The Corfu Channel Incident and beginnings of the Cold War

Royal navy ships in the channel between the Island of Corfu and Albania sparked one of the earliest incidents of the Cold War. The Corfu Channel Incident of 1946 became a watershed case in the development of international law. It is history that deserves to be remembered.
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[@deanstuart8012]

During the 19th century Corfu was part of a British protectorate called the United States of the Ionian Islands, before being transferred to Greece in 1864. In 1859 the British High Commissioner was W E Gladstone, who would later be British Prime Minister. And one of the legacies of British rule is that they still play cricket there. One of the other islands in the protectorate was Zante, taken by the British during the Napoleonic wars due to it being the sole source of a strategic foodstuff - raisins for plum duff pudding.

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@colin minhinnick Raisins truly are a top tier foodstuff.

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"Was part of a British protectorate called the Shares of the Ionian Island" don't think so, what ever that is.

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@@mattbarbarich3295 effing auto correct! Thank you, and post edited.

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Ok, haha I have the same problem sometime, have to correct it before posting it. Didn't even ask for the stupid thing!.

[@blackcountryme]

Oh no, another place to beat us at cricket. Lol

[@ncc74656m]

Rare Earth's series on Albania is absolute fascinating, and I enjoy this expansion on that series and knowledge.

[@commander31able60]

@Klaidi Rubiku why? tourism makes you money and grants exposure to the world, which might bring investors and other business opportunities.

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@Klaidi Rubiku the two are linked.

[@commander31able60]

@Klaidi Rubiku true, but in Albania's case it's not exactly the Gold Rush for business opportunities. it is a very attractive tourist destination though.

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@Klaidi Rubiku I'd come to look at a people that put up with a narcissistic madman for 2 generations but I'm from the former USSR, so I've seen worse. the views are nice though.

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"Forty years I've been at sea. A war at sea. A war with no battles, no monuments... only casualties." -Marko Ramius, The Hunt For Red October

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[@muznick]

@@krashd Anatoly, you're afraid of our fleet. You should be. Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea, anyone?

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The Cold War is one of the most interesting periods of history. So much intrigue and interest. Glad you made an episode on something I otherwise never would've heard of.

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Nothing like a little History lesson in the morning 🍻

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I's 22:37 now here, but it's still all good.

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Corfu, of Durrells fame. I would really enjoy a visit anywhere with TheHistoryGuy!

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Hi History Guy, I enjoy watching your short snippets of history. It's a great way to pass time when I am stuck waiting for my Ukrainian wife or something. With Ukraine being in the news so much lately, maybe you should do a segment about The Holodomor, a Russian-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. My wife certainly has a lot of ill will for Russia, and such a segment might shed some light on Ukraine-Russia relations.

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Indeed.

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Im thoroughly enjoying these tidbits of obscure history they're actually very interesting. Keep up the good work .

[@PeteCourtier]

Corfu is a great place for a holiday👍 I remember in 1987 when looking at the Albanian coast, every piece of vegetation had been cleared. You could see wire fences and watch towers. Corfu on the other hand was lush with olive trees and beautiful.

[@PeteCourtier]

I never said I visited Albania. I could see that a strip of land maybe 500m wide had been cleared. Wire could be seen. I’m sure away from that strip Albania is also beautiful. Anyway it was over 30 years ago, and I can only say what I remember 🤪.

[@PeteCourtier]

lagjes cuni2 sounds great. I’d love to tour around the Balkans. All the Roman, Byzantine, Bulgar, Slav and Ottoman influences. Very interesting place👍

[@PeteCourtier]

lagjes cuni2 just the waves of cultures that have lived there. Plenty of different influences.

[@PeteCourtier]

lagjes cuni2 I’ll check it out👍 Many thanks.

[@superboss1715]

Corfu was Albanian land Stolen from Uk

[@skydiverclassc2031]

That was one powerful mine that managed to sever the entire bow of a warship.

[@ant4812]

Destroyers are built much lighter than battleships, which those mines were designed to do critical damage to. Many destroyers lost bows, or sterns, or both at the same time to either mines or torpedoes over the course of WW2. The surprising thing is how many of them survived and were rebuilt.

