Why France Fell to Germany in World War II

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@ollihuovinen6968 2 ай бұрын

Please CEN you Make a eastern front vid

@evilsaul3583 2 ай бұрын

You should make a video on how Italy got independence

@PerOlemannBobsenXVII 2 ай бұрын

As a Norwegian I am deeply confused.

@NoymoHD 2 ай бұрын

@@ollihuovinen6968they'll do it eventually, they're still on the 1940 part of the war

@jonathanrorabaugh1533 2 ай бұрын

This is the 💣

@przemysawkrzekobrzegoszczy6332 2 ай бұрын

What always got me about the Battle of France, is that French recon aircraft saw the backed-up columns of Germans traversing the Ardennes, and they did absolutely nothing.

@Heike-- 2 ай бұрын

Gamelin was supremely confident that the French army could stop them. They had poured into Belgium and nobody saw the "sickle cut" coming. Remember, nobody knew the power of massed panzers at that time. Any penetration of the lines would be quickly cut off by counterattacks from north and south pinching it off.

@TheLogg 2 ай бұрын

@@Heike--Not entirely true, they had seen the effects of the german tactics in Poland, and first hand in the Nord Campaign.

@nicholasgutierrez9940 2 ай бұрын

@@Heike-- France literally invented mechanized warfare in WW1. They knew but their commanders were super political. Another result of WW1 which would have ended France if not for Americans arriving at the last second. A very bad result of poor leadership.

@przemysawkrzekobrzegoszczy6332 2 ай бұрын

@@Heike-- Then they didn't counterattack fast enough and with enough force. Really, everything that they could've done wrong they did.

@maxpayne7459 2 ай бұрын

The Recon did report back. Only it was believed that it was a diversion.

@Chewsonrock 2 ай бұрын

Germany researched paratroopers and France didn’t fix their government so they capitulated

@The_whales 2 ай бұрын

Irl France: losses in a month HOI4 France: losses the moment you enter Paris

@somerandom2637 2 ай бұрын

@The_whales I mean even irl if France loses Paris they'd capitulate quickly too

@robertspeedwagon982 2 ай бұрын

@@The_whalesReynaud eventually accepted the idea of surrendering in other to protect Paris it's people and the monuments from a bombing campaign similar to what happened in London. They still had troops, but in the end decided not to have more deaths in a war they knew they couldn't win alone.

@ommsterlitz1805 2 ай бұрын

@@The_whales Irl France don't lose and fight all the way to Berlin restarting it's army from North Africa liberating Paris and all cities with French troops

@Ju11ianT0Br0 2 ай бұрын

@@ommsterlitz1805 all the way to Berlin and saying they liberated all cities is over streching their contribution to the war effort lol

@swagless227 2 ай бұрын

WW1: Battle of A Shack in the Middle of Nowhere - 3 months WW2: Battle of France - 6 weeks

@ssleeg 2 ай бұрын

Blitzkrieg go brrr

@CrabGamin 2 ай бұрын

Don't forget the battle of the hill somewhere that has a really long french name, 7 months and 6 days. Half a million dead.

@swagless227 2 ай бұрын

@@CrabGamin damn

@spartanalex9006 2 ай бұрын

@@CrabGamin7 million shells fired.

@CrabGamin 2 ай бұрын

@@spartanalex9006 within the first hour

@HappinestLoserEver 2 ай бұрын

The runner who bought the sandwiches in active warzone is probably the funniest moment there was (Besides French beating Italians)

@jiyuhong5853 2 ай бұрын

Time stamp?

@tomaszwroblewski1395 2 ай бұрын

27:01

@jiyuhong5853 2 ай бұрын

@@tomaszwroblewski1395 danke

@Domek-zn5yf 2 ай бұрын

Honestly, there is something ironic that after Münich diktat, the Czech tanks were spearhead which doomed France and BEF.

@wesleyfravel5149 2 ай бұрын

Yes and no. They were part of it, but there's an important part about German tanks people forget about: Numbers. Not overall, but like is mentioned in the video, Germany would mass it's forces to take on the foe. So while in theory the French tanks were better (They had better armor and guns), The German tanks overall had better soft factors (Actual comms, better crew layout), and usually would outnumber the French often 2 or 3 to 1.

@Domek-zn5yf 2 ай бұрын

@@wesleyfravel5149 True. I probably wrote it badly. I wanted to point out that 7th Panzer division (,,Ghost division,,), which was wreaking havoc was mainly equipped with Pz 38(t)s. Of course there were more tank variants (Pz II, III, IV). However I can ne wrong, if it is the case please correc me, I'd like to learn or more likely re-learn something. 🙂 (THX for pointing out 😉).

@wesleyfravel5149 2 ай бұрын

@@Domek-zn5yf Oh really? I did not know Rommel's division had a large number of 38ts in it. That is an interesting and somewhat hilarious fact.

