The Warsaw Uprising - The Unstoppable Spirit of the Polish Resistance - Extra History
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- 📜 The Warsaw Uprising: The Unstoppable Spirit of the Polish Resistance - The Polish are determined to make Poland matter on the world stage, and they will not wait for whatever mercies may come from the Russians. So the Home Army stages their own uprising to liberate Warsaw, and for some 60-odd days, their strongest members, the Grey Ranks, tragically held steadfast.
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Today is the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. You can read more about this event here: www.warsawuprising.com/
Uh
It's not Saturday
Nice
Since we are on the topic of revolution,will you please do video's on the 1918 Easter rising of irland when you can?
Are you planning to do a video about Warsaw Ghetto uprising as we?
Those were brave people.
“The blue in the Polish flag represents reliable allies.”
hahahahahaha good one xD
@@Mmjk_12 so you got ww2, even worse, LOL
Same for the green in the Czechian flag
Same for the Germans
Russia wasn't our ally at all.
A nation destroyed will never exist again
Poland: check this out
One could argue that they were never fully destroyed. From the spirit that refused to die, to the troops fighting far from home so that they could return, Poland lived on.
Bthsr71 Indeed!
Bthsr71 I agree but the quote still stands true. Remember the Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
Bulgaria after 500 years of slavery: hey guys u remember me?
Italy got divided and was reborn after 1386 years.
"Because we do not beg for Freedom, We fight for it"
Witold Urbanowicz (303 Squadron)
Yeah like how they went asking the Allied troops in 1939
@@lilosurmer4466 they were not begging for freedom, they were asking for aid from their cowardly allies known as Britain and France.
@@pianonian7314 So they were just as "cowardly" as you say as France and GB
@@lilosurmer4466 they were formal allies
@@lilosurmer4466 damn learn some history. Poland was not "cowardly". The fact is that the politicians of France and UK wear scared of a war and were letting Germany build up. WW2 could have been complete avoided id France invaded Germany when Germany invaded Poland.
"...long after the 'thousand-year Reich' was wiped from the Earth." Fantastic ending.
Calling 70 years a long time.
More like 12 year Reich
@@redornament3248 Such a twelvie smh.
Not to mention the Soviet Union that would not come to their aid.
Good job Germany for getting rid of this poopland country.
polish boy scouts formed the countries most formidable militia... wild
There's a lot more they couldn't possibly fit in one video but they did SO MUCH before and during the uprising. Both boy and girl scouts were incredibly well organized but also didn't lack boldness and even humour. You should definitely read up on their methods of sabotage and diversion
Mad respect for those who sacrificed themselves. Serious salute.
@@kahorere Is there more content about this?
I would really like to learn more
@@andrepuppi2325 here is a fact about Warsaw uprising.Warsaw always stops for one minute every year when the uprising began.
@@kahorere i read a book about some teenagers in the Warsaw uprising. Amazing
Poles: Damn at last Germans are gone we can be free.
Soviets: More like under new management.
Poles today: [This message has been redacted by national ministry of truth]
@@Argacyan they have a new title now. "Google"
Shivansh NA
1991: Bouta end this Man’s whole career
@@capeewee 1989
Rzułta Łuć Potfotna oh rite, but I was more referencing just the fall of the USSR
Sun Tzu: A nation destroyed shall never exist again
Poland: Yea, about that
(edit: spelling)
And poland died TWO times
YES TWO
they prove him wrong 3 times (Partision, WW1, WW2)
@@waifuhunter9815 nah Polish Army actually come back to live on 4th August 1914 (as 1st Cadre Company) but during whole WW1 Poland was still under Partision. I would rather say: Partision, WW2, Soviet occupation after WW2 to late 80's
Poland was never destroyed in WW2 friend, the polish spirit lived on
As a Korean, my heart goes out to the Poles. Coming from a people who've also lost monuments, historical artifacts, infrastructure, and so many human lives to foreign actors, you are not alone. Not that yall needed to hear that, Poles are tough as nails.
Hi
I’m american, but my family is Irish, and I have nothing but love for my Polish catholic brothers. The courage and resistance they showed…were geography to change place, I only hope my Irish ancestors would have fought with the courage the Poles showed despite facing hell
유럽버전 한국...그저 폴
As a Pole i love south korea. We have very similar history of being fucked over and over and over again. Lucky for us our goverments see it and we invest into eachother, both on the civilian market and in the arms industry. Tho i gotta admit you run your country better then we do but oh well maybe it will change in a couple of years
@Tohrµ Yup, 2nd class powers stuck between competing superpowers on the map, and suffering for it.
