Why wasn't Italy occupied after World War 2? (Short Animated Documentary)

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After World War 2 Italy was the only major loser to avoid long-term occupation. So why? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
In the early 20th century, Britain and Japan were the best of friends. They hated their neighbours, loved boats and wanted to take other peoples' countries. Despite this common ground, their alliance dissolved after twenty years and another couple of decades later, the two were at war. So why? Why did Britain and Japan's alliance fail?
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Комментарии : 3 тыс.

@GuildsmanPirate 11 месяцев назад

Knowing the problems this video had because of you mentioning Mussolini by name makes the "Fez-wearing Italian man" bit so much funnier

@planescaped 11 месяцев назад

I did not hit her I did naaaht! RU-vid: WHO SAID HITLER!?

@stevemc01 11 месяцев назад

if he made an original post detailing the issues, I wanna see it.

@edwinhuang9244 11 месяцев назад

The weirdest thing is that he said "mussolinian" yet wasn't in trouble for that.

@8thsinn 11 месяцев назад

The thing is, he said Mosulini at 1:30

@itsblitz4437 11 месяцев назад

@@planescapedThe Room reference.

@BrianGriffinW 11 месяцев назад

I can’t stop laughing with you naming Mussolini “the fez-wearing Italian man” the fact you cant mention his name otherwise you’ll get demonetized is just sad

@matthewpoole2700 11 месяцев назад

It's cause the vid was initially de-monitzed cause he mentioned his real name, mental ain't it

@scotandiamapping4549 11 месяцев назад

So thats what that was about

@theamericane2655 11 месяцев назад

Only for the first minute

@epicponedge1177 11 месяцев назад

Just call him Chef Boyardee like in HOI4.

@TheMCCraftingTable 11 месяцев назад

You could say he was DEMON-etized.

@ScorpoYT 11 месяцев назад

The fez wearing Italian man

@minecraftgameing1705 4 месяца назад

love your videos man

@krisstarring 3 месяца назад

Il Ducebag. 🤣

@wildfire9280 Месяц назад

what’s up checkmark is this joke still funny

@kovicrisi1726 10 дней назад

@@wildfire9280 *The fez wearing Italian man*

@TheBlownapart 11 месяцев назад

My math teacher was Greek and told us of how his grandmother would have Italian occupying soldiers over for dinner regularly. Italians and Greeks considered each other related and so they got along together really well. Not so much with the German occupying forces though.

@moranii1843 11 месяцев назад

Thats bullshit. The greeks fought their brutal war against the italian invasion and won. The Germans only came to Greece because the greeks were so zealous and effective in pushing out the italian invaders

@BountyFlamor 11 месяцев назад

Not with the Bulgarians either.

@richardstephens5570 10 месяцев назад

If that's true, then his grandmother was lucky. The Italians committed many atrocities against the Greek people, like the Domenikon massacre for example.

@dante.fiumenero 10 месяцев назад

This massacre was an answer to the free death of 9 italians soldiers by greek resistance. So tell 100% truth or tell nothing jakass@@richardstephens5570

@BamBam-wh7nt 10 месяцев назад

@@richardstephens5570 Not lucky... clever, feeding the soldiers who haven't had a proper meal in months some proper food and building up a relationship, even dogs don't bite the feeding hand, it was probably the best strategy for her to maximize her family's chances of survival in that situation.

@Jose04537 11 месяцев назад

The fact that we are forced to treat historical figures as if they were Voldemort, because we can't name them even for educational purposes it's very distopian.

@aoikemono6414 11 месяцев назад

It's for monetization purposes. You can make a rap song with all their names and youtube won't do anything to your video. Advertisers, however, don't want to be associated with anything controversial. It's their money and they get to choose who to support. Nothing dystopian about it. RU-vid can't handle the millions of videos uploaded daily without using bots, although the bots can be heavy handed and too restrictive, which they are constantly tweaking.

@FlagAnthem 11 месяцев назад

Do you live in Russia? No? Then STFU

@lioraselby5328 11 месяцев назад

@@aoikemono6414I mean, there were still advertisements on the History Channel when they did their WWII documentaries, or even just advertisements on cable news channels, so I don't think the "advertisers don't want to be associated with anything controversial" argument holds terribly much water.

@theawesomeman9821 11 месяцев назад

seriously?

@jeffersonclippership2588 11 месяцев назад

@@lioraselby5328 because the History Chanel didn't have a bunch of shows saying "fascism is good" like RU-vid does

@andysorensen1737 11 месяцев назад

I mean, when you’re proactive enough to take care of THE FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN you should get some sort of credit for doing so.

@F.R.E.D.D2986 11 месяцев назад

History matters talks like a professor and then pops out with that and it's just comedy gold

@jueviolegrace8827 11 месяцев назад

Mussolini is Mussolini

@sufthegoat 11 месяцев назад

Flex wearing Italian man

@ricardokowalski1579 11 месяцев назад

1:27 and yet one mention slipped thru

@ArcticTemper 11 месяцев назад

'Yeah we supported him for twenty years but now we've lost we'll turn on him' WOWWW

@ribbon8677 11 месяцев назад

Another bug factor in my opinion is the Italian Civil War that lasted after the capitulation in 1943 all the way to 1945: many parts of the north were in open rebellion and there was fighting even between family members. This is to say that a big chunk of the (surviving) population was willing to give up Fez-wearing and maybe this eased up the peace process.

@diegograssi9269 11 месяцев назад

It can make sense but most of them were Communists …make more sense that the US was worried about them take over and so helped the not Communist part at least the one not compromised too much with Mussolini

@ultimatejager4058 11 месяцев назад

@@diegograssi9269not most of them, just a portion. The members of the resistence belonged to all sorts of political beliefs: democratic-christians, social-democratics, socialists, liberals and yeah, some of them even communists

@fiore7939 11 месяцев назад

This!

@diegograssi9269 11 месяцев назад

@@ultimatejager4058 Some of them even communists?They were by far the largest group , as you can see also in how was composed the CNL ( Comitato di liberazione nazionale) .

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 11 месяцев назад

OMG YT is now altering history...

@sergioparentini6743 11 месяцев назад

Nice video! I'm Italian from Milan, both of my grandfathers were conscripted right before we turned sides, as soon as we did, both were sent to prisoner of war concentration caps. One was sent to Linz in Germany and one in Greece (not sure where). Both survived mal nutrition and decimations. I'm thankful that they somehow survived and I am living proof!

