160 - Stalingrad Falls? - WW2 - September 18, 1942

Подписаться 1 млн

Просмотров 341 тыс.

50% 1

It's a big week, but by now they all are. The fighting in Stalingrad is intense, the fighting on Guadalcanal is intense, and the US loses a carrier in the Pacific. And the German quest for oil in the Caucasus... how's that going again?
Join us on Patreon: / timeghosthistory
Or join the TimeGhost Army directly at: timeghost.tv/s...
Check out our TimeGhost History RU-vid channel: / timeghost
Between 2 Wars: • Between 2 Wars
Follow WW2 Day by Day on Instagram: @ww2_day_by_day
Follow TimeGhost History on Instagram: @timeghosthistory
Like us on Facebook: / timeghosthistory
Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer
Creative Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Creative Producer: Maria Kyhle
Written by: Indy Neidell
Research by: Indy Neidell
Edited by: Lucas Aimó
Map animations by: Daniel Weiss
Map research by: Markus Linke
Sound design by: Marek Kamiński
Colorizations by:
Source literature list:
Robert Citino, "Death of the Wehrmacht"
John Costello, "The Pacific War"
Richar B. Frank, "Guadalcanal"
Source list: bit.ly/SourcesWW2
Archive footage: Screenocean/Reuters - www.screenocea...
Image sources:
USHMM
Archive.com
Wikipedia Commons
Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound:
Break Free - Fabien Tell
Dark Beginning - Johan Hynynen
I Am Unbreakable - Niklas Johansson
Warning Signal - Max Anson
Weapon of Choice - Fabien Tell
To War! - Jo Wandrini
Trapped in a Maze - Philip Ayers
Under the Dome - Philip Ayers
A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

Опубликовано:

2 окт 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 1,2 тыс.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

A couple of big sinkings this week in addition to the general battles- a US carrier is torpedoed by a submarine, as is the liner-turned-troop British ship Laconia, which is carrying 1,500 Axis POWs as well. That leads to Dönitz's Laconia Order and no further rescue attempts by U-Boat crews, period. Such is modern war. Remember to read and follow our rules of conduct: community.timeghost.tv/t/rules-of-conduct/4518

@Zen-sx5io 3 года назад

"Modern War"

@stephenrickstrew7237 3 года назад

Moderna Krieg es Tutten Krieg ..

@johnlenin830 3 года назад

After the battle of Stalingrad ended, new York city unionists raised $250,000 to build a hospital in Stalingrad. The chairman of the United Garment Union said: "We are proud that the workers of New York will establish a connection with Stalingrad, which will live in history as a symbol of the immortal courage of a great people and whose defense was a turning point in the struggle of mankind against oppression ... Every Red Army soldier defending his Soviet land, killing a Nazi, thereby saving the lives of American soldiers. Let us bear this in mind when calculating our debt to the Soviet ally."

@QuizmasterLaw 3 года назад

This episode was really well done. Far better than anything on television. Thank you!

@robertjarman3703 3 года назад

That Laconia order I have a feeling is going to be one of the key pieces of evidence that convicts Karl Dönitz in the trials. And also, attacking a submarine honestly flying the Red Flag (or the Red Crescent, but the U-Boat didn´t have one of those) is itself a war crime. That bomber crew really made things much harder on their own side.

@mjbull5156 3 года назад

I-19's attack on Wasp and the consequent hits on the North Carolina and O'Brien was the single most effective torpedo salvo of the war.

@CK-nh7sv 3 года назад

And still ultimately pointless...

@mjbull5156 3 года назад

@@CK-nh7sv in the long run yes, but it a significant impact on the Guadalcanal Campaign as the USN was very cautious about deploying Enterprise in support of the surface fleet operations until other CVS are brought online.

@clementbruera 3 года назад

If by effective you mean that 1 carrier was sunk and 1 battleship and 1 destroyer were damaged you are right. If otherwise you mean by ships hit this goes toe to toe with the Italian submarine Axum that sunk in one salvo the cruiser Cairo and damaged the cruiser Nigeria and the tanker Ohio (that ultimately sunk in port after unloading the precious oil).

@mattguellec 3 года назад

You forgot Mogami's infamous TK during the Java campaign

@dongiovanni4331 3 года назад

Mogami at Sunda Strait sank or damaged 5 enemy ships. 3 damaged and 2 sunk Japanese Army transports

@PhonciblePBonehimself 3 года назад

Thanks for mentioning the "Laconia Incident" - a very touching story amidst the wanton carnage of WW2

@Shauma_llama 3 года назад

Until the US screwed it up being stupid. 🙄

@powerboatguy2308 3 года назад

@@Shauma_llama I'm sure Admiral Donitz's lawyers used this in his defense when he was getting accused of leaving stranded sailors to down or in one case being gunned down as opposed to being rescued.

@TillyOrifice 3 года назад

@@GravesRWFiA Not to mention the fact that the prosecution of Dönitz provoked Chester Nimitz to testify on his behalf. Rather an honourable thing to do, I always thought.

@stevekaczynski3793 3 года назад

@@powerboatguy2308 Doenitz had a serving Kriegsmarine lawyer as his main attorney (during part of the trial he even wore his uniform until complaints forced him to attend the trial in civilian clothes). He had been able to do so because the Kriegsmarine was still in being, as parts of it were removing naval mines. The lawyer, Otto Heinrich Kranzbühler, was generally considered one of the best of the German defence lawyers at Nuremberg.

@jasonscottjenkins 3 года назад

Sounds like something The History Guy should do a video of.

@yourstruly4817 3 года назад

In August 1942 alone, 54000 German soldiers died, meaning almost as many died in a month as American soldiers in the whole Vietnam War

@warbrain1053 3 года назад

and that's just the germans..

@DrJones20 3 года назад

Source?

@yourstruly4817 3 года назад

@@DrJones20 Wikipedia, German sources, English sources say numbers are even higher

@caryblack5985 3 года назад

@@DrJones20 My source says 62,165 Germans killed on the Eastern front. From Overmans Deutsche Miltarische Verluste.

@KatyaAbc575 3 года назад

Yet, it got less coverage than some 5 000 Japanese fighting in some desolate jungle island ...

@AkodoAkira1 3 года назад

"The Germans fought Steppe by steppe to Stalingrad." Tee hee.

@yaldabaoth2 3 года назад

But the soviets were always one steppe ahead.

@interestingengineering291 3 года назад

@@yaldabaoth2 hahahaha

@flankspeed 3 года назад

That's one small step for man, one giant steppe for the Wermacht

@augustineirigoyen4400 3 года назад

They should be weary that they go a steppe to far.

