All language subtitles for Apocalypse.The.Second.World.War.2009.E02.1080p.BluRay.x264-TENEIGHTY

May 9, 1940.

A little French town,
with little French children.

A town in the Ardennes, not far from Germany
which is at war with France.

But things are being quiet,

until now.

So the children continue to line
their clogs up neatly,

and their school teacher says:

Today we'll learn a nice song,
to bring peace back to us.

Round, round, round,
go the puppets.

This will be their last class.

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English by godlob@IDWS

Apocalypse
The Second World War

May 10, 1940. At 5:35 AM,
The Germans unleash their offensive.

2/6
Crushing Defeat

German paratroopers
are dropped into Holland.

They are the vanguard,
the first of 3 million invaders.

Wehrmacht marches
into Belgium.

This is Hitler's decoy.

The Germans pretend they're going to attack France
through neutral Belgium

as they did in 1914.

The French General Gamelin, commander-in-chief
of The Allied Forces, is confident.

He has everything covered.
He finds two "de strategy" during the "phoney war"

Gamelin moves his best motorized division,
the elite of the French Army, into Belgium

along with the entire
British Expeditionary Force.

These are fighting soldiers with true grid,

They will stop the German advance
through Belgium.

But Hitler, in his own quarters,
is gloating. His decoy worked.

He exclaims,

I could weep for joy.

He instructs Field Marshall Goering,
who commands the air force,

not to bomb the French columns to let them proceed
deep into Belgium territory

and he attacks them
from the rear.

His real offensive will be
through the Ardennes.

According to a French high command:

No tank can get through those
dainty forests and hills.

But nothing stops them, except
their own traffic jam.

Meanwhile, in the Netherlands
and Belgium,

People who own cars were among
the first to flee.

Everyone is suspected

a so-called 'fifth column' is feared,
spies working for the Nazis.

The German continue their
diversionary tactics,

invading Belgium with specially trained
airborne forces.

The sappers belt out their song
from their campaign in Poland.

The girls will have to wait, comrades.
It's time to go, comrades.

On May 11, on daybreak, they're dropped in
to Belgium

Their goal is to capture the linchpin
of the Belgian defense system.

Fort Eben-Emael, on the Albert Canal
which is reputed to be 'impregnable'.

An intrepid German soldier heaves himself onto
the top of a turret, with a load of explosives.

The conquerors strive through the ruins of Fort Eben-Emael,
the key to Belgium.

Images such as these, will force the Wehrmacht's reputation
of invincibility.

After the fort falls, people scramble to catch
the last train to Paris.

In the French capital,
The Red Cross is swapped.

Belgian refugees are transferred to
cattle cars heading south.

As the German enters Liege,
panics grow and spread.

Faced with such a force,
they are only 2 options:

obey, or flee.

Many of the refugees are the people
from the country side.

As in many times in history,
farmers have always been the last to flee.

loath to abandon their crops
and their animals.

The great Belgian poet, Emile Verhaeren wrote:

The people around here have nothing at all.

Nothing before them,
but the endlessness of the open road.

The people who work the field,
the people around here,

have only endless misfortune.

The German unleash their
aerial offence,

destroying strategic crossroads,
air fields,

refineries, and fuel supplies.

Cities in northern and eastern France
are bombed.

The French are now facing reality
of modern warfare.

In the Netherlands,
the Port of Rotterdam is ablaze.

The result of the German terror bombing raid

like the one in Warsaw.

But these bomb are dropped, after
the city has surrendered.

Another of Hitler's war crime.

In London, the new prime minister is
Winston Churchill.

His first speech reveals his determination
to keep fighting

whatever the circumstances.

I will say, without a doubt

that the faith of Holland,
and Belgium

like that of Poland, Czechoslovakia,
and Austria,

will be decided, by the victory of the British Empire
and French Republic.

But things have suddenly turned
very grim in France.

In just 3 days, the German have
swept through the Ardennes

and advancing towards French's defensive line
on the Meuse River.

They are closing the net with
their 'pinsel' movement,

seeking to entrapped the Allied troops
amass in Belgium.

The German infantry-men knock over the French,
as if they came from a different world

With their hand- grenades,

machine guns, and with their
sleeves rolled up

They take the town
in one day.

