German East Africa: A Very Pyrrhic Campaign
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When a Serbian shoots an Austrian, so you as an Indian have to fight the Germans in East Africa for the British
to help british
Gott when an Austrian takes over Germany and attacks Poland so you as an Indian have to fight the Japanese in Burma for the British
TCG And have a Georgian take over half of East Europe.
When a Serbian shoots an Austrian so you as an Indian have to go fight Africans who have to fight for Germans
When a Serbian shoots an Austrian in Bosnia so an Indian has to help the British fight the Germans in East Africa while being stung by bees.
*Can't outrun your supply lines if your enemies are your supply lines*
😂😂
Great War problems require Great War solutions
AHAHAH DUDE
wow that sun tzu level of logistics their boi
@@aker1993Just gotta worry about the supply lines outrunning you, bro.
German & British troops: You can't defeat me.
Also German & British troops: I know, but he can.
African Bees: *Angry Bee noises*
Also German and British: OOOOOFFF
Two random guy somewhere
Musa: Did you hear something
Martin: Nah man your just hearing things
*bees intensify*
BEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!
“NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AHHHHHH!”
THE BEES WIN!
Germany: we have run Out of german troops
African natives: *O H S H I T*
From what i read, joining the army was actually a good idea as it would mean you would be better fed and paid than the rest of the natives as there was a (german caused) famine ongoing.
It have been proven that army men/women were treated far better then any other regular worker/citizen
And it makes sense, since you don't want your own army backfire and end up joining the enemy
@@Legitpenguins99 also, many future African leader/dictator started their career in the colonial army. So, it's a great career option, better than farming with high colonial tax.
@Emil bruh
Nicholas Lee yeah seriously, the fuck does his comment have to do with anything? Talk about whataboutism
IIRC, when the West German government went to Tanzania to pay the Askari their government pension in the 1970's, none of the 85-90 men who showed up could prove they'd been part of the colonial forces. one of the Germans had the idea of using a broom to have the men perform their rifle drill.
Every Askari that had come performed it flawlessly, and they all received their pensions.
_nice_
Pensions were even being provided prior to this, they were interrupted by the outbreak of WW2
@@Burkhart4192
Lol relotius-magazine would of course never write such a neutral article about the topic of colonialism today..
@@Galland_ colonialism had it's good and bad moment's I guess and I agree 100% with what you said.
Meanwhile in America we actually passed a bill to not pay any money to our Filipino veterans.
Bee Movie 2: Germany East Africa
QUICK SOMEONE MAKE A SHORT BEE MOVIE MEME CLIP IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA!
Robert Jethro Gallano I will in paint in a few hours because of school
Petition to retitle the video to this.
Shut up weebs
Why not a prequel?
We expected the Germans.
We expected the British.
We didn't expect the *BEES.*
*NOT THE BEES!*
*THEY’RE IN MY EYES!*
*MY EYES!*
*AHH! AHHHH! AHHHHHHH! AHHHHH!*
@Genuine Suffering the Spanish Bees, checking on you to make sure you have met the honey quota
Germans: so we won't fight in East Africa, amirite?
British: yea...
Germans: * turns around*
British: *takes over East Africa*
Germans: excuse me what the fu-
British:
*RULE BRITANNIA SHITTYFLUTE EARRAPE INTENSIFIES*
Germans: so we play tough ja? Send the vorbeck!
Vorbeck:"Your gonna suffer." British:"Wait where's the supplies." Vorbeck:"Yall are the supplies."
*INSERT HEIA SAFARI EARRAPE*
The virgin Erwin Rommel< The chad Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck
Fucc you 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
@@randomalien7746 Found the Rommelboo
Rommel: outruns supply line
Lettow-Vorbeck: enemy is supply line
@@FirstNameLastName-wd8gn Rommel was a respected fieldmarshall. He treated all soldiers equally (also enemy troops). He had clear orders from Hitler to execute all Jewish pow and he didn't obey.
@@randomalien7746 Yea, Hitler never ordered him to do that.
*at the battle of the bees*
Ya like jazz?
NO NO NOT THE BEES!! NOT THE BEES!!!!!!
