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GERMAN REACTS TO LIFE IN NAZI GERMANY AND EAST GERMANY! - TommyKay Reacts to The Armchair Historian

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What was life like in Germany before and during WW2? What about during the communist regime in East Germany during the Cold War? TommyKay, an East German, decides to find out while sharing what he knows about the topics as well as telling personal stories as someone who grew up and lives in the eastern part of Germany today! Being surrounded by people who lived in these times, he heard a lot about what people around him thought of East Germany.
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Not a lot is told about the life in Germany during WW2, often history classes are too short to include any of that and we all just learn what lead to up to the war and the war itself. But how did an average German live under this terrible regime that oppressed everyone, even its own people? What changed in Germany after democracy ended? What did people think about the events unfolding throughout Europe. Well that's what Tommy is here to learn as well because. even as a German, he doesn't know much about the life these people lead. But that's not the only topic Tommy will be reacting to! In the 2nd half of the video, Tommy will also be watching a video on life in East Germany. Obviously as someone from East Germany he knows quite a bit on this topic and has family that experienced this in detail so it's really interesting to see him react to this and get his perspective on the whole thing. There's a lot of rippling effects that last to this day from both of these regimes, especially for Tommy personally when it comes to East Germany.
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Title: GERMAN REACTS TO LIFE IN NAZI GERMANY AND EAST GERMANY! - TommyKay Reacts to The Armchair Historian
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@TommyKay 3 года назад

Don't think I forgot about you snitches... You will get what you deserve

@roco1634 3 года назад

@totaltakeovergames7275 3 года назад

@@roco1634 Yes

@kewl3841 3 года назад

oh god

@kewl3841 3 года назад

twitch armageddon boutta happen

@giorgosgournis625 3 года назад

Hehea booooiiiiiii

@TheArmchairHistorian 3 года назад

Thanks for watching. I'm not very proud of my Life in WW2 Germany video as it's one of my earlier videos (from 2018.) Glad you enjoyed the Life in East Germany video, that was a recent release of ours.

@slk7376 3 года назад

You are an amazing content creator and I've always enjoyed watching your videos. RU-vid isn't very supportive for historical content, especially the ones from the 30~60's. I hope you get more views, subscriptions and monitizations in the future and that the TommyKay fans would watch your videos.

@johngalt5166 3 года назад

I thought they where decent enough, but I am also a history buff and would have watched them anyway.

@Googoogagamf 3 года назад

I thought they were both great, Keep up the good work!

@pfw4568 3 года назад

Don't be to critical with yourself. Still amazing stuff

@alpakasohn2334 3 года назад

so how much money did you make with the sponsor?

@dictatorinperpetuity 3 года назад

Tommy wondering why Adolf didn't just make a medium tank template.

@F1nn12h 3 года назад

No comment, just 243 likes! I'm first comment Btw

@thealifamily99 3 года назад

I know lol

@flipzappa893 3 года назад

Tiger 1?

@Jesse_Leuning 3 года назад

@@flipzappa893 Panther D

@abelpap5313 3 года назад

@DanRage47 The development of super heavy tanks might have come forth towards the end of the war due to a severe lack of manpower.

@carolinaandy5059 3 года назад

Bruh everyone knows living in ww2 germany consisted of watching a floating hand in the sky smack down construction zones for civilian and military factories on the state while the army consisted of a single man doing jumping jacks until the start of the war.

@TommyKay 3 года назад

true

@bonkbonk3802 3 года назад

I DONT GET IT

@pizzapatriot1769 3 года назад

@@bonkbonk3802 In the video game Hearts of Iron 4, you are in charge of a nation. By clicking with your cursor (which is a hand pointing) you can order the nation to do things, such as build civilian and military factories in certain states and order soldiers to conduct exercises. Why only a single man? Well there is something called army experience, and one of the ways to get it is by exercising and you get the most by having only one person conduct an exercise. TL;DR, Hoi4 reference.

@bonkbonk3802 3 года назад

@@pizzapatriot1769 oh shit thx lmao

@ConnanTheCivilized 5 месяцев назад

Don’t forget that the universe only started with a loud ‘Dong!’ noise in the late 1930s!

@luisurdiales3091 3 года назад

Interesting fact: on the final assault on the Reichstag, the building was not defended by germans but by frenchmen who were part of legion of volunteers Charlemagne. They fought till the last man because either they died there or returned to France were they would be executed as traitors.

@pentrus2747 3 года назад

That isn't fun.

@robloxfanboy86 3 года назад

Happy with both outcomes

@mykalo96 3 года назад

It wasnt a Legion like in the Wehrmacht. It was a Division (later i think a Brigade because of Manpower) of the Waffen-SS

@cosmicrahal6014 3 года назад

The Reichstag was also of no importance to Nazi Germany, as they did not use it for parliamentary sessions

@notgoddhoward5972 3 года назад

I don't think they would have made it back to France dude. If if anyone was going to have a very bad time in a Siberian work camp in 1945 it was the SS. That is if the soviets cared enough to transport them and not just execute them right there.

@Hesadryt 3 года назад

Tommy, they went after Jehovahs Witnesses, because Jehovahs Witnesses are “conscientious objectors” (refuse to fight wars of any kind) as part of their religious doctrine, so Nazis considered this as weakening “German martial virtues”.

