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Well, this is the next to last video of the series, as I worked on it I am doubting the wisdom of doing the "minor" allies as this video took a long time and was very difficult for two reasons. First, apparently cameras were a rare sight in these countries because clips and even photos were HARD to find. Normally when I can't find visuals for a specific thing in a video I'll do my best but I'm alright with some holes as long as the basis of the visuals are accurate to the topic, but on this one in the first draft I had next to nothing and it makes me worried about the allied countries. But second, this video became tedious around country two, with similar stories across the board and it makes me worry about the Allies video because I don't want it to just be "Shermans/British tanks 2 The Video". Yes, there are some examples of domestic production in places like Canada, but I don't want to have another one that is a big repeat like this one so I may merge the conclusion video with the Minor Allies video depending on how it begins to form as I work on it. Anyways hope you all like it. Sorry about the bamboozle with Finland, but it really didn't fit in here by definition and didn't want to lump it into a place it didn't belong. I'm sure they will be covered one day.
Hope the situation wherever you are is okay and that you all are staying safe and I'll see you all with another one soon.
Also happy Hitler's birthday everybody.. and actually it's mine too.. really bad luck.. I'm 25 ._.
Sources
Jean Restayn, WWII Tank Encyclopedia (Paris, France: Histoire & Collections, 2007)
Steven J. Zaloga, Tanks of Hitler’s Eastern Allies 1941-45 (New York, NY: Osprey Publishing, 2013)
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Not sure if it comes across, but I'm rather proud of most of the footage being legitimate shots of the countries' tanks being talked about. I'm not sure if there was a shortage of cameras in the Eastern Axis nations, or if they didn't have the same tank footage propaganda boner as Germany at the time, bit either way it was quite a dig to find what I did for all countries involved. So for the most you are seeing the actual vehicles of the nations I'm talking about crewed by men from that place. Even the Hingarian tigers which I was really suprised to find. The worst footage to time ratio is Croatia, with only that terribly grainy footage of the R35 or whatever French tank that was. Anyways, hope you like the video and thanks for letting me indulge myself with this here comment. I promise all the clips of what looks like German troops are not and they're from the countries mentioned. Ironically, standardization on infantry equipment (sans rifles) was actually pretty good, so they look German, but they're from Slovakia, Hungary etc. Yeet yeet homie and a yeet yeet back.
Hey Potencial will we be seeing a Das Final episode 2 review in the future, because I love the history you mention during these reviews also keep up the good work.
2nd
MEME TANKS 6 PLZ! Talk about these tanks,flamethrower tanks (that was a thing) the AMX 40 (aka the duck as world of tanks players called it) and the calliope rocket launch that was attached to the top of sherman tanks.
That R35 looked more like a D2
Plz
There's the old joke about the Hungarian ambassador handing declaration of war to the US Secretary of State Cordell Hull:
Hull: "Why would the Republic of Hungary declare war against us?"
Ambassador: "We are a kingdom not a republic."
Hull: "Your king approved this?"
Ambassador: "We have no king, we are ruled by a regent, Admiral Horthy."
Hull: "You are ruled by your navy? How big is it?"
Ambassador: "We have no navy, we are a landlocked country."
Hull: "So why do you want to fight us, do you have territorial claim against the USA?"
Ambassador: "We have no claim against you, only against Romania."
Hull: "Are you also declaring war on Romania?"
Ambassador: "No, Romania is our ally."
I am hungarian and I saw this in my history book
"romania is our ally" no one had the opportunity say that for more than 3 years because it would change to "romania is against us" and then change back again
Like most of these anecdotes it probably never happened, most certainly not in this form. Besides a secretary of state should have been at least aware of basic geography and political matters.
@@ffffuchs You must have skipped the "old joke" part.
Hull: da faq?
Romania: *KING SIDES WITH COMMUNISTS*
Soviet Union (to Germany): "I'm just as confused as you are"
Lonely Chameleon best comment so far.
The Romanian king did not side with communists. Romania's foreign policy plan for the entirety of the war was: "We help the Germans destroy communism forever, then, when they're weakened, we switch sides and help Churchill crush the nazi scum". The destruction of Germany was always the end goal for Romania.
It's more complicated than that. Since at that point the war was going horribly for Germany, Romania wanted to switch sides however the US and the UK told the king that if such agreement is to take place it must be made with the Soviets. So Romania signed an armistice with the USSR and joined the war against Germany.
@@cristienache739 Romania had been negotiating with Britain and the Free French since november 1941, later joined by the US. The whole spiel was to restore the pre-war status-quo in the region, minus communism.
Nicolas II: Wait that was an option!
“Croatia’s main role in the war wa-“
“War crim-“
“Anti-partisan activities!”
And hell in comments
War crime
@@user-qw6hm7yy3o well for such short history of your "brave" country war crimes are bravest thing they did :D
War crime
@@user-qw6hm7yy3o Hey at least I have something productive on my account that is called "content". Kinda ironic you call someone bias when you are on a youtube comment that calls your nation out for war crimes saying your country is braves in the world :D
“Slovakia was the first nation to join uncle hitlers wild ride”
That got me.
Oof I’m from Slovakia XD
Slovakia was one three nations that started WW2.
We attacked Poland right after Germans.
So yeah my country had fascist faze in 40s.
@@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944 And that is also one of the reasons why im shamed for my country
@@ymisojop Almost all of the countries have f up past.
We should learn from it and not shame someone for it who wasn't even alive when it tooked place.
We can only shame those that embrace that dark past.
Edit: Also people should work to correct the mistake if the past if possible.
@@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944 That is true, well there is a sayng, You learn from the mistakes.
"Croatia's main role in the war was..."
*WAR CRIMES*
Croatia and Bosnia( then Croatian teritory) were countries who gaved most partisans to brake the enemy , afther that came Slovenia and Montenegro Then Serbia, so not only war crimes but mostly responsible fpr most partisan actions against germans, italians, Ustashe and chetniks
@@bornatodoric6059 It's a joke, but if you want to get historical you also gave the Germans the most dedicated gang of thugs in the region that made it their life mission to commit as many war crimes as they can.
