How did Germany Get so Strong after Losing WW1? | Animated History

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    Germany, when saddled with debt and suffering from inflation, grew to conquer most of Europe in only twenty years. How did the fallout from the Great War cripple their economy in the first place? Why did the Wehrmacht construct the Autobahn? In this Animated History video, we recount the method and the madness that set the stage for World War II
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    Bibliography:
    Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich in Power: 1933-1939. Penguin, 2006.
    “Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.” [JohnDClare.net](johndclare.net/). [www.johndclare.net/Weimar_hyp...](www.johndclare.net/Weimar_hyp....
    Tooze, J. Adam. The Wages of Destruction: the Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. Penguin Books, 2008.
    “Weimar Republic.” [History.com](history.com/). A&E Television Networks, December 4, 2017. [www.history.com/topics/german...](www.history.com/topics/german....
    Music:
    Victoria 2 Lament for the Queen
    Red Moon by Etienne Roussel
    Heroes Will Fall by Hector Posser
    Facing Evil by Edward Karl Hanson
    Long Note Two by Kevin Macleod
    Thrilling Moments by Alec Slayne
    Corner Cube by Christian Andersen

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  • @TheArmchairHistorian
    @TheArmchairHistorian  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1005

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  • @RealKaaaaze
    @RealKaaaaze 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2942

    Hitler just opened up the console and typed instantconstruction and research all

    • @tincup3683
      @tincup3683 3 ปีที่แล้ว +156

      And also clicked "finish upgrading now"

    • @DontKnow-hr5my
      @DontKnow-hr5my 3 ปีที่แล้ว +199

      Sadly in lategame he opened the console, reactivated it by accident and forgot to turn it off so all the other nations got the buffs aswell.

    • @kaiserkiefer1760
      @kaiserkiefer1760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      @@DontKnow-hr5my the USSR has a mod that makes scrapping the barrel have 98% recruitible population with no negative effects.

    • @giantsfan714
      @giantsfan714 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@kaiserkiefer1760 ohgod

    • @kaiserkiefer1760
      @kaiserkiefer1760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@giantsfan714 stalin said "the rifles and tanks shall work in factories, so you cowards can fight!"

  • @nateallen3209
    @nateallen3209 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10152

    It's ridiculous that TH-cam won't let you show swastikas in a historical context.

    • @rinasogi9240
      @rinasogi9240 3 ปีที่แล้ว +735

      Yet a video game call wolfenstien is completely allowed!

    • @diegomarquez4340
      @diegomarquez4340 3 ปีที่แล้ว +432

      Which is kinda ironic since they would allow him in to use it Germany

    • @adamhicks9531
      @adamhicks9531 3 ปีที่แล้ว +334

      or the fact that they allowed the swastika in my history book when i was in middle school/ high school wtf is wrong with this country

    • @tilermendoza3920
      @tilermendoza3920 3 ปีที่แล้ว +458

      @@rinasogi9240 people became pussys

    • @Musicfan0702
      @Musicfan0702 3 ปีที่แล้ว +233

      It's not a swastika, it's a hooked cross or Hakenkreuz. It's a Christian symbol.

  • @geschlechtspunkheiten4180
    @geschlechtspunkheiten4180 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1342

    Entente: You still owe us 100 billion Reichsmark!
    Weimar Germany: There you go, enjoy your loaf of bread!

    • @ps92809
      @ps92809 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      @Funtime Florian Just. Take. It.

    • @ddeaths1965
      @ddeaths1965 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @Funtime Florian TAKE THE BREAD DANG IT

    • @kizugx
      @kizugx 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      isnt it wehrmacht?

    • @tomasgogashvily5350
      @tomasgogashvily5350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@kizugx At that time, it was Weimar Republic (it has almost the same system as today). Wehrmacht was established as Armed Forces (in german), and the republic became Third Reich (one party system dictatorship). In any case, inflation wouldn't effect debt payment, as it would adjust to it. Most of the time, the debt will be repaid through either foreign currency or outright traded goods.

    • @aguy9014
      @aguy9014 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Funtime Florian JUST TAKE THE BREAD GODDAMIT.

  • @issue2505
    @issue2505 3 ปีที่แล้ว +912

    France and UK: Seems like germany's having fun making lots of consumer goods
    Germany with civilian factories producing military equipment: Yes, so much fun

    • @Adam-mi3oc
      @Adam-mi3oc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      100% consumer goods would be very bad

    • @unheardvoice6217
      @unheardvoice6217 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      underrated

    • @rubynibs
      @rubynibs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Germany was doing what everyone else was doing? EGADS, MAN! RUN FOR THE HILLS!

    • @Guido_XL
      @Guido_XL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      It's wrong. Germany was producing more consumer goods than military products. I do not know where historians believe they found evidence for this presumption that the Third Reich was preparing for WWII by industrial effort. When the Polish incursion began, the German army was stretched to its very limits. If the French would have persisted in their Saar Offensive, they could have defeated the Third Reich in those early September 1939 days right away.
      Portraying German war preparation in the years preceding WWII is a commonly echoed myth. What Hitler always had on his mind then was to approach some kind of equalisation in military strength. He had a treaty with Britain on a ratio of British to German naval power, for instance. That treaty was abandoned later on, due to concerns that Germany would not be able to get at par with the increasing Soviet submarine threat, but the point remains that there was no such thing as an obvious Nazi drive to prepare for an alleged commencement of war in Europe.
      All of those stories seem to ignore the fact that the German military started from a really weak level. Increasing this strength was relative to that low level. It was not about becoming stronger than the others, but about being able to defend the country in a proper way.

    • @rubynibs
      @rubynibs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Guido_XL Thank you, Guido!

  • @Minboelf
    @Minboelf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6965

    I remember that there was a story where a German man came home with a wheelbarrow full of money
    The next day he woke up, he discover that someone broke into his house but the robber didn't still his money....but the wheelbarrow instead

    • @Ruosteinenknight
      @Ruosteinenknight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1103

      I remember another one: German people used money to heat their house ovens, because buying wood to burn would've been more costly than burning money.

    • @Defishman0808
      @Defishman0808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +491

      Must have bin a realy nice wheelbarrow

    • @istvanbarath6333
      @istvanbarath6333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +431

      @@mrluk-ci4os and you didn't get the joke

    • @realmart3451
      @realmart3451 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@mrluk-ci4os he said nearly

    • @parapat2445
      @parapat2445 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      For real? Are you even a German?

  • @pascalf9602
    @pascalf9602 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2322

    I still remember this story from my grandma:
    She and her grandpa were in a train on the way to a hospital because there was a new born in the family. They had 2 suitcases filled with cash. He forgot one of them in the train but couldn't care less about it because it wasn't worth anything at all. It was a rough time

    • @liaml.e.5964
      @liaml.e.5964 3 ปีที่แล้ว +163

      The Weimar Republic was hell. There are some accounts of people literally boiling their shoes so as not to starve...

    • @hasangeez7531
      @hasangeez7531 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@user-xd3qq9ye5mour*

    • @die1mayer
      @die1mayer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      ​@Kyllyan Fritz-Yoen Ateme Being a prophet and being sane are mutually exclusive.

    • @orangeguy7760
      @orangeguy7760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      How old are you? Not to be disrespectful but, arent adults from the 1920s already have parished. My grandparents were in their teens by the time ww2 started.

