German East Africa: A Very Pyrrhic Campaign 

to help british

Gott when an Austrian takes over Germany and attacks Poland so you as an Indian have to fight the Japanese in Burma for the British

TCG And have a Georgian take over half of East Europe.

When a Serbian shoots an Austrian so you as an Indian have to go fight Africans who have to fight for Germans

When a Serbian shoots an Austrian in Bosnia so an Indian has to help the British fight the Germans in East Africa while being stung by bees.

😂😂

Great War problems require Great War solutions

AHAHAH DUDE

wow that sun tzu level of logistics their boi

@@aker1993Just gotta worry about the supply lines outrunning you, bro.

_nice_

Pensions were even being provided prior to this, they were interrupted by the outbreak of WW2

@@Burkhart4192 Lol relotius-magazine would of course never write such a neutral article about the topic of colonialism today..

@@Galland_ colonialism had it's good and bad moment's I guess and I agree 100% with what you said.

Meanwhile in America we actually passed a bill to not pay any money to our Filipino veterans.

QUICK SOMEONE MAKE A SHORT BEE MOVIE MEME CLIP IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA!

Robert Jethro Gallano I will in paint in a few hours because of school

Petition to retitle the video to this.

Shut up weebs

Why not a prequel?

Also German and British: OOOOOFFF Two random guy somewhere Musa: Did you hear something Martin: Nah man your just hearing things

*bees intensify*

BEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!

“NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AHHHHHH!”

THE BEES WIN!

From what i read, joining the army was actually a good idea as it would mean you would be better fed and paid than the rest of the natives as there was a (german caused) famine ongoing.

It have been proven that army men/women were treated far better then any other regular worker/citizen And it makes sense, since you don't want your own army backfire and end up joining the enemy

@@Legitpenguins99 also, many future African leader/dictator started their career in the colonial army. So, it's a great career option, better than farming with high colonial tax.

@Emil bruh

Nicholas Lee yeah seriously, the fuck does his comment have to do with anything? Talk about whataboutism

NO NO NOT THE BEES!! NOT THE BEES!!!!!!

Flo Ris “ya like SMOOTH JAZZ”

Bees... My God...

Flo Ris Ya like Brass?

Me: *puts on gas mask Me: *opens mustard gas container

If the black german soldiers in bf1 are supposed to be askari why do they wear normal german uniforms?

Like I said, half true, half lazy PC pandering

Genghis Khan I’m a big fan of your work btw

@Luke L. Simple. To get sales in the US, you stick a Yank on the box.

@Luke L. all about the money, America and the anglo-sphere are the most important FPS markets

*NOT THE BEES!*

*THEY’RE IN MY EYES!*

*MY EYES!*

*AHH! AHHHH! AHHHHHHH! AHHHHH!*

@Genuine Suffering the Spanish Bees, checking on you to make sure you have met the honey quota

And in the end, isn't that what really matters

@@jacobduggan8008 wait the germans fought with the turks

@@yoted3609 the Australians had them too. i thunk

@@weik-2936 It is. What is the war in German East Africa, but people trying to measure up to his hat skills.

Did he do ne on that? I want him to do one on that.

@@stormcrowlegendary3512 he has. He did an extensive history of the whole war.

What about the newest one? The Feral Cat war

Emu army from the Emu war vs Bee army from Battle of the Bees. Taking all bets guys.

@@bificommander put everything on the potatoes!

I don't get it but I think it's funny.

@@frenchsoldier8485 are you a fucking eastern spy?

@@surayutskulchai714 You call yourself comrade but have American flag in your profile picture. God damn Western spy.

Impostor

*Poland Laughs in the Background* *Rorke's Drift Laughs in the Background* *A bunch of other battles I cannot remember Laugh in the Background*

@@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595 I don't think Rorkes Drif compares given how much that battle relied on one side using spears and the other to not use spears.

@@Nonsense010688 Islandwana, the battle before Rorke's Drift, where the British lost, was fought with a Zulu advatage of around 28-29 to 1 for the Zulu's, Rorke's Drift was more then that, had less capable fighting men and the Zulu's also had some extra guns by then, so, Rorke's Drift does compare

@@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595 next to british the german colony troops fought who had equal if not better equipment as them? You think be outnumber THEN 8 to 1 is as bad then being out number if you are vastly technology superior? Sorry you are kidding yourself. (Islandwana is more an example of incompetence then anything else). PS: I'm niot saying that they aren't victories equal or better then this one just that Rorke Drift is to be taken with a grain of salt. There is a reason why many people felt that the victoria crosses handed out were a cover up.

