Battle of France in 44 seconds
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- During the second year of World War Two Germany invaded and defeated France in a campaign lasting six weeks. This video is a summary of the Battle of France. Each second represents one day in real time.
The maps and visuals were originally created for the World War Two channel: / @worldwartwo
/ eastory
Nerves Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Indy's jumpscare scared me a lot
THE HANSEN MOVE
@@QuizmasterLaw I think it would've been great if his head peeked out from the sides of the video lol
@@amysnapp823 do You think you were talking to a USSR Child Soldier? 0_o
@@QuizmasterLaw I meant if Indy's pic peeked from the sides of the video, not Chris Hansen
horror genre in a historial video, just think about it
That moment when you're chillin' on the Maginot line and see "Paris has Fallen" on the newspaper
Lmao.
This isn't a joke, but is funny, at least you won't get 400 angry french because this is what happened
@@dedblin8256 Yeah and it's sad. If generals of French army had think about the Ardennes, France would have crushed Germany easily. The Maginot Line was too strong for Germany army.
Clément Galtier
I wouldn't say they would've crushed Germany, but rather, they would have been able to repel all German attacks long enough to mobilise more forces, gain numerical superiority and eventually win
Clément Galtier lol no France didn’t have the power to defeat Germany.
Germany be like : " hi twitch and welcome to my world war speed run"
"we just snacked Poland and go over to France to get it too"
They failed the 100% speedrun....
"World record pace so far gamers."
"as you can see we didn't peace out Britian or Russia by 1942 so this run is pretty much dead"
@@semajxocliw Underrated
English army during hundred years war: *takes half of France in 80 years*
Hitler:
"1 month. Take It or leave it."
for the both: Shit. We go back.
French and English army/navy: fails to capture the Netherlands, in the Anglo Dutch wars.
Hitler: 1 week, take it.
Ok it's funny but did you know that France under Napoleon took Berlin in 19 days, on foot and even though France was engaged in a war against Prussia and Russia and that Napoléon had barely emerged from the war against the Austria with an outnumbered army, of course.
Just stop ( mainly american or british people) making the same joke again and again. It's not even funny anymore.
@@roma3021 i like your funny words, stupid man.
Napoleon was fucking walking in a straight line, didn't even care about taking territories, he Just got to a Capital city of a state, vassallize It and proceed to the East. Atleast Hitler Cared about which Land he was conquering
Napoleon took down all Holy Roman Empire within a week France got the record losers
And without any vehicules
Battle of Luxembourg in 0,3 seconds
Battle of Denmark: Every Second = 1 Second
Vive L'Empereur!!!!
Battle of Luxembourg in 0,0000000000001 seconds)
battle of San Marino 1944
@@heoknk3002 hi no j k z, z z GL q Jo n no z
When you wanna invade France but your parents said "Be back by 10"
edit: take this hazmat suit for going into the replies, stranger!
And you get back home at 8
Shit 😂😂😂😂
Erwan sabatie he was just joking, he used a meme on it. 🥖🥖🥖🥖baguettes to u
@@simonogren yeah i know but when you hear that 1000 Times it's not funny anymore.
Imagine you hear joke on you every day, it's funny at the begining, but with Time that's just annoying
@@erwansabatie1490 just quit it u angry French dressing
14-18 : battle of Verdun : 1 year
39-45 : battle of Verdun 6 secondes
Power of the tank technology
The power of mechanised army
Power of sexy army
The power of Hugo Boss!
Every 60 seconds in France, a minute passes. Together we can stop this.
Spread the word
@@jsw973 Spread the word in french or German?
@@scarletcrusade77 german
Can you believe that no nation in this world is taking care of this!? 😔
@@fissis1955 bro thats sus
Who won the tour de france in 1940?
7th Panzer Division.
@Foxy The pirates he isnt stealing, this joke is older than the german-french rivalery
Rimarik Barca your darn right!
Which country holds the best military record in the world?
France
@@candyneige6609 oh no my American friend, America included
czcams.com/video/HK5OsDWYJmQ/video.html
You were saying?
@@user-wh8mb7tm2g either you are French or you are a fan of France. The video you put as proof shows merely the wins not wins against losses. Roman Empire, British Empire, Hunnic Empire, Denmark has better win loss ratio than the French. And these are just the ones I know of.
Edit:I googles it just to make sure and the ones that I counted do have a better w/l ratio. Patriotism is fine, false claims, not so much
He could have dragged this out to a 10 minute video for ad revenue but didnt. Respect.
