Why Forgotten Portugal was one of the Most CRUCIAL Countries in WW2
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- While remaining neutral in the Second World War, Portugal helped the Allies out just a little more than they did Axis, and without Portugal's passive contributions the Allies, especially Britain and US, the war might've played out quite a bit differently.
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:16 Iberian neutrality
3:38 Trading with Both Sides
4:47 Britain and the US in the Azores
6:16 Refugees
7:36 Portugal's neutrality
9:12 Conclusion
So much positivity down here in the comments already. Thanks, guys. If you're wanting to chat World War II and speed up these solitary days, come on over to our Discord server. We have Portuguese tarts. discord.gg/qt68efP
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Thanks for recognising Portugal’s participation in this period! Great video;)
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I just found this channel due to the Link in the Description and went “WHAT! I CAN BELIEVE I MISSED THIS GEM OF A YT CHANNEL!”
Very accurate video indeed some details i haven't even heard of tbh! You earned a sub here!
Great video! I'd love the watch that video about Sousa Mendes. But... : you have to practice a bit to say his name correctly!! 😂 (don't worry: it's a difficult name in a difficult language. I'll be pleased to help you on that if you need to). Again: great work!
"Salazar Slytherin"
Ah yes. "Wingardium Angolaénossa"
Boa 😂😂😂😂
@@capitaotuga4080 ahah muito bom
És o rei 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fds hahahhaa
Ahahahah
Germany: "I thought you were neutral"
Portugal: "É lidar irmoum"
É lidar irmoum
@@goncalovcoelho15 ya my bad xD
IT IS WHAT IT IS IRMOUM! IS LIDAR
PORTUGAL CARALHEEEEE
SACANAS DOS CARALHES JA FOSTE
@@goncalovcoelho15 Caralho... De onde é essa expressão "é lidar irmoum"? Nunca ouvi...
When you dig up a 650 year old treaty to force Portugal to give you airbases
Modern problems require ancient solutions
hahah. I get it but your only as good as your word (Deal)...no matter how long ago you said it.
To be fair, Portugual was allied with Britain throughout most of those 650 years
So that's where Dragon Age Origins got it from.
@Bobby Banana and pillaging the country while doing so. Portugal had more economic loss from the British helping than from Napoleon invading.....
@Bobby Banana yeah they came to help us a lot, but sometimes they would forget to leave...
The english: remember the 1373 treaty?
Portugal: Remember the ultimatum you gave us for the pink map in 1888?
Oh good times now, I'm portuguese and why you do dat to me?
Remember our spice filled ships? Remember our cities in India?
@@joaodiniz6123
Brasil: pior erro de vossas vidas.
É extremamente triste ver portugueses sendo influenciados pela cultura brasileira.
@@user-jj4lc2jd8j '-'
1890*
I'm 23, and I'm portuguese. My great grandparents were Hungarian jews, when WW2 started they seeked refuge and made their way into Portugal. They were able to live in peace and prosper in this country, they suffered no prosecution or 'extermination'. If it wasn't for this nation I would probably not even exist right now. Thank you.
Yes, we are great! (Just don't look into what we did to jews centuries before...)
I’d love to know the story of how they ended up here. How did they get that chance? Did Sousa Mendes help them? Why did they choose to stay here instead of going to the USA or Israel? I wish we were able to save more people but I’m glad that at least your great grandparents and a few others made it here safely.
@@euroesc5013 its part of a bigger story. One Portugal should be proud of. Portugal is free by nature and represents freedom, truly.
I moved here 6 years ago. I love your country, man.
I love Ainsley too.
@@euroesc5013 Aristides de Sousa Mendes passava vistos para que os judeus conseguissem fugir, segundo o que me lembro.
PORTUGAL CARALHOOOO!!!
Sry, its the rules
É A LEI
This post is underated!!!
PORTUGAL CARALHOOOOO!!!!!
Portugal CARALHO
Bora caralhoooo
Portugal always had this cool saying: Desemerda-te.
Literally means unshit yourself.
Desenmerda-te
Ninguem diz isso.Todos dizem fode-te
@@camachojoao69 Depende da situação ou região
Ouve-se muito cá pra cima
@@camachojoao69 Vai pó Caralho tbm se usa muito
He Protecc
He Attacc
But most importantly
Portugal got your bacc
Portugal é o nº um
@@somedude6390 mais nada
Vambora crl
mah nada crl somos os melhores
Portugal has never failled an Ally. In our culture there is nothing worse than betrayal.
