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May 9, 1940.
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A little French town,
with little French children.
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A town in the Ardennes, not far from Germany
which is at war with France.
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But things are being quiet,
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until now.
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So the children continue to line
their clogs up neatly,
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and their school teacher says:
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Today we'll learn a nice song,
to bring peace back to us.
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Round, round, round,
go the puppets.
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This will be their last class.
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Timing & Viet by jdinic3@podnapisi
English by godlob@IDWS
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Apocalypse
The Second World War
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May 10, 1940. At 5:35 AM,
The Germans unleash their offensive.
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2/6
Crushing Defeat
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German paratroopers
are dropped into Holland.
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They are the vanguard,
the first of 3 million invaders.
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Wehrmacht marches
into Belgium.
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This is Hitler's decoy.
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The Germans pretend they're going to attack France
through neutral Belgium
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as they did in 1914.
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The French General Gamelin, commander-in-chief
of The Allied Forces, is confident.
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He has everything covered.
He finds two "de strategy" during the "phoney war"
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Gamelin moves his best motorized division,
the elite of the French Army, into Belgium
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along with the entire
British Expeditionary Force.
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These are fighting soldiers with true grid,
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They will stop the German advance
through Belgium.
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But Hitler, in his own quarters,
is gloating. His decoy worked.
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He exclaims,
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I could weep for joy.
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He instructs Field Marshall Goering,
who commands the air force,
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not to bomb the French columns to let them proceed
deep into Belgium territory
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and he attacks them
from the rear.
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His real offensive will be
through the Ardennes.
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According to a French high command:
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No tank can get through those
dainty forests and hills.
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But nothing stops them, except
their own traffic jam.
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Meanwhile, in the Netherlands
and Belgium,
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People who own cars were among
the first to flee.
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Everyone is suspected
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a so-called 'fifth column' is feared,
spies working for the Nazis.
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The German continue their
diversionary tactics,
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invading Belgium with specially trained
airborne forces.
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The sappers belt out their song
from their campaign in Poland.
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The girls will have to wait, comrades.
It's time to go, comrades.
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On May 11, on daybreak, they're dropped in
to Belgium
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Their goal is to capture the linchpin
of the Belgian defense system.
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Fort Eben-Emael, on the Albert Canal
which is reputed to be 'impregnable'.
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An intrepid German soldier heaves himself onto
the top of a turret, with a load of explosives.
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The conquerors strive through the ruins of Fort Eben-Emael,
the key to Belgium.
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Images such as these, will force the Wehrmacht's reputation
of invincibility.
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After the fort falls, people scramble to catch
the last train to Paris.
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In the French capital,
The Red Cross is swapped.
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Belgian refugees are transferred to
cattle cars heading south.
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As the German enters Liege,
panics grow and spread.
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Faced with such a force,
they are only 2 options:
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obey, or flee.
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Many of the refugees are the people
from the country side.
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As in many times in history,
farmers have always been the last to flee.
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loath to abandon their crops
and their animals.
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The great Belgian poet, Emile Verhaeren wrote:
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The people around here have nothing at all.
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Nothing before them,
but the endlessness of the open road.
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The people who work the field,
the people around here,
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have only endless misfortune.
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The German unleash their
aerial offence,
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destroying strategic crossroads,
air fields,
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refineries, and fuel supplies.
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Cities in northern and eastern France
are bombed.
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The French are now facing reality
of modern warfare.
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In the Netherlands,
the Port of Rotterdam is ablaze.
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The result of the German terror bombing raid
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like the one in Warsaw.
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But these bomb are dropped, after
the city has surrendered.
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Another of Hitler's war crime.
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In London, the new prime minister is
Winston Churchill.
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His first speech reveals his determination
to keep fighting
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whatever the circumstances.
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I will say, without a doubt
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that the faith of Holland,
and Belgium
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like that of Poland, Czechoslovakia,
and Austria,
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will be decided, by the victory of the British Empire
and French Republic.
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But things have suddenly turned
very grim in France.
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In just 3 days, the German have
swept through the Ardennes
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and advancing towards French's defensive line
on the Meuse River.
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They are closing the net with
their 'pinsel' movement,
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seeking to entrapped the Allied troops
amass in Belgium.
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The German infantry-men knock over the French,
as if they came from a different world
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With their hand- grenades,
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machine guns, and with their
sleeves rolled up
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They take the town
in one day.
