Lightning War: How Blitzkrieg Struck Europe | World War II In Colour | War Stories

In 1939 Hitler unleashed his lightning war into the world. Europe was laid to waste by the wrath of Blitzkrieg, a new type of warfare that would change the history of mankind forever. Using color footage, this documentary looks at how the continent crumbled before Nazi Germany.
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  • @nchimunyamuyuni7920
    @nchimunyamuyuni7920Ай бұрын

    Feels kinda strange to watch a WW2 doc in colour, thanks very much war stories

  • @user-km2os3ru6m

    @user-km2os3ru6m

    Ай бұрын

    Thank Netflix

  • @nchimunyamuyuni7920

    @nchimunyamuyuni7920

    Ай бұрын

    @@user-km2os3ru6m Netflix is responsible for this?

  • @daGO_BLUE

    @daGO_BLUE

    Ай бұрын

    I agree it puts everything in a completely different perspective.

  • @nathanhardman6266

    @nathanhardman6266

    27 күн бұрын

    Should listen to the speeches of hitlers than have been translated into english

  • @nchimunyamuyuni7920

    @nchimunyamuyuni7920

    26 күн бұрын

    @@nathanhardman6266 Thanks, I'll check them out

  • @benjaminlathem2745
    @benjaminlathem2745Ай бұрын

    War stories is the best documentary channel on youtube.

  • @dunleavy0994
    @dunleavy0994Ай бұрын

    Love the videos but the blurring every so often, drives me mad

  • @jumpinjehoshaphat9075

    @jumpinjehoshaphat9075

    Ай бұрын

    It's because you can't handle the truth

  • @dunleavy0994

    @dunleavy0994

    Ай бұрын

    @@jumpinjehoshaphat9075 🤣🤣

  • @socialmediaaccount404

    @socialmediaaccount404

    Ай бұрын

    you can watch these same videos uncensored if you look up the series.

  • @mikewazowski7830

    @mikewazowski7830

    Ай бұрын

    It's in an attempt to stay monetized because KZread does not monetize the true nature of war "death and destruction"

  • @mikewazowski7830

    @mikewazowski7830

    Ай бұрын

    It's in an attempt to stay monetized because KZread does not monetize the true nature of war "death and destruction"

  • @seanwilliams2297
    @seanwilliams2297Ай бұрын

    Watched this series as a kid. Thanks for refreshing it all. Lest we forget...

  • @robertdelacruz2951
    @robertdelacruz2951Ай бұрын

    An old documentary, but well worth re-telling. Quite Excellent!

  • @ChadSimplicio
    @ChadSimplicioАй бұрын

    Really nice to see History Hit add one of my favorite documentaries seen on the Discovery Networks in the U.S. to their playlist.

  • @manricobianchini5276
    @manricobianchini5276Ай бұрын

    Love these documentaries! Watched them before many times! However, originally the gory scenes were not sensored. A real shame they are now. People---especially the young---need to see them. Remember! Lest we forget!

  • @JasonWindsor88
    @JasonWindsor8821 күн бұрын

    I remember watching all these episodes multiple times when I was younger, one of the most superb WWII series I’ve encountered. Replete with simple maps to illustrate military movements & maneuvers, concise & articulate narration, and thankfully, no reenactments, the whole ‘WWII in Colour” series is second to none. It’s worth mentioning that “The World at War” series made in the early seventies & narrated by Laurence Olivier is also extraordinary & has many more interviews with those who were involved in the war (be it soldiers or holocaust survivors) as it was produced only ~25 years after the conclusion of the war.

  • @mattmarino5486
    @mattmarino548627 күн бұрын

    Love their work. So much information. KZread ruins it with 17 commercials in 33 minutes,,

  • @IndyRommelCo
    @IndyRommelCoАй бұрын

    I love all these documentaries. My Indy Rommel 🐶 & I watch them as soon as you post. Thank you for your dedication to keeping History alive…. 😇🙏❤️🙌🙌

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587Ай бұрын

    A wonderful historical coverage video about WW2 events.. through focusing on Blitzkrieg

  • @CM-sn4rn
    @CM-sn4rnАй бұрын

    Love this series

  • @jameswebb4593
    @jameswebb4593Ай бұрын

    The Blitzkrieg strategy was not a German idea. The plan was first tried out during the WW1 battle of Cambrai France. Tanks supporting infantry with mobile artillery , and aircraft dive bombing enemy forward positions. After initial success it failed mainly because of the quality of the Tanks . As was proven years later it was a sound concept .