    • @Gr3nadgr3gory
      @Gr3nadgr3gory 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Kyllyan Fritz-Yoen Ateme so did Jahovah. According to the Bible he committed an even larger genocide that wiped out the entire earth except for one single boat.

  • @quentinwal9452
    @quentinwal9452 2 ปีที่แล้ว +684

    It's honestly impressive that Germany has survived its own history

    • @rolandzarka5191
      @rolandzarka5191 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      thanks USA

    • @abdirahmanidris290
      @abdirahmanidris290 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      ​@@rolandzarka5191 The Soviet Union and the British Empire were just as important in the allied victory.

    • @shin29534
      @shin29534 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Germans literally filled with brilliant minds they will always comeback stronger

    • @MrToontuber
      @MrToontuber ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@rolandzarka5191 as it was theyre project..

    • @banana_havoc
      @banana_havoc ปีที่แล้ว

      ong

  • @aara144
    @aara144 3 ปีที่แล้ว +238

    Starting reading for an exam and now am hooked on history

    • @Ghost-ds6ll
      @Ghost-ds6ll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It be like that

    • @redwojak5182
      @redwojak5182 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      cool, now read real history, revisionists corected a lot of errors of the ww2

    • @moonagaming6068
      @moonagaming6068 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was hooked by meme lol

    • @Guido_XL
      @Guido_XL 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fine, but please do keep in mind that this video only echoes the usual myths, not any proven truth from history.
      The way in which the Third Reich allegedly prepared for war by increasing military spending is such a typical error that gets regurgitated a lot. Also the alleged "fact" that the Third Reich would not be able to economically survive if it would not occupy other countries soon, is a common myth. The problem that the Third Reich was facing was indeed related to high finance, but, in contrast to other countries like Britain, Germany could not get loans on the international finance market to lubricate its economy. There was a reason for the Third Reich to rely on barter trade and the complicated issue with Mefo bills and such.

    • @user-uz9ir8oq4v
      @user-uz9ir8oq4v 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Guido_XL no

  • @mizuchi6875
    @mizuchi6875 4 ปีที่แล้ว +478

    9:15 seems like someones been playing hearts of iron 4 germany

    • @consulargaming3554
      @consulargaming3554 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      I was lookin for someone to notice thank you sir

    • @dikko7010
      @dikko7010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Was about to comment this

    • @isengrom6883
      @isengrom6883 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I was wondering if we would ever see a HOI4 reference

    • @roryhanley5254
      @roryhanley5254 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thankfully they added an update in HOI4 thats mean you dont have to manually extend the MEFO bills.... not sure why this wasnt mentioned in the video

    • @massimopericolo9579
      @massimopericolo9579 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      last update too, see the cancel mefo bills thing.

  • @zenmaster16
    @zenmaster16 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2638

    “Money printer go brrrrrrrrrr” -Weimar Republic

    • @sisand4891
      @sisand4891 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Lol😂

    • @landonstudios9653
      @landonstudios9653 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      inflasion go brrr -weimar republic

    • @cocodotcom8911
      @cocodotcom8911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not funny, you know

    • @DaSniper406
      @DaSniper406 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @@cocodotcom8911 its pretty funny

    • @cocodotcom8911
      @cocodotcom8911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@DaSniper406 Dude, I was just joking. >:D

  • @aeoe665
    @aeoe665 3 ปีที่แล้ว +267

    Germany is the guy who never give. Up every war

    • @leem.5917
      @leem.5917 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Khuaikhema Hnamte *Ayo hol up-*

    • @Memesifoundonfacebook
      @Memesifoundonfacebook 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Germany is that One dude who almost do all the work by himself in a Project

    • @tinan266
      @tinan266 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Khuaikhema Hnamte It should come in the next 30 years you're good?

    • @nasuegaming1255
      @nasuegaming1255 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tinan266 imagine it happened lol

    • @tinan266
      @tinan266 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nasuegaming1255 You wouldn't imagine how much I have imagined. lol

  • @BasedLink
    @BasedLink 3 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    Most historians neglect to mention that it was the Weimar government who surrendered in 1918, not the Kaiser, as this could lend credence to the "stab in the back myth." Good on this video for telling the full story in that regard.

    • @christianmayer7432
      @christianmayer7432 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yeah, after Ludendorff panicked and suggested the armistice to the government. Then in hindsight, he created the "stab-in-the-back-myth" to save his and the army's reputation.

    • @christianmayer7432
      @christianmayer7432 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @John Titor Can you give a source for your claims? In my ears, this sounds exactly like a revisionist, right-wing myth.

    • @kevinkirby4305
      @kevinkirby4305 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Myth"
      Lmao keep telling yourself that. America only entered the war because of pressure from the zionist lobby in the UK (Look up the Belfour Declaration). Weimar was controlled by zionists and were happy to see the ottomans collapse.
      The German people knew this and elected the party who brought justice back to Germany

    • @christianmayer7432
      @christianmayer7432 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kevinkirby4305 "Weimar was controlled by Zionists". - The same thing was in the centre of Nazi propaganda. It is interesting, that such nonsense will never die out.
      "The German people knew this and elected the party who brought justice back to Germany" - Yeah, "justice": illegal murders, oppression and a Nazi elite who enriched themselves. (Look up, how Hitler and his cronies swam in fortune.)
      In Germany, your statements would be considered as Neo-Nazi, rightwing propaganda. So you are an antisemitic Nazi.
      You can be glad of yourself. 🤣

    • @mardasman428
      @mardasman428 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, but the OHL had already prepared to accept a peace deal since October. It just happened to be the case that the delegation that was designed to accept the humiliating armistice arrived under the Kaiser's leadership on 9th November and then did the same two days later, just this time with the agreement of Ebert.
      And you know what? The German High Command kind of wanted it that way! To them, the German revolution was actually a great opportunity to whitewash their role in the war and deflect blame towards the Democrats who they wanted to sweep away again. They literally wrote letters openly saying how happy they were that they could blame the Social Democrats for their own failings.
      Several members of the OHL actually ended up becoming big purveyors of the stab in the back myth such as Ludendorff, who was mentioned in the video here, EVEN IF he knew EXACTLY how much he was at fault for it.
      In many ways, the High Command were a bunch of sore losers and it is a pity that many Germans believed their lies.
      Even worse, many of Hitler's initial collaborators from the conservative side, many of which were close to the OHL, wanted to reinstitute a sort of German Empire 2.0 and tried to use Hitler to their advantage, which utterly failed. Their biggest enemy was Democracy and not the fascist threat. Just like the initial OHL had been...
      The role of German conservatives and traditionalists during the Weimar Republic is breathtakingly irresponsible and dangerous, even among those who didn't really like Hitler and his antisemitism. In the end they all helped Hitler or worked with or under him, regardless of their intentions. In that sense, German conservatism was completely stained for a very long time after WW2. And it all started with the German High Command blaming the Democrats for the peace treaty of Versailles.

  • @TheSchlunzer
    @TheSchlunzer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +618

    0:35
    I would like to point out that these German dudes aren't just talking in German but with a thick Bavarian accent. The whole event takes place in Bavaria, so that suits perfectly.
    Chapeau for that level of detail only German speaking people would notice.

    • @mikayari185
      @mikayari185 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      no wonder it sounded so unusual.

    • @danielbrandt4247
      @danielbrandt4247 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @Joshua N. Ajang Yes, there is a difference. Germany has a plethora of dialects. Standard German or High German is mainly spoken in northern Germany. The state of Bavaria alone, in wich the scene is set, has several dialects.

