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Beevor, Antony. Berlin: The Downfall 1945. London: Viking Press, 2002.
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@TheArmchairHistorian Год назад

@Pneumatiskatoday Год назад

This is good

@petruska111 Год назад

I Dont Like vpns

@Propaganda9999 Год назад

Forgive for asking but could you do a video about North Korea

@pyeitme508 Год назад

Meh

@chairsilver2 Год назад

Epic

@dylanking6960 Год назад

"Why fight room to room when you could just destroy the room?"

@Spiderfisch Год назад

Why did paulus never think of that

@FIVEBASKET Год назад

BOMBS AWAY

@dylanking6960 Год назад

@@Spiderfisch he was too busy freezing to death

@princeofpokemon2934 Год назад

Pretty much the Soviet way of thinking.

@FreePalestine07462 Год назад

Is that American speech?

@MatijaCG Год назад

Fun fact: One of the last diplomats to visit Hitler in his bunker was Thai ambassador, and one of the last units to defend his bunker and Reich Chancellery was French Waffen SS Battalion "Charlemagne".

@lecolonnedellavanti2955 Год назад

...and Hitler's last meal was spaghetti with tomato sauce (N.Ohler says that).

@More_Row Год назад

And his last act before retiring to quarters to end it was playing mario on his NES. Fun fact that is not widely known.

@theoldcavalier7451 Год назад

@@More_Row Hitler was a well known gamer, late in the evenings when the soviets advanced Hitler, to lift his spirits would play a round of hoi4 with the boys (Goebels & Börman)

@camprock1516 Год назад

@@theoldcavalier7451 In a desperate attempt to win the war Hitler challenged MnM to a rap battle but ended up loosing, he was so ashamed that he shot him self in the head. (Source: The History Channel)

@fereise208 Год назад

Yes, there were indeed French SS in the Battle of Berlin. However, there were only 300 ~ 500+ French SS men who were a part of the "SS Sturm-Battalion Charlemagne" Not the entire SS Charlemagne division. According to Tony le Tissier's book about the French SS, Antony Beevor's book about the Battle of Berlin, Mark Felton's video, and some other sources.

@26kempy Год назад

I was in Berlin very recently. The thing about Hitler's bunker is just how close the Reichstag actually was to his bunker. Standing at the area where the entrance leading to the lower bunker was situated it was possible to see the flag upon the Reichstag. The Soviets were incredibly close to Hitler's location when they were fighting in the Reichstag. Just one street corner away, the Red Army was barely 8 minutes walk away.

@Demonetization_Symbol Год назад

Did they know this?

@xi_c_ayushprashar5950 Год назад

@@Demonetization_Symbol no

@crashtestdummy2337 Год назад

8 minute walk in a war torn city is like a full day of fighting.

@stevenhaas9622 Год назад

@@crashtestdummy2337 or in Stalingrad 3 months

@Senior--Pomidor Год назад

14:40 Reminds Zelensky, doesn't it?)))

@aboxofbeans 11 месяцев назад

The size of eastern front battles still blows my mind. As an American, I'm used to learning about Pacific WW2 battles involving hundreds and sometimes thousands of troops on the bigger islands. I cannot fathom what is was like to see MILLIONS of men sweeping across the steppe into these enormous battles. Just insane.

@sleepyuser5189 9 месяцев назад

your country participated in wide fronts in the western front, albeit in a smaller scale

@parrotcraft7503 7 месяцев назад

@@sleepyuser5189 the only real massive US land operation was D-Day. Period. The Soviets had Leningrad Breakthrough Operation Uran Moscow Counteroffensive Operation Bagration Etc.

@parrotcraft7503 7 месяцев назад

The Kursk battle was literally the largest tank battle ever and possibly the largest battle, overall, ever.

@cheesecheese6459 7 месяцев назад

look up chinese battles of history

@h.w.barlow6693 7 месяцев назад

@@parrotcraft7503The U.S. fielded 2 massive armies on opposite ends of the planet with tens of thousands of ships, planes, heavy bombers, aircraft carriers, submarines etc etc. The Eastern front was a slugging match, static defense and retreat. The operations in the Pacific dwarf them in quite a few ways. The Asian-Pacific Theater had been at war since 1937 with more dead civilians than Europe by 1945. America fielded over 500,00 men with thousands of ships at Okinawa alone. No other country had the types of logistics and overall firepower covering the globe as did the U.S. but please keep talking about Stalingrad and its headbutting approach to warfare. Germans couldn't even supply themselves on land and the Soviets were receiving lend lease trucks, radios, parts, fuel etc from the US with lend-lease. Since Europeans did very little overall fighting and massive amphibious landings they like to downplay its scale and focus on the Eastern European slugfest.

@krisfrederick5001 Год назад

I love the "Downfall" inspired thumbnail. Absolutely incredible film. You forget you're even watching one and not a documentary, or even in the room yourself. The fact that it was done by the Germans themselves, makes it all the more stunning.

@deleetiusproductions3497 Год назад

How unfortunate that the film has just been made into this huge meme where the Fuhrer rants about _anything._

@cammackinnon Год назад

@@deleetiusproductions3497 funny enough, the meme is how I found the movie. I’m glad it’s out there because people who care about the subject are led to one of the best films of the Second World War.

@RasVoja Год назад

@@deleetiusproductions3497 Thats meme culture, move is great!

