Battle of Greece and Battle of Crete - World War II DOCUMENTARY 

When is napoleonic wars ever coming out again

More Ancient Greece please

Hey @Kings and Generals, when do you have poitiers planned?

Thanks for featuring Greece during our Bicentennial Independence celebration

Greece thanks you! Greeks celebrate the War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire in the 25th of March. Could we hope for a video?

Unit 731 is Japan. Not Italy.

Mussolini is Italy. Not Japan. Japan is Tojo.

@@bimanov4407 he said hill 731. Look it up.

Hill 731 is in Albania not in Greece

@@dioniszerva2832 sometimes in Vietnam too.

I love hearing about the other nations during WW2. America was a big player but they were still just a piece on a big board

So is the winter war to be honest. The african colonies of the opposing nations were also at a full scale war and get next to no mention. India’s participation in the war is likewise forgotten.

It's funny how it is overlooked although the forces deployed were over 1,2 million for the Axis and less than half a million for the Allies. It's not France (there were about 3 imes more men there) and certainly not Russia (of the scale) but it's pretty much identical in numbers (though reversed) with the Allied invasion in Italy. To give you an idea, the most important battle in Africa, the second batle of El Alamein, had about 195,000 men on the one side and 116,000 on the other side, meaning the force lead into Egypt by Rommel was more than 10 times smaller than the Axis powers descending upon Greece in 1941. And yet, we all get to hear and watch movies about Rommel, Montgomery, Patton etc.

Nah the Chinese and Indian fronts of the WW2 are the most overlooked.

I mean, to be fair. World War 2 on its own would take around two years to cover every major aspect in a normal school time. Schools have to glance over many stuff while still getting the main ideas across.

France and Greece must have a permanent alliance. Respect and love.

vive la france 🇫🇷 🇬🇷

@@Pelasgos14 welp, to be fair, in a move of honouring said alliance the French should some day do the fair act of returning Aphrodite of Milos back where she belongs.

🇦🇱thank us for helping you

Daut Hoxha

🙏🙏🙏Ευχαριστώ, thank you, God bless his soul. RIP.

Did he make it out or unfortunately died here? Respect in each case. We Greeks never forget.

Russell Coight: Australian adventures.

Respect for him and his bravery.

Mine too but with the German army

Sicily has been a headache to Europe's land powers since AT LEAST the First Punic War.

Also Rhodos. You get what I mean if you play Eu4

Very coquettish, those islands.

Malta kind of but not really

@@nestororiginal2344 Malta defended against the Ottomans, inflicting embarrassing casualties to the empire including one of their best generals at the time. Malta raided Italian and German convoys, disrupting supply to the Axis forces in Africa and contributing heavily to the defeat of Axis forces on Africa. Tell me, how is that small island not a headache to the major land powers of Europe?

@@mk9650 oh ok, I've just learnt more. My bad and thanks!

Be always well thank you!!

Can we please have our marbles back?

Lmao. UK never wanted any good for Greece. It was all about self interest...

@@MrBreakingbad I know...

Your people helped my grandfather escape the Germans. They gave him food and water as he retreated across the hills. It probably cost them their lives. This was before my father was born. My whole family since owes your people our lives. Thank you from New Zealand 🇳🇿

@@bobdamano9606 You and your Grandfather doesn't owe us nothing.. He came from the other side of the World to Help us, protect our lands as an Ally from our Common Enemies of the time.. We all Cretans Thank your Grandfarther!! 🇳🇿🇬🇷

@@aristidispas this comment thread is so heartwarming to read 🥺 I salute your peoples bravery ☺

They're not called Cretans for nothing

Hello to Crete and the brave Cretan people from East Anglia, Ipswich

@Black Wolf cause italy attacked them

😂😂😂😂

Hahaha Mussolini was lucky he wasn't captured when he went to Albania to inspire his troops, that would have been hilarious

Just imagine if albania conquered italy xD

@@GarkKahn albania had no army, they were sent to the italian army instead.

