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Hi Griff, i wanted to ask, it would be really interesting for you to cover Indonesia, Malaysia, or Southeast Asia as a whole during WWII. How the allies failed to defend them, how Japan conquered them, and how they were retaken. - A curious fan
Or countries like Poland should do what Poland is doing now with American military bases in Poland and buying F35s off the US. So, they have a big boy reliable Ally that will come to their aid when needed.
What most people don't realize is that no matter how "historical" a building is in Warsaw, it is a recreation of the original, because the entire city was leveled. That's just insane to imagine.
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568This comment is beyond any comprehension. You not only failed to recognise and separate two different times during the war which are - the defeat of 1939 and the Uprisings of 1943 nd 1944; you also doubted almost absolute destrution of Warsaw. The city was particulary hard hit in September 1939, because it was subjugated to a month of constant air raids without any regard for patrimony and human life whatsoever (see Julien Bryan's film "Siege"; this American film maker was the only foreign correspondent out there documenting these atrocities). Now, I don't know what anti-German movies, that could still be filmed in Poland after 1939, you are reffering to - their sheer existence doesn't seem very possible. Also any picture filmed after the war would obviously cover newly rebuild or restored buildings as people immediately got to cleaning and rebuilding (they also started to exhumate the dead - around 250.000 of them; the process took two years). In the end the reconstruction of Warsaw was finished only in the 1970s. During the war around 85 percent of west-bank Warsaw was destroyed. Planned burning and blowing up also took place (many great palaces including the Royal Castle were simply blown up). After the war many buildings could only be leveled, many could be resoterd but were taken down by the communists too. Countless buildings perished, palaces, residences and villas from the times of the Kingdom (pre 1795) that were of extreme historical and national value didn't survive. It was even considered to leave Warsaw as she was and move the capital to Łódź. The city was to become a large scaled memorial. Fortunately even communists had some sanity and decided to take upon rebuilding. I'd rather not comment on what you said about The Pianist.
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 The movie you are thinking about, "The Zookeepers Wife" was the true story of the Zabinskis who hid Jews in the Warsaw Zoo largely emptied of the animals by the Germans. The movie mostly covered the German occupation period where the city was largely in-tact. During the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, that portion of the city was leveled and during the 63 Day Warsaw Uprising, the Germans destroyed 85% of the city. Much of the city was deliberately demolished on Hitler's orders. Only an ignorant person would call this historical fact anti-German propaganda. Even the German historians and successive German Governments acknowledge this fact which you boorishly dismiss as propaganda.
Fun fact : the 2 finger salute of the veteran in the opening scene is unique to Poland . It has its own history too . Its said that in the Battle of Olszynka Grochowska in 1831 , a soldier belonging to Poland , after having 2 of his fingers and his thumb blown off during the fighting , saluted his commanding officer with his remaining two fingers before dying . It is also thought that it was adopted because it points at the Polish White Eagle , found on the headgear of military personnel . Since the eagle symbolizes courage , strength and independence , the salute pointed to the fact that even though they were conquered , the Polish people would still be courageous and fight for their independence .
Another thing I seem to remember is polish soldiers in the British army were arrested doing this salute. The officers thought they were making fun of them as it was similar to the boy scouts salute.
Yep. And it can only be done to the Eagle (on the cap/helmet). Polish soldiers didn't salute the Brits were they were on leave or something, they just give attention and stand straight.
Best wishes to Poland - From Korea Korea also suffered from neighboring super powers (China, Japan) throughout the Korean history and our ancestors had to fight for independence and survival so this clip looks really familiar to me.
I’m truly sorry for what the Germans and the Japanese did to Korea and Poland, I wish the best for both of you and this coming from someone is 25% Japanese but mostly American.
Life in the General Government was brutal. Hans Frank (the German governor, seated in Kraków) 'crowned' his wife as the queen of Poland. His son (Niklas Frank) one day asked his father about atrocities he witnessed. His father scolded him for it. Niklas Frank later became a journalist and wrote a book about his father he considered a war criminal. Thanks for making this video.
Life in General Government would be a great topic for another video. You will not believe someone could be sentenced to death for... buying a milk for example.
Yeah, I remember when Stefan Tompson conducted a street survey in Berlin asking people whether Poland was fighting for or against the Nazis. The fact that there were Germans that answered that Poland fought on the Axis side was terrfying.
there were i live they even make "funny" jokes about this topic , some of them are even so "funny" that i want to punch those people in the face. Like really some of those people dosent even know about how teribble the nazi regime was.
This is not the target of the rules but is subject to them unfortunately. TH-cam makes the rules to mitigate actual hateful content some of which would use "I am being educational" as a defense to spread really awful stuff. The internet is a really powerful informational tool but that also means you can use it to be horrible and people do. A few bad apples ruin the bunch unfortunately.
@@TsarinaJacksontore Nazis were kids when you compare them to communists. Check holodomor. 3 millions of deaths because lack of food. Why? That was soviets decision. Gulag Archipelago, a must read book.
Yeah, that makes me sad, what is happening rn. In wwII ppls knew why they are fighting for, however, feminists are trying to burn everything down again... they're saying they want Poland to be a better place, but when someone asked one of them "could you die for Poland?" She said "no... dying is too much" so excuse me, if they could betray us, then how dare them to rule us? In reality idk how would I react for a war, but even if I am only 15 I feel like I can fight for Poland, no matter what it will cost...
@@qubek533 they don't care about Poland, they are infected by leftist ideology that denies nations, statehood, and cultural diversity. It's a machiavellian move when they speak about the good of the society... Everything must be according to their views based on utopia that have no identity. They only care about hedonism and instant gratification without any struggle. They have no idea or interest in how the world works, yet they want to change it by destroying things others care for.
@@qubek533 There were a ton of women who fought in the Polish resistance. If you think "feminists are trying to burn everything down" then you got punk'd into believing some bullshit clickbait.
@@MuadPL I would say you are infected by the "propaganda" of the right wing who denies diversity by suppresing for example in poland other sexualitys beside the common one. and can you pls explain how feminism is suppresing cultural diversity? and what "they" want to destroy?
@@nullharmonic >women's strike< has more to do with a totalitarian system that women of the Polish resistance fought against than with those women. It's just being depicted as just by the biased, one-sided media. Leaders of that movement are lunatics.
As an American, I've always found Poland to be the nation that most closely shares our own values, even moreso than Britain. I can feel nothing but respect for the Polish people and their history.
My grandad was born in Poland in 1920, He lived a good life in Warsaw until the Germans bombed the city in 1939. He joined the Polish resistance, risked his life everyday but got captured in 1943, got sent to a camp in northern Norway. After the war, he stayed in Norway and lived a good life until his death in 1990.
@@bratbrata4974 in defense of Polish people, most of the collaborators were busy in their homeland and Germans didn't trust them to send on frontline. Whatever atrocities they committed in war, they have mostly taken for themselves.
@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 ohh look guys we got a good ol' "usa bad commie good" Go bring a factual evidence, please I beg you Edit: Since I enjoy my inbox, I was wrong like just putting it out there. I'm just not a fan of the band wagon of hating a country for no reason. TLDR: I was stupid and wrong
@@sam8742 here’s a fact: Eugene Debs was the most popular third party candidate in American history and was jailed for speaking out against America’s involvement in WW1.
It’s actually pretty incredible how much Poland is left out of media and culture about ww2 in western europe. When talking about resistance organizations pretty much just the french comes up, and when talking about burning villages and brutality in the countryside it’s usually in the context of ukraine or russia. Like when a westerner hears poland in ww2 they are likely to only imagine “oh the place where ww2 started”, “lol horses vs tanks”, or “oh that place where the jews lived in ghettos and were sent to concentration camps”.
Want to hear a fun little detail? Polish soldiers were excluded from the victory parade in London after WW2 ended because the Westerners were worried about annoying the Soviets.
⌛️⌛️(Sorry for the long comment)⌛️⌛️ You seemed interested in learning a little more so I hope you find this enlightening. People often dismiss Poland as a non-important matter and that they somehow deserved it because they couldn't defend themselves.... As if a country that's like 20 years old will withstand an invasion with a whole new strategy from the West and then be attacked almost simultaneously from the East, attacked by two super powers. Poland was honestly backstabbed by the allies so many times throughout the war but especially after the war. I didn't believe it until I started to learn. To this day Poland is ignored and precedence is given to objectively less important topics. My grandfather survived Siberia, after being taken there by the Russians. So did my grandmother. My grandfather lost his toe from frostbite in Siberia. My grandfather joined Anders Army despite being underage, only a teenager (a Polish army outside Poland, that then joined the British army)- and he saw action across North Africa and in Italy at one of the bloodiest battles in the war. He had one the hardest jobs, being positioned 1km outside of their camps- if any Nazi raids happened at night he was to empty his 30 seconds of bullets, pick up his heavy gun and run 1km back to safety (the idea was his gunfire would warn his camp of a surprise attack.) As you'd imagine from all the explosions, he lost his ability to hear properly in one ear. He stayed in the armed forces after the war and was positioned in the UK where he eventually left the army and started his life here. My grandmother somehow survived Siberia, - she was taken there with her whole family when she was just a child. Of perhaps 17, only about 5 survived as far as she knows. Many froze to death or starved or were forced to join the Russian army and sent to the frontlines to die. Her dad would eat the bark from trees in Siberian work camps or he would even boil leather belts just to satisfy his stomach from the starvation. He didn't make it. She came to the UK as a refugee after the war as a teenager at this point. On my mum's side both her parents survived the war somehow. Her dad managed to escape a train headed for a concentration camp with a friend. Another time the soldiers came to take him away - he said "let me go inside my house and get a few things." They somehow agreed, he went into his house and jumped out the back and ran away. Little did he know his brother escaped from his captors and returned home hiding inside. So as my grandfather escaped the property, the soldiers outside realised he's gone. So went inside the property and arrested his brother, interrogated him and locked him up. My grandfathers brother never held it against him, my grandfather didn't know his brother was inside and was just escaping, surviving. These aren't even the full stories of these individuals. Just snippets. Now imagine millions and millions of people all surviving the war and all its atrocities surviving two morally corrupt, genociding superpowers. It is unfathomable the things these people had to go through. I pay my respects to everyone who died and fought in the war wishing to see a free Poland for their future generations. Thank you for your sacrifice.
This could easily be one of the best representative videos about war. It's not the fight in the frontline, it's the massacres behind it. The video really shocked me. Awesome creation.
I’m a Polish Jewish American and a year or 2 ago this girl in school was trying to say that my family can’t have an opinion on oppression because my family is white, I’m glad I didn’t argue but holy crap people have no idea how much our families went through.
@Bergamo I definitely wouldn’t say that, “woke” people today may be annoying but they really only affect you as much as you let them. I would prefer to have to live with them over fascists or stalinists any day.
@@Indra-hx5vq facts are not offensive. censoring historical facts is offensive. if you choose to be offended by facts, you are a weak human. grow a spine, and deal with reality. stop trying to keep others from speaking, researching, and learning.
I'm a grown man but that made me cry. It is a history of my country. Also interesting thing: My grandpa ( who is 86 years old) told me some stories about what my family was doing durring WWII. My greate grandmother was smugling things like food or textilias thought General Government border ( border was located on the river near my house , there are even some bunkers and pilbox leftovers in some places) . But sadly she was caught by germans doing revision in her house. She was then send to Plasow and tortured. My grandpa took me there, it is a museum now. Also my grandpa brother took an action in blowing up the rail bridge on the said river when the armoured train with ammo was on it. He lost a leg in the process. Also my grandpa remembers that artilery strikes destroyed their barn and shatered every window in his house.
