So happy to be a part of this video! It was great working together on this, and extremely satisfying to carve out a slice of WWII memery for myself! -Blue
My Grandfather got stuck in a tree near a small farm, lucky for him he had dropped "unarmed" and the farmer helped him down and brought him to his house. He had broken his leg. He just dangled in that tree for almost six hours. And no i have not meet him, i only know of this because he kept journals and had wrote quite a few.
Well my Grandfather and some other villagers beat to death an unlucky german who broke his leg when he landed. He was only 16 then and he is still alive today.War sucks man :(
Risers weren’t used because the Germans assumed they would go all tacticool and land wherever each paratrooper thought was best, scattering them. So they let the wind dictate where they would land and hopefully cluster them together next to their weapon drop canister, which also had to follow the same wind currents. I knew a Fallshirmjäger who was his platoon’s radio operator in Crete. He had a permanent dent in his head from when he took a rough landing and got bashed in the skull by a rifle butt before he could react.
Juragan Traktor Yeah because nothing says “wehraboo” like “the Germans thought their own paratroopers were too incompetent to be trusted to make their own decisions about landing.”
@@jurtra9090 I don't know why does ppl always drag weebs into a conversation about history involved the Germans despite all the facts and information about them being just absolutely right. Sound like an idiot with less intelligence than a toddler to me.
If you think German parachute doctrine was wacky, do some digging into early Soviet experiments in the area. Nothing like using waist belt rigs that, when dropped in Finland for the first time, with full combat packs, left Soviet paratroopers hanging upside down, landing on their heads...in deep snow. Didn’t work out very well for them.
Kyros Droztamyr German trained Kuomintang units were wiped out pretty early in the war against the Japanese, they didn’t have much of an effect on the war compared to the money and resources that were put into them.
Well, considering that the USSR was the first nation to experiment with paratroopers mean we should cut them some slack. Don't expect some high-tech ultra effective paradrop method from someone who just discovered they could throw soldiers off planes
Hey i wanna say,as a resident of crete,this battle is super historic and important to us,goes to show how you should never underestimate anyone and hey,we put up quite a decent fight,thanks allies :D
@@kaloyandraganov9462 I read a book about it. Basically the reason why Germany won is because the Allies didn't recapture an airfield protected by a few paratroopers. Because they got no comms since this got knocked out. But other than that, the first 24 hours were nasty for the Germans.
We thank the boys from the commonwealth, the New Zealanders, the Australians and the British for giving their life defending this island. www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=el&pb=!1s0x149a5a2b9fd22f6d%3A0xfab17a39f68f159!2m22!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m16!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!2m2!1m1!1e6!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipN2Ti0Q0h7Na8NAjCPUuN4OB7av9OCu-HNC_BPV%3Dw86-h87-n-k-no!5zzrHOs86xzrvOvM6xIM-EzrfPgiDOtc67zrXPhc64zrXPgc6vzrHPgiDOt8-BzqzOus67zrXOuc6_IC0gzpHOvc6xzrbOrs-EzrfPg863IEdvb2dsZQ!15sCAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipN2Ti0Q0h7Na8NAjCPUuN4OB7av9OCu-HNC_BPV
@@byzantine2840 ow sorry my mistake thow I would like to ask what's your opinion of the greek government I heard that there's a lot of corruption thow I am not sure
There were so many fallshcirmjager supply canisters that were captured that you can still find MP40s, Lugers and K98s in perfect working conditions in some households in Crete.
Worth pointing out that Roald Dahl (Yes, that Roald Dahl) flew hurricanes in the defence of Greece. Honestly I think he deserves a video on it, not least because the allies where actually pretty badly prepared - or so he implied.
My great grandfather was a German paratrooper during the battle of Crete. It was his first and only time to actually jump out of a plane during the war despite the fact that he also fought in Africa, Italy and Germany
@Edwin Cheesecake By my standards they are young. My grandfather was 30 years old at the same time, probably 10 years older than his great grandfather and I'm not old
Ok so the whole German parachute Debacle was basically this: the Germans went for faster deploying parachutes that can be deployed form a lower altitude. There by decreasing a troopers time exposed floating down to earth, unable to defend him self. This parachute design also meant the Fallshimjager could not drop with there weapons. They got thrown out of the plane first in a big metal container, and had to be recovered on the ground. So yes, not only could they not Steer the chute, but they also landed we’re ever UNARMED. By contrast allied paratroopers, by using reaisers had to jump from a higher altitude then the fallshimjager, but to compensate for the extra time they spent defenseless in the air, allied paratroopers were dropped primarily at night (think operation husky and nuptune)
Too bad it was not a success and it is just a pointless talk. Market Garden pretty much never had a chance of succeeding, Patton should have been given the priority
To be honest in that one they didn't parachute, they used choppers to rapidly deploy, followed by paradropped vehicles. But it didn't change the fact that they didn't do well.
My dad was in the 505th Panther Battalion in the 82nd Airborne. He told me that if your parachute is right on top of someone else’s, your parachute would collapse because the one underneath you would prevent air from filling yours. That’s why we have risers, to allow you to control your descent and prevent mishaps like this.
My father in the early 1990's went to kiosk in Rhodes(Greece) to purchase cigars or whatever.. He saw an elder German tourist that had one of his hand missing. When he asked what happened the man replied, that he was one of the paratroopers that managed to survive. I was born in the year 2000 and when my father told me this story in 2009, i was really shocked of how time changes. Great video by the way, keep up the good work!
I agree with you about about the overall German steategic mistakes. Its actually a key point many historians fail to see. I appreciate all of the videos posted it is truly interesting hope to see more in the future. Can you do one on the Demyansk pocket please ???
Is it a good idea for a video on the invasions of the low countries, paratroopers were used by the germans in the north, and not to forget, the almighty Dutch bicycle infantry
Great video as always,i'm very happy you made a video that involves Greece in some way and i want to mention a few very interesting facts about the battle and occupation of Crete Among the Greek forces defending the island were around 300 officer cadets.When the Germans broke through the Greek lines the cadets asked to be sent to Thermopylae to fight against the invaders but their command refused.Then when the Germans were closing in on Athens their commander informed them that they were planning to use them to maintain order in the capital until the Germans entered the city.The cadets refused and went around Athens commandeering vehicles which they used to travel to the Peloponnese,there they used small fishing boats to make their way to Crete. The Greek forces in Crete were ill-equipped,most only had around 60-90 rounds of ammo and some soldiers didn't even have rifles.The civilians were very keen to fight against the Germans,but the British were reluctant to arm them and they actually had to guard their munitions depots to keep the civilians from getting guns. The German forces in Crete were one of the last if not the last German forces to surrender in Europe.Despite the fact that the main German forces abandoned Greece in October 1944 and despite Germany's capitulation the German forces in Crete surrendered the 9th of May 1945 and they were not disarmed until the 23rd!The Germans left Crete(armed with their weapons)between June and July 1945. It's speculated that the reason they remained on the island for so long was that the British planned to use them as law enforcement if the communists managed to win the Greek civil war,or that Churchill wanted to use them in a certain....unthinkable operation.
