von Spee and the East Asia Squadrons' Wild Ride 

HMS principal

HMS Fuck You Jerry

HMS Send the Krauts to the bottom of the sea

Just Another Commenter Ironically, Invincible later sank during the Battle of Jutland; it was a mutual kill where she caused fatal damage to SMS Lutzow, but not before said German ship blew her up.

*Whispers* Propaganda~

They had a bunch of madlads.

The German people themselves are madlads

The military does tend to attract madlads

TBH all nations had few absolute mad lads Like for example Francis Pegahmagabow from Canada

@@adrianator1998 And Mad Jack Churchill from Britain

@@oam6626 Thatcher.jpeg

I need someone to sum up this whole Argentina/Falkland island Thing, preferably a television clown

@@Nealikus basicaly, America made Argentinian dictator Dictator looses popularity takes Falklands for popularity The iron lady says no Falklands bombed from ascention island followed by the royal navy sinking the general belgrano (outside the restriction zone) Marines land on Falklands few days later British victory...... The end

@@hansolo4017 thanks, I was just referencing Simpsons though. Sorry about your little shit of a son and what happened to your franchise

@@hansolo4017 as a argentinian I can say that´s a good summary

Hard to say they are self sufficient

@@tarkfarhen3870 well, yeah. If you're trying to violently exploit a local population believing they're too stupid to work is going to make that impossible. German racism literally killed their own colonial aspirations, a racist undertaking to begin with.

@Calvin KIRKPATRICK Their Chinese colony also was very successful

@Calvin KIRKPATRICK Also the second largest reason how Asia caught on with beer with the Tsingtao brewery. The single most prominent reason of the spread of beer into Asia is ofc American culture insertion after they invaded/fought alongside said countries.

Or more like sufficient children that were never taught by Germany what “surrender” meant, except togoland, they just died before knowing that the war even started

@Mieliepit very relevant comment

German colonies after Versailles: *exist* UK and France: *It's free real estate*

Mieliepit Well, for all their faults, the British did accelerate the development of the countries they conquered. As an example, widow-burning is no longer practiced in India because the British governor in charge of the country threatened to charge those responsible with murder. You get three guesses as to what the punishment for murder was.

@@combativeThinker here from PragerU?

"What did it cost?" "Everything"

The German colonial army was absolutely nuts during this war. Like these guys would be ditched on some island in the middle of the ocean and still find a way to fight or antagonize the British. Bunch of mad lads

Anon Meyer some true fucking warriors.

*Istanbul FTFY

@@kestrel5895 it was still called constantinople so u lose

@@cloroxbleach9222 how bout konstantinyye

No wonder they lost. They were too busy making memes and spending less time actually trying to win the war.

@@MrBassmann15 i mean they lost the 2 world wars but they're fucking dabbing at the fact that they conquered europe economically

@@guardiadecivil6777 they still have the most powerful economy

@@MrBassmann15 Not to worry, Field Marshal Haig of the British Expeditionary Force was a great meme.

The best memes in WW1 were Conrad von Hötzendorf, Luigi Cadorna, and Enver Pasha.

@Erwin Rommel Don't know that one, sorry

Wouldn't expect anything else from good ol' Perfidious Albion

Hey, remember when Germany invaded neutral Belgium? These hoes ain't loyal either.

@@wolfgang7850 It's just a joke lad. No one is actually angry at Britain for doing this. This kind of negativity has no place here.

@@wolfgang7850 wasn't neutral

Next hearts of iron 4 mod , what if von Spee won WW1? Playing as german east asia , have all of Oceania

@@saladbruh2625 Next: Imperator Rome mod, German Empire in 49 BC

@@saladbruh2625 Isnt that just kaiserreich?

I can so see that guy just winning in the falklands and just take a hay day to London, not being satisfied, so then goes to Paris

Oh ya, and also destroys the Atlantic blockade and bombs St. Petersburg

Juru ¿UwU? Spee went on a killing spree.

