Countdown to War GERMANY: How the Nazis Prepared for WWII 

So tell it.

maybe ip-man was there. boxers are martial artists, is it not?

That is actually a great idea

@@n0madfernan257 actual event and lol yes many martial art flicks have it as a theme

Ahh yes maybe then we in the west can finally understand all the “hostility” from China

ai generated script.

Me too. Please go into Mein Kampf as well, if you can!

Seconded.

Iirc the judges were right leaning; basically they were closeted Nazis, but without being a member.

Would also like a vid too.

I also would like a video on that

DAMNNNN

thats....that's not good at all Simon uses Wikipedia for the majority of his videos and regularly gives out false or deliberately made up information (such as him praising Pierre Sprey for designing the F22 or getting major things wrong about Yugoslavia) Simon is good for entertainment but he SHOULD NOT be given to students as an educational source best to just send your kids to Wikipedia at that point

While I don't agree with Hitler, I don't blame Germany for being angry. You can only kick someone so hard and they got kicked 3 times over.

This is why you don't listen to the French, it never ends well.

just like adolf. xfile music ensues*

I've read that he was so far gone in the end, that when Hitler visited his deathbed, Hindenburg thought he was Kaiser Wilhelm.

he also actually kind of liked hitler

Cancer seems to really hate us. We really should put an end to it

​@@physetermacrocephalus2209glad someone had the guts to say this.

@@yetigriff That cancer is bad? Pretty sure it's been said before.

Are you implying that the construction going on next door wasn't actually "neighbors", but rather an expansion of his writer's basement? Interesting...

@@SkunkApe407 the word you're looking for is "writer's dungeons"

@@SkunkApe407 "Simon Whistler pushes eastward and westward. He has made staggering gains to the east, taking about 4/10 houses on his street, but the alliance on the east is ready to take a stand and push back."

That’s just insulting, the history channel is just a bunch of nut-jobs on adderall

​@@Xpwnxage I need more secret Simon lore 👀

he already covered the Russo-Japanese war in an earlier video.

Check out Blue Jay’s video on that.

@@miked451 Actually I have seen Blue Jay's video, I just want to see Simon's take on it

That would fit more into brain blaze

If more people had been like-minded, the UK would be speaking German right now.

As above, the terms weren't too harsh, they weren't enforced. If the terms were too harsh, how was Germany able to rebuild their military?

​​@@tomballardarts2453they weren't enforced? the French fucking invaded Germany and stole a major portion of its industrial base causing multiple ancestors of mine to die from starvation so don't you fucking sit there and say it wasn't enforced my great great grandpa was used as a fucking slave by the French after ww1 because they REFUSED to release POWs from WW1, the Brits did the same shit, they forced tens of thousands of german men into slave labor

​​​@@bsadewitzoh yeah? so you agree that pushing tens of thousands of germans to starvation was just oh so justified right? absolutely nothing wrong with that you think it was right for France and the UK to use tens of thousands of german POWs as slave labor? refusing to release some POWs for as much as 15 years after the war? so fuck you for saying it wasn't enforced

​@@bsadewitz Absolute B O L L O C K S

Absolutely putch the beer hall!

This is where you need to read in to the stab in the back origin. The Kaiser wasn't in power to negotiate the end of WW1, he abdicated before the Treaty was signed. The German generals were presented the Treaty in English and French, not German. And the representatives negotiating on the German's behalf were Jewish, which the vast majority of their communists were. And the Treaty of Versailles wasn't what ended the fighting, there was an armistice signed about a year earlier, where the German army basically had to surrender their capability to fight. So they signed the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles basically at gun point, still under naval blockade, and no way to fight back. There's a lot about this period that people never talk about.

It definitely was unfair to punish Germany as harsh as they did but it also doesn’t excuse the actions of the Nazis.

@@multiyapples What actions were they? Defending against war mongers and murderers?

@@BasementEngineer The actions of Warmongering and mass murder?