[@crazytrain7114]

Or indeed, being grafted together!

[@lightravenn]

2 mines struck.. not 1. Haga

[@krashd]

Destroyers had very little armour, they were small, fast hunters designed to hound submarines to death or launch a torpedo at any target of opportunity. Battleships were at the opposite end of the spectrum with nothing but heavy armour and heavier guns making them bulky and slow while cruisers were somewhere in the middle, decent armour, decent guns, decent speed - the jack of all trades, master of none.

[@yiannisaivaliotis926]

Really interesting episode sir, considering the fact that I come from Corfu, and never heard of this incident before ! I deeply regret the fact that I will miss the chance to meet you and your lovely Mrs, since I now live in Crete, at the opposite end of Greece ...:((

[@justonemori]

Somebody needs to buy out the History channel, fire every last employee and make History Guy head of programming!

[@billrentz]

I took a cruise from Brindisi, Italy down the Adriatic and through Greece back in 1983. The cold war was still on and the capt of the ship told us when we got as close as we could to the coast of Albania. A whole bunch of us lined up with our cameras and telephoto lenses and tried taking pictures. I have a few that show some hilly country and a few lights but nothing great. Compared to our same view of the Italian coast it was fascinating.

[@hughmungus1767]

William Rentz - I'm not surprised to hear that you didn't see many lights coming from Albania in 1983. This is a country that wasn't fully electrified until the early 1970s; before that, only a few of the cities had electricity. I'll bet if you toured the country today, you'd find that all of the buildings that were in existence outside of the few larger cities before 1970 had only been retrofitted with electricity.

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What? No Pirates? Another great vid. I've learned more history from you than I did in school, all those many years ago. Tks Mr. and Mrs. History Guy.

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Corfu is gorgeous. Had many a hoilday there, especially on the East coast. If you can, please visit. You won't be disappointed.

[@amadeusamwater]

We used to have a security guard from Albania where I worked. He was an Albanian Army vet. He used to tell us stories from his Grandfather about life in Communist Albania. His wife was an American Army vet. they met while on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo.

[@steveclark4291]

Thank you for another piece of history that should be remembered !

[@TUMARK2]

very interesting insight into early cold war issues and foundations of international law. However, I would disagree that the British documents mentioned at 11:45 would preclude "innocent passage" it is common for military to have contingency plans, that in the event of A do this. Also I would hope some of the payments made to Britain even though fifty years late would have been paid out to families of the sailors who lost lost their lives.

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The original £800.000 after fifty years did not represent anywhere near the true cost to the royal navy allowing for inflation.

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this was absolutely the best and most informative I’ve seen yet! So much information I was completely unaware of and the context you placed and the depth and nuances we’re terrific! Please keep up the great work, both of you.

[@shelbybrown8312]

My uncle went to Albania as a missionary in the early 90s and tho he has periodically visited the US him and his wife have lived there since their initial missionary trip... his perception as an outsider watching the country get on its feet and grow into what it is today has made me interested in all things Albanian for the last couple years

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I just don't get a thumbs down on any of your videos... History - as you state - needs to be remembered. Regardless of how obscure it may be, it still needs to be remembered because those that don't are doomed. This is how we humans learn. Thanks for your channel.

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I so wish I could tour Greece and the Adriatic with y’all, but I just can’t afford it. I’m a huge history buff and love studying WWII. I know this will be a once in a lifetime event. I wish you all the best and please keep up the fantastic work you do.

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My wife and I are working our way through your entire posting of historical episodes. It is indeed amazing what history can teach us! I ask would you consider an episode on the Liberty ship incident when Israeli planes fired upon and damaged the research ship USS Liberty? Lots has been written about this mysterious "accident" and I would like to see your presentation.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

I don't plan to talk about Liberty. I do believe that it is history that deserves to be remembered. But the central question has not been resolved, and I don't think that I have anything unique to add to the discussion.

[@gearldcline3615]

Interesting.... The right to passage is still an open question, and being tested today in the South China Sea by the PRC building islands then disputing the right to passage of other nations in the region.

