The Atlantic Wall: The Nazi Defence of Europe 

@History Thoughts Sadly we are on the way to repeat the cycle again, due to re writings and ideology instead of truth and desire to actually make a change in the future NOT just the writings of the past.

In reality, Rommel wasn't that great of a General. Like most propaganda, ya go with what you have,otherwise Africa would have gone differently. Yeah, he was sick,and recalled, but if you look at his body of work,ultimately, he lost. Yes I recognize the victors write the history, but he was an average Commander, who out ran his supplies, a rookie mistake.

@History Thoughts Guess that whole History diploma from a southern military college comes in handy occasionally. Lol... Capt.Bob, SV (Sailing Vessel) 27th Chance, Tampa Fl. USA 🇺🇸 Full disclosure, my grandfather was captured at Stalingrad. Mom's dad ..

Trump Hitler Stalin. Walls Walls Walls

@@spada. Walls don't just keep people out. They keep people in. 🙄

@History Thoughts the beginning of the reign of nazism over Europe was the moment when Czechoslovakia including all the weapons, equipment and large industry was GIVEN to Germany by Munich deal.

And the Siegfried line

Americans and Commonwealth forces smash through the Atlantic Wall, Maginot Line and then the Siegfried line... 😧

Comment of the hour !!!!

@History Thoughts The Maginot Line didn't fall, held up pretty well so much so the Germans went through another country to avoid it.

Can you blame the man though? Taking Paris is a major victory.

couldn't take a selfie on top tho

@@theangryotaku3361 if he walked up the stairs he could have. The French had damaged the lift specifically to make it much harder to use it in propaganda.

@@jouebien i know, my favourite part is the fact that the lift "mysteriously" started working the day the allies took paris

Imagine one where he’s holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa

Just for curiosity , what did you think it was ?

@@prateek4279 as kids we just thought the bunkers were like playgrounds, lots of dark rooms to play hide and seek and scare your friends. There's even a place here that hosts BB gun fights in one of the old bunkers called the Mirus Battery. We'd have birthday parties there and kids still do. Just part of growing up on Guernsey!

That is amazing... So cool

@Schlomo Baconberg Errrm... what?

I assumed when you said found out about the dark history you meant the slave labour. used to build them. Men starved to death building those bunkers and they were never used. Hitler was obsessed with it as it was his one little part of Britain. I'm really just going on the documentary "Hitler's Island Madness." It interviews some of the survivors and locals about the horrific conditions. This one in fact - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jtgzh6_czNQ.html

Awesome

most of the megaprojecta were made by the nazis and cold war era americans and comunists.

He said nazis and there where pictures of Hitler. Not sure it only hovered

@@enjibkk6850 The only thing preventing YT from rolling their face all over the demonetized button was the fact that their algorithm doesn't have a face programmed in yet.

@@steeljawX I imagine it's a clone of Zuckerberg but it has Trump's voice.

As long as the content boils down to 'mustache man bad', the WONDERFUL people at RU-vid will be as happy as pigs in sh**.

yeah its what holds the sand aggregate and steel together i would know ive mixed my fair share by hand not a very enjoyable task on a hot day

I definitely, 100%, knew this... 100%.

@@megaprojects9649 Yep, Simon told me all about the difference just the other day, video coming soon on side projects lol

Pushing that envelope.

At this point, I’m starting to think Simon IS the RU-vid algorithm. But maybe that’s cos I’m stuck in a Business Blaze, Geographics, Biographics, Casual Criminalist, TIFO, Megaprojects and Side Projects binge I’ll probably never get out of!

He's got all the "right" opinions so he will be fine

The RU-vid algorithm is trying to white wash history to protect sensitive snowflake eyes and ears

@@AutisticCat Dunno, with what is going on today in the US a good chunk of the population already forgot their history (or more likely, never taught the deeper details).

Random measurement comparisons are kind of a tradition here, like how many horses does an SR-71 weigh.

