I was born in late November in 1938. My father had always opposed appeasement and volunteered when war broke out. He was commissioned into The Border Regiment and probably saw me as a baby while the Battalion was in England after Dunkirk. They went overseas in 1941 fought in Greece, Syria (against the Vichy French) and took over from the Australians in the Siege of Tobruk. They then went to Burma and formed part of the Second Chindit Expedition. Fortunately for me dad was transferred to REME and came home safely He was on debarkation leave on VE Day and I remember seeing the beacon lit on Skiddaw when we were staying in Keswick in Cumberland. My mother, grandmother and an old great aunt were in Aberdare in South Wales and I remember her going to work at the Rheigos munitions factory and seeing US troops training on the beach near Ogmore for D-Day. I also remember that I had mumps in 1944 and missed my Christmas Dinner. I think I was very lucky that my father came back.
My Parents and my oldest sister lived through the bombing of London. They sure had some stories to tell me. I have tremendous respect for them living through this hell on earth. They have passed away now and may they rest in peace!
My grandpa was 14 and received a white feather in 1942, in St Helen by their landlady just because she had a son who lied about his age and was in Africa as 15-year-old fighting Rommel. These were insane times.
@@Melchersson That doesn't add up , white feathers were normally for those not pulling their weight and hiding from military service. If your dad was not military age then then why would he get one
Remember what our grandparents suffered and endured so we can live in the world we do today. My grandfather fought in Africa and Europe ending up in Berlin. He never spoke of his time in the war but he was a great grandad.
My grandfather who had just started his own law practice died as a fighter pilot in Africa fighting Rommel’s advances. My mum way 18 months and her baby sister was born a few months later.
Yeh my grandfather was in ww2 as well. He said when drunk we stopped the nazis with a tear in his eye. He would be turning in his grave in todays world with nato supply nazi Ukraine with weapons to kill civilians since 2014- today. Military targets is fine but they slaughtered the Russian speakers in Donbas/Luhansk. So sad
Interesting and informative. Excellent motion photography job. Enabling the viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Class A research project!!! Special thanks to the still & motion photographers. Some whom perished for making this documentary more authentic and possible.
the nazis tried a landing using modified rhine ferries on a french beach and it was a disaster-they simply didnt have the logistics chain-Chamberlain was playing for time-300 spitfires ordered 1936, 5 battleships ordered 1937, 6 aircraft carriers ordered 1938
Isso que é um bom documentário Parabéns a todos que postaram esse fato triste da guerra. Muitas vidas inocentes mortos pela ganância dos poderosos que quando morre não vai levar nada desse mundo
I would like to leave a vote of thanks to the men of the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal, who cleaned up after the bombing and is still doing this work. 33 EOD Bomb Disposal Royal Engineers. I was proud to serve in this Regiment.
Hitler never expected, nor had he had any intention of invading England. His assumption was that the English would agree to an armistice after France fell. And if it wasn’t for Winston Churchill taking power as a direct result of Neville Chamberlain’s blatantly incompetency, he would have been right. Yes, Hitler made a big show of taking steps to invade England. He threw his air force at England and he gathered transports on the French coast in order to encourage England into an armistice. But the idea of sending the bulk of his army to an island without any way of getting it back, while Stalin had a 1 million man army within 100 miles of the German capital, is nothing less than silly. A moron wouldn’t have done it. I do not mean to take anything away from the heroic airmen who fought the Battle of Britain. I completely agree with Winston when he said, “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” Those airmen gave Winston the political capital to oppose the appeasement faction who wanted to make peace with Hitler. It must have been terribly frustrating for Winston to be surrounded by so many incompetent people.
The 'appeasement faction' had lergely become irrelevant after the successes of Dynamo & Aerial in June. The action at Mers-el-Kebir should have made it as obvious to hitler as it was to FDR that Britain did not intend to agree to any armistice/surrender on the Frence model. Yet he still went ahead with serious preparations for invasions, and even sacrificed much of his air force, and 2700 aircrew, on a bluff, you suggest. A successful invasion would probably have required only 25-30 divisions, by the way, which was nowhere near the bulk of the German army.
Thank you for your comment dovetonsturdee7033. Yes, the appeasement faction lost considerable political capital as you say. But who told Hitler that was the case? The only contact that he had with the English was a fevered request to Mussolini to act as a go between for quick negotiations to end the fighting. That could easily put him in mind that the English were very open to a settled peace. That’s the fog of war. We attacked Iraq because we thought they had large stockpiles of WMD when all they had to do to avoid the invasion was to simply comply with UN resolution 1441. Both the US and Iraq made misguided assumptions. Both the Mers-el-Kebir battle and the start of the Battle of Britain occurred just one month after England made overtures to Mussolini to help them set up peace talks with Germany. A reasonable person could argue that Hitler, after waiting a month, decided to scare or “push” England into an armistice about the same time England decided to neutralize the French Fleet exactly like they did the neutral Danish fleet in 1807. Hitler didn’t stop wasting his airpower in an attempt to scare England to the Peace table until October 31, 1940 when the Battle of Brittain ended. You suggest that the Germans could have invaded England with just half a million infantry (30 divisions at 15,000 each). That might have been possible if he could have invaded that same year, because the English army was in such disrepair at the time. We have the hindsight of using 84 years of historical records to help draw that conclusion. But Hitler did not have that information, nor did he make the prior necessary preparations for an invasion. From his point of view, the English retrieved 300,000 experienced troops (20 divisions) from Dunkirk, they were rapidly increasing the size of their army with new recruits, it would take at least a year to finish off France and reduce the English Airforce and navy to make an invasion possible, and Germany had to build an invasion fleet that could transport the German Army to England. The Normandy invasion started with about 150,000 Allied infantry, or 10 divisions attacking up to 350,000 Axis troops (23 divisions). But within two months, there were two million Allied troops (133 infantry and support divisions). The initial invasion required 1,200 plane sorties for the airborne assault troops, and about 5,000 vessels of various size. I considered all this some time ago. A year or two after Dunkirk, the necessity to take the large cities while the English army and air force withdrew up into Scottland, the Royal Navy controlling the coastline, and the difficulty moving troops and supplies across the channel would have required the entire focus of the German military and far more than 30 divisions. Meanwhile, there were a million Soviet combat troops just sitting there near Berlin. And Stalin was expanding his military, so by the time Germany could have invaded a year later, there easily could have been two million Soviet troops near Berlin. No. The direct danger to Germany, the entire focus of Hitler’s dreams of expansion, his abject opposition to Communism, and the inability to quickly withdraw the bulk of his military would have made him recoil from invading England. On the other hand, he believed that England only needed a hard push to get them to come to the peace table, and if they didn’t, England was not capable of threatening Germany. So scare England while making plans to invade the USSR and eliminate the Russian threat and achieve all his political goals in one lightning stroke. If Japan had not attacked the US, and the US not poured massive amounts of supplies like train engines, railroad cars, trucks, planes, artillery, ammunition, radios, generators, food and so much more; Germany might have put the USSR out of the war in spite of Hitler’s blunders. If we still disagree, that’s ok. We were not there at the time and I’m sure there were many other unknown variables that neither one of us have had the opportunity to consider. Again, thanks for the comment.@@dovetonsturdee7033
That idiot's screw up cost my country, Czechoslovakia, freedom for 6 years ahead, than the communist soviets came and stayed for another 40 years!!!😡😡😡
Sir Winston, foi notável. Como reafirmou no congresso americano, que lutaria até o último instante de sua vida, junto ao seu povo. Isso é ser patriota em toda acepção da palavra.
The sense of unity and defiance mustered during the blitz remains a turning point in the war Churchill's words We will never surrender became the rallying cry for our nation in its darkest hours One that sill stirs emotions even now soon to be 100 years after the last bomb screamed from the bomb bay doors Long after one of our greatest leaders was laid to rest We still remember him and all those happy Airmen Soldiers and sailors that heard his historic call and came and together saved this nation for this future we now enjoy Thank you
The whole Sealion scenario was wargamed out in 1975, with some of the surviving commanders, but with unrealistic limits set. The number of fighters was set at 25% of the actual numbers available in Sept 1940; the RN was held back until day 3; and the Ultra decrypts weren't included. Even under those circumstances, Sealion failed by Day 5, with the invaders stranded and out of food and ammo, as the follow up was intercepted and annihilated. In reality, any attempt would have been annihilated on Day 1 ny RN interception. The few paratroopers would have been mopped up by Day 3.
How are the numbers low. My understanding of the wargames is that they had about 23% losses of aircraft for both sides being 237 aircraft lost by the RAF and 333 aircraft lost by the Luftwaffe. This would mean a force of about 1,000 for the RAF and 1,450 for the Luftwaffe which seems about right for the Luftwaffe and a bit high for the RAF. The RAF was growing during the Battle of Britain, despite attritional losses, while the Luftwaffe was shrinking (by September, fighter squadrons were reduced to about 2/3 strength and bomber squadrons weren't much better). One figure I have seen is the Luftwaffe having around 550 available fighter aircraft in early September 1940. Unlikely this would have changed by September 22nd as the Luftwaffe was experiencing chronic shortages of new aircraft, replacement parts and new aircrew. (Massive investment in pilot training by the British government in 1939 was paying off, along with a wartime economy producing aircraft at almost twice the rate of Germany). Britain was training pilots at a faster rate than they were losing them and generally had two aircraft available per pilot (averaged out). The numbers used in the wargame suggest both sides cobbling together anything that could fly and anyone who could fly it to boost numbers. As the RAF had a large number of pilots stationed back training new pilots or undergoing more advanced training (such as dogfighting skills to prepare them for combat), this might explain how the RAF managed to increase their available strength from a typical 700-750 for the time up to around a thousand while the Luftwaffe was already sending out everything they had and couldn't change their numbers much. As for the Royal Navy, the wargame had a small force intercepting the invasion fleet enroute - trading losses with the escorts. Around 30 hours after the start of the invasion, a massive force of cruisers and destroyers converged into the Channel ending the German ability to operate their transport barges and boats to reinforce and resupply the invasion. So, of the planned 330,000 troops that were to invade Britain, only about 110,000 made it in the first wave. These would be facing the approximately 400,000 British Army forces that were stationed for the defense of Britain (2 armored divisions, 21 infantry divisions, plus some additional special regiments. Not counting the home guard in this, and the equipment losses from Dunkirk had been fully replaced weeks before. By August 1940, Britain was sending surplus tanks to reinforce Egypt. A large part of the explanation why the invaders didn't get far from the beaches before they were fully contained. The reason for the delay in the RN assembling is that the ships were stationed in ports around the coast of Britain. This was a deliberate decision by the Royal Navy to not have a concentrated target for Luftwaffe bombing. This helped keep this force operational to go into action when needed. The Admiralty had advised the Government that they had no means to prevent a German force from landing in southern England, but that they had the means to, in short order, cut off this force from resupply and reinforcement. This is what occurred in the wargame. As for ULTRA (name adopted in 1941) the the decoding of messages in 1940 was at a much slower pace. While they would be decrypting thousands of messages a day by mid 1941 the 1940 efforts were fewer messages and often with some delays. I think it is fair that the British side should not get realtime intelligence from ULTRA.
@@iansneddon2956the game and the actual numbers were reviewed - peer reviewed - by noted historians in the late 90s, among them Professor James Holland. The inaccuracies deliberately created for the war game were noted against the actual numbers now part of history. That's the air battle. The conclusion was that the Luftwaffe may have mounted a concerted effort to support an invasion attempt, but by Sept 40, they were out numbered, and had nowhere near the advantage the allies had on Dday. As for the naval side, it was noted that the flat bottomed Rhine River barges detailed for the channel crossing would have swamped for the seas after 19 Sept. Any escort would have been massively overwhelmed by RN forces based along the south coast, without the home fleet having to intervene. There's just no way they had enough to transport the same numbers the allies landed on Dday, so your figures of German planned landing forces are massively overstated to what they were capable of. The first wave of Dday was 116,000. The German capability was maybe as much as a third of that. This is from KNOWN figures. The proposed parachute landings would have been decimated, worse than Crete. The beach landings would have been well under 10,000, assuming a 30,000 embarkation - and that's being generous. With just about all sunk or swamped, there would have been zero foll up forces, and zero resupply. Those that landed, by parachute or by boat, would have lasted three days max, with most killed or POW by the end of day one. Lastly, let's review the intelligence angle. The Germans had very little knowledge of what British forces were where, nor details about the proposed landing zones, beach and air drops. From reviewed information, we now know exactly what the Germans knew prior to Sept 40. Bugger all, and a lot of what they thought they knew was wrong. They had nothing like the details the Allies had for D-day. Next Ultra; I don't know where you got your info about that, but it doesn't tally in the slightest with that reviewed by the historians in 90s. From Jan 40, Luftwaffe decrypts were on stream daily. Allied intelligence had plotted every squadron and most of the officers - they KNEW who was where and when. German army decrypts were on stream from May 40, we know this because of Greece and Crete, so allied intelligence had a pretty clear picture of what the Sealion force was comprised of. They would also have a damned good idea of the embarkation schedule, and the weather and tide details. The RN minesweeper and layer forces outnumbered the kreigsmarine by a factor of five. We know this from information and records kept. They would have easily been able to keep channels open for British ships AND block German boats. Easily! I don't know where you got your info from, but mine comes via that peer reviewed study, based on prime sources. Interestingly, surviving German leaders (junior at the time) reviewed the war game, and they were unanimous in that the invasion would have failed drastically, crippling any Barbarossa attempt.
