@@ArslanMagomedov286imagine being upset at a channel called OVERSIMPLIFIED for being OVERSIMPLIFIED. Lol yeah, alot of information isn’t 100% accurate, because its a synopsis, a brief overview, heavy on the jokes. It’s something i can sit my 5 year old in front of and she’ll watch and learn something rather than sticking her in front of cocomeleon or whatever crap they make for kids these days.
@@fishfossils8858 bro when did I ever say I hated oversimplified. I love him. just felt that as I grew up, he wasn’t being a very good son to me. So I disowned him. I also felt as if he made a very reductive view of very complex events, which was alright for time beings. I still watch him
This isn't just biased, but you can easily see that almost everything he says is untrue or greatly exaggerated with even the most surface level cross referencing. If you think this is some great unbiased RUclips channel and not some Brittish brainlet trying to rewrite n@zis into decent human beings you're an imbecile.
Also people never mention that until the dissolution of Czecho-Slovakia in 1939, the Franco-Czecho-Soviet pact was still (at least de jure) active. If a war broke out, France and Soviet union would declare war on Germany and Rumania would have to let Soviet troops go through her territory. For those who don't know, this pact was the product of the Barthou-Titulescu-Beneš policy from 1935 which had a plan of completely isolating Germany from all sides, the pact was supposed to include all Little Entente members and Poland.
You have touched upon a very interesting topic that today's historians are trying to hush up. After concluding a disgusting agreement with Hitler in Munich in 1938, France refuses to fulfill its allied obligations with Czechoslovakia. The Soviet Union turns to the Polish government to provide a narrow corridor through their territory for the passage of the Soviet army to help the Czechs in the event of a German attack. The Poles refused. Sadly, the opportunity to stop Hitler at the beginning of World War II was missed. This entire tragedy has specific culprits who are trying their best to rewrite history today, but they will not succeed,.....
@@captderichelieu2280yep, today Poles scream about how bad the Soviet Union was for attacking them, without mentioning how they took part of Belarus and Ukraine between 1917 and 1920.
@@captderichelieu2280they also never mentioned that their government ran away a week after Germans invaded, leaving Poland pretty much open for Germans. Should Soviets just stand and wait?
@@arturz8192 The pre-war policy of Poland was absolutely insane. Decades have passed but no conclusions have been made and the Poles are repeating past mistakes again. Unfortunately, it has become a national characteristic of the Poles - to look for enemies nearby and allies thousands of kilometers away.
I will always be absolutely BAMBOOZLED at the sheer ridiculousness of the Versailles treaty. Which idiots thought these boarder arrangements would be a good idea?
they were developed in consideration for the strategic and individual objects of the victors. The general consensus was either create a new state with strong borders, economic & military capacity or don't create one at all... other examples are Romania, Hungary, Greece, and Poland. For the Czechs the sudeten region provided economic strength & natural defenses, along with their own historical claims to the region as a part of the bohemian crown. Germany made plenty of ridiculous claims on territory, often far dumber than the Czech's claim to the sudetenland, you can't be complaining about its logic while advocating for a country that did the exact same
@@ottersirotten4290Germany making any claims on territory was ridiculous. The peace was a dictate, Germany never accepted an armistice under the condition of it being on the 14 points
@@ZoomerHistorian You just making stuff up, this was absolutely disgusting. Just the fact that you contradicting yourself in many cases shows that you are lying scuuum. As for the beloved heidrich he planned to "remove" up to 60% of czechs who werent suitable for germanification, another FACT you forgot to mentioned in your BS fairy tail story 🤮🤮🤮
@@Valencetheshireman927 Absolutely not, especially when trying to mix it with moral judgement. There is a reason nonwesterners do not cling onto the moral narrative of that war. No one sees Germany and the UK as any different.
@@Valencetheshireman927 "the occupation of other countries " this wasn't about the occupation of their own country but invading other ones, in that aspect Britain can't hold the moral judgement towards Germany.
@@Cyricist001 That means nobody can pass “moral judgment” on others for the occupation of other countries, because every culture through history has done it.
Czechs were so happy to be occupied that anti German demonstrations had barely 3x more attendees than the one you mention after Heydrich's assassination (and which was totally spontaneous, of course). The Czechs also loved that their universities were closed half a year after the occupation and half of grammar schools by 1942, coz what good is education for them, right? Totaleinsatz was totally loved as well, who would not love to be working their bum off in the Reich for 70 hours a week living in a dorm with one shower for 100 inmates. A great holiday for which nearly 10% of population totally voluntarily applied for.
Lmao source : Soviet American propaganda i am sure the Czechs love the fact that their population is going down, that they have climate idiots gluing themselves on streets, and that degenerate leftists call Woman a social construct, funny how you mention university's while now these university's teach diversity propaganda lol.
Forgot to mention, how Hacha was happy, when he announced to people of czechia, that they are protected by Germans now, that his voice shaked, like he's going to cry. And how Hacha was happy, when was theatened, that Hitler would slaughter all czechs
@@adambadam4870 the insantiy is thinking that a small group of warhawk chihuahua nationalist czech being bigots somehow makes your side look good and not validate the video claims.
I have been watching these videos, and I think they are good. They are clearly Axis biased, but I think that's good since 99% of other WW2 videos are Allied bias. Back after the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon was "Literally Hitler" for ~100 years, before people started looking at his side of the story, and his impact on history more objectively. It's been nice to see Hitler getting the same treatment in my lifetime, because the WW2 story never made sense to me, even as a kid. I had dozens, if not hundreds of questions teachers and such couldn't answer, or could only answer "Well Hitler was crazy so that's why it didn't make sense". I knew most of the info in these videos already, but I like these since they are a very digestible for most people.
Well first of all Hácha wasn't tortured, he was arrested to be judged and died in that prison because of his bad health :( Secondly yes we accepted German overlordship, but not because we wanted it, but because we didn't wanted to get blown to pieces in this helpless situation. Overall Czechoslovakia could have work, otherwise it would have already crumbled before 1939, but it didn't and yes I agree Czechoslovakia should have been done differently.
Saying that the Czechs have no real claim on the border areas is very dishonest. A czech state with those borders has existed since the 9th century, before being incorporated into Austria.
Bohemia was German ruled, if anything Germans had more of a claim on the Czech areas of Bohemia than Czechs had on the German areas since Bohemia was founded and ruled ever since as a German country.
@@LockflyHow was Bohemia german ruled? Yes it was part of the Holy Roman Empire but that was more of a loose confederation of states than an empire. And Bohemia was one of the elctor states that elected the emperor. Bohemian kings were Czechs.
The Holy Roman Empire had It’s capital in Cologne and German culture, trade, universities extended right up to the Baltic States to East Prussia. The dominant language, jurisprudence and Universities spoke German. Until the end of WW2 and the Soviets took over.
Sorry but can you tell me the state name because I only remember Holy Roman Empire control and before them manly the Avers surrounding by the first bulgian empire and the the first great Slavic migration under the supposed rule of Byzantine empire
On March 15, Czechs went to the snowy streets of Prague, protesting and raising fists at the German convoys. Fists, not salutes. Is that the welcoming you were talking about?
@@Letsplay222 Actively about 30-100 thousand, despite the authorities brutally cracking down on them. And if I take the last free elections into account, at least 2.5 million anti-Nazi voters supported them.
@@Charles_Anthony First, Protectorate didn't have even half of the population you wrote. Second, when did you last see 7 million people demonstrating in the cities under totalitarian regime?
As a Slovak myself I feel obligated to inform you that the creation of Slovakia was less helping to independence and more reducing us to a puppet state with some priviliges. We were partially ocupied, we lost whole south of our country and ended up with less independence than in Czechoslovakia. We had some priviliges but the moment we resisted we lost them and got brutal treatment from the Germans like the Czechs and Polish. You cannot put Vojtech Tukas words as what Slovakians wanted. He was considerrd a radical even in HSĽS, the party that ruled Slovakia during ww2. The Slovakians were pretty split if they should remain a part of Czechoslovakia. We didnt want to be allies of Germany any more than the Czechs or Polish. And also saying that Czechs liked the ocupation is bullshit. The Germans burnt entire villages and slaughtered thousands of civilians.
@@Letsplay222 Czechs and soviets opressed us as well. But the Czechs still gave us some representation and the soviet opression was worse than the Czech one. But neither Czechs nor the soviets burned villages and executed thousands of innocent civilians as an example. They also didnt force us to export our jewish population to concentration camps and to pay for their "liquidation". And if WW2 never happend it is unlikely that we would have become a puppet state of the soviets.
@@GovernorAdmiral Yes, but at the time the Germans were burning villages and liquidating Jews, they were being vice-gripped by the United States, British Empire and Soviet Union in a fight against annihilation. If the Soviets or Czechs were under similar circumstances, they would have done the same or worse. And the Soviets would have come for everyone eventually, until they were stopped.
@@Letsplay222 I am not debating the fact that the soviets were bad or that other nations would do the same in the Germans situation (except for the jews). I am just saying that the video made it look like we Slovakians wanted to be allies of the Germans and begged them to come and liberate us and that the Czechs loved the ocupation. I am not saying that neither Czechs nor Slovaks are innocent, but this video leaves out important information and presents other information out of context.
@@GovernorAdmiral You act like Tiso was "forced" to do everything, sounds like a fake story you've been told by the current Slovakian government to blame the Germans for their own crimes.
Have you read Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof's book "1939:The war that had many fathers". I found it quite easy to digest, since it is not chronological, but sorted by themes.
@@ZoomerHistorianzu diesem Thema gibt es noch ein Buch: Hitler und deine Tschechen. Kann ich sehr empfehlen. Auch den tschechischen Zuhörern, das Buch gibt es auch auf tschechisch, im Original.
@@KrokLP Massacred is a strong word. They were somewhat opressed but there was no mass extermination. Unlike what the Germans did after they conquered Czechoslovakia.
Another well done video, my friend. It's a shame what happened to the Germans in the Sudetenland after the war. This video was definitely on the darker side in details. Loved it. 💪🏻
@@arminiuscherusci4410now Germany and Czechia are in the EU you should move back to the Sudetenland, property prices are cheaper there than Germany also, and it’s less woke. You can work in Germany and live in Czechia / Bohemia
It’s a shame what happened to so many Czechs and others in Auschvitz and other camps and how polite gestapo was, memory of Heinlein NSDAP and how apprised it was by most Germans was in fresh memory and returning people as well as communist fighters coming from eastern front plus influence of red army caused so much unrest that it wasn’t in government power to guarantee the safety of the minority hence the move to deport them to Germany most of them wished to be part couple years back anyway (so actually fulfilling their dream, which wasn’t as appealing now when Germany lied in ruins) The intentions of Germany to wipe out Czechoslovakia was clear to us - read Frantisek Moravec memoir - Master of spies, and you will know what was known to us and dismissed by our English and French allies. Btw Germans settled upon invitation by Bohemian kings and granted right to settle under condition they will be loyal to the Czech/Bohemian government/crown/nation the conditions they clearly broke and as that it could be looked at their removal from the land out as they lost the right to settle here. And it is not easy for German to move back in and own property in Czech Republic as post war Benes’s decrees are still in force and as Czech citizen completely agree with it. (You can acquire Czech citizenship if you like, but even that is not that as easy, you can get residency as anywhere in EU, but owning a property is not as easy - as resident you can setup Czech company which would own the property you’d be living - one of the way I can think of how German can own the property here if somebody actually sell to German)
Interesting video, but I have to wonder why, why there is no mention of the anti-occupation protest of czech students, and death, where german civil police was ordered to shoot into crowd, which resulted in death of Jan Opletal. More over forced removal of czechs from sudetenland which I saw estimated to be about 120k people, which seems like a very similar number to unemployed people in protektorat. It seems weird to mention the protest after the Heydrich atentat and not the student protest in 1939. For those reasons this video seems very biased.
of course he is biased, but on the other hand, you can read this on literally any mainstream article or video about the matter. zoomer historian is posting the other side of the coin. i agree that the ideal is to show both sides simultaneously
@@clmberserker245 and there would be nothing wrong about it if he wouldnt say: "I will give you the full story." just one minute into the video btw. My problem with him is his claims of unbiased history in every video, yet he forgots to mention significant things and leaves of important historical context.
Listen guy: ever noticed that all the parts of Eastern Europe that used to be ruled by Germans are to this day the best developed? So after WW1, Czechoslovakia was left with a with a comparatively excellent infrastructure, an excellent education system and an excellent industry. But they decided to hate the Germans. During the Second World War, what is now the Czech Republic was the armory of the empire, an enormous amount of weapons and vehicles were manufactured there, and even after the war, Czechoslovakia was one of the top exporters of weapons. There was comparatively little destruction there. And people cooperated as long as the Germans were stronger. But once they were helpless, they showed their true colors. I understand, you have to justify a genocide. You have to be the victim here. But the thing is, if someone steals your wallet, you don't have the right to kill his family. At least that's my opinion.
@@FantadiRienzo Hello, so about the infrastructure, education and industry. I do not dispute that. Now they did not just decided to hate germans after war. I believe there were nationalist tensions between czechs and germans in like 1800s eg. Czech national revival. About czech lands being the armory of reich: no dispute there. Same goes for destruction. I would say most people cooperated, because of fear of execution or imprisonment or they benefited from it greatly(which I think was rather the exception). Now a lot of people were frustrated by the war and when it ended they took out the frustration on anyone german. Which obviosly was not jistified and wrong. And later the forced expulsion was even worse. I would say that it was probably one of the worst mistakes of 20th century. So you are wrong I have no need to justify this genocide or any other genocide. But my original comment was about the bias, that I think Zoomer historian displays in his videos. I am from village, that is just 2 km from the where sudetenland was and from reading testimonies of regular folk from this area I know the czech and german confilict was never black and white.
