I think a lot of people assume that because most documentaries about the blitz focus on the attacks on London that’s the only city, town or port that suffered such brutal bombings, I do wish that documentary and film makers would tell the whole story from all sides, London might have born the brunt of the attacks, but places like Coventry, Liverpool, Manchester, most of the major ports, and even Scotland and Wales were not safe, and can you imagine if Germany had been able to call upon aircraft carriers, then we were really in trouble, especially if they had other naval units to prevent the Royal Navy from sinking them, that doesn’t bear thought. Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative documentary, big thumbs up 👍😀🇬🇧🏴 P.S I am truly glad that “Lord Haw-Haw” was brought to justice, his treason wasn’t a physical attack, but his words must have been like a stab in the back, and just as painful 😖, in my opinion it doesn’t matter what your ideology, political or religious beliefs, you don’t betray your country, you should use your right to freedom of speech (within reason) and peaceful protest to convince people that your ideology is correct, Haw-Haw sounded like he revelled in his sick propaganda, and I would assume that he knew about how despotic Hitler and his cronies had become, especially regarding the Holocaust, if they hadn’t have hung him for treason they could have for war crimes.
Dj Phantom, Lord Haw Haw, may have been unpleasant and naiive, but he was not British, he was from the Republic of Ireland, and so cannot be considered a traitor. You might describe him as an enemy, but there were many european enemies that did far worse and who were not executed, so his execution was unnecessarily vicious and not really illegal.
@@yer_maws_flip_flops1858if Hitlernhad not invaded Soviet Union, they would have invaded Germany and the rest. Soviet Union had invaded Poland in 1920 and again in 1939. Invaded Finland 1939, annexed Baltic countries 1940, forced Romania to hand over Bessarabia 1940. Only a fool would have thought Stalin had just stopped there. Plus, Britain had in 1918 itself gone into Russia to support the anti-communist forces. Sadly the "monarchist" Churchill supported commie Russia and thereby helped enslaving half of Europe not to Hitler but to another dictator who was worse and killed way more people, who helped Mao enslave China and North Korea to invade South Korea.
@@yer_maws_flip_flops1858 It was because Stalin had broken the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on 28 June 1940, before breaking the German-Soviet Commercial Agreement in August 1940.
14:35 Really glad that Kingston upon Hull gets a mention, It always gets forgotten, Without doubt, Liverpool got hit badly as it would, it being one of the main industrial ports on the west coast. Kingston on hull was a similar type of target for the Luftwaffe, as it was an east coast port, And it got really brutalized, it was constantly raided from 40 to 45 and was the last UK city to be bombed in WW2. Hull was also one of the most heavily damaged outside London, with 95% of buildings either damaged or destroyed.
Thanks for your heartfelt comments, but I know they would have put up with almost anything to avoid the fate of living under the Nazis jackboots. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
At the bottom of my road in Halifax there is a memorial to people who lost their lives in 40 or 41 in one of the raids up here pretty much all the mill towns up here got hit and on sucsessive raids too many people lost their lives ..It wasn't just Coventry and London and the South that got it but all over the Country and ifit hadn't been for the Russians we would have had to endure a heck of a lot more!!
The last section is somewhat misleading. To the best of my knowledge there was only one V1 attack on the North, on Christmas Eve 1944. The missiles were launched from Heinkel 111s over the North Sea, since they had insufficient range to be launched from Europe, and were aimed at Manchester, but hit Stockport, Oldham, Warrington, and several other locations. Of the fifty launched, many just disappeared and are assumed to have either fallen into the sea or unseen on moorland.
@@DannyBoy777777 The Christmas Eve 1944 attack on Manchester is a matter of well-attested historical fact. If you know who did launch those fifty V1s, please enlighten us.
My great uncle Jim was a fireman in Liverpool based on the Dock road during the blitz he said that the museum took a hit in William brown Street when they got into the basement it was full of water and he said they were Egyptian mummies floating on top of the water he found that really funny RIP
My mum (she was on duty with the Observer Corps the night the NAZIS bombed Vickers Metropolitan and of course survived ! 😃) and grand parents were there, my father was at sea in the Royal Navy.
