Winston Churchill PART 1 (1 of 6)

[madhammudeux]

god...the 90s...

[EncorePerformances]

3:56 dat theme music, so inspiring.

[imaginator]

Churchill was like a confident strong big daddy of the mafia with his cigar that stood against Hitler when nearly every country in Europe crumbled.

[translationwiz]

I came to see these b/c someone yesterday mentioned, I think her name was Lady Ashcroft?, and Winstons Drinking: "Winston you are drunk again!"-Yes, but in the morning I will be sober; and you'll still be ugly!" Another was, "Winston, I swear, if I were permitted I'd put poison in your drink!"-To which he replied, "And if I were your husband, I'd drink it!"

peace/salam/paz/shalom

[lauraleesmithagain]

who are these "bores" that took churchill prisoner?

[nedmarc]

@lauraleesmithagain the were Boers, rebel South Africans

[PICARDABLE]

we needed a man of war in history a david to the galyeth that was hitler at that time cherchill was that man but dont be fooled if hitler had not gone insane he would be here and his legasey would of gone on in uk there would of been a diffrent royal family in our reanstatment of edward the 7th

[mc0558]

What would Hitler have ever accomplished without the German General Staff and that glorious array of field commanders he had. He might scribble something on a map but it was they who put it into effect. After Stalin's purges of the army, he was bereft of tactical talent. Indeed Soviet officer learned the art of war from dealing with the German offensives. By 1943, they'd learned how to wage war.from the best--the Germans. That was what Stalin's purges brought--two years of death and defeat.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:The aristocracy in Germany is an illusionary"class"till today-you may have heard why our rather young defence minister zu Guttenberg was sacked by Merkel:For having faked cheekily 100s of pages in his dissertation by blatantly copying articles from top German journalists+not giving a hint of a reference.When it was discovered in early February he was acting for 1week if this was common practice.+Our media even flattered the"smart"Guttenberg couple for 2years,she is even sillier than him!

[mc0558]

@MrSKINFLICK Yet, unlike Britain--and this is why Hitler never understood Britain, prior to 1933, the social elite was also the power elite. The power elite was easy to identify, and Hitler courted them. In Britain, the social elite was powerless! Power was in the hands of Party leaders, trade union leaders and "public opinion" generally. So everytime a Nazi sympathizing British aristocrat went to Germany,Hitler wined, dined and flattered him, not realizing that this aristocrats was just a suit.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:If Haffner is well informed Lloyd George Churchill´s partner during his"left-wing"period between 1907-1909 came from a working class descent -but to speak honestly- has it changed a lot?And is it always a benefit if someone from the working class or lower income groups becomes a political leader?Hitler came from a similar milieu.But HE WAS a sort of fetishist of the British aristicracy+then the paranoid Hess fled to"visit"Duke Hamilton..which made even laugh half of Germany back then...

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:Yeah,those were Stalin´s handicaps of course.On the other hand Hitler was an unteachable egoist in military things he was a simple private in world war1+had been awarded with the iron cross-OMG-millions had received an iron cross.But Hitler´s psychopathology is easy to explain because we know so much about his parents:His father was an Austrian border control officer,an alcoholic who almost beat him to death in his puberty+his mother a very shy+humble person who died of cancer 1907.....

[mc0558]

@MrSKINFLICK Stalin read. If there was a problem, Poskrebyschev would assemble the major works on the subject, have those in foreign languages quickly translated (many translations that appeared on the market in Russia had been done for Stalin). Stalin retired to his bedroom for a week and studied them. Yet until he was 38, he had been a Georgian bandit. A remarkable man! Stalin made sure he was prepped, and he insisted that his generals and ministers were prepped too. Waffle was not tolerated!

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:...2 years later in 1909 Hitler was refused by the Vienna art academy for lack of talent-if they had only taken him!

Even Speer wrote that he had a certain talent for drawing+painting.Hitler´s motivations for persecuting other artists was clearly his own inferiority complex -why hadn´t he tried another art school in one of Austria´s towns?He thought himself above everything+refused ANY regular work -exactly such people like him before WW1 were put into concentration camps by him later!

[mc0558]

@MrSKINFLICK Well, I have seen his drawings. They are Dureresque--mediocre skills and no inspiration. With the camera art ceased to be about mere accurate depiction of buildings. Nothing he did contained people--just buildings and landscapes. If you think what was going on in Vienna when he was there--the famous Vienna fin de siecle-_Hitler was hopelessly provincial. But he had his brief revenge--declaring his style of mediocre representational art the only real art and abstract art decadent.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:The whole architeture of the 3rd was provincial -the outer city ring roads here in Bonn still partly still consist of such buildings-very depressing architecture.

Ever heard of the Unity Mitford case?-An aristocratic English"groupie"of HItler+his entourage(i think she was also chummy with the imposible Winifred Wagner who was rumored to have a sex affair with Hitler) who shot herself in the head in autumn 39 in the English garden in Munich for desperation of the German-English war...LOL

[meronmotors]

I always see him out in the rubble in the streets talking to his people. Walking down open streets. He was not afraid. Hitler is always surrounded by body guards. He would never go out in plane view or anywhere where he could be vulnerable

[mc0558]

@meronmotors Churchill was the leader of a democracy. If he didn't watch his pees and ques public support would wither and the House of Commons would turn on him. Churchill had a lot of enemies. As Min of Defence, all his Armies did was lose battles. He was almost kicked out in 41 and 42 and he was kicked out in 45. Churchill's visiting bombed out cities was PR work, not only to rally public spirits, but to appear the national hero and garner popular support.

