152B - How Hitler Created the World's Worst Traffic Jam - WW2 - July 27, 1942 

Thanks!

Well well, ain't that a surprise. But a very welcome one to be sure.

Thank you guys!

I like how the pattern of the tie well matches the pattern of the shirt, but have no idea if this is considered gauche gaudy or in good taste.

Question, why did they not try to send supplies via cargo ships. Map - thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/black-sea-sea-azov-region-political-map-capitals-most-important-cities-borders-rivers-body-water-95090326.jpg

Hahahaha

Oversimplified 😂😂😂

Good one :d

Lol

There's a tax for that

"There's a broken-down tank army on the road to Rostov. Better check for alternate routes."

This comment just made my day. Thank you.

"Greetings Comrades, welcome to Soviet traffic news. Huge pile up of tanks along RU-7. Delays due to gawkers expected. Locals encouraged to point and laugh. Rumors of depressed Germans sighing unconfirmed. Stay tuned for further updates. Up next: cocktail recipes with your host Vhachislov" -Vladimir Vladivostok

Rush HOURS.

Do the California radio stations play Spirit Of Radio and Tom Sawyer during Rush hour?

It's a major Sigalert. Blame the government; it must be their version of Caltrans.

Los Angeles could not compare to many places around the world.

@@sopwithsnoopy8779 I’d certainly hope so lol

More potholes than bullets, too.

"red army lights" -- good one!

Average german horse puller

It's unfortunately true of le regular army and the volunteer peace corps volunteers

This is nothing compared to the traffic jams on the German rail lines because the Nazis nationalized them under socialist principles. German units sent scouts to the rear and hijacked supply trains.

@@Jordan-Ramses ah, the Tix viewer. Tell me, do you feel an urge to suddenly bring up Mises for some reason?

@@Jordan-Ramses Traffic jams on German rails were so enormous, that we still have them in Germany today.

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Oh my! Do we have time?

Medieval warfare had long times of nothingness

We will all literally be time ghosts by the time the Hundred Years' War is finished. Even worse is when you make it to year 100 only to learn it actually lasted 116 years.

@@interestingengineering291 we can do year by week

@@devchaitanyatiwari5997 nice concept

No it was uncle ruckus

Y'all leave Big Smoke alone! LOL XD

Millennial joke haha

'Ohhhhh, my Nazi. haha. How you doing baby?'

This comment deserves gold 👏

Was there an "A"? Did not notice. It is not there any more... There is a "B" here but... Whatever... The more episodes the better... Can't wait for Indy and the team to cover Napoleonic wars and Peloponnesian War... 😂

This episode was delayed by logistical difficulties.

@@Ellinon_Vasileus I remember the "A" was there last week and was wondering to myself why it was there. I thought it was a typo error at first I thought...

@@MenwithHill The jam in Ristiv area??? 😂

2 down, 24 more to go!

Current strength of the US Army: 480k.

It's definitely worth noting that such staggering casualty figures were characteristic of the Eastern Front, where both Germany and the Soviet Union were very callous about the lives of their own troops. Germany, at least, did not consider its men expendable because they were needed from a practical standpoint, but Stalin was a notoriously cold and sociopathic bastard even towards his own people, and when combined with his refusal to accept the mountains of intelligence warning him of both Operation Barbarossa and Fall Blau as well as his insistence upon constant counterattacks and holding the line against German encirclement tactics, cost his nation staggering numbers of deaths. It's extremely telling that World War 2 resulted in a major long-term demographic crisis for Russia that still resonates today.

@@Raptor747 Kinda think the genocide being conducted by the German and other Axis forces had more to do with that demographic issue than the strategy of the Red Army

And that's mostly just the number of soldiers. Imagine how many millions of civilians have fled during this, well I don't think we really need to imagine since the number is probably out there, but still it's a lot.

The big problem with all of this was that it was the Fascists and the Communists, so unless you pay attention to this stuff, you have likely not heard of most of it. If the USSR had been prepared for this war, of course, it would not have been 3 years 10 months, and no 30 million casualties. It took the Red Army a full 1 1/2 years to recover from summer/fall 1941 and go on a slow strategic advance in summer/fall 1943. The failures of proper pre also meant that the Soviets required the Lend Lease of the United States.

A lonely walk through the stepp haha

@@TannerWilliam07 When you are a German and you are a lot nearer Astrakhan than Aachen, but it is all empty steppe around you - yes, it would feel strange.

All that stalled armor 🤤 ✈️ 💥

@@garcalej Iraq’s Highway of Death on steroids.

Ukraine: 😋

Basically Ukronazi offensive in the summer.

