Battle of Britain - How Not To Invade The UK Part 1 - Introduction

CORRECTION NOTICE - I managed to confuse the OKH and the OKW half way through this video
OKW -Armed forces high command under Keitel
OKH - Army high command under von Brauchitsch
This is the first part of a multi-part project to look at bits of the Battle of Britain, and this one is really just scene setting. It's also the first video since Lazerpig was good enough to shout me out on his channel
A few important notes
1. I do not use the word Nuclear at all during the video, so hopefully those who are triggered by how I say it can watch in safety
2. I insult no one’s favourite flying machine. That’s coming up next time.
3. Feedback is always welcome unless you’re a Nazi fanboy, in which case feel free to defenestrate yourself.
Videos with kind permission of the Imperial War Museum; become a member here - www.iwm.org.uk/support-us
Music licensed under Content ID from Epidemic Sounds and Motion Array

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Germany 1940 : Lets smash Britain. ; Me a Casual german : British man give me more content of how stupid my ancestors country was !! Keep it up mate. I really enjoy your content

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Just remember: at other times your ancestors country also built Cologne Cathedral, and gave the world Beethoven and Bach (and operas that last 3 bloody days!) And Trans Europ Express, and the Hollentahlbahn

[@HardThrasher]

It was a rather specific subset of your forefathers that I'm upset with - and I'd like to stress it's that generation, over which you had no control. In the same way my forebears started the Atlantic slave trade, and we should be cross with them for it but neither you nor I did those things, we can't change them, all we can do is learn and hope to stop it repeating.

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[@MostlyPennyCat]

​​@@HardThrasherUm, that was the Portuguese wasn't it? Those naughty little not-spaniards

[@milgeekmedia]

Excellent... My mother was in the ATS and 'manned' (!) AA gun sites in Crystal Palace during The Blitz. She worked on the early radar identifying target, so in a huge irony she actually more real combat action than my father who served in the 8th Army in North Africa, but in 'supplies'. It would be nice if you gave the tiniest of nods to the women who served in the ATS as the Government never did award a campaign star medal for the 'Home Front'. Excellent work, looking forward to the next part.

[@HardThrasher]

It was a complete travesty frankly. Not planning to talk about the ATS specifically but the role of women in the battle absolutely

[@milgeekmedia]

@@HardThrasher I understand - blimey, it's a big endeavour! Good luck with it... Did Galland really ask Göring for Spitfires? LOL ;)

[@tonyduncan9852]

Yes. What's not to like?

[@HardThrasher]

Yeah, he really did. But he thought Georing was an idiot and liked to wind him up. They had a weird relationship

[@muir8009]

​@@milgeekmedia there was a high powered name-blaming meeting with Galland and Goering: Goering was getting a bit testy as to why hadn't his German Eagles snuffed out old blighty yet, was there anything Galland needed to hit 'em out of the park? Gallands sarcy response was "a squadron of Spitfires". Goering was not amused, the meeting did not improve interdepartmental relations, nor did it improve the luftwaffes chances of having bitters at the White Horse pub before closing time.

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[@AnimarchyHistory]

Hitler had ONE chance to win the war. Halifax is chosen instead of Churchill and he seeks terms. As long as Britain stays in the war, Germany loses. I can’t wait for this series. Half tempted to get in on the action, shitting on Lee Mallory and Goering is a hobby of mine.

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Totally agree - and if you want to have a pop at either feel free (I'm on Piggy's Discord if you want to talk about it)

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Sholto Douglas was as bad as Leigh-Mallory

[@kenoliver8913]

This was a fight for the country's existence. It is irrelevant how justly or unjustly military commanders were treated; it only matters whether the decisions they made were right. Were they?

[@CattaroFuran]

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[@Paciat]

Its sad that the empire allowed Germany to not be partitioned, to rearm and ignore French reparations. And France (that is half the size of "greater Germany") just followed with German appeasement politics scared that Britain might turn its back on France. Britain needed people like Churchill in 1918. Churchill getting power as late as 1940 is in a way shameful for Britain.

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Appreciate the call out for French. WW2 was won with Soviet blood, and WW1 was won with French blood.

[@anzaca1]

WW2 was won with everyone's blood.

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Yes, those over 1 million British casualties of WW1 didn't bleed at all.

[@LotharTheFellhanded]

@@mickmegson6241 The French suffered 6 million casualties. Their sacrifice was literally x6 greater, not to mention the damage to their economy and land because the war was fought on their soil. So yes, the British contributed greatly but the French contributed six times more.

[@mickmegson6241]

Wars aren't won by suffering the highest casualties, it would be a truer statement to say the war was almost lost by French blood. The sheer crass stupidity of the French command, notably in the border battles of 1914, was disastrous for France. Those brave men killed in 1914, the bloodiest campaign of the war for France, died for no benefit to the national war effort. Simplistic statements like yours show an lack of understanding of how wars are actually fought and won.

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@@mickmegson6241yeah right the incompetence and lack of effectiveness of the British army is undeniable on WW1. You excelled at lying to the US since you owned the only communication cable at the time though so that they would intervene to save your asses and die for you. WW2 was even worse. You did not manage to win a single battle for yourselves

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Really glad you found it fun, that's what history should be :)

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I should add that I am very much looking forward to many examples of Nazi nether areas being thoroughly tenderised. In these tough times, I feel we need such inspiring tales of fascist localised cauterization.

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Adolph Galland's book is particularly fun. When he's blitzing across the continent in massed, surprise attacks against stunned opponents he's jack the lad. When his shit gets pushed in over Britain and then they're pushed back and mercilessly bombed he's not quite so chipper and really has it in for people who overwhelm their opponents.

