IMPORTANT NOTICE I just want people to be aware that any neo-nazi sympathizer/racist etc. comments won't be tolerated here. There are plenty of videos on YT where these idiots can talk and discuss. I won't allow it here. I know from various private messages I've received that this video is used by students, children and others as research into looking at how the Second World War started and it helps them for their school projects etc. For this reason, I'm making it a point of mine to ensure the comments here are suitable for those audiences. Any comments that I believe are unsuitable WILL be deleted, and the account used to make the comment will be blocked. It's as simple as that. I don't care if you don't like my attitude or if you think I'm censoring. I'm more concerned about those who use this video for a valid reason. Thanks for reading. DarkLight753

@andy0611smvdu

6 жыл бұрын

Every thing is fine with the statements in the video, but please get yourself taught with the atrocities they forced on the non europeans, the peace he is talking about is a restricted circle only around europe, every where else they raised havoc, they tried to seize the cultural fabric same as all the invaders who's only concern is personal gain in the name of a greater race. And i also definitely understand that you are too proud to justify.

@delavalmilker

6 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you are going to monitor this thread. Leaving threads like this one un-moderated, only allows them to be overwhelmed by the most ridiculous comments.

@crickcrot

6 жыл бұрын

Anirban Dey if the Japanese military and the nazi war machine had won the world two the we would have gone back to a dark age of barbaric racial hatred Britain for 18 months stood alone to save the world from fascist brutality.

@XGEOFFREY1

6 жыл бұрын

DarkLight753 .. well said thankyou

@crickcrot

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Harrison Britain’s allies were its commonwealth countries largely populated by British stock, America stood by while the British isles fought alone because Americans wanted to see the end of Britian as a global power.

My mum remembers this speech. She said her mother wept and kept screaming not again not again

@markl4159

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@rafaelokamura

4 жыл бұрын

It wouldn't be again, it would be more hard.

@pootypunt69

4 жыл бұрын

I can’t imagine what it was like to be an adult back then. Shit is hard now but my friends and family aren’t dying violently like people did in both world wars.

@erikeriks

4 жыл бұрын

@@pootypunt69 I don't want to be that guy but we're pretty much heading towards war with China rn

@pootypunt69

4 жыл бұрын

Erik Eriks Oh 100% its a shame how history repeats itself so often

Imagine hearing this live on the radio at the time... mustve been scary as hell

@losangelesrams3472

7 жыл бұрын

They had known for almost six months that war was coming after Hitler reneged on the Munich agreement. Most British alive at that time had been thru World War I so they were not strangers to war and sacrifice.

@pix046

7 жыл бұрын

I have been watching again the 1983 American Winds of War series on KZread.

@sce2aux464

6 жыл бұрын

I think it was more a tragic sense of relief, something along the lines of, "well...all right then... Unfortunate, but we shall do what we must."

@Sammakko7

6 жыл бұрын

NLRamonNL not.

@johncresswell-plant2913

5 жыл бұрын

My late mother, her aunt and uncle were in church that morning and the service was interrupted to listen to the broadcast (quite a logistical achievement for an old church building in 1939)

The long pause after the line "this country is at war with Germany" ... chilling. Right at that moment the world was entering one of the darkest periods of human history ...

@20wounds9

7 жыл бұрын

That gave me chills

@pix046

5 жыл бұрын

The dark period started before that for other countries.

@putinsneighbor8351

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine all the soldiers that survived WW1 that heard that

@elliot7753

4 жыл бұрын

PUTIN'S NEIGHBOR “not again”

@nightjaw2233

4 жыл бұрын

given he tried to make sure war between britain and germany wouldnt happen, even coming back from germany after speaking to hitler, saying that no war would come to britain written down on paper, he would struggle to say the words, he probably felt like he failed the people, you can hear it in the long pause

The saddest part is that Chamberlain dies in 1941, probably thinking that Europe was lost to Germany. He didn't live to see the allied victory.

@akinrinoyeolugbayiakintund9819

3 жыл бұрын

Did that really happen? To be fair it did look like Britain was gonna lose

@MD-vw5xw

3 жыл бұрын

@@akinrinoyeolugbayiakintund9819 Yeah? He died in 1941 from cancer.

@muttley8818

3 жыл бұрын

He died in November 1940. Just over a year after making this broadcast.

@muttley8818

3 жыл бұрын

@@akinrinoyeolugbayiakintund9819 Yep, he died just over a year after making this speech. Chamberlain did the best he could to keep the peace. He just wanted to avoid a repetition of WW1. The memories of that war were still fresh in the minds of many people. But he wasn't a war PM, Churchill was. Britain needed a war PM. Chamberlain gets a bad reputation because of his appeasement policy. In reality, he had no choice because the British armed forces were severely lacking compared to the Germans. He was buying time to build them up.

