The TRUE Thoughts of Countries Occupied By Nazi Germany: What the General Public Believed

[@TheFront]

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[@HollywoodMarine0351]

Error at 11:56. It was American Office of Strategic Services (OSS), not American Special Forces. You need to revise your video.

[@fuqupal]

Qusiling (pronounced quizling) wasn't hanged. He was shot. A bullet in the heart and then one in the skull to make sure he was dead. At Akershus fortress in Oslo, Norway.

[@realtsarbomba]

Why is Austria and Romania not included? For all intents and purposes both nations were under nazi occupation, there's also a case in point to be made about nazi occupation of it's former allies when Italy, Hungary, Slovakia after their governments decided to seek a separate peace with Allies and to a degree even Croatia and Finland had parts of their area under nazi occupation.

[@C.A._Old]

*What About Napoleon Era?*

[@C.A._Old]

Alternative History - 7 Hours War did Earth Surrender Real Life History - 7 Hours War Did Denmark Surrender - BASED...

[@WhyIsYoutubeSoTerrible]

You should have noted that Norway unbanned the death penalty specifically to execute Quisling and then banned it again

[@SiPakRubah]

That's how much the people hated him, lol

[@SverigeNorge04]

That's not true, it was always an option to use the death penalty in wartime, even before the war. Not just Quisling was executed, 30 Norwegians were executed. The death penalty was abolished in peacetime in 1950, 5 years after Quisling was executed, and it was fully banned over 30 years after the last execution, so no, that is a myth.

[@BaconLover100]

based

[@anthonydoyle7370]

@@SverigeNorge04 Tusen tak.

[@sirjohndough8575]

Good job. However, Reinhard Heydrich were killed in the outskirts of Prague, NOT in Lidice. That village were made a scape goat by the Nazi regime, when Heydrich died from the infection in his wounds. The´assassins´ were Czech soldier, trained by the SOE.

[@Someone111ify]

So the Czech government in exile paid their price for foolishness.

[@sirjohndough8575]

Actually no, that was seated in London and had not that much power over what was going on. The operation were given the go ahead from them but everything else were SOE. Co-ordinatiopn with te resistance movement as to the logistics. It was the Czech people who paid the full price for Heydrichs death. But considering that he were considered Himmlers `brain`behind the Holocaust as well as the SD and RSHA organizations: He was called in German "HHhH" i.e. Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich, Himmlers brain is named Heydrich.

[@mikeypeinado383]

@@sirjohndough8575actually no xD heydrich was the Freemasons Nightmare he shut down so many lodges so quick he became highest prize target

[@Niektolentak]

One was Czech an the second was Slovak

[@wolfmauler]

Dr. Gebhardt killed Heydrich, on Himmler's orders and with Hitler's knowledge. Too much of Reinhardt's "ambition" and the contents of the files he kept on the Führer and Reichsführer SS had been fed to them. He was right as rain until Himmler flew Gebhardt in and left Heydrich in his "care"... This was confirmed by Himmler's adjutant, Karl Wolff in the 1980's.

[@angusmacdonald7187]

In high school I had a friend whose father came from Trondheim, Norway. His father had been a teen during the war. At 14, he joined the Resistance as a spotter, warning if Germans were nearby. He almost quit when he saw a train derailed, leaving dozens dead, but persevered. After the war, he moved to the US. My friend has returned to Trondheim many times to meet up with the rest of his family. All the stories about his father, however, came from those Norwegian relatives; his father died when he was 10 years old, still a relatively young man.

[@KeepItSimpleSailor]

My mother was a young child in Holland during WW2. To the day she died she hated the Nazis with every ounce of her soul. She particularly hated Gestapo.

[@mmiYTB]

13:40 Heydrich was assasinated in Prague (by the Czechoslovak para soldiers sent from Britain). The village Lidice was destroyed as an act of reprisal, picked on a stupid but innocent letter to one of Lidice's women.

[@johnryder1713]

Groups of French Teens would walk the streets of Paris with long hair, loose jackets and tight trousers in a reversal of German military styles and walk into cafes with bicycle pumps on their belts with they hung up with the Germans holsters

[@bouchacourtthierry8506]

Les Zazous : and they used to listen Jazz that was prohibed until libération 1944

[@johnryder1713]

@@bouchacourtthierry8506 Thanks I couldn't find it

[@arthas640]

I'm at least 40% sure they still do

[@johnryder1713]

@@arthas640 Don't worry, I seen them stranger attired than that!

[@xenamorphwinner7931]

As s Lithuanian I believe that our population during the nazi occupation was split like this: 10% active collaborators, 85% passive, 5% actively resisted. This imbalance led to such crimes as “Lietūkis” and that 90% of jewish population being exterminated. At the same time we were one of the few not to form an SS legion (which you could have mentioned) and several villages were burnt by the nazis along with several other atrocities, reprisals and repressions, that by 1943 everyone waited to see who will win ( Soviets or Nazis) and will fight against the victor, while expecting western support. So I kinda have a repentance feeling about the period of 1941-1943, but also think we suffer from occupation.

[@mindoffisch]

as a pole speaking from personal experience, in schools, especially in eastern europe, they often don’t teach us about attrocities commited by our own nations. Ukrainians aren’t taught about the crimes they committed against jews, we aren’t educated on the crimes we committed in the interwar period against belarusians, ukrainians and lithuanians, and im confident to say that the baltics aren’t that different. whilst you definitely know that your country committed war crimes, it’s not like you can easily point out several cities where these massacres happened. best part is, it’s been like this ever since the soviets took over, and hasn’t changed since.

[@xenamorphwinner7931]

@@mindoffisch yeah, you definitely right on this one.

