The Invasion of Poland (1939)
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Sources / further reading:
S. Zaloga, V. Madej, The Polish Campaign 1939, 1991.
G.L. Weinberg, A World at Arms, A Global History of World War II, 1994
S. Zaloga, Poland 1939, The Birth of Blitzkrieg, 2002.
National disasters Japan : Tsunamis and earthquakes USA : Hurricanes Greenland : Global warming Poland : Neighbor countries
unfortunately
I'm glad we have two weak countries surrounding us and they're our allies. God bless
Honest M'aiq yes. I've seen this meme before and i like it
Yes I use incognito to surf culture
Do you mean: *NATURAL*
Poland: *Exist* Hitler : Prepare for trouble Stalin: And Make it double
You got that from a meme
Wtff 😂😂😂
*That's Poland neighbor*
Lol I’ll never unhear Jesse and James now
Brillant 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Citizen: "Who is invading us" Soldier: *"Yes"*
Both
Citizen:Oh scheibe, luckily i can use German langunge *smug*
Better question: Who is *NOT* invading us
Ja and Da
I can just imagine it being: “Kto nas atakuję?” “Tak”
Hitler: That's a lot of damage! Stalin: How about a little more?
DAMAGE
F L E X. T A P E. I S. A N. E X T R E M E L Y. S T R O N G. A D H E S I V E. T A PE
Britain and France: don't worry guys Britain and France :we have a plan. *Britain and France have left the game.*
They never did that
Show Respect to the soldiers who lost their life to save the world from such a man like Hitler.Im German
haha nic dodać nic ująć
True
They both stayed in the war the entire time...
list of things you loose when you need them the most -keys -phone -wallet -france and britain
XDZ
More true with France, took Britain a few decades longer
And france is just missing it's courage lol
советский гопник иван France and Britain were never there in the first place
@final *sigh* thats the point
Poland: Damm it. I don't have any loyal allies Hungary: *ahem* you were saying? love all of you polish bros greetings from Hungary
Greetings from Poland man, I love Hungary
jest takie powiedzenie "Polak Węgier dwa bratanki i do szabli i do szklanki" dlatego że polska i węgry zawsze sobie pomagali chociażby węgry odmówiły hitlerowi zatakować polske przez węgry.
Hungary allied with Hitler to invade Romania in extended Ribbentrop-Molotov treaty and Russia would get Bessarabia
@Mark S so you are saying that my country should have supported a country led by one of the most brutal dictators of the 20th century who had executed about 6 000 000 jews instead of our historycal brothers, who were invaded by two totalitarian regimes? shame on you., and don't think we wanted any of this. so I don't think it's disgusting. what you say is disgusting. and, for the record, from the Anschluss of 1938 until the end of WW2 Austria was not a separate country, but part of the Third Reich
@dmatt-12 Yeah thats like saying a person who lives in Germany now Supports Nazism.
UK and France are those civilizations that declare war on you from the other side of the map.
Cowards
South Korea: I have the worst neighbours. Israel: No, I have the worst neighbours. Poland: AMATEURS
hehehehe!.
@@loveydovey4566 lithuania is not worst neighbour
yeah rip Poland, crushed by 2 giants and betrayed by its allies. But also rip Russia as well. They were invaded in every centry, 2 times actually in the 20th centry...
Vietnam: cầm ly bia cho tao (Hold my beer)
*ehem* *ehem* Philippine’s got colonized by Spanish for 333 years
Poland has a lot of history... But you know what it doesn't have? *Reliable Allies*
OrangeOVA sooo truuuue
Ouch
You would be a idiot to say the allies "betrayed" them after the war to the Soviets. But i guess I understand during the war. France did not have the manpower to attack Germany and they assumed poland would be able to hold out for months.
Doesn't have *reliable* allies
The reliability of their allies is just as reliable as the world's worst machine gun designed in world war 1
Remember: Never trust France and britain
France and britain : were gonna help you Poland: why are you not helping me France and britain : na you can do this .
or the US
I believe you meant to say don’t trust anyone
@@Crash_- Italy did not betray Germany, The Italian people Killed Mussolini thus giving the Allies The Chance To invade Italy, Read history Dumbass
@@Dime-bz6hc No, only France and Britain. These two shameless countries abandoned many allies, including Czechoslovakia.
Poland: Help me my loyal ally! Britain: Hang in there my friend. We are getting ready to deploy our bombers with propaganda and drop it where it hurts. Poland: 🤦♂️
We weren’t allies. The only ally Poland had was the Germans who they helped invade czechoslovakia..
An allied invasion of Germany in 1939-40 just wasn't feasible it would have been a desperate move. The allies had zero offensive advantage over Germany. Germany had 4 fighting age men for every 1 french. In such demographic circumstances defensive strategems are preferable. If you want to truly blame someone blame Belgium for pulling out of the alliance with Britain and France, or blame Britain and France for allowing Germany to remilitarise the Rhine land which led to the aforementioned Belgian neutrality.
