@Mr. Skeleton Νo they were not, these are Greek helmets Y37 made in factory in Kea . They were chosen between - Εταιρία Ελληνικού Πυριτιδοποιείου & Καλυκοποιείου (ιταλικός οίκος Maneta). - Οίκος Zeintze, Germany. - Ελληνική Βιομηχανική Ένωση. - Οίκος Ceskoslovenska Zbrojovka Brno, Czechoslovakia . - Οίκος Otto Ruben, Sweden. Small numbers of frence Adrian Μle1915, and some British MkI were also used
Greeks were very brave, definitely gave the Axis their first defeat. Though small they really fought hard against the AXIS, my hat goes off to them they perhaps saved the WORLD!
Thanks. My dad and uncles would have appreciated that. The fact is that my father was badly wounded later in Cyrenaica. He was presented with the white feathers. In those days, there was no room for cowards. If you died, retreated, were wounded or worst, lost a battle, you were a cowards. Heroes were those soldiers who only tasted victory and had no wounds. They were mostly Americans and English. The New Zealanders mainly died.
GREEKS+ITALIANS ARE BROTHERS My grandfather told me that during the war in my town, the Italians had guitars and they were singing with the Greeks and the Italians were friendly. They didn't harm anybody.
Silmarien Ingoldo Just commented to someone else that when my great grandfather(Italian) was in Greece, his solit his meals, which were rationed, with Greek children... In turn they brought him raisins, and their fishing rods so he could go fishing... He was their for quite some time, and always spoke well of the Greeks. Una razza, una facia!
Silmarien Ingoldo My great grandfather told me the opposite think, stories of him and his best friend which went On the war in world war two and Fought against The italian army which was always lunching barrages at cities. And because of the barrages he lost his best friend Because of the shell that Hit the trench with result of the Killing my great grandfather's best friend and almost killed my great grandfather
Silmarien Ingoldo I admit that today Greece and italian are allies is Because of the NATO Union but back in time in world war 2 there was no good relation between the two nations
What are you italians saying is wrong...if that is the case then why did it take so long for even the Germans to take control of the whole Greece. Even Hitler said he had a very hard time with Greece "For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death." Hitler. It is true though that the Italians did not want this war and were basically forcedto do something they did not want todo
we were counting the shots cause we didnt had enough.... we didnt had food... with nothing... we stood against the tyrany of italy and germany... PROUD TO BE GREEK !
Be sure that Greeks could have not sent a single soldiers against Italians, and they would have bee however stopped by the cold greek mountains: Italians that were sent to Greece were not trained at all and not even had mountain equipment to defent themselves against the cold.. thousands of them died for illness and frozen, and when they got the situation where the Duce took them, their morale fell to the ground with all the conseguences you can imagine..
Oh really? I am Greek and i do respect Italians , i respect Rome , as they respect us, Rome was a great empire that lasted hundreds of years , once they were the best fighters in the world , you should respect them...
My dad said the Italians were very brave soldiers. They were very racist though. The New Zealanders were called racist names by some of them. They found out what they called them and threw all the prisoners over a cliff. One a the New Zealanders, a war hero was not given the VC because of this. He had climbed up barbed wire and hung ontro the barbed wire with his teeth while thowing grenades over the top. An English major general (Brian Horrocks) said it was the bravest act he had ever seen.
@GrandeurFrancaise it's the opposite.. half of Italians are sons of Greeks because in ancient years in the south italy there were Greeks living and now there is a greek minority there since ancient years called Grico
all modern europeans would do... the people today are not comparebel with the people back then in cases of mentally and physically hardness. But let me tell you, that all can change again in just one generation. All what it needs is one big war.
@ficc2006 greeks lost the war but won the eternity. this battle of roupel and greek war of 1940 is a lesson in american books and 80 pages in world history (university) in contrast with france which is in 10 sentences. greek italian war was the first victory of the allies forces against the axis.
never happend ? are you live in moon ??? read history before you write, what never happend ?? they italians dont try to attack greece pffff??? you have no idea about history !!! we greeks not italians we are not born with a white flag in the hands and give up and fight for germany,we say oxi !!!!!no surrender!