Flo Ris “ya like SMOOTH JAZZ”
Bees... My God...
Flo Ris Ya like Brass?
Me: *puts on gas mask
Me: *opens mustard gas container
Whether he was effective or not, he had a cool hat (even on his coffin).
And in the end, isn't that what really matters
@@jacobduggan8008 wait the germans fought with the turks
@@yoted3609 the Australians had them too. i thunk
It's called the "Südwest" because it originated in German Southwest Africa (Modern-day Namibia)
@@weik-2936 It is. What is the war in German East Africa, but people trying to measure up to his hat skills.
Don't tell me that the casualty figures aren't that impressive for the Germans. They were outnumbered 8-1, instead of losing 15% of their number for 12% of the enemy number killed, by all rights they should have been overrun. Holding your ground when attacked by an enemy who outnumbers you 4-1 or 3-1 is impressive, but 8-1 is outstanding.
*Poland Laughs in the Background*
*Rorke's Drift Laughs in the Background*
*A bunch of other battles I cannot remember Laugh in the Background*
@@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595 I don't think Rorkes Drif compares given how much that battle relied on one side using spears and the other to not use spears.
@@Nonsense010688 Islandwana, the battle before Rorke's Drift, where the British lost, was fought with a Zulu advatage of around 28-29 to 1 for the Zulu's, Rorke's Drift was more then that, had less capable fighting men and the Zulu's also had some extra guns by then, so, Rorke's Drift does compare
@@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595 next to british the german colony troops fought who had equal if not better equipment as them?
You think be outnumber THEN 8 to 1 is as bad then being out number if you are vastly technology superior?
Sorry you are kidding yourself.
(Islandwana is more an example of incompetence then anything else).
PS: I'm niot saying that they aren't victories equal or better then this one just that Rorke Drift is to be taken with a grain of salt. There is a reason why many people felt that the victoria crosses handed out were a cover up.
@@Nonsense010688 Fair point, but like I said, the Zulu's had guns, even if a majority outdated Dutch ones, meaning the small group of defenders there we're getting shot at while they charged, and the Zulu attack on Rorke's Drift was never meant to happen in the first place so yeah
When my fellow BF1 players got butthurt about black German soldiers, I tried to explain that it was half true but Dice’s refusal to make an Africa map with the bees as a battlefield environmental hazard made my attempts useless
If the black german soldiers in bf1 are supposed to be askari why do they wear normal german uniforms?
Like I said, half true, half lazy PC pandering
Genghis Khan I’m a big fan of your work btw
@Luke L. Simple. To get sales in the US, you stick a Yank on the box.
@Luke L. all about the money, America and the anglo-sphere are the most important FPS markets
Europe: *Exists*
Africa: Why do I hear boss music
I don't get it but I think it's funny.
@@frenchsoldier8485 are you a fucking eastern spy?
@@surayutskulchai714 You call yourself comrade but have American flag in your profile picture. God damn Western spy.
Impostor
Finally, a battle to rival that of the Emu War.
Did he do ne on that? I want him to do one on that.
@@stormcrowlegendary3512 he has. He did an extensive history of the whole war.
What about the newest one? The Feral Cat war
Emu army from the Emu war vs Bee army from Battle of the Bees. Taking all bets guys.
@@bificommander put everything on the potatoes!
I remember reading somewhere that when the Askari troops wanted compensation or payment or something, none of them had any papers to prove they were in the army. So instead each one of them preformed a perfect rifle drill to prove it. Kinda badass in my opinion.
A few spaces of Africa that aren’t colonized: exists
German Nobility: ITS FREE REAL ESTATE
More like British...
@@yanniklemm4108 well, that's the attitude of the Germans when they want a colony and realized most of it has been taken
@@alexanderchristopher6237 this
Same for the Italians and Ethiopia (a.k.a. Abyssinia) but that didn't go very well, at least not the first time around.
Actually Bismarck was hesitant to colonize at all, but fine I'll let you have your fun
Perhaps he was a racist but it should be noted that this was the norm for his era and he was at least ahead of his time inasmuch as he made officers of his African troops when it was warranted, spoke fluent Swahili and said "We are all Africans here". I mean, Abraham Lincoln was a racist in that he did NOT believe the Black man the equal of the White, he just believed that they should be governed by the same set of laws. So these men exist in the same space, of being racist by today's standards but being far ahead of their own times in terms of their own standards versus the standards of the time.