@gigachad7153 Год назад

Bruno Ganz's Hitler is the most accurate depiction of him in movies ever. From looks to mannerism, everything.

@RasVoja Год назад

@@gigachad7153 True, mad corporal and ex painter, lucid daydreams of defeating uSSR in 1945

@helloimskip Год назад

I've been waiting for a remastered version of this. It was worth the wait.

@deleetiusproductions3497 Год назад

Indeed, it was worth it.

@lucask4377 Год назад

Pretty much a remake

@itsblitz4437 Год назад

Wait this is a remaster? Or Remake rather of a older video?

@itsblitz4437 Год назад

@@lucask4377 seems like it.

@deleetiusproductions3497 Год назад

@@itsblitz4437 ...YES?!

@KNGX277 Год назад

16:37 "My Führer...Steiner..." "Steiner couldn't mass sufficient forces for an assault. Steiner's assault didn't happen."

@BillyisAmongUs 2 дня назад

*takes off glasses while visibly shaking* "The following stay in here" "Keitel. Jodl, Kreps and Burgdorf."

@ericduan19 Год назад

It's hard to imagine how epic the parliament battle was like. It was so brutal & epic, that no one can talk about the battle of Berlin without mentioning both sides fighting over this single building.

@percdigest8402 Год назад

It’s comparable to when the Jedi were fighting the 501st and Vader in the Jedi temple when order 66 was given in the hallways to room to room combat

@Linki8uu Год назад

@@percdigest8402 oh god I’m getting flashbacks to battlefront 2 (2005) the lightsabers oh the lightsabers

@mignonne_ Год назад

mm yes i am a grown man forced into battle and watched my friends die in a heartbeat beside me mm yes sehr epic

@die1mayer Год назад

The Reichstag building had little value to the Nazis, it was a symbol of parliamentary democracy and was neglected since the Reichstag fire.

@zangrygrapes4571 7 месяцев назад

Yes. Men dying is epic. smh

@bluedog843 Год назад

“I wanted to shout, to call to all our brothers, our soldiers, who are lying in the Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian and Polish earth, who sleep forever on the fields of our battles: Comrades, can you hear us? We’ve done it!” Millions of Soviet troops and civilians dead, I couldn’t imagine what it’s like being able to see a finish line after such a conflict.

@bman6065 Год назад

Grossman was the most underrated writer of the twentieth century. If only he was allowed the freedom to publish Life and Fate in his life time. He deserved to see it's success

@KillerofWestoids Год назад

Now Soviets are fighting against each other. Tragic fate 😭😥

@bluedog843 Год назад

@@KillerofWestoids humans always find more reasons and invent more technology to kill each other. It’s how it’s always been and always will be :(

@nathanseper8738 Год назад

I got chills.

@imtotallynotbigbossinhidin2289 Год назад

Stalin would kill millions more.

@ahtikai Год назад

I'm glad you added the note on civilian casualties at the end. Just imagine having been an innocent civilian anywhere between Berlin and Moscow during the second world war. War destroys everything

@kevinaguilar7541 Год назад

Innocent is a questionable word to describe WW2 Berlin inhabitants. But I do feel bad for good people suffering.

@nicolasberky145 Год назад

@@kevinaguilar7541 they were inocent people in berlin as in moscow maybe not the man but there were women childern too people forget that the Soviets did atrocities too

@kevinaguilar7541 Год назад

@@nicolasberky145 being just a women or a child doesn't exempt you from being a bad person. Remember the Hitler youth? And I acknowledge the ussr atrocities. Both sides suck, but one side sucks more.

@hazzmati Год назад

@@kevinaguilar7541 psycho detected

@Raphael4722 Год назад

@@kevinaguilar7541 Don't bring up the hitler youth. People are talking about the non-combatant women and children. Those were innocent.

@eddychong9477 Год назад

“Mark my words, Comrade… One day things will change. We will take the fight to their land… To their people… To their blood.” -Viktor Reznov (Call of Duty: World at War)

@Heidenspross Год назад

actually the russians made it clear they were fighting the nazis and NOT the german people...

@lordkent8143 Год назад

"Citizens of Berlin! A ring of steel surrounds your rotten city! We will crush all those who dare resist the will of the Red Army!"

@thundabearz5092 Год назад

Oh, no. Not video games quotes.

@madman2555 Год назад

@@thundabearz5092 if you played waw you would understand.

@thundabearz5092 Год назад

@@madman2555 i did. That's a fucking video game and this was a real life event.

@Jannes-pj4cd Год назад

I went this year to Berlin, I was walking past a building in which the bullet holes were still visible to this day, the city is very interesting, there’s so much History to be found there, from the Prussian buildings to the Cold war buildings like the East German TV tower. There’s so much to be seen there. I recommend it to anyone who’s into History like myself to visit the German capital. I’ll be back one day to discover the rest of the city, since I only went for 2 days, which is too short.

@Jannes-pj4cd Год назад

@IlluminatiReign you’re welcome! I hope that you have the oppurtinity to do so

@Max-pg8dd Год назад

Pope‘s revenge

@jimothypersson8306 Год назад

next time you should check out the unterwelten (underworld) museums. the stasi museum was interesting too

@Jannes-pj4cd Год назад

@@jimothypersson8306 thanks for the recommendation.

