The Battle of Yelnia 1941 | The First Defeat of the Wehrmacht in Operation Barbarossa 

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Seeing the long line of occupying German soldiers walking shows the lack of logistics from the beginning. They had not enough vehicles, not even enough horses.

Never heard of this battle before but interesting to know about it. Thx

very confident to hear such new information which I'm hearing for the first time! please continue...

Awesome video

Interesting video, thank you.

Enjoyed very much- small victories sometimes have the effect of motivating large armies!

Great channel. Keep up the great work!

Never heard of this battle very interesting ty

Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Class A research project!!! Special thanks to veteran soldiers sharing personal information/combat experiences making this documentary more authentic and possible. Fighting/perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible. Yet still advanced forward regardless of the consequences. That's true grit style determination to succeed. After the failed blitzkrieg attempt to invade/conquer Moscow in 41. Gave gen Zhukov enough time to reorganize his demoralized forces. Fortify Moscow's perimeters the disillusioned short war with Russia theory had vanished.

It was informative and clearly explained of that event ( first retreated of German divisions front stubborn resistance of Soviets in meantime Soviet counterattack in flanks of that gap created by advanced German armies in Center sectors...what is notable Soviet counterattacks were not able to closed the posterior doors behind advanced German armies..when German casualties was equivalent to red armies in that sector for the first time due to that operation...normally it had massive influences on the assaults powerful of German armies on Moscow... ...thank you (War Academy) channel for sharing this remarkable video and its massive effectiveness on Moscow invading

Good history Channel

Good video

Imagine sending new Soviet mobiks into the attack right after they got to the front. It might work for awhile but not for long.

Good history channet

What is the name of the background music? I like it.

Historias que merecen ser contadas.

Then and more recently this battle is being presented as a signal victory for the Soviets. In fact it was irrelevsnt: it didn't prevent the capture of Smolensk, it didn't prevent Guderian's 2. Panzer Group to encircle Kiev, it's gains were nullified and it's forces ultimately destroyed in the massive double encirclement of Wyasma-Briyansk. What a (ptopaganda-) victory!

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"Thus!" XD

I wonder why this narrative has no mention of the Luftwaffe. It was always central to German front line tactics.

I never understood why the German attacked Moscow when it seems to me that the grain from the Ukraine, the oil from the Caucasus, and the ports of the Baltic were more vital.

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I don't know which was Guderian's biggest mistake: to attempt to hold Yelnia as a launchpad for an early August Typhoon (thus failing to close the Smolensk pocket quickly at Yartsevo), or even attempting a deep encirclement of Smolensk after Minsk (instead of a smaller, tighter encirclement of Orsha first). The man was too greedy, too ambitious.

Not entrance; shoulders.

I love how armchair historians hmm around about how Barbarossa failed and how it was riddled with mistakes yet the simple fact is the Germans couldn’t conceive any nation taking 27 million losses and still recovering

Yep! The German Army at the gates of Moscow in December 1941 was but a ghost of the June 21 army that had left Poland. Yelnia was but one of many like battles that was the cause for this change. It was Stalin and his suicidal tactics that would destroy the June 21German Army by the time it was facing Moscow in December 1941.

Stop using rumanian maps to avoid wrong location names☝️

A good jab at the foe for the soviets - a harbinger for the Germans of the spirit of Russian resistance...

So many German lovers in these comments. Barbarossa failed because of the high losses by September it was obvious they would lose the Germans had taken so many causalities .

Another great video showing the meat grinder of war. The war in the west ended quickly. Why not the war in the East? Logistics and distance were not the German’s friend.

This was the canary in the coal mine for the Germans but they were too full of hubris and loathing of the Slavs to connect the dots.

Bit of more than you could chew that time 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😊

Anyway germans lost time for the attack on Mocow.

Just a teenie, tiny taste of what was coming. The Red Army could take blows and disasters unlike any army in the world, and keep on coming on. Ruthless, brutal commanders and a blood thirsty dictator provided tremendous motivation.

The War against Russia was lost on the 22nd of June 1941 the attack with the goal of taking Russia to the Urals was nonsense the rest between 22-6-41 and 30-4-45 (Hitler shooting himself to the signed surrender 08-05-45) was a European Tragedy of unimaginable suffering it’s effects carrying over into the next 1-2 Generations. Even if it was argued that Stalin was on the verge of attacking Germany first ( as promulgated by some as so much Soviet Forces being readied in attack formations close to the Western boarders leading to poor initial defence by the Russians as they were caught by surprise….no…if that was the case the Germans could have done what? Called for a armistice at where the Germans had advanced to by December 1941 drawing a new frontier map? No once that assault had taken place and America the “Awakened Giant” had entered the war and Stalin’s Russian Bear had revenge as it’s goal, Germany was doomed the rest was a protracted catastrophe until it’s inevitable conclusion. THE ONE PERSON who had a strong inclination as to the impending catastrophe before it happened was Rudolf Hess his brave but naive attempt to reach Churchill with the one message: Hitler does not war with England and it’s Empire he has some frightening idea if he attacks and defeats Russia your last hope to accept peace with Germany will be dashed, please please help prevent this. That was never going to happen Hess was isolated by MI6 and spent the rest of his life as the loneliest man in the world before the then 94 year was strangled just like Epstein. There was no way Churchill was going to miss out on his War with Hitler, Britain went on to lose it’s Empire and the West Lost the World:(to paraphrase Pat Buchanan).

Both videos are awesome but I just cringe every time he says smolenskOH...JUST SAY SMOLENSK!

RIP heiliges Deutschland ❤

all i can say is very well done

Overestimation of the Red Army numbers.

Millions have died by now, and many more millions will continue to die...The end is A LONG way off at this point !!!

Long live the Red Army!!! It is still alive and kicking, today.

Respect and eternal glory from Turkey to the glorious german army.Besides If it hadn't been for usa and britain and %100 of german troops had been on the eastern front,germany would have defeated the ussr in any case

Glory to Russia 💪🇷🇺

BOOOOOO . !

Hitler acted far too soon against the USSR. Hitler did not defeat the British. Hitler opened another front in Africa. Hitler was taking too much amphetamine?? 😂

Typical eastern front; HORRIFYING

When the Russian BEAR roars there's going to be Hell to pay. A very brave AND blessed people. Russia will win in Ukraine also.

Блиц-криг захлебнулся под Смоленском