At least the other collaborators would desert or even give arms to resistance fighters, ustasas went full bootlicker collaborator.
@@bornatodoric6059 yeah, and the croats were also famous for their bloodthirst, the few units on the eastern front showed the SS how to fight the population, I ähm mean the partisans properly
@@bornatodoric6059 Most of partisans in those territories were Serbs, though.Only from 1943 you have bigger influx of Croats and Bosnian Muslims to partisans.
@@bornatodoric6059 r/wooosh
"I want to give them what they want."
*TOTALEN KRIEG*
Germanies response for everything
Do you want total war???!?!?!!!
Yes HAIL!!
*ALLE KRAFT GESPANNT*
Reminds me of dat one fashwave
Roelof de Jong
I see you are a man of culture aswell when it comes to profile pics
German Occupied Hungary: "Can we have Panther?"
Germany: "No."
Hungary: "Fine I'll make it myself."
Hungarian army: we need bigger guns in our vehicles! Hungarian engineer: we cant do it sir! There is no space in the turret! Hungarian army:......hmm...than...put...rockets....on the back! (Every single hungarian tank type had a rocket launcher prototype)
HUN Grevious And they did it.
Great story there, Hungary wanted to manufacture Panthers, but first the Germans refused it, than they wanted a king's randsome per unit built, so the Hungarians started to build their own version of it from scratch. It was never finished, because the factory was bombed in '44. Realisticly it didn't have a chance, they were working on the first iron modell of the tank at the time, so there was no way to finish it.
German "Occupied"? We weren't occupied by them, we were allies.
Hungary: can we have a tank, Germany?
Germany: no
Hungary: can we have a tank, Sweden?
The croatia "war crime" thing was hilarious
and fucking accurate
Dušan Slijepčević Jesus Christ, really?
Desperadoosh M yes 200.00-500.000
Holy shit
@@user-qw6hm7yy3o LOL
Ya know guys, when he talks about the allies minor’s tanks, he’s going to have to talk about New Zealand so you know what that means
You always gotta save the best for last man!
Well the answer is quite semple.
Big bob
Kia ora, bro!
The armored tractor?
Uncle Hitler's wild ride. Never a phrase so accurate has been uttered.
Uncle Adolf was popping a lot of pills.
Particularly for his broken penis.
katey1dog amphetamines in the morning to get you through the day, morphine in the evening to unwind.
The schedule of a wild man.
Hoi4 minor axis nations in a nutshell
Side effects may include nausea, diarrhea, constipation, hair loss, loss of sex drive, anal leakage, depression, manic mood swings, an urgency to attack weaker nations (then strong ones,) an urgency to build bunkers, and finally, insomnia.
Yea too bad the ride ends painfully when the ride nose dives into the ground with the only sign of disaster being a message saying "every nation for themselves, GG" just before impact
Fact: Any time Hungary gets the recognition it deserves in any capacity, the entire nation goes into a year long celebration, to commemorate being remembered whatsoever.
lol yea, we always get forgotten
Same thing for Canadians whenever an American mentions them for more than 2 seconds.
@@mrthompson3848 I mean, at least there is the "I'm moving to Canada" card
Bojler eladó
Does that also happen when I praise the delectable Hungarian 🥓?
Slovakia: can I at least have some of my own tanks?
Germany: yes but just 32 the rest will be shared amongst the other minor axis nations.
It was a warm up for the forced communism to come.
@@PotentialHistory hahaha
XD XD
“Uncle Hitler’s wild ride”
That is the best description of WW2 I’ve ever seen
To be honest, it sounds like real fun
To be realist, it sounds like a logistical nightmare
Ngl it sounds like a porno
@@jorji6645 Minor Nations get dragged into Alliance and get gangbanged.
Filzhut basically
Italy when the allies invade: I want off Uncle Hitler's Wild Ride
Siam: "are we a joke to you?"
Japan: "you're our Italy; yes, yes you are."
Ryan To Thailand was actually quite good, being the only Axis power to really win the war in a way.
Ah yes. They also switched sides
Thailand*
@@syaondri also called the italian maneuver
@@sergeantmajorgross4461 Vichy France: No, we just allowed the japanese to invade us, you can't declare war on us!
Siam: Indochina goes Boom
"most notably guarding the flanks of Stalingrad"
You must feel very bad if this action was your most succesfull action in the war...
To be fair to them, they were really set up to fail. Whether the Germans realized it or not, the position on the flanks was a poorly staffed weak like with minimal AT gear and no matter how they tried to hide in that fact, it was painfully obvious to the Sovoets that was the case and handed them a golden opportunity. If you had German units there instead equipped the same way they would have folded all the same. Another interesting fact is that at first the Hungarians were right next to the Romanians but the two forces began fighting each other so the line had to be reorganized with the Italians positioned in between them to keep the peace. The Axis was a textbook lesson on how not to gather and run a coalition, that is made look so much more worse when you compare it to the allied coalition that worked together about as well as any has in history, even with the huge political divides between east and west during the conflict.
@@PotentialHistory "Hungarians were right next to the Romanians and they started fighting each other"
I mean, it's the same as a drunk Brit football supporter and a French, they start to fight each other
Well no the Wehrmacht 369th Regiment (Croatian) was the only foreign unit to fight alongside the Germans inside of Stalingrad. As far as I know it was the HUngarians and Romanians who guarded the flanks.
Tik made a good video on it with some literature recommendation
czcams.com/video/bVbqdD6CmOI/video.html
@@PotentialHistory *I literally just yesterday asked myself what if the Germans held the flanks instead of the Romanians, and other Axis allies, and I see this answer.*
Antonescu told Hitler that it couldn't be done but he still made the Romanians sit there and defend.
Can't blame them.
Finland: *Lets steal some Bt-7's and weld some British artillery from ww1 inside the turret*
The world's first arty tank
Eh. Pretty accurate description of the Finnish armoured units during the war. Steal/buy stuff and then McGyver them into something that works, kinda.
