Hello, when I first made this documentary, it was just for a small class project, so the narration was fairly poor and playing to a small group. I plan making a more professional revised edition soon, and I can confidentially say that reference will be removed! I never intended this to turn into a video with 800K views.
At the end of the war over half of the SS was non German! Frenchmen, Ukrainians, Russians, Finn's, Norwegians, Latvians, Palestians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Czechs, Belgians, Danes, Indians, Dutchmen, Croats, Hungarians, and many other nationalities served in the SS and Wehrmacht!
Yeah often people don’t realise that the Waffen-SS was more foreign than german. 60% of its men was made up of non-Germans; it was very much a pan-European army!
Creator here, for anyone who hasn't seen it, I would highly recommend Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter, a great German mini-series about the German experience of WW2. It's called Generation War in English. Not obviously related to Irishmen fighting for Germany, but a few people have said this would make a good movie - this would be a good blueprint for how it could be done. Thanks to everyone who watched my video, it was created when I was in college, someday I'd like to do a proper updated version with better audio and video, this was hastily created for a classroom project while I was doing a Masters. I also plan to create a video series on TH-cam in the near future on various topics covering the German armed forces during WW2.
Terror Did u get ur masters or did ya spend too long drinkin an womanising. Really enjoyed the video though mate u should get back doin some more. See if u can find out what happened to those two after they got home. Am glad they made it back
I heard a story that several Irishmen serving in the German Army were among prisoners disembarked in New York and befriended by some Irish New Yorkers..They had been working normal jobs in Germany before the war and to a man said they signed up "for the excitement"
Well, they often had no fond feelings for the English, even those who became American citizens held onto their resentment of England for several generations... so I suppose it was an opportunity to "fight the Brits".
"The Germans noted that some of the Irishmen preferred drinking and womanizing over training." I would have shot any Irishman who did not, since he would clearly have been a double agent.
@Fjj Oh yes, these Russian brutes even tried to take over Spain during the civil war of 1936-1939 :) Stalin sent 2,065 Soviet citizens there (772 military pilots, 351 tank crews, 100 artillerymen, 77 sailors, 222 general military advisers, 339 technical and other advisers and 204 translators), as well as several hundred Russian emigrants. About 200 Russians were killed in the battles for the Spanish Republic against the Nazis.
@@adam-uy6qg IRA gived warnings. Iraqi and Libyan children never got warnings from RAF bombings. Neither did the children of Germany who were killed in their thousands by the so called heros of Bomber Command. 100.000s of children were killed by US and British army with their invasions.
A good book to read is The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer A Frenchman fighting with the Grosse Deutschland regiment on the eastern front, he survived three years of bitter fighting and even more bitter winters.
Guy Sajer is a bullshitter. He used stories he heard from other men and wove them into a book. A lot of the things he writes don't match up with records (especially dates&units etc) for a simple reason: He wasn't there for them, he only heard them 2nd or 3rd hand.
That being said Frenchmen fighting alongside Germany weren't that much of a rarity. France's war hero & foremost soldier at the start of WW2, Joseph Darnand (**), was among the first to collaborate. He had been a right winger in the interwar period, and blamed France's defeat (amongst other things) on how France (just as it had been in Germany, Spain, Italy, and many other countries, albeit to a somewhat lesser degree) had been fractured for years and years by polarizing politics with left wing radicals agitating, striking, rioting, street battles, etc. How it had been a succession of weak left wing governments, that had left France unprepared to face the war, and who were quick to give up. He was captured during the Battle of France in June 1940, but he managed to escape rather quickly and fled to Nice in the unoccupied zone ("Vichy France"). There he helped set up the "Service d'Ordre Legionnaire", a collaborationist militia, which in 1943 became the "Milice (Francaise)" aka the (french) militia, who fought along side German troops against the Commie Maquis and other partisans. It was also through his help, that the Germans set up the LVF (Legion des Volontaires Francais [contre le bolchevisme) aka the "French Volunteer Legion (against bolshevism)", a unit composed of (ethnic) Frenchmen (since ie Elsaß/Alsace & Lothringen/Lorraine Germans were simply drafted into the Wehrmacht) who enlisted from July 8th 1941 (~2 weeks or 15 days after the start of Operation Barbarossa) onwards & fought in the Heer (the Army branch of the Wehrmacht.. contrary to popular belief Wehrmacht = all armed forces aka Kriegsmarine/Navy, Luftwaffe/Airforce, Heer/Army AND Waffen-SS [although more independent than the Heer], NOT just the army) against the Red Army. Later on there was a Waffen SS volunteer brigade formed, which later on became the 33rd Waffen SS Grenadier Division "Charlemagne". After Army Group North was pushed into Memel/East Prussia a lot of the 33rd Charlemagne were trapped in Kolberg, but managed to be taken out via ships, and from that point on they started merging the LVF into the Charlemagne. So while I strongly disagree with the whole (but it is law in Germany...) "SS = criminal organization; therefore all Waffen SS soldiers = essentially criminals" + "waffen SS = automatically a Nazi" narratives, this should show that many a man never voluntarily entered the Waffen SS, especially from 1943 onwards. Many of the foreign volunteers, who enlisted to fight against Communism, were never asked or given a choice.. Many of these units were initially part of the Heer, but then were simply handed over to the Waffen SS (happened to the Belgians this way also, where ie the Walloon (French speaking Belgians, there was also a Flemish [Dutch speaking] Belgian volunteer Legion) Belgian Volunteer Legion was initially part of an army infantry division, but later became a Waffen SS brigade and then the Waffen SS Division "Wallonie". And even many Germans (esp. "Volksdeutsche" aka ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe & the Balkans) were also simply drafted into the Waffen SS, once it was no longer volunteers only. Not to mention that many simply did it, because 3 year conscription was mandatory anyway, and they figured better to be in a more elite unit with better equipment, training, etc. than to be in any run of the mill unit + you had much better chances of getting a government job (ie clerk at any local authority/council/whatever) after your service, when it was still peace time... People fail to understand, that many of those drafted in the late 30s had been teenagers when Hitler came to power, and they grew up sometimes witnessing extreme violence by Communists and how it was the Nazis who cleaned that rabble up (***) and then indoctrinated them for years and years while they were still impressionable. Anyway... if you want to read good books by foreign volunteers, let me know and I can give you a list (I have a whole library of WW2 books, a mixture of books written by historians & accounts of soldiers+officers, including foreigners fighting for Germany). Guy Sajer isn't one of those. Yes, the book isn't too bad, but when you know it's a bunch of stories mashed together + some lies/exaggerations, then it's just meh. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Asterixes: ** Joseph Darnand fought in WW1 and was a war hero during that war, and on the outbreak of WW2 enlisted again and was commissioned as an officer this time; he lead several commando raids into Germany during the "phony war" *** Contrary to popular belief the athmosphere of political violence in Germany was NOT started by the Nazis, as the Communists were doing it near constantly since 1918 until the mid 30s, and they were launching armed uprisings/seizing cities&counties even, launching riots and even outright street battles were people were shot, stabbed and beaten to death all the time, all over Germany and LONG before Hitler and the NSDAP were even a thing, let alone relevant anywhere outside of Munich & Bavaria. Ie one book I read by a Waffen SS volunteer describes one of his earliest childhood memories, where a funeral procession is violently attacked by a mob of Communists and people were getting beaten half to death and even killed. He was about 4 or 5 years old when it happened. That must have been traumatic, so experiences like that + growing up in a system where you're indoctrinated and unlike today don't have outside information, internet, etc didn't help matters.. so easy to judge with the benefit of hindsight + not growing up like that..