@MisterTipp 3 года назад

They also tend to reject society around them and tend to themselves, so I’m assuming they sorta made a lot of enemies by just doing their own thing.

@DEVS_VLTIMA 3 года назад

@@MisterTipp how can they reject society when they are the state entity presiding over German society, they enslaved, sterilized, eliminated, and “recovered” people based on arbitrary racial categorizing, they didn’t “reject society” whatever that even means.

@Chactemal 3 года назад

@@DEVS_VLTIMA he is talking about jehova witnesses dude..

@MisterTipp 3 года назад

@@DEVS_VLTIMA Yeah, I was talking about the Jehovah’s, not the nazis, lol

@Makarosc 3 года назад

They also reject governments of man

@kai5sennn320 3 года назад

Russian: Stereotypes are not real!!! ToomyKay: Russian saved my dad with votka

@leleloy360 3 года назад

Every stereotype has some truth to it

@bornstar481 3 года назад

@@leleloy360 what about racist stereotypes against blacks ;-;

@heroj1491 3 года назад

@@bornstar481 there are some truth in it

@johnnyb980 3 года назад

I love this story 😂

@tylermech66 3 года назад

@@leleloy360 yep. I mean the "russians and vodka" thing is probably the one "true" stereotype (Obviously not every Russian is an alcoholic, but a worryingly huge amount are), as Russia has had one of the world's biggest alcoholism problems for a solid century and even extending past that into the tsardom too.

@irishbattletoster9265 3 года назад

Most of the time I don't like reaction channels but this is different

@Left4Candy 3 года назад

That's because Tommy is not only reacting, he's actually listening and thinking about what is being said. Then he pauses, asks the audience, and try to keep a discussion going. It is way more interesting than normal reaction channels

@irishbattletoster9265 3 года назад

@@Matokii just did and it's good

@asslool8328 3 года назад

I’m a Jew who live in Israel and my gray grandfather was a ww1 German veteran and at 1933 he he lived in Berlin and the moment he was fired from his job for being Jewish he left. That’s why I’m alive now

@wavyy 3 года назад

@@asslool8328 Damn good that he was so forward-thinking. Those things remind you that life really is a sequence of hundreds of random events sometimes. My grandpa only survived because his family barely missed a ship that was supposed to evacuate them out of Königsberg/Kaliningrad. They had to flee because the Russian army was moving in their direction. This ship was sunk by Soviet bombers later on and 9000 people died.

@mitchellkeiser9135 3 года назад

@@asslool8328 good shit man

@alex_ho 3 года назад

"I think the Nazis were the closest we ever got to evil." The Japanese during WW2: 👀

@trollololololololo1173 3 года назад

Why does everyone forgett Stalin

@user-lq8wo7yo3c 3 года назад

@@trollololololololo1173 bc only winners are writing the history

@averyshortusername9597 3 года назад

@@trollololololololo1173 depends where in the world you are, eastern europe focuses on stalin, western and america focus on hitler, and asia focuses on tojo

@arma5166 3 года назад

@@user-lq8wo7yo3c that sentence will lose its validaty if you start to study history properly. History is written by historians

@helpiamstuckonthismanshead3385 3 года назад

Even the germans were sickend by the Japanese

@BlackfyreHD 3 года назад

I went to Berlin in 2019 and the Victory column still is littered with bullet holes.

@nqh4393 3 года назад

Also the walls inside the Reichstag are still littered with vulgar Soviet graffitis. Are they ever going to clean those shit up?

@bigdikdude4207 3 года назад

In the Kaliningrad region, we still have some German buildings that were NOT repaired after WW2. like Kalinigrad Forts or some churches in certain small towns. a very humbling experience going there sometimes

@adamwnt 3 года назад

@@bigdikdude4207 i am from nearby Gdansk, I think it's a shame there're so few traces of the past in Kaliningrad region, and the little left is often derelict. We in Gdansk tried to revive the historical centre, which looks decent compared to the past, but I wish Kaliningrad would do the same, just for the architectural perspective, not talking about the prussian past, it would also gain in tourism.

@nikitaberejnoy4359 2 года назад

@@adamwnt id really love if kalinigrad had rebuilt historical buildings, but in soviet times government tried to get rip of everything german, and for some reason todays autorietis also tries to deny city's past. although people(who mostly russian, like 90%) get used to call this city "Könik" as deminutive form.

@nikitaberejnoy4359 2 года назад

In Dresden there is still marks on buildings in russian of a guy who checked for the bombs

@theemperororsomethingidont6897 3 года назад

Am I the only one who thinks that the Armchair Historian looks like a 15year old without his beard but like a 30 year old with his beard

@sarahalexander7256 3 года назад

I just love the kinda smirk he gives at the end of every statement. He's kinda so cute!

@TheArmchairHistorian 3 года назад

Agreed! Lol

@theemperororsomethingidont6897 3 года назад

@@TheArmchairHistorian Wasn't expecting that reaction but that's OK

@TommyKay 3 года назад

he looks rlly good with a beard

@HaldorMaximius 3 года назад

It's the curse of the baby face; I'm 28 with a Ron Swanson mustache and when it's in full bloom people think I'm 30, but without it I'm 18.