[@toughspitfire]

There were many individual German soldiers who became very liked by the locals of the areas they occupied, and in many cases returned to live at these places after the war ended and were welcomed back.

[@tiernanwearen8096]

Do you want any stories of such? I can't imagine it happened in Poland or the USSR

[@Zeitgeschichte1]

@@tiernanwearen8096 bruh the Civilians of the USSR were glad that the Germans liberated them from the Stalin regime, don’t act dumb! Stalin killed 10 million Ukrainians even before the war has started, that’s why they welcomed German soldiers with open arms! Yes, there was a brutal ukrainian SS unit led by a guy named Kaminski who murdered and massacred Russian Jews and partisans but no civilians!

[@somenon-human0267]

Go learn something about lebensraum and how germans wanted to achieve it in the east

[@Zeitgeschichte1]

@@somenon-human0267 you are clearly the one with 0 knowledge!

[@toughspitfire]

@tiernanwearen8096 Yeah to honest most of the stories tend to come from Western Europe and even North America. My Grandpa worked with a German vet who was a POW in Canada during the war. Dude literally lost everything and everyone in Germany and just couldn't bare to stay and came back. He had a happy ending though he ended up marrying the sister of a Canadian war vet and lived the rest of his life in peace near Niagara Falls.

[@jakubaubrecht1397]

13:44 Heydrich was killed in Prague not Lidice

[@TheFront]

Our mistake, thank you for pointing this out. Really will be working hard to tighten up our fact checking system in the coming weeks and months.

[@HollywoodMarine0351]

@@TheFront another error made at 11:56 by mentioning “American Special Forces” instead of “Office of Strategic Services” (OSS).

[@ciso4859]

@@TheFront Also, the ressistance wasnt "Czech". The assasination was done by one slovak and one czech fighter on behalf of the czechoslovak exile government.

[@competitionglen]

As an Aussie, I feel a personal feeling to North Africa , Crete Malaya and New Guinea. This was a brilliant video covering many smaller nations who suffered under Axis aggression. Thank you. Really enlightened.

[@michaelhorning6014]

Australia's contribution to the Allies was incredible, especially in proportion to its population and economy. Aussie soldiers were considered among the best of the Allies man for man.

[@user-McGiver]

Crete remembers the Aussie and the Kiwi warriors too...

[@brokenbridge6316]

WWII 's influence will be felt forever

[@willyvereb]

Depends on your definition but I sure hope not. Albeit some aspects will take a long while to disappear.

[@mmaedits2002]

All of history. Colonialism, slavery everything

[@trentonking764]

I really dont care

[@TwilightGoatHerder]

Not really the consequences (because now Germans are one of the big bros of NATO and UE and they are ashamed of what Hitler's ideology did) but it shows really well what can happens in terms of war, alliances, geopolitics, cruelty, etc...

[@HistoryHustle]

Interesting overview. Only criticism I have is about the usage of pictures. I assume the author makes use of an external editer? For example: when talking about Case White in Yugoslavia there is a picture of Case White in Poland (1939 German invasion). There are other examples too. Apart of that, great content as always.

[@XYZ-eo8um]

I think this film is an important one. As a Pole I often met opinions in the internet that German occupation of Poland was similar to the one in France, claims about Nazi brutality and war crimes, along the deaths of Poles in the Holocaust (important note, many ethnic Poles were sent to concentration camps as political prisoners), are the result of communist propaganda, that Nazis never were against Slavs, only against communists, and that Poland would be better off fully collaborating with Nazis, as it would gain territories from the conquered Soviet Union. There's many more, and some of those opinions come from my nationals. So as you can see, some people are eager to falsify the history of WW II even today, building a false narrations that pleases some nationalists and right wingers.

[@liamneilson5831]

Who’s falsifying what ? How do you live in Poland and still manage to bag nationalists when it’s the only thing keeping your country safe

[@nathantorresstanevil6958]

Trust me when I say NS is the side you really want. No it is not the lesser of 2 evils, it is the good vs the bad.

[@bouchacourtthierry8506]

I am French : the German occupation was 10 X worst in Poland that in France : the Germans wanted to erase slavic population in order to conquer Est territories ... I have a lot respect for polish people.

[@XYZ-eo8um]

@@bouchacourtthierry8506 you know, I've read that for harbouring Jews French in occupied territories were mostly fined financially, while Poles for the same thing were arrested and executed, along with their neighbors as 'associates'. Yet, some people have nerve to claim that it isn't true, and it's result of communist propaganda.

[@doomhippie6673]

Heydrich was killed in Prague. Lidice was chosen to be made an example of. The place is well worth visiting to remember what German occupation meant. As a German history teacher I often go on study trips to Prague with my students. And I make sure we visit Lidice.

[@Moravian_Mf]

Wasn't Lidice chosen because there was found a radio or whatever you call it in there?

[@Masaryk28.10.]

​@@Moravian_Mfno that was Ležaky

[@diooverheaven6561]

I am from Poland and i knew one great old man who sadly passed away he was a child during the war and he didn't talk much war and i didn't ask him(altought after he heard i was interested in ww2 he gave me one of his books about Enigma) but one thing that i remember from him is that he could tell you about what he remembered (and he was living in Będzin same as me, so city that was devastated during war, before war half citizens were jewish afterwar less than 1% was jewish, there were many terrible stories and best example would be "diary of Rutka Laskier") but one thing he wouldn't was his father, he would say "he was a terrible man". It may not be a story to how occupation was from my experience but i just wanted to share it and say that it is scary to think what his father did if he was worst thing he remembered from the war.

[@lisbetsoda4874]

Polish have always been very antisemitic as much as the Russians

[@dr.virus1295]

I never thought that the countries the Soviets annexed - the Baltics, Belarus & Ukraine - would have welcomed the Germans at first, then realized they had traded one tyrannical regime for another.