Although my knowledge may be skewed by the standard narrative, the entire first half (I didn't watch any further) doesn't sit well with me. - Why the Sudetenland fell to the Czech Republic - yes, the main argument was the viability of such a state. But at the same time it was the territory of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Whether that's enough as a reason I don't presume to judge, but it's not exactly like Czechoslovakia stole a random chunk of Germany. - The whole excuse and reason Hitler attacked Czechoslovakia... eh. He wrote it in Main Kamf back in 1925 (seizing the Sudetenland). The real planning started in 1933. All the rest about oppression, genocide etc was just an effort to destabilize Czechoslovakia and separate it from the allies. Once that was done, the fate of Czechoslovakia was clear. - Of course, there were real problems (e.g. the effects of the economic crisis, which hit mainly the industrial parts), which Hitler fed by supporting radical Sudeten German groups in the borderlands, who then carried out attacks. - The Polish-German plan of attack - that's bullshit. It may have occurred to someone, but there was no such plan in any serious sense. It doesn't even make sense, because Czechoslovakia was betting on alliance treaties with France, Great Britain and Russia. The hope was that if we defended ourselves, the powers would come to the rescue. If we attacked, we would suddenly be the aggressor. - Mobilisation was more a demonstration of strength and determination to defend ourselves. As I see it, Hitler was testing whether the Czechoslovak government at the time would be capable of such a move (it was perceived as weak due to skirmishes in the borderlands etc). In conclusion, the Czech Republic is not innocent. There was some resentment towards the Germans, etc. But at the same time, Czechoslovakia had the most liberal constitution, and for a long time German parties boycotted participation in parliament. Realistically, given the circumstances, the mix of internal and external influences was such that Czechoslovakia never had a chance to survive. If Czechoslovakia deserves criticism for anything, it is the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans (or the atrocities that accompanied it). By contrast, in the period before the Second World War, Czechoslovakia was dealt a hand that, in my opinion, it managed to manage just fine. However, I admit that my perception may be distorted by the fact that I am Czech and thus may have a natural tendency to perceive it in a certain way, at the same time I had only limited space for research. Therefore, this is more of an "opinion" than an attempt to give a 100% objective description.
The video is a nahzee apologetic slop for 4chan users, Americans who can't even point Prague on the map, and when they do they know more about which type of button what SS regiment had than the history of the region oitside of 1939-1945 period.
@@adambadam4870 You are the ones who only want people to remember what happened between 1939 and spring 1945. Don't let people hear what happened starting in 1918 or what happened in 1945-1947. I've seen your people laugh when the Brno death march is mentioned. "The final solution of the German question" as your oh so social and oh so democratic hero called Benes called the campaign 😊
@@KrokLP I would agree that what happen during 1945 - 1947 is not talk enough. Who did you see laugh about the Brno death march? Or are you just pulling it out of your ass. I dont think that many people from here would call Beneš a hero (or even a good president some hate him for accepting munich agreement others understand why he accepted the agreement) thats like calling Jimmy Carter a american hero.
The simping of this guy for Hitler is crazy. I quote "Reinhard Heydrich, protector of Bohemia was so loved by Czechs" - This is gonna be most ironic sentence ever. Assassination of Heydrich was suggested by Czechoslovak Government in Exile and it was named "Operation Anthropoid", exiled government intentions to asssinate this guy was to null Munich Agreement from 1938, because Allies saw the 1939 invasion of Czechoslovakia as Czech unwillingness to resist any foreign invader. Exiled government was well aware Allies had no intentions of returning Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia after the war, as it was separate agreement prior to war. When the Operation Anthropoid was executed and Czech paratroopers were dropped in Protectorate, they had arranged meeting with local Czech resistance leaders, when the Czech paratroopers explained their main reason for being present in Protectorate, Czech resistance leaders tried to stop them as they knew assassinating Heydrich would bring an end to lives of thousands of Czechs in protectorate, because Heydrich was known for his brutality and repressions towards the Czech population, he was even nicknamed "Butcher of Prague" for his actions done prior to the operation. I have seen video about your active pro-Nazi stance in your videos made by What Why How, I recommend others to watch it to get better knowings about this guy calling himself "Zoomer Historian".
Once again, the Westerners think a neutral factual view of the man is somehow simping. No, you are the ones that have been ingrained to think a certain way, known as the "western rewritten consensus" established in 1950s.
I also notice you conflate one man's action with the entire country. I have read and heard about the ideas that many men in countries like Czechoslovakia, the UK and the USA, plans for what to be done to the Japanese population. If you are gonna use one man to judge a country, then we can easily use one man to judge that the Czechs were not innocent.
@@fuwa9616 One mans actions. Heydrich ordered it but hundreds of ss soldiers did it and those people who Heydrich answered to aprooved of these actions. If they hadnt aprooved of those actions Heydrich would have been removed and arrested. And the people he answered to were the most powerfull people in Germany.
@@fuwa9616 No one is innocent, in every single country Germans occupied throughout the war, collaborators existed. I am not judging one man's actions, I am judging the insane pro-Nazi romanticized version of what happened in Czechoslovakia prior and during the war.
@@maxek9417its weird that the "pro-nazi" narrative makes WAY more sense than the narrative we're taught in school. (Evil NAZI Mustache man driven by irrational hatred and madness convinces millions of relatively intelligent/educated people that a completely innocent religious minority was to blame for all of their problems based purely on superstition)
You somehow "forgot" to mention the villages Lidice and Ležáky, which were burnt to ground by the Germans as revenge for the assassination of Heidrich, all the men were murdered and women and children dragged to concentration camp. After the assassination thousands of other innocent Czechs were arrested, tortured and killed. Our resistance was significant. The actual reason why Heidrich was put into his place in the protectorate, was to destroy the Czechs resistance, which he managed by torturing and murdering those, who were trying oppose the Germans and rewarding collaborators. I acknowledge that our resistance was not much compared to the one in France or the USSR, but those soldiers, who killed Heidrich were actually Czech, our resistance fighters also attempted an assassination of Himmler. Hitler murdered millions upon millions of people, you may be stating some facts, but you knowingly ignore most of them just tu suit your questionable opinions.
Lidice and Ležáky were the landign zones of allied paratroopers in that operation, if there is resistance activity in the middle of a war, it's going to get treated as a war zone.
@@citizenfoffie7605 I am not even going to answer that. You are fine with war crimes, genocide and child murder. Everyone over the age of 15 was shot there, the rest gassed in concentration camps or readucated in German families. If you are fine with something like that happening, i have nothing else to tell you.
@@citizenfoffie7605 So you are saying that by paradroping someone into an enemy city I give the enemy the right to slaughter the whole civilian population? Because thats what happend. That shouldnt happen even if it was a warzone.
You do good work Zoomer. It's good to see the younger generations caring about the truth of WW2. Your channel is treading the line of what YT considers h8 speech. Do not be discouraged by warnings and threats you may get. Keep these vids coming, they are important!
@@dittmannrudolfrohr2149 Hey, I've seen this one in the late 18th century - the deliberate effort to erase the Czech language. I can't imagine why any Czech would object to that...
“The most deplorable crimes committed against Germans in 1945 occurred in Czechoslovakia. What happened here is beyond measure. Over 3,200,000 Sudeten Germans were robbed of all their belongings, around 250,000 were tortured and murdered in unimaginable torment, and 2,814,000 of the survivors were driven out of their homeland. On top of that, around 500,000 German soldiers who surrendered, fleeing Silesians, East Prussians and Pomeranians who tragically moved into Czech territory were swept away into the murderous chaos. The majority of them are still considered missing today.”
@@MikeM-r8i yes there are plenty of things exagerated by the allies side to make germany look worse in small certain areas. but who am I gonna choose to believe more. almost every single person in europe after the war. or this random guy on the internet who i have never heard once mention the genocide of the jewish population ,the killing of all the russian people despite talking about what russia did to germany, the killing of disabled people, the killing of anyone who wasnt fully with the third reich and much much more ? though one to choose between these two options
The European leaders knew full well war was unavoidable despite the Munich Agreement which was just an attempt to win a little time before the shit hit the fan.
Germany and Italy were not at all ready for war yet. They had to recover from the terrible post WWI conditions before they could manufacture anything. England and France were very ready for war and manufactured plenty of weapons after WWI.
@@PeterLaughton France was not ready for war, the chief of staff of the French Air Force said they lacked the plane strength to fight the Luftwaffe in 1938.
Brother "there was a serious chance of Polish-Czech invasion of Germany" is the biggest joke i ever heard, almost more hilarious than your attempt to convey that this channel is unbiased. Got me rolling hard. I am Czech and have personally studied our dated archived documents from exactly this era for years. This video is honestly hot garbage which makes me reconsider the legitimacy of your other videos i have in fact kind of enjoyed. Those years of oppression and German occuptaion destroyed all of our defense mechanisms, military, welfare and industry thus literally buttering us up for the SSSR which finished the job in crippling our country for decades. You can say anything about intentions, it ended up as a damn disaster though.
Also, i forgot to state that the sole reason for Slovaks not taking a big part in ČSR's decisionmaking at the time was that they were quite literally HARD CARRIED by our developed economy. It might have been empathy and etnic vicinity amongst the population (together with personal efforts of TGM, Beneš and others) which resulted in the creation of a single state. Nonetheless, in the end we were heavily betrayed by those whom we concidered our brothers.
@@sarubet8725 because unlike the other videos, i actually studied the concrete facts on the history of my country so i finally saw the disconnect. If you dont understand that, you have black mold on the brain lil bro
I was born in Czech and came to Australia as a child .. my grandma who lived through the war said the Germans were good guys overall..and she prayed they would defeat the Russians which she said were nothing more then swine.. she used to feed German soldiers during the war and said they were gentlemen.. her home was in a village close to the German border .. we have Austrian and German blood too as well as Czech and Slovak
Germans were good guys overall? Give me a break. You are a total idiot. Germans caused death of over 55 millions of Europeans and laid the whole Europe in ruins during the WWII. You really mean it was good?
My father was Slovak and my mother German. That was a very typical marriage after the war. Any official stories have to be looked at skeptically. I have never sensed any ill will from my 20 first cousins or 10 aunt and uncles of Slovakia towards the Germans.
Nope. There was no agreeement. Additionally, Poland reclaimed lands that czechosloviaka stole from us during polish-soviet war and were inhabited by poles.
I'm really enjoying the life of hitler series and the great amout of detail you go to in each video. I'd like to know about his mental decline towards the final years of the war. Thanks for your good work
So according to you Reinhard Heydrich was beloved by the local population and brought the Czech people never-before-seen prosperity? I guess that's why the Czechoslovaks assassinated him and the populace helped the paratroopers in every way they could. And the part about Hitler needing to invade the Czech lands to prevent "chaos"? What about not invading a killing those 100 000 people? BTW real numbers are higher, I would be interested in how Zoomer Historian got those "less than 100 000 Czechs". The video didn't actually bring up a single good reason for the invasion of the rest of Czechoslovakia. I'm sorry but "unclear future" is not a reason for invasion. Even for mr. Hitler.
I’ve been watching a lot of your videos lately and they’re very well done, but I’m curious what your source is for saying Churchill was paid to provoke war? I’ve heard that before but I can’t find confirmation anywhere.
He was the main force pushing for war in the UK, there wouldn’t be a single source that would capture all of it, but I’ll make a full life of Winston Churchill video and try to make as much sense of it as is possible in a single video
The rest of you guys, after I've read your comments, i was utterly sickened. Sitting here neck deep in your nazi fantasies, believing everything this guy tells you, trying to ignore all the oppression, torture, deportation, murder and genocide, and agreeing with the invalid reasons MY country was invaded for. This guy may be stating some facts, i am not denying that, but all he says is specifically chosen to suit HIS opinions, while putting aside key facts, like the Czech resistance during the occupation, or the destruction of the villages Lidice and Ležáky. Do your own research, look yourself into the horrors the Nazis did in my country then come back and tell me what you think!
Oh sorry the image of your wonderful country was sullied. Since you say the pretext and story about Czech oppression before occupation are all wrong, can you instead tell me about Benes "Final Solution of the German Question"? Or what happened to 3 million Germans, 20% of Czechoslovakia?
Well, it is impossible to know the true minds of millions of people 90 years ago. All we can go off of is actions. Just like France likes to pretend that they heroically resisted the German occupation during WW2, the facts seem to indicate a very different story...most didn't resist either out of ideological agreement or just practical self-interest. However, I think the main point of the video isn't that "The Czechs liked Hitler" so much as it is that Hitler wasn't out to "conquer the world" like most historical narratives state, but rather he merely responded to opportunity and a power vacuum.
@@KrokLP You mean the mass post war deportation? I am not defending that. That was a cruel unreasonable thing to do and yes, it was Beneš's fault. In his defence the idea was greatly influenced by the soviets, who "liberated" us. And Beneš at this point was more or less a soviet puppet.