@DG-qr5cu 4 месяца назад

Be careful. Berlin turned into a dangerous zone with all the refugees. A lot if knifemen from afrika walk on the streets

@getthehelloffmyproperty Год назад

imagine the poor soviet who went from stalingrad to berlin and winning only to get shot in the final securing of the city

@jeffsyndrome4812 Год назад

A sad occurrence indeed but I'm sure most of the Red Army would have been glad to give their all in the final round. They'd suffered enough as it was.

@GooseGumlizzard Год назад

someone has to be the final KIA in every war... surviving is always a matter of luck.

@ianp727 Год назад

I'm German and my family is from Berlin. My grandfather, living in the outskirts of the city, told me that when the Soviets advanced, the Wehrmacht shelled the outskirts of the city from the city-center. The Germans living there as well as the attacking Soviets would seek shelter in the same rooms/cellars, sitting side by side, even sharing their food with eachother.

@stevecooper7883 Год назад

Then the Soviet soldiers also shared your great grandmother, you grandmother and great aunt with them at gunpoint.

@ianp727 Год назад

@@stevecooper7883 That is neither a nice nor a funny comment. I could tell you many devastating stories that he also told, but r*pe is thank god not among his personal experiences.

@stevecooper7883 Год назад

@@ianp727 It wasn't funny. Your comment disregarded the absolute barbarity of the godless soviet soldiers.

@ianp727 Год назад

@@stevecooper7883 My comment doesn't disregard anything because it is an isolated account of personal experience from an individual who experienced the horrors of the battle of Berlin when he was thirteen years old.

@jeffsyndrome4812 Год назад

@@ianp727 Thanks for sharing the story. See, it's not difficult to just be nice. The actions of the Soviets are not justified by any measure, but at the same time it must be mentioned that it was hardly the whole organisation. People constantly male the same valid point for the wehrmacht, its no different for the Red Army. Still, I sympathise with all who are forced to face the horrors of war.

@TRtraybloxeey Год назад

Absolutely incredible! The touching of morale, and especially always coming back to the motive of extreme rage for vengeance is spot on. Bravo!

@TBoneTony Год назад

Not only did Moustache man went on the epic "The War is Lost" rant. But he also went on a rant that his XBox Live had been canceled and that he couldn't find Waldo in the Where's Waldo books.

@emeraldstorm8664 Год назад

I love how there’s just a Wunderwaffe blueprint among the weapons blueprints at 10:11

@DarkElfDiva Год назад

I think that's a weapon from one of the Wolfenstein games, lol.

@herrdoctor2895 Год назад

@@DarkElfDiva nah brother, thats COD WaW zombies kinda wunderwaffe

@CodeNameZ_935 3 месяца назад

@@herrdoctor2895 I'm having nightmares after seeing the map from 19:37 so many god damn grenades I remember finally completing that mission after 2 days of ruthlessly trying then that same day I completed Heart of the Reich I finished the World at War campaign on Veteran which put an end to 4 years of playing that campaign on veteran cause I quit for 2 years after reaching Burn 'Em Out and getting to the final part.

@ferdernan3425 Год назад

You know it's going to be good when it's a remastered video in 2022. Honestly looking forward towards a new "downfall of germany in the west front" with your new animators. Can't wait to start watching.

@randomguy2023 Год назад

If you don’t already watch him, look up the RU-vid channel “Eastory”.’ He makes some great animated maps.

@robertortiz-wilson1588 Год назад

@@randomguy2023 great channel!

@lordbeaverhistory Год назад

My Grandfather took indirectly part at the battle. He was drafted in 1942, aged 15 to the Flak. When he was 17, he was sent to the RAD, the Reichsarbeitsdienst. He dug a defensive line in front of Berlin. He told of Gun Emplacments, Trenches and simple earth bunkers. From what he told, it must have been terrible. There wasnt enough fuel to keep intact the already rare machines, so they had no support by machinery. THe ground was frozen, it was the winter of 1944, one of the coldest in Germany. He said, every single centimetre was torture, and he cursed those that watched and ordered in silence, because they hadnt done a thing to support them. He is usually calm and reserved, but he called them names when he told about it that i defenitly don't wanna repeat here. He was later injured by an american machine gun. He surived by pure luck, that he wasn't hit by a light-shell

@LazyLizzy706 29 дней назад

Your grandfather was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1942?

@danilchumakov486 11 месяцев назад

I am Russian. My great-grandfather participated in the battle for Berlin. He was a tank driver, got injured and returned home. He talked about how tank caterpillars could not go because human guts were wound around them ... War is very scary and no one needs it. Before the war in Ukraine, everyone told me about it, but I couldn’t even imagine what it was, waking up with the realization that your country is at war and seeing a video of the places where you were when they were destroyed by the hands of your own country (I lived in Ukraine 3 years) Appreciate your peaceful sky above your head

@Ihavpickle 8 месяцев назад

Phew, tank god he wasn't obliterated by a king tiger

@cleveland5882 Год назад

I always love how he goes in depth with the details and context with any topic. Wish my teachers were like this.

@Ranger1812 Год назад

Many teachers want to be like this, they want to enflame your desire to learn, but suffer from critical shortages of time and money and a large number of children to teach and care for.

@orange8420 Год назад

You should consider the pay check of a teacher, amount of stress caused by class(es) and the short amount of time to teach and also the time limit because they CAN'T go to deep in something because there's other stuff to cover, btw i see an azur lane enjoyer as well

@tiredtraveler4536 Год назад

Here in Germany, teaching about specific battles of the second world war is actually disallowed or at least discouraged to avoid young student developping a sense of national pride for the Nazis

@Ranger1812 Год назад

@@tiredtraveler4536 "Nazis". Apostrophes denote possession or contraction but are never used for pluralisation.

