Polish Panthers - Captured Panzers in the Warsaw Uprising
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During the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, Polish Home Army forces captured and used a variety of German armour, including two Panther tanks.
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Who needs enemies when you have friends like Stalin?
Who decided to be his Buddy and give him half of Europe to subjugate and rob? Another great video by Mark. I had no idea the Polish Hole Army captured German armor.
and the western Allies let the Red Army bleed for years before opening that 2nd front Stalin had long pleaded for. Friends indeed!
At least Stalin never tried to hide the fact he preferred his friends dead.
There was nothing to pick between Stalin and Hitler. It’s hard to say which was worst.
He did kill a lot of his friends too.
One of the saddest stories of the entire Second World War. The nation for which the war was declared to save, ends up suffering so, so much. Betrayed by all.
Yes Poland had always been a democracy, the heartland of the British Empire and of the west and had to be saved.
If only Churchill was in power And not Nevil, the Nazis wouldnt of have Broken Versalles, And would of been sanctioned AF in 1936, but no, UK And France's politics were to obsessed over having peace, so much, that they didnt say anything to Germany during the remilitazation of the Rhineland or the annexation if Austria And Czeckoslovakia, while Churchill kept saying that they need to stop Germany And be strict with Germany. Funny, because Churchill actually planned a war against the Soviets "Operation Unthikable" because first: *He didnt fucking trust Stalin* Second: *Save those countries that they swore they would protect* But the US didnt want to do it, And that is why It is funny, the US, the country that after WW1 said on Roosevelt's 14 points that there Will be an independent Polish state never did anything to help Poland at all And also, why not attack the soviets if you are going to have a cold war with them in a bit less than 20 years?
liamskisniper 4 - Because we didn’t want to continue off into world war 3
@@conveyor2 uhm...not to diss the Poles in any way, but Poland in the interwar years was an authocratic regime, not a democracy. I think you confuse that with the Czechoslowakia
David White so the UK and US were going to engage the USSR? Youre a bit stupid arent you
Capturing a working tank is one thing. Effectively using it in combat is another. You need a crew that has had some tank training.
The Polish army did have a tank corps when the Nazis attack in 1939, so they probably did have some trained personnel.
@@newsguy5241 547449 the poles acutally let the captured crew go if they told them how to use the tank and they acutally set them free afterwards as far as i know
@@Piddel No, they kept them as POW afterwards. Also, the driver of the Magda (commonly known as Pudel) was a commander of a TKS tankette in 1939
Shoutout to Mark Felton and the History Guy for keeping these bangers coming out. You guys present much better history content than what is broadcast for sure, please keep it up!
Sam Zinski for true
It amazes me, as a Polish, the level of Mark's accuracy and precision when it comes to the facts and numbers, also a simple unpolitical interpretation of it ; I highly recommend Mark's Channel as a source of pure historical information and almost perfect (nobody is perfect) educational tool worldwide, greg
The ghetto uprising and the warsaw uprising are 2 different uprisings in Warsaw
And the new album by Ghetto Panthers featuring Mark Felton is now available.
Every time Prof Felton says, "And, it was later scrapped," something inside me dies a little.
I strongly recommend watching Polish director Andrzej Wajda's great "Kanal" (1957), the first film to use the subject of the Warsaw Uprising as its setting. Home Army members try to escape the encircling Nazis by taking to the sewers, only to face their own mortality, and the inevitability of heroic defeat Wajda's father was a victim of the Katyn Massacre, and he himself a resistance fighter: the film has a sense of authenticity like no other.
The Polish Air Force insignia looks good on almost anything.
Infantry capturing 3 Panthers, that takes some huge brass ones!
Half of them armed only with pistols and grenades.
Sounds like a retrowave movie title Ghetto Panthers 3 Stug In The Hood.
@Ash Ling Visions of Bismarck and Prinz Eugen doing the nautical equivalent of a drive-by cheers :)
the stugs and the crips
Forgot "Kubus" the home army built armoured car.