Interesting fact is, that the hungarian troops stationed near Warsaw refused to fight against the Poles. Actually the hungarians supplied them with ammunition, food, medications and provided shelter for the wounded.
Was Hungary still on the side of the Axis at that time or were they on the verge of changing side ?
@@---uf2zl Technically still in the Axis sphere of influence, up to September of 1944 if i recall.
They always did that, there is super strong bond between Hungary and Poland. We help them, they help us
We do not deserve Hungarians
So Hungarians want to play as Chernov ?
*CALLING WARSAW CITY AT WAR, VOICES FROM UNDERGROUND, WHISPERS OF FREEDOM*
SABATON !!!!
1944! HELP THAT NEVER CAAAAAAME
try to save Berlin in vain
@@datfisheboi6519 CALLING WARSAW, CITY AT WAR, VOICES FROM UNDERGROUNG, WHISPERS OF FREEDOM
SABATON nice 🤗
Oh man! This makes me really cry, I mean boy-scouts these would have been at least 13 years of age or older. Such a massive burden that they took unto themselves, in their finest hours, never wavered, pure in devotion to the cause and laying down the ultimate sacrifice for freedom. May these glorious heroes be forever honoured and remembered, may their sacrifices never be forgotten.
A scouts salute to the Glorious Gray ranks!
Forgot too give you some proof sry, Jerzy Romuald Grzelak that's he's name
Boys around 16-18 were commanders. Anything beyond 19-20 were officers. Kids as young as 12 fought on the frontline. Younger kids crawled through the sewers to deliver messages.
Poles are strong, powerful and devoted people.
Every scouts that participate on that should be honored.
Not sure about the polish rules, but in the states, scouts can be as young as ten. I have a feeling some younger siblings were included in the courier ranks as well.
Correction about 2 minutes in : Poland never actually surrendered, the city of Warsaw surrendered
Wolffang haha good joke. Not even Warsaw surrendered
@@theinquisitionsparrot6749 So there wasn't any surrendering of any kind?
Kapitan Grigoriy sry that was a joke
Poland, nor warsaw, surrendered. They were conquered.
Poland never surrender without fight
“We are trapped by two devils who both want to rule hell”
Well guess you could say "Gave them Hell", If you know what I mean?
except one devil literally wants your entire race dead, and the other wants to end inequality and poverty.
@@cageybee7221 Oppresson of even the workers is not "end inequality and poverty" 1956, and afterwards, groups like ZOMO caused terror to many people in the country.
Unlawful_Falafel yeah, let's ignore the fact that Poland was basically turned into a puppet which barely received any aid from the Soviet Union.
@@cageybee7221 yeah just ignore the katyn massacre
Much love and respect to the Polish people, from an American.
Make that *two* americans
Three Americans
Amerikanskl
Four americans
Ok ngl when I started to study ww2 I was actually astonished and mad that the allies wouldn’t help Poland :I
I'm half Polish but grew up in Holland. I don't even know the language but I will never forget all the tales my grandmother told me about the war. She really disliked the Russians, which I didn't understand until I was older. On her birthday, the Polish side of the family used to do a few shots of vodka together and she would start singing war songs. She always tried offering me and my sister some vodka too, but we were much too young and my mom forbade it. She's too old and sick now to drink spirits, but she still comes to live when she hears old Polish marching songs.
As the son of a Polish Immigrant who lived in Poland for a few years, I really appreciate the videos you guys are making about Poland's sacrifices made during WWII. More people need to know about these events in my opinion.
All I ever really hear is the surrender and history books don't inform most US students of their sacrifices
Nova Caesar Poland didn’t exist for six years.
SISYPHUS VASILIAS What’s your problem?
SISYPHUS VASILIAS Capitalism, racism, sexism, the far right, inequality... Oh, and morons who think there’s some sort of great conspiracy by [insert country here] that we all somehow believe.
SISYPHUS VASILIAS I don’t think I’m the one who needs them tbh.
Im a simple Hungarian. I see Poland, I click.
💖💖
That's right!!!;)
Polak Węgier dwa bratanki i do bitki i do szklanki.
I say hello from Poland to you my brother.
The polish are pleased 🖤
“Warsaw city at war voices from underground whispers of freedom”
God, I love that song
1944 help that never came
@@lavalslounge335
Calling
Warsaw City at War
Voices from Underground
Whispers of Freedom
Rise up and Hear the Call
History calling to you
Warzawo Walcz!
"What country is next to Germany?"
"Russia."
Sure, parents.
