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A calculated strategy where power is secured by breaking unity. Through manipulation, separation, and control, dominance is achieved not by strength alone, but by ensuring no force ever stands together. Dominion Through Division explores how fractures become tools of rule and chaos becomes order in the hands of the cunning.
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00:00The End
00:30The End
01:00Six years of hard training and actual battle experience
01:26in Spain and Poland had made the German army look invincible.
01:33But what about the British and French?
01:36First, let's take up the British.
01:39They started from scratch, but both at home and abroad, an army was growing.
01:44But not only Britain had declared war.
01:47Canada.
01:49Australia.
01:51New Zealand.
01:53South Africa.
01:54The whole British Commonwealth of Nations was also determined on victory over Hitlerism and all it stands for.
02:02And Britain had one weapon that was ready.
02:04The Royal Navy.
02:06Shortly after war was declared, it had swept German shipping from the high seas.
02:12And units of the British fleet were deployed at Suez, Malta, Gibraltar, in the Channel, and in the North Sea, blockading Germany.
02:22World conquest was impossible without running smack up against the rock called Britain.
02:29How to strike at that little island?
02:31That was the question.
02:34Between Britain and Germany stood not only France, but the little countries of Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
02:43The people of these small, neutral countries were peaceful, hardworking, and free.
02:51They knew they were in the middle and feared violation of their neutrality.
02:56Hitler knew this.
02:58He also knew that if they united with the Allies, they would form a solid democratic wall against Nazi aggression.
03:05And their conquest would be far more difficult.
03:07So before striking with his army, he used another weapon, the propaganda barrage, to confuse, to make them lose faith, to divide and conquer.
03:20To lull the fears of the little neutrals, propaganda minister Goebbels told them Germany didn't want a war at all.
03:27It was Britain and France that caused all the trouble.
03:31Then it was Hitler's turn.
03:32In a speech on October 6th, 1939, he made them all kinds of specific promises.
03:41To the Danes, he said, we have concluded a non-aggression pact with Denmark.
03:47To the Norwegians, he said, Germany never had any conflict with the northern states and has none today.
03:55To the Dutch, he said, the New Reich has endeavored to continue the traditional friendship with Holland.
04:02And to the Belgians, he announced, the Reich has put forth no claim which might in any way be regarded as a threat to Belgium.
04:11And while Hitler was making these promises, his generals were cold-bloodedly picking out the first victim, Norway.
04:19And why did they pick Norway?
04:22Its many steep inlets or fjords would make excellent U-boat bases, from which raiders could prey on British supply lines.
04:32Also, it would give the Nazis vital air bases.
04:38This is Stapa Flo, British naval base.
04:41And this, the blockade fleet.
04:43At this time, the German-based bombers couldn't reach them.
04:47Possession of bases on Norway's western shore would bring these vital British defenses under easy bomber attack.
04:53But he couldn't take Norway without also taking tiny Denmark, the springboard for his attack.
05:01So at dawn on April 9th, 1940...
05:05The German army rolled across the neutral borders of little Denmark.
05:13And in a matter of hours, it occupied the entire country.
05:16By nightfall, Denmark is erased as a nation.
05:21And the Danes go into slavery.
05:24Although only six months before, Hitler had announced,
05:27We have concluded a non-aggression pact with Denmark.
05:31The Danes will not forget.
05:33Meanwhile, in Norway, peaceful-looking German merchant ships like these had sneaked inside Norway's neutral waterway.
05:43And tied up at all principal ports.
05:46That is, they looked like merchant ships.
05:49But if the Norwegians had had x-ray eyes, this is what they would have seen.
05:54The Trojan horse of ancient Greece brought up to date with new and deadlier weapons.
05:58At the precise moment that the Nazis overran Denmark, these quiet-looking ships sprang to life.
06:17At the same time, Nazi warships, discovered along the entire coastline, started steaming up the Norwegian fjords.
06:25Ships, transports, tanks, men, planes, all flung themselves simultaneously upon a defenseless country.
06:37Airborne infantry seized every strategic Norwegian airport.
06:42The whole job was made easier by treacherous fifth columnists, led by Major Quisley,
06:48who seized power and issued orders to suppress resistance.