@@will2brown50 … or blame Germany for doing all of the above?
@@XXXTENTAClON227 what a weird comment. I'm not talking about the fault of war. I'm talking about why the allies did not launch an invasion of Germany. It's very obvious I'm not trying to excuse German actions in the war, I'm stating that the popular perception of French and to an extent British involvement in the early years of the war is deeply at odds with reality.
@@will2brown50thanks for your kind words about the thousands dead being “non existent”. What a pointless sacrifice
I'm glad you guys actually put that Calvary charge against infantry and not the common myth that they tried to charge tanks
👍🏻 yep some people think there were no charges at all still, even against infantry so we will make a video on this myth 🤔
It's not a myth. They don't plan to attack tanks but they did, because the infantry they attacked had tank support. So yes, there was a combat where polish cavalry units fight german tanks. It was the charge at Krojanty, 09/01/1939
What happened was they charged german artillery points and then tanks rolled up but once they saw tanks they bailed
wait, they did use Calvary? I thought that part was a myth.
CAVALRY not CALVARY
The Polish Army is like that one guy in a COD lobby who makes friends with his teammates, but his teammates abandon him because they don't want to die
I have never ever heard of such display of coordination in a CoD lobby
if i was the french and british did declare war on germany not for helping poland, but because it was the last staw that broke the camel's back german aggresion were becoming threatening for europe, plus italy joined axis, which threaten europe with fascist everywhere so they had ro declare war, poland is just an excuse they didn't got poland's back, but it triggered the war
@Heinrich Himmler you mean the making friends part, right?
Calling Warsaw, City at war Voices from the underground Whispers of freedom 1944,help that never came!
JM PLAYZ YT ?
@@k0mentator507 its a Sabaton song called uprising.
I love Sabaton (;
Operation tempest(Warsaw Uprising) .64 day struggle ends at 2 Oct 1944
Only the another betrayal - from Red Army, at the second part of Vistula river, and from UK and USA, which didn't stop it.
Not only let down during the Invasion of Poland but many Poles helped defend Britain during the battle of Britain and were probably the best allied pilots in that theatre. At the end of the war, Britain voted to send them back where many were executed by the Red Army. So much for British honour. Vale to the brave Poles!
Yeah Churchill played politics rather than do the right thing and stand up to the ussr
@@jacoburban5736 do you really believe the Allies would be ready to fight the USSR after ww2. They had enough Problems and were not in a State to fight another bloody War. The Public would not Support them. Also dont forget that this was not the Same Red army which Fought so poorly against the Wehrmacht at 1941. This Red Army stood against 3/4 of the Wehrmacht. They were a battle hardened Army. The Eastern Front was much more Brutal than the Western Front. Even if they would fight the Soviets and push them Back. It would take Years.
@@derinfomann4581 sadly that's true, what's even more sad is that this could have been prevented if the western coutries were more active during the first phase of the war. USSR held back with the attack to the last moment because they wanted to be sure that UK and France are doing nothing to support Poland. Also Germany were critically open on the west front and they just counted on Allies being a total dicks to Poland and eventually it appeared that Germnas were good at maths ;)
@@moonshit After the Fall of France and British Forces were Forced to leave Mainland Europe, Couldnt just Invade France again. A Invasion like D-Day was at that time almost Impossible. Before D-Day happened, the was a Try to secure a Beachhead but the Troops that Day be all Killed. Even the Allies were Skeptical that even a Naval-Invasion could Work and the Landings itself were already Bloody despite its being late in the War. Even if they manage to secure a Beachhead after the Fall of France. They Still would have to face the fully Armed Wehrmacht. They would just be Pushed back.
@@derinfomann4581 Totally agree but by the first phase I meant when Wermacht was occupied by invading Poland. At that time it would be relatively easy for UK to send more troops to the continenet and invade Germany with France. They missed the opportunity. In fact Allies thought that Hitler will not attack them because of heavy fortification on the border. What happened next we all know.
Meaning of colors on the Polish flag: White - Honor Red - Sacrifice Blue - Loyal allies Sad but true...
Eintz explain
Richard Roberson there is no blue on the polish flag
...
thats meme lul thats why theres no blue on polish flag becouse theres no loyal allies xD
Nikt nas nie zdradził... Poczytaj o pakcie Kasprzycki-Gamelain a potem się wypowiadaj...
This video shows, how important in life is to have true friends...
An untrustworthy ally is worse then a powerful enemy
Dude I hope my country didn't have an ally like Italy, Romania and Bulgaria.
@@Daniboi971 bruh
@@Daniboi971 Yes. We poles will blame you. We poles thought that we were safe because we were friends. We had a false sense of hope.
@@Daniboi971 Poland had no support from the allies. They quite literally did nothing to help defend Poland or even invade Germany. WHILE THEY WERE ALL AT WAR MIND YOU.
