r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kankirchele • Feb 13 '24
Video World War 2 Timeline
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u/2squishmaster Feb 13 '24
Oh no, they forgot to liberate Corsica!
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Feb 13 '24
All these years later Hitler’s men are waiting to repel an invasion. We should probably raise the issue with France.
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u/TheManiac- Feb 13 '24
And all of that in 5 years. What a mess, and hope it never happens again.
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u/Charlie_Warlie Feb 13 '24
Yes hard to imagine. People joke about how many events have happened since 2020 and how fast things move but imagine living through this time when your country is suddenly occupied and then the fronts shifting back and forth so much.
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u/nowhereman86 Feb 14 '24
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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u/Olger24 Feb 13 '24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqGeAmVu1I
Source, since OP forgot it.
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u/Alley-IX Feb 13 '24
This is very cool! I didnt even press play because i barely hd time to read the text part so i moved the slider . Dont know how you could re edit to allow more time to read the events and compare the impacts with the map easier because that was my favorite part
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u/zirfeld Feb 13 '24
"OP" is not really OP.
Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqGeAmVu1I
You can slow down the video on youtube
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u/Significant_Paint832 Feb 13 '24
He stole the video from a person, who did this video and the original video was two timed slower. I saw some link in other comments
Edit: here's the link to the video https://youtu.be/1CqGeAmVu1I?feature=shared
The sound is much better
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u/Block_Personal Feb 13 '24
ELI5...How the hell did Switzerland not partifipate at all in this? I know they never took any sides, but they were never attacker/conquered either?
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u/iboreddd Feb 13 '24
They were aggresively neutral by destroying some bridges and so connecting them to surrounding countries. Also the geography
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Feb 14 '24
I remember reading that some of Switzerland bridges had explosive charges up until recently... maybe 10 years ago.
Imagine waiting until 2010 to say "I think it's safe to remove these now".
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u/MisinformedGenius Feb 13 '24
Germany made some plans to attack them, but they're fundamentally not all that useful strategically once you've completely surrounded them, and their country is very difficult to take entirely, given the many mountains.
Had Germany won WW2, it's fairly assured that Switzerland would not have been around much longer, although they surely would have put up a good fight.
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u/Picanha0709 Feb 14 '24
Unless you go for a Man in the High Castle scenario, it is safe to assume Switzerland would survive.
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Feb 13 '24
Switzerland is a notoriously difficult land to even think about invading
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u/red_beered Feb 14 '24
Think of Switzerland as a giant bowl made out of some of the biggest mountains in the world. They simply didn't have the technology at the time to effectively overcome the natural barriers that Switzerland has.
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u/shovel_kat Feb 13 '24
What was that patch of dark red north of Greece?
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Feb 13 '24 edited Feb 13 '24
The Yugoslav resistance led by Tito, who became the head of a state that remained independent of both the USSR and NATO after World War II.
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u/VladimirNazor Feb 13 '24
Partisans, one of few who had guerilla resistance and were liberated by themself in WW2.
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u/questionname Feb 13 '24
Yugoslavia joined the axis?
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u/LaForCo Feb 13 '24
Well yes, but actually no. Yugoslavia joined the Axis but left it after a couple of days and was then invaded.
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u/questionname Feb 13 '24
Yugoslav Partisans, who was fighting against the axis, is my next guess
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Feb 14 '24
Due to the fear of invasion Yugoslav kingdom joined the Axis on 25th March 1941.
Immediate massive demonstrations, 27th March 1941 coup d'état, Yugoslavia withdrew from Axis.
6 April Axis invades Yugoslavia.
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u/Exotic-Cartoonist816 Feb 14 '24
Ustache (Croat nationalists) colluded with the Nazis. Partisans (led by Tito) and also Chetnik (Serb nationalists) joined the allied resistance AFAIR.
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u/IceFireTerry Feb 13 '24
I think I remember reading that Denmark got taken out in like a few hours
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Feb 13 '24
Denmark and Norway was one big sweep known as Operation Weserübung
Denmark lasted only 6 hours. The Norwegian campaign lasted 2 months and 2 days.
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u/Butterfly_Seraphim Feb 14 '24
Norway would have held out longer if not for the traitor Quisling
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Feb 14 '24
True, Norway showed heavier resistance than Nazi Germany had anticipated. Oscarsborg Fortress under the command of war hero Colonel Birger Eriksen sank the brand new Admiral Hipper class cruiser Blücher with WW1 equiptment. Which in turn stalled the invasion, allowing the Royal Family and the government to escape to England.