    • @TheBobasbro
      @TheBobasbro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @Joshua N. Ajang every large language has local dialects and accents, as broad as British English compared to someone from Florida or Canada. Like just look at the subtle differences between a Jersey, New York or Boston accents even though there are relatively close. It's one of the coolest things about languages, how it modifies and changes so much for so many different reasons, just look at memes and how much communication our generation can do with some images and maybe some words, it's becoming an international form of pictograph communication!

    • @capncake8837
      @capncake8837 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I only know a little German because of Duolingo, but I assumed that it was some lesser-known German dialect due to them using hard Rs.

    • @TheDarthbinky
      @TheDarthbinky 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I studied German in Austria (Austrian German is very similar to Bavarian and they're typically lumped together as one dialect) and I picked up on that too.

  • @nadal1275
    @nadal1275 3 ปีที่แล้ว +975

    As a German I really appreciate the fact that you made the effort to translate stuff like the newspaper or the real german (austrian) voices in the background. Those are small details, but usually (even in Hollywood productions) they are ignored and it makes a difference! So thx for that

    • @MC-or3oi
      @MC-or3oi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Facts but they spoke a bavarian dialect

    • @Sleepons
      @Sleepons 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I respectly kneel down in front of you german conquer, have a nice day

    • @peterlustig6888
      @peterlustig6888 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@MC-or3oi Austrians speak bavarian dialects too

    • @MC-or3oi
      @MC-or3oi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@peterlustig6888 Yh i know that, im german. He said austrian voices tho and most of the northern austrian dialects are bavarian dialects. Or atleast thats what you call those types of dialects. Just wanted to point that out my guy.

    • @benjamintchang3923
      @benjamintchang3923 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Sleepons cringe ass

  • @billzhang575
    @billzhang575 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    “To restart it’s industrial sectors”. Shows a nightclub stripper

    • @thewallachianbard6975
      @thewallachianbard6975 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kind of what's happening in 2021 following the pandemic .

    • @newhope5729
      @newhope5729 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂

    • @newhope5729
      @newhope5729 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thewallachianbard6975 Hmm? What do you mean? 🤔

  • @wcr2265
    @wcr2265 3 ปีที่แล้ว +551

    “By using the iron cross as a Nazi symbol, you are just incriminating a metal awarded to soldiers with heroic acts in war”
    -random historian

    • @willyvereb
      @willyvereb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Don't really get the point of this at all. The Iron Cross predates Hitler's Germany and is still in use by the Bundeswehr. The reason why iron crosses are used in Nazi documentary illustrations because people don't like displaying Swastikas for obvious reasons.

    • @generalpatton7876
      @generalpatton7876 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      @@willyvereb that is true. Hitler tainted the symbol. The swastika symbols are found literally everywhere in India and China.It means prosperity and good fortune. The symbol dates back 11,000 years in India, China, and Africa.

    • @eugenewithm1630
      @eugenewithm1630 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@generalpatton7876 It ain't even a swastika, its a Hakenkreuz, a tilted Swastika.

    • @trforcectat
      @trforcectat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@eugenewithm1630 so basically a swastika

    • @eugenewithm1630
      @eugenewithm1630 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@trforcectat smh, its a bastardised plagarised version of a swastika that wasn't even called a swastika in Germany during that time.

  • @dragonslayer2582
    @dragonslayer2582 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1474

    “Germany suffered the most inflation in history”
    Venezuela: Are you challenging me?

    • @kokekrisuri
      @kokekrisuri 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      Yes.... Zimbabwe

    • @theonewhodoesntcringe4048
      @theonewhodoesntcringe4048 4 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      Zimbabwe: we have a 100 Trillion dollar bill that equals to 1 dollar

    • @cx24venezuela
      @cx24venezuela 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Well, the last time the gas price grow, it was 16 million percent and still 3$ for 40 galons (if you make days in a stack for buy it)

    • @miguelinop
      @miguelinop 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @Steven Lee you realize that even though to figure how much hyperinflation is affecting the country it is common place to use foreign currency as measurement, that doesn't mean the foreign currency is culprit, right? Like, the Weimar republic, Zimbabwe, and Venezuela, were stupidly doing their public spending without funds

    • @wadopotato33
      @wadopotato33 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Argentina: Am I a joke to you?

  • @Big_E_Soul_Fragment
    @Big_E_Soul_Fragment 4 ปีที่แล้ว +505

    *sees thumbnail*
    At this point, what monetization?

    • @Nothing-1w3
      @Nothing-1w3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      In terms of monetization, we have no monetization

    • @neutr4l1zer
      @neutr4l1zer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      There’s a sponsor

    • @leonardusrakapradayan2253
      @leonardusrakapradayan2253 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm AnesonOD good thing I’ve been playing it for months
      Although I recently took a break from it

    • @inxendere
      @inxendere 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i've found you again daddy

    • @wesleydjodo8823
      @wesleydjodo8823 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      i got an add... really suprised me and of course watched it to the end

  • @xnet_cascade6257
    @xnet_cascade6257 2 ปีที่แล้ว +163

    I would also mention the sheer willpower among the German soldiers. All of their families struggled tremendously because of the Treaty of Versailles and they knew that they had to fight to keep their country well-fed

    • @alfredspic481
      @alfredspic481 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ohh n the Meth they were given

    • @user-bs5qr5ie4s
      @user-bs5qr5ie4s ปีที่แล้ว

      The german soldiers took drugs that kept that awake
      Hence they could fight a whole day without rest

  • @cm4589
    @cm4589 2 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    The level of detail in this is amazing! Not only did they care enough to get German speakers for the beginning skit, they are in fact speaking in the Bavarian dialect!

    • @keegobricks9734
      @keegobricks9734 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That explains why it sounded so funny.

  • @swagcat7779
    @swagcat7779 3 ปีที่แล้ว +417

    9:20
    Appreciate the Hearts of Iron Reference.

    • @horkoki
      @horkoki 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yup same

    • @kevthomsen3462
      @kevthomsen3462 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yup

    • @javi009z
      @javi009z 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hearts of Iron 4❤️. This is a very distracting game. Well worth the $ on Steam

    • @kevthomsen3462
      @kevthomsen3462 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@javi009z the game yes, some DLC not, but i still buy them, but i guess thats why they still cost the same bcs paradox knows people will buy them

    • @timmajak
      @timmajak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same

  • @gokhanerturk2738
    @gokhanerturk2738 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1104

    Just when ı was searching for this topic...

    • @somerandomguy___
      @somerandomguy___ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lucky you

    • @Tony-fr8eb
      @Tony-fr8eb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Me too

    • @logi4840
      @logi4840 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      same

    • @leoisabell9797
      @leoisabell9797 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Dwarf From The North hahahahaha, oh so cool! It’s almost as if no one fucking cares. Leave.

    • @caleblarsen5490
      @caleblarsen5490 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @Dwarf From The North what's not good about it? It's well researched and very well written. Defend your diss, I dare you.

  • @AvioftheSand
    @AvioftheSand 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Thank you for covering this. For years, I always wondered how a country so in debt during a world wide depression could come back so rapidly

  • @Comradist
    @Comradist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I saw what you did there around 9:18.. Hoi4 reference will not go unnoticed lol

  • @alexgavril1847
    @alexgavril1847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5565

    Fun fact: Germany had the second most powerful economy in the world in 1938

    • @itsblitz4437
      @itsblitz4437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +618

      Wow...wasted opportunity then if they didn't went to war.