@Domek-zn5yf 2 ай бұрын

@@wesleyfravel5149 Yea. But I am not 100% sure if they were equipped during french campaing or in 1941 for operation Barbarossa. 😞

@MrDirigible 2 ай бұрын

@@Domek-zn5yf The Germans would use the Pz35s and Pz38s from France into Russia however they would be phased out once they ran into heavier Russian T-34s and KVs. Also most people realize how fateful the occupation of Czechoslovakia was as the Pz35 and Pz38s made up 1/4 of all German tanks for the invasion of France. They also were well designed with 3-man turrets with radios as well as good guns if light armor but good mobility, especially for 1940. The Germans used those Czech tanks to their full capability as Rommel's 7th Panzer showed.

@chirdo-l4h 2 ай бұрын

Germany being mad at uk for attacking neutral country is another level of hypocrisy 💣

@Heike-- 2 ай бұрын

UK did that a lot. Iceland and very nearly Norway. Both only narrowly avoided by intimidation followed by last-minute capitulation by both governments. And with Franc came within an ace of attacking the USSR in support of Finland. But the Finns surrendered before it could go off. The forces assembled were used in the invasion, uh, intervention of Norway instead.

@wesleyfravel5149 2 ай бұрын

It's propaganda, similar today. It's not supposed to be "You did a bad thing", it was "So what if we do a bad thing? So do you."

@chirdo-l4h 2 ай бұрын

@@wesleyfravel5149 Yeah i know. But it's still funny that germany of all countries dared to speak about violating country's neutrailty

@AP-kw9ip 2 ай бұрын

just like the brits calling the germans evil with ambitions of world conquest while sitting on a quarter of said world im referencing ww1 more than ww2 here

@shaggybottomtext8363 2 ай бұрын

@@chirdo-l4hbecause the British did it first? 💀

@Hello_Future_Me 2 ай бұрын

As an Italian I can say that the whole point of the offenssive on the Alps was to, and I quote directly form our own Foreign Minister of the time, "Get enough deads to sit at the negotiation table, a few thousands should do it". The Italian Army knew perfectly that they can't penetrate the France defence on the Alps, WW1 teached them, as with anything in all the italian contribution to WW2 the generals advices gets ignored in favour of the ambitions of the fascist government. Funfact: All the good/competent italian comanders refused to take part of any of the disatrous invasion (i.e. Yugoslavia and Greece) as it would stain their military career with failure, so they did everything so their name wasn't associated with offensives that could tarnish their name + The italian armed forces moderniced early and got bankrouped by their 'adventures' in Spain and Ethiopia, so they couldn't spare the money to modernize like Britain, France and even Germany in the years of appeasment No wonder Italian performance were mediocre at best, they were under equipped, staffed with comanders that acquired their position thanks to political loyalty to the fascists, and were fighting in a war which outcome they couldn't care less EDITS: typos

@TheLogg 2 ай бұрын

I disagree, I can't find the quote the mentioned anywhere on the internet, and if it was true that they only wanted to kill italian troops why did they only begin offensives by the time the war was almost over instead of instantly attacking and getting lives lost. They also very much did care about the outcome of the war since they had claims on some french territory, had germany lost they would never receive any land from france. Italy did so poorly because of the advanced French military far more well equipped and had a consistent plan of defence. Unlike the Italians who began attacking out of nowhere unable to take major towns in the area. Really the Italians were quite stupid and over estimated themselves constantly.

@Hello_Future_Me 2 ай бұрын

@@TheLogg The the quote is from the personal letters of Galeazzo Ciano One of the confident of Mussolini. Now the reason because Italy didn't attack immediately was because it was concluding negotiation (like the video states) with the allies to stay out of the war because it believed (like the allies) that the war will be a WW1 2.0, actually if you read the correspondence between Ciano and other people close to Mussolini you can see that they themselves couldn't believe that France was conquered in such a short time (6 weeks), so the last minute decision to enter the war (i.e. getting few thousand casualties to get the 'foot in the door' and get France territories along the Alps) without an overall plan. To the advancing Italian soldiers the day of the attacks along the Alps was simply communicated to advance, as I say no plan at all The Italians were really conscious that they could not fight (in fact they keep themselves neutral when Germany asked them to commit to the invasion of Poland), the Fascist simply believed that the war was over and could grab a few free territories. The fact the the UK keep fighting even alone (W for them honestly) surprised everyone

@TheLogg 2 ай бұрын

@@Hello_Future_Me Still he was only the foreign minister and voted to oust Mussolini from power and arrest him, so they couldn't have been that close friends. The Italians actually did have a plan they aimed to capture a few specific towns and pass through the alps, if they only wanted med dead why would they use airforce and tanks, which would waste equipment and possible save lives. (also i found the quote it was said by mussolini)

@dac5782 2 ай бұрын

@@Hello_Future_Me If memory serves, what also played roles in Italy going to war when it did (and even Mussolini knew that Italy was not ready for war) was fears over Germany exerting influence in the Balkans (the agreed Italian "sphere of influence"), along with the potential fears over a German invasion of Italy. And since the war looked like it would be a short one with French capitulation in such a relatively short time, the Italians were content to play the vulture.