Me too.My great great uncle was killed in 300 squadron fighting for Poland.My grandma drove trucks to supply polish troops in Italy and my Grandfather was a radio operator in Italy.The rest of my family from WW2 escaped from Russia except for the ones who died in the soviet gulags
As another nation that suffered greatly under the hands of fascist oppression, I send love from Korea! Poland and Korea have such similar histories, always being attacked but always remaining strong. I salute our Polish brothers who fought against the Nazis until the very end, only to be betrayed by the other allies. We have nothing but respect for Poland.
też wreszcienie mogłem się doczekać ktoś nagra zza granicy nagra coś o polskim ruchu oporu . Jak tak to każdy gada o francuskim , mimo że był ponad dwa razy mniejszy od polskiego.
I feel like out of respect I should sing/say the name of the polish anthem, because germans one day singing their anthem wouldve meant something to the people in the underground state. Yk what I mean?
As a Pole.... We are the poles. Word "forgive"? Really? Look at the Poland now. There is no enemies from outside, let's split in two and fight each other!
@@Ggyhhggtyyy The USSR forcibly expelled all Germans from formerly German lands like Breslau, Stettin and Danzig (what is now west Poland) and replaced them with Poles from Ukraine and Belarus. While not as horrific as the extermination of millions of Jews and Poles, it's still horrible that millions of German civilians had to suffer as well through no fault of their own.
That was just an excuse to bait you to his site to pay. Pretty sure if it's in a historical context they wont take it down, just add their disclaimer/fact checking links. I could be wrong, but the fact that he is charging for the uncensored version says a lot.
@@HC-nj3bs Globalism has been a threat and shall remain so to every country, no matter how small or big it is, due to such ferocious atrocities committed on them, by either their neighbours, or colonial settlers. TH-cam is run by people who find History, true history, offensive. Nothing more can be expected from such people.
As a military historian, I'm grateful for your coverage of this. As an American, I'm even more grateful for the courageous example and enormous contribution of our Resistance friends in Poland.
@@carmansi8623 But we did not attack Poland! We even did help polish soldiers escape to the west, so learn some history before you say something stupid..........
TH-cam: Allows a LiveLeak to have a channel about horrific videos of people dying or getting hurt Armchair Historian: talks about history TH-cam: TeRrOrIst GeT hIm OuT oF hErE
I grew up in Poland with my mother and I miss this country very much. I always admired the resilience and hard work of Poles. No matter where I am, my heart will always stay in Poland and I pray it will know peace for a long time.
Finally, someone who understands the Polish sensitivity. Meanwhile, Poland is accused of the worst crimes by those, who used to suffer during the German occupation together with ethnic Poles.
@Абдульзефир Watch the videos that this channel posted about what you are claiming, its not at all as you are saying. I will link them here for you: th-cam.com/video/kfm0AQNzpkc/w-d-xo.html , th-cam.com/video/17NArJ6wQqo/w-d-xo.html. After World War I, Poland engaged in the Polish-Soviet War during which it pushed into lands that the USSR was holding (modern-day Ukraine and Belarus). They fought ALONGSIDE the Ukrainians. This was all to stop the spread of communism into Europe which peaked at the Battle of Warsaw. Watch the video above to understand the whole story. Before being invaded, Poland annexed an ethnically Polish village in Czechoslovakia. They did NOT partition Czechoslovakia with Germany. Partitioning it with them implies cooperation with the Germans which they did not do. Additionally, it was the Germans that took over the vast majority of Czechoslovakia, as evidenced by them using it as a vantage point for staging WW2. Your source saying that "500k" Poles enlisted in the Wehrmacht is not credible whatsoever. 1) The author does not even list his full name nor any of his credentials to speak on the topic. 2) The entire article does not cite any evidence. You cannot make these claims without proper evidence. Also, Poland throughout history was one of the most tolerant nations to Jews. In fact, it was all the way back in 1264 in the Statute of Kalisz that they gave plenty of civil liberties to Jews while other nations were oppressing them... why do you think Poland had such a large Jewish population at the start of WW2? It's because they were very tolerant.
Norman Davies in his "God's Playground", his history of Poland, wrote that that is quite typical for Poles that all of them declare to be ready to die for their fatherland, but not so many were so eager to actually live for it. How fitting.
I wish I had a country I was willing to die for. Alas, I live in one of many degenerating western culturally liberal societies with no real values or common cause
@@IconoclastX I am an American. I am willing to fight and die for America's founding values even if my nation and government betrays them. “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.” ― Mark Twain
That footage of the man being beaten by that German Officer is heartbreaking. I know it’s animated, but Jesus man. I feel that was all to real. It’s these kinds of videos that really put the brutality of WW2 into perspective.
Love learning about Polish history. My great grandparents came to America from Poland. I never got to meet them but, my grandma could speak, read, and write in Polish and I thought that was so cool.
@@Panasiux2 I had a Romanian school teacher up here in Alaska, she was really great with European history once you got her out of her shyness to talk! Could listen to her for hours
my grandfather served in the British army in ww2 and fought alongside polish forces from d day all the way to the Siegfried Line campaign where he was injured and sent home. he told me that the poles were some of the greatest soldiers he'd ever seen. he was saddened after the war when most of the Polish people living in Britain including the men he fought alongside during the war returned to Poland. he said the kingdom had lost half of its best soldiers when that happened.
The saddest thing is that Great Britain did not allow Polish soldiers to participate much in the victory parade. These people returned to the country and many of them were tortured, murdered or ostracized. Their families and they were constantly monitored by the communist security services.
@@bratbrata4974 that's a sad truth but at least some of those polish soldiers stayed in Britain. so at least they didn't go through that communist hellhole
@@RobertPage562 My family, since my dad, lived in what is today Belarus. It used to be part of Poland. Dad was born in 1939. Grandpa was a policeman. The Russians caught him and gave him back to the Germans. He spent the entire war in Germany as a slave and worked in a forge. He was lucky because he could land in the pit in Katyn and Ostashkov, where the Russians murdered 22,000 Polish officers and soldiers. Grandpa returned to Poland in 1947. My father did not even know who his father was. Grandfather could not find a job because he was a pre-war police. The communists didn't like it. The other grandfather was a Parisian near the Bug River. He fought with the Russians, the Germans with the Ukrainian nationalists with the Polish communist partisans and with the research of Jews who attacked the villages, murdered and stole. I found out that he was a partisan and fought with communists in 1997. Because admitting to it in the communist times in Poland would end up in problems for the whole family. Think of the family's fear that they hadn't told me anything about it since 1989. I was a child. Now I'm proud of my grandfather.
@@RobertPage562 ⌛️⌛️(Sorry for the long comment)⌛️⌛️ My grandfather was one of the Polish soldiers who stayed in the UK after the war. Going back was not an option, he knew you'd be arrested, tortured and executed. The USSR who invaded Poland saw Polish soldiers as a threat to their tyranny. I'm glad he stayed otherwise well my family as I know it would never have existed. I was born here in the UK like my sibling, cousins, aunties and uncles and father and consider myself British despite being almost exclusively Polish by blood. I'm British-Polish. I've had to face racism unfortunately all too often despite quite frankly acting more British than the average person and contributing more. People often dismiss Poland as a non-important matter and that they somehow deserved it because they couldn't defend themselves.... As if a country that's like 20 years old will withstand an invasion with a whole new strategy from the West and then be attacked almost simultaneously from the East, attacked by two super powers. My grandfather survived Siberia, after being taken there by the Russians. So did my grandmother. My grandfather lost his toe from frostbite in Siberia. My grandfather joined Anders Army despite being underage, only a teenager (a Polish army outside Poland, that then joined the British army)- and he saw action across North Africa and in Italy at one of the bloodiest battles in the war. He had one the hardest jobs, being positioned 1km outside of their camps- if any Nazi raids happened at night he was to empty his 30 seconds of bullets, pick up his heavy gun and run 1km back to safety (the idea was his gunfire would warn his camp of a surprise attack.) As you'd imagine from all the explosions, he lost his ability to hear properly in one ear. He stayed in the armed forces after the war and was positioned in the UK where he eventually left the army and started his life here. My grandmother somehow survived Siberia, - she was taken there with her whole family when she was just a child. Of perhaps 17, only about 5 survived as far as she knows. Many froze to death or starved or were forced to join the Russian army and sent to the frontlines to die. Her dad would eat the bark from trees in Siberian work camps or he would even boil leather belts just to satisfy his stomach from the starvation. He didn't make it. She came to the UK as a refugee after the war as a teenager at this point. On my mum's side both her parents survived the war somehow. Her dad managed to escape a train headed for a concentration camp with a friend. Another time the soldiers came to take him away - he said "let me go inside my house and get a few things." They somehow agreed, he went into his house and jumped out the back and ran away. Little did he know his brother escaped from his captors and returned home hiding inside. So as my grandfather escaped the property, the soldiers outside realised he's gone. So went inside the property and arrested his brother, interrogated him and locked him up. My grandfathers brother never held it against him, my grandfather didn't know his brother was inside and was just escaping, surviving. These aren't even the full stories of these individuals. Just snippets. Now imagine millions and millions of people all surviving the war and all its atrocities surviving two morally corrupt, genociding superpowers. It is unfathomable the things these people had to go through. I pay my respects to everyone who died and fought in the war wishing to see a free Poland for their future generations. Thank you for your sacrifice. I salute all soldiers from every nation who thought for a Europe free from fascism and communism and genocide.
he fought for what man? to be conquered by russia and become a puppet communist state because the US and UK forgot about poland? like they did with other easter european countries?
Never forget the 50 thousand polish troops who came in to relieve the battered allied forces in Italy at Monte Cassino. They fought hard and had more to prove then anyone in the allied forces. There sacrifices will not be forgotten
Now I will tell you something interesting. On the German side, Poles from Silesia, incorporated by force, also fought. They had to fight against their brothers.
My great grandfather was fighting at Monte Cassino. After ww2 he came back to Poland and he instantly got arrested by communists and went to prison because of serving in Polish army on west. He never wanted to talk about the war, he spoke fluently German but he never used it after the war.
One of the best fighter squadrons in the RAF were polish aviators who escaped, during the Battle of Britain, they shot down more German aircraft than any other squadron
Fun-fact Susan Wojcicki is a half Pole half Russian-jew and her parents fled from the war to USA and i find it incredibly funny that TH-cam censor anything about war
People who criticize Poland for being too nationalistic or religious today need to understand that The Polish Nation has fought tooth and nail to even exist, not just against the nazis, not just against the soviets, but for something like 200 years, they were a nation without a state and their culture, religion, and identity only exist today because they fought so hard to keep it alive. Let Poland be Polish, they have earned it after surviving so long through people trying to force them not to be Polish.
I'm an secular agnostic myself, but those who ridicule Poland all the time, don't understand its history, how Poles used to suffer, how they fought relentlessly for our own country. Worst kind of ignorant people. Makes my blood boil.
we just know how sick ideology works. we know them and we see what is goin on now. belive or not, its happenng again but this time there will be one cleary visible winner
Cool idea although I think it does not have to be Manila only. Beijing will be interesting. So is nanking. And there is many others. Not denying your idea. Just adding to it.