I am greatly disappointed in my country and Great Britain. Great big kisses from France to all of you Polish people! :)
My uncle was in this. One time he talked to all of us about it and it was just horrific what he went through. They were literally running out of places to bury the dead.
Thank you Mark for promoting Polish and Warsaw Uprising history to wider audience! Btw. Keep in mind that Warsaw Uprising and Warsaw Ghetto Uprising were two different events and you should not mix them... Thanks again!
I respect the Polish home army Also: WARSAW RISEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(...) Father, I carry my gun in my jacket; in the dark night I fight while the faiths all fade. Father - like you - apart from freedom maybe nothing else matters, or maybe my deed. Day and night, mother, father, I'll endure in the rifle-fire, I, soldier, poet, dust of time. I'll go on - this have from you: I do not fear death, as I bear desires like burned roses in my arms.(...) K.K Baczynski ,died in combat , Warsaw 4.VIII.1944 .
Mark's comment at the end about civilian casualties being in the region of 150,000 to 200,000 tells only a fraction of the story. Only a small percentage of deaths were due to fighting, the vast majority were massacred by German forces and the barbarity of some irregular SS units is beyond human comprehension.
@Anthony Roic so who killed this people xD? Aliens? Sorry, it were German special commando units that killed all the civilians. If you don't believe it spent some money on a trip to Warsaw and visit the fantastic Uprising Museum, maybe after that you will understand how cruel a nation can be when you brainwash their minds to believe that they are better than others
Anthony Roic Are you seriously trying to justify the nazi conquest in Poland? Are you actually braindead?
@Anthony Roic The fascists lost, and your ideology is garbage.
@Anthony Roic Germans attacked Gdańsk and Wieluń first. They were the warmongers, not anyone else. Truth is western "allies" helped this greatly by letting Hitler know that he could take Czechoslovakia and what not as well.
Anthony Roic the germans bombed civilian locations in poland, the Netherlands, Belarus, London and france before the dresdon bombing happened so you make an awful point, the germans did such a proportionate amount of terror bombings, so you play stupid games you get stupid prizes
Z ognjem in mečom... ...Thats how new europe will be reborn. With Poland setting a fundation stone, as right now. Z ljubeznijo iz Slovenije.
Polexit I hope!
First time hearing of the captured Panzers.... Thank you.
I'm glad to see Mark is getting the recognition he deserves with sponsors and what not. They don't make content like this on the history channel. Or anywhere else really.
I thought ghetto panthers were a prison gang..
Ezekiel Alaric LoooL man said that
Such Polish bravery. Was it worth it? Thanks for all the brilliant detailed films you provide, Mark. You make understanding of these events deeper and richer. Really appreciated .
It was not bravery, it was stupid idea of Polish Government in GB that took all government money and escaped, and when Poland began to free from Germans they made this gamble
Was in a bookstore in Auckland NZ yesterday and I saw three books by Mark Felton in the history section and I immediately started humming this channels theme tune to myself...
Imagine a city that lost 94% of its population in 5 years of war!!
That’s a great and heartbreaking photo at about 0:45...probably because it causes your eye to go immediately to the well-dressed little boy with the cap. It reminds me a bit of Spielberg’s “girl in red” from Schindler’s List.
Indeed, I couldn't help wondering how many of them didn't make it to 1946.
@Anthony Roic A movie based on historical fact. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Schindler
WARSAW CITY AT WAR, VOICES FROM UNDERGROUND, WHISPERS OF FREEDOM
I visited the Home Army Museum. In Krakow. It was pretty interesting. Not entirely in English but it was interesting how deep the organization ran.
Try Warsaw Uprising museum in Warsaw
This episode gets some attention in the history books. This is one of of the most heroic, tragic, and heartbreaking of the war, and better history should be written on it. Have you also considered doing an additional video on Polish "hillbilly" armored vehicles of the uprising. The prime example is Kubus, and it's another great story.