@@CraftKiller-tv7gb An example. One train full of families, around 200 deportees, from Slovakia in 1946 was stopped in Moravia. There were no fighting-age men on board. Women, children, elderly. The Czech corporal in charge marched them away from the train station where he started having everyone shot, starting with the eldest, following "natural order" as parents should not out-live their children. When asked by higher-ups later why he shot the children he asked what use the orphaned parasites had. He was never charged with anything and probably enjoyed a long life and nice Czech army pension.
I admire this channel’s intended purpose and think that it hits that mark 99% of the time; but something in this video struck a cord with me immediately. Referring to Winston Churchill and company as paid shills I think demonstrates unintended bias. Shill, especially in the context of the English, carries an incredibly negative connotation. Churchill was a man of dubious means as I’m sure we can agree most politicians regardless of era are; but to call him and his likeminded peers paid shills writes them off and doesn’t consider the other very real and extenuating circumstances at the time. People think hysteria based on paranoia or whatever irrational fear is a very modern concept but in reality it’s a phenomenon present throughout time. The English and Germans up to that point didn’t have exactly the best track record for foreign relations and ideology predicated on someone’s race or national origin was much more prominent at the time so that bad blood had harbored as a result of a prior world war and eventual colonial ambitions of Germany overlapping with Britain’s. In summary I just find the diction choice to be poor and reflective of an unfair characterization of people who were merely victims of the time/circumstance not all too dissimilar to Prime Minister Chamberlain himself when it comes to how he’s perceived in the modern realm of academia.
This is like asking for someone to be called a "war hawk" rather than a "war monger." Churchill was not just another politician. It may seem normal for politicians to be paid to advance certain agendas by shadowy groups today, but that is not what a politician does by definition.
@@againsttheleftandright4065 even for the time that seems pretty on-brand and to scale accurately. I feel like that’s an apt assumption to make of most or all politicians after the enlightenment era/Industrial Revolution.
@@ActivateMysticMine All politicians have their backers. The difference is, men like Hitler had agendas and supporters. Men like Churchill had supporters first which set the agenda. For example, I don't believe that Churchill liked the USSR. I think there is evidence he hated them. But, Churchill's agenda-setters were firmly in favor of Anglo-Soviet cooperation against Germany. So, ultimately, the peoples of Eastern Europe, the Czech, the Poles, the Lithuanians, were all stabbed in the back by the British and Americans. I did some of my own research on the Czech military. It disturbed me how many of their war heroes and generals ended up dying in Soviet gulags despite being "liberated" from German occupation.
@@againsttheleftandright4065 I’m not trying to divert the discussion but did you really believe to to the contrary? Not trying to come off pompous or all-knowing but it’s pretty well known and commonly accepted in all that I was taught that the Soviets while fighting for the allies committed MANY war crimes themselves while also waging an eerily similar geo political conquest that wasn’t all too dissimilar to Germany leading up to 1941.
@@ActivateMysticMine I don't understand what you are asking here. Believe what? Yes, the USSR was worse. Also, the conquests of the USSR are not similar to Germany. 1) because the USSR conquered bordering nations purely for strategic military and economic objectives, while Germany did so primarily due to the region's ties to Germany and secondarily for national security, and 2) the USSR initiated it's conquests while Germany was mainly reactionary.
At about 26:42: Contrary to the the video, the military efficiency of the Slovak army was not so great. Moreover, the First and Second Vienna Awards were not discussed in the video, and are an important omission. The Hungarians re-occupied parts of Slovakia as a result of the Awards, which were "awarded" by the Germans.
You really are prolific. It is incredibly hard to get the cold hard facts of this era and you have so far achieved to disseminate more historical truth in your videos than I have seen in a very long time. Godspeed and keep up the great work.
Because it's overshadowed by the Czechs who hid the assassins, along with the Lidice massacre.... Do you seriously believe that the average person would have much respect for a foreigner who came to their home to essentially be a colonial administrator?
Fascinating. I had no idea that Benes had a plan to ally with Poland and invade Germany in 1936! Or all of the sabre-rattling he was doing in London, I thought that after Munich he basically went and sulked after being denied the chance to continue his campaign of persecution of the Volksdeutsche in the Sudetenland, like he had done to other ethnic Germans through-out Czechoslovakia! "Fun" fact: In 1930 a census was held in Czechoslovakia, and all Czechoslovaks who said that they were "German" had their citizenships immediately revoked!
TRANSYLVANIA was a mess. But after the 2nd vienna awards Romania still had lots of Hungarians. This was the best possible way. Hungary didnt get too much. She just got back what was her.
Important claims made by you Slovakia declared independence on the note of the Nazis (but no mention of a general election for it). It’s understandable for a nation to declare independence, but it doesn’t mention any other factors The Czech prime minister surrendered the nation to the Nazis, but he wasn’t happy about it and neither was the military. Then Hitler brags about how “he brought it back into the reich” It’s a subject which needs more information.
Czechs loved Nazi occupation so much after it was done they expelled every German in the country (who had incidentally overwhelmingly voted for the Pro-Nazi party in Czechoslovakia’s elections).
@@WilhelmEley-s3y I blame the Nazis, if they hadn’t invaded Czechia and treated its population horribly the Beneš decrees would have never been issued and Sudeten Germans would still be there today.
@@ObiJohnKenobi67 Ok, so if we apply your standard, we can ethnically cleanse people if we have a grievance against people who belong to an ethnicity related to the nation defeated in war, great to know...
Just a little observation. Can you put the names of people you are talking about. Great work as always, do you know the mexican writer Salvador Borrego ? He wrote a book in 1953 called derrota mundia (global defeat) in the book he explain almost identicly as your videos, but he was an anticommunist so he put the atention into soviet union and german anticomnunism.
Poland had a good relationship with Germany despite the territorial dispute and plans to enter the rest of Cheho- Slovakia being a precaution...I mean...I understand the political situation was far from black and white, but there's no need for that overstatement.
Work on your pronunciation mate. Not Sudeytnland, but Soodehtenland Not Benes, but Benesh Not Hasha, but Haakha Not Hradikani castle, but Hratschaneh castle.
It is incredible what damage your channel does, in convincing other teenage idiots to believe in your revisionist history. Who are you to tell us that our occupation wasn't horrific? That the Germans were welcomed? Every academic can prove that this is demonstrably untrue, with proper historical facts and analysis. Your works rely on fringe claims and hyperbole that can't be backed up by anything, or is grossly outnumbered 10:1
Dude is butthurt that British Empire went the way of the dodo. He would rather be a slave to Adolph instead of American ally because US didn't allowed the Brits and French to invade Egypt over the Suez canal.
@@adambadam4870 The UK is a puppet to a country that invaded more countries and committed more crimes then any European nation did. Was that supposed to be an own?
I know Israeli think that the truth about Palestine is somehow "damaging" but it isn't.Its that people are becoming aware of the truth and now understand how to deconstruct your narratives, which were always on shaky grounds and very quickly to dismiss. Perhaps you shouldn't have revised history in the first place.
It is incredible what damage the lies in history books have done. You can be shown film footage of Hitler riding around in an open top car in the center of Prague as the crowd welcomes him, but that actually means nothing. A textbook written 80 years after the fact is much more reliable.
As for the so called Slovakia: every m2 in Slovakia and Ruthenia (now stolen by Ukraine) was Hungarian land before. Slovakians were just a minority in Hungary. There were never any Czechoslovak nation. Almost half of Slovakia was not Slovakian, 30% of it was Hungarian. In the main two cities almost no Slovakians lived in Slovakia... Czechoslovakia was created by the winners of wwi in order to weaken Hungary.
not hungary, kingdom of hungary, or "Uhorsko". Now why is this differnet ? Because latin was spoken and people didn't have any identity until the 19th century when hungarian nationalism was at it's peak, ausgleich was both a curse and a blessing as it made slovakia face brutal opression mutliple genocides like (Černová Tragedy) and massive hungariazation and land rape, but it made the hungarians "losers" of the great war even though they didn't exist and the dual monarchy was a shallow compromise that didn't mean anything. The land during the hungarian kingdom period was mostly ruled over by hungarians but also quite a few slovak nobles and monarchs, so cope mongol and get trianoned bozo. womp womp.
So what? Because Hungary conquered Slovakia, banned their language, tried to erase their culture and forcefully settled Hungarians there, Slovakia has now no right to be a nation? Why do you think there are so many Hungarians in Slovakia? Maybe the next time try to look further into history than just few decades back. You know why Slovakians were a minority in Hungary (not Hungary, but Uhorsko or "greater Hungary")? Because Hungary was just bigger. By this metric the dutch were a minority in the Spanish empire. Do you think they need to be annexed into Spain?
yes the brutal opression and magyarization of the 19th century wasn't documented enough, except for the couple of genocides, while I agree that this guy is a nazi prick, slovaks had their reasons of wanting independence.
Not as hilarious as the Poles squealing like stuck pigs when they got dismembered by a Non-Aggression Pact of Germany + USSR... when less than a year before , POLAND and Germany (who had a non-aggression pact TOO !! ) had invaded and diced up Czechoslovakia ! ! !
Well we can see Churchill is happy to see another useful idiot believing his propaganda lol you think your all smart sit down and put that d ick back in your mouth fool
My guy you cant use entire books as sources. That disingenuous i have to take everything you say with a grain of salt since i cant verify it without buying and reading through the entirety of the book. Please atleast add pages numbers if you are going to use books as sources.
Another thing worth mentioning is that there can be difficulty in verifying the authenticity of these books . I mean youre using david irvings book as a source . The same guy who denied the holocaust. We cannnot as viewers verify the validity of the books since some of these books lack the original proof of where they got the information from
A final thing to note you when you quoted hitler on the liquidation of the czech state if they should peruse an ant german policy . Then you go on to show how this isnt an act of aggression by quoting AJP taylor. But the problem is that is an opinion. Thats how you and taylor interpreted it. The majority of people would likely interpret that differently and as a clear act of agression
No, but Hitler did want to stress out the Czech PM in order to get him to cave to demands. Hitler hated Benes, the previous leader of Czechoslovakia, for his anti-German policy and his attempt to humiliate Germany.
@@EricNapoli-z3dHe "did want to stress" him?! He let Hách wait for hours while Hitler was watching a movie, then Hitler informed him that in the morning of the next day Germany will invade rest of Czechoslovakia and Hácha could sign that it was his wish and order the army to not defend Czechoslovakia or refuse and in that case Göring said that his Luftwaffe would bombard Prague to the ground and whole country would get under much more brutal occupation (something like to what happened to Poland). Hácha denied anyway, so nazis tried to "change his mind" until he got a heart attack, which kind of shocked them, because death of a president who "came to ask for help" wouldn´t look good. But he survived and in such terrible shape he agreed. Don´t try to act like Hitler just "stressed him a little bit" because evil Beneš didn´t trust nazis (how could he😧).
@@tefky7964 The idea that Hitler was watching a movie sounds made up. Otherwise, you're just describing how politics works. What was Hitler supposed to do? Let the Czechs keep their rump state in Bohemia? Why? That would be more work than it would be to just occupy the territory. It would be a pointless liability. Alternatively, maybe Hitler could have created a German-Czech state and given the Sudetenland back as a token of good will, but this would be seen as totally undemocratic and insulting to the Sudeten Germans, who had fought and even died for their freedom to join Germany. The fact is, the Czechs sealed their fate due to 2 decades of hostility towards ALL of their neighbors, including Hungary, Poland, and the Slovak people, who effectively did not have representation. Like the Poles centuries earlier, they were not going to endure, unless they were to become an asset of either the East or the West.
@@EricNapoli-z3d "We will invade your country and exterminate your nation if you don´t comply" is how politics work? Also honestly I really don´t get how can you talk about democratic principles and evil oppression of Poles by Czechs while also excuse invasions of so many nations by Germany and their plans to commit a genocide against most of them...
@@tefky7964 Sorry, my account received a day-ban for endorsing pro-German positions. 1) Germany never said they would "exterminate" the Czech people. Germany threatened to bomb Prague purely as a political tactic. There was no serious mobilization of the German air force (that I can find) to attempt this. Nor would it have been a good idea, as the Czech air force was pretty modern and capable even in 1939. 2) Geopolitics often involves threats to avoid conflict. Those may be defensive or offensive. For example, Russia has stated that they are prepared for open war with NATO if NATO supplies Ukraine cruise missiles to hit Russian cities. 3) Your last point is the most nonsensical. Germany invaded many countries in WW2, as did the Soviets and British. Germany didn't attempt or plan to "exterminate" (another use of this buzzword) any of them. Here's a list: 1) Poland Poland was subject to occupation and lost a significant number of its people later in the war. This was due to Poland's central nature in the war, and the common resistance of Polish partisans. There was no plan to exterminate the Polish people, and an independent Poland was part of every single peace offer that Germany sent to England. 2) Netherlands The Dutch were subject to a light occupation, with the only reprisals occurring in retaliation for partisan attacks on German troops (a war crime under the Geneva conventions). 3) Belgium The same as the Dutch. It should be noted that reprisals were not a violation of the Geneva Conventions (of which Germany was a signatory) until after WW2, and totally by 1977 (additional Protocol 1). 4) Denmark Denmark was allowed to keep its government entirely, and only a small garrison of German troops remained to prevent an invasion of the country by an enemy. 5) France France accepted the armistice presented by Germany, which was conditional and allowed the French government to remain in control of southern France until the end of the conflict. There was a limited attempt by Germany to re-integrate Alsace Lorraine, but unlike the French annexation of the territory in 1918, there was a much more limited exodus of natives. 6) Yugoslavia Yugoslavia's government, which was democratically elected, joined the German axis in 1940, which resulted in a coup by the Yugoslav military on behalf of the British. Due to the dysfunctional nature of the Yugoslav state, occupation of the territory by Germany varied, and in some cases new nations declared their independence as German allies (Croatia). 7) Greece I don't have enough information to speak on the occupation of Greece, although I do know that German occupation was preferred to Italian occupation. Germany had no territorial claims to this country whatsoever.
