Why was Germany allowed to rearm after World War 2? (Short Animated Documentary)

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Unlike the previous world war, Germany was allowed to rearm after World War 2 in spite of the amount of damage the country had done during it. Given how badly ruined much of Europe was, why did the victorious allied powers allow Germany to rearm? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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@Tyork42 Месяц назад

UK: we dont want Germany to re-arm USA: it means you dont have to deal with the continent UK: I’M IN!

@SoDakJason Месяц назад

You can convince the British to do anything, if it means they won't have to deal with the continent.

@MominEnjoyer Месяц назад

@@SoDakJason"you should give all your nukes to a farmer in Graubünden" "Why the hell would we-" "Less involvement on the continent" "YOU SON A B- I'M IN"

@testthewest123 Месяц назад

For not being too interested in the continent, they made sure to not skip any armed conflicts there and joined them all.

@jamesmccann531 Месяц назад

@@testthewest123 they were fed up with the continent, so just wanted to fight the continent

@kingace6186 Месяц назад

@@testthewest123 That's exactly why they try to detach from the continent. Because war in Europe spread like wildfire.

@pridelander06 Месяц назад

"The problem was that circumstances change." That's history in a nutshell.

@Hugo7 Месяц назад

"Which raises the question: why did the circumstances change?"

@avataraarow Месяц назад

Well, more like a constant cycle of that and “thankfully circumstances changed”. Don’t think anyone was saying the first one about WW2

@EEEEEEEE Месяц назад

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@shaunkerr8721 Месяц назад

It's tautological, isn't it?

@melchiorvonsternberg844 26 дней назад

@@avataraarow That's easy to answer... Already during the war, in August 1944, a British intelligence study had identified Stalin's Soviet Union as a future enemy. The Western Allies' strategic air warfare was then cleverly adjusted so that maximum damage was inflicted on Stalin's future sphere of influence as inconspicuously as possible. The capital of East Prussia was the first victim and this also explains the massive attack on Dresden, when the Americans were already on the Rhine and the Russians on the Oder River, 100 km from Berlin. And when Stalin's friend FDR was scrapped and Truman took over the helm in Washington, the attitude of the Americans changed. And it would have happened much faster if the Nazis hadn't displayed this dimension of mass murder and brutality. Another building block was the blockade of West Berlin by the Stalinists. That was the final push to form a West German state. And then rebuilding the armed forces was just a matter of time. Because they had proven all too clearly that the Germans could fight...

@failuretv814 Месяц назад

"You cannot do this thing unless it benefits me against another enemy of mine"

@GwainSagaFanChannel Месяц назад

I mean both the US and the USSR did it tho

@H3LLGHA5T Месяц назад

story of humanity

@cantree2574 Месяц назад

Every single side quest ever, or even some main quests.

@Yora21 Месяц назад

There's always a bigger fish.

@patrickiamonfire965 Месяц назад

Didn’t he make a video about this?

@Portal-Ninja Месяц назад

"38th parallel. Like the 37th Parallel, but better" I can't with this channels humour 😂

@gingerscholar152 Месяц назад

where was that joke in this video? I think I missed it

@A_Pro_Fuze Месяц назад

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@christiansparks6429 Месяц назад

@@gingerscholar152North and South Korea

@bobp3572 Месяц назад

@@gingerscholar152 0:35 into the video. Two solders with the statement in the background.

@Portal-Ninja Месяц назад

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@jacob4920 Месяц назад

Even before watching the video, my first thought was: Q: "Why was Germany allowed to rearm, after WW2?" A: "Because the USSR, and Stalin, existed."

@chequereturned Месяц назад

Pretty much. Though fair to note that West Germany got its own independent military only a couple of years after Stalin no longer existed.

@boerekable Месяц назад

@@chequereturnedalso it was omitted that Bundeswehr only got strong in the late 60s.

@ramblinman4197 Месяц назад

USSR was also my first thought as soon as I saw the video posted. ;)

@davidbrims5825 Месяц назад

Or as Orwell said ‘’ continuous war.’’

@ecurewitz Месяц назад

And Truman was having none of that

@Arminas86 Месяц назад

It's funny how for the British it always comes down to " You can ignore the continent "

@chequereturned Месяц назад

Nonsense, we have always focused our attention on the continent. Multiple continents, even! North America, Australia, Africa, Asia… that little jaunt in Antarctica… Oh you mean Europe. Meh.

@georgesdelatour Месяц назад

Maybe we should have ignored it in 1914.

@BeastinlosersHD Месяц назад

Kinda funny that something along the lines of this ended up getting inherited by America

@goldeagle8051 Месяц назад

Except that British policy has always been to meddle in Europe.

@frantisekhajek6775 Месяц назад

Britain main goal was always to have Europe divided so they don't have the resources to take up the Isle.

@hannibal-rb3go Месяц назад

How to get Britain to agree to something- 1. It saves/ makes money and 2. it keeps you from dealing with the continent

@emberfist8347 Месяц назад

3. It screws over someone on the continent and sows division.

@AlphaChad-mi6pj Месяц назад

Brexit in 3 steps explained...except it backfired 😁

@georgesdelatour Месяц назад

@@emberfist8347 e.g. Philip II, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm, the Austrian Painter...

@icecoldpolitics8890 Месяц назад

Because border security in a foreign country is really hard without the help of the locals.

@LuLu-ip4zb Месяц назад

The west already had that in the form of the Bundesgrenzschutz, the Army came later

@noanyabizniz4333 Месяц назад

Just admit you are a capitalist shill.

