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@TheArmchairHistorian Год назад

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@sleepydakota6505 Год назад

@RamsiesjurassicSpencer Год назад

What was The Japanese Perspective in WW1?

@Charlie-fu6ep Год назад

He does these sponsorships cuz RU-vid demonetizes him for showing history.

@denorjigalaxen9230 Год назад

@@Charlie-fu6ep virgin RU-vid

@theEWDSDS Год назад

1:00 correction 2: that supposed to say raven, not vanguard (vanguard=soviets, raven=germany)

@nbewarwe Год назад

Herman Goering is the greatest air strategist the Allies ever had. He single-handedly weakened Germany's aerial capabilities more than any other commander during the war.

@johntaylor7029 Год назад

Him and whoever was giving him drugs.

@kingking-ci1gf Год назад

did you know germany had stealth planes in ww2? when the allies landed in Normandy they barely even spot any German planes!

@pogdog5858 Год назад

@@kingking-ci1gf yes!! It's the bf109 I varient, I for Inexistent

@monfort537 Год назад

He not just weakend the aerial capabilities, he was also good in creating imaginary supply bridges by air

@alexanderzippel8809 Год назад

@@kingking-ci1gf when its white planes, its the RAF. If they’re blue, its the USAAF. If its no plane at all, its the Luftwaffe Or so the joke goes

@believeinmatter Год назад

WW2 is easily one of the most interesting events in history to learn about. You can never know enough about it, and it feels like information worth knowing

@GMKGoji01 Год назад

That I can agree with. It might even give us a favorite battle if we have one. I should know, my favorite is Midway.

@user-gz5be6cs6c Год назад

War always represents the real face of humans

@IdkAnythingCreative Год назад

Facts

@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- Год назад

@@GMKGoji01 Midway is one of the greatest victories of the war along side the Battle of Britain.

@yoggz Год назад

wait till you get bored of it and move on to ww1

@MatsLM Год назад

Both Germany and Britain at the start of the war ignored the potential of submarines, while at the end and through the war they became more aware. It’s an epic realization by both sides and their pursuit to fight against one another with anti- submarine technology and better submarines alike. It’s fascinating.

@scottanno8861 Год назад

I thought Germany focused on U-boats at the start of the war due to resource restrictions.

@kietvo2633 Год назад

by then most people before ww1 or ww2 think submarine jsut for pirate use not for war .

@F.R.E.D.D2986 Год назад

@@scottanno8861 they really only started focusing on it after Bismarck died

@titanlord9267 Год назад

yeah, that was actually crazy, I do think the US had the best submarines, due to the crews, the US navy crews were amazing at their job. Like a certain Lucky man I've heard of..

@Joker-yw9hl Год назад

I've claimed this very thing before but was informed that Britain actually had over 60 submarines at the time. Germany wanted to build more subs but internal politicking and bickering between the military branches meant precious resources of iron and steel were prioritised elsewhere. Hitler was talked into building 4 battleships instead of building more subs which may very well have been one of his several blunders - though their battleships were a nuisance for a small while

@trashrabbit69 Год назад

My favorite WW2 naval story will always be the hilarious (albeit also somewhat terrifying) sinking of U-1206, which was caused by its state-of-the-art pressure toilets failing and spilling water onto the batteries, flooding the cabins and compartments with chlorine gas which forced the crew to surface. Amazingly, only three crew members died from the ordeal, the rest surrendered to the British and the submarine was scuttled.

@frenchempire9471 Год назад

nice?

@muki2259 Год назад

@Andrew-rd9zq Год назад

@@muki2259 ok?

@eddie1683 Год назад

@@Andrew-rd9zq ok?

@ingkknswn6275 Год назад

@@eddie1683 ok?

@chucknorris6640 Год назад

In my opinion excluding U-Boats, the Kriegsmarine was a complete failure but U-Boats were so effective that at the end of 1942 the British war machine was done to 2 weeks of fuel some British officers during that time thought that they were going to lose the war thanks to the U-Boats. Winston Churchill at the end of the war wrote: The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril

@lyndoncmp5751 Год назад

But the fact is, the U-boats never got anywhere near to cutting Britain off. They completely failed. In fact they couldn't even begin to stop Britain sending forces and materials wherever it wanted, from Africa to Russia and points even further. The U-boats never even remotely approached their quarterly tonnage sinking goals. Churchill was full of hyperbole.

@johnhession8035 4 месяца назад

@@lyndoncmp5751 his hyper-huge belly was also very full too

@lyndoncmp5751 4 месяца назад

@@johnhession8035 Yes with whisky and cigarette smoke. At least he knew how to party 😎

@strangelyukrainian7314 4 месяца назад

@@lyndoncmp5751 Hyperbole or not, he was head of state. Had he been scared into surrender by the uboats, that alone would’ve constituted a massive impact by the U-boat fleet

@lyndoncmp5751 4 месяца назад

@@strangelyukrainian7314 But Britain was never even remotely scared into surrender by the U-boats though. The U-boats couldn't even stop all those Arctic Convoys to Murmansk in Russia from Britain.

@alexshaw0704 Год назад

I love this art style you’ve settled on it’s so clean and fresh and the animation flows gorgeously just a huge well done to the team

@MAAAAAAAAAA123 Год назад

I agree. It looks amazing

@acey457 Год назад

yeah it looks good to me but i usually just stare into the wastepaper basket

@Rhinozherous Год назад

I hope there is no problem in using the "click and select" sounds from Hearts of Iron...