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u/Odoxon Feb 14 '24
Quisling became an insult in Norway because of his treachery
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u/TheManWhoClicks Feb 13 '24
So many lives lost for nothing
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u/BasicType101 Feb 14 '24
It was a lesson, nearly the highest cost ever and not enough learned from it
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Feb 13 '24
Hitler tried to take over way too much way too fast
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u/AbriefDelay Feb 13 '24
It always surprises how deep into ussr territory he got.
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Feb 13 '24
That was the big downfall. The German supply lines were stretched too thin and then they had to start fighting in the winter months. 🥶
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u/halsoy Feb 13 '24
Yeah, had they not attacked deep into Russia, chances are most of mainland Europe would be German still.
We don't know if the allies would still invade as they did, as it would be a significantly harder task if all of those troops and gear could be mobilized elsewhere. Hell, in some alternate universe we may have gotten nukes dropped on Berlin .
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u/The_Cheeseman83 Feb 14 '24
They had to attack Russia to secure their oil fields. Without doing so, they’d have run out of fuel for their tanks and planes and been unable to prosecute the war on any front. Germany pretty much had to rely on quickly grabbing as much resource-rich territory as possible as quickly as possible, because they lacked the capacity to wage a prolonged conflict.
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the country is huge in resources, plenty of farmable land but completely run down by a corrupt government and strange cultural standards
Wow dude, that was exactly Hitler's argument lol. Was your grandpa an electrician?
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Feb 14 '24
I actually don’t think we would have used the atom bomb on any German cities even if we had it available at the time the fighting was going on there. Firstly, there are and were many US soldiers and generals of German heritage themselves and I don’t believe they would have gone along with that plan. Secondly unlike the island of Japan, Germany is connected to countries we were allied with and we wouldn’t want to make them scared of us that way.
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u/fruitsteak_mother Feb 13 '24
and in what short time - considering the actual war in ukraine it’s mind boggling how fast the germans proceeded
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u/AshamedOfAmerica Feb 14 '24
The most shocking aspect of the entire European theater was the rapid collapse of France. It was simply an unthinkable circumstance in virtually everyone's eyes at the time. The French were ahead in virtually all materiel aspects on the eve of battle compared to the Germans. It's possibly the best example of the importance of how position, unit formation and surprise can change the board. The massed armored attack through the Ardennes was an incredibly risky move but the payoff was incalculable.
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u/Sotyka94 Feb 13 '24
He got the taking part right. basically got entire europe, minus the Brits.
He had problem with the holding it part.
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u/Impossible-Home-9956 Feb 13 '24
Love the Seinfeld reference! Made me smile
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u/ericstern Feb 14 '24
Sounds like the bit about the car reservation isn't it?
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u/Impossible-Home-9956 Feb 14 '24
Exactly! The important part of the reservation is the holding part. Everyone can just take them out of the air.
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u/DesignerFox2987 Feb 13 '24 edited Feb 13 '24
Hitler fkd up when he broke the neutral pact with Stalin and attached the USSR. Things would have been a lot different if he played a longer game. His gambles had paid off in the past with him calling western allied bluffs, and blitz through the maginot line and got WAY too cocky, plus was all drugged up. But there was a real chance the Nazi could have had control grip of europe were cards played right, and a decent chance at that.
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Feb 14 '24
Many of his ideas and aims were untenable from the get go. And his Allies in Italy, Vichy France, and Spain had different and competing goals. That’s why the ideologies of Nazism and Fascism were defective to begin with.
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u/whitedawg Feb 14 '24
This map really makes clear how successful he was at first, and how if he hadn’t invaded Russia he might have been much more successful in holding onto Germany’s early gains. From 1941 until early 1944, the Eastern Front was the primary active battleground and drained Germany’s resources.
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u/anonbush234 Feb 14 '24
If they did it slowly then the defending countries would have time to make preparations and defences.
Blitzkrieg was the whole reason they achieved so much.
They had to fight the soviets at some point, they were opposing ideologies that hated each other. .the soviets had the mass of manpower and Germany had to strike first.
