How Hitler & The Third Reich Captured France | Joe Rogan & Norman Ohler

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Norman Ohler is an author and screenwriter whose books include "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany," "The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis," and "Tripped: Nazi Germany, The CIA and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age."

Host: Joe Rogan
Producer: Jamie Vernon
Episode: 2183

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[markhunter]

One of Guderian's great tactical insights in battle was not to use his reinforcements in the parts of the front line where the Germans were struggling, but instead apply them to where they were succeeding. This was a new concept which was perfectly suited to this type of tank warfare. Exploit the enemy's weakness rather than combat his strength.

[holysquire]

“In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals."-Napoleon Bonaparte

[treetrunk]

“I didn’t even know he was sick.” -Norm McDonald.

[carthy]

Germany was at war with 27 countries by the end of the war, and they still gave everyone a hard time - split in two, 15m pows and country destroyed, by 1957 west germany was the fastest growing economy in europe

[kennyb]

France had the worst tacticians ... that is how! The French will tell you that themselves

[patriot]

All of the French generals at the top were, almost to a man, totally unprepared for the new style of warfare about to be unleashed. There were a few younger generals, De Gaulle especially, who wanted the French army organized on similar lines to the German. It's a common misperception that German tanks were better than anything else. The French actually had more and better tanks than the Germans, but instead of organizing them into independent armored divisions grouped together in corps, they were spread out among the infantry. The Fall of France took from May 10th 1940 to the end of June, but the French were irretrievably beaten within a week. I would argue the Germans had them beat in 1917, it just took until 1940 for them to realize it.

[robwark]

It was Mansteins plan. Guederian was a big proponent of armored warfare, and Rommel led a Panzer Division during the assault on France, but the plan belongs to Manstein.

[CSG_Trucker]

0:37 the French army was good, the doctrine was bad, WW1 doctrine

[XZumex]

Whats crazy is there was actually scouts who found the german advance, but it was dismissed cause no one believed it was possible.

[undergroundphilly]

It wasn’t just the Armoured formations, they made their Infantry formations mobile too to avoid a trench warfare stalemate. The overall strategy was mobile warfare by all their military formations that the western Armies were not prepared for.

[arnonym]

I listened to better WW2 experts in pubs at 3 am in the morning.

[amirblessedofficial]

Franco-Prussian War was 1870/71
Austria vs Prussia was 1866

[Britton_Thompson]

The #1 determinant was that the Allies spent 21 years assuming everyone wanted to avoid fighting another world war, while Germany spent that time fantasizing about the rematch

[marvinshenk]

In 1996 I drove my 1980 Subaru wagon across the entire US in 52 hours straight with no sleep. I just had cigarettes and coffee. A massive snowstorm was following me, and if I stopped for an hour, I'd be stuck under 3 feet of snow. I don't think I could have done 72 hours though, unless I had some coke or meth.

[Chris-xvwd]

Remember Napolean after Jena. “Hats off gentleman. If this man were around today we would not be here now.” Speaking of Frederick the Great

[rnklv]

What he said was similar to what I was taught/read about the battle for France during WW II, a soft spot in the Maginot Line (the French line of defense) was thru the Ardennes, and German armored divisions took advantage of this opportunity.

[Slim-Clips]

“History is written by the victors.” - Winston Churchill

[Dartagnan]

The war took place in 1871 not 1865. That was the brother war between Prussia and Austria.
Also the first time I ever heard that Rommel and Guderian were also responsible for the Ardennes offensive plan. Only ever heard Von Manstein associated with this genius strategy

[turquoise]

Missing the part where the French declared war in Germany after the War in Poland, then the Germans invaded.

[ConnMtenor]

France had the world's best equipped army. They had, however, the worst government and military high command in Europe. Hitler wasn't stubborn though. He was persistent but he stole Guderian's plan and made it work.