Hearing actual native German speakers in a movie like this is just amazing and really adds to the story. I wish studios these days would still put this much effort into realism. It just wouldn't feel right if this dialog was spoken in bad German by native English speakers.
Obviously a German movie but the fact that "Downfall" (Der Untergang) was cast with German-speaking actors added to the incredible realism. I felt like I was really THERE and not watching a movie.
One of my favorite movies, a d one of the best war movies. The German scenes were excellent, as were the French Resistance scenes. Also the very poignant moment before the naval bombardment where the Free French admiral tells his men: "To drive out the invader, we must fire on our honeland. This is the price of liberty". Inspired. Probably the best depiction of D-day until Saving Private Ryan, and probably the best detail of the airborne parachute and glider operations of any film.
One of the special things about Longest Day is that it gave the points of view of different groups, different sides. It had an enormous cast with many characters. This is rarely done in a war movie because they tend to emphasize one side. It's a rarity in films in general because the concern is that with so many points of view and characters, the story can easily become an unfocused mess. Longest Day also went through the extra effort of native languages being used. French spoken by the French, German being spoken by the Germans.
German generals were fine strategists, but divided in their point of views. There were those who believed in the old logic (Von Rundstedt) and those who were wise enough to decipher the enemy's logic (Rommel, Marcks). But destiny came in...
The Germans were good (occasionally Excellent) Tacticians. Their 'strategy' was usually mere expanded tactics. Lacking solid strategy, they displayed minimal operational art. Superior Tactics resulted in the Germans prolonging both world wars!
@George Kurzatkowski It was actually more the strategic depth of the Soviet Union that screwed them. An invasion till Moscow was more than 1000 km, which is a logistical nightmare.
@@shinchannohara2924 I would argue they should have fainted towards Moscow and went after the oil. Stalin would have put all the reserves there to protect his own hide, and they could have taken the oil or at least got the luftwaffe close enough to set the complexes on fire. Over 85% of Russian oil production came from there; take that away for six months to a year and its all over. I really do not think the delay mattered as regards Moscow; the fortification there would have prevented its fall before winter hit
@@shinchannohara2924 The Kiev diversion was not a mistake. Think of it in this way: there were roughly 1 million Red Army troops in Ukraine. Had Army Group Center kept on pushing towards Moscow, there would have been a very long and weakly defended southern flank which would most likely to have been targeted by the Red Army counterattacks. Furthermore, the Soviets not only mustered new armies east of Smolensk, but also launched bloody counterattacks which hammered Army Group Center. Meanwhile, AG Center was overextended, low on supplies, and still had to deal with the Smolensk pocket. Last, but not the least, the German rail capacity was already overextended and ended up having trucks to travel as far as 500 kilometers from the railheads to deliver supplies. Logistical constraints ultimately dictate what an army can and cannot accomplish. A lot of misconception such as the myth of Hitler's "blunder" came about because most German accounts and memoirs were LOUSY when it comes to properly sizing up the locations and the sizes of Red Army's operational reserves. (The Soviets had a mobilizable population of around 14 million at the beginning of th. war. During the second half of 1941 alone, the Red Army formed as many as 40+ armies!) It was not until the opening of Soviet military archives when we were finally able to have a better picture of what the Soviets had. Germans might have excelled tactically, but their intel was pitifully bad. (Institutional bias can be blamed for this: German officers were a bit too fixated on operational maneuvers, but did not pay enough attention to boring stuffs like intel and logistics.)
@@ariochiv l always believe "Tora Tora Tora" is the most accurate wat movie. Most of the quote was accurate plus the clip where the ground was running away from the burning planes next to the runway was accurate too......the actors WERE running for their lives because the fire sequence gone out of control but the film crew were still "rolling" the sence.
@@ariochiv Virtually any film that tells of actual events can be a good film if done right. As you say Tora! Tora! Tora! is up there, so is Midway, Sink the Bismark, Battle of the River Plate, The Battle of Britain. All made when people who were 'there' were around to flesh out the script.
Rommel suspected that the invasion would occur in Normandy rather than Calais. When the invasion came, Rommel was the only one of Hitler's generals who had the prestige to demand that reinforcements be brought in despite Hitler's orders against doing so.There is a story that Rommel left the coast in order to attend a birthday party for his wife. Had he been in Normandy and had he ordered reinforcements, the invasion may have failed. BTW, his wife's birthday was June 6th. Did history change because one man married a woman whose birthday fell on the same day as an invasion delayed by weather? Who knows....
"The minutes of meetings ,records ,diaries will show Adolf Hitler frequently insisted that Normandy was the place . This is why he placed his best tactical commander there ! Field Marshall Rommel. Rommel likened the area to the Bay Of Salerno ,were the Mark Clark's Army had with great difficulty landed in Italy , September of 1943 . Hitler had chosen Rommel to Command Army Group B ,Right in front of the beach' s . The famous Rommel was also made “ Inspector Of Coastal Defenses”. Hitler and his staff ,OKW felt the Allies would come from the Southern English Ports , and there airfields were within the best range of the Normandy . The German Army Command in France ,and traditional General Staff thought Pas De Calais ." www.quora.com/Did-Hitler-think-the-allied-invasion-was-coming-in-a-different-place-Were-Allies-efforts-to-mislead-Germany-before-the-D-Day-paid-off The one thing that destroyed the German War Machine was internal subversion.
