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    It’s September 1st 1939 and war is once again rising in Europe. Germany has started the invasion of Poland and one of it’s first assaults is on the Polish Post office in the free city of Gdansk. 56 Postal workers and supporters are inside bracing themselves for the enemy. They face German SS and police supported by armored cars and artillery. It should be a one sided fight. But the determined resistance of the Poles keeps the Germans at bay for over fourteen hours.
    00:00 - German forces surround Gdansk Post Office
    01:55 - First German attack, WW2 starts
    03:37 - Flisykowski holds off the frontal attack
    04:07 - Germans blow up the wall, Guderski stops them
    05:21 - Germans retreat, stalemate sets in
    06:05 - German bring in the big guns, second German attack
    08:04 - Facade explosion, third German attack
    09:50 - Fire and gasoline
    10:47 - Tough decisions and fate of the survivors
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  • @samueldamuel1689
    @samueldamuel1689 9 місяців тому +7496

    What we have learned: Polish post offices are viable military fighting positions

    • @theotherohlourdespadua1131
      @theotherohlourdespadua1131 9 місяців тому +299

      The Irish proved that point before during the Easter Rising as one of the strongholds of that failed uprising is the Dublin Post Office...

    • @itsalmostfun8567
      @itsalmostfun8567 9 місяців тому +150

      Dude 75 mm shells hitting the office like its made out of thick concrete for bunkers

    • @MIMALECKIPL
      @MIMALECKIPL 9 місяців тому +111

      @@itsalmostfun8567 Those buildings are usually made to last

    • @sakariaskarlsson634
      @sakariaskarlsson634 9 місяців тому +41

      God its a damn post office you arent expected to hold off a military assault

    • @sakariaskarlsson634
      @sakariaskarlsson634 9 місяців тому +20

      Not that i mind if they do

  • @Momo_Kawashima
    @Momo_Kawashima 9 місяців тому +3694

    Took them 180 men, three armored cars, two 75mm guns, one 105mm gun, two explosive charges and a buttwagon of gasoline to fight 40 postmen in a span of 18 hours

    • @Arlington_Menendez
      @Arlington_Menendez 9 місяців тому +294

      Including 3 attempts to take the building 2 of the attempts they were pushed back.

    • @signs80
      @signs80 8 місяців тому +339

      The crazy part is that the postmen had largely pistols with a handful of rifles and 3 machine guns. They were not even close to armed like a standard military unit even.

    • @DonVetto-vx9dd
      @DonVetto-vx9dd 8 місяців тому +47

      Their tactics suck hard.

    • @Khornecussion
      @Khornecussion 6 місяців тому

      @@DonVetto-vx9dd What do you expect? They're SS. If the fight isn't lopsided enough that they can just walk in an execute you, they're useless.

    • @KrokLP
      @KrokLP 6 місяців тому +101

      ​@@DonVetto-vx9dd Ok Sergeant Major

  • @goose6.070
    @goose6.070 6 місяців тому +147

    "I don't care how many tanks you have THE MAIL IS GETTING DELIVERED"

  • @VlerkeDamne
    @VlerkeDamne 5 місяців тому +359

    Everyone is talking about history, but no one is appreciating the amazing animation and video quality that this guy produced. Absolutely amazing work 🙏

    • @Pvixroidz
      @Pvixroidz 2 місяці тому +2

      That’s why I’m saying

    • @Pvixroidz
      @Pvixroidz 2 місяці тому +2

      You don’t understand how long I have been searching for a comment like this

    • @Festivejelly
      @Festivejelly 28 днів тому

      Theres load of comments talking about the quality of the video, what are you on about?

  • @robloxlol672
    @robloxlol672 9 місяців тому +3756

    Never underestimate a local postman.

    • @Sparrta
      @Sparrta 9 місяців тому +29

      Willie Bethke - oh I will!

    • @RoevenWasHere
      @RoevenWasHere 9 місяців тому +13

      Here before this blows up

    • @gamerpig3057
      @gamerpig3057 9 місяців тому +9

      Here before this blows up

    • @maxbennett5412
      @maxbennett5412 9 місяців тому +16

      Forgot his name but look up paratroopers and the fat electrician and you will find one hell of an old postman and paratrooper.

    • @jasonlin9805
      @jasonlin9805 9 місяців тому +4

      Here before it blows up

  • @thecomputer9722
    @thecomputer9722 9 місяців тому +733

    Germans: "We have come to take over!"
    Polish Postmen: "You got a stamp?"

    • @ajohnymous5699
      @ajohnymous5699 5 місяців тому +21

      They went from Schitzstaffel to StampedStaffel in just a few hours

    • @misterhuman895
      @misterhuman895 3 місяці тому

      @@ajohnymous5699 you mean Schutzstaffel

    • @tomasz8614
      @tomasz8614 29 днів тому

      @@misterhuman895shitstaffel

    • @misterhuman895
      @misterhuman895 29 днів тому

      @@tomasz8614 Scheissestaffel*

    • @ac4694
      @ac4694 11 днів тому

      XDDDDD

  • @billy4734
    @billy4734 9 місяців тому +397

    "A lot of respect" doesn't begin to show how much respect I have for the Polish.
    Niech żyje Polska!

  • @tomaszzbikowaty2854
    @tomaszzbikowaty2854 8 місяців тому +152

    Dark fact: The judges who sentenced surviving defenders who capitulated to be executed after the WW2 were a respected and well paid lawyers and they never were punished for this warcrime...