[@Joshua-fi4ji]

I know it goes completely against Nazi ideology and they were confident they'd win regardless, but if they entered the USSR as liberators, rather than exterminators, they'd have enjoyed mass support from occupied countries and Russia itself. Germany's treatment towards Slavs and aggressive war of extermination really turned people unhappy with the USSRs regime into devoted patriots. People in the Baltics especially fought for independence for years after the WW2 ended, but there was no chance of getting independence without outside support. The culture in these countries is largely closer to German than Russian and Germany would have found loyal allies had they not been so brutal and oppressive towards them.

[@dr.virus1295]

@@Joshua-fi4ji Now that's one alternate history idea of how Germany wins WW2.

[@Joshua-fi4ji]

@@dr.virus1295 I'm not saying they'd win, since their economy was in shambles and reliant on looting and the momentum of war to keep it afloat. Plus, they still held and carried out the discriminatory policies towards Jews, Gypsies, etc and these are a key component of the Nazi identity. But it's a scenario where they'd possibly be able to defeat the USSR.

[@dr.virus1295]

@@Joshua-fi4ji Thus winning the war against the Soviets before the awful Russian winter that pushed the Germans back to Berlin. The USSR capitulates, Germany turns its attention back to the UK & now at war with the US, they focus everything on taking the UK.

[@Jstebb97]

The Slavic countries did welcome the Germans as liberators, but the Germans took Partisan resistance attacks out on civilians because of the few who gave them aid. Later even Himmler said the reaction was maybe a bit much. There were whole Waffen divisions of different Slavic nationalities. People forget some people supported the liberation and people who also supported the liberation. Just depends on who you rather live under. The war started when the British and French declared war to protect a country that didn't get liberated till 1989.

[@arthurmosel808]

I noticed that thr French aid in the Nazi roundup of the Jews was not commented on. They were among the greatest enablers.

[@poonoi1968]

5:40 Quisling were executed by firing squad, not by hanging.

[@mikemines2931]

Too quick.

[@poonoi1968]

@@mikemines2931 agree, he should've been forced to live out his life in solitary confinement without toilet paper or toothbrush

[@mikemines2931]

@@poonoi1968 and spam every day for dinner.

[@poonoi1968]

@@mikemines2931 cold spam and fermented smegma pellets

[@citizenVader]

You forgot the Danish navy shuttled itself during the days of the German occupation.

[@annehersey9895]

Really great thumbnail of Europe in WWII! This would be a great introduction for someone who didn’t know detailed WWII history. I’m sure a lot of people who haven’t studied it think the Nazi’s treated all Europeans the same which as this video shows just isn’t at all true!

[@lmaocetung]

13:44 that's a major mistake. Heydrich was assassinated in Prague. The sad fact about Lidice is that it had nothing to do with the assassination, and the destruction of Lidice and it's people was caused by a misinformation. This is easily searchable at atleast Wikipedia

[@alandesouzacruz5124]

Excellent documentary Bro

[@SergeantJ]

hi my grandma has a short story of when she was a little kid in nazi occupied denmark so she was just playing in the garden and this german soldier came up to her and said Ein kleines Mädchen - my grandma thinks its cause he had a daughter back in germany - rip grandma love you.

[@Hackenschmidt.]

Many don't know the last men fighting in Berlin were Frenchman. The ss Charlemagne

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

Crusade agaisnt Bolshevism

[@liamneilson5831]

And Swedes, great book by a swedish ss soldier called twilight of the gods, takes you from the eastern front to fighting inside Berlin and escaping capture by the soviets

[@jimmyhoffa6192]

Great coverage, especially of the super complex Baltic situation

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

An informative and thrilled historical coverage video about inhumanitarian deals and civil wars occurred behind former military mobilizes of both sides during WW2....thank you ( the front line) channel for sharing

[@stefanradebach2889]

For Vidkun Quisling i will criticize both his name pronunciation because it actually pronounced like "Kuisling" and not "Kishling" as well as the fact that his party was not called National Socialist but Nasjonal Samling which is Norwegian for National Gathering. Otherwise good video.

[@Panther_004]

I liked the video, but yes, you mentioned slovakia, but only an uprising. We had a lot of troubles with germany, and a lot of dummyheads like Tiso or Tuka. From our city Poprad was the 1. train to infamous polish city Osvietsin/Auschwitz (srry im not polish, but slovakian). BUT its really nice vid because u talked about fact that some "uninformed people about ww2 in europe" dont know, so thats the strong side about this vid, thx

[@murrayeldred3563]

Always enjoy THE FRONT.....is the presenter speaking with an Oz or SAFRICAN accent?

[@Mr.DiughGames]

Both. He's Australian with South African roots.

[@murrayeldred3563]

TITO= GOOD SIDE AND NOT SO GOOD SIDE= BUT in the end of the analysis a= TOP MAN.

[@tomekkovi]

Baltic troops (mainly Latvians) actively fought against Polish insurgents during the Warsaw uprising as Hiwis :(

[@DukeofDenmark2]

You are describing Denmark, a little too Nazi friendly.

[@jerrydeem8845]

I'm 66 and my maternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Norway. I never knew my grand dad, but my grandma refused to talk about this period of time in her home country. It must have been pretty bad

[@grandadmiral1874]

I am Czech. I see this video and instantly want see part about Czechoslovakia. Ok ok... WAIT! Hydrych was kiled in Lidice - WTF? He was kiled in Prag!

[@Masaryk28.10.]

Yea there is a even a fucking movie about it

[@andrewelie8687]

Belgium's linguistic divisions existed from the time of the Congress of Vienna, ending the Napoleonic wars.

