Now that is not fair. Jews have been returning to Germany, and they (the Germans) have expressed their moral outrage at government forces in Syria and Russian meddling in elections and general warlike behavior clearly enough. It is Trump and his American supporters who are failing to express the moral outrage.
Actually, we had a load of foreigners here between 39 and 45 from Poland, Russia working in our factories. But that did not make us happy. And them either.
@@davidcadman4468 It was France that officially declared the war due to the Polish guarantee but the world got the wrong impression due the the U.K. being the alliance leader. In fact the British government never wanted this war and if it wasn't for that lunatic Churchill they wouldn't had a part in it. Despite the crimes, destruction and decay that war was the best thing the world could have. Most of the far-right and far-left regimes that had ''power'' collapsed or transformed to something productive. Sad that we humans must mass murder each other in order to move on...
um ... right ... Hitler did not call his invasion of Poland a war. He hadn't declared war on England and France when he broke his treaty with those countries to militarily take the Rhineland (an area agreed, by treaty, to remain unmilitarized) and he didn't declare war when he marched into the neighboring country of Austria and he didn't declare war on Czechoslovakia when he marched his army in to take control of a part of their country ... and then ... he did not declare war on England or France when he marched into Poland despite his awareness that they were pledged to militarily defend Poland. When given an ultimatum to withdraw his forces by September 3rd or face the reality that a state of war will exist between his and those countries he neither declared war nor bothered to respond. So ... um ... yeah, one could technically say that "Britain declared war on Germany first". But it isn't only words that have meaning.
btw ... this business of who "declared war" before the other isn't much to rely on when looking for what happened. Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor before Japan declared war on the United States. Wikipedia shows the ways that war between nations in World War II came about ... you'll notice that only some of them began with a declaration en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarations_of_war_during_World_War_II
When the germans surrender to fieldmarschal Montgomery on the Luneburger Heide the german admiral Friedeburg said to Montgomery, we will rather surrender to the british than to the russians. Montgomery answered "well Germany should have thought of that before they started the war".
@Herbert Norkus Wilson's 12 demands included a free Polish state, with access to the sea, and WWII started when Germany invaded Poland for the very land in mention. So I don't know, if you're gonna go around blaming everybody for starting WWII but Hitler, you should start with Wilson first.
Herbert Norkus Versailles was actually a pretty lenient treaty given the circumstances. And given Germany’s actually harsh and unjust treaties with Russia and Romania.
@@adamkurowski1934 don't forget how glad poland was to join in the plundering of czechia together with the nazi germany. Poland the hyena of europe, always playing the victim card
@A Koster @John Cornell The verb "gleichmachen" as such simply means to equalize or to make equal. In the given context, a speaker of German would always say: "Sie wollen Berlin DEM ERDBODEN gleichmachen." [To make level WITH THE GROUND] This is the idiomatically correct way to say it. A more colloquial variant would be: "Sie wollen Berlin PLATTMACHEN", with "platt" meaning "flat" (sic!). This is both shorter and closer to the original.
@@guesswho5122 Well yes, maybe that would be clearer, but in colloquial spoken German, just like in English, parts of a sentence can be ommitted where the context makes clear what a person is saying. And if a British army officer tells you they are threating to level (gleichmachen) Berlin... without saying "to the ground" I'm sure it would be clear due to context.
The British officer with the beret, love the uniform, looks like he put his hand in a bag of military decorations and then attached them whether they were relevant or not
I copied and pasted this from Wikipedia, apparently a quote from the New York Times: "After lunch, Field Marshal Montgomery called the Germans back for further consultation, and there he delivered his ultimatum ... He told the Germans: "You must understand three things: Firstly, you must surrender to me unconditionally all the German forces in Holland, Friesen and the Frisian Islands and Heligoland and all other islands in Schleswig-Holstein and in Denmark. Secondly, when you have done that, I am prepared to discuss with you the implications of your surrender: how we will dispose of those surrendered troops, how we will occupy the surrendered territory, how we will deal with the civilians, and so forth. And my third point: If you do not agree to Point 1, the surrender, then I will go on with the war and I will be delighted to do so." Monty added, as an after-thought, "All your soldiers and civilians may be killed."
