World War II, Western Front 1940, Every Hour
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- World War II on the Western Front 1940 hour by hour. Enjoy the video.
Total time spent on information retrieval: 6 months.
Time to create a video: 2 months
Not every day (of course :-D)
Details:
The first phase of the German invasion (May 10 - June 4) is relatively high quality and credible. There is only a small number of interpolations. Until the conquest of Paris on June 14, hourly gains can still be considered good. After that, there was a lack of resources and since June 15, interpolations have been around 50%. After June 19, more than 80%. The last days of the invasion must therefore be taken with some reserve. The days should be right.
Due to a lack of good information, I ended hourly gains when the French government signed an armistice. The Germans continued to advance until June 27, when they reached the Spanish border. The last fortified sectors and forts surrendered on July 3.
The Italian invasion is then from very high quality sources and can be considered credible.
Sources:
UA-cam videos:
Special thanks to "Jake Mapping" and his Invasion of Luxembourg - Every Hour video ( • Invasion of Luxembourg... )
and "Lyria Mapping" and his The invasion of the Netherlands 1940, every hour video ( • The invasion of the Ne... )
Channels:
Jake Mapping / @jakemapping2868
Lyria Mapping / @lyriamapping
Main sources:
English, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Polish, Czech, Slovak Wikipedia
Invasion of Holland:
www.waroverholl...
Invasion of Belgium
18daagseveldto...
Battles in France
www.picardie-1...
www.ibiblio.or...
German main source
www.lexikon-der...
Books:
Armored Bears Volume One: The German 3rd Panzer Division in World War II - Veterans of the 3rd Panzer Division
Battle for the Escaut, 1940: The France and Flanders Campaign - Jerry Murland
The Battle for the Maginot Line, 1940 - Clayton Donnell
Guderian, vzpomínky generála - Heinz Guderian
Case Red: The Collapse of France - Robert Forczyk
Other sources:
Endless number of different articles on the Internet.
Music:
Music: Audionautix - Over Time, subject to license Creative Commons (creativecommon....
Artist: audionautix.com/
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The video has been reuploaded. I added the German and Italian gains after June 22 until the proclamation of the French State.
It was fast As fak boi
Vichy France?
@m Zaki Banyu , Yes, it is the official name of this state. Vichy France is only a commonly used term.
You had to do every hour since France got sweeped in a record time of 103 days.
@@henryworks9089 France and her allies (Dutch, BEF, Belgians and Luxemburgers) ... France was representing "only" 65 to 70% of the ground forces... BEF which was the alone professiuonal army has been beaten as easily of the so called "cowards" French... BTW the CESM as some of the anglo-saxons (mostly the ignorants) like to refer to us, managed in Lille and in Dunkirk perimeter to resist enough time at a high cost at 10 and somewhere 20 to 1 to permit BEF to reimbark. That IS the most IMPORTANT point there. BEF is the ALONE argument that permits Churchill to impose his only will to continue the fight, it's easy after war to rewrite History, but if France and her allies have been Thrashed (which I don't deny), they fought bravely AND most UK leaders wanted to sue for peace : Churchill was in minority as Chamberlain and Lord Halifax were pressuring him to release the power and give up. it has been proven that british officials (without Churchill consentment) have secretly asked to Germans what would be the term of peace of their own... Without BEF, it 90% sure that Churchill gov would have fallen and that Halifax (or Chamberlain, but highly unprobable), named new prime ministre, he would have negociated a neutral peace.
For a comparison, the despised french cowards (despised by some of the anglo-saxons) lost in six weeks of the campaign of Low countries and France more soldiers than in Verdun 1916 (at his harsher time) the same amount of time... Not so coward finally... French were ill prepared, bad leaded, but they did fight and locally, a bunch of french soldiers gave a fierce fight despite a total superiority of the enemy in term of tactics, number, materials, weapons etc... Many german Generals recognised that the French and the Belgians soldiers at their place gave it all but it was simply not enough. most of prisoners about 90ù of them have been done after the call of petain to stop the fight on radio the 17th of June. French soldiers stopped the fight that day when the armistice was effective the 22nd, BTW the germans, against the terms of the armistice continued to take many prisoners after the 22nd... French army didn't loose 2 millions of prisoners in fight, but far less than 200k, Germans took 2 millions to have some hostages and put pressure on France and avoid her to take the arms again. Armistice is end of armed hostilities not end of war...
