Englishman Reacts to... The Warsaw Uprising - The Unstoppable Spirit of the Polish Resistance
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2023
- Welcome to our channel! In this emotional and inspiring video, an Englishman witnesses the incredible resilience of the Polish resistance during one of the most significant events in history - The Warsaw Uprising. Join us as he reacts to the untold stories of bravery, sacrifice, and the indomitable spirit of the Polish people who stood united against all odds. Prepare to be moved and enlightened by the unwavering determination that shaped the course of a nation. Don't miss this powerful tribute to the Unstoppable Spirit of the Polish Resistance! Hit that play button now and let's embark on this unforgettable journey together. Remember to like, subscribe, and share to spread the spirit of courage and solidarity!
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Ruins of Warsaw 1945
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You must be wataching Sabaton Warsaw uprasing
And Polish Termopile.. Sabaton 40 to 1...
Srry for my english
When you are going to visit Warsaw? Maybe we could meet. As I once said I am eager to explain you polish pronunciation and "secrets" of our alphabet.
Interesting fact: After fulfilling Himler's order, Warsaw was more damaged than Hiroshima and Nagasaki together after the atomic bombs. We raised the capital from the ashes... but as the famous Polish traveler - Jacek Palkiewicz - said : "we forget to brag about it".
There was an Australian barman fighting in Warsaw Uprising. His name was Walter Edward Smith.
can't forget August Agbola O'Browne a black jazz player from Nigeria
Bardzo ciekawe i wielki szacunek
It's not just Warsaw, Rob. It's whole country. Every city and village in Poland stops at 5 pm, when sirens howl.
nie kłam
@@shadowgno87 mieszkam w 400 osobowej wiosce, i kiedy syrena wyje, kazdy wspomina powstanie warszawskie. nie wiem, czy nie masz tradycji, czy zyjesz w jakimś obrębie super zadupia
@@shadowgno87 Wania, a sracz w domu masz ruska onuco?
@@shadowgno87 To Ty nie kłam.
Zaklików, małe miasteczko, zatrzymuje się. Pamięta.
@@KqrolTVNiesamowite! U nas nic takiego się nie dzieję. Godne podziwu. Myślałam, że to tylko w Warszawie, a tu się dowiaduje takich rzeczy😂
Rob this happens in every major city in Poland. I live in 40k city and you can literally see how even trafic stops for 1 min( that's how I got stuck and got late home). I bet many foreigners don't realise how big deal it is for us Poles, I remember remarkable feeling on 1st of August during pandemic when there was no sights of living on the streets, but as soon sirens wailed everyone went out on theirs balconies or wide open their windows. Pride, gratitude, sorrow, hope and many more... all mixed in 60 seconds.
Well well... Well said. Especially the last sentence. And I mean it.
Greetings from polish Wrocław, former german city called Breslau :)
Żyje za granicą 17 lat .. ale nadal godzinę W honoruje minutą ciszy. Ukraińcy walczą teraz jak my kiedyś, ale wróg jest ten sam .. dziwie się tylko że bomby nuklearne nie są tam zrzucone
Chwała Bohaterom 🤍❤️
Kochamy wolność, opór mamy we krwi, narzucanie nam czegokolwiek na siłę sprawia że krew nam się burzy i nie ugniemy karku, nie uklekniemy przed wrogiem, Polak klęka tylko przed Bogiem i kobietą, którą kocha❤
Ta ostatnie trzy lata pokazały dokładnie jak Polacy kochają wolność.
I am from Poznań. Just now the sirens wailed for W. Hour. I always go out to the balcony then, and silently pray for the victims of this tragic uprising. Interestingly, its commemoration is not only about Warsaw. Fire department sirens howl all over Poland every year on August 1 at 5 p.m. I RECOMMEND the Polish war film "City 44" directed by Jan Komasa. It portrays the hell of this uprising quite well. And the song that opens the film - simply a diamond of Polish music -> th-cam.com/video/qZKCet3JOTc/w-d-xo.html
I also recommend the museum of the Warsaw Uprising in Warsaw
Great material Rob. Thanks for commemorating this event together
Definately go and see the museum of theWarsaw Uprising. The moment you feel it the moment you become "Polish" and understand much more than the vast majority of foreign visitors do. Are we "nationalists" and "facist" as the leftists in UE parliament claim seeing Poles with white and red flags? Are we suffering from "russianfobia" and "germanofobia"? Really no reason to be reserved?
Yes I've seen the film twice it's good....I'll watch a third time.
8:27 Liaison officers of the Warsaw Uprising. Mostly young boys and young women. They also led soldiers through the sewers and rubble of Warsaw. Many times they rescued surrounded soldiers, using paths known only to them. The insurgents often said that their courage was unparalleled.
The youngest one was 9 years old...
Cześć i Chwała Bohaterom!
