Germany was the winner of the first Tour De France

@chrisbreezy-ryanbarbosa4320

3 жыл бұрын

@@hypedpanther6464 ...

@Hermania_

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah my bf 109's are soo fast

@milorules2729

3 жыл бұрын

@@hypedpanther6464 Germany was the winner of the 1940 tour de France. Happy?

@phlm9038

3 жыл бұрын

@@milorules2729 I am not happy either. No Tour de France in 1940. And the Germans couldn't be the winners of the Tour in 1940 as they didn't make a whole tour of France. They stayed in the North and on the western coast. The tour wasn't complete

@muhammaddanishbinramizi2052

3 жыл бұрын

Geez this reply make me cringe, get some jokes and dont be so serious, its just a jokes.

Just like Napoleon, you can win 1,000 battles, have 100 victorious treaties, but it only takes 1 defeat to make you lose the war

@pekka1900

2 жыл бұрын

Are you saying that N-germany was like napoleons france? I'd beg to differ..

@jerolvilladolid

2 жыл бұрын

@@pekka1900 I mean Germany defeated france, denmark, netherlands, poland, etc etc.... but it only took one defeat to make them lose the war. Even though they won dozens of victories but that didnt make them win the war

@pekka1900

2 жыл бұрын

@@jerolvilladolid Yes, both countries defeated weaker neighboring countries with fast and bold campaigns, but neither really lost because of one defeat. Maybe you mean one bad decision? The bad decision being that you fight in too many places at once.

@PrvnCoke

2 жыл бұрын

@@pekka1900 france wasnt weaker, they had more men, better tanks and were considered a great power, england wasnt weaker either but refused to fight the germans until the russians and americans came who were also much more powerful than germany

@legokingtm9462

2 жыл бұрын

@@PrvnCoke lol, most of UK professionals soldiers was deployed in France hence Dunkirk. They didn't just sit back and watch

What an absolute humiliation that was. Imagine being French ww1 veteran and seeing this unfold before your eyes.

@4oiseau208

9 ай бұрын

how not to understand them when you see the number of deaths because of the first world war on the side of France, the Germans were revengeful and united but France divided politically there would have been a civil war in France if the war had lasted

@MarkHarrison733

9 ай бұрын

France and the British Empire started two world wars they could not win.

@Demun1649

7 ай бұрын

@@4oiseau208 Yet they fought on for 6 weeks after the ENGLISH ran away, just as they did at Corunna in 1809, and lost more soldiers than they lost in the first 3 months of the Battle of the Somme. Personally, I think the main reason that you ENGLISH resent France, is that they beat you, hands down, to win the Hundred Years War. You just can't get over it, can you?

@ericv-kj3du

7 ай бұрын

@@Demun1649 Pourquoi ce ton ? Celui à qui tu réponds est probablement français vu son pseudo, et en tout cas, il ne se montre pas accusatif envers la France, bien au contraire.

@ericv-kj3du

7 ай бұрын

I'm not sure humiliation is the right word. This is humiliating, yes but it's also the thought that you wasted a few years in the trenches, saw countless of comrades die, eventually ended disabled or crippled and in the end, 20 years later, the ennemi you fought came back and won a crushing victory to gain control of your country. More than the humiliation, it's the feeling of a terrible waste, and a kind of treason.

The Germans legitimately thought that France was going to put up a better fight than the USSR. They were shocked not only at their own success in beating France but in how few casualties they took in beating every single country they managed to defeat before July 1941

@sigma_frenchie4075

2 жыл бұрын

"how few casualties" proceeds to lose about 60k soldiers, comparable to France

@lelouchvibritannia7809

2 жыл бұрын

@@sigma_frenchie4075 France had better equipment and weapons than Germany at the time. The Battle of Hannut was the largest tank battle in history (before Barbarossa) in which the French managed to inflict great casualties against the Germans. The French might have been able to single handedly beat Germany were it not for Germany's superior tactics. France didn't lose because they were weak, France lost because they got outsmarted

@ericvonmanstein2112

2 жыл бұрын

@@sigma_frenchie4075 Germany lost 27k

@Max-zf2gy

2 жыл бұрын

@@lelouchvibritannia7809 France Lost because of some old general who didn't improve their strategy since the first World War . Youngest caporal understood before the second war how important was the communication, the tanks and mobility. But they were not listen On every fight where this new ideology was planed by french militaries, french beats the Germans.

@buddyfats4768

2 жыл бұрын

@@sigma_frenchie4075 cope

100k dead, 1.85M prisoned all in a month. Wow

@thCentury-rx9di

6 жыл бұрын

Mokka incredible you should see the Soviet Campaign the numbers there are staggering.

@icebobk6702

4 жыл бұрын

20th Century im glad those numbers r high

@safranofficial_gov

4 жыл бұрын

@@mardismardias2373 no

@enrixosjjdjd187

3 жыл бұрын

@User Name It would have costed about 1.6 Million GI's to take Japan in an Invasion

@ym6294

3 жыл бұрын

@@threadworm437 so are nazis.

Look how happy the Germans were

@kevinswift8654

3 жыл бұрын

It was a huge deal. They fought France for 4 years in WW1 and lost.

@alitheonekhatarnak5163

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinswift8654 BECAUSE OF USA ..not loser France

@hugopelkonen3249

3 жыл бұрын

@@alitheonekhatarnak5163 WHO us

@alitheonekhatarnak5163

3 жыл бұрын

@@hugopelkonen3249 usa

@hugopelkonen3249

3 жыл бұрын

@@alitheonekhatarnak5163 i'm sorry to tell you that USA had nothing to do with outcome of War. France and other European countries were allready winning, USA just came and give some material.

I just know Napoleon was rolling in his grave seeing how badly France did during WW2

@Laocoon283

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder what would have happened if he were in charge at that time.

@LostSpaceGuy

2 жыл бұрын

@@Laocoon283 he’d probably halt the German offensive. And maybe might gain some German grounds.

@exoels

2 жыл бұрын

@@LostSpaceGuy He knew about blitzkrieg anyways

@nicolaspeigne1429

2 жыл бұрын

he was rolling since Napoleon the third lost Paris to Prussia in 6 months

@Laocoon283

2 жыл бұрын

@@noah95v99 hes sharp he would figure it out.

"I defeated Austrians just by marching " ~Napoleon. 130 years later Austrian painter took that revenge.

@saketarpan-kn6eu

10 ай бұрын

😂

@tongobong1

10 ай бұрын

He was half Czech from Austria.

@diobrando6919

9 ай бұрын

​@@tongobong1he was still Austrian

@tongobong1

9 ай бұрын

@@diobrando6919 the other half was German. He was just born in Austria.

@diobrando6919

9 ай бұрын

@@tongobong1 Austrians are Germans 💀💀💀

Blitzkrieg is no joke

@thedesertrat_9514

2 жыл бұрын

Same with underestimating your enemy. Had the Ardennes been well defended, the flanking maneuver wouldn’t have succeeded.

@avarmauk

2 жыл бұрын

@@thedesertrat_9514 France didn’t understand that modern warfare was different and they were poorly prepared and like you say, the underestimated the Germans.

@tibsky1396

2 жыл бұрын

@@avarmauk De Gaulle understood Modern Warfare, but unlike Guderian, no old officer listened to him.