    • @_1_05_
      @_1_05_ 3 місяці тому +1

      Can’t do much against the law you know…

    • @SzymonPmc
      @SzymonPmc Місяць тому +3

      @@_1_05_ Nuremberg defense

    • @_1_05_
      @_1_05_ 21 день тому

      @@SzymonPmc yeah but that’s different since those figures were largely known and didn’t deny any claims

    • @cristiancastro8734
      @cristiancastro8734 16 днів тому +1

      Eran soldados polacos disfrazados de carteros, por lo tanto, fueron tratados como saboteadores

  • @Big_E_Soul_Fragment
    @Big_E_Soul_Fragment 9 місяців тому +902

    Postmen decided to deliver them SS to hell instead.

    • @MackingCheese99
      @MackingCheese99 9 місяців тому +66

      Metal as fuck sentence

    • @Dokimoments
      @Dokimoments 9 місяців тому +17

      Real

    • @Big_E_Soul_Fragment
      @Big_E_Soul_Fragment 9 місяців тому +13

      @@Dokimoments Ah I see you're a man of The Force as well.

    • @intothevoid5074
      @intothevoid5074 9 місяців тому +42

      Poczta Polska: Now delivering to Hell, Same day shipping.

    • @nerveaxel8164
      @nerveaxel8164 9 місяців тому +15

      Same day shipping

  • @Historical-mi8hd
    @Historical-mi8hd 9 місяців тому +1731

    It's heartbreaking to see how hard they tried but only little survived. The animations are getting better and more detailed

    • @user-kr7yh8vw9m
      @user-kr7yh8vw9m 9 місяців тому +75

      I absolutely agree, it was agonizing knowing that the Germans would have killed them regardless of having surrendered or not and Yarnub has impressed us as always with these obscure events.

    • @kieranadamson3224
      @kieranadamson3224 9 місяців тому

      It shows a large part of the horror of WW2. Both sides, but particularly the Axis, are guilty of confirmed stories of horrific treatment of civilians and surrendered soldiers such as rapes or being shot during surrender respectively as well as unconfirmed stories of the same or similar crimes on larger scales. This war truly brought the devil out in humanity.

    • @zbigniewmalec4816
      @zbigniewmalec4816 9 місяців тому

      To make things even worse - Yarnhub mentions sham trial. They were convicted and executed by the Germans. This trial was invalidated only in the late '80s after long and protracted process. It's really hard to explain why the German Courts were taking so long to resolve it.

    • @TheRealToast0
      @TheRealToast0 9 місяців тому +6

      “The only way to make it happen is if the people are who they are in the a lot of the people that you know are in a lot more than people that are in a big group and you don’t have to be a big group to make a decision and then they have a big group that they can talk about it and they have a lot of people who have a huge group that they is interested in and that is what I they have a huge community and they want to "that was random clicking

    • @winter15motivation44
      @winter15motivation44 9 місяців тому

      They don't have any combat experience why german has losses

  • @collaborisgaming2190
    @collaborisgaming2190 6 місяців тому +54

    3:15 fun fact about the Polish Mosins: they fired 7.92 Mauser, the Same ammo the Germans used, many were WW1 Era Mosins rechambered. the Poles had thier own Mausers too because they Inherited parts of the German Empire's Industry.

    • @303films4
      @303films4 5 місяців тому +2

      Glad you covered this my friend! Very good thing to mention.

    • @aleksandersokal5279
      @aleksandersokal5279 5 місяців тому +1

      Polish army mostly used Mauser rifles of Polish production in the early war.

    • @303films4
      @303films4 5 місяців тому +1

      @@aleksandersokal5279 Ofc, the standard rifle for the Polish army was the Kb wz.98a (gewehr 98) in 1939.

    • @collaborisgaming2190
      @collaborisgaming2190 5 місяців тому +1

      @@aleksandersokal5279 especially after they couldn't get any more Mausers for Mosins from the Finnish and using old Mauser Factories made polish production Mauser rifles.
      Early Polish Army pre-war focused on fielding 8mm Mauser shooting weapons and with their Russian Imperial mosin stock traded Finland for Mausers received from Germany during the Finnish Civil War which was how the Poles got So many K98AZs which they inevitably Used in WW2 because the AZs were Fire, in fact the K98K was just a modernized AZ in all intents and Purpose, Stormtrooper Vets must have asked for it in the new Wehrmacht by 1935.
      I bet they used some AZ factory tooling to pump out thier Carbines, they were already fielding G98 variants called 98As based on the German G98. 98As 1925s (mosins firing Mauser ammo), 1929s were based on the K98K but were Straight bolt.
      lol, now I want a Polish 8mm Mauser Mosin (Karabinek 91/98/25) so badly, It can mount both Russian and German Bayonets and I wonder if you could mount both at the Same time to make some Cursed COD Melee build gun.

    • @303films4
      @303films4 5 місяців тому

      @@collaborisgaming2190 You probably couldn't mount two bayonets at the same time xD. Maybe if you modified the bayonet lug to hold to bayonets, but that would just be destroying the historical piece, and since it's Polish, it's rarer to get. I personally own a Wz.29, not a real one, but a pretty damn good replica! It does consist some original parts though. Absolutely great detail for my Polish 1939 uniform. Appreciate the information! Glad someone else is interested in the Polish armoury genesis.

  • @mpingo91
    @mpingo91 8 місяців тому +86

    I don't know if it was mentioned (I skipped a bit in the film) but just in case: the Germans doused a ten-year-old girl, Erwina Barzychowska, with gasoline and set her on fire with a flamethrower.
    She survived those flames, but then died intentionally untreated by German doctors in the Gdansk City Hospital *for seven weeks* ...

