The Opposite of Blitzkrieg - Siege Tactics on the Eastern Front - WW2 Special

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German military doctrine is all about mobility and operational maneuverability, but there comes a time in this war, well, several times, when an actual classic siege is called for. So how does the Wehrmacht respond to that call? Find out today.
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@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

It has come to our attention that some of you are unfamiliar with our TimeGhost History channel, which is a fabulous source for chronological documentaries. For example, we covered the Cuban Missile Crisis day by day in 13 episodes (and a couple of prologues). That even featured newly declassified secret recordings made by President Kennedy of the EXCOMM meetings that were basically deciding the world's fate. Here's the playlist for that series of awesomeness: ru-vid.com/group/PLrG5J-K5AYAWbzTXiTzPEFQHLoozkqchz And for day by day coverage of the war to go along with the regular weekly episodes, check out our Instagram: instagram.com/ww2_day_by_day/

@QuizmasterLaw 3 года назад

any information about unconventional munitions used at Sevastopol or Kursk would be great.

@Jakob_DK 3 года назад

The other series are also great and I will highly recommend them.

@shawnr771 3 года назад

@@Jakob_DK Yes very informative for events that were kind of glossed over at the end of the school year.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you!

@ShubhamMishrabro 3 года назад

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@darthcalanil5333 3 года назад

you got me at "remote-controlled flamethrowers" WHAT??!

@jamesharms748 3 года назад

Yup they cover access points into the escarpments. Much like cannons did in the Vauban system.

@freedom2663 3 года назад

Yeah. That has to be a mistake. If not, we need info on this.

@danielmocsny5066 3 года назад

All you need is a flamethrower and a long wire to send either an electrical or mechanical signal to the flamethrower's trigger. It's the same principle as used in the more modern M18 Claymore mine (which by the way would have come in handy during WWII for countering banzai charges). With the Claymore, you plant it in the ground somewhere in front of your position, then trail the detonating wire back to where you hide. When the enemy charges, you press the trigger and spray them with shrapnel.

@НикитаГеноссман 3 года назад

Search about FOG flamethrowers, comrade

@3forte 3 года назад

The American B-29 Superfortress had remote operated guns. So a remote controlled flamethrower would be relatively easy to install back in the day.

@vladbodea7656 3 года назад

Have you considered on making a pack of WW2 Week by Week wallpapers ? The picture you used for the cover of this clip, for example, is amazing !

@TheBKnight3 3 года назад

I'd definitely buy a few

@briansauer3572 3 года назад

I would buy some, depending on the price of course

@nathanrose3523 3 года назад

Great idea dude I'd purchase more than a few they've used

@asianlifter 3 года назад

Time to use my 300 dollars for good use

@Nintendo0994 3 года назад

Or like trading cards! That would be cool since there will be hundreds of them

@jamieholtsclaw2305 3 года назад

Man, I like these specials. It satisfies both my engineering and history interests.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Glad you liked the video!

@JusVen 3 года назад

I thought the same thing.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

It's something we've actually considered. Our graphic designer, Mikolaj, has created some truly amazing thumbs in the last year or so and it's almost a shame to have them only on single videos. It takes quite a lot of coordination but we do want to do it.

@Dragunov8808 3 года назад

Well, Sevastopol is now finally over, and the as they've decided to starve out Leningrad, I think Wehrmacht can safely put these tactics away now. After all, the Volga Region is a wide open steppe, perfect for German maneuver warfare. Surely they don't need to worry about storming heavily fortified/defended cities in their near future. Right? Edit: Corrected my comment.

@MemoryOfTheAncestors 3 года назад

"the Caucasus is a wide open steppe"... - was that sarcasm too, I hope? XD )))

@badbotchdown9845 3 года назад

You'll have forgot to mention Rostov on the Don before the kalmuks steppe

@korbell1089 3 года назад

nothing between them and the Urals except for a couple towns. Looks like it will be all over by Christmas.

@thegosthofvilgax 3 года назад

Should be smooth sailing from here on out for them I think. Honestly they might even be able to open up another front with the British and threaten Bagdad if all goes well.

@matthewbadley5063 3 года назад

Ironic thing is at Stalingrad the Germans penetrate the city's prepared defenses very easily because they were either unmanned or partially manned. It's the fighting in the city that causes them to grind to a halt.

@heckinmemes6430 3 года назад

"We already shelled it, it took 7 months but we shelled it. It's done." "Yes, but we need to clear the area from different angles. Again, again and again!" *sad gustaf crying noises*

@julianusvictor327 3 года назад

Another brilliant episode guys. This channel is just amazing.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you!

@davedeman8093 3 года назад

Dude did you make your account for a MATN series?

@ICULooking 3 года назад

@@davedeman8093 2nd best Julianus

@davedeman8093 3 года назад

@@ICULooking sadly always in the shadow of the vatinius variety

@julianusvictor327 3 года назад

@@davedeman8093 For the glory of Rome! And my precious Cretan archers.

