Lightning War: How Blitzkrieg Struck Europe | World War II In Colour | War Stories
In 1939 Hitler unleashed his lightning war into the world. Europe was laid to waste by the wrath of Blitzkrieg, a new type of warfare that would change the history of mankind forever. Using color footage, this documentary looks at how the continent crumbled before Nazi Germany.
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Feels kinda strange to watch a WW2 doc in colour, thanks very much war stories
Thank Netflix
@@user-km2os3ru6m Netflix is responsible for this?
I agree it puts everything in a completely different perspective.
Should listen to the speeches of hitlers than have been translated into english
@@nathanhardman6266 Thanks, I'll check them out
Love the videos but the blurring every so often, drives me mad
It's because you can't handle the truth
@@jumpinjehoshaphat9075 🤣🤣
you can watch these same videos uncensored if you look up the series.
It's in an attempt to stay monetized because KZhead does not monetize the true nature of war "death and destruction"
It's in an attempt to stay monetized because KZhead does not monetize the true nature of war "death and destruction"
War stories is the best documentary channel on youtube.
Watched this series as a kid. Thanks for refreshing it all. Lest we forget...
I remember watching all these episodes multiple times when I was younger, one of the most superb WWII series I’ve encountered. Replete with simple maps to illustrate military movements & maneuvers, concise & articulate narration, and thankfully, no reenactments, the whole ‘WWII in Colour” series is second to none. It’s worth mentioning that “The World at War” series made in the early seventies & narrated by Laurence Olivier is also extraordinary & has many more interviews with those who were involved in the war (be it soldiers or holocaust survivors) as it was produced only ~25 years after the conclusion of the war.
An old documentary, but well worth re-telling. Quite Excellent!
Really nice to see History Hit add one of my favorite documentaries seen on the Discovery Networks in the U.S. to their playlist.
Love these documentaries! Watched them before many times! However, originally the gory scenes were not sensored. A real shame they are now. People---especially the young---need to see them. Remember! Lest we forget!
Love their work. So much information. KZhead ruins it with 17 commercials in 33 minutes,,
I love all these documentaries. My Indy Rommel 🐶 & I watch them as soon as you post. Thank you for your dedication to keeping History alive…. 😇🙏❤️🙌🙌
The intro to this is nostalgic asf
A wonderful historical coverage video about WW2 events.. through focusing on Blitzkrieg
Love this series
The Blitzkrieg strategy was not a German idea. The plan was first tried out during the WW1 battle of Cambrai France. Tanks supporting infantry with mobile artillery , and aircraft dive bombing enemy forward positions. After initial success it failed mainly because of the quality of the Tanks . As was proven years later it was a sound concept .
"Heinz Guderian" is an architect of the Blitzkrieg tactic.
The show is called World War 2 in color H.D great Ten episode Documentary
First requirement of "Blitzkrieg"? Radios.
J’aimerais que ce documentaire soit traduit audio en français Svp
I do wish that the British would get a mention in their defence of the Dunkirk evacuation. The rear guard was not just French.
"Lances and horses against panzers" 😮
that never actually happened
The Dunkirk part is inaccurate. Most troops were taken off from the mole, not by small boats from the beaches.
Maybe now or someday, AI will be able to fix these old films so that they much clearer.
I love the music, it really connects with the colour (UK spelling) thanks for those who created the music/ series
They were spawn camping her in the port 16:33 😂
I never met my American grandparents. They both died from an Me 262 terror aircraft.
If the French military had anyone competent at the top, they could have kept going when they went into Germany instead of turning back when Germany was fighting Poland. That action may have spared Europe all the misery. Also, these documentaries always seem to make it seem that the German military was completely mechanized when this is hardly the case.
Don’t forget 2/3 of the German military still relied on horseback
The dunkirk situation was a massive sign to Germany that they weren’t meant to win this war. Everything that went wrong did and they made horrendous mistakes.
Question: Poland´s leader Gral Sikorski was the same one the MI6 cowardly killed... ?
Europe was, and is, ever thus
Background noise is too much and way too loud.
Blitz Krieg.. NEVER mentioned in any official German Military Doctrine nor training manual……
Some people just want to see the world burn 🔥
After 5 minutes of watching, I conclude that the filmmakers are uneducated when it comes to historical knowledge. Polish cavalry never fought on horses against tanks. Horses were used to move troops equipped with excellent 37mm anti-tank guns, the bullet of which penetrated every German tank just like a bullet from an anti-tank rifle. In addition, such a brigade was also equipped with a small number of light tanks. On September 1, a cavalry brigade near the village of Mokre stopped the 4th Armored Division, destroying or damaging about 100 German tanks. The second lie concerns aviation. On August 30, the combat squadrons were moved to hidden field airfields. This saved them from destruction as a result of a surprise attack. As a result, the Germans destroyed only disabled and civilian planes at the airports they knew
this was probably made 75 years ago and were going off of the information available,so at the time of making this doc,it was probably considered the gospel to a lot of ppl,particularly the ppl who werent there to see,or not see iit,so I think they can get a pass
Narrator says "legend has it" which doesn't mean the doc makers treat it as fact.
Wrong polish calvary never attacked tanks. Only instance it happened Polish Calvary countered attacked German infantry and routed German infantry and they ran head first into German tanks in the rear.
I do enjoy listening to this narrator, but I think he is completely incorrect in saying French armor or tanks were better than German. The main gun was built into the tank. The tank had to turn towards the target to fire. French troops and leadership was poorly funded and poorly trained. They were thinking/planning 20 years in the past to fight WW2. Shalom
The only Tank the Germans had that could efective fought WW2 French Tanks not the WW1 leftovers where the PZ3 and at this Point Germany did not had to much of them. Germany still mostly used PZ 1 and 2 and which where more or less trash as already proven in the Spanish Civil War and Poland. The only good thing they had where Radio Comunication and the Combination with the Luftwaffe which took out most French Tanks in Combination with the 8,8 cm Flak which was used in France for the first time as a Anti Tank Gun.
FIRST COMMENT ! ! !
This is copy and paste completely stolen
The film clips don't correspond with the narrators comments.🤡
CORRECTION! GERMANY DID HAVE A UNFINISHED AIRCRAFT CARRIER. DO YOUR HOME WORK NEXT TIME AROUND.
Ok? That still counts as having none.
The Graf Zeppelin was never completed and never put into service and played no pivotal role in the war. The only thing it served as was a target in 1947
🥱👎 boring
The discussion for my class this week is about blitzkrieg.
You should discuss operation paperclip. That's 100% more relevant to classroom work.
@@historyjunky1299 My professor decided the discussion.
Be that one person who says blitzkreig wasnt even a thing and mobile warfare had been around german doctrine for decades
@@historyjunky1299I disagree!
A lot of propaganda by the All lies.
I would bet half my money on you being a far-righter brainwashed by neonazis propaganda online
France did the bulk of the fighting for the Allie’s during WW1 but they had suffered such horrendous astronomical casualties they simply didn’t have the stomach for war when WW2 came around and it started all over again…