Poland in WWII: The Resistance | Animated History of Poland
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- Poland had one of the largest and most active resistance groups in WWII and even ran an entire country in secret. Come find out more about the Polish Underground and how lucky you are to not be alive in 1940's Poland.
Sources:
Zamoyski, Adam. Poland: a History. Hippocrene Books, 2017.
Koskodan, Kenneth K. No Greater Ally: the Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II. Osprey Pub, 2011.
Stachura, Peter D. Poland, 1918-1945 An Interpretive and Documentary History of the Second Republic. Taylor and Francis, 2014.
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All the music and sound effects in this video are copyright free, so no one can sue me.
Poland really had bad luck and betraying allies
Still, big love from Hungary
MyArtur16 is it true that you are hungry ?
Big love from poland hungary brother
Hungary still did more for Poland in WW2 than France and Britain.
@@panakap2186 ye i know
Poland is stronk
Polish nobility :i AM gonna end this man hole carier
The Soviets practiced true communism - “They hate everyone equally.”
@Jose Raul Miguens Cruz he was talking about people not country
@Jose Raul Miguens Cruz why would You even bring the US into conversation here?
you clearly have zero idea what half the words you just used mean.
@Jose Raul Miguens Cruz the us hates people unequally
Jose Raul Miguens Cruz
Communism is cancer and so are the people who defend it.
fun fact: Poland never officially surrendered
France: sweats
@@FDNY101202 Lol
@@dodimiller8604 Fun fact can you shut up please?
@@dodimiller8604 What the fuck
@@dodimiller8604 Karen.
10:53 Don’t worry Conner, no one expected the video to end on a high note when the title started with “Poland in WWII”
Haha! Sounds about right.
This channel is criminally underrated.
My Grandpa was a Veteran of the Polish Underground. Rarely talked about it but when he did the stories were absolutely brutal.
Huge respect to him. Thanks for sharing!
Those were some extremely brave men--and women, too!
Netflix should finally done some series about Underground Polish State ... No one Nation had so complex anty occupation resistance including post office and schools ... It just amazing . Way to go Poles !!!
That would be cool!
No, Netflix will change it to politically correct romance, where every second solider is black (there was literally only one black solider on Polish side)
There are some polish shows already and recent not-so-good young-adult drama about Warsaw Uprising 'CIty 44'
-"Days of Honor" show about polish resistance
-"4 tankmen and a dog" cult classic, it was made during communist times so there is some propaganda, but it's still loved here.
From Movies:
Surprisingly for my first recommendation would be comedy 3-parter "How I've started world war 2/Jak Rozpętałem Drugą wojnę światową" it's godlike and funny as hell
There are some documentaries about 303 division, but I'm too lazy to list the rest.
That's a really bad idea. Netflix would cast blacks and latinos as Poles. They would also change the history here and there.
NO, they will ruin it.
"Abandoned by it friends" - nicer way to say betrayed.
SilentwarH and by that you mean?
@SilentwarH xD go back to school mate
SilentwarH What do you mean by nicer? Do you know about the history between Ukraine and Poland? One example is Katyń, i think that in this situation Ukaraine could have been a bit ’nicer’…
@@emilka6105 Ukrainian URL Army started slaughtering Polish civilians in gruesome way waaaaaaay back in 1918. What Katyn has to do with Ukrainians? What Bolsheviks did in Katyn - comparing it to what UPA did to un-armed civilians (mostly women, elders and children) - can be called "humanitarian".
No, betrayal would mean the allies actually turned on and began attacking Poland. They actually were just abandoned.
Poland (1918-1939): **exists**
Hitler's Nazi Germany: "Prepare For Trouble."
Stalin's USSR: "And Make It Double."
Poland: **chuckles** "I'm in danger."
Britain/France: nahhh you're fine. Stop worrying, I mean look how we backed up Czechoslovakia...
@@FDNY101202 Poland: *L.A. Noire "Doubt"*
@@aleksandarvil5718 i like this guy 👌🏼
@@FDNY101202 THANK U A LOT. APPRECIATED
"Prepare For Trouble." - the germans at that time called it "season state"
This channel is so criminally underrated. Keep up the good work, and you will get the attention you deserve.
Thank you so much!
Poland's strengths : Hussars and bravery
Weaknesses : Neighboring Countries
You may be a low budget OverSimplified but don't that discourage you at least you're entertaining to watch. I tried to watch the other History CZcams channels and I get put to sleep.
I’m glad you find this type of stuff enjoyable! :)
He’s more enjoyable than OverSimplified
also more videos and better upload schedule
Try to watch history Matters
@@4mbrose and consistent. Oof. Oversimplified is like rockstar games.
