The End of WWII on the Eastern Front with Rob Citino 

It is RU-vid policy that any Robert Citino video must have audio issues.

One good thing to have come out of the pandemic has been listening to lectures by Dr. Citino and others. I'm attending university classes for free.

Dr. Citino makes history lively and fresh. Whether it's lectures or interviews, I'm always entertained and enriched by his comments. Just SO VERY VERY GOOD!!!

Erich von Manstein: “Lost Victories”, not “Lost Battles”, guys.

Another fascinating look at the closing days of the German catastrophe. The choppy audio was a real nuisance and did obscure some of Dr. Citino's remarks. Should be an easy fix.

Great interview, to bad some of the audio is missing. Love hearing Citino’s thoughts.

The 2 Robs, by far just about the most knowledgeable people on the subject of WW2. By far

Thanks Dr. Citino always great listening to you speak, always feel like you’re kept in check by a time limit, would be great if you’re given “free reign” for a few hours! As others have said, the audio chopped in a few places but nothing that made the experience any less positive. We’re all in the same boat and it’s just one of those things that can’t be helped right now!

my fatherinlaw had a lifeboat from gustlov in his backyard for years, no museum wanted to buy it, so it was sent to be scrapped for wood and metal (probably it was used after they war by local fisherman before ending up here) it was scrapped in 2015

Thank you!

It's symbolic that the 3 torpedoes that hit the German ship were inscribed with "for Motherland", "for Soviet people" and "for Leningrad".

❤❤❤❤❤ Citino is number 1. He's the best !

Dag Hammerschold was asked what he thought of the conditions in post war Europe in 1961. He said: "MPL 906-4/eoj63 ser. 14"

WW2 is eternally fascinating.

Liked and subbed

Thaks a lot guys!!!.....from Chile.

Informative+

GOD BLess YOU ALL!!!!!!!

Good author

A Question Dr. Citino, Was the "turned away" of Stalin, or the operational freedom for the russians generals the revival of the "depth war"? When it happened? Kursk?

Great Steiner

My grandmother and her family almost got onto the wilhelm gustlov

He Makes one feel and see what the tank drivers saw !

I like Citino even more noticing that he plays 12-string guitar.

Questions were good. Sound was a bit off at points

A computer mic with a voice gate issue.

Decades of reading, research, and preparation goes into these talks, and 5 minutes to set up the gear. You guys need mics and an audio technician. The value of the presentation is virtually subsumed by the poor quality audio.

The Germans were "Riding The Tiger", as long as you are riding, it is great, but when you want to dismount the Angry Tiger will take control. They were well aware of their own mortality and had no future other than death at Russian hands.

I'd be nice if this guy's signal didn't cut out every 10 seconds

If you love WW2 history, you live citino

that must have been terrifying hearing the war coming closer

"Doctor" is a very unusual name. Are you sure it's not your academic title, Rob?

who knew there was a quislng division defending berlin at the end

This would have been a great interview if the audio wasn’t god awful smh

I hate to say this but they should have kept World War one going another month

When even a simple soldier says: "What we've done in Russia can't even God forgive us", states that they all knew, they were on a way of no return.

All the excuses for fighting to the end can all be true at the same time. Every man has his own reasons. I can't believe this guy actually asked,(and that citino would venture to answer) what is going through some Danish or French waffen ss volunteers head who would rather die than surrender.

Not only was the USSR the adversary after the war. But a lot of people were not going to find out the full extent of Wehrmacht crimes in the East until the USSR collapsed.

thanks Dr Citino, my question is: The nazis show preferences on german and austraian about other jews. I read the KristallNacht was a terror campaign, and in the Wansee Conference "the nazis talks about a "Reich judenfrei"". The german jews fight in WWI with Hitler in the same trench, and in a conference Hitler roughly recognize the jewish contribution for german. Different with poland´s jews and others, a relevant Sionist leader meet Hitler asking what Hitler should support the Jewish Land (In british hands at that time), Rosenberg, and others suggest "Madagascar" making jokes about starvation of all jews (ignoring what Madagascar is a tropical paradise and not the Sahara desert). and a second question : Hitler blames the jews "If a world war starts" or ""When the war is almost lost no one jewish will survive", is like a sociophat behaviour, but I understand some "certain nuance" in that horrible issue. Is a nighmare to be a jewish slavic russian, and not to be a german jewish?