[@zeitgeistx5239]

Meh, it's more about power politics and national prestige. China sees it's border as having been defined by Western imperial powers with 1/3 of imperial China taken away. It's seeking to reassert itself and to right historical wrongs.

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No, they lost the case, and rightfully so. The so-called Nine Dash Line is equivalent to Italy declaring the Mediterranean Sea a private lake. Doubt me not, run and go look it up for yourself, you'll see.

[@shawnr771]

Its all about the oil under the Spratly islands and atolls. The oil has been known about for years, but the technology to access it was lacking. China, Vietnam, Brunei, The Philippines and Taiwan all lay claim to parts of the Spratlys in the South China Sea.

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China/Russia will be the death of us all. Why can’t they just join the world party without getting drunk and puking on the dance floor and hitting their girlfriends?

[@Johnnycdrums]

@@d1agram4 ; No. Red China is an existential threat to Russia. Russia and USA are natural geographic allies.

[@derrickpeterson3400]

This case has a lot of parallels with what is going on in the straits of Hormuz today.

[@alexamerling79]

Right? Glad I wasn't the only one to notice this..

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I love all the episodes of the History Guy! Always so well done and of subjects only a real history guy would know, yet very interesting to us history neophytes who have just a passing interest. Keep them coming HG!

[@grondhero]

Cold War politics: Where each person is guilty of what the other is claiming, but it wouldn't look good to admit that's what you were doing.

[@36736fps]

I had never heard of this incident before. Excellent as always.

[@morskojvolk]

Kerkira. Had a wonderful week there back in the '90s. As I recall, we transited the Corfu strait on our way from Vlorë.

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My wife is very interested in the use of quilts in the Underground Railroad during the years of Slavery. It is her understanding that quilts were hung outside of safe houses in a certain pattern to allow the runaway slaves to ascertain if the coast was clear...or not. We would appreciate a short history of the Underground Railroad during the 19th Century. Thank You - Cindy and Richard Kowalski

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We have a museum nearby with some examples, although some historians question whether the practice was real or apocryphal.

[@Paul020253]

I fell in love with Corfu when I was about 13 years old by reading Gerald Durrell's fabulous account his boyhood there in the 1930s-My Family and Other Animals, later on, enhanced by two subsequent books and a number of short stories in other books. I have loved several visits to Corfu and even taken the ferry across to Albania.

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Your selection of historical events that capture the imagination is remarkable. I praise also your effective delivery and the absence of irritating music. Well done Sir. You are the master of history short videos. Already like and subscribe.

[@GaryD9871]

"The right of passage". An issue born of hardheadedness on the part of all involved.

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Thanks for your snippets of History! Clear and concise. 👐🤓

[@Wessex90]

I can’t believe I was staying near Kassiopi with a view of Sarande from our local beach in September! I had no idea that this happened (even though I’m a history geek). I love Corfu 😊.

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Geez, I’d really enjoy tagging along on a trip like this with you guys. I’ll prepare for a future announcement of another trip, that way I can jump on board. Thanks so much for the video. Amazing content, as per usual❤️

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Excellent, as usual. Thank you for continuing to share!

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This video was 30 seconds old when you posted this. How did you know it was excellent? Haha

[@dezzin]

I am from Corfu and I think very few Greeks know this story. In Corfu every now and then the Coast Guard still finds underwater mines afloat in winter times

[@rochrich1223]

The incident also shows that the concept of law is an appeal to a higher authority. Without that higher authority, a court, no matter how much marble and mahogany, is merely a talk factory.

[@timeandnourishment1961]

Thanks for this, THG. I read a book about the Corfu Incident in the early 2000s, which included first-hand accounts . Though I no longer have the book, one passage that sticks in my mind concerns a discussion among several RN offiicers of various ranks regarding the likelihood of returning HMS Saumarez and Volage to service: one junior participant suggested welding the two wrecks together and rechristening the result HMS Sausage. He was given a good many dirty looks and, it seems, no further promotion in the Service. Can't remember the name of the author (the title is The Corfu Incident). I tried Googling it but no joy. Will try researching more and get back to you. Meantime, hope you both enjoy the cruise. Safe passage!