Slow-Mo Invasion
I wouldn't blame him if he did, he deserves it
there's not much to say
The French will surrender by that time
He should've because we need more information.
@@evil1143 watch the World War 2 channel videos
Somebody: *goes on vacation from France to Canada for 2 weeks*
Somebody: *returns home*
Somebody: *the hell is there nazi flags everywhere?*
I mean considering how Canada and nazi Germany were enemies by that point, I dont think there were many flights going from Toronto to Paris at that point :P
@Nuclear Panda
r/woosh
He did ":p" at the end. It's obviously a signifier of a joke to the joke.
Rawrzilla Kira ships
😆😆😆
@Nuclear Panda not needed, he gave an interesting fact
This reminded me of the game "Hearts of Iron 4."
Everyone knows hoi4
With these square divisions, this reminds me of HOI3
Ikr, it's so cool how they liked hoi4 so much they decided to do it irl!
Hoi3 for me
Except that France doesn't fall instantly
German generals: we want to conquer France
Hitler: Be back by 9
Generals: OK)
more like
Generals: we'll be back by 9
Hitler: what!? stop
Generals: no
Not correct.... the top Generals never thought they could pull it off....
Das heisst: "Jawohl!"
Hitler: Rommel, what are you doing at 8 here?
Rommel: Whait, didn't you say be back at 8?
I already advanced 200 miles into enemy lines
@Ark Technical I should have made clear I did enjoy the humor too, only said it coz a lot of people don't know... I must had a lot of free time that day
Soviet-German War: 50 minutes total in length, subtitled and lots in detail
Franco-German War: 44 seconds with nothing
Congratulations on 200k subscriber milestone, you deserved it.
Actually this one is 50 minutes. Look at the video's that he linked at the end.
Hey, not true! This one had music, so that's something.
44s...but campaign is done in 13:)
@@TimDutch Videos linked at the end are not Eastory videos.
@@SmokeDimi they are made with the maps of Eastory. The world war 2 team works together with Eastory.
Bae: "Come over, I'm in Paris rn"
Me: "I can't"
Bae: "My parents aren't home"
Me:
Lol
Damn you decided to have the whole country to yourself
@@rocketjupiter4579 guess he couldn’t find her parents in the city so he decides to invade the entire bloody country.
What youre gonna reach instead, is the bay :) *landing of normandy*
It's amazing how narrow that little gap was in the Ardennes. That one little gap cost the French and British their best armies.
That gap was intentional by France. Terrain of the Ardennes was nearly impossible to pass, so french thought leaving it open wouldn't hurt.
What is even more bewildering is that the US army fell to the same trick during the Ardennes offensive a mere 4 years later.
@@solwen not even close to comparable since the French knew an attack was coming somewhere, the US had been on the offensive almost non stop since 1942
@@solwen yea but it still failed miserably
69 like time to ruinn it
After seeing how quickly France fell, I can see why Hitler thought taking the Soviet Union would be less difficult than it turned out to be.
@trueman mann but France was stronger than Russia militarily in 1940
@@lxi9648 You're funny. The Red Army had ~ 34,000,000 soldiers when France had ~ 900,000 soldiers. Sure manpower isn't everything but it helps to fight on multiple fronts, especially when you have around 34 times more soldiers.
@@Nomilh just no
@@lxi9648 Yes lol. A quick Google search will show you that I'm not lying.
@@Nomilh The Red Army had 1.8 million men in 1939 + some 30 million untrained reserves, France had 900k and 5 million trained reserves + another 15 million untrained men in draft age. Militarily, that is comparable.
I was reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940 and the general Reynaud calls up Churchill and says: "It's over." And Churchill says "How can it be? You've got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over?" He says: "It's over."
I read it with Chris Matthews voice
Reynaud wasn't general tho
Général Reynaud ? It's just as right as me talking about the Generalissimo Alexandria Ocazio Cortez or the Sultan Ilhan Omar.
@@AFT_05G bro just go learn history with books or on CZcams because what you say is shit and i don't want to tell you why because it's fucking obvious
@@equa9612 Ooof yeah, hmm I dont know where to begin with his comment. Just gonna look the other way
It’s interesting to see France using WWI tactics in real time. You can see how the armored units are held back behind the line as a mobile reserve, similar to WWI defensive tactics, and each time the German break through, the armor is once again pulled back behind the line
0:21 "rATe mY eNciRcleMent"
1942/1942
lmao
@@Maydaypayday7 Caesar please, it's 1940. You've lost your touch on Gaulish matters.
vaahtobileet ok.
