@@marsski4660 always been I Hope that once they leave the EU we wont let them back in, im sure they Will want to return soon after leaving, but that Will hurt their pride a lot, so the idiots might not even do it
What did you want for them to do? Send troops to occupied Gdynia or encircled Danzig? Do naval invasion on Germany against Luftwaffe? The fuck? stop replyin it's been like 1 or 2 years
You guys think it was, we don t send army to OCCUPED Poland. Just attack germany from the other side. France was the weakest country of the ww2. They was doing nothing
to be fair would the uk and france make a difference? the only reason uk was as relevant as it was is because the americans were breastfeeding them with supplies and france, well, france was france.
Germany still dont pay Poland reparations ,Bilions dollars for losses. To all public knowledge in every country should that fact be presented and Germany must be brought to justice!!!
i mean its 3 countries, while those countries are big and strong, its not a huge international coalition like in korea or in iraq or with isis or with germany by the end of ww2
Wow... I am at a loss for words. This video is so good that it absolutely destroys every mapping video out there on the 1939 Invasion of Poland. Every single thing about this is superb. Your map is incredibly detailed, showing cities, lakes, AND topography! You have zoomed in views of Danzig and the Hel Peninsula. You show the transfer of the Wilno/Vilnius area to Lithuania. You showed the areas of operation of the Polish Underground State. You have the combat deaths, the official name of each combatant nation in both English and their native language. You showed details that I missed, such as the correct date for each integration of Polish territory into the German Reich (first Danzig, then West Prussia/Polish Corridor, and finally Poznan/Posen), as well as how the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact originally called for the territory between the Vistula and Bug Rivers (around Lublin) to go to the Soviets (in exchange for which the Germans would get Lithuania), and how that was changed towards the end of the Polish Campaign. That is not even mentioning how amazingly detailed the frontlines/encirclements are, and how you did this EVERY HOUR! After this... ANY DOUBT AT ALL that you are the best historical mapper has been obliterated. Every single video you find another way to massively increase the quality, and you did it again. The fact that you only have 5k subscribers is absurd. You are one of the most underrated channels that I have ever seen, and you deserve so much more views and subscribers for the time, effort, and quality that you put into your work. Keep it up man and I am really looking forward to more videos like this in the future. Sorry for the rant, but I was just blown away by how good this was (also the music was great, as well as the info at the beginning and end of the video)
@@hazzmati Gdańsk was Polish city but often under German influence or taken from Poland militarily like in Partition of Poland, or by Teutonic Knights.
bartek5207 maybe 500 years but when it was given to poland after ww1 it was a german city which goes against wilson’s principles. It’s only polish now becausd stalin kicked all of the germans out
@Lord Polish Longer? What? France was attack 10 may, and surennder 42 days later, Poland was attack 1 september, and last battle was ended 7 october. Yes, France had bigger support than Poland but: 1) When Poland was attacked by Wehrmacht, 20 German division have to stay in west, on zygrfyd line. Later Germany pushed more division on west. When Germany attacked France, there are not second front. 2) France have to defense borders with Italy and Spain 3) Allied armies were a joke. Bellgian's and Dutch's armies were weak, BKE was small, and Great Britan evacuated them fastly. France situation was so bloody as us :/
Pan Muren no tak, pomysł sobie ile byśmy wywalczyli z Sowietami gdyby Adolf wziął całą Polskę i narobił nam ojczhstych ss, byli byśmy na poziomie Belgii a nie jak taki biedny piesek gdy reszta która walczyła w ss teraz rządzi Europą
@@kamilkamil8326 Przynajmniej honor zachowali. A zresztą nie byliśmy by jak Belgia gdyż Belgia była silna, miała kolonie, niewolników nie była też pod zaborami więc miała czas się wzbogacić i rozwijać. A polska, no cóż 123lata zaborów, osłabiona przez potop i brak swobodnego rozwijania się. Następnie trzeba było zacząć od nowa a czasy były nie spokojne. A zresztą okupacja III rzeszy w Polsce różniła się diametralnie od okupacji w Belgii, Holandii czy Francji. Słowianie byli uważani za podludzi, mieli zostać wyniszczeni albo stać się sługami Niemców. W Polsce było najgorzej pod tym względem w Europie i zapewne na świecie. A Ruskie i tak wyprowadziły by komunizm. A SS w innych państwach nie pomogły aż tak w rozwoju. Tamtym krajom Pomogł jak już wspomniałem brak zaborów, kolonie, lżejsza okupacja oraz reparacje. Natomiast polska nie dostała reparacji ani krzty i znów ( w odróżnieniu do innych) musieliśmy zaczynać od nowa, czyli odbudowa ( dopiero co stworzonego państwa) oraz wprowadzenie komunizmu. Polska była najbardziej zgrabionym krajem w Europie i zapewne na świecie. Nic by to i tak nie pomogło, zresztą i tak jesteśmy bogatsi niż ponad połowa kraji Europy, oczywiście przed nami jest cały zachód i północ ( oprócz Portugalii).
@@lgardner7176 There is no strategic reason. But Poles love that romantic idea to fight to last bullet and soldier. It has to do with our 19th century history. I don't support this suicide uprisings and battles, but thats how My nation looks like and I have no power to change it
@@TheAustronaut03 Thera three or four dates that could be named as "beggining of the second war". en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jab%C5%82onk%C3%B3w_incident theculturetrip.com/europe/poland/articles/this-bridge-is-where-world-war-two-really-began/ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Wielu%C5%84 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Westerplatte
@@walterwhitegaming8830 They took him to a prisoner of war camp. There they checked their education, Jewish origin and knowledge of foreign languages. After a week he got a job on a farm in Germany. He worked until the end of the war in western Germany.
You have no idea how many Poles surrendered, right? As for the president, prime minister, government and commander-in-chief, well, they just fled the country.
@@tymon1928 Sure. For example, this one: "Die Polen beispielsweise waren zwar zu Recht stolz auf den Widerstand ihrer Gesellschaft gegen die Nazis, haben aber tatsächlich während des Krieges mehr Juden als Deutsche getötet." www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article146355392/Die-Osteuropaeer-haben-kein-Schamgefuehl.html
@@VanessaMagick The Second War was actually quite bloodless untill the invasion of Russia. It was a quick defeat and in comparision to WW1 very tame. Commentators of that time were impressed by the what the english media coinced "Blitzkrieg" because it targeted supply lines which leads to the enemy front line surrendering after being surrounded & without oil or ammunition - in contrast to the slaughter house frontal warfare we saw in World War One were each side just tried to throw as many bombs at each other's trenches as possible.
It is very touching to watch as a Pole. The details, which include Hel, counterattacks, defence of Westerplatte and areas of resistance are absolutely incredible, thank you very much for this video! ❤️ Nigdy więcej wojny.
@Steiler Aufstieg They lived badly as they were subject to discriminatory laws and forced germanisation and Russification. Not sure how much you'd enjoy that but to me that's utter shit.
@Steiler Aufstieg Life after partitions was wierd. Imagine that you don't know how to speak german, speaking in your native language is forbidden and they teach you german in german.
@Steiler AufstiegThe "insane polish nationalism" as you call it, was nothing more than a desire to be treated as people in their own house. Being under the rule of people who don't give a damn about self-determination of nations, who see you only as a potential to expand their sphere of influence, is humiliating and it's nothing pleasant.
Yes, you are absolutely right.But in that land lived mostly Slovaks, it was part of Poland since 1920.Im not proud of it, but Slovakia and Poland were enemies 1938-1939 - for Munich betrayal. But I want to say unlike germans and soviets army, police and secret serveces ohly Slovak did not be brutal to civilians people. It was ohly part of Poland where polish and slovak people lived normal during ww2, till august 1944 when started slovak uprising against german army.
@@Hermann3635 Actually this was much better "occupation" than german and nobody rly cares about slovakia in ww2 in poland, Czechoslovakia also took polish land in Zaolzie and that was the main problem beetwen 2 countries that was preventing any sort of anti german alliance. Anyway i think polish people were living in much greater condition under Slovak state than under German Reich so like i said i agree with you EDIT: Also i cant rly blame you for things Czechs did but you know you were one country even if they were in power mostly
@@Hermann3635 After invasion Slovaks pursued a policy of denationalization of Poles in the occupied areas.They did everything to destroy any Polish traces in occupied land. Slovaks knew that Poles hid Polish language service books in their homes, but they also knew that when they would call to gather them, Poles would not give them up. They resorted to such a catwalk that they announced the collection of these books for Polish soldiers in captivity. When they tricked them, they destroyed them all. It is shocking because it was a state headed by a priest, Fr. Tis. Polish priests, teachers, activists were caught by Slovaks and handed over to the Gestapo. The Polish language was to disappear completely in occupied territory. "Polish and Slovak people lived normal during WW2", "Slovak did not be brutal to civilians people". Did Slovaks pay Germans or Germans payed Slovaks 500 marks for each Jew deported to Auschwitz?
I am glad that you din't skip Polish attacks - they'are small and harder to see - but they are in real locations of Polish offensives - Battle of Bzura (10 days battle - 200k Poles vs 250-350k Germans 9.09-19.09 on the west from Warsaw) - Battle of Kock - 1.10-6.10 - last "blue"point on the map. Thank you!
@@fynnoleianson8802 Was not possible to win, but they fought 3 days (order was 12hrs) versus 400000 soldiers, tanks and aircrafts. Check this video ua-cam.com/video/XnFSb8xcmN4/v-deo.html
@@Simon-lh1te .....you really want to give the audience here the impression, that 400 polish soldiers could stop due to their courages energy and fighting skills ca. 42.000 german soldiers. This is a big LOL. What is the truth? The territory around Wizna had been a muddy hell. Just cut by a river called Narew. The german attackers, the XIX Army-Chor under the command of the General of the tank-troops Heinz Guderian tried to bring tanks over the only existing bridge in this area, BUT the polish managed to blow this bridge. So, it took Guderian 3 days in order to built a ponton-brigde over this 60 m wide river Narew. So, its clear, that ca. 400 polish soldiers can never stop ca. 42.000 german-soldiers. End of story.