@@whafflete6721 finally someone acknowledges the occupation of Malaya! It was a melting pot of content for videos like this, MPAJA Communists, Japanese sympathizers & Force 136
@@richardwong5616 What I've only know are only fragments(The mentioned Malayan communist and their post-Malaysia struggle,mostly just post-war stuff),so I'd love a more in-depth intro.
i like how youtube does barely anything about shitty prank channels who harass people in public for views but they'll do anything in their power to cut scenes from a historical video because they're youtube. and they can.
If you look through YT, you'll find plenty of stuff that would fall under the "Wiederbetätigungsgesetz" (law to prohibit Nazi symbols) in Germany or Austria. But education is censored. Incredible!
@Ian Mayer ur way of sarcasm I guess? Well sorry about my earlier blabla. My point was simply that while YT doesn't manage police actual NS-content, it instead censors education.
As an Indian I can feel the pain of polish people. My country too was betrayed and we payed hell for it. But props to the polish people who fought valiantly
My wife's grandfather grew up in Poland during the 30's and early 40's before they were able to escape to the UK and then the US. He had some horrible and inspiring stories.
Interesting fact: many Americans who fought in Europe had both Polish and German ancestries, which was useful since many of them spoke either German, Polish or both, especially those from Ohio, where the two often mingled cause of the Catholic faith I remember a teacher of mine claimed that her grandfather was raised to speak German his father's tongue while his little brother spoke Polish his mother tongue. Both brothers were used as translators and medics during WWII. Both the Poles and Germans they gave medical attention were surprised of their mixed ancestry and the fact that many American Catholics had both German and Polish ancestry.
wow, I think your right . Because am I'm American Catholic. my dad side family is scotch/Irish and my mom side is German, English and i think Polish too. I'm not sure on that part. I know in my mom's family have German and My Great Grandfather came from UK, so English.
@@RydiaLS83 cool: I'm not German or Polish but most Americans I know usually have various European ancestries that could only mingle in America, Germanic-Slavic being the most common in the American Midwest
My dear Polish sisters and brothers ! Lots and lots of love from Hungary 🇭🇺! Over here we all love you guys ! I wish I could go back in time and fight on your side ! Its blood boiling how the Krauts and the soviets tried to erase your encient country from the map ! Like two rabid wolfs trying to rip apart something........than insult to injury , you guys had to pretend to be in love with the Soviets for the next 45 years (the same goes for Hungary as well )
My aunty was 11 years old when, in the middle of the war, she broke into a German-controlled hospital in occupied Poland in order to steal the medicines people needed...A German soldier chased her and shot to her, luckily she managed to reach the forest and hide. But not only that, she told a lot of similar her own stories. My aunty died of covid several months ago. Even in her late 80s and even when very ill she always attended chuch every Sunday... Today we panic when there is no light or internet but the challenges of the people of that generation were so completely different.. Goodbye My Aunty, I just miss You...
@@blitzkrieg3482 Of course, because invading neutral, small and weak countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Yugoslavia, Greece), killing 20,000,000 Soviet civilians and 3,500,000 Soviet POWs show that you are a great and powerful country rigth??? The worst thing is that they did not even win the war or were close to achieving it and still you say that stupidity.
It wasn't censorship. It was self-censorship pushed by misguided and undifferentiated YT demonitization policy, (that's determined by bad AI and advertising companies including their decision for "non-controversial" vids to place their advertisements on). Similar outcome, but still big qualitative difference to fullout ban on that kind of content. Armchair historian unfortunately fails to clarify. If it was fullout censorship, the video couldn't be uploaded at all. But it can be, at least without ads. Of course and understandably, Armchair can't because they have to refinance production. So overall bad for education about controversial content. But censorship is not the correct label for what happened here.
@@joseavila1279 ok might have been wrong I'm editing this now as his Instagram says he's polish so it's possible his grandparents fought in it but quite unlikely
Because bigtech is building a "Brave New World", and what does not fit into this reality is to be forgotten or erased. In Poland, we had censorship imposed by the communists. Here you also have censorship imposed by a leftist corporation.
@@bratbrata4974 Well, not really. It‘s a lot simpler than that. Advertisers don’t want to advertise on videos with mature content, so that is when demonetization comes in, because big corporations like money. And because of TH-cam‘s monopoly, what is anyone going to do about it? This doesn’t have anything to do with leftists.
After this I did the salute that the Polish vet did and took a moment to remember those millions of souls who were murdered. Sending love from New Zealand.
@Tees Man wtf is wrong with you? Say that to Greece maybe we will take Billions of Euro but EU was maked to fund countries (ok now in a not good way) poor, ruined or out of cash countries
@@samanthamason9326 Hungary not helped the germans till 1941, the bombing on Kassa. The soviets bombed that city (now thats outside of hungary), the hungarians got a Thing to join the war against the soviets. But a little time after this Miklós Horthy was about to quit the war, bcuz Hungary was a bad situation. Horthy speaked to the soviets, both side want to sign a non-agresson pact bcuz the bombing on Kassa is a mistery. But Hitler dont want the hungarian quit, and the Hungarian nazi party, the nilasians was taked the rule (they kidnapped the regent's (kingdom with a regent) and forced Horthy to give the power to Ferenc Szalasi (leader of the nilasians)) AND Horthy dont want to accept the jew laws, that Hitler says. So yeah. Confusing times
Poland fought for others and no one fought for them. And they still continue to honor their commitments. I respect the heck out of those people. They’ve been through more than most and continue to maintain who they are upon never ending duress.
yeah IJA armies were worse than the SS, generally you might get beat but you got shot and your family if the SS caught you, if the IJA caught you erhm "struggle snuggles" with a bayonet dont sound nice at all
It is beyond comprehension what the Poles went through. That they endured and overcame facism and communism and are now a free nation with a vibrant, free economy is such a testimony to the strength of the Polish people and the miraculous power and grace of God. Great video, as always. Please keep the outstanding videos coming and God bless you and your team, my friend!
I read a lot about the Greek resistance movement and how the Germans treated the Greeks. I know that the Greeks never gave up and fought with determination. I have great respect for the Greeks. I know that they were under Turkish occupation for centuries and started uprisings and finally regained their own country. There are probably no other nations in Europe with such a history of fighting for freedom as the Greeks and Poles. And the Irish - honoris causa - Poles from Western Europe
Memory of this is still well alive here in eastern Poland. My grandparents adopted child from destroyed village just 2km away (Sochy). Life was brutal then, censorship is not an answer to not repeat it - education is
The unimaginable horror inflicted by my country at its lowest point truly never ceases to shock and appall. The Polish people endured such excruciating hardships throughout their history, and yet their spirit never broke. May it prevail forevermore, O brave Poles!
Armchair Historian: Speaks Truth TH-cam: Damn masochist, you must love this huh? DEMONETISED! Edit: 1,3k !? Big thanks for that. Of I had a sub for every like i could have 1M subs in a month
@@james_poika3186 Have you heard the tragedy of Dr. Ludwig the wise? I think not, is not a story the arses of you tube would tell you, not long ago lived a channel dedicated to the preservation and distribution of German Folk Music ranging from Medieval era all the way to the second half of the Twentieth Century but despite the community being a peaceful one and the songs being non-political and sometimes even just instrumental the channel got striked, songs taken down and banned the case as all of You Tube being an arse got ignored shoved below thousands of appellation messages and tweets... the fear lives among the people of this German Music enthusiast community as they do not know when the next attack to such beautiful pieces of art will arrive, and it will.
I respect the Polish so much because of their history:The saving of Vienna,WW2,Poland-Lithuania,... They were very brave,always.Respect from Austria!I am also very ashamed for my countrys history with poland and so I am sorry.This Video gave a New Perspective and it even Made me cry...
To be honest, Austria was still among the more pleasant neighbors Poland had and the tamest among partitionists. So much so, Poles were somewhat loyal to the Austro-Hungarian Empire thanks to its tolerance.
In 1920, the Poles defeated the Soviet invasion and saved Central Europe from Soviet occupation for another generation. The Soviets would get their revenge in 1939 and continue until 1989
@@kamilszadkowski8864 Despite Hötzendorf's disasterous campaigns, the Polish Legions were one of the best soldiers fighting for Austria-Hungary. They repelled many Russian attacks in WW1, and the Austro-Hungarian & German commanders were impressed by the Polish soldiers' performance. Later they won against the USSR. Respect!
@@TheAustrianAnimations87 Indeed, the Battle of Kostiuchnówka alone was probably one of the main factors why German and Austrian leaderships decided to form the Kingdom of Poland despite the arguments that will make Russias more reluctant to accept any peace deal.
The fact that the Nazis systematically leveled an entire city and murdered thousands of it's people out of pure spite is appalling. I always tell people how nothing is black and white, but the Nazis by the end of WW2 defy this. They came to represent humanities darkest. This destruction wasn't done to serve the future of the Aryan race, nor was it for the defense of the fatherland, not even done as a scare tactic... It was pure human rage, hate, and spite. To all the poles out there, God bless you. I do not speak for all of my countrymen, but I salute you all, here in the US state of Texas.
What is even more appalling is that Soviet army just sat and watched all that happened just few hundred meters away across the Vistula river waiting for the last of the Poles to be wiped out and Germans to retreat so they can boast about 'liberating' Warsaw for decades to come.
@@IsshTM i know im late to reply to this but as i read your comment now, id like to add: the soviet generals were of the very same breed that invaded and brutally oppressed the poles in 39. they didnt wait merely because they wanted the glory, they waited because why would they help the enemy? years after the communists took over Poland, the government was pushed to arrest polish freedom-fighters as "radicals" threatening the state... after Stalin died this oppression was... curtailed... but the fact of the matter was that Stalin and his generals HATED the poles, so when they saw the home army across the Vistula fighting to liberate themselves... the soviets only saw rats desperately biting at the nazis then rotting corpse... "An ant has no quarrel with a boot"... and both the nazis and soviets intended to step on the poles...
That growl effect at 11:50 gave me chills. Everything in this video, from the sound design to the animation to the writing, is absolutely incredible. The Armchair Historian team should be proud of themselves for this one.
Doesn’t this censorship border on Holocaust denial? Sensitivity be damned when talking about these heavy topics. People need to know what happened and if you have to hold their eyelids open and force them to not look away then so be it. Just put a disclaimer that there’s sensitive topics and viewer discretion is advised....
About that forced labour, my friend's great grandfather was sent to Germany, and everyone in his village and family thought he was dead. But after the war, he walked (sic!) back from Germany to Little Poland ( near Kraków). My friends great grandmother thought she saw a ghost, and almost died for the heart attack.
"I judged the Poles by their enemies. And I found it was an almost unfailing- truth that their enemies were the enemies of magna- nimity and manhood. If a man loved slavery, if he loved usury, if he loved terrorism and all the trampled mire of materialistic politics, I have always found that he added to these affections the passion of a hatred of Poland. She could be judged in the light of that hatred ; and the judgment has proved to be right.” G.K. Chesterton
14:40 this scene is absolutely chilling. Now repeat several million times and you start approaching the horror of this occupation which is too much ignored in Western Europe. Good job for putting such a nightmare into animation.
When I watched the window bit, I was afraid that one of the Germans was gonna see the person hiding, but thought that maybe, just maybe, they’d be able to avoid being seen, but then one of the Germans did see them.
when i see comments like this, i fell sorry for my ancestors of USSR who died in great numbers to free the eastern slavs, saving them of complete extemination. Should have just left them to nazis, not even speaking of help to rebuild their countries, industry, culture, provide a life actually better than in russia itself.