Australias prime minister is of Albanian heritage

@Zherkamovement Australia is a very multi cultural country, you won't find anybody without European, Asian, south American heritage here

You dont evem realoze. If you study Greece 1890-1940 you will see how destroyed we were. And even though destroyed, and wihout even logistics, Greek mothers were cookijg food and walking mountains (2000 mt height mountains everywhere in the region) with food supplies instead of logistics. Not to bring supplies to their sons whim rhey would not find, but to other sons same age as their sons. This is why in Thessaloniki there ia statue (a small one) to the Greek mother of 1940.

If we had basic fucking roads and a supply of goods we could create a strong front alongside Yugoslavia and British help. People died because of frostbites. If we had warmer clothes Greeks could have lived. Yes, many women, children, and peasants offered food and shelter to our soldiers and traveled to supply them. That's heroic and self-sacrificial. But I would prefer logistics. Better roads, guns, ammunition, vehicles, and clothes for our soldiers. We lost to the Germans. No shame in that. But we could have sent Italians home. Finland by possessing all that, humbled USSR in the Winter War.

@@aris13pat1 Πού να γίνονταν οι δρόμοι, φίλε μου, τη δεκαετία το 30; Επάνω στα βουνά; Τους Ιταλούς τους στείλαμε στο σπίτι τους. Έτσι κι αλλιώς...!

Mussolini is such a dumb historical figure, i wish he didn't exist, the only good thing he did was create bad stereotypes about italy

@@zt2207 They did in fact only banded together strongly after the advent of nationalism around late 1700s and early 1800s, but man did they bonded STRONGLY

A Greek is diffind by a saying: Ελευθερία ή θάνατος! There's no other way and whoever think that Greeks won't fight when our freedom is threatened then that person is simply brain dead!

@@zt2207 Byzantium is the longest Empire of this world from ancient years up to today. Just FYI It was was a super power for more than 1000 years

@@zt2207 Can you tell me another country outside of Greece that has won a war forces bigger than it so many times or you have not learned that in your own history

ANZAC`s Aussie and Kiwi brothers in arms ~ Melbourne second biggest Greek city population after Athens ~ Greek Independence celebrated down under~ Lord Byron romantic poet died in Greece a supporter too ~

The Kiwis (my grandfather among them) took the fate of the Greeks and Cretans personally - they felt a lot of guilt for failing them, and outraged fury at the way the Germans treated them in defeat. Many NZ soldiers were left behind, and the locals risked everything to help them, often at great cost when caught. At first it was all a big adventure, but after Crete it was a matter of vengeance and duty. Almost none of them are left now, but they never forgot their bonds with the people they fought for, and who treated them like their own sons. Kia Kaha.

@@charlesdare2046 1. Athens; 2. Thessaloniki; 3. Melbourne. But I agree with the sentiment. Australians and New Zealanders are still remembered as heroes by that generation of Greeks.

Respect to the Kiwis and Aussies who fought here.

They fought like the Crete was their homeland too!! The Cretans have great respect for New Zealand!!

Congratulations from turkey ✌🎉

Thank you!!!!💙🇬🇷🙏🏼✨✨

@@batuhanyayla7214 Thank you! I hope you get a better leader cuz he kinda shit to cyprus and Greece but anyways Thanks!!

@@hamsterman12341 That is all I want

@@batuhanyayla7214 yeah man we shouldn't hate each other cuz we dont know every turk/greek.

2 meters

@@kostask4747 5

@@jameskid1989 2 meters.. Today the his is 729

@@kostask4747 Most sources say 726 but whatever.

Ελαααα ύψωμα 731......χαμοςςςς

@@Georgios1821 den nomizw mias kai o kings and generals einai aristeros

“I am unable to give the proper breadth of gratitude I feel for the heroic resistance of the People and the leaders of Greece.” - Charles de Gaulle

@@Georgios1821 Με το που αναφερεις παραταξεις, καταλαβαινει καποιος οτι εισαι προκατειλημμενος.

@@Georgios1821 τι να σου πω τους εχω δει να σχολιαζούν και ακολουθούνε youtubers όπως contrapoints,shaun και vaush που ειναι leftists οπότε υπέθεσα πως ειναι αριστεροί

@@GuitarHero49432 δηλαδή ρε μάγκα!;

And also the United States for being among the first in the world for openly recognizing that the revolution, was a revolution for freedom

What was Greece before 1822?