@@Nonsense010688 Fair point, but like I said, the Zulu's had guns, even if a majority outdated Dutch ones, meaning the small group of defenders there we're getting shot at while they charged, and the Zulu attack on Rorke's Drift was never meant to happen in the first place so yeah

Germans: so we play tough ja? Send the vorbeck!

Vorbeck:"Your gonna suffer." British:"Wait where's the supplies." Vorbeck:"Yall are the supplies." *INSERT HEIA SAFARI EARRAPE*

Fucc you 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

@@randomalien7746 Found the Rommelboo

Rommel: outruns supply line Lettow-Vorbeck: enemy is supply line

@@FirstNameLastName-wd8gn Rommel was a respected fieldmarshall. He treated all soldiers equally (also enemy troops). He had clear orders from Hitler to execute all Jewish pow and he didn't obey.

@@randomalien7746 Yea, Hitler never ordered him to do that.

More like British...

@@yanniklemm4108 well, that's the attitude of the Germans when they want a colony and realized most of it has been taken

@@alexanderchristopher6237 this

Same for the Italians and Ethiopia (a.k.a. Abyssinia) but that didn't go very well, at least not the first time around.

Actually Bismarck was hesitant to colonize at all, but fine I'll let you have your fun

The problem with these 'standards' is that they are subjective. I could say today that the standard is to be racist and there might very well be a lot of racists. But does that make it the standard? No. A lot of people would disagree with that statement. Conclusion: there is no standard for world views. There can be majority and minority, but no standard. On the side: racist and anti-semite are dogwhistles for "political opponent I disagree with that I wish to slander". If this guy was so bad, he wouldn't have gotten Africans to fight for him for 4 years. Or maybe he was right and Africans are inherently less intelligent... either way, you can't really attack him. He's either right or you were wrong about him.

Perhaps "Standard" was the wrong choice of words, but I agree with your points. Especially regarding people flinging around "racist", it is at least as often as not used as a bludgeon to silence someone whom you cannot debate with rational means. Vorbek was ahead of his cohort of "highly placed old European dudes" in terms of race relations.

@@inurmomsbedroom123 racism can take different forms and is on a scale, it doesnt have to be that he thought them inferior just less than. most likely he would rather have 1000 germans than 1000 africans, but he still accepted them as a fighting force, and even 60 years later those same men were proud to have fought under him

@@jam8539 That's not racism, that's nationalism. You can try to debate that but they are two different words with different meanings. It is natural for people to want to live with their own, fight beside their own, and be lead by their own. "Racism" is a label multiculturalists give people to shut them down. They've worked for years to condition people to freeze when they hear that word. In the end, people need to break the mold and ask themselves what they think is true. Stop forcing people to live with people who are different. If melting pot societies could work, that is surely not the way.

@@inurmomsbedroom123 Quite true. People naturally form groups, classes, cohorts, tribes, nations. It is an organic process that is observed everywhere and involving differences both manufactured and organic. Using the bayonets or force of propaganda to attempt to undermine these structures in no way causes people to see that they are alike, rather it causes them to gird themselves for battle, and resist. Cultural interchange is also an organic process, and groups will generally have dealings with one-another and learn from one-another. Two things principally separate man from beast: mastery of fire, and communication of complex concepts. Both have enabled us to advance beyond forming simple tools of wood and rock as other intelligent beasts have been known to, to our current station. So this communication, this exchange of concepts, is one of the most fundamental aspects of humanity. it WILL take place, and it is fundamentally good. But much like sex, when it happens organically it is lovely, beautiful, magical, even; but when it is forced, coerced, blackmailed, the results are at best degenerate and at worst horrific. Any authority that fancies itself moral will attempt only to enforce general peace and order on the interactions of these groups, and not to force anyone to think or act a certain way. Anyone who had done any kind of mechanical work, carpentry, forestry, electronics, welding, smithing, anything like this, will know that there are certain operations that can be improved by adding force, heat, current, etc., and others where just opening the taps results in spoiling the workpiece, whatever it may be. Sadly the results are tragedy when the workpiece is entire societies.

