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Case Red: The Collapse of France

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In this episode Angus is looking at ‘Case Red’ the German attack on France post Dunkirk. Often when we talk about the Battle of France the history seems to stop at Dunkirk, in actual fact the fight carried on for a few more weeks. There was still British 100,000+ troops in France, Churchill was...read more

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 Lieutenant) June 20, 2017

When Isolated French Bunkers Delayed The Meuse River Crossing by 1st Panzer Division

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As main part of the Manstein Plan or Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), you know the German Army Group A goal was crossing the Meuse river with the intention of capturing Sedan and pushing northwards towards the Channel coast, in order to entrap the Allied forces that were...read more

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The Battle of Hannut: The First Real Tank Battle of Second World War

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This tank battle, happened between 12 and 14 May 1940 at Hannut in Belgium, contributed decisively to the success of the German operational plan Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), by General Erich von Manstein. The primary purpose of the Germans was to tie down the strongest...read more

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Images of the Defeat: German-French Armistice of June, 1940

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The Armistice of 22 June 1940 was signed at 18:36 near Compiègne, France, by the top military officials of Nazi Germany and more junior representatives from the French Third Republic. They included General Wilhelm Keitel, the...read more

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Learning about Why Hitler Halted the Advance on Dunkirk - Did you know that?

The order on 24th of May to halt the German Panzer Divisions just short of Dunkirk has been widely debated ever since. Karl-Heinz Frieser in his book Blitzkrieg Legend gives a detailed overview on the Battle of France and also on the so called "halt order" (Halte-Befehl). In this video 'Military...read more

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Occupation of Holland - Sky-Blitz (1940)

This captured German war film with English commentary is a documentary on an action of the elite German paratroop unit, The Fallschirmjäger, during the occupation of Holland in May 1940. This dramatic, action filled film focuses on the capture and securing of one of the strategic objectives in...read more

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11 sad images of sunken ships to help us remember the "Dunkirk spirit"

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The Battle of Dunkirk during World War II ended with the evacuation of British and Allied forces in Europe from May 26 to June 4, 1940. A huge force of Allied soldiers were cut off in northern France by the German army as it advanced to the English Channel coast at...read more

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The Battle of the Netherlands, 1940

The Battle of the Netherlands 1940 (Dutch: Slag om Nederland) was part of Case Yellow (German: Fall Gelb), the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) and France during World War II. The battle lasted from 10 May 1940 until the main Dutch forces...read more

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