    • @blinkstar9013
      @blinkstar9013 Місяць тому +14

      pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwina_Barzychowska

    • @orwell1823
      @orwell1823 Місяць тому +3

      @@blinkstar9013 seems nothing is there.

    • @EliuSosa22-
      @EliuSosa22- Місяць тому

      She died in her defense of the post office ​@@orwell1823

    • @PlHitman
      @PlHitman Місяць тому +7

      pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwina_Barzychowska

    • @midgetarmy1921
      @midgetarmy1921 Місяць тому

      @@orwell1823 Just read it, what are you talking about?

  • @visassess8607
    @visassess8607 9 місяців тому +2808

    The Poles deserve a lot more attention and respect for their service in WW2.

    • @alanmeasures8337
      @alanmeasures8337 9 місяців тому +99

      So right we had great polish pilots in the royal air force part of the few

    • @yamatokurusaki5790
      @yamatokurusaki5790 9 місяців тому +43

      meanwhile czechoslovaks and other nations

    • @jimtaylor294
      @jimtaylor294 9 місяців тому +58

      The Greeks & Yugoslavs: "You guys get attention?"

    • @bobolobocus333
      @bobolobocus333 9 місяців тому +33

      @@alanmeasures8337 "Never before was so much owed to so few"

    • @alanmeasures8337
      @alanmeasures8337 9 місяців тому +5

      @@bobolobocus333 Agreed

  • @endutubecensorship
    @endutubecensorship 9 місяців тому +420

    3:29 The Vis 35 Radom pistol with the Polish eagle is an amazing attention to detail, well done!!

    • @tomaccino
      @tomaccino 6 місяців тому +11

      When I read they use Unreal Engine to animate, they surely did justice for everyone on that faithful day!

  • @STRACHU100
    @STRACHU100 6 місяців тому +56

    among civilians inside the Post Office there was a 10 year old girl- Erwina Barzychowska. After surrender, germans soaked her with gasoline and set on fire- she was dying for 3 weeks...

    • @fuxihutterer8088
      @fuxihutterer8088 5 місяців тому +7

      hahahahahahahahh good propaganda

    • @STRACHU100
      @STRACHU100 5 місяців тому +36

      @@fuxihutterer8088 she was the first child vicim of 2nd WW, well documented case...

    • @STRACHU100
      @STRACHU100 5 місяців тому +37

      @@fuxihutterer8088 I am surprised you choose to laugh at it.... give us something to think about your compassion

    • @xmaciejxxx
      @xmaciejxxx Місяць тому +6

      pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwina_Barzychowska

    • @lukasz.adamski
      @lukasz.adamski Місяць тому

      ​@@fuxihutterer8088You can read it in your own language, nazi:
      de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwina_Barzychowska

  • @Izannaziza
    @Izannaziza 5 місяців тому +11

    I am a Jamaican and if you know my history then you know. I have been to Poland a few times Gdansk too. If I was to chose which European I like the most I think it would be the Poles because they remind me of my people, always someone who wants to destroy them, enslave them and take their lands but they always fought and survived. I also read a story (hidden history) as a kid that during the napoleonic wars napoleon sent some Polish men/soldiers to Haiti to quash the slave uprising. Those same Polish soldiers ended up joining the slaves to fight Napoleons men who wanted to continue denying freedom. Poles know the true meaning of freedom. You might think don’t mess with America, China, Russia but I say don’t mess with people who know the TRUE meaning of freedom, the Polish people. Besides, I like their food too.

  • @CharlieH99
    @CharlieH99 9 місяців тому +1037

    One of my teachers grandfather took part in defence of Gdańsk post office. He never spoke much about that(which is completely understandable, we were just his students) but every time he mentioned it i could see sadness on his face. Long live the memory of our heroes.

    • @zurielsss
      @zurielsss 8 місяців тому +13

      He is one of the 4 who survived?

    • @CharlieH99
      @CharlieH99 7 місяців тому +28

      @@zurielsss unfortunately not

    • @CharlieH99
      @CharlieH99 7 місяців тому +28

      @@zurielsss according to wikipedia he died on 4th of september in hospital

    • @OddlyStrange117
      @OddlyStrange117 6 місяців тому +4

      @@CharlieH99 Who was he?

    • @mareksicinski3726
      @mareksicinski3726 6 місяців тому +5

      thatd be a crazy coindeicne

  • @user-rp2kf5rr4l
    @user-rp2kf5rr4l 9 місяців тому +2296

    It’s very surprising of how the polish army can fight against the strong German army for such a long time, respect

    • @BaguettePair
      @BaguettePair 9 місяців тому +14

      Ok

    • @VMan29397
      @VMan29397 9 місяців тому +242

      They lost not because of a lack of heart but because of lack of equipment. If they were on par with the Germans in terms of equipment you might have seen a much different outcome

    • @noahburch3026
      @noahburch3026 9 місяців тому +33

      W polish

    • @neftalimorales5449
      @neftalimorales5449 9 місяців тому +74

      ​@@VMan29397if only instead of lend leasing the Soviets we would've land leased the Poles

    • @tu7765
      @tu7765 9 місяців тому +10

      ​@@neftalimorales5449How?

  • @drrisen-9442
    @drrisen-9442 9 місяців тому +42

    As an American postal worker, I salute my polish brothers in postal satchels (and arms apparently.)

  • @PrimarisBlackTemplaDraven
    @PrimarisBlackTemplaDraven 6 місяців тому +7

    Instead of mail they're delivering the pain.