So that's basically the Geneva Convention against war crimes out of the window... if you threaten to kill all unarmed German civilians it is a war crime
@UCyyWtqMdLBQ6vzVCwPtrVQw Montgomery was saying the obvious; unless the German forces surrendered the war in Northern Europe would continue and both soldiers and civilians would continue to die. He did not threaten to deliberately kill unarmed civilians as you state. The Germans had already extensively bombed civilian targets in Poland and had flattened Rotterdam. Do you think they would have stopped at the English Channel? They didn't require provocation. Churchill had many faults but your assertion that he wanted the East End destroyed is beyond ridiculous - where is your evidence?
@@Wotsitorlabart Rotterdam doesn't excuse the far greater destruction by allied bombing raids in all of Axis-controlled Europe. Also no, your fears of germans advancing past the Narrow Sea are completely unfounded, Germany had no means to invade the British Isles and Hitler didn't want to destroy the British Empire, he only wanted Russia.
Capitulation act was signed by German Iodle and USSR Susloparov plus American Y. Smith. There was also a witness from France. Limons were not detected.
This is a parody of Montgomery accepting the surrender of the German forces fighting against the British, Canadian and US troops in Germany at Luneberg Heath in May 1945. I believe it was Field Marshall Busch who turned up at Monty's command post to offer the surrender. As Eisenhower was the Commander in Chief of allied forces, Monty should not really have accepted the surrender himself, however he was very unhappy that he didn't get the top job himself and so he seized on the opportunity to make history and got the newsreel cameras in for the event.
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 They regretted it, not due to a sense of justice, but because it doesn't look good in the history books... a bit like civilian target bombing, Churchill's wish to use chemical weapons and allied soldiers raping civilians or plundering shops in, for example Arnhem... it just doesn't look good... so.. hush, hush for 80 years
it did count they went not crossed he was holding himself on symbolically for dear life & protecting his heart his wealth & communication, water jupitar finger moving towards 2nd finger Saturn Karma, then next finger the actor & sun his pride, mercury communication. he wanted to keep lines of communication open to keep himself alive & comforts, Karma always has its way in bigger picture & smaller too.
I understand the comedic impact of a translator but I would have thought that a German Staff General would have spoken very good English as Germans of that standing, in those days were probably educated at Oxford, Cambridge, Eton or Harrow.
@Klistirani Krupije Correct! Interestingly enough, in this case the singular and the plural form of the noun are identical. Perhaps @anonUK was thinking of the diminutive "das PfannküchLEIN" (I'm only joking).
@@klistiranikrupije1724 Dann sollten Sie aber ganz schnell korrektes Deutsch lernen, bevor Sie so einen Unsinn als Hochdeutsch lehren! "das Pfannküchlein" oder gar "das Pfannküchelchen" (doppelte Verkleinerung) - aber niemals "Pfannküchenchen" oder "Pfannküchenlein" - diese beiden Wörter gibt es schlichtweg nicht in der deutschen Sprache.
The irony here is that the British still act as if THEY won WWII. As history showed, Britain was the biggest loser of that war, which was won by the Soviet Union (predominantly) and the U.S.
No we don’t think that. We are proud of our forces and our participation just as much as the other allies. Also, we had the likes of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa watching our backs before Churchill even became Prime Minister. There a few who think as you suggest, but every country has idiots like them, including the USA.
Don’t understand why Germany would “apologize” for the war when it was Britain and France who declared war against Germany for taking back its rightful land in Poland after months of refusal.
No! I love all the buildings from the early 20th century! Do you want Berlin architecture to look like the Ruhr Valley Area? Because those were flattened and rebuild effeciently in 50s and 60s style
@@xYouTubax Well you are right, Ruhr area is ugly as fuck but as I said... In 1945, the bombed and burned buildings would have had to be taken down anyway. Bombed entirely to the ground or not wouldn't have made a difference... Except for the Germans maybe not having to use as much wrecking ball at first.
Well, actually we all know by now that each and every european nation was keen on waging war - not only the germans. Disabled Willy II. although couldn´t wait and declared war as first. The rest is history.
