Facts About Winston Churchill
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Winston Churchill was much more than the British Bulldog who held Britain together during the Blitz. He was also a prisoner of war with a bounty on his head who secretly sold paintings from a Paris art gallery - and that's just the beginning when it comes to weird Winston Churchill facts.
Did you know that Churchill once ordered firefighters to let a London building burn to the ground rather than try to save the people inside? Or that 50 years before the Blitz, a teenage Churchill predicted, "I tell you London will be in danger - London will be attacked and I shall be very prominent in the defense of London?" Or that Churchill once jumped up during a dinner party, told his kitchen staff to run for a shelter, and sat back down three minutes before a bomb destroyed his kitchen?
These strange facts about Winston Churchill might seem like fiction, but they're all true.
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He was PM from 40-45 and then again 51-55. This glaring error makes me suspicious of anything said after the for 10 seconds.
Thank God it was an American, we can kinda let it slide as long as we don't request more famous historical leaders, we may want to hear about!
Yeah this channel is history clickbait so its research isnt gonna hold up all the time
It is not an error. It is true.
@@charlottedrolet9000 Yeah true he was PM those years, but he is more remember for 40-45 due to WW2 and the video initially makes out he was only PM in the 50s, or was best remembered for that time in office, which he really isn't
That and using pictures of US and British bombers to depict the Blitz.
There are so many quotes from Churchill that i like but this one is my favorite :
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."
You have changed the quote, you didn't like the things that he spit at your face.
@@towerdefence53 Never said the man was perfect. Consider this, though : without him, the world would be under Nazi regiment.
@@dynad00d15 the world with the control of the NS regime would have been better. Better infrastructure, ancient looking cities, advanced technology, family union, love of the country and your people, elegance and human morale pureness, i don't say that i like them but that's a fact.
@@towerdefence53 Seriously? THAT'S your response to a quote?? There's a BIG difference between "not 100% of what they did was bad" & "the world would've been better had they stayed". Gross. I'm embarrassed for your mental state.
@@projectionv.accountability1010 if they did bad things then God will punish them for their sins and send them to hell, before they come Germany was a hellhole of everything and before wwii they made Germany the world's second largest economy and the world's strongest military and the German people looked at them and their successfulness, even the Austrians decided to join them by elections, they were evil but most of their policies were suitable for the human race.
One of my favourite Churchill anecdotes as told by Labour MP George Brown : Brown was going into the gentleman's toilets in The Houses of Parliament , just as Churchill (By then an old man) was coming out. Brown noticed that Churchill had forgotten to button up his trousers and Brown said to him "Sir Winston, your flies are still undone" to which Churchill replied quick as a flash : "Oh, thank you George but a dead bird rarely, if indeed ever, escapes from it's nest!"
"Tomorrow I will be sober, and you will still be ugly. "
Winston Churchill
😂😂😂
There was an interesting anecdote about Churchill that I saw in a documentary recently. In the early 1960s when he was in his late 80s, he liked to gamble at Monte Carlo. On one such trip, accompanied by one of his granddaughters, an American came up to him, expressed his admiration of Churchill, and shook his hand. After the American left, Churchill asked his daughter who the American, who was completely unfamiliar to him, was. His granddaughter told him it was Frank Sinatra!
I was just assigned to play Winston Churchill in my role playing history university class. Perfect timing
Please make sure you get your history about him from legitimate sources and not wikipedia / dodgy historians.
@@andym9571 I'm pretty good at distinguishing respectable sources, I'm in my fourth year of a history degree now. I'm playing him in a game set during the 1945 Yalta conference. I'm trying to pursue Britain's post war interests by persuading and arguing with other people representing the US and Soviet Union.
So you got to play the role of a racist and cheap version of Hitler, lucky you.
@@srusing3433 “the racist version of hitler.” Ya ok
@@srusing3433 Up yours
First thing I immediately noticed was the video not mentioning him being a PM from May of 1940 to July of 1945
Me too
Something else missed about his captivity. When the train he was on was attacked and he was captured, the Boer soldier who captured him was the Boer leader Botha, who would later become Prime Minister of South Africa.
