Postmen vs SS 

Willie Bethke - oh I will!

Here before this blows up

Here before this blows up

Forgot his name but look up paratroopers and the fat electrician and you will find one hell of an old postman and paratrooper.

Here before it blows up

The Irish proved that point before during the Easter Rising as one of the strongholds of that failed uprising is the Dublin Post Office...

Dude 75 mm shells hitting the office like its made out of thick concrete for bunkers

@@itsalmostfun8567 Those buildings are usually made to last

God its a damn post office you arent expected to hold off a military assault

Not that i mind if they do

Metal as fuck sentence

Real

@@Dokimoments Ah I see you're a man of The Force as well.

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Including 3 attempts to take the building 2 of the attempts they were pushed back.

The crazy part is that the postmen had largely pistols with a handful of rifles and 3 machine guns. They were not even close to armed like a standard military unit even.

Their tactics suck hard.

@@DonVetto-vx9dd What do you expect? They're SS. If the fight isn't lopsided enough that they can just walk in an execute you, they're useless.

​@@DonVetto-vx9dd Ok Sergeant Major

Can’t do much against the law you know…

@@_1_05_ Nuremberg defense

@@SzymonPmc yeah but that’s different since those figures were largely known and didn’t deny any claims

Eran soldados polacos disfrazados de carteros, por lo tanto, fueron tratados como saboteadores

That’s why I’m saying

You don’t understand how long I have been searching for a comment like this

Theres load of comments talking about the quality of the video, what are you on about?

They went from Schitzstaffel to StampedStaffel in just a few hours

@@ajohnymous5699 you mean Schutzstaffel

@@misterhuman895shitstaffel

@@tomasz8614 Scheissestaffel*

I absolutely agree, it was agonizing knowing that the Germans would have killed them regardless of having surrendered or not and Yarnub has impressed us as always with these obscure events.

It shows a large part of the horror of WW2. Both sides, but particularly the Axis, are guilty of confirmed stories of horrific treatment of civilians and surrendered soldiers such as rapes or being shot during surrender respectively as well as unconfirmed stories of the same or similar crimes on larger scales. This war truly brought the devil out in humanity.

To make things even worse - Yarnhub mentions sham trial. They were convicted and executed by the Germans. This trial was invalidated only in the late '80s after long and protracted process. It's really hard to explain why the German Courts were taking so long to resolve it.

“The only way to make it happen is if the people are who they are in the a lot of the people that you know are in a lot more than people that are in a big group and you don’t have to be a big group to make a decision and then they have a big group that they can talk about it and they have a lot of people who have a huge group that they is interested in and that is what I they have a huge community and they want to "that was random clicking

They don't have any combat experience why german has losses

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwina_Barzychowska

@@blinkstar9013 seems nothing is there.

She died in her defense of the post office ​@@orwell1823

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwina_Barzychowska

@@orwell1823 Just read it, what are you talking about?

Ok

They lost not because of a lack of heart but because of lack of equipment. If they were on par with the Germans in terms of equipment you might have seen a much different outcome

W polish

​@@VMan29397if only instead of lend leasing the Soviets we would've land leased the Poles

​@@neftalimorales5449How?

He is one of the 4 who survived?

@@zurielsss unfortunately not

@@zurielsss according to wikipedia he died on 4th of september in hospital

@@CharlieH99 Who was he?

thatd be a crazy coindeicne

Glad you covered this my friend! Very good thing to mention.

Polish army mostly used Mauser rifles of Polish production in the early war.

@@aleksandersokal5279 Ofc, the standard rifle for the Polish army was the Kb wz.98a (gewehr 98) in 1939.

@@aleksandersokal5279 especially after they couldn't get any more Mausers for Mosins from the Finnish and using old Mauser Factories made polish production Mauser rifles. Early Polish Army pre-war focused on fielding 8mm Mauser shooting weapons and with their Russian Imperial mosin stock traded Finland for Mausers received from Germany during the Finnish Civil War which was how the Poles got So many K98AZs which they inevitably Used in WW2 because the AZs were Fire, in fact the K98K was just a modernized AZ in all intents and Purpose, Stormtrooper Vets must have asked for it in the new Wehrmacht by 1935. I bet they used some AZ factory tooling to pump out thier Carbines, they were already fielding G98 variants called 98As based on the German G98. 98As 1925s (mosins firing Mauser ammo), 1929s were based on the K98K but were Straight bolt. lol, now I want a Polish 8mm Mauser Mosin (Karabinek 91/98/25) so badly, It can mount both Russian and German Bayonets and I wonder if you could mount both at the Same time to make some Cursed COD Melee build gun.

