D-Day - The Atlantic Wall - Extra History - Part 4

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📜 History of D-Day, The Great Crusade, Part 4
The Germans had established a secure barrier against the Allied invasion of France - or so they believed until the D-Day landings in Normandy caught them by surprise and the Atlantic Wall quickly fell apart.
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@extrahistory 5 лет назад

Listen to this Extra History series as a podcast! becausegamesmatter.com/podcast

@samuelbonell8850 5 лет назад

Yeet

@bigyoshiofficial 4 года назад

Yeet

@tuxedobird9227 4 года назад

Yeet

@XxAryaxX 4 года назад

YEeeEEeet

@campwang9861 4 года назад

yeet

@elroyscout 7 лет назад

Poor Romel, the guy is one of the few dudes who remember his girl's special day, he has it all planned in advance... but freedom had other plans!

@tidewater5679 7 лет назад

Christopher OBrien he was also killed unfairly

@GearyDigit 7 лет назад

I know. If only he was there on the scene, the invasion could've been done with less Allied casualties!

@smejkal1846 7 лет назад

yeah, he killed himself

@epicfailurecz2083 7 лет назад

"Sweat saves blood. Blood saves lives. But brains... brains saves both."

@Freekymoho 7 лет назад

To my knowledge he wasnt exactly a friend of hitler's. Beyond repeatedly ignoring orders to kill civilians and prisoners, i believe he was also involved in a plot to kill the fuhrer.

@marylandkinnie 5 лет назад

“Rommel also had a _personal_ relationship with Hitler” *That could be taken in so many different ways*

@animo9050 4 года назад

Yea

@WatcherCobalt 4 года назад

Time for some slash fics!

@magoswes3588 4 года назад

This is too heretical for me

@funtimefredboi3877 4 года назад

@@magoswes3588 thats impresif tohear from two Chaos gods

@magoswes3588 4 года назад

Phantom Freddy I’m not from slannesh

@windlegendz3570 6 лет назад

"WE NEED TANKS IN NORMANDY!" "Did the Fuhrer say you could move the tanks from Paris?" "No, contact him immediately!" "Uh, he's asleep." "..."

@jumajasjas2925 5 лет назад

Too good to be true

@elroyscout 5 лет назад

Cue Nazi table flip

@trasyndha2368 5 лет назад

@@elroyscout That seems to be one of their favourite things to do, flip tables. WHAT DID THE TABLES DO TO YOU?

@AlechiaTheWitch 3 года назад

**** i imagine rommel was like ****

@awesomeaiden5218 3 года назад

“ ;-; “

@MURPHYCHACHO 5 лет назад

...but did Rommel's wife like the shoes he got her?

@massineben7198 5 лет назад

*Now we are asking the real questions*

@trasyndha2368 5 лет назад

Yeah, who cares about d-day? (I do!) we want to know about Rommel's wife and her new shoes!

@eugenio5774 5 лет назад

they were the wrong size actually.

@trasyndha2368 5 лет назад

Oof... all that for the wrong size shoe, poor Rommel...

@firstconsul7286 5 лет назад

That is the important question

@stickmanhistory8598 5 лет назад

Here's a fun fact: Those mines that jumped into the air (mentioned early in the video) were referred to as “de-bollockers” by the British due to the extensive damage caused to the area around the gentials (“Bollocks” being British slang for testicles). Just thought some people might enjoy that.

@lightmetro7508 5 лет назад

They were also nicknamed bouncing Betty's by the Americans I believe

@seashellguy9416 Год назад

imagining being a female brit soldier and being attacked by one of those

@mewmew8932 Год назад

the world's worst nut shot

@JackWithaCrown Месяц назад

@@seashellguy9416i get what you’re saying but women didn’t actually fight too often, they were mostly navy cooks, air force workers or army radio techs.

@badoodadoodadoo7653 5 лет назад

Fun Fact about Rommel: Rommel served in WWI in the west, Romania, and Italy. At the battle of Caperetto, he used a small company of infantry to climb up an entire hill and captures 9000 PRISONERS!

@copycat7685 5 лет назад

I can see Vegeta crushing his scouter while reading this.

@rodneyjenkins2578 Год назад

0-0

@germanogirardelli Год назад

Easy when fighting the Italians. Officers up to high command were absolute idiots.

@EtherealWonders1216 Год назад

Why did you emphasize prisoners

@glfagle-grindle7754 Год назад

Rommel also served in Africa and was nicknamed the " desert fox"

@topsekrit9836 6 лет назад

Erwin: Ok, I am here to give you a surprise! An Officer comes in: The allies have landed in Normandy! Erwin's Wife: Is this the surprise?