I'm Polish. I know this story in great detail. We all remember this day of the year and tell our children what it means to us. We all have pain. Just like for our grandparents, those days were a paralyzing fear that they had to overcome in order to survive. so we stand in silence and pay our respects to them. All over the country, time stops in every city. Everyone who feels like Poles hides in place. Whether at work or on the road, on walks or at the beach, no matter what you do, nothing is more important than respecting your grandparents. Our grandparents were those children. Sorry for bad english. I just wanted to explain what this day means to us. what do we feel Horror, respect for ancestors, compassion, pain. What do we Poles know? A man can become the greatest beast, even one that some normal people don't want to believe in so as not to go crazy. A man can become a hero, a twelve-year-old warrior that others do not want to hear about so as not to fall into depression. When you understand this, you will understand Polish madness.
Beautiful.
Każdego dnia Przez 5 lat Wkurwienie zaczyna narastać
20:50 -they didn't
Germans always saw slavs as subhumans. And to this day, their offspring denies the crimes of Wermaht, putting the blame instead on selected few they decided to sacrifice for the west.
In reality, justice demanded all of Wermaht to be executed for their crimes after the war, but the Allies refused to do what was neccessary.
And now we hear stories about how Germans were the victims of WW2.
Sirens go out at 5pm in every Polish city, not only Warsaw.
yes! I lived half my life in a tiny village, 500 residents max, and the sirens were howling in our house that day too
My grandma was school age during the war, and after the war she went to college in Warsaw. She was telling us how once a week they were doing community works to rebuild Warsaw: collecting intact bricks, clearing street, etc. Every time she says this, I am deeply shocked this history is recent enough to know someone who lived through it. We, new generations, truly cannot imagine it...
Did you know that bricks that have rebuild Warsaw has been taken from other cities? They have strip down parts of few cities in the "reclaimed lands in the west". About half of Oświęcim was taken down for Warsaw"resurrection ".
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@@Diveyl I lived in Oświęcim for 15 years and didn't know about it! Thanks for sharing
On 11th November , Poles also have their national holiday. We celebrate regaining independence after 123 years and restoring Poland to the map of Europe. When we stop in Great Britain for a minute on 11th November , my body is in the UK and my heart is in Poland🤍❤.
Hmm gdy cała Europa cereruje zakończenie Pierwszej Wojny Swiatowej
The worst was not the loss of buildings or the glorious death with arms of children and women. The worst were the purges of civilians. The Germans murdered the inhabitants, district by district. Tens of thousands of victims of shooting. The number of victims of the inhabitants many times exceeded the losses of the insurgent army.
Buddy FACT is that Warsow upprising was misstake , Germans had NO plans to destroy Warsow ! , that only happen when AK started uprising , because they thought they can take city before red army will arrive , but little they knew decision that Poland will be part of eastern block was made in July 1944 a month before uprising , all western leaders and stalin agree to that , so upprising was pointless anyways , and is a myth that upprising was supported by all Warsow citizens , there are documented cases where cwarsow citizen throw object of AK soldiers that started upprising and demanded they stop uprising ... and me as a Pole from Poznan I am so pissed of howe much covereage in Polish media get Warsow upprising , that was total failure that ended with up to 200.000 death civilians and destroyed city ... meanwhile Greaterpoland upprising that vas victory and ended with Greterpoland joining Poland after great war is push a side bt Polish media and polititian , do people who fought in warsow upprising are heroes , 100% NO they cause destruction of Warsow and death of up to 200.000 civilians , real heraos are 3 of my great grandfathers who fought in Greaterpoland uprising and won . POLAND STOP CELEBRATING LOOSERS !
200 000 civilians victims
I would add one more thing that is almost always omitted in videos about Warsaw Uprising. It was part of much larger operation Tempest. Point of this operation was to liberate as many cities and villages before Soviet comes, or at least start the process of liberating so Soviets would be greated as the allies and not liberators taking away from them leverage of getting Poland into their sphere of influence. Unfortunately Soviets started declaring polish resistance as "bandits" and they were arresting them "liberating" cities from "the outlaws"
Every Pole knows what is really important.We wish peace for every one.No more war!If anybody tell Poland is preparing for war- he is just lying.We defend our motherland.We Will always remember about our history and ancestors.
As great philosopher, Tony Stark, once said "peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy." :D
@@Xelos86 Iron Man was only a movie.WW II really happened.That is the difference.
Si vis pacem para bellum
poland IS preparing for war. si vis pacem para belum
@@antekb1979 Ja bym to nazwał raczej odstraszaniem potencjalnego agresora przed wchodzeniem z buciorami na polskie terytorium.
Now you understand our anthem?
Poland has not yet perished,
So long as we still live.
What the foreign force has taken from us,
We shall with sabre retrieve.
