042 - Britain Votes to Leave - WW2 - June 15 1940 

Well at least our country hasn't been annexed by Germany

Indy, you should ask pewdiepie to host meme review. Would be the most epic collab on youtube

Thanks to all the crew for putting this on. It's clearly a team effort, and the output shows quality from every member!

Still missing the instagram day by day series a lot. You might consider to continue that series with a lower input or just a picture of the day instead of a longer one before. That push or break through by Rommel could have been covered as another early example of his abilities. ... can't wait to see instagram day by day progress again. And if there were to less followers it needed a campaign here ... for that day by day series.

@@luxembourgishempire2826 Silver linings

Lol

he reminds me of a circus clown when he is standing on that balcony

Germany as the main Antagonist America as the reluctant ally France is the likeable chracter that died too soon

@@TheGetout04 Britain as the insufferably smug dickhead sidekick to America.

I would say France is the FNG, that shows pictures of his girlfriend. Their are only three things to be shure about. he will screw up, he will kill pepole we like and he will die.

I have gotten so used to this now. What about Luxembourg city? 😑

sisu intensifies!

Well Stalin actually managed to win in the end so yeah.

Stalin killed all experienced generals because they were not sharing his communist ideology and liked the Tsar more. So yeah, poor peasants can't conquer Finland

@@treeshakertucker5840 How do you know? It hasn't happened yet!

That's like getting your ass kicked by a buff guy and then you beat up a kid who just broke his arm

@@Wickedonezz LMAO

😂😂😂😂😂

LOL 😂

stfu you own rightful italian territories

Lt Gruber has been dropping in for a glass of wine over the past few days. René has a suspicion that the lieutenant does not like girls...

@@kaczynskis5721 LMFAO! 😂 🤣 😅

Perfectly Said xD

Major Strasser of the Third Reich will decide that the place is honeycombed with traitors and everyone is having much too good a time. Louis Renault will be shocked that gambling is going on here.

He'll go to Casablanca for the waters.

London was bombed, but it had one heck of a anti-tank ditch between it and the panzers. And if you look at what happened in cities like Stalingrad, Warsaw, Manila, and Berlin, it's easy to see why the French didn't want to see Paris become a battleground.

He too...

LOL

Both sides would have been better of if Italy had stayed out of the war.

I know who you got that from

Stop with these boring jokes

@Gary Daniel Your mind... ah yes it doesn't exist

Me thinks it's too late

*Adolf Thanos snaps fingers*

Too late, French troops will fight to the end, but their officers have no fight left in them.

@Eric Frehlich the one and only

Its Too Late, Paris has been Conqueror by Jerries

imagine being alive back then and seeing this happen with The Great War still fresh in your memory. must have been stunning

​@@WorldWarTwoI can imagine the panic around the world. The world has seen stalemate in the last great war The speed at which France was conquered.... truly terrifying President Roosevelt asks Congress for $940 million dollars to construct 50,000 planes a year Also I believe there was the first peacetime draft in American history

Savage

That's a cursed comment! 🤬

because there was already lots of Roman ruins already in Britain.

He should have remembered the Italians never end a war on the losing side.

@@Ravengagepvl We did sit at the losers' table like any other Axis power, had to pay war reparations, write a new constitution, reduce military strength and so on. When looking at Italian co-belligerance with the Allies in late WW2, people tend to forget the small detail that Nazi Germany invaded us and went on an indiscriminate rampage against the civilian population. When that happens, you know, you may want to get rid of such issue before sorting out anything else.

Now you gotta wait 4 more years to hear those names again

Weird Al Spank a Bitch why what happens in 4 years?

@@JohnJohn-pe5kr spoilers

Pyres ∆t Varanasi you just spoiled the series

Interestingly, the French let Paris fall before they let Verdun fall.

Hail the Glory of Lichtenstein!

Chuckles* I'm in danger

Stalin: "Not Adolf, must be those British, American and Japanese imperialists."

And that day, in the midst of their triumph over France, was the day Hitler lost the war.