[mshamiltonohio]

Winston Churchill has many distant cousins in the United States. His American mother has a long history of ancestors in America. Her ancestors in America goes back about 200 years. She suppose to even be descended from Native Americans in one of her lines. I learned this recently and thought it was very interesting. He's also related to former President George W Bush and his father through the Spencer line (29 U.S. Presidents are descended from the Royal family) and also with Princess Diana.

[mc0558]

@mshamiltonohio Churchill must have learned as a boy from the example of his father that a politician out of the running for power is a tragic figure. He began as a Tory--switched to Liberalism on the eve of its great 1905 victory, grabbing hold of Lloyd George's coattails. Thanks to LG, he held office after office, until the Gallipoli failure. The war killed Liberalism, & C became Tory again and managed to be their Chancellor of the Exchequer where he made another mess. The war saved him!

[thatsmycar10]

Churchill was definately a great icon of history. We (the world) owes the victory over the Germans much to this man's willingness to unmask an emerging threat to peace. Today we are seeing the same threat emerge with radical Islam which Sir Martin Gilbert agrees is today's threat that the world chooses to ignore. As a Canadian this video reminds me of the strong ties that our county has with Britain and hope those ties remain.

Thanks for posting!

[0679739041]

It is such videos which make youtube so worthwile to visit. Thank you!

[saleri]

i wander if this will talk about his black dog

[cultofmao]

Gallipoli fiasco, Norway faisco, alcoholic drug addict with irrational mental state just the right man at the right time to take on the German maniac in opposition.

[dezboss]

@cultofmao Yawn.

[mc0558]

@cultofmao I don't know about drug addiction, but you might well ask would a sane man have taken the gamble Churchill did?It was simply "unthinkable" that a great nation would not rise to Hitler's challenge.Churchill's answer to "how are we going to win it" was, have confidence in the future. In 1918, there was no end in sight to WWI; indeed with Russia out of the war, Germany's victory was more likely.Then suddenly Germany cracked: miracle and Britain had suddenly won. Like H, C was a gambler.

[mc0558]

Alec Douglas-Home says that Churchill was in touch with the common man. Only in one sense in that true, and Churchill knew it and used it to his advantage. After WWI, the British people emerged with a dislike for Germans. When Hitler came along with his super-nationalism, militarism and antisemitism, they formulated a determination to pull Germany down once and for all. Churchill articulated that determination, and in return they supported him enthusiastically.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:Churchill kept on warning the conservative party + the British society about Hitler´s real criminal character in during the whole 30s - and was politically ignored by them all.After he had left the conservatives in 1905 (because they´d started ignoring him already when he was a young MP) + had joined the liberals whose left wing was even more radical than German social democrats at that time he + Lloyd George managed to realize Europe´s most advanced pro-workers legislation 1907-1909....

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:Having estranged with the liberals over the years he joined the conservatives again in 1923 -but many of them regarded him as a traitor+never fully wanted to accept his partly brilliant intellectual capacities again.They made him chancellor of the exchequer- a job which he was least apt for -and he even started boring himself + devoted himself more to writing great books.After 1930 he was politically isolated by them.His son Randolph who had personally met Hitler on several occasions...

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:+Randolph(being a young journalist reporting about the turmoils in Germany)kept on informing his father that Hitler+his party were mischievous psychopaths.In 1932 Churchill would have almost met Hitler in Munich because he wanted to KNOW how Hitler was ticking,but Hitler was not interested.France+Britain did not hinder Hitler(they COULD HAVE!) of reoccupying the demilitarized Rhineland in1936+neglected necessary ties to the German opposition-of which was more available than they thought!

[mc0558]

@MrSKINFLICK The British and French should have attacked towards the Ruhr while Poland was still fighting. Really their chicanery at that crucial moment merits them both losing their Empires. They had latched on to Poland as the allie in the East who would give Hitler his war on two fronts; then they went and sat on their thumbs while Poland was crushed. They let Hitler move his troops Westward without a peep and were surprised when he attacked. Gamlin, Weygand and Ironside should have been shot

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:Hitler was far less popular than many assumed outside Germany,big parts of the Catholic population hated him for his oppression of their religion.My grandfather -who was mayor of a little village near Bonn/Rhineland -had a very"special"reaction for the Nazis when they came in33+urged him to hoist a Svastika flag on his roof:He put it in the closet+was deposed afterwards of course.Many intellectuals+people underrated the brutality of the Nazis at first-Germans ARE often too phlegmatic!

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:My grandfather whom i had the honor to know at old age always said:If we would have had already TV in 1933 Hitler+his gangsters would have never been elected -the people would have seen themselves what a cast of ugly idiots there were.

Hitler also had no majority in1932+even not in March1933 -he came to power with cheap tricks+use of severe pressure on the old president Hindenburg.The Nationalist Conservatives(8%)who were the real villains in this"game"were partly murdered by him in1934.