@tancreddehauteville764 11 месяцев назад

My grandfather was also Italian and joined the RSI army after the armistice. He had enough to eat :-)

@sergioparentini6743 11 месяцев назад

@@tancreddehauteville764 You must be so proud 😉

@lambdacode1503 11 месяцев назад

Good for you man, those were tough times. When grandpa was captured by the Americans the conditions of the prisoners were abysmal, he almost died of infection and was lucky compared to many later German prisoners in Allied hands. The dynamics were much more complex than what we're taught at school, it wasn't about the Good guys vs the Bad ones, only the ones that won and those that lost.

@sergioparentini6743 11 месяцев назад

@@lambdacode1503 I totally agree

@tancreddehauteville764 11 месяцев назад

@@sergioparentini6743 I am - very proud.

@xsXRevanXsx 11 месяцев назад

“The fez wearing Italian man” I have a feeling he isn’t allowed to say the fez wearing Italian Man’s name anymore without getting demonetized

@-Benedict 11 месяцев назад

Yet he says the name later in the video anyway.

@Hraher 11 месяцев назад

He alredy said it

@Teknanam 11 месяцев назад

@@-Benedict I think the rule is you can't say certain "offensive" things in the first minute of the video.

@Sceptonic 11 месяцев назад

@@Teknanamyoure right

@lordfedjuvekinval252 11 месяцев назад

yep, that's what he said on Twitter, saying Mussolini gets him demonetized, so he just uploaded a day late with the hilariously passive aggressive FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN

@streamlinedengine 11 месяцев назад

For anyone wondering what's going on with the "Fez-Wearing Italian Man" business, it's cos HM keeps getting demonetised by YT for daring to mention the name "Mussolini", which actually delayed the upload of this video for about a day or so. The fact that HM found a way around this, whilst simultaneously not-so-subtly roasting YT's algorithm with that zooming in shot, is the reason why he's legendary.

@GaryWagers 11 месяцев назад

The name Mussolini came up once in this video. I hope he's not going to have trouble because of that.

@heisenburger1_ 11 месяцев назад

And Fez-Wearing Italian man and Mr Moustache is absolutely hilarious

@willevensen7130 11 месяцев назад

@@GaryWagersusually you won’t get demonetized if you don’t say anything offensive in the first minute of the video. After that it’s usually ok

@bananasplit3805 11 месяцев назад

Why would the name get him demonitized, I don´t understand?

@GaryWagers 11 месяцев назад

@@willevensen7130 Gotcha, thanks.

@danielpakiam2629 11 месяцев назад

0:56 THE FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN!! 😂

@cdcdrr 8 месяцев назад

Allies: You are going to militarily disarm. You cannot have anymore tanks. Italy: Pfew, oh thank god. We were worried you were going to go hard on us. Allies: You also cannot have an aviation industry. Italy: We thought you were going to punish us. Why are you rewarding us for defeat? Allies: And you must fire all your generals and put them on trial. Italy: Yes! Finally, someone is saying what we are all thinking. Criminally negligent, indeed! Allies: Also you will admit that New York style pizza is superior. Italy: *NEVER SURRENDER, NEVER RETREAT!*

@orophist9798 11 месяцев назад

There's actually another very good fact and reason about this that hasn't been mention in the video. When the war was over, the prime minister of Italy, Alcide de Gasperi, heard the the french and the brits wanted to punish Italy hard, so he went to the americans and persuaded them to not go too harsh by promising them that,in exchange, he and the other right wing politicians would never let the communist party of Italy win an election at any cost, securing Italy's position as an enemy of the iron curtain and an ally of the US. De Gasperi's plan worked and the US made sure not to give in to the harsh punishments that France and the UK wanted to give.

@Tonyx.yt. 11 месяцев назад

calling DC politician "right wing" it's a bit of a strecht... they were at best centre-right for european standards

@nadrini300 11 месяцев назад

@@Tonyx.yt.and the fact that the DC also had a left wing faction that facilitated an organic centre left government.

@RonJohn63 11 месяцев назад

"promising them that ... he and the other right wing politicians would never let the communist party of Italy win an election at any cost". With a little help from the CIA, of course.

@alanpennie8013 11 месяцев назад

Good for him I guess. Though bad for The Communists.

@backwashjoe7864 11 месяцев назад

But I would refer you to @1:25, where he does mention that the Italian government was attractively anti-Communist, and to @1:55, that the US stopped France and the UK from giving harsher punishments. He did not give the details or reasons that you have, but both points were mentioned. You're only going to get so much depth in a 2.5 min video. Atbs, thanks for the extra information, always nice to get to another layer of the onion! :)

@emanueleacquati 11 месяцев назад

A part of the history which is always forgotten is the Italian civil war. Love your videos, keep going

@humorpalanta 11 месяцев назад

Unless you are a HOI4 player. Then you would just say "Italy is doing its thing"

@dw620 11 месяцев назад

Italy's helping overthrow the communist government in San Marino afterwards is usually glossed over, too... : )

@Boretheory 11 месяцев назад

@@dw620YEEES FINALLY SOMEONE THAT KNOWS IT

@RobotWithHumanHair. 11 месяцев назад

@@dw620 well they shouldn’t have been commies

@alexahardaway7093 11 месяцев назад

USA to Japan: AHHHHHHHHH- to Germany: OH NO! to Italy: lol- pizza eaters

@GunSeller98 11 месяцев назад

I was impressed that your battleship animation was an accurate image of the Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto! Good job!

@bobsmoot2392 11 месяцев назад

Your attention to detail in your character's uniforms and, especially, weapons it quite impressive. Thank you.

@sIight 11 месяцев назад

Hearing History Matters refer to Mussolini as THE FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN is something I didn’t know I needed in my life.

@DreerKarler 2 месяца назад

if you say his name you get demonetized

@oliverhughes610 11 месяцев назад

It did lose territory, though, not just overseas colonies (though it didn't consider Libya a colony) - it lost the Dalmatian port city of Zara and the entirety of Istria with cities like Fiume and Pola to Yugoslavia. Trieste was also temporarily lost in 1947 and existed as a UN-ran free city until being returned to Italy in 1954, although a good chunk of its surrounding towns were also given to Yugoslavia. The island of Sazan was given to Albania. Two villages on the Alpine border with France were also lost to France, along with some other minor border revisions. The Italian islands of the Aegean, namely Rhodes and the Dodecanese, were ceded to Greece.

@alanpennie8013 11 месяцев назад

Those annexations on the French border were very odd. Why would France want such an insignificant alteration?

@emberfist8347 11 месяцев назад

@@alanpennie8013hey lost a good part of land in that region to Italy when they joined the war. The two villages that weren’t part of France’s pre-war borders held a referendum in 1947 to leave Italy and join France.

