I spent 16 years living in Germany after I got out of the Army in 1988. As a kid this was one of my favorite movies. NEVER got tired of picking out all of the Stars. After 10 years or so, I started doing it to the German actors. On that note ... If anyone of you know/are familiar with the famous German comedian/satirist/cartoonist/cultural icon Vicco von Buelow (Loriot), go to 2:05 and wait for the officer to bring him the report . You're Welcome.
@@johcafra I had been living in Mainz for a year when "Ödipussi" came out. As I slowly learned German I became a HUGE fan of his and Evelyn Hamann on "Loriot'. I NEEDED to learn to speak German as clearly and precisely as he did by the time "Pappa Ante Portas' came out. He was legendary.
I agree. If they could combine this one with the landing on Omaha beach in Saving Private Ryan, then it would have been perfect. Longest Day landing scene was unrealistic.
What I really liked was the number of senior American, British, and German officers who acted as advisors to the film. Lieutenant General Max-Josef Pemsel was one of those advisors.
This is good because we get to see what was going on with the Germans at the time. The 1940s come alive in this film, the dress, the interiors, the military manner of the characters. It makes me wonder about the German characters. They must have been in the real German army if this film was made in the 60s.
My partner's father is the aide de camp in this movie. His name was Loriot a German humorist,this was his first speaking part in movies. He served on the Russian front in WW2,so he knew how to behave as a soldier. It is 12 years since he passed away,he is still sadly missed.
Wolfgang Preiss is one of my favorite actors. He always made a war picture much better by his addition. I enjoy it when they have them speak in their native tongues. He was great in "Von Ryan's Express". Thanks for posting this.
The actor taking the general's coat at the beginning and handing Pemsel some papers was an officer on the eastern front. The actor, Vicco von Bülow, later became one of the funniest persons on German TV. He is/was known under his alias, Loriot.
Couldn't agree more. The Train was the first time I really appreciated his acting-especially when he busted out Engineer Bull (my French is very weak but that's how I heard it. Always thought it was a reference to him being 'the bull of the woods'😂😂😂).
@@jimvanlieshout7657 He was also in "Von Ryan's Express" with Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, and an all star cast in 1965. Another "great escape" movie.
Brilliant set of clips, showcasing that even as everything when to hell In a hand basket. German army officers were still perfectly capable of reading events and reacting to a crisis with its usual efficiency. .
Great scene of ensemble interaction at German HQ as everything's about to hit the fan in Normandy---in the dark, earliest hours of D-Day. The scene flows so smoothly with no apparent cuts, the staff & officers speaking, moving, & acting so naturally & realistically, like watching the unfolding of history "live" in real time. I imagine the teletype clacking we hear is dubbed in but I find this sound provides a kind of suspenseful hum, a feeling that enormous events are taking place---or about to. Every time I watch clips or see the entire film again, over a period of many years, it makes me want to read the Cornelius Ryan book on which it's based. I always swear to myself that this time I'm going to do it for sure but I never do. In truth, I have started it but always get sidetracked, put it down, forget, & never go back to it. This movie was way over my head when I first saw it with my dad & granddad back in the early 60's. Although the film's beach landing scenes are bloodless, it's how they had to do it back then. I now find the operational planning scenes such as this one almost more fascinating than the landings themselves, in a cinematic sense. A unique period in the world's history no matter how one looks at it!
When I was stationed in Germany in the 70s a German woman told me that everybody knew in 43 the war was over. Germans would listen to the BBC, because whatever they reported you could take it to the bank. The BBC reported the truth even when things were not going good for the allies. Like when the Bismarck was wreaking havoc over the British Navy. German radio news stations constantly were reporting that the war was being won by attrition and victory was just around the corner. Also there were soldiers coming back from the Russian front, minus an arm or leg(s). They would tell people the German Army can not withstand the onslaught of the Russian army. The Army does everything they can to stop their advancing but no matter what's done they just keep on coming . it's only a matter of time.
"Wenn du ein helles Flugzeug siehst, ist es ein Amerikaner. Wenn du ein dunkles Flugzeug siehst, ist es ein Brite. Und wenn du gar nichts siehst, dann ist es die Luftwaffe."
Follow me on this, but Wolfgang Preiss's greatest strength in movies like this was his ability to portray a character on the other side who you could admire and not hate. Just a soldier doing his job the best he could in trying circumstances.
