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  • @TheArmchairHistorian
    @TheArmchairHistorian  4 роки тому +3103

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  • @TheArmchairHistorian
    @TheArmchairHistorian  4 роки тому +6814

    We were not demonetized! UA-cam has been being 100 times better lately and the channel is doing really well. I don't want you guys to worry, we're getting through this :)

    • @valdemarb7692
      @valdemarb7692 4 роки тому +147

      Yeehaw, UA-cam finally understands

    • @Xaiff
      @Xaiff 4 роки тому +144

      Glad that UA-cam wants to understand how history should be told AS IS.
      I was worried this video might got deleted.

    • @giantsfan714
      @giantsfan714 4 роки тому +10

      Ayyy

    • @brendenhickman4198
      @brendenhickman4198 4 роки тому +6

      HEEEEEEEY! Good to hear :D

    • @Karifi
      @Karifi 4 роки тому +12

      Good news in these dark times

  • @wilshire36
    @wilshire36 4 роки тому +6501

    Me: They left the baby!
    The French Family: We’re gonna do what’s called a “pro gamer” move”...

    • @apples8232
      @apples8232 4 роки тому +193

      Haha grenade go brr

    • @calebquentel8837
      @calebquentel8837 4 роки тому +285

      Me: Bruh she dropped her whole ass baby on the floor.
      Baby: Is actually bundle of live hand grenades
      Me: Oh...

    • @aussiewater
      @aussiewater 4 роки тому +11

      Zack Anthony It’s a meme.

    • @koimeme
      @koimeme 4 роки тому +9

      I said that too in my brain

    • @cocacolaman4522
      @cocacolaman4522 4 роки тому +9

      *skibidi bop mm dada plays*

  • @lukad7744
    @lukad7744 4 роки тому +7392

    Imagine being a 40 year old at the time, you had spent months or even years fighting in the trenches during ww1 and now 20 years later your government surrenders after only 6 weeks

    • @nikolai3620
      @nikolai3620 4 роки тому +1421

      Imagine spreading cream cheese over your bagel that just came out of the toaster only to drop it on the floor and have it land face down.

    • @OverLord-mw2be
      @OverLord-mw2be 4 роки тому +242

      Allied forces failed miserably in the initial fight against Germany. With the Germans high on meth, their blitz was overwhelmingly quick and took the allies off guard (allies were bunkering down like they did for in WW1). German tanks steamrolled through and Frances surrender was the unfortunate result, they weren't prepared.

    • @СтенькаТрольеводов
      @СтенькаТрольеводов 4 роки тому +12

      I HAD IMAGINED IT. I WAS NOT SURPRISED

    • @pujo6532
      @pujo6532 4 роки тому +52

      45 days=3 weeks? Wow great 👏👏

    • @lilcoda5282
      @lilcoda5282 4 роки тому +7

      luka :D 5 weeks

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 9 місяців тому +58

    Fun fact: Before the war, France used the same timezone as the British isles. But Germany moved the French clocks forward an hour as they used the timezone we now know as Central European Time

  • @BossDelta38
    @BossDelta38 4 роки тому +6553

    "Daily calories intake reduced to 1200-1500 calories."
    Leningrad: That's for a whole family, right?

    • @PeterPranker1
      @PeterPranker1 4 роки тому +111

      A grad's gotta eat fam

    • @Captain_FAIL
      @Captain_FAIL 4 роки тому +234

      For a family of 6,yeah. During the siege workers had only around 200 grams of bread a day aka couple of pieces. Soldiers had around twice as much,with other populus getting around 100-150 grams. People ate all of their pets,pigeons,rats,mice,all of them. Only after a month the siege started,cannibalism started too. A soup made out of fine animal skin shoes was the best dish one could have. About a million starved,couple hundred others because of exhaustion,illnesses and german bombings. German bombs took way less lives than anything else,though. Mainly bombing not the people but the infrastructure and etc. ruining the starving and already practically destroyed city even more.

    • @JesusChrist-qi8yo
      @JesusChrist-qi8yo 4 роки тому +105

      North Korea: that's Kim's snack

    • @dalesabandal9113
      @dalesabandal9113 4 роки тому +13

      @Spicyleaves damn bro you trippin. The whole city's calorie intake is too high. It was south of 1000 during peak fighting years.

    • @joshuaortiz2031
      @joshuaortiz2031 4 роки тому +12

      @@Captain_FAIL i would gladly resort to cannibalism if I was in that situation. In the winter you are literally walking around a massive frozen meat locker with the freezing cold and the dead every where.

  • @willgto3852
    @willgto3852 4 роки тому +4972

    “I’d like to talk about our sponsor, world of tanks”
    Double tap double tap double tap double tap double tap double tap

    • @mundea
      @mundea 4 роки тому +102

      I had to like that, sucks that you're a City fan

    • @joaquinalfaro1789
      @joaquinalfaro1789 4 роки тому +37

      Mwansa Mundea The Football Fanatic 😂

    • @CBielski87
      @CBielski87 4 роки тому +22

      >makes video about french occupation
      >uses german composition in louis [sic] of all sorts of french, "somber" music

    • @TheCart54321
      @TheCart54321 3 роки тому +7

      Exactly what I did

    • @hughsmith4464
      @hughsmith4464 3 роки тому +2

      Sounds like the US today

  • @davidcool5189
    @davidcool5189 4 роки тому +3326

    "...the French were subjected to an even worse fate; bureaucracy."
    The French now: The ride never ends.

    • @RedSoo749
      @RedSoo749 4 роки тому +59

      i guess we kinda got the taste for it

    • @cyberrock9018
      @cyberrock9018 4 роки тому +3

      David Cool ua-cam.com/video/rQH-ING_yds/v-deo.html

    • @itsblitz4437
      @itsblitz4437 4 роки тому +4

      I don't get it?

    • @iordanneDiogeneslucas
      @iordanneDiogeneslucas 4 роки тому +37

      germany rapes france
      50 years later
      france: i just cant quit you
      germany: shut up baby, i know it

    • @thegoodlord6518
      @thegoodlord6518 4 роки тому +6

      *Albert Camus has entered the chat*

  • @grouchypotatowolfpack5580
    @grouchypotatowolfpack5580 3 роки тому +269

    Reminds me of stories my grandad would tell me from the war. He was born in german-occupied Jersey, just off the coast of Normandy and Brittany. We had our own language here, Jerriais, but English was the more widely spoken one. Jerriais made a return during the occupation as it was close enough to French not to arouse suspicion, but not so close that the Germans who spoke French could understand what we were saying. Sadly, the language of my people is all but dead, with more and more native speakers dying each year and almost nobody learning it or speaking it at home.

    • @TheAzureNightmare
      @TheAzureNightmare Рік тому +4

      What are more people speaking in the area now?

    • @genericorochimain7027
      @genericorochimain7027 Рік тому +7

      @@TheAzureNightmare they speak French however many areas of Brittany still have a couple tens of thousands who speak our local Gaelic language Breton

    • @edienandy
      @edienandy Рік тому +1

      Did he ever talk about the beast of Jersey?

    • @ChrisCrossClash
      @ChrisCrossClash 7 місяців тому

      @@genericorochimain7027Jersey? They are all British I don’t know what that guy is going on about?

    • @i-fart-n-elevators4610
      @i-fart-n-elevators4610 7 місяців тому

      But now they have the luxury of Arabic as the fastest growing language

  • @theamazingraccoon3117
    @theamazingraccoon3117 4 роки тому +1430

    “Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied France”
    Christoph Waltz: my time has come

  • @chilln0648
    @chilln0648 3 роки тому +3486

    What’ pains me is that the Germans had a guy named France Holder, but they didn’t use him to hold France.

    • @R0DBS2
      @R0DBS2 3 роки тому +65

      The comment below me has more likes.
      Rico653 Caines is cool now, I'm not

    • @rico653caines3
      @rico653caines3 3 роки тому +351

      “Years of academy training WASTED!”

    • @lavellelee5734
      @lavellelee5734 3 роки тому +15

      Your kidding

    • @mrspikeus1
      @mrspikeus1 3 роки тому +197

      @@lavellelee5734 He means Franz Halder. A German general.

