The battle against Crete

Video Title :	The battle against Crete
Description :	The Battle of Crete (German Luftlandeschlacht um Kreta; Greek Μάχη της Κρήτης) began on the morning of 20 May 1941, during World War II, when Germany launched an airborne invasion of Crete under the code-name Unternehmen Merkur (Operation Mercury). The operation was successful in terms of taking the island from the Allied forces holding it, but the victory was so costly that the Germans never again launched a major airborne mission.
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Keywords, Tags :	battle Crete WWII Parachut Luftwaffe airborne invasion
Video Length :	10 : 39

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Great footage! Most of the heavy fighting was cut from this and jumped straight to the airplane landings at malmedy once the airfield was clear. I think they showed a rare shot of the crash landing attempts north of the airfield attempting to get MUCH needed supply onto the ground. however, the airfield was still under direct fire of machine gun and brit artillery so they opted simply to crash land planes north of the field. peoples comments here are total lack of military strategy or history.

simple citizens killed germans before they reach the ground...poor nazis you didnt know who you are gonna face

It was the biggest air-born operation in war history and Hitler lost more than 4.000 paratroopers (officially)... if he hadn't spent such human resources in Crete he could have used then in Moscow that winter, which would collapse the Soviet union and thus end the war on the eastern front... imagine that...

um dude crete wasn't that big. an Normandy was way bigger then crete lol. any smart person can tell you that. hell Iwo Jima makes creat look like a playground an iwo jima was abotu 2 miles big lol.

The Battle of Crete took place early on against a small country of just 6 million Greeks, who had been pushing back Italians since October 1940and were invaded by three Axis countries; Italy, Bulgaria and Germany in 1944. The fact that German Airborne Forces were not used again during WWII, testifies that it was a great one, still pending proper understanding and appreciation by all parties concerned. My family was in the midst of it and I lost my grand dad during that period in History

correction the German para's were used in itlay. in freeing old Banito or what ever is name is. but ya oafter that the para units never jumped again.

If the Battle Crete had been a success doubt not that the corp would have seen more action in other war fronts. The para's career ended in Crete, and that is fact that helped enormously the Allied effort as a whole in the ensuing years, when Nazi Germany threw everything it got in the battlefields, and in that respect the Battle of Crete having contributed in the loss of some of Nazi Germany's best-trained units, was a great one and then some.

kinda weird

Die Deutschen gehen immer gerne in Griechenland baden.