As a Portuguese, I thank you for making a video about a subject that is not talked enough and that I actually didn't know about the Madeira thing. Love your videos
Our pleasure, friend. And we love that you love our videos.
Too many see the war only in terms of mass troop movements and shifting lines. Just because a nation didn't send thousands, or millions of soldiers didn't mean it didn't participate or have an influence.
Portugal also helped China in ww2
@Faschy Goy pq pá?
@Faschy Goy porque?
Popular portuguese joke regarding our country in WW2:
"Churchill sends a message to Salazar asking: So, are you guys gonna help us or what?
Salazar messages back with a single word: "BALLS!"
A diplomatic scandal insues and the Portuguese ambassador is summoned to Churchill´s presence:
- Is your Prime Minister insulting us?????
- No Sir! - answers the ambassador - that is a coded message...
- Coded? What does it mean???
- It means... we will collaborate and do our part, but we will not enter!" :P
AHAhahahahahahahahahaha muito bom
Não entendi
Tbm não entendi
Entendi agora.
@@hugomlpaixao, os tomates ficam sempre de fora.
Finally some recognition to my country 😁
Wish I get some recognition to my Country in WWII (It's Malta.) We where the most Bombed in WWII. If you don't believe me search up "The Most Bombed Country of WWII" 👍👍
Well-deserving of it, I'd say!
@@thegaminggeneral7243 yeah I agree
@@TheFront thx :)
Ó irmão tuga💪🇵🇹
yep, my grandmother after she was liberated from a ghetto in budapest was sent to portugal before arriving in the usa
Thanks for sharing!
I live in Lisbon. Where did she stay and what where her impressions?
@Yeah Nah we all love a good pastel de Belém
I just love when this happens. There is a history video and someone from the comments are closely related to them.
In Budapest, I visited the Jewish area of the town and there is a memorial to a Portuguese consul called Carlos Branquinho. Another diplomat at the time was Sampaio Garrido, in case you want to research more about this topic. :)
Portugal is like the middle child of neutral European countries
Always the forgotten one
One or the most important country to the world we know nowadays.
10 biggest empire in the history, if Portugal didn't exist in the Middle age the world would be much different than it is today
Portugal still has a very big diplomatic soft power
I like to be in a forgotten country, if it means there is no war, nor conflicts, all's great!!
That's the great power of being underestimated and neutral!
@@anamargaridacosta1935 not that simple, we still belong to NATO, meaning if there is conflict we gotta be there, Iraq, Afghanistan, African central republic... E sim sou militar
As a Brit, I have huge respect for my Portuguese brothers and sisters. Such a lovely and friendly bunch of people and an amazing place to visit if you ever get the chance.
❤
“Remaining neutral is harder than picking a side”
Sweden and Switzerland, which got rich off their neutrality: are you sure about that?
Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Iceland: Yes!!!
Jami Finland didn’t exactly want to be neutral. They chose the attack the Soviets because they were upset about losing the Winter War. They chose not to be neutral
Sweden claimed neutrality but in reality were just complicit. Also Sweden became a battleground in spite of it all.
@@thunderbird7020 Finland declared neutrality in the early stages of the war when Germany invaded Poland I believe. The neutrality ended when Soviet union suddenly invaded the country in 1939.
Jami Finland was neutral, but had its own mini war with the Soviet Union which they lost (it was separate from WW2 completely). They then joined world war 2 by attacking the Soviet Union alongside Germany.
I love that you called him Salazar Slytherin because J.K. Rowling created that character's name based on him. She lived here in Portugal for some time and based a lot of things in the books on what she experienced here
Han? Tas a sério?
@@andregolovan5110 sim é verdade! Ela confirmou isso no Twitter
@@MariFigs confirma se que ela se inspirou nos estudantes de Coimbra, nos seus trajes académicos, também para o livro?
Sim as roupas foram inspiradas nos trajes academicos de portugal
E as escadas daquela livraria... a Lelo acho eu (do Porto)
Cool video, but you missed one important detail: during the war, Lisbon was one massive intelligence hotspot. It suited both sides to have one such place where they could spy on each other and do some diplomacy on the side as well. And Lisbon was uniquely suited for that in that it was 1) a port (which makes comings and goings easier), 2) a capital 3) in mainland Europe and 4) neutral.
that was why James Bond was invented!!