@edition1805

3 жыл бұрын

@Kokuu Z when he came back off the plane ive spoke to mr hitler ...he wont advance hes army any forward ect.. he was thinking ive might of achieved something good smiling ...but hitler goes in poland and britain has assured poland ...we go to war if they're invade ....then ultimatum germany ignores.....then war......after ww1 ...history repeats its self ww2 ....now same germany want a European army with Markle boss....already making laws and telling how much money they get wnd they get billions....

He sounds utterly broken in that very contained 1930's British way. The betrayal of his essentially good intentions must have had the most profound physical and mental effect on him. History has judged him very harshly. I don't know if, after the abject horror of World War 1, I wouldn't have tried to avoid conflict at all costs.

@pix046

6 жыл бұрын

No one can say he didn't try for peace. Like he said - "We have a clear conscience."

@johnnypastrana6727

5 жыл бұрын

Ahoy, you make an excellent point at the end...Chamberlain was dealing with a monster.

@davidhoward8270

5 жыл бұрын

The poor man was dead within a year.

@TheRoybeasley

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidhoward8270 Not quite - the declaration of war was Sept 3rd 1939. Chamberlain resigned as PM in May 1940 and resigned as an MP in September the same year due to his failing health. He died on 9th November, 14 months after the declaration of war.

@Perkelenaattori

5 жыл бұрын

World War 1 was definitely a traumatic experience for both the major Allied nations. The Somme, Ypres, Passchendaele, Pals battalions were traumatic for the UK and France basically lost an entire generation at the front in WW1 with 1.4 million dead. The demographics of France were completely changed and they hadn't recovered by WW2.

Very under rated speech and very important in History

@Albertanator

4 жыл бұрын

@@amaanc8466 Russia would never have beaten Germany without America entering the War...what your saying is rubbish.

@bantika6972

4 жыл бұрын

Albertanator America came into the war in the last year the ussr was a very strong force in the war if not the strongest

@Albertanator

4 жыл бұрын

@@bantika6972 America did not come into the war in the last year...America came into the war in late 1941...and yes Russia possessed very strong forces....but without American involvement in this war, the best Russia could have hoped for was a war of attrition with Germany.....America tipped the scales in the favor of the allies...

@muttley8818

3 жыл бұрын

@@bantika6972 What? The US came into the war in December 1941. Even at the start, they only declared war on Japan. Hitler declared war on the US first. Britain and France had been at war since 1939. The US Navy had been protecting convoys to Britain in the Atlantic for some time before that though.

@Albertanator

3 жыл бұрын

@@toby5474 Not quite...a Canadian....nice try though

I can't image what my grandparents were thinking listening to this

@alfie_hill

5 жыл бұрын

Robert Tandy same 😂😂😂

@glosterjavelin2111

5 жыл бұрын

Explorer Vlogs why is that funny

@Daza_1888

4 жыл бұрын

I know

@cookiequacky8615

4 жыл бұрын

My grandad was 6 when it started. My other grandad and a nan was born during WW2 and my other nan was born right after the Cold War

@Harperslj

4 жыл бұрын

“Round two”

"You can imagine... What a bitter blow it is to me... that all my long struggle to win peace has failed..." You can hear his voice crack while speaking... That poor guy. He witnessed the horrors of war and wanted to avoid it... Frankly, I would have done the same things if I was him.

@hartwellcraig7909

4 жыл бұрын

You damnable appeaser

@My_Lacrimosa

4 жыл бұрын

Yet he declared war on them

@juanromero178

4 жыл бұрын

Homemade Rock Instrumentals Britain was Poland’s ally so🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@parker-ii7fg

4 жыл бұрын

@Jeb Bush The fact that Chamberlain died at a time when everything was falling apart and it seemed likely that Britain would fall to Nazi Germany, effectively rendering all his efforts to protect his country as a complete failure, makes it even more sad. It would have at least satisfied his legacy if he had lived to the end of the war to realise his efforts were not in vain.

@odim7960

4 жыл бұрын

He was a weak and spineless coward. If he had not allowed Hitler to expand and take Austria and Czechoslovakia then ww2 wouldn't have happened. All he had to do was not appease Hitler in 1938 and support the Czechoslovaks, who had French and Soviet support at the time as well

My Gran was playing outside when it was live. After she came back into her street every woman was crying hard. She thought it was a funeral. Until she came inside and my great grandmother told her we are at war with Germany

@griffzfr9606

4 жыл бұрын

She heared the air raid siren tesr

@WhosTroublez324

2 жыл бұрын

The worst thing to hear on radio

The sound quality is one that would have been impossible on the cheap radiograms of the day. Thanks for posting this in excellent fidelity!