🖤🖤🖤
Poles have the fight for freedom in their blood, we pass it on from generation to generation. We are a proud nation and we love our country ❤🎉 🇮🇩
I think you're right. 😊 One thing is for certain - you cannot extinguish polish spirit in polish people. Many tried to no avail. Poland even disappeared from a map for 123 years but the spirit of the people prevailed. There is something in Poles... I don't know... Maybe the resistance is simply in our blood.
Flaga
NO MORE WAR!!!!
We have a Little Insurgent Monument in Warsaw. It shows a little boy in an oversized helmet and with a machine gun around his neck. In my opinion, this is the saddest statue in the world. Although scouting was created during the Boer Wars by your countryman - General Baden Powell as an auxiliary formation for the army and composed of young boys...
In Szczecin we have the same monument !
Chwała Bohaterom!! Za Wolność naszą
You can hear the sirene all over Poland last few years. Even in my 10 km to the Belarussian border village I live. The sirene of the firefighters' unit which are in every bigger village here. Thanks for your stopping upon the Warsaw Uprising!
The youngest nurse who helped in the Warsaw Uprising was 8 years old. Her name was Róża Maria Goździewska
In Warsaw, there are still some buildings with holes and blood on the wall. These places are marked somewhere, and you can find them.
Where in Warsaw?
@@Demonetization_Symbol yt block comment with link
@@Demonetization_Symbol look for ''from the Warsaw Uprising is still visible on the floors of some of the buildings in the city.''
first position from r e d i t tell you more.
Dziękuję za podtrzymanie naszej pamięci. Pozdrawiam
When you visit Warszawa you have to see the monument of Little Upriser - it's a monument dedicated to all these kids who fought in Warsaw Uprising. It's beautiful and also moving
If you are from UK, USA, Canada, Australia or any English speaking country - please leave 👍 as a comment here. I am Polish and I am so curious if someone not-Polish is interested in Polish history and our country. Just for my curiosity - please do it.
If yes - it would be incredible for me…. Greetings!
Polish paratrooper brigade (Sosabowski's men) begged to be dropped into Warsaw, but were denied.
Instead their lives were squandered for Market Garden..
The idea of dropping paratroopers on a big, densely urban and partly burning city with unclear frontlines, surrounded by enemy anti-aircraft artillery, was nonsensical in military terms. Most of them would not reach the ground alive. Others would die breaking their bones on hitting the streets, walls etc., or burned alive falling on roofs in flames. The request to send this brigade to Warsaw was promoted by some high-ranking Home Army officers educated in pre-war military academies, veterans of the Polish-Bolshevik war, who knew little about modern warfare. 1944 was very different from 1920. Market-Garden is a different story.
It's not only Warsaw, it's nationwide event
Even though I don't live in Warsaw, every year at W hour, when the alarm sirens start wailing, I drop everything and stand at attention. During this minute, I always think of those who gave their lives to try to regain freedom. Honor their memory.

One of the most famous stories of Uprising is "bloody rain". Basically resistance captured a tank. Crowd gathered around and then bomb hidden inside exploded. Blood of those who gathered there was falling like a rain in few blocks radius
Goliath to be precise. It's not a tank, but a tracked mine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_tracked_mine
@@mchaniewicz I'm going to be honest. I've heard multiple versions of the story. One with panzer, one with half-track and one with Goliath. For me last one seems least likely for people to gather around a bomb instead of actual vehicle they didn't know was booby trapped, but I'm not saying it wasn't it for sure. Stranger things were happening during war
Please stop using the word nazis, there is no nationality, they were germans
Owczarek merdający radośnie ogonem, to owczarek niemiecki, zaś owczarek wściekle szczekający i gryzący to owczarek nazistowski.
Not all Germans were Nazis. Nazis were the party in power
@RobReacts1 Not all , but country invaded us not a grup of people. In that time nobody call them Nazi. AK fought with Germans. During the occupation in Warsow were trams "only for Germans" not "only for Nazis" (nur für Deutsche fahrgäste).
Rob , it was the Germans who murdered our women, children and men and the name Nazis is now used to whitewash the German (because this nation has always been peaceful towards everyone hahaha- sarcazm)- we must not forget our eastern barbarian neighbor , by the way you are doing a great job, about the country where I was born and about the country where I live- Australia
@@RobReacts1 This hypocritical rhetoric created "Polish death camps", and going further, our country was also invaded by communists, not Russians, in Africa, crimes were committed by imperialists, not British, and so we can multiply examples of how history is distorted. I'm just asking for common human honesty
Thank you for this video Rob.
Your programs about Poland are extraordinary!
Thank you
Rob, you are true friend of Poland. Thank you❤
Today i was watching live feed from Krakow, it was basically as in Warsaw. ❤
I always cry this day. Even know. Thank you Rob ❤️
I'm Polish and I'am not that old, but I always cry a little when I just think, that was not that long ago, it's like one human life ago If u know what I mean. Never again pls
Rob, Thank You Very Much for being interested in the history of Poland and experiencing it with us.And you show the truth to the world.