[@HardThrasher]

The bits where he claims both that the bombing was devastating and unstoppable but also that his pilots couldn't miss and also took the bombers out...

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I've not read Galland's book. Presumably at some point he claims he disliked Hitler, knew nothing about the Holocaust and was only following orders anyway?

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As an ex Australian soldier (21 years) , I'll never forgive Churchil for Galipoli, and much as I dislike all politicians, will always appreciate our Prime minister during WW2 (John Curtin) for keeping as much Australian forces as he could around Australia the Pacific and South East Asia against the Japanese and not used as cannon fodder in campaigns important to his Britain and Empire. He wasn't a saint, he wasn't the best... he was just the perfectly arrogant pig headed leader that Britain needed at that time.

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Looks like this will shape up to a good series. I remember reading (It was a long time ago so my source is hazy so feel free to fact check me) that in the event of the RAF losing and Germany sending an invasion force across the Channel, the Royal Navy's Home Fleet could afford to go on a death ride down the coast, through the invasion fleet. Even if it lost every single battleship, it would still have been considered a win, simply due to the sheer carnage it could accomplish.

[@tizi087]

and because the germans only have 1 shot at their invasion. If that fails they cant try again

[@edenbreckhouse]

But then how would the Brits have combatted the U boat threat with half their fleet sunk in the straits of Dover?

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@@edenbreckhouse Battleships didn't hunt U boats and there were other fleets available, with smaller ships more suited to convoy duty coming online.

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I know, she was unimpressed about my 'intresting' new word

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[@MartynWilkinson45]

Worth remembering that a fair chunk of the polish navy and airforce escaped and signed up with the British. One of my local airfields was staffed almost entirely by poles for most of the war. Not just pilots, they loaded the planes with groundcrew and familys and took off. An old boy I remmber from my childhood claimed to have been tied into a bomb rack - no idea how much of that is hyperbole, but there you go.

[@voja42]

Czechoslovaks too, in Battle of Britain there was one whole czechoslovak squadron (no. 310) and by the end of the war there were four (310-313)

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Wasnt there a british destroyer manned by Polish sailors that bum-rushed the Bismark?

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I am Welsh I still find that joke funny. 9:54.

[@HardThrasher]

Little secret - my family were from Pembrokeshire

[@zestoslife]

In the 5-6 minute mark the comment about how an undefeated UK meant that the UK could rely on the US industrial might that doomed the Nazi's sounds plausable. However this does assume that the submarine fleet couldn't blockage the island. Which for a while this blockage seemed like it was going to work. And if it had, the outcome would have been UK defeat. So yes the nazi airforce defeat (can't spell luf-athingy) was a strategic failure, but could have been a different outcome.

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Dammit I've binged your entire library and now I need to wait for me. Thank you for the great content! And thank you LP for the recommendation

[@tcofield1967]

Should be a fun series. I've always found the Battle of Britain fascinating. I'm interesting in seeing what direction you go with all of this.

[@saltefan5925]

Lazerpig might have shown me the way here, but much I wouldn't stay if I didn't enjoy what he led me to. I have already watched all of your videos (some more than once) and am really happy to see more!

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Lazerpig recommended several channels; yours is the only one I stuck with for more than half a video.

[@adder3597]

This looks like it's going to be a very VERY good series to watch ❤ See you when it lands, Admiral

[@nerdyali4154]

You can say what you want about Churchill, but he did something no other leader has done in recent history to my knowledge. He served as First Lord of the Admiralty at the start off WWI, and was apparently damned good at the job, but he was responsible for the Dardanelles disaster and was demoted. He resigned, joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers and served in the trenches on the Western Front. How many people would go from such lofty heights to the trenches by choice? He never forgot the Dardanelles and always deferred to his senior staff in WW2, although probably with much bad language involved.

[@HardThrasher]

Totally agree

[@lawrieflowers8314]

Thanks, a refreshingly different (and entertaining) approach to wartime history. Looking forward to Part 2…

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[@bigmandrel]

Oh my! Heard all four parts. The Elgar references had me on the ground. Not a Cellist, a Bassoonist I - close enough. I think you are super funny and informative. Love your content, wit and pacing. Got here by chance.

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Clarinetist (well a LOOONG time ago) here. can you explain or loop me into the reference?

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I also found this channel thanks to the flashy oinkmeister, great intro to the subject, looking forward to more and your allergy to Elgar will never not be funny.

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I recall the Pig mentioning you, but to my shame, I forgot to swing by until the algorithm passed along your buccaneer video. Love the content so far, sir! As to the battle of Britain itself, for what it was worth, I grew up reading a journalist book on the battle of britain, that covered everything from channel convoys to interviews with the Eagle Squadron or whatever they were called (the American volunteer group) and Polish resistance airmen. Near the conclusion of the book, there was a talk with a RAF high commander (I forget his name, as I sadly lost the book in Hurricane Michael and it was a very, very old book, older even than my father), where he was explaining the RAF's approach. Namely, that the goal was, wherever possible, to destroy about 10% of the attacking luftwaffe planes. With the strategic goal being "If we can destroy ten percent every time, in time, we will destroy the entire airforce." It was portrayed, not as a plucky few standing up and winning by a stiff upper lip and jolly-good spirit, but a cold, calculating battle of attrition... rather conveniently also helped by the decision of the luftwaffe to fly their ace pilots until they died so they would have more kills for the propaganda department, rather than doing the sensible thing and turning them into trainers for the next wave of pilots to help grow the overall quality of the air force as a whole... Make of that what you will.

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