  • @tfox2925
    @tfox2925Ай бұрын

    The intro to this is nostalgic asf

  • @auerstadt06
    @auerstadt06Ай бұрын

    First requirement of "Blitzkrieg"? Radios.

  • @ephremsolomon8435
    @ephremsolomon8435Ай бұрын

    "Heinz Guderian" is an architect of the Blitzkrieg tactic.

  • @christophervonburen3978
    @christophervonburen3978Ай бұрын

    The show is called World War 2 in color H.D great Ten episode Documentary

  • @user-cl4zp1nc1h
    @user-cl4zp1nc1hАй бұрын

    J’aimerais que ce documentaire soit traduit audio en français Svp

  • @kohtalainenalias
    @kohtalainenaliasАй бұрын

    "Lances and horses against panzers" 😮

  • @socialmediaaccount404

    @socialmediaaccount404

    Ай бұрын

    that never actually happened

  • @gumpy4960
    @gumpy4960Ай бұрын

    I do wish that the British would get a mention in their defence of the Dunkirk evacuation. The rear guard was not just French.

  • @breamoreboy
    @breamoreboyАй бұрын

    The Dunkirk part is inaccurate. Most troops were taken off from the mole, not by small boats from the beaches.

  • @Patrick_Cooper
    @Patrick_CooperАй бұрын

    Maybe now or someday, AI will be able to fix these old films so that they much clearer.

  • @luxdove3084
    @luxdove3084Ай бұрын

    If the French military had anyone competent at the top, they could have kept going when they went into Germany instead of turning back when Germany was fighting Poland. That action may have spared Europe all the misery. Also, these documentaries always seem to make it seem that the German military was completely mechanized when this is hardly the case.

  • @sofragile7778
    @sofragile7778Ай бұрын

    They were spawn camping her in the port 16:33 😂

  • @Wildcat221
    @Wildcat221Ай бұрын

    The dunkirk situation was a massive sign to Germany that they weren’t meant to win this war. Everything that went wrong did and they made horrendous mistakes.

  • @rodrigoquiroga8590
    @rodrigoquiroga8590Ай бұрын

    Question: Poland´s leader Gral Sikorski was the same one the MI6 cowardly killed... ?

  • @SuperiorAmericanGuy
    @SuperiorAmericanGuyАй бұрын

    I never met my American grandparents. They both died from an Me 262 terror aircraft.

  • @BostonsF1nest
    @BostonsF1nestАй бұрын

    Don’t forget 2/3 of the German military still relied on horseback

  • @theoregan4183
    @theoregan4183Ай бұрын

    I love the music, it really connects with the colour (UK spelling) thanks for those who created the music/ series

  • @weblightstudio8215
    @weblightstudio8215Ай бұрын

    Europe was, and is, ever thus

  • @CMDR.Gonzo.von.Richthofen
    @CMDR.Gonzo.von.RichthofenАй бұрын

    Background noise is too much and way too loud.

  • @malcolmyoung7866
    @malcolmyoung7866Ай бұрын

    Blitz Krieg.. NEVER mentioned in any official German Military Doctrine nor training manual……

  • @scottfoster3445
    @scottfoster3445Ай бұрын

    Some people just want to see the world burn 🔥

  • @pawepiech8655
    @pawepiech8655Ай бұрын

    After 5 minutes of watching, I conclude that the filmmakers are uneducated when it comes to historical knowledge. Polish cavalry never fought on horses against tanks. Horses were used to move troops equipped with excellent 37mm anti-tank guns, the bullet of which penetrated every German tank just like a bullet from an anti-tank rifle. In addition, such a brigade was also equipped with a small number of light tanks. On September 1, a cavalry brigade near the village of Mokre stopped the 4th Armored Division, destroying or damaging about 100 German tanks. The second lie concerns aviation. On August 30, the combat squadrons were moved to hidden field airfields. This saved them from destruction as a result of a surprise attack. As a result, the Germans destroyed only disabled and civilian planes at the airports they knew

  • @Swellington_

    @Swellington_

    Ай бұрын

    this was probably made 75 years ago and were going off of the information available,so at the time of making this doc,it was probably considered the gospel to a lot of ppl,particularly the ppl who werent there to see,or not see iit,so I think they can get a pass

  • @theswampcleaner3856

    @theswampcleaner3856

    Ай бұрын

    Narrator says "legend has it" which doesn't mean the doc makers treat it as fact.