No fucking way, legit???
@@redwoodpartisan2433 Well both Botha and Churchill claimed it happened. And If you want to hear something else, during the talks with the Irish Revolutionary Michael Collins, where prior to the talks he had a price on his head. My professor stated during the talks Churchill showed him the wanted poster the Boers had for him after he escaped and he pointed out the British offered for more for Collins than the Boers offered for him.
Cool fact, thanks
Churchill referred to his depression as "Black dog"
You believe that the sun is ball of fire while god created the sun out of light.
@@towerdefence53 Weirdly irrelevant to the discussion. Are you all right?
@@DoloresJNurss you have to be worried, people start believing this kind of stuff only in the last 100 years.
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@@Gogettor Rock on brother 🤘
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give!🥰
He was a peculiar man wasn't he? I have a little book with all his quotes in them that was always one of my favorites. Along with Winston of you were my husband I would poison you your drink Well ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it. He was quite the witty character
@@joeyjohnson4826 OMG that's the best comeback ever!
@@joeyjohnson4826 lol that's gold! I'd keep this quote but I'd rather not get married.
We make a living by what we stole, we make a life by the blood we have shed. Winston P.IG. ChurchILL.
@@towerdefence53 yes we have gathered bringing electric light modern medicine running water all the things to the third world that allows them to be overpopulated because their child death rate is almost minute to what it was without Western medicine. Political correctness is a joke. If you hate westerners so much if you hate our culture and who we are then throw your light bulbs away throw your air conditioners away throw your toothpaste away throw your medical card away throw it all away and go live as your ancestors did before we showed up or you can shut up
He was also prime minister from '40 to '45, wasn't he?
- Hitler: "Dictator"
- Stalin: "Soviet Political Leader"
Many people admire Stalin, although he starved and killed and tortured millions they didn't even see live images from that time.
I have a shirt has a picture of Joseph Stalin on the front. It says dark humor is like food not everybody gets it 😆 very little between Stalin and Hitler difference as far as their view of economics and politics they're both socialist they're both mad fascist dictators. You see the Germans have a natural dislike for the Russians. So communism was distinctly that of their slavic neighbor in their kind. They believed in Marxism too they just called it national socialism. Save your breath trying to define the two there's a wonderful book written at the time called the road to serfdom t which describes all three forms of Eastern European socialism. They came in three most profound names. National socialism, Marxism, fascism. They all come from the same philosophical theory. They all came from Eastern europe. And they are all in the same family and to deny that is just for me to laugh at you 🖕
Hitler is taboo only because he messed with “the wrong people”.
@@joeyjohnson4826 why should Germans have an "natural dislike" for Russians? They had been allied against France from 1798 till 1815. Marxism and national socialism do not originate in Eastern Europe, roots of fascism were in the Roman Empire. Get some history books.
@@steffenrosmus9177 your lack of knowledge is showing the Germans also allied with the Ottomans the British also aligned with the ottomans. It does not change the historical dislike of their Saxon people of the Slavic people that predates the nation of Germany or unified russia. Because back to the Byzantine empire lack of knowledge is showing. We were allies with Japan before world war II. Political alliances mean nothing they are convenient
This man was million years ahead. Of his and even today’s time. Even today humanity has not developed brains enough to understand and appreciate this man.
Winston Churchill is actually a relative of mine on my mother’s side. It’s super cool to know all the accomplishments and things he did. I believe I got my love for horses from him to be honest!
That’s awesome! Looks like your mother’s family can be traced back to decades
Hope you get awful life....the curse of millions who starved to death due to Churchill should fell upon his successors....
26 October 1951 - 5 April 1955 was Churchill's second term as Prime Minister. His WW2 term was 10 May 1940 - 26 July 1945. T
Yeah that was pretty glaring to talk about WW2 and mention the 50’s lol
Another activity of his was writing. He wrote history books, but I once came across a horror story he wrote in a horror anthology. In it a man falls off a cruise ship and is soon attacked by a shark as the ship moves away.