    • @dontblinkyoumightdie
      @dontblinkyoumightdie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1828

      ​@@itsblitz4437 Nope, they needed to go to war. You don't place your nation in a permanent state of wartime economy without going to war. The gratitude and national fervor only goes so far. The average German was working 60 hours per week, this was a wholly unsustainable situation without a focal point upon which to focus collective aggression.

    • @tomsoyer5639
      @tomsoyer5639 3 ปีที่แล้ว +424

      @@dontblinkyoumightdie Uh, England and France declared war on Germany my friend.

    • @creeper79.26
      @creeper79.26 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1026

      tom soyer Only because Germany invaded Poland

    • @karabelle67
      @karabelle67 3 ปีที่แล้ว +564

      @@tomsoyer5639 Germany was always going to go to war to avenge WW1, and the rest of the European countries wanted to reshape their borders. The 21 year ceasefire in between was so rest the populace, get resources back in order and create new alliances for another war.

  • @giftycustom5560
    @giftycustom5560 4 ปีที่แล้ว +816

    Imagine your life saving only enough to have a slice of bread

    • @smoofceggie9740
      @smoofceggie9740 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Imagine if he had converted the currency to dollars.

    • @Crashed131963
      @Crashed131963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Wait until the virus ends.

    • @mortar5282
      @mortar5282 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      imagine u dont have life saving at all

    • @HMSConqueror
      @HMSConqueror 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      that is capitalism.

    • @braytenr2185
      @braytenr2185 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@HMSConqueror brain dead..

  • @Inderastein
    @Inderastein 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Britain: Blinks
    Hitler: “It's free real estate”

  • @winstonsmith09
    @winstonsmith09 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I love your intros. Everything is so atmospheric and vivid. I'd love to read your articles.

  • @DerDop
    @DerDop 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2565

    "How did Germany Get so Strong after Losing WW1"
    Wrong question: how did Western Germany had a better economy than UK after world war 2. :)

    • @Gkm-
      @Gkm- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +525

      German peoples are intelligent and hard workers that's why

    • @Milkman740
      @Milkman740 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Ludwig Erhard happened

    • @wolfgangamadeusmozart8772
      @wolfgangamadeusmozart8772 3 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      Britain went Communist and Germany went Liberal.

    • @hitovaawomi8963
      @hitovaawomi8963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +164

      Becus german people are intelligent and hard working . Albert einstine was also actually the German but he fears bcus he's a jewish so flee to US. I'm also impressed with the german .

    • @simoc24
      @simoc24 3 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      People lost the war so they go back to work vs. People won the war so they wait for the promised benefits by politicians?? Just my silly guess.

  • @R4Y7
    @R4Y7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +541

    Good luck getting that thumbnail monetized 😂

    • @TheArmchairHistorian
      @TheArmchairHistorian  4 ปีที่แล้ว +297

      It's monetized! :)

    • @awormnamedscoobis3419
      @awormnamedscoobis3419 4 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      The Armchair Historian *TH-cam:I have altered. the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.*

    • @jakoverslept3096
      @jakoverslept3096 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@awormnamedscoobis3419 😂😂😂 that one killed me😂😂

    • @hamishmonk8656
      @hamishmonk8656 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheArmchairHistorian how?

    • @toasterr4238
      @toasterr4238 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@hamishmonk8656 demonitized also means no money for YT. These videos do incredibly well.

  • @tanhnguyen2025
    @tanhnguyen2025 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this is one of the best animated history videos i've ever watched in my life. This video is like a real war documentary which provides historically accurate information. Amazing !

  • @XaloGunner
    @XaloGunner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    I have a friend whose grandmother was a little girl in Germany in the 30s. She said everyone was so happy and excited that things in Germany were getting better and better and people were excited at the time of how Hitler seemed to be making things better.
    Most common people like her couldn't have known what was really going on, what Hitler and his regime had planned, or what horrible things would end up happening, but I don't think I blame most average Germans for being optimistic and excited about his reforms...to them, I'm sure anything was better than the years after the Great War and the Weimar years.

    • @dreadfulbodyguard7288
      @dreadfulbodyguard7288 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hitler persecuting jews was a common knowledge that time

    • @user-dm9nm9we1c
      @user-dm9nm9we1c 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So what "evil plans" where they "secretly" planning

    • @ZelenskyPlane
      @ZelenskyPlane 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-dm9nm9we1ceradication of an entire culture

  • @nukecoin
    @nukecoin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    Hitler: I'm making tractors
    "Laugh's in panzer"

  • @meganoobbg3387
    @meganoobbg3387 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4959

    British inspector: "By George! This is the most advanced and efficient traktor factory ive ever seen... but whats with this 75mm cannon, whats it for?
    German worker: "... uhh...its for "deep plowing" mein Freund. *wink*."

    • @Nothing-1w3
      @Nothing-1w3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +305

      Let's say it's for hard land..

    • @Athrun82
      @Athrun82 4 ปีที่แล้ว +425

      More like "Have you seen the moles here? Bloody beasts ruining our fields. This is to protect our harvests!"

    • @Joesolo13
      @Joesolo13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@Athrun82 lmao

    • @_Abjuranax_
      @_Abjuranax_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      Actually, after the war, many tanks were converted to use on farms that were abandoned there.

    • @philippepetain8071
      @philippepetain8071 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      David McConville In Australia we used old Sherman tanks as construction cranes and farm tractors etc after the war

  • @Taiyama2
    @Taiyama2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    "The Vampire Economy" as I believe it has been termed. It was a damn mess.

    • @skywalkergaming6628
      @skywalkergaming6628 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well when your country is run by socialists, your economy is probably a mess

    • @Ayr-me7vb
      @Ayr-me7vb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@v.5442 It was built on the gamble of war though, if the war stagnanted or was lost in any regard then it would fall in on itself. It's like if you took out a bunch of money on a loan and spent it on a fancy new car and 5 star food. Sure, you might be living better than your neighbor but the moment you run out of money and can't pay the loan back you're stuck in a world of hell

    • @Ayr-me7vb
      @Ayr-me7vb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@skywalkergaming6628 The Nazis weren't socialist, they cracked down hard on trade unions and socialist views were heavily repressed. Claiming that the Nazis were socialist would be like saying that North Korea is a bastion of democracy because the D in DPRK stands for democracy

    • @skywalkergaming6628
      @skywalkergaming6628 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Ayr-me7vb Marxist views may have been repressed but the Nazi’s form of socialism completely took over Germany

    • @Ayr-me7vb
      @Ayr-me7vb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@skywalkergaming6628 The Nazi's version of socialism wasn't Socialism though. It was just given the name socialism to make the Nazi part seem more friendly with workers

  • @jamiedriscoll9781
    @jamiedriscoll9781 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Being a graphic designer, I like the Armchair History logo. The chair is an A and an H

  • @justintimbersaw3934
    @justintimbersaw3934 4 ปีที่แล้ว +586

    Workers: "But we're investing in cars"
    Nazi Germany: *"You'll get a tractor instead of a car and a bonus for your smart investment we'll give you a free 75mm cannon attached to that tractor of yours, mein freund."*

    • @ligedoji3674
      @ligedoji3674 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Laughed till i farted

    • @arya31ful
      @arya31ful 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Unimpressed?, now we'll also give you FREE, mandatory course to operate it!. So you don't have to worry about blowing up your neighbor's house when hunting giant frogs!.

