Last Broadcasts of Countries
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2024
- Correction : at 21:31 it's radio vienna, not radio warsaw
0:00 Austria (1938)
2:48 Czechia (1939)
3:08 Poland (1939)
4:06 France (1940)
5:26 Greece (1941)
6:28 British Malaya (1941)
6:43 Dutch East Indies (1942)
7:03 Philippines (1942)
8:18 Germany (1945)
11:03 Japan (1945)
15:36 Hungary (1956)
18:09 Czechoslovakia (1968)
22:09 Philippines (1986) - Ігри
BTW : if you have, or have found any other recording i could use for this video, please put it in the comments and i will add it to a future revised version once i have enough.
i have a question, what is that background sound or someone singing at 6:37 which is where the british malaya last broadcast is
@@Wildrussianedit i think it's just people speaking/panicking in the background, but the recording is not of high enough quality to know
Last broadcast of RRI (National Radio of Indonesia) on Timor Leste on September 1999.
Timor Leste is occupied by Indonesia for 25 years since free from Portugal on 1974. There are many recording of it on youtube.
@@hendrakurniawan8521 oh i thought i already looked but i guess i didn't, thanks !
Hey, I've tried to post a link with translation of the last broadsast of Czechoslovak radio in 1968 but the comment was automatically deleted.
For the Hungarian one, the 'unintelligible part' says 'We are requesting you to send us immediate aid, in the form of parachuted troops *to the Trans-Danubian provinces*'.
the unintelligible part is the hungarian language
it's "over the Trans-Danubian provinces", not to
@@TF2Goblinno shit
they sure were a lot more worried about the communists then most countries were about the germans lol
@@billy4lifeify 🙄🙄
i like how the french did not care the radio was being hijacked, they played the anthem to show how much they dont care about the germans
They couldn't do much, but I wonder why it was a American artillery man march.
Reminds me of "Casablanca" when the French out-sang the Germans with their anthem.
I loved that. Our Hungarian plea was very characteristically tragic, like our anthem. The efforts of the French were brave and gallant, like THEIR anthem. I think a nation’s anthem predestines it to some degree to its national spirit.
they cared pretty much. it was a disastrous defeat against germany.
"hah we don't like your nation so we're going to outplay you with a song"
You can hear the fear in the voice of the Czech broadcaster
Thats the president Emil Hácha himself
Honestly, it's so sad. It is the voice of president Emil Hácha, who at the time was persuaded to accept the position in the rump second Czechoslovak republic (after Munich) and eventually the protectorate. At the time, he was already quite old and tired and constantly under pressure. He took a bullet for us and sadly to this day, many people just see him as a collaborator and don't bother to look a bit deeper into his life.
failure and psychic destruction...... bohužel nebylo na výběr Anglie a Francie nás odevzdali aby pak zjistili že udělali chybu..
Real government was in exile in UK, but yeah, Emil Hácha was forced to say everything, he even got heart attack during negotiations with nazis in Berlin before actual invasion and after that, he was probably not the same person as before. He died in prison after WWII, but later judge court said that due to his health, he was not responsible for his decisions.
Chicken shit
As a Hungarian both the Polish and the Hungarian was a heartbreaking point to me. Nobody helped, even if we tried to....
Apparently both Italy and Spain wanted to send us aid but the Americans withheld them because we weren't in their sphere of interest
No American is willing to trade New York for Budapest or Warsaw.
Something absolutely still true today, I fear...
@@officialxverzusz it wasnt about sphere of interest of usa. It was only because usa didnt wanted to start a war with soviet union + they were involved in vietnam already
There was public outcry in the Netherlands about that with anti-communist riots in many Dutch cities.
@@DasArtyom in 1956? no (in '68, yes)
The austrian broadcaster sounds so sad in the first one
to be fair he was the prime minister, so he probably felt like he failed at his job of protecting his country
@@mariobot128to be fair he ultimately did, he chose a peaceful surrender rather than risk many of his people get slaughtered
@@housesports000He had to protect his people or else they all get wipes out
That was Kurt Schuschnigg, the dictatorial chancellor of Austria
@@AEIOU05 a man who tried all possible (without paying with blood) to stop the anschluss of austria
I love how Germany really just said "GG"
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Yeah but the team sucked, maybe they have more luck next time.
