The Beginning Of WW2: Hitler's Rigorous Assault On Europe | Battlezone
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- Blitzkrieg. The Lightning War. Here, we gather some of the best and most authentic archive footage of the time to show how the world reacted to Hitler's unstoppable assault on Western Europe.
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What if the RAF had lost the Battle of Britain? Would the Brits have been overrun? Would the Nazis have won the war?
Top historians debate one of the biggest what-ifs in history: ruclips.net/video/OaH2-g04cIA/видео.html
What if the French had not been so spineless? No need for the Brits to get involved then.
@@alfredneuman6488 Not so much spineless as divided. The Brits were needed for the Blockade(and the British knew it).
The main question is what would happen if the French would have continued their invasion of Germany 🤔
Inevitably the extraordinary and massive industrial power of the US, Canada, Australia and others would wear the Nazis out of production. But it may have been a 6-7 year war. Other opinions welcomed.
@@scottsmith7051 Not even 7, if Berlin and Frankfurt stand in for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Just read a book called The Battle For the Channel Ports - it went into great detail. These films tied it all together, and bought it to life. The French seemed to talk about honour, but didn't seem to show much valour, and then blamed the Brits for running away. It seemed once the Germans invaded, any proper coordination went out of the window. The Maginot line was in the wrong place, the Belgian border undefended. The Brits were supposed to be under French command, which seemed confused, and perhaps dazed. Communications were difficult, unreliable telephones, and inconsistent orders. If the Germans hadn't stopped to eat occasionally, it would have been even more disastrous.
Yes agreed. On their way to Dunkirk the Germans actually created their own traffic jam lol. It’s probably the only reason the Brits could get all of those men across the channel. There was a lone French aircraft that flew overhead taking pictures. When it returned to its base the pilot said the Germans were still “moving along rather quickly” which was completely wrong and he could have dropped several bombs at the front of the traffic jam taking out the only bridge for miles around. It would effectively halted the German advance for days.
The German military of September 1939 wasn't at the zenith of its power. Victory over Poland was certain, but the high command was concerned about the cost. A stiff and skillful Polish defense could potentially savage an invading army. So when Germany went in they took the bulk of their assets with them. In doing so they left a backdoor closed to France but it wasn't locked. It was a major opportunity for the French but they just sat there. France simply didn't have the stomach for another war with Germany. The battle was over before it was even fought. WW1 messed France up bad. But unlike Germany, the interwar years didn't lead to a national revival. Political and economic instability made France progressively weaker and weaker. They talked a big game and blamed their failures on others. But at the end of the day France was the architect of its own demise.
Without one french army stopping a huge germain army, 1 to 5 and wothout heavy equipment the brits would have finished in prison camp.
@@jpa244so the Brits should have just have let themselves be annihilated, because the the French would not even fight for their own ‘fking country ,wives children .Yes that makes sense.
I've seen many WW2 videos but never this one. l like the detailed explanation of what happened to France. Good documentary.
Truly fantastic documentary. So much real footage and clean, detailed narration.
Never trust politicians, not a single one remember
Or the media
Or anyone
Or someone called Stef Bilmans... Who knows?
You're right. Never Trust One Politician Ever. The few Good Honest Politicians are Dead. Or washed away
Who knows what the world would be like if germany won ww2. The world would be a dark place. But i do know a couple of races would be extinct if they had won. I typed this comment already as the first comment on this video but RUclips deleted the comment. This is the second time i am typing this comment in a different form.
I read a well written article that Blitzkrieg was actually invented by accident. It explained that the Nazi's just found much less resistance & much less orgization then they anticipated in the beginning of ww2.
Sort of like a "shut out" in football or a "no hitter" in baseball. The winning team does not typically set out attempting to achieve such devastating results from the beginning of the game. Because it's so dangerous to assume u will immediately achieve such offensive goals. So u have to set out with some defensive plans. But when your offense suffers very little resistance, you begin to shift your defensive line to create an even more aggressive offensive assult.
But either way, Blitzkrieg was created by the Nazis. Weather they planned it or not, they definitely executed it flawlessly.
The Germans always had a doctrine of 'maneuver warfare", but what made Blitzkrieg different was the use of tanks and close air support for breakthrough, where as the allies, still only used tanks as infantry support.