Ale jesteś ździwiony kobietami i dziećmi pendzonymi przed niemieckim atakiem. Okazuje się że jeżeli ty się dziwisz to cały zachód nie ma pojęcia o historii Polski i niemieckich praktykach. Celowo nie nazywam ich faszystami bo to byli Niemcy . Zresztą Sowieci potrafili być jeszcze gorsi.
Jak chodziłam w Anglii do gimnazjum jakieś 15 lat temu to wiele ludzi nawet nie wiedziało gdzie jest Polska, na lekcji historii nawet pokłuciłam się z nauczycielem kiedy mówili o wojnie w Polsce... Propaganda robi robote nie od wczoraj
to byli nazisci,. jesli nie rozumiesz roznicy, szkoda slow.
Stworzyli film Dywizjon303 dwa razy po stronie Angielskiej i Polskiej również jakości wykonania rok w kinach chyba 2018 realizacja pewnie trwała długo wcześniej i jeszcze film Churchill! Kto chciał to znał nasze położenie i naszą historię bez propagandy, zapewne teraz z zagrożeniem na granicy wielu się wczytuję jak bardzo spiepszona sytuacja była wtedy !
@@Tobnjukspo wojnie nie zdążyli jeszcze tyle zakłamać, żyło dużo uczestników
@@rafalkaminski6389tylko ze tutaj oni sa programowani od urodzenia, zeby miec wszystko w dupie i niestety sa na to bardzo podatni.
Chwała naszym przodkom
as a polish man i want to cry when i watch those videos about my country
…Thank You so much for take your time to show and share the truth about Poland. Maybe those who watch your program finally realize what Polish people must go true. To have this Niebuhr….Germany and Russia is not easy to survive, but with Gods help we are, I live in USA but I’m very emotional when I hear my history of my country. Thank you for your information and thanks to internet all World can learn about Polish experiences and history. My regards.🇵🇱🗽
We don't beg for freedom, we fight for it.
Największa hekatomba mojego miasta w całej jego historii.
Thank you Rob for this film❤
Rob you should see movie "Katyń" by Andrzej Wajda, it really hits the heart....
12:37 I saw a movie a couple of moths ago about the start of the war, and there was a scene where the main character (who was i think about 13 yo) was fighting, since they didn't have weapons they used Molotov cocktail to destroy the tanks. There was the mc's best friend tied to one of the tanks as a human sheild and he couldn't destroy it, but some other soldier took the cocktail from him and threw it at his friend. The poor boy had to watch his friend burn alive. It was "just a movie", but things like this happend in real life and it's so terrifying, I couldn't possibly imagine what people felt back there. I'm very gratefull for every singe person who fought for my country
Remember Rob, Germans, not Nazis, Ukrainians, not Nazis collaborators, Russians, not Soviets. We must remember who they were.
to samo mialem napisac
Ale też nie każdy Niemiec był nazistą, nie każdy Ukrainiec współpracował z Hitlerem, chciałbym to samo o Rosjanach napisać ale no...
@@masogaming5835 Niby prawda, ale ktoś NSDAP wybrał i nikt nie protestował dopóki nie zaczęli przegrywać, w Rosji to inna sprawa, tam protestujących wymordowano na początku (około 10 mln ludzi).
@@masogaming5835nie każdy Niemiec był nazistą, ale każdy nazistą był Niemcem.po za tym ktoś wybrał niespełnionego malarza i ktoś te chore ideały popierał....
@@pwks-swarog NSDAP wybrano, bo Hitler co jak co był dobrym mówcą, obiecywał naprawę gospodarki po Wielkim Kryzysie ( co w pewnym sensie zrobił ), a winą za kryzys obarczył Żydów stąd Niemcy nie protestowali aż tak gdy żydowskie sklepy były zamykane, lub gdy otworzyli pierwszy obóz koncentracyjny w Dachau ( gdzie i tak pierwszymi osadzonymi byli komuniści ). Gdy Hitler dochodził do władzy Niemcy nie wiedzieli jak to się skończy, widzieli w nim kogoś kto podniesie Niemcy z biedy czasów Republiki Weimarskiej. A gdy zaczęła się wojna, to już było za późno na pokojowe obalenie jego: partie opozycyjne były rozwiązane, ludzie o innych poglądach i Żydzi byli tępieni, a Gestapo i SS miało pełną kontrolę nad codziennym życiem mieszkańców 3 Rzeszy.
The Gray Ranks(Szare Szeregi) is the underground codename of the Scouts Organization of the ZHP.
Youth in the gray ranks was divided into
Zawiszacy 12-14 years old
Combat Schools(Bojowe szkoły) 15-17 years old
Assault Groups (Grupy szturmowe)18+
Just awful! So sad
@@RobReacts1 Rob please don't take this as an attack.
