Sunday of the Dead 1941 | Operation Crusader WW2 Part 9

Описание: This video is a historical documentary about the WW2 battle of Operation Crusader of 1941, specifically the events of 23rd November 1941 - which is Totensonntag. The word "Totensonntag" (German for: "Dead Sunday") is the name given to the day which is covered in this episode. It is not about "dead" people or anything else, it is about the North African Campaign of WW2. While the name may have the word "dead" in it, and the thumbnail has a skull in it, all this can be safely ignored as no skulls or dead things are shown in the video. It is also not clickbait, since this is 100% relevant to the video (the day impacted the fighting morale of the German troops, and the fighting on this day led to several battle units getting destroyed - but again, the units fade off the map in the video, nothing bad is shown). Thank you.

(And, if I forget to change the description before publishing, the above is addressed to the YouTube employee who will be reviewing this video)

Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:37 Part 1 ‘The Dance of Death’
01:13 4th Armoured Brigade loses its head!
03:06 The Pienaar situation
04:09 6th New Zealand Brigade approaches
04:30 Situation with 13th Corps, the Oasis Force and at Tobruk
05:01 Results of the 22nd of November 1941
05:35 Cunningham’s orders
06:49 Part 2 ‘Sunday of the Dead’
Starts by explaining what Totensonntag is
07:57 Rommel’s Plan
09:17 6th New Zealand Brigade’s Happy Accident
10:12 Crüwell changes the plan
11:42 Cunningham Changes the plan too
12:27 The British Command Crisis Begins
15:44 Crüwell goes south
18:32 Major Robert Crisp’s action
20:34 Neumann-Silkow wants to exploit the situation
21:33 The British prepare their defences
22:57 Cunningham’s Crisis Conference
25:57 Crüwell persuades the Italians to join him
26:39 Crüwell prepares his forces
27:40 New Zealanders at Point 175
28:52 The Panzers Begin their Advance
29:31 Part 3 ‘Crisis Point’
The Panzers strike 5th South African Brigade
32:42 The flight of the British armour
33:24 The Aftermath
34:42 Reactions and 13th Corps
35:22 The British Command Crisis Continues
36:13 Outro and Patreons!

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