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The Courland Pocket 1944-45 WW2 Documentary BATTLESTORM Part 1 Scraping the Barrel

The Courland Pocket was formed in late 1944 as Army Group North retreated from East in the face of superior Red Army forces. In this BATTLESTORM series, we will see the fighting unfold step by step and ask some hard questions - was the pocket avoidable? Who's fault was it? And why didn't the Soviets crush the Germans in the pocket? These answers and more will be answered in this in-depth history documentary series. In this episode, we take a look at the German Army and the Red Army, and compare their manpower, equipment, organization, and strategic capabilities. Clearly, both sides were scraping the barrel by mid-1944. Sources and notes will be in the pinned comment. This series will be bi-weekly, with videos every-other Monday at 5pm GMT. But I will be doing videos on the Mondays in between, so be sure to check back each week. Please consider supporting me on either Patreon or SubscribeStar and help make more videos like this possible. Thank you to my Patrons! You're AWESOME! Support me here:   / tikhistory   or here: https://www.subscribestar.com/tikhistory Video Timestamps - 00:00 Intro 02:19 Act 1 Pre-Battle Chapter 1: Scraping the Barrel Discussing the Strategic Situation up until 1944 04:11 Why did Germany keep fighting? 05:28 German Optimism (Dönitz's new submarines and Guderian) 07:09 V-1 and V-2 rockets 08:42 "Fortress Towns" concept 10:52 German Officer Shortage and Impact 15:13 Wasn't the German Army getting smaller? (discussing the organizational changes and division sizes of German units) 17:46 State of the Red Army 1944 (discussing the organizational changes and division sizes of Soviet units) 19:03 Red Army vs German Army unit sizes compared 20:48 The Soviets were Scraping the Barrel 22:35 Axis vs Soviet Manpower 25:13 Soviet manpower, organizational and material advantages (including Lend Lease) 27:21 Soviet Tank units and tanks compared to German Panzer units and panzers 30:13 German fuel crisis and the grounded Luftwaffe 31:54 German vs Soviet tanks at the tactical level, plus production comparisons 35:51 Combined Arms Warfare 37:11 Outro Here’s some other videos you may be interested in - The MAIN Reason Why Germany Lost WW2 - OIL    • The MAIN Reason Why Germany Lost WW2 - OIL   My BATTLESTORM Operation Market Garden Documantary    • The REAL Operation Market Garden | BATTLES...   My BATTLESTORM North African Campaign Series    • BATTLESTORM WW2 Documentaries   My BATTLESTORM Operation Crusader Documentary (9hrs long!)    • Operation Crusader 1941 FULL WW2 Documenta...   FALL BLAU 1942 - Examining the Disaster of German’s second summer offensive    • FALL BLAU 1942 - Examining the Disaster   My video entitled “Why I'm Passionate about HISTORY and What Got Me Into it”    • Why I'm Passionate about HISTORY and What ...   History isn’t as boring as some people think, and my goal is to get people talking about it. I also want to dispel the myths and distortions that ruin our perception of the past by asking a simple question - “But is this really the case?”. I have a 2:1 Degree in History and a passion for early 20th Century conflicts (mainly WW2). I’m therefore approaching this like I would an academic essay. Lots of sources, quotes, references and so on. Only the truth will do. This video is discussing events or concepts that are academic, educational and historical in nature. This video is for informational purposes and was created so we may better understand the past and learn from the mistakes others have made. #ww2 #history