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19405る9ら May the 9th, 1940
猭瓣马 A little French town
Τ帝猭瓣担 with little French children
硂祅马 A town in the Ardennes
禯瞒㎝猭瓣ゴ紈瓣ぃ环 not far from Germany which is at war with France
ち常繰 but thing's been quiet
瞷ゎ Until now
狟ね临琌俱霍逼れ甹 so the children continue to line their clogs up neatly
厩ρ畍弧 and their school teacher says
¨иさぱ璶厩钮簈р㎝キ盿ㄓ〃 "Today we'll learn a nice song to bring peace back to us."
¨れ案刮刮锣...〃 "round, round, round, go the puppets"
硂盢琌程绑揭 This will be the last class.
¨Ω驹币ボ魁〃 Apoclypse Second World War
19405る10ら The 10th of May, 1940
Ν贬5翴35だ at 5:35am
紈瓁祇笆ю阑 the Germans unleash their offensive
¨检毖〃 Collapse of France
¨19405る10ら〃
紈瓁呈颤孽 German paratroopers are dropped into Holand.
琌網场钉 They're the vanguard.
3κ窾獻瓁材у The first of three million invaders.
瓣ň瓁秈ゑ The Wehrmacht marches into Belgium.
硂琌疭扒护荤 This is Hitler's decoy.
紈瓁安杆璶钩1914ê妓 The Germans pretend that they're going to attack France
禫いミゑю阑猭瓣 through neutral Belgium as they did in 1914.
幅瓁羆猭瓣ヌソ狶盢瓁獺み骸骸 The French General Gamelin commandering chief of the allied forces is confident.
暗ちň称 He has everything covered.
硂安驹篈い稬秸郸菠 He fine tunes strategies during the phony war.
¨19405る10らゑ〃
ヌソ狶盢瓁р程糉甡诀笆 Gamelin moves his best motorized divisions
猭瓣嘲瓁底璣秸笆秈ゑ the elite French Army into Belgium
硈俱璣瓣环┖瓁 along with the entire British expeditionary force.
硂ㄇ琌藕玦到驹 These are fighting soldiers with true great.
盢ゎ紈瓁玡秈ゑ They will stop the German advance through Belgium.
疭扒羆场猤猤尺 But Hitler in his headquarters is gloating.
护荤 His decoy worked.
¨ие尺伐τ猒〃 He exclaims "I could weep for joy."
揣瓁む狶じ He instructs ???? Marshal Galin who commands the airforce
ぃ璶臚猭瓁羇钉 not to bomb the French columns.
琵瞏ゑ to let them proceed deep into Belgium territory
礛パ羖ю阑 and he attacks them from the rear.
痷タю墩盢琌禫祅 His real offensive will be through the Ardennes
沮猭瓁程蔼揣场┮弧 According to French high command
荡礚㈱禫硂ㄇ此狶璟盞℡ no tank could ever get through those densely forest hills
紈瓁馋ぇ眘 But nothing stops them,
埃砆峨 except their own traffic jams.
ぇ丁颤孽㎝ゑ Meanwhile, in the Netherlands and Belgium
Τó穖発螟 people who own cars are among the first flee.
產常砆胔好 Everyone is suspected.
斑ㄤいΤ蠢洪暗ㄆ材き羇钉丁恳 A so called fifth column is feared spys working for the Nazis
紈瓁膥尿硂秸瞒驹砃 The Germans continue their diversionary tactics
ノ疭癡场钉獻ゑ invading Belgium with specially trained airborne forces
猧孽ヴ叭いまぎ蔼簈 The sappers belt out their song from the campaign Poland
¨╧舧稲絯絯в〃 "The girls will have to wait, comrades"
¨驹初丁в〃 "It's time to go, comrades"
5る11ら瘆惧だ On the 11th of May a daybreak
ゑ They are dropped into Belgium.
ヘ夹琌юゑň縨闽龄 Their goal is to capture the linchpin of the Belgium defense system.
ㄈ疭笲猠︺セ︺μ焊璶峨 Fort Eben Emael on the Albert Canal
沮弧琌螟ю炒 which is reputed to be impregnable.
礚紈瓁盿帝脄吊娥郴狠 An intrepid German soldier heaves himself onto the top of the turret with loaded explosives.
┖狝溜˙ゑ︺セ︺μ焊璶峨紀糣 The conquerors stride through the ruins of Fort Eben Emael the key to Belgium.
硂摸紇钩盢ゴ硑紈瓣瓣ň瓁ぱ礚寄 Images such as these will forge the Wehrmacht's reputation of invincibility.
璶峨炒辅 After the fort falls,
话隔秨┕ぺ兢程痁ó people scramble to catch the last train to Paris.
猭瓣常矪常琌穦竡 In the French capital the Red Cross is swarmed.
ゑ螟チГ更痓ó碵跟磷玭よ Belgium refugees are transferred to cattle cars heading south.
¨19405る11らら〃
紈瓁秈ら As the Germans enter Liege,
稺ど蔼耎床 panic grows and spreads.