03:29 The last stand of the Polish was awesome. Respect from Turkey to the brave Polish people. They surrounded but never surrendered! A minor fact : Ottomans never accepted partitions of Poland and kept their embassy open and clean in istanbul for decades eventhough there is no Polish emabassador anymore!
During the Crimean War Poles fought alongside the Turks against the Russian Imperialists. It is well recorded that Turkey never accepted the fact that the Polish State no longer existed and this would have helped inspire the Poles to forever struggle for their independence during the 123 years of being partitioned. I am not too sure but I believe that Denmark was the other European country which also never agreed to the disappearance of the Polish State.
@@theflyingfox8204 Your point? You can say the same about the Poles, Lithuanians, Dutch, French, British, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedes, Danes, Belgians, Italians amongst many others who conquered other lands, and, of course, Russia and Germany. Turkey has been a supporter of the Polish nation since the time of partitioning since 1795. Turkey also allowed Polish troops to travel through their territory so they could to continue the fight in the West. Your snidey comment is not appropriate.
@@ronaldostrowski4014 : My point is that I don't come here to brag about how great and peace-loving my imperialist country (The Netherlands) was, like the Turks do all over UA-cam.
@@theflyingfox8204 Saint Joseph was not bragging but merely demonstrating support for Poland during its darkest period of history. As an Australian of part Polish descent, and a son of a WW11 veteran Polish father who served with the Free Polish Forces which fought alongside the allies (including the Dutch) in the air, on land in the sea welcome any support and sympathy for Poland's struggle during 1939 to 1945. There was a time when the Poles only fought the Turks in many bloody wars, but that was centuries ago.
@Vyrex420 Poland just came out of communism, And It was very poor because of Stalin, And they are now an economical power House, they have not the strongest but fastest growing economy in Europe, And It doesnt look like It Will be stoping any sooner. And Poland's army can still stand a very high chance against the German one, considering also how Poland has a lot less money. The Problem with Poland is that It Lost everything It had, but read history And educate yourself of how Poland use to fuck Up the holy roman empire And Prussian before the partitions
@@marsski4660 Let Germany enjoy who it wants in it borders. Why the fuck Poles are upset about? It's not like those migrants will go to a shithole known for insane xenophobia called Poland!! Or maybe because Poles don't want to compete with them for jobs in Germany🤔 For a shithole, net-taker of EU money (takeout more than what it contributes) , Poland is annoying. If you don't like the EU, LEAVE it. (I don't like the EU). However, I will never have the face to take money from it, and then annoy the countries that pay me (France, UK, Germany, Spain and Italy) about how they want the club to be run. This is just a unique Polish bullshit.
Poland fought HARD but they weren’t strong enough to take on two giants at once Edit: I’m tired of people arguing in the comments chill out it was 80 years ago I’m sorry to anyone getting offended about them “Betraying your country” or other Bullshit it’s just a comment like and get on with your day (no offense to Poland just saying it’s kinda pissing me off I love Poland but stop arguing)
Tinnitus ok ok ok look at the statistics 1.5 million Germans 800,000 Soviet troops Poland barely had any tanks or guns for that matter they were under equipped and Germany and the Soviet Union had way more weapons troops and training Poland had 900,000 troops and they were motivated but look at the statistics Poland: 39 divisions 16 Brigades 4,300 guns 210 tanks 400 aircraft Germany: 66 divisions 6 brigades 9,000 guns 2,750 tanks 2,315 aircraft Slovakia: 3 divisions Soviet Union: 33+ divisions 11+ brigades 4,959 guns 4,736 tanks 3,300 aircraft If you just take a look 2 giants and 1 little country that have been planing war for weeks vs a mediocre country not ready for war they fought hard there is no way Poland would have stood a chance
TheMrMussolini In 39' we were just 20yrs after retrieving our independence (123 years being not independent). Just imagine how it looks being occupied and exploited by agressors for over 120years.. Anyway i'm proud of my ancestors, they are real heroes. I'm also proud of my nation that after 50 years of russian occupation (when they did literally everything to erase our indentity - killing civils, priests, forbiding to pray and to use our language and many MANY more) we are still here. And yet again, it's 20 years passing after 89 and we are rising like a real pheonix. In 20yrs we managed to gain so much that today we can buy the newest weapons, sing our anthem, develop and get stronger every day. It's hard to understand for foreigner, but you need to know that 89' was just an illusion. Today it's commonly known and proved that solidarity leader (lech walesa who got Nobel Peace Prize) betrayed us and he was just a communists muppet. So after 89' when we became 'free' country again till today our system (judiciary, journalism, academics, special forces, businessmen etc.) was infiltrated by communists and their heritage. Today they are supported by EU, so if they retrieve their powers they would continue to destroy our industry just to provide cheap labour to their principals.
2:52 Nicely done. There is no lighter red as Soviets gain more territory. That's because they weren't fighting, Germans were merely retreating to the agreed German-Soviet border.
Dude, the USSR did not want to kill the Poles, he did not want to give the territories to the Nazis, because he knew that there would soon be a new war
@@PoProstuBoniacz due to my knowledge in ww2, l have to agree in many things with him. I firmly believe stalin did know a war with germany was coming. The problem is that the great purges in the late 30s left the red army badly commanded, and after the winter war, stalin started reforms, but because of the purges it was slow. Now, mixed with the non-agression pact, and the fact that stalin didnt believe germany would cause a 2 front war made him believe that lf he didnt make any preparation for war would give his army time to prepare. With this l can believe he is PARTIALLY right in saying that stalin invaded because he knew war was coming, and not to kill the poles. Homever, stalin did want to take poland to spread communism
@@skorpiopl3933 due to my knowledge in ww2, l have to agree in many things with him. I firmly believe stalin did know a war with germany was coming. The problem is that the great purges in the late 30s left the red army badly commanded, and after the winter war, stalin started reforms, but because of the purges it was slow. Now, mixed with the non-agression pact, and the fact that stalin didnt believe germany would cause a 2 front war made him believe that lf he didnt make any preparation for war would give his army time to prepare. With this l can believe he is PARTIALLY right in saying that stalin invaded because he knew war was coming, and not to kill the poles. Homever, stalin did want to take poland to spread communism
@@blitzkrupp8583 no actually Poland would stand no chance, idk where your getting this false information from because Poland already lost almost everything when the Soviets crossed the border
@@blitzkrupp8583 Poland still would lose even if the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact wasn't signed. But there would be less casualties. The Poles were planned to regroup around Lviv and the Romanian Border, and hold out until the French and Brits attack in the West. This of course never happened, but some Polish units retreated into Hungary. Hungary was actually friendly to Poland (main reason why they never joined in the invasion). Budapest even helped in bringing these people to the West, and they would go on to fight in Norway and over the Skies of Britain.
Hungarians and Poles had been good old neighbors since long ago. Hungary refused to Germany to take a part in its Polish invasion, and Poles do remember that.
@@ivanp1716 Yes, we Poles and Hungarians love one another and this friendship is 1000 years old. Of the most recent events, Hungarians helped us in 1920 against the Soviets and refused to Germany to take part not only in the invasion of Poland, but also in repressing of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.
The fact that this was taking place over hours, not days is insane. The speed of advancement from the Germans was unprecedented, and the brave Polish barely stood a chance. Their resistance should be remembered, it was one of the fiercest in World War 2. Great video Yan, you have some of the best mapping skills in the whole community!
Still, the German casualties are higher than what one might expect based on how quickly they managed to conquer Poland. I think Wikipedia mentions that Luftwaffe lost almost 300 planes in Poland.
Poland could've stood for waaaaaay longer. All we had to do was to destroy all bridges on major rivers in wehrmachts way and to use all our AT forces in places where there weren't any rivers deep enough to stop a tank.
@@deci2723 True. Yet - as far as I know - Polish command have consciously chosen suboptimal strategy, to show allies that they are fiercely fighting for every piece of land as they knew Franco-British reluctance towards joining open war (vide: appeasement politics) and they did not want to give them additional ground for excuses (i.e.: "Why should we fight for them, if they do not want to fight for their ow land"). Otherwise, basing defense strategy on fallback lines along wide N-S running Polish rivers would be much preferred. And, in hindsight, FR-GB either way would do nothing...
@@maciejmanna9246 no Poland heavily relied on phone lines which were targeted by stukas which broke timely communication, and Poland initial fortifications were to close to Germany and under maned. lastly Poland was-int properly prepend not that Poland did not suspect Germany invasion it was that we knew when Germany was going to fully modernize and bet on the invasion to take two more years. so Poland prioritized industrialization as it was lacking more than the military.
I love moments such like that when I realize that there are people all over the world who remember about invasion of my motherland. massive respect for creating so detailed animation.
Poland is a very proud nation, it has been through so much but still survives today. Poland never had a chance against 2 great powers with no real help, but the level of resistance they put up was astounding. Us history fans remember the sacrifices your ancestors made for their freedom.
@Adam Evva Really? Is that all you know about polish history? Well, even if this would be truth, it's still better than Ukraine which always has been nothing :D
@@pudlo1111 Putin and Russia never denied the invasion of Soviet troops in 1939. The difference between Russian and Polish propaganda is that: A) The Russians returned their lands, which the Poles had taken from them in the 1920s. B) During the German offensive, it was obvious that Poland had no chance. The Polish government has already left the country or was about to do so. Therefore, the actions of the Russians are tantamount to removing shoes from the corpse. Is it helpful? Yes. Is it morally? No.
@Adam Evva You mean the lands in which every bigger city and 40-60% of village population were Polish. I know it might be hard to have a coherent historical consciousness after 70 years under Soviet oppression and propaganda, but FFS, seriously? In 1920 Polish Army fought TOGETHER with Belarusian and Ukrainian forces to create independent Ukraine and Belarus free of Russian influence, and as a bulwark against Russian imperialism, both red and white. We did fight over Lwów in 1919, but when Ukrainian state collapsed, almost completely occupied by the Russians, we gave you our helping hand, agreed on a border on Zbruch (Treaty of Warsaw 1920) and fought for your independence with all the power we had. We pushed Russians out East, liberated Kiev and gave the city to you, along with everything East to the Zbruch! Offensive on Kiev and liberating, yes LIBERATING big portion of Ukraine left our army so overextended, it almost cost us our own independence. After that Russians pushed us back to Vistula, there was no more possibility of bargaining for free Ukraine and Belarus, it was a fight for survival. We did manage to survive and set up border with the Soviets on Zbruch. YES ZBRUCH. The same river, you agreed as a border between Poland and Ukraine, so don't whine about some "occupation" you ungrateful, narrow-minded, nationalist.