@giarabub87 11 месяцев назад

De Gaulle wanted the dams built by Italy on the Alps and the chaberton mountain to have a better military position that’s why

@alanpennie8013 11 месяцев назад

@@giarabub87 Makes sense I guess.

@erenkozan2027 11 месяцев назад

Can someone give the names of those two Alpine villages?

@tiasoo 11 месяцев назад

Seeing this on a Sunday morning after spending way too much last night, was a delight. Love the quality of your videos. Keep it up, you brought me back from the dead this morning. And a burger. Love from Norway

@kevinm.8682 11 месяцев назад

Fascinating! I've studied WWII for 50 years, and this is something I never really considered. Thank you for teaching me something today.

@chad_b 11 месяцев назад

1:21 it makes me really happy that you included Canada's flag when talking about the allies. I hate how often the UK gets the credit for countries like Canada and Australia's contributions to the war

@noistivmuestiliv3300 11 месяцев назад

And India. why forget India😭

@chad_b 11 месяцев назад

@@noistivmuestiliv3300 yes India too. I just didn't want to try to list every single country

@cpob2013 11 месяцев назад

That's how imperialism works though, you're just colonies. Or should we throw in Puerto Ricos flag every time the us is mentioned?

@Oakwin_mb 11 месяцев назад

@@cpob2013 if significant puerto rican people/armies/forces etc are involved in the subject, absolutely.

@ANobodyatall 11 месяцев назад

Should put in the South Afrian and Rhodesian flag to be 'fair'. The British flag kinda covers all, as yer know, Empire!

@TheConflictLibrary 11 месяцев назад

before everyone else comments, thank you for your hard work and research! I hope you see this comment and know that we appreciate your work!

@newedgegt7435 11 месяцев назад

Who me?

@xbirds9187 11 месяцев назад

Due to my adhd i accidentally read "everyone except communists". Epic

@EllisMontes 11 месяцев назад

Great video! I enjoy the scholarship that goes into them, and the tone and running gags make it even more enjoyable!

@GreatZarquon 11 месяцев назад

Your videos are amazing man, you teach me more in 3 minutes that my school teachers managed in hour long history lessons!

@denorjigalaxen9230 11 месяцев назад

"The fez-wearing italian man" almost choked

@Kcirrot 11 месяцев назад

Same. 😂

@The105ODST 11 месяцев назад

just like The fez-wearing italian man

@emanuelebaiocco6432 11 месяцев назад

Good video, but as an italian I would say it's not enough said: an other very important reason is that few days after the 8th September 1943, italian soldiers were ordered by the new government to join the allies and fight the germans. There were not many soldiers and civilians who decided to keep collaborating with the germans after that date. The resistance movement gained more and more success than the fascist counterpart. In Germany and Japan there was no armed resistance against their own dictatorships.

@alanpennie8013 11 месяцев назад

Yep. The Italian defection to The Allies was a big difference.

@Boretheory 11 месяцев назад

@@alanpennie8013 it was not a defection. We surrendered then fell to a civilwar ( caused by Germany) and the majority of the ppl remained with the king which was pro-allies even the majority of the fascists didn’t join Mussolini

@Bo38062 11 месяцев назад

@@BoretheoryNon è del tutto vero... ovviamente la guerra era persa ma nonostante questo i soldati della RSI erano comunque di più di quelli della resistenza. Pur sapendo di perdere hanno difeso fino alla fine i propri ideali.

@solinhogm 11 месяцев назад

As an Italian what's your opinion on THE FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN

@williamfarnaby 11 месяцев назад

well, must also add that actually Italy was occupied by american troops and military bases that are still there today also: freemasons, vatican and various mafia families with connections in the USA

@bob388 11 месяцев назад

I will never not enjoy this channel. Keep doing what you do man, it is working great!

@David_Crayford 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for another good one. It's a question I simply never heard asked before.

@nikkicoyotie8431 11 месяцев назад

I can not express how entertaining I find your little segments of a political figure bounding through a field of flowers

@FieldMarshallWeeb 11 месяцев назад

One of the best yet not often mentioned parts of HM videos.

@bcvetkov8534 11 месяцев назад

When demonetization is so bad on RU-vid that you have to just switch the regular word to just "the fez wearing italian man." I could tell that kind of pained him a bit. Thank you for your hard work and putting out content m8. You deserve the best.

@alexandruchira184 11 месяцев назад

Why you asume is not for comic porpose and you blame demonatization ?

@poe_slaw 11 месяцев назад

@@alexandruchira184 Because he only does it in the first minute of the video and then says Mussolini at 1:26. Also he said so on twitter apparently.

@bcvetkov8534 11 месяцев назад

@@alexandruchira184 why not both?

@waynejohnson1786 11 месяцев назад

@@alexandruchira184Because we have more than two brain cells?

@kourii 11 месяцев назад

@@alexandruchira184 You should really practice your spelling, matey. Also your critical thinking.

@joshuameyers7840 11 месяцев назад

The “Fez-wearing Italian man" makes this video very funny and also you finally making an video about why Italy wasn’t carved up after ww2 makes it even better

@DonaldDucksRevenge 11 месяцев назад

I again enjoyed another one of your episodes. And every episode. You have a great voice and an excellent tone in your dry British humor. I would like to have a pint with you sometime

@arnahunas4048 11 месяцев назад

Even though it sucks that you can’t mention his name without getting demonized, “The Fez Wearing Italian Man” is amazing.

@OptimusWombat 11 месяцев назад

I didn't realize that was why. But in a way it makes the substitution even funnier.

@normanclatcher 11 месяцев назад

Snuck it in at 1:25

@valentintapata2268 11 месяцев назад

Yet there is the possibility of him being confused with Garibaldi.

@dedrinzypool1209 11 месяцев назад

First, Italy was always a curious case. It usually a horrible military yet fighting in Italy was more difficult than France (despite it's a lot more mountainous). Another Irony is that they were one of the few countries to apologize to their former colonies (ahem Britain and France, we're waiting). Still hoped the German parts of South Tyrol were returned to Austria but again bad allied judgment for fear of communism.

@vincedibona4687 11 месяцев назад

No you weren’t.

@enchantedplays7860 11 месяцев назад

@@dedrinzypool1209 what?

@jtgd 11 месяцев назад

I mean it was also occupied by the Nazis in 1943-1944, which was part of the reason it was so difficult. When Italy switched, Germany essentially took them over and kept fighting

@Nick_works 11 месяцев назад

@Vessick 11 месяцев назад

@@vincedibona4687 Jessie what the fuck are you talking about?