[mc0558]

@MrSKINFLICK Maybe television would have done him in, but Hitler had a lot of photographic exposure. Everything he did was photographed and published. You are write, of course: the majority of German people never gave the Nazis a majority of the vote in any half way fair democratic election where there were opposition parties. That fact should always be remembered to their credit. That and the fact that Germans were Hitlers first and greatest victims.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:Thanks for the answer. What i know about that time is that many people in Germany´s countryside didn´t regularly read a newspaper or go to a cinema -and THERE were the most votes to gain! People worked themselves almost to death (if they had work) +lived a very bigoted limited life. Of course it was different in the cities. Also the entente countries´careless handling promoted the rising phenomenon of Hitler+the Nazis. Between 1930-1932 the were civil war-like turmoils in the cities.....

[mc0558]

@MrSKINFLICK It was a time of great economic hardship. Simple people, living hard lives, worried about where the next meal was coming for their kids, in debt, worried about losing their farms, angry and resentful were the first to vote for Hilter. In the 1928 election, Schleswig-Holstein, an agricultural area relying on dairy farming, was the first to vote in a Nazi State government. Berlin was late in supporting Hitler and Hamburg never did. It is a sad but very human story.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:...+when did the last entente troops leave Germany?1930 i think.Chamberlain´s conservatives thought they could negotiate with Hitler,do you negotiate with the mafia?The rearmament in Germany had not progressed that much,France+Britain could have intervened when Hitler reoccupied the Rhineland(he even thought they might intervene!).France had enough own inner problems+Churchill was isolated.After 1936 Hitler knew that he would would see no more bigger difficulties for blackmail politics.

[mc0558]

@MrSKINFLICK I thought they left in 1928.How do you negotiate with the mafia? First of all you have to be highly motivated. What were Chamberlain's motives? Britain was almost bankrupt. The Indian Empire was collapsing. Wars cost money. Besides, Britain could do nothing for central Europe without the help of Soviet Europe. So if they won, Stalin would be the one who gained the most. S. another mafia type, but we live in the real world of sometimes hard choices. We had to make a choice - Stalin

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:I know that Britain+France were almost bankrupt from world war1+ the depression since 1929,but if they had invested in rearmament from the mid-30s on,worse+MAYBE world war2 could have been prevented.There was a lot of resistance in the German army -even among aristrocratic nationalists- against Hitler, never forget from which miserable surroundings he came.

Austria abused German government circles with diplomatic tricks already in 1914.

The USA also realize now that wars are expensive!

[mc0558]

@MrSKINFLICK I am always amazed at how unrealistic the German officer class was. Maybe they understood how Germany worked better than I. The allies repell Hitler in '36, you oust him, arrest the SA/SS and the German people just sit there and take it. But, for example, to imagine that you can got out of the full weight of the defeat in 1944 by assassinating him then and negotiate a peace with the American, which would allow they to resist the Russians, pure illusion!

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:There were several assault on Hitler which failed due to unlucky conditions.The father of the former mayor of Hamburg von Dohnanyi tried to kill him with a bomb in his plane on the flight back from Smolensk in 1942,it did not explode due to minus degrees outside.A jobless carpenter named Georg Elser(who was executed for that in 1945...)tried to kill Hitler in Munich 1939+the bomb exploded but Hitler had left the pub 15 minutes before.Hardcore Nazis thought he was protected by"destiny"...

[mc0558]

@MrSKINFLICK Where were the suicide bombers when we needed them. BUT would the removal of Hitler personally have saved Germany and the world from the Nazi scourge? Compared to many of the figures around him, Hitler was a remarkably passive figure--a dreamer who found it difficult to make decisions. But of all of them, he was the most inclined to (as Schirak noted) take a political gamble and fortune favours the bold.They all owed their positions to the Nazi systen and would have carried on.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:You underrate Prussian slavish obedience at the German army back then:Hitler had abolished the whole constitution(in Anmerkungen zu Hitler/Annotations to Hitler1977Haffner points out that he ruled without any constitution33-45)The whole Reichswehr had sworn their oath on him.Even Stauffenberg was a kind of supporter in the 30s,they woke up1939or by Stalingrad.Most GermansKNEWthat the attack on the USSR was too stupid.The was no war enthusiasm like 1914 among the common people in Germany.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:There is a popular German carnival song which was parodied in the 30s already when many were sighing at the impossibilities of the regime:Es geht alles vorüber,es geht alles vorbei,auch Adolf Hitler und seine Partei-It´ll all pass from us,it all passes by,even Adolf Hitler+his party:"Many religious people-may they be conservative or not-just were annoyed by the brutal vulgarity of behaviour of the Gauleiter -Nazi district leaders- there was even a prase:If der Führer all knew this.....

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558: What you see in many German 1933-1945 film "documents" is"splendid"Goebbels propaganda trash -many Americans still take that for serious to my anger -i think the English who are more related to Germans from the Saxon connection- CAN look between the lines of such propaganda films.As i told you -one of the German character weaknesses is too much phlegmatism -in principle that is even naive optimism: Oh, it´ll be over in a few years...depends what you understand by "a few years"......

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:....my grandfather always told me it was like organized crime in power+he could tell the difference-he knew the times of Wilhelm II(who dismissed Bismarcks persecution of socialists)+said the Kaiser years were partly more democratic than the reactionary republic years 1918-1933.He was a progressive(arguably"left-wing­")Catholic Zentrum Party man(of which the right wing wanted to"trick"Hitler, Papen was one of them).But many of the Catholic country people hated Hitler for various reasons.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:But the explanation of all the Nazi scum is somewhere else:Jewish Philosopher Hannah Arendt-who was a very German woman first(many Jews who had to emigrate where even annoyed+felt insulted because of this)later wrote her world-famous essay on banality getting to much power in politics+society in general...which is really true.

