1 00:00:00,133 --> 00:00:04,933 2 00:00:05,133 --> 00:00:07,933 May the 9th, 1940 3 00:00:08,066 --> 00:00:09,800 A little French town 4 00:00:09,933 --> 00:00:12,733 with little French children 5 00:00:12,866 --> 00:00:14,533 A town in the Ardennes 6 00:00:14,666 --> 00:00:18,666 not far from Germany which is at war with France 7 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,133 but thing's been quiet 8 00:00:21,266 --> 00:00:23,533 Until now 9 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:27,000 so the children continue to line their clogs up neatly 10 00:00:27,133 --> 00:00:28,600 and their school teacher says 11 00:00:28,666 --> 00:00:33,066 "Today we'll learn a nice song to bring peace back to us." 12 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,733 "round, round, round, go the puppets" 13 00:00:38,266 --> 00:00:41,133 This will be the last class. 14 00:00:56,666 --> 00:01:01,133 Apoclypse Second World War 15 00:01:03,466 --> 00:01:05,800 The 10th of May, 1940 16 00:01:05,933 --> 00:01:07,866 at 5:35am 17 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,666 the Germans unleash their offensive 18 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,733 Collapse of France 19 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,333 20 00:01:49,533 --> 00:01:52,266 German paratroopers are dropped into Holand. 21 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:53,666 They're the vanguard. 22 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,466 The first of three million invaders. 23 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,000 The Wehrmacht marches into Belgium. 24 00:02:00,133 --> 00:02:02,200 This is Hitler's decoy. 25 00:02:02,333 --> 00:02:04,333 The Germans pretend that they're going to attack France 26 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,866 through neutral Belgium as they did in 1914. 27 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,200 The French General Gamelin commandering chief of the allied forces is confident. 28 00:02:14,266 --> 00:02:16,466 He has everything covered. 29 00:02:16,533 --> 00:02:19,933 He fine tunes strategies during the phony war. 30 00:02:20,066 --> 00:02:21,666 31 00:02:26,466 --> 00:02:29,266 Gamelin moves his best motorized divisions 32 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,600 the elite French Army into Belgium 33 00:02:32,733 --> 00:02:36,200 along with the entire British expeditionary force. 34 00:02:40,333 --> 00:02:43,533 These are fighting soldiers with true great. 35 00:02:43,666 --> 00:02:47,000 They will stop the German advance through Belgium. 36 00:02:49,466 --> 00:02:52,666 But Hitler in his headquarters is gloating. 37 00:02:52,733 --> 00:02:55,666 His decoy worked. 38 00:02:58,133 --> 00:03:01,600 He exclaims "I could weep for joy." 39 00:03:05,533 --> 00:03:08,533 He instructs ???? Marshal Galin who commands the airforce 40 00:03:08,666 --> 00:03:10,733 not to bomb the French columns. 41 00:03:10,866 --> 00:03:14,533 to let them proceed deep into Belgium territory 42 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:18,333 and he attacks them from the rear. 43 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:22,200 His real offensive will be through the Ardennes 44 00:03:25,066 --> 00:03:27,000 According to French high command 45 00:03:27,133 --> 00:03:31,133 no tank could ever get through those densely forest hills 46 00:03:35,266 --> 00:03:37,333 But nothing stops them, 47 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,200 except their own traffic jams. 48 00:03:51,133 --> 00:03:53,533 Meanwhile, in the Netherlands and Belgium 49 00:03:53,666 --> 00:03:57,333 people who own cars are among the first flee. 50 00:04:02,066 --> 00:04:04,200 Everyone is suspected. 51 00:04:04,266 --> 00:04:09,133 A so called fifth column is feared spys working for the Nazis 52 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,800 The Germans continue their diversionary tactics 53 00:04:13,933 --> 00:04:17,933 invading Belgium with specially trained airborne forces 54 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:23,200 The sappers belt out their song from the campaign Poland 55 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,600 "The girls will have to wait, comrades" 56 00:04:27,733 --> 00:04:30,266 "It's time to go, comrades" 57 00:04:33,466 --> 00:04:35,533 On the 11th of May a daybreak 58 00:04:35,666 --> 00:04:37,800 They are dropped into Belgium. 59 00:04:37,933 --> 00:04:41,600 Their goal is to capture the linchpin of the Belgium defense system. 60 00:04:41,733 --> 00:04:45,133 Fort Eben Emael on the Albert Canal 61 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,466 which is reputed to be impregnable. 62 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:03,866 An intrepid German soldier heaves himself onto the top of the turret with loaded explosives. 63 00:05:09,866 --> 00:05:15,266 The conquerors stride through the ruins of Fort Eben Emael the key to Belgium. 64 00:05:15,333 --> 00:05:20,133 Images such as these will forge the Wehrmacht's reputation of invincibility. 