@eoincaomhanach1983 Год назад

pity they horrifically dropped the ball and had the entire island of Ireland under the Union Flag when by 1936 the South of Ireland (the 26 counties) was a separate nation and no longer under British rule.

@augusthoglund6053 Год назад

Way better than Alegría art, for sure.

@hansgerman3437 Год назад

The thing you neglected, was the "fear-factor" of the Kriegsmarine. Despite beeing heavily outnumbered, the surface raiders and U-Boots forced the Allies to spend allot of resources. Prime example is the Tirpitz. Despite sitting in Docks most of the time, the mere presence of the ship around Norway made the allies reconsider operations in that area. I'd argue that despite beeing underfunded, the Kriegsmarine sure made a net positiv in the german war effort.

@fissionabledolphin Год назад

Ah yes, the mighty German u-boot

@modest_spice6083 Год назад

Lol, "Fear-Factor". The Kriegsmarine were nothing at all. It didn't stop convoys from reaching Britain, it didn't stop Royal Navy operations in the area. The Regia Marina for example is more threatening than the Nazis.

@Eire_Aontaithe Год назад

@@fissionabledolphin That's how they say in german

@MAAAAAAAAAA123 Год назад

Very true points

@GarkKahn Год назад

Yes, the equivalent of the british navy in the mediterranean

@VRichardsn Год назад

A factor that weighed heavily on the subpar ship designs of the Kriegsmarine were the consequences of Versailles and the way the naval departments were restablished after WWI. Being a designer in the Kaiser's navy was not easy: "To become a designer in RMA during the Admiral Tirpitz era, one must travel a long, hard road. After high school, two years of practice, after that university and a Master's Degree in engineering. The candidate needed to join the Imperial Navy for 4 years, including one year onboard and three years at the IM shipyards. After that, there is a rigorous examination to see how much has been learned. After three years of service as an assistant engineer, they were then allowed to take a second examination which included six week ship design project. If one failed here, he was expelled with no hope of readmittance. If one passes, he was then employed as a civil servant. After a few years, and if he was judged to be experienced and innovative enough, only then was he was asked to join the RMA as a designer." Such degree of demanded excellence produced wonderful vessels the like of Derfflinger and Seydlitz. But after WWI, all that was lost. The new design departments were led by front line officers, with little design experience, and the designers themselves lacked practical experience (notice how previous to WWI you needed to have served several years at sea before being admitted). This produced design teams led by people who couldn't provide adequate technical guidance, and designers that lacked fundamentals and pragmatism, not having spent much time at sea. This led to teams competing against each other, lack of practicality in designs and innovation for the sake of innovation. An example: At one point in 1939, the new battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were found to be incapable of shooting their main guns. This could only be corrected after 22,000 yards (!) of useless electrical wires were removed and major modifications were made to the Fire Control circuits and mechanisms. Look up the short article "The Working Environment for German Warship design in WWI and WWII", by Peter Lienau, for a fantastic read on that topic.

@Athrun82 Год назад

And oddly enough the "in-between warships" that were build during the Weimar Republic (the so called pocket warships) were working pretty well. Though probably because Germany optimized said ships to stay within the regulations of the treaties while also projecting massive firepower. Makes me wonder if it would have been smarter to simply build more of those and then add some carriers (and not this clusterfuck called Graf Zeppelin). The Stuka might have been a good candidate for naval bombing runs considering that the greatest Stuka ace had a battleship among his kills.

@Cailus3542 Год назад

@@Athrun82 The Germans had a perfectly acceptable second-rate navy in the 1930's, but their premier surface ships (the Scharnhorsts and Deutchslands) were still not sufficient against the British. The Scharnhorsts were fast and tough, but were still outgunned by every other capital ship in the world. Hood, Renown, Repulse, Dunkerque and Strasbourg could handle Scharnhorst and Gneisenau with ease, to say nothing of the more powerful battleships. The Deutchslands were also a flawed design from the start, as River Plate demonstrated. Graf Spee couldn't even sink one British cruiser with its 11 inch guns. Regarding carriers: that was always a non-starter. The major navies (Britain, the US and Japan) spent decades figuring out how to operate carriers. Moreover, in the confined waters around Europe, carriers were less effective than in the vast Pacific, which is why battleships were more dominant in that theatre. German carriers would have been even less effective than Bismarck and Tirpitz were.

@christiansee2500 Год назад

More like 3rd rate

@VRichardsn Год назад

@@Cailus3542 While I am not a big fan of the Scharnhorst & Gneisenau (they had a laundry list of flaws) I think that analysis is overly harsh. _Hood, Renown, Repulse, Dunkerque and Strasbourg could handle Scharnhorst and Gneisenau with ease_ Strasbourg and specially Dunkerque could not handle them with ease. It was the other way around. Dunkerque was designed to face the Deutschland class, and it showed. When pitted against Scharnhorst, it was a much more dangerous prospect. The only clear advantage they have is their excellent 330 mm gun, against the German 280 mm one. With the caveat that the Germans could ideally fire twice as many shells in the same amount of time. Speed was a bit less, and the armor is... mixed. Secondary battery also goes to the Germans. _The Deutchslands were also a flawed design from the start, as River Plate demonstrated Graf Spee couldn't even sink one British cruiser with its 11 inch guns_ This is an incorrect assesment, if I may. Graf Speed was outnumbered three to one, and yet it gave Exeter a thorough trashing. The British heavy cruiser was listing severely and its main armament and fire direction systems were in tatters. Late in the battle, fire was directed by the main gunnery officer standing on the roof of the last operational turret, shouting orders to those inside. This was turret was later put out of action due to a near miss. The light cruisers also took varying degrees of damage. Not bad for a ship outnumbered three to one.