    • @rosswhitlock3025
      @rosswhitlock3025 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thats funny but not even close to reality.

    • @SovereignStatesman
      @SovereignStatesman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mein KAMPF more like.

    • @rosswhitlock3025
      @rosswhitlock3025 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@SovereignStatesman The STRUGGLE was freedom from international financiers that controlled Germany at the time as it does the US and Europe now. The bad guys won WW2

  • @benceszabo403
    @benceszabo403 3 ปีที่แล้ว +529

    And 70 years later “peoples car” get one of the bigges car Company and the autobahn is full with them 🤷🏻‍♂️
    And the beatle is one of the most produced car ever

    • @garygarside9782
      @garygarside9782 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      and the walnut, was a symbol of hippies

    • @bm-13katyusharocketartille41
      @bm-13katyusharocketartille41 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @Rafael Lopez Canel werhaboo

    • @introsriffssolos6975
      @introsriffssolos6975 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Not the beetle, the Toyota Corolla I think.

    • @VolgaGornaja
      @VolgaGornaja 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @Rafael Lopez Canel if Germany had won, you would not be here to witness it.

    • @iecsao
      @iecsao 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@VolgaGornaja lmaooooooo

  • @pmeagle
    @pmeagle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I find it incredible that some people don’t understand how the genocides and the bad things of those years policies is correlated directly with the economic policies: the forced labor, state seizures of industries and previous winner’s debts and foreign economy (foreign banks, foreign investors, middle to upper class investors, multinational insurance companies). In that period it was the same in every country (US, Japan, Italy, UK, France, USSR) everyone discredited classes of people to get cheap labor (heck even now we use migrants as a way to boost GDP and get cheap labor)

    • @jasonlongsworth4036
      @jasonlongsworth4036 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Totally. Slavery isn't something that people consider when they say "at least Germany rebuilt itself"

  • @contentcreator5238
    @contentcreator5238 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the animation, Good work dude!

  • @parasnaradiya2608
    @parasnaradiya2608 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1824

    French officials, - " hanz what are these machines "
    Hanz - " sir they are actually, umm tractors "
    Frech official - " but why they got machine gun on top "
    Hanz - " ummm for the birds, yup to keep them away "
    Frech official on the outbrake of war - " bloody bastard lied to me "

    • @joaoostroski4778
      @joaoostroski4778 4 ปีที่แล้ว +131

      Well I don’t blame the poor frenchman, those god dawn German birds are insane!

    • @craigbiggam2111
      @craigbiggam2111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Bird is a glaswegian slang for woman. Maybe he was Scottish and a tad drunk on the German beer

    • @robroux6074
      @robroux6074 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Frech official - " but why they got machine gun on top "
      Hanz - " ummm for the birds, yup to keep them away
      Hanz- ' Here, I got something for you. It's a 1 yard white hankerchief, I hear it's a popular here in France, its a symbol of goodwill. Take it you'll need it. '
      Frech official on the outbrake of war - * Notices white hankerchief ' How considerate. Yes , I surrender once more. '.

    • @peacekeeper1413
      @peacekeeper1413 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Just in case those damn emu ever made an airforce

    • @str2010
      @str2010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@joaoostroski4778 yeah, I know right? I mean, Christ, their tough as metal, have inhuman speeds and create a weird siren when diving. I heard they call it a 'Stuka'

  • @joyphobic
    @joyphobic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +235

    The most cinematic video you produced so far. Jaw-dropping.

    • @ArtoriusBravo
      @ArtoriusBravo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wait for the next one ;) personal favorite.

    • @clamum
      @clamum 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yeah they've really stepped up their animations and graphics. Really great work folks!

    • @itsblitz4437
      @itsblitz4437 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah this was good! Kinda wonder how the artists do this, it must be painstakingly gratuitous detail to make it look good.

    • @slymetyme2975
      @slymetyme2975 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I thought you said Jew-dropping instead of Jaw dropping.

    • @cheesedmacaroni
      @cheesedmacaroni 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@slymetyme2975 would also be better and more fitting

  • @phearmetoo
    @phearmetoo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am very impressed in the voie over of all characters. All your videos are amazingly voiced

  • @Alberngang
    @Alberngang 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love the voice acting added onto the video.

  • @alphaxalex1634
    @alphaxalex1634 4 ปีที่แล้ว +361

    1:27 subtitles after the soldiers shoot...
    *[applause]*

    • @alexr6705
      @alexr6705 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Nothing wrong with killing the Nazis.

    • @zealousdoggo
      @zealousdoggo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Marching noises
      Subtitles: *um*

    • @vladtc2732
      @vladtc2732 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      They were marching to stop Bavaria from splitting away from Germany and create another state. How is that a bad thing?

    • @JD-vn4sh
      @JD-vn4sh 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vladtc2732 no they werent

    • @JD-vn4sh
      @JD-vn4sh 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vladtc2732 they were performing a coup

  • @sync4850
    @sync4850 3 ปีที่แล้ว +260

    I love how this man used hoi4 animated gameplay to explain the MEFO bills and economic things

  • @codaboi138
    @codaboi138 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The fact that they made plans banking on the idea that spoils from conqured territory would let them break even is absolutely insane. It just shows how fanatical the leaders were. It's almost admirable in a twisted way, and scary as hell in another.

    • @maxdecphoenix
      @maxdecphoenix 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yea, take that with a grain of salt. Every country on earth does this with taxes, they just do it to the unborn. Your parent's generation is paying tax to pay off their parent's social-programs, as you are paying off yours. There's absolutely zero justification for adding in some nefarious motivation about conquest. Historians, who are typically left-leaning academics , will suppose excess motivations to their political opponents for practicing the same fiscal policy as their political allies.

  • @BSideWasTaken
    @BSideWasTaken 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This channel is what happens if you give a HOI4 fan and history nerd an amazing animation and VA package. Love it so much.

  • @patrickstar1723
    @patrickstar1723 4 ปีที่แล้ว +390

    Thumbnail exists.
    TH-cam: Monetization, oh I don't think so.

    • @pabloruedafernandez2093
      @pabloruedafernandez2093 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      it's not even funny anymore, TH-cam really need to consider its Monetization laws

    • @shaafalikhan3704
      @shaafalikhan3704 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      It is nonsensical why would you want to do that someone needs to make a new platform tailored to the needs of educational channels, such is the way to fight ignorance which is so relatively rampant in these times.

    • @SD-tj5dh
      @SD-tj5dh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@shaafalikhan3704 they have. Its called nebula

    • @shaafalikhan3704
      @shaafalikhan3704 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SD-tj5dh yes but Nebula is only a stepping stone in building a platform to rival TH-cam, the educational potential of TH-cam comes from the fact that it is fast, reliable and above all free. You can learn about almost anything all you need is the Will to learn and a mediocre internet connection.

    • @magnusnilsson5983
      @magnusnilsson5983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      His video is not demonetized. TH-cam only demonetize video's that speak the truth.

  • @KS-bo6tq
    @KS-bo6tq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +368

    never underestimate a homeless artist

  • @frontgamet.v1892
    @frontgamet.v1892 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The mentality of hard work and perfectionism. They worked themselves up from the ashes to the top of the world. Only country that could something like that. So impressive!

