My attempt to help Science and History students with a resource that they can use to supplement their learning and improve their success in their biology and History classes.
@@Texasbiologyhelp well I don't know if history has a Purpose. But one could certainly use it to avoid past mistakes but that's not what humans do. We use those past mistakes to justify future ones just look at Israel. They had genocide against them but doesn't stop them from doing the same thing in micro to the Palestinians. And I hate all religions with a passion none more than Islam
@@whatevs4531 The elites at the top encourage ignorance in the masses, that then allows them to "rinse and repeat" their same old money spinning, population reducing shenanigans that they regularly get up to.
What do you think, friends, of naming some modern German warships with traditional names like 'Scharnhorst' or 'Gneisenau'? Both men have their well-deserved places in the military history of the country; so far, thre were four Gneisenaus and three Scharnhorsts with three German navies. Strangely enough, the famous names first appeared on the bows and sterns of... small passenger vessels under the flag of the NDL. One 'Scharnhorst', with the gross tonnage of ca. 18.200 register tonnes, entered the German maritime history as the first big passenger ship ever built in the 3rd Reich. Her career was a strange one, as she ended up under... Japanese colours, converted into a carrier (!) Her flight deck proved too short, to allow modern aircraft to land on it. The planes starting from the 'Shinyo' had to find bigger ships with longer decks to land on... ♍🇵🇱👍🇯🇵👍
This is without doubt one of the best videos I have seen about the Second World War. It really brings home to you just how close Britain came to losing. It was indeed their finest hour. Or should I say, Britain and her allies, for without them and the USA, we would have surely lost. As for Churchill, say what you might, cometh the hour, cometh the man. What a powerhouse, he really was!
There was NO way the UK would have been knocked out of the war. We could never have triumphed for sure, but that's not the same as being "knocked out". Please understand that Britain in 1940 saved HERSELF, INSPITE of the US as much as she did BECAUSE of the US. The US happily used her neutrality status to continue trade with BOTH sides of the European war, and was just as happy dealing with the nazis at the time of the battle of Britain, here's just a few of the big names who were "balls deep" in business with the nazis in 1940 and beyond.... Ford... General Motors.... Standard Oil.... IBM.... Kodak... Coke Cola.... Chase Bank... to name but a few. ALCOA (The ALuminium COrporation of America) then the world's LARGEST producer of aluminium was supplying so much aircraft grade aluminium to the nazis throughout 1939/41 that it stifled early 1940s US aircraft production and in June 1941 prompted Harold Ickes, the US Secretary of the Interior, to go on record as saying “If America loses this coming war, it can thank the Aluminum Corporation of America”. Prewar, the US Govt had allowed "The Standard Oil of Jersey City" company to sell a production licence for tetra ethyl lead (the anti-knock compound necessary for hi-octane fuels) to the nazis, but then withheld the same licence from the British, Hmmm Nazi sympathies in the Standard Oil boardroom? Or US Govt geopolitics aiming to bleed the British Empire dry? Ford's auto production facility in Cologne and General Motor's Opel subsiduary plant in Berlin were both busy working 24/7 THROUGHOUT WW2 furnishing the nazis with approximately 60% of the Wehrmacht's military transportation needs, as well as a sizeable chunk of the Luftwaffe's aero engine requirements... all the better for attacking Britain with eh, and all the while providing US companies with BILLIONS of dollars in profit, and the US govt with millions of dollars of tax revenue America saved itself, NOT Britain. We saved OURSELVES which included BUYING supplies from the US and overpaying for EVERYTHING we obtained. That's not to say that we don't still love the ordinary US citizen, of course we do, but go easy on the "Yanks did everything" BS.... it sticks in the throats of all the other nations who had fought military tyranny before the US was dragged into WW2 against its will by the nazi's ONLY legal declaration of war during WW2 on 11th Dec 1941. P.S Also don't forget to say that at the time of the battle of Britain Germany was receiving millions of tons of raw materials, food and fuel from their willing ally the USSR, as well as from Romania, Finland, Sweden, Spain, and the spoils of her recent conquest of some of the most heavily industrialised nations on the planet.
