The Day When Churchill Chose War
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- On May 28, 1940, British officials prepared to deal with Hitler. They even suggested a mediation with Mussolini. Alone against all in his war cabinet, Churchill, using his wits and cleverness, convinced his collaborators to fight. Without him, the English government would have held onto the illusion of preserving its empire, and the course of the Second World War would have been very different.
Stalin didn't "take the opportunity and invaded the other half" (of Poland), it was prearranged in the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop pact.
The king asked him " How do you drink during the day"? His reply? Practice.
Sir Winston Churchill, one of the all time greatest world leaders. God bless you sir. RIP 🫡 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
His speech to parliament in the 18th June 1940, was a stupendous one:
"We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land, and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be."
rhetoric at it's best. ....a new dark age made more evil by the lights of a perverted science....
Meaningless word salad.
@@tenacious3911 Oh? And just where do you think all of us would be today if that speech had not been delivered? as free and able as we are today? Better? worse? Churchill used that speech to tell the British and the world that he wanted to fight and had the spirit to do so. But both you and I know very well that it would be up to the British people to follow him or tell him to sod off. They chose to follow him despite many thinking that it could not be won.
Had Churchill not made that speech, or many later just like it, in all likelyhood, Europe would have looked like the movie with Rutger Hauer as an SS officer in a nazi Europe in constant war with USSR. You should watch that movie. It's very enlightening. Because you would not have been able to utter words like the ones you just wrote here without most likely disappearing behind the doors of the Plötzensee prison, never to be heard from again.
@@Jens-Viper-NobelQuite agree, and I saw that movie.
What's perhaps more remarkable that they didn't know at that point quite how monstrous the Nazi tyranny was to become.
@@tenacious3911that's special!!! Pobrecito!!
Enigma wasn’t broken until July, 1941…so Churchill did not have that “up his sleeve” in May 1940
Incorrect, Bletchley Park were able to break the Luftwaffe Enigma regularly and quickly by 22 May 1940. The Germans had different Enigma's for the Luftwaffe, Army, Navy, Abwehr and so on, each with different levels of complexity and security. Fortunately the Luftwaffe's frequent operating mistakes made it the first and most fruitful source of Ultra intelligence during the war.
It is important to note that Enigma was first broken by the Poles in December 1932 with varying levels of success until 15 December 1938 when the Germans increased the complexity. The sharing of this intelligence by Poland was vital to the Allied war effort.
@@thepoliticalhousethatjackbuilt Thanks for mentioning the work by the Polish bureau. After the invasion, there was no way they could go on. The basis of their efforts were information passed on by the French, obtained by the brother of a German general working in Berlin and disclosing documents.
This "documentary " is terrible .
Gordon Welshman figured out that they could get information without breaking the code .
Using triangulation of the radio signals , Bletchley could figure out where each enigma machine was .
Using the call sign and the "touch" of each morse code operator , they could distinguish each enigma machine . Bletchley also had a chart showing the hierarchy of the German command .
So they knew where each enigma machine was , which general was sending the message , and how often he was sending a message . Absolutely brilliant .
"The English army"? The, Royal Navy was doing its best to evacuate the British and French Armies, who, along with British regiments, fought a gallant rear-guard action.
Including most famously the 51st Highlanders, a Scottish Regiment.
I read the news today, Oh boy!
@@nicktecky55 The 51st did not evacuate from Dunkirk.
The goverment and army was British not English and the Dardenelles campaign was in 1915 not 1916 , sloppy research
Plus, Churchill didn't lead the Dardanelles campaign, he was minister for the navy, he didn't control the army.
@@stephenarbon2227it was his campaign though! Its failure fell at his door.
1915-16
There is no british channel. It is ENGLISH Channel.
Hmmm, look at the Credits at the beginning: "A la suite productions" with participation of "France Televisions"
The English army sorry its thw British army.not just English
Well said , more Scots killed than English Irish or Welsh put together. In both wars.
or "English government" history done by morons is never good
It is made by France.