@bungobox7454 3 года назад

The very first siege on the eastern front took place on the opening day of Barbarossa, when the German 45th Infantry attempted to take the fortress of Brest-Litovsk on the Russo-German border by surprise. In a week of heavy fighting, the Germans suffered 1100 casualties, finally ending all resistance on 29th June. The Russians suffered over 2000 dead and 7000 were taken prisoner. Welcome to the Russian Front.

@davidhimmelsbach557 3 года назад

You're right about the 45th -- but it was not part of Plan A. (!) It was thrown in -- brought out of army reserve -- because the original attacks were going no-where. It started out as a Class A assault infantry division -- but did not stay that way. Critically, ALL of the essential rail lines crossed the fortress island. ( It stood in the middle of the bisected river.) There was no getting around it. A fist-full of rail bridges were in the shadow of its gun ports. Until the Germans squared things away, the Ostheer had to truck every last ton of supplies across pontoon bridging. That trucking sucked down astounding -- and un-budgeted -- amounts of gasoline. Moscow was lost at Brest.

@azmc4940 3 года назад

One could also make a case for the Battle of Westerplatte, where a small Polish garrison of aprox. 200 men held out against overwhelming Nazi onslaught from the land, air and sea for seven days.

@nicholasconder4703 3 года назад

@@azmc4940 I second your statement.

@Raskolnikov70 3 года назад

@@davidhimmelsbach557 Did they consider glider infantry? I mean, if it worked in Belgium..... lol, just kidding. No way that was ever going to work twice.

@Darwinek 3 года назад

@@DawidKov "goodbye motherland" in a city which Soviets took from Poland in 1939 when they were still best buddies with Nazis.

@Jorlaan42 3 года назад

I love the little "Time Coast" pic that came up. I feel like that's an appropriate logo for the vacation the team gets to take when the war is finally over. They'll definitly have earned it!

@Slippyboy 3 года назад

That may have been my favorite moment of the entire video :-)

@Panzer4F2 3 года назад

Excellent video as usual. Stugs seem like a handy vehicle. Perhaps we will see more of them in the future.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you!

@renanribeiro8137 3 года назад

Did you know that the Stug III was the most-produced AFV by Germany in WW2? They produced over 10,000 of this machines!

@Panzer4F2 3 года назад

@@renanribeiro8137 Don't be ridiculous. We need those hulls for our new wonder weapon, the Panzer Three, now with an even bigger 50mm cannon, It will surely solve all our issues on the Eastern front.

@renanribeiro8137 3 года назад

@@Panzer4F2 Wow! 50mm?? That's quite a thing! Soviet tanks won't stand a chance!!

@Panzer4F2 3 года назад

@@renanribeiro8137 It's our special anti-tank version. I'd respond with something witty, but you probably don't have a radio.

@tanker4516 3 года назад

Siege. The word that haunts most armies for pulling troops away from important fronts.

@mad_max21 3 года назад

Siege of Leningrad. Siege of Sevastopol. Siege of Stalingrad...

@febrian0079 3 года назад

@@mad_max21 Stalingrad was a battle, not a siege

@fistinyourface7053 3 года назад

@@febrian0079 depends on interpretation. 1st phase was a city battle, then it became a series of sieges against pockets of Soviet resistance, and after Soviet counteroffensive, it was a siege.

@u.s.militia7682 2 года назад

I was a combat medic and a cavalry scout in the US Army. I also became a combat engineer which was probably the most exciting MOS I ever had. You learn how to defeat every type of obstacle on the battlefield.

@JoaoSoares-rs6ec 3 года назад

the purpose of fortified deffences haven't changed, to hold control of a position to delay an advancing army, the pourpose of a siege hasn't changed, to capture a fortified position by force our starvation, the tactics of siege warfare remain the same, the only thing that did change was the tools used.even that not so much al least two remain no matter what, the shouvel and the pickaxe.

@JoaoSoares-rs6ec 3 года назад

@Marcelo Henrique Soares da Silva i didn't, quite the contrary,

@thedeadcannotdie 3 года назад

A good fort is meant to make the enemy pay dearly for every inch of ground taken, not hold off an enemy all by itself. Any way, anybody remember Hötzendorf's darling Przemýsl?

@Rahel_Rashid 3 года назад

Oh god. The fort that just as much dispute on its pronunciation 😂

@Darwinek 3 года назад

@@Rahel_Rashid Long live Przemyśl. Rule number one: if you can't pronounce the name of the place, just don't try to besiege it.

@kenoliver8913 3 года назад

@@Darwinek So Massachusetts is safe then?

@Darwinek 3 года назад

@@kenoliver8913 Mass a what?

@michaelnorton3042 3 года назад

You guys put out THE BEST content on this era of history. I have seen everything. The detail is awesome! Thank you!