For A second I thought this was Hoi3 footage
@trainbomb hoi4=ww2 for boys; hoi3=ww2 for men
trainbomb You can enjoy your logistics simulator all you want.
@@Jackilichous logistics are importaint. Hoi iv also has logistics, it just ditched the logistics system from hoi iii and made a new on (equipment system)
julkkis666 I’m well aware.
In Hoc Signo Diliget I know.
Hoi3 was highly criticised for its bad logistic system.
I still remember the brilliant plan to win WW2 France video.
_"The war was lost."_
@Fabian Kirchgessner
Not De Gaulle...
@Fabian Kirchgessner
You can't figure out what was the great war for the french... So yeah, keep criticising the french, but please buy a fucking ww1 book (please not an english or american one because they will say that the role of the french was minor...) and read what the french lost...
@@jejebernard9980 And also a book about the RESISTANCE it's very important to knom that how many peapole and not all young guys with guns, sometimes it was just a grand mother(like mine), and she hide in her house RAF pilots and other resistants, just learnt a little about Jean Moulin, De Gaulle and other resistants
Et jeje Bernard j'imagine que tu es Français donc merci d'etre patriote comme moi et de nous défendre
@@arshan948
Merci!!! Je fais de mon mieux face à la piétaille anglo-saxones...
Mais bon heureusement, ils ne sont pas tous comme celà!!!
@@jejebernard9980 heureusement mais c'est important de faire comprendre que les FRANÇAIS n'ont pas perdu la guerre
France: declares war on Germany for invading Poland
Germany: so you have chosen death
@@aeugh7861 Yeah France and Britain didn't even bother to help the ally they declared war for. The fact that Poland held out longer while being attacked by two sides is amazing. Also, Polish generals who escaped to France were trying to give advice to the French since they had seen the Blitzkrieg but the French wouldn't listen.
@@aeugh7861
Saar offensive..
@@mirzahamzabaig5667 Yeah, Saar offensive is equal to nothing tbh. The french were literally not using artillery (in an offensive!) because they feared that germans would shoot back.
“So you have chosen... Invasion”
@@Lehr-km5be the germans had the Siegfried line. They even spend more Money on it than the french did on their line. Like how should french toops break it when it took the americans 6 months against weakened German soldiers
Fun fact: The Germans conquered France in 38 days. In Stalingrad, during this time, they only moved from one street to another.
yes
I guess the soviets were literally hiding everywhere, even behind enemy lines
Fun fact , Napoléon have take Berlin In 19 day
Fun fact, Russians retreated thousands of kilometers before Stalingrad, France had 200 between Paris and the Ardennes...
@@fedyui4865 Oh, this is the comment I forgot about a long time ago...To be honest, I treat all sides of the conflict equally. I'm not saying that the Soviet Union is a strong country that withstood a deadly blow from Germany. All the allies fought heroically and with dignity. It was terrible on all sides of the conflict: pain, blood, tears, fear, death. With your permission, I can even delete this comment.
House in a Stalingrad:
Pathetic...
144 german divisions attacked france whereas a battalion or 2 where attacking that house. so really no comparison, would you like to know the scale of the advance of the germans in the first 6 weeks of barbarossa though and compare how far worse the soviets did?
@@boss180888 how many french/english/belgian divisions stood against germans?
Did this rapid advance help the germans?Not to mention that germans had numerical and qualitative superiority.And,btw,eastern front was a far better theater of war for German military doctrine than Benelux and Northern France.
@@zionistcat1807 the roads and mapping of benelux and northern france would like to disagree about the eastern boglands being better for the german doctrine
@@boss180888 the eastern front easily overshadows every other front in WW2 let alone the western front or the "little hollywood front" as i like to call it.
@@boss180888 little space for maneuver where you can build layered defence over and over again.Also,in the Eastern front bad terrain and bad roads only affected Wehrmacht,not the Red Army,right?
This is too fast to comprehend.
Germans : I'm speed
Germans: I'm on speed
@@sunset_Ruby hahaha
This is why they invented Blitzkrieg
@@sunset_Ruby I'm Geschwindigkeit*
Lol
4th France armored: "My goals are beyond your understanding"
Wtf they didn't even fought before it was too late
They are controled by hoi4 AI
The tactics were not up to date to engage the germans. Using tanks to spearhead assaults was unheard of then.