Yes, Lettow-Vorbeck and his officers treated the Askaris like human beings and fellow soldiers, and they fought well. Surprising, yes?

John Kaufman well, for the time, yes, it's surprising that he treated them well.

@@johnkaufman9567 its also surprising that he is called a hard racist the isnt it? He legit carried about the askari soldiers, that they got their money after the war, which wasnt paid + a small pension for them.

@@thegovenor4629 Because he was? He pillaged villages and under his supervision, they raped, killed, and destroyed crops of native villages? And when he is desperate for manpower, recruiting troops and treating decently his past crimes are ignored? That is some total bull and disingenuous shit right there.

@@thegovenor4629 Do you think Hitler wasn't a racist because he allowed a few non-german volunteers into his war effort now? That argument is no different from this shit right here.

I try master...

I'm Indy Niedell and this is the great war....of the bees.

Do or do not, there is no try

@@lapisleafuli1817 "I'm Indy Niedell and this week, the bees join The Great War!"

Indigenous people: but we already live here.. Britain: Oh look, free labor !

@@nedsteven4622 economic exploitation is comparable to slavery

He didn’t say no he just insulted him

Considering that the Germans spent five years running in circles with the Brits chasing them, to occasionally turn around and defeat the Brits, venturing into ALL of the neighboring colonies, and only find out about the end of the war when they captured a Belgian (or Portuguese?) base and be told "war ended three weeks ago mate!" I'd consider the Benny Hill theme to be accurate!

Andrei Schipor god yes please

@The Star Federation a fellow Sabaton fan I see

The planet would be dead due to everyone killing themselves to avoid that.

Honestly, yeah, it would've been a really great new map But Dice just sticked to the Western Front and the one Middle Eastern Map Did we even get an Eastern Front map?

@@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595 its dice (under ea) what did you expect

Might have?

@CK Lim I have no clue how they pissed on whites

@@weik-2936 This is the correct answer.

Best comment ever made if I do say so myself.

HEIA SAFARI

There are so many German marches

@@fuurettodesu9225 thx

That was a really good series

@@eagletanker even my mom likes it

One of the best.

very interesting, burma in ww2 is often forgotten, as well as the russo japanese skirmish

@@jam8539 yes, and also a lot of the conflicts before ww1 like U.S-Mexican war, the Mexican revolution, Russo-Japanese war, the second Boer war etc. It would be amazing to see Potential History's video about the Boer wars, as far as I am aware, there are not that many videos about those.

@@cutekrizu8214 indeed, an unbiased account of those would be interesting, all i see is anti british people saying britain created concentration camps, or pro impeiralists saying that empire is good

Adventures of young Indiana Jones.

Thank you

Young Indiana Jones is REALLY good, there was an episode devoted to Indy and some older British Soldiers trying to capture the German General.

@KaijuDirector I think that he had their help for that one, but not Remmy or Rimmy, however the Belgian's name is spelled.

Well,meme was about Europe fighting itself,so all wars like great northern war.

@@kaletovhangar Rest of the pre smokeless powder era: Am I a joke to you?

Where can I get it, I am a tanzanian citizen

Lol no

Jacob Duggan Rhodesians never die!!!!

He probably won't because of the controversy, but it might be interesting to hear his views on the conflict as a whole, the selous scouts etc. Rhodesians never die!

I swear every Potential History video has someone asking for Rhodesia. He’s probably not going to do that, given that he only does WW1 and 2. And besides he probably has little love for post-colonial apartheid states.

@@treyebillups8602 Calling Rhodesia an apartheid state wouldn't be completely true since there wasn't any real laws discriminating based on race. That said, there was a lot of prejudice from the Rhodies towards coloured people, but as a whole they got on with one another, which is more than can be said for several other western countries.

I was asking if he could do a video on the military side of war, not the government or anything controversial.

It would be perfect for this channel. Spicer-Simson makes that story

@@Legitpenguins99 Everything in this story is hilarious and at is full of illustious characters.

No, ABDACOM and the disorganized attempts to defend the Dutch East Indies.