Wow, haven’t seen WWII in Colour in years. Used to play on the Military Channel daily.

@frandsenphilip1

8 күн бұрын

It was on Netflix for a fairly long time - I've probably watched the series a dozen times. A shame Netflix took it away.

WoW ...a Afrika Korp film that isn't Blurry, Dark and chopped to pieces. 🤓😉

@AnastasioCostaMeno

10 күн бұрын

20:49 yeah nah. We’ll never get that on YT.

@Juthdewwit

10 күн бұрын

You're 12

Extremely wonderful historical coverage video...thanks for sharing

Unfortunately, this documentary is lacking a lot in information such as dates and names.

thumbs down for censor stories

@Episode_13

3 күн бұрын

Doesn't matter, listen and enjoy

Mussolini was not toppled by a popular uprising though everyone rejoyced but by his own underlings

@AnastasioCostaMeno

10 күн бұрын

50:42 he wad captured by Italian partisan forces and s*ot.

Hello from GREECE.

@HectorHuertas-gu8sv

11 күн бұрын

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@user-lv3xr4wj3i

11 күн бұрын

🤡.

@user-lv3xr4wj3i

11 күн бұрын

💀💀..

@jacksprat9172

10 күн бұрын

Hi from Scotland.

@daviddesert3132

5 күн бұрын

Yiasou filimo...

This my favorite channel 🤳👍🏼

A bit of a minor correction: It was the heroic Australian 9th Division which fought a defensive battle at Tobruk to be nicknamed "The Desert Rats" and they were commanded by Major-General Leslie Morshed.

Great documentary, the coloured footage looks great

Italy suffered a lot in WW2 with nothing to show for it but humiliation 😅

@mdiciaccio87

2 күн бұрын

Hilarious......

"El-Alamein" almost sounds like Spanish for "The German"

Atsa gooda video 👌

If you remember the Dennis Miller Millennium Special he mentioned Benito "Hey! Wait Up Guys!" Mussolini. 😁

very good documentary. 🙂

SOVIET UNION: We suffered human casualties. BRITAIN/FRANCE: We suffered our colonial possessions. . . . . . ITALY: We suffered epic HUMILIATION !!!!!!

Shocked this hasn't been claimed

Churchill irritates me🤣😂

Starting at 40:05 -- watch the Germans smiling as they march into captivity. They just realized they are going to survive this war.

The relationship issues channel 🎉

42:47 Say HIS name! ALAN TURING!! ALAN TURING! ALAN MATHISON TURING!!!!

@craigime

6 күн бұрын

Calm down

Italy went to war over a desert. That shows in and of itself, the folly of Mussolini. The fact that he actually thought it was a good idea, to sacrifice troops and resources over a desert, shows that they would fail as an empire. Typically when countries go to war, they do it for resources or land, or riches. Libia at the time, had nothing. Egypt had much of the same.

@LemonHead-sq5ws

10 күн бұрын

It was to disrupt British colonies and reestablish the Roman Empire trust if the Brit’s are there colonizing the place there is definitely wealth and resources it’s way too complicated for your small mind 😅

@MalevolentBite

10 күн бұрын

They would had complete control of the Mediterranean Sea, suez canel, red sea and Nile river plus do you know how many natural resources there are in Sudan plus the oil ? Then cheap labor. They would make bank from owning and controlling all those trade ports.

@EddyMerckx-1964-Sallanches

6 күн бұрын

What did Qaddafi do to nato again???

@satan899

Күн бұрын

"Just a desert" So much ignorance in those 3 words

This is a very fine documentary, but for the sake of presenting the documentary, it lacks the granular details of the events its covered.

Mussolini had ambitions, his troops didn't.

@mdiciaccio87

2 күн бұрын

His troops were based

Hmmm this started out about the Italians then went to a drawn out documentary about Rommel fight the British… talk about getting off the point of your video

Operation mincemeat also mentioned Greece was the target.

WWII in Color

Beaten off eh ;)

The Italians were very useful as POW s. The brits turned most of them into cooks..

Totally misleading title, this is purely the African campaign, nothing to do with the fall of Rome

Violent Gibson, almost ended his career in 1926.

Mussolini's army had been used to battling easy targets like Ethiopia. He nor his generals thought Africa would b a piece of cake.

Italy bought glass bottom boats so they could see their Air Force……

The Germanic "Barbarians" dividing Italy again! 45:56

The italians were almost useless as allies for the germans and most likely cost them the victory because the germans had to help them in Kreta and Greece and that delayed the campaign on the sowjet union by about two months which could have made the difference to reach moskau before the winter.