@soeffingwhat

7 жыл бұрын

I think he'd like that his voice and this speech can still be heard like this all over the World today, decades after he did it.

@EricIrl

6 жыл бұрын

Good quality radios of the 1930s and 40s were really quite good. I grew up in a house in the 1960s where our main radio was a 1948 Pye and it was pretty darn good. No VHF of course but very good on MW/LW/SW.

@jackbailey5304

4 жыл бұрын

@@EricIrl Considering though, that tape recording didn't exist outside of Germany at the time, the quality of this recording is amazing. Very high fidelity for the time.

@EricIrl

4 жыл бұрын

@@jackbailey5304 You can get decent sound recording with other techniques. A spinning disc or a wire can record sound quite well. Hollywood sound movies right up to the 1950s didn't use magnetic tape as the sound recording method. The "Fantasia" soundtrack was actually recorded in stereo - on discs.

@TheEtruscanhorse

4 жыл бұрын

LandondeeL The sound quality of wirelesses or even cheap radiograms of this period was far better than you suggest. Provided you were within reasonable range of a transmitter of course. The BBC was in full 'mellow' mode by this time with nightly live broadcasts of dance bands, concerts and recitals of all kinds. Anyone who owns a surviving vintage radiogram and has contemporary 78's to play on it will confirm this. Surviving wirelesses however, are less able to cope with modern transmissions and modern music and might give the impression that the equipment is of poor quality.

A good man treated unfairly by history.

@theodorefweitzenbaumsr.4061

4 жыл бұрын

Hear, hear!

@KopperNeoman

2 жыл бұрын

It's easy to think he did the right thing. But he left the Czechs to wither. In hindsight, Germany should have been crushed the moment it stood defiant. Honourable, yes. Sensible, no.

@Mamenber

2 жыл бұрын

@@KopperNeoman Since when is breaking your word considered honorable?

@fatdaddyeddiejr

2 жыл бұрын

People forget that after the First World War. Both England and France did everything the could to avoid another brutal war. In another time, Chamberlain would have been a good Prime Minister of England. One thing Chamberlain did right was to put England on a war budget in early 1938.

@Jonesyb90

5 ай бұрын

@@fatdaddyeddiejr *Great Britain not England

The world would NEVER be the same after this announcement.

@temaramsenja

4 жыл бұрын

Just like now , every nations leader speaking similar announcement to avoid covid 19 , do not go out from your house (shelter) 😣

@dean1039

3 жыл бұрын

Actually the world would never be the same again after Austria's declaration of war on Serbia in 1914. The second world war was simply a continuation of the first, with a 21 year cease fire inbetween. This speech by Chamberlain would never have been given had the first world war been avoided.

@undeadnightorc

3 жыл бұрын

In regards to the balance of power, by the end of the war America and the USSR would be the new world powers. Some would argue that they were set to become world powers anyhow but surely WW2 accelerated this process.

@abbyalphonse499

3 жыл бұрын

@@temaramsenja Pfft, that comes nowhere near to this speech.

Sadly, Neville Chamberlain has been judged rather harshly and yet I believe he did his best to avoid war. He was an honourable man who took a course of action based on the facts known at the time; not hindsight. Neither Great Britain nor France could have done anything significantly different to prevent what occurred. The fact that they stood alone against Germany at that time in history is a testament to their courage.

@KebabMusicLtd

4 жыл бұрын

This is a very good point. The long dark shadows of the Great War still hung heavily over this generation.

@AndRewUK24

4 жыл бұрын

What about Henderson?

@shuhratkessikbayev8886

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe as good of a point this is. Great Britain and France just let Germany shit on the Treaty of Versailles, they let him rebuild his air force (Luftwaffe), they let him remilitarize the Rhineland, they let him increase his military, they let him build more weapons, they let him invade Austria, they gave away Czechoslovakia, and then they finally out their foot down when he invades Poland? Irregardless of the economic situations Great Britain and France should've done something soon moment Hitler broke one Treaty rule

@josefsedlacek3819

4 жыл бұрын

I respectfully disagree with great part of what you are saying. In 1938 France should have fulfil its obligation and help Czechoslovakia which was threatened by Germany. In 1938, France and Czechoslovakia were together stronger than Germany. In the years 1938 and 1939 the governments of France and Great Britain did not show much courage. In the year 1939 started so called phoney war. As it is said in the book A WAR TO BE WON:"At the heart of this inaction-by-default strategy lay the hard fact that British and French politicians had no stomach for war. The German invasion of Poland had brought their worst nightmare to life. Appeasement had failed, but serious military action remained the farthest thing from their minds."