@salvagemonster3612

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah until you hit mud in Russian spring and snow in Russian winter

@wilhelmvonberghoff175

2 жыл бұрын

@@salvagemonster3612 That actually wasn't the cause though for the stop of the German army in the Eastern campaign. Yes it did cause problems but the Germans dealt with that before as shown in WW1 when the Germans defeated the Russian army.

The generals saluting eachother was cool

@salvagemonster3612

2 жыл бұрын

Please

@daswsecond8764

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they are not the one's who are killing each other.

@ryanknox4562

2 жыл бұрын

Wow time I saw while reading

@texasrangers4

2 жыл бұрын

Professional courtesy

@adilmohammed6897

2 жыл бұрын

French was a commonly spoken language among aristocrats uptill the French revolution, after that I am not sure

The look on the French soldiers faces is devastating

@Mdebacle

2 жыл бұрын

Kinda like German prisoners being marched thru Moscow in 1944.

@O8SOL3TE

2 жыл бұрын

They literally had no idea what hit them: german tanks fighting in full squadrons while french generals still believed using one tank in support of a few infantry squads was the proper way to fight. An effective german air force crushing all hope at the first sight of a french victory on the ground... high ranking officers and leaders of the french army were out matched strategically and morally speaking, french troops at the front were like a headless chicken.

@heiko5129

2 жыл бұрын

@@sigma_frenchie4075 Original poster said the look on the french soldier faces were devastating. The one you replied to said the look on the french soldier faces were similar to the look on the german soldier faces when paraded like cattle through Moscow.

@mahendrarathore360

2 жыл бұрын

deserving

@zundance.

2 жыл бұрын

Poor french baguette

The Germans did even better against the Soviet Union, but the Soviets could keep retreating until German supplies ran low. The French could not keep fighting from Spain. The Soviets had room to be unprepared.

@WarFrickmauter

Жыл бұрын

Stalin didnt even do anything in 3 weeks when the ussr was being invaded

@pontifixmax

Жыл бұрын

The French should have reteated into the Atlantic.

@SemperMagnus

Жыл бұрын

As a French, I have to say that they army should have fought from the colonies. At a certain point of time, England and France even thought about momentarily merging together to put up the fight… fortunately, French army put a huge resistance in Dunkirk to enable the Brit’s to leave, and the ffl did fight quite hard, saving a lot of lives for the Allies.

@auerstadt06

Жыл бұрын

@@SemperMagnus The French army did keep fighting. The Free French forces numbered around 300,000 by 1944. They were mostly colonial troops.

@ENTERTAININGVIDEOS1

Жыл бұрын

​@@pontifixmax 😅😅😅

France invades algeria: Germany invades france : Also algeria: how the tables have turned

@aliefrizaldi2068

3 жыл бұрын

*KaRMAa*

@sergiogonzales330

3 жыл бұрын

What's supposed to be the relation with this?

@makky6239

3 жыл бұрын

This happened all the time in europe, they were at war with themselfes and against the colonies

@abkh5094

3 жыл бұрын

@@makky6239 noop the war gainst colonies started after ww2

@alancosta4760

3 жыл бұрын

And Haiti, Senegal, Mali, Egypt, Cotê d'Ivory, etc

One of the biggest armies in the world at the time got smashed in weeks! Embarrassing

@whyyoubullyingme2110

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh

@hypedpanther6464

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, while Germany was at the height of their power, and had the strongest military in europe at the time. Not to mention the abysmal leadership France had. Seriously, do people actually not do research anymore?

@brrrrrtenjoyer

3 жыл бұрын

@@hypedpanther6464 Germany wasn't at their height of power. Their height of power would be in 1942 before Stalingrad.

@hypedpanther6464

3 жыл бұрын

@@brrrrrtenjoyer That's what im referring too...

@johnvaliegal6786

3 жыл бұрын

@@hypedpanther6464 no, Germany wasnt the strongest at that time and actually never has been. France has the stronger army that's why its so humiliating

It's always fascinating to me how when a war end and a peace treaty is signed, the soldiers aren't treated that well and shamed, but the losing side's generals still get salutes from their opposing officers and are treated with respect

@krips22

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes, after being defeated in battle, the soldiers get the recognition they deserved: At the French defense at the siege of Lille at the end of May 1940, ~40,000 French (w/ 50 tanks) faced ~160,000 Germans (w/ 800 Panzer tanks)). The French defense allowed to add 2 or 3 days for the Soldiers trying to leave Dunkirk - and save at least 100,000 more troops in Dunkirk (source: W. Shirer). The German commander, General Alfred Wäger (general of the 27th Army Korps), allowed the French the honours of war. The garrison paraded through the Grand Place, as German troops stood to attention. [Note that a part of these soldiers at Lille, were part of North African colonial units - but even in these units, some units of these troops were French settlers living in Algeria and native French as well; they were not only North African men]

@heartsofiron4ever

Жыл бұрын

@@krips22 he did, but the average german soldier would've still shamed their french counter parts, but the french generals would've been treated with salutes and utmost respect, like when when germany surrendered their generals were getting saluted

@billyb4790

10 ай бұрын

I guess it depends. Given the battle was short lived, I don't think anyone was treated with disrespect.

@kylephilipe8347

8 ай бұрын

Officers are expected to treat other officers with respect no matter the side

@psc_777

7 ай бұрын

Well, shouldn’t have treated us with Versailles if you don’t want to get shamed

Incredible footage. If the war happened just 40 years before we’d never have this

@mygills3050

Жыл бұрын

Just 40 years. Y’know, half a lifetime

@MichaelJ44

Жыл бұрын

@@mygills3050 40 years in terms of societal progress is a grain of sand. Are you saying that the Earth has been around for only 80 years? 🤔

@123pik1

11 ай бұрын

@@MichaelJ44 (I think he meant life of person) it depends 40 years like from 1910-1950 had really big impact on societal progress (changes) 40 years like 1350-1390 not such big 40 years isn't equal to 40 years

@valgoyt912

9 ай бұрын

@@MichaelJ44you should’ve said 20 years. We literally didn’t have the IPhone/smartphone 20 years ago.

@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor

3 ай бұрын

​@@MichaelJ44 40 years can make a HUGE difference when it comes to human aspects like society and technology. The world of today has nothing to do with that of the 1980's: better in some aspects, worse in others, but different overall.

Why are the streets of Paris lined with trees? Because Germans like marching in the shade.

@iakkak233

3 жыл бұрын

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh

@growlerthe2nd712

2 жыл бұрын

That’s an old one 😬

@ForeskinWillis

2 жыл бұрын

but all the germans are dead

@ForeskinWillis

2 жыл бұрын

@Sanctus Paulus Oh sorry i meant nazis

@viraxo5474

2 жыл бұрын

@@ForeskinWillis no my grandpa still well and kicking it

Words of Stalin,"couldn't they put up any resistance" it was the biggest embarrassment of any country in Europe in morden times.

@zurgesmiecal

2 жыл бұрын

OK Stalinist get a weapon and fight for Palestine

@jeannesandner1918

2 жыл бұрын

i think France is in the same situation again ! but this time we are just going to disappear! we are blind ! we don't want to see what is obvious! c'est l'idéologie des temps modernes adios!

@zurgesmiecal

2 жыл бұрын

@@TusharSharma-cy9xo Aren't there some Palestinian kids in wheelchairs you have to take "care" of?