06:51Nazi warships steamed past silent guns that could have blasted them out of the water.
06:57This was one of the most amazing acts of treachery the world has ever known.
07:02It brought Major Quisley international fame,
07:06making his very name synonymous with the word traitor.
07:09By the afternoon of April 9th, the Germans were in complete control of all seven ports where they had landed in the morning.
07:16For the first time in more than 200 years, the people of Norway saw an invading army parading through their city.
07:35Many of these Nazi soldiers, strutting as conquerors in 1940, had last seen Norway some 20 years earlier,
07:44when, as refugee German children, they had been raised and cared for by kind Norwegians.
07:50Now, these same Germans were back to repay that kindness with terror and destruction.
07:58Once they had occupied the capital, the Nazis quickly fanned out in all directions.
08:04But loyal Norwegian troops stopped one German column between Hamar and Elvera.
08:09So the Germans brought up their bombers.
08:39The Norwegians were forced to flee to the north under constant and unopposed air attack.
08:55It was here that Captain Robert Lozze, an American military attache, was killed,
09:00the first American soldier to lose his life in this war.
09:05Meanwhile, the Nazis had spread all over the country.
09:09Small patrols occupied every strategic village.
09:14Parachute troops landed high in the mountains.
09:24Unopposed bombing raids sent defenseless civilians fleeing in stark terror.
09:39They hadn't wanted war.
09:44They had done everything to avoid it.
09:46Hoping they could escape the Nazi scourge, they had compromised and tragically failed to unite with the other democracies.
09:53And now they faced the scourge defenseless and alone.
09:55For before the Allies could come to their aid, the Germans were in control of all principal ports.
10:00Regardless of this, British, French, and Polish contingents plundered in and made several landings along the Norwegian coast.
10:05They landed forces north and south of Trondheim and attempted an encircling movement on the city.
10:10Under constant, heavy, and almost entirely unopposed air attack.
10:15After the Allies, they landed forces north and south of Trondheim and attempted an encircling movement on the city.
10:20Under constant, heavy, and almost entirely unopposed air attack.
10:24While the scene of action was out of range of British fighter planes.
10:47So they brought up aircraft carriers.
10:49planes. So they brought up aircraft carriers. But these are at a disadvantage when opposed
10:55by land-based planes. The Allies, therefore, were badly battered from the air. Finally,
11:01suffering heavy losses, they withdrew from a hopeless situation. Further to the north,
11:08at Narvik, they met with better success, inflicting heavy naval losses on the Nazis.
11:19They made landings and held the town for nearly two months.
11:44Incidentally, they also took their first prisoners of the present war. Again, the Nazis' overwhelming
12:01air superiority proved a deciding factor. And the Allies were forced to withdraw under terrific
12:10air bombardments.
12:17the Allies
12:23of the United States
12:24of North Carolina
12:27of the United States.
12:29The Allies
12:32of the United States.
12:38Loyal Norwegians were left with their chrispings, their ruins, their debt, even though six months
13:05before Hitler had said, Germany never had any conflict with the northern states and has
13:11none today.
13:15The Norwegians will not forget.
13:19And Hitler, Hitler had another victory.
13:22He had hijacked two more countries.
13:25The world wondered and sometimes marveled at this man's efficiency.
13:31Gangster Dillinger was efficient too.
13:35When a man or a nation throws away all regard for the laws of God and man, he is bound at
13:45first to be more efficient than his victims.
13:48Society had a police force to deal with gangster Dillinger, but it had no police force to deal
13:53with gangster Hitler.
13:55So he clubbed Norway into submission and got what he wanted, bases for use against Britain.
13:59Now he had the northern claw of an enormous pincer movement.
14:04A drive through France would give him the southern claw.
14:07Blockade by U-boats coupled with mass bombing attacks would weaken the British for final
14:11invasion.
14:13Then, with Britain gone, Germany could reach out in all directions for world conquest.
14:17His next move must obviously be through France to get his southern claw.
14:29Through France.
14:30How was she to face the onslaught?
14:40These scenes are ancient history.
14:42They occurred in 1914.
14:44The German armies, without warning, had smashed across neutral Belgium.