@@richardcaves3601 My recollection is that Luftwaffe messages being decoded gave a pretty good idea of who was flying when, but did not provide targets. So there wasn't an expectation of being able to tell in advance when an invasion would be launched, if it ever was. It seems certain that the British leadership took the threat of an invasion (that Germany might try it) seriously - considering the massive forces held to defend Britain against that contingency (to ensure the invasion would fail). There is an interesting American assessment of German plans, declassified and posted on the CIA website. I recall a section talking about the leaders of the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine blaming each other for Germany not being ready to launch the invasion as the deadline approached. I think they were well aware that such an invasion would not work, but making an appearance of preparations and support for the invasion to not appear weak or incompetent to Hitler. The ~110,000 troops in the first wave (with paratroops) came from the wargame, but this might have been accepted as possible because it was irrellevant. 110,000 would not be enough and the Royal Navy would prevent a second wave. So they just assumed the Germans could accomplish this in order to make the end result (# of German troops lost) all the more dramatic. The transports were very slow and the need to unload troops and equipment from barges might require changes in the tides (iirc, they planned to drop off sealed/waterproof tanks at high tide so they would be on the beach during low tide to be made operational. For anyone who thought the duplex drive tanks at D-Day were the clumsiest option, there was the German solution. And the slow speed of the transports would require most/all of a 24 hour day to make round trips. If they could make the trip because, as you pointed out, any moderately rough seas would swamp them. With such a flotilla so ill suited for the task, I wonder how many of the assembled craft could not even be used at all under even calm seas. Getting to the reduced numbers of troops, I expect the estimates of how many boats/barges could be assembled and how much they could carry were overstated in reporting to the Fuhrer. The same sort of quality estimate as the one in which they would defeat USSR in just 4 months. In reality, the best opportunity for success for the invasion plans would have been if they persuaded the British to sue for peace - which was not happening. Sealion was better as a vague threat in being rather than the squandering of resources that would come from actually trying it (a mini-Stalingrad). For D-Day, the Allies enjoyed naval supremacy, air supremacy, and prepared equipment to quickly build an artificial harbor once the beaches were secured for faster reinforcement and supply. In contrast, the Germans were working towards and still failing to achieve localized air superiority over the Channel, and had no hope for naval superiority. They had wishful thinking that they could lay minefields to protect the invasion convoy routes... laying mines off the coast of a great naval power with such capacity that they could easily remove mines at twice the rate the Germans could lay them. Also, much of the D-Day flotilla provided shore bombardment. The German invasion force would have been limited in how much artillery they could bring, or vehicles to transport artillery. So they would have been greatly in need of shore bombardment (which would have been mostly absent) or Luftwaffe air support (which would not have been unchallenged by the RAF). For convoy defense the Germans could depend on, at most, 10 destroyers (the entire destroyer capacity of the Kriegsmarine after Norway), around 3 dozen E-boats, and perhaps whatever weaponry carried by smaller auxiliary vessels like minesweepers. But they wouldn't have to go up against the WHOLE Royal Navy. Only a portion of the Royal Navy was held back to defend Britain as other vessels were needed to safeguard sea lanes and possessions in the Mediterranean. So the Royal Navy would ONLY have been able to call on 6 battleships, 11 cruisers (iirc), 67 destroyers and over 700 smaller craft. The Kriegsmarine had no realistic plan to overcome this disparity in force. The Wehraboos tend not to realize how depleted the Luftwaffe was from the Battle of Britain, thinking they could have gone on and on wearing down the RAF. While the Germans had significant numerical superiority in fighter aircraft at the beginning, by September they had fewer operational fighters than the RAF. It is worth noting that the operational strength of the entire Luftwaffe in June 1941 was less than the force deployed against Britain in July 1940. Months later and they still hadn't recovered from the Battle of Britain. Arguably, they never did. (that the lost aircraft, pilots and expended fuel from the Battle of Britain and the Blitz undermined the effectiveness of Barbarossa). As planes shot down by the RAF were mostly bombers, it is clear that the Germans were shooting down more RAF fighters than they were losing throughout the Battle. But virtually every German aircraft loss was also a lost air crew (killed or captured), while about half of RAF pilots shot down were able to parachute safely to ground and return to their units. By the later stages of the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe was flying more sorties per day to maintain localized superiority. Of course this sped up the rate of losses. Look up "Channel Sickness" for the effect this was having on Luftwaffe pilots. Whatever air superiority they thought they might achieve would have been an illusion as they had been losing the Battle of Britain for weeks and were unlikely to reverse this trend. For D-Day, photographic reconnaisance was extensive and scouting parties were sent out to sample the sand from the beaches and take tide measurements. The failures of the Germans to do this would have caused greater problems in getting troops ashore and transporting materiel off the beaches, and would have led to greater equipment losses in landing. It gets worse. The British had such extensive plans to destroy fuel stockpiles (some in imaginative ways to obstruct the Germans) and destroy bridges. But they also caught German spies and turned them to feeding false information which included falsified maps which would have made navigating the British countryside a comedy of errors. It isn't just that the Germans wouldn't know what they were up against inland, but that what they did think they knew would have been mostly fabrications. Sealion could only have ended in failure, and with Royal Navy dominance in the Channel there could not be a Dunkirk style evacuation back to France.
Chamberlain had to maintain a policy of appeasement to but Britain time to train young tecruits and built up its military infrastructure. No nation in Europe that had gone through the meat grinder that WW1 became. No sane nation would rush back into war. But Germany was not reasonable or sane.
The Polish piloted Squadrons representing less than ten percent of all RAF have shot down twenty eight percent of the Luftwaffe hovering over England in Autumn of 1940.
@@stargazer5784 The figure of 1700 (actually, 1733) comes from examination of post-war Luftwaffe archives, and relates to the period of the Battle of Britain, 10 July to 31 October, 1940. A further 896 were reported as damaged. Presumably some of these were written off, some cannibalised for parts, and some repaired.
303 squadron was the highest scoring of the battle. Most historians agree it was a tight contest. Without the Poles the outcome could very well have been different.
@@solrosenberg4529 No, it wasn't. German post war records demonstrated that No. 303 (Polish) Squadron RAF was the top scoring Hawker Hurricane squadron of the Battle of Britain, with 44 victories positively verified. This made No. 303 the fourth highest scoring squadron overall, after No. 603 (AuxAF) Squadron RAF (57.8 verified kills), No. 609 (AuxAF) Squadron RAF (48 verified kills) and No. 41 Squadron RAF (45.33 verified kills), which all flew Supermarine Spitfires.
Meu avô era tripulante do Sufalk navio torpedeiro inglês que seguia o Bismarck no oeste da Irlanda em 1941. Nem sufalk nem norfalk foram afundados naquela batalha..
Some factual errors in this documentary. The German attack on the Low Countries and France began on 10th May 1940 and that was also the day that Churchill became PM, not 2nd May as stated. Chamberlain only resigned having seen his support during the adjournment debate of 7th/8th May fall away even though he did 'win' that debate.
Not simply a case of "we have forgotten" It's not taught anymore as it cuts into valuable time that could instead be used with gender identity bollocks and "mental elf".
@@annasalomoni2198why cant he have him as his hero?,the lad can have anybody he wants to be his hero, and he's made a bloody good choice, which i respect him for? so good choice alex,and never let the b@$tards grind yer down, or worry what others think...
After the battle of Norway, with Germany losing something like 11 destroyers , they only had about 10 destroyers left . Britain had over 150 , with many more mothballed at Scapa Flow. A German invasion fleet would have been annihalated ....
The narrow margin was made more narrow by a French betrayal. German aircrew captured during the Battle of France were retained in France métropolitaine, not sent to Caribbean colonies as Britain requested. On France's surrender, they were returned to Luftwaffe service . . .
Im proud pf my British roots , But it was us under that war monger Churchill that betrayed the French not the other way around. We pushed France into declaring war on Germany then when things started going wrong Churchill orders an evacuation without telling the French leaving her flank exposed . France had more pressing things to take care of thern to worry about evacuating german aircrew to the carribean just so the couldnt be freed to fight in the battle of britain
Your bias is showing. The French were asked, strongly, but refused. They knew they were about to surrender and UK needed to survive, so we got out from under, having good grounds for doing so. The French soldiers lifted from Dunkerque opted to return to France later that summer. What a waste of effort. @@asusorion4756
If Im biased in anything to do with Britain and France I have always been by far British because that is where I grew up and that is what Ive heard since I was young , These days I acknowledge the culture bias and look at things from all perspectives, two sides to every story. In this case here is a period when we were quite dishonorable in many instances that are not characteristic of the British and they all fall back onto Winstin Churchills leadership, We no longer have an empire because of his warmongering, we lost the respect of our colonies and the world because of him .Winston didn't inform the French until Dunkirk was well underway. The French who were evacuated to Britain returned to France because the war was over and why continue fighting against the French people ? The Germans proved more loyal allies to the French than the British were and they were the soldiers of the Waffen SS Charlemaine Div French volunteers that defended Hitlers bunker in the last days Berlin 45 @@EllieMaes-Grandad
At the end of this program, America's contribution to the war effort was mentioned. But the USSR was fighting the Germans for more than five months before the USA entered the war. And, over the course of the war in Europe, the Red Army killed or captured far more of our common enemy than the British and Americans put together. "German armed forces' losses to war's end numbered 13,488,000 men... Of these, 10,758,000 fell or were taken prisoner in the East." This quote is from WHEN TITANS CLASHED: HOW THE RED ARMY STOPPED HITLER, by David M. Glantz & Jonathan House, both scholars and U.S. Army officers. Of course, had the British not held out in 1940, it is difficult to see how there could ever have been an allied victory.
But at the time of the Battle of Britain, Genial Uncle Joe was hitler's best chum, as the Soviets provided Germany with a whole host of raw materials which boosted the German economy.
Not to take anything away from the brave British nation, but what really saved Britain at that time was the English Channel. Never has so many owed so much to so much water.
Not quite. The Channel had been there for some time, and shouldn't really have come as much of a surprise to anyone. What actually made invasion impossible was the naval supremacy held by the Royal Navy in Home Waters.
Strange how the English Channel Stopped King Philip II of Spain, Napoleon Bonaparte & Adolf Hitler, but completely failed to stop the Romans, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons & Normans. See if you can use Doveton's reply above to work out what actually saved the British Isles from nazi death camps. Then sit back in the glow of knowing you've become more informed.
The Channel was a huge help; only 2 conquerors could cross it, Julius Cesar then William the Conqueror. Without this large piece of water, Napoleon and / or Hitler would have probably conquered the territory.
I have an issues when they say “When Britain stood alone”….she had her GD Commonwealth with her….many men from the Commonwealth died helping Britain in the war.
What are you talking about? Canada and Australia declared war on Germany a week after the UK, while that is not all of the Commonwealth, the UK had major infusions of fighter pilots from Canada, New Zealand and Australia. @@dovetonsturdee7033
@@Dreadnought16 What I am talking about is this. In September, 1940, when any invasion attempt might have happened, of 34.5 operational divisions in Britain, 32.5 were British. The only substantial Commonwealth forces in Britain at the time were one Canadian division and two Australian/New Zealand brigades. There were, at most, 300 Commonwealth fighter pilots among the 2900 pilots credited as being part of Fighter Command. The reality is that, in the event of the Germans miraculously overcoming the naval supremacy held by the (entirely British, other than a handful of Canadian destroyers) Royal Navy, and attempting a landing, shouts of 'good luck lads' from distant Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and India would have been much appreciated, but of no actual relevance.
People say "Britain stood alone" mainly because Britain DID stand alone.... Unless that is you can provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY individual country on the ENTIRE planet facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was the United Kingdom ALONE.
