10. Breakthrough at Sedan
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2018
- With this video we present you the tactical situation during the decisive battle of Sedan in 1940.
Sources:
To Lose a Battle: France 1940
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The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West
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Sedan is just not a lucky place for the French .
General Huntziger is literally the reason for all the stratigic and tactical errors/mistakes the French take during this breakthrough. In fact, he is the one that actually ordered the 55th to retreat which left a lot of material just laying around.
And after the defeat, he collaborated with the nazis. Makes you wonder if he threw on purpose.
OMG it's the Simple History commentary guy!
Guderian was a Genius...And he told he was in his book!
Manstein was a genius
Guderian a good reader....
He digested British captain sir basil liddell harts Book of the Early 1920s on tank warfare in the future.
A great soldier yes a gifted tactician yes.....but genius belongs
Solely to von Manstein.
His book is really great, I recommend it.
Funny.
I've got his book and read it twice.
That's not at all my impression.
But then again, I'm unbiased.
Unlike 1 and 40 others.
French border Officer : Occupation?
German Tourist: No no, just visiting
Same with Germany.
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Walter Rubarth - a name u rarely hear but who changed history for ever
Battle of Stonne? Or Abbeville? Or Hannut? Or Gembloux? Or Blaregnies?
Maybe the Campaign of Norway?
Please?
Hannut would be really cool!
Data source : * Gervase Phillips is Senior Lecturer in History at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK).
Damn. I thought this video would be about Napoleon III's capture.
Voice from simple history?
yes
Fantastic! Have you considered the battle of Hannut?
Of course. I was between Hannut and Sedan during the production of this episode. Of settled with Sedan eventually. But the campaign in France offers many interesting battles.
Sedan was definetly more decisive, but Hannut is interesting because it seemed to show the French were just as good as the Germans when facing them head on with equal forces.
It would be better if we had a map about the situation of the western front and battle order of both sides. Anyway, great work
During the interwar period, the French invested in defensive fortifications, with the Maginot Line, along the Franco-German border. This decision has often been ridiculed on the pretext that it revealed a defeatist attitude. But, France being less populated than Germany, it could not hope to compete with its only army. The fortifications were to compensate for this imbalance. The Maginot Line was intended to protect the industrial heart of France from a lightning attack by the Germans and to create a funnel in Belgium to slow the German invasion, and at first it worked.
But the German army won the campaign of May and June 1940 thanks to its daring "sickle strike" in the Ardennes forest, which was deemed impassable by the Allied commanders. The British, French and Belgian armies were surrounded to the north, suffering heavy defeat.
French strategic planning is largely responsible for this catastrophe, but let us not forget that it was an Allied defeat, not just a French defeat. With the Dutch and Belgians reluctant to risk their neutrality, there was little coordination with them, which facilitated the German attack. As for the British, they let France pay the price for the land war without giving it much support.
The British Expeditionary Force in 1940 consisted of only 12 divisions. By 1918, there had been as many as 59. No wonder, then, that Nazi propaganda used to mock its enemies by claiming that the British were "determined to fight until the death of the last. French ”.
The "miracle" of Dunkirk
Although their generals were overtaken in 1940, the French troops fought with courage and skill. For example, during the Battle of Gembloux - May 14-15, 1940 - the First French Army succeeded in repelling German assaults on numerous occasions, gaining time so that their comrades and allies could withdraw. Without such rearguard actions, there would have been no “Dunkirk miracle” and the war could have been lost in 1940.
After crossing the Meuse, the German Panzer divisions had only to travel 240 km towards the Channel coast to trap the Allied forces - 1.8 million French soldiers were captured and 90,000 killed or wounded.
Data source : * Gervase Phillips is Senior Lecturer in History at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK).
Maybe I researched wrong but the Census for 1939 shows France clearly with a larger population than Germany. I don't agree with the fact that the UK gave little support. Smaller army and population the UK vested heavily in France with its BEF, using up most of its heavy motorized equipment. In fact, if Germany just invaded N. Africa a month or two after the fall of France, I don't think the UK holds Egypt at all. Yes, the French held firm but the Germans also stopped their advance. In the end, the Germans should have finished the UK off by taking Egypt and Malta 1940-41. His casualty figures are also different.