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you!

@temy4895 3 года назад

For anyone wondering, the largest guns ever were the 914mm (36 inch) Mallet's Mortar (2 built, 2 extant) and Little David (1 built, 1 extant). However Dora & Gustav are the largest guns ever fired in combat.

@badbotchdown9845 3 года назад

You have forgot heavy mortar Thor 800 mm and other I can't recall their names 540 600 mm

@temy4895 3 года назад

@@badbotchdown9845 Thor was 600mm, and one of seven siblings. Either way, they're all smaller than the 800mm of Dora & Schwerer Gustav which was the point being made.

@shaider1982 3 года назад

V3? I was thinking Gerard Bull's guns made for Iraq but those were not fired.

@temy4895 3 года назад

@@shaider1982 V3 is only 150mm (5.9 inch), but the barrel is 150m long, so it is likely the longest.

@kocovgoce 3 года назад

In Sveastopol the Russians dismantled the cannons and domes of all the heavy ships and placed them on the very front line

@opressedrussianminority7421 3 года назад

most russian thing I heard off but i knew that already.

@Overlord734 3 года назад

Those were coastal batteries, built way before the war.

@IgnoredAdviceProductions 3 года назад

And it was the most the Soviet navy did during the war lol

@_ArsNova 3 года назад

@@opressedrussianminority7421 How is that a "Russian" thing? The Germans would do the exact same thing along the Atlantic Wall.

@Overlord734 3 года назад

@@_ArsNova Everyone did it. If you have a port/naval base, it is more then sound to defend it with high caliber guns against enemy naval targets.

@davegrimes3385 3 года назад

Yet they did not try a trebuchet...

@_ArsNova 3 года назад

Was looking forward to the day the Sturmpioniere were covered by this channel. They were legitimately the best infantry forces Germany would have during the war, and despite the flagrant misuse of this word, were truly the German Army's "elite" troops that would receive the most difficult assignments.

@alexamerling79 3 года назад

"The Germans try to avoid sieges all together." Leningrad has entered the chat...

@dongately2817 3 года назад

Good point - an almost 3 year siege had to be a serious misallocation of resources that could have been used to better effect elsewhere.

@nickmoore385 3 года назад

Army Group North was robbed of the resources to do anything but besiege Leningrad.

@hebl47 3 года назад

Operational word here is "try".

@Raskolnikov70 3 года назад

Germany: *pokes Finland with a stick* "C'mon guy, do something..."

@carbonara2144 3 года назад

@@Raskolnikov70 Commander of the finnish army Mannerheim knew nazi-germany wanted to destroy the city and its people. He thought that nazis were barbarians. He forbade his troops to fire at the city or attack it in any way. Finns did not attempt to close the encirclement in Tihvinä. St. Petersburg / Leningrad still has ww2 metal plates on some walls that notify the citizens which side of the street is safe. Shelling only came from german side. That is probably why Stalin made a separate peace with Finland and did not conquer it. He tried in 1944 but failed. He could have done it in 1945-46 but chose not to. He had a good reason.

@nirfz 3 года назад

Not sure if they wanted to use it for Sewastopol, but the "good old" 38cm Haubitze M16 from WW1 that was in the austrian military museum by the time of WW2 was to be taken by the Wehrmacht to use for siege warfare. But someone decided that the Barrel was damaged and so they let it stay there. It was a howitzer build by Skoda. Ferdinand Porsche had constructed the carriage. (A gasoline, electro hybrid for an 80 ton howitzer) For those who speak german: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x0Jjtjwzph4.html

@kyonsou3621 3 года назад

This is by far the most favorite special episode out there for me. Amazing writing

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

@gunman47 3 года назад

6:49 Ah, the Stug life I see there...

@firingallcylinders2949 3 года назад

Everyone talks about Panzers or Tigers but Stugs were the MVPs of German armor.

@nicholasconder4703 3 года назад

Yes, if you want to set fire to something with an armoured vehicle, you need a Stug Lite.

@nicholasthuya7683 3 года назад

@@firingallcylinders2949 they were like the b1 battle droids In Star Wars Easy to repair,replace,produce And also having an impressive Kd ratio

@firingallcylinders2949 3 года назад

@@nicholasthuya7683 Nah, B1s were cannon Fodder. They were more like SBDs

@ricardokowalski1579 3 года назад

Governments and armies have learned that sieges are always fruitless. If you succeed, you gained piles of rubbles.(pun intended), and the long term economic cost is unbearable. You can argue that Germany cared not for rebuilding the city and industry of Stalingrad. But in the future, to extract the resources they still had to rebuild the railways, docks, depots, etc....and suddenly the city is needed again to administer and mantain these assets. That is why war of the future is slow cultural and/or electronic, low intensity effort. Overtake institutions, avoid damaging the infrastructure and markets.

