At 51 years old I've watched things about WWII and Hitler's atrocities but this is the first time ive actually sat down on my day off and watched a playlist ( well, half so far) and im beyond angy, sad, so many emotions at once. The scariest part of all of it is how we are doomed to repeat this if people keep allowing these same kind of atrocities that are happening around the world. Granted, its a different world now and harder to hide rhis kind of stuff but when good people look away and pretend its not happening, it will keep happening. Thank you for your channel.
The part that people forget (or want to forget) is that the Nazis didn't really hide what they were doing. It's that people (not just Germans, but people all around the world) just chose not to look. We see the same thing now around the world. It's easy to look the other way and people have a blind, slavish devotion to peace and the easy life, as opposed to taking a stand that may mean you have to fight.
The polish fought like maniacs. I have nothing but respect and admiration for those brave polish warriors, who never surrendered, and layed down their lives fighting Hitler's Germany. The rest of Europe let them down. We owe Poland a huge debt of gratitude 🇵🇱🇬🇧
@@paigetomkinson1137 polish government maybe, but the polish people never surrendered. They were some of the bravest fighters during the war, many of them joining the British armed forces.
@@danielpedersen2497 lot of misconception about Poland surrendering. Although the polish government fled. The polish people kept fighting throughout the war. Fighting alongside the. They even had a famous Air force squadron in the RAF called the Tadeusz Kościuszko Warsaw Fighter Squadron who were lauded for their unrivalled bravery
Also you skipped on the Ribbentrop-Molotov USSR attack on Poland from the east. So Poland defense lasted 28 days being attacked by 2 powerful armies German and Russian while France and England did nothing!
Growing up, Polish jokes were a part of our vernacular. We were ignorant idiots. It wasn't until I was stationed overseas in the Navy and was immersed in the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, that I learned about the true horrors of WWII. I learned about how Poland fought like hell to survive and never give in to evil. No other country sacrificed so much to become the butt of tasteless jokes. To this day if someone makes a Polish joke, I correct them. They deserve our respect.
Poles are freedom fighters ( Solidarity peaceful movement that crumbed Communist Poland and later the rest of Warsaw Pact block countries) , idealists, Christianity defenders ( Battle of Vienna 1683), defenders of the western world against Bolsheviks ( Polish Bolshevik war of 1920) . Poles don't beg for freedom , they fight for it. Thank you for supporting Poland.
Interesting you say this…I was literally thinking about this EXACT same thing when I saw this. Went to Innsbruck back in ‘99 to ski the Alps, and ran into a Polish couple early into the trip. Pretty much spent the entire trip hanging out with them. Wonderful, wonderful people.
The Polish fighters blocking the German and Soviet advance were by far the bravest of the brave in this war. God bless them and may they rest peacefully.
@@jonb4722 Yeah, two thumbs up for your BS. Poland has more Righteous among the Nations than anyone else. The Polish Underground State made it a capital offense to turn Jews over to the Nazis...but. go spread your lie.
The settlement of German peasants in GroBdeutschland was planned years before 1939. Germ farmers from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, OstpreuBen, West Germany, Bavaria, Volga Oblast, Balkan States were invited to join the Ostseidlung movement in the Lebensraum, Generalgouvernement. Starting end of 1939. Volksdeutsche in Poland drew up lists of Polish Patriots to be evicted first. 1937/ 8.
My Grandfather's brother was killed on a military transport train for the Polish Army going to the front line on the first day of the war. My Grandfather himself fought the Germans with the Polish Army. God Bless Poland 🇵🇱 we have been attacked so many times.
My father was a 20 year old university student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded in September 1st in 1939. He and a friend joined the Polish army and he was fighting street to street and enduring the Stuka diva bombers .It was hard to make him talk about the fighting but it was very brutal. My father told me how they ran out of ammunition and food. People were eating cats and dogs. He was captured but escaped and escaped to Slovakia then Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy and then up to northern France were he joined the Polish army there. They were given WW1 equipment by the French. He told me how in May 1940 when the Germans invaded France the Polish army was marching to the front he saw the French soldiers running in the other direction. He was eventually captured again and was for a short time in a German POW camp in France. He escaped in the back of a truck and with the help of French resistance made his way to Spain and then Portugal and got onto a coal ship and went to England were he joined the Polish Army and was in the famous Polish First Armored Division and was in a Sherman tank. He hated the Germans all his life and who can blame him. One thing he told me was seeing regular German soldiers kicking and bearing people to death in Warsaw for fun and laughing while they did it.
"Gray Ranks" = codename for Polish Scouting Association in the Polish Underground Military. This included the Polish Girl Guides. see Polish Scouts in WW ii
yep my grandfather fought in Poland in the underground. He didn't hate regular soildiers its the cruel ones. But he said to my dad "when an 18 to 19 year old is on the ground with a massive stab wound or riddled with bullets screaming for his mother.. as his life leaves him.. he sounds no different regardless of the uniform he wears. "
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They say the poles were beaten. Not really the mathematicians at university of Warsaw back engineer the German radio transmissions and built two enigma code machines which they got to Bletchley park and enabled the Allie’s to read the German codes during the war. The British captured two German subs and a German weathe ship adding to update the wheels of their polish enigma machines the USA captured the u595 and got another updated machine. So the poles fed the Germans a black pill. No pole ever gave up the info that they were able to build enigma machines So in the end the poles screwed the Germans in the most devastating way.
I've always wondered about the little girl crying over her dead sister. For many years I have seen those images and wondered about the back story. Heartbreaking as the whole "dear President Roosevelt" segment is, now I know. :-( Such grief. It's nice to see a doc that puts the story behind those popular and often over used imagery used in shorter more sensationalized docs. Anyway, I'm enjoying the rest of the show. TY 🙂
The little girl was 12 years old when that film was taken. She ended up surviving the war and met the guy who took the pictures and film of her, Julien Bryan, in the 1958. She married and passed away at 93 years of age.
