Battle of France in 44 seconds

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  • Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
  • During the second year of World War Two Germany invaded and defeated France in a campaign lasting six weeks. This video is a summary of the Battle of France. Each second represents one day in real time.
    The maps and visuals were originally created for the World War Two channel: / @worldwartwo
    / eastory
    Nerves Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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  • @thebirdmapper357
    @thebirdmapper357 4 роки тому +9354

    Indy's jumpscare scared me a lot

    • @QuizmasterLaw
      @QuizmasterLaw 4 роки тому +140

      THE HANSEN MOVE

    • @amysnapp823
      @amysnapp823 4 роки тому +103

      @@QuizmasterLaw I think it would've been great if his head peeked out from the sides of the video lol

    • @QuizmasterLaw
      @QuizmasterLaw 4 роки тому +9

      @@amysnapp823 do You think you were talking to a USSR Child Soldier? 0_o

    • @amysnapp823
      @amysnapp823 4 роки тому +14

      @@QuizmasterLaw I meant if Indy's pic peeked from the sides of the video, not Chris Hansen

    • @notinscale2839
      @notinscale2839 4 роки тому +18

      horror genre in a historial video, just think about it

  • @andromedaputraharyanto5420
    @andromedaputraharyanto5420 4 роки тому +8722

    That moment when you're chillin' on the Maginot line and see "Paris has Fallen" on the newspaper

    • @Jim-fi4dc
      @Jim-fi4dc 4 роки тому +181

      Lmao.

    • @dedblin8256
      @dedblin8256 4 роки тому +501

      This isn't a joke, but is funny, at least you won't get 400 angry french because this is what happened

    • @adrien8572
      @adrien8572 4 роки тому +289

      @@dedblin8256 Yeah and it's sad. If generals of French army had think about the Ardennes, France would have crushed Germany easily. The Maginot Line was too strong for Germany army.

    • @minimilchshaker8219
      @minimilchshaker8219 4 роки тому +480

      Clément Galtier
      I wouldn't say they would've crushed Germany, but rather, they would have been able to repel all German attacks long enough to mobilise more forces, gain numerical superiority and eventually win

    • @instintosoldato9019
      @instintosoldato9019 4 роки тому +98

      Clément Galtier lol no France didn’t have the power to defeat Germany.

  • @usernamesareoverrated7246
    @usernamesareoverrated7246 3 роки тому +3623

    Germany be like : " hi twitch and welcome to my world war speed run"

    • @RealRotkohl
      @RealRotkohl 3 роки тому +164

      "we just snacked Poland and go over to France to get it too"

    • @blenterbl
      @blenterbl 3 роки тому +113

      They failed the 100% speedrun....

    • @FarmerSlayerFromTheEdoPeriod
      @FarmerSlayerFromTheEdoPeriod 3 роки тому +23

      "World record pace so far gamers."

    • @semajxocliw
      @semajxocliw 3 роки тому +99

      "as you can see we didn't peace out Britian or Russia by 1942 so this run is pretty much dead"

    • @maniac7466
      @maniac7466 3 роки тому +9

      @@semajxocliw Underrated

  • @granatapacifica
    @granatapacifica 3 роки тому +2900

    English army during hundred years war: *takes half of France in 80 years*
    Hitler:
    "1 month. Take It or leave it."

    • @arto4214
      @arto4214 3 роки тому +78

      for the both: Shit. We go back.

    • @mcj2219
      @mcj2219 3 роки тому +220

      French and English army/navy: fails to capture the Netherlands, in the Anglo Dutch wars.
      Hitler: 1 week, take it.

    • @roma3021
      @roma3021 3 роки тому +119

      Ok it's funny but did you know that France under Napoleon took Berlin in 19 days, on foot and even though France was engaged in a war against Prussia and Russia and that Napoléon had barely emerged from the war against the Austria with an outnumbered army, of course.
      Just stop ( mainly american or british people) making the same joke again and again. It's not even funny anymore.

    • @granatapacifica
      @granatapacifica 3 роки тому +113

      @@roma3021 i like your funny words, stupid man.
      Napoleon was fucking walking in a straight line, didn't even care about taking territories, he Just got to a Capital city of a state, vassallize It and proceed to the East. Atleast Hitler Cared about which Land he was conquering

    • @Rygaa
      @Rygaa 3 роки тому +44

      Napoleon took down all Holy Roman Empire within a week France got the record losers
      And without any vehicules

  • @beefyblom
    @beefyblom 4 роки тому +6236

    When you wanna invade France but your parents said "Be back by 10"
    edit: take this hazmat suit for going into the replies, stranger!

    • @MuhammadRafy
      @MuhammadRafy 4 роки тому +461

      And you get back home at 8

    • @daniellap.stewart6839
      @daniellap.stewart6839 4 роки тому +30

      Shit 😂😂😂😂

    • @simonogren
      @simonogren 4 роки тому +63

      Erwan sabatie he was just joking, he used a meme on it. 🥖🥖🥖🥖baguettes to u

    • @erwansabatie1490
      @erwansabatie1490 4 роки тому +20

      @@simonogren yeah i know but when you hear that 1000 Times it's not funny anymore.
      Imagine you hear joke on you every day, it's funny at the begining, but with Time that's just annoying

    • @bladeshotone
      @bladeshotone 4 роки тому +66

      @@erwansabatie1490 just quit it u angry French dressing

  • @unpatriote460
    @unpatriote460 4 роки тому +4669

    Battle of Luxembourg in 0,3 seconds

  • @JohnPolitique
    @JohnPolitique 3 роки тому +590

    14-18 : battle of Verdun : 1 year
    39-45 : battle of Verdun 6 secondes

    • @Atajew
      @Atajew 3 роки тому +33

      Power of the tank technology

    • @GlennPranata
      @GlennPranata 2 роки тому +31

      The power of mechanised army

    • @eliasziad7864
      @eliasziad7864 2 роки тому +16

      Power of sexy army

    • @mr.normalguy69
      @mr.normalguy69 10 місяців тому +4

      The power of Hugo Boss!

    • @RA-ip5bf
      @RA-ip5bf 20 днів тому

      @@eliasziad7864 💀

  • @door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978
    @door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978 3 роки тому +761

    Every 60 seconds in France, a minute passes. Together we can stop this.

    • @jsw973
      @jsw973 3 роки тому +36

      Spread the word

    • @scarletcrusade77
      @scarletcrusade77 3 роки тому +38

      @@jsw973 Spread the word in french or German?

    • @fissis1955
      @fissis1955 3 роки тому +23

      @@scarletcrusade77 german

    • @an0N1M921
      @an0N1M921 2 роки тому +3

      Can you believe that no nation in this world is taking care of this!? 😔

    • @JLL_29
      @JLL_29 2 роки тому +1

      @@fissis1955 bro thats sus

  • @rimarikbarca3807
    @rimarikbarca3807 4 роки тому +4879

    Who won the tour de france in 1940?
    7th Panzer Division.

    • @kiliwami4086
      @kiliwami4086 4 роки тому +258

      @Foxy The pirates he isnt stealing, this joke is older than the german-french rivalery

    • @jesuschrist2265
      @jesuschrist2265 4 роки тому +6

      Rimarik Barca your darn right!

    • @user-wh8mb7tm2g
      @user-wh8mb7tm2g 4 роки тому +33

      Which country holds the best military record in the world?
      France

    • @user-wh8mb7tm2g
      @user-wh8mb7tm2g 4 роки тому +12

      @@candyneige6609 oh no my American friend, America included
      ua-cam.com/video/HK5OsDWYJmQ/v-deo.html
      You were saying?

    • @OneRichMofo
      @OneRichMofo 4 роки тому +56

      @@user-wh8mb7tm2g either you are French or you are a fan of France. The video you put as proof shows merely the wins not wins against losses. Roman Empire, British Empire, Hunnic Empire, Denmark has better win loss ratio than the French. And these are just the ones I know of.
      Edit:I googles it just to make sure and the ones that I counted do have a better w/l ratio. Patriotism is fine, false claims, not so much

  • @baseddepartment1324
    @baseddepartment1324 4 роки тому +1791

    He could have dragged this out to a 10 minute video for ad revenue but didnt. Respect.