@shanesiddall69 4 года назад

Enrichment17 ya lol

@gam3rtim352 7 лет назад

I'm learning more about WW2 here than from school.

@devonalexreckon6048 7 лет назад

Tyler Richard you have a bad school

@zockertwins 7 лет назад

Guess you live in Germany then ?

@cpMetis 7 лет назад

If it's not on the tests, they don't teach it.

@moartems5076 7 лет назад

Tyler Richard in austria we depressingly learn mostly about war crimes (especially KZ's) and very little about the military story. but hey at least us&a predated us in eugenic and race thinking, we just did the "real" thing. *sarkasm*

@VI5ix6 7 лет назад

DPR i am appalled at that

@WargamingEurope 7 лет назад

aaand we're live with the last episode! Hope you have enjoyed the series.

@gonotgone1 7 лет назад

Wargaming Europe it's great to see you guys supporting Extra Credit I already enjoy playing the games but seeing the history brought to life like this makes it even better

@martinconway8174 7 лет назад

More of this

@gianniskaranikolas3948 7 лет назад

Wargaming Europe We. Need. More.

@dan7564 7 лет назад

Last episode? The ending made it sound like a stay tuned.

@josmeijers2818 7 лет назад

I personally do not like any your games, but i sure do appreciate wargaming for sponsoring this series. good job !!!

@sultanmutschi 7 лет назад

i liked that they showed a view from the german forces what went wrong and how the commandline worked. It gives you an idear how the Wehrmacht worked and how corrupted the chain of command was. Its nice to see that instead of the constant allied view especiall the only ones who were big shown in documentarys are the british or american but never the other forces who joines the allies

@slorvidask5867 7 лет назад

"tiny"

@EternalGaming786 7 лет назад

Yeah, Showing Americans/U.K like they single handedly won entire war is wrong :o

@ragzaugustus 6 лет назад

It was also pretty corrupt.

@maxmuller8633 4 года назад

@@EternalGaming786 Say that to every Hollywood movie

@AlechiaTheWitch 3 года назад

@@EternalGaming786 while yes in europr yes. In the pacific no. We turned back the japanese at Australia at port moresby, we flipped the offensive we stopped them from rushing across china in iran and taking the oil fields almost dooming the british even more.

@LittleJimmy835 7 лет назад

7:30 So you're telling me, in addition to every other horrible thing about Hitler, he was also lazy.

@fangorn23 6 лет назад

And he took drugs recreationally. I read that he would hype himself up on the drug equivalent to methamphetamines before he went out to deliver his speeches. Which explains to me why his gestures are so wild and frankly over-dramatic for what is supposed to be a serious political leader speaking directly to his people/troops. It was a different time. the idea of being addicted and facing withdrawals and side effects from drugs just never occurred to most people. One of the most popular things American citizens sent to troops was a gift package that included a couple doses of heroin and other drugs to "keep up morale", or maybe that was WW1, either way it wasnt that long ago during WW2

@JasonDoe1000 6 лет назад

fangorn23 German elite troops and many panzer battalions were also given out "Panzerschokolade" which was pure methamphetamines

@kingkong381 6 лет назад

He regularly slept in late and spent a lot of his waking hours watching movies in a private cinema.

@xornxenophon3652 6 лет назад

My gosh! Killing 80 millions people is an ugly trait, but also being lazy is simply unacceptable! Imagine what a Hitler that was energetic and had a positive attitude towards hard work could have achieved (sarcasm off).

@festethephule7553 5 лет назад

@bigbenhoward I mean...to be honest, it kinda isn't.

@penguinatee210 6 лет назад

Even if he was a Nazi, I respect Erwin Rommel and his tactics, he was truly a war genius with lots of great speeches to give

@cgaccount3669 5 лет назад

I heard he was a nazi with a twist. He never committed war crimes and openly defied orders to do so. He also treated prisoners with respect. Go figure

@trasyndha2368 5 лет назад

Never knew he was honorable... well... he did have some good tactics, i think our armored divisions still use some of his tactics.

@maxmuller8633 4 года назад

@@trasyndha2368 They sure do, Blitzkrieg for example

@kylefitz.2639 4 года назад

@@cgaccount3669 He never joined the NSDAP

@duyanh4609 2 года назад

@@cgaccount3669 he commited some war crimes ,not too much but not innocent

@HOVNA 7 лет назад

I always used to skip Extra History. Now Im binge-watching it.