@readhistory2023 3 года назад

It isn't necessary to destroy a city or even damage it during a siege. All you have to do is cut them off from resupply and wait for them to starve.

@specialnewb9821 3 года назад

@@readhistory2023 even assuming you can cut them off totally.... If they can hold out longer than you can siege them and/or you really need the force elsewhere you can't always wait.

@korbell1089 3 года назад

That was the problem the Germans faced with Leningrad, Odessa, and Sevastapol, They all had seaborne resupply so it was almost impossible to starve them out (though the Germans did their best to sink everything). It also reqires you to be numerically superior in the field because as your troops are tied down, the enemy will be gathering his to attempt to break it.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

The German army did attempt this, most notably with Leningrad, while there was destruction, the primary tactic was to starve the city out. It can be an effective tactic as proved countless times throughout history. Quite simply however, it is likely to be much quicker to raze a city as well as starving them out.

@loansharkbaby3896 3 года назад

@@WorldWarTwo Except they cannot stop the starvation of the city. City was supplied by iced lacs and feeding on horses and [clears throat] corpses.

@Zindawg02 3 года назад

I absolutely love that you got your graphics people to create a TimeCoast icon. Please make it a thing!

@maxchia2339 3 года назад

Cool vid. I hope you guys will cover encirclement tactics and warfare too. Those seem to give the eastern front a unique character in the history of warfare. Probably more gruelling than those of the desert i feel.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Although Indy doesn't directly talk about it, you can watch the doctrines which made encirclement possible here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qej9DX28-xw.html Indy has also covered how an encirclement looks fairly extensively in the regular series. Is there anything more you would specifically like to see?

@DSS-jj2cw 3 года назад

I was a Combat Engineer with the U.S Army in the 80s. It is a difficult , back breaking job. At least it was.

@rajeshkanungo6627 3 года назад

My uncle was an Indian army engineer. Same story. Doesn’t get any better. Infantry couldn’t move till the sappers were done. Brutal 1971 Bangladesh war. Also had to handle victims of genocide.

@naveenraj2008eee 3 года назад

Hi Indy Awesome video.. This weekly episode is completion of three years of world war two.m Can't wait to see episode.. Thanks indy and team..🙏👍

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video!

@cheriefsadeksadek2108 3 года назад

I really love these special episodes they always come as a sweet suprise

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

We're glad to hear that!

@daveanderson3805 3 года назад

Excellent video thanks and well researched!

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you!

@martinusher1 3 года назад

One of the people interviewed for "D-Day through German Eyes" was an engineer working on prototype fuel-air explosives. They tried a coal dust / oxygen mix in Sevastapol against the fortifications with enough success to merit developing the weapon properly.

@anandshah71 3 года назад

Very well explained. Thank You

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@diewildemathilde4432 3 года назад

I've always been fascinated by the firepower that is achieved by artillery units during the last century, especially WW1 and WW2, so thank you very much for that special! If possible, I wanted to ask if you could update your source list, or maybe give your sources for this special, because I would love to read up on it myself, but at any rate, thanks Indy and the Team for your great work!

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you! We're glad you enjoyed the video!

@danielmocsny5066 3 года назад

@DiewildeMathilde - check out the Wikipedia article "List of German military equipment of World War II", "Artillery" section. There are links to articles for many German siege weapons, with links to sources.

@diewildemathilde4432 3 года назад

@@danielmocsny5066 Thanks, I'll have a look into it

@hillbillykoi5534 3 года назад

Time Ghost: Coast to Coast

@adammasek772 3 года назад

Heavy Gustav was the gun deployed at Sevastopol, according to Wikipedia(and everything else I've ever read). "Dora", to quote Wiki..."Dora was the second gun produced. It was deployed briefly against Stalingrad, where the gun arrived at its emplacement 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to the west of the city sometime in mid-August 1942.[citation needed] It was ready to fire on 13 September. It was withdrawn when Soviet forces threatened to encircle the German forces. When the Germans began their long retreat they took Dora with them."

@ToddSauve 3 года назад

I saw a documentary on PBS about 25 years ago where they estimated that there are about 25,000 Soviet troops actually entombed in the wreckage of the fortress at Sevastopol from this 1942 German siege. Has anyone else heard how many troops the Soviets lost there?

@gregryan7761 3 года назад

I have heard that for about a decade now Russian youth are used to locate and even recover the remains of fallen Soviet troops in Stalingrad and other areas that were under siege. In 2018 a massive grave containing 1800+ were found by accident as workmen were laying a new water pipe system. The 430ft long, 23ft wide, 7ft deep pit holds the bodies of 1,837 Germans who perished in Stalingrad. Every year, 4 or more mass graves are found in these cities. The remains are carefully interred and efforts are made to identify them. Just FYI.