Pikkabuu they typically make them better, see the Finnish Mosin for proof
BT-7 is my favorite tank just because of it's unecessary speed
Don't forget using them as tank destroyers againts T-34.
Well, atleast the crews had a big door at the back, so that they could get out before Russians returned fire.
*You see now* : Finnish tank engineers got something right !
Minor Axis Allies: "We begged on our knees for weeks and Germany finally sent some old WW1 hand-me-downs"
Minor Allies: "Our neighborhood hummed the Star Spangled Banner and the next day each of us had Shermans in our garages."
Phillip Aubin to not die?
I imagine it’s just the us shoving the Sherman in everyone’s face saying “Take it!” While the allies are begging them to stop as they are making their own tanks
Soviets: thats good and all but we prefer our own...
US: do you mean you like This one more
Soviets: no thanks
US: than heres somemore
Soviets: ?
@@Admin-5 Before that they recieved the M3 Lee.
@@magosexploratoradeon6409 Ah yes, something I would suppose a Magos Explorator would love to find the STC for to bring back to Mars?
Germany: here take tanc
Minor allies: thancc
Minor allies: *switch team
(That’s right Italy, I’m calling you a minor ally now)
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Germany can I please have tanks for fight the Soviets?"
'For fight the Soviets?'
"Yeeesssss"
*Actually switches sides like a boss*
*Meme man face*
"Allei. Yes."
Germany: Stank.
@@DISTurbedwaffle918 *gets rkt*
Bulgaria: Hey Germany, can we have some tanks?
Germany: No
*Insert Time Skip*
B: How about now?
G: Fine, but use them wisely, we do...what are you doing?
B: Shaking hands with Russia
“Uncle hitler’s wild ride”
That line killed me
That line killed many.....
I want to get off Uncle Hitler's Wild Ride.
@@dELTA13579111315 It sounds fun at first..., until you know where he took you and what he'd do.
@@arya31ful i heard there's a free bbq involved
Intro is a Hearts of Iron joke
*Sponsored by WOT*
Paradox is so greedy they wouldn't sponsor anyone lol
@Belagerungsmörser the Sheep yeah I was joking
Wait... I think you mean WAR THUNDER .
+Why the simpsons are green?
@@IvstvnK4hgnte Ye "BLUE" Man Im seeing a bit of rascism here
3:43 LOL “Their main part in the war was *warcrim-*
As a croat my self he got it completly right cause those people were traitors and nazi bootlickers and not even real croats but wannabe croats from bosnia lol.
Yeah ex-yugoslavia was really wierd i know
@@boki3000 Ye some of the most bloodthirsty ustase where serbs and bosniaks in denial.
@@CODELIRIOUS-sy8xz yeah cause real honest croat people joined partisans
@@boki3000 like, just a few *cough cough*
Croatia 50 years after WW2:
*_Oh shit here we go again_*
Germany : *You get a LT38! You get a Panzer 1! AND YOU GET A ALMOST FUNCIONING PANZER2!*
I imagined a blonde Oprah saying that.
Hungary then: Can you give some panzer?
Germany then: No
Hungary now: Can we get some leopard 2a4?
Germany now: Sure
Laugh in Hungarian
And 2A7+
@Pico Rico and some 2a4 turret
@Pico Rico How could they cancel ordering the Leo 2A4 if it was never ordered?
Can't order something that is not in the offer for 25-30 years now. Hungary ordered Leo 2A7+ (this one is in the offer) because none was in stock KMW started the production line. So while they need to wait for a while they could train the crews. KMW and Rheinmetall had a few of Leo 2A4 in good shape - these were Hungarian MOD purchased to provide the crews training.
They just had to show the Germans that they were capable, then the Germans gave them panzer IVs, Hetzers, Tigers, panthers, etc.
When a T-26 is an upgrade, you know that game is definitely over.
Finland: Perkele it is
Finland: doesn't have enough machine guns to arm their tanks.
Also Finland: Arms tanks with hull mounted smgs.
Tbh, I think he was overstating the point there.
Most of the Minor Axis Allies' core forces consisted out of LT vz. 35s or french tanks, both of which are arguably equal to or upgades over the T-26. It's literally just an upgrade for the Italian tankettes and couple german Panzer Is (the Germans actually gave away only very few Panzer Is and ran out of them when their allies demanded more of them).
So yeah...generally, a T-26 wouldn't have done the trick. Besides, they were fully capable of fighting T-26s with their own tanks or even with the Anti-Tank rifles that had remained their primary AT weapons for most of the war.
Nah, it was the filthy T-34s and KV-1s as well as the sheer amount of Soviet BTs, T-26s and Zis guns.
@@christianhaegler4817 I think you're overestimating the amount of Pz. 35(t) and underestimating the amount of tankettes. Also giving the T-26s would've been an upgrade either way because the amount of tanks the minor allies had overall was pathetically small.
@@sebastiangorka200 Hungary fielded around 130-150 tankettes at most of their over 1.000 vehicles strong armoured force.
Bulgaria fielded around 30 (having thrice that number just in Panzer IV).
I don't think the Slovaks fielded any tankettes at all. In Czechoslovak OOBs, only about 70 tankettes show up and I'm not sure where those ended up. Most accounts of the Slovak armoured forces only mention LT vz. 35s and LT vz. 40s.
Well, that's a different upgrade from the one referred to in the vid so I apologize for not catching that.
Indeed, any tank is better than no tank. Going from a rifle to an armoured, self propelled platform with a cannon is always great.
Germany when their allies need tanks: you get a 35T You get a 35T, everyone get 35T`s!
Meanwhile in Germany:
Laughs in Panzer 4 F2, Tiger, Panther etc.
A man of war crimes
@@yuurichito1439 meanwhile in Finland.
It is t34
Finnish tankette is called a ski
Minor Country: "Okay, you strongarmed me into joining the Axis. Can you supply me so I can fight in your war?"
Germany: "No, I don't think I will."