+crackshack2 the German war machine never survived a chance against multiple invasions. I'd argue that even a failed invasion would still have left Germany lost.
I saw this film in 64 on a tv Program called "Saturday Night at the Movies." "Saturday Night at the Movies" was a household name. Everybody would tune in to see what would be shown. There were a lot of great films that they showed.
Yea I always wondered why. I think that with him out of the picture the viewer might get a better perspective of the message he was giving to the others.
Allied surprise and German hubris meant the actual landings were mercifully less bloody in most places (even sections of the infamous Omaha Beach) than suggested by Saving Private Ryan etc - the weeks of fierce fighting that followed to break out from Normandy, by comparison, was some of the most brutal of the entire war, Eastern Front included...
Such are the fortunes of war. Good luck, bad luck, etc. Most German Generals were away from Normandy for wargames in Germany. Bad weather stopped all German air and sea patrols from going out in the English Channel on June 5-6, and detecting the invasion force. The Atlantic wall defences were not complete. The Allies landed, by mistake, at some lightly defended places. Hitler slept in 12 hours. Later, because of confusion, the Germans were still not entirely convinced the real invasion had begun. Even if all German reinforcements had been brought in immediately, they would not have stopped the invasion. Etc. This makes me realize how fragile life really is.
@@Klokkeborgen1 True, he was a fair tactician, driven by the obsession of following Hitler no matter what. Ruthless and pushing his troops hard. Yet another butcher of his own troops, in the long history of ignoring the basic rule of war. "You don't win a war by dying for your country. You make the other bar steward die for theirs!"
@@Klokkeborgen1 He was in charge of the Afrika Korps. And then the Panzer Armee Afrika. It consisted of the following:- 15th Panzer Division 21st Panzer Division 90th Light Division, And Rommel, the NAZI, seemed to handle them quite well, including the attached Italian Forces of 2 Infantry, and 2 Armoured, Divisions. These were the forces taught a timely lesson, at Bir Hakeim, by the FFF.
@@Demun1649 Hi again, I agree that he commanded up to a corps - DAK. Late in the campain in Africa, a lot more, but in fact the German lost more men in May in Africa than they lost in Stalingrad- without taking enemy casulties with them. Back to my point, why fight a war across an Ocean, and then 1000 miles by truck- when you do not control the sea, and later also the sky. In the actuel battle Rommel was a master, but in my opinion he did not had the strategisk view.
The victory was sealed by air power. All those panzers north of Caen would have been destroyed if they had moved south so in the end, no matter what the German generals thought was the point for the landin, air power would be the final arbiter . Allies controlled the air and the Germans would lose. Rommel knew this from North Africa so he wanted the panzers to be stationed closer to the front lines along with major Luftwaffe squadrons. He lost that argument so the Germans lost the war.
Rommel strategy was spot on for dealing with the invasion, to stop it in the beeches as the overall local commander in chief in the spot. However he was hamstrung in putting his plan into action by being absence in Germany for his wife birthday on June 6 and hitters refusal to release panzer reserves or the 15th army that would be necessary to prevent the allies from Gaining linked up beachhead in sufficient strength to carry on the invasion.
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.
The lost Sherman tanks you refer to only occurred at Omaha Beach. The British and Canadians had practised numerous times with beach landings. The inexperienced US naval commanders launched the tanks way too far off shore: majority were swamped and those that landed were washed along the beach a long way off course and could not support infantry. Even then, the Germans had concentrated 52 guns along the coastline at Omaha compared to in-depth artillery at Gold, Sword and Juno Beaches.
@@JeffreyBrown-f4e The DD tanks used waterproof canvas screens to increase buoyancy, not inflated air bags. The screens were held rigid by inflated rubber tubes that were narrow and very hard to hit from the shore. DD tanks had mixed results during D Day: on British and Canadian beaches they were fairly successful though still vulnerable to anti-armour artillery. On Utah Beach, on LCT carrying four DD tanks was destroyed by artillery while 27 of 28 successfully launched DD tanks reached the beach, but up to 2000m off target in a smoke screen. It took some time to link up the tanks with the landing infantry, including negotiating a cratered road with a 88mm anti-armour piece that destroyed two Shermans. The disaster at Omaha Beach was a combination of poor sea conditions (waves up to 6 feet), bad launching points about 4.8km off shore and bad tank operation, many turning side on to the waves to aim for their designated beach zone resulting in the tanks being swamped by the high waves. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD_tank#:~:text=DD%20or%20duplex%20drive%20tanks,%20nicknamed%20%22%20Donald%20Duck%20tanks%22,
Rommel was such a loving and a loyal husband that he returned to Berlin to celebrate with his wife's birthday but the western allies landed on the time he didn't expected
There were some problems with many of the defenses Rommel was advocating for. The 'L' shaped wooden obstacles became water-logged and damaged by the pounding of the seawater over time, and many of the mines that were placed were old devices of Czech and French manufacture, their age and the effects of seawater didn't improve their efficiency either. A considerable number of the heavier artillery pieces on the 'Atlantic Wall", were varied calibers and manufacture, which made their ammunition supply limited and of dubious quality.