My late dad ( a Scouser) while a British POW in Munich,1941, told me a story about the Irish POW's in Stalag 7A. One day all the Irish were taken away and returned 3 months later. Eager to know what happened the Irish told of being taken to Berlin and housed in big fancy Hotels with the best food they had eaten in their lives. Very different from their life growing up. The were taken to the Opera, Theater shows, orchestral concerts, dance halls, cinema films and bear halls. Finally they were taken to a camp and asked to join the Germany Army to fight the British. They all declined and it was straight back to hard work and poor food in Munich.
@@tiernanwearen8096 i think that it was more a case misplaced idealism.. when they finally came home - they found themselves ostracised by society and Nazi-sympathetic Catholic Church - so they ended up losing out on the deal..
@@davids.654 the germans always helped the irish so makes more sense to fight with Germany rather than Britain, who were and still are an occupying force
It kills me when they call certain groups and actions during a conflict brutal. Was the killing and carnage inflicted by the other side kinder and gentler?
It always blows my mind how these videos capture one moment. Like a guy that was on camera could have got his arm blown off 5 minutes after we saw him and wed never know. Much love and respect.
Many thanks, David Nevin, this is very excellent. I would like a lot more from the perspective of an Irishman. Please continue to bring us your observations and skills. Very good!
Hello guys - thanks to everyone who viewed, liked, subscribed over the past few years. I've been away for several years, but I'm back now and plan to regularly upload videos. Most will be focused on the Eastern Front, which I feel is generally under-appreciated, not only in a historical sense, but also mainstream TH-cam. I've uploaded a few videos in the past few weeks and more will be forthcoming, so please have a look and leave your comments. Going forward, a lot of my videos will be focused on the Eastern Front, which I feel is under-appreciated in the wider picture of historical coverage. I will also be making an expanded, updated version of "The Irishmen who Fought for the Waffen SS" shortly. I'm also open to any suggestions or ideas people have. I'm sure many of you are familiar with "Mark Felton Productions" - if not, please check it out. An absolutely magnificent channel on the lesser known and more niche topics of the war. Many thanks again.
I like the "In stereotypical fashion the Irishmen got drunk and attacked a police officer" part, that's the sign of a real Irish man if ever I heard of ones like them.
This was a good documentary. Another Irishman who found glory on the field of battle , Patrick Cleburne. He migrated to the South and fought with the Confederate States of America, AS A GENERAL!!! Died on the field of battle at Franklin charging fortifications. Interesting fella.
Looking at the state of Europe today we can say that had any Irishman (or Englishman) of 1940 forseen Europe as it is in 2019 they would have joined the Wehrmacht down to the last man.
Brings a smile to your face because you're a bitter fucker. These 2 traitors fought for the nazis...ireland would no longer exist as you know it, only for the brave men who fought with the allies to end the nazi takeover of Europe... Then the world. Irishness would be eradicated. You utter imbecile
@@dianeabbotsrightbraincell3531 Yes I'm real, mrs. I had quite a few Irish friends in the British Army (like the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars in Paderborn). None would ever have served with the German Forces.
So many interesting facts remain about the war that most don't know. For example, Koreans who fought for the Nazis (author of Renee: St. Mary's Virus).
Actually. When I served in the West German army in the 1980s we had a medic in our unit whose name was Paul O'Callahan. His father had married a German.
After hearing all these stories of foreigners fighting for the axis I would really like to know whether there were any germans fighting for the allies.
obviously quite a lot of german jews had come over and were on the allied side.. AND of course the the UK monarchy was entirely made up of germans inc some Nazis..
There is a story of a random Finnish sailor who took part in the 1916 rising in Ireland, it is fairly well recorded but nobody knows who he was because it is assumed they spelled his name wrong.
My grandfather was an Irish immigrant (scouser) who moved to England and fought against the nazis from 41-45 his last battle was at The Battle of The Bulge where he got wounded and had to be treated for the rest of the war, funnily enough his name was James Brady too.
John Amery. Though not Irish, (as far as I'm aware). The son of prominent MP Leon Amery and staunch anti-communist. Fought against the Communists on the eastern front. Though he never fought against his fellow countrymen, he was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death by the British courts. In his book. Hangman 'Albert Pierrepoint' wrote of John Amery.... "The bravest man I ever hanged".
In December of 1921 Ireland broke off from Britain. Just shy of 18 years later WWII started. Many Irish felt that anyone killing Englishman can't be all bad. After the war was over any Irishmen fighting on the Allied side were severely sanctioned.
Yet they would intern German pilots downed over Ireland or in the Irish Sea, as per international law... but when it came to RAF pilots, they would pretend to arrest and intern them, and then always allow them to escape.
@@simonshiels1 So what? It was normal diplomatic practice especially as Ireland was neutral. It was nothing to do with Hitler. If Donald Duck was Chancellor of Germany and died in 1945, the German nation would have received the same condolences.
There's nothing weird about it at all, Stalin had plans to make bolshevism my up to the Channel and even Britain even Winston Churchill hated him but as the saying goes the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know
Joseph Dockemeyer I am from the USA as well but what josh rooney is stating is there has been so much lies and deceit spread about WWII it is now nearly impossible to know what is the Truth regarding the war.
@@HooDatDonDar everyone that questions the validity and motives of WW2 history is automatically a neo-nazi? Well fuck me then, my liberal ass is actually a nazi according to you! Who knew?!
Not all of the Irishmen who fought with the Allies were harshly treated. A small percentage known as the 'deserters' were. These were men who deserted the Irish Army and joined the British Army when an invasion of Ireland by the Germans or even the British was possible.
@@benitolonard4441 Which begs the question as to how on earth Ireland would defend itself from either the Germans or the British with two machine guns, a couple of pitch forks, and a bath tub on wheels for a tank. Desertions from the Irish army were a bit of an irrelevance. Ireland in reality rather hid behind Britain during WW2. Its independence meant nothing as the Germans were no respecters of neutrality. Ask Belgium. The Royal Navy guaranteed Irish independence. Rather ironic but true all the same. Ireland then went on to deny Jewish refugees, including orphans, refuge and sheltered some prominent Nazi war criminals. Not a proud period of history for Ireland.
@@Kaiserbill99 'Ask Belgium' Ireland is not Belgium. The Royal Navy guaranteed that Britain wouldn't be invaded from the west. Britain was their concern not Ireland. If you think Britain or the U.S smelt of roses after WW2, you should read more By the way what PROMINENT Nazi criminals do you refer to?