@Rickt2445

11 күн бұрын

A true inspiration for the children 😊

@Sirilere

11 күн бұрын

Hitler's declaring war on America, dividing the Central Front resources to Yugoslavia, Greece, Africa, and a bit later to the Caucasus oil fields and Crimea, all put the final nails in the coffin of German fortunes in WWII.

@dirkusmaximus9268

11 күн бұрын

Indeed, that is a big historic question, what if the Germans invaded Russian in Spring, let’s say April…Some historians said they feared the Sovjets would not sow in if the Germans invaded early. As a Srotched Earth-measure…. Imagine the German invade in April, 15. 9 weeks earlier, they probably got into Moscow…

@KR0TE7

11 күн бұрын

​@dirkusmaximus9268 it really wouldn't matter if they got to Moscow people like to use this theory since France surrendered when the germans got to Paris but same as in the napoleonic wars Russia has vast territory they can infinitely retreat to and could counter attack when they are ready to

@Oakeshott-ko8ig

11 күн бұрын

@KR0TE7 Moscow was a big arms manufacturing, industrial, and communications center, though, so in that respect it would of been a big loss.

28/10 /40 εισβολή στην Ελλάδα. Κορόιδο Μουσολίνι

The Australian victory at Bardia was an incredible feat. 16000 Australians armed only with rifles, grenades and two machine guns captured a heavily fortified garrison, attacking over open ground through kilometres thick barbed wire, mines and trenches to kill thousands of Italian troops, take 36000 prisoners, and take hundreds of tanks, guns and vehicles for the loss of 132 troops. The British claim it as their victory but they barely made a guest appearance, had nothing to do with the planning, finance or command and at various times during the three day battle, refused to fight. Their losses consisted of repeated mechanical breakdowns of 90% of their tanks which had been babied into position by Australian infantry using wire cutters and filling in tank traps by hand. It’s ludicrous to claim that Britain made a contribution and the American press rightly condemned them for claiming a whopping great lie despite Churchill’s protestations otherwise.

I think the Italians wanted Italy to be a great nation again, but not a grasping, warmongering empire and I think that shows in their meh fighting performance.

too much pasta

Rocky!

Looks very much like a British Pathé propaganda movie from WW2, only in colour

@safatkarim630

4 күн бұрын

Why? Does it only show one side of the story?

@triumphbobberbiker

3 күн бұрын

@@safatkarim630 absolutely. It only focuses on Italy's failures but there were British failures too, and (strange as this may sound) a few Italian major successes. For instance, between June 1940 and early 1943 Italian ships successfully carried across the strait of Sicily some 90% of the supplies/personnel for the Axis forces in N-Africa. The fact that the Royal Navy did not manage to disrupt Italian naval lanes to and from Lybia (except for a few periods) was a serious setback. It was not 'spectacular' like the Italian defeat at Matapan, but it was a major failure. And, I could go on. You won't find any mention of this on the YT videos such as this one. PS. I am not stating that Italy's overall performance was good, far from me. I am saying that WW2 has ended 60 years ago. A more balanced approach would be appropriate, I think.

Ugh. Interrupted by a Biden donation pitch.

Biplanes?🤣😂🤣

dont mess with the royal navy el duce

Everyone makes fun of the French actions during WWII but the Italians … dude they really should be the ones that should be shamed.

@thecommentaryking

5 күн бұрын

Italy is already joked about, and quite too much

With what I know today we should have supported the Germans then.

Why did they suck

@KR0TE7

11 күн бұрын

Supplies mostly terrible tanks guns that didn't work italian soldiers were very good tho like the French just lacked weapons

@ReyGaljour

11 күн бұрын

A grossly outdated military, combined with a poor officer class, topped off by a lack of supplies and materiel to wage the war Mussolini wanted to fight.

@johnbarlow1428

11 күн бұрын

Because they were even worse than the French!

Italians were terible.So were the Romanians. In Russia,..everytime the Russians would attack or counter attack the Italins would completely fall apart as fighting force,Almost instantly. This are German testimonies.

Italy shouldn’t have gotten rid of Mussolini.

@wally9935

10 күн бұрын

Lol

@craigime

6 күн бұрын

Why?

How in the world Italians ever conquered anyone just tells me how awful their opposition.. French are even better than italians

4 WWI planes held of the Italian Air Force? This is why Italian jokes exist😎

It almost looks like Italian conscripts were first taught how to stylishly throw down their weapons and throw up their hands !!!

“ Italian resistance “ … funny

From the Roman Empire to the Italian States to WWI failure to Mussolini… uuughhh At least y’all gave us pizza, pasta, the mafia, o yes Columbus, wife beater undershirts, and….. ???

Even the Greeks!!! Damn😂

American Sherman tanks had arrived- you’re welcome