P.S And if you want to correctly argue that Britain was supplied by its empire and the US then remember to add that nazi Germany was also supplied by its OWN empire of its recent European conquests, as well as MILLIONS of tons of food, fuel and raw materials from its OWN supply network, including their "best friend forever" the USSR (well, at least until 22nd June 1941), and also from Spain, Finland, Sweden & the Balkans... oh and not forgetting that the US also supplied HUGE amounts of raw and finished materials to the nazis AS WELL as it did to the British, being a neutral profiteering bystander as it was until Dec 1941!!! In 1940 Britain saved itself INSPITE of the US as much as it did BECAUSE of the US.
I have yet to watch this fully, but it will be interesting to see if they cover some of the other issues that would have made Sealion an extraordinary feat for Germany. For starters they didn't have a mass-produced landing craft as the Allies would by 1944. They would have to cobble together a mass of mismatched regular boats to accomplish an invasion which would pose all manner of problems for disembarking troops on suitable landing areas. There's also the fact that the Channel was very much in the hands of the Royal Navy which would make no end of trouble for any boats crossing. Germany would have to dispatch a huge force to try to protect the operation. And then there's what remained of the RAF. Even in defeat you can be sure that any usable plane would be drafted to attack the beachhead. Certainly Germany would have air superiority, but even with that there would be harassing attacks. I'm not convinced that there ever was a very serious thought to truly conquering Britain through the use of ground forces, it just wouldn't have been feasible with the technology of the time. Germany would have to bring the country to it's knees through starvation first and get them to a state in which they were amenable to a surrender in some form.
Something I don’t understand how can 2 great militaries of the British and French both sea and land are former shells of what they used to be. The heroes both men and the women that replaced them in the workforce was amazing. The men that faced the machine guns stormed the beaches. I find that time period extremely beautiful how everyone worked together from the Brit’s, French, Americans, the Soviets worked together to defeat pure evil.
Churchill must have been a combat maniac at heart, because he even said he wanted to fight Hitler even if he had to team up with the devil. I think Hitler underestimated Churchill's character in that area.
@@dovetonsturdee7033 No, he says! He says he really wants to fight, he wants to go to war with Hitler and the Germans even if it means joining with the devil. Churchill also says he wanted to join the Napoleonic Wars and kill the French before the Germans, led by Hitler, launched their retaliatory military action against Britain and France.
Too much of the videos were incorrectly used as they were out of sinc with the time frame. Made it difficult to enjoy watching our B-17s in battle over Europe whilst the program was describing the Battle of Britain. Otherwise, accurate historically.
The German forces had no amphious capacity . A landing in the UK in reality could not have been. sustained. The Germans viewed a landing as a river crossing. Bad idea
@@rjhtrucking5429 Oh dear, a troll, and a half-witted one at that. I suppose I should have realised when it referred to 'radio direction finding' as 'range direction finding.' Still, I suppose one should give a degree of latitude to a creature who needs to edit a post of nine words.
Appeasement was popular in both France & Britain, for obvious reasons. No-one actually wanted to go to war, until it became obvious that there was no alternative other than capitulation to threat.
They were over whelmed . The German armed forces had small navy and no experience or resources for a mega amphibious attack. Crete shows how costly it was for them Loosing so many paratroops and ships.
sealion was NEVER on-they knew it and the realistic in britain knew it-logistically impossible the rhine river barges could only land at high tide and subsequently get stuck at low tide-the seebal ferries would have founded in the channel-the RN would have constantly attacked any transport ships and the nazis only had TWO airborne divisions in 1940-these would have been held and defeated by the strategic reserve east of london
If the present bunch of treacherous politicians in Britain had been in control of this country in 1940 the Royal Navy would have been ordered to assist the the Germany army in crossing the Channel. Norway had its traitor Vidkun Quisling who gave his name during the war to all the traitors who betrayed their country's, now in this country we have practically a entire parliament dominated by Quislings determined to bring about the total destruction of every aspect of the British way of life, culturally and financially and also increase the amount of none indigenous people coming into the UK.
Odd to have suggested that Churchill´s " wilderness years" stretched from 1915 to 1940. He of course held a variety of senior cabinet posts in Tory governments until his stint as Chncellor of the Exchequer in 1929.
When Hitler invaded Poland England and France declared war on Germany then did virtually nothing, when the Soviet Union Invaded Poland 17 days later in a premeditated arrangement struck between Hitler and Stalin no declaration of war was made against the Soviet Union. In 1940 Britain was a Naval super power that dwarfed Germanys Navy Germany never had the wherewithal to conduct an amphibious invasion against Britain. Instead Goering said that he through his Luftwaffe could bring Britain to peace negotiations, for a short time the Germans by attacking the British airbases were creating a worrying attrition rate of lost aircraft, Churchill then gave the order for Bombing of German cities, Hitler got played like a fiddle and instructed a strategic shift from attacking British Airbases to English cities as an act of retribution Hitler gave infamous speech for every Kilo on bombs dropped on our cities we will drop a Thousand Kilos on English cities. This switch tilted the manufacture to loss rate back in the Black and the Germans could no longer sustain their attrition rate, it was clear that Churchill would not come to ceasefire negotiations. Hitler ended the so called Battle of Britain and placed his focus on his true ambition land in the East…in less than a year Operation Barbarossa was launched on the 22nd of June 1941. Six weeks prior to Germanys invasion of Russia Hitlers Deputy Rudolf Hess stole a aircraft and parachuted into Scotland with his personal message that he believed Hitler would attack the USSR with dire consequences to Germany and humanity to negate Britains last hope of holding out on peace negotiations with Germany. No such audience with Churchill transpired instead Hess was locked away in isolation until he was strangled decades later at the age of 94 (Epsteined). Germany went on to catastrophe losing a war it never was going to win and England went onto lose it’s Empire and the West Lost the World (Paraphrasing Pat Buchanan).
Actually, the British & French agreement with Poland was that they would declare war if Germany invaded Poland, but made no such promise if the Soviet Union did the same.
Poland wasn’t held in very high regard in the West after it joined in with Hitler invading Czechoslovakia a year earlier. As a power grab it was appalling and for many the fact their “allies” turned on them barely a year later was perhaps deserved.
22:20 _"pela dificuldade de reabastecer"_... frase totalmente inadequada para o contexto, pois reabastecimento aéreo só se tornou pratica viável em 1949. Teria ficado mais apropriado: _"...pela dificuldade criada pelo combustível limitado"._ Aliás a legenda original não fala esta besteira de reabastecer, diz: "fuel being the main parameter to take into account." "sendo o combustível o principal parâmetro a ter em conta." Mas mas a quantidade de munição que o Messerschmitt Bf 109-E-1 transportava era crítica, tinha munição para cerca de 20 segundos de tiro com as duas metralhadoras 7,92mm no capô do motor e 10 segundos para os dois canhões de 20mm nas asas. Uma vez que entrasse em combate e atirasse só restava voar de volta para a base, para rearmar e reabastecer.
Radar was also known to the Germans, they had their own. But the British took better advantage of the technology, the defense was very well organized. However, Enigma was war deciding, and the German losses at land, sea and in air fatally wounded the German military. Also, the Americans supplied the UK with everything it needed including airplanes. Sea Lion could not succeed without air superiority, and with the rising deliveries of American and Commonwealth goods, there was little hope. In its weakened state Hitler decided on the desparate move to attack the Soviet Union. The Germans assumed that the huge numerical advantage of the Russians in ground and air forces would be of little use against the superior German technology. While this proved to be true, the vast Russian territory gave the Soviets time to rearm its forces with Western help. By winter 1941, during the battle of Moscow, the weak German forces, still engaged with the British Commonwealth and weakened from the losses against the Western Allies, were held by the Russians enforced with British weapons. Critically, British planes and tanks made up a large percentage of Russian forces and they held on precariously as the support from the West turned into a torrent.
Don't forget that if the US had REALLY wanted to "help Britain", then instead of bleeding the British empire dry and causing its collapse, they could have by small example sold a production license for Tetra Ethyl Lead (The compound required for the production of hi-octane fuels) to Britain when we applied to purchase one prewar. ... instead they refused to sell one to "their British cousins"... A "special relationship" indeed. The "Standard Oil of Jersey City" company who held the patent had NO qualms though about providing the exact same licence to the nazis prewar. But when it came to Britain the US preferred to strip the British of ALL their gold, cutting edge technology and military bases around the world during the British "hour of need" in return for a supply of amongst other things, US produced hi-octane fuel. Were there nazi sympathies in the Standard Oil boardroom? The truth is so unsavoury were the business practices of the US "Standard Oil" company (such as seeking furtive routes and brokering shady deals to supply nazi Germany with fuel and oil via neutral nations during the war) that it's activities were investigated and closely monitored by the US Govt... but only AFTER the they had been DRAGGED into WW2 in Dec 1941 by the German delcaration of war on the US!!! The US "business community" widely engaged in VERY profitable business dealings with BOTH sides throughout WW2. US corporations such as Ford, General Motors, US Standard Oil, IBM, Kodak, Chase Bank (to name but a few) carried on "business as usual" with nazi Germany THROUGHOUT WW2. Ford's auto production facility in Cologne and General Motor's Opel subsiduary plant in Berlin were both busy working 24/7 THROUGHOUT WW2 furnishing the nazis with approximately 60% of the Wehrmacht's military transportation needs, as well as a sizeable chunk of the Luftwaffe's aero engine requirements... all the better for attacking Britain with eh? The "ALuminum COrporation of America" (ALCOA) for instance supplied SO much aircraft grade aluminium to nazi Germany in the late 1930s and into the early 1940s that it actually caused shortfalls within the US government's own military aircraft production schedules, so much so that in June 1941 the situation prompted Harold Ickes, US Secretary of the Interior, to go on record as saying “If America loses this coming war, it can thank the Aluminum Corporation of America”. With "friends" like the US "business community" who needs enemies?
@paulspeirs 4964 you are so right And on a nother hand l wonder how long he would have lasted if he’d never attacked Russia would he have gotten his 1,000 years
They had captured British radar equipment after Dunkirk and didn't rate it very highly. What they failed to understand was that the then rudimentary British radar technology was just the facade of a very effective and capable command an control system which they themselves had not yet developed like the British had.
To commonly as is the case here, the important role of Bomber Command is ignored. Bomber Command lit up the Channe ports setting the German barges and orts stores and facilities on fire.
@@dovetonsturdee7033 But that was when the German barges and invasion material/men were really concentrated there. I got the impression that they did some real damage, but as this is so rarely even mentioned, I have no hard data on the impact. At this stage of the War, BC had serious navigational problems and still had real trouble finding targets in the Reich, but no trouble finding the Channel ports. Think of the impact on D-Day if the Germans had been able to bomb the British Channel ports on June 1-5 when the ports were jammed with men and material.
@@dennisweidner288 Aside from the fact that the ports were not jammed with men and materials, as the men were moved out immediately on trains, the material, i.e., the ships, turned around straight away, and the Luftwaffe could not bomb ports and support the army at the same time, the actual figures, quoted from Peter Fleming, are as follows.The first figure is the number of vessels assembled, and the bracketed one the bombing losses:_ Freighters : 180 (21) Barges : 2073 (214) Tugs : 402 (5) Motor Boats : 1171 (3)
@@dovetonsturdee7033 Hitler never intended to invade England, foolishly he hoped to convince the British to join him against the Soviets, he was right thinking that Stalin was ideologically opposed to British values therefore a potential enemy but Churchill didn't mind associating with the devil if he had to but what allowed him to impose his will on the population is that he didn't tell them about his plans but worse, he lied to them constantly about everything, leading them to believe whatever he wanted. Hitler sent him at least 16 reasonable peace offers, he told no one but Hitler began talking about it in his speeches which led Lord Halifax to propose studying Hitler's offers in parliament. Churchill erupted and through elaborate manipulations beat the propositions and the whole thing was dropped and forgotten. You can google "War Cabinet Crisis, May 1940". He didn't talk about the fire bombing of 61 German cities either, everyone thought Hitler was a monster, they only found out about the extent of the destruction and that Hitler was always retaliating, never hitting first in 1961 when a small physics book called 'Science and Government' by C.P. Snow was published but the most spectacular was that the failure to take the port of Narvik in Finland to cut the source of Iron ore to the Germans that led to the dismissal of Chamberlain and his becoming Prime Minister was caused by very bad planning and a leak, both of which he was directly responsible of, he didn't always remember what he had said and done the night before. Continued...
Clearly the whole thing had been planned years in advance, some very powerful men managed to put Churchill in the driver's seat where they could control him, he owed them so much money, all he could do is obey. These rich men, vicious international financiers for the most part had been kicked out of Germany as soon as Hitler had taken power, and they were very angry, that's why Churchill was never elected, why he refused to talk about peace, why he threw fire bombs in the heart of residential areas, why he associated with Stalin, a man he hated, why he agreed with everything Roosevelt said, why he said Dunkirk was a miracle when everybody knew it was a message from Hitler, why he refused to talk to Hess and put him in a mental institution, why he gave Eastern Europe to Stalin, google "The Percentages Agreement", everything he did and every decision he made that appears to make little sense or to be against the desire for peace starts to make sense when you understand that his actions weren't motivated by his own convictions, but were orders he had been given by men for whom a longer war meant more profits, insane profits and who wanted revenge whatever the cost, the total destruction of a whole country and her people, a message to anyone thinking they could control their own financial system. There are only four countries left that are not enslaved by a FED type privately owned central bank, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Russia, Axis of Evil anyone? Continued...