Sedan, the key to the Ardennes,

which was already terribly marked
by the French defeat in 1870.

But the real obstacle for the German
is the Meuse River.

On the night of May 13, they bring in
beams to build bridges.

The French fight back.

But the German neutralized the French artillery, and
the next morning their sappers finished the bridge.

Galvanized by the General Guderian,
a 52 years old Prussian.

A great armored warfare strategist

Using tanks to strike with force,
daring and speed.

Blitzkrieg, or Lightning war, should not give
the enemy time to react.

First, the tanks, followed by the infantry,
and backed by aircraft.

especially the Stukas.

The Stukas, dive bombers,
equipped with sirens.

resisting the intense pressure
of the descent

their highly trained pilots release
their bombs at the last minute

with lethal precisions.

The French prime minister, Paul Reynaud,
telephoned Churchill in alarm:

We have been defeated,
we have lost the battle.

The French generals are at a loss.
they are unable to react to the situation.

With the Allied forces tied up in Belgium,
how can they stop the Germans from advancing?

In Paris, the French authority is trying
to deal with the increasing numbers of refugees.

People from Belgium and Northern France
are pouring in the city.

Schools, hospital, and barracks
are soon overflowing.

Information is passed,
rumors are bound

Has Gamelin committed suicide?

No.

The French high command has just realized that
the Germans are heading for the coast

and the allies has fallen
into the trap.

A counter attack is ordered,

allowing a certain Colonel de Gaulle, to distinguish
himself at the head of the tank brigade.

The French Army possesses more tanks, and they are of
better quality than the German panzers.

But without any reinforcement, or aerial supports,
the French tanks become prey to the Stukas

The French combatants put up a good fight,
but they wondered why the air force isn't protecting them.

Poorly prepared, and with fewer planes, the French pilots
are heavily outnumbered by the Luftwaffe,

but they fight courageously.

Dozens of German pilots are shot down
and taken prisoners.

Some of these pilots will be returned to Germany
when the armistice is signed

and then join the battle against Britain.

The German tanks move swiftly through the towns
and the villages of northern France.

Valiantly, the French try to slow
the German advance,

but the Germans crush any
pockets of resistance.

The Germans have reached the English Channel.

Hitler's strategy of the circle-cut
has worked.

The British Expeditionary Force, the Belgian army,
and the French armed forces are encircled.

The Belgian King surrenders,
along with his army.

The British Expeditionary Forces
withdraw towards the coast,

leading to the final collapse
of the Allied army.

In Paris, French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud
dismisses Gamelin

and finds a new savior,
General Weygand, 72 years old

One of the artisans of the Allied
victory in 1918.

To boast the moral, Reynaud names another
World War I hero as Vice Premier.

84 years old Mar�chal Petain.

who will soon turn his back
on Reynaud's policies.

Weygand has no choice. He too is forced to order
a full retreat towards Dunkirk.

Hitler lets them go.

A gesture of clemency towards Great Britain?
Is he still hoping for a separated peace?

Or has Goering assured him that his air force
is capable of preventing any evacuations?

400,000 men cramped the beach,
helpless and in disarray.

They have one last chance of escape,
over the sea.

Churchill orders any vessel that can float
to go and get them.

On the outskirt of Dunkirk,

the French hold back the Germans,
suffering heavy losses.

Goering sent out the Luftwaffe's
Stukas and bombers.

218,000 British and 120,000 French troops

are successfully evacuated.

The British Army is saved,
but is in tatters.

The French will be sent back to France in a final attempt
to defend their country.

The British are sent off
to re-equipment centers.

All of Great Britain hails Dunkirk
as an extraordinary feat.

Churchill, however, puts it into perspective.

With lucidity, he says:

Wars are not won by evacuation.

Even so, in those fist days of June 1940,

The "Dunkirk spirit" is born.

The ruthlessness of this war, and the destructive power
of the Nazi enemy,

are now apparent to the British.

light-heartedness and humor give way to frantic efforts,
to mobilize the nation..