Hitler didn't want war with Britain while he was one by one attacking nations he had NO business being in... such as Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Yugoslavia, Greece, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Russia, most of whom had NEVER been traditionally German "territories".
What a fantastic documentary, an incredible series of stories told by the people who lived through not only the greatest time in their lives, but one of the greatest trials in human history and ordinary people wrote history's pages more tan even the great leaders.
This documentary gives scant credit to the pivotal roll the DOY played. It was DOY phenomenal accuracy of her gunnery that was the deciding factor. Also after receiving considerable damage it looked for a while that she was actually going to escape and it was only a shell from DOY that hit her boiler room and slowed her to 20kts that allowed DOY and the cruisers to finish her off. To say she received 5 torpedo hits at the time they implied is simply mistaken. She only received those hits AFTER she had been slowed by DOY. Typical British production. We always give maximum credit to foreigners yet cannot manage to do the same for our own.
JFK’s father was a really bad person. Just look up what he did to make all his money then more importantly look at what he did to his daughter for being nothing more than a bit of a difficult adolescent girl. He had some ridiculous phlebotomy or shock therapy…I can’t remember.. done on her that instantly made her forevermore mentally handicap. All while not telling anyone in the family both before or after and said something like she had to be admitted to the mental hospital bla bla bla.. they had to find out on their own. He just acted as if nothing happened and wrote her off. That’s devilish. I guess since she couldn’t be president in his eyes then she wasn’t worth the time. Ruined her life over acting up (and from the story I heard we aren’t talking about much of anything bad) while going thru high school.
#38 Was a beautiful wolf. And a coward with a gun shot him from away I'm sure. Does that make you a bigger person to kill an animal from far away? To me your a coward. Why didn't you walk up on that big wolf with just a knife and see how far you would've gotten. To many people believe the big bad wolf stories. Please educate yourself about these smart and beautiful animals. All they are trying to do is survive like you and I. Please leave them alone. God made them for a reason. Not for you to shot them from away.
I love Wolves. I'd love to see them in the wild. To many people think badly of them and shouldn't. They are not the Big Bad Wolves we were told. They are beautiful animals just trying to survive. They all work together as a pack. Their main goal is to feed their pups. Every wolf in the pack helps with that. We were told lies about them for so many years. Please more people need to educate themselves about Wolves. They are beautiful and will not hurt us. If they wanted to hurt us they would've already by now. Humans have been attacked by more bears then wolves put together. Please give them a chance. My favorite animals are Wolves ❤
I honestly don’t see why “Lord” Halifax wasn’t arrested and put on trial for treason. He seditiously gave comfort to Britain’s enemies, and gave them reason to believe Britain--not simply the Tory Cabinet--was divided.
When the Wehrmacht bypassed the Maginot Line by passing through what the Allies had foolishly thought was the “impossible” geographical feature of the Ardenne Forest, and the French Army and British Expeditionary Force (BEF) were retreating from the Low Countries after the Netherlands and eventually Belgium capitulated, I know that the French were using the quite powerful Char-B bis heavy tank (with a 75 mm howitzer in the hull and a 47 mm mg in thr turret) and the agile Somua s35 medium tank (which, far ahead of its time, had welded sloped armour on all sides). Of course we all know that, though these two tanks were superior in firepower and protection to the Panzer I and even Panzer III (which made up most of Germany’s tank force during the early Battle of France), French military doctrine obviated these advantages by dispersing their tanks out widely in “support roles” for their infantry. But which tank was the BEF using during the 1940 Battle of France? I’ve studied WWII for many, many yrs as an avocation, but have never heard or read anyone indicating which tank the BEF used primarily on the Continent at this relatively early point in the War. Was it the Valentine, the old and slow Vickers Medium tank, the A11 Mathilda, or the Mathilda II?