Germany literally built the Siegfried Line and countless Defensive Lines in Netherlands and Belgium. I think you got conned by that lecturer.
So heavy lackcomunication and overall big mistakes in the field led to french defeat
lack of communication and operational mistakes are the primary causes of all defeats
Comments And Likes well in general it is but the main factor was many highly skilled officers and soldiers in the French army, started to desert/leave due to the government’s incompetence
Do Battle of Odzak. That battle was epic
Many in the French General staff were executed after the war for treason, take a look again at the move around the Maginot line in which the breakthrough was allowed. Beginning to make sense from that informed perspective?
Correction - there were no Panzer Corps in 1940. These were listed as Army Corps (Motorised).
So
Accuracy matters, obviously. Otherwise, you'd have George Patton winning the battle of Thermopylae at the head of his Chinese elephants.
Intro music?
Wunderbar!
The narrator's voice is similar to simple history's narrator
thats because it's him.
Really!!
Narrator of simple history
8:24 : It's over frenchmen! I have the highground.
You underestimate my POWAH!
Cool video thank you for upload it.
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World War II - Day by Day sure
Germany: exists
France: *retreats* 8:42
Hey simple history
yes
Blocking out the flags is stupid
I see why they say the french tanks go faster in reverse.
french tank manage to beat germans severeal time in 1940
oh and they just destoyed germany in 1918
but yeah if you prefere stereotype
Why would you open up the front WTF moving your troops South of the Magino line Lol and allow the Germans to continue it's advance
Which led to Dunkirk and the fall of France, yet the french still blame Britain for their losses. Britian evacuated because of the Sedan defeat due to France creating a gap.
WAhnsinn-Der Mansteinsche Invasionsplan für Frankreich wird ebenfalls diskutiert.-Danke.
There were no bunkers on the Marfee Hights, just field fortifications and the artillery only started its hasty withdrawal after the first German bridgeheads had been established across the Meuse. For the counter attack you give units you previously declare having routed, it's one or the other, both is impossible. Obviosly the answer is that those divisions had not entirely left the field. Note, the 4th and 7th BCC were equuipped with FCM36 armed only with infantry guns which meant they were only slightly more apt for tank battle than the German PzKpfW Is. And then the hero worship, Guderain commanded three divisions and his role was indeed important, but Rommel had only one and his role was no grander than that of two unnamed two corps commanders and five division commanders. And indeed, the pronounciation of French and Belgian locations and words is really bad and makes following your narrative tough. In short you got a lot right, but also some important facts wrong. Oh and as to the German heroism, it's not that hard to assault bunkers without steel doors and blinds with hand grenades ;-) ...
What a mistake ^^
3:36
5:38
What most people don't realise white flags are standard issue equipment for all French soldiers
It is the most effective weapon the French ever had tbh 😂😂😂
Not good France 🇫🇷
Disastrous!
It is despicable to watch how poor fighters French were. Their performance was shameful from commanders to soldiers. Execution squads should had rounded up few hundred men for execution for this travesty.
The belgium, british dutch danish norvegians and polish did nothing better in 1940.
@@joshuaforeman6130First of all, who was fighting with WW1 tactics? Secondly, there wasn't any large tank action to begin with. Breach was made primary with infantry. Thirdly, I'm talking about their will to fight. French did not bothered to properly stay and defend the area, furthermore they had spread panic and lies among chain of command. Where others would had stood there and died, French retreated thus creating a gap for armoured divisions to pour through.
They actually tried to do their job but they had outdated equipment, little to no aircraft and little to no tanks in the area and they had a lot of problem regarding the chain of command, because after WWI a lot of officials retired or had to be dismissed for PTSD.
The WWI mentality was actually reasonable but they didn’t protect the Ardennes and the area near the Belgium .
The french may have suffered from poor leadership and a refusal to believe the ardennes could be traveled through by tanks(just like the BEF) they fought hard to keep dunkirk secure. Look up the siege of lille where elements of 5 french division numbering around 30,000 men held 7 german divisions of about 160,000 men along with 2 panzer divisions. The french rear guard fought and died against superior numbers to keep pressure off the dunkirk invasion, and without them nearly all of the British army would have been wiped out at dunkirk.
read something about case red .The french can still do some solid performance