Battle of the Atlantic - Mitsi Studio

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The longest battle of World War II, was mostly fought in the North Atlantic ocean. German U-boats attacked the trans-Atlantic convoys of the Allies. This fight turned into a battle of numbers.
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Playing any historical U-Boat simulation as a German submarine commander is like starting out in "Casual Clicker" mode in 1939 and ending up in "Dark Soul's Nightmare" mode by 1944.

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I’m literally playing silent hunter 3 as I’m watching this, and yes even with a type XXI late 44 is hell.

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@@jdog345 Right? How did they ever put a torpedo into anything… I cannot fathom.

[@ekponlima6816]

The point is that with the beginning of 1943 the newest german submarines were already completely out dated and no match for the allied navy. So basically since then every departure of a submarine was a suicide mission. Speaking in numbers: 820 submarines were destroyed. Sounds like Nightmare mode to me.

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@@ekponlima6816 with how awful all other German Uboat designs actually were. I have no clue how they got they designed something as gorgeous as the type XXI

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I think it is important to add that Alan Turning did not crack Enigma. Turing developed the idea of the Poles' "bomba kryptologiczna" but indeed, his machine was designed for much more general crib-based decryption. Credit for cracking Enigma goes to: Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski, and Jerzy Różycki. Who also could have had little to no sex life.

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The poles cracked it first but there was a switch up, which Turing then recracked it with using the basis of the original polish work.

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[@SovietOnion111]

yea, it was the USA that broke the code after we stol- i mean tactfully acquired a Type 9 C U-boat after trying to sink it, its in Chicago in the Ship museum today, its the only Type 9 C U-boat left in once piece from the war. if you want more of in watch the "Fat Electrician- the Time the USA stole a German U-boat"

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7:02 My grandfather was a radio operator on one of those anti-Uboat planes. He told me they saw a few submarines, dropped depth charges on them, but were never able to 100% confirm the kill

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3:35 - It was Polish mathematicians (Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski) who broke the Enigma code as early as 1932, and it was thanks to their work that the British managed to break successive versions of the Enigma.

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the poles broke an early version of the code and turing used their work to break all the rest

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Bro why the poles always want to be credited with their achievements when they did fuck all.

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It was done by the poles, french and british, they all made crucial discoveries- or had crucial roles to play in the cracking of enigma and in the end, the british delivered the finished product.....

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You guys were able to explain the battle of the Atlantic in 8 minutes better than my university history prof could in 2 hours

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[@Crimsrn]

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@@Crimsrn Dude got chemically castrated by the state for being gay after the war.

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[@carltrotter7622]

Not to mention the RMS Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, the 2 largest AND fastest ships in the world, that ferried as many as 16,000 troops from the US to the UK (more people put on any ship before or since) and still managed to outrun the U-Boats AND the Torpedoes they fired. So significant were the contributions of these ships that Churchill quoted that they shaved at LEAST a year off the war.

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Loved it but it was weird to see Turing's story being reduced to "a 28 year old man with no sex life". He was gay, they forced chemical castration on him, and then he killed himself.

[@lexusleilgomez1911]

I've recently read a book about the Battle of the Atlantic. According in the book, during the early stages of the battle German U-boats sometimes try to capture lone merchant ships instead of torpedoing them. The crew of these lone merchant ships would board lifeboats and given directions to where their nearest port is. While the captured merchant ship would be controlled by a "prize crew" and then taken to a German port along with the ship's cargo.

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like true pirates

[@oldmeme1252]

If I remember correctly, these tactics, which I believe are called prize rules, was ended due to an event known as the Laconia incident. When RMS Laconia was torpedoed by U-156, the crew operated under slightly modified prize-rules: rescue as many allied seamen as possible, broadcast intentions and position across all Allied radio, and request assistance from other ships in the rescue. However, during the rescue efforts, an American bomber attacked U-156 when it was flying the Red Cross with bombs, depth charges, and strafing runs, resulting in damage and the loss of life of many of the rescued seamen. U-156 was forced to cast adrift several lifeboats and have the seamen on the deck of the submarine swim or tread water as it dove to avoid the plane. The aftermath resulted in the Laconia Order, which Donitz passed due to the events that occurred which forbade the rescue of allied seamen. To me, it is easy to point fingers in this incident, but there are other factors to take into account: British radio had received the broadcast but distrusted it, believing it to be a ruse or a trap. The US Ascension Island base was close by, so most American planes and commanders were on edge and fearful of the discovery of the base. When the British sent information to the US on the sinking of the Laconia and their own rescue attempt, they did not pass along the possibility of the German rescue effort. The American Captain who ordered the attack did not believe that the rules of war stated combat ships were allowed to fly the Red Cross and may have thought it was a trap for two diverted Allied freighters. Ultimately, I believe that this was a side-effect of the fog of war, where neither side truly knows what the other side intends, and resulted in an unfortunate and messy incident.

