Germany’s Last WW2 Offensive - Every Division, Every Day

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In March 1945, just weeks from the end of World War 2 in Europe, Germany launched a desperate attack on the Eastern Front, with its last remaining reserve of tanks. The result was a battle involving more than 600,000 troops that has been almost totally forgotten in the histories of the war. This was Operation Spring Awakening, Germany’s last offensive of the second world war.
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0:00 - Intro
0:41 - Why Hungary?
1:46 - German and Soviet Plans
3:54 - The Attack Begins
5:49 - German Breakthroughs
9:48 - Tolbukhin’s Counterstroke
11:08 - 6th Army avoid encirclement challenge (impossible)
12:20 - Squarespace
Sources:
Aleksei Isaev & Maksim Kolomiets (trans. Stuart Britton), Tomb of the Panzerwaffe
Georg Maier, Drama between Budapest and Vienna
Earl Frederick Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin: the German defeat in the east
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@johndaniel657 Год назад

"We call ourselves the 6th panzer army because we have only six panzers left." - Sepp Dietrich

@NikhilSingh-007 Год назад

based.

@srfrg9707 Год назад

"I changed my mind. call us the 4th arm... I mean the 3rd... Don't call us anymore."

@mapoch9000 Год назад

the same for the soviet second tank army in 1942. They joked it's a 2-tank army.

@Gangst3r4ever Год назад

Haha nice

@huiyinghong3073 Год назад

Germany could have recruited and re-trained REGULAR french soldiers that surrender to them in 1940 to fight in the eastern front just like the Romanians and Hungarians to make up for the shortfall in troops. Im surprised the Nazis didnt thought of that.

@napoleonibonaparte7198 Год назад

“You didn’t see a build up. *YOU DIDN’T! BECAUSE IT’S NOT THERE!”* - High Command and Dolphy

@ricardokowalski1579 Год назад

=====YOU DIDN’T! BECAUSE IT’S NOT THERE! Almost the same as ======'You didn't see graphite on the ground because it isn't there,' Denial is a powerful thing, poisons the mind and clouds the eyes.

@thecombatwombat7652 Год назад

"There is nothing there!" says the man through a telephone to the man with binoculars.

@fredrikengstrom2107 2 месяца назад

Good comment. Not great, not terrible.

@raylast3873 2 месяца назад

@@ricardokowalski1579 can you even call it denial when there is literally nothing they could have done about this. They never had the troops to stop the Soviet Attack, so whether they broke off their offensive or continued it, either approach was equally doomed. If you saw the grim reaper floating over your head, knowing he was going to reap your ass in a matter of days, you‘d probably try to ignore him, too. They probably saw the buildup and were like „yup, there‘s literally nothing we can do, so let‘s ignore this threat for now and hope it never develops, or that we can somehow do something about it later“.

@ricardokowalski1579 2 месяца назад

@@raylast3873 the denial part is not ignoring the grim reaper. The denial part is sending scores of men besides yourself. Either to clean graphite, or to attack a build up you rather not acknowledge...the issue is the moral hazard of placing someone else's live ahead of your own. Respectfully.

@autoclockk 5 месяцев назад

each town (each village even) had an entire division both attacking and defending it WW2 troop numbers were insane

@Techie1224 4 месяца назад

each village 😆

@autoclockk 4 месяца назад

@@Techie1224 thats a better word for it lol

@pekka1900 4 месяца назад

Keep in mind though that even if it says a "division" it doesn't mean that they were at anywhere near full strength. A Soviet rifle division might have 3-4000 men and a german one around 5000 maybe at this front at that time. I'm not certain though and would advice to check out for yourself.

@raylast3873 4 месяца назад

In fairness, those German „divisions“ were probably regiments or battalions in practice.

@Materialist39 Месяц назад

@@pekka1900that is accurate, infantry divisions on both sides in the east commonly had effective combat strength at about the levels you mentioned, especially if they were just standard line divisions and not SS or Guards

@obiwankenobi4252 Год назад

The comparison between this and your earliest videos shows just how much the animation has improved. As always, very clear breakdown too. Your channel truly is criminally underrated. Keep it up!

@TrickiVicBB71 Год назад

It truly has

@1977Yakko Год назад

This is just as thorough and detailed as TIK's channel.

@andrewbellavie795 Год назад

Any thoughts on the battles? I think the vids are good and he gets appropriate attention

@noone-td8rc Год назад

Obi wan kenobi

@obiwankenobi4252 Год назад

@@noone-td8rc Hello There!