French use of tanks was flexible, but more akin to mobile artillery positions.
yeah check the 4e Division cuirassée they are actually great and fighted from 10 May to 26 June aprox, they existed for 50 days at most and were fighting 40 days straight, they did an attack on May 17 and actually got the Germans to retreat but couldnt counterattack because they had been ordered to stall for time while the main army retreats and regroups and the main army had just done that so they had no support and retreated
They fought on the battle of Abbeville to try and reunite with the encircled units on Dunkirk but that battle was a shitfest with little to none british-french coordination, french high command having no idea on how to use the armoured divisions and a lack of radios, the 4e DCr did what they could but even overruning a position didn't matter since the Allies didn't have enough infantry to hold the ground
With many, many losses sustained they stayed in the back and covered the retreat for the rest of the war until the cease-fire
WW2 European Theatre summary: Hitler underestimates Poland then overestimates France then underestimates the USSR
He never underestimated the USSr like he never did with the US. Hitler well knew that defeating the whole udssr is impossible, they just wanted to take a good bunch of their land and ofc the oil. A Whole invasion against the udssr wasnt possible at that time, hitler diddnt builded railroads to the front for supplies, the far they go, the inconsistent the supplyroute were.
Actually he really didn’t, contemporary knowledge all pointed to a German success in summer 1941, but the biggest culprit behind the German failing was Halder’s asinine decision to focus the offensive in the center at Moscow instead of the south toward the caucuses as Hitler argued for
@@looinrims i really dont know the names of people there. But i know something, atleast my grandpa told me ( he fought the eastern front) that hitler shouldve build railways to support the fronts... he hasnt... and imo that was his biggest mistake and the reason for our crumbling at the front, supplys cant be brought by trucks / horses in the winter in EU russia
@@semiramisubw4864 no, one of the biggest things with the invasion was the massive construction project to shorten the rail gauges for European rail cars, rail cars were important for movement of men and supplies, the troops at Stalingrad in 1942 were supplied by train before being encircled
@@looinrims he ? its so long ago i dont even know what were talking about kinda. rThe fact i know, is that hitler wasnt building railways up into deep russia, that were ONE reason that our frontline crumbled
It's so intreseting to see how fast the German units moved over the battlefield as shown in the video, thanks for making these videos
Edit: grammar
video's? LMAO
@@SVP-uy9qb Lmfao
@@SVP-uy9qb that's the dutch spelling of the plural of video
@@SVP-uy9qb yea sorry must've been auto correct still had it on Dutch...
@DodoVolcano They had "Panzerschokolade" or as we call it meth.
16th May
German High Command: Stay in position and wait for orders, all clear?
Guderian and Rommel: ...
*GAS GAS GAS*
22th May
what is france doing
OKW: Okay you two can conduct reconnaissance in force but your hq must remain at the current position
Guderian and Rommel: ok
First sergeant: *Do they know these two spend less time in the HQ than the toilet, and lead on the front?*
*Week later*
OKW: how did the 7th Panzer and Guderian’s Panzer Corps get within sight of the Atlantic?
Guderian and rommel:Do you have any idea how fast I am
I'M GONNA STEP ON THE GAS!!!
Guderian and Rommel were just following the party motto
French: We won Second World War too!
Russians: Really?
Who has liberated Paris ? The french
@@lucasrenard6255 yes, but with Americans and only Paris. Not whole France
@@lm6956 no, not only paris, there was a lot of others cities liberated by the French, and the americans wanted the French to be below them when they were together because they were strong (told by Americans themselves)
@@lucasrenard6255 are you a French?
@@lm6956 yes I am, but I'm objective too if it's what you mean : )
Music plays quietly in the backgroud, then all of a sudden
*I'm Indy Neidell*
Would love to see this with significant movements explained.
One word, blitzkrieg
Would personally be very interested about the events of Dunkirk (encirclement in northern France at 0:23).
I think a longer video with commentary will follow.
Please, do yourself a favor and check out the WWII channel, which Eastory does extensive work for. The links at the end of the video are the episodes for the Battle of France.
Higgieyasu I’ve watched a couple dozen of those episodes.
Kinda of hard to play catch up yknow.
almost looks like the germans where taking a road trip trough france
Tour De France
German hooligans
The Western Front collapsed so quickly that it was basically just the one huge battle and not even a bunch of smaller significant battles that are well known.
That's one way to put it.
That is why it is called Battle of France. It was actually quite the minor affair considering the German and French losses of soldier lifes were only 0.1 million. Compare that to the Eastern front where the Nazis alone had 5.1 million dead soldiers.