@Shadowman4710 3 года назад

These puns are getting out of hand. You all had better watch your...."steppe."

@kayt9627 3 года назад

Mamayev kurgan, the grain elevator, the railroad station. These are some names we might be getting familiar with in the very near future.

@PalleRasmussen 3 года назад

Nah, come on; the Germans have already won.

@Tidebo1 3 года назад

Red Orchestra 2 anyone?

@gunman47 3 года назад

@@Tidebo1 Had a lot of good times playing in the Grain Elevator map in RO2...

@jonathanmunoz137 3 года назад

the pavlov house, the red october, barrycade, the red square

@kemarisite 3 года назад

@@jonathanmunoz137 as a Cracked author put it, "Dmitri's mom's apartment building".

@LuisGutierrezG123 3 года назад

"Mamayev Kurgan, Grain Elevator, Railroad Station" Me who has played Red Orchestra 2: "I was there, Indy, I was there 79 years ago"

@NotSaddamHussein 3 года назад

Same. The upper floor of Grain Elevator - the absolute meatgrinder fight on the stairs.

@patrickhecker853 3 года назад

gumrak, spartanovka, red ocktober

@fxzeedits5456 3 года назад

Legend game

@piscisknight 2 года назад

@IronTulikettu 3 года назад

My grandfather was with the marines that took over occupation of Iceland and made many friends in the marines. USS Wasp was there protecting the U.S. fleet and my grandfather called her the "prettiest boat he had seen". He got out of the military before the war but his friends stayed in. At Guadalcanal all my grandfather's friends were killed and that "pretty boat" was sunk. My grandfather had bad survivors guilt for the rest of his life. Died at the age of 87.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you for taking the time to share your grandfather's story. We really appreciate it!

@acutechicken5798 3 года назад

Poor man who lived through difficult times. Was he able to live a good life inspite of this?

@IronTulikettu 3 года назад

@@acutechicken5798 He did. Got married and had 7 children. Lived a simple, religious life in rural Indiana. Was a hard man but had a soft side for his grandkids. Refused to go to WWII veteran reunions because he didn't think himself worthy to be called one.

@nicholasconder4703 3 года назад

My father went through something similar. He served with the Desert Air Force until 1943, when he was mustered out after catching malaria on Sicily, then getting jaundice as a result of the malaria. He always said Friday 13th was his lucky day, because that's when he got the malaria. From what he told me, within the next few weeks, his entire light bomber squadron had been shot down and killed, apart from my father and two other men. He never talked about survivor's guilt, but perhaps he was just being stoic.

@charlesmaeger6162 Год назад

During WW 2 the U.S. flew a great number of newly produced planes to Britain. It flew them to Nova Scotia, Canada, then to Greenland and Iceland, and then to Ireland and Scotland.

@alexamerling79 3 года назад

"Fighting is going on inside the elevator. The Russians inside are condemned men; The Battalion commander says: "The commissars have ordered those men to die in the elevator." If all the buildings of Stalingrad are defended like this then none of our soldiers will get back to Germany. I had a letter from Elsa today. She is expecting me home when victory's won."- Diary entry of Wilhelm Hoffmann, soldier of the 94th infantry division of the German 6th army at Stalingrad, September 18, 1942.

@Paddyjss2390 3 года назад

My great grandfather jumped off the side of the wasp when it got hit and waited to be rescued he survived the wasp went to Bremerton Washington to be stationed met my great grandmother. He wouldn’t talk about the incident until ten years ago. I’m glad to see the wasp is getting coverage and attention.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you for sharing your story, Justin!

@Paddyjss2390 3 года назад

@@WorldWarTwo welcome he was discharged after that due to a injury. Thank you guys for doing what you do love your shows!

@Altrantis 3 года назад

I feel like the axis were like "Look at how much food I can put in my mouth", which was pretty impressive indeed, but never considered whether they could chew it after.

@cwovictor3281 3 года назад

They performed the Chubby Bunny challenge and promptly choked to death.

@not2hot99 3 года назад

@@cwovictor3281 thats way funnier than it should be :D

@Raskolnikov70 3 года назад

They sound just like that one guy we all know from college who wound up in the emergency room to have the pool ball removed from his mouth.

@korbell1089 3 года назад

@@cwovictor3281 Timeline of Japan in the Pacific. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7-sep4-tRt0.html

@Hollywood2021 3 года назад

They could chew, until they ran into Chuikov! Ok I'll show myself out now

@johnlenin830 3 года назад

@albertocruzado2899 3 года назад

"For their fight againts opression, lets build an hospital in their opressed lands, to never forget the connection of the workers of New York with the bloody and opressive communist regime" The action is understandable in the spirit of cooperation against the same enemy, but it is just funny the "struggle of manking against oppression" talking precissely about the communist regime.

@blainerouault3907 3 года назад

and fast forward six years later to see how insane the 20th century was

@michaelschmid9567 3 года назад

@@albertocruzado2899 Dear Alberto Cruzado, I invite you to come to Russia, to even that city, and speak to the veterans, what you said here. I bet, you wont be welcomed by the "victims of the communist oppression".

@michaelschmid9567 3 года назад

Thank you for mention this. Such things are hidden in western media, after the cold war broke out.

@douglasturner6153 3 года назад

I heard the money was stolen by or diverted to the NKVD. Laventra Beria in particular was accused of partying and having a good time with underage girls using some of this money . But that was the fate of a lot of lend lease aid as well. It was diverted by the communist bigwigs for their own group use.

@yorick6035 3 года назад

Daniel Weiss, my compliments once again for your amazing map animations. Especially the Stalingrad one, it really hammers home the scale of fhe fighting by showing the individual streets and buildings. Keep being awesome (this also applies to the entire TimeGhost crew)

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you!

@danielweiss7396 3 года назад

Thanks :)

@bludfyre 3 года назад

@@danielweiss7396 I want to second his comment. Those maps are awesome

@billd.iniowa2263 3 года назад

The maps are really what sells this channel to me. Knowing the scale can put you right into the streets. Indy's narration is a superb bonus. Well worth the tiny Patreon sum I can afford, I assure you. Money well spent.

@DzheiSilis 3 года назад

Wait until you see the maps that TIK has

@marks_sparks1 3 года назад

16:42 the British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials would claim intent the Laconia Order by Donitz was "an order to kill" shipwrecked sailors. It would be rejected by all the Trial judges, including the Soviet judge, as Donitz wryly noted in his memoirs

@stevekaczynski3793 3 года назад

If the accusation had stuck, Dönitz would probably have been executed. He was still annoyed to be given a ten-year sentence.