Thought he had one of those Rommel Afrika Corps scout cars I see all over DB s at the controls. Do not think the Field Marshall would appreciate today's Mercedes Benz very much!
@@brittakriep2938 History says yes: Ohma Beach took place on the 6th of June in 1944. Rommel did comit suicide in October 14th 1944. May He Rest in Peace.🦊 I have passed his grave every single day in my way back from school.🎒
Spandex is a interesting character. After the July 20th plot, Spandel was suspected of being in on it. He was arrested and questioned by the Gestapo. Using superior logic, he was able to persuade them that he was not part of the plot. Moreover, there is some thought that Rommel took cover for Spandel. After the war, he became one of the leaders of the new West German army.
1:40 - 3:36 I think I've seen that Chateau before, but where? *plays Battlefield 1 on the map Ballroom Blitz OOOOOOOOOOOoooooooohhhhhhhhh!!!! (I guess French Chateaus all look the same then)
Rommel was a great tactician-but strategically thinking a little short sighted. (Von Rundstedt thought Field Marshal was too big a promotion to Rommel due to this shortcoming. Rundstedt also thought Field Marshal Model would have made a 'fine regimental sergeant major' but nothing more. Von Rundstedt did well during Barbarossa-and even bucked Hitler's orders to keep advancing by having his group make a strategic withdrawal to prepare defenses for the coming winter. Hitler countermanded these orders to which Von Rundstedt resigned-rather than play politics with the 'Austrian corporal'. Von Rundstedt simply didn't comprehend how big a role Allied air superiority would have at Normandy. He couldn't hardly move without air attack.
@@tomservo5347 I mostly agree with you about Rommel, von Rundstadt, and Model. Rommel tried to inform the other German leaders about Allied Tactical Airpower, however, they continued to think it was like the Luftwaffe, (over Hyped)!
I'm not Lucie Rommel, but if he had those shoes specially made for my birthday I'd be really pissed...so ugly...I think she was nice to him because she still felt bad about Alamein
does anyone think that, had Rommel survived the war, he would have been placed in command of the Bundeswehr? just spitballing here, but with his grasp of tactics, one would think that he would have, at the very least, been in command of NATO's Armored units in west Germany.
@@pittsburghpirate58 the Soviet Union was even more exhausted than the British Empire! Until 1955 they were still fighting holdouts, and resistance movements. They needed to 'digest' the Ukraine, as well as new conquests. Nor could the USA and various Allies have "liberated" eastern Europe, let alone the Soviet Union.
Rommels aid was one of the First Stalag guards responding to the Wash Day caper in the Great Escape. Their is some Resemblance there certainly? Im not sure. Great Movies nevertheless. What the Hell Happened?
The actor's name is Til Kiwe. Remarkably, he served in the Afrika Korps as a captain and was awarded the Knight's Cross in 1943! This makes him probably the most decorated actor in the entire film. The actor you are referring to was called Hans Christian Blech. He also plays in this film, but not in this scene, but as Major Pluskat directly in a bunker on the beach.
The was also two Asian soldiers found who's only language couldn't immediately be identified. An Oxford Don identified it as a rare Mongolian Dialect spoken on the Russian side of the border. Neither understood what the USSR was. One day soldiers "Red Army" arrived and took all the young men and with no training sent them to the front where the two where soon captured. Forced to labor for Germany and then press-ganged into the German army. Again no training. Just sent to the Atlantic wall and captured on D-day. Neither understood what had happened.
Rommel was very unlucky to be out of position during the critical first 24 hours off dday and therefore unable to direct German response on the ground to it.
No Ike and the troops played poker bluffed Rommel and the Germans we lost a lot of great guys but they got a toehold my Dad said it was in doubt for 2 weeks Dad and his recon unit landed in July and rolled to the front
Rommel says: "Hat Berchtesgaden bestätigt, dass ich zum Vortrag beim Führer erwartet werde?" (("Did Berchtesgaden confirm that I was expected for a talk at the Führer?")
Este assassino está preocupado com as suas rosas mas não quer saber das pessoas que ele fez com que matassem,só lhe importa o jardim e ir à Alemanha estar com a mulher do seu aniversário,mas nesse dia recebe a noticia do desembarque na Normandia com mau tempo e chama-se estupido a si proprio por ter ido à Alemanha,mas demasiado tarde;e depois disso tem que se entender com Hitler.Esse video quero ver,deve ser uma furia daquelas do Hitler,bronca das grandes.
@Rommel the Cat also you will find that the British faced as many infantry divisions and panzer divisions just after D-day as the Russians did during the bagration attack
Fun fact: Rommel kept troops from partaking during the landings because he estimated they would be needed to fight SS troops still loyal to the regime after operation Valkyria.
