Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain (Frank Capra)
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- "The Battle of Britain," Chapter IV of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series, begins after Hitler's conquest of Western Europe. Once firmly in control of the parts of France and Norway closest to Great Britain,
the Nazis commence their massive air assault on the British isles. Outnumbered six to one, the fighters of the Royal Air Force defend their skies against the Luftwaffe for close to four months. Capra embellishes the British successes, for example the film claims the RAF fought 200 dogfights in the first thirty minutes of the battle alone, and that by the end of the first month they had destroyed 900 German planes. (In truth, the number is closer to 260). However, the success of the British defenses forced the Germans to change strategies, switching to more frightening night raids that terrorized London. But the British resolve won the day, in grand fashion. The film claims total German losses of more than 2,700. The real number is closer to 1,600. The number of downed British planes equaled approximately half that of Germany.
this is neither "boring" or "absurd" Capra's war films are nothing less than America's greatest filmmaker of the time mobilizing the support of many American's who simply didn't understand why we were fighting or what the scope of the threat to the West really was. This is a fine piece of propaganda film making and one that was sorely needed in America at the time. Still one of my favourite of all of Capra's films.
In the end, it’s still propaganda
@@stoggafllik
Am I wrong, or are you saying that because it's propaganda, it is bad, either artistically, or morally, or both?
@@stoggafllik Just because it took 6 Episodes for you to see any American in it ,DONT BE JEALOUS
@@jacktattis you type like a mong. Who gave birth to you
Gotta hand it to those Brits, they stood up to nazi Germany in its prime and never surrendered! Much respect to those people!
Aye, even to our detriment, as later history shows. The Germans were never our natural foes at all.
@@sakkra93
Harsh, but true. Someone made a sarcastic comment about a film 'know your allies', the subject being the Brits, (made by the Americans). Anyhow this person called it propaganda, well that made me angry and I pointed out that the Americans waited 2 years, watching us bleed in the process, some 'ally'. I reminded this person of all the inventions that little island gave the world, so shut up with your jealous comments. Add to this that the true Brits are calm, brave and stoic, I only made this comment this evening actually, and was thinking of taking it down, but I think I'll leave it!! The Americans were very brave, and I admire them, but the only allies they have are business allies. Did you know that we made our final repayment on our debts to them in 2006, 42 million pounds, and a note, 'with thanks'!! If Japan hadn't attacked Pearl Harbour, she would have sat on her bum watching us fight!!
Without the allies Britain would have fallen.
@@davidwithers5102 I cannot say what I would like to say I would be banned again. Americans cannot take it They stayed out again like WW1 .And it was quite likely that had Hitler NOT declared war they would have stayed out of it. And only gone to the Pacific
They hung around making money They were cowards, they had USN ships sunk in Oct 1941 and still stayed out.
aND NOW THEY GO INTO EVERYWHERE AND EXPECT US TO FOLLOW.
The film shows the whole truth about what was happening during the War.
Dunkirk. Bombings of Dover. Southhampton. London. Coventry.
My admiration to the British people's spirit during the war, to the troops, but especially to the RAF fighters of the Hurricanes and Spitfires.
"Never in the field of human conflict has so much owed by so many to so few". Winston Churchill's words about RAF fighters. The Prime Minister whose spirit and resolve inspired the nation.
My friend's granddad was a RAF fighter in The Battle of Britain.
To fighters like that we owe our victory and our freedom.
Frank Capra is probably the greatest director of all time, because he turned his skill to such a noble cause
"the truth is that Britain anwered cruelty with much more cruelty. 42.000
victims of German air aids in Britain over the whole war. Some 400.000
victims of allied air force raids in Germany."
No, the truth is that the Nazis engineered the whole thing, and started something they thought they could decisively finish...they were territorially pushing from the start and the invasion of Poland was just that last step too far...so if us Brits and our allies killed ten times as many nazi supporters, (who believed in killing foreigners purely to gain "living space") then good...fucking good in fact!