@drownedharbour 11 месяцев назад

Honestly I had to rewind more than once because I kept laughing so damned hard at the Fez wearing Italian man. Had me in stitches so it did ha ha!! Love your videos, always fascinating and informative, bringing up interesting questions that I’ve never thought to ask even as a history buff with the question-asking capacity of a very annoying small child myself. That and you’re damned good craic yourself! Fantastic video as always!

@MauricioBarragan 11 месяцев назад

Short video but supppperr informational and straight to the point. Great job.

@harveya1a952 11 месяцев назад

It’s because James Bisonette would occupy it himself

@CakeboyRiP 11 месяцев назад

I'm pretty sure he did

@Memesgoo1 11 месяцев назад

"nah" incoming

@yodathefearless 11 месяцев назад

Nah

@memento-mori-amor 11 месяцев назад

I only come to the comments of HM vids to find the James Bisonette joke tbh

@tomasfelipegonzalezmeza8207 11 месяцев назад

Don't forget about Kelly Money-maker

@viniciusdemoraes8414 11 месяцев назад

It's ridiculous the things a purely historic and educative channel such as this one has to do to not get demonitized. I say no for the RU-vid thought police

@MikeCee7 11 месяцев назад

What is the actual rule? You can’t say the actual name? but you can actually refer to the person pretty much exactly, without saying the name, and that’s allowed? Whenever I watch a history channel show, they always mention the names.

@PrezVeto 11 месяцев назад

@@MikeCee7RU-vid generally doesn't disclose the actual contours of their rules, for the same reason dictators don't clearly define what will get you killed: they like to both instill fear (and the greater self-censorship it induces) and retain the ability to act arbitrarily with less risk of being exposed as doing so.

@Nn-3 11 месяцев назад

@@MikeCee7This is the first video on this channel where he avoided saying the name. The rule is to have content that Mcdonalds wants to associate itself with. Videos can be auto demonetized if the transcript contains too many keywords associated with manually demonetized videos. Some common stuff I'm aware of: - The Holocaust and other genocides or war crimes - Fascism, Communism, Nazism - Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Mussolini, other dictators - Descriptions of violence, which can include wars - Discussing racism or homophobia - Saying too many swear words

@MikeCee7 11 месяцев назад

@@Nn-3 Thanks for the information. Do they have any rules like that, with the word “Trump”? Isn’t that quite a divisive word?

@Nn-3 11 месяцев назад

@@MikeCee7 Politics is a different scenario. If you discuss politics too much, your channel might get branded as "independent news". If this happens, then vastly fewer people will be recommended to watch your videos compared to a normal channel. I don't think "Trump" by itself will cause demonetization, though.

@MajSolo 11 месяцев назад

I like your sprint docs to refresh my memory. I need that at my age.

@reeeems 11 месяцев назад

Great video. Straight to the point.

@MrFancyDragon 11 месяцев назад

0:46 The man, is absolutely terrifying

@NotSoOtto 11 месяцев назад

0:46 "The fez-wearing Italian man" - Dumbledore said calmly

@F1release 11 месяцев назад

I like your video's a lot thanks to the team for making this.❤

@nik65stgt60 11 месяцев назад

Great content!

@frankbucciantini388 11 месяцев назад

There were American military camps on Italian soil, though, just to make sure Italians weren't gonna do anything stupid (again). One of them was close to the city I grew up in: Leghorn. I remember passing by several times on a road nearby, trying to take a peek, but obviously I wasn't allowed in. They had everything there, including their own food, their own vehicles, their own football pitch, basketball court and everything. It was really like a mini American city rather than a military camp. One of the things I remember dearly was the radio station: AFN The Eagle, which is the radio that each military camp has, broadcasting mostly music and news. They use to play some good bangers and I used to listen to it a lot. They also had their own TV, coming via satellite and re-broadcasted locally via analog. Of course, it was for the internal military staff, not for other people, but it was back in the analog days with no encryption, so waves just... spread. I was so fascinated by it, that I begged my parents to buy one of the very first dual standard TVs which supported both PAL and NTSC. When my father brought one home, I just tuned in and boom, I was able to watch US TV with their TV Series, baseball matches etc. I loved it and it was how I learned English. It was also the reason why in 2013 I moved to the US to work there (legally). Unfortunately, it wasn't easy to renew the visa and eventually I had to move to the UK where they welcomed me as they were still in the EU. Long story short, I'm a British Citizen living in the UK now, but still. As to what happened to those military camps, some of them are still there, but ever since they started the demilitarization, there are less and less people there and they closed the radio station. Eventually, no one will be left and there will just be empty camps around the world...

@AnalyzerOfTruth-wu5ww 11 месяцев назад

In fact, a sane and truthful comment, only one!!! In a sea of lies and propaganda such as this video is.

@lambdacode1503 11 месяцев назад

Interesting story, and hopefully you are correct in your prediction.

@luigipetrosino7831 11 месяцев назад

Americans don't do stupid things, so it has sense.

@itadrummer1 11 месяцев назад

@@luigipetrosino7831bella battuta , mi piace il tuo sarcasmo 😂😂😂😂😂

@luigipetrosino7831 11 месяцев назад

@@itadrummer1 Gli USA hanno commesso moltissimi crimini di guerra, solo che i propri non possono essere raccontati, perché sostanzialmente sono i nostri padroni, mentre quelli dei suoi nemici...

@jeanbonnefoy1377 11 месяцев назад

Always pausing for your priceless newspaper inserts and this one at 1:38 was as usual a little jewel. I particularly enjoyed the Man in The High Castle's allusion to the Neutral Zone and Rufus Sewell.🤗😂👍

@grim_2000 11 месяцев назад

Was looking for this comment. Caught the reference as well

@13christbane 11 месяцев назад

I never even considered this. thanks for the info!

@bonboll5012 11 месяцев назад

France and the UK: we want more punishments for the italians US: NUH UH

@johnmccann5725 11 месяцев назад

The Italian people made it more straight forward for the post war settlement, by disposing of their former Axis leader, in a convenient petrol station I believe. They also had plenty of people fighting with the Allies in the last couple of years of the war, unlike Germany and Japan.

@FlagAnthem 11 месяцев назад

...only to pretend nothing really happened. The lack of an italian nuremberg is the reason there are politicians claiming italian colonialism in africa was so good (minus the pillaging, reprisal, apartheid, sexual slavery and gas attacks I guess)

@matteoorlandi856 11 месяцев назад

He was disposed of in an alley then showed off in a petrol station, but still What happened to the body Is tipically Italian: It turned into a commedy were It was Stolen, recovered, hidden by the secret service, Stolen again, the brain removed for study, a mess. And nowdays you can visit his burial site, i've been there Is... Strange.