@ophthalmophobicnpc8002 Год назад

My grandfather took part in Operation Spring Awakening. He served in the 1st Mountain division and was wounded, which fortunately ended the war for him.

@Dylan-lw1xc Год назад

Was he interned by the Soviets though?

@ophthalmophobicnpc8002 Год назад

@@Dylan-lw1xc No

@Dylan-lw1xc Год назад

@@ophthalmophobicnpc8002 wow that’s a very good ending for him then. Difficult to live in a war torn country for the next decade but better than a gulag.

@ophthalmophobicnpc8002 Год назад

@@ewaldvonkleist2438 He served in the Balkans fighting against partisans. I dont know if he saw or took part in any war crimes, but I do know that he was a drunkard who beat his children and usually treated my dad like dirt. If youre looking for a hero, you might want to look for someone else.

@Ukraineaissance2014 Год назад

@@ophthalmophobicnpc8002 yeah they did some pretty despicable things to the partisans

@dimakapeev3156 Год назад

A great grandfather of mine fought in the Bulgarian army on the Drava. He was an AT gunner. The Germans pushed them really hard inflicting heavy loses, while the battery was returning fire so fast the guns overheated and were barely usable. In the las moment the Soviets arrived to reinforced and saved his position. He got a medal for this day

@Comepalomas3000 Год назад

@Tim Onk have some respect...

@stoggafllik Год назад

@@Comepalomas3000 No respect for communists. Throw commies out of helicopters

@indwarrior9638 Год назад

@Tim Onk every soldier fight for their country so respect

@huiyinghong3073 Год назад

@Tim Onk But that isnt enough, i meant asking REGULAR French troops to serve in the millions as well just like the Romanians and Hungarians

@HistoryDose Год назад

Wild that this level of detail and production quality is free to watch. Great stuff.

@JRyan-lu5im Год назад

Better than history channel at its best, which directly financed broadcasts with a gauranteed audience.

@736693 Год назад

For those that say the Ardennes Offensive was the last major offensive, it was; for the Luftwaffe. A subsidiary offensive called Operation Bodenplatte occurred on January 1, 1945. The Luftwaffe strafed Allied airfields in the Netherlands, Belgium, & France. Both the Allies & Germans lost hundreds of planes. But the Luftwaffe lost too many remaining irreplaceable pilots including many group, wing, & squadron commanders.

@Thermopylae2007 Год назад

Thanks for producing such a thorough account of the battle. My parents recalled hearing the advancing Soviet columns from several kilometers to their north as they made their way towards Vienna in the aftermath of this offensive.

@Ixtzalit Год назад

Yes, the Soviets and their logistics were motorized thanks to Studebaker US7 and rail equipment provided via lend lease, thats why their units could advance fast. Without it they wouldnt have come far since the only Soviet vehicle capable of traversing terrain was the Stalinetz S-65 tractor with a max speed of 4km/h, and the standard truck in the Soviet army, ZiS-5V was an old two-wheel drive vehicle.

@edmundcowan9131 4 месяца назад

Excellent but please give a short summary of local situation and why before going into battle. 😊

@panzerabteilung 10 дней назад

well h gives a sheit about the pointless state of the war, because at this state, he kowns that when germany collapeses he is dead. he was a traittor for his country and for his armies

@connor4955 Год назад

Awesome!! Just an idea, but a HUGE project would be the Iran-Iraq War. I know that would again require a huge amount of work but, seeing this level of detail for that conflict would be awesome.

@Ronald98 Год назад

YES! omg i would love to see the Iran-iraq war! but like you said, it would be a titanic struggle to gather all the sources for it... how about a minimized version?

@warhead_beast7661 Год назад

The Operations Room did this already 😅

@connor4955 Год назад

@@warhead_beast7661 Where at? Just looked for it on their video list as I am interested but didn’t see it.