REASON THE GERMANS USED THE REAR-MOUNTED CHUTES: It's very simple: the chutes used by German paratroopers opened a lot faster, because there was only one attachment point on the pack itself. Therefore, the Germans could drop from a lot lower, which meant less scatter and less unit mixing, especially if there was wind. One downside to that setup you didn't mention is that the Germans could jump with almost no gear at all, most of their weapons being dropped by cannister. So each individual German took longer to recover from the jump than the average Allied paratrooper, but the airborne unit as a whole was able to organize and get into action quicker.
The Battle of Crete it may be argued that it was a very shallow, pyrrhic victory. Over 6,000 Germans were killed or wounded and the overall casualties they suffered were over 25% of the forces they committed. This was the highest percentage casualties suffered by the German Army in a single action up to that point in the war. The Allied troops had little heavy equipment and the Germans had complete air superiority. *“In some ways, the fate of Crete was decided before the battle began.*The air assets available to the Luftwaffe *gave the Germans a thirty-to-one numerical superiority in aircraft over the Allies…* *….Instead of a quick, decisive battle, the Germans were locked into a ferocious fight for the island. Allied units performed heroically given their strength in numbers but inferiority in equipment. The Allies succeeded in inflicting heavy casualties on the Luftwaffe despite the fact that the Germans had the initiative, used elite troops, and possessed air superiority.“* Battle of Crete: Hitler’s Airborne Gamble. Biank, A. Maria Major The Germans were on the verge of pulling out. The paratroopers were literally being shot up. Freyberg and a New Zealand unit were supposed to be protecting an airfield but took a wrong turn as they were more worried about Germans coming from the sea not the air. This allowed the Germans to capture the airfield and land more troops. Psychologically it was a Nazi defeat: The Germans who fought in Crete or were engaged in its planning were totally demoralized. They were instructed by their superiors not to discuss the battle with other units in the future. Significantly, the Battle of Crete totally altered the course of future battle plans in the Eastern Mediterranean. Hitler was so stunned by the losses that he chose not to use the Herman Goering Division as a parachute unit again. Not having this division available as a parachute weapon would turn out to be devastating for Germany’s war efforts in the Middle East. General Kurt Student would dub Crete "the graveyard of the German paratroopers" and a "disastrous victory." It didn’t even mean very much in the end because the Royal Navy still dominated the eastern Mediterranean with Crete not leading to any campaign winning difference. Hitler, believing airborne forces to be a weapon of surprise which had now lost that advantage, concluded that the days of the airborne corps were over and directed that paratroopers should be employed as ground-based troops in subsequent operations in the Soviet Union.
Great video, txs! BTW, the loss of Junkers Ju 52 transport planes was so great (especially at Maleme airport) in this operation that it deeply affected Barbarossa supply lines before it started.
German paratroopers also became somewhat more effective later on with the adoption of the FG 42. Instead of landing only with pistols, and having to collect their rifles, SMGs and machine guns from separate drops, they had a new universal rifle that could fulfill the roles of all of their previous weapons, and they could land with it because it was compact and lightweight. Although of course the production of the rifle was limited and the use of the paratroopers after Crete was also limited...
One reason to not give paratroopers control at least on paper is that you don't want your soldiers being to spread apart whenever they land, you want your fighting force to stay together. of course this is a misunderstanding of the real world.
You can write " how not to use" in the year 2018. With the Knowledge of today and from the year 1941,(after netherlands, norway) it was a bad battle plan from Göhring and Student. BUT it was the first time to aussault such a big land mass only from air. We have to remember this. The Young Fallschirmjäger must pay the Price.
I had the privilege to meet a German paratrooper from Crete at the World War two days up in Rockford IL (which is just a huge great meet up of everything from the war). He didn't speak too much to me but that he was young when he was in the jump having just turned the proper age. A bunch of German re-enactors was helping him lead around the field and helped him with the original StugIV and Hetzer if I recall he was more interested in the Hetzer.
Also met another German Veteran the following year in 2013 in Jefferson Barracks MO, he was Hitler Youth and right when he turned 17 they put him into tank courses, he had some stories about a one-armed older veteran who was teaching boys (himself included) on a tiger 1 chasses and a thin bridge. He was tossed into service after being speed thru on the courses and ended up as a Panther driver.....50 miles east of Berlin as it was March of 1945. He told me and my group some of the action he saw taking out T34s at close range like they were nothing but ultimately they were stopped by some Soviet infantry. They bailed the tank later and tried to find their army support and found them a few blocks away having been caught in the open and shot down. He explained to us that the Soviets were reported to shoot anyone with black uniforms either they be SS or tank crews and still this late in the war they were issued black panzer uniforms so they swapped with the dead army Germans. It was at this point they realized how futile it was and decided to make a makeshift raft to swim across the Elbe river to go surrender to us Americans. Once they got to the other side some German army officers saw them and immediately addressed them for wanting to swim over.... he was scared because he thought was going to be hanged as a deserter but funny enough the officers responded with "so you're going to surrender? well us too". They ended up running into a British detachment and surrendered on the spot. I have had the fortune of meeting lots of veterans and listening to their stories of the war from my old high school supporter who was a tail gunner on a b17, a Pershing tanker, to these German vets and to a Jewish Holocaust survivor from Bergen Belsen.
Reasons to not have steerable parachutes include limiting the incidence of paratroopers running into each other in mid-air during a mass tactical jump, and to prevent a paratrooper from slipping over the top of a lower paratrooper--this can result in the lower paratrooper "stealing the air" from the upper paratrooper, with the upper paratrooper's chute collapsing (which also usually results in the upper jumper falling into the chute of the lower jumper). The old U.S. T-10C parachute had risers, but a riser slip is not truly steering, and is limited in scope, for exactly the reasons I cite above. The air gets pretty crowded in a mass tac, and many times a young trooper lacks the experience to not get in trouble by steering in the wrong direction.
My mother once took care of an old widow, whose husband, who died a few years prior, was one of the paratroopers that took part at the invasion of Crete. I only know about that, because after the widiw died, my mother brought an old photo album home, wich contained a bunch of postcards, that described his travel to greece.
I saw the title and thought "this can't be the OSP I'm thinking of, must be a different youtuber" then just about creamed myself when I saw that it was the same OSP that I was thinking of
Wait...so the Allies outnumbered the entire German invasion force nearly 3-1, they knew of their Invasion plan in advance, the German Paratroop forces landed with just their pistols, and the entire native populace was hostile to the Nazis....yet the Allies lost the island and five times the number of men, and lost 10 warships in just 13 days. This is supposed to be an example of a “flawed” victory? I’m confused.
Ugh, another person who doesn’t consider factors such has lack of supply, lack of naval supremacy in the area, and most importantly the fact that every man, boat, and airplane the axis lost was one less they could use against the soviets. Yes it was a flawed invasion plan, in fact the ratios are quite similar their numbers in the middle of the Soviet invasion before Stalingrad and Kursk. Also he even said that the invasion failed at first until it was reinforced, a common trend for Axis invasions with little exceptions. I’m not saying you’re not entitled to your opinion, only that you’re not considering enough factors when making that opinion.
Mason Stewart And you know, the fact that many paratroopers got injuries from falling both in the wrong place and the wrong way, the fact that Germany still took relatively large casualties compared to their other invasions, and the fact that they had to do this invasion at all because of Italy. But hey if you just look at the result I guess it can be considered a flawless victory, ramifications and context, what’s that?
in general, the german plan was decent, the allies could have done better, but the british/commonwealth decided it wasnt worth the effort and abandoned the island in the middle of the invasion. in the final stages it was just the island's greek garison that kept fighting
To be fair to the germans they pulled a lot out of nothing. Before the war you needed a wheelbarrow of money to get some bread. so the fact that they got anywhere in the first place to me is quite impressive
Emil yes the motivation of the German people is what generated most of the success but they had to accumulate that power from somewhere. Their donations helped them secure a more important role in German politics which led to Hitler gaining power and guiding the German economy
@@ligmaboo The Jews stayed FAR away from the Nazi party. Hitler wanted a traditional Germany, so people wanting something like Prussia back donated the shit out of it. The bankers supporting Hitler were primarily Christian.
It’s important to note that the majority of allied equipment was forced to be abandoned in Greece, artillery without sights, very very few AA, no air support, food, or even blankets. Allied (specifically kiwi) communications pretty much immediately broke down with the loss of their officers in the first like 5 seconds of battle, and paratroopers stopping most of their runners, led to a pretty much complete communication black out for a lot of the crucial times they could have counter attacked, most of the counter attacks on Crete that were widely successful were spur of the moment stuff, like 42nd street and Galtas. It’s also worth nothing these were the elite of Germany fighting such iconic fighting units as the Kiwi Concert Band, and a group of chefs.
"It’s also worth nothing these were the elite of Germany fighting such iconic fighting units as the Kiwi Concert Band, and a group of chefs." fuck I lol'd
@D L Check your reading comprehension; at no point did I claim the entire New Zealand force was composed of chefs and band members, such a claim even if you'd believed i was making it would obviously be farcical to everyone and only an idiot would take it as a fact needing correcting (not to mention the largely meme centric content would imply most comments will be more tongue in cheek than a serious discourse). 20k commonwealth troops _stationed_ on Crete? would that it was my friend the actual number is closer to 14-15k (less stationed and more waiting for a boat to come pick them up.) All that being said I am referring to a specific bit of Kiwi history/lore, Dan Davin (New Zealand official war historian for the battle of Crete) and Charles Upham (the most decorated British solider to ever exist, fought at Crete) both mention the incident. Two cooks are lost on Crete wandering around looking for an officer, they come across a man wearing an officers jacket on top of a hill and go and join him, he shares some cigarettes with them and when they ask him for orders he's suddenly very confused why they're asking him. they point to his jacket and he replies he just pulled it off a body because he was cold, and replied "I'm in the fucking kiwi concert band" That being said it was pretty common for everyone to be engaged with the enemy, Freyberg famously shot some paratroopers from his writing desk (I suspect he more shot at them than shot them but hey), an engineer unit radio'd for help only to radio back a few minutes later to report no one made it to the ground alive and to please disregard the previous message.
@D L The Link you just sent me literally links you to Dan Davin's book (nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Cret-b4.html) I am of course referring to the troops present at the beginning of the battle (more brought in or left is what leads to the discrepancy in after battle numbers, a common statistical occurrence). Either you really suck at math or you don't understand what commonwealth means, in this context that would be the Australians and the New Zealanders of which there were 14,242 (per the source you just sent me), not sure where these magic 30,000 greeks come from. nothing about your posts is coming across as sarcasm? if that's your intention I'm afraid you're just coming across as a dick incapable of understanding creative writing techniques and civil discourse. Do I frame the battle of Crete as an underdog narrative? yes, because it literally is? what else would you call a technological and numerical superior foe possessing far more training, air support, artillery support, vehicles, food, blankets, water, and ammunition? I don't need to _make_ them look heroic, any examination of New Zealand war history would _show them to be_ heroic. As I am now for the 3rd time pointing out, nothing about any of my statements is factually inaccurate, the Kiwi concert band and cooks did indeed fight the germans, are we not allowed to talk about that because it somehow frames a narrative? It's part of kiwi military lore, like the American military circles say "nuts" to each other and laugh like it's the funniest thing they've ever heard. History is full of millions of stories that in the grand scheme of world events is totally meaningless, are we not allowed to share these stories because someone might see things in a new light? a very silly ideal
Fast fact: The Fallscirmjaegers were apart of the Luftwaffe and not the Heer. This gets funnier when you include the Fallschirm-"Panzer" and Fallschirm-"Panzergrenadier" divisions. Effectly Germany's Airforce had its own ground Army. Not to forget the Luftwaffe Field Divisions that made the Sicherungs Divisions look competent. Potential History-senpai plz notice me.
@@thetrippedup9322 Yeah I know about that. I was just saying how conterproductive the whole german warmachine really was. You have political leaders so preocuppied with securing their own powerbase that they undermine the performance of the military. The wehraboos don't like to mention this.
@Emil A few territories before the war was annexed by Germany without much of a fight. Poland was invaded by both the Soviet Union and Germany, which is why it capitulated quicker. Other than France and Britain, and until the Soviet Union, most of the countries they invaded were either ill prepared or at a numerical disadvantage such as the Low Countries and the balkans, especially the latter since the invasion also had a significant amount of German allies. When comparing those to the Germans in the later years, the German military may have been depleted and outnumbered, but they were already fighting a war, with a considerable fighting force and with some allies they still had left. Not to mention, the Allies were also having to fight in the Pacific at the same time.
That was really cool. Subscribed! Also: Cretan Superman & Real-Life Santa Claus named Takis operates a Animal Rescue Shelter for 500+ Dogs, cats, & Other Animals on the Island of Crete. For anyone who only knows Crete as 'That small Island that was F*CKING NUTZ ABOUT BULLS & MINOTAURS' back in the day & that it's pretty significant for Naval Battles in the Mediterranean Sea. (IMHO, Crete > Rhodes. Much more valuable, for both Trade & Control of the Ocean/Sea)
2 years afterwards I'm seeing this and answering Blue mentions (in a podcast? in a stream?) that he likes to watch potential history to learn more modern history, since he otherwise dont do it
Wow. This is the biggest collaboration since Henry Ford and the Wehrmacht.
Since Vishy France and Reich maby?
Since Nestle, Hugo Boss, Coca-Cola, and many others with the Reich?
@@maciek.u thats not really a colaboration, Vichy France was only a puppet state
Nah Castle Itter was a bigger collab to me
@@pam7939 Castle itter is rivaled only by kim jong un crossing the korean border alongside Moon Jae-in
So happy to be a part of this video! It was great working together on this, and extremely satisfying to carve out a slice of WWII memery for myself!
-Blue
Overly Sarcastic Productions what the, you guys are like me top channls
2 days, I think they found time travel
Please make more of these collabs!
PH set the video’s privacy to “only people with the link can view” and sent OSP the video.
What in time-traveling- tarnation is this?!?!?!
"German paratroops" oooh! "Supported by German mountain troops" OOOOH! "And the Italian Navy" ohhhhhh...
Is this from family guy?
Italian navy was better then the german one. That's why they won at the battle of crete even they got damaged
I laughed harder than I should have lol
@Kyros Droztamyr They still sucked on every other level.
Did you know that the italian navy was more funded than their army
My Grandfather got stuck in a tree near a small farm, lucky for him he had dropped "unarmed" and the farmer helped him down and brought him to his house. He had broken his leg. He just dangled in that tree for almost six hours.
And no i have not meet him, i only know of this because he kept journals and had wrote quite a few.
Well my Grandfather and some other villagers beat to death an unlucky german who broke his leg when he landed. He was only 16 then and he is still alive today.War sucks man :(
The weird things you find in the internet.
my grandma's dad fought for the serbian partizans
All in all, it was better than market garden
@Carlo Canti Wtf?
*jump out of plane*
*get stuck in tree*
*Cretian farmer strolls up casually with a pitchfork and starts taking off his pants*
I've seen enough anime to know where this is going...
@@plutarchvonpluto6439 HES GoingvTo Chop His Duck Off
@@plutarchvonpluto6439 HuH?
VDV commander at Hostomel: "God, I wish that were me."
"Help me step-farmer, I'm stuck!"
I demand a historical analysis of Panzermadels: Tank Dating Simulator
I dunno, it seemed like he had a hard time already with Girls und Panzer; a dating sim might be asking too much.
If we make enough of these comments he'll have to cave eventually.
@@thomaskole9881 Bullshit. He's a closet Weeb.
@@dfletcherboyy12 Every vid for last 2 months. Highest liked comment on 2 of them. He knows.
How long will Johnny ignore the voice of the people?
Rome: How can you fail 2 times to invade grece
achaemenid empire: *awkward coffing*
Persian empire: *begins crying*
@@laitilulu ehh, I do now
@@laitilulu never heard them be called that before.
Oops
Clicked wrong person.
Risers weren’t used because the Germans assumed they would go all tacticool and land wherever each paratrooper thought was best, scattering them. So they let the wind dictate where they would land and hopefully cluster them together next to their weapon drop canister, which also had to follow the same wind currents.
I knew a Fallshirmjäger who was his platoon’s radio operator in Crete. He had a permanent dent in his head from when he took a rough landing and got bashed in the skull by a rifle butt before he could react.
The first paragraph sounds like what wehraboo would say
Not really
Juragan Traktor Yeah because nothing says “wehraboo” like “the Germans thought their own paratroopers were too incompetent to be trusted to make their own decisions about landing.”
you see hans we are so elite that we don't need to be thinking
@@jurtra9090 I don't know why does ppl always drag weebs into a conversation about history involved the Germans despite all the facts and information about them being just absolutely right. Sound like an idiot with less intelligence than a toddler to me.
>Paratroopers drop
>Farmer kills him with a hammer.
Ow.
When you scroll through kill stats from lowest to highest.
If you think German parachute doctrine was wacky, do some digging into early Soviet experiments in the area. Nothing like using waist belt rigs that, when dropped in Finland for the first time, with full combat packs, left Soviet paratroopers hanging upside down, landing on their heads...in deep snow. Didn’t work out very well for them.
So that explains the head standing russian popsickle picture.
Yeah but they aren't Germans so he is physically unable to speak bad about them
@@kaloyandraganov9462 Stfu Wwhraboo shit
Kyros Droztamyr
German trained Kuomintang units were wiped out pretty early in the war against the Japanese, they didn’t have much of an effect on the war compared to the money and resources that were put into them.
Well, considering that the USSR was the first nation to experiment with paratroopers mean we should cut them some slack. Don't expect some high-tech ultra effective paradrop method from someone who just discovered they could throw soldiers off planes
Two Things I Learned From This Video:
1.) Germany didn't understand paratroopers.
2.) The best meme tanks are the friends we made along the way.
How to make Germans in WW2 look smart?
Compare them to the Italians.
Lmao please Johnny pin this comment
This is the best comment i have ever read........
you could even make the French look smart with this comparison
master analysis
You have 20 million army but I have 10 million army, so you must only send 10 million troops to fight me because it's fair
Hey i wanna say,as a resident of crete,this battle is super historic and important to us,goes to show how you should never underestimate anyone and hey,we put up quite a decent fight,thanks allies :D
Bro you failed to eliminate an enemy even tho having them outnumbered and outgunned,this is exactly the opposite of a decent fight
They kinda did
we literaly killed armed Germans with fucking shovels wtf are you talking about?
@@kaloyandraganov9462 I read a book about it. Basically the reason why Germany won is because the Allies didn't recapture an airfield protected by a few paratroopers. Because they got no comms since this got knocked out. But other than that, the first 24 hours were nasty for the Germans.
We thank the boys from the commonwealth, the New Zealanders, the Australians and the British for giving their life defending this island. www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=el&pb=!1s0x149a5a2b9fd22f6d%3A0xfab17a39f68f159!2m22!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m16!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!2m2!1m1!1e6!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipN2Ti0Q0h7Na8NAjCPUuN4OB7av9OCu-HNC_BPV%3Dw86-h87-n-k-no!5zzrHOs86xzrvOvM6xIM-EzrfPgiDOtc67zrXPhc64zrXPgc6vzrHPgiDOt8-BzqzOus67zrXOuc6_IC0gzpHOvc6xzrbOrs-EzrfPg863IEdvb2dsZQ!15sCAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipN2Ti0Q0h7Na8NAjCPUuN4OB7av9OCu-HNC_BPV
Crete is like the greek Texas. Many people have a gun and most of them won't hesitate to use it if they are threatened.
*It do be like that* ~ Greek Gang 1941
Are you a fascist?
@@Ma_ksi lol what ?
@@pound2175 hes profile pic is the previous logo of the greek fascist movement called the golden dawn
At list I'm sure it is
@@Ma_ksi No mate I am centre-left with a bit of hellenic nationalism
@@byzantine2840 ow sorry my mistake thow I would like to ask what's your opinion of the greek government I heard that there's a lot of corruption thow I am not sure
Invade the greece now, for the italy!
Germany: you can't even tie up your shoes without screwing it up. We keep it.
Italy: okay then :(
Memes and history are perfect couples
Bullshit
Are you sure ?
@@dankmemesxxxxxx4125 Definitely
@@DrJones20 The only reason kids actually go to history class is to meme the horrible failures they learn about.
XD
Only if's War History, forget it if I'm going to learn ancient architeture or whatever
There were so many fallshcirmjager supply canisters that were captured that you can still find MP40s, Lugers and K98s in perfect working conditions in some households in Crete.
Man this remind me of a battle royale with all those air dropped weapons
They did battle royals before it was cool.
Battle royale in crete epic
Allies: *Default Skins*
German Paratroopers: *Soccer Skins*
U.S.A Oorah football*
Glad to see Russia's VDV taking inspiration from this masterwork of strategy!
That’s an insult to the Fallschirmjäger.
Edit: Corrected spelling.
Yea man
In afterlife I meet Fallschirmjäger from the Battle of Crete!
"The real meme tanks are the friends we made along the way."
-Blue, 2018
Wow... that's deep.
More like, in deep shit with axis logistics
Worth pointing out that Roald Dahl (Yes, that Roald Dahl) flew hurricanes in the defence of Greece. Honestly I think he deserves a video on it, not least because the allies where actually pretty badly prepared - or so he implied.
>memes about WW2
Interested
>Potential History memes about WW2
Lovin' it
>Potential History memes about WW2 WITH OSP
*_E U P H O R I C_*
My great grandfather was a German paratrooper during the battle of Crete. It was his first and only time to actually jump out of a plane during the war despite the fact that he also fought in Africa, Italy and Germany
Man you have young parents
@Edwin Cheesecake By my standards they are young. My grandfather was 30 years old at the same time, probably 10 years older than his great grandfather and I'm not old
Make a vid on the battle for Berlin please!
Yes!
Germans: let's take Moscow!
Soviets bitch slaps Germans: I'll show you how to take a capital!
It's just a rush to (b)erlin race between US and Soviet.
ATTERO
Basically next level Stalingrad
@@jansenjunaedi4926 Rush B(erlin)
Why the Fallschirmjager didn't have risers:
They didn't want the rookie trooper's blood upon the risers or his brains upon the chute.
Ok so the whole German parachute Debacle was basically this: the Germans went for faster deploying parachutes that can be deployed form a lower altitude. There by decreasing a troopers time exposed floating down to earth, unable to defend him self.
This parachute design also meant the Fallshimjager could not drop with there weapons. They got thrown out of the plane first in a big metal container, and had to be recovered on the ground. So yes, not only could they not Steer the chute, but they also landed we’re ever UNARMED.
By contrast allied paratroopers, by using reaisers had to jump from a higher altitude then the fallshimjager, but to compensate for the extra time they spent defenseless in the air, allied paratroopers were dropped primarily at night (think operation husky and nuptune)
Well, at least it went better than Market Garden.
Market Garden would have been a sweeping success had the Americans not gotten in the way
Blame Montgomery
Too bad it was not a success and it is just a pointless talk. Market Garden pretty much never had a chance of succeeding, Patton should have been given the priority
@@deathman11jackd Blame Montgomery.
@Kyros Droztamyr They sent one company and that's it.
3:15 "Take that, you malakas fascists"
I hope that the algorithm does not understand Greek or else this video will get demonetized.
Take that you wanker fascists :)
@Kyros Droztamyr Well, I think Ioannis Metaxas was more down-to-earth than Hitler.
@Kyros Droztamyr I just said he was more down to earth THAN Hitler. I am not trying to defend him, he was still a dictator.
The Battle for Hostomel, How Not To Use Paratroopers 2: Electric Boogaloo
To be honest in that one they didn't parachute, they used choppers to rapidly deploy, followed by paradropped vehicles. But it didn't change the fact that they didn't do well.
@@DogeickBateman i say "how not to use paratrooper", not "how not to do parachute drop". Still, i appreciate the added context
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*Panther M10 slowly hides in bush*
This is quite a crazy crossover, not one I saw coming.
whenever there was footage of paratroopers jumping form the planes I was making "WEEE" sounds for every guy that jump out
“WEEE”
“OOF”
My Grandfather fought in this with 300 other students of the hellenic military academy
VDV! In the afterlife I met the soldiers from the Battle of Crete!
My grandfather serve in crete with 2nd New Zealand regiment thanks for this mate :D
My dad was in the 505th Panther Battalion in the 82nd Airborne. He told me that if your parachute is right on top of someone else’s, your parachute would collapse because the one underneath you would prevent air from filling yours. That’s why we have risers, to allow you to control your descent and prevent mishaps like this.
>OSP and Potential History crossover
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
My father in the early 1990's went to kiosk in Rhodes(Greece) to purchase cigars or whatever.. He saw an elder German tourist that had one of his hand missing. When he asked what happened the man replied, that he was one of the paratroopers that managed to survive. I was born in the year 2000 and when my father told me this story in 2009, i was really shocked of how time changes. Great video by the way, keep up the good work!