@Max-is4qu

2 жыл бұрын

Same could be said of the soviet army during the first few months of Barbarossa

@salvagemonster3612

2 жыл бұрын

From a leader who did nothing for 6 weeks while his country was invaded. Yeah that’s who I would quote

How embarrassing that must have been. That still gnaws at the national pride of the French today. Every country in the world should learn from France's mistakes.

@francisuster1821

2 жыл бұрын

Its not a question of pride its history Germany take the entire Europe in 1940 like France do with Napoléon earlier in the past its not good or bad its history

@evelyn3693

2 жыл бұрын

That is why french people always hate on the british war 2

@jamesharrison9336

2 жыл бұрын

@@evelyn3693 on the what? The reason the french hate us is because we beat them so badly in wars

@evelyn3693

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesharrison9336 they say is becus the british ran away

@jamesharrison9336

2 жыл бұрын

@@evelyn3693 “British ran away” no, the reason they left, is the entire army was going to be wiped out, for a lost cause

Weil it wasn‘t just France! Almost the whole british mainland army fought at their side. Lucky brits they are an island which got HUGE amount of supplies from the US.

@MDzmitry

2 жыл бұрын

Except at the time of Battle of Britain the US were neutral and didn't do a thing except sending a handful of planes through their border with Canada. And add on top a partial blockade of the islands by Kriegsmarine U-boats. The brits put up a pretty fine fight, same as the french soldiers, but the main difference was in policies. While the french gave up too quickly, the brits held on until the germans simply gave up on the idea of daytime bomber raids or sending troops

@Doctor_ko

2 жыл бұрын

@@MDzmitry USA was sending boatloads of arms and even pilots to help out during, and before the battle of Britain, get your facts right.

@MDzmitry

2 жыл бұрын

@@Doctor_ko "and even pilots". Yeah, a whole 9 people with american citizenship who volunteered to serve in the RAF. Not to underestimate the folks' participation, they did what they could. The point still stands: the US out of neutrality did less than what they could, and every person without a severe case of the US bias gets it.

@Doctor_ko

2 жыл бұрын

@@MDzmitry Europe was doomed without the Arms and Supplies from USA, I have zero clue were you get your data. USA started sending thousands of tons of supplies by 1940, same year as BOB

@MDzmitry

2 жыл бұрын

@@Doctor_ko would you kindly list your sources? Preferably books or at least articles by proper historians.

To compare, Poland lasted 35 days attacked from two sides, first by Germany at first of September and then by Russia 17th of September. 66 thousands soldiers killed, 133,700 wounded.

@StoneOcean595

2 жыл бұрын

But most of Poland was reduced to rubble and countless civilians were slaughtered

@assgoblin-uh9zu

2 жыл бұрын

@@StoneOcean595 That's becuse Poland never surrendered, fighting to the last man instead.

@alexmas9086

2 жыл бұрын

@@assgoblin-uh9zu the battle of France was lost when 70% of the army had been incirlced in dunkirk. France fought but you can't stop an entire army with like 30% of your with organisation issues. France also déclare paris open city to preserve it from destruction

@gengis737

2 жыл бұрын

So you despise the 100,000 French who gave their life fighting ? Nobody knew how to counter Blitzkrieg by then, neither the Poles nor the French nor the British. Only the Russian succeeded.

@alexmas9086

2 жыл бұрын

@@gengis737 technicaly, the french were the one to invent a counter to the blitekrieg call "l'hérisson" who consist in letting the tank pass and then cut them from their supplies sources" the russian on the other hand were helped a lot by the winter and the very large front that germany cannot hold and ressuplied correctly

France was using birds to communicate while Germans used radio soon as it was developed. This should be a lesson for future wars

@alioshax7797

2 жыл бұрын

Birds xD. WW2 was no middle ages, you know. Both sides had radios (much more numerous on German side, that's true, but still) and they were using telegraph extensively.

@sindieltaylor2147

2 жыл бұрын

The French absolutely did not use birds for communication.

@-Dildo.Baggins.

2 жыл бұрын

French were using swords and shields while the Germans were using full automatics and tanks

@Tempusverum

2 жыл бұрын

French were swinging baguettes at them evil germains 🥖🤬

@Scarletraven87

2 жыл бұрын

The real lesson we get from WW1 and WW2 is that WWs happend when we think they are impossible to start up, and lean on our security.

French when 100k soldiers die : I surrender USSR when 20 million people die : What a nice victory

@jonnyanderson8845

2 жыл бұрын

Разница в том,что Россию б уничтожили полностью,если бы она поиграла

@silverletter4551

2 жыл бұрын

I guess the French valued human life more than the communists who sacrificed those 20 million so Stalin could stay in power.

@geo-crystallized3853

2 жыл бұрын

@@silverletter4551 I guess the soviet valued their country more than French

@mrworldwide7387

2 жыл бұрын

@@geo-crystallized3853 the Soviet Union’s population in 1940 : 194,000,000 France population in 1939 : 40,000,000

@mrworldwide7387

2 жыл бұрын

@@blacktimjack6137 and 10% of 40M is 400k, what’s the point of letting 300k more men dies of France’s is already lost ?

1:04 The look of sorrow and dread on the French commander's face as he looks into the eyes of his counterpart, whom they are now entirely at the mercy of, is palpable.

@Pear_slingshot

5 ай бұрын

The German General Felt Like The Main Boss

@infinity_sh4816

2 ай бұрын

yeah

France was overrun in 6 weeks. Seems like it would take 6 weeks to overrun a country the size of France even if they lacked any army at all.

@jesusramirezromo2037

3 жыл бұрын

Most of theyr millitary had been cutt off at belgium and dunkirk So, after that, it was minimal resistance all the way to Paris

@hypedpanther6464

3 жыл бұрын

Denmark surrendered in 5 hours

@CrossOfBayonne

3 жыл бұрын

This was before the US got involved until the Pearl Harbor attack which prompted entry and turned the tide in Europe by a long shot.

@lahire4943

3 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Aloysius Gumulyo The Americans only came in both world wars when they were sure to win. They now dare to tell us we owe them something and even spit on the graves of our ancestors.

@lahire4943

3 жыл бұрын

Let's remember that the Brits, who bravely fled without even warning the French and the Belgiums, used them to cover their retreat and had to be saved by the French who protected their rescue operation at Lille and Dunkirk. Now their descendants spit on the grave of the French who saved their ancestors from being completely captured.

France knew how it feel to be invaded

@raulsaico9389

4 жыл бұрын

Very true facts without Britain and USA or Soviet union it was shiet

@ibn_fatos

4 жыл бұрын

@@raulsaico9389 that's why Germany lost It had so many enemies but it din't have any allies

@hoalongsabo6243

4 жыл бұрын

Frynox japan?

@sentinal_entity

3 жыл бұрын

@@hoalongsabo6243 That's 1

@hoalongsabo6243

3 жыл бұрын

Sentinal Entity italy?

2:20 not a phone is sight, just people living in the moment.

@ememmeme8722

2 жыл бұрын

there were no phones back then

I'm so thankful that we were able to record the second world war so that we today can see it.

2:18 - the high point of the war all those boys. Exactly a year later ,most of those soldiers were streaming into Russia as part of 'Barbarossa' and within a couple of years after that, I'd wager most of them were either dead , disabled or POWs

@kadenvolan3557

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, none of those soldiers were expecting the long and brutal conflict after all the quick victories in Europe from 39-41.