How serious was the non-actions of France and Great Britain? According to the German General Jodl at the Nuremberg War Trials he said: “ *if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions* ”
Two points: firstly Poland was not seen in very good light in the West having joined forces with Hitler and helped the Nazis invade Czechoslovak just a few months earlier. Many thought we should not be helping them when their former “friends” turned on them, and secondly the British Expeditionary Force never got into position on the Belgian border until the end of October - by which time Poland was defeated.
@@annoyingbstard9407 I heard of that mini conquest and I believe it was more of Poland trying to secure its borders by maybe acquiring more man power and spread the Germans thinner.
Retrospect is a wonderful thing… which is why your comment is irrelevant
@@annoyingbstard9407 lol suuure that was the reason. How many days did France take to surrender with their tail between their legs??
someone mistook this as a how-to video
well i guess we can say warsaw saw war
XXXJerry Sad
WARSAW CITY AT WAR
Voices from underground whispers of freedom.
yEET
👌🏿
Germany: *Invades Poland* Britain and France: EEY you can't do that Soviet Union: *Invades the not defended eastern territory of Poland* Britain and France: I dOn'T sEe AnY pRoBlEm WiTh ThE sOvIeT uNiOn
‘soviet union invades eastern poland’ britain & france: *asleep* ‘germany invades western poland’ britain & france: *YOU CANT DO THAT! REEE*
They did have a problem with it, what are you talking about?
King Lock15 mapper Please god let Britain and France burn and suffer for this betrayal
AdventureInc Did they any military actions against the Soviet Union, NO. Did they sanction the Soviet Union, NO. Did they ask for a diplomatic solution to release Poland and be succesfully, NO. If you gonna comment more bullshit feel free to do so
Enclave soldier they really messed up back than
Poland never surrendered. Betrayed and massive multiple fronts, it took one month to silence the last Polish gun in their territory. I love this people.
Kinda easy not to surrender when your gov escapes to Romania/London leaving their army and population behind to the mercy of the victors.
@@user-we7lv8pm3o France had it easier, just had to cross the canal, yet they still surrendered to save Paris. The Polish government and many Polish soldiers had a much tougher time reaching England. Even after the destruction of Warsaw with supportive and strategic German bombing, they didn't lose heart.
@@carlos89784 The soviets lost tens of millions of civillians and soldiers and still didn't givd up they are the real mvps of the war
@PoProstuKsawier I Tyle but they didn t do a big change they didn t as big of a role as the us or eng or the soviet union
@@chief_8213 poland troops were a big change the poles that fought in england and itlay changed a lot during the battle of england division 303 had the biggest number of the enemy planes destroyed comapered to loses 1 plane lost to 4 planes destroyed and the many british pilots said that if not polish pilots germany would win the battle of england and the ones who coquered monte casino were poles
"I promise I won't get fascist, hanz." *3 beers later*
This comment was accepted by the great german empire! Have a good day
When your comment is so worth it that the German empire replies:
You know, your allies not helping you when you are attacked is one thing. But being pressured by those allies to not even defend yourself (by not disposing your units along the border) and THEN them not helping when you actually get attacked is just ... wow. No wonder Poland has trust issues
The problem was, like is common in alliances, a lack of clear understanding of mutual capabilities. Poland's mobilization system was rather obsolete in 1939 ; We were unable to conduct a large part of the mobilization process in secret. However, France and Great Britain could accomplish that, and assumed that Poland could as well. "Delaying mobilization" for France and GB was not that big a deal, as they simply delayed the final step of the process a bit, which was not logistically intensive nor particularly complex and combat units would've achieved most of their readiness already. For Poland, however, delaying mobilization was a crippling blow ; The western allies did not understand this fact, and thus thought pressuring Poland to delay mobilization was worth the risk, seeing as the potential payoff was preserving peace on the continent. And of course after 1938 and the partitioning of Czechoslovakia, Poland was actually quite unpopular in the West and had very little political capital in Paris and London, so people weren't particularly inclined to listen.
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Blade57331 England and France had to be careful due to the USSR, as they signed a non aggression treaty with Germany so if England and France attacked Germany, it could've sparked war against the USSR, which would mean 3 extremely strong opponents against us
@@charliesayle4982 and we had 4 extremely strong opponents: Germany, Czech and Morave Protectorate + Slovakian puppet state, and USSR, Ukraine and Belarus. And we, Poles, weren't scared to fight the enemies even when there were 4 of them. I tell about 1920, when Poland needed to fight: - USSR - Ukraine - Germany - Czechoslovakia (something like in the Winter War) We were not scared by their count and managed to win with them somehow. And you didn't want to fight one country...
Not to mention just handing them over to a war criminal after
Poland has not been lucky with its geography. Germans to the west and russians to the east, can't get much worse.
they have always been strong though, and for that I commend them and their whole-hearted efforts.
