Rome Has Fallen: Italy's Calamitous Campaign In WW2 | World War II in Colour | War Stories
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2024
- Benito Mussolini led Italy to war in 1940, in part to build an Italian Empire and in part to side with his ally Adolf Hitler. What would follow would be a disastrous campaign on all fronts, marked by heavy losses and easy defeats despite having superior numbers. How did these bold ambitions translate into being nothing but a burden on the Nazi war machine?
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Wow, haven’t seen WWII in Colour in years. Used to play on the Military Channel daily.
It was on Netflix for a fairly long time - I've probably watched the series a dozen times. A shame Netflix took it away.
One of my favorite ww2 documentaries
Netflix has a new one in color hd ww2 from the front lines
Many a night watching these lol
Extremely wonderful historical coverage video...thanks for sharing
In a very general overview, Mussolini's empire expansion collapsed due to the following: (1) Italy was not yet a fully industrialized country like Britain and Germany (2) the Italian people and the Italian military were not fully supportive of empire building.
Correct. Horses still performed the bulk of haulage.
@@simonf8902that was true for all but the U.S. army even the Soviets relied on horses and Germany was as well.
Few armies at the time had the vehicles and the logistics to support both the repair and fueling of entirely truck based forcesz
@@icecoldpolitics8890Italians at the time still have ww1 weapons…not much and bad. Soldiers are good it s only they lack weapons
@@icecoldpolitics8890in the Italian army they haven t also the horses , soldiers move on theyr foots
WoW ...a Afrika Korp film that isn't Blurry, Dark and chopped to pieces. 🤓😉
20:49 yeah nah. We’ll never get that on YT.
You're 12
"El-Alamein" almost sounds like Spanish for "The German"
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Great documentary, the coloured footage looks great
very good documentary. 🙂
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Unfortunately, this documentary is lacking a lot in information such as dates and names.
I wouldn't remember names and dates anyways
It’s mostly meant as an overview.
Starts out with Mussolini and his ambitions, then spends about 40 minutes talking about the Germans with sprinkles of Italian actions in between, lol.
thats what your mom told me last night too, when her mouth wasnt full
History hits is bad with their pathetic clickbait titles
@@jefferystutsman6419Shut up, Jeffrey.
You're right, Giano. It's called clickbait. It gets everyone! But this part of the war is rarely covered. I still found it interesting. People say Germany fought a 2 front war but it was actually a 3 front war - for them.
But I too wanted to watch about Nero.
That’s because the Italians were useless what else is there to discuss?
If you remember the Dennis Miller Millennium Special he mentioned Benito "Hey! Wait Up Guys!" Mussolini. 😁
Y’all forgot to mention they were called the Rats of Tobruk
Mussolini was not toppled by a popular uprising though everyone rejoyced but by his own underlings
50:42 he wad captured by Italian partisan forces and s*ot.
His underlungs were half of the country
Like Caesar Augustus...¿Et Tu, Brutus?
Is it just me, or does Mussolini not look EXACTLY Like Marlon Brando when he played Colonel Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now?"
The resemblance is uncanny....
That cliff was getting levelled and annihilated differently. Taking that cliff and fortress down helped the allies break the gustav line.
Actually, no, it didn't. The bombing of the monastery, along with the town, created hundreds of tons of rubble that blocked Allied forces and gave cover to the German paratroopers (known as Green Helmets). It was the Gourmiers or North African mountain troops who led the French Expeditionary Force up the supposedly unclimable heights around Casino and into the German rear that led to the breaking of the line.
People say Germany fought a 2 front war but they actually fought a 3 front war.
Shocked this hasn't been claimed
Why should it be?
A bit of a minor correction: It was the heroic Australian 9th Division which fought a defensive battle at Tobruk to be nicknamed "The Desert Rats" and they were commanded by Major-General Leslie Morshed.
I think there were a couple of take overs of Tobruk, Germany came back after the Australians left, to my understanding. There were also many other allies involved in North Africa, and a lot of to-ing and fro-ing on both sides - logistics and all that.
42:47 Say HIS name! ALAN TURING!!
ALAN TURING!
ALAN MATHISON TURING!!!!
Calm down
The UK had the advantage except in Greece, naval domination decides who get supplies and/or reinfocements overseas.