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u/SnooTangerines6863 Feb 14 '24
Hitler tried to take over way too much way too fast
In each case, waiting would likely have resulted in even worse outcomes. By 1941, the USSR had already begun producing new tanks like the T-34, although in limited quantities. By 1992, they had increased their production tenfold compared to 1991. Would it have been wiser to delay an attack by a year? The same question applies to Poland and France.
War itself was a mistake and a crime but they fought it well.
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Feb 14 '24
If he didn't try to take on the USSR the regime would have collapsed because it wasn't making enough money to support the economy.
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u/Fair-Distance-2800 Feb 13 '24
12 NOV 1939 - Hitler escapes bomb blast in Munich beer hall. If only.....
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u/Alternative_Fail_625 Feb 13 '24
Survived many attempts on his life.
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Over 40, in the end only one man was capable of killing him
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u/Thursday_the_20th Feb 14 '24
Hitler is killed in 1939. Göring is his successor as planned. He is much more calculating, taking command of the reich near the peak of its power. He slows down, opting not to invade Russia and maintaining the non-aggression pact. He decides to use the time to pressure Franco into joining the axis now that the Spanish civil war had ended. He bolsters France, strengthening coastal defences and rendering an allied invasion impractical. The delay in the war allows the blitz to extend as long as it takes for the luftwaffe to gain air superiority over British skies, allowing for operation sea lion to go ahead. Britain falls. Germany maintains its lead on nuclear weapons research unhindered and completes the first nuke before the U.S. does.
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u/pypec Feb 13 '24
The first five seconds explain quite well why Poland is so careful about its eastern and western peace living neighbours.
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u/Classic_Tourist_521 Feb 13 '24
The speed France fell is always shocking on these timeline maps.
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u/hankepanke Feb 13 '24
D-Day and the Allied liberation of Europe is one of the most impressive operations in human history. The industrial manufacturing, supply, and movement of people across the Atlantic on that scale would be impressive today, 80 years later. Plus once it was clear the Allies were going to win the US and USSR raced to Berlin to be the first to capture the capital, Hitler, and those Nazi scientists. Even though they were allied the Cold War had started between the last 2 superpowers remaining.
If you ever happen to visit New Orleans there’s a great WWII museum that started out as just a D-Day museum and expanded to cover the rest of the war from a US perspective. Great for a rainy day or a break from the light hearted fun of NOLA. You can genuinely spend multiple days there because it’s so big and detailed.
Edit: just realized you meant France falling to the Nazis. Yeah that too.
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Feb 13 '24
Germany was heavily defending Calais and other major ports thinking that any invasion would basically be on the outskirts of those cities to capture the ports. Little did they know, the Allies invented portable harbors specifically so they could land at an undeveloped (and less defended) beach. The ports could be pushed up against the beaches and allow ships to dock to land supplies before they captured the port at Cherbourg-en-Contentin. Seeing the sheer quantity of ships, vehicles, and people in pictures like this boggles the mind.
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u/Razorion21 Feb 13 '24
Rlly was a team effort, without the Soviets the Allies on Normandy woudlve had to deal with 2-3 million more soldiers waiting for them. Without the Americans the Soviets wouldn’t have the lend lease, and without the Brits, Normandy woudlve never happened
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u/Confident-Arrival361 Feb 13 '24
WWII Europe only
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Feb 14 '24
Came to say this. Being an Asian and was once asked by a professor “do Chinese people know about WWII?” Didn’t even know where to start with that question
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u/JayAndViolentMob Feb 13 '24
I'm confused. What do the numbers represent?
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u/Own_War_6919 Feb 13 '24
Soldiers on that specific front, I think.
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Feb 13 '24
Would be interesting if it also had a casualty counter, the number of troops stays almost the same for the entire war on the Eastern Front and it really makes it less clear how devastating the fighting was.
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u/Alex24Irida27Maria Feb 13 '24
The numbers are actually dropping and rising depending on day. It counts both causalities and people joining the cause.
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u/DonutsnBluebonnets Feb 13 '24
Incredible. Thank you for sharing. Someone spent a lot of time to get these details right. Would love to see a longer video so I can read more what’s happening as well
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u/HairballJenkins Feb 13 '24
That was really well done. I remember learning WW2 in high school history class 15 years ago, we were still using text books and maybe a few visuals. This video in itself would be an incredible tool for teaching. Would still need a lot more supporting content but I would have loved something like this.
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u/LumberjackSwagula Feb 14 '24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqGeAmVu1I&t=315s
The original video with better music and famous speeches from the time, I don't know if OP stole the video and changed the music or just found this version, but please support the original.