@warhead_beast7661 Год назад

@@connor4955 oh NVM I just read Iraq war not Iran-Iraq war and my brain jumped to desert storm, my bad😅

@arashrezaee1464 2 месяца назад

As an Iranian I would like to as well even though most of the war ended up being a stalemate

@maxkennedy8075 Год назад

Fantastic stuff! At this point you can really see the delusion of the situation becoming standard. Another example I can think of is the Courland pocket was not evacuated partly because the Germans planned a great sweeping offensive to Lithuania, (beating the strongest soviet armies btw) where the Courland would act as an anvil to encircle a vast number of troops. The sort of thing they could do at the start of Barbarossa and the sort of thing that was utterly delusional in 45

@noobster4779 Год назад

Courland was constantly beeing evacuated. The problem was primarily that the germans lacked the ships to do a large scale evacuation. So if they only retreated units out after a short while the defenses would be to weak and the remaining 2/3 in the pocket overrunbefore evacuation was possible. The german navy was streched to the absolute and was kept very buys with even supplying the pocket and eastern prussia to begin with. But several divisions were evacuated from the pocket and primarily static infantery units remained. The Courland pocket wasnt a big "Hitler is stupid" moment but more a reality of the war and germanys situation. The entire pocket had 2 harbours able for bigger ships and the evacuation would happen in late autumn/winter. There was no way it would have worked and the soviets kept the pressure up all the time by attacking, not giving them the necessary time for a longer evacuation.

@maxkennedy8075 Год назад

@@noobster4779 You misunderstand. I’m not saying no evacuation plan was made (units like GroßDeuchland and other tank units were evac’d your right) and Dornitz ordered one after Hitler killed himself but I’m talking about the very idea that this pocket could he used in part of some fresh offensive Germany had no capacity to conduct was an example of the fantasy high command lived in at that late stage

@oasis1282 Год назад

@@maxkennedy8075 Yes. It was mostly dependent on how the ardennes offensive went, also mostly because the soviets were encountering extremely fierce resistance at the doorstep to prussia.

@eugenekrabs869 Год назад

@@noobster4779 No the Wehrmacht was given strict orders to not retreat and to not evacuate the court and pocket the only people being evacuated were the wounded and considering the state of the fighting they were constantly loading up more dead or wounded. It was widely believed from the top down that the western powers would use the Wehrmacht to push the red army out of central Europe that’s why they stayed and before they surrendered they still held out hope for America to start attacking the USSR.

@noobster4779 Год назад

@@eugenekrabs869 You do know they literally evacuared an entire division out of Courland that was then deployed in East Prussia? It was constantly evacuated and the defending forces in courland got smaller and more importantly of lesser quality. Everything except a few anti tank vehicles and static infantery was moved out by sea. The goal was to hold the bridgehead because a sea invasion wasnt possible, especially afzer the start of the soviets winter offensive in january and 80% of the kriegsmarine beeing redirected to the east prussia pocket forming as support. One look at a map of January 1945 gived you all the knowledge why a full evacuation from Courland wasnt possible.

@NoNameAtAll2 Год назад

8:10 probably wasn't counted in either - both sides used metric

@blackmesa232323 Год назад

Lol

@hansvonmannschaft9062 Год назад

Couldn't help laughing hard. That comment was evil. But really funny. Oh but man was it evil... 😂

@Benjamin-od8od 7 дней назад

@historigraph Год назад

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@tracytrawick322 Год назад

Seriously good work, few realize the resources, including length & depth of the research, that it takes to author a Historically Accurate depiction of this series of battles. The highest of quality in writing and artwork. At different times it puts you in both armies, I cringed while on the German lines with wide open flanks, outmanned with exhausted troops and limited resources. And the massive buildup of Russian armies reinforcing the lines making any Axis efforts an exercise in futility. Great work!

@billhanna2148 Год назад

And the results speak for themselves... just simply AWESOME work 🙏👏👏👏💪

@matchlockashigaru9755 Год назад

very nice chapter name in the end

@vgramatski Год назад

Great video and such an incredibly rare sight to see 1st Bulgarian Army being on the receiving end of the southern prong of Spring Awakening in Match 1945! It's a forgotten part of an already forgotten major battle. One of my great-grandfathers fought as part of 1st Bulgarian Army in the vicinity of the Drava River during that time.

@Georgi_Slavov79 Год назад

Fought in a pointless for Bulgaria war...

@Cruxair Год назад

For me it is incredible to watch, I live in Székesfehérvár, on the southern part and used to ride a lot in this area, never knew what a massive battle was going on here

@michaelzann6485 Год назад

Do you know if any body has done any metal detection in the area?

@stayhungry1503 Год назад

watch out for unexploded bombs!

