World War II In Colour: Episode 2 - Lightning War (WWII Documentary)
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- This installment shows how the Nazis developed a terrifying new military tactic called Blitzkrieg, which caught Poland, Britain and France unprepared.
Recorded by World at War
The footage used in this series is absolutely priceless, and I hope is preserved for generations to come.
Dude who filmed all of this ?
@@JosephKony-L.R.A.camera man never dies
@@JosephKony-L.R.A.marvin
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Human beings will be extinct in a couple hundred years
Ive watched this series about 4 times now, and it never gets old. its a good refresher. The most comprehensive WW2 documentary and made amazing in colour. Thank you for uploading
I agree with you. It's too important to get old.
History Channel did a really good one years ago that is also all in color. That one also has interviews with veterans so you can hear their stories straight from their mouth.
I’ve watched ir a couple times it a great documentary. When I used to go to high school I hated every class except history I wish I had a Time Machine to travel through time.
I’ve watched ir a couple times it a great documentary. When I used to go to high school I hated every class except history I wish I had a Time Machine to travel through time.
It's really annoying that Netflix removed it and replaced it with its awful version all from the American perspective. They always for get the world part of the war and just focuse on one side (almost always the Americans) and it bugs the he'll out of me like you think to your self the soviets lost more in a month than the US lost the whole war and some how there the main focus of every pice of ww2 media
I watched this documentary last year in the Summer of 2020. Man oh man, did I love it so much, I am re-watching it in the summer of 2021.
@Canadiens 31 same
First time? (Also same, except I'm rewatching for the 5th time, I hope you enjoy it!)
I’ve watched this doc 10+ times. I have a problem lol
Yeah same here
@@geoffbeadles same here. I find it strangely comforting.
The documentary is beautifully written in precise detail.
So is your moms face
so is the way your mom gave me the most mind-numbing sloppy toppy
Lots of conspicuous inaccuracies, some of which are there just to push a message.
@@rukioruk6949 what message lol?
@@RecoveringAhole Godayum!
My favorite WWII documentary. Extremely well narrated and beautifully explained
by far the best WWII documentary
That all this was captured on film is wild.
To be fair, a lot of this footage is reused elsewhere in the show, so it’s likely that a majority of it was shot during other events. Still, the editing and use of the clips is impressive!
@@samlund8543 where can you find the best (most active) videos !?
The Dunkirk Evacuation is a truly remarkable piece of history. Thanks for uploading this.
Thanks for not putting a commercial every couple of minutes like timeline doc's. Great upload
This is my second time watching this series. I love WW2 history and this is spectacular.
Same😊
Robert Powell is a great narrator
Best ww2 documentary series hands down
Amazing Documentary series. So detailed, going day by day,sometimes even hour by hour of events of ww2.
(My opinion) 3 WW2 series where you *DO NOT* skip the intro: Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and World War Two in Colour.
The Pathetic was terrible
i just want to point out that the french were well aware of the fact that the maginot line wasnt impenetrable at the time. They built it for the purpose of slowing down any advance. It was only expected to last months, not forever. "World war Two day by day" explains this better with their visit to the maginot line
@AT...Thank you for a succinct and informative comment.
Thank you for this. Was looking all over for it.
ty so much for upload, screen kept freezing up on Netflix, so i appreciate this
One of the best WW2 series, seen multiple times.
I remember watching this when it was still on TV I’m so glad I’ve found it again
Thank you for not loading this with ads
They can’t, because they ain’t how it and it would get taken down if they did
Been watching this series for years now. Always come back to it once a year or when im nerding out about history 😅
Very much appreciated for the episodes... Thanks
48:15 is a crazy moment in 20th century history
The Panzer II's turret is offset to the left, but at multiple times in the video it appears offset to the right, meaning at least some of the original footage has been reversed from left to right.
Interesting observation
im here because of jack kelly who said,
"If you watch WW2 in Color episode number 2, you'll hear the first 30 seconds of this piece at 46:23" on a civilization 5 song
i can confirm his comment
Now we understand why Poland is very agressive in arming up and supporting Ukraine. They was in their place in 1939 and don’t wan’t same thing happening again.
Maybe another constituting factor to France's quick defeat was the fact that they weren't ready for an army that was comparable to the imperial German army of 1915 or 16. They already had substantial numbers in all fields, while France and Britain were prepared for static warfare and a gradual increase of manpower and equipment. Just a thought.
