Barbarossa Visualized: The Battle of Raseiniai [June 1941] [Episode 3] 

the lone KV-2 would make a good sequel to the film, Fury

The year 1965 arrives, the bodies of the KV-2s crew is discovered, just meters away where the tank they crewed was destroyed. All five were buried in a military graveyard in Raseiniai.

"Over 400 soviet soldiers..." Yeah you're right. It was over 400 soviet soldiers :)

Great detail, I see this channel blowing up in the future!

that is the best depiction of the lone KV-2 battle, also shows that on a crew level the russians had some very competent soldiers

Very well done and clearly detailed.

Great Video, keep going !

I am very picky and often over-critical. This is a great video as long as viewers remember the fog and chaos of war behind the block diagramed descriptions given by Jack of War. I send him my thanks for all his work building this series.

Thank you for the video.

word "Raseiniai" part "ei", is pronaunced like "ey" in word "beyond". part "niai" is pronaunced very softly like cat saying "mew".

Excellent, thank you.

Hey bud this content is incredible

you did a fine job with this one. This will be the topic of my next video.

When your fridge can stop an entire panzer division

Awesome! I have never seen battles of WW2 described so exactly in any other Video or documentation. Great work! Since more than 10 years, I am interested in the course of action during WW2 and have read dozents of books. But it is often difficult, to reconstruct exactly what really happend on the battlefields. Where did you get all that detailed information?

Good job, thank you...

Nice video.

I love these videos, however I would love to know your sources and where u get this amount of detailed information.

Great channel. Have you retired it for good? No new uploads in a full year? WW2 is making a huge comeback with it's 80 year anniversary maybe time to start uploading again?

The story of the KV-2 was sad 😞

1000 like from me. ;)

8th Pz. Div had 118 Pz 38t, 30 Pz IV, 49 Pz II, 11 Pz I. with about 15 BefPz (Command Tanks). About 60 Armored Cars. Thats roughly 200 alone. Can you tell me your source? 6th Panzer had roughly the same numbers but I believe used Pz 35t ... and had similar number of Pz IV, and Pz II tanks.

nice job - but you're really massacring the pronunciation of Raseiniai - it's not "ra-zany-ai" - but ""raw-sign-eh " - keep up the good work !

That sad KV

this motivates me to drive my kv-2 more frequently in wot hahaha

You clearly put a lot of effort into this series. You have nice animations and relevant b-roll footage. Your historical knowledge is also impressive. With that said I can't understand why you wouldn't edit out the mistakes. They're just minor mistakes but they are distracting. Like when you say "four hundred" instead of four hundred thousand.

Yayayyayay im from Raseiniai

the monster of Raseiniai

@ 0:17 you missed out on saying "...thousand..."

Surely there were more than the 400 Russian deaths reported in this video, but I have no idea of the accurate number.

6 and 8th Pz Divisions had czech light tanks Pz 35, 8th Pz 38.... only 1st had 71 Pz III/5cm short barrelled.... so that was the modern part of german tank divisions ..... soviets had twice as much of KV-1 i T-34 only...

Tell me about it, but turn off the bass drum first, I can't concentrate on what you are saying. I have head phones.

Literally me holding the A point in my T-150 in War Thunder against some stuarts and PZ IIIs and PZ IVs

German soldiers: *walk up to the KV-2* Ivan, turning the 12.9 ton turret, which is turned by hand: *n y e t, h a n s*

7:34 this made a strong impression on me. german soldiers honoring their russian counterparts who fought them courageously. Heroes on both sides here

Hah that KV-2 was kinda like Titan in Warhammer 40k fighting the Tau. Tau thought that building something so stupid and wasteful as a Titan would be a realy stupid idea. That may be true, KV tanks were preaty much failures, but tell that do the people who need to kill that fucking thing :D

I really like your video but there is one major issue I would like to adress: the "most of the soviet tanks were old light tanks" thing. first off light tanks were not ment for tank vs tank fighting and a light tank fro a raid or against infantry is better than no tanks at all. secondly: the vast majority of german tanks were py1 and py2 with the 20mm canon as maximum firepower.... the russian light tanks on the other hand had quite good tanks like the bt7 who was better than german py1 and 2 on every aspect, fire power, speed, armor and all terrain capabilities. so don't dismiss the light tanks so fast.