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Sedan, the key to the Ardennes,
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which was already terribly marked
by the French defeat in 1870.
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But the real obstacle for the German
is the Meuse River.
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On the night of May 13, they bring in
beams to build bridges.
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The French fight back.
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But the German neutralized the French artillery, and
the next morning their sappers finished the bridge.
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Galvanized by the General Guderian,
a 52 years old Prussian.
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A great armored warfare strategist
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Using tanks to strike with force,
daring and speed.
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Blitzkrieg, or Lightning war, should not give
the enemy time to react.
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First, the tanks, followed by the infantry,
and backed by aircraft.
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especially the Stukas.
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The Stukas, dive bombers,
equipped with sirens.
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resisting the intense pressure
of the descent
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their highly trained pilots release
their bombs at the last minute
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with lethal precisions.
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The French prime minister, Paul Reynaud,
telephoned Churchill in alarm:
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We have been defeated,
we have lost the battle.
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The French generals are at a loss.
they are unable to react to the situation.
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With the Allied forces tied up in Belgium,
how can they stop the Germans from advancing?
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In Paris, the French authority is trying
to deal with the increasing numbers of refugees.
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People from Belgium and Northern France
are pouring in the city.
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Schools, hospital, and barracks
are soon overflowing.
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Information is passed,
rumors are bound
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Has Gamelin committed suicide?
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No.
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The French high command has just realized that
the Germans are heading for the coast
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and the allies has fallen
into the trap.
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A counter attack is ordered,
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allowing a certain Colonel de Gaulle, to distinguish
himself at the head of the tank brigade.
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The French Army possesses more tanks, and they are of
better quality than the German panzers.
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But without any reinforcement, or aerial supports,
the French tanks become prey to the Stukas
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The French combatants put up a good fight,
but they wondered why the air force isn't protecting them.
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Poorly prepared, and with fewer planes, the French pilots
are heavily outnumbered by the Luftwaffe,
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but they fight courageously.
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Dozens of German pilots are shot down
and taken prisoners.
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Some of these pilots will be returned to Germany
when the armistice is signed
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and then join the battle against Britain.
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The German tanks move swiftly through the towns
and the villages of northern France.
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Valiantly, the French try to slow
the German advance,
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but the Germans crush any
pockets of resistance.
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The Germans have reached the English Channel.
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Hitler's strategy of the circle-cut
has worked.
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The British Expeditionary Force, the Belgian army,
and the French armed forces are encircled.
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The Belgian King surrenders,
along with his army.
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The British Expeditionary Forces
withdraw towards the coast,
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leading to the final collapse
of the Allied army.
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In Paris, French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud
dismisses Gamelin
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and finds a new savior,
General Weygand, 72 years old
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One of the artisans of the Allied
victory in 1918.
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To boast the moral, Reynaud names another
World War I hero as Vice Premier.
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84 years old Maréchal Petain.
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who will soon turn his back
on Reynaud's policies.
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Weygand has no choice. He too is forced to order
a full retreat towards Dunkirk.
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Hitler lets them go.
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A gesture of clemency towards Great Britain?
Is he still hoping for a separated peace?
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Or has Goering assured him that his air force
is capable of preventing any evacuations?
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400,000 men cramped the beach,
helpless and in disarray.
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They have one last chance of escape,
over the sea.
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Churchill orders any vessel that can float
to go and get them.
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On the outskirt of Dunkirk,
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the French hold back the Germans,
suffering heavy losses.
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Goering sent out the Luftwaffe's
Stukas and bombers.
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218,000 British and 120,000 French troops
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are successfully evacuated.
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The British Army is saved,
but is in tatters.
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The French will be sent back to France in a final attempt
to defend their country.
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The British are sent off
to re-equipment centers.
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All of Great Britain hails Dunkirk
as an extraordinary feat.
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Churchill, however, puts it into perspective.
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With lucidity, he says:
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Wars are not won by evacuation.
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Even so, in those fist days of June 1940,
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The "Dunkirk spirit" is born.
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The ruthlessness of this war, and the destructive power
of the Nazi enemy,
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are now apparent to the British.
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light-heartedness and humor give way to frantic efforts,
to mobilize the nation..
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On June 4, Churchill, who is also battling
the defeatists on his own side,
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speaks out, his tone is unforgettable:
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We should fight on the beaches,
on the landing ground.
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in a field, in a street.