14:48Invaded France.
14:49Reached the river Marne only a few miles from Paris.
14:52Out of the French capital poured the French reserves, riding out to battle the enemy in
14:58every vehicle that could move.
15:00The famous taxicab army.
15:02Note well, it was riding out to battle.
15:06In the center of the French line stood the 9th French army, commanded by a then comparatively
15:11unknown general.
15:13On September 5th, 1914, he is reputed to have said,
15:18My right is driven in.
15:19My center is giving way.
15:21The situation is excellent.
15:23I attack.
15:51He did attack.
15:53The German arm slot was checked and Paris was saved.
15:57That comparatively unknown general later became commander-in-chief of all the allied armies
16:02and presided for signing of the armistice with the defeated Germans on November 11th, 1918.
16:08To this general, the French people erected the monument, to Marshal Ferdinand Fauch, whose model was attack, always attack.
16:22Still later, the war-weary French people erected another monument.
16:26This one to a minister of war, Andre Maginot.
16:30Between the ideas symbolized by these two statues may well lie the military story of the fall of a great nation.
16:39In fascist time, the proud spirit of France demanded nothing less than victory and placed its faith in the attack.
16:52In Maginot's time, the spirit, no longer proud, asked only to avoid defeat and placed its faith in concrete.
17:01So the French built the mighty chain of fortresses called the Maginot Line.
17:13These tremendous bastions were built deep into the French land.
17:16They were connected by underground passages and railways, guarding France's eastern borders facing Germany.
17:26And when France was finally forced to declare war against the rising Nazi menace,
17:32the French troops, instead of attacking, were marched into their modern caves
17:37to wait for the Nazi blitz to smash itself against the Maginot Line.
17:41But their generals, headed by Marshal Pater, proudly announced,
17:46whoever makes the first move in this war will be hurt.
17:51But Hitler didn't go near the Maginot Line.
17:54That was France's strong point.
17:57Instead, he attacked the weak point.
18:01Hitler knew that the French had tried to avoid war instead of preparing for it.
18:06That knowledge was one of his greatest weapons.
18:08He knew they had planes, but he knew they were antiquated.
18:13He knew they had tanks, but he knew they were few in number and lightly armored.
18:19But most important of all, he knew that France had become a cynical and disillusioned nation.
18:25What made this change in the French spirit?
18:28In the first place, between 1914 and 1918, the French suffered more than six million casualties
18:34in the heroic defense of their land against German invasion.
18:40The flower of an entire generation was lost, with its stimulus of new blood, new determination, new ideals.
18:48Secondly, the failure of the League of Nations, to which the French had pinned their hopes of peace.
18:56The corruption of many in high places.
18:59The greed of special interests.
19:01All it combined to shake the faith of the French people in their democratic ideals.
19:05And when a people loses its faith in its own ideals, it is ripe for the insidious words of the devil.
19:15France still looked like an imposing castle.
19:18But Hitler's political termites have so gnawed away the binding of national unity
19:23that the castle was ready to crumble.
19:25And during those months of military inactivity that we call the Phoney War,
19:50a ceaseless barrage of German propaganda crossed the still waters of the Rhine
19:55to affect the soldiers in the Maginot Line.
20:00Why do you fight, asked the banners.
20:05Poems and friendly notes were sent over by balloons.
20:10French tunes were played by German bands.
20:14And German hoolie was broadcast in French.
20:19The British will fight to the last drop of French blood.
20:25You have been deceived.
20:28This is an imperialistic war for Britain.
20:31We Germans want nothing of France.
20:35What is happening to your wives back home, soldiers?
20:39The British are stationed in your villages.
20:41Yes, France was ready to be plucked.
20:47The whole force of the Nazi might was turned toward the west.
20:51How would they strike this time?
20:54Through Al-Bas-Lorraine as in 1870?
20:57Through the low countries as in 1914?
20:59What was the 1940 model conquest?
21:04The French considered the Maginot Line utterly impregnable
21:06and therefore believed the Germans would again try to swing through the low countries as in 1914.
21:12But even after Hitler's rape of Scandinavia,
21:16Holland and Belgium, hoping against hope, still clung to their neutrality.