@@alesjanosik1545I would say it’s more shedding lite on facts that are purposely left out of western history. It shows that history is not black and white
Not sure if it would have been a fit for this series, but not mentioned was the Soviet incursion into the Czech territory during the 1930s and the construction of airfields that could have been used in an offensive war. They were not found until the occupation.
"airfields that could have been used in an offensive war" Literally any airfield or developed airbase can be used in an "offensive war." What are you even trying to say lmao
As this dude said, it is indeed far more complicated, but the fact of the matter is Germany relied on Czech tanks for several of their campaigns because their own were of lower quality and efficiency 😂
@thesnownigro7932 skoda was a czech-founded company...and many of the important factories like the one in pizen were not german or even a part of the ethnic german regions. Seizing the sudetenland was just a first step to vassalizing czechoslovakia as a whole to prevent economic collapse, it wasn't some rightful restoration of german rule over bohemia like you fantasize it to be
As Czech this video is just bunch of lies about my country, nothing good came from german occupation. Thousands of people were killed for no reason, many villages were burned to the ground and civilians shot on the sight, and you have audacity to claim we loved them...
This channels full of Nazi apologetics. He never mentions any German atrocities against their occupied people, but emphasizes discrimination against the Germans instead
Habsburgs, Nazis, Soviets... all of those "experiences" in our history developed and is encoded now in our DNA something, what Karel Roden's (czech "Hollywood" actor btw.) character Karel Beneš in a british TV show McMafia described by following all-saying words: "Czechs don't like their Bosses"
Do you have any thought towards making a series of videos about the history of the ongoing Israel Palestine conflict? Having to sift through an endless sea of lies to find one sole gem is tiring, and you are a great narrator, unbiased and thorough.
Waiting for Hess and Mosely with baited breath. Your take on history is like a breath of fresh air. Very different from the indoctrination I have been subjected to since birth
Extraordinary job on this story, as well as all your content. Truth is often obscured in history and the real story is not what we all thought. You do a great job shedding light of truth to history. I remember being in school learning the story we think is the truth. I would love to hear the real truth in exactly how the Germans re-arned themselves over the years in direct opposition of the Treaty Of Versailles. It's often stated the higher ranking generals of the Army were not Hitler fans and it can't be as easy as Hitler going against the grain. There had to been a bigger story, cause it needed a lot of co-operation of people going against the addition of a navy, the U-Boats and the evolution of them has to be a stand alone video. The Germans always been masters of mass organization, and needed a LOT of secrecy. Only thing I really seen or read was that they had bases in the USSR to develop their air force, as well as using neutral countries like Switzerland and The Netherlands as a front for their successful armament.
Once England's navy blocked the ports Germany had no way of getting fuel. Germany is in a terrible location when it comes to natural resources. That's the main reason they lost.
Occupation of the Czech State Republic was Hitler's first big mistake and indeed a crime. Until then he was justified in all his actions when it came to foreign policy because all the territories were inhabitated by Germans. This was not the case for Bohemia. If the Czech Republic constituted a threat to peace, he could have simply marched in and institute a friendly regime, but let the Czechs have their own country.
I m convinced Hitler believed - rightly or not,maybe under the effect of his documented paranoia-that the Allies were planning to attack Germany anyway, particularly after the Anschluss, so he decided to strike first, first with Czechoslovakia then with Poland.
Good strategy: There's too many lies, cleverly cushioned in-between historical facts, to successfully refute. If I am to challenge each of them, it would be an excruciatingly long comment and the reader will get bored :) Unfortunately a "good story" is always more interesting to read than simple truth ;) Keep up the "good work" at bringing about the Second Third Reich :D
Very well done video indeed! A question has arisen in me regarding WW1. Were there machinations by the ruling classes and backroom negotiations behind the scenes beforehand? Sadly, I was not really able to find a lot of information about it. Perhaps it would be a good idea to cover this topic also, cause we as Europeans have sent millions of young men to die basically for nothing, thus starting the downfall of our civilization on the world stage. I hope you can make a video about this.
Well, in Hitler's view Bohemia & Moravia used to be a part of "the Empire" for 1000 years, so it was irredentist. At the same time the enormous amount of weapons in Czechoslovakia made it possible to increase the strength of the Wehrmacht (only the infantry) by 30-40%.
Hitler's decision had already been made to separate the remaining state of the Czech Republic, which was riddled with domestic political crises, from the anti-German alliance with France and England, which Hungary and Poland were already waiting to further defeat. However, the reasons for this lay in the previous behavior of Czecho-Slovakia itself, especially in its minority policy towards the remaining Sudeten Germans, who were forced out of offices and their jobs and, in contrast to Czechs, did not receive unemployment benefits and were therefore exposed to complete destitution. Even the fundamentally pro-German attitude of the then President Hacha did not change Hitler's decision. Hitler had the rest of Czechia occupied with the promise of extensive domestic political autonomy that would go far beyond the time of Bohemia and Moravia under Austria-Hungary. Hitler kept his promise. The military was disarmed, but unemployment among the 6 million Czechs fell as a result. The police remained Czech, the Czech crown remained the national currency. The national border also remained in place and entry and exit for Germans was still only possible with a passport.
No he wouldn't have! The Western powers and the Soviet Union were just bidding their time. I believe the 3d Reich was unpopular with the ruling elites , Democratic as well as Communist, right from the beginning.
@@Letsplay222 Yeah, when working under armed SS it was something different. And we had pur reaistence and in the end rose up against the germans. Also they closed our scholl restricted us and it is very well known that we hated them. When Beneš returned, he was greated with flowers. Nazis were greated whith shouting and snowballs. I know our history, you know
@@Letsplay222 If it was fight and get your whole country completely annihilated, or dont fight and suffer the same brutal ocupation but with a country mostly intact, the Czechs went with the more reasonable option. Also sudetenland was very industrialized and housed heavy fortifications against the Germans. With it they could have stalled the Germans for months, but whitout it only for weeks. But if they refused to give sudetenland to the Germans, they would be labeled as warmongers by both Germany and Britain.
@@GovernorAdmiral So the Germans were reviled and hated, they were brutal, the Czechs had tons of weapons to fight them with, but they didn't put up any resistance because living under occupation was preferable because resistance would mean annihilation, even though the Germans hadn't "annihilated" anyone yet at that point and a war in Czechoslovakia wouldn't be very popular or in their interest. I don't know, that just seems like pretzel logic to me. But if that is what you believe, then more power to you.
I just want to mention that Vojtech Tuka was a massive Hitler simp. Like literally if Hitler had OF he would be the number one spender. So I wouldnt take his exact wording too seriously but his basic idea behind those words was pretty much in-line with what other significant slovak politicians thought.
The dissing of Oversimplified is so based
It’s true tho, I used to love over simplified till I realized it was basically for little kids
@@Fallout3131lol me too I feel like he simplified to many things
@@ArslanMagomedov286imagine being upset at a channel called OVERSIMPLIFIED for being OVERSIMPLIFIED. Lol yeah, alot of information isn’t 100% accurate, because its a synopsis, a brief overview, heavy on the jokes. It’s something i can sit my 5 year old in front of and she’ll watch and learn something rather than sticking her in front of cocomeleon or whatever crap they make for kids these days.
@@fishfossils8858 bro when did I ever say I hated oversimplified. I love him. just felt that as I grew up, he wasn’t being a very good son to me. So I disowned him. I also felt as if he made a very reductive view of very complex events, which was alright for time beings. I still watch him
he was your son?@@ArslanMagomedov286
It's taken years for me to find a history channel that is unbiased and doesn't treat me like a naive child.
Truer words couldn't have been said
Lol this is not unbiased.
@@dudebro91-fn7rzhow so?
@@jhonjhon3715 This guy sights David Irving who is a convicted holocaust denier and proven in a court of law to be a liar.
This isn't just biased, but you can easily see that almost everything he says is untrue or greatly exaggerated with even the most surface level cross referencing.
If you think this is some great unbiased RUclips channel and not some Brittish brainlet trying to rewrite n@zis into decent human beings you're an imbecile.
Also people never mention that until the dissolution of Czecho-Slovakia in 1939, the Franco-Czecho-Soviet pact was still (at least de jure) active. If a war broke out, France and Soviet union would declare war on Germany and Rumania would have to let Soviet troops go through her territory. For those who don't know, this pact was the product of the Barthou-Titulescu-Beneš policy from 1935 which had a plan of completely isolating Germany from all sides, the pact was supposed to include all Little Entente members and Poland.
Romania, not Rumania
You have touched upon a very interesting topic that today's historians are trying to hush up. After concluding a disgusting agreement with Hitler in Munich in 1938, France refuses to fulfill its allied obligations with Czechoslovakia. The Soviet Union turns to the Polish government to provide a narrow corridor through their territory for the passage of the Soviet army to help the Czechs in the event of a German attack. The Poles refused. Sadly, the opportunity to stop Hitler at the beginning of World War II was missed. This entire tragedy has specific culprits who are trying their best to rewrite history today, but they will not succeed,.....
@@captderichelieu2280yep, today Poles scream about how bad the Soviet Union was for attacking them, without mentioning how they took part of Belarus and Ukraine between 1917 and 1920.
@@captderichelieu2280they also never mentioned that their government ran away a week after Germans invaded, leaving Poland pretty much open for Germans. Should Soviets just stand and wait?
@@arturz8192 The pre-war policy of Poland was absolutely insane. Decades have passed but no conclusions have been made and the Poles are repeating past mistakes again. Unfortunately, it has become a national characteristic of the Poles - to look for enemies nearby and allies thousands of kilometers away.
I will always be absolutely BAMBOOZLED at the sheer ridiculousness of the Versailles treaty. Which idiots thought these boarder arrangements would be a good idea?
The same idiots that drew the national lines in the middle east….
they were developed in consideration for the strategic and individual objects of the victors. The general consensus was either create a new state with strong borders, economic & military capacity or don't create one at all... other examples are Romania, Hungary, Greece, and Poland. For the Czechs the sudeten region provided economic strength & natural defenses, along with their own historical claims to the region as a part of the bohemian crown. Germany made plenty of ridiculous claims on territory, often far dumber than the Czech's claim to the sudetenland, you can't be complaining about its logic while advocating for a country that did the exact same
There was no ww2 in Europe.
It was WW1 after a ceasefire.
@@what-uy7go "Germany made plenty of ridiculous claims on territory, often far dumber than the Czech's claim to the sudetenland"
for Example?
@@ottersirotten4290Germany making any claims on territory was ridiculous. The peace was a dictate, Germany never accepted an armistice under the condition of it being on the 14 points
I’m amazed your channel exists. , information like this just wasn’t possible to be accessed this easily in the past. Good job!
I’m surprised this channel exists as well considering the harsh draconian censorship of modern society.
Yes, I agree 👍🏽
Mussolini try not to go one zoomerhistorian video without throwing a temper tantrum challenge: 99% IMPOSSIBLE
And why he keep sperging 😂
@thesnownigro7932 mussolini was way worse (im saying this as a democrat)
@@Ww-lf3czyou're brave
@Ww-lf3cz why the hell are you a Democrat? ...have you been paying attention?
@@ZoomerHistorian You just making stuff up, this was absolutely disgusting. Just the fact that you contradicting yourself in many cases shows that you are lying scuuum. As for the beloved heidrich he planned to "remove" up to 60% of czechs who werent suitable for germanification, another FACT you forgot to mentioned in your BS fairy tail story 🤮🤮🤮
Not the victor’s history narrative.
The British lecturing anyone on the occupation of foreign countries ... hilarious!
British people can’t discuss the occupation of other countries or their own?
@@Valencetheshireman927 Absolutely not, especially when trying to mix it with moral judgement. There is a reason nonwesterners do not cling onto the moral narrative of that war. No one sees Germany and the UK as any different.
@@fuwa9616 That seems quite insane. You’re really suggesting the Germans can’t talk about the occupation of their own land by the Soviets?
@@Valencetheshireman927
"the occupation of other countries " this wasn't about the occupation of their own country but invading other ones, in that aspect Britain can't hold the moral judgement towards Germany.
@@Cyricist001 That means nobody can pass “moral judgment” on others for the occupation of other countries, because every culture through history has done it.
Czechs were so happy to be occupied that anti German demonstrations had barely 3x more attendees than the one you mention after Heydrich's assassination (and which was totally spontaneous, of course). The Czechs also loved that their universities were closed half a year after the occupation and half of grammar schools by 1942, coz what good is education for them, right?
Totaleinsatz was totally loved as well, who would not love to be working their bum off in the Reich for 70 hours a week living in a dorm with one shower for 100 inmates. A great holiday for which nearly 10% of population totally voluntarily applied for.
Lmao source : Soviet American propaganda i am sure the Czechs love the fact that their population is going down, that they have climate idiots gluing themselves on streets, and that degenerate leftists call Woman a social construct, funny how you mention university's while now these university's teach diversity propaganda lol.
@tiagomonteiro130 2,5 million but true
Forgot to mention, how Hacha was happy, when he announced to people of czechia, that they are protected by Germans now, that his voice shaked, like he's going to cry. And how Hacha was happy, when was theatened, that Hitler would slaughter all czechs
The sheer insanity of the claims in the video is a testament to a total echochamber people who made it live in.