@hawkerben1158 3 года назад

One German subject I’d like to learn more about is the transition between east Germany into a unified Germany, iv never known a lot about German unification aside from how the wall fell ( specifically how the unified German government formed and whether there were elections or somthing)

@kinky291 3 года назад

Alot of people here have different opinions about the unification, there are people like my mother who always used to say that they should have kept the wall because of the minor economic collapse the unificaton brought. Alot of old westeners say that the germans from the east are alot more radical because they never had a de-nazification like in the west. They lived through a horrible regime and they didnt have the opportunity to get eduacted about capitalism and the life in the west. That of course is my opinion as a young west german.

@karl-heinzgrabowski3022 3 года назад

from my western point of view, it was a huge sell-out, eastern germany got fucked by the Treuhandanstalt which was used to privatize the economy.

@marcn.3768 3 года назад

@@kinky291 True! ...which is pretty ironic considering the way the SED in the DDR repressed ciritics in their nation and also generally surpressing any kind of political opposition, whilst condemning the BRD (and accusing Western Germany of being a fascist and imperialist warmongerous state), despite the BRD governments being much more true to democratic values than the authoritarian regime ruling in the DDR (although the denazification in the DDR was pursued much more quickly and thoroughly at first).

@abelpap5313 3 года назад

"Goodbye Lenin" is a great movie about this stuff, would definitely recommend.

@Joe_Mama661 3 года назад

They just had to add more civis and it was better

@bacebulgarianmapper1186 3 года назад

Tommy: "Germany was destroyed, gone, 10 years later boom, it's all back, all the buildings are back" Also Tommy: "You know what's the worst thing about communism? It's their depresive architecture. Who came up with this idea?!"

@def3ndr887 3 года назад

Well everything except for the easternmost parts of Germany (pommern, Silesia, Prussia etc.)

@LiterallyMe05 3 года назад

West Germany got rebuilt in half that time. So did France and Italy, while they don't have depressing buildings, unlike Poland, East Germany etc.

@juldris4180 3 года назад

They were designed to eliminate poverty fast enough. From what I now it worked Soviet Union

@nikitaberejnoy4359 2 года назад

@@LiterallyMe05 they don't have now, but back in a days it was a trend, just western countries realized that it's a horrible idea and blow up most of them.

@pixelfencer 3 года назад

Did you know that when the Germans surrendered there were still Germans fighting the Dutch on the islands above the Netherlands

@Joe_Mama661 3 года назад

There was also a Georgian division that actually killed the Germans and got called war heroes unlike many other POWS who were considered traitors in the USSR

@Gorg-oe1hu 3 года назад

There were also german units in norway who hadn't surrendered until 1948. Aswell as a few u boats

@TheTMan001 3 года назад

I'm Polish, on the point of depressing architecture, it wasn't just east German in Eastern Bloc Poland, my parents lived in a flat in the most boring building, beige and grey, everything was beige and grey. most buildings outside of Warsaw, Krakow and Lodz still are just beige and grey

@frukoprof 3 года назад

Mówi się: „szare bloki”? Gdzie, kurwa, szare bloki? Tutaj wszystko pstrokate - baby, typy i yorki Purpurowe siniaki, pewnie bo była naughty On ma kefir dla mężczyzn, taki well-balanced protein o smaku toffee Mój kraj wyszedł z klatki, teraz się mota Moim krajem może rządzić byle miernota W moim kraju ta oświata to jest ciemnota Z jednej strony Jarmark, a z drugiej Europa

@dwarow2508 3 года назад

I am from Ukraine and here all soviet architecture is mich better than what we had in the Russian Empire and what we have now

@danielboymuk1344 3 года назад

@@dwarow2508 Українець який не гадить на радянський наслідок.Такі існують.

@dwarow2508 3 года назад

@@danielboymuk1344 Це відоме як неупереджене судження

@Fabrissable 2 года назад

They were grey, true, its because they wanted to develop as fast and cheap as possible. Nowdays many old buildings are being repainted, thermaly isolated and just made better overall. They wanted to make living blocks for famillies as fast as fuck, so the blue collar worker with his familly could afford living in centers of big cities w/o a problem in so called M3's. It wasnt the best ofcourse but it still was a huuuge improvement for people who just escaped war and were probably living in shithuts without a toilet in the middle of the forest. Im from commie block as well and my grandparrents were living in tiny house in the village without running water and in 80's they got a free apartament in the city, so my mum could go to highschool no problem now and my grandpa had lot shorter to work and they could sustain themselves and my mum could finish higher education later on because they moved to city.

@narayasuiryoku1397 3 года назад

men: in the army kids: training to go in the army women: breading kids so they can go to the army

@TommyKay 3 года назад

everything was about the army, what a terrible way to live

@KillerofWestoids 3 года назад

@@TommyKay West germany also had mandatory military service.

@connorbranscombe6819 3 года назад

@@KillerofWestoids Yeah pretty sure Tommy knows that dude. he was literally in the Panzer Grenadiers.

@grandmarshalbeans8459 3 года назад

How to watch the Armchair Historian without 30 ads :101

@FriedrichBarb 3 года назад

Or just get an ad blocker browser extension like 80% of people who watch RU-vid have ....

@tylermech66 3 года назад

@@FriedrichBarb or get premium and never ever be bothered by them again without having to download sketchy shit onto your computer.

@FriedrichBarb 3 года назад

@@tylermech66 Chrome extensions usually aren't sketchy and are free so, worth the risk if you know how to protect your PC

@tylermech66 3 года назад

@@FriedrichBarb I prefer not to pirate.