Os aliados desembarcaram mesmo com mau tempo e conseguiram sair das praias e vançar pela França e mais tarde chegar a Paris e depois mesmo chegar à Alemanha e derrotar os nazis também com ajuda das tropas soviéticas.
The lighting for these scenes is so theatrical as to be beyond belief. Compare the lighting of "Saving Private Ryan" to "The Longest Day" and it just looks like a typical "Brady Bunch", or, "MacMillan and Wife", or "Columbo". I know the technology has changed drastically, but, still, couldn't the producers, with an almost unlimited budget, have done something to give the lighting a more realistic rendering? For this, I give th is movie a a 5 Stars thumbs down.
Was he? I don't think so. One of the things that is hard for generals to achieve is to motivate your troops to fight and for them to lay down their lives for something they believe. Rommel was a soldiers General. He really cared for his men and they respected him. Even his enemies had respect for his abilities as a commander. Churchill...upon hearing about his death...said that Rommel was a brilliant strategist and was worthy of his nickname...the desert fox. It should also be remembered that it was his tactics and drive for the channel that caused the fall of france and the defeat of the British army at Dunkirk. You would be wise to study the man.
@@markcovell572”Brilliant strategist “. Before the invasion of Italy; He thought Southern Italy could not be defended. He wanted to hold the line in Northern Italy .
@@michaelforrest307 Speaking of American generals, I know nothing really about Gen. Mark Clark except a friend who was in the WWII merchant marines telling me once that he allowed too many of his soldiers to be killed. Any truth in that?
The first time I watched this movie was in 1963 at a drive in theater in Vermont.
Really good to watch this again. The acting is superb.
Hearing actual native German speakers in a movie like this is just amazing and really adds to the story. I wish studios these days would still put this much effort into realism. It just wouldn't feel right if this dialog was spoken in bad German by native English speakers.
I think Quentin Tarantino did a lot with Inglorious Basterds and I have the feeling that more and more historical persons are played by their natives.
It's now that I find out they speak German, in the French dub I've always known everybody is dubbed in French lol
Obviously a German movie but the fact that "Downfall" (Der Untergang) was cast with German-speaking actors added to the incredible realism. I felt like I was really THERE and not watching a movie.
@@cornelius5926worst war movie ever. Ghastly and baseless.
Richtig!
3:45 and on the right you see the future Mayor of Stuttgart, and eponymist of the Stuttgart Airport: Manfred Rommel ;)
Played in this scene by Michael Hinz, the real son of the actor playing Rommel, Werner Hinz.
One of my favorite movies, a d one of the best war movies. The German scenes were excellent, as were the French Resistance scenes. Also the very poignant moment before the naval bombardment where the Free French admiral tells his men: "To drive out the invader, we must fire on our honeland. This is the price of liberty". Inspired. Probably the best depiction of D-day until Saving Private Ryan, and probably the best detail of the airborne parachute and glider operations of any film.
The French admiral's address to his men is also my favorite part!
A movie that was more like a documentary then just a film .
One of the special things about Longest Day is that it gave the points of view of different groups, different sides. It had an enormous cast with many characters. This is rarely done in a war movie because they tend to emphasize one side. It's a rarity in films in general because the concern is that with so many points of view and characters, the story can easily become an unfocused mess.
Longest Day also went through the extra effort of native languages being used. French spoken by the French, German being spoken by the Germans.
Than, not then.
German generals were fine strategists, but divided in their point of views. There were those who believed in the old logic (Von Rundstedt) and those who were wise enough to decipher the enemy's logic (Rommel, Marcks). But destiny came in...
The Germans were good (occasionally Excellent) Tacticians.
Their 'strategy' was usually mere expanded tactics. Lacking solid strategy, they displayed minimal operational art.
Superior Tactics resulted in the Germans prolonging both world wars!
@George Kurzatkowski It was actually more the strategic depth of the Soviet Union that screwed them. An invasion till Moscow was more than 1000 km, which is a logistical nightmare.
@@shinchannohara2924 I would argue they should have fainted towards Moscow and went after the oil.
Stalin would have put all the reserves there to protect his own hide, and they could have taken the oil or at least got the luftwaffe close enough to set the complexes on fire. Over 85% of Russian oil production came from there; take that away for six months to a year and its all over. I really do not think the delay mattered as regards Moscow; the fortification there would have prevented its fall before winter hit
@@shinchannohara2924 The Kiev diversion was not a mistake. Think of it in this way: there were roughly 1 million Red Army troops in Ukraine. Had Army Group Center kept on pushing towards Moscow, there would have been a very long and weakly defended southern flank which would most likely to have been targeted by the Red Army counterattacks. Furthermore, the Soviets not only mustered new armies east of Smolensk, but also launched bloody counterattacks which hammered Army Group Center. Meanwhile, AG Center was overextended, low on supplies, and still had to deal with the Smolensk pocket. Last, but not the least, the German rail capacity was already overextended and ended up having trucks to travel as far as 500 kilometers from the railheads to deliver supplies. Logistical constraints ultimately dictate what an army can and cannot accomplish.