@@thirdlantern ottoman empire. And before ottoman it was Byzantium.

@@kyrpousin Interesting, thanks. Woefully uninformed on Greek history here -- I always thought it was its own sovereign state.

@@thirdlantern well before Byzantium it was the ancient Greece with a lot of kingdoms. Technically they were different but they were speaking same language, worshipping the same gods etc. So they were Greeks

@John Beige thank you man

New Zealanders retreated that's why we lost in crete but not all of em so rip

​@@user-5g421k9mnAnd were we any better ? Both the Macedonian and Hepirus front copletely collapsed and surredered , leaving the Brittish , Australian and New Zealand forces alone to defend our country Have some respect man ...

My grandfather was in the British army during WW2 but got polio in the barracks, paralysing his leg and had to be discharged. When he went on holiday to Crete decades later some of the locals lifted him onto their shoulders and carried him through the village and gave him raki because they mistakenly assumed he'd served in Greece. He was touched by the famous Greek hospitality so it's a story passed down in our family.

Died for your country literally on the other side of the globe 🤦 Absolutely delusional. You think it's their responsibility to involve yourself in Britain's bullsh*t wars

The English didn't give guns to the creatans beacuse they didn't like the king and they didn't let the red cross give Greeks food so they would rebel

@@adambednarek7146 i think the fact that the italians couldnt break the line explains the whole story here. Men that fought for their freedom vs men that fought for something they didnt believe in.

@@adambednarek7146 they knew what they wanted but they couldnt execute it

It was the shitiest army on the WW2 italy was terrible especially their leaders

Your great grandfather was a HERO. My family also lost men to the cause, may their memory be eternal! ZHTO E ELLADA!

@@walterweiss7124 im albanian yes Pyrrhos was killed by a greek woman wo throw a brick or rock on his head because his inwading army killed his husband this i learned in school and i think its both funny and tragic at the same time.

Thanks

Love norway

@@costenics_sw but Greece doesn't love Norway Greece loves Sweden. I think he is lying

@@proud_greek223 Well there are Phillelenes around the world but Greece loves the same all scandinavian countries I think.Many Greeks leave in Finland btw.

@kuk i fitte Tusen takk 🇬🇷🇳🇴 Big Respect also to Norway for the unforgettable battles against the AXIS.

Haha oh man if you're just discovering this stuff you can kiss your free time goodbye. Haha

I love your name

Φτιάξε κόμικ εσύ 😉

@@geoousp χαχααχα μπορούν όλα να γίνονται παράλληλα.

it is considered to be the first victory against the Axis. The war lasted from October 'till May, probably the longest than any other country that was occupied.. and yet it is never mentioned in any history class

It is to the rest of the world less known, because Greece didn’t really change the course of the war. Every country fought bravely and Greece wasn’t the first minor pushing back the Italians. The reputation of the Italian army was already bad. It is not really a great accomplishment pushing back or stopping the Italians in comparison to stop the unstoppable Wehrmacht.

@@bp8815 Greece did change the course of the war. Back then, the Greek victory was global news and one of a kind. You're thinking is the exact problem in this situation.

As an American, I can confirm when we learned about WWII in school, no one ever talked about Greece. It was mostly about the Western Front and Operation Barbarossa.

“In America today most people have no idea” of anything that existed before Oprah.

Greece fight against the Italians was considered the first victory for the allies in WW2

@@AuroraBoost I wouldn’t call it „first victory of the allies“, because they still lost. But certainly it was the „first step to victory“.

Then Churchill made the civil war in Greece.

And Adolf Hitler added below "....The number of Greek prisoners, amounting to 8,000 officers and 210,000 men, cannot be compared with the above figures for, as far as the Greek Army are concerned, they were encircled and forced to capitulate only as a consequence of common German-Italian operations The Greek prisoners, too, have been or will be immediately released because of their gallant bearing".

@@Lonka12 Well it is meant as victory in a battle / operation, not of the entire war. If you saw it like that then you wouldn't count the German victory in France as a victory because Germany eventually lost the war. The Greek army was victorious against the initial Italian assault, then during its own counteroffensive in Albania and again during operation primavera (the Italian counter-counteroffensive). These of course are counted as victories in battle and indeed they were the first ones for the allies in the war.

he was only 6 years old and was fighitng?Lol hahah. well either you dont remember correct his date of birth. Either he lied which i doupt. or its a falsh story.Or its a simple typing error. the most obvious i say.

@@Tsotsis1 his uncles....

Thank you for visiting my village!

Actually eyeballing is still taught In the Greeck army as a last resort for distance measuring. I thought when I got trained it will be abit silly . But was surprisingly accurate as I discovered it took some practice but no more a fiew tries.

@@kreb7 that sort of thing is always necessary, it's silly to rely entirely on technology because it can break, run out of batteries, etc

Thank you for your kind words friend, our grandfather's and we are thankful

to be honest, The greeks were veterans of war with a capital V at this point. Honestly if greeks had the supplies, vehicles and stuff that the axis did, they would defend anything inside this country. We're talking about men with TRUE war experience. Some people were fighting the italians also fought in wars like : 1st balkan war, 2nd balkan war, 1st world war, Greco-turkish war. The greeks had the skill to win even against germany, but they didn't have the supplies or the technology.. or even the numbers.

@@akhsdenlew1861 You're absolutely correct there.

Great story!! We owe New Zealand soldiers so much for fighting bravely and a lot of them dying many km far from their home!!

I also had a grand uncle in logistics who drove a supply truck ( full of Christmas food and gifts from home )to the German lines during the Greek war, he was surprised that all the Greek soldiers were speaking German not Greek ( he was the idiot in the family as my father put it ). somehow the Germans did not take him prisoner but let him go ( without the supplies but still kept the truck ) he was later takin prisoner after the fall of Greece, the story only came out after the war as a German p.o.w was telling a British officer how they got Christmas supplies from the allies during the war in Greece.

Nice story but man... that asshole that couldn't keep it in his pants

Sad story, mate. Or bittersweet. Wish you the best and God bless your grandfather for his troubles here.

The only way to deal with traitors is with the LASH and the ROPE.

🇦🇱Albanians helped too. There’s a documentary on it.

@@IZotit albania never helped greece stop spreading bs you liar

@@IZotit Ottomans used Albanians to stop us and now you say that you helped us?

@@SauerbratenNoClan you live in a artificial reality. Just like the way Greece was created in 1890s.

@@SauerbratenNoClan You ever wondered why the Greece National Guard wears the Albanian fustanel? You need to re-evaluate your reality. Even in Ancient Greece, the stories in the Iliad, and historians in that time period spoke of the different ethnicities in Greece. Athenians we’re not Spartans. Vis a versa. The Greeks even spoke of Molsia tounges and how Alexander the Great spoke it. Let’s be honest, Greeks are Greeks, but to say you guys are Macedonians is false. Today, the Slavs use this initiative created by the English to use Albanian culture as their own. I took a 23&me test, and showed that 200 years ago my blood was strongest in Sparta. You should take a dna test too.

💙🤍

Things ain't looking so good for poor Greece lately though...

​@@johndistick9702 we get what we deserve brother. Nothing more nothing less

Greetings and respect Persian fellow, as a Greek I have a big admiration for your ancient culture also !

You have my respect Persian.

We are not brothers with Slavs the only common thing we have is religion so yes we are not brothers

@@locox2775 Let me guess, Albanian living in Greece? Probably Epirus region :)

SERBJE

thank you my russian brother. Greetings from Greece

YES SERBIA OUR BROTHERS MUCH LOVE FROM GREECE LOVE YOU 🇷🇸 ❤

No worries, it will be covered soon

@@Syriliko bro it will be very very appreciated, many dont know much about the first successful ethnic revolution of Europe etc

Yes of course, people need to know how Albanian emigrants in Greece "Arvanitasit" liberated Greece.

