Eritrea's Last Stand (1941)
Title reads: "Eritrea's Last Stand".
Eritrea (formerly part of Ethiopia / Abyssinia).
Various shots of troops clearing a landslide that has blocked the road to Massawa. C/U of a map of the Red Sea showing the position of Asmara and Massawa. M/S of an armoured car as it passes camera. Various shots of lines of British troops advancing along the road to Asmara. Point of view shot from a tank as it travels along the road, the advancing troops are passed. Tank passes a North African soldier waving a white sheet.
Various shots of an Italian emissary talking to a British officer about surrender terms. Point of view shot from the tank, the gun of which is firing. From the tank we see African civilians and Italian soldiers waving white flags at the advancing forces.
L/S of cars bearing a white flag and the Italian flag coming towards the British. The Chief of Police of Asmara and the Bishop of Asmara, accompanied by Italian army officers get out of car. The Italian emissaries surrender the town of Asmara to the British. Various shots of the group arranging the details of the surrender inside a charabanc.
Point of view shot from the tank as it enters Asmara, the local police salute it as it passes. C/U of the British Brigadier with the Italian governor of Eritrea. M/S of the British commander meeting Italian VIPs on the steps of the Governor's residence. Point of view shot of natives lining the streets as the British enter the town. Various shots, including an interior of their hut, of British prisoners who have just been released. The prisoners had actually started digging an escape tunnel - they show it to the camera!
L/S of pile of rubble blocking desert road. M/S of British officers meeting with soldiers of Free French force in the road. Various shots of British officers talking to Italian officer at road block, the British officers carry white flag. M/S of British soldiers in car driving through desert, an African soldier in back carries a white flag. They are on their way to Massawa to talk with the Italian. The next morning the Italians send an answer back with one of their officers. Various shots of a blindfolded Italian officer being taken from a car.
Pan from one shell burst to another as the Italians decide to continue hostilities. Various shot of ruined Italian vehicles and abandoned stores lying beside the road. Point of view shot from the first allied vehicle as it enters Massawa. Various shots of ruined aircraft, radio mast and hangar. Travelling shot of a line of Italian prisoners. M/S of the convoy of allied vehicles entering the town.
Various shots of the rigging and wrecks of sunken ships and a few tanks in the harbour. C/U of Naval officer walking along the sloping deck of a scuttled merchant ship. Various shots of the wrecks in the harbour. C/U of the Italian Admiral of Massawa seated in a car, he appears to shout at camera. Various shots of the wrecked ships in the harbour.
Note: The British forces entered the capital of Eritrea, Asmara, on Tuesday April 1st 1941. Massawa the port on the Red Sea fell into British hands on Wednesday April 9th 1941.
Note: instead of usual cheesy commentary, narrator reads from the cameraman's dispatch, giving a personal account of events - fascinating! Judging by other similar stories cameraman was probably Terry Ashwood.
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Italian soldiers and some Askari allies continued to fight on, guerrilla fashion, for two more years, in the mountains of Eritrea and Somalia. This includes the man credited for creating the future Eritrean army -- Hamid Idris Awate.
@Simon-vk2lr
Жыл бұрын
proof i doubt this Idris Awate exist no actuall evidence.
@BF-bb5us
Жыл бұрын
Romanticisation. The Italians forced the Eritreans to fight. The picture you paint is not an accurate one
@MrJm323
Жыл бұрын
@@BF-bb5us No, the Italians cannot force anyone to fight AFTER they've themselves have been forced to surrender.
@BF-bb5us
Жыл бұрын
@@MrJm323 The Askari were forced what has them surrendering later got to do with it?!!!
@MrJm323
Жыл бұрын
@@BF-bb5us The ITALIANS surrendered to the British. It's a bit difficult for you to force anyone to do anything when you are sitting behind barbed wire. The few Italian holdouts fighting in the hills couldn't force anyone to join them. After the Allied powers allowed King Haile Selassie (of Ethiopia) to swallow Eritrea, many Eritreans resisted, including Hamid Idris Awate and others who fought under the Italian flag.