On June 4, Churchill, who is also battling
the defeatists on his own side,

speaks out, his tone is unforgettable:

We should fight on the beaches,
on the landing ground.

in a field, in a street.
And on the hills.

We shall never surrendered.

On June 4, the Germans take Dunkirk.

A fabulous bounty awaits them,

lavishly filmed by the Wehrmacht
Propaganda Units.

The British have left behind almost
all of their equipment.

The soldiers of the Wehrmacht film themselves
in high spirits.

They find a French gramophone with the famous record
by Maurice Chevalier.

The offensive continues.

France collapses.

But Reynaud and de Gaulle, who is
under Secretary of State

for Defense and War, want
to continue fighting.

In Rome, the Italian dictator Mussolini,
"Il Duce"

has big news for his people.

A declaration of war

has just been delivered...

... to the ambassadors of
Great Britain and France.

Mussolini is hoping for his share
of the spoils,

the Rhone Valley, Marseille, as well as
the disarmament of Corsica and Tunisia.

The French say,
"It's a stab in the back."

Mussolini's offensive is cut short
by the French's Alpine Division.

General Rommel's troop
storm Normandy

and enter Loire.

Paris is declared an 'open city', in other words,
it's turned over to the enemy without a fight,

in order to be spared the fate
of Warsaw or Rotterdam.

The government has moved to Bordeaux.

The Germans are approaching the city.

Rumors fly, they kill, they rape,
like the Prussians did in 1870.

The Parisians, abandoned by
their government, flee.

All of France takes to the road.

A cataclysm that will be come to be known
by a biblical name,

The Exodus.

Millions of French men and women head
towards the Loire, the last rampart.

But there is no rampart strong enough,
against the Stukas.

On June 14, 1940, at daybreak,
the Germans march into Paris.

The Nazi's emblem, the Swastika,
flies over Paris.

One of the first acts of the German occupiers

is to seized all the records of
the abandoned ministries.

List of spies, of Jews,
of Freemasons,

and even the original copy of
The Treaty of Versailles

that so humiliated Germany in 1919.

It is immediately sent off
to Hitler.

The exodus, has come to a halt.

The bridges over the Loire
are blown.

The only hope now, is that
the fighting stops.

Petain in Bordeaux, also want
to put an end to things.

The Germans continue their relentless advance
southward.

Though once considered a formidable force,
the French army is now *****.

and yet to dispute up a better fight that would stored
especially at the time.

In 1 month, 100,000 French soldiers die.

More than in the same period of time
during World War I,

the deadliest war until then.

1,850,000 soldiers are taken prisoner,

along with 36,000 officers
and 176 generals.

Among the prisoners there are many African soldiers
from the French Colonial Troops.

The Wehrmacht amateur film makers film them
with a perverse sense of satisfaction.

Famished, these soldiers kill a goat.

German propaganda news reels insist on showing
repeated close up of their faces.

The official instructions are to portray
the degeneration of the French

who are forced to go to war with
their slaves from their colonies.

The original German commentary
is revealing:

The Allies say they're fighting

to defend civilization

against our "medieval barbarity".

Just look at them,
the guardians of culture!

3,000 African soldiers and officers from the French army
will be shot and killed, after their captured.

After 7 years of Nazi's indoctrination,
racism is rampant

among the German soldiers.

3 dates will now be decisive
in determining France's fate.

On the June 16, 1940,

Reynaud is out-maneuvered by the Council of Minister
in Bordeaux

and he resigns.

As his successor, Philippe Petain, is appointed
to head the French government.

Place de la Bastille,

those who remain in Paris listen
to Mar�chal Petain.

The war hero at Verdun announces that
he is seeking for armistice.

People of Paris,

I have asked our enemies

to cease all hostilities.

I have taken this decision,
painful to the heart of a soldier

because the military situation demands it.

The German radio translates the speech
announcing France's capitulation.

Some French people are able
to pick up the BBC.

General de Gaulle has arrived in London.

On June 18, he denounces the armistice.

A few days later, he records a new speech,

We believe that the honor of France

lies in continuing the war
alongside our allies.

Hitler receives a telegram of congratulation
from Moscow.

On June 22, 1940, Hitler arrives in Compiegne,
near Paris.

The setup he is ordered is designed
to humiliate the losers.