Germany: Mom, i want to invade Denmark
Mom: Sure son, be back in 6 hours ok?
Lost CZcamsr
Very much historiclly accurate, lmfao
That was the funniest comment I have ever read, lmfao 🤣
Plot twist: This is how long France actually lasted.
Like you in bed.
@@bige2576 that's what your mom said.
Good one
@joao marcelo de oliveira woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow
Surrender jokes aren't funny anymore get over it
"Okay let's do this ERWIIIIIINNNNN ROMMELLLLLL" - Erwin Rommel upon reaching the opposite side of the Ardennes
more like "HEEEEEIIIIIINZZ GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDEEEEERIAN!"
200 Miles at Nightfall!!
@@serenaelanordir6717 taking within a day
God damn the reference
SUSUME
France : nooo you cant just avoid our highly advanced fortification containing multiple guns that we spent billions of dollars on by taking shortcut through the ardennes
Heinz Guderian: haha tank go vroooom
*francs not dollars
Germany: nooo you can't fight after surrendering you must obey us
French resistance: haha Germans go boom
Well the point of the maginot line was to force the germans to go around it through belgium. The french were not surprised when it happened.
@@MrRamsey64 but it did surprise them that the Germans would go through the Ardennes, a terrain they thought would halt the advance of their armored corps. They underestimated not only the German forces, but strategists like Guderian and Von Manstein and it cost them dearly
@@raidenshibou2054 " a smart enemy hits you exactly where you think you're safe".Indeed the french generals did not know this.
It’s interesting to see how the German superiors just focus all there strategies to one area and hold the others until that’s finished instead of doing it all at the same time, like at Dunkirk
Because they often had less troops. French were highly armed, but had older tactics.
Germany won because they had 50% Max planning bonus, and France advanced to belgium losing their entrenchment
@@irov5884 fucking hell man this is a hoi4 reference get outta here
It was also great that the national focus with russia gave the germans a research bonus for the panzer III allowing them to produce it before the war happened
@@whenthecoldbrewhits7866 or u could just paradrop in victory points across France
@@b2as302 Good thing the germans trained enough troops to raise the special forces cap
It´s real HOI4 hours
Who would win? Whole France or a single building in Stalingrad?
This comment is edited.
@@DiamondSnakeStudio they did
@@DiamondSnakeStudio actually the 6th army captured and hold Stalingrad for months but then the Red Army surrounded the Stalingrad and as a result 6th army fell
@@DiamondSnakeStudio where do you come from guys ? France is the greatest winner of battles ever.
France 144 german division
House in Stalingrad 2 batalions
Germany: Wanna see me capture that country?
Also Germany: Wanna see me do it again?
Well, the first time Germany capture France was in 1914 and the second time they do that was in 1940, however both of these captures didn't last very long as France was liberated from Germany in 1918 and later in 1944.
The two captures lasted 4 years.
Coïncidence ?
*J'y crois !*
@@candyneige6609 Technically, Germany captured Frnacd before in the Franco Prussian War of the mid 1800s (this war made Prussia info Germany).
@@christopherparamby5784 I know, but there's only 2 places, so i used the World Wars since they are more recent.
@@candyneige6609 Germany didn't capture the france during wwI, and France was liberated mainly with french army.
Me to gf: What do you mean? I last long in bed!
Actually me:
Bruh
Oof.
You last for 6 weeks? Damm. True champion
France lasted longer
STOP IT! YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE SEX WITH YOUR GF THAT IS FORNICATION A HUGE SIN IN CHRISTIANITY!
Battle of France 1940: 44 seconds
Battle of France 1914: 2 hours
No. 20 minutes
24 minutes
I don't understand cuz France won alone against Germany in WW1.
@@candyneige6609 Germany didn't defeat france in WW1. What do you mean?
@@candyneige6609 youre talking about Ww2 not ww1
Is this real time or is i just me that it seems so close to the actual speed?
The must be an uncertainty of 2 seconds 😊
Erwin Rommel takes reaches Dunkirk in a day (slow motion action).
So Funny ...
@@baddecimus2414 Not funny, true.
@@davevaderlp784 Funny 'cause it's true
This video was brought to you by: Methamphetamine
the german speed drug?
If time travel is invented:
Girls: "OH MY GOD, I can relive the best memories I had with my friends!"
Boys: "THE ARDENNES GUYS!!! THE GERMANS ARE PUSHING THROUGH THE ARDENNES! DON'T LISTEN TO BELGIUM, EXPAND THE MAGINOT LINE!"
French generals wouldn't listen anyway lmfao 😂😂😂
other boys: hey hitler those notes on that dead guy were fake you wanna put all of your troops on beach Omaha and the ones surrounding it.
@@user-ff4pi9dc3g ooh mincemeat, first time seeing that in a comment 😂
@Red too much details
France: we can still win the war!
Germany has joined the game
Luxembourg has left the game
Netherlands has left the game
Belgium has left the game
Britain has disconnected from the server
French Army.exe has stopped working
Italy has joined the game
Italy has left the game
Vichy France has join the game
Free France: well duck
So...Germany joins another server and meets Japan, USSR, Britain, Italy, and USA?
Hey we Belgians are a neutral country we didn't want to have any part in the war and told the Germans they weren't allowed to pass trough Belgium to invade France that's why they started slaughtering our people
@@NoaVanSnick Do you really think you can tell someone like hitler "you're not allowed to enter our personal space"?
It's like saying "my body my choice" to a rapist hoping he will answer "well, you got a point".
90%? We had over 500k soldiers in the Free French army by the end of the war. And the resistance never said "well fuck" on front of the germans. Even when outnumbered, we fought resiliently, like in Bir Hakeim
Bellérophon To be fair, the main reason they assaulted Belgium was because their plans depended on their borders xD
"The Battle of France in 44 seconds"
Yeah that seems about right
dispite all the jokes, France has the most wars won in the whole word, so maybe you should understand that one defeat dont make you a looser, otherwise usa are the biggest loosers there is
@@zomkino fais avec ces clichés et ne t'énerve pas. Garde ton énergie pour les gens intéressants.
Thanks for all videos - really cool and visible. Ate them all in one night. Waiting for the WW1 and 19th centuries
Interesting to see how hard the defence was at Dunkirk. Knowing how completely isolated they were must have been a feeling that can't be replicated anymore.
0:23 is that battle of dunkirk?
NO SIGNS OF THE TEA ADDICTS SIR
Dunkirk wasnt a battle, it was an Escape plan for the British. Leaving the French soldiers behind to get captured.
@@mcj2219 ikr
@@mcj2219 thats selfish
@@mcj2219 had to be done I'm afraid, and a lot of French soldiers made it out of Dunkirk with our lads.
Guys if you want to see the highly detailed video's go check out the vids that he linked at the end. these video's also have maps that Eastory made in them.
Awesome, keep making videos, your channel is great.
Glad to see more content. Please do more battles soon!
Summary of the comments in just 3 seconds :
1. lol is it real time
2. lol French surrender
3. .
There is a lot of triggered French people as well
@@galaxyred7 Can't really blame them, the joke is really stale at this point
lol, french surrendered in literally 44 seconds.
@@GlobalWarmingSkeptic *HO look mom ! A salty French Hater !* ^^
@@GlobalWarmingSkeptic Come here, and you will surender in less time
This is a great way of visualizing just how overwhelming a proper combined arms unit's bursts of operational speed can be, especially during a time when battlefield information still moved relatively slowly. Those short, near instantaneous breakthrough and exploitations by armored units created massive openings that could destabilize destroy entire divisions in a matter of days.
Hi Indy. This is amazing work. I just wanted to point out that two major French actions are not shown on your map. One is an offensive led by General De Lattre de Tassigny along the Aisne river around 6-7 June which pushed back the Germans by around 10-20 km (and probably produced the last haul of German POWs by the French during the campaign). The second is the halting of the German advance down the Rhone river around Voreppe by improvised batteries of the Armee des Alpes. The (limited) French historiography of the campaign makes a big deal of that one, probably without exageration. It would also perhaps do justice to the latter army formation to show on your map how they largely contained Italian offensives, although the Italians eventually gained some ground and took Menton. But thanks for that massive piece of research!
There's two kinds of people : those who joke about french always surrender and those who know history.
They were significantly weaker since 1815 let’s just be honest.By 1870 they were no longer strongest European power.
Dude... this is extremely well-made, I love this.
Germans in 1871: We set new record in conquering France!
Germans in 1940: Hold mine beer.
Still didnt beat Napoleon's record to invade germany
IMAO in 1914 Germans didn't win with huge superiority in equipment like overhelming numbers of large calibre howitzers and machine guns while in 1940 France didn't win with larger number of tanks and guns.