A lot of misconception such as the myth of Hitler's "blunder" came about because most German accounts and memoirs were LOUSY when it comes to properly sizing up the locations and the sizes of Red Army's operational reserves. (The Soviets had a mobilizable population of around 14 million at the beginning of th. war. During the second half of 1941 alone, the Red Army formed as many as 40+ armies!) It was not until the opening of Soviet military archives when we were finally able to have a better picture of what the Soviets had. Germans might have excelled tactically, but their intel was pitifully bad. (Institutional bias can be blamed for this: German officers were a bit too fixated on operational maneuvers, but did not pay enough attention to boring stuffs like intel and logistics.)
You seem to confuse strategy with tactics.
best war movie ever
I think _Tora! Tora! Tora!_ is right up there as well.
@@ariochiv l always believe "Tora Tora Tora" is the most accurate wat movie. Most of the quote was accurate plus the clip where the ground was running away from the burning planes next to the runway was accurate too......the actors WERE running for their lives because the fire sequence gone out of control but the film crew were still "rolling" the sence.
@@ariochiv Virtually any film that tells of actual events can be a good film if done right. As you say Tora! Tora! Tora! is up there, so is Midway, Sink the Bismark, Battle of the River Plate, The Battle of Britain. All made when people who were 'there' were around to flesh out the script.
Rommel suspected that the invasion would occur in Normandy rather than Calais. When the invasion came, Rommel was the only one of Hitler's generals who had the prestige to demand that reinforcements be brought in despite Hitler's orders against doing so.There is a story that Rommel left the coast in order to attend a birthday party for his wife. Had he been in Normandy and had he ordered reinforcements, the invasion may have failed. BTW, his wife's birthday was June 6th. Did history change because one man married a woman whose birthday fell on the same day as an invasion delayed by weather? Who knows....
"The minutes of meetings ,records ,diaries will show Adolf Hitler frequently insisted that Normandy was the place . This is why he placed his best tactical commander there ! Field Marshall Rommel. Rommel likened the area to the Bay Of Salerno ,were the Mark Clark's Army had with great difficulty landed in Italy , September of 1943 . Hitler had chosen Rommel to Command Army Group B ,Right in front of the beach' s . The famous Rommel was also made “ Inspector Of Coastal Defenses”. Hitler and his staff ,OKW felt the Allies would come from the Southern English Ports , and there airfields were within the best range of the Normandy . The German Army Command in France ,and traditional General Staff thought Pas De Calais ."
www.quora.com/Did-Hitler-think-the-allied-invasion-was-coming-in-a-different-place-Were-Allies-efforts-to-mislead-Germany-before-the-D-Day-paid-off
The one thing that destroyed the German War Machine was internal subversion.
They had awoke a sleeping giant, their demise was certain
Pure luck or clever planning by British Intelligence?
@Rick Stuifzand If you mean the Soviets then id say awoke a raging, psychotic and awfully hungry bear
+crackshack2 the German war machine never survived a chance against multiple invasions. I'd argue that even a failed invasion would still have left Germany lost.
I saw this film in 64 on a tv Program called "Saturday Night at the Movies." "Saturday Night at the Movies" was a household name.
Everybody would tune in to see what would be shown. There were a lot of great films that they showed.
00:37 Hey, where'd he go?!...0:45 whew, he's back!
Yea I always wondered why. I think that with him out of the picture the viewer might get a better perspective of the message he was giving to the others.
Oomark clark
The Germans knew the secrets of time travelling..
Luckily for the allies he had the one and only camouflage 'Wunderwaffe' prototype.
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The men at first landing at Normandy all paid the ultimate sacrifice.
Allied surprise and German hubris meant the actual landings were mercifully less bloody in most places (even sections of the infamous Omaha Beach) than suggested by Saving Private Ryan etc - the weeks of fierce fighting that followed to break out from Normandy, by comparison, was some of the most brutal of the entire war, Eastern Front included...
Such are the fortunes of war. Good luck, bad luck, etc. Most German Generals were away from Normandy for wargames in Germany. Bad weather stopped all German air and sea patrols from going out in the English Channel on June 5-6, and detecting the invasion force. The Atlantic wall defences were not complete. The Allies landed, by mistake, at some lightly defended places. Hitler slept in 12 hours. Later, because of confusion, the Germans were still not entirely convinced the real invasion had begun. Even if all German reinforcements had been brought in immediately, they would not have stopped the invasion. Etc. This makes me realize how fragile life really is.
("...on June 5th/6th...")
I read that many defences failed simply because the germans ran out of ammunition.
Rommel didn't often eff up but when he did........
Rommel was the best Field Marshal!
Did you fight in North Africa, like my dad? Rommel was a NAZI, second rate when compared to Zhukov and Alexander.
Based on what? Sure he was a good commander, but in my opinion only up to divisions level.
@@Klokkeborgen1 True, he was a fair tactician, driven by the obsession of following Hitler no matter what. Ruthless and pushing his troops hard. Yet another butcher of his own troops, in the long history of ignoring the basic rule of war. "You don't win a war by dying for your country. You make the other bar steward die for theirs!"