+monk3y777 You said some useless things like going back to scool, i only said that the greeks never kicked italians.We fought for months with no important results, when the germans arrived the greek ass blown up...
What I meant is that italians were a building nation at that time, they were not a hard enemy to stop, they had few battles won in ww2, mostly against russians.. even french stopped them with 3-4 cannons set on the Alps causing them more than 2000 casualties with Paris almost occupied.. Greeks had great courage and heart, everibody knows, but, I mean, italy was not that strong empire you imagine, just a bunch of peasants hungry as hell, with no idea about invading someone else's country.
What i will hand to Italians though is the honor code they had and kept after our defeat,they admitted we were strong and weren't doing atrocities like the Germans.
First Greeks didn't have tanks they had guns and there heart second they didn't have aircraft and stuff!! just guns and there heart second no armor for greeks again just there heart and guns we HAVE HEART!!
It seems like a ridiculous explanation and without a historical basis. The attack on Greece was an invasion with 45 battalions, 380 planes and 160 tanks, the Greeks with 39 battalions managed to repel this invasion, there were strategic mistakes, a serious underestimation of the enemy and shortage of supply by the Italians. The Greeks also had problems and inefficiencies but they were fighting for their homeland. The Soviets, similarly,the year before had been kicked in the ass by the Finns!
When Mussolini ordered the invasion of Greece,he gave his Generals 12 days,they were expecting months.Initially successful,they got driven back & outnumbered the Italians 250,000 to 150,000. Fighting continued,there was no Greek victory,eventually as Italian numbers swelled they succesfully counter-attacked & also invaded Croatia.The Germans had it fairly easy in Greece because the Greeks were fighting the Italians.Eventually a Axis victory was had & the Italians did occupy Greece
@DIMITSAS12 Το ξέρω! Για το τι λένε οι φιλόλογοι χέστηκα και γω! Θετική θα πάω όπως και να έχει. ^_^ Μελετώντας την ιστορία ειναι σαν να πέρνεις μέρος σε παλιά γεγονότα! Αλήθεια απο που είσαι? Εγώ είμαι από το Γύθειο στην Λακωνία.
It was Mussolini war with his nazi allies, Italians didn't want to fight and committ crimes towards their Greek brothers and sisters ( unlike the Germans who used the Parthenon and Acropolis as a urinator ). We stand as one Ellada Italia Magna Grecia una faccia una razza...just like in the movie Mediterraneo ;-)
@Italianissimo86 it wasnt u who did it, it was that bitchface mussolini who did it, im greek, but i just love italians :D i also liked those sicilian mobsters with the tommyguns, my favorite story
@OMBspa i wouldn't have problem to have both italian and greek blood... if i didn't have greek origin i would only like to have italian origin.. i know, the british stole the statues and marbles of parthenon -.-
@Italianissimo86 The Greeke are very proud about their victrory against fasiscts itlay! But my greek grandmother told me that the italian soldiers behave frien dly to the greek civilians! The germans where massmurders and the greeks will never forget that, but the italians gave their weapons to the greek partisans, when they leave greece and hang up Mussolini in Milano! We greeks have deeply sympathy to youj italians! believe me!! and dont be ashame!
@crazycamel345 I will drink to that! I as a son of Greece Say lets take a leap of faith & explore the undiscovered country of forgiveness & reconciliation, we must not let ourselves succumb any longer to the bitter hostilities of old, It is language and religion, both byproducts of 1071, that serve as dividing fault- lines between us,Turks by enlarge are not the offspring of those central Asian invaders but native Anatolian's who were culturally assimilated over time thanks to the Devşirme.