[@michieln.1159]

Actually 🤓 the division existed since revolutionary France annexed our lands and Nappie made it so only french speaking citizens could hold office or high ranks in the military. This created a liberal elite french speaking part and a conservative dutch speaking part (those who couldn't learn/speak french). The Congress of Vienna and forced unification of the low lands surely made it worse yes. And it would only get worse and worse from there.

[@collaborisgaming2190]

15:29 Baltic States weren't independent until 1919-21. they were in the Russian Empire since the 1790s when Poland Lithuania was Gobbled up by the 3 Emperor's league, Austria, Russia and Prussia (eventually formed the German Kaiserreich in German unification in the 1870s)

[@C.A._Old]

Alternative History - 7 Hours War did Earth Surrender Real Life History - 7 Hours War Did Denmark Surrender - BASED...

[@Mr.DiughGames]

Another Banger video!

[@theawesomeman9821]

Could you please make a video on Subhash Chandra Bose and his partisans? Indian academics paint him has a hero and myter but in reality him and his partisans were war-criminals who supported the brutal Imperial Japanese and Nazi Germans. He also made life miserable for the peoples of Burma and the ethnic minorities of N.E. India. In India, they down play the atrocities him and his men did. In many cases, they just don't bring up the fact that he supported the Axis. I want Indians to be informed of who and his men really were.

[@MykhailoSlupko]

Oh.. I remember how in 2020 there were fans for him..

[@jadijozsef5974]

Hungary should also have been mentioned, since it was occupied by Germany despite being an ally

[@Fella12366]

Because of when the Soviets reached Hungary

[@alexpostma645]

My grandfather thit survive the bomming of Rotterdam and the hungerwinter as a 9 years old child ad the end of the war On my father side I had 1 great grandfather that was part of the NSB he got shot and killed by the resitance his wife and people in to hiding in the same house never cought and the others on my father side also had people in to hiding and never cought as well On my mother side 1 great grandfather was taken by the Gestapo and taken to the Oranje Hotel near the Walsdorpervlakte as he had guns and foodstamps in his house and for that he was send towards a camp he luckly escaped from the train during transport and survived and the others the grandfather also had guns and foodstamps he was never cought and his doughter was distrebuting underground news papers and they never knew it from each other during the war tho as they where part of difrant groups during the war And i always had great respect for what my family members thit for others during the war by risking there lives for others they didt not know ad all

[@MykhailoSlupko]

My great-grandfather was also in Rotterdam during the Second World War as part of forced labor from the east (he was born in Khmelnytskyi), and when the Netherlands was liberated by the Americans, he and other workers were put in a row and told if any of them wanted to go with them to the USA, they could get out of line It is interesting that no one left the ranks and later the great-grandfather was returned to the Soviet Union, but first he was placed in a special camp for displaced persons and then he was taken to the Red Army to finish off the Japanese in Manchukuo. When he reached his destination by truck, the hostilities ended, and he was still able to return home.

[@kennkoala]

12:00 Can't believe you forgot Nancy Wake.

[@thelastmohican741]

Documentary is ok for short one.....but I was be fully surprised in Yugoslav part that you dont say even one word for Croats and Ustashe movement who fully participated in Nazy movement... Is even survive to those days in modern Croatia..

[@johnryder1713]

The People of Norway had to improvise paper boots as the Germans even seized theirs on them

[@johnryder1713]

King Christian of Denmark showed such true defiance, wearing his coat of arms which was star shaped to show sympathy to the Jews and the Germans couldn't stop wearing it

[@ilnigromante666]

Many on occupied Europe colaborated merrily with the germans. And even the vast majority of those who didn't detested the resistence movements.

[@garypeterson1971]

24:34 is a shot from Schindler’s list

[@redhutsgaming3067]

The British and French giving Leopold the third shit is really a shit show since they were the ones who abandoned him and his peoples after requesting help multiple times. And just calling them out for failing to support them while the Belgians were outnumbered and stretched across the frontline.

[@michieln.1159]

Yeah its sad how I always been told in secondary school that Leopold III was a coward and surrendered as soon as the Germans put foot on our land but without any context. With context he did what any good king would have done. Because Leo III wasn't keen on sending his men into a meat grinder the British and French perceived it has him being a coward while he was the only one of the government who refused to flee to France. The man's intentions were good but i guess every story gets twisted and turned throughout history.

[@arrjay2410]

Horrific as WWII was for the people who were occupied, those events have made us more aware and sensitive acts of ethnic cleansing and the excesses of Dictatorships. The interventions in the Balkans and Western support for Ukraine, as well as countless other positive events would have not happened without the memory of the Nazi Occupations.

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

No it hasn't. If it did, you would return to the monarchies which protected your forefathers from all manner of vice and invaders

[@BeingFireRetardant]

​@@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese The insanity of your pro monarchist sentiment is both hilarious and yet remarkable for its deeply profound stupidity. Not only are your lies intellectually dishonest, but so strangely anachronistic. Yet you gain nothing from it but ridicule. Maybe you should wave the flag and carry the torch for slavery as your next cause celeb, I hear it was super popular in the 1700's. Perhaps your outdated sentimentality could gain traction there...

[@Cthulhuwarlord]

@@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheesebecause there totally weren’t monarchies that allowed vices and failed to defend their people

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

@@Cthulhuwarlord The Tsardom was the last Christian Empire. It took western Atheism to overthrow the Eastern Orthodox Tsardom and remove the Esatern Orthodox Church from rule in Russia. The Tsar was betrayed like Christ by his people and by outside forces who weaponized them. The Kaiser was betrayed as well. People forsake their monarchies and they have forsaken God. They have delivered themselves up as lambs to slaughter to venture capital and financial capital.