    • @shadowlord1418
      @shadowlord1418 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And fought the world

  • @grayson1126
    @grayson1126 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Gangsta’s Paradise at 13:18

    • @lilmane1070
      @lilmane1070 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      YES I knew it sounded familiar

  • @Daniel-rh7kh
    @Daniel-rh7kh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    Germans: "The Treaty of Versailles was the doom of Germany and too harsh"
    Hungarians: *cries in Treaty of Trianon*

    • @istvanbarath6333
      @istvanbarath6333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hát igen

    • @xalpacazeu1332
      @xalpacazeu1332 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That’s what they get. Along with the Austrians they had oppressed Romanians and others

    • @ogastasii
      @ogastasii 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Bulgarians: cries in Treaty of Neuilly.Bulgaria and Hungary were known as the countries surrounded by their own ethnic people after the teritorial divisions.Not to mention the billions of financial reparations.

  • @simulping4371
    @simulping4371 4 ปีที่แล้ว +798

    *Hitler lost WW2, this enraged his father, who punished him severely.*

  • @jjsiegal1
    @jjsiegal1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic Work.... thanks very much for your Video ~!

  • @VictoryGR
    @VictoryGR 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    bro. Just discover your channel... your videos are amazing I am speechless

  • @ed19742006
    @ed19742006 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1148

    Communism was not a small faction in Germany in the 30's. The were large and powerful.

    • @Ronnie-Jones
      @Ronnie-Jones 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Watch full ten-part series of most forbidden
      documentary ever published: "Europa The Last
      Battle" at archive-dot-org. Pulled down from
      TheirTube countless times since 2017 release.

    • @aeriawindsor4722
      @aeriawindsor4722 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Strong, until Reichstag Fire happened.

    • @bawshafft4881
      @bawshafft4881 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@suckmyballzgameplays7172 Are you american ?

    • @bawshafft4881
      @bawshafft4881 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @bizkitgto The Nazis pushed the People into the nazis Arms. Hard to imagine that the left didnt have to do anything with that ey ?

    • @bawshafft4881
      @bawshafft4881 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@suckmyballzgameplays7172 If you ever get to live in a state where people get killed and incarcerated due to their political opinion,then u might regret that opinion. so fucking weak minded imo to say sth like that.

  • @captainneedadrink
    @captainneedadrink 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    9:45 yourt wrong that Germany made no efforts to boost exports. They increased exports to Latin America something like 8x and traded extensively with the Balkans on a barter basis.
    Part of FDR's fear of Germany was their potential to undercut US economic domination of south America.

  • @samwhary5498
    @samwhary5498 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for this. Now I have a resource to share on the subject

  • @USSCYT
    @USSCYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    9:20 Nice Hearts Of Iron 4 Reference.

    • @gabesonawane2227
      @gabesonawane2227 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      As soon as he said that, I thought of hoi 4 lol

    • @apexinstinct
      @apexinstinct 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gabesonawane2227 same

  • @nelsoncruz7511
    @nelsoncruz7511 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Hitler switched from survival to creative mode to get Germany back up

    • @magnusnilsson5983
      @magnusnilsson5983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      This video did not explain why germany actually succeeded economically as it did. I encourage you to read more about it you will be surprised.

    • @gregorymalchuk272
      @gregorymalchuk272 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@magnusnilsson5983
      Do you know of any good books on this topic?

    • @jeremys1648
      @jeremys1648 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gregorymalchuk272 th-cam.com/video/Uy_DUHLEt2o/w-d-xo.html
      not a book, hopefully some in the footnotes

    • @magnusnilsson5983
      @magnusnilsson5983 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gregorymalchuk272 I sincerely hope this reaches you, but a lot of comments seem to disapear on this channel.

    • @magnusnilsson5983
      @magnusnilsson5983 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gregorymalchuk272 I had bookmarks of a lot of content about this topic, but none of the informative videos are currently still available.

  • @emusaurus
    @emusaurus 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful animation. Great story telling.

  • @xXxfandehalflifexXx
    @xXxfandehalflifexXx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I absolutely adore the references to paradox games

  • @hlf_coder6272
    @hlf_coder6272 4 ปีที่แล้ว +533

    “It allowed the government to spend money that didn’t actually exist”. Lol. Ya, cuz it’s not as if our fiat currency system allows government to blink money into existence in the form of debt or anything.

    • @louren1998
      @louren1998 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Money printer go brrrree

    • @heinrichvonschnitzel8600
      @heinrichvonschnitzel8600 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Or banks being able to make money with a few clicks on a pc.

    • @FarmersAreCool
      @FarmersAreCool 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Go back to gold currency and hang the commies worldwide for speculating on labour. Im ok chopping off the top of the pyramid, seems like they want chaos, hang em all.

    • @franklinwilkerson2061
      @franklinwilkerson2061 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@FarmersAreCool except it's "capitalists" not "commies."

    • @Hoppensagen
      @Hoppensagen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It is really quite different you would be amazed at how complicated the system is today, the dollar is the reserve currency so demand for the dollar is always strong, even like now, when there is speculated trouble ahead, people convert their money to dollars. You can also look at other countries, and a way they make their currency valuable is that they peg to the dollar. Also if you were to devalue the dollar, then that would not necessarily be a bad thing as our exports would increase due to our goods being cheaper. The ability to print money is also not unique to our currency system, but something the whole world engages in, and America is particularly strong because everyone wants dollar, global trade is done in dollar, if you don't have dollars, then it is much harder to trade.

  • @nkvdcomradeorion7336
    @nkvdcomradeorion7336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +432

    Fascinating how much a mere loaf of bread costs when inflation sky rockets

    • @moritzk3004
      @moritzk3004 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Cries in venezuela

    • @jeffsstt
      @jeffsstt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Your life savings

    • @user-uj2jx5jn2e
      @user-uj2jx5jn2e 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Cries in syria

    • @moritzk3004
      @moritzk3004 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Sugar Darling whaaaat didn't know that einstein

    • @nicktasteless360
      @nicktasteless360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@moritzk3004 the more money they print, the more the value drops. that $1000 in Germany is equivalent to $1 in other countries

  • @thomasmills3934
    @thomasmills3934 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    For the record, Hindenburg didnt want to put Hitler in power...

  • @tajwarchowdhury22
    @tajwarchowdhury22 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your videos!

  • @HajiIe
    @HajiIe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +398

    France and Britain: “you can’t just invade neighboring countries and take their lands”
    Nazi Germany *”hehe Blitzkrieg go vroom”*

    • @Matttheyapp
      @Matttheyapp 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Underrated

    • @metalfire86able
      @metalfire86able 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They r pure (shameless)

    • @bogdan1213
      @bogdan1213 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @David Barton no such thing as evil victors in history. only those who lost are evil. just look at the roman empire who invaded and killed the whole known world at the time and they r good lads.

    • @xyzwrx5106
      @xyzwrx5106 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Matttheyapp *uNdeRAtEd* you say? this damn joke been used over and over fxxkung agajn

    • @StopFear
      @StopFear 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Blitzkrieg came after they already invaded and occupied a number of countries.

  • @aclown36
    @aclown36 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1525

    UK and France: *Yo Germany, you ain't building tanks and airplanes, are you*
    Germany: *Airplane and Tank machine broke*
    UK and France: *Understandable have a nice d-*
    *Why do those passenger planes have machine guns?*
    Germany: *To uhhhh, We uhhhh, We have a bear problem, and we are gonna use those planes to kill the bears*

    • @yehezkielrickjoyner6843
      @yehezkielrickjoyner6843 3 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      This is the kind of dialogue I would expect coming out of oversimplified video

    • @Flynn1411
      @Flynn1411 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      They also said that the plane factories were schools if I'm not mistaken

    • @modassirakhtar7220
      @modassirakhtar7220 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Flynn1411 😂😂😂

    • @danielkyalo8266
      @danielkyalo8266 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nonsense

    • @Ihavenoenemies569
      @Ihavenoenemies569 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      .