@@blockie9706 l see you troll

Arvanitasit: We're Albanians. Albanians(Arvanitkas in greek): Yes, they are. Greeks(brown skin Armeno-Egyptians which claim to be descendants of Hellens): No they are not Albanis, we hate them, free north vorjoepirus 😭😭😭😭😭

they got multiple warnings about their shit army in ww1 and the first eithiopian war,even the second one they only won cause they used gas

@Sweden not Switzerland Actually both sides were heavily supported by their allies with troops and equipment. Check out the Great War episodes on the front after the Battle of Capparetto.

@Sweden not Switzerland they held* also their were lots of french and british troops in the italien theater, Ah+ German armies did fairly well even getting close to Venice i believe, before they surrendered.

@Sweden not Switzerland "Italy won in ww1 on its own agaist Austria-Hungary in the alps." That's not true. Italy was able to field its entire army against Austria, whereas the Austrian was already decimated by the Russians, and still had to fight on the Balkan and Ukrainian fronts. Despite this, the Italians managed to get badly beaten by the Austrians, suffering many more casualties than their opponents and losing much territory. Austria was about to occupy Venice, when Germany surrendered and thus Austria had to do the same. The only reason why Italy ended up in possession of South Tyrol and Trieste, is that they launched another advance after the armistice, when the Austrian army was already demobilised and disbanded. I won't speculate on the reasons why the Italian army performed so abysmally, but the fact that it was led by Luigi Cadorna, did definitely contribute. It can safely be said that Cadorna was one of the 10 most incompetent generals in the history of warfare.

@@Timrath Lol what? Austria was no where close to occupy Venice when Germany surrender, the two battles of the Piave have already happened before the treaty and so did the battle of the solstice and Vittorio Veneto, keep your propaganda in another place please.

Long live Pontos and Makedonia, long live HELLAS 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

@@nestororiginal2344 God bless my Brother. IC XC NI KA +

Hi guys, you are more than welcome to visit Turkey. We take good care of our cute little Pontos.

@@MrBreakingbad ok ex-Greek , ex-armenian etc

@@adinfinitum000 Yeah Greeks and Armenians, all welcome. Just make sure to bring the passports.

Thank you from 🇬🇷

🇬🇷♥️🇧🇬

Respect from Turkey too.

Is that Tajikistan?

@@onuralpyaran3311 I love respect from both Bulgaria and Turkey. You know. The region could become the best region in the world governments would be kinder towards another. From my own perspective coming from the Netherlands, I believe that Turkey's stance should change for the better of everyone, including Turkey itself. Because noone is benefiting from this aggression. Not even Turkey. Look at it's position already. It's Lira drops like a fly, and it's actually excluded from friendships. Noone wants to go on board with Turkey because of how it behaves. That will eventually become a big problem for Turkey. So I would say. Be kinder, be respectable and leave aggression out of the question and everyone will benefit

Yeah, the British (and the Germans) also thought highly of Italian troops in North Africa campaign. Not so much about Italian High Command.

This is such an even keeled comment. Usually, these sorts of videos are ultra nationalists taking pot shots at each other. This was a lovely departure.

Its a shame how that one General (gambini or something like that) sends his men 17 times to capture that hill and his men suffered heavy casualties. I mean 17 times, come on?! That has nothing to do with beeing a General or tactics at all.

Is Cavallero the Cadorna of WW2? Feedeing people into the grinder...

Also, Ciano is rumoured to have been an asset or pawn of the Anglo, pushing for war with Greece to help Anglos gain a foothold.

Yeah we celebrate

Rather 200 years since the conventional beginning of the War of Independence ("conventional" because technically hostilities had started a few weeks earlier than the official date)

And this independence gave Albanian emigrants in Greece "Arvanitasit", congratulation!!

@@blockie9706 arvanitasit arent albanian pretty sure they are greek

@@crazycocainemercenary7498 Yes, and Tupak was white

shame on your country Germany...

@@etinarcadiaego7972 And what is your problem?

@@MrNebelschatten the fact that Germany has not abolished Nazism yet

@@etinarcadiaego7972 Are you high? First of all its National Socialism or in German National Sozialismus and second of all our government might not be perfect but its not national socialist.. And a lot of stuff connected to the third Reich is actually forbidden in Germany. One could still coitize Germany for its current policies but one would need something smarter and not just MuH GerMaNY BaD and NaZiS.