@@collaborisgaming2190 You probably couldn't mount two bayonets at the same time xD. Maybe if you modified the bayonet lug to hold to bayonets, but that would just be destroying the historical piece, and since it's Polish, it's rarer to get. I personally own a Wz.29, not a real one, but a pretty damn good replica! It does consist some original parts though. Absolutely great detail for my Polish 1939 uniform. Appreciate the information! Glad someone else is interested in the Polish armoury genesis.

So right we had great polish pilots in the royal air force part of the few

meanwhile czechoslovaks and other nations

The Greeks & Yugoslavs: "You guys get attention?"

@@alanmeasures8337 "Never before was so much owed to so few"

@@bobolobocus333 Agreed

The first shots fired in anger of the first world war was Australian Coastal Artillery firing warning shots at a German ship that was in port when the war started.

Huh

I thought the actual invasion started the day before

@@kippert8912Yes, but she bombarded several targets when the war began.

You all have missed mark Felton's actual Start of WW2

And don't forget this view as this is also what's happening in Ukraine.

@@utrock5067 yes, and it happens in every war. It’s just horrible what we humans do to each other. There was the c0nc3ntration c@mps, the gas of WW1, the nuclear weapon. There is so much more that we could do, and it’s just so sad to think that none of us can get along.

@@utrock5067 do not ever compare ww2 with the ukraine war lmao

@@UN-BIASEDwhy's that ? Everyone's been comparing putin to adolf enough times already.

​@@UN-BIASEDwhy not? There are some similarities. Parts of the donbas are primarily russian, Danzig was to 95% German and wanted back

Me too 👍

Thanx for that.

no way the royal mail would resist

​@@magicalsteve2530they fell to the IRA in 1916

The Germans marked British post offices as valuable targets for Operation Sealion.

When I read they use Unreal Engine to animate, they surely did justice for everyone on that faithful day!

To be "fair" ,that was "only" some kind of militia that could not compare with any unit of the regular army in an actual battle.

there was some stuff in western poland too they were criticized for; the waffen-ss in 1939 were very green and worse quality militarily than after, at the time they werent rly even fitting; they mostly were 'behind the lines' in 1939 Note the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe were also committing atrocities in 1939

what warcrimes@@mareksicinski3726

@@kaa13 To be fair, SS received very poor military training initially and done a lot of stupid, unprofessional actions in 1939 while those postment were military veterans.

I would like to see you trying to fight partisans who knew all their locations and lived all time there, I would like to see you trying, you say SS had a fragile ego, but what about you? What would you had done if you was in that situation? Very easy to critize the side which lost.

ww2, bro.

@@CombatFlapjack I pressed the wrong number and didn't notice, my bad bro

Us poles got to stick together

Im Pole too.

Imo, Hel defense was more impressive. Westerplatte surrendered prematurely while Hel fought until the last days of the Polish invasion. they held out longer then cities like Warsaw

wwww

wwww

This was shown on one of the popular channels about ww2. Mark Felton Productions probably?

Pretty much the same as you and I agree.

the animation of this is truly amazing

My first video of them was the 2d German aircraft who escorted an beaten American into their airspace, which has been remade in 3d a year or so later

I want the old style back. This does not work with the janky animations and just crashes into the uncanny valley for me. It worked with the old style.

@@_NekOz old style is nostalgic but i mean come one, the new ones are so much better

Regardless of ancestry I think a last stand like that is just impressive.

Oh I agree full heartedly @@maxbennett5412 Just seeing the Polish soldiers fighting without help from the Main Army was amazing. I just know I'm part Polish and Part German

You know what they say NEVER SURRENDER

Invade the neighbors or see if they need a painter.

"convicted" = "conflicted" "proud" = "glad/happy/comradery for" in this instance. Be proud of things you have accomplished, not what others have. Only attempting to assist with your vocabulary to make your point clearer.

Yea, then read about the Polnish agression-wars they conducted on all their neighbors between 1918-1921. Nationalistic Poland was never a nice and peaceful nation. And today Polnish PiS-party is on the same way to dictatorship like Orban and Putin, dreaming of an imperialist greater Poland again.

Thanks bro

Thank you brother

Thank you sir, and Just fyi we r seriously fcked up when it comes to fight i was rised same way as my forefathers were and im doing the same thing for my kids.

I'm sorry that you have to deal with your own homegrown fascism now. Oh, excuse me. "illiberal democracy".

Same

It's a major historical event in the Polish historiography.

@@amadeosendiulo2137 I felt like the story sounded familiar

@@amadeosendiulo2137 I figured it would be, and didn't mean it in any demeaning way. As a whole though, this would still be a one small siege during a huge war, pretty much like some random battle during winter war was for us Finns.