@@castlerock58doesn't matter. France should know better. Next week we'll remember operation Epsom when the 15 th Scottish division had a area of Normandy,The Scottish Corridor, named after them.
your actor for Churchill was right handed.... but Churchill was left handed or right brain dominate, which probably attributed to his great leadership quality. That's what left handers do, Save the world
80* years ago right now, my grandfather was probably getting ready to get on board his ship, uncertain (but probably a good clue) about where he was going as he was preparing to invade France. He’d already fought 200+ days of combat and fortunately, bc of his experience, he was chosen to be part of the 3rd or 4th days troop arrival on shore. o
May God blessyour grand father and we give our thanks to him and the thousands like him who protected and saved our island....Advance Britannia as the great man said.
I think he’s saying that his grandfather was a German Wehrmacht or Schutstaffel (“SS”) soldier, not an Allied one. I don’t say that lightly, but based on the fact that he’s talking about 1940, before the Allies made much of a war of it at all- and before the Americans were even part of the effort. 1940 was much of what was known as as the “phony war,“ and otherwise it saw Germany run “rough shod” across Europe, whether it was in Czechoslovakia, Poland, France, and Norway. Of course, I could be wrong, and Andy Babb could simply be getting his dates wrong. Irrespective of it all, whether his grandfather was a Wehrmacht/SS or an Allied soldier, it doesn’t matter ultimately. It’s all history, now, and we’re all on the same page, fortunately or unfortunately, depending on one’s perspective. And whomever might be reading this, might be Russian or is Israeli and subscribe to its fascists regimes, with its callous and coldhearted ideologies and destructive policies of war-like in the Ukraine or/or Gaza, based on its racist and uncompromising repression of other ethic groups and religions.
@@jasonreed7817 oh boy. Yeah I certainly didn’t realize he was talking about that. I’m not sure why I typed 84 years, I meant to say 80* years ago 😖 He was preparing for D-Day 🤦🏻♂️ sorry lol
80 years ago, my maternal grandfather did the same with the Canadian army despite being a Dane. He died on Juno Beach. Never learned about it in childhood because he had immigrated to Canada after leaving my Grandmother and his daughters, and they never forgave him for that. It was by coincidence that I learned of it because someone in my family decided to do a little digging into our ancestry and the family tree. He is in a war cemetery plot in France now. And that is just about everything I know about him.
The 'English' army! Who wrote this garbage script
exactly
@@willevans429 British and Commonwealth army.
@@nicholasconnolly2227 BEF. I saw later on in the doc they used British instead of English so its probably AI mix up
otherwise it wasnt such a bad doc
@@willevans429 beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Whoever wrote the script is not a historian. When Churchill was forced to resign after the Dardenelles disaster he served in the army as a brigadier in France until Lloyd-George brought him back into the Government as Minister for Munitions. You cannot say he was "not a nobleman" , he was the grandson of a Duke. I could go on. But it is true to say that it was Churchill who made Britain continue the war after the fall of France. Otherwise Hitler would have won the war in 1940.
And the misquotes.
Definitely, history limited in context!
Dardanelles, debacle was horrifying for...NZ and Aussies' fighting in the battle of gallipoli
Well said Michael
Won the war?
I keep hearing Hitler wanted to take over the world .
How was Germany with a population of only 70 million in 1940 sailing over to North America and taking it over?
The US alone had 40 million more people and a industrial capacity 3X that of Germany .
sweden stayed neutral thats what king wanted. uk the king also wanted that because he knew chuchill was a sicko at the cost of 1.2 million British lives . not to mention the b s he made during the ww1 .the french do not care and they will have uk fight more wars for them as useless french do ww1 ww2
This production is littered with inaccuracies. But Jeremy Clarkson's narration and the actual enormity of Churchill, and the story told, make up for it. I am sure that Churchill would never have worn such a theatrical or foppish hat - even in his leisure time! (A French production, maybe!)