[@federationprime]

@@oldmeme1252 this didn’t even start in WW2, initially in WW1, German U-boats would essentially stop and search ships for war materiel. If they had been carrying things like ammunition they’d be allowed to evacuate and send a distress signal before being sunk. This ended when the British started putting deck guns on merchant shipping which invalidated their protection from “cruiser rules”.

[@nielskoester4065]

​@@SyRePrSomething that the English Navy did for centuries. Famous "pirates" ups English captains like Francis Drake

[@nielskoester4065]

At the beginning of WW 1 and WW 2, german submarines act under the international prize order / Prisenordnung. That means the uboat has to stop a merchant ship, get the crew from board / look that they were safe and then sunk the ship. But a uboat had never enough people to form a prize crew and send a captured ship back to home. This tactic was done by German HSK ships (auxiliary cruisers / Hilfskreuzer). They had enough crew and were prepared to form up several prize crews.

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Just found this channel. Very enjoyable animation and content. My neighbor was a kriegsmarine submariner. He told me after narrowly surviving their first patrol without any contacts his Captain decided they were going to hunt for an Allied patrol and hope they could surrender before they were attacked. That is what they did. He sat out the last year of the war in Canada and he was allowed to join a farm labor co-op after V-E Day until Canadian soldiers returned in enough numbers to get the harvests in.

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"Now every u-boat in the Atlantic was pretty much fucked" is one of the greatest sentences i never knew i needed to hear 😂

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Would be awesome to see a video about American submarines in the Pacific as well

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American submarines are underrated.

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@@CrownVictoria-zl6dh It wasn't really luck. It simply a matter of patience and timing, not too dissimilar from hunting a merchant ship. The submarine responsible was the USS Barb.

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My great uncle was a sailor on a Canadian merchant vessel during the war, and luckily his ship was never attacked. He did see other ships go down and watch the escort ships engage U-boats. The most in detail story he told was during one night another vessel with a flammable cargo caught fire. Before abandoning it the crew set the ship to sail away from the convoy incase of an explosion. The ship never exploded though and he and his pals just watched this burning ship sail away and shrink into the night. The whole ship's crew was rescued, in part because the fire from the ship made it easy for a rescue ship to find them in the night.

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"Basically shoving a few torpedoes up the metal behind of the battleship." Damn.. 😳

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I watched an interview with sailor who worked on a ww2 freighter that sunk and he put it that way: "The 'nassis' pulled the plug from under the belly of our old coal fired tramp that, during the best of days, smelled like burnt molasses and stale diesel. She was going to give Davy a hard time cleaning her up." - Those people really have prosaic way a saying things. Btw I think he spent the next twenty days on the North Atlantic in a wooden boat... and he cried more than once during the interview, fifty years on.

[@fireliliu]

This is my first time learning about the contents of the battle, and I'm glad that I learned through this video. Educational yet simplified, presented with great animation, and sprinkled with some humor. It was made so well that it makes me want to learn more about the battle. I love this video, and I hope you guys make great future videos like this!

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As a fan of Das Boot, this video's attention to detail is remarkable. I loved the Churchill depictions, too.

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Fantastic that you got WATU in there; so badly overlooked and so vital to winning. Fantastic vid, thanks

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Well said. We're hoping to stage some WATU recreations in the bunker this summer if you're interested!

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"Remember, it's not about how big the size of your ship, it's how small it is, that enemies can't see it" -A guy called Dönitz

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I love how you called him 'a guy' as if he wasn't the literal supreme commander of the Kriegsmarine lmao.

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Heren en dames die dit maken. Ik zeg het in het Nederlands want misschien zien jullie dat sneller. Blijf dit soort content volhouden! Het is leuk om naar tekijken (vooral voor de jeugd) en super leerzaam! Heel belangrijk werk wat jullie doen! Ben blij als een mede historische KZbinr te zien dat jullie dit soort content gaan maken. Keep it up!

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I was confused for a second and thought this was german then I saw Ik and was like oh its Dutch, I was reading in the wrong language haha.

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I enjoyed this so much I watched it, oh, 5 or 6 more times. I shared this with all my U-Boat model friends as well. Absolutely brilliant!

