Gdansk 1939
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- On the 1st September 1939 the first shots of WW2 were fired on the Polish depot at Westerplatte by the German battleship Schlieswig Holstein. Also attacked was the Polish Post office and these events have gone down in Polish history. Within days the first concentration camp outside Germany was established at Stuthof. Following liberation the country had many years of communist rule and Gdansk was the birthplace of the Solidarity movement. The modern city has many historic buildings and a new museum of the second world war.
"Poland wants war and they (Germany) will not be able to avoid it even if they want to". Polish General Edward Rydz Smigly. As reported in the British Newspaper The Daily Mail. August 30th 1939.
Old german city of Danzig.
In 1939 not was "Gdansk" also Danzig!!
From my Polish perspective the most important war-theme monument is Nigdy Więcej Wojny (Never Again War/Nie wieder Krieg) in Westerplatte.
You murdered all my relatives in Prussia so that certainly will not happen again. I think you are about to get some comeuppance from Vlad to the East.
@@naughtiusmaximus830 Who taught you history? Give a shout out to the Teutonic Order for that, geez what an ignorant.
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1939, hieß diese deutsche Stadt Danzig.
Thanks for your video. Greetings from Gdańsk.
Thank you I hope I did justice to your city and it's story
You did. Polish American from Gdańsk.
It seems you named the city Danzig and you mentioned its later name - Gdansk. Actually the first written name of the city (in Latin) was GYDDANYZC which was a quite succesful try of following the slavic sound of "Gdansk". But thank you for a nice picture of my city which I love. It was in fact a Hanseatic Free City.
Ja kocham Gdańsk (Polish)
Jô kòchóm Gduńsk (Kashubian)
Ich liebe Danzig (German)
Thank you for your informative and kind comments on my film. I can see why you love your city, I really enjoyed the few days that I spent there.
Worth to visit . Nice Hanseatic city.
@@johnsharpTravelandAviation. I think you have done a really good job. You managed to catch the most important historical moments of the city. The only thing which is painful in your story there is a German try to claim Gdansk a German city. Sorry but this never happened. The only possible moment was in the late 1930s when gauleiter Forster tried to prove that Gdansk had been German forever because citizens spoke German. And that was bull... because German was the language of the trade in whole Europe and it meant nothing in case of nationality. There were German, Polish, Jewish, Dutch and many more nationalities in Gdansk/Danzig but the city authorities were most of the time about to stay allied with Polish Commonwealth.
Anyway, thank you John and good luck!
@@jarekdutko6708 Thank you very much for your interesting comments. Although Danzig may have been a cosmopolitan city the influence of the Nazis was very much in evidence as they controlled the government and the police in the years before WW2.
Great special effects 💥
Hi Emily, thank you for your kind comment. John
Nice short history of Gdańsk , but forgot about Piaśnica place of mass executions before Stutthof.
Thank you for your kind comment. I was unaware of this dreadful incident but so many horrible acts were committed by the Nazis. Also I only had 4 days in Gdansk to do research.
I love your accent❤️ Great video😁👍
'Appears to be Walesa in the center at 11:23, and sounds like Gorecki / Upshaw Symph3
Hi thank use for commenting. I trie to bring the story up to date a little with references to Walesa and Solidarity. Also I used Polish composers such as Gorecki and Penderecki.
@@johnsharpTravelandAviation. 3:36 What is this music ?
@@ValDroby Thank you for commenting. It is Das Lied her Deutschen or the German song and has been used as the German National Anthem for many years. However some commenters have suggested the Horst Wessel song should have been used but I decided to go with the German song as it may be more familiar to most viewers.
It was called Danzig in 1939 and it was almost exclusively populated by Germans. The city should have never been taken from Germany in 1919 considering how loudly the Allies proclaimed the idea of self-determination of people. The city was made a so-called free state to appease the Poles that wanted a port on the Baltic. The Allies created a debacle by this action. The Germans of Danzig wanted to be part of Germany. Their wishes were ignored. The Polish postal workers were civilians and should not fought. Under the rules of war of that time, they were lawfully executed for their actions. The Poles could have avoided war by agreeing to handover Danzig to Germany. Joself Beck, Poland's Foreign Minister, refused. The Poles actually believed that British guarantee meant something. The British and French never had any intentions of aiding Poland militarily. In fact, they sold Poland down the river in 1945 to the Soviets.
Joself Beck was a fool. Poland and Germany could have successfully invaded the Soviets and defeated them at their weakest in 1939-40. I've read somewhere that if Marshal Pidulski was alive in 1938/39, there was a plan for Poland to ally with Germany against the Soviets. The Marshal died before the war and Hitler shelved those plans as his racial superiority had taken shape.
Totally AGREE!!! The FRENCH AND THEIR BITTER BECAUSE OF 1871 Get Even TREATY OF VERSAILLES was a spiteful vindictive payback 43 years after their loss and GERMANY BECAME AN EMPIRE!!
Good advice for you:
it is better to be silent and look idiot than to speak up and dispel any doubts.
@@matyjaszmatyszek7306 GOOD ADVICE FOR YOU:
Give thanks to God, that when He made you a fool, he gave you a fool's face!!
@@vincentadams9569 It's not polite to respond to comments that are not directed towards yourself.
The first shots fired in WWII were in 1937 when Japan invaded China
I don't think that this can be counted in this context as Britain did not declare war on Japan until December 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbour.