@robertspeedwagon982 2 ай бұрын

France didn't modernize it's army neither, which was part of why they lost. The Army had an abysmal budget and most material was old (and sometime obsolete) stuff from WW1

@dylangtech 2 ай бұрын

13:00 🇩🇪: "Aurora Borealis?! At this time of year, at this time of the day, in this part of the world, localized entirely within this island?" 🇬🇧: "Yes!" 🇩🇪: "May I see it?" 🇬🇧: "No"

@helpmii215 2 ай бұрын

🇫🇷:”England the Europa is on fire!!!“ 🇬🇧”no dear that’s just the northern lights”

@gladys2563 2 ай бұрын

Aurora Borealis gambit declined

@Fronne10 2 ай бұрын

A man of culture I see

@OverlordMalarkey 2 ай бұрын

Steamed Hams: WW2 Edition

@akumaking1 2 ай бұрын

Man, WW2 reads like a demented Monty Python movie

@Killjoy45 2 ай бұрын

We will probably never learn how much utterly crazy stuff happened during it. The scale of this war was just something else. We know the big picture, but so much is still covered by the fog of war. I myself had never heard of the sandvich story before.

@yuriy454 2 ай бұрын

I mean.. you are living in the new 30s and do the same mistakes Afterwards, our kids be like "how could they be so stupid.. again!"

@MM22966 2 ай бұрын

@@Killjoy45 An Italian general was shot down by his own AAA after exhorting them to be more careful about aircraft attacks. A US island base in the Pacific was hit by a tropical storm right after it took a shipload of cornflakes cereal it had no warehouse space for, and the whole island was left in a mush of soggy cornflakes and wet cardboard for weeks. A U-Boat was taken out by a leaking toilet. The British SAS was formed after Major Stirling snuck into British headquarters in Egypt by climbing a wall and button-holing the general to persuade him to fund the outfit. France not only fought both the Allies and Axis during WW2, but themselves (Syria). Iraq launched a revolt with German Luftwaffe help that was put down by the British....and that's only the tip of the history iceberg.

@Jackuves 2 ай бұрын

Imagine losing your best forces in an encirclement Getting pushed right up to your capitol and still managing to beat the Italians

@NCR-National-Reclamation-Gov 2 ай бұрын

When the Balkans are more competent than Italy

@jaredjosephsongheng372 2 ай бұрын

Well yeah, they're in the French Alps after all and it's not the first time the Italians went with a frontal charge through Mountains.

@GAarcher 2 ай бұрын

*Radetsky march plays in the background, in an agressive tone*

@idk-cj8mn 2 ай бұрын

Try invading a country with mountainous terrain+multiple defenses stationed there. The Italians won most of the battles too and advanced. They only sent a few thousands of troops, they wanted to secure a place at the winner's table without pushing too much or losing equipment they lacked.

@Greekguy12 2 ай бұрын

@@idk-cj8mnGreece didn’t even have a defensive line and it suffered too from low ammo, harsh winter, old ww1 equipment and still won the Italians

@capiscrazy9732 2 ай бұрын

6:08 that transition from Belgium neutrality to subscribing went hard

@Cosmo-hw1cd 2 ай бұрын

France and Britain:mmmm they are attacking Netherlands we gotta help Germany:behind you

@ShadowTigerYT 2 ай бұрын

H*tlers one dream was to go up the Eiffel Tower, so when the Germans captured Paris, the French hid the parts for the Eiffel Tower lift. I always wondered, *He could’ve repaired the lift right? He had hundreds of mechanics to do it, right?*

@NoymoHD 2 ай бұрын

Maybe, but it was nice symolism that they wouldn't sumbit to hitler, (and they probably just wanted to annoy him

@XXXTENTAClON227 2 ай бұрын

Wasn’t just hidden, they straight up severed the lift cables. That is not an easy fix lol

@thelordofcringe 2 ай бұрын

@@NoymoHDthey they proceeded to collaborate and hand over their jews without a fight, the only occupied nation to do so. They refused to do any meaningful resistance until Vichy France fell.

@coygus4422 2 ай бұрын

@@thelordofcringewhat a bare faced lie, Norway, Italy, Croatia and Poland all handed over Jews. You can't blame the actions of a disgusting ideological minority on an entire nation.

@panzerschliffehohenzollern4863 Ай бұрын

@@thelordofcringeWhat were the French resistance then? Chopped liver?

@lazychosen357 2 ай бұрын

13:50 I think you mean the Matilda II. The Cromwell wouldn't enter service until 1944.

@dariushamlet5934 2 ай бұрын

I was just about to point that out too😂

@derrickbiedermann9802 2 ай бұрын

Love the new timed comment feature. Makes sure I didn't comment the same thing.