  • @unn5443
    @unn5443 ปีที่แล้ว

    This channel deserves more recognition

  • @ATLANTECHFLOWMETERS
    @ATLANTECHFLOWMETERS ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The question i had been asking for years finally found an answer today

  • @bigbluebuttonman1137
    @bigbluebuttonman1137 4 ปีที่แล้ว +706

    5:40
    Wait. So the Swastika has to be censored (that’s why it’s the cross; the real thing would have a swastika)...but the hammer and sickle stays...
    Really?

    • @666HeroHero
      @666HeroHero 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Is that really censorship? Wasn't the cross also a thing in the early days before Germany became nazi Germany?
      Idk, I might be mixing my memories with something else.

    • @user-yu3ge4iv8r
      @user-yu3ge4iv8r 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @jasper426 That's HILARIOUS, dude! Tell me of Europeans punished for seeing a swastika! You're sure you're not just 'misremembering' Germany refusing to import videogames with swastikas in them?

    • @user-yu3ge4iv8r
      @user-yu3ge4iv8r 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      This probably reads like apologism after the other comments I made but... yeah. Really really. Censorship on youtube is more about avoiding demonetization than sending a message. Swastikas are illegal in German media and so they are frowned upon by youtube as well. Video guy was clearly writing a hit piece (I could see it too), but I very much doubt refusing to draw le edgy sign was some part of some grand subversive scheme. It would be small to the point of pointlessness, if nothing else.
      Followup, however... The Nazis are dead. They were also evil. You're not a neo-nazi, or a sympathizer. What possible reason would you have to be in such a righteous fury about this?

    • @fzzy5739
      @fzzy5739 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@user-yu3ge4iv8r True, and i totally understand. But i just cringe so bad whenever i see what's supposed to be the swastika replaced by the iron cross. The immersion gets kinda broken i guess.

    • @magnusyarbrough5527
      @magnusyarbrough5527 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      fzzy you seem like the type of person to complain about "muh historical accuracy" selectively

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 4 ปีที่แล้ว +243

    Make sure to talk about George Marshall’s rearmament of the US armed forces from a small 100k volunteer force to 8M strong. It’s the least covered.

    • @TribuneAquila
      @TribuneAquila 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Step 1: expand military hundred fold
      Step 2: blow up countries you liberate
      Step 3: Draft plan to successfully rebuild those countries
      Step 4: be forgotten by history
      Outstanding move!

    • @litfurher4206
      @litfurher4206 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@TribuneAquila You forgot the part where you send the men to die in France, and create a recession in the 1940s.

    • @Walker-ow7vj
      @Walker-ow7vj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      LitFürher420 yeah it’s war of course people die what

    • @Zachomara
      @Zachomara 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think you mean 12 million. 8 million was the Army alone.

    • @garthstewart6099
      @garthstewart6099 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There is no reason to talk about it, the US had it EASY.

  • @huntervfx1294
    @huntervfx1294 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This reminds me of a educational version of archer lmao. keep up the work though! love learning history this way!

  • @Noodlesss7
    @Noodlesss7 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video, i loved it

  • @annoyingkraken
    @annoyingkraken 4 ปีที่แล้ว +374

    Here's a summary of the video:
    How did Germany Get so Strong after Losing WW1?
    The Armchair Historian: Well, yes, but actually no.

    • @canto10mosha65
      @canto10mosha65 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Correct. They weren’t. The European powers at that time (Britain, France, and Belgium) were just too stupid to curb stomp Adolf’s latent ambitions before the 30’s and wilfully ignored the obvious signs manifested by his rhetoric. They had the power both militarily and economically to do so but are too cowardly and just resorted to appeasement. Though their understandable apprehension to lose more lives in another brutal war they were trying to avoid resulted in just that: more lives lost and destruction never seen before.

    • @efeghilmffdsee5216
      @efeghilmffdsee5216 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@canto10mosha65 This is a lot less accurate than was reality. In reality, the UK and France were in no condition to fight a war. Their people were incredibly anti-war and their economies were torn apart by it (nowhere near as bad as germany, though). In short, the myth that the British and the French did *nothing* is just that, a myth. In reality, they had actually begun mobilising for quite some time. A huge reason why appeasement even *existed* as a policy was to buy the British time to rearm. The French were often against it, and in fact in many cases Britain stepped in to keep them down. I don't know why you include Belgium in the list of European powers, that part is just retarded.

    • @zadarthule
      @zadarthule 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Pingers Bingers the NSDAP was not in power at the time of the hyperinflation but they profited from it.

    • @Lexman00
      @Lexman00 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Personally, I think Hitler's move to get women out of the work force was brilliant. Men were no longer competing with women in the workforce, so more jobs available for men, higher pay for men because of less supply of labor, more financially available men that could support a family, AND more women having babies. AND he also forced people on welfare to work, because earning some money was better than no money, and being a burden on the taxpayer. Think what you want, but those were still brilliant moves.

    • @andrewelam4124
      @andrewelam4124 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Lexman00 Brilliant for a militarized dictatorship indeed.

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 4 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    "Inflation has spiraled out of control"
    Venezuela: hmm well that sounds familiar

    • @fakechloe207
      @fakechloe207 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      * Hungary cries in corner*

    • @fearlesspotato3429
      @fearlesspotato3429 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      *fear noises in Argentinean*

    • @oof5020
      @oof5020 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You again.

    • @davidvasquez08
      @davidvasquez08 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mexico: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*

    • @jiiiyyyaann1210
      @jiiiyyyaann1210 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Y'all haven't heard after the soviet union collapse.

  • @Nitro91
    @Nitro91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hahaha as I am watching this there are Volkswagen commercials haha

  • @minindudissanayaka1700
    @minindudissanayaka1700 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Other european countries :- Innocent passenger planes , but with guns ....
    No suspicious at all

  • @connorh2215
    @connorh2215 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1351

    Germany: can’t have unemployment if you get rid of the people working edit: (insert remark about likes here)

    • @fakechloe207
      @fakechloe207 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I call bullshit on that.

    • @JohnSmith-qv6hp
      @JohnSmith-qv6hp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @RTZ AGF women were not allowed to stay working in public service in 1970s Australia when they got married the family unit has been degraded now feminism where vast % of divorce instigated by women 70 to 80% very damaging to western society encourages migration to correct aging shrinking populations which is growing more unpopular every decade now carona will.put gasoline on the fire

    • @JohnSmith-qv6hp
      @JohnSmith-qv6hp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @n n progressive western governments have quotas for women in workforce so birthrates below replacement so unwanted migration from non European nations many.men.work shy.live on welfare need to be forced to work it called conservative ideology ok

    • @JohnSmith-qv6hp
      @JohnSmith-qv6hp 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      N

    • @joaoostroski4778
      @joaoostroski4778 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      **stonks**
      Hitler: reverse nein!

  • @GamerFavor
    @GamerFavor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +533

    Small corrections: Hitler was not in the frontlines of the march in Bavaria, he was on the second line behind his bodyguard who was shot by the Bavarian Police. Also General Ludendorff was not present at the march. And Hermann Goering was wearing a german Stahlhelm. I feel a need to correct these things because history is, often, warped by propaganda and small mistakes (like the biases of individual historians.)
    I really like how detailed and well made these episodes are, and how well you describe the content without getting boring or too detailed. Thank you for these.