I appreciate the Polish fighting spirit.
True heroic act :) Polish Home Army alone. Warsaw Uprising ending is last act of Stalin-Hitler pact
You forget to say that Stalin kill Kennedy and made 9.11.2001
An incredible effort by the Polish Home Army. Good video.
Thank you Mark. This is personal. Cheers from Warsaw.
Why was this deleted earlier? Just curious
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@CIA Imports im jewish and i thought it was funny. i would choose the same title although the ghetto uprising and the warsaw uprising are different events.
@Russell Grant ooooooh u
Ghetto uprising and Warsaw uprising were two different things, so you can not call Warsaw Uprising Panthers "gettho panthers".
@@janherburodo8070 it does make sense, he literally put his reasoning in the comment you are replying to...
@@MarkFeltonProductions Sir, I know you have knowledge about that but the video title is a little bit misleading :). The ghetto uprising was few years earlier than Warsaw uprising so I think the title can mislead someone to think that the Polish Jews had tanks. They hadn't because their uprising was way more tragic than the Polish one - they had almost no firearms and literally few rounds of ammunition for them. There was no chance for them to capture a tank.
Warsaw Uprise was the greatest during the IIWW with incredible human loss, so I wonder how it is at all possible that so many people even don't know about it.
Because real history is no longer being taught in school.
So sad that those amazing pieces of history were scrapped
The Russians were also scrapping Polish Heroes by executing them.
Even today i know many people from Poland that have a true grudge against Russia of the shit they did and they were not even around ww2.
Zbigniew Biernacki - No scrapping means that their raw material would be recycled for other things.
Germans bring in tanks. Polish Fighters: It's free real estate...
Whatever sentence starts with Soviets...you know is gonna end with "scraped".
Stalin played the Poles to the hilt.
Covernment in exile was at war with USSR and gave orders to engage RKKA
@@ivanmonahhov2314 it is a lie. Despite the USSR invasion of Poland in September 1939 (you are reading it right, the war did not begin in 1941 for you), no war was declared on them by anyone for some reason. The relations were tense after the Katyn issue came to light, but there was never any declaration of war. Get it right. Also, there were no orders to engage RKKA, Home Army actually liberated Vilnius and Lviv together with them (another suicidal idiocy called Operation Tempest). After which the NKVD had the HA officers arrested (some executed there and then) and the regular soldiers were given the 'choice' between joining their puppet Polish army or going to gulag. Home Army ordered to engage the RKKA. What a load of tosh.
If the Germans had agreed with the Poles to leave the city in exchange for supplies to use against the Russians, what would have happened?
@@tonabaki I'm glad you mentioned Katyn (where the Soviets killed 15K army officers and civilians in May 1940 - only to blame the Germans. The Soviet Union only admitting that they did that in 1990 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre )
@@alastairward2774 there was probably no scope for an actual agreement, but if the Reich was not in the survival mode at that point and someone had a bit of political vision, they would simply withdraw from Warsaw and the outskirts, then orchestrate giving the airborne division more or less a free pass, presenting a bit of a pickle to the Allies.
All your WW2 pieces are amazing, good quality and accurate. I still look for the day you feature a full length documentary, love your work bro.
Getto uprising and Warsaw uprising in August 1944 are two different stories. Same city, but Panter has been captured during 1944.Anyway, great job, as always on that channel. Take care.
Never send tanks without infantry support.
3:15 Sounds like a quote frome a Sabaton song :D
Thanks very much, i dont know as much about this sub topic as i should so great to have an informative source to jump in with sir.
I heard that Germans ordered Hungarians to fight in Warsaw... but being good friends with Poland they started giving them ammo. And the other thing is that the German officers were really impressed how long Polish soldiers were fighting
Ah yes back to this epic music intro!
I've read several articles in various books regarding the Home Army uprising and never once saw a reference to the captured German armour. It was always pistols, rifles and Molotov cocktails. Thanks for adding another piece to the history of a heroic fight by a brave people.