*Adolfo why do i hear a refrigerator?*

the savage kv2

KV-1 NOT kv-2

This Soviet’s squandered their tank division’s piecemeal. At this very early stage of the war, the Soviet’s had no concept of motorised warfare, their operational doctrine was one of positional warfare as Stalin had purged the Officer Corp of any theorist’s who dared to advocate the concept of motorised mobile warfare, how Grigory Zhukhov survived the purges was a miracle.

Your figures for German tank strength are way off. 1st Panzer division had 145 tanks, 6th 235 tanks and 8th had 212. Every source I've ever seen on 4th Panzergruppe says this. So your figure of 240 is strange. AGN was the weakest army group and 4th Panzergruppe was the weakest gruppe too but there's no way they invaded with 240 tanks. They had almost 600 of the 3300 tanks in the invasion. Maybe only 240 of AGN tanks actually saw combat here?

The KV heavy tank was most useful in scaring the Germans into developing their own very wasteful heavy tanks, such as the Tiger and Panther and then later leading them into the false direction of developing even heavier designs (King Tiger). As history showed, the heavy tanks were not the way to go and even the Soviets abandoned the idea and only kept a handful heavies (KV 85, IS series of tanks) valuing the mobility, reliability and mass production of the T-34/85 more. Upgraded Panzer IVs with 50 mm and especially with 75 mm guns augmented by a few Stugs and AT guns + tank killer Stukas could deal with Soviet heavies and there was no need to develop the super heavy German tanks that lacked mobility, could not be mass produced and required too many resources.

That was Lithuanian Crew in that tank ...

IT was uncertain that it was a kV 2 it could have been a KV1

80 years ago

Sorry, you lost me at "First Panzer Infantry Corps".

1. Panzer Division had 145 panzers consisting of 43 Mark II, 71 Mark III, & 31 Mark IV 8. Panzer Division had 212 panzers consisting of 49 Mark II, 118 Model 38, & 45 Mark IV 6. Panzer Division had 245 panzers consisting of 47 Mark II, 155 Model 35, & 43 Mark IV Total of 602 panzers

Березовые кресты немецких могилок только начались. Все впереди!

The real number is 401 soldiers

The 1st Panzer Division was elite?

the pronounciation :D

If soviet tanks were old modela What would you say about german tanks in 1941? Bt7 was Still better than pzkfw 1 & 2

Good video, but atrocious pronunciation, in either of Russian, German, or in this case Lithuanian.

Which is the germans? Red or black?

when KV-2 still defeat modern tanks then russia will produce alot of this KV-2 but change skin and armor the shell is now more stronger

Russian Air Fields were also being overrun by German mechanized and marching follow on Infantry making German Luftwaffe performance here all the more effective in point of fact. Leningrad still had very formidable defenses however and the thought that this would be an offensive that would take the former now known as Saint Petersburg again #interesting in a matter of just a few weeks very quickly dissipated after this Battle. Hitler had been very adamant that Leningrad must fall first before Moscow be taken...which would effectively be true once Germany linked up with Finland later on. Still Operation Taifun the Battle of Moscow was not something Hitler thought practicable when the time came for its consideration given Battles such as these, at Yelnia and later Rostov on Don. Still and even including the Battle of Moscow October, 1941 through to January 1942 saw truly staggering German gains in the form of captured military material and Red Army manpower all which was necessary for Germany to even have let alone sustain so massive a War Machine for to be effective for just 1941 alone let alone 1942.

400 Soviet soldiers trapped by encirclement? Lol. It seems like they got off pretty easily.

😄👏👏👍.

There is a great video by TIK about this idea of War winning tanks. We must remmeber that out of the almost 22thousand tanks the USSR had, 21k were light tanks.

I would repair the KV-2

Один танк воевал , двадцать танков бросили красноармейцы , поэтому проиграли

Personally, I don't believe the tale about the lone KV2..let's be realistic..a KV2 can have just 36 projectile on board..how did it manage to destroy all those guns, trucks and tanks? Even assuming it had extra ammunition its seems really sketchy to me. Probably there were more than 1 KV..maybe other troops, guns etc...maybe kills from other units are being awarded to this "hero" tank...after all, if it didn't have infantry support..how was German infantry not able to surround it? That thing takes forever to turn and it has only a hull machine gun to defend frontally...

It's hard to believe that German Panzer divisions fielded fewer than 100 panzers each...even at the dawn of Barbarossa.

USSR it's Great land

That "story" is obvious Soviet propaganda about glorious KV-2 and its unlimited ammo storage, and stupid Germans couidn't even call one Stuka or use smoke grenades to get closer to it, true story.