@Cruxair Год назад

Yep there were bombs found around here but no that often, especially since I live in the middle of a place that used to be an airfield back then, bet there are more in the ground. My parents used to live in Kisláng and I remember them telling me some child lost his leg to a mine back then, but nowadays it is a kind of a developed area and has been searched through many times over.

@Csetnikke Год назад

@@Cruxair Sóstói vagy?

@Cruxair 4 месяца назад

@@Csetnikke yep🙂

@moistmike4150 Год назад

My God! That WW2 must've been terrifying! I'm just glad no one got hurt.

@stayhungry1503 Год назад

lol

@Normal_Boii Год назад

Lmao

@sirfanatical8763 4 месяца назад

my great grandpa who fought in both world wars tripped on a branch and broke his knee no mercy

@kampfgruppepeiper501 Год назад

This was extremely well done you should do more of these it was well organized naps were great and gave a real understanding of the days that you covered! Definitely looking forward to more contact from this channel

@dutch6857 Год назад

Thank you very much for this! I had never heard of this offensive. The quality of your production is top notch

@apilolomi4354 Год назад

This is one of my favourite topics of the war. Glad to see you covering such an unknown event!

@vallergergo737 Год назад

I was itching for this! Your uploads are always so high quality and informative that it's beyond me. How deep do you even have to dig to get this detailed information?

@sharp340 Год назад

This was an awesome video with great pacing and details that make feel like your were there on the ground. Thanks, keep up the work !!

@EenNoorderling Год назад

Amazing work, not once have heard of this offensive. Thank you for creating such interesting videos. The research put into this 13 minute video must have been unimaginably grueling. I’m excited to see what you have in the making next!

@CountCristo Год назад

Very nice, I can see the animation work shining through

@Zemkezis Год назад

The level of zoomed-in detail allowing us to see the buildings and lakes gave me a new understanding of frontlines.

@priatalat 6 месяцев назад

Spring Awakening sounds so positive, as if to blossom anew. But we know it was on the last days of the war, so the word evokes such an eerie feeling for me.

@sirfanatical8763 4 месяца назад

in german it sounds more like wake up mfers, we got work to do

@samuelvarela8265 Год назад

Very well done graphic explanation of tactical deployment and day by day armies positions before and after main battles. You have a great vocabulary and explain very well the subject matter.

@attila7092 Год назад

All of the final offensives of the war were a big gamble. Hitler knew that. But always staying on the defense wasn't a better option either

@alexprince9035 Год назад

This is true. Staying on the defense would just prolong the inevitable. The battle of the bulge was a gamble worth taking

@dpeasehead Год назад

@Attila709: By spring of 1945, the possibility of launching big offensives of this kind in the teeth of massive enemy army groups and expecting them to succeed was unrealistic. As long as the front wasn't breached on a wide scale, it would have been better to force the western allies and the soviets to batter themselves against entrenched troops which had their interior lines of communication secured by the few panzers and other mobile units.

@stuartwald2395 Год назад

One of the prices of this offensive was that General Heinrici lost all of the panzers that he was counting on to help him defend Berlin. He threw a fit over that but was reassuringly told that the major Soviet effort would be in the south with only "secondary forces" sent against Berlin. That was the same thing that he was told right before he was relieved when he kept warning about the massive Bagration offensive of July 1944. Ultimately, the same result was reached in both cases.

@stayhungry1503 Год назад

well the best way is to do what manstein did in early 43 in the donbass, you retreat in orderly fashion, let the enemy think they are totally winning and over extend their lines and then BAM! counter-attack in their flank and with a bit of skill and luck you not only destroy an entire army but take back more ground than you lost. actually its how the mongols kept winning for hundreds of years, the classic feigned retreat. easier said than done ofc!

@ultra-papasmurf Год назад

@@stayhungry1503 the german army couldnt really reliably do any sort of offensive counter or proper post-late 1943 (at the earliest) and post-bagration (at the latest) without stealing some other sectors vital resources and just hoping the enemy didnt notice. even if this offensive for example was successful they still lost a massive amount of vital resources nessecary for the defence of berlin doing it and the government and military wouldve collapsed post-hitler suicide nonetheless.

@davidb.4415 Год назад

There it is, the classic Historigraph music. You kept your word. Thanks! I just think it suits your videos so well. And as always thanks for putting out such incredible content! Cheers

@willbxtn Год назад

I didnt realise how much I missed it or how impactful it was until it popped up.