Not just the "impossible" terrain of the Ardennes, but the NEUTRAL terrain of the Ardennes. The French built the "Maginot line" along the Franco-German border from 1929 onwards, but did not want to extend it to the coast as it would signal to the low countries that France was preparing to forsake them. The Dutch had traditionally been neutral, but the Belgians only declared their neutrality without warning to the French in late 1936 AFTER the majority of Maginot line had been built. The French then belatedly started to extend the Maginot line to the coast from 1937 onwards but both finances and winter weather in the late 1930s caused the work to progress slower than was hoped. The Germans for their part declared a guarantee of Dutch and Belgian neutrality in early 1940.... only to then completely renege on that guarantee (what a surprise) 3 months later. As for British armoured forces in 1940, following the British armoured doctrine of "infantry" & "Cruiser" tanks, they consisted of various types including the A9, A10 & A13 "Cruiser" tanks, the Matilda I (A11) & II (A12) "infantry" tanks, with Vickers MkVI light tanks and Daimler "Dingo" armoured cars in the recce/screening role.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 , THANK YOU for a quite well-informed, erudite response to my post. Such historically detailed, precise, and specific replies are quite rare on RU-vid. Bravo, dear Sir! I had always read that the non-extension of the Maginot to the coast was motivated solely by strategic misplaced belief in the impassable terrain of the Ardennes, and by finances…I *had* read in one source that the French did not want to send Belgium the msg that they were “walling them out in the cold” of coming aggression, but had no idea the diplomatic considerations were quite so significant. In any case, the age of “fixed fortifications” was over, and of course the “tradition-and-bureaucracy-obsessed” French didn’t realise this, and were preparing to re-fight WWI, rather than to getting their air force modernised and on a par with Germany’s Luftwaffe, or to understand tanks as heavy-armour units in their own right, not simply “support” for infantry formations.
@@MrMalvolio29 Thank you for your comment on my erudition. Absolutely correct in your comment about "fixed fortifications"....As the quote attributed to Carl von Clausewitz 140 years earlier suggests... "If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere." which history shows us is exactly what happened. All the best.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Von Clausewitz *was* a military and-in this case especially--a prophetic genius. Are you also one of the few of us non-soldiers who have read some of him not bc one is preparing for a career as an officer, but bc one simply has a peace-loving person’s fascination with military history? Whether or not your answer is yes, it sounds as though it would be quite the privilege to know and have the pleasure of regular conversation with you.
@@MrMalvolio29 When I was young lad I was, as a lot of young people still are, fascinated with military history to the point that I would read my "war comics" (it was the 1970s after all) and imagine what an "exciting adventure" it would be to be involved in a "life & death" stuggle between "good" and "evil".... but age, wisdom, and a father who served in the Royal Navy right through WW2 (I was a "late" child) enabled me to put that naivety behind me. I suppose it has resulted in me developing as you say a "peace-loving person’s fascination with military history". I'm reasonably well read on military matters (Through my own interest, and not through formal education, Can you guess my main interest is WW2? 😁) and I'm far from being a "scholar".... on top of which "quotation websites" are a helpful way to recall vague memories of sayings dragged from the thick fog of my distant memory 🤔. Nowadays I spend my spare time trying to ignore the current world situation as it appears it's once again being intentionally directed into a state of chaos by those "at the top". So in my bid to escape from the current day nonsense and so not sink into an MSM induced state of low spirits, I instead come on YT to engage with others in the hope that just sometimes I will be able to enlighten them (hopefully diverting them from the misdirection of modern TV etc), maybe answer questions they may have about various topics, and quite often challenge some views I feel are devious, unsavoury or just downright unpleasant.... but also to learn about other topics I have little knowledge about myself, YT having plenty of "gems" amongst its slagheaps of mediocrity. I'll sign off before someone types in "get a room, you two!!!". You'll probably see me around here, as I chip into many threads. All the best.
my father born in east london, was a cadet at age 14 then in queens guard 6th regmt later on with the BEF back from dunkirk rear guard no transport just boots
@@christophercook723 If you're referring to something in the video, you can type a "timestamp" into your comments in the format hh:mm:ss (make sure to use a COLON and NOT a semi colon between the numbers) and it will show as a link to that particular point in the video. As so..... 23:15.