Well, they might as well be with how history has worked out.
Based parents!
'Russia' AKA the USSR was Germany's neighbour until the 90's.
Well they arent wrong.... like in what year you ask that?
@@JoshSweetvale No, they weren´t...
Im not even Polish but this was crazy emotional. Well fought Poland - even the kids fight on.
You wouldn't happen to be Scottish would you?
@@Ggdivhjkjl actually I'm English but lived in in a few countries so consider myself more international.
@@RoBMcCullochexperience jestem z polski itak było wielu Polaków w tedy zginęło dzieci walczyły wszyscy walczyli w tych strasznych czasach
@@kubawwojtek6912 At least one of us knows and appreciates the struggle even in the face of annihilation. Much respect to your brave nation
@@RoBMcCullochexperience thanks you
I am visiting Krakow today. They had a memorial at 5 oclock. All the sirens of the city sounded, and then everyone stood for a moment of silence. Then, Polish flags and songs.
I live in Kraków
It’s even cooler in Warsaw, because the entire city just stops.
Wow I’d really like to see that.
Sirens?
@@PersianMapper Yeah, sirens for one minute, then silence for one minute. This, in lieu of the hourly bugle call.
Honestly, the most badass nation ever. Ever.
@Thomas Scicluna pfff no
@Thomas Scicluna Nope.
There were *volunteer* allied missions to drop supplies from aircraft to the resistance, by mid August 1944. My uncle, W.O. Murray. A. Baxter, piloted two such missions out of Foggia in Italy flying a Liberator, being shot down and killed on the second mission on August 15th.
May He rest in peace , thank you.
Thank you Murray for your service and sacrifice, Murray. May you rest in peace.
The Polish were some of the toughest fighters in WW2, and they deserve every bit of the praise they get.
@Rick Stuifzand polish troops fought everywhere in Europe to beat the nazi's. For example Italy, France,Holland,...
Polish battle bear: Hello there
@Delta 118 yea they were tought but ineffecient
@@TrueShoot1000 How?
the polish fought in the battle of britain, bismarck sinking, Warsaw uprising and lasted for 2 MONTHS without tanks or any armored support fighting panzer, while also being betrayed by the ones they were fighting for TWICE and to be locked inside the iron curtain
Sun Tzu says a nation destroyed will never exist again... Apparently he never learned about Poland
Guess so
The "polish nation" wasn't destroyed. This was concentrated in Warsaw and other big cities. Though millions died, the poles still lived on, keeping their customs and their language. They were able to rebuild because the nation of the poles wasn't destroyed.
Look at what happened to the nation of the Gauls after the Roman conquest of Gaul. That is what he means by a nation destroyed. Gaul as a nation simply doesn't exist anymore
@@heathenfire why must you be so critical to complimenting hyperbole
He was right. Our nation spirit had been killed long time ago, and those who were meant to rebuilt our country: generals,pedagogues,doctors,lawyers, intellectuals were killed in Katyn's massacre or in Intelligenzaktion. The rest who remained alive were mostly passive people, who throughout these 45 years were easily brainwashed, or collaborators who were torturing their own people.
Because Polish spirit was never destroyed by anyone. We pushed back Turks, Russians, Germans (including Teutons and Prussian), Bolsheviks. We will also survive neomarxist EU and multikulti and LGBT propagandists
My grandma told me that the red in the polish flag is supposed to represent all the blood spilt during its history
Well thats true . mine told me same.
Poland was a superpower of eastern europe from roman empire till the 18th century
@@freedomisfromtruth kolejny debil co wierzy w WIELKĄ LECHIĘ
I tip my imaginary hat to Poland. This is badass.
Greetings from Perú 🇵🇪
Also fun fact, General Edward Rydz-Śmigły, the former commander of Polish Forces before the war, actually escaped internment in Romania and joined the Underground Army but went under another name, because he still felt guilty for Poland's loss. He died in 1941-2 due to a heart attack though.
He should not feel guilty
Nah he didnt change the name because he felt guilty but cause he would obviously have been arrested.
@@m4rmot462 No he went with a different name when he joined the Underground. Why would the Home Army arrest him?
@@jurtra9090 Because he stopped the Non-aggression pact being signed between Poland and Germany he evidently lead to it's demise.
He should feel guilty.
Edward Śmigły-Rydz He was an idiot thats for certain
Poland: *Exists*
Every Neighbour Ever: _"It's free real estate"_
Nope, Austria-hungary was cool.