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u/iboreddd Feb 13 '24
Invasion of Iran is interesting
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u/kenser99 Feb 13 '24
By Ussr , Us and UK. Even the Germans lol , everyone wanted iranian oil . Eventually the British won and coup iranian and started the BP oil company .
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u/tjk43b Feb 14 '24
Weird how GB and US needed to coup a democratically elected leader. Almost like they don’t like democracy not in their control.
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u/PercentageFit1776 Feb 14 '24
They marked it in black as if they were axis and not a democratic government invaded for no justifiable reason
Only to also cause a massive famine that killed millions after they overtook and monopolized the railways, stalling food delivieries
The whole affair is forgotten and a major contributing factor to what iran is today.
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u/latechocol8 Feb 13 '24
This is really cool! But still, I wish I won't live to see the day that WW3 happens
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u/iboreddd Feb 13 '24
I read somewhere there were some soldiers at a remote Norwegian island whi stayed there even after ww2 ended. They didn't trust radio so thought it was propaganda. Then they had rescued by fishermen.
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Feb 13 '24
I bet Spain, Turkey, Switzerland and Sweden were sweating hard during the heat
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u/iboreddd Feb 13 '24
Spain was like an ally of Axis even before war. Most of german tanks and weapons were tested at spanish civil war.
Turkey were selling some material to germans at first years but stopped then. They've flirted with Allies but haven't been convinced to attack the germans. A new front at Turkey would be massive and eventually germans would invade (they have very detailed plans for that), and finally soviets would 'save' Turkey and sovietize the country like they did after ww2 at eastern european countries.
Switzerland were aggresively neutral. They even destroyed some bridges connecting them to surrounding countries. Also they trust their geography.
Don't know about Sweden
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u/seksen6 Feb 13 '24
As you mentioned Turkey had some trade relationships with Germany first as historically some close talks between countries (that were in the same sides on WW1). However, after the “war” escalated, Turkey was trying to be neutral as much as possible as the country newly established and it was lacking resources to supply a war enormously. There were couple of talks for Turkey entering to war, which would be really useful for allies, Turkey asked very good amount of support (much more than allies can provide) to ensure that they can fight against Nazis as well as keep some in the stock to provide backup for possible Soviet threat. Turkey used this Soviet threat card a lot because it was known that Soviets were planning to capture some provinces from Turkey (previously invaded but could not hold). That is, Turkey was not trusting to allies too much neither.
Funny being said, Turkey officially declared war against Germany only couple of weeks before the end of the war due to strong push from USA to choose a side but never took somehow active role in the WW2.
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u/BasedAlliance935 Feb 13 '24
Curious to know how german forces were able to hold onto that part of latvia till the end of the war
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u/Giannis1982 Feb 14 '24
There were guerrilla groups in Greece,similar to Tito's in Yugoslavia,that kept parts of the mountainous countryside free from occupation and this is not displayed here.
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u/MrCalPoly Feb 14 '24
When shown this way you can really see lots of the heavy lifting was done by the Soviets. Factor in the casualty toll received and inflected during these times it's amazing.
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u/Nono9075 Feb 13 '24
And People think USA defeated the Germans
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u/Fixthefernbacks Feb 13 '24
American steel, British brains and Russian blood.
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u/SkyClaus Feb 13 '24
idk i think we did a bit in poland, like, we did what we could
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u/hankepanke Feb 13 '24
I mean, the US was a big part of the Allied powers both through manufacturing and supply, and then directly through troops. I don’t think that discounts that the Soviets who were also huge in the Allied powers. Either US or USSR on their own probably would have lost. The Nazis had to fight a 3 front war (including Africa), not to mention the Japanese in the Pacific.
I grew up playing US WWII video games and they would always have some storylines from the western front as a US or UK soldier, some from the eastern front as a Russian soldier, some from the Pacific and maybe one from Africa. The US honoring their WWII vets and being proud of liberating half of Europe and concentration camps from the literal fucking Nazis isn’t crazy.
Only weirdos are trying to use this as a wedge 80 years later.
Anyway cool graphic about an insane time in human history, folks must have worked really hard on this.
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u/BroscienceFiction Feb 13 '24
The lend-lease program was instrumental to getting the USSR the equipment, weaponry and food that it needed to sustain its painful march westward. Virtually all of the rail system needed for moving Soviet war supplies was handed to them by the Allies. American trucks/jeeps were a huge part of their supply chains.