For another comparison, french air force has been destroyed at about 65% of its capacities, on the ground the 10 and 11th may. The last fighters on totally outclassed MS 406 gave many fights against 6 to 8 BF 109 (far more modern), they inflicted in six weeks about the same amounts of destruction to luftwaffe that the RAF did in three months during the Blitz in summer 1940. Luftwaffe lost to france and her allies about 40% of her strength, 3/4 of this losses were due to french air force. Luftwaffe missed alot these losses when they began their attack on Britain. Also, half of the german tanks were destroyed or out of order. Numbers easily findable on the net, whatever the nationality of the Historians, they told germans did a ruch, a costly one, a costly win, a terrific win. Another element can explain the german efficiency, they did take drugs to fight harsh and not sleep (another fact proven), it wasn't the case for the allies...
To finish, if the WWI was mainly a french victory with the help (not negligeable) of her allies (I count even Russia despite the defeat, the german soldiers lost there count), WWII was mainly the victory of the Red Army with the help (neither negligeable) of their allies. Also, France had 2 equipped armies on the field in end of 1944, fighting alongside the allies, more than 1 million of fighters which is not nothing. 1 army had the missions to take the french ports stubbornly kept by Wehrmacht and french armoured first army which was fighting on the rhine border. If fighting free french were not numerous, France would have never been "invited" at the victory table as a winner... French expeditionary corp then French 1st army and 2nd armoured div took participated greatly in the breakthrough in italy (Mount Belvedere victroy permitting the fall of both the Monte cassion and the Gustav line), then Paris liberation, Operation Dragoon (liberation of Marseille, Toulon and south and east of France), then the offensin the Ruhr (partly) and the black forest (entirely) till Berchtesgaden (eagle nest). And in Bir hakeim 1942, the french stubborn defense saved the 8th army of Montgomery and Egyp, Suez canal etc... (dixit General Alexander, Churchill, Montgomery, Rommel and numerous other chiefs or leaders).
We French have to be ashamed that french leaders did give up at the first difficulties, and I reassure you, we are ashamed of that, but we have to keep in mind that once the schock passed and the French was just about to think alittle of "recovering", they did fight their best after the terrific defeat of 1940. You can't imagine what occupation means in french collective thought. whatever if you had any idea of it, you would surely understand why the French were sos tubborn to build their own nuke deterrence. Better mutual destruction than another occupation.
This is criminally underrated.
Sorry i dont sprak wrong
Lol
Think it's the music
Just like the Maginot Line
But some mapper likes canadian mapping make shit video but have sub
I love how the front pauses for a break every night, they don't just keep fighting and pushing 24/7.
Soldiers still need to sleep after all. And they don't have night vision equipment at that time.
@@SVASH-hz5ji The germans had night vision equipment. But they were only used late in the war, i think.
The Germans were also using pervatin to make it possible to fight for 3 days straight
@@DAinv. Even then it was very limited and mainly used on tanks and afvs because it was quite heavy
no, it's because the german army have to wait for the infantry; if you were a little bit smarter you'd know that, it's imposible for humans to go this fast
the motorized infantry and panzers were in the fornt line pushing once they did it ; they had to wait until the infantry came, it sometimes took days
Little note, on June 17th Marshall Petain callled on the radio for the French forces to stop fighting, though the armistice was only signed on the 22nd, and only took effect on the 25th. That mean for eight days the French had no idea what they were supposed to do anymore, most surrendered then because they thought the war was over, some still tried to keep fighting but couldn't really do much (with, in some case, French mayors forbidding them to go through their cities to retreat or fight). So that's why after the 17th the front just collapses (even though they were losing anyway after having lost their best gear during Case Yellow).
ah yes, war
SMH
Shake My Hand
Interesting, mayors refusing passage to the resistance shows how well the European elites were prepared to collaborate with the Nazis all along.
@@sinekonata Not exactly. It's more that they wanted to protect their town from unecessary destructions.
Hitler: "Stop advancing so much, our supply lines can't keep up."
Rommel: "No."
Suffering from success
Same with Guderian!
@@R4in46 man also was given orders to execute Jewish people and other minorities, and also to send people from his command back to concentration camps because they were "Subhuman" and his subordinates loved him because he would notoriously burn the orders in front of SS representatives and then allegedly suggested killing him would lose them the war so he kept getting away with it until Hitler himself ordered him to kill himself because even though he was in a plot to assassinate hitler, he was too famous and beloved to put on trial.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Hitler telling Rommel to stop was the main reason Brits got away from Dunkirk in first place. Otherwise it would have been a very brutal and dirty massacre.
Italy talking to Germany
Italy: Dad, can I join you?
Germany: Sure.
Italy: Yay! What do you want me to do?
Germany: Just watch.