Mark, you're the gift that keeps on giving...thank you for the best videos.
Love your work Mark! Always interesting and ahead of the curve.
Been waiting for this a long time but man, what an good video this was! Thx Mark!
Could you do something regarding the Warsaw Uprising? Like go into more detail with what actually happened? This video made me curious to know more about it and I feel like the details of what actually happened aren't well known or discussed. Always look forward to these videos!
Excellent work Mark! Thank you. Rich.
Just here to say, your channel kicks ass. Keep up the excellent work!
Great video, Mark. Very informative as always.
Thanks Mark, another great video. Good inspiration for modelling projects.
You realy have the best content about ww2 in whole youtube by far! Love your videos
Thanks Mark. Your Information is filling a void that seems to be getting wider and deeper. As Digital copys of events seem to be omitted with alot of data being lost. Be safe
Thank you for these great historical tid bits! More!
thx you for making this video
Im not liking this video because of the quality of the production, but instead in memory of the Poles who lead the uprising.. they would have been the hardest toughest people on the planet at the time, no doubt in my mind.
My grandfather, grandmother, uncles and aunts were fighting in Warsaw Uprising in 1944. My second grandfather was in polish army in 1939 and he saw war crimes executions of his friends when they get in to the capitivity as a POWs to germans in Modlin fortress. After he came back from captivity to Warsaw in 1940, he was catched on the street by GESTAPO and sent to the Auschwitz for almost 3 years. Mirically he survived that hell on earth, but after the war he was arrested and tortured by Jews from NKVD Stalin's butchers. He was tough patriot and very brave man. RIP.
A nice little tidbit of this sad struggle I never knew about. Good work!
Dave Allman never heard of the Warsaw uprising?
What happened to the usual intro, Mark? As usual, you always did a good job! Thank you for providing Quality Education which is way better than schools and colleges, sir!
Mark you are a gift to us all. Thank you.
Mark Felton is one of the best war historian i know about. Can just imagine all the research behind easch video.
As always an enjoyable episode. Thank you
Thankyou, this is awesome!
Thank you Mark, thank you very much.
POLAND- only one occupied country without homeland SS troops. Poles had not collaborated SS or Wehrmaht troops.
It's normal, they were at war with Germans and it's why the 2nd world war started. Imagine USA invading Iran.. If USA wins, who from Iran people will want to be a GI?
Not entirely true: some Poles were drafted into wehrmacht, but most of them deserted the first chance they got, like my grandpa's brother. My grandpa himself avoided being drafted after lying about his age, and village women all said that he's 14 (his looked that age as well, despite being 17-18).
No SS is quite right, they could never set up a 'Polish' unit for obvious reasons. There were however many Poles/pre-war Polish citizens in the Wehrmacht (especially from Pomerania and Upper Silesia) who were conscripted as a result of signing the Volksliste. Not really a collaboration (most had to go agsinst their will, they had never realised this would follow and signed the list out of fear) but it did happen. A sad chapter in our history.
@@bondziu u wrong. they felt not polish citizens than so u said that. All occupied europe participated as citizens each country into german units. Show me polish citizens which declared ss or even wehrmaht subordination? There was NOT movement like this. Baltics, skandinavians, romainia, hungary, netherlands, belgium (walons and flamans in different SS units!), france, spain, italy, croatia, slovakia,bulgaria, serbia, macedonia, albania, denmark, austria, azerbaijan, georgia, russia, UKRAINE (SS galizien, SS Roland, SS Nahtigall)...stop with those bullshits
around 200 000 Poles were drafted by force into Wehrmacht
These people are ridiculously brave... Fighting against impossible odds.
Love your vids Mark
Dame the Hun....Thanks Doc....An thanks for all of the very fine research you do...!
I would love a Vid about the Hetzers during the Czech uprising!
F4Us vs P 51 MUSTANG !! THE FOOTBALLS WAR ! Now that is a title garenteed to bring tons is views !