@ottasan3385

2 жыл бұрын

many of them may not have fought in russia but if in africa probably

@britishbavarian4592

2 жыл бұрын

And even the POWs probably died in gulags…

@historyeditz8326

2 жыл бұрын

@@britishbavarian4592 no many of pow released after gulags.

@suddenuprising

2 жыл бұрын

live by the sword die by the sword

I liked the part at the end, I've seen it before but it always makes me smile, those soldiers cheering, they defeated their long time enemy in a few weeks they did what the Kaiser could not.

@TheCoolermaster24

2 жыл бұрын

Invading and defeating five democracies and replacing them with military dictatorships is not a smiling matter imho…

@randomlokalvideos2750

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheCoolermaster24 depend of your Perspective..that guy perspective is just like someone who play historical strategic game..i also have perspective like that

@tailung9841

2 жыл бұрын

What the Kaiser could not? You do realise that the Prussians (Germans) led by the Kaiser literally defeated Napoleon right?

@ssordernstaatburgundslavar3632

2 жыл бұрын

@@maqilshimeer7006 Please don't mention Napoleon III military achievement in Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon Bonaparte would be rolling in his grave after seeing the Battle of Sedan.

@cascadian_ultranationalist14HH

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheCoolermaster24 its not a smiling matter its cause for celebration

Paris looked better in 1940 than today in 2023

@Deimosbasic

Жыл бұрын

Too much tourist

@deborahmccall711

11 ай бұрын

@@Deimosbasic That's not why.

@arrielradja5522

11 ай бұрын

​​@Peter Svensson oof gotta be careful man

@MasterBomer

10 ай бұрын

​@peterSV11went to paris once a few years back, that place is even worse than cities in china now geez

@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606

9 ай бұрын

Certainly “looked” more French

Thankful we have historical videos like this

The main picture appearing on your video is the Polish Royal Castle in Warsaw. It would be good to mention it in your introductory part of the video.

@Qdavk

3 жыл бұрын

You mean the thumbnail

@politecat4412

3 жыл бұрын

@@Qdavk Yeah

@sudnoss

2 жыл бұрын

Guess they couldn't find any apocalyptic photo about German invasion of France

@phlm9038

Жыл бұрын

@@sudnoss Have a look at photos of Dunkirk in 1940. It's how France looked like in 1940.

@rogueriderhood1862

Жыл бұрын

@@phlm9038 Most of France was untouched by the war in 1940, the Allies did more damage and killed more French people when they invaded in 1944.

Here are a few words from the Général, after Pétain’s capitulation: « Beaucoup de Français n'acceptent pas ni la capitulation ni la servitude, pour des raisons qui s'appellent : l'honneur, le bon sens et l'intérêt supérieur de la patrie. » « A lot of french people do not accept neither capitulation nor slavery, because of reasons called: honour, common sense and the superior interest of the fatherland » The resistance was launched a day after the capitulation. It wasn’t the best resistance, sure. But it deserves to be recognised.

@bierwolf8360

2 жыл бұрын

@El Mauro based

@iDeathMaximuMII

2 жыл бұрын

The Resistance was absolutely nothing until late 1942, when the Germans began to deport Frenchmen to Germany for Force Labour. Before then, most didn't have the money nor weapons to fight back & just let things play out

@Xiphactinus

2 жыл бұрын

@El Mauro you'll never be as based as Robespierre.

@silverletter4551

2 жыл бұрын

What was the resistance's main goals? Wouldn't Germany just go back home once the Allies sued for peace? The Germans would get war reparations from Paris as well as territories such as Poland and Estonia, amongst others. Maybe a bit of disputed territory lost after WWI from France, but there would probably be no long term occupation.

@iDeathMaximuMII

2 жыл бұрын

@easter worshipper deportations are the words many have used for what the Germans did in ww2. And no, they were sending the civilians to Germany to work the Factories

Must've felt exhilarating for some of the older officers who served in the First War and got to live to see the occupation of France.

@rogueriderhood1862

Жыл бұрын

The First World War had a lot to do with the performance of the French Army in 1940. That war had been so horrific and badly managed, Battle of the Frontiers, Verdun, Chemin des Dames etc., the army did not have the capability to fight another war.

@haydengalloway5177

11 ай бұрын

France deserved it. The way they extorted Germany after the first world war (when germany didn't even start it) was unreasonable and punitive.

@rogueriderhood1862

11 ай бұрын

@@haydengalloway5177 To be fair, it's not hard to understand the attitude of the French, after all, they had been invaded by the Germans who had occupied a large part of Northern France and killed a great many Frenchmen. Had Germany won the war then doubtless their terms would have been equally as hard.

@Englishman-_-Mongolia2022

9 ай бұрын

​@@haydengalloway5177 and coerced the Brits into their entente ww1

@Englishman-_-Mongolia2022

9 ай бұрын

​@@rogueriderhood1862 Britain should have sided with the Kaiser

The war for France was lost in less than 6 days, the day the German special units moved around the Machaon line ,the war was lost and the regular army units did what they were trained for which was to guard and occupy with little fighting required. The war in the west won by Germany was carried out principley by special units tanks para gliders while the regular army units followed up in second dairy movements. sorry about the spelling

I have a vintage French rifle from 1940 - it's never been fired and was only dropped once.

@ericv-kj3du

7 ай бұрын

You know where you can put it ?

@mahmoudibnemir8704

7 ай бұрын

Oh, are you offended by France's cowardice and collaboration with the Germans? Maybe you and Justin Trudeau can go on a date.

2:19 pay back for 1923 probably felt so good

verry interesting thanks for this sir .

I gotta say I was not expecting to hear Martin Sheen

The Germans combined their modern equipment with modern tactics, and to devastating effect against the immense but strategically stagnant French firepower. I think Sun Tzu would have been proud of the invasion of France...

@Mdebacle

2 жыл бұрын

And as Michael Douglas quoted Sun Tzu in Wall Street, "Every battle is won before it's ever fought."

@combatwombatstl5598

2 жыл бұрын

Sun Tzu was far too wise to be even close to proud of anything the Nazi's did.

@swaswainhimmen

Жыл бұрын

​@@combatwombatstl5598 wdym

@mmaedits2002

6 ай бұрын

​@@combatwombatstl5598militarily i dont see a problem

The narrator: The French put up a great fight they died like flies!

@ricothepoolboy1758

2 жыл бұрын

that's martin sheen. trying times

@ajaydesecond2660

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@MrRwk314

Жыл бұрын

6 weeks...how stunning and brave

My Polish grandfather told me that when he was exiled in France on his way to Britain, all the French people cheered when the Germans entered in the city, as "the war was over". The only man he saw discontent was an Algerian recruit, he was crying disconsolately.

@kayzenl7911

2 жыл бұрын

You have to understand the french situation, bad economy, they lost 50% of the 25-50 years old generations in WW1, they simply couldn’t do it again. France was about 37millions people while Germany had twice that

@TheMourot

2 жыл бұрын

Such a lie.

@Jayako12

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMourot Hahaha, because you were there. He was talking about the scene he saw in Bayonne, he picked the last comercial ship that is known about. Why would he lie?

@Jayako12

2 жыл бұрын

@@alaindubarry2350 I commented it because I thought it was related to the video. I don't mean anything, I just said it. I could have done an essay on my particular opinion about it based on my historical knowledge, but I didn't, I leave that up to the readers.