@kingace6186 Месяц назад

Very true.

@TheIT221 Месяц назад

No not really, if you are a superpower of course The USSR did have an everything crisis from all the damage, but I don’t hear about any problems they had with running east Germany with their military garrison, and they’d do the same thing to Hungary and Czechoslovakia later on…

@carlbates9110 Месяц назад

⁠@@TheIT221 East Germany had its own military, as did every other Warsaw Pact state.

@Gameguy-gk8lx Месяц назад

Laughs in *Cold War*

@EEEEEEEE Месяц назад

@charlesv4434 Месяц назад

As Francois Mauriac, french writer, put it "I love Germany so much that I am glad there are two of them"

@gerdforster883 Месяц назад

This quote has been attributed to so many different people, including François Mitterand and Margaret Thatcher. Which is the reason I highly doubt any of the people who are said to have said it actually coined it.

@denniskrenz2080 Месяц назад

@@gerdforster883 I am sure it must be a Frenchman at least. Even Asterix made the point that its better that West and East Germans are more occupied with themselves, than uniting and dominating the rest of Europe... of course, today, that sentiment ends at the point, when the German wallet is needed, then Germany can't be united enough.

@Chrysobubulle Месяц назад

@@denniskrenz2080you’re wrong. That sentiment is still shared

@denniskrenz2080 Месяц назад

@@Chrysobubulle as usual, many people don't change their opinions, they take them with them into their graves. 😁

@gmansard641 Месяц назад

In 1919 Georges Clemenceau wanted the Rhineland to split off as its own country. One potential German leader for this proposed state was Konrad Adenauer. But the Americans and British refused to support this.

@Error-xv9ve Месяц назад

"It would be convenient for me" is normally not a good idea but if it works, it works

@EEEEEEEE Месяц назад

@r.a.acosta6528 Месяц назад

You got to believe on some level, the leadership among the Allies were also, thinking: "After beating them twice, I highly doubt they'd want to get beaten a third time in a row."

@chequereturned Месяц назад

I mean that’s not exactly wrong, as it turns out.

@cv990a4 Месяц назад

Germany literally had the border between NATO and Warsaw Pact going down the center of their country. Especially after 1953, when the Soviets crushed East German protests, there was little doubt about how rotten it would be if the Soviets took over the rest of Western Europe, including Germany. West Germany knew that its future depended on continued presence of the US, UK and French garrisons in West Germany. Also, as a legal matter, Germany didn't have full sovereignty until reunification in 1990. Until then, West and East German sovereignty was contingent, although de-facto West Germany was a powerful economy, and certainly had its own foreign policy and so forth. But it was superaligned with the US and UK and France. I spent time as a child in West Germany, and was a bit of an odd place - fantastic (certainly cleaner and richer than e.g. UK) in many ways, but the foreign military presence was pretty pervasive. The jets went over all the time, the military bases were all over the place, you saw the soldiers pretty frequently, etc. You were aware you were on the front line.

@napalmblaziken Месяц назад

Imagine if Germany suddenly decided, "Alright guys. Let's try this one more time."

@dawoifee Месяц назад

@@napalmblaziken What with tough? Even if Germany wants to rearm more it does not has the population to fight a war. Germany, as most developed countries, is over aged and the young people are to valuable to actually work productive jobs to ensure wealth and social security. Germany can't afford to waste them in aggressive wars. And may I say so, this is a good thing.

@napalmblaziken Месяц назад

@@dawoifee Twas a joke

@bren97122 Месяц назад

I appreciate the thumbnail and characters going the extra length of depicting a G1 style FAL rifle, the type of battle rifle newly rearmed West Germany used for a little while before the G3 came onto the scene.

@Snarkbar Месяц назад

Yeah I was surprised he got such a detail wrong...and then figured out he was right all along. The attention to detail on this channel is actually pretty top-tier.

@MustacheCashStash125 Месяц назад

Because James Bissonnette recruited Germany to expand his army

@DgxShix Месяц назад

dawg somehow found way to put james bissonette two minutes after video was uploaded somehow

@pineygamez Месяц назад

Kelly Moneymaker also funded Germany at the same time

@TIME12308 Месяц назад

@@DgxShix There are some staples in this channel: Simple animation Running in Daisy fields when happy Simple explanation and... JAMES BISSONNETTE

@jamesbissonette8002 Месяц назад

Nah

@jacob4920 Месяц назад

@@TIME12308 At this point, I'm more or less convinced that James Bissonette donates to this channel, just for the wonderful experience of commenters constantly bringing him up, simply for his name being mentioned. I know that would sure do MY ego a solid. 😆

@tsunax1400 Месяц назад

"France wanted to be the leaders of the continent". Considering they had just been conquered by Germany, they sure liked to aim high

@I_lovesushi738 Месяц назад

Cause James Bizonette decided that they should rearm

@DipfishyIRL Месяц назад

yea

@jamesbissonette8002 Месяц назад

Nah

@DipfishyIRL Месяц назад

@@jamesbissonette8002 no way its the real james bissonette

@spinningthreeplates3011 Месяц назад

@@jamesbissonette8002 I bet you did

@JahJah-CleverHandle 23 дня назад

@@spinningthreeplates3011 Although I have to ask what you and Kellymoneymaker were doing as well at that time.