@FriedrichBarb 3 года назад

@@tylermech66 it’s not pirating xD

@emote3182 3 года назад

This is so true when I listening to the part of Tommy talking about old East Germany and old China. I was born and grown up in Hong Kong, while my parents didn't. They always talk about when they were young, their grandpa or uncle (something like that, not sure) was working in Hong Kong. Every time that uncle visit them, he brought many good stuffs like toys, biscuits, wines. Also my parents was living in Guangdong, which is near Hong Kong, so they can watch TV shows from Hong Kong. Every time they talking about their childhoods, their eyes are bright and full of happiness. So when I listen Tommy talk about his mom listening to MJ's music, damn. I really get touched, so glad that we are living in a (maybe not that) peaceful time, also how similar did our parents, grandparents live in that unstable but nostalgic days. I even remember when I was young, we are so easy to be fulfilled, just running in the park with other children, that's how we spend holidays. While kids nowadays... Nah.

@Damo2690 3 года назад

Kids are a reflection of their parents

@trevalyn9953 3 года назад

Armchair Historian is an awesome RU-vidr.

@radioshatter5574 3 года назад

I second this. If you’re reading this, go subscribe to him and watch his stuff

@panchohalo2158 3 года назад

I can't believe he got a lot of criticism over the Vietnam video because some RU-vid woman didn't approve of it.

@panchohalo2158 3 года назад

@Order & Chaos Yep! But it just became a small bump on the road, issue died down pretty fast. Thank goodness.

@TheArmchairHistorian 3 года назад

Thanks man :)

@alphabet_god1175 3 года назад

@@TheArmchairHistorian oh wow I just noticed you got a million, good job, you deserve it

@bobi6191 3 года назад

What you said at the end, about the lost generation which formed after 1989, really resonates with many people from countries formerly part of the Eastern Block. My grandparents lost their savings to hyperinflation and were both left unemployed by 2000. Approaching their 50’s at that point, they were considered too old and were unable to find jobs. They took to farming in hopes of riding out the years they had left until retirement but the retirement age was raised multiple times. Things just kept getting worse for them over the years. My grandmother didn’t make it till retirement. My grandfather still lives in their crumbling, old house.

@Vitorruy1 3 года назад

Thats awful, many people lost their savings here too

@How23497 2 года назад

That's what happens when you change to literally the opposite economic system. Lives get fucked up majorly

@ryannewman3676 3 года назад

Weren’t the skulls a Prussian symbol meaning they were willing to die for their country?

@karl-heinzgrabowski3022 3 года назад

some prussian husars were wearing skull hats, but skulls were used by many as a symbol, even the cetniks and polish husars used it

@JBGARINGAN 3 года назад

Yeah but don't get confused my bro, the main Prussian symbols are the Iron Cross and the Hohenzollern Eagle. It is totally retarded that the Allies would abolish Prussia when they had absolutely had nothing to do with the Nazi stuff other than the military traditions and general staff being of Prussian junker ancestry. In fact the Nazis wanted to centralize the German identity, they wanted people to think they were Germans/Aryans not Bavarians, Rhinelanders, Prussians, etc... besides the monarchist movement was largely purged and absorbed by the Nazis into their ultranationalist conservative traditionalist coalition to be the sole right wing party for the conservative voter base.

@The_Sandwich1984 3 года назад

@@JBGARINGAN They abolished Prussia to discourage militarism and pride

@KillerofWestoids 3 года назад

@@The_Sandwich1984 They abolished it because they wanted to crush German pride and destroy its military traditions(uniforms, helmets, marches and goose step) .

@32parchy 3 года назад

@@KillerofWestoids and now Germany is a shell of what it once was, very sad.

@tibwr8879 3 года назад

i cant believe tommy didint know about the best youtuber ever finally he now knows

@aq8048 3 года назад

@Geometry D wydm?

@Nothing-1w3 3 года назад

@Geometry D lmao what

@aq8048 3 года назад

@Geometry D I haven't seen that video but it seems a common theme him spreading his views into the videos.

@aq8048 3 года назад

@Geometry D Im not trying to justify him I was just asking since I didn't know what you were referring to.

@MemekingJag 8 месяцев назад

I appreciate the reaction in the reaction video. I just watched xQc react to oversimplified, and you could have replaced his cam with looped footage for all the input he gave. I enjoy history, and I enjoy seeing how people react to the information I discovered. It's no sin to be ignorant, but to be willingly disinterested when shown the events that lead to our life today like others are is a great pity.

@finnklapproth6023 3 года назад

28:22 my grandma once smuggled 50 West-Mark in her bread into the GDR. She literally ate a bite of the bread while she was at the bordercheck to make sure the guards won't find it.

@lordxxx8493 3 года назад

My dad grew up in Poland during communism. He told me how his friend had an uncle living in West Germany. One day his friend comes into class and unpacks things his uncle gave him, then ten people came to him and he gave everyone a sip of Fanta. My dad told me how he'll never forget the taste of it. There was also a store chain named Pewex which sold western goods. The thing was, they accepted only dollars, so when my grandpa came back from the US with dollars my mom rushed to a Pewex to buy coca-cola.