@@MrNebelschatten Germany is a country that has refused for many years to give compensation to the victims of Nazi atrocities in Greece. Οn the other hand it is a country that is constantly sugarcoating Turkey in terms of European Union. Today's Turkey is a country that follows the Nazi-inspired theory of "vital space"(Lebensraum). The fact that even today Germany is a country that has a hard time dealing with the past shows a lot about the way this country faces the nazi history.

Ah, I See You're a Man of Culture As Well

Finally found an Sabaton comment

Very interesting fact

"OCHI!" That's positively spartan

Yeah the typical Philip of Macedon (after controlling almost all of Greece) threatening Spartans with a letter: "IF i come down there I will blah-blah-blah-yada-yada-blah-blah- sth like a gazillion lines of threats". The Spartans' reply: "IF"

He could have said "Merde!" I suppose.

@@thomascatty379 actually he did said " no " When he told the italian embassidor " so it's war " in french the embassidor told him that " it hasn't have to be like that " ( declaring war ) and Metaxas replied " NO it has".. The next day the newspapers shorten this to " No " ( όχι/ochi ) 😉

@Poop Poop Orthodox church does not approve LGBT and whole stuff unlike most other churches btw :)

@@randomname359 Yooooo bro you destroy him stop😂😂😂

@@randomname359 orthodox brothers strong together 🇬🇷☦️

As a Greek, I see Russians as one of our own with our strong cultural bonds and historic ties, after all Russia played an important role in helping fight for the Greeks' independence from Ottoman tyranny, Brothers till the end! love from Greece GR❤️‍🔥RU❤️‍🔥GR RU

@@michalipiperakis9380 Thank you! I've always appreciated both Ancient Greek and Byzantine culture as well as our cultural and religious ties. After all even Cyrillic alphabet is based on Greek. Long live Greece and Greek People!

An excellent contrast between the Internet vs cesspool Television.

Did you notice how the Brits always used the Aust and NZ forces to cover their withdrawals and left most of them in Crete. A waste of the best allied (not British) forces. Same story in Tobruck not long after

why you didnt expected that from greece?? do you remember a war that the greeks surrunded without a fight?

@@xdx2653 Oops after 2 years??

@@thearabianwolf3996 🤣🤣

i remember it like was yesterday

@F. Friedrich Kling Hauss The heroic deeds of the Greek army against the axis are no myth. Whether or not Barbarossa was delayed because of the war in Greece is up for debate. If you ask me, I believe it certainly played a role but it was among a number of factors. In any case Greece contributed far above its weight to the war effort for the allies, tying down large numbers of axis troops even after occupation, because of a very strong resistance movement, which caused Greece dearly in hundreds of thousands of lives and devastation. I do not know why you 're bringing up the bailout loans here, a completely unrelated topic to WW2, but these are not aid, they are loans with interest and Greece has not defaulted on them, neither missed any payment yet. Also they were given attached to a number of a very harsh and frankly punitive measures forced upon the Greek society by Germany. Meanwhile it is widely known nowadays that Germany gained billions from the Greek and Eurozone crisis in general... Believe it or not, Germany has yet to repay a forced loan it took from the Greek collaborationist government during occupation in WW2, which today amounts in billions. Mind you, I am not talking about war reparations, which is another matter, but an actual loan, signed and stamped by the then German and Greek governments. Lastly let me state that I am a strong critic of many policies and behaviors in Greece, which led to the crisis, however the last years until the pandemic, Greece was producing a surplus annually. Certainly the Greeks have a responsibility for the crisis but that is no worse crime than instigating a world war which caused millions of lives. Germany, which was responsible for such a crime was given a break and half its debt was erased after the war (note Greece voted in favor of that).

@F. Friedrich Kling Hauss how stupid a man can be? Sometimes i am truly amazed!

@@thatdude3938 Frankly I do not know if these numbers are accurate and what are your sources, but even if we assume they are correct you would have to subtract the billions Nazi Germany plundered from occupied European countries, especially heavily industrialized ones such as France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Czechoslovakia etc. The fact remains that in the London conference of 1953 there was a German debt of abt. 30 billion (acknowledged by the German government) and this was cut by 50%.

