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

On the 22nd June 1941, massed German forces crossed the Soviet border, beginning Operation Barbarossa. This enormous, ambitious invasion would be a huge gamble for Hitler. Through several key strategic errors and Hitler's incomparable ego, its failure would go on to cost Germany the war.

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[fratersol]

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.

[christopherstrachan]

Not a phone in sight. Just people living in the moment

[tml]

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.

[WheresHerb]

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

[VashStarwind]

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

[RubberToeYT]

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

[LocalYoutubeGuide]

the scariest thing is that this is about as long ago as a human life. it is still very recent history, and we do not realize that enough. it is still very recent by human standards.

[christopherkelly]

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.

[coodudeman]

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

[agricolaurbanus]

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.

[knightofnii]

The real reason for their defeat was that the Germans massively underestimated the strength of the Soviets. Even after losing massive numbers in 41 the Soviets were still able to start winning within a year and half. Imagine if Stalin would have been just a little more competent or lucky in 41/42, the war would have been over years earlier. In short the Germans should not have entertained the notion they had a serious chance of winning. This is what happens when you base your strategy on racism or bigotry rather than on reality. This is lesson that has still not been learnt by modern aggressors.

[EmisoraRadioPatio]

It's not mentioned that Italy's failed invasion of Greece is what prompted Germany to delay Operation Barbarossa and invade Greece.

[brucepeek]

Speaking of strategic errors-- This program gets the German talkeover of the Balkan wrong as far as motives.. Hitlers army had been planning on invading Russia by the Middle of may 1941-- But Because the Greeks kicked the snot out of the italians under Mussollini Germany had to go to Italys rescue.. It only took 5 weeks.. But those 5 weeks meant that Germans didn't get to the outskirts of Moscow until November / december after General winter had intervened on the side of the Russians. The Russians counterattacked stalling the Germans. And from there the Germans were never able to regain their earlier sucesses..
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[honorless]

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

[thewongen]

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

[truxlee]

Hitler's biggest problem was that he understood the mechanics of international thuggery and frontline tactical military operations but not the importance of international piracy and full access to strategic materials.

[mobpsy]

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.

[TheRussianMaster]

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

[VashStarwind]

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

[mikenorton]

Best summary I have seen. Great work thank you