@silverdays2909 4 года назад

Yeah boi

@ganaaganaa7657 Год назад

Good good......... good.........good

@alanlowstuter9698 Год назад

Same

@dernwine 7 лет назад

oooh I genuienly did not expect a German PoV episode for this. Well played EC, very well played!

@dams6829 6 лет назад

Logical Phallusy Nobody expects German POV!

@gierhardtsloan8502 7 лет назад

"I aim to shred" -Rommel's asparagus *1944*

@AudieHolland 4 года назад

Rommel's inundated land: welcome to knee-deep water, American paratrooper. In the dark, without a 'quick-release' system like the British had, many American paratroopers landed in knee to waist-deep water, became entangled in their parachute lines and could not orientate themselves in the dark, in the wet, cold water. So they drowned.

@marcinmazurek8124 7 лет назад

Rommel is an interesting figure, I wonder if we'll eventually have some episodes on him. Yes, I know - there's a general taboo on German generals, but Rommel was well respected even by his enemies.

@anteerceg527 6 лет назад

that would be great!

@Ol_Bron 5 лет назад

Fun fact: Rommel actually disliked the Nazi party.

@jackson0335 5 лет назад

@@Ol_Bron that sounds about right, after all he was intelligent

@trasyndha2368 5 лет назад

Ever seen the greatest tank battle episode on battle of 73' easting?

@captainrev4959 4 года назад

Fun fact: Rommel openly defied Hitler‘s orders to commit war crimes quite frequently.

@TaliZVasTyria 7 лет назад

Spoiler The germans lost the defenses of the atlantic wall

@saddenedwiseman810 7 лет назад

Archangel_Omega You are bloody kidding me! Dude, way to ruin the entire series now. I do not even know what to say....and I even thought germany had this fight in the bag....

@TaliZVasTyria 7 лет назад

Saddened Wiseman then i don't think you wanna know what happened to hitler

@lynnusuk2092 7 лет назад

spoiler he killed him self in the bunker while Berlin is at siege

@dementedbowine8681 6 лет назад

somehow we all saw that coming

@Trizz_. 5 лет назад

@Archangel_Omega I hate you for that

@derAedil 7 лет назад

6th of June 1944 Allies are turning the war Normandy state of anarchy Overlord!

@noHarmony1 7 лет назад

At that point the war had already turned.

@prowhiskey2678 7 лет назад

derAedil yeaaah primo victoria

@PeterP_ 7 лет назад

Aiming for heaven though serving in hell Victory is ours their forces will fall!

@jameschebahtah 7 лет назад

NoHarmony they are song lyrics

@noHarmony1 7 лет назад

Oh, I wasn´t aware that it was a song, sry. What do you mean with misinformation? If you want to name a turning point in the war you could name Stalingrad or some others, but certainly not the invasion of Normandy. By that point in time the war was pretty much decided.

@NotSaddamHussein 7 лет назад

victory long way ahead? nah, it will be over before christmas.

@TaliZVasTyria 7 лет назад

Gorbag Quick-Blades battle of the bulge quote ftw

@DarkTider 7 лет назад

Sane people: Right, let's get to invading Germany and end this war quickly! Tally hoo!! De Gaulle: Nooo, you meanies! I want Pariiis so I can become presideeeeent!

@Rayan-bj8wn 7 лет назад

Over Before Christmas™

@robertli3600 7 лет назад

well I guess you can say that compared to the soviets who fought for 4 years now. The american invasion didnt really last that long

@winstonball6821 7 лет назад

Hello, Mr. Hussein

@xolaya 3 года назад

4:20 the allies landing on the belgian border WOULD be quite unexpected.

@thesillyone3837 3 года назад

I saw that aswell

@safe-keeper1042 2 года назад

lol

@desmay2studios Год назад

lol

@danielwensink7792 7 лет назад

Nazis were there own worse enemy at times.

@spindash64 7 лет назад

Daniel Wensink I was watching band of brothers a week or so ago, and when they got to the part where, commenting on how even in surrender the German troops kept their chins up in pride, my immediate though was, "that's no surrender, that's a successful retreat from the Russians" Honestly, everyone but Hitler and a select few wanted the war to be over by that point. They wanted to sue for peace, of course, which means they probably wouldn't have tried to sully their own name with the little camps they set up, but you get the picture

@crimsonclover87 3 года назад

Do you mean all the time?

@LCErus 7 лет назад

PLEASE do a series on the Eastern Front, it is not nearly covered enough in a lot of US history classes

@rustyslug2943 7 лет назад

doubt it was more than a year cause verdun is the longest one and it was about 312 days

@The-mw3hc 7 лет назад

us history not Russian or german history

@dams6829 6 лет назад

InFamous Memes It kinda wasn't one battle but kinda meatgrinder with over 1 million dead.

@davehoffman4659 5 лет назад

LCErus well, this channel does have Kursk! I'm sure it has Leningrad! No? Ok, I'll keep looking. How about Stalingrad? No? Ok, but it HAS to at least mention Guderian, right? NO?! Ok then...

@AlechiaTheWitch 3 года назад

They did one on kursk

@extrahistory 7 лет назад

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@napoleonibonaparte7198 7 лет назад

Extra Credits You forgot to mention a Korean in the German ranks in DDay.

@glukolover 7 лет назад

Spawn more Overlords! Also is it just me, or does Hitlers mannerisms have a striking resemblance to Trump? Narcissistic in the extreme, Incompetency run amok, Spending inordinate amounts of time doing little to nothing, while also being thin skinned egomaniacs. IDK, I just notice these things.

@Lucas-wq9tp 7 лет назад

Extra Credits yeah it worked and can you please do some videos about the war of 1812

@mcchicken1899 7 лет назад

Extra Credits-Do the Revolutionary War and The Civil War or The Space race!!! :)

@dernwine 7 лет назад

Do we get a lies episode?

@KaiserAfini 7 лет назад

The more I watch, the more I notice how MoH:Allied Assault got D Day right. The panic, the gauntlet of traps amidst a hail of fire, the struggle for each step forward, the relief and absolute elation at conquering such a trial, its very impressive how well they captured it.

@InnerProp 7 лет назад

Boy I'll bet those sneaky Allies will make an amphibious landing on the French - Belgian border 4:20

@piggyblitz4404 5 лет назад

I have to disagree with you, I think they will invade through Germany

@itsyodoom9180 4 года назад

*420*

@ChaosAbandon 4 года назад

Oliver Tena nice pp

@AuroraAustralis_ 5 лет назад

5:00 German officers: *Go on vacation.* Allied Paratroopers: “Allow us to introduce ourselves.”

@davidanderson9735 6 лет назад

Who turned the German spy into a double agent It Was walpole

@LandonB10 5 лет назад

The 20 comitee

@reginaldcopperbottom468 3 года назад

Agent walpole

@paisleepunk 3 года назад

Perhaps one of Walpole's descendants. People from the 1700s have several.

@DarkTider 7 лет назад

So, why were the German panzer divisions in Paris and didn't move until- It was Walpole!

@ziadhaithemamin1431 7 лет назад

*COUGH COUGH 6:07 the mg42 didn't go ratatatatatatat It went brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt

@NinjaAO42 5 лет назад

Im not a military tactician just a nobody but I have my thoughts on Rundstedt and Rommel's argument on Panzer placement: Y'know they could have split the panzers into two groups, the crack force under Rommel to strike at the supposed beaches during landings while the reserve force near Paris is under Rundstedt so if the Allied did land somewhere unexpected he could cover Rommel there and be flexible

@QubicTriangleW Год назад

It wouldn’t work because the flexibility isn’t possible in harsh weather + moving such a force in that time is proved to be imposible

@lordkarasu2263 5 лет назад

5:05-“no one ever expects the American inquisition”.

@Attaxalotl 3 года назад

*[Freedom noises intensify]*

@viniciussouza3139 7 лет назад

I'm afraid Rommel wasn't that young...

@commandervex1626 7 лет назад

They probably were saving time with making the characters all young so they don't have to do as much, since this is a side series and they have to do the main one as well

@Ikelae 7 лет назад

He, and a few other Field Marshals during this era, were very young for the position. Only six of the field marshals active during the war were born after 1890. (Out of twenty-six) It is also worth noting that four of the six field marshals born after this date, were promoted in 1945. Many of his peers had around 10 years on him, Rundstedt was born 16 years before Rommel for example. So yeah, not young, but young when compared to whom he was surrounded by; and the position he held.

@nunosilva9896 5 лет назад

@@maxchangarrido7841 most of the leadership in the army were not nazi. Hitler didnt even like most of his generals, who were descendents from the traditional prussian nobility. They were soldiers, not politicians. But they were very capable leaders, thus Hitler used them. Uncle Joe did the opposite though.

@erinong193 5 лет назад

Not all generals we're nazis a lot we're from ww1

@snens7179 5 лет назад

@@erinong193 thats correct. Rommel for example was a lower ranking infantry officer in ww1 that stayed in the army after the war and climbed his way up between the wars.