    • @kaisersadvisor3970
      @kaisersadvisor3970 4 роки тому +33

      Slow-Mo Invasion

    • @bobbyjoe1111
      @bobbyjoe1111 4 роки тому +38

      I wouldn't blame him if he did, he deserves it

    • @Gia1911Logous
      @Gia1911Logous 4 роки тому +32

      there's not much to say
      The French will surrender by that time

    • @evil1143
      @evil1143 4 роки тому +2

      He should've because we need more information.

    • @baseddepartment1324
      @baseddepartment1324 4 роки тому +2

      @@evil1143 watch the World War 2 channel videos

  • @miles4920
    @miles4920 4 роки тому +1081

    Somebody: *goes on vacation from France to Canada for 2 weeks*
    Somebody: *returns home*
    Somebody: *the hell is there nazi flags everywhere?*

    • @rawrzillakira5928
      @rawrzillakira5928 3 роки тому +94

      I mean considering how Canada and nazi Germany were enemies by that point, I dont think there were many flights going from Toronto to Paris at that point :P

    • @zhouwu
      @zhouwu 3 роки тому +86

      @Nuclear Panda
      r/woosh
      He did ":p" at the end. It's obviously a signifier of a joke to the joke.

    • @Tom-2142
      @Tom-2142 3 роки тому +1

      Rawrzilla Kira ships

    • @bedlamichhane3294
      @bedlamichhane3294 3 роки тому +2

      😆😆😆

    • @lesscringeymapperdude
      @lesscringeymapperdude 3 роки тому +10

      @Nuclear Panda not needed, he gave an interesting fact

  • @scottkrafft6830
    @scottkrafft6830 4 роки тому +603

    Bae: "Come over, I'm in Paris rn"
    Me: "I can't"
    Bae: "My parents aren't home"
    Me:

    • @galaxyred7
      @galaxyred7 4 роки тому +5

      Lol

    • @rocketjupiter4579
      @rocketjupiter4579 3 роки тому +15

      Damn you decided to have the whole country to yourself

    • @alanmaclaren4366
      @alanmaclaren4366 3 роки тому +4

      @@rocketjupiter4579 guess he couldn’t find her parents in the city so he decides to invade the entire bloody country.

    • @arcihungbycraneonfire
      @arcihungbycraneonfire 2 роки тому

      What youre gonna reach instead, is the bay :) *landing of normandy*

  • @Incuggarch
    @Incuggarch 4 роки тому +343

    I was reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940 and the general Reynaud calls up Churchill and says: "It's over." And Churchill says "How can it be? You've got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over?" He says: "It's over."

    • @mxonia
      @mxonia 4 роки тому +13

      I read it with Chris Matthews voice

    • @SpookyScarySkitarii
      @SpookyScarySkitarii 4 роки тому +12

      Reynaud wasn't general tho

    • @aybrokemyback6739
      @aybrokemyback6739 4 роки тому +29

      Général Reynaud ? It's just as right as me talking about the Generalissimo Alexandria Ocazio Cortez or the Sultan Ilhan Omar.

    • @equa9612
      @equa9612 4 роки тому +13

      @@AFT_05G bro just go learn history with books or on UA-cam because what you say is shit and i don't want to tell you why because it's fucking obvious

    • @canadious6933
      @canadious6933 4 роки тому +12

      ​@@equa9612 Ooof yeah, hmm I dont know where to begin with his comment. Just gonna look the other way

  • @notinscale2839
    @notinscale2839 4 роки тому +4989

    Soviet-German War: 50 minutes total in length, subtitled and lots in detail
    Franco-German War: 44 seconds with nothing
    Congratulations on 200k subscriber milestone, you deserved it.

    • @TimDutch
      @TimDutch 4 роки тому +96

      Actually this one is 50 minutes. Look at the video's that he linked at the end.

    • @hebl47
      @hebl47 4 роки тому +37

      Hey, not true! This one had music, so that's something.

    • @nikodemdyzma9330
      @nikodemdyzma9330 4 роки тому +17

      44s...but campaign is done in 13:)

    • @SmokeDimi
      @SmokeDimi 4 роки тому +5

      @@TimDutch Videos linked at the end are not Eastory videos.

    • @TimDutch
      @TimDutch 4 роки тому +21

      @@SmokeDimi they are made with the maps of Eastory. The world war 2 team works together with Eastory.

  • @comradekenobi8146
    @comradekenobi8146 4 роки тому +2450

    This reminded me of the game "Hearts of Iron 4."

    • @minedoimperija
      @minedoimperija 4 роки тому +180

      Everyone knows hoi4

    • @hushpuppy1735
      @hushpuppy1735 4 роки тому +160

      With these square divisions, this reminds me of HOI3

    • @benjeiy7347
      @benjeiy7347 4 роки тому +187

      Ikr, it's so cool how they liked hoi4 so much they decided to do it irl!

    • @Inderastein
      @Inderastein 4 роки тому +11

      Hoi3 for me

    • @gracjanszmyt1442
      @gracjanszmyt1442 4 роки тому +19

      Except that France doesn't fall instantly

  • @stuffedmannequin
    @stuffedmannequin 4 роки тому +226

    It's amazing how narrow that little gap was in the Ardennes. That one little gap cost the French and British their best armies.

    • @sefacaplan464
      @sefacaplan464 3 роки тому +18

      That gap was intentional by France. Terrain of the Ardennes was nearly impossible to pass, so french thought leaving it open wouldn't hurt.

    • @solwen
      @solwen 3 роки тому +39

      What is even more bewildering is that the US army fell to the same trick during the Ardennes offensive a mere 4 years later.

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims 3 роки тому +8

      @@solwen not even close to comparable since the French knew an attack was coming somewhere, the US had been on the offensive almost non stop since 1942

    • @supertheblueoctagon
      @supertheblueoctagon 3 роки тому +2

      @@solwen yea but it still failed miserably

    • @ExcelsusDev
      @ExcelsusDev 3 роки тому

      69 like time to ruinn it

  • @vladkapitsa4791
    @vladkapitsa4791 4 роки тому +1429

    German generals: we want to conquer France
    Hitler: Be back by 9
    Generals: OK)

    • @Tryphon-mb5jc
      @Tryphon-mb5jc 4 роки тому +48

      more like
      Generals: we'll be back by 9
      Hitler: what!? stop
      Generals: no

    • @bravo45
      @bravo45 4 роки тому +14

      Not correct.... the top Generals never thought they could pull it off....

    • @Elfenvampir
      @Elfenvampir 4 роки тому +5

      Das heisst: "Jawohl!"

    • @dedblin8256
      @dedblin8256 4 роки тому +27

      Hitler: Rommel, what are you doing at 8 here?
      Rommel: Whait, didn't you say be back at 8?
      I already advanced 200 miles into enemy lines

    • @bravo45
      @bravo45 4 роки тому +7

      @Ark Technical I should have made clear I did enjoy the humor too, only said it coz a lot of people don't know... I must had a lot of free time that day

  • @sqweebel1
    @sqweebel1 4 роки тому +1557

    After seeing how quickly France fell, I can see why Hitler thought taking the Soviet Union would be less difficult than it turned out to be.

    • @lxi9648
      @lxi9648 4 роки тому +318

      @trueman mann but France was stronger than Russia militarily in 1940

    • @Nomilh
      @Nomilh 4 роки тому +79

      @@lxi9648 You're funny. The Red Army had ~ 34,000,000 soldiers when France had ~ 900,000 soldiers. Sure manpower isn't everything but it helps to fight on multiple fronts, especially when you have around 34 times more soldiers.

    • @lxi9648
      @lxi9648 4 роки тому +371

      @@Nomilh just no

    • @Nomilh
      @Nomilh 4 роки тому +23

      @@lxi9648 Yes lol. A quick Google search will show you that I'm not lying.

    • @lxi9648
      @lxi9648 4 роки тому +388

      @@Nomilh The Red Army had 1.8 million men in 1939 + some 30 million untrained reserves, France had 900k and 5 million trained reserves + another 15 million untrained men in draft age. Militarily, that is comparable.