U missed Sweeden from the North and Austria from the South who also atacked and made big damage to Poland.
That's why i admire the Polish people so much, always fighting to stay alive and always very kind and polite. My mom always tells me about her Polish immigrant neighbour here in São Paulo when she was a kid. His name was Nicholas and he had trench foot and had to amputate half of each feet (i guess in ww1, since he was pretty old in the 80's). He always gave her candies and called her "Lady Di".
But it can and it's called North Korea.
Yes. It can be worst when for USA russia is good partner
My respect to Poland for putting up a brave fight to two bullies...
Poland was the bully. They massacred germans before ww2 and europe never bats an eye
@@PineappleOnPizza69 tf r u talking about
@@PineappleOnPizza69 source: "i'm a nationalist socialist"
THEY themselves were the worst bully, shamelessly murdering minority germans, terrorizing cheks and other minorities, in no manner were they any better than russians or germans.
Everyone: Poland has no good allies Hungary: Allow me to introduce myself.
'' if i HAD to attack poland i shall destroy my own train tracks''!!!
@Blind Squid That's plain stupid, we took most refugees for the better or worse of it and we haven't lost one bit of our culture, money yes but culture no. What a weak "culture" that has to be to even be able to be threathened by foreigners
Lol! Hungary were enthusiastic supporters of the Nazis, until it became obvious that the Axis was going to lose.
Hungry and Romania are gs
Hungary was an Axis power.
poor Poland; He had the worst neighbours and worst allies
But you know that Germans tricked ALL their allies during the WWII? And Poland wasn't betrayed by Britain, but USA.
@@isiahmaliklevantezimmerman6570 lmao
The guy who knows da wae. I was responding to Skin of the Vipermagi.
@@isiahmaliklevantezimmerman6570 oh
@@isiahmaliklevantezimmerman6570 anyways lmao to that
I feel Poland is under represented, as most of us tend to remember more famous events of WW2. Never forget that Poland was occupied by 2 countries, and was abandoned by allies that promised to keep them safe.
The Allies wanted to liberate Poland, but they could not afford to challenge the Soviets. They could have done more, such as moving into Germany, but France didn't want and couldn't really afford to go on the offensive.
Poland was screwed. Nothing the allies could have done to help them during the war or after it was over.
Nah they were just "late" ..decades late...
That's kind of the point I'm making, also. Everyone blames Hitler for invading Poland, but forgets Stalin had his own ambitions. Thus, the recounting needs to be more balanced.
Reason they forgot Stalin is because the Soviet was also the "winner" on WW2 and became a even more Super Power than before together with the allies. IF the Soviet wasn't the winner, they will also blame Stalin for all the atrocities he did. Like what they all say, loser's in war will always get the most hatred and blaming than what the winner actually did.
The mini heart attack when you can't find these in your pocket -Keys -Phone -wallet -4th Panzer division
Lmao 😂😂😂
@@sooryan_1018 Hey, do you watch anime?!
@@generalgta3528 well, obviously Umm, are you going to recruit me to your National Socialist German Worker's Party? (Cuz your name tho.....)
@@sooryan_1018 No war, no forced recruitment! You could join if you want to, though!
@@sooryan_1018 Have you watched The Pet Girl Of Sakurasou?!
crazy how history repeats itself...
My Great grandad was Polish, he fought in the struggle against Germany and Russia and was captured and given a decision to either join the German army or to be sent to Siberia to do hard labour. He chose to join the German army and was then captured again in 1944 near Normandy by British troops. Those British troops then realised he was Polish, so he was sent into the Polish Police Force in Scotland.
An unexpected turn of events, i figured the germans would’ve killed him, and if not, the british would’ve killed him (thought, the latter was really unlikely, since they noticed his nationality, but still, it was possible that he could’ve died in the crossfire) but hey, your great grandad must’ve been really lucky considering he captured by the germans and british instead of getting killed, i know i am really negative pls don’t kill me
@@aleksk318 Yeah it was either this where he had a chance of survival or hard work in Siberia which would kill him sooner or later.
Cool
Im from Poland
Poland was a dictatorship
And what happened to soldiers mentioned at the very end of the video? They were forced to leave Allied countries and sent to Poland where most of them were killed by communists for fighting side by side with Allies and weren't invited to Victory Parade in London 1946. Apart from that during occupation (both German and Soviet) a lot of civilians were slaughtered, humiliated, even genocide of Poles happened in Wolyn.
That’s horrible to hear. I wish that was more well known to history students. Those are heroes and should be treated as so.
John H. British and Americans sold Poles to Soviets so... they prolonged occupation from 5 years to 50 years ;)
Trying to be sympathetic. Oh well they probably deserved it then. I’m glad occupation lasted that long.
Wait a minute... WHAT??? What do you mean "they probably deserved it"???
