200 Kiwis Held a Bridge Against 2,000 Germans for Three Days

Описание: In May 1941, on the island of Crete, two hundred exhausted New Zealand soldiers were ordered to hold a single bridge against overwhelming odds. Advancing toward them were nearly two thousand German troops. Behind them depended the fate of eighteen thousand Allied soldiers struggling to reach evacuation beaches.

What followed was not a planned last stand, but a desperate rear-guard action that became one of the defining moments of the Battle of Crete.

This video tells the story of the Māori and New Zealand soldiers who transformed a hopeless delaying action into three days of relentless resistance. From the first German paratroopers falling from the sky to close-quarters fighting along the road, bayonet charges in the dark, and the haka performed in defiance of machine-gun fire, this was combat fought at the very limits of endurance.

Hour by hour, their stand bought time — paid for in exhaustion, wounds, and lives — allowing thousands of Allied troops to escape encirclement. When the order finally came to withdraw, the survivors marched through the night toward the evacuation beaches, carrying with them the quiet cost of what they had held and what they had lost.

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