I agree with you about about the overall German steategic mistakes. Its actually a key point many historians fail to see. I appreciate all of the videos posted it is truly interesting hope to see more in the future. Can you do one on the Demyansk pocket please ???
Is it a good idea for a video on the invasions of the low countries, paratroopers were used by the germans in the north, and not to forget, the almighty Dutch bicycle infantry
Great video as always,i'm very happy you made a video that involves Greece in some way and i want to mention a few very interesting facts about the battle and occupation of Crete
Among the Greek forces defending the island were around 300 officer cadets.When the Germans broke through the Greek lines the cadets asked to be sent to Thermopylae to fight against the invaders but their command refused.Then when the Germans were closing in on Athens their commander informed them that they were planning to use them to maintain order in the capital until the Germans entered the city.The cadets refused and went around Athens commandeering vehicles which they used to travel to the Peloponnese,there they used small fishing boats to make their way to Crete.
The Greek forces in Crete were ill-equipped,most only had around 60-90 rounds of ammo and some soldiers didn't even have rifles.The civilians were very keen to fight against the Germans,but the British were reluctant to arm them and they actually had to guard their munitions depots to keep the civilians from getting guns.
The German forces in Crete were one of the last if not the last German forces to surrender in Europe.Despite the fact that the main German forces abandoned Greece in October 1944 and despite Germany's
capitulation the German forces in Crete surrendered the 9th of May 1945 and they were not disarmed until the 23rd!The Germans left Crete(armed with their weapons)between June and July 1945.
It's speculated that the reason they remained on the island for so long was that the British planned to use them as law enforcement if the communists managed to win the Greek civil war,or that Churchill wanted to use them in a certain....unthinkable operation.
Uh oh spaghetti-Os!
*proceeds to clobber you on the head with a can of Spaghetti-Os*
When will you talk about the Battle of Berkeley?
lol
I was in the middle of another one of your videos, i love your humorous take on history
*Jump by van Halen plays*
Reminds me of cod4 but it’s helicopters instead of paradrop
Love the Always Sunny references...and the recap of the Greek invasion.
battle of crete is like a battle royale you get a pistol in paratrooping
and you will get loot by airdropping
REASON THE GERMANS USED THE REAR-MOUNTED CHUTES:
It's very simple: the chutes used by German paratroopers opened a lot faster, because there was only one attachment point on the pack itself. Therefore, the Germans could drop from a lot lower, which meant less scatter and less unit mixing, especially if there was wind.
One downside to that setup you didn't mention is that the Germans could jump with almost no gear at all, most of their weapons being dropped by cannister. So each individual German took longer to recover from the jump than the average Allied paratrooper, but the airborne unit as a whole was able to organize and get into action quicker.
you did a collab with OSP, now do one with ISP
The Battle of Crete it may be argued that it was a very shallow, pyrrhic victory. Over 6,000 Germans were killed or wounded and the overall casualties they suffered were over 25% of the forces they committed. This was the highest percentage casualties suffered by the German Army in a single action up to that point in the war.
The Allied troops had little heavy equipment and the Germans had complete air superiority.
*“In some ways, the fate of Crete was decided before the battle began.*The air assets available to the Luftwaffe *gave the Germans a thirty-to-one numerical superiority in aircraft over the Allies…*
*….Instead of a quick, decisive battle, the Germans were locked into a ferocious fight for the island. Allied units performed heroically given their strength in numbers but inferiority in equipment. The Allies succeeded in inflicting heavy casualties on the Luftwaffe despite the fact that the Germans had the initiative, used elite troops, and possessed air superiority.“*
Battle of Crete: Hitler’s Airborne Gamble. Biank, A. Maria Major
The Germans were on the verge of pulling out. The paratroopers were literally being shot up. Freyberg and a New Zealand unit were supposed to be protecting an airfield but took a wrong turn as they were more worried about Germans coming from the sea not the air. This allowed the Germans to capture the airfield and land more troops.
Psychologically it was a Nazi defeat: The Germans who fought in Crete or were engaged in its planning were totally demoralized. They were instructed by their superiors not to discuss the battle with other units in the future.
Significantly, the Battle of Crete totally altered the course of future battle plans in the Eastern Mediterranean. Hitler was so stunned by the losses that he chose not to use the Herman Goering Division as a parachute unit again. Not having this division available as a parachute weapon would turn out to be devastating for Germany’s war efforts in the Middle East.
General Kurt Student would dub Crete "the graveyard of the German paratroopers" and a "disastrous victory."
It didn’t even mean very much in the end because the Royal Navy still dominated the eastern Mediterranean with Crete not leading to any campaign winning difference.
Hitler, believing airborne forces to be a weapon of surprise which had now lost that advantage, concluded that the days of the airborne corps were over and directed that paratroopers should be employed as ground-based troops in subsequent operations in the Soviet Union.
So basically Crete ended Fällshirmjäger's?
"The real meme tanks, are the friends we made along the way.
That's not..... I don't even know what that means..... "
I'm done
Great video, txs! BTW, the loss of Junkers Ju 52 transport planes was so great (especially at Maleme airport) in this operation that it deeply affected Barbarossa supply lines before it started.
*coughs* operation market garden *coughs*
*coughs* Easier said than done *coughs*
I was just given a history course on the battle of Crete
you were the first thing I looked up and you did not disapoint
Airborne Infantry? Try defending yourself with Bicycle Infantry...
The delivery of the line "that's not... I dont know what that means" is so perfect.
3:46 "If your occupation lasts longer than six hours consult a doctor"
6:58 Holy shit RIP his kneecaps
Actually you forgot to mention the parachute assault in Operation Rösselsprung aka the Raid on Drvar againts Yugoslavia in 1944.
German paratroopers also became somewhat more effective later on with the adoption of the FG 42. Instead of landing only with pistols, and having to collect their rifles, SMGs and machine guns from separate drops, they had a new universal rifle that could fulfill the roles of all of their previous weapons, and they could land with it because it was compact and lightweight. Although of course the production of the rifle was limited and the use of the paratroopers after Crete was also limited...
That's a crossover I REALLY didn't expect.
“That’s not.....I don’t know what that means” -potential history (best quote)
One reason to not give paratroopers control at least on paper is that you don't want your soldiers being to spread apart whenever they land, you want your fighting force to stay together. of course this is a misunderstanding of the real world.
You can write " how not to use" in the year 2018. With the Knowledge of today and from the year 1941,(after netherlands, norway) it was a bad battle plan from Göhring and Student. BUT it was the first time to aussault such a big land mass only from air. We have to remember this. The Young Fallschirmjäger must pay the Price.
I remember this channel when it first big hit fury vid. U have come far.Thanks for make up laugh and learn.
Terrific video! I personally love Red and Blue from OSP. 5 oofs out of 5 you tried stars.
Russians in 2022 be like : Hmm that was a successful operation, why don't we try it?
I had the privilege to meet a German paratrooper from Crete at the World War two days up in Rockford IL (which is just a huge great meet up of everything from the war). He didn't speak too much to me but that he was young when he was in the jump having just turned the proper age. A bunch of German re-enactors was helping him lead around the field and helped him with the original StugIV and Hetzer if I recall he was more interested in the Hetzer.
Also met another German Veteran the following year in 2013 in Jefferson Barracks MO, he was Hitler Youth and right when he turned 17 they put him into tank courses, he had some stories about a one-armed older veteran who was teaching boys (himself included) on a tiger 1 chasses and a thin bridge. He was tossed into service after being speed thru on the courses and ended up as a Panther driver.....50 miles east of Berlin as it was March of 1945. He told me and my group some of the action he saw taking out T34s at close range like they were nothing but ultimately they were stopped by some Soviet infantry. They bailed the tank later and tried to find their army support and found them a few blocks away having been caught in the open and shot down. He explained to us that the Soviets were reported to shoot anyone with black uniforms either they be SS or tank crews and still this late in the war they were issued black panzer uniforms so they swapped with the dead army Germans. It was at this point they realized how futile it was and decided to make a makeshift raft to swim across the Elbe river to go surrender to us Americans. Once they got to the other side some German army officers saw them and immediately addressed them for wanting to swim over.... he was scared because he thought was going to be hanged as a deserter but funny enough the officers responded with "so you're going to surrender? well us too". They ended up running into a British detachment and surrendered on the spot. I have had the fortune of meeting lots of veterans and listening to their stories of the war from my old high school supporter who was a tail gunner on a b17, a Pershing tanker, to these German vets and to a Jewish Holocaust survivor from Bergen Belsen.
Seems like now the VDV did something extraordinary the stupid paradrop in broad daylight had no air superiority and air defense system still up
Reasons to not have steerable parachutes include limiting the incidence of paratroopers running into each other in mid-air during a mass tactical jump, and to prevent a paratrooper from slipping over the top of a lower paratrooper--this can result in the lower paratrooper "stealing the air" from the upper paratrooper, with the upper paratrooper's chute collapsing (which also usually results in the upper jumper falling into the chute of the lower jumper). The old U.S. T-10C parachute had risers, but a riser slip is not truly steering, and is limited in scope, for exactly the reasons I cite above. The air gets pretty crowded in a mass tac, and many times a young trooper lacks the experience to not get in trouble by steering in the wrong direction.
Greece and Israel, founder members of the “gained land in a defensive war” club
the USSR is also in that club
Fun fact those two countries are also in the tabbouleh and hummus Club
Grandpa who was in the Australian 6 th div on Crete reckoned it was like duck opening when the paratroopers were landing.
Oh hell yeah, two of my fav youtubers in one vid
Good ol' *oof* is becoming an item in your videos, and I'm loving every part of it.
My mother once took care of an old widow, whose husband, who died a few years prior, was one of the paratroopers that took part at the invasion of Crete. I only know about that, because after the widiw died, my mother brought an old photo album home, wich contained a bunch of postcards, that described his travel to greece.
I saw the title and thought "this can't be the OSP I'm thinking of, must be a different youtuber" then just about creamed myself when I saw that it was the same OSP that I was thinking of
Wait...so the Allies outnumbered the entire German invasion force nearly 3-1, they knew of their Invasion plan in advance, the German Paratroop forces landed with just their pistols, and the entire native populace was hostile to the Nazis....yet the Allies lost the island and five times the number of men, and lost 10 warships in just 13 days.
This is supposed to be an example of a “flawed” victory? I’m confused.
Ugh, another person who doesn’t consider factors such has lack of supply, lack of naval supremacy in the area, and most importantly the fact that every man, boat, and airplane the axis lost was one less they could use against the soviets. Yes it was a flawed invasion plan, in fact the ratios are quite similar their numbers in the middle of the Soviet invasion before Stalingrad and Kursk. Also he even said that the invasion failed at first until it was reinforced, a common trend for Axis invasions with little exceptions. I’m not saying you’re not entitled to your opinion, only that you’re not considering enough factors when making that opinion.
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And you know, the fact that many paratroopers got injuries from falling both in the wrong place and the wrong way, the fact that Germany still took relatively large casualties compared to their other invasions, and the fact that they had to do this invasion at all because of Italy. But hey if you just look at the result I guess it can be considered a flawless victory, ramifications and context, what’s that?
in general, the german plan was decent, the allies could have done better, but the british/commonwealth decided it wasnt worth the effort and abandoned the island in the middle of the invasion. in the final stages it was just the island's greek garison that kept fighting
@Kyros Droztamyr Finally somebody who understands
@@apokos8871 Nah they were forced back and retreated because they were threatened by the Luftwaffe
Great to see my two favorite history channels collaborating
I remember a wehraboo said that the fallschimjäger had risers and US airborne didn’t
That reminds me of a kid I knew who told me that you could use rifle rounds in a mp-40.
My great uncle fought in the battle for crete defending an airfield. He was an australian machine gunner
This begs for another video on Market Garden
Right as I start binge watching OSP videos, you collab with them? That's so awesome.
To be fair to the germans they pulled a lot out of nothing. Before the war you needed a wheelbarrow of money to get some bread. so the fact that they got anywhere in the first place to me is quite impressive
Nazi party received a lot of huge private donations in the early 30s during their startup. That's how they funded everything
Emil yes the motivation of the German people is what generated most of the success but they had to accumulate that power from somewhere. Their donations helped them secure a more important role in German politics which led to Hitler gaining power and guiding the German economy
moe mccarter yes donations is it that hard for you to believe that prussian nobles supported a pro-traditional pro-german political movement?
Taco Jones The Nazis were anti Prussia openly, it was kind of hard to keep a status of nobility (especially in wealth) in the 30’s lmfao
@@ligmaboo The Jews stayed FAR away from the Nazi party. Hitler wanted a traditional Germany, so people wanting something like Prussia back donated the shit out of it. The bankers supporting Hitler were primarily Christian.
Wow this guy's good thanks for the collab I'll definitely check him out!
It’s important to note that the majority of allied equipment was forced to be abandoned in Greece, artillery without sights, very very few AA, no air support, food, or even blankets.