You know he was PM during the War not just after. (Opening 10 seconds, “he was PM from 1951 to 55” I do believe he was also PM when this particularly evil event took place in Europe…
he became PM when Chamberland resigned because he didn't want to go to war against Germany. "The people dream of peace", he said. To which Churchill replied :"If the people is dreaming, it means that they are sleeping!"
Did they honestly say at the top of the video that Churchill was most famous for his stretch as PM POST WAR?!?!?! He was PM twice, most prevalently from 1940 - 1945, then again in the 50s. You're supposed to be a history channel for Christ's sake
Thank you!!
But isn't that true. Wasn't he PM from 40 to 45 and from 51 to 55? I am confused, am I missing something?
@@charlottedrolet9000 British Prime Ministers (like Canadian and Australian) can serve multiple terms. Canada's PM during WW2 serves 3 terms, totalling 22 years, from 1921-1948
I think one very interesting moment from his life was skipped - his participation in battle of Omdurman. The Islamic cavalry charge against machine guns.
correct
That sounds.... painful for the cavalry 😳
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Sounds interesting, checking it out now, thanks 👍✊
My favourite thing about him is during the Bengal famine in India when he was exporting food out of India, and conscious stricken officials wrote to him he wrote back "Why hasn't Gandhi died yet"........
Hell of a guy. Emphasis on the “hell” part.
British peoples don't know about his crimes and his wrong deeds brother they are busy glorifying him so they don't have time to read about history.
Crazy to think that if Woodrow Wilson or Winston Churchill were listened to about their opinions on the Treaty of Versailles then WW2 could have been avoided.
The7Reaper If Churchill could have convinced FDR that Stalin wasn’t trustworthy the Cold War may have been avoided, one way or another ie if the allies had taken on the Soviets before they acquired atomic weapons….perhaps.
Te reason he didnt put his actual name under his paintings was that he was quite insecure about his skills, even though he painted for years. He was humble about his art, but he was clearly talented. I think thats quite interesting for a man with an otherwise big ego.
pff better than what Hitler ever produced lol
Pity he didn't become an artist instead of a mass murderer.
Didn’t he also serve from 1940-1945?
Why only mention his second term?
Another fun fact. John Winston Lennon, named after the aforementioned Mr. Churchill, later in his teens formed a group called The Beatles.
Never heard of her?
He also beat his wives.
@@PutXi_Whipped No ones perfect. Including Mr. Churchill. I admire the Beatles for the music they created. What skeletons do you have in your closet?
@@jaymo8206 I ate an eclair sitting on top of the trash, no wait that was George Costanza .
I don’t have any skeletons because I’m open about the things I believe and do and I don’t need to have my life propagandized in the slightest unlike Lennon and Churchill.
The fact that it couldn't even get when he was PM right led me to stop watching. However, did it also mention that in 1919, as Secretary of State for War, Churchill against the specific wishes of the Government he was part of instituted the dropping of more that 50,000 M3 poisonous gas cannisters on Russian Bolshevik revolutionaries (& civilians) despite Britain supposedly not being one of the combatants. He had his good sides, but man he also had his truly evil side.
My grampa hated him. At the end of WWI (the safer time...) he was on guard duty and Churchill and his staff turned up at the base. Grampa was under strict orders to not let anyone pass who didn't identify themselves. So despite knowing who was in front of him, he insisted on Churchill showing his ID. Naturally, because he had an ego bigger than his belly in later life, he refused. Gramps demanded a second time and he still refused. But with a gun pointed at his head when he was ordered on the third, and final time, and at the behest of his companion, he showed his ID.
Grampa nearly got into trouble, but as he pointed out to his CO, he was under strict orders to act the way he had, and for all he knew, that might have been an imposter. He definitely wasn't his CO's favourite soldier after that, but he didn't get any trouble. Fortunately, he was sent home a few months later :)
Apparently, that wasn't the only time Churchill ended up in that position. He was utterly reviled by the rank and file during that time. He only became popular during WWII when he took over from Chamberlain.