But for us Poles, it is much more sad to hear about the Uprising.
The victims of the Uprising will always be in our memory and nothing will change that, but the way in which the Second World War and the Uprising are talked about will be.
Many people, lots of videos on YT and other platforms use the phrase (Nazis). Warsaw was not destroyed by the Nazis, but by the Germans.
Just like they don't say communists but Russians or Soviets (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
The Nazis in relation to WW2 are like aliens.
Nazism is a political movement, not a nationality.
I believe that historical matters should be left to historians, and I try to do so.
Today's Germany has nothing to do with the crimes of the past, but this past must not be distorted.
Personally, I believe that relations with our western neighbor should be as good as possible.
An example would be the tweet of the German embassy in Poland
"Today, on the anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, all German diplomatic posts in 🇵🇱 lowered their flags to half-mast as a sign of mourning and shame. We remember the victims, let their fate be a warning to us for the future. Never again!"
@@kojotto1 Nazi-Germany would be precise. And although i get your point it still doesn't make my blood boil as much as the biggest offender of all - "Polish death camps".
@@Xelos86 can give you 100👍 for this comment?
@@kojotto1 I completely hear what you say. But it was the Nazi party that ran the country. They didnt win a vote by 100% to get into power. I believe it was the followers of the nazis that did the damage. Is it fair to blame the innocent people of germany?
It is always quite moving. Even though I live in the south of Poland and not in a big city, there are always sirens at the W hour, so I go to the window and listem to them in silence, or I turn the tv to see how bustling Warsaw freezes for a moment, the boats on Wisła too. This year I saw many people standing still on the streets of Warsaw, even though the rain
I just came back from the Warsaw Uprising ceremony, I took 29,000 steps, my legs hurt so much, I'm coming home and here's your video. You must come to Warsaw sometime on August 1st. The atmosphere is amazing. People dressed in costumes from that era, small and large concerts, all with red and white falags or armbands. Sirens start wailing at 5pm. This is the W hour, the hour of the beginning of the uprising against the Germans. Unfortunately, the Russians stood on the other side of the Vistula for 63 days and did not help us. Only after the Germans murdered the Poles and completely destroyed Warsaw and fled, the Russians (mot....fuc....) came in.
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Fajnie że wspominasz również o Powstaniu Warszawskim z 1944 ❤ Kiedyś pięknie o tych strasznych chwilach zaśpiewał Sabaton - th-cam.com/video/BmerZbDPXns/w-d-xo.html
Myślałem że nikt o tym nie wspomi ❤
@@theblazinken3501 Właśnie miałam pisać: SABATON - Uprising (Official Music Video) i oczywiście SABATON - Uprising (OFFICIAL LIVE) Szwedzi zaśpiewali na cały świat, jak żaden polski zespół :-)
@@agnieszkazuk co w sumie jest smutne że potrzeba było Szwedów żeby opowiedzieć polską historię
one o the most liked comments under this recording is "'m 100% American but I can't help but feel SO much pride for the Polish people watching this song. It doesn't get any better than thousands shouting Warszawo walcz!"
The English name of Warszawa in this context also has meaning: War saw
Thank you Rob from Poland...
Thanks! Greetings from Poland!
Dear Rob, it is difficult to explain, but as a Polish citizen born in 1984, since I remember I have always had "the sense of reality" of what we went through during the WW2...thank you for this video! All the best to you and your channel!
Polska Walcząca!! Chwała Bochaterom!!!
I've recently quoted memories of a Warsaw Uprising veteran on my latest vlog. He said that 3/4 of his class in school was in conspiration. Most of them from te beginning of German occupation. But.... He found out who served in which unit on the dat od Uprising od even later after the war.
The conspiracy was so deep you didn't know that most of your friends were involved.
Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱
When you'll visit Warsaw The Museum of Warsaw Upraising is a must. Probably the best and most moving that I ever saw. The whole exhibition is make so that people feel like they're in the middle of the uprising. Sounds, light, decoration, there is even a short part of a wastewater tunnel that were used by the insurgents. Short movies - stories of the people who were fighting (in Polish, but there's plenty informations in English as well). I still remember the video of the city after the uprising, filmed from the plane. Unbelievable.
Thank you for doing what you’re doing.
No no no.
Każdy prawdziwy Polak zatrzymuje się na tą jedną minutę. W całej Polsce, nie jednym mieście!
🤍💪🏻🇵🇱❤️"Cześć i Chwała Bohaterom"
Thanks for this video. Visiting Warsaw consider going to Bielańska 10 - Reduta banku polskiego (Reduta of Polish Bank (as I guess it may be translated)) it's a place where you can, for a moment, get impression of travelling partly back in time to Warsaw Uprising (actually, for better experience, I recommend to visit Warsaw Uprising Museum). Sorry for my English, I hope it was more less understandable. Have a nice trip
If Warsaw is on your list, come here on the 01.08 and expirience what you reacted to. Also The Warsaw Uprising Museum is worth seeing.