@@jakzak23 they took part in the Polish partitions too
@@majan6267
compared to German and Russian occupation, it seems to me that the Austrians were more like friend that lets you live in his home until moment that you will be able to live again on your own.
@@majan6267 Yeah. But they didn't want to make us Austro-Hungarians. They let us talk in our language keep our culture etc. Out of 3 countries that took our country back then Austria was the nicest one. I'd say germans were in beetwen but it's an open topic. Can't really tell if Russians or Germans were worse....
@@justynagaecka9275 while that is true, the Austrians werent really able to make the poles austrian, thats why the austrians were forced into a dual monarchy with Hungary, because 80% of the territory they controlled couldnt speal Austrian, and they found it difficult to impose their culture on a populus unwilling to accept it
Im 23yo male but yet every time i hear about our uprising i cant stop tears flowing from my eyes,tears of sorrow for all of those who sacrificed themselves. There are not many things im proud of in my life,but i will admit being born in Poland makes me proud
Man this story is heartbreaking. They fought so hard and were so young.
Yes, Palestinians truly are more than heroes. So sad their country was stolen and occupied like Poland.
" *This is Warsaw calling... This is Warsaw calling to all the Free Nations* "
Why to all free naions?? Should have called the Soviets :)
@@changes5765 Check Armia Ludowa...
The people you called are unavailable. Please leave a message after the beep.
WARSAW, CITY AT WAR! VOICES FROM UNDERGROUND WHISPERS OF FREEDOM!
@@Gatastrophe rise up and hear the call history calling to you
Warsaw, city at war
Voices from underground, whispers of freedom
1944 - help that never came
Calling Warsaw, city at war!
Voices from the underground, whispers of freedom!
Rise up, and hear their call!
History calling to you!
@@SilverGamingFI *WARSZAWO, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALCZ!*
Yustin J. Wyjdz
Only real historians understand this
All the streetlights in the city
Broken many years ago
Break the curfew, hide in sewers
Warsaw, it's time to rise now
i´m mexican and i cried, i´m in love with poland now apparently
"Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła!"
"Poland is not yet lost."
I nie będzie.(Im Hungarian)
My grandfather fought in the uprising, and we're at the memorial this year with him. Thanks you for covering a key part of my family's history
Pilchowski01 He died with valor :) Hope you have a good day :)
Powodzenia.
@Calvin Cirurgiao we or they?
I’m an Irish man, I don’t really think much about the individual soldier, I’ve never been into a fight other then a fist fight, but I know that he must have felt scared, he must have felt pride, he must have felt happy to fight for his country, so I salute him, and the rest of the fighters.
He is a hero
Poland: Can we ve free now?
Soviet: Well yes but actually Gulag.
XDDDD
;_;
-,-
@@platynowyviking7746 To WcAlE ŚmIeSzNe NiE jEsT
@@platynowyviking7746 Zero poczucia humoru
For anyone interested as to how the Allies thanked the Poles for essentially giving them the tools to win the war, from a working enigma machine instrumental in the work at Bletchley to providing fighting men for damn near every major campaign in Europe..either read I Saw Poland Betrayed by Arthur Bliss Lane or just research the Yalta Conference. It truly is sad how the Allies threw Poland aside after the war…
Polish people are tough and brave, we should learn from them and the history of their country. And they'll be almost the only ones fighting the current tyrants in Brussels... Long life to Poland and its people!!! Much love from a Spanish brother🇪🇸❤️🇵🇱
The Poles don’t get NEARLY enough WWII cred. Some of the most badass WWII history happened in Poland.
What about greece?
@@chadusgigantus388 Both our countries deserve respect and more recognition, there were many unsung heroes of that war.
Poland
Greece
Finland
And so many other countries just get ignored
It's sad
@Otto Ernst Lindemann British troops who had been wasted by an incompetent French command strategy. In fact France in general was ruined by it's useless leadership.
Poland, Greece, Finland and Canada all have the best track record during WWII in my opinion.
"NOT THE BEEEES!"
-Random Wehrmacht Soldier, 1944
😂
Flashbacks from Battle of the Bees.
"NOT THE WASPS!"
-Random Wehrmacht soldier, 1944
No! Not the hornets!
The situation has been made worse with the addition of yet more bees!
I, being Polish, have been taught Polish history, and this is only one of the times Poland has been given the middle finger by conflict, but still persevered.
I am truly proud of my countries accomplishments and achievements, and I am honoured to be a part of it.