TBF the Germans couldn't really even supply _themselves_ to fight in their own war. Kind of a Missing Steps Plan from the get go.
@@broadbandislife Their whole strategy was to win quickly. They had no backup plan.
@@Supperdude9 Pretty much rehashing what they'd tried the previous round in general terms yeah. "If at first you don't succeed..."
Took a truly catastrophic defeat to disabuse them of tendentious short-war fantasies.
Though in practice they had *no* plan to begin with; Hitler hadn't realised the Entente had drawn the proverbial line in the sand after Munich and the DoW over Poland came as a very unpleasant surprise. As a result as late as early '40 the Germans _still_ had no viable plan for tackling even France, never mind now the UK - the do-or-die gamble of the Ardennes thrust eventually got greenlighted mainly because despite the huge risks it at least offered the possibility of creating a favourable strategic situation for further moves (the drive to the coast was basically front commanders blatantly and premediatedly ignoring the actual operation plan and their orders).
And Hitler's fatal addiction to high-risk gambling I guess.
@@broadbandislife I think because of his belief in the German people, and his wins without consequences he started to overestimate his troops. Otherwise he would have prepared better for the Russian invasion. Hitler was ALWAYS going to invade Russia. If I remember correctly he viewed the Russian people as problematic, so Russia was his goal, especially their resources. He just never prepared his troops for winter. He expected early wins. And it cost him.
Basically he Zerg rushed. Great for early game, but man it cost him when the game kept going on and on.
I'm hungarian and my father told me stories of my grandfather's friend who has been in a tiger tank and he was terryfied of getting shot at by other tanks but he was really suprised when they got hit and nothing bad happened he only heard the sound of shells bouncing off their hull
press X to doubt
@@churchillscousin5987 press X to doubt
@@cakeman7364 press doubt to X
doubt
It could be that OP is an old person and his father told him the stories during his childhood…..
"The sucide pact"
At the same time ini read this, he said "suicide pact"
Uncle Hitler’s Wild Ride
@Pico Rico Well, to be fair we tried to bow out once romania turned and the arpad line locking down the carpathian passes was flanked.
The army didnt quiet appreciate the notion, and then the nazis took over civil administration to prevent further similar attempts.
A shame too, as this change in power resulted in some quarter million mkre holocaust victims whom the gowernment so far protected from deportation.
@Pico Rico My point was the whole attempt was doomed to fail, and in the end resulted in nothing but hungarian civilians being slaughtered by nazis.
If it was to be attempted, that should have happened teo years earlier.
@Pico Rico Staying out would have been the smart move, yes.
There really wasnt any way to get out ahead of it.
If we join the allied side in 39, that just means romania fucks us up the arse.
Maybe if Romania stayed put, Poland Hungary and Yugoslavia combined could have done aomething against germany, especially if Bohemia could be liberated in a suprise attack, and the bulk of polish forces retreated in good order behind the Tatras.
Still, the best that could be hoped for in such a scenario is to hold the mountain passes long enough for the French to get off their arse..
No small nation in europe had the industrial capacity to fight a prolonged conflict with germany.
"WWII was a numbers game..."
A numbers game...
AGAINST RUSSIA
*coughs in around 60,000 Sherman Tanks produced in the US but still being vastly outbumbered by the Soviets' 100,000s of Tanks produced*
In the soviet union summer 1943
The game was rigged from the start
Guys, the maii reason that the Allies beat the Axis was that they suspended this kind of argument/boasting. There's no reason to resurrect it. No one country carried the Allies; they would have been doomed without the power of -friendship- effective diplomatic channels.
@Dwarov 1 Less than 2000 T 44s were built
Germany acted like whenever your friend came over to play, you always gave him the busted 3rd party controller
A common theme of Germany's allies:
Germany: Treats them like shit
Allies: Fail
Germany: Shocked pikachu
Who knew that a nation that saw everyone else as racially inferior subhumans would make for a shitty ally?
@@generalrubbish9513 why are you talking about the french and the british? the topic is about Germany
it's not like Germany had anywhere near the production capacity to give their allies more tanks
@@plasticballs Common theme with Germany:
- start a Great Power war you don't have the resources for
- ugliness and failure
- le shocked pikachu faec
@@broadbandislife Germany: "I'm gonna do what's called a Pro Gamer Move"
Axis allies: mom can we have some Panthers?
German mom: you have Panthers at home
Panthers at home: FT-17
At least they're reliable?
@@beefyblom no
Hungary: Sure we make ours /proceeds to make a prototype of 44M Tas/
USA: Nice factory. It would be a shame if someone just... bombed it...
bulgaria did get panthers at the end of the war tho
Lol
Love how Hungary basically built their own panther tank
After the Germans told them they couldn't do it.
@@ausaskar #HungaryakayolosmallerGermany
Well, we almost built it... then it got bombed with all the papaers n' shit
Random guy in Gasmask and it was when they were preparing to start tooling it for production.
Love how Hungary was more useful than Japan and Italy combined
Everyone: “hey Germany can we have-“
*NEIN*
*NEINNEINNEINNEINNEIN!*
While in the allies
Everyone:can we have some t-
Usa:here a thousand sherman
As a Bulgarian, I laugh with your tanks...
Accurate in general. When the Germans wanted to make use of the well-developed French aluminium industry (for making aircraft natch) the negotiations went roughly like this:
French planners: **run some maths** "Okay we can provide you so-and-so many tons of Al at such-and-such price a month but we'll need this many tons of coal a month - since you guys have taken over all of it in Europe - because holy shit those electric arc smelters eat 'leccy like you wouldn't believe."
Germans: **exchanging sheepish glances** "Uh, we can't actually spare any. See we gotta barter it to the Swedes for that sweet iron ore cuz they don't have other sources either and make synthetic oil out of it and..."
French planners: "Uh-huh. Give us a call when you actually _can_ do business. When's lunch?"
Soviet Union: "Finland, you don't have any tanks, what are you gonna do buddy?"