@odim7960

4 жыл бұрын

He was a spineless and weak coward. His actions (or lack of action, rather) lead to the carnage that is known as WW2. He could have stopped Hitler in 1938 and end Germany early on, but he didn't

My Grandmother lived through this. I asked her about it 5 years ago all she said was everyone was very worried. I didn't ever ask her again, wish I had. She has gone now more history lost.

My late mother remembered hearing this announcement, listening to the wireless with her parents. At 17 and a half years old she was excited and jumped up saying 'now we'll teach them!' My grandfather said 'You don't know what war means my girl'- he had seen a brother utterly broken by shell shock, so that he could never live normally again, and other family members left mentally and physically damaged in life changing ways. They had been on the Western Front and at Gallipoli. Mum also remembered seeing a woman walking past the house a few moments later, sobbing hysterically. Still, she, like most of her generation got on with it & 'did her bit', joining the WRNS almost immediately. I always thought she was more grown up in her teens than I will ever be. Also- how much calmer and more grown up do these people sound than our present lot ! You feel (possibly wrongly...) that they know what they are doing and are in control.

To think, when he said his he probably never thought of the pure dark history in those camps in the following 6 years.

@doridore1234

4 жыл бұрын

Very true. Chamberlain didn't even live to see the UK's victory in the war, which I think is one of the saddest parts of it all

@hartwellcraig7909

4 жыл бұрын

Joel Conestollos he didn’t see the result of the war. He died of cancer in 43

@MD-vw5xw

4 жыл бұрын

@@hartwellcraig7909 He died in 1941?..

@thefrenchareharlequins2743

3 жыл бұрын

@@MD-vw5xw 1940.

@takakocaesar579

2 жыл бұрын

Well, no one thought of it until 1944, when the Soviets liberated Auschwitz.

The sound quality here is impressive.

I don't know why he was treated so harshly. No one in Britain wanted another war so he was trying to keep the peace.

@emil.jansson

3 ай бұрын

People tend to pick on one person.

This is a truly historic piece of audio. Absolutely incredible to hear.

This is heartbreaking to hear 82 years later. I can only imagine what my grandparents, and their parents who had fought the Great War, must have felt.

@FlyingExplorer2022

3 ай бұрын

its also inspiring I used the same speech to break up with my ex girlfriend 😂, I just find this speech very very inspiring and motivational I listen to this every time I am down

Thank you for this! I have never heard the full version of the speech/ public service announcements. Incredible.

@DarkLight753

8 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. I'd never heard it either until I came across an old tape...so I decided to post it on here.

@strangeways4530

7 жыл бұрын

Golden Eagle It's unimaginable isn't it? To think we worry about such small things constantly. They had his ahead of them. Many deaths & such hatred.

80 years today. May we never hear the like again. I cannot imagine what it would be like especially with the cancellation of cinema and sport.

@njm1259

4 жыл бұрын

And here we are

@frankrault3190

4 жыл бұрын

Western people are so much longing for war, they crave it. Like always it begins with creating a non-existing enemy, that you project your self-chosen misery on. Then you divide the people with the help of lies, podcasted and twittered around all over the media. And as bloody numb as the people can be, they beg to be brainwashed in order to bloody deny that any random neighbour might be a human being as well. Then, unaware, they start hating themselves for behaving inhumanly, projecting their hatred on their neighbour, actually knowing shit about him. And then they're ready for war and will love the killing and the barbary, being oblivious to the fact that they mentally do kill themselves. Poor bastards. I'm afraid it's about us that I write.

@YazzCarlton

4 жыл бұрын

Rob Mayou welcome to coronavirus

@mrracketymeteor

4 жыл бұрын

@@YazzCarlton sad shit

@uncontrollable343

4 жыл бұрын

Frank Rault western people? I don’t crave war. Nor does anyone I know. You sound paranoid.

my grandfather was at work. The radio stopped, this came on, they heard it, went back to work and then a siren blew! False alarm. He said it was birds sighted over the channel.

Thank you for this valuable piece of history.

@MeizMinez

3 жыл бұрын

thank you for this extra random peice of knowledge that wasted my day

@MeizMinez

3 жыл бұрын

i mean its school i dont like it

This speech was also broadcast live by the American networks (CBS, Mutual, NBC Red and NBC Blue) at 6:15 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time. Because the only way to transmit radio programming across the ocean was by shortwave relay, the sound quality of Mr. Chamberlain's speech on American networks wasn't as good as the BBC broadcast (there was occasional slight fading and a poor audio frequency response) , which was by a direct audio line from his residence at 10 Downing Street in London to the BBC's headquarters (Broadcasting House) in that city. There were also a handful of Americans who wanted the U.S. to immediately enter the war against Hitler, but it would be more than two years before the U.S. would enter the war.