"Because we do not beg for Freedom. We fight for it"
Witold Urbanowicz (303 Squadron Commander).🇵🇱❤
One of the members of the gray ranks remembers that when they retreated from the old town the civilians begged them to stay. This was one of the most tragic things about the uprising. People who didn’t exit the city in time were trapped and their only defense was the resistance. Every retreat meant that thousands civilians and wounded were left to die by the heads of the German forces. That is why this is one of the most bloody battle of the 20 century. In that battle more poles died than Americans in Vietnam.
And unlike the Americans polish did not deserve this
@@reitheinsolvable7380 What do you mean
@@mariustan9275 Vietnam was just fighting for independence from French colonial rule. America decided to intervene to return Vietnam back to the French.
@@CHRF-55457 no? They were fighting on the side of the independent south Vietnam to stop the communist north from taking over. We still weren't justified in joining what was someone else's civil war, but get your facts right
@@CHRF-55457 No that's just false. At first yes but America never directly intervened in any meaningful capacity (save for a few airstrikes and some supplies I believe) to protect the French Colony of Feench Indochina. America intervened to stop the communists from overruing the south Vietnamese who were independent from France. American intervention was extremely limited in the 1956 First Indochina war. They had no intentions of returning it to French rule the strategic objective of the Second Indochina war was simply to preserve the status quo and prevent the fall of South Vietnam to the North which is where they failed and ultimately lost
This is SUPER cool to learn more about the Warsaw Uprising.
The Soviets had spies that informed them of the leadership in the Polish resistance. When the Soviets took control they had their spies gather up the officers and executed them. They oppressed the people of Poland. The war didn't end in 1945 for the Polish. They continued to fight the Soviets.
What a compelling argument with zero evidence! And yes, they continued fighting the Soviets through killing Red Army guards, including in front of foreign journalists as a demonstration. Truly the stuff of heroes.
@@howardzhang5421except the Soviets cracking down on the Polish resistance is something that’s very well known and documented, by the Soviets themselves.
@@baneofbanes Then cite your sources. There was cracking down, but as mentioned, it was AK dissidents who directly attacked the Red Army. The killing of guards as a demonstration is documented by many sources, including ones like Alexander Werth's Russia at War, etc., but i have yet to see sources claiming unprovoked crackdowns.
The Germans destroyed 90 percent of the city and excuted or sent most of the survivors to death camps there wasn't much officers left for the Soviets to even get rid of.
I don't know why but, while watching that i couldn't stop my tears.
Women, men and children fight
They were dying side by side
And the blood they shed upon the streets
Was a sacrifice willingly paid
I see you are a man of culture.
That was touching. Thank you
@@Edmonton-of2ec Check "Uprising" by Sabaton; especially the official video for the song.
Warsaw! City at War!
@@AimlessSavant VOICES FROM UNDERGROUND, WHISPERS OF FREEDOM
For a person that's a Pole, for this channel to cover the Warsaw Uprising is... magical, to say the least.
This is basically how I felt when they covered the Aboriginal Dreamtime stories, it’s always nice to hear history about your country
But they hid all the swastikas, this is sort of rewriting history subtlely
@@samdumaquis2033 they have an episode earlier on that explains why that removed the imagery.
@@samdumaquis2033 They do that because youtube algorithms automatically detect swastikas and demonetize videos containing them.
Same feeling I got when they covered the Great Northern War. Too bad we didn't win.
As an American, I am proud to have Poland as our ally and in nato.
🎵Warsaw rise
Do you remember when, when the Nazis forced their rule on Poland
1939 and the allies turned away
From the underground rose a hope of freedom as a whisper
City in despair, but they never lost their faith
Women, men and children fight
They were dying side by side
And the blood they shed upon the streets
Was a sacrifice willingly paid
Warsaw city at war
Voices from underground, whispers of freedom
1944 help that never came
Calling Warsaw city at war
Voices from underground, whispers of freedom
Rise up and hear the call
History calling to you, 'Warszawo, walcz!'
Spirit soul and heart
In accordance with the old traditions
1944 still the allies turn away
Fighting street to street
In a time of hope and desperation
Did it on their own and they never lost their faith
Women, men and children fight
They were dying side by side
And the blood they shed upon the streets
Was a sacrifice willingly paid
Warsaw city at war
Voices from underground, whispers of freedom
1944 help that never came
Calling Warsaw city at war
Voices from underground, whispers of freedom
Rise up and hear the call
History calling to you, 'Warszawo, walcz!'