@Adam Evva xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Oh yeah. I shouldn't have expected any different answer from a citizen of a nation raised in victim mentality, which national consciousness arose barely 150 years ago. You have so little actual national history, that you had to steal legacy of Ruthernians of Kievian Rus and Cossacs of Zaporoze, and even after that you still name your squares and streets after XX century murderers of women and children, who interchangeably genocided Poles and made Jewish pogroms left and right, calling it "fight for free Ukraine". Well. At least history punishes you now. Poland, Russia and even Belarus may not be the richest of countries, but Ukrainian GDP per capita is a fraction of either of those. You can blame others on your country being a poorhole of Europe. You can also grow up, educate yourself and do something about it. Whatever flows your boat. Peace.
@@tomaszwitosawski5153every heard of polish-Ukrainian war of 1918? Seems like u are also brainwashed by ur “beautiful country”. Poland was never interested of freeing people from communism. They only wanted to expand to their pre-1772 borders. You never tried to liberate Ukraine, you only wanted to take it over. You’re no better than the Soviets. To further prove my point, do you know during the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938, Poland seized the opportunity and took some Czech land. So don’t call others ungrateful brats when you poles were also quite selfish.
@@KAKUN_DESU What?! Germany attacked Poland with almost 50 divisions (best of them), in same time at west front was only 20 divisions (mostly unexperienced, some reservist divisions)....stop saying fake informations.....
@@KAKUN_DESU How can you deny facts?! 😂 “If we didn’t lose the war in 1939, it was only because during the Polish campaign 110 British and French divisions remained completely passive. Facing them in the West were only 20 German divisions, mostly reservist" - German General Alfred Jodl. As you can see in this time elite german troops were in Poland, this if fact, there are many documents, your trolling is funny
Nothing to brag about. You will see minor counter offensives in virtually any war because doing quick raids on enemy positions is really easy to do, even when you only have defensive divisions.
Etiluca bitch Please. Poland defended France, Norway, UK, Polish soldiers fought in north Africa and Italy, on Atlantic. Polish soldiers from Polish 1st armored division liberated part of France in1944, almost whole Belgium and Netherlands. Polish soldiers took whole north western part of nazi germany with main base of kriegsmarine in Vilhelmshaven. Polish soldiers took Verlin together with soviets.
Amazing work as always. I didn't know Poland made so many counterattacks during the invasion until I watched this video, they really put up a good fight against the fascist invaders and the Red Tsar.
The Nazis never called themselves fascist, actually they fought the Fascists of Austria, and they laughed a lot on Italy, because it was fascist and had no higher values than just the imperialism.
@@elli6220, Yeah, right, therefore no country in the West is a democratic one. Democracy is very different from the ancient one which should be the base of the today's ones but it isn't. The ancient democracy as the Attic State is a Tyranny. The Tyrant controls all demoses. The Demokratia is called after one demos which manages itself but is under the Tyrant/Basileus (King), that is actually a dictator. O.o so what? Yet what the fuck is a so-called democracy?
That was battle of Kock. Last battle of 1939 campagin Gen Kleeberg's Independent Operational Group "Polesie" attacked and beat some german forces but needed to surrender due to lack of ammunition.
Ah Poland, how my heart bleeds for you, fighting on until the very end knowing there will be no victory but going out with dignity and not giving the enemy the satisfaction of surrender
"Hello hello? Can you hear us? This is our last Polish radio communication. Today, German troops entered Warsaw. We send brotherly greetings for Polish troops fighting at Hel Peninsula and anybody fighting whatsoever, regardless of the place. Poland is not yet lost! Long live Poland!" Poland last radio message.
Britain and France didn’t even wanted to help Poland since they didn’t like them. It was just to scare Hitler away, but the mustache man was so confident that Britain and France won’t do anything he attacked Poland anyway.
Literally France and Britain said they would do an offensive in Rhineland and they didnt even take all of saarland i the offensive and they got pushed back imediatelly, and France fell in 6 weeks like wtf
USSR went there after they told the polish ambassador that Poland does not more exist and they are going to take back the territory that was in russian impire fir hundreds of years
Here was missed a moment where Poland with Hitler tore Czechoslovakia apart. Karma - after that Poland suffered the same fate. And Germany itself then. Also missed that USSR invaded Poland and took BACK russian ancestral lands - Western Ukraine and Western Belarus which Poland had chewed off from Russia not long before.
@@PoProstuBoniacz Poland managed to occupy a small piece of Zaolzie in 1919, stealing it from Germany. They would occupied a whole Germany, but they just didn't have enough strength. In 1938 Poland occupied other parts of Zaolzie that had never belonged to Poland.
Yes that was a defeat for you but you need to never forgot that you were invaded by 2 great powers and got bad equipment compared to them so In My heart that not a defeat
1:07 - 1:23 The defence of Wizna lasted September 8- September 11. A small contingent of 773 Polish soldiers Held off A whopping 40,000 German troops for Three days.
@@mesinovict6316 Thats only half true.There were also many Spartan allies like Thebes at the battle so the real numbers could had averge to 1000 greeks at Thermpoalyoe.
It's really sad to see that It's true social media coverage doesn't show this things I thought modern Germany has no problems But bro Algeria's suffering too..... We suffer of french colonialism We learn their language at school So I understand your feeling
Im an Albanian,but if I would be a Pole,I would be proud of my nation,getting beated and beated from strong guys,and never surrenering.Not like France that surrender even if 1/4 of its territory is seized
Yes, we are proud, but look at France and Poland situation after war. 50 years in comunist ussr, it was one of consequence of our brave. No one helped us, no one wanted to talk with us
Człowiek Całka shitty communist destroyed the economic prosperity of every east european state. I can only imagine how would life be in my Serbia nowadays without communism and the wars in the 90s
I am very grateful for mentioning about Polish Underground State. Very good movie, I subscribed you because I wanted see detailed wars in China and I never thought tbat You would make a video about my country. Yes, I'm Pole and I thank you for this. (Sorry for my mistakes in English)
france was more advanced, had tons of soldiers, lots of help from britain and they still lasted only 2 weeks longer than poland who was weak, messed up their plan and fighting two superpowers from basically all sides bruh
*”hello hello? Can you hear us! We are broadcasting last polish radio communications. Today, german troops entered at warsaw! We send brotherly greetings for polish soldiers fighting for hel peninsula!, anybody fighting whatsoever, regardless of the place. poland has never lost!. Long live poland!”*
@trueman mann OMG i cant believe what i have read. You are soo stupid, sorry but u dont have any idea what r u talking about "the best THING to ever have happened" u r soo dumb bro.
Love 🇵🇱 from 🇹🇷! People who respect their nations and fight for them are appreciated here, unless they fight against us, then we fight for ours. You know, great country, love y'all!
Thank you so much for that movie. 80 years ago my grandma's first husband was shooted by germans when he went for some food for children. Today is 80 anniversary of his death. It was in my hometown Trzebinia . Much love from free and independent Poland.
Someone in my family was a jewish carpenter who was killed by the polish regime two days before the invasion. Those times were horrible. RIP to all the fallen heroes.
Someone in my family was a jewish carpenter who was killed by the polish regime two days before the invasion. Those times were horrible. RIP to all the fallen heroes.
@@sblbb929 Please explain the circumstances and don't tell me they killed him because he was a Jew. For instance, was there a trial? There is way too much crap written about Poland.
To jest dziwna sprawa bo kiedy byłem mały, w Polsce na lekcjach ta informacja była pominięta, podobnie jak "niemoc" rosyjskiej armii podczas Powstania Warszawskiego. Uczyli o tym natomiast w USA, gdzie spędziłem rok w high school.
@@terro3953 Za komuny w szkołach w ogóle nie było o tym mowy. Pod koniec komuny jak było o tym coraz głośniej to uczono, że bratnia Armia Czerwona weszła do Polski, żeby ratować Polskę przed Niemcami. :-) Ta pomoc była taka dobra, że połowa mojej rodziny została zamordowana, a resztę wywieziono na Sybir.
@@firemangan2731 oh please this defeat isnt embarrassing in the slightest they fought against Germany and Russia at the same time on both sides of course there was no chance
The Polish Forces also fought at Tobruk and in the North African campaign. They also fought to liberate France, Belgium, Holland, and captured the German port city of Wilhelmshave (1944 - 1945). From 1942 the First and Second Polish Armies fought alongside their supposed ally the USSR all the way to Berlin and Dresden. There was in addition to the Polish Army fighting abroad a Polish Airforce and Polish Navy. The Poles also had a large underground which the German occupiers could not destroy.
@@thilo4969 All the best Polish officers like Anders, Maczek, and Sosabowski served with the Free Polish Forces in the West. When General Zyymunt Berling (a Calvinistic Pole of Swedish descent who like General Anders was amongst a few others that escaped the 1940 Katyn Massacre) was sacked as the Polish supreme commander for trying to send his Polish troops to help the Polish insurgents during the 63 day Warsaw Uprising they replaced him with the incompetent General Karol Świerczewski. During the Battle of Bautzen Świerczewski.was hell-bent on taking Dresden instead of securing his southern flank as Soviet General Konev instructed him to, and that cost him the unnecessarily high rate of casualties. But nonetheless the Polish Second Army and the Soviet forces finally repelled the German attack and then launched an offensive towards Prague.
The “second polish army” was nothing but a horde of un-organized poles who were supplied and fed by the very same nation that invaded them a couple years prior 😂 Poland was infamous for its brutality in ethnically german regions, relying completely on british and french support, yet victimizes itself once Germany invades. What a joke of a nation
Polish last Message: Halo, halo czy nas słyszycie? To nasz ostatni komunikat. Tego dnia oddziały niemieckie wkroczyły do Warszawy. Braterskie pozdrowienia dla polskich żołnierzy walczących na Helu i wszystkim walczącym gdziekolwiek się jeszcze znajdują. Jeszcze polska nie zginęła! Niech żyje polska!