@marvinwolf8360 Месяц назад

Rearmament was actually pretty unpopular in Germany during this time. So much so that the German leadership came up with the idea of a "European army" that would consist of German and French troops and would allow Germany to do it's part without actually having a military of it's own. It fell through because the French parliament refused to sign the deal. Also at some point there was an offer from the USSR to join NATO and reunify Germany in exchange for them staying neutral. Afaik it's still not clear how serious this offer was

@boerekable Месяц назад

Lol what does unpopular mean in the German context? Was the wall popular, the loss of eastern territories and the loss of inventions? Both German states had to do what the masters wanted. And the Russians and communism were pretty feared by the German society back then.Germans

@xgcsurreal2608 Месяц назад

ifrc this was before the formation of the Warsaw pact, and on the Soviet side was more of a diplomatic ploy to see if NATO was a general defensive alliance or an anti-USSR alliance, in the end they got their answer so they formed the Warsaw Pact in response

@georgesdelatour Месяц назад

Good points. Gustav Heinemann resigned from Adenauer's government over re-armament, specifically because he thought it would make German reunification less likely. There was something called the "Stalin Note", an offer from the USSR of a united, disarmed, neutral and capitalist Germany; Germany as a kind of giant Switzerland in the heart of Europe. Were the Soviets serious about this? I think they were. What they wanted was to be able to reduce their military spending while increasing trade with western countries such as Germany. That way they could improve Soviet standards of living and make their domestic hold on power more secure. If they'd pulled it off it would have been a bit like the reforms of Deng Xiaoping in China. It probably suited the USA to have the USSR stuck ruling the less prosperous eastern half of Europe in the teeth of local resentment and periodic rebellion. It forced the Soviets to keep funding a much bigger army, dragging down their economy.

@boerekable Месяц назад

@@georgesdelatour Lol „neutral“ Germany would have become in no time a battlefield. Every sane person was ofc insisting on declining this offer by old Stalin.

@georgesdelatour Месяц назад

@@boerekable The Potsdam Agreement specifically stated that Germany was to be disarmed. It could have a police force but no army. And, before 1950, the USA abided by it quite strictly. Truman's sudden decision to rearm Germany in 1950 was a 180º reverse course. This is why Gustav Heinemann was shocked by it. It seemed to come out of the blue. As far as I know, Korea was what made him go for it.

@masterchinese28 Месяц назад

"Being cheap" whilst dancing through the flowers! This is why History Matters is must-see.

@jabber1990 Месяц назад

US: "you don't want France to look weak do you?" France: "woah, hold on now we can't have that"

@lordMartiya Месяц назад

Part of why France dropped their objection was that both them and West Germany were part of the European Community of Coal and Steel (the earliest step toward the European Union), that made impossible for Germany and France to go at war with each other and continue their feud that had been going on in some way for over a thousand years (that being why Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands came up with the idea to begin with, they were tired of being the eternal battlefield of the wars between France and Germany), thus annulling one of the reasons France had to object.

@emberfist8347 Месяц назад

I also think someone kept De Gaulle away from the back rooms when they were doing this and he stayed in the dark.

@edmerc92 Месяц назад

@@emberfist8347 He wasn't in power at the time (1955). He came back in 1958.

@embreis2257 Месяц назад

@@emberfist8347 de Gaulle wasn't the problem. read about Robert Schuman and his struggle with some of his French political rivals

@georgesdelatour Месяц назад

I think the USA was the real driver of policy. Marshall Aid was made conditional on countries accepting a degree of political unification. Jean Monnet's political influence came from the fact the USA put him in charge of administering Marshall Aid in France. He never held any elected office.

@andremitreuter5397 Месяц назад

So glad to see more of you. Worried as you uploads seemed to slow down recently

@Thedrunkape96 Месяц назад

He has to study and make the videos.

@jannegrey593 Месяц назад

James Bissonnette wouldn't allow it to happen................

@alvaroascencio8093 Месяц назад

He revealed in his Patreon that he was recovering from pneumonia.

@douglasboyle6544 Месяц назад

Don't rush quality.

@chequereturned Месяц назад

Can’t be his only regular priority at the same rate forever.

@romas011 Месяц назад

Even at that size, West Germany still became the biggest economy in Europe (minus the USSR of course) even before reunification. Goes to show what a large industrial base can do for a nation.

@Ivsanval Месяц назад

West Germany's economy was probably larger than the USSR, too. By the 80's the soviets were already into building pipelines to get West Germany to import oil from the Soviet Union. Being an oil mass exporter doesn't screams "big strong developed economy" to me.

@denniskrenz2080 Месяц назад

Well, our actual economic cheat code are the logistics... Germany always had one of, if not the best, geography for building large transportation networks.Thus, industry just comes easy here. That also made it hard in WW2 to destroy the industry, it can spread out more and not be so centered on major cities, that made the relatively small bombing campaigns in Japan so powerful. In Japan, only 300 bombers were needed to literally wipe old Tokio from the map and disrupt the heavy industry. The biggest bomber attacks in Germany were well over 1000 aircraft and their economic impacts were mostly short-term. When WW2 ended, our industry was mostly intact, what was lacking was workers.

@sumitanne7818 Месяц назад

This time Allies made sure Austrian school of painting admit all art school applicants with 100% acceptance rate.

@MrFancyDragon Месяц назад

I’d kill for a video on just James Bisonette for the sake of the joke lmao

@Trolligi Месяц назад

“Who is James Bissonette?”