Most of the Nazis had a very limited view of the world+were snobs without real humor who couldn´t even afford to be snobs BECAUSE of their limited world view.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:Speer said in his conversations with allied Brtitish M I 5 officers in June 1945:"Many of them were LUCKY if they had been in North Italy for 3 weeks-once in their lifetime!"(collected interviews with Speer:"Alles,was ich weiss-All i know"edited only in 1994 by German historian Ulrich Schlie-the manuscripts were"forgotten"for decades in the cellar archives of the Imperial War Museum in London)

Hitler was in France-in WW1!

I suppose even the Germans in the middle ages travelled more.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:I see you discussing here about Churchill´s alcohol+drug habits:Hitler was addicted to amphetamine injections in the morning+sopoforics at night(later also opiates)given to him by his grostesquely fat personal physician Theo Morell-who had been fashion doctor of the Berlin demimonde in the 20s/early 30s-no wonder he degenerated so much during the war+looked 20years older than a 55-years old.And vegetarians should not take such stuff anyway.Also his increasing hysteria was caused by that!

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:In 1944 his SS adjutant doctor Karl Brandt wanted to give Hitler cold turkey+he reacted with one of his rage attacks(well documented by Traudl Junge-who practically frequented him day+night+also Speer)Hitler´s drug addiction wasn´t known in public+but good doctors know the symptoms.Check Traudl Junges book for his alleged"passivity"-there were days when he kept the highest military ranks on their toes in hisBavarian Berghof.Tea times till the early morning were also due to his addiction!

[mc0558]

@MrSKINFLICK But the whole German Army ran on the methanphetimine, Pervitin. It is very hard to measure the influence drug addiction had on this period--on the strategic and tactical decisions taken, on the way soldiers behaved--but, not just Hitler, the whole lot of them were drenched in drugs. This coould be history's only drug inspired and executed war. It may explain also why the whole nation so passively marched in lock-step to its own self-immolation.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558: I dunno if the whole German army ran on amphetamines. Frequent abuse of amphetamines has been+will mostly be a problem in human societies. I am very well informed that English or American pitots were supplied with the stuff, too (NOT MORALLY MEANT!). It may also be supposed that Churchill used it during the VERY exhausting periods of the 2nd world war. We should not utterly demonize the stuff as long it is not used too much by paranoids or people inside official business affairs.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:

There is a good saying (international i think): "The frequency makes the poison", not the (relatively rare) use per se. That´s what i meant.

There were reports of people in California who drank themselves to death with 10 liters of water at ONE moment. Another sort of weird people "loves" to eat 100 raw red chilis in a row.

I would not suggest the one or the other, though i love water and chilis.

Understood ?

[mc0558]

@MrSKINFLICK I made it a rule in life to stay as sober as possible. I have been drumk maybe a dozen times in my life. I enjoyed morphine only when I had my wisdom teeth out. I said to myself, "so this is morphine". In a recent operation, I had it but never really felt anything from it. The oxygen was the kick. But I have alwsays thought that if one is to find pleasure and happiness it must be inside the heart and mind as it is, not through drugs..

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:I despise all narcotics because they are painkillers of the strongest sort+should be given to cancer patients in final stages or at difficult operations in full awareness(morphine used by a dentist?They use novocaine here which is related to cocaine+ feeling effect of novocaine injected by a dentist you wonder what people might find so funny about cocaine-a dentist explained me the similar effects-it benumbs your facial nerves).Hitler destroyed his nerve tracts with amphetamine+morhium.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:On the other hand i don´t want to know how many politcians today are dependent on one or another substance+their hypocrisy is that they want to forbid other people the use.Drugs of any sort are a difficult chapter because bigger parts of mankind use(d)them.Even Queen Victoria used cannabis for relieving of pain,Thomas Jefferson smoked it+had a whole cannabis plant on the lands around his farm.I´m not advocating anything here but i could list a big number of users by internet information.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:A feat of the MI5-together with Czech resistance fighters-was to kill Reinhard Heydrich who was one of the worst+cynical of top Nazis.Heydrich+his SD(secret service of the SS)co-operators Schellenberg+Schwarz even spied on a Berlin luxury bordello from 1940-1945 with microphones installed behind the wallpapers to get "impressions"of high ranking +simple military men if they didn´t talk about strictly confidential state affairs-"interviewed"by SS whores!Book:"Salon Kitty"by Peter Norden.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:Don´t know if"Salon Kitty"was translated into English,but apart from the macabre events(with the owner of the bordello-a 60 years-old woman from Cologne-constantly being blackmailed by Heydrich,Schellenberg+Schwarz because she´d tried to escape to England via the Dutch border in 1940-shortly before the German occupation of the Netherlands)the book is partly a tragical comedy -esp. when a foreign minister like Count Ciano appears(Mussolini´s son-in-law)+bitches about Hitler´s megalomania.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:Many of the wax sound recordings were found after the war,but it took top journalist Peter Norden ca 20 years to finish his book,many witnesses had died or didn´t talk so frankly at first.The story inside is about an MI5agent working with wrong identity for the Romanian embassy in Berlin+falling in love with one of the SS-whores-who were also constantly threatened with death penalty for becoming illoyal/not reporting correctly-without knowing of the microphones in the walls!But MI5 knew!

