The Spectacular Fall Of Fascism In Italy | Battlezone | War Stories

Подписаться 932 тыс.

Просмотров 269 тыс.

50% 1

“We shall conquer!” These were the words of Benito Mussolini, known as Il Duce in 1940. But just three years later, on July 10th 1943, Allied troops led by Montgomery and Patton began to land in Sicily, completing one of the greatest amphibious operations ever attempted, and beginning The Battle of Italy. This sparked the end of the great facist dream in Italy and the new Roman Empire Mussolini had dreamt of. It was to be the beginning of the end for Il Duce.
War Stories is your one stop shop for all things military history. From Waterloo to Verdun, we'll be bringing you only the best documentaries and stories from history's most engaging and dramatic conflicts.
You can find more from us on:
/ warstoriesdocs
This channel is part of the History Hit Network. For any queries, please contact owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com. #warstories Discover the past on History Hit with ad-free exclusive podcasts and documentaries released weekly presented by world renowned historians Dan Snow, Suzannah Lipscomb, Matt Lewis and more. Get 50% off your first 3 months with code WARSTORIES bit.ly/3rc7nqm

Опубликовано:

23 сен 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 207

@WarStoriesChannel 3 года назад

📺 It's like Netflix for history... Sign up to History Hit the world's best history documentary service with code 'WARSTORIES' for a huge discount! bit.ly/2MNt3cM

@terrancebyron3840 3 года назад

i know it is kinda randomly asking but does anybody know a good site to watch new tv shows online ?

@kennethkyle1766 3 года назад

@Terrance Byron lately I have been using Flixzone. Just search on google for it :)

@marcelkayden4237 3 года назад

@Kenneth Kyle yup, I have been watching on Flixzone for since april myself :)

@terrancebyron3840 3 года назад

@Kenneth Kyle Thanks, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :) Appreciate it!

@kennethkyle1766 3 года назад

@Terrance Byron glad I could help =)

@catdude5567 3 года назад

The title of this video leads you to believe the video is about Mussolini, but is just an average video of WWII in Italy. Mussolini coverage amounted to about 2 to 3 minutes of the video. I consider this Click Bait!

@johnwright291 2 года назад

These are the documentaries that I watched as a kid and got me interested in ww2. What a treat to see them again. There's tons of footage that is lost to history and can be seen no where else.

@billytwoknives6495 3 года назад

Be advised: This is mostly about the battle for Italy. There's barely a mention of Mussolini.

@geraldmiller5232 3 года назад

thanks for the heads up. there are a lot of you tube videos that are a waste of time.

@BackBruck 3 года назад

Thanks 😊 so much RU-vid, so little time👍

@NickVenture1 3 года назад

Not much about the last days of the Duce in this movie.

@IMBrute-ir7gz 3 года назад

Yeah, what ever happened with that?

@NickVenture1 3 года назад

@@IMBrute-ir7gz ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1p1NMwyqclQ.html

@ddburdette 3 года назад

The description/title of this video is misleading. It does not deal at all with Mussolini's final days.

@malcolmallerton3946 3 года назад

I thought it was about the last days of Mussolini but it was not Please correct the heading

@dannynrny473 3 года назад

47:55 Italian Campaign virtually ended??? What about the Gothic Line Campaign??? Giogo Pass, Peabody Peak, Monticelli, Futa Pass, Monghidoro, Serchio Valley, Tavullia, Tavoleto, Gemmano, Coriano Ridge, Rimini, Monte Battaglia, The River Battles, 2nd Winter Line, Riva Ridge, Monte Belvedere, Monte Sole, Castel D'Aiano and many many more

@chrissweet5740 3 года назад

The Doc was made to gloss over the debacle that was the Italian campaign.

@michaelcelani8325 3 года назад

The Italian campaign was entirely W. Churchills obsession...and he was a TERRIBLE STRATEGIST !! WElost more than we gained going all the way up Italy. The Nazi's dug in and waiting with those very accurate 88mm AND 75 mm artillery were what Churchill did NOT think of....he was too busy knocking down his two bottles of French Brandy ! ...per day ! He was DRUNK .....

@michaelcelani8325 3 года назад

....Churchill called Italy .... " The soft underbelly " of Europe..... but he had his own underbelly on himself.....disgusting.

@LadyOaksNZ 2 года назад

Thanks 💯💯💯 a great documentary.. this was very enlightening.

