All or Nothing: Germany's Final Push to Moscow | World War II

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The Cossacks in Ukraine welcomed the Germans as conquering heroes and gladly lent their service to them. The Cossacks essentially built the Russian empire. They despised the Bolsheviks. If things were a little different, the Germans could have relied on this man power to help with forming a post Bolshevik (Germanic) Russia.

Yea the scale of the Eastern Front always has amazed me!

Thank you very much for this well-narrative documentary about the final attack on Moscow. It's incredible how the soviet army did not set up a fast counterattack during the siege of Stalingrad skipping this way the death of so many civilian and military casualties.

I think the Oil fields in the south were more important to both sides than Moscow.

I visited the main battle sites in September 2014. Volgograd was truly amazing. As we explored the Borodino and Mozhaisk areas and taking the train back to Moscow that evening, it really dawned on me how close the German army had gotten back in 1941.

We somewhat got lost around the Borodino area and this kind and friendly local Russian lady drove us back to the train station at Borodino. She thought we were visiting from Germany. We're Irish. lol

Great job with this video.

By Smolensk in August/September the German Army had lost 40% of their operational effectiveness. Supply was 1200KM from Warsaw to "Moscow". The battle line from Leningrad to Rostov was 1800KM on a modern highway system, God knows how long it was in 1941. The German plan was not designed for the often mentioned "battle of attrition." They were "supposed to win" by September and planning revolved around that. The Russians knew that capture by the Germans meant certain death. This changes a soldier's view in a fight.

Hitler should have listened to his teachers.

So too close

Americans helping communists just grinds me, Nazis and communists are both enemies of freedom

Stalin: Can we hold Moscow?
Zhukov: Yes we can.
Stalin: Ok. That's it!

Europe has for centuries had to fight off asiatic hordes from the east.That is why Austria (Ostmark) was created as a buffer state.

WELL DONE. Quality presentation

And now Ukraine in moskow

Napoleon, then the Germans and now nato. God bless Russia.

can't you keep that pointless background music down, so we might hear the narrator?

Hitler messed up as far as attacking the Soviet Union when and how he did and that's what caused him the war. At the beginning Hitler had an alliance a peace pact with Stalin and the Soviets. At that point the Nazis had taken France out and had a solid foot on the ground with an occupying Force. The British were getting their ass kicked during the blitzkrieg and the bombing of London not to mention the British lost a majority of their heavy equipment at Dunkirk in the United States had not yet entered the war so if Hitler would have held off on attacking the Soviet Union and first finished off the British while at the same time telling her Ally Japan to not attack the United States and not to provoke the United States the us would have most likely stayed out of the war because the United States did not want to get mixed up in another conflict in Europe. So if Hitler would have finished off the British and then turned his sights on the Soviets after regrouping the Nazis might have won the war but Hitler stretched his people and equipment too thin and opened up too many fronts

Great Post Well done and Thank You !

"The white man died in Stalingrad " L.F.Celine

It was dumb to split the army and head to Stalingrad

Ever notice that no matter how cold it is, those hat ear flaps are always up?

Funny how countries are still making the same strategic blunders up to this very day, quite literally. And that's all I have to say about that.

Russia wasn't France one bit

Nothing it is then...
Same as Stalingrad. Same as Kursk.

Fuck yeah.

Nazi Germany never had a chance to win this war no matter what Hitler ordered

Okay but whyyy. Dumbest move Adolf made

Europe died in Stalingrad, 1943.

Rather nothing for coming fifty years.

turned out, "all or nothing" was all for nothing

NAPOLEON COULD NOT DO IT. NEITHER COULD HITLER. INSANITY.

Amazing work! Keep it up!

Did you mean 125000 men as 1250 men and a 1000 tanks numbers don't seem right 🤔 maybe you just misspoke . Just found your clip and love the way you presented it. Nice seeing a new one that is still accurate but fresh. Can only watch those post war and on that get repeated constantly.

Even if Germany took Moscow itd be like the French holding onto Bien Dien Phu

Its not said but loses on german side in first half year of barbarossa were really huge. The losses just couldn't be replaced.

Will you make also other scenarios like pacific war or vietnam war or korea war? Please, if you like. Would be awesome. Have a nice day

Awesome thank you

The Russians had even evacuated Lenin's remains from Red Square. Other preparations were made for the collapse of the city's defense, including plans to move the government to Gorki, 100 km to the East.

They very nearly won the race against the weather but just couldn't make it so close yet so far

Lots of shrouded Wehraboos in the comments it looks like. Thank goodness the Nazis didn’t make it, and of course they never would have. They almost did, sure, but it was always a ridiculous goal. I’m no tankie and the USSR had their own fair (and arguably larger) share of atrocities before, during, and after the war, but if the Nazis had managed their goals in the East we would have definitely seen even worse. Stalin was a monster, as was Hitler. It’s hard to say since it only went one way, but we know for a fact Hitler and his government was on a genocidal rampage that could only have been stopped this way. Red Army was terribly organized and only marginally decently led/supplied. Honestly the Wehrmacht only got as far as they did BECAUSE Stalin was almost as much as a maniac as Hitler. Disgusting

The allies should never have given any support to Stalin, he was just as guilty as Hitler with his invasion of Poland and Finland, also his pact with Germany.

Dunkirk and this, two of Hitler's biggest blunders.

I dont think the generals wanted the push

The Western front was a war, the eastern front was pure horror.

Stalin was an evil man, a butcher of gigantic proportions. But, he was EASILY the man of the last century. His personal courage to not only stay in Moscow with the enemy, who at yhst time appeared invincible and inevitable, but to have the balls to hold a public parade, saved Europe from the 3rd Reich that would have most probably lasted decades.

You guys didn't read Napoleons campaign in russia. If you did,you should have read it again. You don't invade Russia especially in the winter.

Countries have become too modernized to fight with manpower alone. For God's sake buy some winter clothing

Soviets launched their massive counter-attack on December 5, 1941, driving Germans into retreat. So it is a lie that Stalin was packing his bags, ready to bug out until he heard about the Japanese 7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack!