Poland's Final message 1939
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- Опубликовано: 22 дек 2020
- This is usually seen in a war movie when the government will send out a final message to their allies and that is exactly what the Polish Government did when German troops entered warsaw 1939.
Hello Hello! Can you hear us?
We are broadcasting the last Polish radio communication.
Today, German troops entered Warsaw.
We send brotherly greetings for Polish soldiers fighting at hel peninsula,
and anybody fighting whatsoever, regardless of the place.
Poland is Not Yet lost!
Long Live for Poland
Hallo, hallo, czy nas słyszycie? To nasz ostatni komunikat. Dziś oddziały niemieckie wkroczyły do Warszawy. Braterskie pozdrowienia przesyłamy żołnierzom walczącym na Helu i wszystkim walczącym, gdziekolwiek się jeszcze znajdują. Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła. Niech żyje Polska!
ENG Translation: Hello,hello. Can you hear us? This is our final message. Today, German troops has entered Warsaw. We send brotherly regards to all, Polish soldiers fighting in Hell. And all those fighting, wherever they are, Poland has not perished yet! Long Live Poland!
Send chills down my spine, a deep regard for the fallen bretheren in Poland during ww2, long live poland
As a pole. This hits hard
@@thebacca4271 he didn'y say hell, but hel (a polish peninsula)
Long live Poland :D
Poland throughout the history of its country:
*Tis but a scratch*
Everyone : "A scratch!? Yer arm's off!"
@@Cotac_Rastic no it's not
Poland has been beaten up by the motherland and fatherland. Such loving parents aren't they!
@@PoliticalHistorian and people say parenting in the past was good
true
This is where the real men cried.
Yes 😢
This is where everybody cried
This is where real men didn’t just cry but started bawling.
Shipost status meme? Right?
Me too...
I am an Indian and I feel so emotional about this. Long live your great nation.
What about Haiti, do you feel emotional for them?
Man this radioman being calm enough to announce that his country has fallen and that him, his family and everyone he has ever met is doomed and probably wouldn't survive in a comforting way and still giving a "better days will come" message is honestly fantastic
And those flame sounds in the background
The good days came 60 years later.tragic.
Never Another 1939
@@aulus3792 I feel like you may be getting the poor sound quality confused with the sound of flames
There may very well be flame sounds I can't make out
But as far as I can tell, that's just artifacts of the quality of radio telecommunication they had back in the 40's
It would naturally have artifacting and data loss that would result in a crackling sound
"Poland Is Not Yet Lost" is the first line of the Polish National Anthem and is commonly used as it's English name. It had never been more true then.
50 years of occupation later and they would finally be free
True
The way they phrased the sentence and words was exactly the same as how it is meant to be sung in the anthem
Well Poland almost single handly survived attack from 2 countries and then won
It makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time that Polish history is so brutal that their national anthem would be called "Poland is not yet lost".
Allies after hearing this were like: "Understandable, have a great day"
Anyway !
If the allies did nothing for Poland, there would be no 2nd world war.
Good trade actually ngl. Poland should be incorporated into Lithuania
@@darkcenturion5735 lol
@@darkcenturion5735 WTF?
@@darkcenturion5735 😁
I hope this man, wherever he may be resting in peace, knows that his country has endured. And that indeed Poland was not lost, and shall not be lost.
The radio operator's name was Józef Małgorzewski. He survived the war. He died in 1983.
@@sebastiansynjanusza9021damn shame he didn’t see Poland become free again
@@weedwhacker287 yeah its sad, if he only lived 6 years more
@@sebastiansynjanusza9021 did he die in Poland or in exile?
@@holdenennis Wikipedia only says that he was buried in Warsaw, so I assume hi lived in Poland until the end.
I’ve never met a polish person in india, but I learned about its history recently and it breaks my heart to learn about how much Poland and its people suffered. The polish fighters during ww2 were very resilient and the same can be said anywhere else.
🇮🇳❤️🇵🇱
Be quiet cringe Indian
@ThatYahoonah it’s actually india
@ThatYahooit is India cause of the good, spices and resources. Not saying that Poland was not invaded much.
@@sonalikshirsagar229 no . we didnt suffer as much as they suffered. Their country was out of existence from map several time .And they suffered for yeas. Also unlike poland India was never a complete nation .It was combination of opposing kingdoms and empires like a minu europe.
POV: you’re a British radio operator and you’ve heard the saddest thing that has ever happened up to this point.
My Great Granddad received this message while he was in France. He never talked about it according to my Gran. God rest his soul.
POV: You're a civilian in your house hearing the government's last broadcast and be under foreign occupation ever since 1795
POV: You're too late
Sad
Reality : No one could give less of a shit.
"Warsaw has fallen"
Imagine being a radio operator and you hear those words
The dread you feel. And the chills it sends down your spine.
warsaw never has fallen
Why dread? when I herd this all I felt was determineion to not let a similar message play in London, how could you allow yourself to be scared in a time like this?
@American Patriot if they abandon us then I shall lead great Britain back into her glory!
@American Patriot I shall fight until my dying breath and even in death my spirit shall remain in great Britain until my work is done this is a vow I make to you, this is a vow I make to god and this is a vow I make to the British people.
@American Patriot one day I will be
“Poland is not yet lost.”, “Long live for Poland!” genuinely made me cry
Long live Poland... 😢
🇧🇿 🤝 🇵🇱
Love from Belize
That’s the first ever time I saw a Belize. 🇬🇷❤️🇵🇱🇧🇿
Imagine being a civilian in Poland then hear a broadcast from your own government stating it's their final broadcast and the capital city had been entered by enemy forces then the broadcaster states that the country is not yet lost and the national anthem played, truly a frightening experience .
Bro i would hold a stone and stick and go fight
@@duck3298 yes but the occupiers are armed with guns that obviously outclassed that little rock of yours.
@@angelinobernal6899 This is precisely why Germany occupied most of the Europe in that period
@@angelinobernal6899 Revolts and resistance movements still happened.
@@barrenbillion9889 most of Europe had guns at that point
with allies like these, who needs enemies
10/10
Bruh Poland did literally everything possible to screw over their allies...
@@dwarow2508 Please, elaborate :)
@@pan87589 Munich Agreement, Anti-Soviet pact, Russian civil war.... just to name a few cases ;)
@@dwarow2508 you're so funny that any discussion is out of the question
Huge respect to Poland from Bulgaria 🇧🇬❤️🇵🇱
Russia liberated Bulgaria and fought for it for a long time. And as a result, Bulgaria attacked Russia in every war, and now helps the Nazis to carry out the genocide of Russians.
Bulgaria will go straight to hell.
@@MultiNike79 what does this have to do with my comment?!
@@calicocat420 Right now Bulgaria is supporting the Nazis who are massacring the civilian population. You must understand that you are now in the Fourth Reich and again behaving the same way as during the Second World War.
@@MultiNike79 xd
As a Korean, I completely understand the feeling. I almost cry. It's heartbreaking!! A movie can never win real..
Hello asian poland^^
It really saddens me. Polish forces acted presuming they'd get reinforcements. They thought having Germany on two fronts would be too advantageous to give up. They waited for French and British soldiers. They never came.
It would be stupid to send troops to Poland
@@Equilibrium21 in a way, its true but the west should have attempted a major offensive atleast.
@@verpix4956 france tried some offensive, but british didn't came with them, and since france was still in a bad condition since WWI, they choosed to go back behind magino line, trully sad
The reason why the Brits and French never came up with a offensive (actually France did but it's only a few miles of land and head straight back to the border) was because Chamberlain is still in a strategy of appeasement in which it's too late to ever appease the land-hungry Germans and like p g stated France is still recovering from the destruction of the First World War.
@@thewhitecj1013 that and the fact the French military didn't exactly recovered from the aftermath of WW1, the subsequent Great depression, decline in innovating more because of politics and old generals that are stubborn using old WW1 tactics and that the BEF (British Expeditionary force) had send about 390,000 or so more troops whilst their ally had mobilized millions
this is bone chilling, it's like they were trying to be as merry and hopeful despite their final moments
The fellow who actually is speaking died some time in the 1980's according to a friend I have who lives in Poland. At the time, however, it was not known who would live and who would die. Imagine living with such fear and uncertainty, knowing many of the people you know and knew will not survive.
@@oceanichimself4603 True, that's why I wake up grateful every day for being born into a first world country in a age where I will probably not be involved in any war, many don't share this luck.
@@Warsie Well that's the thing, because of nuclear weapons I don't see a mayor war breaking out. Obviously if it did it would be the most devastating one, but the chances are extremely slim. If war ever breaks out again here it will be because of China, 100%
@@cannedcan9788 the ancient Roman has a speech that said “Si vis pacem, para bellum” which means “If you want peace, prepare for war”. Now every country has powerful defenses ready to repel any means of attack, so I believe this era of peace will endure much longer
@@cannedcan9788 the Americans and Soviets lucked out multiple times, with incidents of ONE Soviet officer refusing to use nuclear weapons during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
And of course the world war can happen in parts of the world with more personal distaste or grudges against each other (India and Pakistan, both of which have nukes).
Then there's a possibility of a functional ABM which might make strategic nuclear weapons a bit moot
Truly amazing that Poland endures throughout history. This was the last free broadcast for 50 years
Honestly it’s sad how you can hear the pain in his voice and seeing his country die RIP
Something about the "Hello, hello? Can you hear us?" at the beginning makes this feel so much more real, depressing, and inspiring
@The V word can what?
@The V word what?
@The V word I don't see any comment from you
Yeah.
@The V word We have no idea what you're saying. Can you use google translate from your native language? Cus there's no way English is your first language
This really hits from a different angle when you're actually Polish and you understand the language... Niech żyje Polska!
My friend is Polish, he saw this on the off chance of it being me, I told him how my Nan heard this broadcasted in Britain to get more volanteers for the UK Army
@@PoliticalHistorian I'm really happy that this stuff isn't forgotten!
I am Czech a i understood without translatw
@@erikvymetal455 Czech and Polish are very similar languages, even I can somehow understand Czech sometimes without translation
@@filipbizecki5009 i mean i understood becouse it was sad when i am saw i can know what Is going there
This gave me chills just imagining what people felt when they heard this live.
Long love Polska
i am hungarian too, and this was Really Heartbreaking. still glad Poland Still In a great power!
Love Hungarians from Poland!. Polak Węgier dwa bratanki i do szabli do szklank!
Love Poland from argentina.
"Change da world, my final message, goodby e"
same energy
*Polish anthem plays*
0:25
Lol i wrote the same comment not knowing yours xD
*Windows 95*
''We extend brotherly greetings to those fighting at Hel."
Wow. No bitterness, no hopelessness, just encouragement.
Don't want to break this, but Hel is a polish peninsula at the north
@@Wladyslaw_Raginis I know.
In Poland Hospitality is in their blood
@@Wladyslaw_Raginis Everyone who has served on Hel knows that it is not only the name of the peninsula.
He was referring to Hel peninsula, Poland lol typical American interpretation
For the men who died defending Poland, don’t fret because your country rose again and even stronger.
Tak, mój bracie, słyszymy cię, będziemy walczyć dalej. NIECH ŻYJE POLSKA!!!
This sounds like something from the Half-life universe but the worst part is that it is real. Can't imagine the terror those people felt on that day.
Brits before ww2 :
- makes multiple treaties with Hitler
- Hiler break every single one of them
- threaten France to join axis if they attack Germany first after breaking the treaties
- Germans starts rearming and they stop France from acting again
- Germans station troops at Poland and France borders
Brits in ww2 :
- Say France to wait to attack even after the succesfull invasion of Saarland
- land in France
- be a useless burden to the French army telling them it's better to wait
- retreat at the first bullet fired in their direction
- leave all their material for the germans and a huge gap for germans to go behind French forces
- retreat at mach 5 to dunkirk to destroy French fleet
- tries to flee germans on small boats and after destroying an entire fleet while the French army sacrifice themselves to allow it
- enjoy being an island
- oops French saved the entire british army again at Bir Hakeim
- still enjoy being an island
- soviets march into Berlin the ww2 is over
- take credits for winning the war while being a spectator for most of the war
- "plays god save the queen that was originally a poem about the glorious recovery of Louis XIV anal fistula"
- awful stuff happen in India
- etc...
- years later spit on the country that made them secured from an invasion
same.
Yes. This is exactly how the message sounds.
Creepy.
That is such a fitting comparison! Replace "German troops" with "Combine troops", and then you would have something from Half Life's Seven Hour War.
@@cWvp80GEDg You missed the part where the USSR spent 1930-1939 trying to convince France and the UK to enter into an agreement to defend Eastern Europe, do so again as Czechoslovak independence is threatened and in the end just agree to a Non-Aggression treaty because your supposed friends certainly aren't carrying their weight so why should you?
This is genuinely really sad. It's something you only see in movies, but hearing this from an event that actually happened hits different
Knowing that it is beginnig of an end to 80 million people lives in just next 5 years.
@@DanteProNexus if there is ever a world war it will not be started by Russia just know that
And I'm actually Polish 😔🇵🇱
The saddest part is that half of the Europe let this happen, US waited for god knows what and east didn`t care.
Back then US needed "evidence" to attack Germany, today they don`t need anything to send whatever they need to Ukraine.
If the war raging all over Europe wasn`t good enough ewidence to send help then I don`t get why they care so much now.
ES LEBE DEUTSCHLANDS!
Even if Poland took Vilnius from Lithuania before WW2, I still support them 🇱🇹❤🇵🇱
I am from Germany and this is so sad to hear. I hope there will no more wars anymore between Germany and Poland.
The green color in Poland's flag represents trustable allies.
There are a lot of Polish Americans where I live in Upstate New York. They're some of the coolest and most beautiful people I've ever met.
@@Parvenu90
I was talking about geo-political allies... polish people are no doubt great.
My bad I didn't mean to post as a reply. I was checking out your comment and laughed out loud. I wrote the comment from my phone and didn't realize I was still in the sub menu of your comment 😂
@@Parvenu90 No problem.
your tragically appropriate name
“Poland is not yet lost!” Probably heard by resistance fighters on their radios as the Germans marched closer and closer, destroying their towns, blowing up everything knowing they were next
It were a few more years before the resistance took this kind of "final" hit, when they attempted to free their city with the help of the sovjet army.
The resistance expected the sovjet army to support their efforts, not knowing that they made a deal with an ally of Germany.
So while the resistance rose up to fight back against german suppression, throwing in all they've got, the sovjets just watched.
But what should've been a genius move to get rid of the problematic resistance all at once, instead rallied Poland behind its resistance, making the uprising somewhat successful.
Even if this attempt at fighting back ended in a bloodbath.
because blowing up and killing everyone was their intention and purpose. idiot.
@@MalhaIIa A telegram for you! Fresh news! In war, combatants march, destroy towns, kill and blow stuff up. I know... shocker!!
I can’t speak Irish
@@ashraf7242 I’m not able to understand 👯♀️
Me being Polish and proudly singing along to the anthem, acknowledging how much pain Poland has endured over the last few centuries..
Poland isnt a country.
I can't speak for the brain-dead teachers out here.
It’s amazing even in their darkest hour they stood and fought
Yeah, and now they want to repeat Poland of 1940 again
I would cry my shit out. It's like world's moral is temporarily gone. War is crazy, when you get in first person perspective.
I think it's easy to look in hindsight and be like yea we won, and take it for granted, but if you think for a moment. What if the Allies had lost. We could be living in a world where the Nazi regime still existed and this was all a forgotten memory.
@@firingallcylinders2949 I just wonder how would Hitler achieve his blondies purity if in almost every video or photo I see germans, they aren't aryan
@@firingallcylinders2949 they basically won, they are the wealthiest European country, Poland is still rebuilding what we had lost and Germany has such a huge influence in the parliament its scary. We may not be speaking German but them mfs won in so many different ways
@@przezyc1890 the whole blonde hair blue eye thing is deliberately misunderstood but those ARE the traits of the aryan (or indo European) race. It doesn't mean you're not aryan if you don't have blonde hair. It's like how German shepherds have certain traits including distinctive fur colour but you can get white fur ones, that doesn't negate the distinctiveness of those characteristics.
@@firingallcylinders2949 yea, they would just do endless wars around the world for ideological reasons and just pile up the kill count.. remind you of some country?
This isn't the last message to the allies, it's to the last of Polish points of resistance. The British are not mentioned here once.
Indeed. You Are right
it’s to their own people, if it was to the world it would bevin multiple languages…
nice sentiment I guess but "anybody fighting whatsoever, regardless of the place" would include the British.
@@outdateduser7036 in polish ;}
@@outdateduser7036 and it was "to polish soldiers fighting in Hel and all (polish soldiers that are) fighting wherever they are"
As a Polish Person this is heart breaking..
This recording hits me in the gut as it's part of my history. My Polish father was 22 when the war broke out, he was just finishing his military service but had to go to war instead. He fought at places such as Tobruk and Monte Cassino, he was a phenomenal man, always my hero! He met my Italian mum in 1945 in Italy, they married in 1946 as he was still in the army and they were being sent to England, that's where they settled. My father finally managed to revisit Poland and his family in the early sixties, apparently his mum just hugged him, crying saying son where have you been all these years! I'm fiercely proud of both sides of my roots and how my dad, and my mum ( but that's a tale for another time,) endured some awful things fighting, as the saying goes, , For your freedom and ours. I miss them but I'm grateful to have had them. So proud !
Wow Yess He was
I think that literal wording in "Poland is Not Yet Lost!" in Polish rubs differently because it's actually (as in the anthem) "Poland has not yet died".
its actually not. "zginęła" can mean has died or has disappeared
@@pot4017 The intended meaning of "zginęła" in the anthem is death. You know it because of how the original lyrics Józef Wybicki wrote looked like:
"Jeszcze Polska nie umarła
Kiedy my żyjemy
Co nam obca moc wydarła
Szablą odbijemy."
Lyrics have been changed from 'umarła' (has died) to 'zginęła' (has died) because the latter one means tragic or sudden death, while 'umrzeć' is associated with natural causes.
It's kinda similar to the Ukraine anthem's first line which also means "The glory and will of Ukraine haven't died yet"
@@pot4017 Think you’re confusing “zginęła” with „zniknęła”
@@comradeofallcorvids5056 actually, "zgineła" can mean lost and dead. It has two meanings
I'm polish, actually so yeah they didn't confuse anything
Girls: How did you not cry during Titanic? Do man even have feelings!?
Boys:
I seen this on r/historymemes
Same
Dude not only did I cry but I learned waterbending
I'm a Polish girl and I cry while listening to this broadcast.
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Glory to Poland
"Hello hello can you hear us? This is our last message. Today, German troops entered Warsaw. We extend fraternal greetings to the soldiers fighting in Hel and to all those fighting wherever they are. Poland has not perished yet. Long live Poland!"
thx, but its in the cc
@@artimator4714 okay
That song was played before millions of people where killed
The distorted old audio is just a touch up of creepiness
Creepiness? It is just polish National anthem
@@michal8527 this recording is creepy becouse of its meaning and what happened after it
@@ikaiju-eu9wn id say that its touching, not creepy
@@michal8527 it's both touching and disturbing
@@michal8527 most ppl liked and agreed with OP just saying
The way he said "Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła" really made me sad tho. Regardless of whether he knew they were lost and their fate was sealed, the courage with which the guy said those last two sentences definitely made me think. German btw, i really hope that our generation won't have to endure what theirs did.
Its part of a national anthem so it has more power
@Абдульзефир Why "rightly so"
@Абдульзефир Not every generation has to suffer
@Абдульзефир people aren't mindless war machines
the guy witnessed two big wars already, this was the third one in his life - even when he knew nothing good was coming, he surely knew a true end is when there is no more will to fight
Hearing the 1939 radio jingle right before this and the weight of the realization that your country is gone and you're living under another...terrible.
I never heard some many good things about my country i just wanna say thank you all♡
My advice: don't watch it in public when you're Polish. You don't want strangers staring at you as you're crying
I'm crying indeed... 😭
Girl, I just started crying and I’m not even Polish 😭😭
Why?
@@yoy8123 what why?
@@yoy8123 I don't know if you're joking or if you're genuinely confused.
People might not realize but hundreds are dying when that was recorded. So the moment you're watching this, you also unintentionally replay the final moments of fallen soldiers in this beloved world.
May they forever rest in peace and be honored.
😭
Learn from anything
Don't start a war
We don't need to kill each other
The world would be a better place If we could put ourselves in some one else shoes,
Some times you should think about what your enemy is going through
That's how you can understand humanity and act like a human not a toy for government
The world would be a better place if media and news were honest
It would be a better place If countries didn't exist and if we were living happy with each other without making borders for ourselves and calling it country
It would be a better place money didn't exist
What's money? Why does it matter?
The fact is money doesn't matter, it's humans that gave value to gold and money
We need currencies, but these currencies at the moment ( dollar, gold, euro, etc) are the worst currencies ever
We need a currency that can show us the true value of anything
Hard work is the true value
And Bitcoins and nfts aren't based on hardwork
Gold isn't based on hard work
I told you the best things I could to give you a new way of thinking
If you help my suggestions to happen when you grow up, the world will be beautiful and pleasing
People might also not realize that if France and Britain attacked Germany when this was happening, they most likely would have prevented WW2.
Fallen* world
There is a town in Istanbul named after the Polish settlement "Polonezkoy" and our Ottoman government never accepted the partition of Poland. When the 1st World War ended in 1918 and Poland regained independence, we returned the Polish embassy's keys to the Polish diplomats, as the way we honoured our old foe.
It's so sad when Poland was betrayed in WW2. Wished they have better allies and neighbours though.
Im not even polish but I got shivers down my spine just hearing the voice of that man.
Niech żyje Polska !
They got attacked by 1.5 million soldiers but still managed to defend themselves for 35 days. That's impressive.
1.8 million German soldiers and 600 thousand Soviets
@@adione6269 Idk. Wikipedia says 1.5.
Not to mention they were facing a VASTLY superior military force in nearly every way and they still managed to hold out that long. Then after decades of being controlled by 2 of the worst totalitarian regimes in history, they regained their independence and are a free country today
Just imagine being attack by 2 biggest forces in the world(hundreds of years of independence) vs Poland that was just after war in 1920 (with communists),just got independence(after 123 years of slavery) then after being a country for 19 years, Poland fought them both for over a month.
longer than france atlleast
If history is anything to go by, even if the world ends, Poland will never be lost.
As longest as Poles are alive :)
@Angus Rogers Poland has been through worse
@@angusrogers760 low intelligence located
@@angusrogers760 No
I am British and I am proud of Poland
True they've been doing great. Really worth all the sacrifices of WW2 to see how great they've been doing
Chwała wszystkim naszym, polskim braciom i siostrom którzy walczyli na nasz piękny kraj! Niech spoczywają w pokoju🇵🇱
The last free radio transmission from Poland for 52 years
Poland: were was Britain and France, did they just forget about me?
Czechoslovakia: first time?
Austria: lol no comment
@@Cyborg_Lenin your comment is better than the original
yeah and they said that slovakia were fascists. yeah you are hostage and somebody give you gun next your head and say to you do something you are free willingly do that...
Finland: 👁👄👁
@Jason Heard similar after some research ...
It's a message for the Poles, not the allies. Never have I heard a sadder version of the anthem, made me cry. Still, this says a lot about us Poles, the enemy at the capital and the message is: it's not over, Poland is not lost. It 'only' took us 50 whole years to regain sovereignty.
I mean, 50 is better than the 123 the previous time around. This one actually was less than a lifetime, so if you were a child during WW2 you could reasonably live to see Poland regain sovereignty
@@nataliaborys1554 if you survive holdomor that is.
At what point did the announcer imply that the message was for Poles only?
@@Mitaka.Kotsuka based
You did better than Bosnia. They are stil not liberated from Turkey and never will be.
It doesn't matter how many times I hear this broadcast it will always break my heart
Imagine you live in Warsaw, you are listening to the radio and this is the announcement you get. A few seconds after that, you hear gunshots and you see smoke outside, you are hiding under the table with your family, praying to be alive. . .
"Pretty sure Poland is fine on its own."
-Britain and France
Britain a few years later: *Where France*
XD
@@badpiggies988 u want to hear Polish joke : whats France martial art of fighting?
Parkour foundation is running away
Someday later,oh no Germany attack but have the English Channel so it will be fine.
Im french and i hate this so much 😔
This is haunting. Especially the anthem at the end.
And especially if know what happened to Poland in ww2
@@klausjack8731 truly sad.
Usually you need some creepy Doki Doki Literature Club sound distortions to make music haunting.
Not in this case, especially if you know history.
@@qbek_san I guess it just goes to show that reality is so much scarier than fiction.
@@spedrun yes
Imagine being the radioman that sent the final message from your government before capitulating, then decades later, your voice gets uploaded to youtube for millions to listen to. That must be astonishing to think about and quite a remarkable piece of history
My great grandfather was there and he heard this, he sadly died due to old age :( but he told my mother all about the pain and how he had to save his family. (my great grandmother, and his son) He said it was the most terrifying experience ever. I never got to see my great grandfather though. Since he died when my mom was 19. This is the last thing he heard before a bomb went off. He said his son died during the whole thing and only him and his wife survived.
Blue colour on Polish flag symbolizes reliable allies...
As a polish person I say they did well for the situation they were in
yeah look where that got czechoslovakia
@@Dzejk86 Czechoslovakia? They re-established it again? 🤪. Cheers.
@@pancebula8106 i am aware of czechia lmao, i was refering to how czechoslovakia got thrown under the bus by its allies in ww2
@@Dzejk86 no worrys buddy. I'm just messing - know history of that part of Europe as well, and some hard time that Czechs gone through from former allies including Poland... No offence given or taken. Cheers.
My grandfather was very young when his family immigrated to America from Poland. He enlisted in the Army & became a fighter pilot in WWII to defend his family still in Poland & Poland herself. Niech zyje Polska!
America ❤️Poland 🇺🇸❤️🇵🇱
Your grandfather is great and strong buddy he got my respect. Niech zyje Polska!
sorry for everthing from germany niech zyje polska
@@theaddictedgamerproduction9948 we are european brothers now no need to apologise 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
@@narplitz1510 if america loves Poland so much, why is it that when Witold Pilecki let the Germans capture him and put him in a concentration camp and he escaped to send a message to america's president saying what inhumane things are happening in the camps, america didn't give a single shit?
i learnt polish because of the amount of times i heard this and cries
played this over the speakers while my polish grandfather was over.
Im hungarian, yet this is very heartbreaking. Glad Poland still exists today.
And ukraine?
@@forgotten1s this video is not related to Ukraine at all.
@@forgotten1s If Poland ceased to exist then, we would have 2 countries in this part of Europe, 3 Reich and the USSR. There was no Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine and Belarus, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romanians, Moldavians and Austria.
@@casserole6240 i ask cuz hungray is pro russia ignoring the exact same things
German here , please please Polands you need to defend your Woman/Children from the LESB.GAY.BI.TRANS. and Feminism Brainwash by US Big Tech Companies and other Medias.
Please keep Man/Woman/Child concept. Please put your Family at the top of your life. Family is most important. Mental health is extremly important.
"Why are boys so emotionless and stoic all the time? Do they even cry?"
Boys after listening to this: 😭
Can confirm
Can also confirm. Also am polish
Hey i need more csgo video
That is True I did cry
@@manlmao6823 omw
To think this would be broadcasted over 80 years later, they never must have known…
…and in the end, Poland was not lost. The Sun did shine on them again.
One of my professors back during my freshman year of college had many relatives who lived in WWII Poland. He always talked about how they would say “the sun will shine here again.” It was in their journals and carved on their walls.
Also, he loves superhero movies, and said he cried during that moment in Infinity War when Loki told Thor that “the sun will shine on us again.” It represents a lot of hope for him
he cried in infinity war because his relatives said they heard people saying the sun will shine again?
He cried because the phrase in the movie reminded him of a very important phrase everyone in Poland used to say all the time, write everywhere, etcetera, in hope for a better future, one day.
@@patricks8788 How does the stone in your chest pump blood around your body?
Sun will shine again is what germans sing . When the nacht is cold morgen sonne Vida lacht
@@Bob3D2000 dang lol he was just confused chill, so much gets lost in written conversation :(
It's truly incredible that we have this recording still today. The Poles are a brave and enduring people. I hope they stand strong forever.
@@bluueskull yeah and be just as bad after the war and taking all land of prussia
@@gamerdrache6076 Yeah just after Prussia took all that was never theirs before. For over 100 years.
Thank you for praising the Polish nation! By the way, this Poland's final message in this video was the result of the betrayal on Poland in 1939 by dishonorable allies. The Polish government believed that Poland was sufficiently armed to hold out long enough until the alliance contractually agreed massive attack of the British and French would quickly end the war in favor of the British, French and Poles. The Poles could not have guessed that they would be so disgraceful betrayed. The British and French declaration of war 1939 against Germany served only for saving face. The British and the French did not intend to keep to the contractual commitment and to attack massively in the west. They wanted to sacrifice Poland for peace with the Germans! They preferred to betray Poland instead of fighting. This was the continuation of British and French appeasement stupid politics of the 30s! The inaction of the French and British was the message to Germany: Be satisfied with Poland. Do not attack us behind the Maginot Line and in the British Isles. We do not attack Germany either! So most British bomber activity was the dropping of propaganda leaflets. Then also other disgraceful betrayals then followed this betrayal.
This betrayal on Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest, it was a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War. As General Ironside the Chief of the British General Staff stated in 1945, after much of Europe was in ruins and 50 million have died, "Militarily we should have gone all out against the German the minute Germans invaded Poland. ... We did not ... And so we missed the strategical advantage of the Germans being engaged in the East. We thought completely defensively and of ourselves.
Y'all stop arguing about who's the real owner of Prussia, it is rightfully serbian anyway
thanks
My great-grandfather, Jozef, joined the Polish military 2 weeks before the initial invasion of Poland, not knowing what would come. He risked his life for ours and he is one of my favorite people. He worked in a labor camp post-war, getting such bad arthritis from it his fingers were permanently bent in. He married my great-grandmother, Maria, in the camp, and had my grandpa, Zenon (Zeno, Z) and my great uncle, Ryszard in that camp as well. Ryszard (Richie, Richard) passed away a few months ago due to the China virus, and he had severe PTSD from Vietnam, lying about his age to get into the war. He was shot once in the stomach on the side, missing every organ. Zeno died in 2002 due to a disease that causes people to become paralyzed. Niech żyje Polska!
That is perhaps the most noble, yet eerie thing I have ever heard.
Imagine being a Polish citizen, in a city and hearing that this is the final message, and listening Polish anthem over the radio, whilst seeing an army of German soldiers coming towards your city.
That’s terrifying to think of.
E
@@EEEEEEEE well said
Grovel at the feet of the German soldiers and beg their forgiveness for playing the anthem.
Problem solved.
@@epaminon6196 damn bro
@@justinworld9
I'm quite sure that the soldiers would have been quite lenient afterwards. Polish servs were quite popular with Germans around that time and it would have been a shame to damage or defunct one over an obsolete anthem, nein?
This is when RUclips really comes into its own. Brilliant upload
my great grandfather was serving in polish military during this time. His regiment was defeated at Warsaw and he was killed in action. thanks for making the last speech.
Imagine actively living in that time. Said and done we know Hitler loses. During that time, Stalin and Hitler were at peace, and watching France fall soon after. It had to have felt like the Reich may stand for a thousand years. Truly terrifying when I really think about it.
I mean it was shure scary, but Stalin and hitler were not in pice. Not even close to it. They had a treaty, jusl like every other country. But USSR was begging GB and France to stop germany before the war started. But they both declined while Germany attached Austria and Czechoslovakia (that one together with poland). Even German commander were surprised at how quickly they took France.
Those treaties were not ever respected, if i remember correctly the nazis had a treaty with france or czechoslovakia as well but they invaded anyway, the British were the ones who let hitler have it his way with that chemberlain failed appeasement and they wanted the nazis to move east towards the USSR, the communists would never exist peacefully besides fascism, and the USSR needed time to rebuild after wwi and civil war and foreign invasion, once they did they crushed the nazis and millions fell for that purpose while both the UK and US n france sent a few hundred k to fr and italy alot of whom were from the colonies and were lured literally by food to join the french army, because famine hit hard in the 40s in Morocco for example... needless to say the "allies" betrayed Poland as expected from the barbaric greedy brutes that they are and what they practiced in the colonies u'd have to be asleep to think they stand for democracy or human rights
@@figurefiguras4104 100% but Germany had a treaty with everyone. Some more cooperative, some just for non-aggression. All of human history is just proof how awful we are.
I blame Covid 19
@@Cyborg_Lenin no no not we, my mans it serves only to paint everyone in a bad light, there are specifically harmful hateful ideologies that deserve absolutely no tolerance and should be combatted and eradicated such as Racism, Imperialism and Capitalism which is the main reason why the World wars happened in the first place and the reason for crises that were weaponized in turn by the Fascists. We can't put everyone in the same bucket because as the fascists and imperialists were doing that other Human beings were fighting them and carrying hope for better human existence.
I don't know why people make fun of Poland and Polish people. They have went through so much crap, they are extremely determined and they have a very rich history.
Yes we do
I'm a Nigerian who agrees. They are a very kind people who are very proud of their heritage.
I don’t know anyone that makes fun of Poles though… it’s the French that get made fun of.
Yes but modern poles have anti gay zones
Yah but modern polamd is just trash and i say it as a person who lived in poland half of their life
This video made me cry. I can't imagine living though that hell. In our history, Poland went through so much and I'm so proud and grateful that today, I can live in safe, independent Poland 🇵🇱
“Poland has not yet perished, so long as we still live”
First line of the Polish national anthem
They literally defended themselves and held on without any support. Respect to those that lost their lives defending their homeland
They could have held longer if they actually didnt just pointlessly wait for the allies and defended with an actual decent plan
@@gamesnig ah yes formulate a brilliant long term plan against both soviets and germans...probs not likely
@@gamesnig LOL? look who's talking
france had the support of the uk and still lasted just as long as poland
talk shit when you know shit
@@MyName-lq7rv no? france was in a great depression
by extending the maginot line they would have gone bankrupt not because they fear some half assed country
@@MyName-lq7rv The British army lost all of it's supplies and equipment at Dunkirk
The more I learn about the history of Poland, the more I respect them
We've got a long way to go, pal.
Theres nothing to respect.
@@SuiSideex Poland nearly controlled all of eastern Europe, rivaled the Roman's and wrecked nations for 100s of years.
@@John316_Acts2 And? if thats a reason to respect for you, then its something wrong with you.
@@SuiSideex There is a lot of things to respect, maybe if you weren't ignorant you could actually see a potential here.
I fully expected to hear something like this out of Ukraine within a week of Russia invading but here we are over 9 months later.
Hearing this after 84 years when my family held a funeral for my grandparents in the last remaining parts that polish people lived in makes my tears fall down like a waterfall
"I would rather blow up our railway tracks than take part in the invasion of Poland" said the Hungarian Prime Minister, Pál Teleki, replying to the German question about the possibility of invading Poland from Hungarian territory in 1939..... Months before Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Teleki told Hitler that “for moral reasons [Hungary] sees no possibility of an armed aggression on Poland.” Just before the invasion, Hitler asked to use railroad lines in the part of eastern Czechoslovakia Hungary had seized to move German troops to the Polish border.
Teleki refused the request..
His government also allowed several hundred thousand soldiers and civilians (including polish Jews) to take refuge in and transit through Hungary.... The Hungarians opened their borders after September 17, when Soviet Russia invaded the eastern parts of Poland. Warmly welcomed Polish refugees, soldiers, helping them reach France and join the recreated Polish Army.
Poland subsequently awarded Teleki the country’s Order of Merit, and a life-size sculpture of him was erected in Krakow last year...
This is courage, and this is help. Lending a helping hand at the worst time.
This is friendship. Poland and Hungary.
Dziękuję Thank you Köszönöm!
I'm sorry about my assumption that Germany and Austria are very similar. Thank you for the heartwarming information. Have a great day!
@@SaDamieL_ 🇸🇰🇸🇰❤️
And then they were were turned into the Eastern Bloc and lost all sovereignty until 1989, great job!
Pál Teleki seems like a complicated figure. Clearly he disliked Hungary's position with the Axis and sought to remain as neutral as possible, going as far to wish Germany loses the war. His resistance to Nazi demands are admirable. At the same time however, he would write and sign multiple Anti-Jewish laws resulting in the deportation, execution or forced labour of thousands of Hungarian Jews.
Hungary and Poland were told not to get involved with Hitler carving up of Europe.
Hungary listened... Poland didn't.
Poland joined the nazis and invaded Czech and took the spoils of war.
Poland was warned they were next if they did...
It's truly sad to think that up until the 1990s, this was the last transmission of a truly independent Polish government.
Yes, the consequence of this attack was also the occupation by the Soviets and that the Poles were forced to communism by force. But this Soviet occupation of Poland was also the direct consequence of the betrayal by the Polish allies. The Polish government believed that Poland was sufficiently armed to hold out long enough until the alliance contractually agreed massive attack of the British and French would quickly end the war in favor of the British, French and Poles. The Poles could not have guessed that they would be so disgraceful betrayed. The British and French declaration of war 1939 against Germany served only for saving face. The British and the French did not intend to keep to the contractual commitment and to attack massively in the west. They wanted to sacrifice Poland for peace with the Germans! They preferred to betray Poland instead of fighting. This was the continuation of British and French appeasement stupid politics of the 30s! The inaction of the French and British was the message to Germany: Be satisfied with Poland. Do not attack us behind the Maginot Line and in the British Isles. We do not attack Germany either! So most British bomber activity was the dropping of propaganda leaflets. Then also other disgraceful betrayals then followed this betrayal.
This betrayal on Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest, it was a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War. As General Ironside the Chief of the British General Staff stated in 1945, after much of Europe was in ruins and 50 million have died, "Militarily we should have gone all out against the German the minute Germans invaded Poland. ... We did not ... And so we missed the strategical advantage of the Germans being engaged in the East. We thought completely defensively and of ourselves.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars Keep in mind that the USSR had repeatedly written to the future Allies and attempted to ally with them to take down Nazi Germany early and nip the problem in the bud. It's a shame that even they could recognize the problem but the hubris of the Allies would lead to their misguided policy of appeasement. The USSR was merely biding their time when signing a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany while the future Allies would need time to come around.
@nora the Soviet Union wasn't being altruistic when it warned the allies, it was scared for itself. At best the non-aggression pact was an act of cowardice and at worst expansionism to subdue Poland once more.
Imagine how different things would have been if the USSR had stood with Poland.
Germany spent 1939-1941 producing massive amounts of armaments while the USSR was busy purging their own side.
@@zz_8990 How should the cooperation work with the communists who wanted to export communism to all countries worldwide. The Soviets were the ideological enemies of the capitalists. An alliance was out of the question at that time. Neither did the Soviets trust the Poles, British and French, nor did the Poles, British and French trust the Soviets. Cooperation was impossible before the war and that was not only due to the West. For real? To trust Stalin?
@@ImranKhan1976 What is this nonsense about a hypothetical alliance of Poland and the Soviets? That was out of the question. The Soviets were Poland's enemy. The Poles were allied with the British and the French, which was quite sufficient for repelling both the Germans and the Soviets. The Poles could not have guessed that the British and French would act completely irrationally and would not attack massively, as previously agreed with Poland. This betrayal of Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest but it was also a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War. As General Ironside the Chief of the British General Staff stated in 1945, after much of Europe was in ruins and 50 million have died, "Militarily we should have gone all out against the German the minute Germans invaded Poland. ... We did not ... And so we missed the strategical advantage of the Germans being engaged in the East. We thought completely defensively and of ourselves.
The French, with British support in the West, were vastly superior to the Germans. The Germans would not stand a chance in the West if the French, with british support, would have attacked in massive full force as agreed with Poland. Because the Germans had in the West in 1939 only inferior reserves without tanks and hardly any air support. Part of the reserve was WITHOUT TRAINING! These reserves were civilians in uniform with no training! But it is mendaciously claimed that an attack in the West was not possible. But it's a lie that support of Poland was not possible. Claiming that the French and British did not have the capabilities and ability for a massive attack in the West is also a lie that is being spread. Or that the Germans were allegedly invincible. Because this is also a useful myth for British and French that the Germans were so strong that Poland with French and British had no chance to win. In reality the Germans were not at all prepared for a two-front war. The Germans had no chance in two-front war against Poland, French and British! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British. Poles really could not have guessed that there would be this completely irrational betrayal!
As a turkish this made me cry it made cry every single man on earth
the chimed music at the end gives me shivers
That‘s our anthem🇵🇱
Let‘s pray for peace and that this will never be repeated🙏🏼
Long live Poland! 🇪🇪❤️🇵🇱
Long live Poland! 🇲🇰🇵🇱
I like your name
What is the first flag?
@@Tamir_Karniely Estonia
@@pepsiman371 me?
A heartbraking message from a brave nation from their darkest hours. They had to fight against such giant enemies from both directions without a real chance to win or having support other than words from their allies. Unfortunately we hungarians could not help too much, but opened the common border for the refugees. We never forget our friendship. Greeting from Hungary!
I don't know how you can criticise the allies when Hungary was itself a member of the Axis
Hungary tried to help Poland as much as possible. There was a partisan unit in my region. The Hungarian branch was to track him down and liquidate him. However, they pretended not to be able to find it, although they knew their location well
Dziękuje Madziarowie :)
The Hungarian Kingdom has a long historical friendship with Poland. When this record was made, beginning of Sept 1939 Hungary was not under german occupation. If you know the Middle European history, you also know that these 2 nations did not fight against each other in this war. On the contrary, tried to support the polish people.
On July 24, 1939, Hungarian Prime Minister Pál Teleki sent a cable to Hitler in which he refused to assist in the invasion of Poland, on the grounds of "moral" reasons. In early July, Teleki announced to his German ally that he would sooner blow up Hungarian railroads than make it possible to invade Poland in this way, adding that maintaining friendly relations with Warsaw was "a matter of honor" for Hungary. Hitler had many more reasons to be furious with his rebellious ally. On September 18, 1939, the Hungarians opened the border for Polish refugees, which was used by around 100,000. Poles, including Polish Jews.
Polak Węgier dwa bratanki!
The Polish: Poland is not lost yet!
*82 years later*
The Ukrainians: Ukraine is not lost yet!
But it took Germany only 4 weeks to conquer Poland. The war in ukraine started 10 months ago
@@irgendeinname9256 Exactly, strong army vs weak army, then weak army vs strong army
The Afghans: Afghanistan is not lost yet!
This made me cry for the first time in years
Polek Wenger dva bratanki.
Stay strong brothers.
With much love from Hungary.
Polak Węgier dwa bratanki i do szabli i do szklanki
Pozdrawiam brata Węgra. I znowu razem przeciw chorej Europie
If there's anything about Polish history - it's more than sure that there will be some comment from Hungarian Brothers :)
@@lazygames4478 of course, since we stand together, shoulder to shoulder against our enemies 😊
Pole and Hungarian two Brothers!
For the saber and for pint of glass :)
More or less :D
Greetings Bro!
Rest in Peace the Polish people who died in Second World War.
My respects from Romania 🇷🇴❤🇵🇱
6 million Polish citizens died.
Respects from Romania to the beautiful country of Poland, my girlfriend's country, so proud to be here! 🇷🇴❤🇵🇱
@@salty-gj7rs - Yes exactly! During World War II, 6 million Polish citizens died. Poland lost the largest percentage of its citizens in the world during this war! The perpetrators were Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, which attacked Poland in September 1939 and then murder the Poles here.
@@salty-gj7rs holy fuck. Is this guy comparing torture and gas chambers for years to being gun downed? I’d die any day of the week than experience the holocaust. both events are horrible, but it isn’t a competition who suffered the most.
@@salty-gj7rs > and people think the holocaust was traumatic
that is a very clear indication of comparing. but hey, its fine though i get what you mean
Your video will make a fine addition to my "RUclips algorithm strikes again" collection
'Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.'