Jeremy Clarkson? If you stuck around for the credits you'd have seen the narrator was Robert Dauney, whoever he is.
@@matthewhiggins2699 Exactly - it could be anyone then - including Clarkson himself! If it sounds like him it may as well be him in any case! So-called 'credits' mean little in iffy productions like these!
@@matthewhiggins2699 "Credits" my Rs! The credits relate to what I believe is the original French language production - not the English language narration! Need I say more!?
'As the Royal Navy was trying to evacuate the English army '? Im sure the Scottish, Welsh and Irish troops ( including my mothers uncle) were back home in bed
Excellent handling of this pivotal moment where WW2 stood on the knife's edge.
As to factuality and correctness of the script, one may find a bone or two to pick with the producers, but the line of events, all too often unbeknownst to the general public, led to the singlmost and most dangerous point where democracy as we know it could be extinguished. Churchill was an imperfect person as we all are, but in this he was right and we owe him for his valliant and victorious efforts against the so powerful forces in his own country who sought furthering the course of the ever self-defeating effects of appeasement.
There is a very valid lesson in this for our current predicament with regard to the Ukrainian conflict and the autocratic and undemocratic forces that have risen from the depths of history to haunt us once again.
No surrender! No appeasement! No Negotiations. Slava Ukraini!!
Taking nothing from Churchill, "democracy" itself would have not been extinguished. Even if Britain fell, eventually the U.S. would have entered war and Hitler's goose would have been cooked, and Britain would have been rebuilt just as France and the other countries were. But in fact Hitler was fool who kept biting off more and more in too short a period of time, and was destined to be destroyed in good time.
I wonder what the men and women would think of this country now ???
More to the point, what would they think of Sunak, who cut short his visit to record an interview that he thought was more important.?
They would look at the conditions people live in, the country has become a far better place.
What's wrong with it now then ?
Weimar conditions require Weimar solutions.
Give it a rest
Winston Churchill was also very important in the winning of world war one. The development of the tank was his initiative he made that happen. After serving as an officer on the western front Winston returned to the Government and served as minister of munitions where he solved to shell crisis and provided the entant powers with the munitions needed for the overwhelming firepower needed for successful offensives. These two things won the war.
and Gallipoli could easily have gone the other way ...first naval attack (govt was leaving city and Chunak Bair)
The entry of the Us into the war and the german supply shortages had also something to do with it. Churchil made many blunders in both world wars.
@@RafaelSantos-pi8py1. he was the only one to standup and publicly warn about Nazis 2. He refused to negotiate with Nazis after Battle of France .3 He held on until Yanks and commies turned war.......Gallipoli was a disaster, but it was actually much closer than Churchill haters like yourself ever say and it probably would have ended the war
@@brentinnes5151 having a campaign to take Gallipoli was a good idea strategically. But it was poorly implemented and persevered with for far too long after it failed. Winston took the blame for it because it was his idea, but there were a lot of other people involved in making a mess of this plan. The worst part was doing an unsupported naval attack followed by land invasions once the Turks were warned.
Two of my fathers Uncles were involved in the battle for Chunak Bair, one was killed, the other wounded. The Wellington Rifles took horrendous casualties capturing that high point then it was lost the next day by the British unit who relieved them.
@@jonathanpersson1205 I am a Kiwi and studied about Chunak Bair, Malone etc and digging in on reverse slope...my great Uncle was in from Wellington ( I was born there) and he was in NZ Rifle Brigade on Western Front..also those dreadnoughts could have made it, Turks had left..Cheers
A bit simplistic, he actually beat the war Cabinet by adjourn it and going to the larger Cabinet where there more pro-war men and using them as leverage against Halifax.
Actually, it was Neville Chamberlain who declared war on Germany.
I thought the war chose Churchill rather than him pursueing it. His was the superior connection to and understanding of the character of the British people and had faith that they would not forsake him nor him they and Britain. I wonder how he would respond today.