@richardputz3233 5 лет назад

My grandfather was in the Regina Rifles who were part of the Dieppe landing mess and DDay.He missed both operations.Before Dieppe he came down with the mumps and stayed in hospital.He spectacularly broke his leg falling off the cargo net

@thevoidlookspretty7079 4 года назад

I love the animation of the soldier breaking through at Omaha. I can feel his fury. “If one more jerry throws a shell at my head, I’m gonna lose it!”

@ThePaperTowelBandit. 3 года назад

9:00

@sea_triscuit7980 5 лет назад

I knew an elderly man that fought at Utah beach. Not to mention my great grandfather served as a marine in the Pacific theater. Idk much about him unfortunately but he was a great man from what I hear. I can't even imagine what it must've been like, 80+ years later and many still don't understand what its like to truly fight a real evil.

@dgmisal1979 7 лет назад

The Fall of Rome would be a super cool topic.

@dgmisal1979 7 лет назад

AS would the collapse of Roman Britain.

@VoidOfDarkness9 7 лет назад

+dgmisal1979 West or east?

@dgmisal1979 7 лет назад

Misheel Tubshinbaatar either would cool, though i was imagining west

@VoidOfDarkness9 7 лет назад

@Isolder74 7 лет назад

To everyone complaining that they want more detail go watch, The Longest Day. Come on they can't tell everything in so short of a time. Even The Longest Day leaves stuff out.

@MrChickennugget360 7 лет назад

or read a book. there are thousands of them written on this subject

@jackozbloke5079 7 лет назад

The Grinders Of The East: Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad. That would be good.

@Alex-if1hc 7 лет назад

I dont think the Axis ever got to Moscow

@Sahil-oq8ki 7 лет назад

Made in Hungary They made it very close, but were driven back (I think before Stalingrad). EH mentions it in the battle of Kursk episodes iirc

@danthemann5655 7 лет назад

They did that already.

@JasonDoe1000 6 лет назад

Kaiza The idiocy of the german high command to underestimate the russian winter was also playing a great role in the strategic defeat at Moscow, slowed down the forces immensly and stopped them from digging in But the casualities were in total a million, not on both sides, the germans had far fewer losses than the soviets

@maxmuller8633 4 года назад

@@JasonDoe1000 Bad thing they didn't invade in 2020, global warming will defuse the winter

@TaliZVasTyria 7 лет назад

Next episode: battle of the bulge?

@GamesCourier 7 лет назад

Sadly it's the last one already. Look at Wargaming's comment.

@John190assman 7 лет назад

Uh yes that would be nice. Its the most least covered of them all.

@TaliZVasTyria 7 лет назад

GamesCourier yes but who knows other ww2 game companies can sponsor it I remember battle of the bulge was the definitive last stand of germany before the allies US reaches berlin It HAS to be worth covering PS: The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 - 25 January 1945) was the last major German offensive campaign in its western theater during World War II. It's worth it

@dernwine 7 лет назад

Please no. Give us something less well known/thoroughly covered.

@zaydhamid9536 7 лет назад

dernwine Yes! Like William Wallace

@glitch3141 7 лет назад

I'm so happy that Rommel is here in Extra History. The guy was a master tactician, and he deserves more recognition.

@rjfaber1991 7 лет назад

+Siegfried Black - True to an extent; he was good, but ultimately still humand, and he did lose in North Africa in the end. What is of course notable about Rommel is that he was probably the most noble and gentlemanly of all the high-placed Nazis; in many ways he acted more like an old Prussian general than a Nazi one.

@sarasamaletdin4574 7 лет назад

Yes, he is a bit overrated since since him having a "master tactician" image makes it look better if his opponents did not do great. And people want image of some German who can be seen just being patriotic with his actions.

@ahcomcody 7 лет назад

my friend recommended me to this channel, and I got addicted to this channel, keep the great videos up!

@mountainman5173 5 лет назад

great series of videos. I'm 47, and a huge WW2 buff, but there were more than a few things that I didn't know! Impressively researched, narrated and illustrated. Well done young man!

@serialkillerwhale 7 лет назад

Fun Fact: The Canadians at Juno pushed so far forwards despite heavy resistance (arguably second only to Omaha), that they were forced to retreat, due to British forces at Sword and Gold beach both being too far back to hold their Flanks, in part due to a Tea break on the very day of the invasion itself.

@Ben_Hughes 7 лет назад

I really love your Extra History series, especially your WW2 ones. Thank you so much for making them!!!

@HPmcDoogle 6 лет назад

2:43 *"I aim to shred"* All that needed was some ominous zoom, darkening background and the famous low-pitched comedy evil laugh as we let that sink in.