Finland: "I'll use your tanks"
Soviet Union: "What the-"
*set tank on fire, fix it up, slap new turret on it, happy Finnish noises*
Tanks of minor axis nations
Thailand: yay, I’m one of the bigger powers...wait was I forgotten?
Thailand didn’t join the Axis, it was part of GEACPS with Japan
As early as Mussolini's assumptions that they'd recreate the roman empire.
"Crawled back to Germany like a battered house wife" 🤣 savage af
So basically Germany was that really flaky friend in high school
Hm
To me Germany is that one really popular teen and her two lackys in a really cheesy High School drama.
Germany is the bully guy with muscules with the minions-friends who are less impressed
To be fair, so were all its allies
@@BenDover-tk3jj Like Silvester the cat with his two coin flipping thug buddies.
That song thats playing in the background of the Croatian part is illegal today in Croatia and you can go to jail if you play that song in public (funfact one 2 years ago a Chinese turist was singing or listening to the illegal songs like this one and got arrested but only payed for the fellony becouse he was a tourist)
why is it a pro fascist song?
@@kondwanimututa2302 Yes, very much
@@kondwanimututa2302 yes,yes and yes
What does the lyrics say?
how and why would tourists be singing and listening to illegal songs of a foreign language in the first place?
I see youve taken notice of my comment :)
Hahahahhahahahah
Боже царя пази
Romania : So we give you oil and grain can we have some guns and tanks
Germany : No, maybe some garbage i don't need if you are good meat shields
Romania : Say no more...
Meat shields! Thank you, I was looking for a good word of how Nazi Germany treated its "allies".
actually germany gave air defense to romania in ww2 because the romanians were giving them fuel
Hungary; yeah we tried. But not when it mattered.
Pretty much our entire history.
@Phillip Aubin beer???? Only weaklings drink beer, we have the palinka, that is for men my friend ! :D
Goulash 😋
"Minor nation's lacking in heavy Industry to properly make tanks"
Laughs in New Zealand
The Tiger tank was build to stop the Russians from conquering Germany. The Bob Semple was build to stop the Japanese from conquering New Zealand. The results speak for themselves.
@@bificommander7472 I think your sense of cause and effect has become scevered by that poisonous stupid meme.
He said "tanks" not "mobile extinction events"
@@michaelmartin9022 What "mobile extinction event" it is a stupid looking tractor with guns an aluminum foil as protection.
Mikael Anton Kurki if Australia had bought the bob semple, they would have won the emu war
Im Croatian and even I laughed at the Croatian war crime joke
Smiješno je zato što je istina
E moj prijatelju, nisi ti nikakav hrvat ako ti je to smiješno.
And Romania build Marshall tank destroyer that will influence to design Hetzer Tank Destroyer.
We did, yes, but the Maresal itself was only a prototype, and as such didn't really play a big part in, well, anything, other than just existing.
@@bluethunderbolt9631 I thought you guys rushed the prototypes into combat to fight the soviets with some success but got overwhelmed?
@@comandercarnis There were between 7-9 Maresals made. Even if they were rushed to the front lines they didn't do much. The TACAM T-60 and the TACAM R-2 (this latter one used against Hungary) did see combat.
I can just imagine what the Soviet's must have felt when they encountered some Tankettes:
Soviet Tank Officer: General we have encountered Axis Tankettes and our advance has halted
General: How did they halt your advance, did they have new ammo that can damage our T-34's?
Soviet Tank Officer: No General, my crew can't stop laughing to properly operate the tank...plus I think our driver just passed out from laughing too hard so we are not going anywhere soon.
General:...Гавно!
Tank X tankett
The perfect fan fiction.
@@galladesamurai2380 That sounds like armoured child porn
@@ghazghkullthraka9714 yes,but they are over 18
@@galladesamurai2380 Are they though?
@@ghazghkullthraka9714 yes,they are over 18 so don't call the FBI
"Tank production is hard"
This statement needs to apply for ANY production especially mass production. In current times, it takes a car company and all its assets about 4-6 years to develop a new car model. it takes 6 months to make a single CPU and up to 10 years to develop one. People who've never looked into industry and it's processes don't understand this when they compare hard stats and we're all just taking advantage of the economy of scale someone else already figured out for us.
i think most peoples get confused because of how many tank , planes etc models came out within the 6 years of the war in mass production with their plans being made like only a few years prior like for exemple the m-262 having plans ready by end of 1942 but not entering production before 44 , it make it seem from the outside that in time of war engineer does come up with new designs faster.
Russia has an interesting approach, while they cannot mass produce all of the technological wonders of the west their industry is built in a way, that you can start pumping out tanks out of a car factory within a couple weeks if it was necessary
@@ninethirtyone4264 There's an old Soviet era joke about a bicycle factory worker who's surreptiously nicking parts to build one for himself. Some time into the project a friend asks him how it's going. The man replies "fine, just no matter what I try the parts only assemble into a machine gun..."
How long did it take to build the Bob Semple is the real question.
The Romanian victory at Odessa represented the most significant victory ever achieved independently by an Axis satellite
I wish you had mentioned the tanks and tank destroyers Romania came up
Well, our conversions were rather... inappropriate, for lack of a better word, as we didn't have good cannons, and the Resita 75mm, while extremely competent, came too late.
The Maresal prototypes, while not had designs, never actually left the prototype stage. They did, however, inspire the Hetzer.
The fact that Romania was never an industrial power (up until the establishment of communism) really hurt us back then, and nowadays, too, our industry is pretty much inexistent.
Combine that with inadequate training for the infantry and you're left with a really lackluster military. While big, it can't really keep up with it's allies (Germany, Hungary), nor with it's enemies (USSR, USA, UK etc.).
We DID a relatively competent airforce, our aces shooting down many soviet aircraft and a not insignificant number of American aircraft, to the point that P-38 Lightnings stopped operations over Romanian skies following the incidents of June 10th 1944.
Romania also had Panthers by the time the coup happened.
not satellite, ALLIES
@@Emily-5124 nah, we never cared about germany or russia or their wars ,there's just the choice between bad and worse and that worse happened to be bolshevism.