Don't get me wrong...I don't rejoice in the loss of precious human lives, but I do subscribe to the belief that people are individually and collectively responsible for the effects of their own actions (the vital importance of the vote)...how did the Nazis come into power? By whose compliance did they stay in power? For example, with whose compliance did they massacre so many Jews and Slavs? In short they got what they (or so many of "they"), so thoroughly deserved...
These are matters which are quite rightly not much aired today...yesterday's issues rarely make for good bedfellows today...it's truly a different world, and as a Brit I have no problems with any of my European neighbours, (I'll vote a huge NO to Brexit), but I don't like this so selective whitewashing of history ...if we're going to hear it like it really was, then let's hear ALL of it as it really was...
Both numbers are wrong.
look who the f**k started this whole thing and the first one and needed to be broken completely of ever doing it again which they have been.
cogidubnus 1953 ,,, yea ,,, "war is hell" ,,, i quote it, but i don't recall who made that saying, popular,,, probably started by some poor smuck, sitting in the trenches, writing home ,,,
As Harris put it:
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."
And he was right. They flattened Rotterdam, in neutral holland right at the start of the war. THere is a reason it doesn't have a nice city centre like Amsterdam. They obliterated Warsaw for the hell of it, etc.
Walter Huston sure has a great voice.
33.06: Nah, I got my fingers crossed. I like this kind of humor, particular as it is expressed in such terrible conditions! It proves humor is an important thing in life, especially under bad circumstances. And what a great job the British people did during and after the Battle of Britain! Both the army and civilians.
Nowhere else in history has so much been owed by so many to so few
So, this film was meant to educate and encourage the Americans, but according to IMDb, it was released on Nov.26, 1945.
I think it was the other way round. The Spits went after the escort fighters and the Hurricanes attacked the bombers. You are right that Hurricanes downed my enemy aircraft.
after they lost some 3 millions of soldiers in Russia. There is the origin why the allies succeeded in the invasion of 1944.
Yes, and enslaved eastern Europe with tyranny, I should know my mum was Hungarian and told me horror stories of their mass rapes of women!!
10:33 This film must be where the dreadful recreation of Churchill's "We will fight them on the beaches" speech comes from that has found its way into so many other documentaries. Not only does it not sound like him it omits the word "the" from before "beaches", "landing grounds", "fields", "streets" and "on the hills". REALLY annoying.
Hurrah, for once I see an American film that does not say "America won the war". In contrast I believe that if Hitler had not declared war upon the States following Pearl Barbour forcing America to enter combat then Hitler and his allies could have won. It has to be remembered that American citizens never suffered the atrocities experienced by Europeans, they will never therefore understand why Europeans get angry when the "we won the war" comes out. Malta for instance suffered terribly and remains the only country in the world to hold the George Cross,a medal of gallantry normally reserved for individuals
Don't worry, Uncle Sam will always be around to save you.
As an American, I 100% agree.
It was a coalition effort, Britain, the US, the Commonwealth Nations and the Soviet Union, along with the Balkans partisans. Each had a crucial role, without the US though it's likely the Soviet Union would have fallen, meaning Britain would have been the only nation apart from possibly Sweden to not fall to the Nazis. Mainland Europe might have been lost forever to the darkness. US Lend-Lease industrial programs and additional military power is what allowed Nazism to be destroyed, and give at least Western Europe freedom. I am genuinely not sure Britain had the power to take back Europe on their own, though they probably would have survived themselves.
Soviet Union won alone WW2
From the time of Dunkirk May/June 1940 right on to the end of October 1940 these British Isles were the ONLY bastion of freedom from Nazi tyrrany which had gripped most of the European Continent - we Britons were left isolated & had no choice but to fight for our survival against odds of 4-1 in favour of the Nazi Luftwaffe...with the aid of some British Commonwealth & some Polish & Czech pilots the RAF performed miracles defending our island country from constant aerial attacks & later the Blitz
Agreed, If it wasn’t for Britain and her allies, the nazis would’ve surely enslaved most of Europe for a much longer period of time.