@@johnsharpTravelandAviation. that`s got nothing to do with it..war is not a legal procedure..the defacto start of wwii was the invasion of China in 1937 although the shooting had already started for all practical purposes with the Spanish Civil War
@@douglasthompson8927 We could discuss this until the cows come home but I will stick with the conventional view that it was the 1939-1945 war. Thank you for your interesting comments though.
@@johnsharpTravelandAviation. this is quoted from the Wikipedia article Second Sino-Japenese War " the Marco Polo Bridge Incident on 7 July 1937, when a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops in Peking escalated into a full-scale invasion. This full-scale war between the Chinese and the Empire of Japan is often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia."
@@johnsharpTravelandAviation. The Manchurians (1931), Chinese (1937) and Americans (1941) respectfully disagree. Those cows came home, been milked and snugged in the byre.
Danzig. Simple.
Ah ; the post office .
History is complicated and we should avoid all propaganda, from either side. That includes the video title. There are unfortunately quite many inaccuracies in this video, as it is apparently normal with most modern media on history.
In fact, there is no such thing as independent, true, 'scientific' history, but history sadly is always contaminated with politics and ideology. Nevertheless, Gdańsk is a beautiful Polish city rebuilt from German ruins after 30 March 1945, by gifted and diligent Polish people. The video shows that, a little, thanks.
Thank you for your interesting comments. I try to be accurate but I am not an historian merely someone trying to make an interesting film. I have more of Gdansk itself in my film ua-cam.com/video/YBZMQmpNk3g/v-deo.html.
@@johnsharpTravelandAviation. I watched it, the other video. Thank you SOOOOOO much for that. It triggers many emotions in me, since my roots still are in Poland.
I apologize if ... and I didn't mean to criticize you, but merely the way how historians deal with history, and how most people rely on what so-called academics say. But your moving images actually speak for themselves.
I think only truth is interesting. People should use many sources and they will have no doubt what is truth and what is lies. Truth is out there. Of course history is a vast field therefore it is impossible to know everything and that's understandable.
@Danny H I think that both my comment and also my interaction with the content producer express everything I intended to say, and no further explanation from my side is required. Your two questions now are evidence of your rudeness. And I believe that people with such an attitude like yours, bullying other people for no apparent reason, are the origins of all wars.
At 3:40- the tune playing is the CURRENT German National Anthem. It should instead be Germany's National Anthem 1933-45: The Horst Wessel Song!
Thank you for your comments. I did consider the Horst Wessel Song but thought that Das Deutschland Lied would be more familiar to most viewers.
The world has had enough to listen to the songs of the Third Reich
@@matyjaszmatyszek7306 ua-cam.com/video/bl9pvPekcdo/v-deo.html
@@rudigerendlos6413 And...?
@@johnsharpTravelandAviation. I have to agree with him that Horst-Wessel Lied would have been better.
My father escaped from Stuthoff on a work detail.. I went back with him back in 1983 to go visit
Thank you for sharing this. He was one of the lucky ones. It must have been very emotional to return to Stuthoff.
The city was DANZIG in 1939. Pretty SLOPPY history. DANZIG was GERMAN.
인간은어다에서와서어디로가는걸까,
Weird how "post workers" got military training. Guess that only exists in Poland. Or maybe, just maybe not even in Poland. But instead they placed a military unit called Zygmunt in the post office. And then it's questionable why the post office is abused illegaly to place military while the city which is inhabited by Germans is meant to be independent.
Thank you for commenting. It does seem strange that Post Office workers should be military trained but these were strange times and although Danzig was supposed to be a free city, it had a Nazi government and the Poles knew what was coming and took steps to try and protect their limited assets in the city. I was interested in your comment about the military unit Zygmunt. I have tried to research this without success. Do you have a source?
@@johnsharpTravelandAviation. Edmund Charaszkiewicz revealed that. If you search for his name and the unit name called Zygmunt on Google, then you'll find several Polish websites report on that.
Also, Danzig was German and didn't make the decision to be independent on its own. They were forced into that. Therefore how can you blame the Germans from Danzig for the decision that they wanted to belong to their own country?
@@testtor2714 Thank you I shall have to look at this.
Stutthof wasn’t t the first concentration camp in Poland, that dubious privilege belongs to Fort V11 in Poznan.
Yes Fort V11 in Poznan was the first concentration camp in occupied Poland in October 1939, however Stuthof was the first established outside German borders in September 1939. It would have been within the Free city of Danzig.
@@johnsharpTravelandAviation. fort v11 definitely worth a visit if you haven t been.
@@stanandollie7041 I have only been to Gdansk in Poland so far, so thank you for the suggestion.
@@johnsharpTravelandAviation. Wizz air to Poznan from Luton very good value. Poznan cathedral burial place of Poland s earliest kings and rulers and old town is lovely…..ps. Also a British war cemetery location of WW1 British POWS and WW2 Bomber crew lost over the Baltic in 1943-44, coupled with approx 60 British victims of Stalagluft escape executed upon capture.😳
@@stanandollie7041 Thank you definitely on my list!
Danzig ist Deutsche
The Germany before Nazism caused the disaster of Germans losing all the Eastern borderlands.
Germany brought it on themselves.
The Polish people always seemed lost after WW2 - fighting with the West but ending up in the Soviet East. The anti Russia element in Poland is still strong it seems - stoked for political agendas - sees many Polish fighting and dying sadly for the most corrupt country in Europe - Ukraine. Self-imposed Sanctions are going to destroy Europe's economies so good luck to the Polish people - you lost again.