癸硂单猌甶瞷 Faced with such a show of force,
Τㄢ匡拒 there are only two options:
耴抖┪琌発 obey or flee.
砛螟チㄓ秏丁 Many of the refugees are people from the countryside.
菌砛笰ひ羆琌程边発瞒 As in many times in history, famers have always been the last flee
ぃ稱┻㎝痓 ???? to abandon their crops and their animals.
ゑ钢蝴焊划糶笵 The great Belgium poet ???? wrote
¨硂ㄠ礚┮Τ〃 "The people around here have nothing at all"
¨泊玡Τ笵隔礚荷〃 "Nothing before them but the endlessness of the open road"
¨ネ〃 "The people who work the fields"
¨硂ㄠΤぃ┋礚荷〃 "The people around here have only endless misfortune"
紈瓁祇笆いю阑 The Germans unleash their air offensive
篟反ㄣ驹菠種竡璶笵 destorying strategic crossroad
诀初 airfields
弘芬紅 refineries
の縐干倒 and fuel supplies
猭瓣场㎝狥场カ綝臚 Cities in northern and eastern France are bombed.
猭瓣タ羬瞷驹ㄆ龟 The French are now facing the reality of modern warfare.
颤孽忱疭うΘ In the Netherlands the port of Rotterdam is blaze.
ㄓ紈瓁┢臚脓地‵êΩ The result of German terror bombing raid like the one in Warsaw.
硂Ω臚琌忱疭うщ But these bombs were dropped after the city has surrendered.
疭扒驹竜菹 Another of Hitler's war crimes.
窗穝ヴ琌焊 In London, the new Prime Minister is Winston Churchill.
Ω簍弧 His first speech
陪臩ぃ璸薄墩 reveals the determination to keep fighting
膥尿灸矮∕み whatever the circumstances.
и睝礚好拜硂妓弧 "I will say without a doubt"
颤孽㎝ゑ㏑笲 "that the fate of Holand and Belgiem"
㎝猧孽倍吹┰ひ㎝而 "like that of Poland ,Czechoslovakia and Austria"
盢パ璣猭秤ㄓ∕﹚ "will be decided by the victory of the British Empire and the French Republic."
猭瓣玡硚箉舊睭 But things have suddenly turned very grim in France.
度3ぱず In just three days
紈瓁绢苯祅 The Germans've swept through the Ardennes
秈猭瓣皑猠ň縨皚絬 and advancing towards the French defensive line on the Meuse River.
紈瓁だ隔ю墩タΜ呼 They are closing the net with their pincer movement
瞅ゑ栋挡幅瓁场钉 seeking to entrap the allied troops massed in Belgium.
紈瓁˙ю阑猭瓁礚ぇ挂 The German infantry men knock over the French as if they came from a different world.
ノも篽紆 With their hand grenade
诀簀癬砈 machine guns and with their sleeves rolled up.
ぱず碞硂马 They take the town in one day.
︹讽琌硄┕祅璶笵 Sedan, the key to the Ardennes
1870猭瓣獽篏毖筁 which was already terribly marked by the French defeat in 1870.
紈瓁痷タ毁锚琌皑猠 But the real obstacle for the Germans is the Meuse River
5る13ら边丁盿葵辩璶ㄓ穎爵 On the night of 13th of May they bring in beams to build bridges
猭瓣は阑 The French fight back.
紈瓁溃籹猭瓁 But the Germans neutralize the French artillery
筳ぱΝパЧΘ穎爵 and next morning their sappers finish the bridge.
笆ㄓ盢瓁 Galvanized by their genernal
紈柑盢瓁 Guderian
琌52烦炊緗 a 52-year-old Prussian
ō杆ヒ驹岸垦 a great armored warfare strategist
ノ㈱義е硉瞨ю using tanks strike with force daring and speed.
皗筿驹ぃ赣琵寄瓁Τ丁は莱 The blitzkrieg or lightning war should not give the enemy time to react.
琌㈱蛤帝琌˙ First the tanks followed by infantry
パ诀暗 and backed by aircraft
ぷㄤ琌吹瓜侥臚诀 especially the Stukas.
吹瓜侥臚诀称Τ牡筧 The Stukas dive bombers equiped with sirens
╄к帝粿疨溃 resisting the intense pressure of decent
癡絤弘▆︽程ㄨ睦紆 their highly trained pilots release their bombs of the last minute
弘非璓㏑ with lethal precision.
猭瓣羆瞶筽空 The French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud
候璓筿焊 telephones Churchill in alarm:
¨и砆阑毖ゴ毖〃 "We have been defeated. We have lost the battle."
猭瓁盢烩ぃ┮惫 The French genernals are at a loss.
礚猭莱癸薄墩 They are unable to react to the situation
幅瓁瓁砆ゑ with allied forces tied up in Belgium.
璶ゎ紈瓁崩秈 How can they stop the Germans from advancing?
ぺ兢猭瓣讽Ы砞猭矪瞶禫ㄓ禫螟チ In Paris, the French authorities are trying to deal with the increasing number of refugees.
ㄓゑ㎝猭瓣场奸疐硂カ People from Belgium and northern France are pouring in the city.