If you check their channel there's another one called The Blitz On The Midlands. On TV I have also seen The Blitz On Berlin and The Blitz On Hamburg. I don't know if they are officially the same series. czcams.com/video/kk_XuqkKzMY/video.html
Justine Stone It has and shows a lot of film and real time stuff that I have not seen before. The introduction IS a tad bit long I'd say. Otherwise, I have enjoyed them all; and, the Scorched Earth series. That's really good.
@@samuelparker9882, I almost agree 100% with you, but, in my opinion the scorched earth series has some biased and one sided episodes, for instance, the carrier warfare episode should have been called “America versus Japan carrier warfare” or the airborne warfare episode, that should have been “German and American airborne warfare, a brief look at the British parachute regiments, and no time to look at anyone else’s airborne units” but conversely there are soon good episodes, like the one on the Panzer tanks, and the U-boat one, I have said this before and I will say it again, “it’s the victor who writes history” in this case it’s the documentary makers. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
Don't know ! But watch out for our upcoming TV Miniseries about all this Midland's war stuff, that we are trying to put together, ( maybe ? ) Better, but shorter, than all that old time polite Downton stuff....?)
He was a monster who committed war crimes and genocide while he was Minister of war for the British Empire. His past is white washed because he beat Hitler. And yes you are correct, we did start to bomb Germany first.
Not quite correct. A German bomber- assumed to be lost on a raid - accidently released it's bombs over London, the pilot believing he was over the Thames Estuary. The following night, Churchill ordered Berlin to be bombed..... The Germans were the first to freely bomb civilian areas using Zeppelins during WW1....
Hitler was foolish bombing London. If I was trying to destroy Britain’s war effort, the Midlands, the North and the West of Scotland would have been my targets. Manchester had Trafford Park, the largest industrial estate in Europe. Liverpool 80 percent of our imports and exports. Glasgow built ships. Oldham built Lancaster bombers.Birmingham and Sheffield were the centre of our metal and steel industries. London was a commercial centre and apart from the Docks, it was pretty irrelevant to the war effort. Bombing dog food factories was hardly going to stop our resistance.
But, when the Jerries " accidently"?... bombed, and burned out ,! The Durex Warehouse (in Liverpool. Next to the B& M, Match factory buildings, etc. (Eventually, Future See our, Still in progress series, episode 3 or so etc)..., and there was a massive shortage for ALL the on-leave troops and also, the local, North of England, hard working factory girls, etc. etc..... It became, the first time that England thought that WE... might lose the WAR ! BUT... Some how ...We didn't. !!... Hey ! ...A few months later, the Japs bombed.... P.H, ...and the Guys there, ignored the "Secret RADAR stuff that we had sent them". ( The officer's had a big golf tournament that morning etc.... Got the signal.... but ignored it etc.) And as usual... the war and it's censorship continued on....
No one seems too ever mention Hull, I'm glad documentaries like this do mention Hull. Hull was the most Bombed city outside London...
Hull? Hull, Hull, Hull...
@@Johnconno t was actually Coventry, then Hull, then Sunderland.
Hull lost the most dwellings per capita of any city in the country
I've recently been to Hull and it is still a mess
Your correct, I'm not being patronising but for some places in Britain Hull looks like it was never done up. 😉.
I think a lot of people assume that because most documentaries about the blitz focus on the attacks on London that’s the only city, town or port that suffered such brutal bombings, I do wish that documentary and film makers would tell the whole story from all sides, London might have born the brunt of the attacks, but places like Coventry, Liverpool, Manchester, most of the major ports, and even Scotland and Wales were not safe, and can you imagine if Germany had been able to call upon aircraft carriers, then we were really in trouble, especially if they had other naval units to prevent the Royal Navy from sinking them, that doesn’t bear thought. Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative documentary, big thumbs up 👍😀🇬🇧🏴
P.S I am truly glad that “Lord Haw-Haw” was brought to justice, his treason wasn’t a physical attack, but his words must have been like a stab in the back, and just as painful 😖, in my opinion it doesn’t matter what your ideology, political or religious beliefs, you don’t betray your country, you should use your right to freedom of speech (within reason) and peaceful protest to convince people that your ideology is correct, Haw-Haw sounded like he revelled in his sick propaganda, and I would assume that he knew about how despotic Hitler and his cronies had become, especially regarding the Holocaust, if they hadn’t have hung him for treason they could have for war crimes.
