Al Murray

And are defeated, right?

And yet it's overlooked.

Yeah, you know, they do badly.

They do very badly.

It's Eben Emael that's the thing where everyone goes, oh, that's tactical with strategic effect.

353, I think it is.

Transport planes might really take a kicking.

Anyway, these guys, these Fallschirmjäger go in the bag, but not for very long.

And they are then redeployed to fight around Narvik.

But it's basically, it's an early warning sign that the airborne operations might be glamorous, but they're really, really, really difficult to get right.

April the 14th, 1941, German units under Sepp Dietrich win the Battle of Klezura Pass in Greece.

Yeah.

Peter II of Yugoslavia flees to Athens as the Greeks basically start to fall in on themselves.

Call your king something snazzier than Peter, is my advice.

In 1942, there's the Ryom trial.

in Vichy France, which is an attempt by the Vichy government to blame the fall of France on the Third Republic.

It's a show trial, obviously.

And the problem with show trials is everyone could go, that's a show trial.

Done work, massive PR blunder, neutral nation press coverage saying, oh, the defendants in this trial are really sympathetic.

And even Hitler, even Hitler realises this is bad PR and says, cancel this.