This seemed to be an interesting documentary, but there were so many factual errors that I found I couldn't rely on facts that I hadn't known before. For example, Churchill didn't offer "blood, sweat, and tears." He said, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." Blood, Sweat, and Tears is the name of a band. I've already caught several errors like this. How can I believe the things that I don't know about? That's most unfortunate, because, as I said, this started out being a fascinating documentary.
@42:07 it was the boarding of sinking U-boat 559 by the Royal Navy and their retrieval of the codebooks, which enabled Turing and co. to crack Enigma
It were the Polish who "cracked Enigma". This was in in 1932. In 1939, they shared their knowledge with the British. Based on their work, Turing and collaborators would then crack more complicated versions of the Enigma code. Most of this happened before the sinking of U-599 in 1942.
As a French, I always admired Sir Winston Churchill; he was a rock and a true English fighter, unlike Chamberlain and the French Prime Daladier who both trusted Hitler in Munich. He also welcomed and helped De Gaulle who called the French to keep fighting, the French officers nobody listened in 1936. RIP Sir Winston
Can’t help but notice the timing of this video with the Reform MP badmouthing Churchill.
The word "decimate" has been poisoned by persistent incorrect usage, until the wrong meaning has become the accepted one. Roman legions that failed in battle were paraded, and every 10th man put to death on the spot. Hence the use of "deci-". Today it means "wiped out", whereas the decimated Legion was suitably encouraged to perform better next time !!
This short documentary shows not only the incredible blindness of the French and British governments during the rise of Hitler, but also the existence of a strong pro-German group in the British aristocracy .
Incredible blindness of some old men in Britain and France, eye-sight tests showed all capable of winking at fate.
What hype all this is, pathetic!
ReneauxDID not want to carry on the war at all, indeed Churchill offered the French a union that would mean France would not be able to surrender by itself, this was rejected by the French, strange that this is not said, but then again this IS a French production
Thank Heaven for Churchill
Yeah.. look at the uk today..
No empire, and brokeass with open borders.
Rice would be my no 1 dish if it wasnt for Winnie and the Yanks
Nah, he should have cut a deal with the watercolour painter.
The offer of a pact with England and France by Stalin before the Molotov Ribbentrop agreement was dismissed by the then prime minister Neville Chamberlin, with the phrase "We will have nothing to do with communism".
Great and informative program. Thanks!
I stopped it at 47 seconds when he referred to 'the English Army'.
How the French were defeated,no radios in the tanks
Lots of inaccuracies here. Maybe do proper research next time.
Churchill was lucky that Hitler invaded Russia and declared war on the US. Britain had no chance without at least one major power fighting on its side. It would have been a rational strategy to agree to a truce if Germany offered one. That was the strategy that Britain used against Napoleon. They waited until Napoleon looked weak and then formed a coalition against him. Churchill was right that Hitler had to be defeated but he adopted a reckless strategy and was lucky that Hitler blundered. I wonder if there are secret documents about what terms Hitler was willing to offer Britain for a truce. It is a very important issue that is almost never discussed.
IMHO Sir Winston Churchill was probably the most significant historical figure of the 20th century.... Thank the lord Halifax was not named PM. He was a weasel, and Churchill sent him to the US as soon as he could. While not extraordinary wealthy, Churchill was not born penniless.... Churchill faced death numerous times in his life. Chamberlain was unbelievably naive and a poor judge of character. The quote is, "I have nothing to give but my blood, toil, sweat and tears."
The Labour heros that were the background to the wartime coalition and effectively the home front. Atlee, Morrison, Cripps, Dalton and of course Ernie Bevin
Pity about Staffords grandson. turning Tory.
@@ruskinyruskiny1611 even worse with Morrison's grandson who blighted the last Labour governments. Let's hope that Keir ignores any advice from his directuin, no weapons of mass destruction, dodgy loans and his association with Epstein. Old Herbert and the old LCC must be turning in their graves.