@ToddSauve 3 года назад

@@gregryan7761 I saw a small piece a few years back where teenagers and young twenty something Russians were doing archeological style digs in the region of Kursk. They were trying to find war graves but were unable to get much help from the government as to where to look. It seemed to them that the Russian government didn't really want the graves to be found because the losses had been so great in number they didn't want the public to find out--even 60 or more years after the war. I don't really know how many people on every side were killed at Kursk. An awful lot, that is for sure. I saw another discussion with some American historians who had been granted partial access to the Russian archives on WW2. From what they found they came up with some incredibly high numbers for casualties in battles that had heretofore not been thought really significant. One battle had been handled profoundly ineptly by a communist party ladder climber and they calculated that around 500,000 soldiers had been killed or wounded on the Russian side. Politics knows no boundaries, does it?

@gregryan7761 3 года назад

@@ToddSauve Well, when you start to get into the REALLY bad leadership of the Communist generals, because of the purges, and how many men they expended in these battles, it's a really sad take. Mind boggling actually.

@ToddSauve 3 года назад

@@gregryan7761 Yes, I think the Russian government did not let the American historians back into their archives after that. The current fiasco in Afghanistan is quite revealing of what the latest crop of American generals are like. Not very good at all. Saw an interview with one a few days back and he was calling the Taliban their buddies now. One Marine Lt. colonel was particularly upset with his political in-speak and posted a video calling for accountability from this and other Marine generals over the deaths that had carelessly been allowed to happen, and also the abandonment of billions of dollars of equipment. I think he got fired from the corps. just a couple of days ago. Nothing changes. The politics and generals of every country on this planet are corrupt.

@bthorn5035 3 года назад

@@ToddSauve Some are still allowed into the archives. The Russians don't want embarrassing info reported, though. If anyone does, they are banned from further access. Since the archives are a gold mine for eastern front historians, most play ball so they don't get the ban hammer. Yes, our generals are a joke. This is what happens when you promote based off of ideology, instead of competence. It is not much different from the generals of the nazis. The germans fired many of their competent leaders and replaced them with ideologues who abandoned bavagenskreig, and got their men slaughtered in attritional warfare.

@machintelligence 3 года назад

It is usually easier to work on the side of entropy.

@rajeshkanungo6627 3 года назад

Yup. I'll steal your line :)

@PanzerdivisionWiking 3 года назад

This was very interesting!

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thanks!

@actionswon9478 3 года назад

@ 5:42 you can see a German soldier with a helmet cover and something we called in the corps “cat eyes” wrapped around it; like a sports band. The purpose of cat eyes is that it’s a reflector so our buddies can see us through the night. Now idk if I’m making a big deal out of this but seeing a German soldier with what I believe are cat eyes really shows us how ahead of the curve they were.

@Archerfish1977 3 года назад

The Patton Museum at Fort Knox has a German Stug III that was recovered from a Russian bog in 1994, fifty years after it sank after breaking through the ice. It is a very interesting weapon platform.

@imaginedauthority9455 3 года назад

very informative and no nonsense production. excellent work

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you!

@W1se0ldg33zer 3 года назад

Sieges are as old as warfare itself. The very first recorded military engagement, the Battle of Megiddo, featured a months-long siege. And the tactics are essentially the same today as they were all those thousands of years ago.

@theoutlook55 3 года назад

I understand you want to make the point, but honestly no, the tactics are extremely different.

@bishop6218 3 года назад

"Remote-controlled flamethrower"... Aaaand that's how it started... *Cue Terminator theme*

@michaelmorrismorris6113 3 года назад

"We make and we break"---- unofficial motto of the combat engineer.

@TheBreadB 3 года назад

Since you deleted that one special video about Guadalcanal, will you make more specials about the Pacific War?

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Yes! We have some special videos about that front planned, so stay tuned!

@felwinter5528 3 года назад

The notification popped up and I clicked on it straight away

@balancedactguy Год назад

Great Video as usual Indy!

@WorldWarTwo Год назад

Thanks for watching!

@twilightgryphon 3 года назад

Time Coast Army sounds much nicer. Like we can learn all this fascinating historical context while getting a tan and enjoying a drink.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

🤣

@yoavshachar8880 3 года назад

Thanks guys I love this show! This episode made me wonder - what were the OLDEST serving standard weapons of this war (excluding sticks and stones)? I'm talking battleships, rifles, tanks, planes, subs, pistols, grandes, artillery etc. Surely some armies still wielded some amazing 19th century gear!

@vksasdgaming9472 3 года назад

Norwegians used pre-WW1 torpedoes and WW1-era naval artillery. Mosin-Nagants were from 1896 (though upgraded) and famous French 75mm cannons also saw some use. I think Mosin-Nagant is oldest weapon in regular use during WW2.