  • @posit1ve_wotb
    @posit1ve_wotb 3 роки тому +119

    It’s interesting to see France using WWI tactics in real time. You can see how the armored units are held back behind the line as a mobile reserve, similar to WWI defensive tactics, and each time the German break through, the armor is once again pulled back behind the line

  • @pythonironsight654
    @pythonironsight654 4 роки тому +124

    0:21 "rATe mY eNciRcleMent"

    • @WebertNelson
      @WebertNelson 4 роки тому +21

      1942/1942

    • @ortherner
      @ortherner 3 роки тому

      lmao

    • @vaahtobileet
      @vaahtobileet 3 роки тому +4

      @@WebertNelson Caesar please, it's 1940. You've lost your touch on Gaulish matters.

    • @WebertNelson
      @WebertNelson 3 роки тому

      vaahtobileet ok.

  • @user-fg3xw6wd6i
    @user-fg3xw6wd6i 4 роки тому +520

    For A second I thought this was Hoi3 footage

    • @unkas231
      @unkas231 4 роки тому +29

      @trainbomb hoi4=ww2 for boys; hoi3=ww2 for men

    • @Jackilichous
      @Jackilichous 4 роки тому +17

      trainbomb You can enjoy your logistics simulator all you want.

    • @julkkis666
      @julkkis666 4 роки тому +5

      @@Jackilichous logistics are importaint. Hoi iv also has logistics, it just ditched the logistics system from hoi iii and made a new on (equipment system)

    • @Jackilichous
      @Jackilichous 4 роки тому +2

      julkkis666 I’m well aware.

    • @Jackilichous
      @Jackilichous 4 роки тому +1

      In Hoc Signo Diliget I know.
      Hoi3 was highly criticised for its bad logistic system.

  • @gijskroot2861
    @gijskroot2861 4 роки тому +1086

    It's so intreseting to see how fast the German units moved over the battlefield as shown in the video, thanks for making these videos
    Edit: grammar

    • @SVP-uy9qb
      @SVP-uy9qb 4 роки тому +5

      video's? LMAO

    • @damenofficiall
      @damenofficiall 4 роки тому

      @@SVP-uy9qb Lmfao

    • @marsu69
      @marsu69 4 роки тому +31

      @@SVP-uy9qb that's the dutch spelling of the plural of video

    • @gijskroot2861
      @gijskroot2861 4 роки тому +15

      @@SVP-uy9qb yea sorry must've been auto correct still had it on Dutch...

    • @DonJuan911
      @DonJuan911 4 роки тому +13

      @DodoVolcano They had "Panzerschokolade" or as we call it meth.

  • @kurumi394
    @kurumi394 4 роки тому +70

    WW2 European Theatre summary: Hitler underestimates Poland then overestimates France then underestimates the USSR

    • @semiramisubw4864
      @semiramisubw4864 4 роки тому +11

      He never underestimated the USSr like he never did with the US. Hitler well knew that defeating the whole udssr is impossible, they just wanted to take a good bunch of their land and ofc the oil. A Whole invasion against the udssr wasnt possible at that time, hitler diddnt builded railroads to the front for supplies, the far they go, the inconsistent the supplyroute were.

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims 4 роки тому +2

      Actually he really didn’t, contemporary knowledge all pointed to a German success in summer 1941, but the biggest culprit behind the German failing was Halder’s asinine decision to focus the offensive in the center at Moscow instead of the south toward the caucuses as Hitler argued for

    • @semiramisubw4864
      @semiramisubw4864 4 роки тому +1

      @@looinrims i really dont know the names of people there. But i know something, atleast my grandpa told me ( he fought the eastern front) that hitler shouldve build railways to support the fronts... he hasnt... and imo that was his biggest mistake and the reason for our crumbling at the front, supplys cant be brought by trucks / horses in the winter in EU russia

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims 4 роки тому +1

      @@semiramisubw4864 no, one of the biggest things with the invasion was the massive construction project to shorten the rail gauges for European rail cars, rail cars were important for movement of men and supplies, the troops at Stalingrad in 1942 were supplied by train before being encircled

    • @semiramisubw4864
      @semiramisubw4864 4 роки тому

      @@looinrims he ? its so long ago i dont even know what were talking about kinda. rThe fact i know, is that hitler wasnt building railways up into deep russia, that were ONE reason that our frontline crumbled

  • @Number-py1bs
    @Number-py1bs 4 роки тому +118

    France: declares war on Germany for invading Poland
    Germany: so you have chosen death

    • @brrrrrtenjoyer
      @brrrrrtenjoyer 3 роки тому +18

      @@aeugh7861 Yeah France and Britain didn't even bother to help the ally they declared war for. The fact that Poland held out longer while being attacked by two sides is amazing. Also, Polish generals who escaped to France were trying to give advice to the French since they had seen the Blitzkrieg but the French wouldn't listen.

    • @mirzahamzabaig5667
      @mirzahamzabaig5667 3 роки тому

      @@aeugh7861
      Saar offensive..

    • @Lehr-km5be
      @Lehr-km5be 3 роки тому +5

      @@mirzahamzabaig5667 Yeah, Saar offensive is equal to nothing tbh. The french were literally not using artillery (in an offensive!) because they feared that germans would shoot back.

    • @Iamlostofwords
      @Iamlostofwords 3 роки тому

      “So you have chosen... Invasion”

    • @r3versepancake455
      @r3versepancake455 3 роки тому +2

      @@Lehr-km5be the germans had the Siegfried line. They even spend more Money on it than the french did on their line. Like how should french toops break it when it took the americans 6 months against weakened German soldiers

  • @caseblue2232
    @caseblue2232 4 роки тому +398

    I still remember the brilliant plan to win WW2 France video.
    _"The war was lost."_

    • @jejebernard9980
      @jejebernard9980 4 роки тому +5

      @Fabian Kirchgessner
      Not De Gaulle...

    • @jejebernard9980
      @jejebernard9980 4 роки тому +4

      @Fabian Kirchgessner
      You can't figure out what was the great war for the french... So yeah, keep criticising the french, but please buy a fucking ww1 book (please not an english or american one because they will say that the role of the french was minor...) and read what the french lost...

    • @arshan948
      @arshan948 4 роки тому +6

      @@jejebernard9980 And also a book about the RESISTANCE it's very important to knom that how many peapole and not all young guys with guns, sometimes it was just a grand mother(like mine), and she hide in her house RAF pilots and other resistants, just learnt a little about Jean Moulin, De Gaulle and other resistants
      Et jeje Bernard j'imagine que tu es Français donc merci d'etre patriote comme moi et de nous défendre

    • @jejebernard9980
      @jejebernard9980 4 роки тому +4

      @@arshan948
      Merci!!! Je fais de mon mieux face à la piétaille anglo-saxones...
      Mais bon heureusement, ils ne sont pas tous comme celà!!!

    • @arshan948
      @arshan948 4 роки тому +4

      @@jejebernard9980 heureusement mais c'est important de faire comprendre que les FRANÇAIS n'ont pas perdu la guerre

  • @derkach7907
    @derkach7907 4 роки тому +327

    This is too fast to comprehend.
    Germans : I'm speed

  • @stephenwraysford6788
    @stephenwraysford6788 3 роки тому +134

    Fun fact: The Germans conquered France in 38 days. In Stalingrad, during this time, they only moved from one street to another.

    • @truongtranthaiduy8959
      @truongtranthaiduy8959 3 роки тому +1

      yes

    • @arcihungbycraneonfire
      @arcihungbycraneonfire 2 роки тому

      I guess the soviets were literally hiding everywhere, even behind enemy lines

    • @jakeperalta5655
      @jakeperalta5655 2 роки тому +8

      Fun fact , Napoléon have take Berlin In 19 day

    • @fedyui4865
      @fedyui4865 2 роки тому +9

      Fun fact, Russians retreated thousands of kilometers before Stalingrad, France had 200 between Paris and the Ardennes...