@annoyedbipolar7424 Год назад

@@Athrun82It probably would have been cheaper and massively more successful to just go with those and some torpedo destroyers (Weapons the axis had an advantage in) they probably could have actually built a proper navy. (It probably would be better at screening air attacks too)

@DarkshadowXD63 Год назад

I'd love to see a video on the Japanese Navy especially since they had large influence on Japanese politics and doctrine

@nbewarwe Год назад

So did the army. They both were basically children arguing over who got to play with the toy that was the government of Japan.

@paulsteaven Год назад

Well, the Imperial Japanese Navy cemented Japan's standing in the international stage after Togo's victory at Tsushima.

@majorgeneral7009 Год назад

If you want you could watch an entire series on Pacific War by Kings and Generals

@thorpeaaron1110 Год назад

@@nbewarwe I'd say the IJN ultimately had more influence in Japan's foreign policy leading up to WW2 since the Japanese government went with the Navy's Attack South plan instead Army's attack North plan .

@iansneddon2956 Год назад

@@thorpeaaron1110 The Attack North plan would be workable with continued imports of oil and steel from USA. Once USA and Netherlands imposed sanctions they needed to secure a new source of oil and other resources, and hold it. USA was effectively a hostile power having begun lend-lease support for China months before (not just selling to Japan's enemy, but outright giving them supplies and materiel). They needed to secure resources and guard their naval flank against USA.

@denorjigalaxen9230 Год назад

Many people overlooked this part of the war, im glad you're covering this part of the war

@xeraphyx7903 Год назад

"Oh yeah, the displacement of this cruiser is totally under 10,000 tons." - German Admiral to Washington Naval Confrence enforcer, 1934, regarding Admiral Graf Spee

@BandanRRChannel Год назад

The trick is to measure its displacement BEFORE you add the important things like guns, armor, lifeboats, ammo, etc. I believe almost all parties did this between the wars.

@Quasimodo-mq8tw 10 дней назад

@@BandanRRChannel More or less. The brits AS far AS i know wanted Not to Cheat but some Cruiser they build where strangly big for Thier Limited guns and Armor. AS If theily where meant to be Upgraded into a way Higher weightclass.

@conserva-chan2735 Год назад

A full-length vid on the Soviet-Afghan War would be so awesome.

@phosphorneuntausend8868 Год назад

Hey Griffin! Just a heads up. At roughly the 20minute mark you mention the kriegsmarine had less resources than the wehrmacht and the luftwaffe. The "Wehrmacht" is the name of the German armed forces as a whole and consists of the "Heer" (Ground Forces), the "Kriegsmarine" (Navy) and the Luftwaffe (Air Force). So you probably wanted to say it had fewer resources than the Heer and the Luftwaffe.

@WushuMR2 Год назад

Strictly speaking, that's correct, but for whatever reason when I (as an American) heard about the German military, "Wehrmacht" was the term almost always used for the land forces.

@gamerdrache6076 Год назад

no heer was for all and wehrmacht for tanks and infantry

@wilhelm2462 Год назад

@@WushuMR2 I mean you even have that on the vehicle plates like WH (Wehrmacht Heer), WL (Luftwaffe), WM (Marine) aswell as SS (in runes) for the electrician boys. Vehicles of our modern Bundeswehr always have the Y simply because it was kinda the only thing available which is a bit boring. So if you see old pictures of vehicles that have such plates you can easily identify to which branch it belongs. Have fun with this useless information.

@Frontline_view_kaiser Год назад

@@gamerdrache6076 No. Its the other way around. Heer was and is still the word for German Ground Forces

@gamerdrache6076 Год назад

@@Frontline_view_kaiser bro my great grandpa was officer in the nazi army and yo say i don´t know what what is

@BasedBlackPrism Год назад

I like how they're using hoi4 naval sound effects for this video, great video as always!

@killiancoleman3452 Год назад

I was looking for this comment, they are also using the clicking sound

@EpicJoshua314 Год назад

Something about the Hilfskruezers is that in November 1941, one of them the HSK Kormoran sank the light cruiser HMAS Sydney off the coast of Western Australia after taking it completely off guard. While most of Kormoran's crew of nearly 400 survived, Sydney went down with her entire crew of 645.