65 00:05:22,866 --> 00:05:24,133 After the fort falls, 66 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,333 people scramble to catch the last train to Paris. 67 00:05:43,066 --> 00:05:46,266 In the French capital the Red Cross is swarmed. 68 00:05:46,333 --> 00:05:51,200 Belgium refugees are transferred to cattle cars heading south. 69 00:05:58,933 --> 00:05:59,933 70 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,800 As the Germans enter Liege, 71 00:06:01,933 --> 00:06:04,800 panic grows and spreads. 72 00:06:10,066 --> 00:06:11,733 Faced with such a show of force, 73 00:06:11,866 --> 00:06:13,666 there are only two options: 74 00:06:13,733 --> 00:06:16,800 obey or flee. 75 00:06:41,266 --> 00:06:45,400 Many of the refugees are people from the countryside. 76 00:06:45,466 --> 00:06:49,466 As in many times in history, famers have always been the last flee 77 00:06:49,533 --> 00:06:53,933 ???? to abandon their crops and their animals. 78 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,200 The great Belgium poet ???? wrote 79 00:06:58,333 --> 00:07:01,068 "The people around here have nothing at all" 80 00:07:01,134 --> 00:07:06,401 "Nothing before them but the endlessness of the open road" 81 00:07:06,534 --> 00:07:09,068 "The people who work the fields" 82 00:07:09,134 --> 00:07:14,334 "The people around here have only endless misfortune" 83 00:07:32,068 --> 00:07:35,534 The Germans unleash their air offensive 84 00:07:35,668 --> 00:07:38,601 destorying strategic crossroad 85 00:07:38,734 --> 00:07:40,468 airfields 86 00:07:40,534 --> 00:07:42,534 refineries 87 00:07:42,668 --> 00:07:44,868 and fuel supplies 88 00:07:51,868 --> 00:07:55,801 Cities in northern and eastern France are bombed. 89 00:08:00,868 --> 00:08:05,468 The French are now facing the reality of modern warfare. 90 00:08:12,334 --> 00:08:16,268 In the Netherlands the port of Rotterdam is blaze. 91 00:08:16,334 --> 00:08:21,468 The result of German terror bombing raid like the one in Warsaw. 92 00:08:21,534 --> 00:08:25,201 But these bombs were dropped after the city has surrendered. 93 00:08:25,268 --> 00:08:28,468 Another of Hitler's war crimes. 94 00:08:31,068 --> 00:08:34,601 In London, the new Prime Minister is Winston Churchill. 95 00:08:34,668 --> 00:08:36,001 His first speech 96 00:08:36,068 --> 00:08:38,268 reveals the determination to keep fighting 97 00:08:38,333 --> 00:08:40,467 whatever the circumstances. 98 00:08:40,601 --> 00:08:44,401 "I will say without a doubt" 99 00:08:44,534 --> 00:08:48,068 "that the fate of Holand and Belgiem" 100 00:08:48,134 --> 00:08:53,134 "like that of Poland ,Czechoslovakia and Austria" 101 00:08:53,268 --> 00:08:59,668 "will be decided by the victory of the British Empire and the French Republic." 102 00:09:01,468 --> 00:09:04,868 But things have suddenly turned very grim in France. 103 00:09:05,001 --> 00:09:06,601 In just three days 104 00:09:06,668 --> 00:09:08,801 The Germans've swept through the Ardennes 105 00:09:08,934 --> 00:09:13,601 and advancing towards the French defensive line on the Meuse River. 106 00:09:17,668 --> 00:09:20,468 They are closing the net with their pincer movement 107 00:09:20,601 --> 00:09:24,268 seeking to entrap the allied troops massed in Belgium. 108 00:09:24,401 --> 00:09:29,668 The German infantry men knock over the French as if they came from a different world. 109 00:09:32,401 --> 00:09:34,801 With their hand grenade 110 00:09:40,001 --> 00:09:43,268 machine guns and with their sleeves rolled up. 111 00:09:43,401 --> 00:09:47,268 They take the town in one day. 112 00:09:47,334 --> 00:09:49,468 Sedan, the key to the Ardennes 113 00:09:49,534 --> 00:09:54,668 which was already terribly marked by the French defeat in 1870. 114 00:09:54,801 --> 00:09:58,734 But the real obstacle for the Germans is the Meuse River 115 00:09:59,734 --> 00:10:04,601 On the night of 13th of May they bring in beams to build bridges 116 00:10:04,734 --> 00:10:07,001 The French fight back. 117 00:10:10,601 --> 00:10:13,334 But the Germans neutralize the French artillery 118 00:10:13,468 --> 00:10:16,401 and next morning their sappers finish the bridge. 119 00:10:16,534 --> 00:10:17,801 Galvanized by their genernal 120 00:10:17,934 --> 00:10:19,068 Guderian 121 00:10:19,201 --> 00:10:20,868 a 52-year-old Prussian 122 00:10:20,934 --> 00:10:23,401 a great armored warfare strategist 123 00:10:23,534 --> 00:10:28,601 using tanks strike with force daring and speed. 124 00:10:28,668 --> 00:10:34,068 The blitzkrieg or lightning war should not give the enemy time to react. 125 00:10:35,934 --> 00:10:38,734 First the tanks followed by infantry 126 00:10:38,868 --> 00:10:41,201 and backed by aircraft 127 00:10:41,268 --> 00:10:43,601 especially the Stukas. 128 00:10:46,534 --> 00:10:50,268 The Stukas dive bombers equiped with sirens 129 00:10:50,334 --> 00:10:52,668 resisting the intense pressure of decent 130 00:10:52,734 --> 00:10:56,134 their highly trained pilots release their bombs of the last minute 131 00:10:56,268 --> 00:10:58,734 with lethal precision. 132 00:11:08,534 --> 00:11:10,468 The French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud 133 00:11:10,601 --> 00:11:13,468 telephones Churchill in alarm: 134 00:11:13,601 --> 00:11:17,068 "We have been defeated. We have lost the battle." 