@crazycamel345 don't pay attention to blind patriots,it is true that our countries' relationships,have always been the worst,but we are all humans,we fear,we love we hate,we fight.Let's give peace a chance...
why? Italians had thanks? on the mountains?? the only thanks italians ever used were called thankettes (microthanks) they used only in the desert and also a gunshot could pierce them. And so what Italians have no heart? listen the last cavalry charge in the history was done by Italian horseman.. against english thanks.. great warriors greeks but italians had just bad motivations in invading a brother country that did nothing to them
i know you wrote this six years ago but i just saw your comment. Greece is no brother with italy. Italy betrayed Greece and lost Constantinople. It's true :)
Only one phrase could describe the situation : small country with tons of courage and bravery !
i am proud of my country greece
In the far back ground, Soviet bum rushing Greece
@@windex7934 Fuck off.
BillYoloXD shad up, ya olive picker.
@@StrategosBill AYEEEE
"Heroes fight like greeks" Winston Churchill
Daniel Störmu Greeks don't fight like heroes ,heroes fight like Greeks.
Melon boss TV True. Thanks for correcting me.
Church Hill was a drunk
Aιμιλιος Xαλεποπουλος your wrong. He was a leader.
@@laterin92r47 And a Freemason.
I am sad because I am greek and I almost lost my grandfather and my dad in world war 2.
Να είσαι περήφανος για αυτούς τους ανθρώπους
We are sad and proud of them
How old are you
🙏
Σε παρακαλώ πες μου ποσό χρόνον είσαι γιατί για να ήταν ο μπαμπάς σου θα είσαι μεγάλος
3:45 what tank is that? By the way Greek army helmets look pretty sweet! I wonder if they were comfy?
@Mr. Skeleton Νo they were not, these are Greek helmets Y37 made in factory in Kea . They were chosen between
- Εταιρία Ελληνικού Πυριτιδοποιείου & Καλυκοποιείου (ιταλικός οίκος Maneta).
- Οίκος Zeintze, Germany.
- Ελληνική Βιομηχανική Ένωση.
- Οίκος Ceskoslovenska Zbrojovka Brno, Czechoslovakia .
- Οίκος Otto Ruben, Sweden.
Small numbers of frence Adrian Μle1915, and some British MkI were also used
You can see photos of the Greek helmet here es1940.gr/blog/project/%CE%B7-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%AE/
god never forget greece!
@Anth Graves are you Greek?
The Greeks fought hard respect to the legends that died in war🥺
Great video, Apostokas! You have many pics I have not seen before.
Greeks were very brave, definitely gave the Axis their first defeat. Though small they really fought hard against the AXIS, my hat goes off to them they perhaps saved the WORLD!
1:33 here you can see on the left a brave Greek soldier getting shot at for freedom.
Wow. War is hell. May he and all the others rest in peace, while Hitler, Mussolini and many more rot in hell. Possibly even Stalin
Epic soundtrack from Battlefield 1942 game!!!!!
Greece forever
Thanks. My dad and uncles would have appreciated that. The fact is that my father was badly wounded later in Cyrenaica. He was presented with the white feathers. In those days, there was no room for cowards. If you died, retreated, were wounded or worst, lost a battle, you were a cowards. Heroes were those soldiers who only tasted victory and had no wounds. They were mostly Americans and English. The New Zealanders mainly died.
May God be with GREEK ARMY !
GREEKS+ITALIANS ARE BROTHERS
My grandfather told me that during the war in my town, the Italians had guitars and they were singing with the Greeks and the Italians were friendly. They didn't harm anybody.
Silmarien Ingoldo
Just commented to someone else that when my great grandfather(Italian) was in Greece, his solit his meals, which were rationed, with Greek children...
In turn they brought him raisins, and their fishing rods so he could go fishing...
He was their for quite some time, and always spoke well of the Greeks.
Una razza, una facia!
Silmarien Ingoldo My great grandfather told me the opposite think, stories of him and his best friend which went On the war in world war two and Fought against The italian army which was always lunching barrages at cities. And because of the barrages he lost his best friend Because of the shell that Hit the trench with result of the Killing my great grandfather's best friend and almost killed my great grandfather
Silmarien Ingoldo I admit that today Greece and italian are allies is Because of the NATO Union but back in time in world war 2 there was no good relation between the two nations
no i am greek i know what do to the greeks
i like the music can someone tell me whats the name of the song?