@@adambadam4870 the insantiy is thinking that a small group of warhawk chihuahua nationalist czech being bigots somehow makes your side look good and not validate the video claims.
I have been watching these videos, and I think they are good. They are clearly Axis biased, but I think that's good since 99% of other WW2 videos are Allied bias. Back after the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon was "Literally Hitler" for ~100 years, before people started looking at his side of the story, and his impact on history more objectively. It's been nice to see Hitler getting the same treatment in my lifetime, because the WW2 story never made sense to me, even as a kid. I had dozens, if not hundreds of questions teachers and such couldn't answer, or could only answer "Well Hitler was crazy so that's why it didn't make sense". I knew most of the info in these videos already, but I like these since they are a very digestible for most people.
Over-simplified, indeed! Thanks, ZH.
Well first of all Hácha wasn't tortured, he was arrested to be judged and died in that prison because of his bad health :( Secondly yes we accepted German overlordship, but not because we wanted it, but because we didn't wanted to get blown to pieces in this helpless situation. Overall Czechoslovakia could have work, otherwise it would have already crumbled before 1939, but it didn't and yes I agree Czechoslovakia should have been done differently.
Exactly. As if Czechoslovakia did not work after 1945.
@@tomorrowneverdies567 You mean as a part of the Soviet Union? 🤔
@@Letsplay222
Czechoslovakia was not part of the Soviet Union. 🤔
@@tomorrowneverdies567 Sure they weren't, kid. Sure they weren't.
@tomorrowneverdies567 they were part of the Soviet Empire, if not the USSR proper
Ive been waiting for this video.Thanks for your work.
Saying that the Czechs have no real claim on the border areas is very dishonest. A czech state with those borders has existed since the 9th century, before being incorporated into Austria.
Bohemia was German ruled, if anything Germans had more of a claim on the Czech areas of Bohemia than Czechs had on the German areas since Bohemia was founded and ruled ever since as a German country.
@@Lockfly :D
@@LockflyHow was Bohemia german ruled? Yes it was part of the Holy Roman Empire but that was more of a loose confederation of states than an empire. And Bohemia was one of the elctor states that elected the emperor. Bohemian kings were Czechs.
The Holy Roman Empire had It’s capital in Cologne and German culture, trade, universities extended right up to the Baltic States to East Prussia. The dominant language, jurisprudence and Universities spoke German. Until the end of WW2 and the Soviets took over.
Sorry but can you tell me the state name because I only remember Holy Roman Empire control and before them manly the Avers surrounding by the first bulgian empire and the the first great Slavic migration under the supposed rule of Byzantine empire
On March 15, Czechs went to the snowy streets of Prague, protesting and raising fists at the German convoys. Fists, not salutes. Is that the welcoming you were talking about?
How many Czechs protested out of how many of the total population?
@@Letsplay222 Actively about 30-100 thousand, despite the authorities brutally cracking down on them. And if I take the last free elections into account, at least 2.5 million anti-Nazi voters supported them.
@@9nniosalier1: So, 100,000 out of 14,480,000 people? That's not even one percent of the population.
@@Charles_Anthony First, Protectorate didn't have even half of the population you wrote.
Second, when did you last see 7 million people demonstrating in the cities under totalitarian regime?
@@Charles_Anthony ah yes 14.480.000 people, not even the whole territory of the czech republic TODAY, has that population, what is bro yapping about.
Good video as always hope you go into some of the history of the war in Croatia and other parts of Yugoslavia that usually get glosser over.
As a Slovak myself I feel obligated to inform you that the creation of Slovakia was less helping to independence and more reducing us to a puppet state with some priviliges. We were partially ocupied, we lost whole south of our country and ended up with less independence than in Czechoslovakia.
We had some priviliges but the moment we resisted we lost them and got brutal treatment from the Germans like the Czechs and Polish.
You cannot put Vojtech Tukas words as what Slovakians wanted. He was considerrd a radical even in HSĽS, the party that ruled Slovakia during ww2. The Slovakians were pretty split if they should remain a part of Czechoslovakia.
We didnt want to be allies of Germany any more than the Czechs or Polish. And also saying that Czechs liked the ocupation is bullshit. The Germans burnt entire villages and slaughtered thousands of civilians.
Does anyone "like" being occupied? It's a question of the alternatives, being run by the Czechs or worse, the Soviets.
@@Letsplay222
Czechs and soviets opressed us as well. But the Czechs still gave us some representation and the soviet opression was worse than the Czech one. But neither Czechs nor the soviets burned villages and executed thousands of innocent civilians as an example. They also didnt force us to export our jewish population to concentration camps and to pay for their "liquidation".
And if WW2 never happend it is unlikely that we would have become a puppet state of the soviets.
@@GovernorAdmiral Yes, but at the time the Germans were burning villages and liquidating Jews, they were being vice-gripped by the United States, British Empire and Soviet Union in a fight against annihilation. If the Soviets or Czechs were under similar circumstances, they would have done the same or worse.
And the Soviets would have come for everyone eventually, until they were stopped.
@@Letsplay222
I am not debating the fact that the soviets were bad or that other nations would do the same in the Germans situation (except for the jews). I am just saying that the video made it look like we Slovakians wanted to be allies of the Germans and begged them to come and liberate us and that the Czechs loved the ocupation. I am not saying that neither Czechs nor Slovaks are innocent, but this video leaves out important information and presents other information out of context.
@@GovernorAdmiral You act like Tiso was "forced" to do everything, sounds like a fake story you've been told by the current Slovakian government to blame the Germans for their own crimes.
Have you read Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof's book "1939:The war that had many fathers". I found it quite easy to digest, since it is not chronological, but sorted by themes.
I haven’t yet no but read many books which use that as a source, it’s on my to-read list though
I absolutely recommend it. Really changed the way I saw things!
@@ZoomerHistorianzu diesem Thema gibt es noch ein Buch: Hitler und deine Tschechen. Kann ich sehr empfehlen. Auch den tschechischen Zuhörern, das Buch gibt es auch auf tschechisch, im Original.
26:25 The Czechs were so happy with the German occupation that at the end of the war they massacred the Germans :D
It was the communists that massacred the Germans
So a small group of czechs were racial bigots who started the war. Exactly why most think the USSR was justified in what it did after.
Czechs are cowards !!
Saying this as a Czech
The Czechs massacred Germans even before the occupation
@@KrokLP
Massacred is a strong word. They were somewhat opressed but there was no mass extermination. Unlike what the Germans did after they conquered Czechoslovakia.
Another well done video, my friend.
It's a shame what happened to the Germans in the Sudetenland after the war. This video was definitely on the darker side in details. Loved it. 💪🏻
Thanks so much as always mate!
Do the German war crimes in Belarus next, burning down thousands of villages oh wait you would never do that.
Im a decendant of a sudeten german. Wie are still alive!
@@arminiuscherusci4410now Germany and Czechia are in the EU you should move back to the Sudetenland, property prices are cheaper there than Germany also, and it’s less woke.
You can work in Germany and live in Czechia / Bohemia
It’s a shame what happened to so many Czechs and others in Auschvitz and other camps and how polite gestapo was, memory of Heinlein NSDAP and how apprised it was by most Germans was in fresh memory and returning people as well as communist fighters coming from eastern front plus influence of red army caused so much unrest that it wasn’t in government power to guarantee the safety of the minority hence the move to deport them to Germany most of them wished to be part couple years back anyway (so actually fulfilling their dream, which wasn’t as appealing now when Germany lied in ruins) The intentions of Germany to wipe out Czechoslovakia was clear to us - read Frantisek Moravec memoir - Master of spies, and you will know what was known to us and dismissed by our English and French allies. Btw Germans settled upon invitation by Bohemian kings and granted right to settle under condition they will be loyal to the Czech/Bohemian government/crown/nation the conditions they clearly broke and as that it could be looked at their removal from the land out as they lost the right to settle here. And it is not easy for German to move back in and own property in Czech Republic as post war Benes’s decrees are still in force and as Czech citizen completely agree with it. (You can acquire Czech citizenship if you like, but even that is not that as easy, you can get residency as anywhere in EU, but owning a property is not as easy - as resident you can setup Czech company which would own the property you’d be living - one of the way I can think of how German can own the property here if somebody actually sell to German)
Interesting video, but I have to wonder why, why there is no mention of the anti-occupation protest of czech students, and death, where german civil police was ordered to shoot into crowd, which resulted in death of Jan Opletal. More over forced removal of czechs from sudetenland which I saw estimated to be about 120k people, which seems like a very similar number to unemployed people in protektorat. It seems weird to mention the protest after the Heydrich atentat and not the student protest in 1939. For those reasons this video seems very biased.
of course he is biased, but on the other hand, you can read this on literally any mainstream article or video about the matter. zoomer historian is posting the other side of the coin. i agree that the ideal is to show both sides simultaneously
@@clmberserker245 and there would be nothing wrong about it if he wouldnt say: "I will give you the full story." just one minute into the video btw. My problem with him is his claims of unbiased history in every video, yet he forgots to mention significant things and leaves of important historical context.
This guy is a nazi what do you expect
Listen guy: ever noticed that all the parts of Eastern Europe that used to be ruled by Germans are to this day the best developed? So after WW1, Czechoslovakia was left with a with a comparatively excellent infrastructure, an excellent education system and an excellent industry. But they decided to hate the Germans. During the Second World War, what is now the Czech Republic was the armory of the empire, an enormous amount of weapons and vehicles were manufactured there, and even after the war, Czechoslovakia was one of the top exporters of weapons. There was comparatively little destruction there. And people cooperated as long as the Germans were stronger. But once they were helpless, they showed their true colors. I understand, you have to justify a genocide. You have to be the victim here. But the thing is, if someone steals your wallet, you don't have the right to kill his family. At least that's my opinion.
@@FantadiRienzo Hello, so about the infrastructure, education and industry. I do not dispute that. Now they did not just decided to hate germans after war. I believe there were nationalist tensions between czechs and germans in like 1800s eg. Czech national revival. About czech lands being the armory of reich: no dispute there. Same goes for destruction. I would say most people cooperated, because of fear of execution or imprisonment or they benefited from it greatly(which I think was rather the exception). Now a lot of people were frustrated by the war and when it ended they took out the frustration on anyone german. Which obviosly was not jistified and wrong. And later the forced expulsion was even worse. I would say that it was probably one of the worst mistakes of 20th century. So you are wrong I have no need to justify this genocide or any other genocide. But my original comment was about the bias, that I think Zoomer historian displays in his videos. I am from village, that is just 2 km from the where sudetenland was and from reading testimonies of regular folk from this area I know the czech and german confilict was never black and white.
The Czechs were happy? Are you serious? Ask any Czech who lived at that time how happy he was during the protectorate. Do it.
I just did. They told me it was cool
@@mayachico9766 Could you please provide info as to who do you mean with "they"? Otherwise im assuming you just made it up.
@@TheVoices69 they said it's cool. Bye
@@mayachico9766 whos "they"?
@@TheVoices69this teenager won’t tell anyone cause he simply just lied to you bro. Don’t waste your energy on this idiot.
Missed the bus ... missed the boat ... the hidden influence of public transport on world history.
Takový prznění historie je fakt potupný, kde proboha vytáhl že češi milovali masového vraha Heydricha, to je vrchol xdddd
A jak krásně se nám tehdy žilo :)
Ano. Milovali ho. Proto lítal po Praze v kabrioletu.
🤡🤡🤡🤡 xdddddddddd
teenageři ze západu vás poučují o tom, že okupace od země, která vás považovala za druhořadého občana, není nic hrozného LOL
Kto na svete sa pozrie na nemcov, ktorý za smrť jedného človeka zabili tisícky a povie si: „áno, tento národ zlepšil Československo ”.
Although my knowledge may be skewed by the standard narrative, the entire first half (I didn't watch any further) doesn't sit well with me.
- Why the Sudetenland fell to the Czech Republic - yes, the main argument was the viability of such a state. But at the same time it was the territory of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Whether that's enough as a reason I don't presume to judge, but it's not exactly like Czechoslovakia stole a random chunk of Germany.
- The whole excuse and reason Hitler attacked Czechoslovakia... eh. He wrote it in Main Kamf back in 1925 (seizing the Sudetenland). The real planning started in 1933. All the rest about oppression, genocide etc was just an effort to destabilize Czechoslovakia and separate it from the allies. Once that was done, the fate of Czechoslovakia was clear.
- Of course, there were real problems (e.g. the effects of the economic crisis, which hit mainly the industrial parts), which Hitler fed by supporting radical Sudeten German groups in the borderlands, who then carried out attacks.
- The Polish-German plan of attack - that's bullshit. It may have occurred to someone, but there was no such plan in any serious sense. It doesn't even make sense, because Czechoslovakia was betting on alliance treaties with France, Great Britain and Russia. The hope was that if we defended ourselves, the powers would come to the rescue. If we attacked, we would suddenly be the aggressor.
- Mobilisation was more a demonstration of strength and determination to defend ourselves. As I see it, Hitler was testing whether the Czechoslovak government at the time would be capable of such a move (it was perceived as weak due to skirmishes in the borderlands etc).
In conclusion, the Czech Republic is not innocent. There was some resentment towards the Germans, etc. But at the same time, Czechoslovakia had the most liberal constitution, and for a long time German parties boycotted participation in parliament. Realistically, given the circumstances, the mix of internal and external influences was such that Czechoslovakia never had a chance to survive.