30 Sherman tanks were suppose to float to the Normandy beaches. Only one tank made it through the rough sea. 29 Sherman tanks with 5 man crews sank drowning the men (145 men). If those tanks had made it to the beaches then USA casualties could have been reduced from 5,000 to half or even less.
that was only on 1 beach out of 5 (omaha beach) - on the other 4 beaches most the "swimming tanks" got ashore ok - omaha was a problem for many reasons.
Some years ago I stood at Utah Beach, facing roughly NNE on a sunlit day. I turned to the left and faced the Channel. I turned to the right and faced what amounted to grassy plains on which a two-story house stood out. Had the Panzers gone there the invasion would have stopped right THERE. At that moment I felt a stronger chill than when I stood at Omaha Beach and Pointe du Hoc.
@@chubeye1187 I recommend Gregory Benford's novel The Berlin Project for fairly on-point alternate history. But if you want a good scare look into Operations Coronet, Downfall and Olympic.
Imagine how frustrating it must be to know that something horribly bad is about to happen and you can't do shit about it....The state of the german officers in France on June 6th...
General Max Pemsel was the first to interpret the allied movements as invasion,but communication faults thwarted his attempts to deliver the information to the OB West in time. Rommel, apart from the Fuehrer expected it to be in Normandy.
In ww2. Officers still kept a daily journel. This movie was taken from the book, same name by Cornelius Ryan. Ryan spent years locating these journals and interviewing survivors. Then putting events into order. Some overlap. But masterfully done. Killer Angels about the civil war was done in this style. Sometimes difficult to follow in both. But they are done to the minute. Reading a few times give them a real perspective.
Gen Max Pemsel was Chief of Staff of the German 7th Army under Gen Dollmann who was in Rennes at the time of the Invasion. It's been reported that Gen Pemsel upon learning of the invasion at Normandy informed Gen Hans Speidel that he had sufficient troops to repel the invasion (this is not depicted in the movie) upon hearing this Gen von Salmuth of the neighboring 15th Army east of Caen went back to bed ! The Panzer divisions namely the 21st and 116th were ready to roll but of course only Hitler could give the order and he was sleeping not to be disturbed !
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Dollmann died of a heart attack (or was it suicide?) .
Gen. Dollmann committed suicide at the end of June 1944 because he could not bear the burden of the 7th Army's inability to repel the Invasion (not his fault) he was replaced by Gen Hausser.
Thanks for sharing this with the German spoken and English subtitles. I'd always seen this movie in that way, but when Netflix puts it up, the Germans speak English. They filmed every German scene in German, then they'd film it again with the German actors speaking perfect English.
a joke from about that time: When you see a dark plane, it's a Brit, when you see a bright plane, it's an American, and when you see nothing, it's the Luftwaffe.
...though way before his peak. In the early sixties, he was a humoristic draughtsman with increasing success - but his first TV programme "Cartoon" was still several years away. I guess he took this part either to explore a different career or just to support himself financially while following his path as a cartoonist.
I know of only one actor that can go from calm to psychotic in a second so convincingly : James Stewart. Preiss almost singlehandedly owns that Territory. Cagney and Mitchem were great psychos but their nuttiness was always lurking at the edge, Preiss can be smiling so beautifully then WHAM, yikes.
In Deutschland sagte man damals nicht "Radar", das ist ein englischer Begriff. Funkmeßgerät ist der Begriff, ist ja schließlich 1934 in Deutschland erfunden worden.
A good portrayal of just how fortunate it was that Hitler had taken power and control away from his generals, and removed their ability to adjust and strike quickly. I have no doubt that Germany had very capable generals who could have been very effective at Normandy. By the time they finally woke Hitler up and convinced him the invasion was really happening at Normandy, and only then got him to release the Panzer divisions, it was far too late. The Allies already had a beachhead and were pouring in with men, vehicles and supplies. Germany was finished - it just didn't know it yet.
Erich Marcks was one of their most brilliant strategists. He predicted exactly where the landings would occur. He was killed in an Allied air attack six days afterwards.
The one thing about the “Longest Day “that always intrigued me was the scenes with the German command which were more interesting than the ones at allied headquarters…
Times up guys. Better surrender now if house want to see your families again. What a stupid war and waste of decent northern European life. We will never recover from the colossal loss of all those brave men. So sad.