@XSDX3R0 Год назад

As a former teacher, albeit not history teacher, many kids just don’t care. They care enough to pass usually but that’s about it.

@murkywateradminssions5219 Год назад

"Mein Failure, Steiner...."

@kasualmechanic4854 Год назад

"Steiner's counter attack failed to commence. He lacked sufficient manpower for a counterattack"

@josevictorionunez9312 Год назад

@@kasualmechanic4854 *Takes off glasses* "The following will stay: Keitel, Jodl, Krebs and Burgdorf"

@imperialscouttrooper1083 2 месяца назад

@@josevictorionunez9312THAT WAS AN ORDER! STEINER'S ATTACK WAS AN ORDER?! WHO ARE YOU TO DARE TO OPPOSE MY ORDERS?!

@jonnytheman2321 Год назад

This is so well put together. Keep up the fantastic work!

@LichsuhoathinhDrabattle Год назад

Amazing video, the quality of the animation only gets better everytime! 💗🤞✨

@Fastest_Gun_of_The_West Год назад

Finally he’s covered this! Thank you so much man. I learned a lot from this and oversimplified’s channel and you really help me with my studies of history. I appreciate you. Please continue this!

@loke801 Год назад

He already covered this one this is just an updated version

@deleetiusproductions3497 Год назад

@@loke801 Correct. Although, I can see why they thought it hadn’t been covered yet. It’s been three years, after all.

@user-ok1xq5qm9t Год назад

Check documentary Soviet Storm on youtube. Best documentary about ww2 from Russia perspective.

@user-ok1xq5qm9t Год назад

by studio Star Media

@mayiseeyourneckplsjknotrel7107 Год назад

@@loke801 True

@TheArchangelSeth Год назад

Fun fact: One of the original Soviet Flag-Bearers ontop of the Reichstag was wearing two handwatches when their iconic photo was taken, This was illegal (Cause of No Looting i believe) and the Photo was subsequently editted to make it 1 Handwatch instead of two.

@someguy4512 Год назад

some people say it wasn't a watch but a hand compass or something like that, but it looked like a watch. idr the details.

@herrdoctor2895 Год назад

Not two handwatches, it was like 8

@fereise208 Год назад

Those aren't the original flag raisers though. They are Khaldei's flag raisers that featured in the famous staged photo taken by Evgenii Anan’evich Khaldei. According to the UC Santa Barbara's escholarship name "Of Tablecloths and Soviet Relics: A Study of the Banner of Victory (Znamia Pobedy)" by Anne M. Platoff.

@RobinNicoagain Год назад

I thought there were more than 2 watches.

@hamzasherasmat6593 9 месяцев назад

This is my 3rd video watched by this channel. I used to see lots of these videos but i didnt watch them. Then one day I tried it and it was brilliant, crystal-clear explained with beautiful animations. You and your team should be proud of these videos and making more people learn history easier and more interestingly. Thank You!

@DarknessVery Год назад

This is your best work yet, keep going!

@punishedvenomsnake716 Год назад

No better way to start a chill Saturday morning than by watching a video on one of the most dramatic battles in history 💀

@handlemonium Год назад

I like how Stalin sent in 2,500,000 men into just capturing Berlin while Putin thought he could capture all of Ukraine with only 250,000 men.

@jamiemcintosh3030 Год назад

Putin is not going to capture all of Ukraine, he just wants to destroy the mainly-fascist army.

@VinnyUnion Год назад

@@handlemonium even less than that He thought he could bomb kyiv to make them become all uncoordinated, taking the airport to deliver men that way and such. But backfired immensely. I suppose NATO expected a little bit of resistance but not this extent. Since they were already being trained by NATO. The thing is, everybody (even the US) expected it to not last more than a week or two. Like the famous saying when they the US offered him to fly out of kyiv and he just asked for ammunition, not a flight. Essentially zelenskyy 100% saved Ukraine. if he left, Ukraine would've become a part of Russia today. And getting that back would be nearly impossible. This is more crucial than anyone can comprehend here.

@Vixinity1337 Год назад

@@handlemoniumits like the bay of pigs invasion except they werent trying to conceal it at all and russian army just sucks

@lucianoosorio5942 Год назад

“The Allies pushed into Germany on both sides. The Soviet Union took Warsaw and kept pushing to Berlin. In his bunker, Mustache man realized that all hope was lost. Berlin fell, and with it Mustache Man’s dream of a great German Empire. Two of the Axis nations have been knocked out, one more to go.”

@deleetiusproductions3497 Год назад

Oversimplified

@jamesmmcgill Год назад

Meanwhile, in the bunker... Squared-Moustached Man: This is all because of *Fegelein!* *FEGELEIN!!* *FEGELEIN!!!*

@deleetiusproductions3497 Год назад

@@jamesmmcgill "If Fegelein hadn't been so influential in the SS, we would've won the war!"

@nadersaid2215 Год назад

“Don’t worry guys who name I forgot assault will save us!”

@deleetiusproductions3497 Год назад

@@nadersaid2215 My Fuhrer, Steiner was his name. He, uh...