Therefore, since Hitler never intended to invade Britain, he couldn't have done it anyway, the Battle of Britain might very well have been a diversion to fool Stalin into thinking he could prepare his own invasion of Eastern if not of all Europe at his own pace, without having to worry about a German invasion. Hitler knew perfectly well Stalin was almost ready to move, he already had 170 divisions massed at Germanys border and in Romania, going towards the Ploesti oil fields, Germany's main source. Stalin also had a million paratroopers ready to go, useless in defense and more tanks than the rest of the world combined so doing nothing would have meant assured destruction for Germany, Poland and the rest, by going in first and fast, there was a at least a small possibility of surviving, Hitler had no choice. What he couldn't have known is that Roosevelt was sending tons and tons of whatever Stalin wanted, that proved to be a life changer for everyone: the Soviets had unlimited human ressources and the US had unlimited material ressources while the British were bombing the country into oblivion, targeting civilians in their homes, architectural and artistic masterpieces while leaving military installations untouched... but that's not all, what the occupation forces did after the end of the war is beyond comprehension, far beyond. That was much too long, I know,, I apologize,
@@rosesprog1722 The Soviet Order of Battle for 22 June, 1941, ahows 5 Airborne Corps, each, at full strength, consisting of 8020 men. Multiply 8020 by 5, and explain how you reach one million. The United States, like Britain, was not sending any aid at all to the Soviet Union until after the German invasion. 'British were bombing the country into oblivion, targeting civilians in their homes, architectural and artistic masterpieces while leaving military installations untouched.' So, you believe the British were specifically targetting non-military and non-industrial targets? A remarkable opinion, entirely devoid of actual fact. The British, like the USAAF later, were targetting military & industrial sites. The fact is, as the Germans had already demonstrated at places like Guernica, Warsaw, Rotterdam. Coventry, & London, there were no such things as civilians in the kind of total war hitler sought. Your obvious righteous indignation at anyone who dared to resist nazi barbarity is most unedifying. The Gemans, by the way committed 2500 aircraft to Barbarossa, having lost over 1700 aircraft and over 2600 experienced aircrew during their 'never intended' preparations for Sealion. 'So doing nothing would have meant assured destruction for Germany, Poland and the rest.' A bit late to worry about that, because your fuhrer had already successfully wrought destruction on Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Belgium, and France in 1939 -1940 entirely unaided, and on all except France without any apparent need for a declaration of war.
Hitler himself gave the allies the opportunity to evacuate their soldiers from the dunkerque shores. The Wehrmacht was successfull in France as their division commanders didn't obey orders to stop their advance after the next river crossing. When the tanks reached the coast Hitler visited von Rundstedt's headquarter where the old Field Marshall had to tell Hitler that he had lost control over his tank divisions. Hitler as a dictator couldn't allow anyone to be successful by a refusal to obey his orders so he ordered a complete halt of all his forces in France. Hitler had the choice between total victory and total control oft the Wehrmacht. He chose the control of the armed forces and therefor lost the entire war.
The allies were fortunate that Hitler was in charge. His arrogant mistakes and cruel policies sealed the outcome. Nobody can deny just how efficient the German military was in WW2. Had Rommel been the fuhrer, how different the outcome may have been.
Actually, ther Halt Order was issued by von Rundstedt, not by Hitler, because Rundstedt wished his armour to be rested & serviced for the second phase of the French campaign, and he feared the danger of a second 'Miracle of the Marne.' As a traditional European soldier, Rundstedt believed that the Channel was a barrier to the allies, and the imminent arrival of German infantry would bring an end to the matter. Hitler knew the area from WW1, and felt that the terrain was unsuited to armour. As Goering had assured him that the destruction of the surrounded allied forces was 'A special job for the Luftwaffe,' Hitler chose to believe him.
@@harrybrown3657 'Had Rommel been the fuhrer, how different the outcome may have been.' Indeed. His troops would probably have outrun their resources, as he habitually did in North Africa, and his flap in the face of the attack at Arras might have been much magnified.
Further to this, the Panzer divisions had outrun the ordinary horse drawn and footbound infantry by three days, and the same Panzer divisions had been running on perviten for twenty days, so the tanks were at a point of six to ten hours of total seizure and the troops were drug addled and strung out. They stopped because they were physically and mentally incapable of going on. Additionally, ultra had given the Brits critical intelligence, so Dunkirk was always going to happen
Yet again, a documentary that makes no mention of the FACT that Dunkirk was a "success" for one reason only. The French First Army holding and defeating the Nazi swarm at Lille, and that the evacuation succeeded solely because the French First Army held the line at Dunkirk for the 6 days to make it so. No mention of the very large contribution to the evacuation from the French MN, the fishing fleets, and the ferries from French ports, Without them the ENGLISH could not have succeeded at all. But why should the English acknowledge the assistance of the country that they deserted at the most critical time. Don't forget that the French fought on for another 6 weeks, losing more troops than they lost in the first 3 months of the Battle of the Somme. And if they hadn't fought on, the French Air Force would not have shot down over 800 Nazi aircraft that couldn't then be used in the Battle of Britain. Lightweight documentary, and there are those that will fool themselves that this is the complete story.
You think that it is impressive that one French army actually fought to defend France, when the others did not? Moreover, the French rearguard made possible the evacuation, for what it turned out to be worth, of around 120,000 French troops. 'The very large contribution to the evacuation from the French MN, the fishing fleets, and the ferries from French ports' Presumably you mean the 14 Torpedo Boats, 2 minesweepers, 5 submarine chasers, & 72 trawlers, which between them brought off 21,000 troops, all French? Not the Belgian contribution (3,400 troops), or the Dutch & Norwegian contribution (3,700 troops), or still less the British effort, which was some 290,000? 'Why should the English acknowledge the assistance of the country that they deserted at the most critical time.' Perhaps the British don't discuss the subject, because it would require an explanation from France & Belgium of why 90+ of their own divisions either capitulated or collapsed, leaving the 13 British divisions with no alternative course of action? 'Don't forget that the French fought on for another 6 weeks.' Really? How do you calculate that? Dynamo ended on 4 June, although Aerial lasted another two weeks. The Armistice/Surrender took place on 22 June, two & a half weeks latter. Your calculator needs new batteries. A similar comment applies to your calculation of German aircraft losses, and you haven't mentioned the fact that the French returned all captured German pilots to Germany, rather than sending them to camps in Britain as the British had requested. You also failed to mention that, when the first divisions of the 'Reconstituted BEF' arrived in Cherbourg, the commander was informed by General Weygand that the French Army was no longer capable of 'organised resistance.'
Churchill was a single minded cheerleader, more than anything else. And he was good at filling that role because he rallied the people at a time when they needed it desperately. But once the war ended, he was outta there, if I remember correctly.
He sent a clear message to the Americans that we were taking it seriously and capable of halting the Germans. He was also half American. Not a lost cause in other words.
"(Britain) did not stand alone"... Really? Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation subjected to ALL of those threats by the nazis between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE. No need to thank me for unburdening you of your complete cluelessness.
Ne pas oublier que l'avènement du radar en Angleterre a été l'avantage absolu. SVP. La musique est nul et inutile. Vous pouvez l'enlever et personne ne se plaindra.
Refreshing to read a comment section where the general consensus acknowledges the nonsense of operation Sealion. It served the British authorities well to have the general population believe the threat was more real than it was. Sadly, it has taken decades for the intense propoganda and subsequent folklore to be superceded by sense.
There is no such 'general consensus.' The actual belief among historians is that, given the vast naval superiority the Royal Navy held, any such attempt would have been a failure. Not that it was never seriously intended. The extent and details of German planning and preparations are in themselves proof of intent.
@ekl2947 It was a massive sabre rattle. The Germans hoped that Britain would panic and seek a negotiated peace. Britain stood firm and the rest is history.
Only an idiot who lives in the world of hindsight { then again judging in hindsight is the norm nowadays} can get triggered by the sinking of those French ships
I was born in late November in 1938. My father had always opposed appeasement and volunteered when war broke out. He was commissioned into The Border Regiment and probably saw me as a baby while the Battalion was in England after Dunkirk. They went overseas in 1941 fought in Greece, Syria (against the Vichy French) and took over from the Australians in the Siege of Tobruk. They then went to Burma and formed part of the Second Chindit Expedition. Fortunately for me dad was transferred to REME and came home safely He was on debarkation leave on VE Day and I remember seeing the beacon lit on Skiddaw when we were staying in Keswick in Cumberland. My mother, grandmother and an old great aunt were in Aberdare in South Wales and I remember her going to work at the Rheigos munitions factory and seeing US troops training on the beach near Ogmore for D-Day. I also remember that I had mumps in 1944 and missed my Christmas Dinner. I think I was very lucky that my father came back.
Great recollections there. Thank you.
Thanks for the wonderful story.
Churchill also sent the Australians to fight the Vichy French in Lebanon.
@@atankie71 To be clear it wasn't JUST Australians.
Nice fairy tale he served on far too many friends to be possible unless he was a time traveler
My Parents and my oldest sister lived through the bombing of London. They sure had some stories to tell me. I have tremendous respect for them living through this hell on earth. They have passed away now and may they rest in peace!
My grandpa was 14 and received a white feather in 1942, in St Helen by their landlady just because she had a son who lied about his age and was in Africa as 15-year-old fighting Rommel. These were insane times.
My father was a member of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade, he was a volunteer ambulance driver during the Blitz.
@@Melchersson That doesn't add up , white feathers were normally for those not pulling their weight and hiding from military service. If your dad was not military age then then why would he get one
@@asusorion4756It sounds like she had lost the plot.
@@asusorion4756 Reading comprehension seems foreign to you.
Remember what our grandparents suffered and endured so we can live in the world we do today. My grandfather fought in Africa and Europe ending up in Berlin. He never spoke of his time in the war but he was a great grandad.
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My grandfather who had just started his own law practice died as a fighter pilot in Africa fighting Rommel’s advances. My mum way 18 months and her baby sister was born a few months later.
Yeh my grandfather was in ww2 as well. He said when drunk we stopped the nazis with a tear in his eye. He would be turning in his grave in todays world with nato supply nazi Ukraine with weapons to kill civilians since 2014- today. Military targets is fine but they slaughtered the Russian speakers in Donbas/Luhansk. So sad
Cool but nothing changed, one dictator changed another and suffering will continue until humans will be alive
Some of our grandparents caused all this war, and hate, and greed, not mine but someone's.
Honestly I love the narration and the background sound. It makes me emotional honestly!
There are MUCH better accounts of the events. This one is riddled with inaccuracies.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 produce your accurate one we see.
Esse é o canal mais espetacular a respeito da segunda guerra.meus parabéns mesmo.
WOW, excellent documentary!!!👍👍👍
Interesting and informative. Excellent motion photography job. Enabling the viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Class A research project!!! Special thanks to the still & motion photographers. Some whom perished for making this documentary more authentic and possible.
It's an emotional narration 😊😊
Thanks for the documentary film
the nazis tried a landing using modified rhine ferries on a french beach and it was a disaster-they simply didnt have the logistics chain-Chamberlain was playing for time-300 spitfires ordered 1936, 5 battleships ordered 1937, 6 aircraft carriers ordered 1938
merci pour ce nouveau documentaire intéressant
Isso que é um bom documentário Parabéns a todos que postaram esse fato triste da guerra. Muitas vidas inocentes mortos pela ganância dos poderosos que quando morre não vai levar nada desse mundo
All this Death and Destruction because of One Man's Delusional Desire!
Who ever has the most toys when they die wins.
Amazing video I never seen before! Thumbs up for the camera men!!! ✅🎯🎯✅
The Royal Navy was still the largest fleet in the world, and would have been formidable
By WW2 it was no longer the worlds largest fleet
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Pretty sure it was in1940. Obviously, the US overtook it later in the war
@@asusorion4756 yes it was. The yanks didn't catch up until well after Pearl Harbour.
Food was never 'scarce', just in short supply, but rationing meant everyone had the necessities.
Excellently edited and presented! Thanks for sharing and best of luck!
Good documentary, but with some minor errors. Gibraltar, for example, is not an island.
I would like to leave a vote of thanks to the men of the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal, who cleaned up after the bombing and is still doing this work. 33 EOD Bomb Disposal Royal Engineers. I was proud to serve in this Regiment.