@@yanchen9796 But then Spee got that Grand Brittan-ee up his ass- *EE*

Endwar1997 I just imagined a giant ship sized robot sailor so is it technically a reverse transformer

If you want a 18th century swashbuckler you should probably look out for the SMS Seeadler. A windjammer used by th Germans during the Great War. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Seeadler_(1888)

Santiago Trujillo Tobon yep, thats my country, neutral to the bone just like the grey guys on futurama

rip bessie's teats

"International law is boring" killed me harder than that cow.

@@Tommy15670 tell Chile 'hello'

Remember kids, breaking international law is not a crime when our guys do it.

With the Spree? No Way! OOOOOOHH Cruisin' down the south pacific, Well Disciplined and feelin' good

*_T H E R I D E N E V E R E N D S_*

@@Spaceman404. Next thing that you know you're seein'- *Scheiße!!* Royal Navy shooting at your crew!

Ironically, the Spee also got stuck in South America and sank there.

Jin Hong Liang Graff Spee, is the saddest story of the war, with only biscuit and U-556 being a more tragic series of events...

Joan of Arc Alter Graf Spee at least had a fairly successful cruise and Bismarck (even with a severely flawed armour design) ended up as one of only three WWII-era battleships to take down another capital ship. Given the weakness of the Kriegsmarine surface forces compared to the other major navies, that’s...well it’s far from great but it’s not that bad of a track record, especially when you consider that WWII would prove battleships and surface commerce raiders were obsolete.

@@kyokyoniizukyo7171 Biscuit?

Calvin_Coolage It’s an online nickname for Bismarck.

Finally a worthy apponent, our battle will be legendary

KMS Bismarck Oh shit

KMS Bismarck Says the ship that died 78 years ago this day. Albeit after having the luck of being one of the few WWII-era battleships to sink another capital ship.

Tripitz is better

@@kmsbismarck5342 *clears throat* BISMARCK IN MOTION, KING OF THE OCEAN!!!!!

Medal of Honor, son.

MoHAA

*Cues Allied Assault theme*

@@NorthKoreaUncovered Yup, I know. Good old memories. This is the one from MOHAA tho since there's no one in the background.

Medal of honor allied assault!!

A second-rate German fleet sunk a third-rate British fleet, then was sunk by a first-rate British fleet. Why is any of this surprising?

@@rikk319 Britain gets angry whenever you attack one of their boats. Doesn't matter what era.

Kim Jong-un oh shit, here comes Dressel...

Did someone say strategic importance?

*NUKING TIME* *!!!!!!!!*

If the Germans just focused on invading Iwo Jima, they would have won ww1.

@@garygartenzwerg9870 if they would have managed to take Japan during WW1, that would have literally been the biggest bruh moment of the 20th century

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Luca Serafini A man of culture

@@AlexFors99 thanks man, you're welcome!

there is a german documentary on youtube called "Unter kaiserlicher Flagge" i think it has subtitles

i hope they get triggered

Argies are always triggered, that's just how they are

Siempre les hacemos enojado, probablemente es el sangre Italiano wey lol

Ha lol.

German Engineering is sa best in za Warudo!!!

Well... actually...

British Battle-cruisers: Exist Battle of Jutland: I'm about to end this mans whole career.

Horus lupercal That was more due to terrible safety precautions (though it is true that German battlecruisers were built to be tougher than the British ones). And while discussing battlecruiser durability; HMS Hood was quite well-armoured when first built, being comparable with many battleships of the time (and called a battlecruiser largely due to speed, not armour).

@@bkjeong4302 I was only saying that as a joke. I actually really like British battle-cruisers, I even have HMS Hood in WOW.

British Shipping: *exists* SMS Emden: I'm about to end this man's whole career. British Warships: I'm about to end this man's whole career.

Yeah thats when shit got real crazy

And then von Luckner.

What’s that about?

Which one?

Obviously the Taiping Rebellion, that's the most memetastic one. >dude that believes he's Jesus' brother >surprisingly progressive policies >tiny boi of a province fights off the rest of China to a standstill >guest-starring Britain and France

RGM 96X Don’t forget the surprising death toll (not really new if you look at Chinese Wars; they tend to have pretty high ones)

@@rgm96x49 When you fail the civil service exam so many times you start to believe you're Jesus' brother and started an incredibly bloody civil war. Pre-commie China is a wild

@@rgm96x49 oh, yeah, the British and French were on the side of the Qing this time around. Apparently a Taiping Rebellion I bad for business for them, even though this guy is somewhat Christian and even received some training and spiritual guidance from some missionaries.