@AnalyzerOfTruth-wu5ww 11 месяцев назад

You are brainwashed by propaganda. Italy has been occupied since then by hundreds of US military bases and its intelligence and military respond to Washigton over Rome since 1945. What the fuck are you talking about!?

@banmadabon 11 месяцев назад

The main Northern cities were already freed by partisans when the Allies came from the South

@zyoninkiro 11 месяцев назад

Fez Boy and his mistress were caught and "dealt with" by partisan forces at the gate of a villa in a village near Lake Como. The carcasses were then hauled to Milan to be "put on display", first by dumping them on the ground in a piazza (quite deliberately chosen as it was the site were 15 partisans were executed then their bodies put on display) near Stazione Centrale, then hung from the above mentioned petrol station's canopy. The local inhabitants were able to express their "condolences" to the recently deceased. They were generally quite enthusiastic in that expression.

@jakarhess7129 11 месяцев назад

Please God make THE FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN a meme for the channel where appropriate, that was bloody iconic 😂😂😂😂

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 11 месяцев назад

The FWIM!

@riccarrasquilla379 11 месяцев назад

thanks for the video

@AnnabelleBeaudoin 11 месяцев назад

Great video 🎉

@jonathanwebster7091 11 месяцев назад

“Deprived of its colonial territories” -with the exception of the former Italian Somaliland, which from 1947 became a UN Trust Territory under Italian administration. The Italians actually did quite a good job as regards improving the infrastructure and general well-being of the territory after WW2.

@alanpennie8013 11 месяцев назад

Good to know.

@Dourkan 11 месяцев назад

I saw another comment that said that somalia and eritrea wanted to be ruled by italy again

@Boretheory 11 месяцев назад

@@Dourkanthey were the only two colonies in history to ask for its coloniser back

@coh2conscript851 11 месяцев назад

@@Boretheory imagine hating the Ethiopians that much that you want your colonial overlords back

@tylerbozinovski427 11 месяцев назад

@@BoretheoryWhat about Hong Kong? They also want the British back.

@g.zoltan 11 месяцев назад

1:26 you said it now prepare to die.

@dastardlyruby74737 5 месяцев назад

He didn’t say a *fez wearing Italian man*

@user-od7el8yc9k 7 месяцев назад

1:38 I just noticed the reference to The Man in the High Castle in that newspaper. Love it.

@thecoolerjon3506 11 месяцев назад

Roosevelts sits "because he wants to" I dont see it commented on much, but these newspaper gags are always hilarious and deserve more recognition.

@codygates7418 11 месяцев назад

A few ideas: Why did Ethiopia become Christian? How did the Netherlands become a global power? What was China’s roll in WW2? Why was Thailand not colonized? How did Liberia stay free? How did the Ottoman Empire treat its Christian population? Love the vids ❤

@ThePumpkinRot 11 месяцев назад

Liberia stayed free because America wanted a port there. Since that was and the congo was only thing they wanted and the fact the congo was handed over to a monarch during the American civil war, American politician were pissed. Given the fact America had some of the first ironclads the European colonial empires didn't want push their luck with a neutral trading partner.

@regularrock8637 11 месяцев назад

The trick with Liberia is that it was actually an American colony that declared independence in 1847. The American government treated Liberia as a sort of informal protectorate after that and deterred European governments from going for it during the Scramble.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 11 месяцев назад

Ethiopia was also Jewish, not just Christian. A lot of Ethiopian Jews emigrated to 🇮🇱, where unfortunately they get treated as second-class citizens.

@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 11 месяцев назад

Ottoman Empire massacred and genocided the Christians, and also forced them to pay blood tax or devshirme.

@EthiotendoEdits 11 месяцев назад

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104that's in beta isreal which is in amhara

@timmccarthy9917 11 месяцев назад

Guys, after watching a few of these videos, I'm starting to suspect Britain after WWII was a tad broke

@centredoorplugsthornton4112 11 месяцев назад

Britain got very little out of winning World War ll except more problems than Germany had losing World War ll.

@cpj93070 11 месяцев назад

You just found that out just now?, Sadly Britain's time as top was over at the end of the second world war.

@Dourkan 11 месяцев назад

@@cpj93070sadly? Thank frigging god it was

@limmeh7881 11 месяцев назад

Just a wee bit, yes

@_blank-_ 11 месяцев назад

James Bissonette took a little break after all the lend-lease.

@fullpotentialanakin1529 10 месяцев назад

I love how japan and italys flags were shown but not the german flag at 0:01

@Ukepa 7 месяцев назад

good video... I didn't know the history and wasn't ever curious about this.

@ChilapaOfTheAmazons 11 месяцев назад

It did help that many Italians welcomed the Allies in Sicily and in Rome as liberators rather than enemies, and that *the fez-wearing Italian man* was ultimately captured and killed by Italians themselves. Thus giving the image of a population that was largely on the Allied side. Whether that image was fully honest, is a complicated matter.

@giorgiodifrancesco4590 11 месяцев назад

The population was clearly divided, but you seem not to understand that twenty years of dictatorial propaganda, starting from the schools, bear fruit necessarely.

@ChilapaOfTheAmazons 11 месяцев назад

@@giorgiodifrancesco4590 yeah, I agree with that.

@smilingearth5181 11 месяцев назад

"So, in summation, the European Allies didn't occupy Italy after it capitulated in WWII for one very simply reason: they couldn't."

@michealf6675 11 месяцев назад

And because many of the FWIM’s friends were anti-communist, another thing they shared with the FWIM and his friend with a funny mustache up north who’s friends also ended up helping the Allies! But it’s fine, they’re the good guys now! UwU

@JaimeNyx15 11 месяцев назад

This channel is fantastic at patching up my historical blind spots. It’s basically duct tape for my brain.

@MARfilms 11 месяцев назад

The Allies: Do you have anything to say regarding your action during WWII? Italy: It's Pizza Time. The Allies: I guess that's good enough, you're forgiven.

@LocalHeretic-ck1kd 11 месяцев назад

Allies: Why did you did all those things? Italy: To be honest, we just hate commies. Allies: Allies: Understandable.

@joseluisblanco8074 11 месяцев назад

The allies forgave a quasi fascist regime as Franco's (ups, I'll get demonetised) for the same very reason

@_blank-_ 11 месяцев назад

@@joseluisblanco8074 Yeah the US supported so many f**ked up dictatorships/terrorist groups because commies bad.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 11 месяцев назад

Setting a pattern which was to continue through the entire Cold War.

@nick21614 11 месяцев назад

@@joseluisblanco8074 FDR's regime was fascist and was modeled after the Fez wearing Italian man's policies. Fascism is just a slightly different flavor of socialism than communism that happen to hate each other. FDR also had many communists in his government and did a lot of nasty things that supported the commies in the USSR.