A very good, comprehensive documentary. However, why are scenes of brutality greyed out? I've seen the same scenes in other film but they were not blurred. I think that adults are able to deal with frank scenes. I strongly object to expurgated footage.
Always had a fascination with Polands 1939 defense. They pound for pound outdid their British and French counterparts who enjoyed many advantages over the Germans including numbers of men and far more heavy tanks. And the poles did it with essentially what was a WW1 military. The blood of the winged hussars still runs deep!
@@Danickas0 They did not last long, only around three weeks, after that they were rounded up in a few places hiding behind civiliance and cities. So the german army waited for their surrender to not harm and bomb cities, thats why it took 2-3 weeks more. Facts.
@@marypaquet3372 Here is a video about the facts from a soldier who was there and there are many other sources to support the fact that it was very easy for Germany to take out the poles even that the poles bragged for years and refused every offer of A.H. to find a solution for the germans in Danzig. Also when taking about war crimes, look up the Brom...berger... Blut.....sonntag were they murdered, tortured and killed around 5000 unarmed german children, women and men, all civiliance btw. ua-cam.com/video/0OUjpCZ4C2E/v-deo.html The victors write the history and own the history, thats why you probably never heard of this.
@@jayo3074 maybe the germans should have blurred vision of what they did or better still not committed crimes. We have to see how horrible the evil war was. Not showing Is covering it up.
These documentaries bare some really disturbing and frightening images, but it’s really important for people to watch them and see these things that took place. Because we must know what happened, and never attempt to repeat it again.
What do you mean never repeat again it never ended never stopped WW2 was never won!?! Go to cold case Iowa and know that i am a Nowack and that's dead here to. Look at the Iowa cold cases you will find every name of the cold cases here is a Jew German allied or allies military family member.
You guys do realize hitlers armed forces were all hopped up on methampetime while their enemies at least in the beginning of the war had nothing but coffee and food to keep them going.
How Poland could win the war against Germany, being surrounded by Germany from the west, north and south, and on September 17, 1939, the Soviet Union attacked Poland from the east????!!!!!!!
You won't find anything in Berlin that commemorates German crimes and atrocities during WW II on Polish civilian population and it is a shame. If Germans ever desire to reconcile with Poles, they need to pay Poland reparations' for colossal human and material losses they caused as well as commemorate millions of murdered Poles by Germans in the German capital of Berlin.
My grandfather started off the war as a pow in the invasion was brought to Germany as a slave worker escaped linked up with the allies fought the remainder of the war in a free polish division in the British army in the north African and Italian campaign's
I'm just asking a question which might seem inane. I have noticed, over and over, the horrible mole above Roosevelt's left eye. It looks to me like he had skin cancer. He also had similar moles below his left eye. Has anything ever been mentioned about him having skin cancer? I guess even if he did have skin cancer it was not of much importance in the war, but was wondering if it might have been a factor in his death in 1945.
Never forget that in their hour of need, Poland was alone. Britain and France promised to be alongside them. But they did *NOTHING* and Poland fought alone. The Czechs were sold out first, and then Poland. Shame on such cowardice and appeasement. Eternal shame!
Britain/France wanted to avert a major war. You're looking at things in hindsight but britain/France were there in the moment. Britain/France did the right thing. In fact they should have never declared war on Germany over Poland.
At 39:30 the Polish historian makes an absolutely outrageous statement, accusing FDR of cowardice for not immediately declaring war on Germany for invading Poland. The United States didn’t have a mutual defense treaty with Poland and only had the 17th largest army in the world. The man is delusional.
This documentary is more outrageous than most in its monday night quarterbacking. How ridiculous is it for people presently to judge people's actions back then. Nobody knew back then knew how far germany was going to take things. Britain, France and the US were trying to avert a major war. They didn't know Germany's plans, so how can we judge them for not taking action?
The idea that people have that their own countries are "fighting for the weak and powerless" is a misconception. States and empires fight for their own benefit, and there is always a "price tag" for "help". States and empires don't "fight to help weak countries/people". In case there is a power imbalance: The grand strategy is called "the proxy". The "big brother" is the benefactor. The "little brother" is always in danger of becoming a proxy, involuntarily sacrificed for the gain of "the big brother". Unless the "big brother" and the "little brother" are in the same boat by means of a binding treaty, there is no equality in outcome. Unless the "brothers in arms" are exposed to the same or similar level of danger and are facing the same or similar potential ill-effects due to own actions/inactions, then it is an unequal relationship. Unless all parties suffer similar percentages of financial and human losses, and risk a similar percentage of destruction to their property and territory, then it is in effect "a proxy" which has been set up for the fall. The ones losing most are always the "proxies" of course (historical analysis, with multiple examples). In politics and big business, nobody does anything for free. How one writes history is more a matter of framing: for example the widespread misconception of "good empires on the right side of history, fighting for the little guy" (aka "the poor people"-argument): notice just how...ahem..."coincidentally" these "poor people" just happen to live in regions of the planet with raw materials/strategic value. Empires are suspiciously very keen on "fighting for democracy/freedom" or "poor people" when these battles take place in areas of the planet benefitting own gain in some or other form, or if it is beneficial to the own rise in power. In strategy, the so-called "fighting for the little guy/democracy/freedom" is nothing else than "creating a proxy" or "proxy wars" for own gain. It's the same thing, simply using different words or "putting a spin" on words by changing the perspective, thereby making it more palatable and advantangeous to the own cause, which is own gain.