Interestingly, Italy had a fascist dictatorship before Germany. It created the concept of fascism which the Nazis were then inspired by.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party#Origins_and_early_years:_1918%E2%80%931923
> Hitler was inspired by Mussolini and the Fascists, borrowing their use of the straight-armed salute as a Nazi salute. When the Fascists came to power in 1922 in Italy through their coup attempt called the "March on Rome", Hitler began planning his own coup.
The world "Fascism" comes from "Fasces", which was the symbol used on the flag of the Italian party named after it, the "National Fascist Party". So Italy invented the concept of fascism, the word "fascism" itself, and inspired the Nazi party's ideologies (Nazis weren't always fascists, that wasn't until a group overthrew some prominent members and made it fascist).
So in a way, Italy would be more like a "dad" and Germany was the hyperactive son that convinced his dad to join in with his games.
@@OriginalChaosLord Its a joke.
@@judictus5178 XD XD XD you just killed that dude
@@judictus5178 I am certain this guy knew
@@Whatareyoudoinnhere I dont really care but he just seems like he has taken the joke to heart.
Oh, so you like World War II Western Front 1940? Name every hour.
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What do you expect from a dumbass kid like me
edit : pls add the AM and PM to this thing
@@DeasExtra bruh
@@DeasExtra u mad bro
@@DeasExtra madlad
@abs he is the only one with that power
Select National Focus : *Around the Maginot*
Ah I see you're a man a culture as well.
Yes in fact the Maginot was effective.
@@alex324ization until they invaded the Low Countries
Also hoi4 players: how did they broke trought the Maginot?
@@szexmaster Also also hoi4 players: Free France, Vichy France, or Franco-British Union?
The amount of effort having to be put into this, the research, the searches, the hours of work... all just to get underrated.
This is AWESOME
1:18 Ghost Division Intensifies
Ghost Division was 0:45
This is a hidden treasure of quality, good job man!
this Moment when i was thinking o this is not so fast
and then i recognized that this are hours and not month😂😂
Very good video!
The Germans were so fast at invading France...
As the y were in the other Second Weltkrieg!
@Registeel on UA-cam
Des décennies à être une minorité importante, vous les africains en mettez du temps...
@Jack Skellington Himself Bulgaria was actually the only loser country in both world Wars that gained more territories...
Because they put up little fight.
@@crimsonx7182 They fought fairly well in WW1, but were essentially forced into WW2 and that's why they didn't fight much
At first I thought that this was the same content as Yan Xishan has posted on the battle of france, but he didn't show every hour later on "due to incomplete information". So good job on your side, and now I am sending this to all my history nerd friends.
Edit: just saw that Yan Xishan actually recommended this video! Wow!
Did you see that? 2:16 28.05.1940, France took some land back (left flank, that little appendix over a river)
Ye, Battle of Abbeville
other allied gains: 0:59 Battle of Montcornet, 1:13 Counterattack near Laon, 1:27 Battle of Arras, 1:32 Counterattack near Cambrai
We did it boys. Nazi Germany is no more.
Holy man good job! This is incredibly good and dosent have the amount of recognition it should.
A random Guy: The French are so bad militarly
A French Guy: look at the Alps
A Italian guy: ...
who said that
who said french are bad in military
isn't it the french hwo had won the most wins in history and most battles fought
were the french bad militarly during the french dozens of war in europe
napoelon ;
he crushed the best armies
and with their military sucess frenc over estimated them
and got recked by german in 1870
they woke up, and beheaded the german empire in 1918
thanks to comunist revolutions
and american
again over estimated them
and WW2
@@gutsjoestar7450 I know, I'm French, it's just a joke, we sometimes get a bad reputation precisely because of WW2, but we certainly have the greatest record of victories.
Hi
@@gutsjoestar7450 French army was using guns left from WWI and Commanders was very bad so Germans defeated France easily
@@gutsjoestar7450 you cant even take a joke man
Looks absolutely amazing! Good job!
Great work, it's more detailed than the other UA-camrs.
Well that escalated quickly
This really got out of hand fast.
2:41 dunkirk events
Now it makes sense how they all got trapped. How would you even organize an orderly retreat that fast?
In the 1940 campaign, Polish troops also took part on the side of the Allies: 4 infantry divisions, an armored brigade and Polish pilots. The Polish Mountain Brigade, which was withdrawn from Narvik in Norway, also fought.
France be like : yah take every thing u want, but ALSACE IS MINE
@@hegoney5841 thanks
I salute to the small pockets of resistance in the beginning. They refused to give up.
Maginot line
“Resist and bite”
It's not really small pockets of resistance from the allies, rather than encirclement tactics from the germans. And at Dunkerke, they picked retreat over trying to break the encirclement... though the french and english commandemnts disagreed on that point. So much for refusing to give up 😁!