So he had a premonition of an attack but refused to believe it when the attack was taking place? He didn't see Barbarossa coming at all and it completely caught him off guard.

Nope

No but we are going to have incompetence in North Africa.

*Luigi Cadorna wants to know your location*

No, but Italy will still be incompetent at the leadership level.

We'll get the invasion of Greece instead

Britain decides: It shall leave the european continent, but not the European war

"No peace Deal with Germany" or just "No Deal with Germany"

Soon it will be 'Britain stands alone with its empire' hopefully 2nd alamein will be 'The empire strikes back'

WW3 will sound like : France and Germany fools UK to vote for self-destruction and for losing its power inside Europe. Special Agent , Monsieur Farage does his part flawlessly. UK is down and isolated, not single shot fired . Mission accomplished :D

Imagine if the peace negotiations went down like the actual Brexit negotiations: Germany: "Do you want a peace deal or no peace deal? Britain: "Yes." Germany: "What?" Britain: "I mean, maybe... Actually, can we have like a few more years to think this through?"

it's foreshadowing for how useful Italy will be in the war

One of those events was good for the axis, the other was not.

If you want to hear a lot about Italy you should wait for 1943, when Italy splinters: the legitimate government in the south fighting alongside the Allied, Mussolini's puppet government in the north, and Europe's second largest partisan movement.

@@alicetwain: Which partisan movement was smaller than the Italian one, the French or the Yugoslavian one?

@@seneca983 years late but it’s Yugoslavia, though keep in mind these “resistance movements” consisted of many different groups that sometimes even attacked each other

They'll only get worse with the declaration of war on Greece.

@@spookyanarchist4167 France already surrendered when Italy entered the war so how do you declared war on a already defeated enemy?

@@Crashed131963 france surrendered to the germans. Not the italians. The northern army was defeated. But france still had a army down south that defended well against the italians.

@@spookyanarchist4167 The Greeks knew how to fight. Even though the Germans would be along eventually, and that was an impossible task. As it happened, the casualties the axis sustained through these numerous 'victories' in 1939-1941 made a difference to the effectiveness of Barbarossa.

@@htemachtigekanaal1542 What are you talking about? The "southern" army was only few men defending the southern borders. The "northern army" was basically the French army.

Kkk

Frühling in Paris...... ;)

Surely it’s summer by now?

Official summer doesn't start until June 21-22.

It is winter for Poland and France

We'll always have Paris

Damn 😂

Not yet

Erwin Rommel has disconnected :D

Italy, Germany's unblockable pop-up ad.

That was actually one most competent Germany's allies. From Horn of Africa to the Russian steppes, Italian soldier fought equipped with mostly home-produced stuff. Who else did that? Mighty and praised Finns did not even pushed for Leningrad, Archangielsk or Murmansk.

Urban combat was not usually a feature of WW1, but it was much more prevalent in WW2.

I wonder that too... *whistling* 😗

Foreshadowing

@@kaczynskis5721 seems like they would have been better off to soround the city then deal with it.

Paris was entirely designed for artillery combat by the baron Hausman. The large avenues like the famous Champs Elysées aren't designed to be pretty but in a military 19th century point of view. A very hard city to take by urban combats in my opinion. Cf. the Commune of Paris war in 1871.

Actually Rommel told her in French, 'No, madame, we are Germans." She then fled, saying, "Oh, the barbarians!"

RexXflash it’s actually r/whoosh

@RexXflash r/wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh

@RexXflash You fucking moron... -__-

English and Germans do look alike though..

wow just as long as I've been alive.

Yeah. I was a bit surprised that the team didn't mention it or the related Soviet pressure towards Finland. Perhaps it will be recapped later on.

On top of that US did not have any instant reaction or helping force yet. US Army had barely 100.000 men and badly equipped in 1940 summer with no practical training or experience. (selective service act and draft started in July 1940 I believe) Army air forces was very weak. Navy could not help for a land campaign

Well, assuming you don't count Teddy, because for all intents and purposes, he did serve 8 years as President, just minus 6 months. And he did run for another term. Of course, it wasn't a successful run, but it was a run nonetheless. YMMV.