Taking Malta instead of Crete could have been a game changer. Still the UK fleet did show it was brave and sharper than the enemies more than once so...
youtube trying to re-write history, shame on youtube. blurring the images like that is criminally disrespectful, to say the every least.
This was more like a general overview of the North Africa campaign!
The music while people talk ruins it foe me. It's too overpowering.
A neutral Italy might have been a bigger boon to the Germans. They could act like The Netherlands acted in WW1, a great place to get goods from and stay connected to the worlds trade.
Ive heard old-timers talk about "Anzio" but it was much worse than they said. They did talk about Anzio being a bad deal but not too much. They played it down a bit to keep from sounding like whiners.
It has now been revealed to me that all of this was going on while the Axis was advancing toward Stalingrad. Imagine if Italy had just held serve...
Operation mincemeat also mentioned Greece was the target.
Beaten off eh ;)
The 3 GLADIATOR Fighters: The famous FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY!
Mussolini had ambitions, his troops didn't.
His troops were based
His troops were bad commanded and bad equipped most of the times, i'm italian and studied our ww2 for quite a time.
We had good soldiers but bad commanders in field and bad politicians calling the shots
Starting at 40:05 -- watch the Germans smiling as they march into captivity.
They just realized they are going to survive this war.
Read "TIMELINE WW2 "...The Germans complained about fighting for a few yards of desert "Even the poorest Arab didn't want".
Wasn't Rommel in Germany during the second battle of El Alamein?
No. He was in North Africa and in command of the Afrika Corps.
Violent Gibson, almost ended his career in 1926.
thumbs down for censor stories
Doesn't matter, listen and enjoy
@@Episode_13 It does matter. My countrymen fought and died and should be respected. It doesn't matter to you, but it matters to me, to my father, to my grandfather, and their fathers, and to all other military men of the United Kingdom and her allies. I don't care about the lick of paint you want to portray it under in the current year political landscape, I want to see an uncensored historical documentary that has been shown in the past uncensored, as it was shown when it was released. It's essentially revising history. If it didn't matter then the documentary would not have included them at all, and something tells me you didn't make this documentary and have no station to speak on its behalf.
@@RyanWilson-qy7kb what are you talking about, my late Nonno was Sicilian, came to the UK after the 2nd world war. Please remember this is UA-cam it will always be censored you plum! Wake up!
@@RyanWilson-qy7kb it's on youtube buddy, chill please, just enjoy it as an educational piece, youtube is automatically censored Ryan. Common sense.
@@Episode_13 true lol you're right man
1 man that was the real threat to the peace ans security of Europe and that was Richard Coudenhove Kalergi...
Italians taking Ls on two different continents is crazy
👎 Sorry this video just doesn't cut the cake as it wasn't about Italy at war at all. The story also skips over some very other strategic events like the Coup in Yugoslavia or the Italian 8th Army in Russia or the Italian Navy's contribution to the U-Boat War in the Atlantic Ocean just to name a few. Also, the Tile was spelled wrong, it should have been Campaign's and not Campaign.
WWII in Color
Japanese plane at 9:30 for some reason
The problem with Italy in the Second World War was that Mussolini did not invest in modernizing his army, contrary to what Germany did, the Italian industry was poor at the time, if he had modernized his army perhaps the story would have been different... In the Second World War, Italy used weapons from the First War.
Poland...the reason Germany started the war. Italy- the reason the Germans lost the war.
too much pasta
Mussolini's army had been used to battling easy targets like Ethiopia. He nor his generals thought Africa would b a piece of cake.
Italy suffered a lot in WW2 with nothing to show for it but humiliation 😅
Hilarious......
The average Italian then was not interested in empire building. On the contrary, the average German then had racial/ethnic animosity and deep resentment especially towards Britain and France after WWI.
@SpockvsMcCoy so did italians due to mutilated victory
why did 14 people choose to vote this up? it looks like it was written by a child
They got a few goood hits in againt the Americans too. At least they stood up to the bully of the times. UK
for a show supposedly about Italy in WW2 it sure is lacking in information about the Italians, basically nothing about the Italian Armor that was always with the Germans. The massive army that they sent into Russia, nor anything about the Italian surrender and switching sides and the formation of a new army that fought along with the allies, along with the reformation of the Italian axis army that also fought with the Germans.