All the germans wasn´t having a good day at the D day,they weren´t expecting the allies that day,Rommel left to Germany to be with his wife for her birthday and the allies landed at Normandy that day at dawn.
At minute 2:26 and arround 4: 00 you see a younger german staff officer. This man was Bernhard von Bülow, prussian nobleman, First Lieutenant, iron cross holder. After war he became as , Loriot ' Germanys highest regarded comedian. As a nobleman he knew how to act as fine german gentleman, but making fun about upper class people.
It’s kind of hilarious watching scenes like this. Reports of paratroopers landing being received by General officers, in an HQ that is buzzing with activity, even though it must be 1:00am in the morning and most of the senior officers have been called away for war games due to the low probability of an invasion. Maybe German generals never slept and their staff spent all night typing memos.
Is it just me, or does Wolfgang Preiss remind you a little bit of Arnold Schwarzenegger? Whenever I see the movie Von Ryan's Express, Preiss always reminds me of Schwarzenegger.
Which person acts as Speidel? He was rensponsible as co- commander for Rommel to bring reinforcements immediately to the beach. But he didn't. Eisenhower knew this could have failed the success of invasion. So he promoted Speidel in the sixties as a Commander Central-Europe.😉
This is a good film, one of the better war films. But I have to say its wrong historically because the Germans were defeated already. On the Russian Front at Stalingrad and Kursk.
The forerunner of the EU was the EEC that was created by former nazis: the Americans did everything possible after WW2 to get key people from Hitler's time back into circulation.The EEC was started the breakdown of borders (to German advantage) that was to go a lot further with the common currency (the "Euro").
The surrender started soon after WW2 when the U.S. went soft on the former Nazis, ceased to prosecute them and let the "lifers" out of jail; the industrial profiteers who'd put Hitler in kept their assets and profits and everything in W. Germany was bouncing back by 1958, while the British were hamstrung by their massive war-debts.
"We"? Talking bout GB? Soon maybe LB = Lesser Britain. How's the remarkable British health care doing under Covid-19? And the mighty British economy? *rolleyes*
Ha! Hundreds of Different models of Artillery, from a dozen nations, each a different type of ammunition! Few trucks, many Civilian, perhaps a hundred different models, each Required different spare parts! Most of their logistics was carried by horses, or horse drawn wagons! Chaos!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlaine_Message_Museum Les sanglots longs Des violons De l'automne Blessent mon cœur D'une langueur Monotone. Tout suffocant Et blême, quand Sonne l'heure, Je me souviens Des jours anciens Et je pleure; Et je m'en vais Au vent mauvais Qui m'emporte Deçà, delà, Pareil à la Feuille morte. The long sobs Of violins Of autumn Wound my heart With a monotone Languor. All breathless And pale, when The hour sounds, I remember Former days And I cry; And I go In an ill wind Which carries me Here, there, Like a Dead leaf
Thomas Kretschmann is a wonderful actor (born in the former DDR / East Germany). You might indeed say he is the "new generation" Wolfgang Preiss in film roles such as SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein - "der Untergang" and Wilm Hosenfeld - "The Pianist " and Adolf Eichmann - "Eichmann" .
it has been a while since i've see it - but sean connery (007), max von sydow (spy who loved me) are 2 of them? gert frobe (goldfinger) was in it too but not much - i'm not even sure if he even spoke in it.
@@Ocularion sorry i confused the 2 actors - max von sydow was in never say never again not the spy who loved me - like you say curd jurgens was in that.
@@mrgobrien No problem. Max von Sydow, it felt like he was in every movie, somehow. He was swedish, but 'von Sydow' was nobility with german heritage. All in all not so far away. And "Never Say Never Again" was a great movie, too. ;-)
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I spent 16 years living in Germany after I got out of the Army in 1988. As a kid this was one of my favorite movies. NEVER got tired of picking out all of the Stars. After 10 years or so, I started doing it to the German actors. On that note ... If anyone of you know/are familiar with the famous German comedian/satirist/cartoonist/cultural icon Vicco von Buelow (Loriot), go to 2:05 and wait for the officer to bring him the report . You're Welcome.