England they destroy Eritran they have to pay for it ❤️🇪🇷
@westentrance
Жыл бұрын
They looted the country
@spaghettistef
Жыл бұрын
I am Italian and I dream of visiting Eritrea❤
@BF-bb5us
Жыл бұрын
The Italians were barbaric and destroyed the spirit of the Eritreans. The comments by Eritreans are disturbing
@user-gk3lm4no1e
Жыл бұрын
I'm sure that u r living in some western country as a refugee complaining about Britain.😂
@feruzaentertainment
10 ай бұрын
@@spaghettistefWelcome sir
God bless the Ascaris. My grandfather surrendered at Keren. Deki Ertra, never forget, the British are our enemies forever.
@user-pw1rr2vm8b
2 ай бұрын
ድሮም ከባንዳ ዘር ምን ይጠበቃል?
Love Italy from Eritrea Italy will stay soul father off Eritrea forever 🇪🇷🫶🏽🇮🇹
@eduardocoppola3820
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Eritrean brother!! We love you too!!💓💓💓
@Lili_lulu
Жыл бұрын
@@eduardocoppola3820 Love you too bro . If you visit Eritrea you will see alot of common cultures btw Eritrea and Italy
@BF-bb5us
Жыл бұрын
@@Lili_luluwhat on earth! The Italians dehumanised your ancestors and certainly we should not be speaking Italian. They were cruel to Eritreans. As an Eritrean I'm so deeply embarrassed. Tigrinya is nothing like Italian
@spaghettistef
Жыл бұрын
I am Italian and I dream of visiting Eritrea 🇪🇷❤🇮🇹
@Lili_lulu
Жыл бұрын
@@spaghettistef You are most welcome to your second home Eritrea 🤝
We eritrean have nigetive story about England.
@westentrance
Жыл бұрын
Agreed
@hfugjfjvccjgj
Жыл бұрын
Adi Ingleez resahat iyom!
@ube-23s
Жыл бұрын
@@hfugjfjvccjgj ካብ። ኢሳያስ። ወዲ። ጎንደር። ጉዋሓፍ። እንግሊዝ። ይሕሹና።
@spaghettistef
Жыл бұрын
I'm curious, what about Italians? I am Italian and I would like to visit Eritrea but I don't know if Eritreans would hate me
@HabeshaICT
Жыл бұрын
@@spaghettistef they will love you.
So what's happening in this video? The italians are withdrawing, and the British are entering Eritrean? I don't understand.
@travelwithmike8930
Жыл бұрын
Haha old colonization replacement by new colonization. The massage of this video
@spaghettistef
Жыл бұрын
Correct, Italians had been in Eritrea for a few decades and arguably had integrated in the Eritrean society (that's why Eritreans - very strong people - don't salute the British as liberators) and contributed to the development of the country's infrastructure. Then Italians were defeated by the British and Italians were forced to leave Eritrea. This video is the Moment when the British enter the capital of Eritrea.
@kanyewest2.066
Жыл бұрын
@@spaghettistef italy was 10x better then the british. at least the italains modernized eritrea, the british stole everything except the buildings. hope someday eritrea and italy can reestablish diplomatic ties and work together.
@TheDigitala
3 ай бұрын
F ING pigeons ukn ......
Without propaganda, there is no war(rightful),but it felt like I was watching the movie The Best of Enemies(Il Due Nemici)
@jstevinik3261
Жыл бұрын
@Vivek Ray Chowdhury Omg, I watched the film "The Best of Enemies". It is okay, as one of the fee films on WW2 East Africa. I like the joke, in which the commander was waving to what he believed were Italian trucks but his waving instantly turned to surrendering hands when he relaised that the trucks were British.
@vivekraychowdhury4348
Жыл бұрын
@@jstevinik3261 In the last part of the news reel on Italian soldier probably an officer was trying to bargain a friendship with the British guard but he was cajoled to the POW fall in, one can find humour in the most peculiar circumstances.
@jstevinik3261
Жыл бұрын
@@vivekraychowdhury4348 Indeed. Though, I kind of like the film, even if it is was a part of a trend of cheap Italian produced films on WW1. Plus, they had David Niven.