@chkoha6462 Год назад

Very good content, I really like the Division by Division break-down

@aleksazunjic9672 Год назад

Battle of the Lake Balaton is considered as a swan song of German Panzerwaffe. It is also first major battle where SU-100 tank destroyer was employed - which ended German heavy tank domination . Indeed new generations of anti-tank guns could destroy even the heaviest armor like Tiger II. Whole era where you would simply increase armor and weight of a tank to make it survivable came to an end.

@dpeasehead Год назад

@Aleksa Zunjic: True, and the wide open muddy plains also made stuck and slow moving panzers and other vehicles very vulnerable to massed soviet artillery, and to soviet ground attack aircraft whenever the weather allowed.

@736693 Год назад

However; German armor did recapture Bautzen & stop the Poles from capturing Dresden in April 1945 during the Battle of Bautzen.

@aleksazunjic9672 Год назад

@@736693 It was mostly done by German infantry (motorized or not). Area is heavily forested, not suitable for armor and reduces effectiveness of aviation. Thus, Germans were able to cut off isolated spearheads of inexperienced Polish troops.

@Tutel9528 Год назад

SU-100 couldn’t penetrate Tiger II’s frontal armor,only the turret at very close ranges like 200-300m.

@nuraly78 4 месяца назад

@Tutel9528 it didn't have to penetrate Tiger II. Quality of Armour was so low that any high velocity canon shell like 100mm or 122mm caused intense spalling, killing most of the crew

@ProfessorPesca 4 месяца назад

Absolutely incredible video. I appreciate the clear and, importantly, concise way you told this story. If I had one suggestion it would be to add a scale to your otherwise excellent graphics. Cheers.

@giobaldo7342 Год назад

I don’t know if it’s the amazing intro with that music but man, your video hype me so much. Keep the work up!

@m.streicher8286 Год назад

What's striking to me is how many red squares exist at this point in the war, compared to grey squares.

@DeluxeAvant-garde 13 дней назад

Your short linked me to this video and my god it worked! Fantastic video and I’m definitely subbing. Your vids are gonna be my whole workday

@dourmoose Год назад

Outstanding content. Well done 👍🏼

@LavrencicUrban Год назад

EXCELLENT VIDEO! THANK YOU FOR THE UPLOAD!

@musoklimbu4824 Год назад

this is amazing,very detailed and a great explanation

@Eleven145 4 месяца назад

Great video man I loved the animation and unit details.

@derrickstorm6976 Год назад

Awesome topic, never heard of this battle :)) Would be cool to have some distance indicators to have some understanding of, well how long the distances are. Like the ones maps have usually in their right bottom corners

@StarWarsomania 2 месяца назад

This was great in a lot of ways. The breakdown via map made it so much clearer what was going on, with archival footage held for the setup and analysis segments. Clarifying who was in charge of which groups and where those groups were was also helpful.

@jona.scholt4362 Год назад

The videos on the war in Budapest were the first I watched long ago. Been a fan since. Glad to see a follow up to the battles in Budapest. Historigraph is criminally underrated

@horseman217 4 месяца назад

Excellent video! As good on the eyes as it's good to listen and learn to. Good job!

@deadlyknights1119 2 месяца назад

They got stuck on the first tile.

@andyf10 Год назад

Great graphics and explanation. Interesting detail of this offensive.

@ChrisbyFlanker Год назад

Lets goooo! So much work went into this

@ricklyle3739 Год назад

Being a history “nerd” this is very good since I was completely unaware of this offensive. Kudos!

@soontir_fel1816 Год назад

Another magnificent video! I'm already excited for the next one!

@More_Row Год назад

Thank you, for your work.

@RedRock22Productions Год назад

Nice to watch another video of yours about the Hungarian theatre. The Siege of Budapest Trilogy you did was my introducction to you, so nice to see what happened after it fell.

@sergeipohkerova7211 Год назад

Generals: "We are overwhelmingly outnumbered in all categories; the Allies have endless tanks, airpower, and troops. We are out of fuel, ammunition, and experienced soldiers. The sensible and reasonable thing to do now to minimize suffering is to just--" Hitler 🤔 : *Let's launch a major armored offensive*

@derrickstorm6976 Год назад

Well, none of them were concerned about suffering of the troops, or the civilians...

@blitzkrieg6076 Год назад

If you were Hitler it would make the most sense to do as much as you could before you eventually lose. It wouldn’t make sense to surrender from a Nazi perspective.