The problem with these 'standards' is that they are subjective. I could say today that the standard is to be racist and there might very well be a lot of racists. But does that make it the standard? No. A lot of people would disagree with that statement. Conclusion: there is no standard for world views. There can be majority and minority, but no standard.
On the side: racist and anti-semite are dogwhistles for "political opponent I disagree with that I wish to slander". If this guy was so bad, he wouldn't have gotten Africans to fight for him for 4 years. Or maybe he was right and Africans are inherently less intelligent... either way, you can't really attack him. He's either right or you were wrong about him.
Perhaps "Standard" was the wrong choice of words, but I agree with your points. Especially regarding people flinging around "racist", it is at least as often as not used as a bludgeon to silence someone whom you cannot debate with rational means. Vorbek was ahead of his cohort of "highly placed old European dudes" in terms of race relations.
@@inurmomsbedroom123 racism can take different forms and is on a scale, it doesnt have to be that he thought them inferior just less than. most likely he would rather have 1000 germans than 1000 africans, but he still accepted them as a fighting force, and even 60 years later those same men were proud to have fought under him
@@jam8539 That's not racism, that's nationalism. You can try to debate that but they are two different words with different meanings.
It is natural for people to want to live with their own, fight beside their own, and be lead by their own. "Racism" is a label multiculturalists give people to shut them down. They've worked for years to condition people to freeze when they hear that word.
In the end, people need to break the mold and ask themselves what they think is true. Stop forcing people to live with people who are different. If melting pot societies could work, that is surely not the way.
@@inurmomsbedroom123 Quite true. People naturally form groups, classes, cohorts, tribes, nations. It is an organic process that is observed everywhere and involving differences both manufactured and organic. Using the bayonets or force of propaganda to attempt to undermine these structures in no way causes people to see that they are alike, rather it causes them to gird themselves for battle, and resist.
Cultural interchange is also an organic process, and groups will generally have dealings with one-another and learn from one-another. Two things principally separate man from beast: mastery of fire, and communication of complex concepts. Both have enabled us to advance beyond forming simple tools of wood and rock as other intelligent beasts have been known to, to our current station. So this communication, this exchange of concepts, is one of the most fundamental aspects of humanity. it WILL take place, and it is fundamentally good. But much like sex, when it happens organically it is lovely, beautiful, magical, even; but when it is forced, coerced, blackmailed, the results are at best degenerate and at worst horrific. Any authority that fancies itself moral will attempt only to enforce general peace and order on the interactions of these groups, and not to force anyone to think or act a certain way. Anyone who had done any kind of mechanical work, carpentry, forestry, electronics, welding, smithing, anything like this, will know that there are certain operations that can be improved by adding force, heat, current, etc., and others where just opening the taps results in spoiling the workpiece, whatever it may be. Sadly the results are tragedy when the workpiece is entire societies.
An interesting fact about the native troops. In the 60s West Germany voted to restore their pension payments after... well you know. About 300 showed up to the German Embassy in Tanzania, however many had a hard time proving that they had actually served. One banker present had an idea, each claimant was given a broom and asked to preform the German manual of arms. Not one man failed.
The german east african native soldiers (askari) were the best treated not white soldiers in all of the armies of europe, they were very successfull, partly because Lettow-Vorbeck listened to them and they taught him surprise attack tactics and others and he taught them european drill.
And they were very thankfull for treating them the same as white soldiers. After the war ended they didin't know why did they stopped fighting and they wanted to go on so after the war ended in east africa british soldiers were dying because of them still fighting for "germany".
Yes, Lettow-Vorbeck and his officers treated the Askaris like human beings and fellow soldiers, and they fought well. Surprising, yes?
John Kaufman well, for the time, yes, it's surprising that he treated them well.
@@johnkaufman9567 its also surprising that he is called a hard racist the isnt it?
He legit carried about the askari soldiers, that they got their money after the war, which wasnt paid + a small pension for them.