Watching this makes me wana live in the UK even more :)
Good sound editing, (the aircraft sounds in particular)..his famous spanish civil war pics, were some creative developing, (i saw in a doco.). Thats what film-makers do..
he started like such a man, but he got much farther. Never before a former painter of art had the government over an essential part of Europe.
Watching this made me feel very proud
Britain is going downhill as evidenced by Sookadik Kahn the mayor of London. But the second world war generation was awesome.
radar hadent been around for long but it made all difference
Informative video, very well done.
The sheer carnage and loss to both sides would have been immense and would have made Germanys abilty to fight any one else redundant if they had proceeded/ The RAF, The RN, every plane and ship would have came to fight.
I wonder why they didnt mention radar? Was it a secret still when this was made?
Yes, just as the film says, the Battle of Britain was the main event, and I say this as an American. I do believe the English Channel was enough of an obstacle to make a successful invasion unlikely; nevertheless, had this happened, particularly if the Britain had surrendered its fleet as the film speculated, Hitler could have become another Genghis Khan, a military menace and marauder essentially unstoppable anywhere in the world. Thank you, Britain!
The Royal Navy would not have surrendered They would have sailed for Canada Australia etc etc
Although overstatement and exaggeraion can be seen, the scenes of the battle of Britain make a good documentary film.
someone knows the name of that german military song that starts at 0:51 ?
The narrator saying about Britain that they waited for what they knew was coming they didn’t run and all that but like what’s he expect people to do lol run to the coasts with some oars in hand?
Don't be silly.... but quietly signing a peace deal on German terms WAS an "easy" option that we could have taken.... but we knew what a "Pax Germanica" (peace on German terms) would entail, so we decided to kick their arses instead.
This is where Hitler should have stopped (after Dunkirk). He had the non-aggression pact with Stalin, the US wasn't in the war yet. His equipment needed maintenance, the troops needed time off and he could have built up the Luftwaffe. Hitler now had the resources of all of Western Europe. He should have confined his activity to U-boats sinking supply ships to the UK and rebuilt the army. He had enough coal oil, steel and aluminum and men to easily doubled his army and build new equipment.
@CipiRipi00 The big problem Hitler was facing was imminent invasion by Stalin. Stalin was preparing his military to invade Germany in Spring of 42. Hitler knew about it. He knew if Stalin had time for full preparation, Germany would have a major fight on its hands and no oil. So he took a huge gamble that he could knock out Stalin's war machine by attacking in 41. He was hoping to capture the Baku oil fields as well. Without Stalin's plans to invade, he probably wouldn't have had much trouble.
@CipiRipi00 Yep. We unfortunately get cartoon versions of WW2 and who was motivated by what. The reality was just a lot messier than most people realize. I was actually taught in high school that Hitler desired invading the world and I should be thankful to speak English! I guess they were going to walk from Germany to the East Coast where I went to school or... something.... reasons.
incredible
England - the mother country
Britain 🇬🇧 stood alone after the fall of France in May 1940 . Thank goodness the RAF had the Spitfire and Hurricane online in 1940. If it was 1937 or 1938 it might have turned out very differently. The BF109 ruled superme in Spain in 1936.
Much of south eastern, southern and eastern England was dotted with airfields & aerodromes from which the RAF operated in the mammoth task of the defence of these British Isles from the threat of Nazi bombing raids and a certain invasion by Nazi troops...airfields with names which became famous..BIGGIN HILL, MANSTON, HAWKINGE, HORNCHURCH, CROYDON, KENLEY, DETLING, TANGMERE, MIDDLE WALLOP, LYMPNE, NORTH WEALD, STAPLEFORD, HENDON, NORTHOLT, BRIZE NORTON, WESTHAMPNETT, ROCHFORD, WEST MALLING.......