In the video narrator mentiones " will to fight the nazis". This is something that we Poles are very angry about, very sensitive. The will to fight GERMANS. German Nazi party was elected and supported by majority of Germans way till the end of the war. There is no nation called " Nazi" . There is a German nation which came up with the idea of this totalitarian ideology and spread it by force and conquest throughout Europe. Germans love phrases like that, nazi did this, nazis did that. It shifts the blame from german nation and their decision and willingness to participate in this from germans to some mystical nazis who came down from planet Mars , conquered Germany and forced poor Germans to be evil. No ! Germans !
Exactly so!!! And now Germans together with some bureaucrats from Netherlands 😠👽call us nazis! It' them who used the phrase "Polish concentration camps" , "Nazi camps", so finally the uneducated people get the impression that Polish= nazi, and Germans were just victims of nazism'. That's what the statistics show: most young Germans beleive that they were the victims, and more and more of them believe that Poles were the "bad guys" who kicked them out of their houses when the borders changed. The fact that this was settled between Stalin, Churchill and Roosvels and behind our backs is somehow forgotten ...
👏👍
That's wrong. Yes they had the majority vote but that does not make all Germans Nazi supporters. In England we have the Tories in power, but I certainly don't support them or their actions
@@RobReacts1 You see Rob, you are wrong here. Very few people didn't support Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialistic German Workers Party). The party gave work to people, by the means of public works. They started to educate people in one write way, so the young Germans were devote believers of the party. It gave privileges to the party members, so everyone wanted to be a member. The party had a very good PR division, and their Rhetorical capabilities were unmatched. People believed in the party and their Fuhrer. They believed that they were made to do great things, to save the Germany from the crisis and to return the glory days of the Empire, and make it even greater. Those people that could see what was going on and that didn't believed all the lies and promises, they all very quickly left germany and went to France, England and USA. Mostly to the States.
As long as Hitler and his army were victorious, and the people in Germany had cheap labor of forced workers (aka slavic slaves), then everyone was very happy with them. But when the wheel of fortune turned upsidedown, and the war went bad, then the simple people started to turn, and sayed that "we were forced to do it, but we didn't wanted to do it. We were just soldiers/civilians. We only did what we were told to do, nothing more."
@@RobReacts1 Can you tell me what was the goal of naI party ? Was it to improve life of nazis by soaughtering europe ? No, to improve life and wealth of Germans. Thousand years german Reich, creatine living space for " german spirit" in the East. Or as its put in german general plan ost " reduction of slavic population up to 90 percent to create favourable conditions for GERMAN settlers " . Its interesting that those soldiers in Grey uniforms marching through europe werent speaking nazi language. Hm...they did spoke some language that starts with g...and what was the nationality of those soldiers,clerks, Secret police officers,party members ? Brazillian ? Where they from Peru perhaps? Oh no wait, german i guess. Nazi party, its ideology ,its goal were set as GERMAN supremacy movement tasked with making sure that GERMANS will he masters of enslaved continent .
My greatest respect to the Polish ppl..
They fought bravely in the battle of Britain.
Long live Polska
❤ them.
I am very surprised by your interest in Poland. I watched almost all your movies about Poland. I'm impressed how much our story makes an impression on you! I'm pretty sure you're very much into it. It is very touching to see a foreigner who is so moved by our story.
Yea came in 2012. Been to Poland 5 times now :)
Trust me. They are forever in our hearts.
Dodatkowo polecam tegoroczną piosenkę narganą przez znanego polskiego rapera z okazji 79 tegorocznej rocznicy wybuchu powstania warszawskiego, która niesie za sobą przekaz pełen nadziei - opierając się na historii dwójki ludzi, która pobrała się podczas powstania i przeżyli w szczęściu i zdrowiu wiele lat po wojnie. Generalnie piosenka chyba nie ma napisów angielskich, ale główny jej motyw przewodni brzmi "Miłość zawsze jest, na pewno, miłość wszędzie jest, spójrz w ciemność, miłość zawsze jest chodź ze mną, nie zostawię cię". Mi się bardzo podoba, polecam ;) th-cam.com/video/7hMuoLt_7r4/w-d-xo.html
szkoda, że generalnie nie widzicie, że nam żydzi Polskę odebrali, i to jest dopiero tragedia
One old person of my family that comes from eastern Poland said that the russians were twice as bad as nazis, at least for their village. They were lucky enough that the Wehrmacht soliders that were stationed there were humane. Some of them even shared food with them as the compensation for ocupying a few buildings. She said that she had chocolate first time in her life because one solider shared it with her. She also remembers that some of them were very young, a few even cried in the night missing their mothers and families. On the other hand red army during counter-offensive murdered many people falsely accusing them of being collaborants and/or anti-communists. They violated many woman and stole basically everything of any worth. I think this is how many of us poles see russian "liberators". Like, okay, they were probably lesser evil but still, they murdered directly tens of thousands of civilians, POVs, even officers in Katyn massacre. Many more died sent to siberian gulags. And I barelly just scratched the surface.