He is brought the same railway car that was used
for the signing of 1818 armistice.

that sealed Germany's defeat.

His revenge is completed.

The French delegations is led
by General Huntziger.

An interpreter reads out a diatribe

accusing France of declaring war
without any reason.

Hitler does not utter a single word.

He stands up and leaves.

The French delegates have been informed
of the terms of the armistice.

One of its conditions is that France
hand over all the anti Nazi Germans

who have taken refuge in France.

Huntziger tries to negotiate.

The German refuse.

Huntziger calls the government in Bordeaux.

The German Secret Services take
his conversation with Weygand.

- This is Huntzinger.
- Yes.

Well, it's done.

- It's done ?
- Yes, General...

I'd like to thank you
for the way you handled it.

- Yes Sir, well, you understand me, don't you?
- Yes, yes, I do.

Afterwards, Hitler has the railway car
taken to Berlin.

In the final days of the Reich, he will have
the SS blow it up with dynamite.

Soon, the major symbols of France's victory
on World War I

will be mocked.

Like here, in Verdun, where half a million of French soldiers
were killed

to come to this,
20 years later.

Hitler jeers, as he visits his men who've only
just taken the Maginot line.

He is more solemn when he enters Strasbourg
and its cathedral.

Alsace and�Lorraine are German once again,
as he promised they would be.

The spoils of the French campaign,

2,000 tanks, 5,000 cannons,

300,000 riffles,
4,000,000 rounds of ammunition.

At an army supply warehouse,
the Wehrmacht finds

a stock of long johns meant
for the French army,

warm woolen garments which will be
stored away for future campaigns.

The spoils are the factories, the harbors,
all the riches of France.

It was the French who declared war, as a consequence,
they will pay the equivalent

of $100,000,000 a day,
in occupation costs.

General Huntziger goes to the Germany for
the first meeting of the commission

charges with declining the term
of the armistice.

To spare troops, Hitler decides to let
France retain partial sovereignty

under a government at his beckon call

and with limited armies stripped of heavy weapons,
just to maintain order.

The country is split in 2:

An occupied zone in north and along the entire
Atlantic coast, providing access to all the harbors.

Italy controls the Mediterranean area,
and occupies a narrow ribbon along the Alps.

The rest is called the 'Free Zone'
with a new capital, Vichy.

This 'spar town' has been chosen
in part for its many hotel.

In early July, Mar�chal Petain
moves into them

along with government ministries.

The atmosphere everywhere,
is abysmal.

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However, this Vichy Government continues
to control a vast colonial empire

and ***** is still a powerful navy.

Hitler's only request is that it ships be disarmed,
and remains in their ports

for he is afraid it might join
forces with Britain.

Churchill fears the opposite that
it will fall into German hands.

He orders the Royal Navy
to neutralized them.

A British naval force sails to one of
France's biggest naval bases.

Mers-el-Kebir, in Algeria.

Churchill is taking no risk,
an ultimatum is dispatched.

Either join us, scatterly around ships

or sail under escort for demilitarization
in the Caribbean.

The French rejects all proposals.

The British open fire.

2 French battleships are heavily damaged and one,
De Bretagne, is sunk.

1297 French sailors are killed.

Seeking to show his people, the world, and above all,
The United States, how determined he is,

Churchill strikes out at his former ally

whose fleets could've help the Germans
land on British shores.

Two days after the attack, The Vichy Government
breaks off diplomatic relations with Britain.

All of Germany acclaims Hitler.

His lightning conquest of France
enthralls his generals.

He sees himself as the greatest war leader of all time,
on a par with Napoleon.

And like The Emperor, no one dares
to contradict him anymore.

The Germans occupy the Channel Islands,
Jersey and Guernsey,

stepping stones towards the invasion
of Great Britain.

The British get ready for a German invasion,
taking measures that might appear trifle.

Another urgent matter is to send the children
away to the country side, for safety,

always a painful moment.

Their elder sisters, their mothers and grandmothers
join the war effort.

Every woman must defend her home against
the Fallschirm German paratroopers.

The men join arms as Local Defense Volunteers
for the Home Guard.

Even veterans of the First World War.