@F. Friedrich Kling Hauss First of all let me note that I did not resort to personal attacks and insults as you did. I leave that to inferior minds who are incapable of engaging in a civilized discussion. Contrary to your claims it is I, who referred to specific facts, while you just stated your (baseless) opinion. These facts are common knowledge and this is a youtube discussion thread not a treatise where we have to cite our sources. Having said that though, how about deutsche welle for a source??? Google " DW - Nazis' stolen 'loan' from Greek bank: Will Germany pay it back?" As for the London conference of 1953, which cut half of Germany's debt, this a formal convention. It is not my fault that you are unaware of such an important moment in your country's history. Just google it. Ignorance of the facts does not mean absence of these facts. I challenge you to dispute the above if you can (hint: you can't)... And again, Germany has not donated money to Greece. Germany loaned with interest and imposed additional harsh conditions. I do not know why you fail to grasp this very simple notion. Let me just state here that I am not one of those Greeks who blindly blame Germany for all of Greece's recent troubles. A large segment of the Greek people were ultimately responsible for electing some pretty corrupt and inept governments in the past. However, it is not the common Greeks who pocketed the vast amounts of lost assets in various corruption cases, but high ranking politicians and big companies, many of which were German (such as Siemens). Therefore blindly blaming all Greeks collectively is not a rational point of view, but it rather shows bias, if not racism.

@F. Friedrich Kling Hauss I am afraid it is not me who has such issues. You clearly have not read or have not comprehended my comment where I presented certain evidence. I answered your specific points, you just keep repeating the same arguments over and over again, but you cannot answer mine! You seem incapable of understanding basic notions such as the fact that the bailout loans have absolutely nothing to do with the real legal issues from WW2 or that they are in fact loans, which Germany (along with other countries and the IMF) gave because it was in its economic interest not to have a member of the Eurozone crash out. Again beaten in the argument you resort to personal attacks, with a hint of racism. I guess I am not surprised too... What an unpleasant person to have a discussion with! Truly hopeless and sad. I won't waste any more of my time.

Of all Greek, Spartans were easily most corrupt...

@@vksasdgaming9472 exact the opossite dont speak about sparta pls

@@vasileiospapazoglou2362 That was Persian opinion...

@@vksasdgaming9472 Which is why they got their asses handed to them on a silver plater pretty much every goddamn time they tried to fuck with Greece ^^

Τους εχθρους του γενους τους ψηφιζουμε καθε 4 χρονια.

Εμεις ειμαστε οι ελευθερωτες μας

Οι εχθροί του γένους είμαστε εμείς οι ίδιοι που ανεχόμαστε να είμαστε σκλάβοι των μεγάλων

Χρόνια Πολλά Έλληνες!

I totally agree brother

propably your family is ashamed of the German invasion...

Probably killed from my grandfather and he took his machine gun.

We aren’t in peace. We are still in a state of war.

This is what i say... we are Lucky enough but we should be more clever to keep it that way:)

@@lukamilas8648 distant war: Is your life threatened by the fight in the world?

@@cpp3221 the lie cannot be at peace because it is always at war against the truth. For that reason the war never ended, only the bombing and shooting stopped. The war continues to be waged against you, ever single day of your life without you being aware it’s happening. It’s waged against your mind through social media, smart phones, internet, TV, newspapers, schools, churches, universities, etc. etc.

@@lukamilas8648 that's not a war, it's a different thing. A war is more like when someone shoot at you or trie to kill you. The word "war" is constantly misused and that lead to a demonetization of it.

Much respect, God bless his soul and your family brother 🙏

On top of that, it took the Nazis more time to conquer Greece that every other occupied country combined

Many of the bloody noses the Germans received were from the woefully supplied Aussie and Kiwi rear guard actions. The thousands of Australians and New Zealanders captured by the Germans were expended in British withdrawals. It annoys me to hear them called British forces.

until he betrayed his country and became a communist

Real heroe

26 march is the Independence day of Bangladesh

Are u dumb how is he gonna do that in 2 days

@@muratcelen1319 I was just about to comment the same thing.