@Orange-wf8wh 3 года назад

U.S navy used WW1 era battleships (Texas and Nevada) for coastal bombardment and convoy escort, Royal Navy has Queen Elizabeth class, which were WW1 era ships.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Most armies used plenty of gear from the 19th century, sure (well, not things like tanks that didn't exist in the 19th century). I actually don't know the specific answer to your question- like who had the oldest, and it would require some research into a whole bunch of armed forces to do so. But it is a very interesting question so I will keep it in mind and from time to time do some digging. Perhaps in a year or so I'll have a good answer for you.

@123sarge123 3 года назад

3:50 "the pioneers used to clear these mines for miles..."

@Centurion101B3C 3 года назад

It is interesting to note that the German invaders siege of Sevastopol took from December 1941 to July 1942 to conquer the strongpoint of Sevastopol. The Soviets took less than a month to defeat the German hold of Sevastopol on May 9, 1944.

@dubya85 3 года назад

The defence's were never rebuilt

@freedom2663 3 года назад

Wow. An exhausted German army was defeated quicker later in the war than when they fought earlier in the war? Amazing. It must be clearly due to weapons, prowess, and tactics and not due to anything else.

@Raskolnikov70 3 года назад

The Wehrmacht also wasn't being resupplied by sea to the extent that the Soviet garrison was. If the Germans still had air superiority they would have been able to resupply and hold out much longer.

@Centurion101B3C 3 года назад

@@freedom2663 Well, I hate to break it to you, but that's how wars work, now don't they? You fight tooth and nail and trade space for time and flexibility and when the time is ripe, you strike a devastating blow where you use the capacity that time and flexibility has provided you with. Again, military hobbyists study battles and tactics. Military professionals study the logistics and strategy.

@Centurion101B3C 3 года назад

@@dubya85 Nonsense! Sevastopol was one huge warren of fortesses and rubblepiles that could have been used as in Stalingrad. By its nature, a ruined cityscape is a nightmare for any attacker and 1944 Sevastopol would have been an advantage to defenders even more so than in 1941/42.

@mikespike3962 3 года назад

One of my favorite episodes so far.

@plainbreaker1392 3 года назад

Excellent episode, you old Time Coaster.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you!

@fliegeroh 3 года назад

This is a wonderful series of videos. Well presented and researched. I love it.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you!

@oneshotme 3 года назад

Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

@albrechtvonreinhardt1882 2 года назад

Could you make uniform specials like you did for the Great War series.

@therob4371 3 года назад

Damn you for correcting my pronunciation Indy! Se-vast-Opal. All these years I thought I had it right. Thank you.

@Southsideindy 3 года назад

I myself needed correcting, actually, and used to say it like you. But it makes sense when you think of all the other "polis" places, like Indianapolis, Metropolis, Toothopolis, Napoli- Sevastopol just doesn't have the "is" at the end, but its the same thing, like Constantinople.

@rabihrac 3 года назад

Thanks for this overview knowledge about sieges, very interesting indeed

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@andrewsoboeiro6979 Год назад

That final point about Sevastopol is really important-- fortresses are almost never designed to make enemy advances impossible (a patently unrealistic goal), but rather to *wear down* the advancing force &/or channel the advance onto more defensible ground. A fortress that weakens and redirects the enemy has done its job, even if it eventually falls. The same is true, incidentally, of the Maginot Line, the purpose of which was not to block a German invasion but rather to redirect it into territory that the French could more easily defend. At this, it succeeded marvelously-- the Germans were forced to take a much more vulnerable route through the Ardennes and the Mesue Valley. The problem is that the French ( *cough cough* HUNTZIGER *cough cough* ) proceeded to squander all the advantages that defending in that territory gave them. But the Maginot Line did its job; Huntziger, on the other hand, didn't do his...

@kaltaron1284 3 года назад

I think you missed option 3. Being leveled to the ground or at least breached. Although that was only rarely a real option.

@ihmejakki2731 3 года назад

Will you guys do a special on the details of the gas chambers? I've always been interested in aspects of such a tool of murder: how did they measure the amount of zyklon pellets, how did they insulate the chambers with the hatches, did the guards avoid exposure to the poison?

@badbotchdown9845 3 года назад

Why you need to know it was effective for mass murder innocents victims period

@ihmejakki2731 3 года назад

@@badbotchdown9845 I like in-depth content, like in this episode we get the details on the explosives and cannons used against sieges on the eastern front, I would like to see a similar overview of the chambers Of course they could've just said that the german cannons were effective but didn't win the war, but I find videos like this very interesting!

@tando6266 3 года назад

Last time I was this early Napoleon had just reached Borodino

@Jakob_DK 3 года назад

It has been a while then ;-)

@shaider1982 3 года назад

Last time I was this early machicholations still had value in sieges.

@jackcoleman5955 3 года назад

MACHICHOLATIONS! Who says they do t have value anymore? I use mine at home against unwelcome solicitors...

@wingitprod 3 года назад

Excellent video. Bravo!

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you!