A minha Lisboa... Saudades... A ver se beijo o solo este ano... E sim,Lx era um ninho de espiões...
I've always thought that the Portugese must be some tough SOBs. Prior to WWE II, over some centuries, Portugal was not gobbled up by Spain when Spain was gobbling up colonies all over the world. Do not underestimate the Portugese!
And we were taking those Spanish colonies for centuries(ever wonder how Brazil got so large) , the secret is that Spain seems strong on the outside but inside they are a disaster, they all seem to hate each other. Also Portugal border region has major choke points and the Spanish side either has lots of mountains or if flat(south) they have to keep a supply train trough a desert because that region is inhospitable , within Spain itself. The two vulnerabilities in Portuguese border were known, during the Napoleanic wars the two places had the largest fortification of the type in the world. Also the only way to take Portugal is to go for Lisbon, on the south there is a major river delta, and north there can be built defenses(The Duke of Wellington got its fame for defensive war from that). You have to block the port for it to surrender, usually in history Portuguese Navy was more than enough to take on Spain(the point at which Portugal was at most Peril was in 1385,and the Navy lifted the blockade on Lisbon, how? Training, its the oldest still active Navy in the world by quite a margin). Also for the longest time although rivals they disputed mainly territories in South America, and they rarely invaded to take Portugal, you see both countries are very Catholic( Catholicism would not be such a large religion today if not from these two's) , and both rights of their Kings were recognised by the Pope, for any of them it would be unholy to take any of each others right.
@@fabiorosario3501 portugal didnt lose every war fought to conquer other nations. portugal didnt "conquer" nations at all actualy. we did manage to conquer madrid in more than one ocasion tho so if you want to count that yah can mate
Fabio Rosario what? Portugal won most battles in its history
@@fabiorosario3501 I'm sorry does america, asia and africa not exist? cause there were nations there and the portuguese did fight and win against them
@@zestorm6233 yes it did, you guys think no one lived in any place of the portuguese colonies? if you're saying not european nation yhea it didn't conquer any but thats because it would be stupid to try, even if it was conquered it only gave them a territory that they didn't have enough soldiers to maintain, thats why portugal focused on conquering small colonies expanding them after population starts growing there, but back to the european shit, portugal didn't conquer but did fight with a lot of powerful nations and won, just look at any ottoman vs portuguese battle
I almost choked on my food when I saw that picture of Hitler (4:00).
Same lol
Haha, gold, hey.
Danny cul yet the dude in the thumb looks like Trump. Wonder why.
Is that a "six pack" ?😄😄
hearing non-portuguese speakers trying to say portuguese names is so funny 🤣🤣
Great video about this beautiful country, almost better than another great youtuber's videos about star wars... you probably know him
Não conseguiriam pronunciar corretamente nem se a vida deles dependesse disso!
Eu juro que não percebi o nome do que ajudou os judeus, ouvi qualquer coisa mendes
@@sandroribeiro7644 É Aristides de Sousa Mendes :D Não está mesmo fácil de perceber aqui
Not funny, horrendous.
@@ritaferreira529 *Arestédjes dé Soja Mendéch
Even though you explained a lot of the foreign relations of Portugal, you forgot one important sentence Salazar told the Portuguese people:
"Livro-vos da guerra, mas não vos livro da fome" - "I will free you from war, but I will not free you from hunger".
As most of the food produced in Portugal was shipped to the countries fighting the war, while portuguese people were very poor and many were starving. Portugal is the country that always want to help others at the cost of their own sacrifice.
It's just bs that "most of the food" was exported. I have heard this claim many times, always 0% sources. Just like the claim that Salazar organized night flights just like Pinochet.
@@GabrielNicho bs or not, truth is people DID starve in a neutral country
That was just because Salazar was a disaster ...he did that after the war as well ..he would out everything in gold on the national Bank, just a few families could have a lot...the rest...for him...was the"people" garbage...that needed the 3 F...Fatima... Football and Fado....
@@brunosa7045 When was there starvation under Salazar? Depression? WW2? There was starvation everywhere basically in those years. There was no starvation in Portugal post ww-2.
@@GabrielNicho during salazar there was full blown starvation. go learn some history from some real grandparents, not your sheltered salazarinho ones...