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As an IT person i love how Alan turing's computer is mentioned, because his computer contributed most of Britain's successful operations during ww2. Try watching imitation game, the proofs right there

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I’ve actually been to Western Approaches Command in Liverpool. Very impressive and you wouldn’t know anything about it if there wasn’t a sign out front. The big map room exists pretty much exactly how they’ve portrayed it here only there’s a big office at the back on the 2nd floor from where the boss can shout at them.

[@lycian123]

The enigma machine code was broken by the Poles but Turing developed another way of decrypting it more efficiently. The 'computer' he built was called a 'Bombe' after the Polish 'Bomba' from which it was developed. The first programmable computer built was for Bletchley and was built by Tommy Flowers and others at Dollis Hill and called 'Colossus'. Turing was a cryptanalyst, not a computer inventor or engineer. He was however very important in theoretical computer science and gave us the 'Turing Test' (another misunderstood thing in the media).

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While he didn’t build it, a Turing machine pretty much explains what a general purpose computer is and what isn’t, as well as give us the halting problem. Those are very fundamental aspects of computing. He’s an inventor because what he invented was computer science itself.

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The "Heil Hitler" Engima thing is probably a myth: what was definitely happening though was that the operators were using the code/decode ability of the machine as a way for two different machines to quickly check they were on the same setting. The problem with that is it created a pattern: if enough people used the same letters for the check every time (much like how most people don't make an entirely new password for every login,) and if they used simple phrases like "weather" consistently, then the huge number of theoretical encryptions becomes reduced to the point that a simple understanding of grammar can make the message reasonably clear.

[@andrews2218]

Not positive, but there is a movie about the enigma code cracking, and in the movie at least it is the Heil Hitler in the message that eventually cracks the code

[@KenS1267]

The way Enigma is built, and the way Enigma follow on were built, repetition matters in a very limited way. There is a plugboard, later card reader, that establishes the "code" the machine will use for all messages until the plugboard pattern is changed. This was changed every day and every station had a book with the upcoming patterns for some period of time. Obviously the patterns have to be reused but cannot repeat in any sort of predictable way. If you know a message will always contain HH at the very start of the message, and it has to be the very beginning or it won't work, then you can monitor traffic for two days when all the traffic starts with the same set of characters. You can assume this pattern includes HH and attempt to backward engineer what plugboard combination gets that result and if produces legible text for all the traffic for the day. If so you now have solved Enigma and have one of the plugboard positions solved and anytime that position is used you can decrypt it in nearly real time. This is why asymmetric cryptography is now standard. I could hand you the most important public key the NSA has and it would not do you a lick of good. You could never hope to decrypt any message encrypted with that key. For that you'd need the private key and the amount of number crunching needed to break such even with a public key and lots of encrypted messages, assuming a reasonable length and properly chosen private key, exceeds the expected remaining lifetime of the universe.

[@theonlymad2876]

The Enigma was cracked because of the pattern to end with OBERKOMMANDODERWEHRMACHT and at D-Day it was the crib: WETTERVORHERSAGEBISKAYA. Thats the original report from the Wehrmacht and the code standard for messages from Berlin to the boats.

[@locutus155]

Rumour had it that one Luftwaffe operator used his girlfriend's initials as a set-up for enigma, of course our guys in Bletchley park cottoned on to that one quickly and started to read Luftwaffe signals quickly.

[@christianschneider5511]

​@@theonlymad2876 Stereotype was afaik: Das Oberkommando der Wehrmacht gibt bekannt. I dont know if its true

[@WarAndThunder-li2iv]

We need The Battle of The Pacific after this.

[@redadmiralofvalyria867]

2:18, u even captured (briefly) how the Bismarck sank

[@Gungho1a]

The 'gaming unit' derived from a particular officer and some of his friends running a 'parallel' convoy plot after hours (when no admirals and senior officers were around) on the various convoy and tactical plots. According to their simulation, they could have saved a significant number of ships, and engaged a significant number of U-boat. With those results, they went to the chief of the plot room, who approved a fully supported simulation. This formed the basis of a change in convoy strategy and tactics, in combination with the other factors coming into play at the time. Once the air gap in the atlantic was closed, the U-boats were on the back foot strategically.

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I remember watching the animated history shows on the History channel a decade ago and thinking how awesome it was. It's crazy that we can get even better quality from an independent team now

[@iamcarbonandotherbits.8039]

If you want to teach history to kids this is the way. Short, funny and informative. My grandad was a merchant man who survived being torpedoed by a U-boat, he said it took weeks to recover from the oil and diesel fuel he'd swallowed whilst waiting to be rescued.

