made them all belligerents in an existential conflict.

It still was less time than it took to Britain to recognize Turing's

well if it makes you feel better.. the lowest or standard level of classified material in the USA is 10 years. SO it will take 10 years for us to truly know if Trump got Covid or not. lol

You wanna hear sad? Look up the story of Bull Allen. Indy and the guys from sabaton did a video on it on sabaton history. It’s a disgrace that my country (Australia) hasn’t recognised him as the war hero that he was. His still largely unknown and forgotten and wasn’t awarded anything for his actions. It’s just simply a disgrace.

Apparently Khrushchev didn't even know he was real until he saw a movie about Sorge in the 60s

@@Dustz92 At the end of the war one of Turing's associates said they could now talk about their code-breaking achievements. Turing replied that this would not be possible. One theory is that a lot of countries were still using Enigma as a code after the war and the British did not want to reveal that the system was breakable. In the meantime they would be able to read many of these codes if this was not known.

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Japan eyeing Singapore Grip..

Well,at the time that was happening,Kursk was quite insignificant and it stayed in German hands until March of 1943.

And thank God Hitler didn't continue with this crazy idea, because if he did then people to this day would've claimed that the Germans would've captured Moscow and won the war had Hitler not diverted Guderian away from Moscow

Oh that is a magnificent gathering of imperial firepower and Singapore is a magnificent fortress. Surely the Japanese wouldn't dare to try something.

Japanese attacks? What are you talking about? There's no way Japan will attack while they're at war in China.

@@principalityofbelka6310 i know. Pure fear mongering .

I agree

The set was arguably short of one small spolight for this episode. :)

Shut up with these useless tie comments. Not only are they completely unnecessary and add nothing of value but arent even funny

@@mbathroom1 ok tie natzi

@@mbathroom1 At the time of writing my comment has 188 likes. Indy has name-dropped me in several videos. I'm in regular contact with Sparty and Astrid. But Mbathroom1 doesn't like my hobby so I suppose all of this is pointless and my hobby is over, sorry everyone

History is the past tipped into the future

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@@alexbon4768 History can and should be used as a learning experience, fascism and ideas of racial supremacy lead to bloody consequences.

When your army are so incompetent,so you can't even take a seaside town defended by a handful defender,and you can only take it is only when the defenders abandoned the town,you are so pissed by this fact that you decided to massacre innocent men,women and children.

@@alexbon4768 There is no shame in killing innocent people? Give me some of that shit you're smoking...

@@briantarigan7685 Was a city,not a town,and it was heavely defended and fortified,and we had actualy taked at the end.

@@alexbon4768 You are fulfilling the stereotype of ignorance always being the loudest voice in the room. Congratulations...

The problem is that the old narrative talked about how many Soviet prisoners the Germans had taken and how much land they occupied. Nobody was talking about how precarious the supply lines were. They also never talked about the casualties. The Wehrmacht had up to this time 260,000 dead and 450,000 wounded and thousands more to come. They did not talk of the attrition in the panzer divisions and how many tanks were still operational. The idea that if they reach Moscow the war in the East would be ended is also unlikely. If you only focus on what is happening to the Soviets and ignore the crisis in the Wehrmacht you get very distorted picture. I recommend David Stahel's books Operation Typhoon and March on Moscow to see what was happening to the Wehrmacht as they neared Moscow and how desperate the situation became for them.

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It is the Russian equivalent of "Smith" and one of the most common Russian family names.

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Manstein has the anti fort ability

Narcissists gonna narcissist

Wise words from someone who has Italians as allies...

Wait so old Trumo... Nazi? dude you just blew my mind, I've never heard that one before

@@darkduck-qg2so wtf are you talking about? Who mentioned Trump?

@@simon199418 were you... actually not aware that you were directly quoting a silly sounding thing he said? that would be... surprising, especially considering how memeably characteristic of the guy the style of speech you used is...

You really can't tell that he was regularly using methamphetamine can you?

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God forbid a German gets a splinter, a whole village might have to go.....

@@Raskolnikov70 I read of a case where they carried out a massacre after a report that a German soldier or policeman was killed. Word came that he was only wounded but the massacre went ahead anyhow.

@@stevekaczynski3793 Actually, the rule was that for every wounded German, 50 Serbs are to be shot.......Some German commanders even implemented the policy that 25 Serbs are to be shot for every German that is just simply spooked by the Partisans or any other resistance group!

Yea 15 minutes episodes mostly of Eastern front... *SPOILER* ...for the next 2 years. Surely America won the war

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The man has three phones on his desk, he's clearly very busy and doesn't have time for such pleasantries give him a break.

I have a theory that he's only that rude to Germans and Japanese.

If he's talking to someone on a field phone, he should at least say "out".

I'll have a word with him🤭

He was sarcastically called Gröfaz, a German acronym for "greatest field commander of all time".

@ian mcavoy I knew that sounded familiar!

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"I know a lot about military, it's very, very, amazing, full of tremendous people, I'm amazing, I probably am the best general in the entire WORLD, so yeah I can say that under my administration the german's army has been the best EVER"

Thank you for the compliment

This sounds like an urban legend to me. Everybody in Moscow have had clothes suitable for temperatures around -30 at least. -40 C is not unheard of in Moscow as well, so they were prepared.