Ideologically Portugal supported the Germans fight against Communism more because of Salazar's philosophy, so he was a supporter of Germany in that regard, but he wasn't that big a fan of Hitler overall. And the Germans actually paid Portugal in gold for selling Tungsten to them, which helped give Portugal one of the biggest gold reserves in the world up until recently. Of course with neutrality there was a threat of war from both sides, and whilst Portugal favoured the allies a little more, in hindsight these same allies weren't all that friendly towards Portugal.
Just one thing. Salazar was a fascist dictator, just as Mussolini, Hitler and Franco. The Portuguese people were not fond of the Regime. You can easily see that with the events of 25th of April 1974 when a Revolution broke out in the Portuguese Armed Forces and not a single gun was fired. No one supported Salazar.
@@carlosgomes1998 i cannot talk much as i am no expert but the only ideoligical complains i see of salazar were focused on lisbon and porto as he did crack down in the intelectuals, as for mist of the country the only complain was the lack of food and does who knew the outside world felt like portugal was
falling behind in terms of industrialisation what was true, though the gold reserves did not last much after they started beign used
@@vicvincevitaly Are you Portuguese? I mean, I am portuguese and I can easily say that the majority of people did not support the Regime since there was no freedom of speach, no political freedom, no freedom of gathering. There was a generalised lack of food in the country. Although I believe in you when you say that there were forced soldiers to join the revolution, you are dead wrong when you say that the people support the regime...
@@wtwarrior7698 most of the complains was the lack of freedom. People couldnt hear some specific radio frequencies (pirate radios), some foreign TV channels were also forbidden. The regime started a Secret Political Police called PIDE where if some told them that you were against the regime you would end up in jail
25 de Abril sempre!
Would love to see a video about Portuguese schindler!!
Bill Hunt: ARISTIDES SOUSA MENDES ?
Comparing him to Schindler is a bit unfair. Yes, they do the same thing, save jews from certain death. But Schindler did that to 700 or 800 jews. Aristides do it for 30.000 jews.
I don't remember the exact numbers, But is something on these lines.
There is a Portuguese film about him. And I heard that some international producer is planning to do another one, envolving Hollywood perhaps...
He had around 12 children and was punished by Salazar because he gave thousands of visas without authorization. He died completely bankrupt, almost in misery. But with a clean conscious.
HE'S FROM VISEU
portugal was as much a nuetral ally to the allies (western ones at least) as spain was to the axis.
they were aligned politcially with one side but their nuetrality removed another front to fight on, which for both sides was overall beneficial.
non-belligerent
The joke about Salazar Slytherin was actually right. The Portuguese Salazar was the inspiration for the Harry Potter character.
and the oldest library in Porto was the inspiration for hogwarts
@@valerius610 She has said that one is not true. Maybe even the one i said isn't.
@@tiagoalbinski3520 oh ok , maybe ot wss just my hope talking.
For the most part you did a great history investigation! Let me just add something that was also important!
When Salazar gave permission to USA to access azores there was another request, Salazar knew Japan was on a rampage in the pacific, so Timor was in danger of falling into Japan's domains, this was the most important thing in the agreement, because Timor was a portuguese colony and for Salazar Timor was also Portugal and he didn't want to lose it!
So USA could use Azores but had to defend Timor from Japan!
That's not true though. The allies invaded Timor, then the Japanese invaded because the allies were there. Salazar was upset about both. The Japanese even agreed to leave if Salazar sent more Portuguese tropps to hold it. Japan also never invaded Macau, it was bombed in 1945 by the United States though.
@D Ramalho Well, parts of the original post are not true. I am not aware of any deal between Salazar and the US that the US had to defend Timor, that is also not necessary since Japan even offered to leave if the allies left. So that's wrong. That the US did have to promise for the Azores base was to respect Portuguese territorial integrity.
I'm from Timor-Leste!
In WWII Portugal was like balls:
We don't get in but we cooperate.
What did I just read
@@cortomaltese5206 Portuguese humor. This joke was directly translated from portuguese
@@joaonuno924 eu estava a brincar
My heritage is Portuguese 🇵🇹 proud of my country’s contributions.
Eu sou. Mesmo português
Come back, we need you!
Me too! I am Brazilian 80% Portuguese and 20% German.
Hey I'm actually portuguese :)
@I am truly Greg yes it is, he always belong here if he has Portugal in his heart.
"Salazar himself, a dictator everywhere but on paper"! Man, there isn't a better way to put it. damn!!
Não percebi bem essa parte?