"Fun" fact: Germany only started bombing British cities after Churchill was blackmailed into bombing German ones to escalate the war. Even as bombs were dropping on Berlin AH was hesitating about giving the order to bomb London because he didn't feel it was right, and because he was still holding out hope that Britain would come to her senses and form an alliance that had been dreaming about since the 1920s.
Fighter ace Adolf Galland actually confirmed as much when he was interviewed, around the 1970s, I think it was, you can still find the interview on here.
I would say say you are a German
@@jacktattis I'm British actually, lol
@@sakkra93 Ahh a member of that neo nazi group then
This version frequently skips little periods of about a second or two each time
I noticed that as well, I downloaded it tonight for use in a project. I've found another version of this film but after downloading it, I couldn't open it in my movie maker. The downloader I used is 5KPlayer, I have Viddly as well, but Viddly has a limit to how many videos I can download each day, and it hasn't been 24 hours since my last download yet.
yes you're right its a war propaganda film and the film has no view towards the point of the enemy. Why should the film have such a view?
They just don't make war propaganda films like they used to anymore
Churchill didn't, he wanted to roll on to Moscow, when he asked his generals to plan it, they called it operation Unthinkable
It annoys me looking at the disjointed commments below that comments that were initially threaded are now people replying that make no sense. Google's fault. Before Google redid the comments system, they actually MADE sense asthey were in the correct structure. It's common on lots of old videos .. so bad, and so avoidable..
por favor que alguien lo suba en espanol, lo borraron por derecho de copry, si lees esto subelo de nuevo es espanol por favor
No, in the Battle of Britain the early spitfires had Merlin engines. Although faster than Hurricanes the latter could turn faster getting out of 109 sights easier. The later Spits with the Griffin engines were much better. Both planes beat each other in different issues. Even the Mustangs where complete shite till' they where fitted with Merlin engines. But during B.O.B. Spits took on bomber and Hurries the fighters mostly.
Rubbish the RAF fought the Germans be they bombers or Fighters.
What's that song that started around 9:33
It is a prewar melody written by a Czech as "the Beer Barrel Polka" which became VERY popular in Britain in the late 1930s and throughout WW2 where it was known as "Roll out the barrel".
Why didn't Britain use west coast ports for surplus convoys
This goes to show that strenght in the beginning does not translate to stregth at all. A determined resistance is capable of turning the odds. Imagine a chess game, white moves first and starts to decimate black, but black is a GOOD player and resists and ultimately defeats white.............................the cost is great.
who is Edward?
To those of you who say that this film is, in parts at least, guilty of overstatement and exaggeration - do please let us know precisely whereabouts in this documentary such instances occur - in your opinion. Thanking you in anticpation - and I'd love to know how much more of this part of British history which you are aware of and I, a Briton and a student of British military history, am not. I assume none of you are British?
The truth is that Germany got their asses handed to them in 1942-45 by Spitfires and Mustangs.
Spitfires from 39 to 45 Mustangs after Dec 43
Oh, I agree. Please don't mistake my comment as being a nazi sympathizer, I was just pointing out the folly of what he did. I am glad he made the mistakes he made.
In actual fact the RAF during the Battle of Britain weren't down to their reserves. They where replacing all lost planes by the following day. There only concern was trained pilots. It is worth checking the brilliant system Dowding set up that ensured there was always planes available as well as pilots who wear not worn out. We overestimated the German strength and they underestimated ours. The Germans couldn't replace lost pilots and planes but the RAF could although the pilots were harder.
Dowding was a genius and profoundly humane.
England yeah !!!
Part about the women made me proud
The film didn't mention the many nationalities that fought with the RAF. Perhaps it was a secret at the time.