@@williamkoscielniak7871 Let's see, Germany marched into Poland to stop the murder of German expatriates, and Protect the German city of Danzig. Despite many diplomatic initiatives by Germany, the Poles would not desist from their border excursions and other illegal actions. Pursuant to this action France, Britain, and USA defacto declared war on Germany!

But the NSDAP government didn't do that print endless money! In fact, the amount currency put into circulation was based on the amount of labour performed in Germany. This is a very stable and sustainable way of running an economy.

The British continued their blockade of Germany after the cease fire and acceptance of Wilson's 14 points. Germany was starving and had little choice.

nice one mate

mega w

Simon really is on the grind isn't he?

Lol you write this comment on every one of his videos

@@danielgregus9456 Silence

IIRC, a lot of countries at the time had a problem standardizing war materiel for logistical reasons.

@@ecmorgan69 Yep, but any authoritarian gov has an easier time pushing through this type of thing (,and they were still scared, politically) Hitler still could not really believe what he had pulled off. Cost him. could have extended the war for max 2?? years

Hitlers generals didn't want to go to war until 1945 but Hitler was too impatient which we can be thankful for I guess since he made some very dumb choices

Negotiations and surrender are two different words.

Britain's economy was absolutely crap between the wars

exactly, in the future, we will make sure our military is full on resources and everyone else depleted before we start the war.

The only way history won't repeat itself is for the true and full history no matter how dark or disturbing to people be taught and learned from

Most people don't like to read let alone learn about history...hence why history always seems to repeat itself

As our society casually abides "antifa" marching through our streets masked in black causing violence and sowing discord. Who then are met by right wing reactionaries trying to stop them. Literally weimar germany.

​@@marine5166History will always repeat itself because human emotion will always override all logic and other self preservation safeguards wired into our brains over hundreds of thousands of years. No matter how much progress, no matter how intelligent or aware a person is, a human will always succumb to their emotions

Turkey refused the treaty of Sevres... And got the better treaty of Lausanne. Germany could've done same

​@@cheruvskiyanawanti1120 the allies would have fought germany much harder than they had fought turkey

​@@iron2684no they wouldn't have, the allied plan was just to starve Germany, which is exactly why the blockade lasted a full year after the treaty of Versailles, but western education systems don't like to admit that the Entente was starving germans and then invaded Germany after the treaty to steal germanys coal reserves leaving thousands of germans to die due to starvation and freezing conditions

Principiis obsta

Look at modern day Russia. Slowly attempting to annex it's border nations

I disagree history repeats itself, Nepolean was like Hitler, Then Hitler, Then Stalin, Then Bin Laden, and yet more to come

@@greattventertainmententerp5637 tf you on about mate? The only thing those four all have in common is that theyre human. Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin were conquerors - Bin Laden was not. Hitler, Stalin and Bin Laden were tyrants - Napoleon was not. Bin Laden was a terrorist, the others were not. Hitler was a white supremacist, the others were not. Do you want me to go on? They barely have anything in common whatsoever.

We don't talk about that because the Russians were friends after 1941

whole eastern europe*

That’s why we must learn from history and not forget the mistakes we made in the past

That's what the NSDAP government did.

France and humiliation come hand in hand.

​@@jordan_roadhouse4798you are talking about the country that has won the most battles throughout history.

​@@AG26498and? they lost their entire country in less than a month, could give a fuck less how many battles they won in the medieval age

@@nicholasbrown668 your feelings don't that change the fact that France has the highest number of battles won in history. I am trying to change the false narrative that France was always weak, because lots of poeple think like that when all they see is WW2 France.

@@AG26498 my feelings? no I just don't care how many battles a country won in the medieval ages because it doesn't matter lmao, France got steamrolled in less than a month TWICE, do I need to mention the Franco-Prussian war where the germans occupied Paris? and if you want to be politically correct, France the Nation State has won less than 300 battles in its time as a nation the UK has won over 1100 the US has won over 800 so yeah the French didn't win the most battles

well they were planning for a thousand year reich, Germany would have been an absolute powerhouse if it had actually gained its goals, the world we know now would be completely different, Germany would have full control over Europe so the cold war would have been with Nazi Europe as Russia would have mostly collapsed, it would have been up to the US alone at that point as the uk even with aid from the US would have eventually been defeated or created a peace treaty thats if Nazi Germany achieved its goals in Europe and began to progress from within.