@roymartin500 Год назад

Top tier historical content done in a way that doesn't show the same old stock footage we've seen numerous times. Fantastic job to the whole Armchair Historian Team.

@yodatrombonist121 9 месяцев назад

My favorite detail about the battle is that many Germans in the bunkers began writing “Learn Russian fast” on the walls as many feared the Red Army to such an extent

@user-sf9pk9dy8b 4 месяца назад

Это их совесть мучила. Если знаешь историю восточного фронта - поймёшь. Я беларус, и знаю - что советы их НЕНАВИДЕЛИ

@yodatrombonist121 4 месяца назад

And for good reason

@GusArchievs Год назад

The part about the commissars re enforcing the sentiment amongst the troops to be terrifying and avenge their people and motherland was really eye opening. As silly as it may sound it reminds me of the beginning of the WaW mission Ring of steel ,commissar Markhov preaching to the infantry to be as violent and merciless as possible to the enemy before the subsequent assault. For me his speech was one of the most iconic bits in the game. To know it was somewhat based in reality makes it more vivid and badass.

@wurzel9671 Год назад

"war crimes are bad ass"

@kasualmechanic4854 Год назад

@@wurzel9671 "Its only a war crime if we lose!"

@jayzandstra1830 Год назад

''avenge their people and motherland'' yet alot of their rear guard units who came from the untouched far east were the ones commiting heinous '''revenge'' on the local berlin female population. what motherland were they avenging?

@fernandokleinrocha1 Год назад

If it was your wife, mother or sister at the hands of the Red Army, being raped in front of you, I doubt you would call it “bad ass”

@wurzel9671 Год назад

@@kasualmechanic4854 you seem to have misplaced a strawman here, better collect it

@gideonc847 Год назад

I remember watching the original video you guys made. It feels like it has all come full circle now. Good work Griffen.

@lordbeaverhistory Год назад

A diary entry of a German Officer at the Seelow Hights: "A deafening noise fills the air. Compared to everything that has happened before, this is no longer a barrage, it is a hurricane that tears everything up above us, in front of us and behind us. The sky is glowing red, as if it is about to burst at any moment. The ground shakes, trembles and rocks like a ship in a force 10 wind." This was the most terrible barrage to hit German Forces. It showed many youths, why even the most fearless veterans fered the katyusha. It wasnt called Stalin Organ for nothing

@TheJCJexe Год назад

Wow, great job on the Russian voiceover! I’m Russian and I highly appreciate you and your team for going the extra mile and your hard work!!!

@AxeBearingVoyager Год назад

20:04 the story of who actually hoisted the flag, and the truth behind that iconic image is a very interesting one

@delta1-248 Год назад

True weren’t there 3 squads told to hoist the Soviet flag

@herrdoctor2895 Год назад

@@delta1-248 2 got bogged down, one has a guy that does looting

@fereise208 Год назад

According to the UC Santa Barbara's escholarship name "Of Tablecloths and Soviet Relics: A Study of the Banner of Victory (Znamia Pobedy)" by Anne M. Platoff, the true story is: 1) Those two soviet soldiers in the animation should'nt be Sergeant Mikhail Alekseevich Egorov and Junior Sergeant Meliton Var-lamovich Kantariia who raised the "Victory Banner #5". But they are Khaldei's flag raisers that featured in the famous STAGED photo taken by Evgenii Anan’evich Khaldei, Soviet Jewish photographer from the Ukraine. 2) Interestingly enough, there was another guy that supposed to be credited among the real Flag raisers too (Egorov and Kantariia), his name is Lieutenant Aleksei Prokop’evich Berest from Ukraine. The reason why his name was removed is not exactly known and a lot of people seem to have certain theories about this as well.

@zacheryyoung9426 10 месяцев назад

You know these Soviet soldiers still deserve to be honored despite the Ukrainian and Russian war. Those soldiers that died fighting the Nazis and they were our allies. I see a lot of people in Europe not permitting wreaths and flowers to be laid by their memorials because of the Russian Ukraine war. And i dont agree with that.

@parrotcraft7503 7 месяцев назад

Exactly! These were the people who won WW2!

@blobfishmnm 7 месяцев назад

yup. no matter how you feel about the USSR, those men died fighting against all odds with the nazis who nearly destroyed their country

@breadstick4458 5 месяцев назад

Also a lot of them were Ukrainian as well

@NikolayMIA 5 месяцев назад

Russians are fighting nazis rn as well in Ukraine. You can easily search for it, it’s still in RU-vid.

@whoopsy.406 3 месяца назад

they commited as much war crimes as the nazis did. No sympathy for them at all.

@donaldkelly3983 Год назад

This was very informative. And I appreciated the opening appearance by and quote from Vassily Grossman, one of my favorite writers!

@briantarigan7685 Год назад

Man, am i the only going to tears hearing Vasily Grossman words? Such a heavy and bloody struggle, i would literally scream " Guys, that's it, that's our final victory, all our pain, our suffering are for this moment for our mother, our sons and daughters, our parents, for the blood of millions they shed in our homeland, TO BERLIIIN!! "

@thelordofcringe Год назад

Yes, because countless of those soldiers would then be murdered by the NKVD or sent to work in some shitty factory till they were 70. Things wouldn't get better in the USSR until the 60s, but then they reached a high point and started declining again all the way until the fall of the soviet union. It's depressing af.