    • @Terrabloxia
      @Terrabloxia 6 місяців тому +2

      and the guns ''Pew Pew''

  • @URLhandlesareidiotic
    @URLhandlesareidiotic 9 місяців тому +538

    Those warship shots was from the Old German pre-dreadnought Schleswig-Holstein. She was credited as the first shots fired of The Second World War.

    • @carrott36
      @carrott36 9 місяців тому +46

      The first shots fired in anger of the first world war was Australian Coastal Artillery firing warning shots at a German ship that was in port when the war started.

    • @longiusaescius2537
      @longiusaescius2537 9 місяців тому

      Huh

    • @kippert8912
      @kippert8912 9 місяців тому +1

      I thought the actual invasion started the day before

    • @carrott36
      @carrott36 9 місяців тому +3

      @@kippert8912Yes, but she bombarded several targets when the war began.

    • @bruhism173
      @bruhism173 9 місяців тому +3

      You all have missed mark Felton's actual Start of WW2

  • @Para_MimeProductions
    @Para_MimeProductions 9 місяців тому +789

    That final photo of all of the captured people is so heart wrenching. They were so helpless. You look and the photo and can only imagine the fear they had

    • @utrock5067
      @utrock5067 9 місяців тому +18

      And don't forget this view as this is also what's happening in Ukraine.

    • @Para_MimeProductions
      @Para_MimeProductions 9 місяців тому +38

      @@utrock5067 yes, and it happens in every war. It’s just horrible what we humans do to each other. There was the c0nc3ntration c@mps, the gas of WW1, the nuclear weapon. There is so much more that we could do, and it’s just so sad to think that none of us can get along.

    • @UN-BIASED
      @UN-BIASED 9 місяців тому +46

      @@utrock5067 do not ever compare ww2 with the ukraine war lmao

    • @utrock5067
      @utrock5067 9 місяців тому +15

      @@UN-BIASEDwhy's that ? Everyone's been comparing putin to adolf enough times already.

    • @masterchief-vd1xs
      @masterchief-vd1xs 9 місяців тому +8

      ​@@UN-BIASEDwhy not? There are some similarities. Parts of the donbas are primarily russian, Danzig was to 95% German and wanted back

  • @theyedmeister6981
    @theyedmeister6981 6 місяців тому +12

    I guess you could say...........
    They went postal

  • @TheSnailfeeder
    @TheSnailfeeder 6 місяців тому +6

    Imagine being the poor mf that gets shot minutes into a war, by a mailman.

  • @kozmonauta0515
    @kozmonauta0515 9 місяців тому +797

    I love how the SS’s first recorded military action was them failing to take a post office, having to beg for canons three times from the Wehrmacht, and execute unarmed men and civilians to compesate for their fragile ego

    • @kaa13
      @kaa13 6 місяців тому +38

      To be "fair" ,that was "only" some kind of militia that could not compare with any unit of the regular army in an actual battle.

    • @mareksicinski3726
      @mareksicinski3726 6 місяців тому +70

      there was some stuff in western poland too they were criticized for; the waffen-ss in 1939 were very green and worse quality militarily than after, at the time they werent rly even fitting; they mostly were 'behind the lines' in 1939
      Note the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe were also committing atrocities in 1939

    • @fuxihutterer8088
      @fuxihutterer8088 5 місяців тому

      what warcrimes@@mareksicinski3726

    • @piotrmalewski8178
      @piotrmalewski8178 5 місяців тому +25

      @@kaa13 To be fair, SS received very poor military training initially and done a lot of stupid, unprofessional actions in 1939 while those postment were military veterans.

    • @EricSoldadito
      @EricSoldadito 5 місяців тому +4

      I would like to see you trying to fight partisans who knew all their locations and lived all time there, I would like to see you trying, you say SS had a fragile ego, but what about you? What would you had done if you was in that situation? Very easy to critize the side which lost.

  • @FinleyLengel-rp2bm
    @FinleyLengel-rp2bm 9 місяців тому +341

    I love how this channel one from 2-D animation to realistic, 3-D animation, let alone producing them once a week Your team is doing great and I know for a fact my post office would not do anything like this

  • @jimhorton1271
    @jimhorton1271 6 місяців тому +9

    people actually saying "But the germans tactics sucked" and "But the germans weren't defended and had equal equipment" Probably don't know how defending a building from with Light artillery works. did you miss the part were there were only a hand full really defending. Those people were Polish heros and some people think its ok to belittle them like come on guys.

  • @dougwilliams8145
    @dougwilliams8145 6 місяців тому +7

    WARSAW CITY AT WAR HELP THAT NEVER CAME WAR SAW CITY AT WAR …

  • @karazanic
    @karazanic 9 місяців тому +676

    As a Pole i'm incredibly proud you guys decided to animate this event. Thank you.
    If there is any chance for it, i hope you will consider telling the story of Westerplatte too, as just like the post office defense, is an event that started WW2, and happened in the same city, at the same time.

    • @CombatFlapjack
      @CombatFlapjack 9 місяців тому +1

      ww2, bro.

    • @karazanic
      @karazanic 9 місяців тому +13

      @@CombatFlapjack I pressed the wrong number and didn't notice, my bad bro

    • @HenriMarcinkowski
      @HenriMarcinkowski 6 місяців тому +2

      Us poles got to stick together

    • @gloriamori7027
      @gloriamori7027 6 місяців тому +1

      Im Pole too.

    • @lordpazo6784
      @lordpazo6784 6 місяців тому +4

      Imo, Hel defense was more impressive. Westerplatte surrendered prematurely while Hel fought until the last days of the Polish invasion. they held out longer then cities like Warsaw

  • @unclenogbad1509
    @unclenogbad1509 9 місяців тому +553

    As a UK Postman, I salute my comrades here, heroes all.