@oasis1282 Год назад

*dont worry bro we got king tigers*

@michaelmccabe3079 Год назад

The German Army suffered quite a lot from their over-reliance on improvising solutions.

@dougerrohmer Год назад

@@oasis1282 And Wunderwaffen. I wunder where the waffen are?

@Minute_Sniper Год назад

Omg finally someone did a video operation spring awakening. I have been asking for so many youtubers to do this subject but they all ignored the request Great video

@huiyinghong3073 Год назад

@sinnerdegarah1952 Год назад

Been waiting for this video since the siege of Buda video 2 years ago, excited to watch!

@marxfelix3973 Год назад

Amazing! Keep up the great work!

@Citieskylines Год назад

0:35-0:40 the best intro ive ever seen and i love you historiograph

@burgundybear8761 3 месяца назад

I like how Singapore was in there!

@spyronos Год назад

Worth the time man, good job

@falcaonet Год назад

Subscribed, the amazing animation and narration made me spontaneously hit the subscribe button.

@RecklessRacer Год назад

Brilliant detail! Definitely earned a sub and like. Could you maybe do some large battles on the eastern front 41-42?

@historigraph Год назад

Yeah possibly in future for sure

@angusdeadman6425 Год назад

Amazing video as always!

@stc3145 Год назад

Walter Whenck’s 12th Army offensive to relieve Berlin in late April 1945 can be considerd the last German offensive of the war. Whenck failed to reach Berlin but did take Potsdam and was able to open a corridor which 30 000 men of the 9th Army plus thousands of civillians fled through. After this he disobeyed his orders to attack the Soviets surrounding Berlin and instead moved West to the Elbe river to surrender to the Americans. Felix Steiner also disobeyed his order to attack.

@historigraph Год назад

IMO it doesn't really fit into the same category; the offensive you describe formed part of a wider and already ongoing Soviet offensive towards Berlin. Spring Awakening was a premeditated and planned operation in pursuit of strategic goals

@TankerBricks Год назад

Excellent video!

@RogerWade-wp4cr 4 месяца назад

Great graphics and V/O. Well done.

@lowtdave 4 месяца назад

It's hard to comprehend the scale of these battles from these map views. WW2 was just insane.

@The3Lego3Freak Год назад

I love learn from your videos, keep it up :)

@miguelmontenegro3520 Год назад

It's actually crazy what battle hardened men can do, even against overwhelming odds

@ruthlesstruth8639 Год назад

are you talking about the Red Army?

@shahinmotamedi654 Год назад

What?

@ReSSwend Год назад

Interesting. Do you write the same comments under the video about the German attack on little Denmark and Holland and Belgium? 🐵

@ssukhdeepkaur1783 Год назад

Red army was not fighting against Overwhelming odds . The Germans were kinda however their offensive in 2 weeks and got hit by a strong counter offensive . 6th Panzer was annihilated

@Levon_RnD Год назад

@@ssukhdeepkaur1783 Neither the Germans. Look at the numbers, they are provided in the vid.

@wahidshahen6197 Год назад

Excellent work 👍

@geordiedog1749 Год назад

Never knew about this - nice one!

@MusicReign Год назад

Amazing storytelling and video!

@farrela3620 Год назад

This seem a bit an inconvenience but can you put a scale bar to give perspective the scale of the battles were? it's kinda confusing to see 1-2 division fighting over to what looks like 3 buildings

@zzbudzz Год назад

Excellent maps and details !

@DavidF3 Год назад

Excellent video! Your Hungarian pronunciation is getting better : ) . The only thing missing is the letter GY witch you pronounce as ZS but I get it Hungarian isn't exactly the easiest language.

@Digmen1 Год назад

Great - just found your channel I must say that your voice is very pleasing. Too many other channels narrators give me a headache with their harsh voice and their over exaggeration and singing at the end of each sentence I had heard about hard fighting in Hungary before.

@kyanderson2461 Год назад

I love your channel . great work !

@hgkghkhgkgh8378 Год назад

Fun fact: The area South of lake Velence, East of Balaton and East of the Danube called Sárköz. Sár = Mud, köz= middle. So Quagmire would be a fitting translation. Sárkeresztúr litterly means Mud Cross Lord(so Mud Christ). The family of former French president Sárközy( of the Quagmire) is named after this region.

@K3end0 Год назад

Brilliant video, love the animation

@iainmalcolm9583 Год назад

Great video. Thanks.