@TuRuNaSBaR

2 жыл бұрын

@@kayzenl7911 we don't give a F* if france lost 50% of it's generations, great britain suffered in the same way, and they fought bravely against germans.

A little big moment in history that needs to be remembered because things like this can happen to you!

Germany army before: *ATACC ATACC ATACC* Germany army now: *Make moni Make moni*

@basedandbiasedkakampink

2 жыл бұрын

Germany now : benz, mercedes, audi, ford, bmw, porsche, and volkswagen go vroom vroom amd money go cha ching

@theblackguy7865

2 жыл бұрын

Best economic country in europe like Germany always on top

@ReiSoberano.

Ай бұрын

​@@theblackguy7865Yes, with every country in the world mocking their failures and demonizing their ancestors, what a great glory!!

0:17 I’m starting to get some BF1 flashbacks looking at that MP-18.

@RalphieCif12

2 жыл бұрын

MP28*

This was the greatest time in German history

@kurtdrexler9888

7 ай бұрын

@@JohnSala-2031 indeed

@bestieswithtesties

6 ай бұрын

Which is sad really. Imagine your "greatest time" being a failed and lost war where you committed genocide against many. Clowns.

how does 1.85 million soldiers surrender jesus christ thats embarrassing

@phlm9038

2 жыл бұрын

They didn't surrender all at the same time and all at the same place.

@petitflocon647

2 жыл бұрын

did made ww2 to know how you would act? ppl like you talking about real soldiers at war had already surrender at birth.

@thorpsy100

2 жыл бұрын

The same way the Russians did initially. You're being attacked so fast and brutally that your generals don't have time to think. The discombobulation falls down the ranks and before you know it you have an aggressive and organised army decending on you. The soldiers look to their leaders, and the leaders to theirs and ask "what do I do?" and no one knows. Before you can retaliate or plan it's too late, you surrender or face slaughter.

@phlm9038

2 жыл бұрын

@@thorpsy100 Exactly !

@ornament_of_throne12346

Жыл бұрын

French 🇫🇷 ☕🍵

War is weird to watch, everyone knows what's happening and how serious it is while soldiers pretend like they hate each other until they surrender

@alaric6121

2 жыл бұрын

well french and germans actually did hate each other at that time, not "pretend to"

@combatwombatstl5598

2 жыл бұрын

You think those soldiers stopped hating the Nazi's and Japanese after the surrender? Most definitely not lol.

@alaric6121

2 жыл бұрын

@@combatwombatstl5598 who would ever stop hating Nazis I mean 😂

@infinity_sh4816

2 ай бұрын

@@combatwombatstl5598 exactly

Funny how the Anglo version of history NEVER talks about the Dutch and. Belgians surrendering in days, the Brits fleeing pants down and hands up while the French kept the fight. Too shameful for you guys to bear?

@delta2372

2 жыл бұрын

That is basically it yes, offourse being ruler of the world (and still are technically they just gave the throne over to america) they will dominate history.

@kirklenagh3095

2 жыл бұрын

Thing is they kept fighting and came back to liberate France.

@delta2372

2 жыл бұрын

@@kirklenagh3095 they did? or did they just let their american children and the soviets act as the meat grinder for them (like they did with the french in WW1) because they were to scared to break a nail.

@kirklenagh3095

2 жыл бұрын

@@delta2372 A walk through any Commonwealth War graves cemetery in Western Europe will attest to the sacrifice British and dominion troops made.

@delta2372

2 жыл бұрын

@@kirklenagh3095 I'm not questioning the sacrifice of the dominions, they had guts than their overlord that's for sure.

*Under a month... 100,000 french soldiers die?!?! Are you kidding me 😳*

@oksowhat

2 жыл бұрын

92k

@ememmeme8722

2 жыл бұрын

@@oksowhat 92,000.00

@solid786snake

Жыл бұрын

Nothing compared when the Germans invaded Russia by the time they got close to Moscow they killed an astonishing 3 million soldiers

@doopedoog

Жыл бұрын

@@solid786snake there was no Russia then, it was just Soviet Union and the winter killed most of the Nazis not the soviets.. when the Nazis were on the way they actually had a big chance of taking Moscow but the winter ruined it all..

@QWERTY-gp8fd

Жыл бұрын

search Battles of Rzhev where 2 million soviets died in 2 months

German Soldier after the war: "I didn't even know that we were at war I just walked right into Paris and no one stopped me"

@phlm9038

2 жыл бұрын

That is not very respectful towards the 48 000 German soldiers who lost their life during the Battle of France. Only Paris was declared Open City but the Germans had to fight for other places.

@ethanl440

2 жыл бұрын

@@phlm9038 disrespectful to the Nazis that invaded France? Good.

@gaminglichgamer4035

2 жыл бұрын

@@ethanl440 Although I would say a lot of German soldiers weren't actually Nazis and were really forced into the war,that only started in Operation Barborossa,or so I think.The Germans simply needed to numbers and just poured everything they could muster onto the Soviets,even people who weren't actually Nazis.

@aligindahouse7777

2 жыл бұрын

@@ethanl440 The SS were Nazis, most of the Wehrmacht weren't

@ethanl440

2 жыл бұрын

@@gaminglichgamer4035 they knew what the regime stood for and they willingly supported it. They were Nazis

Just so sad seeing the french people weep and those French soliders fought with all their heart.Such a brutal time on earth so many dead

@namethej9349

Жыл бұрын

No they didn't. They surrendered almost immediately in terms of casualties. The French were infamously scared of conflict through out World War 2.

@abdirahmanidris290

Жыл бұрын

@@namethej9349 I don't think they were scared. They just got destroyed by Blitzkrieg and decided to surrender before the Germans attacked Paris

@namethej9349

Жыл бұрын

@@abdirahmanidris290 No, they were scared. There's many documented cases of the French soldiers just outright refusing to engage with the enemy. Most notably, they'd refuse orders to engage German's with artillery despite having the German's location because they were afraid that if they fired artillery, the Germans would fire artillery back... in a war... lol

@abdirahmanidris290

Жыл бұрын

@@namethej9349 That wasn't the whole army. Plenty fought the germans and wer injured and killed in action.

@bpdbhp1632

Жыл бұрын

​​@@abdirahmanidris290 germans didnt attack paris. Paris was declared an open city and the germans took it with almost no fighting.

When the German surrender act was signed in Berlin in May 1945, a representative of the German command, seeing the representatives of France, asked sarcastically: "Did they defeat us too?" France was included among the victorious powers at the insistence of Stalin. This is something that in Europe they carefully want to forget.

@mrworldwide7387

2 жыл бұрын

What about free France ? They fought in the African campaign

@user-bb3hp3mf2v

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrworldwide7387 that didn't count dude, France lost the war and only ussr and the us and the uk were the biggest threat to Germany but France was nothing compared to them

@mrworldwide7387

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-bb3hp3mf2v we still took back west Africa and Algeria despite our entire mainland being occupied and our navy destroyed by the British. Not having a big impact on a war isn’t the same as losing a war, a war is lost when its government completely stop fighting, that’s what some traitors like Petain did but some others like De Gaulle continued.