@@benitolonard4441 Well Belgium was neutral as was Ireland. You overlook the fact that if Britain had folded after the capitulation of France, which at the time looked probable, then Ireland would have been overrun in a heart beat. Therefore Ireland's neutrality and independence from German invasion held only as long as Britain remained in the war. In terms of Nazis sheltered after the war the most high profile was of course Skorzeny but an article in Irish Central News in 2016 states: "He (Skorzeny) was not the only high-profile Nazi to sojourn in Ireland. Albert Folens and Helmut Clissman also came to Ireland. The 2007 RTE documentary “In Hidden History: Ireland's Nazis” estimates that between 100 and 200 Nazis moved to Ireland. It’s believed that Ireland’s anti-British sentiment led to the war criminals receiving a warmer welcome than they ought to have." Re Refusing Jewish refugees an article from Israel Times : "On July 9, 1943, newly-elected member of the Irish parliament Oliver Flanagan rose to make his maiden speech. “There is one thing that Germany did and that was to rout the Jews out of their country,” he declared, saying that Ireland should follow suit. “They crucified our savior 1,900 years ago and they are crucifying us every day of the week.” Shortly after that now notorious speech, Flanagan was on his feet again in the Dail, questioning the Irish prime minister on plans for the country to take in 500 Jewish children from France. Under pressure, Éamon de Valera denied that the children were Jewish. Flanagan’s intervention, however, had the desired effect and the political row he had helped to stoke ensured that Ireland ultimately opted to leave the children to their fate.....Flanagan went on to serve his constituents for a further four decades increasing his majority" Ireland unfortunately found itself on the wrong side of history during and after WW2. Its self indulgent neutrality contrasted with Britain's heroic struggle against the greatest tyranny the world, or at least Europe, has known. De Valera's petty mindedness and ability to "put his foot in it" re the infamous telegram upon Hitler's death contrasted with Churchill's elevation to historical greatness and reverence. Britain's acceptance of Jewish refugees contrasted with Ireland's reluctance; fueled by Anglophobia and innate Catholic anti-semitism. You do really need to read more. Bit out of your depth I fear.
I am a Irish Descendent from Arklow County Wicklow. My GG Grand Fathers name was Thomas Woolahan. His daughter Ellen and sister Immigrated to Sydney in 1880. Ellen used to talk about their German friends back in Ireland and how a lot of Irish resented The English so I can understand if I were in their shoes I would have joined the German Army also. Irish/German relations have always been close but not with all Irish but a lot.
@Bill Macquarie: German spies were not the best, one German spy was captured in England shortly after he arrived because he feel asleep on the sidewalk.
@@Antobrotv a,,do you know the difference between and irish man and an english man FUCK ALL///ok,,except some water,,so unless you have 12 toes im right,,
I'm sure the British agents assassinated by the IRA Intelligence Unit in Dublin 1919 weren't laughing when Michael Collins caught up them. Jolly good show.
Bill MacQuarie ("Irishmen were offered the opportunity to work for German Intelligence"... for some reason that makes me burst out laughing). I GUESS THE REASON YOU LAUGH IS BECAUSE "DONKEY" COMES INTO YOUR MIND.
@@TheNemo65 Top 10 best educational systems in the world. Third wealthiest country in Europe. Marriage equality by popular vote. Pioneered the earliest effective treatment for cancer. Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated in more countries than any other national festival.
These small number of fools that joined that Murderous cult Nazism were misguided, The thousands that volunteered to joined the British army are a real reflection of the thoughts of the Irish people.
This'd be a great film, but I dont trust Hollywood to make it. Imagining it now, painting the two Irishmen as soft hearted loveable twits with bad accents and the Germans as the baddies, rather than showing the actual comradeship they probably experienced.
st patrick who apparently came from england and guiness being from a protestant arthur... why not celebrate someone from ireland instead, its logical..
Germans destroyed Dublin.............i agree with you...........the fools on here commenting are insane...............id love a united ireland and hate britain...........but people on here are insane.............germans hated the irish
That story needs to have a movie about it made. Is there a book that covers this subject? It kind of reminds me of the terrible way the Irish were treated for being Catholics in the Mexican-American War whose events initiated the creation Nos Patricos Brigade.
Interesting video. Noticed you have a green line at the bottom of the video. As the videos red and white time lines progress, looks like the Irish flag colours. Nice touch.
Nothing surprising about this.. since the waffen ss comprized more out of foreigners of many nations and relegious backgrounds then Germans at some point during the war. In many ways the waffen ss is the prime example of a multi ethnic multinational para military force.. and as such the foundation of NATO also co created by former ss and wehrmacht generals.
The English only started to invade ireland after years of irish raids on the west coast of england and wales. I mean even st patrick was from Britain and was captured by irish slavers.
adam yes and then the Catholic Church in Ireland outlawed slavery and when the normans arrived the practice of slavery was dead and these would be slavery were taught by these normans superior farming and metal working techniques
@@mattbarkley6971 Primarily to halt the rapid advance of the right wing a figure of 'potentially' 80,000 COULD be deported was tossed about. It never came to more than a handful of heavily publicised cases, not bad from a total of 300,000. Ditto Germany where I live. 2,500,000 immigrants (engineers, scientists, astronauts etc!)...1200 deportations.
Andrew Howard when Sweden and Scandinavia are turning down basically half of all asylum applications and refugees and forcing them out of camps and deporting them back, what does that tell you? They aren’t just doing a few thousand. Don’t know where you got those numbers. They are doing tens of thousands
Yeah, except they were drunks who thought that joining the Nazi's was an easy way out, so they were actually total cunts. Apart from that I heard they were a real laugh. Shame they weren't shot by the Russians or hung by the Allies when all is said and done.
@Kristaps Diii Pfff, yeah sure that's the word I'd used. The Soviets were more motorized than the Germans - the fucking Soviets! Don't even get me started on the Anglos.
@hbecker This too is a false narrative, however even with it the Soviets still had the help of the United States and as such is an entirely irrelevant argument. You might as well say that without the SS the Germans would've been doubly corked, regardless of whether it's true they had the SS. Also *wouldn't have had* , the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore. @Mr.OhYeahYeah It really doesn't. That's neither how war works in general nor how that war worked. The Germans lost almost every man they could possible lose, whereas the western allies and soviets had enough left to fight another war on that scale.
We all faught for Germania : Welsh, skandinavians, Irish, scots, Anglo-Saxon,Turks,Ottomans,Arabs and hundrends of Nations.I feel so sad because Native Germen lost the wars.
When one considers the Nazis actually went so far as to tally up the numbers of the Jewish population living in Ireland during the war it can be assumed the Germans did not have Ireland's best interests in mind.
It makes you proud that 2 irishmen fought for a genocidal army whose aims were to conquer and purify Europe? Jesus wept. The Germans would have probably just starved out the island of Ireland of they conquered it you realise. But as long as they fight the 'evil Brits' they're gooduns in your book
I’m under the impression that the Irish have fought for different armies around the world, despite the fact that Ireland has not ever been directly invaded or directly attacked other country’s in recent history..
"In stereotypical Irish fashion, the pair became intoxicated"
On tiger fuel.
Hello, when I first made this documentary, it was just for a small class project, so the narration was fairly poor and playing to a small group. I plan making a more professional revised edition soon, and I can confidentially say that reference will be removed! I never intended this to turn into a video with 800K views.