If Czechoslovakia deserves criticism for anything, it is the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans (or the atrocities that accompanied it). By contrast, in the period before the Second World War, Czechoslovakia was dealt a hand that, in my opinion, it managed to manage just fine.
However, I admit that my perception may be distorted by the fact that I am Czech and thus may have a natural tendency to perceive it in a certain way, at the same time I had only limited space for research. Therefore, this is more of an "opinion" than an attempt to give a 100% objective description.
As a Czech i agree with you but not the video
The video is a nahzee apologetic slop for 4chan users, Americans who can't even point Prague on the map, and when they do they know more about which type of button what SS regiment had than the history of the region oitside of 1939-1945 period.
@@adambadam4870 You are the ones who only want people to remember what happened between 1939 and spring 1945. Don't let people hear what happened starting in 1918 or what happened in 1945-1947. I've seen your people laugh when the Brno death march is mentioned. "The final solution of the German question" as your oh so social and oh so democratic hero called Benes called the campaign 😊
Like you said the video at least should include the protest following the occupation.
@@KrokLP I would agree that what happen during 1945 - 1947 is not talk enough.
Who did you see laugh about the Brno death march? Or are you just pulling it out of your ass. I dont think that many people from here would call Beneš a hero (or even a good president some hate him for accepting munich agreement others understand why he accepted the agreement) thats like calling Jimmy Carter a american hero.
Because, if you've played Fuhrerreich, you'd know how much of a pain a third front right next to your heart would be.
The simping of this guy for Hitler is crazy. I quote "Reinhard Heydrich, protector of Bohemia was so loved by Czechs" - This is gonna be most ironic sentence ever. Assassination of Heydrich was suggested by Czechoslovak Government in Exile and it was named "Operation Anthropoid", exiled government intentions to asssinate this guy was to null Munich Agreement from 1938, because Allies saw the 1939 invasion of Czechoslovakia as Czech unwillingness to resist any foreign invader. Exiled government was well aware Allies had no intentions of returning Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia after the war, as it was separate agreement prior to war. When the Operation Anthropoid was executed and Czech paratroopers were dropped in Protectorate, they had arranged meeting with local Czech resistance leaders, when the Czech paratroopers explained their main reason for being present in Protectorate, Czech resistance leaders tried to stop them as they knew assassinating Heydrich would bring an end to lives of thousands of Czechs in protectorate, because Heydrich was known for his brutality and repressions towards the Czech population, he was even nicknamed "Butcher of Prague" for his actions done prior to the operation. I have seen video about your active pro-Nazi stance in your videos made by What Why How, I recommend others to watch it to get better knowings about this guy calling himself "Zoomer Historian".
Once again, the Westerners think a neutral factual view of the man is somehow simping. No, you are the ones that have been ingrained to think a certain way, known as the "western rewritten consensus" established in 1950s.
I also notice you conflate one man's action with the entire country. I have read and heard about the ideas that many men in countries like Czechoslovakia, the UK and the USA, plans for what to be done to the Japanese population. If you are gonna use one man to judge a country, then we can easily use one man to judge that the Czechs were not innocent.
@@fuwa9616
One mans actions. Heydrich ordered it but hundreds of ss soldiers did it and those people who Heydrich answered to aprooved of these actions. If they hadnt aprooved of those actions Heydrich would have been removed and arrested.
And the people he answered to were the most powerfull people in Germany.
@@fuwa9616 No one is innocent, in every single country Germans occupied throughout the war, collaborators existed. I am not judging one man's actions, I am judging the insane pro-Nazi romanticized version of what happened in Czechoslovakia prior and during the war.
@@maxek9417its weird that the "pro-nazi" narrative makes WAY more sense than the narrative we're taught in school. (Evil NAZI Mustache man driven by irrational hatred and madness convinces millions of relatively intelligent/educated people that a completely innocent religious minority was to blame for all of their problems based purely on superstition)
You somehow "forgot" to mention the villages Lidice and Ležáky, which were burnt to ground by the Germans as revenge for the assassination of Heidrich, all the men were murdered and women and children dragged to concentration camp. After the assassination thousands of other innocent Czechs were arrested, tortured and killed.
Our resistance was significant. The actual reason why Heidrich was put into his place in the protectorate, was to destroy the Czechs resistance, which he managed by torturing and murdering those, who were trying oppose the Germans and rewarding collaborators.
I acknowledge that our resistance was not much compared to the one in France or the USSR, but those soldiers, who killed Heidrich were actually Czech, our resistance fighters also attempted an assassination of Himmler.
Hitler murdered millions upon millions of people, you may be stating some facts, but you knowingly ignore most of them just tu suit your questionable opinions.
Lidice and Ležáky were the landign zones of allied paratroopers in that operation, if there is resistance activity in the middle of a war, it's going to get treated as a war zone.
@@citizenfoffie7605 I am not even going to answer that. You are fine with war crimes, genocide and child murder. Everyone over the age of 15 was shot there, the rest gassed in concentration camps or readucated in German families. If you are fine with something like that happening, i have nothing else to tell you.
@@citizenfoffie7605
So you are saying that by paradroping someone into an enemy city I give the enemy the right to slaughter the whole civilian population?
Because thats what happend.
That shouldnt happen even if it was a warzone.
If your resistance was less than the one in France, then you didn't have much of a resistance at all.
@@Letsplay222I have bad news for you about the myth of the French resistance
Tedor? Buchanan? IRVING??? You are very brave. Not incorrect, just brave,
Irving is a giant
Like nazis, do you?@@colonelsmith7757
@@colonelsmith7757 A giant failure
alany dont talk ignoramus nonsense. theres a thing called books. open them.
@@d.k8746 Why would I open a giant failure and a proven liar and fabricators books?
"We hated the germans so much, we even hated the german language"zdena nemcova . Your claim that the czechs liked yhe occupation is comedic
he said "many" not all. And the leader of Czech practically begged Hitler. Czech was a rogue and false state, and was clearly anti-German.
Ignore all the IDF accounts and keep up with your excellent work!
Also ignore all the people that came from Reddit
Reddit users are mostly retarded.
You do good work Zoomer. It's good to see the younger generations caring about the truth of WW2.
Your channel is treading the line of what YT considers h8 speech.
Do not be discouraged by warnings and threats you may get. Keep these vids coming, they are important!
"The truth" Lol
@@DrJones20 go play videogames, cuck.
@DrJones20 yea "truth" haha
@@Masaryk28.10., and the Goyem speak again…..
much closer to the truth than ur ignoramus nonsense for sure
My Czech family lived in Prague during WW2. They were deemed "able to Germanized".
Re-Germanized?
@@dittmannrudolfrohr2149 Hypergerman nationalist when he realises that he is 20% czech
@@somerandomgadzo4778 Maybe they were deemed able to learn the German language.
@@dittmannrudolfrohr2149
Hey, I've seen this one in the late 18th century - the deliberate effort to erase the Czech language.
I can't imagine why any Czech would object to that...
“The most deplorable crimes committed against Germans in 1945 occurred in Czechoslovakia. What happened here is beyond measure. Over 3,200,000 Sudeten Germans were robbed of all their belongings, around 250,000 were tortured and murdered in unimaginable torment, and 2,814,000 of the survivors were driven out of their homeland. On top of that, around 500,000 German soldiers who surrendered, fleeing Silesians, East Prussians and Pomeranians who tragically moved into Czech territory were swept away into the murderous chaos. The majority of them are still considered missing today.”
“Rehabilitation of Hitler: The Guy was Controversial.” Alt name for channel.
The name for your channel would be "I just believe what's on the TV, derp, derp."
@@MikeM-r8i The name for your channel would be "I'm a pornography addicted incel."
@@MikeM-r8i yes there are plenty of things exagerated by the allies side to make germany look worse in small certain areas. but who am I gonna choose to believe more. almost every single person in europe after the war. or this random guy on the internet who i have never heard once mention the genocide of the jewish population ,the killing of all the russian people despite talking about what russia did to germany, the killing of disabled people, the killing of anyone who wasnt fully with the third reich and much much more ? though one to choose between these two options
@@MikeM-r8iliterally watching Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher and suffering TDS everyday of his life.
@@MikeM-r8i noo my alternative propaganda is better than your mainstream propaganda!!
Great Britain was not ready to go to war yet. And there was opposition to European wars after the horrendous loss of men in WWI.
The European leaders knew full well war was unavoidable despite the Munich Agreement which was just an attempt to win a little time before the shit hit the fan.
Juze did it
Germany and Italy were not at all ready for war yet. They had to recover from the terrible post WWI conditions before they could manufacture anything. England and France were very ready for war and manufactured plenty of weapons after WWI.
@@PeterLaughton France was not ready for war, the chief of staff of the French Air Force said they lacked the plane strength to fight the Luftwaffe in 1938.
Brother "there was a serious chance of Polish-Czech invasion of Germany" is the biggest joke i ever heard, almost more hilarious than your attempt to convey that this channel is unbiased. Got me rolling hard. I am Czech and have personally studied our dated archived documents from exactly this era for years. This video is honestly hot garbage which makes me reconsider the legitimacy of your other videos i have in fact kind of enjoyed. Those years of oppression and German occuptaion destroyed all of our defense mechanisms, military, welfare and industry thus literally buttering us up for the SSSR which finished the job in crippling our country for decades. You can say anything about intentions, it ended up as a damn disaster though.
Also, i forgot to state that the sole reason for Slovaks not taking a big part in ČSR's decisionmaking at the time was that they were quite literally HARD CARRIED by our developed economy. It might have been empathy and etnic vicinity amongst the population (together with personal efforts of TGM, Beneš and others) which resulted in the creation of a single state. Nonetheless, in the end we were heavily betrayed by those whom we concidered our brothers.
Funny "this channel was good until it dissed to my country" logic
@@sarubet8725 because unlike the other videos, i actually studied the concrete facts on the history of my country so i finally saw the disconnect. If you dont understand that, you have black mold on the brain lil bro
@@sarubet8725What the person above said was true though?
@@realcheez795 Lol you were fine with his german whitewashing of every other country hurts when it happens to you
Watched every video you uploaded. Keep it up Zoomer🔥
Yeah, not surprising
So interesting to listen to this more realistic way history played out. Thank you.
Incredible work dude
One fact that makes this version of history more plausible than the official narrative: Czechoslovakia disappeared shortly after collapse of USSR.
I was born in Czech and came to Australia as a child .. my grandma who lived through the war said the Germans were good guys overall..and she prayed they would defeat the Russians which she said were nothing more then swine.. she used to feed German soldiers during the war and said they were gentlemen.. her home was in a village close to the German border .. we have Austrian and German blood too as well as Czech and Slovak
Germans were good guys overall? Give me a break. You are a total idiot. Germans caused death of over 55 millions of Europeans and laid the whole Europe in ruins during the WWII. You really mean it was good?
Your grandma was a bitch i will say that supporting occupation its like if someone supported soviets in 1968
My father was Slovak and my mother German. That was a very typical marriage after the war. Any official stories have to be looked at skeptically. I have never sensed any ill will from my 20 first cousins or 10 aunt and uncles of Slovakia towards the Germans.
Didn't Poland and Hitler make a decision to split Czechoslovakia between them?
Nope.
Nope. There was no agreeement. Additionally, Poland reclaimed lands that czechosloviaka stole from us during polish-soviet war and were inhabited by poles.
I'm really enjoying the life of hitler series and the great amout of detail you go to in each video.
I'd like to know about his mental decline towards the final years of the war.
Thanks for your good work
So according to you Reinhard Heydrich was beloved by the local population and brought the Czech people never-before-seen prosperity? I guess that's why the Czechoslovaks assassinated him and the populace helped the paratroopers in every way they could.
And the part about Hitler needing to invade the Czech lands to prevent "chaos"? What about not invading a killing those 100 000 people? BTW real numbers are higher, I would be interested in how Zoomer Historian got those "less than 100 000 Czechs". The video didn't actually bring up a single good reason for the invasion of the rest of Czechoslovakia. I'm sorry but "unclear future" is not a reason for invasion. Even for mr. Hitler.
your source is David Irving? nice one ;)
Thats not good
Irving is a proven liar.
@@Masaryk28.10. You mean its not good to have the world's most renown expert on this history before his wrongthink in the 70s?
@@fuwa9616or because his books beem debunked and he's litterally been prooven a holacaust denier even in court
Because he debunks churchill and stalins crazy lies about the war and hitler? @@Masaryk28.10.
I’ve been watching a lot of your videos lately and they’re very well done, but I’m curious what your source is for saying Churchill was paid to provoke war? I’ve heard that before but I can’t find confirmation anywhere.
He was the main force pushing for war in the UK, there wouldn’t be a single source that would capture all of it, but I’ll make a full life of Winston Churchill video and try to make as much sense of it as is possible in a single video
David Irving's book Churchill's war
Irving is a proven liar@@andrewcoons8060
Rothschilds
Nick Kollerstam covers it.
The rest of you guys, after I've read your comments, i was utterly sickened. Sitting here neck deep in your nazi fantasies, believing everything this guy tells you, trying to ignore all the oppression, torture, deportation, murder and genocide, and agreeing with the invalid reasons MY country was invaded for. This guy may be stating some facts, i am not denying that, but all he says is specifically chosen to suit HIS opinions, while putting aside key facts, like the Czech resistance during the occupation, or the destruction of the villages Lidice and Ležáky. Do your own research, look yourself into the horrors the Nazis did in my country then come back and tell me what you think!
