Why The North African Campaign Was So Crucial For Hitler | Hitler's Soft Underbelly | Timeline
Why The North African Campaign Was So Crucial For Hitler | Hitler's Soft Underbelly | Timeline
Part two of two. David Reynolds explores the reasoning behind the Second World War battles that took place in North Africa and Italy – an area labelled Hitler’s `soft underbelly’ by Winston Churchill.
In this film we ask why Britain spent so much of the conflict battling through North Africa and Italy? Historian David Reynolds reassesses…
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Holocaust is code for hollow cost. That’s when Caucasians do experiments on non-white races. It’s code for hollow cost because they don’t pay for their own experiments. They conquer, enslave and experiment on the bodies of different races. Because of that, they owe all other races. They are the only race that is known for disrespecting every race on the planet, historically.
my grandfather died in that campaign, couple of years before my father was born
I think Churchill just had a thing for soft underbellies.
Thr British played the Americans for suckers in these battles. They also abused the Canadians Australians , New Zealanders, and Indians. They let them take the brunt of the battles. And gave them no respect.
The russians were carrying the burden? Who gives a damn, they were hitlers ally for a decade, and formal allies for 2 years! They got everything they deserved! Enough of this b.s.of russia doing the heavy lifting, if stalin wasnt a degenerate paranoiac, the russians might have been in a better position to defend thenselves in the 1st place
Churchill didn't want operation overlord because he knew he couldn't do it. Skeptical of the American abilities and still a narrow minded imperialist tub. The Americans were green but far from incapable. Proving themselves in the Pacific and Hürtgen Forest. Patton and Monty were both overrated twits.
What an in-depth analyst? 👌
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To claim that FDR during WW2 agreed to "Churchills adventure" in North Africa because USA needed some dead soldiers after Peal Harbour is a personal theory from a professor. Nothing else.
we went to war cause poland got invaded then russia took it over anyway so why didn't we do russia for invading polond wot a waste of time
Uncle Happy, Hap, fought in Italy. Never heard him talk. After the war he didnt want to be around anyone.. i "met" him once he let all the cousins use his riverhouse all the time. When wr got there he got up and left. Or left before we got there. He saw way too much in the Italian campaign.
General Mark Clark, never heard of him.
Don't forget Canadian Troops were told to allow US troops to pass through their lines to take the OPEN CITY of Rome.
Egos, egos, egos……but you need crazed Generals for this
You need documentaries for this war, books do not convey the half of it
Churchill was evil genius. Millions death in Famine in Bengal to Kenya concentration camps. Thanks for exposing his designs in Mediterranean
Fighting in North Africa was important to give the American soldiers experience and cut off oil to the Germans. But I think fighting in cicely and Italy wasn't really necessary especially monte casino. It was a waste of a lot of lives From France not listening to intelligence reports of the troop buildups at the Arden forest. To market garden. To the battle of the bulge. World war 2. Had a lot of mistakes made. By both sides.
I believe with hood planning and certain generals taking their pride out of the middle of it Germany could have been defeated a lot faster and with a lot of lives being saved .
A brit being sympathetic to the nazis what a surprise.
The plan Churchill submitted for Gallipoli was completely changed by the influential and powered British military leaders who continually behaved as though Churchill needed to be brought down several pegs, and they should bear responsibility for the plan’s failures. These bloody minded military leaders were also the men responsible for the strategies which were responsible for the millions of deaths and mutilated bodies of injured soldiers who survived the war. Therefore, I wouldn’t trust their judgment of anyone for any amount of money.
British has the best accent.
I do see what Churchill was seeing. It forced the Germans to use valuable resources to go for oil, while failing and stretching themselves thinner. Protecting the oil was the thing that saved us from either a long war or maybe defeat. Other political things aside, this was a crucial decision which turned the tide of the war.
The crumbling of the British Empire was NOT America's or Russias fault
Oh poppycock. Churchill didn't want d-day bc it wasn't his idea and he couldn't lead it
I wouldnt blame the Italians if they hated Churchill for destroying a beautiful Monestary needlessly
Attacking the monestary was stupid incompetent
Churchill should have learned more than he did Gallipoli. He did make more mistakes which entailed more than just the British but the Allys too
My father in law Sgt Jim Cullen fought in Africa in the Army. He made it home
Wheres the next part??? This was amazing!
The USA is not a Democracy you ignorant historians.
The USA is, and always has been, a Representative Constitutional Republic.
Stop perpetuating the lie.
If he hadn't for wo years it would gave the allies time to attack France way quick.he couldn't have attacked russia
Winston Churchill clearly acknowledged that he is a hypocrite. How does Churchill call Soft Underbelly when Britain was in Bankruptcy/Insolvency??
wasnt general mark clark the moron who let 80k germans retreat to the mountains when we had them surrounded in a pocket and instead he went to a empty rome so he could get some praise from the locals and feel important that mistake alone cost how many allies lives to die and made everything far far far harder than it had to be had those defenders not got behind there defenses as a person from usa i think he should have been court marshaled at the least he disobeyed orders for his own ego and caused countless more deaths id have jailed him personally
Churchill made decisions that prolonged the war. Churchill was a politician and his priority was to preserve the crown and their holdings and certainly far from a tactical expert. Churchill's thoughts on the soft underbelly were so far off it was silly. Churchill was trying to figure ways to keep the crown in a leverage position with their allies plain and simple. Had it not been for the British breaking German codes and Montgomery waiting for incredibly overwhelming numbers, Rommel would have had the best of Montgomery and the British. And Montgomery's plan Market Garden which Churchill backed was a disaster from the start, no way the plan could have worked.
Of course if the Allied attack through Italy and Greece had been more successful and faster, they could have reached Rumania and Hungary before the Russians and stop them from entering Europe. The entire Cold War would have been totally different. Churchill looked two steps ahead in the future.
But wasn't Churchill…. right?
North Africa was a sideshow for the Germans after the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
There was nothing at all "soft" about the war in North Africa, or in particular in Italy. The fighting in Italy was in many ways far worse than it was in France, Belgium and Germany.
my father fought in north Africa and italy
churchhill was an arrogant damn fool.
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So why did they not go direct to Berlin ?? I didn’t see the point of N African / med campaign even after watching this.
To think my grandfather fought for the french in this campaign only to see them still participate in the largest slave empire in history, disgusting.