What would have completely cheesed Grampa off was that Churchill died a week after he did (nearly 9 months before I was born. Mum reckoned later on that it was a sort of self-preservation, because I was a bit of a handful!)
Just in case anyone's wondering, the (background) music is Gustav Holst, Planets, Mars - God of War. He did a whole series on the planets of "our" universe/galaxy as it was known then. =))
I love it, is so heavy. You can hear it's influence on Black Sabbath, Diamond Head and N.EX.T
Churchill called the treaty of Versailles monstrous because what it did to Hungary.
You got your first fact wrong. He was in power from 1940 to 1945. Not 1951.
His second term was 26 October 1951 - 5 April 1955. Poor scholarship / research on the part of Weird History.
its weird history!!!!
UGH UGH UGH. With the line "Germany's planes dropped bombs on London" They showed an American bomber. Okay enough, I'm done.
#FACTS
@@mikemurley8656 Indeed, they're half wrong they only forgot his first term lol.
What a colorful man he was. He was the man that saved Britain. Saw a series called Chasing Churchill years ago.
No man has done more to destroy Britain than Churchill.
He was a hero for Britain during the war, yes, but he was also responsible for hardship in other parts of the planet, because of withholding on aid for those in suffering. No-one is completely perfect.
He was no better than hilter in terms of racism. He only cared about the British empire which killed more people and looted more than the Nazis. Please stop praising a false hero.
The fact that most of my uncles resemble this man.
Fun Fact: His mother also had a fling with "Dirty Bertie" Edward VII 😅
Isn't Bertie king George the 6th nickname?
@@monalebon8016 Yeah they both had the first name Albert but Edward VII was the original Bertie, named after his father, Prince Albert.
It was actually a trend at the time for rich American families to marry their daughters to British nobility - the Americans got a title, and the nobles got funds
Churchill was also prime minister in 1940-45 , I'm surprised that you didn't mention this since that was what he is most known for.
The dates are completely "off" in this. Don't take ANY of it as fact. These history channels are merely entertainment/fiction.
The most interesting Winston Churchill fact. He was against giving Women the right to vote. Despite the strong traditions of the Conservative women in Britain in our day in age. Despite the fact his mom was also a woman of strong opinions.
Churchill was always such a badass. Thanks for the upload!
Best Latvian shout-out ever.
Thank you 🙏 Weird History
He was a pilot, too.....
Another fun fact:Churchill loved Morocco, La Mamounia hotel in Marrakech still has the Churchill suite.
I was born and raised in a UK south coast town called Bournemouth, Churchill visited Bournemouth when he was a child, and decided to jump from a bridge to a tree ( as you do!) The tree branch broke and he hit the ground hard. While he recovered from his injuries, he became interested in politics, the rest as they say is history!
I love that you used "Mars: The God of War" it's one of my favorite pieces.
This is what I was looking for! Thoroughly enjoy Holst.
Plot twist: Churchill didn't defend from Franklin because he would've killed him, so instead of ending him there and then he had him arrested
Talk about a full life, at 23 I was working in a hotel kitchen while at the same age Churchill took part in one of the last cavalry charges of the UK army, at 25 he was trying to make his way across South Africa to safety after escaping from a boer prisoner of war camp, I try to imagine the memories he could call upon in his later years. No wonder his memoirs ran into so many volumes.
Actually having a rich american mother and a aristocrat british father is fairly common in that time period, if the daughters of a rich american was seen as unfit to marry an american due to the daughters attitude, not being women enough, being problematic they would be sent to british in the hopes of a restart and hoping on landing some royal blood, royal association or at the very least some rich dude. Which would cost the american father tons of money.
Should ended Stalin instead of fighting by his side
without russia Germany wouldn't have lost the war , it was necessary
I thought that I knew pretty much everything about Winston Churchill, but this expose a couple of new items. The Latvian incident especially, is something new that I learned as well as his art and that art show. He was a complex and fascinating person who was definitely a man of his time.