[@Mortablunt]

Remind me how helping the Ukrainian Nazis today is somehow a good thing? No propaganda, no URINGEformtalking points, actual facts. Tell me how it’s good to back a country that has killed hundreds of thousands of its own people for speaking a language. Tell us how it’s good to support a country that is a single party. Ethel nationalistic dictator ship that runs like a stopper which murders dissidents freely at home and commit acts of terrorism against civiliand abroad. Explain why it’s a good thing to defend a state, which explicitly refers to SS collaborators as its heroes.

[@jaysonchilvers8271]

Should do a vid on the foreign legion. Did they split like france?

[@t3ddyt3ddy]

There are so many gabs in this narrative, primarily caused by a lack of understanding in the historical record that makes this piece rather irrelevant to understanding what really happened in the Nazi occupied countries and territories of Europe. Let me give you only a few examples. During WWII, the Netherlands contributed around 75,000 personnel directly to the German effort, 22000-25000 with the Waffen SS alone, the rest distributed to other military formations, Kriegsmarine, Luftwaffe, and the Heer. This included volunteers such as truck drivers, mechanics, secretaries, doctors, nurses, etc.. In Poland, after the complete Nazi occupation, many Poles with supposedly remote German ancestry claimed Volksdeutsche status far from what had been estimated previously swelling their ranks by three or four times. This does not include Polish people of Kaszubian, Silesian, or Gorale descent who were unilaterally declared to be ethnically German and thus subjected to conscription into Hitler's war effort(Side note: the Polish government in exile and underground granted these peoples an exemption allowing them to serve without recrimination.). These were just a couple of examples of what is missing here. There is much more to be said about the Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Norway, Denmark, Slovakia, Belgium, Poland, Belosussia, the Netherlands and the Baltic Reupublics in the War that would require a book to be written, something I am not prepared to undertake.

[@revert6417]

Partisans were the only resistance movement who liberated their own people.

[@debicadude]

Wow so YT is changing Germany to Nazi in the cc. As if Nazi were some space spiecies that invaded and brainwashed the Germans 😂😂😂 It was Germany

[@Whydoiecenneedthis]

Life in Soviet occupied Poland 1939?

[@hlsailorhlsailor9838]

Really sucked. I've been to Katyn.

[@tmesisskewomorph7491]

life in Soviet occupied Poland after 1945 controlled by Bolshevik sweJ who changed their German names to Polish

[@julianr4375]

​@@tmesisskewomorph7491are we still blaming soviet crimes on jews?

[@user-mz8in4dq3b]

Life in Polish occupied Western Belarus and Western Ukraine?

[@Moravian_Mf]

​@@user-mz8in4dq3b"Oh, would you look at that! This country has been through terrible things and wants people to recognise that it wasn't just a Nazi occupation but Soviet too so the Soviets won't be falsely painted as some heroes! Let me make it about something else!"

[@jaysonchilvers8271]

What about occupied italy, the channel islands, luxembourg and russia?

[@butters1984]

Good video, kinda sucks you left out Hungary though.

[@gloverfox9135]

Hungary wasn’t occupied by the Germans, they willingly joined the Axis.

[@JohnSmith-lo8cn]

It seems none of the axis countries are in this video. Makes sense.

[@butters1984]

@@JohnSmith-lo8cn Hungary tried to leave the Axis and was invaded by Germany.

[@JohnSmith-lo8cn]

@@butters1984 changing sides at the end (like most german allies did) doesnt change the fact axis are not in the video and rightly so. Maybe he should make another video about resistance in axis countries.

[@ottovonpoptart5480]

@@butters1984Your profile pic kinda makes me think you wish they didn’t try to leave the Axis.

[@Troglodyted]

Why did you avoid Romania?

[@diegomoreno7760]

This channel is the typical Wikipedia historian, it puts Denmark as collaborators when Denmark was one of the countries that most opposed the German occupation to the point that the Danish government passed laws to protect saboteurs, civilians did not collaborate with the Germans and they did everything they could to sabotage them, such as giving false information to make the Germans waste their time. In the weapons factories in Denmark, they worked as slowly as possible and sometimes they didn't even do anything and the weapons they gave to the Germans were of the worst possible quality, the government in turn protected the factory workers and civilians who constantly sabotaged the German war effort in every way possible.

[@Smokey348]

the people welcoming the germans at first in the baltic states (actually counts for every other place) DOES NOT make them eurocentric LOL. They didn't like soviet occupation simple as

[@taraldomland8657]

I think you did Norway dirty here. The Norwegian resistance was much larger then the danish. Norwegian saboteurs work in a much larger country, traversing great distances over the mountains, them destroying key operation points and industry for the Germans. Someone would even claim that the Germans would have had the atomic bomb first if it was not for Norwegian resistance. Our sailors voyaged goods over the entirety of the world, and without the Norwegian tradefleet Britain would have starved under the war. D day would not have been possible, and the Russians would not have had the material or weapons to win the war or survive. Norway had many more people fighting for the allies then Denmark too. I am not saying that Denmark did not do anything, but I just think it’s wierd that you name so much about danish resistance and not Norwegian. That you even go so far to almost only bring up the nazi troops in our country. But fun fact: many of those nazi troops joins the fascists because of a language despite going on in Norway. They were for preserving more conservative writing stile in what’s called Ny-Norsk.

[@tikkurilaboi6893]

at 9:56 i dont know why this photo was included in the belgian section, but the language you see in the background is finnish. I assume its some sort of Finnish pro-nazi rally.

[@Svoboda-1918]

12:57 we were betrayed by uk and France Munich pack (betrayer)

[@jayjay-gl4fj]

good video

[@maxtinosl7545]

My opinion though the occupation of Poland made the other occupations look like a fucking tea party

[@Randy-MacDonald]

The nazis played groups off of one another? I know another group that is quite notorious for that type of behaviour.

