Barbarossa Visualized: The Prelude [Episode 1] 

HOLY SHIT A WW2 CHANNEL ON THE EASTERN FRONT THAT GOES INTO SPECIFICS. HYPE

Speaking of casualties, a wounded Russian soldier was often a dead Russian soldier since medical care for the common infantry man was almost non-existent. A bullet to the head often took the place of a long drawn out surgery. So when counting the number of KIAs keep that in mind.

First, thank you for posting this; it is very well done. Hitler was not a fascist, but was a national socialist, and his German Worker's Party viewed communism as a deadly competitor for power, not an ideological opposite. Besides conquering part of Finland and the Baltic states, Stalin helped himself to half of Poland, and Soviet trainloads of coal and other vital raw materials were going from the USSR to Germany as the Nazis conquered Mainland Western Europe and Norway, and bombed London. Stalin was so confident of his deal with Hitler that he was blind to the coming invasion. He had not read in Mein Kampf about Hitler's dream of an Aryan land empire in the East.

After watching this series, I am sorry to see no activity on your site for a long time. :-(

Jack of War: Of the hundreds of posts on this phase of WW2, yours stands out. Your able to outline enough of this titanic human event quickly by knowing where to focus to prepare the viewer to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and miscalculations of the two biggest protagonists in WW2. Thanks, well done, and I'm looking forward to the rest of you series! Before WW2, the British Empire dominated world trade in a loose yet extremely competitive world of "would be" world empires. At the end of the fighting the world's economics was largely divided between stalinism and the market system now dominated (far more uniformly than the British had) by the US.... Barbarossa (more than any other battle of WW2, began to define the geographic shape of these two systems for the exploitation of the planet and it's people. Despite the collapse of Stalinism and the economic rise of India, Japan, and China, much of this shape still persists today, directing our economic and political lives and the lives of our children.

let it be noted that most of those 23,000 tanks were LIGHT TANKS. not the well renowned T-34 of KV tanks. there was only about 1,000 T-34's and KV's combined.

The battle of brittain wasnt really lost, they just needed the airpower on the eastern front.

Have seen a discussion that downplays the importance of Stalin's purge. The numbers lost would have happened irregardless of the purge. Untrained fresh Soviet troops were shredded. Lack of resources supplied contributed to this major loss. Which would have happened with or without the purge. This was the thesis.

I love the battles of the Eastern front. And especially a new take on it. I just discovered your channel and can't stop watching your videos. Thank you for the work you put in.

Isn't there a quote like: war plans are thrown out after the first shot.

As a wargamer I've been studying this subject for awhile now and although some of your statements arnt completely accurate, you have done a good job with the maps and numbers. I would suggest that anyone studying history should look to multiple sources to get a better picture of the events, as there will always be discrepancies in accounts. You have provided yet another source of info and for that I thank you.

Great content, however, I would like to point out a few historical inaccuracies or myths that have been perpetuaded about WWII and specifically the Eastern Front and Operation Barbarossa. Hitler did say that the whole structure of the U.S.S.R., was rotten from the inside and that if pushed it would collapse, similarly to what had happened in WWI. However, it was Hitler's high command which was suggesting an invasion of the U.S.S.R., even before the Battle of Britain began. Hitler was doubtful of committing troops against Stalin and opening an Eastern front, in case the Allies would open a Southern or Western front, which they did. Another myth is German troops not being fully provisioned or equipped with winter gear for Operation Barbarossa. Even though Hitler and the high command thought Operation Barbarossa would last from 6-8 weeks, and this initially planned accordingly, the German troops weren't provided with winter gear due to failed operational logistics. Supply routes were cut off constantly, and the deeper the German would go into Russia, the harder it would be to supply the troops in the front, especially due to the lack of infrastructure (highways, roads, etc.) within the Soviet Union around that time. There are great lectures posted on YT, that dispell these myths. I would highly suggest them if you're further interested. One channel I would definitely recommend is TIK.

You seem to have forgotten to put the link into the description. But nice work so far! Love the two-sided approach and not just a wehraboo celebration of the Wehrmacht or something like that. Too many documentaries are like that.

I'm not fond of Stalin but according to recent studies this "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." quote didn't belong to him.

The army of Norway is a total misnomer. Some German forces attacked from Northern Norway but did not achieve much.

I must compliment you on the effort put in in explaining the battle....vey well covered.... I request if you can upload videos on other battles of Barbarossa like battle of yelnya and kuirsk salient too...