26:00 You're not a real historian unless Sir Harry Paget Flashman is gracing your shelf.

Why is it Brits who always tell Russian History ? I want to hear the Russian version of why England and France were so weak and suffered early defeats.

our family members fought Russia first and Soviet Union twice , went to Rostov on Don also twice and fought the british and americans but the worst mistakes they had seen were the americans in the battle around the casserine pass and later further norths when they simply fled from the battlefield. The russians were hard to fight and the americans as they always said would loose against the russians cause a democracy can not survive the amount of victims the russian society is willing to sacrifice. Just to make clear: they can judget about the americans cause a lot became american citizens who also had fought in Vietnam, some of them as former frenchc POW that had gotten the offer to be released but only once they first had served in the french foreign legion. Therefore there are more germans that fought and lost their lives there than americans later . So those who had been there always said that the americans will face a big deffeat and therefore left the vietnam war theater before it had been to late. And for those who can not remember: Vietnam is just 1 of a total defeat in a long row from iraq over somalia to Afghanistan, all had ended in retreats which is a total defeat by all standards. Yes, of cause the average american or rather 90% of them will complain and pretend " We never invaded Somalia!" Which opens a new front or question: Where is Somalia ? Ask Trump and you get the best but wrong answer cause he did not know either but pretended to know : behind the sunset Which could be some how right or wrong assuming that this would mean not in north america and south america. But the average american has no clue at all about a country somewhere in Asia, or in the Pacific Ocean or rather in the Atlantic ocean this island Napoleon had been incercarate ? But it is so easy to help the famous americans out: Somalia must be in Hollywood cause only Hollywood can enlighten the average american . Yes , most will disagree, but what about 3 single words to proof that Somalia must be close to Hollywood to solve the question about a defeat of the USA close to no one knows about or rejects: black hawk down and all complaints will stop, the voices will stop to protest and in the following silence some cells in the brain start counting 1 + 1 that they know about a thing called black hawk down, but really ? And then out of a sudden the pictures of american soldiers defeated by poor african tribes in the capitol of somalia aka Mogadischu will solve the question - but only the superficial one even though it is telling the answer: USA and mostly any other democracy can not afford victims and bear the casualties long enough to win against russia. Even the nicest new weapon system will show an advantage, but only for a short period of time till the russian will have learned to improve. Better to have a turtle tank than to sit in an american helicopter grounded by the tribes of somalia. If they and the vietnamese achieved to defeat the americans than the russians will achieve that too. Just a matter of time till the american army will run out of steam and ressources as seen in Vietnam where so many american war crimes had happened and destroyed the american reputation in foreign societies forever . Napalm to attack civilians and burn children which had to be saved in Europe, not by the USA . Abrams tanks got lost and so many other weapon systems did not outperform the russians for long. Where are the pictures and propaganda about the great storm shadow successes? The russians have learned a lesson and storm shadow is no longer as successfull as before like the Abrams and the other american systems .

Every German woman knew what the revenge would look like.

I feel like every question was treated like a stupid question.

Love old Germany.

Theres no doubt Germany suffered its own holocaust in 1945. It wold be prim - not to say callous - to say they "deserved" it - because of course no one deserves that - none of the countless millions of whatever ethnicity or nationality killed needlessly in that merciless war. The war - at least in Europe - was fought to end any German pretensions to continental mastery. That was accomplished - but perhaps too well given the present reluctance of Germany to equip the Ukrainians with tanks in the war with Russia. As a general rule you can almost always count on Germans to make poor strategic decisions. At the micro level Germans are superb - at the macro level - not so much.

Fascism rules the way today. Different names and nationalities, but same ideas and policies.

fucked up sound

I dont recall Hitler eating any chocolate or drugs during downfall? And its Lost Victories not Lost Battles :D

So this guy had no reservations admiring German commanders while they were killing 17 million Soviet civilians but when they start killing their own that’s when he begins to have doubts. Got it.