@RoberttheWise 7 лет назад

Now get Paradox and Eugen Systems to sponsor Extra History about Operation Overlord as a promo for "Steel Division: Normandy 44"

@jenniferc6285 6 лет назад

the sheer magnitude and awesomeness of this war is why i am soo obsessed with it

@nathank2289 7 лет назад

Love this series, wish you guys would go on till the surrender of Germany

@austinhunter1586 7 лет назад

1:39 aw.. he's so happy >3

@firepheonix1584 7 лет назад

want to surprise his wife but gets surprised himself, poor Rommel :\

@AudieHolland 4 года назад

On "Utah Beach," the landing forces suffered the lowest number of soldiers killed: 197. Almost 500 were wounded but there an additional 575 losses among navy and airforce. A staggering 2500 Airborne troops were wounded of whom 238 died.

@nyl0n733 6 лет назад

LOL when you said they started hearing aircraft engines a propeller plane flew right over my house.

@novaimperator1526 7 лет назад

Erwin Rommel, best field marshal and husband lol May he rest in peace.

@Yogasefski 7 лет назад

Can't wait to see what's next! Will it be the allied blunder of Market Guarding, or will we move to the Pacific and witness the massive Battle of Midway? Time will tell, excellent work!

@colinj69 7 лет назад

I wanna see a Battle of the Bulge episode eventually!

@darthmike101 7 лет назад

Hey guys, this episode isn't in the complete Extra History playlist. A small oversight. Wanted to let you know so it doesn't hamper anyone else trying to watch through :) Continue doing amazing work. Because History Matters.

@greattea3228 6 лет назад

R.I.P ROMMEL

@superbear4227 6 лет назад

man, these episodes do a good job of illustrating just how long, bloody and exhausting the war really was.

@demonetization5416 5 лет назад

_"I am _*_Heavy Weapons Guy..._*_ and THIS: _*_6:06_*_ is my weapon..."_ *_"YATATATATATATA YATATATATATA YATATATATATOOOOOO!"_*

@Oblivisci........ 7 лет назад

Great series, guys! I have been so excited every time I get a notice that no matter what Im doing I end up glued to my phone. I would absolutely love to see one on the battle for Okinawa. I think the depth and importance of this battle has not been told enough. It was a very dark time in the Pacific, but it showed the tenacious resolve of the Americans. Plus, my fiancee is Okinawan.

@CommissarMitch 7 лет назад

I honestly feel bad for the German man. He just took a day off to treat his wife.

@spindash64 7 лет назад

Cegesh I'm not feeling bad for the nazi, I'm feeling bad for the man. Heck, even if someone IS a complete piece of s***, it's better to at least recognize that they are, in fact, a human being, which means that it's not wrong to feel some sense of pity for general misfortune. That is different from condoning their acts, even if it doesn't seem so. I don't condone robbing banks, but if I saw a bank robber getting tortured, no one would say I was a robber sympathizer or such for feeling bad for him.

@FrickThePainAway 6 лет назад

Cegesh I may be wrong, but Rommel was involved in the assassination attempt on Hitler. It did fail, but Rommel died for his involvement.

@homersimpson6585 5 лет назад

Cegesh not all nazis are evil they’re human too not only Germany committed war crimes every country during the war committed war crimes and the soviets did worse

@thegreatboi8357 5 лет назад

@Cegesh he did follow the killing orders of jews and soldiers

@stephenodell9688 5 лет назад

@@FrickThePainAway It is hard to say how involved he was. All that had to happen was some one to say Rommel knew about it was enough to get him convicted. It was then just like to day where some on can tell some thing to the press and they are considered guilty but then it was the secret police. You know who I mean.

@marcus7564 7 лет назад

Glad you looked at the germans. No matter what you think of someone historically I think its always good to view and understand events, triumphs and tragedies from everyone's view point. It must have been terrifying being a solider defending the beaches, seeing a unending onslaught of allies overwhelming you. While it not easy for any side, at least attacking there is a way out to aim for. I can't imagine having the courage to hold a beach like the German soldiers had to. I think I would surrender pretty quick. I wonder if they kept on thinking they just had to hold long enough for the panzer's to arrive, idk.

@cup_check_official 7 лет назад

more plis! awesome animation btw. i wish i could do animation like this :/

@LautaroTessi 2 месяца назад

I know there’s Saving Private Ryan as the best to-day D-Day representation, but I think there should be a blockbuster movie that shows this extensively. Maybe some day…

@sunjian5458 7 лет назад

6:06 MG-42 going RATATATATATA. Ha ha...yeah right. That thing goes VRRRRRRRRR when it fires. Like splitting cloth, hence the nickname: Hitler's Buzzsaw

@mateussilva635 7 лет назад

Sunjian 54 Really???