@savioblanc 11 месяцев назад

That was pretty much the entire reason for the rise of the Nazis and even the crazies that ran Japan - they were absolutely terrified of the Communists taking control of their nations and went overboard in trying to stem that from happening. Had the spread of Communism not been as swift across Russia and Eastern Europe, there is a good chance there would be no Fascism or Nazism, as these ideologies came about as a response to Soviet Communism and their fear of it

@allancaldera 11 месяцев назад

Besides loosing its colonies, Italy also lost the Istrian peninsula with important cities like Pola and Fiume.

@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 11 месяцев назад

@@FlagAnthemZadar was always Croatian, but Italians tried to Italianize the dalmatian coast and failed. Take this L bozo 😂

@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 11 месяцев назад

Istra is majority Croatian 🇭🇷 now, keep crying 😂😂😂

@gs7828 11 месяцев назад

@@FlagAnthem He only paid Trieste for it and the loyalty of the only place somewhat close to Austrian rule, Slovenia. He wouldn't have liked it at all.

@Yalbou 11 месяцев назад

Italy also lost piran and copper to slovenia

@andreamarino6010 11 месяцев назад

@@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621the contrary, dalmatian coast was well romanised when the slavs came in 600AD. Then it was a gradually process of assimiliation, look at Republic of Ragusa (Dubronovik today). Native romance language died while venetian colonisers became the majority of tomance speakers. Austria-Hungary had an anti italian policy and that was basically the end for italians in Dalmatia. Istria on the other hand remained 40-50% italian. After ww2 italians were expelled

@Skipping2HellPHX 11 месяцев назад

0:29 Not sure if the person on the left is meant to represent a member of the King's African Rifles or the Ethiopian Arbegnoch, but either way I love the detail as Black and Brown contributions to victory in WWII can often be overlooked.

@Godslayer5656 2 месяца назад

Think he’s meant to represent Brazil, who helped the Allies push into Italy.

@fillipesouza2702 11 месяцев назад

Greetings from Brazil. You speak very, very fast. It's so difficult to a person who doesn't have English as first language, to understand the entire video. Thanks for your job.

@theconqueringram5295 11 месяцев назад

Fun fact, when Italy was disarmed, some or their Air Force planes were given to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), a chivalric order from the Crusades that governed the islands of Malta, Camino and Gozo from the 1500s until the French kicked them out in the 1790s. After a while, the SMOM relocated to Rome in the 1800s and remained there. The SMOM still works closely with the Italian Armed Forces today.

@frosuski 11 месяцев назад

You're one of the few channels that I watch every video of. Have this.

@bluefandango 11 месяцев назад

@2:00 by then, Rooselevelt didn't want much because of a mild case of the dead. you must have meant Truman

@Hand-in-Shot_Productions 10 месяцев назад

As an American of Italian descent, I found this video quite informative! Now, I know some of the reasons why Italy was not placed under an occupation administration: the Allies couldn't spare the resources, President Roosevelt needed the Italian-American vote, and in any case, Italy wasn't seen as a great threat to the major Allies. Thanks for the information! Also, that nickname ("the fez-wearing Italian man") is quite funny!

@REEEPROGRAM 11 месяцев назад

The "Fez-wearing Italian man" is the new *"The Austrian Painter"* And What about Hideko Tojo?

@Bzons 11 месяцев назад

The Original Victim of The Bald Head Slap. Seriously. While Tojo was in court, someone sitting behind him "slapped" the back of his head.

@poe_slaw 11 месяцев назад

he has a combination of eyebrows, glasses, nose, and mustache very similar to the classic disguise. in fact when I type disguise my phone recommends this face which looks exactly like him: 🥸

@FastTquick 11 месяцев назад

“THE BALD-HEADED MUSTACHIOED MAN.”

@stvdagger8074 11 месяцев назад

I suspect that too many descriptions of Tojo will also draw the baleful gaze of the Eye of SaurTube as any description of Tojo's features would be too close to the stereotypes of Japanese people, as can be seen in allied propaganda of the WWII period.

@francesco8000 11 месяцев назад

It's worth mentioning that the italian government was still disappointed that they had to pay reparation. the reason is that since they surrender so early (the switch side is just an historical meme, it was a surrender) and collaborated for almost 2 years they hoped that they could go from being responsible for the war to being seen as collaborator. That didn't happen but as mentioned few years later a bunch of sanctions were dropped anyway since the USSR was seen as more important.

@mikesiciliano210 11 месяцев назад

It's not a meme. Mussolini came to power constitutionally, but it was not through a democratic election. Italians were largely opposed to fighting alongside the Germans, and to entering the war all together. To call Italy's fight against Germany a "meme" is greatly disrespectful to those who served to free their country.

@jephesoj31 11 месяцев назад

@@mikesiciliano210I think by "meme" he was referring to the popular but grossly oversimplified/inaccurate idea that Italy switched sides during the war, not anything about the fight against Germany itself.

@EflowNivek 11 месяцев назад

@@mikesiciliano210 I'm sorry who? I think you mean FEZ-WEARING ITALIAN MAN

@marciobrunoloiolagomes3631 11 месяцев назад

I think the meme is because the Italy position on First World War

@francesco8000 11 месяцев назад

@@jephesoj31 Yeah that's what i meant. The "Italy switched side in both WW" is a historical meme that is fun but is also 100% wrong.

@magicluke9383 11 месяцев назад

Fun fact: once the "Fez wearing Italian man" was dismissed in July 43, the king appointed Marshall Pietro Badoglio as PM. Badoglio negotiated the armistice and stayed in office for 1 year roughly. Badoglio is a very controversial figure in Italian history for a variety of reasons, spanning his role in the tragic Caporetto defeat and retreat (1917), the war crimes committed in Ethiopia by the Italian army and then the support to the "Fez-wearing Italian man" 's regime until his downfall.

@CKBmay10 11 месяцев назад

Great video! 0:28 dunno much about weapons but funny how a soldier’s AK47’s charger seems to be upside down 😊. Great video and well balanced views! As always

@jameslawrie3807 11 месяцев назад

I can never get over how accurate a video made out of squares is. All the items of the era are always perfectly accurate.

@carlbates9110 11 месяцев назад

It probably didn’t hurt that nobody really opposed Mussolini’s model before WWII and would’ve likely left him alone had he not joined the Axis (which he almost avoided).

@regalecusglesne3022 11 месяцев назад

yeah he was an opportunist at heart, he believed that hitler would carry the war (in a sense he did) and italy would get free territories without much of a fight. too bad that hitler wanted to use the italians as cannon fodder and they themselves were beaten up by their costly war in ethiopia just a year prior.