Russians packed up entire Factory on trains and send them to Russia you did not liberate you were the next conqueror what a surprise commies don't teach history just propaganda
I've been there myself. The scale of the place is just shocking. I think flights should be arranged for deniers, and they should be made to go on a tour.
I think i can't visit that place at all the impact from the past and the dense atmosphere from waht happend there would be to much for my Soul and Mind to even watch documantarys gives me stomache Pain 🤧
I would consider the wording. It either means "Poland is not yet lost" or "Poland is not yeat dead", beacause "zginelła" means lost and dead in Polish.
I may be Filipino, but the fact that Poland fearlessly fought their occupants reminds me of the ww2 Japanese Occupation here in the Philippines. Our methods and strategies are evidently different, but the circumstances were the same. 🇵🇭🇵🇱
@Adele Avril Are you another anti-polish hater? Sounds like you are one of the young Israeli whose Government is indoctrinating them by spreading lies about the Polish citizens. The Israeli Government wants to force Poland to compensate Jews for the imaginary crimes supposedly committed by Poles. This is really disgusting! Germany already paid the American Jewish Organizations big money for the real crimes committed against Jews. However, the greedy Jews are spreading disgusting lies to build the sympathy of the entire World, as a justification to force the Polish Government to pay more money for the German's crimes (not Polish). The truth is much different: Jews are hiding their crimes committed against Poles. When the Soviet Union attacked Poland 2 weeks after the Germans' invasion, the notorious Russian Jews (picked by Stalin) were in charge of handling the Polish prisoners of the war. They were responsible for massive executions of the Polish Officers and intelligence in Katyn ( around 32 thousand victims). There were also other places where Poles were brutally executed by NKWD. One of the worse criminals behind this hideous crime was BERIA, a Russian Jew who hated Poles for defeating the Soviets during the Invasion of Poland in 1920.
I gotta say the illustrations have improved so much over the past few years, big shoutout to the people working on them, they really deserve more praise
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Hi Griff, i wanted to ask, it would be really interesting for you to cover Indonesia, Malaysia, or Southeast Asia as a whole during WWII. How the allies failed to defend them, how Japan conquered them, and how they were retaken.
- A curious fan
Maybe
No thanks.
Hii
In order for such horrible things to never happen again, we should learn about them, not censor them. Just by remembering hell, we can avoid it.
Well said, history forgotten is doomed to be repeated
Or countries like Poland should do what Poland is doing now with American military bases in Poland and buying F35s off the US. So, they have a big boy reliable Ally that will come to their aid when needed.
@@brettk9316 Panama: thats BS
Corporations: “mah advertisement monies”
Everything you just said is correct. Sooo why is thisand many other things censored?
What most people don't realize is that no matter how "historical" a building is in Warsaw, it is a recreation of the original, because the entire city was leveled. That's just insane to imagine.
There are still some historical gold nuggest around, but you are right.
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568This comment is beyond any comprehension. You not only failed to recognise and separate two different times during the war which are - the defeat of 1939 and the Uprisings of 1943 nd 1944; you also doubted almost absolute destrution of Warsaw. The city was particulary hard hit in September 1939, because it was subjugated to a month of constant air raids without any regard for patrimony and human life whatsoever (see Julien Bryan's film "Siege"; this American film maker was the only foreign correspondent out there documenting these atrocities). Now, I don't know what anti-German movies, that could still be filmed in Poland after 1939, you are reffering to - their sheer existence doesn't seem very possible. Also any picture filmed after the war would obviously cover newly rebuild or restored buildings as people immediately got to cleaning and rebuilding (they also started to exhumate the dead - around 250.000 of them; the process took two years). In the end the reconstruction of Warsaw was finished only in the 1970s. During the war around 85 percent of west-bank Warsaw was destroyed. Planned burning and blowing up also took place (many great palaces including the Royal Castle were simply blown up). After the war many buildings could only be leveled, many could be resoterd but were taken down by the communists too. Countless buildings perished, palaces, residences and villas from the times of the Kingdom (pre 1795) that were of extreme historical and national value didn't survive. It was even considered to leave Warsaw as she was and move the capital to Łódź. The city was to become a large scaled memorial. Fortunately even communists had some sanity and decided to take upon rebuilding. I'd rather not comment on what you said about The Pianist.
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 Pianist is fu*king propaganda? Dude this is like saying Shindler's list is fantasy movie.
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 The movie you are thinking about, "The Zookeepers Wife" was the true story of the Zabinskis who hid Jews in the Warsaw Zoo largely emptied of the animals by the Germans. The movie mostly covered the German occupation period where the city was largely in-tact. During the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, that portion of the city was leveled and during the 63 Day Warsaw Uprising, the Germans destroyed 85% of the city. Much of the city was deliberately demolished on Hitler's orders. Only an ignorant person would call this historical fact anti-German propaganda. Even the German historians and successive German Governments acknowledge this fact which you boorishly dismiss as propaganda.
Same in most of historical landmark in my city of Manila, which got flatten during the fight between the Empire of Japan and USA
Fun fact : the 2 finger salute of the veteran in the opening scene is unique to Poland . It has its own history too . Its said that in the Battle of Olszynka Grochowska in 1831 , a soldier belonging to Poland , after having 2 of his fingers and his thumb blown off during the fighting , saluted his commanding officer with his remaining two fingers before dying .
It is also thought that it was adopted because it points at the Polish White Eagle , found on the headgear of military personnel . Since the eagle symbolizes courage , strength and independence , the salute pointed to the fact that even though they were conquered , the Polish people would still be courageous and fight for their independence .
Another thing I seem to remember is polish soldiers in the British army were arrested doing this salute. The officers thought they were making fun of them as it was similar to the boy scouts salute.
@@beneaston3362 I actually thought it was a boy scout salute, as during the uprising polish boy scouts fought alongside the home army
@@beneaston3362 yeah I remember seeing that in a video
Yep. And it can only be done to the Eagle (on the cap/helmet). Polish soldiers didn't salute the Brits were they were on leave or something, they just give attention and stand straight.
I thought that was a myth
Best wishes to Poland - From Korea
Korea also suffered from neighboring super powers (China, Japan) throughout the Korean history and our ancestors had to fight for independence and survival so this clip looks really familiar to me.
I’m truly sorry for what the Germans and the Japanese did to Korea and Poland, I wish the best for both of you and this coming from someone is 25% Japanese but mostly American.
Love from Poland.
Long live Korea and Poland from China.
How did China oppress you?
As Polish, after reading history of Korea, I was surprised how historically similar we are to each other.
Life in the General Government was brutal. Hans Frank (the German governor, seated in Kraków) 'crowned' his wife as the queen of Poland. His son (Niklas Frank) one day asked his father about atrocities he witnessed. His father scolded him for it. Niklas Frank later became a journalist and wrote a book about his father he considered a war criminal. Thanks for making this video.
Nice seeing you here
Love your videos!
@Egg Egg egg egg Huh?
Life in General Government would be a great topic for another video. You will not believe someone could be sentenced to death for... buying a milk for example.
Frank was hanged for his crimes against humanity at Nuremberg.
As a German i think it's outrageous youtube restricts this.
Too many people even in my country don't know nearly enough about this
Yeah, I remember when Stefan Tompson conducted a street survey in Berlin asking people whether Poland was fighting for or against the Nazis. The fact that there were Germans that answered that Poland fought on the Axis side was terrfying.
there were i live they even make "funny" jokes about this topic , some of them are even so "funny" that i want to punch those people in the face. Like really some of those people dosent even know about how teribble the nazi regime was.
This is not the target of the rules but is subject to them unfortunately. TH-cam makes the rules to mitigate actual hateful content some of which would use "I am being educational" as a defense to spread really awful stuff. The internet is a really powerful informational tool but that also means you can use it to be horrible and people do. A few bad apples ruin the bunch unfortunately.
@@TsarinaJacksontore Nazis were kids when you compare them to communists. Check holodomor. 3 millions of deaths because lack of food. Why? That was soviets decision. Gulag Archipelago, a must read book.
If you learn about those crimes you can understand why polish goverment wants reperetions for ww2
"We wanted to be free, and owe our freedom to nobody" - this is written on the wall when you enter the Uprising Museum in Warsaw.
Yeah, that makes me sad, what is happening rn. In wwII ppls knew why they are fighting for, however, feminists are trying to burn everything down again... they're saying they want Poland to be a better place, but when someone asked one of them "could you die for Poland?" She said "no... dying is too much" so excuse me, if they could betray us, then how dare them to rule us? In reality idk how would I react for a war, but even if I am only 15 I feel like I can fight for Poland, no matter what it will cost...
@@qubek533 they don't care about Poland, they are infected by leftist ideology that denies nations, statehood, and cultural diversity. It's a machiavellian move when they speak about the good of the society... Everything must be according to their views based on utopia that have no identity. They only care about hedonism and instant gratification without any struggle. They have no idea or interest in how the world works, yet they want to change it by destroying things others care for.
@@qubek533 There were a ton of women who fought in the Polish resistance. If you think "feminists are trying to burn everything down" then you got punk'd into believing some bullshit clickbait.
@@MuadPL I would say you are infected by the "propaganda" of the right wing who denies diversity by suppresing for example in poland other sexualitys beside the common one. and can you pls explain how feminism is suppresing cultural diversity? and what "they" want to destroy?
@@nullharmonic >women's strike< has more to do with a totalitarian system that women of the Polish resistance fought against than with those women. It's just being depicted as just by the biased, one-sided media. Leaders of that movement are lunatics.
It's tragic to know that the whole world, all of us, failed Poland when they needed us most. Much love from Mexico my friends
Whst you expect we can't protect everyone
@@darknova1552 i mean.
Uk and France betrayed Poland af and they guaranted they would help.
@@Adammarshall2341 Battle of Britain, Polish pilots turned the tide.
Being born in Poland is life on hard mode
Wait to engaland
More like veteran mode on black ops
What about African and other 3rd world countries?
Legendary Halo 3 with all skulls on
mastermode hardmode on terraria
TH-cam : We're against Nazism
Historians : Makes a video against Nazism
TH-cam : *Wait. That's illegal.*
Can we just appreciate how amazing his narration is. Wish I could narrate my videos that well
@@DyslexicMitochondria I like your narration. Your videos are really cool
TH-cam looking suuus
What if youtube was for Nazism? Always has been
TH-cam covering up nazi war crimes... makes you think
I beg TH-cam to at least make a setting for "Sensitive topic" so the offensive histories could be monetized even with violence
"""""""""offensive""''""""''". But you are right, good idea
Mkay
beg :D rofl
Then it should be possible for all side to tell everything.It's impossible to tell stories about german civilians during the bombings too.
Good idea
In Poland we strongly believe: "better to die standing than to live on your knees"
As an American, I've always found Poland to be the nation that most closely shares our own values, even moreso than Britain. I can feel nothing but respect for the Polish people and their history.
CHECHT CHECZ
*centuries of occupation and still existing till today intensifies*
@@viysnjor4811america is when i when they are is obesese
Is that a polish saying? Because I swear I've heard it before from the Mexican revolution or something
We now live in a time where historical events can be censored
true and sad
@@autotainment3113 nice pfp
Kinda like how Germany is trying to forget it's history and same with Japan
It's really sad that historical videos are censored but shitty clickbait videos like "Spongebob called me at 3am!!!" are allowed.
@@HK-it8ny Germans don't forget, they teach about their mistakes in school, besides the US is even worse.
My grandad was born in Poland in 1920, He lived a good life in Warsaw until the Germans bombed the city in 1939. He joined the Polish resistance, risked his life everyday but got captured in 1943, got sent to a camp in northern Norway. After the war, he stayed in Norway and lived a good life until his death in 1990.