Steppe soldier.

@@cwovictor3281 yes

dude, I died laughing XD

Step raumpanzer I said plow my ass _off the road_

Hello my friend we meet again

It's Wednesday for me haha. But still no complaints

@@zainmudassir2964 don't worry about joining us we will invade you soon😈

@@juandepook you must be joking

@@E1N101 indeed I am lol

Probably they didn't upgrade the road to paved road yet...

I think the soviets simply forgot to build enough civil factorys to build infrastructure anf Hitler wnated to point it out to them

Here's where the fun begins🤣👌

USSR: It’s over Germany, I have the high ground! Germany: You underestimate my Luftwaffe

Try spinning that's a good trick

Marty( Martin Bormann) : I have to tell you about the future Adolf !

That would be SO cool! Idk if they can do it due to covid

@@Dwagoner I mean, they could probably hire some guy who lives there to film the sites or building. I think the museums there would be happy to help

@@williamwall1540 There is a RU-vid channel that works out of there and make great videos. Doxie Din, not just a Dachshund! Din's parents speak English as well as Russian (obviously).

Even if they could, then it's up to us to throw Indy & crew some $$$ to fund such a trip since RU-vid loves to demonitize this channel so much so they kinda depend on us to help out also which is fair, because this content for us is free and ik it's not cheap just doing what they are now.

Welp, that's never gonna happen now.

Thanks!

@@WorldWarTwo You are welcome, I'm a huge 2nd war fan and is most special to me as dad was with the 3rd Infantry Division 7th Army. That was Audie Murphy's division and was there for the raid on Eagle's nest as well as when they blew the giant swastika on top of Nuremberg stadium. Those guys were beyond tough, l will always be grateful for their sacrifices and were true heroes

Strictly speaking it did materialize at Borodino, Napoleon just failed to capitalize on it to destroy the Russian army

@@noahwiener2491 yeah… in all likelihood he needed it to materialize at Smolensk… if not earlier. Poor poor Boney

@@noahwiener2491 By the time the battle of Borodino took place, it was far too late in the campaign, the Grand Army was a shell of what it had been in June, its overwhelming numbers were gone, and the two forces were fairly evenly matched. And, if the Russians had decided to continue the battle the next day, maybe there would never have been a French occupation of Moscow at all.

@Spencer Wilson: He needed that big battle to occur almost immediately. The Grand Army began to disintegrate in the summer heat soon after crossing the border. For example, I believe that about 10,000 irreplaceable horses of all types died within 100 miles of frontier due to the rigors of the march and the lack of proper forage..

@@dpeasehead Indeed, all kinds of ridiculous things went wrong with that campaign, which, quite frankly, was on a ridiculous scale.

It was used in the design of the Outer London Orbital..... one for the teenagers there.

Don't forget all those banana peels they left on the roads.

Ba dum tss

Hitler: "Knock knock" Stalingrad: "I'm gonna give you to February to get your ugly yella no-good keister off my property before I pump your guts full o lead"

If not, Goering’s Luftwaffe can easily supply them by air.

Have you fund the video on oil mentioned in the A episode? (Suspects the wrong video was first linked and the oil one is not published yet)

Well, this is what happens when an army doesn't invest in wind and solar power...

@@perihelion7798 LOL! Exactly what I was thinking...

@@Jakob_DK I haven't but I'll certainly check it out, thanks.

Yes . It was impossible to have any universal parts as they were using many different French, German, Soviet and Czech trucks and other equipment

The British also had this problem. Their procurement system led to a lot of different truck types with different parts, repair needs, etc.

@@marshalleubanks2454 that's true but was because of different reasons, england relied on imports where Germany over thought everything and compartmentalized waaaayy too much...

And also once we entered the war most equipment had enough spare parts for repairs where Germany had to have spare parts shipped from everywhere

“I understood that reference!” *In Steve Roger’s voice*

There's bound to be gas station up ahead somewhere...

@@Arashmickey G1: "Look, there's a sign! Petrol station, four miles!" G2: "The last sign said that!" G1: "..." G2: "Hey, you! You! Russian peasant!" Russian: "Yes, comrade?" G2: "Why do all the signs say there's a station four miles away?" R: "For equality! All stations must be the same distance apart!" G2: "But there was no station after the last sign." R: "No. And there's no station ahead, either." G2 : "WHY?!" R: "Equality! All must have the same access to petrol!" G2: "... We're going to die in this stupid country." R: "Just figured that out?"

@dan ghostman: a great summary of ussr's version of "equality". Equally screwed over by their government and leader.

​@@danghostman2814Beautiful

where was that?