I find most of this ok, but some of it seriously not even historically accurate. Germany was never running full production until March of 1943 as he did not want to overwhelm the workers and Unions. Hence NSDAP which stands for Nationalist, Socialist German Wokers Party. AH also NEVER wanted a war with the West, his plan was always East. As far as Poland, it was not their territory anyways and they had plenty of times to come to terms over territory that was not theirs in the first place. Lastly if we are talking about the ELITE, you don't have to look further than that of the Bilderberg Group or that of the Trilateral Commission, both of which are ELITIST Globalist entities.
Perhaps invading Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg. The Netherlands, & Belgium, all neutral countries, was not the best way of showing how Germany really didn't want a war with the west?
@@snickerdoodle7134 Nonsense. Was Denmark invaded because of Operation Wilfred? Moreover, German ships were detected on 6 April, two days before the intended date for Operation Wilfred, which it seems the Germans knew nothing about in any case. Do you seriously believe that an operation as complex as the invasion of Denmark & Norway could have been planned in a matter of hours? The only pressure Belgium was under was the fear of imminent invasion by the Germans. It wasn't French & British troops which crossed the border without a declaration of war, was it?
In war there are no winners. I had family who were part of the blitzkrieg, they did as they were ordered. May all those no matter on which side they were fighting, let them be remembered and RIP
@@stanzanossi I agree but if they disobeyed orders they were shot or sent to camps or Eastern front. Was aweful. I heard enough from my grandfather about some things he went through and it effected him mentally. Ptsd was unheard of then
The invasion of Poland and the invasion of China led to the Plattsburgh maneuvers in Plats burg NY. Over 100 US soldiers died in those manivers. The invasion of France led to the mobilization of the US Army National Guard and Reserve. Conscription was used to bring units up to strength.
At 5:00 "today's perspective ". Finally somebody said it. Most accounts of ww2 talk about how Germany was "appeased ". This is hindsight talk. Today we can say that it was incorrect because we are looking back. We can't criticize those people in the moment. And most people go on and on about Chamberlain.
@kindlingking nope. It was stupid of Britain to declare war on Germany. 60 million people died during ww2. I'm sure there was a better way to solve issues instead of declaring war on Germany
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684they could've at least made an attempt. Because as it was, they sold out not one but two of the counties they promised to protect.
I cant fathom how a human kind l live life today and be pleased with it. . . the world capitalist order and politics all around the world are the dirtiest of waste. Then, it will burst and most of us cries.
I stopped watching after the first five minutes. Not because of the content, but because of what was done with the content. To artificially blur historical images to protect fragile contemporary sensibilities is really a slur against history. If you will alter photographic images to this degree, will you also alter facts in your words and narration?
Poland ordered Spitfire's, but they never arrived before war. Some sources are confirming that there was two on tests in Warsaw. Poland had very good P.24 fighters, but unfortunately they sold all of them to Turkey. You can see one of them in Istambul Museum.
Hey there fellow Poles, isn't today September 1st, 1939 SUCH a beautiful day to be a Jewish resident of Warsaw? What could possibly go wrong on a day such as this one you guys? #blessedyall
It is not. What they did before literally no support at all to Poland, no weapons, training etc. They won’t commit the same mistake again by ensuring russia will not win this war and therefore lessen any chance it will take other territories.
Russia created Ukraine and Russia will end it. Once again it will be Novorossia - new Russia and Malorussia - little Russia. As it always was part of Russ. Maybe some parts will go to Hungary and Romania.
That why zelensky must be supported by this whole world he sees what others can't see it believe but the truth is Putin us the same you don't talk this one out it just do t work zelensky has come forth said send me I"All go and he did thank you president Zelensky bless you and that . Ight army of valor .
Germans had 1, 800, 000 horses. 80% was horse drawn transport. 500, 000 + Germ horses at invasion. and bicycles. [No, horses did not ride bicycles. The SS did]. + Commandeered civilian cars and motorbikes. Germ horses did not have permission to drive ! Why you lazy ?
How can a righteous "human" crimes, murder, massmurderer and genocides call war? And rechtfertigen (in english?) this with the word war, what is only started from this crimes???
What about Soviet attack, Slovak attack 1939 on POLAND .September 17 1939 invasion by Bolsheviks and Slovaks. You have to correct all movie ,for You no cover SOVIETS ,SLOWAKS !!!! Why no one word about real ATACK ON POLAND by this COUNTRY !!!!!!! st
Soviets didn't invade, thet just took their territories back. And by thar point polish government had fled and the country basically seized to exist. The same somewhat applies to Slovaks to, since, if you didn't know, Poland participated in partition of Czechoslovakia a year prior.
@@kindlingking Are You crazy ? Soviets attacked Poland 17 09 1939 !!!!! Czechoslovakia had SECRET, had agreement with Poland about saving own gold by Poland ! Taking it to England by Polish government. Poland did the same with own gold !!! The are archives in Warsaw about this agreement . Do You know that Poland had 4th largest army fitting on all FRONTS !! The polish biggest underground Army fitting Germans and Communist in occupied Europe !!! WE lost war , for West rebilled Germany !! This is very sad story about East Countries , when USA so called West sold US TO SOVIETS .Mean time Germans dominate in Europe and work under the table with SOVIETS /RASIA !!!!!!!!!!
Poland lasted only a few weeks because A.H. did not want to harm civiliance. Also the poles rejected every offer to find a peaceful solution for the germans of Danzig.
@@ht8520 I love Wagner, the german musician and componist and I also believe that Nato and who ever runs it, is mostly responsible for what is happening in the Ukraine right now. If you do some research you can easily find out that the expansion of the Nato towards the russian frontier is directly against the contracts and agreements the Nato made with Gorbatsjov when Germany got reunited. As I said, I am not interested in an agenda, only in the facts.