@JackTheMurderer German was the one to rush out before Italy could prepare their military properly.
@@vacuousbard6410 The Germans also gave no warning to Italy whatsoever.
Much of the invasions/wars Germany perpetuated aggravated Italy, including that of the war with the USSR, to which Mussolini has had several commentaries over the war with the Soviets. Some interesting ones and trivia:
Upon the declaration of war:
"I hope for only one thing...that in this war in the East the Germans lose many feathers. It’s a falsity to talk about an anti-Bolshevik struggle. Hitler knows that Bolshevism has not existed for some time." - Benito Mussolini, 1941
He would constantly push Hitler to make peace with the Russians, to the point that before his arrest in 1943, he was planning on sending the Germans an ultimatum; Peace with Russia or Italy leaves the conflict.
"The Germans have never grasped the importance of the Mediterranean, never... they maintained and still maintain that Russia is a deadly peril to Western and European civilization. I tried to convince Hitler that this was a meaningless phrase... Stalin has killed Bolshevism... in contrast to Trotsky, he has completely renounced world revolution." - Benito Mussolini, 1943
Overall, Italy was not ready at all for the war as during the 30s, they were still in the process of demilitarizing the industry from the legacy government and WW1. Only by 42, did they manage to start getting remotely developed but overarchingly, their airforce was the main thing going for them to compete with the other nations of Europe.
"GG guys, third time's the charm"
The part of the Greek radio where they said "this broadcast will become German" gave me goosebumps
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hey
As a Greek it gave me chills
@@loudovikoswoldberg1432 εμένα μου λες !
Fun fact: That day, Penelope Delta, one of our greatest writers of the 20th century took poison at the sight of the German troops and she ended up dying five days later. She was buried in her house garden. You will know her gravestone by the word that's written on it. ΣΙΩΠΗ
And it will speak lies..
The last broadcast of Radio Athens is often played on the 28th of October - the day where we Greeks commemorate our nation's involvement in the Second World War. The funny thing is that the original broadcast was not recorded - It was made in haste as the German Army approached Athens, and no recordings were made. However, the Broadcaster who made the announcement and the transcripts of the Final Broadcast survived the Occupation, and after the Axis Withdrawal this speech was recorded and played to commemorate our Liberation. This particular recording is perhaps one of the most famous of any Radio broadcast in our history.
yes i learned that after making the video so it's not in it tho. it's the same thing they did with "to all free frenchmen" on the BBC i believe
Greece: the radio will be german and it will broadcast lies. don't listen to it.
Dutch East Indies: goodbye, i guess.
oh so thats why its so high quality
@@radajradaj Exactly. It was recorded both to commemorate the Liberation, as well as to raise morale in the nation. This recording was made in the years of the Civil War, when we had defeated Fascism but were actively fighting Communism. I can imagine the thought was that it better sound good. In its own way, this broadcast has two meanings as a Greek.
@@MichalisG1821as a Turk that is really something to respect for , long live the Greek Independence!
Dude the japanese Planes in the background of the dutch east indie´s ones is bone chilling
And fake af and clearly added after.
As Indonesian im pretty sure that was fake and added later, why ? Because it was sound of motorcycle 😂 i know because we Indonesian used motorcycle everywhere.
uhh i would just like to add that this may not actually be the sounds of planes, i just assumed it is due to context
@@mariobot128 *Understandable, have a nice day*
Ik dutch
The Hungarian one brought a tear in my eye, they tried to call the world for help
well in the end, it still allowed a lot of hungarians to flee to austria and from there escape from the communist dictatorship afaik, but the that was it because the world didn't want to anger the soviet union. It really sounds similar to what happened with the spanish civil war tbf.
From what I heard only Franco was ready to help out, paratroopers and air supplies were ready to be shipped but good old USA the "allies" stopped it from happening, would have been awesome if it did though.
Same
@@royale7620 i just imagine a random basque and a hungarian, both being able to relate to not being understood by anyone xD would've been an incredible scene
Well like 6-7 years after that Kádár came and brought Goulash Communism which was just basically communism but actually livable
I feel like the Greek broadcast was the most haunting, as it states: “Caution. The broadcast in a few hours will not be Greek; it will be German. It will broadcast LIES!” There was even a caution at the beginning. 😭
Ya except they weren't forced to speak German...so that was pure propaganda 🤣
@@UFCMania155 That was very obviously not what was said? They didn't say they'd be broadcasting in German, they said it'd be controlled by Germans
@@theultijimtruly the wehraboo is a fascinating creature to observe
You can see the traces of Japan's continual outright denial even here. It's amazing how different theirs and Germany's are to each other.