And on the hills.
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We shall never surrendered.
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On June 4, the Germans take Dunkirk.
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A fabulous bounty awaits them,
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lavishly filmed by the Wehrmacht
Propaganda Units.
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The British have left behind almost
all of their equipment.
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The soldiers of the Wehrmacht film themselves
in high spirits.
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They find a French gramophone with the famous record
by Maurice Chevalier.
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The offensive continues.
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France collapses.
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But Reynaud and de Gaulle, who is
under Secretary of State
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for Defense and War, want
to continue fighting.
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In Rome, the Italian dictator Mussolini,
"Il Duce"
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has big news for his people.
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A declaration of war
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has just been delivered...
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... to the ambassadors of
Great Britain and France.
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Mussolini is hoping for his share
of the spoils,
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the Rhone Valley, Marseille, as well as
the disarmament of Corsica and Tunisia.
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The French say,
"It's a stab in the back."
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Mussolini's offensive is cut short
by the French's Alpine Division.
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General Rommel's troop
storm Normandy
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and enter Loire.
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Paris is declared an 'open city', in other words,
it's turned over to the enemy without a fight,
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in order to be spared the fate
of Warsaw or Rotterdam.
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The government has moved to Bordeaux.
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The Germans are approaching the city.
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Rumors fly, they kill, they rape,
like the Prussians did in 1870.
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The Parisians, abandoned by
their government, flee.
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All of France takes to the road.
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A cataclysm that will be come to be known
by a biblical name,
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The Exodus.
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Millions of French men and women head
towards the Loire, the last rampart.
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But there is no rampart strong enough,
against the Stukas.
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On June 14, 1940, at daybreak,
the Germans march into Paris.
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The Nazi's emblem, the Swastika,
flies over Paris.
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One of the first acts of the German occupiers
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is to seized all the records of
the abandoned ministries.
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List of spies, of Jews,
of Freemasons,
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and even the original copy of
The Treaty of Versailles
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that so humiliated Germany in 1919.
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It is immediately sent off
to Hitler.
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The exodus, has come to a halt.
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The bridges over the Loire
are blown.
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The only hope now, is that
the fighting stops.
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Petain in Bordeaux, also want
to put an end to things.
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The Germans continue their relentless advance
southward.
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Though once considered a formidable force,
the French army is now *****.
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and yet to dispute up a better fight that would stored
especially at the time.
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In 1 month, 100,000 French soldiers die.
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More than in the same period of time
during World War I,
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the deadliest war until then.
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1,850,000 soldiers are taken prisoner,
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along with 36,000 officers
and 176 generals.
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Among the prisoners there are many African soldiers
from the French Colonial Troops.
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The Wehrmacht amateur film makers film them
with a perverse sense of satisfaction.
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Famished, these soldiers kill a goat.
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German propaganda news reels insist on showing
repeated close up of their faces.
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The official instructions are to portray
the degeneration of the French
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who are forced to go to war with
their slaves from their colonies.
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The original German commentary
is revealing:
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The Allies say they're fighting
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to defend civilization
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against our "medieval barbarity".
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Just look at them,
the guardians of culture!
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3,000 African soldiers and officers from the French army
will be shot and killed, after their captured.
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After 7 years of Nazi's indoctrination,
racism is rampant
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among the German soldiers.
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3 dates will now be decisive
in determining France's fate.
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On the June 16, 1940,
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Reynaud is out-maneuvered by the Council of Minister
in Bordeaux
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and he resigns.
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As his successor, Philippe Petain, is appointed
to head the French government.
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Place de la Bastille,
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those who remain in Paris listen
to Maréchal Petain.
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The war hero at Verdun announces that
he is seeking for armistice.
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People of Paris,
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I have asked our enemies
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to cease all hostilities.
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I have taken this decision,
painful to the heart of a soldier
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because the military situation demands it.
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The German radio translates the speech
announcing France's capitulation.
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Some French people are able
to pick up the BBC.
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General de Gaulle has arrived in London.
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On June 18, he denounces the armistice.
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A few days later, he records a new speech,
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We believe that the honor of France
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lies in continuing the war
alongside our allies.
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Hitler receives a telegram of congratulation
from Moscow.
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On June 22, 1940, Hitler arrives in Compiegne,
near Paris.
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The setup he is ordered is designed
to humiliate the losers.
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He is brought the same railway car that was used
for the signing of 1818 armistice.
