“Operation Overlord” is recorded for posterity as a success story. But due to inconsistencies, logistical problems and capricious weather conditions, the Allied offensive against Hitler’s army was very nearly a fiasco.
“Operation Overlord” is often retrospectively regarded as a heroic achievement: the biggest combined sea, air and land operation in the history of World War II. But was the military action really so successful?
As early as 1943, the Allies had already agreed to conduct a gigantic offensive in western Europe aimed at crushing the enemy once and for all. Despite a tight schedule and many obstacles, the Normandy landings were given the green light. But due to differences of opinion over planning, a lack of boats and soldiers, inadequate preparation and bad weather, the military operation had to be postponed several times.
Eventually, Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy in the early hours of 6 June 1944 – a day recorded in the history books as D-Day. Taken by surprise, the Germans were overwhelmed. But although the first phase of the operation passed off without major Allied losses, the Omaha Beach landings soon turned into a disaster. Despite leadership errors and fewer men, the German army displayed unexpected combative spirit. Logistics were also hampered by the poor weather conditions and the arrival of reinforcements was delayed. Despite their material and numerical superiority, the Allies suffered heavy losses and it took them more than two months to break through the German defense.
Hopes that “Operation Overlord” would deal the enemy a fatal blow were not realized and the war dragged on. But in the end, all the operation’s failings were forgotten in the triumphant liberation of Paris. A film that uncovers the historical context and background of “Operation Overlord”.
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All those beautiful young men in a bloody war. It's so terrible, but thank God we won. Never again. May there be peace.
Great timing thank you DW we really need to remember the past and learn from it .
Without D-Day you'd be speaking Russian.
The world owes this generation of American, British, and Canadian troops gratitude. With that said, there is no excuse for *ape, regardless of what the Germans did. Even just a few incidents, one is too many. One horrendous deed doesn't excuse victimizing woman and children.
We must never forget the struggle to be free and the sacrificies of the greatest generation.
Every day of my earthly existence, I pray for world peace. 🙏🏻
DW just did it again. They are consistently awesome.
I've watched a lot of D-Day stuff today, and I was skeptical about watching a German media produced piece. But this was good! 👍
Amazingly done as Always, thanks dw
The failure to completely close the Falaise Pocket was nothing BUT Politics pure and simple and Bradley’s refusal to put military necessity over politics. Patton had reached his ‘stopping point’ with no British in sight. He begged to keep going to meet the Brits wherever they were. Bradley said No whether because of personal animosity or because of Patton’s well-known pomposity we’ll never know.
In the next episode tell us about the Battle for Stalingrad!
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Very very well done. Nicely put together.
Quality stuff, as usual. Thank you
5 German submarines near cost see for defens
Underwater mines
Excellent. Interesting to see it from A different perspective
The Brits led America by the nose up to 1943. The Brits made several efforts to scupper the Normandy invasion! Only George Marshall’s will power kept it on track!
Field Marshall Alanbrooke joked in his diary that by accepting a U.S. Supreme Commander in Africa and then for Overlord, they were able to keep control of land, sea, and air tactical commanders! Which, Alabrooke said, showed the world who was really running the war!
Eisenhower was a weak commander, he was too easily hoodwinked by the British, there are several instances of the Brits putting one over him and Marshall not being pleased and basically ordering Eisenhower to reverse his position.
Overlord happened only because George Marshall forced it to happen!
history is so interesting and sad. to think a lot of those soldiers fighting were in my age group and lost their lives witness horrific things and/or did things that haunted or continues to haunt them even if it were for survival.
Roosevelt was so naive about Stalin.
More war videos, looks like the predictive programming has begun… it’s insane
such a misleading an incompetent report accussing the Allies of war crimes.
DW is aweful inaccurate
Wars are won with man power, material and finances.
The 6th month the 6th day the 6 hour when the United States and its allies invaded Western Europe and Helping the Communist to take more territory in Eastern Europe NOT LIBERATION! by Defeating Germany the allies brought Europe back under the hill with the International Zionist bankers.. It will take 40 years later for the collapse of the Soviet Union but unfortunately the continent of Europe is still dominated and controlled by the United States to this day
You can never trust History as it's written or documentated. There are always 3 sides to a coin.
Great documentary as always. DW is a German power house. Very to the point and no sugar coating!!
I jus love DW documentary…u do try to be balanced and unbiased on most issues and your documentaries are so in depth….that discrimination was there during warfare in the front lines is overlooked in addition to the little tiffs btwn Churchill and Roosevelt…coupled with their backroom chess games with stalin.Keep up the good job…MORE DOCUMENTARIES PLEASE😊
As always an amazing documentary by DW regarding WW2 ❤.
An excellent demonstration of the utter stupidity of war.
Perhaps it was brushed over because this is a French production reworked by the German broadcaster, but an important note about the British reluctance to implement a colour bar was that it was not solely down to depleted resources/ infrastructure as referred to in this documentary. The British found it distasteful and refused to be told how to run their society by the Americans. There were more than a few skirmishes about it, one of the most famous of which is "The Battle of Bamber Bridge" when violence erupted in support of African-American servicemen against an attempt to impose segregation. Apparently, the wartime experience of African-American soldiers in Britain planted one of the seeds that led to the Civil Rights activism in 1960s America.
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great content
Video felt a lil short for DW..
have always believed free world mindset will always win, it might take time, and sometime frustrating, but in the end, free world mindset will come out of cages
What is about to happen?
So now 80 years later they gather to celebrate their stupidity. NO RESPECT.
I visited both the Allied war cemetery at Colleville sur mer, and the less known German cemetery at La Cambe. While most of the Allied deaths were between 24÷30 years old, most of the Germans were below 20 and over 40. This says a lot, not only in the enormous superiority of material the Allied enjoyed (thanks to the American industrial power), but also that the Germans were scraping the bottom of the barrel of the manpower. Utah, Gold and Juno beaches were manned by static garrison divisions poorly equipped and of low combat value, the only "proper" german infantry division in Normandy was the 252nd at Omaha. And the results clearly show this.