Not to speak about Russian denial and outright gloryfication about its past…
Yea, their claim of not wanting territorial agrandizement was bull####.
@@anderslarsen1321 Russia's past is absolutely to be glorified. If the French, the English, the Spanish, the Italian, the Greek, the Turkish, the Austrian, the Egyptian, etc. pasts are to be glorified, so is Russian. Their history is absolutely wonderful, and so meaningful for the modern world. Without Russia, today's life would've been so much worse, as you're probably not aware of how many inventions the Russians blessed us with.
It's probably because the German regime was collapsing by the end of the war with Hitler dead and most high-ranking Nazis surrendering, while the Japanese regime only surrendered due to Hirohito breaking the tie and requesting a surrender.
@@anderslarsen1321 Слава героям Советского Союза, а вам неучам позор.
at 17:58 the guy says "in the form of parachute troops over the Transdanubian provences."
thanks !
I heard that too, I thought he said parachute troops *or* transdanubian provinces, but your explanation makes much more sense.
(not so fun) fact: 3 NIROM employees were executed because the Japanese found out that the station was allowed to play the Dutch national anthem
Damm
Not a fun fact. it should be sad fact. But still damn
@@7evenWondersyea thats why i put the (not so) part
@hakimi69420 I know, but the "fun" is actually misused here. Better use fact or sad fact here, cuz you know. Anyway, I'm not trying to argue here. You'll get the point.
The marching sounds before the Dutch anthem played were Japanese soldiers entering the NIROM radio station, in the same room where the announcer was making the final broadcast.
God the Hungarian one is so hard to listen to
As a Hungarian myself I've learned every little bit about the 1956 October Revolution and it is still taken as such a massive tragedy in Hungarian history
I've never heard this radio recording tho in class, I came across it myself one day here on YT and Jesus fucking Christ it is absolutely heart wrenching
If you speak hungarian, can you give lyrics?
Rákosi Mátyás and his cabinet were imbeciles. The Soviets negotiated with Nagy. And you just have to insult them over the radio... What idiots
@@CountryNerd12 its right there...
@@zoltankiss1533 where?
And your wonderful prime minister is now collaborating with effectively the same country that inflicted that to you back in 1956, ruled by someone who was very much loyal to the same regime.
19:34 - The correct translation is not "while sleeping" but "without knowledge" of all mentioned.
A side effect of literal translating. It may very well be "while sleeping" but in the original language context makes it understood to mean "without knowledge."
@@johnroscoe2406 That isn't the case here. The literal translation here would be "...it happened without the consciousness of the...". I don't really understand where the sleeoing thing came from, the rest seems to be translated somewhat well.
@@tuptap2457 ok then
@@tuptap2457 'v bezvědomí' - maybe the author interpreted it like this instead of Bez vědomí.
The Philippines broadcast (1942) was indeed done by General Wainwright. However, this was in the context of the surrender of all US and Filipino forces in the Philippines after the battle of Corregidor. The Japanese sent him to Manila after Corregidor fell to make the broadcast -- for all commanders in the Philippine Islands to receive the surrender order. Also, the radio station in question is KZRH, now DZRH (yes it still exists).
Hope this helps! :))
I wonder what would happen if not all troops surrender and did guerilla warfare, but probably the decision allowed a slim chance for survival to be able to fight another day
Quite a few troops didn’t actually surrender, and US officers and service personnel would serve alongside philipeano gurellias till the end of the war
@@LegendZe1-26 many continued the fight in the mountains until the end of the war
It was Hukbalahap fighting for our democracy not the U.S
@@gedgustilo1095 where did you learn that the U.S didn't fight for the Philippines? and how did you come up to that conclusion
Great historic documents
Poland broadcast was especially brutal for me
I know.... because since they're people got the worst among those the Jews in response to the Nazi Occupation.