Yeah, that’s simply not true. They practiced mechanized maneuvers in advance of the invasions and were the principle part of their strategy.
First, the term :"blitzkrieg" was never used by the Germans. In fact, they thought it was silly. It was coined by a Western reporter during the invasion of Poland. It is catchy. The German term is "bewegunskrieg" meaning "war of movement" and it was certainly NOT an "accident. Gudarian and others wrote books about it between the wars as a tactic to allow Germany to win wars quickly. The "German way of war" was always to strike quickly and win as they were a small country surrounded by enemies and could never win a long war of attrition. See the book "The German Way of War" by Prof. Rob Citino for a very good description.
Do you call the red army as communists or the france and englands army democrats?
One can call the Germans alot of things, but they did write the book on modern warfare.
Actually the book "The Army of the Future" was written in French by De Gaulle in 1934, before Heinz Guderian's 1937 essay "Achtung Panzer." based on the formation and use of Armored Units. Guderian was already independently working on his own views at the time, reading the contemporary military literature, and thus probably read De Gaulle's work.
Yes with the lives of 60 million people...
@@tszirmay
Yes that's a solid assumption.👍🏼
@@mhern57 Print dates, can't go wrong .....
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Well i was very impressed with the footage that was found. I must admit I hadn't seen much of it.
Really?
For some reason, I am just obsessed with WWII - of all the wars in history in the past two centuries, this is my go-to war. Vietnam? meh. Iraq? meh. Korea? meh. This was the biggest show in the world at the time, and nothing comes even close for the richness of the histories, documentaries, films, photography than this one. Does anybody else get that feeling?
Vietnam had some cinematic moments. It doesn't equal to the horrors of WW2 that were captured on film of what they did to the Jews. Also Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Those images are difficult to scrub from the memory and I wasn't even alive at the time.
@@RUclipsCensorsEverything I was always awestruck at the scale of participation of people from all over the globe, even into small-town America where everyone had victory gardens and scrap drives and bond drives and people displayed stars in their front windows to show they had someone serving. To me, Vietnam was just something I watched on the 6pm news, it didn't seem like most people were interested in this 'sideshow' war half way around the world.
I trained with WWII veterans, my father trained pilots, and I've know draft-dodgers and Vietnam vets and I think even they would say that to date WWII was the most 'noble' of wars in recent history.
This is awesome
Thanks for the upload :)
I saw these as a kid in Toronto, Canada as a kid, but it was repackaged as a show called "The War Years" with a different opening. Great doc.
Watched the same shows!
I’m from Toronto definitely my favourite city used to sit in duffrin park and drink beers with the boys.
Someone was even designated
to watch the skies over Toronto
in case any German bombers
flew over.
He spent many lonely nights
watching the sky...
They have that series in our Hamilton Library.
Daladier was actually very worried about what the huge crowds would do when he returned from Munich and was astounded to receive a hero's welcome.
I haven't seen too much on France's fall in WW2 other than the historic train carriage scene and Hitler's tour of Paris, I never expect to learn anything new but these war film archives always do a great deal
I study of Italy Germany in Japan and in World War II this is a site I just found set up a new avenues in new information I've never encountered
The german side was of the story was hurt as they had to be sorry for being nazi's. The french do not want talk about because it went bad for them. British only really talk about dunkirk.
This documentary actually added new details.
I never heard someone say "a ridiculous memory" how can it be ridiculous when you have absolutely no control over what you experience. Trying not to remember or throwing memories away is just a form of repression. Anyway just wanted to say.
Memories? Reminds future generations of how their Nations were freed and came to the World Stage. If memories and Histories archives are destroyed? There's no knowledge of how a Nation was borned.
Who knows what the world would be like if germany won ww2. The world would be a dark place. But i do know a couple of races would be extinct if they had won. I typed this comment already as the first comment on this video but RUclips deleted the comment. This is the second time i am typing this comment in a different form.
If you value freedom, then you must always, always be prepared to fight!
unfortunatly true
Freedom its Not Free its Earned.
I would say tell that to ex UK PM Neville Chamberlain, if he weren’t dead.
