Lego WW2 - Battle of Crete

(Please Note: this animation is for 13 years and up only)

Please Read: This film is non-political and was made for the purposes of entertainment and education.

The Battle of Crete (Operation Mercury) was fought during the Second World War on the Greek island of Crete. It began on the morning of 20 May 1941 with the attack of Axis paratroopers and ended on the 1st of June 1941. Although a victory for the axis forces, the high number of casualties during the battle shocked the German Air Ministry. Adolf Hitler, believing the airborne had lost its element of surprise, reorganised all paratrooper divisions to take up ground roles for the rest of the war. Their last drop into combat was during the Ardennes offensive in 1944.

Special thanks goes out to Maarten Brick for providing me pictures of his JU52 model for this film and the following for providing voice overs in this film;

German Voices:

British Voices:

You can buy the items you seen in this film from the following sites;

Bricklink

Brickizimo

AliExpress

United Bricks

[westlands]

It saddens me to see all the dead legos. Rest in pieces.

[JedAnimationStudios]

In just under two weeks this film has finally made it to its first 100, 000 view milestone! Again, I can't thank you all enough for you support for my channel and the work I make.

[planecrazybuilder]

This is cool because I’ve never seen a lego stop motion with German paratroopers

[JedAnimationStudios]

Thank you all for getting this to 600, 000 views! I'm so happy right now 😀

[starwarsstudio]

Ah this was truly amazing! Was worth the hype. The animation was pretty smooth as well. Well done and keep up the good work!

[JedAnimationStudios]

We did it! Crete has reached over 300, 000 views! I cannot thank you all enough for your help and support for reaching this milestone. I hope this film continues to grow and will be a popular film for all in the future.

[WalkerDixonBrickfilms]

This was awesome! you don't see many brickfilms from the german perspective, and especially not many fallschirmjager perspective! Can't wait too see more from you Jed!

[JedAnimationStudios]

We made it to 400, 000! This is amazing! Thank you all so much!

[WalkerDixonBrickfilms]

If we watched these in school i would learn so much more!

[turmoilbreaker]

Everything in this animation is spot on! You can clearly tell the amount of hard work that was put into this.

[TheCarin]

My Grandfather was in Crete at this time. He vividly remembers seeing the German paratroopers still in their tow craft underneath the crystal clear Mediterranean beaches.

[JedAnimationStudios]

Remember to check out my Lego WW1 - Battle of Amiens film after the video!

[JedAnimationStudios]

We finally hit 500, 000 views people! Thank you all so much for helping me make it this far!

[JedAnimationStudios]

We've just hit our first 1, 000 views people! Let's hope it keeps up!

[Joaosantos]

Just the idea that these guys were pratically helpless until they found the weapons crate gives you an idea on how well trained they were

[legocrazymotion]

Another great ww2 film! Will add to my group for other people to see it

[meguminreport]

I haven't seen a film focus on the Fallschrimjager before. It's sorta refreshing now.

[thelegends]

This proves that people have a bad first day on the job

[Raul-ywzf]

My grandfather was a german Fallschirmjäger from 1940 to 1944 and fought in the battles for the greek islands, also the almost-disaster in Creta where the most died in the air and didn't even reach the ground of Creta alive. After the battle was won, my great-grandfather and other Fallschirmjäger got visit by Kurt Student, the leader of the green devils as they were also known. He later surrendered somewhere in south Italy after the invasion of the british eight army in Sicilia took place.

[javierfranceschi]

Seeing those German planes gave me "Arnhem" flashbacks from your market garden animation haha. Good job with the cgi I like it!