Ja er ist es wirklich unverkennbar
@@stefanhubbig-rr3cw Genau richtig !!😆
Your referral of Loriot prompted me to find more about him at least on-line. I appreciate the introduction.
@@johcafra I had been living in Mainz for a year when "Ödipussi" came out. As I slowly learned German I became a HUGE fan of his and Evelyn Hamann on "Loriot'. I NEEDED to learn to speak German as clearly and precisely as he did by the time "Pappa Ante Portas' came out. He was legendary.
The Longest Day has so many great stars in it. That's one of the many things that make it so compelling to watch.
That feeling when you're trying to get shit done but everyone else in charge is busy fucking off somewhere.
This is one of the best war films ever made.
There it was in '62.
I saw this movie as a kid in Savannah,Ga. and still love it today age 65! Great acting ! Love the black and white film!
I agree. If they could combine this one with the landing on Omaha beach in Saving Private Ryan, then it would have been perfect. Longest Day landing scene was unrealistic.
What I really liked was the number of senior American, British, and German officers who acted as advisors to the film. Lieutenant General Max-Josef Pemsel was one of those advisors.
This is good because we get to see what was going on with the Germans at the time. The 1940s come alive in this film, the dress, the interiors, the military manner of the characters. It makes me wonder about the German characters. They must have been in the real German army if this film was made in the 60s.
Indeed
My partner's father is the aide de camp in this movie. His name was Loriot a German humorist,this was his first speaking part in movies. He served on the Russian front in WW2,so he knew how to behave as a soldier. It is 12 years since he passed away,he is still sadly missed.
Wolfgang Preiss is one of my favorite actors. He always made a war picture much better by his addition. I enjoy it when they have them speak in their native tongues. He was great in "Von Ryan's Express". Thanks for posting this.
A Bridge Too Far; Von Rundstedt.
He was great in The Formula too.
von Rundstedt in a Bridge Too Far
The Train
He was Rommel in Raid On Rommel.
The actor taking the general's coat at the beginning and handing Pemsel some papers was an officer on the eastern front. The actor, Vicco von Bülow, later became one of the funniest persons on German TV. He is/was known under his alias, Loriot.
Well, the victory went to the allies but the award for the most stylish generals uniforms went to the Germans.... :-b
Dankwart Denkhardt uniforms designed by Hugo Boss...
@@stanlefort8584 No. Hugo Boss manufactured the uniforms from designs submitted to them. They did not design the uniforms themselves.
😂
you are supposed to say "spoiler alert".
I can't enjoy a war if I already know how it ends
Hugo Boss war ein produzent von Uniformen! Wie viele andere auch! Er nicht allein für das Design verantwortlich!
Wolfgang Preiss is one of my favorite German actors. He was superb in The Train.
Couldn't agree more. The Train was the first time I really appreciated his acting-especially when he busted out Engineer Bull (my French is very weak but that's how I heard it. Always thought it was a reference to him being 'the bull of the woods'😂😂😂).
Wasn’t he in the Counterfeit Traitor with William Holden playing again a German officer.
Wolfgang Preiss Rocks. He was great in Anzio as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring.
@@jimvanlieshout7657 He was also in "Von Ryan's Express" with Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, and an all star cast in 1965. Another "great escape" movie.
Herr Preiss portrayed Field Marshall Erwin Rommel in Raid On Rommel and Field Gerd Von Runstedt in A Bridge Too Far.
And fifteen years later he played von Rundstedt in "A Bridge Too Far".
2:13 and then he calls Von Rundstet, who doesn't answer because he's already playing someone else. 😉
Brilliant set of clips, showcasing that even as everything when to hell
In a hand basket. German army officers were still perfectly capable of reading events and reacting to a crisis with its usual efficiency. .
Great scene of ensemble interaction at German HQ as everything's about to hit the fan in Normandy---in the dark, earliest hours of D-Day. The scene flows so smoothly with no apparent cuts, the staff & officers speaking, moving, & acting so naturally & realistically, like watching the unfolding of history "live" in real time. I imagine the teletype clacking we hear is dubbed in but I find this sound provides a kind of suspenseful hum, a feeling that enormous events are taking place---or about to. Every time I watch clips or see the entire film again, over a period of many years, it makes me want to read the Cornelius Ryan book on which it's based. I always swear to myself that this time I'm going to do it for sure but I never do. In truth, I have started it but always get sidetracked, put it down, forget, & never go back to it. This movie was way over my head when I first saw it with my dad & granddad back in the early 60's. Although the film's beach landing scenes are bloodless, it's how they had to do it back then. I now find the operational planning scenes such as this one almost more fascinating than the landings themselves, in a cinematic sense. A unique period in the world's history no matter how one looks at it!