@david2727 3 года назад

The music makes feel like a playing a sega game.

@rayhura66 3 года назад

dont like the music in this,and another voice over might be better

@david2727 3 года назад

@@rayhura66 might

@unitedwestand5100 3 года назад

These films were out many years before video games, or people had access to the internet. I still have the box set that came out on VCR tape. LOL

@KENACT1 3 года назад

I was going to say the music belongs in an episode of Davy and Goliath. Or maybe Gumby. Either way just one guy on a badly tuned Wurlitzer.

@silverdroid 3 года назад

It sounds like late 1960s analogue synthesizers, not low-bit digital. Probably recently influenced at the time by Switched on Bach.

@jayhockley8841 3 года назад

The Younger Generations should watch Historical Movies like this . It might help put a different perspective on the Price that others have paid for the Everyday Freedom that they take for Granted .

@thechetjr 3 года назад

How true. The youngsters today think the reality of war is digital "war" played on a computer where nobody gets hurt. They giggle like little children while the points add up.

@robbyducey 3 года назад

@@thechetjr thats blunt

@benmmbk765 3 года назад

WELL, there is NO way to THANK the SOLDIERS (of ANY country) that FIGHT for OUR freedom, OUR democracy, OUR RIGHTS, LIBERTY etc.

@tnekkc 3 года назад

I have a picture of dead upside down Mussolini taken by my uncle. Compared to the famous pics. it has different people in the background and different angles, but the dead people are the same.

@darrenmorgan870 3 года назад

My dad had his personal diary, with numbers of his generals and other important people in his life and some ladys names which was,nt his wife's if you know what i mean.

@tnekkc 3 года назад

@@darrenmorgan870 My father was in Italy in the last year of the war. He was a 22 year old second lieutenant. He was in Trieste. He got in a wreck with his jeep. He was injured, his driver was injured, and a girl was injured. My father was cheating on his Italian steady girl friend. Drinking was involved.

@davemojarra4734 3 года назад

The pics are funny af.

@michelleayres5608 3 года назад

Mussolini, his girlfriend and who's the other guy hanging by his feet?

@jameswilson3991 3 года назад

@@tnekkc my da was also there at that time with scots guards

@NellieGCabo 3 года назад

I love to watch "War Stories" like this and Documentaries alike.Thank you for posting.

@dillingersam588 3 года назад

Great video Thank you😀

@johnbellinger6524 3 года назад

"The quiet war" France declares war on Italy. Not a single bullet is fired for five years.

@SammyB-Habebe 3 года назад

Great footages

@inkyguy 2 года назад

One of the men in one of those bombers that rained down destruction on the Monte Casino monastery was Walter M. Miller who served as a radioman and tail gunner in a bomber crew. Miller was so affected by the needless and pointless destruction of the 1,300 year old medieval treasure of civilization (and the oldest existing Christian church in the world at the time) that it became the inspiration for his very popular and award winning 1959 post-apocalyptic novel entitled “A Canticle for Liebowitz,” which in part examines how humans build and destroy edifices, instituions and societies and destroy history with them only to begin all over again.

@stevesloan7132 3 года назад

The campaign was long, arduous and complex. But this film provides a good summary. Thanks!

@FMIFestival Год назад

Italy had Il Duce from 1927 until 1942. America had Il Douche from 2008 until 2016.

@mikemorris7247 3 года назад

Bombing the monastery at Monte Casino was as barbaric as anything the Nazis did. The Brits do have a history of this kind of behavior.

@84saints 3 года назад

Nobody died in that bombing sooooo

@84saints 3 года назад

@@kinglear5952 Pro tip: London Blitz reduced most of London to rubble. Allies bombings of Germany and Japan also cause widespread destruction.

@kinglear5952 3 года назад

Not quite Auschwitz but horrifying all the same

@mariastevens1774 2 года назад

As a Atheist religion means nothing to me, but the bombing of the ancient and much loved Monte Cassino Abbey was totally indefensible.

@SuperGreatSphinx 5 месяцев назад

Hail Mary

@DaveSCameron 3 года назад

I read that the partisans who discovered Benito and Klara screamed out "Yay We Have Found Big Head!" Adds a little humour to the otherwise murderous and treacherous War...

@fastyaveit 3 года назад

42:12 a Fallschirmjäger was wounded and captured by the poles, a POW in the UK then decided to stay after the war, moved to Newcastle, he has been interviewed many times, I can't get my head around the fact he now talks with a thick Geordie accent :)

@ahmadillo4959 3 года назад

Don’t suppose you know his name or have a link to one of his interviews?