Though it is true that some forts from the Maginot line did refuse to stop fighting even after commandment told them to stop fighting.
Imagine going to war college just to get outplayed by a lower enlisted man from world war 1 that had PTSD
Лайк за старания,очень хорошая работа
О, привет!
Sprich deutsch
@@thomasprost6928 wieso sollte er ?
Согласен
Next do Napoleon's invasion of Berlin in 19 days. Second by second
They won't
Me whenever I play France in Hoi4:
We had the best army with the best equipment, but the worst generals... Old men inked in the past 😭
Nope. Germany had the best army, and our generals probably weren't so bad. Some of the french equipment was more advanced, but not in enough numbers to make a difference... and it lacked some essential technology, like freaking radios ! Overall, Germany army was superior. That superiority alone wouldn't have been enough for them to win though. It didn't during WW1.
The war was mostly lost by politicians, terrible geostrategic decisions, and the internal conflicts between UK and France.
@@Harold046 The top French general gets an "F" - failure! It didn't help that the lowland countries wouldn't allow the French and British armies into their countries until they were already over run. The French Army actually fought well, the strategy and tactics the French employed (from the Generals) were there downfall. After Dunkirk, even the politicians were ready to surrender. The German politican (Hitler) gets a "D" - dumbass! The BEF and a good portion of the French army could have been destroyed at Dunkirk.
the first time ive seen the allies as the colour red
Yes, when I made this video, I didn't know the rules that blue is a defender and red is an attacker. I just liked the two colors I used.
German moms: I want you at home by 11 pm
Sons:
That, my good sir, was beautiful
The Germans were so fast
Hermann the Hedgehog.
I didn't realize the Maginot had been breached in a few places starting on 6/1/1940.
This video is beyond amazing!
I love how you can see the 7th Panzer Division
Love how you can see when night is lol
French: NOOOOO!!! you can't just go around Maginot Line like that
German: *HaHa blitzkrieg go vrooom vrooom*
It's like watching gray mold overrun a strawberry.
LoL 😀😀
Better with updated version
imagine your summer vacations started in france and ended in germany
2:20 This red pocket on the coast near Belgium are Bitish Soldiers holding the Line until all of them are evacuated. You can see that the germans focused on them by how they stopped advancing.
It was french soldier who was holding the line like in Lille
@@dacstan5175 Ok maybe, then this was somewhere else, shouldnt have presented a guess as a fact I admit it.
Being french, watching this, the biggest trauma of my country, feeling sad :(
same about me being italian and knowing about 43-45
@Thorwin de Gothia no, far less important, it wasn't a total war, it was just a little war with one single battle.
The french guy who led thé troop thought himself as a Napoléon but not at all.
In my head this was an almost insignifiant defeat
c'est vrai ça; La France a beaucoup subit la guerre de 1870
c'est rester en mémoire
@Thorwin de Gothia
Yes, well I confess I don't know much about it, it might be a reason haha
But yes I know for Napoléon III.
I think he was thé Nephew of Napoléon I.
He thought himself as having the same battle skills. He was elected président, but then made a coup and declared himself Emperor. But then I think he got captured at the first battle.
Victor Hugo used to piss on him.
@@anxientwisdom2171 on a gagné la guerre d'Algérie mais la communauté internationale
comme l'otan et l'ONU nous ont forcé à perdre l'Algérie
Good vid but can you locate paris the next time?
Great job soon ur channel will reach more subscribers . Here s one
A whole year by hour in only 5 minutes?
Oh, nevermind. It's only 44 days.
That's insane!
The French lost in just 44 days due to generals not evolving from ww1 strategies
@@hvhhvvggg8663 Though in all fairness, the German generals were very surprised as well.
In their case pleasantly, though.
BLITZKRIG tactic
Amazing work!
A video for learn...
One house in Stalingrad stay longer than France)
This was a great video. Well done! You got my country being conquered correctly. Though why are the allies red? Shouldn't they be blue?
Yes, there are some unwritten rules that the attacker is usually red and the defender blue, or red is the loser and the blue is the winner. But personally, I don't think it matters.
Great video mate
Really great video but I think making the neutral states blue and the seas/lakes white harder to see at first.
Am I the only one who finds invasions in mapping satisfying?
Liège and Charleroi holding strong for days while the Flemish and Dutch were like "Oh well who cares. Come on in, here are the Jews and here are their diamonds..."
@Typed Scroll I don't see why you're smirking. Fascists get the wall in the end.