Very fine German actor in many movies by the name of Wolfgang Preiss. He was also in The Train and Von Ryan’s Express.
And in herman wouk's WAR AND REMEMBRANCE...
He also played the part of Von Runstedt in 'A Bridge Too Far'.
@@tomservo5347 yes he did.. Good actor..
He was also in the movies 'The Train' and 'The Boys From Brazil'. One of my favorite actors. An English counterpart would be James Mason.
Wolfgang, good 👍 🎬 actor 👏
When I was stationed in Germany in the 70s a German woman told me that everybody knew in 43 the war was over. Germans would listen to the BBC, because whatever they reported you could take it to the bank. The BBC reported the truth even when things were not going good for the allies. Like when the Bismarck was wreaking havoc over the British Navy. German radio news stations constantly were reporting that the war was being won by attrition and victory was just around the corner. Also there were soldiers coming back from the Russian front, minus an arm or leg(s). They would tell people the German Army can not withstand the onslaught of the Russian army. The Army does everything they can to stop their advancing but no matter what's done they just keep on coming . it's only a matter of time.
So how come the BBC is full of crap nowadays.
@@vijayasekarr.7117 This generation has nothing in common with that generation. "They" would be fit to be tied at what's going on today
@@vijayasekarr.7117 A particularly dumb ass comment, that nothing to do with the film 🤷🏻♂️
So ein Unsinn. 😂
After Stalingrad was lost in February of '43, the Germans (and the world) knew that the war would be lost.
"Wenn du ein helles Flugzeug siehst, ist es ein Amerikaner.
Wenn du ein dunkles Flugzeug siehst, ist es ein Brite.
Und wenn du gar nichts siehst, dann ist es die Luftwaffe."
und dieser Witz könnte dich deinen Kopf kosten.
Follow me on this, but Wolfgang Preiss's greatest strength in movies like this was his ability to portray a character on the other side who you could admire and not hate. Just a soldier doing his job the best he could in trying circumstances.
30 Sherman tanks were suppose to float to the Normandy beaches. Only one tank made it through the rough sea. 29 Sherman tanks with 5 man crews sank drowning the men (145 men). If those tanks had made it to the beaches then USA casualties could have been reduced from 5,000 to half or even less.
that was only on 1 beach out of 5 (omaha beach) - on the other 4 beaches most the "swimming tanks" got ashore ok - omaha was a problem for many reasons.
The key phrase there: "IF the Panzers arrive....." They never really did. I agree, great acting. One of my favorite films.
Some years ago I stood at Utah Beach, facing roughly NNE on a sunlit day. I turned to the left and faced the Channel. I turned to the right and faced what amounted to grassy plains on which a two-story house stood out. Had the Panzers gone there the invasion would have stopped right THERE. At that moment I felt a stronger chill than when I stood at Omaha Beach and Pointe du Hoc.
@@johnfraraccio99 then Berlin would have been nuked. Manhattan project, was first ment for the European war
@@chubeye1187 I recommend Gregory Benford's novel The Berlin Project for fairly on-point alternate history. But if you want a good scare look into Operations Coronet, Downfall and Olympic.
Imagine how frustrating it must be to know that something horribly bad is about to happen and you can't do shit about it....The state of the german officers in France on June 6th...
😞
the commander in chief in the west sarcasticaly said he could only move his sentry guard without permission
General Max Pemsel was the first to interpret the allied movements as invasion,but communication faults thwarted his attempts to deliver the information to the OB West in time.
Rommel, apart from the Fuehrer expected it to be in Normandy.
Yeah, when he saw the Normandy beaches while inspecting the Atlantic wall, he saw the parallels to the landing areas in Sicily.
Dear Strategist, Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem, ISRAEL. Mr. Lowell Joseph Gallin
The German general wants plan 6. He should have tried plan 9 from outer space.
Look at how that German army officer was holding the phone, standing still.