childrens fought for Poland, for the nation, for freedom ny friend
Now you can better understand why, during the first dozen or so years after the war, the words "Germany" and "Germans" were officially written in lowercase in Poland (Poles normally write the names of countries and nationalities in uppercase, but in this one case they changed the rules). This, of course, does not reflect the scale of contempt and disgust that Poles felt towards the Germans. It was only many years after the war that Poles started writing the name of Germany and Germans again, just like in the case of other nations. Besides, German crimes in Warsaw were only an element of monstrous terror against Poles throughout the whole country. They are described, in the famous book "Bloody Lands. Europe between Hitler and Stalin", by a well-known American historian, Timothy Snyder, a specialist in the history of Central and Eastern Europe (e.g. about 500 Polish villages burnt together with their inhabitants, i.e. burned alive together with infants - as a punishment for the actions of Polish partisans).
If You wants know more read books Norman Davies Uprising 44 ,he is british-polish historic
Wiem że to przykre ale taka nasza historia wiele dzieci zginęło na wojnie nie tylko w ogniu walki ale ruwnierz w komorach gazowych 😢😢 pozdrawiam z polski🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
Cheers from Warsaw 🤍❤
Gloria Victis
In 2020 I was on vacation to Gdańsk and as Warsaw is lets say on thee second fastest way between sea and my home city of Nowy Sącz in southern Poland so we decided to go there on the way back and what's nice it was 1 August. We got to the city just before the 5 pm and when THAT hour finally arrived everything changed. Everyone got out of the car and stand still. Truly amazing, never experienced anything like this. Love that there is this special event/symbol to show that everyone remembers. Pamiętamy!
My great uncle had died in the Warsaw uprising, my grandmother had been severely wounded. She was, I think 13 or 14 at the time, hobbled all her life. The wound is still opened, I believe. We Poles commemorate , we remember. I live in London for almost 22 years and I remember the British heroes too. I always wear my Poppy in October and November.
Thank you, nice video, it's nice to see how truth is spread.
Every year there is a concert of the uprising songs, transmitted by the national broadcaster , there will be a live transmission on TVP1. It's a GREAT concert with the participation of the last living uprisers and the crowd singing along. Its also translated for the deaf and you have to see it bo believe that it is possible to hear even if you are deaf.
Concert "Varsovians sing (not) forbidden songs 2023" - where, when and what time will it take place? This year's 18th edition of the concert dedicated to the memory of the Warsaw Uprising will take place on Tuesday, August 1, at 20:30 on pl. Piłsudski in Warsaw.
Thank you for this ❤
Every year, there is a concert of insurgent songs, broadcast by a nationwide broadcaster, there will be a live broadcast on TVP1. This is a GREAT concert featuring the last living insurgents and a singing audience. It is also translated for the deaf and you have to see it to believe that you can hear even if you are deaf. On August 1, on the anniversary of the outbreak of the Uprising, the inhabitants of Warsaw, together with the Choir of Varsovians, will sing insurgent songs to commemorate the insurgents.
This year, the theme of the concert will be the beginnings of the uprising. Participants of the events will tell where the outbreak of the uprising found them, what were their first reactions, decisions and feelings.
Part of the concert script will concern the history of the Saski Palace, which is being reconstructed at Piłsudski Square.
Organizer of the Warsaw Uprising Museum..
The broadcast of the concert on Monday, August 1 at 20:30 and 2:40 and on Wednesday, August 2 at 12:15 on TVP Polonia and in the mobile application.
Chwała Bochaterom🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
I invite you to Warsaw ❤ it is city full of life. But most important place to visit is the Museum of Warsaw uprising. Thank you Rob for your job.
Thanks for coverage, appreciated indeed.
When we speak truth we're said to exaggerate and engage in phobias and paranoia, even though we use words that aren't even sufficient to convey the reality. Maybe there just aren't any words sufficient to describe it, to begin with, and we'll always be made to be the crazy ones.