All the streetlights in the city
Broken many years ago
Break the curfew, hide in sewers
Warsaw, it's time to rise now
All the streetlights in the city
Broken many years ago
Break the curfew, hide in sewers
Warsaw, it's time to rise now
Warsaw city at war
Voices from underground, whispers of freedom
1944 help that never came
Calling Warsaw city at war
Voices from underground, whispers of freedom
Rise up and hear the call
History calling to you, 'Warszawo, walcz!🎵
Ah yes, Sabaton
Fun fact guys regarding towards both topic of history nad gaming:
In Polish shooter "Enemy Front" there is a made-by-game pause that happens every year at 1st of August at 5PM and game stops for A minute. There is also a screen with link to page on which you can learn more about Warsaw Uprising
But apparently, that website is no longer up.
That was a good game.
Its on steam on pc Ithink
All of Warsaw stops
Damn Poles are actually very patriotic.
They were tried, hurted and f*cked right into the ass more than any other Central Europe country. They should be more respected.
Nobody knows why
Damn right we are! :)
They really are, patriotism is a historic trait of Poles.
They dissapeared from the map for more than a century, Napoleon reignited their patriotic flame when he campaigned against Russia through Poland... that flame lasted a hundred years, and then, just after WW1... Poland reappeared.
Like i am polish even i can die for me country.
Sike even for USA cuz i like bigmac.
Poland was the true definition of freedom fighters.
🎖️🏅🇵🇭🇺🇲 "Respect To The Great Country Of Poland" And It's People May God Bless Them All, A Older Polish Lady Save My Grandmother Sister, Brother An My Self Thanks Brother's & Sisters. Long Live Poland.
Long live Poland. Wish the best from Hungary.
🇵🇱🇵🇱🇭🇺🇭🇺
🇵🇱♥️🇭🇺
Lengyel, Magyar - két jó barát, együtt harcol, s issza borát
Greetings from Poland Brother!
🇵🇱❤️🇭🇺
Depressing to watch. Not just as a German, but primarily as a human
All we can do is to never fight echother again : )
It's more depressing to watch as russian because it's not true but who cares, it's just a russians, who cares about their human loses in 40 million people
@@TimoshkaKartosha you kinda just threw soldiers at the germans without any kind of strategy. Incompetence is truly tragic.
Regular people don't go to war with each other, like you don't really care about grabbing a rifle and going on a killing spree hundred miles from your home. Literally nobody does that. It's the politicians who go to war with each other for some arbitrary reasons and the worst thing is they never target other politicians, they always target the innocent people as they are somehow at fault for politician's sick ideas.
@@TimoshkaKartosha which part is not true?
Sabaton explained the Warsaw Uprising pretty well too, I just needed to find this video for the more important details. Thanks for sharing this information with all of us.
WARSAW CITY AT WAR VOICEA FEOM UNDERGROUND WHISPERS OF FREEDOM 1944 HELP THAT NEVER CAME!
Been a while since ive watched anything from this channel. For... well... reasons. Good to see the quality of Extra History has kept up over the years.
Man this artist came a long way since the early series. This and whoever did the majapahit art are my absolute favorite. (And everyone else)
nerfvideos96 I'm pretty sure it's David, right?
a certain failed artist came a long way too, unfortunately for all humanity
@@prasannajanakiraman5832 who?
This guy's work in the Admiral Yi series is sooooooo good, I do kinda miss him doing Extra History, but everyone is great here
@@N3WR3N41554NC3 I've watched the series 4 times now
We love you, our polish brothers
Same from us to you brother :)
LONG LIVE HUNGARY!! WE POLES LOVE YOU SO MUCH!
🇵🇱❤🇭🇺
@@DytoxPrime It's indonesia 🇲🇨 asshole 👊😤😡😡
@I LOVE POLAND :D О русский здарово
In spite the fact that I'm russian, I'm still VERY proud of polish people.
The germans and russians were never brothers of Poland.
thank you friend
Slavic bros ;)
WroughtIronMGTOW bruh stop living in the past
@@wroughtironmgtow9558 shut up
This is the one episode of extra history that I can come back to and it still makes me cry. What happened in Warsaw is a tragedy
These accounts of Polish bravery pumped my heart! From Brazil, my salute and respect to the heroes of Poland!
Thanks
Thanks
Dzienkuje 🇵🇱🇧🇷
There is no bravery in shooting someone in the back from a window, and then pretend to be a innocent civilian. But they are better than Resistance as the polish at least sometimes wore something like a uniform marking them as combattands under the genevan convention.
Poland: Fights with Germans when France and Britain just sit in border
Poland Again: Fights with Germans when nobody is helping them
Poland yet again: Forced to become a Soviet puppet state after war by Allies
Yeah poland is pretty much the punching bag of European history lol
Poland will into space to escape Europe.