Of course the second world war German army was only better in manpower and technology, if they had the same numbers and tech as the imperial German army they'd be worse, relying on horses and travelling on foot much more.
It’s possible but I think either way the Germans would’ve still taken France France didn’t have enough manpower to keep up with the blitz
Yeah. Supposedly the french government expected a manpower shortage as early as '34
I think it was German Air Power that made the difference. France just did not have the air power to stop the Stukas. Even French soldiers wrote about the fear and shell shock of the sound the Stukas made.
I like how it's all real videos from
that time
Great documentary!
Thanks for your service
Maginot line: “you shall not cross!”
German panzer divisions: “hold my beer bro!”
The Maginot line have the French a false security. The irony is the equipment the French had were on level with the Germans but they weren't as efficient
Well they actually have not crossed. They bypassed it.
Hold my chocolate
Best doc for WW2!
Very well put together videos ..great
Nice documentary 🔥👍
Just found your channel love it
Hitler was mad man
@@rameshnakhate4323 he wasn’t good but if you read about Stalin and Mayo then Hitler looks like a Saint compared to those two.
I saw these years ago and forgot how good they were
Lmao that one dude who tripped at 18:33
hehe
Looks like he slid on ice, but still funny.
I noticed that beforehand but thanks for pointing it out
1:54 that drift tho
46:10 beat that.
SKKKKRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTT
Confirm Germans solders had drip
Hello fine sir/miss. Thank you so much for posting these! Even more so that Netflix took them off. Is there anyway I could get in touch with you?
Thanks
Jack
"Pretext" not aggression "used to justify" the latter as stated here in this excellent video reprise.
This is the best WW2 Documentary available
As a ww2 veteran 3:21 that sound is horrific
That’s the point
Thank you for your service
Wow if you’re a WW2 veteran you must be pretty old my Grandad was a WW2 veteran and he died in 1999.
Bro u must be like 105 by now
You are a ww2 veteran? can i please contact you and talk to you? it would mean alot to me
I love this series.
I like all of the arm chair war “experts” who act like they could’ve done better in that situation. Arrogance diminishes wisdom.
It's true though that French generals were bad. If one with half of Napoleon's talent had been there, things would have turned quite differently.
The only Arrogance is from YOU!
How could you have done any worse than the French and British generals did ?
@@ghosthorse77 elaborate
@@halneufmille spot on
I fear how much this echoes what is going on in today's world, amazing how little we remember and how little we've learned in the last 80+ years 😢😢😢
هم القادة. وهم آخر من يموت عند وجود خسارة، أو عدم وجودها على الإطلاق
Great video
Amazing documentary, im brazilian and i love history, and use it to learn english
By anychance you have a German grandfather?
T4:15 MohAA - the music from one of the games that started my ww2 interest back when i was a kiddo !
I love Poland and People. They're smart, educated, and kindly. In WW2, they tried the best they can do to protect their country. Heroes in WW2.
There was a polish destroyer present at te sinking of the Bismarck. It fired all of it's weapons all while flashing the message: "i am a Pole!" at the doomed battleship!
Weaklings.
@Kepler they would flash their spotlights in morse code
They laid the groundwork for the brits to break the enigma machine
@@colonelreb1014 yeah
I used to watch this show when I had cable TV. 📺
Used to be on history channel years ago ?
@@scottallpress3818 Nope Military 🎖️ channel who would later change its name 📛.
@@tonyarceneaux286 It was on both. History owned the military Ch iirc) but History aired this first, originally they had WWI in Color in like 2003/4 then this one first aired as WWII in HD than WWII in Color like 2 months later (not sure why), then Vietnam in HD came a couple years later and ut the mid 2010s this was just combined into WWII HD in Color. The original World at War was really good too. Honestly I miss the Military Channel of the 2000s with shows & documentaries like Mail Call, Deadliest Warrior, Weaponology, Special Ops Mission, Special Forces Untold Stories, Future Weapons, Lock n' Load with R. Lee Ermey, Silent Heros: LRRPs, Sniper: Deadliest Missions and Secrets of WWII
History either in World 🌍 or American in highschool was my cup of tea 🍵.
This needs more views
"The Germans have taken all of Poland and are planning to invade France, what should we do?"
Neville: Drop some leaflets lmao
only a liberal would make such'a decision.
Hulk Hogan's finishing move
Then those leaflets were used as toilet papers by Germans
If poland gave danzig there was no war
@@En1337Rich cringe
Best episode.