@@danutmh your country fought for the axis for territorial gains to retake Bessarabia and some USSR lands. Dont forget persecuting Jews part of Ion is rule. Romania can just stay neutral and keep selling oil to the Germans probably still having its constitutional monarchy goverment intact if Ion didnt take power and signed a suicide pact
we still havent gotten that minor allies tank video
Germany was like that one kid who gives his friends all of the old, mismatched stuff so they can shut up while keeping all the good and useful stuff for themselves.
Minor axis allies: can we have some tanks? Our forces need new tanks to replace losses.
Germany: Here are some really nice Panzer1s and.. OOOHH look. A couple captured tanks that I didn't even know I had!
Minor axis allies: Thanks, but we were thinking more like of Panze....
Germany: OK come again soon.
Me playing HOI4 lol
If you think about it, several of these allies were actually considered subhuman by the Nazis.
Henrik. That is true
redbaronstudios they also turned on the germans, so it was good that they hadnt given them modern tanks.
And not even germany had enough modern tanks.
The polish, french, scandinavian and early eastern campaign were all fought with panzer IIs, IIIs and little IVs at the beginning, if im not mistaken.
This was never supposed to happen but happened cause the war was rushed
@@kloschuessel773 true that.
Potential History
: mention soviet tanks
My brain: and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming
😑
Comming?
Well, the -years- tanks start coming and they don’t stop coming, fed to the rules and they hit the ground running.
germany: *GET OUTTA MAH SWAMP*
@@johndowe7003 How?! The swamp is fucking frozen!
“All of the tanks are true to life models” he says about a game where half of all tanks are fake or just blueprints, or fake blueprints. They need to work on their sponsorship lines...
With this vid being 3y old by this point, this'll prolly be a dead comment, but something else worth noting about Romania is their Maresal tank destroyer. Because it was a fairly advance TD all things considered, and it even impressed the Germans enough to place an order for some chassis to be made into Flakpanzers, and later inspired the Hetzer design.
The Romanians were planning on Producing 1,000 units to make up the bulk of its tank force. However this never came to be as shortly after production was approved, their factories had been bombed. Right after they solved that issue, France was liberated, which was bad for the Maresal, because it was supposed to use French made engines, the Germans tried providing engines to fix this issue, but by then the soviets had already invaded.
In the end, only 7 prototypes were complete, along with 100 incomplete units
Germany: “Bulgaria! Fight you with us on the morrow?”
Bulgaria: “Oh, goodness, no. I thought I’d fight with the enemy.”
I wish to beg for a full Hungarian armor video if the topic's so vast. It'd honestly love it.
Same, Hungarian tanks are very underrated
Honestly, a video about Hungarian armor is not even that big request, Hungary had quiet a handsome actually combat capable tanks (some of them was even comparable with soviet and german designs, and also there is the a Panther-like tank which was also in production just before the Romanian side switching namely the 44M Tas - with a 75 mm gun, with similar parameters as the Panther and with almost the same role - unfortunately because the allies bombed down the factory where it was built 0 Tas was finished before the soviets encircle Budapest).
I would also love to see a vid on that *begs in 40M Nimród*
Germany: Okay, Bulgaria, you see, the Soviets are coming. (shoves some tanks to Bulgaria) here, that's all I can give ya. Now you go help us fight these ruskies off-
Bulgaria:...... no
Germany: *SrPelo scream*
Now we need the tanks of the minor allies as the last video.
*[HOI4 SOUND]*
'Vietnam' flashbacks
-Invading Britan as German
-Invading Britan as Facist US
-Invading Britan as USSR
-Invading Britan as...Britan?
-Invading Fascist Britain as Soviet Britain
-Invading Union of Britain as Canada
-Invading Britain as Napoleon
@@aguy8000 Invading Britain as Genghis Khan
-Invading Britain as USA
"This is for the White House, you limeys!"
The allied version:
US: y’all need tanks? I got tanks! Have some planes, too.
And trucks. Lots and lots of trucks.
as the meme goes, the war was won by
US factories and bankrolling
UK code-breaking and being a D-day launchpad
French something? moral support?
Soviet blood
@@illiiilli24601 French don't deserve to be at the big boys table
Alan Chen Actually UK didnt break the german code lol
Wildie Guy Yes they did, but yes, the code of the German Army was firstly broke by the Polish, but they broke Kriegsmarine and Italy codes, and just overall keep giving good intel to their allies
I hope we finally get that minor allies video soon 💀
"Uncle Hitler's wild ride" lol perfect definition on that
Also "The suicide pact"
You forgot Spanish tanks:
*Yo Gonzalo let's put as many steel plates as possible on this truck*
NarraJoker12 Technically the Spanish were not involved in the war (as in a formal declaration war in support of Germany).
@@alexanderchristopher6237 Yeah, technically Spain was neutral. Again, tecnically.
I think a better term is ‘busy’
Spain was neutral, but it was slightly ahead of its time right after Civil War ended and while Verdeja eventually dragged on plus it was basically last training ground for Italy, Germany and USSR before it would be too late to make any big changes because of the beginning of WWII. Tipo 37 and Verdeja might not seem like much, but they were result of analysed experience of using both early Panzers and soviet T-26's, tanks that would make up the majority of tank forces until 1942. Spain wouldn't be able to take part in WWII as any sane country, but they could have provided valuable trading partner who wouldn't be against receiving payments in older tanks and planes as well as serving as "outsourced" developement site just like Sweden did. Who knows what Félix Verdeja Bardules could have done, if he was allowed to study german and soviet vehicles on time and was sponsored by Axis to help developement.
@@TheArklyte The Blue Division was sent, and although it was composed of volunteers and forced personnel, Spain provided the trains and material that put them in a combat situation in the USSR. Neutral by definition, beligerant by facts.
Hungary is interesting because many military leaders noted the importance of tanks very early. Under the guise of developping support vehicles for police, in 1928 the organizational requirements for an armoured battallion were laid down. The first indogenous designs called V-3 and V-4 were developped and tested in the early 30s. Tank crew and officer training begun in 1934.
