Comments by "James the Other One" (@jamestheotherone742) on "Reconquest of Estonia: The Courland Pocket 1944 WW2 History Documentary BATTLESTORM Part 5" video.

Sometimes someone is bad or "evil" regardless of what your perspective (or bias) is. War often gives a rational to commit evil actions, and the war between Germany and the Soviets gave it in spades to both sides. TIK is trying to express the utter ruthlessness and barbarity with which both sides prosecuted this war that is very hard for contemporary people to even comprehend. If any thing I find that he is down playing the very subjective "value judgements". He could do an entire video on just the atrocities and what we would call "war crimes" committed during this battle alone, much less the entire war.
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The air over the battle(s) was contested by the Luftwaffe, so its not as if the Red AF had completely free reign. Even on the Western Front where Allied air dominance was greater, the Germans were still able to maintain and deploy armored formations.
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@georgegordon6630 Wasn't really that small an area. You couldn't just shell randomly and air attacks were sporadic, they didn't loiter over the battlefield looking for targets because German AAA was intense and there was always the chance of getting bounced by LW fighters. Yes the Germans suffered attrition in logistics and transit, it was part of what was wearing them down and why they were constantly on the backfoot, not just the Soviet numbers.
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@georgegordon6630 Un no. I think you are misunderstanding the histories. Only armored columns could move tactically, at the point of contact. But the German army would have dried up and blown away in short order if they couldn't supply logistically with horse carts much less trucks. Much of that was done at night, but still. Most of the German war machine wasn't armored. Foot Infantry, artillery, and the whole logistics tail, etc. It wasn't "raining bombs".
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@georgegordon6630 They have every major problem. But believe whatever you want.
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I'm still waiting for him to animate his maps down to the squad level. ;)
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Enemy of my enemy and all that... Remember we have the historical hindsight and cultural conditioning to say, "Nazis were baaaaad. WTF were you thinking?" That was not so clear at the time, especially early on when they threw their lot in with the side that seemed to be winning.
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