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that sealed Germany's defeat.
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His revenge is completed.
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The French delegations is led
by General Huntziger.
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An interpreter reads out a diatribe
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accusing France of declaring war
without any reason.
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Hitler does not utter a single word.
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He stands up and leaves.
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The French delegates have been informed
of the terms of the armistice.
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One of its conditions is that France
hand over all the anti Nazi Germans
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who have taken refuge in France.
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Huntziger tries to negotiate.
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The German refuse.
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Huntziger calls the government in Bordeaux.
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The German Secret Services take
his conversation with Weygand.
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- This is Huntzinger.
- Yes.
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Well, it's done.
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- It's done ?
- Yes, General...
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I'd like to thank you
for the way you handled it.
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- Yes Sir, well, you understand me, don't you?
- Yes, yes, I do.
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Afterwards, Hitler has the railway car
taken to Berlin.
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In the final days of the Reich, he will have
the SS blow it up with dynamite.
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Soon, the major symbols of France's victory
on World War I
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will be mocked.
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Like here, in Verdun, where half a million of French soldiers
were killed
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to come to this,
20 years later.
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Hitler jeers, as he visits his men who've only
just taken the Maginot line.
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He is more solemn when he enters Strasbourg
and its cathedral.
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Alsace and Lorraine are German once again,
as he promised they would be.
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The spoils of the French campaign,
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2,000 tanks, 5,000 cannons,
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300,000 riffles,
4,000,000 rounds of ammunition.
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At an army supply warehouse,
the Wehrmacht finds
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a stock of long johns meant
for the French army,
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warm woolen garments which will be
stored away for future campaigns.
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The spoils are the factories, the harbors,
all the riches of France.
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It was the French who declared war, as a consequence,
they will pay the equivalent
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of $100,000,000 a day,
in occupation costs.
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General Huntziger goes to the Germany for
the first meeting of the commission
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charges with declining the term
of the armistice.
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To spare troops, Hitler decides to let
France retain partial sovereignty
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under a government at his beckon call
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and with limited armies stripped of heavy weapons,
just to maintain order.
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The country is split in 2:
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An occupied zone in north and along the entire
Atlantic coast, providing access to all the harbors.
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Italy controls the Mediterranean area,
and occupies a narrow ribbon along the Alps.
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The rest is called the 'Free Zone'
with a new capital, Vichy.
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This 'spar town' has been chosen
in part for its many hotel.
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In early July, Maréchal Petain
moves into them
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along with government ministries.
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The atmosphere everywhere,
is abysmal.
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However, this Vichy Government continues
to control a vast colonial empire
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and ***** is still a powerful navy.
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Hitler's only request is that it ships be disarmed,
and remains in their ports
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for he is afraid it might join
forces with Britain.
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Churchill fears the opposite that
it will fall into German hands.
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He orders the Royal Navy
to neutralized them.
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A British naval force sails to one of
France's biggest naval bases.
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Mers-el-Kebir, in Algeria.
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Churchill is taking no risk,
an ultimatum is dispatched.
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Either join us, scatterly around ships
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or sail under escort for demilitarization
in the Caribbean.
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The French rejects all proposals.
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The British open fire.
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2 French battleships are heavily damaged and one,
De Bretagne, is sunk.
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1297 French sailors are killed.
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Seeking to show his people, the world, and above all,
The United States, how determined he is,
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Churchill strikes out at his former ally
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whose fleets could've help the Germans
land on British shores.
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Two days after the attack, The Vichy Government
breaks off diplomatic relations with Britain.
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All of Germany acclaims Hitler.
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His lightning conquest of France
enthralls his generals.
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He sees himself as the greatest war leader of all time,
on a par with Napoleon.
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And like The Emperor, no one dares
to contradict him anymore.
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The Germans occupy the Channel Islands,
Jersey and Guernsey,
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stepping stones towards the invasion
of Great Britain.
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The British get ready for a German invasion,
taking measures that might appear trifle.
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Another urgent matter is to send the children
away to the country side, for safety,
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always a painful moment.
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Their elder sisters, their mothers and grandmothers
join the war effort.
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Every woman must defend her home against
the Fallschirm German paratroopers.
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The men join arms as Local Defense Volunteers
for the Home Guard.
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Even veterans of the First World War.
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The willing and able are mobilized, while
the army rescued in Dunkirk reforms.