@@TerrorFirmerIE If you remove that line I'm unsubscribing.
At the end of the war over half of the SS was non German! Frenchmen, Ukrainians, Russians, Finn's, Norwegians, Latvians, Palestians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Czechs, Belgians, Danes, Indians, Dutchmen, Croats, Hungarians, and many other nationalities served in the SS and Wehrmacht!
And your point being
Yeah often people don’t realise that the Waffen-SS was more foreign than german. 60% of its men was made up of non-Germans; it was very much a pan-European army!
Based
@@simonshiels1lol not everything needs to have some political point. Slow down their little buddy
" F the king",... Damn, no wonder the SS hired these guys, they were like, " these crazy Irishmen will surely get out there and get some kills"
@@captainhindsight8779 They fought in eastern front not the west.
@@vmerkwurdigliebe3751 the eastern front was toughest fighting
Where ever you go, you'll find an Irishman.
Joe Turner especially in dive bars!
Knob
Indeed
you found me!
yep they do get around.
"Was ist der craic"
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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Funniest thing I've heard today
Der ist no craic paddy, wie are Germans
Lmaoooo
(record scratch) Aye, that's me. Bet yer wonderin how I got me self in this predicament.
Bheast
Et awl sterted in da somer, Of 1938
@@ryandontlikeyou wtf language is that?
John Mclean U mom gay
Karl P. Horse Because you're an Donkey😂
`I suppose you`d prefer to be off drinking and womanising?`
`well to be perfectly honest sir, yes`
`right off you go then`
monty pythoooon
so many crazy but true stories. Regardless of which side those guys were on, they had some balls.
More balls than the British soldiers that scarpered, deserted them and left them there to mercy of the Germans.
Creator here, for anyone who hasn't seen it, I would highly recommend Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter, a great German mini-series about the German experience of WW2. It's called Generation War in English. Not obviously related to Irishmen fighting for Germany, but a few people have said this would make a good movie - this would be a good blueprint for how it could be done. Thanks to everyone who watched my video, it was created when I was in college, someday I'd like to do a proper updated version with better audio and video, this was hastily created for a classroom project while I was doing a Masters. I also plan to create a video series on TH-cam in the near future on various topics covering the German armed forces during WW2.
5 years and you're still alive, and still have your old channel too
TerrorFirmerIE pls make more videos
This is indeed fascinating and would make for a great movie if Hollywood would keep their mitts off it.
Terror
Did u get ur masters or did ya spend too long drinkin an womanising.
Really enjoyed the video though mate u should get back doin some more. See if u can find out what happened to those two after they got home. Am glad they made it back
Lets make a film about Brian Boru, Dan Breen or Donal O'Sullivan first.
I heard a story that several Irishmen serving in the German Army were among prisoners disembarked in New York and befriended by some Irish New Yorkers..They had been working normal jobs in Germany before the war and to a man said they signed up "for the excitement"
That also happened to an american,who was working in Germany,he ended up in the Whermacht.
Well, they often had no fond feelings for the English, even those who became American citizens held onto their resentment of England for several generations... so I suppose it was an opportunity to "fight the Brits".
"The Germans noted that some of the Irishmen preferred drinking and womanizing over training."
I would have shot any Irishman who did not, since he would clearly have been a double agent.
Oh shut up
It's like finding a slav that doesn't squat.
@@brazwen Found the kid
@@GAMER123GAMINGsays the guy with "gamer" in his profile.
Like Berlin was partially defended by French SS.
And Nordland, which were a mix Scandics and Dutch.
French defending ?
Spanish most racist bastards Russian gave them a ass kicking I heard .
@Fjj Oh yes, these Russian brutes even tried to take over Spain during the civil war of 1936-1939 :)
Stalin sent 2,065 Soviet citizens there (772 military pilots, 351 tank crews, 100 artillerymen, 77 sailors, 222 general military advisers, 339 technical and other advisers and 204 translators), as well as several hundred Russian emigrants.
About 200 Russians were killed in the battles for the Spanish Republic against the Nazis.
@@stevearkie5722 Yes Charlemagne people
“Let’s put them in the jager battalion.”
“But sir... they’re Irish..”
Is no one safe from our wandering tribe?
as a half German half Irish never have I been so proud of my ancestors
Im half czech half Irish and same i love the history of the two countries
Let's have a quick recap. Germany defeated. IRA defeated. Ah well, can't win 'em all....😂
@@adam-uy6qg IRA gived warnings. Iraqi and Libyan children never got warnings from RAF bombings. Neither did the children of Germany who were killed in their thousands by the so called heros of Bomber Command. 100.000s of children were killed by US and British army with their invasions.
@@brianhurley6289 Yep. 'Bomber' Harris or 'Butcher' Harris. I'd go with 'Butcher'
+Brian Hurley Sharia will be the law of the land? Go fuck yourself.
Two irishmen in the jager battalion
What could possibly go wrong
princhemc lol
Isn't that how Jägerbombs were created?
princhemc true. In Asia the battalion got bogged down in the rice Paddys....
yes, if they throw a pin at you then run.... because they will have a grenade in there hands....
stephen morris and order a Tullamore Jew, a draft kraut and a gin and bombic........
One way of getting back at your boss for firing you,lol.
Bit of an oxy Moran
@@a.r.windsong9167 oxymoron?
@@jakartagamer6188 no, it‘s oxy Moran
@@sasukeuchihaa1447 oke
A good book to read is The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer A Frenchman fighting with the Grosse Deutschland regiment on the eastern front, he survived three years of bitter fighting and even more bitter winters.
Read it, how he survived execution after the war was glossed over though. 🤔
See Mark Felton. th-cam.com/video/UJpWB5hi3hQ/w-d-xo.html
Guy Sajer is a bullshitter. He used stories he heard from other men and wove them into a book. A lot of the things he writes don't match up with records (especially dates&units etc) for a simple reason: He wasn't there for them, he only heard them 2nd or 3rd hand.
That being said Frenchmen fighting alongside Germany weren't that much of a rarity. France's war hero & foremost soldier at the start of WW2, Joseph Darnand (**), was among the first to collaborate.
He had been a right winger in the interwar period, and blamed France's defeat (amongst other things) on how France (just as it had been in Germany, Spain, Italy, and many other countries, albeit to a somewhat lesser degree) had been fractured for years and years by polarizing politics with left wing radicals agitating, striking, rioting, street battles, etc.
How it had been a succession of weak left wing governments, that had left France unprepared to face the war, and who were quick to give up.
He was captured during the Battle of France in June 1940, but he managed to escape rather quickly and fled to Nice in the unoccupied zone ("Vichy France"). There he helped set up the "Service d'Ordre Legionnaire", a collaborationist militia, which in 1943 became the "Milice (Francaise)" aka the (french) militia, who fought along side German troops against the Commie Maquis and other partisans.
