Extremely hard to find footage of the Belgian Military right before WW2, clips from the propaganda film "Ceux Qui Veillent" (Those Who Watch) by Gaston Schoukens.
@@apexgorr5054 yeah for Poland it did! East of Germany! For Belgium, the West of Germany it started 10th of may 1940! Learn your history if you wanna reply!!!!
My great grandfather was mobilized, but because of the chaos in Belgium was first send to the south of France. When they finally received their equipment, the Belgian king had already surrendered, since all of Belgium was occupied. The Belgian government legged it to Britain, and from their were 'brave' enough to order the Belgian soldiers in France to keep on fighting. The French resented the Belgians for surrendering, and viewed them as a colonial troops. They tried to use them as canon fodder, and denied them the rights they gave to their own soldiers. My great grandfather had 5 children in Belgium, and wouldn't have had to fight in the front if he had been French. They were forced to fight by the French, even though their king had ordered them to lay down arms. Eventually he was captured by the Germans and interned for a short while. The rest of the war he worked for a construction company, that also did work for the Germans (didn't have a choice anyway). After the war, the entire company was viewed as 'collaborateurs' and for the rest of his life the people in his village gave his entire family the cold shoulder. The leader of the company lost his civil rights. Until he became successful and actually ran the aforementioned company. Then they all came crawling for work. Another great grandfather was in the Belgian resistance, but quit at the end of the war, when it was flooded with 'heroes' of the last hour, cowardly criminals that just wanted to hurt and destroy in the witch-hunts for 'collaborateurs'. His wife saved an allied aircrew from capture. She worked on a manual railway crossing, when a plane was downed. A couple of German cars came to capture the crew, but she closed the crossing 5 minutes early. She argued with the German officer with a gun in her face until the train arrived. Other stories involve smuggling arms, food, stealing coal from the Germans and so on. I have a lot of German friends, their families war and post war stories are really crazy.
In my opinion Ireland and Belgium are the bravest small nations of Europe, the Belgian military battled Germany for 20 DAYS before Belgium fell. If a tiny nation like that can battle the greatest war machine Europe had ever seen for 20 damn days they're a force to be reckoned with, not to mention the weaponry that Belgians build specifically Wallonians (ethnic French Belgians) FN, they stand toe-to-toe to German weaponry. The Irish on the other hand also some of greatest and bravest fighters on the planet who manage to take their enemies down by storm even when severely outnumbered and all odds are stacked against them. Ireland vs Belgium would be a damn hard fought battle
Belgium I agree about but Ireland 😂😂😂😂... one engagement against inferior forces (no matter how outnumbered) doesn't count for much in the grand scheme of things.
My late uncle had to guard a crossroads near Antwerp. He saw the Germans rolling down the road, swung his riffle over his shoulder and hopped on his bicycle to warn the village. The Germans stopped him at the next crossroads then confiscated his bike and riffle. he was sent to Germany to work on a farm for the rest of the war. I love how he told that story in his blue overalls and cap, with a red and white polka-dot hanky around his neck and a little cigar in his mouth. 😂
the Belguim chacheeur Ardenais kick the germans in the ass in 1940, but the germans take revenches on the inonnocent Belgain civilains dont forget this sir
R u dumb or are you just pretending? Our army holded in 1914 with 200k almost 800k germans, and they still didnt capture the whole country and we didnt capitulate
@@jns4414 what was during ww1 did not repeat in ww2. I don't claim Polish army was superior because we defeated bolsheviks 20 years earlier. As for fighting numerically superior foes... Poland had done this long before Belgium was CREATED.
@@MIMALECKIPL maybe the Military infrastructure and tactis weren’t modern and good enough. But the soldiers were. After the country was lost many Belgian soldiers went to the UK or to Canada and enlisted into regiments fully made up of Belgian soldiers. They wore the typical british MK III helmet with a Belgian flag on the left side of the helmet. There were also Belgian RAF squadrons. And even Belgian SAS. That’s also why the current Belgian Special Forces share a logo with the British SAS.