@jjhalley8524 2 ай бұрын

Thank you

@blairscartoonshistory7477 2 ай бұрын

@@dariushamlet5934 me too

@Polterbun 2 ай бұрын

hahaha I had to look for this comment too. Heck if i recall correctly the II wasn't it's self in great supply compared to the 1.

@olivierschraepen5451 2 ай бұрын

23:00 King Albert stayed in Belgium during WW1 as he held on with his army to the very last piece of the country. He personally commanded the Belgian troops during the war and also ordered the opening of various locks on the German coast, thereby flooding parts of Belgium as to give it better defensive grounds.

@XXXTENTAClON227 2 ай бұрын

32:41 we must ask ourselves how the axis ever managed to gain territory against such a knowledgeable force of formidable names

@TsarAlexander395 2 ай бұрын

I just wish there was some more about Philippe Petain: For all my Americans here, he became the French Benedict Arnold. Started as a war hero, the man who saved Verdun, and became the traitor who gave in to the Germans.

@knockeledup Ай бұрын

Yeah, Marshal Pétain was not a good dude. I was rather surprised how many young people in France today don’t know anything about him when I was there to teach English.

@notthetsar438 2 ай бұрын

27:14 this is one the best things I have ever learned about

@zebaguettefromfrance1287 2 ай бұрын

That is the sweetest thing I've ever heard happen on a Battlefield not gonna lie. It's also incredibly dumb, but hey at least the runner made a convincing argument for an express breakfast delivery!

@dr.turtle5097 2 ай бұрын

same it’s so funny😂

@Cobra-King3 2 ай бұрын

Monty Python Skits couldn't top this shit

@thatoneduck3875 2 ай бұрын

Genuinely one of, if not the best countryballs/history channel on KZbin. Amazing art and generally enjoyable videos.

@Cancoillotteman 2 ай бұрын

You forgot to add that the Belgian surrendered without coordinating or even warning the French and British, and that the British retreat to Dunkirk was done same without coordinating with the French.

@Cancoillotteman 2 ай бұрын

@@tcideh4929 using a phone maybe ? planning troops movement at least 24h ahead ? Yeah the French were in bad shape, but this kind of thinking just advantaged the Germans even more.

@Cancoillotteman 2 ай бұрын

@@tcideh4929 one botched offensive does not mean all hope is lost, unless all give up. The Wehrmacht was indeed outstrecht, and a coordinating action could still do something about it. And I should remind you the French were the only single ally attempting an offensive action at all, so much for one not showing up. Finally it is obvious you should research the subject a bit more : the French lacked field radios, but they did not always need to use physical messaging most of the time. Telegraph and phone still operated, except on the front lines, where the lack of radio was the most telling. Besides, all of this, though quite obvious, is secondary, the point being : what do you gain by not warnng / cordinating your efforts ? Distrust, inneficiency, and betrayal, nothing more. I rest my case, good day sir, try to learn on the subject.

@ingwhaz 2 ай бұрын

yeah no, they coöridinated it plenty but the french and british didn't want to accept it, to give you an idea how dire the situation was, the belgians surrendered when they were fighting on their own beaches after 2 days. They delayed their surrender to give the brits and french a fighting chance to retreat to the evaction of Dunkirk. Which then afterwards was used by churchill to throw the entirity of Belgium under the bus and save face back home. The version Churchill spun has been used up until very recent as the "correct version" of the situation then but even brittish historians have started to rewrite those "facts". the belgians gave the french and brits 2 days to retreat out of the country after the belgian army started fighting on its own beaches to try and force an eventual allied win.

@Heiwa_No_Shori 2 ай бұрын

@@ingwhaz too little, too late

@Battyj 2 ай бұрын

It was france who was failing to communicate with Britain, they pulled out of the counter attack at arras for no real reason

@Crusadenator 2 ай бұрын

Love all the HOI4 references and music in your videos!

@AbrahamLincoln-p16 2 ай бұрын

"We shall go on to the end, we shall never surrender!' - Sir Winston Churchill

@Franklin-xp7gp 2 ай бұрын

For the empire !

@Kkkokp 2 ай бұрын

"underidoderidoderiododeridoo" -also Winston Churchill

@AbrahamLincoln-p16 2 ай бұрын

@@Kkkokp Beautiful words that many should apply to their lives 😢

@Candy_Man. 2 ай бұрын

Operation dynamo Hell Yeah…

@rodrigobaena2131 2 ай бұрын

The sun will never set on our empire! For king, for country, for freedom!

@E-scooterCIWS 2 ай бұрын

really love the breaking down of military plan and thinking behind it

@Jedimax01 Ай бұрын

Amazing work. And that touch of humor makes a real difference. Thank you for the great content. Bon courage.