@@kevintemple245 using 1500 pounds for average horse I get about 93.3 horses!

Apparently the concrete required to repair thd ruir dams after the RAF destroyed them significantly interrupted the construction of the Atlantic Wall.

He's trying to get the scale in our head, saying 7 times would be to detract from the statement. Unless the video is about the hoover dam, but it's not

Hey thanks for that info! When he was doing the concrete comparison I actually wondered why he didn't use a more useful comparison like the hoover dam lol

A truely cruel fate.. Glad to know he survived ✌️

Megaprojects: building the distillery that supplies the booze to play this game.

I'm not a drinker. I do bongers. I figure it balances out the brain cells.

This legend.

Thank you for this

Unrelated but VW's most produced part is currywurst.

shnitzel

They would probably serve Bratwursts made in to meatballs.

Good idea, but mentioning it triggers Americans.

Here in Holland, there still pretty much bunkers to see, although a part is buried by the authorities under a thick layer of sand because they are unstable and to dangerous to get in.

The Channel Islands still have hundreds of bunkers and the wall is pretty much intact. This is an excellent documentary on it. I guess each local area cleared up what they wanted to clear but many bunkers were just left or filled in. They are literally everywhere. Clearing mines was a slow careful job by hand and I remember them still finding mines, even the big floating mines when I was a kid. They find unexploded WW2 bombs literally every few months. They blew up a WW2 bomb a couple of weeks ago here in the UK. ttps://ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jtgzh6_czNQ.html

This is them blowing up a WW2 bomb they found in the UK only a couple of weeks ago. This was a British bomb dropped from a damaged British plane returning from a bombing mission but German ones are also found. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-57953506

Danish West Coast is still littered with hundreds of these indestructible bunkers. Ironically the Nazis forced us both building and paying that useless megalomaniac project ... Nazi siblings in fourth generation are now happy invading these fine beaches, and leaving each summer 🥳👙⛱️💶💶💶

German pows did lots of the work

You're new here, aren't you? Random measurement comparisons are kind of a tradition with this channel.

That’s not Yankee Stadium being shown at 10:20 either; the stadium shown in the video here is The Polo Grounds. The Polo Grounds was home to the New York Giants baseball team, although the Yankees also played here from 1913 to 1922, most pertinently while Yankee Stadium was under construction from 1922 until its completion in 1923.

WWII on novice mode...got it ;)

@Grand Master he would have still lost. The allies had overwhelming power at this point.

@@MrPancake777 Depends, If France Belgium were liberated with no attack threat would the Western powers gone for a peaceful settlement allowing the regieme to retain a (united?) Germany ?

In real,life if the panzers were closer and used early could have pushed us into the sea

No

well....they have given birth to a guy who likes a good pun and history

If you aren't fed up with that sort of joke your dad has failed you! :P

@John Barber salt.

What exactly made you think about Disney land? Not THAT close to this video's subject... 🤔😉 I mean - disney land probably has some nice walls to keep people from entering the park without paying, but probably they are a wee bit smaller than the atlantic wall?! 😅

For that matter, Phantasialand, Grona Lund, or Cedar F***ing Point.

@@alexandergaus493 Ha ha! Good point! It is a weird transition to bring up Disneyland on a video about the Natzi Atlantic Wall. I think it was because I saw a video from Disneyland before this video. However I still think it would make a good Megaprojects video!

@@alaeriia01 I don't think those places made such an impact to family culture or pop culture as Disneyland has. They also aren't nearly the tourist destination as Disneyland or Disneyworld has.

@@chrisyanover1777 oh, you want something with an _impact,_ do you? The best themed amusement park in the world, a park that ran out of space four roller coasters ago, or what happens when you give a small park an unlimited budget doesn't cut it? Let's try der Efteling, the legendary Dutch park that was the inspiration for Disneyland. Or perhaps Energylandia, which opened in 2014 and already has more coasters than anywhere else in the world with the exception of SFMM.