135 00:11:18,534 --> 00:11:20,534 The French genernals are at a loss. 136 00:11:20,668 --> 00:11:24,068 They are unable to react to the situation 137 00:11:24,201 --> 00:11:26,734 with allied forces tied up in Belgium. 138 00:11:26,868 --> 00:11:30,534 How can they stop the Germans from advancing? 139 00:11:37,401 --> 00:11:43,001 In Paris, the French authorities are trying to deal with the increasing number of refugees. 140 00:11:43,068 --> 00:11:47,734 People from Belgium and northern France are pouring in the city. 141 00:11:47,868 --> 00:11:50,334 Schools, hospitals and barracks 142 00:11:50,401 --> 00:11:53,668 are soon overflowing. 143 00:11:55,134 --> 00:11:57,734 Information is sparse. Rumors are abound. 144 00:11:57,801 --> 00:12:00,134 Has Gamelin commited suicide? 145 00:12:00,201 --> 00:12:01,534 No. 146 00:12:01,601 --> 00:12:05,601 The French high command has just realized that the Germans are heading to the coast. 147 00:12:05,668 --> 00:12:08,734 And the allies are falling into a trap. 148 00:12:08,868 --> 00:12:10,534 A counter attack is ordered. 149 00:12:10,601 --> 00:12:14,934 Allowing a certain colonel De Gaulle to distinguish himself ahead from the tank brigade. 150 00:12:15,068 --> 00:12:17,668 The French army possesses more tanks 151 00:12:17,801 --> 00:12:21,334 and they are all better quality than the German panzers. 152 00:12:29,201 --> 00:12:32,334 But without any reinforcement or aerial support, 153 00:12:32,401 --> 00:12:35,934 the French tanks become prey to the Stukas. 154 00:13:00,268 --> 00:13:02,534 The French competents put up a good fight, 155 00:13:02,668 --> 00:13:06,934 but they wonder why the air force isn't protecting them. 156 00:13:09,134 --> 00:13:11,734 Poorly prepared and with fewer planes 157 00:13:11,801 --> 00:13:15,201 the French pilots are heavily outnumbered by the luftwaffe. 158 00:13:15,268 --> 00:13:19,334 But they fight egregiously. 159 00:13:19,468 --> 00:13:22,934 Dozens of German pilots are shot down and taken prisoner. 160 00:13:26,468 --> 00:13:30,601 Some of these pilots will be returned to Germany when their armistice is signed 161 00:13:30,734 --> 00:13:34,001 and will join the battle against Britain. 162 00:13:37,734 --> 00:13:40,268 163 00:13:40,401 --> 00:13:41,601 The German tanks move swiftly through 164 00:13:41,734 --> 00:13:45,201 the towns and villages of northern France. 165 00:13:55,668 --> 00:13:59,534 Valiantly, the French try to slow the German advance. 166 00:14:03,735 --> 00:14:07,068 The Germans crash any pockets of resistance. 167 00:14:18,135 --> 00:14:21,668 The Germans have reached the English channel. 168 00:14:21,802 --> 00:14:25,402 Hitler's strategy of the "Sickle Cut" has worked. 169 00:14:26,868 --> 00:14:29,935 The British expeditionary force, the Belgium army 170 00:14:30,068 --> 00:14:32,868 and French armor force are incircled. 171 00:14:33,002 --> 00:14:36,268 172 00:14:38,135 --> 00:14:43,068 The Belgian King surrenders along with his army. 173 00:14:43,135 --> 00:14:46,068 The British expeditionary force withdraw towards the coast 174 00:14:46,202 --> 00:14:49,802 leading to the final collapse of allied armys. 175 00:14:51,202 --> 00:14:53,668 In Paris, the French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud 176 00:14:53,802 --> 00:14:55,268 dismisses Gamelin 177 00:14:55,402 --> 00:14:57,002 and finds a new savior 178 00:14:57,135 --> 00:15:00,468 Genernal Weygand 72 years old 179 00:15:00,602 --> 00:15:04,068 one of the artisans of the allied victory in 1918. 180 00:15:04,202 --> 00:15:06,402 To boast morale Reynaud 181 00:15:06,468 --> 00:15:09,402 names another World War I hero as vice premier 182 00:15:09,535 --> 00:15:12,735 84-year-old Marshal Petain 183 00:15:12,868 --> 00:15:16,268 he will soon turn back on Reynaud's policys. 184 00:15:18,535 --> 00:15:20,002 Weygand has no choice. 185 00:15:20,068 --> 00:15:23,602 He too is forced to order a full retreat towards Dunkirk. 186 00:15:23,735 --> 00:15:26,202 Hitler lets them go. 187 00:15:26,335 --> 00:15:28,868 A gesture of clements towards Great Britain? 188 00:15:29,002 --> 00:15:31,468 If he still hope a separate peace? 189 00:15:31,535 --> 00:15:37,535 Or has Goring assured to him that his air force is capable of preventing an evacuation? 190 00:15:37,602 --> 00:15:42,468 Four hundred thousand men cram the beach helpless and in disarray. 191 00:15:42,535 --> 00:15:44,535 They have one last chance 192 00:15:44,668 --> 00:15:46,602 to escape over the sea. 193 00:15:46,735 --> 00:15:49,202 Churchill orders any vessel that can float 194 00:15:49,335 --> 00:15:51,535 to go and get them. 195 00:15:53,468 --> 00:15:54,935 On the outskirt of Dunkirk 196 00:15:55,068 --> 00:15:57,202 The French hold back the Germans 197 00:15:57,335 --> 00:16:00,335 suffering heavy losses. 198 00:16:01,802 --> 00:16:06,068 Goring sends out the Luftwaffe Stukas and bombers 199 00:16:17,868 --> 00:16:20,335 Two hundred and eighteen thousand British 200 00:16:20,468 --> 00:16:23,002 and a hundred twenty thousand French troops 201 00:16:23,135 --> 00:16:26,068 are successfully evacuated. 