It was also through his help, that the Germans set up the LVF (Legion des Volontaires Francais [contre le bolchevisme) aka the "French Volunteer Legion (against bolshevism)", a unit composed of (ethnic) Frenchmen (since ie Elsaß/Alsace & Lothringen/Lorraine Germans were simply drafted into the Wehrmacht) who enlisted from July 8th 1941 (~2 weeks or 15 days after the start of Operation Barbarossa) onwards & fought in the Heer (the Army branch of the Wehrmacht.. contrary to popular belief Wehrmacht = all armed forces aka Kriegsmarine/Navy, Luftwaffe/Airforce, Heer/Army AND Waffen-SS [although more independent than the Heer], NOT just the army) against the Red Army.
Later on there was a Waffen SS volunteer brigade formed, which later on became the 33rd Waffen SS Grenadier Division "Charlemagne". After Army Group North was pushed into Memel/East Prussia a lot of the 33rd Charlemagne were trapped in Kolberg, but managed to be taken out via ships, and from that point on they started merging the LVF into the Charlemagne.
So while I strongly disagree with the whole (but it is law in Germany...) "SS = criminal organization; therefore all Waffen SS soldiers = essentially criminals" + "waffen SS = automatically a Nazi" narratives, this should show that many a man never voluntarily entered the Waffen SS, especially from 1943 onwards. Many of the foreign volunteers, who enlisted to fight against Communism, were never asked or given a choice.. Many of these units were initially part of the Heer, but then were simply handed over to the Waffen SS (happened to the Belgians this way also, where ie the Walloon (French speaking Belgians, there was also a Flemish [Dutch speaking] Belgian volunteer Legion) Belgian Volunteer Legion was initially part of an army infantry division, but later became a Waffen SS brigade and then the Waffen SS Division "Wallonie".
And even many Germans (esp. "Volksdeutsche" aka ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe & the Balkans) were also simply drafted into the Waffen SS, once it was no longer volunteers only. Not to mention that many simply did it, because 3 year conscription was mandatory anyway, and they figured better to be in a more elite unit with better equipment, training, etc. than to be in any run of the mill unit + you had much better chances of getting a government job (ie clerk at any local authority/council/whatever) after your service, when it was still peace time...
People fail to understand, that many of those drafted in the late 30s had been teenagers when Hitler came to power, and they grew up sometimes witnessing extreme violence by Communists and how it was the Nazis who cleaned that rabble up (***) and then indoctrinated them for years and years while they were still impressionable.
Anyway... if you want to read good books by foreign volunteers, let me know and I can give you a list (I have a whole library of WW2 books, a mixture of books written by historians & accounts of soldiers+officers, including foreigners fighting for Germany). Guy Sajer isn't one of those. Yes, the book isn't too bad, but when you know it's a bunch of stories mashed together + some lies/exaggerations, then it's just meh.
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Asterixes:
** Joseph Darnand fought in WW1 and was a war hero during that war, and on the outbreak of WW2 enlisted again and was commissioned as an officer this time; he lead several commando raids into Germany during the "phony war"
*** Contrary to popular belief the athmosphere of political violence in Germany was NOT started by the Nazis, as the Communists were doing it near constantly since 1918 until the mid 30s, and they were launching armed uprisings/seizing cities&counties even, launching riots and even outright street battles were people were shot, stabbed and beaten to death all the time, all over Germany and LONG before Hitler and the NSDAP were even a thing, let alone relevant anywhere outside of Munich & Bavaria.
Ie one book I read by a Waffen SS volunteer describes one of his earliest childhood memories, where a funeral procession is violently attacked by a mob of Communists and people were getting beaten half to death and even killed. He was about 4 or 5 years old when it happened. That must have been traumatic, so experiences like that + growing up in a system where you're indoctrinated and unlike today don't have outside information, internet, etc didn't help matters.. so easy to judge with the benefit of hindsight + not growing up like that..
I wonder how many women and children he murdered in cold blood.
drinking and womanizing? the irish must be the smartest in Europe
TC G no actually mainly south east Europe
@TC G I wouldn't say that
Waahrum ?
Stop bashing Europeans, no matter where they're from. No more brother wars!
@TheJD That makes a lot of sense considering Turkish occupation of Greece for nearly 400 years.
German soldier:come fight ya black and tans, fight me like a man
British soldier:what?
Redpill: Men from all over Europe fought for the Wehrmacht. There were even black men and Indian men too.
yea cept they sterilized black men and the few that was in germany fled becuase of this
More fools they.
Maximilian I thought foreigners couldn’t join the Wehrmacht, they had to join the SS.
@stephen morris ...Have you read it?
Not Wehrmacht, SS since it allowed foreigners
My late dad ( a Scouser) while a British POW in Munich,1941, told me a story about the Irish POW's in Stalag 7A. One day all the Irish were taken away and returned 3 months later. Eager to know what happened the Irish told of being taken to Berlin and housed in big fancy Hotels with the best food they had eaten in their lives. Very different from their life growing up. The were taken to the Opera, Theater shows, orchestral concerts, dance halls, cinema films and bear halls. Finally they were taken to a camp and asked to join the Germany Army to fight the British. They all declined and it was straight back to hard work and poor food in Munich.
@ja nee Except they didn't because they originally took the kings shilling.
if only they had the sense not to fight for the British either..
@@dannysmum9744 it was that or go hungry
@@tiernanwearen8096
i think that it was more a case misplaced idealism.. when they finally came home - they found themselves ostracised by society and Nazi-sympathetic Catholic Church - so they ended up losing out on the deal..
@@dannysmum9744 on a less serious note irishmen in the waffen SS! My god is no where safe from our wandering tribe?
Otto Skorzeny came to live in Ireland after the war.
So what? How many Nazis in US after second world war or Argentina Chile. change their identity and stay
@C Klan Skorzeny didn't commit any war crimes though. So I don't think it matters that he was a Nazi, as actions speak louder than words.
@@davids.654 ireland has one of the best workforces in the world and top schooling, link your sources please
@@davids.654 the germans always helped the irish so makes more sense to fight with Germany rather than Britain, who were and still are an occupying force
@@davids.654 its a pity they do not study irish history in britian
3:05 Strapping a doll to the side of your SS tank, I dunno man, I'd keep an eye on that lot
It kills me when they call certain groups and actions during a conflict brutal. Was the killing and carnage inflicted by the other side kinder and gentler?
No rules in war in my opinion, as long as the job is done
Wild story, thanks. I heard that there were many foreign soldiers that fought for the axis from many other countries.
Estonia Latvia Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia Croatia India African and Muslim and countries all had legions of SS Troops
It always blows my mind how these videos capture one moment. Like a guy that was on camera could have got his arm blown off 5 minutes after we saw him and wed never know. Much love and respect.
Many thanks, David Nevin, this is very excellent. I would like a lot more from the perspective of an Irishman. Please continue to bring us your observations and skills. Very good!
Thanks Robb. This was a student project, I've been meaning to make a "proper" channel but life gets in the way!
County Roscommon, that explains it.
Good video.
Dude you should make more like this. I’d watch all the time.
Hello guys - thanks to everyone who viewed, liked, subscribed over the past few years.