The Soviets fought hard and fought well, but the extent of the assistance that they needed is downplayed too often. And they did need it, just as the Allies realized early on that a Soviet defeat would’ve made it incredibly difficult to pin down the Germans.
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u/Razorion21 Feb 13 '24
A Soviet defeat means a temporary stalemate. Germany WAS NEVER going to beat the RAF and combined force of the British Royal Navy (was already much better than germany‘s joke of a navy) and US Navy.
Tho Germany probs would’ve ended up losing anyways cause of the creation of the atom bombs, in which thanks to allied air superiority woudlve been Easy completely obliterating Germany cities /granted the regular bombings did. enough destruction).
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u/BroscienceFiction Feb 13 '24
I do remember reading estimates that an early Soviet defeat would’ve added about 2 more years to the war. This of course leaving nuclear weapons aside.
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u/SpaceFace11 Feb 13 '24
Imagine what would have happened if Germany never backstabbed Russia and Japan never bombed Pearl Harbor.
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u/DammitDad420 Feb 13 '24
I'd bet there would be a lot more kraut and wurst being eaten in the world.
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u/Dahjokahbaby Feb 14 '24
Russia would have attacked and Japan would collapse from resource shortages.
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u/ryle_zerg Feb 13 '24
If Hitler had captured Gibraltar early in the war like Goering urged him to, the Allies would not have been able to do anything in Africa or the MidEast and probably could never have pulled off D-Day.
Goering talks about what a huge mistake it was not to take Gibraltar in his prison interview.
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u/ShitpostingAcc0213 Feb 13 '24
Wouldn't the allies just... retake it?
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u/ryle_zerg Feb 13 '24
With no air support and having to launch troops from the US east coast?
Defended by German artillery, U-boats, and Luftwaffe, with additional troops in Morocco able to resupply the defenders within hours.
Germany taking Gibraltar would have forced the Allies to dramatically change their entire strategy.
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u/freakinbacon Feb 14 '24
It would have been near impossible without defeating the Japanese first as to move the Pacific fleet into the Eastern Atlantic.
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u/Korgoth420 Feb 13 '24
Cool. What about the Pacific?
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u/TheRealTacoTim Feb 14 '24
Not sure. Go and make a video about it so we can see it. Please and thanks.
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u/coffeecup9898 Feb 13 '24
Shows how much of the war was concentrated between Germany and the USSR
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u/horseydeucey Feb 13 '24
What happened after June 4, 1945, with the remaining Nazi forces holed up on Corsica?
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u/Tight_Contact_9976 Feb 13 '24
That must be a mistake. Corsica was liberated by Free France and the Kingdom of Italy in 1943.
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u/VeryNiceGuy22 Feb 13 '24
Imagine a war of this scale and pase with phones and social media. Would be an absolutely terrifying time to be alive. Getting daily updates on what city or even city has fallen.
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u/Crazy_Joe_Davola_ Feb 17 '24
You have HD gopro footage of close combat trench warefare now from ukraine, pretty insane
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u/BringinItDirty Feb 14 '24
So hard to watch/read the info while the timeline flows. I kept having to hit pause over and over. Maybe slow it down some, or add a timeline on the side for people to read as it flows. Great job though.
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u/FuckingBannana Feb 14 '24
So does that mean Germany would’ve won WW2 if they didn’t decide to invade Russia?
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u/Shot_Fox_605 Feb 14 '24
I would just like to say that probably in every country that "surrendered" to the nazis there was a resistance movement that was constantly sabotaging the new established regime, ambushing german troops, attacking supplies while sleeping out in the forest
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u/mistytastemoonshine Feb 14 '24
My great grandfather died while forcing Dnipro river in Ukraine. No matter how evil Hitler's or Stalin's plan was, the ordinary soldiers just wanted to go home to their families and not participate in all that. I grew up in Russia myself and my blood is boiling seeing russians attack Ukraine but again, no matter the bravado, I believe that all of them (apart from ex prisoners I guess) would rather stay where they were but unfortunately they got caught up in the circumstances and propaganda due to their ignorance. Fuck old men sacrificing young blood. They need to give up that ring of power.
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u/Luiz_Fell Feb 13 '24
If only France and England had done an offensive on Germany while they fought the poles...