@StephenRBeet

4 жыл бұрын

Recorded off air by the BBC wire recording machine. You can hear the hiss as apposed to the crackle of an acetate disc

@georgelawniczak3270

3 жыл бұрын

FDR immediately gave a radio speech saying the US would be neutral.

@Zekethegeek708

2 жыл бұрын

Did it go on PST or PDT

@PhirePhlame

2 жыл бұрын

Some of our pilots did volunteer to fight on Britain's behalf well before we as a country had entered the war. These volunteer pilots formed what were called the Eagle Squadrons of the RAF.

@mickeygs5843

Жыл бұрын

That's honestly horrifying with Russia right now

Sadly he was dead in a year - from stomach cancer.

@rockslurpjaggy0989

5 жыл бұрын

No it was colon cancer

@dinc4973

5 жыл бұрын

colon cancer happens mostly due to hard stress and sadness.

@Mrzacman5001

4 жыл бұрын

Good riddance. He was a boot licker to Hitler. He should've not allowed the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland.

@martinputt6421

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mrzacman5001 He was not a bootlicker you idiot. He had witnessed the horrors of the Great war and didn't want any British live lost in such a way again.

@bussesandtrains1218

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mrzacman5001 come on, judge him for not invading Germany but 20 years after the worst war in humanity (at that point). Put your self into his shoes

This is one of the very few WW2 videos on youtube where the comment section isn't full of neo-nazi Hitler sympathizers. So refreshing.

@travis07ful

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry but Chamberlain its not speaking the truth in this video. There were inumerals proposals by the german goverment, including to give the political administration of Danzig to the poles if there were no interference in the germans enterprises. Also was proposed the dismiss of the germans enterprises in the corridor if was allowed the construction of a railroad on the corridor soil linking Germany to East Prussia.

@josefsedlacek3819

6 жыл бұрын

I disagree with you. Your information is misleading. There were perhaps some proposals by the German to the Polish government, but some kind of an ultimatum whose nonperformance could lead to the war was never shown to the Poles or their allies (with some kind of time limit which they should /and could/ fulfil to avoid the war).

@travis07ful

6 жыл бұрын

+Josef Sedláček I dont think it was necessary to do this ultimatum since Germany and Poland were aware of the possibility of war. Germany gave an ultimatum to Lituania about a similiar issue councerning the german city of Medel in march 1939. Also in march 1939, Ribentrop did proposals councerning Danzig to a Pole representative on a meeting. Since then, Poles refused to even meet with germans representatives and demanded a supervision by England. Germany accepted but demanded in August 1939 a meeting with a polish prenipotentiary since the poles already knew the germans proposals since march.

@josefsedlacek3819

6 жыл бұрын

Dear travisknights, I suppose that regarding the absence of trustworthy German proposals, N. Chamberlain spoke about the situation, which is described, for example by A. Beevor in the book The Second World War:"...Hitler still hoping to put the blame on Poland for the invasion, pretended to agree to negotiations, with Britain and France and also with Poland. But a black farce ensued. He refused to present any terms for the Polish government do discuss..... Ribbentrop, meanwhile, made himself unavailable to both the Polish and British ambassadors....He /Ribbentrop/ finally agreed to see Henderson at midnight on 30 August, just as the uncommunicated peace terms expired....." For more details is possible to read the book mentioned above or other resources.

@jamessmethurst3537

6 жыл бұрын

Such a pity that this action was not taken during the crisis a year earlier. Easy in hindsight. But even so...

I don’t know what’s worse the start or when he’s says “ may god bless you all” absolutely terrifying ! 😞

Even as he said those words, neither Chamberlain nor many others truly understood the extent of the evil against which they would be fighting. I weep for Poland when I listen to this. The savagery the fascists unleashed there from this time onward was without precedent. Murder, sheer bloody murder. Never again.

@Wladyslaw_Raginis

3 жыл бұрын

3rd of September was the third day of war for Poland, many polish soldiers were being executed because of being considered "rebels". With such reason soviets deported polish soldiers into Siberia. I reccomend you too read a bit about polish post office defense in Gdansk during the first days of war.

@KopperNeoman

2 жыл бұрын

The fascists, communists, and national socialists, natch.

@sophrapsune

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget: the national socialists and the communists acted together in Poland by treaty.

@gdal3

2 жыл бұрын

.??

@rickbear7249

2 жыл бұрын

And, now (2022), Russia is unleashing similar evil against Ukraine. This time, it's Putin, in so many ways like Hitler

Imagine seeing all of your friends die in the trenches of WW1, then seeing it happen again 20 years later...

His opening words, his later choice of words, and his initial tone/mood gives a clear heads-up of what was coming.