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America supplies riffles, machine guns,
and anti aircraft cannons,
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and everyone perfect their skills.
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Churchill delivers a most inspired speech
to the British people,
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Battle of Britain is about to begin,
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty,
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and so bear ourselves
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that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth
lasts for a thousand years,
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men will still say,
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'This was their finest hour'.
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One of Churchill's main weapons is
The Royal Air Force
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Along with its remarkable aircraft, The Spitfire
with its Rolls-Royce engine,
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One of the best fighter planes in the world.
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Britain also excels in the field of electronics.
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The British are the first to use radar
for the purpose of defense.
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In the ops room, radar is used for detecting planes
and guiding pilots towards the enemy.
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and guiding pilots towards the enemy.
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The pilots from all over the British empire
are joint by airmen
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who have managed to flee their countries
on the German occupation.
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or whose government are in exiles in London,
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Polish, Dutch, Czech,
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and the first of the free French forces
along with de Gaulle.
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Many of the British pilots are Oxford's
and Cambridge's students.
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One of them, Richard Hillary,
later wrote:
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We were known as the 'long-head boys'.
We were disillusioned and spoiled.
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The press refers to us as the lost generation.
Superficially, we were selfish and egocentric.
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The war demanded no heroics, but gave us the opportunity
to prove to ourselves and to the world
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that undisciplined though we might be,
we were a match for Hitler's dogma-fed youth.
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These German pilots have been trained by the 'Hitler-Jugend',
The Hitler Youth,
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with the idea of revenge.
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They feel that they are invincible.
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Their leader, Goering, is a popular figure in the regime.
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Goering, who is a man of luxury, often stays
at the Hotel Ritz in Paris.
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and turns the Luxembourg Palace,
into the Luftwaffe's headquarters.
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He has promised Hitler that The Luftwaffe could
obliterate The Royal Air Force, in days
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take control of the air, and enable the Wehrmacht
to invade Great Britain.
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The Luftwaffe has in its disposal,
all of France's airfields,
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their installations, and their equipment.
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Its pilot are well-trained,
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like Adolf Galland, with his trademark cigar
who fought against the Republicans in Spain.
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Or Werner Molders, an ace from the battle of France.
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He was one of the pilot shot down, taken prisoner,
and then returned to the German.
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He is now part of aerial offensive
against Great Britain.
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Taking off from this field in occupied France,
the Germans will attack convoys on the Channel,
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harbors, and airfields in southern England.
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They will shoot down 500 British aircraft,
at a cost of 1,000 of their own.
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The British pilots hold out
giving everything they have.
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Churchill proclaims,
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Never in the field of human conflict,
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was so much owed by so many
to so few.
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Hitler decides to postpone
his plan to invade Britain.
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This is his first setback.
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His tactics now rely more on
night-time bombings.
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He says,
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The British will surrender when their cities
have been destroyed.
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German's bombers attack British cities
like Coventry and London
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This is the blitz, daily bombings
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As for the British people,
they hold up admirably.
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They dig shelters in the gardens
of their cottages.
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00:42:53,736 --> 00:42:58,847
And in London, they sleep in the underground stations,
and go to work the next day.
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00:43:11,187 --> 00:43:14,680
They never lose their confidence,
or sense of humor.
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Churchill says to the French:
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Here in London,
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which Herr Hitler says
he will reduce to ashes,
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our people are bearing up unflinchingly.
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Hitler is exasperated.
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He will later call Churchill,
"A Jew-ridden, half American drunkard".
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From now on, whenever he is thwarted, he will offend
his spite against the Jew.
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On October 12, 1940,
on the Day of Yom Kippur,
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The Jews of the Warsaw are told
that the ghetto will be set up.
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A wall 3 meters-high is erected,
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enclosing half a million of Jews,
men and women, children, the elderly.
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They will suffer horrifically from hunger,
cold, and poverty.
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In his chalet in the Bavarian Alps, The Berghof,
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Hitler is filmed by his mistress Eva Braun
as he celebrates New Year.
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surrounded by children of Nazis dignitaries.
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He has another plan in his sleeves,
another big gamble.
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His mission now is to conquer
new 'Lebensraum',
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'Living Space' to the east.
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He has allied himself with Stalin, only to
better attack him later on.
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His failure to take Britain compels him
to move quickly.
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Before Churchill is able
to draw America in.
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That, would set the world ablaze.
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