They were a pretty small minority and of little importance in the grand scheme tbh
According to wiki:
"The RAF Roll of Honour recognises 574 pilots, from countries other than the United Kingdom, as flying at least one authorized, operational sortie with an eligible unit during the period between 10 July to 31 October 1940, alongside 2,353 British pilots. The numbers differ slightly from the participants whose names are engraved on the Battle of Britain Monument in London, unveiled on 18 September 2005. "
@@sadboi3204 Ahmmm The RAAF RCAF RBAF RDAF IAF ,RHAF, RNAF, RNZAF SAAF, Poles , Czechs, Free French would beg to differ and All flew British planes at no charge
Obwohl eine Art der Übertreibung unvermeidlich ist, machen die Szenen der Luftschlacht um England einen guten Dokumentarfilm.
kriegsmarine ööööøällääääöä
+Muhammad Vitra Welche Kriegsmarine meinst du, britische oder deutsche?
This is king of war
Also the early Spitfires didn't have great weapons aboard. They only had 4 guns that worked okay at low altitudes but often froze at higher heights. I can't be exact but the early ones only carried 200 - 300 rounds that only lasted about 17 seconds. there were 17 variants of the Spits the later ones with 8 guns with more ammo and cannons that fired armour piercing shells
8. First spitfires had 8 .303s, same as hurricane, always 8. They later had combinations like 4 cannons etc but was initially 8.
Mr R J Mitchell designed the spitfire to have 8 guns he knew that Britain had vast quantities of .303 ammunition in store. He also knew it would be the most his wing could lift with William Royce’s new Merlin 1000 hp motor. I’ve heard on here suggested spitfires’ had vastly differing amounts of firing time but the guns held only about 300 rounds apiece.
This was about enough firing for about 15 - 20 seconds of continuous firing (remember they all fire together)
The hurricane had been an adaptation of several prewar biplanes and carried only 4 .303 machine guns (as this had been thought sufficient to shoot down another plane). The wing had to be thickened to accommodate the extra 4 machine guns required by the Aircraft ministry. This slowed it down even though it had exactly the same 1000hp Merlin engine as the spitfire, it also helped towards it turning circle.
The spitfires were tasked with shooting down fighters, Hurricanes were to shoot down bombers. (With the exception of the Polish squadrons once there skill was noted by there British commanders. I believe they were then tasked with attacking both, but I’ve read conflicting accounts and looking at different sources it’s now hard to find a correct fact about it)
It’s also good to mention now aircraft like the Curtiss Warhawk/Tomahawk which also fought in the Battle of Britain, Brewster buffalo’s. Whilst few in numbers most of these aged airframes were withdrawn to duties elsewhere in the world but often they were up when there was an all out defence of the realm.
I hope this helps any confusion to now be avoided. I noticed a couple of comments saying it’s still propaganda. Yes…….up to a point. This film has been lumped into that category.
Whoever did so was just plain wrong. Propaganda is mostly telling the people watching how great we are and what nasty little people our enemies are, they will also show you how your doing, what your doing and how the morale is of your people. Quite often building up your own version.
This is more of a documentary mainly not one word Capra said was untrue, the film showed things he could see in front of him in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich,Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle,Aberdeen Edinburgh, Glasgow, Swansea, Bristol, any town, any village or hamlet in Britain. He could get source material from journalists like Ed Morrow
It is one of the most important films of WW2 and in this wafflers opinion it’s the best one.
That is why very early Supermarine put in gun heating pipes in the wings.
The Brits straight up said No
I appreciate your deep humanity. All that pity for the victims. all those fighters on all sides had women and children too. And the noble cause, of course. All were thinking that they had to fight for their country.
I like the rule britania song verison of this but sadly i cant find the original😢
@robertwilsong Yes,I am smart...and no, it wasn't made after the war. It was made very much during the war which is why it was such effective propaganda!
Looks like I'm the smart one in the room... :-)
You are right so their was no saying the word RADAR as it was still secret.
excellent
What is the song at 51:23? I like ut
well, you're just such a cautious man. what if he ever came back...