@CK Lim That reminds me of the british medic in bf1 always being Indian
@@thegovenor4629 Because he was? He pillaged villages and under his supervision, they raped, killed, and destroyed crops of native villages? And when he is desperate for manpower, recruiting troops and treating decently his past crimes are ignored? That is some total bull and disingenuous shit right there.
*''No, not the bees!''*
British solders running to trench
African bees: I'm about to end these men's whole career
Learnt a lot about this from Indy Neidell, but some extra depth is very nice.
I try master...
I'm Indy Niedell and this is the great war....of the bees.
Do or do not, there is no try
@@lapisleafuli1817 "I'm Indy Niedell and this week, the bees join The Great War!"
Land *exist*
Britain.its free real estate
Indigenous people: but we already live here..
Britain: Oh look, free labor !
@@nedsteven4622 economic exploitation is comparable to slavery
He attac
He protecc
But most importantly
He said to Hitler Hecc
Lettow Vorbeck was a true leader. Very few other commanders in history endured what he did alongside his men out in the African wilderness. His soldiers were extremely loyal to him, because he marched alongside them and guarded their lives carefully. Contrary to what many people seem to assume about him he was not a racist, if you look at how he treated Africans and what he thought about them, their lives and existences were just as valid to him as any German. He held off forces many times the size of his own for 4 years and never suffered a single defeat on the battlefield. Yes he lost control of German East Africa, but that's because he knew he could never hold it against the British and their allies if he fought them for every inch of ground, so he concentrated his effort on slowing them down and making the campaign as costly as possible for the Allies. The Armistice in 1918 even included a special clause for Von Lettow. Nobody knew exactly where exactly he was in November 1918, so the British gave a 1 month grace period to him and the Schutztruppe so that they could track him down and tell him the war was over. He is a fascinating character and should rightly be considered one of the most skilled military leaders of modern history.
Nazi Germany: You dont say no to Mr. Hitler.
Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck: Hold my beer.
He didn’t say no he just insulted him
Lol at that “Europe fights itself” montage
Me: looks at thumbnail
My brain: **ya like yazz?**
"[The bees] could not be repelled by rifle fire."
I'm very glad to know that they tried.
This entire campaign was probably accompanied by "Benny Hill" theme... lol
Considering that the Germans spent five years running in circles with the Brits chasing them, to occasionally turn around and defeat the Brits, venturing into ALL of the neighboring colonies, and only find out about the end of the war when they captured a Belgian (or Portuguese?) base and be told "war ended three weeks ago mate!" I'd consider the Benny Hill theme to be accurate!
"When Europe goes to war, the tend to redefine the word and pretty quickly dail things up to 10"
LMAO I fell out when I heard that.
World War I but every time a force charges a machine gun Bee Movie plays
The planet would be dead due to everyone killing themselves to avoid that.
The germans wouldn´t be stopped by the mighty British Empire, but by a couple of bee hives.
If Vorbeck's actions held off 300,000 men with a force of around 15,000, then yes, that's a significant victory. If the Entente had been able to bring 200,000 extra men into Western Europe and throw them into any one portion of the line, they have a significant advantage. So yes, Lettow-Vorbeck's actions were quite significant.
The Askari’s were absolute badasses, ferocious and disciplined, and Vorbeck actually really respected them, allowing them to become officers (which was not exactly common let’s just say), listening to their feedback and suggested tactics and have their wives follow them around. The Askaris repaid this with dutiful service and were proud to fit under him and for Germany. This could not be said the Arab troops he had, one time they literally in an attempted surprise attack, intentionally alerted the British to their presence before scattering, let’s just say the Askari behind them repaid them for this action.
You should make a video about Walther Wenck, the ”General Boy”, and the man who had courage to ignore Hitler's order to relieve Berlin and decided to save 200.000 civilians from the capital of the Reich. Who agrees with me should feel free to give a like.
Andrei Schipor god yes please
@The Star Federation a fellow Sabaton fan I see
UK: Hi.
Everybody else: H...
UK: Too late! You've been colonized.