​@@GaldirEonai These are part of a well referenced quasi-academic series so I didn't like it. It wasn't meant to be bad natured at all but it felt worth commenting on, in part precisely because he series is usually so meticulous.

@@NaumRusomarov at 2:40

Remember, the Soviets are using that same infrastructure, and managing to use it to stay mobile and keep their forces ahead of the Germans.

@@kategrant2728 tell that to the 70,000 soldiers they left behind, I'd characterize it not so much being "ahead of the Germans" more like mobile enough to not get catastrophically encircled

@@kategrant2728 no theyre not. Soviet Russia and western europe uses different gauges for their railroads. the germans literally had to tear down and rebuild new, western-system railroads for every inch of gained ground to get supplies to the front, which adds to their logistical problem. Remember. learn your stuff before BSing on the internet.

@@Richard68434 Sure. But we're entering into a region where there's insufficient railways anyway. There's a single line going from Rostov south into the Caucasus, and no east west connections to Astrakhan. So how are the soviets moving faster across rail lines that don't exist, because there is "horrific infrastructure". Trivia is not 'learning your stuff', and unnecessary hostility never helps in these conversations.

@@kategrant2728 "So how are the soviets moving faster"? 1. because the soviet supply bases and factories arent 2000+km away like the germans are, and 2. because of trucks given to them by the allies. the allies in 1943 alone gave the soviets 110,000+ trucks, that was more or about the same amount of trucks the germans produced in the whole 6 years of the war, due to germany's lack of rubber and oil to supply them. 3. which touches up on the next point, it wasnt that the germans were neglecting their logistic deficiencies, and didnt bother to assign enough trucks to logistics units. it was that they had a limited amounts of trucks and many were needed for motorized divisions. so the choices were: weaker divisions, better logistics, or stronger divisions, weaker logistics? the answer is obvious. 4. it takes a long time to actually build rail ways, i remember reading that by mid 1944 when the red army are approaching one of the baltic states, the railroad there still hasnt been converted to western ones, causing logistical issues. thats how long it take to replace these things. granted the northern sector wasnt given the priority and they probably thought that northern russia had good enough infrastructure, on top of a smaller army group assigned there, and the fact that army group north isnt on the attacks much more, so southern or central russia's railroads couldnt have been replaced as slowly. but still, given how long the railways are, how combat engineers themselves are needed on the front, how reserves are hard to come by by 1943, one can easily deduce that many railways arent finished or connected.

Problem #1 You got no ways to fix situation in one place without making it worse somewhere else Problem #2 All places are getting worse even without attempts to move problems around Problem #3 You are at bottom of list of importance

And no Knight's Cross for it because it is so unglamorous... Even if you sort the logistics out...

Pretty good light tanks

Yes, for example the panzer division at Crimea that won the battle of Kerch was composed almost exclusively of them in 1942 (it was however considered one of the most obsolete panzer divisions at the time)

Even at stalingrad city itself, two major battles and 1,5 months from now, some panzer 2s are seen

Obsolete tanks will be used until the end of the war. You take what you can get.

@@CarrotConsumer Yeah, I suppose it's true that, most of the time, any tank is better than no tank. But I'm not sure I'd like to be inside a small and obsolete one during a fierce battle, as Вячеслав Фролов says happened in Stalingrad. Give me a Jagdtiger please!

shitler's directives goes brrrrr hehehe

Thank you so much!

@@WorldWarTwo love you guys. Been watching since the Great War days. Keep up the great work.

Let me micro-manage like a grammar nazi: directly led. Also there's an argument that Hitler further doomed his troops at Stalingrad by refusing to let them try to break out of the encirclement and retreat when they still had a chance. Hitler may have missed his strongest chance to win earlier when he started the war with hardly any U-boats. Instead he was fixated on the pipe dream of trying to match the Royal Navy's surface units. He got next to nothing in return for his investment in capital ships. Had all that metal gone into more U-boats before the western Allies gained the upper hand with anti-submarine warfare (which took until mid-1943), Hitler might have choked and starved the UK out of the war before he invaded the USSR. Almost everything the UK used to fight with depended on raw materials arriving on ships. Without the UK in the picture, Germany would have been considerably harder for the USSR to stop.

Especially since more air support wasted in the Battle of Britain could be used on the Eastern Front. Much of the change in fortunes in the East had to do with what eventually became an unbelievable disparity in aircraft in the Soviets' favor.

Not quite sure. You see, the south region of Soviet Union had poor road system. Even half of the German forces suffered from bad logistic and created the traffic jams. According to the original plan, there should had been more forces, almost twice more. At first all these forces were going to Stalingrad and than to Caucasus.