Spoken like a guy named Cat Man. lol
Time of Peace?, Time to prepared for War.
I watch a lot of wwll footage ,this is actual footage I have not seen b 4,,,great stuff War Stories
They used to play in theatres. Before features and during intermission.
a fascinating documentary. thanks for posting.
What an awesome find! I've never seen or heard of these.........
Europe: “War is a crime”
*Germany declares war*
Europe: “Ummm, excuse me, you’re not allowed to do that 🥺👉👈”
Sorry, it wasn't Germany which declared war, it were Britain and France which declared war on Germany, Sept. 3rd, 1939.
@@rudolfkraffzick642 invading other countries is a declaration of war. Obviously
@@rudolfkraffzick642 >>>> Sorry buddy .... unfortunately it was GERMANY as a country, which DID NOT declared any state of war with the Republic of POLAND, and attacked its territory on the September 01st, 1939 @ 04:45 in the early autumn's sleepy morning !!!!
On that day ... my mom, she was looking forward to go to her Elementary School for the first time in her life .... she didn't go, because the bombs started falling from the sky over the Warsaw - the capital city of Poland - of being dropped over the city, from the German Heinkels-111, Dorniers & Stukas :o(
He's a powerlifter from America: obviously he's not going to be that bright when he generalizes so haphazardly.
@@pretzelhunt If it bothers you that much you can always commit suicide. I couldn’t imagine being a person who thinks that’s a “haphazardly” generalization, that person would have never opened a book to educate themselves. Definitely a burden on society. You should end your suffering with dignity.
Old documentaries like this are fascinating. It's great to see how the story of the war was being told fifty years ago.
Myths & omissions (some of which date all the way back to wartime and post-war propaganda / media occasionally rear their heads, and are scattered amongst the facts with which they can be compared and contrasted with the facts as we now know them (especially regarding the quality of French armaments and the politics of the time both within military circles and between politicians with clashing interests).
It's also great to hear fascinating insights from the men on the ground and learn about the experiences of ordinary soldiers in the Battle of France.
Viva la France mate!
(Edits: some typos but nothing else)
I'm sure you had a point which was lost in verbiage.
@@dr.barrycohn5461 Wow, what a random comment. I'm sure you think you have a point but only in so far as someone who feels the need to put their title in a user profile on RUclips may think such petty observations make for valid conversation.
Should I use simpler language for the homunculus hoard that dominate contemporary academic circles (I already thought I was)?
@@aymonfoxc1442 OK, Dr. Entropy.
@@dr.barrycohn5461 Entropy indeed my random interjector of negativity. Entropy indeed...
@@aymonfoxc1442 Indeed sir.
Never seen the mood in France before the blitzkrieg beforehand.
They were too busy partying
political turmoil i think.
@@stianby it looks like the Right were far too busy admiring the strong men
Sorry there is not italics on RUclips *start italics* strong men *end italics*
Or is there lol
Gemans used similer tactics in 1918. They used special trained units called Strorm Troopers. Worked well at first but no mobile units for support it failed. They broke through French lines but no tanks to expand breach. Germans may rememberd this. Out BH.
The smallest book in the world is the book on French War Hero's.
France has historically one of the most successful armies on the planet, even fighting and defeating coalitions of European armies. The most prominent critics of France are British, who never once fought a war alone against a European power (always in coalitions), and the Americans, whose soldiers fought, according to Erich von Manstein, like the French army of 1940. ;)
MrBobthebird. You really need to educate yourself. Can I suggest you start by reading a book on WW1. When you read about how the french stopped the German army on the Marne, the superhuman effort at verdun and many other places, the horrific number of french military deaths, I’m pretty sure you will never post a comment like that again.
The real smallest book is everything you know about military history
@@echobase6372 Hit a Nerve did I,??.
@@MrBobthebird The book of polish war hero´s would be even smaller. They were finished in three weeks and their army was hiding beind civiliance for the rest of the second three weeks.
You've earn my sub...these are rare footage..
What a horror it must have been to face the Blitzkrieg.
Especially when there was no advanced warning of such an attack of that magnitude. 😱
I do love the choice of wording in these old documentaries.
God ordained it.
You can not "see" it.