  • @christopherhughes3381
    @christopherhughes3381 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome as usual

  • @robertbruce7686
    @robertbruce7686 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent concise overview.

  • @MrLuca12121
    @MrLuca12121 4 ปีที่แล้ว +566

    "They didnt actually recover it was just an illusion bro"
    *conquers all europe*

    • @pauls4220
      @pauls4220 4 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      The narrative seems a little skewed.

    • @joshuamontijo4359
      @joshuamontijo4359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Did you watch the video?

    • @gabrielgarza8283
      @gabrielgarza8283 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Watch Europa the last Battle'on Bitchute.

    • @sakshambishalgurung8350
      @sakshambishalgurung8350 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      moghul khan!!

    • @h3145
      @h3145 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@gabrielgarza8283 fantastic doc!

  • @SVASH-hz5ji
    @SVASH-hz5ji 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    11:02 That's because those roads were *NEVER* designed to be used by heavy tanks. German tanks during that time only consisted of light & medium tanks. Tigers and other german heavy tanks you probably had in mind were developed years after the autobahn project. Of course they won't fit!
    Stop taking things out of context!

    • @rtwiceorb770
      @rtwiceorb770 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      He also acts like so called forced labour was wrong when German people reciwed more money on welfare they recived for doing no productive work. Regardless it is not good but they were not forced but employed beacuse they didnt want to pay you to sit at home jerking off to good morning program hahhaahh. This is close propaganda rather then fact. German economy was stronger then French/British at the time considering they closed themselfes out of trade and for autarky/self suficient program. All of this and then say Germany was bad as how it is. Yea man but German people had jobs and worked to be productive. Why so much hiding on Military spending well beacuse German economy was hindered with production of any war machines like planes and tanks. Also a 100k people in army for that huge nation is nothing they couldnt defend their borders so German people actualy were forrearmament which was not held in secret from them. Next intersting thing is Germany starts WW2 when a fact is they didnt but rather UK/France did declare war on Germany. Japan invading China Americas fault as well as British and inequal trades that made Japan economy go bust. I would say its what he says half correct half wrong but whatever. I am not a pro Nazi but justis is not served after WW2 and what we are thought in schools for facts when its wrong

    • @metalfire86able
      @metalfire86able 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rtwiceorb770 and USA know german was gear up their war machine before ww2 will happen.
      They wait till it broke out n supplies to British for $$

    • @michajozwiak7650
      @michajozwiak7650 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@rtwiceorb770 Is the invasion of Poland a joke to you?

    • @rtwiceorb770
      @rtwiceorb770 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@metalfire86able People all say how Germany started WW2 when a fact is not like that but whatever. What Germany did to Poland same crap did USSR did to Finland the Baltic states and Romania and nothing thats ok a war that noone interacs in but Germany did it and off we go to war when a well know thing is even Danzig aka the free state wanted to get back to Germany and be united but whatever

    • @pewp89
      @pewp89 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Right. Like they wouldn't test the surface to see if it could handle tanks before they built an entire highway. 🙄 This whole video is nonsense.

  • @newb_7776
    @newb_7776 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Brilliant video!

  • @Ddnmddnn
    @Ddnmddnn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    - Weimar Republic Germany: Level 1 Noob
    - Nazi Germany: Level 99 Mafia boss

  • @fireflyric4516
    @fireflyric4516 4 ปีที่แล้ว +230

    British = wow there so many messerschmit in here?.. how many people this plane can carry?.
    .
    Hanz = umm.... much..
    .
    British = but, why you build a trapdoor in middle of the plane?.
    .
    Hanz = umm.. to drop people who not buying ticket.. I guess

    • @mohandasgandhi2241
      @mohandasgandhi2241 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      we need so many planes cause they have capacity of 1 person

    • @arya31ful
      @arya31ful 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      British official : "why they also have machine guns?"
      Hans : "Why... to defend against bird strikes of course!.

    • @dovkaupas
      @dovkaupas 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hanz: Messerschmitt is a single-seat civilian aeroplane with 2x 20mm cannons for self-defence, and a bomb for, umm, you know... better safe than sorry lol

  • @eyo8766
    @eyo8766 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Hans... That's a tank"
    "Nein. It's a Traktor with a large self-defense gun"

  • @angrymanwithsillymoustasche
    @angrymanwithsillymoustasche 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Impressive!

  • @maxspringfield
    @maxspringfield 3 ปีที่แล้ว +693

    Although this video is well made, it does not really explain how Germany was able to produce such a superior fighting force despite its weakened condition.

    • @joeymurdazalotmore6355
      @joeymurdazalotmore6355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      Meth

    • @EzkHS
      @EzkHS 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      “Superior fighting force” lmao how can you explain something that doesn’t exist

    • @maxspringfield
      @maxspringfield 3 ปีที่แล้ว +324

      @@EzkHS It existed in a little place called WW2 history.

    • @EzkHS
      @EzkHS 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@maxspringfield yeah true, i forgot, did they lose right?

    • @maxspringfield
      @maxspringfield 3 ปีที่แล้ว +155

      @@EzkHS OK, friend.

  • @svitecanaa432
    @svitecanaa432 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    When Germany was doing the "people's car" and not giving people what they purchased is reminding of the Escobar phone

    • @vladtc2732
      @vladtc2732 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Bro this is another lie like all of this video. He was one of the most loved men to have ever walked this earth.

    • @sharefactor
      @sharefactor 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vladtc2732 Are you talking about the phone or the VW car?
      Not a single VW car was delivered by the Nazis, that's for sure.

  • @particularbored6072
    @particularbored6072 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was surprised by how short this was.

  • @studio2165
    @studio2165 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can't believe that youtube wont allow historians like Griffin to use swastikas in their drawings, even in a historical context..

  • @dking7985
    @dking7985 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Here's a real life story about pre WWII inflation.When I was 16 I worked in a machine shop that had a 65 year old shipping and receiving clerk. He told me that when he was young they would get paid at work twice a day (once at lunch and then at the end of the day) so they could buy bread at lunch because by the end of the day the price could double or more. Then they would again buy food at the end of the day for the same reason.

  • @unscenegamers
    @unscenegamers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    4:11 The Treaty of Versailles required the debt be paid in gold or natural resources, mass printing of money was not meant to repay the debt. The goal was to pay workers, erase internal debts, and force the national debtors to negotiate new repayments.

  • @Swagmaster07
    @Swagmaster07 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    9:15 nice HOI4 reffrence.

  • @anglosaxon9599
    @anglosaxon9599 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I liked that HOI IV reference from the MEFO bills.

  • @theunion6024
    @theunion6024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +336

    Why is there such a fear of showing a swastika, it’s not like I’m going to start goose stepping down my street because I’ve seen it

    • @michaeljohnserica2247
      @michaeljohnserica2247 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      One word demonetization

    • @AnonYmous-ob7py
      @AnonYmous-ob7py 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol they used the Iron Cross too.

    • @rastasgonzalez1
      @rastasgonzalez1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Because TH-cam will Not pay

    • @rainegingerfish8860
      @rainegingerfish8860 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Because someone will get offended by it

    • @skaie.
      @skaie. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It’s a symbol of hate. Normalizing such symbols only give them more power and you’d be contributing