The Soviet Union DID play the most important role in defeating Germany, which is obvious if you look at the numbers of casualties on all fronts. It would have probably lost without the help of the Allies, but without the SU, the Allies would have definitly lost. Plus the West probably was very happy that Stalin and Hitler DID bleed each other out so much... just not enough to get rid of the SU afterwards. Don´t forget that the Entende already interveened in the russian civil war and tried to destroy communism before it could really start, interfering in internal, russian affairs for selfish reasons!
It’s crazy that we could be seeing this happen all over again with Russia invading Ukraine
It seems to be happening. Russia started mobilization and things are escalating
It's very possible. That's what Russia is all about: aggression. They must be stopped.
Poland: exists Hitler: no, that’s illegal.
Can you do the spring offensive 1918
Ludendorf, approves der sturmsoldaten mit dir kamerade.
Prussian Eagle 🦅 hey
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working on this :)
Simple History hey dude can you also do the suez crisis thx
Even though their country was entirely occupied, the Poles continued to fight.
Barely
Not really, they did that for a day.
Unlike France, the Poland never actually surrendered.
Drained After the Germans conquered half of Europe the nazis still devoted entire division to fight partisan groups behind their lines in Poland, France, Soviet Union, and especially Yugoslavia
that is the "warsaw uprising"
I am still crying after my grandpa fought in the battle of Warsaw and died..
83 years later...
Uh-huh
Poor Poland they were caught in a literal no win scenario. But still carried on bravely despite the odds. it's no wonder they were so ferocious in the battle of Britain. People with nothing left to lose and everything to give make for terrifying enemies.
sir steve I like/love your comments
After war the Poland was occupied by russia to 1998
Seriously britain and France where cowards when Germany invaded Poland, and they litteraly did nothing only small attacks with no effect
Yoyle 0340 that's right
Szymon Papiewski last soviet troop leave Poland in 1993
Fun fact. Carol II of Romania asked the Polish government if they wanted the Romanians to enter the war on their side, but the Polish government refused saying that the Polish army and government needed a safe retreat passage and, if Romania entered the war, the Luftwaffe would've bombarded the Romanian infrastructure and it would've been impossible for the Polish army and government to retreat. The Polish government and army fled in Western Europe via Romania, and many Polish refugees established themselves in Romania. This angered Hitler badly. Maybe that's why he decided to force Romania to give Northern Transylvania to Hungary. Also, the Polish treasury was kept safely in Romania, at the Tismana Monastery until the end of the war.
Romania has better honor than Britain and France.
Saddly the treasury was used to pay the british, FOR POLES DEFENDING THEIR FOOKING ISLAND!!
That was genius
@@alekjanowski9847 was stolen,b precise!!
Poles remember their true ally of WW2 Romania was. That proposition was very brave and it should be taught about in polish schools. I hope there will be no conflict between us and between Hungary and Romania in the future. We three should keep together. None of the brother Slavic countries have been so faithful friends to Poland as Romania and Hungary.
Germans: Blitzkrieg Poles: Kurwa
CoolGuyHMR WT 😂
Ahahahaahah
Ty kmiocie
We had trench warfare xd
Hotel: trivago
Germany’s huge advantage were the 1,500 Panzers II,III,IV, against 600 (mostly outdated) Polish tanks,7TP, Tk-3, Renault Ft, a few R-35, and Vickers light tanks
Poland : *Exist* Hitler and Stalin: It’s free real estate
Oh no
*GET IN MA BELLY*
all of east/south east asia: *exist* japan: its free real estate
Kurwa mac
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What the polish flag stands for: White:Pierogi Red:Kiełbasa Blue:Loyal allies during WWII
DarkStorm 444 not just in ww2
There is no blue on the polish flag
Actually blue was supposed to be on Polish flag, but idea was dropped.
White stands for germany and red stands for russia.
Raucher Hans. So Red in German flag means Russia too?
This disturbingly looks familiar to how Russia is trying to surround and invade Ukraine
Yep that’s why I’m here watching this.
Big difference is that Europe is rallying around it.
German: “Will you stop talking about the war?” Basil Fawlty: “Me? You started it” German: “No we did not start it?” Basil Fawlty: “Yes you did you invaded Poland”
When you fail your art class so you decide to invade poland
XD
VC Guerrilla When you fail to be an artist so you become butthurt and try to build a German Empire Instead
*when you retake what is yours and defend yourself from polish harassment.
VivaMessico take a joke fuckwit
When u fail to get a job and instead become the supreme leader
Greetings from Finland for the brave Polish soldiers!
Terve Suomen ystävä! ^^
Your soldiers were brave too
:)
@@panadolf7629 9639393969999996968 bilions soviets vs one finish sniper
TERVE
I am russian/Kazakh and I am very very very sorry for what my country did to you, Poland. Poland is one of my favourite countries and I love the people and the culture. I hope nothing like this will repeat again.
What is your country and what exactly it did to Poland?
Famous last words... but thanks for your words, hope you won't be fighting in Russian-Ukrainian war.