202 00:16:28,535 --> 00:16:31,668 203 00:16:31,802 --> 00:16:36,002 The British army is saved but they ???? tatters. 204 00:16:48,002 --> 00:16:50,135 The French will be sent back to France 205 00:16:50,268 --> 00:16:53,802 in a finally attempt to defend their country. 206 00:17:02,135 --> 00:17:06,867 The British are sent off to reequipment centers. 207 00:17:06,867 --> 00:17:10,867 All of the Great Britain hails Dunkirk as an extraordinary feet. 208 00:17:11,002 --> 00:17:14,667 Churchill however puts it into perspective 209 00:17:14,801 --> 00:17:16,535 with the seditty he says: 210 00:17:16,667 --> 00:17:20,202 "Wars are not won by evacuation." 211 00:17:20,335 --> 00:17:23,867 Even so in those first days of June 1940, 212 00:17:23,935 --> 00:17:27,268 the Dunkirk spirit is born. 213 00:17:27,335 --> 00:17:31,068 The ruthlessness of this war and the destructive power of Nazi enemy 214 00:17:31,135 --> 00:17:33,468 are now apprent to the British. 215 00:17:33,602 --> 00:17:35,268 Light heartness and humor 216 00:17:35,402 --> 00:17:38,935 give way to frantic effort to moblize the nation. 217 00:17:39,002 --> 00:17:44,535 On the 4th of June Churchill who was also battling with defeatness on his own side speaks out. 218 00:17:44,668 --> 00:17:47,068 His tone is unforgettable. 219 00:17:47,202 --> 00:17:49,135 "We shall fight on the beaches," 220 00:17:49,268 --> 00:17:50,668 "on the landing ground" 221 00:17:50,802 --> 00:17:52,468 "in the fields, in the streets" 222 00:17:52,602 --> 00:17:55,002 "and on the hills." 223 00:17:55,135 --> 00:17:57,602 "We shall never surrender." 224 00:17:59,935 --> 00:18:00,935 225 00:18:00,935 --> 00:18:02,735 226 00:18:06,068 --> 00:18:10,202 On the 4th of June the Germans take Dunkirk. 227 00:18:16,335 --> 00:18:18,635 A fabulous bounty awaits them. 228 00:18:18,735 --> 00:18:22,602 Lavishly filmed by the Wehrmacht's propaganda units. 229 00:18:22,735 --> 00:18:27,402 The British forces have left behind almost all of their equipment. 230 00:18:49,402 --> 00:18:53,868 The soldiers of the Wehrmacht film themselves in high spirits. 231 00:18:57,935 --> 00:18:59,535 They find a French gramophone 232 00:18:59,602 --> 00:19:02,602 with a famous record by Maurice Chevalier. 233 00:19:02,735 --> 00:19:05,668 234 00:19:05,735 --> 00:19:08,935 235 00:19:09,002 --> 00:19:12,468 236 00:19:12,535 --> 00:19:17,202 237 00:19:17,335 --> 00:19:22,268 238 00:19:22,402 --> 00:19:28,735 239 00:19:37,868 --> 00:19:40,535 The offensive continues. 240 00:19:40,668 --> 00:19:44,268 France collapses. 241 00:19:49,335 --> 00:19:53,602 But Reynaud and De Gaulle who was under secretary of state for defense on war 242 00:19:53,735 --> 00:19:56,602 want to continue fighting. 243 00:20:01,402 --> 00:20:05,402 In Rome the Italian dictator Mussolini 244 00:20:07,002 --> 00:20:08,802 has a big news for his people: 245 00:20:08,868 --> 00:20:14,935 246 00:20:18,068 --> 00:20:22,402 247 00:20:23,402 --> 00:20:26,602 Mussolini is hoping but he's share of spoils. 248 00:20:26,735 --> 00:20:29,268 249 00:20:29,402 --> 00:20:33,468 as well as disarmament of Corsica and Tunisia. 250 00:20:33,602 --> 00:20:37,202 The French say:"It's a stab in the back." 251 00:20:37,268 --> 00:20:42,002 Mussolini's offensive is cut short by the French alpine divisions. 252 00:20:42,068 --> 00:20:46,668 Genernal Rommel's troops storm Normandy and enter Lyon. 253 00:21:04,292 --> 00:21:07,159 Paris is declared an open city 254 00:21:07,225 --> 00:21:10,159 in another words it's turned over to enemy without a fight 255 00:21:10,292 --> 00:21:13,825 in order to spare the fate of Warsaw or Rotterdam. 256 00:21:13,959 --> 00:21:16,559 The government has moved to Bordeaux. 257 00:21:16,692 --> 00:21:18,759 The Germans are apporaching the city. 258 00:21:18,825 --> 00:21:21,025 Rumors fly. They kill. They rape 259 00:21:21,159 --> 00:21:24,625 by the Prussians did in 1870. 260 00:21:24,759 --> 00:21:28,425 The Parisian abandoned by their government flee. 261 00:21:28,559 --> 00:21:30,559 All of France take to the road 262 00:21:30,692 --> 00:21:36,025 A cataclysm will come to be known by a biblical name, the Exodus. 263 00:21:36,159 --> 00:21:41,159 Millions of French man and women head towards Loire, the last rampart. 264 00:21:41,225 --> 00:21:45,692 But there is no rampart strong enough against the Stukas. 265 00:22:01,025 --> 00:22:04,559 On the 14th of June 1940 a daybreak 266 00:22:04,692 --> 00:22:07,492 The Germans march into Paris. 267 00:22:33,292 --> 00:22:38,292 Nazi's emblem the Swastika flyes over Paris. 268 00:22:44,625 --> 00:22:46,425 One of the first act of German occupier 269 00:22:46,559 --> 00:22:50,559 is to seize all the records of abandoned ministries 270 00:22:50,625 --> 00:22:54,292 list of spies, of jews, of freemasons 271 00:22:54,425 --> 00:22:56,959 and even their original copy of the treaty of Versailles 272 00:22:57,025 --> 00:23:00,425 that so humiliated Germany in 1919. 273 00:23:00,559 --> 00:23:03,225 It is immediately sent off to Hitler. 274 00:23:05,025 --> 00:23:08,092 The Exodus has come to a hold. 275 00:23:08,225 --> 00:23:11,292 The bridges over Loire are blown. 276 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:12,959 The only hope now 277 00:23:13,092 --> 00:23:15,692 is the fighting stops. 