Imagine living just in front of the house where the remaining of the AK leaders were arrested by the soviet union
It`s a really shitty feeling to walk by the monument every day with knowledge that this is the place where last hope for freedom of your country was burried
Well, Poland is finally independent now.
And even one of the leaders made it back in one piece to see the memorial, so that`s pretty great
@@HistoryHouseProductions Sort of. In reality old, post USSR criminals - like judges or inteligence operatives were not held accountable(or even military/police personel that issued kill orders against civilians in 1960-70s). What is funny or tragic is that for some, it has been justified as "Poles are antisemites and would sentence them to death". At least this is the reason I remember UK gave as it denied extradition communist judges. Another peculiar thing is that brother of one of those people is jew, owner/chief editor of one of oldest news agencies in Poland.
@@bartoszbaranowski604 The Dutch wanted to take the Polish soldiers in after the war but pressure from the Brits made sure that couldnt happen
Basically the soviet union's stance on resistance groups:
SU: "Hey, your fighting the germans too right?"
RG: "Yes"
SU: "Your group fights for the workers revolution right?
RG: "Well actually, we kinda want indepen-"
SU: *Loads PPSH*
@Jose Raul Miguens Cruz polish had it a lot worse than us serbs lol
@Jose Raul Miguens Cruz is this your real name?
Hats off to the Polish, one of the most badass people that all tyrants fears.
hopefully to this day: we have to fight the nwo tyranny in near future
Oversimplified has something you don’t have...
A cancerous comment section, every time I look in oversimplified comment section, it is just over used memes this but channels comment section is perfect
Yeah! I am very thankful that I hardly get any crazy comments in here.
Don't jinx it
So? This is the whole internet, deal with it.
Will this enraged oversimplified fans, who punish you severely.
Will KEEP YOUR BIG MOUTH CLOSED!
Great video, especially considering how hard it is to fit such complex and heavy topic to a short video in a humorous convention. I'm impressed by your pronunciation of most Polish names and words and think it's a pity you didn't take a shot at Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski. ;)
BTW Tokarzeski was originally the first commander of the Service for Poland's Victory but got slightly demoted and send east partially because in the eyes of Sikorski he was to much a part of the pre-war Sanacja regime. Also, he was from Lvov (Lwów/Lviv/Lemberg whatever) so he knew the region, which turned out to be a double-edged sword because he was also well-known there, so a bit too recognizable.
Germans actually went a bit further than the 1914 borders in the territories they directly annexed into the Reich, mainly to include the city of Łódź (pronounced like "woodge" or "wooj" or something like that), which had a sizable German community, because in XIX century it rapidly changed from a sleepy rural town to a booming center of textile industry attracting some German immigrants. The Nazi authorities renamed the city Litzmanstadt and kicked many Polish people out (including my grandma), also creating there the second-biggest Jewish Ghetto (after Warsaw) and the biggest within the Reich.
Finally, the Kedyw wasn't just one battalion but many units. Technically it was an acronym of Directorate of Diversion, part of the Home Army's command, but all the elite units that were directly subordinate to it got called that. Most famous among them were indeed the Warsaw Assault Groups of the Grey Ranks (the underground version of the scouting association), which eventually formed the legendary battalions "Parasol" (umbrella) and "Zośka" (a colloquial, diminutive form of "Zofia" the Polish version of "Sophie", it was actually in honor of a certain guy, it's a long story).
I can recommend a cool book about the life of Stanisław Aronson a Jewish member of a different Kedyw unit, who later became a colonel of the IDF by Patrycja Bugalska and Aronson himself. The English title is Years of Turmoil (followed by a ridiculously long subtitle basically explaining what the book is about, which is completely different than the original title but I digress).
PS. I've heard the submarine joke you made on the M.Laser's podcast but I'll let it slide for now. ;)
I’m so glad that you enjoyed the video! I’m also glad that I didn’t strike a nerve with my jokes as that is something I worry about in these more tragic videos. Really cool information you gave me btw, I was vaguely aware of how Kedyw was multiple units, but the book I was using referred to it as a battalion, so I just went with that. Also, I didn’t actually make the Submarine joke. M. Laser did! XD I laughed at it though, so I guess I’m guilty as well. :)
@@HistoryHouseProductions Oh, apparently I got confused in regard to who was talking, need to listen to that episode again. :)
@@HistoryHouseProductions tbh making any joke offends someone these days, these here were kept quite reasonable
My mom asked what country got invaded in Europe until 1945 and I answered Poland even before she finished the sentence.