21:20So the French massed 78 divisions here along the border of Belgium.
21:2617 were in the Maginot Line.
21:2910 divisions here in case Mussolini got bold.
21:323 1ā2 was a safeguard against Spain.
21:35The British had 10 divisions here.
21:39The Allied strategy in the event of an attack against the low countries
21:42was to swing their armies like a gate into Belgium,
21:46the hinge being the north end of the Maginot Line.
21:49This all-important hinge was protected by the Forest of the Ardennes,
21:54a hilly and thickly wooded area,
21:57honeycombed with streams,
21:59its roads narrowed trails,
22:01its bridges too weak for military vehicles.
22:04French strategists estimated the Forest of the Ardennes impossible for armored forces.
22:10As you will see,
22:11this was one of the costliest estimates in all military history.
22:15That was the situation on May 9, 1940.
22:19The hour of trial had come.
22:38The people of the democracies prayed for strength
22:41to meet the coming hurricane of terror.
22:43Well, across the Rhine...
22:56A delirious madness possessed the germination.
23:13Well, as Dauererscheinung...
23:15...for us, unser Oberster...
23:18...wird die EinfĆ¼hrung der Allgemeinen...
23:20...immer wieder herniedersteigen.
23:22Und dass man die Wahrheit Ć¼ber Deutschland berichtet...
23:24...50.000 Mann auf den Baustellen...
23:27...der ganz Deutschland erfasste...
23:29...Ć¼berall herrscht seit einem Jahr Regen...
23:31...und fĆ¼r den Deutschen...
23:33...die Freiheit, seine Rasse hƤlt...
23:35...es und Rauer ist Deutschland wie Deutschland...
23:39...deskalt, innerlich, nicht zu uns gehƶrt.
23:41...die Pfingrans masse raus...
23:44...dieƤusche Ich!
24:03...die Pfingrans trotzdem lausrchen!
24:05...die Pfingransfree...
24:07...die Pfingrans Š·Š°ŃŠµŠ¼ daten!
24:08The tag had come.
24:38Without even bothering to declare war, the German armies launched a coordinated attack across the neutral borders of Luxembourg, Belgium, and Holland, from the Maginot Line north to the sea.
25:06The action along the entire front was simultaneous, so for purposes of clarity, let's take up one country at a time.
25:14First, let's see what happened in Holland.
25:18Massive ground forces smashed through the improvised and hastily erected border defenses, but the main attack was to come from the air, far behind the defense line.
25:42The air was to come from the air, far behind the defense line.
26:12Well, let's see what happened in the air, far behind the fringe, just a little bit.
26:18Just a little bit.
26:21Yeah?
26:22Well, let's see.
26:25Sure.
26:28Let's see.
26:30Over 10,000 troops were landed in this manner.
26:43Before the stunned citizens of Rotterdam even knew they were at war,
26:47these troops, aided by well-trained fifth columnists,
26:51quickly captured the airport in outlying sections of the city.
27:00Meantime, Nazi armored columns were racing across the country.
27:04Their progress speeded by other fifth columnists
27:07and prevented the destruction of vital dikes and bridges.
27:11These forces effected a meeting with the parachutists landed in Rotterdam.
27:16The Dutch were doomed to defeat.
27:24On the fourth day of the invasion, the Nazis gave the Dutch general an ultimatum.
27:28All Dutch resistance must cease, or Rotterdam will be bombed flat.
27:41The Dutch general had little choice.
27:44To save the lives of innocent civilians, he accepted the German term.
27:48But after the unconditional surrender, the Nazis bombed the city anyway.
27:53The flights of unopposed German bombers flew low over the center of Rotterdam,
28:03and methodically bombed it into a heap of rubble.
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28:31Angers.
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29:34One of the most ruthless exhibitions of savagery the world has ever seen.
29:57Over 30,000 men, women, and children were killed in the space of 90 minutes.
30:06Though only six months before, Hitler had said,
30:09the New Reich has endeavored to continue the traditional friendship with Holland.
30:15The Dutch will not forget.
30:17Meantime, in Belgium, the whole force of Nazi blitzkrieg had stormed across its neutral border.