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:"Salon Kitty"ends with a punchline making everybody laugh:In1943Dutch UFA filmstar Johannes Heesters(still alive at108 years+he often told the story to German TV)moved into Salon Kitty confusing it with a premium guesthouse+that of course disturbed the whole SS enterprise.The hotel where Heesters had lived before had been bombed+he was overwhelmingly loved by Berlin´s playgoers+movie fans that SS+Gestapo did not dare throw Heesters out of the etablissement!Slight difference to Stalinism!

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558: See also: Wikipedia: Salon Kitty !

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558: Recommended book: SEBASTIAN HAFFNER - Winston Churchill

If this churchill biography is available in English or if you´re able to read it in German -buy it in any case!

Haffner went into British exile in 1938+worked for the Observer+the Guardian+also gave details to government officials about the special situation in Germany.When he returned to Germany in the early 50s he became one of our leading+most acclaimed journalists+essayists,he´s got a brilliant style + was also often on TV.

[mc0558]

@MrSKINFLICK I know Haffner, whos real name was Pritzel, or something.

I am a fan of Churchill's ONLY for the line he took against Hitler from 1938 onwards and for his 1940 role in defeating Halifax and the defeatists. Paradoxically, in that crazy time, he had the crazy qualities that kept us sane. Studies show Churchill received daily Home Office reports on the state of British public opinion. The people wanted to fight it out with Hitler regardless of the cost;Churchill responded to that.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:Haffner clearly describes how Churchill changed to an awful reactionary during the 20s but also shows some of his"funny"sides:When building a new house at the beginning of the 30s he wanted to become a member of the building workers union-they thought he was making a cheap joke...LOL

Ernest Bevin-whom he would have liked to shoot to death during the general strike in 1926-suddenly was his labour minister in 1940.

Haffner wrote that he was a"warrior nature"in a positive+negative sense.

[mc0558]

@MrSKINFLICK Churchill was well-known as a dark, brutal reactionary. He was merciless during the 1926 strike. The Welch always did hate him. No doubt in the early 1930's, the Hitler issue began as a way to revive his career in the Conservative Party by bludgeoning Baldwin and Chamberlain. I think he was a terrible war leader--the military was in terrible shape throughout the war; he neglected his administrative responsibilities. Attlee ran the government. But Churchill stook firm and led.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:Hitler remarked to his surroundings in one of his overlong monologues at night:"If i only had the"courage"to handle my officers+generals like Stalin"(reported by Traudl Junge-Hitler´s youngest secretary-in her autobiography"Until The Final Hour")

It is a shame that Traudl got known so late in Germany but she lead a rather unspectacular life after1945+had a serious personal crisis in the 60s by reflection that Hitler had mentally abused her.Her work is indispensable,too!She died in 2002.

[mc0558]

@MrSKINFLICK Yes, I know Frau Junge. She was an incredible lady. When the devil appears to you as a kind and considerate gentleman who flatters you with his attention, it is unfair and terribly disorienting. Fortunately she threw off the psychological yoke that swine imposed on her. A fine lady!

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mc0558:So this remark from Hitler shows clearly the difference between him+Stalin.Anyway he should not have dared invading Russia,that was one of his most absurd ideas-he should been satisfied with the gas+petrol deliveries from Romania.It was his mania to establish a national economy independent from international finance.He also had no clue of the enduring Russian mentality.In a conversation with Mannerheim-secretly taped in Finland 1942-he spoke again of his secret admiration for Stalin....

[jacksawild]

It has become fashionable to criticise the great figures of the past. Churchill was, and he remains, the greatest PM Britain has ever had. Those who insult him are insignificant, especially when compared to a great leader like Sir Winston Churchill. The King had to intervene to stop him leading the charge on D-Day. We don't have leaders like that any more; if we did, perhaps there'd be fewer wars..

[mc0558]

@jacksawild I do not agree that Churchill was our greatest PM. However, he was an iconic war leader. Moreover, he was able to stop the defeatists in his own cabinet in June 1940. However, he had little to offer the country in peace time. Indeed, he was a reactionary.

[kronoscorvinus]

Your Channel is most enlightening. British documentaries seem to focus on the subject as a whole and not just the adventurious or "naughty parts." I read Gilbert's one volume, condensed biography and for an "authorized" work it was more "warts and all" than I expected. I tend to shy away from any "authorized" historical tome. btw, what did you think of Jenkins' '01 biography? I usual reccomend this over Gilbert as Jenkins has so much experience in Parliment and the cabinent.

[penitent2401]

winners really do write the history, churchill was an excellent leader and guarded england through the war. but he was also a big racist, during the war he pulled all the food and resources from south east asia, refusing to ration food and supplies for people of england while everyone screams at him to send food to asia to relieve the famine there. the result is millions starved to death in india and india getting independence from british rule right after world war 2

[brohmanski]

Churchill, Hemingway and others are of a certain Cut' of a Man back then, so rare today...articulate, curious, noble and fearless in their sense of life and the Human Spirit...marvelous.