V- 2 rocket 🚀 😂 👌
In ww2. Officers still kept a daily journel. This movie was taken from the book, same name by Cornelius Ryan. Ryan spent years locating these journals and interviewing survivors. Then putting events into order. Some overlap. But masterfully done. Killer Angels about the civil war was done in this style. Sometimes difficult to follow in both. But they are done to the minute. Reading a few times give them a real perspective.
I prefer the German sequences in the film to the American and British ones.
Wolfgang Preiss must be one of the finest actors in all of cinema.
Gen Max Pemsel was Chief of Staff of the German 7th Army under Gen Dollmann who was in Rennes at the time of the Invasion. It's been reported that Gen Pemsel upon learning of the invasion at Normandy informed Gen Hans Speidel that he had sufficient troops to repel the invasion (this is not depicted in the movie) upon hearing this Gen von Salmuth of the neighboring 15th Army east of Caen went back to bed ! The Panzer divisions namely the 21st and 116th were ready to roll but of course only Hitler could give the order and he was sleeping not to be disturbed !
Dollmann died of a heart attack (or was it suicide?) .
Gen. Dollmann committed suicide at the end of June 1944 because he could not bear the burden of the 7th Army's inability to repel the Invasion (not his fault) he was replaced by Gen Hausser.
Thanks for sharing this with the German spoken and English subtitles. I'd always seen this movie in that way, but when Netflix puts it up, the Germans speak English. They filmed every German scene in German, then they'd film it again with the German actors speaking perfect English.
Oh wow this is totally absurd. Will never reach that Level of German actors who actual lived that time
I've always seen it where each group speaks their own language. Like French speak French germans speak German etc
I tried watching it with the German actors speaking English, couldn't do it.
Loriot als Telefonist, ein Lixhtblick!!!!!
This a great movie. and one of my favourite WWII movies. 😀
I read that Rommel wanted German tanks stationed on the beaches to push them back but was denied….actually read this in several books.
Yes. His superior, Field Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt, favored letting the landings happen, then counterattack both the troops and their supply lines.
@@gerardgruss1055 Didn’t work out too well for them?
On the other hand if you commit to a part of coast then if the landings are elsewhere you have a huge problem.
What about my call to von Rundstedt?
Ehrm... call yourself in "A Bridge Too Far" - a film where your performance was mindblowingly überepic.
PiretBCN Hahaha. The same actor hahaha
1962 was when he expected a call, which had been made in 1977.
Imagine being the officer who keeps telling Pemsel that the invasion can't happen because the weather is bad.
A few of the German officers in Normandy,& poyrayed in this movie, served in the postwar German army, the Bundeswehr.
a joke from about that time:
When you see a dark plane, it's a Brit,
when you see a bright plane, it's an American,
and when you see nothing, it's the Luftwaffe.
Das waren noch deutsche Schauspieler 👍
One of the Officers is Loriot; very famous Comedian in his day.
2:15
...though way before his peak.
In the early sixties, he was a humoristic draughtsman with increasing success - but his first TV programme "Cartoon" was still several years away.
I guess he took this part either to explore a different career or just to support himself financially while following his path as a cartoonist.
I know of only one actor that can go from calm to psychotic in a second so convincingly : James Stewart. Preiss almost singlehandedly owns that Territory. Cagney and Mitchem were great psychos but their nuttiness was always lurking at the edge, Preiss can be smiling so beautifully then WHAM, yikes.
Interesting fact: The man who reports to the general several times and takes his coat at the beginning is Loriot
Loriot ist auch dabei ! WOW
In Deutschland sagte man damals nicht "Radar", das ist ein englischer Begriff. Funkmeßgerät ist der Begriff, ist ja schließlich 1934 in Deutschland erfunden worden.
1:28 loriot übergibt söhnker die radar meldungen... und wo bleibt die luftwaffe (eigentlich meinte er Josef „Pips“ Priller) 👍
A good portrayal of just how fortunate it was that Hitler had taken power and control away from his generals, and removed their ability to adjust and strike quickly. I have no doubt that Germany had very capable generals who could have been very effective at Normandy.