The battleship that opened fire in Danzig was the pre-dreadnought battleship SMS Schleswig-Holstein, which was an aging battleship built in 1905, she would be sunk in 1944 by aircraft, raised by the Soviet Union at the end of the war, and would be used as a target in Estonia until 1948. The wreck is now underwater.
I wish Poland could’ve hold on longer, but it was practically impossible for them. They were attacked by the Germans from the West and the Russians from the East. Poland sure did suffer in WW2 and decades after under Communist oppression.
Southern Gentleman france did last like the same but only germoney attacked it
Marxist Hedonist Secular Demon That’s right
There was also Ukrainian insurgency organized by nationalist forces of OUN in the south-eastern Poland. Not to mention Slovak invasion.
OWERFULL owerfull That’s true
Poland's defeat also broke morale across the Baltics, as we saw what happened to Poland, nobody dared to rebel against the soviets.
3:22 *[Ride of the Valkyries plays]*
That song is German
Rather *WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED *
Jesus bobo 9th &7!7!!!7!!7^77171111!!11???"7 the 7?, 7
@@averagesovietsoldier9522 what?
you mean WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED
I'm from Tomaszów Lubelski. Thankfully we have an reconstructions every year of Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski (which is considered as the biggest tank battle in 1939).
I told my friends in school that you were the reason I know so much about World War II and I recommend it to them according to my teachers
I had to do a project on the Vietnam War and I’m so happy I found this channel it saved me the time and effort! I learned so much more off his videos then going on 20 websites sadly I still went to 20 websites :( but at the end I got an A and the teacher was proud of me that I found a person who does the topic on KZhead that wasn’t a documentary!
or Christians
or Minecraft youtubers
Or the fortnite community
yes
Do the Warsaw uprising
Teddy N WAR! SAW! CITY AT WAR!
Voices from underground whispers of freedom
TheWanderingBard ayyyy
1944 help that never came
yes
2019 in Poland : peace * 37 years later * Germany: HEYA MOTHERFUCKERS Poland: **sad kurwa noises**
**bomb dropped at berlin by usa** poles: ZWYCIĘSTWO KURWA!
Britain and France not doing anything? Sounds familiar...
Russians who lie and attack. Also sounds like something we hear over and over again.
It actually doesn’t
And then on victory parade in London Churchill didnt let polish troops to march to not anger Stalin.
mateusz W it was unfair. But reasonable
@@itzimperiumxvi2620 The Polish fought through the entire war
My anger for westerns ia getting stronger
@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki but, yeah, continue to pick allies in the West and we'll see where would it lead you next time.
I didn’t know Poland was betrayed by my country time and time again. How infuriating.
However Poland never officialy surrendered.
Maksymilian Cybula They didn’t need to when they’re entire country was occupied
Its pretty common in their history.
My man(im from polad btw)
@Black Laser or we are just op
@Mentalno Poremećena so u hate poland
Nice video mate.
And this is how it starts with russia.
Why is it that Russia never gets criticized for helping Germany start WW2?
Asain Persuasion Because. Russia didn't help, not start it. Like he said, Russia attacked Poland, weeks after the ear started.
Comrade Pedrovich if you listen clearly a deal was made with Russian weeks before which would have Russia help Germany.
Asain Persuasion And? A deal was made, doesn't mean one starts war, like so the allies declared war on German thus starting ww2 on September 17. So no the USSR didn't start not, but helped the invasion weeks later.
Comrade Pedrovich the 3rd reich and the USSR made a agreement. They knew that poland wont be strong, so they divided they country before it was conquered
Russia is the successor to the USSR and the USSR was pretty much Russia as many others did not want to join the "union" voluntarily.
France and the UK promissed that they will help Poland. It could change history much.
If you consider they politics and military. Not very much
It depends - UK and France were collapsing Empires in those times and their military power was shrinking. But even German generals mentioned it clearly, that if only British and French would intervene, this campaign wouldn't be successful. It's all about numbers here, and also about the fact, that Germans left on Western border only a tiny amount of its Army, to small to defend anyhow.
No they didn’t. They promised to declare war if there were further German invasions - which they did. It’s hard to see how they could help an ill-equipped country on the other side of Europe. Any suggestions?
NATO too
imoressive work, ty mate
Keep up the great stuff
The more I know about Poland, the more it makes me sad. Pathetic luck! :(
Just horrible neighbors
More often and not it’s because their borders are terrible and not easy to defend
We have horibble nieghtbors
Wiktor Jutkiewicz Hitler invaded your country because your people were genociding ethnic Germans in the tens of thousands in the polish corridor which had belonged to German since the 1870’s. So, no you don’t have horrible neighbors. Maybe you shouldn’t commit atrocities
@@jwazz2271 What? You stupid Nazist Poles never kill germs in Poland.
Lengyel, Magyar két jó barát , együtt harcol s issza borát Love you Poland from Hungary
Cheers!