Ww1, ww2...all those people and events were absolutely necessary for the result which is the existence of ISRAEL to exist as a NATION because IT was PRE-written as HIS-storical fact to exist as God says I will gather my people Israel in those days which are the last days and are THESE days right now.
Ww1, Balfour, ww2, the blessings of all nations by God, by the Jews such as Einstein and many others are all means to an end, Gods end.
You will never understand because understanding requires wizdom. Wizdom is from God.
Years teaches knowledge, but wizdom can not be learned, or bought. It is GIVEN by God to those with their HEARTS on things NOT OF THIS WORLD because the world is deception and you can not see it because you are BORN INTO IT.All happened as a means to a end...the end is ISRAEL IS A NATION as prophesied by God. All that came of ww1, to continue into ww2 was ISRAEL because GOD ORDAINED IT.
You all know Nothing!
God reveals all truth!
If you can not see GODS fingers and outstretched arms all through His-Story, then it is YOU who is decieved!
@@rdallas81 did someone forget to take their meds?
@@jonwingfieldhill6143 I dont take anything man makes. I have God. I dont take their substances.
You seem to think you know something about me, but it is you who reveals your own faults without even knowing it.
@@jonwingfieldhill6143 Do you know what those faults are?
@@rdallas81 you spelled wisdom wrong
This shows that bad if there is anything other than a bad politicians hire bad generals.
My Father fought in N. Africa, we are British in ww2. He said that THE best soldier IHO was the German soldier, he said that Rommel would pop up here, pop there and demoralized his enemy. My Granpas (both) fought in WW1 on the western front, and they both said the German soldier was a proud, militaristic being, that they seemed so angry and agressive. Anyway my family lost 6 men to ww1 and ww2 to the Germans.
Not to the germans, but to the puppets called politicians that managed to lure your country into these conflicts. The germans never attacked your country first and your country declared war on Germany in WW2, not the other way around.
THANKS FOR THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY AND TALENT OF THIS UNIQUE VIDEOS!!!!! THE STILL SHOWING THE REALITY AND HOW WAR STARTED AND HOW SAD WENT ITS COMING THE END!!!!!!!! TO MANY BROTHERS AND SISTERS AROUND THE WORLD THE GIVE THEY LIFE SO U AND ALL US CAN HAVE ONE!!!!!!!
I like how German paratroopers do the Superman out of the transports..lmao
A wonderful watch.
I agree, some unknown snippets of information, footage and critique of the major players, and a real sense of what France went through, especially their efforts to fight back which put paid to the myth of French rifles, only dropped once never fired. They did some good things when the leadership enabled them, they did some ordinary things when the leadership failed them.
Great one
Big Battles seems like a tv series from the 50s or 60s
Thats because I believe it is.
I see so many resemblance now in current government tactics by watching these videos of WW2 it's really mind boggling.
Thinking the same thing
Brown shirts are back
Could you elaborate on the resemblance of tactics?
@@mastro4886 look at his profile picture. Should explain everything u need to know
@@busterbrown6017 lmao
I have never heard that more than 85 000 troops lived in the embattlements on the Maginot Line, yet in this doccie, at (18.44) they say 500 000 troops!!! Rather unbelievable!
Nice historical video showing how country's( authorities)preparing internal facts even they declare war or not
Your comment doesn’t make sense.
SOME FILM CLIPS ARE ENTIRELY NEW TO ME
France: There will be no war because we consider it a crime today..
Germany: "Holden mein stein".
@@wolfdog7265 Your one of those who needs jokes explained to them.. If you don't already get it then... I cant help you.
Just leave it m8
@@wolfdog7265 omfg...
Halten Sie ny Bierkrug
Happy now? Not everyone can speak and understand German.
The idea was for everyone to get the joke.. As in "hold my beer".
But you are so smart.. I stand in awe if your superior fkng intellect.
Jetzt geh arbeiten und zahle Steuern. Israel braucht ihr Geld.
This is a pretty stupid thing to argue about, dont you guys think? Lol
@@coldbeer2011 indeed.. But some people zeem to bave nothing better to do
@@coldbeer2011 its just some know-it-all douche whom i guess saw an opportunity to announce his amazing ability to speak "4 languages.".
I had already forgot about it.