​@@merdiolu Spoiler Alert: I will say though as Indy has mentioned the Italian economy was in no way ready for total war, that is one thing Roosevelt has going for him later is the strength of the U.S. economy. tbh everybody thinks Hitler was great for the German economy, at no time during the Nazi rule did German economic output even come close to that of the U.S.

@mjstbnsn That's not legal anymore, because of Roosevelt, tbh he should not have run in 44 knowing he was so ill.

@@paradoxless5596 It was legal then

Rommel: "I am speed"

Someone pls add the "running in the 60's" on the rommel's movement troops

@@drmaulana2600 no

They are the Panzer Elite! Born to compete! Never retreat!

Ghost Division!

@@Madhattersinjeans yea but i doubt that the french would fail so hard in africa as the italians did.

@@Madhattersinjeans France got beaten by Germany. Italy got beaten by... Greece.

@@brucetucker4847 *Zorba intensifies*

WW1 had very good generals for the most part. Especially Britain

Cadorna: I'm so proud of my students.

I dunno man, it's looking pretty grim. The British are leaving (again) and the French are in full retreat. Maybe they can set up some kind of defensive line along the Loire River... Maybe...

Nah, nobody is interested in helping France, clearly. Britain will soon agree to a peace with minor concessions, and then Germany can finish off France. This war is over. Peace will come back to Europe soon.

Don't worry ! Philippe Pétain will push them back like he did at Verdun in 1916

Add to that that if Italy joined the war, maybe Franco might bring Spain into it as well. If Britain loses Gibraltar, you can be damn sure they will make peace with Germany. I honestly think we're gonna see a Nazi-dominated fascist Europe soon lads

Well, the Germans are obviously overextended just like they were after the Spring Offensive 1918, I am certain that the Allies will be able to counterattack them decisively, just like the first time.

Gonzo Especially WWI veterans. The last time it became a stalemate. This time the Germans are cutting through with relative ease.

Can you imagine the panic around the world. Never before in the history of the world was such warfare seen. You should listen to the speech by president Roosevelt in 1940. He asked Congress for $940 million to build 50,000 planes a year. Also the first peacetime draft in American history.

Well when Germany offers a peace treaty I guess 😉

It's an abomination! Ruthless and tact less! He obviously has no shame in life!

And four years later the same thing on the Allies side

Yeah, Britain lost their foothold on the continent and their military intelligence had actually doubled the number of planes Germany had and so they thought they lost control of the air too and thus their only advantage was the Sea and they would make damn sure that they had dominance of that even if they had to do immoral things, so while an unfortunate incident I think it is understandable.

Thats fake

Its fake, look on Wikipedia

Actually not, that never happened, it's a fake news put forward by some angry french nationalists. In fact if u look online for this event you won't find any source at all despite memes. www.quora.com/Did-9-French-soldiers-really-hold-off-5-000-Italians-during-WW2

it happened, it was at the saint louis bridge, its was actually 2000 italians that attacked the fort and the french soldiers also had the artillery support of neighboring fortresses, it was part of a bigger battle thats why you can't find info about it

@@Matt.71 it was 1000+ french soldiers and 2000 italians, 700 french casualties and 300 prisoners vs more or less the same italians, italy won the battle

yeah , Highland Division picked the short stick

Yes indeed still fighting ten days after Dunkirk

Yes, my father was taken in St Valery, he was with the Northumberland Fusiliers. 4 years POW then escaped to fight with the Russians in 44. 51st were let down badly, the opportunity was there to get them out but Churchill kept them there to keep France in the war.

David Huntly, My grandfather was also captured at St Valery. The division was under overall French command who's ageing generals were not really up with real time events and gave the order to fall back much too late. They intended to withdraw to Le Havre where they were to be evacuated, however the roads were choked with slow moving with columns of horse drawn French troops and evacuees. Fast moving German forces then made evacuation at Le Havre impossible so they made for the little harbour town of St Valery where the Royal Navy was to take them off. Unfortunately a dense sea fog prevented the ships coming inshore, when the fog did lift the Germans had arrived and dominated the high cliff top where they could shell the ships. Churchill said in his memoirs that he was devastated at the loss of the division.