278 00:23:16,759 --> 00:23:20,159 Petain in Bordeaux also wants to put an end of things 279 00:23:26,159 --> 00:23:29,959 The Germans continue their relentless advance southward. 280 00:23:30,025 --> 00:23:32,159 Though once considered a formidable force 281 00:23:32,292 --> 00:23:34,692 the French army is now a shambled. 282 00:23:34,825 --> 00:23:39,225 and yet this put up a better fight than was thought especially at a time. 283 00:23:39,225 --> 00:23:39,292 284 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,959 In one month one hundred thousand French soldiers die 285 00:23:43,092 --> 00:23:46,359 more than in the same period of time during the World War I 286 00:23:46,492 --> 00:23:50,092 the deadliest of wars until then. 287 00:24:03,025 --> 00:24:07,492 One million eight hundred and fifty thousand soldiers are taken prisoner 288 00:24:07,625 --> 00:24:10,292 along with thirty-six thousand officers 289 00:24:10,425 --> 00:24:13,759 and a hundred and seventy-six genernals. 290 00:24:22,559 --> 00:24:27,559 Among the prisoners there are many African soldiers from the French colonial troops. 291 00:24:29,092 --> 00:24:30,959 The Wehrmacht's amateur film makers 292 00:24:31,092 --> 00:24:34,892 film them with a perverse sense of self-satisfaction. 293 00:24:35,025 --> 00:24:38,692 Famished, these soldiers kill a goat. 294 00:25:01,425 --> 00:25:06,759 German propaganda newsreels insist on showing repeated close-ups of their faces. 295 00:25:06,892 --> 00:25:10,825 The offical instructions art portrayed the degenerations of French 296 00:25:10,892 --> 00:25:15,559 who are forced to go to war with their slaves from their colonies. 297 00:25:15,692 --> 00:25:19,425 The original German commentary is revealing: 298 00:25:19,492 --> 00:25:24,092 299 00:25:24,225 --> 00:25:27,292 300 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,625 301 00:25:30,759 --> 00:25:33,825 302 00:25:33,959 --> 00:25:36,892 Three thousand African soldiers and officers from the French army 303 00:25:37,025 --> 00:25:41,159 will be shot and killed after they are captured. 304 00:25:41,225 --> 00:25:43,625 After 7 years of Nazi indoctrination 305 00:25:43,759 --> 00:25:47,359 racism is rampant among the German soldiers. 306 00:25:53,559 --> 00:25:58,225 Three days will be now decisive in determining France fate. 307 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:00,225 On the 16th of June 1940 308 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:06,359 Reynaud is out maneuvered by the councilor ministers in Bordeaux and he resigns. 309 00:26:06,425 --> 00:26:11,292 As his successor Philippe Petain is appointed to head the Frence Government. 310 00:26:14,225 --> 00:26:17,159 311 00:26:17,292 --> 00:26:19,359 Plaza Bastille 312 00:26:19,425 --> 00:26:23,025 Those who remained in Paris listen to marshal Petain. 313 00:26:23,159 --> 00:26:24,625 The war hero of Verdun 314 00:26:24,759 --> 00:26:28,292 announces that he is seeking armistice. 315 00:26:33,092 --> 00:26:35,692 316 00:26:35,825 --> 00:26:38,959 317 00:26:39,025 --> 00:26:40,959 318 00:26:41,092 --> 00:26:42,892 319 00:26:43,025 --> 00:26:46,359 320 00:26:50,292 --> 00:26:52,625 The German radio translate this speech 321 00:26:52,759 --> 00:26:55,625 announcing Frances capitulation. 322 00:27:06,825 --> 00:27:10,625 Some French people are able to pick up the BBC. 323 00:27:10,759 --> 00:27:13,025 Genernal De Gaulle has arrived in London. 324 00:27:13,159 --> 00:27:16,492 On the 18th of June he didn't announce this armistice. 325 00:27:16,625 --> 00:27:19,892 A few days later he records a new speech. 326 00:27:21,959 --> 00:27:26,025 327 00:27:26,092 --> 00:27:31,559 328 00:27:36,625 --> 00:27:40,959 Hitler receives a telegram of congratulations from Moscow. 329 00:27:51,892 --> 00:27:53,959 On June 22nd 1940 330 00:27:54,025 --> 00:27:57,159 Hitler arrives in Kang Pien near Paris. 331 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,420 The setup is ordered as design to humiliate the losers. 332 00:28:02,825 --> 00:28:07,425 He's brought the same railway car that was used for the signing of 1918 armistice 333 00:28:07,559 --> 00:28:10,347 that sealed the Germany's defeat. 334 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,413 His revenge is complete. 335 00:28:36,547 --> 00:28:40,413 The French delegation is led by Genernal Huntziger. 336 00:28:55,747 --> 00:28:57,947 An interpreter reads out a diatribe 337 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:02,347 accusing France of declaring war without any reason. 338 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,480 Hitler does not utter a single word. 339 00:29:05,547 --> 00:29:07,480 He stands up and leaves. 340 00:29:17,747 --> 00:29:21,347 The French delegates have been informed the terms of armistice. 341 00:29:21,413 --> 00:29:29,080 One of its conditions is that France handover all the anti-Nazi Germans who have taken refuge in France. 342 00:29:29,213 --> 00:29:32,080 Huntziger has tried to negotiate. 343 00:29:32,213 --> 00:29:34,813 The Germans refuse. 344 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,813 Huntziger calls the government in Bordeaux. 