The Battle of the Reichstag 1945 - Animated

April 1945 - The Red Army surrounds Berlin, and closes in to finish off the Third Reich. A bloody battle is fought to raise the Soviet banner atop the Reichstag, the final symbol of German defeat. "On to the Reichstag" is the Soviet battle cry.

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[bobothree]

There is apparently a great story of a young German Major who was assigned to Hilter's Berlin Headquarters for his Eastern front heroism. In the final hours the headquarters staff was epileptic regarding the pending Soviet assault. To the dismay of the staff the young major said "there one good thing about all this. Soon we will be able to take the street car from the Eastern Front to the Western Front".

[stc]

In reality it was actually Dimitri Petrenko and Reznov who took the Reichstag and the Germans there had a near unlimited supply of grenades.

[CommandantNOVA]

This is such a great concept for a History Show. I don't know why no one has thought of this before. You feel like a Staff Operations officer receiving a briefing

[radjadawamindra]

"As long as you live, the heart of this army cannot be broken."

[Felcaster]

So, my takeaway from this is when we used flak guns as super effective anti-infantry weapons in Battlefield 1942, we were actually engaging in highly accurate battle reenactments.

[notmenotme]

Thanks for this animation. I visited Berlin several years ago and as I’m a fan of military history, when I visited the Reichstag Building I tried to see where fighting took place and using Wikipedia, I compared it to what I could see there. I walked this in chronological order. What blew my mind was this area is actually quite small in real life and how it took the Soviets days to get from the Moltkebrucke bridge to the Reichstag building, it looks just a few hundred metres in length and now takes seconds to walk the Soviets advance from the bridge.

[JonSmith-yqdw]

14:15 I think you forgot the historical account of the German Soldier being diced up by a machete before the flag was flown

[taylerhunter]

“No one will every read this, if you lack the stomach to kill for your country then at least show me that you are willing to die for it”

Later on

“CHERNOV, Someone should read this”

[stevenborgogna]

This gave me a really good sense of the scale of killing and human carnage.

[huntclanhunt]

A fun fact: if you can find an unedited version of the picture of the flag going up, you'll notice the man raising it has 4 or 5 watches on his arm. Watches were considered fair game as war loot at the time.

[amac]

i found this channel yesterday and have been on a non stop weekend binge. love it.

[frankpinmtl]

You know it's a good day when Ops Room puts out a video...

[MrSlavikman]

Watching the animation one wouldnt say the red army troops have any experience at anything but running in the very middle and being cut down. If you read the casualty numbers from 1944 onwards, when the German fortress cities are falling in weeks not half years as planned, and with more German casualties then attacking Russian. It becomes obvious that soviet troops were not just cattle running down the middle of a room to maximize the little red stars.

[tailsboy]

Where do you get the source? Because ethnicities are not forbidden from anything in the USSR. Rakhimzhan Qoshqarbaev a Kazakh Muslim who was accredited for raising the flag first, although it was raised many times and unclear to who exactly was first since there were multiple battles of Berlin, Rakhimzhan Qoshqarbaev was given Hero of Kazakhstan and Order of the Red banner.

[jaseaceq]

This has to legitimately be the best channel on youtube. You put so much effort into these videos, and it shows. Big ups man, you're doing an amazing job.

[redwatch]

Thanks. I have always wondered about the details of how this assault went down.

[largamau]

Me imagining the Reichstag attack on Call of duty: World at War.

[russellhancock]

This is easily one of my FAVORITE channels! Fantastic work and great content. Please keep it up, we wait with bated breath for the next episode! May I suggest the tractor building in Stalingrad or the fire bombing of Dresden?

[onemileperhour]

this was the longest wind-up for a punchline I've ever sat through

[joshbelis]

Thanks for this. One of my favorite moments of modern warfare history. Couldn't even imagine the other worldly scene. Warriors on both sides. Bless em.