Check out his autobiography. He’s also a racist. And just like right now in time, it was not a favorable personality trait. History can soften mountains as easily as our perspective.
@@RerememBerering right he was the one responsible for bengal feminine in india
Hey Weird History Channel. Could you do a video on "What Life Was Like on a New England Whaling Ship"?
It was a fascinating, gruesome, and often misunderstood occupation that I think you guys would do a great job showing.
The Nantucket whaling museum and the Mystic Seaport are big tourist attractions today that hold a lot of
artifacts and documentation from that period of history. Cheers!
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The 1943 Bengal famine(in INDIA), which is estimated to have caused over 3 million deaths. on the direct order of CHURCHILL , literally every single piece of grain was exported to ENGLAND form Bengal (Indian state).there dead bodies on the streets literally . its all documented .
also set up concentration camps in kenya!
Didn't he call it a nature culling? He was fantastic for Britain during the War years but he was an awful human. Check out how he allowed a blitz in Coventry.
Being a colony of a country in a war isn’t pleasant
What the hell are you talking about? Churchill didn't order all the grain exported. It was caused by inflation and the Japanese occupation of Burma.
@@scottythetrex5197 That’s so cute that you believe that Empire spin.
I would have thought his role in the disastrous landings at Gallipoli would have been mentioned which was the start of his years in the wilderness in British politics & definitely not one of his finest moments.
It was so bad that he had to resign from the Admiralty in disgrace.
The concept was sound but much of the failure was with the commanding Admirals in theatre that dithered and didn’t press home the attack when they had the advantage at the start of the campaign. Once the Turkish forces had organised themselves in force it was effectively over.
Nor his disdain for Indians and his involvement in the Bengal famine
@@Andinov02 You really blaming a natural disaster on one man. Stop crying and get over yourself
@@Andinov02 please don't get your info about that from wikipedia
...that's SIR Winston Churchill. I remember the occasion, as it took place one month after I was born...
@5:30 this tapestry is still hanging in Blenheim palace where he grew up. Interesting fact the dog chasing the horse has hooves. It is thought they had to make it a dog when they realized the proportions were off.
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Had no idea about those things about him!
Churchill was very handsome in his youth.
Great background music: Mars, the bringer of war!
Interesting that he coined the word "seaplane".
Churchill stayed up all night, even on christmas eve to form a strategy against the Nazis
Winston Churchill served two terms in case anyone is wondering. 1951 and 1955 but also 1940 to 1945 during the second world war.
He also lost to Atlee before WW2 ended
@@PutXi_Whipped Ironic how Churchill came to power both times while Britain was in a war (don't forget Atlee allowed British forces to enter the Korean War to assist the US-South Korean led coalition).
You know what kept Winston Churchill moving forward, cigars and champagne.🤭 🍾 ( A whole bunch.)✌️
I didn’t know about the Boer war part of his life. That was fascinating, thank you. 🦋
You didn’t think to mention he had Bi-polar?
Weird history introduced the Bubonic plague to Typhoid Mary.
Extremely nice looking as a young man and the uniforms brought that out even more!
Weird History uploads at 7:02 am
My favorite Churchill quote is, "Success is going from failure to failure, without losing your enthusiasm"
For his 80th birthday his wife commissioned a painting. The painter had the nerve to depict him as he was, a frail 80 year old man. It upset him so much his wife had the painting burned.
As always, super interesting and the narrator...YOU sir, make this channel!
But now I am left wondering about Hugh Franklin. Please, more info!
He's famous for his HUGE friggin Cigars he smoked lol. I like'em too! Them and Torpedo's
So is Max Cady.
fun fact: his father’s name was losespound synagoguemountain
I hate that I laughed at this 😭
@@SurrealExposure12 😂😂😂😂😂
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This is amazing!!! This needs way more likes! 😆😆😆
What kinda weed u got?
Some interesting facts there about Churchill some of them I probably never heard about.
You missed one "Winston Churchill was behind starvations (till death ) of millions Bengali indians ".
What about millions of European's?