And Labour won the general election of 1945 with a landslide.
Labor Party support was one reason Sir Winston Churchill became Prime Minister in the first place, and I do believe that their support was important again in the War Cabinet in these May decisions.
Clement Attlee was Deputy PM during the war and other Labour members held important posts.
Absolutely brilliant man
Unbelievable
Rubbish, he wasnt the rocket scientist this sort of hype suggests. His rocket did very well, but the war was already established, and could be won. Is that Churchill right all along, no, actually it is his respect for Chamberlain, articulated to Bracken and others, and noted such as by Cecil King.
Let's try for some accuracy - Churchill followed the declartion of war, AND he did NOT "choose" it. With your claimed title "History & Warfare...." you could try and reach some standards !
Good job ...
Around the 41 minute the narrator claims Britain was the only nation with radar, which is factually incorrect. The Germans also had radar, which some Germans tried to pass details along to Britain, at great personal peril, but they were ignored until one British technician went looking for radar transmissions from Germany to confirm this.
By the time this was accepted as fact, the RAF had pissed away numerous aircrew on bombing runs that were detected, intercepted and destroyed.
RADAR was a British invention.
@@paulneedham9885 FYI, first US patent for radar was granted in 1934.
The Kammhuber Line was the name given by the Allies to the German night-fighter air-defence system established in western Europe in July 1940 by Colonel Josef Kammhuber. It consisted of a series of control sectors equipped with radars and searchlights and an associated night fighter. Each sector would direct the night fighter into visual range to target intruding bombers.
@@paulneedham9885 I did't say the Germans invented it. I said they had it. Put your flag away, this is history.
The outflanking trap that brought the demise of the British expeditionary force was launched by a tank led spearhead attack through the Ardennes. The map shows this happening through the France-German border which was defended and therefore blocked and made impossible by the maginot line.
But, as lord Halifax said, UK lost what they want to save, their empire. UK emerged from the war as a power of a second class, with a huge debt, with food restrictions until early 1950's, under the will of USA. The fight against Hitler had an immense cost.
.. and uk.was offered a exit ramp at dunkirk... which was ignored.
Yes ,but we kept our freedom . As for the will of the USA, only for as long as it suits both sides . Perhaps Hitler would have been less murderous to other peoples if Britain had just went along ,after all ,he liked us and the murder increased the more he lost. But that was Stalins original philosophy ,not quite the same as Chamberlain ,whose intentions were at least decent, naive as it turned out ,but decent.
Hitler liked the Brits;;?? Seriously??
@@user-ws1qf7ol4k yes.
In this interview, at the end, the last man is adolf galland luftwaffe ace, google him. He is interviewed freely after ww2.
What does he say? -->czcams.com/video/Hwqnt5_GEhQ/video.html
@@gc3847 haha we kept our freedoms..
Hitler did not invade japan .. japan had its empire..
FDR was forced to join the war not of his choice
Tripartite Pact was a mutual defence pact, Hitler and Mussolini had no obligation to declare war on America.
Hitler declared war because FDR had been supporting Britain from 1939. His lengthy speech can be found in the Jewish Virtual library.
The explanation of what occurred is terrible . Chamberlain and Halifax did not want to negotiate a separate peace .
The initial estimate was that only 45,000 solders of the BEF could be rescued from Dunkirk .
Facing the loss of much of the BEF , Lord Halifax wanted enter into negotiations , with the Italians mediating ,
to hear what terms Hitler would offer .
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I thought Hitler did. when he invaded Poland.
Despite the many factual errors especially in the first half of this documentary, it remains in spirit true to the incredible achievement of one of the greatest statesmen who ever lived. Was he great by perfection and a total absence of faults? Was he great because he was always right? Was he great because he was smarter and better informed in all details than everyone else? No, no, and no.