It is not the historical truth that the first shots of 2ww ware fired from the German battle ship at Westerplatte . It looks good in all documentaries but it is not true . First military action by the Germans in the morning of the first day of the war was a massive bombardment of he Polish town of WIELUŃ . Sleeping , defeceless , lacking any military instalations town . Many civilians were kiled . So get real !
@@kddicks5115 you need to see the horror of it so you know it must never happen again. Germans are brought face to face with it. The rest of the world should be too.
The jews should have left as they were instructed to. Why didn’t Israel take them in? NO country wanted to take them in so they only have themselves to balme
You can't blame Britain when you have France Spain Dutch Belgium Scandinavia. We surely wouldn't be needed? French just ran away and rest followed. Then yes we prepard for war. Too late as it turned out, the government were cowards until Churchill got in. Then we had our battle of Britain and then d-day, USA wernt that essential tbh, Europe could and should have done it ourselves.
At 51 years old I've watched things about WWII and Hitler's atrocities but this is the first time ive actually sat down on my day off and watched a playlist ( well, half so far) and im beyond angy, sad, so many emotions at once. The scariest part of all of it is how we are doomed to repeat this if people keep allowing these same kind of atrocities that are happening around the world. Granted, its a different world now and harder to hide rhis kind of stuff but when good people look away and pretend its not happening, it will keep happening. Thank you for your channel.
Now look up Stalin
Watch europa the last battle
Media hides and makes stuff up.
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The part that people forget (or want to forget) is that the Nazis didn't really hide what they were doing. It's that people (not just Germans, but people all around the world) just chose not to look. We see the same thing now around the world. It's easy to look the other way and people have a blind, slavish devotion to peace and the easy life, as opposed to taking a stand that may mean you have to fight.
The polish fought like maniacs. I have nothing but respect and admiration for those brave polish warriors, who never surrendered, and layed down their lives fighting Hitler's Germany. The rest of Europe let them down. We owe Poland a huge debt of gratitude 🇵🇱🇬🇧
The poles caused it
They did surrender, though.
The surrendered in like 6 weeks
@@paigetomkinson1137 polish government maybe, but the polish people never surrendered. They were some of the bravest fighters during the war, many of them joining the British armed forces.
@@danielpedersen2497 lot of misconception about Poland surrendering. Although the polish government fled. The polish people kept fighting throughout the war. Fighting alongside the. They even had a famous Air force squadron in the RAF called the Tadeusz Kościuszko Warsaw Fighter Squadron who were lauded for their unrivalled bravery
Also you skipped on the Ribbentrop-Molotov USSR attack on Poland from the east. So Poland defense lasted 28 days being attacked by 2 powerful armies German and Russian while France and England did nothing!
How about we blame the USSR for making a deal with the Nazis. I guess putin forgot his homelands collaboration 😂
@@sc1338 true
While Russia was in the middle of civil war, Poland was busy grabbing lands. So Russia got their lands back which, now its Belorussia and Ukraine.
@@sandrama22 What lands was Poland grabbing ?
@@ragnargrabson1287 Lviv,Stanislavov,Wolun
Growing up, Polish jokes were a part of our vernacular. We were ignorant idiots. It wasn't until I was stationed overseas in the Navy and was immersed in the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, that I learned about the true horrors of WWII. I learned about how Poland fought like hell to survive and never give in to evil. No other country sacrificed so much to become the butt of tasteless jokes. To this day if someone makes a Polish joke, I correct them. They deserve our respect.
I like to think of Poland as the good guy of Europe. Always on the right side of history, always fighting for freedom no matter the odds.
Poles are freedom fighters ( Solidarity peaceful movement that crumbed Communist Poland and later the rest of Warsaw Pact block countries) , idealists, Christianity defenders ( Battle of Vienna 1683), defenders of the western world against Bolsheviks ( Polish Bolshevik war of 1920) . Poles don't beg for freedom , they fight for it. Thank you for supporting Poland.
@@patrickb1811 and getting royally screwed for their effort.
Interesting you say this…I was literally thinking about this EXACT same thing when I saw this.
Went to Innsbruck back in ‘99 to ski the Alps, and ran into a Polish couple early into the trip. Pretty much spent the entire trip hanging out with them. Wonderful, wonderful people.
and I think I’ve watched that movie about British squadron 303 a hundred times.
The Polish fighters blocking the German and Soviet advance were by far the bravest of the brave in this war. God bless them and may they rest peacefully.
Except for when they left the Jewish population of Poland to die, which was all the time.
@@jonb4722 they were not the best towards the Jews, however it was death for poles to harbor/help Jewish people
@@jonb4722 Yeah, two thumbs up for your BS. Poland has more Righteous among the Nations than anyone else. The Polish Underground State made it a capital offense to turn Jews over to the Nazis...but. go spread your lie.
The settlement of German peasants in GroBdeutschland was planned years before 1939.
Germ farmers from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, OstpreuBen, West Germany, Bavaria, Volga Oblast, Balkan States were invited to join the Ostseidlung movement in the Lebensraum, Generalgouvernement. Starting end of 1939.
Volksdeutsche in Poland drew up lists of Polish Patriots to be evicted first. 1937/ 8.
@@jonb4722many Polish people did harbor and hide Jewish people which if caught they were killed for. Their entire family was.
Poland had only been recreated as a nation 20 years earlier. They had something to fight for.
Not as a nation, but it was resurrected as a country in 1918 after 123 years of absence from the world map.