Impresionante documental,muchas gracias
A very well, but much told story, for the young and formerly ignorant ,of their country's history
Hitler never expected, nor had he had any intention of invading England. His assumption was that the English would agree to an armistice after France fell. And if it wasn’t for Winston Churchill taking power as a direct result of Neville Chamberlain’s blatantly incompetency, he would have been right. Yes, Hitler made a big show of taking steps to invade England. He threw his air force at England and he gathered transports on the French coast in order to encourage England into an armistice. But the idea of sending the bulk of his army to an island without any way of getting it back, while Stalin had a 1 million man army within 100 miles of the German capital, is nothing less than silly. A moron wouldn’t have done it. I do not mean to take anything away from the heroic airmen who fought the Battle of Britain. I completely agree with Winston when he said, “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” Those airmen gave Winston the political capital to oppose the appeasement faction who wanted to make peace with Hitler. It must have been terribly frustrating for Winston to be surrounded by so many incompetent people.
The 'appeasement faction' had lergely become irrelevant after the successes of Dynamo & Aerial in June. The action at Mers-el-Kebir should have made it as obvious to hitler as it was to FDR that Britain did not intend to agree to any armistice/surrender on the Frence model.
Yet he still went ahead with serious preparations for invasions, and even sacrificed much of his air force, and 2700 aircrew, on a bluff, you suggest.
A successful invasion would probably have required only 25-30 divisions, by the way, which was nowhere near the bulk of the German army.
Thank you for your comment dovetonsturdee7033. Yes, the appeasement faction lost considerable political capital as you say. But who told Hitler that was the case? The only contact that he had with the English was a fevered request to Mussolini to act as a go between for quick negotiations to end the fighting. That could easily put him in mind that the English were very open to a settled peace. That’s the fog of war. We attacked Iraq because we thought they had large stockpiles of WMD when all they had to do to avoid the invasion was to simply comply with UN resolution 1441. Both the US and Iraq made misguided assumptions. Both the Mers-el-Kebir battle and the start of the Battle of Britain occurred just one month after England made overtures to Mussolini to help them set up peace talks with Germany. A reasonable person could argue that Hitler, after waiting a month, decided to scare or “push” England into an armistice about the same time England decided to neutralize the French Fleet exactly like they did the neutral Danish fleet in 1807. Hitler didn’t stop wasting his airpower in an attempt to scare England to the Peace table until October 31, 1940 when the Battle of Brittain ended. You suggest that the Germans could have invaded England with just half a million infantry (30 divisions at 15,000 each). That might have been possible if he could have invaded that same year, because the English army was in such disrepair at the time. We have the hindsight of using 84 years of historical records to help draw that conclusion. But Hitler did not have that information, nor did he make the prior necessary preparations for an invasion. From his point of view, the English retrieved 300,000 experienced troops (20 divisions) from Dunkirk, they were rapidly increasing the size of their army with new recruits, it would take at least a year to finish off France and reduce the English Airforce and navy to make an invasion possible, and Germany had to build an invasion fleet that could transport the German Army to England. The Normandy invasion started with about 150,000 Allied infantry, or 10 divisions attacking up to 350,000 Axis troops (23 divisions). But within two months, there were two million Allied troops (133 infantry and support divisions). The initial invasion required 1,200 plane sorties for the airborne assault troops, and about 5,000 vessels of various size. I considered all this some time ago. A year or two after Dunkirk, the necessity to take the large cities while the English army and air force withdrew up into Scottland, the Royal Navy controlling the coastline, and the difficulty moving troops and supplies across the channel would have required the entire focus of the German military and far more than 30 divisions. Meanwhile, there were a million Soviet combat troops just sitting there near Berlin. And Stalin was expanding his military, so by the time Germany could have invaded a year later, there easily could have been two million Soviet troops near Berlin. No. The direct danger to Germany, the entire focus of Hitler’s dreams of expansion, his abject opposition to Communism, and the inability to quickly withdraw the bulk of his military would have made him recoil from invading England. On the other hand, he believed that England only needed a hard push to get them to come to the peace table, and if they didn’t, England was not capable of threatening Germany. So scare England while making plans to invade the USSR and eliminate the Russian threat and achieve all his political goals in one lightning stroke. If Japan had not attacked the US, and the US not poured massive amounts of supplies like train engines, railroad cars, trucks, planes, artillery, ammunition, radios, generators, food and so much more; Germany might have put the USSR out of the war in spite of Hitler’s blunders. If we still disagree, that’s ok. We were not there at the time and I’m sure there were many other unknown variables that neither one of us have had the opportunity to consider. Again, thanks for the comment.@@dovetonsturdee7033
Os críticos de Churchill acharam que uma guerra contra Hitler se venceria com flores. Como há pessoas ingênuas no mundo.
That idiot's screw up cost my country, Czechoslovakia, freedom for 6 years ahead, than the communist soviets came and stayed for another 40 years!!!😡😡😡
As an American. I am proud to have been born of British Lions.
Sou fascinado pela história da segunda grande guerra! Este canal é top!
Absolutely love Liam Dale Ww2 docs
Why thank you.. kind words.. Liam Dale
I have been following ww2 documentaries since in my 20s now its a decade and my judgment i can conclude that Churchill did much!!!!
Churchill was a man and half. he rallied the allies to beat nazis
A great man among common men.
Sir Winston, foi notável. Como reafirmou no congresso americano, que lutaria até o último instante de sua vida, junto ao seu povo. Isso é ser patriota em toda acepção da palavra.
Loved it more please
The sense of unity and defiance mustered during the blitz remains a turning point in the war Churchill's words We will never surrender became the rallying cry for our nation in its darkest hours One that sill stirs emotions even now soon to be 100 years after the last bomb screamed from the bomb bay doors Long after one of our greatest leaders was laid to rest We still remember him and all those happy Airmen Soldiers and sailors that heard his historic call and came and together saved this nation for this future we now enjoy Thank you
UA-cam is so DOPE thank you ❤
1. Norvegian action weakend Kriegmarines.
2. British produced twice (2X) many fighters (Hurrican and Spitfighter) than the Germans produced Me-109!
Give us more ww2 content!
Have you no patience? They're working on WWIII.
UA-cam is flooded with this kind of content.
Do you want new content 😂😂 WW3?
@@TheDavidlloydjonesthey its always they right?
@@technow5057 Should be here this year. This time we got the Germans on our side! Can’t wait.
Thanks from India.
The whole Sealion scenario was wargamed out in 1975, with some of the surviving commanders, but with unrealistic limits set. The number of fighters was set at 25% of the actual numbers available in Sept 1940; the RN was held back until day 3; and the Ultra decrypts weren't included. Even under those circumstances, Sealion failed by Day 5, with the invaders stranded and out of food and ammo, as the follow up was intercepted and annihilated. In reality, any attempt would have been annihilated on Day 1 ny RN interception. The few paratroopers would have been mopped up by Day 3.
It was in 1974.
@@thevillaaston7811 correct, small numbers, big fingers. The book followed in 75.
How are the numbers low. My understanding of the wargames is that they had about 23% losses of aircraft for both sides being 237 aircraft lost by the RAF and 333 aircraft lost by the Luftwaffe. This would mean a force of about 1,000 for the RAF and 1,450 for the Luftwaffe which seems about right for the Luftwaffe and a bit high for the RAF. The RAF was growing during the Battle of Britain, despite attritional losses, while the Luftwaffe was shrinking (by September, fighter squadrons were reduced to about 2/3 strength and bomber squadrons weren't much better). One figure I have seen is the Luftwaffe having around 550 available fighter aircraft in early September 1940. Unlikely this would have changed by September 22nd as the Luftwaffe was experiencing chronic shortages of new aircraft, replacement parts and new aircrew. (Massive investment in pilot training by the British government in 1939 was paying off, along with a wartime economy producing aircraft at almost twice the rate of Germany). Britain was training pilots at a faster rate than they were losing them and generally had two aircraft available per pilot (averaged out). The numbers used in the wargame suggest both sides cobbling together anything that could fly and anyone who could fly it to boost numbers. As the RAF had a large number of pilots stationed back training new pilots or undergoing more advanced training (such as dogfighting skills to prepare them for combat), this might explain how the RAF managed to increase their available strength from a typical 700-750 for the time up to around a thousand while the Luftwaffe was already sending out everything they had and couldn't change their numbers much.
As for the Royal Navy, the wargame had a small force intercepting the invasion fleet enroute - trading losses with the escorts. Around 30 hours after the start of the invasion, a massive force of cruisers and destroyers converged into the Channel ending the German ability to operate their transport barges and boats to reinforce and resupply the invasion. So, of the planned 330,000 troops that were to invade Britain, only about 110,000 made it in the first wave. These would be facing the approximately 400,000 British Army forces that were stationed for the defense of Britain (2 armored divisions, 21 infantry divisions, plus some additional special regiments. Not counting the home guard in this, and the equipment losses from Dunkirk had been fully replaced weeks before. By August 1940, Britain was sending surplus tanks to reinforce Egypt. A large part of the explanation why the invaders didn't get far from the beaches before they were fully contained.
The reason for the delay in the RN assembling is that the ships were stationed in ports around the coast of Britain. This was a deliberate decision by the Royal Navy to not have a concentrated target for Luftwaffe bombing. This helped keep this force operational to go into action when needed. The Admiralty had advised the Government that they had no means to prevent a German force from landing in southern England, but that they had the means to, in short order, cut off this force from resupply and reinforcement. This is what occurred in the wargame.
As for ULTRA (name adopted in 1941) the the decoding of messages in 1940 was at a much slower pace. While they would be decrypting thousands of messages a day by mid 1941 the 1940 efforts were fewer messages and often with some delays. I think it is fair that the British side should not get realtime intelligence from ULTRA.
@@iansneddon2956the game and the actual numbers were reviewed - peer reviewed - by noted historians in the late 90s, among them Professor James Holland. The inaccuracies deliberately created for the war game were noted against the actual numbers now part of history. That's the air battle. The conclusion was that the Luftwaffe may have mounted a concerted effort to support an invasion attempt, but by Sept 40, they were out numbered, and had nowhere near the advantage the allies had on Dday.
As for the naval side, it was noted that the flat bottomed Rhine River barges detailed for the channel crossing would have swamped for the seas after 19 Sept. Any escort would have been massively overwhelmed by RN forces based along the south coast, without the home fleet having to intervene. There's just no way they had enough to transport the same numbers the allies landed on Dday, so your figures of German planned landing forces are massively overstated to what they were capable of. The first wave of Dday was 116,000. The German capability was maybe as much as a third of that. This is from KNOWN figures. The proposed parachute landings would have been decimated, worse than Crete. The beach landings would have been well under 10,000, assuming a 30,000 embarkation - and that's being generous. With just about all sunk or swamped, there would have been zero foll up forces, and zero resupply. Those that landed, by parachute or by boat, would have lasted three days max, with most killed or POW by the end of day one.
Lastly, let's review the intelligence angle. The Germans had very little knowledge of what British forces were where, nor details about the proposed landing zones, beach and air drops. From reviewed information, we now know exactly what the Germans knew prior to Sept 40. Bugger all, and a lot of what they thought they knew was wrong. They had nothing like the details the Allies had for D-day. Next Ultra; I don't know where you got your info about that, but it doesn't tally in the slightest with that reviewed by the historians in 90s. From Jan 40, Luftwaffe decrypts were on stream daily. Allied intelligence had plotted every squadron and most of the officers - they KNEW who was where and when. German army decrypts were on stream from May 40, we know this because of Greece and Crete, so allied intelligence had a pretty clear picture of what the Sealion force was comprised of. They would also have a damned good idea of the embarkation schedule, and the weather and tide details. The RN minesweeper and layer forces outnumbered the kreigsmarine by a factor of five. We know this from information and records kept. They would have easily been able to keep channels open for British ships AND block German boats. Easily!
I don't know where you got your info from, but mine comes via that peer reviewed study, based on prime sources. Interestingly, surviving German leaders (junior at the time) reviewed the war game, and they were unanimous in that the invasion would have failed drastically, crippling any Barbarossa attempt.
@@richardcaves3601 My recollection is that Luftwaffe messages being decoded gave a pretty good idea of who was flying when, but did not provide targets. So there wasn't an expectation of being able to tell in advance when an invasion would be launched, if it ever was. It seems certain that the British leadership took the threat of an invasion (that Germany might try it) seriously - considering the massive forces held to defend Britain against that contingency (to ensure the invasion would fail).
There is an interesting American assessment of German plans, declassified and posted on the CIA website. I recall a section talking about the leaders of the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine blaming each other for Germany not being ready to launch the invasion as the deadline approached. I think they were well aware that such an invasion would not work, but making an appearance of preparations and support for the invasion to not appear weak or incompetent to Hitler.