    • @djnoise5305
      @djnoise5305 3 роки тому +14

      That would be a big BRuh moment

  • @BastianErkel
    @BastianErkel 4 роки тому +7472

    Fun Fact: France never actually switched back to their "actual" time zone. To this day they're still using the "German" time zone.

    • @chrish5222
      @chrish5222 4 роки тому +1300

      It’s a souvenir.

    • @planetoftheweek
      @planetoftheweek 4 роки тому +660

      Wow I didn't know that. So when I travel to France I don't have to change my watch's time. Now that I think of it, it makes sense that France should have another timezone. More like the same the british have.

    • @rightand5719
      @rightand5719 3 роки тому +746

      Talk about being lazy

    • @jessicatitle6024
      @jessicatitle6024 3 роки тому +93

      @@rightand5719 😆😂🤣 good one!

    • @rightand5719
      @rightand5719 3 роки тому +22

      Wait ent they use the Germany time zone

  • @matbettez3495
    @matbettez3495 3 роки тому +278

    Id actually like to see what life was like in Germany post WW1 and Versailles Treaty. And then again post WW2. Those poor civilians had it rough.

    • @latergator4154
      @latergator4154 2 роки тому

      All lies they did not have it hard, they didn’t even welcome the American soldiers when they were liberated.

    • @grumbild3350
      @grumbild3350 Рік тому

      Well they elected hitler so... in a way they are not all white

    • @GDL88
      @GDL88 Рік тому +35

      They’ll never talk about that 😂

    • @tobz4403
      @tobz4403 6 місяців тому

      Those poor civilians voted the nazis into power

    • @taylorbarrett384
      @taylorbarrett384 5 місяців тому +6

      ​@@GDL88there's plenty of talk about it on UA-cam, which you can find pretty easily. Though, to be sure, it's difficult to be very sympathetic with post-WW2 Germans, given their complicity with Nazism

  • @eli.rez_music
    @eli.rez_music 4 роки тому +10800

    Before we talk about the French being brutally suppressed, I’d like to talk about our sponsor

    • @volkerwestphal3746
      @volkerwestphal3746 4 роки тому +201

      Yeah, if this is youtube schooling, better leave it be.

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      @whyhello9649 4 роки тому +476

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    • @deadpork5201
      @deadpork5201 4 роки тому +50

      ...The German Panzer

    • @arandomseal4793
      @arandomseal4793 4 роки тому +112

      THE FUHRER DOES NOT WAIT FOR SPONSORS

    • @mistyjones9831
      @mistyjones9831 4 роки тому +20

      *Every person that gets sponsored*

  • @brandoncooney3435
    @brandoncooney3435 4 роки тому +706

    1:09 I had a mini heart attack when she dropped the so called baby

    • @mokka1115
      @mokka1115 4 роки тому +75

      *No! Not the Mk2!*

    • @jav9814
      @jav9814 4 роки тому +32

      They were extremely expensive and useful

    • @jav9814
      @jav9814 4 роки тому +23

      Stink bomb on another level

    • @Ry3n590
      @Ry3n590 4 роки тому +10

      I was just confused why she did it lol.

    • @blearyhaze985
      @blearyhaze985 4 роки тому

      @salting at me no good, man LMAO

  • @earthenjadis8199
    @earthenjadis8199 4 роки тому +539

    One thing about the artwork - The Germans never got the masterpieces from the Louvre like the Mona Lisa or the Venus de Milo. In 1939 all the artwork was split up and hidden in chateaus across the French countryside under the coordination of the curator, M Jacques Jaujard. The last piece of artwork left the Louvre on 3rd September 1939. The Mona Lisa had to be secretly moved five times throughout the war in a game of cat and mouse with the Germans.

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor 4 роки тому +28

      @armia krajova Yes, still, the Louvre gave them a hard fight because, "Merde."

    • @TheDanrox110
      @TheDanrox110 4 роки тому +17

      Don’t know how accurate it is, but Robert Frankenheimer’s “The Train” is a great depiction of the Nazis trying to steal the art and the efforts of the French resistance

    • @timesnewlogan2032
      @timesnewlogan2032 4 роки тому +15

      Reminds me of the old movie "The Train," where the French Resistance keeps redirecting a German train of stolen artwork back into France.

    • @timesnewlogan2032
      @timesnewlogan2032 4 роки тому +6

      @@TheDanrox110 Well hell, small world! I always laugh at the part where they drop the sign on the water tower after the train leaves, revealing they're still in France.

    • @Orange-tf3dc
      @Orange-tf3dc 4 роки тому

      What’s up Camus?

  • @last9up
    @last9up 9 місяців тому +13

    I really like these videos. I'm always so focused on the weapons and battles of wars and don't usually think about the civilians and their lives. Thank you.

  • @erinboc8512
    @erinboc8512 4 роки тому +2625

    I went from “THEY LEFT THEIR BABY!!!” To “oh.”

    • @kidz4p509
      @kidz4p509 4 роки тому +50

      @Erin Boc Trust me. That got me too.

    • @dragonmade8243
      @dragonmade8243 4 роки тому +3

      ua-cam.com/video/yGjibp-Oh4c/v-deo.html

    • @cptslick141
      @cptslick141 4 роки тому +78

      Ikr, i sure didn't expect a sack full of grenades lmao

    • @manger_22
      @manger_22 4 роки тому +51

      @@dragonmade8243 i hate self promoters

    • @dragonmade8243
      @dragonmade8243 4 роки тому +3

      @@manger_22 I hate communists but who cares honestly

  • @rondornay5583
    @rondornay5583 4 роки тому +5207

    Before we talk about France suffering, I want to thank our sponsor, W O R L D O F T A N K S

    • @bluerisk
      @bluerisk 4 роки тому +24

      Brulez la Palatinate, Heidelberg deleta; they burned thousands of German villages to the ground, and now they cry murder because of a curfew...

    • @jensvanbockstal429
      @jensvanbockstal429 4 роки тому +47

      What about belgiums suffering being used as a meat shield and not getting credit for our victory of holding germany of france in ww1

    • @chainmail5886
      @chainmail5886 4 роки тому +54

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    • @yoloswaggins1579
      @yoloswaggins1579 4 роки тому +44

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    • @CBielski87
      @CBielski87 4 роки тому +29

      >makes video about french occupation
      >uses german composition

  • @Feederfanis
    @Feederfanis 4 роки тому +5209

    It's all fun and games until someone bypasses the Maginot line.

    • @pyeitme508
      @pyeitme508 4 роки тому +24

      Yeah, so lol!

    • @itsblitz4437
      @itsblitz4437 4 роки тому +35

      Is that still a thing even today?

    • @aztec0996
      @aztec0996 4 роки тому +43

      @@itsblitz4437 perhaps for the Soviets this time ? 🤔 nations under NATO that were formerly Eastern bloc nations have heavily fortified borders in case of Russian invasion

    • @harleyokeefe5193
      @harleyokeefe5193 4 роки тому +87

      Zirmas you realise that the allied military planning wanted the Germans to bypass the maginot line, the point of the maginot line wasn’t to hold off the entire German army it was to secure the flank of the army while the main armies of Great Britain an France link up with Belgium forces in a pre decided defensive line. there is a myth around how the French didn’t expect the Germans to go through Belgium again when of course they expected it and that’s what decided french defensive planning in the interwar period. What ultimately doomed the allies is that they didn’t concentrate their forces correctly

    • @chanomjea6515
      @chanomjea6515 4 роки тому +20

      @Zirmas Fix you comment to "it's all fun and games until some tank breakthrough ardennes forrest" Edit: change sedan to ardennes.

  • @chadczternastek
    @chadczternastek 3 роки тому +60

    Absolutely love, love these. Keep it up. Different take and makes history interesting to watch.

  • @mvximus3188
    @mvximus3188 3 роки тому +3458

    I actually found out that my grandfather, in France (he was an American soldier), had a kid with a french woman and told nobody. I took a dna test recently and found out I had relatives in France, and that's how I found out. I met them earlier this year and they were some great people!