Do you mean the Luxembourgish? Also all three of the Dutch defensive lines had fallen and they were threatening to terror bomb all their cities if they kept fighting.
i dont get the france surrender meme, or why in games like hoi4 france surrenders as soon as paris falls. like irl, by the time france surrendered, the germans had gotten all the way to lyon and nantes
In hoi4 I think the reason why France capitulates after Paris falls is because of the disjointed government thing
National Spirit, disjointed government. It lowers France's surrender limit to holding 80% of Victory Points.
Making them capitulate once they hold 79%>VP.
If you're a player, you have basic understanding of history and therefore will be better prepared to the German attack;
So they made it easier for Germany
The beat hits in sync with each hour. Dont know if thags obvious or not, took me a second to figure that out lol
1:51 what is that belgian point on the right totally surrounded?
Retrieval of information for this video lasted 4 times longer than the entire 1940 Western Front. Let that sink in. You have been watching only 40 days of fighting.
what soothing music for such horrifying event
This man should have more subs
Keep up the good work
Excellent job!
Nice work
you got a new subscriber
Italy during ww2 :
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Thank you for a very instructive video presentation of the German invasion! For your information I have added a link to this video in the article about the Battle of France, in the Norwegian Bokmål language version of Wikipedia:
World War II, Western Front 1940, Every Hour
-see link, bottom of page. As a contributor to Wikipedia for many years I understand and appreciate the many hours you must have put into this project. Regarding the books that you have used as a source, I would recommend you also look at The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West, by colonel and historian Karl-Heinz Frieser, formerly at the Bundeswehr's Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt (MGFA). I hope the link may give your excellent animation even more viewers! Kind regards, Ulf Larsen, Oslo, Norway
Thank you for spreading my work and for the book. I have the impression that I also used something from it. Part of it can be found on google books, where a few pages are available.
Delightfully
The walking of This video took longer than the Invasion
Fun fact: in 1940 the French military was stronger than the Germans
Then how Germany invaded france
@@palestinianisfreeforever2554 Tactics
yeah and they still didnt help us in 1939, actually nobody helped us
@@offline78 Defend yourself, weak
@@yungstallion2201 More Yolo than tactics.
If for example the french decided to burn the Ardenne forest during the invasion,WW2 wouldn't have been like that.Hitler took high risk during this assault.
beautiful
Incredible how fast it was just of been overwhelming for the British and French who were probably thinking it will be like the first just get cut off and destroyed
Please do 100 years war every hour
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It is not only the gun and bullet, but the flesh and blood used to fire it.
Very very good
Feels like your getting rid of a wall paper
What is that last little red dot in eastern Belgium that disappeared on 29.51940? How did they hold on for so long?
Was wondering the same thing. 19 days?
switzerland was chilling there
0:18 Devil Dogs
0:48 ghost division
1:42 Dunkirk (?)
1:42 was Calais. 2:17 is Dunkirk (and Lille).
The thumbnail really confused me because I'm used to blue representing seas and white representing land on maps
I like how italy, although it joined the war, never got a lot of land off of France x)
They did, they gpt Savoy and I think Corsica
@@oblivousninja4403 Actually they didnt get all of savoy, the french army of the alpes was undefeated til france surrendered. 9 french soldier held 3000 italians who had to surrender to those 9 men in order to announce france stopped the war too
About corsica i don't know
@@ahouais5620 they still got parts of Savoy though
@@ahouais5620 (even though they didnt deserve it tbh)
problem is, there was a maginot line in the alpes too and italians couldn't go around it, hence why they didn't do much
Invasion to the Denmark: every minute
Well, that france thing went way easier than Poland or Belgium..
Nice
I’m here from the Luxembourg invasion video
Germany during this hole video: I am speed
Insane!
The Music doesn't fit....
4:26 encircled
Can someone tell me what that little allied dot is at 2:31?
French troops surrounded in Lille
2:19 We are all
*Im gonna do whats called a pro gamer move*
This is either inspired by those mappers in the description or by yan xihan
Underated
The city names are really what's missing in this video, otherwise very nice.
Wow, did the fortress of Liège (I'm guessing, that red area in east Belgium) really hold out until *after* Leopold's surrender ??
Germans: Btlitzkrieg the shit out of everyone's ass
The guy in the background playing the piano: It's my time to shine
When you’re chilling at the Maginot Line but then you saw German tanks
France: Yep, I’m now fucked.
I edited this comment to make a over used joke on how now no one knows why this comment has so many likes
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every second then
@@aloys5961 every ten minutes
@@Barneyfromhalflife1 every 2 minutes
@@genghiskhan4883 Every 2 seconds.
This took longer than the invasion itself. Wow.
beautiful tactic, amazing blitzkrieg,