厩洛皘㎝犁 Schools, hospitals and barracks
е碞骸眞 are soon overflowing.
戈癟ぃì亮ē骸ぱ Information is sparse. Rumors are abound.
ヌソ狶盢瓁炳 Has Gamelin commited suicide?
⊿Τ No.
猭瓣程蔼揣场硂祇瞷紈瓁タ┕─玡秈 The French high command has just realized that the Germans are heading to the coast.
τ幅瓁辅炒ɡ And the allies are falling into a trap.
は阑 A counter attack is ordered.
琵拦蔼贾盿繷㈱い柜臩繷à Allowing a certain colonel De Gaulle to distinguish himself ahead from the tank brigade.
猭瓣嘲瓁㈱计秖耕 The French army possesses more tanks
珇借秤筁紈瓁杆ヒó and they are all better quality than the German panzers.
睝礚糤穿┪いや穿 But without any reinforcement or aerial support,
猭瓣㈱ヴ咎吹瓜侥臚诀甠澄 the French tanks become prey to the Stukas.
猭瓣驹驹眔弘 The French competents put up a good fight,
畕礛磂⊿Τ猌玂臔 but they wonder why the air force isn't protecting them.
ろ非称诀耕ぶ Poorly prepared and with fewer planes
猭瓣︽癸紈瓣瓁计秖腨莲 the French pilots are heavily outnumbered by the luftwaffe.
璣玦灸驹 But they fight egregiously.
碭紈瓁︽砆阑辅τ綝玆 Dozens of German pilots are shot down and taken prisoner.
氨驹某帽竝ㄤいΤㄇ︽盢紈瓣 Some of these pilots will be returned to Germany when their armistice is signed
盢膥尿癸к璣瓣 and will join the battle against Britain.
¨19405る26ら〃
紈瓁㈱е硉硄筁 The German tanks move swiftly through
猭瓣场秏马 the towns and villages of northern France.
璣玦猭瓁⊿猭搭絯紈瓁秈 Valiantly, the French try to slow the German advance.
紈瓁阑检ヴ╄к跋 The Germans crash any pockets of resistance.
紈瓁╄笷璣甽 The Germans have reached the English channel.
疭扒¨臝澄〃郸菠 Hitler's strategy of the "Sickle Cut" has worked.
璣瓣环┖瓁ゑ嘲瓁 The British expeditionary force, the Belgium army
㎝猭瓣杆ヒ场钉砆刮刮瞅 and French armor force are incircled.
¨19405る28ら〃
ゑ瓣щ硈瓁钉 The Belgian King surrenders along with his army.
璣瓣环┖瓁┕─篗癶 The British expeditionary force withdraw towards the coast
旧璓幅瓁程检毖 leading to the final collapse of allied armys.
ぺ兢猭瓣羆瞶筽空 In Paris, the French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud
рヌソ狶盢瓁秆戮 dismisses Gamelin
т穝毕琍 and finds a new savior
72烦肣盢瓁 Genernal Weygand 72 years old
琌1918幅瓁秤 one of the artisans of the allied victory in 1918.
筽空縀纘 To boast morale Reynaud
рΩ驹璣动ヴ㏑捌羆瞶 names another World War I hero as vice premier
84烦ī讽じ 84-year-old Marshal Petain
盢璉斌筽空現郸 he will soon turn back on Reynaud's policys.
肣礚匡拒 Weygand has no choice.
妓砆┕窗焊篗癶 He too is forced to order a full retreat towards Dunkirk.
疭扒琵ǐ Hitler lets them go.
硂琌癸璣瓣睦く稯 A gesture of clements towards Great Britain?
琌ㄌ礛辨Τ贺㎝キ If he still hope a separate peace?
┪琌む狶絋玂猌ìゎ幅瓁波床 Or has Goring assured to him that his air force is capable of preventing an evacuation?
40窾澜┕舮礚τ睼睹 Four hundred thousand men cram the beach helpless and in disarray.
临Τ程诀穦 They have one last chance
眖隔叉発 to escape over the sea.
焊┮Τ疊差唉 Churchill orders any vessel that can float
玡┕穎毕 to go and get them.
窗焊 On the outskirt of Dunkirk
猭瓣咀紈瓁玡秈 The French hold back the Germans
籜穕ア suffering heavy losses.
む狶瓁吹瓜侥Α单臚诀 Goring sends out the Luftwaffe Stukas and bombers
21窾8璣瓁 Two hundred and eighteen thousand British
の12窾猭瓣场钉 and a hundred twenty thousand French troops
Θ篗瞒 are successfully evacuated.
¨19406る4ら︱〃
璣瓁莉毕琌疶疺ぃ臭 The British army is saved but they ???? tatters.
猭瓣盢砆癳猭瓣 The French will be sent back to France
秈︽矫瓣程沽刚 in a finally attempt to defend their country.
璣瓁砆癳穝俱称いみ The British are sent off to reequipment centers.
璣瓣脖苂窗焊篗癶琌兜Θ碞 All of the Great Britain hails Dunkirk as an extraordinary feet.