[@TeamCGS2005]

You mention that some Norwegians joined the Nazis but so too did Denmark, but you fail to mention this.

[@Tommysimonsen]

Some Norwegians, but all of Denmark, sure dude.

[@jadeimusprime2158]

Please edit, your comment isn't easy to understand

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

Yes. Many different ethnicities joined the Germans in the "crusade agaisnt Bolshevism"

[@gerdeanlouw4972]

Greetings from Bloem.

[@rafalganowicz1939]

None of my relatives had and have nothing good to say about Germans and Russians.

[@Mr.DalekLK]

Cóż było minęło, trzeba iść dalej a nie żyć historią

[@rafalganowicz1939]

@@Mr.DalekLK Zgadzam się, ale lubię zachować wspomnienia tego, przez co przeszli moi przodkowie. (przepraszam, że musiałem korzystać z tłumacza, mój polski jest naprawdę żenująco kiepski. Nie korzystałem z niego od bardzo dawna 😕) I do agree, but I like to keep the memories of what my ancestors went through. (sorry I had to use a translator, my Polish is really embarrassingly bad. Haven't used it a very long time 😕)

[@lisbetsoda4874]

Some of these countries have a lot of antisemitism again. So sad.

[@theunusualdispenser9474]

@@rafalganowicz1939 you writing from your apartment in berlin?

[@rafalganowicz1939]

@@theunusualdispenser9474 Berlin? Nah, the last time anyone in my family was in Berlin was during WW2 as slave labor.

[@ivan5595]

Omg burgundy flag 3:07

[@arthurmosel808]

The Soviet conduct during their initial control was ignored, This conduct was part of its attitude toward the Nazis.

[@arthurmosel808]

I was talking about the Baltic states.

[@allensacharov5424]

French birth rates increased during the war.

[@juliopulse3513]

Not a single word about the ustaše and their crimes and a very shallow aproach to the tenacious jugoslav partisan guerrilla - the most heroic and successful of all resistance movements against nazi Germany - makes this a very poor doc

[@C.A._Old]

*What About Napoleon Era?*

[@salvadormuro7346]

28 minutes?? Alright 😎 🍿

[@Tobi-ln9xr]

You forgot to mention the occupation and annexation of Austria.

[@Fella12366]

It's not "occupation", the Austrians wanted to be annexed by Germany because Austrians are German. 99% of the country wanted to join Germany at that time.

[@Tobi-ln9xr]

@@Fella12366 How do you know that? Because of footage which was broadcasted by media which was controlled by the government of Germany? Swiss are also Germans. Irish are also Brits and most of the Canadians, Australians and people of New Zealand as well. Do you think they want to be part of the UK?

[@Fella12366]

@@Tobi-ln9xr Germany doesn't spread propaganda about the war in their favour lmao it's the exact opposite. They were forced to be very apologetic after the war and learn from their mistakes. Australia, Canada and NZ are still dominions of the UK and have many links, but stay as independent states from Britain due to them having seperate cultures. Ireland isn't British as well, they were colonised by the UK for a long time but had their own language until the Brits didn't let them learn it and made them learn english. But none of this applies to Austria, as in almost every way it's just a German state that hasn't unified with Germany proper.

[@Moravian_Mf]

​@@Tobi-ln9xrHe's right. It wasn't an occupation (at first), Austrians wanted to join Germany (that's why the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye existed) The Anschluss of Austria was not opposed by most Austrians, only later when they found out how the Nazis really were, they regretted their decisions.

[@JohnSmith-lo8cn]

@@Tobi-ln9xr we know that because Austrians formed some of the most fanatical army units (fighting till the very end in 45), death camp guards and nazi regime officials throughout the war. They actively participated in war and genocide as a society on many levels.

[@HappyCappy.]

What about Luxembourg 🇱🇺?

[@mr.brokendreams9721]

Religion and Ideology has done nothing but harm to humanity over the ages. Greed and Corruption is merely an extension of Religion and Ideology imo. Maybe The Nazis wouldn't have been so atrocious if the term "Jew" or "Aryan" didn't exist.

[@maegers6729]

As an Estonian, I have met quite a handful of people who have seen the German regime, everyone of them has told me that the German regime was far better then the Soviet one. My great grandfather was conscripted by the Germans to some kind of Police Unit and a few others fought in Sinimäe, Narva and I think even regions of Ukraine?

[@juliopulse3513]

They are not good people

[@maegers6729]

@@juliopulse3513 Soviets are good?

[@juliopulse3513]

Did the Soviets kill your great grandfather?

[@maegers6729]

@@juliopulse3513 My dads sides great grandfather was sent to the gulag. Moms side I don't know.

[@juliopulse3513]

Did your great grandfather got killed in the gulag?

[@jockorabeni4618]

Wow. "The true thoughts of countries": Countries don't have thoughts but people do. And they have diverse thoughts and ideas often enough opposed to official stands as you found them in the Wikipedia. It was not 15'000 but near 35'000 Norwegians who enlisted in German units during WW II until end 1944, according to the official numbers Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS, and Organisation Todt kept. Btw, most of them might never have heard of that Aryan supremacy nonsense before joining the service. On the other hand, hatred and fear of Bolshevism and Liberalism was very widespread among the Norwegian population of the pre-war years. The Quisling government and the occupation regime exploited this for recruitment as one can learn from the rich fundus of surviving propaganda material.

[@vividnostalgia9564]

Just saw a weird commenter get deleted. Just a couple seconds ago. They have been deleted.

[@georgewilkie3580]

The French "Resistance" ?