Im from Hungary and i almost cried. I love germany either but poland is our brother. We are in the axis but we are cant hurt my comrades. we saved millions of polish life crossing our border.
Thanks to Hungarians, even your soldiers in Poland were so nice for citizens. Hungarians never did some cruelty against Polish citizens, Hungarian commander said to german oficer: "We have nothing to do here, Poles are not our enemies". Few of them even stand in combat with Poles against Germans in Warsaw Uprising 1944! There is memorial for them in Raszyn near Warsaw. Polish-Hungarian brothership forever!
This video went public at 4:47 Central European Time, 1 September, 2019, exactly 80 years after the real war began.
Wow what a wonderful way to time it, will tell friends lmao
Wow, maybe I am first Pole who watch this video. Thanks for this great job.
What was that red line in northeastern poland?
a a a
@@axelNodvon2047 Its Lithuanian claims of polish land. Wileńszczyzna and part of Podlasie (Suwałszczyzna).
Invasion of Denmark: every second.
This is dark but I laughed hard
6 second video
Imagine the people there going to sleep in Denmark, and then waking up in Germany
Lmfaoooo
Occupation of Luxembourg; real time
Thanks, UK and France, you guys are really helpfull
@@mili4222 hes being sarcastic, England and France did not help poland at all
@@marsski4660 always been
I Hope that once they leave the EU we wont let them back in, im sure they Will want to return soon after leaving, but that Will hurt their pride a lot, so the idiots might not even do it
@@NotRobert what the fuck
What did you want for them to do? Send troops to occupied Gdynia or encircled Danzig? Do naval invasion on Germany against Luftwaffe? The fuck?
stop replyin it's been like 1 or 2 years
You guys think it was, we don t send army to OCCUPED Poland. Just attack germany from the other side. France was the weakest country of the ww2. They was doing nothing
*Blue in Polands Flag stands for Reliable Allies.*
to be fair would the uk and france make a difference? the only reason uk was as relevant as it was is because the americans were breastfeeding them with supplies and france, well, france was france.
@@garrethigdon7678 Well.. You're not wrong
@@randomguyontheinternet8276 at the end of the day poland is a country again, for now, so thats a plus side
How to make Man in the High Castle happen: stop America from joining the Allies
@@TheMaster4534 no, the soviets would have just taken more of europe
Incredible work, one of the best videomappers!
The best.
Você não pode fugir ;^;
Lol are Fucking kidding right
Germany still dont pay Poland reparations ,Bilions dollars for losses. To all public knowledge in every country should that fact be presented and Germany must be brought to justice!!!
but wrong ...
Polish Citizen: who is invading us
Polish Soldier: yes
i mean its 3 countries, while those countries are big and strong, its not a huge international coalition like in korea or in iraq or with isis or with germany by the end of ww2
no anime ok
don't joke with my country >:(
hahahahaha
Kacper Mapper Hon hon hon first time ?
Wow... I am at a loss for words. This video is so good that it absolutely destroys every mapping video out there on the 1939 Invasion of Poland. Every single thing about this is superb. Your map is incredibly detailed, showing cities, lakes, AND topography! You have zoomed in views of Danzig and the Hel Peninsula. You show the transfer of the Wilno/Vilnius area to Lithuania. You showed the areas of operation of the Polish Underground State. You have the combat deaths, the official name of each combatant nation in both English and their native language. You showed details that I missed, such as the correct date for each integration of Polish territory into the German Reich (first Danzig, then West Prussia/Polish Corridor, and finally Poznan/Posen), as well as how the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact originally called for the territory between the Vistula and Bug Rivers (around Lublin) to go to the Soviets (in exchange for which the Germans would get Lithuania), and how that was changed towards the end of the Polish Campaign. That is not even mentioning how amazingly detailed the frontlines/encirclements are, and how you did this EVERY HOUR! After this... ANY DOUBT AT ALL that you are the best historical mapper has been obliterated. Every single video you find another way to massively increase the quality, and you did it again. The fact that you only have 5k subscribers is absurd. You are one of the most underrated channels that I have ever seen, and you deserve so much more views and subscribers for the time, effort, and quality that you put into your work. Keep it up man and I am really looking forward to more videos like this in the future. Sorry for the rant, but I was just blown away by how good this was (also the music was great, as well as the info at the beginning and end of the video)
Thanks, I really appreciate your compliments.
Danzig polish? Uh no, it was majority german. Danzig being in poland goes against wilson’s principle
@@hazzmati Gdańsk was Polish city but often under German influence or taken from Poland militarily like in Partition of Poland, or by Teutonic Knights.
bartek5207 maybe 500 years but when it was given to poland after ww1 it was a german city which goes against wilson’s principles. It’s only polish now becausd stalin kicked all of the germans out
@@hazzmati By that argument any land given to Poland after ww1 was either Russian, Austrian, or German.
Imagine Poland causing more damage to Germany, than France did while being much stronger than Poland.
It's not true. I am Polish. Polish soliders killed ~ 17.000 Germans, French soliders killed ~ 50.000 Germans.
@@MikolajKnas xD
@Donald TrumpI kto to mówi? Trump? xD
@Lord Polish Longer? What? France was attack 10 may, and surennder 42 days later, Poland was attack 1 september, and last battle was ended 7 october.
Yes, France had bigger support than Poland but:
1) When Poland was attacked by Wehrmacht, 20 German division have to stay in west, on zygrfyd line. Later Germany pushed more division on west. When Germany attacked France, there are not second front.
2) France have to defense borders with Italy and Spain
3) Allied armies were a joke. Bellgian's and Dutch's armies were weak, BKE was small, and Great Britan evacuated them fastly.
France situation was so bloody as us :/
Slavic Heart man!
I love the fact that Hungary Didn't attack Poland even though they were already in the axis.
Hungary was actually friendly to Poland. Some Polish troops escaped into Hungary and were able to make their way to France from there.
Love Hungary because of that its amazing Friendship
🇵🇱 🇭🇺 🍻
And they don’t even have reason to invade them they doesn’t needed any lands from poland
Polak, Węgier dwa bratanki
Christ. It’s amazing to finally see the battle for Poland in detail hour by hour. Can’t wait to see fall gelb and Barbarossa
Fall Gelb*
Schmul Krieger Blame it on the auto correct
Or even the Balkans, imagine Jugoslavija or Greece
It was a campaign, not a battle.
Filip Kogut do you think it’s that big of a deal that I didn’t say campaign? I don’t think so.
Just a simple comment: Thank You!
Greetz from Poland!
Paweł Podstolak Jako jedyni w tamtych czasach nie mieliśmy swojego narodowego oddziału ss tylko jakieś grupy służyły w niemieckim, powód do wstydu
@@kamilkamil8326 powód do wstydu?
to, że nie mieliśmy narodowego oddziału SS?
to, że nie mieliśmy oddziału, który walczył za Hitlera?
śmieszne
Pan Muren no tak, pomysł sobie ile byśmy wywalczyli z Sowietami gdyby Adolf wziął całą Polskę i narobił nam ojczhstych ss, byli byśmy na poziomie Belgii a nie jak taki biedny piesek gdy reszta która walczyła w ss teraz rządzi Europą
@@kamilkamil8326 lepiej przegrać z honorem niż wygrac jako pies
@@kamilkamil8326 Przynajmniej honor zachowali. A zresztą nie byliśmy by jak Belgia gdyż Belgia była silna, miała kolonie, niewolników nie była też pod zaborami więc miała czas się wzbogacić i rozwijać. A polska, no cóż 123lata zaborów, osłabiona przez potop i brak swobodnego rozwijania się.
Następnie trzeba było zacząć od nowa a czasy były nie spokojne.
A zresztą okupacja III rzeszy w Polsce różniła się diametralnie od okupacji w Belgii, Holandii czy Francji. Słowianie byli uważani za podludzi, mieli zostać wyniszczeni albo stać się sługami Niemców. W Polsce było najgorzej pod tym względem w Europie i zapewne na świecie. A Ruskie i tak wyprowadziły by komunizm.
A SS w innych państwach nie pomogły aż tak w rozwoju. Tamtym krajom Pomogł jak już wspomniałem brak zaborów, kolonie, lżejsza okupacja oraz reparacje. Natomiast polska nie dostała reparacji ani krzty i znów ( w odróżnieniu do innych) musieliśmy zaczynać od nowa, czyli odbudowa ( dopiero co stworzonego państwa) oraz wprowadzenie komunizmu. Polska była najbardziej zgrabionym krajem w Europie i zapewne na świecie. Nic by to i tak nie pomogło, zresztą i tak jesteśmy bogatsi niż ponad połowa kraji Europy, oczywiście przed nami jest cały zachód i północ ( oprócz Portugalii).
Gotta admire those last pockets who still managed to mount small counterattacks.
The last "blue area" is the Battle of Kock led by Polish General Franciszek Kleeberg
@@bernards3210 at that point why even try
@@lgardner7176 There is no strategic reason. But Poles love that romantic idea to fight to last bullet and soldier. It has to do with our 19th century history. I don't support this suicide uprisings and battles, but thats how My nation looks like and I have no power to change it
@@bernards3210 haha Kock
@@bernards3210 the battle of cock
Brilliant video! Also, great job planning this video, as it came out on the 80th Anniversary of the Invasion of Poland in 1939.
Not only that, but it was in the same minute, in the same hour. Thats insane.
@@TheAustronaut03 Thera three or four dates that could be named as "beggining of the second war".
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jab%C5%82onk%C3%B3w_incident
theculturetrip.com/europe/poland/articles/this-bridge-is-where-world-war-two-really-began/
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Wielu%C5%84
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Westerplatte
My great grandfather fought in Warsaw in 1939. He survived the war :)
Sorry Vito, Warsaw wasn’t part of the bargain
@Karl Berg Yes. Unfortunately they had to
What did the germans do to him after they captured Warsaw?
@@walterwhitegaming8830 They took him to a prisoner of war camp. There they checked their education, Jewish origin and knowledge of foreign languages. After a week he got a job on a farm in Germany. He worked until the end of the war in western Germany.
@Karl Berg guess your was nazi =/
Respect from Greece we fell in a similar way. 🇬🇷🇵🇱
Ты же православный!