Not gonna lie, it would have ended faster. By a french/soviet victory. Germany was not the only one that would get stronger with time. France had Charles de Gaule push for modernisation. USSR would have more time recovering from the purge and a WHOLE YEAR AT LEAST to get the T-34M going and other tanks that are not just shitshows. Meanwhile, germany would not have gotten the tiger and panther simply because those two started as responses to the Char 2B, Char 1C, T-34, KV-1 etc. so yeah, while he was bidding his time, stronger nation would have gained more. He won due to surprise and "new" but if he would've went in later, the "new" would be in everyone's hand and do you think they could've taken out all of europe for quite a few years if they were fighting on closer terms?

@@warbrain1053 Idk about that one. If the Soviets invaded Germany, I could see the western Allies supporting the Germans to push back the spread of communism. This is assuming that Hitler doesn’t strike first anyone first.

That was not possible. Read Icebreaker by Viktor Suvorov.

​​@@warbrain1053ah yes the T34 a notoriously shitty tank that everyone thinks is good for some reason the tank who's armor would crumble apart and literally fucking shatter the first time it was hit by a tank round the tank that was so unbelievably unsafe for its crew, that there was next to no chance for a crew to survive a direct hit a tank that was so notoriously shitty that most of them were lost to mechanical problems well before they ever made it to the front the tank that many Arab nations called " a piece of trash "

shhhhh that isn't important

I understand you would have preferred the British invasion, right?

@@BasementEngineer Your capacity for understanding seems to be underdeveloped.

@@ShadowKayvaan Perhaps, but yours appears to be nonexistent.

@@BasementEngineer Well of course YOU would think that.

no, the first declaration of war was started by austria. You are welcome :) Otherwise what started it is.. A LONG LIST.

Germany didn't start it, they were just the only ones left to pay for it. The war kicked off with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo, Serbia. The Serbian nationalists wanted independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire however they just assassinated one of the only guys in their corner nd could've made that happen. Finally getting the excuse to "clean house" in the Balkans they've wanted for years, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia. Prior to Austria-Hungary declaring war and predicting the domino effect, the British government lobbied officials in Paris, Berlin, and Rome for some kind of council or convention to monitor and moderate any impending conflict. However, this idea was shot down by the German government and outside of Kaiser Wilhelm II the German military and government seemed intent on a fight. Once Austria-Hungary declared war, Serbia's ally, the Russian Empire, declared war on Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary's ally, the German Empire, declared war on Russia. Russia's ally, France, declared war on Germany and Germany declared war on France. All this took place within a period of 5 days. Both Italy and Great Britain stayed neutral at this time. When things kick off, Germany executes its Schlieffen Plan by invaded France through neutral Belgium. The minute the first German boots touches neutral Belgium's soil Great Britain jumps to the aid of it's ally Belgium and declares war on Germany joining France and the Russian Empire. Italy joins the fray in mid-May 1915 with coaxing from France and Great Britain with the promise of getting land back in the Alps from Austria-Hungary. The Ottoman Empire joins in late-October 1914 when two ships they had just purchased from Germany sailed into the Black Sea and attacked Russian ships. Following the attack Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Ottoman Empire calls for a jihad against Russia, France, and Great Britain. The United States enters in April 1917 with the leakage of the Zimmermann telegram with the German government guaranteeing most of the Southwest going back to Mexico if Mexico attacks the US, and with the sinking of the Lusitania which killed some 100+ Americans when the German submarine force started practicing unrestricted warfare. Once the dust settles 4 empires no longer exist, 1 empire is barely hanging on, 1 monarch and his family are assassinated, another monarch has abdicated his throne, a new government has transformed one country, and another has emerged on the world scene as a burgeoning super power.

@@joshuasill1141 Too much misinformation to bother with, therefore mostly rubbish.