I've been away for several years, but I'm back now and plan to regularly upload videos. Most will be focused on the Eastern Front, which I feel is generally under-appreciated, not only in a historical sense, but also mainstream TH-cam. I've uploaded a few videos in the past few weeks and more will be forthcoming, so please have a look and leave your comments. Going forward, a lot of my videos will be focused on the Eastern Front, which I feel is under-appreciated in the wider picture of historical coverage.
I will also be making an expanded, updated version of "The Irishmen who Fought for the Waffen SS" shortly. I'm also open to any suggestions or ideas people have.
I'm sure many of you are familiar with "Mark Felton Productions" - if not, please check it out. An absolutely magnificent channel on the lesser known and more niche topics of the war.
Many thanks again.
Im a big fan of Mark Felton. Just stumbled on this grate vidio of yours. Now subscribed. Thank you
Fantastic Comrades and Brothers in Arms . Never forgotten!
I like the "In stereotypical fashion the Irishmen got drunk and attacked a police officer" part, that's the sign of a real Irish man if ever I heard of ones like them.
This was a good documentary. Another Irishman who found glory on the field of battle , Patrick Cleburne. He migrated to the South and fought with the Confederate States of America, AS A GENERAL!!! Died on the field of battle at Franklin charging fortifications. Interesting fella.
Looking at the state of Europe today we can say that had any Irishman (or Englishman) of 1940 forseen Europe as it is in 2019 they would have joined the Wehrmacht down to the last man.
You are correct Dr. Fillmore. General George Patton would agree with you also should have fought the Russian Bolsheviks
Yes that's true
Yep, the few remain WW2 British soldiers after came back for LondonSTAN in 2013 said this Britain is not the one they were fighting for.
You can say it - but you would have to be a complete moron... oh, I see.
So you know the minds of all Irish and English men do you?
Kudos for this; informative but concise, and a fascinating story
The Celtic spirit of our warrior ancestors !
With the amount of immigration nowadays I fear the Celtic spirit will have to be awoken again.
You protect yer beautiful women.
ya, against irish trumpies like you, afraid of everything in the world.
Ireland the cowardly. Well fuck that.
but you have a gay indian as your leader. hahaha
Darren McDonald to be beaten by a few machine guns again?
👍👍👍👍👍!!!!!!
Interesting story thanks for posting this video !
Ireland need more men like them now more than ever.
Ace _156 so fighting for the uk then the Germans ? Hmm I think not
Brings a smile to my face. Two Irish hard nuts and they survived too.
Brings a smile to your face because you're a bitter fucker. These 2 traitors fought for the nazis...ireland would no longer exist as you know it, only for the brave men who fought with the allies to end the nazi takeover of Europe... Then the world. Irishness would be eradicated. You utter imbecile
So sorry that they survived.
@@dianeabbotsrightbraincell3531 Yes I'm real, mrs. I had quite a few Irish friends in the British Army (like the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars in Paderborn). None would ever have served with the German Forces.
@@dianeabbotsrightbraincell3531 Why are you asking, Lady?
Wish they had written books of their experiences!
The best war stories are always the unverifiable ones!
So many interesting facts remain about the war that most don't know. For example, Koreans who fought for the Nazis (author of Renee: St. Mary's Virus).
us irish get about. also a great Russian general was irish peter de lacey
Actually. When I served in the West German army in the 1980s we had a medic in our unit whose name was Paul O'Callahan. His father had married a German.
THE HERMIT 😂😂😂🍻
I was there that night last thing James said to me was "Hold my beer"....
Some say his still holding that beer to this day
After hearing all these stories of foreigners fighting for the axis I would really like to know whether there were any germans fighting for the allies.
obviously quite a lot of german jews had come over and were on the allied side..
AND of course the the UK monarchy was entirely made up of germans inc some Nazis..
Leitrim home of Frank Stringer has many Germans living in it today. We jokingly refer to it as the 17th German province!
Really? It's a lovely spot in the summer
@@tiernanwearen8096it’s brilliant for river fishing some of best in Europe
no surprise why Germans loved it
@swaythegod5812 irish men in the SS my god is no land safe from our wandering tribe?
I am a Finn. And I can understand them easily. I would do a same thing.
There is a story of a random Finnish sailor who took part in the 1916 rising in Ireland, it is fairly well recorded but nobody knows who he was because it is assumed they spelled his name wrong.
@@lisdoo Was it Finn MacCumhaill?
Here, did I ever tell ye the craic when I fought with the SS?
*Barman fires over a fresh pint*
Jasus you didn't. What happened there?
My grandfather was an Irish immigrant (scouser) who moved to England and fought against the nazis from 41-45 his last battle was at The Battle of The Bulge where he got wounded and had to be treated for the rest of the war, funnily enough his name was James Brady too.
And he _"fought against the nazis from 41-45"_ 🤔
A Excellent Video.. Highly Recommended.. Thank You Very Much For Sharing..
John Amery.
Though not Irish, (as far as I'm aware). The son of prominent MP Leon Amery and staunch anti-communist. Fought against the Communists on the eastern front. Though he never fought against his fellow countrymen, he was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death by the British courts.
In his book. Hangman 'Albert Pierrepoint' wrote of John Amery.... "The bravest man I ever hanged".
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
Churchill hated Ireland . I've never heard that said of Hitler .
Never a truer word Rajiv!
Hitlers brother actually lived in Ireland
Ironically he married a Irish woman
The episode where Father Dougal's grandfather goes to war with Father Ted's. "They seem like a nice bunch of fellows, Ted."
The enemy of my enemy is my friend...
Who said that again?
Must be true. Yes, must be true.
The enemy of my enemy is the enemy of my enemy, nothing more.
In December of 1921 Ireland broke off from Britain. Just shy of 18 years later WWII started. Many Irish felt that anyone killing Englishman can't be all bad. After the war was over any Irishmen fighting on the Allied side were severely sanctioned.
Yet they would intern German pilots downed over Ireland or in the Irish Sea, as per international law... but when it came to RAF pilots, they would pretend to arrest and intern them, and then always allow them to escape.
Ireland hasn't split from britan were still under their control in the north a fake other country
The Irish govt sent condolences to Germany when Hitler died.
@@simonshiels1 So what? It was normal diplomatic practice especially as Ireland was neutral. It was nothing to do with Hitler. If Donald Duck was Chancellor of Germany and died in 1945, the German nation would have received the same condolences.
@@benitolonard4441 so what? So fucking what????......oh youre italian
How's this for irony; irishmen serving with the SS were recruited to the BRITISCHES Freikorps!
There's nothing weird about it at all, Stalin had plans to make bolshevism my up to the Channel and even Britain even Winston Churchill hated him but as the saying goes the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know
Bring a whole new meaning to "COME AT YA BLACK N TANS."
My dad and uncles served in the ground component of the RAF in WWII.
They fought the wrong side.
sad part of history littered with lies and deceit.
I don't know where you live and the laws of your land. I'm from the US and it isn't illegal toi speak the truth here about certain things.
Joseph Dockemeyer I am from the USA as well but what josh rooney is stating is there has been so much lies and deceit spread about WWII it is now nearly impossible to know what is the Truth regarding the war.
Butthurt neo-Nazi.
Freedom lives in the West, especially the USA.
If you people had won, no one would be allowed to speak but you.