Dj Phantom, Lord Haw Haw, may have been unpleasant and naiive, but he was not British, he was from the Republic of Ireland, and so cannot be considered a traitor. You might describe him as an enemy, but there were many european enemies that did far worse and who were not executed, so his execution was unnecessarily vicious and not really illegal.
Haw-Haw wasn't a traitor, he wasn't British. His execution was totally illegal.
@@yer_maws_flip_flops1858 what absolute twoddle. 🙄
@@yer_maws_flip_flops1858if Hitlernhad not invaded Soviet Union, they would have invaded Germany and the rest. Soviet Union had invaded Poland in 1920 and again in 1939. Invaded Finland 1939, annexed Baltic countries 1940, forced Romania to hand over Bessarabia 1940. Only a fool would have thought Stalin had just stopped there. Plus, Britain had in 1918 itself gone into Russia to support the anti-communist forces. Sadly the "monarchist" Churchill supported commie Russia and thereby helped enslaving half of Europe not to Hitler but to another dictator who was worse and killed way more people, who helped Mao enslave China and North Korea to invade South Korea.
@@yer_maws_flip_flops1858 It was because Stalin had broken the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on 28 June 1940, before breaking the German-Soviet Commercial Agreement in August 1940.
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Liverpool was the heaviest bombed city outside of London. The Luftwaffe flattened a great swathe of the city centre.
Liverpool, Glasgow, Southampton, Belfast, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Coventry, Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne
14:35 Really glad that Kingston upon Hull gets a mention,
It always gets forgotten, Without doubt, Liverpool got hit badly as it would, it being one of the main industrial ports on the west coast.
Kingston on hull was a similar type of target for the Luftwaffe, as it was an east coast port, And it got really brutalized, it was constantly raided from 40 to 45
and was the last UK city to be bombed in WW2.
Hull was also one of the most heavily damaged outside London,
with 95% of buildings either damaged or destroyed.
I always wondered why Liverpool city centre looked so modern when I was a kid !
Hull...
@@JetDom767 my home town of widnes near Liverpool was also hit bad, due to the chemical production for British bombs here
I am so glad and grateful for what these people did. I feel bad for these people for what they went through 💕💓💗
Thanks for your heartfelt comments, but I know they would have put up with almost anything to avoid the fate of living under the Nazis jackboots. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
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@Titus Hank flixportal =)
@Joseph Maverick thank you, I signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D I appreciate it!!
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At the bottom of my road in Halifax there is a memorial to people who lost their lives in 40 or 41 in one of the raids up here pretty much all the mill towns up here got hit and on sucsessive raids too many people lost their lives ..It wasn't just Coventry and London and the South that got it but all over the Country and ifit hadn't been for the Russians we would have had to endure a heck of a lot more!!
Stalin supplied all of the fuel used by the Luftwaffe to blitz the UK in 1940-41.
The last section is somewhat misleading. To the best of my knowledge there was only one V1 attack on the North, on Christmas Eve 1944. The missiles were launched from Heinkel 111s over the North Sea, since they had insufficient range to be launched from Europe, and were aimed at Manchester, but hit Stockport, Oldham, Warrington, and several other locations. Of the fifty launched, many just disappeared and are assumed to have either fallen into the sea or unseen on moorland.
Some actually did land in Didsbury but none reached the city center.
KG 3 flew these types of operations. The last recorded is October 1944. No He 111-launched V1s were fired later.
@@DannyBoy777777 The Christmas Eve 1944 attack on Manchester is a matter of well-attested historical fact. If you know who did launch those fifty V1s, please enlighten us.