    • @stephenwraysford6788
      @stephenwraysford6788 2 роки тому +3

      @@fedyui4865 Oh, this is the comment I forgot about a long time ago...To be honest, I treat all sides of the conflict equally. I'm not saying that the Soviet Union is a strong country that withstood a deadly blow from Germany. All the allies fought heroically and with dignity. It was terrible on all sides of the conflict: pain, blood, tears, fear, death. With your permission, I can even delete this comment.

  • @russiaball7447
    @russiaball7447 4 роки тому +1152

    16th May
    German High Command: Stay in position and wait for orders, all clear?
    Guderian and Rommel: ...
    *GAS GAS GAS*

    • @Narcys100
      @Narcys100 4 роки тому +24

      22th May
      what is france doing

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims 4 роки тому +80

      OKW: Okay you two can conduct reconnaissance in force but your hq must remain at the current position
      Guderian and Rommel: ok
      First sergeant: *Do they know these two spend less time in the HQ than the toilet, and lead on the front?*
      *Week later*
      OKW: how did the 7th Panzer and Guderian’s Panzer Corps get within sight of the Atlantic?

    • @jackt4595
      @jackt4595 4 роки тому +32

      Guderian and rommel:Do you have any idea how fast I am

    • @afiffarhati4580
      @afiffarhati4580 4 роки тому +10

      I'M GONNA STEP ON THE GAS!!!

    • @Tappettava
      @Tappettava 3 роки тому +7

      Guderian and Rommel were just following the party motto

  • @petrborodavkin4128
    @petrborodavkin4128 4 роки тому +1213

    House in a Stalingrad:
    Pathetic...

    • @boss180888
      @boss180888 4 роки тому +85

      144 german divisions attacked france whereas a battalion or 2 where attacking that house. so really no comparison, would you like to know the scale of the advance of the germans in the first 6 weeks of barbarossa though and compare how far worse the soviets did?

    • @zionistcat1807
      @zionistcat1807 4 роки тому +67

      @@boss180888 how many french/english/belgian divisions stood against germans?
      Did this rapid advance help the germans?Not to mention that germans had numerical and qualitative superiority.And,btw,eastern front was a far better theater of war for German military doctrine than Benelux and Northern France.

    • @boss180888
      @boss180888 4 роки тому +43

      @@zionistcat1807 the roads and mapping of benelux and northern france would like to disagree about the eastern boglands being better for the german doctrine

    • @vlad_47
      @vlad_47 4 роки тому +112

      @@boss180888 the eastern front easily overshadows every other front in WW2 let alone the western front or the "little hollywood front" as i like to call it.

    • @zionistcat1807
      @zionistcat1807 4 роки тому +29

      @@boss180888 little space for maneuver where you can build layered defence over and over again.Also,in the Eastern front bad terrain and bad roads only affected Wehrmacht,not the Red Army,right?

  • @gameplaysuffering1620
    @gameplaysuffering1620 3 роки тому +38

    4th France armored: "My goals are beyond your understanding"

    • @lilestojkovicii6618
      @lilestojkovicii6618 3 роки тому +3

      Wtf they didn't even fought before it was too late

    • @szron6890
      @szron6890 2 роки тому +11

      They are controled by hoi4 AI

    • @tywinlannister8015
      @tywinlannister8015 2 роки тому

      The tactics were not up to date to engage the germans. Using tanks to spearhead assaults was unheard of then.
      French use of tanks was flexible, but more akin to mobile artillery positions.

    • @gameplaysuffering1620
      @gameplaysuffering1620 2 роки тому

      yeah check the 4e Division cuirassée they are actually great and fighted from 10 May to 26 June aprox, they existed for 50 days at most and were fighting 40 days straight, they did an attack on May 17 and actually got the Germans to retreat but couldnt counterattack because they had been ordered to stall for time while the main army retreats and regroups and the main army had just done that so they had no support and retreated
      They fought on the battle of Abbeville to try and reunite with the encircled units on Dunkirk but that battle was a shitfest with little to none british-french coordination, french high command having no idea on how to use the armoured divisions and a lack of radios, the 4e DCr did what they could but even overruning a position didn't matter since the Allies didn't have enough infantry to hold the ground
      With many, many losses sustained they stayed in the back and covered the retreat for the rest of the war until the cease-fire

  • @w5527
    @w5527 4 роки тому +26

    The Western Front collapsed so quickly that it was basically just the one huge battle and not even a bunch of smaller significant battles that are well known.

    • @t.hieuv.8062
      @t.hieuv.8062 3 роки тому

      That's one way to put it.

    • @haldir3120
      @haldir3120 2 роки тому

      That is why it is called Battle of France. It was actually quite the minor affair considering the German and French losses of soldier lifes were only 0.1 million. Compare that to the Eastern front where the Nazis alone had 5.1 million dead soldiers.

  • @Jackilichous
    @Jackilichous 4 роки тому +392

    Would love to see this with significant movements explained.

    • @infinitememegod
      @infinitememegod 4 роки тому +46

      One word, blitzkrieg

    • @alexdiezg
      @alexdiezg 4 роки тому +12

      Would personally be very interested about the events of Dunkirk (encirclement in northern France at 0:23).

    • @Emil-cj6ey
      @Emil-cj6ey 4 роки тому +12

      I think a longer video with commentary will follow.

    • @Higgieyasu
      @Higgieyasu 4 роки тому +16

      Please, do yourself a favor and check out the WWII channel, which Eastory does extensive work for. The links at the end of the video are the episodes for the Battle of France.

    • @Jackilichous
      @Jackilichous 4 роки тому

      Higgieyasu I’ve watched a couple dozen of those episodes.
      Kinda of hard to play catch up yknow.

  • @ForelliBoy
    @ForelliBoy 4 роки тому +124

    "Okay let's do this ERWIIIIIINNNNN ROMMELLLLLL" - Erwin Rommel upon reaching the opposite side of the Ardennes

  • @justaminecraftplayer7080
    @justaminecraftplayer7080 4 роки тому +78

    Germany: Mom, i want to invade Denmark
    Mom: Sure son, be back in 6 hours ok?

    • @ortherner
      @ortherner 3 роки тому +1

      Lost UA-camr

    • @tahir95soyalcom
      @tahir95soyalcom 3 роки тому

      Very much historiclly accurate, lmfao

    • @tahir95soyalcom
      @tahir95soyalcom 3 роки тому

      That was the funniest comment I have ever read, lmfao 🤣

  • @Mysterio1500
    @Mysterio1500 4 роки тому +230

    France : nooo you cant just avoid our highly advanced fortification containing multiple guns that we spent billions of dollars on by taking shortcut through the ardennes
    Heinz Guderian: haha tank go vroooom

    • @subtitleguy8799
      @subtitleguy8799 4 роки тому +8

      *francs not dollars

    • @whydoihave16subs65
      @whydoihave16subs65 4 роки тому +25

      Germany: nooo you can't fight after surrendering you must obey us
      French resistance: haha Germans go boom

    • @MrRamsey64
      @MrRamsey64 4 роки тому +8

      Well the point of the maginot line was to force the germans to go around it through belgium. The french were not surprised when it happened.

    • @raidenshibou2054
      @raidenshibou2054 4 роки тому +16

      @@MrRamsey64 but it did surprise them that the Germans would go through the Ardennes, a terrain they thought would halt the advance of their armored corps. They underestimated not only the German forces, but strategists like Guderian and Von Manstein and it cost them dearly

    • @MrRamsey64
      @MrRamsey64 4 роки тому +4

      @@raidenshibou2054 " a smart enemy hits you exactly where you think you're safe".Indeed the french generals did not know this.

  • @thereviewers30303
    @thereviewers30303 4 роки тому +360

    almost looks like the germans where taking a road trip trough france

    • @-_Hatred_-
      @-_Hatred_- 4 роки тому +6

      Tour De France
      German hooligans

  • @sichengwang4944
    @sichengwang4944 4 роки тому +470

    Who would win? Whole France or a single building in Stalingrad?

    • @DiamondSnakeStudio
      @DiamondSnakeStudio 4 роки тому +12

      This comment is edited.