@Schaniepel This is the Soundtrack from the PC-Game "Battlefield 1942".
@DIMITSAS12 Μια χαρά.εγώ τηα πάω δευτέρα λυκείου.!γιατί δν μπορώ να δώ την σελίδα σου?
heroes fight like greece what an inspiration !!!!
Η μουσικη που υπαρχει στο βιντεο πως λεγεται???Εχ την εντυπωση οτι ειναι το sountrack καποιου παιχνιδιου
drberto you battlefield 1
Proud to be Greek 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
What are you italians saying is wrong...if that is the case then why did it take so long for even the Germans to take control of the whole Greece. Even Hitler said he had a very hard time with Greece "For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death." Hitler. It is true though that the Italians did not want this war and were basically forcedto do something they did not want todo
@monkeyman5296 same but mine died in 1992 my grandma though was 115 and died in 2000 but still loved her ouzo in the morning.
This video is real?
yep it is !
Συγκινήθηκα πραγματικά.
Long live Greece!
ΞΕΡΕΙ ΚΑΝΕΙΣ ΝΑ ΜΟΥ ΠΕΙ ,ΠΟΙΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ Η ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗ ΑΠΟ AYTO TO VIDEO ?
Sotiris Siomis battlefield 1 soundtrack
Song?
heroes fight like greeks what an inspiration !!!!
I WILL DIE FOR HELLAS! HELLAS IS MY LAND WHERE YOU ANCESTORS CAME FROM MY ROOTS!!! I WIL MAKE MY ANCESTORS PROUD!! MIGHTY ACHILLES!
@DIMITSAS12 eisai prws thn aristera e? ;)
we were counting the shots cause we didnt had enough.... we didnt had food... with nothing... we stood against the tyrany of italy and germany... PROUD TO BE GREEK !
Be sure that Greeks could have not sent a single soldiers against Italians, and they would have bee however stopped by the cold greek mountains: Italians that were sent to Greece were not trained at all and not even had mountain equipment to defent themselves against the cold.. thousands of them died for illness and frozen, and when they got the situation where the Duce took them, their morale fell to the ground with all the conseguences you can imagine..
fenotipobombay cold Greece lol Greek soldiers suffered us much as Italians did a lot of them died from the cold or worst lost their legs.
Oh really? I am Greek and i do respect Italians , i respect Rome , as they respect us, Rome was a great empire that lasted hundreds of years , once they were the best fighters in the world , you should respect them...
@Italianissimo86 You are right brother!
My dad said the Italians were very brave soldiers. They were very racist though. The New Zealanders were called racist names by some of them. They found out what they called them and threw all the prisoners over a cliff. One a the New Zealanders, a war hero was not given the VC because of this. He had climbed up barbed wire and hung ontro the barbed wire with his teeth while thowing grenades over the top. An English major general (Brian Horrocks) said it was the bravest act he had ever seen.
What were the 48 he killed birds or rapids ? wow what a greek lion
i did not know there were lions in greece
None considers you coward in Greece,first time i listen this.
We have great respect about New Zealand and Australia who helped us against Nazism.
GREECE NEVER DIES
Greece in April 1941 was fighting at the same moment against Italy, Germany and Bulgaria.
with the help of Britain, Australia and New Zealand yeah
@@aleksk4151 you suck bulgarian as always .even germany couldnt gave you a victory against greece 🤣
@GrandeurFrancaise it's the opposite.. half of Italians are sons of Greeks because in ancient years in the south italy there were Greeks living and now there is a greek minority there since ancient years called Grico
GREEKS:The most battle-hardened soldiers!!!
we have "balls"...this is something unknown for some countries....
Ahh ahh idiot
He wasn't talking about Italy
Italy no hard feelings you have pizza.