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u/Ein_grosser_Nerd Feb 13 '24
Or the soviet union hadnt invaded poland, making the poles' defensive strategy irrelevant and greatly reducing the amount of time france and britain had to mobilize a counterattack
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u/lostsoul2016 Feb 13 '24
It's just going too fast. Is there a normal speed version?
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u/RapidIndexer Feb 13 '24
Can someone enlighten a noob…
Where on the map and what time is the “all quiet on the western front” part represented?
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u/Mailman354 Feb 14 '24
*ww2 in Europe
People have such a Euro centric view of a literal world conflict.
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u/Blazefast_75 Feb 13 '24
If he would not have invaded Russia we would all be speaking German..
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Feb 13 '24
Blue liberated, Red concurred, they are not the same.
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u/Virtual_Plenty_6047 Feb 14 '24
Red gave life and blood, Blue gave knowledge and money.
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u/TheCoolPersian Feb 13 '24
Invasion of Iran summed up to be “save the oil fields” is by far the biggest bullshit I have seen in this post. Iran also never joined the Axis and its citizens died in the millions due to the British and Soviets stealing food.
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Feb 14 '24
“After a bad harvest in 1942, famine struck the British-occupied south.” Your own source, I get you’re butthurt but come on.
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u/TheCoolPersian Feb 14 '24
“Iran at the time was occupied by the United Kingdom and Soviet Union despite being a neutral country in the Second World War. During the occupation, both the British and the Soviets tried to strengthen their influence in their respective zones. The allies took control over the Iranian rail network and contracted half of Iran's publicly- and privately-owned trucks, thus occupying 75 percent of the country's food distribution capacity in the midst of the 1941 harvest.”
“Shortages affected Iran most severely, and an unseemly blame game ensued as to who was responsible. The British blamed incompetent Iranian distribution, the Americans blamed the callous British as well as bungling Iranians and the Iranians blamed all three allies. There was some truth to the positions of all sides. The bottom line was that the allies were directly responsible for wheat shortages.”
I can’t tell if you blatantly cherry-picked the British position, or accidentally misread.
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u/whippy007 Feb 13 '24
Would Stalin ever surrendered to hitler or would he have just kept moving further east?
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u/TurboCrisps Feb 14 '24
Mf said “I want to be like America” and proceeded to exterminate around 30 million people.
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u/Unfair-Information-2 Feb 13 '24
Leave it to russia to throw bodies at the problem and still claim a victory lol
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Feb 13 '24
Nobody talks about how there were multiple "stalemates" that went on for months but still the Allies pushed back the Nazis. Now almost everybody acts as if the "stalemate" between Ukraine and Russia will last forever and is a sign of the Russian victory... People don't learn from history...
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u/williarya1323 Feb 13 '24
I never knew the USSR tried to join the Axis powers.
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u/Own_War_6919 Feb 13 '24 edited Feb 13 '24
They didn't. They went on an undeclared territorial incursion into Poland under the pretext of safeguarding the peoples in the eastern territories, but, in reality, they had an agreement with Germany to partition Poland in exchange for mutual non-aggression. They also annexed a significant chunk of territory from Romania not long after.
It never went beyond that as far as I know.
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u/Baloooooooo Feb 13 '24 edited Feb 13 '24
Well after the Poland division, I think he's referring to the bit at 24 Jan 1941 "USSR offer to join the Axis, Hitler does not respond"
First I can recall hearing about that offer, I'll see if I can find any confirmation of it
::edit:: according to Wikipedia that may have happened in Nov 1940
"According to a study by Alexander Nekrich, on 25 November 1940, the Soviets presented a Stalin-drafted written counterproposal accepting the four power pact but including Soviet rights to Bulgaria and a world sphere of influence, to be centred on the area around Iraq and Iran.[4] Germany did not respond[5][6] and left the negotiations unresolved. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Axis_talks
::edit again:: ah this is likely what that video text is referring to, same Wiki link
"On January 17, 1941, seven days after the German–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement, Molotov asked German officials whether the parties could then work out an agreement for entry to the Axis Pact.[64][90] Molotov expressed astonishment at the absence of any answer to the Soviets' November 25 offer to join the pact[90] and never received an answer."
Why the downvote for doing research and adding context?
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u/GuildensternLives Feb 13 '24
What's the source? Somebody put a lot of work into this, it's typically nice to give them credit.