@pucciox40 11 месяцев назад

Yeah UK acted so though against Italy during the aftermath but we forget how Mussolini had a good reputation in Churchill's eye due to his ability to kill and imprison socialists during the 1920s We can praise all we want but the "free word" never had a problem with dictators that were useful tools against the insurgent movements from the red biennium

@valentintapata2268 11 месяцев назад

Eexcept for the people his regime oppressed.

@carlbates9110 11 месяцев назад

@@valentintapata2268 Like the Mafia?

@valentintapata2268 11 месяцев назад

@@carlbates9110 No like the Slovenes, Croats, Albanians, Greeks, Montenegrians, Libyans, Ethiopians, Eritreans, communists, democrats,...

@ckt3016 11 месяцев назад

Actually in Italy we have more than 100 American military bases (maybe there are another 30 secret ones) still "occupying" the peninsula, many of them with nuclear weapons that make Italy a nuclear target o.c., but if you prefer for some reason to avoid the use of the word "occupation", well, we can go on sying that this situation is not an "occupation", however the truth is different: Italy and all other Axis nations are still under American military occupation 80 years after the end of World War II. That's it.

@Kakaitokoi 10 месяцев назад

Lucky you, bring it to the east

@francois-mariearouet9379 Месяц назад

Those are the kind of implications involved with being in a military alliance. For instance, German soldiers are also stationed in the US, though obviously in much smaller numbers than vice versa. If you really want to leave NATO, it is perfectly possible for any "axis" nation to do so, it would just have incredibly bad consequences both diplomatically and militarily. As a German, I am quite thankful for this kind of "occupation", because Ukraine didn't get it and guess how that turned out.

@ckt3016 Месяц назад

@@francois-mariearouet9379 : to be more accurate we should say that "Those are the kind of implications involved" in having lost a world war 80 years ago. Do you want my humble opinion about the Russsian region called Ucraine? Ok: I couldn't care less about them! Between 1941 and 1945 we, Italians, have lost 84.300 men in that bloody land and, if I'm not wrong, you Germans, have left there 8.7-10 million dead [Wiki], .. I think it's enough, isn't it?

@francois-mariearouet9379 Месяц назад

@@ckt3016 Well, yeah, hard to argue with this kind of stance. However, it more or less proves my point that Ukraine would have been better off joining NATO, since apparently you don't really care about her fate otherwise. Also, I would like to note that a Ukrainian language has been around at least since the 16th century, which is about as long as a country called Russia exists (1547) and way before Kyiv was a part of it (1667). The entirety of modern Ukraine has never been controlled by Russia before 1939 and the majority of it not before the 17th century, which means that Ukraine was a region of Russia for about as long as it used to be a region of (Poland-)Lithuania.

@ckt3016 21 день назад

@@francois-mariearouet9379: during the the thirties, a Reich Chancellor tried to invade Russia to extend the living space of the Germans. Now, after 80 years, the Germans want to invade Russia for a language, that is, for a Slavic dialect! Wow! Let me say that it doesn't look to me like a great progress indeed. Think that in Italy we have languages derived from the Latin belonging to two main families: the Romance Italo-Gallic family in the North and the Italo-Romance family in the South, both born between the VIII and the IX centuries, so pretty old, but we do not see any actual reason based on this linguistic difference to fire bullets on each other between Lombards and Neapolitans! In any case, this time the Italians will not follow you and I'm sure you will be very happy with this, but we will be too, we will be too I can assure you! So, what can I say? Just this: good luck to the German people for their new military adventure, the third in a row, .. let's just hope it will be more successful than the other two previous ones.

@nathanngumi8467 9 месяцев назад

Very interesting!

@qaziqadir 11 месяцев назад

why cant everything in life be like your videos, short, simple, straightforward and animated.

@VegasMax3 11 месяцев назад

Noticed the references in the newspaper to “Man in the High Castle” and California’s crazy housing prices. Also, $14 in 1942?! That’s like a months rent then!

@PurooRoy 11 месяцев назад

1:38 "with some weird neutral zone" Didnt expect anyone else to know about The Man in the High Castle.

@thelatiosmaster 11 месяцев назад

"Italy was just... well... Italy" that's the most accurate way you describe my country XD

@edwardloomis887 11 месяцев назад

Loved the U.S. Soldier armed with a flamethrower at 3:02. The U.S.-Japan fighting in the Pacific was to the death, and flamethrowers were a valuable weapon in the hands of people like Medal of Honor recipient and Marine Hershel "Woody" Williams, who only recently passed away at age 98. It takes a special person to go into battle with a tank full of flammable liquids on your back.

@GhostSal 11 месяцев назад

The reason it was to the deáth was also because of the fłame thrøwer. Japanese would often fight to the death precisely because the US soldiers would kíll Japanese soldiers that were trying to surrender. So the Japanese learned to fight to the very end from that tactic of kílling men that were surrendering.

@graceneilitz7661 11 месяцев назад

@@GhostSalWell the practice of U.S soldiers killing Japanese soldiers trying to surrender started because many Japanese soldiers would fake surrender. Both practices were bad regardless of who started it.

@pucciox40 11 месяцев назад

@@GhostSal Why isn't this hard to believe at all? Lol That's exaclty how I picture US soldiers in the pacific after Pearl Harbor

@richardstephens5570 10 месяцев назад

@@GhostSal "Killing Japanese that were trying to surrender" happened because the Japanese would often pretend to be surrendering, then pull out a grenade and try to kill themselves along with their captors. Japanese wounded would also attempt to kill American medics trying to help them. The Japanese would also booby trap their dead and wounded, don't try to portray the Japanese as victims.

@GhostSal 10 месяцев назад

@@richardstephens5570 I’m not saying atrocitíes didn’t happen on both sides, they absolutely did. However, consideríng the prøpaganda of the time depicting Japanese people as subhuman and the general feeling of wanting revenge for very real attack on Pearl Harbor… is it really that hard to believe?

@herrzimm 11 месяцев назад

Another factor to be considered was the issue of Italy's sense of loyalty to the NATION rather than the individual. Unlike Germany's "oath of loyalty" to AH, and Japan's "divine Emperor", Italy's population was more focused upon the loyalty to the country as a primary factor. And with a "stable government" in power, there was far less chance of a "resistance" to the changes that took place after surrendering. With Germany, there was always the risk of an "attempt to reform" the former political system. In Japan, it was a matter of "who will step up to restore the Emperor" mentality to consider. As such, a strong "occupational presence" (display of force) was needed to discourage any "attempt to resurrect the old ways".