Bla bla bla
lol you stole the Battlefield 1942 theme for this? hahaha
***** Yes, and Battlefield 1942 came out in 2002. What's your point?
***** haha no worries dude.
Because Italians could not to win us,Mousoline asked help from the killer Hitler to fight against us...2 vs 1? It is not fair..
Most modern Greeks today would just bow down and surrender.
all modern europeans would do... the people today are not comparebel with the people back then in cases of mentally and physically hardness. But let me tell you, that all can change again in just one generation. All what it needs is one big war.
O Papou mu itane eki!
Greeks are heroes
Italians after rome = France after Napoleon = craapy warriors.
Me as a Greek: yay
Battlefield theme. (game)
Thanks
@ficc2006 greeks lost the war but won the eternity. this battle of roupel and greek war of 1940 is a lesson in american books and 80 pages in world history (university) in contrast with france which is in 10 sentences. greek italian war was the first victory of the allies forces against the axis.
When the Germans were rounding up the greek my great grandpa thought something was up and said he was sick and hid. The men that were taken were shot
greece kicks italia ass!1940-1941
Never happened
never happend ? are you live in moon ??? read history before you write, what never happend ?? they italians dont try to attack greece pffff??? you have no idea about history !!! we greeks not italians we are not born with a white flag in the hands and give up and fight for germany,we say oxi !!!!!no surrender!
+monk3y777 You said some useless things like going back to scool, i only said that the greeks never kicked italians.We fought for months with no important results, when the germans arrived the greek ass blown up...
Aleksandar Kan hahhha Yep
Zanzao-1 Ps3 Relly,nigga?Are you serious right now???
What I meant is that italians were a building nation at that time, they were not a hard enemy to stop, they had few battles won in ww2, mostly against russians.. even french stopped them with 3-4 cannons set on the Alps causing them more than 2000 casualties with Paris almost occupied.. Greeks had great courage and heart, everibody knows, but, I mean, italy was not that strong empire you imagine, just a bunch of peasants hungry as hell, with no idea about invading someone else's country.
What i will hand to Italians though is the honor code they had and kept after our defeat,they admitted we were strong and weren't doing atrocities like the Germans.
@DIMITSAS12
Ευχαριστώ!
one greek is a hero fight with greece greeks might lose but we alwas fight like heroes
poly gamato video 10/10
First Greeks didn't have tanks they had guns and there heart second they didn't have aircraft and stuff!! just guns and there heart second no armor for greeks again just there heart and guns we HAVE HEART!!
Actually we had airplanes since the balkan wars
We had took italian tanks and we were fighting germans..
accually it was polish lancers vs german panzers
People say that the Greek's fight like Hero's, but now we shall say Hero's fight like Greek's.
- Winston Churchill.
fact.
It seems like a ridiculous explanation and without a historical basis. The attack on Greece was an invasion with 45 battalions, 380 planes and 160 tanks, the Greeks with 39 battalions managed to repel this invasion, there were strategic mistakes, a serious underestimation of the enemy and shortage of supply by the Italians. The Greeks also had problems and inefficiencies but they were fighting for their homeland. The Soviets, similarly,the year before had been kicked in the ass by the Finns!
Greeks don't fight like heroes...heroes fight like Greeks
When Mussolini ordered the invasion of Greece,he gave his Generals 12 days,they were expecting months.Initially successful,they got driven back & outnumbered the Italians 250,000 to 150,000. Fighting continued,there was no Greek victory,eventually as Italian numbers swelled they succesfully counter-attacked & also invaded Croatia.The Germans had it fairly easy in Greece because the Greeks were fighting the Italians.Eventually a Axis victory was had & the Italians did occupy Greece
@DIMITSAS12 Το ξέρω! Για το τι λένε οι φιλόλογοι χέστηκα και γω! Θετική θα πάω όπως και να έχει. ^_^ Μελετώντας την ιστορία ειναι σαν να πέρνεις μέρος σε παλιά γεγονότα! Αλήθεια απο που είσαι? Εγώ είμαι από το Γύθειο στην Λακωνία.
