Churchill: The Man Who Saved the Free World | 5 Minute Video
The West is free today thanks in large part to one man – Winston Churchill. Historian and bestselling author Andrew Roberts explains how Churchill saved the world from Nazi Germany.
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Script:
In May 1940, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi war machine were sweeping across the European continent.
The future of the free world hung in the balance.
An isolationist-leaning United States was an ocean away. There was one man who stood between Hitler’s seemingly invincible army and crushing defeat.
That one man was Winston Churchill.
He was born on November 30, 1874. Though we think of him as the quintessential Englishman, he was actually half American.
His mother, Jennie, was the daughter of a wealthy New York stock speculator. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was of English nobility and a major political figure.
From his early school days, Churchill recognized the power of words. Throughout his life, he used them with consummate skill. They never let him down.
He first made a name for himself as a war correspondent in the 1890s, covering conflicts in Cuba, Northern India, the Sudan, and South Africa. Though he never abandoned journalism, and became one the greatest historians of his age, Churchill used his family connections and his own fame to launch himself into politics. His confident manner and matchless oratory marked him as a natural leader.
1914 and World War I found him in the key position of First Lord of the Admiralty where he did much to modernize Britain’s navy. In 1915, Churchill thought he could bring a speedy end to the war by opening a new front in Turkey, which he perceived as the weak link in the German alliance against the allies.
This led to the infamous Gallipoli campaign.
Badly underestimating the fighting strength of the Turks, thousands of British, Australian and New Zealand soldiers were killed in battles that proved to be every bit as indecisive and bloody as the campaigns on Europe’s Western front.
Churchill took the blame.
This was perhaps the low point of his life. Dismissed from the war cabinet, five months later he enlisted in the army, where he saw action in France.
He rose again in British politics throughout the 1920s, making money—as he always did—through his writing and speaking. As Adolph Hitler took power in Germany in the 1930s, Churchill was one of the first and certainly the loudest voice in England sounding the alarm. But it was an alarm few in England wanted to hear.
The English had been traumatized, as had all of Europe, by the shocking amount of death and destruction of the First World War. No one wanted to face the possibility that it could happen again.
Churchill, however, saw that a new confrontation with Germany was inevitable. And when the inevitable arrived with the stunning German attack on France in May 1940, a desperate nation turned to him. He was ready.
His weapons were his pen, his voice and his words. “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat,” he told the House of Commons in his first speech as Prime Minister.
Things quickly turned from bad to worse. France collapsed, Belgium surrendered, and a quarter of a million British soldiers barely managed to escape from Dunkirk. Even as the war news moved from dangerous to desperate to disastrous, Churchill never wavered. In speech after speech, he infused the British with the spirit to fight on against Hitler’s monstrous tyranny.
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Oh ya ? He is responsible for deaths of millions in colonies during the same time.
Churchill was captured as POW in South Africa during the Boer War. He escaped and returned to England.
Unfortunately his actions did not match his words. He starved 9 million people to death in India. That is way way way more than the famous 6 million people talk about. But he is considered a hero. Why?
He was a war monger and could have avoided a global war many times but he was fighting for his friends and money, not for the normal folk. READ MORE
He is not the greatest man of his age. He is monster same as hitler
AH, nice try. The US saved Europe and the World. It was their nuclear bombs that ended the war. The saviour of Dunkirk was a Canadian. No, the Brits had nothing to do with the victory in Europe. If the US hadn't intervened, London would be speaking German today.
Winston Churchill was an idiot
Rare Prager W on this one.
honor
Winston Churchill, your legend and greatness stand forever!
Very well said. Thank you.
Good explanation
" Greatest man of his age" lmao who murdered 4 million bengalis, build concentration camp in kenya. British people need to learn from germans on how to represent genocidle maniacs
He was less of a monster than Stalin or Hitler but a monster all the same 💀
British don't know history. Churchill had as much blood in his hand as Hitler. He killed millions in India by creating a famine. He encouraged slavery in Africa.
he was a bobble head who stabbed his leader and found fame through the fact without the US the UK werent an issue for germany! he was a shit heal who got his positionm through family not talent, war over he got voted out stqaight away!
War criminal. Racist. Imperialist. Not even a slight difference between him and H!tler. Worse than him in many aspects. KIller of millions in Bengal. But, hero, because history is written by victors.
The asshole who let my countrymen die, eat shit Churchill
Hail the great Mr. Churchill, may his memory forever be honored.
"Ohh i can be worst monster then u hitler"-Winston
I may be missing something here. But I cannot find any evidence that Churchill ever served in the navy. Maybe that explains why he sent a fleet through the Dardanelles. Possibly the most heavily mined channel on the planet. We lost 6 battleships and several hundred sailors. Any other serving officer would have been cashiered or made to retire in disgrace.
Talk about being overprivileged. He "CHOSE" to serve in the trenches. As it happens with a Regiment that was retired from the front line after being mauled at the battle of Loos.
He got bored after a few weeks and "CHOSE" to return to Parliament.
Good god, how many young men who fought and died in WW1 would have given their eye teeth for that choice.
He was not the hero of Dunkirk. True to form he kept insisting on a counter attack when any rational human being knew it was pointless, Research Admiral Bertram Ramsey. The true hero of Dunkirk.
Churchill and his crony Mountbatten were careless with other people's lives.
His sheer intransigence in 1941 and his determination to get the USA into to the war were his only redeeming feature.
excellent !!!
Despite his reactionary view,he was correct on the threat post by bolshevik and the nazi.
Wo wo wo . Is India South Africa Ireland the Philippines part of the free world
This has aged well given Britains current attitude to Russia 🤣 …"free world"…the "free market" perhaps …nobody knows what would have happened had the Germans turned towards the east unopposed in the west. Churchill tied Britain to Stalin, who would later be seen as nigh on Hitler's equal in terms of atrocities…and with the US who unilaterally decided it was fair and balanced to kill a hundred thousand civilians with 2 bombs…a legacy and bravado that has guided the 'free world' manipulation of weaker nations for 80 years.
I can't believe the amount of ignorant people this comment section have
Never Ever, underestimate the effect that someone being able to lead their people can have on history. Slava Ukraina🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
"thidwudvientendodu" -winston Churchill
He also killed 2 million Indians because he was a racist asshole
Churchill never won the war the russians and yanks bailed out britain they wudnt have won if these 2 big hitters didnt come in churchill made loads off mistakes in his career he s racist and sectarian I think anybody can make big speeches he s not doing the dying he pulled some right strokes churchill didnt like the man
Hero lol 🤣🤣
hey drumstick we can all cherry pick to prove anything
you sound like a racist to me
or maybe you are just an ignorant c * nt ?
And starved millions of people to die
This video is a shit portaing a__ Churchill as hero.
the people here who are admiring winston churchill should also look once into 1943 bengal famine that was solely due to the racist mindset of winston churchill
This man killed 40lakh indian
Shame on you ,you fuckn bastaard
Dude was a legit war criminal