@@7macfly2 Becasue after Jena and Auserstedt,Napoléon almost didn't see any resistance to Grande Armée while in WW2 French Army fought until day of Armistice despite most of their well equipped troops were encircled by Wehrmacht in end of May.
@@AFT_05G Yeah but Napoleon didn't have trains, planes and truck, they only had their foot and horses
Mein beer
You know it’s bad when it’s 44 seconds long
When she says her parents aren’t home but she’s in France.
Battle for Denmark: Each second is minute
It's insane that you managed to make this in exact real time
The German swift victory in battle of France was so unexpected and shocking that even cause some euphoria and upsurge of patriotism. Hitler himself expecting a million german died in France while only mere 20k deaths out of total 100k casualties vs total allied casualties of 2 million (1.7 mil captured and 80k deaths), which was one third of german casualties in verdun
Thanks for your work
It's really amazing what the Germans accomplished with the destruction of allied forces. And what's even more impressive is the fact that these two great channels of military and world war history that I admire and watch daily, combined thier forces to make even greater content and knowledge for the masses of people! Much love from Bulgaria.
"...from my ww2 Channel"
Spartacus got stabbed in the back
0:45 that jumpscare got me
Germany: How many days u will be defending yourself?
France: No
6 weeks
The french were too slow to react. Their units move slower and only to react. No wonder we lost.
The Ardennes.
The french were too slow to react mostly becausen unlike us, German troops communicated with radios. the French were very reluctant to use radios, which made them even slower. As a matter of fact, the Germans had assessed before the campaign that the French would be slow in part because they emphasized communications security, which meant that they had few radios or other means of receiving urgent orders.83 They were right: to prevent communications intercepts, the French privileged the phone, along with telegrams and couriers.84 Because of this and the above-mentioned doctrinal elements and their byproducts, the French reaction time was dreadfully slow
Good job on 200k
FANTASTIC! I WATCHED IT ON 0.25 X SPEED. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS UPLOAD; YOUR VIDEOS ARE AWESOME!
Damn, this looks like a smooth seduction scene.
Germany: come on, honey...
France: no... no... no... well, ok...
@@user-pr1et3rl7j First, I'm not American. Second, my comment referred to the video only, it doesn't follow from this comment how I know or don't know history. Third, write in English, stupid frog eater.
@@elbarone9749 nah you just ate erect Saurkraut, Force fed
Looking great
German in western front: 44 day to conquer France
German in Eastern Front: 44 day to capture a apartment house in Stalingrad
*44
And they didn't even capture that house in the end, as far as I know...
Why is this so satisfying? I can't stop rewatching it LOL.
Those panzer spearheads are a sight to behold once they get going. It's like a touchdown run in football, all the leg infantry divisions are just chasing in their wake on either side, trying to either exploit their gains or erase them, but neither side is fast enough to catch them.
Edit: also this is better at 0.5x.
I swear to God the French high command was just sleeping during this offensive.
Just one little complaint, I think that no divisions should have the same color outlined as the front line. It would be better if German panzers were just black.
1. The Armoured Divisions were black
2. They also had a red border to mark them
@@miniaturejayhawk8702 yes, i was talking about the red outline of armor divisions being the same color as the front line that they were penetrating.
By the speed at which the invasion happened it might as well have happened overnight lmao
Not true, the high command acknowledged the threat the panzers posed very quickly, the problem was the shite French doctrine of “sit thumb in ass until orders come from command” while the orders go through dogshit communication systems, the French forces were never able to properly mount the multiple counterattacks that were ordered but by the time the order got there it was beyond too late, CAs were ordered at the Meuse, near Cambri, Arras (which the British actually began) and more
Credits to the German 7th and 5th divisions 0:41
The 5th conquered all of Brittany on it's own in around 3 days
The 7th conquered all of Normandy (the peninsula) on it's own in around 2 days
This is pretty crazy jesus. Well done
you can tell how chaotic France was after Paris was occupied, especially with all the divisions mapped out 0:37
As a French, thanks a lot for your video.
Indeed, the Battle of France was quick, but terrible fights and battles has taken place. Stonne, Hannut, Dunkerque ...
We must never forget that.
you'll never learn that in French schools though, because that year, the Republic system failed all the way.
@@Tryphon-mb5jc "Never learn that" ? We have history lessons at school in France man, so stop saying shit.
Our last Presidents (including Macron) failled, but not our Republic.
