Battlefield | The West Wall | Part 2 | The Siegfried Line
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- Опубликовано: 18 май 2024
- Hitler’s boastful words give some idea of the importance of the West Wall. This is the story of the construction and defence of Hitler’s three mile deep web of fortifications, pillboxes, troop shelters and anti-tank obstacles that ran along Germany’s western frontier opposite the French Maginot Line.
Also known as the Siegried Line, the construction of the West Wall was still unfinished at the start of World War Two. But as the war progressed and the tide turned against the Reich, it became clear that breaching the West Wall would present the Allies with a huge problem as they pushed for final victory.
The defences were not truly tested until after the Allied invasion of Northwest Europe in 1944 had cleared the way for liberation of Paris. Despite the successful advance, the Allied supply lines were seriously overstretched, running back as far as the Normandy beaches. Eisenhower’s decision to drive on was therefore a calculated risk that provoked many arguments within Allied ranks, particularly with Montgomery to the north and Bradley in the south.
As the Allies fought their way ever nearer,Hitler, eschewing the alternative of a tactical withdrawal to the Rhine ordered his exhausted troops to stand and fight in defence of the Wall. Gathering their 63 depleted divisions together for a last stand in compliance with the Fuhrer’s orders, the German Field Commanders were unaware that Hitler was planning a counter-attack that would culminate in the Battle of the Bulge. It was to no avail. Within months the Wall had been breached and the way to Berlin was open.
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Although rhere are a couple discrepancies, i really enjoyed the material. Thank you and good job
An informative footage and thrilled narration. Thank you for sharing
Great footage and narration! 💪
Love it
My first cousin Jack Treadwell received the Metal of Honor for taking out 6 pill boxes on the Siegfried Line.
And I’m the Dali Llama.
Top marks for your pronunciation of Model. Nul Points for Von Kluge however!
Stalin was no fool, the nazi’s had been sending gold to Berlin for the entire war. Who knows how much gold and other valuables he took home.
Splendid all around.
The statements in last few minutes of the video are pure BS. The final postwar division of Germany had already been decided at the Yalta conference in February of 1945, 6 weeks before the Western Allies crossed the Rhine. If the Western Allies had taken Berlin before the Russians, they would have only had to give part of it to the Russians, along with Eastern Germany. General Eisenhower saw no reason to get US and British solders killed trying to take German real-estate that had already been given to Stalin by Churchill and Roosevelt. So if Montgomery or Patton had taken Berlin before the Russians, it wouldn't have changed anything in Post WWII Europe. Berlin would still have been divided into 4 zones, and Germany would have still been divided roughly at the Elbe river. To claim otherwise is to deny documented fact.
And we care? NOT
@@Midwest10...spoken like one whose mother and father are siblings! 😒😒😏😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@Midwest10; so who is "we"? Do you have a mouse in your pocket?
You're right , BUT ? It would've been no doubt , as General S. Patton wanted , or suggested , to happen was that the Germans would've gladly sided with the Western Allied forces to go out , and defeat the Soviet Union . The USA , especially , had sole proprietorship of the A- Bomb , the USA , and Western Allies had an jugger naught of an Air force / Air Power , over several million men in arms to be mobilized , and great , and updated armoured vehicles , especially in better USA tanks that can match the Soviets ! But , the fact of the USAs sole ownership of the A(Atomic ) Bomb .
I'll say this , my uncle was kia in SouthVietnams Central , Highlands , middle March 1968 , the winding down of bloody ass TET offensive launched by COMMUNIST NVA ( North Vietnamese Army Regulars , and COMMUNIST VC ( VIET CONG) nearly just over 10 days b-4 my 11th bday .
Communist Eastern Block advisers , some troops , and Air force fighter pilots facilitated the Communist in SouthVietnam . Of course USA policy , strategy / tactics also facilitated the USAs problems , hindering the effort of the USAs/ Western Allies to thwart Communist aggression .
@@JohnEglick-oz6cd ; The fact is, the map of post war Germany had already been decided on, and where the Western Allies' armies and Russian armies eventually met had no bearing on that map, and to say otherwise is patently false. As for General Patton, he was a VERY successful WWII General, but he was not an oracle or a prophet of God. His words and political opinions were not brought down from Mt Sinai by Moses etched on stone tablets. In fact, George believed in reincarnation, and believed he had once been a warrior in the days of the Roman/Carthaginian wars. This is not to diminish his abilities and accomplishments, but like God idols of ancient Mesopotamia, his feet were made of clay so to speak.
The closed caption is very necessary for tha channel .
So, basically, if the West Wall hadn't existed and held up the western allies, they may have reached Berlin first and Germany might not have been divided.
Nah they'd already agreed how it would be divided. That's why Eisenhower was in no hurry to assault Berlin at all. Russia took a ton of casualties taking Berlin only to have to give up huge portions of it.
Yes, joshuann8026 is correct. The division of Germany had been decided at the Yalta conference in February of 1945, 6 weeks before the Western Allies crossed the Rhine. So yes, regardless of who got to Berlin first, the map of post WWII divided Germany had already been decided.
@@oldgysgt you hear of alot of Russian veterans saying any fool would have surrounded Berlin and waited out the inevitable surrender, but not Stalin nope he sent us into a street fight with thousands of crazy nazi kids. Also remember when Ike was later condemned for not taking Berlin he asked the guy to - go pick out the 100,000 American mothers that woulda been told their son is dead or maimed that taking Berlin would have been worth it.
may be read some history books 😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂
@@joshuagann8026exactly
8.00 'the Americans had no prior experience"
Who did ?