@jamesbissonette8002 Месяц назад

I feel it would be pretty boring

@ondracienciala7209 Месяц назад

@@jamesbissonette8002 HOLY FUCK ITS HIM, ITS HIM AGAIN. Blessing, blessing from the Lord, God be Praised!

@Narthanael Месяц назад

@@jamesbissonette8002 elon musk confirmed

@LeeAndergen Месяц назад

This makes me curious, how did the East and West German militaries cope with the Unification of Germany? There had to have been massive differences between the two sides, both in terms of equipment and doctrine Did they re-train thousands of soldiers to fit a new doctrine?

@pax6833 Месяц назад

It coped very poorly. In fact there was a lot of injustice. Most NVA soldiers were kicked out of the military and were treated as soldiers of a "foreign army" (so no benefits or pensions from the government). Most of the gear was sold off, some got put into storage (eventually going to ukraine). Functionally speaking, the West German Bundeswehr changed almost nothing when it became the official military of the new unified Germany.

@Yora21 Месяц назад

Some East German soldiers joined the Bundeswehr, but I believe a majority did not. And Germany ended up being a NATO country with a lot of Soviet equipment in the inventory to study.

@srccde Месяц назад

@@pax6833 To be fair, Germany had to agree to a maximum limit of troops that was well below the size of the West German army pre-reunification. So if they had kept more former NVA soldiers they would've had to fire a lot more Bundeswehr soldiers in their place which doesn't make much sense. It was the allies fault most NVA soldiers were fired.

@nlk294 Месяц назад

About 90.000 NVA (Nationale Volksarmee) soldiers were transferred to the Bundeswehr. The rest got laid off. They dismantled almost all of the equipment and replaced it with western counterparts.

@MM22966 Месяц назад

Remember, also, the Cold War ended at the same time, so both the Bundswehr and the NVA personnel were heavily downsized and a lot of equipment was sold off to other countries in teh "Great German Fire Sale". (one of the reasons so many countries use leopard tanks is that they got them cheap second-hand, for example)

@Kardia_of_Rhodes Месяц назад

I don't think there's anything more 'French' than thinking you deserve to be the leader of post-war Europe after being completely occupied and then liberated by other nations.

@Ivsanval Месяц назад

We are taking about the people who built a Triumphal Arch in their Capital commemorating a war they lost. So...

@JohnYossarian Месяц назад

How much of the world's problems could have been skipped if France was just told to shut up and color when they tried to resume their colonies and become a nuclear power?

@goldeagle8051 Месяц назад

@@Ivsanval Wrong, it was built to commemorate the French victory at Austerlitz.

@goldeagle8051 Месяц назад

They never really stopped fighting or resisting despite the occupation.

@vegetableman3911 Месяц назад

@@goldeagle8051but their government surrendered and they were hard-carried by the British and Americans

@guimourap704 Месяц назад

I appreciate the fact that the character's clothings have become much more detailed in recent videos. It's gorgeous in its own way, without compromising the silly and simplistic aesthetic of the channel. Way to go!

@winternights4025 Месяц назад

something that was also instrumental in making rearmament possible was the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) which basically was a common pool of all coal and steel among italy, germany, france and the benelux countries, mostly so germany and france would be kept from slaughtering each other again. Also, the ECSC no longer exists, it is no called the EU (sort of)

@wollebay Месяц назад

Interestingly enough Germany already started rearmament secretly in 1949, with the Schlez Truppe, built to be able to defend Germany in case of a Soviet attack.

@flimsedom Месяц назад

As a history teacher in Germany I appreciate your accuracy. Thank you a lot for your great work. ♥️

@ilovemuslimfood666 Месяц назад

“Round two.” Napoleon’s ghost: “Don’t you mean ‘round three’?”

@DasIllu Месяц назад

Also, after the war, America wanted West-Germany to have Nukes (as in becoming the primary target in a WW3 scenario) but Germany declined. After a bit of back and forth, Germany was "unofficially" armed with nukes ("Nukleare Teilhabe") which Germany could only access when Nato gets involved in a nuclear war. German anti-nuclear sentiment stems from the fact that we were chosen as the tactical nukes battlefield in a possible invasion by the Warsaw pact.

@embreis2257 Месяц назад

'America wanted West-Germany to have nukes'? any sources for this claim? unless you name a source we can validate, this claim should be considered untrue. main reason: it would go against the basic principle of nuclear powers to limit the number of other powers having nuclear weapons.

@corey2232 Месяц назад

That's not at all the reason... The US already opted to position all their own nuclear silos in a strategic 5 Midwest, relatively empty states in their own country, hoping that would make the Soviets target them target than populated areas. It makes no sense to add front line nuclear targets in Germany, especially when Germany was already the expected front line target anyway. Nukes or not, Germany would've already been the first place to be invaded, only if nukes were there, the USSR would risk damaging their own side of the border & make it harder on themselves to move through West Germany on their way to other locations (given that it would've been nuked).

@u.s.1974 Месяц назад

@@corey2232 Please read up on Nuclear Sharing before writing half guessed stuff.