And love to all Hungarian brothers from Poland
Polak , Węgier dwa bratanki , i do szabli i do szklanki! (; Dzięki Bracie!
I'm impressed by the fact that during World War II, even though the Hungarians were part of the Axis, you guys did not participate in the invasion of Poland, and refused to help the Germans. You even let Polish troops escaping cross through Hungarian Ruthenia into Romania. The whole point of joining the Axis was to get back territory lost the Treaty of Trianon, and I can't believe you guys gave up Hitler's favor in return for helping your Polish comrades.
@@angusyang5917 During Warsaw uprising hungarian troops were ordered to help crushing it, of course they refused it But you should not forget about hungarian cruelty - once they have taken poles as a captives and dressed their wounds, gave them food, cigarettes and ammo, letted them free after invorming about positions of german forces
History is repeating itself in 2022!!
Been repeating itself for the last 200 years.
Man has titanium balls when he put the swastika in the back
The Poles were sold out on so many levels.....thank god for the Polish efforts on the Enigma machine, which saved the Allies. Without Britain cracking the codes of the Enigma machine, which the Poles had started, this program would probably be in German. We owe the Poles a great debt, those airmen and soldiers who escaped fought bravely as pilots in the Battle of Britain, and later in capturing Monte Cassino in Italy. They rarely get the credit they deserve.
Thanks
My grand grandpa fought in Monte Cassino,and lived to tell the story 😀
The poles did help in cracking the enigma machine, but they definitely didn't do most of the work. That credit goes to the researchers at bletchley park and alan turing.
Why do people think we'd be speaking german today if the allies hadn't won? I've always found that silly
TheZeldaCinema do you think Germany would have stopped at just Europe and africa? I know it's fictional but the book the man in the high castle plays around with that idea, might want to check it out.
“Hi I’m hitler” “Hi I’m Stalin” “And this is jackass”
It deserves more likes
Haha your comment just made my day I can see them now both standing there with those hiding deceitful smiles.both men were cold calculating and fearsome
Nice
Ugh
Similar events currently in place in Eastern Europe…
I give my deepest salute to those people in Poland all the way from Chile, who fought to the end against the Germans. You fought well.
Man the Polish are some strong willed people. Not very many other countries would fight against two armies from both sides and continue fighting after their country was occupied.
Robert Clifford Greece had beaten the whole Persian empire back in the day. Does that not count?
+Robert Clifford What about the japanese
Germany did.
But it was their own fault.
I am from poland
Poland: At Last We Are Free From Germany Germany: *HIPPOTY PAPPOTI YOUR NOW IN MY PROPERTY*
you're*
in 1945: Poland: At Last We Are Free From Germany once again Soviet Union: *HIPPOTY PAPPOTI YOU'RE NOW IN MY PROPERTY*
+Prussian Eagle And then you all died :)
in 1993 Poland: At Last We Are Free From the Russians Once Again Germany/EU: *HIPPOTY PAPPOTI YOU'RE NOW IN MY PROPERTY*
*NORMIE*
Watching this on September 01, 2021
You should make a ww2 timeliness video with 1-2 minute high detail fight or whatever happened scenes.
Unlike the French, the Polish fought to the bloody end
What about the resistance ?
But.... They did
France had little reason to fight to its own death. The only reason the poles did is because they were waiting on the other allied powers to do something.
Jack P. Richardson VERY TRUE
France didnt Surrender cause it was a Cowartd or smt. like that but Frances' wasnt capable of fighting anymore their entire army was basicly fucked on their Mainlaind they had no Army to Fight Anymore
Poor Poland he just wants to be good frend ;(
Drunk Napoleon no one likes poland
@@bigazzun3472 I like Poland
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Decius Julius maybe he fell for Hitler's propaganda?😂😂😂
Not really a lie. Before the idea of a unified german nation, there were many settlers from North Germany to what is known as the Baltic area. Germans settled there for a few centuries, and the polish seeing the threat of a germanic state right above their borders sent the Crusaders (later naming themselves as the teutonic order) to slay these germans. Well... it all happened around 800 years ago so I don't think that counts.
3:16 despite common misconception, the polish tanks actually completely outclassed the German panzers, although they couldn’t produce many so they mainly used the smaller and much worse TKS Tankette.
Yea, even heavier version of the TKS Tankette could outgunned and outspeeded the Panzers, not to mention 7TP. That was also the case with bombers - PZL P37 bomber was in every aspect a better plane than German Doorniers and Heinkles of the time. And also with anti-tank weaponry - including a famous Wz. 35 rife. A weapon, that was as light as a standard infantry rifle of the time and still it could disable every tank in the world (at the time) in a distance of 400 meters.
@@player400_official And with all this, we can add the Mors SMG and the Maroszek Battle Rifle. I can imagine if Poland managed to produce way more of all those and that France and UK kept their promises...