@aaravtulsyan Год назад

Yea by pretending to be a merchantman in distress

@lordbeerus7248 Год назад

@@aaravtulsyan lol thats the fault of the Allies war is about deception the Kormoran had no armor at all all it had was some torpedos and anti tank guns while the HMAS Sydney was the pride of the Australian navy and had a veteran crew which foolishly aproached the Kormoran in close range and was caught sleeping with the Kormorans crew destroyed many vital parts of the Sydney before the crew even started firing their guns were badly damaged and managed to inflict little to no dmg but cuz the Kormoran was a commerce ship with no armor the little dmg it sustained proved to be enough to sink it

@lordbeerus7248 Год назад

The Kormoran had a legendary service life with it sinking many Commerce ships and even manageing to steal an Oil Tanker from the Royal Navy which managed to make its way back to Germany not to mention it sank the pride of the Australian navy with a mere surface raider

@aaravtulsyan Год назад

@@lordbeerus7248 sure it was the allies fault they decided to be good chaps and help a ship that was signalling for help. Using cheap and criminal tactics like this, can't expect anything else from the Nazis cam we

@aaravtulsyan Год назад

@@lordbeerus7248 I didn't that that piracy and criminal tactics were something to be proud of

@lennaertvanmierlo2955 Год назад

The difficulties surrounding the branches, plus the failure to use OKW as was intended by OKW is worthy of a video on its own. A truly interesting bit of history.

@simplyaugis9864 Год назад

You could cover an often overlooked topic - USN submarines in the Pacific. I am currently writing an essay comparing and contrasting what led to the success of the USN's submarines and the failure of the u-boats, it is a topic worth exploring.

@EJobuu Год назад

I gotta say that the quality of his videos, already excellent to begin with for a long time, just keeps getting better and better. Thank you for your great work Sir.

@joshy7759 Год назад

This channel and History of the Universe really show the level of research, quality, and information that can be put into this format. I need more channels of this quality.

@oobee123 Год назад

Historia Civilis tops these 2 in research and getting in to those sweet sweet nitty gritty details if you ask me. Must watch for any history buffs out there

@Penguin24766 Год назад

I never thought I would enjoy WW2 and all the history again - but your format of animation/not too much gore if any and a voice worthy of some new Curious George story teller - nice. I hope someone can use your work when they need to cram an all nighter for writting a paper on german history :)

@tencosiezastanawiap2992 Год назад

Plan Z: How much ships you want? Hitler: Yes

@andrademeza Год назад

Once again, id like to thank you for uploading this in wide format sir. It looks more "cinematic" on my computer screen and when watching on my phone it fills the entire length of my screen instead of watching big black bars on the sides.

@gabrieleternullo8307 Год назад

Can you do the evolution of medieval armour from 11th century to 15th century?

@twrags201 Год назад

Ah The German navy during WW2 so many things can be said about it. How poorly designed it's light cruiser forces were, the difficulties of resuming naval production after 20 years of decay, the lack of any quality heavy surface ships with the scharnhorsts being outgunned by everything and the Bismarcks being such a hilariously inefficient design, with a small contingent of subs with those being basically old tubs.

@mrexploiter4838 Год назад

This is the one channel that makes the sponsorship not look boring and where I would not skip it

@sprinkle61 Год назад

Its kind of insane that they used their tech to make an advertisement in the style of their normal videos, with the sponsor integrated into the plot, buying new upgrades in the middle of an engagement !

@c.n.i7105 Год назад

3:07 I love how you implemented a reference to Die Glock

@jonsouth1545 Год назад

Germany had less than 1/10th the shipbuilding infrastructure of the UK no matter what they did they were always going to lose a naval war with the UK

@PotatoSalad614 Год назад

BuT mUh BiSmArCk

@TimesFM4532 8 месяцев назад

Tbf rhey didn't have to win the navy war just stop Britain eating and arming

@orange8420 Год назад

I love your videos as always high quality

@Opama_ Год назад

These animation though, Bloody Amazing work!

@Strat-Guides Год назад

I'm trying to figure this out for HOI4 right now actually, perfect timing... Lol thanks as always for the great content!

@teamorbz4463 Год назад

nice little reference of die glocke at 2:56

@tb1271 Год назад

Plan Z also assumed that Britain would not build in response to the German build up. In reality, any fleet the Germans could have built would have been out built by Britain. Drachinifel has a great video about the possible RN response, 'Countering Plan Z - What would the Royal Navy have done?'

@sirgonk988 Год назад

I love the naval lover’s recommending Drach, godspeed

@PotatoSalad614 Год назад

Two power standard 2: electric boogaloo

@christophercastellanos2665 Год назад

With that amazing animation this man can make a show

@polygonalfortress Год назад

Good on the armchair historian team for putting effort in the sponsorship segment

@CapitalTeeth Год назад

Raeder: "Okay so you'd like a big navy that challenges the royal navy?" Hitler: "Yes." Raeder: "Okay, then just give us until 1948-ish and we might just be ready." --------------1939------------------ *_"German Reich has declared war on Poland"_* Raeder: *_*Sigh*_* U-Boats it is. Donitz: "Somebody said U-Boats?"

@InvertedGigachad Год назад

The Tirpitz was arguably more successful than the Bismarck. It was stationed in the north of Norway and would threaten any allied convoy trying to ship supplies to the USSR. This forced the allies to protect their convoys using a great chunk of their navy, against a threat that rarely even left port, making the Tirpitz a prime example for the fleet-in-being doctrine

@volbound1700 Год назад

Yeah I wondered about that comment. Tirpitz actually sank a few capital ships and operated against Artic convoys for over a year.