    • @bob494949
      @bob494949 3 роки тому +214

      That’s awesome. Found “lost relatives” myself in Germany and got to meet them. Ain’t it great to connect with your roots?

    • @pineapplesbringpain5243
      @pineapplesbringpain5243 3 роки тому +85

      @@equarg Oh yes, I’ve heard of a similar story where a black couple had a child that was very light skinned *after* birth. The man accused her of cheating, but it was proven the child was his. Plus, some dark-skinned children are born very light after birth but regain their melanin later on.
      Though It’s funny because my brother was the opposite. He born with a tannish complexion, but his skin got lighter later on. He was also born premature, so that might explain it too.

    • @udozocklein6023
      @udozocklein6023 3 роки тому +10

      @Prince of Libanesien lmao xD

    • @thunderkatz4219
      @thunderkatz4219 3 роки тому +25

      I’m French on my dads side my friends don’t believe me because I’m black

    • @DesignedbyHumans
      @DesignedbyHumans 3 роки тому +3

      @@thunderkatz4219 lotta "french" are black anyways because of places like hatia anyways so that's nonsense

  • @michaelfrancis6488
    @michaelfrancis6488 3 роки тому +5068

    Fun fact: before 1945, women gave birth to hand Grenades

    • @thebubbleteavibe
      @thebubbleteavibe 3 роки тому +48

      Yes

    • @victormanguy8156
      @victormanguy8156 3 роки тому +93

      Wait, did they also gave birth to hand grenades?

    • @khalidhassan659
      @khalidhassan659 3 роки тому +120

      true my great-grandma was a garnade

    • @Megadextrious
      @Megadextrious 3 роки тому +30

      c'est vrai, le nom de mon grand oncle était Kaboom!

    • @lalalalyessyyayaya
      @lalalalyessyyayaya 3 роки тому +10

      @@Megadextrious Bonjour kaboom je suis nommer apre le chose amerique a lanser sur japone je mescuse pour mon francais terrible

  • @waltermodel8313
    @waltermodel8313 4 роки тому +907

    France:
    "We should reinforce the line! Quick!"
    Germany planning to flank instead: "Yes"

    • @bringensiemirfegelein1616
      @bringensiemirfegelein1616 4 роки тому +2

      69th like

    • @joemamaobama6863
      @joemamaobama6863 4 роки тому +9

      Zeros DaBast not the third reich ,be proud of your grandpa tho

    • @billybuckley684
      @billybuckley684 4 роки тому +2

      But that was a the whole point of the Maginot line, To force Germany to go through Belgium.

    • @billybuckley684
      @billybuckley684 4 роки тому

      Multi exactly

    • @waltermodel8313
      @waltermodel8313 4 роки тому +2

      But the German blitzkrieg made it harder for France to defend because refugees start to go to France then after that they fought... But the Germans encircled Most of France's forces which lead them to low defence which means they can take France without really struggling of defenders

  • @zlate5943
    @zlate5943 3 роки тому +29

    The animations, the History...
    Its absolutely Beautiful

  • @henrybricks2953
    @henrybricks2953 4 роки тому +4631

    France: *Is occupied*
    German soldiers: it's free baguette

    • @vm360fly
      @vm360fly 4 роки тому +41

      baguette*

    • @Paris-xv9sj
      @Paris-xv9sj 4 роки тому +42

      @@vm360fly 🍾🍷🥖🥐

    • @pinhe1350
      @pinhe1350 4 роки тому +28

      🥐🍾🍷🥐🧒👦👧👦🧒

    • @metalgearray6832
      @metalgearray6832 4 роки тому +13

      Nothing like a traditionnelle!

    • @Ry3n590
      @Ry3n590 4 роки тому +11

      C'est vrai.

  • @adamcowboy476
    @adamcowboy476 3 роки тому +3670

    Lol, i thought the husband and son were carrying a giant baguette. 🤣

  • @TomekHar
    @TomekHar 4 роки тому +2455

    Everyone: talking about how hard it was to live in occupied France
    Meanwhile Poland: you what

    • @LeoTheJust
      @LeoTheJust 4 роки тому +147

      Yugoslavia...

    • @stc3145
      @stc3145 4 роки тому +269

      Poles got only 1500 calories a day on average, 500 less than in France and western europe. And warsaw was completely destroyed unlike Paris

    • @tywinlannister8015
      @tywinlannister8015 4 роки тому +117

      @@LeoTheJust At least Yugoslavia had Tito. Apparently the guy was such a threat that he was an Abwehr objective as early as 1941. A friend of mine read that in her grandfather's war diary.

    • @Greeneye567
      @Greeneye567 4 роки тому +27

      Greece was even worse

    • @obelic71
      @obelic71 4 роки тому +146

      @@stc3145 Few know that Warsaw was after Manilla in the Philipines the most ravaged city of WW2. Even more then nuked Hiroshima/Nagasaki and bombed Berlin/ Tokio
      Warsaw was for 85% totaly destroyed, Manilla 90%
      The Nazi's destroyed warsaw on purpose to quel the uprising.
      both had additional massive massmurder of civilians by the occuping armies during the uprising / battle.
      Warsaw 150.000+ and Manilla 100.000+

  • @iphonecharger4185
    @iphonecharger4185 Рік тому +4

    4:17 I love the irony with the café's name, literally translating to "Cafe of the peace" or "Cafe of peace". Nice little detail!

  • @bananalord8461
    @bananalord8461 4 роки тому +640

    No iron cross as a replacement yay
    Bruh even his background is animated amazing

    • @pottierkurt1702
      @pottierkurt1702 4 роки тому +33

      If he would've changed in to the youtube logo on the ss police it would've been even better.

    • @zealousdoggo
      @zealousdoggo 4 роки тому +2

      That means that UA-cam demonitized the video :(

    • @bananalord8461
      @bananalord8461 4 роки тому +1

      Savage Historian indeed

    • @bananalord8461
      @bananalord8461 4 роки тому +1

      Zealous Doggo at least he got a sponsor to kind of make up for it

    • @YAH2121
      @YAH2121 4 роки тому +5

      @hellasow promote it? Its literally a video on nazi-occupied territory. Its like complaining about an american flag in a video on the allied-occupied Japan.

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 4 роки тому +4831

    An Austrian invaded France to make them remember who actually invented the croissant

  • @MrReynsupreme
    @MrReynsupreme 4 роки тому +509

    Meanwhile on the Eastern front: Hell

  • @maratang255
    @maratang255 Рік тому +7

    0:49 scurry
    3:29 onset
    3:58 other than those
    5:01 on a daily basis
    7:55 able-bodied
    8:13 drastic measures
    9:16 quota

  • @tomhiscocks242
    @tomhiscocks242 4 роки тому +265

    Hitler to Mussolini: Congratulations you tried, here is a tiny piece of France

    • @Melnek1
      @Melnek1 4 роки тому +42

      The truth is that those parts of France that Italy occupied were Italian before Napoleon III took over and the French state forced everyone to speak French and forget everything about being Italian.

    • @jameslegrand848
      @jameslegrand848 4 роки тому +29

      @@Melnek1 Savoy and nice were given to France by the kingdom of Piedmont Sardinia as thanks for their help against the Austrians....

    • @Melnek1
      @Melnek1 4 роки тому +8

      @@jameslegrand848 And...? This changes nothing, it was just another case of opportunistic acquisition of territory by France, taking advantage of the disunity of its Italian and German neighbors, of course, all in accordance with the international laws and practices of the time.
      My point is that the Italians had a legitimate claim to French territory that they occupied at WW2.

    • @FoxTrotteur
      @FoxTrotteur 4 роки тому +27

      @@Melnek1 They had not a legitimate claim if the population wouldn't join.
      Furthermore, they were not italian but savoyards (in Savoy) and Niçois (in the County of Nice).
      Local languages, cultures and cuisine of these areas were pretty much different of the ones of Italy, and even though italian was the official language of Piedmont-Sardinia, it was the mother tongue of only 8% of the population (and french was the mother tongue of 5%) in 1860 in the county of Nice, a hundred years before WW2.
      They never "forgot" that they were Italians because they never were Italians. They were occitans highly influenced by Italy.
      What you're saying is as false as if i was pretending that Dutch people forgot they were German because they have been close culturaly and and were at one point in history in the same political entity.
      Mussolini had no valid claim on these regions and neither did he on Albania, Ethiopia nor Greece.
      Oh! And by the way "France taking advantage of a desunified Italy" is complete bullshit. They supported the unification of Italy, and fought by its side against the austrians. The french then conquered Lombardy that was under Austrian control and immediately gave it to Piedmont-Sardinia. The county of Nice and Savoy are gifts for the help of France that was crucial in the Risorgimento.