You are orthodox, and they're catholic, never ever forget.
ареф нар polish are orthodox and catholic split
Efthymios Anagnostos did germany bombed Greece when they invaded?
Depressed Dog Germany and Italy both bombed us.
@@efthymiosanagnostos7427 нет. Они все католики.
Annexation of Austria: Every nanosecond
Your profile pic makes me question life
@@lgardner7176 i love it
Austria is germany land thats the true
One Nation alone against two superpowers, and never surrendered.
You have no idea how many Poles surrendered, right?
As for the president, prime minister, government and commander-in-chief, well, they just fled the country.
@@Igordance Poles were still fighting
@@Igordance Poland as Country never surrendered. And Polish resistance have done more against Germans in 1944 then french resistance in 5 years
@@Igordance poles killed more Jews than Germans, source please
@@tymon1928 Sure. For example, this one: "Die Polen beispielsweise waren zwar zu Recht stolz auf den Widerstand ihrer Gesellschaft gegen die Nazis, haben aber tatsächlich während des Krieges mehr Juden als Deutsche getötet." www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article146355392/Die-Osteuropaeer-haben-kein-Schamgefuehl.html
It's only a map, but it's still very emotional watchig this video
Every inch on your monitor taken is hundreds, sometimes thousands of lives lost of both civilians and soldiers. War is hell.
I think that every time I watch a war mapped, it's like you can see the troops being killed. Its horrible to think what they went through.
Not yet mentioning what happened to them during the time of occupation
@@VanessaMagick The Second War was actually quite bloodless untill the invasion of Russia. It was a quick defeat and in comparision to WW1 very tame. Commentators of that time were impressed by the what the english media coinced "Blitzkrieg" because it targeted supply lines which leads to the enemy front line surrendering after being surrounded & without oil or ammunition - in contrast to the slaughter house frontal warfare we saw in World War One were each side just tried to throw as many bombs at each other's trenches as possible.
hahaha 😄🇩🇪
It is very touching to watch as a Pole. The details, which include Hel, counterattacks, defence of Westerplatte and areas of resistance are absolutely incredible, thank you very much for this video! ❤️ Nigdy więcej wojny.
@Steiler Aufstieg They lived badly as they were subject to discriminatory laws and forced germanisation and Russification. Not sure how much you'd enjoy that but to me that's utter shit.
Nigdy więcej
Szkoda, że wojny są nieuniknione.
@Steiler Aufstieg Life after partitions was wierd. Imagine that you don't know how to speak german, speaking in your native language is forbidden and they teach you german in german.
@Steiler AufstiegThe "insane polish nationalism" as you call it, was nothing more than a desire to be treated as people in their own house. Being under the rule of people who don't give a damn about self-determination of nations, who see you only as a potential to expand their sphere of influence, is humiliating and it's nothing pleasant.
Why the hell people dislike this. It takes so much effort to make this, so much research and editing.
Russians
me to 730: why are you gae
730: who says im gay
me: you are gae
@@limmyk4943, why?
@Ultracrepidant Luabation add the bots too
Drama, misclicks, and perceived historical in- accuracies
Slovakia : it's not much, but it's honest work
Yes, you are absolutely right.But in that land lived mostly Slovaks, it was part of Poland since 1920.Im not proud of it, but Slovakia and Poland were enemies 1938-1939 - for Munich betrayal. But I want to say unlike germans and soviets army, police and secret serveces ohly Slovak did not be brutal to civilians people. It was ohly part of Poland where polish and slovak people lived normal during ww2, till august 1944 when started slovak uprising against german army.
@Vasian Vasianich Wild edgelord appeared!
So you praise "the Fuhrer's Europe" and your profile picture is DPRK?
@@Hermann3635 Actually this was much better "occupation" than german and nobody rly cares about slovakia in ww2 in poland, Czechoslovakia also took polish land in Zaolzie and that was the main problem beetwen 2 countries that was preventing any sort of anti german alliance. Anyway i think polish people were living in much greater condition under Slovak state than under German Reich so like i said i agree with you
EDIT: Also i cant rly blame you for things Czechs did but you know you were one country even if they were in power mostly
@@Hermann3635 After invasion Slovaks pursued a policy of denationalization of Poles in the occupied areas.They did everything to destroy any Polish traces in occupied land. Slovaks knew that Poles hid Polish language service books in their homes, but they also knew that when they would call to gather them, Poles would not give them up. They resorted to such a catwalk that they announced the collection of these books for Polish soldiers in captivity. When they tricked them, they destroyed them all. It is shocking because it was a state headed by a priest, Fr. Tis. Polish priests, teachers, activists were caught by Slovaks and handed over to the Gestapo. The Polish language was to disappear completely in occupied territory. "Polish and Slovak people lived normal during WW2", "Slovak did not be brutal to civilians people". Did Slovaks pay Germans or Germans payed Slovaks 500 marks for each Jew deported to Auschwitz?
This music is so fitting, it makes me feel sad for the fallen Polish
The fallen germans*
Kabutoes RIP to all polish, soviet and german people.
@Defender of UA-cam it's 1939
Defender of UA-cam
So nevermind the young german men who were forced into the army and died fighting ? Gotcha
Yes, nevermind them.
I am glad that you din't skip Polish attacks - they'are small and harder to see - but they are in real locations of Polish offensives - Battle of Bzura (10 days battle - 200k Poles vs 250-350k Germans 9.09-19.09 on the west from Warsaw) - Battle of Kock - 1.10-6.10 - last "blue"point on the map. Thank you!
You know of Poland much than me
@@horsefish2525 dziękuję.
Also Battle of Wizna 7-10 September. 400 Polish soldiers vs 42 000 german.
@@fynnoleianson8802 Was not possible to win, but they fought 3 days (order was 12hrs) versus 400000 soldiers, tanks and aircrafts. Check this video ua-cam.com/video/XnFSb8xcmN4/v-deo.html
@@Simon-lh1te .....you really want to give the audience here the impression, that 400 polish soldiers could stop due to their courages energy and fighting skills ca. 42.000 german soldiers. This is a big LOL.
What is the truth? The territory around Wizna had been a muddy hell. Just cut by a river called Narew. The german attackers, the XIX Army-Chor under the command of the General of the tank-troops Heinz Guderian tried to bring tanks over the only existing bridge in this area, BUT the polish managed to blow this bridge.
So, it took Guderian 3 days in order to built a ponton-brigde over this 60 m wide river Narew. So, its clear, that ca. 400 polish soldiers can never stop ca. 42.000 german-soldiers. End of story.
03:29 The last stand of the Polish was awesome. Respect from Turkey to the brave Polish people. They surrounded but never surrendered!
A minor fact : Ottomans never accepted partitions of Poland and kept their embassy open and clean in istanbul for decades eventhough there is no Polish emabassador anymore!
During the Crimean War Poles fought alongside the Turks against the Russian Imperialists. It is well recorded that Turkey never accepted the fact that the Polish State no longer existed and this would have helped inspire the Poles to forever struggle for their independence during the 123 years of being partitioned. I am not too sure but I believe that Denmark was the other European country which also never agreed to the disappearance of the Polish State.
Yes, the Ottomans were such a peaceful bunch. They never conquered any foreign territory and stayed nicely within their own borders. 🧡
@@theflyingfox8204 Your point? You can say the same about the Poles, Lithuanians, Dutch, French, British, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedes, Danes, Belgians, Italians amongst many others who conquered other lands, and, of course, Russia and Germany. Turkey has been a supporter of the Polish nation since the time of partitioning since 1795. Turkey also allowed Polish troops to travel through their territory so they could to continue the fight in the West. Your snidey comment is not appropriate.
@@ronaldostrowski4014 : My point is that I don't come here to brag about how great and peace-loving my imperialist country (The Netherlands) was, like the Turks do all over UA-cam.
@@theflyingfox8204 Saint Joseph was not bragging but merely demonstrating support for Poland during its darkest period of history. As an Australian of part Polish descent, and a son of a WW11 veteran Polish father who served with the Free Polish Forces which fought alongside the allies (including the Dutch) in the air, on land in the sea welcome any support and sympathy for Poland's struggle during 1939 to 1945. There was a time when the Poles only fought the Turks in many bloody wars, but that was centuries ago.
1 minute of silence for the people that died in Poland to save their country
lol
m.ua-cam.com/video/g6IFfQdM7EI/v-deo.html have a nice day ;)
This was supposed to be a respectful thread you fuckwits! Not a poolitical one
@Vyrex420
Poland just came out of communism, And It was very poor because of Stalin, And they are now an economical power House, they have not the strongest but fastest growing economy in Europe, And It doesnt look like It Will be stoping any sooner. And Poland's army can still stand a very high chance against the German one, considering also how Poland has a lot less money.
The Problem with Poland is that It Lost everything It had, but read history And educate yourself of how Poland use to fuck Up the holy roman empire And Prussian before the partitions
@@marsski4660 Let Germany enjoy who it wants in it borders. Why the fuck Poles are upset about? It's not like those migrants will go to a shithole known for insane xenophobia called Poland!!
Or maybe because Poles don't want to compete with them for jobs in Germany🤔
For a shithole, net-taker of EU money (takeout more than what it contributes) , Poland is annoying. If you don't like the EU, LEAVE it. (I don't like the EU). However, I will never have the face to take money from it, and then annoy the countries that pay me (France, UK, Germany, Spain and Italy) about how they want the club to be run. This is just a unique Polish bullshit.
0:40, first country to invade Germany
Where?
@@peterlustig6888 3 times - one on the central front , near Poznań , and 2 actions on the north front - East prussia 02-03.09.1939
@@marekduczmanski8069 Interesting that they broke trough at Possen.
The French were in Saarland in september.
@@erwannleligerien3771 yup but you hide yourself behind maginote line once again.
Poland fought HARD but they weren’t strong enough to take on two giants at once
Edit: I’m tired of people arguing in the comments chill out it was 80 years ago I’m sorry to anyone getting offended about them “Betraying your country” or other Bullshit it’s just a comment like and get on with your day
(no offense to Poland just saying it’s kinda pissing me off I love Poland but stop arguing)
So true
Sorry but that is not true
@@tinnitus9394 what is not?
