Winston Churchill WWII Speech This was their finest hour

Video Title :	Winston Churchill WWII Speech This was their finest hour
Description :	Winston Churchill WWII Speech This was their finest hour June 18, 1940 House of Commons If Hitler can bring under his despotic control the industries of the countries he has conquered, this will add greatly to his already vast armament output. On the other hand, this will not happen immediately, and we are now assured of immense, continuous and increasing support in supplies and munitions of all kinds from the United States; and especially of aeroplanes and pilots from the Dominions and across the oceans coming from regions which are beyond the reach of enemy bombers. I do not see how any of these factors can operate to our detriment on balance before the winter comes; and the winter will impose a strain upon the Nazi regime, with almost all Europe writhing and starving under its cruel heel, which, for all their ruthlessness, will run them very hard. We must not forget that from the moment when we declared war on the 3rd September it was always possible for Germany to turn all her Air Force upon this country, together with any other devices of invasion she might conceive, and that France could have done little or nothing to prevent her doing so. We have, therefore, lived under this danger, in principle and in a slightly modified form, during all these m6nths. In the meanwhile, however, we have enormously improved our methods of defense, and we have learned what we had no right to assume at the beginning, namely, that the individual aircraft and the individual British pilot have a sure and definite superiority. Therefore, in casting up this dread balancesheet and contemplating our dangers with a disillusioned eye, I see great reason for intense vigilance and exertion, but none whatever for panic or despair. During the first four years of the last war the Allies experienced nothing but disaster and disappointment. That was our constant fear: one blow after another, terrible losses, frightful dangers. Everything miscarried. And yet at the end of those four years the morale of the Allies was higher than that of the Germans, who had moved from one aggressive triumph to another, and who stood everywhere triumphant invaders of the lands into which they had broken. During that war we repeatedly asked ourselves the question: How are we going to win? and no one was able ever to answer it with much precision, until at the end, quite suddenly, quite unexpectedly, our terrible foe collapsed before us, and we were so glutted with victory that in our folly we threw it away. We do not yet know what will happen in France or whether the French resistance will be prolonged, both in France and in the French Empire overseas. The French Government will be throwing away great opportunities and casting adrift their future if they do not continue the war in accordance with their Treaty obligations, from which we have not felt able to release them. The House will have read the historic declaration in which, at the desire of many Frenchmen-and of our own hearts-we have proclaimed our willingness at the darkest hour in French history to conclude a union of common citizenship in this struggle. However matters may go in France or with the French Government, or other French Governments, we in this Island and in the British Empire will never lose our sense of comradeship with the French people. If we are now called upon to endure what they have been suffering, we shall emulate their courage, and if final victory rewards our toils they shall share the gains, aye, and freedom shall be restored to all. We abate nothing of our just demands; not one jot or tittle do we recede. Czechs, Poles, Norwegians, Dutch, Belgians have joined their causes to our own. All these shall be restored. What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."
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REPLACES ST GEORGE'S day with D day as a bank holiday D day WAS OUR FINEST HOUR.. CHURCHILL got one thing rigth..defeating the nazi's.....he got loads of things wrong BUT DEFEATING THE NAZI'S WAS OUR FINEST HOUR fuck st george and CELEBRATE 'D-DAY DAY' ... WASNT IT NICE TO WIN WHEN WE WERE INVADED BUT ISNT IT AWFUL THAT WE HAVE NOW BECOME AN INVADING NATION UNDER THE RULES OF MR BUSH..sad times, i dont speek german but if churchill wasnt our leader we would be dead or speeking german

moonchildofthedark is still a cow she called me racist for going on about our empire thousands of years ago...the truth hurt the cow.. she also calls an englishman living in germany a german....WHAT A SILLY COW

Can anyone blieve anything this alcoholic Nancy Boy ever said? Well I suppose degenerate cider louts could.

"But that's not what I care about". Perhaps not, but in taking the trouble to post it you do run the risk of appearing hypocritical.

Great speech, Shame about the stupid video animation.

Public schools in Britain actually teach from a neutral point of view inluding the treay of versailles. Many of Britain atrocities were exposed and marked in the history books by Britain. Victorian ages were taught in school in how imperialistic it was. But what makes Britain stand out and why they shouted yay we won is because another country at the time starting wars and invading its neighbours who turned out to be mass murderering racists lost. You need to get that into your head.

Your using modern views on events in the past in ages that were brutal not taking into account other countries including your nations infamous past in Empire building.

You are the drunken sod boils2-hows the heroin addiction you spoke to me about going?

ElbeRiver, You're an idiot and have no idea about History. I wonder why they were so anti-german. The Nazis basically destroyed their whole country! World War II was not that long ago.

Clever animation of the photgraph....