30:25The main German attack was directed at the Outer Canal-Mers River line,
30:37the anchor of which was Fort Eben-Ameo, a modern and seemingly impregnable fortress.
30:42The Germans had secretly built a replica of the mighty fortress in Czechoslovakia
30:47and had rehearsed the attack until they knew every detail of the fort's construction and its every weakness.
30:53When the real attack came, it was foolproof.
30:56Parachute troops, dive bombers, flamethrowers, specially trained engineer battalions,
31:04all working together as a well-trained team.
31:06They knew exactly where to cross the river.
31:36Parachute troops, diveickt rams,
32:37You will notice that this assault engineer knows exactly where to put his high explosive charge in order to destroy the blockhouse.
33:02Fort Eben Amale withstood the Nazi attack exactly two days.
33:06And the German armies rolled on.
33:11Meantime, an hour and a half after the German invasion began, allied troops crossed the French and Belgian border to meet the advancing Germans.
33:20As they raced across Belgium to take up their defense position, they met an obstacle they hadn't counted on.
33:38Refugees.
33:40And the refugee-choked roads didn't get that way by accident.
33:49And the refugee-choked roads didn't get that way by accident.
34:02The Nazis methodically bombed little towns and villages, otherwise devoid of any military value.
34:10Not so much to kill as to drive the inhabitants out onto the highway.
34:15Then, by expert machine-gunning, the Nazis would herd them along in terror-stricken flight to hopelessly entangle the advancing allied army.
34:26Refugees used as a weapon of war, a new law in inhumanity.
34:43.
34:45The Nazis.
34:59The Nazis.
35:00The Nazis.
35:03The Nazis.
35:05The End
35:35The End
36:05No school today, the sign says, but children are otherwise occupied.
36:21No. No school today.
36:36Although only six months before, Hitler had announced,
37:01the Reich has put forth no claim which might in any way be regarded as a threat to Belgium.
37:08The Belgians will not forget.
37:10And what about the Allies?
37:17They were convinced that the German attack on Belgium and Holland was the main front,
37:22and according to plan, it swung their armies like a gate into Belgium.
37:26But the attack on Belgium and Holland was only a faint.
37:30The main German attack was to be centered where the Allies least expected it,
37:35through the Ardennes forest.
37:38For this decisive blow, they had secretly assembled the mightiest striking force the world had ever seen,
37:43including 45,000 armored vehicles.
37:46At the same time that the Nazi armies were plunging into Holland and Belgium,
38:02this column started to move.
38:04Well-trained engineer battalions went first.
38:32They were opposed only by scattered Allied patrols.
38:47They cleared pathways for the planks to follow.
39:07Oh-trained engineer battalions went first.
39:09I was HTM, and I sat Queensland
39:17at a gas station
39:19in a graphicossa Humphrey.
39:23It's your fault.
39:25Go.
39:25And hopefully,
39:28in a warning.
39:28Bye-bye.
39:29Both-you're awake.
39:31Bye-bye.
39:32Vamos.
39:34Oh-chauey.
39:35In three days, the Germans' armored force reached the Mers River, two days faster than
39:53the French thought any troops could get through.
39:55By old rules, the Germans should have paused here to bring up heavy artillery before attempting
40:01to force the river.
40:02But the Nazis had a new type of artillery, that dived forward, as they blasted the French
40:09positions across the Mers.
40:18With feverish haste, the Germans laid a barrage across the river with anything and everything
40:22that would shoot.
40:27The Germans had a barrage across the river.
40:35The Germans had a barrage across the river.
40:37This tremendous concentration of firepower continued all through the night.
40:59By the following day, shock troops were able to get across the river.
41:11By the following day, shock troops were able to get across the river.
41:23the Germans had a barrage across the river.
41:33The Germans had a barrage across the river.
41:40It was a bomb for the Germans.
41:45These shock troops built the bridgehead until the engineers brought up ponsons and built bridges.
42:15Then, without wasting a moment, across these bridges, the main armored force of the German military machine rolled through the sedan.
42:35But the all-important breakthrough into a dismayed and flat-footed crash.
42:43There went the old ballgame for the Allies. From here on, it was only a matter of how long.