Tinnitus ok ok ok look at the statistics 1.5 million Germans 800,000 Soviet troops Poland barely had any tanks or guns for that matter they were under equipped and Germany and the Soviet Union had way more weapons troops and training Poland had 900,000 troops and they were motivated but look at the statistics
Poland:
39 divisions
16 Brigades
4,300 guns
210 tanks
400 aircraft
Germany:
66 divisions
6 brigades
9,000 guns
2,750 tanks
2,315 aircraft
Slovakia:
3 divisions
Soviet Union:
33+ divisions
11+ brigades
4,959 guns
4,736 tanks
3,300 aircraft
If you just take a look 2 giants and 1 little country that have been planing war for weeks vs a mediocre country not ready for war they fought hard there is no way Poland would have stood a chance
TheMrMussolini In 39' we were just 20yrs after retrieving our independence (123 years being not independent). Just imagine how it looks being occupied and exploited by agressors for over 120years.. Anyway i'm proud of my ancestors, they are real heroes. I'm also proud of my nation that after 50 years of russian occupation (when they did literally everything to erase our indentity - killing civils, priests, forbiding to pray and to use our language and many MANY more) we are still here. And yet again, it's 20 years passing after 89 and we are rising like a real pheonix. In 20yrs we managed to gain so much that today we can buy the newest weapons, sing our anthem, develop and get stronger every day. It's hard to understand for foreigner, but you need to know that 89' was just an illusion. Today it's commonly known and proved that solidarity leader (lech walesa who got Nobel Peace Prize) betrayed us and he was just a communists muppet. So after 89' when we became 'free' country again till today our system (judiciary, journalism, academics, special forces, businessmen etc.) was infiltrated by communists and their heritage. Today they are supported by EU, so if they retrieve their powers they would continue to destroy our industry just to provide cheap labour to their principals.
2:52 Nicely done. There is no lighter red as Soviets gain more territory. That's because they weren't fighting, Germans were merely retreating to the agreed German-Soviet border.
Dude, the USSR did not want to kill the Poles, he did not want to give the territories to the Nazis, because he knew that there would soon be a new war
@@Nin-fr6fj XD no
@@Nin-fr6fj Hahahahahahahhah the absolute russo-soviet propaganda.
@@PoProstuBoniacz due to my knowledge in ww2, l have to agree in many things with him.
I firmly believe stalin did know a war with germany was coming. The problem is that the great purges in the late 30s left the red army badly commanded, and after the winter war, stalin started reforms, but because of the purges it was slow. Now, mixed with the non-agression pact, and the fact that stalin didnt believe germany would cause a 2 front war made him believe that lf he didnt make any preparation for war would give his army time to prepare.
With this l can believe he is PARTIALLY right in saying that stalin invaded because he knew war was coming, and not to kill the poles. Homever, stalin did want to take poland to spread communism
@@skorpiopl3933 due to my knowledge in ww2, l have to agree in many things with him.
I firmly believe stalin did know a war with germany was coming. The problem is that the great purges in the late 30s left the red army badly commanded, and after the winter war, stalin started reforms, but because of the purges it was slow. Now, mixed with the non-agression pact, and the fact that stalin didnt believe germany would cause a 2 front war made him believe that lf he didnt make any preparation for war would give his army time to prepare.
With this l can believe he is PARTIALLY right in saying that stalin invaded because he knew war was coming, and not to kill the poles. Homever, stalin did want to take poland to spread communism
Incredible attention to detail! It was very interesting to see all the Polish counterattacks. Great video!
1:53 it hurts even watching the video
If USSR never invaded Poland that would be stalemate between Poland and germany
@@blitzkrupp8583 no actually Poland would stand no chance, idk where your getting this false information from because Poland already lost almost everything when the Soviets crossed the border
@@ummoof7069 Seeing bloodshed and thousands die with many more coming brings pride to you? Disgusting
@@ummoof7069 are you nazi? Pathetic
@@blitzkrupp8583 Poland still would lose even if the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact wasn't signed. But there would be less casualties. The Poles were planned to regroup around Lviv and the Romanian Border, and hold out until the French and Brits attack in the West.
This of course never happened, but some Polish units retreated into Hungary. Hungary was actually friendly to Poland (main reason why they never joined in the invasion). Budapest even helped in bringing these people to the West, and they would go on to fight in Norway and over the Skies of Britain.
Germany: ok we’re invading Poland, Hungary you in on this?
Hungary: hold on I need to go to the toilet
Hungary: Hi guys im back, so you ready to.......oh hes dead.....
Hungarians and Poles had been good old neighbors since long ago. Hungary refused to Germany to take a part in its Polish invasion, and Poles do remember that.
@@ivanp1716 Yes, we Poles and Hungarians love one another and this friendship is 1000 years old. Of the most recent events, Hungarians helped us in 1920 against the Soviets and refused to Germany to take part not only in the invasion of Poland, but also in repressing of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.
@@ivanp1716 In case you forgot polish minorities were oppresed on Austria-Hungary.
Project Pitchfork I haven’t forgotten, I just don’t know about AH too much, and I’m not Polish
Who's watching this during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine?
me
Me too
Shut up
Feels like history is repeating itself
@@goldenproductions7831 cope harder monarchist
The fact that this was taking place over hours, not days is insane. The speed of advancement from the Germans was unprecedented, and the brave Polish barely stood a chance. Their resistance should be remembered, it was one of the fiercest in World War 2. Great video Yan, you have some of the best mapping skills in the whole community!
Still, the German casualties are higher than what one might expect based on how quickly they managed to conquer Poland. I think Wikipedia mentions that Luftwaffe lost almost 300 planes in Poland.
The german danish war was about 6 hours
Poland could've stood for waaaaaay longer. All we had to do was to destroy all bridges on major rivers in wehrmachts way and to use all our AT forces in places where there weren't any rivers deep enough to stop a tank.
@@deci2723 True. Yet - as far as I know - Polish command have consciously chosen suboptimal strategy, to show allies that they are fiercely fighting for every piece of land as they knew Franco-British reluctance towards joining open war (vide: appeasement politics) and they did not want to give them additional ground for excuses (i.e.: "Why should we fight for them, if they do not want to fight for their ow land"). Otherwise, basing defense strategy on fallback lines along wide N-S running Polish rivers would be much preferred. And, in hindsight, FR-GB either way would do nothing...
@@maciejmanna9246 no Poland heavily relied on phone lines which were targeted by stukas which broke timely communication, and Poland initial fortifications were to close to Germany and under maned. lastly Poland was-int properly prepend not that Poland did not suspect Germany invasion it was that we knew when Germany was going to fully modernize and bet on the invasion to take two more years. so Poland prioritized industrialization as it was lacking more than the military.
I love moments such like that when I realize that there are people all over the world who remember about invasion of my motherland. massive respect for creating so detailed animation.
Poland is a very proud nation, it has been through so much but still survives today. Poland never had a chance against 2 great powers with no real help, but the level of resistance they put up was astounding. Us history fans remember the sacrifices your ancestors made for their freedom.
This will be forever remembered as the start of ww2. Everyone will remember this
3:46 Polish Underground State: I"M NOT YET LOST
Polish people never give up.
I'm british so um nevall Chamberlain why didntubhelp the poles
@Adam Evva Really? Is that all you know about polish history? Well, even if this would be truth, it's still better than Ukraine which always has been nothing :D
@@adrianrokosz1054 Ukraine is just Russia. All ukrainian people ale just russians. Its a fcking post nuclear shithole like fallout 4 😂😂
Ukraine is just a random piece of land where Poland, Russia and Lithuania are fighting
1:53 This video is now illegal in Russia
Edit: Wow, I started a World War in this comment section.
Why?!
@@thenewparallel Becouse for Putin its fake xD
@@pudlo1111 Putin and Russia never denied the invasion of Soviet troops in 1939. The difference between Russian and Polish propaganda is that:
A) The Russians returned their lands, which the Poles had taken from them in the 1920s.
B) During the German offensive, it was obvious that Poland had no chance. The Polish government has already left the country or was about to do so. Therefore, the actions of the Russians are tantamount to removing shoes from the corpse. Is it helpful? Yes. Is it morally? No.
@@thenewparallel you mean poles "stole" that land which russians took from us in 1772, 1793 and 1795?
@@pawuc for Poles this territories "were stolen", for Russians - "were returned ".
This is very well done. Thank you for bringing this masterpiece to us on the 80th anniversary of the beginning of this tragic war.
1:53 that legit gave me a heart attack wtf
someone needs to make a ksi screaming video about this lmao
Soviet union: helo
@Adam Evva You mean the lands in which every bigger city and 40-60% of village population were Polish.
I know it might be hard to have a coherent historical consciousness after 70 years under Soviet oppression and propaganda, but FFS, seriously? In 1920 Polish Army fought TOGETHER with Belarusian and Ukrainian forces to create independent Ukraine and Belarus free of Russian influence, and as a bulwark against Russian imperialism, both red and white.
We did fight over Lwów in 1919, but when Ukrainian state collapsed, almost completely occupied by the Russians, we gave you our helping hand, agreed on a border on Zbruch (Treaty of Warsaw 1920) and fought for your independence with all the power we had. We pushed Russians out East, liberated Kiev and gave the city to you, along with everything East to the Zbruch!
Offensive on Kiev and liberating, yes LIBERATING big portion of Ukraine left our army so overextended, it almost cost us our own independence. After that Russians pushed us back to Vistula, there was no more possibility of bargaining for free Ukraine and Belarus, it was a fight for survival.
We did manage to survive and set up border with the Soviets on Zbruch. YES ZBRUCH. The same river, you agreed as a border between Poland and Ukraine, so don't whine about some "occupation" you ungrateful, narrow-minded, nationalist.
@Adam Evva xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Oh yeah. I shouldn't have expected any different answer from a citizen of a nation raised in victim mentality, which national consciousness arose barely 150 years ago. You have so little actual national history, that you had to steal legacy of Ruthernians of Kievian Rus and Cossacs of Zaporoze, and even after that you still name your squares and streets after XX century murderers of women and children, who interchangeably genocided Poles and made Jewish pogroms left and right, calling it "fight for free Ukraine".