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

That would seem to have been a difficult merger, as both lost their bow. HMS Sausage would have always been going backwards. HMS Saumarez was scrapped following the incident, but HMS Volage was rebuilt as a frigate and served until 1956. There would, of course, be precedent for the RN welding two destroyers together: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6O6gouses58ftU

[@timeandnourishment1961]

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Thanks for the reply. I don't think the officer in question was very highly regarded for any skills he might have had as a shipwright. A ship with a stern at each end would probably not be very handy in any kind of sea. Thanks for the reference, too. In British automotive terms, such a job is called a "cut and shut" though, unlike the naval version, creating a new car in this way is strictly illegal for safety and insurance reasons. Thanks again David

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That was extremely interesting. I had never heard of this. Thank you, sir.

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Yet ANOTHER reason to love this channel....I did NOT know about this incident! Outstanding....phenomenal work, again! On to the next video!

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I love Corfu. It’s beautiful. I was there at an interesting time, when Greece was trying to get into the NATO. The beaches are amazing but try to get to the historic sites all around the island.

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You were there when Greece was trying to get into Nato? How old are you? (Greece joined nato in 1952) I think i can guess what you were doing there in those "interesting times". Hello from Greece! 😊

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As a historian, all I can say is “BRAVO!” Your channel is always interesting. Your topics always well researched. I wish most historical documentaries were as good as yours: most aren’t.

[@thecooky4944]

I do enjoy the pieces of forgotten history but you share on your growing up during the Cold war I particularly enjoyed your content about the early days of the Cold war would like to see more of that content enjoy your day and thank you very much

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

We expect to keep producing many more Cold War episodes. kzbin.info/aero/PLSnt4mJGJfGg6-RjePgeLdrt7bu4nIG4e

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Really really good‼️👍👍👍 I had no idea this ever took place. You are my “favorite” history channel.

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Beginning of the weekend, cup of coffee and the History Guy. Don't get much better than this. :)

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This could never happen today, as one must apply years in advance to arrange availability of a RN ship

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Well done and enjoyable.

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The "Cold War" Has really never went away...Thanks very much...Great job as always...!

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I never read about this in all my years thinks for expanding my knowledge.

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A remarkable tale completely unknown to me before now. Thank you.

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Fascinating story History Guy! Well done, as usual. Thanks

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"The Durrells in Corfu" on MASTERPIECE on PBS is one pre-WWII characterization of the iconic island, and an excellent series.

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Smart move tying your content to advertise for the cruise. I look forward to more videos on this part of the world. Maybe something involving Dubrovnik soon? As an aside I spent some time in Tirana in 1999 with the Army (when we were dealing with Serbia) and I must say the mountains are rugged and beautiful.

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May I suggest an episode on the first cross-country truck drivers? The life involved with it is fascinating.

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Every time I watch one of your videos, I learn something. Thanks for all the hard work.

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Wow wouldn't it be nice to go on that cruise with the History Guy👍

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Love these video's, so much information and background and narrated in an easy to follow format. Having visited the area and fortress remains of the fortresses and battlements of Weiyuan / Humen, Guangdong, China several times. How about a video of the First and Second Opium Wars. The old Chinese Bronze cannons of the First Opium War, and the subsequent upgrade to the much better German Krupp cannons etc. The fortresses, gun emplacements, Krupp cannons and remains still much in evidence today.

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I love your topics, pacing and narrative. You make learning the historical footnotes quite enjoyable.

[@madmodder123]

Awesome video as always, I love it when you cover WWII and post-WWII topics

[@TheYoyozo]

I can’t believe that the ship didn’t sink and that more lives were lost. I had never heard of this. Thank you for your video.

[@stevendeatley4878]

cool bit of History,first thing I watched this morning.that mine sure hammered that ship.

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I would like to hear a detailed description of how the civil war came around and first shots fired and the meaning and happenstance is behind the creation of the national anthem and that kind of thing. Because it seems a lot of people have a lot of misconceptions on why the Civil War happened. Thank you and thank you for all these little videos they're fascinating

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Sean Athair sorry about my poor diction. national anthem, fort McHenry war of 1812. Civil war hard to understand because history is written by the winners, or the politically correct. A cowboy movie The Santa Fe trail , provides some food for thought and a primer to doing some of your own research on events leading to the conflict.