@dvnk6971 Год назад

imagine the relief they felt

@briantarigan7685 Год назад

@@thelordofcringe tf do you mean? Do you really think the soldiers who storm berlin would be put into Gulag? What is wrong with you, and 8 working hours in the soviet union and pension system did exist, and it is not up to 70, housing are provided, free healthcare are provided

@JohnSmith-sl2qc Год назад

@@thelordofcringe I mean it was hell in the Soviet Union but it was a certain kind of hell

@sanesttatefan4907 Год назад

@@briantarigan7685 look at his name bro...

@kenan511 Год назад

“They come for our blood, but instead bathe in their own!” -Sgt. Viktor Resnov, Call of Duty: World at War

@crbkqw Год назад

The Miller-Petrenko perspective of the game taught me better history than actual history books.

@GooseGumlizzard Год назад

@@crbkqw sad

@alexofgaming Год назад

Always love to see another AMAZING video by my favorite history channel!

@FlexBeanbag Год назад

ru-vid.comBmc9NFfhx74?feature=share

@benjaminmarquez1994 Год назад

I visited one of those tunnels in Berlin. It was an eerie feeling when I walked in. I could feel the energy and it was odd knowing the Germans fought for Berlin in the same area where I was at

@deltalord6969 Год назад

This one has been my most anticipated remaster ever since I watched the original.

@nahoy350 Год назад

"Citizens of Berlin! A ring of steel surrounds your rotten city! We will crush all those who dare to resist the will of the Red Army! Abandon your posts! Abandon your homes! Abandon all hope!"

@AFriendlyUnit Год назад

"sh*t, we need to cross these bolsheviks"

@bobbyantrobus1805 Год назад

flee flee for your lives

@camerongreene3357 Год назад

URRAAA!!!

@Civility1 Год назад

just beat world at war on veteran the other day, I still hear the tink tink of grenades in my nightmares

@dictatorofthecheese Год назад

URRRRAAA!!!

@ibrahimdivlj3157 Год назад

You make such good videos, I hope you will blow to the top soon. Great work .

@HelicopterShownUp Год назад

Amazing content Griffin, I hope to be able to support your channel one day but until then hopefully this encouragement will do. Thank you!

@mayiseeyourneckplsjknotrel7107 Год назад

It's nice to see you remastered this, you should remaster more like these in the future.

@QWERTY-uv6uv Год назад

Thanks for ur videos. I really like history and you just explain it in a very fun way. I also like that you guys don’t always talk about WWII, so it’s not always the same thing. Thanks to the Armchair Historian group for making such great videos :)

@becrazygamer7209 Год назад

www.youtube.com/@WilkinGames

@whiterabit09 Год назад

Fantastic high quality videos as always

@pablobarbuto2603 Год назад

I love your channel Griffin Johnsen! Its one of the best of its kind. Greetings from Argentina!!!

@yousseffakrouni6886 Год назад

I have been waiting for a more recent video from you covering this topic. Thanks so much!

@napoleonibonaparte7198 Год назад

Let’s not fail to mention that Polish units also raised the Polish colours on the Reichstag. Poetic justice.

@djeastwolf1605 Год назад

Im from Poland my grandpa fought in battle of Berlin in Polish people's army he was in artillery.

@CarryMeh161 Год назад

yeah and were shot nearly by the Soviets. The Soviets were just as bad as the Germans

@clamum9648 Год назад

Love the Poles. Bunch of chads

@VVeltanschauung187 Год назад

Hooray for puppet states!

@littlejimmy8744 Год назад

Fun fact last German victory was against the Polish as well in April 20th at the battle of Bautzen

@knightofhistory Год назад

I love this channel, it is so interesting and makes subjects that perhaps wouldn't be entirely enticing very catching and enjoyable. I hope one day my channel (also a history channel) will be as gripping as yours! Best the Knight of History.

@dairydregone7146 Год назад

"Our grip tightens around the black heart of Berlin. The Führer demands all to shed their last drop of blood in it's defense. The old, the young, the weak. If they stand for Germany, they die for Germany. Building by building. Room by room. One rat at a time." - Victor Reznov from CoD World At War

@DarthHakka Год назад

UUUURRRA!

@teenexorcism6432 Год назад

The most badass quote in any cod game

@talknight2 Год назад

ooh, makes me wanna play WaW again

@mannyperez6096 Год назад

Step 1!

@gurjeetsingh-gd1wr Год назад

Ha ha

@Thunderstar7 Год назад

Another great video, amazing job of depicting this battle holding out hope for a video about Castle Itter

@dimitrijejovanovic5939 Год назад

Keep up the good work, man!

@darrell9616 Год назад

Thanks for the hard work.

@sus-plush7002 Год назад

An amazing video as per usual. Keep it up!

@planetvegan7843 Год назад

This channel keeps getting better and better.

@jonauclair8209 Год назад

I love the Wunderwaffe DG-2 Easter egg you put in you’re video Mr. A.C.H that was pretty clever

@antonioprovolone2815 Год назад

Did I just see a Wunderwaffe DG-2 blueprint? The references on your videos are getting awesome!

@alektech7436 Год назад

Couldn’t have dreamed about a better topic! Awesomeeee guys! Made my day

@Blade12311 Год назад

AMAZING video! So good! You are the only resource I trust!

@Klishar122 Год назад

Wait a second, you’re saying that my favorite bit of orchestra was played for this battle?!? My appreciation for this piece of history has escalated tenfold!!!