But I would be happy to know where do you come from. I think it can be funny :)
@@pasdepseudo8519 of course we have history lessons in France, you didn't get my point, I said that we never learned about the battles that took place in 1940 and the battle of France itself in class, because it's a big shame for the Republic which completely failed within 45days and took the anti-semistic way. If you're truly French, you probably will know according to my pseudo.
@@Tryphon-mb5jc Ah Tryphon ! Miladiou, pourquoi me parles tu en Anglais alors que tu es Français ? Est ce par manque de chauvinisme ?
Plus sérieusement, oui, en France, on aborde relativement peu la Bataille de France ainsi que le rôle de la France dans la guerre. Et c'est bien dommage. Il n'y a d'ailleurs pas uniquement la Bataille de France, mais les actions de la Résistance (intérieur et extérieur). Bir Hakeim n'en est qu'un exemple.
Me too, i'm French myself and for the WW1 battle of France, it's as short as the WW2 one with more terrible fights and battles that happened leading to the eventual downfall and occupation by the Germans.
Sedan, Verdun, the Somme...
We must never froget these in addition to the ones in WW2.
If he did a video like this on the Eastern Front it would be 24 minutes long
He already did?
@@wife_puncher_bot8483 it's a joke
@@snomisgod777 oh, there was no hint of sarcasm, there, sorry
@@wife_puncher_bot8483 bruh, it's a joke
@@snomisgod777 yeah now i know
Props for making this video in real time
"This is beautiful."
*"I've been looking at this for five hours."*
It's amazing to see how little the allied armies did. The only advance was the initial rush into friendly territory, and then it was just falling back in the face of the German war machine. No counter attacks, no flanking, no exploiting gaps, just sitting there and waiting.
They were many attemps of counter attack but all failed, like in the battle of Montcornet one of the rare victory that ended in a withdraw due to logistic issues.
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I'm Gonna Do What's Called a Pro Gamer Move
Underrated
thank your for your videos and for recalling history !! FRFR :)
New video! Great!
French High Command after getting encircled: We got nothing... So let’s do nothing
Battle of France: 44 days in total
Siege of Pavlov's House in Stalingrad: 58 days in total
Nothing comparable...
Siege of Napoleon France ??? almost 20 years, Europe 1vs7 can't defeat us for 20 years
Glory to Napoleon and France
Vive la France et vive l'Empereur
@@JC-zx2wv Siege of Mongol Empire lasted about two-three hundred years with your brilliant logic. Noone could defeat Mongols.
@@amir_artur Napoleonic France was in constant war unlike the Mongols
In first 44 days of war USSR lost twice as much land as France
There’s an old French joke:
French tanks have 7 gears and a review mirror, 1 gear forward and 6 in reverse. What’s the review mirror for you ask? Well, to see the battlefield of course!
I put a like on your comment, because you are funny
@@monculsurlacommode3238 I put a comment on here, because sharing an old joke doesn't make a person inherently funny
in german we have the same joke just replace French by Italian and there you go, no puns intended.
AmUnRA256 it’s not an Italian tank, it’s a surprise malfunction!
If you're using the rear-view mirror to see the battle, doesn't that mean that 6/7 of those gears will take you towards the fight?
Great video, I have a suggestion tho, whenever something important happens (for exemple: fall of Paris) say it in a corner or something.
Wow you could actually see the hole in the ardennes that the french left open
Yep, the same happened again during the Battle of the Bulge.
@@googlesucks7840 they didn’t “leave it open”, their forces were concentrated in the French countryside west of the Meuse, the Ardennes was terrain that was full of rolling hills shite roads and dense vegetation, had the allied air forces assaulted the spotted Panzer Corps (multiple spots) more significantly while the Luftwaffe was focused on Army Group B’s sector, that push may not have gone so well
@@looinrims "Had".
@I hate both dogs and cats equally unlikely considering by day 4 the French were (trying) to attack, they just had no reserves, who were they going to use to attack?
@@looinrims Actually east of that area where the Germans broke through was a larger concentration of more experienced and veteran French soldiers. But the retard that was commanding that area the French army held, Charles Huntziger, decided to but the B reserves where the Germans were coming through. Huntziger is the major reason for why the Germans were able to easily break through over the Meuse river. But the idiot that he was, he lied, he completely refused air support whatsoever that other commanders were offering him (which he badly needed), and he also put the wrong units in the wrong places at the wrong time. Many of other French commanders are part of blame for the French defeat, but Huntziger was the real main instigator.
Making it more than 10 mins for ad revenue: _weak_
Making it as short as 1 minute for the meme factor: *strong*
this is a good, short, easy to understand
Very nice video