Then you'll like this: Something like mentioned in 4:28 happened on much bigger scale. The defence of Chocim fortress in 1672 against invasion from Ottoman Empire was given to Jerzy Michał Wołodyjowski despite his lack of knowledge on fortress defence, because he was the only trusted officer who agreed to defend a fortress in such a bad shape. Spending his own funds, he recruited a little over 1000 soldiers and 500 civilians to defend the fortress while he needed at least 8 000 to cover the walls. He also lacked modern artillery and engineers. Regardless, he managed to halt Ottoman army for 19 days and at one point, when Turks blew up an unguarded part of the wall, he ran there and fought the Turkish attack alone before just one more nobleman joined him and the two managed to repel the assault with bombs and muskets they had prepared at the position. He managed to negotiate with the Turks that they would let the civilians leave the city free and unharmed, and shortly after an artillery officer from Courland blasted to the armory with a torch, killing himself, Colonel Wołodyjowski and the fortress' defenders. Folk myth is that Colonel didn't want to give fortress to the enemy and wanted the event to 'wake the nation' since it all happened because the Republic neglected funding of the army and fortifications for decades.

i assumed they were czech guns, which the colt monitor is derived from

First war crime was shooting down railwaymen near the bridge in Tczew (Dirschau). This attack was actually done 30 minutes earlier than opening shots in Gdańsk.

Did you heard of the Bromberg Bloody Sunday?

​@@carstenstille8503 About that one evening when a retreating Polish army singlehandely executed 50 000 Germans in a single town? Yes, I did.

To be fair, the killings in Bromberg did take place, even though they were in no way as severe as the German propaganda said they were and simply cannot justify the extent of German atrocities.

@@mikoajbaczynski3733 no no, it was a platoon, and they shot 150 000 Germans

It just a joke, thats uncompareble with Soviet soldiers in Stalingrad and Belarusian partisans...

hahahahahahahahh good propaganda

@@fuxihutterer8088 she was the first child vicim of 2nd WW, well documented case...

@@fuxihutterer8088 I am surprised you choose to laugh at it.... give us something to think about your compassion

pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwina_Barzychowska

​@@fuxihutterer8088You can read it in your own language, nazi: de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwina_Barzychowska

in america, it wasn't even really 'the poles', stereotypes at best abt polish-americans

Good

I’ve never heard of those armored cars

@@thegamer1429 I haven't before this video, I just decided to search up German Armored Cars of WW2 and found it.

They are Austrian vehicles that saw service in the German army after the Anschluß

@@KrokLP yup

He was like- "Well, ze're fooked..."

@@IsaahNasir fr

If I steal your apartment keys and deport you do I also rightfully own it?

@KrokLP First of, you wouldn't be able to steal my apartment key or deport me even if I was blindfolded and had both hands tied behind my back. Second, your analogy makes no sense, so try another one or just state your point clearly.

@@bear499 Poland owning Danzig is not "rightful"

@KrokLP thank you for clatifying. But why do you say so? Do you think it should be Germany's? It's okay to think so, I would just like to know your reasoning. My reasoning is that Gdansk was most likely founded by Mieszko I in the late 900s and was originally part of the Polish Kingdom long before the Germans took over it. If you think about it, it was the Germans who stole it and deported the native population, especially if we're talking about World War ii. Historically, I believe it is rightful that the city belongs to Poland since they have a better historical claim and also because the city primarily is a Polish city.

@@bear499 Well in 900 non of the buildings stood there. Gdansk was a settlement when the Germans came. During German rule it became part of the Hansa, it got rich and it became a city. In 1938 only 2% of the city identified as Polish. The post office in this video for example once was a Prussian military hospital. At the end and after WW2 all the Germans who lived in Prussia and Silesia for centuries were deported and the areas were resettled with Poles. All these centers of German culture were wiped out

Lie all you want, but they were fighting illegally as trained militia by a nationalistic Polish army officer

@@KrokLP So, we have a neo-nazi here, claiming uniformed postmen were somehow "illegall" defending from invaders. Weird times.

@@randomnobodovsky3692 Then check out what the "Neo-Nazis" that wrote the geneva convention had to say about un-uniformed combatants

Would love to see them cover the Polish actions at Monte Cassino, and the Falaise pocket.

What about occupation, pseudo-referendum and annexation of the Capital of Lithuania Vilnius? Same pseudoreferendum did Putin in the Crimea, Ukraine!

and the guns ''Pew Pew''

Seeing the price of stamps today almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

it was a special case there, bc there was fear of brinkmanship/small scale attacxk or provocation in nazi party ruled Danzig

erika noises is in . y brain

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YESSSS

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