    • @PierrotHG
      @PierrotHG 4 роки тому +8

      @@Melnek1 You're a complete moron. Napoléon III supported italian unification and independance. As for Savoy being an italian land, thanks for the good laugh.

  • @smokyblackeyes3615
    @smokyblackeyes3615 4 роки тому +531

    Mother: Drops baby and help the son and goes into the darkness.
    Me: Wtf is wrong with you!
    Armchair Historian: shows the bomb as a baby.
    Me: makes sense if you want BOOM BOOM.

  • @BuffyPickle
    @BuffyPickle 3 роки тому +376

    4:24 I love that shot of the Frenchie, just completely takes all the stereotypes for French citizens: thin mustache, cigarette in his mouth, restaurant owner, pissed off, formal dressing, it’s just great.

  • @chongerwin
    @chongerwin 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks!

  • @antoiner5675
    @antoiner5675 4 роки тому +709

    In France we use the expression "to be called arthur" (Se faire appeler arthur) when we "get it in the neck", scolded. It's a reference to the german patrols yelling "Acht Uhr !" to those who were still outside after 8pm during the occupation.

    • @fantomasvsfantomas2288
      @fantomasvsfantomas2288 4 роки тому +16

      Hahaha ! I thought it was a joke but it proved to be true when I checked !

    • @andymonk4089
      @andymonk4089 4 роки тому +10

      Strange name of Arthur, I had 2 people that I called Arthur and it enraged them. I was very young, 10-17,never knew why that name enraged them, but they were too young also to grasp this reference.

    • @carlosmarcos1452
      @carlosmarcos1452 3 роки тому +9

      And today Macron calls you "Sexologue" (Six O'Clock)

    • @MackNcD
      @MackNcD 2 роки тому +2

      @@fantomasvsfantomas2288 Who would make that up as a joke? Lol. It sounds like one of my grandparents anecdotes of the old country. (Proper use of the word anecdote - it doesn’t mean specific story, it means general story. I.e the barefoot children used to play the malde le fegn on the bridge after dark)

    • @MackNcD
      @MackNcD 2 роки тому

      The dictionary disagrees but this is the way anecdote was used growing up…

  • @ThisisBarris
    @ThisisBarris 4 роки тому +67

    A beautiful video Griff! Very well done with a true artistic flair. My grandfather was actually an STO during WW2 and apparently he nearly died towards the end because of allied bombing and starvation as the Germans abandoned the STOs to fend for themselves. As always, thanks for letting me voice for it! Merde!

    • @ThisisBarris
      @ThisisBarris 4 роки тому +6

      Lazy Lamar I cracked the enigma machine

    • @tristan889
      @tristan889 4 роки тому

      @@lamar493 patreon get special access

    • @butterygoodness8242
      @butterygoodness8242 4 роки тому

      Shopa Pozhiratel' and Members of the YT channel

  • @baconninja4481
    @baconninja4481 4 роки тому +573

    Mortar: Honey! I’m home!
    Artillery Shell: Where is our child?
    Mortar: Oh our son Grenades, I left him to play outside.

  • @leftylimbo
    @leftylimbo 3 роки тому +52

    Bravo. These bite-sized morsels of WWII history are absolutely delectable. Thanks for all your effort in enlightening us to perspectives that aren't commonly seen. I'm inspired to find out more about the French Resistance. I can't imagine what it must've been like to take arms against a dominant military force; not only risking your lives but also that of your family and loved ones should you be caught.

  • @silenthunteruk
    @silenthunteruk 4 роки тому +222

    Ironically enough, France did not change its time zone back after the war, staying on Central European Time with most of the EU. It also retains the use of identity cards to this day.

    • @skiteufr
      @skiteufr 4 роки тому +61

      And the world uses passports (from the French "passeport" literally "let go through the port"), a French invention from centuries ago.

    • @fuqupal
      @fuqupal 4 роки тому +37

      Yeah, when I was changing planes in France in January I had to have my passport scanned 3 times.
      What a bunch of fascists.

    • @quintiax
      @quintiax 4 роки тому +15

      @@fuqupal How dare they

    • @mr.tobacco1708
      @mr.tobacco1708 4 роки тому +11

      TFW your occupiers teach you how to things right so you keep using them after you get rid of them xD

    • @christianweibrecht6555
      @christianweibrecht6555 4 роки тому +4

      Would be much more convenient to carry a multiple purpose national identity card, then a driver's license, social security card, insurance card, etc

  • @mr.barkyvonschnauzer1710
    @mr.barkyvonschnauzer1710 4 роки тому +471

    "Curfew from midnight to 6am?!?! Preposterous!!"
    Meanwhile in Leningrad

    • @neoarmstrongcyclonejetarms9326
      @neoarmstrongcyclonejetarms9326 4 роки тому +4

      Well yeah France surrendered

    • @snehalkrishnan618
      @snehalkrishnan618 4 роки тому +7

      Meanwhile in Leningrad...
      *crab rave music intensifies*

    • @dakoderii4221
      @dakoderii4221 4 роки тому +22

      Good thing they aren't doing curfews and mandatory ID cards like the Nazis anymore. Just a mandatory ID card, curfews, house arrest, mandatory vaccination, wearing of slave submission mask, mandatory closing of ONLY small business, churches, and banning of private gatherings. I guess we are doing it better than the Nazis because we hypocritically call tyranny as freedom. That is the secret to making it work! People that read history are idiots. Intelligent people watch TV and believe everything they see and hear while calling those that notice patterns and ask questions as "stupid" and "crazy".🤪

    • @gg_rider
      @gg_rider 4 роки тому +12

      @@dakoderii4221 Places have different local COVID laws but everyone understands them to be temporary. My US state has mild conservative restrictions, based on local medical expert opinions, but some people are arguing that common sense and slight inconvenience is tyranny. (Complete loss of income AND refusal by govt to supply the "paper" that is their exclusive monopoly, that IS tyrannical .. a Fiscal Holodomor unfolding.)
      Masks are no more slave submission in common spaces than masks worn by medical personnel, or mandatory hardhats & steel toed shoes at some work sites, or mandatory eye protection on welders, or mandatory uniforms at fast food, or mandatory coats and ties in some restaurants, or mandatory shoes/sandals and shirts to enter a convenience store to buy beer on the way to the beach.
      Masks are one more tiny rule added to existing rules of civil society ..
      I see a problem with some US locations closing restaurants even when they invest in outdoor dining. I went to an indoor Tex Mex restaurant yesterday .. there was a sheet of plastic separating booths but I admit it was altogether risky with everyone breathing the exhale of people nearby. If ONE of those hundred people was an asymptomatic carrier, I could have huge problems or death for a meal of chips and burrito.
      Yet I understand how contentious it is trying to balance the rights of consumers and the rights of small business with the rights of hospital medical staff and the goal to maintain some slack in terms of ICU beds and other resources.

    • @renaudfensie3020
      @renaudfensie3020 4 роки тому +3

      Meanwhile in 2020

  • @Big_E_Soul_Fragment
    @Big_E_Soul_Fragment 4 роки тому +1289

    France: gets occupied
    The French: *The revolution has begun.*

    • @nathanthecrane674
      @nathanthecrane674 4 роки тому +35

      again

    • @scl1332
      @scl1332 4 роки тому +109

      Europe: Which one?
      France: Yes

    • @Phantom-qr1ug
      @Phantom-qr1ug 4 роки тому +4

      *Loads Welrod*

    • @Xaiff
      @Xaiff 4 роки тому +10

      Yeah, the French people got a knack for revolutions.