There was no side switching, Italy surrendered to the allies but didn't side with them, then germany invaded italy and italy defended herself
@@riccardomallardo7779 then what do you call the Italian Co-belligerent Army? There also is the army of the Italian Social Republic on the Germans side. You have Italian's on both sides of the conflict so somebody switched sides.
@@geralddrake3002 the italian cobelligerent army was fighting against germany because germany invaded italy, that's not side switching, if germany wouldn't have invaded italy there would've never been a cobelligerent army
I only had to read the description to know it was another propaganda load o'crap about Italy's role so didn't even watch. I would have bet a million it's British, and listened for 10 seconds and yep, sure enough.
Italy had a civil war, they didnt just change sides
The Italian soldiers were as brave as any other combatant in WW2. They were let down by the goverment and the Italian industry. They weren't useless. That is a big misconception.
You are right, they weren’t just useless, they were extremely, incredibly, useless.
@@sandienochs6132 not at all, look up theyre voctories. they beat the yanks at Kasserine pass.. The alpini held the stalingrad front open to the last man so a lot of axis troops could escape, the Decima mas frogmen at Malta, They sunk a few allied warships. Rommel praised the Bersaglieri, Stalin praised the Alpini.
Italy went to war over a desert. That shows in and of itself, the folly of Mussolini. The fact that he actually thought it was a good idea, to sacrifice troops and resources over a desert, shows that they would fail as an empire. Typically when countries go to war, they do it for resources or land, or riches. Libia at the time, had nothing. Egypt had much of the same.
It was to disrupt British colonies and reestablish the Roman Empire trust if the Brit’s are there colonizing the place there is definitely wealth and resources it’s way too complicated for your small mind 😅
They would had complete control of the Mediterranean Sea, suez canel, red sea and Nile river plus do you know how many natural resources there are in Sudan plus the oil ? Then cheap labor. They would make bank from owning and controlling all those trade ports.
What did Qaddafi do to nato again???
"Just a desert"
So much ignorance in those 3 words
Italy went to war over the Suez canal, it's a peninsula in the mediterrean, a sea with only two entrances and both controlled by britain, for Italy it was necessary to control those entrances
Hmmm this started out about the
Italians then went to a drawn out documentary about Rommel fight the British… talk about getting off the point of your video
Rommel got there to help out the Italians so it's quite relevant to Italian failure
The Maltese People were forced to be bombed and die because of British Imperialism, and no trinkets offered as rewards will ever be worthy of the Maltese lives lost.
Lots of maltesi sided with italy as well, carmelo borg pisani most notably
If Italy didn't declare war on Britain in the summer of 1940 there wouldn't have been any fighting over Malta.
STOP CENSORING HISTORY FFS!!!
Looks very much like a British Pathé propaganda movie from WW2, only in colour
Why? Does it only show one side of the story?
@@safatkarim630 absolutely. It only focuses on Italy's failures but there were British failures too, and (strange as this may sound) a few Italian major successes. For instance, between June 1940 and early 1943 Italian ships successfully carried across the strait of Sicily some 90% of the supplies/personnel for the Axis forces in N-Africa. The fact that the Royal Navy did not manage to disrupt Italian naval lanes to and from Lybia (except for a few periods) was a serious setback. It was not 'spectacular' like the Italian defeat at Matapan, but it was a major failure. And, I could go on. You won't find any mention of this on the YT videos such as this one.
PS. I am not stating that Italy's overall performance was good, far from me. I am saying that WW2 has ended 60 years ago. A more balanced approach would be appropriate, I think.
@@triumphbobberbikerWhy would it be a major failure it was in Italys back garden while Britain was hundred of miles away?
Why is this censored? Is there anywhere I can watch this as the documentary makers intended, uncensored? Shame on UA-cam for trying to revise history.
What is getting censored?
Thank you Italy for shortening the war with your balless performance. Lost to Ethiopia at Adawa in 1896, lost in North Africa.......Well, at least you guys make good ice-cream.
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The Germanic "Barbarians" dividing Italy again!
45:56
It was your own fault. Don’t start a war you can’t win in future 😂
Rocky!
SOVIET UNION: We suffered human casualties.
BRITAIN/FRANCE: We suffered our colonial possessions.
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ITALY: We suffered epic HUMILIATION !!!!!!