[@stansinclair5521]

Sean Athair National Anthem , war of 1812, Fort McHenry. American Civil War, 1862. A good primer for causes is an old cowboy movie called The Santa Fe trail. Watch carefully and then do some research into; John Brown, Churches in New England shipping guns to bushwhackers in Kansas. Jay Hawkers . Concessions made by the Republic of Texas in order to join the Union. The beat down in the Senate. It will be like going down the rabbit hole to find out what kind of things were going on before the nation went to war against ....

[@-.Steven]

Those Albanian reparations 50 years later reminded me that Germany paid its last payment of WWI per the treaty of Versailles in 2010. Just goes to show that all wars truly are bankers wars. Thank you History Guy!

[@sabotabby3372]

Hoxha: everybody's a revisionist except me *leans back*

[@superboss1715]

He had balls bigger then your head

[@madeirabchmike]

Have you ever had a video about the Albanian Greece conflict in the same time frame?

[@drsolar]

I have not watched your channel in a while. Thank you as always

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Thanks for another great video, History Guy!

[@HappyJackBass]

Excellent stuff, as always. Keep them coming ...

[@magatica05]

Could you do a video on the Rugby team from Uruguay that had a plane crash in the Andes and how they survived after given for dead? Great videos... I'm catching up

[@richardgithens1960]

I had never heard of this before. Great presentation as always HG.

[@sfperalta]

I must admit I was mostly ignorant of the existence of Corfu until seeing the lovely PBS series The Durrells in Corfu. Funny that this island has become such a travel destination for Brits given the past regional strife. Thanks for the fascinating history lesson! It just goes to show how WW2 and the Cold War that followed really did impact every tiny corner of the globe.

[@macarde10]

As a suggestion for a future video, i would love to see your take on the basques and the part basque descendants played in declaring independence from Spain through out Latin America. Maybe even a little history of the basques in the states. Thank you for your videos and content. I grew up with fond memories of July 4th parades and the vets from both world wars marching and chatting with us as we sat on the curb. Your videos rekindled my love of history that those men put in me. Books have begun to reappear in my family room, thank you. Eagerly looking forward to more:)

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First video I’m happy to see an ad at the beginning.. was hoping you wouldn’t be demonetized like so many other great history channels on KZbin.

[@DieselxRobot]

Please make a video about the thousands of bunkers scattered around Albania

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Those were an interesting legacy of Hoxha's. We will have more episodes regarding Albania.

[@JimmyJamesJ]

History usually shows that all parties involved in conflict share some guilt. I heard a history professor state that history is not about good against bad but usually good against good or bad against bad. Truth is always somewhere in between each parties interpretation of events. Good video.

[@georget8008]

I am Greek but it's the first time that i hear of the incident. Late 40's was a very tough period for Greece. A civil war had already started. Communist insurgents supported by the communist regimes of Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia against the internationally recognised and democratically elected government of Greece. I think the incident is related to the civil war.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

It was, at least indirectly, related to the Greek Civil War in many ways. I talk more about the Greek Civil War itself in this episode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIqUgXyNZt9poMk

[@georget8008]

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel hi HG. I saw the episode of the Greek civil war. Very good! Some suggestions for topics that may be interesting and refer to that period: 1. The George Polk assassination. It would be interesting to know the american side. 2. December 1944 Athens

[@robertrousseaux1059]

History as I do the dishes , works for me. Thank you sir.

[@franknicholson6108]

I was born in 1952 and I didn't even know about the incident. But as a Viet Nam vet the same old shit happends all too often at the time. Thanks for the informative and honest account. I will definately continue to watch and learn. One is never too old to stop learning. Thank You.