[@danyleon4870]

Lucky him lad. Swimming in a sea water with burning oil on the surface are definetly deadly.

[@howtofixauboat]

And to think despite his ordeal he was one of the 'lucky ones'! Those merchant navy guys had balls of steel.

[@iamcarbonandotherbits.8039]

@@howtofixauboat . He certainly was a lucky man though he wouldn't agree with you because as soon as he was passed fit for service, they sent him on the Atlantic run to supply Russia with arms, ammunition and food to keep the Eastern front going against the Nazis right in the middle of their winter. He said him and the crew spent most of the trip breaking the build up of ice on the ship that threatened to pull her down.

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@@danyleon4870. The nightmare scenario of navy men the world over at that time.

[@nickmaclachlan5178]

Love this style of animation and the dark humour, alongside cold hard facts. Keep up the good work.

[@1971cand]

3:58 At the end of December 1932, Marian Rejewski read the first information sent via the German encryption machine "Enigma". The co-authors of breaking the "Enigma" code were Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski.

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Just found these guys by accident, can't wait for a new video, it's great to have something to make you laugh and smile these days

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Just discovered this channel and holy shit you guys are godlike. Story telling at it's finest and i was laughing my ass off at the animations (they are too good). You gained a subscriber and i hope this channel reaches milestones after milestones

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Me too

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I love the animation style of this channel. It’s so unique and really stands out from the rest. The art is so pretty with the lighting and shadows

[@aquila7762]

Always wanted to learn more about the battle of the atlantic

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I’m just gonna leave this comment here so in 2 years time when they reach 10 million subs I can prove I was here from the start

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same

[@jdog345]

Same

[@canadianbacon2205]

I love how unfiltered you guys are, hats off to mitsi.

[@dreamcatcher5572]

"That might sound like a dumb thing to do", "That's because it is!" LMAO this one hits hard 🤣

[@Jijo2003]

I love their style of animations, it's so goofy while explaining one of the most brutal war in history lmao

[@txgunguy2766]

They also have a video with an extremely accurate description of how a Sidewinder air to air missile works.

[@locomotivefaox]

My German grandfather would often walk me down the beach in France and wave his hand out to the empty sea. He’d exclaim: “Do you see that? the kriegsmarine!”

[@chrisfs150]

He probably did the same at the local synagogue.... "Do you see that. The jews....!"

[@diegoestrada56]

That... is fucking hilarious omfg lmao

[@shaun1293]

I would howl to see the battle of Jutland in this animation style 😂

[@KomradZX1989]

This is the cutest battle of the Atlantic video I’ve ever seen. Absolutely AMAZING ❤

[@howtofixauboat]

There are other cute Battle of the Atlantic videos? 🤣

[@keshavleitan7800]

YOU MAKE AMAZING CONTENT! PLEASE NEVER CHANGE THIS STYLE OF HUMOUR AND THIS QUALITY OF ANIMATION. SUBSCRIBED!

[@RatPosting69420]

It's amazing how much effort there is in these animations. I'm more then impressed.

[@noway0ut180]

Thanks for the WATU callout. Vital to winning. And loved the teabagging and rage quitting references. Outstanding work.

[@Scapestoat]

04:31 Would have been nice to mention that Turing's machine was called "British bombe", named after the Polish machine it was based on, named "bomba kryptologiczn"!

[@keeneye6274]

This looks absolutely phenomenal. Can't believe I haven't seen this until now.

[@Clementinewoofwoof]

I love the series, the little U-boats are great Though I do wish you included the music in the description

[@Nick-zl5xf]

3:08 just to note that the US didn’t just ignore the U Boat threat. It simply didn’t have a large enough fleet of escort craft at this point in the war. In fact there had been cooperation with the British over convoy escort since before it entrance into the war. US ships would take convoys out to a certain point in the mid of the Atlantic and then hand it over to a British escort. Heck US Ships we’re even sunk by U boat before entering the wat

[@somethingelse516]

Admiral King ignored what the UK/Commonwealth was doing regarding ASW, he hated the Brits

[@Nick-zl5xf]

@@somethingelse516 yes he did dislike the British. But King wasn’t the only one in the us defense establishment and the US did establish a maritime security zone in 39 and the Pan American security zone in early 41, showing that it clearly acknowledged the threat

[@Private_jin]

I cant believe that was 8 Minutes! It felt like a youtube short.. That means this was too good for us to comprehend

[@wewogiarffe3793]

This should be a tv show

[@rustyshackleford1508]

Ironically, the Kriegsmarine was probably the most chivalric branch of the German military. During the 'Happy Times,' U-boat crews would often give merchant ships a chance to evacuate before surfacing to sink the vessels with their deck guns. In the event they used torpedoes, they'd often stick around for a bit to render some aid to the crew of the foundered vessels. This of course changed when the British air force started to use this fact to attack surfaced U-boats, but even after that it wasn't like they were bloodthirsty. They did their jobs even in the face of horrendous attrition, and the terrors of the deep sea. Heroic men.