“The only winning move is to not play” -Tetris Computer
4:58 that kawiarnia In the background is a cool little detail
And what does it translate as?
Simple History a kawiarnia is like a coffee place
Oh god I didn't think we would be tested
@@Simplehistory ,,kawiarnia" comes from word ,,kawa" meaning coffee. It was first opened in XVIIth Century, after taking coffee from Ottomans (after winning the Battle of Vienna in 1683). It was originally a place where you could buy coffee, but it later evolved into selling desert things, like e.c. some cakes, cookies, tea, sometimes ice cream, etc.
Liczebnie przewyższający liczebnie, otoczony, zdradzony, opuszczony, ale wciąż walczył dzielnie. Ludy polskie okazały prawdziwą odwagę. Szacunek Hugh z Indii.
No tak
@2018 Pravar no
Even though this sentence is not grammatically correct, it is still very valuable for the simple reason - it *exists.* I'm grateful for that.
@@Admiral45-10 Recently I saw a Polish movie named 9th April. My respect for those soldiers have increased since.
@2018 Pravar Outnumbered. surrounded. Betrayed. Left alone. Still fighting for justice. Poles showed great bravery. Respect Hugh from India
I love watching your vids bro
Thanks
Today is the Invasion of Poland - 80 years ago, September 01 2019
Việt Hưng and my birthday
@@aaronsitoleallopez1645
@@aaronsitoleallopez1645 happy 20 days later birthday
@Blue-Creeper UTTP THDTC yes, The invasion of Poland started on September 1st 1039. Its also the day when WWII started
@@paw0960 no, that was the 7th since it was just Poland and Germany at that time.
They fought hard tho.
Lil _ Ducc yeah
Well obviously not hard enough huehue
A Latvian National Socialist - Yes he did, you maniac fascist! Death to fascism, long live the people!
He did Latvian, but like always, Natsocs are always biased towards Hitler ,because hurr durr their ideology.
did he really invade Poland... or just the Polish Corridor, which was Germany prior to the Versailles treaty?
Nice video
Thank you for saying the truth about france and britain who did nothing to help my country. Great work!
Naprawdę dziękujesz komuś za to, że mówi o tym jak to jakiś naród zły? Francja i Brytania to były pierdoły, ale nie przesadzaj
@@CheddarMannn W ostatnich latach powszechne jest zjawisko polityki historycznej która ma na celu wybielenie niektórych krajów takich jak np niemcy. Moim zdaniem powinno się mówić prawdę a mało kto to robi. To tak jak z tresowaniem psa. Dasz mu przekąskę za to, że zrobił coś dobrego - tak ja staram się to robić komentarzami.
Never trust the UK and France. Love from Turkey❤
@@hirohitowithoutchins9822 You are right! BTW Thanks for Turkey for not accept partitions of Poland in 1772-1795 and help our people fight for freedom! Respect and greetings from Poland :)
@@hirohitowithoutchins9822 it would pretty much a waste of their resources and manpower.
Thank you for this video. Greetings from Poland.
Apologies from Britain xD
Greetings from Indonesia,southeast Asia
YES FROM FRANCE 🇫🇷🇮🇩
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This invasion was like: Team A: France, Britan and Poland. Team B: Germany. France: well I have to go bye Britan: ummm me too bye! *USSR has joined team B*
So basically the same thing today with Russia and Ukraine
Basically
@@spinningbackkick6021 not really. There are fundamental differences between the two. Numbers Civilians going to war Allied nations actually providing support Germany helping Ukraine not attacking it. There are many differences.
Not at all
HAH!! THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE!!
Not exactly...
Having both polish and German ancestry, it's a good thing SH has finally done a video on this. Despite being stabbed in the back by the West, the poles continued the fight alongside them. I heard that some polish resistance groups fought against Soviet post-war occupation well into the 1950s (aka "cursed soldiers")
Poland kept resisting Soviet puppet goverment till 1989. Sadly despite going away from communism, many rules and "bahaviors" stayed becouse thats what we know... Gona take a LOOOONG time before we go back fully to our own ways...
That's true. They were also called "cicho-ciemni": the silent ones.
They may had tanks and modern weapons, but we had a bear,,Wojtek'', that carried ammo for us
In Africa after polish exile
We also had Goliath land mine, ,,Błyskawica" automatic pistol, our own flamethrower, and even Tiger heavy tank for a while.
@@Admiral45-10 We also had a TKS z. N. K. M. 20 mm
Imagine being german on monte cassino and seeing that
Ja wiem (i know)
_Meanwhile in HOI4_ Me: **plays Germany** Me: **declares war on Poland** Poland: **Then proceeds to annex me**
Jeffry Battleburger You need to learn more.
Poland is so we am in hoi4 Hut the allies arme srrkng
Imagine if you were just chilling one day, and hear that your neighboring country has declared war on your country, and a few weeks later your country no longer exists.
Do the Warsaw uprising and the polish home front