I would love that

@@muratcelen1319 It would be great if it's already on the works, since it's not everyday that the 200th anniversary of the Greek war of independence takes place. Besides, if it's not already on the works, then a later date wouldn't cause an uproar, by any means. Just because you're ignorant and don't want a video made on it, that doesn't mean you get to be a dick wherever you see fit.

Thanks mate

We were catholic Irish-Canadian but our people fought with the English in WW 1&2. The devil you know is almost always better than the devil you know not.

We were catholic Irish-Canadian but our people fought with the English in WW 1&2. The devil you know is almost always better than the devil you know not.

@@tommyodonovan3883that quote goes hard but equating the English to Nazi Germany is just antisemitic

You should check out @tik channel. He has 6-9+ hour documentaries on single campaigns. And he works to supress his bias unlike the so obviously pro-allies @kingsandgenerals

and a horde of sabaton fans is coming with it

“I am unable to give the proper breadth of gratitude I feel for the heroic resistance of the People and the leaders of Greece.” - Charles de Gaulle

Greece reminded Mussolini that they are more capable of reviving the Eastern Roman Empire than he was :P . ( As a greek I love Rome though, ROMA INVICTA)

@@arthasmenethil7208 straight fax tho. If anyone had the will to try and remake the roman empire, it would be greece. Love from the UK

@@truefalcon6884 actually that was the idea behind the greek revolution 😉

maybe if the Italian's equipment wasn't all made out of pasta

Spot on Laurence, the Brits virtualy left behind the ANZAC to be taken prisoners by the thousands. The official ANZAC reports are eye popping. The real deal tragedy happened a few years ago though. Us being denied Asia Minor ancient homeland just 100km short of Ankara. And that only after being denied an even easier task to simply capture the European part of Turkey Constantinople included and march along u through the great city. Instead u were ordered to train the Turkish snipers at Kalipoli and we had to suffer a genocide. Their legacy on the planet remains alive unfortunately, check Palestine. Brits are good as tourists, full stop there.

@@Joleyn-Joy então mano, isso que eu queria fazer kkkkk

Do that....

Thats greek propaganda so you can build some more grave yards with dogs bones inside so you can build up propaganda about north Epirus but that not gonna happen actually we gonna take back cameria and that day it’s coming sooner than you think

@@KK-eu6ym Try it and see what happens

@@absoluteunit3885 just wait and see Remember so called Yugoslavia Kosovo 😉

@@KK-eu6ym Different circumstances, in Greece you can't do shit and you know it

No. Greece was a at the breaking point when the Germans came.

that was actually a joke that the french and Greeks told themselves back in the day.

No, they wouldn't have conquered italy. Lol how would they have gotten to italian mainland?

@@MIGBMWLOVER The sign at Menton village... hahaha!

We fought Italy, albanian, Bulgarian, and German armies at the same time. With air mainly support from UK. And although having many many problems. But the then Greeks, not sure about now pasok (socialist party) raised butter pampered continuous money handout Greeks, but the then Greeks, were tough. Now Greece has many big problems and one of them is to make Greeks forget the money handouts for free by government through govt mended money, and return them back to hard work and tough mentality like our grandfathers (and not like the largely (not all of course) lazy Greeks of 1980-2010 period.

ok I know puting four state versus one it make more suspens and glorify much more but in reality Bulgaria wasnt involved directly in the war ...Albania ...hahahaha didnt have even an army ..those two batalions that partecipade ...were recruited just for the money as a job ..once the war started btw Italy and Greece, desserted almost all of tham.....indeed Greece won the war against Italy and were defeated by the Germans

@@Miagolao5 Study history.

@@Miagolao5 whats your point.....

​@@Miagolao5η Βούλγαροι έκανα άπειρα εγκλήματα στη Μακεδονία που τους δόθηκε από τους ναζί οι Αλβανοί πολέμησαν στο πλευρό των Ιταλών μάθε ιστορία

massive respect to all humans from every nations who must fight in dirty wars from big old rich guys to go more rich and powerfull. god bless you

@@j-p.m.m.1150 amen brother

They ran....very well.

@@j-p.m.m.1150 Even worse, big old rich colonizer guys

@@thatdude3938 how so?

@@Emzium Laughs in Philip the second