    • @vladoshka9014
      @vladoshka9014 4 роки тому +6

      @@DiamondSnakeStudio they did

    • @gorkemdogan1220
      @gorkemdogan1220 4 роки тому +42

      @@DiamondSnakeStudio actually the 6th army captured and hold Stalingrad for months but then the Red Army surrounded the Stalingrad and as a result 6th army fell

    • @ug5056
      @ug5056 4 роки тому +7

      @@DiamondSnakeStudio where do you come from guys ? France is the greatest winner of battles ever.

    • @thepny_chasseur_de_tricera5361
      @thepny_chasseur_de_tricera5361 4 роки тому +16

      France 144 german division
      House in Stalingrad 2 batalions

  • @jonathanvaillancourt5593
    @jonathanvaillancourt5593 4 роки тому +200

    Me to gf: What do you mean? I last long in bed!
    Actually me:

    • @ArturoLopez-ly2pn
      @ArturoLopez-ly2pn 3 роки тому +7

      Bruh

    • @RealRotkohl
      @RealRotkohl 3 роки тому +5

      Oof.

    • @trinzler5915
      @trinzler5915 3 роки тому +22

      You last for 6 weeks? Damm. True champion

    • @Chuked
      @Chuked 3 роки тому +1

      France lasted longer

    • @eliasziad7864
      @eliasziad7864 3 роки тому +1

      STOP IT! YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE SEX WITH YOUR GF THAT IS FORNICATION A HUGE SIN IN CHRISTIANITY!

  • @theweeklycritical5782
    @theweeklycritical5782 3 роки тому +23

    It’s interesting to see how the German superiors just focus all there strategies to one area and hold the others until that’s finished instead of doing it all at the same time, like at Dunkirk

    • @onepunchbud1472
      @onepunchbud1472 2 роки тому +2

      Because they often had less troops. French were highly armed, but had older tactics.

  • @endo4137
    @endo4137 4 роки тому +329

    Germany won because they had 50% Max planning bonus, and France advanced to belgium losing their entrenchment

    • @sharpx3494
      @sharpx3494 4 роки тому +77

      @@irov5884 fucking hell man this is a hoi4 reference get outta here

    • @whenthecoldbrewhits7866
      @whenthecoldbrewhits7866 4 роки тому +24

      It was also great that the national focus with russia gave the germans a research bonus for the panzer III allowing them to produce it before the war happened

    • @b2as302
      @b2as302 4 роки тому +3

      @@whenthecoldbrewhits7866 or u could just paradrop in victory points across France

    • @whenthecoldbrewhits7866
      @whenthecoldbrewhits7866 4 роки тому +14

      @@b2as302 Good thing the germans trained enough troops to raise the special forces cap

    • @svenzockt1646
      @svenzockt1646 4 роки тому +3

      It´s real HOI4 hours

  • @sez5435
    @sez5435 4 роки тому +1540

    Plot twist: This is how long France actually lasted.

    • @bige2576
      @bige2576 4 роки тому +179

      Like you in bed.

    • @dimas3829
      @dimas3829 4 роки тому +192

      @@bige2576 that's what your mom said.

    • @deteon1418
      @deteon1418 4 роки тому +10

      Good one

    • @banana4814
      @banana4814 4 роки тому +10

      @joao marcelo de oliveira woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

    • @toast2300
      @toast2300 4 роки тому +67

      Surrender jokes aren't funny anymore get over it

  • @dikko7010
    @dikko7010 4 роки тому +16

    Music plays quietly in the backgroud, then all of a sudden
    *I'm Indy Neidell*

  • @forsaille4655
    @forsaille4655 3 роки тому +54

    If time travel is invented:
    Girls: "OH MY GOD, I can relive the best memories I had with my friends!"
    Boys: "THE ARDENNES GUYS!!! THE GERMANS ARE PUSHING THROUGH THE ARDENNES! DON'T LISTEN TO BELGIUM, EXPAND THE MAGINOT LINE!"

    • @tahir95soyalcom
      @tahir95soyalcom 3 роки тому +15

      French generals wouldn't listen anyway lmfao 😂😂😂

    • @user-ff4pi9dc3g
      @user-ff4pi9dc3g 3 роки тому +11

      other boys: hey hitler those notes on that dead guy were fake you wanna put all of your troops on beach Omaha and the ones surrounding it.

    • @GopaiCheems
      @GopaiCheems 3 роки тому

      @@user-ff4pi9dc3g ooh mincemeat, first time seeing that in a comment 😂

    • @lasarus71
      @lasarus71 3 роки тому

      @Red too much details

  • @davevaderlp784
    @davevaderlp784 4 роки тому +438

    Is this real time or is i just me that it seems so close to the actual speed?

    • @laMoria
      @laMoria 4 роки тому +22

      The must be an uncertainty of 2 seconds 😊

    • @markhenley3097
      @markhenley3097 4 роки тому +13

      Erwin Rommel takes reaches Dunkirk in a day (slow motion action).

    • @baddecimus2414
      @baddecimus2414 4 роки тому +4

      So Funny ...

    • @davevaderlp784
      @davevaderlp784 4 роки тому +6

      @@baddecimus2414 Not funny, true.

    • @Jupiter__001_
      @Jupiter__001_ 4 роки тому +6

      @@davevaderlp784 Funny 'cause it's true

  • @OGmaximilian
    @OGmaximilian 4 роки тому +207

    Battle of France 1940: 44 seconds
    Battle of France 1914: 2 hours

    • @vaclavmatuska4100
      @vaclavmatuska4100 4 роки тому +6

      No. 20 minutes

    • @vaclavmatuska4100
      @vaclavmatuska4100 4 роки тому +8

      24 minutes

    • @irov5884
      @irov5884 4 роки тому +13

      I don't understand cuz France won alone against Germany in WW1.

    • @keldhar8791
      @keldhar8791 4 роки тому +12

      @@candyneige6609 Germany didn't defeat france in WW1. What do you mean?

    • @keldhar8791
      @keldhar8791 4 роки тому +1

      @@candyneige6609 youre talking about Ww2 not ww1

  • @ej4122
    @ej4122 3 роки тому +24

    This video was brought to you by: Methamphetamine

  • @herbertdashwood3818
    @herbertdashwood3818 3 роки тому +5

    There's two kinds of people : those who joke about french always surrender and those who know history.

    • @AFT_05G
      @AFT_05G Рік тому

      They were significantly weaker since 1815 let’s just be honest.By 1870 they were no longer strongest European power.

  • @twitchshot7267
    @twitchshot7267 4 роки тому +304

    France: we can still win the war!
    Germany has joined the game
    Luxembourg has left the game
    Netherlands has left the game
    Belgium has left the game
    Britain has disconnected from the server
    French Army.exe has stopped working
    Italy has joined the game
    Italy has left the game
    Vichy France has join the game
    Free France: well duck

    • @Hectopath2006
      @Hectopath2006 4 роки тому +12

      So...Germany joins another server and meets Japan, USSR, Britain, Italy, and USA?

    • @NoaVanSnick
      @NoaVanSnick 4 роки тому +1

      Hey we Belgians are a neutral country we didn't want to have any part in the war and told the Germans they weren't allowed to pass trough Belgium to invade France that's why they started slaughtering our people

    • @bellerophon6897
      @bellerophon6897 4 роки тому +23

      @@NoaVanSnick Do you really think you can tell someone like hitler "you're not allowed to enter our personal space"?
      It's like saying "my body my choice" to a rapist hoping he will answer "well, you got a point".

    • @coulochonou6376
      @coulochonou6376 4 роки тому +8

      90%? We had over 500k soldiers in the Free French army by the end of the war. And the resistance never said "well fuck" on front of the germans. Even when outnumbered, we fought resiliently, like in Bir Hakeim

    • @gamerito100
      @gamerito100 4 роки тому +1

      Bellérophon To be fair, the main reason they assaulted Belgium was because their plans depended on their borders xD

  • @warrenlehmkuhleii8472
    @warrenlehmkuhleii8472 4 роки тому +74

    Germans in 1871: We set new record in conquering France!
    Germans in 1940: Hold mine beer.