[Podlasiakpl]

Chuchill has sold half of Europe to Soviets and put milions of people in gulags. He turned blind eye on Russian actions and oppresions on England's allies. Shame on him and he is and will be always seen as a trator of morality and principals. Today we try to look for heros of that era, but he is not one of them, he is an oppresor.

[gillianzz62]

@Podlasiakpl Britain was bankrupted by the end of WW2. Churchill had little, to no influence at the end of the war when Eastern Europe was carved up. The big winners were the U.S and the USSR and they made the decisions. Recent declassified Soviet files from that era reveal Roosevelt to be far more to blame than Churchill because he didn't take the threat from Stalin seriously enough.

[DrZenith]

@Podlasiakpl Are you Polish? If so, you should be ashamed of your own ignorance and stupidity. Britain entered the war because Poland was invaded. At the Yalta conference Churchill did his best to secure Poland's rights but was not supported by Roosevelt, who in any case was desperately ill and died soon after. Put the blame where it lies- on Stalin and the USSR. They were the true oppressors of Eastern Europe, not Churchill.

[frereM]

It's unfortunate that much of what we hear in these videos is the very old Churchill reciting the words he had uttered years before rather than his voice at the time these events occurred.

[Elberiiver11]

all hiel hitler you British scum

[Calvarlenberg]

@Elberiiver11 Obvious clone is obvious.

[ingerlander]

@Elberiiver11

Tut tut, one must learn to be a good loser and we have certainly contributed to your learning. As for Hitler, I found him three quarters of the way down a "Thrashed by the British" list. Ah well, he's in good company.

[addey83]

@Elberiiver11. Hitler had his chance. You can take over mainland Europe but no one has successfully invaded our island home for a thousand years.

[BraveSoldatSchwejk01]

Pamětí Winstona Chruchila dil I. strana 18

Druhou kardinální tragédií byl úplný rozpad rakousko-uherské monarchie, rozbité na základě Saintgermenské a Trianonské smlouvy. Toto přežívající vtělení Svaté říše římské umožňovalo po staletí společný život, přinášející výhody obchodu i bezpečnosti, celé řadě národů, z níchž ani jediný neměl ve své době sílu ani vitalitu čelit sám o sobě tlaku znovuoživeného Německa a Ruska.

[STOPTHEEU]

@Vlajko1312 British brains American brawn and Russian blood.

[STOPTHEEU]

@Vlajko1312 A hero.

[Thulgore]

Thank you so much for uploading!!!!

[aeronuk1]

Britain would still be a strong country with an Empire if that Zionist traitor had of negotiated with Germany. Now look at the state we're in, we're being ethnically cleansed out of our own country, or whats left of it.

[acidrain55]

he was the peoples, people. thats rich coming from well educated people who cant even run this country.

[janeknisely]

He inspires us today, even wih our new challenges. Don't listen to some of these guys, they are still stinging from the Corn Laws.

[EduardHeinrichAlfons]

W C was a brilliant leder to win over Hitler and the other criminals that where ruling germany and where drowning europe with blood of inocent people.

E J

[sdkfz162kingtiger]

haha his speech this old drunken farmer xD

this fat idiot died on my birthday. yawoll!!!

[MercifulJustice]

@sdkfz162kingtiger loooooooooooooooooooooool hahahaha xD

[Sierra688]

Winston was the only truly lucid and decisive leader in the British government at the time of crisis in 1940. His assured demeanor was important in overcoming the handwringing and vacillations of officials like Halifax. Definitely a wartime consiglieri.

[cla139]

@therealone47, i looked both the people up but cannot find the simalarititis

[cla139]

@vunhopper, u an idiot, without churchill england would have lost the war, and im guessing ur american, after conquering europe hitler would have turned his eyes on america, and a bunch of men in tutus big enough to fit king kong armed with toothpicks( its americans, i had to add this because i know ur stupid) arnt gonna stop hitler, so he is also an american hero

[TheRealOne47]

Look up Churchills' father, Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill and the identity of Jack the Ripper. You might find they've much in common.

[Vunhopper]

What a fat traitor he was. He is a joke the world over and the only idiots who don't know that are the stinking British. He was a fat punk who deserves no respect. A common louse of society was Winston. The History of English Speaking Peoples was a pile of garbage too.

[gipcambero]

LOL coming from a person who live in the counrty where everybody is fat is quite ironic. Churchill is a hero that's all

[dimecollector1]

what a fool

[supernova7304]

@Vunhopper ..and what have you achieved that is greater than what Churchill did....I say lets leave it to the history books, which I believe there is no mention of you.

[Vunhopper]

@supernova7304 MAybe if I was a fattest lying traitor in history I would be in the history books too. Go get your teeth fixed you low life tommy.

[STOPTHEEU]

@Vunhopper I don't know who you are or who you think you are but if you talk like that in Britain you will suffer like no other before

[STOPTHEEU]

@supernova7304 He best watch his mouth matie.

[MIHALIS888]

Trying to find who the agressor is in european history takes one back a very long way. The agressor "argument" doesn't apply here. In fact it hardly ever applies to any war. England should never have entered WW2. It cost her an empire. Who benefited? The english people? Look around you. I used to admire Churchill. I was wrong. I have nothing more to tell you. You may never agree with me but do search deeper.