The ~110,000 troops in the first wave (with paratroops) came from the wargame, but this might have been accepted as possible because it was irrellevant. 110,000 would not be enough and the Royal Navy would prevent a second wave. So they just assumed the Germans could accomplish this in order to make the end result (# of German troops lost) all the more dramatic.
The transports were very slow and the need to unload troops and equipment from barges might require changes in the tides (iirc, they planned to drop off sealed/waterproof tanks at high tide so they would be on the beach during low tide to be made operational. For anyone who thought the duplex drive tanks at D-Day were the clumsiest option, there was the German solution. And the slow speed of the transports would require most/all of a 24 hour day to make round trips. If they could make the trip because, as you pointed out, any moderately rough seas would swamp them. With such a flotilla so ill suited for the task, I wonder how many of the assembled craft could not even be used at all under even calm seas. Getting to the reduced numbers of troops, I expect the estimates of how many boats/barges could be assembled and how much they could carry were overstated in reporting to the Fuhrer. The same sort of quality estimate as the one in which they would defeat USSR in just 4 months.
In reality, the best opportunity for success for the invasion plans would have been if they persuaded the British to sue for peace - which was not happening. Sealion was better as a vague threat in being rather than the squandering of resources that would come from actually trying it (a mini-Stalingrad).
For D-Day, the Allies enjoyed naval supremacy, air supremacy, and prepared equipment to quickly build an artificial harbor once the beaches were secured for faster reinforcement and supply.
In contrast, the Germans were working towards and still failing to achieve localized air superiority over the Channel, and had no hope for naval superiority. They had wishful thinking that they could lay minefields to protect the invasion convoy routes... laying mines off the coast of a great naval power with such capacity that they could easily remove mines at twice the rate the Germans could lay them.
Also, much of the D-Day flotilla provided shore bombardment. The German invasion force would have been limited in how much artillery they could bring, or vehicles to transport artillery. So they would have been greatly in need of shore bombardment (which would have been mostly absent) or Luftwaffe air support (which would not have been unchallenged by the RAF).
For convoy defense the Germans could depend on, at most, 10 destroyers (the entire destroyer capacity of the Kriegsmarine after Norway), around 3 dozen E-boats, and perhaps whatever weaponry carried by smaller auxiliary vessels like minesweepers. But they wouldn't have to go up against the WHOLE Royal Navy. Only a portion of the Royal Navy was held back to defend Britain as other vessels were needed to safeguard sea lanes and possessions in the Mediterranean. So the Royal Navy would ONLY have been able to call on 6 battleships, 11 cruisers (iirc), 67 destroyers and over 700 smaller craft. The Kriegsmarine had no realistic plan to overcome this disparity in force.
The Wehraboos tend not to realize how depleted the Luftwaffe was from the Battle of Britain, thinking they could have gone on and on wearing down the RAF. While the Germans had significant numerical superiority in fighter aircraft at the beginning, by September they had fewer operational fighters than the RAF. It is worth noting that the operational strength of the entire Luftwaffe in June 1941 was less than the force deployed against Britain in July 1940. Months later and they still hadn't recovered from the Battle of Britain. Arguably, they never did. (that the lost aircraft, pilots and expended fuel from the Battle of Britain and the Blitz undermined the effectiveness of Barbarossa). As planes shot down by the RAF were mostly bombers, it is clear that the Germans were shooting down more RAF fighters than they were losing throughout the Battle. But virtually every German aircraft loss was also a lost air crew (killed or captured), while about half of RAF pilots shot down were able to parachute safely to ground and return to their units. By the later stages of the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe was flying more sorties per day to maintain localized superiority. Of course this sped up the rate of losses. Look up "Channel Sickness" for the effect this was having on Luftwaffe pilots. Whatever air superiority they thought they might achieve would have been an illusion as they had been losing the Battle of Britain for weeks and were unlikely to reverse this trend.
For D-Day, photographic reconnaisance was extensive and scouting parties were sent out to sample the sand from the beaches and take tide measurements. The failures of the Germans to do this would have caused greater problems in getting troops ashore and transporting materiel off the beaches, and would have led to greater equipment losses in landing. It gets worse. The British had such extensive plans to destroy fuel stockpiles (some in imaginative ways to obstruct the Germans) and destroy bridges. But they also caught German spies and turned them to feeding false information which included falsified maps which would have made navigating the British countryside a comedy of errors. It isn't just that the Germans wouldn't know what they were up against inland, but that what they did think they knew would have been mostly fabrications.
Sealion could only have ended in failure, and with Royal Navy dominance in the Channel there could not be a Dunkirk style evacuation back to France.
Chamberlain had to maintain a policy of appeasement to but Britain time to train young tecruits and built up its military infrastructure. No nation in Europe that had gone through the meat grinder that WW1 became. No sane nation would rush back into war. But Germany was not reasonable or sane.
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The Polish piloted Squadrons representing less than ten percent of all RAF have shot down twenty eight percent of the Luftwaffe hovering over England in Autumn of 1940.
Nonsense. The Germans lost just over 1700 aircraft. Polish pilots are claimed to have shot down 203.
@@dovetonsturdee7033At what point in the war was that figure of 1700 attained? The original comment refers to a specific point in time.
@@stargazer5784 The figure of 1700 (actually, 1733) comes from examination of post-war Luftwaffe archives, and relates to the period of the Battle of Britain, 10 July to 31 October, 1940.
A further 896 were reported as damaged. Presumably some of these were written off, some cannibalised for parts, and some repaired.
303 squadron was the highest scoring of the battle. Most historians agree it was a tight contest. Without the Poles the outcome could very well have been different.
@@solrosenberg4529 No, it wasn't. German post war records demonstrated that No. 303 (Polish) Squadron RAF was the top scoring Hawker Hurricane squadron of the Battle of Britain, with 44 victories positively verified.
This made No. 303 the fourth highest scoring squadron overall, after No. 603 (AuxAF) Squadron RAF (57.8 verified kills), No. 609 (AuxAF) Squadron RAF (48 verified kills) and No. 41 Squadron RAF (45.33 verified kills), which all flew Supermarine Spitfires.
A Nation of Shopkeepers defeated The Thousand Year Reich
Absolutely brilliant I bet that gave them something to think about
We had help . . .
Thanks for a good film and my laugh for the day, Liam= the "Battle" of France- LOL.
Pls tell us more about those gangster battles in East End
Meu avô era tripulante do Sufalk navio torpedeiro inglês que seguia o Bismarck no oeste da Irlanda em 1941.
Nem sufalk nem norfalk foram afundados naquela batalha..
Refere-se ao cruzador pesado da Marinha Real HMS Norfolk.
I realise English is not your first language, it Norfolk and Suffolk.
Some factual errors in this documentary. The German attack on the Low Countries and France began on 10th May 1940 and that was also the day that Churchill became PM, not 2nd May as stated. Chamberlain only resigned having seen his support during the adjournment debate of 7th/8th May fall away even though he did 'win' that debate.
Tempos imemoriaveis da Historia do Homem!E que parece nao ter ensinado a muita gente o que é a Guerra!
Because its always a handful politicians that start the wars and the grey masses have than no option but join !!!
And apparently we have forgotten history and it now repeats itself .
Not simply a case of "we have forgotten" It's not taught anymore as it cuts into valuable time that could instead be used with gender identity bollocks and "mental elf".
Mr.Churchill is my hero.
He is one of the greatest leaders in world history. Maybe the greatest.
@@annasalomoni2198why cant he have him as his hero?,the lad can have anybody he wants to be his hero, and he's made a bloody good choice, which i respect him for? so good choice alex,and never let the b@$tards grind yer down, or worry what others think...
Superstar and a Legend.
Well, he finally learned, although the before Dunkirk military debacle screw up almost cost him his political carrier again!!!
@@conceptalfa could have been worse, he could have been carrying a doctors degree aswell..
After the battle of Norway, with Germany losing something like 11 destroyers , they only had about 10 destroyers left . Britain had over 150 , with many more mothballed at Scapa Flow. A German invasion fleet would have been annihalated ....
Would have been a bloodbath, Brits would have prevailed but thank God it didn't happen.
The narrow margin was made more narrow by a French betrayal. German aircrew captured during the Battle of France were retained in France métropolitaine, not sent to Caribbean colonies as Britain requested. On France's surrender, they were returned to Luftwaffe service . . .
Im proud pf my British roots , But it was us under that war monger Churchill that betrayed the French not the other way around. We pushed France into declaring war on Germany then when things started going wrong Churchill orders an evacuation without telling the French leaving her flank exposed . France had more pressing things to take care of thern to worry about evacuating german aircrew to the carribean just so the couldnt be freed to fight in the battle of britain
Your bias is showing. The French were asked, strongly, but refused. They knew they were about to surrender and UK needed to survive, so we got out from under, having good grounds for doing so. The French soldiers lifted from Dunkerque opted to return to France later that summer. What a waste of effort. @@asusorion4756
If Im biased in anything to do with Britain and France I have always been by far British because that is where I grew up and that is what Ive heard since I was young , These days I acknowledge the culture bias and look at things from all perspectives, two sides to every story. In this case here is a period when we were quite dishonorable in many instances that are not characteristic of the British and they all fall back onto Winstin Churchills leadership, We no longer have an empire because of his warmongering, we lost the respect of our colonies and the world because of him .Winston didn't inform the French until Dunkirk was well underway. The French who were evacuated to Britain returned to France because the war was over and why continue fighting against the French people ? The Germans proved more loyal allies to the French than the British were and they were the soldiers of the Waffen SS Charlemaine Div French volunteers that defended Hitlers bunker in the last days Berlin 45 @@EllieMaes-Grandad
Those Frenchies went home long before the war was over; they rejected de Gaulle's invitation to continue fighting, to liberate France. @@asusorion4756
At the end of this program, America's contribution to the war effort was mentioned. But the USSR was fighting the Germans for more than five months before the USA entered the war. And, over the course of the war in Europe, the Red Army killed or captured far more of our common enemy than the British and Americans put together. "German armed forces' losses to war's end numbered 13,488,000 men... Of these, 10,758,000 fell or were taken prisoner in the East." This quote is from WHEN TITANS CLASHED: HOW THE RED ARMY STOPPED HITLER, by David M. Glantz & Jonathan House, both scholars and U.S.
Army officers. Of course, had the British not held out in 1940, it is difficult to see how there could ever have been an allied victory.
But at the time of the Battle of Britain, Genial Uncle Joe was hitler's best chum, as the Soviets provided Germany with a whole host of raw materials which boosted the German economy.
Yes, but it took all three countries together to defeat Hitler.
@@jimplummer4879 In your world, were Italy & Japan mere neutrals?
@@dovetonsturdee7033 I was talking about the allies.
@@jimplummer4879 Oh good, were you? Just as I was pointing out that the Germans also had allies.
If only we were prepared to "defend our beaches" TODAY.
The enemy are already here.... sat on the benches in the Houses of Parliament.
Not to take anything away from the brave British nation, but what really saved Britain at that time was the English Channel. Never has so many owed so much to so much water.
Not quite. The Channel had been there for some time, and shouldn't really have come as much of a surprise to anyone.
What actually made invasion impossible was the naval supremacy held by the Royal Navy in Home Waters.
Strange how the English Channel Stopped King Philip II of Spain, Napoleon Bonaparte & Adolf Hitler, but completely failed to stop the Romans, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons & Normans.
See if you can use Doveton's reply above to work out what actually saved the British Isles from nazi death camps.
Then sit back in the glow of knowing you've become more informed.
The Channel was a huge help; only 2 conquerors could cross it, Julius Cesar then William the Conqueror. Without this large piece of water, Napoleon and / or Hitler would have probably conquered the territory.
What about the Vikings and Anglo Saxons? Also if my aunty had a pair of balls she'd be my uncle.
I have an issues when they say “When Britain stood alone”….she had her GD Commonwealth with her….many men from the Commonwealth died helping Britain in the war.
'In the war', yes. But not as early as the Battle of Britain & the Operation Sealion threat.
What are you talking about? Canada and Australia declared war on Germany a week after the UK, while that is not all of the Commonwealth, the UK had major infusions of fighter pilots from Canada, New Zealand and Australia. @@dovetonsturdee7033
@@Dreadnought16 What I am talking about is this. In September, 1940, when any invasion attempt might have happened, of 34.5 operational divisions in Britain, 32.5 were British. The only substantial Commonwealth forces in Britain at the time were one Canadian division and two Australian/New Zealand brigades.
There were, at most, 300 Commonwealth fighter pilots among the 2900 pilots credited as being part of Fighter Command.
The reality is that, in the event of the Germans miraculously overcoming the naval supremacy held by the (entirely British, other than a handful of Canadian destroyers) Royal Navy, and attempting a landing, shouts of 'good luck lads' from distant Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and India would have been much appreciated, but of no actual relevance.