    • @danyalmemish6309
      @danyalmemish6309 5 місяців тому +4

      Me too 👍

    • @Suchoj022
      @Suchoj022 5 місяців тому +1

      Thanx for that.

    • @magicalsteve2530
      @magicalsteve2530 5 місяців тому +8

      no way the royal mail would resist

    • @jordanhicks5131
      @jordanhicks5131 4 місяці тому +4

      ​@@magicalsteve2530they fell to the IRA in 1916

    • @derkylos
      @derkylos Місяць тому

      The Germans marked British post offices as valuable targets for Operation Sealion.

  • @brightace19
    @brightace19 2 місяці тому +6

    1:55 I have never seen a transition that good, hats off to you and the editors. Really great idea putting your video thumbnails / video inside a video 🎉🎉🎉

  • @robindranathmitra2987
    @robindranathmitra2987 5 місяців тому +3

    I am so glad to have stumbled upon your page. You have done what I always wanted to do. Cheers.

  • @Scooter-kx3ic
    @Scooter-kx3ic 9 місяців тому +503

    It amazes me how your animation keeps getting better every time you post. I’ve been watching since the original video of the ye old pub incident.

    • @maxbennett5412
      @maxbennett5412 9 місяців тому +1

      Pretty much the same as you and I agree.

    • @shoeofobama6091
      @shoeofobama6091 9 місяців тому

      the animation of this is truly amazing

    • @rs_SlavikK
      @rs_SlavikK 9 місяців тому

      My first video of them was the 2d German aircraft who escorted an beaten American into their airspace, which has been remade in 3d a year or so later

    • @Ozzianman
      @Ozzianman 9 місяців тому +1

      I want the old style back. This does not work with the janky animations and just crashes into the uncanny valley for me. It worked with the old style.

    • @FinlandBall227
      @FinlandBall227 9 місяців тому

      @@Ozzianman old style is nostalgic but i mean come one, the new ones are so much better

  • @csbanki
    @csbanki 9 місяців тому +429

    No matter how many stories I hear about Polish people, I'm always amazed by their courage and determination!
    Long live Poland, greetings from Hungary!

    • @cyber_habanero
      @cyber_habanero 8 місяців тому

      Yea, then read about the Polnish agression-wars they conducted on all their neighbors between 1918-1921. Nationalistic Poland was never a nice and peaceful nation. And today Polnish PiS-party is on the same way to dictatorship like Orban and Putin, dreaming of an imperialist greater Poland again.

    • @P0CZT0WY1
      @P0CZT0WY1 5 місяців тому +8

      Thanks bro

    • @pablothorn3591
      @pablothorn3591 5 місяців тому +6

      Thank you brother

    • @paulinasieron9261
      @paulinasieron9261 4 місяці тому +2

      Thank you sir, and Just fyi we r seriously fcked up when it comes to fight i was rised same way as my forefathers were and im doing the same thing for my kids.

    • @jimcady9309
      @jimcady9309 4 місяці тому

      I'm sorry that you have to deal with your own homegrown fascism now. Oh, excuse me. "illiberal democracy".

  • @youtubeadsarecancer785
    @youtubeadsarecancer785 6 місяців тому +3

    the SS charged in the main entrance like NPC in Payday LOL

  • @tomaszkazmierski7101
    @tomaszkazmierski7101 Місяць тому +1

    Great job! Thank you for memorizing this heroic episode!

  • @nayed7670
    @nayed7670 9 місяців тому +65

    I loved how yarnhub made the polish salute right(with two fingers)

  • @CT--eb2xr
    @CT--eb2xr 9 місяців тому +101

    This reminds me a bit of an event that happened in Czechoslovakia on March 14. 1939 during the occupation by German troops. A detachment of soldiers in the town of Místek refused to hand over the barracks to the Germans, and a similar battle broke out there. The Czechoslovaks surrendered there only after they ran out of ammunition and an order from the high command.

    • @mpingo91
      @mpingo91 8 місяців тому +4

      This was shown on one of the popular channels about ww2. Mark Felton Productions probably?

  • @PitBit
    @PitBit 4 місяці тому +1

    Very nice video with carefully reproduced details consistent with historical truth. The story selection is also well chosen. It was great to watch.

  • @benm6457
    @benm6457 4 місяці тому +1

    This channel is so damn good. Can’t believe I just found it. Keep up this damn good work!

  • @ArktinenPeikko
    @ArktinenPeikko 9 місяців тому +153

    As a war history and random trivia nerd I really appreciate these precious nuggets of war trivia and small stories of past heroes. I had never even heard of this particular one. Thank you.

    • @jamesanderson7243
      @jamesanderson7243 9 місяців тому

      Same

    • @amadeosendiulo2137
      @amadeosendiulo2137 9 місяців тому +6

      It's a major historical event in the Polish historiography.

    • @jamesanderson7243
      @jamesanderson7243 9 місяців тому +1

      @@amadeosendiulo2137 I felt like the story sounded familiar

    • @ArktinenPeikko
      @ArktinenPeikko 7 місяців тому

      @@amadeosendiulo2137 I figured it would be, and didn't mean it in any demeaning way. As a whole though, this would still be a one small siege during a huge war, pretty much like some random battle during winter war was for us Finns.