Gotta admit. I'm satisfied both as Polish and as a historian. Quick. Simple. And no large mistakes/lies. Good work.
Thank you!
somewhere between southpark and minecraft
Then the winged hussers arrived
Well, they not, but I wish they were.
sorry, there were only Uhlans in 1939, my grandpa was one
when i was a little boy he used to draw horses for me
My great great grandfather was in the polish resistance, he was responsible for delivering important letters and one day he had to deliver some plans on his bike but he was spotted by either SS officers or the Gestapo (not sure which, my grandma knows this story better), He threw the plans into the bushes and they questioned him, he answered nervously and was stuttering so he was taken in for days to be tortured but confesed nothing, he was then taken into a forest with a jew but managed to escape, he hid for days until he eventually made his way home, my family has many ww2 story's, my polish family's hometown is where Treblinka Concentration Camp was, I always enjoy listening to these interesting storys
Thank you so much for sharing that with me! I also find those stories to be super interesting. I’m glad your grandpa ended up okay.
@@HistoryHouseProductionsthank you so much for the response, I love your videos, I'm glad you liked my story :)
The sequence from 9:47 to 10:10 is just great. Of course in reality it was absolutely frightening, but this animation concedes the truth of the Soviet Union actions then.
And now, in 2020, Putin is playing the same game. As for now - only verbally. 😡
True dat. I’m glad you liked it!
“5,000 in fact” . . . . . Wow . . . Gotta love Poland
Oh yeah
Poland recent luck (1770s on wards) have been something of a joke or at least a concept for the perfect unlucky character in anything
All Polish elites was murdered, now we got ONLY Polish speaking elites.
in fact the bad luck began in 1648, 1717 another stage... after 1768 it was free falling
'Ight, I got a German Rocket, what do you want me to do with it?
Idk, launch it into Berlin or something.
The France part killed me
didnt even notice lol
"drole de guerre"
After the end of hostilities, a number of underground organizations were established on the basis of former membership in sports ("Falcon"), paramilitary ("Strzelec") or Polish Scouting Association organizations. In late 1939, a total of about 140 different underground organizations operated in Poland, including:
the "Fatherland" organization operated in Greater Poland
the Secret Military Organization "Kashubian Griffin" was organized in Pomerania
over a dozen underground organizations started operating in the General Government; "Polish Defense Corps", "Security Corps", "Polish Armed Organization"
"Polish Insurgent Army" was created in Toruń
in Tarnobrzeg, scouts created the organization "Retaliation" (later "Jędrusie")
So basically it’s red dawn
Kinda. Kinda not
I saw POLSKA I liked
And subbed
Thanks!
Wow, I haven't expected that someone would sub channel of only reason which would be Poland. I was always thinking about other, as they hmm... unlike Poland from some reasons.
私わ名前Geraltです。 I guess you can say I subbed for other reason also because I love a video but Polish people are very proud of their history
@@wolfeasmr9505 I think the people thinks about us as nacionalists, because yes - Poles are in some degree "nacionalists" or simply they loves Poland too much. I don't like talking about history, because I am not some amazing historician, and talks about Poland often ends on quarelling about Poland being victim or a Grave after injury. I don't suggest that you're the same, I am simply afraid of next quarell. Greetings, good man.
私わ名前Geraltです。 true sir
Thank you for spreading the information about this and big respect from 🇵🇱
I should also add that I think it was on NPR (National Public Radio in the US) that I got listen to old recordings from the few survivors of the retaliation massacre. I have no words to describe it
Congrats on the 2,000 subs Connor! These WW2 videos have really polled you up...
Thanks man! It’d be pretty interesting if you made some “France in WWII” videos at some point. There’s a lot of misconceptions you could probably clear up.
Teamwork! You just got a new subscriber in less than the first 30 seconds.
Thank you!
Whole villages took part in the operation of capturing the remains of the rocket. Among other my grandmother. Carried the rocket debris.
My grandfather took part in the NZS guerilla (National Forces). During the war not only the Russians or Germans were shot, but also Jewish bands that robbed and murdered people in the villages, but also Ukrainian nationalists. After the war, grandfather had to flee from east Poland to west where they did not know his past. The communists would shoot him. The second grandfather was a Policiant. He came to the Russians. Fortunately, he was not shot in Ostaszków or Katyn. The Russians handed it over to Germany. He spent the war in a POW camp. After the war, he couldn't find a job, because before the war he was a policeman and the communists harassed such people.
The resistance movement in Poland operated until 1963.