*and the soviet betray them
*And the soviets just sit outside the city.
They were right, warsaw was going to be invaded not liberated.
@@bubblegumgun3292 they were just patriots who wanted to escape from Soviet bear.
@@sonole3 Looks like you got no clue about the history...."Punching bags" dont win, dont survive, dont create strong states...
Those amazing, beautiful, patriotic souls deserve our respect and remembrance.
I am somebody who always had a hard time crying. Never really knew why. However, if I feel like I need help to cry, I watch this video. It pushes me just enough to let it all out. I think it’s the grey ranks that get me.
My great grandfather was actually an officer who was killed in the Katyn Massacre. He still lays there today. My other great grandfather was a solider sent on the German front. He died within the first months of fighting.
Take what you want from it, but my grandmother swears he came to her (as a spirit or ghost), and when he took his helmet off she saw his severed head and then he just faded away. She was two or three when he died.
Much respect and honor to those brave men
Your poor grandmother having to deal with such things at such a young age. May your great grandparent rest in peace.
I wrote a ten page paper on Poland during the Second World War and I had to physically fight myself to keep writing on the paragraphs involving the Warsaw Uprising because it gave me actual nightmares.
Sam Moore I guess u read about the corpse ⛰
can we read your paper?
As a proud scout member this one has made me cry like no other extra history tale. Thank you guys for bringing light to stories that in other countries we do not know but clearly should.
Man the Poles have been through so much. I hope the best for their nation and their people.
2:19 Poland never surrendered. This is a fact.
Yes we didn't surrender there was an order which said to the last man
Stalin even said this
Stalin... Really? Stalin is a known Liar... Obviously. The uprising signed the capitulation papers with Germany October 2nd. After which the uprising stopped and the poles gave up their guns... I understand National pride, but you dont get to rewrite the parts of history you dont like...
@@nathanm9212 Well it wasn't as much of them surrendering, as it was them just being captured with no way to get help :P
Occupation, bruh
Extra History should do the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines as well. With a million Filipino deaths, the Philippines suffered an irreplaceable loss of culture and with Manila the second most devastated city besides Warsaw.
True.
@@alexs5744 what if we just do both
True. I heard that only a few years of Japanese colonization was way worse than decades of Dutch colonization. Or something like that.
Would love to see that!
Melvin Merkelhopper *Spanish and American
The story was truly inspiring i was nearly in tears near the end.
I always liked learning about the Grey Ranks and Poland's history in WWII. It is hard to fight against people who have nothing to lose and the Germans learned that. Much respect to Poland and all of her brothers and sisters who died defending her.
I had the distinct honor of fighting alongside the Polish while deployed to Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain in 2013. I do not know a people more fierce in a fight at more friendly in regular life. Polska Walczaca.
offduty23 you sir, have had the honor of life time.
And thank you for your service
You, your guys and the poles are legendary. Thanks for everything.
E is the most menacing for to reckon With EEEE
The British.
I hope one day to visit Poland, and while there, pay my respect for the victims of unnecessary cruelty and to the freedom fighters who sacrificed their life for a Free Poland.
Love from Peru.
Sol K. Posner thank you
American here with the same goals in mind :)
Indian here , will probably visit in 2k20.
Best of wishes to you too! From Poland! :D
Honestly being polish it's an amazing country but an absolutely shitty government
5:27 yup, imma cry now
I watched alot of animated history etc. You guys are good and cover a bunch of good subjects in history. Stuff that is even forgotten by school teachings. Keep up the great work.
Polish: Finally we are free!
Soviets: Well yes, but actually no
Offensive
@@vooddygamespruchinski8359 but both true and funny
@@vooddygamespruchinski8359 It's the internet, humour is allowed! I mean, do you go through every video and write this on every comment? Or do you mean this as in "Launch the offensive!"?
@@quasar7951 Truo, but not funny, its tragic. Soviets kills and rape anothers thousands of people.
@@johnrambo8456 So? The dude didn't tell the joke to make fun of the people that were abused in the occupation. He was making fun of the Soviet
Say what you want about the Poles, but they have always been through the worst, and still come out at the end.
Jews,poles,romanians,orthodox in the ottoman empire/habsburg empire/polish-lotuanian commonwealth.
In eastern europe you are either hardcore or dead.
"There are few virtues the Poles do not posses, and there are few errors they have ever avoided."-Winston Churchill
@@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 an eternal error is their neighbours.