    • @piotrmalewski8178
      @piotrmalewski8178 5 місяців тому +2

      Then you'll like this: Something like mentioned in 4:28 happened on much bigger scale. The defence of Chocim fortress in 1672 against invasion from Ottoman Empire was given to Jerzy Michał Wołodyjowski despite his lack of knowledge on fortress defence, because he was the only trusted officer who agreed to defend a fortress in such a bad shape.
      Spending his own funds, he recruited a little over 1000 soldiers and 500 civilians to defend the fortress while he needed at least 8 000 to cover the walls. He also lacked modern artillery and engineers. Regardless, he managed to halt Ottoman army for 19 days and at one point, when Turks blew up an unguarded part of the wall, he ran there and fought the Turkish attack alone before just one more nobleman joined him and the two managed to repel the assault with bombs and muskets they had prepared at the position.
      He managed to negotiate with the Turks that they would let the civilians leave the city free and unharmed, and shortly after an artillery officer from Courland blasted to the armory with a torch, killing himself, Colonel Wołodyjowski and the fortress' defenders. Folk myth is that Colonel didn't want to give fortress to the enemy and wanted the event to 'wake the nation' since it all happened because the Republic neglected funding of the army and fortifications for decades.

  • @johnbertrand4135
    @johnbertrand4135 9 місяців тому +888

    As part German and part Polish, I should feel convicted, but I proud for the Poles not surrendering at first

    • @maxbennett5412
      @maxbennett5412 9 місяців тому +72

      Regardless of ancestry I think a last stand like that is just impressive.

    • @johnbertrand4135
      @johnbertrand4135 9 місяців тому +37

      Oh I agree full heartedly @@maxbennett5412 Just seeing the Polish soldiers fighting without help from the Main Army was amazing. I just know I'm part Polish and Part German

    • @ryleeculla5570
      @ryleeculla5570 9 місяців тому +25

      You know what they say NEVER SURRENDER

    • @jed-henrywitkowski6470
      @jed-henrywitkowski6470 9 місяців тому +2

      Invade the neighbors or see if they need a painter.

    • @minirock000
      @minirock000 9 місяців тому +14

      "convicted" = "conflicted"
      "proud" = "glad/happy/comradery for" in this instance. Be proud of things you have accomplished, not what others have.
      Only attempting to assist with your vocabulary to make your point clearer.

  • @nickhaynie5980
    @nickhaynie5980 6 місяців тому +22

    This Marines says "Oorah, to all those brave Polish postman!" May they rest in peace.

    • @jude8223
      @jude8223 2 місяці тому

      My Polish grandmother came to America at age 13. She often spoke of the well-known bravery of the Polish soldiers in World War II.

  • @CookedLikeaCookie
    @CookedLikeaCookie 6 місяців тому +4

    Remember to thank a postal worker for their service

  • @rts718
    @rts718 9 місяців тому +38

    I visited this post office by accident while I was in Poland. The monument outside is hands-down one of the coolest and most powerful that I've ever seen!

  • @obeliks_potowski
    @obeliks_potowski 9 місяців тому +19

    I live in Gdańsk and i was there a few days ago. It's still a post office

  • @Poopshit420
    @Poopshit420 5 місяців тому +2

    If Poland was just a speed bump then it was one of those really gnarly speed bumps where you’ve gotta look and see if the check engine light is on afterwards.

  • @justovadiz1786
    @justovadiz1786 6 місяців тому

    Great cinematography and story telling.
    Amazing quality! Great job! Thank you for your amazing work!

  • @E_GG_O
    @E_GG_O 9 місяців тому +183

    I can't believe how the animation graphics are so life like, and you guys make a video quite consistently. Good job😐👍

  • @Wanderer628
    @Wanderer628 9 місяців тому +102

    Amazing how even so early in the war, the SS and regular German army were so quick to commit war crimes.

    • @zbigniewmalec4816
      @zbigniewmalec4816 9 місяців тому +31

      First war crime was shooting down railwaymen near the bridge in Tczew (Dirschau). This attack was actually done 30 minutes earlier than opening shots in Gdańsk.

    • @carstenstille8503
      @carstenstille8503 9 місяців тому +4

      Did you heard of the Bromberg Bloody Sunday?

    • @mikoajbaczynski3733
      @mikoajbaczynski3733 9 місяців тому +9

      ​@@carstenstille8503
      About that one evening when a retreating Polish army singlehandely executed 50 000 Germans in a single town? Yes, I did.

    • @mikoajbaczynski3733
      @mikoajbaczynski3733 9 місяців тому +11

      To be fair, the killings in Bromberg did take place, even though they were in no way as severe as the German propaganda said they were and simply cannot justify the extent of German atrocities.

    • @moscuadelendaest
      @moscuadelendaest 9 місяців тому +5

      @@mikoajbaczynski3733 no no, it was a platoon, and they shot 150 000 Germans

  • @AlexMilenk
    @AlexMilenk 5 місяців тому +2

    Never hear about this before, great thanks for the info, and great respect for the postmen of Gdansk. Even if WW2 was so thoroughly popular and examined event, every now and then resurface some little, unknown, utterly heroic event like this.

  • @liammiller1472
    @liammiller1472 6 місяців тому +4

    I really thought this was a video game cut scene, I had to check

  • @derkaiser420
    @derkaiser420 9 місяців тому +80

    Huge respect. Imagine getting burned out and still wanting to fight. Great animation as per usual.

  • @ELCADAROSA
    @ELCADAROSA 9 місяців тому +69

    Very late delivery, but worth every second.
    While Poles have been the butt of many jokes over the years, the stand that these men made, and the numerous contributions the Poles (military and civilian) made to win WWII haven’t been given enough credit until recently.
    Congratulations to YarnHub for another outstanding video.

