I know that History Channel doesn't do much in the way of history anymore, but I watched their new three part special and in the section on WWII they stated that the Germans attacked France directly, then went back and took Belgium and the Netherlands after the fact. In all my studies I've always read that the low countries were taken first so as to bypass the Maginot Line, which only fell after the government capitulated.
History Channel has been know to be fuzzy on the facts but I've never seen them just flat out wrong, is this a mistake on their end or did I miss something?
No, you're correct. In WW2 Germany attacked through Belgium and the Netherlands, they never attacked France directly since there was no point in attacking the Maginot line. I don't know why the History Channel would screw that up so badly.
Not only that, but they portrayed the Russian Revolution as one entirely started by Lenin and Stalin, which is patently false. The uprising began as the February Revolution, when Petrograd workers began demonstrations against the Czarist government. Lenin and his Bolsheviks didn't come into play until the October Revolution and even then Stalin was not as prominent in the events as HC made him out to be. I know they were merely trying to condense the topic and make it flashy with Lenin and Stalin meeting each other. But it is that type of generalization that does everyone a disservice and makes the HC a joke in the eyes of amateur and professional historians.