[@arthas640]

The French Speedbump, they fought alongside the Danish Parking Lot. The French fought like Napoleons descendents rather then like Napoleon while the Danes fought off the Nazis about as hard as the Austrians did.

[@paulgottliebglatzhaar4288]

I don´t want to be nitpicking but you can not make such a video whitout mentioning the russian liberation army, the biggest collaberation army ever. At least in my opinion.

[@Polska_Edits]

Why mention West Belarus if you did not mention West Ukraine

[@chicagochopinfoundation4845]

Polanddidnot hav ecollaberatin wwithe ermy with wermaht or SS. Just5 opposite Polish Army were fought wit Abhver ewwrywere It wa diostrubutet ap0aces werthere was a fight!

[@angiek1827]

Nobody learned anything as evidenced by what is going on today in the Levant.

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

Correct. Europe would have returned to the monarchs if it learn its lesson, yet the myth of representation lives on.

[@Cthulhuwarlord]

@@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheeseew

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

@@Cthulhuwarlord Enjoy your brave new world of cosmopolitanism

[@Cthulhuwarlord]

@@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese a world with more relative peace > simping for authoritarianism

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

@@Cthulhuwarlord Monarchy - the divine rite - is not "authoritarianism". You'd have to reduce all governments down to "having authority" to have your statement make sentence. The world WAS MORE PEACEFUL under monarchy than it has been under global capitalism and Marxism. Your comment is a vehement denial of history

[@blakerobertson3945]

hi

[@vanja2565]

It seems to me like this channel is just retelling the stories from Yugoslav commie propaganda movies of the 60s=70s. Chetniks which did collaborate with germans were hunted down, tried and executed by the Yugoslav army . There is no evidence of any groups fighting with germans, it is just post war historical revisonism, like much of what partisans did in general. Serbs in general consider germans as one of their arch enemies and would hardly ever work with them, same Serbs whose fathers fought those same germans several decades prior.

[@body2811]

In matter of fact, countries under French and British colonisation supported the german in ww2 and saw them as liberators

[@Mr.DalekLK]

Well, that's gone , it's a pity that many Poles still can't come to terms with it and live with history

[@JohnSmith-lo8cn]

Its obviously hard to "come to terms" when your family was murdered, tortured, enslaved and/or lost everything. And your country completely devastated and - after allies betrayal - given to ruskies, abused and its development slowed for another 45 years. WW2 was not as long ago as some millenial and genz morons tend to think. You may not care or try to diminish this tragedy (as germans and ruskies tend to do nowadays for obvious reasons) but for most Poles it was history as close as their parents and grandparents.

[@tmesisskewomorph7491]

that is so shallow it is stupid

[@wingedhussar5528]

Wtf are you talking about? For us WW2 didn't truly end till the summer of 1989. I'm 44 and still remember how horrible the 80s were under communist occupation. Do realize that the communist government was just a bunch of Sovite toadies.

[@nerminerminerminermi]

Slovakia was an 100% and full allie to germany. This comes a bit short here. More slovaks fought for the Reich than against it. Also with the baltic states there is no doubt on which side they stood there was no anti hitlerite movement except for a very little pro soviet and communist party. Like in many of this nations in the video the biggest (sometimes only) resistence against germany came from far left communist parts of the people living there. The ordinary people were mostly neutral or pro germany to not get some troubles in any way. And the cetniks are some sort of serbian "nazis" they are a ultranationalist far right, in contrary to the partisans mostly far left atitude and general believes

[@dsodragus4616]

How was Slovakia 100% allie to Germany? As far as I know, most people didn't like Germans because they helped Hungary gain southern territories. Plus Slovaks had more resistance movements than Czechs or Austrians or Hungarians... Yes, Slovak officially allied themself with Germany but because it was 3 million state in between hell. But most of the Slovak weren't in support of Nazi Germany. More Slovaks fought for the Reich than against it? Where did you pull this information from? Trust me bro source? *Calling the Slovak state 100% full Allie to Germany is a misreading of history.*

[@Moravian_Mf]

​@@dsodragus4616They were. Though, in fact, they didn't ally with Germany because they liked them but because thanks to Germany, they gained independence. Frankly, they didn't care *that* much about southern Slovakia because they got what they wanted. Slovaks had an uprising only after they saw Germany was losing and they wanted to be on the winning side. Weirdly enough, after WW2, Czechs forgave them for the betrayal quite easily.

[@dsodragus4616]

​@@Moravian_MfI disagree. They didn't ally with Germany because they wanted independence... They allied because they had *no other choice.* It was either do what we tell you or get split between Poland and Hungary so please do NOT make this look like Slovaks wanted to do this because that's again a misreading of history. I am not saying that SOME Slovaks didn't want independence but definitely, this alliance with Germany didn't happen because of these ambitions. And about Uprising. Again. Yes, it was most probably organized by Bolsheviks but: Actually, ordinary people didn't come and die so they are on the victorious side. And they didn't come and die for ideologies. Most of the Uprising soldiers were people who stood up and were fed up with this regime. And it is important to say that partisans and resistance happened since day one on a small scale. And about the "betrayal" of Czechs...What betrayal are you talking about? The Czech did the same thing Slovaks did. Czech were little puppy that listen to Hitler and if Hitler commanded Czechs to attack Slovakia Czechs would march into Slovakia and fight. DO NOT glorify and do not be naive. There was no betrayal. Yes, Slovaks split up and created their own state but what should they do? Czech literally became part of Third Reich! You are criticising Slovaks but Czechs became part of Third Reich... What should Slovaks do? Fight whole Thrid Reich with 3 million population???