@@jpomega ele era um ditador, mas, não era oficial, oficialmente ele era um "presidente"
@@andrewacacia9851 primeiro ministro
@José Mendes o título oficial era Presidente do Conselho de Ministros
@@aromaticsnail que corresponde ao de Primeiro-Ministro atualmente
Portugal, sempre será lembrado como o país cujo ditador virou utensílio de cozinha
Best comment ever!
n percebi, desculpa, podes explicar?
True.... salazar é o nome que damos às espátulas. RAPA TACHO.
LOL! me and my wife laughed out loud about this one
Gangue tuga com fotos de JOJO
In August 1943, my father, a Royal Navy gunnery officer, went to Lisbon to inspect the Portuguese Fleet.
Peter Edwards your father has my respect for the service he had done for my country. salute
o tratado militar entre portugal e inglaterra é tao antigo que nao impediu os ingleses de ameaçar com ataques a Portugal na questão do mapa cor de rosa
'ameçar'? eles trairam Portugal e ainda não pararam de o fazer
@@jh5klTotalmente de acordo...Maior erro de Portugal foi ter renovado a aliança após a restauração da independência, bem que se fodeu à conta dos "aliados ". Inglaterra sempre teve complexo de superioridade, e nunca foi nossa amiga como muitos pensam, desonesta e traiçoeira, jamais nos respeitou...Unicamente norteada pelos seus interesses e conveniências, olhando-nos de cima para baixo ( algo que, aliás, faz com outras nações). A historiografia e os media estão totalmente dominados pela esfera anglofona, e eles contam a narrativa como bem entendem...Nisso, os espanhóis têm certa razão, houve propaganda e não foi pouca.
@@florazul-1191 a Historia demonstra o que acabou de dizer e ainda hoje as atitudes dos ingleses na politica internacional demonstra que eles pouco mudaram
The pronunciation of Portuguese names with a Brazilian accent is killing me
Tá falando oq do Brasil em irmão??? Kkkkkkk
Também reparei
Is that his accent? I was wondering what it was. I am strangely not familiar with it.
Não achei que fosse mt mau... Para um inglês
@@apedrosilva1103 o do Brasil tem uma pronúncia mais fácil acho eu
Lets not forget the numerous aid that Portugal sent to european war-thorn countries, particularly after WWII.
You know, the same ones that now say we only beg and missmanage whilst making us indebt ourselves and profiting from it.
If we reached such point much is due to the political classes that have sold themselves to external interests.
Cough Finland... cough... cough.
We are so charitable that we sent all our steel industry to Germany after the war, now how kind is that?
As Salazar said to portuguese people: " i can take away the war from you, but i can't take the hunger away"
Salazar had his pros and cons, and this one is a pro.
Thanks for the videoman. I'm portuguese and I didn't know a half or more you said!
"Dude, that piece of paper is 600+ years old"
"The ink is still wet."
"%^#%$#**&^^%%$$"
Jimmy Yu 😂
Clearly they forgot about that piece of paper during the ultimatum
Ei, é tinta portuguesa. Eu não tenho que explicar merda nenhuma
@@thejecs8 The ink only matters when it's in their favour.
It’s worth noting that the Anglo-Portuguese treaty had been in effect all that time. And still is, actually. Oldest Alliance on Earth.
Not that Britain didn’t fuck over Portugal plenty of times. Perfidious Albion is Perfodious.
My grandparents are Portuguese (im Brazilian) and i feel so happy to see a video like that, Portugal was soooo in important in ww2, and even in ww1. Thank you for that video ♥️🇵🇹🇧🇷
Aristides de Sousa Mendes was a good man with his heart on the right place. Unfortunately he would never get that recognition while he was alive. He had everything, a good house, a family a good job and he threw that all way for the sake of helping others. He died a very poor man, in absolute misery. So yes, I think he deserves a video of he's one, but not as the portuguese Schindler but as Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
Well said!
In the first World War, their contribution was very great though, such as that of Anibal Milhais
Just read up on this a little. What a moustache.
We another name for that specific soldier.
The name is translates literally to millions soldier
@@rodrigooliveira8049 And deserves it!
"chamas-te Milhais, mas vales Milhões",(sayd his commander)
That man was a god
You should do a video on the Free forces in exile from Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Yugoslavia and Greece, who continued to fight in land, sea and air to liberate their countries.