@@aleksanderkorecki7887 Correct. The lines on a new map were created
Polish nation existed before 1918, a country was recreated.
@@metanoian965yeah, and Poland illegally occupied the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
@@07Blackbeard Who ? What ? Where ? When ? How ? Why ?
My Grandfather's brother was killed on a military transport train for the Polish Army going to the front line on the first day of the war. My Grandfather himself fought the Germans with the Polish Army. God Bless Poland 🇵🇱 we have been attacked so many times.
My father was a 20 year old university student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded in September 1st in 1939. He and a friend joined the Polish army and he was fighting street to street and enduring the Stuka diva bombers .It was hard to make him talk about the fighting but it was very brutal. My father told me how they ran out of ammunition and food. People were eating cats and dogs. He was captured but escaped and escaped to Slovakia then Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy and then up to northern France were he joined the Polish army there. They were given WW1 equipment by the French. He told me how in May 1940 when the Germans invaded France the Polish army was marching to the front he saw the French soldiers running in the other direction. He was eventually captured again and was for a short time in a German POW camp in France. He escaped in the back of a truck and with the help of French resistance made his way to Spain and then Portugal and got onto a coal ship and went to England were he joined the Polish Army and was in the famous Polish First Armored Division and was in a Sherman tank. He hated the Germans all his life and who can blame him. One thing he told me was seeing regular German soldiers kicking and bearing people to death in Warsaw for fun and laughing while they did it.
"Gray Ranks" = codename for Polish Scouting Association in the Polish Underground Military. This included the Polish Girl Guides.
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Polish Scouts in WW ii
Your dad sounds like such a brave man. Joining the polish army not once but three times, each time having seen horrors.
yep my grandfather fought in Poland in the underground. He didn't hate regular soildiers its the cruel ones. But he said to my dad "when an 18 to 19 year old is on the ground with a massive stab wound or riddled with bullets screaming for his mother.. as his life leaves him.. he sounds no different regardless of the uniform he wears. "
That's terrible. No one should have had to be in a Sherman tank, it was called the Tommy Cooker for a reason.
Your dad was a dirty communist. Read some history
Why all the blurred out images in a documentary of such importance and intensity?
Because it's history
@@mbithamarifa3376that doesn’t make sense as a reason to blur images.
Images are typically blurred because the platform requires it in order to be viewed here.
The images of Allied Hero’s and Unalive Axis Combat Forces are not typically blurred in order to hide them from UA-cam viewers. They are blurred in order to hide them from UA-cam’s awful automated editing software 😂
So they won’t delete the Vid.
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0:00 Best intro ever for the subject. The soundtrack, the words. Not perfect, but the best I've seen regarding the period.
They say the poles were beaten. Not really the mathematicians at university of Warsaw back engineer the German radio transmissions and built two enigma code machines which they got to Bletchley park and enabled the Allie’s to read the German codes during the war. The British captured two German subs and a German weathe ship adding to update the wheels of their polish enigma machines the USA captured the u595 and got another updated machine. So the poles fed the Germans a black pill. No pole ever gave up the info that they were able to build enigma machines So in the end the poles screwed the Germans in the most devastating way.
Another in this excellent series! If you haven't watched the previous episodes of The Abyss, I suggest you do, on Criminals and Crimefighters.
I've always wondered about the little girl crying over her dead sister. For many years I have seen those images and wondered about the back story. Heartbreaking as the whole "dear President Roosevelt" segment is, now I know. :-( Such grief. It's nice to see a doc that puts the story behind those popular and often over used imagery used in shorter more sensationalized docs. Anyway, I'm enjoying the rest of the show. TY 🙂
The little girl was 12 years old when that film was taken. She ended up surviving the war and met the guy who took the pictures and film of her, Julien Bryan, in the 1958. She married and passed away at 93 years of age.
First time I saw that girl in total grief her sister dead beside every time I see her in that picture I wonder happened to her.
A very good, comprehensive documentary. However, why are scenes of brutality greyed out? I've seen the same scenes in other film but they were not blurred. I think that adults are able to deal with frank scenes. I strongly object to expurgated footage.
An absolutely fabulous and comprehensive presentation !!
Always had a fascination with Polands 1939 defense. They pound for pound outdid their British and French counterparts who enjoyed many advantages over the Germans including numbers of men and far more heavy tanks. And the poles did it with essentially what was a WW1 military. The blood of the winged hussars still runs deep!
They only lasted a few weeks because A.H. did not want to harm civiliance.
@@davecopp9356 Keep coping.
@@Danickas0 They did not last long, only around three weeks, after that they were rounded up in a few places hiding behind civiliance and cities. So the german army waited for their surrender to not harm and bomb cities, thats why it took 2-3 weeks more. Facts.
@@davecopp9356 lies
@@marypaquet3372 Here is a video about the facts from a soldier who was there and there are many other sources to support the fact that it was very easy for Germany to take out the poles even that the poles bragged for years and refused every offer of A.H. to find a solution for the germans in Danzig. Also when taking about war crimes, look up the Brom...berger... Blut.....sonntag were they murdered, tortured and killed around 5000 unarmed german children, women and men, all civiliance btw.
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The victors write the history and own the history, thats why you probably never heard of this.
80 years on I can’t even phantom another horrific war happening in europe. Europe on edge again.
lol genocide has been happening in Palestine for 70 years... but if it's not Europeans dying, it is not horrific :D
The Palestinian population has been growing !
Agreed. But *fathom, not “phantom”
Sad you blurr the graphic images, people need to see!
No we don't
@@jayo3074 weak liberal
@@birdofevil7970 weirdo
@@birdofevil7970 lmao
@@jayo3074 maybe the germans should have blurred vision of what they did or better still not committed crimes. We have to see how horrible the evil war was. Not showing Is covering it up.