Allied (specifically kiwi) communications pretty much immediately broke down with the loss of their officers in the first like 5 seconds of battle, and paratroopers stopping most of their runners, led to a pretty much complete communication black out for a lot of the crucial times they could have counter attacked, most of the counter attacks on Crete that were widely successful were spur of the moment stuff, like 42nd street and Galtas.
It’s also worth nothing these were the elite of Germany fighting such iconic fighting units as the Kiwi Concert Band, and a group of chefs.
Yeh, he seemed to go from bashing the Germans(rightly) to then praising them for small victories.
"It’s also worth nothing these were the elite of Germany fighting such iconic fighting units as the Kiwi Concert Band, and a group of chefs." fuck I lol'd
@@lewis8325 then there were the Greeks. Greek civilians with either outdated rifles and farm tools start attacking the Germans.
@D L Check your reading comprehension; at no point did I claim the entire New Zealand force was composed of chefs and band members, such a claim even if you'd believed i was making it would obviously be farcical to everyone and only an idiot would take it as a fact needing correcting (not to mention the largely meme centric content would imply most comments will be more tongue in cheek than a serious discourse). 20k commonwealth troops _stationed_ on Crete? would that it was my friend the actual number is closer to 14-15k (less stationed and more waiting for a boat to come pick them up.)
All that being said I am referring to a specific bit of Kiwi history/lore, Dan Davin (New Zealand official war historian for the battle of Crete) and Charles Upham (the most decorated British solider to ever exist, fought at Crete) both mention the incident. Two cooks are lost on Crete wandering around looking for an officer, they come across a man wearing an officers jacket on top of a hill and go and join him, he shares some cigarettes with them and when they ask him for orders he's suddenly very confused why they're asking him. they point to his jacket and he replies he just pulled it off a body because he was cold, and replied "I'm in the fucking kiwi concert band"
That being said it was pretty common for everyone to be engaged with the enemy, Freyberg famously shot some paratroopers from his writing desk (I suspect he more shot at them than shot them but hey), an engineer unit radio'd for help only to radio back a few minutes later to report no one made it to the ground alive and to please disregard the previous message.
@D L The Link you just sent me literally links you to Dan Davin's book (nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Cret-b4.html) I am of course referring to the troops present at the beginning of the battle (more brought in or left is what leads to the discrepancy in after battle numbers, a common statistical occurrence). Either you really suck at math or you don't understand what commonwealth means, in this context that would be the Australians and the New Zealanders of which there were 14,242 (per the source you just sent me), not sure where these magic 30,000 greeks come from.
nothing about your posts is coming across as sarcasm? if that's your intention I'm afraid you're just coming across as a dick incapable of understanding creative writing techniques and civil discourse.
Do I frame the battle of Crete as an underdog narrative? yes, because it literally is? what else would you call a technological and numerical superior foe possessing far more training, air support, artillery support, vehicles, food, blankets, water, and ammunition? I don't need to _make_ them look heroic, any examination of New Zealand war history would _show them to be_ heroic.
As I am now for the 3rd time pointing out, nothing about any of my statements is factually inaccurate, the Kiwi concert band and cooks did indeed fight the germans, are we not allowed to talk about that because it somehow frames a narrative? It's part of kiwi military lore, like the American military circles say "nuts" to each other and laugh like it's the funniest thing they've ever heard. History is full of millions of stories that in the grand scheme of world events is totally meaningless, are we not allowed to share these stories because someone might see things in a new light? a very silly ideal
Holy Crap!! My two favorite YT channels in one history video!!!! I'm so excited!! Please do more collabs!!
This aged well
Taking the strip, one way trip, no anti air suppression.
I've never clicked so hard on a video. Literally my favourite RUclipsrs!
"Did you do it?"
"Yes"
"What did it cost?"
"My air force"
I see OSP featured, I press "like" while watching the pre-video ad.
The oof sound effects were on point and hilarious
3:30 the Maginot line was actually quite good
Fast fact: The Fallscirmjaegers were apart of the Luftwaffe and not the Heer. This gets funnier when you include the Fallschirm-"Panzer" and Fallschirm-"Panzergrenadier" divisions. Effectly Germany's Airforce had its own ground Army. Not to forget the Luftwaffe Field Divisions that made the Sicherungs Divisions look competent.
Potential History-senpai plz notice me.
The Luftwaffe Field Divisions were only formed because Goering declared that if Himmler had his own private army he should have one too
@@thetrippedup9322 Yeah I know about that. I was just saying how conterproductive the whole german warmachine really was. You have political leaders so preocuppied with securing their own powerbase that they undermine the performance of the military.
The wehraboos don't like to mention this.
Kyros Droztamyr Touché
The oofs as you hit the ground was accurate (even with the benefit of modern military instruction in static-line parachuting)
Wheraboos rejoice after hearing that germany did a win
I mean for every good thing he said about them he said ten bad, I like him but he can't be a more obvious alliedboo
They literally conquered the majority of Europe within 2 years
*wehraboo
@@rileymiller7786 I could say about the same for the Allies in the last years of the war.
@Emil A few territories before the war was annexed by Germany without much of a fight. Poland was invaded by both the Soviet Union and Germany, which is why it capitulated quicker. Other than France and Britain, and until the Soviet Union, most of the countries they invaded were either ill prepared or at a numerical disadvantage such as the Low Countries and the balkans, especially the latter since the invasion also had a significant amount of German allies. When comparing those to the Germans in the later years, the German military may have been depleted and outnumbered, but they were already fighting a war, with a considerable fighting force and with some allies they still had left. Not to mention, the Allies were also having to fight in the Pacific at the same time.
That was really cool. Subscribed!
Also: Cretan Superman & Real-Life Santa Claus named Takis operates a Animal Rescue Shelter for 500+ Dogs, cats, & Other Animals on the Island of Crete. For anyone who only knows Crete as 'That small Island that was F*CKING NUTZ ABOUT BULLS & MINOTAURS' back in the day & that it's pretty significant for Naval Battles in the Mediterranean Sea. (IMHO, Crete > Rhodes. Much more valuable, for both Trade & Control of the Ocean/Sea)
"Remember everyone, the real meme tanks are the friends we made along the way"
a video co-op? OSP and PH are going on the up and up and they both deserve it
2 years later I’m only now asking
HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET BLUE TO DO MODERN HISTORY?
2 years afterwards I'm seeing this and answering
Blue mentions (in a podcast? in a stream?) that he likes to watch potential history to learn more modern history, since he otherwise dont do it