"Just A Bunch Of Farmers" -Why the 2NZEF Crushed the Afrika Korps in Tunisia скачать в хорошем качестве

"Just A Bunch Of Farmers" -Why the 2NZEF Crushed the Afrika Korps in Tunisia

The untold story of how a sheep-farming nation of 1.7 million people crossed an ocean, absorbed some of the worst defeats of the desert war, and ended up accepting the surrender of 238,000 German and Italian troops — including the remnants of Rommel's Afrika Korps. In 1940, nobody feared the New Zealanders. The Germans hadn't heard of them. The Italians didn't worry about them. They were farmers, teachers, and dock workers with no real military tradition. The Afrika Korps had crushed professional armies across Europe and North Africa. By May 13, 1943, Lieutenant-General Bernard Freyberg — commanding a division from the edge of the world — stood in Tunisia and accepted the largest Axis surrender since Stalingrad. This is how that happened. What this documentary covers: How defeat in Greece and Crete forged an unbreakable division The flanking maneuver at Tebaga Gap that cracked the "impassable" Mareth Line The 12-man Māori section that scaled a sheer cliff at Takrouna — without orders The Victoria Cross four generals recommended that London downgraded What the German military actually said about the New Zealanders — verified record, no myth