Another informative documentary coverage doings shared by an excellent & magnificent channel thanks
These documentaries bare some really disturbing and frightening images, but it’s really important for people to watch them and see these things that took place. Because we must know what happened, and never attempt to repeat it again.
What do you mean never repeat again it never ended never stopped WW2 was never won!?! Go to cold case Iowa and know that i am a Nowack and that's dead here to. Look at the Iowa cold cases you will find every name of the cold cases here is a Jew German allied or allies military family member.
Unfortunately...
Unfortunately, our ever growing levels of ignorance, hatred, and stupidity is why we're destined to repeat such inhumane and immoral atrocities again.
Your channel world war 2 documentary are informative. Please make a complete documentary on world war 2 from European theaters to pacific theater.
You guys do realize hitlers armed forces were all hopped up on methampetime while their enemies at least in the beginning of the war had nothing but coffee and food to keep them going.
This is a bunch of nonsense.
@@michaelwilliamson4759German soldiers have admitted drugs were given out....I'll believe them over you.
@@michaelwilliamson4759I believe there’s proof of drug use with the nazis and at some point in history with the America military too.
Man I love these documentaries
is there away to watch this without the censored parts ?
Yes, easily available on the Ragusa Schongast UA-cam channel.
Or buy it
How Poland could win the war against Germany, being surrounded by Germany from the west, north and south, and on September 17, 1939, the Soviet Union attacked Poland from the east????!!!!!!!
You won't find anything in Berlin that commemorates German crimes and atrocities during WW II on Polish civilian population and it is a shame. If Germans ever desire to reconcile with Poles, they need to pay Poland reparations' for colossal human and material losses they caused as well as commemorate millions of murdered Poles by Germans in the German capital of Berlin.
German atrocity - Stolen Polish Children - what compensation ?
My grandfather fought in Malay as part of the Kings African rifle's. Hes still alive
My grandfather started off the war as a pow in the invasion was brought to Germany as a slave worker escaped linked up with the allies fought the remainder of the war in a free polish division in the British army in the north African and Italian campaign's
I'm just asking a question which might seem inane. I have noticed, over and over, the horrible mole above Roosevelt's left eye. It looks to me like he had skin cancer. He also had similar moles below his left eye. Has anything ever been mentioned about him having skin cancer? I guess even if he did have skin cancer it was not of much importance in the war, but was wondering if it might have been a factor in his death in 1945.
Never forget that in their hour of need, Poland was alone. Britain and France promised to be alongside them. But they did *NOTHING* and Poland fought alone. The Czechs were sold out first, and then Poland. Shame on such cowardice and appeasement. Eternal shame!
Britain/France wanted to avert a major war. You're looking at things in hindsight but britain/France were there in the moment. Britain/France did the right thing. In fact they should have never declared war on Germany over Poland.
Very very interesting and informative. Had no idea that the first attempt on Hitler's life was on November 8 1939.
18:45 where can i find this japanese videos.?
Luckless Neville Chamberlain? How lucky was Churchill in WW1?
Why the video are blurred?
At 39:30 the Polish historian makes an absolutely outrageous statement, accusing FDR of cowardice for not immediately declaring war on Germany for invading Poland. The United States didn’t have a mutual defense treaty with Poland and only had the 17th largest army in the world. The man is delusional.
This documentary is more outrageous than most in its monday night quarterbacking. How ridiculous is it for people presently to judge people's actions back then. Nobody knew back then knew how far germany was going to take things. Britain, France and the US were trying to avert a major war. They didn't know Germany's plans, so how can we judge them for not taking action?
Poles do be like that very often.
Poland suffered so much.
I don't blame them for protecting their Country now from outsiders
The idea that people have that their own countries are "fighting for the weak and powerless" is a misconception.
States and empires fight for their own benefit, and there is always a "price tag" for "help".
States and empires don't "fight to help weak countries/people".
In case there is a power imbalance: The grand strategy is called "the proxy".
The "big brother" is the benefactor.
The "little brother" is always in danger of becoming a proxy, involuntarily sacrificed for the gain of "the big brother".
Unless the "big brother" and the "little brother" are in the same boat by means of a binding treaty, there is no equality in outcome.
Unless the "brothers in arms" are exposed to the same or similar level of danger and are facing the same or similar potential ill-effects due to own actions/inactions, then it is an unequal relationship. Unless all parties suffer similar percentages of financial and human losses, and risk a similar percentage of destruction to their property and territory, then it is in effect "a proxy" which has been set up for the fall.
The ones losing most are always the "proxies" of course (historical analysis, with multiple examples).
In politics and big business, nobody does anything for free.
How one writes history is more a matter of framing: for example the widespread misconception of "good empires on the right side of history, fighting for the little guy" (aka "the poor people"-argument): notice just how...ahem..."coincidentally" these "poor people" just happen to live in regions of the planet with raw materials/strategic value. Empires are suspiciously very keen on "fighting for democracy/freedom" or "poor people" when these battles take place in areas of the planet benefitting own gain in some or other form, or if it is beneficial to the own rise in power.
In strategy, the so-called "fighting for the little guy/democracy/freedom" is nothing else than "creating a proxy" or "proxy wars" for own gain.
It's the same thing, simply using different words or "putting a spin" on words by changing the perspective, thereby making it more palatable and advantangeous to the own cause, which is own gain.
We need leadership like Churchill right now in 2023
Trump 2024 imo
@@AParallelReality I said Churchill, not Mussolini. Fascism doesn't work man. I'll stick with democracy and the US Constitution thanks.
The West us full of Churchills, all around there.