345 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,147 The German secret services tape his conversation with Weygand. 346 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,140 347 00:29:43,147 --> 00:29:45,813 348 00:29:45,813 --> 00:29:47,280 349 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,213 350 00:29:49,347 --> 00:29:52,547 351 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,280 352 00:29:55,413 --> 00:29:57,413 353 00:29:59,613 --> 00:30:03,480 Afterwars Hitler has the railway car taken to Berlin. 354 00:30:03,613 --> 00:30:05,080 In the final days of Reich 355 00:30:05,213 --> 00:30:08,480 he will have the SS blow it up with Dynamite. 356 00:30:11,947 --> 00:30:17,213 Soon the major symbols of France's victory in World War I will be mocked 357 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:22,013 like here in Verdun where a half million French soldiers were killed 358 00:30:22,147 --> 00:30:25,613 to come to this 20 years later. 359 00:30:31,413 --> 00:30:37,480 Hitler jeers at his visit his man who's only just taken Maginot Line. 360 00:30:53,347 --> 00:30:57,613 He is more solemn when enters Strasbourg and its Cathedral. 361 00:30:57,747 --> 00:31:01,413 Alsace and Lorraine are German once again 362 00:31:01,613 --> 00:31:04,147 as he promise they would be. 363 00:31:07,413 --> 00:31:09,613 The spoils of French campaign 364 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,547 two thousand tanks 365 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:13,613 five thousand cannons 366 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,347 three hundred thousand rifles 367 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,213 four million rounds of ammunition. 368 00:31:29,547 --> 00:31:35,813 At an army supply warehouse the Wehrmacht finds a stock of ???? meant for the French army 369 00:31:35,947 --> 00:31:37,880 warm woolen garments 370 00:31:38,013 --> 00:31:41,213 which will be stored the way for future campaign. 371 00:31:48,947 --> 00:31:52,547 The spoils are the factories, the harbours 372 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,347 all the riches of France. 373 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,413 It was the French who declared the war 374 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:04,413 as the consequence they will pay the equivalent of one hundred million dollars a day in occupation costs. 375 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,147 Genernal Huntziger goes to Germany for the first meeting of the commision 376 00:32:10,213 --> 00:32:14,413 charged with the playing in terms of the armistice. 377 00:32:23,747 --> 00:32:28,613 To spare troops Hitler decides to let France retain partial sovereignty 378 00:32:28,747 --> 00:32:31,413 under a government at his backend core 379 00:32:31,547 --> 00:32:34,147 with a limited army, striped heavy weapons 380 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,347 just maintain order. 381 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,213 The country is splited in two. 382 00:32:39,347 --> 00:32:42,480 An occupied zone in north along the entire Atlantic coast 383 00:32:42,613 --> 00:32:45,480 providing the access to all harbours. 384 00:32:45,547 --> 00:32:47,547 Italia controls the Mediterranean area 385 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,880 and occupies an narrow ribbon along the out. 386 00:32:51,013 --> 00:32:52,613 The rest is called free zone 387 00:32:52,747 --> 00:32:55,480 with a new capital, Vichy. 388 00:33:01,213 --> 00:33:05,880 This spa town has been choosen in part for its many hotels. 389 00:33:05,947 --> 00:33:11,213 In early July Marshal Petain moves into them along with government ministries 390 00:33:11,347 --> 00:33:14,547 The atmosphere everywhere is abase more. 391 00:33:31,547 --> 00:33:36,213 However this Vichy government continues to control a vast colonial empire 392 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:40,680 and ???? a still powerful navy. 393 00:33:40,747 --> 00:33:45,213 Hitler's only request is that his ships be disarmed 394 00:33:45,347 --> 00:33:48,747 and remain in their ports for his afraid ???? ???? joint forces with Britain. 395 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:50,547 Churchill's fear is opposite 396 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,880 that it will fall into German hand. 397 00:33:53,013 --> 00:33:55,680 He orders to Royal Navy to neutralize it. 398 00:33:57,813 --> 00:33:58,880 A British Naval Force 399 00:33:59,013 --> 00:34:02,347 sails to one of France's biggest naval bases 400 00:34:02,413 --> 00:34:04,880 Mers-el Kebir in Algeria. 401 00:34:05,013 --> 00:34:06,747 Churchill is taking no risks 402 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,679 and alternate them dispatched 403 00:34:08,813 --> 00:34:11,147 by the joining us 404 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:12,347 sculpt their own ships 405 00:34:12,347 --> 00:34:15,746 or sail under escort demilitarization in the Caribbean. 406 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,612 The French reject all proposals. 