It’s nice to see battle maps. They were pretty good as well. Nice work, bud b

I just came upon this series. Well done, good supporting maps and graphics, good grasp of the strategies and logistics on each battle presentation. Looking forward to the rest of the series

Regarding the Soviet tank numbers in 1941...Although 34,000+ tanks sounds impressive, a massive amount of them were light tanks and obsolete tanks.The famous T34 wasn't present in large numbers during the early war, neither were the KV 1's and 2's.The Soviet Armed Forces were in a transitional and re-organization period in the Summer of 1941 ,add to this the enormous expansion of the Red Army and you have one of the , if not THEE main reason for the early German successes.

Great video! I liked the little Hell March easter egg... fitting music for the topic.

Can you please do a series for the African front and the western front as well? thanks a lot

Thanks for doing this, much appreciated.

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

Great series! I am creating one as well for YT, your one of my benchmarks for quality! Cheers.

Hell March starting at 3:55 was a nice surprise! :D By the way, is there any source about Stalin's quote "Killing a man is a tragedy, killing a million is statistics?" Many believe it to be a myth and I couldn't find any reliable source confirming it

I have always wondered this. Where do you find all these pictures?

Hello Jack of War.. I noticed you have not done the Battle of Kharkov?

Your videos are @#$% awesome. When are you going to do more ??

Can't figure out why the Russians put any troops at all on the Far Eastern Front facing Japan. So what if the Japanese invaded. All they would get would be Vladavostock and Outer Siberia. Let em have it and then go after them AFTER you beat the Germans. Or heck just let them keep it. There's nothing there but snow and ice.

This series is amazing. Keep it up. Would love to see a series on the Russian Civil War.

Really a great job... thank you guy! 😊

You’re terrific. Many thanks for all the videos.

Beaufiful production. Plus extremely informative about the Eastern Front specifics. Respect bro.

excellent work on this series. good job.

What was the "army of Norway"? Norway was occupied by the Germans in 1940 and did not fight the Soviet Union at all...

6 millions is an overestimation. More like 2 (June to December).

you did a great job with the whole series.

Very good graphics, the best I've seen so far. Also good analysis of why Germans could not win.

Good stuff indeed. Nitpick at 7:10 it should be negated , not neglected

He forgot to include the Italians, Hungarians, Slovaks, and Spaniards that also sent troops as part of the invasion force. Otherwise, good job.

What happened to you your videos where really good you must make more

Why some sources says 165 milion and some 198 milion.

0:08 because there always can be an alien history and alien invasion...yes ?

Finland was a co-belligent. The Finns went beyond their old border and a bit more and stopped.

Aircraft is plural in English, so 'aircrafts' is not used. There is never anything standard in English.

The plural of aircraft is aircraft.

It’s weird hearing Hitler talk.

Informative video. One comment: aircraft, not "aircrafts" is the plural of aircraft.

Impressive Documentary!

In English, the plural for Aircraft is Aircraft not Aircrafts.

Nice one mate !

Great vid, Jack! I have one complaint, though -- you haven't posted the sources for your numbers! Other than that, your videos have a great production quality and I'm very glad to see a RU-vid documentary series delving this in-depth into the Eastern Front! :)

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The maker of this video relied on the conversation between Hitler and Mannerheim in stating that Hitler would not have Russia if he had known the Russians had 35,000 tanks. However, the maker of the video has conveniently omitted the part of the said conversation where Hitler clearly said that he would have attacked anyway, even if he knew of the true tank strength of the Red Army, as "there was no other possibility". Here is the link to the video of the conversation between Hitler and Mannerheim: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ClR9tcpKZec.html

This frase frome the begining video told Churchil not Stalin

good stuff

10:00 ...You are wrong!... And you repeat the same mistake several times!... Even Soviet era movies... (made after the death of Stalin!...) give a better explanation of what happened to the Soviet Air Force close to the western border of the Soviet Union... For example what happened at BREST...

Where else but Siberia could the USSR put prisoners.

The vast majority of German POWs taken -- excluding those captured at Stalingrad -- survived their captivity. The Stalingrad cohort had a poor survival rate, because the 6th Army had been starving for over 2 months, and various diseases were already rampant before surrender. Please don't make unresearched statements like "very few Germans survived their capture" in your videos.

So despite huge victories Wehrmacht did not achieve even single goal. The nearest to achieve it's goal was army group South, which took Kiev but even they did not reach Volga river as planned. Rather poor vision from the German planners, who came from the nation renown for planning and fulfilling orders of superiors, The year 1942 was even worse, plans to take Russian oil at Caucasus ended up in disaster in Stalingrad.

there was never "nazism". there was national socialism.

keep going make more dont listen to the trolls

Unfortunately you are wrong in many places

Norwegian army... an ally of germany🤔

the narrator means "The pre-emptive strike against the jew enslaved Russian army".