I saw an interview with one veteran spitfire pilot who said that it was such a melee that anything that came into the gun sights was shot at, it was a snarl of wheeling shooting aircraft. Sadly, a many were shot down by their own side.
cheers
@stevev4915 "Why We Fight is a series of seven propaganda films commissioned by the United States government during World War II whose purpose was to show American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war" was made after the battle of Britain is what i meant and the reason i quoting this is to show everyone its an american film so people can stop saying we made this film to glorify the English
I guess you're right but if something like that was in Europe there would be a different reaction from the countries around him and also the civilians wouldn't of worshiped him and would of either fled or tried to rebel
26:43
Is that the Doctor?
26:43
7:12 41:50 42:39 45:04
"NURSE!! NURSE!! HE'S OUT OF BED AGAIN!!!
The people of that era would call a covid-19 lockdown nothing
No they would rightly call it a MASSIVE infringment of civil liberties, as indeed it was.
UK is committing cultural suicide today Why ?
UNHCR is why
BTW they knew Norway will be attacked thanks to decoding Enigma by Polish mathematicians and constant improvements of Turing but did nothing.
Since 1932 the Polish codebreakers Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski & Jerzy Różycki worked within BS4 (the Polish general staff cipher Bureau focussed on German decryption & intelligence), and together with VITAL assistance given by the French intelligence officer Gustave Bertrand (who had cultivated a German informant codenamed "Asché" who had provided French Intelligence with tons of vital data including a full nazi procedural manual for use of the enigma encryption device), had by the purchase of a commercial version of the early enigma device and LOTS of analysis eventually broken into German army and air force 3 rotor encryption networks, this was a fantastic achievement, but it is true to say that they at no time did they crack German Kriegsmarine encryption due to the additional layers of security employed by the German navy.
In December 1938 the nazis introduced a further 2 interchangeable encryption rotors to the enigma system, which immediately brought the vast majority of Polish decryption efforts to a grinding halt, which is where it remained up until the outbreak of WW2. In the weeks prior to the outbreak of WW2 the Polish research work was passed to the French, who in the six months they had it in their possession added little to the accumulated knowledge, and to the UK where the British government seized it with both hands, and made its study top priority. So was instigated the British "ULTRA" project.
Jerzy Różycki elected to stay behind and work in Vichy France where, unknown to the Germans he worked on a seperate secret encryption system, which bore no tangible fruit before his death in 1942.
Marian Rejewski & Henryk Zygalski were, for security reasons, not included in the UK "ULTRA" project, and so took no further part in British decryption efforts.
The British "ULTRA" project took the non working foundation research of the Polish decrypters and from there MASSIVELY expanded that research to once again break into nazi 3 rotor enigma, this was followed in 1942 by the cracking of the improved kriegsmarine M4 enigma (the 4 rotor enigma device, codenamed "SHARK"), as well as simultaneously breaking into the FAR more complex "lorenz" cipher device used by the German army & navy high commands (TUNNY), before finally cracking the "Geheimschreiber" encryption device used by both the Luftwaffe high command as well as the top level of the nazi government (STURGEON), on top of these British achievements another product of the ULTRA program was the building of the world's first programmable electronic computer (COLOSSUS) to speed up the breaking of German codes. This was designed and built by a British team led by Alan Turing and the telephone engineer Tommy Flowers, which transformed British decryption from a process which often only gave results days or even weeks after the message was eavesdropped on by the British, to a state of affairs towards the end of WW2 where the British were reading a LOT of top level communications at the same time as the intended German recipient.
The early Polish codebreakers did indeed provide the "acorn" from which the British cultivated the "mighty oak" of ULTRA.
When was the Norway invasion? When diud Turing crack enigma IT WAS BLOODY AFTER NORWAY WAS INVADED FOOL.
@supobostarman yeah thats why it was made after the war, wow your smart
Probably, today Everybody lives!
World war 2, preorder now
I wish some clever UA-camrs could lampoon this film for current adversaries of western democratic society haha
Your view of the spreading of the US hegemony across the world is a lampoon within itself !!!
yeah 52 minutes!!!!
UP YOURS
Its not how it was sadly
British fought bravely, Germany hardly tried to vanish Britain but they couldn't, because British spirit was very strongest that time.
Well said...