Thanks so much for making this recording available. It's so invaluable for my research and captures such a fascinating moment in history.

His voice sounds sad. He was so interested in keeping the peace.

It is such a chilling radio announcement

Never heard this in full before, thanks for posting

You can hear the emotion in his voice.

I can imagine how frustrated people must have felt knowing they were going to war and expecting another bloodbath like in the first world war.

My Mothers Cousin, this broke him after he had tried so long to prevent war, not long after he died. A good and Honest Man, No Churchill as he would never have been ruthless enough to be War PM, I am very proud that he tried his utmost!

@davidcouch6514

3 жыл бұрын

Wow. I really enjoyed the David Reynolds “Munich” Video.

Thanks for this very historic and moving upload. Simply incredible. To think this is fact and not fiction is staggering. This was news as it broke. Thanks again.

I am Irish My grandfather was inspired enough to join the British army fight against Fascism saw action in Italy WW2, Proud of him.

A sad day. The man was so sad to say that war was here RIP to all.

gives me chills

Never loses its incredible power and resolve in the Face of Evil

@olwens1368

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's it- regret, horror at what has to be done, but above all, resolve.

Such an important and thought provoking speech and a day that changed the world forever

Oh, and a P.S. DarkLight753, thank you so much for posting. This is one of the most important things ever written/spoken in British history and you have preserved it for generations.

Thank you for posting this. I can’t imagine how frightening this must have been to hear on that day.

Thanks for posting this. 80 years today......

A wonderful record of a most defining moment in British, European as well as World History...Thanks for posting!...

I just cant belive something like this ever happened on this earth , its just unreal

@Glory-Compass

3 жыл бұрын

Well believe it and Sadly it's still Happening and at this Rate History will surely repeat itself in the coming years

@ssesssusman9417

2 жыл бұрын

Not at all, as is, it is going to happen again.

Who’s listening during the covid 19 pandemic ?

@test-ru2jo

3 жыл бұрын

Me

@ebsiegacha6920

3 жыл бұрын

Me hi

@username-mf4mu

3 жыл бұрын

No

@ebsiegacha6920

3 жыл бұрын

Aaron somebody yeah

@sairahuda5713

3 жыл бұрын

Me lol

First time I ever heard the full announcement. I always wondered how many BBC war recording the BBC had and never released. This is fantastic!

I came here after watching a recent video which featured the first part of this broadcast, and I came to find this full audio clip just to try to imagine myself how it would have felt to hear this at the time. And honestly, I just can't... I can feel some empathy and sympathy towards those who heard this live at the time, but I honestly don't think I can even come close to relating to the real feelings people would have had at the time. Scary stuff.

My grandparents were in the garden when it happened and they were called in by grandpas mum (they were childhood friends)

A small portion of this speech is included in "I Can Hear It Now", an LP of historic news broadcasts between 1933 and 1945, narrated by Ed Marrow. This album is part of the curriculum of many high school history classes.

@coopdivi

2 жыл бұрын

*Ed Morrow.

My great grandmother was a child when this was announced ,luckily she lived out in the county side ,she took in war evacuees x

I can't even begin to imagine the feeling of terror that everyone must have felt, on hearing these words.

The sound of them bells between PM speech and home Secretary speech is scary

Thanks for this historic speech uploading

Crying to this in November 2021, war is hell...... so sad that this war couldn't have been stopped....

Wow, impressive audio quality, 80 years old and it sounds crystal clear.

My Dad was working for Vosper Thorneycroft at this time as a Loftsman, he tried unsuccessfully to join up but was informed that he was in a protected job and had to stay to build ships, I never knew if he was disappointed about this and of course many of his family simply downed tools and enlisted- the announcements must have been well prepared following Chamberlains declaration only 15 minutes after the deadline to Berlin. So confident were they after beating the Hun in the first one that the tone of the announcements differ from Chamberlains in a kind of you will be back for Christmas

I've only ever heard the first three minutes and ten seconds of this. It's nice to hear the whole thing

Thanks for sharing

Why am I listening to this fully after all the WWIII memes

@DZ477

4 жыл бұрын

Also, listen to Pearl Harber attack announcement

@reyanndelprado3275

4 жыл бұрын

Same 😔

@reyanndelprado3275

4 жыл бұрын

Even pearl harbor

@nobletaco2188

4 жыл бұрын

I’m watching this during the Covid-19 quarantine

@Perririri

2 жыл бұрын

Fegelein pranked _you!_ 😂😛😁🙃🤣

Unreal! If only recording was possible even earlier. Imagine some of the other great speeches we could have actually heard.

thankyou for sharing this

Very good speech. Uncanny to hear his voice with such high fidelity. Thank you very much.