Respect
Respect
Chad
Lucky guy Norway ain't bad right?
@@MrCr00wn Norway is great, the nature and the history. I just love being a norwegian! :) its just the corona that messing up stuff now sadly :(
Poland is one of the most underrated factions in ww2. They never gave up and never surrendered.
In addition, Poles are accused of mass collaboration with the Germans.
That’s the reason I respect to Poland !!!
@@bratbrata4974 false, you meant croats
@@bratbrata4974 in defense of Polish people, most of the collaborators were busy in their homeland and Germans didn't trust them to send on frontline. Whatever atrocities they committed in war, they have mostly taken for themselves.
@Tyler Haddock your absolutely right mate, we certainly don’t learn enough about the large contribution the poles made during WW2
One of the few youtube videos that has made me cry, Poland truly is a nation of brave people
Love from Colombia
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history”
-George Orwell
It's happening in the USA
@@chaosXP3RT Or already happened. For well over 150 years...
@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228
ohh look guys we got a good ol' "usa bad commie good"
Go bring a factual evidence, please I beg you
Edit: Since I enjoy my inbox, I was wrong like just putting it out there. I'm just not a fan of the band wagon of hating a country for no reason.
TLDR: I was stupid and wrong
@Dayas Panditas US brainwashing in action.
@@sam8742 here’s a fact: Eugene Debs was the most popular third party candidate in American history and was jailed for speaking out against America’s involvement in WW1.
It’s actually pretty incredible how much Poland is left out of media and culture about ww2 in western europe. When talking about resistance organizations pretty much just the french comes up, and when talking about burning villages and brutality in the countryside it’s usually in the context of ukraine or russia. Like when a westerner hears poland in ww2 they are likely to only imagine “oh the place where ww2 started”, “lol horses vs tanks”, or “oh that place where the jews lived in ghettos and were sent to concentration camps”.
IKR
Maybe one day our history will become more widely known. One day perhaps...
Want to hear a fun little detail? Polish soldiers were excluded from the victory parade in London after WW2 ended because the Westerners were worried about annoying the Soviets.
@@HubiKoshi true
⌛️⌛️(Sorry for the long comment)⌛️⌛️
You seemed interested in learning a little more so I hope you find this enlightening.
People often dismiss Poland as a non-important matter and that they somehow deserved it because they couldn't defend themselves....
As if a country that's like 20 years old will withstand an invasion with a whole new strategy from the West and then be attacked almost simultaneously from the East, attacked by two super powers.
Poland was honestly backstabbed by the allies so many times throughout the war but especially after the war. I didn't believe it until I started to learn. To this day Poland is ignored and precedence is given to objectively less important topics.
My grandfather survived Siberia, after being taken there by the Russians. So did my grandmother. My grandfather lost his toe from frostbite in Siberia. My grandfather joined Anders Army despite being underage, only a teenager (a Polish army outside Poland, that then joined the British army)- and he saw action across North Africa and in Italy at one of the bloodiest battles in the war. He had one the hardest jobs, being positioned 1km outside of their camps- if any Nazi raids happened at night he was to empty his 30 seconds of bullets, pick up his heavy gun and run 1km back to safety (the idea was his gunfire would warn his camp of a surprise attack.) As you'd imagine from all the explosions, he lost his ability to hear properly in one ear. He stayed in the armed forces after the war and was positioned in the UK where he eventually left the army and started his life here. My grandmother somehow survived Siberia, - she was taken there with her whole family when she was just a child. Of perhaps 17, only about 5 survived as far as she knows. Many froze to death or starved or were forced to join the Russian army and sent to the frontlines to die. Her dad would eat the bark from trees in Siberian work camps or he would even boil leather belts just to satisfy his stomach from the starvation. He didn't make it. She came to the UK as a refugee after the war as a teenager at this point.
On my mum's side both her parents survived the war somehow. Her dad managed to escape a train headed for a concentration camp with a friend. Another time the soldiers came to take him away - he said "let me go inside my house and get a few things." They somehow agreed, he went into his house and jumped out the back and ran away. Little did he know his brother escaped from his captors and returned home hiding inside. So as my grandfather escaped the property, the soldiers outside realised he's gone. So went inside the property and arrested his brother, interrogated him and locked him up. My grandfathers brother never held it against him, my grandfather didn't know his brother was inside and was just escaping, surviving.
These aren't even the full stories of these individuals. Just snippets. Now imagine millions and millions of people all surviving the war and all its atrocities surviving two morally corrupt, genociding superpowers.
It is unfathomable the things these people had to go through.
I pay my respects to everyone who died and fought in the war wishing to see a free Poland for their future generations. Thank you for your sacrifice.
This could easily be one of the best representative videos about war. It's not the fight in the frontline, it's the massacres behind it.
The video really shocked me. Awesome creation.
I’m a Polish Jewish American and a year or 2 ago this girl in school was trying to say that my family can’t have an opinion on oppression because my family is white, I’m glad I didn’t argue but holy crap people have no idea how much our families went through.
That was so racist of her to say, I guess she was too stupid to realize that.
America has become quite racist against "whites". Always disheartened by what I see online. People often become what they claim to hate.
@Bergamo I definitely wouldn’t say that, “woke” people today may be annoying but they really only affect you as much as you let them. I would prefer to have to live with them over fascists or stalinists any day.
The society in today’s America is so disappointing.
@Allahcunny Wtf is this profile pic?
The opening monologue is epic
tottally
Agree with you mate.
I can’t take it seriously because when that dude is speaking polish he sounds like the guy who talks in polish commercials
@@UrsusSuperior44 use the subtitles then. a polish man will speak polish with a polish accent
@@UrsusSuperior44 thanks for clarifying that. I was not aware that you were polish. I am very sorry if I offended you
"I want to learn about history".
YT: sorry, that's offensive.
it is dumb dumb you are just too naive and too much online.
@@Indra-hx5vq facts are not offensive. censoring historical facts is offensive. if you choose to be offended by facts, you are a weak human. grow a spine, and deal with reality. stop trying to keep others from speaking, researching, and learning.
"but sexual ads are perfectly fine. I see no problem here". Susan Wojciki probably.
@Ritvik Upadhyay
I've only seen one of them.
@@ritvikupadhyay7120 I mean they should be perfectly fine, just like education.
I'm a grown man but that made me cry. It is a history of my country. Also interesting thing: My grandpa ( who is 86 years old) told me some stories about what my family was doing durring WWII. My greate grandmother was smugling things like food or textilias thought General Government border ( border was located on the river near my house , there are even some bunkers and pilbox leftovers in some places) . But sadly she was caught by germans doing revision in her house. She was then send to Plasow and tortured. My grandpa took me there, it is a museum now. Also my grandpa brother took an action in blowing up the rail bridge on the said river when the armoured train with ammo was on it. He lost a leg in the process. Also my grandpa remembers that artilery strikes destroyed their barn and shatered every window in his house.
It's litterally horrifying to just imagine what they went through
Crazy how Poland did not level the concentration camp, but kept it there to remind us of its history.
@@twintalks8774 that’s how you prevent it from happening again.
Me too.My great great uncle was killed in 300 squadron fighting for Poland.My grandma drove trucks to supply polish troops in Italy and my Grandfather was a radio operator in Italy.The rest of my family from WW2 escaped from Russia except for the ones who died in the soviet gulags
My family doesn't even know our history in Poland because of those Nazi pricks.
As an Indian, I send my deepest respect, sympathy, and love to the indomitable spirit of the Polish people.
Best greetings
sending love from poland♥
As another nation that suffered greatly under the hands of fascist oppression, I send love from Korea! Poland and Korea have such similar histories, always being attacked but always remaining strong. I salute our Polish brothers who fought against the Nazis until the very end, only to be betrayed by the other allies. We have nothing but respect for Poland.
Damn, that's so nice of you to say that! People in Poland love Koreans, their culture and history. Best wishes from Poland :))
oh yeah this remined me poland is buying k2 panthers from south korea
@@choisean2345 Ah, that's true. It's one of the best tanks in the world, so I hope Poland will be happy with them! They made a good choice.
@@realsupercool22 Your welcome! Right back at you pal! :)
Then: polen weak, korea weak (south and north)
Now: *E T E R N A L H E L L*
I’m Polish, Thank You Griffin for showing the struggle the older generations had to go through. It shows you how the Polish spirit cannot be broken.
What's with your user name?
Respect from Germany too.
też wreszcienie mogłem się doczekać ktoś nagra zza granicy nagra coś o polskim ruchu oporu . Jak tak to każdy gada o francuskim , mimo że był ponad dwa razy mniejszy od polskiego.
sorry for our ancestors there were idiots respect to poland the red and white phoenix of europe from germany
@@kacperfronc Yes i know but there is still this light sense of discomfort when i hear about that😐
As a Pole, I want to say:
"Forgive, but NEVER forget"
I feel like out of respect I should sing/say the name of the polish anthem, because germans one day singing their anthem wouldve meant something to the people in the underground state. Yk what I mean?
As a Pole.... We are the poles. Word "forgive"? Really? Look at the Poland now. There is no enemies from outside, let's split in two and fight each other!
@@monikakaminska6556 There are a sh*tload of enemies. Look towards E and S-E. I won't even comment of insiders..
@@Ggyhhggtyyy The USSR forcibly expelled all Germans from formerly German lands like Breslau, Stettin and Danzig (what is now west Poland) and replaced them with Poles from Ukraine and Belarus. While not as horrific as the extermination of millions of Jews and Poles, it's still horrible that millions of German civilians had to suffer as well through no fault of their own.
A pamiętasz, jak polscy biskupi przebaczali niemieckim i prosili ich o przebaczenie?
I am Egyptian. And thus I almost have no relation to Poland. But it's so sad to think how much Poland suffered. Egypt stands with Poland 🇪🇬🇵🇱
You guys in Egypt had your share of suffering too :( - people can be horrific - Cheers from Poland
@@flea1985 True sadly :((, greetings, from Egypt my friend
But the Poles suffered far more than us Egyptians, not only in WW2 but all of history
Thanks, @Yousef Shahin Poland stands with Egypt too. It s great feeling that People understand your country nad respect it. ☺
@@janwill284 You are more than welcome pal, you guys went through so much and it's pretty impressive that you still preserve your country :)
Sucks that you can't talk about everything here. Appreciate the uploads
@@wrightkaneradio4918 what is censored?
@@wrightkaneradio4918 why not? He’s giving you his time
@@wrightkaneradio4918 Why?
@@Constance_tinople probably no money, or he might be a minor like me
That was just an excuse to bait you to his site to pay. Pretty sure if it's in a historical context they wont take it down, just add their disclaimer/fact checking links. I could be wrong, but the fact that he is charging for the uncensored version says a lot.
I hate TH-cam it’s depressing to see how history is being forgotten by people simply because they can’t find it easily.
History, as well as identity, art, languages and culture is a threat to globalism. TH-cam wants you to be docile so he can sell you to its clients.
@@HC-nj3bs Globalism has been a threat and shall remain so to every country, no matter how small or big it is, due to such ferocious atrocities committed on them, by either their neighbours, or colonial settlers. TH-cam is run by people who find History, true history, offensive. Nothing more can be expected from such people.
@@DoomGuy69420 you just like that quote cause it has the word doom amirite?