He was great because he recognised the enormity of the threat to civilisation and democracy. He was great because he realised the enormity of the evil the world was facing. He was great because he acted with bravery and vision when the world was teetering at the edge of a seismic cataclysm. He was great because he acted when no one else could and saved the free world. Whatever measure of freedom the west has enjoyed these past 80 years or so is actually due to this man. One man. Incredible.
Very well put
Yeah..been at war with communists since 1945... and the wehrmacht was at khimki in 1941 and that's 20kms from.the kremlin. If the uk had quit at dunkirk, the kremlin would have been taken, and we wouldnt have been threatened by russia since.. nor china.in the future.
It is correct that there was a strong isolationist movement in the United States at that time. Sadly, there is also an equally mistaken movement there now.
But, be that as it may, it was also mandated by law that the United States was to be neutral unless attacked.
That law was the primary reason that Roosevelt was unable to assist at that time.
Actors look absolutely NOTHING like the real life folks.
Winston Churchill’s powerful words were “If this long island story is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground” were delivered during the rousing speech, not"rolling on the ground". You dummies play disgracefully with the facts.
Whimsical, you got to be kidding
06:50 He did not 'lead' the Dardanelles operation in 1916! And, some of the AI pronunciation is laughable.
The bravery and dedication of the RAF in face of grave danger cannot be overstated. About 40% of their crews were lost during WWII with heavier losses among bombers than fighters. In turn they crippled the Luftwaffe and decimated Germany's war production.
Just imagine this happening now, with the influence of the weedy young generation on social media. We would be sunk.
Churchill didnt choose war.Chamberlin did.
I always thought Hitler had something to do with it.
@@DennisMSulliva Hitler never declared war on Britain, it was the other way round.
@@tancreddehauteville764 hitler never declared war on anyone except the United States. The first his victims knew was the arrival of German aircraft, tanks, troops, and einsatzgruppen.
Chamberlain, he sure did. And who better? The great social reformer versus the great social deformer
@@dovetonsturdee7033translated that last word means too quickly, without cold weather medicine and clothing, yet with precise anticipation of how difficult the British were to beat - written in Mein Kampf. He encouraged his generals to forget the latter, maybe that translates it more concisely.
Defeated by German Trucks ??? Almost never mentioned it ?? Perhaps saying he rarely mentioned it, would be more accurate.
I have to say, I'm 55 yrs. old and reasonably intelligent I suppose, and having a more than bystander interest in war, all kinds thru the history of mankind,and having studied this war quite a bit.. it still sends shivers down my spine as to how close Europe came to capitulating to the German War Machine !! Churchill was right so maaannnyy times and still that spineless Neville kept at him, for basically, a dishonorable peace accord with the Nazis. Talk about Hitler being a wolf in sheep's clothing.But my point is I can't shake the shame and low moral character the United States displayed by not coming to our cousins aid by popular "Public Opinion" and how ironic it is that when it was over we organized and assembled NATO. Britain I'm sure felt that kick in the teeth. It's just how I feel and don't really care if it's wrong. We should have ( Government) overrode public opinion and helped Britain not lose the number of the next generation that they did.
This is what made Churchill the greatest man of the 20th century. The British didn't win WWII, but they didn't lose it either.
Are you sure about that? Quite a few thousand million men lived in the 20th century; including Alexander Fleming, Norman Borlaug, Stephen Hawking, Tim Berners-Lee, Leo Baekeland, Francis Crick, James Watson, Jonas Salk, and Christiaan Barnard.
Uk lost the war..
-Empire gone..
- bankrupt..
- endebtted to USA
And today, open borders.
@@tenacious3911 I'm very sure about that. If the Nazis had won WWII in Europe, these men might not have been so great. Take a few minutes to think about it.
@@jonathansimmons5353 "indebted to the USA" you mean. What kind of education are kids getting these days? The UK lost a lot as the result of the victory in WWII, no one can deny that. But if they had given into the Nazis, we'd all be speaking German or Japanese now.