As a Greek, I always thought that the last Greek broadcast message was among the most painful radio messages to hear during WWII, since the old Greek generations had received the impact of the German war machine and famine in Greece. At least the Greek broadcaster ended his speech with a hopeful message for all fighting against the Germans. Still, it came to me as surrealistic and horrifying that the fates of countries like Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia were in much worse shape, even after the end of WWII. You can actually picture and understand the fear and despair on the tone of the broadcasters, who feared mostly Soviet reprisals, not German ones.
czechoslovakia: first invaded and crushed by nazis, and then by the communists, what a sad tale
Poland too
Czechoslovakia was a member of the Warsaw Pact, part of the government simply asked for help during the crisis
The USSR also held negotiations with the USA, clarifying that this would not be considered a violation of any agreements
@@duren5691what crisis? Dubček started being "less soviet" And warsaw pact invaded
@@Losowy crisis within the government, of course
and he becomed “less Soviet” a couple of years earlier and Soviet Union didn’t care at all about all reforms
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This was the last free broadcast in Poland for 50 years. The country lost 17% of its population, most in percent of any country and most of it was civilians. After the war those who tried to free Poland from the communists were jailed, tortured and some sentenced to death. The capital city, Warsaw, was completely leveled after the 1944 unsuccessful uprising and had to be rebuilt after the war, this is why you see so many commieblocks and restored buildings.
Not to take away from the tragedy in Poland, but Belarus lost even more in WW2, about 25% of its population.
@@beanapprentice1687 Belarus wasn't a country then
@@WindowsDrawerokay. What is now modern Belarus. (Byelorussian SSR)
@@beanapprentice1687in 1939 Polish population was around 35 milion after the war it was estimated between 27-28 milion right now it's about 38 milion
@@beanapprentice1687 Yes, very tragic. But the reason @WindowsDrawer brought up Poland is because it was included in the video.
hearing these kind of broadcast can break your heart
Ikr. The last Wehrmacht report was particularly sad.
@@I_am_nobody999wdym, the Austrian one and Hungarian ones were sad.
Fun Fact: Did you know that almost no one on this Earth, *including the Japanese themselves* can understand their declaration of surrender?
This is because the declaration of surrender was written by the Emperor himself, who speak in an ancient Japanese language that only the royal family and high-ranking servant can understand and speak fluently.
This cause 2 problems:
Because it is a declaration of surrender, this force the fanatics of the Japanese army to try to start a coup to prevent this surrender to came into effect.
The other problem is that because the regular folk who listen to this radio do not understand a single word spoken. They don't know that this is their Emperor asking them to lay down their arms. Causing them to continue to fight even after the war is over.
私は日本人です。確かにこの放送の大部分で話されている日本語は非常に難解であり、細部までを理解するのには古語の知識が必須です。しかし、冒頭の「米英中ソに共同宣言を受諾する旨通告した」や中盤の「戦局必ずしも好転せず」などといった文言は現代日本においても通じる比較的庶民的な言い回しです。ラジオがあった家庭においてはこの旨を理解した一般人も一定数いたと思われます。また、この放送を理解できなかった一般人にも、天皇に絶対忠誠を誓う軍人や警察などにより日本の一般市民へ明確に終戦が伝えられ、その結果多くの市民と軍人は天皇に従い、敗戦という現実に向き合いました。一部の軍部が終戦の決定に反発しクーデター未遂を起こしたものの、天皇が決断し国民に発信した降伏そのものが比較的平和にアメリカの占領統治を受け入れることができたのだと思います。
That being said, the Chinese can understand it easily for ancient Japanese essentially took all its words from Chinese.
@@vincilo8835 Not really unless you take Chinese literature. Reading 古話 is really like reading a foreign language even though you kind of know what the words mean. Even those of us who speak other Chinese languages which retain older forms of expression and are closer to “old Chinese” like Cantonese may find it difficult to read since most of the time, unless it’s Mandarin, we just speak the word without knowing how it’s actually written.
@@vincilo8835not really, unless it was a telegraph transmission that was written down and you know classical chinese (back then not many people did)
@@vincilo8835 No one in China who has lived in the last 1000 years would understand a word of this speech without first knowing Japanese. The pronunciation of the ideograms in the on'yomi reading come from the Han, Tang and Song dynasties and there are components that are natively Japanese and alien to the Chinese languages, which are the particles, not to mention the various natively Japanese words (for example the second one, "fukaku"). What makes the text difficult for Japanese to understand are some unusual words, but the main information, the surrender of the war, is easily understood and conveyed to everyone at the time.