Well. At least history punishes you now. Poland, Russia and even Belarus may not be the richest of countries, but Ukrainian GDP per capita is a fraction of either of those.
You can blame others on your country being a poorhole of Europe. You can also grow up, educate yourself and do something about it. Whatever flows your boat. Peace.
@@tomaszwitosawski5153every heard of polish-Ukrainian war of 1918? Seems like u are also brainwashed by ur “beautiful country”. Poland was never interested of freeing people from communism. They only wanted to expand to their pre-1772 borders. You never tried to liberate Ukraine, you only wanted to take it over. You’re no better than the Soviets. To further prove my point, do you know during the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938, Poland seized the opportunity and took some Czech land. So don’t call others ungrateful brats when you poles were also quite selfish.
you can tell by the polish counteroffensives how hard they fought
@@KAKUN_DESU What?! Germany attacked Poland with almost 50 divisions (best of them), in same time at west front was only 20 divisions (mostly unexperienced, some reservist divisions)....stop saying fake informations.....
@@KAKUN_DESU How can you deny facts?! 😂
“If we didn’t lose the war in 1939, it was only because during the Polish campaign 110 British and French divisions remained completely passive. Facing them in the West were only 20 German divisions, mostly reservist" - German General Alfred Jodl.
As you can see in this time elite german troops were in Poland, this if fact, there are many documents, your trolling is funny
Even tho Poland had 1M+(or 400k lol) soldiers it still died :(
Nothing to brag about. You will see minor counter offensives in virtually any war because doing quick raids on enemy positions is really easy to do, even when you only have defensive divisions.
Wejameta Mapping they fought hard I think they did well for a small country being overwhelmed by two military Giants
Respect for those Polish soldiers at that burst 2:22, they didn't want to give up without a fight
Cant wait for operation Barbarossa from you, your videos are very detailed and professional, fun to watch!
My god, the detail of this video is terrifying. I think this is enough to cement you as the best historical mapper on the internet.
We don't beg for freedom, we fight for it !
have tears in my eyes, thank you
dude you literally gave up. If you wanna see a country who have fought for their freedom, and actually won, look at Turkey.
@@Enchiridion1891 ye ye, tell me more...
Etiluca bitch Please. Poland defended France, Norway, UK, Polish soldiers fought in north Africa and Italy, on Atlantic. Polish soldiers from Polish 1st armored division liberated part of France in1944, almost whole Belgium and Netherlands. Polish soldiers took whole north western part of nazi germany with main base of kriegsmarine in Vilhelmshaven. Polish soldiers took Verlin together with soviets.
Etiluca last time I looked on Turkey.. Turkish soldiers runed over Turkish people with tanks.
@@Enchiridion1891 Poland had not cappitulated. In 1939 creator was Ressistence
3:07 I like how that small piece of Poland continues the struggle even after Warshaw fall. Incredible
because soldiers in hel never surrendered
warsaw
That's the Battle of Kock.
Or maybe you are talking about Hel Peninsula
80 years already... Wow, I still remember when it was "70 Years"...
Great video as always! One of the best educative videomapping channels!
Wreszcie pojawiło się coś co jest ciekawe w moich rekomendacjach! ;)
Damn, really well made video, good job!
Damn this music is powerful
Amazing work as always. I didn't know Poland made so many counterattacks during the invasion until I watched this video, they really put up a good fight against the fascist invaders and the Red Tsar.
The Nazis never called themselves fascist, actually they fought the Fascists of Austria, and they laughed a lot on Italy, because it was fascist and had no higher values than just the imperialism.
They even managed to stop the middle german army at poznan until the other two german armies joined up and encircled them.
@@SchmulKrieger North Korea calls itself Democratic but it isn't, it doesn't matter what a group calls themselves, it matters what they are.
@@elli6220, Yeah, right, therefore no country in the West is a democratic one. Democracy is very different from the ancient one which should be the base of the today's ones but it isn't. The ancient democracy as the Attic State is a Tyranny. The Tyrant controls all demoses. The Demokratia is called after one demos which manages itself but is under the Tyrant/Basileus (King), that is actually a dictator. O.o so what? Yet what the fuck is a so-called democracy?
Schmul Krieger lots of far right talking points, I see 👀
Every time you upload, I learn something new!
I like how you honored the date bro
Woah, the video is back
3:26 That little heroic Polish pushback before they're completely engulfed :')
yes... but...
Theyre just a fanbase who likes to watch movies but doesn't want to read history
That was battle of Kock. Last battle of 1939 campagin Gen Kleeberg's Independent Operational Group "Polesie" attacked and beat some german forces but needed to surrender due to lack of ammunition.
First to Fight, Taiwaneese brother 🇵🇱🇨🇳🇹🇼
(Taiwanese is a fictional ethic construct to differentiate a mainland Chinese person and a Formosa living one.)
@@jacobhogan3208 is taiwan a legit country?
@@caorusso4926 Nah, but the rump state of the Republic of China is. Honestly I would prefer living in Taiwan over living in the PRC.
@@jacobhogan3208: Don't forget about the Taiwanese Aborigines.
Taiwan is the real China
Amazing as always Xishan, when you see the campaign every hour it's easy to see the polish counterattacks which most people don't even know about.
Wow this shows just how hard the Poles did fight during the invasion. 🇵🇱
Are you from Asia? Nice to see that people from Asia have so much more (than many people from Europe...) knowledge about the outbreak of WW2
@some guy I'm from Europe.
Hahaha that's true, bro
To hold for more than a month against two superpowers of that time without support is simply amazing
Respect from Syria
@Rick Stuifzand from 1st of September to the 6th of october is one month and 6 days right?
cheeki breeki intensifying
@@Dariusz_1.618 get out of here stalker 😂
You are really from syria? Then good luck down there.
@@pomeranianproductions647 yes I am , and thank you
Ah Poland, how my heart bleeds for you, fighting on until the very end knowing there will be no victory but going out with dignity and not giving the enemy the satisfaction of surrender
As Polish are saying:
Amor patriae nostra lex.
"Love of the fatherland is our law."
What a load of bullshit
Give back the German lands your guys stoled and Go fuck yourself
@@daniellap.stewart6839 buhahahah
How about Germany stop trying to get the Poles to forgive them for unforgivable atrocities?
@@daniellap.stewart6839 German? Szczecin is the only land you could argue as german and now still there is a mostly Polish population!
"Hello hello? Can you hear us? This is our last Polish radio communication. Today, German troops entered Warsaw. We send brotherly greetings for Polish troops fighting at Hel Peninsula and anybody fighting whatsoever, regardless of the place. Poland is not yet lost! Long live Poland!" Poland last radio message.
Our heroic brothers from Poland fought well. Respect from Republika Srpska. ✊
Bosnia*
I know very well where I live, dont need you to tell me. Thank you.
I am American and I visted Mostar last year. It is an amazing town with so much beauty. I even jumped off the Stari Most.
Hangman84 yes you live in Bosnia
Altin-Drenica it’s Srpska, Bosnia is just the English name.
This is incredible job. You are one best videomappers in all of youtube. Greeting from Poland.
The green in France's and Britain's flag stands for Helping their allies
Hungary, an axis power, helped Poland more
@@fahoodie1852 Hungary wasn't against Poland? tell me more please
@@fwdgd they allowed populations from Poland fleeing the invasion to cross their border and go to Romania for refuge
Britain and France didn’t even wanted to help Poland since they didn’t like them. It was just to scare Hitler away, but the mustache man was so confident that Britain and France won’t do anything he attacked Poland anyway.
Literally France and Britain said they would do an offensive in Rhineland and they didnt even take all of saarland i the offensive and they got pushed back imediatelly, and France fell in 6 weeks like wtf
This is so terrifying. I can only imagine the conviction one could have to continue fighting two superpowers at once.
USSR went there after they told the polish ambassador that Poland does not more exist and they are going to take back the territory that was in russian impire fir hundreds of years
they probably knew what was next for them once they were taken over. poor souls.
Here was missed a moment where Poland with Hitler tore Czechoslovakia apart. Karma - after that Poland suffered the same fate. And Germany itself then.
Also missed that USSR invaded Poland and took BACK russian ancestral lands - Western Ukraine and Western Belarus which Poland had chewed off from Russia not long before.
@@PoProstuBoniacz Zaolzie was a part of Austria-Hungary, not Poland. Poland just wanted to occupy them, that's all.
@@PoProstuBoniacz Poland managed to occupy a small piece of Zaolzie in 1919, stealing it from Germany. They would occupied a whole Germany, but they just didn't have enough strength. In 1938 Poland occupied other parts of Zaolzie that had never belonged to Poland.
Enormous work! Thanks you for this video. Greetings from Poland
Thank you Yan for your work! From Poland with love 1.09.2019r.
Respect to Poland from India. Their willingness to fight to the end is unmatched. 🇵🇱❤️🇮🇳
Fight to the end like the Germans, that's already matched
Yes
Respect to India for good maharaja Digvijaysinji, who helped Polish children from Siberia. Namaste!
Many countries fighted to the bitter end lol
I have a fear of being reborn in north Korea
I am Hungarian --> I see "Poland" in the title ---> 1 like from me ---> I start the video
Same ;-)
Thank you
I have the same with videos about Hungary :)
But its ur friend Country Getting destroyed soo u like Poland dying
@@麻衣桜島-q6b its not dying
This is heroic fight something like Polish termopilae
Thanks, brother :)
Wow i didnt know about those counter offensives
It was called the battle on the river Bzura, between Warsaw and Łódź
Greetings from Poland, nice work. Thanks for popularizing our history :)
Yes that was a defeat for you but you need to never forgot that you were invaded by 2 great powers and got bad equipment compared to them so In My heart that not a defeat
@@kowalski8 You give up almost everytime)
I love all Poles who fought for my country to make me live in free country now. I am so grateful to my grand grand fathers. Long live Poland!
poland shall never fall again
@@fridayyy.2102 It will, its border between west and east.
@Ed O so you can work as manager, not work in cleaning toilets and in logistics in UK, right?
1:07 - 1:23
The defence of Wizna lasted September 8- September 11. A small contingent of 773 Polish soldiers Held off
A whopping 40,000 German troops for Three days.
That's it, I was the captain there! Niech żyje wolna Polska!