礛τ焊р產┰瞷龟 Churchill however puts it into perspective
弧眔硓过 with the seditty he says:
¨驹ぃ琌綼篗癶ㄓ秤〃 "Wars are not won by evacuation."
鲸恨19406る讽 Even so in those first days of June 1940,
窗焊弘莱笲τネ the Dunkirk spirit is born.
硂初驹礚薄の寄洪瘆胊 The ruthlessness of this war and the destructive power of Nazi enemy
ㄨ癸璣瓣陪ぃ筁 are now apprent to the British.
淮肞籔纐ぃ Light heartness and humor
锣笆瓣 give way to frantic effort to moblize the nation.
6る4ら癸кア毖羘焊祇羘 On the 4th of June Churchill who was also battling with defeatness on his own side speaks out.
粂秸琵螟а His tone is unforgettable.
¨и盢舮驹〃 "We shall fight on the beaches,"
¨祅嘲翴驹〃 "on the landing ground"
¨バ偿㎝刁繷驹〃 "in the fields, in the streets"
¨跋驹〃 "and on the hills."
¨и荡ぃ赣щ〃 "We shall never surrender."
¨窗焊〃
¨19406る4ら〃
6る4ら紈瓁窗焊 On the 4th of June the Germans take Dunkirk.
Τ搂单帝 A fabulous bounty awaits them.
瓣ň瓁肚场╃尼 Lavishly filmed by the Wehrmacht's propaganda units.
璣瓁碭痙┮Τ杆称 The British forces have left behind almost all of their equipment.
瓣ň瓁砍蔼疨╃ The soldiers of the Wehrmacht film themselves in high spirits.
临猭瓣痙羘诀 They find a French gramophone
痙羘诀い临Τ茎吹撤︱弟佰 with a famous record by Maurice Chevalier.
¨硂琵猭瓣玦驹玡絬〃
¨˙邻玡〃
¨稱帝猭瓣ご琌程現舦〃
¨硂ㄇ現獀ミ初钵〃
¨礛常種ぃ阶盝㏑〃
¨常辨ッ玂㎝キ〃
ю墩膥尿 The offensive continues.
猭瓣检ぃΘ瓁 France collapses.
筽空㎝瓣ň场Ω嘲瓁Ω拦蔼贾 But Reynaud and De Gaulle who was under secretary of state for defense on war
稱璶膥尿灸驹 want to continue fighting.
種縒掉茎柑ェ霉皑 In Rome the Italian dictator Mussolini
Τ璶禗チ has a big news for his people:
иタΑ驹
璣瓣㎝猭瓣ㄏ
茎柑ェ辨矪 Mussolini is hoping but he's share of spoils.
订猠é皑辽 the Rhone valley Marseille
硈秆埃﹁古㎝ェ﹁ㄈ猌杆 as well as disarmament of Corsica and Tunisia.
猭瓣弧硂琌穞絙端 The French say:"It's a stab in the back."
茎柑ェю墩猭瓣跋驹场钉τ竬辟 Mussolini's offensive is cut short by the French alpine divisions.
订焊盢瓁场钉脓阑空耙┏秈柑 Genernal Rommel's troops storm Normandy and enter Lyon.
ぺ兢タΑガぃ砞ňカ Paris is declared an open city
传ēぇ琌睝ぃ╄к癳倒寄 in another words it's turned over to enemy without a fight
埃钩地‵┪忱疭う㏑笲 in order to spare the fate of Warsaw or Rotterdam.
猭瓣現┎綞猧焊 The government has moved to Bordeaux.
紈瓁秈ぺ兢 The Germans are apporaching the city.
亮ē骸ぱ弧紈瓁炳聚卑 Rumors fly. They kill. They rape
炊緗1870┮ by the Prussians did in 1870.
砆現┎框斌ぺ兢発螟 The Parisian abandoned by their government flee.
猭瓣常腁↘瑈瞒 All of France take to the road
硂エ跑ゑ竧竒甁の癘龟瑈 A cataclysm will come to be known by a biblical name, the Exodus.
κ窾猭瓣╧玡┕程躇耂霉ㄈ焊 Millions of French man and women head towards Loire, the last rampart.
眏躇耂ぃ寄吹瓜侥臚诀 But there is no rampart strong enough against the Stukas.
19406る14ら瘆惧 On the 14th of June 1940 a daybreak
紈瓁秈ぺ兢 The Germans march into Paris.
洪窾篨ぺ兢钠喘 Nazi's emblem the Swastika flyes over Paris.
紈瓁烩璶 One of the first act of German occupier
碞琌琩Ι瑈現┎痙癘魁 is to seize all the records of abandoned ministries
丁恳礢び㎝ネ穦穦虫 list of spies, of jews, of freemasons
τ焊辽兵絑 and even their original copy of the treaty of Versailles
ê琌紈瓣1919癲 that so humiliated Germany in 1919.
硂ミ砆癳倒疭扒 It is immediately sent off to Hitler.
瑈碑礛τゎ The Exodus has come to a hold.
硄┕霉ㄈ焊爵辩砆反 The bridges over Loire are blown.
