Hitler's 'Desert Fox' | Colorized World War II

Hitler's "Desert Fox", Rommel pushed forward at El Alamein, but with the arrival of the maverick British General, Bernard Montgomery, to take charge of the Eighth Army in North Africa, the wind of change was about to blow. Meanwhile on the Russian Front Hitler's troops advanced their Stalingrad campaign, with the Führer boasting that this key city would soon be his.

[JohnEglick-ozcd]

Good color added . Makes more lively, and interesting .

[jamesotayza]

Rommel is not overrated. He did well with what we had. Remember, Germany was faltering at this point. Majority of supplies were funnelled into Operation Barbarossa. Rommel lost the race to refit and resupply. And thus lost the battle. Given equal supplies on both sides, Rommel would have steamrolled Montgomery right out of Egypt. Rommel was pulled out of Egypt and assigned to defend the coast on D-day. Even then, many of his suggestions were overruled. Going back earlier, Rommel's troops were called the 'ghost division' at one point because he blitzed thru the low countries so fast, higher ups did not know where his division was. Some say he intentionally broke radio contact so he could have free reign over his corps.

[webrumrunner]

For a sub one hour video hats off for squeezing in a lot of content. Probably better though to save the conflict in the Pacific and Asian theatres for other videos.

[auzeniroliveira]

Nossa esse documentário muito informativo parabéns pela postagem 📹

[Anny]

It is very interesting to know a little more about the history, I loved it

[bryansimmons]

Every time it plays a commercial it turns the goddamn captions back on. How the hell do you stop it from doing this? Very annoying.

[VaguianeGondinho-hjuh]

Como eu aprendo com esses documentários...❤

[stevejessemey]

I'm half Maltese and English, currently living on this tiny rock. I can honestly say that the Maltese people are tough resilient people. In 1565, when the Ottoman Empire invaded Malta, known as the Great Siege of Malta, even the Maltese and the Knights of Malta managed to defeat a much superior power. And what is not well known is during the 1960's and 70's, Maltese Mafia went to London and took over the West End. In a nutshell, Malta might be a tiny island, but the People are tough, even my mother at 79, loves a good scrap 😅.

[romarioros]

Você apagou um documentário de 8 horas da guerra ?

[hazeldmello]

My uncle was a Doctor and in the Medical Corps of the Allied forces, and was sent to Africa. India had agreed to support the war effort on condition that Britain would give India freedom after the War was over. One day back in India, my aunt received a telegram regarding my uncle saying, "Missing in action, presumed dead." Some months later, there was a knock on the door. My aunt opened it to see her husband standing there. At that instant her hair turned snow white!

[adolfguntherry]

WW2 started when France and United Kingdom declare war on Germany, in fact Judea declare war on Germany March 24th 1933, before that was just a local war between Germany and Poland.

[JohnEglick-ozcd]

The Allied merchant Marines were definite unsung heroes ; they literally were important in victory over the Axis forces .

[notwocdivad]

I have always understood that there is no H in STALIN or Stalingrad? plus Auchinleck is I believe pronounced AUKINLECK?

[stevenwild]

Wow, for a title containing "Hitler's Desert Fox", only about 10% of it related to anything to do with Rommel.

[mikebull]

The documentary contains a historical inaccuracy. Greece has never been defeated by Italy. When Italy invaded Greece on October 28, 1940, the Hellenic Army defended itself effectively in the first few weeks and immediately, despite its small force, counterattacked and repulsed them victoriously. It pushed the Italians back into Albania, liberating the Northern Continent at the same time.

The Italians, led by Mussolini himself, in March 1941 launched another fierce attack against the Hellenic Army, but the Italian Army suffered a second humiliating defeat in the epic battle of Hill 731.

On April 6 1941, Greece received the German attack on the forts of the Metaxas Line on the Hellenic-Bulgarian border. There the Greeks fought with self-sacrifice that made even Hitler confess his admiration for the bravery of the Greek Soldier.

The Germans were unable to take the forts and invaded from the Hellenic-Yugoslav border and Greece faced with a second superpower, was forced to sign a capitulation with Germany and Greece was under German occupation.
Thus Greece was NEVER defeated by Italy.

[Demun]

19:28, Indian troops, in North Africa, wore the same uniforms as the other Commonwealth countries, khaki or sand, NOT BLUE. Who did the (incorrectly spelt) "colorization"? I deduce it was meant to be colourisation?

[Richard-em]

The Royal Navy had more to do with the defeat of the Afrika Korps than Montgomery. Rommel could not get the supplies he needed, not could he get equipment replacements, nor new troops reliably.

[franklintorres]

Muy interesante y conocer las historias de las guerras mundiales más relevantes

[ΜΠΑΜΠΗΣΑΘΑΝΑΣΑΚΟΣ-ξκ]

Βάζετε υπότιτλους στα ελληνικά. Ευχαριστώ.

[davidj.winter]

This hour contains about 5 minutes of Rommel.