Eastern europe are usually in the worst
True, I feel very bad for the Polish in WWII, but their Pre-War gov was pretty bad and not very nice. Average Poles just never seem to catch a break.
WW2 was a bloody mess, All people suffered in one way, But Poland and China got by far the most brutal times
And no one really ever talks about China in ww2, at least not here in 🇺🇸. Come to think of it, when taught about ww2 in school I don’t think they’ve ever even referenced any of the atrocities committed by Japan
The green in the Polish flag stands for never getting partitioned by Russia and Germany
Fun fact: each Stahlhelm that a Polish underground resistance fighter wore represented a dead German whose helmet had been looted.
im pretty sure they also could've stolen them from armories too
Warszawo walcz!
Greetings from the friendly neighbour of Poland, Czechia. Hopefully I wrote it correctly...my knowledge of Polish is still not too good...
Zecky TV you wrote it perfect. dont worry about language we can understand eachother even if we speak native languages dont mind mistakes :)
Ah yes, Sabaton?
@@ivantan42 good Band, good Band I see you're a man of culture, but I think he just meant Warsaw fight in polish, not a sabaton quote
Greetings brother:)
Ahoj! Dziękujemy za te miłe słowa przyjacielu z południa!
Thank you so much for remembering about heroes, that fought for free Poland.
I cry surprisingly frequently watching Extra Credits, but this one was by far the most. What an unthinkable horror. May we become wiser and more compassionate as a species
IT'S A SHAME HOW LITTLE RECOGNITION THE POLESH GET FOR WW2... the enigma machine, the Poles in the british army (like the raf squadrons) and a lot more. It's just a shame coz they did so much
And that's a fact
No
Correct. The infamous Poland BETRAYAL
On 30 Jul 1941 was signed Polish-Soviet Union Agreement. According to the agreement USSR equipped a polish Army of General Anders (75.000) which was supposed to fight on the soviet front. Though, violating the agreement Army of General Anders refused to fight in 1941 - 1942 and on the verge of Stalingrad battle has -escaped- was transferred to Iran.
Neither do we get recognition for ww1. We had the lancers that fought the ottomans for years
I went to Warsaw this summer pretty amazing how they reconstructed the entire city after such a event
Ali ACE no, just no. 90% of Warsaw was laid to the ground. How about Engalndistan? Not so much huh?
@Ali ACE what??
@Ali Ace why does japan and russia have anything to do with England being better?
@Ali Ace Don't ever miss your daily dose of medication you're taking.
Ta warszawa to straszna wieś.
You should totally do a series on nonviolent resistance. Solidarity was an amazing movement.
This gave me chills the whole time I watched it, and NOT in a good way. So many people. So many youth. Books on the horrors of WWII could fill an entire library.
My grandfather was a polish partisan in ww2. Ive heard stories from family friends and my mother.. he did some rather.. wild stuff.
Please tell me Id like to know xD my mom told me my grandgranddad in poland killed 3 SS officers and got deported to Auschwitz for that
Poland never officially surrendered in WW2
Astro Gamer they just capitulated
Astro Gamer we fought till the end
poland never officially surrendered.
bac nguyen to say Poland capitulated when two countries of gargantuan power knock down your door, already dividing your land up for themselves before the fact... it’s hard to NOT struggle.
Poland never surrendered, despite having little to no help from their allies. Read about Monte Cassino if you’re interested.
**Looks at france**
i am polish and i cried thank you for making this video
Tak samo miałem ja
Came to watch this after visiting the Warsaw Uprising Museum in Warsaw. Very inspiring stuff!
Must've felt mighty damn good to be on that Polish destroyer, flashing "I am a Pole" at the Bismarck
Did the Bismark answer "Poles are metal bars where girls dance, you are a ship"?
@@TheBayzent 🤔
@@TheBayzent you're mad funny bro
@@TheBayzent I’m an American of Polish ancestry, and even I chuckled at that.
different time
I’m a little under the weather rn (it’s not covid don’t worry) and I’ve been binging this channel and OverSimplified it’s like a system overload of history haha
A massive respect to my poland brothers from Greece. We both fought to the death for our countries and our freedom!
i mean our history is really similar if you think about it
The Poles were the greatest heroes of the WWII, it´s sad that we don't remember their histories of true courage and sacrifice in the history classes of the schools.
Respect to Poland from Chile.
Haha! Nice joke!
@@Bilbo1teaBaggins Nice joke is *YOU*
I dont think so.i would say the Brits and the Yanks were the greatest heros
I think the germans were the real heroes
I think all the allies were the greatest heroes. And yes, even the Soviet Union.