(05) Why We Fight: "Divide and Conquer" (ca. 1943) 5/6

[lijger1]

German lost (for a great part) the war @dunkirk.

they could destroy the main enlgish army

[aredbunk88]

weakling

[scotter420wigb]

Britian went to war to prevent Germany from exerting power over eastern europe. In the end we had  a 50 year cold war with a worldwide communist threat, and The British Empire faded away. now England is a 3rd rate power and Germany is an economic powerhouse. Also, Social Liberalism is a giant failure..the west is done

[CalicoVall]

@scotter420wigb ...and you're just gonna sit back and let it happen? Bullshit.

If you are... well, no wonder it is.

[FabiogtwZZ]

@scotter420wigb lol england isnt 3rd rate power, it has the 7 biggest economy if im not mistaken

[glutinousmaximus]

@FabiogtwZZ Correct. Was the 6th, but I believe Brazil has just moved up.

[14sodom88]

sorry but 5:03 xD

[q15a47]

This is the best description i've ever seen.

[q15a47]

This is the best description i've ever seen.

[ubermensch81]

amazing ... how do you begin to sit down with a group of friends as Hitler did , and convince them to take over Germany and then europe .. sorry to say guys , but sadly its true the good guys lost WW2 ...

[JBnotthescotch]

@ubermensch81 spoken like true white trash

[ubermensch81]

@JBnotthescotch hahahahahahahh ... no ... just one intelligent red neck .... 

[JBnotthescotch]

@ubermensch81 no you are not intelligent

[ddofella1]

man that was the best diagram description of a battle iv ever seen, no matter what u say about hitler you have to admit his military tactics was pure genius.

[vaahtobileet]

@ddofella1 Pure genius? Not really.

[tommy131188]

@ddofella1 The strategies, tactics and doctrine were not developed by hitler, dude. The high command officers presented him with their proposals and plans and he will approve them or not. Armored warfare concept was developed, first, in GB, then took by Guderian and a few other german officers and perfected.

[glutinousmaximus]

@tommy131188 True, but Guderian had been a very early advocate of good ways to use armour. I have his book 'Achtung Panzer' somewhere in my collection. Hitler, in fact critised Guderian several times - all powers in fact were skeptical of the use of armour except perhaps Russia in the 30's. I seem to remember that at the end of WW1, Germany had around 30 tanks - all of them captured from the allies!

[tommy131188]

@glutinousmaximus Yes, you are right, of course, refering to "Tuchacevsky's deep battle" doctrine, from which the german and the british military inspired.

Germany had tanks of its own at the end of WW1 but those were some very big and clumsy machines, looking like a matchbox.

It is the fact that Hitler considered armored spearhead assault more as a tactical strike, with immediat tactical goals, than an operational assault, with strategic obj and a decisive thrust.

[ohnoshedidntw8]

Notice how the officer gets up from his chair after they started filming, why couldn´t he stand up to begin with? It´s obviously that it was a 1940s way too look smart.

[germaniajim]

is that Richard Widmark with the pointer? Nothing could have saved Sedan, Blitzkreig was just too modern for the trench minded french old bastard generals.

[spacesoviet59]

5:47 We can see a german group being encircled by the french, i think it's the battle of Rethel, one of the french local success.

[Suicide666Commando]

@spacesoviet59

Good observation

[feron99]

The diagram in this clip is absolutely the clearest way to show how it happened! Why don't they make more like that?!

[erloriel]

The French fought bitterly against the Germans, as did the British, their inly faults, was that their technology and tactics were partially outdated and they had completely underestimated the Germans.

[OrganCat]

Yes, at 4:50 it looks like a bad film in sex-ed class. I expected the next scene to be a 'goodnight handshake' followed by Robert Young asking, 'How was your big date, Princess?'.

[Keiji96]

wow that diagram of how the germans punched through france is the best description i've ever seen.

[maltiskisokol]

The french were and are cowards.....

But the Germans were great....

[helmuthoorn]

Most of the German troops were led by WW1 veterans, who less than 20 yrs before had to fight a bloody and fruitless trench campaign. They just could not believe their luck and were just as astonished as the Allied troops.

Where were the notorious French piolus/trench pigs; their worst nightmare ?

Where were the British nomans land terror raiding cutthroats ?

Was it really that easy ?

Couldn't be !

This astonishment kept them from exploiting in full the opportunity Dunkerque offered them.

[Anton5773]

like this much.. thanks for upload fren

[roketjack]

Ahh, polictal correctness, what a joy..

[shaneryanbenton]

@roketjack how is this political correctness

[csrtitus]

Wow.....the French and British got their asses kicked at this point in the war.

[rmvg1985]

Which is precisely how the French perceived it, too!

[LuisWolf]

Hahha just a curiosity, but from 4:45 to 5:11 it looked like some sort of coital penetration XD

[Asskick187]

everytime im watchin vids like that, i wonder how many faces i've seen in this vid came back to their hometown alive. brave soldiers on both sides allies and axis.

[roketjack]

Yeah, poor guys, I bet more than half the German troops didn't want this.