An interesting thing about Hácha's radio broadcast from 1939 is, that he speaks in really archaic Czech way that even to people at the time sounded weird, although not as weird as people of today. The most noticable thing is that he uses the suffix -ti for infinitives instead of the more natural -t and that the way he puts emphasis on certain words. Because the recording in this video is really short, you cannot hear much more of his archaic way of speaking, but look up other of his speeches. I remember also hearing a radio reporter Franta Kocourek from around the same time and he sounds completely different from Hácha in the way he speaks.
I hear something similar of Hirohito’s broadcast as well. He was speaking in a really formal/archaic form of Japanese that regular people couldn’t understand to the point that they had to translate the message for the common people.
18:55
The Czechoslovakian one sounds especially scared and panicky, especially towards the end when the state transmitters are cut off. I am sorry on my country's behalf for what we've done to your revolution, only a few years after we tried to break feee ourselves. Egészséget és erőt Csehországnak 🇭🇺🇨🇿
You have nothing to apologize for. In the light of current events, we can only ask of you to not do it again.
@@janicnevim3969 I cant exactly trust my country's government given how absolute of a nutjob Viktor Orbán and his goons are -
@@janicnevim3969 We won't. Not a single (maybe very few might) Hungarian will go to war for the Russians, especially againts Czechia. And Orbán's regime if slowly falling apart. Hopefully we can elect a president in 2026 that rebuilds our connections/reputation that Orbán successfully destroyed.
@@jonnypopcorn702 Amen to that, I wish you luck. Wish us luck too, we will soon have our own battles to fight in the next elections. Hopefully we won't turn the same direction as Hungary and our supposed brothers in Slovakia.
@@jonnypopcorn702 I sincerely hope you are right. Your Orban needs to go. Just like "my" Trump.
Comment to the Hungarian part: where they say "tanács" it is a common mistake to translate it to council, but in Hungarian we say it as advice ("tanács" is used for both words) and the inaudible part at the end said "over the Transdanubian provinces". Thank you for including it!
Mindkettő helyes, a "council" szót használják angolban is mindkét módon.
Counsel (different spelling) can mean advice. Perhaps this is what they meant? I could be wrong, though.
It could be possible that the Unknown Filipino Radio Station was KZRH (now known as DZRH) which at first was just NBC in 1939 (but since 1946 it became the Manila Broadcasting Company/MBC)
Czechoslovakia being the only one apoearing twice, because of their good "allies"
technically so did he Pḧilippines, with both the american surrender (1942) & the people's power revolution (1986)
The Czech government didn't resisted
@@Aperson65323 They were forced to not resist.
@@nonnon1649 Yeah its easy to say to protect yourself againt many times bigger enemies :D
@@nonnon1649 When you are forced under threath by allies (mainly by brittian) to give germany biggest border fortifications along their borders then its hard to protect country. Especialy when czechoslovaks needed only time to hold line until planned coup would start in germany. But Chamberlain destroyd every hope because he refuse war at any cost.
"Men don't cry"
15:50: "Nations of the World, the last flames on the watchtowers of the 1000-year old Hungary are starting to die."
At least this is the literal translation.
The flames of the 1000 year old hungarys?
@@Alazarball corrected
@@mozeskertesz6398 ik
I'm Polish, and the Polish broadcast is super special to me, but the Greek radio man is a LEGEND.
1938, 1939, 1948, 1968. We never forget. The Czech Republic never forgets.
As well as we dont forget what you did tp us in 1919
@@First_GalacticEmpire to who?
@@flagministry602 its either the war with Czechoslovakia Romania and Hungary that happened after ww1 because Hungarians just couldnt let go or the Czechoslovak legionaries that were trapped in Russia after the russian civil war also at the end of ww1 and had to fight their way to freedom across whole Transsiberian railway. To both of these im gonna just say.
We are not sorry for fighting for our freedom.
@@NARKYCZ I figured that he is probably talking about the conflict with Poland
@@First_GalacticEmpirewell, it has been our lands since the great moravia times. Nothing to debate here.
Man, as a Hungarian. The Hungarian final broadcast hit hard. It sucks having to hear your people suffer like that. At least we're free now.