It was Mussolini war with his nazi allies, Italians didn't want to fight and committ crimes towards their Greek brothers and sisters ( unlike the Germans who used the Parthenon and Acropolis as a urinator ). We stand as one Ellada Italia Magna Grecia una faccia una razza...just like in the movie Mediterraneo ;-)
@crazycamel345 ethnically we are the same people. We are at least cousins and war between us is fratricide.
Bf1942 soundtrack, really?
It matches
@@grotesque. for sure, but I was just surprised to hear a chilhood game' soundtrack in this video ahahah
THE ART OFF WAR BELONG'S TO GREEKS!!!!!🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
@Italianissimo86 greek-italians spanish same bllood.
I think one day that Greece would beat Russia in late 2000,s
@Rico8458
yes
the Italians had still good army right?
Yes
Italians and French fought together and won the first world war, back in the favelas menino de rua!
@Italianissimo86 it wasnt u who did it, it was that bitchface mussolini who did it, im greek, but i just love italians :D
i also liked those sicilian mobsters with the tommyguns, my favorite story
@OMBspa i wouldn't have problem to have both italian and greek blood... if i didn't have greek origin i would only like to have italian origin.. i know, the british stole the statues and marbles of parthenon -.-
ειναι αν δεν κανω λαθος απο το παιχνιδι battelfield 1942.
@Italianissimo86 The Greeke are very proud about their victrory against fasiscts itlay!
But my greek grandmother told me that the italian soldiers behave frien
dly to the greek civilians! The germans where massmurders and the greeks will never forget that, but the italians gave their weapons to the greek partisans, when they leave greece and hang up Mussolini in Milano!
We greeks have deeply sympathy to youj italians! believe me!! and dont be ashame!
Epic games. Greece greece zito greece
OPA!!!!
my grand father lost his leg by a grenade he was fighting fo 11 months 1 month latter they defeated us because 5 other nations gang banged us
@crazycamel345
I will drink to that! I as a son of Greece Say lets take a leap of faith & explore the undiscovered country of forgiveness & reconciliation, we must not let ourselves succumb any longer to the bitter hostilities of old,
It is language and religion, both byproducts of 1071, that serve as dividing fault- lines between us,Turks by enlarge are not the offspring of those central Asian invaders but native Anatolian's who were culturally assimilated over time thanks to the Devşirme.
@crazycamel345 don't pay attention to blind patriots,it is true that our countries' relationships,have always been the worst,but we are all humans,we fear,we love we hate,we fight.Let's give peace a chance...
@DIMITSAS12 Fortunately i'm not Italian!
And then they could send them anywhere.
neiether greece was a strong empire.a lot more guns than italians and they shared a loaf of bread to 4 or 8 soldiers.
we dont need someone like us ... but greeks need it :D haha
Italy:I can invade Greece
Germany:Hello
Italy:OH GOD PLSS HELP ME GREECE IS ATTACKING BACK HELP
Θα έρθει και ο 3τος να είστε έτοιμοι
GREECE GREECE GREECE
telio!!!
italy lost that battle because wasn't motivated. that's all.
lol, battlefield music
@Borubudun1from what you saying i can understand only this you wished so bad to be greek
@koringn there is nothing ? yes there is nothing like this is spartaaaaaaaaa shits :D
Turkish Germany Brothers.
@monkeyman5296 Greece won one battle but lost the war
why? Italians had thanks? on the mountains?? the only thanks italians ever used were called thankettes (microthanks) they used only in the desert and also a gunshot could pierce them. And so what Italians have no heart? listen the last cavalry charge in the history was done by Italian horseman.. against english thanks.. great warriors greeks but italians had just bad motivations in invading a brother country that did nothing to them
i know you wrote this six years ago but i just saw your comment. Greece is no brother with italy. Italy betrayed Greece and lost Constantinople. It's true :)