I really wish they put African battles like this into BF1, it would make a pretty sweet map, (And might have justified that black German recon soldier)
Honestly, yeah, it would've been a really great new map
But Dice just sticked to the Western Front and the one Middle Eastern Map
Did we even get an Eastern Front map?
@@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595 its dice (under ea) what did you expect
Might have?
@CK Lim I have no clue how they pissed on whites
@@weik-2936 This is the correct answer.
Waka Waka (This Time for Afrika Korps)
Best comment ever made if I do say so myself.
Unironically one of my favourite parts of WW1, mad respect for the Schütztruppe and their bravery. Gott Mitt Uns.
3:25 you finally found a song thats not the erika remix
HEIA SAFARI
There are so many German marches
@@fuurettodesu9225 thx
"When Europe goes to war with its self, it always manages to redefine the word and take it to ten really fast-" que 1812 overture that been in the bacground since the beginning. I love this channel
*[[wHeN thİs cHanNeL uPlOAds!]]*
who would win battle hardened infantry OR some stingy bois?
Seeing the belgian flag in the clips, a lot of the background comes from the Young Indiana Jones series doesnt it?
Germans and British: NOOOOOOOOOOO! YOU CANNOT JUST JOIN IN THE BATTLE OUT OF NOWHERE!
Bees: BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
I would like to hear the full reply to the fuhrer. That FU but not so friendly.
Young Indian Jones FTW! if you didn't watch it on old VHS's you got from the library you missed out.
British empire: I fear no man
British empire after *BEES* : but those... Those terrify me.
I like that the reason for the southern flank collapsing is first the bees, then the German machine gun fire.
Britain: yes we finally conquered German East Africa
paul von lettow-vorbeck: _Are you sure about that?_
When you get Lettow-Vorbeck as a general in HOI4...
Also, I liked the brain4breakfast tribute at the end.
You really should make more videos like this about "forgotten" or overlook fronts of war and also forgotten wars in general, your voice and content are amazing and there are not much interesting videos of these topics.
Keep up the good work
very interesting, burma in ww2 is often forgotten, as well as the russo japanese skirmish
@@jam8539 yes, and also a lot of the conflicts before ww1 like U.S-Mexican war, the Mexican revolution, Russo-Japanese war, the second Boer war etc. It would be amazing to see Potential History's video about the Boer wars, as far as I am aware, there are not that many videos about those.
@@cutekrizu8214 indeed, an unbiased account of those would be interesting, all i see is anti british people saying britain created concentration camps, or pro impeiralists saying that empire is good
the text at 1:01 says, "To ensure native labor for these estates the natives were subjected to a poll tax of 6s. per head annually. In order to pay it, and with rare exceptions they had no other means, they were obliged to sell themselves for a part of the year. This made the cultivation of their own farms difficult. To add to the difficulty they were subjected to annual corvees. In large gangs they were transported from one part of the country to another, and, under conditions which caused a high rate of mortality, forced to labor on the making of roads and other works. Almost always these demands coincided with their own seed-time."
Absolutely smashing video as always @PotentialHistory it's always fascinating and informative finding about the more obscure and less documented actions that took place in the Great War, thank you for sharing and keep up the grand work! 👍
Is that footage from Young Indiana Jones I spy?
That was a really good series
@@eagletanker even my mom likes it
One of the best.
What was the source for the film clips being show?
I love your channel and I always look forward to you're videos. You're the perfect balance of education and comedy.
"...as all things should be".
Adventures of young Indiana Jones.
Thank you
Young Indiana Jones is REALLY good, there was an episode devoted to Indy and some older British Soldiers trying to capture the German General.
@KaijuDirector I think that he had their help for that one, but not Remmy or Rimmy, however the Belgian's name is spelled.
Well done. A balanced, if brief overview of a fascinating chapter of the Great War. Thank you.
I Love this topic! Oh my good, I'm so glad that you made video about this!
Do a video on the tanks of the Axis minors (Romania, Hungary, and whatever the hell Skoda was making)
My time has come
Great video! They keep getting better!
Thank you so much for covering this lesser known, and incredibly interesting, theaters of war.
So glad you used footage from the Young Indiana Jones series
The trees speak Vietnamese
The snow speaks Finnish
*ZE BÉEZ SPEEK GERMAN*
Intro was funny! Great job, great video!