Belgium had 2 different ethnic SS divisions so your story would be interesting 👌🏾
Filled with Portuguese pride right now. For what I remember from history classes, they teach us very little about the country's contributions on WW2, I feel I've learnt a lot. Also, once in the Azores, I was in this beautiful church on top of a hill, and the plaque informed that underneath said church there used to be weapons for WW2 pointing at the sea. Fascinating.
Obrigado Portugal! This video just made the country greater than I already thought about it. Cheers from Brazil.
Cheers! Also, have you watched our video on Brazil? Surely!
I would love to see a video on Portugal's Shinler.
Butt could you also make a video on Argentina's role in ww2?
That's an interesting suggestion. We'll see how it travels. Cheers!
@Masterffc you gotta learn from the past or you are destined to repeat it. Even if you know, others don't.
rly?
I'd love to see a video dedicated to Sousa Mendes. He helped even more Jews than Oskar Schindler
Schindler is the brand of the lift of the Lisbon's building where I live :)
Lisbon during WWII was one of the most interesting cities in the world to live in. While the cannons and tanks were raging all around the continent and the world, Lisbon was placidly at peace, but also was the main hub of spies, you could find Gestapo and brittish intelligence frequenting the same hotels, same parties, to the point of sharing lovers. Very interesting stories took place during those years.
Fun fact Antonio Salazar was the inspiration of Salazar slytherin. J.k Rowling was living in Portugal when writing the first Harry Potter books
Excellent history lesson. Thank you very much. Definitely would like to hear more on Portugal's Schindler
Hey, thanks, man!
I'm portuguese so I know a bit of is history.
Edit: Arestides died in misery because Salazar didn't like his actions
@@rodrigooliveira8049 its more complicated than that
@@rodrigooliveira8049 no. Was not due to Salazar. Aristides e Sousa Mendes was from an rich aristocratic family. Investigate how he lost is fortune...
@@nunocorreia75 and there's some people that say that he got paid by the refugees.
As a portuguese I must say... thank you for noticing us.
Just a sugestion, do one about Private Anibal Milhais also known as The private Milhões (Milhões stands for millions) the real live portuguese version of Capitain America in WWI.
Definitely a video on the 'Portuguese Schindler'!!!
is name was Aristides Sousa Mendes Portuguese ambassador in Bordeaux / France), not Schindler
That is Salazar, Mendes was one of the government extended arms.
...there are many more "Mendes" in Portugal, also in Spain. The trains were traveling sealed from France, only a high command is able to proceed that way.
ah my motherland, i'm proud of being a Portuguese from Madeira! One of the best places in Europe
My great grandpa and grandma is from there and I'm from the u.s, and someday I hope to go there
Um madeirence na internet! Que raro encontrar um conterrâneo! Abraço e muita açorda com poncha!
MADEIRA CARAAAALHHOOOO
Good video man, thank you for talking about portugal and it´s diplomacy!
I have a good thesis of one of my professors from university talking about the portuguese diplomacy from 30´s and 40´s and it´s very very good, you were on point with your information and Im happy to help you with info for your future videos, keep up the good work ! :)
Obrigado for a video about this subject!
Greetings from Portugal
Have a great day everyone.
YOU have a great day.
I knew of Portugal's importance in WW2 thanks to the movie Casablanca 😅
I knew of Colombia's importance thanks to Pablo ESCOBAR, el gran patron !
I have only just been highlighted to this channel, and I am SHOCKED that UA-cam took so long to do so. This almost perfectly aligns with what I regularly view and has only just been recommended to me. Thank you for the fantastic content, I only wish i found it sooner.
Very informative. Great video.
There's a funny story that actually makes a lot more sense after seeing this video.
I visited a museum a few years ago called Museu do Caramulo, a car museum, which among its collection has an armoured Mercedes-Benz that was offered to Salazar by Hitler himself (so it's told). Salazar however never used the car, because he either didn't like Hitler or his regime, or most likely, he wanted to preserve the neutrality.
This is just a story I heard I don't know if it's true or not.
Also because it's in the Constitution:
PORTUGAL CARALHOOO!!
Yes its true, he didnt want to use because the ally countries could start thinking wrong things about portugal.
Yes it’s true and PORTUGAL CARALHOOO!!
Não me lembrava dessa história, mas agora que falaste acho que alguma vez li algo do género, obg por me relembrares
PORTUGAL CARALHOOOOOO!!!!