They are not smoking the same and perhaps drinking less, but technically, there is dozens of them.
@@AParallelReality lol Trump lives in The Swamp
I find most of this ok, but some of it seriously not even historically accurate. Germany was never running full production until March of 1943 as he did not want to overwhelm the workers and Unions. Hence NSDAP which stands for Nationalist, Socialist German Wokers Party. AH also NEVER wanted a war with the West, his plan was always East. As far as Poland, it was not their territory anyways and they had plenty of times to come to terms over territory that was not theirs in the first place. Lastly if we are talking about the ELITE, you don't have to look further than that of the Bilderberg Group or that of the Trilateral Commission, both of which are ELITIST Globalist entities.
Perhaps invading Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg. The Netherlands, & Belgium, all neutral countries, was not the best way of showing how Germany really didn't want a war with the west?
@@snickerdoodle7134 Nonsense. Was Denmark invaded because of Operation Wilfred? Moreover, German ships were detected on 6 April, two days before the intended date for Operation Wilfred, which it seems the Germans knew nothing about in any case. Do you seriously believe that an operation as complex as the invasion of Denmark & Norway could have been planned in a matter of hours?
The only pressure Belgium was under was the fear of imminent invasion by the Germans. It wasn't French & British troops which crossed the border without a declaration of war, was it?
In war there are no winners. I had family who were part of the blitzkrieg, they did as they were ordered. May all those no matter on which side they were fighting, let them be remembered and RIP
@Tessa Le Roux home movies of the Nazis is another good doc. They were planting seeds in the minds of children in the 30s
Tessa! If you have strong morals you should not do what you are ordered to do if what you are told to do is evil!!!
Tessa! If you have strong morals you should not do what you are ordered to do if what you are told to do is evil!!!
@@stanzanossi I agree but if they disobeyed orders they were shot or sent to camps or Eastern front. Was aweful. I heard enough from my grandfather about some things he went through and it effected him mentally. Ptsd was unheard of then
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why was so much focused on eva .
The invasion of Poland and the invasion of China led to the Plattsburgh maneuvers in Plats burg NY. Over 100 US soldiers died in those manivers. The invasion of France led to the mobilization of the US Army National Guard and Reserve. Conscription was used to bring units up to strength.
Amazing the similarity between the WW2 and the west reaction to the Dictator Putin's actions in Ukraine
Except Putin's military is trash and failed.
At 5:00 "today's perspective ". Finally somebody said it. Most accounts of ww2 talk about how Germany was "appeased ". This is hindsight talk. Today we can say that it was incorrect because we are looking back. We can't criticize those people in the moment. And most people go on and on about Chamberlain.
It was stupid back then as well.
@kindlingking nope. It was stupid of Britain to declare war on Germany. 60 million people died during ww2. I'm sure there was a better way to solve issues instead of declaring war on Germany
U will be hated, whenever u saying truth. act truth, and to be humble brilliant
I believe the french and british could have marched right into german and took it when they were in poland
You believe wrong. The French is one matter, but the British were in NO posiiton to do such a thing.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684they could've at least made an attempt. Because as it was, they sold out not one but two of the counties they promised to protect.
Poland was indefensible...
Definitely one of the most hopeless situations in the war.
What is difference between German & usa today?
We don't love to war but sometimes it is answered..
This documentary and others like it are informative, in part. There's too much speculation.
Why blur the images of the dead? Show the horror
1931) France tries to face the Mundial crisis with a forced stabilization of the blockade of emigration🙏😢
Pyta i thought they said they couldn't find any living Petacci or Mussolini's families?
the Ardenne offensive was Manstein's idea, not Hitler's
And some American allied Germans were telling the truth about it and got ignored and he probably ain't Seminole
One very simple question guys that can ruin all your idea: Who was pumping enormous amounts of money into German economy? Billions of dollars?
Look up "MEFO bills", get a copy of Dr Hjalmar Schacht's book. Facts vs. whatever drunk history you bought into.
I cant fathom how a human kind l live life today and be pleased with it. . . the world capitalist order and politics all around the world are the dirtiest of waste. Then, it will burst and most of us cries.
I stopped watching after the first five minutes. Not because of the content, but because of what was done with the content. To artificially blur historical images to protect fragile contemporary sensibilities is really a slur against history. If you will alter photographic images to this degree, will you also alter facts in your words and narration?
8:41 hand gestures not necessary
why are you fuzzing the camera?
The polish had old biplanes. And they was good. but when they flew the spitfire😎, excellent.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_P.11
Poland ordered Spitfire's, but they never arrived before war. Some sources are confirming that there was two on tests in Warsaw. Poland had very good P.24 fighters, but unfortunately they sold all of them to Turkey. You can see one of them in Istambul Museum.
During that time Poland was so weak it is a big country for European standard
Hey there fellow Poles, isn't today September 1st, 1939 SUCH a beautiful day to be a Jewish resident of Warsaw? What could possibly go wrong on a day such as this one you guys? #blessedyall
By the time of Blau, in 1942, they'd Germany had already two million dead.
Isn't England sort of this way. What I mean is apartheid south africa was their colony
Why allow comments?
Why do you blur the images? That is just stupid
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The ss had some Manish women
If you want to see the future look at the past
Same thing they letting Russia do now then he will take Ukraine and Moldova
It is not. What they did before literally no support at all to Poland, no weapons, training etc. They won’t commit the same mistake again by ensuring russia will not win this war and therefore lessen any chance it will take other territories.
Russia created Ukraine and Russia will end it. Once again it will be Novorossia - new Russia and Malorussia - little Russia. As it always was part of Russ. Maybe some parts will go to Hungary and Romania.
The nightmare is now.