I think the Italians wanted Italy to be a great nation again, but not a grasping, warmongering empire and I think that shows in their meh fighting performance.
The German paras "Fallschmjager" fought on Mount Cassinno and moved deep into the cellars to escape aerial bombing by B-26's. Even the Brits were impressed because they popped in and out of the cellars to fight on.
Italians lost because they didn't have pith helmets
The Italians were very useful as POW s. The brits turned most of them into cooks..
Stereotype
This is a very fine documentary, but for the sake of presenting the documentary, it lacks the granular details of the events its covered.
28/10 /40 εισβολή στην Ελλάδα. Κορόιδο Μουσολίνι
Greece after ww2. Mock Greece.
Ugh. Interrupted by a Biden donation pitch.
The Australian victory at Bardia was an incredible feat. 16000 Australians armed only with rifles, grenades and two machine guns captured a heavily fortified garrison, attacking over open ground through kilometres thick barbed wire, mines and trenches to kill thousands of Italian troops, take 36000 prisoners, and take hundreds of tanks, guns and vehicles for the loss of 132 troops.
The British claim it as their victory but they barely made a guest appearance, had nothing to do with the planning, finance or command and at various times during the three day battle, refused to fight. Their losses consisted of repeated mechanical breakdowns of 90% of their tanks which had been babied into position by Australian infantry using wire cutters and filling in tank traps by hand. It’s ludicrous to claim that Britain made a contribution and the American press rightly condemned them for claiming a whopping great lie despite Churchill’s protestations otherwise.
True. Conversely however, Singapore is referred to as a 'British' defeat and the biggest surrender of 'British' troops in history..... yet most of them were from the Commonwealth and weren't 'British' troops.
It works both ways.
Biplanes?🤣😂🤣
Mussolini should have made like Franco and stayed neutral.
Everyone makes fun of the French actions during WWII but the Italians … dude they really should be the ones that should be shamed.
Italy is already joked about, and quite too much
Neither should really be shamed.
Totally misleading title, this is purely the African campaign, nothing to do with the fall of Rome
dont mess with the royal navy el duce
The italian navy was almost on par with it, only the army sucked, it only took 6 frogmen to cripple the british navy for months
Why did they suck
Supplies mostly terrible tanks guns that didn't work italian soldiers were very good tho like the French just lacked weapons
A grossly outdated military, combined with a poor officer class, topped off by a lack of supplies and materiel to wage the war Mussolini wanted to fight.
Because they were even worse than the French!
@@johnbarlow1428 they werent as bad as the propaganda says.
With what I know today we should have supported the Germans then.
Churchill irritates me🤣😂
Italians were terible.So were the Romanians.
In Russia,..everytime the Russians would attack or counter attack the Italins would completely fall apart as fighting force,Almost instantly. This are German testimonies.
Italy bought glass bottom boats so they could see their Air Force……
They then lent them to the brits so that they can see their ships in alexandria
@@riccardomallardo7779 and Malta
Italy shouldn’t have gotten rid of Mussolini.
Lol
Why?
How in the world Italians ever conquered anyone just tells me how awful their opposition.. French are even better than italians
Did Mussolini speak German?
4 WWI planes held of the Italian Air Force? This is why Italian jokes exist😎
“ Italian resistance “ … funny
It almost looks like Italian conscripts were first taught how to stylishly throw down their weapons and throw up their hands !!!
From the Roman Empire to the Italian States to WWI failure to Mussolini… uuughhh
At least y’all gave us pizza, pasta, the mafia, o yes Columbus, wife beater undershirts, and….. ???
All of western civilization, you're welcome
add up all the American military failures since ww2
Even the Greeks!!! Damn😂
American Sherman tanks had arrived- you’re welcome
While the US Army sat and waited for nearly a year. America was in the war against Germany and Italy in December 1941. Didn't cross the Atlantic until November 1942.
Just remeber if the US didnt go to war europe would still be speaking german today😢
Germany had already begun failing then started losing before the USA had any significant role against them.
The US Army didnt even cross the Atlantic until AFTER El Alamein and Stalingrad were decided.
It was the British and Commonwealth who won the Battle of Britain and Battle of the Atlantic.
lol. At Stalingrad alone the Germans lost more men than all the western front.
There is very little about Italy. Perhaps a different title based on the German Battles in the Mediterranean?