    • @reyllantenefrancia5693
      @reyllantenefrancia5693 4 роки тому +4

      Allies: We are going to push the Germans out of your border wanna come?

  • @loganlabbe9767
    @loganlabbe9767 Рік тому +4

    3:35 you cant prolong darkness AND hasten night at the same time. If the clocks were moved forward it would be darker in the morning and brighter in the evening

  • @shayanhasan2254
    @shayanhasan2254 4 роки тому +2556

    France: this occupation sucked its against humanity
    Also France after liberation : lemme get back to brutally ruling my colonies

    • @Inanchi05
      @Inanchi05 4 роки тому +225

      Let me keep my promise to Algeria and let them be free.
      Not!

    • @absolutebonkers9735
      @absolutebonkers9735 3 роки тому +74

      RIP Senegalese Tirailleurs

    • @lockeandrand
      @lockeandrand 3 роки тому +94

      Yep! Really worked out for those countries once France left, right?

    • @kamanashiskar9203
      @kamanashiskar9203 3 роки тому +61

      Me: *Laughs in British*

    • @henrydelay1821
      @henrydelay1821 3 роки тому

      @Ali Ali ok Ali

  • @NuggetInc
    @NuggetInc 4 роки тому +159

    Lol Italy got a little bit of land as in a "participation award"

    • @Duke_of_Lorraine
      @Duke_of_Lorraine 3 роки тому +7

      Hitler told Mussolini that if he wanted to take some land, he had to conquer it. I let you guess how effective was an unprepared attach through the Alps.

    • @Amin-js4en
      @Amin-js4en 3 роки тому +1

      hey nugget

  • @aclown36
    @aclown36 4 роки тому +1016

    Moral of the story:
    *Don't take a French person's wine,cheese,and baguettes*

    • @sheldo6
      @sheldo6 4 роки тому +15

      Ca cest certain!!!

    • @ryan_n05
      @ryan_n05 4 роки тому +9

      Can verify this. Source: My German teacher lived in France for a while (i know, ironic)

    • @smokyblackeyes3615
      @smokyblackeyes3615 4 роки тому +7

      When Baguettes are stolen, Amrys are fucking dead

    • @franie1210
      @franie1210 4 роки тому +3

      Ce damage

    • @OuterAlliance
      @OuterAlliance 4 роки тому +5

      I am half French and when someone takes my bread or cheese I go into rage mode.

  • @nazreidlover911
    @nazreidlover911 3 роки тому +4

    Been on my recommended for ages, didn’t think it would be this good damn

  • @greenflagracing7067
    @greenflagracing7067 3 роки тому +629

    The brutal suppression of France is brought to you by our sponsor, World of Tanks.

    • @rps9396
      @rps9396 3 роки тому +6

      lmao

    • @garrisonnichols7372
      @garrisonnichols7372 3 роки тому +2

      🤣👍

    • @NicolasSparks8371
      @NicolasSparks8371 3 роки тому +1

      bruh its a good game it even has the maus

    • @justforrow
      @justforrow 2 роки тому +1

      Imagine lmfao

    • @dannyzero692
      @dannyzero692 2 роки тому +1

      Running over protesters in China since 1989! Guaranteed reliability in suppressing the local populace!

  • @valkvire72044
    @valkvire72044 4 роки тому +147

    Germany: Victory in France
    Italy: What about me i fought the French too???
    Germany: Here take part of France (Participation Medal).

    • @deactivated5931
      @deactivated5931 4 роки тому +12

      if i was mussolini, id be happy with just corsica

    • @valkvire72044
      @valkvire72044 4 роки тому +4

      Ata_cama Corsica would be a nice prize for the Mussolini and Italy. As for myself I might try to take hold of a couple French colonies in Africa.

    • @andyappleton3353
      @andyappleton3353 4 роки тому +4

      It's like when they gave Chewy a medal in ROS.

    • @thibskywalker4450
      @thibskywalker4450 4 роки тому

      Italians didn't pass in the Alps

    • @valkvire72044
      @valkvire72044 4 роки тому

      Thib Skywalker Right and that’s why they received a participation award rather than an out right victory.

  • @nathanthecrane674
    @nathanthecrane674 4 роки тому +1288

    why did you occupie france?
    germany: mOney

  • @peterpettigrew4410
    @peterpettigrew4410 3 роки тому +3

    I thought this woman deadass dropped her baby.
    “Oh hell nah jimmy not my blanket”
    *YEETS CHARLIE JR*

  • @tommytran1183
    @tommytran1183 4 роки тому +427

    woman: *drops baby. walks off*
    me: WAS ZUM TEUFEL

  • @remindertostayhydrated602
    @remindertostayhydrated602 4 роки тому +239

    Hey guys remember to stay hydrated today!

  • @collinandersen3369
    @collinandersen3369 4 роки тому +93

    The grenade baby is only slightly more prone to blowouts than the regular variety.

  • @earthworm_sallyearthworm_s3013
    @earthworm_sallyearthworm_s3013 3 роки тому +4

    I like how at 0:08, that’s an Inglorious Basterds reference

  • @colemancooper5226
    @colemancooper5226 4 роки тому +500

    “Swastika in thumbnail”
    UA-cam: I’m bout to demonetize this man’s whole career

    • @jayantabaishya3152
      @jayantabaishya3152 4 роки тому +26

      It didn't!

    • @Clancy3
      @Clancy3 4 роки тому +27

      The most stale meme in history.

    • @Nietabs
      @Nietabs 4 роки тому +1

      @@Clancy3 indeed

    • @TheBrianp1
      @TheBrianp1 4 роки тому +3

      @@Clancy3 It isn't stale when Chuck Norris uses it

    • @iordanneDiogeneslucas
      @iordanneDiogeneslucas 4 роки тому

      @Hernando Malinche everyone could be chuck norris, if we all treated everyone as if they were chuck norris we would have peace on earth
      May Norris bless you and us all

  • @boborno
    @boborno 4 роки тому +810

    Fun fact: The lights on the Eifel tower were installed in 1987

    • @LKaramazov
      @LKaramazov 4 роки тому +10

      Really?

    • @Manning218
      @Manning218 4 роки тому +3

      Cool

    • @triv3501
      @triv3501 4 роки тому +121

      Actual fact: Gas lights were used in 1889, until electrical modernization in early 1900's.
      www.toureiffel.paris/en/news/130-years/brief-history-towers-lighting

    • @tomcreaniceman7426
      @tomcreaniceman7426 4 роки тому +49

      Fun fact Europe is crumbling

    • @0raph
      @0raph 4 роки тому +1

      this is brillant!

  • @CausticSpace
    @CausticSpace 3 роки тому +778

    I didn't know HOI4 lore was this deep

    • @zajemc2604
      @zajemc2604 3 роки тому +43

      You made my frickin day. Nah, week.

    • @nenggo2540
      @nenggo2540 3 роки тому +5

      Lol

    • @anthonykatsivalis224
      @anthonykatsivalis224 3 роки тому +21

      Yeah bro, just you wait for the lore of the German invasion of the Soviet Union

    • @okay38
      @okay38 3 роки тому +2

      Lmao

    • @justforrow
      @justforrow 2 роки тому +1

      Nice one

  • @jacquesrenou2850
    @jacquesrenou2850 Рік тому +2

    My grandmother,Crosette was a resistance fighter and gave her life to counsel and protect my father.She was a seamstress and hidmy dad with her revolver in her seamstress trunk when the Germans came into their village and lined up people in the streets for deportation to work camps or the old and feabel to be shot on the streets.He was a very young teen and escaped my grandmother disappeared forever never to be seen again.I can't imagine the hardship they all endured and her sacrifice for us to be here today,she was toyghf and brave,my personal hero.💙⚜️

    • @jacquesrenou2850
      @jacquesrenou2850 Рік тому

      My dad went on from there to join the french navy,even though he was underage,they ignored that fact and enlisted him.

  • @drmikizo4654
    @drmikizo4654 4 роки тому +59

    This channel revived my interest in history.....

    • @deadaccount1748
      @deadaccount1748 4 роки тому +2

      ikr.