@sunjian5458 7 лет назад

Yes, 25 rounds a second

@mateussilva635 7 лет назад

Sovek I was sarcasticly referring to the nitpicking, though now I feel bad for not making it clear enough

@sunjian5458 7 лет назад

No, the gun fired so fast that the barrel would get extremely hot true, but thats why gun crews had 2 sometimes 3 spare barrels. With a slight tug on a switch you could pull the barrel out and slide in a new one. It took about 7 seconds, and that's what most Allied troopers waited for when advancing toward an MG position, the barrel change.

@jwhine 6 лет назад

MG-42 go skrrrra pa pa ka ka ka

@weathermanwx9199 7 лет назад

I always found the story of the Falaise Pocket and the Destruction of Heersgruppe B to be very interesting. It was what ended Overlord to be the overwhelmingly Decisive victory that it was.

@sic2344 7 лет назад

5:33 "We didn't penetrate their armor!" At some point you should probably look up a video of an MG 42 firing, because it definately doesn't go "ratatata". It was nicknamed "Hitler's Buzzsaw" for a reason. Also, if WG's idea of outreach is throwing money at Extra History, I like it. Keep it up!

@Maxislithium 7 лет назад

Thank you for reminding people of Juno. Never shall we forget, nore shall we forget the efforts of our allies.

@1agentchase108 6 лет назад

9:01 Which of you fuckers sank my tanks!

@samsignorelli 5 лет назад

A minor detail....but thank you for orienting the beach obstacles correctly...specifically, the ones that were a bipod mount facing inland and a long pole from the apex leading toward the beach. It was designed to tip over any craft running up on it. Many of them in the D-Day scene from "Saving Private Ryan" were facing the wrong way.

@darkspire91 7 лет назад

6:05 I assume the artist doesn't understand the concept of having a pistol grip?

@Artur_M. 7 лет назад

darkspire91 Oh my, I haven't notice it at first. That is an interesting way of holding a MG.

@klorin2846 7 лет назад

And the way he's gripping the barrel

@pretzelbomb6105 6 лет назад

Looks painful, considering that’s 1800 rounds a minute recoiling into your wrist

@MehrumesDagon 6 лет назад

technically speaking that's what the buttstock is for...

@trasyndha2368 5 лет назад

Anybody want a broken wrist or some major bruising?

@petestrong7434 4 года назад

I am proud to say I had family in this war...bless you all you amazing vets 😢😢😢😢😢😭😭

@lottiehouston7983 6 лет назад

Can you do Gallipoli I would really love to know all sides of the Gallipoli landing not just the Australian one thanks you you guys are the best

@crodyleger4771 6 лет назад

Thanks so much I hope this channel never dies

@el_ias2094 7 лет назад

in early 1944, I think most top-ranking generals knew the war was going really badly. Perhaps Hitler and some of his generals acted on purpose to ensure the Allies established a proper beachhead, so they could get to the german Heartland before the Soviets did?

@vulturearmy3780 7 лет назад

Honeypie 23 Hitler doesn't seem like the person to give up so easily. He was very confident In his abilities to stop the allies from landing on Normandy.

@orsaz924 3 месяца назад

It's funny to me that the day I decide to watch an Extra History series about D-Day is the day a national TV channel (France 2) decides to talk about mine-clearing operations (and they did so twice, at 1pm and at 8pm ; the first was an RAF bomb in a village and the second an anti-tank mine on a stick weighed down by cement on a beach)

@orsaz924 3 месяца назад

p.s : at the time of writing, we are on the 22nd of May 2024 (or May 22nd 2024)

@orsaz924 3 месяца назад

(p.s.)² : this year will be the 80th anniversary of the event

@goobins_jr 6 лет назад

8:43 I guess you could say Hitler’s somewhat Reich....I’ll show myself out.

@singleton1063 7 лет назад

My great-grandfather fought on D-Day. He was a private and at the end of the day his was commanding his platoon. All of his superiors had died.

@creativecreatov_levi2601 7 лет назад

Boy do I love your vids. Keep up the great work

@TheHoodiedThief 7 лет назад

I like how u start and end each episode on some sort of cliffhanger like we dont know whats gonna happen next even though we do. Its like watching a prank then watching a reaction to a prank.