@emberfist8347 11 месяцев назад

Mr Fez man actually encouraged having the oath to the nation thing seeing himself as expendable to the greater cause of fascism.

@_blank-_ 11 месяцев назад

@@emberfist8347 I feel like Italian fascism wasn't as crazy as its offshoots.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 11 месяцев назад

But was there ever really a “stable government” in Italy after World War II? As I recall, they were going through about a new Prime Minister per year. And (unfortunately) it took someone like Berlusconi to break that trend.

@anyways4438 11 месяцев назад

@@_blank-_they weren't antisemitic either. The biggest mistake the Italian fascists made was trying to conquer other countries and then siding with the Nazis.

@user-cx9nc4pj8w 11 месяцев назад

@@_blank-_ nazism and whatever japan weren't so much offshoots as parrallel ideologies that borrowed a little from Fascismo and had a lot of their own. But yeah, whilst Italian fascism was extremely bad, I wouldn't say it worse than Stalinism or most communist movement more generally, and it's imperialism wasn't really worse than the British or French either.

@1LSWilliam 11 месяцев назад

Excellent!

@CrossOfBayonne 11 месяцев назад

Nice that you depict every American GI here carrying an M1 Carbine, The weapon did actually first saw action in Sicily and the Italian campaign is often overlooked but still had important battles such as Monte Cassino and the push towards the Gothic line in the northern part of the country.

@Baktrianos 11 месяцев назад

Me, an Italian, when foreigners who are not historians talk about my country in WW2: -Aaw shiet, here we go again Me when I saw this video: -Thank god a Briton said this. And thank you kindly sir for being so efficient, professional and dry on every video you make. It should be a standard attitude for historians. Sadly it’s not. Many “history enjoyers”, or straight up young historians, are often driven by politics… Like that bald guy with the fez who thought we should have taken Albania back to recreate the Roman Empire (when nobody was asking for it)

@normanclatcher 11 месяцев назад

Albania is kinda nice, but it doesn't need to be Italian.

@giorgiodifrancesco4590 11 месяцев назад

@@normanclatcher We have sufficient sea and mountains in Italy. We do not need more stony ground (moreover, to be infrastructured).

@lagjescuni5482 11 месяцев назад

@tomg7877...taken Albania back it is not a correct historical phrase...(Albania has never been Italy) instead the Roman Empire was not composed only of the territory of present-day Albania and Italy....

@lagjescuni5482 11 месяцев назад

@@giorgiodifrancesco4590 historical facts say the opposite of what you say...and you don't even need to go too far back in time because because In 1920 Italy and Albania went to war...(Vlora War )..where the Albanians were already fighting against the plans of France, Great Britain, and Russia to divide Albania between Montenegro, Serbia, and Greece.

@giorgiodifrancesco4590 11 месяцев назад

@@lagjescuni5482 Friend, you're talking about 1920. Then, the Italian government wanted the Italian protectorate over Albania, but what they don't make you study (because you continue to be nationalists) is that the Italian people didn't want it at all (just as they don't want it today). While the Italian garrison of Valona was being attacked by your armed forces, the Italian Bersaglieri stationed in Ancona rebelled against our government and refused to go to Albania. I hope they also tell you that your army was so inconsistent that it could not even seriously attack an isolated garrison without reinforcements, which repulsed four of your assault attempts.

@noejaun2540 11 месяцев назад

It'd be great to see a video on Italy's role in the cold war and OP Gladio

@alparslankorkmaz2964 11 месяцев назад

nice video.

@user-tx3xh8uf5v 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for including Canada at 1:22

@blakebauman9654 11 месяцев назад

You should do a video on what happens to embassy personnel when their countries go to war.

@JA-lr5ix 11 месяцев назад

Never knew FDR had a mistress called P. Olio!! Those newspaper clippings you feature are so informative!

@loneprimate 11 месяцев назад

I have never even wondered about this until you wondered about it for me!

@voltrono4166 11 месяцев назад

nice video.. straight to the point without a 5 min intro of jibber jabber

@MaGioZal 11 месяцев назад

Another thing to consider is that differently from Germany and Japan, Italy got rid of its dictator by itself in 1943, and from then on the kingdom cooperated with the Allies against the nazis and the Italian Social Republic up until the final defeat of Hitler and Mussolini in 1945.

@Slo-ryde 10 месяцев назад

If the new Italian government had provided soldiers to fight the Nazis in the d day invasion…. They would have very likely never been penalized territory wise as they were post war!!!!

@cattysplat 2 месяца назад

Yep, the Italian government, military and people were no way anywhere near as insanely fanatical to fascism as Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. Wouldn't even want to imagine if Italy never surrendered like Germany and Japan, incredible historic cities like Rome, Milan and Naples could have been utterly destroyed like so many German and Japanese cities.

@jarnodatema 11 месяцев назад

Fun fact: The French collaborated to such an extent that the allies briefly considered occupying it like a defeated nation like the other axis

@joseluisblanco8074 11 месяцев назад

And though the Italians have a fame of poor military performance (unfair in some cases like the submarine men of the Reggia Marina) the French were no match to the Germans. As it goes in one chapter of the Simpson's, everybody choses France as the most hated country (between them and Italy)

@FlagAnthem 11 месяцев назад

Any source?

@_blank-_ 11 месяцев назад

@@FlagAnthem The US wanted an Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories (AMGOT) in France. Charles de Gaulle fought hard against it and he managed to preserve France's sovereignty after the war and put the country on the winners' side. What a Chad.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 11 месяцев назад

The Allies only got de Gaulle to agree to be on their side by promising they would restore France’s overseas territories after the war. This included Vietnam. Which led to certain inevitable consequences ...

@NeistH2o 11 месяцев назад

Please don’t mix up Pétain’s regime and « the French ».

@mersifullwolf4054 11 месяцев назад

You’re awsome dude

@jonathanwebster7091 11 месяцев назад

To be a bit more specific as regards Italy’s colonial possessions: On the armistice with the Allies in 1943, Albania (which was very *very* technically not an Italian possession at all, but in a personal Union, ie, the King of Italy was also King of Albania) was renounced, as was Ethiopia and Montenegro-which was under Italian occupation, as were parts of Greece-the Italian occupiers being replaced with German ones. The Salo Republic handed the Italian concession in China de facto back to China in 1944, but de facto and de jure retained authority over Rhodes and the Dodecanese. The Italian littoral, Libya, Eritrea, and Somaliland were de jure renounced with the Italian peace with the allies in 1947, although Somaliland was returned to Italy as a UN Trust Territory in 1949, which it remained until 1960.