@forthencholordofadmirals2763 3 года назад

Best ending to an episode ever! Happy birthday Hartvig (corrected by Rune Hartvig himself! )

@xiphoid2011 3 года назад

This is why I like this channel so much -- the down to earth way of teaching history to common but real people like us.

@simoneriksson8329 3 года назад

I found myself aapplauding with the video 😅

@seneca983 3 года назад

That's the spelling used in the subtitles so presumably it's correct.

@khazad2112 3 года назад

Since he's Danish, it might be Hartvig with a v.

@forthencholordofadmirals2763 3 года назад

@@seneca983 i didn't have them on and I don't trust youtubes subs they've failed before but since he's a Dane I figured it was a W sounding as a V.

@christopherjustice6411 3 года назад

The Japanese must not know, everything in Australia tries to kill you anyway. And unless you’re a flock of Emu’s, the Australian army is quite difficult to defeat.

@trizvanov 3 года назад

Australian here. Papua New Guinea is one if not the most hostile environments on the planet. It isn't the fauna that tries to kill you, but the climate and terrain itself. There is also hardly any wild edible food that you can find and eat. Did I mention the mountains ?

@Darwinek 3 года назад

@@trizvanov Yet some Japanese military genius had a brilliant idea to cross the island from north to south, via that murderous, mountainous, humid hell. What could possibly go wrong.

@martijn9568 3 года назад

@@Darwinek Atleast it was one of the shortest stretches across Papua New Guinea, but even then they barely made it across the mountains...

@thomasknobbe2108 3 года назад

@@Darwinek I learned recently that somebody in Imperial headquarters calculated that they could just make the trip with what supplies they could carry, barring any complications (e.g., the presence of the Australian Army) and went with that. The officer who was to lead the force, who was actually in New Guinea and knew the country, protested mightily but was overturned and the advance went ahead. Big oops; another example of the consequences of failing to consider the importance of logistics.

@davidsigalow7349 3 года назад

@@trizvanov Not to mention the headhunting cannibals (I told you not to mention them!).

@jorgeportocarrero1776 3 года назад

Comparing this video with the first video on the battle of Verdun the amount of improvement is insane your love of history and how you teach it is one of the reasons when I got university next year I am going to history your amazing time ghost history.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you! Hope you'll enjoy your time as a student!

@jorgeportocarrero1776 3 года назад

@@WorldWarTwoI will .

@slick4401 3 года назад

The Laconia incident is heartbreaking. The allied bomber probably had orders to attack any German submarine at all costs, but they could not have missed the fact that the target was surrounded by boats full of people.

@CK-nh7sv 3 года назад

The bomber reported the Red Cross flag but was ordered to attack anyway.

@RangaTurk 3 года назад

I'd put it down as an intervention to interdict the opportunity to rescue Italian POWs. The Polish guards probably wouldn't have been rescued anyway if it was just a German rescue party alone. Sounds as familiar as Monte Cassino, Falaise Gap and Market Garden.

@gunman47 3 года назад

15:03 With the arrival of the 7th Marine Regiment along likely with a certain *John Basilone* onto Guadalcanal, the Americans have a good chance of reinforcing their defence perimeter, especially with machine guns.

@gunman47 3 года назад

@@zainmudassir2964 I heard rumors that he can hand carry Browning machine guns and hit targets accurately like it was nothing... 😅

@shawnr771 3 года назад

And Mitchell Paige. On October 26, 1942, after thirty-three Marines in his machine gun platoon were killed or wounded defending a ridge during the Battle of Guadalcanal, Platoon Sergeant Paige operated four machine guns, singlehandedly stopping an entire Japanese regiment. He also led a bayonet charge afterwards.

@Raskolnikov70 3 года назад

@@zainmudassir2964 Yes.

@johns8364 3 года назад

@@zainmudassir2964 Of course he does. He's from New Jersey.

@frederickwiddowson Год назад

This series has been such a huge help to me in understanding what happened in the first half of the twentieth century. The World War Two series is amazing.

@SpaceMonkeyBoi 3 года назад

Girls: "why do we live longer than men?" Boys: "let's invade the Soviet Union! Not to worry, it will be over in a matter of months!"

@supertiger1979 3 года назад

That's a good one so true! 👍

@itwaswalpole 3 года назад

Hitler: Let's go in and out 20 minutes adventure

@NotSaddamHussein 3 года назад

Just kick in the door and the whole rotten structure falls! - Actually Hitler about the invasion to soviet union.

@gunman47 3 года назад

Other than the rather historically inaccurate 2001 movie “Enemy at the Gates” , it would be a good starting point this week to watch the 1993 German anti-war movie “Stalingrad” , as well as the more recent 2013 Russian war movie of the same name.

@piarpeggio 3 года назад

That 1993 movie is a fine piece of art. It's got one of the best ending shots I've ever seen. And Enjott Schneider's scores are as perfect as they get for a war movie.

@briantarigan7685 3 года назад

The Gross Historical innacuracies in enemy at the gates make Pearl harbour movie looks like historical documentary

@CssHDmonster 3 года назад

stalingrad 1993 is so fucking depressing, love it

@TheSkyBaron 3 года назад

No! Stalingrad 2013 is utterly terrible, as a Russian I beg you not to

@perfectlyfine1675 3 года назад

As a Russian, I only have one thing to say: do not watch the 2013 russian movie

@ricardokowalski1579 3 года назад

If you understand Stalingrad, which is just *one* city, it becomes obvious that Operation Downfall, taking over many cities in uneven territory, was going to be much much expensive in lives.

@xuanquang9815 3 года назад

yes, but it's but one option. the US had many, they could continue bombing and blockading, they could just wait for the Soviet to jump in (and end Japanese hope of getting out of the war via negotiation). they could even loosen the term of surrender (which they did after Japan declared unconditional surrender). Hell, why not called for temporary cease fire, invite every factions to a nuclear bomb public exhibitions, show them the true horror and threaten to use it on every Japan cities if they do not surrender, the options are there, but many political, social and even economic issues prevent such options.