Hard fighters the polish. Brave. Big respect.Ty mark 👍
It's heartbreaking how powerless Britain was to intervene on Poland's behalf in the entire war. Poland is just too far away to directly support, General Sosabowski of the 1st Independant Polish Parachute Brigade was desperate to fly his troops to Warsaw and although our lancasters had a range of 4000km which put Poland in range but most of them would have been shot down leaving a paltry few paratroopers to jump into Warsaw. Awful business and I feel for the Free Polish Army
We owe the Poles. Historically and currently!
@书中自有黄金屋 I hardly consider "Danzig or war" to be a peaceful negotiation attempt. Regardless, the German policy of Lebensraum was the primary reason for the invasion, the Great War loss of Danzig was just a convenient excuse to attack. Also, was the killing of 20% of the Polish population and 90% of the Polish Jewish population really necessary for the Germans to "save their people"?
Great video as always! Does this mean that the damaged Hetzer currently on display at the Polish Army Museum is not actually from the Uprising? Signage identifies it as the one captured and used during the city Rising.
Thank you Mark!
During the uprising, 13 August, another vehicle was captured Sd.Kfz.301. The joy of soldiers and civilians from capturing the vehicle turned into a great tragedy. The vehicle exploded, killing about 300 people who came to admire it. The explosion also wounded the leader of the entire uprising, General Komorowski. Most historians claim that it was a trap set by the Germans, the vehicle was detonated with a time fuse. However, newer studies indicate that this could have been an accident caused by the drivers? Unfortunately, the Wikipedia article is available only in Polish.
With the due respect to the fighters in the Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the fighters in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, please correct the inaccuracy in the title: there were no "Ghetto Panzers". Not whole Warsaw was enclosed in the ghetto walls, and the Jewish fighters in the Ghetto Uprising couldn't unfortunately count on captured enemy armored vehicles. Thank you.
Aver was going to write the same thing
Yeah, that's an error that needs to be corrected. Two different uprisings Mark!
This video is so true and must have taken a lot of time for you to prepare. There is not even sigle lie/misinformation which happens often in productions of other people on KZhead. I love your stories Mark, keep it up!
Better intro music in this one, than the usual one. Greetings from Denmark
I cringed when I heard "A word from our sponsor" but then remembered how bloody great Mr Feltons channel actually is.
Master Mark you've hit the target! My Favourite rank of WW2 plus Interesting¥ Cheers
Never knew any of this very interesting well done to the Poles for Getting Tanks
Foundry Worker: so how many museum pieces do you want scrapped? USSR: YES!
Warsaw city at war! Help that never came!
The Polish uprising was one of the bravest events of WW2. They knew completely going in, it was win or die. After several Home Army successes Himmler ordered the Kaminsky and Dirlewanger Brigades into action. Units made up of Disciplinary units, criminals and murderers. Their excesses in the City were SO excessive that after the uprising Heeres Generals pleaded to Himmler to have the worst of the bunch executed. Several photos show SS Tarnjacken being worn. They were captured and worn after a massive SS Lager was overrun. Perhaps the biggest irony was, after the War, the very few that survived were brutally murdered, imprisoned, and tortured by the Soviets and their Polish Communist puppets after the War. Same fate was in store for the brave Polish RAF fighter pilots that returned to Poland after the War. A sad story all around.
This is quality historical content
ANOTHER EXCELLENT VIDEO!!!!!!
I have no idea where you get so much of these lesser known info.
Proud Poles!!!
Top of the morning to you Marko, another fantastic peice, from the west of Ireland, just back from a recovery in my truck and bed now listening to ur highly educated mind
Yah Finally i get to watch this!!!!
OK, now time for 'Kubuś' to show up here
Polish armored car scratch built and used in some of the assaults.
vicious,,those brave poles told to go to hell,,,,this,,I cannot watch,,,horribly sad great felton history without doubt
Very interesting piece of history.