@fastyaveit 3 года назад

@@ahmadillo4959 Private Robert Frettlow 4th parachute regiment www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80018706 he was also interviewed for Monte Cassino The soldier's story but only spoke German in that one

@Canadian_Skeptical 3 года назад

Dave, My Grandad, from Dorset, sister married a German POW. It's good we live in these times where Germany and Italy are our friends.

@mauriceharvey4300 3 года назад

Very interesting documentary but I wanted to know what happened to Mussolini. He was only mentioned at the start. This documentary is wrongly titled surely? Never mind, it was worth watching.

@rocksandoil2241 3 года назад

Doesn't mention "El Duce" until the end...unimpressed.

@NeuroDeviant421 3 года назад

Didn't anyone show Churchill a map of italy? I mean, there's mountains there.

@davidschauster1806 2 года назад

Great doco. Shame they couldn't get the aspect ratio right 👎

@larrylaurenzi1625 3 года назад

It seems to me the destruction of the abbey and town was the result of frustration & anger from the failures of the attack plans of the allied generals and the high cost of blood with those failed attacks. Those two things made it necessary to have the town and abbey wiped from the face of the earth despite being strategic disasters. Fitting that General Clark barely got 1 days press coverage for taking Rome, especially since so many countries had troops fighting there. He barely got to his hotel room and the D-Day invasion began. Churchill wanted to attack Germany through the Balkans, so British & American armies would be with the Russian army preventing Stalin from taking all of Eastern Europe. Stalin wanted them to go through France for a two front war and for the USSR to capture all of Eastern Europe. Franklin chose to agree with Stalin setting the stage for the Cold War to follow.

@bookaufman9643 3 года назад

I found all of these big battles episodes on double DVD set available in my local supermarkets cheap video Ben. I think I paid $3 for the set. It's crazy how many of these other companies like war stories just rip off the big battles episodes. They don't even hide the initial trailer from you. It's just repackaged stuff from the 50s maybe the 60s. It's strange because Amazon does the same thing. They have these 5-hour episodes that are all just battle zone but their marketed as mother Russia and time to fight and all sorts of things there's about six of them. Quite often different episodes or different programs I mean will have the same episodes in them.

@michaelcelani8325 3 года назад

Thanks Boo !!*

@OneOfThoseTypes 3 года назад

What's with the soundtrack? Was this made in the 70s?

@keshavsharma524 3 года назад

when was this documentary made

@syedadeelhussain2691 3 года назад

Akin to WW1, where the Austro Hungarians were up against the Italians, across the Carpathian Range; this again was probably the most difficult front, due to the tricky mountainous terrain, where the Germans resisted with courage, fanaticism, and skill. Of course, it's completely crazy to expect an Army, to win a war without CAS Close Air Support, and an aerial interception. Most of the time, the Wehrmacht was fighting without air cover.

@santhoshsathyan6888 3 года назад

Can you also make a video about the indo-pak-war of 1965. And why i ask this because there were three tanks battles happened in the war of 1965 and by the way india and pakistan can still start a war

@stephenbrand5661 3 года назад

I'm pretty sure this channel is just uploading documentaries that were made several decades ago. They aren't actually producing new content.

@robertparmenter 3 года назад

Overall, this was a misleading piece .For ex, It gives the impression the landing at Anzio was rebuffed - but the Allies did eventually fight their way out. It also allows General Mark Clark to give himself free passes - this man was a shameless self promoter. He had the chance to encircle and trap Kesselring's troops at Monte Casino but instead chose to dash off to Rome (an open city) in order for the photo-op of "liberating" Rome (he had big political ambitions). This lengthen the war in Italy by many months, perhaps even the war itself. Countless soldiers died unnecessarily to feed his ego.

@FeldwebelWolfenstool 3 года назад

..got into something way over his head, and he paid the ultimate price...

@donnuele7693 3 года назад

RIP TO THIS GREAT MAN THE LAST OF CESARS ✋🏻🇮🇹🖤

@glennmcdonald2028 3 года назад

Italians are not fighters...

@alanwilson6367 Год назад

Wonderfull presentation.thank you.

@chrissweet5740 3 года назад

Doc is about the Italian campaign. It is not about Mussolini.