407 00:34:20,347 --> 00:34:22,947 The British open fire. 408 00:34:28,813 --> 00:34:31,080 Two French battleships are heavyly damaged. 409 00:34:31,213 --> 00:34:33,547 And one, Bretagne is sunk. 410 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:37,480 One thousand two hundred and ninty-seven French sailors are killed. 411 00:34:39,413 --> 00:34:42,679 Seeking to show his people, the world and ???? the United States 412 00:34:42,813 --> 00:34:44,679 how to determine he is 413 00:34:44,746 --> 00:34:47,813 Churchill strikes out to his former ally 414 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:51,813 whose fleet could help the Germans land on British shore. 415 00:34:51,947 --> 00:34:53,147 Two days after the attack, 416 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:57,680 the Vichy government breaks off the diplomatic relations with Britain. 417 00:35:02,613 --> 00:35:05,213 418 00:35:05,347 --> 00:35:08,147 All of Germany acclaims Hitler. 419 00:35:08,213 --> 00:35:12,213 His lightning conquest France enthralls his genernals. 420 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,487 He sees himself as the greatest war leader of all time 421 00:35:15,620 --> 00:35:18,287 on a par with Napoleon. 422 00:35:18,353 --> 00:35:23,087 And like the Empror no one dares to contradict him anymore. 423 00:35:30,620 --> 00:35:33,353 The Germans occupied the channel islands 424 00:35:33,487 --> 00:35:35,220 Jersey and Guernsey 425 00:35:35,353 --> 00:35:38,753 stepping stones towards the invasion of Britain 426 00:35:42,487 --> 00:35:44,153 427 00:35:44,287 --> 00:35:46,820 The British get ready for a German invasion 428 00:35:46,887 --> 00:35:49,687 taking measures that might appear trivial 429 00:36:01,153 --> 00:36:06,287 Another urgent measure is to send children away to the countryside for safety 430 00:36:06,353 --> 00:36:09,153 always a painful moment. 431 00:36:25,220 --> 00:36:30,153 Their elder sisters, their mothers and grandmothers join the war effort 432 00:36:30,153 --> 00:36:30,220 Their elder sisters, their mothers and grandmothers join the war effort 433 00:36:35,020 --> 00:36:40,087 Every women must defend her home against the fearsome German paratroopers. 434 00:36:48,353 --> 00:36:52,087 The man join ???? local defense volunteers for the home guard 435 00:36:52,220 --> 00:36:55,020 even veterans of the First World War. 436 00:36:55,087 --> 00:36:57,687 The willing and able are moblized 437 00:36:57,820 --> 00:37:02,553 while the army resuced in Dunkirk reforms. 438 00:37:02,687 --> 00:37:07,753 America supplies rifles, machine guns and anti-aircraft cannons 439 00:37:07,887 --> 00:37:10,753 and everyone perfect their skills 440 00:37:22,220 --> 00:37:26,887 Churchill delivers a most inspire speech to the British people 441 00:37:27,020 --> 00:37:29,353 "The battle of Britain is about to begin" 442 00:37:29,487 --> 00:37:32,820 443 00:37:32,887 --> 00:37:36,887 "so bear heart so" 444 00:37:36,953 --> 00:37:40,220 "this is British Empire and ????" 445 00:37:40,353 --> 00:37:43,753 "last for a thousand years" 446 00:37:43,887 --> 00:37:45,887 "men will still say" 447 00:37:47,087 --> 00:37:50,220 "this ???? their ???? hour" 448 00:37:54,887 --> 00:37:57,953 One of Churchill main weapon is the royal air force 449 00:37:58,087 --> 00:37:59,687 along with its remarkable aircraft 450 00:37:59,820 --> 00:38:02,553 the Spitfire with its Rolls-Royce engine 451 00:38:02,687 --> 00:38:06,820 one of the best fighter planes in the world. 452 00:38:10,153 --> 00:38:13,220 Britain also excels in the field of electronics. 453 00:38:13,353 --> 00:38:17,887 The British at first use the radar for the purpose of defens. 454 00:38:17,953 --> 00:38:20,953 In the ops room radar are used for detecting planes 455 00:38:21,087 --> 00:38:23,687 and guiding pilots towards the enemy. 456 00:38:28,953 --> 00:38:31,087 The pilots from all over the British Empire 457 00:38:31,153 --> 00:38:35,753 and joined by airman who have managed to flee their country on the German occupation 458 00:38:35,820 --> 00:38:38,287 or his government is in exile in London. 459 00:38:38,420 --> 00:38:42,220 Pols, Dutch, Czechs 460 00:38:43,953 --> 00:38:48,220 and the first of the free French forces along with De Gaulle. 461 00:38:52,087 --> 00:38:55,487 Many of the British pilots are Oxford and Cambridge students. 462 00:38:55,553 --> 00:38:58,753 One of them Richard Hilary later wrote 463 00:38:58,887 --> 00:39:01,153 "We were know as long head boys" 464 00:39:01,287 --> 00:39:03,487 "we were dissolution and spoiled" 465 00:39:03,553 --> 00:39:06,487 "the press referred to us as the lost genernation" 466 00:39:06,553 --> 00:39:09,487 "superficially we were selfish and egocentric" 467 00:39:09,620 --> 00:39:11,820 "The war did not need heroic" 468 00:39:11,953 --> 00:39:15,553 "but gives us the opportunity to prove to ourselves and to the world" 469 00:39:15,620 --> 00:39:18,087 "that undiscipline might we be" 470 00:39:18,153 --> 00:39:21,887 "we were a match for Hitler's dogma fed youth" 471 00:39:26,620 --> 00:39:31,087 These German pilots have been trained by the Hitlerjugend 472 00:39:31,220 --> 00:39:33,953 the Hitler Youth with the idea of revenge 473 00:39:40,953 --> 00:39:43,220 They feel that they are invincible 474 00:39:43,287 --> 00:39:46,553 their leader, Goering is a popular figure in the regime 475 00:39:46,620 --> 00:39:49,353 476 00:39:52,820 --> 00:39:57,353 Goering who is a man of luxury often stays in Hotel Ritz in Paris. 