@Damo2690 3 года назад

Fanta is a german drink created because the US had a trade embargo on Nazi Germany so they couldn't get coca cola so thats kinnda funny

@pawnyi7742 3 года назад

Damn Tommy, I felt you when you talked about experience of your parents in a communist regime. I heard similar stories so many times from my own parents(they are from the USSR). Thanks for sharing your stories, it was really fun!

@ieuanridout6291 3 года назад

I’m from Wales, and my grandfather was out in West and East Germany for most of his young adult life helping to rebuild many buildings and things like that

@Aethelhald 3 года назад

I wouldn't say the Nazis were the closest we ever came to pure evil. Well, I mean, they were, but it's a position they share with so many other groups throughout history. The USSR during Stalin, the Khmer Rouge, CCP during Chairman Mao, Imperialist Japan during WW2, The Mongols, The Huns, too many African warlords to count, Saddam Hussein's Iraq, ISIS and so many others I'm forgetting at this moment.

@AururaTinn7930 3 года назад

I have honor to speak with ma'am Tekla Juniewicz, the oldest living person in poland and propably now in europe, sze was borm on june 10yh 1906. she literally saw our entire present history on her own eys. I learned from her, the hell that people experienced during the german occupation, and I appreciate that such people are still among us, because they tell stories to future generations

@mpb8628 3 года назад

Can you please tell more? Sounds very interesting

@davinnicode 3 года назад

Man Polish history is so interesting. I went there a couple of times and always had a blast.

@ratsmacker693 3 года назад

western healthcare: medicine, needles, bandages. soviet healthcare: vodka, vodka, vodka, and vodka

@EasyCookingonthego 3 года назад

Funny as f#ck, Idiot

@Sovietube 3 года назад

So funny man

@ratsmacker693 3 года назад

@@Sovietube i know you're being sarcastic but i will still take it as a compliment to assert dominance

@Sovietube 3 года назад

@@ratsmacker693 bruh

@davinnicode 3 года назад

Russian seem to use it for everything. I've gotten so many health tips from Russians involving the use of vodka. It was ridiculous!

@mokinsen 3 года назад

My mother once visited the east and East Germans would stare at her as if she was an alien when she drank Coca-Cola or something like that. And an East German major asked my mother: If Germany reunites, will the we come to you or you to us? and my Mother replied: Is that an honest question? (Ist die Frage ernst gemeint?). And as she asked an east German to try to drive a Trabbi he answered: Oh no what if Genosse sees a Wessi (West German) drive around in my car

@tinchorb1340 3 года назад

Hello tommy, i hope youre having a good day For you too markoni (i think i writed it okay)

@TommyKay 3 года назад

ty luv u

@tinchorb1340 3 года назад

@@TommyKay lol U answered (well, one of you)

@positivewheat2053 3 года назад

Hey, tommy, u should consider reacting to bald and bankrupt, he's a youtuber who travels through the post Soviet countries.

@TommyKay 3 года назад

send it during a twitch stream and he might check it out

@punishedlatvian5710 3 года назад

"I think the Nazis were the closest we ever got to evil." USSR: imma ruin this man's whole career

@MoldyChese 3 года назад

same as china

@eliaskjrbo8142 3 года назад

Nazi’s were far worse than communists

@MoldyChese 3 года назад

@@eliaskjrbo8142 Not in how Many People they killed that's Wrong

@MoldyChese 3 года назад

@worldrevolution I mean the only downside of capitalism is the depressions and recessions

@punishedlatvian5710 3 года назад

@worldrevolution If you think communist crimes are propaganda then you also should think that holocoast is propaganda

@navaryn2938 3 года назад

Fun facr: yes, hitler's speech at the olympics was the first signal that could reach outer space. However, signal decays into noise as it travels through the cosmos, so any alien around another star could detect it, but in no way recognize it as communication

@davorstosic2776 3 года назад

you think aliens exsist haha...

@flyingbrick8849 3 года назад

@@davorstosic2776 you are more stupid if you believe that they don’t exists than they do

@navaryn2938 3 года назад

@@davorstosic2776 the scientific consensus is that they most likely do

@davorstosic2776 3 года назад

@@flyingbrick8849 sure brainiac, what makes you smart if you believe that they do, you make no sense haha

@unitedstatesofamerica4987 3 года назад

@@davorstosic2776 Give us a motive. If not walk out of here You rude person.

@eboypilled 3 года назад

My neighbor and my mom’s ex-boyfriend were both from East Germany originally, and actually her ex, I’ll call him H for now, he was deaf partially because allied bombing runs, and he’d tell me about his dad being in Wehrmacht or something, whilst my neighbor doesn’t really talk about East Germany much but I don’t really talk to him either, I didn’t even know he was German let alone East German until someone else told me, but he’s really old too, I should ask him about it sometime

@eboypilled 3 года назад

Also, when I was little, H would take me to this German bar in LA and they would serve me even though I was 14, but looking back at it, it was interesting because I asked many of the people there where in Germany they originally from and H was the only East German, he was from Dresden originally by the way

@moenchii 2 года назад

My dad was lucky after the reunification and he could keep his job. He still works in the same company where he started his apprenticeship in 1978. My mom wasn't that lucky and was working in a fuck ton of part-time jobs with bad payment all while handeling my brother (who was 2 when the reunification happened) and later me too. They were lucky that they lived together with my grandparents in one house and they always supported them. My mom told me in the 90s that she had countless sleepless nights because of finacial troubles. My dad didn't get a huge sallary (he's a farmer) and she was either unemployed or also had a job with shitty wages. She was so greatful that her parents were with them and that they supported them.

