What If Hitler Had Listened to His Generals?

#history #ww2 #animatedhistory What If Hitler Had Listened to His Generals? September 24, 1942. Hitler fires the chief of his army's general staff, Franz Halder, for warning him that the plan would fail. Two months later, that plan traps a whole German army at Stalingrad. After the war, Hitler's surviving generals told the world one simple story: we were professionals, he was an amateur, and we could have won if only he had listened. In this animated documentary we test that story at eight forks: the 1938 plot to arrest Hitler, the Ardennes plan, the halt at Dunkirk, Moscow or Kiev, the winter stand-fast order, the split of 1942, the Stalingrad airlift and the delay at Kursk. At every fork we keep score: who was actually right? Then we answer two questions. Could Germany have won if Hitler had listened? And who wrote the story we all believe? ⏱ Chapters 0:00 Fired 1:03 The Generals Who Wanted to Arrest Him 2:41 The Plan Nobody Wanted 4:23 The Halt at Dunkirk 5:51 Moscow or Kiev 7:38 Stand Fast 9:22 Two Targets at Once 10:28 The Promise 12:24 The Delay at Kursk 14:08 Who Wrote the Story Which fork mattered most, 1 to 8? Tell us in the comments. Subscribe for more of history's wrong turns. Sources include Franz Halder's War Diary, Heinz Guderian (Panzer Leader), Erich von Manstein (Lost Victories), Ronald Smelser & Edward J. Davies (The Myth of the Eastern Front), David Stahel (Kiev 1941; Operation Typhoon), Antony Beevor (Stalingrad), Robert M. Citino (The Wehrmacht Retreats), Karl-Heinz Frieser (The Blitzkrieg Legend) and Peter Hoffmann (The History of the German Resistance). Character lines are taken from diaries, memoirs and reported conversations; some are paraphrased or reconstructed, as we say in the narration. Casualty and production figures are historians' estimates. This video is a historical analysis and does not glorify any regime or ideology. #history #ww2 #animatedhistory