The British!
@@flashgordon6670 With the Siegfried Line ?
The mouse you are referring to was Montgomery.
Agree, wholeheartedly, that the comments at the end of the show are pure nonsense. It sounds as if Montgomery’s people have been resurrected. By the way, I would agree that the American generals, or at least some, were egotistical , but chauvinistic? Rather, they knew that Montgomery was overrated and slow, and that he cost lives. I’m surprised you didn’t mention that for all of his nonsensical comment about the Americans during the battle of the bulge, Churchill offered to have him replaced, but Eisenhower settled for a strong rebuke, and a kind of probationary status. Does that make Churchill chauvinistic? We expecting deserve more accuracy.
How do you know? Were you there?
@@flashgordon6670 nonsense.
Eisenhower did NOT want to sacrifice American troops taking Berlin, Stalin didn't give a crap, he was willing to sacrifice ALL of his troops. I studied this issue in 1968 while in high school, having several teachers who were involved in combat in Germany. When it was learned that they weren't going to Berlin, they were very happy. I agree withn the previous statements that the last several minutes of this video is crap
How do you know? Were you there?
14 weeks from the channel to the west wall. Let that sink in. Hitler was truely shitting his pants.
sorry but he SHOT HIMSELF !
Hitler escaped to Argentina, watch the documentary film Greywolf and Mark Felton videos Find the Fuhrer.
Winners write history, winners publish history, winners own history, and most of us know only what the winners want us to know
So German, Japanese and Italian historians don’t exist?
True enough
For the first time ever, the losers wrote the history. Guess who wrote the official US Army history of WW2? Yep.....a certain hallowed German Field Marschal. The histories of the War we don't have many of are Soviet. We have German "memoirs" readily available, and heavily embroidered with falsifications and outlandish claims.
Germany did not invade Czechoslovakia. They annexed it. Only 3 min in and I’m already finding inaccuracies. 🙄
Germany definitely won the cultural war due to their impeccable aesthetics. Hitler being a artist made sure everything caught your attention. It’s honestly the only time in industrial history where less efficient products were produced for the sake of its cool factor. But thanks to that, we can’t help but study them more.
Dude....take some history lessons, bitte ! Es würde Dir helfen.
You must be new to this. Ffs.
I love the British narrator's rather stinging remarks at the very end of this film.
Basically, he's saying that the American arrogance of command caused the Cold War.
And, if the original British plan to cross the Rhine had been adhered to, Berlin would not have fallen to Russia.
Because of General Patton's "petty" rivalry with Montgomery, Patton caused many more unnecessary Allied deaths.
I just find this narration from what I now assume to be a British produced documentary film...funny!
Because as an American, I never thought of it this way; however the narrator might have a point.
But it really does not matter, does it?
The Great War never ended, into WW II, and on-and-on...fighting everywhere...World War Three.
Remember, WW III does not start with nukes, it ends with nukes.
WWII started due to a border war with Germany, Poland and Russia.
WW2 ended with Nukes actually.
Absolute bull, in the sense that the Allies had ALREADY divvied up Berlin and the rest of Germany before any of them set foot inside its borders. That was NEVER going to change. (Oh, and Montgomery was TOTALLY overrated. Nice cheap shot, though.)
Thankful they surrendered to the Americans . . . and not to the Soviets ~
Americans too chauvinistic??? Lets examine how well the Brits ACTUALLY on their OWN...............then lets talk..............
Interesting point. To quote Leutenant Otto Carius (Tank Men, Robert Kershaw) "5 Russians were more dangerous than 30 Americans". He quotes another panzer veteran, choosing his words carefully, "The Americans were not particularly resilient. If you'd run out of armour piercing, even an HE round would get them out of the turret." The Brits, being a Germanic people, were not Germany's enemy, and Germany would have left the Empire alone if he could have the continent. Indeed, had the Brits sided with Nazi Germany the USA today would perhaps be a Japanese colony.... There is a good book by Alan Clarke on this. Worth a read.
@@johnbobson1557 LOL
@@nickdanger3802 Actually, on reflection Germany won. Eisenhower, Nimitz and indeed Roosevelt all were German as indeed is the Brit Royal Family! (Even the Greek side!) In fact isn't there a famous quote somewhere of an American saying: "Our Germans were just cleverer than your Germans"???
It was American manufacturing that won the war.
The USA at that time (1940s - 1950s) was full of industrial factories.
And the USA had ALL the natural resources within its own territory.
The American population was also large, patriotic, hard working, and....
Protected by oceans on two sides, Canadian arctic to the north, and Mexican desert to the South.@@johnbobson1557
At least it was the British who stood alone against the Axis until Pearl Harbour snapped you out from your daydreaming.
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...very inaccurate documentary...it started with the map where they put Farlaise 200miles to the west...not just a Faux Pax, it´s the start of so many inaccurate information, false conclusions and very soon it becomes the quality of an high school project...sorry, but please do your homework first.
its called FALAISE my super clever friend....otherwise somer points are incorrect, sure.
@@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists ...but still one of the weakest documentary about this... no matter how clever I would be...this is crap.
They should have sent Patton to the low countries, and had Monty park and fix the germans on the sigfried line, it would have been perfect for Monty as he excelled at sitting and doing nothing!!!!!