@joedatius Год назад

that's a fair point but at the same time it wasn't a very good doctrine since all it did was make the allies more cautious and act smartly and there were always more and more supplies going into the USSR, they might as well just have made more mines and it would of had the same effect really

@MalfosRanger Год назад

@@volbound1700Tirpitz only fired her guns in anger at a weather station. Her crew never sank any ships directly.

@silverhost9782 Год назад

@@volbound1700 Tirpitz never sank any capital ships lol

@louiewood7689 Год назад

I wonder if they note the heavy cruiser sunk by little Norway with a shore battery 🤣

@sirgonk988 Год назад

And 40 year old torpedoes

@architech02 Год назад

The Blucher

@oliversherman2414 Год назад

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!

@nesbittracing1081 Год назад

Excellent animation! The Always Sunny reference is gold too 😂

@wolfhram3996 Год назад

On that note, maybe you would consider making a video about U-47 raid on Scapa-Flow, or other notorious U-boats or captains? Submarine warfare always was and still is a very special topic.

@wilhelm2462 Год назад

I hope we can get a Video of the japanese and italian navy next, we barely know anything about those even so they where interesting aswell. Plus I still would love a Video about the history of the red cross organisation as whole and then maybe the developement of it in countries like germany, japan, italy, russia etc as it is extremely interesting imo (most people forget to thank the healer).

@manuelposso9693 Год назад

great video man, keep it going 👍

@nguyen3545 Год назад

Amazing video, as always!

@jollyjohnthepirate3168 Год назад

It's funny how the plan to defeat the Royal Navy in one conclusive battle sounds just like the Japanese navy's plan to defeat the U.S. navy in one big battle that would be fought at terms that were favorable to them.

@augustosolari7721 Год назад

It's the logical position of the underdog. You Know You can't handle sustained attrition warfare, so you search for a battle where you can destroy the enemy in detail.

@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 Год назад

It worked for the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese War: see the Battle of Tsushima

@strongbrew9116 Год назад

@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 I'd say that was different. The Japanese had the superior navy: all four of their battleships were the latest design built by Britain, and the two new Italian armoured cruisers. Plus the Russian fleet had had to sail round Africa to get to Tsushima while being denied access to ports by the British.

@nick0875 Год назад

@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 And if you know about the Battle of Tsushima you will know how utterly ill-prepared the Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron was to fight any enemy. Especially when it came to training and discipline of the crews, even if they weren't sailing vessels in as poor of condition as what they were on.

@ProjectAtlasmodling Год назад

They could have if they took out the oil fields

@RooZvonBooZ Год назад

Just when I was hoping for another video, thanks for always delivering, Armchair team!

@Alte.Kameraden 5 дней назад

There was a documentary once which quoted Admiral Lutjans. Supposedly he said the best the German Navy can hope for was to die gallantly.

@itsalmostfun8567 Год назад

The real reason why i love this channel.... The Evolution ep and the cool divisions thing

@ion_tiriac Год назад

sincerly,this is an underrated part of the war, no one considers other thsn in battle for britain how important naval warfare was in ww2. anyways,id suggest a looking into romania in ww2,its an intresting perspective imo

@eyesofstatic9641 Год назад

the pacific was a huge naval brawl though lol

@mek1429 Год назад

Correction at 17:30. If the destroyer dropped the depth charges without moving at speed like in the animation, it would have suffered risk of damage from it's own weapons, in 1941 some of the battleship USS Washington's fire control and radar systems were damaged when passing over the remains of the destroyer HMS Punjabi after it was accidentally rammed by HMS King George V and it's depth charges activated, imagine what would happen to a destroyer

@brucewelty7684 Год назад

I appreciate you pronunciation of the river where Spee was scuttled.

@haziqazri8880 Год назад

Could you adapt this into a series,would love to see you discussed about other countries navies pre,during and the demise of their navies in ww2

@germaniacbill3824 Год назад

You should do more navy stuff if ww1 and ww2 it’s very overshadowed in history classes

@switchbladerich Год назад

I've been interest in WWII since I was a kid, I even remember watching the Military channel even when I was 7. I don't know how I didn't know the Germans actually constructed and aircraft carrier until now.

@johnnyflores5954 Год назад

Yeah, it was a fine ship design to bad they didn’t realize it’s full potential. The Graf Zeppelin, was 90 percent completed by the summer of 1938, almost a full year before the start of WW2.

@chugachuga9242 Год назад

I like all the little references that are getting thrown into these videos

@pvjg Год назад

great content and video! congrats

@NewtypeCommander Год назад

For anyone curious about what the details of Plan Z entailed, I highly recommend this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HvQj2oM69IY.html. Of course, as pointed out, Plan Z's main assumption was that there would be no war with Britain for ten years. For a look at how the Royal Navy could have responded to such a German naval build up, I also recommend this video from the same channel: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R89zNg3WYko.html

@sirgonk988 Год назад

Gigachad Drach viewer. I love that legend

@Superimperatoris Год назад

After binging all of his drydocks this past half year - it´s hard to say what i love about him the most. His extreme respect for sources and accuracy, or his unstoppable wholesomeness

@Compucles Год назад

How did they figure that? Sure, the U.K. (and France) were unnecessarily appeasing the German takeovers for a while out of fear of another "Great War," but did Germany really think that policy would last for an entire additional decade? Even if Poland wasn't the last straw, surely they wouldn't just sit back and let Hitler march on the Soviet Union. Although not on friendly terms, letting Hitler have the Soviets (if he had succeeded in this version of history) would've allowed him to become way too powerful.