The Maginot line?!?! Ha! More like the IMAGINE-ot line!!!
10:04 what did he say? Danzig, Poland? What was happening in Danzig, Poland? Any of you WW2 history buffs know?
@Pokey O’Dacyll Don't forget the exterritorial expressway thru the corridor and join the anti-communisms coalition (axis). The GB and F delayed the Polish mobilization until the day before the war. Never trust the West again!
Funny enough! Am watching the French war the same day the president of France got a slap from a patriotic citizen.. You can't trust politicians 🤣
At this point ive heard the same story again and again but im just trying to see if ill notice some new archive films
What year was this document compiled?
1939
@@mth469 😂
Hesitation is a bad omen.
The victors all blamed Germany! As if they themselves are innocent!
Well.. there is that whole trying to conquer all of Europe thing... oh and instigating the wiping out of entire people groups based in ideological differences..
Wars never go as planed. Germany just wanted the nearly 15 percent of its territory which it lost after world war 1. Today one has to question everything, or else it becomes too easy to fooled.
Also.. at this point in my life I have questioned pretty much everything. Eventually we also need to decide on an answer as to what The Truth is... (or who He is.. speaking as a Christian)
You so right about that so right.
The victor is the judge and jury and the vanquished is the accused!
Good one
So France already had a big opportunity to stop Germany...and missed because the General didn't believe in offensive attacks
General No Balls
They had no chance. They didnt have the Army that could do anything. The Germans didnt get lucky. They were the best land army on the planet. Without comparison.
yeah seriously aye! the frogs just didnt have the stomach for a scrap, after the mauling they got in WW1 they just folded like a pack of cards,,,shameful really they should at least have put up some kind of a fight.Dont even start me on the resistance...what a joke more like collaborators..
Lack of Will and Determination
@@chrisclark719 the collaborators were the Vichy. My grandfather was part of the underground resistance which helped win that war
This is History book 📕itself.After all this, thanks to sattelite,Android os, u tube and most importantly the narrator himself.
Peace can only be achieved by superior firepower
That was a fast war there... Until they hit St. Petersburg?
They were brilliant tacticians
Who were?
Nazis.
The Martians 👽
Call the Foreign Legion for a specific reason
@16:10 a French officer explains how they placed foreign divisions to defend France. When you don't have the balls to protect your homeland you deserve to become enslaved, well, till America comes to save it once again.
@@argr Great points, that is till you remember that twice in the 20th century France was overrun by Germany & needed help to regain its independence.
Was I incorrect about foreign troops being placed to defend France?
"...and crossed the Sudetenland...": as gifted to the Nazis by the British.
De Gaulle in that tankers helmet reminds me of Dukakis in 1988 riding around in an Abraham’s tank. Not a good look
LOL! no kidding! both of them, complete dolts
Wtf is "Abraham's" tank? Something out of Bible?
I will support you in that statement
@@str8ballinSA most likely a misspelling of Abrams😑🙄..
The Maginot line , Aka Maginot Wall, reminds me of trumps border wall monuments to stupidity. Not a good look
I guess after ww1 the powers weren’t looking forward to another world war, understandably.
yeah they were relying on the distaste of the enormous casualties inflicted on all sides as a means of deterence.... 18 yrs isnt that long of a time... what they didnt forsee was the resolve of the german people who were bitter and struggling economically after paying retribution for the first world war.... theyre pride as a culture... many factors they dismissed going into the second world war...
one surprising thing tho... the fact that the french had the first aircraft carrier built for the purpose of being an attack vessel... that was some forward thinking... but why they lacked in aviation and tank production is baffling ... seeing as how they were on the main european continent and at that time arguably the most advanced allied force there...
Very impressed 👍
How did the French feel after the defeat, betraying Poland just 9 months earlier and as a consequence extending the war by 4 years?
There was pretty much a low-level civil war going on in France between 1940 and 1944. Some were ashamed ot the defeat and either got away to join DeGaulle or stayed in country to form the underground resistance.
Others were opportunists, fascists, and/or anti-semites who took advantage of the defeat for their own causes and gains.