@xelagunnr4339 2 ай бұрын

"Underidoderidoderiododeridoo" - Winston Churchill

@Kkkokp 2 ай бұрын

"when napoleon led buloingrovfryenooloooub and his grand armée'' -Winston Churchill

@spiffygonzales5160 2 ай бұрын

Go home Churchill you're drunk.

@mathisplanelles4117 2 ай бұрын

Fun fact : France didn't use the time gained before the War to remilitarise as the defense budget of 1939 was still comparable to the one or 1935, so appeasement didn't really matter for France, it could even have won in 1936.

@robertspeedwagon982 2 ай бұрын

Yep, I don't know where he got that, the Ministry of War had nothing to finance projects with, even in 1940.

@d438roblox 2 ай бұрын

What always came as super funny was in the Franco-Prussian war and WW2 Germany defeated france by crossing the muess. Meanwhile, WW1 Germany failed. (They didn't try this) Really shows how good old tactics can be in certain times.

@clover1475 2 ай бұрын

Wow there are so many little details of the early days of world war II that I never knew about💣

@MonsieurDean 2 ай бұрын

"What do you mean Germany just walked around the Maginot line?" 😳

@keegandecker4080 2 ай бұрын

He could have easily cheesed the paradrop strat, but no

@Squareptune 2 ай бұрын

Damn even you are here 🤯

@keegandecker4080 2 ай бұрын

@@Squareptune thank you, it’s good to be here

@NoymoHD 2 ай бұрын

@@keegandecker4080nah, by may 1940 France should have removed the disjointed goverment, should have invaded thr benelux first

@Tyler-gg6xt 2 ай бұрын

I'd have loved to be in the room when that conversation happened 😅

@C-y-b-e-r 2 ай бұрын

i love these videos, WW2 especially. The history combined with countryballs was already something that amused me so much, thank you. :)

@sthlk 2 ай бұрын

excellent work mate, it’s a shame that I just found your channel, keep on the good job!

@NH2- 2 ай бұрын

Not a shame but an opportunity. Time to binge watch

@mosesmm5473 2 ай бұрын

Belgium: The French will protect us France: The British will aide us Great Britain: What are those continentals on about? It's tea time Germany: It's time for what I like to call a profi-gamer-move

@Cancoillotteman 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, if only Belgium allowed the initial deployment... if only...

@robbieaulia6462 2 ай бұрын

@@Cancoillotteman they didn't allow it because armed neutrality worked oh so well back in WW1 for them

@spiffygonzales5160 2 ай бұрын

Russia: No way this could go badly for me U.S.A: I'm sure being this far we couldn't possibly be forced into the war Italy: Time for the greatest military operation in Greece since Alexander! Spain: *dead population noises*

@colinhannah3515 2 ай бұрын

The chapter titles are unbelievable! great video as always.

@Mark_Williams300 2 ай бұрын

Have I told you how much I love these videos yet? Entertaining and informative. Thanks 😃

@jackfagan4288 2 ай бұрын

This was excellent! Great watch.

@borgie-c6p 2 ай бұрын

This is a quality animation! Good job, keep it up! You make history fun for all the new guys!

@michaelthayer5351 2 ай бұрын

The true lesson of the campaigns of 1940 is that spreadsheets do not fight battles, you do not know how strong an enemy really is until you've each landed a punch.

@Elix111 2 ай бұрын

Dude you really should do a video about lesser known wars like the War of the Pacific(Bolivia and Peru getting wreked by Chile), Chaco war(Paraguay wreking Bolivia again), Acre War(Brazil wrecking Bolivia... SERIOUSLY WHAT THEY HAVE AGAINS'T BOLIVIA?!), or smth

@LeDummi 2 ай бұрын

Pilot: "General! There's several german tanks divisions advancing through the Ardenne!" General: "Nuh uh."

@Daniel-rj8of 2 ай бұрын

A couple years later in the same forest German general : American surrender American general : NUTS! It was probably in a different forest but I can’t remember

@deaghostyt2217 2 ай бұрын

@@Daniel-rj8ofnope it was the ardennes

@Daniel-rj8of 2 ай бұрын

@@deaghostyt2217 thx

@bagrbagrovsky 2 ай бұрын

You have great videos, Its easy to understand and it looks good

@hassanmohammadian7583 2 ай бұрын

HOI4 Music in the Background Goes Hard...🔥🔥🔥

@raeaugustus586 2 ай бұрын

God of War Ragnarok too..... To my surprise...

@DarthHoosier3038 2 ай бұрын

13:00 Steamed Hams Simpson reference! 😂 absolutely beautiful

@dylangtech 2 ай бұрын

Aurora Borealis?! At this time of year, at this time of the day, in this part of the world, localized entirely within this island?"

@Gamer-is6ew 2 ай бұрын

My favorite Ezk vid so far :3

@XXXTENTAClON227 2 ай бұрын

These videos are genuinely amazing you deserve so many more subscribers

@jeremiahwilliams3279 2 ай бұрын

Another CallMeEzekiel video 🎉

@Weravloggaming-bhts34 2 ай бұрын

this video about to be fire!