Sirens sound in most Polish cities on August 1 at 5:00 p.m. And most of us, out of respect for the victims, stop for a minute. 200,000 Varsovians died. The Germans razed our capital to the ground. In my opinion, this is the most dramatic moment in our history. When Professor Stanisław Pigoń found out that a young poet, Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, had joined the unit, he said "Well, we belong to a nation whose fate is to shoot diamonds at the enemy". The Polish-German conflict is about 1000 years old and it is not the first time in this history that children have been used as shields. The symbol of the defense of Głogów in 1109 were children attached to siege machines. In my opinion, there are two nations that are unable to surprise us with the level of their barbarism - Germans and Russians
Zapomniałeś o ukraińcach!
its especially sad too because only about 40-50 years before the Uprising, Poland was also partitioned between 3 super powers for 100 years. the last 250 years of Polish history has just been trying to gain independence from every single neighbor that were also aggressors
That story is always moving me. Thank you for showing that to British people.
Thank you. Good video
Yes, they used to shield their tanks with polish women and kids against polish almost unarmed underground army who did not have even one tank to fight with because they knew Poles managed to fight those tank a few times before and they really did not know what to expect they always used to kill polish civilians ( children of course too) in hundreds as a revenge for each german officer killed by polish underground army it's happened many times during II WW .
Thank you very much for talking about this we do really are that , people just don't know.🙏🏼
It's not just Warsaw. Every city has the sirens on.
Three years ago I was in the mountains at the time. i thought I would not hear the sirens there. I heard chruch bells from every village.
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Hello Rob, nice to hear ya live 👍.
Thanks for words of understanding.
Hi Rob,
I wish your nation people as brave and valiant as the Poles.
When you'll be in Warsaw, there is Warsaw Uprising Museum, go there if you want know much more about the uprising
TO BYLI NIEMCY !
If you do visit Warsaw, definitely visit the Warsaw Uprising museum
01.08. is one of a few anniversaries important to me somehow. I'm not Warsaw citizen and my family has nothing to it, but I see in this uprising beautiful example of power and neccesity of rebel.
There are rarely said also that Jews who some time earlier was fighting in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, later in Warsaw Uprising they joined too.
Once I was putting Polish flag outside the window in time 01.08 to 02.10, but this flag has been broken one day ... Now I just stand in silence when the alarm sounds at "W"-hour, at 17:00. And I listen "Uprising" of Sabaton, it's beautiful thing ❤
If you'd like to get some artistic flavor of these times, I can recommend you the following movies: "Canal" ("Kanał") of Andrzej Wajda, Oscar winning: "The Pianist" ("Pianista") of Roman Polański, and - something for younger generation - "The City 1944" (Miasto 44') of Jan Komasa
Many artists made songs about it.
There is also a game from 2019 called Warsaw
12:58 -you know, you don't recruit children into the army unless it's actually their best chance of survival.
very well said
You have to go to Wilanów palace. It is the building that was not destroyed at all because it was located outside of the city of Warsaw. Maybe some elements and things of interior design were stolen. It served as a residency of polish king John III Sobieski (known from the battle of Vienna). The palace is also known as the "polish Versailles". Currently Wilanów is one of the districts of Warsaw...
Few comments:
1) those were Germans and some Austrians, not Nazis, lets call things by their name.
2) Communication was and wasn't problem.
AK was real army, even if in conspiracy, they had plans.
But they hadn't knew that new German forces will come to city, untill that was too late.
Some other problems and bad predictions made that situation, that some polish cells succeeded, other failed and not consistent area was taken.
3) during uprising about 150-200 thousands of civilians were killed, including about 65000 killed in massacres against of fight.
Responsible for that was German general Erich von dem Bach-Zalewski.
After war he testified in Nuremberg, but wasn't sentenced.
In West Germany he stand trial in 1961, 17 years after war, and was sentenced for life imprisonment for...
Killing 6 German Communists in '30s. He never bear consequences of massacres during Warsaw uprising.
4) of German soldiers felt wrong about massacres?
Possibly some did, but you have to remember, many of them thought that Poles, Ukrainians or other Slavic (and Jews) people weren't humans.
And if we weren't humans, it's not a problem to kill us.
I don't say, there were not good Germans, sure that happened, for example that who saved famous pianist Szpilman (portrayed in Polanski's film "pianist", i recommend).
That German name is Wilm Hosenfeld.
But Hosenfeld was rare exception. He died in russian camp in 1950s.
And he got one of polish highest orders.
5) if you will go to Warsaw, and you will go to museums, you will see many paintings and arts.
Those which were hidden during German occupation, and Germans hadn't stole.
But there are hundreds of thousands of such arts, which were stolen by Germans and still are on their houses walls.
And we can't get them back.
Some time ago that happens, that one parish discovered that their bell is very old stolen from Poland antique.
That parish even wanted to return it to polish parish which is owner, but German ministry of culture blocked it.
Germany never returned our arts, they never paid for stolen wealths, for destroying our country, for killing our people or for using our force labour.
Their wealth is build on polish blood too, but they never paid for that.
And that saying "not all Germans were Nazis (which is almost not true), so we should say Nazis, not Germans" is created only for that Germany never face consequences of their work.
All for today, have a nice day.