@jameshannagan4256 Год назад

That might be my favorite channel on You Tube.

@genxer1 Год назад

Something that always bugs. During the invasion of Norway he states the Kriegsmarine supported the Wehrmacht and at 20:00 says the Kriegsmarine had fewer resources than the Luftwaffe or the Wehrmacht. That's like saying the U.S. Navy received fewer resources than the U.S. Air Force or the U.S. Armed Forces. The Wehrmacht was all the German armed forces, not just the Army. The land component of the Wehrmacht was the Heer, or Army. To say the Kriegsmarine received fewer resources that the Wehrmacht makes no sense, as the Kriegsmarine was a branch of the Wehrmacht, along with the Heer and Luftwaffe. Just a pet peeve.

@alvashoemaker8536 11 месяцев назад

ABSOLUTELY fascinating!! GREAT, enthusiastic delivery!! MORE, please!! 👍👍😃

@stephank9172 Год назад

Great editing with the music!

@MAAAAAAAAAA123 Год назад

15:04 their standard displacement was around 10,000 tons, so not any different from allied ships and right on the displacement limit of Versailles

@koenmccarthy9061 Год назад

"around" sums it up pretty well, i think the 13000-14000 is the wrong type of displacement.

@silverhost9782 Год назад

I don't think there was a single ship in the Kriegsmarine that was 10,000 tons displacement in WW2. Not sure what you're talking about- they certainly weren't that small

@AadamSaleem0 Год назад

The allies: let's take it nice and slowly Germany is doomed anyway. The Soviets: RUSH B

@Kingkhan-og8xw Год назад

'B' stands for Berlin isn't it??

@frenchempire9471 Год назад

@@Kingkhan-og8xw yes

@ErwinSmith001 Год назад

This comment isn't even related to the video.

@frenchempire9471 Год назад

@@ErwinSmith001 ok, and?

@ErwinSmith001 Год назад

@@frenchempire9471 Idk

@afternoobtea914 Год назад

Yoy know your facts and incredible to listen to it. Well done! Both my grandfathers was in the war.

@charliefoxtrott1048 Год назад

Still love doing the Easter Egg hunt while watching your videos. Like the "Flying Bell" in the beginning or the "Conspiracy Meme" with all the red lines on a map while talking about old Admirals with no connection to reality. Thank you all @ AH

@ijn4438 Год назад

1:29 ah yes the Maus, also known by its other name the M36 Jackson.

@_synix_2620 Год назад

Germany’s navy had its ups and downs, the U-boats proved to be deadly sinking a ton of allies supply ships, however I do believe the Bismarck, Tirpitz, and other warships could have been used better.

@dark7element Год назад

Germany's mistake was in building those battleships at all. Now, this isn't a "they should've built aircraft carriers instead" thing. The European naval theater was very, very different from the Pacific. The profusion of land-based aircraft in the Euro theater made aircraft carriers much less important. But the thing about surface fleets is that unless you can build a big enough one that you can actually defeat the other side in a decisive battle, they're a waste of resources and manpower. It's very much a 'go big or go home' kind of situation. Germany had no business building any surface warship bigger than a destroyer; if they'd put the time, effort and raw materials that they wasted on boondoggles like the Bismarck and Tirpitz into improving their submarine fleet instead, they would've fared far better. Although really, their chances of winning even a marginal victory in the naval war (and, with it, of winning even a marginal victory in the whole war since the outcome of the naval conflict pretty much decided which side was going to win) went up in smoke the moment the British broke the enigma code.

@lesdodoclips3915 Год назад

@@strangelyukrainian7314 and how could the u boats have operated in the closely guarded English Channel? Without air superiority?

@kennethbriner5390 Год назад

@@dark7element I have, for the last forty years of doing my own analysis of the question of The Kriegsmarine beginning large scale submarine production 1936 and no further capital ships. I really do not understand the apparent blindness that you seem expect the Royal Navy to have. "My God, Jerry is building lots of submarines but no capital ships. How soon can we laydown the Lions?" That must be the reaction you expect the Royal Navy to have. Just being Colonel Blimp and ignoring the threat that nearly brought the empire to her knees in the previous war. Do we have any historical situation which might shed some light on what the Royal Navy's reaction would be? Well we do. That exact scenario happened in Sep 1939 when the war started. The same scenario you and others postulate for 1936 onward. German shifted from capital ships to submarine production. The Royal Navy, in answer, ceased the Lions and some aircraft carriers and other ships to put that space to building of anti-submarine vessels. Other impacts might include a small reduction of Tribal J K l M fleet destroyers for production of the Hunts. Just as the Royal Navy could have almost doubled the potential output of Plan Z in capital ships. The same production capability could have ,in part, or completely reallocated to ASW ships. One advantage the British would have is they could build ASW vessels and put them in the reserve fleet and only bring them out for training as needed whereas the Kriegsmarine would probably man the U-boots full time. Other impacts might include a small reduction of Tribal J K l M fleet destroyers for production of the Hunts. The Royal Navy could have practiced convoy tactics with the called up reserve vessels thus developing actual doctrine for convoys before the war. This would be a great advantage over what happened in 1939 when the Royal Navy had to start from scratch during the war. There could also see the advent of an early HMS Archer prior to the war as well. The move to all submarine building By Germany would have been met by a large ASW push by the Royal Navy. I do not feel that Germany would any better chance just building U-boots than they would have using Plan Z. Britain could out produce Germany in either case. I do not believe the Royal Navy or Britain would have taken the totally oblivious view of Colonel Blimp necessary for this idea to have succeeded any better. Is there a clear winning position for the Kriegsmarine? Probably Hitler not going to war!