ㄨ斑辨 The only hope now
碞琌驹氨ゎ is the fighting stops.
猧焊ī讽じ稱璶暗挡 Petain in Bordeaux also wants to put an end of things
紈瓁膥尿┕玭礚薄秈ю The Germans continue their relentless advance southward.
鲸恨砆粄琌瓁眏 Though once considered a formidable force
猭瓁ㄨ琌摧瘆ぃ臭 the French army is now a shambled.
礛τぷㄤ琌讽弘灸驹禬稱钩 and yet this put up a better fight than was thought especially at a time.
礛τぷㄤ琌讽弘灸驹禬稱钩
1るず10窾猭瓣﹛赤ネ In one month one hundred thousand French soldiers die
筁Ω驹丁ず计 more than in the same period of time during the World War I
ぇ玡ê琌端程篏 the deadliest of wars until then.
185窾砆玆 One million eight hundred and fifty thousand soldiers are taken prisoner
硈3窾6瓁﹛ along with thirty-six thousand officers
の176盢瓁 and a hundred and seventy-six genernals.
驹玆ぇいΤ砛ㄓ猭瓣崔チ场钉獶瑆 Among the prisoners there are many African soldiers from the French colonial troops.
紈瓣瓣ň瓁穨緇筿紇 The Wehrmacht's amateur film makers
и骸ì跑篈τ╃尼 film them with a perverse sense of self-satisfaction.
硂ㄇ緅炳繷ο Famished, these soldiers kill a goat.
紈瓁肚穝籇祑璶狡冀羪场疭糶 German propaganda newsreels insist on showing repeated close-ups of their faces.
﹛よボ璶磞酶¨猭瓣糧辅〃 The offical instructions art portrayed the degenerations of French
砆眖崔チт¨ィ刘〃ㄓゴ who are forced to go to war with their slaves from their colonies.
紈瓣ê讽蝶阶弧眔臩癌 The original German commentary is revealing:
幅瓁弧灸驹
琌矫ゅ
癸ки硂¨い偿芞〃
硂ㄇ矫ゅて
ㄓ猭瓁3獶瑆﹛ Three thousand African soldiers and officers from the French army
砆盢砆甮炳 will be shot and killed after they are captured.
洪7毙旧ぇ After 7 years of Nazi indoctrination
紈瓁丁贺壁猍跌瞫见 racism is rampant among the German soldiers.
硂3ら戳盢∕﹚猭瓣㏑笲 Three days will be now decisive in determining France fate.
19406る16ら On the 16th of June 1940
筽空砆猧焊ず徽笹癶 Reynaud is out maneuvered by the councilor ministers in Bordeaux and he resigns.
ī讽砆ヴ㏑膥ヴ盿烩猭瓣現┎ As his successor Philippe Petain is appointed to head the Frence Government.
¨19406る17らぺ兢〃
ぺ┏約初 Plaza Bastille
临ぺ兢常钮眖ī讽じ Those who remained in Paris listen to marshal Petain.
硂焊祅驹璣动 The war hero of Verdun
ガタ碝―氨驹﹚ announces that he is seeking armistice.
и璶―寄
氨ゎ┮Τ寄種︽
и暗硂∕﹚
琌ō瓁程瞏礹
瓁ㄆ薄猵璶―
紈瓁約冀陆亩硂琿 The German radio translate this speech
ガ猭瓣щ announcing Frances capitulation.
ㄇ猭瓣Μ钮璣瓣瓣產約冀そ厨笵 Some French people are able to pick up the BBC.
拦蔼贾盢瓁╄笷窗 Genernal De Gaulle has arrived in London.
6る18ら紀埃硂氨驹﹚ On the 18th of June he didn't announce this armistice.
碭ぱ魁穝簍弧 A few days later he records a new speech.
и獺猭瓣篴模
幅瓁膥尿硂驹
疭扒钡莉馋吹禤筿 Hitler receives a telegram of congratulations from Moscow.
19406る22ら On June 22nd 1940
疭扒╄笷ぺ兢眃ブ Hitler arrives in Kang Pien near Paris.
砞竚初春琌璶槽癲驹毖 The setup is ordered as design to humiliate the losers.
盿ㄓ1918帽竝氨驹﹚┮ノê竊ó He's brought the same railway car that was used for the signing of 1918 armistice
êΩ絋ミ紈瓣驹毖 that sealed the Germany's defeat.
厨確ЧΘ His revenge is complete.
猭瓣刮パ﹄城盢瓁烩瓁 The French delegation is led by Genernal Huntziger.
硄亩├硂絞┽阑 An interpreter reads out a diatribe
北猭瓣睝礚瞶パ碞驹 accusing France of declaring war without any reason.
疭扒ぃ祇粂 Hitler does not utter a single word.
癬ō瞒秨 He stands up and leaves.
猭瓣刮莉氨驹﹚兵蹿 The French delegates have been informed the terms of armistice.
ㄤ琌猭瓣璶ユ猭瓣挂ず臔は洪紈瓣 One of its conditions is that France handover all the anti-Nazi Germans who have taken refuge in France.