2:06 holy shit that was timed perfectly, I was listening to the overture waiting for that part and it climaxed so well
Congo in the Tanga (In conjuction with native bees).
Hey potential history, love ur videos and i was wondering if u could make a vid on operation battleaxe.
Love amount of footage from the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles used in this video.
I hope he does a video on the Rhodesian bush war at some point, I can't help but imagine he would have an absolute field day with it from the short shorts to the politics to the utterly absurd effectiveness of the security forces
It's the bee's knees alright
One angry bee can be annoying. Imagine that times a few tens of thousands and you're sure as hell not going to go anywhere near to where they have their hives. You can smack a single bee, but a swarm is going to literally sting you to death and make it impossible to give off aimed shots with a gun.
I feel like this could've been a tiny bit more detailed, but otherwise I'm glad to see a video on this theater of operations.
BEE Movie 2: *KILLER BEE HAVOC*
A good book about the East African Campaign is “the ice cream war” by William Boyd. Involves the battle of tanga and other campaigns as well as a gripping human story. Would highly recommend! Stay safe everyone
Where can I get it, I am a tanzanian citizen
As someone who grew up with a Lancashire post code, it's pronounced Lanka-shuh mate, great video as usual
Awesome video 👌
No mans land
Me, an intellectual: did you mean BEES LAND
It pains me how much of the story you ignored, how he commanded his troops, how they took major british strongholds, his tactics, the background of askari which is an inspiring story by itself, how british colonial troops were deserting to join the german askari. Man, what you did is merely a wikipedia footnote rather than a proper video, I'm very dissapointed. You even left out something as cool as L59's flight to ressuply Vorbeck and his troops, which to this day is the longest combat flight on record.
I'd love to see more videos about Africa
Would very much like to see your take on Sir John Monash and the significance of the Battle of Hamel.
>Minecraft | The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand-ApartmentSalad
Why this exists...
*Shows montage of troops fighting in ww1 and ww2*
Random Poltava at 2:12
Well,meme was about Europe fighting itself,so all wars like great northern war.
@@kaletovhangar Rest of the pre smokeless powder era:
Am I a joke to you?
You really need to put the source for your music in the descriptions. I need this in my life.
@Tomasz Szostak And how would someone who isn't already extremely familiar with music from this particular place and era be able to figure that out?
Germans and British: Have a battle
The Bees: *Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru*
Imagine thinking the casualties for the Germans aren't impressive when they were literally outnumbered 8-1, lmao
The War on Bees
is this the 1812 Overture in the background at the beginning of the vid?! well, take my like (also take it because the topic of the video is interesting and most of the time overlooked).
Another amzzzzing video
He was the only German commander still on the advance at the end of the war, that in itself was major feat.
Hyped!! Also, you should watch hetalia for historical accuracy. I think that would be sweet
Lol no
2:00 for the best tongue in cheek montage I’ve seen in a while
That 1812 Overture buildup in the background made me very M O I S T
*ITS TIME FOR AFRIKA*
I love how your main and only cited clip is: Minecraft | The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand-ApartmentSalad
Potential History, the most trustful source of historical knowledge
Britain: what are u gonna do without any supplies
Germany: u are the supplies
Those bees were Chaotic Neutral alignment af
Can I make a request that you do a video on Operation Dingo (Rhodesian Bush War)?
A special forces mission on a string shoe budget.
Jacob Duggan Rhodesians never die!!!!
He probably won't because of the controversy, but it might be interesting to hear his views on the conflict as a whole, the selous scouts etc.
Rhodesians never die!
I swear every Potential History video has someone asking for Rhodesia. He’s probably not going to do that, given that he only does WW1 and 2. And besides he probably has little love for post-colonial apartheid states.
@@treyebillups8602 Calling Rhodesia an apartheid state wouldn't be completely true since there wasn't any real laws discriminating based on race. That said, there was a lot of prejudice from the Rhodies towards coloured people, but as a whole they got on with one another, which is more than can be said for several other western countries.
I was asking if he could do a video on the military side of war, not the government or anything controversial.