@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw 3 месяца назад

Mick Jagger wore a metal fortress in the Aussie movie, "Blame it on a Kelly" its funny.

@daveb6815 3 года назад

Good to see you back Indy, much respect

@Southsideindy 3 года назад

See me back? I've never been away.

@daveb6815 3 года назад

@@Southsideindy Ahh you left that other war channel I forget the name,, I wondered if you were even active or even putting out videos,, apologies in my small little world,, you disappeared, 🙂 side question,, you are Welsh American,, right? Keep up the great work, much respect

@Southsideindy 3 года назад

I see. I left the Great War because the war ended. But I had already begun doing this channel before I left that one.

@daveb6815 3 года назад

@@Southsideindy Thanks for the reply,, again I look forward to your videos,, I hope you'll do a video about the chindits,, Thanks Indy 👍

@gunman47 3 года назад

8:56 *Girls und Panzer der Film* fans will definitely recognize this Karl-Gerät siege mortar here...

@bossbeartherock6034 3 года назад

Ah a man of culture

@Ramzi1944 3 года назад

KARL WOLFF?!

@user-ez9ng2rw9c 3 года назад

These Stugs sound like a sensible idea that can't possibly go wrong!

@danielmocsny5066 3 года назад

The Stugs did represent an interesting engineering tradeoff - to turret or not to turret? That is the question. It seems better to have a fully-traversing turret on an armored vehicle, so you can shoot in any direction without having to turn the entire vehicle on its tracks. Turning via the tracks repeatedly in one position causes the vehicle to dig itself ever deeper into the ground, and you have to have the engine running to do it. On the other hand, a non-turreted gun can be of larger caliber and the vehicle becomes less tall and therefore harder to hit. The weight savings can go into thicker armor. Losing the turret also saves money and production time. You end up with a cheaper vehicle that hits harder and is harder to defeat but is less flexible in battle. Given the difficulties US forces had in 1944 when their Shermans went up against individually superior German tanks, having some numbers of Stug-ified Shermans along might have helped. Not to replace all the Shermans, but to provide some heavier guns and frontal armor. The US did have its open-top turreted tank destroyers which mounted heavier guns on the Sherman chassis, but they were even less armored than the standard Sherman. In the event it didn't matter because the Allies won. Having air supremacy and overall logistical supremacy makes up for a lot of shortcomings on the individual weapon level.

@user-ez9ng2rw9c 3 года назад

@@danielmocsny5066 Thanks for the details!

@johnnyfortpants1415 3 года назад

Nice one Indy.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thanks!

@donalddey138 3 года назад

awesome, been waiting for this one!

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Glad it met your expectations!

@34Arty 3 года назад

It is my Hope that you make a special on the operationnal art of the soviet doctrine ; that would be very nice ! Keep up the good work

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

We do touch upon it here and it will likely get a devoted episode if the Soviets go on the offensive. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qej9DX28-xw.html

@34Arty 3 года назад

@@WorldWarTwo Awesome!

@MGB-learning 3 года назад

Great video

@warrenpeace8304 3 года назад

Ello, what's all this now? A new WWII channel to watch😃

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

👀

@EricKL97 3 года назад

Welcome, you've got some catching up to do if you're new :D

@Raskolnikov70 3 года назад

New to the channel? Hoo boy, better clear your calendar for the next few months.....

@richardglady3009 3 года назад

Thank you for this very informative video.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Glad you liked it!

@davidhuber9418 3 года назад

superb! thank you!

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Glad you liked it!

@jasondouglas6755 3 года назад

The Hohiladung was less revolutionary and more suicidal. as the user must run-up to a bunker or tank and manually attach it to the target and run away before it explodes.

@badbotchdown9845 3 года назад

It was magnetic

@toddmoss1689 3 года назад

Another great episode, but after the armored doctrine episode, I was hoping that “blitzkrieg” had been retired in favor a the accepted German doctrine of bewegungskreig, or war of movement.

@yorick6035 3 года назад

1:09 So Robot Wars was actually invented by the Soviets? Awesome!

@george867 3 года назад

Indy is sounding a bit tinny in this episode. Did something change in the sound setup?

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thanks for the feedback, we will take notice and try to improve

@Esau2507 3 года назад

4:10 oh the memories

@teemueriksson206 3 года назад

Please cover a story of finnish artillery in summer 1944 and general Nenonen's system of consentrating artillery fire. That was a remarkable factor among others in stopping USSR invading Finland.

@davidbrennan660 3 года назад

Leningrad the hero blockade city. In a year or so the special on the Red Army God of War will also be interesting......then the killing on industrial levels will be seen.

@beachboy0505 3 года назад

Another amazing video 📹

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you!

@WhayYay 2 месяца назад

You just made something click in my head, now that I know about the german doctrine forbidding siege/fortressing, it makes more sense that the 6th army at stalingrad were never given the breakout order. Seems like the culture within the brass was always based around trying to outplay the opponent with superior tactics, instead of just cutting losses and taking care of what they had.