Oh sorry the image of your wonderful country was sullied. Since you say the pretext and story about Czech oppression before occupation are all wrong, can you instead tell me about Benes "Final Solution of the German Question"? Or what happened to 3 million Germans, 20% of Czechoslovakia?
Well, it is impossible to know the true minds of millions of people 90 years ago. All we can go off of is actions. Just like France likes to pretend that they heroically resisted the German occupation during WW2, the facts seem to indicate a very different story...most didn't resist either out of ideological agreement or just practical self-interest. However, I think the main point of the video isn't that "The Czechs liked Hitler" so much as it is that Hitler wasn't out to "conquer the world" like most historical narratives state, but rather he merely responded to opportunity and a power vacuum.
@@KrokLP You mean the mass post war deportation? I am not defending that. That was a cruel unreasonable thing to do and yes, it was Beneš's fault. In his defence the idea was greatly influenced by the soviets, who "liberated" us. And Beneš at this point was more or less a soviet puppet.
@@CraftKiller-tv7gb An example. One train full of families, around 200 deportees, from Slovakia in 1946 was stopped in Moravia. There were no fighting-age men on board. Women, children, elderly. The Czech corporal in charge marched them away from the train station where he started having everyone shot, starting with the eldest, following "natural order" as parents should not out-live their children. When asked by higher-ups later why he shot the children he asked what use the orphaned parasites had. He was never charged with anything and probably enjoyed a long life and nice Czech army pension.
@@KrokLP Could you share the source please?
All the details that previously were only a 'trust me bro'. Thanks.
I admire this channel’s intended purpose and think that it hits that mark 99% of the time; but something in this video struck a cord with me immediately. Referring to Winston Churchill and company as paid shills I think demonstrates unintended bias. Shill, especially in the context of the English, carries an incredibly negative connotation. Churchill was a man of dubious means as I’m sure we can agree most politicians regardless of era are; but to call him and his likeminded peers paid shills writes them off and doesn’t consider the other very real and extenuating circumstances at the time. People think hysteria based on paranoia or whatever irrational fear is a very modern concept but in reality it’s a phenomenon present throughout time. The English and Germans up to that point didn’t have exactly the best track record for foreign relations and ideology predicated on someone’s race or national origin was much more prominent at the time so that bad blood had harbored as a result of a prior world war and eventual colonial ambitions of Germany overlapping with Britain’s. In summary I just find the diction choice to be poor and reflective of an unfair characterization of people who were merely victims of the time/circumstance not all too dissimilar to Prime Minister Chamberlain himself when it comes to how he’s perceived in the modern realm of academia.
This is like asking for someone to be called a "war hawk" rather than a "war monger." Churchill was not just another politician. It may seem normal for politicians to be paid to advance certain agendas by shadowy groups today, but that is not what a politician does by definition.
@@againsttheleftandright4065 even for the time that seems pretty on-brand and to scale accurately. I feel like that’s an apt assumption to make of most or all politicians after the enlightenment era/Industrial Revolution.
@@ActivateMysticMine
All politicians have their backers. The difference is, men like Hitler had agendas and supporters. Men like Churchill had supporters first which set the agenda. For example, I don't believe that Churchill liked the USSR. I think there is evidence he hated them. But, Churchill's agenda-setters were firmly in favor of Anglo-Soviet cooperation against Germany. So, ultimately, the peoples of Eastern Europe, the Czech, the Poles, the Lithuanians, were all stabbed in the back by the British and Americans.
I did some of my own research on the Czech military. It disturbed me how many of their war heroes and generals ended up dying in Soviet gulags despite being "liberated" from German occupation.
@@againsttheleftandright4065 I’m not trying to divert the discussion but did you really believe to to the contrary? Not trying to come off pompous or all-knowing but it’s pretty well known and commonly accepted in all that I was taught that the Soviets while fighting for the allies committed MANY war crimes themselves while also waging an eerily similar geo political conquest that wasn’t all too dissimilar to Germany leading up to 1941.
@@ActivateMysticMine
I don't understand what you are asking here. Believe what? Yes, the USSR was worse.
Also, the conquests of the USSR are not similar to Germany. 1) because the USSR conquered bordering nations purely for strategic military and economic objectives, while Germany did so primarily due to the region's ties to Germany and secondarily for national security, and 2) the USSR initiated it's conquests while Germany was mainly reactionary.
At about 26:42: Contrary to the the video, the military efficiency of the Slovak army was not so great. Moreover, the First and Second Vienna Awards were not discussed in the video, and are an important omission. The Hungarians re-occupied parts of Slovakia as a result of the Awards, which were "awarded" by the Germans.
You really are prolific. It is incredibly hard to get the cold hard facts of this era and you have so far achieved to disseminate more historical truth in your videos than I have seen in a very long time. Godspeed and keep up the great work.
Thank you very much mate
you are both delusional. do not have kids
Best history channel on YT
Interesting why no one talks about the demonstration in Prague after Reinhardt's assassination. Very insightful, thank you
Because it's overshadowed by the Czechs who hid the assassins, along with the Lidice massacre.... Do you seriously believe that the average person would have much respect for a foreigner who came to their home to essentially be a colonial administrator?
@@what-uy7go Hard to reason with nazis
@@DrJones20yeah.
Just like when North Koreans cry when their leaders die 😂
Listening to you is refreshing..you have filled in the blanks for me and I've studied WW2 for 12 years
I honestly think Zoomer Historian has the highest quality documentaries in the game.
Fascinating. I had no idea that Benes had a plan to ally with Poland and invade Germany in 1936! Or all of the sabre-rattling he was doing in London, I thought that after Munich he basically went and sulked after being denied the chance to continue his campaign of persecution of the Volksdeutsche in the Sudetenland, like he had done to other ethnic Germans through-out Czechoslovakia!
"Fun" fact: In 1930 a census was held in Czechoslovakia, and all Czechoslovaks who said that they were "German" had their citizenships immediately revoked!
To be fair towards the Hungarians, they got all the territories where Hungarians where a ethnic majority.
Great Video as always btw.
and some more, maybe too much. The majority of northern transylvania was not hungarian, same applies for vojvodina and transcarpathia
@@what-uy7go Yeah but the Border Gore wouldn't be worth it otherwise.
TRANSYLVANIA was a mess. But after the 2nd vienna awards Romania still had lots of Hungarians. This was the best possible way. Hungary didnt get too much. She just got back what was her.
Important claims made by you
Slovakia declared independence on the note of the Nazis (but no mention of a general election for it).
It’s understandable for a nation to declare independence, but it doesn’t mention any other factors
The Czech prime minister surrendered the nation to the Nazis, but he wasn’t happy about it and neither was the military. Then Hitler brags about how “he brought it back into the reich”
It’s a subject which needs more information.
Czechs loved Nazi occupation so much after it was done they expelled every German in the country (who had incidentally overwhelmingly voted for the Pro-Nazi party in Czechoslovakia’s elections).
you are now engageing in victim blaming?
Blaming the ones ethnically cleansed for it? (the Sudetengermans)
Wow.
@@WilhelmEley-s3y I blame the Nazis, if they hadn’t invaded Czechia and treated its population horribly the Beneš decrees would have never been issued and Sudeten Germans would still be there today.
@@ObiJohnKenobi67
Ok, so if we apply your standard, we can ethnically cleanse people if we have a grievance against people who belong to an ethnicity related to the nation defeated in war, great to know...
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But why do you think that invading Czechia was unjustified?
@@ObiJohnKenobi67 Didn't you watch "The Complete History of the Sudeten Crisis" by Zoomer Historian?
Well done and well researched. Keep up the good work
Just a little observation.
Can you put the names of people you are talking about.
Great work as always, do you know the mexican writer Salvador Borrego ?
He wrote a book in 1953 called derrota mundia (global defeat) in the book he explain almost identicly as your videos, but he was an anticommunist so he put the atention into soviet union and german anticomnunism.
Poland had a good relationship with Germany despite the territorial dispute and plans to enter the rest of Cheho- Slovakia being a precaution...I mean...I understand the political situation was far from black and white, but there's no need for that overstatement.
General von Stauffenberg?? The " im generalstab" means he was paet of the general staff not a colonel-general he was just a colonel
Work on your pronunciation mate.
Not Sudeytnland, but Soodehtenland
Not Benes, but Benesh
Not Hasha, but Haakha
Not Hradikani castle, but Hratschaneh castle.
It is incredible what damage your channel does, in convincing other teenage idiots to believe in your revisionist history. Who are you to tell us that our occupation wasn't horrific? That the Germans were welcomed? Every academic can prove that this is demonstrably untrue, with proper historical facts and analysis. Your works rely on fringe claims and hyperbole that can't be backed up by anything, or is grossly outnumbered 10:1
Dude is butthurt that British Empire went the way of the dodo. He would rather be a slave to Adolph instead of American ally because US didn't allowed the Brits and French to invade Egypt over the Suez canal.
@@adambadam4870 The UK is a puppet to a country that invaded more countries and committed more crimes then any European nation did. Was that supposed to be an own?
I know Israeli think that the truth about Palestine is somehow "damaging" but it isn't.Its that people are becoming aware of the truth and now understand how to deconstruct your narratives, which were always on shaky grounds and very quickly to dismiss. Perhaps you shouldn't have revised history in the first place.
It is incredible what damage the lies in history books have done. You can be shown film footage of Hitler riding around in an open top car in the center of Prague as the crowd welcomes him, but that actually means nothing. A textbook written 80 years after the fact is much more reliable.
@@fuwa9616 lmao you are truly obsessed with the jews and mahmuds
As for the so called Slovakia: every m2 in Slovakia and Ruthenia (now stolen by Ukraine) was Hungarian land before. Slovakians were just a minority in Hungary. There were never any Czechoslovak nation. Almost half of Slovakia was not Slovakian, 30% of it was Hungarian. In the main two cities almost no Slovakians lived in Slovakia... Czechoslovakia was created by the winners of wwi in order to weaken Hungary.
not hungary, kingdom of hungary, or "Uhorsko". Now why is this differnet ? Because latin was spoken and people didn't have any identity until the 19th century when hungarian nationalism was at it's peak, ausgleich was both a curse and a blessing as it made slovakia face brutal opression mutliple genocides like (Černová Tragedy) and massive hungariazation and land rape, but it made the hungarians "losers" of the great war even though they didn't exist and the dual monarchy was a shallow compromise that didn't mean anything. The land during the hungarian kingdom period was mostly ruled over by hungarians but also quite a few slovak nobles and monarchs, so cope mongol and get trianoned bozo. womp womp.
So what? Because Hungary conquered Slovakia, banned their language, tried to erase their culture and forcefully settled Hungarians there, Slovakia has now no right to be a nation? Why do you think there are so many Hungarians in Slovakia? Maybe the next time try to look further into history than just few decades back.
You know why Slovakians were a minority in Hungary (not Hungary, but Uhorsko or "greater Hungary")? Because Hungary was just bigger. By this metric the dutch were a minority in the Spanish empire. Do you think they need to be annexed into Spain?
Slovaks crying about being oppressed while they sacked Hungarian areas is comedy itself
I mean the Hungarians tried to erase Slovak culture and language so Slovaks saw it as retribution.
yes the brutal opression and magyarization of the 19th century wasn't documented enough, except for the couple of genocides, while I agree that this guy is a nazi prick, slovaks had their reasons of wanting independence.
Not as hilarious as the Poles squealing like stuck pigs when they got dismembered by a Non-Aggression Pact of Germany + USSR... when less than a year before , POLAND and Germany (who had a non-aggression pact TOO !! ) had invaded and diced up Czechoslovakia ! ! !
God Bless You, thank you for all your work!
I don´t think I ever saw more drastic historical revisionism, yet spoken with such confidence in those lies, Goebbels would be proud.
Cry
Well we can see Churchill is happy to see another useful idiot believing his propaganda lol you think your all smart sit down and put that d ick back in your mouth fool
Great video! Real history without the propaganda! Thanks!
He is literally saying nazi propaganda
My guy you cant use entire books as sources. That disingenuous i have to take everything you say with a grain of salt since i cant verify it without buying and reading through the entirety of the book. Please atleast add pages numbers if you are going to use books as sources.
Another thing worth mentioning is that there can be difficulty in verifying the authenticity of these books . I mean youre using david irvings book as a source . The same guy who denied the holocaust. We cannnot as viewers verify the validity of the books since some of these books lack the original proof of where they got the information from
A final thing to note you when you quoted hitler on the liquidation of the czech state if they should peruse an ant german policy . Then you go on to show how this isnt an act of aggression by quoting AJP taylor. But the problem is that is an opinion. Thats how you and taylor interpreted it. The majority of people would likely interpret that differently and as a clear act of agression
If everything he said comformed with the narrative, you wouldn't be questioning its authenticity
@@tylercollinsworth9075 I wouldnt since it has been verified and not disproven
@@tylercollinsworth9075 The type of arguemnts hes providing in this vid are very subjective which he is doing on purpose
My history teacher said Hitler wanted to humiliate the Czech PM and to do so made him wait while Hitler watched a movie. Is this true?
No, but Hitler did want to stress out the Czech PM in order to get him to cave to demands. Hitler hated Benes, the previous leader of Czechoslovakia, for his anti-German policy and his attempt to humiliate Germany.