Maga projects??? You must be referring to the failed Mexican wall.

Unfortunate typo lol

I live almost next to the museum and gun position here in Møvik, Norway. I recommend that you visit as we have a great outdoor museum with trails between all the positions, an ammunition train, and the actual gigantic cannon as opposed to Denmark. We also have the gigantic casemate that was supposed to house one of the four cannons, of which only one arrived in time, which is the one still standing today.

@@tobiaseilertsen06 does Møvik actually provide what the name indicates... 🤩🧚

When Hitler realised doubts became facts he made Hitler disappear. Consequent leadership ...

@@cauyawolfe4724 both.

There’s a Tolkien joke in here somewhere but I can’t form the words

Close, we punched through like morons. They went around. We had deceit, and enough blood and metal. they had strats and enough blood and metal

@@edew9180 I find it difficult to comprehend what was moronic about destroying the transportation system supporting the wall. Dropping 20,000+ troops in advance behind the wall the night before to seize and/or neutralize key objectives. Pummelling the wall by air in advance of a troop assault. Using a huge concentration of battleships, cruisers and destroyers to provide targeted tactical support in breaching the wall and securing the lodgement. All this through detailed meticulous planning. What was 'moronic'?

Always wondered an alternative history where Belgium did build their part of the line instead of leaving it wide open what would the Germans had done

So maybe it's France that can't be defended and not a statement of how these two lines fell. I mean, even in WW1 they were just outside Paris.

@@edew9180 Yes, the Allies should've just gone around the Atlantic Wall. Which direction though? North or South Pole?

Playing 2nd fiddle.

Don’t tell people how old you are. It’s your secret, keep them guessing. M.

I thought history, as taught in school, was boring as hell, but since graduating, lo, a half-century plus ago, I find myself watching and learning about stuff that only vaguely interests me _because I never know when it'll give me insight into something that_ *does* _interest me._ To quote Nero Wolfe, fictional detective, "The more you put into your brain, the more it will hold." It couldn't hurt, right?

yeeah trying this for over half a year....maybe some day

Yeah not a lot of people realise just how deadly a sling can be.

@@cass7448 I'm still trying to figure out how a yo-yo worked as a weapon---and don't have a clue about boomerangs as weapons or otherwise. But slings---oh, yeah! Fast, accurate, and deadly.

@@oldenweery7510 I can never get the aim and release on a Sling.

@@highpath4776 I never tried one. Probably would've killed the neighbor's cat--behind me--or put a knot on my own head. I wasn't too bad with an old Remington single shot, bolt action .22, shooting at targets, but the one time I went hunting rabbits and squirrels, by the time I got the twist safety on the back of the bolt turned, the bunny was in the next county. Did make some tasty squirrel soup, one time, when friends visited me and went on the same mission. They plunked 'em down on my sink drain counter and said to do something with 'em, so I took tweezers and picked off all the damn guard hairs (autumn hunting season), cut 'em up, and added 'em to a big pot of Lipton's Chicken Soup Starter (1970's). Damn fools wouldn't even try it, but I enjoyed it for quite a while.

Heimatschuss became a term in Stalingrad for soldiers wounding themselves, to be send out for safety behind the lines.. A sure death sentence when a doctor diagnosed the deserter. Either executed right away or escorted direct to the front line.

Why? Hardly well known, outside of the false claims made about it. Sure, it was fast , but claims have been exaggerated.

Lots of them still exist.

The french tore them down

What, he should only do stuff on the Soviets?

I hope you are feeling patient, you could be waiting a long time for that “success”.

He did it on Geographics a year ago

@@sandybarnes887 you are right. Thank you!

@@chrisyanover1777 you are most welcome. I'm glad I could help

Ooooooooooh yeah!!!!!

My dad was a child in Jersey during the war, I thought the allies decided to starve the Germans out after D day. They didn't get supplies for about 6 months (December 1944). Churchill, "Let 'em starve. They can rot at their leisure."