@abel_underwater Месяц назад

@@embreis2257 his source: label on a Russian vodka bottle😹 also don’t b silly, don’t you kno by now that ‘Murica Bad, and even if they seemed to be the only ones trying to push for German autonomy, they’re still bad because that’s the bs we’ve been fed all our lives and it saves us the trouble of actually doing any research😅

@WhatHappenedIn-vt3vq Месяц назад

I don't know about the actual German situation, but by the time it became firmly anti-nuclear, Western Germany should have already known we would never have allowed it to he foddered in the place our our other allies and there was a huge propaganda war between Soviet controlled Eastern Germany and American backed western Germany at that time we were talking about closing From a tactical standpoint, placing our nukes to he targeted to close to the borders at that time would have been a enormous risk and wouldn't have given enough time to try intercept in their defense or prepare to retaliate in the name of the alliance. From a humanitarian standpoint, we were also past the point where we could be as crass to as to be willing to accept a Hiroshima on our own side and the bitterness from the war was already tapering that we may have accepted it over back during FDRs time

@_Devil Месяц назад

It also didn't help that the Soviet's immediately rearmed East Germany, so the US didn't feel at all comfortable having a hyperindustrial Germany bordered with a pacifist Germany.

@boerekable Месяц назад

It is actually not true. West German army was set up before East German army.

@smalltime0 Месяц назад

You mean hyper militarised. The USSR's war repayments was East Germany's industry. They even took the Zeiss factories and put them in Ukraine.

@embreis2257 Месяц назад

not exactly. Stalin first tried to entice German minds still weary and jaded from the recent war with an offer of reunification with East-Germany in 1954. the price: *permanent neutrality* similar to the Austrian solution. imagine united Germany being neutral. a dream for any Putin type figure in Moscow.

@smalltime0 Месяц назад

@@embreis2257 Yeah people often forget that Austria was split into occupation zones similar to Germany

@user-ou9qd9no5n Месяц назад

@@embreis2257 yeah, neutrality (no help from NATO when russians invade), good idea😂

@Ghostkilla773 Месяц назад

New enemies means new friends must be made from old enemies.

@Quin_Ram Месяц назад

Because of Napoleon.

@NapoleonBonaparte501 Месяц назад

"Indeed"

@chequereturned Месяц назад

No Walpole! Oh wait, wrong channel.

@spinningthreeplates3011 Месяц назад

Because of me.

@SirAntoniousBlock Месяц назад

@@chequereturned _PITT THE ELDER!!_

@fishandchippedd Месяц назад

“We fought the wrong enemy” -Patton

@MM22966 Месяц назад

Patton was just having too much fun, and wanted to keep the ride going.

@varana Месяц назад

Patton was an idiot.

@rennor3498 Месяц назад

Patton was just a troll.

@chiracultrainstinct3d629 Месяц назад

@@rennor3498Patton was an a$$hole

@archdornan6053 29 дней назад

@@rennor3498He saw the threat posed by communism, as did General MacArthur. They may have been crazy, but neither Patton nor MacArthur were stupid.

@dylanbecerra4179 Месяц назад

Always find myself saying “fascinating” after every History Matters video What a great channel, ty for your work 🥳🎉❤️‍🔥

@sciencer9830 Месяц назад

The allies really learned not to be harsh with the losers after the war after Versailles

@v_cpt-phasma_v689 Месяц назад

for the millionth time the treaty of versailles wasnt actually that harsh, it was relatively standard treaty after a major war, just look at hungary, now THAT was a harsh treaty

@erdood3235 Месяц назад

@@v_cpt-phasma_v689why was hungrys treaty harsh?

@svtinker Месяц назад

@@v_cpt-phasma_v689 history tells us Germany disagreed with that statement.

@sciencer9830 Месяц назад

@@v_cpt-phasma_v689 historically inaccurate, since the scale of the ww1 was much different ans the entire economic situation didn’t allow for the huge amount of reparations. the loss of territory and demilitarisation was reasonable, though not in line with reasoning of self determination of peoples.

@MadKlauss Месяц назад

@@svtinker It doesn't matter what Germany thought, their whole propaganda machine tried to make Versailles as the reason even though it was them themselves.

@thehardwallbreaker3134 Месяц назад

WOOO. I love your videos. Been watching you since like 2020.

@corey2232 Месяц назад

James Bisonette has been watching since the dawn of civilization...

@NottsAiry Месяц назад

Plot twist: James Bissonette helped Germany Re-Militarize

@spinningthreeplates3011 Месяц назад

I also helped fund the GDR. Do I count as well?

@SirAntoniousBlock Месяц назад

@@spinningthreeplates3011 We did you fund the commies?

@spinningthreeplates3011 Месяц назад

@@SirAntoniousBlock All of them.

@SirAntoniousBlock Месяц назад

@@spinningthreeplates3011 Spread betting is a viable strategy. 🤔

@NottsAiry Месяц назад

@@spinningthreeplates3011 yes

@brandongilbertson3552 Месяц назад

“While actually making sure they did some of the heavy lifting” hits hard in modern context.

@idk_whatmynameis Месяц назад

Love the videos

@hillbilly4895 Месяц назад

Great content and presentation...as usual. Thanks.

@treatoplease3479 Месяц назад

In short: Because they were no longer independent, just pawns to be used as proxies for the Powers on each side of the Iron curtain

@Kaiserinwalton1871 Месяц назад

Let’s goo, new History Matters vid!

@mitchanthony1548 Месяц назад

At last I've found out what James Bissonnette and Kelly Moneymaker have been up to!

@muhammadhabibieamiro3639 Месяц назад

Another amazing video

@RubberToeYT Месяц назад

Great video as always

@G4neralTuga Месяц назад

A new History matters video? Count me in!

@TheSci-fiAnarchist42 Месяц назад

Wow, it's odd seeing a video where Napoleon wasn't somehow the root cause of the issue.