With Kennedy whispering gloom into the President's ear, and that traitor [Halifax] pushing for talks for a terrible peace with Germany, I think without Churchill's firm line, Britain could have lost the war, before starting. I would have thrown Halifax out for his treacherous pleas to ask Mussolini to approach Hitler. I often wonder what Halifax would have gained from such a prospect. No doubt some on the Right and upper class would have gained from a Nazi invasion of Britain. Looking after themselves. We're often told that Hitler would have left us alone, if he got free reign in Europe. I don't believe a word of it. History shows that such tyrants are never satisfied.
The finest documentary I have ever seen. the British people are truly unique and brave. now the Israeli people are in a similar place. Godsave all those good souls and we need to find peace. Brillant work , well done.
With respect, it is the Palestinian people in Gaza who are being bombed and shelled and driven from their homes and having to face an overwhelming military power. And it's not for the first time.
Special thanks to Lt-Commander Lightoller (2nd officer of the Titanic) who took his personal Yaht across the English Channel to evacuate British soldiers. He also spied on German coastal defenses prior to the Normandy invasions of D-Day.
@@spannaspinna He swam. Long story short, he made it to one of the overturned collapsible boats and with a group of people, road the overturned boat until rescued. He was the highest ranking officer to survive the Titanic and was an important witness to both investigations that followed. He went on to serve in WW1 Reaching the rank of commander.
@@cardboardempire Thanks a million for your input! I confess my utter probable unforgivable ignorance of this quite superb hero! Surely worthy of a successful biography? Thanks again for your efforts to educate me and perhaps others (but I feel there are no others only crass ignorant Joe Bloggs!) A man able to swim in the icy waters that engulfed the mighty Titanic and think of others; who sailed his own boat to rescue others in god-awful plight, at Dunkirk…strength of character and personal Will…leaves me dumbfounded and humble indeed! Your initial sentence says so much in so few words! Here‘s wishing you a Good Remembrance Day today!
You missed the word "helped". Those with the interest to read about their national history (not the current BS globalist version of it) have always been appreciative of the RCN and its role during WW2.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Tell that the to French 2nd Light Mechanized Division And the French 68th Division. 35k Frenchmen who were left on the beach to cover the retreat.
@@cardboardempire Yes the French divisions fought bravely.... alongside the entire British 51st Highland division and 35,000 other assorted British troops that were taken prisoner by the Germans at Dunkirk. When together they finally laid down their arms, along with thousands of Belgian troops that had fought on after the surrender of their country, the rearguard action they had fought enabled the Royal Navy to rescue 190,000 British troops, 110,000 French Troops and 40,000 Belgian troops. Try to include ALL the details in your rebuttal, not just the ones that support your one sided nonsense. All the best.
@@cardboardempire Sorry, your "reasoning" has lost me. Your OP Suggested that the French army alone fought to allow the British army alone escape from France. I've provided you with easily researchable primers which will show you the nonsense of that statement. You post above makes no sense to me, whether it is simply a failure in your English skills or lack of historical knowledge I cannot fathom.
Indeed, As everyone else has already declared, and I am proud too to join all of them to say that this Documentary is superb and one of the most very best if not the best of all…Thank you so very much all who have made so much effort in this production.
This is one of those rare times when the nation is pulling together and the wealthy has respect and concern for the poor. A sense of mutual need. This lasted for about 20 years then the gap (financially and socially) began to widen again. The longer this continued the wider it became. I fully expect this to occur in Ukraine after putin has been discarded. A nation works better when there is respect across the classes.
Hey there was a documentary , how he grew the wolves from cubs , the biologyst raised them for years and that same pack is the one that got to yellow stones , can you post here please , cant find it anywhere