Thank you for sharing! That’s very interesting.
I believe it was NSZ (Narodowe Siły Zbrojne) National armed forces
@@Krzemieniewski1 Tak. Źle to sformułowałem. Translator i poprawki.
NSZ killed more Jews than Germans
You done a great job :) thnx
Germany and Russia: We won, Poland is no more!
Poland: Well yes, but actually no
The part with the guards being high was probably historically accurate.
I am waiting for a video about Warsaw uprising, by the way in my opinion this is one of the best videos on your channel, I like the way you made that Panzer II c:
Thank you so much! It’ll be a while before I make the Warsaw one though. :(
if anyone is reading is in 2021 i want you to know they showed this vid in my english class
The art style and commentary work exquisitely together.
Thank you!
Thank you for video sir
Thank you for watching!
@@HistoryHouseProductions please make more video about ww2
great video, truthful and accurate, keep doing what you're doing
Thank you!
nice video, you deserve many more subscribers
Thank you!
Thank you for making one of the most truly depressing and horrific moments in modern history into an amusing little informative video. Hard to make the occupation of Poland funny.. somehow you managed it. My boys needed this representation. Remember kids; 4 weeks into an invasion, France capitulated. 5 years of occupation, Poland continued to resist. Least we forgot.
Thank you for the kind words! I always get a little worried when I do videos on more tragic events, so I’m glad you found it useful!
*Grzegorz Brzęczszczykieicz*
Brzęczyszczykiewicz*
Urodzony w Brzeczyszczykowicach
powiat Łękołody
@@AlphaQHard urodzony Chrząszczyrzewoszyce powiat Lękołody
@@Grzybons nawet polak nie umie ;D
The plants speak Vietnamese,
The snow speaks Finnish,
The sewers speak Polish,
The math speaks letters,
The cave speaks bear,
The fish speaks land,
The cell speaks mitosis,
And everyone is fucked.
I applaud you, good Sir.
Polish history presented in not only a lighthearted (as much as possible), but also pretty accurate way.
Pozdrowienia ;)
Thank you!
Great video
Thank you!
The French Resistance: We bravely resisted the Nazis.
Polish Underground: Hold my beer!
@johnangel1188 bien sur :)
Thank you for video sir
💐💐💐👏👏👏
You're welcome!
I just love your videos sir could you make more about ww2
My Polish mother would always torture me with stories about how screwed Poland always got in WW2.
I love how you coined: "history hates Poland". Clearly were not the big winner, but always sort of got a sh*t of the stick. Oh, well at least war is over and done with. Great video!
Haha! My grandma does the same thing. I’m glad you liked the video!
@@HistoryHouseProductions Oh really!
I suppose youre Polish too. Good on you!
Guards:-taking fat bong rips-
Polish Resistance Members: you see this rocket, it’s our now.
So lighthearted for the atrocities that Poland endured.
Boooi, polish should be very suspicious of everyone with that past "alliances"
That’s a big problem in Poland today now with the EU I believe.
I am actually Polish. My grandfather fought both in Warsaw uprising and abroad. I can't speak for all Poles but personally, I don't put much weight into any alliances. We've already seen recently with Georgia and Crymea that if Russia wants to invade a country, it can get away with it without any military response from its allies. Poland is in NATO so that should help but If severe hunger hits again, like it did prior to WW2, I wouldn't be too suprised seeing NATO getting internally conflicted or falling apart and possibly Germany invading us again for whatever reason (habits, oh you). I just hope the world has globalised too much for a war in the middle of Europe. As for the UE distrust - not sure about recent polls, but I remember not too long ago most Poles being still pro-EU - it was so ever since we entered. However, the current (right wing, or so they identify themselves) government is kinda not too big on EU and strives to be able to rely on the USA for military protection. But yeah, we've learned to keep our trust limited.
Loved the music for the title cards lol
Haha! Thank you!
Very cool
Very cool
10:15 background music name?
Love your content and way of (story)telling! Maybe one little suggestion; could you normalize the volume a bit? Currently speech seems very silent in comparison to other history youtubers while some sound effects sound as loud as the "Wilhelmus of Orange" by History With Hilbert, but he only plays it when the Netherlands is mentioned, so you get an early warning to turn the volume down ^^"
I can definitely try that in the future! Thank you for the suggestion and thank you for watching!
The reason no one listened to him is because they thought he was exaggerating or making things up. That it literally could not be that bad.
Poland & Germany was later liberated by help of two countries Pakistan & Afghanistan, that beat soviets for 10 years in Afghanistan (1979-1989) and later caused the fall of soviet empire hence the unification of Germany and liberation of Poland.