Some felt that "My country, right or wrong" meant following the government in Vichy, other's thought that the right government was the one started by DeGaulle. The British attacks on the French navy really solidified that schism. And they fought against each other; in France, in the Middle East, in Madagascar and elsewhere. It was bitter, dirty, and ugly.
The defeatists who took over the government in France thought they were being realists (and they were only a few degrees away from being correct). They felt if they gave Germany a little of what they thought Germany wanted, they would not have to giver Germany everything. But those tasked with carrying out such mandates did so with such enthusiasm that it led to tens of thousands of Jews being rounded up and shipped to Germany without the participation of a single German. This was probably the greatest , most shameful act of Vichy France.
And after the liberation, everyone was judged by where they stood during the occupation, so people would whitewash their histories, families would pick scapegoats, and everyone seemed to be a part of the resistance or an innocent civilian, if they could get away with saying so.
But as far as "betraying Poland" goes, well, they did declare war, they did attack Germany (see the Saar Offensive of 1939), but by the time they had gotten anywhere with it, and the agreement was moot. So the hope was, as expressed in this program, that if nobody did anything, nobody would do anything, and the state of war that existed would eventually fade away, thus avoiding a repeat of 1914-1918.
If only the ability to refuel the Luftwaffe had been developed. Perhaps even simple fuel drop tanks for fighters had been used. Then Brittan would have fallen. Just a small political change in Ireland would have decimated Brittan's ability to defend itself.
One only can dream how the world would be today if the right side would have won.
Tour de France will be remembered and it was the greatest military defeat ever happened for sure
It's weird watching them prance around in embroidered dresses and silks right before getting trampled by Panzers and stuka dive bombers. They clearly didn't take it seriously enough.
Maginot line worked, btw. Germans went around it, as it was designed to force them to.
Yeah, that worked out just fine.
Not really as intended unfortunately. It was supposed to be a formidable defense but it was completely avoided with ease. All in all the Maginot line was a economical and strategic failure
39;39 "for the first time in history, the enemy falls from the sky" ... I thought paratroopers were first used in the Spanish Civil war?
As they say, going to war with France as an ali is like going deer hunting with a brass band
Almost the same as going to war with Italy as aly.
What's the world's shortest book? 'The Book of Italian War Heroes'...😂👍
@@chriscolton6329 They change sides whenever things get tough. Also, because Germany had to help them in Greece and Kreta against the All lies, this was the reason Barbarrosa was started later and this could have contributed havily that they were not able to reach Moskau before the winter.
@@davecopp9356 👍 Absolutely, mate. Their military performance during the war was shockingly bad, tbh. They were a millstone around Hitler's neck...
The treaty of versailles was not kept, what would you do?
Let's see, how about going through Belgium again?.
I' am not Polish, but I didn't like what was said about the pols it wasn't just polished lancers going up against tanks, and it's not the truth it makes you think about the rest of the facts in this doc just saying.
They carried rifles and anti tank rifles and would dismount before fighting
The Germans also used horses. They had over 9,000 with them when they attacked Poland. Point is the Germans were using way more horses than the Poles, like 5 times as many. I’m a British-American and I hate how the Poles are portrayed in so many of these shows. We had Polish pilots with us during the Battle of Britain. I believe it was a Polish pilot that downed the most German planes. And no he wasn’t on a horse lol
Germans attacked with 63 Divisions, only 6 of them mechanized, hardly a revolutionary juggernaut but the results speak for themselves 🙋🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺
Great film, but what's up with the constant annoying background sound?!
Nice
Germans cutting edge - France mired in WW 1 ? 🤔
Not only WW1; some were still Napoleonic battle tactics.
The French Air Force was larger than the German's, but most of the planes didn't have radios, incredible.
i really like this video, learned a lot. But at 36:00 they mention the carrier HMS Courageous was sunk by the German Air force. It was actually sunk by a U-Boat U-29.
A sure way to win a war watch from behind a hedge...
That was Maurice Chevalier at 24:30, wasn't it?
Yes it was.
The vengeful treaty of versaille garanteed it. The treaty was like a continuation of ww1. Take germanies stuff and starve them
The thumbnail looks like Christian bale lololololol
So the French figured out why they lost?
Too many adverts
Anyone know when this was made?
