The Strategic Errors That Caused The Failure Of Operation Barbarossa | WW2 in Colour | War Stories

Its insane to think all of this actually happened. WW2 i mean. Its nuts..

man... i remember watching this series at about 4 am in the late 90s to early 00s... back in the days before watching videos online was possible at home... im talkin dial -up times!! lol

I was in a ww2 documentary mood this evening so this was great timing

Their supply lines were too long. Their line was too weak in too many plances when the Russians finally did counter properly, after Stalingrad they should have all been allowed to perform a rapid and effective defensive retreat instead of just delaying the inevitable and slowly weakening all the force in the east. Lack of oil, hoping to capture the supplies they needed while their armies literally freeze and starve to death. It was a clusterfk like no other.

Germany destroyed 38k soviets tanks, over 18k soviet planes, taken prisoner of 10 million soviet prisoners, killed another 15 million soviet soldiers. Most countries would of fell as a result of this.

The day Germany marched into Russia was the day they lost the way. The Day Japan attacked the U.S. is the day they lost.

The problem with blitzkreig is it exhaust a lot of supplies in a relatively short period. Making it very difficult to keep it up.

Unlike the 66 diff rehashed WW2 Eastern Front vids this 1 is actually the great WW2 In Color series from '09.

I always wondered why H man made fairly decent military decisions until halfway thru the war, then suddenly started making horrible military decisions, sacking 35 of his top military officers explains a lot

4:00 You forgot to mention that originally the Italians were tasked to take the Balcans, to secure the Romanian oil fields, but failed, so German troops had to be diverted.

Germans fighting in minus 45 degrees in their summer clothes is something of a sight. 🤣

Best summary I have seen. Great work thank you

Less than three minutes into the video and a gross factual error. "Soviet Union was unprepared". These lies get repeated so much that some people started to believe them. Soviet Union had twenty years (1921 to 1941) to prepare for war. And they did - they had the largest army with the best equipment and strategically weakened enemy. The Reich was in two years into the war already with most potent powers turned against them (UK, US). The US was willing to provide USSR with a lot - raw materials, garments, food and war equipment (tanks, lorries, jeeps, planes), and they did. If this is not being prepared, than I do not know what is.

History repeats its self.Great lesson we learn from these doc.

one of the best documentaries i have ever seen

Never gets old

Why blurry some things here thats part of history and other stuff on youtube is open for everyone to see

There was no way it would work because the Russians could simply send in there army's from the far east with zero worry from Japan.

Excellent!

No oil/fuel, supply lines way too stretched. You can play any strategy computer game, if you have endless troops and buildings producing tanks like the Soviets, you can just mark them all together with your mouse and send straight forward against an esports pro who has 1/4 of your tanks and troops and his tanks have only little fuel left + you are allowed to lose many battles like that because your base is several screens away on the map.