@@Klokkeborgen1 He was in charge of the Afrika Korps. And then the Panzer Armee Afrika. It consisted of the following:-
15th Panzer Division
21st Panzer Division
90th Light Division,
And Rommel, the NAZI, seemed to handle them quite well, including the attached Italian Forces of 2 Infantry, and 2 Armoured,
Divisions. These were the forces taught a timely lesson, at Bir Hakeim, by the FFF.
@@Demun1649 Hi again, I agree that he commanded up to a corps - DAK. Late in the campain in Africa, a lot more, but in fact the German lost more men in May in Africa than they lost in Stalingrad- without taking enemy casulties with them. Back to my point, why fight a war across an Ocean, and then 1000 miles by truck- when you do not control the sea, and later also the sky. In the actuel battle Rommel was a master, but in my opinion he did not had the strategisk view.
The victory was sealed by air power. All those panzers north of Caen would have been destroyed if they had moved south so in the end, no matter what the German generals thought was the point for the landin, air power would be the final arbiter . Allies controlled the air and the Germans would lose. Rommel knew this from North Africa so he wanted the panzers to be stationed closer to the front lines along with major Luftwaffe squadrons. He lost that argument so the Germans lost the war.
If you look at the films of Rommel at Normandy in 44, you can see he's not the same man he was in North Africa.
Rommel strategy was spot on for dealing with the invasion, to stop it in the beeches as the overall local commander in chief in the spot.
However he was hamstrung in putting his plan into action by being absence in Germany for his wife birthday on June 6 and hitters refusal to release panzer reserves or the 15th army that would be necessary to prevent the allies from Gaining linked up beachhead in sufficient strength to carry on the invasion.
This actor almost looks like the real life Erin Rommel. Rommel was actually the best and number 1 military strategic genius ever
My favorite movie!
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.
The lost Sherman tanks you refer to only occurred at Omaha Beach. The British and Canadians had practised numerous times with beach landings. The inexperienced US naval commanders launched the tanks way too far off shore: majority were swamped and those that landed were washed along the beach a long way off course and could not support infantry. Even then, the Germans had concentrated 52 guns along the coastline at Omaha compared to in-depth artillery at Gold, Sword and Juno Beaches.
Inflated air bags easily get holes shot in them.😣
@@JeffreyBrown-f4e The DD tanks used waterproof canvas screens to increase buoyancy, not inflated air bags. The screens were held rigid by inflated rubber tubes that were narrow and very hard to hit from the shore. DD tanks had mixed results during D Day: on British and Canadian beaches they were fairly successful though still vulnerable to anti-armour artillery. On Utah Beach, on LCT carrying four DD tanks was destroyed by artillery while 27 of 28 successfully launched DD tanks reached the beach, but up to 2000m off target in a smoke screen. It took some time to link up the tanks with the landing infantry, including negotiating a cratered road with a 88mm anti-armour piece that destroyed two Shermans.
The disaster at Omaha Beach was a combination of poor sea conditions (waves up to 6 feet), bad launching points about 4.8km off shore and bad tank operation, many turning side on to the waves to aim for their designated beach zone resulting in the tanks being swamped by the high waves.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD_tank#:~:text=DD%20or%20duplex%20drive%20tanks,%20nicknamed%20%22%20Donald%20Duck%20tanks%22,
The facial appearance of General Speidel is almost spot on.
“What did he say....what did he say?” “Look I all dressed up for supper”!
pittsburghpirate58 um 😐 this isn’t saving private Ryan.
washed
Czech, not German (the soldier was speaking).
What happened to the colour version I am sure I watched it many years ago on television.
Favorite movie of all time.
1:00 unlike Saving private Ryan,the anti tank traps are facing the correct way.
Rommel was such a loving and a loyal husband that he returned to Berlin to celebrate with his wife's birthday but the western allies landed on the time he didn't expected
General Schwarzkopf had a book next to his bed during Desert Storm. On the cover was Rommel
There were some problems with many of the defenses Rommel was advocating for. The 'L' shaped wooden obstacles became water-logged and damaged by the pounding of the seawater over time, and many of the mines that were placed were old devices of Czech and French manufacture, their age and the effects of seawater didn't improve their efficiency either. A considerable number of the heavier artillery pieces on the 'Atlantic Wall", were varied calibers and manufacture, which made their ammunition supply limited and of dubious quality.
ROMMEL EL MEJOR ESTRATEGA DE LA 2DA GUERRA MUNDIAL .
What does Rommel say at 3:20, something "los"?
He said "Fahren Sie los!" the English equivalent would be "drive off!"
Cool, thank you!
its like finding a french soldier fighting for the japanese in iwo jima
❤ Without Rommel's🙂✌️"Tank obstacles's to shelter❤behind❤even❤more❤Young❤Americans❤would have❤died❤...yes,...he was❤secretly on❤the right side❤
,🤡Impossible🤡,....you are not even capable of concoiusness to even to begin contemplation🤡of such🤡a ridiculous🤡premice🤡✌️
Rommel hatte einen Maybach DSH als Dienstwagen.
