WW2 - From Stalingrad To Kursk 

Restore the Swedish empire under Estonian rule. That'll show 'em!

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estonia into nordic????

Request a detailed Operation Bagration video.

@@zeitgeistx5239 good idea

He should totally do it if he wants to

“And the Luxembourger Marine core was able to establish a beachhead just outside the English city of Dover”

"On January 2nd 1939, the Germans attacked. The first major blow to the Reorganized Syndacalist Empire of Ukraine was dealt in the south by Army Group 1, with Army 6 and its 7 superb Tank Template 2 divisions."

Or if one could play against him! As one can play blitz chess against world champion Magnus Carlsen (although that is not a good idea...)

How many times he mentions, "encirclements" and "redeploying their forces"

The ad was pretty cool, the 8:15 template was a bit autistic tho.

@@biharek7595 Actually LMAFO XD

I agree, but first i want to talk about RAID: Shadow legends.

@@biharek7595 thats hoi4 for you

I usually skip the sponsors, but this time I did not

I have 2k hours on hoi4 :D and im suprised that paradox collabed with him

@@flukz.z lol I have 7k hours

@@randomguy869 lol i still touch grass

@@pato-san3621 xD

guys please help , i have 50k hours in hoi4 and im going insane, my parents left me, and idk how to touch grass

Just wait until the WW2 channel finishes up with this part of the war

Eastory is just simply amazing

He's a pretty good narrator! No BS and no rambling of whatever number each corps had. Those interested can see that on the map.

desde España... ..sí, este Canal es una maravilla...!!

I would recomend TIK's series to know in depth about the battle of Stalingrad too, he starts with the operations on the bend of the Don that is too often forgoth in documentaries about Stalingrad, and lead to many misconceptions.

Thanks for saying that, I was quite a bit confused, thinking the soviets had a really gigantic advantage in tanks since usually a corps is comprised of several divisions

@@thomasb.5643 Soviet units in general were smaller than their German counterparts. A German infantry division had twice if not more the personnel of a Soviet Rifle division. At the same time we can say a German army was the equivalent of a soviet front, although this changed by the end of the war by the time that soviet fronts were much more massive.

@@Turnet47 soviets used battalions and not divisions iirc

"Chinesise Divisionen", AH called them to diminuate them for morales sake. And on a smaller scale, a Soviet regiment was smaller than a German battalion. It is a scandal that they couldn't agree upon a common standard for killing each other!

@@jasonmain6398 No, soviets had divisions. Their designed size was about 11k soldiers.

The olden Scandinavian way was to only respect those who had beaten you at least once.

@Черный Барон Because the German army needed manpower lmao, he still hated slavs

@Черный Барон general plan ost, he planned to send tens of millions of people over the Urals to starve

I‘m not sure how capable the forces in and around Stalingrad would have been by November 1942. The main body of the 6th Army was already massively depleted when it reached the city, and this got progressively worse as time went on. This is also the main reason the city didn‘t fall: their offensives kept being stalled by lack of replacements or reserves and became progressively weaker as the troops carrying them out melted away. Due to how few reinforcements they were getting (which the OKH was sending to the other Army groups, for reasons), by mid-autumn 6th Army was arguably a whole army corps below authorized strength. By the time Uranus started, fighting in the city had devolved into small-scale action between smaller groups of soldiers-Paulus could no longer gather men and vehicles for serious offensives. So I doubt that the troops in Stalingrad were worth surrounding more than other formations. Their frontline personnel was definitely a lot less numerous than in other formations with a similar number of divisions on the German side. But they were certainly a target of opportunity and another force might actually have fought back a lot harder.

@@raylast3873 its true but if that happen, all of the axis available fórces will try to regain rostov, if they Succeed, perhaps they would lose Many italian and hungarian troops

@@raylast3873 the reason was that Stalingrad offensive was an logistical hell. Sending men there was worse than useless if you could not arm/feed/house them.

@@hq3473 not really, it‘s just shoddy General staff work. At the very least they ought to have replaced direct losses which did not happen and just doing that would probably have allowed them to take the city. This was either a massive oversight (or miscalculation), or Halder was intentionally routing reinforcements toward Heeresgruppen Nord and Mitte because he still wanted to take Moscow. In any case, replacements certainly didn‘t share his (or your) position on the matter, as after he got fired the number of reinforcements for Heeresgruppe B and 6th Army increased drastically, but it was too late at that point.