[kindin10]

Churchill did a lot of great speeches, but I do not understand why they often quote his war speeches. This "never surrender speech" sounds the same like Hitler's and Goebbel's speeches.

[ghsdfshdg]

@kindin10

The reason he is so widely quoted on the subject of WWII is because many people give him credit for reinforcing the British resolve to hold out during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. Not to say he won the war, but after having a man like Chamberlain in power, it was readily apparent to the English what a great orator can achieve in dark times.

[kindin10]

i do undersand this. But if you translate this speech into german it sounds the same like a hitler or a goebbels speech.

Churchill won the war in the end. But if he would have lost it nobody would say that it was a good speech. People would say he was an ingnorant extremist, unable to make peace. All in all the point is (and like Churchill himself said) forecasts should never be a part of a good speech.

[MIHALIS888]

my dear friend, indeed we owe everything to those who fought bravely for our countries. But Churchill wasn't one of those people. He was a politician. Most of his radio speeches he didn't even give himself because he was too drunk. He also ordered military actions that unnecessarily sacrificed his own men in a state of being drunk and in various occasions gave orders for actions that in any view consist war crimes. He was politically supported by financial interests alien to Britain into actions

[STOPTHEEU]

Rubbish!

[MIHALIS888]

try opening a history book! However I agree: we must stop the EU!

[STOPTHEEU]

What you mean by open a history book?

[MIHALIS888]

I mean that if one looked carefully into the facts he might not agree that Churchill was a dangerous drunk puppet but I think he would afterwards find it hard to discribe any relevant accusations as rubbish. I didn't just make it up you know! I used to admire the guy!

[STOPTHEEU]

Look at the Americans. They still talk of Bill Clinton and his blow job.

Why shouldn't he have an affair and sex?

Hes a man! Would the press make such an issue of it if he were a milk man? NO!

If Churchill liked a drink so fucking what?

What is he supposed to do? Sit behind his desk at all hours working like a super charged politician?

Hitler didn't drink. Does that make him an ideal politician?

We all like a drink now and then and if you don't then you have something in common with Adolf!

[MIHALIS888]

To have a leader, prime minister, king or dictator, is not natural or pleasant. So one should have at least agreed to have one. Since now a days no one asks you n me to really chose a leader we can at least expect one leader to appear better than our sorry ass. As 4 sir f Churchill, I suppose my friend that the phrase "war crimes" means little to you as does the unnecessary sacrifice of soldiers...

[STOPTHEEU]

What war crimes would they be then?

Defending his country and destroying the Nazi's?

Personally I don't think your worthy of my time seen as you talk so ill about the best Briton of all time.

Perhaps if someone was so rude about your nation/nationality you would understand.

Or maybe you just have no concept of manners what so ever.

[MIHALIS888]

I'm sorry if I offended you... But who ordered the bombing of Dresden, along with many other German cities, on the 13,14 and 15th Feb 1945 killing 202,040 people in Dresden alone, destroying 85% of the city, which by the way wasn't even strategically important? Man, be proud of Shakespeare, the Beatles, Big f Ben, but not of the man who ordered this and who afterwards tried to pin the massacre on his military staff, not taking responsibility! Or is retaliation an excuse for war crimes?

[STOPTHEEU]

Germany bombed us in WW1. We didn't bomb Germany.

In WW2 Germany destroyed so many cities all over Europe. London, Coventry, Warsaw, Rotterdam and so many many more.

New York was to be added to this list with the America bomber and a nuclear warhead.

So we gave Germany a taste of her own.

Japan got the Atom bomb.

These two nations are extremely peaceful now.

Only those who have seen the worst of war will learn to hate war. They did not die in vein.

[STOPTHEEU]

In recent years we have seen many war crimes.

NATO dropping bombs on civilian areas of Serbia.

Yet they had guided missile systems....

In WW2 we had no such technology.

In war we will always see civilians die and the fault of politics. Britain did everything she could to avoid war. So did France but Hitler planned war all along.

Hitler was the war criminal. In the end he even let his Berliners down by not evacuating them when the Red army were coming.

Churchill R.I.P

He brought us peace.

[MIHALIS888]

It goes without saying my friend that the US committed war crimes in Serbia, as in many other occasions and that more than often England was the america' s right hand to those crimes just as NATO countries like mine were accomplices. And of course Hitler committed war crimes, just like Stalin and the US dropping the bomb. The bombing of eastern German cities towards the end of WW2 wasn't necessary to end the war n to bring peace and Churchill himself admitted that at a later point in time...

[MIHALIS888]

And of course WW2 was a dirty war just like any other war, but one should draw a line as to what means one is willing to employ to achieve peace. War crimes, the killing of innocent, should not be one of them, otherwise there is no point in having a war at all, for what could be worse than unnecessary death? And again let's ask ourselves who writes history? What's the background for each conflict... Could it be that those building the new US of Europe are the same who orchestrated WW2?

[supernova7304]

@MIHALIS888 I have to say check your history book...Hitler bombed London first claiming it was an "accident" by his bombers, and yes it was Churchill who decided to fight fire with fire by then bombing German cities...or should Churchill have done the right thing by giving Hitler, of all people the benefit of the doubt? Considering Hitler invaded Poland under a complete lie, deceit and propoganda oh and should we mention what he was also doing to the Jews...