@tonycorte19 Ай бұрын

Comparing me to Belgium was a quick way to get me to subscribe. I’ve never pushed that subscribe button as fast as that

@jackhew93 2 ай бұрын

Haha that was the best sales pitch to subscribe ive ever seen!

@Sapphire_Gaming_Sr 2 ай бұрын

Winston Churchill got that NickEh30 mentality

@XXXTENTAClON227 2 ай бұрын

That’s why he declared war on Japan he felt bad for China they had no fortnite

@randomizer4889 2 ай бұрын

Oh my god I love this style of videos, Thank you algorithm for showing me this channel, highly underrated I will sub!.

@Reapris 2 ай бұрын

I KNEW IT, how the hell did i even manage to recognize the god of war ost

@MrSystemique 2 ай бұрын

Great video overall! Great details and focus on politics! But as a Frenchman you missed a key concept. The phony war (Drôle de guerre) which basically sums up in that way : we had a biding treaty with Poland. Poland get invided. We declared war. We don't mobilize to help Poland but succeed in invading Saarland, and immediately retreat behind Maginot line and call it a day. Ignore De Gaulle call for modern mechanized army. Let Hitler invade neutral countries and Pikachu Face at the Dunkerque debacle and surrender. France lost because we didn't commit to our alliances. That's the biggest shame and lesson we had to endure.

@twurtle12hd39 2 ай бұрын

Shoutout to the Canadian trees for sticking it to the Germans

@AdmiralDuck1 2 ай бұрын

Yooo, this is so good!! 🔥

@Emanig.sumtin 2 ай бұрын

Ide like to mention that ww2 was extremely decisive in Britain's favor and a lot of Germany wins scenario are stupid the only way I can see it is Dunkirk working out and capturing a lot

@TheLogg 2 ай бұрын

No not even capturing dunkirk would have won ww2 for the Germans as the tanks were ordered to stop because they were so far away from the infantry, if they had kept going they could have been encircled which would be game over for Germany. Plus the UK had many more men in reserve. Even with the troops captured the UK wouldn't simply just surrender Churchill vowed to keep fighting and france wasn't defeated just yet, by the end of dunkirk Paris hadn't even fallen yet. Plus the soviet army would be unaffected and the US had more than enough troops and equipment.

@Cold444W 2 ай бұрын

To be honest it's quite likely that without Churchill the UK would have surrendered, as a very significant part of the government saw the war as hopeless, Churchill was the main figure which convinced the government and population to continue resisting.

@TheLogg 2 ай бұрын

@@Cold444W But Churchill coming to power is almost unavoidable, unless the allies start winning the war which makes the point moot anyway. They didn't sign peace because the government knew Germany wasn't to be trusted after breaking all the treaties UK + France used to try and avoid war, why would Hitler honour a peace treaty? On top of that one of German's conditions was for all the German Empire colonies returned which the UK would never agree to.