Germany never wanted to fight us in the first place, though. We were never their natural foes.
I was expecting more familys grabbing kitchen knifes and molotovs and hunting rifles being scavenged and improvised bombs i.e. grenades in a bag but i do agree it might of been a diffrent story but the roysl navy would of fucked any invaiders
Nah,it's called trolling.
the truth is that Britain anwered cruelty with much more cruelty. 42.000 victims of German air aids in Britain over the whole war. Some 400.000 victims of allied air force raids in Germany. And by the way also in other countries. In 1944 in Answers/Antwerpen some 1.500 inhabitants of that Belgium city were killed by allied bomber force, not by the Germans, more than in Rotterdam in 1940. just to remember that cruelty was done by all sides.
Durr Durr I wounder why they call it war propaganda durr durr oh well I guess we will never know
It was really the Hurricanes that took on the German fighters while the bombers were attacked by the Spitfires. The Hurricanes where faster and could outmanoeuvre the Spits and could keep on the tails of 109's much better. The Hurricanes had between 55% -56% of the German plane losses
killing of unarmed civilians is never a noble cause
I think you refer to Mao Tse Dong. Yes there are reports that about 20 millions of chinese people in China died during his time of power. In the West they didnt't know much about it in the 60ies. Only the corpses of the victims in the rivers that led to Hongkong told something...
Germans lost so badly
British nation at it's best
From the british and the british , british are the best
Damn It's too late to join the war
actually the grand alliance was called the United Nations.. There still around today
he would have failed as Napoleon and Hitler failed. This country can not be occupied like Belgium or France. Wladiwostok is some 8000 km away. And Im sure the Russian winter would also have stopped the British, even if they got their hot tea.
their tails were pretty good till 1943. Then the allied air force got peu a peu the superiority of material. In the end it was 10 to one German air plane eg. in the Dresden attack, were one I repeat one german airplane dared to attack just the hundreds and hundres of allied airplanes....
Anybody know how the swedes sat this free for all out
Sweden assisted the Axis.
+RainingPiggies Sweden was neutral
Jackster Gaming 5678 Only on paper.
RainingPiggies What does "only on paper" mean? Sweden did not declare war on anyone, neither did the axis powers declare war on Sweden. She did not take part in any fighting, she didn't invade anyone. Sweden was, um, what's the word again? Oh yes...NEUTRAL!!!
HOW?
yes I agree with you, but the Germans started it in 1940. Only the figures of victims were different. 42.000 British subjects in the whole war. 400.000 victims in Germany.Also women and children, even British and US prisoners of war. Cruelty on both sides. The most part of the victims were non combattants who were proteceted by the law of war, which was not obeyed in ww2.Den Haag Convention of 1909 they forgot it all...
Please note we were called the Allies for a reason.
yes you allied with nazists
Even though most of this is propaganda, i do appreciate the theatrical flair, its bombastic and reminds me of the Opera.
i hate watching one-sided documentaries especially when its so obvious
SeNtiNeL5Th it's a propaganda film in the middle of allied fight for survival for God's sake!
Then why did you watch it, especially if it was so obvious to begin with? Nobody made you.
Grow up nazi you lost
😂😂 😂 Gewinner schreiben die Geschichte. Die Wahrheit sah anders aus.
Ich glaube das "Der Sturmer" hat ein besser Standpunkt fur ihnen? :P
Spoken like a nazi
Also, wie viel haben Sie gewonnen?
They resist against blond germans, now they have tons of indians and africans ! that's far better ! ahahaha
Interestingly exaggeration ... with usual pathetic, which makes this documentary, pretty boring.
I'm not sure this exaggeration qualifies as 'interesting'. It's textbook propaganda. MILD by comparison to the EPIC propaganda by 'specialists' like Goebbels.
Churchill didn't, he wanted to roll on to Moscow, when he asked his generals to plan it, they called it operation Unthinkable
nO cHURCHILL NEVER PLANNED ANYTHING OF THE kIND.