Ja und mein Opa hat ihn in der Schlosserei in Herrlingen wieder zum laufen gebracht, als er eine Panne hatte und dringend nach Ulm musste .....🔨🔧
Thought he had one of those Rommel Afrika Corps scout cars I see all over DB s at the controls. Do not think the Field Marshall would appreciate today's Mercedes Benz very much!
Was Rommel at Invasion day realy still alive?
@@brittakriep2938 History says yes: Ohma Beach took place on the 6th of June in 1944. Rommel did comit suicide in October 14th 1944. May He Rest in Peace.🦊 I have passed his grave every single day in my way back from school.🎒
4:21 lmao. somebody wake the bastard up
Blumentritt talked to Jodl, but von Rundstedt didn't care if he was awake or not.
Beautiful uniforms
Spandex is a interesting character. After the July 20th plot, Spandel was suspected of being in on it. He was arrested and questioned by the Gestapo. Using superior logic, he was able to persuade them that he was not part of the plot. Moreover, there is some thought that Rommel took cover for Spandel. After the war, he became one of the leaders of the new West German army.
Who ? LOL !!! 😁
1:40 - 3:36 I think I've seen that Chateau before, but where?
*plays Battlefield 1 on the map Ballroom Blitz
OOOOOOOOOOOoooooooohhhhhhhhh!!!! (I guess French Chateaus all look the same then)
Real gamer 😎😎😎
I said that too 😂👌
Château de Chantilly, It was also seen in the Bond film View to a Kill.
The formations were 3000 miles. The allies just flew over them .
WWII Best German General Best Respected too by the Enemy Allies Monster.
Rommel was a great tactician-but strategically thinking a little short sighted. (Von Rundstedt thought Field Marshal was too big a promotion to Rommel due to this shortcoming. Rundstedt also thought Field Marshal Model would have made a 'fine regimental sergeant major' but nothing more. Von Rundstedt did well during Barbarossa-and even bucked Hitler's orders to keep advancing by having his group make a strategic withdrawal to prepare defenses for the coming winter. Hitler countermanded these orders to which Von Rundstedt resigned-rather than play politics with the 'Austrian corporal'. Von Rundstedt simply didn't comprehend how big a role Allied air superiority would have at Normandy. He couldn't hardly move without air attack.
@@tomservo5347 I mostly agree with you about Rommel, von Rundstadt, and Model.
Rommel tried to inform the other German leaders about Allied Tactical Airpower, however, they continued to think it was like the Luftwaffe, (over Hyped)!
6,000,000. That’s an ironic request
"But beyond that peaceful horizon ... a monster awaits." So ... Numenor?
Moby Dick couldn't make time, he sent a few Americans instead
Sauron was never that cautious.
I'm not Lucie Rommel, but if he had those shoes specially made for my birthday I'd be really pissed...so ugly...I think she was nice to him because she still felt bad about Alamein
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1:50 ballroom blitz from battlefield 1 anyone? :)
The second Operation Mincemeat was a success.
'Believe me, gentlemen.'
'Uh, no.'
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I am an American patriot I live in Texas and d day was a drill please don't shoot the messenger
Has he a little drummer boy following him about. 😄
does anyone think that, had Rommel survived the war, he would have been placed in command of the Bundeswehr? just spitballing here, but with his grasp of tactics, one would think that he would have, at the very least, been in command of NATO's Armored units in west Germany.
Soundwave3591 Russians would have invaded Fulda Gap with 20,000 tanks and 5 million infantry upon his appointment immediately!!
@@pittsburghpirate58 the Soviet Union was even more exhausted than the British Empire!
Until 1955 they were still fighting holdouts, and resistance movements.
They needed to 'digest' the Ukraine, as well as new conquests.
Nor could the USA and various Allies have "liberated" eastern Europe, let alone the Soviet Union.
His chief of staff Hans Speidel ended up in command of NATO.
Rommels aid was one of the First Stalag guards responding to the Wash Day caper in the Great Escape. Their is some Resemblance there certainly? Im not sure. Great Movies nevertheless. What the Hell Happened?
I’m disappointed that they didn’t play the drum March for the last scene giving the shoes to his wife 👎
that guy to the right of Rommel was in the battle of bulge starring Henry Fonda.
Basically the same little batch of German actors was in every war movie back then.
The Pluskat actor was in it as well.
The actor's name is Til Kiwe. Remarkably, he served in the Afrika Korps as a captain and was awarded the Knight's Cross in 1943! This makes him probably the most decorated actor in the entire film.
The actor you are referring to was called Hans Christian Blech. He also plays in this film, but not in this scene, but as Major Pluskat directly in a bunker on the beach.
look at those fucking uniforms SHARP is an understatement. imagine being in one of those german general uniforms the pride i would feel.
@@justinzorn6125 I think there are clubs somewhere you can go and dress up as Nazis. 😄
Rommel's aide.
What movie is this ?
paul dow "Willy Winks and the Chocolate Factory".
paul dow I typed "Wonka". This durned auto-correct on phones!
You can't be serious, so my answer is in that light.
The longest day
cant you read the fucking title
Beach Party with Frankie Avalon
It's a Rommelian Cloaking Device!
The Wars of the Rose,s(🌹).-
It came from nowhere and blew the roses to bits.