@@Wladyslaw_Raginis I'LL FACE MY FATE HERE!
Reminds me of the 300 spartans that fought against tens of thousands of persians so the other greek troops could escape
@@mesinovict6316 Yup, that was the battle of Thermopylae, that's why the Battle of Wizna is called the polish battle of Thermopylae ;)
@@mesinovict6316 Thats only half true.There were also many Spartan allies like Thebes at the battle so the real numbers could had averge to 1000 greeks at Thermpoalyoe.
Great video.
This is so sad,a great nation fell that day,but it's back again
Love to Poland from Algeria!🇩🇿❤️🇵🇱
Well
I liked the idea of that Germany will take the world
But I disliked that they killed millions of citizens........
It's really sad to see that
It's true social media coverage doesn't show this things
I thought modern Germany has no problems
But bro
Algeria's suffering too.....
We suffer of french colonialism
We learn their language at school
So I understand your feeling
Greetings Algeria from a Polish guy.
🇵🇱♥️🇩🇿
@Donald Trump nazwe kraji pisze sie WIELKA litera!
*Poland
@Donald Trump Wybaczam Trumpkowi👍
Im an Albanian,but if I would be a Pole,I would be proud of my nation,getting beated and beated from strong guys,and never surrenering.Not like France that surrender even if 1/4 of its territory is seized
Thanks bro ❤
Yeah thank you so much! ❤
Literally ALL of france's good infantry and equipment were surrounded. It would have been complete suicide to continue the fight
Yes, we are proud, but look at France and Poland situation after war. 50 years in comunist ussr, it was one of consequence of our brave. No one helped us, no one wanted to talk with us
Człowiek Całka shitty communist destroyed the economic prosperity of every east european state. I can only imagine how would life be in my Serbia nowadays without communism and the wars in the 90s
I am very grateful for mentioning about Polish Underground State. Very good movie, I subscribed you because I wanted see detailed wars in China and I never thought tbat You would make a video about my country. Yes, I'm Pole and I thank you for this. (Sorry for my mistakes in English)
Meanwhile France and UK: We don't know any "Poland"
@Algotnis France in 1940 wasn't better
@Algotnis frenchie
france was more advanced, had tons of soldiers, lots of help from britain and they still lasted only 2 weeks longer than poland who was weak, messed up their plan and fighting two superpowers from basically all sides
bruh
@@supertheblueoctagon also combined with the fact that they had to use a less effective plan due to the allies
One helluva work, my friend! My great-grandfather fought to defend the borders in September 1939. He would be proud of the work you did.
*”hello hello? Can you hear us! We are broadcasting last polish radio communications. Today, german troops entered at warsaw! We send brotherly greetings for polish soldiers fighting for hel peninsula!, anybody fighting whatsoever, regardless of the place. poland has never lost!. Long live poland!”*
this is the last polish radio broadcast
The capital of the General Government is not Warsaw, but instead, Krakow in the south
@trueman mann OMG i cant believe what i have read. You are soo stupid, sorry but u dont have any idea what r u talking about "the best THING to ever have happened" u r soo dumb bro.
@trueman mann they murdered or took away rights from everyone thats was a jew or a non-german that spoke against the Nazi government.
Because who would want to put their capital in a ton of dust called “city”
I think after war the capital of Poland was for sometime Lodz
84 years ago. There are less people who remembered this year by year but we must never forget. This war is still affecting everything
Love 🇵🇱 from 🇹🇷! People who respect their nations and fight for them are appreciated here, unless they fight against us, then we fight for ours. You know, great country, love y'all!
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Thanks for Polonezkoi(polish viilagge in Turkey) and for being only country in the world who did not acclaimed partition of Poland.
@@BartekSt90 Religion and nationality can't make barriers to me, I love Poland!
Shut up and make your state recognise the Armenian Genocide!
You are a SAINT, please don't stop making amazing videos like these!
You did a great job in graphics, animation, and details! I cant wait to see your version of WWII!
The fact that Poland never surrendered is Amazing. Poland lives on!
Thank you so much for that movie. 80 years ago my grandma's first husband was shooted by germans when he went for some food for children. Today is 80 anniversary of his death. It was in my hometown Trzebinia . Much love from free and independent Poland.
Someone in my family was a jewish carpenter who was killed by the polish regime two days before the invasion. Those times were horrible. RIP to all the fallen heroes.
Someone in my family was a jewish carpenter who was killed by the polish regime two days before the invasion. Those times were horrible. RIP to all the fallen heroes.
@@sblbb929 Please explain the circumstances and don't tell me they killed him because he was a Jew. For instance, was there a trial? There is way too much crap written about Poland.
@@ronaldostrowski4014 Przecież widać,że to prowokator, bardzo prawdopodobne,że opłacany,by rozpowszechniać te kłamstwa.
Dziękuję, mało kto wie jak było naprawdę i że Rosja nas też napadła. God bless you man.
Każdy wie, że Rosja nas napadla XD
To jest dziwna sprawa bo kiedy byłem mały, w Polsce na lekcjach ta informacja była pominięta, podobnie jak "niemoc" rosyjskiej armii podczas Powstania Warszawskiego. Uczyli o tym natomiast w USA, gdzie spędziłem rok w high school.
@@terro3953 Za komuny w szkołach w ogóle nie było o tym mowy. Pod koniec komuny jak było o tym coraz głośniej to uczono, że bratnia Armia Czerwona weszła do Polski, żeby ratować Polskę przed Niemcami. :-) Ta pomoc była taka dobra, że połowa mojej rodziny została zamordowana, a resztę wywieziono na Sybir.
@@robertmiler9227 mówię o 21 wieku :p
mało kto wie ,że Słowacja nas napadła ....
This dude put in the combat death toll, updating every hour. RESPECT
For some reason, I decided to look at it on the second day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Well, they are not met with flowers, as it was in 1939.
What an excellent video! Might be my favorite mapping video!
Well this was depressing. You can really tell how Poland fights...
Well, they’ve been clapped alot before, so they know a thing or two.
@@firemangan2731 oh please this defeat isnt embarrassing in the slightest they fought against Germany and Russia at the same time on both sides of course there was no chance
The Polish Forces also fought at Tobruk and in the North African campaign. They also fought to liberate France, Belgium, Holland, and captured the German port city of Wilhelmshave (1944 - 1945). From 1942 the First and Second Polish Armies fought alongside their supposed ally the USSR all the way to Berlin and Dresden. There was in addition to the Polish Army fighting abroad a Polish Airforce and Polish Navy. The Poles also had a large underground which the German occupiers could not destroy.
Yes, and the second Polish Army get nearly destroyed by the Wehrmacht at the „Battle of Bautzen“.
They fought brave but they have no tactical skill.
@@thilo4969 All the best Polish officers like Anders, Maczek, and Sosabowski served with the Free Polish Forces in the West. When General Zyymunt Berling (a Calvinistic Pole of Swedish descent who like General Anders was amongst a few others that escaped the 1940 Katyn Massacre) was sacked as the Polish supreme commander for trying to send his Polish troops to help the Polish insurgents during the 63 day Warsaw Uprising they replaced him with the incompetent General Karol Świerczewski. During the Battle of Bautzen Świerczewski.was hell-bent on taking Dresden instead of securing his southern flank as Soviet General Konev instructed him to, and that cost him the unnecessarily high rate of casualties. But nonetheless the Polish Second Army and the Soviet forces finally repelled the German attack and then launched an offensive towards Prague.
The “second polish army” was nothing but a horde of un-organized poles who were supplied and fed by the very same nation that invaded them a couple years prior 😂 Poland was infamous for its brutality in ethnically german regions, relying completely on british and french support, yet victimizes itself once Germany invades. What a joke of a nation
When Poland all alone lasted longer against two world powers than France against germany with the support of Britain
Leningrad the city of Russia lasted longer than France and Poland combined. We take Berlin by the greatest 🅱️Rush in history
Because Germans decided not to attack, just block the city... Don't compare these situations.
@@Qin_Lee Germans decided to block the city instead of occupying to starve it, because there where a lot people there
@@adrianrokosz1054 exactly
@@adrianrokosz1054 The germans actually did attack Leningrad but they took too much casualties and that's why they decided to starve the city
Respect to citizens of Warsaw, they were fighting to the end, even though that from 17th everybody knew that war is lost.
Holy shit there must have been a lot of work put into this, you even put the combat deaths in the exact hours
1939
*Germany starts invasion*
>Poland: oh, kurwa. here we go again
Տყᴊօղ ⱲíҽƖƙí i’m pole so i can laugh, fuck off
@@aeugh7861 i'm Pole and yes, it's very funny
Koń by się uśmiał
I'm polish too and I think it's quite funny
i tak nie powinniście się z tego śmiać
Polish last Message:
Halo, halo czy nas słyszycie?
To nasz ostatni komunikat.
Tego dnia oddziały niemieckie wkroczyły do Warszawy.
Braterskie pozdrowienia dla polskich żołnierzy walczących na Helu i wszystkim walczącym gdziekolwiek się jeszcze znajdują.
Jeszcze polska nie zginęła!
Niech żyje polska!
it's such a sad moment 😭
Hi, Piłsudski!
One of the best mapping work I've ever seen , good job.
Im from Hungary and i almost cried. I love germany either but poland is our brother. We are in the axis but we are cant hurt my comrades. we saved millions of polish life crossing our border.
Yea let's rewrite history en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Hungary#Anti-Jewish_measures
Too bad that Hungarian-Polish borders were established by occupation of foreign lands.
Thanks to Hungarians, even your soldiers in Poland were so nice for citizens. Hungarians never did some cruelty against Polish citizens, Hungarian commander said to german oficer: "We have nothing to do here, Poles are not our enemies". Few of them even stand in combat with Poles against Germans in Warsaw Uprising 1944! There is memorial for them in Raszyn near Warsaw. Polish-Hungarian brothership forever!
@@adrianrokosz1054 Its suprising! I didn't know that. But i hope when pandemic ends i could go visit Poland. We were never enemies.
66,000 Polish soldiers died in little more then a month. And the real suffering didn't even begin...
I can’t imagine how hard this was to make. How is ur Chanel not the most famous of this type of map all the others only do by day