42:50Watch the map which one of our intelligence officers explained the details of the German breakthrough.
42:56We speak of the breakthrough at Sudan.
42:59But actually, the break was along a wide front, extending for 50 miles from Namur in Belgium to Sudan.
43:06Further north, the Allied armies had swung like a gate into these positions.
43:11The German armies had swept over Holland, broken the line of the Albert Canal, and, for all anyone knew, were preparing to smash against the Allied front with all their power.
43:24That was the situation, dangerous but obscure, on the evening of May 13th.
43:30On the 14th and 15th, it became clear that the German breakthrough south of Namur was in the greatest strength,
43:37and that the French 9th Army, attacked while moving into position, had been shattered.
43:43Without doubt, this was the point of mortal danger, and the French High Command ordered the abandonment of these positions,
43:51although they had not yet been attacked.
43:53Those positions were abandoned solely because of the situation developing along the Meurs near Sudan.
44:00In the meantime, the French 7th Army had been ordered to make its historic forced march far to the south,
44:12into the area threatened by the rapidly advancing German spearheads.
44:17This army was not used to attack the German flank, but rather was used as a plug to restore the broken front.
44:25Throughout, the Allies had placed their base not in offense, but in defense.
44:30And the defense was doomed to failure, because it was confronted with an entirely new technique in warfare,
44:37the playing tank infantry team in action.
44:41The world was staggered by the speed with which the German armored columns moved.
44:46What was the secret that enabled armies to move so far so rapidly?
44:51The secret lay in the organization of the striking spearheads.
44:55Armored forces came first, closely followed by motorized divisions, which peeled off, forming solid walls.
45:04And through the corridor thus formed, raced for supply trucks to feed the ever-lengthening columns.
45:12It was obvious that if the Allied situation was to be restored, the German column would have to be cut.
45:20On May 17th, General de Gaulle attacked the German flank and captured a few prisoners.
45:27But his light-mechanized forces were like a pin pricking the side of a rhinoceros.
45:33A subsequent attack met with even less success.
45:39The means for a really successful counterattack against the German corridor simply did not exist.
45:48Where numbers of divisions were required, only handfuls of companies and battalions were available.
45:57A valiant attempt to cut the German corridor was made by a group of slow-moving British tanks just south of Arak.
46:08But lack of sustained striking power doomed this valiant unit to destruction.
46:15On May 21st, the German spearheads reached the Channel Court of Abbeville.
46:22Protecting their flank along with Somme, the Germans fanned out to the north and east.
46:29This was to be the perfect battle of annihilation.
46:33On May 28th, the Belgian army, compressed into a small space and weary of battle, laid down its arms.
46:42That left the desperate French and British defenders with their backs to the sea at the small Channel Court of Dunkirk.
46:50One of the greatest disasters in history seemed in the making.
46:56An entire British army faced annihilation.
46:59But out of the fog and the mist, drowning the channel, came a strained armada.
47:04A navy craft, fishing boats, pleasure yachts, anything that would float.
47:09The seagoing people of Britain had come to rescue their army.
47:14High overhead British fighter planes fought the luke-warfer to a standstill.
47:18While below, small Allied suicide units held the Germans back long enough for the miracle of Dunkirk to take place.
47:37Two hundred and eleven thousand five hundred British troops, plus a hundred and twelve thousand five hundred French and Belgian were rescued.
48:00Over three hundred thousand battle-tested men, grimly determined to go back again with new tools.
48:06New weapons with which to blast the hated Nazis out of this world.
48:11For free men are like rubber balls.
48:13The harder they fall, the higher they bounce.
48:16Leaving the British by this time was a man who had been bouncing all his life, Winston Churchill.
48:22Who had tried for years to warn the world about Germany.
48:27Meantime, the situation that faced France was as nearly hopeless as the military situation can be.
48:33Two fifths of the French army was lost.
48:36There were fewer than fifty divisions left to defend the front almost two hundred miles long.
48:42Running from the northern end of the Maginot Line to the sea.
48:45And behind that thin front line, there were no reserves.
48:49The despairing people of Paris sent their children south, praying that some miracle would keep them from harm.