A notabld person to mention here is Miklós Strausser, an Hungarian engineer living in London who through has work had lot of insight into tank design and later worked at the Weiss Works in Budapest, which to give you an idea was the second largers industrial site in Austria-Hungary after Skoda so there were some, so at least some of the industrial base was present, the problem was rather lack of funds and resources.
Exactly, the main issue with Hungary was always that after Trianon, the mineral resources of the country were heavily lacking, which forced tons of factories to be closed and for the main production to be focused on agriculture instead. Hungary stayed reliant on imports of steel and other irons. The time between 1948 and 1956 also proves how inefficient steel production was.
came for finland, left with disappointment
Question: When are you going to make the video on tanks for minor allied powers?
As a minor note here, in Slovakia we do not refer to the state allied to Hitler as "Slovenská Republika" (as depicted on the 4:30 timestamp) but rather as "Slovenský Štát" (The Slovak State) in order to remove ties of Tiso's regime from our current country, which is also known as "Slovenská Republika". Other than that, great video!
How do present-day Slovaks view Tiso's regime?
Daniel Sobol (before anyone points me out as being a biased Hungarian, I’m a Hungarian from Slovakia)
In all honesty, it’s pretty mixed politically. Most people see it as a dark point in modern slovak history, an oppressive regime which was responsible for the deaths of thousands over a pseudo nationalistic cause.
However there are those neo-fascists (not lying) who support LSNS, led by Kotleba. Who see them as a proud liberating front from both Czechs and Hungarians (even though they lost to the Hungarians, twice) who fought for slovak interests. Whereas in reality they were nothing more than a Nazi German pseudo state.
Tdlr; Most normal non fascist Slovaks (85% of Slovaks) see the ww2 government as a fascist genocial state, and the rest wank themselves over muh based ethnostate.
yikes.
@@9wowable Sounds about accurate. One could say Tiso had to choose between that and Hungarian annexation but collaboration with Hitler was inexcusable.
@@gareginnzhdehhimself Extremists have 12% in elections today. Mostly due to problems with gypsies and stupid stuff progressive left does...
Then there is the random Romanian that is there to watch what happens
Regarding the Croats; they did not guard the flanks around Stalingrad. They were the only full non-German regiment to fight within the city itself as part of the 100th Jaeger Division.
There is 369 division of croats in stalingrad too
@@black_mamba4409 No, it was a 369th regiment and it was still part of German force. They weren't at flanks but in Stalingrad as part of 100th Jaeger division. You have number right tho. After 6th Army collapsed at Stalingrad Germans used a new batch of Croatian volunteers (de jure) from Austrian training grounds to form 369th division that fought only in Bosnia and Croatia, with first engagement being operation Weiss. Later, further 2 divisions were formed from Croats with Germans as COs and NCOs (373 and 392). They only saw action against partisans and were still part of Wehrmacht not NDH forces. This is why people are confusing 369th Regiment at Stalingrad with 369th Divisions. On Stalingrad flanks there was also Fast Brigade made up from Croatians but as part of Italian Army. But saying that they were guarding flanks is incorrect considering there were some 2000 Croats among hundreds of thousands Romanians, Hungarians and Italians.
@@brankodrljaca1313 nah i said that they whare in stalingrad i never said that they whare on the flanks i know of them since my grategrandfuther was in the 369th
>non-german
>Jäger-Devision
you sure m8 ?
I don't think you mentioned the Hungarian Zrinyi tank destroyers (although you showed background clips with them in), domestically produced in numbers and quite effective. You also showed some Nimrod SPAAGs which were Hungarian too, but based on the Swedish L-62 Anti I. And I think you forgot to mention that Hungary also received around 100 Jagdpanzer 38ts.
Man, imagine fighting 1942 Red Army in captured TKS tankette.. Anything above rifle round would destroy it.
When the Americans force you to open your ports so you open holes in their harbor.
When the Japanese sink two ships so you sink two of their cities
Máté Oksai When the Japanese destroy your harbor so you destroy their carriers.
@@Person-ie9jf When the Americans destroy your economy so you destroy their youth's moral standards
Keeper of Eurobeat When the Americans starting beating you in the war so you start beating the POWs.
then they open holes in your cities
Uncle Hitler’s Wild ride
Someone please make this an actual TV show
A comedic documentary series about World War 2?
It would end in a satisfying "bang" I bet :3
Timothy McLean deal
@@Gibby42069 I'm not actually in a position to make any deals.
The HoI4 Sound Effects made me go: GODDAMNIT NOTIFICATIONS, I KNOW I HAVE UNITS TO DEPLOY FOR THE 8000TH TIME!
Damn it Potential History why you got to blue ball me like this with the Finland?
"And if your main ally is Germany, youre pretty much fu-"
Germany: "Hey, Bulgaria! Great of you to finally join the war. Here's some tanks."
Bulgaria: "Yes, but actually no" (proceeds to side with the USSR)
Well, Bulgarians... kinda like us Serbs always... admired Russia. It's just that they always had this crazy tendency to accidentally slip and end up in an alliance AGAINST Russia... So, they probably only noticed in which alliance they were that late in it and decided to correct the mistake.
@@Blazo_Djurovic Yeah we basically gave a big NO U to germany and we then got fucked over by Russia .
@@Blazo_Djurovic Yes, fighting Russians has never been something we would want to do for one reason or another, but WW2 is a tad bit more complecated than that. We sided with the Germans so we would not share the fate of Yugoslavia and we did not have interest in fighting, the memories of WW1 still haunted Bulgarian society and no one wanted this horror to repeat itself, so we were practically in a state of armed neutrality but kind of sort of helped the germans (yeah, it doesn't get less confusing), as soon as the Soviets came at our doorstepped the regime collapsed and the communist partisans took over and to thank us for joining them in "the glorious workers revolution" the Russians used us as cannon fodder in Hungary... I admire the Hungarians for their strong will and fight against communism during the cold war... here it was the reverse... the people were thoroughly brainwashed into loving communism and the Soviet Union, we did everything they ordered and took everything they said at face value. Some people even called us "The Sixteenth SSR"
@@CodeineTuttiFrutti Ironic that you sound so brainwashed yourself.