@trisblackshaw1640 3 года назад

Nice foreshadowing, Indy...

@websystema 4 месяца назад

Sevastopol - I think in TOP3 best fortress ever seen in the world. The famous 35 battery 305mm guns (200mm armored and with a deep bunkers) - that battery prevented for many month any German activity in 25km range. The personnel of battery managed to repair guns under fire and under "stuka" bombing many times (almost 1 time per week, during 8 months of siege). Moreover Soviets make the mistake with Kerchen operation instead of improve Sevastopol's defence - in correct case Sevastopol would defend more time(till to liberation of Crimea). All kind of honor to brave defenders of Sevastopol.

@SuperNesus 3 года назад

The Time Coast logo 💚

@brokenbridge6316 3 года назад

A nicely informative video. Can't wait for the next episode on Stalingrad.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you!

@brokenbridge6316 3 года назад

@@WorldWarTwo---your welcome

@cameronash5492 3 года назад

I wonder why assault guns like the Stug aren't used as much in modern warfare today they have such a great role.

@Raskolnikov70 3 года назад

Armies put their money into main battle tanks now and assume that armor or cav units will be available to support infantry assaults if they need heavier guns. They've also got decently-armed IFVs which can handle a lot of the fire support needed, and at least in the US Army they're heavily dependent on artillery and close air support. All of those things add up to make a dedicated assault gun kind of redundant. The closest thing I've seen to it in a modern army were the M551 Sheridans that the 82nd Airborne still had through the mid-90's. They had those things over in the Gulf in 1990-91 and they seemed pretty antiquated by then, saw them at 3rd shop getting worked on and we thought they were old Saudi equipment at first glance.

@henryviii6341 3 года назад

It’s confusing now So many episodes across so many series about WW2 Can’t we have an index

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Hello! You can actually find our videos indexed by series and year over on the 'playlists' section of our channel! Here's the link: ru-vid.complaylists

@sealove79able Год назад

a great video.

@WorldWarTwo Год назад

Thanks Predrag!

@davidpowell3347 2 года назад

Stalingrad itself was also like that-the Germans "just about got it" at tremendous expense and trouble,while Zhukov waited for his D day to eat the whole 6th Army. (Actually took quite a while to digest)

@bookaufman9643 3 года назад

I just watched an historical documentary that included The siege on Sevastopol by the Germans in world war II. The Germans used incredibly big guns like Dora and smashed the Russian defenses in a way that shocked the defenders of Sevastopol. Dora alone had 500 soldiers in her use and upkeep. That campaign for me was the high point of the wermacht effectiveness and Manstein was the best German general of all of them.. because of him the Germans attacked Sevastopol on foot and by boat in a way that the Russians didn't think was possible. Great leadership and incredibly smart decisions.

@МихаилЧерников-п2т 3 года назад

Dora was virtually useless tho

@vksasdgaming9472 3 года назад

@@МихаилЧерников-п2т Schwerer Gustav had severe problem of being way too specialized piece of equipment. When it was used it was horrifyingly powerful and opportunities of its use were far and few between so it was wasted investment. Simply too big and cumbersome piece.

@terryvuylsteke2434 3 года назад

You rock!!! Period. Thank you, from my Grandfather, my Father, to me and my son....bless, from CANADA!!! (P.S.), WE rock too.. You're Welcome.

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

Thank you!

@moosemaimer 3 года назад

Now I want to watch "Cannon Fodder" again.

@kocovgoce 3 года назад

those Soviet lines of defense were part of the former Stalinist line which consisted of 17 combat regions and for these reasons the Germans managed to bypass large Soviet forces because the soviet concentrated on those 17 fortified regions from the old Stalin line

@andrzejbarcelonafrlk6416 3 года назад

On the 17 of September 1939 Red Army left Stalin line (some hundred kms forward, when they attacked Poland) , what didn't help in 1941 when their friend Hitler attacked themselves...

@kocovgoce 3 года назад

@@andrzejbarcelonafrlk6416 Yes Stalin and start demolishing the Stalin line in favor of the Molotov line but it was the trench ammunition bunkers the artillery bunkers on this line that were put back into use during the German invasion and somewhere managed to reduce the Nazi blitzkrieg.

@the1ghost764 3 года назад

Great History.

@briansauer3572 3 года назад

I don’t know why but I just had to take an extra look at the German men near Stalingrad, just thinking of what they had to go threw if they made it winter or even if the did make it to winter

@sealove79able Год назад

did you make a video about the SeaBees?

@Theuderik 3 года назад

Just wanted to say that you do not pronounce the last 'e' in Eben-Emael. It is just an old spelling indicator (like 'h' after a vowel in German) that the 'a' in front of it is pronounced long (today spelled as 'aa').