I'm portuguese, and this is a part of the story of my country that I was unaware of! Thank you so much for making this video and for the clarification on Portugal's role during the WWII
Thanks for the vídeo. Nice work. 😊
Nicely informative video.
There was also a little known situation in East Timor, where Portuguese territory was effectively invaded by Dutch and Australian forces and Portuguese forces ended up fighting the Japanese.
My grandfather from my fathers side of the family (may he Rest In Peace) was sent to Madeira/Açores (not sure) as a communication specialist agent to intercept coded messages from both sides of the Great War. Portugal 🇵🇹 had a fundamental part on this war to keep peace and see and end to the war
Great video. So important to see the broader picture.
good stuff ...well done. My grandmother in Mozambique used to rant about Portugal's contribution to the allied cause during WWII but I hadn't really had it explained quite a clearly as you did here. Thanks
7:25 Soja Mendjes was indeed a great man
Dizem que o problema da soja é o excesso de estrogénio...
The entire world : soooo you didn’t participate in the war right
Portugal: Nao,mas sim
Nice vid!
Great work! And yes I'd love a video about our portuguese "Schindler"!
Thank you so much for making our recent history a little bit more relevant to everyone!
I love how this guy pronounced Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
Just replace every consonant with a "ch", should be enough 😂
pois é caralho se não fosse a tuga estávamos todos a falar Alemão neste momento.
Eishhh boca pa estrondo
Graças a Salazar 🇵🇹
fantasias anglo saxonicas, que escondem o facto que venderam um terço da Europa a stalin após a guerra
Awesome video! Thanks for this!
thanks for the video bro
As a Portuguese I want to say thank you for a history lesson because I didn’t know this happened in WW2.
not the most neutral and informative one but
Honestly, i do believe that if Portugal had joined one side or the other, many of the humanity services they provided as "neutral" up to the point of joining would have been undone or had never taken place at all.
I would definitely like to see a video about the Portuguese Schindler. This was a very interesting and informative video, as all of your videos are. I had no idea that Portugal helped the Allies as much as they clearly did during WWII. Very cool. Thanks for sharing this with us! Please keep the outstanding videos coming and God bless you, my friend!
amazing video
A relevant note: Sousa Mendes should be compared to Wallenberg and NOT to Schindler. Why? because the former two were, from the very start, motivated by goodness and thus impelled to save lives, whereas the latter was first grasped by greed (cheap workforce) and only later changed his moral stance.
Yeah but Sousa Mendes was also driven by money though don't forget that. Aristides de Sousa Mendes charged jewish families fortunes in exchange for safety. That's something our history books don't tell and that´s a shame, but our history books only tell the part of the story that they like. I used to study history with my grandmother when I was younger and she would get suprised with how the History books i used in school only told a part of what really happenned and they always tried to twist the story in some way.
So yeah Aristides de Sousa Mendes was lowkey exactly the same as Schindler
@@afonsomaiadeloureiro8826 De onde tirou isso? Não tenho sequer a ideia que mesmo o Salazar o tenha acusado disso, apesar de o querer incriminar.
@@afonsomaiadeloureiro8826 that's the same in other like Spain's history books tell different stories, about those many lost battles against us
@@afonsomaiadeloureiro8826 history is told by the winners....
sousa mendes? ahahahahahah yeah right!
Portugal was able to have a "diplomatic leash" on Spanish Franco, by signing a pact of non-agression that made the spanish avoiding allying with Hitler, even the allies thanked Portugal for it
Thanks for the video! That was great! Please do the video on Portugal's Schindler!
Obrigado for the useful, trustworthy piece of information.
I’m a Jew and I would like to thank Portugal with all my heart for taking in Jewish refugees 🇵🇹🇮🇱
Many centuries ago we made our biggest mistake, never ever again, you are most welcome to my, your, country.
We Are With You Guys.
🇵🇹❤✡
Love this unknown history
Thanks, man. We'll keep it coming.
Thanks alot beacause...its rare found videos relating Portugal to WW2...I'm portuguese and I am proud.Great vídeo continue the content
Thank you for making this video!
Shows how important Portugal truly was! And obviously, the island I live in, Terceira, also had a huge impact on the war on the Atlantic, its amazing to see that recognized
when someone says something good about salazar i think of Morty saying to Rick "At least Hitler cared about Germany, or something", and makes me think, everyone has a good and bad side to them, BUT, when those people were monsters, mentioning the good times they werent is really not gonna cut it
exactly
Salazar 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
I do think Salazar cared deeply about the country, at least in its own way and his vision was no doubt flawed in many ways.