﹄城盢瓁砞猭坝 Huntziger has tried to negotiate.
紈よ┶荡 The Germans refuse.
﹄城盢瓁璓筿猧焊現┎ Huntziger calls the government in Bordeaux.
紈瓁对虫魁㎝肣盢瓁癸杠 The German secret services tape his conversation with Weygand.
и琌﹄城 琌
ЧΘ
ЧΘ
琌盢瓁
и璶稰谅矪瞶よΑ
﹛笵и
癸и笵
疭扒ぇрó碵盿琭狶 Afterwars Hitler has the railway car taken to Berlin.
材瓣ǐソら In the final days of Reich
盢穦璶囊矫瓁рó碵奔 he will have the SS blow it up with Dynamite.
猭瓣Ω驹秤禜紉盢砆糐 Soon the major symbols of France's victory in World War I will be mocked
50窾猭瓣﹛赤ネ┮焊祅 like here in Verdun where a half million French soldiers were killed
20Θ硂妓 to come to this 20 years later.
疭扒糬ǖ跌ю皑空ň絬 Hitler jeers at his visit his man who's only just taken Maginot Line.
秈吹疭┰吹躇のㄤ毙绑玥耕缠 He is more solemn when enters Strasbourg and its Cathedral.
ㄈφ‵吹㎝狶辅紈瓣ぇも Alsace and Lorraine are German once again
莱喷玂靡 as he promise they would be.
笹猭瓣驹珇 The spoils of French campaign
2进㈱ two thousand tanks
5 five thousand cannons
30窾р˙簀 three hundred thousand rifles
4κ窾祇紆媚 four million rounds of ammunition.
瓣ň瓁瓁称畐ту倒猭瓁ノず︾ At an army supply warehouse the Wehrmacht finds a stock of ???? meant for the French army
玂穢οを︾帝 warm woolen garments
痙帝ㄑ驹ㄏノ which will be stored the way for future campaign.
驹珇临Τ紅翠 The spoils are the factories, the harbours
猭瓣┮Τ癩碔 all the riches of France.
驹琌猭瓣 It was the French who declared the war
┮ぱ盢倒货じ烩禣ノ as the consequence they will pay the equivalent of one hundred million dollars a day in occupation costs.
﹄城盢瓁玡┕紈瓣把材Ω〆穦某 Genernal Huntziger goes to Germany for the first meeting of the commision
ㄆ闽氨驹﹚琁︽灿玥 charged with the playing in terms of the armistice.
疭扒竊场钉∕﹚琵猭瓣玂痙场だ舦 To spare troops Hitler decides to let France retain partial sovereignty
τㄤ現┎Ч under a government at his backend core
玂Τ瓁掉猌竟 with a limited army, striped heavy weapons
Τノ蝴猌竟 just maintain order.
猭瓣だ The country is splited in two.
娩烩跋珹俱﹁瑅猽─ An occupied zone in north along the entire Atlantic coast
镑秈┮Τ翠 providing the access to all harbours.
種北帝い跋办 Italia controls the Mediterranean area
烩焊吹兵盿 and occupies an narrow ribbon along the out.
逞嘿ぇパ跋 The rest is called free zone
Τ帝穝常蝴﹁ with a new capital, Vichy.
硂放瑄马Τ砛逗┍琌莉匡ぇ This spa town has been choosen in part for its many hotels.
ī讽じ7る盿帝現┎诀闽癬穐秈ㄓ In early July Marshal Petain moves into them along with government ministries
猑琌稵冻篏铭 The atmosphere everywhere is abase more.
礛τ蝴﹁現┎膥尿北帝崔チ瓣场 However this Vichy government continues to control a vast colonial empire
ぷㄤ临Τㄌ礛眏瓁 and ???? a still powerful navy.
疭扒琌璶―差磨猌竟氨痙翠 Hitler's only request is that his ships be disarmed
б吉ㄤ穦籔璣瓣瑈 and remain in their ports for his afraid ???? ???? joint forces with Britain.
焊倪┤は Churchill's fear is opposite
斑猭瓣瓁穦辅紈瓁ぇも that it will fall into German hand.
產瓁蔫防 He orders to Royal Navy to neutralize it.
у璣瓣瓁 A British Naval Force
┕猭瓣-瓁膀 sails to one of France's biggest naval bases
焊のㄈ宾焊︺ゑ Mers-el Kebir in Algeria.
焊ぃ幢玙繧 Churchill is taking no risks
祇程硄忿 and alternate them dispatched
璝獶ир差↖ by the joining us
┪琌臔ぇ扒ゑ埃猌杆 sculpt their own ships
┪琌臔ぇ扒ゑ埃猌杆 or sail under escort demilitarization in the Caribbean.
猭瓣┶荡┮Τ矗某 The French reject all proposals.
璣瓁秨 The British open fire.
ㄢ看猭瓣驹磨綝承 Two French battleships are heavyly damaged.
ガ娥ェ腹↖⊿ And one, Bretagne is sunk.
1297猭瓣赤ネ One thousand two hundred and ninty-seven French sailors are killed.