    • @mareksicinski449
      @mareksicinski449 3 місяці тому

      in america, it wasn't even really 'the poles', stereotypes at best abt polish-americans

  • @AnAbsurdExistence
    @AnAbsurdExistence 2 місяці тому +1

    brings a tear to my eye, what a commendable holdout against such an overwhelming force

  • @craigwilliams7635
    @craigwilliams7635 5 місяців тому +1

    I have read about WW2, both theaters, for decades. I have never heard of this. Amazing.

  • @fordson51
    @fordson51 9 місяців тому +56

    Just when I think your work can't get any better, you prove that you can do better. Incredible story and one that should be remembered.

    • @P1gga
      @P1gga 6 місяців тому

      It just a joke, thats uncompareble with Soviet soldiers in Stalingrad and Belarusian partisans...

  • @HH-pm6mj
    @HH-pm6mj 9 місяців тому +49

    The details on the people’s faces are nothing short of incredible. You guy’s animation gets better per video. I admire the skill :)

  • @yaneyobe3147
    @yaneyobe3147 9 місяців тому +4

    Just discovered this channel, never subbed so quickly to anyone, top job on story telling and animations 👍

  • @moniqueena2279
    @moniqueena2279 6 місяців тому +3

    Imagine getting your whole fucking platoon get destroyed by a polish post officer with a LMG single handedly.

  • @major_kukri2430
    @major_kukri2430 9 місяців тому +24

    Don't mess with the mailmen. They know where everyone lives.

  • @JulianSki
    @JulianSki 9 місяців тому +68

    I am so glad that you guys covered these heroes. It’s a last stand that’s not talked about a lot and what they did was amazing! ❤️🇵🇱

  • @WasntYourFaultYouHaveToLetMeGo
    @WasntYourFaultYouHaveToLetMeGo 9 місяців тому +3

    I guess you could say the postmen went... Postal.

  • @masterblaster5947
    @masterblaster5947 4 місяці тому +1

    You guys are amazing and worked very hard for your work; wish I discovered your channel sooner.
    You definitely have a new subscriber from me and definitely going to spread the word about you

  • @Artur_M.
    @Artur_M. 9 місяців тому +29

    It's great to see you cover another Polish episode of WW2! There are plenty more you could do in the future, like the defence of Westerplatte, which was hinted at in this very video at 1:50. But the one I would love to see the most, and I think would be perfect for this channel, is the liberation of the KL Warschau (Warsaw concentration camp) aka "Gęsiówka", on 5 August 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising. It includes the insurgents successfully using a captured Panther tank.

    • @drdaveyjones6216
      @drdaveyjones6216 9 місяців тому +4

      Would love to see them cover the Polish actions at Monte Cassino, and the Falaise pocket.

    • @ldkbudda4176
      @ldkbudda4176 3 місяці тому

      What about occupation, pseudo-referendum and annexation of the Capital of Lithuania Vilnius? Same pseudoreferendum did Putin in the Crimea, Ukraine!

  • @kommandantgalileo
    @kommandantgalileo 9 місяців тому +15

    Note: The Armored Cars in this video is the Steyr ADGZ

    • @winter15motivation44
      @winter15motivation44 8 місяців тому

      Good

    • @thegamer1429
      @thegamer1429 8 місяців тому

      I’ve never heard of those armored cars

    • @kommandantgalileo
      @kommandantgalileo 8 місяців тому

      @@thegamer1429 I haven't before this video, I just decided to search up German Armored Cars of WW2 and found it.

    • @KrokLP
      @KrokLP 6 місяців тому

      They are Austrian vehicles that saw service in the German army after the Anschluß

    • @kommandantgalileo
      @kommandantgalileo 6 місяців тому

      @@KrokLP yup

  • @troybaxter
    @troybaxter 14 днів тому +3

    You can say these men went POSTAL

  • @TheMambojack
    @TheMambojack 6 місяців тому +1

    my grandpa took a part in the attack and then defense of the commissariat of Nice, France. I feel like a connection between those two event in a spirit of defiance against an unjust authority, beautiful video

  • @LuigianoMariano
    @LuigianoMariano 9 місяців тому +8

    Salty Germans: That is *PERFIDY!!* THEY ARE *UNLAWFUL COMBATANTS!!*
    Polish: You're just mad that you got owned by veterans who work for the post office.

    • @KrokLP
      @KrokLP 6 місяців тому

      Lie all you want, but they were fighting illegally as trained militia by a nationalistic Polish army officer

    • @randomnobodovsky3692
      @randomnobodovsky3692 6 місяців тому +1

      @@KrokLP So, we have a neo-nazi here, claiming uniformed postmen were somehow "illegall" defending from invaders. Weird times.

    • @KrokLP
      @KrokLP 6 місяців тому +1

      @@randomnobodovsky3692 Then check out what the "Neo-Nazis" that wrote the geneva convention had to say about un-uniformed combatants

  • @muzlikutya2183
    @muzlikutya2183 6 місяців тому

    Incredibly nicely done video.
    Keep up the good work folks!

  • @WowplayerMe
    @WowplayerMe 8 місяців тому +3

    Now we know the origin of "Going Postal".

  • @american357
    @american357 9 місяців тому +47

    Finally! :D
    Thanks Yarnhub, I've been looking up to finally being able to watch this video that you guys have been preparing for the last couple of weeks.
    I'm sure It'll be spectacular and the quality will be as outstanding as always 😉

  • @harry170183
    @harry170183 9 місяців тому +12

    There is a movie about the defence of the Polish Post Office "Wolne Miasto" from 1958, directed by Stanislaw Rozewicz - same man, who directed another war movie "Westerplatte" in 1967. Both worth seeing, can be found on YT.