They held them at Moscow and pushed them back 100 miles. They also held them at Leningrad.

It's like a blitzkrieg of episodes.

AC was almost unheard of in the continent at that time.

@@chedelirio6984 Bummer. No wonder Hitler was always so hot under the collar! : P

An ac uses the same technology and components as a fridge or freezer. In 1919 those costs as much as a car. They where getting cheaper but they where rare, especially outside the US. the few ones that existed where industrial sized plants designed to turn out big ice blocks. Those where then brought around and delivered to your house the same way the milkman came around. People usually had a cellar or a well insulated box where they placed the new ice block in every few days together with there most precious perishable foods. Other ways to keep foods cooler where used, but where not mobile (e.g. dig a hole in the ground prefarable close to a river) today these techniques have largely fell into disuse. The US army was the first and only army to field trucks equipped with freezers at the end of ww2 and eaven that was limited. Source: i did ww2 us army field kitchen reenactment and read up and tried some off those techniques.

Hahahaha Oversimplified reference?

Just wait until they defeat themselves.

I didn't know they had Emu military advisors.

I don't know why i can hear oversimplified noise when i read it Lmao

He's got a point. In 1941 this thinking got you shot. It's interesting to see the Red Army change during the War.

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Yep, they were a mess and made countless mistakes

Exacerbating existing problems. But to give him his due, he made them an order of magnitude worse. It should be noted that the Nazis had plenty of fuel and vehicles to commit genocide in their conquered territories.

"Guys, I'm starting to think Hitler is causing problems for the German war effort" ALLIES "Agreed, all Hitler assassination plans are now cancelled" AXIS "Well that sucks, i guess we will just have to try to assassinate Hitler ourselves then"

"Make a plan and stick to it. "

No plan survives first contact with the enemy - nor with Hitler's changing moods for that matter. But you should at least try to plan for all the contingencies you can think of.

@rri4245: Insert the "8th P" "Probably," between "Planning" and "Prevents."

@@dpeasehead No "Probably" at the Infantry School...

@@rrl4245 In school yes, but school is not real life..

@CZiNTrPT i think the famous quote 'Anyone who is not confused isn't paying attention' applies to this debacle pretty well too!

Yeah the Soviet strategy for now seems very vague.

You are reading Stalin's mind.... 28th July 1942 -- Order No. 227 issued by the People's Commissar of Defense -- "Ни шагу назад!"

@@agentorange6085 Not one step back

You could read a novel 'In the trenches of Stalingrad' by Viktor Nekrasov. He described that retreating in the beginning of the book.

@@Loreless Thanks :D

That's the other main theory, of course.

Naw. It all started because they stopped to pick up a quirky hitch-hiker. A hitch-hiker whose name was Federline.

@@garcalej FEGELIEN! FEGELIEN! FEGELIEN!

It was actually who Indy created the panzer jam by calling in the middle of the week.

They were counting on the railway to Astrakahn and that railway ran right thru STALINGRAD.

@@fazole The tanks would need to get to Astrakhan on their own, not by train.

Bet he did Nazi this traffic jam coming.

See Stalin had this propaganda photo directing the traffic. Hitler never got there abd now it's showing

@@suyashbhatt6415 Good one.

You will find plenty of Pacific coverage when Guadalcanal begins. He covers ALL of WWII.

Yes, with Germany doing its Hail Mary before USA sending its forces. Well spotted !

Minus the discovery of large stockpiles of wine, which diverted the purposes of quite a few German troops in 1918.

I would agree that it certainly is ONE of the most decisive weeks. Its certainly the most decisive week for this campaign.

The decisive week of the war was the first one in December 1941

@@lanceroparaca1413 Many people share your view.

700 million

700,000. which is about how much they got in kiev and in vyazma-bryansk last year

That's several magnitudes in powers of 2.

Eleventyhundred

The Germans have indisputed control of the air at this point.

@@michaelkovacic2608 nope... the supply issue is also bad for the lufftwaffe..

@@Ronald98 certainly, but the red air force is worse off i believe. A few weeks in the future, the luftwaffe killed tens of thousands of people in Stalingrad, and Soviet fighters were pretty much powerless against it.

@@michaelkovacic2608 Soviet air forces suffered huge losses in 1941, and moving the industry to Ural and Siberia certainly did not help with aircraft production. In 1942 aircraft industry just started to give new warplanes. Also deficit of trained pilots was very hard. Anyway, it was interesting to speculate and also partly explained why Blitzkried stopped working in 1944 against Allies in the Western front.

it already was an epic disaster - this whole fuckup lead to the disaster at stalingrad