@itslowdefinition 3 года назад

My grandmother was really young when the Nazis rose to power and her family fled the county into the Sudetenland, but we know how that eventually went. She tells me stories about the war and the end of the war along with how she had to raise my mom in the post-war conditions. On my other side, I had a Grandpa who fought in the Nazis African Campaign. I was told that he never bought into the idea of Nazism, he just had a similar thing to what was talked about at the beginning of the video about wanting to fill the void. Really scary stuff. Whenever I'm told about this, my family, who is usually always super happy, all light goes from their eyes and all forms of happiness drains from their face. Especially hearing from people with first-hand experience reminds you how good we all have it now and how important it is that we preserve the freedoms and, you know, the anti-nazism.

@matejmihalik848 2 года назад

Im a croat currently living in germany in bayern and before i got here i didnt know almost anything about german history apart from the basics like hitler nazism etc. but in the last couple of months ago i started to get into this ww2 type of stuff and the entire post war part of germany is so damn fascinating for me mostly because seeing germany where it is now only like what around 80 years after is just fascinating. this country took me, gave me a chance to learn the language, actually start working with decent wages (faaaaar more than i would get in croatia for the same job), and just not ever in my 4 years here experiencing any type of discrimination nor anything like is insane. i will forever be thankful for the things that the people in this country have given me and for all of the chances that ive gotten when i know for a fact that if i was still in croatia i would be living from month to month on awful wages and probably end up selling drugs or using them.

@shweeps 3 года назад

0:40 This is the 2nd TommyKay video i've watched and you know im already subbed now. I love this guy! You make me happy to be German once again lol

@davidnguyen467 2 года назад

When tommy said “a couple years, everybody full in” in regards to accepting the nazi ideas. I litterally have every war movie flash before my eyes

@ghazii1243 3 года назад

Imagine the first thing aliens hear from earth is angry nazi sounds

@ryanmcgowan417 3 года назад

They'll probs decide not to visit

@austinstevens6052 3 года назад

Idk why but I love when Tommy watches documentaries about anything

@roninblitz2159 3 года назад

im glad tommy is finding the great history channels, love it tommm

@Fun4luve 3 года назад

Hey Markoni and comrades the war still rages on we must find the snitches and deal with them!

@bruhrespecct1967 3 года назад

Armchair historian reaction! Pog Btw his animation has become really good nowadays

@ashitaka1337 3 года назад

The Victoria 2 soundtrack in the beginning

@seannaesseannaes 3 года назад

My cousins were stasi, but my Jewish grandparents got out of Breslau. Glad it worked out for you! I love your content!

@Cook1eSP 3 года назад

9:15 god damn Tommy, I was drinking tea

@Progametloler 3 года назад

The mataxas regime in Greece also used a similar salute but it isn't the same as the Nazi one. From ancient Greece the salute is called "δεξιούμαι" meaning I am righting(makes more sense in Greek) this salute can be found in the works of Xenofod

@The_Sandwich1984 3 года назад

I am righting! Lmao

@Astraben 3 года назад

@Jeb Bush Goes to show how much of a clown party the Axis was

@JNeutronFTW Год назад

Dankeschön Tommy und Armchair!

@ImmortalSugimoto792 3 года назад

One thing I’ve always wondered is if people that grew up in the DDR, Soviet Union, Communist Poland, etc. that are nostalgic for that time (which a lot of people are) are nostalgic because things were actually better back then or because that’s when they were young.

@karolissavickis10 3 года назад

As Tommy said life was stable so in a way it was better. Older people start value stsbility so by this standart soviets were better. Also because off closed borders and propoganda people simply had no idea how people in the west lived. Propoganda said they live better and simply believed. Ofc being young played part.

@KedAR_48 3 года назад

Now you should watch battle for Warsaw (1920), also from armchair historian

@Damo2690 3 года назад

Poland is not yet lost is better

@spynix0718 3 года назад

You guys realize that when Twitch Chat snitched, they had to be a part of YT chat. In conclusion, there is an imposter among us.

@Lpf-df5yr 3 года назад

im excited for tommy to watcch his newer videos and see how much his animation has improved

@ramennoods8834 3 года назад

that was awesome to hear this history. I had no idea anything like this ever happened. glad he opened up. Thanks TK

@names1842 3 года назад

RU-vid > Twitch

@vexxfulomega9 3 года назад

Debatable

@emukun9107 3 года назад

RU-vid Twitch

@datboy038 3 года назад

At least everyone gets fucked equally here

@notantol 3 года назад

about living in East Germany and for my parents in Poland they also have told me that growing up in commie Poland wasn't that bad and that they had lots of great moments

@yonek1316 3 года назад

I think it depends on the region. My mother had a friend who lived in Poland and it was awful, her mom was a doctor but they barely got by.

@Vitorruy1 3 года назад

Every country that was a dictadorship has sone sort of weird nostalgia, here people talk about how they were less crime because of martial law.

@yashaz1696 3 года назад

I like that Tommy reaction videos are reaction videos + adding commentary from him, a lot barely react to those while Tommy go full in

@Joe_Mama661 2 года назад

Same thing happened in the USSR, when it collapsed people lost everything, it's led to a big amount of people being nostalgic about the USSR

@marouanekdr406 3 года назад

Its funny the whole time he was talking about east germany i was comparing it to my own country. i really had no idea that i was living in a socialist country until now.