And the so called B 52 Bomber is not a 3 its a 1 and the gas prices in 2023 are embarrassing a whole embarrassment
Franksy alex
That why zelensky must be supported by this whole world he sees what others can't see it believe but the truth is Putin us the same you don't talk this one out it just do t work zelensky has come forth said send me I"All go and he did thank you president Zelensky bless you and that . Ight army of valor .
Sadly Polands military was way behind on teck. They still relied on mainly horses to haul around equipment. They never stood a chance
Well germans and soviets did the same.
No. They did not fight tanks on horseback.
Germans had 1, 800, 000 horses.
80% was horse drawn transport.
500, 000 + Germ horses at invasion. and bicycles. [No, horses did not ride bicycles. The SS did]. + Commandeered civilian cars and motorbikes. Germ horses did not have permission to drive !
Why you lazy ?
How can a righteous "human" crimes, murder, massmurderer and genocides call war? And rechtfertigen (in english?) this with the word war, what is only started from this crimes???
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What about Soviet attack, Slovak attack 1939 on POLAND .September 17 1939 invasion by Bolsheviks and Slovaks. You have to correct all movie ,for You no cover SOVIETS ,SLOWAKS !!!! Why no one word about real ATACK ON POLAND by this COUNTRY !!!!!!! st
Soviets didn't invade, thet just took their territories back. And by thar point polish government had fled and the country basically seized to exist.
The same somewhat applies to Slovaks to, since, if you didn't know, Poland participated in partition of Czechoslovakia a year prior.
@@kindlingking Are You crazy ? Soviets attacked Poland 17 09 1939 !!!!! Czechoslovakia had SECRET, had agreement with Poland about saving own gold by Poland ! Taking it to England by Polish government. Poland did the same with own gold !!! The are archives in Warsaw about this agreement . Do You know that Poland had 4th largest army fitting on all FRONTS !! The polish biggest underground Army fitting Germans and Communist in occupied Europe !!! WE lost war , for West rebilled Germany !! This is very sad story about East Countries , when USA so called West sold US TO SOVIETS .Mean time Germans dominate in Europe and work under the table with SOVIETS /RASIA !!!!!!!!!!
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!!! Did i hear well? The guy from the finance does not want to continue "the debt" scheme?! Does that sounds familiar?
I don't think this war could have been nipped in the bud is this one guy said
I'm not keeping that totalitarian medicaid either.
If only they had the Wok brought to them somehow
History repeats itself as now israel is doing the same to the Palestinians.
Eva and all her friends were 4's, what's up with that?
6 or 7s this video did not show her at her best.
@@tonyromano6220 ur right, 4 is too low, 7?---im not so sure
@@richardcolton1009 lol ok 6 it is.
@@richardcolton1009 I am old and horny, maybe that distorts my view…..😂😂🙂🤣😂🤣
@@tonyromano6220 so if it has a pulse you're good to go--nice--i too am older than the dirt my balls drag upon
These blurry pictures makes the video a bit boring. Please we are old enough to see these atrocities so as to not to repeat them
Poland never gave up, the underground kept the fight up til the end.
Bangladesh, smells , self proclaiming they are as cute as Salman Khan, yet hated whenever they go.... Yew
Perhaps, Poland Invaded. Not Poland Invasion which implies it was a Polish invasion.
Not, "Poland Invaded", either.
Poland WAS invaded
Did poland get reparations?
Such dreadfull evil lion of judah the blessings on those poor people
Poland lasted only a few weeks because A.H. did not want to harm civiliance. Also the poles rejected every offer to find a peaceful solution for the germans of Danzig.
Obvious troll is obvious
@@ht8520 No trolling, just facts.
@@davecopp9356 now please go join Wagner PMC and go try to take bakhmut for Putin. Looks like your kind of job.
@@ht8520 I love Wagner, the german musician and componist and I also believe that Nato and who ever runs it, is mostly responsible for what is happening in the Ukraine right now. If you do some research you can easily find out that the expansion of the Nato towards the russian frontier is directly against the contracts and agreements the Nato made with Gorbatsjov when Germany got reunited. As I said, I am not interested in an agenda, only in the facts.
It is not the historical truth that the first shots of 2ww ware fired from
the German battle ship at Westerplatte . It looks good in all documentaries
but it is not true . First military action by the Germans in the morning
of the first day of the war was a massive bombardment of he Polish
town of WIELUŃ . Sleeping , defeceless , lacking any military
instalations town . Many civilians were kiled . So get real !
Why are parts of this video blurred? We need to see what happened so we learn that we are never ever to repeat such atrocities.
Why does that matter?? You can't retain the information without gruesome pictures?
@@kddicks5115 you need to see the horror of it so you know it must never happen again. Germans are brought face to face with it. The rest of the world should be too.
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this documentary is a bit tightlipped about the progressiveness movement
"The elected leftist government in Spain". THAT'S the prettiest name I've ever heard the Bolcheviks called
Lewackie blablanie
More zog lies
The jews should have left as they were instructed to. Why didn’t Israel take them in? NO country wanted to take them in so they only have themselves to balme
Israel didn't exist as a state until 1948. Before that it was called Palestine with both Jews and Arabs living together.
Lets me remind you that germany Had Poland to exterminate Poles first.
To jste opravdu tak hloupá antisemitská slepice? Stát Izrael vznikl po válce.
Poor little jews never their fault.
Shut up
You can't blame Britain when you have France Spain Dutch Belgium Scandinavia. We surely wouldn't be needed? French just ran away and rest followed. Then yes we prepard for war. Too late as it turned out, the government were cowards until Churchill got in. Then we had our battle of Britain and then d-day, USA wernt that essential tbh, Europe could and should have done it ourselves.