Mmm hhh mmm
Am I the only one here who never skips the intro song?
The Blitzkrieg Strategy Had Me Impressed
Same here
Check out the documentary, "Nazi's on Drug's: Hitler And The Blitzkrieg". Amazing stuff man.
It worked on most of Europe and some of Africa but not Russia Russia was already prepared for the blitz and the Russians fought the Germans from building to building the Germans weren’t good at fighting from building to building they were better at fighting out on open land.
@@corygriffiths4394 no. germans were not prepared that USA would send SOOOO MUCH supply to russians. They occupied most of their industry and 2/3 of the grain production. Without outer support this is instant loss.
Of about 2000 aircraft used against Poland Germany lost 258 to all causes, and of additional 263 damaged only 40% made it back to the front-line units after repairs. An estimated 230 aircraft were destroyed in action, primarily by Polish fighters and anti-aircraft artillery. About 400 aircrew were killed or missing, and an additional 120 wounded. Of 217 German tanks destroyed and 457 seriously damaged in the campaign, a significant proportion can be attributed to the Bomber Brigade and P.23s of the Army reconnaissance squadrons.
I respect Poland's determination to keep fighting even though defeat was inevitable.
Tried to click "skip intro". Subscribed.
holy crabs. . . these footage are unreal
46:11 That man just blitzkrieged his tank into the hole in the road.
The Polish Calvary never attacked Tanks with Lances. They carried Anti-Tank Rifles. They were very effective in taking out German Tanks. The myth was started by Goebbels to ridicule Poland. The Wołyńska Cavalry Brigade equipped with the Bofors 37 mm antitank gun beat the German Panzer Divisions in one of the first battles of the invasion; the Battle of Mokra.The Polish guns were actively used during the German and Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. They managed to wipe out a Division's worth of German Tanks which was 309.
Poland was attacked by both Germany & Russia & they managed to fight for 27 days before surrendering. On May 10, 1940 Germany attacked West. They entered France on the 12th &, 5 days later the French told Churchill the Battle is lost. France managed to make one counterattack but they retreated to Dunkirk on the 25th. By June 9th nearly all the French divisions had surrendered. So the Poles fought Russia & Germany as long as the combined forces of the French, English, Dutch, and Belgium armies fought the German army only.
Damn you made that sound good 😅😅😅
I fall asleep 2 this almost every night a diffrent episode..😂..lol..
Amazing
It shows just how deep the insanity of humankind is.
There is no glory in war.
46:23 beautiful song from beautiful Civ5
oh im not alone
I've never met a WW2 vet...there weren't that many from this country, South Africa. My grandmother lived in London throughout the conflict, and has plenty of stories about the civilian experience, albeit as a child. Never met a fighter, though. How I would have loved to talk to one of those remarkable men for hours. It infuriates me when they've been disrespected over the years. Today's world cannot comprehend the savage brutality of WW2. 60M deaths...enough said.
brilliant .
Though I hate war, I agree that this documentary was made well.
@50:20 i mean, Hitler made sooooo many public appearances, how the hell did nobody ever tried to snipe him, especially in "enemy" territories like France O_O
Brekner Catalin there is a very good series I would recommend specifically on that topic. Look up hitlers bodyguard
They did! The enormous amount of assassination attempts just boggles the mind that no one succeeded.
@@ericg4915 41.
Yeah Im sure more than 5-10 were made on him
The failure of the attempts on Hitler's life only strengthened his belief that it was divine intervention
Wonder what would have happened if he built up until 1948? Makes you think!
I'm just glad that they didn't!
Germany gets nuked into oblivion.
array s it was not socialist stfu his economy literally boosted capital gains while working class wages plummeted
Hitlers biggest mistake was that he wanted too much too early
You know the others would've had more time themselves, right?
From where you get these fine videos which fit exactly 🙄
My great grand mother was a Jewish survivor of the holocaust in Nazi controlled Hungary and than she immigrated to America in the early 1960s right before the iron curtain was made by the USSR
Idk which one is better this one or the ww1 one
September 1, 1939 vs February 24, 2022. Germany invades Poland vs Russia invades Ukraine. History hates repeating, but loves rhyming. Instructive to watch these magnificent WW2 videos as we all slip into the rhyme of WW3.
It’s been months. Still no WW3.