@Aksuuuk 7 лет назад

6th of june 1944 allies are turning the war, Normandy - state of anarchy Overlord

@unknowndane4754 7 лет назад

Wouldn't it be more correct to say that it turned the moment the Germans began pushing back the Germans?

@CasperKersten 7 лет назад

Aiming for heaven, though serving in hell. Victory is ours - their forces will fall!

@headheretic1580 6 лет назад

THROUGH THE GATES OF HELL

@orsaz924 3 месяца назад

and, with this, the forces involved in D-Day have all been covered

@AnonYmous-db2yy 7 лет назад

I'm just sitting here hoping Gaijin Entertainment sponsors a series on Stalingrad just so I can make a comment about Russian bias.

@SolarFlareAmerica 7 лет назад

To be fair, Rommel is most of the reason that the defenses in Normandy existed. He suspected that Germany was being lead astray to believe that Pas de Calais was the landing point, arguing that the beaches of Normandy were PERFECT for an invasion force, and that the allies had used beaches much like them before in the Mediterranean. Unfortunately for the rest of the Germans, his protests fell on deaf ears.

@safe-keeper1042 6 лет назад

Why let some stormy weather get in the way of a great crusade.

@tfk_001 2 года назад

5:58 appreciate the random 3 dimensional drawing among all the 2d drawings

@senorjuan4772 7 лет назад

The french weren't really forced into it. They were highly taxed, but the germans payed the french contracts double to make this wall, and so they did it.

@elroyscout 7 лет назад

I think the best blanket term was the Germans gave the french the Old Pablo Escobar Dilema, and the French decided, "Fuck It... living has it's virtues" and that's how the tank traps covered the entire coast of France... one of the most Useful Resources the Allies ever stumbled upon.

@teru797 6 лет назад

Building the sophisticated bunker/concrete networks was french company doing, and they didn't have much choice. When the Germans asked them to do it, they weren't asking, they were telling them to do it. Forced slave labor was employed for most of the digging and unskilled labor work.

@liamcullen3035 7 лет назад

This series is sooo good! Thankyou very much for making it, and to Wargaming for supporting it! 💜

@invis4858 6 лет назад

Rommel went to his wife’s Surprise party where everyone got surprised

@razi7745 4 года назад

Love the animation and everything

@dokjastopsimp2370 5 лет назад

I actually like rommel hes a good general

@petersmythe6462 7 лет назад

Holy cow the Third Reich was disorganized. It's like freaking Age of Empires two with teutonic knights all sitting at the town center for minutes as the entire frontier base and all opportunities for gathering the remaining wood and stone on the map are destroyed. "You have 93 idle military units."

@oliverfox6175 6 лет назад

Hi Extra Credit, do u think you could do a couple of videos about the start of the Napoleonic war if you don’t mind, I would appreciate that.

@generalamsel4743 7 лет назад

I'm going to Normandy this week, so this series is perfect timing for me. thank u for all that u guys do.

@wolverine338 7 лет назад

Can you guys do an episode on The Seven Year War?

@homersimpson6585 5 лет назад

Jay Patel feature history did it watch it it’s interesting

@Technobabylon 6 лет назад

Before the landings, the Allies ran a training simulation in Dorset in preparation, Exercise Tiger. Thanks to a mishap of timings, the *practice run* managed to end up with 750 casualties, many killed by friendly fire, more than the death toll at Utah beach itself.

@cocososupergeek 7 лет назад

not to undermine the western allies' effort, but the eastern front was much more brutal, it dragged on for 4 years in the worst imaginable conditions.

@CallsignYukiMizuki 7 лет назад

Imho the conditions in the Pacific are equally worse

@JasonDoe1000 6 лет назад

Blacktornn I always wonder what was more important for the soviet victory, the will to fight and the sheer size of their armies or the incompetence on the german side

@aquila4460 6 лет назад

Nah, The soviets where far from collaps.

@invisibleman4827 5 лет назад

My paternal grandfather was a medic on the British beaches. At one point a German fighter, maybe a stuka or a messerschmitt, and he was so scared, he hid behind a piece of pipe 1/3 of an inch wide.

@nathansellars3757 7 лет назад

do the battle of Britain

@chrisd4169 7 лет назад

yes

@jalarasstudios414 7 лет назад

Pretty sure they already have.

@Nikarus2370 7 лет назад

They touched on it during one of the resource war episodes, but haven't had a series focusing on it alone.

@braith117 7 лет назад

You almost have to feel sorry for Rommel. The guy builds up the defenses in France, gets handicapped by Hitler, his wife's birthday gets interrupted by the invasion, and then Patton steals his desk.