1939
wow, 131 people don't like the documented facts of WW2. Should the ones who liked it feel bad for liking it? I'm really confused.
There is no denying the efficiency, in the early stages of World War II, of the powerful Whermacht.
But, the German eagle was destroyed by the Soviet bear.
and not the americans, canadians, brits, just the soviets
The German army was defeated in large part by the fuehrer taking personal control of the war in the east. Also let us not forget the machinery and aircraft supplied to Russia by the Americans and British, at great cost in ships and lives to those who transported them in convoys across the Arctic sea.
@@jerrymcmanus2480 For the most part Marcelo is correct. The USSR absorbed and then attritted the majority of the German forces. After Kirsk, it was over for Germany. While we in "the west" fought and eventually landed in Normandy, it was the USSR who did the real heavy lifting up to that point. The West took out Regiments and a division here and there while the USSR took out whole army groups.
@@jerrymcmanus2480
85 percent of German armies died on the Eastern front fighting the Russians
It was destroyed by the Brits, the military men of the Commonwealth and the US military as well as the Soviet military... a combined effort you could say.
so lucky to have Polish fighter pilots and the good old Spitfighters, as we all might be speaking German
@Nigel Kent 109 had better guns. Problem was Spitfires superior speed and agility meant that most often the 109 could not get the Spitfire in its sights. Particularly the later models.
we all would live better lives if Germany was left alone.
The world would most likely be a better place today if Germany would run it.
Over a stupid bridge ?
3:03 This fool reminds me of alot of today's politicans.
The maginot Line was great in theory but in the end it was nothing but an obstacle for the Germans.. It didnt even slow them down or buy time for the French. It was a waste of resources and time for the French.
fixed fortifications worked quite well in WWI
in stopping enemies and withstanding bombardment.
but ....
this was a new kind of war
with high mobility
and fire power.
And nothing about the soviets taking the other half of Poland. Bs.
Dont you know what the Polesdid to the Russians???
The Soviets killed an estimated 150,000 Poles between 1939 and 1941. Everybody has a supercomputer in their hand - study. As a side note Nikita Khrushchev once claimed about a million Russian casualties were made during Stalin's war on Finland, but he was bashing on Stalin so I don't know how honest he was being about it. Look at the public in the West today, do they respect life? No one ever had to be a world leader to hurt lots of people 🙋🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺
Works really well when the other side does not want war.
Well put !
Hot dam !!!1.4 million prisoners ???!!!
@0:51 The 247th Guy from the right, is my Great Uncle.
Poor France just didn't have the stomach for another bloody war.
History has not been mistaken in this regard to France not winning wars but adept at losing them.Not that they lack spirit but leaders of foresight and not reluctant to make the move that leads to victory an not the hesitation that loses are the ord8of the way.
"I have instructions to sit next to the Prime Minister."
Uuuhhmm I smell assassination??
War Stories documentaries in Spanish please.
Very easy to go to war when you know u actually wont be fighting (leaders of all countries)
good film but the CC was terrible ,, emails during the battle of France as but one example OMG
I would love to see how A.H would have stacked up against conor mcgregor in his mystic mac days.
German casualties in Blitzkrieg were not light, both to East & West. France, Belgium, Netherlands: v. heavy Luftwaffe losses. Google casualties.
what i took from this... is no matter how advanced u think u are... u gotta get ahead and maintain that technological lead far surpassing any potential rival... and ally.... this is why America remains the only world super power.. but we wont keep that lead if lazy thinkers and leaders start to think diversion of capital and slowing down defense production and development is a good idea.
The best professional army in Europe lost two world wars.
Yes, against the world 🤗
@@pablomartinpereira6440 they declared war on every civilised country in the world with their genocidal plans.
Collaboration ....a French word for We always surrender.
How exceedingly stupid - check how the French 1st Army at Lille saved the British, and let them leg it via Dunkirk
Kevin Lewis. French military deaths WW1, 1.4 million. Stopped the German army at the Marne. Super human effort at verdun. I could go on but it would be easier if you just read some history before commenting.
Put UK or US in the same geographic location as France with the same manpower and resources.
Do you think either would have done any better?
They would all be dog meat.
Starts out by saying no more war yet they declared war on germany
What a massive error WW2 was?