@alexthred2179 Год назад

Amazing video!

@voltaireisamadlad7007 Год назад

Great Video!

@uuzoo Месяц назад

Good video. Thank you.

@mancroft Год назад

Outstanding! Thank you.

@historigraph Год назад

Thanks a lot for the support -means a lot!

@FirstLast_Nba Год назад

Can believe we never heard of this! so much of ww2 has been ignored whether deliberately or not, well done for showing that there were serious events even in the literal last month of the war.

@oasis1282 Год назад

Operation solstice is more unheard im pretty sure but its basically a german tactical victory that delayed the soviet offensive on berlin for 2 months

@joperamod5760 Год назад

@@loveofmangos001 umm....

@ssukhdeepkaur1783 Год назад

@@loveofmangos001 Bruh solstice wasn't in Hungary

@ssukhdeepkaur1783 Год назад

@@oasis1282 Nope . It convinced the soviets to clear eastern pommeriana first which they did . The offensive as a whole was a massive L.

@thebread9 Год назад

Very few do day by day like you did showing the units. You are now my fave!!

@huiyinghong3073 Год назад

@stacey_1111rh Год назад

You are doing excellent historian work sir. Please continue from one to another. 👍🏼✌🏼

@haddock8087 Год назад

A very very good documentary, thank you so much for your hard work. There's a minor mistake at 11:06, it's March 23rd, not May 23rd

@archduke8199 Год назад

This is a fantastic Channel. 👏

@waffles4322 Год назад

I love these videos so much, totally niche request, but I'd love to see a video about the 11th Pz recon div. I had a family member who fought with them, and now I reenact as a member for tank museums.

@conceptalfa Год назад

Great video!!!👍👍👍

@knightnight1894 Год назад

Like your detailed data, cleanly presented map operation, and topic on a battle long has been absent.

@rick7424 Год назад

You sir are a treasure. Your dilligence and ability to enlighten us on difficult and impactful history is awe inspiring!

@tombaker9341 Год назад

Appreciated sir.

@crazywarriorscatfan9061 Год назад

Amazing!

@robertblum5631 4 месяца назад

Thanks for this interesting video. My Grandfather fought there, as member of the 4th ss Panzer Artillery Regiment Hohenstaufen. I still have his "Sold-Buch". I think he was disappointed that many of his comrades died senselessly in 1945.

@astrofox1155 Год назад

That “Every Unit for Itself” dash must have been really lethal, considering the air power and heavy artillery the Soviets had by that point. Total confusion and carnage for sure.

@dpeasehead Год назад

@AstroFox115: John Erickson covers this phase of the battle in horrifying detail in his book "The Road to Berlin." I strongly recommend this and its companion volume "The Road to Stalingrad." Even though new historical documentation which was not available to him at that time has surfaced over the many decades since they were published, they remain among the best works on the 1941-1945 war on the eastern front.

@jacobjonm0511 Год назад

I read some horrific stories on the retreat. The Russians were running their tanks over the dead wonder or live fleeing German soldiers.

@rossbrook5919 Год назад

Great video.

@Mrac-zz8vh 3 месяца назад

Great video! My grand grand father (hungarian) we knew died in 1945 in the triangle that the Drava river, the Danube and today's border of Hungary borders. About 50 km to the north there is Pécs(Soviet occupied area on thhis map), where his wife and her doughter (my grandmother) were left with the old ones. We never knew the military move that lead to his death (his wife had no urge to find out it under the communist dictatorship) . We found his mass grave and documents about his wounds and time spent in hospital before he died, but never knew that he died whilst trying to occupy back the town where his doughter and wife was left to the mercy of soviet troops.. My grandmother is still alive 89 yeas old and keep telling the storys about that times.. His father was saying good by to the family when went to the front and my grandmother did not understand why everybody is crying when he said he will come back.. And also about the occupying soviet army..how her mother and every young woman spread mud on their faces, wear dirty clothes and doing anything to appear disgusting so the soldiers wont rape them. War is hell. Thank you for the video.

@clausbohm9807 4 месяца назад

Very well described battle!

@mabbrey Год назад

great vid

@ColonelRPG Год назад

The animations are really good, but so are the scripts, great stuff 👍

@markrowland1366 Год назад

I keep telling people the Battle of the Bulge was immediately followed by opperations Northwind. A similar sized drive into the south of the the battlefield of the battle of the Bulge. Fighting continued for five weeks.