  • @BlanderStrudel
    @BlanderStrudel 6 місяців тому +1

    This new thumbnail and title are much better than the previous one, well done! I must admit that before seeing this video, I was not attracted to the previous thmbnail and title. Then, after watching the video, I realized I totally underestimated it.

  • @Axis-allies4728
    @Axis-allies4728 9 місяців тому +10

    5:03 has me dying

  • @MeIsNoob48
    @MeIsNoob48 9 місяців тому +37

    If i had a nickel for every time a Postmen/Courier was able to hold off a group that's way stronger than them I'd have 2 nickels
    Which isn't much but it's weird that it happened twice

    • @ryanmccolloch4734
      @ryanmccolloch4734 5 місяців тому +6

      Seeing the price of stamps today almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

  • @killer17545
    @killer17545 Місяць тому +1

    Thank you for your work.

  • @Tjbilo
    @Tjbilo 5 місяців тому +3

    I love how your animations have improved over time

  • @Thomassdoor
    @Thomassdoor 9 місяців тому +31

    It’s amazing how fast the production quality on these amazing videos has gone up. I would love to see remakes of some of the old sabaton music videos with these new models and stuff (specifically night witches because I lived that one.) Keep up the great work Yarnhub!

  • @dominicevans2541
    @dominicevans2541 9 місяців тому +36

    it is crazy how far yarnhub's animation skills have come. they were amazing before but now.. they are deserving as cutscenes in a video game. bravo

  • @user-zp3tn3np1y
    @user-zp3tn3np1y 6 місяців тому +3

    The BAR rifles couldn't have been used by the Poles as pictured here. They are the FBI pattern 'Colt Monitor' rifles, and wouldn't be produced until the 1950s. They were produced in small quantities, and quickly replaced in police arsenals. (You can tell they're Monitors because of the pistol grip and extruded foregrip. The barrel should also be shorter, with a large compensator at the end.)

    • @spyczech
      @spyczech 6 місяців тому

      i assumed they were czech guns, which the colt monitor is derived from

  • @P1gga
    @P1gga 6 місяців тому +2

    Soviet soldier in Stalingrad and Belarusian partisan: Hold my beer lil bro!)

  • @Panzernumbawan
    @Panzernumbawan 9 місяців тому +23

    damn yarnhub you've really stepped it up with your animation, nice work!

  • @bkayser05
    @bkayser05 9 місяців тому +5

    Never underestimate a postal employee. It's surprising but many post offices in the US used to hold weapons as a federal building until around the 1970s. Retired letter carriers I know used to mention how they were still locked up into the 1980s. If it's true in the US, it would absolutely be the same in Europe.
    Great job but not surprising for Poles, they were incredibly brave and never backed down in World War 2, despite being frequently outgunned and outmanned.

    • @mareksicinski3726
      @mareksicinski3726 6 місяців тому

      it was a special case there, bc there was fear of brinkmanship/small scale attacxk or provocation in nazi party ruled Danzig

  • @Gabriel-re3le
    @Gabriel-re3le 3 місяці тому +2

    Dziękuję że poruszyłeś temat obrony poczty Gdańskiej
    Chwała bohaterom

  • @LesangdesdieuX
    @LesangdesdieuX Місяць тому

    The animation is pretty awesome especially the facial expressions well done !

  • @stevemc01
    @stevemc01 9 місяців тому +7

    This animation feels more like a real camera-recorded documentary with drone complements.

  • @vikes7to14
    @vikes7to14 9 місяців тому +14

    This is 100% the best animation yet. It gets better and better every video. I love the story too, but what a sad end for such a noble leader.

  • @chemplay866
    @chemplay866 5 місяців тому +1

    5:03 "🙁"-proper reaction to a grenade

  • @TerraFungus
    @TerraFungus 6 місяців тому +5

    Thanks you from Poland, you does great job in that film.
    And take my sub ;)

  • @Tobi_1301
    @Tobi_1301 9 місяців тому +23

    How can you still increase the intensity and quality of this animations?
    It feels nearly as if I was in the post office myself, running across hallways with the poles, fighting off the SS!
    Your animations are so amazing, I dont even know a word for that!
    Keep it going! Please!

  • @speedy_comet
    @speedy_comet 9 місяців тому +7

    Don't mess with the mailman.

  • @jasonknoll5170
    @jasonknoll5170 9 місяців тому

    How do you guys manage to improve production quality with every single release?? You guys are amazing

  • @Hatchet1
    @Hatchet1 7 місяців тому +4

    6:35 he becomes one with the car

    • @TheTanker
      @TheTanker 6 місяців тому

      lmao i saw that too

  • @alpacaofthemountain8760
    @alpacaofthemountain8760 9 місяців тому +12

    Absolute heroes. O7
    One of your best videos, these “small” battle -focused videos are amazing

  • @sothpanzer9491
    @sothpanzer9491 9 місяців тому

    Dude! These animations are amazing! Incredible work!

  • @paulinasieron9261
    @paulinasieron9261 4 місяці тому

    Incredible work put to animation. Thank you sir.

  • @Sneaky_Jesus
    @Sneaky_Jesus 9 місяців тому +33

    It was an amazing story/video but unfortunately with a very sad story, gj yarnhub

  • @odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347
    @odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347 9 місяців тому +18

    Even without the Winged Hussars, the Poles are still a badass in the battlefield!
    Also! Were those pop-ups and glitches Spiderverse inspired? If so, it was really cool! Love your work Yarnhub!

  • @user-wv5mv6yi2h
    @user-wv5mv6yi2h 6 місяців тому +3

    incredibly, the Poles adequately held the defense against superior enemy forces.