Comments by "Annoying B\x27stard" (@annoyingbstard9407) on "Knowledgia" channel.

  1. Petain was using his fleet as a bargaining chip with Hitler. Petain wanted to become a German ally - thereby holding onto French overseas possessions - as well as the continuation of France as some sort of world power. Hitler was resisting this because once (!) he’d finished his conquest of Europe he would simply claim French territories as part of his German empire - and grab the French fleet anyway. The ships had to be destroyed..
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  2. No, the Americans thought an attack through the Ardennes would be unsuccessful (and therefore a mistake) in winter. They were correct.
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  3. It’s France still trying to act like they’re an important country.
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  4. I believe several baguettes were damaged during the last few battles…..
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  5. The Irish hate the English so much they would have helped Hitler as much as they dared. And they did.
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  6.  @FFL3001  You can do better…would they have won if an asteroid hadn’t wiped out the dinosaurs?
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  7. Did you choose to ignore the 5000 RAF sorties flown over the Dunkirk area during the week?
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  8. So how would you say Paris in English?
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  9. Enrico Peci With the help of Poland!
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  10. P N Poland joined Germany in attacking Czechoslovakia just two years earlier. What goes around comes around.
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  11. It’s hard to surrender if you’re attacking.
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  12. It wasn’t Jodl, it was Choltitz. And it’s the sort of thing anyone would claim when they were facing the gallows for war crimes.
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  13. The British and French were never "allied" to Poland - in fact Poland, like the Nazis, had anti-Jewish laws quite abhorrent to civilised nations and had only recently invaded and Annexed part of Czechoslovakia. Britain and France merely warned Germany that if it invaded Poland they would declare war. Which they did.
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  14. Siberians are Russians.
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  15. They were scared of the British. Next!
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  16. Possibly true - although the thing with revisionist history is it rarely gets aired until the people who know the facts are dead and buried. I’d be very wary of any “history” that suddenly appears around sixty years after the event.
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  17.  @sscalercourtney5486  TL:DR
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  18. No he didn't.
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  19. Neither side wanted them?
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  20. No, it was always considered possible, likely even, that Germany would attack through Belgium - just as they did in WW1. However it was considered politically insulting to construct defences along the France/Belgium border.
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  21. I thought they lost. Like the war a few years earlier.
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  22.  @James-wj8eq  One country? You mean the axis force of eleven countries?
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  23. You’re American so obviously know nothing of the rest of the world but FYI the Ardennes are in Belgium and Dunkirk is in France.
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  24. Well it was a defeat for the French but a withdrawal for the British who continued to fight. And won.
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  25. You don’t know what a hinterland is do you? Or an ocean.
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  26. It’s surprising what being executed for treason can do to a soldier isn’t it?
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  27. I think it’s clear Hitler decided to leave Britain to one side and wait for his promised “wonder weapons” that would destroy the country. He had bigger fish to fry. Pretty much the same thing as Japan in 1945.
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  28.  @dovetonsturdee7033  V1 designed 1935 first model completed 1939. V2 proposed 1934 A3 model first flight 1935. First German jet engine ran 1936.. first jet aircraft flew 1939, Me262 first proposed 1939, German nuclear program began 1939. You imagine they designed them the day before they came into mass production?
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  29.  @dovetonsturdee7033  If you say so.🙄
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  30.  @dovetonsturdee7033  Of course.
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  31. Britain shouldn’t have been there. Always better to let Europeans sort out their own squabbles rather than lose a million of our own people (as inWW1) protecting weak European states from others.
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  32. Taint ABird I apologise. I meant of course the Irish government.
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