@curiousworld7912 Год назад

Albert Speer claims the orchestra played 'Gotterdammerung' during the battle for Berlin. Perhaps they played several selections from the 'Ring' series.

@nathanmcamis6749 11 месяцев назад

And I think he attributed the Ride of the Valkyries to Strauss (it was Mahler). *pushes up glasses*

@theamerican3785 Год назад

The animation on this channel is superb

@juanpablosanchezpaz4741 10 месяцев назад

Correct ! Yes DonwFall

@BORRIC54 Год назад

Great documentary! Love the animation!

@Cheduepallottole Год назад

The Battle of Berlin has been the most iconic battle of History

@Maus_Haus Год назад

Eh... Stalingrad?

@Anon16290 6 месяцев назад

[Intro] Dieses Lied ist meinem Volk gewidmet. Und alle Vorfahren, die alles Erdenkliche möglich gemacht haben Opfer, um Blut und Boden zu schützen und zu bewahren. In diesem Jahrtausend kämpfe gegen den ewigen Feind von allem Edlen und Schönen. Wir werden nie vergessen, woher wir kommen und wer wir sind. Du bist die Perle dieses Planeten. Ihr reiches Erbe ist weit überlegen. Seit sie vom Thron gestürzt sind, Die Leute wollten sie zurück. Nur sie bedrohen das Ungeziefer. Wenn jemand fragt: Liebst du dein Volk? Dann steh einfach auf, schau ihm ins Gesicht und sag: [Chorus] Es ist das Beste auf der Welt, Drum will der Jude, dass es fällt, aber es steht stolz da, unser deutsches Volk. Es trägt das letzte reine Blut, Drum ist es nicht gut, ein Diener zu sein. Es ist stolz, unser deutsches Volk. Er sieht deutsche Glückseligkeit und zittert vor Neid! Hasst uns wegen unserer Überlegenheit! Er ist das Gegenteil von arischer Ehrlichkeit! Hat schon immer zu Kontroversen unter Europäern geführt. Sie denken: "Wie kann das sein?“ Wie kann man so bösartig sein und dann Shoah schreien? Oh nein, obwohl sie schon lange den Tod verdient haben. Wurden sie schon immer einfach des Landes verwiesen? dreihundert neunundfünfzig Mal bisher Schuld, der totalitär Arier Bankinstitute, Porno, Frankfurt Schule. Alles Kranke und Böse, hinter dem Vorhang: der Jude. Adorno, Marcuse, Hollywood-Filmproduzenten. Wir lieben es, unsere Frauen und Kinder zu vergewaltigen. Sollten wir nicht ernsthaft nachdenken!?; Diese erbärmliche Kreatur vom Erdboden zu fegen. [Chorus] [Outro] Yeah Heil dem deutschen Volke, mögest du ewig leben! Und heil dem deutschen Heimatboden! Möge das Reich eines Tages wieder vereint sein!

@KNGX277 Год назад

16:17 "With Steiner's assault, that will all come into order." Hitler.

@matthewpeluso3914 Год назад

The mad lads have done it again! Love this channel

@Zopiexx Год назад

Thank you for this video! My great grandfather grandfather 3 granduncles great granduncle fought as the Soviets in World war II. Sadly 2 of my Granduncle's Great granduncle didn't make it, they only survived until 1941.

@FoxysGameNetwork Год назад

I'm not sure if you're really interested or not but the Crusades would be a cool subject to cover, you're very interesting to listen to you and do a good job portraying what you were talking about.

@mathewkelly9968 Год назад

I feel I panned your PNG Australia vs Japan video like a year ago , this is much better Griffin keep up the good work

@firstsspanzerdivision1537 Год назад

I was dying for you to do a remake of this

@syedlam9632 Год назад

You never disappoint us with your contents

@rickysifuentes3121 Год назад

amazing video never disappoint love this chanel

@ezsu 3 месяца назад

That's a really good work !

@L3GIT349 Год назад

The fact that after being nearly defeated and fighting a war, the Soviet Union was still able to become a superpower during the Cold War says volumes about how powerful they were

@Discussors Год назад

Tbh I doubt the Soviets would've been defeated even if they had lost Moscow since there was a planned counterattack to retake the city and continue the fight. During the winter of 1941, the Soviets had deployed the Siberian snow divisions to completely stop the germans as the weather worsened the German logistics and after 1941 any hopes of defeating the USSR wouldve been dashed as more soviets would be conscripted to fight the enemy as the germans would keep losing men they couldn't replace.

@futuretimetraveller8677 Год назад

and just how stupid the nazis were

@Troopertroll Год назад

It's exactly like the Russo-Ukranian war. What stopped the Swift Victory was the unforeseen level of local resistance and unprecedented amounts of materiel support from allies.

@matztz_4560 Год назад

@@Troopertroll was The stunning Manpower and industrial capacity that made The soviets Win, The leand-lease represents like 4%~ of The soviet production, most of The land lease come for The brits

@eridjonavdulaj2386 Год назад

@@Discussors no 😂. Soviets won against Hitler with the help of the allies . If IT was 1 vs 1 Hitler would defeated soviets

@pipi_delina Год назад

I love your art and history narrative

@mattstakeontheancients7594 Год назад

Love these videos. The animation has constantly improved and the actual info has always been spot on. Would love to do something like this but with ancient history.