Capitalism prefers us not to be people with identity, culture, etc but instead global consumers.
this team is so professional, if TH-cam wouldnt be like this, you would have more than 10 mill subs
Not all the time
@Egg Egg egg egg tell that to Logan Paul
@@afailureofaanimator6744 ufff put ice over the burn
As a military historian, I'm grateful for your coverage of this. As an American, I'm even more grateful for the courageous example and enormous contribution of our Resistance friends in Poland.
I mean TH-cam is just a huge billboard right now but still I live your content
same same
So true
Woah Im from Orange County
Respect for the polish brothers from hungary, magyar lengyel két jó barát!!!!!
Best friends forever!
⚔ 🇵🇱❤️🇭🇺 ⚔
RIA RIA HUNGARIA
Lol Hungary was allied with germany
@@carmansi8623 But we did not attack Poland! We even did help polish soldiers escape to the west, so learn some history before you say something stupid..........
TH-cam: Allows a LiveLeak to have a channel about horrific videos of people dying or getting hurt
Armchair Historian: talks about history
TH-cam: TeRrOrIst GeT hIm OuT oF hErE
They also allow other things like bell delphine
@@MrKfleong she has been removed like twice now?
He didn't talk about western betrayal though, was it in the censored part?
@@StelzCat basically yes
@@StelzCat the west didn't betray Poland mate. They declared war on Germany after they didn't respond to demands to leave Poland.
I grew up in Poland with my mother and I miss this country very much. I always admired the resilience and hard work of Poles. No matter where I am, my heart will always stay in Poland and I pray it will know peace for a long time.
Finally, someone who understands the Polish sensitivity. Meanwhile, Poland is accused of the worst crimes by those, who used to suffer during the German occupation together with ethnic Poles.
Oh wait. Not Poland
@Абдульзефир That's some fucking Nazi propaganda right here
@Абдульзефир Yeah and where did you read that?
@Абдульзефир Watch the videos that this channel posted about what you are claiming, its not at all as you are saying. I will link them here for you: th-cam.com/video/kfm0AQNzpkc/w-d-xo.html , th-cam.com/video/17NArJ6wQqo/w-d-xo.html.
After World War I, Poland engaged in the Polish-Soviet War during which it pushed into lands that the USSR was holding (modern-day Ukraine and Belarus). They fought ALONGSIDE the Ukrainians. This was all to stop the spread of communism into Europe which peaked at the Battle of Warsaw. Watch the video above to understand the whole story.
Before being invaded, Poland annexed an ethnically Polish village in Czechoslovakia. They did NOT partition Czechoslovakia with Germany. Partitioning it with them implies cooperation with the Germans which they did not do. Additionally, it was the Germans that took over the vast majority of Czechoslovakia, as evidenced by them using it as a vantage point for staging WW2.
Your source saying that "500k" Poles enlisted in the Wehrmacht is not credible whatsoever. 1) The author does not even list his full name nor any of his credentials to speak on the topic. 2) The entire article does not cite any evidence. You cannot make these claims without proper evidence.
Also, Poland throughout history was one of the most tolerant nations to Jews. In fact, it was all the way back in 1264 in the Statute of Kalisz that they gave plenty of civil liberties to Jews while other nations were oppressing them... why do you think Poland had such a large Jewish population at the start of WW2? It's because they were very tolerant.
@پیاده نظام خان lol I write from right to left
I was fighting tears watching this. I am born in Denmark to Polish parents and I would give my life for Poland any time.
Polen, Europas fugl Føniks
Norman Davies in his "God's Playground", his history of Poland, wrote that that is quite typical for Poles that all of them declare to be ready to die for their fatherland, but not so many were so eager to actually live for it. How fitting.
@@berlineczka the most hardcore polish nationalists usually all live around Germany and the UK lmao
I wish I had a country I was willing to die for. Alas, I live in one of many degenerating western culturally liberal societies with no real values or common cause
@@IconoclastX I am an American. I am willing to fight and die for America's founding values even if my nation and government betrays them.
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain
That footage of the man being beaten by that German Officer is heartbreaking. I know it’s animated, but Jesus man. I feel that was all to real. It’s these kinds of videos that really put the brutality of WW2 into perspective.
Pfff I wish it was this bad (since it was wey worse).
Here is another good example of WWII brutality - th-cam.com/video/gK-JRMUEn_4/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=ArkadiuszOlszewski
Love learning about Polish history. My great grandparents came to America from Poland. I never got to meet them but, my grandma could speak, read, and write in Polish and I thought that was so cool.
This video made me pretty sad. Things like this should never be forgotten so strange how youtube censors certain things.
Poland is not yet lost! Greetings from Serbia Polish brothers!
@@MAD-ch4sv look it up yes we did
@@MAD-ch4sv You clearly have a different definition of "saving".
Велика српска слава
Yea, Serbian skinhead
I've worked with poles and I've never found one to not impress me. I have major respect for this nation. All the love from Romania!
Worked with Romanians in Netherlads, great people!
@@Panasiux2 I had a Romanian school teacher up here in Alaska, she was really great with European history once you got her out of her shyness to talk!
Could listen to her for hours
I love romanian language
Thanks from Poland, mate.
Greetings to Romania from Poland!🇵🇱❤️🇷🇴
That opening with the old soldier is amazing. A lot of emotions in just a few seconds. With love from America🇺🇸🤝🇵🇱
my grandfather served in the British army in ww2 and fought alongside polish forces from d day all the way to the Siegfried Line campaign where he was injured and sent home. he told me that the poles were some of the greatest soldiers he'd ever seen. he was saddened after the war when most of the Polish people living in Britain including the men he fought alongside during the war returned to Poland. he said the kingdom had lost half of its best soldiers when that happened.
The saddest thing is that Great Britain did not allow Polish soldiers to participate much in the victory parade. These people returned to the country and many of them were tortured, murdered or ostracized. Their families and they were constantly monitored by the communist security services.
@@bratbrata4974 that's a sad truth but at least some of those polish soldiers stayed in Britain. so at least they didn't go through that communist hellhole
@@RobertPage562 My family, since my dad, lived in what is today Belarus. It used to be part of Poland. Dad was born in 1939.
Grandpa was a policeman. The Russians caught him and gave him back to the Germans. He spent the entire war in Germany as a slave and worked in a forge.
He was lucky because he could land in the pit in Katyn and Ostashkov, where the Russians murdered 22,000 Polish officers and soldiers.
Grandpa returned to Poland in 1947. My father did not even know who his father was.
Grandfather could not find a job because he was a pre-war police. The communists didn't like it.
The other grandfather was a Parisian near the Bug River. He fought with the Russians, the Germans with the Ukrainian nationalists with the Polish communist partisans and with the research of Jews who attacked the villages, murdered and stole.
I found out that he was a partisan and fought with communists in 1997. Because admitting to it in the communist times in Poland would end up in problems for the whole family. Think of the family's fear that they hadn't told me anything about it since 1989. I was a child.
Now I'm proud of my grandfather.
@@RobertPage562
⌛️⌛️(Sorry for the long comment)⌛️⌛️
My grandfather was one of the Polish soldiers who stayed in the UK after the war. Going back was not an option, he knew you'd be arrested, tortured and executed. The USSR who invaded Poland saw Polish soldiers as a threat to their tyranny. I'm glad he stayed otherwise well my family as I know it would never have existed. I was born here in the UK like my sibling, cousins, aunties and uncles and father and consider myself British despite being almost exclusively Polish by blood. I'm British-Polish. I've had to face racism unfortunately all too often despite quite frankly acting more British than the average person and contributing more.
People often dismiss Poland as a non-important matter and that they somehow deserved it because they couldn't defend themselves....
As if a country that's like 20 years old will withstand an invasion with a whole new strategy from the West and then be attacked almost simultaneously from the East, attacked by two super powers.
My grandfather survived Siberia, after being taken there by the Russians. So did my grandmother. My grandfather lost his toe from frostbite in Siberia. My grandfather joined Anders Army despite being underage, only a teenager (a Polish army outside Poland, that then joined the British army)- and he saw action across North Africa and in Italy at one of the bloodiest battles in the war. He had one the hardest jobs, being positioned 1km outside of their camps- if any Nazi raids happened at night he was to empty his 30 seconds of bullets, pick up his heavy gun and run 1km back to safety (the idea was his gunfire would warn his camp of a surprise attack.) As you'd imagine from all the explosions, he lost his ability to hear properly in one ear. He stayed in the armed forces after the war and was positioned in the UK where he eventually left the army and started his life here. My grandmother somehow survived Siberia, - she was taken there with her whole family when she was just a child. Of perhaps 17, only about 5 survived as far as she knows. Many froze to death or starved or were forced to join the Russian army and sent to the frontlines to die. Her dad would eat the bark from trees in Siberian work camps or he would even boil leather belts just to satisfy his stomach from the starvation. He didn't make it. She came to the UK as a refugee after the war as a teenager at this point.
On my mum's side both her parents survived the war somehow. Her dad managed to escape a train headed for a concentration camp with a friend. Another time the soldiers came to take him away - he said "let me go inside my house and get a few things." They somehow agreed, he went into his house and jumped out the back and ran away. Little did he know his brother escaped from his captors and returned home hiding inside. So as my grandfather escaped the property, the soldiers outside realised he's gone. So went inside the property and arrested his brother, interrogated him and locked him up. My grandfathers brother never held it against him, my grandfather didn't know his brother was inside and was just escaping, surviving.
These aren't even the full stories of these individuals. Just snippets. Now imagine millions and millions of people all surviving the war and all its atrocities surviving two morally corrupt, genociding superpowers.
It is unfathomable the things these people had to go through.
I pay my respects to everyone who died and fought in the war wishing to see a free Poland for their future generations. Thank you for your sacrifice. I salute all soldiers from every nation who thought for a Europe free from fascism and communism and genocide.
he fought for what man? to be conquered by russia and become a puppet communist state because the US and UK forgot about poland? like they did with other easter european countries?
Never forget the 50 thousand polish troops who came in to relieve the battered allied forces in Italy at Monte Cassino. They fought hard and had more to prove then anyone in the allied forces. There sacrifices will not be forgotten
Now I will tell you something interesting. On the German side, Poles from Silesia, incorporated by force, also fought. They had to fight against their brothers.
My great grandfather was fighting at Monte Cassino. After ww2 he came back to Poland and he instantly got arrested by communists and went to prison because of serving in Polish army on west. He never wanted to talk about the war, he spoke fluently German but he never used it after the war.
They brought a bear
@Абдульзефир They did not mongol.
One of the best fighter squadrons in the RAF were polish aviators who escaped, during the Battle of Britain, they shot down more German aircraft than any other squadron
Fun-fact Susan Wojcicki is a half Pole half Russian-jew and her parents fled from the war to USA and i find it incredibly funny that TH-cam censor anything about war
it's sad she should change her last name...
Ay Vey...
@@sulphurous2656 is that supposed to be anti Semitic? If so take your bigotry somewhere else.
@@mrfiller3604 Wójcicki is a polish surname, and Grzegorz is ashamed that someone of his ancestry is ruining youtube.
What a bruh moment.
@@sulphurous2656 Oy*
The Warsaw Uprising is one of the bravest things ever done by a people. I wish the US could’ve provided better tactical and resupply air support.
most of the shipments they dropped landed behind german lines lmfao
The United States and it's allies completely screwed over Poland.
