Exact same boat lol BUT WHY DOES IT WORK SO WELL ?????

@@jean-francoisproulx7126 My stresses seem less relevant when compared to that randomly conscripted guy blown to pieces by a random shell or that random family wiped out by a randomly dropped bomb.

Yep. Every single night. 👍

@@MrNiceGuyHistory Wot? You're saying the bombs aren't all aimed into pickle barrels? Pinpoint accuracy? All that good stuff? My goodness, the next thing you know, you're going to be nattering on about civilians or some such woke nonsense...

That's funny!!

Typical french.

Wow... a few things to unpack here. "Being so unprepared and falling to the Germans in a matter of weeks." Indeed, the french military leadership messed up, Gamelin to be precise, who was adamant about implementing plan D breta variant. That being said, this was less a case of the french being terrible, and more a case of the germans being disruptive. All allies at the begining of the war where stomped. The french simply didn't have an ocean or endless lands to go behind. "Then refusing to give their navy to the British." Why would they? France had just signed an armistice with Germany in order to have its civilian population spared, and to keep control of the southern part of the country. The price of peace was that France should remain neutral in the conflict. Obeing the british diktat would have meant breaking the peace accord, and Germany would have taken full control of France. The funny part is that the treacheous british attack on the french fleet led said fleet to flee from north africa to southern France, much closer to a possible German takover. Furthermore, this went straight into the german propaganda, and delayed french resistance a lot as a result. "Then fired on fleet of new American troops because they were still mad at Great Britain" US troops "invited" themselves in french controlled territory. Once more, France being neutral had to defend its territory against any invader. Two or three days after the beginning of the US invasion, the local french autorities in north africa concluded an alliance with the US, leading to the end of hostilities. In turn, this led to Germany invading the rest of France, by the way starting the bulk of its atrocities on the civilian population, and promoting pro nazi puppets in control. And the french fleet, which was in southern France, sabotaged itself before the Germans could take it. "Also began their “liberation of Paris” at the wrong time, screwing up the progress of Eisenhower" Because their objective was not the same. De Gaulle knew very well that the amrican plan for France was the same that they had for Germany. The only chance to get any real independence for France in th future was to get popular legitimacy. Furthermore, the fear was that the liberation of Paris would be costly in term of men and material, which was not the case as the city litteraly freed itself, the germans deciding to leave before the arrival of the allies. Now if we are going to exchange blames among the allies, I would be happy to point the finger to the US, which at the end of ww1, forced a peace leaving Germany still being the most powerful nation in europe, and managed to have France accept Versaille by promising a proto NATO (a US/UK/France military alliance) and a proto UN (the society of nations) and backing out as soon as the french had signed the peace treaty. The big plan of the US was to promote long term peace with germany through prosperity (we all know how that ended, with the wall street crash of 29, which devastated germany a year later and led to the rise of nazism). Funny thing with liberals, they always try this strategy. Nowadays Germany has done it with Russia, we see how it ended, and the US has been doing that with China (once more let's see how that end). Then together with the UK played the french versus the germans during the interwar, and complained every times the french wanted to curtail Germany rise. And of course at the end, in the case of the US, when the war started declared neutrality. And remained neutral when Frane was invaded. And neutral while France was under nazi control for years. And finally joining unwillingly, because the japaness attacked them and germany declared war on them. But finally the US did exactly what the french wanted to do form teh start, cut Germany in two and occupy it as long as necessary. It only took them on more world war to understand what needed to be done.

That is what major powers do. better stay out of their politics all togethter and make sure the price is high IF they attack you.

@@PMMagro Absolutely

@@gayprepperz6862it was a necessary sacrifice to buy us some time.

@@humanchannel7825 Bet the Czechs didn't think so. "Peace in our time"?