That was royalty mountbatten. Churchill hated him.
@@twiley3530 No that was Churchill and the crony he appointed. In fact, during the famine, the British Empire profiteered off of the dwindling food reserves basically exploiting starving Bengalis .
@@towerdefence53 Are you saying that European lives matter more than Bengali lives? Because that is what Churchill believed.
@@PutXi_Whipped they are humans to, but europe feels more worthy because of historic importance, one of the biggest losses of the war was the cities that were destroyed.
I am confused about the seaplane part. The first practical seaplane was built by Glenn Curtis in the United States in 1911.
Women back then, they definitely had to have more to them than their looks to make it. Bless their hearts
The most surprising thing I heard in this video is that Churchill escaped a prisoner of war camp and was wanted dead or alive as he made his way back to England! Wow!
There is many things most people don't know about him it seems....sadly. Recently just fake news. He was also a pilot and was responsible for introducing the tea break. He also changed his mind about giving women the vote.
He made it back to British lines in South Africa, not all the way back to England - but still a thrilling story!
I'm related to Winston Churchill through his mother Jennie Jerome
American..
What about his failed military action at Galipoli?
It failed but not really his fault.
He was a very fortunate man. He made a mess of the Turkish campaign, staggered through the thirties and got a break later in life. From 1941, he was a front man for the American's and their plan to liberate Europe.
He was however a very convincing orator.
What musical piece were you playing in the background, especially near/at the end???
Note: he was Prime Minister twice:
1940 - 1945
1951 - 1955
The blitz and his more famous tenure was 1940-1945 and not the one mentioned at the start of the video.
He was also a warmonger, " We will force this war upon Hitler if he wants it or not" " Winston Churchill in a 1936 broadcast".
Churchill is a historical figure I like a lot. He was a very interesting and complex person. Apart from what he did in WWII, ofc!
He was worse than Hitler...he killed millions...
he was a GREAT!
Could you do a video on Ivan the Terrible or Peter the Great? Anything Russia.
1:18 Why are you showing an American Bomber, and saying "when Germans planes drop bombs on London"?
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As much as I despise and loathe the Nazis, Britain deserved the evils that befell her, for the most part of the recent history the British fought against every major reformation incentive including the American and French revolutions
Yes finally someone with a brain.
And he learned to fly before WW1 and often took control of his air transport in WW2.
He was also a Spencer right? His and Diana's families are two branches of a big family.
Winston Churchill, the master of ‘told you so’
Winston in hell: no i didn't can my soul be finished once and for all?
Fun fact: Churchill could drink every head of state of the 1940's under the table...
Quite the man. Never learn any of this stuff in school etc.
American school is a joke
MORE FOOD HISTORY ONES PLZ
i like to cook while watching them in the background
I remember reading that before Churchill was prime minister the prime minister before him met with Hitler and actually thought he was a good person. Boy was that man wrong Churchill thought he was a damn fool
Ol Winnie Lenny Spinney Church himself!
Special Fact Bonus: Winston Churchill was also one of the most racist political leaders of the 20th century.
Wait, a man born in Victorian era England had racist views?! Just forget about him being arguably one of the most responsible men for the downfall of Hitler.
@@dedo9009 He caused a genocide. One thing to have a racist view at the time, but the guy did things which led to genocide, etc purposely. Various crime against humanity.
I agree he caused a genocide, but I don't really care.
Hey Weird History Winston Churchill Was the Prime Minister of Great Britain twice 1940-1945 and 1950-1955
It’s kind of concerning when a history channel Makes a big of an error like this
They can't even pronounce 'boer' correctly. It's not 'boar'; it's 'boo-r', like when a ghost goes 'Boo', then just add an 'r' at the end. For plural, you can add an 's', or go with the Dutch/Afrikaans plural, 'boere', pronounced 'boo-ruh'.
Interestingly, I heard somewhere else that Winston Churchill was in support of women's voting rights. So what is the truth?
Nice use of Holst! :D
Am I the only one who is stuck on how cool his mom is? I NEED to know more about her!