477 00:39:57,420 --> 00:40:01,953 and turns Luxembourg Palace into the Luftwaffe Headquarters 478 00:40:03,087 --> 00:40:07,753 He had promised Hitler the Luftwaffe could blitzkrieg the royal air force in days 479 00:40:07,887 --> 00:40:09,620 take control of air 480 00:40:09,753 --> 00:40:13,820 and enable Wehrmacht to invade Great Britain. 481 00:40:13,953 --> 00:40:17,420 The Luftwaffe has it disposal all France's airfields 482 00:40:17,553 --> 00:40:20,887 their installations and equipment. 483 00:40:21,020 --> 00:40:22,820 its pilots were well trained 484 00:40:22,953 --> 00:40:24,353 like Adolf Galland 485 00:40:24,420 --> 00:40:26,087 with his trademark Cigar 486 00:40:26,220 --> 00:40:29,220 who ???? against repulicans in Spain 487 00:40:30,220 --> 00:40:32,287 or Werner Molders 488 00:40:32,420 --> 00:40:33,487 an ace for the battle of France 489 00:40:33,687 --> 00:40:36,020 he was one of the pilots shot down, taken prisoner 490 00:40:36,153 --> 00:40:38,820 and then returned to the Germans. 491 00:40:38,887 --> 00:40:42,353 He is now a part of the aerial offensive against Great Britain. 492 00:40:50,153 --> 00:40:52,420 Taking off from these fields in occupied France 493 00:40:52,553 --> 00:40:55,553 the German will attack convoys in the channel 494 00:40:55,687 --> 00:40:59,420 harbours and airfields in southern England. 495 00:41:05,887 --> 00:41:08,953 They will shoot down five hundred British aircraft 496 00:41:09,087 --> 00:41:11,687 at the cost of a thousand of their own 497 00:41:14,820 --> 00:41:16,553 The British pilots hold out 498 00:41:16,687 --> 00:41:18,887 giving everthing they have. 499 00:41:37,687 --> 00:41:41,220 Chruchill proclaims: "Never in the field of human conflict" 500 00:41:41,287 --> 00:41:45,553 "were so much old by so many to so few." 501 00:41:47,353 --> 00:41:50,620 Hitler decides to postpone his plan to invade Britain 502 00:41:50,753 --> 00:41:52,820 This is his first setback. 503 00:41:52,953 --> 00:41:56,087 His tactics now relies more on nighttime bombings. 504 00:41:56,220 --> 00:42:00,953 He says: "The British will surrender when their cities have been destroyed." 505 00:42:03,353 --> 00:42:08,287 German bombers attack British cities like Coventry and London 506 00:42:08,420 --> 00:42:12,487 This is the blitz daily bombings. 507 00:42:42,303 --> 00:42:45,970 As for the British people they hold up admirablly 508 00:42:47,570 --> 00:42:50,703 They dig shlters in the garden of their cottages 509 00:42:52,036 --> 00:42:55,503 And in London they sleep in the underground stations 510 00:42:55,636 --> 00:42:58,103 and go to work the next day. 511 00:43:09,436 --> 00:43:13,103 They never lose their confidence or sense of humor. 512 00:43:16,170 --> 00:43:18,036 Churchill says to the French 513 00:43:18,170 --> 00:43:21,903 514 00:43:21,970 --> 00:43:25,903 515 00:43:25,903 --> 00:43:28,836 516 00:43:28,903 --> 00:43:32,236 Roll out the barrel 517 00:43:32,370 --> 00:43:36,970 We'll have a barrel of fun 518 00:43:37,103 --> 00:43:41,503 Roll out the barrel 519 00:43:41,570 --> 00:43:46,436 We'll have a barrel of fun 520 00:43:46,570 --> 00:43:50,770 Roll out the barrel 521 00:43:50,836 --> 00:43:52,703 Hitler is exasperated. 522 00:43:52,770 --> 00:43:56,836 He will later call Churchill a Jew-ridden half American drunkard. 523 00:43:56,903 --> 00:43:59,036 From now on whenever he is ???? 524 00:43:59,103 --> 00:44:02,103 He will vent his spite against Jews. 525 00:44:10,303 --> 00:44:12,170 On October the 12th, 1940 526 00:44:12,303 --> 00:44:13,970 On the day of Yom Kippur 527 00:44:14,036 --> 00:44:17,570 The Jews of Warsaw are told a ghetto will be set up. 528 00:44:17,703 --> 00:44:20,103 A wall 3 meters high is erected 529 00:44:20,236 --> 00:44:22,503 enclosing half a millon Jews 530 00:44:22,636 --> 00:44:25,836 man, women, children, the elderly 531 00:44:25,970 --> 00:44:30,170 who will suffer ???? from hunger, cold and poverty. 532 00:45:08,303 --> 00:45:11,036 In his Shelley in Bavarian Alps the backoff 533 00:45:11,103 --> 00:45:14,236 Hitler is filmed by his mistress Eva Brown 534 00:45:14,303 --> 00:45:19,036 as he celebrates new year surrounded by the children of Nazi dignitaries. 535 00:45:19,170 --> 00:45:21,436 He has another plan of his sleeve 536 00:45:21,570 --> 00:45:23,703 another big gamble. 537 00:45:23,770 --> 00:45:29,436 His mission now is to conquer new Lebensunterhalt/living space to the east. 538 00:45:31,036 --> 00:45:33,236 He has allied himself with Stalin 539 00:45:33,370 --> 00:45:36,170 only to better attack him later on. 540 00:45:36,236 --> 00:45:39,236 His failure to take Britain compels him into move quickly 541 00:45:39,303 --> 00:45:42,636 before Churchill is able to draw America in 542 00:45:42,703 --> 00:45:46,036 with that will set the world blaze. 543 00:45:47,036 --> 00:45:49,570 544 00:45:49,703 --> 00:45:52,570