By the time they finally woke Hitler up and convinced him the invasion was really happening at Normandy, and only then got him to release the Panzer divisions, it was far too late. The Allies already had a beachhead and were pouring in with men, vehicles and supplies. Germany was finished - it just didn't know it yet.
not only Normandy. Imagine the eastern front should von Manstein had been appointed commander in chief in the east
Erich Marcks was one of their most brilliant strategists. He predicted exactly where the landings would occur. He was killed in an Allied air attack six days afterwards.
and the much talked about panzer could only move at night, due to allied air superiority = they could not get to where they were needed on time
That's Loriot!
2:15, 2:55, 4:03 Loriot/Vicco v. Bühlow
The one thing about the “Longest Day “that always intrigued me was the scenes with the German command which were more interesting than the ones at allied headquarters…
"Zee invash-iooouun." "zee luftwaffe ZEE LUFTWAFFE!"
Excelente pelicula
Times up guys. Better surrender now if house want to see your families again.
What a stupid war and waste of decent northern European life.
We will never recover from the colossal loss of all those brave men. So sad.
I mean it was a pretty tremendous waste of southern and eastern European life as well if you hadn't noticed.
60-80 million total lives lost in WWII, all a terrible loss.
"Decent northern European life"? Now that the German and Italian neo-fascists are bonding, you're bound to find a lot of new friends.
Lurcio Titters They started it, we finished it pal!!!!
All fascists can go fly a fkin kite! Bloody wankers every one of them! England 🏴 over all!!!!
What I love about this clip u chose the black and white copy of the Longest Day.
All the germans wasn´t having a good day at the D day,they weren´t expecting the allies that day,Rommel left to Germany to be with his wife for her birthday and the allies landed at Normandy that day at dawn.
No it's a feint. The allies will definitely land at Calais.
That guy was not having a good day.
That wasn't a guy.
It was Hillary Clinton.
@@stuartlee6622 the one who got more votes than trump
Who? Priller.
At minute 2:26 and arround 4: 00 you see a younger german staff officer. This man was Bernhard von Bülow, prussian nobleman, First Lieutenant, iron cross holder. After war he became as , Loriot ' Germanys highest regarded comedian. As a nobleman he knew how to act as fine german gentleman, but making fun about upper class people.
Fools; Fools, but this nightmare could happen again.
This scene seems to say the Scary Allies have already marched into Berlin.
It’s kind of hilarious watching scenes like this. Reports of paratroopers landing being received by General officers, in an HQ that is buzzing with activity, even though it must be 1:00am in the morning and most of the senior officers have been called away for war games due to the low probability of an invasion. Maybe German generals never slept and their staff spent all night typing memos.
Weird that the key character on screen for the 7th army is Max Pemsel, the xo. The co Friederich Dolmann never got any screentime
No, because he died of a heart attack!
@ There have been rumours of suicide and even that he was ordered to commit suicide.
@@kaczynskis5721 who knows
True but only after D-Day
Is it just me, or does Wolfgang Preiss remind you a little bit of Arnold Schwarzenegger? Whenever I see the movie Von Ryan's Express, Preiss always reminds me of Schwarzenegger.
Wolfgang Preiss looked more like Rommel than Rommel did, but in this movie he was given a meatier role playing Pemsel.
Seems to me that the German field commanders knew the situation better than the high command.
They should have tried Plan Nine from Outer Space!
intergalactic maneuvers are overrated...
No! They should have followed the plan from "Robot Monster From The Moon''!
All of you humans are stupid! Stupid!
The plan involving the resurrection of the dead??? That was in the film 'Shock Wave' & it was NOT a success!
Plan nien?
Hey would somebody wake up Der Fuhrer and release my panzers!...aahh not me...me neither...don't look at me...shit..we are kaput.
Which person acts as Speidel? He was rensponsible as co- commander for Rommel to bring reinforcements immediately to the beach. But he didn't. Eisenhower knew this could have failed the success of invasion. So he promoted Speidel in the sixties as a Commander Central-Europe.😉
1:05 throw the pencil of doom at it.
Loriot hätte mehr Text haben müssen.
Richtig! Das wäre mein Vorschlag für das Drehbuch gewesen:
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This is a good film, one of the better war films. But I have to say its wrong historically because the Germans were defeated already. On the Russian Front at Stalingrad and Kursk.
OHHH, JA, BITTE !!!! 🚨 A C H T U N G !!!!!!!!!