ShadowStormTTV obviously you’ve never seen hitler declare war on Russia while the allies are crossing the Rhine lol, HOI4 ai does a lot of stupid stuff it’s really funny sometimes

Of course he does. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vvI7slJtcio.html

The colonies would be a tug of war between adherents of Vichy and De Gaulle.

kaczynski S Didn’t happen with the Dutch or The Belgians. Because their governments were smart enough to evacuate in order to continue the fight.

@@kaczynskis5721 Wouldn't have happened so long as Reynaud was PM and not Pétain. The civilian and military authorities in the colonies were all in favor of continuing the fight, all they needed was for the government to say the word.

@@chrisd8866 HAH! Plently of colonial subjects wanted nothing to do with WW2.

@@youraverageimperialguard7932 Yet plenty did indeed fight for France in the end

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"Fight south of Paris"? With what? No more reserves, no more time to regroup and counterattack, thus no more hope for the French.

And most of their industry (Paris, northern and eastern France) in german hands.

Yea, maybe I should have made it more obvious, but I meant that jokingly

It was probably posed but a photo in the German propaganda magazine "Signal" showed a French veteran of the Franco-Prussian War having an apparently friendly chat with a young German soldier who had arrived in Paris. The age difference was about 70 years.

@@kaczynskis5721 Really? I'll have to find that

@@tomm9963 It was in "Signal - Years Of Triumph" - a selection of articles and photos from the English-language version of the magazine in 1940-42 - it was issued in many languages.

It would have seemed almost incomprehensible. Although it's true that France was beaten in 1870, that hadn't been an example of 'Total War', and, since it was determined in one engagement, could be seen as the misfortunes of war. France was Europe's premier military power from about 1660 to 1870, and the greatest of the Allied land powers in the Great War, and the greatest European land power in the interwar years to boot. It's a bit like the USA being conquered today (if that weren't a geographical impossibility). Nobody was prepared for such a defeat, because the most recent evidence they had to go on was that the French military was extremely formidable, and, superficially, nothing had changed. Rather than a reputation as 'surrender monkeys', the French in 1940 had a reputation of military glory and competence. The subsequent idea of the French as being surrender-prone derives partly from an attempt to diagnose the 1940 defeat (was it due to a national malaise, a collapse in morale?) And the long- lasting longevity of the 'French surrender' idea derives from the sheer perceived unliklihood of that rapid comprehensive German victory in 1940. Even in hindsight we could easily imagine the war becoming another long stalemate.

While dining with Churchill, Ribbentrop bragged that if war broke out, Germany would have Italy on her side. "That's only fair - we had them last time", replied Churchill.

@@neues3691 At least I can take Greece,right?

Ah there you are, been looking for you. It's ok, you know Dolfy is gonna carry you. Remember, at least you are not Canada, we are better then Britain and they treat us like shit. And we are their fucking son!

@@otakunthevegan4206 Hey, you guys had a couple of chances to join your ex-British neighbors to the south, but nooooo...

@@brucetucker4847 Well we were not a fan of the slavery thing you guys are into.

@@otakunthevegan4206 Neither was most of New England!

And what was the difference between 1914 and 1940? MORE COWBELL!!!

@@brucetucker4847 *Christopher Walken makes an appearance*

Ghost Division: Wildlands

Beaten by commies. And then by Tommies. And American bombies. *Me*

ROFL! 🤣 😂 😅

Rainer MTB unfortunately Britain is no longer a democracy. Parliament is not fit for purpose and free speech has been banned. Apart from that Britain is a great country - if you ignore the grotesque overcrowding of everything due to virtually unrestricted immigration. And when you think it couldn’t get worse, it turns out our immigrants are nearly all from ex Empire countries and hate the British with a vengeance. Still not to worry. The British will be extinct in 50 years or less. Makes you wonder why the British fought the Second World War. I think that if they knew what was going to happen they wouldn’t have bothered.

She's through now though eh'?