[@howtofixauboat]

Even after they were strictly forbidden to help survivors after the Laconia, a lot of crews continued giving brandy, food and directions to the guys in the lifeboats. I wouldn't go so far as to call them chivalrous, exactly, but the majority weren't flag-waving, card carrying Nazis either. Both sides were mostly young, brave guys doing an unimaginably dangerous job. Sailors first, enemies second.

[@azraelsaint499]

everything bout this is great, the jokes the roasts the absolute shittakes... and then theres 6:16.... that absolutely floored me 😂

[@gregsiska8599]

"The Germans couldn't rage quit." LOL

[@mistylover7398]

Lol

[@dieselyeti]

Amazing job combining my love for WW2 history & animation. This was very well done.

[@bofoenss8393]

I love this video and it is surprisingly accurate :) I would love to see this made into a game, akin to "Atlantic Fleet" or something like that in a lighter tune. This has such a huge potential.

[@garylawless3608]

I loved this episode! I have watched a lot of documentaries on WW2, but I have never heard the term ‘Tea-Bagging the Enemy’ nor have I seen it done, until now. I hope to see many more episodes, so keep them coming guys. Greetings from Australia!

[@Xtian982]

5:41 poor little ensign Brutal.

[@wtb3051]

Love the art designs

[@Kazakhbrick69420]

0:33 the entire submarine is having a party 💀

[@Dan_animates1328]

Happy times uh…. For the u boat

[@zabdisix]

This is so awesome, please keep these historical animations up!

[@chlorophyll6154]

I'm now binge on this super awesome channel

[@johnofbrabant]

I’m really a big fan since the first animation how countries fight their wars. Bringing more content on your KZbin is a dream coming true! Thanks so much that you guys are making more content! I really like the animation style! 🫶

[@StefanHoffmann84]

4:04 I am not sure about the sex life thing. I mean, it is well known that he was gay.

[@zachkoptun9637]

That's the joke Sherlock

[@StefanHoffmann84]

​@@zachkoptun9637 You obviously do not know much about gay sex life :D I am not gay, but trust me, most gay guys live their sex life to the fullest; why should Turing be an exception here. He regularly swam naked with friends.

[@StefanHoffmann84]

@@eternalmeltdown Got it. Thanks.

[@marion86399]

@@StefanHoffmann84the reason he took suicide was because he couldn’t be gay back then, safe to say he wasn’t

[@remcovanengeland9494]

Leerzame en toegankelijke content die jullie maken ga zo door!!😊

[@Bkworm07]

Just notice around 4:40 the instrumental for undecided was playing

[@kevinduffy09]

upon the North Atlantic Lies the silence of the sea And on the quietest night in the darkest hour The Kriegsmarine appear Above the surface it seems quiet and calm Deep down below the wolfpack lurks

[@BruceWayne_87]

Bro you have no idea how much i love to watch this video again and again. This one is probably the most entertaining way to deliver the story of WW2.. And if possible i hope you‘ll make a merch of Toys especially the Germans/Wermacht boys.. I would love to collect them all.. More power to your channel! 💯👍🏼

[@Minimeister317]

This is singlehandedly one of the funniest things I have ever seen, and I have watched all your videoes

[@jonnorris7564]

Historical update, the Polish captured the first Enigma and passed it onto SOE early in the war

[@RealX-Benz]

6:33 heeeeey thats Tom Hanks”Grey Hound” shot 😂

[@Classical4Piano]

Great animation team! This is very high quality work :)

[@vernalc2449]

VERY WELL DONE and VERY WELL explained! Instant subscriber looking for MORE.

[@ElenarMT]

WELL!! I didn't think a video about WW2 could be both this educational and also so very engaging and... dare I say FUN? Great job

[@Atesz222]

There is a huge future for this channel, I'm sure of it. I half expected the mention of the U-flak boats but despite that I really loved the art style and the whole structure of the vid. Simple yet thorough and detailed to the point where even someone not familiar with the topic can understand it. You've earned my sub (no pun intended)!