I wonder if they even have that gesture in Germany! Ever since the cartoon of John Dean doing it during Watergate testimony, I assumed it was an American thing. Easy to believe we got it from the British.
@@Theoriginalsparkythemagicpiano No, ..it's the deal the EU wanted.... Sir Boris is already getting slack from British fisherman about betrayal to Brussels... and we haven't even read the whole "agreement" yet....
@@Theoriginalsparkythemagicpiano yes celebrate the fact you can take more fish, let’s not talk about the tens of thousands of financial jobs going to Frankfurt, Dublin, etc...
This is the joke you make if you were raised in the English school system. "If you don't say you're sorry i shall be very cross indeed." Exactly what a schoolteacher would say, I'd imagine.
This seemed like a strange system to me as a child and even now as an adult. Saying sorry was taught as being more important than actually being sorry. Effectively they were encouraging us to lie and fake contrition to avoid more serious consequences. If contrition doesn't come naturally, you're expected to just pretend, fake it to make everyone else feel better. Being forced to lie about your state of mind does not seem to me to be an exercise encouraging a healthy mental state. Needless to say when I attempted to make this argument in such a situation (with the much more limited vocabulary available to me), it didn't go down well.
@@stephenderry9488 Being respectful of others, saying sorry is more of an expression of respect and being polite, consideration ect. You need to be crying with regret when you use the term.
@@CommonSenserules1981 I can see that you might mindlessly use the expression out of etiquette without giving a moment's thought to sincerity in situations where you have nothing to gain or lose, but really, what is the value of forcing someone who really absolutely isn't sorry - and might, depending on the true circumstances, be internally raging with a sense of injustice - to produce such an obvious lie? It doesn't necessarily resolve the situation and long term could make things worse. Respect can be given freely but some people show by their actions that they really don't deserve it. And even children understand that.
You mistook ze level of reading, lieber Freund ! He äctually meant it as 'berlin', a type of horsedrawn carriage, äs in to 'run a flat' (tire) with your berlin on the cobbled streets of Kurfürstendamm ! Zer is absolutely nothing a Prussian aristocrat hates more than that - it is a major pain in dem Arsch. So this sketch is showing how ze fate of Görmany was once again decided by ze selfish whims of ze Junkers ! Sänk Gott I am very intelligent and able to decode these complex English Enigmas !
letosvet1 A Damm isn't made from cobbles, but from sticks. The road was named after where it was leading. The Kurfürstendamm to the Kurfürst. The road to the church was named Goddamn.
@Lee Brown We did not.. The country as England was never really English until we saw the formations from the war of roses. The Normans and Germanic Anglo Saxons with the Nordic mix merging into the English with time.
My grandfather served in Soviet Artillery unit. He flattened Berlin as much as possible... After this he flattened very much Japan forces in Manchjuria and Korea... Also he didn't ask for apogize...
The fella playing the German general on the left is a superb comedy actor, a key part of alot of brilliant shows. He's so legendary that I've forgotten his name.
"Sie würden Berlin plattmachen" would be the right term. "Pfannkuchen" is the right term for pencake, not "geschnittenkuchenbratentorte" (cuttedpieroastedcake???)...
@@alicev5496 This isn't really that weird. The only difference between the english language is, that we don't use spaces between longer word complexes. But that's not that obvious in everyday speech, it's more a thing of official language and techical terms. Chamber of Agriculture would be Landwirtschaftskammer, but you could techically say Kammer der Landwirtschaft as well. It's quite awkward when english satire gives the impression that we would speak like that the whole time. In reality the amount of syllables between the german and the english language is almost identical, if you compare two analog sentences. I found this to be unneccessary in the context of this sketch. League of Gentlemen (Herr Lipp) is way more legit in their use of the german language, for instance.
Agreed, nothing of value would get lost. Just a bunch of hipsters, chavs, Lebanese mobster clans, the entire political establishment and about 60.000.000.000 in debt.
@@colinp2238 this term does not exist in the german language. you would say something like "platt machen", "flach machen". "Geflatten" sounds like "flatmakening" or something equal in english. I Still love that line. Have a look at "nazi generals" from the same comedy-group.