@jaredjosephsongheng372 2 ай бұрын

I made my own scenario for Axis Victory. And imo this is the most accurate scenario for Axis Victory. This is just 1 scenario but the numbers are in order btw. 1. Instead of giving away like all of their guns to Nationalist Spain in order to support them like in our timeline. Italy will instead support Nationalist Spain by sending way more Volunteer Forces than they did in our timeline. This will make it so that the Italians can support in the war even more and they can also keep stockpiling guns so they could be ready for war by 1940. 2. Italy will decide to focus on North Africa in 1940. There will be no invasion of Greece this time around. If the Italians were ready for war and they also decided to focus on North Africa then maybe the Italians would be able to reach all the way to El Alamein before being inevitably pushed back but once Erwin Rommel was sent to North Africa. Then he would definitely be able to take the Suez Canal and with the Suez Canal taken that means that North Africa is finally secure and with North Africa secure then that means Italy is also secure. 3. Instead of continuously bombing London and getting their air force practically destroyed in the Battle of Britain like they had done in our timeline, the Germans will instead continue bombing the British Airfields to stop the RAF from taking flight so as to prevent the RAF from bombing German factories whilst in preparation for Barbarossa. 4. Barbarossa begins in May (Because Italians did not invade in Greece this time). A full month will give the Germans enough time to take Moscow in Late 1941. 5. Finland will not be satisfied with only moving back to Pre Winter War Borders, Finland will instead keep pushing to encircle Leningrad freeing a couple of German units there and they'll also go on to attack the Kola Peninsula to take Murmansk. 6. Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Late 1941 destroying a lot of ships in the process and this time Japan also bombs the Pearl Harbor Naval Repair yards and Fuel Storages which slows down the US rebuilding of their Fleet . 7. Germany doesn't declare war on the United States this time around. This will make the United States focus all of it's efforts on Japan. 8. Japan wins the Battle of Midway this time around and destroys 3 US aircraft carriers and only losing 1 but is forced to abandon the siege of the Island by Late August due to growing US Strength. 9. Germany focuses on Stalingrad in Case Blue and also the Germans will give anti tank weaponry to Romanian, Italian and Hungarian Army Corps in Stalingrad to secure their flanks. (The Romanian Army knew a Soviet counterattack was about to happen so they pleaded for Germany to give them anti tank weaponry which was repeatedly ignored and well the rest is history.) If the Germans give the Romanian forces on the flanks quite a bit of Anti Tank weaponry this will inevitably lead to Operation Uranus being much more of a struggle for the Soviets than it was in our timeline, and they will eventually be pushed back by a German Counteroffensive. Even if Operation Uranus was still successful, since Germany was prioritizing Stalingrad then Operation Winter Storm would've came in and liberated the Kessel almost immediately after Operation Uranus and they could even encircle some of the Soviet divisions used for Operation Uranus if they get lucky enough. All in all this ensures Stalingrad falls by Spring 1943 and so do the Caucasus. 10. Japan loses Guadalcanal by December 1942, Japan simply can't withstand the full might of the US Navy themselves despite destroying 3 US aircraft carriers at Midway. 11. Mustache Man decides since the war is going smoothly he decides to keep the Jewish people to eventually send them to Madagascar. 12. German Army focuses their Northern forces to take Leningrad by Spring 1943, in order to free up the soldiers currently there and prepare for the final offensive. By Summer 1943 they will concentrate their forces in the South and Center to make a push towards Kazan. The collapse of the Soviet Union is near. 13. America wins the Battle of the Philippine Sea in Mid 1943. And the Americans are able to return to the Philippines by Late 1943. 14. By Mid 1943 Kazan falls and the German offensive continues on and since the German offensive seemed unstoppable. Multiple former Soviet Republics began to break away from the Union by early 1944 and by Mid 1944 the Germans will be victorious in the Eastern Front. 15. America wins the Battle of Leyte Gulf in Late 1943. The Japanese Naval forces who were opposing them were almost completely annihilated. 16. America takes Iwo Jima in Early 1944 and Okinawa by Mid 1944. Operation Olympic planned for beginning on Late 1944 and Operation Coronet on Early 1945 17. After the German Victory on the eastern Front. The Germans have now allowed the Vichy French Government to return to Paris and all pre war lands except Alsace-Lorraine. This is more to happen so that the Germans don't have to spend resources occupying these lands when they could just give it to their puppet. 18. Massive Kriegsmarine build up in Late 1944. And Operation Sealion in Early 1945. 19. by Early 1945 the Japanese surrender after an invasion of their home islands. 20. Operation Sealion ends in failure in Mid 1945, The British end up realizing even if they forced the Germans to retreat now. There is simply no way for them to defeat Germany by themselves and offers a ceasefire which Germany accepts. And that's about it for WW2 Most Possible Axis Victory timeline. This took me at least three hours to make but I have no regrets at all.

@jaredjosephsongheng372 2 ай бұрын

@yhuanherrera1393 2 ай бұрын

The video will be amazing!

@SadseaI 2 ай бұрын

Amazing video. I wish to support but i am a poor student. One day i will support more❤️

@ayoubzellal5471 2 ай бұрын

1:38 IS THAT A TNO REFERENCE !!!!!!

@EuGeez 2 ай бұрын

HOLY SHIT NO WAY 11!1!1!!11

@cleitopson 2 ай бұрын

Love your channel so much

@ShadowTigerYT 2 ай бұрын

Bro Hitler really just did the “What line?” Strat

@orangesplatproductions 2 ай бұрын

I love this series so much dude

@Eham96 2 ай бұрын

The loss in 1940 was not the French army’s fault! It was the French leadership and French generals fault they lost because the French leadership and French generals had the intelligence of a goldfish

@jrim7887 Сағат бұрын

French history since Napoléon in a nutshell

@cri-rn5yr 2 ай бұрын

I love that you use heart of iron 4 music

@SjaeDanmark 2 ай бұрын

Great Video!!

@TheRealDa-xg7km 2 ай бұрын

"Im going to do whats called a pro gamer move"

@pranavsfunarcade7561 2 ай бұрын

Great work 👏 I need a part 2 after this

@maryhough8041 2 ай бұрын

Seeing the gun I groan and say, "okaaaayyyyy" You got my sub lmfao

@andysierra1618 2 ай бұрын

OMG! TNO Reference!

@vittoriolepporio122 2 ай бұрын

A good video as always Ezekiel! See you in two months!

@RealMasterWindu 2 ай бұрын

6:07 forced to subscribe

@KevVIII 2 ай бұрын

Ooooooh shit. I thought I was always subscribed. Your videos always reliably showed up in my feeds that I failed to notice

@Aristocles22 Ай бұрын

9:34 Stellaris music in a world war II video?!