@ricardokowalski1579 3 года назад

@@xuanquang9815 the revisionism you put forth has already being refuted. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_4uDfg38gyk.html

@ricardokowalski1579 3 года назад

@@xuanquang9815 the short version ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f9raqHGJH4Q.html

@xuanquang9815 3 года назад

@@ricardokowalski1579 i'll do you one better ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RCRTgtpC-Go.html

@brenokrug7775 3 года назад

At least three Red Orchestra 2 levels took place this week: Mamayev Kurgan, Grain Elevator and Station. Spartanovka took place last week. Can't wait for Red October Factory and Pavlov's House 👀

@gianniverschueren870 3 года назад

Hotdamn Indy, how dare you obscure such a spectacular neckiece with a waistcoat! Even that fine coat can't cover up the 5/5 we have here

@gianniverschueren870 3 года назад

Also HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND CONGRATS ON THE TIE

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

You know it's Astrid that makes the rules as far as that's concerned, but I shall pass along your observation, my friend.

@Mr_M_History 3 года назад

Back to back uploads from the goat. It's a great day to be a history teacher and can't wait to imbed more of your content into the classroom. The students love it!

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

We're so glad they enjoy our content. Thank you for the support!

@gunman47 3 года назад

Other than the well-known *Vendetta* mission from *Call of Duty: World at War* taking place on September 17 1942, the Battle of Stalingrad has also been covered by a few other games in the Call of Duty series as well. Some of the missions seem to have often taken their inspiration by the rather historically inaccurate 2001 movie Enemy at the Gates. Most notably, not one but three missions (Stalingrad, Red Square and Train Station) from the 2003 video game *Call of Duty* start this week on September 18 1942. As Corporal Alexei, you will cross the Volga River in the boat, only receive one stripper clip of ammunition and make it to Red Square with the help of a Sergeant Borodin in the *Stalingrad level* . Then at the *Red Square level* , you will charge across Red Square and meet Sergeant Makarov, pick up a sniper rifle and snipe the German officers to liberate Red Square. Finally in the *Train Station level* , your main objective is get to Major Zubov to inform him of the liberation of Red Square while fighting through the train station in Stalingrad.

@0witw047 3 года назад

Wait how did you make this comment 2 days ago this video only came out 20 minutes ago

@gunman47 3 года назад

@@0witw047 Patreon / TimeGhost Army supporters get to see the video a few days early.

@ehh7100 3 года назад

The 13th Guards Rifle Division is also the unit the player (Pvt. Vasili Ivanovich Kozlov) is part of during the first campaign of CoD 2.

@Deshoda100 3 года назад

I see you are a man of quality gaming

@broccoliface4501 3 года назад

Thankyou for the absolute juggernaut of nostalgia and context you've just hit me with.

@louiserosleff6326 3 года назад

Thank you Indy and the entire team for doing such a fantastic job at making me love history! My dad is a big WWII "fan" - he was born in Aarhus, Denmark in 1942 and vaguely remembers going to the basement shelter.... Also: Forsinket tillykke med fødselsdagen Rune! :D Venlig hilsen - en fan af showet her i Denmark - Louise (Hurra hurra hurraaaa!)

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

@Louise Thank you for watching, and for sharing your family's history with us. It's individual accounts like yours that helps make these events more personal, and better helps convey why remembering them is so important.

@louiserosleff6326 3 года назад

@@WorldWarTwo Thank you for making this so interesting and easily accessible :) My dad still reads history books and we often joke that his favorite TV show is a documentary about the Luftwaffe :) He is not good at english, but I showed him the Special about "Nazis on drugs" and the one about Hermann Gøring, and he really liked it!

@trizvanov 3 года назад

Stalingrad was a fridge... errmm a bridge too far for zee Germans.

@hermitcrabbot Год назад

According to my information, It was Sigfrid Henrici's 16th Motorized Infantry Division 'Windhund', part of Kleist's Panzer Armee 1, that was covering his flank. Gotthard Heinrici was in charge of 4th Army, far to the north. By some reports, a recon patrol of four armored cars and motorcycles under Oberleutnant Oyler, crossed those railroad tracks and reached the Caspian on the night of the 16th.

@stekarknugen9258 3 года назад

Well, TiK's battlestorm series and this channel just arrived at the same timeline

@nicholasconder4703 3 года назад

Not quite. TIK is at October 4th.

@Raskolnikov70 3 года назад

And TIK will still be in 1942 when Time Ghost is covering the Japanese surrender. Not complaining, his quality and detail are excellent but it's just him and a couple of support folks putting it together, not a whole team like TG has.

@nicholasconder4703 3 года назад

@@Raskolnikov70 TIK might start covering more days per episode around the beginning of December. Maybe. Although at this rate it will take him about a year to get to the start of Operation Uranus. Perhaps he's aiming for the 80th anniversary of Operation Uranus (November 17, 1942) to start covering it.

@Kujatalp 2 года назад

You guys are so nice, the whole episode was fantastic and the ending topped it off! Awesome 👍

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Thank you Kujata, we really appreciate the kind words!

@brianwilliams9605 3 года назад

On the Kokoda track we Aussies found evidence of cannibalism on Japanese soldiers and dead Japanese who had buried their rifles because it could not be discovered by the enemy because it had the imperial chrysanthemum of the emperor whose rifle it was which made it sacred.

@lewisirwin5363 3 года назад

Cannibalism by the Japanese or the locals?

@worksv3 3 года назад

@@lewisirwin5363 Probably the Japanese. They were no strangers to cannibalism in the later stages of the war (possibly even in the early and mid stages too).

@IanKath 3 года назад

I love the way you personalise these episodes with silliness from time to time.

@erikgranqvist3680 3 года назад

Stalingrad is possibly one of the most interesting battles in WW2 to read up on. Not because of it being awesome, but because it held so many faulty and foolhardish decissions from those of the top brass who was nowhere near the action.

@Raskolnikov70 3 года назад

Keep in mind a lot of the decisions the top folks were making were forced on them by economic circumstances. It's been almost a year since the date Germany knew they had to win the war by, and they failed to do it (take Moscow and secure the Arkangel-Astrakhan line) and they're trying desperately to stay in the war by seizing the resources they need to do it. You can definitely fault them for some of their bad tactical decisions, but the overall situation was forced on them - by their own bad decisions - if they wanted to keep fighting.