    • @7macfly2
      @7macfly2 4 роки тому +26

      Still didnt beat Napoleon's record to invade germany

    • @AFT_05G
      @AFT_05G 4 роки тому +1

      IMAO in 1914 Germans didn't win with huge superiority in equipment like overhelming numbers of large calibre howitzers and machine guns while in 1940 France didn't win with larger number of tanks and guns.

    • @AFT_05G
      @AFT_05G 4 роки тому +1

      @@7macfly2 Becasue after Jena and Auserstedt,Napoléon almost didn't see any resistance to Grande Armée while in WW2 French Army fought until day of Armistice despite most of their well equipped troops were encircled by Wehrmacht in end of May.

    • @Raph77000
      @Raph77000 4 роки тому +3

      @@AFT_05G Yeah but Napoleon didn't have trains, planes and truck, they only had their foot and horses

    • @littleumbrella1763
      @littleumbrella1763 4 роки тому

      Mein beer

  • @wowzadude6773
    @wowzadude6773 3 роки тому +109

    There’s an old French joke:
    French tanks have 7 gears and a review mirror, 1 gear forward and 6 in reverse. What’s the review mirror for you ask? Well, to see the battlefield of course!

    • @monculsurlacommode3238
      @monculsurlacommode3238 3 роки тому +7

      I put a like on your comment, because you are funny

    • @vaahtobileet
      @vaahtobileet 3 роки тому +2

      @@monculsurlacommode3238 I put a comment on here, because sharing an old joke doesn't make a person inherently funny

    • @AmUnRA256
      @AmUnRA256 3 роки тому +3

      in german we have the same joke just replace French by Italian and there you go, no puns intended.

    • @wowzadude6773
      @wowzadude6773 3 роки тому +4

      AmUnRA256 it’s not an Italian tank, it’s a surprise malfunction!

    • @HansLemurson
      @HansLemurson 3 роки тому +16

      If you're using the rear-view mirror to see the battle, doesn't that mean that 6/7 of those gears will take you towards the fight?

  • @fuzzyapplepie6940
    @fuzzyapplepie6940 4 роки тому +28

    Germany: Wanna see me capture that country?
    Also Germany: Wanna see me do it again?

    • @candyneige6609
      @candyneige6609 4 роки тому

      Well, the first time Germany capture France was in 1914 and the second time they do that was in 1940, however both of these captures didn't last very long as France was liberated from Germany in 1918 and later in 1944.
      The two captures lasted 4 years.
      Coïncidence ?
      *J'y crois !*

    • @christopherparamby5784
      @christopherparamby5784 4 роки тому +5

      @@candyneige6609 Technically, Germany captured Frnacd before in the Franco Prussian War of the mid 1800s (this war made Prussia info Germany).

    • @candyneige6609
      @candyneige6609 4 роки тому

      @@christopherparamby5784 I know, but there's only 2 places, so i used the World Wars since they are more recent.

    • @CQF4
      @CQF4 4 роки тому +5

      @@candyneige6609 Germany didn't capture the france during wwI, and France was liberated mainly with french army.

  • @raven-dq6ox
    @raven-dq6ox 4 роки тому +209

    "The Battle of France in 44 seconds"
    Yeah that seems about right

    • @zomkino
      @zomkino 4 роки тому +3

      dispite all the jokes, France has the most wars won in the whole word, so maybe you should understand that one defeat dont make you a looser, otherwise usa are the biggest loosers there is

    • @lapoissonnerie3891
      @lapoissonnerie3891 4 роки тому

      @@zomkino fais avec ces clichés et ne t'énerve pas. Garde ton énergie pour les gens intéressants.

  • @MarionTIA
    @MarionTIA 4 роки тому +9

    This is a great way of visualizing just how overwhelming a proper combined arms unit's bursts of operational speed can be, especially during a time when battlefield information still moved relatively slowly. Those short, near instantaneous breakthrough and exploitations by armored units created massive openings that could destabilize destroy entire divisions in a matter of days.

  • @MajinSaha
    @MajinSaha 4 роки тому +47

    Damn, this looks like a smooth seduction scene.
    Germany: come on, honey...
    France: no... no... no... well, ok...

    • @MajinSaha
      @MajinSaha 4 роки тому +5

      @@user-pr1et3rl7j First, I'm not American. Second, my comment referred to the video only, it doesn't follow from this comment how I know or don't know history. Third, write in English, stupid frog eater.

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims 4 роки тому +4

      @@elbarone9749 nah you just ate erect Saurkraut, Force fed

  • @dauzlee2827
    @dauzlee2827 2 роки тому +4

    The German swift victory in battle of France was so unexpected and shocking that even cause some euphoria and upsurge of patriotism. Hitler himself expecting a million german died in France while only mere 20k deaths out of total 100k casualties vs total allied casualties of 2 million (1.7 mil captured and 80k deaths), which was one third of german casualties in verdun

  • @McTris21
    @McTris21 4 роки тому +208

    Summary of the comments in just 3 seconds :
    1. lol is it real time
    2. lol French surrender
    3. .

    • @galaxyred7
      @galaxyred7 4 роки тому +18

      There is a lot of triggered French people as well

    • @MrCamille9999
      @MrCamille9999 3 роки тому +19

      @@galaxyred7 Can't really blame them, the joke is really stale at this point

    • @GlobalWarmingSkeptic
      @GlobalWarmingSkeptic 3 роки тому +3

      lol, french surrendered in literally 44 seconds.

    • @labaguette3740
      @labaguette3740 3 роки тому +4

      @@GlobalWarmingSkeptic *HO look mom ! A salty French Hater !* ^^

    • @durandil
      @durandil 3 роки тому +2

      @@GlobalWarmingSkeptic Come here, and you will surender in less time

  • @agent_rocks3701
    @agent_rocks3701 4 роки тому +71

    0:23 is that battle of dunkirk?

  • @MintRobin
    @MintRobin 4 роки тому +6

    Interesting to see how hard the defence was at Dunkirk. Knowing how completely isolated they were must have been a feeling that can't be replicated anymore.

  • @Satan-ez8uv
    @Satan-ez8uv 4 роки тому +55

    Germany: How many days u will be defending yourself?
    France: No

  • @therealmuthaphukkin.g
    @therealmuthaphukkin.g 4 роки тому +32

    It's really amazing what the Germans accomplished with the destruction of allied forces. And what's even more impressive is the fact that these two great channels of military and world war history that I admire and watch daily, combined thier forces to make even greater content and knowledge for the masses of people! Much love from Bulgaria.

  • @TimDutch
    @TimDutch 4 роки тому +27

    Guys if you want to see the highly detailed video's go check out the vids that he linked at the end. these video's also have maps that Eastory made in them.

  • @nukatraxbtd
    @nukatraxbtd 4 роки тому +12

    Why is this so satisfying? I can't stop rewatching it LOL.

  • @romainmodestie8844
    @romainmodestie8844 Рік тому +4

    Fun fact France has invaded German territories 29 times between 1400 and 1945

    • @Atajew
      @Atajew Рік тому +1

      And it took the funny mustache man a single invasion to conquer all of them.

    • @mrsupremegascon
      @mrsupremegascon 8 місяців тому +1

      @@Atajew They didn't conquered us tho.
      The same way Napoleon didn't conquered Germany, despite controlling all of it for almost a decade.

  • @pasdepseudo8519
    @pasdepseudo8519 4 роки тому +9

    As a French, thanks a lot for your video.
    Indeed, the Battle of France was quick, but terrible fights and battles has taken place. Stonne, Hannut, Dunkerque ...
    We must never forget that.

    • @Tryphon-mb5jc
      @Tryphon-mb5jc 4 роки тому

      you'll never learn that in French schools though, because that year, the Republic system failed all the way.

    • @pasdepseudo8519
      @pasdepseudo8519 4 роки тому

      @@Tryphon-mb5jc "Never learn that" ? We have history lessons at school in France man, so stop saying shit.
      Our last Presidents (including Macron) failled, but not our Republic.
      But I would be happy to know where do you come from. I think it can be funny :)

    • @Tryphon-mb5jc
      @Tryphon-mb5jc 4 роки тому

      @@pasdepseudo8519 of course we have history lessons in France, you didn't get my point, I said that we never learned about the battles that took place in 1940 and the battle of France itself in class, because it's a big shame for the Republic which completely failed within 45days and took the anti-semistic way. If you're truly French, you probably will know according to my pseudo.

