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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War,

Episode 188, The Fall of France, Reinhart, and Rommel.

While the crossings that would occur on Guderian's front at Sedan have received the most publicity

over the last 80 years, part of which is always due to Guderian's own publicity skills,

they were not actually the first of the Panzer forces to start crossing the Mues River on the Ardenne

front.

That honor would instead go to a small

number of troops that cross the river at the village of Hugh, about four kilometers north of Dinnon.

This small crossing was just one of several made along the front, from Sedan in the north to

Hugh in the north, as the troops of the 5th, 6th, and 7th Panzer divisions all made their

own crossings as they prepared to continue their attack into the west.

As these crossings developed on the 13th through the 15th, there would be a growing level

of concern among French military leaders that something had to be done.

But at the same time, if you remember back to episode 8 of this series,

these were the exact same days when the French troops in central Belgium were fighting the

battles of Hanoot and Gimblow.

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