@NapoleonBonaparte501 Месяц назад

"I Was Shocked Aswell"

@JohnYossarian Месяц назад

The real mistake was allowing France to re-arm after WWII. France thinking they were relevant was, well, Napoleon's fault.

@CAM8689 Месяц назад

@@JohnYossarian how would they stop them.......

@JohnYossarian Месяц назад

@@CAM8689 "France, you don't get to be a colonial power anymore. French Indochina gets to be independent." (Vietnam War gets bypassed) "France, if you refuse to be party to these non-proliferation treaties, nobody will trade with you." (apartheid South Africa doesn't get nukes)

@CAM8689 Месяц назад

@@JohnYossarian neither does the British

@OrangeSheepPlayz Месяц назад

Great video!

@erikmardiste Месяц назад

Welcome back mate❤

@SiVlog1989 Месяц назад

Here's an idea for a future video, why didn't Italy face any War Crimes Trials post WW2? While the leaders of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan had post WW2 war crimes trials, the third Axis power, Fascist Italy, didn't

@deadon4847 Месяц назад

Between July 1945 and May 1947, there were 40 British trials conducted in Italy of Italians suspected of war crimes committed in the Second World War. Of the 40 British trials of suspected Italian war criminals documented the records of eight trials involving 12 defendants have been lost. Reconstruction of data from various sources leads to the conclusion that there were 8 1 Italian defen- dants in all of the cases and 29 (36 percent) were found not guilty. Of the 52 found guilty, 5 1 saw their convictions confirmed upon review. Eight of these were condemned to death; two were duly executed, but the sentences of four were com- muted to life imprisonment. The other two condemned saw their sentences com- muted to seven and 15 years' imprisonment, respectively. The trials were conducted in nine Italian locations, with British (or, rarely, Commonwealth) members of the court and prosecutors, and defense attorneys who were for the most part Italian civilian lawyers; occasionally, however, defen- dants were represented only by British military personnel, which included bar- risters, solicitors, and sometimes an officer "not legally qualified." Translators and interpreters were provided in all cases, a substantial number of whom were Italian civilians. The accused were arraigned immediately before the start of the trial. The average length of trial was two and half days, with the shortest one day and the longest about 12 days. The latter was especially complex, since it involved 11 defendants, nine Italians, and two Germans. That case, however, involved only one victim. The trials began with the highest ranking of the accused in custody: General Nicola Bellomo. Bellomo ironically was a non-Fascist, but he had been accused of killing a British prisoner of war and wounding his companion, both of whom had been recaptured after escaping from the prisoner of war camp within Bellomo's command. From the evidence it was quite clear that Bellomo had been enraged when he demanded that the prisoners show him their point of escape in a remote stretch of fencing. What is not clear is whether Bellomo truly believed the two were attempting another escape when they were shot or whether, accord- ing to the prosecution argument, he shot them in cold blood as punishment for their earlier attempt. Bellomo was found guilty of the war crime in July 1945 and was executed by firing squad in September 1945. There was then a gap of several months before the next prosecutions were held. In the three months between February and April 1946, ten trials were con- ducted at seven locations in Italy; the rest of 1946 saw 16 trials conducted in six locations. Only 13 trials took place in 1947. The causes of action were limited to offenses against British or Commonwealth prisoners of war, and the number of cases involving each issue is as follows: Unlawful killing-26 Unlawful attempted killing-2 Unlawful wounding-3 Unlawful Ill-treatment2 1

@randomdude185 Месяц назад

I don't know how accurate this is, but i have heard that Italy was actually fighting a civil war the entire time ww2 was happening, and the Italian Government that was present after the war wasn't the Fascist one but the other one that was able to win because the of the allies. Also Italy didn't do as many war crimes (to the Allies and the people they cared about) as Germany and Japan.

@SiVlog1989 Месяц назад

@randomdude185 from what I've heard, Italy violated the rules of war even as early as the 1935 to 36 invasion of Ethiopia (the way they subdued the Ethiopian Forces was with the illegal use of Mustard Gas) and Italy's Civil War ran from the German Occupation to the end of WW2 in Europe

@metalogic1580 Месяц назад

@@SiVlog1989 Let's just say that Jews and Chinese people had it a tad worse coming from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. War crimes are war crimes, but couple that with what randomdude185 said ^, and it's understandable that they didn't have any trials.

@SiVlog1989 Месяц назад

@metalogic1580 even then, with regards to Jews, Mussolini adopted Antisemitism as a state policy, stripping Italian Jews of their citizenship and ultimately sending 9000 of them to the Death Camps

@Geojr815 Месяц назад

Because Germany was trusted to be smart enough to understand that Russia/USSR as the real threat to the world and that siding with the west would help them prosper

@danielrudolf5441 Месяц назад

You mean half of Germany did. The other half was a Soviet satellite state.

@emberfist8347 Месяц назад

@@danielrudolf5441More of 2/3rds East Germany was about third West Germany’s size.

@caijuu7775 Месяц назад

One day, very soon, we'll get a History Matters video that's more Patron shoutouts than it is historical content

@MCsCreations Месяц назад

Fascinating!

@jackdean5091 Месяц назад

Because James Bissonette allowed it.

@spinningthreeplates3011 Месяц назад

Yep, seems so.

@cyrilkhoury19 Месяц назад

Fun fact: When the German military was re-established, many of the soldiers who enlisted into the new Bundeswehr were WW2 Wehrmacht veterans, with some still wielding the very same guns they used to fight the allies they now sided with 10 years back.

