@inforent5420
The allies really fumbled the bag early on.
@bakthihapuarachchi3447
Not to mention Stalin's military purges that significantly weakened Soviet military capabilities
@syedalishahryar9976
You forgot to mention that Germans were given crystal meth.
@Clearwood_
Here's a fun fact the Germans never used the term "Blitzkrieg" that's a western term. Edit for those who have to have this explained to them. I should have said "Allied term" or maybe "Western Allies". Either way the Germans themselves never used it officially but we do today to describe the tactics used by the Wehrmacht during the early phase of the war.
@gandoff7840
Writer: How oversimplified do you want the presentation to be? Director: Yes.
@frankharr9466
Germany started rebuilding in the 20's in secret. Hitler didn't start the rearmament, he excelerated programs that were already there. Brlizkrieg was used on France too. The were still traumatized from WWI, but they HAD prepared. They just hadn't prepared for the war that actually happened.
@Tomi79Hun
The Allies where smoking and chilling. The Germans went straight for the hard stuff. That's why
@Torfin2001
Moral of the story: Don't mercilessly humiliate the country you defeated if you want its people to bury the past and move towards a better future for everyone.
@ducklingchief8289
Blitzkrieg in theory: š»ššØā”ā” Blitzkrieg in reality: š“šØ
@RonnieMyers777
Germany had that pure Heisenberg
@TetsuShima
Say what you want about the austrian painter, but the fact that he made France sign the rendition in the same train car in which the forced armistice of WW1 was signed proves he was one of the greatest trolls in History ššš
@TeFaireMoualek
France actually DID invade Germany in the Saarland and could have pushed its advantage to Ruhr to completely neutralise the industrial core of Germany but the Military Doctrine was instead defensive and French HQ called a withdrawal from Saarland to come back behind the Maginot Line (a complete nonesense that former Colonel De Gaulle criticised)
@Dark-sv5cg
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@ArtemisShanks
England and France were using āappeasementā as a delay tactic while they slowly mobilized for war against Germany.
@bronchitis1564
Best visual animation of the blitzkrieg Iāve seen so far, simple but gets the point across. Very well done
@TheLitRight
Thereās a few extra things to include. The Luftwaffe was initially superior, allowing them to walk all over their opponents. This advantage eventually went away as they simply didnāt replace planes and pilots as quickly as the British. The German navy initially had a lot of success with u-boats, and the British took an awfully long time to figure out how to counter them. This meant, after the withdrawal from Dunkirk, there was only a small naval presence that wasnāt capable of supporting an expeditionary army at the channel. The enigma machines kept German communications safe for long stretches of the war. When the code was ultimately broken, the ability to read those messages was used to defeat the Germans. Hitlerās leadership is actually one of the reasons they lost the war. For example, the video mentions that the German Army was just outside Moscow. What it doesnāt mention is that the army had been split in the middle of the Blitzkrieg to secure oil fields to the south, on Hitlerās order. That ultimately led to the divided army being held to a standstill, and predominantly either freezing to death or dying from illness when winter came and supply routes were lost.
@thejoester1011
Never forget that over 80% of the Wehrmacht was horse drawn with carriages
@jupe24
In the 1930s, Czechoslovakia had one of the best military industries, and after the German occupation, the Germans misused it for World War II, which is why they are so effective
@simonregan471
In the West, there's also the fact that France and Britain had prepared for a conflict similar to WW1, with troops trained for trench warfare. Germany had been forced to rebuild its whole army and did so based on maneuver warfare, which allowed it to quickly outflank France's impressive static Maginot Line defences, rendering them useless. In the East, Stalin had destroyed the Red Army's effectiveness by purging its officer corps based on loyalty to the Party - while at the start of the war they were legitimately worse equipped than the Wehrmacht (though that changed as the US began sending supplies, equipment and vehicles), their lack of leadership also played a role in their initial collapse.
@Knowledgia