48:58The hopeless men of the French army, without adequate arms or equipment, braced themselves for the coming blow.
49:15The first blow fell on June 5th.
49:19The French resistance was determined.
49:21But by June 8th, the left flank army had been shattered and a general withdrawal was ordered to the line of the Marne and the Seine.
49:28On June 9th, the German main attack came.
49:33Within two days, the German armored and motorized divisions roared out into the open terrain.
49:40With this breakthrough, the issue of the Battle of France was decided.
49:44And from that time on, there was official talk of an armistice.
49:51Now, what about the famous Marginot Line?
49:55Let's go back and take a look.
49:57On June 14th, the Germans launched two attacks against the Marginot Line.
50:03In both cases, penetrations were affected.
50:06But we must remember that this was against fortifications defended by men devoid of hope.
50:13In the meantime, Mussolini, now thinking it's safe, sent his division racing across the border.
50:19The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.
50:31Organized resistance in France was no longer possible.
50:44The government faced two alternatives.
50:47Retire to North Africa and carry on from there, or give up the struggle.
50:52France's leaders were old and tired.
50:55And the oldest and most tired was Marshal PĆ©tain.
50:58Egged on by men like Laval, who saw in a German victory his chance for personal power.
51:04On June 16th, PĆ©tain asked for an armistice.
51:08The news is carried to Hitler, who received this word of a great nation's fall in a characteristic manner.
51:15Also characteristic were his terms for the armistice.
51:21It must be signed in the coach where Marshal Frosch met the defeated Germans in the last war.
51:28The French delegation arrived to pay the final price of French disunity and the treachery of some of its leaders.
51:58The final price, a price that for centuries to come, the French won't forget.
52:05More than three-fifths of their country was to be blacked out by a military occupation.
52:14The remainder was to be controlled by a French government acceptable to Hitler.
52:19A tax of 400 million francs a day was to be imposed on the French people
52:25to support the German army of occupation.
52:29Nearly two million French prisoners of war were to be taken into Germany
52:33and kept there as hostages to work as slaves or rot of hunger, tuberculosis, or other diseases in concentration camps.
52:44Men deliberately and permanently separated from their families in order to decrease the French birth rate
52:52and thus eliminate France as a world power in future generations.
52:56French civilians, men, women, and children, must slave on farmer and factory for the Nazi master race or starve.
53:07There will be a class of subject alien races.
53:13We need not hesitate to call them slaves.
53:17French children were to grow up on such inadequate food that many would reach the age of 12 before they grew new teeth.
53:25And for any attempts to protest against these restrictions, thousands of innocent French civilians would be executed.
53:37This was the price the French were to pay as they signed the armistice.
53:43And the master of the master race must go to Paris to tour the streets of what was once the city of light.
53:52You notice no cheering crowds here to welcome in the new order.
53:57When the people of Paris come to the streets again, it is to hear the voice of dictators telling them what they must do,
54:13how they must live, what they must say, what they must think, telling them how to be slaves.
54:25Gone is the Republic of France. Gone is free speech and a free representative government.
54:32Gone is liberty, equality, fraternity.
54:39These are the French. With their ears, they listen.
54:43But their minds and their hearts, these are down on the Mediterranean,
54:47where the battle colors of the regiments are being taken to Africa, out of the Nazi grasp.
54:52The people weep as their glory departs, for they don't as yet know that France has hope, a rallying point.
55:01Charles de Gaulle, a soldier in the great tradition of Bosch, is not surrendering.
55:06He will continue to fight, gathering about him loyal Frenchmen from all over the world, to become the Free French Army, the Fighting French.
55:17Yes, the people weep as they watch their colors go, not knowing that two years later, those same flags would again be unfurled in North Africa,
55:28alongside the stars and stripes, alongside the Union Jackets.
55:34Once more, their leaders, General de Gaulle and the famous General Giraud, stand united in the common cause with the leaders of their allies.
55:43Once more, the red, white and blue of France is raised on high.
55:47For out of the ashes of the defeat and the humiliation of France, her soul has been born again.
55:56The Satchul!
56:00The Satchjok cuts the B
56:12The Satchjok cuts the B
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