@Perririri

2 жыл бұрын

Could it be canny?

Those public announcements after Chamberlain's statement are even more chilling.

Such a chilling yet history defining moment in our great country.

Very good video thankyou for posting ..

Damn... this is so chilling. Really feels like I’ve been thrown back into history.

If I heard this live on the radio I would sh*t myself.

Listening to this after listening to Boris's Covid19 speech on 23 March 2020. I can't begin to imagine what it would have been like to hear Chamberlain announcing a declaration of war. All we have to do is stay indoors for a few weeks. I think that's not much to ask, honestly

@DarkLight753

4 жыл бұрын

Very good point. Stay safe. Hopefully the lockdown won’t be for too long.

@name-ie6kf

3 жыл бұрын

Five Months later... Schools are only just reopening, face coverings are required almost everywhere. The risk of transmission is still as high as it was at the start of lockdown. We seem to have gone in one five month loop, I hear another boris speech coming..

@cally8912

3 жыл бұрын

name 3 weeks later, we now have a 2nd wave and back into lockdown we go

@mattbeavis9105

Жыл бұрын

2 years of lockdowns and covid didn't go anywhere

I was glued to the screen and felt chills imagining what it would be like to be listening at the time.. then an advert came on and was such a reality check wow

What a hell of a time that must have been to live through ! Also a part of history made back then! Thanks !

80 years ago this happened. 2 days ago was 80 years from this.

Listening to this now, in 2022 - at the height of a brink of war with Russia. All I will say is, yikes.. If this scared us then, I can only imagine the fear that will come about with a similar announcement now.

I remember my grandmother screened and cried when my school played this as "respect" or a "tribute" she had lost a personal friend in the battle of Britain she was a spotlight operator and her friend died to the sound of the Jericho siren on a ju-87 so I sometimes wonder if the world should have something to show the memories of someone or some people before they do something like a tribute she was really pissed at the school for it they said to her that wasn't appropriate for a rememberance day assembly....it hurts man I don't know what people went through the emotional hardships and turmoil that people had to deal with day in and out but it was never easy I know that much...

Knowing what we know with what's going on right now. This is chilling. Something like this could happen this year

@kindmulberry7196

2 жыл бұрын

I hope it doesn't happen

This is such a big part of our history, to all who did there part to keep our freedom and lives what they are, we will live for those who fell. Along with the fact that ww2 showed most of the countries fight together to protect each other

Love this channel, for bringing history to our educationally lacking generation of ww2. I thank you for this documentation so that we as a civilized people will remember these events of the past, unto which these tragic worldwide events will never happen again in our name, and within the World, yet I struggle with our next generation. I cry.. because they will forget the workings of WW2. Upon this, history will repeat itself. It already has started the process of repeating. Humankind needs to be interested in history. If not, we will all be led to the pits of Doom...

Both my parents remember this very well. Dad said being one of 12 boys his mother wept uncontrollably as she knew 7 of her sons would be called up. His father already had erected an Anderson shelter in their garden. Mum remembers both her mum n dad was listening to the radio like the whole country and both her parents were completely silent. Her dad was a captain in the Royal Marines. It was just after this speech that the whole S, SE and London’s air raid warnings sounded which must of been absolutely terrifying because most people thought they were going to be bombed on that day. How sad but how strong that generation of people were.

I showed this video to my grandmother, she shuddered at 1:12.

I have a version of this speech on a 78 rpm record (single-sided), dubbed from the BBC Radio broadcast by Levy's Sound Studios Ltd of 73 New Bond Street, London (they moved here in 1937 and stayed until 1949). The recording was issued on the company's gold and black Oriole label. It contains a truncated version of the full speech. The announcement at the start is different; it states "One year has passed. It is now Sunday September 3rd, 1939. This is London. The Prime Minister." A minor detail, but interesting nonetheless, since it suggests that the speech was re-broadcast, presumably on the same day. One other minor detail: nowadays, we say "Primeminister" as if it is one word, but the announcement on the record has a noticeable gap between "Prime" and "Minister" (more so than on your version).

@cocomuffin

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting!!

Just imagine hearing this on the radio, and knowing the amount of destruction that soon followed was coming for you. Must have been extremely scary, I feel for the man tbh, he tried so hard to stop the coming hell on earth and millions of deaths, i can’t imagine the pain he felt when making this speech.

I cannot imagine how people must have felt on the day they heard this live. Such dread. Such an unknown future. Even with hindsight this is scary and upsetting in equal measures. With sincere gratitude and thanks to all those who gave their lives so that I could live mine.

Imagine if this speech is your next reservist callup. .