@@thepapillonwarrior1159and the USSR just watched the polish die
America ain't the only country fighting Germany 💀
People who criticize Poland for being too nationalistic or religious today need to understand that The Polish Nation has fought tooth and nail to even exist, not just against the nazis, not just against the soviets, but for something like 200 years, they were a nation without a state and their culture, religion, and identity only exist today because they fought so hard to keep it alive. Let Poland be Polish, they have earned it after surviving so long through people trying to force them not to be Polish.
I'm an secular agnostic myself, but those who ridicule Poland all the time, don't understand its history, how Poles used to suffer, how they fought relentlessly for our own country. Worst kind of ignorant people. Makes my blood boil.
we just know how sick ideology works. we know them and we see what is goin on now. belive or not, its happenng again but this time there will be one cleary visible winner
Two wrongs don't make a right.
@@DoctorDeath147 what's wrong with being nationalistic?
@@Rauser142 nothing wrong with being nationalistic. But Poland being reactionary isn't good.
Please do 'Life in Japanese Occupied Manila' or something.
Cool idea although I think it does not have to be Manila only. Beijing will be interesting. So is nanking. And there is many others.
Not denying your idea. Just adding to it.
Maybe a little Occupied Denmark or Norway too
@@Cobretsov2022 I'd say Japanese occupied Asia in general albeit I'd more like Malaya.
@@whafflete6721 finally someone acknowledges the occupation of Malaya! It was a melting pot of content for videos like this, MPAJA Communists, Japanese sympathizers & Force 136
@@richardwong5616 What I've only know are only fragments(The mentioned Malayan communist and their post-Malaysia struggle,mostly just post-war stuff),so I'd love a more in-depth intro.
i like how youtube does barely anything about shitty prank channels who harass people in public for views but they'll do anything in their power to cut scenes from a historical video
because they're youtube. and they can.
They are like that I kid in school who break his own games but said they can becuz it's his game
If you look through YT, you'll find plenty of stuff that would fall under the "Wiederbetätigungsgesetz" (law to prohibit Nazi symbols) in Germany or Austria. But education is censored. Incredible!
@Ian Mayer ur way of sarcasm I guess? Well sorry about my earlier blabla. My point was simply that while YT doesn't manage police actual NS-content, it instead censors education.
You got all those 5 year olds out here, ragin'.
And also morgz. I guess He's raging now too.
THIS. Fucking THIS.
As an Indian I can feel the pain of polish people. My country too was betrayed and we payed hell for it. But props to the polish people who fought valiantly
I feel Your pain, i know a little history, of Your people, its very sad
Lmfao wtf😂?
Yes, British are traitors
Alone for that 1.4 billion population it deserved worse than hell.
@@fuzailhasan7856British occupation left tens of millions dead... and you put a fucking laughing crying emoji.
My wife's grandfather grew up in Poland during the 30's and early 40's before they were able to escape to the UK and then the US. He had some horrible and inspiring stories.
Interesting fact: many Americans who fought in Europe had both Polish and German ancestries, which was useful since many of them spoke either German, Polish or both, especially those from Ohio, where the two often mingled cause of the Catholic faith
I remember a teacher of mine claimed that her grandfather was raised to speak German his father's tongue while his little brother spoke Polish his mother tongue. Both brothers were used as translators and medics during WWII.
Both the Poles and Germans they gave medical attention were surprised of their mixed ancestry and the fact that many American Catholics had both German and Polish ancestry.
wow, I think your right . Because am I'm American Catholic. my dad side family is scotch/Irish and my mom side is German, English and i think Polish too. I'm not sure on that part. I know in my mom's family have German and My Great Grandfather came from UK, so English.
@@RydiaLS83 cool: I'm not German or Polish but most Americans I know usually have various European ancestries that could only mingle in America, Germanic-Slavic being the most common in the American Midwest
@@theawesomeman9821 germanic and Slavic people are neighbors for centuries. Many eastern Germans or Western Slavs are ethnic mixed.
Nazis and soviets: “we have conquered Poland!!”
Poland: “I didn’t hear no bell”
eggs Haha, mouth go yum
@Egg Egg egg egg scrambled egg
"come on you panzy"
-The Black Knight
(Month Python and the Holy Grail)
Soviets: "Now Poland is part of iron curtain!"
Polish Cursed/Dommed soldiers: " The fight is not over "
Really? It’s super loud do you guys have hearing issues?
My dear Polish sisters and brothers ! Lots and lots of love from Hungary 🇭🇺! Over here we all love you guys ! I wish I could go back in time and fight on your side ! Its blood boiling how the Krauts and the soviets tried to erase your encient country from the map ! Like two rabid wolfs trying to rip apart something........than insult to injury , you guys had to pretend to be in love with the Soviets for the next 45 years (the same goes for Hungary as well )
Ja też kocham Węgry. Szkoda że nie ma już dużych Węgier
My aunty was 11 years old when, in the middle of the war, she broke into a German-controlled hospital in occupied Poland in order to steal the medicines people needed...A German soldier chased her and shot to her, luckily she managed to reach the forest and hide. But not only that, she told a lot of similar her own stories. My aunty died of covid several months ago. Even in her late 80s and even when very ill she always attended chuch every Sunday...
Today we panic when there is no light or internet but the challenges of the people of that generation were so completely different.. Goodbye My Aunty, I just miss You...
War is war
@Aniruddh but they did conquer most of Europe with a weak moral and cracked economy and still killed 27 million soviets
She didn't die of Covid. She was murdered with antipyretics and a ventilator
@@blitzkrieg3482 krauts were notorious for shooting civilians while other armies were not
@@blitzkrieg3482 Of course, because invading neutral, small and weak countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Yugoslavia, Greece), killing 20,000,000 Soviet civilians and 3,500,000 Soviet POWs show that you are a great and powerful country rigth??? The worst thing is that they did not even win the war or were close to achieving it and still you say that stupidity.
Fear the man who's lost everything, for he has nothing less to lose
This might be your best one yet Griffin. Had me in tears. Please don't ever stop making these videos
My biggest respect to the polish people , these guys have balls of steel !
Poland is that one player in cod who you light up with bullets, but just won't die.
Poland stronk
.... End our suffering...
Poland s t r o n c c >:(
5 hitmarkers no kill
Poland like that one person who did all the work but his co workers take all the credit
“Prankers”: harasses people
TH-cam:
History: In world war tw-
TH-cam: **Screeeeeetch**
True
Wait u have 69 like
true poland histori is hard
My comments get deleted for no reason all the time
It wasn't censorship. It was self-censorship pushed by misguided and undifferentiated YT demonitization policy, (that's determined by bad AI and advertising companies including their decision for "non-controversial" vids to place their advertisements on). Similar outcome, but still big qualitative difference to fullout ban on that kind of content. Armchair historian unfortunately fails to clarify. If it was fullout censorship, the video couldn't be uploaded at all. But it can be, at least without ads. Of course and understandably, Armchair can't because they have to refinance production. So overall bad for education about controversial content. But censorship is not the correct label for what happened here.
Ngl this was the darkest Armchair Historian video I've watched. A tough watch but a definite must for everyone.
tough watch? i hope you are either a woman or below the age of 10
@@huseyinzeynelilhan2543 stfu
@@huseyinzeynelilhan2543 you kidding? This video is literally about one of the biggest tragedies in XX century
@@huseyinzeynelilhan2543 Well it is on TH-cam it would have not been so put down in the notches if god emperor google would learn what history is .
Huge Polish community in my town, amazing people, glad to have them on our side
The fact that my grandparents lived Warsaw during WW2 and fought in the Warsaw uprising surviving it is crazy to think about
you mean your grand grandparents.
@@fettegurke2447 It was only 78 years ago.
Grandparents could've been fairly young, then had kids later in life, who then also had kids later in life.
Stop lying for attention
@@joseavila1279 ok might have been wrong I'm editing this now as his Instagram says he's polish so it's possible his grandparents fought in it but quite unlikely
@@notanevilrobot why do you think its unlikely hes telling the truth?
Anyone: Talks About History
TH-cam: *And I Took That Personally*
TH-cam staff deletes things just for fun.
TH-cam smells like Stalinism.
@Aziz maher Monetization isn't necessary, just like food ? Who needs food anyway ?
@Retaliatixn 終末期 yeah, and air is just something people want but not need to TH-cam
I'll never understand how TH-cam can demonitize history
Because bigtech is building a "Brave New World", and what does not fit into this reality is to be forgotten or erased.
In Poland, we had censorship imposed by the communists. Here you also have censorship imposed by a leftist corporation.
@@bratbrata4974 Well, not really. It‘s a lot simpler than that. Advertisers don’t want to advertise on videos with mature content, so that is when demonetization comes in, because big corporations like money. And because of TH-cam‘s monopoly, what is anyone going to do about it? This doesn’t have anything to do with leftists.
@@bratbrata4974 I see your spreading your right wing propaganda bullshit
Cause historical facts might put some shadow on great nations that milk WW2 for cash.
@@bratbrata4974 that TH-cam woman, Susan Wojlach (spelling), was on the most recent World Economic Forum video.
Just saying.
After this I did the salute that the Polish vet did and took a moment to remember those millions of souls who were murdered. Sending love from New Zealand.
Salute to the fallen brother's and sister's of Poland 🇵🇱 from Pakistan 🇵🇰
Thats nice
🇵🇱 ❤️🇵🇰 greetings to Pakistan from Poland
@@CT-Polski Thank you so much have a nice day ☺ ❤
@@demon3286 thank you and you too ❤️
Im a typical Hungarian... see a video of our brothers, I click🇭🇺❤🇵🇱
Lengyel, magyar - két jó barát, együtt harcol, s issza borát 🇵🇱♥️🇭🇺
@Tees Man ........................what
@Tees Man wtf is wrong with you?
Say that to Greece maybe we will take Billions of Euro but EU was maked to fund countries (ok now in a not good way) poor, ruined or out of cash countries
Um Hungary was in the axis side helping the n@zis
@@samanthamason9326 Hungary not helped the germans till 1941, the bombing on Kassa. The soviets bombed that city (now thats outside of hungary), the hungarians got a Thing to join the war against the soviets. But a little time after this Miklós Horthy was about to quit the war, bcuz Hungary was a bad situation. Horthy speaked to the soviets, both side want to sign a non-agresson pact bcuz the bombing on Kassa is a mistery. But Hitler dont want the hungarian quit, and the Hungarian nazi party, the nilasians was taked the rule (they kidnapped the regent's (kingdom with a regent) and forced Horthy to give the power to Ferenc Szalasi (leader of the nilasians)) AND Horthy dont want to accept the jew laws, that Hitler says. So yeah. Confusing times
This is just a heartbreaking video, nearly bought me to tears
Even when you know the story, its still hard to watch. My deepest respect to the Polish people! 🇧🇪 🇵🇱 #NeverForget
Poland fought for others and no one fought for them. And they still continue to honor their commitments. I respect the heck out of those people. They’ve been through more than most and continue to maintain who they are upon never ending duress.
As a Chinese, my heart goes out to the Polish people, since we also experienced horrid brutality during WW2. 🇵🇱 🇨🇳
第二次世界大戰期間，中國和波蘭經歷了類似的暴行。 格但斯克的最良好祝愿
I feel you brother... Greetings from Mexico.
🇲🇽🤝🇨🇳
Same here during ww2
from england 🏴🏴🏴
@@xmarksthespot6699 That's thanks to their government sadly...
yeah IJA armies were worse than the SS, generally you might get beat but you got shot and your family if the SS caught you, if the IJA caught you erhm "struggle snuggles" with a bayonet dont sound nice at all
It is beyond comprehension what the Poles went through. That they endured and overcame facism and communism and are now a free nation with a vibrant, free economy is such a testimony to the strength of the Polish people and the miraculous power and grace of God. Great video, as always. Please keep the outstanding videos coming and God bless you and your team, my friend!