璏㎝瞴ぷㄤ琌瓣 Seeking to show his people, the world and ???? the United States
甶瞷∕み how to determine he is
焊ю阑玡幅瓣 Churchill strikes out to his former ally
ㄤ磨钉紈瓁祅璣瓣─ whose fleet could help the Germans land on British shore.
ю阑祇ネㄢひ Two days after the attack,
蝴﹁現┎籔璣瓣耞ユ the Vichy government breaks off the diplomatic relations with Britain.
¨19407る9ら琭狶〃
紈瓣疭扒耻 All of Germany acclaims Hitler.
皗筿┖狝猭瓣琵荆盢瓁┕ぃ His lightning conquest France enthralls his genernals.
粄琌程岸驹烩砈 He sees himself as the greatest war leader of all time
籔瘆盵ぃだ癮羹 on a par with Napoleon.
τ㎝嘿瘆盵妓⊿幢蛤佰は秸 And like the Empror no one dares to contradict him anymore.
紈瓁烩璣甽い畄垃 The Germans occupied the channel islands
緼﹁㎝ Jersey and Guernsey
硂琌獻璣瓣铬狾 stepping stones towards the invasion of Britain
¨19407る璣瓣〃
璣瓣腨皚 The British get ready for a German invasion
ぃ筁捣灿竊 taking measures that might appear trivial
候矪竚琌р担癳┕秏丁磷螟 Another urgent measure is to send children away to the countryside for safety
硂羆琌礹璚ㄨ always a painful moment.
﹏﹏ダ克㎝ダ驹墩 Their elder sisters, their mothers and grandmothers join the war effort
–包常眔矫產堕癸к┤紈瓁呈 Every women must defend her home against the fearsome German paratroopers.
╧產堕矫瓁矫讽 The man join ???? local defense volunteers for the home guard
Ω驹ρぃㄒ even veterans of the First World War.
硂ㄇも竲腀笆 The willing and able are moblized
τ窗焊莉毕瓁钉俱 while the army resuced in Dunkirk reforms.
瓣矗ㄑ˙簀诀闽簀㎝ň America supplies rifles, machine guns and anti-aircraft cannons
產常рм砃絤Ч and everyone perfect their skills
焊癸璣瓣チ祇程笆甧簍弧 Churchill delivers a most inspire speech to the British people
ぃ腁ぇ驹盢甶秨 "The battle of Britain is about to begin"
琵и局╆硂砫ヴ "let us step off ???? ????to our duty"
и璶略癘み "so bear heart so"
璝璣瓣のㄤ幅瓣 "this is British Empire and ????"
尿 "last for a thousand years"
盢ㄌ礛穦弧 "men will still say"
硂纯琌程 "this ???? their ???? hour"
焊猌竟琌產瓁 One of Churchill main weapon is the royal air force
硈ㄤぃ癬诀 along with its remarkable aircraft
穎篒骋吹弟吹ま篮糛Α驹诀 the Spitfire with its Rolls-Royce engine
ㄤ瞴程次驹诀 one of the best fighter planes in the world.
璣瓣ョ筿烩办磅φ Britain also excels in the field of electronics.
盢筽笷ノň縨 The British at first use the radar for the purpose of defens.
驹い筽笷ノ盎代诀 In the ops room radar are used for detecting planes
ま︽玡┕寄┮ and guiding pilots towards the enemy.
ㄓ璣瓣︽ The pilots from all over the British Empire
㎝紈瓁烩発瞒瓣瓁 and joined by airman who have managed to flee their country on the German occupation
┪ㄤ現┎瑈窗 or his government is in exile in London.
猧孽颤孽倍 Pols, Dutch, Czechs
のуパ猭瓣瓁硈拦蔼贾 and the first of the free French forces along with De Gaulle.
砛璣瓣︽琌瑉┪糃爵厩ネ Many of the British pilots are Oxford and Cambridge students.
ㄤ瞶琩┰风ㄓ糶笵 One of them Richard Hilary later wrote
¨и砆讽Θ琌醚だ〃 "We were know as long head boys"
¨ほ防緄碙矪纔〃 "we were dissolution and spoiled"
¨碈砰弧и琌癵ア〃 "the press referred to us as the lost genernation"
¨弧и涧睱╬и〃 "superficially we were selfish and egocentric"
¨硂驹ぃ惠ゴ璣动竡〃 "The war did not need heroic"
¨倒и诀穦靡〃 "but gives us the opportunity to prove to ourselves and to the world"
¨и┪砛⊿Τ〃 "that undiscipline might we be"
¨癸砆疭扒毙兵侈и墩А寄〃 "we were a match for Hitler's dogma fed youth"
硂ㄇ紈瓁︽砆疭扒獵刮癡絤 These German pilots have been trained by the Hitlerjugend
盿Τ厨確稱猭 the Hitler Youth with the idea of revenge
谋ぱ礚寄 They feel that they are invincible
烩砈む狶讽Ы琌穛 their leader, Goering is a popular figure in the regime
¨划耙む狶〃
む狶傍ㄗ盽ぺ兢腞逗┍ Goering who is a man of luxury often stays in Hotel Ritz in Paris.