@Black.Templar_002 2 ай бұрын

19:42 Cromwell? what? that tank entered service in 1944

@dylanhart4186 2 ай бұрын

yeah xD

@ZatGeneral 2 ай бұрын

A mistake. I think he meant 'Churchill' Ah well lmao xD

@dylanhart4186 2 ай бұрын

@@ZatGeneral churchills werent in the battle of France. Matildas and some early cruiser tanks would be it

@loyalpiper 2 ай бұрын

@@ZatGeneralChurchills first saw combat in 1942 at deipe

@wesleyfravel5149 2 ай бұрын

He liked another comment saying he meant the Matilda 2, so I assume it was a goof on his part.

@Octovoid Ай бұрын

KZbin just called me lonely. When I tried to subscribe they said “you have too many subscriptions compared to your amount of subscribers”

@ErwinRommel6thpanzerdivison 2 ай бұрын

Can't wait for the next banger to drop!

@ad-ko5iy 2 ай бұрын

France (the population) didn't want to fight this war. It indeed did win WWI, was destroyed and ruined, and didn't gained anything from it, except peace. There is a saying in France that said we won the war (WWI) and lost the peace afterward. Russia, UK and the USA didn't understood what pangermanism was, and prefered to raise white flag (Russia), or eases conditions on Germany to play the equilibrium game after WWI. France asked for retribution, ou generals wanted to enter in Germany and go to Berlin. We were not listened. So why wage another war ? Why should we let our boys die for Poland ? Why did we garantee the easter borders ? Our «allies» don't want to win seriously after all. Thinking about it, the only strategic error of France was to enter WWII, altough it had no interest in it : the goal of Germany was to expand to the east. France is not to the east of germany and if it didn't put itself in front of the Nazi, they could have watch the war as spectators. This is a normal turn of history that Russia, USA and UK paid the price for their negligence. They had to wage another war against this enemy they let loose after WWI. The irony is that these countries entered Germany, destroyed cities, raped the women, let die by thousands the prisonners of war and imposed harsh condition on german, while, 20 years earlier, they prevented France to do one tenth of what they did… but idiots continue to tell you that France hardship on «poor Germany» was the cause for WWII… the harsher conditions the allies put on Germany didn't bring WWIII.

@Grenadier311 2 ай бұрын

I myself grow weary of reading the multitude of poorly informed statements about how the "harsh" conditions of the Treaty of Versailles caused WWII. Germany wasn't shy about imposing stiff war reparations on France following the Franco-Prussian War, which was retribution for the humiliating peace imposed by Napolean on Prussia. General Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Force, wanted to push into Germany while concluding WWI in order to make sure the Germans knew that they lost militarily. It appears that in their haste to prevent another great war, the allies only ensured that there would be a sequel.

@JimHoxworth-s5s 2 ай бұрын

27:00 dont mind me just marking this for later

@badlawyer4342 2 ай бұрын

09:40 i know my Stellaris sound track

@guavaguy4397 2 ай бұрын

17:04 that is the funniest animation i have ever seen.

@bobthebuilder9818 2 ай бұрын

Nice video.

@bcon69 Ай бұрын

i already knew this but its nice to watch a documentary once in a while

@Htarogoehs 18 күн бұрын

Gotta love the hoi4 track here23:58

@rhyusbrand8311 26 күн бұрын

13:01 Steamed Hams, anyone?

@BoomBox263 2 ай бұрын

"walahi im cooked" -French president in 1940

@Cancoillotteman 2 ай бұрын

You mispelled crooked * Pétain was a traitor.

@Syamfprch 2 ай бұрын

@@Cancoillotteman No he didn't. "Im cooked" is a joke saying for "im screwed".

@Cancoillotteman 2 ай бұрын

@@Syamfprch I know mate, I think this one just flew over your head...

@Syamfprch 2 ай бұрын

@@Cancoillotteman Ah. My mistake.

@Cancoillotteman 2 ай бұрын

@@Syamfprch np man, happens to all, sorry for the ironic tone

@MrMatklug 2 ай бұрын

france to belgium: "what do you mean you don't want to have we and germany fight another war in your lands?"

@jiyuhong5853 2 ай бұрын

27:12 general are you asking about hanz? I think they went to get food

@natheriver8910 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting

@Chesleigh 2 ай бұрын

13:53 I thought it was just a graphical error, but the British Cromwell tank was not around during the invasion of France until 1944, that’s at least 4 years. I think you mean the Matilda II tank which had good armour to withstand German guns of the era, much like the B1, as well as having combat history during the battle of France.

@viczianalex9258 17 күн бұрын

Personally the reason i think why france got overwhelmed so quickly is in the use of blitzkreig and its way of orders being distributed, for example in the nazi army, junior commanders were able to make quick field decisions to make that desicive turning point in the battle without having to reach to high command to get approval like the french did making orders be effective within minutes while the french took days.