@@JohnRoberts-wk6rf That just sounds ridiculous. Especially as Fleming had already discovered penicillin and Baekeland had already invented bakelite.
You're not very hot on aircraft identification, lads😄
Looks like Churchill is collaborating with General Benny Hill
The title suggests that Churchill was to blame for the war. Think of where Britain would be if Churchill had NOT decided to fight.
Britain declared war on Hitler for invading West Poland.
At the end of the War Hitler's twin clone Stalin takes all of Poland and Eastern Europe and Britain went broke and lost its superpower status .
Better off. It would have stayed a safe country for white women and children.
No world war, no blitz, no rationing, no lost empire and no bankruptcy for the entire county.
There are any number of counterfactual novels about a Britain that made peace with Germany, all frightening, but good reading. There is a fairly new series out about Britain under a restored King Edward and his consort and Queen, Wallace Simpson. I have long been fascinated by the possibility of Edward and/or Lloyd George forming a German-friendly government. Churchill was wrong, I believe, about many things in his long career, but he was right on the one thing that counted most, and our civilization is in debt to him.
@@josephfreedman9422 Nah, Churchill lost the empire in one fell (stupid) swoop. (How utterly imbecilic of him to state that he would not be the one to do it!) Not surprising that he was voted out it 1945. The British people had had enough of his warmongering.
Caprures the 'spirit' of May 1940 but is very weak on detail and much of the complexity of the issues involved are not properly explained. For example, the Dunkirk evacuation was described as 'bad' and yet the considerable success of the Dunkirk evacuation greatly strengthened Churchill. The full extent of that success was not known until later but if Churchill had not had the hope of success he would have been much weakened. Nevertheless, the documentary does give a fundamentally true picture of the events of the times and does show how much the world owes to Churchill. My own opinion is that if Britain had capitulated in May 1940, Hitler would likely have over-run Russia and would eventually have achieved world domination.
I hate when people advertising a history with some facts that inaccurate . He was not underprivileged or poor .
Winston Churchill was born into the privileged world of the British aristocracy on November 30, 1874. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a younger son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough. His mother, Jennie Jerome, was the daughter of an American business tycoon, Leonard Jerome.
Not just "not poor", but a member of one of the highest ranking aristocratic families in the land. The King was middle class in comparison!
Clever
Alas, there is little good that can be said for this documentary. There are several fairly obvious errors in fact as it progresses but, more important, its central premise --Churchill standing out alone against a united War Cabinet in search of a negotiated peace -- is simply incorrect. This was never the case.
But, to learn more, you will have to await my book!
Don’t need your book. Plenty out there already.
So many inaccuracies
If there's no way out...go deeper in!
Interesting work although its production values outstrip its historical accuracy on many details. Perhaps my biggest nit to pick is the title. Churchill didn't "choose war" but rather he chose to reject surrender. Those are very different things .
Wehrmacht is pronounced Vayuh macht with the ch an unvoiced fricative between the tongue and roof of mouth
8:12 I loved those quotes.
Great narration, thanks! 😃
If you think it was all him..then you clearly have no idea about history...Chamberlain kept Britain in the game
Explain how please ??
That comment made me laugh 😂
Talk about gaslighting- Only 3 members pf the War Cabinet mentioned - 2 others of the 5, mentioned, hardly at all. History is BUNK.
You'd wonder why they died for the uk these days
The emperor Fabian chose war also, but on his terms.
ENGLISH ARMY? Really?
Druck elegance
And he stuff up a lot before them
13:58 " ... a German minority the Sudetland ..." Oh dear ...
Are you kidding me, does Turing ( sp) Ring a bell.
Not always quite accurate, but decent doco nonetheless - the actors look nothing like their historical studies.
Who wrote this clap trap?