@dark7element Год назад

@@kennethbriner5390 With the technology availabe in the late 1930s and early 1940s, I believe that investment in ASW vessels would provide diminishing returns relative to investment in submarines themselves. The international supply lines of the British Empire were enormous (there were u-boat raids in the Indian ocean! A lot of them!) and you need more escort ships to guard supply lines like that compared to the number of submarines (and surface commerce raiders) you need to threaten them. No, Germany was never going to be able to outproduce the UK, but focusing on subs would've given them the most favorable exchange on investment compared to the UK.

@MrDragon1968 Год назад

Well the Bismarck was crippled and rendered inoperable by the RN and had to be scuttled in 1941. The Tirpitz was forced to limit it's operations for the rest of the war in 1942 when British commandos destroyed the Normandie dry dock during the St Nazaire Raid.

@toututu2993 6 дней назад

This channel have the best visual and quality compared to any lazy historian youtube channel ever! Thanks to your awesome artist!

@stevelafave309 Год назад

Warpath better have paid you well for that animation. That was soooo good.

@sprinkle61 Год назад

Saw it was just a lame ad unrelated to the video, watched the whole thing anyway, just to see what happened in the battle in the ad !

@orrinfreeman5672 Год назад

9:51 is that a robot mech from Wolfenstein? :'D

@piotrmiler234 Год назад

Looks like Machine Man for me .

@antoniodemunari3335 Год назад

At 9:08 there are shown the multiple choises of the germans, problem is, the ships there displayed look like italian ones. Respectivly: Littorio class battleship, soldati destroyer and zara cruiser

@Aelxi Год назад

I noticed the pizzas too

@foelsgaard_fg Год назад

You are right, I'm the artist who drew the scene my mistake!

@eduardovillicana8509 Год назад

3:00 Die Glocke easter egg is hilarious🤣🤣

@jaimejaime2930 Год назад

Great stuff some fine work here gentlemen

@brianwilke592 Год назад

At the end of the war....too late to be a factor....the Kriegsmarine introduced three new submarines: The Type 21, which was WAY ahead of its time, as it could travel faster underwater, using diesel power instead of battery power. It also held more torpedoes. The Type 25 was a smaller coastal submarine, but had the same new technology as the Type 21, and I think actually sank a few ships right before the end of the war. There was also the SeeHund, and minature submarine, which was able to penetrate harbors, and it too sank a few ships before the wars end, on trial missions.

@lightfootpathfinder8218 Год назад

It would have been interesting in 1939-41 if the Germans deployed the subs they had at the end of the war against the anti submarine Corvettes and frigates the British had at the End of the war. I think Britain still would have prevailed as Germany could never have matched the shipbuilding capacity of Britain. plus from about late 1942 the Royal navy had the technological edge over the Kriegsmarine

@MrPancake777 Год назад

Eh. Wouldn’t have made a difference. The allies’ anti sub technology was growing rapidly.

@alphabravodelta42 Год назад

There's a video on RU-vid where an academic using primary German sources ripped the legend the XXI as described on Wikipedia as a complete myth.

@startrekmike Год назад

the biggest problem with the Kriegsmarine's U-boat campaign wasn't a lack of technology, it was a lack of sound doctrine. Even if Germany had somehow managed to design/deploy the Type 21 earlier in the war, it would not have changed anything. They still would have used hilariously bad radio discipline (that made it easy for the Allies to track the boats) and their tactics and general coordination would still have been so poor that any technology "advantage" would have been rendered null. Germany lost the war in the Atlantic FAR earlier in the war than one might initially think. A lot of the stories about the effectiveness of the U-Boat campaigns were Allied propaganda to build support for the war.

@vermas4654 Год назад

It's remarkable how much they managed to achieve with so little

@yw9113 Год назад

The Germans?

@vermas4654 Год назад

@@yw9113 the Kriegsmarine in particular

@carwyngriffiths Год назад

@@vermas4654they didn’t really achieve much, they lost every single major engagement of the war. The Uboats at their peak failed to sink even quarter of the tonnage sent overseas, and failed to stop the British transporting supplies across the empire, from the Far East to the med. the biggest factor was the fear

@PotatoSalad614 Год назад

Correction: It's remarkable how much the Royal Navy managed to achieve in WW2 with so little being remembered by anyone

@vermas4654 Год назад

@@carwyngriffiths that they even managed to pull off Weserübung and sink so many ships is still very remarkable. They shouldn't have been this "successful" considering the royal navy.

@ChaosMongrel Год назад

Anyone else recognize the music at 12:00 from Real Time History's videos on Napoleon's invasion of Russia? I realize the music is probably copyright free and used by many content creators. I just think it's really cool because that music sets the mood perfectly for epic/awesome history videos.