@The_Sandwich1984 3 года назад

What country?

@thebritishtwat1317 3 года назад

Yeah now I'm interested what country because it better not be the UK or something lol

@onm7864 3 года назад

.dz means algeria I think

@joshgetsmoneybitch1084 3 года назад

How is it like there is it as bad as they say

@marouanekdr406 3 года назад

Its algeria and trust me living here is shit When Tommy mentioned the list for housing it struck me because that's how we get housing in algeria (unless you're rich obviously)

@maksimrashkovskiy9187 3 года назад

When Tommy started talking about the architecture I immediately thought of the hypocrisy of American suburbs.

@johnmcfly-zf2xh 3 года назад

Eastern block people will always talk about how houseblocks are unoriginal and depressing buildings, Americans will always talk about how boring, bland and unoriginal suburbs are

@maksimrashkovskiy9187 3 года назад

@@johnmcfly-zf2xh And then the homeless people start getting confused.

@ynk1611 3 года назад

@Vinlon Voss Americans often say "How horrible, I would never give up my identity to live with hundreds of other people in an ugly high rise apartment block" when entire neighbourhoods in America look like they built one house and pasted it 500 times and everything looks completely similar.

@JallyJam 3 года назад

Sure but at least if you wanted to you could choose to make your house unique wherein communism well even just thinking that is a crime. we have repetitive architecture in America because it's cheap and easy.

@maksimrashkovskiy9187 3 года назад

@@JallyJam The eastern blocs too were easy and cheap to build.

@jonasjuhas3246 3 года назад

Your voice is is kind, and you talk so nice man. Just made my day watching you

@SanderDoesThings 3 года назад

You gotta watch more arm chair historian videos, they are super well made

@gruger41 3 года назад

i had a german teacher and she boasted about how good it was in eastern germany

@fe1ip3 3 года назад

And thats was/is the major opinion of those who lived in eastern germany.

@gruger41 3 года назад

@@fe1ip3 yes i know. I know I watched the video. But it seemed weird to me that you would enjoy a nation who don’t let you speak freely. My teacher said it was nicer to live in eastern Germany then Sweden wich seems weird to me

@fe1ip3 3 года назад

@@gruger41 Like if in captalist country you could speak freely. In the USA during the cold war, pepol "marked" as communist (They might not even be communists) where watched and arrested by the CIA, and if they where a public figure all theyr carrear could end for been a "communist"

@edw2029 3 года назад

18:01 Tommy wanting to unite the German People.

@ramos_6580 3 года назад

I’m my home town in Latvia we have a church that has bullet hole inside and out everywhere and it has been barely restored even to this day the inside looks a bit better but the outside looks like a scene from a WW2 movie

@Zack-rc3dt 3 года назад

Tommy coming close to 300k! Lets go boiiiss!!!

@githreepi5811 3 года назад

My father always shittalks the Ossis (eastgermans). I actually think of him as very educated which makes it even weirder that he is SO biased against them and we regularly argue with each other about that.

@Vitorruy1 3 года назад

So much ignorance...

@chadhebner4185 3 года назад

Tommy ran out of HOI4 content and decided to become drew durnil

@ramicane1671 3 года назад

Yes! I’ve been waiting for a while for him to react to some of the AH videos, they are really good

@allninelivez7631 3 года назад

9:25 no wonder why Aliens never made contact yet.

@scottnunnemaker5209 3 года назад

I love your optimism that the East/west German issue will go away with your generation, here we are in America and we kill each other for liking different sports teams.

@Vitorruy1 3 года назад

Nah

@magnificentspud4659 3 года назад

How do you double the price of a Trabant? You put a banana in its trunk

@notgoddhoward5972 3 года назад

5:56 When I watched Fury that tank movie a while ago. They had a bunch of trophy german crosses in the tank. One of them was the mother's cross. You can imagine how they got that in the first place. Yeah, small details like that make a good film

@zeWuzard 3 года назад

Denmark: "These edibles ain't shi......" 10:34

@ej191 3 года назад

the virgin Twitch Chat vs the Chad RU-vid Comment section

@maseluss 3 года назад

Hey Tommy, have you ever watched Unsere Mütter, Unsere Vätter? It's an amazing minisseries about the germans in the soviet front, I'd highly recommend if you haven't watched it yet. Love from Brasilien

@nikitaberejnoy4359 2 года назад

this film is pretty unhistorical and biased, german historicals says that it's not why most of germans fought, people in film just aren't real. Also i felt cringe how they showed poles and russians in a bad sight

@user-eh4gu3bq8k 2 года назад

Armchair historian is the most quality history channel on YT

@Davy-xw9vd 3 года назад

Legit the same. I am croatian and i would always ask how was life in yugoslavia (Under titos rule) "It was not that bad, everyone had a job, you could feed a family, You didn't need visa to travel the world but one country in afrika, your grandma could go from here to vukovar (City in croatia) and make a shit ton of money. (selling stuff in local market place like vegetables, fur, meat, i don't fuckin know, whatever they grow.). You couldn't steal anything, there was no stealing, you could litteraly keep your house unlocked and no one could steal anything from you because the next day the police will show up with your belongings. Police wasn't even one bit corrupt under titos rule. Some if not many hated tito but after about 30 years they wish tito was back, because of a shitty government we got today."