    • @rosswhitlock3025
      @rosswhitlock3025 4 роки тому +1

      no it revived your interest in lies

    • @uniquechannelnames
      @uniquechannelnames 4 роки тому

      I hope you've checked out EpicHistoryTV. Just super high-quality, high production value history videos. They have series covering Alexander the Great, the history of Russia, Napoelon, some on WWI, US Presidents. Their narrator is gold, and they keep it engaging. They also consolidate their series of videos on one subject (e.g 5 Russian history videos) into a single long video for easier watching.

    • @chip1646
      @chip1646 4 роки тому

      @@rosswhitlock3025 Uhh? I have a feeling you are an American

  • @kevinhixson1586
    @kevinhixson1586 4 роки тому +413

    You should do average life in Mussolini's Italy.

    • @FlagAnthem
      @FlagAnthem 4 роки тому +23

      Not that different: misery, rationing, propagandistic bombing, mass sistemic corruption and engineered inefficencies (ever wondered why Italy was so unprepared for war?)
      resistence slowly taking shape then exploding after september 8th, while the Salò puppets helping nazis with deportations and retaliations.
      The "when HE was there..." gold era is a huge propagandistic LIE Italy is still struggling to shake it off.

    • @Dadouf112
      @Dadouf112 4 роки тому +5

      North or south?

    • @davidcena9795
      @davidcena9795 4 роки тому +7

      life wasn't that bad BEFORE the start of the war, it was the same sometimes even better than France or UK to say some countries, after that when the war started situation degenerated and the resistance started taking power

    • @tea4223
      @tea4223 4 роки тому +1

      France, Italy... had it good compared to what the Japanese did in China.

    • @daniele5349
      @daniele5349 4 роки тому

      @@tea4223 shut up capitalist

  • @memeicusgaming2197
    @memeicusgaming2197 4 роки тому +555

    Armchair historian: the only UA-cam brave enough to put swastikas in a UA-cam video

    • @mtlicq
      @mtlicq 4 роки тому +15

      cowarded out at 6:14 they put a Swiss cross instead of the Buddhist swastika

    • @VirusPL
      @VirusPL 4 роки тому +1

      What about World War Two channel by TimeGhost History?

    • @shesaknitter
      @shesaknitter 4 роки тому +14

      But left mention of the fate of France's Jews out of a video about the Nazi occupation of France. That was such a big part of it, I don't understand why it would have been left out, unless there is another video about that. There is certainly a lot to tell regarding that aspect of the tragedy.

    • @СтенькаТрольеводов
      @СтенькаТрольеводов 4 роки тому +1

      *ARMCHAIR HISTORIAN THE CHANNEL STUPID ENOUGH TO BE RUSOPHOBIC*

    • @kidz4p509
      @kidz4p509 4 роки тому

      For educational purposes only.

  • @Janovich
    @Janovich 2 роки тому +22

    Great video. I was never aware that the French had it this rough during the occupation, but I should have suspected it ofcourse. Learned a lot.

    • @Goodiesfanful
      @Goodiesfanful Рік тому

      There were those in the Reich who had it even worse than the French. The Slavs suffered even worse treatment because the Nazis regarded them as the most inferior, next to Jews. And there were the Dutch, who suffered mass starvation at the hands of the Nazis, and the Russians who died in the siege of Leningrad. And Poland was the centre of the Holocaust horrors, for it was where the Nazis installed the six death camps.

    • @FulhamboyH
      @FulhamboyH Рік тому +2

      They like to think they were all hero’s , however they surrendered and collaborated with a small amount of resistance 🏳️🏳️🏳️

    • @Goodiesfanful
      @Goodiesfanful Рік тому

      @@FulhamboyH France did collapse pretty quickly once Hitler bypassed the Maginot Line, and in only six weeks. Come on! Couldn't they have put up a better fight? Ukraine hasn't collapsed, and it's been over a year since the war started.

    • @Marco-tf9lx
      @Marco-tf9lx Рік тому +3

      @@Goodiesfanfulukraine have the world behind them
      france was pnly with uk and belgium

    • @adelaidesngan604
      @adelaidesngan604 Рік тому +1

      ​@@FulhamboyHenglish army Dunkirk 🏃🏃🚣🚣🤡🏳️
      English army bir haikem 🏃🏃🤡
      English army Campagn of Africa retreat 600 kilometer 🏃🏃
      English army ww2 🏃🏃🤡🏳️🚣

  • @justinian-the-great
    @justinian-the-great 4 роки тому +152

    Now, after all of this harshness that Germans forced over French, it's pretty much shocking that german occupation policies in France were actually, comparing to the other countries, one of the most lenient! In some other countries, especially in Eastern Europe, (like in Poland, Soviet Union or Serbia) there were such measures that for any killed German soldier they would execute randomly chosen 100 civilians and for every wounded 50 civilians! Not to mention that massive ethnic cleansing and even genocide policies were introduced later! I mean, Nazis really did know how to make a occupation as hard as possible.

    • @GuyUWishUWere
      @GuyUWishUWere 4 роки тому +7

      were can I learn more about this?

    • @sachinvenugopal6926
      @sachinvenugopal6926 4 роки тому +7

      Maybe because occupying France was a cake walk for them .. unlike others

    • @lotter5371
      @lotter5371 4 роки тому +1

      True

    • @rosswhitlock3025
      @rosswhitlock3025 4 роки тому +6

      LIES!

    • @mrcogito7348
      @mrcogito7348 4 роки тому +4

      @@GuyUWishUWere You can start by checking out German/Soviet occupation of Poland

  • @Blind-Eye_Pivot
    @Blind-Eye_Pivot 4 роки тому +288

    German Reich: *Occupies France*
    United Kingdom:
    *we're in the endgame now*

    • @ericcartmann
      @ericcartmann 4 роки тому +29

      More Like: "Yo you don't get to slap my hoe like that, only I can"

    • @BaguetteGamingOfficial
      @BaguetteGamingOfficial 4 роки тому +3

      @@ericcartmann >France is UK's hoe
      >No

    • @unfortunateson5016
      @unfortunateson5016 4 роки тому +4

      @@ericcartmann more like
      France:Help!
      UK: Ok
      *months later*
      UK: Help!
      *Years Later*
      USA: I would liberate you

    • @the_one_titan
      @the_one_titan 4 роки тому +1

      US: We about to liberate this mans career

    • @b2crazyeye
      @b2crazyeye 4 роки тому

      @@BaguetteGamingOfficial keep telling yourself that frenchie

  • @AltsekBUL
    @AltsekBUL 3 роки тому +1349

    Now I would like to hear about the life in French occupied Germany during Napoleon.

    • @sinctova
      @sinctova 3 роки тому +74

      Lmao, yeah i hope armchair historian sees this.

    • @drybrucke1
      @drybrucke1 3 роки тому +31

      The Confederation of the Rhine?

    • @getsbigger604
      @getsbigger604 3 роки тому +22

      @@drybrucke1 no.... Prussia

    • @getsbigger604
      @getsbigger604 3 роки тому +13

      @@drybrucke1 Prussia represents Germany lol

    • @huguesjouffrai9618
      @huguesjouffrai9618 3 роки тому +106

      Napoléon never occupied Prussia
      He beat the Prussian army and didn't stay. He never wanted to conquer Prussia and exploit it whereas the Nazi occupied France to get tons of resources and defend against a possible invasion. He was happy With having the confederation of the Rhine between Prussia and France.
      He did occupy Spain and some parts of Italy though.
      Even Egypt for a time before he was emperor

  • @titoutafersit7757
    @titoutafersit7757 2 роки тому +4

    I appreciate your video's bro you truly educate people shout out from Morocco

  • @heywooddjbelome2021
    @heywooddjbelome2021 4 роки тому +1858

    Germans looted priceless treasures from museums that the French themselves had looted from Egypt and the middle east.

    • @hz.mevlanacelaleddin-irumi5399
      @hz.mevlanacelaleddin-irumi5399 4 роки тому +190

      it's all lies to make the nazis look bad

    • @merrickx
      @merrickx 4 роки тому +58

      The Germans wanted to preserve that which the prophecied would be ruined, and what are we watching a single lifetime later?.........