We could have surrendered to the Wehrmacht or now to the EU.. I would have chosen the former for they had more honour
The forerunner of the EU was the EEC that was created by former nazis: the Americans did everything possible after WW2 to get key people from Hitler's time back into circulation.The EEC was started the breakdown of borders (to German advantage) that was to go a lot further with the common currency (the "Euro").
The surrender started soon after WW2 when the U.S. went soft on the former Nazis, ceased to prosecute them and let the "lifers" out of jail; the industrial profiteers who'd put Hitler in kept their assets and profits and everything in W. Germany was bouncing back by 1958, while the British were hamstrung by their massive war-debts.
The Russians would have not let that go down pal!!!
Yep agree.
"We"? Talking bout GB? Soon maybe LB = Lesser Britain. How's the remarkable British health care doing under Covid-19? And the mighty British economy? *rolleyes*
in nebenrollen Hans Söhnker und Vicco von Bühlow Loriot der als Leutnant das EK1 trug in echt
John has a long Mustache! Wounds upon Monotonous languor.
Had Preiss was the actual German commander I bet German would have won the war
Who played Field Marshal Von Rundstedt here on The Longest Day (1962)? Wolfgang Preiss played the role on A Bridge Too Far (1977).
Warum hatte man Hans Söhnker offenbar mit Jean-Pierre Zola synchronisiert?
Man germans so efficient
Alles Ordung!
Ha! Hundreds of Different models of Artillery, from a dozen nations, each a different type of ammunition!
Few trucks, many Civilian, perhaps a hundred different models, each Required different spare parts!
Most of their logistics was carried by horses, or horse drawn wagons!
Chaos!
Why Normandy, was it revenge for 1066 ?
Most of German divisions were on the Russian front.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlaine_Message_Museum
Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l'automne
Blessent mon cœur
D'une langueur
Monotone.
Tout suffocant
Et blême, quand
Sonne l'heure,
Je me souviens
Des jours anciens
Et je pleure;
Et je m'en vais
Au vent mauvais
Qui m'emporte
Deçà, delà,
Pareil à la
Feuille morte.
The long sobs
Of violins
Of autumn
Wound my heart
With a monotone
Languor.
All breathless
And pale, when
The hour sounds,
I remember
Former days
And I cry;
And I go
In an ill wind
Which carries me
Here, there,
Like a
Dead leaf
There is no uniform more stylish than the one of Hugo Boss. The uniforms of the Bundeswehr today are quite ugly unfortunately.
ロリオはペムゼルの副官役ですね
Thomas Kretschmann is a wonderful actor (born in the former DDR / East Germany). You might indeed say he is the "new generation" Wolfgang Preiss in film roles such as SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein - "der Untergang" and Wilm Hosenfeld - "The Pianist " and Adolf Eichmann - "Eichmann" .
Harimau_64 also the U Boat captain in U571, the Major in Valkyrie. There's a few other war movies I've seen him him but I can't think of them
He's in The Pianist. And, agreed, he's a superb actor.
How can you forget the both Stalingrad movies man?
Fegelein!!!!
Monumental.
hans söhnker, wolfgang preiss and loriot
There are 3 actors In this film that went on to play major roles in James Bond roles can you name them ????
it has been a while since i've see it - but sean connery (007), max von sydow (spy who loved me) are 2 of them? gert frobe (goldfinger) was in it too but not much - i'm not even sure if he even spoke in it.
@@mrgobrien and Curd Jürgens, who later played the villain Karl Stromberg with is underwater installation in "The Spy Who Loved Me".
@@Ocularion sorry i confused the 2 actors - max von sydow was in never say never again not the spy who loved me - like you say curd jurgens was in that.
@@mrgobrien No problem. Max von Sydow, it felt like he was in every movie, somehow. He was swedish, but 'von Sydow' was nobility with german heritage. All in all not so far away. And "Never Say Never Again" was a great movie, too. ;-)
3:32 Ach soooooo.....(narrows eyes)
LOL! How many people will catch your reference?
it sucks to be right
Loriot war dort zu sehen
D-Day is whaT I menT2say
Left superior oblique paresis
2:19 Wer ist denn das? Loriot!!
Gummy Puppen!!
Rupert
2:16 its Loriot
GOOMY POOPIN' !
Gummipuppen.
Loriot!👍
Could not make out the english dubbed part in it writing very small.
Gummi puppen!
1:40 Loriot