@@CodeineTuttiFrutti Yeah yall are doing "so well" without the Warsaw pact money from the USSR.
despite hungary lost almost all of its heavy industries, mines and infrastructure in the dictatum of trianon (and romania recived most of it) hungary was the most successful "minor" axis member in terms of vehicle production
and when hungary asked the panther license but germany denied the request hungary started to develop its own "heavy" tank based on the panther, but sadly the factory and the 2 prototype vehicle lost in an allies bombing and the project was abandoned due to lack of rescources and founding
Was really looking forward to this episode. Great video!
Okay this is good
*BUT WHERE THE HECK IS HISTORY OF GuP DAS FINALE PART 2*
It already got torrented, u can find it with bittorrent
Unfortunately I think he's said on twitter that theres probably not gonna be one because it's mainly plot. Dont quote me on that though
I don’t think he’s gonna let it go. There were a load of references in just the brief montage of the other schools fighting each other and in the fight against the Japanese. He may just lump it together with part 3 if that’s the case though.
Silence weeb
WE NEED HISTORY OF GUP DAS FINALE PART 2
"True life models with realistic upgrades"
Here we go again..
Golden shells secret nazi ww2 technology
@@bbcmotd *165mm Tiger II front plate pen Intensifies*
Amazing video! I am so happy to finally see some history about my country during WW2. Even after 80 years, it is quite touchy subject, so I am happy to receive some objective info.
Still waitin for that Minor allied Tank video...
**Imma cut the bit about how things went with Finland out **
Later in video: *Things should have been done like in Finland*
Hmm, yes. Very enlightening.
The Hungarian tanks were actualy quite good (when they first came out). And being a distant Hungarian and a big world of tanks player, I would like to see a Hungarian nation be added to the game.
There are Hungarian tanks in WOT, but not in WT
@@janoshorvath6676 - Well, it depends on what you call "large" :)
The Germans refused to sell us the rights to manufacture Panthers, because they thought that Hungary didn't have the capacity to build them. I think they were right.
@@robertbalazslorincz8218 isn't there like the one prototype in wot only?
@@robertbalazslorincz8218 there are hungarian tanks in wot but they are tagged as german
@@robertbalazslorincz8218 There are Hungarian tanks in both games as of now: In WoT they have the Toldi III and the Turan III prototype, in WT they have the Toldi IIA, the Turan II and the Zrinyi 1.
My great grandfather was a tanker in ww2 in... Croatia
And i dont know what role he served in the tank but i know that he was respected and a good tanker.
My family told me that he was an ace but officialy he has 4 confirmed kills
over 2 years later..still no wrap up video
“What if steel block had wheels and made big boom”
Also calling the axis a “suicide pact” was spot on lmao
An axis tank meme exactly 75 years after Hitler's final birthday? Coincidence?
I THINK NOT
me just came to this video cuz finland
Potential History: *NOPE*
TBF Finnish armour was if anything even more negligible than that of the Central European minors. Hell this was the front Germany used as a dumping ground for obsolete trophy stuff even among their own forces; the probably slightly puzzled Soviets were still taking out SOMUAs in Lappland by like '44.
Pretty much unrelated, but the intro does have me wondering where I can get personalized wooden pencils.
Apparently, any office supply company can have them made up for you.
Potential History fair enough, I guess I’d have to call them. I checked online and could only find it for children’s pencils
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Thailand and Manchukuo be like: "Wait, don't I exist?"
The world in WWII: "I mean like, do you?"
*France: "......"
willlasdf123 both were at least average in the war, so maybe they should have been included
They were not part of the axis they were part of the "Asian Co-Prosperity..." which was a different organization lead by japan and japan also happened to be in the Axis.
So I cant think of anything in the world that looks more fun than zipping around, carefree, in an early war tank, blitzkrieging to my heart's content. Yeah I realize that the war was terrible and only got worse as it went on, but there is something magical about how a Pz II just bounces along. The thought of rolling down the road in a Pz IV, hatches open, wind in your hair, some pals riding along on top, joking and laughing. It just looks incredibly fun.
I just want my Polish and Czechoslovakian tank meme episode.
Czechoslovakia was a meme itself
mixererunio Hahahahaha.... no
@@jangelnar5624 Czecho-Slovakia was one of the most advanced European nations.
Than Chamberlain had to be a pussy.
You know the rest after that.
@@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944 You don´t have to tell me that.
@@mixererunio1757 *Sad Czecho-Slovak noises*
In the case of Romania, they actually delved into tank designing for a while, resulting in the Maresal tank destroyer, which supposedly influenced the design of the Hetzer since they looked nearly identical.
They also built several(126, I think) ue-2 tankettes, and an uparmoured and possibly upgunned version of the R-1 scout tank(1 prototype built due to a lack of import components). They also hoped to build a medium tank based on the Czechoslovak T-21(after an order of 287 tanks war refused by the Germana). Unfortunately for them, they were unable to produce the engines.
@@michaelvonbiskhoff7771 not surprised. Unless counting the communist era, Romania was never an industrial power.
The Maresal was never actually built though, it remained a prototype and this video only covers tanks that were made and used in combat.
@@bluethunderbolt9631Romania had industrial capabilities, we built everythinh including locomotives, outilage for oil industry, planes, submarines, etcetera
CZcams: Sees an WW2 meme,
Also CZcams: THIS EVENT IS RELATIVELY MODERN, DEMONITIZED
Well its was only about 80 years ago
@@robertbalazslorincz8218 r/whoosh
@@krizeuze he said the funny reddit thing
@@furinick ik
4:54 Slovakia so called attack on Poland was minimal and took place only on those places with no Polish resistance. They total causalities were one man (probably due to lack of Borovička).
And the final two parts never came out
- the end