WW3 won’t happen at least not in our lifetime Putin can’t even get past Ukraine and doesn’t have enough resources to continue a war throughout Europe.
The familiar saying echoes “here we go again…”
I hope you know what insignia Ukrainian soldiers display on their uniforms.
His pronunciation is on point!
excellent
The only thing i kinda miss is that there is a lot of footage showing czechoslovakian ltvz tanks that have been used by the germans, also the fact that germany hugely benefited from czechoslovakian factories, like in pilsen
This a good show
I can't be the only person who keeps trying to click that "Skip Intro" button
caught bro mewing at 8:19
awesome!
those civillian captains and crew were so brave, my heart
That theme song is haunting 😬.
40:42 this guys is so dead on that tank..so cruel
If u look closely it’s a German tank trying to run over a French solder lmao why is that so funny but so cruel
Was this recorded directly off Netflix haha
I think Netflix was the only place to find this series for a long time.
It could have been best if there was an in-depth discussion on the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the succeeding Operation Canned Goods.
Lol probably gotta look on book shelves to get the good good stuff
I feel horrible for the horses that were killed during the invasion of Poland
Yiu feel bad For the horses? What about the people....
@@samtieman5568 Ikr
Fucking vegans lol
Wrong war
@@jamesharris5868 did you not watch the video
How did Churchill fly to France five times while Germany was invading?
Very carefully.
Teleportation
History lesson gang
Yup 😒
9:02 Did they escape from being captured, or did they escape whilst in captivity? How did such a large number escape?
Brave boys involved with the Dunkirk rescue.
49:50 - 50:08 that’s fucking gangster as fuck
Does anyone know the name of the narrator? There is 3 versions of this documentary but I remember this being the original.
Very lucky recorded all that and not been killed
It always amuses me how the poles rode around on horses with lances.
What did they think they would do with them.
on thing to note. France and britain told poland not to mobilize so as not to provoke the Germans. Which resulted in them mobilizing only a few days before the attack and them being super unprepared. Not that they would have won but they wouldnt have lost quite as disasterously.
France really shit the bed on this one start to finish. I swear the best defense they put up was in north Africa when they fought the Americans in '42
@@jakecollin5499 they had outdated ww1 tactics, they were going to lose to blitzkreig no matter what imo but they certainly didnt have the best timeline happen thats for sure. There was a german higher up i forget the name but he said if france fully attacked while they were all in poland betting they wouldnt attack they probably would have lost right there
I could be mistaken but I think a Finnish sniper was the greatest sniper of all time. Simon Jaya or something like that. I remember seeing it on another video. Wonder how much he had to do with the Finnish resistance at that time.
Does anyone know the the name of the song starting at 13:59? i can't find it anywhere =(
I guess nobody knows
48:14 :- It is a common misconception that Hitler used the Swastika symbol. But Hitler himself never used the word "Swastika" to refer to his symbol. He called it “Hooked Cross”(“Haken Kreuz”).
Hitler first saw the Hooked Cross symbol in a Christian monastery (Lambach Abbey) which he attended as a boy. He later adopted it as an emblem for his party. There is no evidence that he ever heard of the word “Swastika”. Hooked Cross had been a sacred symbol of Christianity since its inception in ancient days and it is very natural to find Hooked Cross symbol in old churches and chapels. Although the Wikipedia and other "so called sources" blatantly ignores this fact and calls the hooked cross as swastika may be because they have their agenda of their own or they're no longer as reliable as they used to be. One might also think that a person raised in a Christian environment, in a Christian country would keep a HINDU symbol as the symbol to represent it's so called idealistic country. The videos are good but as a responsible youtuber you should have done your research well, you might have unknowingly hurt an entire community's sentiments with the statements. Please correct yourself the next time.
I used to watch this as a kid. Even back then I was always fascinated with a hypothetical. What would the world be like if Hitler had the foresight to not betray Stalin? Would Europe still be fascist?
It amazes me sometimes when I think how easily history could have turned out differently.
It could’ve gone that way honestly. While Mussolini and Romel were struggling with the British in North Africa there was a point where Stalin offered to join the axis and help. By that point though hitler was dead set on invading the USSR and had prepared a good proportion of the forces needed for the operation.
It doesn’t matter what Hitler did because by the time July 1945 rolled around, the US would have dropped the atomic bomb on Berlin like they originally planned
Don’t know, but I think the most popular baby names in Europe would no longer be “Mohammad.” Food for thought.