  • @THB1945
    @THB1945Ай бұрын

    FIRST COMMENT ! ! !

  • @aurorathekitty7854
    @aurorathekitty7854Ай бұрын

    Wrong polish calvary never attacked tanks. Only instance it happened Polish Calvary countered attacked German infantry and routed German infantry and they ran head first into German tanks in the rear.

  • @politicsuncensored5617
    @politicsuncensored5617Ай бұрын

    I do enjoy listening to this narrator, but I think he is completely incorrect in saying French armor or tanks were better than German. The main gun was built into the tank. The tank had to turn towards the target to fire. French troops and leadership was poorly funded and poorly trained. They were thinking/planning 20 years in the past to fight WW2. Shalom

  • @zerosusaku

    @zerosusaku

    22 күн бұрын

    The only Tank the Germans had that could efective fought WW2 French Tanks not the WW1 leftovers where the PZ3 and at this Point Germany did not had to much of them. Germany still mostly used PZ 1 and 2 and which where more or less trash as already proven in the Spanish Civil War and Poland. The only good thing they had where Radio Comunication and the Combination with the Luftwaffe which took out most French Tanks in Combination with the 8,8 cm Flak which was used in France for the first time as a Anti Tank Gun.

  • @loneranger5349
    @loneranger53492 күн бұрын

    If Poland had anti tank guns Germany's tanks would have been defeatable

  • @staffangoldschmidt2721
    @staffangoldschmidt2721Ай бұрын

    The film clips don't correspond with the narrators comments.🤡

  • @sirwayne5378
    @sirwayne5378Ай бұрын

    This is copy and paste completely stolen

  • @user-qj8fp5tp1h
    @user-qj8fp5tp1h9 күн бұрын

    🥱👎 boring

  • @AndrewLambert-wi8et
    @AndrewLambert-wi8etАй бұрын

    CORRECTION! GERMANY DID HAVE A UNFINISHED AIRCRAFT CARRIER. DO YOUR HOME WORK NEXT TIME AROUND.

  • @BostonsF1nest

    @BostonsF1nest

    Ай бұрын

    Ok? That still counts as having none.

  • @jonschafrath104

    @jonschafrath104

    Ай бұрын

    The Graf Zeppelin was never completed and never put into service and played no pivotal role in the war. The only thing it served as was a target in 1947

  • @davecopp9356
    @davecopp9356Ай бұрын

    A lot of propaganda by the All lies.

  • @Ar1AnX1x

    @Ar1AnX1x

    Ай бұрын

    I would bet half my money on you being a far-righter brainwashed by neonazis propaganda online

  • @Sexyblkmetalchick
    @SexyblkmetalchickАй бұрын

    The discussion for my class this week is about blitzkrieg.

  • @historyjunky1299

    @historyjunky1299

    Ай бұрын

    You should discuss operation paperclip. That's 100% more relevant to classroom work.

  • @Sexyblkmetalchick

    @Sexyblkmetalchick

    Ай бұрын

    @@historyjunky1299 My professor decided the discussion.

  • @mynmyself

    @mynmyself

    Ай бұрын

    Be that one person who says blitzkreig wasnt even a thing and mobile warfare had been around german doctrine for decades

  • @tracymesser296

    @tracymesser296

    Ай бұрын

    @@historyjunky1299I disagree!

  • @LemonHead-sq5ws
    @LemonHead-sq5wsАй бұрын

    France did the bulk of the fighting for the Allie’s during WW1 but they had suffered such horrendous astronomical casualties they simply didn’t have the stomach for war when WW2 came around and it started all over again…

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