@user-jq2iz9zn4p 3 года назад

The Red Army won the Battle of Stalingrad so it could not have made too many foolish decisions。Its decision to surround the Nazi Sixth Army was wise。

@erikgranqvist3680 3 года назад

@@user-jq2iz9zn4p yeah, but the decission to wait with evacutaion of civilians led to enormous suffering. And both sides top leaders (such as Stalin and Hitler) showed an appauling lack of regard for humanity and human life. And they had the men on the ground push way beyond the point of no return. Wish is kind of stupid however you look at it, because it increase the dangers on a strategic level so much it's not even funny. All that became of pride and symbolic valueof a city that had Stalins name? And yes, I agree that Stalingrad had strategic value for a number of reasons. But both sides could have choked off the transports and potential value as a transport hub without baning everyones head to death at the city center.

@user-jq2iz9zn4p 3 года назад

@@erikgranqvist3680 Yeah，but Stalin won。So the casualties were worth it。A Nazi victory would have caused even higher casualties。

@user-jq2iz9zn4p 3 года назад

@@erikgranqvist3680 Can you prove Stalin could have reduced casualties without reducing the chances of or delaying a Red Army victory。

@creatoruser736 3 года назад

It is at this point that we get to the narrative that Soviet soldiers were being sent into Stalingrad without enough weapons. You know the story; "The first man takes the rifle, the second the ammunition, when the first is killed the second takes the rifle." That is hogwash. Soviet soldiers were not sent into the city without weapons, and they definitely weren't mowed down by blocking detachments if they turned away in such a fictional scenario. If units didn't have all their weapons they weren't sent into battle until they received them. Whether to promote their determination, desperation, or callousness, this is just a myth.

@stevekaczynski3793 3 года назад

Similar incidents sometimes happened in the Tsar's army in WW1, where there were not enough rifles to go around and troops occasionally went to the front with scythes, for lack of other weapons. It underlined the Russian state's lack of preparedness for world war. But it was not a feature of WW2.

@caryblack5985 3 года назад

It is a myth. See Isaev Stalingrad City On Fire p.109-110.

@cenccenc946 3 года назад

yea, that narrative never made any sense. If 10s of thousands of soliders a day are dying on both sides, pretty soon everyone left has all the weapons they could ever use. now ammunition or food might be another matter.

@ВячеславФролов-д7я 3 года назад

This myth came from a fact that 13th guards rifle division (if i remember its number correct), which was the first division transfered into city fight, arrived "with shortage of 1000 rifles". And for the time being rifles were taken from rear echelon units and given to frolntline troops. So technically there were some untis who didin`t have rifles for self defence, although it`s far from narratives

@stevekaczynski3793 3 года назад

@@arandomcrusader-9355I have doubts about it being unintentional.

@johnfoster8643 3 года назад

I hate to criticize anything about this channel, because it’s such a great channel, but he’s neglected to talk much about the fighting around Army Group Centre in the summer of 1942. I know that doesn’t get talked about by a lot of sources, nonetheless it was some pretty savage fighting going in that sector even while the fight for Stalingrad was going on. Historians always made it sound like that sector was pretty quiet that summer but the reality is the Germans were holding on for dear life in the Rzhev salient.

@2plus3is4 3 года назад

Some people add interesting info here in the comments that nicely fill in the things that are not covered in videos. I would happily read yours, if you chose to write anything in detail.

@johnfoster8643 3 года назад

@@2plus3is4 Well basically the German 9th Army was under constant pressure for basically all of 1942. They desperately held off 3 major offensives that year. One was around January and February, the second was in the summer, the third started around the same time as the counter offensive that encircled the sixth army at Stalingrad. And to give you an idea of how important these battles were, Zhukov himself commanded the last one. It was called Operation Mars, it’s just not well known because it failed, but they were still massive battles. All the battles themselves were known as the Rzhev Meat Grinder. So while the Germans did hold the lines in those battles, 1942 was definitely not quiet in the Moscow sector.

@2plus3is4 3 года назад

@@johnfoster8643 Thanks! Will look it up.

@caryblack5985 3 года назад

@@2plus3is4 See This: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Rzhev

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

We've talked about it a bunch on our instagram day by day coverage of the war, and do so intentionally there rather than here so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle and have to take a huge backseat to the Caucasus and Stalingrad. To do it justice here would require much longer episodes with more archive footage and more editing costs, and we don't have the resources for that. But check it out!

@PoliticalGangster 3 года назад

Zhukov's attack from the north trying to relieve Stalingrad is called the Kotluban Offensive. I learn that from watching TIK.

@nicholasconder4703 3 года назад

Kotluban - Zhukov's Isonzo River.

@Ianassa91 3 года назад

Great episode. So well presented. Thank you for the incredible work you guys are doing. Loved the "Laconia incident", had not heard about it before. Both wholesome and tragic at the same time.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

We are very glad you enjoy our content. Thank you for your support!

@pnutz_2 3 года назад

10:26 you know what to do rising storm players... ... *TENNO HEIKA BANZAAAIIIIIIIIIII* fun RS fact: the banzai charge mechanic (sprint+hold melee button) added 15% damage resitance to bullets (but not butts and bayonets) which could stack up to 5 times. with 3 or more players it also added an effect that would give americans sky-ground-sky weapon sway. at max level, it was possible for a banzai charger to survive a headshot from a 1911.

@stevekaczynski3793 3 года назад

American tomato juice at about 11:12. Considered nutritious, many US servicemen nonetheless disliked it as it was blamed for digestive problems. During the Korean War, Chinese generally valued captured US rations (their own supply system was poor) but reportedly could never get used to the tomato juice. I wonder what the Japanese made of it?

@chilternsroamer872 3 года назад

given the general state of Japanese supply, I rather suspect a Japanese soldier would not be a picky eater. Already we seem to have two areas (attempt to get to Port Moresby, and Guadacanal) where the Japanese don't seem to have brought enough bento. Historically beef wasn't eaten, due to the buddhist thing, but that started to fade with the Meiji Restoration (1868 onwards), and at some later time (I forget when) the emperor actually promoted beef, and made sure he was seen eating it. So by WW2, I think a Japanese soldier would eat most things, and a hungry Japanese soldier would eat almost anything. There appear to be a few cases where they even ate people. So I don't think tomatoes would be an issue.

@Raskolnikov70 3 года назад

Here's a fun fact that Collingham covered in "Taste of War" - most of the canned provisions provided to the US troops in the Pacific were manufactured in Australia. The Allies worked out a system of logistics exchanges designed to use their shipping and production resources as efficiently as possible, so instead of Australia shipping canned veggies to the UK the US would send theirs to the UK and Australia would send their to Americans in the Pacific. Complicated, but it worked. Anyway, the Australians had major quality control issues and a lot of the rations they provided to the US wound up being unusable. I don't remember off the top of my head if she specifically mentioned tomato juice being one of them, but I wonder if that reputation for causing digestive issues was more an issue with the Aussie canning process.