    • @pasdepseudo8519
      @pasdepseudo8519 4 роки тому

      @@Tryphon-mb5jc Ah Tryphon ! Miladiou, pourquoi me parles tu en Anglais alors que tu es Français ? Est ce par manque de chauvinisme ?
      Plus sérieusement, oui, en France, on aborde relativement peu la Bataille de France ainsi que le rôle de la France dans la guerre. Et c'est bien dommage. Il n'y a d'ailleurs pas uniquement la Bataille de France, mais les actions de la Résistance (intérieur et extérieur). Bir Hakeim n'en est qu'un exemple.

    • @candyneige6609
      @candyneige6609 4 роки тому

      Me too, i'm French myself and for the WW1 battle of France, it's as short as the WW2 one with more terrible fights and battles that happened leading to the eventual downfall and occupation by the Germans.
      Sedan, Verdun, the Somme...
      We must never froget these in addition to the ones in WW2.

  • @wow664112
    @wow664112 4 роки тому +12

    German in western front: 44 day to conquer France
    German in Eastern Front: 44 day to capture a apartment house in Stalingrad

  • @miguelruiz7282
    @miguelruiz7282 4 роки тому +10

    You know it’s bad when it’s 44 seconds long

  • @treystinson4116
    @treystinson4116 4 роки тому +13

    "This is beautiful."
    *"I've been looking at this for five hours."*

  • @Sam-oz8pn
    @Sam-oz8pn 4 роки тому +42

    If he did a video like this on the Eastern Front it would be 24 minutes long

  • @General_Townes
    @General_Townes 4 роки тому +63

    I swear to God the French high command was just sleeping during this offensive.
    Just one little complaint, I think that no divisions should have the same color outlined as the front line. It would be better if German panzers were just black.

    • @miniaturejayhawk8702
      @miniaturejayhawk8702 4 роки тому +1

      1. The Armoured Divisions were black
      2. They also had a red border to mark them

    • @General_Townes
      @General_Townes 4 роки тому

      @@miniaturejayhawk8702 yes, i was talking about the red outline of armor divisions being the same color as the front line that they were penetrating.

    • @ExHyperion
      @ExHyperion 4 роки тому

      By the speed at which the invasion happened it might as well have happened overnight lmao

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims 4 роки тому

      Not true, the high command acknowledged the threat the panzers posed very quickly, the problem was the shite French doctrine of “sit thumb in ass until orders come from command” while the orders go through dogshit communication systems, the French forces were never able to properly mount the multiple counterattacks that were ordered but by the time the order got there it was beyond too late, CAs were ordered at the Meuse, near Cambri, Arras (which the British actually began) and more

  • @darkfunewolfcoop6768
    @darkfunewolfcoop6768 4 роки тому +50

    France with full army: _Lose in 44 day_
    3 thousand French in Africa: *_Literally stand against Rommel and italien alone, while britain was removing to win the batlle of El Alamein_*

    • @dedblin8256
      @dedblin8256 4 роки тому +1

      @@lucasdsp4470 wow, your grandpa was a badass, he did everything he could to defend his country, something their head of state snd most generals didn't wanted to

    • @dedblin8256
      @dedblin8256 4 роки тому +1

      @@lucasdsp4470 Passez une merveilleuse journée

    • @Benito-Musolesi
      @Benito-Musolesi 4 роки тому +2

      @@lucasdsp4470 were not french but only legion etrange.
      If was french legion surrendered with not fight
      Like today with islamucs attaks

    • @user-wh8mb7tm2g
      @user-wh8mb7tm2g 4 роки тому +1

      @@Benito-Musolesi there were many Frenchmen in the Legion, and still are many

    • @user-wh8mb7tm2g
      @user-wh8mb7tm2g 4 роки тому +6

      @Primera Espada not a nation of warriors eh? You do realise France has the best military record in the world right? And won the most wars against nearly all European countries, you clearly have something against the French your comment is just idiotic and wake up refugees are everywhere in Europe not just in France

  • @habibi1913
    @habibi1913 4 роки тому +34

    When she says her parents aren’t home but she’s in France.

  • @dankeykang868
    @dankeykang868 4 роки тому +31

    "...from my ww2 Channel"
    Spartacus got stabbed in the back

  • @chairmanofrussia
    @chairmanofrussia 4 роки тому +19

    The french were too slow to react. Their units move slower and only to react. No wonder we lost.

    • @googlesucks7840
      @googlesucks7840 4 роки тому +1

      The Ardennes.

    • @rogermichou8654
      @rogermichou8654 2 роки тому

      The french were too slow to react mostly becausen unlike us, German troops communicated with radios. the French were very reluctant to use radios, which made them even slower. As a matter of fact, the Germans had assessed before the campaign that the French would be slow in part because they emphasized communications security, which meant that they had few radios or other means of receiving urgent orders.83 They were right: to prevent communications intercepts, the French privileged the phone, along with telegrams and couriers.84 Because of this and the above-mentioned doctrinal elements and their byproducts, the French reaction time was dreadfully slow

  • @harveywallbanger3123
    @harveywallbanger3123 3 роки тому +2

    Those panzer spearheads are a sight to behold once they get going. It's like a touchdown run in football, all the leg infantry divisions are just chasing in their wake on either side, trying to either exploit their gains or erase them, but neither side is fast enough to catch them.
    Edit: also this is better at 0.5x.

  • @MinorLife10
    @MinorLife10 11 місяців тому +2

    0:45 that jumpscare got me

  • @Shyrunder
    @Shyrunder 4 роки тому +8

    10 May, Allies had 135 divisions (86 were french), Germany had 141 divisions.
    5 June, France was alone with 60 divisions, Germany had 130.
    10 May -> 5 June : France killed 2.500 Germans per day.
    5 June -> 25 June : France killed 5.000 Germans per day, alone, with less tank, air support and equipment.
    Germans tried but never passed through the Ligne Maginot.
    France have loses 290.000 soldiers, Germany 165.000.
    No, France didn't surrender without fighting.

    • @RouGeZH
      @RouGeZH 4 роки тому +1

      It's 165,000 "losses" not "killed".
      Only 50,000 Germans died, and some of them were not killed by the French but by the Dutch/Belgian/British.

  • @TRtraybloxeey
    @TRtraybloxeey 4 роки тому +4

    Dude... this is extremely well-made, I love this.

  • @usernamesareoverrated7246
    @usernamesareoverrated7246 3 роки тому +5

    When you are invading France at 9 but have to hang out with Hans at 10

  • @MFPofficer1983
    @MFPofficer1983 Рік тому +2

    you can tell how chaotic France was after Paris was occupied, especially with all the divisions mapped out 0:37

  • @romawar
    @romawar 4 роки тому +18

    Battle for Denmark: Each second is minute

  • @dyslexicbatnam1350
    @dyslexicbatnam1350 4 роки тому +5

    It's insane that you managed to make this in exact real time

  • @GriquaChief
    @GriquaChief 4 роки тому +3

    Hi Indy. This is amazing work. I just wanted to point out that two major French actions are not shown on your map. One is an offensive led by General De Lattre de Tassigny along the Aisne river around 6-7 June which pushed back the Germans by around 10-20 km (and probably produced the last haul of German POWs by the French during the campaign). The second is the halting of the German advance down the Rhone river around Voreppe by improvised batteries of the Armee des Alpes. The (limited) French historiography of the campaign makes a big deal of that one, probably without exageration. It would also perhaps do justice to the latter army formation to show on your map how they largely contained Italian offensives, although the Italians eventually gained some ground and took Menton. But thanks for that massive piece of research!

  • @breakingmad2645
    @breakingmad2645 4 роки тому +7

    “Sir, the nazis are invading France”
    “NO! Not our buildings!”