@bawicz0 Год назад

Saturday morning, eating breakfast and watching armchair is 👍👍👍

@logycaa Год назад

Beautiful video. Another one on the Italian navy would be super interesting

@keetoowah2213 Год назад

Please make a video about the Pacific war between Chile and Peru/Bolivia, I think south American history is undertaught for how interesting it is

@hansdasgamer Год назад

I like how "Die Glocke" was shown in one of the scenes.

@travisbarstow9279 Год назад

I would like to see a episode highlighting the importance of American submarines against the Japanese shipping in WW2 as well.

@luigidisanpietro3720 Год назад

Armchair Historian: *Updates.* Potential History: *Updates.* Epic History: *Updates.* Simple History: *Updates.* Me a Nerd: *WOOOHOOOOOO!!!*

@oden151 Год назад

I would love to see another WW2 Navy related topics, particulary the Imperial Japanese Navy

@jeremystein5270 Год назад

3:05 on the right side paper is "Die Glocke" a supposed Nazi machine capable of gravity suppression

@WhatHappenedHistory Год назад

Really interesting video!

@captainlocks394 Год назад

what the heck happened about the new video about America's perspective in ww1 it was an excitement!!!!!!????

@okie2464 Год назад

Yeh where is it

@potato23116 Год назад

Man when I pressed it out of excitement it says private video Guess we gotta wait boys

@Hendricus56 Год назад

How WW2 would have gone when it had only began in 1944-45 that Plan Z would have been at least partially completed etc would be interesting. Since it would open a massive amount of possibilities. Thinking about it, even something like Scharnhorst and Gneisenau being available for Operation Rheinübung (as originally planned) would have changed things. PoW would have probably been sunk that day as well and the final battle of Bismarck might have been completely different

@jakemurray2635 Год назад

Do you think the Royal Navy would still be using Hood if they had time to complete the Lions, Vanguard and the rest lol? Britain would simply outbuild Germany again

@Hendricus56 Год назад

@@jakemurray2635 You are mixing things up. The second part is more ships being available that should have went with Bismarck that couldn't. And yes, they would be using Hood. She had a major refit planned in 1942. Doesn't sound like she was obsolete to me

@jakemurray2635 Год назад

@@Hendricus56 She was commissioned in 1920 lol. When the Royal Navy starts commissioning new and bigger capital ships, they'd start getting rid of older ships like the R class, QE Class and battlecruisers. She had a refit planned because the war was on and nothing was going to replace her

@Hendricus56 Год назад

@@jakemurray2635 She had the refit planned either way because in the build up to WW2, she was the most important asset. And you honestly expect the RN to get rid of basically a fast battleship? Faster than the QEs, better armed than the KGVs... She was basically the best the Royal Navy had at that point. They would have definitely modernised her. No questions asked. When you say QEs (even then some would have survived since they were modernised), R class and Repulse/Renown, you ignore that those were WW1 vessels. They fought in that war. Hood not

@jakemurray2635 Год назад

@@Hendricus56 Hood was designed and built in WW1 tho and would not even be close to the planned 6 Lion class Battleships and would perform the same roles the Renown class performed historically ie convoy and fast carrier escort as Battlecruisers were not supposed to fight in the battle line. While not decommissioned, she certainly would be in reserve by 1944 to free crews up for the bigger, better ships

@mategamlet2808 Год назад

3:07 Little SCP reference on the left

@Huskyboi_ Год назад

Amazing!

@franksalvatore4094 Год назад

The United States and the United Kingdom had better ships and aircraft carriers than Germany did in WW2. So did Japan and Italy.

@franksalvatore4094 Год назад

By 1944, German sailors of surface warships who survived the sinking of their vessel and were rescued by their comrades only to be conscripted into the Army or the the Volksgrenadiers and fight the War on the battlefield.

@crish.9277 Год назад

Never click so fast in my life like today 😂

@FIVEBASKET Год назад

Same

@pikminlord343 3 месяца назад

Another excellent video

@benz4games236 Год назад

1:00 to 2:00 He practically made a movie. Great video

@fluent4530 Год назад

Can you do the Japanese navy next?

@messyjessem.3108 Год назад

" KMS Bismarck noises intensifies"

@Truenofan86 Год назад

From a mist a shape a ship is taking a form

@Testimony_Of_JTF Год назад

The Bismarck sucked dude. It was almost instantly sunk lmao

@SeveralWeezelsInaTrenchcoat Год назад

A useless ship

@MAAAAAAAAAA123 Год назад

@LocalShadow ….while being incapable of maneuver from the ark Royal strike and under attack from 9 other destroyers all night long. More pathetic was that none of the British destroyers got torpedo hits on an 830’ long target stuck in a slow port turn!

@PotatoSalad614 Год назад

Bimarck was trash. It broke its own radar and had a pre ww1 armour layout 😂😂 KGV class had a newer armour layout by nearly 30 years

@cranedigiangaming6113 Год назад

Love the die glocke and ufo at 3:05

@mattg2383 Год назад

8:39 I love the hoi4 sounds XD I am actually playing it rn while listening to this video in the background lol, I was so confused for a second tho like why am I hearing those noises.

@Numba003 Год назад

I know quite little about the German navy during WW2. Thank you for this video, and I would appreciate more like it in the future too! God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)