@Raskolnikov70 3 года назад

@@chilternsroamer872 Even at this early point in the war, the Japanese were being encouraged by their command to plant their own crops and be as self-sufficient as possible in order to reduce pressure on the logistics system. Japan was already experiencing a food crisis before 1941 and it only got worse as the US got better at interrupting Japanese shipping. By war's end they were more farmers than soldiers, just trying to stay alive while stuck on islands bypassed by the US Navy.

@tams805 3 года назад

@@chilternsroamer872 There was a major issue with nutrition in the Japanese forces (and society as a whole) due to the obsession with rice, specifically white rice, which was seen as much more prestigious and desirable, but didn't hold much nutritional value.

@stevekaczynski3793 3 года назад

@@tams805 Beri-beri was a problem in the Japanese armed forces. Around the turn of the century a Dutch scientist had researched the disease in the Netherlands East Indies and found prisoners fed with unhulled brown rice were much less affected than those who only ate polished white rice, though the latter was more popular. Unhulled rice had some vitamin content lacking in the polished variety.

@thomasknobbe2108 3 года назад

Thank you so much for your coverage of Australia's victory on the Kokoda Track (or Trail, if you prefer). Although the numbers of combatants and losses is miniscule compared with what is going on at Stalingrad, we must consider the difficulty of the terrain involved-a one-person-wide trail across some of the most inhospitable terrain on the planet. You couldn't get at kettenkrad up there, let alone a jeep. So, the numbers had to be small. Yet the possible consequences-the loss of Port Moresby, and if the Japanese could get a naval presence there, loss of direct American naval access to Australia-would have been great. Good thing the Americans decided to push their luck and invade Guadalcanal, depriving the Japanese on the Track of any hope of reinforcement. The Australians were really the first Allied army to show that they could win a campaign against the Imperial Japanese Army. They will get more opportunities to do so in New Guinea as MacArthur puts Operation Cartwheel into effect. Staying tuned, here.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

We're really glad you like it!

@sergeyfirsov4217 3 года назад

«Vendetta» Sept. 17, 1942 Stalingrad, Russia Pvt. Petrenko 62nd Rifle Army

@gunman47 3 года назад

"I need your help. Do what I say, and we can avenge this massacre." - Sergeant Viktor Reznov

@rabihrac 3 года назад

Happy episode to everyone!

@Ba-gb4br 3 года назад

By now the fight in Stalingrad is just a slow grind. In the video it looks like paulus is steadily advancing but these few kilometers shown is everything Paulus takes in a whole week of near constant fighting. Since the Soviets stopped the germans outside the city a few weeks before Paulus can‘t mount a fast „Blitzkrieg“ style offensive anymore since his forces are just to widley spread and depleted. Furthermore his time is slowly running out since the soviets are reinforcing their troops all the time while Paulus is unlikely to receive any replacements in the near future.

@donst7916 3 года назад

Sir, I love your entire presentation, you are well versed in what you are talking about. But what I love most is your animated maps. Thank you, Donald E. Vandergriff, US Army retired and military historian. Not as famous of Rob Citino, but we are friends.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you for your support!

@napoleoniv2353 3 года назад

Hey, you haven't been mentioning the Chinese or Burma front for a while now. Is anything happening there ?

@iDeathMaximuMII 3 года назад

It seems that in Burma, there's a Stalemate. Japanese can't go any further & the British are either reorganizing or just can't break through currently China, we all just probably don't know what's going on

@stevekaczynski3793 3 года назад

I don't know if it is the monsoon season there, but if it is, nobody is moving, on either side.

@Raskolnikov70 3 года назад

TG doesn't cover much going on in China in general because the fighting there doesn't have much effect on the outcome of the war. Battles going on in places like Guadalcanal or New Guinea or the Caucusus had a much greater impact on the course of the war as a whole, while those inland battles caused lots of death and destruction but really didn't change what was happening out in the Pacific. It's never felt like an oversight on their part, Time Ghost simply has a limited amount of time to hit the important points in each weekly episode and chooses the ones with the greatest influence on the course of the war.

@mikiroony 3 года назад

Awesome episode and happy birthday, Rune! And team, PLEASE, I loved the jackets you had in the Maginot line outing. I'd love to be able to get one from the gift shop! :)

@joost0133 3 года назад

"Stalingrad falls?" Stalingrad: no, I don't think I will

@TheAnnoyingEditor 3 года назад

he forgot to mention that during the Laconian incident the germans contacted Vichy french naval forces in west africa too help rescue the survivors which they sent a cruiser and a few small ships

@peterlewerin4213 2 года назад

Yes, it was an open call. IIRC, when hearing the Vichys respond, the British chose to not approach either attacking or helping (something about not expecting their superiors to be as sympathetic as Dönitz had been). The sub captain had even picked up a British ship's officer to signal to any aircraft what was going on, but the B-24 crew didn't buy it. It was a brave attempt to stay human in a terrible war, anyway.

@El_Presidente_5337 3 года назад

I love it when you bring up stories like on 15:07 Have you ever thaught of working a bit with Mark Felton for such stories?

@shaider1982 3 года назад

Yup, mark felton haa an episode on the Laconia incident

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Beyond working with Chieftain for tank specials we have no other collaborations planned at this point.

@Jorlaan42 3 года назад

Pretty sure Indy said "fire below desk" when talking about the Wasp, instead of "below decks". I listened to it a couple times and it definitely sounds like desk. Just one of those funny little things.

@larryhall2805 3 года назад

My curiosity about the Soviet-German front started from watching Hogan's Heros, asking myself "what was so bad about the Russian front?". 50 years later I'm still learning.

@billd.iniowa2263 3 года назад

I dont think you're alone there. The Cold War left us bereft of many things that went on over there. The last 30 years or so have been a boon. But yet The Soviet/German Front is still terribly under-related by the media at large. If you havent seen it, a series called "The Unknown War" is most excellent. Narrated by Burt Lancaster no less. Just remember its the story the Soviets want told, so a large shaker of salt is advised. ;-)

@Yora21 3 года назад

And it only keeps getting worse.

@larryhall2805 3 года назад

@@billd.iniowa2263 I had a fairly good history textbook in 8th grade that further this interest. In fairness to the media and school systems, there's only so much one can cover. Teachers and other guidepost can always urge us to learn more if we are interested. That being said, I'm very curious about the Soviet invasion of Manchuria/Korea in August 1945! What I've read and seen is very dry and vague. Though the Japanese were no less fanatical and the Soviets extremely battle hardened, the fighting must have been savage.