[@Moravian_Mf]

@@dsodragus4616 That's not true at all. Slovaks had a significantly large population of fascists. They got autonomy in 1936 and wanted independence, Hitler gave them the choice to betray the Czechs and join him, and they did. The Czechs never showed any pro-Nazi stances and Czech fascists were anti-nazis. Czechs fought even if they knew they wouldn't win. They lost all of their defensive borders but Bohemians and Moravians fought against the Nazis. But the Slovaks became little puppies running after daddy Hitler. Their inferiority/little brother syndrome is showing more than enough. The Czechs did not even listen to Hitler. I'm assuming you don't even know the fact Czechs held a generally positive opinion on the Jews and Hitler was anti-Jewish and anti-Slavic. Unlike the Slovaks, Czechs did not get their own state. They didn't get their own actual government, they became a Protectorate. We may have not been heroes or anything but at least we weren't backstabbing bitches like Slovaks.

[@Masaryk28.10.]

​@@dsodragus4616They betrayal us they did leaving us dont say we did the "same" thing they chosed to leave us thats called betrayel

[@J.B.29]

How come you don't mention Russia?

[@hlsailorhlsailor9838]

Russia was also an aggressor nation and continued to be an occupier of Poland through 1991

[@J.B.29]

@@hlsailorhlsailor9838 The story was about resistance to the Germans.

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

@@J.B.29 Russians collaboration with the Germans was no secrete

[@tmesisskewomorph7491]

Soviets.

[@thecatguy4301]

What is so, "far right" about National "SOCIALISM"? Say it with me, National "SOCIALISM". Socialism isn't far right. This "far right" term is so miss used by everyone, even people who should know about this. It's like, every thing that's bad is "far right" and then what is far left? Well, anything that's not "far right". Far right is anarchy. The only government in the history of the world that every got anywhere near "far right" was the U.S. government at it's founding. Then soon moved towards centralized government control. Come on folks, let's get this straight.

[@mikemines2931]

Far right these days is middle of the road common sense.

[@rodrigosantoscienceros]

Finally someone said it. Damn thing is a spectrum right= less government control vs left= more government control

[@thecatguy4301]

It's freakin crazy.

[@julianr4375]

The nazis were socialist, the opposite of free market and capitalism (right wing) and ultra nationalist

[@kungalexander829]

​@@julianr4375you know this has been debunked many times In fact the nazis hate socialism

[@-JA-]

🫢👍

[@AG26498]

The Germans should be thankful they where given a second chance. Europe is still feeling the effects of WW2 today.

[@Fella12366]

Yes the affects of the wrong side winning. Now we have mass immigration and are being replaced by foreigners

[@outlawquelshingdixienothin8893]

This is an insane comment

[@AG26498]

@@outlawquelshingdixienothin8893 labour shortage, mass immigration, over reliance on Russia.

[@outlawquelshingdixienothin8893]

@@AG26498 none of which are the Germans of ww2’s fault lmao. The consequences of democracy turning into something it’s not, late stage capitalism, and an elite that despises its own people our our issues not history. There is no labour shortage, we have the highest working populations but still enter recessions, our governments don’t allow energy projects because of green laws yet buy from Russia and EVERY SINGLE POLITICAL PARTY OF EUROPE WANTS MASS IMMIGRATION, no vote will stop it

[@robertmiller2173]

If I had to choose between the Nazis and the Communists and was unaware of the holocaust there is no doubt that I would have sided with the N's. I loathe Communism to this day! These were Russians they were Soviets, from the USSR, a Godless people with no class! And then Stalin Killed far more people than Hitler did, he made Hitler look like a Boy Scout. Both Hitler and Stalin had to be dealt to! My father fought for the 1st Echelon of the famous 20th Battalion in the 2nd NZEF, he fought in Greece, Crete, North Africa, and Italy right up to Trieste where his Tank (MK4 Sherman) and all his other mates started firing on Tito's forces as Tito was trying to take Trieste as war reparations but the Kiwi 18th, 19th, 20th armored Regiments (They got converted to Armored Regiments after being smashed at Sedi Rezegh in North Africa in Operation Crusader. Plus the Maori 28th Battalion gave Tito's Communist forces a bloody good hiding and Tito and his troops retreated out of Italy Territory.

[@Moravian_Mf]

What's so bad about being Godless? There are many atheists who are great people even without God! Saying they can't be good would be insulting. I agree with the fact that Stalin made Hitler look fcking weak but siding with the Nazis would bring no good either. Both are fcked up ideologies and neither should be allowed to even exist.

[@Niektolentak]

Heidrych was killed by Kubiš (Czech) and Gabčík (Slovak) in Prague. Plus, how could Ukrainians massacre Czechs in Eastern Galicia? No Czech has ever in history lived in Galicia. I am so tired of people refering all Czechoslovaks as just Czechs. It is annoying as hell and outright insulting.

[@Moravian_Mf]

Exactly! There was a Czechoslovak identity that was to portray both ethnicities. Czechoslovaks were not just strictly Czechs, that would make the "Slovak" in the name pointless.

[@MykhailoSlupko]

During the times of Austria-Hungary, people from different nations (Germans, Poles, Hungarians and, of course, Czechs) settled in different parts of the empire. Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the fact that Czechs and Slovaks lived in Galicia.

[@Moravian_Mf]

@@MykhailoSlupko Czech stayed mostly in their own land (Bohemian Crown), there were like 3 Czechoslovaks in Galicia, and that's being generous.

[@PredatoryQQmber]

Yet another CIA-revised 'complex history' parroting.

[@grodanboll8825]

You do realice that these occupations were not permanent. They occured because of allied actions.

[@Moravian_Mf]

What? No, the allied actions had hardly anything to do with these occupations.

[@barrymccokiner7559]

You’ve parroted everything everyone else has been told.

[@julianr4375]

What part is wrong?

[@tigertankerer]

This is called telling the history. Being origanl would mean he is telling fiction.