The willing and able are mobilized, while
the army rescued in Dunkirk reforms.

America supplies riffles, machine guns,
and anti aircraft cannons,

and everyone perfect their skills.

Churchill delivers a most inspired speech
to the British people,

Battle of Britain is about to begin,

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty,

and so bear ourselves

that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth
lasts for a thousand years,

men will still say,

'This was their finest hour'.

One of Churchill's main weapons is
The Royal Air Force

Along with its remarkable aircraft, The Spitfire
with its Rolls-Royce engine,

One of the best fighter planes in the world.

Britain also excels in the field of electronics.

The British are the first to use radar
for the purpose of defense.

In the ops room, radar is used for detecting planes
and guiding pilots towards the enemy.

and guiding pilots towards the enemy.

The pilots from all over the British empire
are joint by airmen

who have managed to flee their countries
on the German occupation.

or whose government are in exiles in London,

Polish, Dutch, Czech,

and the first of the free French forces
along with de Gaulle.

Many of the British pilots are Oxford's
and Cambridge's students.

One of them, Richard Hillary,
later wrote:

We were known as the 'long-head boys'.
We were disillusioned and spoiled.

The press refers to us as the lost generation.
Superficially, we were selfish and egocentric.

The war demanded no heroics, but gave us the opportunity
to prove to ourselves and to the world

that undisciplined though we might be,
we were a match for Hitler's dogma-fed youth.

These German pilots have been trained by the 'Hitler-Jugend',
The Hitler Youth,

with the idea of revenge.

They feel that they are invincible.

Their leader, Goering, is a popular figure in the regime.

Goering, who is a man of luxury, often stays
at the Hotel Ritz in Paris.

and turns the Luxembourg Palace,
into the Luftwaffe's headquarters.

He has promised Hitler that The Luftwaffe could
obliterate The Royal Air Force, in days

take control of the air, and enable the Wehrmacht
to invade Great Britain.

The Luftwaffe has in its disposal,
all of France's airfields,

their installations, and their equipment.

Its pilot are well-trained,

like Adolf Galland, with his trademark cigar
who fought against the Republicans in Spain.

Or Werner Molders, an ace from the battle of France.

He was one of the pilot shot down, taken prisoner,
and then returned to the German.

He is now part of aerial offensive
against Great Britain.

Taking off from this field in occupied France,
the Germans will attack convoys on the Channel,

harbors, and airfields in southern England.

They will shoot down 500 British aircraft,
at a cost of 1,000 of their own.

The British pilots hold out
giving everything they have.

Churchill proclaims,

Never in the field of human conflict,

was so much owed by so many
to so few.

Hitler decides to postpone
his plan to invade Britain.

This is his first setback.

His tactics now rely more on
night-time bombings.

He says,

The British will surrender when their cities
have been destroyed.

German's bombers attack British cities
like Coventry and London

This is the blitz, daily bombings

As for the British people,
they hold up admirably.

They dig shelters in the gardens
of their cottages.

And in London, they sleep in the underground stations,
and go to work the next day.

They never lose their confidence,
or sense of humor.

Churchill says to the French:

Here in London,

which Herr Hitler says
he will reduce to ashes,

our people are bearing up unflinchingly.

Hitler is exasperated.

He will later call Churchill,
"A Jew-ridden, half American drunkard".

From now on, whenever he is thwarted, he will offend
his spite against the Jew.

On October 12, 1940,
on the Day of Yom Kippur,

The Jews of the Warsaw are told
that the ghetto will be set up.

A wall 3 meters-high is erected,

enclosing half a million of Jews,
men and women, children, the elderly.

They will suffer horrifically from hunger,
cold, and poverty.

In his chalet in the Bavarian Alps, The Berghof,

Hitler is filmed by his mistress Eva Braun
as he celebrates New Year.

surrounded by children of Nazis dignitaries.

He has another plan in his sleeves,
another big gamble.

His mission now is to conquer
new 'Lebensraum',

'Living Space' to the east.

He has allied himself with Stalin, only to
better attack him later on.

His failure to take Britain compels him
to move quickly.

Before Churchill is able
to draw America in.

That, would set the world ablaze.

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