@Tarumarugan 3 года назад

Why does Mussolini enter like he’s wwe wrestler?

@theodorekiggarand6484 3 года назад

He was replicating the persona/gestures of a popular Italian actor in some movie. I don’t remember the name of either though.

@OneOfThoseTypes 3 года назад

Because his brain was 13 years old, the type who would be impressed by wrestlers.

@vcom2327 Год назад

The mindless American military destroys a magnificent 1300 year old monastery for absolutely no reason. Zero military gain. Incredible.

@ummglick 3 года назад

The more things change the more they remain the same

@antonioromano9963 2 года назад

the Polish with a brown bear took Montecassino (3d division)

@danielarevalo6222 3 года назад

The music is nauseous

@mathieu564 3 года назад

The documentary is fine. But the title is definitely misleading. The Monte Cassino period is well known with books and documentaries. But the Gothic line, Salo republic and the death of Il Duce has attracted much less interest and I was hopeful this one would correct that. It did not.

@alanhopgood1888 3 месяца назад

As the Germans said to the British, "When you open fire, we put our heads down, and when we open fire you put your heads down. But when the Americans open fire we both put our heads down!"

@bweeks-marshall3826 3 года назад

This is NOT about the Last Days of Mussolini ...You SHOULD change the Title!

@dr.barrycohn5461 3 года назад

Background music too loud and sucks.

@ilokivi 3 года назад

Interesting juxtaposition of a documentary on the end of Mussolini's life with advertisements by Rose and Farage.

@philippinestroppoholic7996 3 года назад

Quite amazing how it took the combined efforts of several countries to defeat Germany and Japan. No one country could have done it alone, showing how tough the enemy actually was. Just saying …

@dar4431 3 года назад

No, America could have knocked each one out one at a time. The difference is the allies cared about their men dying and want to keep the numbers down when the axis countries didn't care how many of their people died military or civilian as long as they won

@JoseGarcia-xf5gk 3 года назад

@@dar4431 Soviet Union:Hold my beer

@havanadaurcy1321 Год назад

@@dar4431 Murica who was scared of Allande so they killed him brought in a fascist 😂😂

@thomasbeck8326 3 года назад

Famous last words of Mussolini, " it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt"🤷‍♂️😉

@lucaschiantodipepe2015 3 года назад

You mean "Mussolini premiership". Italy had yet a soveraign (king Victor manuel lll).

@invinoveritas6859 Год назад

Things aren't always as they appeared or seems.The crowd that cheered for him today can also do the unimaginable to him the very next day....🤨

@lauroxicotencatlreyesmarqu931 3 года назад

whats with the video game music yall

@p.s.h.3913 3 года назад

Mussolini says "We shall conquer "

@tdirtyatl 3 года назад

LOL

@baronedipiemonte3990 3 года назад

He conquered a bunch of unarmed, untrained africans. Takes a big fearless man to do that

@fleuelise1852 3 года назад

The same people shouting DUCE DUCE were the same folks who made a pinàta out of him a few years later 🤣🤣😣

@kiwiuncut 3 года назад

They needed to get the title right

@donisdon5676 3 года назад

Reqest invation of 🇵🇭.. Of Japan 🇯🇵 pls....

@emadec1 3 года назад

Interresting but not that much to do with the title and even with Mussolini, more with the Sicilain and Italain campaigns

@GG-hu9dn Год назад

It now needs to fall in the UK in pretty much the same style...Brutally?!

@csnocke5 3 года назад

Mussolini was such a creep. His swagger makes me laugh

@srfrg9707 3 года назад

The guy who tried to invade Greece and failed.

@AntnyDsmn 3 года назад

That is true.

@alaingingras7224 3 года назад

HORRIBLE BACKGROUND MUSIC...

@lawrencetate1329 2 года назад

The destruction of Monte Casino would be forgivable if there was a good reason. The way it stands, it's a crime against humanity. Thus, "I was just following orders" is no defense.

@robertoorsi5771 3 года назад

Duce comes from latin dux ducis, in english leader or duke.

@fabiosunspot1112 3 года назад

The french will never get over the humiliation of defeat by germany,the world would never respect France in the way it used to so the french decided to prove it's was still a force to be reckoned with and creates another disaster in Indochina and lost terribly🤭

@AlanOLeary209 3 года назад

10 views 18 likes... Ratio'd

@tnekkc 3 года назад

Crooked as a dog's leg, and I have been a GOOG investor since 2004.