@@gayprepperz6862 The french PMs of the 30s wanted to intervene against Germany at each crisis (despite the fact that France was in a terrible shape at the time), but they knew they couldn't go for it alone. Faced with teh british reluctance, they though about allying with the soviets (despite the crisis that this made with teh UK and the US) but the poles were adamant against that and the soviets didn't want to send their troops and be opened to a pole attack (that was what they said anyway). The poles would end up joining germany grabbing for czech lands. As for the british, after playing France versus Germany for a good part of the interwar (because they wanted to maintain the balance of powers in europe), they woke up to the german threat, but they were not ready for war, and needed to buy time. As for the czechs, well, sucks for them.

**speech 😊

And radios. Communication was the key to Blitzkrieg.

And guts for a fight.....

@@davidjma7226 Japan had guts for a fight.

@@davidjma7226 That's a brainless comment. The entire german strategy was about not fighting the ennemy, but going around, fast, to encircle it. There was only one instance where french and germans smashed, in nortehrn belgium, when 2 panzer divisions met 2 DLM (the french equivalent), and the germans didn't have a good time.

Canadians would do what they perceive as their best long term interrest, as nations always do. Stop this hypocrisy.

In response to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, France has announced it surrenders...

🤣😂@@MrNiceGuyHistory

It is so funny !!!!! OMG I have a hard time to breath. France, a nation which can fit in texas, lost more men in a war than the US in its entire history, or the UK since the beginning of the 19th century.

Or Holland or Belgium

Given how quickly France fell they had to fill the rest of the documentary with something 😂

The Nazi Germany needed the Norwegian ports to build their navy, which would enable them to take Holland and Belgium, and thereafter France.

@@leighwang9747 the only reason Germany was in Norway was to stop Britain from invading 3 neutral country's, Norway, Sweden and then Finland.

That went on before the days of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vietnam & North Africa were always fighting with neighboring countries. Still continues to this day.

Being french, I think that the kind of statements you make is the reason why french people don't like you.

Yep, it's how you position and use them though. Like the narrator said, France prepared for a defensive war. A lot of their armour never saw action. Remaining stationary in non combat areas when the Germans were already behind them, captured in pockets of resistance and on rail carriages ect.

That's why France should have invaded Germany during the phoney war. While the chance presented that opportunity. Fools turned back from the attempted invasion.

Indeed. The "phony war". Had France put up some semblance of resistance that invasion wouldn't have taken place at that time. Hitler had them all duped into believing his army and Luftwaffe was much larger and stronger than it actually was.

Yes, but a very high percentage of their officer corps were Fascists. The Vichy government after "peace" with Germany was representative of the French right before that settlement.

And the Germans destroyed or captured them all...

Why becouse France decleard war on Germany and Britain too, Poland killed German Civillians in places like Ganzig since 1918 negociacions lead no where, how evil of Germany to save it's people and have it's enemies turn it into a world war.

What a stupi** comment. Russia had a non aggression agreement with Germany, because they were not ready militarily to fight. It makes perfect strategic sense. Without Russia we would be living in Nazi Europe today, governed by the 3rd Reich. It is childish, to let your baseless hatred of Russia cloud your judgement. Emotions only make you weak and inept.

Becouse the allies are war criminals who wanted and did kill hundreds of thousands of Civillians and Children on a cultural City, were even injured allied troops were Stationed.

It would have been easier for the National Socialists to conquer all of Russia and then invade America via Alaska than to transport millions of troops and tens of thousands of tanks across the Atlantic.

Germany never had teh means to invade Great Britain. Being an island nation on the coast of Europe has been the secret sauce of the success of teh UK throughout the centuries.

That's German newsreel footage ou doughnut lol

This is an exact timeline of events, just facts not propaganda.

@@mrh678 Except that Germany never declared war on Britain or France. Denmark and Norway was occupied for strategic reasons and because they basically lacked armed forces. Britain blockaded the entire Baltic sea and planned an invasion through Norway into Sweden. Sweden was almost entirely cut off from trade by sea, except with Germany.

It’s actually US propaganda that was shown to the troops in the “Why we fight” series. It uses the same script the narrator uses.

What didn't you agree with?