@direct2397

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-bb3hp3mf2v right. Just forget about canada lol

@giovannibedoui4839

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-bb3hp3mf2v Remember the battle of Bir Hakeim : Free french forces stopped Rommel army of 37 000 thousands with 3700 soldiers ( ratio 10/1) enduring 16 days of enemy fire in order to help british retreat, retreat that led to the famous battle of El Alamein We the french lost a battle ( Battle of France) but we tried as much as we could to contribute to the war effort, AT least the France led by De Gaulle

what a humiliating defeat

@titcab8159

8 ай бұрын

Yeah , it’s annoying to see that France surrender so quickly even though their army was as powerful as Germany . Leadership was just a bunch of old cowards who thought it was still WW1

Why is there the Warsaw Royal Castle on the thumbnail???

Why on the miniature picture, there is king's castle in Warsaw, Poland?

@swetoniuszkorda5737

Жыл бұрын

As a keepsake for our "allies".

@arturart2480

Жыл бұрын

Paris was the open city nothing was burning So filmmakers stretched the truth a "little" bit and used picture material from Warsaw The destruction started with a bombardment on September 17, 1939, which the castle caught fire. In 1939-40, German forces drilled holes for explosives in the whole building. Under cover of night,

2:10 just look at him. he probably fought through the previous war, and now all is lost. France for the first time in its History is a great power no more. they dont know yet that the allies will prevail...

@imperator791

3 жыл бұрын

Well this one moment is a VERY BIG STAIN ON FRENCH MILITARY Even though today its a nuclear power Their History of winning was destroyed in SIX WEEKS

@h4rck04

2 жыл бұрын

@@imperator791 destroyed by american propaganda, not by facts.

@iranianintelligenceagency9337

2 жыл бұрын

@@h4rck04 It's history of winning had a huge stain on it after surrendering to Germany. Is that better?

@h4rck04

2 жыл бұрын

@@iranianintelligenceagency9337 No, because France ended in winner side of this war

@iranianintelligenceagency9337

2 жыл бұрын

@@h4rck04 A bunch of people beg to differ. If you haven't heard the backlash France has gotten for its surrender about 80 years ago, I don't know what to tell you.

That Quick...History repeats..

no smartphone in sight... just people living in the moment

germany took on like 9 different nations and did a 9v1 and still took a while to beat. Quite amazing actually.

@gyozop

2 жыл бұрын

Germany actually gathered an alliance from the countries that were robbed in WWI or had the same enemies. Austria, Italy, Japan, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia and even partially Ukraine at some point. Tens of thousands of volunteers each from Holland, Belgium, France, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, the Balkans. Still impressive because USA and the Soviets both had near limitless resources. Whether we like it or not it was a European civil war and all of Europe had lost it.

@sigma_frenchie4075

2 жыл бұрын

France did the same back then, with Napoléon

@STRIKER3571

10 ай бұрын

If you put all manpower together then Germany only had slightly less soldiers than the combined amies of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Luxembourg so it was rather even if we don't take into account superior German tactics

@Englishman-_-Mongolia2022

9 ай бұрын

I wish Britain sided with the Kaiser. And I do admire Germany.

@Touchin-Grass

6 ай бұрын

Germany was not alone.. they had Italy , Japan on their side, as well as Russia for a portion of the war.

We surrendered Afghanistan faster than that!!!

@ironnads7975

2 жыл бұрын

Umm no....twenty years is not 2 months

@adnaniqbal8290

2 жыл бұрын

French atleast fought for themselves, didn't ran away like So called super power.

@robertreed4299

2 жыл бұрын

@@adnaniqbal8290 The democrat socialist party initiated that surrender…not the American service members and the real Americans.

@jazminelee5166

Жыл бұрын

@@adnaniqbal8290 Sweetie, they surrender in 6 weeks. That's a great deal less than two decades.

Defeating French is like defeating Italians.

@ragerblitz2361

3 ай бұрын

😂😉

I like how the clip is about French surrender in 1940, but the thumbnail for the video is the Royal Castle in Warsaw burning after being bombarded by German artillery in September 1939. Because that scene is nowhere in the video, so it wasn't auto-generated by KZread.

@arturart2480

Жыл бұрын

Paris was the open city nothing was burning So filmmakers stretched the truth a "little" bit and used picture material from Warsaw The destruction started with a bombardment on September 17, 1939, which the castle caught fire. In 1939-40, German forces drilled holes for explosives in the whole building. Under cover of night,

@MZ-nj1hs

4 ай бұрын

Shows how much research they did

Guys, guys, you might want to change the miniature for this video. Its a photo from Polish 1939 campaign, not the french one

At the start of the video what was the SMG the German was carrying? A Sten or something Czech? 30 years ago as a teen I would've known. lol.

@lucascampos5498

2 жыл бұрын

MP-28

@basedandbiasedkakampink

2 жыл бұрын

The Germans actually also had their own STEN gun which was a last ditch weapon Though yeah what they were holding is something different an MP28

After the Munich betrayal Frenchmen tasted their own medicine they had prescripted to Czechoslovakia. My great-granduncle remembered being so happy France lost that war. Its a huge paradox it was even Czechoslovakian troops that continued fighting the Germans. Frenchmen lost all the will to fight.

@phlm9038

7 ай бұрын

Four nations signed the Munich agreements : Germany, Italy, the UK and France.

@davidknichal6629

7 ай бұрын

@@phlm9038 But France was the only country we signed Treaty with. This betrayal was the reason why communists won the elections in Czechoslovakia back in 1946. People simply did not trust Western Allies anymore

How sweet victory is. My Opa was in Lyon during the invasion.

If you think this is bad, at least these guys put up more resistance than their grandchildren.

@davidprice5678

2 жыл бұрын

@Texas Man dude, half of Texas has been overrun by the Aztec Empire

@PotatoSoup58

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidprice5678 Pretty much every state now.

@syleise8729

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidprice5678 at least they're culturally compatible

@abdirahmanidris290

Жыл бұрын

@@davidprice5678 if you are talking about mexicans, then you really don't have too much of a leg to stand on. Texas is a former Spanish colony

@davidprice5678

Жыл бұрын

@@abdirahmanidris290 Spaniards ≠ Mexicans

This comment section is full of children

@raibowsiege3605

3 жыл бұрын

Look who says it

@emmanuelboudot9631

2 жыл бұрын

KZread

@Anonymous-hz3zz

2 жыл бұрын

That's for sure

@alimahh1

2 жыл бұрын

Wooow look who's talking

@caragas9331

2 жыл бұрын

@@raibowsiege3605 ohh look! a kid lacking grey matter

Regardless of how the war ended, Germany's conquest of France was the greatest and most impressive story of WW2. Maybe even the greatest military success of the 20th Century.

@bestieswithtesties

6 ай бұрын

Not really. More like one of the greatest military *failures* on Frances part. Something like 2 million soldiers surrendered. They were cowards. Germany didn't do anything special the French were just incompetent.

@tritium1998

6 ай бұрын

It would be most impressive if 1 850 000 French soldiers actually fought instead of their leaders surrendering so effortlessly and quickly.

@HRHooChicken

6 ай бұрын

They didn’t surrender easily. They were completely outclassed and surrounded time and time again. They fought until they were beaten. Sure they could’ve fought to the last man and destroyed their county but what use is that. France wasn’t big like Russia, there was nowhere to run. Lots of French soldiers evacuated with the British at Dunkirk only to be sent back shortly after to fight in the south.