I don't consider Neville Chamberlain a cowardly or weak man. He wanted peace because he knew a modern war with Germany would be worse than the previous war. We need to remember the losses the U.K. suffered in First World War. The United Kingdom lost 900,000 killed in the First World War. We have to remember the terrible losses of World War One in shaping British policy in 1939. The Great Depression severely hurt the British economy too. The British did have a decent Air Force and a big Navy. The British lacked the economic resources to be prepared for a modern ground war against Germany in 1939. In reality, if the American people had been really critically thinking and honest about our place in the world, we should have declared war on Germany and the rest of the Axis in September, 1939. The British were fighting our fight. Neville Chamberlain was correct in saying Hitler was wicked and evil with his unprovoked attack on Poland. Hitler's aggression wouldn't be stopped by anything but brute force. Probably in the first years of the war, we could have fought a naval and air war with minimal losses but maximum economic benefit for the British. An early declaration of war by America couldn't have prevented the Fall of France, Dunkirk or the Blitz but Americans fighting beside the British and Commonwealth would have been the right thing to do. We can look at films of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Treblinka and Dachau and realize how naive, ignorant and parochial American isolationists were in 1939 about Axis military aggression. We can listen to a Donald Trump rally today and see many of Americans haven't improved very much from their isolationist grandparents either. Global warming is almost as much of a challenge today as Axis aggression was 80 years. The nature of the problems change but the need for allies to work closely together to do the right thing together to solve common problems never goes away.

Apart from the slight surface noise and a bit of hiss, this sounds like a modern, live recording. I have never heard this recording sound so good.

The great difference between then and now are Chamberlains words, "May God bless you all and may he defend the right"

The First World War was literally just days ago when this broadcast was made. Many people listening to this knew, what it meant. I’ve never heard it before and I find it very impressive. Six years later, sixty million people had died.

@user-ky6vw5up9m

3 жыл бұрын

20 years

@janettemohan7739

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-ky6vw5up9m Yes - that phrase "literally just days ago" puzzled me as well...

@Galactipod

2 жыл бұрын

Sure, literally just days ago. 7,602 days.

@accountreality1988

2 жыл бұрын

@@janettemohan7739 it is a figure of speech, for many at the time the great war was a memory planted in the minds of many citizens. when men in government declares war to the people on the radio it meant many draconian things start to happen in society like forced conscription of sons and brother from families to go and die on mass in far away lands, many non profit civic duties, rationing. basically far more government control and less freedom. war is where socialism thrives. it is a horrible situation for a commoner to be in when one thinks about it.

@ssesssusman9417

2 жыл бұрын

@@Galactipod hitler was that pissed?

Chilling.

@perezfecto

6 жыл бұрын

Specially if you were a young man back then.

@Kusummishra2501

3 жыл бұрын

What type of chill in this type of situation?

Don't gather in groups, keep off the streets and close schools and "places of recreation". Hmm... These words feels quite recent...

I feel bad for Neville Chamberlain. History has treated him unfairly, in my opinion. No one has a crystal ball that can predict the future. No one can TRULY know how our actions will ripple out over time. In the true historical context, Chamberlain did what any level-headed leader not named Churchill would have done. He was DESPERATE for peace, and while hindsight tells us that he never had a chance, he didn't have the benefit of hindsight then. He did what he thought was right for England, and given the circumstances of the time, it wasn't a crazy notion. Things turned out how they turned out, and there's no telling what would have really happened if Chamberlain had made (what would have been) a VERY unpopular decision to attack Hitler pre-emptively. I just think, given the position he was in at the time he was in it, Chamberlain made a rational decision. It's a shame history turned out the way it did, and it's unfair that so much of the blame gets placed on Chamberlain.

@czechoslovakpatriot4773

3 жыл бұрын

I respectfuly disagree, Chamberlain deliberately ignored every sign of Germany getting ready for war. He let them disobey the treaty of Versailles without any consequences. And they betrayed countries they swore to protect (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Latvia) if they protected Czechoslovakia with France it could not have been seen as an act of agression as France had a defensive agreement with Czechoslovakia. Additionaly the USSR would probably also join for their alliance to Czechoslovakia was bond to French assistance. Romania and Yugoslavia might also join because of Allied pressure, they were part of the Little Entente.

I came from battle field 5 but this must've been fuckin' scary to hear during the time

1:10 the words that changed the world, forever

What I like about this recording is that it is much clearer and audible. It's free of the hiss and pops so common of other recordings of this speech. Was it digitally "cleaned up"?

@XGEOFFREY1

4 жыл бұрын

Yes in the same way charlie chaplins movies were ie the tramp

Un documento increíble. Que nunca se repita una guerra tan cruel. Dios lo quiera.

*video ends... eren shows up*

@rupakrai001

3 жыл бұрын

nice one haha