[MIHALIS888]

....alien to Britain's interests. So my friend you may be right about the impression a short remark might give but It's a long list and like I said the truth is hard to find when history is written by the victor. That's your task however. We should always be prepared to fight and honor the sacrifice of our ancestors but we should also be prepared to fight the enemy especially if he is standing on our own side.

[MIHALIS888]

he was few things other than just a drunk and some of those were worse than being a drunk! History is written by those who win, do the math...

[questortoo]

In answer to Raider641 the woman at 0:48 was Hon. Pamela Harriman nee Digby. She was Randollph Churchill's first wife. She was the daughter of the 11th Baron Digby. After her first marriage ended she went on to marry Leland Haywood. Her last husband was railroad heir and Democrat Averill Harriman. Pamela was appointed US Ambassador to Paris by Clinton in 1993 and died in 1997 after collapsing in the swimming pool at the embassy in Paris! She was quite a woman!!!!

[rossmcl177]

What a brilliant series. thankyou for posting it.

[Raider641]

Who is the lady at 0:48?

[jonesyboynz]

These video's are a gold mine for my history assignment. He was certainly a great man

[y3puGnxg]

'The' Biggest terrorist statesman of the century. Three largest human catastrophe's; 1. Partition of Ireland 2. Partition of Palestine, 3. Partition of India. He was a willing accomplice of all these and and in 2 & 3rd cases he was a direct influencer responsible for incalculable loss of lives and despair. In 1939, Main foreign policy of UK was that no european country should dominate EUrope that would question British Empire. Hitler though cruel, he was magnanimous to British always.

[bobbydylanio]

Oh wonderful, Hitler was "magnanimous to British always" this makes him a good person? Think about that ludicrous statement. To say that the partitions of Ireland and Palestine are worse than the holocaust is a laughable suggestion. Even if he did support them he didnt cause them. And i fail to see the relevence to 1939, he was merely first lord of the admiralty at the time. What you said was severely biggoted but above all misguided and pathetic.

[DrZenith]

Your ignorant and stupid comment doesn't really merit a response except to say that far from being naive Churchill foresaw and warned against the future menace of Hitler in the 30's and Soviet oppression in the 40's. He was a courageous and inspiring leader in the first years of the war when Britain stood alone with no sign of U.S. help; which came only after Pearl Harbor. We all, in the West, owe him a great debt of thanks.

[malachy1847]

His Politics of appeasement to the facsists regimes moreover his outright admiration for those in spain, Italy,and germany as bulwark against communism is well documented! plus his outright backing of britians colonial goals shows that he was an imperialist of the highest order no interest in democracy for the indian subcontinent.. lastly his terror tactics against his nearest " neighbours" by sending the "auxiliaries" to murder civilians at will was out there for all to see!

[Brigadierbadger]

@DrZenith I'm going to make as many Youtube accounts as I can just to give this comment more votes up!

[peppersdog1]

@DrZenith he also warned us of the danger of islam

[debzeppeliniv]

@DrZenith it was as if he had the gift of second sight, astonishing intuition.

[mc0558]

@debzeppeliniv a second sight - astonishing intuition. Buh! He recognized in Hitler and Stalin dangerous enemies of British security. In voicing this, the British people who felt the same thing found their spokesman.

[debzeppeliniv]

@mc0558 duh dude, uh yea I kinda get it since I REMEMBER him when he was alive, even though I was just a kid I got it, because I went to school when we were taught that certain things were evil. They don't do that today it is not PC. wtf? So kids today get no sense of right and wrong from the schools, they have to get it at home, which is probably RARE.

[watchmyshoes22]

@DrZenith Churchill had a tank named after him. Nuff said.

[mc0558]

@DrZenith Yours is one of two rational perspectives on Churchill. The other acknowledges the points you make as valid but see darker motives. C. himself said after the War that he had the good fortune to be the roar, but that the British people were the lions. That is right. The British turned against Hitler between 1936 and 1939 with a deep-held hatried and wanted to destroy him and his regime. They supported Churchill with suspicions & reservations because he most voiced their viewpoint.

[superdan1875]

shut up you moron. i checked your channel and ur favourite film is american gangster! Shows what you know about anything, terrible movie! How dare you insult this great man.

[Sierra688]

If I could have dinner with one person, it would be WSC, far and away. He led maybe the most amazing life of anyone in the past 500 years. He was right about Hitler in 1936, and he was right about the USSR in 1946, long before the US gov't appreciated the threat of the Soviets.

THANKS FOR POSTING!

[14mm2]

AS level exam on this on tuesday

this is life saving

[DCIVELLI]

churchill was a great man R.IP.!!!

[JihadAeon]

Hitler did not allow ANYONE to even MENTION Churchill's name in the last 3 years of the War. That is testament to the monumental efforts Churchill undertook to lead the Western World against Hitler's darkness.

Hitlers reaction says it all.

[joan106]

as a whole i think this is incredible.

[324wilson]

We need a leader like him in today's world!

[ROCKYMARCIANOXX0]

cheers mate :)

[ILoveTeaDogs]

Thank you very much for posting this information on Churchill. He was truly an inspiration to us all & without him & the royal family's support that England would not be the place it is today. He showed to England & the world that people can make a huge difference not only on history but on individual's lives. Thank you for all that you have done for all of us in the world Mr. Churchill! R.I.P.

[alexi626]

Amen my friend!