People say "Britain stood alone" mainly because Britain DID stand alone.... Unless that is you can provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand?
Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY individual country on the ENTIRE planet facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was the United Kingdom ALONE.
P.S And if you want to correctly argue that Britain was supplied by its empire and the US then remember to add that nazi Germany was also supplied by its OWN empire of its recent European conquests, as well as MILLIONS of tons of food, fuel and raw materials from its OWN supply network, including their "best friend forever" the USSR (well, at least until 22nd June 1941), and also from Spain, Finland, Sweden & the Balkans... oh and not forgetting that the US also supplied HUGE amounts of raw and finished materials to the nazis AS WELL as it did to the British, being a neutral profiteering bystander as it was until Dec 1941!!!
In 1940 Britain saved itself INSPITE of the US as much as it did BECAUSE of the US.
I have yet to watch this fully, but it will be interesting to see if they cover some of the other issues that would have made Sealion an extraordinary feat for Germany. For starters they didn't have a mass-produced landing craft as the Allies would by 1944. They would have to cobble together a mass of mismatched regular boats to accomplish an invasion which would pose all manner of problems for disembarking troops on suitable landing areas.
There's also the fact that the Channel was very much in the hands of the Royal Navy which would make no end of trouble for any boats crossing. Germany would have to dispatch a huge force to try to protect the operation. And then there's what remained of the RAF. Even in defeat you can be sure that any usable plane would be drafted to attack the beachhead. Certainly Germany would have air superiority, but even with that there would be harassing attacks.
I'm not convinced that there ever was a very serious thought to truly conquering Britain through the use of ground forces, it just wouldn't have been feasible with the technology of the time. Germany would have to bring the country to it's knees through starvation first and get them to a state in which they were amenable to a surrender in some form.
Something I don’t understand how can 2 great militaries of the British and French both sea and land are former shells of what they used to be.
The heroes both men and the women that replaced them in the workforce was amazing. The men that faced the machine guns stormed the beaches. I find that time period extremely beautiful how everyone worked together from the Brit’s, French, Americans, the Soviets worked together to defeat pure evil.
Churchill must have been a combat maniac at heart, because he even said he wanted to fight Hitler even if he had to team up with the devil.
I think Hitler underestimated Churchill's character in that area.
No, he didn't. His actual words were, 'If hitler invaded hell, I would make at least one favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.'
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No, he says! He says he really wants to fight, he wants to go to war with Hitler and the Germans even if it means joining with the devil.
Churchill also says he wanted to join the Napoleonic Wars and kill the French before the Germans, led by Hitler, launched their retaliatory military action against Britain and France.
Too much of the videos were incorrectly used as they were out of sinc with the time frame. Made it difficult to enjoy watching our B-17s in battle over Europe whilst the program was describing the Battle of Britain. Otherwise, accurate historically.
B17s - and B24s as well. Such errors detract from the integrity of the production.
A pyrrhic victory ultimately.
The German forces had no amphious capacity . A landing in the UK in reality could not have been. sustained. The Germans viewed a landing as a river crossing. Bad idea
Man. Churchill was a brilliant speaker
Of Churchill, Edward R. Murrow said: "He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle."
Why does Andrew Marr refer to
" R D F" (range direction finding) as Radar?
Because that was what the British called it at the time.
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Your reply is dumb because you are a bot !
@@rjhtrucking5429 Oh dear, a troll, and a half-witted one at that.
I suppose I should have realised when it referred to 'radio direction finding' as 'range direction finding.'
Still, I suppose one should give a degree of latitude to a creature who needs to edit a post of nine words.
And Joseph Stalin was given a pass When he invaded Poland
well what else was there to do "the enemy of my enemy is not my enemy"
@@rascallyrabbit717 Russia and Germany were still allies.
@@onepcwhiz6847to 22 june 1941 friends
Never thought of it that way. Along with all the other European countries he invaded while perusing the German armies. 101% correct!!!
funny that. russia goes into poland from the east and no one declared war on them.
Chamberlain should be remembered as a leader of peace..he was in the first WW1 and saw the carnage and death and he did not want to go this again
Appeasement was popular in both France & Britain, for obvious reasons. No-one actually wanted to go to war, until it became obvious that there was no alternative other than capitulation to threat.
@@dovetonsturdee7033you are right.
That was cowardice
lol imagine the germans trying to pull off a d-day
They were over whelmed . The German armed forces had small navy and no experience or resources for a mega amphibious attack. Crete shows how costly it was for them Loosing so many paratroops and ships.
Some nice footage, but who wrote this drivel?
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Churchill came to power on the 10th of May...if you want people to listen to you don't misinform them
sealion was NEVER on-they knew it and the realistic in britain knew it-logistically impossible the rhine river barges could only land at high tide and subsequently get stuck at low tide-the seebal ferries would have founded in the channel-the RN would have constantly attacked any transport ships and the nazis only had TWO airborne divisions in 1940-these would have been held and defeated by the strategic reserve east of london
In September, 1940, the Germans only actually had around 4,500 trained paratroopers left. Actually, around a weak brigade.
And now we've given up our beaches to invaders without a fight
U mean desperate people fleeing from war? What would u do?
@@oxcart4172 we've got a ton of them in Australia. So when they get here and expect everything and then behave feral as.
@@oxcart4172 No, he’s referring to all the illegal economic migrants flooding in daily.
If the present bunch of treacherous politicians in Britain had been in control of this country in 1940 the Royal Navy would have been ordered to assist the the Germany army in crossing the Channel. Norway had its traitor Vidkun Quisling who gave his name during the war to all the traitors who betrayed their country's, now in this country we have practically a entire parliament dominated by Quislings determined to bring about the total destruction of every aspect of the British way of life, culturally and financially and also increase the amount of none indigenous people coming into the UK.
Oddly enough Churchills descendant has a hand in it
Odd to have suggested that Churchill´s " wilderness years" stretched from 1915 to 1940. He of course held a variety of senior cabinet posts in Tory governments until his stint as Chncellor of the Exchequer in 1929.
When Hitler invaded Poland England and France declared war on Germany then did virtually nothing, when the Soviet Union Invaded Poland 17 days later in a premeditated arrangement struck between Hitler and Stalin no declaration of war was made against the Soviet Union. In 1940 Britain was a Naval super power that dwarfed Germanys Navy Germany never had the wherewithal to conduct an amphibious invasion against Britain. Instead Goering said that he through his Luftwaffe could bring Britain to peace negotiations, for a short time the Germans by attacking the British airbases were creating a worrying attrition rate of lost aircraft, Churchill then gave the order for Bombing of German cities, Hitler got played like a fiddle and instructed a strategic shift from attacking British Airbases to English cities as an act of retribution Hitler gave infamous speech for every Kilo on bombs dropped on our cities we will drop a Thousand Kilos on English cities. This switch tilted the manufacture to loss rate back in the Black and the Germans could no longer sustain their attrition rate, it was clear that Churchill would not come to ceasefire negotiations. Hitler ended the so called Battle of Britain and placed his focus on his true ambition land in the East…in less than a year Operation Barbarossa was launched on the 22nd of June 1941. Six weeks prior to Germanys invasion of Russia Hitlers Deputy Rudolf Hess stole a aircraft and parachuted into Scotland with his personal message that he believed Hitler would attack the USSR with dire consequences to Germany and humanity to negate Britains last hope of holding out on peace negotiations with Germany. No such audience with Churchill transpired instead Hess was locked away in isolation until he was strangled decades later at the age of 94 (Epsteined). Germany went on to catastrophe losing a war it never was going to win and England went onto lose it’s Empire and the West Lost the World (Paraphrasing Pat Buchanan).
Actually, the British & French agreement with Poland was that they would declare war if Germany invaded Poland, but made no such promise if the Soviet Union did the same.
Poland wasn’t held in very high regard in the West after it joined in with Hitler invading Czechoslovakia a year earlier. As a power grab it was appalling and for many the fact their “allies” turned on them barely a year later was perhaps deserved.
Interesting documentary but not quite sure what those B-24s being attacked by Luftwaffe fighters at 43:37 have to do with Operation Sealion.
22:20 _"pela dificuldade de reabastecer"_... frase totalmente inadequada para o contexto, pois reabastecimento aéreo só se tornou pratica viável em 1949.
Teria ficado mais apropriado: _"...pela dificuldade criada pelo combustível limitado"._
Aliás a legenda original não fala esta besteira de reabastecer, diz:
"fuel being the main parameter to take into account."
"sendo o combustível o principal parâmetro a ter em conta."
Mas mas a quantidade de munição que o Messerschmitt Bf 109-E-1 transportava era crítica, tinha munição para cerca de 20 segundos de tiro com as duas metralhadoras 7,92mm no capô do motor e 10 segundos para os dois canhões de 20mm nas asas.
Uma vez que entrasse em combate e atirasse só restava voar de volta para a base, para rearmar e reabastecer.
Should get the facts right about the dates...Jerry did not invade France on the 2nd of May
That laut music is really irritating, must it be so???
Radar was also known to the Germans, they had their own.
But the British took better advantage of the technology, the defense was very well organized.
However, Enigma was war deciding, and the German losses at land, sea and in air fatally wounded the German military. Also, the Americans supplied the UK with everything it needed including airplanes.
Sea Lion could not succeed without air superiority, and with the rising deliveries of American and Commonwealth goods, there was little hope.
In its weakened state Hitler decided on the desparate move to attack the Soviet Union. The Germans assumed that the huge numerical advantage of the Russians in ground and air forces would be of little use against the superior German technology. While this proved to be true, the vast Russian territory gave the Soviets time to rearm its forces with Western help. By winter 1941, during the battle of Moscow, the weak German forces, still engaged with the British Commonwealth and weakened from the losses against the Western Allies, were held by the Russians enforced with British weapons.
Critically, British planes and tanks made up a large percentage of Russian forces and they held on precariously as the support from the West turned into a torrent.
Don't forget that if the US had REALLY wanted to "help Britain", then instead of bleeding the British empire dry and causing its collapse, they could have by small example sold a production license for Tetra Ethyl Lead (The compound required for the production of hi-octane fuels) to Britain when we applied to purchase one prewar. ... instead they refused to sell one to "their British cousins"... A "special relationship" indeed.
The "Standard Oil of Jersey City" company who held the patent had NO qualms though about providing the exact same licence to the nazis prewar. But when it came to Britain the US preferred to strip the British of ALL their gold, cutting edge technology and military bases around the world during the British "hour of need" in return for a supply of amongst other things, US produced hi-octane fuel.
Were there nazi sympathies in the Standard Oil boardroom? The truth is so unsavoury were the business practices of the US "Standard Oil" company (such as seeking furtive routes and brokering shady deals to supply nazi Germany with fuel and oil via neutral nations during the war) that it's activities were investigated and closely monitored by the US Govt... but only AFTER the they had been DRAGGED into WW2 in Dec 1941 by the German delcaration of war on the US!!!
The US "business community" widely engaged in VERY profitable business dealings with BOTH sides throughout WW2. US corporations such as Ford, General Motors, US Standard Oil, IBM, Kodak, Chase Bank (to name but a few) carried on "business as usual" with nazi Germany THROUGHOUT WW2.
Ford's auto production facility in Cologne and General Motor's Opel subsiduary plant in Berlin were both busy working 24/7 THROUGHOUT WW2 furnishing the nazis with approximately 60% of the Wehrmacht's military transportation needs, as well as a sizeable chunk of the Luftwaffe's aero engine requirements... all the better for attacking Britain with eh?
The "ALuminum COrporation of America" (ALCOA) for instance supplied SO much aircraft grade aluminium to nazi Germany in the late 1930s and into the early 1940s that it actually caused shortfalls within the US government's own military aircraft production schedules, so much so that in June 1941 the situation prompted Harold Ickes, US Secretary of the Interior, to go on record as saying “If America loses this coming war, it can thank the Aluminum Corporation of America”.
With "friends" like the US "business community" who needs enemies?
'The rising deliveries of American and Commonwealth goods, there was little hope.' You really think so? Not in 1940.
Why is it that whenever the words 'Britain' or 'British' are used in the commentary, the subtitles show 'England' or 'English'?
The clueless yanks don't know the difference....
Though not mention in this documentary, don't forget Russia (USSR) was in 1940 an objective ally of Hitler !
1941 et seq Stalin was calling for a 'second front', which Britain had already been for two years . . .
Has anyone got a link to the original B/W version of this?
I find the feeble/unprofesional attempt to "colourise" these gems a total distraction.
Hundreds of thousands lost in the first world war . . .
@paulspeirs 4964 you are so right
And on a nother hand l wonder how long he would have lasted if he’d never attacked Russia would he have gotten his 1,000 years
But if hitler had not attacked the Soviet Union, he would not have been hitler.