HooDatDonDar
You are so filled with hate it must be a Hell on earth having to live with yourself. All the alcohol makes it bearable.
@@HooDatDonDar everyone that questions the validity and motives of WW2 history is automatically a neo-nazi? Well fuck me then, my liberal ass is actually a nazi according to you! Who knew?!
Your enemies enemy is your friend
Not necessarily
Sad how the Irishmen who fought for the allies were treated when they returned to Ireland. I'll bet these two would have been heroes.
That's because they were traitors.
Not all of the Irishmen who fought with the Allies were harshly treated. A small percentage known as the 'deserters' were. These were men who deserted the Irish Army and joined the British Army when an invasion of Ireland by the Germans or even the British was possible.
@@benitolonard4441 Which begs the question as to how on earth Ireland would defend itself from either the Germans or the British with two machine guns, a couple of pitch forks, and a bath tub on wheels for a tank. Desertions from the Irish army were a bit of an irrelevance.
Ireland in reality rather hid behind Britain during WW2. Its independence meant nothing as the Germans were no respecters of neutrality. Ask Belgium. The Royal Navy guaranteed Irish independence. Rather ironic but true all the same. Ireland then went on to deny Jewish refugees, including orphans, refuge and sheltered some prominent Nazi war criminals. Not a proud period of history for Ireland.
@@Kaiserbill99 'Ask Belgium' Ireland is not Belgium. The Royal Navy guaranteed that Britain wouldn't be invaded from the west. Britain was their concern not Ireland. If you think Britain or the U.S smelt of roses after WW2, you should read more
By the way what PROMINENT Nazi criminals do you refer to?
@@benitolonard4441 Well Belgium was neutral as was Ireland. You overlook the fact that if Britain had folded after the capitulation of France, which at the time looked probable, then Ireland would have been overrun in a heart beat. Therefore Ireland's neutrality and independence from German invasion held only as long as Britain remained in the war.
In terms of Nazis sheltered after the war the most high profile was of course Skorzeny but an article in Irish Central News in 2016 states: "He (Skorzeny) was not the only high-profile Nazi to sojourn in Ireland. Albert Folens and Helmut Clissman also came to Ireland. The 2007 RTE documentary “In Hidden History: Ireland's Nazis” estimates that between 100 and 200 Nazis moved to Ireland. It’s believed that Ireland’s anti-British sentiment led to the war criminals receiving a warmer welcome than they ought to have."
Re Refusing Jewish refugees an article from Israel Times : "On July 9, 1943, newly-elected member of the Irish parliament Oliver Flanagan rose to make his maiden speech.
“There is one thing that Germany did and that was to rout the Jews out of their country,” he declared, saying that Ireland should follow suit. “They crucified our savior 1,900 years ago and they are crucifying us every day of the week.” Shortly after that now notorious speech, Flanagan was on his feet again in the Dail, questioning the Irish prime minister on plans for the country to take in 500 Jewish children from France. Under pressure, Éamon de Valera denied that the children were Jewish. Flanagan’s intervention, however, had the desired effect and the political row he had helped to stoke ensured that Ireland ultimately opted to leave the children to their fate.....Flanagan went on to serve his constituents for a further four decades increasing his majority"
Ireland unfortunately found itself on the wrong side of history during and after WW2. Its self indulgent neutrality contrasted with Britain's heroic struggle against the greatest tyranny the world, or at least Europe, has known. De Valera's petty mindedness and ability to "put his foot in it" re the infamous telegram upon Hitler's death contrasted with Churchill's elevation to historical greatness and reverence. Britain's acceptance of Jewish refugees contrasted with Ireland's reluctance; fueled by Anglophobia and innate Catholic anti-semitism.
You do really need to read more. Bit out of your depth I fear.
We fought the wrong enemy
Seems you're the enemy
@@genesmolko8113 what? Explain...
@stephen morris exept kahbib again because he eats them for breakfast
God bless Ireland !
God damn Ireland
@@hans2406
GOD BLESS FREE IRELAND ! GET OUT RED COATS !
Mike Yob you happy that your forebears fought for a fascist regime? Remembering that your
Lot call us brits fascists that sounds hypocritical to me.
@half a rasher raytown guess people dont learn what the spanish did in history or the Belgians.
so, what we have learned here is,,,
anytime there is a good story, coupled with Irishmen, then alcohol is always a prime factor in the story.
Yep.....:)
I am a Irish Descendent from Arklow County Wicklow. My GG Grand Fathers name was Thomas Woolahan. His daughter Ellen and sister Immigrated to Sydney in 1880. Ellen used to talk about their German friends back in Ireland and how a lot of Irish resented The English so I can understand if I were in their shoes I would have joined the German Army also. Irish/German relations have always been close but not with all Irish but a lot.
Are they all as stupid as you down under, and before you start I’m Irish.
"An Irishman who spent too much time drinking and womanizing''....say it ain't so ;-]
There was a whole group of Irishmen who left the American Army and joined the Mexican army as the Saint Patrick’s battalion.
The Saint Patrick's Battalion
Bar , thank you. I made the correction.
rightly so, this was an American war of agression.
Robert Stewart fuck off you wanker
Got the movie.
"Irishmen were offered the opportunity to work for German Intelligence"... for some reason that makes me burst out laughing.
@Bill Macquarie: German spies were not the best, one German spy was captured in England shortly after he arrived because he feel asleep on the sidewalk.
Because maybe your English and we all no how dumb a d inbred yous all are
@@Antobrotv a,,do you know the difference between and irish man and an english man FUCK ALL///ok,,except some water,,so unless you have 12 toes im right,,
I'm sure the British agents assassinated by the IRA Intelligence Unit in Dublin 1919 weren't laughing when Michael Collins caught up them. Jolly good show.
Bill MacQuarie
("Irishmen were offered the opportunity to work for German Intelligence"... for some reason that makes me burst out laughing).
I GUESS THE REASON YOU LAUGH IS BECAUSE "DONKEY" COMES INTO YOUR MIND.
Thank you Irishmen.
Irish are anals of Europe
@@TheNemo65 Top 10 best educational systems in the world. Third wealthiest country in Europe. Marriage equality by popular vote. Pioneered the earliest effective treatment for cancer. Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated in more countries than any other national festival.
Well screw you too then
These small number of fools that joined that Murderous cult Nazism were misguided, The thousands that volunteered to joined the British army are a real reflection of the thoughts of the Irish people.
@@SpitfireMLG NATIONAL festival... Read it right before you reply you idiot.
This'd be a great film, but I dont trust Hollywood to make it. Imagining it now, painting the two Irishmen as soft hearted loveable twits with bad accents and the Germans as the baddies, rather than showing the actual comradeship they probably experienced.
An appropriate recommendation for ST. Patrick’s Day. 🇮🇪
st patrick who apparently came from england and guiness being from a protestant arthur... why not celebrate someone from ireland instead, its logical..
@@britnic5394 The birthplace of St.Patrick is unknown as you said, and he's the Patron Saint of Ireland. He does have some relevance to Ireland.
@Der Congo Mann You are low level Bottom Feeder pond life!