@darkdragon5520 Месяц назад

The US loved to use former-Nazis to destroy socialist/anti-imperialist movements in Europe. Don’t know about the USSR though.

@MM22966 Месяц назад

The Bundswehr was almost entirely re-armed with US gear at the start. It was partially so they WOULDN'T look like the same guys. Where are you getting your info?

@cv990a4 Месяц назад

Since most Germans of military age had served in the Wehrmacht or the SS, it would have been well-nigh impossible to staff the new Bundeswehr without that being the case. It was a matter of ensuring that the officer class was selected from the more acceptable members of the old Wehrmacht.

@boerekable Месяц назад

Only the East German army directly continued the German army traditions. The Ussr did not want the Germans to copy them, while the US insisted that on the West German army.

@010101110100 Месяц назад

Similarly, when Germany was being rebuilt, many of the industrial families that worked for the success of the Reich were now working for a new democratic Germany, many of whom were wielding the same factories they had used previously. I wonder where they are now

@amk4956 Месяц назад

1:24 I love these notes and news paper headlines

@linksbro1 Месяц назад

Also the fact trying to prevent Germany from rearming after WW1 kind of backfired a little.

@BurneraccountXD69 Месяц назад

Fun fact: The Japanese demilitarized after WW2 not because the Americans told them to, but in spite of what the American government actually wanted. The United States wanted a strong military power to help them against the Soviet Union, but Japan was just so depressed after losing the war they basically decided to give up.

@fragsnake Месяц назад

"Owari da..."

@Arnav150 Месяц назад

I mean they got two suns dropped on them, can't blame them

@balkaba3927 Месяц назад

@@TitanosaurusFan75 im pretty sure the japanese government hasnt even admitted to most of the warcrimes that happened especially in china such as Unit 731, even if you ask a japanese person today about ww2 its not really clear, and there are still japanese ww2 patriots in the country.

@umbra2130 Месяц назад

Me when I spread misinformation

@FreyR_Kunn Месяц назад

The Americans did tell them to, very explicitly I might add. The Japanese constitution that was written up in 1946-7 was supervised by US authorities. Additionally, the Potsdam conference had the big three unanimously agree that Japan should demilitarise once the war concluded. That is why article 9 is so harsh.

@JM-ws6ku Месяц назад

James Bizonette paid for it.

@spinningthreeplates3011 Месяц назад

Likewise.

@multimandan Месяц назад

I enjoy this channel like you can't imagine

@ZigZagKid_AZ Месяц назад

I love your videos

@144digital Месяц назад

Germany, the nation that lost two World wars but still came out strong both economically and in terms of military strength

@MM22966 Месяц назад

It only cost them millions of dead and about 30% of their homeland.

@georgesdelatour Месяц назад

A repeated grumble in NATO is, "why are the Germans only bad at militarism when they're on our side?"

@OptimusMaximusNero Месяц назад

Without a doubt the best production about the start of WW2 is the 1983 miniseries "Winds of War", which tells from the pov of an american admiral played by Robert Mitchum living in Berlin and his family how Adolf started the deadliest conflict in history. The portrayal of the dictator by Günter Meisner is easily one of the best the austrian painter got

@HarvestStore Месяц назад

Great video.

@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle Месяц назад

"We fought the wrong enemy." -General Patton

@HistoriaenCeluloide Месяц назад

Also East Germany was the last one to maintain the Prussian traditions evident even in their uniforms🧐

@bananenmusli2769 Месяц назад

Germany still has a lot of Prussian traditions. The only notable difference being that they don't do the goosestepping anymore.

@GwainSagaFanChannel Месяц назад

Chile is the actual last one to maintain the Prussian army traditions

@tavish4699 Месяц назад

@@bananenmusli2769 that is not a notable difference as goose stepping was never a big thing in prussian tradition anyway only the guard regiment did so

@Yora21 Месяц назад

The East German rail service continued to be called "German Imperial Rail". WTF, comrades?!

@mojewjewjew4420 Месяц назад

@@Yora21if you mean reich, it doesnt mean empire, it means realm.

@amgedmahdi2805 Месяц назад

Because James Bisonette gave it a fraction of his power

@karwan6385 Месяц назад

That's 100% true.

@Apsolution1 Месяц назад

Video idea : How did Sassanids react to fall of western roman empire

@emrahdincer Месяц назад

On the same topic, a weirder video would've been the knights of malta becoming one of the biggest airpowers overnight

@TeemoTemosson Месяц назад

Not many channels talk about the negative aspects of the Weimar Republic of Germany. They mention economic troubles, but never mention just how much the German people suffering under the Weimar Government.

@varana Месяц назад

What are you talking about?

@d.k8257 Месяц назад

@@varana How dogshit the Weimar government was

@embreis2257 Месяц назад

because this angle is total bs. it completely turns around the reasons why the populace was suffering. it wasn't because of the form of government or constitution (both were very modern and fine) but the stipulations of the Versailles treaty, poor understanding of modern economics (not just in Germany but all over the world; Keynes was just writing about a better system) and old school bitter old men in neighbouring countries doing poor foreign policy.

@AreaEightyNine Месяц назад

Because the Germans are not all smiles & sunshine.

@MM22966 Месяц назад

OOOOOH, the GEWRMANS!!! Look out, the GEWRMANS are mad at us!!