    • @merrickx
      @merrickx 4 роки тому +19

      The Germans wanted to preserve that which the prophecied would be ruined, and what are we watching a single lifetime later?.........

    • @Big_Al_Smokes
      @Big_Al_Smokes 4 роки тому +54

      @@hz.mevlanacelaleddin-irumi5399 it wasn't to make nazis look bad it was to make the French look good

    • @clashthegamer4873
      @clashthegamer4873 4 роки тому +67

      But... Egypt was under the control of the UK, was this a joke about how English and French museums both contain a bunch of relics which aren't theirs?

  • @justinweisberg1634
    @justinweisberg1634 4 роки тому +400

    When Armchair historian makes good video...
    “This enraged UA-cam… who punished him severely”
    (If oversimplified we’re here)

  • @the_executioner8643
    @the_executioner8643 4 роки тому +1010

    *Women drops "child"*
    Me: you dropped your "child"
    *"Child" is grenades*
    Me: *NANI*
    (Edit: my god guys 700 likes thx this edit was written on september 20, 2020)

    • @justzzzx623
      @justzzzx623 4 роки тому +2

      Your*

    • @prodw3althy2
      @prodw3althy2 4 роки тому +1

      Ante Gadze your*

    • @lukie2588
      @lukie2588 4 роки тому +23

      so many grammar nazis

    • @yggyfaeldo1093
      @yggyfaeldo1093 4 роки тому +4

      Lukiemaster 1234 So many Grammar Nazis.*

    • @yggyfaeldo1093
      @yggyfaeldo1093 4 роки тому +1

      Okay, I get it, you could argue that the capitalization and period aren’t required as the reply wasn’t a true sentence I considered reformatting it but it didn’t feel right. Also, I think the Grammar Nazi capitalization is okay as I think it’s a proper noun. I don’t honestly care about the mistake, fine mistakes like OP’s mistake is alright, we got the message anyway.

  • @croulantroulant3082
    @croulantroulant3082 3 роки тому +96

    I have to say it really boils my blood as a French guy when Brits or Americans make fun of France's WW2 behavior. When the fact is these 2 countries have never been invaded. And the entirety of WWI was fought on French soil.

    • @monsieurpoisson8163
      @monsieurpoisson8163 3 роки тому +8

      *western front
      (Also a large amount of Belgium was caught up in the Frontline)

    • @SableZardYT
      @SableZardYT 2 роки тому +30

      Especially since France is half the reason America is a country. Don't worry, some of us still appreciate that.

    • @justforrow
      @justforrow 2 роки тому

      @@SableZardYT Yeah, it was a FRENCH inventor who built the Statue of Liberty. If it wasn't for France, America would have no Statue of Liberty.

    • @oceanfive5
      @oceanfive5 2 роки тому

      Germany did try to invade England and failed, hitler wanted to get France so they could get the uk but their plan did not work.

    • @capri468
      @capri468 2 роки тому +11

      Do you feel the same for African countries exploited by France?

  • @chrisbond4257
    @chrisbond4257 4 роки тому +107

    Man French babies look different than what I thought they would look like

  • @chanlabador1079
    @chanlabador1079 4 роки тому +32

    I always admire these detailed storys we might've never even known of thanks TAH

    • @illuforce
      @illuforce 4 роки тому +1

      I'm pretty sure that most people already knew most of this.

  • @ericcole498
    @ericcole498 3 роки тому +296

    My mother was in occupied France. They raised Pumkins since the Germans would not take the pumkins.

  • @Sideshownicful
    @Sideshownicful 3 роки тому +1

    3:35 If you move the clocks forwards 1 hour, it makes the night come later, not sooner. If you "prolong the morning darkness", i.e. the sun come up 1 hour later, then the sun will set 1 hour later as well. I don't get how it "hastens the arrival of night"

  • @heitoroliveira2025
    @heitoroliveira2025 4 роки тому +140

    you should now a version talking about polish resistance and how it was to live in ocuppied poland.

    • @rosswhitlock3025
      @rosswhitlock3025 4 роки тому +3

      It was glorious to live in NS-occupied Poland as it was anywhere else they occupied.

    • @MrCarpelan
      @MrCarpelan 4 роки тому +3

      @@rosswhitlock3025 lol, how does it feel to have such a bulging brain?

    • @davrosdarlek7058
      @davrosdarlek7058 4 роки тому +1

      @@rosswhitlock3025 for the Nazis you mean?

    • @aldyn4106
      @aldyn4106 4 роки тому +2

      It would have probably worse, since slavs were seen as untermensch in nazism

  • @Shadowmourne07
    @Shadowmourne07 4 роки тому +325

    Good on you for using the historically accurate flags. I approve.

  • @everythingedgi1077
    @everythingedgi1077 3 роки тому +108

    Me: mom can we get hitler?
    Mom: no we have hitler at home.
    Hitler at home: 8:19

  • @Ik34thyD1ngus
    @Ik34thyD1ngus 2 місяці тому +1

    6:05 the fact that the kid is waving at the Germans make this even more sad

  • @ColonizerChan
    @ColonizerChan 4 роки тому +98

    My mother’s family lived in rural East France during the war. Grand-père raised his fist in anger towards the Germans and a german gave him a chocolate bar.
    Oh and the world war 1 vet in the family fought and died in the resistance.
    Neat video

    • @thegamerboytgb4350
      @thegamerboytgb4350 4 роки тому +3

      Huh? A angry fist = chocolate?

    • @vikke2013
      @vikke2013 4 роки тому +31

      @@thegamerboytgb4350 I assume the grand pere was a small boy at the time so the german soldier probably thought him waving his fist was more cute than dangerous which would explain why he gave him a chocolate bar.

    • @BBraun-gw4hs
      @BBraun-gw4hs 4 роки тому +4

      “Snickers?“

    • @ColonizerChan
      @ColonizerChan 4 роки тому +1

      @@BBraun-gw4hs
      XD

    • @x-a-
      @x-a- 2 роки тому

      I guess a nice ba of Panzerchokolate

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 4 роки тому +46

    Armchair Historian: 0:23
    YT: So you have chosen death
    Love your animations so much, I like the details. Educationally and creatively done. Well worth the wait

  • @korus9394
    @korus9394 4 роки тому +422

    For me as a german, it is unbelievable to see Germany and France being so close to each other.
    It's incredible that after all this terror Germany induced and the centuries of war they faced with each other, they could become friends nowadays.
    Whenever I feel like worlds going insane, this thought gives me hope that other conflicts may be solved in the future as well.

    • @seanthe100
      @seanthe100 4 роки тому +8

      They had no choice!

    • @edgein3299
      @edgein3299 4 роки тому +78

      They are both Muslim countries now.

    • @bingusofwales
      @bingusofwales 4 роки тому +49

      @@edgein3299 what?

    • @KingZercules
      @KingZercules 4 роки тому +47

      It's the same with the US and Japan. Japan was brutal in the pacific, but the US put aside this, helped Japan rebuilt and now they're close allies. This is one thing I love about the US, it is willing not to hold a grudge if you're ready to work with them. After the Cold War, they even tried to be closer to Russia and it worked until Putin.

    • @bingusofwales
      @bingusofwales 4 роки тому +40

      @@KingZercules The US helped japan to get trade deals and to prevent another WW2 germany from happening and they helped russia to try and avoid nuclear warfare, not saying that the US is bad but im just clearing up that it wasnt because theyre super kind and friendly

  • @luciannelea50
    @luciannelea50 Рік тому +2

    my great aunt was in her late teens/early 20s during ww2 and lived in a small village near nice in vichy occupied france. i grew up hearing stories about it from her. the farmhouse that had been in our family for centuries was then used as a meeting place for nazis and they forced her and her husband to be servants to them (and according to family rumors, they also killed her newborn infant with poisoned milk). the farmhouse now belongs to my parents and you can see where swastikas were carved into the walls by the soldiers. her husband died shortly after the war and she herself recently passed in 2020. she was an amazing and strong woman with so many stories

  • @scottlawson2028
    @scottlawson2028 4 роки тому +276

    Yet again no history regarding armchairs

    • @solosalvador
      @solosalvador 4 роки тому +18

      He should do something like for that for April fools lmao

    • @soldatdaniels8738
      @soldatdaniels8738 4 роки тому +1

      Pffffffhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Good one.