„Free? More like under new management“. The election reforms made by Fidesz cannot be considered democratic. Hungary has become a mafia state, and the youth know that, that‘s why they leave the country
im greek and i got my heart broken by his plea, i felt his despair and fear. the fear that your country might stop ceasing to exist and be handed as the land of the enemy.
I don't understand, please explain it to me. Hungarians suffered so much from Russia in the past, so why did Hungarians vote for a pro-russian leader? Is it a Stockholm syndrome or some shit?
Az ukránok még nem mind értik, de ez vár rájuk is. Értünk sem kockáztattak világháborút, értük se fognak.
You sure about that bro? Orban been acting pretty “dictatory”. Just joking dude, my grandpa was Hungarian, and the final broadcast would have killed him to hear, either way, you’re not wrong. Everyone is at least a lot more free now.
21:32 He isnt saying Radio Warsaw he is saying Wien radio. By the way the czech broadcasts are very well translated, im suprised its this well done.
After that when the volume is low, they talk about Romanian support
at 19:31 i feel like it shouldnt be translated as "sleeping" because the brodcaster said something along the lines of "this happened without the knowledge of" - "bez vědomí", its also possible that he said "bezvědomí" (without a space) which means unconsciousness although i think that thats much less likely lol. Great Video!
Éljen a haza, éljen magyarország!
NEM ÉN VAGYOK AZ EGYETLEN MAGYAR :D
tu magyares 也?
Éljen🇭🇺
17:58 "...parachuted troops on the Transdanubian pronvinces"
6:28 This last Malaya radio broadcast was actually same with P Ramlee movie scene "Sarjan Hassan" (1958). The song "Nona Zaman Sekarang" was the last song before Japanese attack
If you can find the movie, it should start at 42:27 time mark. There were actually three different broadcasts shown in succession. In this video, only the first one (Pearl Harbor bombing) and the third one (Kota Bharu landing) was shown. The second one was about bombing of Singapore.
You gotta understand..this was before the internet and TV..radio was a critical form of information and communication..so when stuff like this happens..it was really the final nail on the coffin that the invasion was complete
Incredible piece of history. Thank you for this
"Nations of the world, hear our plea, help us! Not with councils (counsels*) or words but with action!" Is so goddam heart wrenching...
1986 Philippine EDSA revolution remains to this day a peculiarity. Major cities erupted in peaceful prayer protests joined by nuns, priests and pastors praying and holding images of saints as though holding a religious procession, preventing the Marcos forces from storming the rebel forces by blocking the main roads. There is an iconic image of nuns holding rosaries kneeling against soldiers with M16s. Even as the tanks & attack helicopters were ordered by Gen. Fabian Ver (and allegedly by Marcos himself) to open fire on the protesters, the soldiers' integrity and strong Christian values led them to refuse the orders and join the protesters instead. The revolution ended with Marcos being swooped away in the night to get exiled in Hawaii. That formula has inspired many similar revolutions over the years but most of them ended in bloodshed because the soldiers of those regimes had no problem opening fire on civilians. Tiananmen Square and the Arab Spring protests come to mind.
Such efforts to kick them out only for the Aquinos to bring them back without the say of the people
I swear facts like that make me jaded by radical people because I actually get where they're coming from
@@tunasandwich8049 not to mention that Marcos' son is now the sitting president. The same guy who acted tough and was seen wearing army BDUs and demanding his father to open fire on the protesters. Such is the viscissitudes of politics. Sometimes all one can do on their own is do the best they can from where they are in life and just hope they don't elect somebody too crazy.
4:06 Thats the last broadcast of La Marseille on June 14th 1940, im pretty sure the last message was Charles De Gaulle "To all Free Frenchmen" on June 22nd 1940
to all free frenchmen was broadcast from london on the BBC, not from france
@@mariobot128 oh mb
7:04 the radio station is from KZRH (now DZRH, one of the oldest radio stations in the philippines) which was relayed to nbc san francisco radio
thanks !
The 1968 invasion hits especially hard for me, as I am slovak and my grandparents had to experience that. I cannot imagine what they felt at that moment.
stay strong 🇸🇰 trash what happened today. my grandmother is also slovak
this is actually so cool thanks for making this video
The Philippines Peoples Power Revolution changed the way they see TV, even if it's a signal interruption
As a Pole, Hungarian, Greek and Austrian, were the most heartbreaking.