@@britnic5394 St George never even set foot in England. At least St patrick was in Ireland, lol
@Der Congo Mann fuckwit yes the Irish have a drink, and are welcomed all over the world, English have a drink and are hated.
Lmao what side did the Irish not fight on literally every single war you see Irish
We have over 500 years of serving in foreign armies .
Deus Vult ino I’m also Irish love this bit Of Irish history
The Irish will fight for everyone.....Except themselves.
@@SirAntoniousBlock Michael Collins?
@@swaythegod5812 I don't know, I heard it said when I was young.
Absolute mad men, somehow surviving all that bollocks makes me proud to be Irish
BaridiTheFox so your a fascist?
Surviving all that bollocks,? mmmm, by doing nothing?
Very impressive.
Stay on the whisKY man.
YOU DIDNT SURVIVE IT lol fool
Germans destroyed Dublin.............i agree with you...........the fools on here commenting are insane...............id love a united ireland and hate britain...........but people on here are insane.............germans hated the irish
@@wordmutha1634 rubbish
Absolutely fantastic video and super interesting thank you !
That story needs to have a movie about it made. Is there a book that covers this subject? It kind of reminds me of the terrible way the Irish were treated for being Catholics in the Mexican-American War whose events initiated the creation Nos Patricos Brigade.
You can all say whatever you want but those Officer do look smart wearing there uniform.
Tailored by Hugo Boss.
My gran lived through the War and always thought the Germans looked really smart in their uniforms.
BOSS
Their*
@ Too bad the Germans were not fitted for independent thought. Being servile is a poor fashion statement.
That audio of bombs is actually a russian katyusha missile launcher
0:10 Macaulay Culkin third from the left.
Interesting video. Noticed you have a green line at the bottom of the video. As the videos red and white time lines progress, looks like the Irish flag colours. Nice touch.
"WE DEFEATED THE WRONG ENEMY!" Patton was murdered for speaking the truth
Youre obviously not Jewish
MegaProjectpat no death camps.
This would make a great movie.
Nothing surprising about this.. since the waffen ss comprized more out of foreigners of many nations and relegious backgrounds then Germans at some point during the war. In many ways the waffen ss is the prime example of a multi ethnic multinational para military force.. and as such the foundation of NATO also co created by former ss and wehrmacht generals.
After all the British did to the Irish you’d think they wouldn’t fight with them anymore.
The Irish did it first. (not counting Clontarf)
The English only started to invade ireland after years of irish raids on the west coast of england and wales. I mean even st patrick was from Britain and was captured by irish slavers.
@@adam-uy6qg True that
adam yes and then the Catholic Church in Ireland outlawed slavery and when the normans arrived the practice of slavery was dead and these would be slavery were taught by these normans superior farming and metal working techniques
@@adam-uy6qgwe also created Scotland
Thank you. I didn't know these guys existed
Better than fighting for England.
No its not....but knowing the history of England's treatment of Ireland🍀....fook England.
@@stevenkelly9731
Up yours too!
hans2406 fook England you limey bastad
The only Irish who fought on the right side.
Ireland is becoming Morocco
Obviously you don’t read the news, Europe is deporting immigrants back to their countries of origin at a record pace
@@mattbarkley6971 Yes, it's trebled.....from one a month to three-not bad out of 3 or 4 million.
Andrew Howard 80,000 immigrants at once which is what Sweden did is a very good start
@@mattbarkley6971 Primarily to halt the rapid advance of the right wing a figure of 'potentially' 80,000 COULD be deported was tossed about. It never came to more than a handful of heavily publicised cases, not bad from a total of 300,000.
Ditto Germany where I live. 2,500,000 immigrants (engineers, scientists, astronauts etc!)...1200 deportations.
Andrew Howard when Sweden and Scandinavia are turning down basically half of all asylum applications and refugees and forcing them out of camps and deporting them back, what does that tell you? They aren’t just doing a few thousand. Don’t know where you got those numbers. They are doing tens of thousands
At least two Irish fought on the right side in World War II.
Jack, Stfu ya bawbag, we took the Fenians in and they helped our enemy, enough said.🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🐻💙⚽NO SURRENDER FTP
@@oldskoolraver2067 only for the Yanks you fucking tans would be speaking German now.
Won two World Wars? Hahahahaha!
James Brady and Frank Stringer are alright by me , good lads .
Marriot...thats a jewish name yes?
scott left
How dare you sir ! I'm Moore Marriott beloved character actor from the 1940s I'm of English/Irish stock , look me up on IMDb
stephen morris
Well if I get that so do you , you fucking mong
Yeah, except they were drunks who thought that joining the Nazi's was an easy way out, so they were actually total cunts. Apart from that I heard they were a real laugh. Shame they weren't shot by the Russians or hung by the Allies when all is said and done.
Good lads. Greetings from Ulster 👍
Division Viking , one of the best fighters unit.
@Kristaps Diii
Pfff, yeah sure that's the word I'd used. The Soviets were more motorized than the Germans - the fucking Soviets! Don't even get me started on the Anglos.
@@The_Crimson_Fucker Without the Help of the USA, the Delivery of weapons, Material, etc, the Soviets havent a Chance.
The Crimson Fucker the kill ratio speaks for itself
@hbecker
This too is a false narrative, however even with it the Soviets still had the help of the United States and as such is an entirely irrelevant argument.
You might as well say that without the SS the Germans would've been doubly corked, regardless of whether it's true they had the SS.
Also *wouldn't have had* , the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore.
@Mr.OhYeahYeah
It really doesn't. That's neither how war works in general nor how that war worked. The Germans lost almost every man they could possible lose, whereas the western allies and soviets had enough left to fight another war on that scale.
The Crimson Fucker because the Germans fought to the last man
My maternal grandfather volunteered & served in the "Croatian Black Legion ". at Stalingrad where he was killed in 1942.
We all faught for Germania : Welsh, skandinavians, Irish, scots, Anglo-Saxon,Turks,Ottomans,Arabs and hundrends of Nations.I feel so sad because Native Germen lost the wars.
When one considers the Nazis actually went so far as to tally up the numbers of the Jewish population living in Ireland during the war it can be assumed the Germans did not have Ireland's best interests in mind.
As @Jack Cade said, this would make a fantastic movie, and an even better book. Nicely told story.
0:10 these were Dutch people who had to fight for Germany.. It’s called the NSB
Well "had to" is a bit strong, they volunteered for SS and joined the NSB out of free choice....
Finding the Others Yeah that’s true my bad..
But alot of them did have to enlist because of their parents.
I think they were justified, they were abandoned by the British Army after asking to come fight
This is what made me proud to be part irish
Gavin Scott. What, makes you proud that they fought for Nazi Germany?
It makes you proud that 2 irishmen fought for a genocidal army whose aims were to conquer and purify Europe? Jesus wept. The Germans would have probably just starved out the island of Ireland of they conquered it you realise. But as long as they fight the 'evil Brits' they're gooduns in your book
Thank you for the post TerrorFirmerIE
. Interesting post. Always goo to learn.
I’m under the impression that the Irish have fought for different armies around the world, despite the fact that Ireland has not ever been directly invaded or directly attacked other country’s in recent history..