I had several relatives involved in the Polish Underground during WWII. One of my aunt's belonged to a partisan unit operating outside of Lublin in eastern Poland. One uncle was in the Polish Home Army and was involved in several actions of sabotage while operating under a pseudonym. Another uncle escaped with the Polish Army and fought in France where he was wounded severely. He was sidelined for the rest of the war but served a staff position in England. He was relocated to Poland after the war.
2:43 what is that sound effect called?
I have to say that for an American your detail in knowledge is incredible! Especially some of the facts you talk about are not commonly known
Thank you! I appreciate it!
Ur getting my sub bro good job. Respect! Lots of people got silenced saying stuff out loud like you did
Nice
Nice
0:50 i love that music
Stevan Banković I love it as well, what's the name of it anyway?😂
CKC Productions i have no idea, i was hoping someone would tell me that
that minecraft sequence, top kek
Haha! Thanks!
I've been binging so many of these videos and they are doper then those sweet vape tricks
Thanks!
Love your vids! Thank you for honoring my people with humor while also showcasing their bravery and brilliance! Now, if only Poland knew what to do with independence once they got it...sigh...
Dang bro you look amazing
Finnaly someone not polish doing a more detailed video on polish history, quote my history teacher "Idiots" so this really cheered me up :) (living in uk is polish)
You can hire me for Polish names voiceover for nxt video. I will provide you with that for one plate of pierogi per video xD
Can you do a video about greek resistance
History House Productions be like:
Lets just make jokes about Poles who died in WW 2
Pikulasty dude calm down
@@theholyhay1555 Me is like: *Visible frustration*
Pikulasty i know buddy, hug it out stress does things on us
2:57 No eastern zone was much more worse. Why? Answer even in Poland we dont hear about any resistant groups there. In fact most of Polish citizens immidietly receive ticket to Gulag
My grandfather was a part of the resistance. EDIT: thank you for the heart!
Mad respect
Uprising Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
I really like the series. Keep up the good work. Your humor is great.
Thank you! Look out for more!
They found the v2 in a swap(i think) and covered it up before it was found and took it apart pice by pice so it could be flown to England
Noice vid
Thank you!
Why are you using little big planet music in your intros? Btw love ur channel
Thanks! I actually composed the intro in Garage Band, so it might just be a sample that they also used in the game?
Michał Taraszkiewicz-Konarzewski.
Jak ty to masz przeszytać? / how did you want to read this lol? But Witold Pilecki pronounciation was great.
Poland is like that dude who is really strong and whenever his bros is hurt he’s there to beat up the other guys
But he always gets in bad situations and has bad results
As for stealing that V-2: It wasn't exactly "stolen". It crash landed in a remote place in Poland, and the AK managed to collect it before the Germans even found out that it overshot the Baltic Sea where it was intended to impact.
I believe that they had been looking for an opportunity like that though. Nevertheless, I think the more impressive thing is how they manged to smuggle it out of the country haha
@@HistoryHouseProductions It sure was, one of the most amazing war feats the Poles pulled off.
no one gonna talk about how the shape of polands has CHANGED so much they gained land in the west and lost land in the east wtf.
Top 1 anime betrayals : warsaw uprising
watch the lego version
btw today 79 aniversary
"Soviet had a habit of (...) killing nerds"
Well, it made me chuckle.
later on in Kambodia the reds really killed pple who wore glasses
Learn and laugh so much lol
Seriously? No mention of Armia Ludowa? No mention of Polish army taking Berlin?
This part is about Poland Resistance...
watch czterej pancerni (the four tank grenadeers), still very popular in Russia ;)
Make video "Russian and Polish relations starting from 15 cent" so your audience will understand situation and reasons properly.
Poland didnt capitulate. The City of Warsaw capitulated.
3 oct 1944, "thanks" to Stalin
was that a ruiner shirt?
Bóg, Honor, Ojczyzna
I'm actually curious.....how the fuck do you steal a V2 rocket?! That should be its own video.
“Resthhhisthhtance”-History house productions
Fun fact: Some of Poles and Polish soldiers thought that Soviets came to help figthing Germans
No wonder Jan Blachowicz is such a bad ass. Any pole alive today must come from the best of the best poles who made it out of all the madness that was early 20th century Poland lol
Man where is Yugo residence?
Warsaw part was lit 😂👌
you got a thumbs up for using minecraft to make a YT friendly depiction of eastern partisan repression.
Thanks!
The soviets hated everyone equally is untrue, they hated the polish more than the others.