[@MrTTar]

I only just got round to watching this, despite it being in my "watch later" release since upload. I'm British and my father frequently travelled to Corfu between the late 1960s and late 1980s. He's previously mentioned to me how tour guides would take tourist parties over to Albanian beaches (which he described as the more beautiful in Europe) for periods of a few hours. I've always been fascinated by that given it was during the Cold War, but even more so given the context provided by this video

[@hightea2546]

Thanks for saying more history,, always interesting 🤔

[@Me2Lancer]

This is a poignant reminder of the hazards mines represent in coastal waters. Having patrolled the shoreline of Vietnam that risk was never far from our thoughts. As for Bosnia, glad the situation has stabilized. We now have former Bosnian neighbors.

[@ccutts]

I remember one of my late uncles had been in the RN during the corfu incident. He had been on mine laying submarines and he with other volunteers were all the men the navy could scrape together with mine experience early in the incident. They used a Greek fishing boat and went into Albanian where they managed to net a mine and while him and another member of crew were at the stern while an attempt at the bows was made to disarm the mine. The mine ether through accident or anti handling device exploded and my uncle and the other member of the crew at stern where the only 2 survivors.

[@russwoodward8251]

A Fascinating piece of history. Thanks.

[@rvasquez8057]

Great history by a great story teller..... Keep up the outstanding work.

[@petemayer4450]

Hello, history guy I am also a history buff and a fan of aviation.I am also Canadian so I wonder if you would do a spot on the Avro Arrow. It's story is full of intrigue and mystery that you might enjoy. Thanks very much and keep up the good work.

[@donguiddodilozzo1906]

Dear History Guy, I just love your episodes, so instructive and of course so well documented. It just so appear that you nay have some passion for the subject :-) Love it and keep it up !

[@scottabc72]

When looking at international relations/incidents its usually good to assume from the start that both parties are at least partly culpable.

[@ccga3359]

My father served on HMS Leander during the Corfu Channel Incident. He was assigned the task of recovering bodies aboard one of the ships. He said that dead were fused to the ladders down below. The worst scene he had ever experienced in his life, including the prior 5 years served at sea in wartime.

[@lnchgj]

You might look into the loss of American aircraft and airman during the cold war. The CCCP knocked down more then just one U2, but many aircraft on patrol including fighters and bombers, and caused over 130 US causalities if memory serves. Keep up the good work. You should be required viewing in every American history classroom!

[@jameshanes2346]

11.5% like to view ratio is the largest I have seen. love your channel.

[@heathenmicaella1429]

As always, liking before watching

[@darrenbrashaw8409]

I went on holiday to Corfu in 1989 and found a memorial to the sailors lost in 1946. We also took a boat trip along the channel, the skipper took us out to the middle from where you could see machinegun posts every 200yds or so allong the shore, after a couple of mins he said we had to go back or they would send patrol boats out. At lunchtime everyday there was a number of explosions that the locals told us were artillery "just to let us know they were there".

[@superboss1715]

God for them. Tgey made it clear to you

[@drunkenblacklocustbushcraf2857]

All I could think of was Coach's Albania study song on Cheers the whole time. I'll have look it up, give it a listen and then watch this again.

[@3nigma379]

Should do a video on kawakaze the japanese destroyer that served in all three axis navys, IJN Kawakaze, the japanese destroyer that served in all three axis navy’s at one point or another. Built by japan as kawakaze given up to italy after ww1 and named Audace. It served the Italians between the wars and was capture by the Germans after italian surrender and named TA120. She ambushed and sunk in action by two british destroyers while laying mines.

[@eibhlinni3598]

Hope the cruise is going well..I went to check it out and discovered your all aboard..maybe next time .. thank you for a great channel

[@perihelion7798]

History, like science, is always evolving. Nothing we know is final truth. That's why it's so fascinating.

[@warren286]

History is like a puzzle, except sometimes the pieces are hidden by one side or the other.

[@olly2027]

How can science evolve If it’s in the past?

[@perihelion7798]

@@warren286 True enough, and some pieces are just missing from our database.

[@perihelion7798]

@@olly2027 Science is not in the past. Everything is in the present. Even Newtonian physics gets tweaked.

[@lindsaygraham5687]

Propaganda disinformation history is what is brainwashed into our heads. A person often needs to do their own research to find the truth, or find a reliable honest source. I would recommend doing internet research and also The Barnes Review, an excellent history magazine.