WTF you taking about
Yea, it's called intuition
Thanks! W. S. Churchill ❤
If you enjoyed this documentary you will love the movie the Darkest Hour
One interesting thing about this presentation is what it said about these events, there is NO documents to attest to this and it is probable that this is French fantasy.
Churchill continues to inspire us all over world. What a great leader he was!
If he lived his life again today he would be executed as a war criminal, allegedly.
Bad film editing. There are sequences of French Morane Saulnier fighters supposed to be British near the end of this film. Why are ignorant kids allowed to make decisions on film editing with absolutely no knowledge of the subject matter whatsoever. "They appeart o have roundels on them so must be British" Huh? The French and British roundels look the same in black and white, these French fighter aircraft were not Spits or Hurricanes. Ruined a quite reasonable show otherwise.
Churchill a Socialist? LOL what a load of shi t. @6:19
What utter rubbish this is. Poorly researched is the kindest thing you can say about it. It is riddled with inaccuracies & about as much historical use as a 700 year old chocolate teapot.
"Notsism"? Because we were fighting the Notses?
In mid 1930s he was warning about Hitler and Germany, being clearly on that side of stating "we need to shut down this regime, because a war is inevitable" - which he was right about. So in my opinion the decision to stay in the war was made a long time before September 1st 1939.
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This is a load of crap. Chamberlin worked 6 years prior to Churchill to build the airforce to defeat the Germans during the battle of Britain. This includes developing new airplanes, radar, training pilots, building the bases and the communication. All of this led to the success at the Battle of Britian. Chamberlin "appeased " Hitler to buy time. Everything hinged on winning the air battle over England. Churchill fought the construction of many fighters because he wanted bombers, he fought radar because he did not think it would work. People forget that when Churchill took over his first move was to put Chamberlin in charge of the war cabinet because he knew everything that was going on. Within 9 months Chamberlin was dead from cancer.
I understand your argument, but in 1938 the Luiftwaffe was weaker than people realized and it did not have bases from which it could attack Britain. The Runciman mission to compromise between German and Czech claims was a British, not a German, idea. If the UK had stood apart, instead of bullying Czechoslovakia into compromise, I do believe - and this is conjectural - the Czechs would have given the Germans a real bloody nose, even if they had lost.
@@josephfreedman9422 True enough. The "appeasement" was in September 38 just about 2 years before the Battle of Britian. Spitfire production started up in August of 38. The British Air command knew full well what the Germans could do from the Spanish Civil War,. They probaly also knew exactly how many planes they had and their production rates. It was a race and most of it happened after Chamberlin bought the time.
@@edwardjones856 When Charles Lindbergh visited Germany, he was used by the Germans to broadcast an inflated estimate of their aircraft production. I don't know how influential his accounts were in Britain, but they were certainly influential here in the United States. Whether Britain had accurate estimates and whose estimates they trusted, I do not know, but for a long time Britain took as unquestioned truth, PM Baldwin's statement that the bomber would always get through.
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You say interfere, having claimed Hitler dictated, so did Hitler dictate BBC radio propaganda during the Czech crisis?
You say diasaster after Munich, but the diasaster was already in being, and long before Chamberlains Premiership. You are repeating the political arguments only generated by anxiety and ambition, and do not relate the balance of Cabinet discussion, providing hype rather than history. Why?
"Armored trucks"? C'mon, get off your AI when you are referencing tanks or armored forces.
English This because the 51st Highlanders were left behind
Half of who were themselves English.
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They were captured, or at least some of them were, after the French corps of which they were a part surrendered. A large evacuation fleet had been delayed by fog, and an attempted lift on the following night was abandoned after the surrender.
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Winston had the British working class solidly behind him and that is what he needed
He was disliked by large sections of the working class because of his actions during the General Strike of 1926, but he did have the support of the Labour leaders Atlee and Greenwood.
He loathed the working class and the working class loathed him.
@@tenacious3911 Nobody was a bigger socialist than my father and my uncles. All fought in the war and were solidly behind Churchill. After the war things returned to normal.