@Enzo012 Год назад

I always like seeing Steiner's counter offensive guys there. They'll bring the situation under control.

@classiccorvega5989 Год назад

I must say the armchair historian has come a long way. Truly a marvelous video

@jamiemcintosh3030 Год назад

He did repeat lies and obfuscation over the Viet Nam and the Korean Wars. Luna Oi Nguyen debunks him.

@dwightd.eisenhower2031 Год назад

@@jamiemcintosh3030 get better

@jamiemcintosh3030 Год назад

@@dwightd.eisenhower2031 Whom? I?

@dwightd.eisenhower2031 Год назад

@@jamiemcintosh3030 yes

@jamiemcintosh3030 Год назад

@@dwightd.eisenhower2031 Why, Sir or Madam, or Miss?

@jacob4920 Год назад

Should have played that meme-worthy scene, from the movie "Downfall," during the key part of battle, when Hitler basically lost his sh!t, and finally lost his will to fight on. It would have just been so perfect. And even though I have watched that scene basically a hundred times already, I would have happily watched it again.

@pyromania1018 Год назад

It was in the "Endsieg" video, but yeah, it should have been here, too.

@andrewsmith3257 Год назад

"Sist ohneir!" Throws pen

@davidw.2791 Год назад

@@pyromania1018 Full title of the Endsieg video, please?

@pyromania1018 Год назад

@@davidw.2791 Endsieg: Germany's Final Plan to Win WWII

@davidw.2791 Год назад

@@pyromania1018 Thank you! (Although the Hitler in the thumbnail of that video looked more anime-like, lol.)

@gnufz8623 Год назад

Great opening! The 8th guards army was definitely NOT watching the rays of the morning sun glistening on the icey waters of the Oder river - that would have meant they were looking eastwards... 😂😂😂

@spainwithoutthes101 Год назад

Legend has it Hitler is still waiting for Steiner to have enough units

@spainwithoutthes101 Год назад

I’m not falling for that scam

@obamaprism8990 Год назад

Another absolute W from The Armchair Historian, love the videos man.

@johanderuiter9842 7 месяцев назад

No hasty withdrawal leaving behind $1.8Bn here. Here we fought until the last building, until the last man.

@Martinlegend Год назад

18:44 Giggitti!

@therealgeneralMacArthur Год назад

May your pillow always be warm on both sides and your chick fil a cravings only come on sundays

@nooneasked726 Год назад

family guy reference (real)

@bird6107 Год назад

@@therealgeneralMacArthur what is your problem

@therealgeneralMacArthur Год назад

@@bird6107 borderline personality disorder, why do you ask?

@bird6107 Год назад

@@therealgeneralMacArthur L

@sunnyd8585 8 месяцев назад

The saddest thing about the Battle of Berlin was that children were brainwashed to believe that it was their duty to defend the city to the last man.

@OscarSommerbo Год назад

The fall of Berlin is an underreported event, thanks for this video. But I suspect there is even more to uncover in this area.

@timothyhouse1622 Год назад

It is underreported because in Western schools when you learn about World War 2 they go out of their way to make the Eastern front sound like a side story instead of the Main Event. The vast majority of German troops and material were sent east to be put in the meat grinder. The Allies in the Western theatre didn't see armies even half the size, even during the Ardennes Offensive.

@stc3145 Год назад

@@timothyhouse1622 And Eastern schools dont learn how significant the Western part truly was.

@timothyhouse1622 Год назад

@@stc3145 I'm sure you actually don't know what Eastern school curriculum is and just felt the need to defend against someone saying the west ignores Soviet contributions. bUt RuSsiA cOuLdnT wIn wiThOuT lEnD LeAsE. Well, maybe, but the Allies couldnt win without the Soviets.

@talknight2 Год назад

It isn't underreported, it's THE best-known Eastern Front battle except maybe Stalingrad.

@sebe2255 Год назад

@@timothyhouse1622 No they don’t, they obviously focus on their own country’s history more. When it comes to most kids in school you can be glad if 10% of thr knowledge is retained

@gre3nishsinx0Rgold4 Год назад

I'd love to see a video similar to this but on the pacific front. The last battle before the nukes were dropped.

@fredhanosky6176 Год назад

Well researched information.

@test-kx9vb Год назад

It's crazy to think that in just about two weeks around 200.000 people (soldiers and civilians) were killed in this battle for Berlin! What a bloodbath! And what a senseless one, the war was lost anyways. Beyond mind-blowing.

@FriendlyMexican2005 Год назад

I have an idea, what if you attach various operations or battles of the Japanese imperial army in a single video to explain the war in the Pacific?

@AleksWorkshop Год назад

Don't let Kanye see this

@js1423 Год назад

Let him watch it. Loser is unhinged and makes Mr Jones look reasonable

@FunwithCaleb22 Год назад

Very nice thank you for the video❤

@VaderPopsVicodin10 Месяц назад

Honestly never seen anything else done like this before.. very very cool. Well done!!

@EiGay Год назад

Hello, I've been following your channel for a while and I came to make a suggestion, what do you think about making a video about the evolution of the Brazilian army uniform???? I think it would make a good video!

@louthegiantcookie Год назад

Can you imagine if Hitler got captured alive by the Russians? God only knows what Stalin would have done to him. I heard somewhere that he wanted to put Hitler in Moscow Zoo as an exhibit, but I don't know the veracity of that, though he was certainly cruel enough to pull such a stunt.