@John.McMillan Месяц назад

I know the answer to this but I love the way this channel explains things

@KAISERSCHL8 Месяц назад

Thank you for showing the german eastern territories when talking about the division after the war. I've seen this presented wrongly so often in the past, even in textbooks for advanced history classes

@andrewklang809 Месяц назад

France 1940: It's over, it's hopeless, we surrender. We collaborate. France 1945: We're the rightful leaders of Europe.

@chiracultrainstinct3d629 Месяц назад

Never heard of French free forces d&mba$$?

@andrewklang809 Месяц назад

@@chiracultrainstinct3d629 Sure. Didn't they represent maybe 1% of the Western Alles' numbers prior to 1944?

@lhemnenn4713 Месяц назад

@@andrewklang809One of the main reasons the French government capitulated is because most of the Army was captured (or killed) and almost entirely sent to Germany to detention camps until the end ... I want to see your country continue a war with a few thousand soldiers remaining while the enemy enters your capital city ... Pretty sure you won't say the same thing ...

@CAM8689 Месяц назад

well when your an island nation who can ran back to your island and let stronger nations do the bulk of the fighting....I guess your forefit your right to lead anything.....UK was on the winning side but the British Empire was on major decline after that

@stanchpandora3658 Месяц назад

It's ok France, Germany's military is now a complete joke

@emberfist8347 Месяц назад

Still more seriously than France’s military.

@embreis2257 Месяц назад

@@emberfist8347 is everything you write complete bs? France operates an aircraft carrier and nuclear forces.

@emberfist8347 Месяц назад

@@embreis2257 Russia has carriers too but they are lemons and nukes aren’t a measure of a nation’s power as nobody uses them.

@embreis2257 Месяц назад

@@emberfist8347 Frances military is *objectively stronger* as in more assets and more firepower. our personal opinions may differ but don't matter.

@michaelowino228 Месяц назад

Good video .

@vitalychernobyl6137 Месяц назад

A philosopher once said, paraphrasing here, that “I keep my eyes on Germany. They fought one one, versus Europe, and almost won. A few years later they try again, this time their enemy: the world. And they almost won! It was even closer!”

@user-td4kc1ps6y Месяц назад

We did not almost win. We didn't stand a chance at all. We were in the lead af halftime maybe, against France and Eastern Europe, thanks to many allies and not too many opponents. But when the world joined it was over pretty quickly.

@vitalychernobyl6137 Месяц назад

@@user-td4kc1ps6y that’s what you want us to think. 👀

@vitalychernobyl6137 Месяц назад

@@user-td4kc1ps6y it’s from Norm MacDonald, he explains more.

@TheTimurdempire Месяц назад

Communism simple

@TheTimurdempire Месяц назад

Obviously it's more complicated than that but I just wanted to make a stupid joke

@BoltonForTheNorth Месяц назад

Communism based

@eric-wb7gj 17 дней назад

TY 🙏🙏

@davidramos4707 18 дней назад

Wow, you really made three first-half-of-the-20th-century Germany videos in a row

@OnionIlan Месяц назад

because the Americans and Soviets needed some cannon fodder before they could deploy their troops there when one side invaded first

@MM22966 Месяц назад

Please look up where the US 11th Calvary Regiment or Soviet 3rd Shock Army (as a few examples) were stationed in Germany during the Cold War, then try to say that again. It disparages the names of soldiers who put their lives on a literal line, and whose life-expectancy was generally reckoned in minutes if WW3 had kicked off.

@nickmacarius3012 Месяц назад

The British & the French don't mind a militarized Germany, so long as that Germany is on the front lines with the British & the French standing behind them. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@bigbootros4362 Месяц назад

😂 sure the Brits and the French never go to war! In what planet??

@mathieuleader8601 Месяц назад

love the forward facing horse in the portrait.

@majesticfirebird2310 Месяц назад

0:15 "you made a mess" Humor like this is why I support this guy on Patreon 🤣

@Skeloperch Месяц назад

It's quite hard to do work if you're armless. Can't hammer things while standing if you don't have arms.

@Procket12 Месяц назад

I like the little touch that History Matters did with the early Bundeswehr by giving them G1 FALs instead of the later G3.

@Harminder1 Месяц назад

3 ideas for a video when did campaign medals become a thing the French invasion of Fishguard. The capture of Fort Detroit during the 1812 war.

@patrickhaeusler Месяц назад

Since I really like these videos on why certain countries exist, I'd like to see some more of these, and after taking a look at the map, I really wondered why the Sultanate of Brunei was never integrated into the larger British colony of Sarawak or later Malaysia...

@tremensdelirious Месяц назад

MacGwapa, Spinning with Three plates and the Calling Dr Howard patrons sound cool

@Free_filistine Месяц назад

I like your videos 👍❤

@Marconius6 Месяц назад

Britain being broke and just agreeing to stuff seems to be a running theme for like, the past 400 years of history...

@user-og8zt7bi2z Месяц назад

Can you do something about Aaron Burr? Just a thought.

@M0R3gOfF Месяц назад

Explain baarle-hertog and Baarle-nassau!

@edwardblair4096 Месяц назад

"No army = No prestige" with a portrait of Napoleon in the background.

@TheMikael78 Месяц назад

”Being cheap!” 😂

@MM22966 Месяц назад

The most amazing part of this story is that France (especially under DeGaulle) didn't just throw its hands up in a snit and go home.

@emberfist8347 Месяц назад

I think he was kept in house arrest while the adults talked things over. That and France and West Germany signed an agreement that only applied them to specifically but said that Germany wouldn’t do anything to them again.