@@EricNapoli-z3dHe "did want to stress" him?! He let Hách wait for hours while Hitler was watching a movie, then Hitler informed him that in the morning of the next day Germany will invade rest of Czechoslovakia and Hácha could sign that it was his wish and order the army to not defend Czechoslovakia or refuse and in that case Göring said that his Luftwaffe would bombard Prague to the ground and whole country would get under much more brutal occupation (something like to what happened to Poland). Hácha denied anyway, so nazis tried to "change his mind" until he got a heart attack, which kind of shocked them, because death of a president who "came to ask for help" wouldn´t look good. But he survived and in such terrible shape he agreed. Don´t try to act like Hitler just "stressed him a little bit" because evil Beneš didn´t trust nazis (how could he😧).
@@tefky7964 The idea that Hitler was watching a movie sounds made up. Otherwise, you're just describing how politics works. What was Hitler supposed to do? Let the Czechs keep their rump state in Bohemia? Why? That would be more work than it would be to just occupy the territory. It would be a pointless liability. Alternatively, maybe Hitler could have created a German-Czech state and given the Sudetenland back as a token of good will, but this would be seen as totally undemocratic and insulting to the Sudeten Germans, who had fought and even died for their freedom to join Germany. The fact is, the Czechs sealed their fate due to 2 decades of hostility towards ALL of their neighbors, including Hungary, Poland, and the Slovak people, who effectively did not have representation. Like the Poles centuries earlier, they were not going to endure, unless they were to become an asset of either the East or the West.
@@EricNapoli-z3d "We will invade your country and exterminate your nation if you don´t comply" is how politics work? Also honestly I really don´t get how can you talk about democratic principles and evil oppression of Poles by Czechs while also excuse invasions of so many nations by Germany and their plans to commit a genocide against most of them...
@@tefky7964
Sorry, my account received a day-ban for endorsing pro-German positions.
1) Germany never said they would "exterminate" the Czech people. Germany threatened to bomb Prague purely as a political tactic. There was no serious mobilization of the German air force (that I can find) to attempt this. Nor would it have been a good idea, as the Czech air force was pretty modern and capable even in 1939.
2) Geopolitics often involves threats to avoid conflict. Those may be defensive or offensive. For example, Russia has stated that they are prepared for open war with NATO if NATO supplies Ukraine cruise missiles to hit Russian cities.
3) Your last point is the most nonsensical. Germany invaded many countries in WW2, as did the Soviets and British. Germany didn't attempt or plan to "exterminate" (another use of this buzzword) any of them. Here's a list:
1) Poland
Poland was subject to occupation and lost a significant number of its people later in the war. This was due to Poland's central nature in the war, and the common resistance of Polish partisans. There was no plan to exterminate the Polish people, and an independent Poland was part of every single peace offer that Germany sent to England.
2) Netherlands
The Dutch were subject to a light occupation, with the only reprisals occurring in retaliation for partisan attacks on German troops (a war crime under the Geneva conventions).
3) Belgium
The same as the Dutch. It should be noted that reprisals were not a violation of the Geneva Conventions (of which Germany was a signatory) until after WW2, and totally by 1977 (additional Protocol 1).
4) Denmark
Denmark was allowed to keep its government entirely, and only a small garrison of German troops remained to prevent an invasion of the country by an enemy.
5) France
France accepted the armistice presented by Germany, which was conditional and allowed the French government to remain in control of southern France until the end of the conflict. There was a limited attempt by Germany to re-integrate Alsace Lorraine, but unlike the French annexation of the territory in 1918, there was a much more limited exodus of natives.
6) Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia's government, which was democratically elected, joined the German axis in 1940, which resulted in a coup by the Yugoslav military on behalf of the British. Due to the dysfunctional nature of the Yugoslav state, occupation of the territory by Germany varied, and in some cases new nations declared their independence as German allies (Croatia).
7) Greece
I don't have enough information to speak on the occupation of Greece, although I do know that German occupation was preferred to Italian occupation. Germany had no territorial claims to this country whatsoever.
While I do enjoy your videos and know there is a lot of truth in them, it seems rather obvious that you're not objective but rather a fan of Hitler.
He is
It's very obvious :)
@@alesjanosik1545I would say it’s more shedding lite on facts that are purposely left out of western history. It shows that history is not black and white
Great work. Keep it up. 👍
P.S. Instead of warmonger, I think Warhawk is a better term. No offense.
@@TommyLegionnaireSantoroNothing really. Warmonger just seems like a loaded word.
I'm personally rather fond of "war whore" myself.
Constantly calling for sending other men to war and not yourself kinda deserves a loaded connotation, I'd say much worse than monger@@crusader2112
@@nonono9194 fair enough.
Not sure if it would have been a fit for this series, but not mentioned was the Soviet incursion into the Czech territory during the 1930s and the construction of airfields that could have been used in an offensive war. They were not found until the occupation.
I covered that in the Sudetenland video
@@ZoomerHistorian I'll have to go back and watch that one. 👍
"airfields that could have been used in an offensive war" Literally any airfield or developed airbase can be used in an "offensive war." What are you even trying to say lmao
@@what-uy7gohe is probably a nazi or a big anti soviet
@@what-uy7go "bro they got roads thats for military offensives"
They did it for the Skoda factories so they could manufacture tanks
Things are alot more complicated than a few factories.
As this dude said, it is indeed far more complicated, but the fact of the matter is Germany relied on Czech tanks for several of their campaigns because their own were of lower quality and efficiency 😂
@thesnownigro7932 skoda was a czech-founded company...and many of the important factories like the one in pizen were not german or even a part of the ethnic german regions. Seizing the sudetenland was just a first step to vassalizing czechoslovakia as a whole to prevent economic collapse, it wasn't some rightful restoration of german rule over bohemia like you fantasize it to be
@thesnownigro7932they were built by Czechs under Austria Hungary, whats your point?
@@floppypancakes9509he's too busy deepthroating the nazis to think rationally
Great content
How is bro monetized making these videos 😭😭😭
As Czech this video is just bunch of lies about my country, nothing good came from german occupation. Thousands of people were killed for no reason, many villages were burned to the ground and civilians shot on the sight, and you have audacity to claim we loved them...
This youtuber seems to have a huge bias towards germans in general, his other videos are the same BS
Sounds like you are blinded by bigoted czech nationalism. Less people feel sympathetic after seeing the whole Ukraine thing.
@@fuwa9616 What? My family members were burned to death for being suspects of housing partisans. Can you repeat that comment again?
This channels full of Nazi apologetics. He never mentions any German atrocities against their occupied people, but emphasizes discrimination against the Germans instead
Good to see some Czechs chiming in. You should make some more comments on this alternate view
Habsburgs, Nazis, Soviets... all of those "experiences" in our history developed and is encoded now in our DNA something, what Karel Roden's (czech "Hollywood" actor btw.) character Karel Beneš in a british TV show McMafia described by following all-saying words: "Czechs don't like their Bosses"
Do you have any thought towards making a series of videos about the history of the ongoing Israel Palestine conflict?
Having to sift through an endless sea of lies to find one sole gem is tiring, and you are a great narrator, unbiased and thorough.
Agree. a full video on the Nakba.
Waiting for Hess and Mosely with baited breath. Your take on history is like a breath of fresh air. Very different from the indoctrination I have been subjected to since birth
Extraordinary job on this story, as well as all your content. Truth is often obscured in history and the real story is not what we all thought. You do a great job shedding light of truth to history. I remember being in school learning the story we think is the truth.
I would love to hear the real truth in exactly how the Germans re-arned themselves over the years in direct opposition of the Treaty Of Versailles. It's often stated the higher ranking generals of the Army were not Hitler fans and it can't be as easy as Hitler going against the grain. There had to been a bigger story, cause it needed a lot of co-operation of people going against the addition of a navy, the U-Boats and the evolution of them has to be a stand alone video. The Germans always been masters of mass organization, and needed a LOT of secrecy. Only thing I really seen or read was that they had bases in the USSR to develop their air force, as well as using neutral countries like Switzerland and The Netherlands as a front for their successful armament.
If they were masters of organisation how come German logistics were such a complete and utter shambles?
Once England's navy blocked the ports Germany had no way of getting fuel.
Germany is in a terrible location when it comes to natural resources. That's the main reason they lost.
Occupation of the Czech State Republic was Hitler's first big mistake and indeed a crime. Until then he was justified in all his actions when it came to foreign policy because all the territories were inhabitated by Germans. This was not the case for Bohemia. If the Czech Republic constituted a threat to peace, he could have simply marched in and institute a friendly regime, but let the Czechs have their own country.
I m convinced Hitler believed - rightly or not,maybe under the effect of his documented paranoia-that the Allies were planning to attack Germany anyway, particularly after the Anschluss, so he decided to strike first, first with Czechoslovakia then with Poland.
@lioneldemun6033 The only reason Hitler invaded Poland is because of Poland agression + killing ethnic Germans in former German territory.
Good strategy: There's too many lies, cleverly cushioned in-between historical facts, to successfully refute. If I am to challenge each of them, it would be an excruciatingly long comment and the reader will get bored :) Unfortunately a "good story" is always more interesting to read than simple truth ;)
Keep up the "good work" at bringing about the Second Third Reich :D
very interesting video
Very well done video indeed!
A question has arisen in me regarding WW1. Were there machinations by the ruling classes and backroom negotiations behind the scenes beforehand?
Sadly, I was not really able to find a lot of information about it. Perhaps it would be a good idea to cover this topic also, cause we as Europeans have sent millions of young men to die basically for nothing, thus starting the downfall of our civilization on the world stage.
I hope you can make a video about this.
Háša, Hradkany, Njurat... Kein Kommentar.
Greetings from Pressburg/Pozsonyi
Gotta be one of the best channels regarding WW2, wondering if you'd ever do a video on Hitler and religion if thats possible?
I had this question 45 seconds ago then this popped up wtf
Still sounds like a land grab to me… but he would have gotten away with it if he had left Poland alone! Just imagine…
He has a video about Poland too.
Well, in Hitler's view Bohemia & Moravia used to be a part of "the Empire" for 1000 years, so it was irredentist. At the same time the enormous amount of weapons in Czechoslovakia made it possible to increase the strength of the Wehrmacht (only the infantry) by 30-40%.
Hitler's decision had already been made to separate the remaining state of the Czech Republic, which was riddled with domestic political crises, from the anti-German alliance with France and England, which Hungary and Poland were already waiting to further defeat. However, the reasons for this lay in the previous behavior of Czecho-Slovakia itself, especially in its minority policy towards the remaining Sudeten Germans, who were forced out of offices and their jobs and, in contrast to Czechs, did not receive unemployment benefits and were therefore exposed to complete destitution. Even the fundamentally pro-German attitude of the then President Hacha did not change Hitler's decision. Hitler had the rest of Czechia occupied with the promise of extensive domestic political autonomy that would go far beyond the time of Bohemia and Moravia under Austria-Hungary.
Hitler kept his promise. The military was disarmed, but unemployment among the 6 million Czechs fell as a result. The police remained Czech, the Czech crown remained the national currency. The national border also remained in place and entry and exit for Germans was still only possible with a passport.
No he wouldn't have! The Western powers and the Soviet Union were just bidding their time.
I believe the 3d Reich was unpopular with the ruling elites , Democratic as well as Communist, right from the beginning.
its called oversimplified for an obvious reason but yeah ur right
This is great
Lmfao 1930s media sounds like modern day msnbc media 😂😭
Pat Buchanan and David Irving as sources?!?
These two fit in beautifully with some of these commenters herein such as Andrew Barry.
Yea what did you expect from someone playing hearts of iron 4
25:50 “I’m himmler’s top guy…. I’ll go to bat for you Himmler!”
No matter how long, these videos are always over too soon.
The videos are great, but the seething redditors and Hollywood historians in the comments are another set of entertainment entirely.
We did not enjoy the occupation, we hated them, you are a liar. We the Czechs hated Germans after Munich
Not enough to actually meaningfully resist though. All those tank factories and whatnot too. Are you going to claim your army didn't have the weapons?
@@Letsplay222 Yeah, when working under armed SS it was something different. And we had pur reaistence and in the end rose up against the germans. Also they closed our scholl restricted us and it is very well known that we hated them. When Beneš returned, he was greated with flowers. Nazis were greated whith shouting and snowballs. I know our history, you know
@@jachymsebes Oh boy. Snowballs!? You must have really hated them lol. Why did you let them march into your country in the first place?
@@Letsplay222
If it was fight and get your whole country completely annihilated, or dont fight and suffer the same brutal ocupation but with a country mostly intact, the Czechs went with the more reasonable option.
Also sudetenland was very industrialized and housed heavy fortifications against the Germans. With it they could have stalled the Germans for months, but whitout it only for weeks. But if they refused to give sudetenland to the Germans, they would be labeled as warmongers by both Germany and Britain.
@@GovernorAdmiral So the Germans were reviled and hated, they were brutal, the Czechs had tons of weapons to fight them with, but they didn't put up any resistance because living under occupation was preferable because resistance would mean annihilation, even though the Germans hadn't "annihilated" anyone yet at that point and a war in Czechoslovakia wouldn't be very popular or in their interest. I don't know, that just seems like pretzel logic to me. But if that is what you believe, then more power to you.
I just want to mention that Vojtech Tuka was a massive Hitler simp. Like literally if Hitler had OF he would be the number one spender. So I wouldnt take his exact wording too seriously but his basic idea behind those words was pretty much in-line with what other significant slovak politicians thought.