р縞此躇碕返κ洪瓁羆场 and turns Luxembourg Palace into the Luftwaffe Headquarters
疭扒玂靡筁洪瓁碭ぱ碞防產瓁 He had promised Hitler the Luftwaffe could blitzkrieg the royal air force in days
磝搐舦 take control of air
琵瓣ň瓁獻璣瓣 and enable Wehrmacht to invade Great Britain.
洪瓁北猭瓣┮Τ诀初 The Luftwaffe has it disposal all France's airfields
のㄤ砞琁杆称 their installations and equipment.
紈瓁︽癡絤弘▆ its pilots were well trained
ゑ撤璛ぃ瞒 like Adolf Galland
笵ひ孽紈 with his trademark Cigar
纯﹁痁癸к㎝囊 who ???? against repulicans in Spain
┪琌猭瓣驹い礟︽ or Werner Molders
焊馋紈 an ace for the battle of France
砆阑辅綝玆 he was one of the pilots shot down, taken prisoner
礛砆癳临紈瓣 and then returned to the Germans.
ㄨ把籔癸璣瓣いю阑 He is now a part of the aerial offensive against Great Britain.
眖猭瓣砆烩诀初癬 Taking off from these fields in occupied France
紈瓁盢ю阑甽い臔磨 the German will attack convoys in the channel
翠㎝璣孽玭场诀初 harbours and airfields in southern England.
盢阑辅5κ琜璣瓣诀 They will shoot down five hundred British aircraft
よ穕ア1琜 at the cost of a thousand of their own
璣瓣︽璚嫉 The British pilots hold out
荷 giving everthing they have.
焊苂喘笵¨摸侥ぇい〃 Chruchill proclaims: "Never in the field of human conflict"
¨ぃ纯Τ筁硂或ぶ计硑褐硂或计〃 "were so much old by so many to so few."
疭扒∕﹚既絯獻璣瓣 Hitler decides to postpone his plan to invade Britain
硂琌琌毖 This is his first setback.
ㄨ郸菠ヵ丁臚 His tactics now relies more on nighttime bombings.
弧¨カ砆篟反璣瓣盢穦щ〃 He says: "The British will surrender when their cities have been destroyed."
紈瓁臚诀ю阑σゅ㎝窗单璣瓣カ German bombers attack British cities like Coventry and London
硂琌–ら臚皗筿驹 This is the blitz daily bombings.
璣瓣チ璚嫉眔穛ㄘ As for the British people they hold up admirablly
笰堕备ň瑌 They dig shlters in the garden of their cottages
τ窗何臟 And in London they sleep in the underground stations
筳ぱ酚妓 and go to work the next day.
ゼ纯ア獺み㎝纐稰 They never lose their confidence or sense of humor.
焊癸猭瓣弧 Churchill says to the French
窗硂ㄠ
疭扒弧盢рてη聈
τиチ捣睝ぃ倪
¨р媚表崩ㄓ〃 Roll out the barrel
¨贾届簎簎ㄓ〃 We'll have a barrel of fun
¨р媚表崩ㄓ〃 Roll out the barrel
¨贾届簎簎ㄓ...〃 We'll have a barrel of fun
¨р媚表崩ㄓ...〃 Roll out the barrel
疭扒 Hitler is exasperated.
ぇ盢р焊弧Θ礢びō瓣綤碍 He will later call Churchill a Jew-ridden half American drunkard.
眖瞷癬–讽祔Τч From now on whenever he is ????
碞穦р祇猲礢びō He will vent his spite against Jews.
194010る12ら On October the 12th, 1940
奴竜ら讽ぱ On the day of Yom Kippur
地‵礢び钮弧穦砞ミ礢び跋 The Jews of Warsaw are told a ghetto will be set up.
捷ミ3μ蔼 A wall 3 meters high is erected
瞅50窾礢び enclosing half a millon Jews
ぃ阶╧ρギ man, women, children, the elderly
娜碒ユ砲ぃ who will suffer ???? from hunger, cold and poverty.
ぺワㄈ焊吹︽繻 In his Shelley in Bavarian Alps the backoff
疭扒薄包稲ガ磝描 Hitler is filmed by his mistress Eva Brown
╃洪璶瞅露疭扒舧紋穝初春 as he celebrates new year surrounded by the children of Nazi dignitaries.
砈柑临Τ爱 He has another plan of his sleeve
戒Ы another big gamble.
瞷ヴ叭琌┖狝狥娩¨ネ丁〃 His mission now is to conquer new Lebensunterhalt/living space to the east.
㎝吹狶挡幅 He has allied himself with Stalin
琌よ獽ぇю阑 only to better attack him later on.
疭扒⊿璣瓣笹眔璶е硉︽笆 His failure to take Britain compels him into move quickly
话焊р瓣┰秈ㄓぇ玡 before Churchill is able to draw America in
ê盢琵瞴瞝蒋┑ with that will set the world blaze.
¨Ω驹币ボ魁〃
栋盢冀¨綺举〃