@Raskolnikov70 3 года назад

@@larryhall2805 If you haven't already seen it, check out the "Soviet Storm" television series produced in 2011 in Russia. It's widely available in an English-language version here on RU-vid (although the maps are still in Cyrillic) and it's a good-quality documentary told from their perspective. It's recent enough to be relatively historically accurate (no communist propaganda) and they did a fairly thorough episode covering the Manchurian campaign.

@nicholasconder4703 3 года назад

@@Raskolnikov70 Agreed, Soviet Storm is a great series. It also covers stuff that I had never heard or read about before, like the Rzhev Meatgrinder.

@markusmalmstrom6038 3 года назад

I hope they do a special episode on the massive guns of Rune Hertwig's arms

@runevverhartvig6340 3 года назад

😂😂😂

@tams805 3 года назад

I wasn't going to say anything, but man, you're packing two howitzer leFH 18.

@GeraltOfLibya 2 года назад

Where does he find all this info, it's incredibly detailed

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Reading... lots and lots of reading 😛

@jeffmcarthur5617 3 года назад

I hate when a fire breaks out below my desk! :P 12:27

@dfsengineer 3 года назад

The Wasp had been built under the restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty, which limited how many tons total of each class of ship the USN could have. After building Enterprise and Yorktown, there was only 15,000 tons left of the carrier allotment, which could have built a good medium carrier, but they still wanted something the size of the Enterprise so it could carry more planes. As a result, to meet the weight limits the Wasp was under-armored, under-gunned, under-powered, and had a hull and framing design highly vulnerable to torpedo damage (compared to the other carriers). It was a gamble that didn't pay off.

@Spindrift_87 3 года назад

All true. Wasp was a compromised design, essentially a Ranger-Yorktown hybrid sharing the light construction of the former. In naval architecture you cannot squeeze a quart into a pint pot (is that the correct saying? I'm a metric boy myself). Yet, in fairness, it's questionable if any carrier could have survived an avgas-fuelled conflagration of that scale. Bigger, notionally better-protected, carriers were claimed by similar uncontrolled blazes. WWII-era carriers were quite extraordinarily flammable; once yours is lit up you'd better pray your damage control trams are a) god-tier and b) still alive. It's perhaps notable that Wasp reached the ocean floor still in once piece, albeit with fractures in the hull

@Mr_Roboto 2 года назад

In the Pacific, the Japanese soldiers had something like a ranking list of other armies that were tough fighters in the jungles. Towards the top of their list were the Australian and New Zealanders that they fought in the verdant, alpine hell of New Guinea. Their idea of the American soldiers and Marines was not that they were great jungle fighters, but that they bombarded the jungle to oblivion and the fought in the remains of it.

@Caldera01 3 года назад

Any friend of Indy Neidell is an immediate friend of mine. 10/10, would rescue them from a sinking enemy ship. Screw the orders to be harsh and screw the allied bombers diving on rescue efforts.

@canthama2703 3 года назад

Hey congrats Rune, awesome gift by the timem Ghost crew....looking forwars to more more more Stalingrad.

@SVL76dash2 3 года назад

As an avid "armchair historian" for most of my life I truly enjoy your videos of the Second World War. Your research and detail are impeccable. And I must say that Indy is becoming a master of the pregnant pause ;-)

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you so much for your support! We hope you keep enjoying our content.

@eugeneoliveros5814 3 года назад

Never have I been so excited for something I already know is gonna happen

@markmildorf2873 3 года назад

Happy Birthday, Rune!!

@runevverhartvig6340 3 года назад

Thanks!

@victorvasas4690 2 года назад

My godfather was with the 2nd Hungarian army at Stalingrad, and went to Russian POW camp until 1949. He told me interesting stories.

@danielnavarro537 3 года назад

September 1942: The month of where the war hangs in the balance. The Axis Powers, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan, have made huge advances. German forces are advancing inside the city of Stalingrad while the Soviets provide a desperate defense. The Italians and Germans are ready to fight and take El Alamein against the exhausted British army. Lastly the Japanese are preparing to take both Port Moresby and Guadalcanal against the Australians and American forces who is fighting a foe who is ready to die and in horrendous conditions of the jungle. May those who fallen Rest In Peace. 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇯🇵

@pnutz_2 3 года назад

8:04 *PHEW* due to the terrain, this week is also one of the few times the AIF was able to use its 25pdr pieces against the japanese

@aaronhutchen1319 2 года назад

The kokoda track is one of the hardest tracks to cross. Australian athlete Kurt fearnley crawled the track (96 kilomteres) on his hands (he is wheelchair bound)

@shammy8703 Год назад

@Trever101 3 года назад

Happy birthday Rune!

@ulfgustavsson4919 3 года назад

Happy Birtday Rune Hartwig! Anyone who has helped make these videos possible deserves a very happy birthday.

@runevverhartvig6340 3 года назад

Thanks!

@jerryw6699 2 года назад

wonderful episode, Stalingrad has always interested me the most of all of the Soviet/German battles. I wonder if it will get colder now that we're into Jan in Stalingrad?

@parshiwal887 3 года назад

O'Brien never recovered from that hit and sank 3000 miles and one month later near Pago Pago

@javi009z 3 года назад

The survival chances of this battle for a soldier on either side was only 5%(maybe less). Most infantry lasting only about a day if lucky. This also includes replacments. Respect to BOTH sides, this battle sucked

@pnutz_2 3 года назад

2:11 russia's most famous department store

@totoianugheorghelucian488 3 года назад

Dimitri grab the sniper rifle !!

@briantarigan7685 3 года назад

Soviets in the real battle of stalingrad: understrength units fought ferociously in a tight battle of extensive urban combat when a location can be exchanged many times against heavily supported German troops, yet still manage to hold on Whatever creature who made enemy at the gates think about the battle: Soviet human waves and 1 rifle out of 3 men goes BRRRRRRR

@caryblack5985 3 года назад

Enemy At The Gates movie is completely useless as historical fact. It should be viewed as entertainment and nothing more. It is an warning and example for people who take their history from Hollywood movies.

@nicholasconder4703 3 года назад

And note that a lot of the fighting is taking place in fairly open ground. It is only now that the Germans are entering the city.