Additional Info: The radio station where General Wainwright broadcasted the surrender of Filipino-American soldiers is possibly a radio station named KZRH (currently named as DZRH) since the only radio station that operates in the Philippines at that time was only KZRH.
No broadcasts can make me feel bad for them at the maximum level, but this line 16:20, It does
Hungarian one make me sad, There was some music and morse code in background and they are asking for help. No one could help them
Well most countries in western Europe could have helped them, but they were afraid of a war with the soviets. The Hungarians died because of a conflict they never wanted to be a part of.
@@mariobot128 yes sadly
@@mistoffeleesly5336 it was the hungarian anthem if you are interested in listening to it
@@mariobot128 I think we were not afraid of soviets particularly, but the near certainty of global nuclear war as a result.
@@Comet701 that is what i said "they were afraid of a *war* with the soviets",which obviously would've been nuclear.
as indonesian i can feel the desperate for the dutch soldier in my country and theres a japanese plane and the malaysian i can understand it to if you listen closely there is some sad person sound
thank you for getting the broadcast of Jonathan Wainwright
Cool vid. Thank you for putting this together
7:32
The commander of the Harbor Defenses of the Philippines Maj Gen. George F Moore made national headlines while under siege at Corregidor by gathering together all of the Texas A&M graduates for an Aggie Muster. If I remember correctly he never recovered from his captivity from 1942-1945 and shot himself just after the war. For those that are interested in history, you can see the famous flag at the Sanders museum in College Station, TX. The best outfit in the ROTC there still wins the "General Moore" award. You dont really learn much about the early stages of the Pacific war in school
as czech myself the czechoslovak warszav pact invasion transmission just makes me angry
As a Hungarian, same. It's ridiculous that we took part in it just 12 years after we tried to break free from the Soviets...
In the Hungarian last broadcast, the "inintelligible" part, He said "or the Transdanubian provinces" :)
The Polish one is bone chilling. The reverb on the voice and the other noises makes it feel so unprofessional, like they’ve already given up. So sad😢
They didn`t, but were in a hurry, nobody knew, if Germans won`t enter the building right that moment. And the building itslef was damaged during the siege, was almost miracle, they could still continue the broadcast.
you should make more of these
The Austria one had me in tears
Gave up there nation to prevent German blood shed
i am a austrian and that one made me be dang sad
you are right -- it was so sad -- that admission that Austria had no sense.
The broadcast at 17:41 is particularly haunting because those pops you hear in the background are actually Soviet Soldiers storming the building and shooting rebels, I think I heard everyone at that last station was killed
All of these are bone chilling knowing your entire country is about to end in just a few moments...
As a filipino
Wainwright’s message was unnerving and eye opening
Its my first time coming across that message in the many years we’ve been taught our history in school
@mariobot128 18:00 "in the form of parachute troops, over the transdanubian provinces"
at 17:53 it says We are requesting you to send us immediate aid, in the form of parachute troops over the transdanubian provinces.
Last video of the philippines is actually good. At last we are a democracy again
Unlike the east bloc which was unable to free itself ☹️ ...
*pain*
And that Filipino lady was fine! That's how you get back on the air!
21:26 : A short acknowledgement about help from the Romanian side
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About the Hungarian and Polish broadcast: the very last people defending the stations are dying the moment message is broadcasted. You can hear something that appears to be gunfire in Hungarian one, wheras Polish is sped up on purpose because of germans flooding the city and as a result the lower levels of the radio station...
I sincerely hope that we won't hear these kind of messages in the next 10-15 years.
There was one just a year and a half ago
From where?
@@jonathanwilliams1065 WHERE?!
@@indahbudiani4773 Afghanistan
At least the circumstances surrounding such broadcasts occurred
Out of all the final recordings before the country's ideological changes/invasions, only *ONE* had broadcasted on TV
Amazing video
18:03 I think it says "in the form of parachuted troops for the transdanubian provinces"
these are so haunting
3 Years 8 Months. The Darkest Times in Malaysia, We will never forget what happened,And we, Malaysians,Will Stay United.
Yeah it a shame the world didn’t care
you already kicked out singapore
@@redcrown5154 I’m giving yu fact Mr🙄. When the world hade other wars this one doesn’t matter anymore 😒.