@hermandadams 3 года назад

cant get rid of the feeling of a certain political narrative about these put cleverly together stories of war cant pin it down but it's there with the Carnival music track

@clarkhull7546 3 года назад

Forza Italia! Wait... we're alot better with pasta

@nobodyknows3180 3 года назад

LOL! How does this video have 8 views and 16 likes?

@snafubar5491 3 года назад

It's the 'New Math' that educators praise so much. Part of the 'No Child Left Behind' programs in the schools these days.

@nobodyknows3180 3 года назад

@@snafubar5491 actually, the term 'The New Math' dates back much further than that. I remember in the fourth grade in 1972 seeing that and asking my teacher what it meant - she didn't know.

@davemojarra4734 3 года назад

If one hits "Like" before 5 seconds, the like registers before the "view". Some folks hit like immediately after hitting "start".

@andreasleonardo6793 3 года назад

Mussolini throwing semi weakened and semi poorness Italian population to fire flames of axis countries disasters through his illness races dream to rising up another Roman umpire...in Mediterranean sea shores...

@normancastelli3546 3 года назад

Excellent editing but the worst music I have ever heard. WTF

@thereilneid2868 3 года назад

Love this channel but the music in this video caused my ears to bleed. F'ing horrible. I made it thru 20 min only.

@jonathanchartrand3351 3 года назад

I thought this was supposed to be about the last days of the Duce.

@boandlkramer2539 2 года назад

That is NOT true ☝️ See the elections from September 2o22☝️ VIVA Italia 🍀

@tribblebooth1224 2 года назад

Currently, it looks like the Italians are going for another bash at it. They never learn.

@infledermaus 3 года назад

The last days of Il Douche.

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 3 года назад

Nice historian video with clear explaining of Italian Liberation from Fascist regime Mr CHARCHILL considered collapse of Fascist Regime its enough for whole Liberation of Italy it was known that Italy was weak in every fields But not suspected strong interference of Nazism authority changed operation or camping to tough

@cdcopley8207 3 года назад

Misleading title. Very little about Mussolini. Mostly about the Sicily and Italian campaigns. Didn't even show the capture and execution of IL Duce! Thumbs down.

@joehernande-721 3 года назад

The real troops responsible for the release of Mussolini were the Fallscshirmjager were the real heroes Otto skorseny who wanted to showboat and climbed into the Fiesler storch being a huge man with Mussoline the plane barely took of from the gran sasso

@malcolmallerton3946 3 года назад

A German and a American in two different Fox holes the German shouts at the American what you think of your allies american reply you can have them back German shouts back don’t want them you can keep them Now that is actually a true story not a joke

@forlornhope1521 3 года назад

Huh?

@floydhlungwani3133 Год назад

Good thing that's not a joke. Cause that's lame asf

@rabbitss11 3 года назад

Someone's busy with their little Bontempi organ

@jimmyguitar2933 3 года назад

It showed everything except the last days of Il Duce. ⁉️

@anfrankogezamartincic1161 11 месяцев назад

O yes, Benito got what he deserved. He enslaved my region for too long. Many Italians still think Croatian coast belongs to them. Well, you are wrong. Nothing against Italians as a nation, i speak their language, love their music and art. La cucina anche. Ciao amici, Gianfranco

@imfakestation4550 9 месяцев назад

History is written by the victors.

@davecopp9356 3 года назад

To all german soldiers: RIP and thank you for your service. You gave it all with honor and loyalty, even when outnumbered on all fronts, till the bitter end. Respect.

@chaouich7918 3 года назад

Thé end..

@petertuffley7475 3 года назад

What's this about "Maoris and New Zealanders"? Maori ARE New Zealanders - and they were there centuries before white New Zealanders got there.

@alicetango6725 3 года назад

according to the tuhoe tribe white red heads were there before them and they are the first Polynesians that made their way to new Zealand

@havanadaurcy1321 Год назад

Until the years of lead at least.

@TheYeti308 3 года назад

Instead of a BMT, how about an anchor.

@biswaprads 6 месяцев назад

B.j.p's real trump card is Lotus ....but it starts with P🙂

@Jonathanbegg 3 года назад

There's something wrong with the proportions. The men look foreshortened.

@shea086 Год назад

What a joke. The Empires didnt go to all that trouble for the "Little People". Dont forget it was the little people who did all the Empire,s fighting and dying for them. Never Again.