    • @aarongranda7825
      @aarongranda7825 4 роки тому +1

      They go all the way back to Babylonia.

    • @paulinbrooklyn
      @paulinbrooklyn 4 роки тому

      Haha. For similar reasons, I still don’t understand “To Kill a Mockingbird”.

  • @SamTh3Man
    @SamTh3Man 4 роки тому +1224

    I find that thumbnail very offensive.
    You're not supposed to show the Eiffel Tower at night.

  • @Frenchylikeshikes
    @Frenchylikeshikes 4 роки тому +168

    I want to thank you as this is one of the few times I have seen a English speaking channel acknowledging the role of French resistance against the enemy. Those people were truly heroes, risking their lives every day in hostile territory.
    Please make a video on Jean Moulin, if you have a chance. I think that guy deserves to be known more outside of France.

    • @yanntheman13
      @yanntheman13 4 роки тому

      Here here

    • @TupadreSS
      @TupadreSS 4 роки тому +8

      People should make a video about Witold Pilecki. The only man to infiltrate voluntarily at Auschwitz only to take a look, and then escape.
      A real hero, killed by Soviets because he was "so much Pole" for their taste.

    • @arto4214
      @arto4214 4 роки тому

      @@TupadreSS A french youtuber made a vidéo about him, but this guy is not even french

    • @youraverageimperialguard7932
      @youraverageimperialguard7932 4 роки тому +8

      Unfortunately those same people would later commit genocidal slaughter and war crimes against the Algerians who were suffering under French Oppression.

    • @thewierdlemon5956
      @thewierdlemon5956 4 роки тому +5

      @@youraverageimperialguard7932 everybody has done something bad at one point its just how it is

  • @grelomia
    @grelomia 2 роки тому +21

    Amazing episode. Cannot imagine how much suffering was in the hearts of all the French survivors. Bless them for their resilience. Btw, could it be possible to have a similar episode for the Netherlands? Thanks again for your contribution

    • @Ratselmeister
      @Ratselmeister Рік тому +1

      Bless them? Ever heard about Versaille?

    • @Pyxlean
      @Pyxlean Рік тому

      ​@@RatselmeisterOh look, a Nazi who uses whataboutism to justify the existence of one of the most horrifying, brutal and authoritarian regimes in history.

    • @itsvo13
      @itsvo13 Рік тому

      @@PotDeMiel2006 ever heard of your parents?

  • @meadowcontreras2760
    @meadowcontreras2760 4 роки тому +241

    1:08
    Did anyone else panic inside a little when she dropped her baby?

    • @soup6381
      @soup6381 3 роки тому +21

      The “baby”

    • @R4in46
      @R4in46 3 роки тому +3

      Same

    • @warh1story563
      @warh1story563 3 роки тому +5

      Only to be a bag of grenades

    • @R4in46
      @R4in46 3 роки тому +1

      @@warh1story563 'Nades*

    • @warh1story563
      @warh1story563 3 роки тому +2

      @@R4in46 isn’t it grenades?

  • @fatyoshi4853
    @fatyoshi4853 4 роки тому +218

    The French Resistance: We were the best resistance group
    The Yugoslav Partizans: *WHAT WAS THAT, PUNK?*
    Edit: dear god why did i bring up the Balkans

    • @jansuchecki2951
      @jansuchecki2951 4 роки тому +48

      *Door slams open* Polish Partizans who basiclly created their own underground country with courts, prosecutors and sittings of underground parlament: Kids, kids I think we can all agree who the winner is(Take it with a pinch a salt If u can I am just playing along XD)

    • @berys76
      @berys76 4 роки тому +5

      * Lithuanian partisans joined the game *

    • @silverpleb2128
      @silverpleb2128 4 роки тому +2

      Actually, the yousoglav partisans were less than the french ones.

    • @harleyokeefe5193
      @harleyokeefe5193 4 роки тому +3

      Official Fat Yoshi it’s kinda a moot point really, they all lost to the Germans so it doesn’t matter who resisted them best lmao

    • @aka-red3946
      @aka-red3946 4 роки тому +12

      Polish Home Army, Polish People Army and Polish Peasent Battalions: *YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR MOUTH!*

  • @obunga4233
    @obunga4233 4 роки тому +24

    Reminder to anyone rewatching this
    3:05 here you can skip the ad.

  • @brendansmith7842
    @brendansmith7842 2 роки тому

    3:40 moving the clocks forward by one hour, or springing ahead prolongs the morning darkness but makes the arrival of night later... It doesn't hasten the arrival of night.

  • @johnpauljones3426
    @johnpauljones3426 3 роки тому +310

    Imagine the French being like "no do you even know how long it took to steal that"

    • @coitze8704
      @coitze8704 3 роки тому +12

      @Socio Cynical Steal what? The Europeans plundered from the African tribes, not vice-versa.

    • @abigailrowe5024
      @abigailrowe5024 3 роки тому +18

      HoodBoy ssssh that messed with his European victim-complex.

    • @johnpauljones3426
      @johnpauljones3426 3 роки тому +1

      @@abigailrowe5024 I would prefer French we other Europeans don't like to associate with them

    • @coitze8704
      @coitze8704 3 роки тому +1

      @@johnpauljones3426 Very true. Have you noticed that all the messed up African countries today are those that were colonized by France?

    • @johnpauljones3426
      @johnpauljones3426 3 роки тому +1

      @@coitze8704 hey yeah that's true, all the former British colonies are at least ok meanwhile all the French one's had dictatorships

  • @apian7594
    @apian7594 4 роки тому +71

    Germany: **Occupies France**
    France: **Gets occupied just so they have a reason to start a new revolution**

    • @talon_xi
      @talon_xi 4 роки тому +1

      @@whyhello9649 you can like it now

  • @bom5594
    @bom5594 4 роки тому +18

    Little anecdotes from my family who lived this war between the occupied zone and the free zone. In free zone when my grand father was ten years old he was chased by german plains just for having fun. In occupied zone both my grand parents had to share their homes with germans while their fathers was captured or fighting. My great great grand mother raised 12 children and lost two of them while she had no news of her husband during 4 years. My great uncle has been denonced at the gestapo and moved to a camp because of his help to refugees. another uncle has been prisoner in a germany farm and didn't have coat and pullover during winter by -20•C .And everybody was so hungry, they gaved the amount of 300gr of bread/days per persons, 90gr of meat/week , 150gr of fat /15 days and 50gr of cheese/month when they had it in groceries 👍

  • @compelledpluto
    @compelledpluto 2 роки тому +4

    I appreciate your accurate animation guys

  • @MrBrockHeinz
    @MrBrockHeinz 3 роки тому +59

    Editor: _"How wide do you want this video?"_
    Armchair Historian: *_"Yes."_*

  • @elultimopujilense
    @elultimopujilense 4 роки тому +17

    The quality of animation and storytelling is just amazing. If it wasnt for this channel, I wouldnt had known that this stuff happened in the past. Is our responsibility to know the things our ancestors came through, it really helps me to appreciate the present momment and all the things we take for granted. Thank you so much!

  • @justsomeguywithasurprisede4059
    @justsomeguywithasurprisede4059 4 роки тому +102

    Being a anti-air machine gunner on top of the Eiffel Tower is scary
    Only AC: Unity fans will relate to this

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri 4 роки тому +1

      Normie PFP

    • @AZP-im7gk
      @AZP-im7gk 4 роки тому +2

      Just some guy with a surprised expression wait why is their an Eiffel Tower in ac unity?

    • @Clem-qe6sv
      @Clem-qe6sv 4 роки тому +2

      ​@@AZP-im7gk There's a short sequence where you're sent in WW2 Paris and have to climb the Eiffel Tower (and fire at some german aircrafts on the way, with said machine guns)

    • @despaciteggadventures8922
      @despaciteggadventures8922 4 роки тому

      I play assassins creed unity!

    • @brazgazz
      @brazgazz 4 роки тому

      Or actual war veterans.