Hello, and thank you for listening to a History of World War II podcast, The Long Delayed

Episode 21, The Fall of France Part 2.

So first of all, I'd like to apologize to everyone who's been waiting.

I listened to a lot of podcasts myself, and I know what it's like to wait, it's very

frustrating.

But what happened was I had everything ready to go, everything ready to record, I had 14

pages worth of notes, and then my computer got a virus and I lost everything.

So I did what I had to do, I ran to my room, threw myself on my Hello Kitty pillow, and

cried through the night.

The next day, I got up, started researching everything again.

But in order to bring this podcast to you as quickly as I could, this episode will cover

the fall of Holland and Belgium.

Next time we'll finish off France, but I promise you, it will not take two weeks to get

it out, because I've already got a lot of notes, and so that should be coming out soon.

Holland, Paul Gil, or Case White, Hitler's much delayed attack against the West, started

at 5am on May 10, 1940.

The initial phase of the Buttskrieg method called for the German bombers to subject numerous

air bases and communication centers to bombing by hundreds of Luftwaffe planes in northern

France.

Their job was to soften up the defenses and make way for the two million German troops,

participating in the slightest struggle between the two great rivals of Germany and France.

Although Germany and France were already at war, there was no declaration made on Luxembourg,

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