5min clip - Britain's mysterious WW2 'island of death'

15min 18sec clip - French Resistance "Reseau X" - World War II

2min 48sec clip - GERMAN V 2 ROCKET TESTS AND FAILURES w/ Wernher Von Braun

18min 22sec clip - USCG NORTH ATLANTIC CONVOY DUTY

12min 43sec clip - TANKS - Orson Welles

9min clip - V-1 THE ROBOT BOMB - V 1 Bomb, Buzz Bomb , Doodlebug

23min clip - SEABEES IN NORMANDY - CBs in Normandy on D-Day

10min clip - JAPAN SURRENDERS

6min 13sec clip - BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOR 2111e

19min clip via #shaggylocks - Declassified WWII Spy Training Film: "Body Search"

14min @I_W_M clip - Daily life under German and Japanese occupation

16min clip - German version of the WW2 D-Day invasion - film by US Navy Office of Strategic Service using german newsreels

Text from youtube "Created by the U.S. Navy's Industrial Incentive Division and the Office of Strategic Service (OSS) during WWII, this "Nazi version" of the Normandy invasion is a translated, authentic German newsreel. The strategy at work here is taken from Frank Capra, who used authentic enemy newsreels and motion picture films in his "Why We Fight" series to provide insight into the Axis. This film, like "Why We Fight", was intended to make its intended audience — American war workers to whom these types of incentive films were shown —outraged, helping them focus on the vital task of production. The film shows the considerable German coastal defenses at Normandy, and the organized, efficient, and effective resistance they offered on the beaches at 2:00. At 2:29, the pre-dawn aerial attacks by the Allies are met with heavy gunfire. At 3:20, Allied ships encounter barrage mines and light German naval units enter the battle. At 4:48, heavy German artillery enters the battle and makes direct strikes on the invasion fleet. At 5:30 coastal defense are seen including pillboxes and anti-personnel barbed wire and emplacements. At 6:00, SS troops oppose a landing with flame throwing weapons. At 6:22, wrecked landing craft are shown. At 8:11, U.S. Airborne troops who are now prisoner are shown. At 9:20, wrecked WACO gliders are shown as well as Canadian prisoners. At 10:30 the battle continues at Cairns, with heavy bombing by aircraft opposed by railroad-mounted AA guns. At 12:00, civilians are shown fleeing the Allied invasion, as German armored divisions with tanks move forward. A wrecked Canadian Sherman tank is seen at 13:40. In short, the "German version of Invasion" portrays the German Army in the aftermath of D-Day, apparently winning many battles and turning the tide of war in favor of the Wehrmacht. The film also illustrates how Germany believes it is far from beaten. A unique look at the war from the other side! We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." found via boingboing

2min 55sec clip - WWII Vet's Tales Of Bravery Remind Us What Makes The Greatest Generation

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25min clip - #Colette : The French #resistance fighter confronting fascism - #Oscars 2021 Short Documentary Winner

 

 found via messymessychic 

 text from youtube "Colette has won the Academy Award in the category of best documentary short. 

90-year-old Colette Marin-Catherine confronts her past by visiting the German concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora where her brother was killed. As a young girl, she fought Hitler's Nazis as a member of the French Resistance. For 74 years, she has refused to step foot in Germany, but that changes when a young history student named Lucie enters her life. Prepared to re-open old wounds and revisit the terrors of that time, Marin-Catherine offers important lessons for us all."

Sousa Mendes - Armed with little more than a rubber stamp he saved up to 30,000

 

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"In the spring of 1940, when the Nazis overran France from the north, much of its Jewish population tried to escape the country towards the south. In order to cross the border they needed visas to Spain and Portugal, and together with a flood of other refugees, tens of thousands of Jews besieged the Portuguese consulate in Bordeaux in a desperate attempt to get that life-saving piece of paper. 