  • @dirt1504
    @dirt1504 4 роки тому +3

    Good job on 200k

  • @Sprottel_SFM
    @Sprottel_SFM 4 роки тому +44

    Wow you could actually see the hole in the ardennes that the french left open

    • @googlesucks7840
      @googlesucks7840 4 роки тому +2

      Yep, the same happened again during the Battle of the Bulge.

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims 4 роки тому +7

      @@googlesucks7840 they didn’t “leave it open”, their forces were concentrated in the French countryside west of the Meuse, the Ardennes was terrain that was full of rolling hills shite roads and dense vegetation, had the allied air forces assaulted the spotted Panzer Corps (multiple spots) more significantly while the Luftwaffe was focused on Army Group B’s sector, that push may not have gone so well

    • @googlesucks7840
      @googlesucks7840 4 роки тому +1

      @@looinrims "Had".

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims 3 роки тому +2

      @I hate both dogs and cats equally unlikely considering by day 4 the French were (trying) to attack, they just had no reserves, who were they going to use to attack?

    • @splatm4n8
      @splatm4n8 3 роки тому

      @@looinrims Actually east of that area where the Germans broke through was a larger concentration of more experienced and veteran French soldiers. But the retard that was commanding that area the French army held, Charles Huntziger, decided to but the B reserves where the Germans were coming through. Huntziger is the major reason for why the Germans were able to easily break through over the Meuse river. But the idiot that he was, he lied, he completely refused air support whatsoever that other commanders were offering him (which he badly needed), and he also put the wrong units in the wrong places at the wrong time. Many of other French commanders are part of blame for the French defeat, but Huntziger was the real main instigator.

  • @seanrackard3289
    @seanrackard3289 3 роки тому +13

    "The Fall of Paris"
    "France has capitulated"

  • @yungstallion2201
    @yungstallion2201 4 роки тому +1

    WW1 Germany: Invades Belgium
    WW2 France: Lets not fortify Belgium
    WW2 Germany: Does it again

    • @mission101
      @mission101 4 роки тому

      Yung Stallion Belgium didn’t let them because it was a sign of breaking peace. Basically restricting your access to your allies. To Belgium it would have looked like France was saying “yeah you guys can die to Germany but we’ll be safe over here”

  • @amir_artur
    @amir_artur 4 роки тому +37

    Battle of France: 44 days in total
    Siege of Pavlov's House in Stalingrad: 58 days in total

    • @gatearrow505
      @gatearrow505 4 роки тому +5

      Nothing comparable...

    • @JC-zx2wv
      @JC-zx2wv 4 роки тому +3

      Siege of Napoleon France ??? almost 20 years, Europe 1vs7 can't defeat us for 20 years
      Glory to Napoleon and France
      Vive la France et vive l'Empereur

    • @amir_artur
      @amir_artur 4 роки тому

      @@JC-zx2wv Siege of Mongol Empire lasted about two-three hundred years with your brilliant logic. Noone could defeat Mongols.

    • @user-im3qu5ur7m
      @user-im3qu5ur7m 4 роки тому

      @@amir_artur Napoleonic France was in constant war unlike the Mongols

    • @user-im3qu5ur7m
      @user-im3qu5ur7m 4 роки тому +3

      In first 44 days of war USSR lost twice as much land as France

  • @Archistrategos11
    @Archistrategos11 4 роки тому +5

    It's amazing to see how little the allied armies did. The only advance was the initial rush into friendly territory, and then it was just falling back in the face of the German war machine. No counter attacks, no flanking, no exploiting gaps, just sitting there and waiting.

    • @noidea5984
      @noidea5984 2 роки тому

      They were many attemps of counter attack but all failed, like in the battle of Montcornet one of the rare victory that ended in a withdraw due to logistic issues.

  • @Foxeen515
    @Foxeen515 4 роки тому +2

    I love how we can see french people panicking and moving everywhere but without being at the front. I really wonder how we managed to loose se incredibly. Also when the north gets cornered and we just stay there looking. That's just sad.
    I also love how only 3 battalions captured all of Britania. XD

  • @TheKenji2221
    @TheKenji2221 4 роки тому +8

    For those who wanna make jokes about the fall of France. Know that at the beginning the plan was to hold with the help of the Belgium. But at the last minute they retired from the alliance and gave up, leaving a huge hole in the defenses the French and Brits barely had any time to prepare and hold.
    Statistically speaking, the battle of France was one of the worst for Germany until the battle of Russia. As they lost more than half of their army, delaying the attack on the UK for a whole year. Giving them plenty of time to prepare their defenses.
    That and the Ardennes

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims 4 роки тому

      “As they lost more than half of their army” what are you even on about? The Germans lost 20,000 men and had 112,000 wounded in the army, this was similar to the polish campaign, except Poland wasn’t a coalition of two of the world’s leading militaries with 3 other nations in support
      “delayed the attack on the UK” you wot there never could’ve been an attack on the UK, the navy was reduced to a shell in surface ships, not to mention the Germans assumed Britain would make peace after the French defeat, and didn’t have an invasion plan ready until mid summer 1940, and even then it was dogshit and ultimately scrapped

    • @TheKenji2221
      @TheKenji2221 4 роки тому

      @@looinrims
      Except an army isn't only about men but also materials ;)

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims 4 роки тому

      @@TheKenji2221 you mean the massive material boost when the BEF was effectively disarmed after their evacuation? Or the you know, entire nation’s resources they now had not only access but land access to? Yeah I know, but you still haven’t exactly clarified your asinine “half the army” statement

    • @TheKenji2221
      @TheKenji2221 4 роки тому

      @@looinrims
      Look at official reports from the German army stating their losses in the Luftwaffe made them delay their attack on UK for an entire year to rebuild what their have lost in France. Giving UK plenty of time to bunker up.
      Doesn't matter the army size nor ressources. If the material is gone, it takes time to replace.
      And Germans aren't known for being fast producers like the US

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims 4 роки тому

      @@TheKenji2221 “they delayed for a year” the battle for Britain was in summer 1940, France fell proper on June 5th I think, what delay are you on about?
      The navy still would be unable to attack, the navy could not meet the army’s requirement of landing 23 divisions in the first wave
      And still, please explain this “half of the army” shit, 20,000 is a third of a minimum authorized strength for a German army

  • @InvertedGigachad
    @InvertedGigachad 4 роки тому +5

    Making it more than 10 mins for ad revenue: _weak_
    Making it as short as 1 minute for the meme factor: *strong*

  • @nedweinert6076
    @nedweinert6076 4 роки тому +9

    Looking great

  • @alphamikeomega5728
    @alphamikeomega5728 2 роки тому +4

    People kept saying that the war in Ukraine was barely getting started: after all, the Battle of France lasted six weeks and is considered quick. So I decided to re-watch this video.

  • @blitzcrieg101
    @blitzcrieg101 3 роки тому +3

    France: "We are a world power! It will take fire and brimstone to beat us!"
    Germany: vroom vroooom!

  • @supremebossa7534
    @supremebossa7534 4 роки тому +9

    French High Command after getting encircled: We got nothing... So let’s do nothing

  • @aerohydreigon1101
    @aerohydreigon1101 4 роки тому +4

    Credits to the German 7th and 5th divisions 0:41
    The 5th conquered all of Brittany on it's own in around 3 days
    The 7th conquered all of Normandy (the peninsula) on it's own in around 2 days

  • @Masukutonkatsu
    @Masukutonkatsu 4 роки тому +5

    I love how French Armor Retreats faster than a Supersonic Jet

  • @paulbrower4265
    @paulbrower4265 3 роки тому +2

    It looks as if the French had far less armor than the Germans, and German armor sliced through overstretched French infantry once the Germans sealed the Calais-Dunkirk-Ostend pocket.

    • @elkpants1280
      @elkpants1280 3 роки тому

      The French actually had more tanks but their doctrine suffered from tanks being generally spread amongst infantry battalions, whereas the Germans always concentrated their armor. This meant that although numerically inferior, the Germans usually fought with locally superior numbers. See defeat in detail for more, and the quote “one strikes with a closed hand” comes to mind

  • @focuz6429
    @focuz6429 4 роки тому +7

    0:11
    I'm Gonna Do What's Called a Pro Gamer Move