Was Scotland part of northern Britain in those days. Clydebank blitz …?????????
Yes.
My great uncle Jim was a fireman in Liverpool based on the Dock road during the blitz he said that the museum took a hit in William brown Street when they got into the basement it was full of water and he said they were Egyptian mummies floating on top of the water he found that really funny RIP
A rather confusing headline. The North?, the north of what, the north of England or the north of Ireland (Belfast blitz)
They bombed our chippies.
My mum (she was on duty with the Observer Corps the night the NAZIS bombed Vickers Metropolitan and of course survived ! 😃) and grand parents were there, my father was at sea in the Royal Navy.
What is the name of this series
If you check their channel there's another one called The Blitz On The Midlands. On TV I have also seen The Blitz On Berlin and The Blitz On Hamburg. I don't know if they are officially the same series.
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Justine Stone It has and shows a lot of film and real time stuff that I have not seen before. The introduction IS a tad bit long I'd say. Otherwise, I have enjoyed them all; and, the Scorched Earth series. That's really good.
@@samuelparker9882, I almost agree 100% with you, but, in my opinion the scorched earth series has some biased and one sided episodes, for instance, the carrier warfare episode should have been called “America versus Japan carrier warfare” or the airborne warfare episode, that should have been “German and American airborne warfare, a brief look at the British parachute regiments, and no time to look at anyone else’s airborne units” but conversely there are soon good episodes, like the one on the Panzer tanks, and the U-boat one, I have said this before and I will say it again, “it’s the victor who writes history” in this case it’s the documentary makers. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
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Don't know ! But watch out for our upcoming TV Miniseries about all this Midland's war stuff, that we are trying to put together, ( maybe ? ) Better, but shorter, than all that old time polite Downton stuff....?)
The Blitz was in response to the RAF bombing cities and towns in Germany.
Churchill began civilian bombing.
He was a monster who committed war crimes and genocide while he was Minister of war for the British Empire. His past is white washed because he beat Hitler. And yes you are correct, we did start to bomb Germany first.
Not quite correct. A German bomber- assumed to be lost on a raid - accidently released it's bombs over London, the pilot believing he was over the Thames Estuary. The following night, Churchill ordered Berlin to be bombed..... The Germans were the first to freely bomb civilian areas using Zeppelins during WW1....
Defending Nazi’s is an interesting take…
Hitler was foolish bombing London. If I was trying to destroy Britain’s war effort, the Midlands, the North and the West of Scotland would have been my targets. Manchester had Trafford Park, the largest industrial estate in Europe. Liverpool 80 percent of our imports and exports. Glasgow built ships. Oldham built Lancaster bombers.Birmingham and Sheffield were the centre of our metal and steel industries. London was a commercial centre and apart from the Docks, it was pretty irrelevant to the war effort. Bombing dog food factories was hardly going to stop our resistance.
But, when the Jerries " accidently"?... bombed, and burned out ,! The Durex Warehouse (in Liverpool. Next to the B& M, Match factory buildings, etc. (Eventually, Future See our, Still in progress series, episode 3 or so etc)..., and there was a massive shortage for ALL the on-leave troops and also, the local, North of England, hard working factory girls, etc. etc..... It became, the first time that England thought that WE... might lose the WAR ! BUT... Some how ...We didn't. !!... Hey ! ...A few months later, the Japs bombed.... P.H, ...and the Guys there, ignored the "Secret RADAR stuff that we had sent them". ( The officer's had a big golf tournament that morning etc.... Got the signal.... but ignored it etc.) And as usual... the war and it's censorship continued on....
Newcastle and all along the Tyne got bombed to shit and especially south shields absolutely obliterated
At least it's not as bad as Sunderland in the Blitz.
Intro way toooooo long
Almost 6 minutes!
3 minutes
3 minute intro.
By the North, I thought you meant Scotland ! Forgot that Britain was England and Scotland was a mere colony, except in law.
How is Scotland a colony?
An Englishman obviously.
@@sunrayisdown1690 Scotland is massively overrepresented at Westminster, and played a huge role in colonising the world.