You watched the ''MY WAY'' ? haha. Yes its true. Not only 1-2. more than 20!
That sounds more Goering than Rommel.
Battle of Britain wasn't until 1969.
In the film the us army took of d day those iron things weren't on the beach sry
Defend everything,defend nothing!
True fact: Did you know there was a korean guy in the german side in this beach?
logerbad19 a south korean movie was inspired by this story
The was also two Asian soldiers found who's only language couldn't immediately be identified. An Oxford Don identified it as a rare Mongolian Dialect spoken on the Russian side of the border. Neither understood what the USSR was. One day soldiers "Red Army" arrived and took all the young men and with no training sent them to the front where the two where soon captured. Forced to labor for Germany and then press-ganged into the German army. Again no training. Just sent to the Atlantic wall and captured on D-day. Neither understood what had happened.
Rommel was very unlucky to be out of position during the critical first 24 hours off dday and therefore unable to direct German response on the ground to it.
No Ike and the troops played poker bluffed Rommel and the Germans we lost a lot of great guys but they got a toehold my Dad said it was in doubt for 2 weeks Dad and his recon unit landed in July and rolled to the front
That was what he thought,fortunally he was wrong,he germans lost the war,and there at the ebach the allies weren´t detained by the germans.
really wow!!! haha
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Bad matte background work…but we didn’t know that 35 years ago.l.
Do you understand what Rommel says at 2:19 ?
Something like : " Hat Berchtesgaden bestätigt, dass ich zum ........ erwartet werde?"
Rommel says: "Hat Berchtesgaden bestätigt, dass ich zum Vortrag beim Führer erwartet werde?" (("Did Berchtesgaden confirm that I was expected for a talk at the Führer?")
He is saying "Has Berchtesgaden confirmed that I am expected?"
Este assassino está preocupado com as suas rosas mas não quer saber das pessoas que ele fez com que matassem,só lhe importa o jardim e ir à Alemanha estar com a mulher do seu aniversário,mas nesse dia recebe a noticia do desembarque na Normandia com mau tempo e chama-se estupido a si proprio por ter ido à Alemanha,mas demasiado tarde;e depois disso tem que se entender com Hitler.Esse video quero ver,deve ser uma furia daquelas do Hitler,bronca das grandes.
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What people should know is that meanwhile the russians advance 5000 miles on operation bagration and destroy german army group center
@Rommel the Cat also you will find that the British faced as many infantry divisions and panzer divisions just after D-day as the Russians did during the bagration attack
Fun fact: Rommel kept troops from partaking during the landings because he estimated they would be needed to fight SS troops still loyal to the regime after operation Valkyria.
+Chetz Do you have any proof? As far as I know, he wasn´t what one would call "active" in the complot.
Richardsen
Out of memory so... Google it.
Chetz
Will do.
Richardsen
Let me know if I'm wrong :)
Chetz
I have not found anything yet regarding that particular, but that doesn´t mean it isn´t true. I will keep looking.
German soldiers didn't do that work. It was done by French civilians who were happy to do it because they were relatively well paid. ;-)
the longest day was another example of Rommel's incompetence, as he was off on personal business, and of no consequence
Good grief!
You sure are a STUPID TURD!
Os aliados desembarcaram mesmo com mau tempo e conseguiram sair das praias e vançar pela França e mais tarde chegar a Paris e depois mesmo chegar à Alemanha e derrotar os nazis também com ajuda das tropas soviéticas.
The lighting for these scenes is so theatrical as to be beyond belief. Compare the lighting of "Saving Private Ryan" to "The Longest Day" and it just looks like a typical "Brady Bunch", or, "MacMillan and Wife", or "Columbo". I know the technology has changed drastically, but, still, couldn't the producers, with an almost unlimited budget, have done something to give the lighting a more realistic rendering? For this, I give th is movie a a 5 Stars thumbs down.
Perhaps you could be a lighting technician in Hollywood in 1959-60 and work with the director.....
See Monster Damage Police Elephant Donald J. Trump Jr. Does You Straining Yourselves to be Release Against the Best Human Alike German Professionals.
Rommel was overated
He spoke highly of you apparently!😊
Maybe. Perhaps compared to American Generals. But do you think he was over-rated among German Generals?
Was he? I don't think so. One of the things that is hard for generals to achieve is to motivate your troops to fight and for them to lay down their lives for something they believe. Rommel was a soldiers General. He really cared for his men and they respected him. Even his enemies had respect for his abilities as a commander. Churchill...upon hearing about his death...said that Rommel was a brilliant strategist and was worthy of his nickname...the desert fox. It should also be remembered that it was his tactics and drive for the channel that caused the fall of france and the defeat of the British army at Dunkirk. You would be wise to study the man.
@@markcovell572”Brilliant strategist “. Before the invasion of Italy; He thought Southern Italy could not be defended. He wanted to hold the line in Northern Italy .
@@michaelforrest307 Speaking of American generals, I know nothing really about Gen. Mark Clark except a friend who was in the WWII merchant marines telling me once that he allowed too many of his soldiers to be killed. Any truth in that?
The German side of the Film is much Better