Many of the best French troops had gone into Belgium and even the southern Netherlands and been cut off by the 'sickle sweep'. Some had been evacuated to Britain and were in the process of being returned to France but like the British they had lost their heavy equipment. On the other hand, many German divisions, especially infantry, also consisted of relatively elderly reservists.

Those veterans of The Great War who fought at Verdun are wondering if Rommel picked up that mysterious troupe of musicians who performed on the battlefield. In 1916 the bullets would not touch them, is this same power protecting Rommel now?

That example goes to show if the French and British had better leadership/communication they couldve gone on to form the same partnership that 20 years earlier won the war on the western front of the somme and verdun. Alas it did not turn out that way.

British released most of Axis internees during 1942 - 1943 ( a lot of them served in British Armed Forces before or after that) and never requistioned their goods and properties though (unlike Japanese internees who had to start from zero after the war)

@@merdioluI only mentioned it because most people only have a condensed version of the war, unless a person wishes to find out more on their own. These side notes are interesting to me.

Other notable difference is that UK interned people based on person's nationality (current or possibly former), not on ancestry. As far as I understand, US interned people whose parents were from Japan multiple generations ago and had (grand)parents from other parts of the globe. It feels very odd that someone and person's parents that were born in US were seen as such an threat. Americans tend to use words like Japanese, French and Indian to describe ethnicity. In Europe, we usually use the words to indicate nationality. French citizen with parents from Japan is considered French, not Japanese. So Indy most likely means Italian citizens, not people with a ancestor from area of Italy.

Germans and Austrians, many of them Jews and anti-Nazi were interned on the Isle of Man. Others were sent by ship to Australia, sometimes with German and Italian POWs - at least one ship was sunk by a U-Boat. On one ship the guards seem to have been rejects from various British army units and regularly stole detainees' property - the Nazi press learned about British troops looting the property of Jews and indulged in malicious gloating about "Rauber bestehlen Gauner" ("Robbers steal from criminals").

Advancing enemy forces need a relaxing day at the beach too.

I can't hear of those Polish pilots without thinking "Repeat please!"

@@brucetucker4847 Yep!!!!

@@indiananeidell9186 Awesome!

Latvian here and had several relatives murdered by the Russians

@@kllk12ful I hate when russians try n say that the soviets were liberators when they were just another occupant force

@@capturedskunk7698 I also hate that the Russians try to defend their actions saying that they were the victims which really angers me because the baltic people were victims they just wanted to be left alone and yet Russia invaded us was brutal towards are people as they have the gall to say that they were innocent

@@kllk12ful exactly

*Sound of incoming 'aerial bread baskets'*

Yes, the dead bodies will make it a safe bridge to the French lands

Oh don't worry, italy has more than enough men like cadorna, rich, incompetent, corrupt, dumbasses who will be sure to waste many good men in a pointless fashion.

If there is one way to explain Malta in ww2 it was pretty much that pimple that never goes away and I am not to sure about if Malta got bombed more then london

From axis perspective

Julian Camilleri Huge respect to your grandfather and others who defended the beautiful island

I call Malta "Another isle of defiance in time of Tyranny"

The mother or grandmother of Maltese-American cartoonist Joe Sacco was on the island during its siege by Italy and Germany. She recalled walking along a road one day and a German fighter that had been dogfighting with British planes broke away and made two passes overhead strafing her. A Maltese peasant sheltered her with his body as the fighter machine-gunned the road. Neither was injured. She never saw the peasant again.

4. Most important question of all. Will you ever mention my country?

I was also hoping you would mention the 3 000 Tirailleurs Senegalais executed for having resisted the germans.

@@williamshortfilm5818 Also a smaller number of Moroccans and Algerians were killed after capture. Ironically, later in the war the Germans used some Moroccans and Algerians as troops or military auxiliaries, because their deteriorating situation made them desperate for cannon fodder, but in 1940 they killed quite a lot of them.

@@kaczynskis5721 I knew that some had also been brutaly murdered. But the Algerians and Morrocans made up almost 50% of the Free French army in 1943

A lot of prisoners were included in the French casualties.

What happened?