Peterdiepenthal - probably not as he would have become pain in the ass for the US and Soviets sooner or later anyway...
Hitler’s whole concept of rebuilding Germany whilst it being bankrupt relied on capturing and controlling the nations to his East.
The Luftwaffe didn't seem too interested in destroying the radar stations.
They had captured British radar equipment after Dunkirk and didn't rate it very highly. What they failed to understand was that the then rudimentary British radar technology was just the facade of a very effective and capable command an control system which they themselves had not yet developed like the British had.
Can anyone find the sources for thid video? Im interested in reading into this more
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The problem with this series is that it is not written well.
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@52:50 to @52:56 .. clips are from the Korean War
To commonly as is the case here, the important role of Bomber Command is ignored. Bomber Command lit up the Channe ports setting the German barges and orts stores and facilities on fire.
To a degree, but Bomber Command attacks on invasion ports only began from 5 September.
@@dovetonsturdee7033 But that was when the German barges and invasion material/men were really concentrated there. I got the impression that they did some real damage, but as this is so rarely even mentioned, I have no hard data on the impact. At this stage of the War, BC had serious navigational problems and still had real trouble finding targets in the Reich, but no trouble finding the Channel ports. Think of the impact on D-Day if the Germans had been able to bomb the British Channel ports on June 1-5 when the ports were jammed with men and material.
@@dennisweidner288 Aside from the fact that the ports were not jammed with men and materials, as the men were moved out immediately on trains, the material, i.e., the ships, turned around straight away, and the Luftwaffe could not bomb ports and support the army at the same time, the actual figures, quoted from Peter Fleming, are as follows.The first figure is the number of vessels assembled, and the bracketed one the bombing losses:_
Freighters : 180 (21)
Barges : 2073 (214)
Tugs : 402 (5)
Motor Boats : 1171 (3)
Was Sealion ever practical or feasible? Really?
No.
No, it wasn't. But that does not mean that a considerable amount of planning and preparation went into it.
@@dovetonsturdee7033 Hitler never intended to invade England, foolishly he hoped to convince the British to join him against the Soviets, he was right thinking that Stalin was ideologically opposed to British values therefore a potential enemy but Churchill didn't mind associating with the devil if he had to but what allowed him to impose his will on the population is that he didn't tell them about his plans but worse, he lied to them constantly about everything, leading them to believe whatever he wanted. Hitler sent him at least 16 reasonable peace offers, he told no one but Hitler began talking about it in his speeches which led Lord Halifax to propose studying Hitler's offers in parliament. Churchill erupted and through elaborate manipulations beat the propositions and the whole thing was dropped and forgotten. You can google "War Cabinet Crisis, May 1940". He didn't talk about the fire bombing of 61 German cities either, everyone thought Hitler was a monster, they only found out about the extent of the destruction and that Hitler was always retaliating, never hitting first in 1961 when a small physics book called 'Science and Government' by C.P. Snow was published but the most spectacular was that the failure to take the port of Narvik in Finland to cut the source of Iron ore to the Germans that led to the dismissal of Chamberlain and his becoming Prime Minister was caused by very bad planning and a leak, both of which he was directly responsible of, he didn't always remember what he had said and done the night before. Continued...
Clearly the whole thing had been planned years in advance, some very powerful men managed to put Churchill in the driver's seat where they could control him, he owed them so much money, all he could do is obey. These rich men, vicious international financiers for the most part had been kicked out of Germany as soon as Hitler had taken power, and they were very angry, that's why Churchill was never elected, why he refused to talk about peace, why he threw fire bombs in the heart of residential areas, why he associated with Stalin, a man he hated, why he agreed with everything Roosevelt said, why he said Dunkirk was a miracle when everybody knew it was a message from Hitler, why he refused to talk to Hess and put him in a mental institution, why he gave Eastern Europe to Stalin, google "The Percentages Agreement", everything he did and every decision he made that appears to make little sense or to be against the desire for peace starts to make sense when you understand that his actions weren't motivated by his own convictions, but were orders he had been given by men for whom a longer war meant more profits, insane profits and who wanted revenge whatever the cost, the total destruction of a whole country and her people, a message to anyone thinking they could control their own financial system. There are only four countries left that are not enslaved by a FED type privately owned central bank, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Russia, Axis of Evil anyone? Continued...
Therefore, since Hitler never intended to invade Britain, he couldn't have done it anyway, the Battle of Britain might very well have been a diversion to fool Stalin into thinking he could prepare his own invasion of Eastern if not of all Europe at his own pace, without having to worry about a German invasion. Hitler knew perfectly well Stalin was almost ready to move, he already had 170 divisions massed at Germanys border and in Romania, going towards the Ploesti oil fields, Germany's main source. Stalin also had a million paratroopers ready to go, useless in defense and more tanks than the rest of the world combined so doing nothing would have meant assured destruction for Germany, Poland and the rest, by going in first and fast, there was a at least a small possibility of surviving, Hitler had no choice. What he couldn't have known is that Roosevelt was sending tons and tons of whatever Stalin wanted, that proved to be a life changer for everyone: the Soviets had unlimited human ressources and the US had unlimited material ressources while the British were bombing the country into oblivion, targeting civilians in their homes, architectural and artistic masterpieces while leaving military installations untouched... but that's not all, what the occupation forces did after the end of the war is beyond comprehension, far beyond. That was much too long, I know,, I apologize,
@@rosesprog1722 The Soviet Order of Battle for 22 June, 1941, ahows 5 Airborne Corps, each, at full strength, consisting of 8020 men. Multiply 8020 by 5, and explain how you reach one million.
The United States, like Britain, was not sending any aid at all to the Soviet Union until after the German invasion.
'British were bombing the country into oblivion, targeting civilians in their homes, architectural and artistic masterpieces while leaving military installations untouched.' So, you believe the British were specifically targetting non-military and non-industrial targets? A remarkable opinion, entirely devoid of actual fact. The British, like the USAAF later, were targetting military & industrial sites. The fact is, as the Germans had already demonstrated at places like Guernica, Warsaw, Rotterdam. Coventry, & London, there were no such things as civilians in the kind of total war hitler sought. Your obvious righteous indignation at anyone who dared to resist nazi barbarity is most unedifying.
The Gemans, by the way committed 2500 aircraft to Barbarossa, having lost over 1700 aircraft and over 2600 experienced aircrew during their 'never intended' preparations for Sealion.
'So doing nothing would have meant assured destruction for Germany, Poland and the rest.' A bit late to worry about that, because your fuhrer had already successfully wrought destruction on Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Belgium, and France in 1939 -1940 entirely unaided, and on all except France without any apparent need for a declaration of war.
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If ukrainian pilots was given planes they would do the same thing England do years ago
What? Do you mean they would shoot lots of Germans down?
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If only churchill were here to advise us now. Glory to ukraine
Hitler himself gave the allies the opportunity to evacuate their soldiers from the dunkerque shores. The Wehrmacht was successfull in France as their division commanders didn't obey orders to stop their advance after the next river crossing. When the tanks reached the coast Hitler visited von Rundstedt's headquarter where the old Field Marshall had to tell Hitler that he had lost control over his tank divisions. Hitler as a dictator couldn't allow anyone to be successful by a refusal to obey his orders so he ordered a complete halt of all his forces in France. Hitler had the choice between total victory and total control oft the Wehrmacht. He chose the control of the armed forces and therefor lost the entire war.
The allies were fortunate that Hitler was in charge. His arrogant mistakes and cruel policies sealed the outcome. Nobody can deny just how efficient the German military was in WW2. Had Rommel been the fuhrer, how different the outcome may have been.
Actually, ther Halt Order was issued by von Rundstedt, not by Hitler, because Rundstedt wished his armour to be rested & serviced for the second phase of the French campaign, and he feared the danger of a second 'Miracle of the Marne.'
As a traditional European soldier, Rundstedt believed that the Channel was a barrier to the allies, and the imminent arrival of German infantry would bring an end to the matter. Hitler knew the area from WW1, and felt that the terrain was unsuited to armour. As Goering had assured him that the destruction of the surrounded allied forces was 'A special job for the Luftwaffe,' Hitler chose to believe him.
@@harrybrown3657 'Had Rommel been the fuhrer, how different the outcome may have been.' Indeed. His troops would probably have outrun their resources, as he habitually did in North Africa, and his flap in the face of the attack at Arras might have been much magnified.
Further to this, the Panzer divisions had outrun the ordinary horse drawn and footbound infantry by three days, and the same Panzer divisions had been running on perviten for twenty days, so the tanks were at a point of six to ten hours of total seizure and the troops were drug addled and strung out. They stopped because they were physically and mentally incapable of going on. Additionally, ultra had given the Brits critical intelligence, so Dunkirk was always going to happen
Yet again, a documentary that makes no mention of the FACT that Dunkirk was a "success" for one reason only. The French First Army holding and defeating the Nazi swarm at Lille, and that the evacuation succeeded solely because the French First Army held the line at Dunkirk for the 6 days to make it so.
No mention of the very large contribution to the evacuation from the French MN, the fishing fleets, and the ferries from French ports, Without them the ENGLISH could not have succeeded at all.
But why should the English acknowledge the assistance of the country that they deserted at the most critical time.
Don't forget that the French fought on for another 6 weeks, losing more troops than they lost in the first 3 months of the Battle of the Somme. And if they hadn't fought on, the French Air Force would not have shot down over 800 Nazi aircraft that couldn't then be used in the Battle of Britain.
Lightweight documentary, and there are those that will fool themselves that this is the complete story.
You think that it is impressive that one French army actually fought to defend France, when the others did not? Moreover, the French rearguard made possible the evacuation, for what it turned out to be worth, of around 120,000 French troops.
'The very large contribution to the evacuation from the French MN, the fishing fleets, and the ferries from French ports' Presumably you mean the 14 Torpedo Boats, 2 minesweepers, 5 submarine chasers, & 72 trawlers, which between them brought off 21,000 troops, all French? Not the Belgian contribution (3,400 troops), or the Dutch & Norwegian contribution (3,700 troops), or still less the British effort, which was some 290,000?
'Why should the English acknowledge the assistance of the country that they deserted at the most critical time.' Perhaps the British don't discuss the subject, because it would require an explanation from France & Belgium of why 90+ of their own divisions either capitulated or collapsed, leaving the 13 British divisions with no alternative course of action?
'Don't forget that the French fought on for another 6 weeks.' Really? How do you calculate that? Dynamo ended on 4 June, although Aerial lasted another two weeks. The Armistice/Surrender took place on 22 June, two & a half weeks latter. Your calculator needs new batteries.
A similar comment applies to your calculation of German aircraft losses, and you haven't mentioned the fact that the French returned all captured German pilots to Germany, rather than sending them to camps in Britain as the British had requested.
You also failed to mention that, when the first divisions of the 'Reconstituted BEF' arrived in Cherbourg, the commander was informed by General Weygand that the French Army was no longer capable of 'organised resistance.'
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Great documentary but definitely from the British lens. Churchill is also way over-glorified in this.
Churchill was a single minded cheerleader, more than anything else. And he was good at filling that role because he rallied the people at a time when they needed it desperately. But once the war ended, he was outta there, if I remember correctly.
Much like your comment.
@@stargazer5784 Except he was re-elected in 1951.
He sent a clear message to the Americans that we were taking it seriously and capable of halting the Germans. He was also half American. Not a lost cause in other words.
There are plenty of wehraboo infested videos all over UA-cam. You’d probably feel more at home there.
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Or someone piss'd in his bowl of Cheerios.
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England did not stand alone.
No, England didn't. But Great Britain did.
"(Britain) did not stand alone"... Really? Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand?
Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation subjected to ALL of those threats by the nazis between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE.
No need to thank me for unburdening you of your complete cluelessness.
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Catapult impressed the US massively. Not its purpose but a very helpful consequence. The RN Commanders at the time were mortified.
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@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 What do you require clarifying, dear shoe?
Refreshing to read a comment section where the general consensus acknowledges the nonsense of operation Sealion. It served the British authorities well to have the general population believe the threat was more real than it was. Sadly, it has taken decades for the intense propoganda and subsequent folklore to be superceded by sense.
There is no such 'general consensus.' The actual belief among historians is that, given the vast naval superiority the Royal Navy held, any such attempt would have been a failure. Not that it was never seriously intended. The extent and details of German planning and preparations are in themselves proof of intent.
@@dovetonsturdee7033 Hmmm
@ekl2947 It was a massive sabre rattle. The Germans hoped that Britain would panic and seek a negotiated peace. Britain stood firm and the rest is history.
Only an idiot who lives in the world of hindsight { then again judging in hindsight is the norm nowadays} can get triggered by the sinking of those French ships
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