Respect to the poles, fellow resistance fighters, from Greece 🇬🇷❤️🇵🇱
I read a lot about the Greek resistance movement and how the Germans treated the Greeks. I know that the Greeks never gave up and fought with determination. I have great respect for the Greeks. I know that they were under Turkish occupation for centuries and started uprisings and finally regained their own country. There are probably no other nations in Europe with such a history of fighting for freedom as the Greeks and Poles. And the Irish - honoris causa - Poles from Western Europe
The Poles that fought with the allies, had the reputation of being the most fiercest and fearless soldiers on the battlefield.
Poland: Hooray we are free from tyranny!
Stalin: More like “under new management”
I liked the Polish animation. where the Soviet Union had a robo hand. It's fun.
Poland /outlived both Tyranny
Poland : Get Fu*ked
@@donrumata2274 You mean "The Unconquered"?
@@jak00bspyr72 Yes
The western world:
HOORAY! WE ARE FREE FROM TYRANNY
The new world order, UN and WHO:
Hold my draconic dictatorship...
Memory of this is still well alive here in eastern Poland. My grandparents adopted child from destroyed village just 2km away (Sochy).
Life was brutal then, censorship is not an answer to not repeat it - education is
Plus history makes for some awesome video game & movie stories.
I cried at the start as my grandma survived holocaust in the 40-s and she was polish
My grandfather was also a Holocaust survivor (Auschwitz). I went there and saw the barracks that he was in. It brought me to my knees
The unimaginable horror inflicted by my country at its lowest point truly never ceases to shock and appall.
The Polish people endured such excruciating hardships throughout their history, and yet their spirit never broke. May it prevail forevermore, O brave Poles!
Armchair Historian: Speaks Truth
TH-cam: Damn masochist, you must love this huh? DEMONETISED!
Edit: 1,3k !? Big thanks for that. Of I had a sub for every like i could have 1M subs in a month
Hippity hoppity your educational content is offensive property.
A song of the Norwegian resistance was deleted by youtube
More like masochist
@@james_poika3186 Have you heard the tragedy of Dr. Ludwig the wise?
I think not, is not a story the arses of you tube would tell you, not long ago lived a channel dedicated to the preservation and distribution of German Folk Music ranging from Medieval era all the way to the second half of the Twentieth Century but despite the community being a peaceful one and the songs being non-political and sometimes even just instrumental the channel got striked, songs taken down and banned the case as all of You Tube being an arse got ignored shoved below thousands of appellation messages and tweets... the fear lives among the people of this German Music enthusiast community as they do not know when the next attack to such beautiful pieces of art will arrive, and it will.
How many times do we have to teach you old man!
I respect the Polish so much because of their history:The saving of Vienna,WW2,Poland-Lithuania,... They were very brave,always.Respect from Austria!I am also very ashamed for my countrys history with poland and so I am sorry.This Video gave a New Perspective and it even Made me cry...
To be honest, Austria was still among the more pleasant neighbors Poland had and the tamest among partitionists. So much so, Poles were somewhat loyal to the Austro-Hungarian Empire thanks to its tolerance.
In 1920, the Poles defeated the Soviet invasion and saved Central Europe from Soviet occupation for another generation. The Soviets would get their revenge in 1939 and continue until 1989
@@kamilszadkowski8864 Despite Hötzendorf's disasterous campaigns, the Polish Legions were one of the best soldiers fighting for Austria-Hungary. They repelled many Russian attacks in WW1, and the Austro-Hungarian & German commanders were impressed by the Polish soldiers' performance. Later they won against the USSR. Respect!
@@TheAustrianAnimations87 Indeed, the Battle of Kostiuchnówka alone was probably one of the main factors why German and Austrian leaderships decided to form the Kingdom of Poland despite the arguments that will make Russias more reluctant to accept any peace deal.
The fact that the Nazis systematically leveled an entire city and murdered thousands of it's people out of pure spite is appalling.
I always tell people how nothing is black and white, but the Nazis by the end of WW2 defy this. They came to represent humanities darkest. This destruction wasn't done to serve the future of the Aryan race, nor was it for the defense of the fatherland, not even done as a scare tactic... It was pure human rage, hate, and spite.
To all the poles out there, God bless you. I do not speak for all of my countrymen, but I salute you all, here in the US state of Texas.
The whole thing you said about defying the "not everything is black and white" saying also applies to Japan.
What is even more appalling is that Soviet army just sat and watched all that happened just few hundred meters away across the Vistula river waiting for the last of the Poles to be wiped out and Germans to retreat so they can boast about 'liberating' Warsaw for decades to come.
The Germans had never recompensated Poland for all destruction
@@IsshTM i know im late to reply to this but as i read your comment now, id like to add:
the soviet generals were of the very same breed that invaded and brutally oppressed the poles in 39. they didnt wait merely because they wanted the glory, they waited because why would they help the enemy? years after the communists took over Poland, the government was pushed to arrest polish freedom-fighters as "radicals" threatening the state... after Stalin died this oppression was... curtailed... but the fact of the matter was that Stalin and his generals HATED the poles, so when they saw the home army across the Vistula fighting to liberate themselves... the soviets only saw rats desperately biting at the nazis then rotting corpse...
"An ant has no quarrel with a boot"... and both the nazis and soviets intended to step on the poles...
That growl effect at 11:50 gave me chills. Everything in this video, from the sound design to the animation to the writing, is absolutely incredible. The Armchair Historian team should be proud of themselves for this one.
Me who watched most of the editing and uncensored version on his live the previous day: well,i dont care about youtube now..
When and where was he live?
What was missing from this version? I thought it'd just be, like, gorier graphics or something.
@@ElliotShayle A bit of blood, hangings, a whole section about children concentration camp and more about the secret courts.
Doesn’t this censorship border on Holocaust denial? Sensitivity be damned when talking about these heavy topics. People need to know what happened and if you have to hold their eyelids open and force them to not look away then so be it. Just put a disclaimer that there’s sensitive topics and viewer discretion is advised....
Isn't there something we can do about that? Some sort of petition, so that TH-cam can't censor these kinda things
About that forced labour, my friend's great grandfather was sent to Germany, and everyone in his village and family thought he was dead. But after the war, he walked (sic!) back from Germany to Little Poland ( near Kraków). My friends great grandmother thought she saw a ghost, and almost died for the heart attack.
"Little Poland" A country that after the war litterally was bigger than Germany, wich was split into 4 zones, 2 countries.
@@mr.mirage3986 Little Poland is a administrative region of Poland. I didn't mean the country, only its part.
It's actually called "Lesser Poland" in English. Same as Wielkopolska is "Greater Poland".
The more you know.
@@smiglo112 mea culpa
"I judged the Poles by their enemies.
And I found it was an almost unfailing- truth
that their enemies were the enemies of magna-
nimity and manhood. If a man loved slavery,
if he loved usury, if he loved terrorism and all
the trampled mire of materialistic politics, I
have always found that he added to these
affections the passion of a hatred of Poland.
She could be judged in the light of that hatred ;
and the judgment has proved to be right.”
G.K. Chesterton
14:40 this scene is absolutely chilling. Now repeat several million times and you start approaching the horror of this occupation which is too much ignored in Western Europe.
Good job for putting such a nightmare into animation.
When I watched the window bit, I was afraid that one of the Germans was gonna see the person hiding, but thought that maybe, just maybe, they’d be able to avoid being seen, but then one of the Germans did see them.
They don't want to see it for all they see is their shame.
@@56Tyskie I'm afraid I don't understand what you say or who you're talking about. Can you plase elaborate?
@@bobing1752 just referring to western Europe
its crazy to see how far poland has come even after ww2 and the fall of the soviet union they never gave up i tip my hat to them
@Абдульзефир i can see why considering there we’re occupied twice
coming from small village in north Poland, neighbours :
- from the left , german death camp
- from the right , russian gulags
-and to south, czechoslovakia free real estate
@@Enkabard sim
when i see comments like this, i fell sorry for my ancestors of USSR who died in great numbers to free the eastern slavs, saving them of complete extemination. Should have just left them to nazis, not even speaking of help to rebuild their countries, industry, culture, provide a life actually better than in russia itself.
@@redsun9261 that was what they told Russians not living in the West. You can read further into it, this history is openly available in Russia today.
Russians packed up entire Factory on trains and send them to Russia you did not liberate you were the next conqueror what a surprise commies don't teach history just propaganda
The worst thing one can do to victims of historical tragedy is remove their history. Shame on TH-cam for censoring such valuable content!!!
Like they care abuot the truth,
My grandparents visited Auschwitz. They said that they didn’t finish the tour, because it was too painful for them
I've been there myself. The scale of the place is just shocking.
I think flights should be arranged for deniers, and they should be made to go on a tour.
I think i can't visit that place at all the impact from the past and the dense atmosphere from waht happend there would be to much for my Soul and Mind to even watch documantarys gives me stomache Pain 🤧
@@copeharder7554 Jesus Christ I pray to whatever god that you go outside one day
@@unfunnyironypage9664 cope
@@copeharder7554 the larper tells me to cope 💀
You're artists did an absolutely stellar job
Your English teachers did not
@@procrasti86 Counterstrike: Global Offensive
Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła!
Greetings from Hungary!
Quick question, do they teach you about budapest in 1956?
@@ReySchultz121 Of course, because the revolution of 1956 is one of the most important episod of the Hungarian history.
@@barnabasmesterhazy6174 Respect to you guys, they were awesome, they were not soldiers but citizens who were just fucking tired.
Love from 🇵🇱!
I would consider the wording. It either means "Poland is not yet lost" or "Poland is not yeat dead", beacause "zginelła" means lost and dead in Polish.
I may be Filipino, but the fact that Poland fearlessly fought their occupants reminds me of the ww2 Japanese Occupation here in the Philippines. Our methods and strategies are evidently different, but the circumstances were the same. 🇵🇭🇵🇱
My deepest respect to the Polish people. Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła ❤️🇵🇱
Puki my żyjemy! Thanks @sweet dreams!
Polska nigdy zginela
@@janwill284 *póki
Or if you aren't Pole, I am sorry, but if you are Pole: ortography is important
Sche ne vmerla Ukraina!
@Adele Avril Are you another anti-polish hater? Sounds like you are one of the young Israeli whose Government is indoctrinating them by spreading lies about the Polish citizens. The Israeli Government wants to force Poland to compensate Jews for the imaginary crimes supposedly committed by Poles. This is really disgusting! Germany already paid the American Jewish Organizations big money for the real crimes committed against Jews. However, the greedy Jews are spreading disgusting lies to build the sympathy of the entire World, as a justification to force the Polish Government to pay more money for the German's crimes (not Polish). The truth is much different: Jews are hiding their crimes committed against Poles. When the Soviet Union attacked Poland 2 weeks after the Germans' invasion, the notorious Russian Jews (picked by Stalin) were in charge of handling the Polish prisoners of the war. They were responsible for massive executions of the Polish Officers and intelligence in Katyn ( around 32 thousand victims). There were also other places where Poles were brutally executed by NKWD. One of the worse criminals behind this hideous crime was BERIA, a Russian Jew who hated Poles for defeating the Soviets during the Invasion of Poland in 1920.
Havent watched this but im super excited already!!!
I gotta say the illustrations have improved so much over the past few years, big shoutout to the people working on them, they really deserve more praise