@theonlylauri 3 года назад

"Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those scorching, howling, bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones can not bear it for long; only men endure." -from the diary of Leutnant Weiner, 24th Panzer Division

@ilpazzo1257 3 года назад

The fact that the Titans clashed on Mamayev Kurgan makes everything so... Mysitical to me. The place is a tartar burial mound. Below that hill lies the body of a warlord that made men be the Khan, that led the steppes' warriors into battle against anyone that came across. And over that hill, that exists in the first place purely to honour an ancient warlord, countless lives have been sacrificed in the bloodiest clash of the twenty first century. Over that hill flamethrowers blew their deadly breath and dive bombers screamed. Over that hill so many shed their blood, and so many turned into merciless killing machines to be scarred for life. Over that hill, now, stands a statue, that with a sword to the sky and a finger pointing to Berlin, calls dead and alive to their eternal duty to the Motherland, to battle. And below that hill, lies a nomad who was born, raised, ate, got drunk and died on a saddle, and had seen all of it happen countless times before.

@georgewilliams8448 3 года назад

Thank you for another very well done and informative video. I look forward to every Saturday morning as I know that the Time Ghost Army will be giving me the treat of an informative video.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@PhoenixNoKiseki Год назад

What I’ve gathered from this series is that it’s a miracle we’ve survived as a species. And dumb luck factors in success and failure on both sides way more than I’m comfortable with.

@tidge879 3 года назад

I love this series so much. But every episode it takes me a second to remember that the land coloured red is not the land occupied by The Red Army.

@daviddura1172 3 года назад

Happy Birthday R H.......

@KevinWeirBusinessCoachSpokane 3 года назад

I noticed at the 14:59 mark a "Stuka Fly' attempts to dive bomb Indy. That made my day. :)

@Raskolnikov70 3 года назад

He left his Red Cross banner in his other vest. Should have been displaying it properly!

@GTAram855 3 года назад

The Enemy Fly also attacks in 08:30

@jerometaperman7102 3 года назад

I do enjoy your videos. It is a subject matter in which I have long had interest. More than that, I appreciate your narration style; it's very fitting to the subject matter and would fit in with the era. It's not the same as the likes of Walter Winchell or Lowell Thomas but is in a similar vein. I hope you take that as a compliment. Thanks.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

We're glad you like our content!

@Okido24 3 года назад

Thanks Indy. You are the history teacher all the students remember. Students being thousands of RU-vid watchers!

@randywarren7101 2 года назад

ADM. Turner was known as"Terrible Turner" because of his anger.

@Knihti1 3 года назад

Herman Hoth: "Yes, my Fûhrer. I've reached the Volga river. The defence's will be down in no time. You may start your assault."

@Knihti1 3 года назад

Hoth seeing 'The grain elevator': "Target, maximum firepower!"

@brucetucker4847 3 года назад

Hoth was on Hoth?

@Aramis419 3 года назад

Maybe it was my Saturday night beers, but I kinda spaced out for a moment and thought, “Is Indy wearing an Iron Cross or is that a paisley tie?”

@t.a.ackerman4098 3 года назад

This series is amazing. I can't image what it would have been like during the time.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you

@johnthomson6507 3 года назад

While this is a great effort to cover the war. Tik has a great series on blue. How attentional the battles before the city were. So check it out.

@centurion7993 3 года назад

Indy you are one of my favorite history youtubers because of things like what you did at the end of this episode, oh and great content keep up the good work

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

thanks a lot for that! Makes me happy,

@fidenemini4413 3 года назад

1933: Adolf Hitler took personal control of the party 1936: Adolf Hitler took personal control of the country 1941: Adolf Hitler took personal control of the Army 1943: Adolf Hitler took personal control of the army group ... 1945: Adolf Hitler took personal control of a battalion

@adelkheir 3 года назад

April 1945: Adolf Hitler took out his own life.

@nicholasconder4703 3 года назад

@@adelkheirSeptember 2021: Adel Kheir beat me to the punch with his post.

@alih6953 3 года назад

I thought Barbarossa was supposed to be 6 weeks long! I mean the door had to be kicked right?

@caryblack5985 3 года назад

More like 8 to 12 weeks but they miscalculated.

@stevekaczynski3793 3 года назад

@@caryblack5985 Six weeks to flatten the Soviet curve.

@Gonzalouchikari 3 года назад

In September 17th, Sergeant Viktor Reznov and Private Dimitri Petrenko survives the german attack on the train station and escape. Later they will hunt german field officials with their sniper rifles in the city.

@jamesa4566 3 года назад

Your content is of extremely high quality. Thank you. I never miss an episode.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you very much, James! Hope you continue keeping up with our episodes.

@revasgamer7793 2 года назад

Albeit some historical inaccuracies, many of us here saw the movie, Enemy at the Gates, Stalingrad (1993) and the HBO series The Pacific, specifically the night of John Basilone's machine-gunning fame. This Video put it into perspective for me... They all happened in the same week!!! What a week it must've been for the world, huh?

@purplerunner1715 3 года назад

Tillykke med fødselsdagen Rune, dejligt at se jeg langt fra er den eneste Danske fan af historie, takker for din indsats.

@runevverhartvig6340 3 года назад

Mange tak!

@johanderuiter9842 3 года назад

Walther Model and his AOK9 made sure the soft underbelly of Stalingrad was secure, knocking out 800,000 Russians with nearly 2,000 tanks. Held back by 157 German tanks and 70,000 men at the Rhzev pocket. Zhukov got a bloodied nose, was bested by Model and gave up on an easy encirclement of Stalingrad.

@michellever9785 2 года назад

As usual, outstanding lesson of history... well done

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@Michel Lever Thanks very much, we're glad you enjoyed it! Please consider joining the TimeGhost Army to help us make more episodes and specials all the time! www.patreon.com/join/timeghosthistory

@germanhernanburgosffrench-4471 2 года назад

Happy birthday, Rune! By the way, September 18 is my beloved country's birthday also: Chile. I salute you again, from the south of the globe, mi comandante.

@catfishkempster 3 года назад

Hello to your friend - also, if he ever finds himself a victim of a temporal "incident" and back in the 1980s, he should check if a young(er) Ed Begley Jr. needs a stunt double

@Zemeritt 3 года назад

Did the bomber pilots of the Laconia incident face any repercussions? Or wasn't it even mentioned in the reports? Or were the orders from the high command to attack the U-boats, since they mostly rescued italian pow?

@Syn_1 3 года назад

from what I've read, they never even investigated the incident even after they discovered it was a war crime. They did however try to charge Donitz with issuing the Laconia order to which Chester Nimitz had to intervene and get it dropped.