And sometimes even ignorant ( im looking at grain laws he mandated to the country and specially Alentejo, they were destructive imo).
Even though we cant ignore the context of the country at the time. Very different reality we have now, on the social, and economic, and even cultural level imo. We had a very simple and deeply religious country. And he kinda reflected that in a way.
But he was a politician that wasn't self serving. In the sense he wasn't there to get rich personally, and he totally could. I mean he was a dictator. But he didn't , and didn't allowed his ministers and politicians to do it either.
I dont think he was a monster like Hitler or Stalin which had obvious personal grievances, and phobias regarding certain peoples, and ethnicities.
He however was very paranoid regarding Bolshevism, but not incomprehensible when we take into account the time period in question, and where he comes from. We as Portuguese also tend to forget it wasn't Salazar that created the dictatorship. It was the Military who destroyed the first Republic to begin with, and founded the dictatorship. Salazar is a creation of their own making. It is ironic that would be also the military to end the Regime many decades later.
Mano, uma coisa muito encoberta é que Salazar modernizou as forças armadas, construiu imensas infraestruturas importantes para o país, levantou a glória portuguesa lembrando os tempos de ouro do nosso país, tudo isso é encoberto e Salazar é MUITO difamado, sim, ele era um ditador, mas conseguiu fazer mais pelo nosso país do que muitos outros presidentes
@@luismendes3307 tal como o Hitler.... o meu ponto mantêm-se e tu só estás a ajudar a sustentá-lo. e BTW ele não é "difamado", ele fez coisas horrendas e não é por nos concentramos nessa parte da história que estamos a falar mal dele, difamação é quando o que se diz é mentira para prejudicar que não é o caso aqui, os factos são o que são, e o bom que ele fez não supera o mal, o fim não justifica os meios e o caminho pro inferno está pavimentado de boas intenções
Portugal *stays neutral while helping allies somewhat*
Commentators: how portugal was CRUCIAL to the war effort
Ireland *stays neutral while helping allies somewhat*
Commentators: why did ireland LOVE the nazis
Ngl the british guy above is funny af, Im Portuguese btw
Both these comments are great. Im a portugese guy that lives in Britain btw
ireland didnt have ( and still dont have) any army/navy to be considerated a player on the war...portugalon other way was already on war in the african colonies, thats one and maybe the major factor that salazar choose to be "neutral" at ww2
im a living persona btw
@@luismiguelmarquesrodrigues4139 Portuguese colonial war just started in 1961 and the tensions in 50's. Portugal didn't had any trouble in his colonies and almost all of them had borders with british/french colonies.
The only colonies with maybe some problems to defend were the asian colonies because of japan.
Portugal had bigger and better army (than ireland), but couldn't never defend himself from axis, even with allies help. Salazar knew well what to do and which card he had to play.
Great video, i'm portuguese, and even i didn't know alot about what you said here, definetly learned new things, thanks! And yes, a video about Aristides de Sousa Mendes would be awessome!!
Great video 👏 I’d like to learn more about other Portuguese contributions to the world that haven’t been spoken about. Once again, great video.
Being a portuguese I wish you’d put some names by written cuz some were kinda murdered, but still pretty good as I assume you had no training beforehand.
Good video; is the timing a coincidence or scheduled with the start of the „a espia“ series on Portugese television staring Daniela Ruah of NCIS LA fame?
Cool video 😀😀😀😀 keep the good work up
really good video
Portuguese soldiers fighting alongside 2/2 Independent Coy, Sparrow Force, on Timor Leste against the Japanese
Nice vid. Just a remark: it's Aristides de Sousa Mendes, this man deserves to have his name splet right.
Love from Madeira Island! Nice video, hope you doing well. 💕
Great video! Great insight!
I would love to see a video about Aristides Sousa Mendes. Thank you so much!
Yes, talk about our Portuguese Schindler
There was no reasons for us to join any side if we joined the axis we would lose our colonies to the brits and if we joined the allies Spain would join the axis and invade us so I think we played smart
Yes, please do a video about ambassador Sousa Mendes! He was a true hero that risked his own life and saved over 20.000 refugees, he deserves recognition
Much deserved praise. My mother's family escaped Vichy France after the occupation via Lisbon, and our family owes its very life to the availability of neutral ports to refugees. Thanks, Portugal!