@vivekraychowdhury4348
Жыл бұрын
@@jstevinik3261 The Italians make good movies on the cheap.
@jstevinik3261
Жыл бұрын
@@vivekraychowdhury4348 Well, most of their war films are average/campy at times. I did like 1969's The Battle of El Alamein, but since it is about Italians, I bet the writers and crew deemed this one more special.
A bunch of evil pagans in a land which does not belong to them forcing their ideals and will on the beautiful people of Eritrea. Rinse and repeat! How many times has this process been repeated?!😞
@MrJm323
2 жыл бұрын
You mean, how many times have beautiful noble savages been introduced to electricity and access to world-wide instant communication, such that they can read your thoughtless comments? (And, this land was claimed by the Turks before the "evil pagans" showed up. Which ideals were THEY foisting upon these beautiful people?)
@R.G.777.
2 жыл бұрын
@@MrJm323 There are quite a few concerning undertones to your message but just out of curiosity when and how could the Turks claim land in Africa which already had people there? Please provide links that I can look into. Any one with a non biased view of history knows exactly what happens when these alleged civilised colonialists go to other countries. Scheming Vampires!
@MrJm323
2 жыл бұрын
@@R.G.777. Well, this comment of yours only causes me to be concerned about your basic level of intelligence! LOL! Particularly hilarious is, "How can Turks [or anybody, really] claim land in Africa [or anywhere, really] which already had people there?" Welcome to an educational discipline called "history"! Yeah, in this case, the Ottomans, and their imperial "clients" (tributary regime) the Egyptian Khedivate government, claimed territory along all of the Red Sea coast (before the Europeans gradually wrested this area from them). Peoples around the world are constantly ruled over by overlords of some kind (the reigning military and economic power in the region). This is, like, the most basic fact (indeed, driving force) of history. ...Or did your leftwing teacher tell you that it was Europeans who invented imperialism, colonization, slavery, tribute-taking, etc. ...?? AND, in most cases, particularly where the colonizer/imperialists are considerably more advanced -- technologically, economically, in terms of scholarship, etc. -- the subjugated peoples benefit from the new knowledge and technology brought to them. Most imperialist powers over the length of world history do NOT just mass-enslave the population or commit genocide. Most are much more practical than that.
@user-fo9hs9ep8g
2 жыл бұрын
@@MrJm323 wtf are you talking? It is not just a land it is country with ppl.
@MrJm323
2 жыл бұрын
@@user-fo9hs9ep8g ...It's a country with people. Very Good!! ....Now, go have a cookie! (What, are you five years old or something?)
Asmara Sarah sempre nel Mio cuore❤
Sweet video.
@Paradoxx4k
Жыл бұрын
no
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Propaganda.
The British were definitely more discreet in their propaganda films than the Germans but propaganda none the less.
British the thief!
DIA will be remembered as the most evil dictators of Eritrea's history.
@heavent883
4 ай бұрын
his african and nobody would care
If it wasn't for menelik we would never be under Italy we beat Italy in many times for example battle of dogali but after our king died yohannes iv. The Italians and menelik divided us in to 2. Some of us under Italy some of us under menelik the fact is Italians war was with tigrigna there was no ethiopia menelik started it. The battle of adwa was actually Win for amhara and Italy but the truth is we tigrigna were the ones fighting Italy but after our king died they played us games and now our history victory ethiopia is claiming it
@berhanxo
8 ай бұрын
Start thinking about how we fix our country today, u r stuck in the past
@lemlematta229
3 ай бұрын
I am from Eritrea I beg you you need to study the history
@lemlematta229
2 ай бұрын
@@berhanxo we learn from the past
@sami7681
27 күн бұрын
Teguras bed time story 😂
Isaias Afwerki is dictator
@redseayouth9119
11 ай бұрын
Guhaff Agame!! worry about your filthy food aid dependant regional province! Guhaff
@jimihune9650
7 ай бұрын
Tell it to yor mother
@heavent883
4 ай бұрын
okay?