You miss an amazing one, the last broadcast of allende, moments before his death, during the pinochet's golpe... Probably the most heartbreaking and amazing broadcast
I'm a Filipino but i cannot help myself to be emotional because of the last broadcast of greece.
6:28 i heard this is from a malaysian 1950s war film. I'm not sure if this was the real audio or from the film
Fun fact: Barely anyone in Japan at that time recognized the voice in the radio to be the one of their emperor, because he had never been heard by most people during their lives, not to mention his archaic way of speaking
Funfact: the broadcaster who announced the 1968 Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia was Vladimír Fišer and more than 20 years later, he became the Czech voice of Kent Brockman, the tv announcer in the Simpsons xd
The Czech surrender to the Nazis is still a sore spot for us today. There are theories that if we defended ourselves back then, we could have held on just long enough for the Allies to realize Hitler had to be fought and come to our aid. We had a well-trained army at the borders ready to fight, but they had to stand by and watch as Wehrmacht poured in.
In my opinion, Hácha (the president you hear in the recording) did the only thing he could in an attempt to prevent bloodshed and suffering of the Czech people. People hated him for it (some still do) but this decision completely broke him. He didn't live for long after that.
I've said this on another video before, but I want to say it again.
In some universe, not far from us, this was those countries' very last messages...ever (referring to the allied nations)
These brought tears to my eyes. Just putting myself in these peoples shoes imagining my country losing the war & just hearing some of these final broadcasts from there own government it really fucks with me because I can imagine the people listening to this via the one radio they were lucky to have if they had it listening to some of these as all hope is lost…. Really incredibly sad…😔
One thing to 1968 Czechoslovakia broadcast translation. "Stalo se tak bez vědomí" doesn't mean that the goverment was sleeping, but that no one told them about the impending invasion. "This happened without knowledge of President of the Rep..." something like that.
the czechoslovak one has odd translation with the sleeping part it meant that the people werent informed or didnt know anything about not that they were not being responsive or sleeping
Now you should do the first broadcast of countries!
pretty eerie to watch countries last signals before being torn apart by germany and they not caring about it
as a polish. I went crying when i heard the last broadcast of poland. Such a heartwarming video.. 😢
21:32 “zprávy vojenského rozhlasu” means “message from military transmition”
TBH as a Filipino I'm pretty scared
Why?
@@maniago2309 idk
@@maniago2309surrendering to the Japanese without knowing what they will do to you is really scary
It's not even filipino who is speakjng but american
@@THEBIGGAME683 takes place in the philippines
at 18:03 i think that they are saying:parachuted troops over the Transanubian (i think that part is eather a romanian provienc or just noncienc) provinces
11:38 god damn, the Japanese lied hard, no wonder they never recognized the horrors they have committed, they kept denying even as they were absolutely destroyed
Also Polish anthem is called: "Mazurek dąbrowskiego"
yes but the more common name in english is "Poland is not yet lost"
The Greek broadcaster has a tremendous ,steady and epical voice
I'm a filipino and it facinates me that I saw this kind of history that was never heard or seen in my life. It feels like it reminisce me about our country especially this one: 7:03 Philippines (1942)
It was very sad. You can still hear some background noises of guns and people dying......
Von Wilhemus is giving me Max Verstappen flashbacks
i think the ones surrendering to japan actually sound scarier
Yeah
Cuz the Japanese were surrendering to the forces of freedom, but when the Japanese occupied territory they were even more brutal and sadistic than the Nazis, and unlike the Nazis who did it because their ideology told them they had to the Japanese did so for pleasure
I thought in my country it will be tagalog because my grandmother told me the reason why they escaped and safe in World War 2 was because of tagalog or visayan broadcast even though they were bisaya so everyone escaped early as possible
"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Channel 4 is on the air again to serve the people."
That was cold.
Could anyone explain to me the Czechoslovakia Radio broadcasts it just chills me out
One is prior to the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the nazis and the other by the Warsaw pact. I’m not sure what exactly you would like me to explain. I am a native Czech speaker so I can understand it perfectly.
The 1968 invasion?
@@rendycoya Yes, this invasion was about the warsaw pact, that Czechoslovakia was part of too, occupied the land of the country. This was because the communism in Czechoslovakia was more free, and Soviet Union didn't like that.
@@rozaliemichellegrohmanova8591 in literally czech dude
,in aware what it was