@guernica4262

3 ай бұрын

@@bestieswithtesties I used to think this until researching this much farther. It is true that French military doctrine did not keep up with the times. But where they fought, they fought with every bit of bravery expected of them. There are numerous examples of this: the french tanks at Stonne, destroying a German tank column (13 tanks & 2 anti-tank guns), taking over 120 rounds. There's the 40,000 French troops that held Dunkirk which allowed the BEF and many French to retreat. The French armies had many problems, but they were all problems from the top. Communication, separate arms (tank, artillery, infantry vs. combined arms), a lack of strategy concerning German maneuver plans. But the men fighting were not cowards.

@krips22

Ай бұрын

To bestieswithtesties: cowards for signing an armistice in an impossible situation to win? (In june1940, France (then with a much smaller army) was in a 1 vs 2 against Germany and Italy). About 2.8 M German soldiers surrendered between june 1944 and august 1945. Cowards, according to you? How many German soldiers surrendered in 1918?

Horrible, but I'm glad that nowadays we work together with France as our closest ally. May there never be war between us again. I hope that at one point we can ensure that there's no war in europe and maybe in a distant future, no war on earth.

@phlm9038

11 ай бұрын

👍

@oOflash21Oo

9 ай бұрын

@@phlm9038 daddt putin is comming and war in eu will never stop until western stop killing middle eastern its karma

@professionalviewer5672

8 ай бұрын

Sike

@ragerblitz2361

4 ай бұрын

germans conquer france again and then europe

@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor

3 ай бұрын

As an European myself I'm telling you that today's Europe sucks and has learned nothing from the past.

I didn't know The Illusive Man made documentaries about WW2

Also about 340,000 British soldiers fled.

@wobbled5609

8 ай бұрын

Who would later regroup and defeat the Germans. Why would they fight out of foreign soil?

@americanminotaur2518

3 ай бұрын

If the Brits had gotten captured alongside the French the situation would have been even worse. Since they were able to get away, they were able to repel the Germans from Great Britain. Great Britain was an important launch point for the invasion of Western Europe. It might seem heartless, but it probably helped France in the long run, as the British were able to comeback later with more allies and better equipment to help push out the Germans. They lost the battle, but ultimately won the war.

Is that Ramon Estevez? (Martin Sheen) with the voiceover?

Germany would have destroy any country on land in 39. Gb and USA survived because of sea. Soviet because their land was 20 times bigger than France with rude winter and lost 23 millions ppl. Very funny ppl thinking they would have done a better job than France 😂 Where were they in 39, fact is everyone just left France and Poland.

@zanotellitb5457

3 жыл бұрын

Germanys didn't lost in Soviet territory because of space. Dont be dumb

@carljohnson2194

3 жыл бұрын

Oh look at this French troll. Just accept that French government is a coward and too weak. Hence they fell. Lol they deserved it for the harsh treaty of Versailles which plundered Germany into economic crisis and thus the tyrant came to power.

@sandeshpatil3785

3 жыл бұрын

@@zanotellitb5457 technically space was also factor for russian victory

@Dimitrilomb

3 жыл бұрын

@@carljohnson2194 if french leaders wouldn't have sign a peace act, german would have burn the whole country. What would you have done my big boy ?

@carljohnson2194

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dimitrilomb burn the whole country? Lol they would simply have taken over Paris and killed the government. And besides I can say same for German government who surrendered to French, Americans, British and soviets

The ignorance in the comment section is truly astounding

@phlm9038

2 жыл бұрын

Even worse.....disgusting !

@davidbarlee4722

4 ай бұрын

I agree, lots of uneducated comments.

When I heard the narrator, I was just like... Nah, it probably isn't. But I went to check and yes, this actually is Martin Sheen.

Note that the Wehrmacht lost 40,000 men in this operation and the French collapsed due to a lack of leadership as well as a national will.

@thedesertrat_9514

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know about national will. The command structure itself collapsed, but the civilian populace continued the fight and what remained of the French army evacuated and would play a key role in some battles along with the Poles and Belgians

@hypedpanther6464

2 жыл бұрын

Dont bother, this comment section is full of Wehraboos. As we know, if it isn't German it shouldn't exist.

@sigma_frenchie4075

2 жыл бұрын

@@hypedpanther6464 facts

@leeworsham5706

2 жыл бұрын

@@hypedpanther6464 Well said on that last part.

@roms4154

2 жыл бұрын

germany lost 60.000 men not 40.000 during campaign of france !

This is what happens when you #1 ignore the militarization of a hostile neighbor and #2 fail to prepare your defenses adequately

@4oiseau208

9 ай бұрын

how is it #1? Germany was more industrialized more numerous than France, France did not even recover demographically from the First World War but of course it is easy to treat this country as a coward when you live the opposite of the threat

@krips22

6 ай бұрын

None of these statement are accurate. Look it up.

Wow, that's a lot of antifrench US comments, mocking the French at war and calling them cowards and all that... And yet, I can't remember the USA complaining about the French soldiers during (for instance) the Korean war (1950-53). The French had impressed by their efficiency and heroism more than once. Some example: At the Battle of Wonju in January 1951, the fighting around the French Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Regiment became particularly fierce. At one point, the French Battalion was forced to fend off several KPA (North Koreans) counterattacks with bayonet charges after running out of ammunition. The French Battalion's action at Wonju impressed US general Ridgway, who later encouraged all American units in Korea to utilize bayonets in battle. The French Battalion of NATO (1,017 men) earned 3 US Presidential Unit Citation (and 2 Korean equivalent as well) and the USA didn't give these away like candies. And one soldier of the French Battalion, sergeant Louis Misseri, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by the United States for his actions at the famous battle of Heartbreak ridge, in 1951.

@phlm9038

11 ай бұрын

It just proves that no many people know a lot about history but they still feel entitled to comment. To be honest, they make fools of themselves.

@Dervitox

11 ай бұрын

Copium

the narrator sounds exactly like Martin sheen the guy from West Wing, is that actually him?

very nice !

"The French troops fought like lions" German general Von Reichenau. "The French soldiers are the best of the world" German general Von Kuchler. 1.2 million French soldier at the end of the war, more than 20 divisions. Who said that France stopped to fight in 1940 ? (Weakened Germany so hard it couldn't invade Britain btw. You know, those 28% of the German Luftwaffe which dissapeard during the battle of the Alps, AFTER THE ARMISTICE, where the French Alps army continued to fight. Ah you like to say 6 weeks. And you like to forgot that the battle of France was a defeat for the german high command because their Luftwaffe will never recover such heavy casualties that happened in just 6 WEEKS.) Here's : "The battle of France is a defeat for us" German general Von Kuchler.

@ragerblitz2361

4 ай бұрын

The winners always praise the defeated so that their victory has more prestige😅

@flamma9034

4 ай бұрын

@@ragerblitz2361 No bro not always, the british propaganda during the napoleonic wars never said that France was brave and strong. Absolutely not always. And even more with a crushing defeat like 1940, the germans could have just laugh and celebrate, but it wasn't just respecting the French soldiers they faced and, like you can see, fought like lions.

This war is unbelievable.

Ironically , Charles De Gaulle wrote books years before WW2 about uses of tanks in a similar way than Blitzkrieg , it was kind of a best seller among militaries , specially in Germany...