The Portuguese government forbade its consuls in France to issue visas without prior approval from the Foreign Ministry, but the consul in Bordeaux, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, decided to disregard the order, throwing to the wind a thirty-year diplomatic career. As Nazi tanks were closing in on Bordeaux, Sousa Mendes and his team worked around the clock for ten days and nights, barely stopping to sleep, just issuing visas and stamping pieces of paper. Sousa Mendes issued thousands of visas before collapsing from exhaustion. 

The Portuguese government – which had little desire to accept any of these refugees – sent agents to escort the disobedient consul back home, and dismissed him from the foreign office. 

Yet officials who cared little for the plight of human beings nevertheless had a deep reverence for documents, and the visas Sousa Mendes issued against orders were respected by French, Spanish and Portuguese bureaucrats alike, spiriting up to 30,000 people out of the Nazi death trap. 

Sousa Mendes, armed with little more than a rubber stamp, was responsible for the largest rescue operation by a single individual during the Holocaust.2" 

(from "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Noah Harari)

14min #crashcourse clip - World War II Civilians and Soldiers: Crash Course European History #39

text from youtube "Our look at World War II continues with a closer examination of just how the war impacted soldiers in the field, and the people at home. For many of the combatants, the homefront and the warfront were one and the same. The war disrupted life for millions upon millions of people. You'll learn about the different experiences of the populations of various combatant states.

Sources
-Kent, Susan. A New History of Britain: Four Nations and an Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
-Krylova, Anna. Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010
-Mazower, Mark. Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe. New York: Penguin, 2008.
-Overy. Richard. Russia’s War. London: Penguin, 1997.
-Riding, Alan. And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris. New York: Vintage, 2011.
-Smith, Bonnie G. Europe in the Contemporary World, 1900 to the Present, 2nd ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. "

16minWorld War II: Crash Course European History #38

text from youtube "Only a couple of decades after the end of the First World War--which was supposed to be the War that Ended All Wars--another, bigger, farther-flung, more destructive, and deadlier war began. Today, you'll learn about how the war in Europe progressed, from the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the invasion of Poland, to the Western and Eastern fronts, to VE Day and the atom bombs used in Japan.

Sources

-Hunt, Lynn et al. Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s, 2019.
-Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941. New York: Penguin, 2017.
-Mazower, Mark. Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe. New York: Penguin, 2008.
-Overy, Richard. Russia’s War: A History of the Soviet Effort, 1941-1945. New York: Penguin, 1998.
-Smith, Bonnie G. Europe in the Contemporary World, 1900 to the Present, 2nd ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
-Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Hitler between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books, 2010. "

2min @AP_Archive clip - Pearl Harbor - 1941 | Movietone Moments | 7 Dec

Text from youtube "On this day in 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy carried out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

The world knows that the Japanese attacked the American Naval Base without warning, these pictures show something of how the civil population suffered.

Japanese planes fly over and fires rage in Waikiki. Refugees run hither and thither. AA guns fire and the injured are cared for. The children play in a communal nursery. Afterwards, shots of wreckage and a damaged car. The story ends with pictures of a captured Jap. two man submarine which helped in the attack against the US Fleet in Pearl Harbour. 

4min 30sec @TEDEd clip - From pacifist to spy: WWII’s surprising secret agent - Noor Inayat Khan

Text from youtube "Learn about the life of World War II spy Noor Inayat Khan and how she worked with the French Resistance to build the network that defeated the Nazis.

In May 1940, with the German army ready to occupy Paris, Noor Inayat Khan was faced with a difficult choice: stand on the sidelines or join the Allied forces fighting the Nazis. After witnessing the devastation across Europe, she travelled to England to learn the art of espionage. Shrabani Basu details how a pacifist turned spy helped build the resistance that toppled a fascist regime.

Lesson by Shrabani Basu, directed by Franz Palomares.

2min 30sec british #movietone clip - #dunkirk evacuation ends - this day in history #1940

On June 4, 1940, during World War II, the Allied military evacuation of some 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France, ended.