U seem to know a lot, when the 4 panzer divisions were brought from the west to reinforce the weakened ones already there, one of the divisions has ‘GD’ on it instead of its div number and I’m just wondering what that stands for/means as panzer divs are black and that’s a white infantry colour

@@kazzatermination7867 Panzergrenadier Division Grosse Deutschland. It was form in May 1942 as an elite armoured division on the Army (The other 4 armoured divisions in this battle were all SS divisions -- SS 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th)

@@yatsumleung8618 ahh thank you!

desde España... ..totalmente de acuerdo con usted....!! .... también deduje que las acciones y ofensivas soviéticas hay que entenderlas en conjunto. Un saludo

Operation Your-Anus

Google it

Could you give an example?

You mean Eastory's pacific war video right? Without knowing what you're specifically talking about I'd have to wager a guess that you should lean towards the kings and generals video. Eastory's pacific war video is very short for such a big multi year conflict, and focuces only on troop movements. Kings and generals is a much bigger series of videos that have a wider focus. If you like though, there is a far better video on the pacific war: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qE_iNUXhrfw.html The grand strategy of Japan 1919-1941, by the criminally underrated strategy stuff channel. Though I'm not sure if this video goes into the issue you're having, since you never specified what it was.

@@formgrya6927 strategy stuff is a good channel

If you're interested I'd just dive into the source material. Read secondary sources by academic historians and see what primary sources they draw from. You may end up with the opinion that both channels are wrong depending on who you read haha. There is a serious lack of citations on youtube, only a few channels do it adequately. Reading books provides so much more information and allows one to really grasp the scope of fact vs argument in history. Edit: that isn't to say videos aren't nice

Would love this

HoI3 had this

Too much effort for Paradox They refuse to do any more alternate start dates leaving it to modders instead

@@docpossum2460 why Paradox didn't carry over many HoI3 features is beyond me, the start dates and scenarios made fun challenges.

As nearly nobody plays the 1939 scenario, the Devs did not bother adding additional starting dates.

have you watched the video? he animated it

Norway: "preparing for German invasion" Italy: Buon giorno!

Hello Adam Hilt, you look kinda sus, are you from Austria?

@@justabingbong Austria? Never heard about it

"Luxembourg has called Bhutan as our enemy in the Belgian-Siamese war."

Indeed! And it is a great idea to focus on what happened between Stalingrad and Kharkov. Battles without pretty names has potential because they have been less covered.

most of them werent combat troops

Isn't there some confusion between about 90 000 German troops and the rest being Romanians and Italians?

@@bjorntorlarsson definitely no, there were only 2 Romanian divisions and 1 Croat regiment in that encirclement. 90% of the combat strength reaching 220 000 men was German.

​@@user-qi3sn5vi6t I don't know how it actually was. But it is often claimed that Romanian and Italian troops made up the majority. I'm sorry if I unintentionally repeat myths here. I very rarely look at sources myself, I'm only a third hand, recounting from what I remember and understand of what historians have claimed. And they might have meant the larger front than only those encircled. 90,000 was indeed rather the number of surviving Germans captured, more than that might very well have perished before that.

@@bjorntorlarsson yeah, there were exactly 91 000 men, who surrendered in the end - on 30th of January - 2nd of February 1943. Your intention to be neutral and cautious in your statements (which is unfortunately so rare) makes you a big honour.

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@@waltermodel706 hoi4 reference i think

main strategy to win the war with France in 1936 tho

Lol,they tried encircling Army group center at Vyazma in February of 1942 with a help of paratroopers,but it ended in disaster because the Germans had more than enough mobile reserves to plug every gap and deflect Soviet attacks.

It will be next up.

@@Eastory when will you upload?

IMO the big soviet stratrgic failure the prior winter (right after barb) was repeatedly going for a grand encirclement on army group center instead of taking the smaller encirclements that repeatedly opened up in front of them. Every time they tried for a wider encirclement it allowed the Warmacht pull back troops and tighten their defensive line. I think the Soviets learned from these failures. Edit: I don't think its a coincidence that when you watch Eastories coverage of the later portion if the eastern front or Western front, you repeatedly see the allies taking andvantage of mediun sized ebcirclements to take Axis troops off the field.

@@Ravie1 But in 1944 operation Bagration managed to destroy Army Group Center and encircle Army Group North

@@albertofernandez2490 Wasn't army group north purposely left in Lithuania/Latvia because the Germans thought they could re-connect the front and didn't want to loose the ground they had in the Baltic? As for army group center, yeah when the line collapses you'll get encirclements, in 41/42 the soviets were dealing with a better equipped foe relative to 44. Doesn't mean refusing to wipe out smaller pockets is a good move.

Facts!

From animated map content I have made a promise to cover the Russian Civil War.

@@Eastory that’s a great idea, friend! I think Russian civil war is of the most interesting conflicts in history