@KokoroKatsura

Жыл бұрын

a n i m e n i m e

@triplehernan5155

9 ай бұрын

It was British colonel JFC Fuller's book about armoured warfare, written in 1923, which inspired Guderian and the other Germans. Guderian himself: "I am indebted to Colonel Fuller for much of my inspiration in the development of armoured warfare".

@ericv-kj3du

7 ай бұрын

I don't think De Gaulle's work was publicly available. More probably an internal report.

@tritium1998

6 ай бұрын

It didn't take a genius to think that armored vehicles would be useful for maneuver warfare. What's news is all those WW1 heads who still wanted to fight with light infantry.

Smithsonian, I hope you are aware of the fact that the thumbnail of this film depicts the burning Royal Castle in Warsaw after it's been bombed by Germans in September of 1939. Also, the description of the film has a little to do with its content.

@arturart2480

Жыл бұрын

Paris was the open city nothing was burning So filmmakers stretched the truth a "little" bit and used picture material from Warsaw The destruction started with a bombardment on September 17, 1939, which the castle caught fire. In 1939-40, German forces drilled holes for explosives in the whole building. Under cover of night,

The Original "World At War" & "WW2 in Colour" gives a more accurate presentation of Frances surrender & why many servicemen eventually refused to fight. Conflict History has to be researched objectively just like anything concerning more than one party.

@powathanify

Ай бұрын

that joke ww1 is a french victory but many dead .. ww2 french don't want fight and death troops again

They had it coming. Everything that happened to France was justice

I recommend this documentary. It is "Apocalypse: The Second World War" for those interested.

@giulianiraymond330

2 жыл бұрын

Americans looking at Apocalypse... You are a dreamer ! Their television is made for 10 years kid's mental age !

Less than 5 years later, the Germans who were lucky enough to still be alive had no towns to go home to.

@swagkachu3784

Жыл бұрын

Thats cap only the major cities where destroyed

@loadeddiaper4216

Жыл бұрын

@@swagkachu3784 not even all of them justa few like mainz, berlin, vienna, copenhagen and Hannover

Can't believe this just happened 5 years ago!

@heartsofiron4ever

Жыл бұрын

are you making a joke?

Wow it’s so crazy seeing footage

It was the French High command that failed the nation, not the army. We only started making fun of France because they protested our invasion of Iraq in 2003

@arty3738

2 жыл бұрын

And the French were right, in the end...

@zzaronn

2 жыл бұрын

and because USA didn't wanted France to have nuclear weapon but France paid a lot to create its own nuclear weapon. While brits and USSR used american research to got them

@mattsmith5421

2 жыл бұрын

So you've been making fun of them for 18 years while they've been laughing at you since your country formed and you needed them to come and save you.

@abel_underwater

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattsmith5421 Largest army in the world, got THRASHED so badly that their great, grand-children are being made fun of to this day. No excuse whatsoever. No one remembers France’s past victories because they surrendered in THE BIGGEST, BLOODIEST war in human history which involved almost the entire world. I would rather lose a thousand battles, or even smaller wars, before losing a freaking World War, because that’s the one which will be remembered the most throughout history. The French soldiers in this video knew that just by looking at their faces. They can have all the resistance fighters they want, but the second Germany broke their army, France fell into shame

@mattsmith5421

2 жыл бұрын

@@abel_underwater I can see you know absolutely nothing about Napoleon or the second world war. Really over 200 countries were involved in ww2 I think not. I'm guessing you're a whiney American who's a bit hurt by facts

Greece: *Surrenders in 6 months* Norway: *Surrenders in 8 weeks* France: *Surrenders in 6 weeks* Poland: *Surrenders in 18 days* Belgium: *Surrenders in 18 days* Yugoslavia: *Surrenders in 11 days* Netherlands: *Surrenders in 5 days* Denmark: *Surrenders in 6 hours* Everyone: Hahaha France is so week. They always surrender

@samuelbt3726

2 жыл бұрын

when you look at the numbers and the history of the French army, as well as the size of their country, you'd expect them to put up more of a fight

@phlm9038

2 жыл бұрын

@@samuelbt3726 "Stories that the French troops would not fight were not true. They had fought magnificently, but the organization behind them was totally inadequate" - Edward VIII, former King of England, Duke of Windsor. By the way, France stood no chance. It has been sold to AH by a traitor.

@rjones2213

2 жыл бұрын

Britain never surrendered

@lelouchvibritannia7809

2 жыл бұрын

@無名賢者 Yeah. Poland definitely invited Germany in to fix their country. Love how Germany decided to remove the Polish from Poland. That would totally fix the country. And Yugoslavia whose resistance post surrender was so fierce they actually liberated themselves without any help. They totally invited Germany in to fix their country. That's why they resisted harder than anyone else. And who can forget France. One of the two countries most willing to fight Germany definitely invited Germany to beat them and humiliate them. So relatable And of course, Greece. They loved Germany so much that they beat up the Italians so that way it was the Germans that would defeat them! You can definitely tell how much the Greeks loved the Germans!

@ahmadnaser8172

2 жыл бұрын

in what part of history you saw 1.8million troops surrender?

What a tragedy for France and the world. When the German army was pushing through the Ardennes on narrow roads it was stuck for days because the roads couldn't handle the volume efficiently. French reconnaissance flights saw the kilometers long backups. If the French high command had acted quickly enough it could have destroyed the German army from the air. By the time they acted the Germans had broken out near Sedan and set up antiaircraft defenses. What might have been😢

@titcab8159

8 ай бұрын

Yeah French government thought it was still like ww1 , France had the biggest army in the world , but the worst Military tactic in the world, I can’t imagine how much different things could have been of France fought better

@prettysureidateyourmom5104

3 ай бұрын

​@@titcab8159 france military at that time still drunked by their Victory in the great war

Is that the voice of Martin Sheen? Pretty awesome if it is

Bro what documentary is this? Is the guy that voiced this the person who played president Bartlet in the west wing Martin sheen?

Great history 👍

a million soldiers at their disposal and they surrendered. what a shame.

@krips22

Жыл бұрын

France didn't surrender, it signed an armistice (otherwise France would have been fully conquered - there would have be no Vichy France - DUH!).

@ericv-kj3du

7 ай бұрын

One month: 100k killed and 240k wounded. Do the maths. After 3 months, you have no one left. And no future.

@avocadotoast6369

2 ай бұрын

@@krips22Sounds a lot like surrendering!

@krips22

2 ай бұрын

@@avocadotoast6369 part 1: In my mind, "surrendering" meant giving up the fight without any conditions (basically abandon yourself at the mercy and will of the enemy). After verification, this nuance is not in the meaning of the word apparently. My mistake. Anyway, the German plan was a giant trap for the Franco-english army. It worked. To answer the OP: it was ~3 M French + ~300 k British (~3.30 M) VS ~3.35 M Germans (filled with pervitin, a methanphetamine that made fatigue vanish and increased courage.

@krips22

2 ай бұрын

@@avocadotoast6369 part 2: In june 1940, France _(then with a much smaller army, after the Germans encircled a big part of the French army and captured it near Dunkirk following the surprise attack in the Ardennes, and the Brits had fled back to England)_ was in 1 vs 2 against Germany and Italy with no chance of winning and thus asked for an armistice, like Germany had done in 1918 before the allies could enter Germany, and made it look like the north-east of France. Also: Populations in 1940: France: ~40 M Germany: ~77 M (Germany: 69.8 M + pop. Of annexed Austria and Sudetenland. That's almost twice the population of France)