Spoiler alert: Hitler dies in Endgame.

Kinda funny how the Grad Spee was scuttled just a few hundred kilometers from where Spee's fleet was sank.

I like this guy

BUM BUM BA DA DUM DUM BA DA BUM BUM BA DA DA DUM...

Where's your profile pic from?

I knew I recognized that background. Funny enough I never played that game

Arthur “The Great British Baker” Harris

Not shit lol

Arthur “Churn ‘N Burn” Harris was unimpressed

German Empire > Nazi Germany

Cause it fucking cool? Duh?

There's a German TV movie called "The Men of the Emden". It's mostly about their journey home though.

bongo bongo bongo i dont wanna leave the Congo oh nonononono

Not really a war related video though. Just horrific racism and human rights abuses

We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the worlds been turning.

That will be a handful, i don't want my hands on any of those

Jae Caesar Eh just read Leopold’s ghost

*oh Neptune*

in my opinion in ww1 there arent any bad guys its just a string of unfortunate events and mistakes

Everyone. But if you are looking for the country that started the war, that would be Austria Hungary and Serbia.

Breadley There are tons of meme ships around to discuss, even. Pointless ships: - all battleships during/after the late 1930s, on both sides of WWII (carriers took over as these things were being built, which meant they weren’t worth the expense. You really didn’t need these ships for AA or shore bombardment) - large cruisers (the WWII version of the original battlecruiser concept, albeit these were bigger cruisers rather than battleships with less armour. Ended up pointless because aircraft carriers could do their job a lot better) - Jackie Fisher’s “large light cruisers”. Ships armed with battleship-grade guns (in one case, 18” guns) that were insanely fast but had basically no armour. They were supposed to be used as gigantic, pointlessly expensive monitors....why not just build actual monitors instead? - the I-400 submarine aircraft carriers. They’re best seen as the precursors of missile subs as their goal was to strike a specific land target. Pointless as they were built when defeat was imminent. - the torpedo ram. Enough said. Terribly/funnily designed ships: - French predreadnought battleships. Arguably the worst capital ships ever built (obsolete upon launch, structurally unsound with a superstructure highly vulnerable to damage, extremely unstable, terrible armour and armament design, lack of standardization, and just plain ugly) - Japanese heavy cruisers. Trying to stuff as much firepower in a ship of given size is a great idea. Taking it to the point the ship capsizes and damages herself by firing her guns is NOT a good idea. They had to extensively refit 12 (!) cruisers from three separate classes due to them being top-heavy and structurally unsound, the result of having too many turrets and torpedo launchers for their size. These refits increased their displacement far beyond naval treaty limits. Downplayed in that the ships finally worked properly after the refits. - HMS Captain, aka why not to let private firms design warships for your navy - Novgorod-class monitor (not as big a failure as often made out to be, but who decided that a circular warship would be a good idea?!) - K-class submarines. Steam-powered subs intended to chase down an enemy battleline. Basically impossible to use properly in practice, and prone to flooding - those weird hydrogen peroxide-fueled subs the Third Reich cooked up at one point. The underwater Komet anyone?

Dragon's Armory While the idea of the clean Wehrmacht is a myth, the crew of that ship really was unusually nice. Though they still worked for Nazi Germany.

@@bkjeong4302 Yeah the Heer were complicit in the killings, however yeah, Langsdorff was decent. His funeral and his memorial service was still crowded by Nazis though, so that is quite creepy

Dragon's Armory Gunther Lutjens is another Kriegsmarine flag officer that was nicer than the average Wehrmacht officer, perhaps because he was ancestrally Jewish. That said, let’s not forget that these two were notable because so much of Germany as a whole was evil; the bulk of the Kriegsmarine was in the u-boat service which was far more Nazified than the surface fleet.