@woafy4967 3 года назад

I’ve only just starting watching the armchair historian as well

@stateofconstatinopole8316 3 года назад

I started watching him 2 years ago but I got bored because he's veadeos are kind of click bait because he doesent really say what the title says he just says what was happening that time

@aq8048 3 года назад

@@stateofconstatinopole8316 same

@CristianRodriguez-tp6rz 3 года назад

In minute 3:53; the reason why the Jehovah Witnesses were persecuted was becuase of their anti war stance and becuase many men of that faith refused to join the army

@tik1469 3 года назад

You nailed Finnish architecture perfectly right there! 24:15 -24:43

@denniskylling3887 3 года назад

Another popular sets of movies in east Germany was the so called Olsen gang. This is a set of Danish movies that were watched in the DDR too. Great video :)

@fabianeweil192 3 года назад

Even today there considered classics Here in the East

@cosmicrahal6014 3 года назад

“History is written by the victors”

@bigdikdude4207 3 года назад

except it's been proven that it's barely a true statement

@addiction4062 3 года назад

@@bigdikdude4207 lmao no

@vercot7000 3 года назад

and? so what? do we then ignore history because of a trend that has always and will always occur after a victor wins a war?

@lonely_four7608 2 года назад

Not really but go on

@blakejohnson1016 3 года назад

I think Tommy should read what happened in USSR. Much worse than concentration camps

@sovietboi7660 3 года назад

Any examples (books, articles etc.)

@blakejohnson1016 3 года назад

@@sovietboi7660 Gulag Archipelago by solzhenitsyn

@sovietboi7660 3 года назад

@@blakejohnson1016 this man went through repression and ratted his friends out for favours

@sovietboi7660 3 года назад

@@blakejohnson1016 also he was never trusted by historians soooo

@blakejohnson1016 3 года назад

My grandfather served as a blue cap, ussr wasn't a utopia. It's a good book, try it if you're into reading. Reserve police battalion 101 is also an amazing depicting middle aged germans becoming devoted nazis, check it out bro

@koaoqa9655 3 года назад

I’m so happy that I’m a subscriber of tommykay! You want to know why? Because one day he is gonna be one of the Most famous youtubers out there and I will be considered as a OG fan

@kay1057 3 года назад

Idk about tommy saying how society in Germany was easily shifted… It was not shifted tbh… Germans were never a “democratic” people beforehand hand. World war 1 and 2 were not far apart. The German people at the time were use to and wanted a strong leader like they use too have.

@williameld3184 3 года назад

Please watch ‘who opposed German unification?’ By History Matters!!

@TommyKay 3 года назад

I think that would be a real quick video, not enough for an actual video to it.

@albertromas357 3 года назад

Easy , every country in Europe

@karmamaya1926 3 года назад

TommyKay: i hate communist architecture!! Homless in West Germany: 😐

@wolfsoldner9029 3 года назад

West German welfare makes homelesness impossible. Every homeless in Germany chose to be homeless.

@vixen878 5 месяцев назад

@@wolfsoldner9029 a poor excuse for homelessness it to blame the homeless

@wolfsoldner9029 5 месяцев назад

@@vixen878 All they have to do is to fill an application for welfare. Yes, they are to blame.

@vixen878 5 месяцев назад

@@wolfsoldner9029 not everyone is entitled to welfare, homeless or not.

@lebonk1070 3 года назад

Diese Kommentarsektion ist jetzt Eigentum der BRD GmbH

@official_commanderhale965 2 года назад

5:56 I bought a Porsche from an older woman who’s mother was awarded that award. She still had the paper certificate which bore Hitler’s signature. An absolutely mind-blowing experience. She was a very nice woman and after the war her family immigrated to the U.S.

@GabrielGarcia-km2ou 3 года назад

Communism: Work thougether for a good life Fascism: Unity throught nationality makes us strong Democracy: Give me money, I give you nothing but you can still have dreams

@dauletsag840 3 года назад

Interesting fact: the first soviet citizen to wave the flag of USSR on reichstag was a Kazakh, but Russian propaganda says that it was a Russian and a Georgian. P.S the name of the Kazakh is Rakhimzhan Koshkarbayev

@Leocus57 3 года назад

You have earned my subscription when you compared Dark Lord Sauron and orcs with Hitler and nazist as pure evil

@pappadam2818 3 года назад

Very cool content, thanks markoony!

@solosalvador 3 года назад

Notification squad

@sinnerprophet7391 3 года назад

Yep we're here boys

@fuhrerstanreloaded9526 3 года назад

ofcourse, clicked off phub when the notif came through

@boranates1320 3 года назад

@@fuhrerstanreloaded9526 hol' up

@gjfudjfiugig1432 3 года назад

You are first lol

@tinchorb1340 3 года назад

@@fuhrerstanreloaded9526 what you where watching?

@SuperShadowKin 3 года назад

18:00 So I guess every country has that kind of social divide. East vs West or North vs South. Hell, its even there at the city scale sometimes. Humans just can't seem to let go of tribalism.

@shibe3879 3 года назад

In Romania, the archives of the securitate (stasi equivalent) were never really declassified so many people still don't know if someone close to them were informants and many politicians might have been close to the secret police. Getting western goods was practically impossible as Romania was basically the same as North Korea today