​@@andreyverbin Being prepared is still not the same as being comfortable XD Also, I'm guessing it half-true half-false; I don't doubt that the Siberians were more accustomed to extreme cold. But I also don't doubt that they showed off whatever chance they got. I mean, if you were about to be murdered by Nazis (maybe), wouldn't you try to keep morale up by showing how tough you were? ;-P But I doubt anyone slept outside at -40 C wearing their daytime clothing/equipment....

Some Siberians, I have read, sleep on top of their ovens in winter, which they keep fired up with wood. Milk is often sold there in frozen form, in blocks.

@@stevekaczynski3793 they probably talk about this - www.pinterest.com/pin/151926187401481468/ It is not specific to Siberia, you can find lot of them still in countryside Russia. I don’t think this particular design is specific to Russia either, probably all northern nations has something like it.

@@andreyverbin This is true for other countries as well, in traditional Polish homes this place was called "zapiecek", or "behind the oven", and it was where your grandma would go to sleep.

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also, 30m³ is about 3*3*3 meters (27, yeah, but close enough). That is really not much, if you can picture that.

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The number 1 rule for all dictators: If someone below you is more competent than you, get rid of them.

It's rather funny how Hitler arguably even made a few decisions which were actually better than his generals. Like abandoning Moscow and heading for the Caucasuses, which was a pretty good decision, all things considered.

@The Colonel The outcome was bound to bad. Uncle Hitler's wild ride was doomed from the start.

A rotten structure at -30 C is still pretty darn frozen solid ;p

The Germans had a chronic stamina issue, that's for sure.

@@dreamcrusher112 That too and lack of winter equipment and supplies in general...

@@MrNicoJac True that :P

Logistical problems are bad for Germany. They are worse for Japan and China

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The Red Army often mixed cavalry and armour. Their speed of movement was often about the same and they complemented one another.

@@stevekaczynski3793 True. Not only here but also in the so-called "cavalry-mechanised corps"

Surprisingly that wasn't the last instance of cavalry being used in the Second World War. Spoiler alert...the United States will also have it's own final cavalry charge (the kind involving horses) during the Second World War while Japan was invading the Philippines. A troop of the 26th Cavalry (Philippine Scouts), a cavalry regiment primarily composed of Filipino enlisted men and American officers, encountered advance elements of a Japanese regiment in the village of Molong on the Bataan peninsula while performing recon duties. The village was thought deserted and neither side was expecting immediate contact. The Japanese were in the process of fording a river and were in much larger numbers than the horse-mounted scouts, so the man commanding the scouts - 1st Lt. Edwin Ramsey - ordered his men to charge in an attempt to force a withdraw, buying time for reinforcements to come up. Despite the fact that many would view cavalry as antiquated by the Second World War..it worked! Ramsay later wrote of it: "Bent nearly prone across the horses' necks, we flung ourselves at the Japanese advance, pistols firing full into their startled faces. A few returned our fire but most fled in confusion. To them we must have seemed a vision from another century, wild-eyed horses pounding headlong; cheering, whooping men firing from the saddles." Ramsey was quite an interesting fellow besides his role in commanding one of history's last cavalry charges. When the Philippines fell to Japanese forces he was one of the Americans who were stranded. He fled into the mountains and would help organize local resistance against the Japanese. By the time the U.S. military returned to liberate the Philippines in 1944, he was commanding over 40,000 guerrillas and the Japanese had placed a $200,000 bounty on his head. MacArthur credited him and the partisan & intelligence gathering activities of his men with saving thousands of lives.

I believe the Soviets had 13 cavalry divisions at the start of Barbarossa. The other, pre-war cavalry divisions were disbanded and used as cadres for some of the numerous tank (61) and mechanized (30) divisions created in '40-41. In the first 3 weeks of the invasion, the Red Army formed 20 new reduced strength cavalry divisions based on a July TO&E (shtat). By the end of '41, 82 cavalry divisions will have been added to the Red Army. I read where German intelligence was about 8-12 months behind the times and still identified the converted tank/mechanized divisions as cavalry divisions from radio intercepts prior to hostilities probably because the 'signatures' of the radio operators were the same.

@@lycaonpictus9662 Interesting, I remember reading somewhere that the last cavalry charge in history happened in ukraine, when an Italian cavalry regiment charged straight into soviet machine guns emplacements... And won.

Cavalry are still used in some instances today, and he’ll the last time they were used by the US was in Afghanistan in 2003, but that was more training local forces and using new tactics to fight since horses were pretty useful in the mountainous terrain.

@@fede98k54 This was hardly the last cavalry charge. Probably one of the most famous. Because after that there were many other cavalry attacks. For example, in the fall of 1942, during the Soviet offensive near Stalingrad, several Soviet cavalry brigades would attack the Romanian army. There were also examples of the use of Polish and Soviet cavalry in 1944-45. It also seems that the Germans used the SS Cossack division during the fighting in Hungary in the spring of 1945.

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